00:00:35.000And then, of course, we have to talk about Peter Sturzak and where the 50,000 missing text messages have gone from December 2016 until May 2017.
00:00:48.000The text messages that the FBI should have been keeping between him and Lisa Page are nowhere to be found.
00:00:55.000But before we do some housekeeping things, we have new intro music, and I promised yesterday that I would update the description of the video with a link to the song.
00:02:38.000But with that out of the way, another thing that we saw last night, and this is just a brief thing, this is a brief little segment here on Paul Nealon.
00:02:49.000Now, if you were on Twitter last night, Paul Nealon has been killing it.
00:02:58.000If you watched the show last night, I expressed some skepticism.
00:03:01.000There was some constructive criticism.
00:03:03.000And I have to say, on that subject, I might have been a little bit premature because we saw what Paul Nealon was doing last night.
00:03:11.000He went after Ben Shapiro, he went after Ali Stuckey, Cassie Dillon, Elliott Hamilton on the question, very controversial, of if Jews go to hell according to the Bible.
00:03:24.000And whether you think that's true or not, whether you're hardline, fire and brimstone against non Christians, as Paul Nealon seemed to be going last night, this was one of those watershed moments.
00:03:36.000This was an important moment that you had just about every Israel First, every conservative ink pundit, writer, person involved in this conversation.
00:03:49.000Doesn't matter what was said, but that you had Ben Shapiro engaging in a conversation of whether or not.
00:03:55.000Jews go to hell, according to the Bible, is such progress, is such an improvement that this conversation is being had.
00:04:04.000And many might say, well, Ben Shapiro didn't really address it.
00:04:08.000It was very snarky, which is his method, I guess.
00:04:13.000Very snarky, very bitchy, very juvenile.
00:04:16.000But that it was addressed, that this is presenting itself in the zeitgeist, in the consciousness of the conservative, is a very profound step forward.
00:04:26.000The more that we can draw lines, The more that we can make distinctions between Christians and everybody else, the more that we can make distinctions between Europeans and everybody else, the better.
00:04:40.000The more we can get that in the consciousness of conservatives, Americans in particular, but conservatives, the more we can use them as an instrument, as a vehicle to further this nationalist message.
00:04:52.000And so, really solid showing by our guy Paul Nealon the other night.
00:04:57.000That said, he did get suspended from Twitter for seven days, which is a price to pay.
00:05:35.000The red pill between telling the truth, between saying those edgy things, and of course, maintaining your platform.
00:05:42.000Having some form of legitimacy, having some form of mainstream appeal, so to speak, through your legitimacy.
00:05:49.000And so that's the difficult part there.
00:05:52.000And, you know, Paul Nealon, he's learning the ropes.
00:05:54.000He's, you know, last year when I was campaigning for him, or two years ago when I was campaigning for him in August of 2016, he was the normie presenting conservative.
00:06:04.000And there were some things which, which, Alluded to, I think, a little bit more knowledge than maybe there was before, where he said, for example, that Paul Nealon had no soul, I remember, which I got a big kick out of.
00:06:18.000I mean, it certainly is a gambit, this different direction he's taking this year, and I think it'll play off.
00:06:44.000But anyway, on the subject of that topic on Jewish people and Christians, I would encourage everybody, I've recommended this before, but check out the documentary Marching to Zion.
00:06:55.000If you're interested in that question, and I know many Christians who watch this show, some are a little bit confused about this.
00:07:02.000Even atheists who watch this show are a little bit confused.
00:07:05.000Maybe they're a little bit turned off about the fact that Christians are very supportive of Israel, that Jewish people are the chosen people.
00:07:12.000In the estimation of some Christians, some evangelical Christians, I would encourage everybody to check out that documentary, Marching to Zion.
00:07:20.000It's about two hours, high production quality, very solid information, very mainstream.
00:07:26.000And so I just encourage everybody to check that out, Marching to Zion, very informative on this subject, if you're looking for further resources.
00:07:36.000And also, there's really, you know, I would encourage, of course, everybody to check out the Israel lobby.
00:08:29.000It's a little bit overblown when people talk about that, particularly with violence, because the civilized world, the modern world, is the anomaly.
00:08:38.000You know, when we talk about, well, we're so desensitized to violence, nobody cares about violence anymore.
00:08:45.000We should have righteous indignation about things like terrorist attacks that are preventable, or things like Kate Stinley, where people shouldn't have even been in the country and they're killing people.
00:08:54.000That you should have righteous indignation about.
00:08:56.000But when people have these qualms, these like existential, Anxieties about desensitization to violence.
00:09:03.000I would remind people that this is the anomaly.
00:09:08.000This is the anomalous period in history.
00:09:11.000For 2,000 years, no, no, for 5,000 years longer, the norm has been daily violence, has been violence all the time, every day, everywhere, in every country, and affecting you pretty frequently.
00:09:27.000And so I would say that when people talk about this oversensitization, it's not so much the modern world, it's the modern world.
00:09:33.000In the way that it is debased and it is perverted in many ways, the way that they stand on the graves of the victims and it turns into a political crusade.
00:09:41.000But I would say that just the violence in general, violence is sort of the norm.
00:09:47.000That we are not accommodated with violence, I think, is a testament to how far we've come rather than how far we have not come or how far we've degenerated.
00:09:56.000But on the subject of the high school shooting in particular, I think this is really important.
00:10:02.000This is a really important point to drive home.
00:10:05.000And this story in particular, this was in, where was this in?
00:10:09.000It was Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky.
00:10:14.000And it was a 15 year old kid who goes into the school at 8 a.m.
00:10:18.000He starts firing with a handgun, kills two people, wounds 17.
00:10:23.000And here's why this story is fascinating.
00:10:26.000This comes off the heels, of course, only a day after another high school shooting at Italy High School in Texas.
00:10:33.000It serves to illustrate something very.
00:10:36.000Peculiar about our young people, about our youth, about our culture.
00:10:41.000If you try and get in the head of a school shooter, and you see these things all the time now, and not just school shootings, but this kind of nihilism, this kind of surreal violence among young people, this surreal disassociation, disconnectedness from the world, and you really try and get in the heads of some of these kids, and here you would imagine, here we were told by Francis Fukuyama in the 1990s after the Cold War that we had reached the end of history.
00:11:10.000That in the 1990s, as America stood as the most powerful, the most wealthy, the most prosperous country in the world, we wanted for nothing, we had no major adversaries, there was no existential threat or rival.
00:11:26.000We had completed the final objective, and now it was game over, and we just get to bask in the fruits of liberal democracy and liberal capitalism.
00:11:35.000That is what the postulate was by Fukuyama at the end in his book, The End of History and the Last Man.
00:11:43.000Now it was a question of how soon would the rest of the world catch up to us?
00:11:48.000How soon would the rest of the world adopt democracy, adopt liberalism, adopt capitalism?
00:11:54.000The borders would go away, the conflicts would go away, and we would essentially have reached the final point and we would be good and we would be done.
00:12:02.000There would be a lot of eating, there would be a lot of technology and race to the stars and all of that, but we were, for all intents and purposes, done with history.
00:12:11.000And this was the promise of the past 20 years that material wealth, that material goods, prosperity, happiness, Peace, you know, these vaunted progressive and liberal ideals of trying to achieve heaven on earth, these utopian visions of trying to achieve heaven on earth, that once that happened, well, we were good.
00:12:31.000And yet we see 25 years out, our young people are miserable.
00:12:37.000And they're not just miserable, they're miserable and they're numb.
00:12:40.000And they're so numb that if they're not slamming, you know, drugs into their system, the worst opiates, the worst and most terrible opiates that kill them, that leave them cold and dead and shorten their lives, If they're not doing that, they're shooting up a school, or they're committing suicide, or they're abusing prescription drugs, or on Adderall, or they're on something, or they're pursuing hedonistic pleasure in the form of sex or other things.
00:13:08.000And it is in stark contrast to the promise.
00:13:10.000The promise was we get all this stuff, we get all this peace, we have basically this conception of happiness and the liberal and Western premise, this concept, and we'd be set.
00:13:22.000And yet, our youngest and the ones with the most potential.
00:13:27.000And so you get in the head of a 15 year old in Kentucky, for example, and they look ahead in their lives.
00:13:33.000And the media would have it, or popular culture would have it, that a 15 year old looks forward to many great things.
00:13:39.000A 15 year old, a rational 15 year old in the concept of the media, is looking forward to a life where they're going to make a lot of money and they're going to have a big family and they're going to have kids.
00:13:52.000They're going to go through high school, they get to go to prom.
00:13:55.000They get to go to prom and, hey, buddy, I remember, you know, the dad is thinking, I remember my first prom and I went with your mother and boy, did we hit it off and it was a great time with your friends.
00:14:08.000And, you know, you'll graduate and graduation will be fun.
00:14:13.000You'll go off to college and you'll have the college experience.
00:14:16.000You'll get to go with the fraternities, your frat brothers, and you'll be drinking and partying and you'll be having sex with all kinds of exotic babes.
00:14:25.000You'll get to go to the Football game, and you get to cheer with the crowd and root for the home team with the fans, and what a great time!
00:14:33.000And hey, and then you graduate and you're a professional, you're a serious person.
00:14:37.000Maybe you settle down, you settle down with that lucky lady from college, huh?
00:14:41.000And she was majoring in something else, and now you got two incomes, and you're doing pretty well.
00:14:46.000You're bringing in 300 grand a year, and you're only 30, and you're living in the city, you get to go out maybe in a big, nice house, you're partying with your friends, you're making all kinds of money, and hey.
00:14:58.000You know, maybe you have a kid, maybe you have a family, you get to see your kids go through it, and then you retire, you get your yacht, and you can retire from life then peacefully.
00:15:08.000And so, this is the premise of the media.
00:15:12.000This is the liberal democratic vision for our lives that is laid out for us, young people, Generation Z. I'm speaking as a representative.
00:15:21.000But then you imagine it from the perspective of the 15 year old, and not the media, not the popular culture, not the popular conception of what happens, not this.
00:15:29.000Sterilized neoliberal advertisement conception where it's like an all state commercial designed to sell you insurance.
00:15:36.000So they try and pull at the heartstrings with these nostalgic visions and so forth.
00:15:40.000But let's get in the head of the actual 15 year old where you're in high school, you're a youngster, and you see the road laid out before you.
00:15:47.000It's not quite what it would seem in the Allstate commercial and the Blue Cross Blue Shield commercial.
00:15:53.000Rather, it is a life of expectation of no responsibility, limitless outcomes, no real purpose or meaning.
00:16:02.000The youngster might see a life where they will grow up, and what happens to them in college?
00:16:08.000They're slapped with $100,000 in student loan debt.
00:16:12.000They get out of high school, and there's no jobs.
00:16:15.000If you're not very smart, if you don't have an aptitude, if you don't have a passion, That you want to rush into college and study?
00:16:36.000And you'll have to go to college in order to support yourself or anybody else a family member, you know, a son, a wife, anything like that.
00:17:03.000They've been sheltered by helicopter moms, by female elementary, middle, and high school teachers.
00:17:08.000They've been raised in a feminized culture.
00:17:10.000And so these men come out of high school, and they're basically man children.
00:17:15.000And they come out and they come into college and they take on this massive debt.
00:17:18.000They're forced into something that maybe they don't even like, but something that'll pay the bills.
00:17:23.000They start out maybe their first year studying something like sports broadcasting, or they come into college studying something like, you know, if you're a liberal, gender studies or, you know, automotive care, you know, something like that, which the trades are actually a better option.
00:17:36.000But they're forced into college into something like accounting.
00:17:40.000They're forced into college into being an actuary.
00:17:44.000And they got out of college and they're paying their student loan debts, paying their student loan debts.
00:17:48.000It's a constant race against rising taxes, rising expenses.
00:17:53.000You know, the way that it used to work is.
00:17:55.000You would have a certain standard of living and you would save money and you would accumulate money and then you could be wealthy.
00:18:00.000You would have wealth, you would have a little bit of independence.
00:18:03.000In this day and age, if you get out of college and unscathed by student loan debt and you get a decent job, well, then you get your decent job and the expenses are right there with your income.
00:18:48.000But for many young people, this is the reality that is projected in front of them.
00:18:53.000It is a life of suffering, it is a life of material and nothing immaterial, nothing spiritual, nothing religious, nothing existential.
00:19:02.000And this is the life projected in front of them where there's this stress, this work, these rising expectations, and so on and so forth.
00:19:10.000And on top of that, there's no meaning for it, there's no purpose for the suffering, and there's no backbone for it.
00:19:16.000There's no community, there's no support from anybody that's really pushing behind them in the way that it used to be.
00:19:23.000And so I think this is why you get it.
00:19:25.000You can blame video games, you can blame the violent video games, you can blame homework.
00:19:31.000You know, they say it's stress in school.
00:19:33.000Well, stress for schools is at an all time high.
00:19:35.000You know, and certainly that's a part of it.
00:19:37.000That's part of the neoliberal kind of crushing weight of the modern world.
00:19:41.000But deep down, it is this existential, it is a hole in the center of our young people where they are furnished with everything that they could imagine materially.
00:19:52.000They are furnished with everything they could imagine in terms of, you know, if they're hungry or thirsty or they want, you know, other things.
00:20:00.000It's all right there for them and they're pretty comfortable and they're pretty okay.
00:20:03.000But what's missing, what's empty is the why.
00:20:06.000What's missing is the why are we here?
00:20:28.000And I have, if you don't believe me, there are some sources here that I brought up, some really good quotes here from Dostoevsky, who wrote about this in Notes from the Underground.
00:20:39.000This is a secondhand copy I got from Half Price Books.
00:20:54.000He talked about how, and this is more about what men do more broadly from a philosophical and abstract point of view, as an abstraction.
00:21:02.000And he was writing about this over a hundred years ago.
00:21:07.000He wrote, It is just his fantastic dreams, his abject foolishness that he wants to cling on to solely in order that he can convince himself.
00:21:17.000As if it were absolutely necessary that people are still people and not piano keys on which the laws of nature themselves are playing with their own hands, but are threatening to go on playing to the point when they would no longer be able to want anything beyond the directory.
00:21:33.000And besides, even in that case, even if he did turn out to be a piano key, if that were proven to him by even the natural sciences and mathematically, he would still not come to his senses and would deliberately do something to contradict it.
00:21:49.000Simply out of ingratitude, just in order to assert himself.
00:21:52.000And in a situation where he did not have the means to do it, he would invent chaos and destruction.
00:21:58.000He would think up various forms of suffering, and my goodness, he'd assert himself.
00:22:04.000And so, this is what Dostoevsky is describing essentially a world where the course is set, the trajectory is set, all that's left is the execution in the mind of modern man, the youth in particular.
00:22:15.000All that's left is the execution of a plan that was laid out long ago by their parents or some other institution.
00:22:23.000Essentially, that man has become a piano key where you will be played, where you go through high school and then you're thrown onto the assembly line in college and then thrown onto the assembly line as a consumer, as a taxpayer, and you root for the football team and you pay your taxes.
00:22:37.000And every Christmas, you see what's under the tree.
00:22:56.000If you're not allowed to, well, then you just tear it all down.
00:22:59.000You unleash the destruction, the suffering, the chaos, just in order to prove to yourself that you are not on a set course, on this deterministic piano key course.
00:23:10.000And this was written by Dostoevsky 150 years ago.
00:23:13.000There's another great quote about this, not by Evola, but it's referenced by Evola in the book Ride the Tiger, another favorite of mine.
00:23:22.000If you don't know who Evola is, you're not a real conservative.
00:23:26.000You know, I mean, Allie Stuckey, I see her videos for Conservative Review.
00:23:55.000Evela said on this question a little bit more than half a century ago, and this is a quote by Andre Breton, who said When the young Andre Breton declared that the simplest surrealist act would be to go out into the street and shoot passerby at random, he was anticipating what happened.
00:24:14.000More than once after World War II, when some of the younger generations passed from theory to practice.
00:24:21.000By absurd and destructive actions, they sought to attain the only possible means of existence, after ejecting suicide as the radical solution for the metaphysically abandoned individual.
00:24:38.000But essentially, what he's saying is that with the death of God, that was, of course, announced in Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, In terms of the intellectuals who are observing this pattern, when we had achieved wealth, when we had achieved a satisfactory explanation for the world on empirical and material grounds, that we were floating on this rock, which is constituted of atoms, which are material, and there's an explanation for everything.
00:25:04.000Your unconscious and irrational impulses are explained by neurology or psychiatry or so on and so forth.
00:25:10.000What Evelyn is saying is that this was figured out a hundred years ago.
00:25:14.000We figured out a hundred years ago that.
00:25:16.000We're living in the post God period, the Newtonian God period, who set the world on a course as a clock and let it go.
00:25:24.000And since we discovered relativity and all these other things, we are living on our own now.
00:25:29.000And we are living in an absurd and surreal world where we're all here and we're doing these little projects, we're tinkering with these little things for currency to eat.
00:25:39.000For these absurd and surreal things that are absurd and surreal in the absence of an explanation, in the absence of God.
00:25:46.000And so, what he said was that when theory moves into practice, The young are taking theory and turning it into practice after they've rejected suicide and said, you know, the logical conclusion of living in this world of suffering, which is absurd and surreal and has no meaning, that would be the rational conclusion.
00:26:04.000Well, I'll just go out and let's do something surreal.
00:26:08.000Let's assert our existence, in the words of Dostoevsky and Evola.
00:26:12.000And so those are some two, I think, very powerful quotes that illustrate and also kind of chart the historical course of how we got here, how we got to this point.
00:26:21.000Why are young people doing these things?
00:26:26.000And the shooting is only the most extreme example of it, but I would say rather that the same motivation, the same line of thinking or unthinking, if maybe you think it's unconscious or subconscious, that leads to opiate abuse, that leads to sexual hedonism or other forms of hedonism.
00:26:45.000This is how you get the youth that we have dissociative, numb, disaffected, disillusioned.
00:26:52.000That is how we produce these kinds of school shootings.
00:26:54.000You know, when you look at this, we really have to look at it from that perspective this is a symptom.
00:27:46.000You can watch your Christopher Hitchens, you can watch your Richard Dawkins, and you can be very smug, but I mean, that is how you're going to treat it.
00:27:52.000And unless and until we embrace a second religiosity in the country, as Spengler predicted, we will be on the road to ruin.
00:28:00.000You'll see a lot more of this, a lot more opiate abuse, a lot more disgusting varieties of hedonism, a lot more.
00:28:07.000School shootings and so on and so forth, that you will never get rid of it unless you address that question.
00:28:12.000And beyond that, I mean, think of how this was allowed to occur.
00:28:33.000You know, we look at it as the individual, and this is the genesis of this behavior.
00:28:37.000But I think it only illustrates the point further that these things are entirely preventable.
00:28:41.00050 years ago, maybe you didn't see this so much, and it wasn't for lack of young rebels without a cause with nothing better to do than to cause suffering, but it was because you had the society there.
00:29:35.000And as those things have died off, because God has died off, now the individual is left alone and to commit these things.
00:29:43.000I mean, those two, I mean, every reason you can imagine how this was allowed to happen at the core of it is an absence of the community, is an absence of God.
00:29:52.000It's an absence of this why for life, the zest for life.
00:29:56.000You know, I mean, these days, these days, nobody's going to do that.
00:30:02.000The teachers aren't, you know, going to strike up a personal connection because, you know, God forbid it gets too personal or, you know, anything like that, or God forbid it resembles community.
00:30:31.000This is an opportunity to reconnect with our roots, to reconnect not only with our historical roots, with the church and with God, but with God Himself.
00:30:44.000To repent, to be brought closer, and to investigate these questions ourselves, because Lord knows we're all kept awake at night by these things.
00:30:52.000I really doubt all these secularists and atheists can really say to themselves that they are content, that they are satisfied.
00:31:11.000There is only one heaven, there is only one kingdom of God, and it's not here.
00:31:16.000And so that is why anybody who is looking towards a political ideology, a political leader, a cult of personality, a self help book for the answers, anybody who's looking for political reform as the answer to why my life isn't so good, why they're suffering, it will always be insufficient.
00:32:15.000You know, you can talk about logistics and tactics and strategy, but if the right can satisfactorily answer this question, We will get there.
00:32:22.000We will reach the promised land in terms of achieving political power and achieving the reforms that we want because this is the strongest message that can be put out in a barren, modern world that is absent of that kind of immaterial need that all people have.
00:32:43.000The other thing, which is a little bit less, a lot less gravity on the next story, moving right along, we get into the Peter Sturzok scandal here.
00:32:52.000And of course, this is a lot less intense.
00:32:56.000You know, grandiose in terms of its scope and in terms of how personal it is for many people.
00:33:01.000But we have another story here, which is a big development.
00:33:04.000Peter Sturzok, if you recall, he was on Robert Mueller's special counsel team.
00:33:09.000He had to be reassigned because it was discovered that he had been texting his girlfriend, Lisa Page, some very anti Trump things.
00:33:16.000And of course, if he was on the special counsel with Robert Mueller investigating the 2016 election and Donald Trump, it is a conflict of interest that he's anti Trump himself, and there's documented evidence for it.
00:33:28.000So he was reassigned, I believe, in December after the initial text came out.
00:33:33.000And it just, excuse me, and it just came out today, this afternoon actually, that the FBI is missing 50,000 text messages between Peter Sturzok and Lisa Page from December 2016 until May 2017.
00:33:48.000So five months of text messages that they don't have.
00:33:52.000And they say it was because they were using Samsung phones and the Samsung phones didn't gel with the FBI.
00:34:00.000Technology didn't record them properly or something, which I don't know.
00:34:07.000And there was also an informant that came forward today and informed congressmen like Trey Gowdy that Sturzok and Page had actually been texting about a secret society in the intelligence community, which convened, or excuse me, the intelligence community, which convened off site away from government grounds to discuss business affairs, how they were going to go after Trump.
00:34:29.000And so you look at these two developments, and of course, these.
00:34:32.000Are in the wake of the Inspector General memo, which was presented to Congress on Monday, which has not been released to the public, but which many members of Congress say is pretty revealing about the Democrats, Clinton and Obama in particular.
00:34:46.000And we have something that is being constructed here, a real case against the Democratic deep state.
00:34:51.000Because now, after what we saw in December, and I talked about it all in December, and now we've seen today and in the first weeks of January, is a real paper trail.
00:35:02.000Documented hard evidence of a conspiracy in the intelligence community and in the Democratic Party to take down Donald Trump, to target a political opponent.
00:35:12.000And it all lies, really, it goes back to the FISA courts, the 702 FISA warrants that were issued by the intelligence community to, or more particularly by the FBI, to Fusion GPS to construct the Trump dossier.
00:35:29.000And there's more about this in other episodes, but the long and short of it is here, because we're running out of time, we got to get to the super chats, is that this will be the major story of 2018.
00:35:39.000I was vindicated on immigration, on DACA, and people are saying, Nick, you got to be more humble in victory.
00:35:45.000You know, the kind of shit that I get.
00:35:47.000When I'm making these predictions, justifies how pretentious I am when I win and how smug I am.
00:35:53.000I'm smug for the fact that this cannot be.
00:36:00.000All right, it looks like we're back here.
00:36:23.000So, right now, what you have is a race between the special counsel to contest the legitimacy of the Trump government and this ad hoc convention of Republicans and investigators to go after them and ward off that, essentially, as the judicial praetorian guard, I suppose.
00:36:43.000You can see it heating up on the special counsel side because they're trying to get Trump out, they're trying to institute a coup d'etat against the president before.
00:36:52.000He can find all the corruption and everything.
00:36:54.000So it'll be interesting to see how it plays out.
00:36:57.000So, all these Sessions haters, all these Jeff Sessions haters, and the Trump haters, you're going to be proven spectacularly wrong by late March and early May when the Inspector General report comes out because there is something there and it will be found out.
00:37:12.000It will be made public and it will be devastating because not only will we drag these bastards through the mud and hopefully throw some of them in jail, but that'll win us the midterms, baby.
00:37:22.000And when we have the midterms, when we get our 60 votes in the Senate, you know, we're at, I think, If you look at the general ballot from Real Clear Politics, we're at about 59 seats if he has a 45% approval rating, and I think that's doable.
00:37:38.000If we get this Democrat thing going, we will be talking about a big sweep in 2018, which means, of course, Wall, DACA goes, Amnesty goes, or not Amnesty, but Diversity Visa Lottery, Chain Migration.
00:37:52.000I mean, we get our wish list if we get a big sweep in 2018.
00:37:56.000So it's all looking very optimistic here.
00:37:58.000But that's the news of the day so far.
00:38:24.000So we'll check out our super chats now, now that we've reached the 45 minute mark, and we'll see what our loyal and cherished fans are saying here on the show tonight.
00:38:36.000We have Simon Skola who says, Have you ever read any Cormac McCarthy?
00:39:45.000Yeah, we're going to have to start selling these myself, I think, and we'll get these made in America.
00:39:51.000You know, because they didn't trademark the logo, they didn't do a copyright on this.
00:39:55.000So maybe I'll start selling these mugs, and I'll start selling them for a little bit more money so we can get them made in America.
00:40:01.000You know, I didn't want to say this when we were doing the show under America First Media because I didn't want to be divisive and starting drama.
00:40:08.000But James did handle the distribution on these, and he got them from China, which is.
00:40:16.000But, you know, the Chad Tallboy mug here, this is an America First mug, not America First Media.
00:40:23.000And that's, of course, because America First was my brand since February 6th.
00:40:27.000And I'm thinking about putting together a very good highlight reel of the America First show for our one year anniversary.
00:40:35.000I believe February 6th is our one year anniversary of doing the show when it started on Right Side Broadcasting Network at 11 o'clock Eastern Time.
00:40:46.000In the single dorm of my buddy in the Warren Towers of Boston U.
00:40:53.000So we'll have to do a one year highlight reel.
00:40:55.000I'm going to put together all kinds of clips and things, and it'll be very fun.
00:42:03.000I always maintained the traps are gay.
00:42:06.000I simply said the traps may be less gay than modern women.
00:42:10.000You look at modern women and the way they swear, the way they dress, the way they put themselves out there, the way they drink, the way they do drugs, and how offensive and coarse they are.
00:42:22.000And I would say that in the modern day, You could make the argument.
00:42:26.000I would never make this argument, but it could be made that traps are less gay than certain degenerate modern women.
00:42:34.000That is the only qualifier I would say.
00:42:36.000When I say traps are gay, I would simply say it could be contested that the modern woman is more of a man than a trap.
00:46:22.000I think that to be spending our money here.
00:46:25.000As opposed to overseas in Afghanistan or in Iraq or in the CENTCOM or any of these other departments of the Department of Defense, I think it's a worthy cause.
00:46:36.000And not only do you have, I'm not a Keynesian, not totally, but this kind of improving our infrastructure, this is one of the tasks of the federal government.
00:46:44.000This is one of the roles of the federal government in the sense that if you look at China or Japan and how they invest in the infrastructure there, particularly in transportation and telecommunications, this is something that can enhance commerce.
00:46:57.000So, I wouldn't say that I endorse infrastructure solely for an economic injection because I'm not a Keynesian.
00:47:03.000But I would say that when you have better infrastructure, when you have better trains and better roads and bridges and better communications technology and things like this, it does lend itself to a more productive economy in terms of capital in the country.
00:47:19.000Jay said, and it looks like Jay is trying to debate me in the live chat of my show a week before the debate.
00:49:07.000Somebody who works very hard, no doubt, puts a lot of work and effort into what she does.
00:49:12.000I believe that's what I'm led to believe by her very frazzled and frantic appearance all the time.
00:49:18.000But this is simply not an intelligent or competent or savvy person.
00:49:22.000And I imagine Ben Shapiro gives her a little bit of credit, gives her a little bit of attention, and her heart swells, and it leads to these passions which blind her politically, which tends to happen with women.
00:49:33.000So if I could speculate, I would say that's what it is.
00:50:28.000You'll have to elaborate on that, my friend.
00:50:31.000And again, the strategy, Jay, of trying to debate me in the live chat of my show a week out from the debate, this is not indicative of a serious person.
00:50:42.000So, you know, when I went on, Jay, when I went on your channel and I saw the conspiracy theories about, like, you know, all kinds of wacky Illuminati stuff, and when I watched your content and it was dry as a bone, I said, you know, I'll give this guy a chance, I guess, because people seem to respect his.
00:51:03.000Being well read and his education and everything, and certainly I did initially.
00:51:07.000But this is just not, this is simply not good praxis.
00:51:10.000This is simply not indicative of a serious person.
00:51:13.000But, you know, maybe I'll give you a chance anyway.
00:51:52.000You could say that Denmark is capitalist.
00:51:56.000They are a social democracy, and certainly they have socialist elements, but they still do have markets.
00:52:04.000They have great ease of doing business, they have low regulations, low taxes.
00:52:09.000A climate that lends itself to competitive markets for private goods.
00:52:14.000But even China, you could say, is capitalist in some sense.
00:52:17.000They are state capitalist as opposed to maybe a more market socialist oriented approach.
00:52:23.000So I would say that capitalism in terms of markets is salvageable and should be salvaged.
00:52:28.000But the question then becomes what about trade?
00:52:31.000The question becomes what about some of these other sectors, the social services?
00:52:35.000The question is also complicated by things like automation, artificial intelligence, which will.
00:52:40.000Eliminate a lot of the jobs in the country.
00:52:42.000What happens when scarcity is diminished as a force for people economizing or as a force for a society economizing on its resources?
00:52:51.000I mean, these all become pertinent questions.
00:52:53.000I would say that capitalism should be maintained, but it should not be ideological capitalism in the sense of neoliberalism.
00:53:02.000Neoliberalism is an ideological conviction that the market system, competition, creative destruction should be applied to all facets of society.
00:53:13.000Which is kind of a perversion of the neoclassical price system, neoclassical price system, which is built on the normative assumption that man is an economic animal, that he is always economizing, he is always sizing up the market and looking to save as much and get the most utility, which I think is a normative assumption and not empirically a good description of how man behaves.
00:53:39.000And this is very technical language, but that's why I think that capitalism as an ideology, neoliberalism, the ideology should be dropped.
00:53:48.000As anything more than an economic system to orient goods and services must be retired in exchange for something like distributism, aiming for getting people in a position where they have wealth.
00:54:01.000Jay Dyer, Nick, I thought you would appreciate the money.
00:54:30.000I'll get back to you on the email then.
00:54:32.000Ian Weber, I mean, we will have to change our version of capitalism to become more left wing, or can we keep our right wing version, such as the one in the 50s?
00:54:40.000Was the one in the 1950s so right wing?
00:54:44.000You had a top marginal tax rate of more than 90%.
00:54:48.000The income tax was in its infancy, it was only 30 years old in the 1950s, a little bit older than 30 years.
00:54:54.000And although the effective tax rate, top marginal tax rate, was only around 35 to 40%, the top marginal tax rate In terms of the tax code, it was 90%.
00:55:03.000You also had massive infrastructure spending.
00:55:23.000I mean, I think by today's standards, the infrastructure spending, the high tax rates, the war would certainly be a left wing Keynesian bent on capitalism.
00:55:33.000So, I would say that that would probably be more left wing.
00:55:36.000The right wing version of it would be more similar to the 1980s, Ronald Reagan, which was the predecessor, of course, to NAFTA and the free trade agreements, which was, of course, cutting taxes, deregulating the stock market going crazy, the Federal Reserve instituting a pretty tight monetary policy.
00:55:56.000I think the way to go forward, the way that will give us economic prosperity, is the right wing version.
00:56:03.000And certainly you can have some infrastructure spending and you can have.
00:56:07.000Maybe higher tax rates on the wealthy, maybe.
00:56:10.000I don't know how effective that would be, but I think that the way forward would be to constrain, I think monetary policy is a big part of it, to constrain how much money we're printing, to constrain how much money we're spending, to keep regulations low, to keep taxes low, and make America competitive economically.
00:58:00.000But that's going to be it for us tonight.
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