America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - Why the GOP Lost Pennsylvania | America First Ep. 125

00:00:05.000 Good evening, everybody.

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00:00:07.000 My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes, and we have a great show for you tonight.

00:00:12.000 Lots to talk about, lots to get into, lots of things happening in the news this week.

00:00:17.000 We had a very big election last night, one of our highest rated episodes of all time.

00:00:23.000 So, some fantastic coverage last night of the special election in the 18th District of Pennsylvania.

00:00:30.000 And still no results, still no outcome on that.

00:00:32.000 We went to bed last night.

00:00:35.000 At about what, 10 15 Central Standard Time, and we were left hanging with two precincts to go and about 3,100 absentee ballots, some overseas votes to be counted.

00:00:45.000 And as of right now, still no official winner.

00:00:47.000 We have an apparent winner, which is the Democrats, but still no official winner.

00:00:52.000 We have a massive protest today, a massive walkout for gun control in the high schools, I think in other schools, but mainly just in high schools.

00:01:02.000 At 10 a.m. this morning, we're going to get into that.

00:01:04.000 Mrs. Hillary Clinton making some interesting comments that.

00:01:08.000 Stephen Hawking passes away.

00:01:11.000 He joins the Stardust, right?

00:01:13.000 Ashes to ashes, Stardust to Stardust.

00:01:16.000 Stephen Hawking and all the scientists, you know, they're so skeptical about God, they're so skeptical about all these things.

00:01:23.000 And Stephen Hawking has now joined the Stars once again.

00:01:26.000 So we'll talk a little bit about that.

00:01:28.000 But really, just a lot going on.

00:01:30.000 And, you know, Knicker Nation, we could not be doing better on the show.

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00:01:38.000 We look at things going on in our movement.

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00:01:52.000 I'm not embarrassed by what I said or what I believed or who I backed in the horse race.

00:01:59.000 I'm not embarrassed to be a knicker because every day we wake up and we wake up in beautiful Vindication City.

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00:02:12.000 It's just a great place to be.

00:02:13.000 I don't think I'm ever going back.

00:02:15.000 To Chicago, I have to tell you.

00:02:17.000 We've been in Vindication City for, what, about a year, year and a half now, two years?

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00:02:24.000 A great new studio here in Vindication City, very tall buildings.

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00:02:31.000 The people are friendly.

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00:02:33.000 There's no wife beating, there's no obesity problem.

00:02:37.000 There's a lot of bad stuff that just isn't here.

00:02:40.000 And, you know, isn't that something?

00:02:41.000 We've been right about everything for just about two years.

00:02:44.000 Can you believe that?

00:02:45.000 We've been right about everything.

00:02:47.000 That's what happens when you're never wrong. 1.00

00:02:49.000 You get to live in Vindication City.

00:02:51.000 And people say to me, they say, oh, no, Nick, you weren't right about everything.

00:02:55.000 Remember that one time?

00:02:57.000 Remember the Doug Jones incident in Alabama?

00:03:00.000 It's like, okay.

00:03:01.000 Two years, we got one thing wrong.

00:03:03.000 And even then, I would contest because we said only in extraordinary circumstances would we take a loss, and circumstances were extraordinary.

00:03:11.000 But anywho, we just have to do a little bit of a victory lap.

00:03:14.000 We've seen some things going on.

00:03:16.000 In the movement.

00:03:17.000 We've seen some things with former people involved.

00:03:20.000 And all I have to say is it's a great week to be a knicker. 0.98

00:03:24.000 It's a great week to be in Vindication City.

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00:04:29.000 But, Now that that housekeeping stuff is out of the way, I got a new haircut, by the way, also.

00:04:34.000 I know I said I was going to get one yesterday.

00:04:36.000 I didn't make it out because they have weird hours where it's like some days they close at like 2 o'clock, some days they close at 5 o'clock, so it's very confusing to me.

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00:04:53.000 I don't know.

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00:05:00.000 We're feeling good.

00:05:01.000 Big guy in a little coat.

00:05:03.000 And with that said, we're getting ready for some news.

00:05:06.000 I guess the first thing we want to talk about is a special election.

00:05:09.000 We just got done covering it last night, and we had a great, great panel.

00:05:13.000 We had Jazz Hans McPheels of Fascination, a really bright guy, really intelligent guy, great radio voice, too.

00:05:21.000 If you've ever heard him last night, he's really solid with that.

00:05:24.000 And we had on Ricky Vaughn, who's been up to some shenanigans lately.

00:05:29.000 You know, he's out there doing his thing, and God bless him.

00:05:32.000 Another really smart guy, somebody very politically active.

00:05:35.000 He said he'd be watching tonight, so we hope he is.

00:05:37.000 So thanks to those two for joining me.

00:05:39.000 I thought it was really great coverage on America First of the election.

00:05:42.000 We had, you know, CNN or ABC going.

00:05:45.000 We had the New York Times going.

00:05:46.000 We had some really solid production quality.

00:05:50.000 No tech issues generally, except for my headpiece ran out of battery, but I mean, we had a backup, so we were okay.

00:05:55.000 But we saw the Pennsylvania special election last night.

00:05:58.000 It was in the 18th district of Pennsylvania.

00:06:00.000 And the story of this district is this.

00:06:03.000 You had a Republican representative in this district who got elected in 2002, and he was elected every year, every year since 2002, with margins of 15% or more.

00:06:15.000 This district went 20% for McCain, it went 20% for Romney, it went 20% for Donald Trump.

00:06:23.000 The person who ran since 2002, he never won the election by less than 15 points.

00:06:28.000 This district skewed 20% compared to the general country to the right.

00:06:33.000 So, 20% more right wing than the rest of the country.

00:06:36.000 And we had been talking about this all week, or we talked about it on Monday.

00:06:39.000 I think we talked a little bit about it in a Periscope over the weekend, how this district should not have been competitive.

00:06:46.000 The story of this district is one that had been won by Republicans and won by Republicans convincingly for 15, 16, 14 years, a long time, and won convincingly.

00:06:58.000 You know, it wasn't just slightly Republican.

00:07:00.000 We saw a lot of states in 2016.

00:07:03.000 And a lot of districts in 2016, we saw them flip.

00:07:05.000 We saw them going from Obama to Donald Trump, specifically in Pennsylvania, specifically in Ohio or Iowa or Michigan, states that Obama won a couple of times.

00:07:15.000 And so a lot of districts, a lot of states, we saw them flip to Trump, and some of them went from Democrat to Republican.

00:07:21.000 We saw in the case of Michigan, he won Michigan by a hair, he won Michigan by a thread.

00:07:26.000 But in this district, we have won resoundingly, convincingly for almost two decades.

00:07:33.000 And the reason the seat was vacated because.

00:07:35.000 Was because you had this Republican representative who won eight terms.

00:07:39.000 He was caught up in a sex scandal where he was cheating on his wife.

00:07:42.000 And not only was he cheating on his wife, but he had an abortion with the person he was cheating with.

00:07:46.000 And so you're a social conservative, you're a Republican, it's a very right wing district.

00:07:50.000 And you're not only cheating on your wife, but you abort the baby.

00:07:53.000 That doesn't go over too well.

00:07:54.000 So he had to vacate the seat in September.

00:07:56.000 They held this special election last night.

00:07:59.000 And here's the thing about this election why it's not so much consequential.

00:08:04.000 What is the outcome?

00:08:05.000 You know, people are saying, okay, it appears that the Democrat Joe Lamb, I keep calling him Joe Lamb, Connor Lamb, it appears that Connor Lamb won the vote last night in Pennsylvania.

00:08:16.000 And it was Connor Lamb, 30 year old guy, young 30 year old guy, former Marine.

00:08:21.000 I guess you're never really former.

00:08:22.000 So he was a Marine, he was a federal prosecutor, he ran.

00:08:26.000 Basically, he is a blue dog Democrat, as McPheel said last night, an anachronism in many ways.

00:08:31.000 Young, white, handsome, Marine, federal prosecutor, social conservative, Catholic.

00:08:38.000 I mean, they don't make him like this anymore in terms of Democrats.

00:08:41.000 You saw a lot of these kinds of characters bring over the Democrats and deliver the moderates and left leaning people for Ronald Reagan in the 80s or for George Bush later on.

00:08:50.000 You saw a lot of them under Bill Clinton.

00:08:52.000 Bill Clinton, by today's standards, was rather conservative when he ran in 1992.

00:08:56.000 And so, this kind of blue dog Democrat, this social conservative, Catholic, But yet, a pro union, pro white working class kind of attitude.

00:09:04.000 This is anachronistic. 0.76

00:09:05.000 It doesn't belong in this time.

00:09:06.000 You saw a lot of this 20, 25 years ago, not so much today.

00:09:09.000 So, that was a Democrat.

00:09:11.000 Republican was Rick Sacone, a former Air Force guy.

00:09:14.000 I believe he was a state representative and a rock rip conservative.

00:09:18.000 He said himself that he was Donald Trump before Donald Trump was Donald Trump.

00:09:22.000 And so, a very right wing guy, but also that said, a very traditionally conservative type guy, maybe in the modern sense.

00:09:29.000 He reminds us of George W. Bush.

00:09:31.000 Mind to submit Romney, Paul Ryan, not so much Donald Trump, not so much new populist nationalist type politics.

00:09:38.000 And so it looks like Conor Lamb pulled away towards the end.

00:09:42.000 Like I said, they still haven't counted all the votes.

00:09:44.000 You got two precincts, I think, which have been tallied at this point, but you still got absentee ballots, and there might be a challenge made to do a recount.

00:09:54.000 I don't know if the recount would be enough to make up the difference, but it turned out that Lamb won by about 600 votes or so the last I checked this morning, and votes are still being counted.

00:10:04.000 But that said, The election isn't consequential in that somebody will be seated and they'll be making decisions because whether or not Conor Lamb won, Republicans retain their majority until November.

00:10:15.000 And whether or not they retain their majority, whoever won in the 18th district doesn't even serve for that long.

00:10:22.000 And a few people were asking me what this means after the show, saying, What did you mean by that?

00:10:27.000 Some people on Twitter, what did you mean when you said that whoever won the election wouldn't be seated?

00:10:32.000 The person who won the election last night, whether it's Conor Lamb or Rick Sacone, they go into office for a couple of months and then they're gone.

00:10:39.000 And the reason being is because.

00:10:40.000 They're in the process in Pennsylvania of redistricting where they redraw the districts.

00:10:46.000 So the 18th district, as it existed for the election last night, that everybody was analyzing, and you got Westmoreland and Green and Washington and Allegheny.

00:10:54.000 You know, I know I pronounced it badly a couple of times.

00:10:57.000 People really get on my case about that.

00:10:59.000 But this district that included these counties, it doesn't exist in a couple of months because they're redrawing the map.

00:11:05.000 The Republicans are in the process of redrawing it.

00:11:08.000 Right now, it's gotten caught up in the courts.

00:11:10.000 Because there's been some disputes as to whether the gerrymandering has gone too far, is the map really fair.

00:11:16.000 But by the time they have that figured out in a couple of months, whoever takes office from the 18th district, they'll be coming home immediately.

00:11:23.000 And they'll have to choose whether they're going to run in, I think, the 17th district or another district.

00:11:29.000 And in either case, they'll be challenging incumbents.

00:11:31.000 So they'll have to run again in November, whoever does end up being the winner.

00:11:35.000 So it's not so much consequential in terms of voting, it's not consequential in terms of.

00:11:42.000 Day to day legislation like it was with Alabama.

00:11:45.000 Because you remember with Alabama in December, Doug Jones was a sitting senator.

00:11:50.000 And I don't think he's up for election again until 2020, although I'm not totally sure about that one.

00:11:55.000 And it's either 2018 or 2020, but he is in the Senate casting votes and casting, in some cases, hypothetically, deciding votes on important legislation.

00:12:07.000 You know, you remember the Obamacare vote where John McCain came in and he gave it a thumbs down and he voted no, and that sunk it.

00:12:13.000 Republicans have a very razor thin majority in the Senate.

00:12:16.000 They have, I think, 51 votes with Doug Jones seated and Jeff Sessions not in the seat for Alabama.

00:12:23.000 So they got 51 votes, not counting Mike Pence as a tiebreaker.

00:12:26.000 And that's a very slim majority.

00:12:28.000 You get a handful of Republican senators.

00:12:30.000 Who don't want to vote for a Donald Trump piece of legislation, Marco Rubio, Susan Collins, John McCain, Rand Paul, you name it, you get a couple of these people who are in revolt and who are not convinced, and there it goes.

00:12:42.000 With this House seat, you don't have that.

00:12:44.000 The majority isn't compromised, the person's not even seated for that long.

00:12:49.000 The reason it's important is it tells us something about the midterms, it tells us about the electorate.

00:12:54.000 It says that if we're trying to forecast what kind of majorities the Republicans will have, if they're even able to retain them in both or even one chamber, In order to forecast that, we have to know how many people are going to turn out, how people are leaning, both in the middle, on the left, and on the right, to what margin they go for Trump or against Trump.

00:13:13.000 And last night was a wake up call for Republicans because they ran this guy, Rick Sacone, who was a business as usual candidate.

00:13:19.000 He wasn't exciting, he wasn't energizing, his message was not new or fresh.

00:13:26.000 It bore no resemblance to Donald Trump's message, it bore greater resemblance to Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush.

00:13:34.000 This was your standard Heritage Foundation Fox News platform, your standard Heritage Foundation Fox News candidate.

00:13:42.000 And I don't say that totally as a pejorative, but I say that descriptively.

00:13:45.000 This is the kind of conservative that you had running in this swing district in Pennsylvania one that is an industrial district, but also you have some rural, one that's right on the border with West Virginia.

00:13:56.000 And they ran a traditional candidate where Trump was winning by 20%.

00:14:00.000 And so they ran this guy who was a Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity type.

00:14:05.000 Boring guy, couldn't fundraise, couldn't energize the base.

00:14:08.000 And we saw this from the beginning.

00:14:09.000 You saw the polling from about a month out, and it was very problematic.

00:14:13.000 It didn't look so good.

00:14:14.000 And who did he go against? 0.58

00:14:15.000 He went up against Connor Lamb, who, like I said, was this young guy, a blue dog Democrat.

00:14:20.000 Very important, he disavowed Nancy Pelosi.

00:14:24.000 He said, If I get into office, I won't vote for Nancy Pelosi.

00:14:28.000 I'll vote with Donald Trump.

00:14:29.000 He didn't really mention Donald Trump so much, but he said, I'm not going to vote with Nancy Pelosi.

00:14:33.000 It's my personal conviction that I'm against abortion.

00:14:35.000 I would not vote for more restrictions on guns.

00:14:38.000 He said he's pro union.

00:14:39.000 He's pro blue collar worker.

00:14:41.000 You strip away some of the ancillary stuff.

00:14:43.000 You strip away the blue and the red and some of the rhetoric, which is pandering, I think, to people that don't like Democrats.

00:14:50.000 He says, you know, these are not partisan issues, and I disavow Nancy Pelosi.

00:14:54.000 This guy could very well fit into the Republican Party.

00:14:56.000 This guy looks more like Chris Christie and Donald Trump than Rick Sacone.

00:15:00.000 And so what we saw last night was an enthusiasm gap.

00:15:03.000 And you're going to hear that a lot.

00:15:05.000 You hear this a lot on the news.

00:15:07.000 Everybody's talking about it an enthusiasm gap between Democrats and Republicans, which.

00:15:11.000 What this means is a turnout problem.

00:15:13.000 You may have Republicans that love Donald Trump.

00:15:16.000 And I was at CPAC.

00:15:17.000 CPAC did a straw poll for Republicans and conservatives.

00:15:20.000 They said, How many of you support the president?

00:15:22.000 Something like 96% say they support the president.

00:15:25.000 You look at the president's approval rating among Republicans, and they're very high, very high marks, especially in these industrial states like Pennsylvania, higher than even in states like Texas or some of these southern states that people would think traditionally would go more right.

00:15:39.000 These industrial states, and many of them, they have a higher approval rating of Trump among Republicans than the southern states.

00:15:46.000 And so you may have high approval.

00:15:47.000 People may be on board with Trump, maybe have a 20% partisanship like you did in this district, where 20% they lean 20% to the right compared to the country.

00:15:56.000 And yet, if they're not turning out the vote, if they're not showing up to the voting booths to cast their vote because they're not excited or they're not energized for whatever reason, if they're not motivated to go out and Pokemon go to the polls, they're not going to succeed in 2018.

00:16:13.000 Because the Democrats, we saw this in Alabama, where they turned out to Numbers so high that people, such as myself, thought it was impossible.

00:16:23.000 They turned out 95% of the voters that Hillary Clinton got in a presidential election in 2016.

00:16:30.000 And you understand how abnormal that is.

00:16:32.000 You understand how remarkable that is.

00:16:34.000 That you would get the same turnout in a presidential election that you would in a special Senate election in December in the deep red South, in Alabama, the Republican state of Republican states.

00:16:47.000 Unheard of. 0.84

00:16:48.000 Black turnout that was unheard of.

00:16:50.000 They had a higher proportion of blacks voting in that election than Obama did in 2012.

00:16:54.000 29% of the vote was black.

00:16:56.000 So you had unheard of turnout in Alabama.

00:16:59.000 In Texas, you had double the turnout in their primaries.

00:17:03.000 It still didn't come close to Republicans, but this is a red state.

00:17:06.000 The Democrats doubled their turnout from 2014 in the 2018 primaries for the Senate and state and House elections.

00:17:14.000 You saw this in Pennsylvania, where Connor Lamb turned out 80% of Hillary Clinton's vote in 2016.

00:17:21.000 80% of the Clinton vote in 2016.

00:17:23.000 And Saccon only turned out 53%.

00:17:26.000 So that's a difference of 30%.

00:17:28.000 That's an enthusiasm gap of a third.

00:17:31.000 And so maybe Republicans are loving President Trump.

00:17:34.000 Maybe the country is leaning rightward.

00:17:36.000 Maybe they're tired of Hollywood.

00:17:37.000 I think they are.

00:17:38.000 Maybe they're tired of the Democrats.

00:17:40.000 Surely.

00:17:41.000 But if they can't turn out the vote in these swing states, in these battleground states, even in some safe Republican districts, and Democrats are running good candidates and they're focused and they're staying on message, and they see that Conor Lamb.

00:17:54.000 And Doug Jones, that kind of politician works, we're going to be in for a real battle here.

00:17:59.000 Now, that said, that's the problem, the enthusiasm gap.

00:18:03.000 We're not turning out the votes.

00:18:05.000 And you saw this in Alabama, you saw this in Pennsylvania.

00:18:08.000 Here's kind of the good news these were local elections, these were not national elections.

00:18:14.000 And people would say, well, of course, Alabama is not the nation, and this district is not the nation.

00:18:18.000 But here's what I mean by that Alabama was not a reflection of the country, and it was not a referendum on Trump or on the Republicans because.

00:18:26.000 You had outstanding circumstances where you had a sex scandal that was prolonged.

00:18:31.000 It was four weeks.

00:18:33.000 The GOP pulled money from Roy Moore.

00:18:35.000 They stopped campaigning for him.

00:18:36.000 They stopped funding him.

00:18:37.000 You had this issue of Steve Bannon and Donald Trump.

00:18:40.000 Would they endorse him?

00:18:41.000 Would they not endorse him?

00:18:42.000 Roy Moore was a terrible campaigner.

00:18:45.000 He was a weird strain of Republican where it was like this antiquated evangelical Bush type stuff.

00:18:52.000 And in the same case with Pennsylvania, you had Rick Sacone, who was a GOP type, a GOP establishment type.

00:18:59.000 Not a good campaigner.

00:19:00.000 And by the same token, in each case in Alabama and in Pennsylvania, you had Democrats who were as good as they could be.

00:19:09.000 These might as well have been handpicked.

00:19:11.000 In the case of Pennsylvania, he was handpicked.

00:19:14.000 Connor Lamb was chosen not by a primary process where Democrats go and vote for who they want.

00:19:19.000 He was chosen in a campaign by the party leadership in that state.

00:19:23.000 So it wasn't like Connor Lamb won a primary against, you know, a very far left person or he had to run against an establishment person.

00:19:30.000 He was handpicked because he would be the best candidate for that district.

00:19:33.000 Same is true with Doug Jones.

00:19:34.000 He wasn't handpicked, but Doug Jones was another guy who wasn't this anti Trump far left zealot.

00:19:40.000 He said he would vote for Trump, and the only trouble with him was abortion, but going up against Roy Moore, that didn't seem to be a big problem.

00:19:47.000 So, these two elections, they represented an enthusiasm gap.

00:19:50.000 But I think if you compare them to other elections that skew Republican in Utah, in South Carolina, in Montana, in Georgia, is it the end of the world?

00:19:59.000 I don't know.

00:20:00.000 It's cause for concern, just like the Texas primary that we saw earlier in the week.

00:20:04.000 This is definitely something we have to look at because I think there is complacency.

00:20:09.000 And this is traditionally what happens with a sitting president, is that when a president gets into office in the immediate next midterm, he tends to not do so well.

00:20:17.000 We saw this in the past three or four presidencies.

00:20:20.000 And so it wouldn't be unusual if we saw this enthusiasm problem.

00:20:24.000 It wouldn't be unusual if this was not just these districts and states, but it looks like in Alabama and Pennsylvania, these were peculiar.

00:20:31.000 Because the Democrats will not be picking, I don't believe, through the primary process or in any other process, they're not going to be picking Connor Lambs.

00:20:40.000 Connor Lambs are in very, very short supply in the Democratic Party after eight years of Barack Obama.

00:20:46.000 They basically rooted out the white males, the toxic working class, masculine type people.

00:20:52.000 You know, Connor Lambs. 0.98

00:20:53.000 Was a vet.

00:20:54.000 Connor Lamb is a macho, white, handsome, tall guy.

00:20:59.000 This is all the stuff that the left resents, that the left has drawn their derision against these kinds of people.

00:21:05.000 They've driven these people from the party.

00:21:07.000 You're not going to get Connor Lambs all across the country.

00:21:10.000 And so that's why this one was peculiar.

00:21:12.000 This one was particular.

00:21:14.000 But, you know, Republicans should be careful.

00:21:17.000 What we have to do moving forward as Republicans, as conservatives, what Donald Trump should be doing is he needs to use this to leverage against the Republican Party.

00:21:25.000 He has to say, and we talked about this at length last night.

00:21:28.000 It has to be moving forward.

00:21:30.000 Hey, look, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, the chair of the Republican Party, this has got to stop.

00:21:35.000 We should have won this district.

00:21:37.000 This shouldn't have even been competitive.

00:21:38.000 I shouldn't have even had to come here two times.

00:21:40.000 He went there in January and then again last weekend.

00:21:44.000 I shouldn't have even had to come here two times to bail you guys out.

00:21:47.000 Why did you spend $100 per vote in this race and you didn't pull it off?

00:21:51.000 So we have to now leverage and say, you've got two bad elections with the GOPE.

00:21:56.000 Something has to change.

00:21:58.000 Donald Trump pulled it off.

00:22:00.000 He had a great message.

00:22:01.000 He had a great campaign.

00:22:03.000 He won an election that was impossible, that many thought was impossible.

00:22:07.000 He won states Republicans haven't won in 30 years.

00:22:10.000 And he figured the secret out.

00:22:12.000 It's time for everybody else to figure it out.

00:22:14.000 We've got to demystify it.

00:22:15.000 So it's not the end of the world.

00:22:17.000 It was a very local election.

00:22:19.000 It was local candidates.

00:22:20.000 It was local issues.

00:22:22.000 You know, it was heroin, it was opioids, it was infrastructure, union jobs.

00:22:26.000 This was a local election with local issues.

00:22:29.000 It was decided by the candidates.

00:22:31.000 But that said, that doesn't mean it's not cause for concern.

00:22:33.000 So we have to look at it.

00:22:34.000 But that was the special election in Pennsylvania.

00:22:37.000 And we'll see.

00:22:38.000 We'll see how big of an effect that has in November.

00:22:42.000 I got to say, I'm a little bit nervous now about November.

00:22:44.000 We've been feeling good about it for a long time because the tax cuts have gone into place.

00:22:49.000 We see the tariffs are going in, and that's very good for these industrial states and for these Rust Belt states.

00:22:54.000 We've seen a lot of movement on all kinds of things.

00:22:57.000 He's destroyed ISIS.

00:22:58.000 We've got conservative.

00:22:59.000 Supreme Court justices.

00:23:01.000 I mean, he's done about half of the promises that he's made in about a year, a little bit over a year.

00:23:07.000 And we thought we were going in very strong.

00:23:10.000 Not only that, but Democrats have been very weak since Donald Trump got into office, weak on messaging, haven't been able to offer a positive alternative to President Trump. 0.83

00:23:19.000 And yet, it looks like they're kicking our butts all over the place.

00:23:23.000 And according to 538, and it's not just these two states, but according to 538, Democrats have outperformed partisan lean in the country by 17%.

00:23:33.000 Which means that this state was 20%.

00:23:36.000 In the case of Alabama, I think they went 27%.

00:23:38.000 In Utah, it was a 35% lien.

00:23:41.000 Democrats are outperforming on average in special elections by 17%.

00:23:45.000 That's a sizable gap to overcome.

00:23:47.000 I think it's doable, but we have to work on it.

00:23:49.000 So that was the special election.

00:23:52.000 You know, we'll wait and see who ends up winning it.

00:23:54.000 I think it really doesn't matter at this point because they're not going to get seated.

00:23:58.000 And, you know, again, it doesn't matter who won.

00:24:01.000 The story is that there was competition, the story is it was contested.

00:24:04.000 There was this big shift to the left, and we got to work on it.

00:24:07.000 But that was that.

00:24:09.000 The other big thing I want to talk about was this gun control walkout.

00:24:13.000 We saw a big, and this is the first of three major gun control protests.

00:24:17.000 You have this one today.

00:24:19.000 You got another one on March 24th in Washington, D.C., and then you got another one on April 20th.

00:24:25.000 So these professional gun control activists, you could call them actors, you could call them a number of things, the people that have stepped up since the Parkland shooting, these guys are professionals because they hit it really hard right out of the gate.

00:24:37.000 Excuse me.

00:24:38.000 I mean, they did the media blitz.

00:24:39.000 They got their T shirts made.

00:24:41.000 They got their rallies planned.

00:24:42.000 They got their rhetoric.

00:24:43.000 And the rhetoric was strong, it was coordinated, it was coherent, and I thought it was extremely effective.

00:24:50.000 They started to lose their way in recent weeks with these kids.

00:24:53.000 These kids have gone out of control.

00:24:55.000 I think they've lost a lot of the sympathy because they come off as bratty.

00:24:58.000 They come off as very angry.

00:25:01.000 And this is what I think even left wing type people think when they see they hung up on the president of the United States and they get out there and very snarky and very rude. 0.50

00:25:10.000 And, you know, they think who the hell they are.

00:25:12.000 But they've been doing, I think, a good job recovering from that.

00:25:15.000 They followed up with a big demonstration today.

00:25:17.000 They're following up with another one on March 24th, another one on April 20th.

00:25:21.000 So they're going to keep it.

00:25:23.000 In the news cycle, they're going to keep it in people's faces.

00:25:25.000 And that's the most important thing.

00:25:28.000 Because when you see these kinds of crises, when you see the potential these events have to mobilize public support, and there's a very short window where you have to capitalize, and you have to capitalize fast and strong.

00:25:40.000 And Democrats are very good at this.

00:25:41.000 They were good at it with Sandy Hook.

00:25:43.000 And it's just very morbid stuff because these are tragedies.

00:25:43.000 They were good at it.

00:25:46.000 But politically, that's mechanistically how they function. 0.85

00:25:49.000 They were very good at it with Sandy Hook. 0.97

00:25:51.000 They're very good at it with the black killings, you know, whatever. 1.00

00:25:54.000 Whenever a black person gets killed by a police officer, they're very quick to burn the city down to remind everybody that that kind of stuff is not acceptable. 1.00

00:26:02.000 And with this, I've never seen anything like it. 0.96

00:26:05.000 Right out of the gate, with the hand selected students who are photogenic, who are somewhat articulate, and they've got the talking points and they've got the television appearances lined up and they got the photo ops and the names and the slogans and the talking points and the rallies planned.

00:26:21.000 And so this was really a professional effort.

00:26:23.000 That was really striking how right out of the gate they had this Herculean effort.

00:26:28.000 To turn out on television and to get these things going.

00:26:31.000 And now they got a big rally.

00:26:32.000 They got a couple more planned.

00:26:34.000 And that's the key here how this is different than other previous crises or whatever is they're able to keep the public pressure up.

00:26:40.000 If they're able to keep this in people's minds, in people's peripheral vision, as this is still an issue, this is still happening, this is still here, it's far away from the elections, but they're drawing it out longer and longer so it's going to make it harder for Republicans to push to the side, harder for them to ignore.

00:26:59.000 And they're doing a good job at that, I think, with this kind of demonstration.

00:27:02.000 This was so effective because they were telling high schoolers, don't go to school today.

00:27:06.000 Or, you know, the.

00:27:08.000 I wasn't actually what they told them, but they said at 10 a.m., you're supposed to leave for 17 minutes in honor of the 17 victims.

00:27:15.000 And of course, this is not difficult to do to convince high school students who tend to be left wing and also who don't like school to leave class for 17 minutes in a big, dramatic, virtue signaling display of, I'm doing something and we demand enough is enough.

00:27:29.000 So, a pretty smart play.

00:27:32.000 Something that can go viral.

00:27:34.000 This is something that does go viral for the young people.

00:27:36.000 To have something similar for older people or for parents or moms or adults, people in the workforce, you would have to do so much more marketing, so much more organizing, so much more coordinating.

00:27:48.000 You would need permits, you would need this, and you need that.

00:27:50.000 With this kind of a demonstration, they fire out a tweet to their 3 million followers collectively between the different actors, between the different high school kids, and they get their publicity from the television shows and the news that they've been pushing, and this stuff goes viral.

00:28:05.000 The kids that are on Twitter, I think it's something like.

00:28:07.000 70 or 80% of Twitter users are under the age of 25.

00:28:11.000 You get it on Twitter, you get it on Snapchat, you get it on Facebook.

00:28:14.000 It goes viral, people share it, and all they have to do is say, Hey, look, Mr. Principal, Mr. Teacher, we're calling the shots now.

00:28:21.000 We're leaving in 17 minutes.

00:28:22.000 And of course, they don't want to step on the toes of the left wing agitators.

00:28:26.000 They don't want to get the wrath of the media on them.

00:28:28.000 So they say, Okay, you can have your little protest.

00:28:31.000 And so, in that way, that was a brilliant move.

00:28:33.000 You have to give them credit, you got to give the devil their due.

00:28:36.000 This was really an effective move.

00:28:39.000 Protest because you didn't have to rely on extensive marketing or organizing.

00:28:43.000 Now, this happened even around me.

00:28:46.000 This happened at my former high school where they did the 17 minute walkout.

00:28:49.000 I'm sure many people can say the same.

00:28:51.000 Many people DM'd me and messaged me and added me on Twitter saying, This is happening in my high school.

00:28:56.000 Should I go and do this?

00:28:56.000 Should I go and film it?

00:28:57.000 Or, you know, how about that?

00:28:59.000 So, we're seeing it all across the country from DC all the way to LA at 10 a.m. Eastern Central Mountain and then Pacific Time.

00:29:08.000 You saw everybody coming out of the schools.

00:29:10.000 And so, a very big demonstration.

00:29:12.000 I don't have numbers on how many schools and people participated, but a very visual thing.

00:29:17.000 And this was important because they get out into the community.

00:29:20.000 And at least by my school, by my former high school, what they were saying was they were getting out along one of the major thoroughfares in the city, and they were just going to stand there silently for 17 minutes.

00:29:31.000 And they occupied this thoroughfare, not in the street, but on the sidewalks.

00:29:35.000 And this was a visible demonstration to everybody in the community of Parkland, and a reminder.

00:29:41.000 And that they're in support of gun control.

00:29:43.000 You know, what do kids know?

00:29:44.000 But that is what the protest was essentially about.

00:29:47.000 And you have it in these communities, and that's where the vote takes place.

00:29:50.000 We talk about how all politics is local, and this was a local demonstration.

00:29:56.000 With the kinds of mass demonstrations against Trump or the Women's March or the George Soros type stuff where they're bussing people in from other states and other cities, it's tough to say that that really has an effect because it's really astroturfed when you look at those kinds of, like the Women's March in particular, or the No Band, No Wall protest.

00:30:13.000 You get people that are busting from out of town, and it's adults and some weirdos, very far left people.

00:30:19.000 But with this, it's like, hey, that's Billy from down the street.

00:30:22.000 Hey, that's Cindy from the science club, math club, or whatever.

00:30:26.000 I know those people.

00:30:27.000 I know these families.

00:30:29.000 Those are kids that we know.

00:30:30.000 Those are kids that go to this school that we support with our businesses, or that we're going to send our kids, or our kids graduated.

00:30:36.000 Maybe we graduated ourselves.

00:30:38.000 And that's a very visceral, visible reminder to people at the community level.

00:30:42.000 And they're going to remember this in the primary.

00:30:44.000 They're going to remember this in November.

00:30:46.000 I mean, that's a striking thing.

00:30:47.000 So they're doing very well with it.

00:30:49.000 That said, I mean, we have to, at the same time, we have to offer up some real analysis on it and enough, you know, saying how good of a job they did.

00:30:58.000 It's also incredibly dishonest.

00:31:00.000 As effective as it is, as smart as it is, this is something that just has no place in a free society. 1.00

00:31:06.000 Young people do, and this is going to sound a little hypocritical, but young people should not be calling the shots on politics. 0.88

00:31:14.000 I'm sorry to say, but your average young person, I will say average, Because people like me are smart enough to talk about politics. 1.00

00:31:20.000 I have a pretty good record.

00:31:21.000 But people that are in high school, and high school is a big range, you're talking 14 to 18 years old.

00:31:26.000 I'm the ripe age of 19, so I'm exempted from this.

00:31:29.000 People that are 14 to 18 years old who are in school, who haven't been out into the world, and I've been out into the world, I was in school for a year.

00:31:36.000 I'm an entrepreneur right now, I'm a small business owner.

00:31:39.000 But people who have been in school all their lives and they don't look at these issues and they just get what they read on Snapchat or on Twitter, these are not the people that should even be taken seriously weighing in on these issues.

00:31:51.000 Not voting, not weighing in on the issues, right?

00:31:54.000 I mean, you imagine if you're just out of middle school, you're fresh out of middle school.

00:31:59.000 And your life experience is playing on the kickball team or the baseball team.

00:32:03.000 They don't really have kickball teams, but your life experience is playing travel sports and doing your homework.

00:32:09.000 What kind of an intelligent thing do you have to say about school safety?

00:32:12.000 Even take school safety, for example.

00:32:15.000 A young high schooler, have they gone through the data?

00:32:18.000 Do they understand the complex, the psychology of a school shooter?

00:32:22.000 Have they looked at the data?

00:32:23.000 Have they looked at Australia?

00:32:25.000 Have they looked at the United Kingdom?

00:32:26.000 Have they looked at the criminology reports?

00:32:29.000 Have they read John Lott?

00:32:30.000 It's a very complicated issue.

00:32:30.000 Have they read?

00:32:32.000 Have they thought about a deterrent solution?

00:32:35.000 Or is it just gun control?

00:32:37.000 Have they thought about the Constitution?

00:32:38.000 Have they read D.C. versus Heller?

00:32:40.000 Do they understand why we have a right to have a semi automatic rifle?

00:32:44.000 Did they read the arguments from the founders in putting up the Second Amendment?

00:32:48.000 Did they read the Supreme Court decision on how they read the Second Amendment?

00:32:51.000 Of course not.

00:32:53.000 But they see it on Twitter and they're very mad.

00:32:55.000 They're very upset.

00:32:56.000 Here's a problem.

00:32:56.000 Here's a prepackaged cookie cutter solution.

00:32:59.000 And we're going to go out there and rah, rah, rah.

00:33:01.000 We really care so much.

00:33:03.000 And it's a very dangerous precedent.

00:33:04.000 We've gotten to a point in the country where.

00:33:07.000 We seem to think, for some odd reason, we were convinced by television that everybody has a right to an opinion, everybody has a right to a vote, and everybody is equally entitled to say what they feel.

00:33:19.000 And the more I talk to people, family and friends, the more I realize just the stark ignorance of most people on political affairs.

00:33:26.000 This isn't everybody.

00:33:27.000 But I can't tell you how many people I talked to that I was friends with in high school, people that were at college with me, even family members, where I talked to them about politics, and there's this weird thing that people are taught.

00:33:38.000 It really is weird where.

00:33:40.000 If they can't answer, if they can't back up their position, if they can't argue their position, if they don't know why they believe what they believe, you'll always see this retreat into the dogma of egalitarian, mass enfranchised democracy, which is, well, I'm entitled to my opinion.

00:33:57.000 I'm entitled to my opinion.

00:33:59.000 I don't have to explain it.

00:34:00.000 I don't have to know where it comes from.

00:34:02.000 I don't have to know how to defend it.

00:34:03.000 I don't know why I have my opinion.

00:34:05.000 I don't have to know why I came to it in the first place.

00:34:09.000 But I have a right to it.

00:34:11.000 And not only do I have a right to it, it's just as good as anyone else's.

00:34:14.000 And that's just simply not true.

00:34:15.000 That is just simply not true.

00:34:17.000 We don't hold the same logic with anything else in the country today, right?

00:34:21.000 I mean, mathematics.

00:34:23.000 If you were to say, well, I happen to think 2 plus 2 equals 5, and I have a right to my opinion, would any serious person say, yeah, you're right, and that's equally as good as somebody who says 2 plus 2 equals 4, or 2 plus 2 equals a million, or 2 plus 2 equals 1,000, you know?

00:34:38.000 Of course not.

00:34:39.000 There's a right answer, there's a wrong answer, or even historical things.

00:34:43.000 You know, you might talk about one specific incident that happened 70 years ago, but even in other cases, if somebody goes up to you and says, you know, I happen to believe that 9 11 was actually a bomb in the basement of the building, because if you look at the two World Trade Centers, they were actually built for collision with airplanes.

00:35:00.000 It was actually said when they were constructed that they could sustain the impact of several airplanes.

00:35:05.000 And this was the strongest kind of building that you could build because the exterior was made out of these beams, as opposed to where it's internal, where the structure is inside the building, it was outside the building.

00:35:15.000 And the windows were so thin because it was so tightly packed together.

00:35:18.000 And there's just no reason.

00:35:19.000 And also, it fell at a free fall pace.

00:35:22.000 And also, the World Trade Center 7 why did that building collapse?

00:35:26.000 No plane hit that building.

00:35:27.000 Why did Benjamin Netanyahu say twice, both a day after or a few months after, and also last year that it was a result of a megaton bomb?

00:35:35.000 You know, and you could say all that stuff.

00:35:37.000 You could hypothetically say all that stuff, and nobody would say, You're entitled to your opinion.

00:35:41.000 That's just as good as any other opinion.

00:35:43.000 They'd say, No, you're a conspiracy theorist. 1.00

00:35:44.000 You're an idiot. 1.00

00:35:45.000 You can't explain that. 1.00

00:35:46.000 You can't back up the evidence.

00:35:48.000 And so we've gotten into this weird place.

00:35:50.000 That was a little bit of a weird tangent, but a totally weird hypothetical tangent.

00:35:54.000 But we've gotten into this weird place in the country where everybody, from the time they're born until the time they die, Whether they've been in the country for 50 years or a minute, whether they've got a 50 IQ or a 250 IQ, whether they have experience in government and they know what they're talking about or they have no experience and they're just a homeless, crazy person, we're all just equally entitled to our vote and equally entitled to our opinion, and nobody can take that away.

00:36:20.000 It's this cult of enfranchisement.

00:36:22.000 And that was never how it was intended to be.

00:36:25.000 Government, politics, it's complicated stuff.

00:36:28.000 It really is difficult for people to understand.

00:36:31.000 And the founders understood this.

00:36:32.000 That's why we didn't start a democracy in 1776 or even in 1788 when the Constitution was ratified.

00:36:38.000 We didn't create a democracy.

00:36:40.000 It wasn't like everybody gets to vote, everybody gets to say, everybody pulls the levers.

00:36:45.000 It was this select group of people who have an incentive to be forward thinking and to do what's in the greater good.

00:36:52.000 These select people and who have the brain chemistry to look at these issues, these are the people that are going to put in our representatives.

00:36:58.000 And the representatives have to have qualifications in themselves, have to be a certain age, have to have certain other requirements.

00:37:04.000 And so it was very restricted.

00:37:06.000 So, that only people who probably were educated, probably had a vested interest in the success of the longer term of the country, would be making decisions about the country. 0.71

00:37:18.000 And now we've gotten to a point where it's like, make 16 year olds vote, make felons vote, make illegal immigrants vote, make regular immigrants vote.

00:37:25.000 Everybody gets a vote. 0.61

00:37:26.000 And that was just never the way it was intended to be.

00:37:28.000 And it was never intended to be that way for a reason because the founders understood that you cannot have a free society, you cannot have a well governed society.

00:37:38.000 If you don't have smart people calling the shots, if you are subject to the whims, the passions of a transient majority.

00:37:46.000 Those were the exact words of James Madison.

00:37:50.000 We cannot allow for the tyranny of a transient majority.

00:37:53.000 And those are his words.

00:37:54.000 They understood what happened with the French Revolution in 1789, where you saw a real democracy, a real people's government, and the masses were out there calling the shots, and you had reigns of terrors and directories and police states and Cromwell and the Jack, or not Cromwell, who is the.

00:38:11.000 Who is the fellow?

00:38:11.000 Who is the Jacobin in chief?

00:38:13.000 It wasn't, I always forget this one name.

00:38:16.000 I always get him confused with Cardinal Richelieu, who was much, much earlier in France.

00:38:20.000 And it wasn't Cromwell.

00:38:21.000 He was the reign of terror in England.

00:38:23.000 Who am I thinking of? 0.98

00:38:25.000 Who is the French reign of terror? 1.00

00:38:27.000 This is going to kill me.

00:38:28.000 It really, my European history teacher, she's probably not pleased with me.

00:38:32.000 The name is not coming to me.

00:38:34.000 Well, nevertheless, you understand the point.

00:38:37.000 A people's government that comes in, and even this happened in the Soviet Union much later.

00:38:41.000 Founders didn't have that one in mind, but that happened later.

00:38:44.000 And so I think that's at the core of it.

00:38:46.000 The core problem with this is not that gun control doesn't work.

00:38:49.000 It's that kids are dictating our politics.

00:38:52.000 Emotions are dictating our politics, and that's not the way it should go.

00:38:55.000 Maybe emotions should dictate our politics, but I don't know.

00:38:59.000 Maybe not so uneven.

00:39:00.000 Maybe there should be some basis in reality, some basis in logic.

00:39:03.000 Emotion motivates people to go out there, and we have to do that to be effective organizers, but the organizers should be logical, and we shouldn't be taking kids' words for it.

00:39:13.000 They don't know what they're talking about.

00:39:15.000 You know, these are the kids eating Tide Pods, these are the kids.

00:39:17.000 Who watch Logan and Jake Paul?

00:39:19.000 These are the people that are going to be governing what the Constitution should say about our right to defend ourselves?

00:39:24.000 I don't think so.

00:39:26.000 And so that was the gun control walkout.

00:39:27.000 The last thing I want to talk about, I don't know, should we talk about Stephen Hawking or should we talk about Hillary Clinton?

00:39:33.000 I guess we'll talk about Stephen Hawking just briefly.

00:39:37.000 Stephen Hawking passed away last night.

00:39:39.000 Astrophysicist, smart guy, tough guy, a very courageous guy.

00:39:44.000 Obviously, there is a stark difference in worldview here between us and between the scientists or people who believe in scientism, people who believe in materialism, the idea that there is no.

00:39:56.000 Ethereal element in the world.

00:39:58.000 There's no God.

00:39:59.000 There's nothing in the spirit.

00:40:00.000 There's nothing.

00:40:01.000 There's no soul.

00:40:02.000 There's nothing immaterial.

00:40:03.000 There's only material.

00:40:04.000 There's only atoms.

00:40:05.000 He's a materialist.

00:40:07.000 But he passed away.

00:40:08.000 And I think we have to be a little bit respectful in the sense that here's somebody who overcame tremendous adversity.

00:40:14.000 Here's somebody who, you know, against all odds, he was supposed to be dead at like 24 or 26.

00:40:20.000 He was a young guy diagnosed with a terrible disease and he made it for 45 years, right?

00:40:26.000 45 years, a little bit longer.

00:40:28.000 Holding on in the worst conditions.

00:40:30.000 And even if maybe he didn't believe in the human spirit, I think he represented a triumph of the human spirit.

00:40:35.000 But I do want to bring up a very interesting quote by Stephen Hawking, which I'm going through all these quotes, and people are pulling up some inspirational ones, some funny ones.

00:40:44.000 But this really, I think, tells you all you need to know.

00:40:48.000 He said, One can't prove that God doesn't exist, but science makes God unnecessary.

00:40:55.000 The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

00:41:00.000 And I think.

00:41:01.000 This is such an important theme to touch on.

00:41:03.000 Well, we're talking about Stephen Hawking and big ideas and Neil deGrasse Tyson and all these people who come out, and these are the public intellectuals.

00:41:11.000 And the state religion now is materialism, it's scientism, it's rationalism.

00:41:17.000 And this illustrates the problem with this thinking.

00:41:19.000 This illustrates the problem with the current status quo, the current dogma, which is this idea that the scientific laws are enough that we don't need God anymore.

00:41:28.000 The Nietzschean God is dead.

00:41:30.000 We figured it out.

00:41:31.000 Because we have the laws of physics, because we have gravity, we don't need an explanation beyond that.

00:41:36.000 And I think what you're seeing across the country today, in the wealthiest country in the world, in the safest country in the world, in the most successful country in the world, where there's the most opportunities, the most stuff, the most entertainment, the most leisure, the reason people are killing themselves, the reason people are numbing themselves, doping themselves up, they're numbing themselves to the pain with alcohol and drugs and sex and all these other things, the reason that you.

00:42:04.000 Have such a great country and we're doing so well, but yet you have terrible suffering and people that are misguided and sad and lonely and miserable is because it's not sufficient.

00:42:16.000 And there's a repudiation of the idea that science was ever sufficient or could ever be sufficient.

00:42:21.000 Yeah, we know why an apple falls from an apple tree.

00:42:24.000 Yeah, we can kind of understand now about our rotation around the sun.

00:42:28.000 And maybe you don't totally believe in that.

00:42:30.000 Maybe you think something's going on in Antarctica.

00:42:32.000 Who knows?

00:42:33.000 Joking, of course.

00:42:34.000 But, you know, maybe we can figure out why things have.

00:42:38.000 Why things are the way they are.

00:42:39.000 There's a rhyme and a reason out of the universe because of this mathematical function or this elegant formula, this rule laid out by a very clever person in the university.

00:42:49.000 But at the end of the day, if you subtract the things that give individual people meaning in their lives, that is to say, maybe we can explain processes, but can we explain why we're here?

00:42:59.000 Can we explain why we get up every day?

00:43:01.000 What motivates us?

00:43:02.000 Can we explain why?

00:43:04.000 Can we explain what love is?

00:43:05.000 Can we explain what it means to be truly motivated, to be truly possessed by a cause or an idea or a feeling?

00:43:12.000 The answer is no.

00:43:13.000 Science does not explain that.

00:43:14.000 It can try.

00:43:15.000 It can tell you it's about neurons firing and chemical processes in the brain.

00:43:20.000 And it's this series of impersonal adaptations that has led to a rational person with some vestigial organs, of course.

00:43:28.000 But we all know it's more than that.

00:43:30.000 We all know it's bigger than that.

00:43:33.000 And that is what has caused our present malaise we have not been fed in that longing for something greater, for a greater explanation.

00:43:44.000 We have our logical brain, we have our rational brain.

00:43:47.000 We have our material being, but we also have something that is immaterial, something that is irrational to an extent.

00:43:55.000 We have appetites that cannot be fed by food or by water or by reading a good book under the tree.

00:44:03.000 They have this real fetish for learning and academia, but we have an appetite for something greater than that.

00:44:09.000 And Christ says in the Bible don't worry about feeding yourself with food if you're fed with my word, if you're fed with the truth, if you're fed with God.

00:44:18.000 That's enough, that's sufficient.

00:44:20.000 And we were doing just fine.

00:44:22.000 Fed on the word of God.

00:44:23.000 People were poor.

00:44:24.000 People were serfs.

00:44:25.000 People were slaves.

00:44:26.000 People were persecuted.

00:44:27.000 They were executed.

00:44:29.000 And they were happier because they were fed by God than people now who are fed by GMOs and hamburgers and McDonald's and television and all the rest.

00:44:38.000 And they couldn't be less happy.

00:44:40.000 One is indispensable, one is necessary.

00:44:44.000 One is, and there it is.

00:44:46.000 So that's Stephen Hawking.

00:44:47.000 Just a brief little word.

00:44:48.000 We touch on that theme all the time on the show.

00:44:50.000 But it's important to really, really bring it home that even these clever people, they can't.

00:44:55.000 Figure it out.

00:44:56.000 They can't grasp it.

00:44:58.000 The Stephen Hawking's, the Richard Dawkins, the Sam Harris's, they can't grasp it.

00:45:02.000 We all know there's something more to the world.

00:45:04.000 We feel the stirring in our souls.

00:45:06.000 There is something more.

00:45:08.000 And you can't, you know, and people are, I'm sure scientists would look down on this.

00:45:12.000 I'm sure they'd look down on this because it's not a hypothesis.

00:45:15.000 It's not lab tested.

00:45:16.000 It's not an experiment.

00:45:17.000 It's not empirical.

00:45:19.000 But we know.

00:45:20.000 We know deep down, and there is evidence for it.

00:45:22.000 I think there's philosophical evidence, evidence of a different nature, but that doesn't mean.

00:45:25.000 It's not natural.

00:45:26.000 So that's Stephen Hawking.

00:45:28.000 We're running out of time here.

00:45:29.000 So we're going to jump over to our super chats now and we'll see what people are saying in our super chats.

00:45:35.000 And let me pop this tab back here.

00:45:38.000 Let's see.

00:45:39.000 I guess we're competing with blood sports again.

00:45:42.000 Let's see what our super chatters have to say.

00:45:44.000 Reformed Bugman says, We took away the stimulus of community and its natural oxytocin, and we were shocked to find an artificial substance becomes much more compelling.

00:45:55.000 I was reading about that in an article.

00:45:57.000 I wonder if we were reading the same article because.

00:46:00.000 Or the same video because I was looking at something over the weekend or sometime earlier in the week where it said that actually the kinds of chemicals that are produced by opioids are the same chemicals that are produced in a friendship, in a rewarding, in a fulfilling relationship with a loved one or with a friend or in a community event.

00:46:21.000 It's oxytocin, the same pleasure chemicals that are released when you have a really close friend and you have maybe a cathartic experience with them versus when you're on opioids.

00:46:30.000 It's the same effect.

00:46:31.000 And what does this tell us?

00:46:32.000 It tells us why we have an opioid epidemic.

00:46:35.000 Isn't that kind of a haunting thing?

00:46:36.000 You know, you can start to see how it comes together.

00:46:39.000 Isn't that a disturbing thing?

00:46:41.000 That why opioids are so addictive, why it's a uniquely American problem and such a pervasive problem in the country, young and old, white people, middle aged, young people.

00:46:53.000 What is it fulfilling?

00:46:54.000 What is it a substitute for?

00:46:56.000 What are people feeling in that they're not feeling elsewhere?

00:46:59.000 Why do they get addicted to these drugs that ruin their lives?

00:47:01.000 They're expensive and they ruin your life.

00:47:04.000 But they're getting a, they're self medicating, not just a physical pain.

00:47:10.000 It's not just a painkiller where, you know, oh, my arm is hurting or my back is hurting.

00:47:14.000 And now it no longer, I've taken my ibuprofen or I've, you know, smoked a joint and now I'm okay.

00:47:19.000 The chemicals that are released by opioids are chemicals that numb an existential pain, a mental and emotional pain.

00:47:27.000 And really think about that.

00:47:28.000 This is such a pervasive epidemic. 0.89

00:47:30.000 It seems to be a uniquely American problem in the 21st century for white men. 0.86

00:47:36.000 For maybe richer people. 0.83

00:47:38.000 I mean, it really doesn't know class or age or whatever.

00:47:41.000 It's really extensive.

00:47:42.000 And think about what it is intended to do for people that are taking it.

00:47:46.000 It is intended to substitute for community, for love, for affection, for having close friends.

00:47:53.000 And you look at the trends we've been seeing with community.

00:47:55.000 You can read Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam.

00:47:59.000 And it's talked about extensively the decline of community because of globalization, because of open borders, free trade.

00:48:05.000 And that should scare the hell out of people.

00:48:07.000 That's the problem that has to be fixed.

00:48:09.000 Forget about.

00:48:10.000 You know, people want to change education policy.

00:48:12.000 They want to change economic policy.

00:48:14.000 That'll only do so much if the people that constitute the nation are not together, if they're not having their four most important needs met.

00:48:22.000 It was an American conservative.

00:48:24.000 That's where it was written.

00:48:25.000 And it was about a Ben Sass speech.

00:48:27.000 I don't like Ben Sass, but Ben Sass said there are four things that every person needs in their life to be satisfied.

00:48:33.000 And that is family, that is close friends, that is meaningful work, and I think one other thing, which I forget.

00:48:41.000 But I mean, you think about those three things, they're all gone.

00:48:44.000 Meaningful work, meaning work that couldn't be done without you.

00:48:49.000 Not just work that pays the bills, but work that you show up and you say, I'm needed here.

00:48:53.000 I'm needed here.

00:48:53.000 This is purposeful.

00:48:54.000 Meaningful work, family, close friends, and the last one escapes me.

00:49:00.000 But it was something to that effect, and we've lost all four.

00:49:02.000 We've got to get them back.

00:49:05.000 So, yeah, that's big.

00:49:07.000 Eric Amnesian with some dollar dues.

00:49:09.000 Thank you, my guy.

00:49:10.000 Commander of the liberalist Trapno State says, Hail Race Warski. 0.59

00:49:15.000 And he says white pride worldwide.

00:49:17.000 Yeah, that's a little bit of a joking super chat, right?

00:49:23.000 We would never be in favor of white pride on this show because, of course, every other people in history can have their own pride. 0.95

00:49:30.000 You can have black pride, you can have gay pride, you can have Latinx pride, Muslim pride, Jewish pride, Jewish pride, white pride, Nazi hate group, SPLC, fire them from their jobs, right? 0.62

00:49:43.000 And it was funny because remember when I met with that fella from Life After Hate? 0.99

00:49:47.000 I met with this fellow. 0.75

00:49:48.000 Who works at the same organization as that clown, Kristen Piccolini, whatever that guy's name is, that fed. 0.88

00:49:54.000 And this guy was former KKK. 0.89

00:49:56.000 And we sat down for lunch. 0.75

00:49:59.000 We didn't actually eat lunch, but we sat down in a place where you get lunch.

00:50:02.000 And he said, Well, when I was in the KKK, this, you know, everyone could be proud of themselves, but us, we said that too.

00:50:07.000 And I said, Okay, wait a second.

00:50:09.000 Maybe bad people also said that.

00:50:11.000 Maybe the KKK said that and we also say that.

00:50:14.000 But can you tell me where that's wrong?

00:50:16.000 Can you tell me why I should feel bad for thinking that?

00:50:19.000 Why I'm wrong in thinking that?

00:50:21.000 And he was like, But don't you get it?

00:50:23.000 Bad people also said the same thing.

00:50:24.000 And I was like, yeah, but that really doesn't answer the question, which is you do see this double standard where everybody else gets to say it.

00:50:32.000 Everybody else gets to be proud of their heritage, proud of who they are, and love themselves, except for us.

00:50:36.000 You say you love being white, and you might as well, oh, really? 0.84

00:50:39.000 Hitler, you love being white? 0.84

00:50:41.000 You know who else loved being white? 0.97

00:50:42.000 His name rhymes with Playdolf Gittler, you know, right?

00:50:47.000 And so I said, can you tell me why that's misguided?

00:50:49.000 And he was like, well, man, you know who else says that?

00:50:53.000 So.

00:50:54.000 But anyway, that's a little bit of a detour.

00:50:56.000 What else do we have?

00:50:57.000 Marcus Antonius says all knickers are kings. 1.00

00:51:01.000 It's true.

00:51:02.000 Smash that MF like button.

00:51:04.000 True. 1.00

00:51:05.000 Shout out to all the homosexuals in the Discord. 0.98

00:51:08.000 Love all my homies. 1.00

00:51:08.000 Check. 1.00

00:51:09.000 Knicker Nation 100,000 strong.

00:51:11.000 A very solid message from Marcus Antonius.

00:51:14.000 We're smashing the like button. 1.00

00:51:16.000 We're shouting it out to all the homosexuals. 1.00

00:51:19.000 Big difference between homosexuals, which they're a big problem, folks. 1.00

00:51:24.000 They're a scourge, and homosexuals. 1.00

00:51:26.000 Big difference. 1.00

00:51:27.000 Homosexuals are the kinds of people you see in the parades, they're the kind of people that you see in the advertisements, and they're all over each other. 1.00

00:51:34.000 We don't want that. 1.00

00:51:35.000 We don't want lewd media for our kids. 1.00

00:51:37.000 But the homosexuals are all right. 1.00

00:51:38.000 The homosexuals are okay. 0.91

00:51:40.000 These are not gay in any sense of the word. 0.91

00:51:42.000 These are people that say, you know what, thoughts, we've had enough. 0.98

00:51:46.000 We've had enough of your stuff.

00:51:47.000 We respect your distance.

00:51:49.000 And until you figure it out, we're going to be over here.

00:51:52.000 And so we have to shout it out.

00:51:54.000 We love all our homies, and the Knicker Nation is 100,000 strong.

00:51:58.000 We got about a million people watching the show right now.

00:52:00.000 About 500 on YouTube.

00:52:02.000 About the remaining, you know, 900,000 are on another platform.

00:52:08.000 So.

00:52:08.000 It's the biggest America First show in the world.

00:52:11.000 Spoiler alert says National Geographic predicts that there will be 3 billion knickers by 2050. 0.95

00:52:18.000 It's true.

00:52:19.000 The future is so bright.

00:52:20.000 That's why I wear sunglasses in my profile picture, because the future is so bright.

00:52:24.000 The UN, they're terrified.

00:52:26.000 You go to the United Nations headquarters, and it's like that scene in SpongeBob when he deletes his name.

00:52:31.000 They are running around with papers.

00:52:33.000 They're running around.

00:52:34.000 One guy is just in the middle of the floor, just screaming, bawling his eyes out.

00:52:39.000 People are running.

00:52:40.000 There's like cups of coffee spilled all over the place.

00:52:43.000 There's a light like fixture dangling from the ceiling.

00:52:47.000 One of the lights is just flickering and somebody's like freaking out about it.

00:52:51.000 Ladders are toppling over.

00:52:53.000 There's buckets of water. 0.94

00:52:54.000 There's water dripping from the ceiling at the United Nations because every time they collect data on the knicker population, it keeps growing.

00:53:02.000 And the projections keep growing.

00:53:04.000 I think the last projection, like you said, it's 3 billion by 2050.

00:53:08.000 And they can't solve the problem fast enough.

00:53:11.000 The UN, the IMF, The Department of Homeland Security, they are absolutely holding on to their diapers in anticipation of this population boom.

00:53:22.000 They think it's going to be bad in Africa with the population boom. 0.89

00:53:26.000 Just wait until you got 3 billion 250 IQ Nickers out there, followers of Nick, causing havoc. 0.94

00:53:35.000 It'll be real trouble for them.

00:53:36.000 Michael Key says, Maximilian Robespierre is a name, Nick.

00:53:39.000 That's right, Robespierre.

00:53:41.000 We always, there's so much going on in this brain.

00:53:45.000 Sometimes you can't.

00:53:46.000 It's hard to grab a name right out of thin air.

00:53:48.000 I always get them confused with Cardinal Richelieu, who created the departments of France, I believe, under Louis XIV or Louis XIII.

00:53:57.000 He was a little bit earlier.

00:53:59.000 The J22 report After a long day of work, I get to come home to an episode of America First.

00:54:04.000 No matter what happens, I can look forward to a night of America First.

00:54:07.000 The show always goes on.

00:54:09.000 It's true.

00:54:10.000 The show always goes on.

00:54:12.000 No matter what happens to you, you always get at 7 o'clock sharp, you turn it on, and you get some fresh, raw, uncut, hot.

00:54:20.000 Content straight out of the oven, straight out of the oven, straight out of the steam chamber.

00:54:26.000 You got some great content coming at you.

00:54:30.000 And always, no matter what, whether you had a rough day, whether you had a great day, maybe somebody's passed away, maybe you just got diagnosed with a very bad illness, maybe you got laid off from your job, maybe your girlfriend dumped you, and now you're going your own way.

00:54:44.000 Maybe you started making scrambled eggs and you threw the cheese in and there was mold on the cheese and you want to punch a hole through the wall.

00:54:51.000 You always get to turn on America First and enjoy Nick, enjoy his humor, be with some friendly people or not so friendly people. 0.98

00:55:00.000 Kilted Caboodle, I know it's not a good idea to listen to teens, but if you've been following Kashev, a very respectful young man, better optics than skinhead lesbian. 0.96

00:55:09.000 That's pretty rough. 0.96

00:55:11.000 But yeah, I have been following him.

00:55:12.000 He's much better.

00:55:13.000 I think he's much more respectful.

00:55:16.000 He's much more tame.

00:55:17.000 Seems like a stand up guy.

00:55:19.000 So yeah, I like him a lot.

00:55:21.000 Begbie, thanks for reminding me.

00:55:23.000 Do you prefer to attend Mass Saturday evening, Sunday a.m., or Sunday evening?

00:55:28.000 I got to say, it depends on the mood.

00:55:30.000 It depends on the mood.

00:55:30.000 Some days.

00:55:31.000 You know, a lot of times on Sunday, you want to wake up really late.

00:55:35.000 You know, am I the only one who does this?

00:55:36.000 Where on the weekends, it's just like I could sleep until 2 or 3 o'clock.

00:55:40.000 And so sometimes you like the evening, but sometimes if you haven't slept all night, I fall into that category more than I like.

00:55:47.000 But it kind of depends on the day.

00:55:49.000 If my sleep schedule is good, then we do, you know, evening or afternoon.

00:55:53.000 If the sleep schedule is not good, ironically, we do morning.

00:55:56.000 Anon, could Donald Trump still win in 2020 if he banned anime?

00:56:00.000 No, I don't think he could do it.

00:56:02.000 Anime Wright memed him into office.

00:56:04.000 You know, it wasn't the people knocking on doors, it wasn't the people making phone calls.

00:56:08.000 It was Anime Wright.

00:56:10.000 We got Salim Fortas.

00:56:12.000 What do you think of Sam Cedar?

00:56:14.000 I don't know Sam Cedar.

00:56:16.000 AJ with a couple of dowry dues.

00:56:18.000 Thank you.

00:56:19.000 Ian Weber, thoughts on Huey Long, thoughts on Enoch Powell.

00:56:23.000 Huey Long misguided.

00:56:25.000 It's funny, I was just watching a speech of his today for a little bit of inspiration.

00:56:29.000 I was just watching a Huey Long speech today, his famous one about, you know, none, two.

00:56:35.000 None too wealthy, none too poor.

00:56:38.000 You know, a very, very great speaker.

00:56:40.000 I think he's inspirational in that regard.

00:56:43.000 I mean, a guy, whether you like him or hate him, whether you thought he was a tyrant, a dictator, a socialist, a communist, he was loved in Louisiana.

00:56:52.000 Old Kingfish, they loved the guy.

00:56:54.000 And there's so many anecdotes out there about how, what a stand up guy he was.

00:56:59.000 And I think regardless of whether you think he was right or wrong, communist or not, whether you understood economics or not, He represented just a different class of politicians.

00:57:09.000 He was better.

00:57:10.000 He was better than the politicians we have today.

00:57:12.000 It's kind of the expectation now that our politicians are corrupt and secretly hate us and don't represent us. 0.91

00:57:18.000 And maybe they kill us unconstitutionally with drone strikes.

00:57:21.000 But this guy was, he was one of us, a stand up guy.

00:57:25.000 Matt said, I don't agree with his ideology.

00:57:27.000 You know, I was watching that speech and I just had to cringe at this kind of stuff about, you know, Rockefeller can only wear so many clothes and all this stuff because, of course, it doesn't take into account investment and.

00:57:39.000 Conspicuous consumption is a problem, but you have to have investment capital.

00:57:42.000 You have to have incentives for people to innovate.

00:57:45.000 But I get the sentiment.

00:57:48.000 And Enoch Powell, stand up guy, there was a really good article about him pretty recently in the American Conservative.

00:57:54.000 I actually have it open right here called The Enoch Powell Question by Scott McConnell.

00:57:59.000 Very good question.

00:58:00.000 People thought he was a hater, people thought he wasn't such a great guy, but he turned out to be very prescient.

00:58:07.000 So I'm actually a big fan of Enoch Powell.

00:58:09.000 Mike Healy, if you want to know how absent right wing activism is, just ask yourself, why isn't anybody holding a counter demonstration to march for our lives days later called March for Gun Rights?

00:58:21.000 I don't know.

00:58:21.000 The optics of that wouldn't be so good.

00:58:23.000 I can understand why people wouldn't do that.

00:58:26.000 Maybe outside of because they're not organizing, but it's true.

00:58:29.000 I mean, it's true.

00:58:30.000 The right wing doesn't organize as well as the left wing.

00:58:33.000 They don't do protests as much.

00:58:35.000 The demonstrations they do, they don't do them as often.

00:58:38.000 They don't do the marketing as well, I don't think.

00:58:40.000 Maybe it's because the media doesn't help us like they do with the Democrats, but.

00:58:43.000 We have a big problem with organization.

00:58:45.000 And I think that's because organizing is for the ruling party.

00:58:52.000 A organization, a protest, a demonstration is a victory lap.

00:58:55.000 That's not going to change people one way or the other.

00:58:57.000 That's a victory lap.

00:58:58.000 That's to say, we run these.

00:58:59.000 This is our street, ironically.

00:58:59.000 Streets.

00:59:02.000 The protest is out there to say, look, we are in charge here and you suck. 0.98

00:59:07.000 Charlottesville is a demonstration and that went terribly because we don't run the show. 0.95

00:59:11.000 So I would say it's kind of because conservatives don't run anything in the country.

00:59:15.000 I mean, we run the White House, but you see how ineffectual that tends to be compared to the deep state and the bureaucracy and the Congress and not ineffectual, but what we're up against with even the most powerful office in the world.

00:59:28.000 So And Mr. Rye Guy says, What do you think of Trump's space force?

00:59:32.000 It actually kind of goes against a lot of the international treaties on space.

00:59:37.000 I believe we agreed at some point in the last 50 years to demilitarize space.

00:59:42.000 That said, China would be militarizing space.

00:59:45.000 Russia is going to be militarizing space.

00:59:47.000 I don't know how long that can hold, right?

00:59:49.000 I mean, if we're looking at limited resources in outer space and vying for them, whether it's the moon or Mars or, you know, these new weapons like the rail gun and things like we have, what do they call it, where they like direct.

01:00:03.000 Asteroids to crash into the earth.

01:00:05.000 It's called like an orbit gun, or I don't know, something like that.

01:00:08.000 I think it's inevitable. 0.52

01:00:09.000 So I see that as an extension of the arms race between Russia and the United States.

01:00:16.000 This came directly after Putin said in his State of the Nation speech that he had developed those three new nuclear technologies the cruise missile, the underwater drone, and the hypersonic missile.

01:00:28.000 And I think you have to look at it in the context of weaponry, in the sense that there's this new arms race between Russia and the United States and nuclear and missile technology.

01:00:37.000 And even with China, to some extent, they're increasing their defensive capabilities, their AI weaponry, and things like that.

01:00:43.000 So I think that's an extension of that. 0.70

01:00:45.000 It's like, you know, look, Russia, China, you want to play the arms race game? 0.77

01:00:49.000 Let's play the arms race game.

01:00:50.000 Could you compete with a space force? 0.60

01:00:53.000 Do you want the biggest military on Earth to now control the space?

01:00:57.000 So I think that's what that's all about.

01:00:57.000 You know?

01:00:59.000 But scary either way, you know, militarizing space.

01:01:03.000 Once you go down that path, it's going to be hard to put that one back in the bag.

01:01:07.000 Looks like those are all our super chats for the evening coming in pretty cleanly here at 8.05.

01:01:07.000 But.

01:01:13.000 All my clocks still say 7.05, which is unfortunate.

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America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - March 14, 2018

Why the GOP Lost Pennsylvania | America First Ep. 125

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