America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - Why Trump Tapped Bolton | America First Ep. 130

00:00:01.000 Good evening, everybody.

00:00:02.000 We're watching America First.

00:00:04.000 My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes, and we have a great show for you tonight.

00:00:09.000 Lots going on, folks.

00:00:10.000 Lots of things going on in the White House, things going on in the world.

00:00:14.000 It should be an eventful episode.

00:00:17.000 Days like today are days that prove why you watch America First.

00:00:22.000 Look, if it were easy, folks, if it were easy, anybody can take the easy days.

00:00:26.000 Anybody could take the days when it's Obama bad, Trump good, this and that.

00:00:31.000 But days like today are when you need America First.

00:00:34.000 This is when it proves why you watch America First.

00:00:36.000 And support the show because nowhere else are you going to get the level headed, the cool headed analysis of somebody who's seen a lot, you know, in my 19 years on the planet.

00:00:47.000 I've seen enough to call it right most of the time.

00:00:50.000 One exception, maybe, maybe.

00:00:53.000 But we have some big news today.

00:00:54.000 Obviously, just about an hour ago, there was a big announcement.

00:00:58.000 John Bolton, who is an Israeli citizen who has dual citizenship with Israel and who was one of the chief architects and Of the neocon agenda in the Middle East, the Iraq war, and other foreign adventures and affairs.

00:01:12.000 Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton is going to be our new national security advisor, chief national security advisor to the president.

00:01:21.000 Now, that'll be made official on April 9th.

00:01:23.000 It was just announced by tweet, I think about an hour ago.

00:01:27.000 He'll be replacing H.R. McMaster, who a lot of people have had problems with him.

00:01:31.000 There's been a lot of conspiracies about McMaster.

00:01:34.000 They say that he wants war in Syria, he wants war in Iran, they say he's responsible for the leaks.

00:01:39.000 And so on April 9th, the contract will be handed off from HR McMaster.

00:01:44.000 He'll be resigning.

00:01:46.000 And John Bolton, former U.N. ambassador, will be taking his place.

00:01:49.000 And of course, many people were rightly concerned about this.

00:01:52.000 Many people are rightly upset about this.

00:01:55.000 I was certainly upset about it for about a moment when I saw that it happened.

00:02:00.000 But then I remembered some key details.

00:02:02.000 But we'll be getting into that.

00:02:03.000 We'll be talking about John Bolton.

00:02:05.000 And I think we may actually take some calls.

00:02:08.000 I know it's a hot issue, it's a contentious issue.

00:02:11.000 And so I think maybe I'll take some calls towards the middle of the show about that topic.

00:02:15.000 How does that sound?

00:02:16.000 Does that sound good?

00:02:17.000 So I'll be in the Discord maybe taking some calls from the Black Pillars.

00:02:21.000 I'll actually go right ahead and post a link in the YouTube live chat just while we're talking about it.

00:02:28.000 Before I forget, so you guys can actually, I'll make it so it doesn't expire.

00:02:32.000 So you guys can jump in and you'll be prepared for when we start taking calls.

00:02:36.000 But it should be a good time. 1.00

00:02:37.000 I'm ready to take on the Black Pillars, ready to take on the Dissenters. 1.00

00:02:41.000 Should be a good topic. 1.00

00:02:42.000 So, we'll be talking about John Bolton.

00:02:44.000 We'll be talking about the omnibus spending bill, which has to be passed by midnight tomorrow, and also the tariffs on China.

00:02:52.000 I don't want to spend too much time on those subjects because the John Bolton thing really is the big announcement and a major 180 degree turnaround.

00:03:01.000 You know, if this is an affirmation of what President Trump's foreign policy is, that's a major 180 on what he's been saying for 40 years, what he campaigned on, what he said during his presidency.

00:03:12.000 So, that's a significant thing.

00:03:14.000 So, we'll spend a lot of time on that.

00:03:16.000 We got to get into these other things.

00:03:17.000 I will say the genuine disappointment of today is not the John Bolton appointment for reasons I'll get into later.

00:03:24.000 The genuine disappointment from today is this omnibus spending bill, which, if you've been following on this show, the whole saga of government shutdowns and temporary spending measures in between, I mean, it's just been such a headache.

00:03:36.000 But of course, this started in January where we ran out of money.

00:03:40.000 We had a government shutdown that lasted a weekend, and the Democrats forced a government shutdown so that they could get a deal on DACA.

00:03:47.000 And when it turned out that the polls were showing that people are blaming the Democrats for the government shutdown instead of the Republicans, and it would end up being a very bad idea for Democrats to continue with midterms right around the corner, and then getting blamed for an unpopular government shutdown where President Trump was making the military hurt and other people hurt for Democrats to grandstand politically for illegal aliens,

00:04:11.000 they relented and they allowed the government to pass a temporary spending measure in exchange for a promise by Mitch McConnell that they would talk about.

00:04:19.000 the DACA issue, they would have a negotiation and a series of up and down votes on amendments about immigration reform.

00:04:26.000 And so while that happened, they put together another temporary budget measure in early February.

00:04:32.000 It's February 6th that they passed the other, the other stopgap spending measure.

00:04:37.000 And that funded the government up until March 23rd.

00:04:40.000 It was a six week spending measure.

00:04:41.000 And, and the Democrats basically conceded on the DACA issue.

00:04:44.000 They said, we're not going to defund the government over DACA again.

00:04:48.000 We're not going to use the budget as a tool To get DACA passed again.

00:04:52.000 And basically, we're giving up on everything.

00:04:54.000 We're going to give the Republicans the elimination of budget caps.

00:04:58.000 We're going to lift the debt ceiling for a year.

00:05:00.000 We're going to give them a massive increase in military spending and stop some of the sequestered spending.

00:05:05.000 And so they basically gave everything on February 6th, I believe it was.

00:05:08.000 They passed another six week stopgap measure.

00:05:11.000 They had a short government shutdown that time around, but it was only in the evening because Rand Paul filibustered in the Senate.

00:05:18.000 Not technically a filibuster, but he impeded the vote for a couple of hours.

00:05:21.000 So they passed the six week measure.

00:05:23.000 And in that time, they were tasked with putting together an omnibus spending bill, which omnibus just means big, all encompassing, everything.

00:05:32.000 And it's a 2,400 page bill that was supposed to, when they put this together, they gave themselves six weeks to write it, to pass it, and get it signed by the president and made into law.

00:05:43.000 And that was supposed to fund the government up until September 30th.

00:05:47.000 And so today we saw what was in the spending bill.

00:05:50.000 It was released today, what was in there.

00:05:52.000 And it's kind of tough because I think they actually released it yesterday.

00:05:57.000 I think they released it yesterday, right?

00:05:59.000 And it was a 2,400 page bill.

00:06:00.000 And think of this.

00:06:01.000 Remember the dates.

00:06:02.000 They're supposed to pass this bill by midnight tomorrow, or there's a government shutdown.

00:06:07.000 I believe it's midnight tomorrow.

00:06:08.000 By March 23rd, they have to pass this omnibus spending bill.

00:06:12.000 And think of it.

00:06:13.000 If it was released yesterday and it's 2,400 pages, you've got to read a 2,400 page bill, this dry, legalistic text, in 48 hours?

00:06:24.000 Not going to happen.

00:06:25.000 But we did see some of the highlights from the bill that have been coming out.

00:06:28.000 Rand Paul's been live tweeting it as he's been reading it.

00:06:31.000 He's a About 300 or 400 pages through.

00:06:34.000 And what we found is that the omnibus spending bill is a $1.3 trillion spending bill.

00:06:39.000 So this is a mammoth spending bill.

00:06:42.000 That's a lot of spending.

00:06:44.000 It will not fund a border wall, it will fund sanctuary cities, it will fund Planned Parenthood.

00:06:51.000 There'll be over $700 billion in military spending to rebuild the military.

00:06:56.000 And it is explicit in the language of the bill.

00:06:59.000 They did appropriate $1.6 billion for border security.

00:07:05.000 In the omnibus spending bill.

00:07:06.000 But don't be fooled about that.

00:07:08.000 President Trump is trying to spin it.

00:07:10.000 Republicans are trying to spin it.

00:07:11.000 But the language unequivocally explicitly says that the $1.6 billion that's been appropriated for border security, which they want you to believe is a wall, is a concrete barrier, the 1,000 mile project that President Trump announced in January, when the language explicitly says it does not go to a concrete wall.

00:07:33.000 That money can only be spent on reinforcing existing barriers on the border and fencing.

00:07:39.000 And additional fencing along the border, which I don't know about you, but fencing is not a wall.

00:07:43.000 Fencing is not a wall.

00:07:45.000 We don't want that.

00:07:45.000 Paul Ryan came on Fox News this afternoon and said, Oh, well, you know, in some parts of the border, we need a big concrete wall.

00:07:53.000 And in some parts of the border, we need a see-through type, you know, fixture.

00:07:57.000 And okay, maybe that's true.

00:07:59.000 Maybe in some parts of the wall, you need it to be see-through.

00:08:02.000 And some parts of the wall need to be concrete.

00:08:05.000 But none of it's going to be fence.

00:08:07.000 Maybe.

00:08:07.000 And we're already giving away a lot on allowing 1,000 miles of it to be natural barriers, right?

00:08:14.000 You know, the blueprints of the walls in detail in January.

00:08:19.000 He said it's not going to be the full 2,000 mile length of the border because about 1,000 miles is natural barriers, rivers, mountains, impassable deserts or deserts that are not passable.

00:08:31.000 I don't know what the prefix is for that.

00:08:33.000 But about 1,000 miles will be natural barriers.

00:08:36.000 And the other 1,000 miles, that's still a lot.

00:08:38.000 That's still a big wall.

00:08:39.000 And I think that's fair enough that some parts of the river and the Rio Grande are so deep and wide and there's mountains that.

00:08:46.000 You probably don't need to put up a wall.

00:08:48.000 That would seem a little bit far fetched.

00:08:50.000 But he did say we're going to have a border wall, which will cost $18 billion and will span continuously 1,000 miles of the border.

00:09:00.000 And in addition to that, he said we need another $7 billion for more ICE agents, more border security, more immigration and customs agents, more judges to expedite the process of getting illegal aliens out of the country, and more infrastructure so we could detain more people and deport more people.

00:09:17.000 And we're getting $1.6 billion.

00:09:20.000 For fencing.

00:09:20.000 And if you recall, that's what was said in the original negotiations in January when he sat down at that bipartisan meeting on a Tuesday.

00:09:29.000 I forget which Tuesday, but on a Tuesday in January, he sat down with members of both parties and he said, I'd be willing to go with $1.6 billion in fencing.

00:09:37.000 That's what was talked about originally.

00:09:40.000 And I guess the trade off here is that we're not giving that in exchange for DACA.

00:09:47.000 I think that's what people had a problem with the fact that he was willing to give up on the wall.

00:09:53.000 And also have us get DACA and also have us get all these other protections for illegals, which I think people would have said no.

00:09:59.000 So, at the very least, I think in a way it's not the end of the world because this spending bill doesn't include funding for the border wall and it includes funding for some nasty things.

00:10:10.000 That said, it's not the end of the world because there's no DACA and other protections in there, but we could do a lot better than this.

00:10:16.000 And it's only passed through the House as of this afternoon and it didn't pass by overwhelming numbers.

00:10:21.000 You need about 218 votes.

00:10:23.000 Or 217 votes to get it passed in the House.

00:10:26.000 It only passed with about 256, which I know that sounds like a lot, but in a body of more than 400 members, that's not a crazy majority given the Democrats and Republicans, the leadership in both parties were for it.

00:10:38.000 It's only passed the House.

00:10:40.000 It's got to pass the Senate and then get signed by the President.

00:10:43.000 I'm hoping that it doesn't get passed, but at this point, I don't know.

00:10:47.000 I mean, that becomes a question.

00:10:49.000 Are we willing to hold out on not having a budget for the rest of the year and having these budgetary battles, which is a very bad look for the President in a midterm year?

00:10:59.000 In his first midterm, when the president is not supposed to do very well in these congressional elections, or if we, you know, are we just supposed to take this and accept it?

00:11:08.000 I don't know.

00:11:09.000 We'll have to see.

00:11:09.000 I think I have a little bit of faith that President Trump can resurrect the border wall with DACA later.

00:11:15.000 I'm hoping that's the play because you see on Twitter and you see even at his rally in Pennsylvania a couple of weeks ago, he brought back the DACA issue and said, We care about that.

00:11:25.000 Democrats don't.

00:11:26.000 So I'm holding out some hope that he hasn't given away all his leverage here, but I got to be honest, I don't see.

00:11:31.000 In minor ways, how this is very much different than what a Democratic legislature would put forth.

00:11:36.000 In fact, this looks a lot like the omnibus spending bill that Barack Obama passed in 2014, which had all the same provisions.

00:11:43.000 I mean, that's why I went and campaigned against Paul Ryan in 2016 was because of the omnibus spending bill that passed under a Republican speaker with a Republican senator that funded Planned Parenthood and sanctuary cities and refugee camps and all the rest.

00:11:59.000 And here we have this under our president.

00:12:01.000 I don't know.

00:12:01.000 I'm just not really, I'm not hog wild about it.

00:12:05.000 I'm not thrilled about it.

00:12:06.000 But not the end of the world.

00:12:07.000 It's a big fat disappointment.

00:12:10.000 I'm hoping that there's another strategic calculation here in the sense that I'm hoping that President Trump has a plan.

00:12:16.000 To get wall funding, but I have to tell you, I'm getting impatient.

00:12:20.000 I was one of the defenders of the president for a long time.

00:12:23.000 I said, you know, look, he just got into office.

00:12:26.000 He just got inaugurated.

00:12:28.000 He's got to drain the swamp.

00:12:29.000 He's got to get his guys in and all the rest.

00:12:31.000 But we look at the midterms where it's not looking very good, where we saw in Alabama, we saw in Virginia, we saw in Pennsylvania, it's not looking very good.

00:12:39.000 If you're looking at early voting, if you look at in my state of Illinois on Tuesday, we got killed in terms of our primary.

00:12:46.000 If you look at the primary numbers in Illinois, J.B. Pritzker is going to be the governor, and Democrats are going to do very well here.

00:12:53.000 And that's not to totally blackpill about the midterms.

00:12:56.000 I have confidence that we'll recover and there will be a lot of competitive races, but by no means is it a guarantee that we come away in 2018 with a better majority, much less even the same majority.

00:13:08.000 We'd be lucky if we didn't get a worse majority or end up in the minority in 2018.

00:13:12.000 It's all a big gamble.

00:13:13.000 And so I really have to tell you, I'm getting somewhat impatient because here we have a majority in both chambers.

00:13:19.000 It's a slim majority in the Senate, no doubt.

00:13:21.000 And you do have.

00:13:22.000 To have that supermajority for some things, but President Trump's got to find a way to drive through here.

00:13:27.000 We don't have a lot of time left before we don't hold the cards, where it's a possibility that we don't hold the cards in either chamber, let alone both at the same time in the White House.

00:13:38.000 So I got to say, I'm getting a little bit impatient.

00:13:41.000 We're about a year and some into the presidency, and zero walls have been constructed.

00:13:46.000 We've built the prototypes, the blueprints are there, but the appropriations have to go through, and the DACA thing obviously didn't work out so well.

00:13:55.000 Democrats I think they saw what he was doing, and so they dropped the issue.

00:13:59.000 And the unfortunate part is they control the media so they can afford to drop the issue, right?

00:14:03.000 President Trump thought he had him right where he wanted him with the DACA negotiation.

00:14:07.000 And at the last minute, Democrats said, you know what?

00:14:09.000 We recognize what he's doing here, and now we're not talking about DACA anymore.

00:14:13.000 And they found another big crusade to latch onto, which was the shooting and gun control and all the rest.

00:14:19.000 And so the media pushed it towards gun control, and now we don't talk about DACA anymore.

00:14:23.000 And now we don't have a chip to bargain with the Democrats anymore for the wall funding.

00:14:27.000 I hope there's something else out there where we can get it, but it's.

00:14:30.000 It's not looking great.

00:14:31.000 So that's the omnibus spending bill.

00:14:33.000 That's the one thing I will say I am legitimately disappointed on.

00:14:37.000 We have two big black pills today, or alleged black pills.

00:14:41.000 And to cipher through this one, I have to be honest, I don't find the white pill.

00:14:44.000 The only white pill is that it's not extremely far left.

00:14:47.000 But then again, neither was the omnibus spending bill in 2014.

00:14:50.000 So this is the one we can be legitimately upset about.

00:14:53.000 That said, this has nothing to do with John Bolton.

00:14:55.000 People are trying to make it out like first he does this omnibus spending bill, then there's John Bolton.

00:15:01.000 To play devil's advocate here, number one, has nothing to do with John Bolton.

00:15:05.000 What President Trump makes a decision about personnel, and specifically makes a decision about personnel for foreign policy in that apparatus, that has nothing to do with what Paul Ryan puts together with the congressional leadership in the Congress.

00:15:20.000 It has nothing to do with it.

00:15:21.000 And then additionally, if I can offer a little bit of a silver lining here, although we are disappointed with this, you have to remember we can't blame it all on President Trump.

00:15:31.000 You have to remember that very, very distinctly.

00:15:34.000 For example, Rick Sacone losing in Pennsylvania.

00:15:37.000 Rick Sacone was not picked by Donald Trump.

00:15:40.000 Rick Sacone was not selected by Donald Trump.

00:15:42.000 Donald Trump does not control the GOP apparatus in the 18th district of Pennsylvania or in Pennsylvania at all.

00:15:48.000 Donald Trump does not control the legislative process.

00:15:51.000 Donald Trump is not the Speaker of the House.

00:15:53.000 You can go in and read the Constitution.

00:15:56.000 You can read, you know, the second part of the Constitution where it talks about the executive powers, and there's nothing in there about the president's role in the legislative process.

00:16:06.000 Unfortunately, unlike the constitutions of Russia or other countries, there is no decree that President Trump can pass.

00:16:06.000 There's nothing.

00:16:15.000 There is no Sway that he holds in the chambers of Congress. 0.94

00:16:18.000 And I know that sounds like a cop out. 1.00

00:16:20.000 He should be there leading the charge.

00:16:22.000 But I think, to be fair to the president, there's only so much he can do.

00:16:27.000 And he's been putting pressure for the wall.

00:16:29.000 He's drawn up the plans.

00:16:30.000 The plans are there.

00:16:31.000 He's got the base all riled up about it.

00:16:34.000 They're furious about it.

00:16:35.000 But at the end of the day, if Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell don't have the will, if they're not really pushing it hard, there's simply not that much that can be done about it purely from an institutional point of view.

00:16:45.000 There aren't many levers President Trump can pull to try and get something passed through.

00:16:50.000 The chambers of Congress.

00:16:51.000 And he's done, given that reality, he's done a pretty solid job getting things through, getting tax reform through, getting some of these other things through.

00:16:58.000 That said, those are all things that are part of Paul Ryan's agenda and would have been a part of Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz's agenda.

00:17:03.000 So it's kind of a mixed bag here.

00:17:05.000 You have to look at it.

00:17:06.000 You have to have a nuanced take on it.

00:17:08.000 Is it disappointing?

00:17:09.000 Yes.

00:17:10.000 Yes. 0.99

00:17:10.000 Does it suck? 0.99

00:17:11.000 Is it, you know, only a slight variance from what we got under Obama? 0.99

00:17:15.000 Yes.

00:17:16.000 But by the same token, tell me how President Trump could have played it differently, and then I'll say.

00:17:21.000 He deserves all or most of the blame.

00:17:23.000 I think we got to blame Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell on this one.

00:17:26.000 But, you know, that said, he's supposed to lead.

00:17:29.000 But that was a spending bill.

00:17:30.000 The other thing we got to get into before we get into John Bolton, I know that's the big one.

00:17:35.000 President Trump announced $60 billion worth of tariffs on China this afternoon, which is ramping up the trade war.

00:17:43.000 Of course, we saw a couple of weeks ago the tariffs on steel and aluminum, which wasn't, it was directed in part on China.

00:17:49.000 But if you look at where a lot of the steel comes from, It comes from Europe.

00:17:53.000 It comes from Canada.

00:17:54.000 And there were waivers given to the European Union and Canada.

00:17:57.000 So I don't know if that was totally directed at China.

00:18:00.000 The rhetoric was, and a lot of the bluster was.

00:18:03.000 But if you look at where the majority of the steel comes from, it comes from Canada.

00:18:07.000 And then next it comes from the European Union.

00:18:09.000 And both of those entities got waivers.

00:18:12.000 But today we had some very explicit tariffs targeted at China.

00:18:16.000 I think it's everything over the valuation of $50 billion is subject to 25% duty coming into the United States.

00:18:23.000 Those are the tariffs.

00:18:25.000 So, they're taking a trade action on China.

00:18:27.000 China was very upset about this.

00:18:29.000 Now they're talking about imposing tariffs on the United States, about $3 billion worth of tariffs on the United States.

00:18:36.000 And they're also going to look at other products they can target.

00:18:39.000 So, it looks like we're in a full fledged trade war.

00:18:41.000 The Dow Jones plummeted.

00:18:43.000 A lot of the Asian stock indexes or indices plummeted after this announcement, which I'm ambivalent towards.

00:18:49.000 I think it's about time.

00:18:50.000 It's about time we re embrace the American system with regard to tariffs.

00:18:55.000 It's about time.

00:18:56.000 Tariffs work.

00:18:57.000 Tariffs protect the American economy.

00:18:59.000 They protect American industry.

00:19:01.000 They protect the American worker. 0.85

00:19:03.000 And it's about time we had them. 0.99

00:19:04.000 We're the only stupid country in the world that has a free trade program like this. 0.99

00:19:09.000 You look at even our supposedly liberal friends in Europe, and I say liberal in the classical sense. 0.99

00:19:14.000 You know, we talk about the liberal free world, and people point towards Merkel and Macron and Juncker and all the rest.

00:19:21.000 And the European Union has a very strict trade regime.

00:19:25.000 They have a VAT tax, which is basically a tariff.

00:19:28.000 China has brutal tariffs on our products, on our imports going to China.

00:19:33.000 Japan does the same.

00:19:34.000 South Korea does the same.

00:19:36.000 Every country in the Pacific, every competitive country in Europe.

00:19:39.000 I mean, they all do it.

00:19:40.000 And you look at these emerging markets, for example, in Mexico and Poland and Vietnam and Malaysia, Indonesia, that are doing so well, and they're doing so at our expense.

00:19:50.000 Because what happens, and I've said it before, I'll say it again what happens when you have a trade deficit is that we're getting these trinkets, we're getting these cheap, poorly made consumer goods in exchange for them getting stake in our American companies, getting our real estate, getting our assets, getting our debt.

00:20:08.000 So, that when we're paying off this debt, whenever the hell we plan on doing that, we're going to be paying that to them and not just interest, rather, not just the principal, but also interest.

00:20:18.000 And so, we're subjecting our children and our grandchildren and our great grandchildren to be under the financial yoke of foreign countries that are our adversaries and supposedly our allies, trillions of dollars in debt that they'll be under.

00:20:32.000 So, it's about time that this happened.

00:20:34.000 I'm a big fan of the tariffs. 1.00

00:20:36.000 You know, you'll hear a lot of autistic screeching about the free market and international trade and comparative advantage, but. 0.95

00:20:42.000 Anybody who's taken a course in economics, and I stress economics because there is this weird conflation among young Republicans, young conservatives, between economics and political economy, which are two different things. 0.76

00:20:59.000 And this is a big mistake I made when I was a lad, when I was a young man or a younger man.

00:21:05.000 I made this big mistake of saying, you know, I want to get a degree in economics because I saw Milton Friedman BTFOing the liberals.

00:21:12.000 And I thought economics was.

00:21:15.000 Talking about the individual and individual freedom and the free market and freedom is moral.

00:21:19.000 It's got nothing to do with that.

00:21:21.000 Economics is about graphs.

00:21:23.000 It's about numbers.

00:21:25.000 Not so much, you know, econometrics is more about numbers, but economics is about theory.

00:21:30.000 It's a difficult subject.

00:21:32.000 And it's one where you have to look at a very complicated, heady stuff about firms, the behavior of individuals, the behavior of human beings.

00:21:40.000 You have to look at, for example, long term and short term time horizons.

00:21:43.000 You have to look at all kinds of things.

00:21:45.000 And it's not so simple as the ideologues.

00:21:49.000 That they do a little political economy stuff and they think they're economists, where they say, oh, well, free trade is about freedom.

00:21:56.000 Free trade is about markets, and I should have a right to buy the cheapest good.

00:22:00.000 Okay, yeah, that's fine and well, but that's political theory.

00:22:03.000 That's political economic theory.

00:22:05.000 That's not economic theory, and that's a big difference.

00:22:07.000 And so I'll just say that for these people who have an ideological as opposed to an economic commitment to free trade, you have to look at the economics.

00:22:16.000 And to put it quite simply, what we're doing in a free trade system.

00:22:20.000 Is prioritizing short term consumption over everything else.

00:22:24.000 And people will say, it's the most efficient, you have comparative advantage, you get goods for the cheapest price.

00:22:29.000 And while all of that may be true to an extent, what it is in effect doing, sure it's efficient in the short term, but it prioritizes short term consumption over everything else.

00:22:40.000 I think people are on board with the low prices, they're on board with getting different products, and oh, look at the miracle of the pencil.

00:22:46.000 We get the lead from one place and the wood from another, and the metal and all the different ingredients, and they all come together in different countries.

00:22:53.000 People are on board with all that free trade dogma.

00:22:56.000 But then when you start asking people, hey, would you rather pay 20 cents more in your can of soup so that you don't have to be $50 trillion in debt to the world and we sell them our assets and our companies and our real estate and they have influence in our economy and in our government and when we go to war with them, there'll be no choice but to surrender because we don't have our own steel and manufacturing?

00:23:18.000 I think they would say, probably I wouldn't make that deal.

00:23:20.000 Probably I wouldn't trade 20 cent cheaper can of soup in exchange for.

00:23:24.000 Our entire economy and country being put under the financial suzerainty of foreign nations.

00:23:30.000 I don't think we would take that deal.

00:23:32.000 But just briefly on China, we've been talking about terrorists for a long time, so we finally see that coming into fruition.

00:23:38.000 I think I may do a video on that in the near future, which will be separate from everything else because I've been looking at maybe doing these 10 to 15 minute shorts that people do.

00:23:49.000 When you talk about a YouTuber and they put together a presentation which is short and edited and has graphics, I think that might be useful.

00:23:56.000 So I may do something like that on terrorists, but don't hold me to that because I've got a lot of content forthcoming, so it'd just be another headache.

00:24:05.000 Now, to finally get into the big thing today, to finally get into the big story, John Bolton in at the National Security Council.

00:24:05.000 May do that.

00:24:13.000 I'm not going to lie to you, I was a little bit upset about this for about half of a second.

00:24:19.000 When I saw this announcement, I thought people were joking.

00:24:22.000 I saw this on Lee Stranahan's Periscope, where it was like, John Bolton out, or rather, McMaster out at the National Security Council, John Bolton in.

00:24:31.000 And I'm thinking, yeah, okay, like, nice conspiracy theory, not going to happen.

00:24:35.000 And then I see, you know, wow, John Bolton's in at the National Security Council.

00:24:40.000 And I said, what the f, what is going on, folks?

00:24:43.000 Because for those that don't know, John Bolton is a fiery neoconservative, holds dual citizenship with Israel.

00:24:50.000 He's a hawk.

00:24:51.000 He wants war with Iran.

00:24:53.000 He wants war with North Korea.

00:24:54.000 He recently said that the only solution to North Korea is regime change, is war with North Korea.

00:25:01.000 He talked about nuking North Korea.

00:25:02.000 I mean, this guy is an insane pro war hawk neocon. 0.73

00:25:07.000 And we hate that on this show. 0.51

00:25:09.000 We just got done the other day commemorating the 15th.

00:25:12.000 Anniversary of that disaster, which was the war in Iran. 0.99

00:25:15.000 Yesterday, we did a whole show about how John McCain and Lindsey Graham are scumbags and all of that. 0.96

00:25:21.000 So, believe me, we are no friends of the neocons on this show. 0.95

00:25:26.000 In fact, funny that this came up, when I was at CPAC, I saw John Bolton walking through the crowd and I yelled at him.

00:25:33.000 I swear to God, my right hand to God, there are witnesses that can corroborate this.

00:25:38.000 I saw John Bolton walking through the crowd at CPAC and I said, hey, no more wars for Israel.

00:25:44.000 And so, I believe me, I was never a John Bolton fan.

00:25:48.000 I was, I'm not a neocon.

00:25:50.000 I hate neocons.

00:25:51.000 I hate neoconservatism.

00:25:53.000 We rant about it all the time on the show.

00:25:55.000 And that he is in the National Security Council concerns me very deeply.

00:26:00.000 It is very concerning to see that.

00:26:03.000 And nothing is assured here.

00:26:05.000 And so, with all of that out of the way, with that preface in mind, I would like us to put on our thinking caps.

00:26:11.000 Can we do that for Nick?

00:26:12.000 Can we do that?

00:26:13.000 Put on our thinking caps and just allow me, just allow me to show you some things you might be thinking to yourself.

00:26:19.000 How could this possibly be a good thing?

00:26:22.000 How could this possibly be four dimensional chess, Nick?

00:26:26.000 I can't wait for you to make the case how this is going to be four dimensional chess.

00:26:29.000 Show me.

00:26:30.000 Hey, you're asking me to show you.

00:26:32.000 You say I can't imagine how?

00:26:35.000 Prepare to imagine how this could be four dimensional chess.

00:26:39.000 You think I'm crazy, but hear it out for a moment.

00:26:41.000 Because, you know, and also before we begin, tell me one time when the Black Pillars were ever right about anything. 0.97

00:26:48.000 Tell me one time. 1.00

00:26:49.000 Give me one example when.

00:26:52.000 Anybody who doubted Trump or criticized in a knee jerk fashion some of these announcements in any way has ever been right about anything.

00:26:59.000 Can you give me one example?

00:27:00.000 How about the time when people said Trump is going to war in Syria on June 1st, 2017, there will be 100,000 boots on the ground in Syria?

00:27:10.000 Did that ever happen?

00:27:11.000 No, of course not.

00:27:12.000 When people said in September, when Chuck Schumer's office came out with a statement that said Donald Trump is going to give us a legal pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients in exchange for no funding on the wall.

00:27:26.000 And everybody said, What, Donald Trump?

00:27:29.000 I'm off the Trump train.

00:27:31.000 I can't believe he's done this.

00:27:32.000 And the next day, Donald Trump and the White House said, That's BS.

00:27:35.000 That never happened.

00:27:36.000 Or how about in December when President Trump said, I support the Iranian protesters.

00:27:40.000 And people said, No war in Iran.

00:27:42.000 Trump is going to war in Iran.

00:27:44.000 He's a neocon.

00:27:45.000 And there was no war in Iran.

00:27:47.000 And there was Astroturfed and it went away in a week.

00:27:49.000 Or in January, I lost the company over this.

00:27:52.000 When I said, Hey, big guy, if you think there's going to be a legalization of DACA anytime soon, if that's going to happen, I'll read the Milky's copypasta live on the air.

00:28:02.000 And hey, I'm still waiting for my Milky's copypasta from the other person.

00:28:06.000 Maybe that'll be a part of the legal arrangement, right? 0.93

00:28:09.000 But so the black pillars have never been right about anything. 1.00

00:28:11.000 People who doubt, people who criticize, the knee jerk response, they've never been right about anything. 0.92

00:28:16.000 What happens is this this is how this tends to go.

00:28:20.000 The logic of people who doubt, their logic is essentially this something is held in front of their face, and they go, bad thing.

00:28:27.000 I don't like that.

00:28:28.000 That bad.

00:28:29.000 Donald Trump bad.

00:28:30.000 I don't like him anymore.

00:28:32.000 Oh, that's a good thing.

00:28:34.000 Donald Trump is my favorite.

00:28:34.000 I like that.

00:28:36.000 I mean, this is the logic of people who doubt.

00:28:39.000 John Bolton, my new, uh, whatever, my new national security advisor.

00:28:43.000 I don't like John Bolton.

00:28:45.000 I don't care about anything else.

00:28:47.000 Bad man. 0.97

00:28:49.000 Donald Trump, bad man now.

00:28:51.000 But, but let's, but let's put on our thinking caps enough, enough negging, and now some thinking.

00:28:57.000 Are you ready for this?

00:28:59.000 What other major foreign policy, what other major foreign affairs shakeup happened this week?

00:29:05.000 We had Mike Pompeo, who is the head of the CIA.

00:29:09.000 He replaced Rex Tillerson at the State Department.

00:29:11.000 If you remember, Rex Tillerson was a fine Secretary of State in some ways, in the sense that he was much less hawkish than anybody in the Obama administration, much less hawkish than anything in, I think, the past 25 years.

00:29:25.000 He wanted diplomacy with North Korea.

00:29:27.000 He wanted to keep the Iran deal. 0.98

00:29:28.000 These are all things that I like.

00:29:30.000 But he was removed and replaced by Mike Pompeo, who's a hawk, who says he wants war with North Korea.

00:29:36.000 He wants war with Iran.

00:29:37.000 He says we could easily destroy Iran's nuclear program.

00:29:40.000 A hawk.

00:29:41.000 And we hated that.

00:29:42.000 We didn't like that.

00:29:43.000 But now he's in at Secretary of State.

00:29:44.000 His replacement at the CIA is another hawk who was pro torture, who was in, I think, Thailand torturing people. 0.75

00:29:50.000 She's literally not allowed to step foot on the land in Europe because she has like a war end for her arrest for war crimes.

00:29:57.000 She's now the head of the CIA.

00:29:59.000 Now we see John Bolton coming into power in the National Security Council.

00:30:03.000 And we can think of this in two ways.

00:30:05.000 We can think of this in two ways.

00:30:06.000 We can think in the first way, Donald Trump, who was a non interventionist his whole life.

00:30:12.000 Non interventionist his whole life.

00:30:13.000 You look at any public statement by Donald Trump in the past 40 years, and it's non interventionist.

00:30:19.000 We don't want war.

00:30:20.000 We don't want conflict.

00:30:21.000 We shouldn't be going to war.

00:30:22.000 2003, I think, is the best example. 0.82

00:30:24.000 He was one of the most vocal and the earliest opposers of the Iraq War.

00:30:29.000 He was against the Iraq War from the beginning.

00:30:31.000 He said, you know what?

00:30:32.000 Say what you will, Saddam Hussein killed terrorists.

00:30:35.000 And what we did was a mistake. 0.59

00:30:36.000 It was a disaster.

00:30:37.000 You could look at his South Carolina debate in the 2016 presidential primary.

00:30:42.000 In the South Carolina debate before the primary there, He said you can't fight two wars at once.

00:30:48.000 He said you have ISIS, you have Assad, you have Iran.

00:30:50.000 You have to knock off ISIS first.

00:30:52.000 You can't fight two wars at the same time.

00:30:54.000 It's thinking like this, which is to say going after Assad, which is why we've been in the Middle East for 15 years and haven't gotten anything.

00:31:01.000 So he's been out there for 30 or 40 years saying non intervention is the way.

00:31:07.000 We're against intervention.

00:31:08.000 I understand the consequences of it.

00:31:10.000 I err on the side of non intervention.

00:31:13.000 He would be going against a year.

00:31:16.000 Of his governance in two years of campaigning, where he said throughout his campaign, We're not going to go to war.

00:31:21.000 We're not going to go to war.

00:31:23.000 During his reign as president, he did not seize on any opportunity to go after Assad.

00:31:29.000 He did not seize on the protests in Iran and go to war.

00:31:32.000 And so far, he hasn't gone to war with North Korea.

00:31:34.000 Don't you think that would have happened by now?

00:31:36.000 He's worked tirelessly for 14 months through brinksmanship, coming to the edge of war, enormous military exercises, sanctions you wouldn't believe, bellicose rhetoric.

00:31:46.000 And finally, he's got a deal.

00:31:48.000 And so the one school of thought is 40 years of public statements that he's non interventionist, gone.

00:31:53.000 That doesn't exist anymore.

00:31:54.000 Forget about it.

00:31:55.000 He turned around now.

00:31:57.000 Two years, two or three years of campaigning or campaign statements, that's gone.

00:32:01.000 It's all gone.

00:32:02.000 Forget that.

00:32:02.000 He changed his mind.

00:32:04.000 A year and a half of governance where he's missed opportunities for foreign wars that he's had, doesn't matter.

00:32:09.000 He changed his mind.

00:32:11.000 He's worked his whole presidency to get this meeting with North Korea.

00:32:14.000 Nobody else could have done it.

00:32:15.000 Nobody else has ever done it.

00:32:16.000 Where he's gotten Kim Jong Un to come to the table and say that he will agree to denuclearization.

00:32:23.000 Kim Jong Un said, let's work towards denuclearization.

00:32:26.000 It doesn't matter.

00:32:27.000 He's throwing that out.

00:32:27.000 He doesn't care about that.

00:32:29.000 He worked so hard for it.

00:32:30.000 It's historic.

00:32:31.000 He took credit for it.

00:32:32.000 He said, let's try it.

00:32:33.000 I will.

00:32:34.000 He came into a meeting where they were even discussing the announcement.

00:32:37.000 He said, I'll take the meeting and left.

00:32:39.000 But now that's out the window.

00:32:40.000 He wants war.

00:32:41.000 And so one way to read it is that he's building a war cabinet so that now he can launch a neoconservative foreign policy.

00:32:47.000 He's got Mike Pompeo in state.

00:32:49.000 He's got John Bolton in the National Security Council.

00:32:52.000 And he's filling his cabinet with neocons and hawks and generals and all kinds of people so that now.

00:32:59.000 He can go to war in Iran and he can go to war in North Korea.

00:33:02.000 He's changed his mind 180 degrees.

00:33:04.000 I don't know.

00:33:04.000 It must have happened sometime this month or a couple of months ago.

00:33:07.000 But now he's ready to go to war in North Korea and all these other places.

00:33:12.000 That's one way to think about it.

00:33:13.000 The other way to think about it is from North Korea's perspective.

00:33:16.000 Think about it this way North Korea, they're set to run out of foreign currency in a couple of months.

00:33:21.000 They're set to run out of energy in a couple of months.

00:33:23.000 Their resources are dwindling.

00:33:25.000 They're in a very tough spot.

00:33:26.000 The United States is threatening war with them, a war they know they won't win, a war they know that everyone in the regime will die because of.

00:33:32.000 And their people will die because of.

00:33:34.000 They see that their only ally previously is China, and now China's turned on them.

00:33:39.000 China won't buy their coal.

00:33:40.000 China won't have any companies doing business with them. 0.52

00:33:43.000 They won't do the most basic things for North Korea.

00:33:45.000 Now North Korea is completely isolated.

00:33:47.000 They have no economy.

00:33:49.000 They've had border guards defecting because they're so hungry.

00:33:52.000 They can't even feed their own troops.

00:33:54.000 And now they finally, in some gambit, they've said, we're going to meet with President Trump, and we don't know if they're going to actually give up their nuclear program.

00:34:02.000 We don't know if they're going to give up their nuclear program.

00:34:04.000 If they are, if they're not, who knows?

00:34:06.000 Who knows what could happen?

00:34:07.000 Excuse me.

00:34:08.000 But they say we're going to sit down with Donald Trump, and either they're serious about denuclearization or they're going to give him the runaround.

00:34:14.000 Well, you know you're in a tough spot.

00:34:15.000 China's not going to help you out.

00:34:17.000 The United States may just blow you to bits.

00:34:19.000 Donald Trump, you don't know what he's going to do. 1.00

00:34:21.000 He said he's a madman. 0.98

00:34:22.000 He said that if I sit down with Kim Jong Un and people are worried about there being a madman in the room, hey, it's me. 0.98

00:34:28.000 I could do whatever I want.

00:34:29.000 I'll bring fire and fury.

00:34:31.000 We're still doing military exercises.

00:34:33.000 So you got this guy.

00:34:34.000 He might just blow up your living room one day.

00:34:36.000 But you've got an opportunity to sit down with them.

00:34:38.000 Well, now.

00:34:39.000 Now that you've said publicly we're going to sit down with him, we're going to pursue denuclearization, well, hey, Don, why didn't you cancel the military drills?

00:34:48.000 I said we were going to give up our nuclear program, but you're still doing your joint military exercises with South Korea right off the coast of our country.

00:34:55.000 Could you maybe, I don't know, could you maybe, wait, Don, you said you wanted diplomacy, but now you just put in Mike Pompeo, who wants to go to war with us in the State Department.

00:35:06.000 Don, we're going to make it happen, right?

00:35:09.000 Put in your national security advisor who devises all the plans, who puts together the Pentagon Papers and all the rest.

00:35:15.000 This guy wants to nuke us and now he's in charge of the National Security Council?

00:35:19.000 Gee, I don't know.

00:35:21.000 I mean, let's, hey, maybe let's take it easy.

00:35:24.000 You start to see the calculus here behind this pick.

00:35:27.000 You start to see another, an alternative theory for why this is coming together.

00:35:32.000 It's all about leverage, folks.

00:35:34.000 It's all a negotiation, it's all a deal.

00:35:36.000 That's all it is.

00:35:38.000 Donald Trump is going to sit down with the North Korean head of state.

00:35:41.000 This will be the first time in American history that an American head of state has sat down with the North Korean head of state since the North Korean War had their ceasefire in 1953.

00:35:52.000 And I Riding on this meeting is nothing short of millions of lives, possibly nuclear war with North Korea or other countries.

00:35:59.000 I mean, this is a big meeting.

00:36:01.000 Got a lot riding on this.

00:36:02.000 Either this works out or it looks like there's war.

00:36:05.000 And so, Donald Trump, what's his thought process here when he meets with North Korea?

00:36:09.000 Does he want to convey a signal that we're eager to do diplomacy?

00:36:14.000 Hello, North Korea.

00:36:15.000 We're here to earnestly and eagerly do diplomacy with you.

00:36:18.000 We know you've lied to us before.

00:36:19.000 You've cheated.

00:36:20.000 You've gone back on your word.

00:36:22.000 You've burned our deals.

00:36:23.000 You continue to antagonize and all the rest, but we're going to come to you earnestly, and we'll have people in the administration who are leaking things, people in the administration who have said diplomacy could work, people I've publicly disagreed with and embarrassed and humiliated.

00:36:37.000 Or are you going to say, we're going to go for war?

00:36:40.000 We're going to go for war, and if this works out, maybe we'll stop war, but otherwise we're going to war.

00:36:46.000 And so military exercises bump up.

00:36:48.000 I'm beefing up my military cabinet because we're going to war.

00:36:51.000 And maybe if Kim can convince me, maybe we won't kill him and everyone in his regime.

00:36:55.000 I think that's.

00:36:56.000 The play here.

00:36:57.000 Now, we don't know.

00:36:59.000 Nothing is certain.

00:37:00.000 Nothing is an assurance.

00:37:02.000 That's not definitive, right?

00:37:03.000 I mean, right now, all we have are these kind of circumstantial things and these indirect things.

00:37:09.000 But I think option two is far more likely.

00:37:12.000 I think option one only makes sense in a vacuum.

00:37:16.000 It only makes sense if you don't know who Donald Trump is, if you don't know how he's governed, if you don't know the context of what meeting is coming up in a month.

00:37:24.000 But if you do, I think it's far more likely that President Trump is in control as he has been from day one.

00:37:30.000 Is making the decisions, is influenced by no one.

00:37:33.000 And when he brings on John Bolton to his cabinet and Mike Pompeo, this is simply an indirect way to communicate to North Korea that we are ready and able and willing to go to war with you.

00:37:43.000 And that'll probably happen unless you can appease us.

00:37:46.000 And this fits in line with every other action he's taken with North Korea this year the three carrier military drill in the Pacific, the Minutemen missile tests in response to the missile tests from North Korea, the fire and fury stuff, the storm is coming stuff.

00:38:02.000 I mean, just about everything you've heard from Donald Trump since he got inaugurated has been contributing to this idea that it's all about leverage, that it's all negotiation, it's all a deal on the public stage.

00:38:12.000 And when he brings in Mike Pompeo and he brings in John Bolton, this is not a signal that he's gone back on his convictions, his strongest held convictions for 40 years, and he's gone back on his base, and suddenly he's changed his entire worldview, and he's going to throw away an historic year of diplomacy and go to war with two countries at once.

00:38:31.000 But maybe it's a message, maybe it's just an overt message.

00:38:35.000 And maybe less than subtle signal to North Korea that he is a madman and he's willing to go to war, and that's why they better negotiate their way out of this.

00:38:44.000 And so that's the idea here.

00:38:46.000 We'll see.

00:38:48.000 We'll check our super chats and then maybe we'll take some calls.

00:38:50.000 We spent a little more time on that than I would have liked because we're already at 7 45 and we usually do questions.

00:38:57.000 But let's take a look.

00:38:58.000 We'll jump into the Discord regardless and I'll try and figure out this headset here.

00:39:04.000 Is this on?

00:39:05.000 So we're on here.

00:39:05.000 All right.

00:39:06.000 And let me configure my sound.

00:39:08.000 I only decided, like, just when I was getting on, like, hey, why don't we do a little call-in thing just for the halibut?

00:39:15.000 Just for fun, because you know, a lot of people are going to say Nick is Jewish, Nick is a Zionist neocon shill, Nick is Bill Mitchell, and all that. 0.59

00:39:26.000 So let's just give it a try.

00:39:28.000 I'm going to configure this in Streamlabs on the spot because I am like a smart person.

00:39:39.000 So let me pull it up here in the call in show, or maybe I'll just jump in.

00:39:46.000 I'll have to just jump into the call in channel and I'll just drag people in from general.

00:39:51.000 So, if you have an intent to jump on the show real quick, just talk about it in the general text chat and I'll try and drag in from the voice chat for people that are watching.

00:40:02.000 If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out.

00:40:03.000 This is pretty goofy, but I would like to hear a couple of dissenting opinions.

00:40:07.000 We'd like to hear some people.

00:40:10.000 So, let me put a disclaimer in the general thing.

00:40:19.000 So, we got.

00:40:19.000 Okay, here we go.

00:40:21.000 My man, Brosaf, would like to jump in here and just give me a quick test so I can see if I can hear you.

00:40:29.000 Okay, so I can't hear you.

00:40:31.000 Let me, I don't know if that's you or if that's me.

00:40:34.000 It's probably me.

00:40:34.000 So let me go in and configure.

00:40:35.000 If we can't do it, we can't do it.

00:40:36.000 But we'll give it a go.

00:40:38.000 We'll give it a try.

00:40:39.000 We like to try.

00:40:47.000 Bam, bam.

00:40:48.000 All right, can you say something now?

00:40:52.000 Well, I'm not hearing anything, so I guess it's not going to work out here, but we'll do it on Friday.

00:40:52.000 All right.

00:40:57.000 Maybe we'll do an impromptu call-in show on Friday because I know it'll be a heated discussion, but I'm still working with the Streamlabs transformation.

00:41:04.000 But we'll take your Super Chats, we'll take your Streamlabs donations.

00:41:08.000 If you have a comment, if you have a criticism, a question, the voice chat's just going to be a big headache to try and work it out for tonight.

00:41:14.000 But we may do that tomorrow on Friday.

00:41:16.000 But so, or no, I'm sorry, Friday's a debate, so we'll have to do it next Friday or maybe Monday.

00:41:21.000 But.

00:41:22.000 So, remember, you can donate on Streamlabs.com slash Nicholas J. Fuentes, and that's how you get to leave a comment, and I'll take it now, or the super chat on YouTube works as well.

00:41:32.000 So, on Streamlabs here, we got Christian who says, Nick, I'm very recently taking your advice and getting involved in the GOP at the local level, and they are currently recruiting precinct delegates.

00:41:42.000 I'm curious if you have any experience with this position or get your opinion on it before I get signed up.

00:41:47.000 I have no experience with that.

00:41:48.000 I'm a little young for that.

00:41:51.000 I only was able to vote in the last election.

00:41:53.000 So, I'll be able to vote in this election, but I've never been a precinct delegate or anything like that.

00:41:58.000 But I'd encourage you to get involved in any way you can.

00:42:01.000 Even if those things aren't like, even if you're not able to dictate how policy is written, how candidates are selected, those kinds of things only boost your credibility in the organization.

00:42:13.000 So if you're in your Republican GOP meeting or county meeting or whatever, and you show up for the meetings and, hey, you're a delegate, you're a precinct captain or whatever it is, enough times you build up your experience, you build up your resume, and this breeds influence in the party.

00:42:27.000 And so.

00:42:28.000 I say any way you can get involved is a way to get involved.

00:42:33.000 Spooky Ghost says, I never get too attached to one deal or one approach.

00:42:38.000 I keep a lot of balls in the air because most deals fall out no matter how promising they seem at first.

00:42:43.000 Donald Trump.

00:42:44.000 Exactly.

00:42:44.000 That's straight out of The Art of the Deal, straight out of Chapter 2 of The Art of the Deal.

00:42:49.000 And if you read The Art of the Deal, I don't know if you could hear my stomach growling, but I'm starving.

00:42:54.000 I'm really hungry.

00:42:55.000 But if you've read The Art of the Deal, and specifically the second chapter, but even if you've read all the chapters, You understand the machinations of his strategy, of his mindset.

00:43:05.000 And there's a very good example of this.

00:43:06.000 There's a very telling example.

00:43:08.000 He was telling a story in one of his books.

00:43:10.000 I forget if this was in the second chapter and later on in the book, but he talked about how he was trying to get financing for a new building that he was developing.

00:43:18.000 And so he had this development going on, and it wasn't going anywhere.

00:43:20.000 I mean, it really, there wasn't a lot of activity, but he wanted to create the impression to these moneyed people, to these potential investors or people who were looking into this deal, that there was something going on, that there was action, that they should give their money to this project.

00:43:35.000 So he instructed everybody in his crew, he said, Everybody come there.

00:43:39.000 On this day, when these people will be looking at the development.

00:43:42.000 And he told all the construction people to be out there, and he said, You know what, people in the bulldozers, I want people in the heavy machinery, and just pick up dirt and move it around, but just make it look as busy as you can.

00:43:52.000 I don't care if that means digging holes and filling them back up, but just make it look busy.

00:43:56.000 And so when these people came over and looked at the development, you had all this action, all kinds of people, heavy machinery, things being moved around, and they said, Wow, we've never seen anything like this.

00:44:06.000 This guy's really moving.

00:44:08.000 And I think that tells you a lot.

00:44:09.000 That's a small anecdote, but that tells you a lot about how he thinks.

00:44:14.000 It's strategic thinking.

00:44:16.000 And how is that any different than what he did in Syria last April, where he did a big missile strike in Syria while Xi Jinping was at Mar a Lago for their first face to face negotiation between the U.S. president, this U.S. president, and the premier of China, or president of China, Xi Jinping?

00:44:32.000 And he had him at Mar a Lago, and while Xi Jinping was sleeping after dinner, he bombed the hell out of Syria for having chemical weapons while he was negotiating with China about North Korea, who has nuclear weapons.

00:44:43.000 I mean, you just think of it.

00:44:44.000 Just think of it.

00:44:47.000 I know most people's idea of political analysis is that thing I don't like.

00:44:52.000 That announcement I don't like.

00:44:53.000 That guy I don't like.

00:44:54.000 I don't like Trump anymore.

00:44:56.000 But we have to think a little bit deeper than that.

00:44:57.000 We have to think a little bit more seriously than that.

00:45:00.000 Right?

00:45:00.000 But so let's look at the super chats now.

00:45:03.000 I'll see what we got going on over here.

00:45:09.000 Joshua Larson.

00:45:10.000 Hi, Nick.

00:45:11.000 Love the show.

00:45:12.000 Sorry for the boomer chat.

00:45:13.000 I'm too stuck in my ways.

00:45:15.000 Idea for a drinking game during the big debate tomorrow.

00:45:19.000 Excuse me.

00:45:21.000 Idea for a drinking game during the big debate tomorrow.

00:45:24.000 Every time Mike says tribalism, take a shot.

00:45:26.000 Take it easy, fella.

00:45:27.000 Yeah, it'll be a good one. 0.99

00:45:29.000 Remember, folks, tomorrow on the Baked Alaska Experience, Nick Fuentes versus Mike Tokes on the topic of ethnic nationalism.

00:45:37.000 7 p.m. Central sharp.

00:45:40.000 Be sure to check it out.

00:45:41.000 He's going to get beaten. 0.97

00:45:42.000 He's going to get beaten badly. 0.53

00:45:43.000 I almost feel bad because I like the guy okay.

00:45:46.000 I don't know the guy very well.

00:45:48.000 He's never said anything nasty about me.

00:45:51.000 And I think he's all right.

00:45:52.000 I've been on a few streams with him.

00:45:53.000 I think he's okay.

00:45:57.000 Nice guy.

00:45:57.000 Nice enough guy.

00:45:59.000 That said, I'm going to beat him very badly.

00:46:02.000 I kind of.

00:46:02.000 And so I don't know.

00:46:03.000 Do I feel bad about that?

00:46:04.000 Not really, because he is, you know, by definition a globalist by his ethnic heritage, but also he's a civic nationalist.

00:46:14.000 Excuse me.

00:46:15.000 I feel like Hillary Clinton over here.

00:46:17.000 I'm choking over here.

00:46:19.000 But it's going to be rough.

00:46:20.000 It's going to be rough on old Mike Tokes.

00:46:23.000 I don't think he's ever debated anybody like me.

00:46:25.000 I know he debated.

00:46:27.000 Spencer.

00:46:28.000 And I think Spencer won pretty handily.

00:46:30.000 But I don't know.

00:46:32.000 I think after he watches that debate with RC Maxwell, he's going to start rethinking his choice here to engage in a debate about this subject.

00:46:39.000 We debated back and forth about, we talked back and forth about what we would debate about on Friday.

00:46:45.000 And I guess we just settled on this topic.

00:46:48.000 I think it was suggested by Baked Alaska or somebody.

00:46:51.000 I was on a stream with them over the weekend.

00:46:53.000 And this was the wrong topic to pick.

00:46:55.000 I mean, this is probably the worst thing you could argue.

00:46:57.000 So it'll be a good time.

00:46:59.000 Begbie says, link posted on Facebook, share with the normies.

00:47:03.000 Share it around on Facebook.

00:47:03.000 It's true.

00:47:05.000 I forgot.

00:47:06.000 You'll never believe the other day.

00:47:07.000 You know, I pay money to stream on Facebook.

00:47:10.000 And then the other day, I get it all lined up.

00:47:12.000 I get it all ready to go.

00:47:13.000 And what's different with Facebook, they're not on Restream.

00:47:16.000 The Restream is a service I use to stream on multiple platforms, which this is all technological talk.

00:47:22.000 This is all very sophisticated technological talk.

00:47:25.000 And so to stream to Periscope, Twitch, YouTube, you just click one button.

00:47:29.000 But Facebook, you got to go through their website and do it their way.

00:47:32.000 And yesterday, I just forgot to click Start Broadcast.

00:47:35.000 I had it all lined up.

00:47:36.000 It was all ready to go, and I just forgot to click the button.

00:47:38.000 But share the stream on Facebook.

00:47:40.000 We want to get our boomer audience numbers up before Facebook goes away.

00:47:46.000 Matt says, Why are the local GOP the only ones who take any stance against abortion?

00:47:53.000 There's almost no uproar when local reform passes, yet the feds won't touch Planned Parenthood.

00:48:00.000 I think it's because if you're talking about senators in particular, They represent a whole state.

00:48:07.000 And if you go against abortion, you're going to mobilize a lot of women.

00:48:11.000 You're going to mobilize a lot of urban liberals.

00:48:13.000 And so that's a tough thing to push.

00:48:14.000 I think that's why.

00:48:16.000 Also, maybe because they don't care.

00:48:17.000 I think a big part of it is they don't really care so much about the issue because a lot of them are liberals, even the Republicans.

00:48:23.000 But I think a big thing about it is the women have a much better turnout rate than men.

00:48:30.000 Women skew more liberal than men. 1.00

00:48:31.000 And if they piss off the women, they're in big trouble. 1.00

00:48:33.000 And so I think that might be why.

00:48:37.000 But I don't know.

00:48:38.000 I mean, I think it also has a great deal of how they get their campaign money.

00:48:41.000 Hustle James says, Hey, Nick, and all the little knickers.

00:48:44.000 I love the show, love the energy.

00:48:46.000 Good luck tomorrow debating Mike Milady's tire toques tomorrow on BA Experience.

00:48:51.000 Yeah, it'll be a good one.

00:48:53.000 That was tough while he defended Loomer's tire.

00:48:56.000 That is the one thing I will say.

00:48:57.000 Not a great choice.

00:48:58.000 Good guy, not a great choice.

00:49:01.000 Sir Volkerstein says, Do you support the murder slash expelling of those people?

00:49:06.000 Who run the porn industry? 0.99

00:49:08.000 They must be destroyed. 0.99

00:49:10.000 Great show, Nick.

00:49:11.000 Yeah, I don't know.

00:49:12.000 I mean, this is a lot of memetic talk.

00:49:14.000 I know it's funny, but I think we just have to make it so that people like this who put this kind of indecent material and corrosive material into the public are held accountable.

00:49:26.000 That's all.

00:49:26.000 So I don't know if murdering or deporting people, I don't know if that's a solution, but there has to be some kind of way legally that we can hold these people accountable.

00:49:34.000 The problem is, nine times out of ten, when you look at who's running corporations that are doing.

00:49:40.000 Ill to the public good.

00:49:42.000 There are people who have no vested interest in the survival or the health of the American nation and its people.

00:49:47.000 And take that for what you will, but you look at the characteristics of the bankers and multinational corporations that pollute and they do terrible things.

00:49:55.000 And a lot of the times you'll find that a big reason is because they're of a certain composition that they don't really care about the American people or the public good.

00:50:04.000 And it's just very peculiar.

00:50:05.000 But yeah, there has to be some kind of accounting for that.

00:50:10.000 And we have Begbie who says, So I guess the new version of Internet Bloodsports is for every YouTube persona to coincidentally have a live stream during the same time slot as America First, which has been broadcasting regularly for quite a while.

00:50:24.000 Am I noticing things that I shouldn't be?

00:50:25.000 Yeah, right.

00:50:26.000 Isn't that a little peculiar?

00:50:27.000 Isn't that a little bit interesting how all of a sudden everybody wants a chunk out of my time slot?

00:50:32.000 Pretty tough, pretty tough, you know, right when we start doing well on America First.

00:50:36.000 We started from the bottom, you know, on RSBN.

00:50:39.000 And not like RSBN was a fine company, but.

00:50:42.000 Like the original content that was being produced, for whatever reason, we weren't getting a lot of impressions.

00:50:48.000 They were doing great on their rallies and stuff, but for whatever reason, the subscribers just weren't interested in the original content there.

00:50:54.000 And we started out doing the show with like 100 live viewers a night back in February last year, and we finally got it up.

00:51:00.000 We were doing big numbers.

00:51:01.000 We were doing 700, 800. 0.99

00:51:04.000 And then out of the blue, in comes this swarthy fella, Andy Worski, and Baked Alaska, and all the rest. 1.00

00:51:11.000 And they want to chunk. 0.98

00:51:12.000 They want to take, and they're doing much better.

00:51:14.000 I mean, they're doing thousands and thousands because they have more subscribers and they're bringing on bigger names.

00:51:18.000 But it's tough.

00:51:20.000 They're making it hard for a guy to make a living over here when they schedule, and everybody's doing it now.

00:51:24.000 Everybody and their brothers got the frigging blood sports going on the channel, and they got all the right wing people on, and it's tough.

00:51:32.000 But we got to compete, but we have to compete.

00:51:34.000 We can't whine and say, oh no, we have to create a better product.

00:51:37.000 And that's what we got to do, fellas. 1.00

00:51:39.000 Spooky Ghost says, here's a little extra for some Tendies, big guy. 1.00

00:51:43.000 Thank you, much appreciated. 1.00

00:51:44.000 But I'm going to get negged.

00:51:46.000 People do nothing but neg me for the fast food, for the Tendies, for the Burger King, the McDonald's. 0.97

00:51:51.000 But I love it.

00:51:52.000 It tastes good, and I can handle it right now.

00:51:54.000 You know, people are just no fun. 0.98

00:51:56.000 People have got such a stick up their butts all the time. 0.92

00:51:59.000 I tweet about, I like McDonald's. 0.87

00:52:01.000 I like to eat it.

00:52:02.000 It tastes good.

00:52:03.000 I know it's bad. 1.00

00:52:04.000 I know it's Zogchow. 0.98

00:52:05.000 I know it's got chemicals in there that are making me gay.

00:52:08.000 I know it's got chemicals in there that are making me a woman and making my jawline weaker.

00:52:13.000 I know all that, but I'm young and I have a good metabolism right now.

00:52:17.000 Let me enjoy it while I can.

00:52:19.000 In five years, I'm not going to be able to enjoy McDonald's without paying a price in terms of it's going to go straight to my legs and I'll start developing a large belly.

00:52:30.000 But now I'm young.

00:52:32.000 I got a metabolism that's kept me somehow underweight.

00:52:35.000 Somehow I'm still, I eat like an animal and somehow I'm still not cutting it.

00:52:40.000 Let me enjoy it well, I can.

00:52:42.000 But these people, they've got such a chip on their shoulder.

00:52:44.000 You have to do this.

00:52:45.000 You have to live like this.

00:52:46.000 You can't have any.

00:52:47.000 It's like, you know, let's have, let's remember our priorities here.

00:52:51.000 We're here.

00:52:52.000 It's a short ride.

00:52:52.000 Let's have a little bit of fun.

00:52:55.000 But so, yeah, don't nag me for the tendies.

00:52:58.000 And let's check back in here.

00:52:59.000 And we're really light on the super chats on the Streamlabs.

00:53:03.000 Hey, it's okay.

00:53:04.000 I know we're getting killed in our audience.

00:53:05.000 You know, the other thing I think is the Periscope doesn't help because the Periscope.

00:53:11.000 A lot of people watch on the Periscope.

00:53:13.000 A lot of people watch on YouTube, and so it splits up the audience in all kinds of different ways.

00:53:17.000 Might have to rethink the multi platform streaming, but we'll see.

00:53:21.000 Maybe we'll just jump in the live chat here. 0.99

00:53:24.000 Dude, stop eating crap, says Vincent Napolitano. 0.99

00:53:27.000 Yes, stop bossing me around. 1.00

00:53:29.000 Going to spiritually punch you right in your zog jaw. 1.00

00:53:32.000 No, I'm going to keep eating it. 1.00

00:53:33.000 I'm going to keep doing it.

00:53:35.000 I'm going to keep doing it.

00:53:37.000 My body can handle it.

00:53:38.000 If Donald Trump's body can handle it, my body can handle it.

00:53:41.000 I'm strong.

00:53:42.000 I got a good belly.

00:53:43.000 I got a good gut.

00:53:44.000 It doesn't affect me, all right?

00:53:48.000 Oh, yeah, people are not wild about it.

00:53:51.000 People are not wild about my diet, but that's okay.

00:53:54.000 Michael Jones, Vindication Nation is real, Nick.

00:53:57.000 Yesterday, Enoch and Anglin essentially surrendered the entire alt right movement in favor of a movement led by serious people.

00:54:03.000 It's true.

00:54:04.000 It's true.

00:54:04.000 They're in retreat everywhere.

00:54:06.000 And Anglin was always very supportive of me, but I disavow.

00:54:10.000 He said nice things about me, but I disavow because bad men, right?

00:54:15.000 I just had to get that out of the way for the ADL and the SPLC.

00:54:19.000 But yeah, no, I mean, all these people who were so, oh, they were so mad at me back during the optics debate.

00:54:25.000 Remember that?

00:54:27.000 Remember how many people had a big problem?

00:54:29.000 Nick Fuentes, the bridge burner.

00:54:30.000 Nick Fuentes, who can't stop counter signaling.

00:54:33.000 Nick Fuentes, who can't keep his mouth shut.

00:54:35.000 And now everybody's eating a big helping of humble pie. 0.98

00:54:40.000 Now everybody's eating a big stinking helping of humble pie.

00:54:44.000 Now that I've been proven right, just about everything, you know?

00:54:47.000 I mean, and all these people, they don't want to admit it.

00:54:50.000 But it's true.

00:54:52.000 I know when TRS is, they're done with the activism, they're going back to doing their thing, which is what I said.

00:54:58.000 People are done with the college tour, which is what I said.

00:55:01.000 They're done with activism.

00:55:02.000 They said we should improve our optics, which is what I said.

00:55:05.000 IE is going away from rallies and towards concentrated activism with vetted members, which is exactly what I said.

00:55:14.000 And so, look, Vindication Nation, you're welcome to come over.

00:55:18.000 All you have to do is just not countersignal me, and you'll be doing great.

00:55:21.000 The people who put their chips on Nick and his predictions, their 401ks are blowing up, okay?

00:55:27.000 When they invested on his predictions and DACA and my predictions on all the rest, they've been doing very well.

00:55:33.000 So it's true.

00:55:34.000 Dollar bingo, calories in, calories out, Nick.

00:55:37.000 Eat more McDonald's.

00:55:38.000 I will.

00:55:39.000 And there's nothing you can do about it.

00:55:39.000 I will.

00:55:41.000 There's nothing you can do about it. 0.84

00:55:44.000 Once I start making the big bucks, once I start making the Zog bucks, then we could start doing the Whole Foods thing.

00:55:50.000 Then we could start doing the clean eating thing.

00:55:52.000 But, you know, right now, I'm baller on a budget, okay?

00:55:55.000 Right now, I'm a.

00:55:57.000 How is my laptop overheating?

00:56:00.000 And it's not even on.

00:56:01.000 So we got so much high energy in the room right now.

00:56:04.000 But.

00:56:05.000 Once I'm on the Miley Yiannopoulos, the Mercer family budget, then we'll be able to do the Whole Foods thing.

00:56:10.000 I'll be able to buy the premium type stuff.

00:56:13.000 I'll be able to buy vegetables and prepare my own meals.

00:56:16.000 But right now, I don't have a lot of time, all right?

00:56:19.000 I'm working 24 hours a day, and granted, some of it's naps, but I need a little bit of rest from time to time.

00:56:25.000 But I'm working hard, I'm working fast.

00:56:27.000 I got to keep feeding the beast.

00:56:29.000 And I don't have time to go grocery shopping and cooking up.

00:56:31.000 You know, they want me flipping things and putting together, you know, this gourmet health cuisine.

00:56:37.000 You got to be making.

00:56:38.000 Protein pancakes, and you got to be making this and that, and smoothies.

00:56:42.000 I don't have time for all that, I don't have the money for all that.

00:56:45.000 All right, I'm a straight up beast.

00:56:47.000 And sometimes, if that involves you go through the drive through and you get yourself a big helping of attendees and you get your macros for the day, I'm gonna do it.

00:56:56.000 And maybe when I'm 25 and I'm doing better and the metabolism slows down, we're gonna make some changes.

00:57:01.000 But for now, that's what we have to do.

00:57:02.000 We have to do it, folks.

00:57:05.000 Der Volkerstein says, Do you support the Sons of the Desert organization?

00:57:10.000 I don't know who those people are, don't know them.

00:57:12.000 Don't know the sons of the desert.

00:57:14.000 Can't say that I'm familiar.

00:57:16.000 But if I don't know them, I probably don't support them.

00:57:20.000 If they're not like a household name, why even bother? 0.67

00:57:25.000 People say it's a little hypocritical.

00:57:26.000 You're not a household name. 0.82

00:57:27.000 I would contend that I am.

00:57:29.000 Donald Trump talks about our show all the time.

00:57:31.000 Donald Trump talks about America First, the show, all the time.

00:57:35.000 So I think we are kind of a household name.

00:57:37.000 But we're coming right up on 8 o'clock.

00:57:40.000 I'm just hungry.

00:57:41.000 I'm just really hungry.

00:57:43.000 So we're going to call it a night.

00:57:45.000 And that's going to do it for us.

00:57:48.000 But we'll have our big debate tomorrow, remember, with Mike Tokes on the Baked Alaska Experience, 7 p.m. Central sharp.

00:57:55.000 Ethnic nationalism, civic nationalism should be a great time.

00:57:57.000 We'll be doing an after battle report on this channel afterwards.

00:58:01.000 So I won't be streaming at 7 o'clock tomorrow.

00:58:03.000 I don't want people tweeting at me, Nick, why are you not streaming?

00:58:07.000 Nick, why are you not on?

00:58:08.000 Because I've been talking about it all week, and I'll be on after the debate, which should be about an hour, two hours afterwards, after 7 o'clock.

00:58:15.000 Whenever the debate ends.

00:58:16.000 So I'll be on for an after battle report.

00:58:18.000 It should be celebrating a big victory.

00:58:20.000 I'll have some kind of a celebratory beverage or something in place so we're ready for a big knicker celebration.

00:58:28.000 But that's going to do it for us here on the show for tonight.

00:58:30.000 Remember, we're doing the Streamlabs thing, so if you've got to figure that out for Super Chats for the other shows, we're moving over on there.

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America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - March 22, 2018

Why Trump Tapped Bolton | America First Ep. 130

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