00:00:28.000I do it at home, and it's fun and everything.
00:00:31.000But lately, We've been shooting so many of these episodes from Vindication City, where I am vindicated, of course, on all kinds of political affairs.
00:00:41.000We might have to pay a lot of money to ship everything over there, and we might just start doing the show permanently from that city because, you know, number one, the taxes are less.
00:00:50.000Number two, I mean, we're there just about every other day now.
00:00:53.000So, of course, the America First program and me, moreover, Nick Fuentes, 100% right, 100% vindicated on the DACA deal, on the DACA deal, on the government shutdown.
00:01:07.000What I had been predicting for two weeks finally happened, of course, this weekend, and it played out with a stopgap measure being passed in the Senate this afternoon, 81 to 18 votes.
00:01:21.000And it passed in the House shortly afterward.
00:01:23.000It will be signed by the president sometime this week.
00:01:27.000And then, of course, Syria, a lot of interesting things going on in the Syrian Civil War, or the conclusion of it now escalating into a more regional conflict.
00:01:37.000And we'll take a look at what's been going on there with the Turkish incursion.
00:02:50.000So if you like to listen to the show and not watch it, which I don't know why you wouldn't want to watch it, you don't get to see all my gesticulations and my facial expressions, my cool outfit.
00:03:01.000You don't get to see my mug and everything.
00:03:03.000But if you do want the podcast format, if you're trying to watch it at work, or rather listen to it, if you're listening to it on your way to school, on your way to whatever, and you don't want to have the YouTube video open if it consumes too much data, whatever the reason may be.
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00:03:39.000And then last but not least, you get a special role in the Discord, which is a nice little perk.
00:03:48.000In addition, excuse me, we have now an America First PO box.
00:03:53.000Right here where I am in Vindication City.
00:03:56.000Normally, you would have to send it over to Washington.
00:03:58.000And, you know, a couple of people sent things over to Washington, which James has still not forwarded over to me, which is kind of a slight, but I don't think I care so much.
00:04:09.000If you want to email me, or rather, if you want to mail me something, a letter, if you want to send me, I don't know, a personal written note, a love letter, a gift, a book, a song, a CD, I mean, who knows?
00:04:32.000One day I'll go to check up on it, and somebody will be waiting for me in the elevator there, like in drive, and I'll have to stomp somebody's face.
00:04:39.000And so, if you want, I think you could just email me.
00:05:31.000We're going to really increase the quality of it now that we have loosened control of the funds from the you know who's who are running the other company.
00:05:41.000But With that out of the way, we got to get into.
00:05:44.000Sorry for all the housekeeping things, but we're moving onward and upward.
00:05:47.000I guess it's a big housekeeping for the beginning of the week.
00:05:50.000But we have some big news for you today.
00:05:53.000The first thing we're going to talk about, of course, is the government shutdown.
00:05:58.000So if you recall, January 19th or Friday was the deadline for the Congress to pass a continuing resolution.
00:06:06.000And if you recall on Friday, or on Thursday rather, I explained the history of the government shutdown, how the budget process is supposed to work normally.
00:06:15.000And since 2016, we've been operating on continuing resolutions where the government, or rather the Congress, has not appropriated money for an entire fiscal year since 2016.
00:06:25.000So we've been operating off of continuing resolutions where the government, in shorter periods of time, six, nine months, sometimes very short, sometimes a matter of weeks, they fund the government for a set amount of time through a continuing resolution.
00:06:38.000Well, the government was set to run out of money on January 19th.
00:06:41.000They needed to pass a continuing resolution by midnight, and they failed to.
00:06:46.000If you recall, To get a funding bill passed in the Senate, you need 60 votes.
00:06:52.000And the reason for that, some people have pointed out in the news media lately, there's only five things in the Constitution where the Senate is required, a supermajority is required in the Senate to pass.
00:07:03.000Things like impeachment, things like passing an amendment, and so on.
00:07:06.000There's only five things that are constitutionally mandated by the Senate to require a supermajority of 60 votes.
00:07:14.000However, because of the filibuster rule in the Senate, in order to invoke cloture and end the threat of a filibuster, You know, this is something that gives the minority party a little bit of power.
00:07:24.000They can say, you know, if you don't have 60 votes, we're going to filibuster and you won't be able to move in the Senate.
00:07:32.000In order to invoke cloture to end a filibuster, you need 60 votes.
00:07:36.000And so that's why on Friday the government shut down because although the Republicans had 51 votes plus Mike Pence as the tiebreaker, as the president of the Senate, they needed 60 votes to invoke cloture to end the filibuster and thus pass a continuing resolution.
00:07:54.000The House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution to fund the government, and this included missile defense funding.
00:08:00.000This included CHIP, which is the Children's Health Insurance Program, among other things.
00:08:05.000It failed in the Senate in a late night vote on Thursday, failed to garner the 60 votes required because, of course, the Democrats wanted to shut down the government to leverage the Trump administration.
00:08:18.000The Democrats are trying in earnest to use their leverage as the minority party in the Senate to get President Trump to give legal protections to the DACA.
00:09:07.000So the Democrats thought that they would threaten to shut down the government.
00:09:12.000They would cause this big political circus, make the Trump administration look bad, look like he can't get budgets passed, look like he can't get his Congress working, shut down the government to force his hand and make some kind of a compromise on DACA, give legal protection mandated by Congress to the DACA recipients.
00:09:30.000It's important to note, if you recall, that President Obama.
00:09:35.000Established DACA through executive order because he could not get the votes in the Congress.
00:09:41.000Even in a Democrat controlled Senate, Barack Obama couldn't get the votes to pass DACA in the Congress.
00:09:48.000He needed to do it through an executive order.
00:09:50.000That's important to note because you understand that President Trump rescinded DACA through an executive order because it was established by an executive order.
00:09:58.000The Democrats want him to reestablish those legal protections with an act of Congress, which is something that even Barack Obama couldn't do because it's not popular.
00:10:07.000Because the American people don't want to give legal protections to these people.
00:10:13.000The government shuts down on Friday, and all sorts of non essential government functions shut down.
00:10:19.000President Trump played it up really well, in my opinion.
00:10:24.000Him, Senate Majority Leader McConnell, and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan were all out there on Thursday evening with a very consistent, unified, and strong message saying the Democrats are responsible for the shutdown.
00:10:36.000The Democrats have shut down the government.
00:10:38.000And really, what made the messaging so powerful here.
00:10:42.000Was what was at stake in the continuing resolution?
00:10:45.000This was pure political brilliance on the part of the Republicans.
00:10:50.000If it were merely a continuing resolution, I don't think it would have had the same effect.
00:10:55.000If Republicans passed a continuing resolution and they said, Democrats don't want to fund the government, they're holding us hostage over DACA, I would say, okay, that would probably appeal to the American people.
00:11:06.000The idea that the Democrats are going to force a government shutdown, they're going to be the obstructionists, be reflexively anti Trump.
00:11:13.000In order to give protections to illegal immigrants, I would say that's a pretty good argument.
00:11:18.000I would say if that goes on the news, if Trump's tweets get shown on the news, that would be a pretty strong and persuasive argument for a moderate or an independent.
00:11:28.000Add into this what was included in the continuing resolution.
00:11:31.000What was added as a sweetener and also possibly a dampener for the Democrats in the House bill to continue funding the government was, like I said earlier, children's health insurance and missile defense.
00:11:46.000So, if you didn't have that in there, if it was a plain continuing resolution that said fund the government, I would say persuasive.
00:11:52.000But now the Republican argument became, in light of what they included in the continuing resolution on Thursday that they passed through the House, the argument became not just Democrats are holding the government hostage for the sake of illegal immigrants, but rather Democrats are holding children's health insurance funding and missile defense hostage over illegal immigrants.
00:12:15.000That is a much stronger argument than just, well, you know, Democrats are shutting down the government, and so what?
00:12:21.000National Park Service is affected, so what?
00:12:24.000A couple of non essential government employees are affected, so what?
00:12:27.000I mean, this is what happened in 2013.
00:12:29.000Tourists don't get to see the monuments.
00:12:32.000And of course, when the government shuts down, it doesn't really shut down.
00:12:35.000The federal government, the cabinet gets to choose, or rather, the agencies get to choose which discretionary funds are taken away with the less money.
00:12:44.000So, under Obama, It was a big political play to shut down the monument.
00:12:49.000It was very, you know, look at what Republicans are doing with Trump.
00:12:52.000He pulled funding on things like military.
00:12:56.000He pulled funding on things like the White House switchboard where he couldn't get through to give a comment to the president.
00:13:02.000And if you look at the provisions of this continuing resolution, it made it so much more impactful that the argument was Democrats are shutting down the government in favor of legal immigrants at the expense of children who need health insurance and our great military who's trying to watch the Super Bowl.
00:13:18.000Our great military is trying to keep us safe with missile defense.
00:13:23.000And so the president, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, were hitting the Democrats over this all weekend very consistently, very strongly, coherently with the same message.
00:13:33.000And you have to credit Republicans for this, whereas Republicans for a long time have been terrible, piss poor at messaging, piss poor at consistency, at coherence between the three leaders, between the three kings.
00:13:49.000This time, they've really done a good job in terms of the play with CHIP and with the children's health insurance and with missile defense, and also with the messaging.
00:13:57.000It was consistent, it was out there, it was very good.
00:14:01.000If you looked at the polling before the shutdown and after the shutdown, of course, the public at large still blamed the Republicans marginally more before and after.
00:14:10.000And this is to be expected as, number one, the polling places, of course, are going to, I mean, they mess with the polling in terms of the question they ask, in terms of the people they sample, but also because the Democrats, of course, control the media.
00:14:24.000And so it's expected that Republicans will be blamed marginally more than the Democrats for the shutdown when NBC, CNN, you know, every major station is saying Trump's shut down, Republican shutdown.
00:14:36.000Even on social media, the way they conspire, the hashtag for three days was Trump shutdown, even though that was totally inorganic.
00:14:45.000Schumer shutdown was probably bigger in terms of sheer numbers.
00:14:49.000But compared to 2013, the margins of Republicans being blamed to Democrats was much more favorable to our president.
00:14:57.000Moreover, if you look at the real clear politics average of the general ballot polling for 2018, so they ask people, are I going to vote Republican or Democrat in 2018 for senators and for the House?
00:15:09.000The Democrat lead collapsed from 13 points on December 21st to eight points as of this week.
00:15:17.000And it's a little bit less than eight, it's about 7.8 points that they're leading in the general ballot polling, the polling average on the RCP.
00:15:29.000Now, this afternoon, this is the development this afternoon.
00:15:32.000Finally, the Senate passed a stopgap measure which will fund the government for the next three weeks.
00:15:38.000So it'll fund the government for three weeks, and in early February, I believe it's February 8th, the government runs out of money again and shuts down again.
00:15:46.000The reason they passed the temporary stopgap measure is so that in this three week period, the Republicans and Democrats can negotiate on a long term budget fix and on a fix for DACA.
00:15:58.000Democrats only compromised and funded the government this afternoon because they got their word.
00:16:06.000A promise from Mitch McConnell that he would negotiate on DACA over the next three weeks, and then they will have something hopefully before February 8th.
00:16:15.000And here is the brilliance of this play Democrats have lost both sides.
00:16:21.000They've lost the Republicans, they've lost the Democrats.
00:16:25.000Because here's what happens in this shutdown this weekend people who were for the shutdown, people who were for Democrats shutting down the government, they said, We have to have a fix for DACA.
00:16:37.000People on the right side said, you know what, Democrats are shutting down the government in favor of illegal aliens.
00:16:43.000Well, on the right side of things, the Democrats have already failed.
00:16:45.000They're reflexively anti Trump, they're obstructionist, they favor illegal immigrants, non citizens over citizens, and moreover, children and veterans, which is devastating.
00:16:57.000And they shut down the government, and it looks pretty needless because they only did it for three days.
00:17:01.000So, you know, maybe the independents, maybe the more right leaning people would have said, Okay, I guess it kind of made sense.
00:17:09.000If Democrats really cared about DACA and it went on for a couple of weeks, well, they really cared about it, but it was only three days.
00:17:16.000So that it was only three days, that the Democrats saw how politically terrible it was, and then they reversed course, it basically proves the right side of the aisle correct.
00:17:26.000It proves independents and the moderates correct in that this was totally a political circus.
00:17:31.000If they really cared, would they have stopped after only three days with no deal and merely a promise to make out a deal?
00:18:07.000The Democrats who really cared about DACA, who really cared.
00:18:10.000And wanted the Democrats, and by the way, I predicted this, who really wanted the DACA fix, they see the Democrats as having folded after only three days.
00:18:19.000The Democrats threatened and threatened and threatened.
00:18:22.000They said, we'll shut it down, we'll hold strong, we're not caving in, you'll never get a wall, you'll never get an end to chain migration, you'll never get an end to the diversity visa lottery system.
00:18:32.000We'll hold out until we get our DACA fix.
00:18:35.000And to the left side of the aisle that wanted this to happen, the Democrats caved after three days.
00:18:45.000And in the Republican bill, the Goodlot bill, which would be the starting point for negotiation, the DACA recipients don't get a pathway to citizenship.
00:18:52.000And about half of them would be ineligible to reapply for the new program.
00:18:56.000So for the right side, it proves that they were just obstructionists.
00:19:00.000They're just playing politics and playing politics with children's health insurance and the military.
00:19:05.000And for the left, it chills that the Democrats were unserious to begin with and were demagoguing on the issue.
00:19:12.000So the Democrats have completely collapsed in this.
00:19:15.000Anybody who would have come out for them in 2018, as of this government shutdown, they're not coming out for the Democrats.
00:19:22.000On the left side, all that enthusiasm, all that outrage.
00:19:29.000I remember marching in Boston with the Women's March and some of these Antifa marches, which I was there for in the Boston Common, marching down the main streets in Boston.
00:19:40.000I remember the enthusiasm, the energy after the election in November, the energy after the inauguration, people saying, We're going to be out here every weekend, millions of us, and it'll grow to hundreds of millions.
00:19:53.000And then we're going to take back the Senate to the House in 2018 and the White House in 2020.
00:19:59.000And where's that enthusiasm going to be?
00:20:28.000Chuck Schumer, who just caved on DACA, who just, in their eyes, allowed Donald Trump to round up these youngsters?
00:20:34.000In their eyes, The children, even though the average age is 24 in the program, in their eyes, Trump's going to be able to round up all the DACA kids and send them home in buses and they'll be crying.
00:20:44.000They're not going to be able to turn out.
00:20:46.000So, a major, a catastrophic defeat for the Democrats this weekend.
00:20:52.000And not only do you have that, not only is this an unequivocal, I mean, this is a 100% crushing victory over the Democrats.
00:21:01.000Not only do you have this, but in February 8th, you have a three week period between now and February 8th.
00:21:08.000Where the Democrats are going to decide are they going to give Donald Trump an end to chain migration, an end to the diversity visa lottery system, and $18 billion for a wall, among other things, give him everything they want, everything they said they would never give him, or are they going to shut down the government again?
00:21:27.000And here's the beauty of it February 8th rolls around, and let's say there's no deal.
00:21:31.000Let's say Democrats don't give Trump the three provisions that he wants and they shut down the government again.
00:21:40.000You can only have a four week government shutdown before March 5th when all the DACA recipients' legal protections end.
00:21:48.000So the government shuts down on February 8th, and you have a four week time limit for the Democrats to force the Republicans' hand, and they have no leverage because the Republicans know that in four weeks, it doesn't matter.
00:21:59.000The kids start getting deported, the kids, the 24 year olds, the young adults who are taking the jobs and their fighting age as well, which might be relevant.
00:22:33.000The Trump administration and the Republicans at large have been framing this issue for the past two weeks, and I've been calling this.
00:22:41.000And so, we'll see what happens, but this should really be cause for.
00:22:45.000Where I believe that the Democrats will cave on a lot of these issues.
00:22:49.000They will give a lot more than anyone could have anticipated.
00:22:53.000And even you saw from Luis Gutierrez from Illinois, a very proud Latinx individual, he himself said that he would be willing to cave on the wall.
00:23:34.000It is obligatory that we are smug about it.
00:23:37.000It's obligatory that we have our chins held high, that we do a little Benito Mussolini, you know, with the chin and the arms crossed, because of course, I predicted this 100%.
00:23:52.000I predicted it 110% with 100% certainty two weeks ago.
00:24:01.000And of course, of course, that is not, you know, I'm sorry, I must be humble because I am a Catholic.
00:24:08.000Because I am a Catholic, I must be humble.
00:25:41.000I've gotten everything right since the 2016 election.
00:25:44.000And people might say that's spraggadocious, that's arrogant, that's pretentious.
00:25:48.000You know, look, a pundit is only as good as his record.
00:25:51.000A brand is only as strong as the record of the pundit.
00:25:55.000We're in a business, people who talk about politics, of something that is pretty vapid in terms of if you're going to work in a regular job, you're a machinist, you're a janitor, you drive a truck.
00:26:36.000To inculcate a little bit of confidence in what we're saying on the show.
00:26:40.000You know, Alt Hype commented on James Alsop's last YouTube channel, a homosexual, by the way, and said, Well, you know, anybody can get on a live stream and just spout off.
00:26:48.000People have it in their heads that I get on here and I just stalk stuff out of my butt and I'm young and I don't really know what I'm talking about.
00:26:55.000I only say that to bolster the record, to fortify the record, to show you that when I come at you with this analysis, it's real, it's almost always correct because we're looking at it the right way.
00:27:10.000I'll have to go to confession and do some penance, do some Our Fathers and Hail Marys for the smugness, for the pretension.
00:27:16.000But with that said, with all of that out of the way and a lot of fun with the government shutdown, we've been watching it for two weeks.
00:27:23.000And you can go back, you know, you can watch every show I've done about DACA for the past two weeks and you see this prediction playing out.
00:27:31.000You listen to James, you listen to any of these other fellas, you listen to any of these other really intelligent people, and you hear this, you know, Trump is cucking.
00:28:12.000I hope all the America First supporters, all the Team Nick people are feeling as smug as they should, feeling as vindicated as they should here.
00:28:22.000We were supposed to hear a Milky's copypasta.
00:28:25.000If it weren't kind of a turbulent time, we'd be hearing a Milky's copypasta from a certain somebody on Wednesday in defeat, you know, or else they'd be a welcher.
00:30:33.000And this is where we stand as of this morning.
00:30:35.000There's a very good resource called, I believe it's called Live Map Syria, and they do a lot of good live maps of ISIS, of Ukraine, of Syria, live updates of who controls what territory, major events, and so on.
00:30:47.000So this is the most up to date map of Syria as of, I believe, 6 o'clock this evening, Central Time.
00:30:54.000And so you had this afternoon, Turkey invade Syria.
00:30:59.000Turkey invaded Syria this afternoon, which is a pretty stark contrast to how.
00:31:05.000Have been playing out in the Middle East for the past five years.
00:31:08.000If you've been following the Syrian Civil War, which began in 2011, this conflict inaugurated an era, a new era, really, I think, fully manifesting the 21st century and 21st century conflict of intra state conflict.
00:31:25.000Intra meaning within, states meaning nation states, within nation conflict.
00:31:32.000So rather than inter state conflict, inter between state conflict, which dominated politics.
00:31:37.000For the past 100 years, where you had the Iran versus Iraq war, you had Iraq invade Kuwait, you had the United States invade Iraq, you had the United States invade Afghanistan, you have conflict between states.
00:31:50.000Prior to this Syrian civil war in 2011, this conflict inaugurated really a new era of 21st century conflict, which is intrastate conflict, civil wars, tribal wars, sectarian conflicts, religious conflicts.
00:32:06.000And so, this is one of the most complicated Wars that we've seen really in a long time.
00:32:10.000If you're a student of international relations, if you're a student of foreign affairs, of political theory, you will be studying the Syrian Civil War for the next 50 years.
00:32:19.000This will be a case study in really when the 21st century came into its own in the Middle East.
00:32:49.000It then spread to Iraq and Syria and other countries in the Middle East.
00:32:54.000And so the Arab Spring was kind of this, it was the epitomization of the folly of kind of the George W. Bush neoconservative thinking on the Middle East.
00:33:04.000A lot of people thought that the Arab Spring would be a new era of democracy, of westernization, of liberalization in the Middle East.
00:33:12.000They thought that, and this was predated, of course, by the 2009.
00:33:19.000Many people say that's an antecedent to the Arab Spring, even though Iran is Persian.
00:33:23.000Many people saw that and they saw the Arab Spring and they thought, this is the Muslim people, this is the Arab people rising up and they want freedom, they want democracy.
00:33:32.000And many people saw that falsely as a vindication of the promise of the George W. Bush foreign policy doctrine we're going to go into Iraq and Afghanistan and give them the ballot box, we're going to spread democracy.
00:33:44.000They want democracy, they want Western values.
00:33:47.000And this is symptomatic of a much larger worldview.
00:33:50.000Which says that modernization can only come from westernization.
00:33:54.000And more on that, I mean, that's a much broader subject, but I mean, that was really at the core of it this very arrogant, hubristic belief in the wake of the Cold War that third world countries can only achieve modernization, modern technology, standards of living through westernization, through liberalization.
00:34:12.000And so the Arab Spring was the epitomization of all of these false hopes being projected onto the Arab people because many, like Barack Obama, many conservatives, supported the Arab Spring protests initially.
00:34:24.000And they said, wow, it's all over the place and they want democracy.
00:34:27.000And then it started to go very much awry.
00:34:29.000In Egypt, when they got their elections, when they got the ballot box, they voted in the Muslim Brotherhood, which of course is Islamist, is fundamentalist, as contrasted with Hosni Mubarak, the leader of the police state there, who was a secular ruler.
00:34:44.000Contrasted with what happened in Syria in 2011, this is probably the best case study, where the Arab Spring started out in 2011 in Syria with anti government protests.
00:34:55.000Calls for free and open elections, calls for the release of political prisoners and end to censorship, and then it turns into Islamist fundamentalism.
00:35:09.000You get the Kurds who take advantage of the situation and try to claim territory.
00:35:14.000You get Israel who's doing missile strikes, trying to take advantage and have their claims over the Golan Heights in Syria legitimized by the international community.
00:35:25.000And so, this is really kind of the very explosive, very ugly, violent exorcism of Bush.
00:35:34.000Of Bush era thinking of the Middle East here in Syria, where all the hopes and dreams pinned on the Arab Spring, all the westernization, democratization dreams basically went to die in Syria because we had it that, well, we're going to support the freedom fighters, we're going to support these people only want democracy, we're going to give them American arms, we're going to give them American guns and ammunition and firepower and everything else.
00:35:59.000And then it turns out that all these weapons fall into the hands of ISIS.
00:36:03.000And it turns out that the Free Syrian Army is not who they say they are.
00:36:07.000The Kurdish elements in the north are not who they say they are.
00:36:11.000And so, this is the conflict really where so many hopes and dreams about the 21st century, about American power, westernization came to die.
00:37:15.000I went into a little bit of detail on who the Kurds were in the last episode.
00:37:19.000The Kurds are, by technicality, excluding white people, the largest ethnic group in the world without a state of their own.
00:37:28.000So these are a mountain people and an ethnic group.
00:37:32.000They are in eastern Turkey, they're in northeastern Syria, they're in northern Iraq, they're in northern Iran, they're in southern Armenia, southern Azerbaijan.
00:37:45.000And these are the largest ethnic group without a state, and they've been in the Middle East.
00:37:49.000Forever, and they've been discriminated against, they've been genocided, they've been abused by Saddam Hussein, by Turkey.
00:37:55.000Turkey used them in the 1900s to eradicate the Armenians, and then they went against the Kurds in a brutal way.
00:38:02.000I mean, they really have been pushed around and abused and used, and very rough stuff.
00:38:06.000But so, the Kurds up here in the orange, these guys were really more in Turkey.
00:38:12.000Turkey is up here, Turkey borders Syria.
00:38:16.000The Kurds were really more up here, seeing an opportunity to fight against ISIS.
00:38:20.000When ISIS broke out here, In Syria and Iraq.
00:38:27.000And the Kurds gradually worked their way down and started seizing territory in Syria, claiming more and more land as they defeated ISIS, because of course they were backed with U.S. arms, U.S. technology, and so on.
00:38:39.000They were a much stronger fighting force and a very talented fighting force.
00:38:43.000And so they claimed a lot of territory here in northeastern Syria.
00:38:46.000And this has caused a problem, of course, because Syria is not a Kurdish country.
00:39:02.000Here you have in green are the rebels.
00:39:05.000This is the Free Syrian Army and just the broader rebellion against Assad, which they've really been beaten back to Idlib province up here, which, if you recall, this was where the chemical weapons were supposedly used in Idlib province up in the northeast.
00:39:20.000This is the last stronghold of the rebels and also down here and on the border with Israel.
00:39:26.000And then you have, of course, ISIS, which is beaten down to a few small areas here in central Syria, eastern Syria, and a little tiny portion over here.
00:39:38.000What happened today was you had Turkey invade this area up here, which is called Afrin.
00:39:45.000Now, Turkey is a sovereign state, so this changes the nature of the conflict.
00:39:49.000Whereas before, the Syrian Civil War was kind of this ugly, chaotic stew of all kinds of sectarian, ethnic, religious, regional interests battling it out within this country.
00:40:01.000And ostensibly, you had Iran, Russia, China, other foreign actors.
00:40:05.000Shoring up the government, but it was really an intrastate conflict.
00:40:10.000Well, now you have Syria invading into this country and taking on the Kurds up in Afrin.
00:40:16.000And the reason, of course, for this is that these Kurds are the YPG, these are the People Protection Units, which was founded in 2003, but really took on the YPG name, which is Kurdish for People Protection Units, and they took on that title and sort of their air of democracy and their assistance with Western backed governments.
00:40:38.000At the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, the YPG, which is up here in orange, which is backed by the United States, they have their arms.
00:40:46.000They purport to be spreading democracy.
00:40:49.000They are buddy buddy with the PKK, which is the Kurdish Workers' Party, a communist party in eastern Turkey, which has been doing terrorist attacks against Turkey for 30 years, a militant terrorist group that has been operating within Turkey for 30 years, contesting the sovereignty of Turkey and Turkish Kurdistan.
00:41:10.000Doing terrorist attacks in places like Istanbul and Ankara and other places.
00:41:15.000And so the reason that Turkey has invaded Afrin is because, you know, this is the YPG, which is friends with the PKK, which is a terrorist group which has been operating in Turkey for 30 years.
00:41:25.000And so now Turkey has said, okay, well, the United States has given these guys advanced military.
00:41:31.000They've given them tanks, they've given them advanced weapons, ammunition, they've given them diplomatic support, they've given them military advisors, and they've allowed the YPG and more broadly the PKK, a terrorist group in Turkey, To gain massive tracts of land and along the border with Turkey.
00:41:49.000They now control 60% of the border with Turkey between Syria and Turkey.
00:41:54.000And so Turkey is saying, you know, look, the United States, you're our NATO ally, you're a broader diplomatic ally, and you're giving technical and military support to the PKK and the YPG, which are terrorists.
00:42:07.000I mean, that would be akin to a country like France giving advanced military technology to ISIS or giving advanced military technology to.
00:42:17.000A Latin American terrorist organization on the border of Mexico.
00:42:24.000And so now Turkey has invaded an offering here in the north, and they say they're going to incur 30 miles south into Turkey.
00:42:31.000Now, the international community has condemned this.
00:42:34.000The Western countries, like the United States and Europe, have simply said just show some restraint on both sides, don't kill civilians, try to keep civilian casualties to a minimum, try and make it as precision.
00:42:58.000But I mean, this is really, I think you have to look at this in the broader context of what is playing out with Iran in the region.
00:43:05.000This is really the important thing here, where Turkey may say they're going into it for Kurdistan.
00:43:11.000Turkey may say they're going into it to go after the YPG and the PKK, which is true, of course.
00:43:16.000But more broadly, what Turkey is doing is vying for a stake in Syria.
00:43:22.000Now that ISIS has been all but defeated in Iraq and Syria, and they're leaving a major power vacuum, all this.
00:43:28.000Territory that's been lost, all this bloodshed that's been caused and instability that's been wrought.
00:43:34.000Now you see Syria and Iraq being essentially carved up by different interests.
00:43:40.000Syria right now is being carved up by the Iranians, by the Assad government, by the Russians, by Israel to some extent, by the Lebanese, by Hezbollah, by Jordan.
00:43:49.000And so this is, in my estimation more broadly, a play for Turkish influence in the greater Mesopotamian region here, which would be Syria and Iraq, sort of the Sykes Picot region here.
00:44:02.000Where they see Iran building military bases south of Damascus.
00:44:06.000They see Russia enhancing their military position in Syria.
00:44:09.000They see Israel down here, which is Israel is here, and they're taking over the Golan Heights, so that would be around here.
00:44:20.000They see the Lebanese taking over with Hezbollah around this region, and so on and so forth.
00:44:25.000And so I think this is Turkey more vying for a stake here in Syria, vying for some kind of influence power projection in the greater.
00:45:14.000I mean, there are more gun regulations to stop you, Joe Schmo, from going into your local gun store and buying a handgun or semi automatic rifle than there is for the United States to give billions and billions and billions of dollars of automatic weapons, of ammunition, of tanks, of air power to people who we don't even know who they are, to people we don't even know the broader significance.
00:45:36.000And of course, We saw this play out before.
00:45:39.000Does anybody remember when we were giving Osama bin Laden money, when we were giving money to the Taliban and to Al Qaeda in the 1980s?
00:45:47.000Because in 1979, when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, at that time, the Taliban were the freedom fighters on horseback fighting against the Soviet Empire.
00:45:57.000And we said, Here, Osama bin Laden, we'll give you, the CIA will give you all the weapons you want.
00:46:01.000We'll give you AK 47s, we'll give you Stinger missiles, or not AK 47s, that's, you know, of course, the Russian.
00:46:15.000They turn around and use them against American soldiers just 20 years later.
00:46:19.000And so, and then even with Iraq, even with Iraq, where we gave tacit support to Iraq in the 1980 to 1989 Iran Iraq War, and then we end up fighting the Iraqis in 1991 and all throughout the 90s and then 2003.
00:46:33.000So the broader takeaway here is not all the acronyms and all the different interests and influences.
00:46:46.00099% of what you hear from the Atlantic and from the New Yorker about the Haqqani Network and all these different groups and everything, 99% of it is nonsense, okay?
00:46:55.000I mean, people, the intellectuals just physically cannot keep up with the developments happening on the ground in an accurate way.
00:47:02.000The takeaway is not this is the red area, this is the blue area, and the yellow area.
00:47:07.000The takeaway here is the United States should be careful about who it gives its guns to.
00:47:13.000You, the taxpayer, give trillions of dollars to the government every year.
00:47:20.000Spent $600 and some billion, $600 and change billion every year to have offices and bases everywhere to be giving, propping up military dictatorships and military insurgencies and dissidents all over the world.
00:49:01.000Who may be causing, who may have a lot to do.
00:49:04.000You know, these guys right over here, right over here, these guys, you know, if you look on a map, their cities are denoted in a different language and a different script.
00:49:17.000You know, the guys who mysteriously seem to gain and stand the benefit and might be behind about a dozen conflicts in the Middle East going back to the 90s, might date back to a certain journal entry in the 1950s by a man by the name of Ben Gurion.
00:49:54.000Actually, I wouldn't because I'm very interested in it.
00:49:56.000But I think it would be just if we could be a little bit less concerned about what's happening there and a little bit more concerned about what's going on here.
00:51:23.000Anthony P., what's the chances of a veto proof DACA agreement?
00:51:29.000Well, a veto proof DACA agreement would be two thirds in the Senate to override a veto.
00:51:37.000And you would need two thirds to pass it anyway.
00:51:39.000So, I mean, any DACA agreement would necessarily be veto proof.
00:51:43.000The chances of a DACA agreement, I think, are pretty strong in the sense that the Democrats have a very strong incentive and no leverage.
00:51:53.000They have a very strong incentive to concede to President Trump on the things he wants them to, and they have no leverage to resist him.
00:52:00.000You know, I mean, if you think about it, they don't give him a deal, and they would force a shutdown for four weeks, and then DACA would expire anyway.
00:52:08.000And there would go any remaining leverage that they would have, any bargaining chip that they would have.
00:52:14.000So, you know, really, the ball is in President Trump's court.
00:52:17.000So I think it's a very strong chance that we'll see a nice compromise on DACA along our way of thinking.
00:52:24.000Simon Scola, Paul Nealon named every Jew in the mainstream media.
00:52:29.000You know, Paul Nealon is, we love the guy.
00:52:33.000We had him on the show, but, and this is a soft but, this is not a hard but.
00:52:47.000They decide to be a little bit politically incorrect.
00:52:50.000I think they lose the focus of the message.
00:52:53.000And so I think Paul Nealon at this point would be better served talking about trade and taxes and immigration.
00:52:58.000And this is constructive criticism, I hope.
00:53:01.000I hope if he sees this, if any supporters of him see this, they're not thinking Nick is counter signaling Neal and Nick, nothing of the sort.
00:53:07.000But simply to say, you know, if you're trying to appeal to Wisconsin voters, there's a way to tie this in.
00:53:15.000And, you know, Maybe some of his advisors need to, I don't know, give him a better way to couch that argument in a way that is more conducive to what he's trying to do running for that seat in Wisconsin.
00:53:30.000So I got to say, the guy's got brass balls, and it really is a good thing, I think, what he is doing for free speech, for the conversation on this, for understanding why the media is the way it is, understanding why the government is the way it is.
00:53:46.000But the only minor criticism is there's a way to couch it in terms of.
00:53:51.000Things that the average voter can understand.
00:53:53.000You know, for example, I try to think of politics.
00:54:24.000I try to do it for them, and in doing that, you start to interpret or you start to understand a better way to message.
00:54:30.000You start to understand a better way to slip in some of these red pills, slip them in under the radar, kind of in a way that is digestible.
00:54:40.000And that's my only minor critique there.
00:54:42.000But he's doing great work and God bless him.
00:56:24.000Once I get my computer in order, once I get the show basically in order after this tumultuous period, Nick will be in the gym throwing up the iron, throwing up the weights, grunting, you know, drinking, slamming back protein shakes, punching people, you know, injecting myself with steroids.
00:57:10.000I'll just be walking around like that.
00:57:13.000After, of course, after I hit the gym and punch the iron, pump the iron, rather, I'll be the most feared nationalist political leader in the country.
00:59:54.000And we have Ian Weber who says, What faults do you feel that Oswald Mosley had?
01:00:00.000Also, I'm not LARPing, but do you think clerical fascism could work in a serious country?
01:00:05.000On Oswald Mosley, I would say that it's really interesting what I've noticed.
01:00:13.000The type of nationalist strain, If you notice, it has been very weak in individualist, liberal, Protestant, Anglo countries.
01:00:25.000The call for central authority, for a fascist ethic, for a communitarian ethic, has been very much diminished, has not gained as much traction in the United States, in Great Britain, in some of these more individualist countries, even in Scandinavia, as contrasted with Germany or Italy or Spain.
01:00:43.000You know, look at where fascism took root in Italy and Spain.
01:00:49.000And I think it's kind of interesting the dynamic there where fascism kind of goes hand in hand with Catholicism.
01:00:56.000And when I say fascism, I don't even mean that in a derogatory, like bad connotation way.
01:01:01.000I mean it in the sense of strong central government, strong national identity, community, those kinds of things, a broader collectivist identity.
01:01:10.000It's much stronger because I think this is the ethic of the Catholic Church.
01:01:13.000The Catholic Church is the institution of hierarchy, authority, tradition.
01:01:18.000All things championed by a more collectivist government system.
01:01:22.000This contrasted with Protestant individualist England and America, which have liberal democratic systems.
01:01:48.000This fabric accumulates dust or something, or something that is irritating to my nose.
01:01:54.000I touch it towards the end when I'm doing the mug, and then it gets to my nose and I have to itch.
01:01:59.000All of this will be fixed when I get a desk and we get our studio built.
01:02:04.000But Oswald Mosley, he wears a black uniform, the Roman salute, the Hitler stuff, and it has no appeal in a liberal, Protestant, individualist country.
01:02:13.000We have to make it work for the physiognomy of our civilization.
01:02:38.000You could have something like that, a stronger executive, a new Caesarism, a second religiosity, but you couldn't call it that, you know, for obvious reasons.
01:02:45.000Alciabadi says 54 pesos in dollars, MAGA.
01:02:51.000It's funny because people call me Mexican.
01:02:53.000I'm 25% Mexican, which is such a logical fallacy.
01:02:57.000If you're going to call somebody something of which they are 25%, well, then I'm doubly as Italian as I am Mexican and just as Irish as I am Mexican.
01:03:06.000So for somebody to say I'm Mexican because I'm 25% Mexican, To say that one constituent piece is definitive of the whole when another constituent piece is twice as big as that one is just a logical fallacy.
01:03:19.000And that's not me denying my heritage.
01:03:21.000It's simply to say that when people call me like a mestizo or I'm Mexican or I'm non white or something, if 80% European does not fit the threshold for white, you're a clown, you're a joker, and you have no serious place in a political movement.
01:03:51.000Ian Weber, I think the right has to take a stance that Zionism is a reasonable ideology, but we need to say that it is undeniable that Zionism tends to interfere with the U.S. Americans should be able to achieve our own state as well.
01:04:06.000Yeah, I mean, that's the place to go with it.
01:04:08.000Is look, Israel can have its homeland, Israel can have its own state, and that's fine, but it can't control ours, and we have the right to the same thing.
01:04:47.000All right, all right, we got to pump the brakes a little bit.
01:04:51.000That's, you know, even though friends and followers of James doxed my address and doxed my family and they stole my company and they didn't give me my buyout and doxed my sister and all of that, even though all of that transpired, here on America First, we're going to be classy.
01:05:05.000We're not going to go after his family.
01:06:57.000Matt Williams, it was amazing how you got Jacob Wolf to admit that the $4 billion was nothing, but still didn't want Israel to stop receiving the money.
01:07:05.000Well, there were a number of things I got him to admit.
01:07:07.000I mean, in order to defend Israel's position, he had to.
01:07:10.000Deny that Israel has a nuclear program, which there is, I mean, this basically makes him a foreign actor operating in the United States if he's defending the Israeli party line.
01:07:38.000I mean, last but not least, we got him to admit that the $4 billion is nothing, and yet it must continue, right?
01:07:45.000And so let me post the Discord link and then we'll call it a night so I can have some soup and I can scratch my nose and nobody will make gifs of me, gifs of me picking my nose.