Hailgate
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the recent attack on us at a restaurant in Montana, and the implications for the future of anti-protester events, as well as what we can do about it. We also talk about our own experiences with antifa, and what we would like to see happen in the future.
Transcript
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hail enoch how are you oh i'm pretty good how are you uh i uh i've just kind of been through an
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emotional roller coaster to be honest but i am uh doing well um i was uh it's a combination of
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exhaustion uh elation um of some genuine fear to be honest uh about being attacked uh some
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some feeling that i had triggered the world and the whole world hates me and uh but then also
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a uh you know just a sense where i am right now which is i've gotten some rest and i am ready to
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go so that's where i am that's good yeah i was wondering if you had to uh shoot uh antifa but
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i suppose not um which i guess in the long run is probably a good thing i mean maybe depends
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yeah uh antifa i don't i of course do not endorse any sort of violence i was talking purely in terms
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of a legal self-defense type oh i i would absolutely only um engage in violence in that context but
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yeah i i definitely um the thought crossed my mind that i i might be having foul smelling screaming
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uh horribly tattooed uh you know people with blue hair uh barging and piercings yes
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multiple facial piercings but nothing of that nothing like that's happened so yeah well i think
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in in um well the other place where you live maybe that doesn't really happen um or or they maybe
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understand that every hey you don't know who in this place has a gun and so in montana everyone has a
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gun yes you know it's not that you don't know you do know you do know that everybody yeah so that's
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you know i i don't think that's going to happen um you know i again uh and i would say this um
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we we obviously we are we are generating so much attention at this point that i i do feel like we
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well maybe this will change like in four or five years or something but at least for this foreseeable
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future window we cannot publicly meet in a private venue um anymore and i i think in a way that's sad
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like um for instance a year ago you know we had like a 175 185 people at the mpi conference and
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we actually did meet at a steak restaurant and that actually went fine there was no uh nothing from
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what i can know we actually did hire some security but everything was fine no doxing no antifa protests
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they they just focused on the day of and even the day of we only had like a handful of people
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shooting silly string um yeah you know i remember there was three excuse me there was uh three people
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there when i walked through the door yeah yeah so and it was the least intimidating people you can
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imagine really frankly i mean right at one point daryl the barrel might try to eat someone but
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uh until that happens it was just a bunch of people shooting silly string we've now like it's we're at a
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new level i mean what happened with um one person getting punched and and in the face i heard he was
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kicked in the face too i mean that is just totally beyond the pale um a woman emily euclis was attacked
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um i was attacked although not not in a really uh i mean it was in a vile manner but uh not in a way
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that i i was ever physically threatened okay i heard about i heard about this that's why you were
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wearing only of only your vest at that point yes you should have had a bane mask at that point
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i think we might have to do that going forward at least there's going to be there's going to be memes
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of that of those pictures um with you in a bane mask just like flexing muscles with a bane mask i hope
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so um if trs doesn't create those memes then they need to go you know evaluate their their purpose but
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yes exactly yeah i mean i was i was sprayed by this i don't even know what the fuck it was it was like
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i don't know if i was sprayed by urine it or it was like synthetic shit smelling stuff like if you're
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going to use to go hunting it basically smelled like a skunk and uh so it destroyed a dress shirt of
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mine i mean again not a big deal but at the but the the whole point though is that these guys are
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now physically assaulting us yeah well i mean they've always wanted to and and what i found
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remarkable and um what really kind of to me drives home and if anybody doesn't understand the concept
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of a narco tyranny that that night was a narco tyranny in action i wasn't there like i was there was a we
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had a chat going and some people were there some people weren't and people were like up to the
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minute reports on on things and i was like i was like i really you know in a perfect world we could
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just shoot these people frankly like i'll be like i'm not advocating for that because obviously but
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like it it's ridiculous that people can behave like this and and um you know this is a narco tyranny
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in action i mean these people you were all like well-dressed well-behaved you know clients of this
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restaurant you went in with every intention to eat a lot of food and pay your bill make the money
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and uh you know these people were went in and trashed their restaurant basically probably terrorized
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other guests terrorized the staff vandalized the staff uh there was at least one employee who who was
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black by the way who got sprayed yeah yeah this is this is what i'm talking about and and uh this is
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like and yeah and these people are not involved i mean it's like these people have no regard for any
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social norms at all and it's and and they you know their dancing was kind of funny if you saw
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i haven't seen that actually you should watch some of the videos they were doing this one this one guy
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is doing this sort of very effeminate kind of snake dance type thing and this woman is doing this like
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really awkward robot dance it's pretty freaking ridiculously funny that these people are taken
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seriously at all but then you know from from what i heard and maybe correct me if i'm wrong
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the police were reluctant to arrest any of these people despite the fact that they had clearly
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violated multiple laws no arrests were made to my knowledge that's ridiculous that is ridiculous
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yeah because this is not free speech i mean look we could have a debate over free speech and things
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like that but like you don't actually have free speech in somebody's restaurant right like like
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whatever and that's just that's justice in my world but um we don't have that uh right we don't have
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that because because the these people why were these people not arrested it's imagine the reverse
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right imagine we burst into uh some communist meeting or something like that and do this
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oh we would all be in jail we would all be in jail and this would be an ongoing national nightmare
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like we everyone would be reporting on fascist thugs you know vigilantes taking the law into their
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own hands you know so on and yeah i mean it i i the other thing i mean i've i've always said this as
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well like what is the psychology like could you imagine barging like trying to disrupt uh leninist
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marxist gathering you know like if i heard there was a leninist marxist gathering i'd be like
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that's kind of interesting i might even want to i kind of like might even want to attend and
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here are these guys here are these guys in the past yeah like you know i i don't knock yourself out i
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mean i i'm not i'm not gonna do anything to you but these people well their whole lives are
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are based around uh annoying us i mean that we they live for us they're they're obsessed
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yeah yeah and they don't really i mean well there's a there's a number of things here uh one
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i actually would like to get to the point where we you know leninist marxist gatherings are
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disrupted by by the state you know not not by us but by the police themselves uh and then i also think
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that um although they can be interesting in their own way if if you ever have attended them uh which
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i have you know when i was much younger but uh the other thing is that yeah they live for us because
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they are frustrated at they believe they haven't there's an imaginary system they don't understand
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their role in the system and i think one of the reasons one of the reasons they're not very effective
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is that they don't understand their role in the system they think that they are anti-system when
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they are they are just foot soldiers for the system um but they don't understand this and if i think if
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they did understand this they would be more effective because they would actually employ
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the state and its resources in ways that they don't because you know the these people would also
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protest this is the other thing that makes me angry is that like hey hey police listen we back you
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every time a cop shoots a black guy justifiably and the national media wants to take his scalp
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we are out there backing you yeah and these people want your fucking they want you to be strung up
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publicly and and you know you're gonna not arrest them when they harass us like you should take your
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own side yeah like if you're not gonna take our side take your side yes yeah i mean that's
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completely that's completely true um but yeah i mean it was uh it was an interesting evening
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and uh i think everyone ultimately had fun i mean there is this kind of like there's this sense of
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we're under threat and that builds up our community and and so on so i'm glad we did it and i'm glad we
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didn't back down i mean we were just we were basically trying everything we're trying different
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meetup points we were sending out misinformation about some things i won't actually mention all
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the little things we did but there is misinformation out there uh which i find kind of amusing but i'll
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let others uh uh you know uh you know uh unthread that kind of thing but anyway um i'm glad we did it
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but i would say that like it's just clear like the world is is different now like this whatever you want
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to say about trump like this guy gonna disappoint us what is he gonna do the fact is like he that
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election created a psychic trauma in the in the nation and really all around the world and we are
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just at a new stage right now and we need to recognize that and start adjusting accordingly and um you know
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i i actually i won't mention in this stuff on the podcast because it's in in flow at the moment and
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and and i think you know just by the very nature we need to keep things under wraps uh but i i do
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have i have some very good ideas that i've talked with other people about and there are ways that we
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can start meeting in public like in in a big way like meeting in public like 150 people 150 of us
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like have a dinner and speakers and things like that but we're just gonna have to do things differently
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for like let's just say the next four years um and that is uh that's a very sad thing but like this
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is like this shows where we are um we still are are the alt-right i mean this is an alternative movement
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we are we are anti-system we are very similar to dissidents or heretics and other ages and um we need to
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we need to understand that uh we definitely need to do things publicly but believe me i am 100 percent
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believe me believe me i am 100 in terms of public because that is we we need you know we're not
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we're not living in a in a society where like the state is going to arrest richard spencer and shoot
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him uh you know it's just that that's not where we are like we we need to we need to be public but
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i think we also like over the past year we've developed more of a robust like private meetup
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culture and and i think we can do we can take that to the next level and that and that's definitely
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going to be i think maybe like the vast majority of conferences are going to be of a private um you
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know level where there's no you know public facing aspect to it um but we need to do the public facing
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aspect like we need to we need to be the like you know we're here we're not going away we're going
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to change the world speaking of that uh you know i i think that there is this you know the trump
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election caused this sort of as you said psychic trauma i mean quite literally with some people
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like there was a i don't know if you heard yesterday there was a story that came out that some guy
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who had written an article i think for i think it was slate or something like that one of these
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things um i'd have to look up the article to find exactly what it was um he'd written an article
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for one of the oh alternate alternate.org okay so he wrote an article called like post trump
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disorder like like ptsd but where the t stands for like trump like post trump stress disorder
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something like that and then he like died of a heart attack two days later like literally like
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dropped dead and i'm like holy shit like this guy literally dropped dead because trump was elected
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and i mean i wonder what they i mean i know what my thanksgiving was like which i'm not going to
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talk about but um i wonder what thanks it was fine because we didn't talk about it but um i wonder what
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it was like around the country i mean this is like a national topic of conversation like what are you
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going to do the funny thing is for so many years we've seen these things where like on sort of like
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huffington post and jezebel and things like this like how to deal with your racist uncle at
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thanksgiving yeah but now we're coming out with like how to deal with your stupid shit lived nephew
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or something like that you know like like we're putting out our versions of these i think that's
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pretty good yeah but um you know i'm actually fairly maybe we differ here but i'm fairly optimistic that
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the culture will shift enough that like these kinds of things won't be uh like this kind of public
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thing like what happened at the restaurant in in dc won't be acceptable anymore in a couple years i i
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and i i maybe i'm maybe i'm being you know hope too hopeful about that but i think barack obama
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accelerated a narco tyranny in like a pretty significant way such that i don't think that when
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george w bush was president that these people would not have been arrested for that kind of trespass
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and vandalism i mean that was flagrant trespass and vandalism and they just got away with it
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and so um and and we know that the the sort of chill the you know the chilling effect people have
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to use that word chilling effect a sort of chilling effect on the police that barack obama his presidency
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and eric holder and uh what's her face in the justice department that those people have had on the
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police and that they're worried you know they're going to get prosecuted if they frankly come down
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hard on on black people or or like these sorts of people these antifa sorts of people that that this
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isn't there they're not going to have the backing of the federal government there and in fact they
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might get investigated that's out the window i mean we know who the attorney general is going to be
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sessions the ag now so that's that's out the window right so i'm hoping that we're going to see
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maybe a little bit of a return to if not like you know what we would want at least a return of of
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some some sane law and order policies i think where these people can't just flagrantly violate property
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and violate people's rights like you know just like with no consequences i i i hear you and and
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obviously like we'll we'll see what happens um but the only thing i would say is that is that i would
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reiterate what i said before and that is that the anti-fascists are now at another level and and we
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can only predict that there it's going to become even harder core that that's why that's why i'm
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saying like no more public facing private events like if we do anything it has to be in a public
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facility because like we went from them screaming at us but like i don't think anyone was really ever in
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fear of them i mean i i remember being at the american renaissance conference like back in 2013
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and uh sam i was walking you know i'm friends with sam dixon i i love the guy and we we had just like
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eaten lunch or something we were walking in and and and we're kind of like oh should we walk around and
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and i think we both like said to each other ah let's you know let's just walk right in front of them
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you know fuck them and i remember just kind of smiling at them and waving and you get a lot of the
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cheers but at no point did i really like no no one touched me no one did anything i remember another
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time this is going back to the 2010 so this was like the early days of alternative right.com
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and i was giving this little college uh uh little college lecture at providence college i think i've
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seen a video i think i've seen a video dick spencer go away yeah it's a classic yeah yeah yeah dick spencer
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i'm calling you out and then he like took off his jacket yeah and then all those like ripped over
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in his jacket like superman he was like anti i've seen that i've seen that shit and uh but i don't know
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if you notice my my laptop was sitting right there on the table and they didn't touch it you know so
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they didn't even violate my property i think that we're now at a level where if that same situation
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happened again they would have smashed my laptop they would have sprayed me with shit
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of some kind like i and and i feel like you know look if you look at europe like the antifa there
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like they will bring a baseball bat to a conference that they don't want so i don't think we're quite
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there yet but it's we're definitely like there's been a trauma i think these guys are going to step up
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their game with trump i think there's going to be all of these just shit lib people liberals who are
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also going to step up their game like they're going to feel like they're the one dissident you know
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saying no to hitler and yeah they're the voice in the wilderness right exactly yeah so they've been
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saying that about themselves for i mean god i mean we all remember the bush years but i mean we're about
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to see a wow i mean i can't we're about to see shit lib meltdowns on a level and this is actually
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when i was initially supporting trump um i was it was like whatever my optimism or pessimism about
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his policies at the very least we'll get to see shit lib meltdowns on a level that shouldn't be
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possible and we're going to see it and we're starting to see it actual heart attacks like i yeah
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actually had a heart attack you know and uh um i'm sure there have been suicides um you know but
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yeah i mean i i see what you're saying and i think i think that at the same time as that is happening
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we have an opportunity i mean i'm not encouraging any of us to go out and do violence against these
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people but um i i do think that um one of the things that we're doing at trs is we and on some level
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we want to use their psychosis against them we want to provoke them we want to get them to do
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insane things publicly and we want to get them to go and protest normal stuff um i think that the
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sort of now i don't know if you agree or not we never spoke about this but the identification of
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where we're just saying now we're just the republican party i believe i do find this funny yeah
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no i mean i think it's actually a good good strategy i mean i believe that um
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at npi even there were people that were under the impression that these people were simply
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protesting the republican party yeah oh i think there were people saying there's a republican
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event going on in there yeah i mean there's no difference anymore i mean this is in some ways
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something we can possibly use to our advantage there's no difference anymore in the rhetoric they're
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going to attack us with in the rhetoric they would attack the gop with right the gop are racist
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fascist scum just like us so we can just say i think we should build future events
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republican republican party like i mean why not yeah like let's make this a reality and look as
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i you know one thing you said a while ago uh i don't know if you said it in passing or if you
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remember it but it made an impact on me and i've been saying it to people since is that there were
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since the republican party is effectively the white people's party yeah uh we have to be part of it
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and so that has caught on i mean that everybody you know if you were to have said that three years ago
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you would have created god knows what kind of infighting you would have created but right now
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everybody's on board with that i mean obviously a few exceptions but you know uh i mean everybody has
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said to me that's a great that's a great meme and and we agree with that and uh so you why not i mean
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i'm a registered republican so there we go yeah like we're the republican party now we have to have
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that attitude yeah i think we do have to have that attitude we need to meme things into existence um i i
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think the only thing that i would say is that i'm i'm in a bit of a morning after uh state emotionally
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about trump right now in the sense that i was as excited as anyone and and despite the fact that i
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predicted trump's victory on twitter i'll just be honest like i i was not i did not go into
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tuesday evening being like oh we've got this one in the bag i mean i i was in a very very nervous mood
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um i i felt like it might very well not happen and so i was totally elated when it happened and i do
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think it's a just a wonderful thing um but i i'm i'm getting into a bit of a morning after
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state uh in the sense that look trump as a potentiality it was just a truly amazing thing
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and not just because he triggered you know shit libs and all those kind of people but
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it was just this idea of like this is something new he's not a conservative he is the first step
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towards identity politics for white people in the united states like just as a potentiality
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it was the most amazing thing i've seen politically in my life easy uh but now i'm now he's in office
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and so it's like he's an actuality and so i'm i am getting to a stage where it's like okay we need
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to sober up too and we need to be we need to start being vigilant and and start criticizing him because
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and let's just like break it down in terms of some of these issues uh in terms of foreign policy
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the president is is a dictator of foreign policy to a huge extent and so it is just going to inherently
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change there is not going to be another like libya humanitarian intervention there is definitely
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not going to be in iraq with with uh trump in office or at least i hope so i mean if he goes that
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far i'm just going to be like all right yeah you know i'm checking i'm checking out completely if
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that happens i mean really the test there is is who he appoints as secretary of state which is i think
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why everybody's sort of on on like waiting with bated breath to see who it's actually going to be
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now my hope is that he appoints this frankly this liberal bernie sanders supporting woman who was
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rumored that he you know well it wasn't rumored he factually had a meeting with this woman i don't know
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if you heard about this um tulsi gabbard her name is she's a a democrat who is a bernie sanders
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supporter and she's very anti-neocon anti-intervent basically she has you know as as we always said
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like this this thing well i don't like the people that say like well we're neither left nor right
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we're something different like i think we're right wing definitely but um the the yeah we shared with
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the far left the the vision on foreign policy like yeah it's not for the same reasons the basis
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the same basic vision that we are pro-peace like pro non-intervention and um this woman is basically
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that and uh she's anti-neocon and it's uh it's great and she went and had a meeting with trump
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and it was even rumored that he was going to make her secretary of state now if he does that i will be
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really really happy if he appoints mit romney or some other neocon i will be very very pissed
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mit romney's a bit equivocal in my book because i because mit romney is not like a died in the
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world neocon you know he's he's just some upper level manager who goes with the flow that's at least
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equivocal john bolton is frightening in my opinion it's not happening i'm confident that's not okay um
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and i and i haven't heard anything about that um the this woman like picking a like a someone from
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that is beloved by like counterpunch or anti-war.com i think that's kind of fascinating so i would i'm
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i would go with that yeah i think that that's not only i think it's brilliant i think it would be
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one of the best metapolitical moves like i mean trump look i'm not ready i'm not in the morning
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after period yet because i haven't seen evidence that i should be yet yeah and that's because i you
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know he has continually surprised and continually been actually i do not think he is a white
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nationalist i do not think he is a white identitarian i think he is a nationalist though
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and that right now is enough to make these people go insane but i think that uh he has continually
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surprised me with actually how staunch he was on issues that i cared about and how actually brilliant
00:26:34.640
of a politician he was so i'm not counting him out yet i mean if if i'll just wait till it actually
00:26:40.940
happens till he actually and i think that in terms of him disavowing us like that's not the first time
00:26:47.680
it happened it's something he he kind of has to do and oh i'm so i'm not i'm not i'm not even mad
00:26:55.000
about that but i i am i i'm not ready to say he's he's not you know i'm not ready to say i'm in the
00:27:02.240
morning after period yet because i just haven't actually seen evidence yet when the secretary of
00:27:06.160
state pick will be huge in determining that so far you know sessions as attorney general if we can get
00:27:11.900
this kobach guy yeah in homeland security which it looks like that's already kind of out there and
00:27:17.720
like if you saw that that thing where the guy had the the paper that was like obviously angled so
00:27:24.440
that you could see it and you could zoom in and then they you know had plans about building a wall
00:27:28.900
and deporting all these illegals like right there like i don't think that was an accident yeah people
00:27:33.020
like chris kobach needs to be more secure with his files like no dude he did it on purpose come on and
00:27:38.500
trump was standing there with a smug look on his face like adjusting his uh his cufflinks gotta the
00:27:43.780
picture is brilliant and i'm like i'm like looking at trump's face i'm maybe i'm projecting but i'm
00:27:48.720
like he knows what's good he knows that they're memeing the press right now and so like i was like
00:27:52.360
does a pretty good meme and uh you know i don't know i'm still white pilled on the whole thing
00:27:57.500
we'll see that's good um yeah i look i i think the whole the the trump phenomenon has been an amazing
00:28:03.440
experience i i'm just maybe getting a little skeptical this is the other thing that i would
00:28:09.600
say is that for maybe i'm wrong about this but this is how i see it for really serious immigration
00:28:17.920
reform it has to happen in the next year and a half because you know and so we're thinking like
00:28:25.700
january 20th through let's just say january 20th 2017 through you know august 2018 that is the window
00:28:35.440
in my opinion to really do something because after that everyone's starting to think about uh elections
00:28:42.760
uh they're they're less willing to do something fairly dramatic uh you know i i think it has to
00:28:50.800
i i think he has to say he has to hit the ground running say there's a big mandate for this we've got
00:28:55.540
to go and i would all and so this is really the moment for what you could call kosher immigration
00:29:02.500
reform like this is their moment this is their 18-month period where they've got to prove themselves
00:29:07.920
or not and um and and so it's like what we need obviously the wall is great and i think but the
00:29:15.440
wall i agree with liberals like the wall is in a way more symbolism than than than reality like i'm
00:29:22.560
fine with just increased enforcement and uh various means of deportation whether you do a lot of physical
00:29:30.840
deportations that basically set a new tone and then inspire other people to engage in self-deportation
00:29:36.700
i think that's probably the best way to do it but i would say this if we get a huge wall and we get
00:29:43.120
all this deportation of you know the bad ones and the criminals but we have a path to citizenship or
00:29:49.300
something like well we're we're increasing legal immigration because we love that then i'm also out
00:29:54.800
because yeah like absolutely it just doesn't like it doesn't make sense then we're just being like
00:29:59.980
conservatives and and being like oh well immigration is wonderful it's just the the fact that they didn't
00:30:05.680
fill out the paperwork that bothers me yeah no i don't give a shit if they i don't like illegal
00:30:10.600
immigration is you know not good but that's not the the legality is not what bothers me and so you
00:30:18.780
know this is their moment and you know i think we should be talking about it and i think we should be
00:30:24.800
like the the alt-right should be on that far flank of the over to window like um we're gonna actually
00:30:32.180
we're gonna be talking about um you know net neutral immigration for the next half century
00:30:37.180
and so that and that again that's like as far as you can go but then it's still being within the
00:30:44.860
realm of possibilities in my opinion so we're going to talk about that but um again like if it if it's a
00:30:51.600
wall plus increased legal immigration or if it's a and or path to citizenship again i'm also out
00:30:57.420
right no i i completely agree um i mean the the the the the wall is is good um i would like a wall
00:31:07.140
and uh you know walls work frankly i mean yeah robert frost uh taught all of us taught this to all
00:31:14.520
of us it's funny like people kind of want to skirt around what he was really saying in that poem but
00:31:18.540
it's a brilliant poem in my opinion and um you know walls work i mean it worked for israel
00:31:25.360
i mean these people were going across the border and blowing shit up and they don't do it anymore
00:31:30.160
because they put up a wall now so i'm for a wall but you're right if if there's a wall plus like some
00:31:35.900
path then that's that's forget about it and and on sort of a deeper level of a comment with this is
00:31:41.900
that um one of the things we talked about on our show but i'll just reiterate it here is um this idea
00:31:49.460
that the way we talk about immigration is fundamentally flawed it's it's fundamentally wrong
00:31:57.000
not us but generally in the united states is because we focus on criminality and we focus on
00:32:04.340
illegality rather than uh race and identity and we do that because we can't talk about race and
00:32:12.020
identity so it's like crypto like conservatives and so like and the problem is you have to say things
00:32:17.280
like i mean as much as i love trump's initial statements i mean he didn't say they're they're
00:32:22.220
all rapists he didn't say they're all criminals or drug dealers or whatever but like many of them
00:32:27.060
are not okay so it's like you don't have to paint mexicans all with this brush of rapists and and
00:32:32.900
criminals because they're not all that okay but we just can't talk about the real issue so we have to
00:32:39.280
be like it's they're all criminals they're all illegal you know what i mean and it's in a way you're
00:32:43.300
saying things that are like worse than if you could just say look you know this is a country for our
00:32:48.560
people and they have a country for their people yeah because they're not all criminals they're they're
00:32:53.060
roofers it's like nicer and it's like in a way nicer to say than like yeah uh oh they're all criminals
00:33:00.200
and rapists it's just something you have to kind of amp up in order to get the policy you can't move
00:33:06.860
policy on the basis of race in the u.s so you have to try and make some kind of criminal crisis
00:33:12.120
and now look i think there is a lot of criminality down there and there's the cartels and a lot of
00:33:16.380
bad things happen and many of these illegal immigrants are in fact criminals and they
00:33:20.680
commit crimes and they they get away with it and then they come back and and this is all bad but
00:33:25.120
it's like fundamentally a symptom of the same problem yeah which is that we can't talk about
00:33:29.920
race in our own interest and because we can't do that all this and and there are people that talk
00:33:34.200
about race like directly opposed to our interest there are people that are legitimately attacking our
00:33:39.320
people attacking our existence they talk about race all the time and this is why these bureaucrats
00:33:44.620
let these these people that are criminals come back time and time again while many of them aren't
00:33:49.920
the majority of them aren't are not criminals they are in fact workers but like i don't care like they
00:33:55.080
should be in mexico it's their country this is our country and uh and we can't say that anymore
00:33:59.960
and because of that we have to build up this false narrative of criminality and illegality
00:34:04.620
and that then leads to the risk of of because we don't want to talk about race
00:34:08.880
where you're like well we'll just get rid of the bad ones you know and it's like well that's
00:34:12.620
really not the point yeah what you're saying is kind of funny where like uh like the alt-right is in a
00:34:18.700
way more polite like we're like they're actually they're not all rapists like it's just they've just
00:34:24.100
got to go home like they're their roofers and their their cement layers like but yeah they just
00:34:29.140
sorry you got to go and our people need to be doing those jobs yeah yeah no that that is uh that
00:34:35.540
is absolutely true um well anyway let's let's do this let's let's go right let's go right to the heart
00:34:43.300
of the big controversy let's talk about um the colorful gestures uh from another era uh that occurred
00:34:51.880
oh just waving hi just just waving just saying hi just saying hi hello yeah um look i've been in a
00:35:03.560
way accused by a lot of people in the movement like oh richard he's not you know he's not hardcore
00:35:09.940
enough he doesn't do this the fact is when i'm speaking to a journalist like i i really know my
00:35:17.220
audience and i want to communicate things to them and i want and i want them to communicate things to
00:35:23.120
their readers and to to accomplish that you you have to speak to them on on their terms but i think
00:35:31.000
anyone who's ever like listen to my podcast or or or say like listen to my speech from a year ago at
00:35:38.700
the mpi conference in 2015 like they i think they can also recognize that i i have a bit of a bombastic
00:35:45.520
side too and i i profoundly i profoundly care about the the heart of this movement and i am a radical
00:35:59.120
uh on on on the in in the truest sense of the word um so we kind of had this weird thing where a lot of
00:36:07.860
these these journalists are like oh richard he's so nice he's a cute millennial uh um you know guy
00:36:14.600
but then also he's the most you know bombastic dangerous man he's speaking in german for god's
00:36:20.540
sake like you know literally german somebody said i think that was one of the headlines i saw
00:36:26.400
literally german yes um lugan pressa by the way goes back to the 19th century i know you didn't even
00:36:36.340
say it we said it yeah yeah like when when you said this word for the lying press and every like
00:36:42.920
people yelled it out yeah yeah uh so you know it's you know it is what it is i i loved my speech i
00:36:51.780
totally stand behind uh every word of it uh i would like when i say hail trump and all that kind of
00:36:58.620
stuff look i've yes i'm being i'm being bombastic i'm being provocative and i think people need to
00:37:04.380
recognize like they need to recognize in a way alt-right culture that yeah we're not conservative
00:37:11.060
fuddy-duddies like we like to have fun we like to we we like to dial the knob to 11 sometimes
00:37:19.280
and you know it it i knew that that was an applause line i knew it was going to be highly provocative and
00:37:25.520
i also knew that it was going to create a big ovation and it wasn't just an ovation for me like
00:37:30.500
i think when i said that the that that ovation was just about the whole like year of the alt-right
00:37:36.840
where everyone was just like we fucking did it like like you know yeah no you know we memed him
00:37:42.100
into the office i mean i tried to explain to people that weren't there that felt like um this was like
00:37:49.980
an orchestrated as if you like planned to have everybody do that or whatever i was like no you
00:37:55.260
don't understand like emotions are running high it was you know um and people frankly did not know
00:38:03.220
the people in the audience did not know there were cameras still rolling um and uh you know we were
00:38:12.120
they were riding this wave of emotion and it's sort of like part of me was like you know what like
00:38:16.780
everyone fuck off if you'll excuse me like can we do something for ourselves for once yeah like this
00:38:24.620
was for us it wasn't for them it wasn't for anybody like fuck all of you like we were we were amongst
00:38:30.380
ourselves and we were like riding this wave of of high energy and this thing happened so like whatever
00:38:38.340
yeah like i don't know i just i was i was and everybody that was there
00:38:43.640
told me that you know they were extremely high energy in that moment whether they did that or not
00:38:50.680
i mean only a few people did it frankly like four or five people did that everyone's everyone jumped to
00:38:56.040
their feet and everyone was extremely high energy at that point and uh everybody and and afterwards
00:39:02.080
we were in like a very high energy mode and the funny thing is that uh you know i didn't even think
00:39:07.740
this was going to be a thing like i didn't even think about it until i saw this footage come out
00:39:11.980
monday night like after the conference people were extremely uh feeling extremely high energy
00:39:17.380
extremely um i don't know like there was just this very good mood that was going on like a lot of
00:39:23.460
camaraderie a lot of energy everybody was feeling good everybody was happy everyone's amped up and
00:39:28.440
we were talking we're chatting we hung out late late at night then we hung out again in the morning
00:39:33.040
yeah you know and everybody was just feeling really good about everything and i just did not even cross
00:39:39.080
my mind you know that this that this was even going to be a thing um so you know i think and then
00:39:45.000
some people are like okay well if you're going to be like that then it's got to be private and
00:39:50.580
i think they have a point there but you know i also don't think that i think that like on some
00:39:55.840
level i don't want to go full on like you know trolling is the only way to do things but being
00:40:05.620
transgressive has worked yeah you know to a point i'm not saying like i believe somebody said to me
00:40:13.000
somebody said to me over the course of the last few days like well if richard thinks any kind of press
00:40:20.120
is good press and why does he drink his own urine on camera and i was like okay obviously we're
00:40:26.220
going to keep this within the bounds of sanity right right but like you know i don't know i mean i'm not
00:40:31.360
even convinced that this is a bad thing frankly we we look we triggered the world um alt-right is a
00:40:38.480
household term uh we shook out the people who were who who aren't really with us and and like look
00:40:48.000
i've been one of the most i'm the mr tolerance when it comes to the alt-right and like i don't i
00:40:56.140
never believe that creating more enemies is a good thing if they want to denounce us or if they want to
00:41:02.720
be shaken off the train that that's perfectly fine but i i don't i don't ever i think you know if someone
00:41:09.320
is not attacking you and is maybe neutral or generally positive or benign then let it happen like
00:41:16.700
there's no reason to create enemies but like people like mike cernovich and like you know that
00:41:23.020
guy you know he became a force of nature he also let's just be perfectly honest plays fast and loose
00:41:30.240
with the truth uh like the truth doesn't matter it's just he's just in attack mode he jumps on waves
00:41:37.280
he jumped on you know the alt-right pro-trump wave for a while he's gonna jump on another wave
00:41:43.000
in 2017 we all know that um and he's not really one of us like meta-politically he's just not simply
00:41:50.120
not one of us and just because he wants to piss off shit libs doesn't mean that he's one of us
00:41:55.020
so like you know it's been fun you know yeah i mean we had our we had a little bit of a critique of
00:42:04.100
cernovich on our last show and then i don't really need to say much more but yes he he has been
00:42:09.920
he is what he is i don't really care about him anymore i'm like yeah at this point like i don't
00:42:15.720
care whatever yeah like he can go ahead and sell his self-help books and that's fine yeah whatever
00:42:21.580
that's all he cares about so fine whatever yeah yeah and and paul joseph wasson or people like that
00:42:26.760
like i you know i actually look i'll actually just because i'm i'm so fair like he he actually does
00:42:34.940
offer some good information he he's gotten away from the alex jones of yesteryear which is far more
00:42:40.900
entertaining but they're they're now kind of more a little more based in reality i'll i'll look at his
00:42:47.600
videos and get some you know information i'm not that impressed with him as if i'm not at all impressed
00:42:54.100
with him as a thinker or something but he's not a thinker as a news hound he's he's great so again he's
00:43:00.680
not all right he ultimately these guys ultimately don't care about what we care about and so like
00:43:07.600
it was there was gonna be a breakup uh maybe you know it happened because of this i didn't this was
00:43:13.660
not my motive to create a breakup but the breakup was inevitable so it happened on uh november 19th
00:43:20.640
2016 as opposed to like february 19th 2017 it's gonna happen and so like we're now we're now our
00:43:29.460
movement is now like it's clear what we're about i think it is important that we don't we don't like
00:43:35.440
just become larping neo-nazi doofuses i mean clearly that is not a positive strategy however
00:43:43.620
it's also clear like the alt-right is a household name it's about identity for it's about european
00:43:50.000
identity in the united states really around the world um it's about us we're serious we're also
00:43:56.280
willing to be outlandish and have fun but we're serious and that's what we want and that's what we
00:44:00.940
have we have a brand we have a ton of recognition um they're gonna hate us anyway and so we're here
00:44:08.040
i mean i'm not i have not always been a fan i mean on some level the argument like oh they're
00:44:11.900
gonna call you nazi anyway so just be one that's a non sequitur yeah i i don't buy into that yeah but
00:44:18.920
um like yeah i don't buy it's not like they're gonna call you nazi anyway so be a nazi but i think
00:44:25.240
anybody that saw that video that's on as part of our thing that knows how it is that interpreted that
00:44:34.160
as us becoming nazis is or neo-nazis or whatever is is stupid like they they all know better anybody
00:44:42.380
that's on our side that's part of this thing knows better yeah that then that was they know what that
00:44:47.200
was they understood exactly what was going on which is that it was kind of a funny larpy thing
00:44:52.700
and we were having fun with it and so like if they think that oh you know like you guys oh we
00:45:00.600
didn't know this was a neo-nazi thing it's like no no you're getting it twisted and and in some cases
00:45:05.920
i think maybe you're twisting it on purpose but like they on some level like it is true they're gonna
00:45:10.820
call us nazis anyway like they would have called npi a neo-nazi conference in the headlines no matter
00:45:15.760
what whether they had that footage or not they would have said neo-nazis gather in washington
00:45:20.740
to celebrate trump they would have said that um they've said it before uh so you know the fact
00:45:27.800
that they had that footage it was able to drive home that narrative with normies but on some level
00:45:32.900
um you know i don't know if it was good or bad i think it was less bad than people think and i think
00:45:39.060
in the end that will be a positive um so yeah i mean i also think people really need to i don't
00:45:45.300
know get a little bit of a grip and it's fine everything's fine everything's fine yeah well
00:45:49.540
we just need to go like upwards and onwards and it you know it is what it is and we're gonna make
00:45:56.160
other headlines like you know i'm yeah i'm doing something next week and at texas a&m where a man
00:46:03.580
named preston wigginton who's a very brave person uh has rented out a uh a space uh i'm gonna go there
00:46:12.100
and just because of trump just because of the npi conference like this is this is already making
00:46:18.080
headlines and we're like 10 days away uh you know there are people the news is freaking out um
00:46:25.300
chronicle of higher education is like interviewing me about it i mean this is going to be a really big
00:46:29.940
thing and you know look uh trump did some things i don't think anyone thinks that like trump benefited
00:46:36.280
from pussy grabbing that that incident you know i mean but it's like you keep like you take a hit
00:46:42.280
and you know if if the world's going to hate you you take it and you just keep moving forward i agree
00:46:49.000
this is not like pussy grabbing there's no richard spencer sex tape that's going to be released
00:46:54.620
please god no uh yeah but you know what i mean like that's not what it is uh basically it's it's
00:47:02.300
much more defensible than that there's no no one was assaulted no no no or no calls for violence
00:47:07.400
i'm i'm toasting like it's clear and actually the the media has backed off saying that i
00:47:13.660
gave a roman salute i didn't i was holding up a glass toasting i was i was smiling i was clearly
00:47:19.440
being outlandish so it's like that's where we are um i think you know we'll we'll look back upon this
00:47:25.880
a couple years from now we can determine whether it's good or bad but the fact is it's like let's
00:47:30.140
go to the next thing like i'm this texas a&m uh event is going to be huge and we're going to like
00:47:37.380
something else we're going to make another headline and we're going to make another splash
00:47:40.980
and it's it's not you know like nothing's over we're just kind of like moving forward and
00:47:47.160
in terms of the the interest like in terms of the people telling me that they support me
00:47:52.100
even if they even if they like disagreed with all this stuff and said oh that was bad like
00:47:56.300
they're they're still they're still supporting us like this movement's going to produce more good
00:48:02.000
stuff whether it's like your podcast or books we publish or or or or blogs and so on so let's just
00:48:09.400
let's just keep going um just don't you know take a like you're a boxer like take a fucking punch
00:48:16.900
you know yeah i i'll be honest though like i didn't i i mean i don't know that pussy grabbing
00:48:24.580
helped trump i wouldn't go that far right but i don't think it really hurt him and then it became
00:48:30.520
a meme like grabber by the pussy is now a meme and people it's like now a pop culture thing and in a
00:48:36.160
way it disarmed it right so like i remember when i first heard that that audio um i was riding the
00:48:42.960
bus and i saw the headlines come out and i was like oh fuck and then then i listened to it and i was
00:48:50.760
like oh that's bad yeah right and um but then within a few days grabbed by the pussy was a meme
00:48:58.300
and it was a meme even among leftists and it was a thing that people were saying and so it in a way
00:49:03.700
it made the whole thing innocent it's sort of like you remember you remember those down even the
00:49:09.340
movie downfall yeah with bruno bruno gans as hitler yeah and uh brilliant movie well depending it's
00:49:16.520
brilliant it's a good movie maybe not a brilliant movie it's it's a good acting performance by bruno
00:49:21.540
gans whether or not you like the portrayal or agree with the portrayal historically like i don't know
00:49:26.780
that guy's really intense yeah yeah yeah and that scene is fantastic okay the scene that everybody
00:49:32.780
means is a fantastic scene just for the emotion of it whether or not this is accurate or how hitler
00:49:38.180
really was or anything which i have no way of knowing i suspect it's totally not but anyway
00:49:42.780
um or maybe who knows but it's great in that what it does is it totally disarms it right and particularly
00:49:49.840
when they make hitler saying something that like the viewer of the video is supposed to sympathize with
00:49:55.460
yeah so it's like hitler's angry at something that you get angry about all the time
00:49:59.580
you know and it totally makes hitler like this not so scary crazy person anymore and it disarms
00:50:07.020
that now which is not to say like we want to be hitler but it's to say like that it disarms hitler
00:50:12.920
in people's minds so that this is not an effective weapon against us anymore you're you're absolutely
00:50:18.480
correct i mean the first one of those memes that i saw and i don't know if it was the first hitler was
00:50:23.280
actually hillary clinton and she was like losing to brock obama and like the weird connection of
00:50:29.340
hillary and hitler was also just like funny on some weird level but i've seen it also with like you know
00:50:35.640
netflix they're changing their name to quickster and they're no longer streaming or something and
00:50:41.400
yeah it's it it gets it is good but i i think what you're getting at is that like
00:50:45.720
the symbol of hitler and the hall and auschwitz and the holocaust those things are powerful like
00:50:54.480
in in their religious significance like you can study even even something that was worse like pol
00:51:00.880
pot or stalin you can actually still study those things uh historically in a dry academic fashion you
00:51:07.780
can disagree with people they're actually robust debates about the purges but but with hitler you just
00:51:13.620
simply can't and auschwitz you simply cannot do that it's like there is no like as adornos that
00:51:18.640
there's there's like no art after auschwitz you know it's like it is it becomes this the ultimate
00:51:23.840
black pill where any time something can is it looks like it's pointing in that direction it can just be
00:51:31.220
totally demeaned dismissed like you cannot go there you you know i get this question all the time
00:51:35.920
what differentiates you from hitler and i'm like what the fuck are you talking like what have i said in
00:51:41.900
this interview that is hitlerian and like i could say the same thing with like bernie sanders what do
00:51:47.580
what truly differentiates you from pol pot tell me what differentiates you from pol pot you know i would
00:51:52.860
you know it's just so it gets to that religious symbolism that like political theology and so i do
00:51:59.640
think that at the end of the day like making fun of it uh is is one of the most powerful things
00:52:06.500
that's gonna ever happen and and also as time goes on the the the the shadow of hitler begins to wane
00:52:13.840
a little bit like people we have kids now that were born in 1990 you know and they they don't have
00:52:22.280
this like just you know year after year of cultural programming and so on to think that any time a
00:52:29.300
european expresses his identity he is literally hitler like that that is just waning and even
00:52:35.440
even these sjws are kind of doing our work for us when they're like you know trump is literally hitler
00:52:41.060
it becomes so ridiculous that you just have to laugh at it so yeah i agree i think i think uh i mean this
00:52:47.520
is like i am a more serious person i mean i have my funny moments but i've definitely been more of a
00:52:52.700
serious person but i'll actually tip my cap to the trs world that like humor is more powerful than
00:53:00.580
rationality in in changing people's psychology yeah and i mean just by making the whole thing
00:53:08.640
not as like you say like being iconoclastic with it like tearing down this this religious notion of it
00:53:16.640
is because you can't have a debate about this right like since we can't debate about it then we just
00:53:22.360
all we can do is meme about it right so there's there's no debating hitler even today um we just
00:53:29.920
have memes and those memes are making the specter of hitler less of a thing and and therefore less of
00:53:37.100
a and and therefore less of a weapon that can be used against us and this this is great i mean
00:53:40.980
the whole thing where you know anytime you see some shitlib going crazy online somebody posts like that
00:53:47.460
image that's like everything i don't like is hitler yeah like the emotional child's guide to
00:53:52.680
politics or something like that you know what i mean so and like they're doing our work for us
00:53:56.800
because they're so ridiculous and they're calling things that are obviously just even like milquetoast
00:54:01.280
conservative or cuck-servative hitler you know they're calling like somebody wants to
00:54:06.720
it's almost like cut capital gains tax literally hitler you know what i mean it's like it's like
00:54:12.860
you know so it's like yeah and and so that's good for us because it means you know if if everything's
00:54:20.700
hitler then nothing's hitler and then we can finally get past this stage where we we have to be sort of
00:54:25.380
stymied and stifled by this and the thing i think i think there is a generation gap in the reactions to it
00:54:31.140
i noticed it just amongst the people that i talked to whereas everybody my age or younger
00:54:38.860
for the most part was like who gives a fuck and the older people were all kind of clutching their
00:54:45.100
pearls about it so and i think that it wasn't just us that did that in some sense society did that the
00:54:50.400
school system did that because you know in some sense like you're gonna get young men being
00:54:57.820
irreverent and rebellious like this is a thing that happens particularly you know it's just a phase it
00:55:02.580
at least you know men with testosterone have to go through um and in a way it's sort of like a
00:55:09.140
healthy thing because it prepares people to take leadership roles you know in adulthood um
00:55:15.360
and so the system that they've set up it's like i mean one of the interesting things we've seen
00:55:23.340
since trump election is there are kids in like middle school that are like chanting build the wall
00:55:30.100
you know what i mean so do you think these kids are gonna care you know and these are the people
00:55:35.700
that are gonna be joining our ranks in the next few years so do you think that like they are gonna
00:55:40.760
care about something like this no they're gonna think it's hilarious yeah you know and so while again
00:55:46.000
i think there's limits to this like transgression and trolling as propaganda this i don't think cross
00:55:51.720
those boundaries no no i i you know and i think maybe uh one criticism and i'm not even sure i agree
00:55:59.280
with this but i'm at least thinking about it is that you you can't always mix them like you know
00:56:04.760
they're you know there's the trolling and then there's the the more serious uh you know quasi academic
00:56:13.120
you know lecture kind of thing but i don't know maybe we should mix them i mean maybe you need a
00:56:20.240
little bit of that dionysian energy with some of the apollonian energy of of talking about like
00:56:28.060
what kind of world do we want to see how can we change reality i think you do need a little bit
00:56:32.500
of that dionysian fuck you thrown in there or we wouldn't be true to ourselves you know yeah that's
00:56:38.680
the thing it's sort of like i've always found that now this is this is just related to trs and
00:56:43.800
and i think but i found that whenever we've tried to not be ourselves it hasn't worked out and whenever
00:56:51.440
we've been true to ourselves we've expanded our reach like whenever we tried to sort of plan things
00:56:58.540
out and i'm not saying planning is bad but i mean whenever we tried to like craft narratives rather
00:57:03.760
than just go with our gut it's failed and i understand again that there's limits to that kind
00:57:10.100
of thinking too like obviously when you're building a bridge you need to plan it you don't go with your
00:57:14.700
gut but like you know like when it comes to propaganda which is what frankly what we do
00:57:20.880
when it comes to propaganda and and outreach and and um political messaging and things i think really
00:57:27.880
you're hitting people on emotional levels and not not rational levels i mean scott adams is mostly full
00:57:34.580
of shit but if he had anything that was worthwhile he's not the first person that said it is that people
00:57:40.080
aren't rational with politics yeah um and so you know we're not doing we're not necessarily taking
00:57:46.980
i mean the daily show it does not really necessarily take a rational approach it's like we're taking a
00:57:51.680
very you know we i don't know we just do what we do and it works out and and i do what i think
00:57:59.100
is right for the situation and you know we've done that the whole time and every time we've it's not so
00:58:06.420
much every time we tried to plan it every time we've second guessed ourselves it hasn't worked
00:58:12.100
out and whenever we just go full bore it does now there may be limits to that that will like run into
00:58:20.380
a brick wall of of you know our ceiling as nate silver would put it we've hit our ceiling but like
00:58:25.360
you know i don't know we who knows what our ceiling is but we have our ceiling is like five million
00:58:30.220
people that's great i thought right oh totally yeah i mean and and again like that video has been
00:58:36.120
viewed the last time i heard was like 40 million views or something like if one percent of those
00:58:43.480
people actually start to look into us and start to agree with it or if one percent looks at that and
00:58:49.460
they're kind of like wow these guys are like awesome like i love how just badass they are that's a huge
00:58:55.640
victory the other thing look i kept thinking that we'd hit a ceiling like i thought the alt-right had
00:59:01.840
almost hit a ceiling like in 2015 or you know or or when you uh i think uh ramsey paul actually showed
00:59:09.060
this trajectory like on google searches of the alt-right at the amaran conference last last may and
00:59:14.540
i almost thought that we had hit a ceiling at that point that it's like oh wow like we're becoming a
00:59:19.340
we're becoming a household term and then like hillary talks about us uh then you know presidents have to
00:59:26.120
denounce us or distance themselves i mean i don't know i mean let's not assume that there's this this
00:59:31.460
big ceiling out there um for our exposure and yeah um let's just kind of like do what we do and continue
00:59:39.820
to uh trigger the world and uh and and again i i agree like we need to have we can't it can't just all
00:59:49.360
be a joke i mean i think that is a danger but i don't think that's really like a problem for us i mean
00:59:54.260
we've built up a huge repertory of uh of of good stuff like you know mpi we're about to this week
01:00:04.880
we're about to release like a new book by thomas left soonish we have a translation the conservative
01:00:10.380
revolution we did this huge sam francis thing like we're not like lacking for substance artos and like
01:00:16.820
this guy named uh jason giorgiani who actually spoke briefly uh like he's he the guy is totally
01:00:22.860
amazing totally solid like we we have we have those horses and uh it's it's not like this is just a
01:00:31.420
movement of pepe pepe memes i mean so uh i i just yeah i agree i i you know coming out of it a few
01:00:38.360
days later i'm just like look we've got to be true to ourselves we we this this movement is outlandish
01:00:44.120
this movement is about breaking taboos let's just uh we we need to you know to thy own self be true
01:00:50.180
and let's just you know let's just if we're not like scaring people and if we're not kind of like
01:00:55.520
making a mistake here and there then we need to re-examine you know because when we never made any
01:01:00.820
mistakes we actually did not get anywhere yeah i mean i can't tell you how many times i thought
01:01:07.880
we made a huge mistake i mean not not we're not there not not there but i mean trs generally
01:01:14.740
in like the name of our podcast and i'm not even saying that like if it ever comes to the time
01:01:21.460
where we have our trs media company and we have a daily morning radio show i mean maybe we'll still
01:01:29.020
call it that i don't know we haven't decided that but like you know so many times i thought this was
01:01:34.220
a huge error we did it as a joke you know two and a half years ago and but now i'm like you know
01:01:40.700
what screw it like i'm not changing until you show me evidence that i have to so um well you guys have
01:01:48.320
so many listeners i mean there's no reason to change it i mean it's just yeah yeah yeah and and the
01:01:54.360
listeners have continued to go up now we possibly hit like a little bit of a peak with the trump
01:01:58.960
election and maybe we'll sure we'll come come back down a little bit but but you know the the next
01:02:03.780
plateau will be um higher than the last one and then you know we'll continue up in that sort of
01:02:09.220
ratchet fashion or maybe we'll just stay where we are i don't know i mean i get so much we get so
01:02:13.800
many emails and the thing that's so heartening is that we get so many emails of people that were
01:02:18.440
like you know i was a cuck servitive i was a shit lib i was a libertarian i mean it used to be all i
01:02:23.000
was a libertarian we're getting less and less of those because i think we might have tapped that market
01:02:27.860
that's actually fascinating that you said i think we might have tapped out that market because the
01:02:32.520
people that are still with libertarianism oh now they're left they're hopeless right they're hopeless
01:02:38.760
they're they're they're i don't know they're leftists but they're people that just want to
01:02:43.140
sell pot and you know sell pot basically you know like they're basically just potheads and people that
01:02:50.860
like to smoke weed and shoot guns and that's that's what all they want to do and it's like that's fine
01:02:55.400
you know but uh that world is not going to be available to you uh if things keep going this way
01:03:01.340
but um yeah so we're getting actually fewer and fewer people that are like yeah i was a libertarian
01:03:06.120
because at this point if you're a libertarian you know about the alt-right and if you haven't
01:03:10.380
jumped in then you're not going to so that market i think is tapped out it's saturated but this is
01:03:16.220
actually a fascinating development because i would have said that at the very least uh half of the
01:03:22.460
alt-right are former libertarians of some kind and it might actually be probably more than that yeah
01:03:27.820
but you're right like now we're we're going to reach the former leftist or the former and you know
01:03:33.980
i would always meet reach like a handful of people like that like i voted for barack obama
01:03:38.300
in 2008 like i was an environmentalist now i'm all right i i would i would meet like the individuals
01:03:44.040
like that but the overwhelming amount you know the overwhelming majority were i voted for ron paul in
01:03:49.720
2008 or 2012 but yeah now it's like i was a cuck yeah i was a cuck until 2015 because if you think about
01:03:57.800
it i mean like the alt-right is known to libertarians very well they are very and i i have still friends
01:04:04.180
with some people that are sort of skirting that line like they are harder core than they were
01:04:09.580
like a few years ago as libertarians but they're still kind of libertarian they're still kind of
01:04:14.320
you know but they they're all well aware they're all well aware and acquainted with this whole thing so
01:04:20.040
it's like if they've jumped in or they haven't and at this point there there's going to be people that
01:04:25.240
stay libertarian that are just potheads there's going to be people that ride the fence and then
01:04:29.860
there's those that have come in you know more of these riots and things like that might might do it
01:04:34.940
but uh i i do think that we're going to increasingly see former uh liberals probably most likely um
01:04:42.660
probably probably white liberals the kind of you know kids that were raised guys that were raised to
01:04:48.260
be progressives probably increasingly be the people coming over that's going to be a fascinating thing
01:04:53.580
yeah yeah i mean we've gotten more and more of those at trs so yeah yeah guys who were voted
01:04:59.580
democratic because of the environment or or they just saw them as like you know good government they
01:05:06.960
were turned off by the the ted cruz or a republican party yeah i think those are going to be actually
01:05:13.400
high quality people or you know they they thought they were going to get a girl or something i don't
01:05:20.680
know or i don't know what you know um who knows maybe because their family were always democrats like
01:05:25.760
things like this but increasingly i think that that those types of people are going to be coming over
01:05:29.980
yeah yeah conservatives will be the last ones we'll have to drag conservatives across the finish line
01:05:37.880
kicking and screaming when i i wonder if if they're also just gonna the the true cuck like the the
01:05:46.680
cruise cuck type person i i wonder if that is just a generational thing i think so you know like
01:05:54.400
those guys i mean i i think steve jobs said he said like one funny thing he was like well for technology
01:06:00.460
to advance millions of people have to die and you know that that obviously sounds kind of like funny
01:06:05.860
it's like stalling or something but what he just means is that like people get you know they're they're
01:06:11.580
attached to one way of doing things and but eventually they are going to pass and there's
01:06:16.960
going to be a new generation of people who are just ready for a new paradigm and i think that is
01:06:22.260
probably true with the the cruise cuck type thing i just i it's i don't know maybe this is my own
01:06:28.080
perspective my totally biased perspective but just how could that be attractive at this point
01:06:33.840
for a 25 year old it's not attractive to young people and i can't imagine that it would be in the
01:06:40.680
same way that um you know the people that got a little bit uh nervous and started uh counter
01:06:47.060
signaling and got upset about um the uh the mpi uh the hail gate as we were calling it hail gate or
01:06:54.920
or salute gate or whatever you want to call it um there's a definite generation gap i mean i observed
01:07:01.320
it just in my own in my own circles um and uh there's far more young people than there are older people
01:07:07.320
but the older people were sort of universally uh you know nervous about it and the young people
01:07:13.160
were like yeah so i think uh and and this is also because i mean i don't even i who went to school
01:07:20.120
high school in the 90s and you know you know uh middle school and high school in the 90s
01:07:24.880
uh we don't know i mean i think you did too uh we're the same age so um we don't know the kind
01:07:33.600
of demonization that these white kids are facing in school today like we had it somewhat they've got
01:07:38.520
it bad and i think that really for these people that have actually been demonized their whole life
01:07:44.820
as as a white particularly white males uh women to some extent and actually one thing we want to do
01:07:50.360
is increase the demonization of women on the left that's a great thing to come out of the trump
01:07:54.040
election but um no seriously the fact they're attacking white women is great because as soon as
01:07:59.360
white women are no longer in their wheelhouse that that opens up whole new worlds but they're
01:08:04.220
openly doing that i've i've seen like samantha b and yeah no i know they're openly attacking white
01:08:10.520
women and it's great we want to exacerbate that but these these kids uh like imagine going to school
01:08:18.840
like 18 years old like imagine the mind fuck they've done on you and then you hear for the first time
01:08:24.900
from people like us like you know you're fine like you didn't do anything you didn't do nothing wrong
01:08:29.860
um and you actually you should say a big fuck you to all these people that tortured you mentally
01:08:35.540
through your upbringing and just come join us and i think that's going to be a powerful appeal
01:08:39.320
that we're going to make to these people so you're absolutely right like the things that we experienced
01:08:45.320
have been amplified by a hundred like the kind of propaganda that we experienced like freshman year
01:08:52.600
in college where you have this you know orientation sessions or or things like that like it's been
01:08:58.700
multiplied by a hundred for each each of these kids like they've had white privilege written on
01:09:03.780
their face and by a sharpie like if not literally then figuratively and i mean they're almost inviting
01:09:09.980
violence against whites i mean it's really crazy and and so yeah and like i said and they're not gonna
01:09:16.340
they're not gonna care about any of these pieties about like hitler and world war ii like they are not
01:09:24.000
going to be subjected to that emotional manipulation because i mean they are gonna they were just told
01:09:30.200
you know your your shit like their their whole upbringing and it's that's not going to work out well
01:09:39.640
in the end for the left i mean that it's really not
01:09:44.720
let's put a bookmark in it on that i think that's a good place to stop well mike thanks i really
01:09:53.540
appreciate it and uh this is a great conversation sure yeah