“Nick Fuentes Is The Tupac Of MAGA“ - Nick Fuentes Interview IGNITES Tucker vs. Ben Shapiro Feud
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Summary
On today's show, Ben and Rob discuss Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, the splinter faction of the conservative right known as the "Gruppe Nazis," and the role of the Heritage Foundation in normalizing Nazism within the Republican Party.
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Now, while all of this stuff is going on, you know, you have Ben Shapiro blast dishonest,
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Tucker Carlson for normalizing Nazism by hosting white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
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Why would he ever have Nick Fuentes on his podcast?
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I mean, I can imagine anybody ever doing such a thing.
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Hey, folks, I want to do something different on today's show.
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That topic is, I think, the most important thing happening in the country.
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It was a hot topic last week, but I wanted to take some time to really gather my thoughts
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and speak on it in coherent fashion, holistic fashion.
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That topic is the fragmentation of the political right.
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That fragmentation is being caused purposefully by a splinter faction of people led by a young
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They hate women, Jews, Hindus, many types of Christians, brown people of a wide variety
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of backgrounds, blacks, America's foreign policy and America's constitution.
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And that splinter faction is now being facilitated and normalized within the mainstream Republican
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The main agent in that normalization is Tucker Carlson, who is an intellectual coward, a
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And Tucker Carlson last week was aided, abetted, celebrated for normalizing Nazism within the
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Republican party by the mainstay organization of the traditional right, the Heritage Foundation.
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Now, before we explain what's been happening, let's make one thing clear.
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It was never about free speech or cancellation.
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Free speech has a definition, the right to speak free of governmental coercion.
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Criticism of bad speech is, in fact, just a form of free speech.
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Cancellation also has a definition, the banning of particular people, including people like
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Nick Fuentes, from platforms like X or Facebook.
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I believe that Nick Fuentes is odious and despicable, but I've never called for his cancellation.
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And in fact, I've called for his restoration to those services, despite the fact that I think
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It is not cancellation to draw moral lines between viewpoints.
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In fact, we used to call that one of the key aspects of conservatism.
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It is not cancellation to refuse to signal boost Hitler supporters like Nick Fuentes.
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It is not cancellation to criticize Tucker Carlson.
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When Ben called Tucker Carlson a intellectual coward, dishonest interlocutor, and terrible
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Because I'm totally an advocate of free speech.
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I mean, I've received so much criticism for shaking Nick's hand, playing basketball with
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Do I disagree on his judgment of Jews and Israel and blacks and immigrants?
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Of course, any reasonable person would draw those conclusions.
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But is there a sliver of truth in what he's saying?
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Because otherwise, why would people resonate with this?
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The terrible friend to me thing is what pains me.
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You mean to tell me you're going to have Tucker Carlson, you're going to have Nick Fuentes
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on, who in many ways made his name shitting on Charlie Kirk.
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Not even like, hey, listen, as you know, Charlie was a friend.
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To not even mention, hey, I really don't like that.
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If someone tells me, hey, I'm a huge fan of Hitler, I'll be like, okay, cool.
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If I had to pick who actually I trust more to believe in what they believe in,
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Nick Fuentes or Tucker Carlson, give me Nick Fuentes all day.
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This is his opinion on Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens.
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Tucker doesn't even purport to be knowledgeable about anything.
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So as a result, what Tucker says is I will develop a ventriloquist style.
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I have strong opinions, but I don't want to defend any of them.
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So I will set up a structure in which I bring in sources, often rather dubious sources,
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people you've never heard of, you know, the nun with the mustache, some disgraced academic.
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And what I'll do is I will ask sort of leading questions that in which is embedded an answer,
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You then will blurt out the obvious implications of the question, giving me the answer I expected,
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People have been suppressing this kind of thinking for decades.
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Candace's shtick is the Candace Intelligence Agency.
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I'm deputizing all my viewers also to be detectives.
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So to me, this is like an intellectual embarrassment because all my life I've been an iconoclast.
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But Dinesh Jesus is a credible guy in the conservative movement.
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Why is Ben, what do you think Ben's so upset about the fact that he's just speaking with him?
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Because you made the point, a bad friend to who?
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I don't know because he's not, say what you want to say.
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The beauty about conversations that you've had.
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The spectrum of people from Nick Puentes to everybody.
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Why doesn't Ben, because Ben's turned down other times where we wanted to have debates with, meaning with Candace or him.
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If your argument is better and it's going to win.
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Do you think Ben Shapiro would sit down one-on-one against Tucker Carlson?
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I want to say that they've tried to arrange something and one of them.
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I mean, if the audience watches it, who do you think won't agree to a two-hour debate?
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I'm curious to know what you guys would think about this.
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Let's just say Megan Kelly says, I want to host a debate with Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson.
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I'm curious to know how people are going to vote.
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It's conversation because he's going to sit there and we heard that two-minute rant of his.
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Because I think the best thing is to do like what you did.
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Why are they saying the stuff that they're doing?
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But to say that Tucker is intellectually weak and all that stuff, it's like, come on.
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So, Pat, I've been with you a long time and looking at the things.
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And the things we decided to talk about, one of the things that Pat pushed this year, correctly so, was the difference of signal versus noise.
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Let's get the signal of the things that are going to move forward, the company, the lives of the people that are giving this chapter of their career to the company, and all the things we do.
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I'm trying to figure out why does Ben wake up one morning and just decide that he's going to put a well-constructed show together on Tucker Carlson for putting Nick Fuentes on the show.
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Of the plight of the – I'm going to name two – the plight of the Jews and what's about to happen in New York under Mondami, the peace that's coming together, hostages and bodies that are coming home, and the future.
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Why does he wake up and take one day and more to go after this rather than all the stuff he could be talking about?
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And Ben is an incredibly smart intellect that can put together amazingly crafted arguments.
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It kind of confused me as why – why waste your airtime on this, Ben?
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Did you actually watch the – I think it was 40 minutes.
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I've read several summaries, but I have not put it on 2X and gone through the whole thing.
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I think if – by the way, if there were a debate – if there's one thing I will give Ben Shapiro credit for is that guy debates.
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He gave the whole – he outlined the whole thing.
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Actually, in my opinion, it has nothing to do with Judaism or Christianity or this.
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Ben Shapiro at the very end – I don't know if we can play it – gives this sort of like impassioned speech.
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He said, damn it, I've worked my whole life for this, the conservative movement, and I'm not going to sit here while these people try to ruin it.
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He's basically saying our enemy should be the far left and the woke left and what's going on there.
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And you're going to try to fracture the Republican Party and the conservative movement over this nonsense, over this Nazism, this racism, this chauvinism, whatever he kind of outlines.
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If you go to the last two minutes, you'll hear it.
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He's basically saying the midterms are coming up in one year exactly.
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The left is salivating at this internal civil war because don't forget, they call it the woke right for a reason because it's a mirror image of what's going on in the far woke left.
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You know, whatever's going on the far left, the mirror image to the right is what's going on there.
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That's not the word I would use to describe Ben Shapiro.
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Well, if you were a reasonable person, you would come to that conclusion.
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I think a lot of people on the left think he was a divider.
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Here's my opinion on this, on a couple different things that I go through.
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So, Ben Shapiro, the more they talk about Nick Fuentes, the more they raise his profile.
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Nick Fuentes, if I'm his agent, I would say, Nick, phenomenal.
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Your number one PR rep this week was Ben Shapiro.
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Send him a $10 GoFundMe and congratulate him and say thank you for supporting the cause and raising awareness to who I am.
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Number two, you know, I would go and sit down like those trigonometry guys, you know, who their trigonometry guys would sit down with me.
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And we did an interview one time and he came very strong at me.
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I'm like, that's right after I called it the daily, you know, yeah.
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I said, so I don't like, so then I'm like, okay, I got what's going on.
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And then Charlie is trying to get everybody under the camp to be working together.
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I don't know if, you know, when you hear the market talking and there's interest in somebody
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giving a message, the more you dismiss them, the bigger that person is going to get.
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You know, when we were having Benjamin Netanyahu on the podcast, I knew what was going to happen.
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I'm not even going to say what some of the stuff happened to us the last six weeks.
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Because I don't even want to advertise what happened the last six weeks.
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I don't want anybody to talk about what happened the last six weeks.
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So, when we had B.B., I would say death threats at an all-time high, no question, when B.B. came up.
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Then they agreed, all right, Ben wants to come on the podcast.
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Then when I said, you know, I want to have Nick on, I looked at the booking team.
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After Ben was confirmed, I said, if they cancel, it's because of me agreeing to have Nick on.
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So, he's kind of like, you know, even manning up.
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So, it's not like I'm sitting here and, what's the word?
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Trying to see that, you know, both of these camps have some similarities.
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I think Ben is a very good communicator and debater.
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When the time when that man put his hands on his shoulders.
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You don't think that's a little bit inappropriate?
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And he's had some of the best fiery moments ever.
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Ben, when he was young, he was on Pierce Morgan.
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I don't know when we're doing it, but we're doing a show with him today.
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And remember the first time when he was on there?
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Years ago, Constitution, right when Pierce went over there.
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Tucker had his moment with Jon Stewart many years ago when Jon Stewart tried to make fun
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Ben has had some incredible moments, right, with what he's done.
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So, to me, here's a very interesting thing that's going on.
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FYI, whether you like him or not, he ain't going away.
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He ain't going away, and he's going to have a voice.
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Whether you like him or not, he ain't going away.
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Whether you like Tucker or not, he ain't going away.
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By the way, Republicans, you got destroyed last week.
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Marjorie Tatel Green goes out there, and she's talking about how she wants to run in 2028
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on a firebrand, and, you know, Tom's talking about it could be a Ross Perot type of a moment.
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Unless if you guys find a way to get it together, President Trump is not going to go out there
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If you can't go win your small little mayoral races and contests that you got, and you're
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just waiting for, you know, President Trump to come and retweet and endorse you every single
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time, and you can't come and take on the mantle and go fight, there is some stuff going on
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All these other camps that are all over the place.
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Probably Thomas Massey and Candace and Tucker and some of those guys will probably...
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I think maybe an MTG is going to be a little bit of a challenging moment there.
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Ben's camp is going to be one, and quite frankly, when it comes down to Ben.
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I would sit down and tell him, like, what are you talking about DeSantis in 2024?
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So they've been, you know, it's not like they've been also right on a lot of these things.
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Anyways, I just think, you know, right now, if you guys don't buckle down and get locked
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2025 is going to be a blue wave that comes through.
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Because they're watching all these, let me tell you, Nick Fuentes is right.
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I think Megan could pull this off to bring this together.
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The reason why I think she's the one that could pull it off is because she was the face.
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She was like, she killed it on Fox, crushed, and she's doing great with her podcast.
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So, she has the mainstream and the podcast victory.
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I think Megan could pull off something like this to bring everyone together.
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Because at this point of the game, you know, Ben's loyalty.
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Ben's, you know, of course he's going to be loyal to Israel.
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When I say daily Jewish wire or daily whatever I call the Israeli wire, I do think that's his priority.
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But, you know, born in Iran, made in America, without America, I'm not, I don't have the life that I have today.
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I understand if Nick goes after, you know, Tucker's dad, you know, Tucker's going to invite him to say, hey, man, listen, this is one thing I don't like when you go after my dad.
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But I also understand Nick, who's on the outside, is like, you guys not going to give me attention?
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I'm going to effing come after you guys like a freaking gangster, and I'm going to pull up a Tupac, hit him up.
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You want to do East Coast, West Coast type of situation?
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Because I think right now what Ben talked about is he's spending millions of dollars a year on security.
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I don't, I don't, I don't, you know, this isn't healthy.
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So it was very interesting, because she says, I'm friends with Ben Shapiro.
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And then she's speaking with Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire.
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But Megan is, I think, someone that can pull this off.
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I think Megan is somebody that can pull this off, because Megan has Tucker's respect.
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Because Tucker respects the fact that Megan made it on cable, TV, and made it at podcasting.
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Trump, hey, you've said a lot of different things about women.
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I just think, you know, if you go like this, and the infighting continues, congratulations,
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And if it continues, and you think, oh, you know, a person, you know how mentally, emotionally
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tough, and a gangster you have to be to come back and win 2024 election?
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There's only one guy that could have pulled that off, and it's the guy that won, and he's
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And by the way, to Ben Shapiro's camp that this is probably going to be sent to, 8,000
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68% said he's the one that doesn't want to sit down with Tucker.
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And our audience is fairly fair, is what they are.
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But, and Pat, great, great points, and you just, like, it just hit me that what you're
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talking about, about this, the Mamdani effect and all that stuff, Republicans are all over
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the freaking map, and there's, like, the way that you just said it, if they don't come
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to, in any situation, their midterms are not, blue, it's going to go to freaking Democrats,
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and then how fast is 2028 going to come, and Gavin Newsom just sitting at the top, waiting
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I'm not saying that you scared me, but you just made me go, oh, my God.
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They're all fighting because who are all those people going to tell you to vote for?
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The one guy that's pro-Israeli, they're going to say, go this way.
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It's going to be so splintered, and sitting and waiting in the wings is Gavin Newsom going,
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hey, I love, this is, they're all Hitler, they're all Nazis, open the border.
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I agree with the point that the Republican Party and the conservative movement, I mean,
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never mind Republican Party, conservatism in America and the conservative movement does
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A week and a half ago before the election, who did we see doing photo ops together?
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Wasn't there three of them walking down the street in Chuck's shirt sleeves?
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There's been people saying that she's going to primary him and she's going after the next
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And didn't you say that AOC and Bernie are perfectly aligned?
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She's too much of a lightning rod on the outside.
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But why are they all walking together, talking nice together?
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Because they know what unity was needed and their enemy was the loss they took last November.
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We don't need MTG running for president over here like Ross Perot.
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I agree with that point that we need unity and someone needs to do it.
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And Pat talking about that maybe Megan could step it up.
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I think there's other people that could do it too.
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But we got to get people together on the core things.
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Let me tell you what I've learned at this point.
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That none of them are like, who are these guys?
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The same way Ben feels about us is the same way Tucker feels about us.
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But the difference is, by the way, both of them have had me on.
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We're not trying to sit here and, you know, when I was coming up in insurance,
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Who the F is this Middle Eastern guy with no college degree coming up,
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Every year we'd go to the insurance conference.
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Now, we actually love the industry and we actually respect you guys.
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We respect the hell out of you guys that you guys built a business.
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We admire a lot of these guys, what they've done over the years,
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And we're fair, we're respectful, but at the same time, to me, it's very simple.
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If I don't have a relationship with them ever for the rest of my life,
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If that's the role we're going to play, we're going to continue playing that role.
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We're not somebody that's going to sit there and be like, come on, we're going to do this.
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We've had plenty of great experiences and we have very good relationship with a lot of people.
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I also understand the fact that for some people, they're more uncomfortable.
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One minute they're here, one minute they're there, they'll call this person up, but they'll call that person up.
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They'll have Netanyahu, but they'll have Nick Fuentes.
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I made a video the other day with the idea that I'm talking about.
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I think they need to do X, Y, Z with, you know, I think Israel has a bad brand right now
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because of how horrible of a job they're doing marketing as the only child.
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And I said, trust me, no one's going to like my idea on both sides.
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I like that, that both of you don't like the idea.
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We will gladly play in this role of just going up here, gladly, and continue to do our part.
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But God willing, Megyn Kelly is going to make that phone call and host the event and have everybody there.
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And there's a handful of other guys I would nominate that can pull that off.
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But I think she's the head that can pull that off.
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I really think she's the head that can pull that off and get everybody in the room.
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He's back to realizing who he is and what he was doing.
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Let's not forget, at one point, Crowder was the guy.
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And a lot of people remember when he was the guy.
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But I'm kind of glad that he's got his mojo back.
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