First DIGITAL ID Implemented - Their Plan to KILL Free Speech Worldwide EXPOSED
On this episode of The Rift, things just got real.Show more Australia woke up TODAY and every kid under 16 is locked out of social media unless they submit facial scans and Digital ID.
They’re calling it “protecting children.” You decide.
Canada’s Bill C-9 just gutted religious protections and is racing to spring 2026 so cops can jail you for decade-old tweets.
Meanwhile James Fishback, the America First outsider already beating Byron Donalds 42–29 in Florida’s governor race, joins us to expose the foreign cash and sellouts trying to own the state.
Donalds’ Israel-first cringe vs. Fishback’s no-compromise fight to replace DeSantis—this is the showdown that matters.
Watch now and learn exactly how to fight back before this global tyranny lands at your doorstep.
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This is the day when Australian families are taking back power from these big tech companies and they're asserting the right of kids to be kids and for parents to have greater peace of mind.
This is My name's Elijah Schaefer And welcome back to the Riff Live Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern Time, guys.
We've had a kind of a crazy week, as everybody knows.
I just had to move across the country to a different place.
Yes, because I was doxxed.
My family has been threatened.
There's been real issues after a $5 million, very terrible lawsuit from FBI proxies Alexis Wilkins and her Indian husband, or not husband, actually, not even fiancé.
It's actually a boyfriend with all the security she's getting from the federal government, allegedly, the private plane rides, the private DUI drives to her friends and things that people are claiming happened.
I'm not, of course, because I wouldn't claim anything about that couple.
I don't want to get sued again.
They're not trying to shut us up, but Alexis Wilkins had the audacity to write today, why are people just trying to divide the right wing right before the midterms?
I don't know, Alexis.
Why are you trying to do that as well?
It's kind of a, everyone's kind of full of shit these days and sort of asking the wrong kind of questions.
Joining me today is our Rift TV host and contributor, Amy Dangerfield.
And to talk more about this, joining us is gubernatorial candidate from Florida.
He goes by the name of James Fishback.
Originally, people said that he was a mean candidate to sort of discredit him.
That's what I always warn people about.
When people try to discredit you by calling you names, usually you're on the right pathway, the right target.
And then all of a sudden, they started paying money to try to discredit him, which is a big difference of just saying mean words, started spending money.
And now it looks like some leading exit polls show that he actually has a chance, a chance at what?
Well, perhaps actually representing the will of the people and not foreign interest groups.
James Fishback, who is a surprise candidate of this election season, welcome back to the show.
Well, first of all, let's talk about this kind of kind of crazily.
So we have a topic today that we've got to break down in its entirety because there was a social media ban.
We talked about it on Monday that just took place inside of Australia.
And, you know, obviously things are a little bit backwards.
So we know that in Australia, they had the, you know, internment camps.
They've had facial recognition, 15-minute cities.
But what this is about, it's not actually about social media.
Amy mentioned it on Monday.
This is about testing digital ID.
This is not about preventing kids from accessing harmful material.
This is about requiring every single person to register their internet traffic with their identification card.
Florida already has blocks for things like pornography for children, and they don't need digital ID to do that.
So as we talk about this topic, I want to remind you guys, this is kind of crazy, but if you don't know what's been going on, here's exactly what's been happening.
Check this out.
Here is a little breakdown to introduce you to the topic.
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But first, listen to what's going on in Australia.
Well, this is a day in which my pride to be Prime Minister of Australia has never been greater.
This is world leading.
This is Australia showing enough is enough.
And the world, including through, I know, some leading media global organizations who are here, the most extreme censorship laws in modern Australian history has just gone live.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese proudly declares the world is watching and he's right because today Australia officially becomes the global test lab for a new era of digital control.
The 10 biggest platforms are now forced to block every user under 16 using facial recognition, behavioral tracking, retroactive data profiling, ongoing surveillance of conversations and activities.
This isn't safety.
This is draconian overreach.
This is the government declaring we have the right to parent your children, not you.
And here comes the hypocrisy.
They're banning social media for children's safety, but they're not banning porn.
They're not banning OnlyFans.
They're not banning the industries actually harming kids every single day.
Because this was never about protecting children.
It's about controlling information and crushing the independent voices online.
And here's the proof.
Today, I received a message from the advertiser pointing out that on May 19th last year, News Corp Australia launched the Let Them Be Kids campaign, demanding under 16s be locked out of social media.
Legacy media hates that young Australians are no longer getting their worldview from newspapers and TV.
They hate that independent creators, people like us, control the message now.
So they teamed up with the government, they pushed the policy, and now Canberra delivers the censorship infrastructure mainstream media have been begging for.
This is state media collusion.
This is narrative control.
This is the beginning of a controlled society.
And Albanese celebrates it.
While the real crisis, housing, the economy, mass immigration, national debt, collapsing living standards continue to burn, but the government's priority, shutting down the next generation's access to independent information, silencing dissent before it grows, rebuilding the media monopoly they lost years ago due to the pandemic.
Australia is the test site.
If they get away with this here, the rest of the world will follow.
Australians, this is my message to you.
Please, we must protest.
Enough is enough.
This is not the way we can live as people in this country.
Well, unfortunately, it looks like we are going to be living that way.
Guys, I want to bring you in here before we even jump into the details about what's going on here.
But he has a point.
I don't think it's as much as they test Australia for this new digital ID because they like Australia or they somehow think that Australia has a nicer climate.
It's because it's a perfect demographic to experiment what they can do in the larger United States.
It's closed on its borders.
It's bordering no countries.
They can directly limit who comes in or out.
Even right now, you have a far-left government and they're actually effectively stopping the boats.
They're stopping illegal immigration, but they're testing what?
Legal immigration, mass migration.
They're able to kind of, you know, and before the mass migration came in in 2017, 18, they had mass illegal migration, kind of tested that.
They realized that wasn't as popular to replace people with violent Somalians, which they've had an issue there for several decades.
So they sort of have this powder keg.
There's only about five major cities, technically six.
They're spread out pretty evenly about the geographic land mass of the United States.
And they're Western people.
They're British Commonwealth.
They think like us.
They speak like us, but they have the independent spirit of the Americans.
They have that rugged idea of pioneering, of being separated from other places and having that peace of mind of oceans between you and your enemies.
Why not start by pushing this digital ID system?
And I do have to say, I am not shocked that Australians are not pushing back because they had their guns taken away in 1994.
Yes, there are more guns in Australia today, by the way.
Fun fact than there were in 1994.
It's kind of an interesting thing.
More people own guns, but they're not the good kinds.
They're not like semi-automatic rifles.
They're not AR-15s.
They're not what they had back in the day.
But most importantly, this just shows me that people in the West have been so effectively propagandized, so effectively pushed down, you know, demoralized from COVID all the way to the injections that now they're just like, look, as long as I can keep accessing my porn, I'll do whatever I, whatever you say, James.
That's where I feel like we are.
But I'm afraid for us because it's effectively rolling out there.
And let's not forget that Australia was at the vanguard of taking away the guns from the white population in the 90s.
They were at the vanguard of instituting the most draconian liberty-stripping provisions after the scam demic in 2020 and 2021.
And once again, they're at the vanguard of stripping away the internet and enforcing this incredible period of censorship.
Look, let's not, let's just be honest for a second.
It is not a coincidence that Australia took this action right after the biggest interview of the year.
Nick Fuentes and Pierce Morgan were Nick made very, very clear.
We are done with the pearl clutching.
We are done with the white guilt.
We are done with this pseudo-religion that attacks us for just wanting to exist in our own country, to buy a home, to get a job, and to benefit from all the things that we were promised.
And so it's in a big picture sense, it's not surprising because, again, they've used Australia and they being the World Economic Forum, the European powers that be, they've used this as a testing ground to strip away our Second Amendment rights in the 90s in Australia.
They use it to really push the bounds on COVID in 2020 and 2021.
Thank God for Ron DeSantis here in Florida.
And then now they're using it to push this digital ID censorship agenda right after Nick Fuentes literally broke the internet yesterday by speaking truth to that deranged maniac known as Piers Morgan.
This is in no way, shape, or form any means to actually help children.
That is just the most convenient, believable, culturally acceptable guys.
Farce, it's fugazi.
It's fake.
It's not real.
Okay.
In the words of what's that movie where Matthew McConaughey.
Exactly.
Yes.
Okay.
In the words of it's fake.
It is not real.
This shit is a farce.
And they are using it to implement exactly the same technology that they have in the UK right now.
I've always said that Australia was the test kitchen of the world, but it's interesting to see that the UK has actually been a couple steps ahead in this regard.
My opinion on this whole thing regarding Australia, not only that under 16s cannot use social media, but starting in 2026, anyone, regardless of your age, actually needs to upload their ID in order to use Google.
The most basic search feature that every single person across the world has had access to basically their entire lives.
They're also implementing this restriction in Australia as well.
And they're both occurring simultaneously because it's not about the means, but about the end.
It's about what they're trying to accomplish.
And the UK, the failed state, formally known as the UK, is proof of what is about to occur in Australia, where now in the UK, they have mandatory digital IDs.
And the justification that they're using for that is that illegal immigration is so rampant.
Look at these grooming gangs.
Look at these sex gangs.
Look at all of the disarray and these knife fights and all of these terrible things.
that are happening in the UK.
On account of the government, I may add.
However, they would never claim that.
What they're instead trying to do is implement a mandatory digital ID to enforce their dystopian policies to bring about this new world order.
Australia is not yet making it mandatory.
However, when you create a rule that under 16s need to upload their ID to be on social media, the only way to make that legal and sweeping and make it organized and accountable is through a digital ID.
So they're not officially mandating it yet.
They're saying that it's something that is, you know, it's up to you.
If you want to opt in, if you don't want to opt in, up to you, baby boo.
However, I'm telling you that this would not be the case for very long because on account of under 16s being banned, on account of the fact that you need to upload your ID to use basic features such as Google, you're going to have to upload some type of a universally recognized mandatory digital ID.
And Australia has seen that this is, for some reason, the most acceptable, plausible narrative that the Australian people will accept in order to advance this sick dystopian agenda.
I hate it.
This is something that I've been calling out for a very long time.
And seeing it come to fruition this way, I'm not surprised.
But anybody with eyes and ears can see what's actually happening and they should call it out.
Well, yeah, but I think the key thing here is if I can bring this up is that the apps that they kicked out, particularly were Facebook, Instagram, Kick, Reddit, Snapchat.
And what I thought was so weird over the years is people said that they kicked out the right-leaning apps.
And I want to explain that, what they mean by that, because I thought that that was a faux pas or like a little bit of an error going, what do you mean right-leaning apps?
Because they didn't, you know, they didn't take out Discord, GitHub, Pinterest, whatever.
What I realized that they kicked out were websites that promoted open conversation and had algorithms that could could mold to the populist opinion.
So like if people are really getting concerned about something like Andrew Tate, it could feed you ideas that you maybe weren't initially exposed to.
And that's what they're afraid of.
Really, from Andrew Tate to Nick Fuentes, all the way to clips that make Donald Trump look good.
What they're afraid of is you seeing stuff that isn't controlled, right?
They want to make sure that they can control what you see and what is shown to your children because young kids are turning right wing.
They are racist.
They are anti-Semitic.
Whether you think that's a good thing or not, they are turning those ways.
And what they're doing is they're saying it's the algorithms, it's the algorithms, it's the algorithms.
But I don't want to be such a weird boomer because kind of in some way, it is negative, but it's parenting, not the government.
That's the whole thing.
It's like parents should not be giving their kids phones, okay?
Your kids should not have smartphones.
Your kids should not have these apps.
Also, your kids are going to find a way to probably use these apps and have these things.
I remember I had in MySpace back when I was in junior high.
We weren't allowed to have one.
My youth leader ended up finding it, printing out all the pictures.
And she printed it out, highlighted it, turned it into my mom.
This fucking crazy bitch.
But I will say on the on the bright side of it all, it's like, look, people have been parenting their kids.
We're fine.
Look, look at how I turned out.
Your kids can turn out okay.
It's like, well, that's not good, actually.
But anyways, that's what they're afraid of.
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All right, James, we're talking with James Fishback, gubernatorial candidate from Florida, running against Byron Donalds.
Yeah, H1B Donalds.
But I guess it's H1 Byron, right?
That's what they're calling it now.
H1 Byron.
So this thing, right?
I'm going to bring that back up on the screen.
You know, we have this, they're banning certain apps.
And I think what they're afraid of, they don't care about your children.
They realize that information is being spread.
And people, that's why that's what they mock you and they call you a meme candidate.
What they're saying is you're a candidate of young people.
That's all they're saying.
They're saying young people who are not watching the news, are not being force-fed, young people who are looking for information that's truthful.
You're coming up on their feeds.
And so you're not a serious candidate.
But what I take that as a compliment is saying you're not foreign funded.
You're not establishment funded.
You're not, we didn't decide that you get to run.
And they're mocking it, but they don't realize they're actually setting themselves up for an eventual destruction because people love, people love not just an underdog.
People, look what happened to Trump.
They mocked him too.
And it looks like he's done pretty, he won three elections.
And, you know, the funny thing is that they mock Gen Z for being concerned about foreign wars, for wanting to see our money spent here at home, for complaining about the H-1B scam that is importing 10,000 Indians, while college grads who are at the top of their class who didn't study gender studies, but actually did computer science STEM what they were supposed to do.
Now those kids can't get jobs and they're being gaslit and said, you know what?
Anti-Semitism is the real problem.
People holding Israel to a double standard.
That's the real problem.
I'll tell you right now, the number one people, the number one thing people ask me, young, old, black, white, when I've been on the campaign show for the last two weeks and I've done half a dozen events in person is, are you taking money from APAC?
And I got that from a 71-year-old woman in Pasco County, a rural county on the Gulf Coast of Florida.
And I also got that at a college campus last week at UF.
And it's a very interesting, not so much because of the question itself, but what I think it is, is a larger litmus test about what are your priorities?
How dare you stand up and say that you are America first and then take money from foreign powers, foreign aligned interests?
I don't care if it's Israel, Qatar, China, Brazil, Mexico.
It doesn't matter.
You put America first.
And the way you do that, Elijah, is you do a couple of things.
Number one, you have to stand up to Blackstone, BlackRock, and Airbnb, these foreign speculators from coming in and buying up our homes.
Young people can't buy a home.
The median age for a home purchaser today is the highest on record, 40 years old.
Why?
Because if you can't get a job because of the H-1Bs, you don't have an income.
If you don't have an income, you can't buy a home.
If you can't buy a home, you can't get married.
If you can't get married, you can't have kids.
If you can't have kids, what's the point?
My generation, I'm 30 years old.
Our entire country is being stolen from us.
And I'll tell you the truth: the Democrats are in on it, but so are a lot of the establishment Republicans.
They've taken money from the H-1B lobby, from Blackstone, from private equity, from APAC, and they will sell our country off to the highest bidder if it means a quick profit for them, as opposed to standing up for American citizens.
And so I entered this race two weeks ago, and we have 4 million views on the launch video.
A poll came out last week that put me within a 10-point margin of the frontrunner Byron Donalds, who is Trump endorsed nine months ago.
Trump hasn't uttered his name since, and who has taken $30 million in corporate money to fund his campaign.
I'll tell you, we don't need money.
We need people.
We need people to show up in August in the primary.
That's where this race is going to be decided.
This is a battleground with a real America First candidate who will never denounce or disavow Americans who are rightly frustrated by the way things have been going.
I want you to, I want you to jump in there because I want to bring something up very important in the document here as we before we swap the discussion.
But I saw this.
Yeah, but look at this real fast.
Check this out.
Just look at this real quickly.
Z Media put this up.
I just want you to comment on this.
She said, by far the most dystopian headline I've seen thus far in Australia's social media age, ploy to get everyone on to digital ID.
It goes down here and says, Today's childhood will be rebooted.
Today is the day humanity reboots childhood with Australian kids the first in the world to be banned by law from using social media until they turn 16.
Lives will be changed.
Lives will be saved.
These are laws that will unshackle our kids from an online world.
They are not old enough to handle, freeing them to grow up in a society that protects them.
Social media harms our children.
Let's let them be kids.
As long as you're not getting assaulted online, you're only getting raped by an Afghan migrant on your way home from the movie theater.
That's where we want you to be in danger, not on the timeline.
Yeah, Amy, I know what your thoughts are, but this is a lot of people.
I mean, aka, they don't want anybody who is young enough to have enough neuroplasticity to actually change and adapt their ideas based on new information presented.
Because we all know that old people have like a little bit of a difficult time with that, right?
That's where that saying they're stuck in their ways comes from.
It's literally like a physiological and psychological thing.
Your neuroplasticity and your ability to be able to accept accept new ideas begins to diminish past the age of 25.
So of course, they want these young people who are hearing information from people like James Fishback, will be equivalent in Australian parties, Australian populist movements, such as One Nations and other parties that are represented outside of the typical uniparty, right?
They're label versus labor versus liberal, which is our equivalent of Democrat versus Republican, which, by the way, is starting to bear no weight here either.
Because you know what?
People are starting to wake up to the not the idea, but the fact that it's actually the uni party versus America First.
I saw a post the other day.
Somebody shared something of Shank Yuga saying that I'm starting to agree with Shank and Anna way more than I would ever anticipate.
And it's for this very simple reason.
It's not about Republican versus Democrat anymore.
It's not.
It's about the uni party versus America first.
And yes, there are certain policies that we can have infighting on and disagree with.
But I think the main thing that we all agree with right now, that one thing that I respect the heck out of Fishback for saying on record is that he will not accept any foreign money.
And that's what we need to get out of our politics.
Because until that is actually accomplished, until people from different countries, different governments are not dictating the way that we are going to. act and enforce policies upon American citizens, until we can guarantee that, who's to say whether the left or right is better when it's funded by the same people.
Do you want the George Soros, like World Economic Forum, dystopian, leftist, trans evil agenda?
Or do you want the opposite end of the spectrum of that?
Which is the APAC, an Israel lobby.
It's the same money injected into two entities.
It is a uni party.
And I think the United States is waking up to that.
And that's why they're starting to open their minds to people like Mr. James Fishback here, who I actually, I only saw his campaign message one day before I just put out a video, literally less than an hour ago about the death of APAC.
I saw his ad campaign and included it in that video before I even knew that I would be on this live with him, which is honestly how God works at the end of the day.
I think that, excuse me, people are waking up.
People are not as subject to propaganda as what they used to be.
And I'm glad to see that people across borders, the United States, Australia, all across the Commonwealth countries, people are standing up and they are calling out what is dystopian, what is authoritarian versus what is actually like free market ideas that we should be propping up.
And this is the stuff that we should be endorsing with our free will right now while we still have it.
Because they don't want us to have it very much longer, according to Australia, the UK and all of these other places, right?
Yeah, let's jump into this because I want to talk about some of this crazy stuff.
So look, I'm getting sick of this.
What I'm sick of, and this is actually what is insane to me.
I'm absolutely tired of people like Vivek Ramaswamy and these candidates who are selected by the establishment because it's when you actually work behind the scenes, you realize how disheartening the entire campaign trail is.
It's basically a giant lie that people are running based on their popularity, but they're actually hand selected by a board of individuals.
You flirt, you court, you go to DC, you start going to parties.
They see if you're likable.
They see if you can raise money.
They see where you stand with Israel.
They test you.
They have question nights.
They have, they call it shit testing.
And then they start giving you opportunities to speak at events or to open up or to, you know, start to go to a CPAC conference and they see how the crowd reacts to you.
And they do all these polling and testing.
And it's a very carefully crafted selection process.
And I know because I've lobbied in the government for about a decade now.
I've seen how it works.
I've been around it and I don't want it.
It makes me want to throw up in my mouth.
I want to spit up because every time you're going to get the gayest, blackest, weirdest, most pro-Jewish person that they can find.
They're mad if you're white.
They're mad.
They're mad if you don't have gay black male.
They're mad if you want on Epstein Island because what they want is a weak man, particularly that's their favorite person, is a weak man who they can control.
Because if not, then they're going to find a minority woman who they can put on a pedestal.
Because you know what?
Unfortunately, the weak men are even easier to control than the crazy feminist women that they pretend to be conservatives that are out in Congress.
So it's like they put them out there.
It's absolutely nuts.
And you just get tired, right?
You get tired.
You walk around.
You see things like this video that went viral at an ice skating rink, right?
We all know what's going on in America.
We've all seen the bullshit that's happening in our country.
Here's an adult, a literal freaking adult.
Okay.
And he says, point of view, you just ruined a kid's Christmas.
Okay.
So we're going to avoid pointing out the obvious here, but I'm saying, like, you're just trying to ice skate with your family.
And you're like, can we live in a culture where, by the way, if you call that guy the N-word after he breaks your child's tailbone, he'll, you'll go to jail, not him, right?
It's like, well, you shouldn't have offended him after he broke your child's tailbone.
That literally happened in Oregon, by the way.
A guy stabbed a guy and then he called him the N-word after he got stabbed, after he got stabbed, and the stabber got let go because it was considered, well, I mean, hey, the guy was racist, so he deserved it, anyways.
But, anyways, that's a crazy story.
You got we talked about on the last show.
My point is, is you see that and you're like just walking around, whether you're in the UK, whether you're in the United States, anywhere in the West.
And you're like, look, I just want to live in a safe country.
You have weird African gangs and Middle Eastern gangs and Muslims raping your girls and assaulting your kids.
Wait, your child's tailbone was broken from a guy at ice skating ring.
Okay.
And your daughter was raped once or twice because we once, okay, that's normal.
That's called British culture.
And then they go down and they look at you and they're like, okay, but you haven't, no one in your family's died from being ran over at a Christmas market yet, correct?
And you're like, nope.
And they're like, okay, I've got the best solution for this.
We got a black guy who loves Israel and wants to bring more immigrants, but check this out legally.
Okay.
So they've got all the bad things of the illegals, but they, but even worse, you can't get them out because now they're here permanently.
You like that?
And it's like, hey, fuck you, dude.
I'm in pain.
I can't get ahead.
You know, like people used to tell me when I started podcasting, go get a real job.
And now people are saying, damn, real jobs don't pay enough to live.
Maybe that was a smart idea because there is no real jobs anymore.
There is no American dream.
The American dream is for 5% of the population makes enough money to live out what their parents lived in a workers wage in a factory 75 years ago.
So James comes along and is like the American people just say, look, I'm not going to do, I'm not going to play this game.
I'm not going to dance this dance, right?
We got to actually see what the people want.
And they're pissed.
They're freaking mad.
They don't like it.
I want to play this campaign video from James because I found it to be very interesting.
Check this out.
Here's what he had to say for Florida.
One of the biggest states in the Union, could be one of the biggest countries in the world if it was on its own independent economic structure.
But as we jump into this, you said you're just not going to apologize.
Let's be, I'm going to jump right into this questioning with you.
You got, you have the entire establishment.
You have potentially for sure, tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions of dollars that is willing to be invested.
You have huge strategy groups.
We talked about some before this, pay-for-play groups that got that got Trump elected.
You've got even the endorsement of Donald Trump trying to prevent you and anyone from Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massey, anyone who's America first from getting in.
I'm trying to do this because our country is being stolen from us and there's a war against regular people, the people who just want to be able to buy a home and not have to bid against four different hedge funds or Blackstone or an Airbnb investor from Canada.
I'm doing this because I go to college campuses and I meet kids who have four OGPAs, great test scores, but literally cannot get an internship or an entry-level job because it was handed to a kid from Mumbai or Shanghai.
I'm doing this because they're building AI data centers in our own backyards and they're jacking up the electric bills.
That's literally socialism.
That's corporate welfare.
You build it.
You keep the profits, but you're socializing the costs to the rest of this community.
And I'm doing this because the great replacement of Americans is real.
And we need someone who is not part of the establishment, not part of the APAC mafia, who's actually going to stand up and do something about it.
I have no illusions about the Florida legislature working with me.
I can tell you right now that Miriam Madelson told NBC News two weeks ago, right before I got into this race, that she would, quote, raise a war chest to defeat me.
President Trump's own advisors, Alex Brusowitz and James Blair, have already publicly attacked me and are paying other operatives to attack me.
Now, the great thing is that President Trump, I let him know literally the night before we ran that I am in this race because unlike Byron Donalds, I actually want to earn votes, that like President Trump, who never phoned it in in Florida, he won Florida all three times in 2016, 2020, and 2024, most recently by one and a half million votes, handing Kamala Harris a humiliating defeat, is because he did not take a single vote for granted.
Byron Donalds is a DEI candidate.
He has been phoning it in for the last nine months.
He has no policy plans, no plan to tackle the H-1B problem.
He wants to, in his own words, speed up the construction of AI data centers.
He wants to, in his own words, make Florida, quote, the financial capital of the world.
We don't want to be New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, or Dubai.
We are happy the way we are.
We want a state that protects our own, that puts our workers first, that does not allow the pearl clutching and the white guilt to intimidate us, and that actually is past the division of the era of Barack Obama through the era of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Enough is enough.
I am never going to apologize for our country.
And I'll leave it at just this for a moment, which is we have to be really honest that the enemy, if there were an enemy, is not the right or the left.
It is this uniparty establishment that is all in.
You got George Soros and then Amy.
You got Larry Allison on the other side.
The reason why they were not trying to ban social media three years ago when all the BLM stuff was viral.
The reason why they're banning TikTok and Snapchat and Instagram is because if a 16-year-old goes on there, they're going to see edits from Nick Fuentes, Donald Trump, and Andrew Tate.
They're going to see videos from Ron DeSantis handing it to the media and calling out the fake news and the hoaxes.
That is the issue.
They're not against the platform in principle.
They're against a platform.
We know what Gen Z did voting for Trump.
We know where Gen Z is on the issue of what happened in Gaza.
We know where Gen Z is on the issue of foreign wars and on infrastructure and H-1Bs and Blackstone.
The reason why they're banning TikTok and Instagram for 16 and under in Australia is because they don't want a generation of patriots to be radicalized by the America First movement.
That is what they're scared of.
And that is more revealing of anything at this moment.
Oh, I think, I mean, man, yes, you are speaking my language.
Absolutely.
I mean, like I said, people are so over this idea of left versus right.
And they have framed that so well in the legacy media, on social media, the way that algorithms work until most recently, really, since Donald Trump got elected, where we actually believe that this was a truly establishment-free candidate, somebody who had their own money, somebody who would not be influenced by anything else.
But you know what's crazy?
is that up until a few months ago, Donald Trump had only accepted like a million something dollars from APAC.
It's in the hundreds of millions, literally within just the last couple of months.
And we're all looking around, wondering why the Epstein files are not being released.
We're all looking around, wondering why this isn't happening and that isn't happening.
This government is bought and paid for.
It's bought and paid for.
And I am willing to risk anything and just praying every night that I have a hedge of protection over me because I understand how strong and powerful this establishment is.
And I'm not even a real American, right?
At the end of the day, but I believe that really that the freedom of the rest of the Western world rises and falls on what happens next with America, because we're the only ones with real rights.
We're the only ones who have our right to bear arms, the only ones with the right to free speech.
We're people in the thousands now and not being sent to jail for social media posts.
Literally, the United States is one of the only countries in the Western world that still have that freedom, if not the only one.
And all of these other countries are watching us.
They're watching our example.
So it's more important than ever right now to stand up against these forces, no matter how powerful or intimidating or scary they may seem.
I understand that people need to pay their bills.
They need to eat.
I get it.
But what about your conscience?
Don't you want to be able to sleep at night?
Don't you want to be able to, you know, genuinely be able to look at your constituents and say that I'm doing this for you, genuinely for you, because I know what it's like to be a Floridian.
I know what it's like to be an American.
Personally, when I first moved here, rent was like at least 50% cheaper than what it is now.
Let's see what it's like when they bring in all of these AI data centers, which is bound to increase costs exponentially, right?
We are so lucky that we have somebody like James Fishbach who is here fighting against that agenda, who is unapologetic, who isn't trying to mince words and be politically correct.
No, we're going to be politically incorrect, but philosophically consistent.
And we're going to say that we're putting America first.
And that's why I'm so stoked that we have someone like James here representing Florida.
Even though I'm leaving, it's so sad.
I'm leaving right at the time that we get a real America first candidate.
I can understand why a couple of people out there have expressed skepticism about my campaign, especially in the wake of, you know, the vape Ramaswamy darling candidate who came down and said all the right things.
He fell out of a cloud, promised us the world, and then fell off the face of the earth and then disgraced us with that Christmas Day crash out.
We need someone.
And look, I'm never going to ask you to blindly trust me, Amy.
Same thing for Elijah and for anyone in Florida who's following this race.
Just know, I'm never going to ask you to blindly trust me.
I'm simply going to ask for the opportunity to earn your trust.
In the coming months, I'm going to visit all 67 counties, or Amy, as the kids say, six, seven counties.
And then go out there and really, really take questions.
I'm not someone who's going to have a teleprompter or an hour stump speech.
I'm here to ask questions.
Look, because the reason is that it's us versus the establishment.
Whoever they put up on the establishment side, that is going to be the candidate who is never going to question Blackstone, never going to question APAC, never going to stand up to the H-1B lobby.
They want to bring in 600,000 Chinese foreign students to our universities because of a trade deal with Beijing that has nothing to do with us.
I'm sorry for your loss, but don't you dare bring those Chinese kids into our state.
We're the third largest state.
We have incredible universities.
So if you figure out the per capita logic, does that mean that's the word of the week per capita?
Does that mean that we're going to have to bring 100, 150,000 Chinese kids to our university and with a limited number of classrooms and dorm space?
That are we going to push out kids from Florida who have earned those spots through high test scores and grades?
That's the risk.
And so Amy, this is a perfect example, I think, of where are you on the issue?
When you say America first, do you mean America first as in we want our universities to do well and we don't want to bankrupt the HBCUs?
I don't know how many Chinese kids are going to Bethune Cookman or Howard or FAMU for that matter, but do you, is that your vision of America first?
Are you perverting it that way?
Or when you say America first, do you mean the interest of everyday American citizens?
Now, as Florida governor, I have a unique opportunity to literally fix this in 24 hours.
I could direct Elijah, the board of governors of our public universities, to raise the tuition on every single foreign student to $1 million a year.
Oh, that's a beautiful student visa you have there.
Oh, congrats, you were accepted to UFFSU FIU.
Sorry, that tuition is not $24,000.
It is $1 million.
You have 48 hours to pay it.
Or we're revoking your acceptance letter and giving it to a kid from Florida who is from here, who paid their dues, who got their test scores.
And guess what?
Unlike you, when they graduate, they'll stay in our state, do a great job, and maybe someday start a business and employ other people.
We have to stop apologizing for be Americans.
We have to stop apologizing for the idea that we're going to put our own people first.
For every one American student studying in China, there are literally 1,000 Chinese students studying in America.
This is why President Trump is absolutely right when he calls out the free trade scam.
They rip us off when it comes to buying our goods, forcing tariffs on us, and then forcing us by a ratio of 1,000 to one to accept their students, but not accept ours.
As Florida governor, I have the unique opportunity, if given this responsibility, to just pull the plug on the whole thing.
Million dollars a year for every foreign student.
None of them can pay it, which means their admission is revoked.
And we give those college admission slots at UFFSU, UNF.
We actually give them to kids who are from Florida and who deserve to go and study at our great colleges.
It sounds very similar to something that Trump was espousing for a brief period of time where he was saying that he would charge actually $100,000 every year the H-1B visas, therefore making it financially, you know, it doesn't make any sense for them.
It's financially irreconcilable to hire a foreign student or a foreign worker over an American one when you're outlaying $100,000 every year.
That's what he initially said.
And then he walked it back, of course, and said it's just upon an initial application.
But this is where the rubber meets the road.
Are we just talking theoretically when we say America first?
AKA, Trump is like, actually, America first was my invention.
And it's whatever I says it is versus policies that actually put America first.
And I think it's so rude almost when you pretend like the citizens of the state or the country cannot tell the difference, right?
And that's how many people from the, you know, the neocon, the administration, right?
That's how they've been treating us.
Like we don't even know the difference.
We do know the difference.
Okay.
We're very aware.
And we can look at somebody like James Fishback and look at somebody like Donald's.
And yeah, we can see who's actually working for our interests versus foreign interests.
Well, you could just buy a bar of soap and clean your own and look at it and you buy a mirror and there you go.
It's free.
But it's kind of interesting because, you know, you look at a lot of this stuff.
You get demoralized.
And I really hate the American media circuit.
And when you live overseas, you really do start to hate American media because American media is so entertainment focused.
The reason why people follow American politics is not just because we are the capital of the world.
We are the largest empire that's ever existed.
And, you know, as the boomers would say, it's like, because we beat you in 1776 and haven't had a care since.
It's like, well, not really.
That's not really what I'm saying.
What I'm saying is we are a very intricate, very beautiful country that has a lot of power.
I don't think we even understand the full strength of our capabilities.
We're too empathetic, right?
Like many Western countries.
And we have so much strength on top of the obvious weak points.
But what I don't like is I don't like how retarded people are on X and on the internet of understanding that the average person has no idea what Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson are arguing about.
In fact, the average person just watches like Hulu Plus.
They watch a couple games on ESPN.
The average person doesn't even know what's going on in politics.
Like they're to people that go up that are interested in politics, which I was reading is like a small percentage of the population.
It's like one in eight.
So like to like, you know, 15% of the population, they know about these things, which is why I don't like that people, you know, try to make this idea of America first about who do you follow.
If you live in this country, you don't have to follow a personality to realize that, you know, it doesn't matter what you're into, that girls, young girls are going towards OnlyFans, right?
They're going towards OnlyFans for their jobs.
You don't have to be watching podcasts to realize that it's really hard not to jerk off to porn as a guy because it's everywhere and it's in your face and it's hard not to get addicted to it on that side of things, you know, and I could keep giving example after example.
You know, you don't need, you don't need to be watching Tucker Carlson or keep up on a Nick Fuentes interview.
People think that these people are bigger than they are.
They're not as big as you think.
And you know that because if Nick was as big as people thought in the real world, Pierce wouldn't have done his interview the way he did it.
He did it that way because he's trying to appeal to the retards who he thinks don't don't know anything.
It's like, oh, guy's a virgin.
What a loser.
And it probably did appeal.
If you look, there's a lot of the population saying that he won that debate, that he won that interview.
And even the idea of who won, he doesn't have to win.
The world is retarded.
People are stupid.
And when you get around and you realize the majority of people are not plugged in, they're not paying attention.
The people that are plugged in, they're not listening to podcasts.
They're just watching.
They're just seeing.
It puts a very difficult thing for people like myself because I don't identify with the group.
I don't identify with Groypers.
I don't identify.
I'm not, you know, what do they call it?
The can stand or something like that.
I'm not, you know, one of those people.
I don't like political commentators.
I don't find it interesting.
I don't find them insightful.
I don't like their conspiracies.
And half the time I know that they're bullshitting because I know them and I'll text them like, that's fucking shit.
And it's like, well, it got views or like, you know, I mean, you might be right.
And you're like, look, and everyone's like, they're right.
And it's like, I'll have someone in my text message just telling me, yeah, I kind of fuck fucking fudged that or something.
Or like, yeah, I mean, who knows?
And then like publicly, my friend's like, no, you're wrong.
You're correcting them.
I'm like, oh, well, I'm not, I'm not going to out them, right?
But it's just like, it's like, I don't trust people.
And I don't trust anyone really.
And I think I speak for a lot of people that even this idea of America first, like I feel really bad saying this.
I don't know if the place that America is in, if it can ever really like, like, what are we putting first, basically?
And that's the heart of the debate, Elijah, is what are we putting first?
Are we putting GDP first, stock price first?
Are we putting the cost of strawberries first?
Because I'll just give you one example.
If the goal is to put the stock market first, then quite literally importing tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of third world slave laborers from India and China to take over our tech roles who are going to work at half the cost, double the productivity.
Guess what?
That is going to be good for stock prices.
If NVIDIA Tomorrow announced they were going to lay off 10,000 Americans and hire 5,000 H-1Bs instead, the stock would go up by 5% to 10% because it would mean that labor margins, that the amount of money that they save with labor was beneficial to the stock price in the long-term company outlook.
So what are we putting first?
If we're putting first the cost of strawberries, then yeah, bringing in 10 million Guatemalans to pick strawberries is going to be America first because by bringing in that labor, we can then deliver strawberries and pick them at a lower price.
And so I think we all three are of the view that this line go up Republicanism, this country club GDP obsessed stock market infatuated Republicanism is something that we have to reject.
I mean, why are we even voting in elections if that is the Republican Party?
And look, we have to just be clear about this idea of America first cannot be perverted for anyone.
I mean, you could say that, look, it's America first to keep every single illegal here because they pay sales tax and because they're working jobs and they may have committed a crime by breaking into the country, but they're still net net, a benefit.
You could argue that that's America first to not pursue mass deportations, but the genuine truth-seeking version of America First is kick every single illegal immigrant out.
And I'll just give you one example of policy.
In 1982, the Supreme Court Amy found that illegal immigrant children had a quote constitutional right under the 14th Amendment to attend public school.
You wonder why we can't get rid of the illegals.
We can't incentivize them to leave is because they can send their kids, five, six, seven of them to public school, elementary, all the way through high school for free childcare.
Most of these kids don't even speak English when they go into class.
They're just there to sit there and stare at the ceiling and scroll on their social media app.
They don't contribute.
They actually hold back the teacher and the students because now the teacher has to teach to two groups, the seven illegals in the back who don't speak English in math class or in English class, and then the rest of the kids who are actually there to learn.
That's a real problem.
I've actually seen this hands-on in Southwest Florida.
I visited a school in the spring, 21 kids in there, 14 of whom were American citizens, seven of whom were illegals, and it totally killed the vibe because the teacher couldn't actually focus her energy and her time on the kids who were supposed to be there.
And that's why we have to upend, we have to overturn this Plyler v. Doe decision from the Supreme Court in the same way that Roe v. Way was wrongly decided in 1973.
Plyler v. Doe was wrongly decided in 1982.
And if we had a governor here in Florida who could just wake up and say, you know what?
If you go to public schools, we're going to check your citizenship documents starting on Monday.
Now, all of a sudden, you're going to have 100,000 illegal immigrant children disenroll from our schools because they can't do it anymore.
They can't get that free childcare.
And what's going to happen?
The people are going to think twice, you know what?
I'm going to go back to Mexico.
I'm going to go back to Senegal.
I'm going to go back to Venezuela because I can't put my kids up in free childcare for 180 days out of the year.
That is where we have to get tough.
We have to actually be honest that, yes, we need to speed up the number of ICE deportations, but we need to tax the remittances of illegal aliens.
We need to start throwing the employers of illegal aliens and hitting them with 90, 100 days of jail time to disincentivize this.
We need to cut them off at the source.
And the number one source is even in Florida, they get to go to school for free.
They cannot be turned away from the free childcare that is kindergarten to senior year.
They get free lunch.
They get books.
They get all of that.
They get a bus ride home.
Enough is enough.
And so that's why one thing I would do immediately is revoke the school participation of any child.
I don't care if they're four years old, 14, a senior, it doesn't matter.
Get out of our schools because that's the best way to get them all rounded up and go back home of their own volition.
And look, the truth is the mass deportation numbers, we can debate it.
I think they've been highly underwhelming.
But the only reason why we've gotten the numbers as high as we have been is because of self-deportation.
Self-deportation is larger, Amy, than mass deportations.
That is people waking up and saying, you know what?
I don't want to end up in Ron DeSantis' alligator Alcatraz.
You know what?
I don't want to get arrested in the Home Depot parking lot.
I'm going to take the free flight from Christy Gnome, the $1,000 check, and I'm going to go back to where I came from.
That's the brave, courageous thing to do.
And we need to further enforce that by creating an active deterrent that says, you know what?
You're not going to send your kids to school for free.
You're not going to be able to send remittances back home without paying a 100% tax.
That's how we tell people and say, you know what?
It doesn't pay to be in America anymore as an illegal.
And at this point, I feel like we can't even be mad at the immigrants at the end of the day, because you look at the incentives that they're getting from this country versus their country of origin, right?
They're fleeing, whatever it may be.
And granted, many of them misuse the asylum system because they're meant to stop over at any intermediate country before theirs and the United States.
But, you know, they need to wake up and realize that the incentive structure that we have here is about to shift radically.
We're not about to give you free accommodation.
We're not going to give you free debit cards that allow you to spend whatever you want on a monthly basis.
We're not about to give you more privileges than the average American citizen.
And when we do that, maybe we'll start to see a lot more, to your point, self-deportations.
That's already been the resounding reason why we've seen immigration gone down, much to the dismay of many Republicans who are hoping to see the Hammer of Justice, the Trump admin ICE come down and deport them all.
I'm glad to see that there are fewer entries, but we also need to get out these illegals at exactly the same time.
And but going back to what I said originally, I really don't blame them, James.
It comes down to the incentives.
They gave them the incentives to be here.
Let's give them some more incentives to leave and to show them that this is not a free-for-all anymore.
That we're actually for the first time going to put American citizens first, regardless of how that affects immigrants.
I'm sorry, but we just don't care anymore.
We're beyond the virtue signaling days of the Biden administration.
They say they turn to us, Amy, and say, How could you be so cruel?
And we turn to them and say, How could you be so cruel to disregard American citizens?
They said, Where's your empathy?
Well, where is your empathy for Lake and Riley?
Where's your empathy for the kids who showed up to school in Broward County or Madison County today in Florida and showed up to learn, but their teacher was distracted by the six illegals in the back who don't speak a lick of English?
Where is your sympathy?
They allege.
Well, no, where is your sympathy for the people who actually did things right?
For the vets, for the teachers.
I know teachers personally in Florida, two of them, who are living either one day out of a car, the other day out of a motel room, the other day on a friend's couch.
We got to put America first, Florida first, and stop freaking apologizing for what is happening to our country.
Our country was invaded.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris led the invasion, but now it's time to get real.
We have a 10th Amendment, as you know, Elijah, that says that anything that is not explicitly enumerated to the federal government falls on the states and her people.
And that is us here in Florida.
I am in this fight.
I am in this race because Byron Donalds won't do a thing.
He's been in Congress for five years, hasn't codified a single order, executive order from President Trump.
Every single budget, every single budget, Amy, that came down the pike that spent more money that we don't have on things that we don't need for people who should not even be in our country.
He voted to approve every single budget that spiked our national debt by $6 trillion since he's been in Congress.
I'm in this fight to revive and resurrect some semblance of common sense to end the war against regular people, because right now it's really hard to be an American in America.
Look, it's really easy to be an H-1B.
You'll get a job.
If your name is Siddharth Gupta, as opposed to Amy Cooper, you'll get a job if you graduate from a Florida university.
If you are not an Afghan refugee, good luck getting any kind of assistance.
If you are an Afghan refugee, we're going to give you an Obama phone, EBT, SNAP, free health care, everything, right?
But remember, on Ellis Island, they weren't giving people these benefits when they came here.
They weren't.
And so I'm sorry, but when Byron Donalds glazes Haitian migrants and says that they are integral, they're not integral to anything.
Who's integral are Americans?
They are the ones who built this country, built our state, and we're sick and tired of apologizing for it.
And the truth that always comes back to is that this is our country.
This is our birthright.
This is our home.
Everyone wants to debate: well, does this country have a right to exist?
Does that country, you know who has a, you know, has a right to exist?
Americans.
Americans, Amy, they have a right to exist in America without having their jobs stolen by H-1Bs, their homes bought up by Blackstone, their kids pushed out of school by illegal immigrants who don't respect our laws or speak our language.
They have every single right to exist and thrive in the United States of America.
And that is why I'm running for the United for the governorship here in Florida.
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All right.
So moving along here, I want to talk about something kind of crazy.
So we're kind of talking about internationally what's going on.
And one of the things that we should discuss, and I think is vital is what's going on in Canada.
Canada has a new bill out that's called the Combating Hate Act, a threat to free speech with retroactive risks, expected to pass spring and early summer of 2026, likely April through June.
Now, it creates a brand new standalone hate-motivated crime that can be tacked onto almost any existing offense that includes vandalism, threats, mischief, turns minor offenses into automatic felonies or up to seven years in jail.
Let's go ahead and let's watch this.
The point of this, by the way, guys, and we'll talk about the implications.
What they're trying to do is they're trying to set up an ability to let's just say, you know, you're a white supremacist, they think, which, by the way, a white supremacist would just be someone who's pro-white.
Like you're basically espousing the same things that Elon Musk is espousing on X. You're saying white people deserve a homeland.
Well, let's just say you're protesting and you're violating a curfew.
Well, if you're violating a curfew and you've tweeted out something that's pro-white per se, then retroactively they can slap an offense, a hate speech offense onto it.
And you go from a misdemeanor and getting, like, let's say, you know, a $500 ticket to getting up to seven years in jail because you picketed with the intent to cause social disunity to break the cohesion.
To explain a little more about this and what's going on, check this video here that was posted by Pierre Poliver in Canada.
Yeah, so one of the key things is that they're actually beginning in Canada.
This is our neighbor up to the north.
This hate speech, if you're quoting the Bible.
So, like if you're a Christian and let's just say you are in a business and you fire somebody because you don't agree with them being homosexual, but you've also, you know, believe that they shouldn't be homosexual based on their religious values because you don't believe that God is that there's any such thing as a homosexual union, right?
Because marriage is from God.
We know that homosexual people exist, right?
They all, a lot of them work at our company.
I'm kidding, but the thing is, the homosexual people are around.
They've been around forever.
You know, I agree with the gays.
They're like, we've been around forever.
And you're like, unfortunately, that's true.
You know, we do.
We know that as a reality.
However, we are allowed to say that I don't believe in gay marriage.
And I don't believe in gay marriage.
And I've been open about that.
I do.
I am from California.
I do know a lot of gay people.
I did, I should say.
I used to have transgender friends, like legitimately.
I was a very LA person, right?
I think people don't understand people who grow up in cities.
You know, you learn to be very tolerant of people who are different than you because you're the minority, right?
Everyone's gay.
Everyone's trans or whatever.
But now, if I live in California, which we already know, and I want my kids to go get, you know, gay therapy, which I don't think is real, but if you want your kids to go get counseling from a pastor because you believe it's a sin, you can get in trouble in California.
So then you go, well, I'm going to move to Canada.
Now you go to Canada and you say something about the Bible.
Now you could get a hate crime and go to jail for seven years.
The point is, is the areas of where you can escape and run away from this sort of encroaching far-left communistic control is dwindling.
You can't go anywhere.
And it's not just in Canada.
We're talking about Australia.
Now we're talking about the United States.
Now we're talking about Canada.
There is a universal global effort to push the same gay, intersectional, communist bullshit.
And I think it does a disservice.
I think Gen Z has done a big disservice online because we're tired of like Matt Walsh, like just going on and on about transgenders, that we're like, okay, we get it.
That you forget that there are still people being indoctrinated into transgenderism that we need to care about.
Like just because that's not the only topic we should be talking about, just because we know that the right wing deflects.
Same thing with Islam, right?
It's like, just because the right wing is always trying to focus shift onto Islam, so they don't have to put any focus on Israel's war crimes, all about Islam, Islam, Islam.
That doesn't mean that Islam isn't still a threat to Western civilization in Europe, particularly in London, in Sweden right now.
It's about 30% of the population is changing their culture.
I think that a lot of Gen Z, because they get tired of the people that are dishonest bringing up issues like hate speech, they forget that there very much is still a very real war going on to control our speech.
There's very much a war going on to control our language.
And there's a lot of that that goes on even in Florida with Ron DeSantis, you know, and you have Christy Noam and you have the governor of Texas and, you know, where they're coming out and they support these laws to restrict the way that you talk about the Holocaust or in the education system to restrict how teachers can talk about certain historical events.
And there's an attack, regardless of party and country.
And I just don't want anyone to forget just because we're trying to get AIPAC, let's say, out of politics, that doesn't mean the other issues, we've won them or they've gone away.
And we can't do what we did in the past where we ignored the issues and thought they were going to go away.
When we ignore issues and we stop putting pressure on them, our enemies gain ground.
So I just want to remind people that there's still a fight here for free speech.
It hasn't gone away.
And no, even if you get AIPAC out of American politics, all of America's problems are not going to be solved universally.
You're still going to have lefties.
And yeah, even if you deported all the non-whites, guess what most of these liberal retards are?
They're white.
So you got a real, you got, you got a systemically complex problem.
And I don't want people to be reductionist and just blaming one group or one thing.
It does spread across a lot of groups.
A lot of people, a lot of things.
And this is a good example that it doesn't discriminate by border.
And, you know, look, the problem is, is that this anti-Semitism term gets thrown around.
It's awfully vague.
They're not actually talking about literal Jew hatred, people getting punched on the street, people getting harassed.
No, what they're talking about, which is the codified definition of anti-Semitism these days, is holding Israel to a double standard.
Any criticism of the government, any criticism of what happened in Gaza, that is fully constitutionally protected speech.
And so, if you are a college student at UF or FSU who speaks up and feels convicted in speaking out against Benjamin Netanyahu, as governor, I'm always going to protect your right to do that.
The problem is people like Randy Fine went to our legislature and convinced everyone effectively through ideological blackmail that there was massive anti-Semitism going on when in fact there were just people asking legitimate questions and having legitimate debates about what was happening in Gaza, what was happening with foreign money coming into our politics, U.S. foreign aid, not just to Israel, but to Ukraine, these relationships we have in the Middle East.
And so remember, if it's protected speech, it should always be, get this, protected.
Our founding fathers died, fought, bled for our right to criticize our government.
How dare anyone, least of all Randy Fine and his Cheez-It collection, how dare anyone say that the same founding fathers that enshrined the First Amendment in our Constitution, actually there was an exemption that you couldn't criticize foreign countries like Israel.
If you are an American citizen, you can criticize Washington, D.C., criticize Joe Biden, Donald Trump, doesn't matter.
And you are absolutely have every single right to criticize any foreign government, beginning with that led by Benjamin Netanyahu.
Sorry, Amy, I don't know if you agree with that, but I don't want to sound like a cuck in terms of like, but I really do.
I'm going to be the millennial, you know, here and just remind people like the issues that we dealt with, the Libtards, the things that things we walked so that the Gen Z could run, but Gen Z has gotten so caught up in the celebrity.
Like they love streamers and it's all entertainment to them.
And they don't really think about winning elections and they all are accelerationists and like, we need the system to burn down, you know, and it's a very, it's a very, I think it's a very dark way of looking at things.
I'm not exactly a fan of it.
I do think the system will have to collapse eventually, but I don't think we should invite unnecessary hardship into our families' lives.
And it's obviously a reactionary position because basically they don't have families.
They don't have children.
They don't have people that can suffer.
So it's much easier to want to suffer when you're a 19-year-old guy and suffering for you is like, oh, you got to rough it for a decade.
When you have little kids and women in your life and, you know, in-laws you have to, you know, provide for and sick parents and things that happens when you age and you have development.
It's like, well, yeah, you're really hoping for stability.
You're only hoping for some sort of structure and something to rely on.
And I just go to remind people that like, you know, if you're black peeled and you feel like you're losing, you might only be focusing on one problem.
And if that problem is something you can't really change or you can't really fix, I just want, I want you to know that there are things even we're doing here at Rift in the coming year.
We're going to be working with RiftU and working on universities and trying to hold teachers accountable for their pushing far-left agendas on people.
A lot of this stuff, a lot of this bullshit that we are experiencing, these policies are because we have an established political system that raises up the next political leaders to be pre-brainwashed so that the credentials from Duke, the credentials from Colombia, they don't mean anything.
They basically mean that you're rubber-stamped retard and that you believe in the system.
That, you know, if you work at MSNBC or CNN, it doesn't mean that you fight for journalism.
It means you fight for the establishment for the country's interests.
And so it's like we have to realize we're still fighting against a very, very big machine.
And there are, yes, of course, it's like, yes, Israel is a very big issue in terms of their influence in the U.S., but also remember the neocons aren't necessarily Israeli.
They just happen to have similar goals.
They happen to be working together, but you still got to worry about the neocons.
Are most of the neocons Zionists?
Yeah, but it's because it's advantageous.
It's not because they really love Israel.
It's because it's a pawn.
It's a tool to manipulate the conservative Protestant masses in the country.
So they can get you to support their wars by claiming it's all in the name of Israel.
So you got to look at the complex issue and realize I think Jon Stewart said one of the same things that I believe too.
The only sad part about the fact that we might start another preventable war in Venezuela is that Dick Cheney won't be alive to see it happen.
So like, you know, that's going to be the hardest part.
We're headed down the exact same path today that we were 20 years ago.
They're talking about fentanyl being a weapon of mass destruction.
They're literally, I watched Heg Seth talk about Hezbollah being in Venezuela.
We're about to get into another war, another system with a Republican Congress, a Republican Supreme Court, a Republican president.
We might get into another Iraq.
And I'm telling you guys, I watched it happen.
I've been a victim of the Patriot Act of what happened after September 11th.
And I don't see a lot of people speaking out against this.
I don't see a lot of people speak out against a lot of issues.
And it's really frustrating to me because all they want to talk about is, did you see Pierce Morgan?
Did you hear what Candace said?
Did you hear this?
You're like, hey, guys, we might be going into a trillion-dollar international warfare.
I heard Jesse Waters literally say this isn't Iraq because South America has the word America in it.
So being America first, it's still technically America.
You're like, oh, God damn it, dude.
Just fuck my ass, dude.
Look, kill me now.
Like, I don't, I can't believe we're dealing with this.
And I don't hear people like the reason why they're able to do this is because all of all of the young people are just focused on one issue.
So they're getting all like, it's not just the people that are fighting, you know, against free speech.
I'm telling you, the Warhawks are coming in with new wars.
You know, people are coming in and they're taking ground right now because we're busy fighting about who killed Charlie Kirk.
And I just don't find it to be very, very beneficial.
And I think we're losing a lot of ground.
I don't care about the primaries really, like everyone cares about.
What I do care about is the fact is we still only have a choice between a Democrat or Republican Zionist.
So anyway, I don't know what you think, James, but I just want to remind people there are other issues to be caring about than just Zionists in power.
But yes, care about that.
Not ask you not to make it a big deal.
But also remember, we're about to get into a possible trillion dollar decades long preventable war.
And people want to debate who won, you know, whether Klav should be using meth on his live streams.
I mean, look, what the issue is, is that we're once again at the point where there's domestic frustration and then they start a foreign war to appease us and to distract us.
Where have we heard that before?
Oh, 03, Iraq.
Oh, 2010, 2011 with the Middle East and Obama.
This looks like once again, a direct page from the neocon playbook that when you're complaining about affordability, complaining about your country being literally stolen in front of your eyes, that it's now time to start a trillion-dollar decade-long war.
And the biggest, most palpable fear from a potential conflict with Venezuela, we're going to feel it most here in Florida, Elijah, is the mass outflux of migrants from Venezuela.
You are never going to see a mass invasion.
And where are they going to come?
They're going to come to the place that their families are.
We have a massive Venezuelan diaspora in Florida.
They're going to try to come here and claim asylum and claim refugee status.
And I'm sorry.
I recognize that Maduro is a bad guy.
I recognize that there's real problems in Venezuela, but just because there are real problems today doesn't mean there can't be even bigger problems tomorrow.
Do you really want a million Venezuelans, Amy, coming to Florida?
That is not consistent with a mass deportation policy.
We deported 50,000 illegals from Cuba or from South America, and we brought in a million legal Venezuelans and gave them temporary protected status because there was a civil war that we then got involved in.
It's time to get real.
How does any policy benefit the average Floridian, the average American?
That's what I need to think about as I'm thinking about this race.
And that's what everyday people across the state are thinking about: okay, Venezuela, this, Pierce Morgan, that, Candace Owen, that's none of that matters.
How is my life being affected?
Because I'm telling you, life is not more affordable today.
Yes, inflation is lower today, which is to say the rate of price increases is lower today.
Prices are not going up as much.
We are not getting screwed as fast, but the outright level of your grocery bill is not cheaper today than it was four years ago.
I'm going to put all the blame on the Democrats, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, printed $5 trillion, gaslit us.
The Fed was complicit.
They kept rates far lower for far longer.
But at the end of the day, we elected administration not to make excuses, but to make America great again.
I think President Trump should be separated from the Trump administration.
The Trump administration is a very different body than the man himself.
And the truth is, when you have neocons behind the scenes who are trying to push a war with a country that is right across from us, that does not fare well for us.
We're going to get Mariel-level boatlifts every single day coming into Miami and Fort Myers.
And I'm sorry, we cannot survive another mass invasion.
And, you know, to your point, perfectly, this is something that I have raised again and again and again when people are talking about Venezuela and the intentions and everything behind that.
Listen, it doesn't really matter the intentions.
What matters is the follow-through.
Is Trump actually going to follow through?
Is he going to do what he says he's going to do?
Or is this going to end up in exactly the same way it did his first term when he put a $50 million bounty on Maduro's head, completely destabilized their economy, and then granted protective immigration status to immigrants from Venezuela within, it was literally within his like last few weeks of office.
That's one of the last things that he did.
And this is the issue is that Americans, especially Republicans, are so far disconnected from how things really work.
And I realize that may sound ironic as an Australian, call me out, whatever.
But honestly, for everyone who's bitching and complaining about the immigration, maybe take a look at the destabilization that our government, okay?
And that's not to speak about America in a poor way, but about the elected officials that are mostly serving foreign interests when they're doing these things, right?
That are actually not beneficial to the American citizen at all, largely in part because of the immigration problem that occurs on account of that.
When we cause destabilization in a certain country, where are the citizenry going to go if they feel like they're going to die, if they feel like they can't make ends meet in the country that they're in, especially if it's within, you know, locality where they're able to easily get here, you know, via boat or plane or whatever it may be.
So this is a tandem issue, right?
We can't just look at one thing and not the other.
Both play into this equally.
And specifically, when it comes to Venezuela, like, listen, I'm not entirely anti-war, okay?
I'm America first.
I'm isolationist, but I'm not necessarily anti-war as long as we can get the job done.
But I don't trust us to do that on account of the fact that in Trump's first term, he kind of failed at that.
And as a result, the only thing that we got was a bunch of immigrants in America, right?
So what i'm hoping for in the new year too, like I like look, I kind of think this.
You know, it's like um, people would rather see you succeed at something small than try to do something big and fail.
And I feel like like, this company slash, this country slash.
A lot of people, I know, like I mean, I mean the people that I know that have the most goals are the laziest pieces of who do nothing with their life like, I have these friends with like a stack of like, you know, self-help books and you know diet pills and vitamin stacks and it's like like, and they did it nowhere.
Right, they're always trying to lose weight, they're you talking about.
They're always trying to lose five pounds.
You know, they've always got a new business idea they want to talk to you about.
They always need a new investment and it's like they, but they never, they never consistently do anything.
I think, as the right wing, we're going through an identity crisis where we're trying to do everything but we're getting nothing done.
There is no right wing monolith.
There is no uh, populist movement.
Right, there's been real ground taken during, let's say, the Tea Party, where people actually came together and were like hey, we're gonna actually try to effectively get rid of income tax, we're gonna effectively get rid of the Patriot Act and oversight and a lot of these things that are that are overreaching into our lives.
Right, we want to come together with these, this platform.
And what happened?
The government then organized and removed, removed the, the TEA Party.
Because why?
What we should have done is we should have united with Occupy Wall Street, but instead the media got the tea partiers mocking Occupy Wall Street as as communist and Occupy Wall Street mocking the TEA Party as as racist, when in reality, and Nazis, when in reality, the communists and the Nazis should have shook hands, took out the man right, we should.
Took out the bankers it should have nepaled their asses we should.
We actually had some ground.
But today now, I feel like all we're really fighting for on the right is celebrity and I think it's cringe.
I think I, I think a lot of people's praise of podcasters is actually the cringiest thing on our, in our movement.
Um, like I, I just noticed a lot of people, their ideas come from podcasters and that that worries me.
They're not coming from uh books, they're not coming from, you know, tradition and philosophy and their own, tying together the world.
In fact, i'm actually starting to see there's like an entire when I actually the one of the things I have a hard time hiring talent here is because you literally see men.
There's two types of men, young guys.
There's men that try to be Tucker Carlson and men that try to be Nick Flint.
It's so weird, like if I had a new talent, it'll be like a guy wearing the exact suit and like trying to be edgy and do the exact same thing as Nick.
And it's like if I, if I wanted to Nick, I would just turn him on.
I don't need like a less talented version right, like and I don't want, I don't want to, I don't want somebody who's trying to be someone else work for me and it's saving with like Tucker.
You know a lot of millennials did that my era like well, you say it's not really what we know and you're like i'm not gonna say who.
We all know somebody who's very big now, who has always copied Tucker shtick.
It's like dude, Tucker already does it better than you.
What are you doing?
My point is is that I feel like a lot of people are just, they don't have their own identity today.
They don't have their own understanding and they're trying to find something to identify with because they don't have their culture's been taken.
That's what the Gen Z, that's why they love celebrities so much.
And you know, loving celebrities and modeling your life after a celebrity or your humor is considered a low iq attribute.
It's actually considered like people that are into, like Sabrina Carpenter and people that know all the music.
You know it's actually a low IQ, collectivist attribute and a culture, and I'm afraid that the right wing has become very uh uh groupy, low iq.
Looking to what this person's saying or that person's saying joining their book club and this and that and that, to me it's like we're supposed to be militant.
We're supposed to be effectively uh uh, preserving the the, the sanctity of civilization.
Right, we're supposed to be spreading the, the foundations of what make the West authoritative.
I saw Christian even write some gay thing and I support Christians.
It was like the West was not built on paganism and you're like well, actually it was.
It was built on pantheism and polytheism and you know it's like well, Christians built modern Europe.
Yeah, we did, but we also destroyed it.
So it's like, you know, it's like we did, but Christianity also let it go, and we also.
We also ended up in a bad position, so we got to stop being like retarded and actually think, who are we, and what i'm looking for is a real leader.
I don't know of anybody that that really I find to be that interesting or innovative or have real solutions, and all I know is this is why i'm not.
This is not a on you, James.
All I know is I don't know if anyone who's trying right now feels like they're that person that's going to bring it all together and fix everything.
What I do know though, is that more people need to stop trying to be people and get people's approval and act like people, and more to say, God, who am I supposed to be?
Who who, where am I supposed to make change?
What am I supposed to be doing?
Because, quite frankly, the people that act the holiest and Christian stuff are usually the biggest hypocrites, and if you ever try to do what God says, the chances are people are going to say, you're of the devil.
Every time prophets prophesied from God, they got killed and they said that they were they're of the devil.
They said that Jesus was filled with demons.
If you ever, if you're ever a real human being and you try to do what God wants you to do, the Christians in your life are probably going to say you're not following God.
That's really.
You're going to get the biggest pushback from Christians saying you're not a Christian, you don't have Christ in you, you're not a real that's, you're not a Christian.
I've seen you do this or obviously do that.
That's what the bible says, a prophet's not accepted in their own home.
It says a prophet cannot be respected in their own home because you'll be like well, i've seen you, you know, do this and you went out of divorce and whatever.
It's like.
I'm telling you guys, go and prophesy.
Go be Christians.
Go out into the world and declare the truth and stop trying to wait on you know, your.
Stop trying to wait on entertainers to accomplish something that they're never going to accomplish.
Stop waiting on James.
Go out there and pray for James.
Pray for the prophets, pray for the warriors, but go be your.
Be your own, James.
You know.
Don't wait for James to fix Florida.
Join the fight, join him in what he's doing.
I don't know if you want to join on that and uh kind of close it out there, Amy and and James.
Well, we still got a crazy nine months ahead of us.
But let me just say to Elijah that I think it matters what kind of streamer you are and what kind of audience you've drawn right, I mean, if you're sitting and watching Aiden Ross all day or some Of these Twitch streamers, that's very different than, I'll tell you the truth.
I found the audience of young men who follow and watch Nick Fuentes to be actually incredibly informed and insightful and very patriotic young men.
Now, that's very different than the audience watching Fresh and Fit, but I think something has to be said about young men.
But I'm not sure if you're not going to sing when Myron hits the sounds.
No, it's not a dig on Myron, right?
It's just what kind of audience, what kind of following do you have?
And look, I'm going to be completely honest.
I probably shouldn't say this, but I think Nick's following is actually really impressive.
There's a lot of young men who are patriotic, who are well-informed, who know our history, which is why they are so frightened by the current path that we are on.
And the sooner we can accept that and stop letting the left and the right, stop letting George Soros and Larry Ellison divide us and convince us that certain people we should not listen to, the sooner we can reject that slanderous lie that Americans need to be disavowed, the sooner we can once again unite under a country that speaks up against the establishment, an establishment that has colluded with the left and the right.
The country club Republicans are no better than the Democrats.
We have to have an America first movement.
Probably not going to happen in its own party, but it will likely happen within the vessel of the Republican Party.
That's why I'm running this race for Florida governor is to actually put forward a Florida first, America-first vision that doesn't apologize for our history, doesn't apologize for who we are, just wants to actually tackle the real issues that are facing young, old, black, white, Christian, Muslim, Jew.
It doesn't matter.
We are in this to fight this and to stand up to a corrupt establishment.
Of course, there are bad apples in every bunch, right?
But most of the Groypers that I've actually spoken to are, they actually really care about the direction of this country.
They are so well versed on theology and history and Christianity, Christianity, and all of these things.
Like they're not the caricature that the establishment is trying to make them out to be.
I think that's a very deliberate kind of impression and stereotype they're trying to give off.
But I completely agree with you.
I think, and, you know, aside from the Groypers, right?
Because there's plenty of people who are inside of the America First movement, people from Marjorie, Taylor Green's camp, in which, you know, Nick Quentin has even denounced and disavowed MPG, right?
The Thomas Massey camp.
You have people who are more than ever proudly declaring the stance of America First, America only.
And even with the relaunch of the America First Foundation next year, Nick has said that he does not want this to be a cult of personality, that maybe that was even an error of naming his show as America First, because at the end of the day, this is a guiding principle that all Americans should be led by.
I genuinely believe that we have more opportunity to see political change in the next four years than we have in the last 50 on account of the rise of the America First movement, whether that be directly from the Groypers, whether you're from the Thomas Massey camp, MTG, or all of the other people who are proclaiming America First, okay?
Because it's many of the same ideals that are, you know, propping up that ideal.
And like I said a little bit earlier, it's not Republican versus Democrat.
It's the Uni Party versus America First.
Let's all gather together around some base universal ideals.
Let's get the money out of government.
Let's get the foreign interest out of government and let's actually put the American people first.
Every other disagreement that we have, once that stuff is gone, we can split hairs about that later.
But we need to focus on actual American first policies, American first candidates, like James.
So I'm very, very grateful that we had you on the pod.
And like I said, I'm reaving, but anything that I can do to help up until that point or even after I move, I'm down because we need people like you representing our districts all across the country.
And that is the way that we then collectively together actually put America first.
Well, we've had a great show reading a few of the super chats here.
Just Poopin16 sent in $2 and just let us know that they've been and joined the locals.
So let's get a shout out for that.
They also sent two $5 super chats.
One says, question for James.
Thanks for being on, James.
May I ask, what will you do?
What will you do to expand research and assistance for families with autistic children?
We have a five-year-old with level three autism.
Bridging the gap between her healthcare providers and her multiple therapists is almost impossible.
We also pay $3,000 per month out of pocket for her Lucorvirin.
The supplement RFK Jr. ordered the FDA to recommend for autistic children, but our insurance refuses to pay for it because it has to be custom made.
For James, I'd like to connect with you and voice my concerns for autism advocacy, which I think means a lot of hundreds of thousands of Floridian families may even be millions.
Go ahead, James.
I don't know if you have an answer to that, but I'll give you the floor.
I got to see her just a couple of weeks ago where she lives in a home now.
She's in her early 20s.
And so I've lived with this.
I know it.
And we have to do better.
We have to do more.
And part of that is actually helping families bear the cost, bear the burden of this, not just through the teenage years, the youth years when they're in school, but once they become adults, how can we help cover those costs?
And that's something I definitely would love to chat with this person about.
If they could just DM me on Axe, I'd be more than happy to chat about it.
I know we have to do more work on this front, and we're not going to wait for the federal government, the Democrats, the do-nothings, the do-nothing Republicans to fix it.
We actually need to come up with stuff here at the state level where we can move much faster.
$10 super chat said, is it true Vivek Grandmaswaming has ties to George Soros and served in Ohio's COVID-19 response team?
Not asking others to do my homework, just directions on this info.
I wouldn't know that off the top of my head.
I don't think he has a lot of connections to Ohio that I know of.
I think there was some sort of George Soros like grant or something he was tied to.
You might want to expound on that.
I think he had to do with a grant for some education thing back in the day, but I don't think he, I think he kind of clarified it wasn't anything significant, but I don't know.
Yeah, it was actually, I think it was his brother, Paul Soros, who gave out a grant to Yale first-gen immigrant students.
So the brother of George Soros, I think he also was on that COVID task force in Ohio because he was the CEO of a pharmaceutical company at the time.
Look, I think right here right now, we need competitive primaries, right?
We only had up until two weeks ago, I say it with humility, we only had one candidate in the race here in Florida, and that was Byron Donald's.
And when you have these DEI candidates, and I'm literally not talking about skin column, I'm talking about people who didn't earn it, who are simply assuming that they're going to be the nominee and be the next governor just because they were coronated with that by the Republican establishment.
We can't have that.
And so if Vivek is going to win a primary, he should win a competitive primary.
If Byron's going to win his primary, he should win a competitive primary.
The idea of threatening candidates and telling them not to run because they're America first, that is not okay.
Last time I checked, we still have elections in our country.
And if Byron Donalds wants to be the next governor, all he has to do is get more votes than me and let the competition begin.
I'm just so excited to genuinely see an American first candidate in Florida because you know what?
Like, I love Florida.
There's so many things that I love about this place.
Obviously, I'm moving from here, but it is a little bit establishment, right?
It has been a little bit establishment.
Ron DeSantis, some of the stuff he's done is great.
Other things, especially when it comes to the GQ, are a little bit more questionable.
So again, I just want to reiterate maybe for the fifth or sixth or seventh time, James, you have my full support.
And I'm just so happy to see someone, like a genuine, real American first candidate who isn't saying that because of the clout or because of the accolades or because of how it sounds, but it's because of what you genuinely believe.
Like I can feel that from you in this interaction.
And other states should be jealous.
Other states should be wanting candidates like this who are genuinely going to put their constituents first.
And in April of 2023, $93 million was defrauded from the Texas state lottery.
Does James support lottery?
I don't know if those are two separate questions or connected, but you could go ahead and take a stab at that if you want or just one part of that if you prefer.
Well, I think there's a bigger debate to be had about gambling, particularly sports gambling.
I'm seeing this vice happen more and more, even in my own friends groups, people who are blowing a couple thousand dollars literally on a game, blowing it, squandering it, and then don't have enough for groceries.
And so I think we have to be honest about, yes, the system is set up for so many of us to fail, but also we cannot give in to the vices that are currently enticing us.
And so whether that's sports gambling, only fans pornography, it doesn't matter.
We actually have to stand up and say, this is not okay that young men are spending hundreds of dollars literally per game and just wasting it.
And so I want to have a real conversation about cracking down on sports gambling, online betting, all of that, because there's no benefit to young men who are trying to focus, trying to stay attentive to their life, but are being distracted.
And in many cases, look, I'm going to just, you know, there's personal responsibility has to go into it.
But I think the same case with pornography, a lot of men, young men are drawn into lust by what they see online.
They're scrolling on their X fee trying to read what happened in Venezuela over the weekend and they see some girl with some thirst trap posting pornography.
And I think also too, for the defrauding thing, because I've tracked that story.
He was actually, it was actually talking about there was actually like a defrauding scheme.
Like there's actually like corruption in the lottery.
So like they actually rigged, it found out it was rigged.
I guess the state lottery was rigged.
I didn't, I didn't track it very clearly, but apparently like Texas, the whole system is like, well, yeah, rigging the state lottery to so that's like kind of what it is.
So like it's not even fair.
So they're basically the state then is taking money.
The state, it's like the government is taking money, claiming you're gambling, but it's really rigged like it's a casino, which is definitely, I've never heard of that actually till recently.
I don't think James Fishback supports the government pretending to collect your money to pass out in a lottery and then defrauding.
But lotteries are also, to be completely honest, I don't play the lotto often.
I've probably never played it more than like 10 times.
I personally like gambling, but I also don't have a problem with it.
And I also like, there's things I don't do because I do have a problem with, but I also don't like, I don't like the gambling industry.
I feel kind of dirty when I go to like, if you go like some casinos, you feel fine.
It feels like it's a hotel and they have a little bit of gambling there.
Sometimes, though, you notice gambling casinos are where the like, there's very bad things that go on there.
And they're like in Australia, you would know this, Amy.
The casinos, no, you would know the casinos, they like the Chinese use them to like launder their money.
And so like, they'll come in.
Yeah, there's like, there's a bunch of at the star casino.
It's like, they'll come in and they'll like the same.
And look, I think this goes back to first principles.
I think if you should not be allowed to boycott one country, you should not be allowed to boycott any country.
And so since that's not the case, I think we have to be honest that the selective outrage about deciding that you don't want to do business with a country, whether that's Russia, Qatar, Israel, it doesn't matter, that there is still a free market out there.
And you as a business owner should not be compelled to not or to be forced to do something that you don't want to do.
And so, look, for me, anything and everything is on the table, but I would put my priority at making sure that constitutionally protected speech in Florida, that criticism of any foreign government, that that is continued as a constitutionally protected thing in our state that can never be punished, whether it's disciplinary action, heaven forbid it's criminal action.
It's like I literally put in the clip of James before I had even spoken to him, before yesterday, before Sam introduced us and mentioned that, you know, your name and your topic.
It wasn't even yesterday.
It was the day before yesterday, Monday, when we did the rift show, right?
And this is how I know that God is literally, quite literally on the side of the people who are genuinely putting American interests first.
I found you and a couple of days later here.
We are having a conversation about how we could practically do that for Floridians, right?
But this video is just basically about, you know, the foreign influence in American politics, specifically as it pertains to APAC.
I agree with what Elijah was saying earlier.
Get all of the money out from all foreign interests.
But I don't think we could, I don't think anybody could argue the fact that Israel probably has the most impact of all of those different organizations, right?
So it's exposing that.
And like I may have remarked a little bit earlier, I genuinely believe that the next four years, as we get into 2028, this next election cycle, we have more opportunity to see political change in these next four years than we have in the last 50.
So long as APAC continues to demise and America first continues to rise.
I didn't mean to rhyme then.
I'm a poet and I didn't know it, but it's all very true.
And honestly, in this economy, I'm not going to ask anyone to donate.
What I would simply ask is if you can donate a couple hours of your time as a volunteer, go to fishback2026.com, hit the volunteer button.
It takes 20 seconds to sign up.
We'll be in touch soon.
But this is a fight.
This is a race.
A new poll came out that has us within a 10-point margin of Byron Donalds, who has been in the race for nine months, has the support of AIPAC, has $30 million from corporate donors.
We've been in this race now for a little over two weeks, and we're off to a really strong start, but we're never going to get complacent about it.
And so, I'd be honored.
Amy, thanks for the kind words, Elijah, as well.
And anyone out there who wants to volunteer on our Florida First, America First campaign, whether that's knocking on doors, text messages, social media, doing insane edits and posting them on TikTok, we would be honored to work with you.