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Dec. 23, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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I Give Up: 2024 Will Be Disastrous for America and No One Sees What's Happening
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All right, my friend.
You're wondering, what's he so down in the mouth about?
What's he so glum about?
You got it.
I think the last Christmas party.
I think.
I think this has got to be.
It's got to be.
It's got to be the last one.
Because I'll tell you, they just don't go away.
But by the way, if you want to see something later on, you got to see what Mrs. Al looks like.
When you get a chance, can you grace the portals of this real quick to see how fancy schmancy and dazzly Yeah, no, no.
Talking to my other wife.
Yes!
I'm getting ready.
That's what I'm saying.
Look at this.
Well, I'm getting ready.
Ooh, look at that.
You can't even see the britches on these things.
I'm getting ready.
You're getting ready.
We're going to do a Christmas.
But this is all...
I mean, this is...
You should see the...
You can't see the pants.
The pants, too, are...
It seems like Elvis.
I'll come back when I'm all ready.
Okay, okay.
Look at this.
So, anyway, we're talking to you before the event.
Well, I gotta sit there tonight and get ready for it non-stop.
Motion!
It's just, oh, what it all is, it's just motion everywhere I go.
It's just, I mean, every, oh my, hey, how you doing?
Hey, look who it is!
How you doing?
Great!
Who are you?
I don't know who you are.
And then politics, oh, oh.
Invariably.
How you doing?
Good.
Good to see you.
How have you been?
Hey, Merry Christmas.
Happy New Year to you.
Yeah, you're looking good.
Looking good.
What do you say?
What do you say?
Meanwhile, the world is falling apart and I'm going, hey!
And I don't go out maybe after...
We never go out at night.
Never.
We're up so early.
I mean, look, we work more than most people.
I just, I don't know when it is.
I just became real, I mean, deathly allergic to bullshit.
And by the way, that's an acceptable word.
That to me is not, that's not even cursing at this point.
That's not even...
That word is so perfect and you know exactly what it means.
You know exactly.
And there's just this normal...
And something tells me the most depressing music ever is Christmas carols.
Christmas!
It's the most depressing!
Depressing?
You imagine yourself sitting in a bar with a pack of Luckies and, you know, three fingers bourbon and a coffee cup.
No, that's Miss Emily's picture, John Connolly.
Sitting there like nursing a drink, your life is shot, your family's gone, and somebody's playing White Christmas.
Isn't that weird?
Or some poor guy sitting around a campfire or fire in some war zone.
It's just depressing.
Have a holly jolly Christmas.
Four songs.
Earl Ives, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Brenda Lee, and the one, the song that absolutely kills me.
I hate, I hate, I hate more than anything.
Feliz Navidad!
Feliz Navidad!
Prospero año y felicidad!
Oh my!
God!
Out of all the stuff that Jose Feliciano's ever done, this is like the worst.
Grandma got run over by a reindeer.
I kind of like that one.
My favorite of them all, of them all, is I Believe in Father Christmas, Greg Lake, Peterson Field, Emerson Lake and Palmer.
The greatest song ever.
Hallelujah, Noel, be it heaven or hell.
The Christmas we get, we deserve.
It rained on...
They promised me...
They promised me...
No.
Father...
They promised me...
I wish you a hopeful Christmas.
I wish you a brave new year.
All happy.
It's pain and sorrow.
Leave your life and let your love be clear.
They said there'd be snow on Christmas.
They said there'd be peace on earth.
Hallelujah, Noel.
Be it heaven or hell, the Christmas we get we deserve.
Oh, I love that.
Love that song.
Even as a kid, I loved the song about deception and fraud and manufactured feelings.
Manufactured.
Which is half of what the political spectrum is in this.
For most of the people on this, it's manufactured.
It's pretend.
It's a work.
It's a bunch of people pretending to say like, well, this is the way we should be acting.
And this is the way we should.
This is what we should do.
Last year, this year, sucked.
I lost friends.
I lost friends with Trump for reasons I don't understand.
Half of the time I'm slamming the guy and telling people, I don't think he's going to win!
But yet I'm somehow a Trumpy, number one.
Number two, I've been blasted as far as Israel and Palestine.
I have no earthly idea why.
I have no...
I've had the unmitigated audacity of saying...
I think we should talk about stopping the killing.
Shut up.
Shut up.
You don't know what you're talking about.
You don't know what you're talking about.
Yeah, shut up!
You don't know what you're talking about.
What do you mean I don't know?
You don't know what you're talking about.
There is such a level The best news, I have so enjoyed two ballsy women.
Brianna from The Rising, Brianna Joy and Crystal Ball.
Not necessarily, I don't share, I don't share the, frankly, sometimes the anti-Israel vehemence, but I love the fact that you've got two brave, two people getting away from the narrative.
I don't care what it is.
Whatever you believe.
Conspiracies, if you don't believe in Israel, Palestine, Fallujah, the surge, Islamofascism, if you don't believe in the story of Pearl Harbor, 9-11, the virgin birth, I don't care.
The fact that somebody is brave enough to say this is what I believe, you won my heart over.
I have been Enjoying Don't Ask Me.
The thing about YouTube, which is so terrific.
Do you know who Jimmy Breslin was?
Do you know who he was?
Do you know who Jimmy Breslin is?
Do most people know, do you think?
I wonder.
Because Bill Maher...
And Bobby Kennedy and everybody, they've been handed a storyline and they say, you're going to say this.
And by the way, there are other people as well who've been handed their storyline the opposite.
And there are other people who say, that storyline's not true.
What?
That storyline's not true.
Nobody ever says, nobody ever assumes that what you're hearing is true.
And I've been through this my whole life.
I've been through this with everything else.
But do you remember who Jimmy Breslin...
Jimmy Breslin was the...
There was a time when I first...
During the best times ever.
I'd say maybe 30 years ago.
Maybe 30 years in New York.
It was the last vestige of the saloon.
They don't exist anymore.
They don't exist.
And you had saloons.
And you had...
Not a bar.
Not a, you know, but it was a saloon.
It was in neighborhoods.
Normally an Irish joint.
And there was a group of people who made them more famous, and that was the newspaper folks.
And news to a certain extent.
So I'm here in Hell's Kitchen.
I'm on the west side.
Down the street on 57th Street is, of course, CBS News.
CBS, 60 Minutes crowd, the CBS cameramen and the reporters, and that's CBS over there.
ABC is up the street a little bit.
That's around, that's across from my Columbus Circle, off Amsterdam, Columbus, you know that kind of thing.
That's 60, that's ABC, and you know where those things are.
And then...
We had the Daily News and the Post and all this.
And there were these last vestiges of these people that were called the newspaper men.
And number one was Jimmy Breslin.
Now below him was, in terms of famous, Murray Kempton, Jimmy Cannon, news guy.
But Pete Hamill, Pete Hamill was more the master of erudition.
Jimmy Breslin, I talk like this, what are you talking about?
He was the one that the Son of Sam looked for, contacted.
And Jimmy Breslin, Mr. Prose, wrote a book called The Good Rat.
Jimmy Breslin was the Hemingway of local news.
They were into copy editing.
They would say things in the least amount of words.
Pete Hamill, who dated Jackie Kennedy, and he was like the bon vivant.
He wrote A Drinking Life.
It was great.
He had the best line ever.
He wrote this line.
He said, I retired.
No, I retired.
He says, I didn't stop drinking.
I retired with the title.
And his brother, Dennis, good guy, kind of stopped talking to me because of Trump.
And all these guys were basically lefties like you can't believe.
But they were hard scrabble, all ex-drinkers, all whatever.
Michael Daly, Mike...
What was his name?
Shirley.
The guy who died, they did that, Tom Hanks did that Broadway play about him.
There's all these different people.
And Jimmy Breslin took sides that nobody took.
He stuck.
The cops didn't like him.
He was against, you know, Graft, Westbrook Pegler, and other.
And these were people I always admired.
And I don't have to agree with them.
I don't have to agree.
I love people who say things that nobody agrees with.
It's something to say the same thing.
Bill Maher is all of a sudden taking...
He has accepted the entire...
You don't even need to listen to Bill Maher.
Bill Maher has his opinions written for him, and he's this kind of smart-ass, like, okay, I finally give this the endorsement.
And they don't see anything.
They never...
Let me give you an example.
Jimmy Breslin said, you always go to the losing locker room.
You don't interview the winner.
Why do you want to interview the winner?
His most famous thing ever, his most famous story, well, one of them, was when John Kennedy was assassinated, he interviewed the gravedigger.
The guy who had to go and dig the grave, this black guy.
And it was like, brilliant!
And he said, you've got to understand the way people think.
Have you ever heard anyone ever, ever explain to you the Hamas position?
Of course not.
I don't think it exists.
I don't think there is an opinion.
You're not going to hear it here.
But do they have an opinion?
What do they think?
I keep hearing about this charter.
I've never read this charter.
Don't you want to...
People have always said, if you could interview anybody, you know the all-famous interview, who would you want to interview?
Mine's simple.
Hitler.
I'm going to find out if there's anything special.
Explain to me this mentality.
I am fascinated not by heroes.
That's easy.
It's easy.
Tell me what you think.
Hitler.
Serial killers.
I was trying to figure out what serial killers think until I saw, interestingly enough, a Piers Morgan interview with one guy and it all made sense.
It all made sense.
And it was so easy.
It was so easy, and I never knew, I never thought about the motivation behind it.
That's what I want to know.
So I love the people who take positions.
It doesn't matter what I agree with.
I hate holier-than-thou people.
I hate people who won't.
I hate...
I just...
Anyway, 2023 is shot because we never had any of that and 2024 is going to suck because it's going to be more of the usual and I give up.
So I'm going to take a new tack.
I'm trying to figure out what it is.
2024 is going to be disastrous for America.
Nobody sees what's happening.
Nobody has been trained.
Nobody understands it.
They don't understand the symptoms.
They don't even know where to look.
They don't know where to look.
They don't know where to go.
That's the way it goes.
And tonight, I gotta go to a Christmas party.
And I'm gonna sit there and I'm gonna report to you tomorrow.
But I'm gonna talk to people who don't wanna hear anything that I have to say.
None.
Nothing.
I...
Am a freak.
The thing that I think is interesting, nobody cares about.
Nobody cares.
Nobody.
I see things differently.
It's like, you know when you go to the doctor, the eye doctor, and he says, is it better like this or like this?
That's the way they used to do exams.
Is it better like this or like this?
Mine's like this.
The light off.
Or light on?
Which one do you see better?
With the light off or the light on?
It's so obvious to me.
I give up.
There's nobody who's interested in this.
There's nobody who...
Social media have collectively, specifically Twitter and TikTok.
And by the way, my problem with TikTok is never...
I don't want to ban it.
I don't care if China owns it.
Of course.
Of course Xi Jinping.
If I met Xi, I'm going to say, of course you're going to steal from us.
Of course you're going to steal from us.
Of course you are.
Of course you are.
If I were in China, I'd steal everything I could get my hands on.
Anything you did, I would steal and get my hands on it.
Every single thing.
Period.
I would steal you blind.
Anything you did.
Everything.
I understand you're a thief.
It's what we all do.
It's what we do.
We have this high and mighty idea.
We go and we steal elections.
We steal...
And by the way, I want you to understand something.
I hope you know this.
You know, we got a good...
On September, on February the 3rd...
If you're into, you know, realism and kind of regular thinking, you're more than happy to enjoy it.
I would love for you to come enjoy it.
Meet Mrs. L and me.
We'll be there together and we'll do this stuff.
It'll be wonderful.
It'll be so terrific.
I mean this sincerely.
I would love to see you February 3rd at the Cutting Room in New York City.
It will drive and confound people like you cannot believe.
Another thing too, by the way, one of the reasons why I hate stand-up comedy.
Hate it.
Hate it.
And one of the things, the reason why I hate it, I was trying to figure out, why do I hate stand-up comedy?
And it's simple, because I hate stand-up comics.
They think they're smarter than you.
They think they've out...
They figured something out, where they see something you don't know.
And that they know something, and they're smarter than you, and they know more than you do, and they're just more brilliant.
They see things that you don't know.
They see things.
You understand what I'm saying?
Do you get what I'm trying to say?
You dig it?
They see things, and they think that they invented it.
It's true.
And I don't believe that for a moment.
I don't believe any of this stuff for a moment.
I swear to God, it's nothing personal.
It's not about me being smarter than you, whatever.
I see things.
I have faith in you.
I want you to understand what I'm thinking.
I hope you see it my way.
And then when you tell somebody something, I live in this world of these mindlessly positive people.
Oh, come on.
Be positive.
Have faith.
Come on.
There you go.
That's stupid.
That's crazy.
Have faith.
This is going straight into the shitter.
You know that, right?
You understand something.
It's going to get worse than anything.
So far, there has not been...
Think about this.
From the time that...
What's his name?
Oh yeah, Biden, I think it is.
From the time that Biden took over, there has not been one correction ever.
Not one person worth notice going to prison.
Nothing's been corrected.
The border, not one person has been stopped.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Let me say this again.
I don't think you've heard Mr. Positive Thinking, Mr. Oh, don't be so glum.
Not one thing has been corrected.
How do you like that?
You happy about that?
Maybe you're positive about that.
I'm not.
Jim Jordan.
Biggest waste of flesh ever.
Think about it.
Oh, Mike Jacobs.
Oh, we got the new one.
And we got Matt Gaetz.
Oh my God, forget it.
And the Democrats are thinking, these people are just worthless.
They have not passed one.
They can't even pass an impeachment inquiry.
The Republicans had Trump impeached twice.
And Mike Jacobs is scratching his ass saying, well, I think maybe we can have an inquiry.
Do we have an inquiry?
Well, I don't know if we should do that.
Well, why don't we table that?
Let's see if we...
Why don't we do that?
Why don't we do that?
Let's bring Miranda Devine.
Miranda?
You want to talk about that Biden laptop from hell?
That was the biggest waste of time ever.
You got to understand something.
There's a place in New York.
I can't...
I'm not going to name the name of it.
It's a place.
Or a lot of these restaurant, how do I say, it's called the Republican Hangout.
They are the biggest bunch of bullshit artists and they think they're all like the Algonquin Roundtable or something.
And they really do.
And one was responsible for the Biden laptop.
Nothing happened.
Pictures, hookers, crack pipes, playing butt bongo and ride them cowboy with meth pipes and crack pipes.
God knows there's probably children, small animals, having illicit activities with soap dishes and speed bumps, mounds of clay, saran wrap.
Who knows?
An otter costume.
And they march.
And they had this testimony before Congress on the laptop.
Matt Taibbi was on.
You remember that one?
And they walked back into this place.
And they're all clapping.
And they feel like we are so...
Remember when you were in high school?
The cool kids, it's like they really think they're cool.
They haven't done anything.
things happen.
And they sit around and they just...
These people actually one night applauded George Santos.
This is the New York Republican intelligentsia.
The cognoscente.
The glitterati.
This is the Republican Party.
2023 is over.
It's over.
At 2024?
Oh, God.
You can forget it.
Because people want to keep up and be positive.
Be positive.
Come on.
You've got to have faith.
Trump's going to win.
Yay!
Trump's great.
Isn't he great?
He sure is.
MAGA.
MAGA.
MAGA, MAGA, MAGA.
I'm a MAGA.
You're a MAGA.
Hey!
We're going to win!
Really?
Yeah!
How?
Well, look at the rallies.
I watch Newsmax and Greg Bowling, that filious blowhard.
Oh my God!
This is a...
Dear God!
This is the Gore Vidal of the...
Oh my God!
Look at these people.
Well, you know, Greg Kelly, Greg Kelly!
We're doomed!
Doomed!
By the way, funny thing too, watch, did you watch Brian Kilmeade kiss MBS's ass?
I mean, he's got pucker marks that are probably permanent scarring.
You have never seen, never since Tucker Carlson, just...
Melted in front of his man hero, Elon Musk.
That was embarrassing.
You're cool.
Thank you.
No, really.
I want to be like you.
Don't lose the bow tie.
It says something to the world.
It says, I don't want to follow the rule.
You got it?
Anyway.
Watch that one.
Now, what's happening?
The border.
Wide open.
Where are these people in this country since 2020?
I don't know.
Are they here?
I don't know.
How many kids came in unaccompanied?
I don't know.
How many of those kids are now forever in prostitution?
I don't know.
How many of those kids are being sold?
I don't know.
Did these people have COVID or were they checked?
I don't know.
Did we ever resolve anything about COVID?
I don't know.
Did we ever, in case, did the courts ever say, do you have a constitutional right to refuse to take a vaccine for religious or other reasons?
I don't know.
What was that about?
I don't know.
If they bring mask mandates, do we, do we, is there anybody who, I don't know.
Did we learn anything from COVID?
Nope.
Nope.
Nothing.
What about the George Floyd riots?
Nothing.
BLM, were they ever audited?
Nope.
Ever charged?
Nope.
What about Antifa?
Nope.
Nothing.
Really?
Really.
Nothing happened.
All those cities that were destroyed.
Remember Black Lives Matter?
They were painting the streets.
Remember that?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Rudy Giuliani?
Oh, he's so...
They want...
He is so...
They're going to grind him and, you know, whatever.
And nobody cares.
He's sort of...
He became kind of bilious and that kind of thing.
Dominion?
I don't know what I'm going to know.
So, is Trump going to win the election this time?
Yeah!
Did Ronald McDaniel secure any type of poll watchers or security forces?
No.
Oh, hell, you've heard me say this before.
You've heard me say this before!
Get over it!
It's not changing!
There he is, ladies and gentlemen.
Eric Thaddeus Walter says, my friends, call me the Grim Reaper.
Enjoy your Christmas party tonight.
Don't make me laugh.
I don't envy you.
Make a plan with Mrs. L and escape ASAP.
Oh!
It's funny you say that, Eric.
I'm going to go into seizure.
In the middle of it.
Works every time.
Whoever questions that.
We used to do this thing in school when sometimes we wouldn't want to go into high school.
I don't know why.
People would call up and say, hello, yeah, Mrs. Schaefer.
Hi, listen.
I'm a fever.
No, no, no.
Hello, Mrs. Schaefer.
Yeah, hey, listen.
How are you?
Listen, you can't come in today.
Why?
Projectile bloody diarrhea.
Yeah.
Okay.
Thank you.
Who's going to question you?
Who's going to question you?
And plus, once you're there, it doesn't matter.
You show up, here you go.
You'd be surprised, by the way, how many people don't bring a gift.
That's the one that kills me.
Oh, here's one for you.
I'm going to leave you with it.
I know this is.
I can't do anything.
We have a number of young people in the family and friends.
They have weddings.
Their friends don't give them a single wedding gift.
That's a new thing.
I know this has nothing to do with Trump or, you know, Israel or whatever.
I just have to tell you this.
Kids today, young people today, are social pigs.
They don't bring a wedding gift.
They think that their presence at a wedding is enough.
Can you believe this?
There is a hell, a smoking section for you for that.
You got it?
It's absolutely...
Kids today are...
They're not pigs.
Pigs are good.
They're swine.
They're noble.
Your poor son, they wallow about, they do their thing.
These people are disgusting.
Now, what I'm looking forward to, more than anything else, Mrs. Zoll and I are going to have a...
We're going to stay in for Christmas Eve.
We're going to have...
I bought the most beautiful Tuscan kale tonight you've ever seen in your life.
This is the greatest thing anybody's ever seen.
It's going to be just wonderful.
Wonderful!
Not just kale, but stay home and watch stuff and watch TV.
By the way, you want to see a dog maestro?
Bradley Cooper?
P.O.S.
The worst should go to the prosthetic nose.
That's it.
It's all makeup.
It's the worst!
I just, I watched the original documentary, it was a PBS or American Classics, and then you watch this, garbage!
America has lost its sense of class.
Class.
There's no more Jimmy Breslin, there's no more Westbrook Pegler, there's no more Gore Vidal, but there is, and I say this, There is a new spirit of young ladies.
Brianna on the hill and Crystal on breaking points.
Absolutely.
And remember, I don't have to agree with them, but the fact that they're saying something that is not a public opinion is my absolute wonderful thought.
Oh, one more thing.
Ah, you know what?
There is no morning.
Look, you have a great night.
I hope this...
Anybody here get this mung?
Anybody here get that mung?
It's there.
Be careful.
And when it happens, do yourself a favor.
Sit back and sweat through it.
Sweating to the oldies.
Remember that?
Remember him?
Is he alive?
He's alive, but he's out.
He's out of his mind?
No, he's out of sight.
Oh, oh, oh.
Could be out of his mind.
We don't know.
Remember that guy?
He never did anything.
He never really sweat.
He did some things that I could do.
Today these people are doing ropes and whatever, and he'd be like this.
Hey!
He's doing like this bad cruise ship chorus line stuff.
What are you going to do?
Anyway, we love you.
Eric, grazie mille.
I'll tell you tomorrow about the party.
We've got this gift of cookies you've got to see.
This thing is a ton.
Where did you get that thing?
Where did you get this thing?
Yeah, but it's like in a box.
It's huge!
I've got to show it.
I can't show it to you.
But it's enormous.
And there's something that looks like Christmas cookies sometimes.
I don't really eat them, but do you ever see them where they look great?
They say, wow!
Some of this stuff is like, you know, Christmas cookies look great at Christmas time, okay?
Oh, we're also going to see the bad plastic surgery.
Oh, yeah.
I'm going to take a piece of tape.
You ever see that where you take a piece of tape here and here and you pull it up and I'm going to walk in and say, I want to feel at home with all you hags with this horrible surgical work like you've been through a windshield.
Have you ever seen?
Again, I don't fit in.
I don't fit in.
I give up.
I'm sorry, God.
Why did you do this?
Why did you put me on this planet during this time?
I don't understand it.
I don't fit in.
They don't listen to me.
I'm going to try, but I don't think I'm being very effective.
Anyway, my friends, you have a great and a glorious day.
We'll see you tomorrow, 8 a.m.
And until then, dear friends, don't remember, don't forget these words, these words, the monkey's dead, the show's over, sue ya!
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