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Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo. | |
It's going to be only America first. | ||
America first. | ||
The American people will come first once again. | ||
With respect, the respect that we deserve. | ||
From this day, all of us is going to be only America first. | ||
America first. | ||
Good evening, everybody. everybody. | ||
You're watching America First. | ||
My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes. | ||
We have a great show for you tonight. | ||
Very excited to be with you here for another great day. | ||
You know, I'm in a much better state of mind ever since we have sort of taken a step back. | ||
From the Trump train. | ||
Every day that I don't have to compile my notes together for how we're going to defend the latest Trump failure setback. | ||
Every day that this happens I feel a great weight has been lifted off my shoulders. | ||
I no longer carry the responsibility To be the white pill dealer for every Trump voter. | ||
To be a de facto liaison for the press office and the White House. | ||
Now I can just tell it like it is. | ||
We always tell it like it is, but honestly it does feel good. | ||
I do feel like All the caring, all the conviction. | ||
Now that we've gone Joker mode, it does feel a little bit nicer. | ||
But we've got a great show for you tonight. | ||
There are some interesting things that I've got for you to discuss. | ||
Now, yesterday we talked about the Yang Gang. | ||
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Alright? | |
We talked about getting the bag. | ||
I said some things which made some people uncomfortable. | ||
Some of the boomers, I could tell, weren't really on board with it. | ||
I could tell a lot of the mogapeds, a lot of the hardcore free market people weren't totally on board with it, but I made a discovery last night and this is something I think that's going to shock everybody and rock your world. | ||
Of course, Andrew Yang, the fixture and the flagship component of his platform is the universal basic income. | ||
He wants to give everybody $1,000 a month, no strings attached, no matter who you are, how much you make, what race you are, everybody gets $1,000. | ||
And people say that's a radical proposal. | ||
You know, welfare, Social Security, Medicaid, nobody bats an eye. | ||
But you promise $1,000 a month to every man, woman, and child in the country and everybody loses their minds. | ||
And I did a little research last night and I discovered it's actually not such a radical idea. | ||
I actually discovered that the UBI already exists in America! | ||
For people that are saying, how could he get this done? | ||
It would be impossible! | ||
How could he afford it? | ||
It would be too much money! | ||
I looked into it. | ||
I did the research so you didn't have to. | ||
And it was tough because these statistics, believe me, they're very hard to find. | ||
And you'll understand why. | ||
But I discovered that America has actually had UBI for over a century! | ||
And so we're going to be discussing that tonight, why you really shouldn't fear the UBI, why you shouldn't fear $1,000 a month, because really it's already here in America as we speak. | ||
You know, it's sort of like when conservatives whine and complain about socialism or big government. | ||
It's already here. | ||
It's been here. | ||
And hey, we're doing just fine. | ||
So we're going to talk about that. | ||
I've got a whiteboard prepared for you. | ||
This one is a serious whiteboard. | ||
I know I might have tricked some of you guys yesterday. | ||
I said I had this big... | ||
Elaborate whiteboard and then I pulled up what is really quite simple, which is, hey, it's a thousand dollars a month. | ||
But tonight I have a real whiteboard for you to sort of illustrate my point on that matter, on the universal basic income, why you shouldn't be afraid of it. | ||
And so we'll discuss that and then we will talk about the latest contribution from the Trump administration. | ||
Boy, We just keep winning. | ||
You know, when Donald Trump said during the campaign, you're going to get tired of winning and we're going to win and you're going to say, please, Mr. President, stop winning. | ||
It's too much. | ||
And I'm going to say, I don't give a damn. | ||
I, it didn't really make sense to me because here we are two years later and there's no wall and we're still involved in all the wars and the trade deficits are still out of control and they're probably still going to kick us all off social media. | ||
So I was a little confused. | ||
I was like, wait a second. | ||
We're not doing any winning, actually. | ||
Well, you know, the corporations are doing the winning, but we're not doing any winning. | ||
And then a little lightbulb came on in my head, and I said, oh, wait a minute! | ||
Hey, wait a second! | ||
When he said, you're gonna get tired of winning, you're gonna get bored with winning, we're gonna win so big, when he said it at the Republican National Convention. | ||
He wasn't talking to us, he was talking to Israel! | ||
Oh, so that's what he meant by we're gonna get tired of winning. | ||
The we was not the American people, it was Jews! | ||
Oh, so now it makes a lot more sense. | ||
And so we're gonna get into that towards the end of the show. | ||
That'll be the feature of the show, just the latest victory For Trump's base, which is of course Zog, the Jewish lobby, the Israel lobby, these are all separate things. | ||
He is now officially, or he's moving towards, rather, he's moving towards officially recognizing the Golan Heights as Israeli territory. | ||
And you might be thinking to yourself, what's the Golan Heights? | ||
You know, because you live in America, and the Golan Heights aren't in America, so you might be like, why are we doing that? | ||
Well, I'll explain why that's a very important thing for Bibi Netanyahu, the Likud party, and Israel, and we'll get into why that's such a big deal that we're recognizing their sovereignty. | ||
But, you know, I think it's a good thing. | ||
I think, you know, they are our closest ally, the only democracy in the Middle East. | ||
Hey, it's only right that our presidents serve them. | ||
So, we're gonna get into all of that. | ||
I gotta tell you, though, before we jump into the news, I almost wasn't going to come on the show tonight. | ||
I almost wasn't going to come on because I tell you, last night, you know, I do the show, I have a little bit of dinner afterwards, and I'm hard at work in the content kitchen, alright? | ||
I'm making phone calls, I'm making spreadsheets, there's big things happening, big plans in the works. | ||
I'm inspired! | ||
Now that we're in the yanking, I have to say I'm inspired! | ||
You know, even the mere suggestion of, you know, alleviating financial insecurity or regulating Twitter and YouTube, now that all that stress is off my shoulders, I can feel my IQ rising 13 points. | ||
I can feel my stress levels going down. | ||
I can feel my happiness going up. | ||
It really is a transformative effect when you put humanity first, but... | ||
You know, last night I had my dinner, and I'm hard at work, I'm inspired to make humanity first again, so to speak. | ||
And then I got hungry, you know, towards midnight, and the kitchen was closed, Mom wasn't gonna make me anything. | ||
That's the thing, she goes to bed at like 10, so I'm just kind of out of luck afterwards. | ||
Normally, I'll just I'll just sort of go to like the fridge or the pantry and I'll just keep going back and forth and eventually... Do you want me to just make you something? | ||
Oh, that would be so great! | ||
But that's not an option at midnight. | ||
So I go out to Wendy's and I go through the drive-thru and I'm hungry. | ||
And I say, I had a taste for the chicken nuggets. | ||
I had a taste for some tendies. | ||
So I say, I'll get the 10-piece nuggets and fries. | ||
And then I thought, well, I'm really hungry. | ||
I don't know. | ||
I might as well. | ||
So I got a Dave's single also. | ||
So then I go and I park. | ||
And I like to eat in the car. | ||
I don't like to eat it at home because then it's not warm anymore. | ||
So I go and I park and I'm just kind of hanging out and I'm just slamming back 10 chicken nuggets, the burger, the fries. | ||
And then at like 4 or 5 a.m. | ||
I'm like curled up in bed. | ||
I'm like delirious. | ||
I get out of bed and I'm discharging. | ||
I think most of the meal exited out the front. | ||
I think most of the meal ended up coming back from where it came from. | ||
And so all today was a little rough. | ||
I wasn't feeling so hot. | ||
But I do it for you, the people. | ||
I think Andrew Yang and Keck. | ||
You know, Keck has returned, and he is with Andrew Yang. | ||
He has blessed us now. | ||
And so I have the energy. | ||
I have the strength to carry on. | ||
So I think I should thank Mr. Yang for even having the show. | ||
Because it was like 6 o'clock. | ||
I'm like, you know, there's nothing really going on in the news I'm not feeling so great, but I said no I I have to do it. | ||
I've been I've been too lazy I've been Canceling too much. | ||
But anyway, we're gonna dive right into our first story here tonight, which is You know, again, this might come as a shock to people because they see all the activity going on with Andrew Yang and rightly, I think somewhat rightly, the first instinct is to say, and this is sort of carrying on from last night's show, because this is a pretty remarkable thing that's happening. | ||
This entrepreneur, this You know, nobody. | ||
A candidate with no name recognition is now in the betting markets, in the polls, rising rapidly in funding. | ||
I mean, it is crazy what's happening with Yang. | ||
This didn't even happen with Donald Trump. | ||
Understand this. | ||
You know, when Donald Trump declared in July 2015 Even he did not see this kind of surging effect. | ||
I don't believe that Andrew Yang did. | ||
And this is unmatched by anybody else in the field. | ||
In fact, the more mainstream candidates like Kamala Harris and others are having disappointing numbers in terms of engagement, in terms of search volume, in terms of some of the other things going on, fundraising. | ||
So that Andrew Yang is rising, that his movement is being spread far and wide in the dissident right, I mean, this is a big story. | ||
This is something everybody's talking about. | ||
Even journalists are picking up on this. | ||
There was an article, for example, today in the Daily Beast talking about how, oh, Andrew Yang's message is appealing to white nationalists like Richard Spencer, Faith Goldie, and Nick Fuentes, which They should be put in jail for- I don't understand how they can continue to do that. | ||
I'm not this, I'm not this, I'm not a white nationalist, and then every- oh, white nationalist is this guy, then this and the other thing. | ||
Anyway, but so they do this whole piece about it and it really is a game changer for the Democratic primary. | ||
It really is a wild card. | ||
And this is why I've been saying For so long. | ||
And I've been saying this for years, actually, now, that we really can't make any predictions about 2020 because the race hasn't even started. | ||
I mean, we don't even know who all is going to be in the field. | ||
It looks like Beto will announce. | ||
It looks like Biden will announce. | ||
But, I mean, they haven't even announced yet. | ||
And we don't know. | ||
Will Andrew Yang rise up? | ||
How will the progressives fare? | ||
And so on. | ||
But, anyway, so this is a continuation off last night. | ||
It is a very important subject. | ||
What we're going to be focusing on tonight is this human-centered capitalism idea, right? | ||
The UBI. | ||
That's what it's about. | ||
And there are a few misconceptions about the UBI, the Universal Basic Income, the proposal again, which he's calling the Freedom Dividend, to give everybody $1,000 a month. | ||
Again, regardless of income, regardless of age, regardless of anything else, you just get it. | ||
Which is, first and foremost, is not supposed to be like a permanent thing for people thinking, oh, we're going to live off of UBI. | ||
I mean, you could try that, but for most people, what this is is simply just a little bit of extra funds, a little bit of financial security to give you peace of mind. | ||
Because we find that with health care costs rising, with the cost of education rising, you know, those kinds of essentials which are out of control, you know, in terms of cost, and wages are stagnating or going down, we find that this is having a very bad effect on people. | ||
The middle class is being hollowed out. | ||
And a lot of liars, a lot of neoliberal liars will say, that's because everybody's so well off now. | ||
You know, that's the myth that they peddle, is the reason that The middle class is being completely eliminated and hollowed out is because people are getting richer. | ||
Well, I mean, maybe to a certain extent, some people are sort of breaking away because they're moving on to the upper middle class. | ||
But regardless of that, what you see is that you're having poor and you're having rich. | ||
The poor people don't really have a shot. | ||
So many people oppose this universal basic income on the grounds that, well, this represents welfare. | ||
This represents a give me. | ||
This represents a government handout. | ||
This will incentivize immigration and everything else. | ||
And I'll say, like I said last night, none of these objections really matter because, number one, country is doomed. | ||
Number two, the rules don't matter. | ||
But I just want to show for any of the remaining doubters that we actually already have universal basic income. | ||
Even if you You don't like it? | ||
You think it's not feasible? | ||
You think it's not affordable? | ||
Um, sweetie, we already have it in the country. | ||
And I've got a whiteboard to sort of demonstrate exactly what I mean by that. | ||
Some people might be thinking, Nick, what are you talking about? | ||
I've never heard of universal basic income. | ||
This is the first time I've heard about this. | ||
We don't have that in this country. | ||
In this country, you have to work! | ||
In this country, you have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps You have to grind, alright? | ||
If that means you're working at McDonald's until 5, and then you're driving Uber basically at a loss until 11, and you know, you don't have healthcare and everything else, well, that's just the American dream, says the boomer on their yacht. | ||
But I'm gonna show you that that's actually not true. | ||
That's actually not how it works in this country. | ||
We already have it, to a big extent, for a lot of people. | ||
So I'm gonna show you what I mean by this. | ||
This is a little visual summary of universal basic income in America. | ||
Now this whiteboard might upset some people, it might upset some of my viewers, but it is totally factual. | ||
All these numbers are from the U.S. | ||
Census, and like I said at the top of the show, these stats are difficult to come by. | ||
They don't really want you to know this information because Maybe that might breed conflict because, you know, it tends to ruffle some feathers when some people are going to work every day and they have to pay taxes and other people don't go to work every day and they get money anyway. | ||
They get money from the taxes. | ||
So we're going to go over here in pretty great detail, some specificity, the universal basic income program that we already have. | ||
If you look at senior citizens, so people over the age of 65, this is baby boomers, okay? | ||
People over the age of 65, I believe is what? | ||
1959, is it? | ||
Am I doing my math correctly there? | ||
Let me, I don't know. | ||
I'm live, so I can't, I'm not gonna do the math live. | ||
What's 2019 minus 65? | ||
Yeah, oh 1954. | ||
So the first 10 years of baby boomers, these qualified seniors, senior citizens in this country, 90% of them are receiving some form of social security. | ||
40% of seniors would be below the poverty line if not for social security. | ||
So this is a fun, this is a fun little game I like to play. | ||
A fun little trick which I think we're gonna play throughout the Democratic primary. | ||
The next time you're online, the next time you're at a campaign event or anything like that, And you see some baby boomer waddle up to you in some like Hawaiian shirt and their Keens or those New Balances, you know those big blocky white nurse shoes. | ||
And they say, hey Sonny, you just won a government handout. | ||
When I was your age, back in my day, we had to work for our keep. | ||
You know, something to that effect. | ||
These annoying People, you know, the next time you hear something like that, ask them if they're on social security. | ||
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So the next time you hear about, oh, well, universal basic income, we can't afford that, that's a government handout, and all this other stuff about the dignity of hard work and capitalism from these turning point boomers, why don't you ask them if they're on social security? | ||
Because nine out of ten of them are gonna say, yeah, I'm on social security, and four out of ten rely on that social security. | ||
And look, hey, For a lot of baby boomers there's there's uh I will say there is some exception. | ||
I have certain people in my family who probably deserve it but you know look if these baby boomers are coming around saying hey we're gonna protect the bag you're not getting anything from the bag we have to tell them uh you can't have everything in the bag you're over there hoarding the bag pretending the bag doesn't exist say we could never afford the bag Getting the bag is immoral and undignified. | ||
Yeah, well you're sitting on the biggest friggin bag, and it's bankrupting the country. | ||
So, 90% of seniors, they're getting a UBI. | ||
Isn't that interesting how that works? | ||
Blacks! | ||
I'm a black man myself, alright? | ||
I'm 1.5% black, and hey, you might be thinking to yourself, I deserve it. | ||
Alright, black people deserve it. | ||
They've been through enough in this country. | ||
They were slaves, and then people were mean to them, and they couldn't go to the same schools, and what's happening now? | ||
Now people are crossing to the other side of the street at midnight when they're roaming the streets looking for trouble. | ||
You know, so I get it. | ||
Maybe you're thinking, well they, why should they work? | ||
Why should they work? | ||
They deserve to live for free. | ||
Well, in spite of that, 42% of blacks are actually on government assistance. | ||
Now again, that's fine. | ||
They deserve it. | ||
Even though they're better off than they are in Africa. | ||
Whatever, it doesn't matter. | ||
But they are about 42%, and I would imagine probably a little bit more, because I don't believe these numbers include the full extent of state and federal assistance. | ||
So basically, the next time you see... And by the way, blacks are the ones that are going to have a problem with UBI. | ||
But the next time you see a black person, flip a coin. | ||
If it's heads, they're on welfare. | ||
If it's tails, they're not. | ||
Or maybe they are. | ||
And again, I hope that doesn't come across as offensive. | ||
I say this as a proud black man myself. | ||
And I'm very proud of my American black ancestry. | ||
I imagine I probably had American slave ancestors in this country. | ||
So, you know, believe me, I do understand that. | ||
But the universal basic income, so far we see it applies to almost all seniors, half of blacks, Hispanics, 36% are on government assistance. | ||
Now, I'm also Hispanic. | ||
I identify as Afro-Latino, so I can wrap my head around why these people are getting money. | ||
But, you know, they never really had to experience slavery in this country. | ||
They never had to experience Jim Crow. | ||
Actually on the census prior to the 70s 80s or 90s, I forget exactly when this happened, they were counted as white in the census. |