Feb. 15, 2022 - America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes
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| Face from the Chinese government. | ||
| It's not that much different and I'm living proof. | ||
| The first political content that I ever saw was an interview with Thomas Sowell actually for the Hoover Institute. | ||
| Every single time the reduction in the tax rates has led to an increase in tax revenue. | ||
| So I hear people on television saying how the government can't afford to give this tax cuts to the rich, you know, not giving anything to anybody. | ||
| The first book I read was Free to Choose by Milton Friedman and, you know, from that point on I was political. | ||
| Good evening, everybody. | ||
| You're watching America First. | ||
| My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes. | ||
| We have a great show for you tonight. | ||
| I've been doing this show now for four years. | ||
| Really, it's been a quest for truth and for knowledge ever since I got into this stuff, which was when I was a little kid, ever since I was in middle school. | ||
| I started to realize that there would be consequences for my views almost immediately. | ||
| I started my show America First in February 2017, and the first ever hit piece that was written about me came in April 2017 in response to comments I had made on my show. | ||
| And of course, the comments were taken out of context. | ||
| The first major wave of deplatforming was in 2019 that I got banned from Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and then PayPal. | ||
| People forget how rapidly that's accelerated. | ||
| I distinctly remembered when tech censorship arrived on the scene as a new phenomenon. | ||
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I got banned from Twitter! | |
| And now, that's just the law of the land. | ||
| I was suspended from Twitter yesterday. | ||
| Permanently suspended. | ||
| Gone. | ||
| The big tech companies have launched their fiercest attack yet on your right as an American to follow your conscience and to say what you believe. | ||
| There was this sense ever since I got started that total deplatforming was inevitable. | ||
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They banned the sitting president of the United States from Twitter. | |
| They don't give you a reason. | ||
| It's not like they have a good reason. | ||
| I'm now banned from every major social media platform. | ||
| As somebody who was deeply entrenched in the media ecosystem and in the landscape, it was pretty clear what the writing on the wall was, which is that everybody is going to be deplatformed from everything, and it's only a matter of time. | ||
| Currently, the FBI is pursuing an investigation against me for my involvement at the Capitol. | ||
| I had done nothing wrong at the Capitol. | ||
| I committed no crime. | ||
| I went there for the Trump rally on the Ellipse, which was just outside the White House. | ||
| I walked to the Capitol with hundreds of thousands of other people for a civil, First Amendment-protected demonstration. | ||
| I didn't participate in any violence, illegal criminal activity, and so on the one hand I knew I had done nothing wrong, but I also know that in this new country that we have, that doesn't necessarily protect you from law enforcement. | ||
| I won't even know when the investigation ends. | ||
| It may still be going on. | ||
| It may not be. | ||
| They don't actually tell you. | ||
| It's open-ended as far as that's concerned. | ||
| They investigate you. | ||
| They don't tell you when it ends. | ||
| And it could be years before they return, before they show up, before they build their case and finally decide to bring you in. | ||
| And if they decide not to do that, well, they'll never tell you either way. | ||
| They don't tell you that either. | ||
| One night I think I was playing video games or streaming or something and before I started up to go to bed I checked my email and I saw my email that my credit card had been declined for some subscription and I said well that's weird I don't think I'm over my limit on my credit card as far as I know it's a good credit card and so I go to my online banking app and I see that on my checking account it was zero dollars | ||
| And understand I had something like a half million dollars in that checking account just the other day. | ||
| And so at first I assumed, I thought this is a glitch, you know. | ||
| So I refreshed the app and nothing changes. | ||
| I closed the app, I reopened it, nothing happened. | ||
| And upon further investigation I saw there was a legal order placed on my account. | ||
| I went through my transaction history and I saw legal order and subtracted my entire bank balance. | ||
| I froze both my credit cards and my entire checking account was frozen, which is where nearly all of my cash was. | ||
| I called customer service at the bank. | ||
| I said, where's my money? | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| They said, well, we'll get to the bottom of this. | ||
| They called their legal department. | ||
| They call me back a few minutes later and they tell me, your account is under review and we could give you no other information. | ||
| And I was furious. | ||
| I said, are you kidding me? | ||
| I had all this money one day and now it's gone. | ||
| When's it going to be released? | ||
| Who's doing this? | ||
| Why is this happening? | ||
| And they just kept saying the same thing. | ||
| All we could tell you is your account is under review. | ||
| And so I called the bank every single day for two weeks. | ||
| Multiple times every day for two weeks. | ||
| And finally after about, I think it must have been 15 or 16 days, she calls me back. | ||
| And she says, Mr. Fuentes, I have some good news for you. | ||
| We have an update on your account. | ||
| In order to get in touch with the people that have placed a legal order on your account, you can call these numbers, and she gives me three phone numbers for U.S. | ||
| attorneys working for the Department of Justice. | ||
| And so at that point, I know this is an FBI investigation. | ||
| At that point, I know this is the Department of Justice, which has placed a freeze on all my cash in my bank account. | ||
| And the reason why this is so crushing is because the Department of Justice and the FBI are immovable. | ||
| Because of the War on Terror, because of the Patriot Act, because of how the federal government operates, they really can do whatever they want to whoever they want, and there's nothing you can do about it. | ||
| And so I talked to my lawyer, I asked him, can I get my money back? | ||
| Is there anything I could do? | ||
| Do they have to release it? | ||
| Which are the obvious questions that anyone would ask. | ||
| And the response is basically, they can take your money, they don't need a reason, and they can keep it as long as they want and they don't have to give it back. | ||
| And this is how the federal government works. | ||
| A lot of people assume that because this is America and not Russia or China that there must be something that can be done. | ||
| You must be able to sue. | ||
| You must be able to file something and pursue some kind of recourse. | ||
| But sadly, that's not the case. | ||
| If you find yourself the subject of an FBI investigation, if you find yourself a target of the federal government, there's really nothing more that you can do. | ||
| It's as inevitable as death or gravity. | ||
| The federal government is going to do what it's going to do. | ||
| And you're just along for the ride. | ||
| All of that concentrated power that's been built up in Washington D.C. | ||
| is being rotated and turned inwardly. | ||
| And the kind of shock and awe that we saw in 2003 or 2001, Patriot Act, Panopticon surveillance state, that's now being wielded by politicians, bureaucrats, connected, wealthy, elite people And they can now wield that and utilize that against people with American citizenship. | ||
| People that have done nothing wrong, are not criminals, are not a threat to society, but people that are merely an inconvenience or a problem to powerful people. | ||
| And so at that point, that's the total end of a free society. | ||
| That's the end of your rights, that's the end of your property, and it could be the end of your life. | ||
| And so that was the first major instance of the federal government coming after me after January 6th. | ||
| The End | ||
| to demand that Ron DeSantis strengthen his big tech censorship legislation. | ||
| I have it on authority that Ron DeSantis signed a toothless big tech censorship bill. | ||
| And so the press conference was supposed to be attended by me, Michelle Malkin, Laura Loomer, Lauren Witski, a few other friends of mine. | ||
| Lauren Witski flew into Florida the day before the press conference, and she had texted me that day and said that she was put through advanced screening. | ||
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So I show up to O'Hare Airport the morning of the press conference. | |
| I had an American Airlines flight booked from Chicago to Fort Lauderdale, and I was unable to print my boarding pass. | ||
| But I go to the kiosk, and the kiosk wasn't letting me check in either, which was weird to me, but it fell in line with my expectation. | ||
| I thought, well, I'm not able to check in because I'm on some kind of a list. | ||
| All I have to do is go to the counter and have them print my boarding pass for me and I'll be on my way. | ||
| I might have to go through security like others have but I'll be on a plane in no time. | ||
| So I go to the front desk. | ||
| So can you help me print my boarding pass? | ||
| The representative from American gets on the phone and she's on the phone for 30-45 minutes. | ||
| So I'm getting increasingly nervous like is this gonna work out like I was told it would? | ||
| And she gives me a disappointed look and she says I'm sorry but you're not able to fly today. | ||
| She told me, you don't have clearance to board a plane today. | ||
| And I said, what? | ||
| I said, can you call again? | ||
| She goes, okay. | ||
| She humors me. | ||
| She calls them up again, returns the same response. | ||
| I can't give you any information, but you can't fly today. | ||
| And, you know, my head starts spinning. | ||
| I'm thinking, is this the airline? | ||
| Is this the airport? | ||
| Is it the TSA? | ||
| Is it a federal thing? | ||
| Am I on a no-fly list? | ||
| Or is this something that's being administered by an airline or something more local? | ||
| She didn't have any answers for me. | ||
| She just told I couldn't get on a plane. | ||
| I said, I am political. | ||
| I said, I think that might have something to do with it. | ||
| She said, I looked you up. | ||
| She said, I suspect that that might be the case. | ||
| I said, okay. | ||
| She told me to try booking another flight from a different airline. | ||
| So I did. | ||
| I got all my bags. | ||
| I went over to the United Terminal at O'Hare. | ||
| I sat down. | ||
| I booked a flight. | ||
| United flight to Palm Beach, Florida. | ||
| So I go up to the counter to print my boarding pass. | ||
| Representative gets on the phone. | ||
| She's on the phone for 45 minutes. | ||
| She asks me, are you flying alone? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Are you planning on bringing a gun on the plane? | ||
| No. | ||
| You know, goes through a series of questions. | ||
| And then she says, I'm sorry, you can't fly today. | ||
| Same deal. | ||
| I said, is it the airline? | ||
| Is it the airport? | ||
| She said, I don't know, but I'm just being told by airport security, you can't fly on the plane today. | ||
| I said, okay, so I'm on a no-fly list. | ||
| America's first founder, Nick Fuentes, put on no-fly list. | ||
| It's a part of a very coordinated and systematic effort to intimidate and persecute people that are against the Biden administration, people that are against the American regime, specifically Trump supporters and the leaders of Trump supporters such as yourself and me. | ||
| Michael Sherwin, who is directing the Capitol investigation in DC, he said on 60 Minutes, and he actually got in trouble for it, he said the reason they went after the Internet celebrities and the people on social media first, when they were investigating the Capitol, was to create a shock and awe effect and prevent people from protesting the inauguration. | ||
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So I wanted to ensure and our office wanted to ensure that there was shock and awe that we could charge as many people as possible before the 20th. | |
| And it worked because we saw through media posts that people were afraid to come back to D.C. | ||
| because they were like, if we go there, we're going to get charged. | ||
| And so it represents a major escalation. | ||
| So I get home, I tweet about it, I say, hey, I'm on a no-fly list, and this goes viral. | ||
| Everybody starts talking about this. | ||
| Political dissident, persecuted, put on a no-fly list for his views. | ||
| That's the headline. | ||
| And what I find is that people are asking me for evidence. | ||
| And, you know, so I talked to Glenn Greenwald, I talked to a few other people. | ||
| and they were saying is there any way you could produce documentation that you're put on a no-fly list? | ||
| Is there any evidence you have that you're on a no-fly list? | ||
| And you know in the moment I wasn't thinking to pull out my phone and record I'm thinking about to get on an airplane this is an uneventful encounter. | ||
| I said no I don't have any evidence and in fact I found out that they're actually not even permitted the government is not authorized or permitted to tell you if you're on a no-fly list much less inform you in advance. | ||
| They don't send you something in the mail, they don't email you, they don't tell you, and even if you ask them they're not permitted to tell you whether or not you're on the list. | ||
| And I did just that. | ||
| I called the TSA and I asked them am I on a no-fly list. | ||
| I just had this experience and they told me that that's classified law enforcement information. | ||
| We can't tell you. | ||
| I went out to Midway Airport and I booked yet another flight. | ||
| A third flight. | ||
| A Southwest flight to Phoenix. | ||
| And I thought, surely, if I'm not on a no-fly list, I should be able to make this flight, because it's a different airport, different airline, different destination, different time of day, and I got there four hours before the plane departed. | ||
| So I thought, if I can't get on this flight, there's no reason that I wouldn't be able to, other than that I am on a federal no-fly list. | ||
| I'll be able to confirm it that way. | ||
| And this time I recorded it. | ||
| I tried to check in, wasn't able to do it. | ||
| On my phone, at the kiosk, I went to the customer service counter and had the exact same experience. | ||
| And there's no way I can get on this plane? | ||
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No. | |
| They're not letting you fly with Southwest. | ||
| With Southwest? | ||
| I'm not sure about other airlines. | ||
| Delta maybe? | ||
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I'm not sure. | |
| Okay. | ||
| I know that was a TSA number. | ||
| I'm not sure if you're blocked from all, just the no-fly list. | ||
| Did they give you a reason? | ||
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No. | |
| It's a no-fly list you said? | ||
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I'm not sure. | |
| Okay. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| They just told me that you're not allowed to fly. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| That's all they told me. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Alright, thank you. | ||
| And they told me there's no way I could fly today, there's nothing I could do about it, nobody I could talk to, and they didn't know if there was any other airline that would accommodate me. | ||
| And I recorded the whole encounter, posted it on social media, and that was the end of that. | ||
| That's how I figured out I'm on a no-fly list. | ||
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This overbroad dragnet swept up young Trump supporter and America First show host Nick Fuentes. | |
| Nick was just trying to fly to exercise his First Amendment. | ||
| You know, America's not a police state. | ||
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They are politically persecuting us. | |
| They are coming for us. | ||
| They are coming to destroy our lives. | ||
| Get Nick Fuentes off of the no-fly list. | ||
| He has no business being there. | ||
| He's not a domestic terrorist. | ||
| I'm so controversial to mainstream political people that they don't even care to talk about things that happen to me that they don't agree with. | ||
| When it's far-reaching censorship or even freezing of my assets, I've never had any sympathy from the mainstream before. | ||
| And ultimately, Tucker Carlson talked about it on his show that very night on Fox News. | ||
| This is a turning point in American history. | ||
| These are people, again, who have not been charged with crimes. | ||
| If they have been prevented from traveling within their own country by the administration because the administration doesn't like their political views, that is not democracy. | ||
| It's dictatorship. | ||
| Everybody, it seemed like, came together to say, well, even though we don't always like this guy, we don't like everything that he says, we don't agree with the fact that the government is now openly and actively persecuting dissidents. | ||
| The insurrectionists who breached the U.S. Capitol fall under the definition of threats to the homeland and should be immediately added to the TSA no-fly list. | ||
| People may not like my views. | ||
| They may not like me personally. | ||
| But I'm somebody that did nothing wrong. | ||
| And I'm being punished by the federal government in a real, tangible way that is really life-changing for doing nothing other than saying something that they disagree with, saying something that they don't like. | ||
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And we demand that we get a proper audit of every single parent from the state of Georgia! | |
| President Trump is our rightful president and we demand that he be seated for four more years! | ||
| This is a life-changing turn of events. | ||
| This is something where this changes my entire outlook now. | ||
| I can't just go to Florida on a weekend. | ||
| That's a 14-hour drive. | ||
| I can't just go to Phoenix on a whim. | ||
| That's a 27-hour drive. | ||
| I've not been charged with a crime. | ||
| I've not been convicted for committing a crime. | ||
| And yet, I'm essentially being punished and imprisoned in a certain way. | ||
| I'm having my freedom restricted. | ||
| It's almost like I'm essentially on house arrest. | ||
| They've taken my money. | ||
| They've taken my freedom to travel. | ||
| I've been banned from platforms and payment processors by banks. | ||
| And so I'm a person who has done nothing wrong, nothing that's violated the law. | ||
| I've not been charged with anything or convicted. | ||
| I've not been sentenced to a punishment. | ||
| And yet both public and private institutions have sentenced me to a lower quality of life than anybody else in the country. | ||
| Because I'm a political activist for a cause that they don't agree with. | ||
| And it's as simple as that. | ||
| I've done nothing other than host an internet livestream show. | ||
| I did some activism for Stop the Steal. | ||
| And because this challenges the current regime, that means that I can't board a domestic flight. | ||
| I'm sure I'm banned from international travel, obviously, if I can't fly to Florida. | ||
| I don't think they'd let me fly to another country. | ||
| And they took all my money. | ||
| And they didn't need a trial to do that, or a conviction. | ||
| They didn't even need a pretext for anything like that, or much less, they didn't need me to commit a crime to do all of that. | ||
| So this is a very terrifying precedent that they've set. | ||
| You know, and it's not even just the precedent, it's the thing in itself. | ||
| It's a precedent for everybody else, but this is my reality. | ||
| This is my life. | ||
| I think I've been targeted because I'm effective. | ||
| I'm somebody that has been isolated and separated out and singled out exclusively for this level of persecution because there are a variety of things that differentiate me from other people. | ||
| Up until they took my cash, I had no shortage of money. | ||
| I'm somebody who can mobilize my supporters in real life in any major city in the country. | ||
| I'm somebody who's a compelling, effective orator. | ||
| And, uh, you know, I'm somebody that people are very, very loyal to. | ||
| And I think if you look throughout history in the United States, it's these kinds of figures that tend to be killed by the government. | ||
| And, you know, if not killed, targeted, censored, everything like that. | ||
| You know, they went after Malcolm X, and RFK, and JFK, and MLK, and characters like this throughout the 60s and 70s. | ||
| They went after musical artists, and activists, and political figures. | ||
| And I think what differentiates me from most is I'm pushing a message which is really radically different from the mainstream, and I say that in a good way. | ||
| It's a message that is completely against the ruling regime in the United States. | ||
| It's completely against the regime that runs the public and private sector in this country. | ||
| And I can articulate that message in a way that is effective, in a way that is compelling. | ||
| I have thousands and thousands of people that are loyal to me, and I can mobilize them in a moment's notice in just about any major city. | ||
| I think taking all of that together, I don't discount that that might be one of the reasons why I've been singled out and targeted in the way that I have. | ||
| There are people that are voicing a similar message, but it's not as radical, and it's not as compelling. | ||
| It's not as rhetorically effective. | ||
| There are people with a bigger following than me, but they can't mobilize those people. | ||
| Those people aren't loyal to them. | ||
| And so, that's where I'm truly kind of a unique individual where, throughout Stop the Steal, I demonstrated a particular effectiveness which the federal government's very aware of. | ||
| This is what weaponization of the federal government looks like, and the legal system. | ||
| Don't count on a fair trial. | ||
| Don't count on the justice system. | ||
| There's no justice anymore. | ||
| They can wage this kind of terror campaign against you without a trial, without evidence, without a charge, without an arrest, and they have to tell you nothing about it, and it goes on in perpetuity. | ||
| I don't know how that could be constitutional. | ||
| I don't know how anybody could even see that as right or okay. | ||
| *Music* | ||
| *Music* Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo. | ||
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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 forward, it's going to be only America first. | ||
| America first. | ||
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| Good evening everybody! | ||
| You are watching America First. | ||
| My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes. | ||
| We have a great show for you tonight. | ||
| Very excited to be back here with you tonight on Monday. | ||
| And I hope you just enjoyed our world premiere of the America First mini-documentary, Episode 2. | ||
| And it's been a long time coming. | ||
| I know our first episode I think we unveiled... I want to say it was August or maybe it was fall of last year. | ||
| But we wanted to get that out before AfPak 3. | ||
| So last week before AfPak 3. | ||
| So I hope you enjoyed that. | ||
| We've had that for a little while now. | ||
| I think we did the footage for that back in June of 2021. | ||
| Oh my gosh! | ||
| So it feels like such a long time ago, but I'm glad y'all finally got to see it. | ||
| Looks like the reaction universally very positive in the live chat. | ||
| So I hope you all enjoyed that. | ||
| Our director on that is just brilliant. | ||
| And can we get an 07 in chat? | ||
| Can we get a big shout out and some cheers in chat for our director on that one? | ||
| I don't know if he wants us to give his whole docs out I know last time it was a little dicey with that but our director with our film team guy's just incredible absolute professional and I think he did an amazing job with that I mean everything from the graphics to the footage you know the production even the b-roll I thought very effective and I don't know about you but I was just texting him a moment ago that last Frame! | ||
| When it goes through and it lists everything that's happened to me, and it says, you know, he's never been charged with a crime, he's banned from all social media, banned from most banking institutions, the federal government took half a million dollars from him, he can't fly in his own country, and then it all fades away and it says he's never been charged with a crime. | ||
| I mean, you know, it's me! | ||
| That happened to me! | ||
| Like, that's my life. | ||
| And even me watching it, I'm like, whoa. | ||
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I'm like, oh my gosh. | |
| Wow. | ||
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I was tearing up a little bit. | |
| I have to say, I was feeling it a little bit. | ||
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I was like, you know, when you put it that way, yeah, it's pretty bad. | |
| So... | ||
| You know, if he's making me get all... If he's getting me emotional about it... That happened to me like a year ago! | ||
| And I'm watching this and I'm like, man, this poor guy... This poor son of a bitch, he did nothing wrong. | ||
| He didn't even get charged with a crime and yet... Look at what's happened to him, so... So if he can make me feel bad about my own story, it's like, wow, it's a good documentary. | ||
| So yeah, O7's in chat. | ||
| Hats off to him. | ||
| I don't know how these people do it. | ||
| I'm a big appreciator of film. | ||
| I've always loved film. | ||
| But, you know, liking film doesn't necessarily make you technically competent. | ||
| I don't know how they even begin to put this stuff together, but just really, really well done. | ||
| So I hope you all enjoyed that. | ||
| I loved it. | ||
| The show's gonna be a little bit different tonight. | ||
| There's actually a lot in the news right now, but I will save that for tomorrow. | ||
| Tonight I wanted to go over and cover the mini documentary you just watched. | ||
| I also wanted to get into the Louis Theroux documentary, if that's okay with you. | ||
| I don't want to spend the night just kind of talking about that stuff and then we'll read super chats and it you know even though it's a Monday it's gonna be more of a casual show tonight I hope you're okay with that but it's sort of a media night you know a documentary night on America first so I want to talk a little bit more about the mini documentary and sort of our plans for that because there's a little bit more on the way And then actually, I want to go over the Louis Theroux documentary, which just premiered yesterday. | ||
| If that's okay with you. | ||
| I know all weekend people are dying to hear me review it and all of that. | ||
| And I don't want to watch the whole thing on the show tonight because, honestly, I'm sick of it at this point. | ||
| If you were on Cozy TV yesterday, people watched it all day. | ||
| People literally watched it from the time it came out until midnight. | ||
| People were doing reaction streams and reviewing the clips and everything. | ||
| So I may watch some of the clips tonight. | ||
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Okay. | |
| But I want to just talk more broadly about it. | ||
| And that's going to be our show here on Monday. | ||
| Like I said, though, it's kind of like... I mean, it worked out that I have to do this show the following day. | ||
| You know, the documentary came out yesterday. | ||
| Now I've got to cover it tonight. | ||
| Which kind of sucks, because it's been slow news for weeks and weeks, and now something finally happens, and... We've got to save it for tomorrow. | ||
| But that's okay. | ||
| So that'll be our show. | ||
| Before we get into everything though, I just want to remind you as always to follow me on Gabin Telegram. | ||
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| Follow this channel here on CozyTV. | ||
| Click the follow button here and you'll get a notification whenever my show begins. | ||
| Because I know I'm a little bit on time tonight. | ||
| You know, normally I struggle with that a little bit. | ||
| But on these nights when I catch you off guard and I'm on time, you're like, what the? | ||
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What the? | |
| America first started? | ||
| It's not 10 o'clock yet! | ||
| I caught you lacking. | ||
| You're not following me on CozyTV. | ||
| You didn't get the push notification, did you? | ||
| If you got the push notification, you'd know. | ||
| I'm glad you didn't get the push notification not following me so you got to make sure to do that so click the follow button so you know in the future when I'm gonna be on time or a little bit late you know we never know it's it's a complicated business Also, remember to get your AFPAC tickets. | ||
| If you haven't gotten them yet, go to afpac.events. | ||
| We announced our speaker and special guest lineup on Friday. | ||
| Very, very, very exciting. | ||
| And already, we're expanding it! | ||
| So we're actually gonna come out with a new roster. | ||
| At some point this week, we've got a few more special guests. | ||
| We will be announcing one of our mystery speakers. | ||
| And we're even potentially getting more speakers! | ||
| So, honestly, AFPAC is always just a gift that keeps on giving. | ||
| If you missed the show on Friday, if you haven't seen it, our speaker lineup right now is this. | ||
| We've got our keynote speaker, our headliner, he will finish off the night, Nicholas J. Fuentes. | ||
| We also have speaking Vince James from the Red Elephants. | ||
| We've got Stu Peters from the Stu Peters Show. | ||
| Andrew Torba, the CEO of Gab. | ||
| And from the Fallen State and the Jesse Lee Peterson Show, we have Jesse Lee Peterson. | ||
| So really, really excited about that lineup. | ||
| It's honestly mind-blowing. | ||
| Some of our favorite cozy streamers. | ||
| We've got Vince Who brought down the house last year. | ||
| Honestly, I'm feeling threatened by him. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Every year at AFPAC, you know, this used to be easy. | ||
| When I was the only one in the room, it used to be easy. | ||
| Now, there's all this competition. | ||
| Not that it is a competition, but, you know, I sometimes feel a little bit of a competition. | ||
| And so at AFPAC One, we had Michelle Malkin come, and she, and it was like, gave everyone chills. | ||
| Like, everybody in the room had goosebumps when she gave her speech. | ||
| It was just amazing. | ||
| You could hear, at some parts of the speech, you could hear like a pin drop. | ||
| And she's, she's an English major, so you know, she's got a little, she has an education, it's not really fair, okay? | ||
| She has a little bit of an advantage. | ||
| And then some parts of the speech it was like people could hear us outside because the room was going crazy. | ||
| And then last year at AFPAC too, Vince gave this insane speech. | ||
| It was like half the length of mine, but everyone went insane. | ||
| People were banging on the tables, and if you remember, I was like, probably the highest energy speech of the night. | ||
| Just killer. | ||
| So he'll be joining us again this year. | ||
| I mean, I know people are excited just for his speech alone. | ||
| Maybe even more than mine! | ||
| So that's gonna be awesome. | ||
| We have Stu Peters, of course. | ||
| This guy just blew up over the past year. | ||
| Doing incredible on his show. | ||
| Streams every weeknight here on Cozy. | ||
| And this guy's pretty impressive. | ||
| I mean, I think like one year ago, if I'm not mistaken, he wasn't really even involved in politics. | ||
| Now, he's got one of the biggest shows in America. | ||
| He's got 300,000 followers on Telegram. | ||
| The guy's amazing. | ||
| Single-handedly ended Vernon Jones' political career, which we're very grateful for. | ||
| So we love Stu. | ||
| Andrew Torba, the man who needs no introduction, a living legend. | ||
| Single-handedly protecting free speech online on the entire planet. | ||
| It's the only platform in the world of that scale that is truly free speech. | ||
| I think it's the only platform, period, that's truly free speech. | ||
| And he's fought tooth and nail with no gratitude, with nothing from the system, from the establishment, for years to do it. | ||
| And now he's poised to be, I think, the new leader of Alt-Tec, if he isn't already considered that. | ||
| So he'll be speaking there. | ||
| And then, of course, we've got Jesse Lee Peterson, who, again, another one who needs no introduction. | ||
| Another legend from the fallen state history. | ||
| He'll be joining us and You know that the guy is just truly a character He's just gonna be I think everybody here used to watch a show every day on D live and and even to this day I think it's still on YouTube if I'm not mistaken so we love Jesse Lee Peterson an old legend and And a very funny, intelligent, and a pious man. | ||
| So we're very, I mean, I'm excited about that one too. | ||
| I met him a couple years ago at Politicon, one of my heroes. | ||
| So, that's our announced lineup. | ||
| And like I said, we've got two mystery speakers. | ||
| They are high caliber, they are impressive. | ||
| We will be announcing one of those speakers this week, so stay tuned on the show. | ||
| I think you're really going to like it. | ||
| I'll give you a little hint. | ||
| They're both anti-immigration, sort of what they're known for. | ||
| So we've got two government officials joining us. | ||
| I don't want to get too specific. | ||
| I really want to tell you, but I can't. | ||
| One of them you'll see at AFPAC 3. | ||
| We want to have a little bit of mystery, but one of them we'll be announcing this week. | ||
| And if everything works out, we should be adding to that lineup later this week. | ||
| So it's very exciting. | ||
| Our special guests you could check out on Gab, but we've got all your favorites. | ||
| A lot of the streamers here from Cozy will be there. | ||
| We've got Jayden, Dalton is now confirmed, Kai, Wurzelroot, we've got Patrick Holley, we've got Jared Taylor, Peter Brimelow, we've got Lance Videos, okay, if you could believe it. | ||
| Baked Alaska, Beardson Beardley, We've got, you know, I could go through the whole thing, but check it out on Gab. | ||
| We've got all your favorites. | ||
| We've got people from the mainstream, we've got people that are from the fringe, your favorites from Cozy, your favorites from other places. | ||
| A gathering like this has just simply never happened. | ||
| A coalition this broad and this deep has never happened. | ||
| We're rolling a thousand deep at this conference, and it's everybody who's anybody And the America First Movement is going to be there. | ||
| Michelle, of course, how could I forget? | ||
| She'll be a special guest as well. | ||
| She will be there. | ||
| And there may be some other people returning from last year also. | ||
| So it's gonna be a great time. | ||
| Remember, get your tickets at afpac.events. | ||
| We have a limited amount of tickets left. | ||
| I told you last week we opened it up once again with a limited amount of new tickets for sale, so... | ||
| Got to get them while you can. | ||
| I don't know how much longer they'll last. | ||
| Conferences in 10 days anyway, so I mean there's really just not much time So if you still want to go make sure you get them we open them up just for you But it's it's gonna be a big party. | ||
| Okay, gonna be a thousand plus people at this event catered dinner speeches If you get the reception or if you got the reception ticket You'll have a reception get a chance to mingle with me and the guests and speakers all around. | ||
| It's gonna be a great time. | ||
| So Make sure to check that out, too. | ||
| Okay Okay, okay. | ||
| So that's that. | ||
| And we'll get on with the show. | ||
| We'll get on into our topics for tonight. | ||
| I don't know if you noticed, but I got rid of my mustache over the weekend. | ||
| Gotta clean it up before AfPak. | ||
| It is what it is. | ||
| I wasn't happy to see it go, but, you know, I have to have a clean-cut presentation. | ||
| That's what everybody expects from me. | ||
| Societal norms. | ||
| If I become known as the guy with the mustache, you know, everyone's gonna go with the usual crap. | ||
| You know, you look like a porn star, you look gay, you look like a cop, you look like a... It's like, how about I look like a man with a mustache, okay? | ||
| So, I may bring it back after Act Pack 3, I don't know. | ||
| But, you know, there's just this real stigma to having a mustache. | ||
| It just isn't right. | ||
| Honestly, it's almost a cloaked form of racial hatred, in my opinion. | ||
| Like, when people give me these kinds of comments about my mustache, that's, it's the same sort of thing as like when that announcer called that basketball player a nappy-headed, you know, whatever. | ||
| Or, it's like when black women get offended when white women want to touch their hair. | ||
| Can I touch your hair? | ||
| Wow, your hair is amazing! | ||
| Same thing. | ||
| You know, look, I'm Italian. | ||
| I'm Mexican. | ||
| We have mustaches, okay? | ||
| It goes with the look. | ||
| It's just not right, okay? | ||
| It's not right for us to be chastised in this way. | ||
| And like I said, I think there's a racial animus there. | ||
| I'm not gonna lie. | ||
| I think it's, honestly, it's just this racism that is just trying to get out. | ||
| You know, I think they're just trying to say something about me as a Mexican-American, as an Italian-American. | ||
| I think that's what that is. | ||
| You know, they see me with my fro, You know, they see me with my frizzy hair. | ||
| They see me with my olive complexion. | ||
| And my stark features, my thick eyebrows, bushy eyebrows, and the mustache, and I go, look at this greaseball. | ||
| Look at this wetback. | ||
| Like, I think that when you say that about my mustache, what you're really calling me is a Dago, okay? | ||
| That's what you're thinking. | ||
| What you're thinking is you're calling me a wetback in your mind. | ||
| I see right through it. | ||
| This country is racist. | ||
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So, anyway. | |
| Maybe that's just me. | ||
| Maybe I'm just reading too much into it. | ||
| Maybe I'm just overly sensitive. | ||
| But that's kind of what I'm getting when you talk to me like that. | ||
| I'm just going to say that. | ||
| Anyway, so we had to go clean cut. | ||
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Even my parents are like, good! | |
| I was hanging out with my parents. | ||
| I shaved my mustache. | ||
| And I'm like, hey! | ||
| And, uh, they're like, hey, how's it going? | ||
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I'm like, hey, notice anything different? | |
| They're like, no. | ||
| I'm like, mom, I shaved my mustache. | ||
| You didn't notice? | ||
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She's like, oh my gosh, no, I didn't even notice you shaved your mustache. | |
| Like, what the heck, mom? | ||
| Now I know how girls feel. | ||
| You know when girls do something to their hair and then they, uh, they get all... | ||
| Pissed off you don't say something about it. | ||
| Not that I would know, but you know, I like to see that on TV sometimes. | ||
| That's how I, that's sort of how I feel. | ||
| It's like, wow, you really just don't even care about me. | ||
| Didn't even notice I shaved my mustache. | ||
| What the heck is that? | ||
| Same with my dad! | ||
| My dad comes home from work, and I'm like, hey, by the way, did you notice I shaved my mustache? | ||
| No, I didn't actually. | ||
| I guess I hated it so much. | ||
| Like, really man? | ||
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You had a mustache! | |
| Well, that was the 70s. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Well, so what? | ||
| What does that even... So what? | ||
| This is the current year? | ||
| You can't have a mustache? | ||
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Anyway. | |
| So, you know, you really, you just, you try so hard. | ||
| You try so hard to make an impression, you know. | ||
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Would it kill someone to say, hey Nick, you look good. | |
| Hey Nick, you look really beautiful today. | ||
| You look really handsome today. | ||
| Would it kill ya to give me a little compliment before I go to the big AFPAC, mom? | ||
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Can you tell me I look good before I go to AFPAC? | |
| Jeez. | ||
| I'm going to be sitting outside the hotel on the curb in the parking lot, you know, with my tie loosened, in my suit. | ||
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Someone's going to come out and say, hey, hey Nick, what's wrong? | |
| Nothing. | ||
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Nothing! | |
| My stupid parents didn't even care I shaved my mustache. | ||
| Who's that going to be, huh? | ||
| Who's that going to be? | ||
| Is that going to be Cathy Ju? | ||
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You know? | |
| Maybe Kathy's you. | ||
| She pulls up her dress and she runs out on her heels. | ||
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Oh my gosh, Nick, what's wrong? | |
| Everyone's expecting you in there. | ||
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We were waiting for your big speech. | |
| Oh, what's the use? | ||
| No one even cares that I shaved my mustache. | ||
| I look like shit. | ||
| Everyone's like, wait, Kathy, I didn't know you were here. | ||
| Oh my gosh, so good to see you. | ||
| Oh, I don't know. | ||
| I can't do it. | ||
| But then, you know, she's gonna, but then she's gonna whip me into shape. | ||
| She's gonna say, she's gonna give me that mermaid magic. | ||
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She's gonna give me that mermaid magic like in the Spongebob movie. | |
| She's gonna give me the mermaid magic and throw a little, she'll give me the mustache back. | ||
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All right, all right. | |
| Let's move on. | ||
| Mermaid magic. | ||
| Oh, that's a good one. | ||
| And then I'll go in, I'll rock out the show. | ||
| I'll go into the AFPAC and rock out. | ||
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That's funny. | |
| Okay. | ||
| All right, that was fun. | ||
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Anyway, so let's get on with the show. | |
| Listen, it's Valentine's Day! | ||
| It's really, it's Incel Day, okay? | ||
| It's total Incel Day. | ||
| Elliot Rodger, First Memorial, Incel Day, February 14, 2022. | ||
| Happy I Day to everybody. | ||
| Everybody out there, excuse me, who is incel. | ||
| You know, reclusive, sort of gamer, sigma, racist. | ||
| Like me. | ||
| You know, big big shout out, big big happy incel day to you. | ||
| We appreciate you. | ||
| You know, happy Valentine's Day or whatever, all the married people, all the, you know, people with girlfriends and everything. | ||
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Happy Valentine's Day! | |
| Hope it's really great. | ||
| I hope it's really awesome for you. | ||
| Happy incel day though to all my bros. | ||
| Happy incel day to my niggas and my zoomers and my gamers. | ||
| Happy Incel Day! | ||
| Jugheads, I see Jimbo in there, and Frenrios, and Clodheads, who I also see in chat. | ||
| You know, big happy iDay for you. | ||
| I'll get you, for Incel Day, I'm going to get you a box of ammunition and pizza, and I'll give you a 14-inch pizza. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Happy Incel Day! | ||
|
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So, not for violence! | |
| For aesthetic purposes and self-defense. | ||
| So, Vatards, I see Veda in there as well. | ||
| Happy I Day. | ||
| Beardson Beardly. | ||
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UX! | |
| Yo! | ||
| UX in chat. | ||
| Big shoutout to UX. | ||
| We missed you last night. | ||
| Veda sometimes is the only one streaming and then we're forced to watch him, you know, so. | ||
| Hey, good to see a UX. | ||
| I don't see Beardson in there, but you know, he sometimes calls himself an incel. | ||
| It's, you know, widely disputed, but that's okay. | ||
| It's incel day, so... Happy I Day for everybody! | ||
| Maybe that's why I'm thinking about, you know, Cathy Xu. | ||
| It's incel day and my mom wouldn't even notice that I shaved my mustache. | ||
| I mean, what the hell is that, right? | ||
| What the hell is that? | ||
| Happy Incel Day to you too, Mom. | ||
| You made it a perfec- You know, good morning, Mom. | ||
| Happy Incel Day. | ||
| You didn't even call me handsome today. | ||
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Not even my mom! | |
| No. | ||
| But yeah, there's something to that. | ||
| So anyway. | ||
| Yo, Yoba! | ||
| Yoba's not an incel. | ||
| He's Chad. | ||
| He's slaying. | ||
| Yeah, happy Incel Day, Chad. | ||
| Happy Valentine's Day, Chad, Alaska. | ||
| With all his girls. | ||
| Anyway. | ||
| Okay, so let's really get into the show. | ||
| So like I said, tonight I wanted to talk about the mini-documentary. | ||
| I also wanted to talk about the Louis Theroux documentary. | ||
| I've already been streaming for 45 minutes, so I'll talk for as long as I can, maybe half hour, 45 minutes here. | ||
| So first I want to talk about the mini documentary you just saw. | ||
| So, like I said, hope you enjoyed. | ||
| That was episodes 1 and 2. | ||
| We've got some plans for that. | ||
| I think we're going to produce maybe another episode. | ||
| So we'll see about that and I'll let you know about that. | ||
| And it may become a bigger project, so... We'll see where that goes. | ||
| But, you know, I think it's really important that we made that documentary like with the first one. | ||
| And now together, I think it's around 20 to 30 minutes. | ||
| It's somewhere in that ballpark. | ||
| But I'm really glad that we made those because I think it's very important for people to know, and this is a proof, in my opinion, of my credibility, what's going on with me and particularly what's going on with the persecution by the federal government. | ||
| I think that you can take those mini documentaries, one or two, and send them to anybody who's curious. | ||
| About me, about America First, about the persecution issue, the censorship in general. | ||
| And you could send that to any person. | ||
| I mean, probably would make more sense, any person on the right wing, any conservative. | ||
| And I think that they would be sympathetic to what we're doing. | ||
| And I think it allows people to look at me in a little bit of a different way, which is to say that You know, this show is very raunchy, this show is very edgy and offensive sometimes, and we'll get into that even with the Louis documentary a little bit more. | ||
| This show is sometimes totally off the rails. | ||
| But that being said, there is a target audience. | ||
| You know, my target audience is It's young people, and young people have a very specific sense of humor. | ||
| You know, I'm a young person myself. | ||
| And so the product that I'm creating, like any product in media, it has to have a target audience. | ||
| I can't watch Sean Handy. | ||
| I just can't. | ||
| Number one, he's a traitor, and I could get into reasons why later if someone has a super chat about that, but he's a traitor. | ||
| Number two, that format just doesn't work for me. | ||
| Me as a 23 year old guy, I just can't sit through that show every Monday through Friday. | ||
| And older people can. | ||
| You know, it's really for older people. | ||
| This show is meant for teenagers and people in college. | ||
| I'm speaking their language, I have their sense of humor, right? | ||
| It's dark, it's edgy, all of that. | ||
| And there's a lot of people that really can't wrap their heads around that. | ||
| It's a little bit tricky for them. | ||
| Some people, you know, willfully don't like it. | ||
| Some people are just very sensitive. | ||
| But for a lot of people, they just don't get that. | ||
| And so it's important to make propaganda like this that has a universal appeal. | ||
| It's important to make propaganda like that that can be shared with anybody. | ||
| So anybody could watch it and they say, you know, what's this guy about? | ||
| And I think taken together, those two documentaries kind of tell like my whole story. | ||
| Like at the end of the day, edgy, offensive, you know, makes a bad joke, says a bad word, whatever. | ||
| At the end of the day, I'm really just a young guy, 23-year-old, college dropout, doing the show in my family home. | ||
| And by the way, everybody says, oh, he lives in his parents' basement. | ||
| I don't live in the basement. | ||
| I live in the house, okay? | ||
| I do my show in the basement, but I very much live in the house with the family, okay? | ||
| You know, but people say that it has a certain connotation. | ||
| He lives in his mom's basement. | ||
| Well yeah, my mom lives here. | ||
| My dad owns the house, okay? | ||
| My dad lives here too, okay? | ||
| I'm a 23 year old man. | ||
| Everyone else my age moved back in with their parents after college. | ||
| It's not that weird. | ||
| Anyway... | ||
| But point being is it's not what people think when people come up with this caricature of me as like some kind of villain or a terrorist or a hate monger you know like like it was said in the documentary or some other thing. | ||
| It's like I'm really just a young guy doing this, doing this show, yet expressing my political views with no institutional backing, with no sponsors, I'm not paid by anybody, I don't have a boss, and it's a result of just strictly the things that I say that I've been targeted to such an extent by the most powerful institutions in the world. | ||
| And you know, to me, that's a very compelling story. | ||
| Because of the asymmetry at work. | ||
| I think that's really, it's the contrast which is so interesting. | ||
| Because you could see Donald Trump doing battle with Twitter. | ||
| You know, or Donald Trump doing battle with the administration. | ||
| Because he's the former president. | ||
| Or you could see some other politician, or Tucker Carlson. | ||
| Maybe he's there in Congress, or he's the main guy on Fox News, but here I am. | ||
| I mean with no backing, with really no big benefactor, no patron, no nothing. | ||
| I'm just a guy with a show. | ||
| I'm just a live streamer and young too. | ||
| And I'm doing battle with Bank of America, the FBI, the DOJ, the TSA, you know, the government, the private sector. | ||
| It's a David and Goliath story. | ||
| It's a very compelling story. | ||
| And that frame at the end where it says, you know, all the things that have happened to me, it's even mind-blowing to me, all the things that have happened to me. | ||
| And again, I mean, you would think based on that story, you would think strictly just based on what has happened, you know, people might say, oh, well, what did you do? | ||
| It's like nothing! | ||
| That's sort of the whole point, is even on 1-6, I wasn't even one of the people that trespassed. | ||
| I've done nothing other than talk. | ||
| Just talk. | ||
| Talk and tweet, and people don't like it, but as a consequence, then you see all these cascading consequences. | ||
| Boom, banned from all social media, all banks, all flights. | ||
| All your money's been seized. | ||
| All your income's taken away. | ||
| No person blacklisted like I'm a ghost, and for nothing, that's a really compelling story to tell people. | ||
| I think it's very sympathetic, and ultimately, I don't say these things like, we've got to make this compelling story. | ||
| It is a compelling story. | ||
| It is a David and Goliath fight. | ||
| It's what it is. | ||
| And if it seems sympathetic, that's because it is a very sympathetic struggle. | ||
| And it honestly is wild to me that so much of the population wouldn't be on board with that. | ||
| And when I say that, I'm talking particularly about liberals. | ||
| Because liberals claim to be the champion of the oppressed, and the little guy, and all that kind of stuff. | ||
| And in this instance, in my particular case, but also broadly in the country and in the world, they're on the side of power. | ||
| They're on the side of the Leviathan. | ||
| You know, when Bank of America, super powerful, too-big-to-fail bank, bans me from their services, they're cheering on the bank, you know? | ||
| And when the FBI is persecuting me and other Just honest, conservative, political activists. | ||
| The left is cheering them on, the FBI. | ||
| And same with the DOJ and the TSA. | ||
| 20 years ago, an institution like the ACLU would defend somebody who was on the no-fly list. | ||
| But that was back when there was Muslims being targeted. | ||
| Now that it's white guys, they don't care. | ||
| Now that it's white guys, they have no interest in representing me. | ||
| So... | ||
| So I think that making things like that is very important and I hope you enjoyed at the end it was I think the ending really brought it all together really tied it together when it showed some of these clips from the rallies and there was some stuff in there about like Martin Luther King jr. | ||
| and Malcolm X Like I said, we're going for a universal, hey, we're going for a broad, universal appeal here. | ||
| Because I knew, you know, MLK comes on the screen and the whole live chat lights up and says, FMLK! | ||
| NJM is better than MLK! | ||
| And I agree with you there. | ||
| But there's no harm in sort of throwing that out there. | ||
| And you know, some of these boomers can go, yeah, just like Martin Luther King Jr., that hero. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So that was episodes 1 and 2 of the mini-documentary. | ||
| And, you know, just to answer maybe an obvious question, there's still been no movement on that. | ||
| As of today, I am still on the no-fly list. | ||
| I have filed a lawsuit in the district court in D.C. | ||
| We have not gotten a response from the attorney general, which is who would respond to that. | ||
| So that's an update on our no-fly list situation. | ||
| So it's pretty tough. | ||
| It's pretty tough. | ||
| And I'll be driving a half-pack three all over again, just like I was last year as a result. | ||
| So that's where we are with the no-fly list. | ||
| But like I said, hope you liked it. | ||
| And please do share it with other people. | ||
| We'll be posting that on band.video, GabTV, Telegram. | ||
| We'll be posting it on all of our major platforms, so you'll be able to find it really no matter what. | ||
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So that's that. | |
| Now I want to get on to the Louis Theroux documentary, which is I think what everybody wanted to see tonight. | ||
| Excuse me. | ||
| And I will pull it up on Gab here for you to see some of the clips. | ||
| I want to watch some of them with you. | ||
| Some of the best ones. | ||
| So let me get my headset out real quick and we'll go through them because I know people were just dying to see it. | ||
| So let's see, do I have it? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So here we are. | ||
| Here's my GAAB profile. | ||
| And we'll go through. | ||
| So, in case you don't know, the other day there was a... Well, let me just tell the whole story. | ||
| So, let me switch back over here to do that. | ||
| We don't need to be here. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So about two years ago, this was, I think, in Spring 2020. | ||
| Now mind you, this was right after the MTV documentary came out. | ||
| If you don't remember that story, I'll go over that briefly just to set the stage. | ||
| So we have to go way back, okay? | ||
| So back in February, because it's important, it's important to tell the full story here on the documentaries. | ||
| And honestly, I think this will give you a good idea of how the press operates. | ||
| This is very important for anybody to understand. | ||
| This is important To understand politics? | ||
| In order to understand politics, you need to understand the role that media plays, and how media operates, and what kind of people are in media. | ||
| It's very important. | ||
| And also, particularly for dissidents, it is important for this message to be here. | ||
| And I uniquely have a very intimate history here with the media. | ||
| So, this was four years ago now. | ||
| Back in February 2018, MTV reached out to me. | ||
| MTV, you know, the MTV, the cable network. | ||
| They reached out to me and said, hey, we want to reboot this old series called True Life where they go in and they do an episode on a few different people. | ||
| And usually it's a certain kind of person for every episode. | ||
| And they show a particular lifestyle or something. | ||
| And so I got an email from a producer at MTV and they said, hey, we want to do a reboot of this show with an episode about you. | ||
| And they said the episode is going to be about young political people, young political influencers. | ||
| And they said, so we want to make a true life episode and part of it will be about your life as a right wing influencer and then we'll do half the show about a left wing political influencer. | ||
| Now, initially, I got that email. | ||
| It's a Jewish producer. | ||
| It's MTV. | ||
| They want to do a show about my life and what a cool life I have. | ||
| I said, yeah, I don't think so. | ||
| I said, yeah, not interesting. | ||
| And they were persistent. | ||
| They kept emailing and calling and they kept sweetening the deal. | ||
| They said, well, you can have control over what's in it. | ||
| You can film it yourself. | ||
| You could do this. | ||
| You could do that. | ||
| And so eventually I said, you know what? | ||
| If you're giving me all these assurances, you know, we'll give it a shot. | ||
| And so part of this was that they sent somebody out to do a preliminary interview and I could meet the producer and get a sort of feel for them and then decide if we were going to proceed. | ||
| So they flew their guy out, he met me, he met my family and everything. | ||
| And you know it felt okay, very nice guy, he brought the film crew with, we met all of them, it was fine. | ||
| And so they came over and they shot for a whole week in my house. | ||
| And it was a pretty, for that week, it was pretty intimate. | ||
| I mean, we were shooting from morning until night every day. | ||
| And they were just following me around doing my thing. | ||
| Like, not like waking up and stuff, but like, you know, I would wake up, get dressed, and then meet them. | ||
| And we would shoot all day. | ||
| We drove around, we got lunch, and they filmed me going to a rally downtown in Chicago. | ||
| They filmed me doing my show every night. | ||
| And, you know, my family was nothing but hospitable towards them. | ||
| I was nice to them. | ||
| You know, they wrapped up the documentary or the episode, the shoot. | ||
| We all felt good about it. | ||
| You know, my mom, like, baked them cookies, and we had dinner with them. | ||
| And it was, you know, we thought that they were who they said they were. | ||
| Very foolish of us. | ||
| But it's a first experience. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| I assumed that even if it was going to be a hit piece, even if it was going to be negative, at least it'd be publicity. | ||
| I thought it'd be free publicity in any case. | ||
| I was under no impression that they were going to do a great, nice episode about me, but I thought, you know, it might have some slant or something. | ||
| Anyway. | ||
| So then we said, hey, you know, when's this thing gonna air? | ||
| And they said, well, it'll air probably in March. | ||
| So this was February 2018. | ||
| They said March 2018. | ||
| So the premiere date rolled around. | ||
| We said, hey, so when's it gonna air again? | ||
| They said, oh, well, actually we're gonna do it in June. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| June rolls around. | ||
| We emailed them, hey, what's going on? | ||
| They said, well, we're shelving the project indefinitely, and we may air it sometime in the future. | ||
| And then we got mad. | ||
| We're like, okay, so what's going on here? | ||
| I mean, you come over here, you shoot for a week, you get all this footage. | ||
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Now what? | |
| You're not gonna shoot it? | ||
| I mean, that was a massive inconvenience. | ||
| Then they just stopped responding. | ||
| Fast forward to Groyper War, which is a whole year later. | ||
| This is in 2019. | ||
| This is a year and a half later. | ||
| This is in the fall of 2019. | ||
| I'm at the peak of my fame. | ||
| You know, we got Don Jr. | ||
| booed out of his event at UCLA, and they're writing about me in the Washington Post, and they're talking about me everywhere, and then it turns out that they took the footage that they shot for True Life and they repackaged it into a hit piece about white supremacy and terrorism | ||
| And so then they aired it in December 2019 which is close to two years after they shot it and it wasn't an episode of True Life about how I make my bed in the morning and you know and how I do my show and where I like to go get a burger. | ||
| It turned into a 10-minute segment in a bigger hit piece about like the KKK and Neo-Nazis and I sit down with a KKK guy and he tells me how everything you're saying is what we said back in the 90s. | ||
| And I published all this back in December 2019. | ||
| I said, here's the emails we got, here's their names, this is the kind of stuff they put us through, you know, so they basically just straight-up lied. | ||
| I mean, they lied to our faces for weeks and weeks and weeks. | ||
| They lied, you know, and we should have got it in writing, but you know, we're not lawyers here. | ||
| I was 19, 18 years old at the time. | ||
| You know, so they lied to us about all the accommodations they would make, they lied to us about who they were, the project they were working on, the whole deal. | ||
| And, you know, came in everyday with a smile on their face, lying to us, knowing full well what they were doing, which was basically, it was like a honeypot. | ||
| You know, coming in, getting my smiling face, and then plastering me all over their network in hit piece about how I'm a hateful Nazi terrorist, all this kind of stuff. | ||
| Which, you know, I don't really care who you are or what you think about me, but that's just fucked up, you know? | ||
| I mean, I have my views. | ||
| I understand people in Hollywood are liberal and they would disagree. | ||
| But that's just wrong. | ||
| It's dishonorable. | ||
| It's dishonest. | ||
| I would never do something like that. | ||
| You know, even though I am right-wing and even though I perceive the left as our political enemies and I vehemently disagree with them, I would never do something like that. | ||
| I don't think I could do something like that because I'm just fundamentally not a dishonest person. | ||
| And I understand you might tell a white lie, I understand you might tell a fib, you might try to do some kind of operation, but to go in for weeks and weeks and take advantage of somebody's hospitality and their kindness and their friendliness and all of that, and then to reciprocate it but be faking it, and your whole plan is to destroy those people? | ||
| It's just wrong. | ||
| And make no mistake about it, that is their intention. | ||
| To call somebody a white supremacist, neo-Nazi, KKK terrorist, you are trying to destroy them. | ||
| You are trying to ruin their life. | ||
| So here's this guy coming in and hugging my parents and petting my dog, knowing, like, I'm faking this. | ||
| I'm going to try to ruin your life. | ||
| I'm getting this footage to try to destroy your life. | ||
| I hate you. | ||
| And it's like, that's just wrong no matter who it is. | ||
| And I think that's a big difference between the right and the left. | ||
| And particularly that's something that journalists do is, Is there just scum like that and I think any famous person knows that there is just no and it's been like that forever But there's no integrity. | ||
| There is no they have no compunction No scruples about how to get there not even the truth Not the story not the scoop but their angle And that particularly makes it wrong. | ||
| It would be one thing if you were going in there to shed light on an issue and cover something, but that's not what they did. | ||
| They lied under false pretenses to capture a particular angle, which is, this guy is evil. | ||
| Not, here's who he is, judge for yourself. | ||
| No. | ||
| Scary music, scary lighting, dark lighting, and they would even tell me that. | ||
| I remember we were in the studio where I do my show, And, you know, we're doing an interview. | ||
| I'm sitting on the couch, you know, we're just talking. | ||
| And they go, why don't we turn all the lights off? | ||
| And we'll just have like a red light on your face while you're behind your computer. | ||
| We could get a shot like that. | ||
| And I said, well, wait a second. | ||
| I said, why would we do that? | ||
| He goes, you know, well, we just want to get sort of like a dynamic sort of feel, you know. | ||
| It's just sort of like a film thing, you know? | ||
| We want to just change it up a little bit. | ||
| It's better if the shots are dynamic, you know? | ||
| One shot you're here, one shot you're sitting there, the lighting's like this, the lighting's like that. | ||
| Now, earlier in the process, they said they wanted to get it as close to real life as possible. | ||
| They said they just wanted to be a fly on the wall and, you know, shoot my life. | ||
| I said, okay. | ||
| I said well I don't do this in the dark. | ||
| I said I'm not a bug. | ||
| I said I do it in the light. | ||
| I have the lights on. | ||
| I'm not sitting in the dark with a red light on my face. | ||
| I said that's not very realistic. | ||
| I said so we're not going to do that. | ||
| And that's a perfect example of, you know, why else would you do that other than you're visually trying to make someone look evil? | ||
| That's not telling the truth. | ||
| You're making a film. | ||
| You're telling a story that you created in your mind, you know? | ||
| You're creating an angle. | ||
| Um, and that's just one example of how, you know, this, oh, we just want to get another angle, so that we can repackage it for our hate speech documentary, so we have it in our back pocket in case you ever blow up, and then we can make you look like a terrorist and ruin your life. | ||
| Like, that's what journalists do. | ||
| So anyway, I exposed them for that. | ||
| I went on my Twitter and I put them on blast. | ||
| And I posted the email... all of this I have the receipts for. | ||
| I have it all documented. | ||
| I posted all of this on Twitter. | ||
| And I said, like, this is just like the level of... they're just scumbags, you know? | ||
| And like I said, any famous person will tell you who has to deal with the paparazzi or the press. | ||
| That's how they are. | ||
| You know, they'll show up to your house at 3 a.m. | ||
| taking pictures. | ||
| They'll make up stories about you. | ||
| It doesn't matter who you are. | ||
| A YouTuber, a musical artist, a TikToker, an e-celeb, an actor. | ||
| Doesn't matter. | ||
| And a right-wing person. | ||
| The media, that's just how they operate. | ||
| They're dirtbags. | ||
| Anyway. | ||
| So the reason I bring that up is to set the stage because you know then a lot of people are skeptical of why I participated in this documentary. | ||
| You know, a year ago I did a shoot with Louis Theroux from the BBC. | ||
| He's a big, famous British documentarian. | ||
| And people knew I was participating in this project and they said, well, why would you do that? | ||
| Don't you know it's going to be a hit piece? | ||
| Don't you know they'll make you look bad? | ||
| I bring up the MTV thing to kind of set the stage and to say, you know, it's not like I was under any illusions about what they're capable of and who they are and what they're about. | ||
| I went into it knowing full well. | ||
| And I got the same thing. | ||
| From Louis Theroux. | ||
| It was only a few months after the MTV thing that the Louis Theroux people reached out. | ||
| This guy Rory Toher, T-O-H-E-R, Rory Toher. | ||
| He reached out to me and he said, he was like, hey, I'm with Louis Theroux. | ||
| We want to do a documentary with you. | ||
| You know, we saw what happened with MTV. | ||
| He's even brought that up. | ||
| He said, we saw what happened with MTV. | ||
| We can assure you, you know, we're not going to be like that. | ||
| We really want to just get a feel for you. | ||
| We want to do something a little different. | ||
| Let me know if you have time to call. | ||
| And I emailed him back and I basically said like, yeah, like there's no way we're going to do this. | ||
| And emailed me back. | ||
| You know, and then I Googled who Louis Theroux is. | ||
| I Googled him and I watched his documentaries and I found out who the guy is. | ||
| And I said, oh, okay. | ||
| I said, this guy's a very famous person. | ||
| This is a big deal. | ||
| So I said, oh, I think there's a way, you know, I think there's a way that we could work this. | ||
| So I emailed him back. | ||
| I said, you know what? | ||
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I said, yeah, I think I might be open to it. | |
| Let's do a call. | ||
| That's what he calls me. | ||
| He says, oh, listen, Nick. | ||
| We saw what happened with MTV. | ||
| It's absolutely terrible. | ||
| You know, that's not what we want to do. | ||
| And he says something to the effect of, we want to cover like you're online. | ||
| We want to cover you as a young person who's online. | ||
| And we want to get some other people in the documentary like Soph from Censored TV and Gavin McGinnis and blah, blah, blah. | ||
| Okay, that's my fly out to Chicago, you know, they buy me lunch. | ||
| This is I think Maybe before or a little bit after the pandemic. | ||
| This is spring 2020 spring or winter 2020 and I go. | ||
| Yeah, you know, they flew all the way from the UK. | ||
| I said, yeah, I'll let you know they fly back then they go You know what like we have to postpone this because of the pandemic. | ||
| Okay, and Then after, you know, things start to loosen up in 2021, they say, hey, we want to pick this up again. | ||
| We want to cover AFPAC. | ||
| So I said, OK. | ||
| And we signed something that said they couldn't film anybody at the conference. | ||
| They couldn't show anybody's faces, just the people that agreed to be on there. | ||
| So, you know, that was never a concern. | ||
| They said they wanted to come and cover the conference and sort of my preparation for it and everything. | ||
| And I said, yeah, sure. | ||
| Now keep in mind, in 2021, here's my thought process was, I had just been banned from everything. | ||
| I've been banned from DLive, Facebook, Instagram, all my payment processors, and I thought I was going to lose my Twitter imminently too. | ||
| And so the thought process in 2021 was actually a lot different than it was before because the conventional wisdom was you don't want to participate in hit pieces, you don't want to give a comment to a journalist, not because they're going to use it as a hit piece. | ||
| Hit pieces can often be good publicity. | ||
| But because if they portray you in a certain way, and if it gets enough traction, you could get banned from social media. | ||
| That was always my thought process was, I never liked press up until 2021. | ||
| Because prior to censorship reaching its end stage, I thought that any noise, any attention is just going to increase the odds that I'm going to get censored. | ||
| Is DLive going to pull the plug? | ||
| Is Twitter going to pull the plug? | ||
| Are one of my other social media, is that going to get enough traction, make a big enough splash? | ||
| Are they going to be able to use what I say in the ADL? | ||
| And then the ADL is going to send that to Twitter and nuke my account. | ||
| Now, of course, in 2021, that dynamic completely changed because I have been banned from all social media already. | ||
| And also, without access to any mainstream platforms, it was going to be much, much more difficult to get any kind of publicity. | ||
| If you're not on Twitter, it's sort of like you're outside of the conversation. | ||
| If you're not on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, or TikTok, or Reddit, or Discord, it's really hard to make a splash. | ||
| It's really hard to stay relevant. | ||
| And there have been many people before who have been banned from everything, and it's the end for them. | ||
| And so I thought, you know, we're going to have to change our strategy here. - Right. | ||
| And one of the ways that we're going to have to reach a mainstream audience is by working through the media. | ||
| It's not ideal. | ||
| I don't like it. | ||
| Obviously, they've got a bias and a narrative. | ||
| But, you know, the effective hit piece is this. | ||
| People that already don't like us will continue to dislike us. | ||
| People that would probably dislike us if they watch my show will now dislike me. | ||
| But on the flip side, people that may be curious or sympathetic will watch it and they'll check out my show. | ||
| be, you know, right wing or conservative that didn't know a lot about me will learn more about me and then maybe they'll check out my show. | ||
| And of course, for the people that already like me, well, it'll just be good content for them. | ||
| I'll just get to do a stream. | ||
| I'll get to cover it. | ||
| It'll make good content. | ||
| We'll get high quality footage of me doing my thing. | ||
| So I thought there's really not a lot of downside. | ||
| We're not going to lose anybody doing this, but the upside is great, which is publicity, which is hard to come by. | ||
| And also it's going to be content from my audience. | ||
| And if there's even a, if there's even 1% of the audience is going to be curious and check out my show, it's going to result in a spike in viewership and volume and everything else. | ||
| So I said, okay, let's do it. | ||
| So I came to AFPAC, like I said, we signed papers that said they couldn't put people who didn't want to be filmed on their documentary, I know some people were concerned trolling me about that. | ||
| They were saying, oh Louis Theroux is going to dox everybody at the event. | ||
| They were never going to do that. | ||
| They wouldn't be able to do that. | ||
| So they came out to Orlando, they shot the conference, and then they shot some other people. | ||
| They came over to Chicago, they did some stuff with me back in May. | ||
| And throughout the whole thing they were saying, oh, you know, we're just trying to cover you, but very quickly it was obvious what they were doing. | ||
| You know, like I said, despite their assurances that it wasn't going to be a hit piece, the entire thing was just this interrogation. | ||
| You know, Louis comes out and it's, you're a white nationalist. | ||
| You're a white nationalist. | ||
| Tell me you're a white nationalist. | ||
| Why are you a white nationalist? | ||
| And, you know, it's so funny. | ||
| We did so much footage and so little of the footage that they collected of me even made it to the documentary. | ||
| Because we talked about everything. | ||
| We talked about, I believe, the no-fly list. | ||
| We talked about Julian Assange. | ||
| We talked about the stolen election. | ||
| We talked about Stop the Steal. | ||
| I mean, we talked about a lot of stuff and very little of it made it into the documentary. | ||
| And it was all the line of questioning was always something like this, you know, they would bring up something I had said in the past on my show. | ||
| And I would clarify and say, well, you know, that was either a joke, which it obviously was, or I would explain, I would elaborate and say, well, what I meant by that was this, that, and the other thing. | ||
| And these are my views. | ||
| And then they would, and this was the pattern, they'd say, okay, well, two years ago you made this comment. | ||
| Can you explain yourself? | ||
| And I would say, yeah, yeah, well, that part was kidding, and this part was serious, and this is what I meant by that. | ||
| And then they'd say, okay, that's great, but I'm trying to summarize it so you're a white nationalist. | ||
| I'm not going to tell you I'm a white nationalist because I'm not. | ||
| I'm not going to tell you I'm a Nazi because I'm not. | ||
| I'm not going to tell you I'm this, that, and the other because I'm not. | ||
| I'm going to explain my views. | ||
| I'm going to tell you what I think. | ||
| But it was always, you know, it was always this gotcha. | ||
| It was always this, I'm gonna try and make you look stupid. | ||
| I'm gonna bring up this, that, or the other. | ||
| Try and throw you off balance. | ||
| And I would very deftly just explain myself, and he would go, okay, that's great, that's great. | ||
| It's a little long, isn't it? | ||
| Why don't you say that, you know, just say... | ||
| you know, so you are a white nationalist? | ||
| And I'm like, I'm not going to repeat that language back to you. | ||
| Like, I know how this works. | ||
| I've done this before. | ||
| You know, I'm just not going to say that. | ||
| I'm just not going to, you know, help you put together this preconceived narrative. | ||
| And I even said during the shoot, I said it was actually very disappointing. | ||
| Number one, because they did lie. | ||
| I mean, they did lie. | ||
| And I knew they were lying, but it still is disappointing. | ||
| Because, you know, I think part of my likability is that I really am just a cards on the table guy. | ||
| I do wear my heart on my sleeve, for better or for worse. | ||
| Sometimes it gets me in trouble, sometimes people think I'm weird or whatever, but I am just honest. | ||
| I couldn't do this show and not be honest. | ||
| I'm live every night for five years, every single weeknight. | ||
| You can't hide. | ||
| There's nowhere to hide. | ||
| Not only that, but every night I field any question from anybody with three bucks or more. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| So when you talk extemporaneously for two, three hours a night, every weeknight for five years, and one or two of those hours is just getting any and every comment or question from anybody, there's nowhere to hide. | ||
| I couldn't do what I do if it was a carefully crafted persona. | ||
| It would slip at some point. | ||
| You know, just because I'm a human being. | ||
| I couldn't put on an act. | ||
| I couldn't put on some kind of comprehensive character. | ||
| It would be too much. | ||
| If I were some kind of big liar or some kind of phony, the contradictions and all of it would eventually catch up or slip or whatever. | ||
| I'm convinced you wouldn't be able, I don't think it's even possible. | ||
| And also I don't prepare enough. | ||
| You know, I mean, I smash out my notes. | ||
| I punch these out in like 15 minutes and then I go live for three hours. | ||
| Like there's no script here. | ||
| So that's a big part of my likability is that I'm very much just who I am. | ||
| I put on no pretense. | ||
| I put on no, there's no facade here. | ||
| And to some extent, when that is not reciprocated, no matter who it is, it is disappointing. | ||
| Because I try to connect with people. | ||
| I tried. | ||
| I am a little bit naive in that sense. | ||
| Sometimes I am a little bit trusting. | ||
| I tend to assume people are telling the truth, which is, you really should assume the opposite. | ||
| So it was a little bit disappointing because, you know, I had some, there was some hope that they were who they said they were. | ||
| You know, there was a little part of me that thought, Maybe this isn't just going to be a good documentary. | ||
| And they lied. | ||
| They told me it was going to be about Generation Z and this young person's thing and we just want to, you know, explore. | ||
| It's just really interesting what's going on on the internet. | ||
| And that's not what it was. | ||
| It was a hit piece. | ||
| Forbidden America. | ||
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| So they lied. | ||
| Rory, if you're watching this, you lied to me. | ||
| You're a liar. | ||
| Dan, you lied to me. | ||
| You're a liar. | ||
| I don't know if Louis ever... | ||
| I guess he's a liar. | ||
| Maybe he just believes his own bullshit or something. | ||
| I mean, he's totally arrogant. | ||
| And I say that as someone who's narcissistic, but he's very arrogant. | ||
| And I hate to burst your bubble, you know, Hollywood, but I mean, you are arrogant. | ||
| So, you know, if any of the... I don't know if they're watching this, they're done with the project, but you all lied to me. | ||
| That's okay. | ||
| I knew you were lying. | ||
| I hoped you weren't, but I knew it was probably going to be the way it was. | ||
| It worked out for me anyway. | ||
| I mean, really, you helped me. | ||
| But it is disappointing, and shame on you. | ||
| Lying is wrong. | ||
| I'm a nice person. | ||
| I don't lie. | ||
| You can think whatever you want about me, but I'm not a liar, like you. | ||
| So, that's your problem. | ||
| But... | ||
| I was disappointed because they lied to me, and I was also disappointed because, you know, what we have going on here actually is very interesting. | ||
| It actually is a really interesting thing, and if you are an astute observer of the political scene, you understand that what's going on here is very significant, and you understand the gravity of what we're doing here. | ||
| And I think there is a way that you can show what's happening without being sympathetic, And letting people just sort of discern for themselves. | ||
| Like there was, in my opinion, a very interesting story to be told here. | ||
| I think the whole period is very interesting. | ||
| I think the whole period from 2017 to now is extremely interesting. | ||
| And I am. | ||
| I love this stuff. | ||
| I'm passionate about this stuff. | ||
| Someone needs to make that documentary. | ||
| They did not make this documentary. | ||
| They made another popcorn tabloid hit piece, which is just... You know, I expected more because I thought Louis Theroux was like a serious filmmaker. | ||
| This is not a serious film. | ||
| It's well made, don't get me wrong. | ||
| It's professionally made. | ||
| But it's just sort of like tabloid gossip. | ||
| I mean, this is just like a hit job for the fucking Jews. | ||
| I mean, I know they would think that's so anti-Semitic, but it's what it is. | ||
| This is a hit job for the powers that be, for lack of a better word. | ||
| Sorry, I know there's a lot of Jews in there and you can't say that, but it's a hit job for the powers that be. | ||
| It's a hit job for the elite, it's a hit job for the liberals, whatever you want to say, but it's just a drive-by hit job, which is just... | ||
| Is that really what you want your legacy to be, is just sort of being like smarmy at easy targets? | ||
| Westboro Baptist Church, you know, hillbillies, South Africans, you know, racist white people. | ||
| You know, when we die and we leave this world, the career, the money, all that stuff's gonna matter a lot less. | ||
| It's going to matter more to your first and foremost, your integrity and your |
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