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From this day forward, it's going to be only America first. | ||
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Good evening, everybody. | ||
You're watching America First. | ||
My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes. | ||
We have a great show for you tonight. | ||
Very excited to be back with you here tonight on Wednesday. | ||
Kind of a slow news day, not gonna lie. | ||
Almost nothing happened in America or anywhere in the world today. | ||
But we press ahead anyway and we still have a good show with topics to discuss. | ||
And our featured story tonight is about the Biden speech last week. | ||
There was a poll and everyone hated the speech, okay? | ||
That's the news. | ||
We all watched last week as the President Joe Biden condemned 65-70 million MAGA patriots as extremists that are trying to kill the soul of America. | ||
And I live reacted to it, and we talked all about it last night, and parsed out the real message of the speech, which was that Joe Biden and the security state are going to war. | ||
And they're going to war against Donald Trump and all of his supporters before this next presidential election. | ||
Well, the voters agree that the speech is an egregious escalation, new Trafalgar poll? | ||
says that the majority of Americans thought that the speech was a dangerous and disturbing escalation in rhetoric and that is a relief that the American people agree. | ||
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So we'll talk about that. | |
We'll talk about the poll. | ||
We'll also talk tonight about a decision which was made today in Texas by the Texas Supreme Court which says that insurance no longer has to cover PrEP, which is a medication for gay people that they take before they have sex so they don't get AIDS. | ||
And it's a huge victory for religious liberty. | ||
Texas court says, I don't know if it was the Supreme Court, but a Texas court says that it violates Christians' religious liberty to have employers forced to cover a drug which, in the words of the court, facilitates or encourages homosexual behavior. | ||
So epic decision. | ||
Very hilarious. | ||
We'll talk about that too. | ||
Should be a pretty good show. | ||
Like I said though, there's like there's nothing going on, man. | ||
And I'm tired. | ||
I did a huge stream this morning. | ||
I don't know if you caught it, but I went live at around 4-5 a.m. | ||
today because I couldn't sleep. | ||
And I wanted to review the Stephen Bunnell or Destiny Manifesto. | ||
He wrote a big 30,000 word essay a couple months ago, and I was trying to cover it for a long time. | ||
I was so busy last month. | ||
I just never got around to it. | ||
So today I was bored. | ||
I couldn't sleep. | ||
So I said, you know what? | ||
I'll take a crack at it. | ||
I'll jump in. | ||
And it turned into this three hour, four hour deal. | ||
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Because it was a long piece. | |
And then I was reacting to him on Fresh and Fit and then I reacted to his podcast on Adam22 and it turned out to be a nine hour stream. | ||
I had no intention of doing that. | ||
So I ended off the stream at like two o'clock and I still had other stuff to do so then I went out and I had to run some errands and then I came home I barely slept at all and now here I am. | ||
So it's been a long day. | ||
Excuse me. | ||
My voice is going a little bit. | ||
I'm tired and I'm out of content, man. | ||
I'm out of content. | ||
Nine hours of content and now I gotta go live and do a whole show and everything. | ||
So I'm tapped. | ||
I'm tapped for the day. | ||
But that's okay. | ||
We'll do a show. | ||
We'll do it. | ||
We'll cover these. | ||
And, you know, and what's more, there's not even anything to talk about. | ||
But we still are gonna have a good show. | ||
Before we get into the news, just a reminder, follow me here on Cozy. | ||
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There's not too much else besides that. | ||
I don't have any other requests tonight. | ||
In case you haven't seen it yet, of course, the America First mini-documentary is streaming on mymoviesplus.com. | ||
It's a $6 subscription. | ||
If you haven't seen it already, check it out. | ||
We're now up to a 9.9 rating on IMDb. | ||
So it is universally, critically acclaimed, one could say. | ||
With close to 300 reviews, it's got a weighted average of 9.9 out of 10. | ||
Pretty spectacular. | ||
So everybody agrees. | ||
Everybody loves the film. | ||
So check that out, mymoviesplus.com. | ||
They've also got a few other good movies on there as well. | ||
I know they've got that, uh, Feel When No GF movie. | ||
They've got Plot Against the President. | ||
They've got this, uh, Logan Paul movie. | ||
So it's a pretty cool service. | ||
I'm pretty excited that we got that deal together. | ||
So check that out. | ||
Besides that, there's not too much else. | ||
So I guess we'll just dive right into it here. | ||
Like I said, you know, it's just a slow year, it's a slow season. | ||
These off years, these midterm years, it's always the slowest. | ||
So I'm on Fox today, I'm on BBC, I'm on Revolver, I'm on New York Times, I'm on Russia Today, I checked the stormers down today. | ||
I check all my usual sources and there's just like nothing. | ||
I guess some black guy shot some people in Tennessee? | ||
Okay. | ||
And it's also a Wednesday, you know? | ||
But aside from that, it's such a slow... and I hate complaining about it, but it's just true and just makes my job... makes my life difficult because I like to talk about what's going on, but then I have to go live. | ||
There's nothing to talk about. | ||
There's nothing going on. | ||
The big story is about... I'm trying to think what even was covered today. | ||
I don't even remember anything significant on Fox or any of them. | ||
Trump's reaction to the White House raid. | ||
Special Master was appointed to sort out the documents. | ||
I guess they took his passports. | ||
They took some other stuff. | ||
But, you know, really not a whole lot going on. | ||
So anyway, with that being said, we'll dive into it and our first story is about this Texas court decision about PrEP. | ||
Very funny. | ||
And in case you don't know, I gotta cover this stuff because I do a news show, but the more that you lean into what's going on with the LGBT, I'm actually glad that more people are discovering what's going on with all of that. | ||
Between the Drag Queen Story Hour, the monkey pox, the trans hysteria, this... You really see a revival of a genuine social conservatism which wasn't there six or seven years ago. | ||
I remember when Donald Trump ran, there was almost no discussion on social issues. | ||
The conventional wisdom, just a short time ago, was that the social issues were fought and lost ten years ago. | ||
You know, back in 2015-2016, the idea that a Republican would go out and run on a Christian nationalist message, or opposing LGBT, it was seen as so, it was seen as futile. | ||
And people thought that the culture wars had been settled, and now we were supposed to fight on other areas, like the economy, and then when Trump came around on things like immigration, and these so-called cultural or identity issues. | ||
And it's been really good to see, although it's... although it's sad... | ||
And it's sick. | ||
We cover these kinds of stories more frequently. | ||
It's in the news more frequently. | ||
People are catching on, and people are outraged about the grooming that goes on in the public schools, the gay stuff that's in the kids' media, which we covered yesterday with the Saudi Arabia response to Netflix, and now this monkeypox epidemic, and again, the transgender stuff. | ||
And so you're starting to see, like, Donald Trump is a pretty good barometer of this kind of thing. | ||
Donald Trump even is now going out at his rallies and saying that men are men and women are women. | ||
That wasn't part of the program six years ago. | ||
It wasn't part of the campaign, and it's good to see. | ||
And the reason I bring that up is because people are sort of realizing what has really actually transpired in the past 20 years. | ||
All these things that we were told about all of it, about black people and civil rights, about women and women's rights, about gay people and so-called gay rights, the veil is being lifted on all of it. | ||
And people see BLM, and people see the psycho-feminist stuff, you get the rise of Andrew Tate. | ||
And as far as the homosexuality, transsexuality is concerned, people start to see, like monkey pox, where a viral epidemic breaks out because 20,000 gay people go on an island for an orgy. | ||
And people go, wait a minute, they did what? | ||
20,000 people on an island having an orgy? | ||
And now this, what is effectively an STD... | ||
Is ripping through America transmitted almost exclusively by gay men? | ||
It starts to shine a little bit more light on these vaunted social crusades that were supposed to be universally positive and accepted a short time ago. | ||
And so the latest story we have is a Texas court decision about this drug called PrEP. | ||
And you'll see like a lot of advertisements for this on TV. | ||
They'll put ads about this where they've got like trannies and gays and lesbians. | ||
And I guess this is a drug that gay people are taking so that they can go out and do the kind of monkey pox activities. | ||
Go out and do what they do without getting AIDS or HIV. | ||
And apparently up until recently this was covered by employer-based insurance. | ||
Now, according to this new court decision, it has been ruled that that is a violation of religious liberty and now employers are not mandated to cover that with their insurance. | ||
So this is a story from, I think this is BBC, it says quote, U.S. | ||
health care plans that cover the main HIV prevention drug free of charge are in violation of the right to religious freedom according to a judge in Texas. | ||
Employers are required to cover certain preventative services and medications in their insurance plans under U.S. | ||
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But a group of Texas Christians sued in 2020 over coverage of the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP drug. | ||
They argued the drug can facilitate or encourage homosexual behavior. | ||
That's literally what it's designed to do. | ||
Gay men are really almost the only ones that are going out there and getting HIV and AIDS. | ||
And that's because gay men are the ones going out there and having thousands or hundreds of sexual partners and complete and total promiscuity, of course. | ||
And so this is something that basically allows that lifestyle. | ||
It permits and facilitates that lifestyle because otherwise God would strike it down. | ||
You know, it sounds cruel and it sounds not good, but I mean, look. | ||
That kind of unrestrained, promiscuous behavior is horrible. | ||
It's evil. | ||
It's immoral. | ||
And, well, there's kind of like a consequence for that. | ||
It's called AIDS. | ||
It's called STDs. | ||
And what this really does, you know, while people might look at it and say, well, this is great. | ||
This stops the transmission of HIV. | ||
This is saving lives. | ||
It's such a terrific thing. | ||
In reality, it creates what's called the moral hazard. | ||
Which is to say that because this exists, now there is free license For, in particular, gay men, but really anybody to go out there and just have complete, unrestrained, promiscuous sex. | ||
Because there is nothing that'll hold them back. | ||
They're not gonna get HIV-AIDS. | ||
They're good. | ||
Pop a pill, go out, and get monkey pox instead, right? | ||
It says the CDC Or rather, hang on, I skipped something. | ||
It says PrEP is recommended for adults who are at high risk of contracting HIV. | ||
It can reduce infection risk by 99% when taken as prescribed, according to the CDC. | ||
The CDC has credited its growing use as a key factor in declining HIV infections. | ||
Oral additions of the drug have been used by more than 600,000 people in 76 countries. | ||
Plaintiffs in Texas argued that the system by which the federal government decides what preventative services must be covered by employer insurance plans is unconstitutional. | ||
The lawsuit filed by Austin-based attorney Jonathan Mitchell, who is credited with devising the state's six-week abortion ban, based, brings together self-proclaimed Christian businesses and employers. | ||
One plaintiff in the case, Dr. Stephen Hotz, argued that covering PrEP drugs for his employees would be contrary to his sincere religious beliefs. | ||
The physician, who is a mega donor to the Republican Party and a frequent litigator on behalf of conservative causes, claimed common over-the-counter medications like Truvada and Descovy can facilitate or encourage homosexual behavior. | ||
Plaintiffs also wrote that they, quote, do not want or need to cover the drug and insurance plans because, quote, This is epic. | ||
They're in monogamous relationships with their respective spouses and because neither they nor any of their family members are engaged in behavior that transmits HIV. | ||
And that is really the crux of the issue. | ||
As always, when it comes to these kinds of things, when you look at all these so-called medical advancements and then all these culture war issues, People try to make it out like it's complicated. | ||
It's not complicated at all. | ||
People that are Sexually moral. | ||
You know, people that observe and believe in moral sexual behavior. | ||
In other words, they believe that morality is part of the sexual equation. | ||
They don't believe that sex is just any other thing like, you know, riding a bike or walking down the street. | ||
People that observe a sexual morality and are sexually moral, it's not an issue. | ||
Because if you believe and practice Sexual morality. | ||
That means that you're having sex monogamously within marriage. | ||
People that do that don't get HIV. | ||
For the vast, vast, vast majority of people, I'm sure there are exceptions where, I don't know, somebody touches contaminated something. | ||
I don't know. | ||
I'm not a epidemiologist, but For the most part, if you're monogamous, if you're getting married, if you're moral, it's just not a problem. | ||
You're not getting HIV, you're not getting AIDS, and therefore you don't need anything like this. | ||
And the same thing is true, by the way, for abortion. | ||
People that are having sex within marriage don't need abortion. | ||
99%. | ||
And that... I'm not making that up. | ||
That is a real statistic. | ||
99%. | ||
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That number. | ||
99%, exactly, that number. | ||
99% of abortions are elective. | ||
99% of abortions are birth control. | ||
well. | ||
People talk about, what about rape? | ||
What about incest? | ||
What about birth defect? | ||
Health of the mother? | ||
Those represent less than 1% of abortions in the United States. | ||
99% are because they don't want the pregnancy. | ||
And it goes back to, if you're having sex within marriage, you'll never have a need for abortion. | ||
Because the only person you're having sex with is your marital partner, and the reason you're having sex is for the purpose of procreation, to welcome a child into the world. | ||
So, HIV, Like abortion, these are two things which are considered hot-button social issues or something. | ||
They just evaporate if you have a basic observance of sexual morality. | ||
If you're just living a virtuous and decent life. | ||
And the same goes for so much else when it comes to birth control and contraceptives and even things like feminism and so on. | ||
It just isn't an issue in a family-based society. | ||
And that's what the lawyer argues. | ||
He says, you know, look, going out there, you don't need to take an HIV preventative If you're not living a degenerate lifestyle. | ||
It's not a civil right. | ||
It's not part of health care. | ||
That's something that is a risk ameliorating preventative measure for people that want to go and engage in a high-risk immoral lifestyle. | ||
Why should that be the purview of an employer? | ||
Why should that be something that the government should have any business in? | ||
Why is that something that is considered essential in health care? | ||
It just simply isn't. | ||
And I like that, you know, it's interesting. | ||
It turns out that the lawyer that devised this case was also behind the six-week abortion ban. | ||
And if you recall back when the Roe versus Wade decision was overturned back in June, It was written by Justin Clarence Thomas and Ted Cruz said something to this effect that abortion was first and then we're going to go after these other things. | ||
And really, people need to begin to see that everything is connected. | ||
You can't compartmentalize all these different issues and they're not really as gray as everybody likes to make out. | ||
They're not compartmental. | ||
They're connected. | ||
And they're all deriving from the same fundamental disagreements. | ||
And they're really not extremely gray issues. | ||
This is not a gray issue. | ||
If people are trying, for the most part, to live a moral lifestyle, it's not an issue. | ||
If people are giving themselves to complete social degeneracy, well, then it's essential to stay alive. | ||
Okay? | ||
That's about as cut and dry and black and white as it gets. | ||
Even for the most part, promiscuous heterosexuals, it's not even as much of an issue because promiscuous heterosexuals are not on the level of your average homosexual. | ||
And the same thing goes for the rest of it. | ||
You know, we've talked on the show about not just the abortion issue, but even things like transgenderism. | ||
You have all these so-called hot-button culture war debates about bathrooms and girls' sports, and it's so complex. | ||
It's not complex. | ||
At all. | ||
Do we have girls and boys? | ||
Or do we not? | ||
If you have girls and boys, then the girls play with the girls and the boys play with the boys. | ||
And the girls go to the girls' bathroom and the boys go to the boys' bathroom. | ||
How do you know which is which? | ||
Well, you can tell when a person's born. | ||
You can tell by, you know, you don't even need to look at what is going on with their private business. | ||
In the vast majority of cases, you can just tell. | ||
You can look at the face, you can listen to the voice, you can look at the hands, any number of things like that, and it's just common sense, and it's the way it's always been. | ||
Or, if you think there is no gender, well then, it's also not very difficult. | ||
If there's no such thing as boys and girls, if those are arbitrary distinctions, if anybody that says they're a boy is a boy, and everybody that says they're a girl is a girl, Then anybody that says they're a girl can play in the girls' sports and go to the girls' bathroom. | ||
And anyway, why do we even need girls' and boys' bathrooms if we're all just the same? | ||
Why do we need boys' and girls' sports if we're all biologically equal and the same? | ||
I think that collectively, and it's good to see, as the conservative movement becomes more religious, as the conservative movement becomes more conservative, as it becomes more right-wing, it's been drifting away from libertarianism for 10 years. | ||
The libertarian moment was in 2012. | ||
And it drifted with Ted Cruz, and it drifted further with Trump, and it's drifted even further after that because of America First and the Groypers and people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar. | ||
And now people are realizing that all these things that we thought were kind of unrelated, they really all go back to our fundamental values. | ||
And it's not a question of being prudish. | ||
It's not a question of being judgmental. | ||
It's a question of, you know, what do we believe about reality? | ||
And what do we believe about the nature of the world and of human beings? | ||
Is the world moral? | ||
Are human beings moral? | ||
Or are they not? | ||
Because if they are, then this stuff isn't a question! | ||
No PrEP, and no promiscuity, and no abortion, and no contraception, and no transgenders, and no gay stuff in the kids TV shows, and no drag queens, and no drag queen story hour, and none of it! | ||
We're gonna have a family-based society, where men and women get married young, And they have kids, and that's where sex is occurring, and that's what sex is for, and the women are raising their kids, and they're not working, and the women aren't voting because the man of the house, the father, is casting the vote for the family. | ||
And the economy is supposed to be designed to allow families, particularly fathers, to support themselves, and have a house, and land, and the ability to eat good food, animal fats, and meat and vegetables, So that ever we can rear the next generation and perpetuate and promulgate our society like and everything and then everything kind of falls into place and you realize We don't have this buffet. | ||
We don't have this great menu of political opinions Well, I'll have a little I'll have you know, big government or capitalism. | ||
I'll have abortion or life, you know and Are we in favor of gay marriage or not? | ||
Are we in favor of an America First foreign policy and more in Iraq or not? | ||
What do we think about Israel? | ||
Then everything kind of begins to fall into place. | ||
There's this great clarity and it doesn't mean that there's no nuance or there's no room for disagreement about how all these things are going to happen. | ||
But on the fundamentals, we begin to get an alignment and a political orientation which is grounded in a sort of airtight set of values. | ||
And I think that's where the right is moving generally. | ||
And I have to say this. | ||
I'm a little bit surprised at how things are going. | ||
I mean, in a certain sense, I've been pushing for this for a long time. | ||
I was arguing in 2017 against the alt-right that if we're going to have right-wing victory, we're going to need Christianity. | ||
I remember back when I first got started, I was arguing with Richard Spencer and James Alsip and Eli Mosley and Patrick Casey, even, at the time. | ||
Saying, look, it's gotta be a Christian movement. | ||
That's what's right. | ||
That's what's gonna work. | ||
That's what's gonna win. | ||
It's gonna be Christianity. | ||
And I remember I put that out there, and everybody got on my case and said, oh, you just don't understand. | ||
We need pagans, and we need this and that, and that's over, and America's over, and we need something else. | ||
I'm a little bit surprised to see the extent to which there has been this revanchist social conservatism, which is now... Like, I said this a few months ago. | ||
I said, how likely is it going to be that the Supreme Court overturns gay marriage and you're going to get an anti-gay marriage thing going in America? | ||
I said, not likely to happen anytime soon. | ||
But yet, here we are. | ||
And, you know, the left likes to talk about this concept. | ||
They always say sunlight is the best disinfectant. | ||
You know, they'll take a 30-second clip, post it out of context, and they'll say, this shows how evil you are. | ||
We're putting you in the light. | ||
We're showing everyone how evil you are. | ||
Well, I mean, I agree in principle. | ||
Show everybody the full truth. | ||
Show everybody what's going on. | ||
And the more that we get a clear look at the kind of society that's been created by tolerance, inclusivity, diversity, equality, and so on, the more repulsed and disgusted and remorseful that people are about what we've done. | ||
The more that we look at the kind of racial rhetoric That we've been pushing for 30 years? | ||
Take a look at the consequences. | ||
Like in Memphis today, a mass shooting. | ||
An anti-white mass shooting by a 19-year-old black kid. | ||
And a 750% surge in carjackings in the major cities, largely by black adolescents. | ||
And a year, two years of rage against the police and cities being burned down. | ||
Well, that's what was there. | ||
That's what was there all along. | ||
That was what was behind Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, and that's what was there in the Rodney King riots, and that's what was there in the MLK riots, and that's what's been there. | ||
That's what's been there forever. | ||
And the more that we shine a light on these kinds of things, the more that we shine a light on homosexuality. | ||
Remember when everybody was told love is love, it's not gonna affect anybody? | ||
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It's equal. | |
It's the same. | ||
Then we find out about Orgy Island, where you got 20,000 people in a giant orgy and they go back to their respective countries and have sex with 20,000 other people. | ||
And the whole country is now immersed in a new plague. | ||
We've got a return of leprosy in the 21st century. | ||
And why do you think that is? | ||
Well, it's pretty transparent. | ||
And you get the advent of the drag queens, and the trans this, and the grooming of the children, and so on. | ||
And people are saying, we don't like this. | ||
We don't like what we've created here. | ||
We thought it was gonna be like Modern Family and Glee, and now it's like John Wayne Gacy. | ||
Now it's like a hell on earth. | ||
It's like Sodom and Gomorrah, literally. | ||
So, I'm very happy to see the direction that the conservative movement is going in, especially with the lawfare and with the advent of Christian nationalism. | ||
It's good to see that the social conservatism is being brought back because that's the basis of all conservatism. | ||
It's about virtue. | ||
It's about the family. | ||
It's about what's right. | ||
It's a foundation of everything. | ||
You know, think about an individual's life. | ||
And it's about an individual's personal conduct with regards to their parents, their eventual spouse, their children, their productivity, their allegiance and their loyalty and their obligations to their neighborhood and their community and their country. | ||
It all flows from that. | ||
Social conservatism is conservatism. | ||
Social conservatism, which is conservatism, flows from Christianity. | ||
It flows from a realist, a theistic, and a Christian metaphysics. | ||
It's the foundation of our entire worldview. | ||
And it's time for the worldview of the right wing in the country to begin to fall into alignment with that. | ||
Instead of all this, you know, everything else that the right wing has been about for the last 60 years. | ||
It's been about Foreign wars, and American exceptionalism, and freedom, and democracy, and compassion, and all these other different varieties. | ||
How about we go back to our roots? | ||
We believe in God. | ||
We believe in Jesus. | ||
We believe in right and wrong. | ||
We believe in virtuous personal conduct. | ||
It's a foundation for our entire worldview, and everything needs to fall in line with that. | ||
Not compartmentalized, disconnected, these neurotic debates. | ||
It's time for some moral clarity. | ||
So anyway, so that's the prep issue. | ||
Epic victory. | ||
I love to see it. | ||
I love to see the Christian lawfare against Hobby Lobby and this and the Dobbs decision in Mississippi. | ||
So anyway, so that's that. | ||
But I want to move on. | ||
I want to get into this poll about Joe Biden. | ||
Let me move this out of the way. | ||
I can't see my notes. | ||
So our featured story is about the Joe Biden speech last week and, you know, we covered the speech. | ||
We watched it live. | ||
I did my show about it that night. | ||
And my monologue from that night is being clipped by right-wing watch and the left because I go in and I, you know, I kind of went off. | ||
I go in there and I'm like, you know, f-democracy. | ||
The only way to the true and the good is through Jesus and the Jews hate Jesus. | ||
You know, Ken and Nigga go off. | ||
I kind of went off last week. | ||
And they're all clipping that. | ||
And I went in and I said, it's a declaration of war. | ||
Parse the speech. | ||
And I'm right about that, by the way. | ||
A lot of people hear the speech and they think it sounds innocuous because it talks about democracy and Who we are. | ||
We're America, man. | ||
That's not who we are. | ||
But if you read in between the lines, there's this very precise message, and it's about scapegoating Trump, and it's about scapegoating the Trump supporters, and it's about framing them in a way as enemy combatants as opposed to domestic rivals. | ||
Particularly in the way that it differentiates and distinguishes between these so-called mainstream Republicans that we can work with and the MAGA crowd that are extreme and are our enemy. | ||
They're a war with the soul of our country. | ||
To differentiate like that is to say you've got a controlled opposition. | ||
You've got a domestic opposition. | ||
These are people that we like. | ||
These are human beings. | ||
These are Opponents, but neighbors. | ||
But then over here you got a small crowd. | ||
It's always got to be small because you can't scapegoat half the country. | ||
You scapegoat an eighth of the country, a quarter of the country. | ||
The elite that's leading the 10% of the country that's in rebellion. | ||
Well, he goes, but there's a small group that hate the foundation of our country. | ||
They're at war with the soul of our country. | ||
And I said, read between the lines here. | ||
It's textbook scapegoating. | ||
It's textbook. | ||
They're sorting it out. | ||
And they're saying that these guys are not our opponents and our neighbors. | ||
These guys are enemies. | ||
And when I say enemy, I'm not saying like a broadly antagonist, hostile, opponent, rival. | ||
When I say enemy, I'm speaking in a very technical way. | ||
They're saying that we've got America over here with its Republicans and Democrats. | ||
We've got us and we've got them over there. | ||
We've got us, our friends, Even though we may disagree, those reasonable Republicans, as well as us, these Democrats, and I represent all of these people, but then you've got them. | ||
The enemy. | ||
The friend, the us, and the enemy, the them. | ||
Carl Schmitt says that the essence of politics is a distinction between the friend and the enemy, between the us and the them. | ||
And the categorization of those things is what defines the political. | ||
It's that dialectic which is what defines what politics is, what the political is. | ||
And I'm sure Biden's speechwriters are well aware of that. | ||
And very, very prudent and perceptive observers will notice that the speech was loaded up with that kind of language. | ||
And if you read between the lines, that was unequivocally the message. | ||
The MAGA Republicans are the outsider. | ||
They are the enemy. | ||
They are the them. | ||
And that means that they're outside of what is considered the sort of political us. | ||
They're outside of the political entity that is the government. | ||
They're the enemy combatant, you might say. | ||
They're gonna be treated like ISIS. | ||
They're gonna be treated like Al-Qaeda, or like... | ||
Russia or like China or like the Soviet Union the communists or the or some kind of a fifth column That was the clear message of the speech And so I pointed that out and, you know, all these liberals came out and said, oh, you know, that's not true. | ||
It's overblown. | ||
There was all kinds of, all these apologists come out of the woodwork to defend it. | ||
But the good news is it looks like most Americans agree. | ||
Our featured story tonight is about a poll which has been conducted about the response to the speech. | ||
And here's the report. | ||
It says, quote, A majority of Americans believe President Joe Biden's speech attacking MAGA Republicans was a, quote, dangerous escalation in rhetoric, according to a poll on Tuesday. | ||
Over half of Americans, 56.8% of them, said the speech is dangerous rhetoric and is designed to incite conflict amongst Americans, according to the Trafalgar Group. | ||
Approximately one-third of those surveyed, 35.5%, thought it was acceptable campaign messaging for the upcoming midterm elections. | ||
The majority of Democrats, 70.8% of them, said it is acceptable for the President to say MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the foundations of our Republic. | ||
18.7% of Democrats said the messaging is divisive. | ||
Nearly all Republicans, 89%, believed the speech to be a dangerous escalation, while 4.7% found it to be appropriate. | ||
Among independents, 62% found the speech to be dangerous and 31% found it to be acceptable. | ||
The poll surveyed 1,084 people between September 2nd and 5th with a 3% margin of error. | ||
The president gave the speech Thursday in front of Independence Hall where he said that the MAGA Republicans pose a threat to democracy, have no respect for the rule of law, and fan the flames of political violence. | ||
He called on Democrats, Independents, and mainstream Republicans to come together in an effort to defend democracy. | ||
So, the majority of Americans agree, and that's great, I guess. | ||
But here's the problem. | ||
It doesn't matter. | ||
The problem is None of that matters. | ||
You can do your poll and the majority of Republicans think it's bad and maybe the majority of people in the middle think it's bad. | ||
Independents, not aligned, whatever. | ||
But as long as the Democrats have a base of support, as long as most of the Democrats support it, honestly it doesn't matter what everybody else thinks. | ||
The majority of Republicans thought the election was rigged in 2020. | ||
And I remember because I covered it very closely when it was going on. | ||
Throughout the Stop the Steal period, throughout the transition from the 2020 election to the inauguration of Joe Biden, Republicans, anywhere between 80 to 90 percent of them, believed that the election was rigged. | ||
That there was significant fraud, significant voter fraud, which could have changed the outcome of the election in 2020. | ||
And it didn't matter. | ||
Republicans came out, they showed up, they went to the state capitals, they protested, they went to the governor's mansions, they protested. | ||
Republican voters. | ||
Who the majority of them thought the election was rigged, protested in Republican states, in Republican-controlled state capitals, outside Republican governors' mansions, demanding that the Republican state officials correct the situation. | ||
Republican lawmakers appealed to a conservative Supreme Court to revisit the case. | ||
And yet somehow, none of it mattered! | ||
None of it mattered. | ||
None of it changed the outcome. | ||
And don't get me wrong, I mean in an alternate universe was there a possibility? | ||
Maybe. | ||
Maybe in 1 out of 100 or 10 out of 100 cases there was an outcome where the result of the election was overturned. | ||
But realistically, I don't know that we ever even came close. | ||
I don't know that we ever even came close in like even one state, let alone the three of them that would have been necessary to change the outcome. | ||
And so, think about that. | ||
Think about the fact that The war in Iraq has been unpopular among the majority of people for like 15 years. | ||
Think about the fact that the COVID regulations were unpopular. | ||
BLM became very unpopular shortly after the George Floyd situation happened. | ||
Think about the fact that the probably public opinion on Ukraine is souring and so on. | ||
A majority of Republicans And yet none of that public opinion even mattered. | ||
There are Republican representatives and governors that could have changed, it just didn't. | ||
And yet none of that public opinion even mattered. | ||
And this speaks to the anti-democratic nature, the anti-populist, the so-called democratic deficit of the current regime. | ||
You look at what people believe and what the government does, and there's almost no correlation. | ||
People like to think, and I've said this a lot before, that things are as they seem, and the corporations give us what the market demands, and the television gives us what the consumers want, and the media reports what's in the public interest. | ||
And that is what we're told it is, and that is what people assume it is, and that is what it seems to be. | ||
requested in the form of their vote during the elections. | ||
And that is what we're told it is, and that is what people assume it is, and that is what it seems to be, naturally. | ||
That our consumer tastes is what determines what the firms give us in the market, and so on, and And the things that people want at the ballot boxes, their priorities, and the favorable political views that elect the politicians, those are the things that create the policies. | ||
But when you parse out the things that people want, when you parse out the opinions, the tastes, popular opinion. | ||
Increasingly, it is almost completely divorced from what we get. | ||
It's completely divorced in every one of those ways that I just described from what is being given to the public, what is being given to the population by the powerful, by the regime. | ||
The corporations and the firms don't give the consumers what they want. | ||
The political media does not deliver the stories in the public interest. | ||
The politicians don't pass the policies that are most favorable or the highest priorities for the people. | ||
It doesn't work like that. | ||
If anything, what has been shown is that for the longest time, the media and the government and the firms told us what we wanted. | ||
And we thought that that's what we ourselves determined was our preference or taste, and we repeated that back to the firms, back to the powerful, back to the regime, who then gave us what they wanted to give us all along. | ||
Gave us what they really wanted from the beginning. | ||
But as time goes on, it's increasingly clear that that was a dynamic of the relationship, and as public sentiment diverges from the elite agenda, Guess what happens? | ||
Does the elite agenda change? | ||
Not at all. | ||
But rather, public opinion is forced to conform to the elite agenda. | ||
And when it can't be forced, it's suppressed, censored, silenced, or simply ignored. | ||
And when it can't be ignored, put down with cops. | ||
Put down with federal law enforcement. | ||
That's what happens. | ||
Example. | ||
Disney acquires Star Wars. | ||
And everybody says, finally. | ||
A multi-billion dollar entertainment company can take George Lucas's universe and vision, and with the capital and the resources, they can take it and create a new saga for a new generation. | ||
And what do people want? | ||
They want the George Lucas story! | ||
They want to see Luke and Leia create the Jedi Academy, and you know, and bear with me here if you don't love this particular example. | ||
But people want a Star Wars story. | ||
They want a good, compelling Star Wars story that has the magic of the originals or the prequels. | ||
They want the John Williams score. | ||
They want the ensemble cast. | ||
They want the Force. | ||
They want the Skywalker bloodline. | ||
But yet, what does Disney determine? | ||
Disney determines that what the people want is a Black Storm Trooper and a girl Jedi. | ||
A girl Mary Sue Jedi and some little Asian annoying girl. | ||
And everyone hates it. | ||
And they just keep giving it to them. | ||
Well, you're gonna get more, and you're gonna get more, and you're gonna get that in Boba Fett, you're gonna get that in Obi-Wan, and you're gonna keep getting it. | ||
And you don't like it? | ||
Well, you're racist for not liking it. | ||
Universally, everybody hates the new franchise, but yet we've been getting the same thing for seven years. | ||
We're being told what our taste should be. | ||
We're being told what our taste really is. | ||
We're being told that the people that disagree with what we're being given are just the MAGA radicals funded by Russia who are incels and not even real. | ||
They're all robots anyway. | ||
Lord of the Rings. | ||
Beloved franchise. | ||
Same thing. | ||
Amazon Prime picks it up. | ||
They pay hundreds of millions or billions of dollars to acquire the IP. | ||
How could you lose? | ||
How could you miss? | ||
And what do they do? | ||
They create a show full of ridiculous black characters and all the rest, and everybody hates it. | ||
And when everybody hates it, they just turn off the reviews. | ||
And they say, um, well, those reviews are racist and it's trolls and, well, everyone actually loves it. | ||
And the same is true of politics! | ||
People go to the polls in droves and elect Donald Trump in 2016. | ||
Pennsylvania flips for the first time in 30 years. | ||
Michigan, Wisconsin follow suit. | ||
Michigan hadn't won since, what, 92? | ||
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88? | |
I don't remember the last time. | ||
Hadn't won that state. | ||
The Republicans hadn't won it in decades. | ||
And what are we told? | ||
It was fake. | ||
It was rigged. | ||
It was a fluke. | ||
The Russians fixed it. | ||
The crowd size was small. | ||
He lost the popular vote anyway. | ||
We got to investigate the collusion with Mueller and then we'll determine that Hillary Clinton can still be president. | ||
And then in 2020, when they rigged the election, people come out and Trump becomes the second highest vote getter in American history behind Joe Biden who can't get a crowd of 100 people. | ||
And we're told, yeah, that was the election, the mail-in ballots are in, and what you chose was Joe Biden. | ||
What you chose was climate change, and war, and high taxes, and BLM, and defund the police, and all the rest. | ||
So I look at the poll, and people are still reading polls, and they're still talking about the silent majority, and what people think. | ||
And that's great and everything. | ||
I mean, the people are going to be an asset and an ally in changing things, but in order for that to happen, people need to realize that this divergence has occurred and it's affecting every aspect of our lives. | ||
There is a real elite. | ||
It's not just the government. | ||
It's not partisan. | ||
There is an elite. | ||
And the nature of them is not that they're right or left or they're one thing or another. | ||
They are part of this club. | ||
And it's the billionaires on the both sides, and it's the party operatives on both sides, and it's not just the government, but it's the government's friends, and the NGOs, and the think tanks, and the universities, and in the media, and in Silicon Valley, and on Wall Street. | ||
And that's what defines them. | ||
They're the elite. | ||
And then you've got all the people out here. | ||
The people who may even be rich. | ||
The people who may be poor. | ||
And the people who may have a little bit of money. | ||
The small business owners. | ||
Eight figure net worth individuals. | ||
But the people that are not connected. | ||
The people that are not part of that club, the people that are not in with the influence or didn't go to those schools or whatever, and in that way a person making a six-figure salary at a think tank or a five-figure salary at a think tank in DC is part of the elite, whereas a eight-figure net worth individual with a small business, a chain of laundry mats or something, is not part of the elite. | ||
And this divergence is occurring in almost every area. | ||
Like I said, whether it's Disney, Star Wars, or Amazon, Lord of the Rings, or whether it's the censorship of political discussion on the most contentious issues, the stolen election, the fluke of 2016, the suppression of the so-called MAGA Republicans, Even it comes to the news media. | ||
Is the media giving the people what's in the public interest? | ||
Well, they didn't cover the Hunter Biden laptop story. | ||
They weren't interested in adverse vaccine reactions. | ||
They weren't interested in the autopsy of George Floyd. | ||
They don't deliver what's in the public interest or what the public wants. | ||
They deliver what will serve the elite interest. | ||
And it goes back to whether or not things are as they seem. | ||
Whether the sort of causal chain of events that is implied by the appearance of things is the way it actually is or whether it's the reverse. | ||
Whether we assume that we've got this power with our dollar and with our vote and with our eyeballs and we're being served Or whether it's really they that have the power and we're the ones serving. | ||
That they make the decisions. | ||
They make the entertainment, the news, the political, the defense decisions, the health decisions. | ||
And we're the ones really working for all of them. | ||
That's what it shows. | ||
But people have got to begin to realize that. | ||
So, they didn't like the speech. | ||
Yeah, that's terrific. | ||
Doesn't matter. | ||
The war will be waged on MAGA Republicans anyway. | ||
The midterms are going to happen. | ||
I imagine, if I were to put money on it, I would say that there's going to be an upset. | ||
I don't know that the Democrats are going to win the House. | ||
They're going to win the Senate. | ||
I don't know that they're going to win the House, but I wouldn't be surprised. | ||
And I wouldn't be surprised if it was a result of some kind of funny business. | ||
And they talk about how we're not going to know the results, it's going to take weeks to come out because that's just how it is now. | ||
And then after that screw job, you're going to get the Trump indictment. | ||
After that screw job in the midterms, you're going to get the Trump indictment, and it's going to be unprecedented, and it's going to be shocking, and it's going to be an obvious affront to everything that they say is sacred, which is our democracy, and our civic rights, and all this kind of stuff. | ||
And it's not going to matter. | ||
Glenn Greenwald's going to write a Twitter thread about it, and then he's going to get banned. | ||
And Trump's going to get indicted, and the Republicans are going to dutifully go along with the next best, Ron DeSantis, who's not controversial. | ||
And unless people are really willing to do something about their disagreement, that's just how it's going to be. | ||
We're just going to keep getting screwed and told what to do, and we're just going to keep working for them. | ||
And when I say do something, that's not some insinuation or call to violence. | ||
I'm saying unless people get out there and volunteer for the campaign and protest, and unless people are willing to make their voice heard and engage in activism and do what they can in this struggle, I'm sorry to say, but your opinion just doesn't matter. | ||
They stopped listening a long time ago. | ||
They stopped caring even further back before that. | ||
So, you not liking Biden's speech and a dollar that's gonna get you a cup of coffee at Dunkin Donuts, okay? | ||
Nobody cares. | ||
They're gonna do it. | ||
They're bold. | ||
They've been emboldened. | ||
They steamroll and they get away with it. | ||
They do it with impunity. | ||
There's no pain mechanism. | ||
There's no real tangible response. | ||
People get riled up. | ||
They post their tweet. | ||
They yell about it at work. | ||
And then they get distracted, their attention goes somewhere else, and that's what it is. | ||
That's what it's been. | ||
So we've got to break the cycle here. | ||
It's gonna get real. | ||
Biden is gonna come for everybody, he's gonna come for Trump, and it's gonna be a constitutional crisis, or at least it should be made into one. | ||
But we only have a chance of winning if people do something other than just disagree. | ||
You've got to get out there and run and campaign and volunteer and go to your CRs and do what is in your purview, what you're capable of, to get involved and turn this around. | ||
So that's that, but I want to move on. | ||
I want to get into our Super Chats. | ||
That's about as much as I could say about a freaking poll. | ||
But there it is. | ||
So I want to move on. | ||
I want to take a look at our Super Chats. | ||
We'll see what you guys are saying about all this. | ||
Let me pull this up. | ||
Let me get my headphones Okay Get my water. | ||
Yeah, a lot of content today. | ||
We're doing 10-11 hours of content today. | ||
That's a big day. | ||
I made up for Monday. | ||
Everybody got mad at me. | ||
Oh, you took Labor Day off. | ||
Yeah, well then I did nine hours today, so... That's a week's worth of America First content in one sitting! | ||
All right, let's see. | ||
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