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Sept. 15, 2022 - America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes
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Good evening, everybody.
nick fuentes ▲ ● ▼
You are 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.
We have a lot to talk about tonight.
Lots to get into.
Big show.
Big show.
Featured story tonight is about Ron DeSantis and his scheme.
His scheme and his evil plot.
To overthrow our rightful President Trump in the 2024 Republican primary.
And we touched on this a little bit last night.
We talked about the DOJ probe into Donald Trump's Save America PAC.
That's the $100 million slush fund that Trump has been building since 2020 to use in the next election.
And we touched on this a little bit talking about the dynamic and how that's going to play out with Ron DeSantis, who alternatively has a war chest bigger than Donald Trump's.
Donald Trump's pack has $100 million and Ron DeSantis has $175 million.
Ron DeSantis has $175 million.
It's almost twice as much.
And tonight I want to talk a little bit more about that.
It looks like the donors, the typical billionaire, conventional GOP donors are now rallying behind Ron DeSantis.
There was a new poll this week also that has Ron DeSantis creeping up and surging behind Trump in the polling.
It shows Trump with 48% and I believe Ron DeSantis is in the 30s, although I don't remember exactly.
And it looks like there may be a real competition next year for who's going to be the nominee.
And the big question is, if Trump runs, does DeSantis challenge him anyway?
That's really the big question.
And of course the question is complicated by the fact that whether or not Trump runs is subject to all kinds of variables right now.
All sorts of confounding variables.
Such as, as an example, that the Department of Justice may preclude him from running by charging him, convicting him, and sentencing him for some ridiculous thing like with regard to the National Archives.
So it's shaping up to be a very complicated picture next year, although it looks to be very familiar.
It's the same story in 2016, it's the same story in 2020, and it looks like it'll be the same story in 2024, and that is that the establishment, which controls both sides, will once again work together to screw over Donald Trump.
Although, in the past eight years, the establishment has gotten a lot more sophisticated.
And so eight years ago they tried to knock him out by rigging the debates and rigging the primary and so on and that didn't work.
And in 2020 they rigged the entire election with mail-in ballots and they got him out and the Republicans, I think, made a compromise with the incoming Biden administration to stand down and not help Trump overturn the election results.
Well here we are heading into 2024 and there's really not any good reason why Trump shouldn't win.
He's the most popular politician in the country.
Inflation is 8% in case you missed that.
Gas prices on average are $4-$5 a gallon variously throughout the year.
And there's no other Republican in America who even comes close to Donald Trump's name ID and favorability.
So all those things taken together, there's a very good chance, not just an average chance, but a better than average chance that Donald Trump becomes the president.
There's almost a certainty that he should be the nominee, and there's a very good chance, then a likely chance, that he'll be the president.
But just like over the past eight years and the last two elections, it looks like other forces will intervene.
And that comes in the form of the full force of the federal government headed by the political partisan opposition, Joe Biden, as well as an effort on the right to capitalize on that.
And for all of Trump's opponents in the party, Mitch McConnell, Ronna McDaniel, and others, Just like they did in 2020, accede to the Biden administration's weaponization of the Justice Department against Trump and capitalize on that by giving us the safe alternative.
The safe, reasonable, not offensive alternative to Donald Trump, which would come in the form of DeSantis.
So we'll talk about that tonight.
We'll also be talking about this war which is breaking out.
There's now two wars going on.
Two major wars.
And we've been covering the war in Ukraine.
I think we talked about that last week.
And now there's a new war brewing in the Caucasus on Russia's border.
And this war is between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
It's a very complicated situation.
These are two Caucasus countries, so they're between the Black Sea, I believe, right?
The Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
Black Sea on the west, Caspian Sea on the east, south of Russia, north of Iran.
Armenia is an Orthodox Christian country, one of the oldest Christian communities in the world.
Azerbaijan is a Muslim country.
And they have been at war with each other for a long time, going back to the 1980s over border disputes, particularly a region called Nagorno-Karabakh, which is a mountainous region governed by ethnic Armenians, but controlled and technically under the jurisdiction of the Azeris.
And so once again, there's border disputes, although, and I pointed this out yesterday, it raises some questions about why exactly now are tensions flaring up.
There was a recent conflict two years ago between Azerbaijan and Armenia and it was decisively won by Azerbaijan because of the use of drones which they purchased from Turkey.
But now all of a sudden, conveniently, they're once again engaged in hostilities.
It looks like Azerbaijan is preparing to mount an invasion of Armenia based on their censorship of social media this week.
And this, of course, would have drastic implications for Russia, which sits to the north.
And Russia is obligated by a treaty very similar to NATO to defend Armenia in the event that they are attacked.
And I say the timing is convenient because just when It appears that Ukraine has been able to launch a successful counter-offensive with additional help from the US intelligence agencies.
And just when the European Union and the European community are working out a way that they're going to demand Russia increase the supply of natural gas to Europe before the winter hits,
In other words, just as it appears that the Ukraine war has gone on a little bit too long for the West and it's getting inconvenient economically, now all of a sudden it appears that another front has broken out in the war on Russia's southern border.
And they've already...they have exhausted...Russia and the Russian state has exhausted what they can do without fully mobilizing their population and economy for a war.
They've got a couple hundred thousand troops in Ukraine.
They have not implemented a draft or anything like that.
They have not fully mobilized the country for a war, which is, some people argue, what would be necessary to win.
Well, they certainly are at capacity already.
They've got their hands full.
They can't now go into the Caucasus and fight another war.
So that's why the timing is interesting.
So we'll talk about that too.
Should be a pretty good show.
Before it's actually a very slow time, but you know we're finding things to talk about it's actually a very slow time And I'm hoping that things will pick up soon.
I mean the midterms are in like what six weeks What the heck man?
Where's the action?
Where's the news?
And it's always this way.
The midterms were totally boring in 2018 as well.
I thought the midterms were going to be so hot in 2018.
I had a whole podcast called 2018 Election Headquarters.
And I had a podcast and we went over all the swing states.
And I actually remember a lot of them very well because I went over week over week and I covered all the races.
And I remember thinking like my show is gonna blow the F up I cuz I thought you know I missed the initial wave in 2016 My show launched after the inauguration in 2017 so I missed that whole wave when all these Creators got really popular in 2016 because of the election because all eyes were on the election really for like a year and a half from the time the primary started in the middle of 15 until
The inauguration in 17 and so I thought okay this is what I was made for 2018 going all out my show is gonna blow the freak up like you've never seen and nobody cared nobody cared nobody listened to that show the 2018 election headquarters and it was a boring Totally boring year.
I hardly remember anything.
2018 is just like vaporized from my memory.
I hardly remember anything.
Well, I shouldn't say that.
I remember extremely well all the news, but in terms of like my career, I hardly remember anything.
I remember Trump getting inaugurated.
I remember the initial saber-rattling with North Korea.
I remember the North Korean summit in June.
I remember the caravans, one in the spring and one in the fall, before the midterms.
I remember that Trump introduced his border wall plan in January.
There was talk about DACA.
And the DACA immigrants being given amnesty and being legalized.
I remember a lot of the news, but the other stuff I don't remember so well.
So these years suck!
The midterm years suck!
Can I just fall asleep and wake up and it's 23 and Trump has been announced and it's a civil war?
Can I just wake me up when this dumbass year is over?
I have had it.
I am sick of this gay year where nothing has happened, there is no news, nothing interesting.
There was this very promising war in Russia, and then nothing else happened.
So I'm getting a little bit anxious.
I'm getting a little bit antsy.
Can this guy just announce already?
Well, we hear it's coming in January.
So you don't have to wait too long, but it's still a few more months of digging deep.
I gotta dig deep.
I'm on Revolver.
I'm in the trenches on Revolver.
The infinite scroll.
You don't want to be there.
I like Revolver, but, you know, today there was an article and, uh, what was it?
It's like, cause even Revolver, they're tapped too.
They're like, I'm sure they're over there like, where's the news?
Let's see, what was it that I saw that was kind of funny?
And I'm hungry!
Oh, and I'm hungry too, so I'm in a horrible, I'm in a foul mood because I am starving.
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I haven't eaten since this morning.
nick fuentes ▲ ● ▼
I can't find it, but there was some story on Revolver today and I clicked on it and I was like, why is this here?
Anyway, so it's a little bit of a slow news day, but important stuff nevertheless.
Before we get into all that, I want to remind you to follow me here on Cozy.
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Not too much going on in my life.
I just did some paperwork today.
Boring stuff.
I got Chick-fil-A.
You know, I'm like, lately I've been trying to convince myself that it is in fact healthy to eat McDonald's all the time because I've never eaten as much McDonald's as I've been eating lately.
And you know, you can read whatever you want to read into that fact or admission, okay?
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You can read into that whatever you'd like, whatever floats your boat.
But I've been eating a lot of McDonald's lately.
nick fuentes ▲ ● ▼
I guess I just keep getting tricked.
It's... You know what it is?
You start to think about McDonald's as a concept and you sort of fall in love.
Because as a concept it really is attractive.
The food is pretty good, but it's really it's the concept.
It's the marketing.
It gets to you.
It's the propaganda.
And anyway, we don't need to explore that any further.
But, you know, lately I've been trying to convince myself because I just have a taste for it lately.
Like, you know, I can eat McDonald's every day.
It's healthy.
It's protein.
Getting a quarter pounder.
That's beef.
That's protein, okay?
That's beef.
That's vitamins.
That's minerals.
That's everything you need right there.
But today I said, you know what?
That's not right.
That's not good for you.
That's not good.
I'm drinking a big Coke with it.
I'm eating the fries.
That's not good for you.
There's a case that can be made that the hamburger is healthy, I think.
I think there is a case that the hamburger is not that bad for you.
But the fries, the drink, that's really where things start to go off the rails.
So I said, I'll get a Chick-fil-A, which is a little bit healthier.
It's cooked in peanut oil.
And it appears healthier.
My impression, and by appearances, it appears healthy.
It gives the impression of health.
And I ordered a side salad with it.
I got the kale side salad, fries as well, naturally, and the sandwich.
But when all is said and done, I'm just still hungry, and I want a McDonald's, and it's still not even healthy.
But these are the tough choices I'm making every day.
These are the difficult decisions I wake up and have to make all the time as your leader.
As a leader of this thing, of this resistance against the New World Order.
So that's my report on my day.
A lot of just busy stuff.
You know what it is?
I got banned from my old bank and I can't tell you... I mean, maybe you understand But it is such a freaking hassle to get banned from a bank because I've had to do this now like five or six times because I'm getting banned from banks for my personal as well as my several business checking accounts.
So I've had to actually do this more than the few times I've talked about just with my personal checking.
This is the second time a personal account has been closed, I believe.
No, I'm sorry.
Yeah, it's the second time.
It was Bank of America, then it was Inland.
I'm on this bank.
And for business checking, this is the... I was... I've been banned from three banks.
So I think it's a total of five now.
I've lost track really, but... Because for business, we were banned from U.S.
Bank, we were banned from Chase Bank, and I want to say we were banned from one other.
In any case, I've been through this so many times, and it is just such a...
Because you know what it is you have to reset all your automatic payments all my bills are on my account and so then you have to go in and you got to go and enter in a hundred different passwords and enter in your account number a hundred different times and some of them it's manual so you got to do a manual verification where it's not enough to just put the info in and they verify it they have to send you test transactions and you and that takes a few days you got to order new checks
And you gotta get a new debit card and you gotta reset up all the apps and... So I've just been dealing with a lot of that kind of stuff.
It's just a big headache.
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But... So that's been my week.
nick fuentes ▲ ● ▼
Okay.
With that out of the way, we'll dive into the news here.
I thought there was one other thing I wanted to bring up.
But I don't think so.
So we'll dive right into the news.
Our first story is about this Azeri-Armenian War.
And like I said, if you're not familiar, the details are really not very important.
There are these two countries in the Caucasus in Asia, which is a region south of Russia, north of Iran, so right in the middle there, east of Turkey, east of the Black Sea, west of Central Asia, west of Kazakhstan and all of that.
It's this land bridge between, and I believe I said it right before, the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
And they've had these border skirmishes for 40 years.
And if you don't know, it's actually somewhat interesting.
Armenia is an ancient nation.
Armenia has a Christian community there, which I believe is 2,000 years old.
Azerbaijan is actually a new creation.
The reason that we have Azerbaijan is because during World War II, the Soviet Union actually invaded Iran.
And there was a portion of Iran that they never left in the north, and that was Azerbaijan.
And so over time, Azerbaijan was cut off from Iran.
Azerbaijan was its own, I believe, communist republic under the Soviet Union.
And so when the Soviet Union dissolved, Azerbaijan became its own sovereign country.
But really, like all the other countries in the Middle East, it's really an invention of the period of World War in the first half of the 20th century.
Just like Syria, just like Iraq, all these modern nation-states are the product in various ways of colonialism or the war.
And Azerbaijan is one of them.
So it's not even really like a real country, but they've had these border disputes now going back 30-40 years particularly over this one region in the mountains where it's inhabited by Armenians.
The people that are running it provincially are Armenians, but it is part of Azerbaijan.
It's been going on now for decades.
They recently had a war two years ago, which you may remember.
I believe we covered it on the show.
It was very vicious fighting.
And I believe Israel is on the side of Azerbaijan, if I'm not mistaken, which I said it's a little bit complicated because the way that the various regional powers support the two countries in the conflict, it's sort of interesting.
It's sort of counterintuitive because normally you'd expect that Israel would support Armenia because Israel hates Muslims.
But no, Israel supports Azerbaijan and they support Azerbaijan, I believe because Turkey supports Armenia.
I don't even, I'm not even, I don't even perfectly understand the geopolitics of it because I'm not brushed up on that.
But in any case, like I said, The details are less important than the significance for the region.
So they had this big war two years ago on the border, and the war was decisively finished because of the use of drones by Azerbaijan.
And so actually I think I'm wrong.
I think Turkey supports Azerbaijan because Azerbaijan bought these drones from Turkey and these drones are a game changer.
A big catalyst for the war in Ukraine is the purchase of Turkish drones by Ukraine.
And so two years ago, Azerbaijan bought the drones from Turkey and they have used the drones, devastating effect against Armenia, ended the conflict, and that served as a proving ground for the technology.
And so Ukraine, the government in Kiev, began buying, they're called Bayraktar drones from Turkey, And it was because of these purchases that that was one of the reasons, one of the precipitating causes, why Russia was so alarmed.
There had been a military buildup in Ukraine and particularly fortified along the border with Donbass, where Kiev was perpetually engaged in hostilities with the independent republics Luhansk and Donetsk.
And they have been militarizing and fortifying their border, again, perpetually engaged in conflict.
And it was the purchase of those drones, which were used so decisively in the Azeri-Armenian War in 2020, which is one of the reasons why Russia decided to take action, because they saw the writing on the wall.
They see the drones, they see the NATO missiles coming in, and Zelensky talking about a nuclear capability, and the writing was on the wall that Ukraine was preparing a major offensive to take back probably Crimea as well as Donbass, the two independent republics in Donbass.
And anyway, that's less important, but it is interesting how it all relates in that region.
And so, Here we are again now in 2022 and these border skirmishes have restarted and it appears that Azerbaijan is preparing to invade Armenia.
At least that is some of the speculation among Russians.
And so this is the news.
This is from BBC.
It says, quote, more than 100 Armenian soldiers have been killed in border clashes with Azerbaijan since Monday, according to the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
Pashinyan?
Azerbaijan says 50 of its own troops have been killed in the fighting, which both sides blame on the other.
It is the latest in a series of long-running conflicts fought between the two former Soviet republics over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Russia and the United States have each called for peace between the two countries.
Speaking to his country's parliament, the Prime Minister said 105 Armenian servicemen have been killed since Monday night in attacks he blamed on Azerbaijan.
He also accused Azeri troops of occupying 10 square kilometers of Armenian territory this week and said he has now turned to Russia for military assistance and Russia is a longtime ally of Armenia.
Azerbaijan denies the Armenian account of the week's events, including reports that it fired upon vehicles belonging to Russia's FSB security services stationed inside Armenia.
Instead, Azerbaijan claims its neighbors started the conflict by shelling military targets within its own district of Kalbukhar.
As part of that diplomatic effort, the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization, or CSTO, is sending a peace mission to Armenia that the Kremlin said would arrive, quote, imminently.
And so we'll see what the outcome of all this is.
There's also a lot going on within these countries and it's developing very rapidly.
There are massive protests going on right now inside the Armenian capital of Yerevan and there are thousands of protesters outside of the parliament building where they're demanding the immediate resignation of the Prime Minister and a military coup.
The Prime Minister wants to sign a peace treaty and effectively give the parts of Armenia that are currently occupied by the Azeris to Azerbaijan.
So the people are calling for him to step down, they're calling for the military to intervene, and within Azerbaijan they have banned TikTok in the country, presumably because they don't want people filming tanks and armored vehicles and troops being moved to the border, Possibly preparing an invasion.
So, there's a lot going on within Azerbaijan, there's a lot happening within Armenia, and there's a lot happening between them, and there's casualties on both sides, and both sides blaming the start of the conflict on the other.
But to me, the big significance of it is what we've been talking about lately, which is the Ukraine War.
And I think you can't look at what's going on here without recognizing its significance to the broader conflict.
And I'll note again that Israel is a close ally of the Azeris and the United States is allied with Azerbaijan.
And I look at the situation going on in Ukraine, which we talked about last week.
The major developments are pertaining to this big counteroffensive, which was launched by Kiev last week, as well as how Putin is now fully weaponizing energy against the Western European countries.
Both things we've talked about.
And if you need a quick refresher, Ukraine launched a counter-attack on three cities that were occupied by Russia.
Two of the offensives failed.
One of them succeeded, in Izyum.
And the Russians retreated, they withdrew, they did not suffer any casualties.
But the Ukrainians came in and recaptured a number of towns in the north, the northeast of the country, and the Russians pulled back.
And it is said that the Ukrainians were able to launch this counteroffensive because of increased assistance from American intelligence.
That American intelligence is now working much more closely with Kiev, and it was because U.S.
intelligence was giving them information about Russian targets and other forms of support that Ukraine was able to have, and logistical support too, that Ukraine was able to successfully launch these countermeasures, even if only one of them was successful.
So you've got that going on, and in light of that, that has changed the entire conversation.
Now, Western media in the United States and in Europe are saying that Ukraine can win this thing.
That's the new narrative.
In case you haven't noticed, it's been all over the press.
Now, some press agencies have reluctantly said the countermeasures are objectively not really changing The flow of the conflict on the ground.
Because as I said, two of them failed, one of them worked, and they didn't even inflict any casualties.
So, if the Russians leave and the Ukrainians come in, they regained land, but they didn't defeat any Russians or destroy much equipment.
But in spite of this, the media is cheerleading and saying, that means that they're still in this thing.
So let's give them more aid, and let's continue to support the war effort.
Let's not push for a resolution.
So that's going on.
And then at the same time, the European Union is getting together and panicking because of surging energy prices.
Russia has effectively cut off 80% of the natural gas it exports to the European Union.
And as we talked about last week, many European countries rely heavily on Russian natural gas in their energy mix to power their power grid.
And this is going to become a major problem heading into the winter because all these European countries will be plunged into cold weather and they quite literally will not have enough natural gas.
They will not have the energy they need to heat their homes.
They just won't have enough.
It's not a question of it being more expensive.
It will be very expensive, but they just won't even have enough.
They'll have to ration the energy.
And we'll have to tell people you can't turn on your boilers or your furnaces for so many days and you have to turn them down and things like that.
They're going to have to regulate the consumption of energy.
And it's going to cost them a lot of money.
It already is.
There's riots breaking out in Italy.
There's mass protests breaking out in Prague telling people stop supporting the war in Ukraine.
It's killing the economy.
And so point being is The timing of this border conflict is very, very interesting because right now it would appear that the conflict in Ukraine was headed in one direction where, and people have pointed this out, Russia was not making massive progress in taking territory, but Russia is shredding the Ukrainian armed forces, destroying their military, destroying their military equipment, and when I say their military, I mean just killing everyone in there, killing all their personnel.
And it was looking like for a time that Russia was going to wipe out the fortified line in Donbass and then they would be in Odessa or in Kiev by the end of the year.
And some had said it was going to be protracted, this would be a war that would go on for years.
And it appeared in the summer as though that was not going to be the case, that the Russians were going to be making a lot of progress once they finished off the Ukrainian armed forces.
Well now for the first time since maybe April, it looks like the momentum is flipped once again with these countermeasures which were backed by the United States and also because of how energy policy is changing the leverage and the leverage situation for Western Europe.
Now, conveniently, when all of this is going on, on Russia's southern border, another war breaks out.
Very convenient timing.
And it just so happens that, as I read off in the article, Armenia is in the CSTO, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which is the analog in the post-Soviet world for NATO.
And what the CSTO does is it Diplomatically obligates Russia to come in and defend Armenia from Azerbaijan.
This is something that they really don't have the resources to do.
Like I said earlier in the show, they're trying to take over the country with the largest military in Europe fully mobilized.
Ukraine has an army of a million plus people.
I think it's a million or two million.
And they have drafted the entire adult male population.
So Ukraine is completely and fully mobilized.
They have mobilized the entire male population of their whole country.
And they are receiving a constant supply of Weapons and ammunition and vehicles and missiles from the United States and other NATO powers.
So Ukraine is virtually... They've got an unlimited tap for soldiers and equipment.
The soldiers they're drawing from the population, they're literally telling the men, you can't leave Ukraine.
We are going to fight this war until every man in the country dies.
That's what they're saying.
They're saying we're drafting everybody and nobody can leave.
So that means we're either going to win the war or we're all going to... or literally we're all going to die because you can't run.
And then, as we've been following at the same time, simultaneously, the United States will just keep writing checks throughout the year.
Another check is going out now to Ukraine.
More money has been greenlit for further military assistance just this past week.
Whereas Russia has deployed a relatively small army of 200,000 soldiers.
And Russia has not mobilized its economy, and Russia does not have countries giving it supplies.
And we've been into the strategy before, that's not the purpose of the show, but the point is, the real challenge, as is always the case in warfare, is a question of industrial capacity.
And Russia arguably does not have the capacity to fight this war without fully mobilizing its economy to build equipment and fully mobilizing its population to send in soldiers.
You just maybe can't do the job.
The United States defeated Saddam Hussein in Iraq with 200,000 soldiers, but that was the United States against Iraq.
This is Russia against the largest army in Europe fully furnished by the United States and NATO.
So, arguably they can't even win this war, or rather, I'm not going to say they can't win the war, they can, but arguably it is going to be very difficult for Russia logistically to overcome the resistance they're getting without full mobilization.
Now the situation is changing yet again because another front has opened up in the south.
And Russia will not have the resources to divert to defend Armenia.
So what happens then?
Do they let Armenia get attacked by Azerbaijan and lose credibility and that's going to hurt them tremendously?
And who knows?
How far does that go?
They sort of have to defend Armenia.
And so it obligates them now to divert whatever equipment or soldiers or whatever Where they would be in Ukraine, now down to Armenia.
I think that that's a play by NATO.
I think that that's a clear and obvious play, probably by Israel, as well as the United States and NATO, to force Russia to fight then on two fronts.
Or at the minimum, to divert their resources.
And there's not too much more to say about it other than that.
But that's what's going on, and it could be the case.
Again, I haven't done a huge deep dive because you really, when these conflicts break out initially, you really have to dig in to see what information is legit and not.
You remember when the war started in Ukraine.
There was all this stuff about chemical weapons and nuclear power plants being attacked and maternity wards being bombed to smithereens.
You know, you don't hear about that stuff anymore.
Gee, I wonder why.
You remember they were calling him a war criminal?
Then they just got over it, magically.
And the same is true here.
The details are a little bit murky and it's, right now, perhaps unclear exactly what the motivation is, but I fail to see how the two are not connected.
And so, it's very much, hey, credit to Washington.
They're not going down without a fight.
I think they should, obviously.
I don't support any of this, but credit to Washington.
They're getting creative.
They really are.
And, you know, who knows what's going to happen.
It's going to be a lot closer, maybe, than we anticipated.
I was very confident a few months ago that Russia was on its way to an imminent victory.
I don't think that's the case anymore.
I think that, and by the way, this is not like the world getting together and standing up to Russia or anything like that.
It's really just more like the abject cruelty and soullessness of Zelensky.
Because what he's doing now is just killing people.
That's all he's doing is just killing people.
Because they're not going to take Donbass.
They're not going to take Crimea.
At the minimum, what victory looks like for Kiev is that they just restore the borders that were there before all of this happened.
And they're not going to be a part of NATO.
So, their victory condition is Russia's victory condition that they were offering 8 years ago.
It's not very good.
And when all is said and done, millions of people will have died to achieve nothing, essentially.
To achieve less than what they had.
So it's because of that and it's because of the United States and Europe in particular.
Europe is getting totally bitched out here.
Everyone is paying the price except for the United States.
Europe is paying the price.
Ukraine is paying the price.
Ukraine is having all its people die.
Europe is being bled dry.
It's the United States that wins in all of this.
It makes Europe dependent on Washington.
And it damages Russia to some extent.
Washington's the big winner here, but not any human beings in the world, just the devil worshippers in Washington.
So that is that, but we'll keep an eye on the Armenian-Azeri conflict as it develops.
But to me, when I look at these things going on, I think the world is at war in Ukraine right now.
I think that that explains the COVID shutdowns in China.
I think that explains the Azeri-Armenian war.
It explains so much of what is going on is that this is really, as I said earlier in the year, everybody involved knows how high the stakes are here.
It's not just a proxy war.
It's not just a little silly thing.
This is a very, very serious deal.
And the outcome is going to have a ripple effect that will shock the world, whatever it is.
Either Russia is going to be put down, You know, we're doing these major demonstrations of force in Taiwan, and we're bitching out China, and we force Russia to submit, and it turns out that this is still Washington's century, at least maybe until 2050.
Or it shows that the unipolar moment is over and Russia and China will create a parallel system and they're carving out their own half of the world.
So the effects of the conflict are going to be very drastic and it's going to matter tremendously.
That's why we're really pulling out all the stops to make sure that Russia doesn't get the advantage here.
So I don't put it past them that they start another war just to pull some Russians out of Donbass.
But that's that.
I want to move on.
I want to get into DeSantis and what's going on domestically in this race.
And there's not too much hard evidence of this.
This is really just my... This is just one of my theories that I've cooked up here.
Give me a sec.
Let me take a sip of this Coke.
I don't know what it is, if it's my sleep schedule getting adjusted, but I'm so tired lately.
I've been drinking this, um...
Let's take an intermission real quick.
I've been drinking this Coke Dream World.
This has got to be the worst... This is the worst flavor of soda that I have ever tasted in my life.
But I just needed to get a little sugar in me before I did my show and a little caffeine.
Give me a little boost here because I'm like... The past couple nights I'm like falling asleep.
My voice is gone.
I don't know what's going on.
I don't know.
I guess I'm resetting my sleep schedule, so I woke up real early yesterday, woke up real early today.
It's been a long day.
I didn't take a nap or anything, so I guess I'm just like hitting the wall, you know, so to speak, in terms of I'm crashing.
Not like I'm hitting the wall on looks.
I still got some time there.
I still got a few years, but in terms of my energy level, I'm hitting the wall, man.
I should have had a cup of coffee or something before I went live, because I'm like, fading out, just like yesterday.
Somebody get me a, somebody get me a latte!
Somebody get, I need a vatier to get me a pumpkin latte from McDonald's.
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Because man, I'm just like, fading out here.
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Look at me, look at my eyes, look at how tired my eyes are.
Let me, let me do a quick stretch.
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Maybe that'll wake me up.
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And it's hot in here.
I turned off my air because it's getting cold in Chicago but, you know, then it gets hot and then it gets hot in here so.
So it's, you know what it is?
It's hot in here, it's dark in here, it's perfect environment for a nap, you know?
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I've been up all day.
Here, let me just, let me just take a quick stretch break.
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Get the blood flowing a little bit.
Could we take five for coffee?
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Let's take a quick coffee break before we get on with it.
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Alright.
You hear that?
You hear my neck cracking?
Okay.
Let's press ahead.
Our featured story here is about DeSantis.
Like I said, this is really just my crackpot theory here, although I think it's legit.
And it's based on the fundraising.
And I put this out on Telegram the other day.
Once again, it's about the timing here.
Trump's $100 million Save America PAC is under attack by the Justice Department.
We covered that last night.
And the DOJ has opened a probe into the fundraising practices of Trump's slush fund for 24.
And apparently, allegedly, they have raided the homes of 35 Trump allies connected to the Trump PAC, including Mike Lindell, whose phone was seized yesterday in a drive-thru at a fast food restaurant.
So that's going on.
We talked about that last night.
At the same time, Ron DeSantis is building up the largest war chest of any governor in America.
He has raised almost 200 million dollars in this cycle and is now on track, he is out fundraising the former president and he's doing it almost entirely with billionaire money.
And I posted the figures on my telegram the other day.
It is a tiny fraction of the $200 million that DeSantis has raised which he earned from small dollar donors.
The vast majority of that $200 million is coming from new billionaire allies who are leaving Trump and now throwing their weight behind DeSantis.
I think there's like six or seven billionaires that flipped and a lot of other rich people that are now behind DeSantis and they're all big contributions.
We're talking tens of millions, millions, hundreds of thousands.
Five-figure sums, not small-dollar donations.
That's in stark contrast to Donald Trump where more than half of his donations come from small-dollar donors.
$100 million and half of it is from small-dollar donors versus $200 million and it's almost all from billionaires who flipped.
So donor classes flipped.
And I saw that.
And I see what's going on with all these other investigations about January 6th and the National Archives, and go figure.
Ron DeSantis, when Donald Trump was being raided, his personal residence being raided in the state of Florida, Ron DeSantis didn't say anything about it.
He came out and gave a quick statement without even mentioning Trump once.
Just talked about what was going on.
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And I start to wonder what's going on here.
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Well, this is about the donors.
This is from Politico.
It says, quote, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has cemented himself as the face of GOP opposition to COVID mandates, a position that is winning over not just rank-and-file voters ahead of the 2024 presidential primaries, but also some of the Republican Party's wealthiest donors.
How the race shapes up will first and foremost be determined by whether former President Trump decides to run, But many donors are already investing early in potential candidates like DeSantis, whom polling shows to be the leading Trump alternative in the prospective field.
Campaign finance records covering the first seven months of this year showed that prominent contributors, including many beyond Florida, are investing in DeSantis' 2024 re-election campaign, which could further solidify his prospects.
All told, according to Open Secrets, DeSantis has raised a hefty $172 million as of August 19.
Though DeSantis has not announced plans to run for president yet, he has emerged as the principal challenger to Trump, who has heavily teased a potential 2024 bid.
A fresh national poll shows that in a hypothetical head-to-head primary, Donald Trump could struggle to get 50% against Ron DeSantis.
A Yahoo News and YouGov poll conducted from September 2nd through September 6th shows former President Trump with 48% support among Republicans and DeSantis with 34%.
Trump with 48%, DeSantis with 34%.
Among registered voters, Trump again fails to get a clear majority with 49% support against 37% support for DeSantis.
Interestingly, independent voters who can vote in Republican primaries in some states prefer DeSantis to Trump outright, with DeSantis drawing 42% support and Trump just 36%.
DeSantis also holds his own among voters from what the survey calls purple states, swing states.
The Florida governor and the former president are tied, each garnering 39% support.
So I take all this together And there's two ways that this is going to play out, okay?
Two ways that I see.
And one way it plays out is like this.
The DOJ charges Trump after the midterms.
Trump announces anyway in January.
And because of the weaponization of the DOJ against Trump, Trump garners so much support from the donors and so much support from the voters That the GOP has to rally behind him and maybe DeSantis doesn't even bother.
Trump is just so popular with the money and with the people that the party has to throw their support behind him and defend him from an investigation and Trump sails to the nomination and then maybe becomes president.
That's one scenario that I see playing out.
That's one of them.
Another scenario is like this.
DeSantis and McConnell have made a deal.
And the deal is this.
Throw the primary.
Throw the primary and Biden will indict Trump and prevent him from running.
And by throwing the primary McConnell can divert resources from Trump and Peter Thiel into failing senators who will not win.
And then DeSantis emerges out of all of this as a guy who's not under investigation, a guy with more money, and has all the necessary alliances in the party.
And when the DOJ charges Trump, and when they blow up his slush fund, DeSantis will be the natural guy, even if Trump says he's gonna run, DeSantis will be the guy waiting in the wings saying, hey, I'm the guy that's not under investigation.
I'm the guy that there's no ambiguity as to whether or not I will be able to run.
I'm the guy who has social media and I'm the guy with 200 million dollars still intact.
It seems to me that it's the wrong question to ask.
Is Trump going to announce?
Trump will announce.
Trump will run.
He is running.
He is running in 2024.
He will announce.
I don't think that is the interesting question.
The right question is, is DeSantis going to run regardless?
He's either going to run or he's not, but he's not waiting to make his decision based on whether or not Trump wins.
Or rather, whether or not Trump announces that he's running.
DeSantis is waiting to see how viable it will be once Trump announces.
He's not waiting to see if Trump announces, he's waiting to see if the DOJ is going to charge him, and if that's going to prevent Trump from running, and he's waiting to see what the voter, donor, and party reaction will be.
But by all appearances it looks like you don't build a $200 million war chest running against a Democrat who's raised $15 million to win your reelection for governor.
You don't tap billionaires and go to fundraisers in other states and bring in outside money and do fundraisers in New York.
You don't field money in these other races if you don't have an eye towards running for national office.
That's what he's looking for.
That's what his donors are looking at for him.
And without a doubt, it's not lost on the party, which would much prefer him over Trump.
And the danger, of course, is that all the old never-Trumpers like this guy, too.
It's all the pundits, it's all the donors, it's the establishment.
It also happens to be all the Never Trumpers for 2016 falling in line behind DeSantis.
Straight from National Review, who's an obvious one, all the way through to people like Ben Shapiro, and even people that I'm a little bit surprised at, like Mike Cernovich, are throwing their support behind DeSantis, or Ann Coulter for that matter.
So this is what it's shaping up to look like.
And I'll remind you, DeSantis, I'm not going to vote for him.
DeSantis is mobbed up with Israel.
Period.
Bottom line.
End of story.
And he is more so than Trump.
DeSantis is mobbed up with billionaires, mobbed up with the Mossad, and with Israel in ways that we don't even know.
And by the way, he's not even that good.
He's a good governor, but so much of what he pushes, which everybody gives him credit for, it dies in the federal courts.
So much of it isn't even that good to begin with.
You know, he was a vaccine salesman just like Trump.
And he went to fly to Israel the week after he got inaugurated to sign a bill banning BDS in his country.
He was also out there shilling against Ben and Jerry's because they sold ice cream in the West Bank or something.
Because they sold ice cream in the disputed civilian settlements in the West Bank in Israel.
So, and we've gone through this before, we've gone through it many times, but it's for reasons like this that if DeSantis is bad, or rather if Trump is bad, DeSantis is worse for the same reasons.
Some people are skeptical about Trump.
I would say that if Trump is bad, DeSantis has all the negatives, but worse.
If you say that Trump is an Israel shill, DeSantis is more of an Israel shill.
If you say that Trump is a cuck, DeSantis is more of a cuck.
If you say that Trump is a sellout puppet, DeSantis is more so.
And the list goes on.
There's a reason that the establishment is conspiring to get rid of him, on the left and the right.
The left doesn't even really care about DeSantis, and almost everybody in the right on the establishment supports him.
If that's not a tell, I don't know what is.
If you don't believe all the other stuff, believe it when our enemies tell us that they're not concerned about DeSantis.
In fact, they like him.
But that they'll have Trump arrested at any cost, and they don't want him to run, and they don't want him to be the party, and Ben Shapiro's out there saying that Trump is... Trump is tanking the party, and he's going to ruin our chances in 24.
Take it from them.
They would know.
In other words, not they would know that Trump is going to tank.
They would know that Trump is their ideological and political adversary, just like we are.
For those like Shapiro and Crystal and others.
So to me, I take all that together, it's the money, it's the polling, it's the establishment, and I see them stabbing Trump to elevate DeSantis and he gets the nomination and then he probably becomes president without my vote.
Unfortunately, though, Trump seems to still have the support of the party.
He's got, it was reported in BBC, his endorsements have a 92% win rate.
92% of the people that he endorsed in this cycle have won their election.
Have won their primary, that is.
So, I'm not trying to black pill you here tonight.
I'm trying to tell you that it's going to be a fight.
Whatever the case may be, Trump will announce and it's still going to be a fight.
And it's not just going to be a fight against Biden like it was in 20 against Joe Biden.
Or rather, it's not going to be a fight in this cycle against whoever the Democratic nominee is, I should say.
It's not just going to be a fight against the Fed, Gov, and the Democrat nominee in 24.
It's also going to be a fight against the Republican Party.
Even though we're presuming he announces it's still going to be a fight against DeSantis, the money, and all of them.
So again, that's not to say that we're going to get a bad outcome necessarily, but it is to say that It's going to be tough and it's going to be coming at us from all angles and just as unlikely as it was eight years ago when this all started.
That's why we need all hands on deck.
That's why it's got to be Trump or nothing.
I support Trump or nothing at all.
I'm either voting for Trump in 24 or I'm not voting.
And that's got to be the message.
We want Trump.
We want Trump in the primary.
We want Trump in the general.
We are not going to vote for anybody else.
They need to understand that.
It doesn't take much.
We just need a small, concerted minority of Trump supporters to say we will sit out the election.
We will spoil it for Republicans if we get to Santa's.
In my opinion, that's the only way we're going to salvage Trumpism, is by sitting out.
That's it.
I'm sitting out the midterms.
I'm unimpressed I'm not voting.
I didn't even register to vote this year.
I don't plan on voting in the midterms at all.
Because I'm just so disappointed at what I've seen from the party and what I've seen from the candidates and even frankly with the voters.
If I were in Arizona, I would vote down-ballot.
I'd vote for Carrie Lake, I'd vote for Blake Masters, I'd vote for Paul Gosar, Wendy Rogers... Anywhere else, just forget about it.
No chance.
What a joke.
It's honestly sad, because this should have been the cycle that we had a lot of America First, Trump-type people, and almost everybody just... Almost everybody just...
Was caught holding the bag.
Between, and I don't want to name any names, but it's not even, because people look at our record, and we had a pretty good record.
Almost everybody that we endorsed won, with the exception of, you know, Joe Kent won, and Laura Loomer lost, although I think both of those were long shots.
You know, Laura Loomer didn't come very close in the last cycle.
She did very well this year, but I wasn't extremely surprised, just because it's rigged, one.
And two, Webster's been going around for 30 years.
And also in Washington, you had Teal, Bannon, Trump, everybody campaigning for Kent, and he barely won.
But we got Gosar in, and we got Wendy Rogers won, and Carrie Lake, and Blake Masters.
I mean, that was pretty good.
We ran the ticket in Arizona.
And John Gibbs won in Michigan, and Kobach won in Kansas, and there were some other people I didn't want to mention who are a little bit more low-key, who are on track to win office at the state and federal level as well.
So it was mostly good, but there were a lot of candidates that we backed initially that just totally shit the bed.
Like people that just dropped out for stupid reasons, and I was like, just disappointed.
So I'm probably going to sit this one out in 22, mostly because we don't really have anything going on in Illinois, but also because I'm not happy with the party.
And I think that's going to be the only way in 24 is, look, if you don't fix the elections, if you don't get election integrity, if you can't guarantee it's a secure election, and if it's not Trump, I will not vote.
And I almost want to make that like a project.
I almost want that to be the pledge.
Like two things.
If you don't fix the elections, if it's not Trump, I'm a Republican, I won't vote.
Because enough is enough.
Like, that's it.
It's got to be the same tactics from 16 when Trump said, if I don't win, I'll run as a third party.
Good.
Let's do it again.
If it's not Trump, if you don't fix the ballot, I as Republican will not vote.
Trump or nothing.
He got screwed out of it in 20.
He's the rightful leader.
He's a clear leader of the party.
That's the way it's got to be.
So I think that's the basis for the next two years is just getting behind Trump.
But that's that.
I want to move on.
I want to get into our Super Chats and we'll see what you guys have to say about all this.
I don't know if you agree with me.
I know that some people on this show are critical of Trump.
I've always been pro-Trump.
I was mad at him one time in 2019 in June, May and June, but since then I'm totally back on the Trump train.
Okay, let's take a look.
Let's see what you all, what do you people have to say?
I'm gonna start pulling up our super chats.
Let me just get set up here.
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