Sept. 13, 2023 - America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes
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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 here with you tonight on Tuesday. | ||
| We have a lot to talk about tonight. | ||
| Lots to get into. | ||
| A big show. | ||
| Our featured story tonight is about the impeachment of Joe Biden, which may have just gotten started today. | ||
| And it's been a long, long time coming now. | ||
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It's been nine months. | |
| Since the Republicans have taken control of the House and yet there has been no action at all on impeachment. | ||
| But today we got the first sign that we're going to be headed towards that. | ||
| The Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, said that the House Republicans are launching an impeachment inquiry. | ||
| Into the Biden family. | ||
| So he's not impeached yet but this is going to give them the ability to subpoena and they'll be able to investigate the Bidens even further. | ||
| It's not really great or even good but it's a start. | ||
| And the bigger story within this one is that Matt Gaetz is the one that finally forced McCarthy to do this. | ||
| If you've been paying attention, we've covered this all throughout the whole year. | ||
| It was a very contentious thing that Kevin McCarthy became the Speaker of the House, and in order to secure the votes necessary, he made a deal. | ||
| He made an agreement with Freedom Caucus Republicans like Representative Matt Gaetz, where there were certain concessions given on specific items, which we'll talk about tonight. | ||
| And of course none of those things have been followed through on. | ||
| But there have been two strategies that have been pursued since that deal happened to force Kevin McCarthy to follow through on those things which guaranteed him the votes to become the Speaker. | ||
| And there was the path taken by Representative Marjorie Greene, who before the speakership was even decided, just a day after the election in November, a few months prior to that selection, she had made a deal with McCarthy that she would support him on everything. | ||
| Basically without question, without preconditions, and the idea was that if she was unflinchingly cooperative with him, he would give her, and therefore the base, what they wanted. | ||
| That was strategy one. | ||
| Strategy two, which has been pursued by Gates and others, is that we have to have ways to hold McCarthy accountable in a more hostile manner. | ||
| And so part of the deal to make McCarthy the Speaker was to create a new rule that any member of the House can force a vote on whether McCarthy can remain the Speaker with just one vote. | ||
| So in other words, any member can initiate a vote. | ||
| It's called the motion to vacate and any single member can do it. | ||
| That doesn't mean necessarily that one vote can remove the Speaker, it would be a simple majority, but it's a powerful tool that would put Kevin McCarthy on notice and put him in check anytime one member disagreed and it would give the opposition a ton of leverage over the Speaker. | ||
| And so, to me, and this is the thing we'll cover tonight, I want to examine where we are today. | ||
| It's been nine months, like I said, since Republicans have taken over the House, and we have nothing to show for it. | ||
| Hence, we have to evaluate why that is. | ||
| You know why it is if you watch the show. | ||
| I've been covering it throughout the year, but we'll sort of take a pause and reflect. | ||
| Even this, which is really a paltry A paltry show of progress. | ||
| It's embarrassing that we have so little to show for nearly one year. | ||
| Even this only came about really because of Gates rather than Green. | ||
| So we'll talk about that. | ||
| We'll also be talking tonight about these Starlink satellites. | ||
| We've been trying to cover this for like a week. | ||
| But I just keep getting carried away. | ||
| We're supposed to cover it on Friday and then yesterday, but we just keep running out of time. | ||
| I think we'll get to it. | ||
| Tonight we'll talk about this story about Elon Musk saving the world by refusing to extend the satellite coverage for Ukraine and thwarting their attempted sneak attack on the Russian Navy in the Black Sea. | ||
| So I think we'll have time and we'll get to that tonight. | ||
| It's a pretty important story and the timing is really interesting because that all came out even though it's part of this new book which apparently was released just today. | ||
| This story about Starlink, now it could have been a pure coincidence, but it came out the same time that all this controversy surrounding the ADL was going on. | ||
| So, go figure. | ||
| At the same time that he's calling into question one of the most powerful institutional Jewish forces in the world, this bombshell story breaks that he's a traitor to America, that he's working against the defense industry or the national security apparatus of the United States. | ||
| It could just be a coincidence but it's it's pretty interesting that both of those things happen in the same week. | ||
| So we'll talk about that too. | ||
| Should be a pretty good show. | ||
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| And with that, I guess we'll dive into the show. | ||
| I'm not feeling 100% by the way. | ||
| I don't know what's going on. | ||
| Maybe it's allergy season, but I feel like poo today. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I woke up and I had really bad vertigo. | ||
| Like the room is spinning, dizzy, and really bad post nasal drip, which is the worst. | ||
| So I started taking my allergy medicine again and nasal spray because I had been off of it for a little while it wasn't as bad but it's catching up to me again so... | ||
| Yeah, it was a rough day. | ||
| It wasn't feeling so hot, but I'm feeling a little better now. | ||
| I took a nice long warm shower. | ||
| I had dinner. | ||
| I drank some tea. | ||
| I procrastinated for a few more hours, and then I started the show. | ||
| So I feel better now, but not feeling so hot. | ||
| I think it's maybe it's just the allergies or something else. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| Anyway, so we'll dive into the show. | ||
| What other? | ||
| I don't think we have any other announcements. | ||
| We're gonna have a big, big, big announcement coming up very soon in a matter of a couple weeks and there may be a little teaser | ||
| coming out very soon so I don't want to spoil anything but be on the lookout there might be a major announcement soon we're gearing up it's almost the end of the year so stay tuned to the show but that's all our announcements for tonight so we'll we'll dive in I want to get into our featured story first cuz it's just fresher it's more on my mind And we'll talk about this vote in the House. | ||
| So the big story today is that the Speaker, Kevin McCarthy, has now allowed this impeachment inquiry to go forward against Joe Biden. | ||
| And this is not impeachment. | ||
| And the embarrassing thing, excuse me, is that probably impeachment will not happen. | ||
| Which is so humiliating for Republicans. | ||
| Because the way it works with Democrats is it's like clockwork. | ||
| Trump wins in 2016 and they come out in force in the midterms in 2018 and they get back the House by a big margin. | ||
| And honestly, I think there was cheating. | ||
| I really do. | ||
| It's possible that Democrats were activated because they hated Trump and they were so shocked by his victory. | ||
| But when you look at some of the special elections that year and the preceding year, I feel like something was off. | ||
| For example, the special Senate election in Alabama to replace Jeff Sessions. | ||
| It was Doug Jones and Roy Moore and the numbers were very suspicious. | ||
| I think that was the winter of 2017. | ||
| So like December 2017. | ||
| And that to me was really the beginning of the voter fraud. | ||
| It was really that election. | ||
| And I remember I was one of the only people at that time saying that there was voter fraud in that election. | ||
| Because the black turnout was, I think, 28%. | ||
| It was an unheard of record black turnout in a runoff, or not a runoff, rather a special election in winter in Alabama. | ||
| It just made no sense. | ||
| And I had predicted that Roy Moore would win, even though there was a major scandal where he apparently had relations with some 16-year-old girl. | ||
| But you know how I feel about that. | ||
| Reprehensible. | ||
| But I still thought that he had a good chance of winning because it's such a red state Anyway, I really think that was the beginning of the voter fraud regardless Regardless they came out in 2018 with a With a big margin of victory and they won a sizable majority and what's the first thing they did they impeached Trump and then after Trump Contested the election in 2020 they impeached him again | ||
| Now understand impeachment means that the House votes to indict with the simple majority. | ||
| So they won their majority and they got their guy. | ||
| You know, they got him twice. | ||
| They didn't remove him from office because that would require two-thirds in the Senate, but they had the House, they used the House. | ||
| What's incredible about the impeachment of Joe Biden, understand before we even begin talking about it, this is how ludicrous it is. | ||
| Republicans have been obsessed with impeaching Joe Biden. | ||
| Because that's the only thing that they can do and it's really nothing of substance anyway. | ||
| Even if they file articles of impeachment, even if they get that far, even if they have the balls to do that, it won't even pass. | ||
| Because Republicans have a majority by four votes. | ||
| And you can bet that at least four are not going to go along with it. | ||
| It's going to be a vote down party lines and you're going to have at least four defect and vote against. | ||
| Because there's already opposition to this inquiry even being launched. | ||
| You have Republicans that won in districts that Biden had won in 2020 and they don't even want to see it. | ||
| So that's the beauty of the whole thing. | ||
| Is that Republicans campaign in 22 on impeaching Joe Biden. | ||
| This is one of the things they wanted McCarthy to get done. | ||
| They have been bitching about it all year. | ||
| Finally, we start down the path. | ||
| And if or when it ever sees the light of day, it won't even pass! | ||
| They won't even be able to indict him. | ||
| Of course Joe Biden would survive a trial in the Senate, but it won't even go there. | ||
| It won't even get to the Senate because it'll never leave the House, because Republicans want a flimsy majority, and even the majority they have, they can't whip all the votes. | ||
| Which is just... | ||
| If that doesn't tell you about the efficacy of the GOP, I don't know what does. | ||
| Because even if we got it, it would be nothing. | ||
| Even if we impeached Biden, it would amount to nothing and it would be totally symbolic anyway. | ||
| We can't even do that. | ||
| So anyway, today Kevin McCarthy has allowed this inquiry to go forward after nine months. | ||
| Nine months! | ||
| And like I said at the top, There was a major battle for Kevin McCarthy to even become the Speaker because there was so much dissent against him because Republicans know that this guy is the biggest and most corrupt hack in Congress. | ||
| He always has been. | ||
| He takes money from foreign lobbyists and He's a big fundraiser because he rubs shoulders with all the donors. | ||
| He stands for nothing. | ||
| He's from California. | ||
| And anyway... | ||
| If you watch the show and if you've been paying attention to politics at the beginning of the year, it's because of this razor-slim Republican majority that they really didn't even have a name. | ||
| They didn't have any viable candidate who could have become the speaker. | ||
| There was nobody who was popular enough within the Republican conference that could do it. | ||
| Kevin McCarthy was just the guy that was the most probable. | ||
| He could get more votes than anyone else, therefore he was the only potentially viable pick, and that made him the guy. | ||
| But there were enough holdouts from the Freedom Caucus, some have called it the MAGA Caucus within the Freedom Caucus, that they were able to deny Kevin McCarthy for about a week, and deny him in a series of more than a dozen ballots, rejecting him, until finally they made a deal and they said, look, you can be the Speaker of the House, even though we all hate you and we know that you're a corrupt piece of garbage, if we can have concessions. | ||
| And the concessions were Pretty simple stuff. | ||
| They wanted, for example, these are a few things. | ||
| They said that they would give McCarthy the gavel. | ||
| They would make him the Speaker if he promised that the House would release all of the 44,000 hours of surveillance footage from January 6th in and around the Capitol. | ||
| That was number one. | ||
| Number two is they wanted articles of impeachment against Joe Biden. | ||
| And three, they wanted Kevin McCarthy to defund the salaries of the federal government officials that were prosecuting Trump or doing other corrupt things, the Secretary of Homeland Security and people like that. | ||
| Those were the major things. | ||
| In addition to that, the big concession was they got the motion to vacate. | ||
| And that entails that any one member of Congress can put forward this motion and force a vote on the floor of the House as to whether or not Kevin McCarthy can remain the Speaker. | ||
| And it would take a majority vote, but any member can initiate it. | ||
| And so Kevin McCarthy would be facing a vote, basically a no-confidence vote, potentially every day from any member, any individual member. | ||
| That was the deal. | ||
| So it was those three things, those three policy items that the Freedom Caucus extracted, and the enforcement mechanism was the motion to vacate. | ||
| We want these three things, and we don't trust you, so to hold you to account, we want the ability to force a vote, a no-confidence vote, with just one member putting forward the motion. | ||
| That was the deal. | ||
| And of course over the last nine months none of those things have happened. | ||
| None of them. | ||
| And there's not been any action on any of them and Kevin McCarthy is denying that we'll do any of them. | ||
| In case you haven't noticed, zero of the 44,000 hours of surveillance footage have seen the light of day. | ||
| Exactly zero. | ||
| They gave the footage allegedly to Fox News and Tucker Carlson ran two minutes Of the footage. | ||
| Out of 44,000 hours, they released two minutes. | ||
| And that was, of course, something that was discerned by Fox News. | ||
| It's not like the public got that information. | ||
| Some media company got it and then they picked two minutes from it and put it on TV. | ||
| There, of course, had been no articles of impeachment. | ||
| It was only today That we began the inquiry and nobody in the federal government has had their salary defunded. | ||
| If anything, it's the opposite. | ||
| And I covered this at the beginning of the summer. | ||
| It was the House Republicans that gave Joe Biden an unlimited debt ceiling for two years. | ||
| And this is something that they could have used to extract concessions from the Democrats and from Biden because we were facing another fiscal cliff or rather another debt ceiling where if Congress did not put in place any stopgap measure or raise the borrowing limit, the government would have defaulted on the debt. | ||
| So this was a position or this was a circumstance where Republicans being in control of the House, which has the power of the purse, that means that all appropriations bills have to originate in the House rather than the Senate. | ||
| This is the one time when Republicans controlling just that one chamber would be able to exert influence over the whole process, over the White House or over the Senate, and they completely caved. | ||
| After making a lot of threats and making a big show of negotiating, they caved on everything and they extended it so that there would not be a need for another debt ceiling increase for at least two years. | ||
| Conveniently, until January 2025. | ||
| So in other words, not until Joe Biden is out of office, potentially, or being inaugurated for the second time, will this be brought back up again. | ||
| So not only did they not defund the salaries, they funded Joe Biden's government for two years. | ||
| That's the status after nine months on all these items, and at the same time there's been no motion to vacate. | ||
| And so like I said, we're at this crossroads here. | ||
| We're three quarters of the way through the first year. | ||
| Next year's an election year, so the whole year's going to be campaigning and Democrats aren't going to budge an inch. | ||
| We've already lost a major opportunity with this debt ceiling bill and we've made no progress. | ||
| And by the way, I predicted that this would happen exactly. | ||
| I think anybody did. | ||
| Anybody who's been paying attention to politics basically for any period of time could have predicted that this would have happened. | ||
| Which is to say that Republicans in Congress would betray their base. | ||
| Because this is what always happens. | ||
| Republicans have been competitive in Congress for 30 years. | ||
| They weren't really before that. | ||
| And in almost every case they have failed to deliver even the meager promises that they make. | ||
| Because you understand that there are horrible things happening to the country. | ||
| And Republicans are doing a lot of those things, like mass immigration is happening, and these foreign wars are happening, and the debt is out of control. | ||
| And Republicans have never promised an end to mass migration. | ||
| They've never promised an end to foreign wars. | ||
| They've never promised that we would limit military spending or anything like that. | ||
| And of course, none of those things have ever been close to solved or addressed or anything like that. | ||
| But the things that they do promise to fix, they say, well we'll balance the budget. | ||
| We will cut spending. | ||
| Even that stuff never happens. | ||
| Even the meager things that they promise don't happen. | ||
| They never cut the budget. | ||
| They never rein in the Green New Deal or regulations or whatever. | ||
| It's always the same. | ||
| And so, like I said, it's not like this was a particularly surprising or unexpected situation. | ||
| And I said at the beginning, that's why you just don't give McCarthy the gavel. | ||
| And they said, well, but then we won't have a speaker. | ||
| And it's like, well, good. | ||
| Maybe that's a good thing. | ||
| Maybe we should let the government figure that out then. | ||
| If there's a big crisis in the House and McCarthy can't get the votes, maybe the establishment needs to bend to the people. | ||
| They said, well, if we don't make Kevin McCarthy the Speaker, then the government will be absolutely halted. | ||
| Okay, good. | ||
| Then let them come to the negotiating table and let them make a deal with the MAGA caucus or something. | ||
| Or let the establishment Republicans work with the Democrats. | ||
| They said if the Republicans don't pick McCarthy, then the moderate Republicans will have to go and caucus with the Democrats to pick a speaker. | ||
| It's like, good, let them! | ||
| And show the whole country that Republicans are completely down with the left-wing agenda. | ||
| Like, show the country, show the Republican base, that the establishment would rather work with the left than with Donald Trump, or Matt Gaetz, or these kinds of people. | ||
| Like, let them do that. | ||
| There's a value in taking it there. | ||
| Even if people say that that is the, you know, it's futile to resist because there's an eventuality where McCarthy eventually gets it or something. | ||
| Good! | ||
| Let it get there. | ||
| They don't want it to get there, so let it get there. | ||
| Let them pull out all the stops. | ||
| Because you co-sign McCarthy and you're just co-signing more of the same. | ||
| And we saw that in 2020 with the special elections, the runoffs in Georgia, and we saw that in 2018 when they said that, well we can't build the wall just yet because we have this strategy to win the midterms, we're gonna cut everybody's taxes instead. | ||
| Except not everybody, just corporations. | ||
| It happens like this every time. | ||
| Anyway, at least this time they put in place some measure where they could get some accountability. | ||
| At least this time when they made McCarthy the Speaker, they fought him, they forced these concessions, and so it looks like the only reason that this impeachment inquiry happened today was because of Matt Gaetz threatening to finally hold McCarthy accountable with the motion to vacate. | ||
| And this is a story from the New York Times. | ||
| That says, quote, Speaker McCarthy on Tuesday opened an impeachment inquiry into President Biden working to appease far-right lawmakers who have threatened to oust him if he fails to accede to their demands for deep spending cuts that would force a government shutdown at the end of the month. | ||
| Mr. McCarthy's decision to unilaterally announce an impeachment investigation with no formal House vote entwined the Republican investigations into Mr. Biden with the funding fight that is rattling the Capitol. | ||
| It appeared to be a bid to quell a brewing rebellion among ultra-conservative critics who have accused the Speaker of not taking a hard enough line on spending by complying with their demands to more aggressively pursue the President. | ||
| Mr. McCarthy said that he would task three committees, Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways and Means, with carrying out the inquiry into the President and his family as Republicans hunt for evidence of financial wrongdoing or corruption. | ||
| Mr. McCarthy's announcement appeared to clear the way for House investigators to issue subpoenas for the bank records of Mr. Biden and his family. | ||
| In brief remarks at the Capitol, McCarthy accused Biden of lying about his knowledge of his son Hunter Biden's business dealings, and he raised questions about the millions that Hunter and other family members made from overseas firms. | ||
| McCarthy has signaled for weeks that he supports an impeachment inquiry of the President. | ||
| Starting such an inquiry means that Republicans must no longer justify their investigations as part of legislative work, and will instead have broad power to subpoena documents and testimony with the ultimate goal of producing one or more articles of impeachment against the president accusing him of high crimes and misdemeanors | ||
| there's just one problem though with this step which is that they already did that there's already a doj investigation into hunter biden and And I understand that no subpoenas have been issued yet by the House and they probably should take that step. | ||
| But why didn't they take the step at the beginning? | ||
| Why hadn't they not done that already? | ||
| It's been nine months. | ||
| So it's been nearly a year since the election. | ||
| I mean, it's been nine months since they chose a speaker. | ||
| But it's nearly a year, so halfway, since Republicans got elected and they're talking about now they're going to get the authority to begin the investigation? | ||
| Now they have the authority to issue subpoenas and conduct the full investigation and hearings and everything and so is there ever going to be an impeachment anyway? | ||
| Are they even going to try? | ||
| So even this is no good. | ||
| But anyway, the article goes on and says McCarthy scheduled his announcement hastily after Representative Matt Gaetz gave word on Monday night that he would be giving a speech on the House floor attacking McCarthy and making the case for his ouster. | ||
| Minutes after McCarthy spoke on Tuesday, Gaetz did just that, saying that the Speaker had reneged on his promises he had made to right-wing lawmakers in return for their votes during his prolonged battle to win his post. | ||
| He said, quote, I rise today to serve notice, Mr. Speaker, that you are out of compliance with the agreement that allowed you to assume this role, castigating McCarthy for cutting a spending deal with Biden this year to suspend the debt limit and failing to hold votes on term limits and a balanced budget amendment. | ||
| He said the path forward for the House of Representatives is to either bring you into total immediate compliance or to remove you. | ||
| He dismissed McCarthy's talk of impeachment as baby steps that lacked a serious strategy and urged Republicans to oppose a stopgap spending bill known as a continuing resolution, which would be needed to keep the government open past September 30th. | ||
| He said, quote, if Kevin McCarthy puts a continuing resolution on the floor, it is going to be shot, chaser, continuing resolution, motion to vacate. | ||
| He told reporters on a telephone call that he intended to regularly force snap votes to remove McCarthy, threatening to make it part of the routine opening of every legislative day in the House. | ||
| He said the prayer, the pledge, and the motion to vacate, which is pretty good rhetoric. | ||
| And so, I actually think this is great that Gates is doing this. | ||
| I mean, I don't think it'll work. | ||
| I don't think that Biden will be impeached. | ||
| And I don't think that the motion of vacates will work against McCarthy because I think it's basically a toothless check from the beginning. | ||
| I don't think it actually checks McCarthy. | ||
| Because there's never going to be a majority that will oust him, I don't think. | ||
| I don't think that that is going to happen. | ||
| For the same reason that it wasn't going to be somebody else as the Speaker the first time. | ||
| If they could cobble together a majority to remove McCarthy now, then they could have cobbled together a majority then to make the Speaker somebody else in the first place. | ||
| So that's why a motion of vacay doesn't really have any teeth. | ||
| It's really more gesture. | ||
| It's really more to give The MAGA caucus, the ability to make McCarthy look bad. | ||
| And I suppose that has some value, but I don't know that that necessarily forces his hand. | ||
| Nevertheless, I commend Representative Gates' efforts. | ||
| I think it's noble. | ||
| I think he's speaking out, which is more than can be said about most. | ||
| And like I said at the beginning, you can contrast this with the strategy of Marjorie Greene. | ||
| After Republicans won the election, Marjorie Greene immediately made a deal with McCarthy that she would unconditionally support him in exchange for her committee assignments back, and she thought that that relationship would allow her to influence the program. | ||
| Because she had been outside the club ever since she got in. | ||
| She got elected in 2020. | ||
| She very quickly embroiled herself in these major public relations scandals, one of them including me. | ||
| And as a consequence of a series of PR disasters, she was stripped of all of her committee assignments by McCarthy when he was the minority leader in the House. | ||
| And so she was this pariah, she was totally outside the loop, and no influence because she lost her assignments. | ||
| And the moment Republicans won and McCarthy needed votes to become the Speaker, she cut a deal. | ||
| And she said, fine, I will support you in your bid for the Speakership immediately and unconditionally. | ||
| I'll vote for you on everything, and she has, and I'll support you through everything. | ||
| As long as, eventually, you do some of the things that you've promised the base. | ||
| And McCarthy, of course, took the deal, became the Speaker, and then did none of it. | ||
| And there was this incredible moment, I want to say two or three months ago, when Marjorie was really getting a lot of bad press. | ||
| Because she had been, in effect, exposed as a sellout. | ||
| All these promises that she made, and really she hinged her entire career on this deal that she made with McCarthy. | ||
| She insisted, to a very skeptical base of her own voters and supporters, that it was worthwhile to trust McCarthy or to deal with McCarthy because, and she staked it on her own expertise, she said that she knew that by making that deal she could deliver real victories to her voters. | ||
| And the voters were skeptical. | ||
| They said, no way. | ||
| We don't trust McCarthy. | ||
| We don't trust the establishment. | ||
| But Marjorie said, trust. | ||
| I know what I'm doing. | ||
| I know Kevin. | ||
| I'm gonna go in there and I'm a wheeler and dealer and I can make moves. | ||
| I could be a politician. | ||
| I'm not some stupid rube. | ||
| I can make deals. | ||
| So just trust me. | ||
| And a year later, She held up her end of the bargain. | ||
| She was McCarthy's bitch for like nine or ten months since the election. | ||
| She voted with him on 94% of his votes. | ||
| She supported him in his bid for the speakership from November until he got it in January. | ||
| She voted on the horrible bill, the betrayal, that suspended the debt ceiling for two years, which is like the mother of all betrayals. | ||
| She even lied about and massaged the areas that McCarthy had not delivered on yet, like the January 6th surveillance footage. | ||
| And so over the summer a lot of people said, hey what's going on? | ||
| How's this deal going? | ||
| Remember that deal you made where you sold out your base to make deals with the establishment to personally help your career? | ||
| Where you would get your assignments back and McCarthy would get the gavel but the voters haven't gotten anything? | ||
| What's the status on that? | ||
| And after McCarthy forced her to vote on the terrible debt ceiling bill, She turned right around and tried to save face and said, well, I'll try to get impeachment now. | ||
| So over the summer after she voted on the debt ceiling bill and the press started to pick up on the fact that this deal wasn't going so well, she goes out and says, well, I'll get the Joe Biden impeachment. | ||
| And Kevin McCarthy comes out, I think this is in June or July, and says, yeah, no, that's not going to happen. | ||
| We're not impeaching Biden anytime soon. | ||
| And she had this, so back to the original point, she had this beautiful, beautiful moment over the summer after these events. | ||
| She had this big meltdown in the press. | ||
| I think she was talking to the Telegraph or Semaphore. | ||
| She was talking to some British Publication, I think. | ||
| And she goes, and apparently venting to some journalist, she goes, I can't believe it! | ||
| I did everything he asked! | ||
| I voted for him and I supported this stupid debt ceiling bill and I made him the speaker and I can't even get an impeachment? | ||
| Come on! | ||
| I mean that was literally the rant. | ||
| I remember it like, I mean it was only a few months ago, but I remember it so vividly. | ||
| Because it was so candid and so weak and embarrassing. | ||
| She literally picks up the phone and calls some journalist and is like crying that she lost the game. | ||
| Because that's what politics is. | ||
| It's a game. | ||
| And she tried to play and she embarrassed herself. | ||
| She did not possess the necessary competence Clearly, she didn't know what she was doing, she played with forces that she didn't fully understand, and she wound up on her ass. | ||
| You know, she thought that she was gonna make some sophisticated deal, and she was gonna make a play, and she was gonna do some really Machiavellian, dark triad stuff, and she just got screwed over. | ||
| Obviously, we all saw that coming. | ||
| I said that a year ago. | ||
| And instead of taking it on the chin like a man, she's a woman, so she calls a journalist to cry and say, what? | ||
| It's not fair? | ||
| She literally calls up some journalist and says, boo-hoo! | ||
| It's not fair! | ||
| I held up my end of the deal and now I can't even get a vote on impeachment? | ||
| Come on, man! | ||
| And it was even more complicated than that. | ||
| It was actually more humiliating because it involved Lauren Boebert, Lauren Boebert was able to force a vote on her resolution to impeach Biden but Marjorie didn't get hers there and Boebert didn't have to sell out so there so there was a little of that in there as well there was some additional complexity and it was just like perfect because we had she got so arrogant and so cocky | ||
| And I did this show over the summer, so I don't want to redo that whole show, because I talked about all this at length as it happened. | ||
| But it was so beautiful to see her get humbled by Washington. | ||
| I think everybody was waiting to see that, because she was such a... And, you know, when she was like a rabble rouser, I said, hey, more power to her. | ||
| If she's gonna go there and stir the pot, that's awesome. | ||
| But then she got cocky with her voters. | ||
| She went out there When the voters didn't like the deal with McCarthy, when they didn't like that we weren't getting the surveillance footage, she got cocky and she said, well, you're not on the Hill, so you don't know what you're talking about. | ||
| I'm on the Hill. | ||
| I know everything. | ||
| I'm a Washington insider now. | ||
| I have my assignments back. | ||
| So it's beautiful to see her melt down like that. | ||
| But the point is, is that you have this remarkable contrast and there's lessons to be learned here. | ||
| The contrast is that Marjorie really put the cart before the horse. | ||
| She promised McCarthy her full support and she accepted something in the future, which there was no guarantee that she would ever receive. | ||
| Does that sound familiar, by the way? | ||
| She said, I'll vote for Kevin McCarthy because Kevin McCarthy promised that he would do things for me. | ||
| Do you see the problem? | ||
| And we see now the results, but do you see the problem with that logic? | ||
| Do you see the connection? | ||
| She said after Republicans had won their election, and it was clear they had a majority, she said, I got you. | ||
| I will back you in your bid for the speakership. | ||
| I will vote for you as speaker and I will vote for all your bills. | ||
| Just give me my assignments back and promise you'll do some things for the base. | ||
| And he said, sure. | ||
| And we see how that played out. | ||
| We see how that kind of thinking and that mindset played out. | ||
| McCarthy got what he wanted, and even Marjorie Greene got what she wanted. | ||
| That's kind of like the subtle thing, is that on an individual level, she got what she personally wanted. | ||
| She didn't get the things that she wants, like for politics. | ||
| She didn't get the surveillance footage of the impeachment, but she got her assignments back. | ||
| She got a seat at the table. | ||
| It benefits her personally. | ||
| But the voters got screwed. | ||
| Contrast that with what Gaetz did. | ||
| Now, I didn't even really love what happened with Gaetz, which is that ultimately that coalition wound up giving McCarthy the gavel. | ||
| So I don't really love that. | ||
| But at the minimum, they forced a conversation. | ||
| They said, we're gonna hold out. | ||
| They didn't hold out forever. | ||
| They didn't hold out for very long even, but they held out enough that they sent a message and they said there is some Descent within the ranks and they said that not everybody supports McCarthy and we're gonna be the voice for the skeptics that don't trust him and they did secure some written concessions and the motion to vacate is a pretty good step. | ||
| Once again, I think it's more toothless than any of them will let on but it's a step and it's just because that exists that we even get the baby step. | ||
| It's only because that exists That we even got as much as we did, which is at least a start of impeachment. | ||
| And again, probably will amount to nothing. | ||
| But it's demonstrating the principle. | ||
| Leverage was used to secure and extract something. | ||
| It's nothing, but it's something. | ||
| And it demonstrates that there is leverage. | ||
| And with Gates and the Freedom Caucus, they said, look, If you want our votes, you're going to have to deliver. | ||
| We're going to need more than promises. | ||
| We need it in writing, and we need some way to hold you accountable. | ||
| Only then will you get our vote. | ||
| And now we have a tool, and we have a contract in place, where because McCarthy's not holding up his end of the bargain, a guy like Gates can go to the press and say, look, here's the contract. | ||
| He's not following through. | ||
| So here's what we're gonna do. | ||
| We're gonna hold a motion to vacate. | ||
| And it may or may not work, but it's about the principle here. | ||
| And I've said this for a long time about politics, that we have to adopt that kind of, that same mentality. | ||
| I feel like most Republican voters are like Marjorie Greene. | ||
| They vote first, ask questions later. | ||
| They vote for Republicans, it doesn't matter who it is. | ||
| When they go and vote, they just, they get a Republican ballot. | ||
| You know, and they vote all the way down the ticket for all Republicans. | ||
| Even if they're bad. | ||
| Even if they're in a bluer district where the Republican, like, sucks. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| That's just what they do. | ||
| And they'll say things like, we have to hold the line. | ||
| We have to give McCarthy a majority. | ||
| We have to give McConnell a majority. | ||
| These are the people that raced out to vote in the Georgia Senate runoff in 2020. | ||
| They're the people that raced out in 2022 to vote for candidates that didn't talk about election fraud or were soft on abortion. | ||
| Most Republican voters are light green. | ||
| They're going to give the establishment what it wants, and then they'll hope and pray that eventually they will benevolently give a crumb. | ||
| They'll give something of what they promised. | ||
| And really that's how they operate in society. | ||
| They really are operating like at a societal level like that. | ||
| They go about their lives, they pay their taxes, they go to work, they do their thing, and they just hope that eventually the system will work itself out. | ||
| And I just think that's the wrong approach to everything because everything's a negotiation and everything is a deal. | ||
| And everything really requires our consent as a people. | ||
| And so similarly, there was a time when Donald Trump was running, initially, where he said that if he didn't get the nomination, he would just drop out and run independent and let Hillary Clinton win. | ||
| And everybody said, what? | ||
| You can't do that! | ||
| Clinton's the worst of all possibilities! | ||
| You can't run independent and spoil the race and And Trump said, well, you better make sure I win then. | ||
| You better... And do you see how... You see the reversal at work? | ||
| That's a kind of mindset that we losers, as Republicans, or losers as taxpayers, citizens, we're just not accustomed to thinking that way. | ||
| We don't have the audacity to think that way. | ||
| To say, okay, well, if I lose, then we're all gonna lose. | ||
| And we could just live with that. | ||
| And we know that, you know, like maybe that could happen, but we also know at the same time we're confident that the establishment won't let it happen. | ||
| Just like Trump did in that instance where he said, look, I mean, I'd like to run as the Republican, but if I don't, I could always run independent. | ||
| And he even said it. | ||
| It was incredible. | ||
| He said, well, I'm talking about a lot of leverage. | ||
| And he basically admitted, I'm leveraging you. | ||
| I'm working you. | ||
| I'm not gonna give, why would I pledge to support your nominee? | ||
| Why would I, why, all this support that I have, which can go either way, why would I just give that to you in exchange for nothing? | ||
| You're hostile, you're working against me. | ||
| I have all these voters, I have, and at that time I think it was at 20, 15, or 20 percent. | ||
| He said, why am I gonna pledge my support Right out of the gate. | ||
| How does that? | ||
| I'm gonna give something for nothing? | ||
| And same thing with Gates and these other guys. | ||
| They said the same thing. | ||
| They said, well, we're gonna vote for McCarthy who funded primaries against some of us and who's notorious as like a pawn for the lobbyists and establishment shill. | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| How about you put in writing what you're gonna do for us and you give us a way to enforce it and then we'll vote for you. | ||
| And so our approach in politics has to be based on that kind of thinking, which is that we have to use our leverage, and we have to sometimes turn the tables. | ||
| If you don't like how it's set, turn the table over. | ||
| Play a different game. | ||
| We can't always be reacting and responding, and we also can't always be the suckers. | ||
| Politics has made all of us the suckers, where we're always forced to eat shit to accommodate other people, and we have to be comfortable forcing other people to eat shit sometimes. | ||
| It's like, even this summer, they said, look, if the Republicans don't pass a bill, the government's gonna run out of money, and the economy's gonna lose all these jobs. | ||
| And it's like, OK. | ||
| I mean, somewhere along the way, we as a race and as a people have to be willing to say, OK, let the government run out of money. | ||
| Then what? | ||
| Then what are you going to do? | ||
| And you remember when that happened back in June? | ||
| They said, look, the Republicans have to pass the bill or else we will run out of money by June 1st. | ||
| And then it became clear that it wasn't going to be done in time. | ||
| And they said, did we say June 1st? | ||
| We meant June 7th. | ||
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And they just extend it because they can always do that. | |
| Because the Treasury Department can always go and find more money. | ||
| They can find a way. | ||
| They would if necessary. | ||
| And if they absolutely could not, then they would make a fucking deal. | ||
| But we have to be willing to play that game. | ||
| We have to be willing to go there. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| What's 100,000 jobs when we're talking about $30 trillion of debt? | ||
| What's 3% of the GDP when we're talking about the fact that in 10 years the interest payment will eat all of the tax revenue? | ||
| Think about that. | ||
| Like, in other words, the stakes are so high that you can't lose, even if you... even if you lose. | ||
| What am I trying to say? | ||
| In other words, there's no way to not lose, is what I'm trying to say, I suppose, is what happens when the debt ceiling hits? | ||
| Let's say we avert the catastrophe. | ||
| The cake is baked. | ||
| We're screwed. | ||
| With or without the deal, like I said, within 10 years, all the tax revenue that the federal government collects is servicing interest on the debt. | ||
| Before a penny goes to the military, before a penny goes to Medicare, or Social Security, or education, or anything, it all just goes to interest. | ||
| It all just goes to the holders of the debt. | ||
| And people say, well, we can't. | ||
| We have to avert this debt ceiling crisis. | ||
| We have to suspend the debt ceiling for two more years or else there'll be some temporary economic pain. | ||
| Temporary economic pain? | ||
| It's gonna be a calamity. | ||
| It's gonna be a full-scale bottom falling out. | ||
| And the same goes for all these other issues. | ||
| It's like, they said, but we won't have a Speaker. | ||
| We won't have a Speaker. | ||
| We don't have a border. | ||
| We don't have a border. | ||
| And every major city is being buried in peasant refugees where we don't even know where to put them. | ||
| They're being put up in hotels and airports and transportation hubs. | ||
| And even the black people don't want them there. | ||
| Even the black people are the champions of the Democrat Party. | ||
| Even they are saying that these people are ruining the cities. | ||
| So what's the point? | ||
| I mean, some would say, oh, well, that's a non sequitur. | ||
| What does the border have to do with the Speaker? | ||
| It has everything to do with that. | ||
| It has everything to do with the decision-making process in the government, which is that, and this is why I said it's a subtle thing, in the case of Marjorie Greene, notice that who are the beneficiaries of that deal? | ||
| It wasn't just McCarthy, it was Marjorie and McCarthy. | ||
| McCarthy got his gavel, Marjorie got her committee assignments, it was the voters that got screwed and didn't get what they wanted. | ||
| Similarly, when we're talking about the Speaker and we're talking about anything like that, the nomination, the Georgia Senate runoff, these people always win. | ||
| They're always doing fine. | ||
| It's us that are always paying the price. | ||
| You know, like when Trump had a Republican majority in both chambers of Congress, they said no border wall. | ||
| We had a Republican House, Senate, White House, and Supreme Court for two years. | ||
| You could have built a 30-foot concrete wall along 2,000 miles of the southern border, and this wouldn't be an issue. | ||
| It could have been done, but it didn't happen. | ||
| But Mitch McConnell is still in the Senate. | ||
| Kevin McCarthy is now the...he got a promotion. | ||
| He's now the Speaker of the House. | ||
| And most of those people are still in power. | ||
| So, sometimes you have to let everyone lose. | ||
| Sometimes there has to be a little pain. | ||
| Yeah, we could have gone without a speaker. | ||
| We could have gone without a debt ceiling increase. | ||
| And just like this, we can go up without extending the continuing resolution. | ||
| Because we have to begin to extract some concessions and win. | ||
| And the only way we're going to do that is by using the leverage we have. | ||
| Not giving it up at every turn because they scare us with this doomsday stuff. | ||
| But what if this? | ||
| What if that? | ||
| Let that be their problem. | ||
| Let them figure that out. | ||
| We're fucked either way. | ||
| Don't you realize that we are absolutely screwed either way? | ||
| Do you not, at this point, see the writing on the wall? | ||
| If they don't throw you in jail, the fate that will await us and our children in this country When you look at the currency, when you look at the debt, when you look at the migration, the crime, the education... Anywhere you look, it's like we are screwed no matter what. | ||
| So, what's a little bit worse gonna do? | ||
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Right? | |
| Country's gonna be minority white in 10 years, some people say. | ||
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But if we don't raise the debt ceiling, then... Then what? | |
| Then what? | ||
| It's still gonna be Nigeria. | ||
| It's still gonna be Brazil here. | ||
| So let them lose. | ||
| Introduce a little chaos. | ||
| Go with what Matt Gaetz did. | ||
| Matt Gaetz was right about this. | ||
| But that's that. | ||
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I want to move on. | |
| I want to finally talk about Starlink. | ||
| We are technically out of time, but I am gonna knock this Starlink story out because I've been promising it for a long time. | ||
| Our second story tonight is about the Starlink satellites with Elon Musk. | ||
| And I think I've already covered the gist, but basically this is a story that comes from this new biography about Elon Musk, which has been written by Walter Isaacson. | ||
| I think that's his name, right? | ||
| He's a famous biographer. | ||
| He's written, you've probably read some of them. | ||
| I think he wrote one about Ben Franklin, and there's a lot of them out there. | ||
| Anyway. | ||
| So there was a story from this forthcoming biography, I think it actually just came out today, but it's a story from last year, from last fall, and it talks about Elon Musk's role in the Ukraine war. | ||
| And in case you don't know, the Ukrainian military, and even our military, is totally dependent on Elon Musk's Starlink satellite system. | ||
| For certain aspects of the war, it requires the Starlink satellites to maintain some of their missile or surveillance activity. | ||
| I'm not really sure the technical stuff because it's very technical, but basically they rely on that satellite umbrella to cover the battlefield of Ukraine and Russia. | ||
| And yet, although the American and the Ukrainian military are in a position of dependency on the Starlink service, they don't own it. | ||
| Starlink is not a contractor. | ||
| It's a completely private company. | ||
| So they're not in any way owned by the federal government. | ||
| And so the story goes that last year, the Ukrainians were attempting a sneak attack against the Russian Navy in the Black Sea, and they wanted to launch missiles and destroy a significant number of Russian vessels, which would have been a major escalation, but they required Elon Musk to extend the satellites and the coverage of the satellites in order to carry out the attack. | ||
| And the story goes that Musk refused Because he opposed an escalation of the war, which would be a very big deal if that were true. | ||
| And this is a story, it says quote, Elon Musk foiled an attack on Russia's Black Sea fleet last year by refusing to let Ukraine use a satellite network to guide its drones. | ||
| Ukraine's military forces have relied heavily on the Starlink satellites owned by Mr. Musk's SpaceX company for communication since Russia disabled Ukraine's internet service as part of its invasion in early 2022. | ||
| But Mr. Musk would not allow the network to be used for an attack last September with maritime drones on the Russian naval base at Sevastopol in Crimea. | ||
| At the time of the attempted attack, Mr. Musk spoke with the Russian ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, who had told him an attack on Crimea could lead to a nuclear response. | ||
| Copies of the book from which the story comes were obtained by the New York Times from a bookstore on Friday, though it is not set to go on sale until Tuesday. | ||
| This is from last week. | ||
| The account was included in an excerpt from the book published on Thursday by the Washington Post. | ||
| Mr. Musk on his social network, X, confirmed elements of the story, saying, quote, if I had agreed to their request, SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation. | ||
| Within days of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Mr. Musk began sending Starlink terminals to the country, eventually more than 42,000 of them, in response to public pleas from Ukrainian officials. | ||
| Throughout the war, the connectivity provided by Starlink has been pivotal for Ukraine's military to coordinate drone strikes and gather intelligence, and it has also aided hospitals, businesses, and aid organizations across Ukraine. | ||
| Ukrainian and U.S. | ||
| officials have long been uneasy with the vital position in Ukraine held by Mr. Musk, reportedly the wealthiest person in the world. | ||
| He has acknowledged for months being in contact with Russian as well as Ukrainian officials, raising concerns about his being influenced by the Kremlin's view. | ||
| He is also known for his unpredictability and has suggested elements of a peace settlement to the war that officials in Kiev have dismissed as a capitulation to aggression. | ||
| So the story is that this private guy has basically altered the course of the war and has intervened in a way that dramatically changes potentially who could win this. | ||
| Because had Ukraine followed through with this strike, it literally could have been a nuclear war. | ||
| It's one thing to attack the bridges, it's one thing to attack Russia's artillery or tanks, but to destroy their navy in the Black Sea with the support of the United States is a major escalation. | ||
| And maybe it wouldn't have directly catalyzed a limited nuclear strike, but it certainly would have brought Russia and America closer to direct hostilities, and on some timeline could have led to a nuclear war. | ||
| And so I think Elon Musk is a hero for doing this. | ||
| It's an incredible thing, if it's true. | ||
| I don't know how true it is. | ||
| It sounds kind of fake, to be honest. | ||
| But if it is true, and he did intervene to do this, then that makes him a hero. | ||
| And it also raises some serious questions about national sovereignty. | ||
| And if the United States government is sovereign and they're conducting this war, albeit it's a proxy war, if they're conducting this war in Ukraine and they're dependent on a private citizen, what is the role of a private firm owner in a position like that? | ||
| Is he totally subordinated to the state? | ||
| Can he be commanded by the Pentagon to use his privately owned satellites to help Ukraine? | ||
| Or is he able to interfere in such a way that it begs the question if he's helping the country that's at war with the United States? | ||
| And honestly, to tell you the truth, my problem is not necessarily in a situation like this. | ||
| It's a big problem that a guy like Elon Musk was able to do this. | ||
| Like, I don't have a problem with what he did specifically here, because what he did was a good thing, but in principle you have to recognize that this can't happen. | ||
| Like, you can't have. | ||
| No serious country. | ||
| can have a person residing within its borders subject to its jurisdiction contracting with its government and with a massive fortune but also able to deny the official national security policy of that nation. | ||
| No serious country would be in a predicament like that with its own citizens. | ||
| In this case, we happen to agree with what Musk did, and we also happen to disagree with what the government supports. | ||
| We don't support the government's particular agenda. | ||
| We do support the particular actions of Elon Musk. | ||
| That being said, this is a very bad precedent. | ||
| Because what happens when Donald Trump wants to build a wall on the border? | ||
| And a private company says, no, we won't build a wall. | ||
| No, we will not give the land. | ||
| We will not give up our land for a border wall to be constructed on it. | ||
| No, we will not pour the concrete. | ||
| We will not do this, that, and the other. | ||
| What happens then? | ||
| What happens when President Keith Woods goes to war against Israel? | ||
| And Elon Musk says, no, you cannot use my Starlink satellites to destroy Israel. | ||
| I mean, what happens then? | ||
| What are we gonna say? | ||
| Oh, well, that's his right. | ||
| Oh, shucks. | ||
| Well, I guess I'll have to figure something else out. | ||
| It's not like he lives here. | ||
| We could just go get him. | ||
| It's not like he lives in California and we're the fucking government and we could just go and get him and make him do what we want him to do. | ||
| And I say that as the government would obviously, in a law enforcement capacity, be able to compel whatever course of action they desire, because they're the sovereign. | ||
| So, we have to recognize that as dissidents, as the opposition, we're in a unique position where we incidentally support a lot of these things, although we don't support them in principle. | ||
| Incidentally, I support that Elon Musk did this. | ||
| In principle, this is absolutely wrong. | ||
| This is like a complete inversion. | ||
| He should absolutely be subordinated to the state and made to do what they say. | ||
| Especially in a war. | ||
| If the government says that's our national security agenda, then that's our national security agenda and everybody has to get in line. | ||
| That's the one thing the government can compel obedience on. | ||
| That's what makes them a sovereign. | ||
| So, uh, if we are ever in charge of the government, it can't work that way. | ||
| If there's ever a good regime, it can't work that way. | ||
| Obviously, we're in a soft, cold war. | ||
| We're in, like, a political battle. | ||
| And so, yeah, like, we want everyone to resist the government in some form. | ||
| Like, yeah, we would want Elon Musk to say no. | ||
| And, of course, we would want law enforcement to refuse to enforce mask mandates, as an example. | ||
| And we would want employers to refuse vaccine mandates. | ||
| And we would want the universities to refuse affirmative action. | ||
| Because we are in the position of being in opposition. | ||
| But if we are in the position of authority, we would want none of that. | ||
| We would stand for none of it. | ||
| And I said the same thing about Edward Snowden. | ||
| It's like a country can't have whistleblowers on intelligence. | ||
| Now, again, incidentally, we support it because the government's evil and they're doing evil things and he did the right thing, but if you tell that guy, well hey, you can just come back to America and we wipe the slate clean, what message does that send? | ||
| It's like you have no government then. | ||
| If this guy gets rewarded For leaking state secrets to the press, what happens when it's some other guy who just doesn't like what he sees? | ||
| It's forget about it, he's correct or he's in the right. | ||
| Or what he's speaking about is illegal? | ||
| What if some guy just doesn't like what he sees at the NSA or the CIA or wherever and says, you know what? | ||
| Fuck it. | ||
| I'm gonna go and give all my... I'll give all my keys and USBs and everything to the press. | ||
| Like, he can't have a government that way. | ||
| Society doesn't work that way. | ||
| So there has to be some semblance of authority and discretion. | ||
| It's just that we are in a position where we're absolutely opposed to that authority, which is what makes it acceptable in this case. | ||
| But that's that. | ||
| That's Starlink. | ||
| Good on Elon Musk. | ||
| He prevented the war. | ||
| It just goes to show how insane these people are. | ||
| You bet that we have come very close to nuclear war more than once just in the last year and a half because of what's happening in Ukraine. | ||
| If they were about to blow up these ships without Elon Musk telling them no, I mean just imagine what else must be going on that we've never heard of. | ||
| So anyway, that's that. | ||
| I want to move on. | ||
| I want to take a look at our Super Chats and see what you guys are saying about all this. | ||
| I got my water bottle. | ||
| So we'll take a look and we'll see. | ||
| What do you guys have to say? | ||
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let me get set up here i'm tired though dude i I am tired. | |
| Like I said, not feeling so hot. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Let's take a look. | ||
| Yeah, I'm like barely able to keep my eyes open. | ||
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I'm falling asleep. | |
| Punjabi Grower sent $3. | ||
| What would be the requirements for you to primarily stream on another platform? | ||
| Guarantee that I would never get banned That's why we're keeping I would probably not do cozy and I would just do rumble If there was a guarantee that I would have free speech But I mean you saw they suspended me for two weeks because I said something lawful So that's why I'm never gonna get rid of cozy now | ||
| You know I mean because I mean look we built Cozy at a time when there was no Rumble and there was no there was no alternative and now there is and I recognize that they have a lot of advantages they have venture capital behind them and | ||
| You know they've got they've got some advantages but the thing that they don't have is they you know I control this and that is very valuable when you have a lot of enemies like I do and when you're saying things that are so controversial so you know there was a moment where I considered maybe we just do rumble because it's not so worth it then I got banned from rumble for two weeks so | ||
| You know, I don't want my destiny to be outside my control again, or the fate of this show at least. | ||
| Regina Bolton sent $3. | ||
| Hey! | ||
| Hey! | ||
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Yo! | |
| Hadron sent $1,000. | ||
| Kostin, you can run. | ||
| You can hide. | ||
| You can lift weights until your giant schnoz bleeds. | ||
| But you can never escape the unequivocal truth. | ||
| You are Jewish. | ||
| God is great. | ||
| Christ redeems. | ||
| NJF is forever. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Well thank you so much for the huge super chat. | ||
| 07s man. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| Thank you very much for all your support. | ||
| And we love you buddy. | ||
| And you're absolutely right. | ||
| Costin can run, he can hide, but guess what, bitch? | ||
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You're a Jew. | |
| Okay? | ||
| And everybody knows it. | ||
| And we forced him to admit it. | ||
| That's gotta be one of the all-time great victories, is that we forced him to admit that he's a Jew. | ||
| We doxed him. | ||
| We said, hey, listen, Costin LMRU, you're a Jew. | ||
| And it got so bad that he was forced by the Groypers to admit it and pretend like it's a joke. | ||
| He posted his 23 and me and said, oh, whoa, whoa. | ||
| You know, crying Wojack mask. | ||
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LOL, look at me, I'm Jewish. | |
| Yeah, we know, bitch. | ||
| We forced you to admit it. | ||
| Your disinfo op is exposed. | ||
| So, absolutely. | ||
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God is great. | |
| Christ redeems. | ||
| America first forever. | ||
| But hey, thank you very much, man. | ||
| God bless you for the huge Super Chat. | ||
| Everyone, let's get an 07 in the chat for AT Drummond. | ||
| Special thanks for the crazy Super Chat. | ||
| We love you, man. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| I have! | ||
| I like it a lot. | ||
| I have. | ||
| I like it a lot. | ||
| It's pretty good. | ||
| Jorge Floyd sent $3. | ||
| She acts who I am. | ||
| Keith Woods nice to meet you. | ||
| Nick's a king. | ||
| Don't care. | ||
| Hes mean. | ||
| Greedy Jews all I see. | ||
| Hail Christ 83. | ||
| My flow impeccable. | ||
| My bar is commendable. | ||
| Destiny reprehensible. | ||
| Grow up or victory inevitable. | ||
| Thanks a lot. | ||
| Justin sent $3. | ||
| If you were a producer beat maker, what would your producer tag be? | ||
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Hmm. | |
| I don't know. | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| I'm not artistic like that, so I don't even know what I would be. | ||
| What even is a producer tag? | ||
| Is that like when... Is that like that sound that plays, like Akon? | ||
| It's like that sound of the cell door closing or something? | ||
| Or is it like weights dropping? | ||
| It sounds like metal. | ||
| Is it like that? | ||
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Because... I'm not really sure. | |
| So I don't know what it would be. | ||
| Jordan B sent $3. | ||
| LOL just watched last night's replay and I was saying in my SC that it was good that for a while in the aftermath of 9/11 people were incredibly xenophobic and the system basically tolerated it. | ||
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Oh okay, so you're saying it was good. | |
| Jordan B sent $3. | ||
| Granted most of anti-Islam stuff was coming from Zionists back then but the American instinct to be xenophobic was good. | ||
| Curious, do you think America would have united if 9-11 happened now? | ||
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I don't know. | |
| I feel like there's so much anti-American sentiment, like 30% of the country would say, like, we deserve it. | ||
| I know that sounds crazy, but it was literally a different country 20 years ago. | ||
| 20 years ago, yeah, everybody, red, white, black, brown, yellow, they all said, yeah, fuck those terrorists, we're America, we're gonna go get them. | ||
| It's not like that. | ||
| It's not like that anymore. | ||
| I feel like 30% of the country would say, yeah, take that, that's for slavery, bitch, that's for the war in Iraq. | ||
| So, no. | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| Not like it was 20 years ago, no way. | ||
| Richard Percival sent $10. | ||
| The bright side of getting banned on Twitter is that, when you respawn, BAP won't be blocking you anymore so you can ratio him again. | ||
| Dude, cringe. | ||
| I'm cringing at you. | ||
| Pretty underscore fly underscore white underscore guy sent $3. | ||
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126. | |
| Thanks for the show, friend. | ||
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| DeLaw sent $25. | ||
| Keep doing the Lord's work, brother. | ||
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I will. | |
| Savion sent $3. | ||
| Im retarded. | ||
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Awesome. | |
| BlackGroiper sent $3. | ||
| Migrants and everywhere. | ||
| They are everywhere on those stupid mopeds too. | ||
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True. | |
| Corelix sent $5. | ||
| Enrique Tarrio got 20 years so in retrospect he should have gone a lot harder. | ||
| Absolutely, I agree. | ||
| Farid Lukovic sent $20. | ||
| Is part of the reason why Russia is enemy number also because it's the most powerful all-white country in the world? | ||
| No, I don't think that has a lot to do with it because China is such an enemy also. | ||
| China is a major adversary and they're not white at all and Iran is a major adversary and they're not... well, some would argue they are. | ||
| North Korea is a major adversary and they're not white. | ||
| I don't think that really... and also Russia's Slavic. | ||
| So you know really stretching our definition of white to say oh the Russia they hate Russia because it's so white it's like if anything they would hate Russia the least out of all the European countries you know and they would really hate like England and Germany and Italy and France. | ||
| I don't know that they would hate they'd be like man Poland No, I think if that was the metric they would have a lot less of a problem with Poland and Russia and the others So no, I don't think so No, I don't I don't think it's because they're white no Farid Lukovic sent $20. | ||
| This is ChatGPT's intro for you if you were ever to do a boxing match. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, get ready for an electrifying showdown in the influencer boxing world. | ||
| In the red corner, known for his provocative rhetoric and controversial views, the firebrand of commentary, Nick Fuentes. | ||
|
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It's a little generic. | |
| Don't you think? | ||
| It's like, he's a provocative talker. | ||
| Well, what about the content of what I say? | ||
| A little generic, I think. | ||
| But that's okay. | ||
| Why do you care? | ||
| Why are you asking? | ||
| Why are you asking me? | ||
| Why do you care? | ||
| What made you decide to adopt intermittent fasting when you're eating? | ||
| Why are you asking me? | ||
| You've had more to say about diet lately. | ||
| Why are you asking me? | ||
| Why do you care? | ||
| Why do you, why are you asking what I'm eating? | ||
| Look, I just said that I like to stay skinny, okay? | ||
| I like to keep my weight down, so I don't eat that much, okay? | ||
| And it's really none of your business, okay? | ||
| Sometimes I choose to share, sometimes I don't. | ||
| What are you? | ||
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Hey, you still eat one meal a day? | |
| Why is it your business? | ||
| Why are you asking me that? | ||
| Get the fuck away from me. | ||
| Why do you care? | ||
| Why are you sitting there wondering what I'm eating? | ||
| What my diet is? | ||
| Why do you think that's information that you're entitled to? | ||
| Why do you need to know that? | ||
| You want that knowledge? | ||
| Why? | ||
| And you think I'm just gonna give it to you? | ||
| You're still another... Stop asking me questions like that. | ||
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Freak. | |
| Do I have any right to privacy? | ||
| Farid Lukovic sent $20. | ||
| Dis dat new Nick Fuentes shit nigga. | ||
| Jjjjjg weesh. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| Uh, you know, I don't know. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| You know, I don't know. | ||
| I've never seen the Earth, so I'm not 100% sure one way or the other. | ||
| Could be flat, could be round. | ||
| Polish underscore mail sent $3. | ||
| Since you mentioned Poland, we just held a blackface and n-word contest on national TV. | ||
| Black people did not like it. | ||
| Frown. | ||
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Based? | |
| I bet they didn't like it. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Still Polish. | ||
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Polish, these Polish people are like, but Nick, we're based in Redfield, but Nick, we did a blackface competition. | |
| You still hate Polish people? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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No, I don't hate Polish people. | |
| But, look, I mean, listen, they are definitely less white than Western Europeans, okay? | ||
| I mean, the further you go and the more Slavic it becomes, like, by definition, the less Western, the less white it becomes, okay? | ||
| And I love Slavic people, and I love Polish people, Do you believe me when I say that, by the way? | ||
| Some of my closest friends are Polish, okay? | ||
| So believe me, I love Polish people and I love Russians. | ||
| I've supported Russia more than anybody. | ||
| But Slavic people are, you know, they're just less, they are a little less white than the rest of us. | ||
| It's probably, and you know, probably Nordics are the most white. | ||
| I think Nordics are the most white. | ||
| Then Mediterranean's. | ||
| Then Alpenitz. | ||
| I think that's how it goes. | ||
| Now I also, even though I think Nordics are more white, I think the Mediterranean's are better than Nordics. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Are you following this? | ||
| I think the Nordics are the most white, but I think the Mediterranean's are better. | ||
| And I think Madison Grant was just coping. | ||
| He even admitted the Mediterranean's are smarter. | ||
| He just said the Nordics are better because they're more physically fit. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| Smarter is better. | ||
| Because we're human beings, not gorillas. | ||
| You know, Madison Grant said, well, the Nordics are slightly better, even though the Meds are more creative and more intelligent. | ||
| He said Nordics are physically more imposing. | ||
| It's like, yeah, but we're also not fucking gorillas. | ||
| So I think smarter matters more, obviously, because Jews run the society because they're the most clever. | ||
| They're not the strongest. | ||
| They're notoriously, in many ways, dysgenic because of all the inbreeding, but they're very clever. | ||
| And that's how they dominate society. | ||
| So it's Mediterranean's on top, then Nordics, then Alpinists. | ||
| And the evidence that I submit is that the Golden One, who is a Nordic pagan, today was defending Kaustin Alomaru. | ||
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He says, oh, Keith Woods, why are you talking Kaustin? | |
| Even though he's a Zionist Jew, his podcast is pretty good. | ||
| And that's just like classic, that's like classic uh what do they call that when they say that we're too nice that's that uh out group preference this pathological altruism Of Nordics. | ||
| You see this all the time. | ||
| I feel like the Swedes and the Norwegians, they're like the least hardcore white nationalists. | ||
| All the most hardcore white nationalists are in Italy and Germany and England and Spain. | ||
| That's where you see fascists throwing up Roman salutes and like, you know, listen, listen up. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Xenophilic, pathologically altruistic, you know, and they have this ecumenical idea that all the white people gotta get together. | ||
| And you know, now don't get me wrong, I like that guy. | ||
| Marcus, I like him. | ||
| I like him a lot. | ||
| But it is like your classic pathological altruism that he says, Oh, Costinola Baru, he's a Zionist Jew. | ||
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Seems okay to me. | |
| And, you know, me as an Italian, I'm like, I'm like, hey, he's a fucking Jew. | ||
| I'm like, hey, I'm like, Marcus, he's a fucking Jew. | ||
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You're gonna let this fucking Jew in our movement? | |
| And that's the difference. | ||
| That's the difference between a mad and a Nordic. | ||
| And in some ways the Alpinate is even more base, because the Slavs are like our orcs. | ||
| The Slavs are like the orcs of the white race. | ||
| The Meds are like, ATTACK! | ||
| And the Slavs are like, you know, they'll just go in, they're eating their cabbage pie, and they're just gonna go and fuck them up. | ||
| You know, they're tough and strong, they're throwing pigs across the farm. | ||
| The Slavs are just gonna go in there and... | ||
| with spears and axes and flaming arrows so that's why I think it's meds Nordic's out but it's you know the Marcus you really let your race down by going true goyim and sympathizing with the Zio Jew so Farid Lukovic sent $20. | ||
| To be fair, Nick, you can find Nordic-looking Slavs, but you won't find Nordic-looking Italians. | ||
| That's just not true. | ||
| And that's also a Cope. | ||
| So you're obviously, dude, I love when you shit on somebody and then they come back with this Cope and they're being like, and it's like, dude, that is such a Cope. | ||
| Dude, look at Eastern Europe. | ||
| It's just like, you know what it is? | ||
| The whole world is Cain and Abel. | ||
| And Abel is never allowed to make fun of Cain, or else Cain kills him. | ||
| That's like, the whole world is like this. | ||
| Whites and blacks. | ||
| Blacks can make fun of whites. | ||
| They can say, shit man, you can't even dance, man. | ||
| And then you're like, yeah? | ||
| Well you're a stupid fucking... | ||
| N-word. | ||
| And then they go, what the fuck did you just say to me? | ||
| Because it's like, you can't make fun of them. | ||
| You can't make fun of them because, well, hello. | ||
| And it's the same with North and South. | ||
| Southerners can say, eee dog, you fucking Yankees are crazy. | ||
| And we're like, yeah, you guys are hillbillies. | ||
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And they go, what did you just say, you city slicker, you urbanite faggot? | |
| Whoa, okay, yeah, well, cuz, hello. | ||
| And same thing here. | ||
| It's like, you know, Slavs can make fun of superior Mediterranean's all day. | ||
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And they can say, you know, the Italians took sex and they did it with women, unlike the Greeks. | |
| You know, what's that stupid joke they say about, you know, Greeks or Italians steal everything and Greeks are gay or whatever. | ||
| You know, Slavs can make silly little jokes like that. | ||
| Oh, you know, Italians aren't white, blah blah blah, whatever. | ||
| Italians start to make fun of Slavs and Slavs freak out. | ||
| You hate me! | ||
| You hate me! | ||
| Well, you're not even white at all. | ||
| You know, then they freak out. | ||
| And it's like, that's because, you know, there's an order in this world. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| There's an order. | ||
| And everybody knows it. | ||
| So, anyway. | ||
| But you always see, that's always how it plays out. | ||
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Always. | |
| So. | ||
| Same thing is true like men and women. | ||
| It's always true. | ||
| Like an immutable law of nature. | ||
| John sent $3. | ||
| You never fail to deliver a good show. | ||
| Don't we agree with Zionists in the sense that they should all move to Israel instead of subverting their host nations? | ||
| Symbiosis seems less likely than parasitism. | ||
| But that's not what Zionists claim to support. | ||
| The whole Zionist project is built on this parasitism. | ||
| So, no. | ||
| Not quite. | ||
| Okay, great. | ||
| - Abu sent $3. | ||
| I like that tweet that Elon Musk liked that you posted that he liked it. | ||
| It is a good analysis and I agree. | ||
| - Okay, great. - D-boy sent $5. | ||
| Why has India been more of an ally to the US than China? | ||
| - Oh, well. | ||
| It's complicated, but really it's because India is not in direct competition in the same way. | ||
| It's really like... It's a combination of factors. | ||
| I mean, China is directly competing with us for control of the Pacific and for political, economic, military domination. | ||
| India has never had the growth that China has. | ||
| You know, because you recall that China was initially the ally against the Soviet Union. | ||
| It was the Triple Diplomacy or the Triangle Diplomacy that Nixon created between the US, USSR, and China where we played China against the Soviet Union. | ||
| And a big part of why we won the Cold War is because the Soviet Union wasn't totally able to rely on China as an ally. | ||
| And that's when China was the burgeoning little brother in Asia, sharing a border with Russia, the superior military power. | ||
| And it's sort of the same situation with India today, where China is now the competitor, and we're in direct competition with them, and India shares a border, | ||
| with them and India is a regional competitor regional foe of China and so it's really like our dynamic with China has driven us into India's arms but there's also other there's also other reasons I mean India speaks English India's democratic but it's far more about interest it's far more about | ||
| Geopolitical interest although there are there are like these undercurrents that you know, India has more of an Ideological and cultural overlap because India was also a colony of Great Britain so English-speaking the Democratic although that's somewhat changing and | ||
| They share a border with China, which makes them natural adversaries and we're adversaries with China They're also economic competitors, but they're not competitive really with the United States and the way that China is You know India has no middle class So So that's why Polish underscore mail sent $3. | ||
| I didn't want to super chat that because I knew this would be the reaction. | ||
| Not trying to look based. | ||
| Just found it funny and wanted to share. | ||
| Poland loves you. | ||
| And I love Poland, okay? | ||
| I love Poland. | ||
| It's a great Catholic country. | ||
| Farid Lukovic sent $20. | ||
| A pack of slobs would beat the shit out of a pack of meds slash nords and you know that's true. | ||
| It's literally not true though. | ||
| In what way is that true? | ||
| Slavic countries are, like, infinitely poorer than Western Europe. | ||
| Like, who would rather live in the Slavic countries than in Western Europe? | ||
| A world where Poland is a superpower and, like, Poland is the refuge in Europe is, like, a sad day. | ||
| And think about throughout history. | ||
| We had the Roman Empire. | ||
| We had the Renaissance. | ||
| We had Leonardo da Vinci. | ||
| We had Michelangelo. | ||
| We have the Catholic Church. | ||
| We invented fascism. | ||
| We had Mussolini. | ||
| And the Nords had Hitler. | ||
| And they had the British Empire. | ||
| And they had so much. | ||
| Holy Roman Empire. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| What do Slavs have? | ||
| Winged Hussars? | ||
| 1683? | ||
| I mean, what do they have? | ||
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Seriously. | |
| We have the finest food, the Michelin star restaurants, the finest art, museums, you name it. | ||
| I mean, you know, Russia's got some writers. | ||
| So don't make it a competition. | ||
| Listen, Slavs are white. | ||
| I don't mean any offense. | ||
| But you don't want to make it a competition. | ||
| It's not going to go well for you. | ||
| Yeah, like a pack of black people would beat up anybody because they are unemployed, you know, so what's your point? | ||
| You know, and a pack of animals would kill a pack of human beings. | ||
| I mean, what's your point? | ||
| What's your point? | ||
| Okay, Mediterraneans create. | ||
| If your argument is that Slavs know how to punch or something, okay. | ||
| But, you know, we're human. | ||
| Line Rider sent $3. | ||
| I don't know why everyone humors Marjorie Greene and says her maiden name every single time. | ||
| Thank you for not being a slave to her Hick tradition. | ||
| Pick one last name, ugly asshole. | ||
| Yeah, you got it. | ||
| No hyphen. | ||
| Tartush and Growiper sent $3. | ||
| Hey! | ||
| Ireland is so awesome! | ||
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True. | |
| Every time, dude. | ||
| Every time. | ||
| There's plenty of Italians with blonde hair, blue eyes. | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| The difference is that when we're blonde-haired, blue-eyed, we don't look like Putin, where he has like a monkey face. | ||
| When Italians and Greeks are blonde-haired, blue-eyed, they look like angels. | ||
| When you get a blonde-haired, blue-eyed slob, he looks like Putin. | ||
| He looks like early hominid. | ||
| That's a difference, okay? | ||
| Yeah, there you go. | ||
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Orcs of the White Race. | |
| Nah, I'm kidding. | ||
| But we... I'm kidding! | ||
| I'm kidding! | ||
| I'm kidding! | ||
| Okay, we love Slavs. | ||
| There are plenty of good-looking Slavic people, okay? | ||
| There are plenty of handsome Slavs and the Slavic women are beautiful. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| You know I'm just kidding. | ||
| But you know what's so funny is that I get accused of everything. | ||
| I make fun of Jews. | ||
| I get called anti-Jewish. | ||
| I make fun of blacks, I get called anti-black. | ||
| I make fun of Indians, I get called anti-Indian. | ||
| I make fun of Muslims, I get called anti-Muslim. | ||
| I make fun of Southerners, I get called anti-white. | ||
| I make fun of Slavs, you know, and I, I, the thing is though, not to be reddit or whatever, but I really do make fun of everybody. | ||
| Just saying. | ||
| Not that I need to defend myself, but I am just saying, like, It's crazy how sensitive people are. | ||
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I think I make fun of everybody. | |
| I make fun of retards, women, you know. | ||
| I even make fun of Italians and Mexicans. | ||
| So, people are just snowflakes, you know. | ||
| Political correctness is so out of control. | ||
| Richard Percival sent $5. | ||
| Slavs either got raped by Mongols for centuries, or raped by Turks for centuries. | ||
| North Italians are pure white excellence. | ||
| That's so true. | ||
| Black Groyper sent $3. | ||
| I could beat you up. | ||
| Okay so what? | ||
| Great point, exactly. | ||
| Hungarian Groyper sent $3. | ||
| So, are modern day Hungarians white? | ||
| No, they're all Jews. | ||
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Or gypsies. | |
| Everyone knows that. | ||
| And everybody. | ||
| And literally everybody. | ||
| You're welcome. | ||
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Alright. | |
| I think that's it. | ||
| I think that's our last... I'm like falling asleep. | ||
| I'm tapping out. | ||
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OKAY! | |
| That's our last Super Chat. | ||
| That's gonna do it for me tonight. | ||
|
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Okay, that's gonna do it for me. | |
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| As always, thanks for watching. | ||
| Special thanks to A.T. | ||
| Drummond. | ||
| Huge thanks to him for the huge super chat. | ||
| And special thanks to Fyra Blukovich, Big shout out to them. | ||
| Thanks to everybody that super chatted, everyone that watches the show. | ||
| We love you. | ||
| I'll see you tomorrow. | ||
| Until then, have a great rest of your evening. | ||
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Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo. | |
| It's going to be only America first. | ||
| America first. | ||
| The American people will come first once again. |
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