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It's not interesting. | ||
I'm sorry. | ||
I'm sorry, Brittany and Betsy, but I just can't do it. | ||
You're an e-girl. | ||
You know the rule. | ||
No e-girls. | ||
Who's got the clip? | ||
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Hashtag never e-girls. | ||
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I've never heard of it. | |
I've never heard of Nick. | ||
What is that? | ||
Americanism, not globalism. not globalism. | ||
We'll be right back. | ||
Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo. . | ||
It's going to be only America first. | ||
America first. | ||
The American people will come first once again. | ||
With respect, the respect that we deserve. | ||
From this day forward, it's going to be only America first. | ||
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Thank you. | ||
Good evening, everybody. | ||
You're watching America First. | ||
My name is Nicholas Chafe-Wentz. | ||
We have a great show for you tonight. | ||
Very excited to be back here with you on Friday night. | ||
We have a lot to talk about tonight. | ||
Lots to get into. | ||
Big show. | ||
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A lot of stuff going on. | |
Actually it's kind of a slow news day to be honest with you. | ||
It's not really a whole lot going on the whole week. | ||
That's why I really haven't been doing much of a show because there's just nothing going on. | ||
I just can't get into it. | ||
Can't get excited. | ||
Can't come out here and do this big show when there's really nothing happening. | ||
So, tonight we'll be talking about the war in Gaza and giving an update. | ||
It's day 76 of the war. | ||
And it's been brutal, as you know. | ||
And our big two stories tonight will be covering the potentially imminent war with Lebanon. | ||
Israel may go to war against Lebanon, or rather Hezbollah, in Lebanon very soon. | ||
That is at least what they're threatening. | ||
They're saying that Hezbollah Has to move away from their border, and the United States is saying the same thing. | ||
And this could be a negotiating tactic, because I doubt that Israel really wants a war with Hezbollah. | ||
But then again, they might just be crazy enough to do it, since they have forces on the northern border, and based on some of the rhetoric, it's possible. | ||
So, we'll talk about that. | ||
We'll also be talking about a new hostage deal, which may be coming together. | ||
It also may not. | ||
We're in kind of like the fourth phase of the war, and I'll break down the timeline in a moment. | ||
But if you've been paying close attention to the war in Gaza, the hostilities had effectively stopped for a couple weeks towards the end of November, beginning of December, when there did appear to be not a ceasefire, but what they have been calling these humanitarian pauses. | ||
Even though by definition it is a ceasefire, because it is a cessation of hostilities, a stopping, a ceasing of firing, They don't want to call it that. | ||
And there are reasons why, but they are going to a lot of trouble to not call it a ceasefire. | ||
And this was in order to get most of the non-male and elderly, so the female, the women, the elderly, civilian hostages negotiated back to Israel. | ||
But the hostilities have since resumed. | ||
Whatever there was, if there was a ceasefire, it is now over. | ||
And so they are discussing with Egyptian and Qatari mediators to see if they could put together a new deal that would see more humanitarian aid going in, cessation of the bombing again, in exchange for more hostages, of which there are 129 that Israel believes remain. | ||
So we'll get into all that. | ||
We'll get into the latest stuff. | ||
It's going to be a good show. | ||
It's good to be back here. | ||
The show's been all over the place this week. | ||
I apologize. | ||
But, like I said, it's like... One, it's the holidays. | ||
Two, there's nothing going on. | ||
I'm just like... | ||
Flying into Christmas break here. | ||
I don't usually do a big well actually I typically do a break for Christmas But I wasn't planning on it this year, but I'm just trying to get across the finish line to Christmas and nothing going on So it's just it hasn't really happened this week, but I'll be back probably next week. | ||
I might take a little time off around New Year's I'm thinking of getting out of here And taking a short little break because Not like I've been missing quite a few shows I feel like lately, but I've been doing a lot of streaming. | ||
I've been doing the show, I've been doing the Rumble exclusives. | ||
So, I think I might take a small break. | ||
And I've also been working on a lot of things behind the scenes as well, so. | ||
But I'll let you know. | ||
Most likely, of course, I'll be doing a show not on Monday, but I'll probably be back Tuesday and Wednesday. | ||
probably Thursday Friday I'm thinking right 27 28 29 yes I'm thinking I will at least do a show Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and of course Wednesday next Wednesday is our huge fundraiser it's our big money bomb marathon stream so I think I'll probably do Tuesday we'll do the big stream Wednesday I'll be doing a show on Thursday and then I think I'm take Friday off maybe take Monday off the following Monday all | ||
So that's kind of like the tentative schedule because I know it's been a little all over the place lately. | ||
So that's that. | ||
And just another reminder Wednesday I'm doing my huge marathon fundraiser stream and it's for the America First Foundation which is my 501c4 nonprofit. | ||
Our big end of the year fundraiser. | ||
and we're gonna be raising a lot of money the goal is to get to I'm thinking 50,000 because that's what we have in terms of matching we have a donor that's gonna match every dollar that's donated up to 50,000 so we're tentatively pushing for That's what's covered under the sort of double or nothing money bomb situation. | ||
And I hinted at some of the projects earlier in the week. | ||
We're planning on doing a feature-length documentary next year. | ||
We're going to be doing AfPak 4. | ||
We're going to be in the 2024 election. | ||
We're going to be doing a new studio. | ||
We got a lot of big plans for next year to really take things to the next level So we're starting it with a little round of fundraising crowdfunding at the end of the year, so So that's the plan and like I said all throughout the week, it's gonna be a marathon stream gonna be all day We'll have guests we'll have All sorts of other, like, little events and ways to participate. | ||
My nose is itching like crazy right now. | ||
I don't know why. | ||
I think it's my allergies. | ||
It's, like, distracting. | ||
It, like, hurts. | ||
What is that? | ||
My nose is hurting, like, right here. | ||
It's, like, hurting right here. | ||
I don't know why. | ||
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It's, like, all of a sudden, my nose just started hurting. | |
Anyway, I'll try and fight through that just kind of distracting me a little bit anyway So that's Wednesday. | ||
And like I said, we might be doing like a gaming tournament. | ||
We're gonna be doing call-ins We'll have super chats gonna be an all-out thing. | ||
We never really done it before But it's gonna be it's gonna be fun. | ||
It'll be our first one And we're just gonna have fun with it. | ||
We're gonna play around with the format, so Stay tuned for more information. | ||
I'll be posting more info this weekend, and that'll be that So that's our schedule My last show before Christmas, but I'll probably see you Tuesday, so I guess with that we'll dive in. | ||
Before we get into the news in Gaza, there is one other thing I wanted to talk about. | ||
This is one thing that's kind of been going on in the background for the past few days, and I'm sure you've heard the rumors, but there's a very disturbing report that came out this week from CBS. | ||
Based on some rumors, I feel like we're circulating even before that. | ||
People have been talking about this now for, I feel like, maybe a week, maybe two, which is that Donald Trump is considering Nikki Haley to be his running mate. | ||
Have you heard this? | ||
And it's been all over Twitter, and as I said, it was in this big CBS report, although I feel like it was being discussed even before that. | ||
They say that he's gonna pick her to be the running mate. | ||
And I suppose I can see why. | ||
I can see the reasoning. | ||
It makes sense in a very narrow way. | ||
Because I know that Donald Trump wants a female running mate. | ||
And that is to compensate for maybe his weakness among women in the electorate. | ||
And most likely he wants somebody who has a little color. | ||
And the point of the Vice President on the ticket is to sort of hedge with people that may not be in love with the guy at the top of the ticket. | ||
At least that's the conventional wisdom. | ||
Usually you put a statewide office holder from a swing state, or maybe you put in a woman, or maybe you put in a black person, or maybe you put in someone more moderate or someone more extreme, depending on who's at the top of the ticket. | ||
And so, It had been said, I want to say a year, maybe two years ago, that Trump was looking at a short list of all women. | ||
Like Carrie Lake and Marjorie Greene and Kirstie Noem from, is she from North or South Dakota? | ||
One of the Dakotas. | ||
And that was the list. | ||
And I don't know that Nikki Haley was ever considered. | ||
What's more, not only is she a woman and she's not white, but also she is rising in the polls. | ||
And she has appeared to have supplanted DeSantis as the runner-up. | ||
And leading in the second-tier race that's been going on at these debates and everybody that doesn't or hasn't already committed to supporting Trump. | ||
She's actually now, according to some polls, at 30% in New Hampshire, just 15 points behind Trump, which is kind of a big deal because she was never that high initially at the beginning of the race. | ||
So, I kind of get it on, and again, on one level I kind of get it from a strategic point of view. | ||
He's looking for a woman. | ||
She's non-white. | ||
She is, at this point, really his only competition, if you could even say that. | ||
I mean, she's not really. | ||
I don't think there's any chance she'll become the nominee, but there is a scenario where she finishes second in New Hampshire. | ||
Maybe she finishes first in South Carolina, second or first. | ||
And then there's a real competition between her and Trump. | ||
And so, from a strategic point of view, you can kind of understand what he's thinking, if that's true. | ||
That he wants to take her out of the race, and that maybe she will help him consolidate support on the Republican side on the ticket, and get a little support from women, or, you know, more moderate types. | ||
You can sort of understand the idea there. | ||
On the other hand, it is the worst idea ever because she represents the opposite of Trump in basically every way. | ||
She is hands down the worst candidate that's running right now. | ||
She's a neocon, she's a social liberal, she's establishment. | ||
I don't even think she's tough on immigration. | ||
So she's like against every single thing that Trump ran on the first, the second time, and now. | ||
And not only that, her temperament is against the president as well. | ||
Trump is rough around the edges and lately he's been talking about how immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country and you know all this. | ||
Stuff. | ||
And Nikki Haley is quite the opposite. | ||
She said in 2015 that Donald Trump was like Dylan Roof. | ||
Okay? | ||
Dylan Roof was the guy, of course, who killed all those black people years ago. | ||
And she said that Trump's rhetoric inspired Dylan Roof. | ||
So they couldn't be further apart in terms of style, in terms of substance, And I think everybody understands. | ||
I mean, even at Turning Point USA, they were booing her when she was mentioned, I think, by Tucker Carlson. | ||
She was booed. | ||
Very negative response. | ||
And I feel like that's the sentiment in the entire MAGA base. | ||
Of course, she went out, she was in the Trump administration for a couple years as the UN ambassador, and I believe she basically started trashing the president from the moment she left that position. | ||
And effectively began running for office. | ||
She left, joined the board of Boeing, bought a $2.5 million house, and then immediately began preparing to challenge the President for the nomination and trashing him. | ||
And especially after January 6th. | ||
But this is, you know, and I hate to tell you this, but I've heard from people that are in the know as well, and I don't even want to say this because I know it's going to dampen enthusiasm a little bit, but you got to stay with me here. | ||
Unfortunately, Donald Trump has not changed. | ||
Okay? | ||
The reality of the situation is that Donald Trump was one of the biggest reasons why the first term was not what it was supposed to be. | ||
And that's because Donald Trump is not very interested in governing. | ||
He doesn't pick the right people. | ||
He doesn't pick people that are loyal. | ||
He doesn't pick people that are America first or on side. | ||
For whatever reason, he just has these blind spots. | ||
He has these severe defects when it comes to his style of governing. | ||
He's a great campaigner. | ||
That's why he's good at winning primary campaigns. | ||
That's why he's good at getting votes. | ||
He is not good at governing, and he doesn't even seem to be interested in it. | ||
And so when we talk about the failures of the first term and the shortcomings of the first term, it's because of the fact that he picked all the wrong people to do the hiring in the White House and in the administration. | ||
That's why for years there was no progress on the border, there was no progress on bringing the troops home, any of the major things that he promised, a middle class tax cut, an infrastructure bill, it never happened, never materialized. | ||
Until the very, very end when they did a big shakeup. | ||
And you'd like to think that he is aware of that and he learned from these mistakes and that it won't be like that again. | ||
For example, people like Kushner and Ivanka having the reins. - Yeah. | ||
I hate to tell you, but it is going to be like that again. | ||
In fact, it already is like that again. | ||
It is like that with his campaign. | ||
It is like that with his endorsements. | ||
And if he wins, it is going to be the same battle in the administration that it was in 2017. | ||
Which is a little bit heartbreaking. | ||
Which is a little bit devastating. | ||
And I have this on good authority. | ||
I happen to know that this is the case. | ||
There are a lot of efforts where there are various factions that are selling to their donors and to other people on these different projects where they're going to find the personnel that's going to be in the Trump White House. | ||
And some of them are good and some of them are bad. | ||
And despite there being an overwhelming awareness of this, I mean, it seems that the movement is very cognizant and conscientious of this fact. | ||
Donald Trump seems to not be. | ||
He seems to have not gotten the memo. | ||
And it seems that headed into 2024, once again, it's going to be another all-out battle between the people that are actually loyal to him, and that are actually America First, and the neocons, and the Jews, and the Jared Kushner types, and the Israel Firsters, and the establishment people. | ||
It's going to be another battle. | ||
And so when I hear from CBS, or you hear these rumors that he's considering Haley, I believe it. | ||
I believe it. | ||
I believe that it will happen. | ||
Or rather, I don't necessarily think it will come to fruition. | ||
But I believe that he is considering that. | ||
I believe that that is a completely accurate report. | ||
And I would hope that he would clarify and say that it isn't. | ||
I would hope that in the coming days he might say, oh, that's not true. | ||
I'm not considering it. | ||
But I think that he hasn't addressed it yet. | ||
Well, it doesn't tell us anything good about What's really going on? | ||
And I honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if she wound up being the VP. | ||
I would not be surprised in the slightest if by the end it was a Trump-Haley ticket. | ||
I hate to say it. | ||
I hate it. | ||
I hate that outcome. | ||
I might not even vote for him if he puts Haley on the ticket. | ||
But I wouldn't be surprised. | ||
I hope that's, like I said, I hope that's not the case. | ||
I really don't want it to be her for obvious reasons and I would probably boycott. | ||
But I wouldn't even be a little bit surprised. | ||
Because that's how he rolls. | ||
And that's how he, that's how he has operated since the beginning. | ||
And it is a crying shame. | ||
But that's what we have to work with. | ||
And I know that might frustrate a lot of people. | ||
That's why I say bear with me. | ||
But that's the game. | ||
And that's the way it is. | ||
Trump's going to be the nominee. | ||
Biden's going to be the nominee. | ||
Trump, if there is any chance of somebody like us getting in the White House, it's going to be through Trump. | ||
And that's it. | ||
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You know, I know that's not the ringing endorsement that people want. | ||
People want to hear that everything's going to be okay, and he's going to get elected, he's going to get it right this time, and I hope so. | ||
But that's only going to happen if we fight for it. | ||
Trump's the guy. | ||
It is what it is. | ||
He is what he is. | ||
And if we want it bad enough, which is to get in the administration and get near the levers of power, then that's who we have to work with. | ||
We've got to work with him. | ||
And with all this bullshit that he puts us through every single time. | ||
Some people want to take their ball and go home. | ||
They say, you know, I don't like Trump. | ||
I don't like this Kushner stuff and blah, blah, blah. | ||
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Yeah, well. | |
Let's support the other Republican nominee. | ||
I mean, what's the alternative? | ||
It is what it is. | ||
And we had some good people and I got many people jobs in the first administration and I'd like to get more groipers into the second administration if he wins, you know. | ||
And that is what we have to work with is what it is sadly and Unnecessarily, I mean it should in theory be avoidable But it isn't so I hope that he will put out a statement in the coming weeks and say, yeah, you know, that's not true, that's fake news, but I don't think that it is. | ||
We just gotta make our voices heard. | ||
Because he listens to the people, I'd like to think, and, you know, if you go to a rally and boo Nikki Haley, or you get in the true social or whatever, but he needs to know, we do not want, we're not gonna vote for him if he picks Haley. | ||
But I wouldn't be surprised. | ||
So anyway, so that's that. | ||
But I want to move on. | ||
I want to get into the latest in the war in Gaza. | ||
And we'll go through the latest news here. | ||
The first story is about the potential second hostage deal. | ||
And like I said at the top of the show, the war in Gaza has kind of taken on four distinct phases at this point. | ||
There was the initial attack by Hamas on October 7th. | ||
There was the Israeli retaliation, the bombing and the blockade that began almost immediately. | ||
And that lasted from the 7th until the 27th of October. | ||
On October 27th, Israel began their ground invasion of North Gaza. | ||
On November 24th there was a ceasefire, a humanitarian pause, and then on December 4th there was the resumption of hostilities. | ||
So, October it was the bombing and the blockade, most of November it was the initial invasion of North Gaza for about two weeks. | ||
At the end of November, beginning of December, there was a ceasefire. | ||
And here we are in December, and the war rages on, and actually the fighting has expanded now into South Gaza. | ||
So now, the Israeli military is not only in North Gaza, of which they, I believe, now control most of it, but they have also began their incursion into the south as well, which is a recent development. | ||
So we're in stage 4, or phase 4 of this war. | ||
There is no end in sight. | ||
Israeli officials have said that it is going to last anywhere from 3 to 7 months. | ||
Some have said it's going to last years, up to 10 years. | ||
At least that's what they said at the very beginning. | ||
So we really have no idea how long it's going to go on. | ||
We don't even know what they're trying to achieve. | ||
They have not actually said with any specificity since the beginning what their tactical objectives are. | ||
They have said that their goal is to free the hostages and destroy Hamas. | ||
Freeing the hostages is a concrete victory condition. | ||
Destroying Hamas is a little bit ambiguous. | ||
What really does that mean? | ||
Does that mean they're going to kill 40,000 Hamas fighters? | ||
Does that mean they're going to assassinate all of the leaders of Hamas? | ||
Does that mean they are going to take military control over the Gaza Strip? | ||
They have not said, again, what the tactical objectives here are. | ||
With any specificity, what they really want to achieve other than this vague notion of destroy Hamas. | ||
That's all we've heard. | ||
The war is 76 days old. | ||
We really still have no idea what a victory looks like. | ||
That's why we don't know the timeline and no one can really predict their next move. | ||
And so this is where we are in the war. | ||
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It's in North and South Gaza. | ||
Still no clear, defined objectives. | ||
And now they're negotiating another ceasefire. | ||
That's the latest update, is that the Palestinian side and the Israeli side are speaking to each other through mediators in Egypt and Qatar about potentially another ceasefire in exchange for more hostages. | ||
But there seems to be an impasse about the number of hostages and what Israel will give in return for that. | ||
And this is a story from the New York Times. | ||
It says, quote, P.I.J. | ||
is another militia group based in Gaza. | ||
The Wall Street Journal reports that Egyptian officials say Israel is demanding Hamas release 40 captives, including all women, children, and elderly men with compromised health, in exchange for a one-week pause in fighting. | ||
According to the Journal, Hamas is seeking a two-week pause in fighting. | ||
However, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh met with Iranian officials on Tuesday and said the group was seeking a permanent ceasefire. | ||
The problem this time, he explained, is different interpretations from Israel and Hamas. | ||
Hamas insists this time the deal cannot be a prisoner exchange solely. | ||
It has to be based on a permanent ceasefire. | ||
Hamas official Ghazi Hamad said our vision is very clear. | ||
We want to stop the aggression. | ||
What is going on on the ground is a catastrophe. | ||
Hamas says the remaining female captives are soldiers in the Israeli military. | ||
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says a permanent end to the war with Hamas is not possible as Tel Aviv is determined to eradicate the group. | ||
He said whoever thinks we will stop is detached from reality. | ||
All Hamas terrorists from the first to the last are dead men walking. | ||
A previous hostage agreement saw Hamas release dozens of women and children captive in exchange for Israel releasing Palestinian women and children imprisoned by Tel Aviv. | ||
That agreement broke down on December 1st and Israel resumed military operations in Gaza. | ||
At the end of the ceasefire over 100 Israelis remained captive in Gaza. | ||
So this is where we are. | ||
And there are pressures on both sides. | ||
It's sort of tricky. | ||
On the Israel side, they want to continue the war. | ||
And it seems the apparent goal of Israel is to annex the Gaza Strip. | ||
And I've talked about why I believe that and what evidence there is to support this. | ||
In terms of hard evidence, there was a memo that was leaked in October, at the very beginning of the war, and the authenticity of the memo was verified by the Israeli government, and the memo said that their goal is to take control of Gaza. | ||
They said that there will be no international coalition that will govern Gaza, there will be no Arab coalition governing Gaza, they are not going to let Egypt or Jordan govern Gaza. | ||
They said the creation of any kind of Muslim or international government or an independent Palestinian government, they said would not solve the fundamental problem, which is that Gaza is incubating Muslim extremism, anti-Israel, militarism, And the only solution is for Israel to control the Gaza Strip. | ||
And if you listen to any of the Israeli officials, they would verify that. | ||
They've also said repeatedly, in public statements, not just the memo, but they've said that there will be no coalition of Gulf countries running Gaza, there will be no American or European thing. | ||
They said they are going to resume military control of Gaza for the first time since 2006. | ||
Moreover, We are led to believe that this is not merely going to be a military occupation because of what they are doing to the people and the infrastructure of the region. | ||
According to the Associated Press, they have destroyed 30% of every building in Gaza. | ||
of every building in Gaza. | ||
30% of all the buildings have been partially damaged or destroyed by Israel in the war. | ||
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Including every single hospital in northern Gaza. | ||
They have displaced a million and a half people. | ||
They have killed 20,000 civilians. | ||
And the war is far from over. | ||
The war is, as a matter of fact, expanding. | ||
As they are now moving into south Gaza. | ||
So when you take all of that together and you consider that publicly and privately they're saying that they will control Gaza, there will be no Palestinian or international coalition government there, they've said they will take military control, when you consider that they have forced nearly all the Palestinians out of their homes, and then they destroyed those homes so they have nowhere to return to, | ||
It would seem obvious that what they seek is not merely to control Gaza militarily, but to annex the Gaza Strip and to send civilian settlers there to rebuild the Strip as part of Israel, as part of a greater Israel, as they are doing in the West Bank, as they have been doing in the West Bank since 67, which is to not merely control it, | ||
With the military but also to have a civilian presence as well, a sort of civilian expansion agenda through the settlements. | ||
That seems to be what they're doing. | ||
Just in terms of the level of destruction and their insistence that there will be no government there other than their own. | ||
It would seem that that is the objective. | ||
That's what they want. | ||
On the other hand, they are under pressure from the international community. | ||
The UN Security Council, the UN General Assembly, Russia, China, all of their Arab or Muslim neighbors, and even the United States are calling for restraint. | ||
All of the West is almost uniform in saying that Israel should be more restrained and should avoid civilian casualties and should allow the necessary humanitarian aid into Gaza. | ||
In the East, it's much more robust. | ||
They're saying not only should Israel allow humanitarian aid and restrain themselves, they're calling for a cessation of hostilities and for the creation of a Palestinian state, an independent, sovereign Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank. | ||
So the whole world So Israel wants to annex Gaza. | ||
They're doing it slowly and gradually to avoid casualties in their military. | ||
these uh supranational bodies like the un are demanding that israel stop so israel wants to annex gaza they're doing it slowly and gradually to avoid casualties in their military they're doing it systematically uh but they're doing it in a very brutal fashion and and this is sort of necessary because this is a war of conquest this is a brutal war to drive all the palestinians out of their territory so that they never return | ||
and so as a consequence a whole world is pushing them to stop but there are elements even within the israeli government that are pushing them to continue including a religious extremist named ben gavurr Who says that he will cause the Netanyahu coalition government to collapse, the Israeli government within their Knesset to fall apart, if Netanyahu tries to stop or restrain the fighting. | ||
So, there's international pressure to stop, there is domestic pressure to continue, and of course the will of Netanyahu and his party is that they want to annex Gaza virtually at any cost. | ||
So that's on the Israeli side. | ||
On the Palestinian side, what they want is for their Muslim neighbors to join the fight. | ||
They're looking for Hezbollah to intervene. | ||
They're looking for the Houthis. | ||
Or the Popular Mobilization Front in Iraq and Syria, or Iran, to send in support. | ||
I imagine they're hoping that if Israel takes enough land, if they are close enough to totally taking over the Gaza Strip, that this would elicit a strong response from the Axis of Resistance across the region. | ||
And so that's apparently why they're stalling. | ||
I mean, ideally they want a ceasefire. | ||
They're using their hostages as leverage, as bargaining power. | ||
But what they're really counting on is for the various elements supported by Iran in the region to apply pressure to Israel so that they cannot sustain the war effort. | ||
And they've done that in a variety of ways. | ||
For example, Hezbollah has mobilized along Israel's northern border, and that has forced Israel to deploy some of their most elite forces to their northern border. | ||
As opposed to fighting in Gaza in the south. | ||
And so that's one piece that has been moved on the chessboard by putting Hezbollah on Israel's northern border. | ||
Israel's forced to divert forces that would have been in Gaza in the south. | ||
They have to instead have them deployed in the north. | ||
They've also had the Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria bombing the United States, which does create pressure in the U.S. | ||
The United States does not want this war to escalate or widen. | ||
They don't want to be fighting in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. | ||
And so by consistently applying pressure to the United States, it forces the United States either to escalate, which it doesn't want to do, or to restrain Israel to alleviate the pressure coming from these militias backed by Iran and Iraq and Syria. | ||
They're getting bombed all the time. | ||
When they're bombed, they're forced to respond. | ||
But every time they're forced to respond, they risk escalation, which they'd rather not do. | ||
So, they call Israel and ask them if they'll stop killing civilians. | ||
That's another way in which Iran is applying pressure. | ||
The third way that Iran is applying pressure, and the most recent example, is with the Houthi movement in Yemen. | ||
Where the Houthis have recently begun attacking ships in the Al-Mandeb Strait out of the Red Sea by attacking all these ships destined for Israel or even other ships, ships that may be owned by an Israeli company or something like that, or really by attacking any ships at all. | ||
Major companies are forced to divert trade and instead of going through the Suez Canal and through the Red Sea, they're forced to go and circumvent all of Africa. | ||
And passed by the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa which increases shipping costs and shipping time and disrupts the global economy, disrupts the global price of oil. | ||
And other things too. | ||
Major European companies have said that they're not going to send their ships through the Red Sea as long as the Houthi movement is attacking these ships. | ||
And that's another way that they apply pressure on the United States. | ||
The United States doesn't want to fight Iran. | ||
They don't want to fight Hezbollah. | ||
They don't want to go to war with Yemen. | ||
They certainly don't want to do all of that at the same time. | ||
Their support for Israel against Hamas alone is already forcing them to divert resources from Ukraine and from Taiwan. | ||
They were already losing in Ukraine with all their support for Ukraine, then they had to support Taiwan with China's increased presence and military drills around that island, and they're ready to transition from Ukraine to Taiwan. | ||
Now they're consumed with the Israel-Hamas war. | ||
They certainly don't want to be taking on all of the Middle East at the same time, which is what Iran is sort of counting on, is by applying pressure in a sort of surgical way, In a very calculated way, they're getting the United States to intervene effectively on their behalf to get Israel to agree to these pauses and to sort of delay the inevitable. | ||
So that's what's going on on both sides. | ||
That's where we are in the war. | ||
And, you know, I guess we'll see where it goes if they'll agree to a ceasefire. | ||
It seems unlikely. | ||
Palestine says they want an indefinite ceasefire and that is also what the Houthis are saying and that is what the IRGC is saying and that's what Hezbollah is saying and Israel will never agree to that. | ||
They will not agree until they either kill all the leaders, which would be a very provocative action, or until they have completely taken over Gaza, which would potentially also provoke a response from Iran and its proxies. | ||
So, We'll be watching this peace process in particular. | ||
The other big development that's happening is that Israel is threatening a war with Hezbollah. | ||
And that's our featured story, is whether or not Israel, potentially, will go to war against Hezbollah in Lebanon. | ||
And this is something I've covered really from the beginning, which is, which side really wants a war? | ||
And it would seem that Hezbollah does not want a war with Israel at all. | ||
And we know that because they have been remarkably restrained in their approach. | ||
They are mobilized on Israel's northern border, and they have struck Israel consistently ever since the war broke out, but in extremely limited capacity, and not inflicting many casualties at all. | ||
So not only has the fighting been muted, But also their leader declined to declare an all-out war. | ||
You remember that very public statement that he made, I think that was towards the end of October, beginning of November. | ||
The leader of Hezbollah, Nasrallah, came out and said that, well, you know, we already are at war. | ||
When we do these little tit-for-tat strikes across the border that don't even kill anybody, that does constitute an all-out war and if Hamas is on the brink of losing, maybe then we'll step things up. | ||
That's what they said initially. | ||
And a lot of analysts have said that Hezbollah does not want to go to war because they're listening to the people of Lebanon. | ||
Lebanon has been struggling economically and they've been suffering as a country. | ||
And so they do not want Israel to invade them. | ||
Every time Israel has invaded Lebanon, it's been a lot of brutal and deadly fighting, like in the 80s or in 2006. | ||
So it would seem that Hezbollah, responsive to the needs of the Lebanese people, is listening to them. | ||
They don't want to go to war against Israel, but they are merely there, as I said earlier, to divert Israel's forces from Hamas. | ||
And to check Israel, to remind them that they are on the border and if necessary, maybe they would intervene. | ||
On the other hand, it would seem that Israel is trying to provoke a war with Hezbollah. | ||
They have evacuated their border. | ||
They have deployed their forces to the north. | ||
And as I said on a show, I want to say this was one, maybe two weeks ago, Israel has been striking deeper and deeper into Lebanon. | ||
They're not just striking Hezbollah's forces on the immediate border, they're striking many miles deep into Lebanese territory. | ||
They've also been killing Lebanese civilians, and they have consistently had provocative rhetoric talking about how Lebanon will not be able to field Hezbollah as close to Israel as they have in the past. | ||
They've said that we're going to change the situation on the ground for a generation. | ||
Most recently, they've been threatening and saying that if Hezbollah doesn't move further north, that Hezbollah will be destroyed. | ||
So they're now outright threatening a war with Hezbollah. | ||
And it's an open-ended question as to whether that's a legitimate threat or maybe that's some part of a negotiation. | ||
And this is a story on this. | ||
This is from New York Times. | ||
It says, quote, Israeli officials said Tel Aviv is moving closer to a full-scale war with Hezbollah. | ||
The IDF and Hezbollah have traded fire along the Lebanon-Israel border since October 7th. | ||
IDF Spokesperson Lt. | ||
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Jonathan Conricus said Monday, And the directive to the IDF is, of course, to enhance readiness to prepare and to be capable of defending Israeli civilians. | ||
The Defense Minister, Yoav Galant, explained that if restoring security in the area cannot be implemented diplomatically, then we will not hesitate to act. | ||
Last week, an IDF official told Newsweek that Tel Aviv plans to remove Hezbollah from the Lebanese border. | ||
The official said, quote, we will not return to the situation that was on the 6th. | ||
It means we will not allow our civilians neither in Gaza, in Velop, nor on the Lebanese border to be under this threat. | ||
The official continued, we are prepared for war with Hezbollah. | ||
We are on alert for that. | ||
We have the people, the personnel that is exactly ready for that, but we don't want to do it yet. | ||
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah explained the paramilitary group is attacking Israel to force Tel Aviv to split its forces between Gaza in the south and along the Lebanese border in the north. | ||
He said Hezbollah is not seeking a wider conflict with Israel. | ||
The IDF has hit several civilian targets in Lebanon. | ||
A group of easily identified journalists in southern Lebanon were attacked by an Israeli tank, leaving one dead. | ||
Tel Aviv has also deployed white phosphorus in Lebanon. | ||
The White House is backing the Israeli proposal to have Hezbollah withdraw from the Israeli border. | ||
According to the Financial Times, the U.S., the U.K., and France are exploring ways to convince Hezbollah to pull back from the Lebanon-Israel border and a diplomatic push to prevent a full-blown conflict erupting between them and Israel. | ||
Replacing Hezbollah with the Lebanese military along the border could open a window for Israel to attack southern Lebanon, as Hezbollah is a far superior fighting force. | ||
So this is, and we talked about on I think Monday or Tuesday about the potential for a war with Yemen. | ||
This is the potential for a war with Lebanon. | ||
Consider what's going on in the entire region. | ||
I'll remind you sort of where we are here. | ||
You have Israel. | ||
Israel was attacked from Gaza by Hamas, which controls Gaza. | ||
So Israel blockaded, bombed, and has now invaded Gaza to destroy Hamas, okay? | ||
That's the local war. | ||
This is your Serbia versus Austria-Hungary. | ||
This is the beginning. | ||
Israel at war with Hamas in Gaza. | ||
But you also have the Iranian-backed Hezbollah in southern Lebanon on Israel's northern border, where Israel has matched them. | ||
At the same time, in Iraq and Syria, you have Iranian-backed groups bombing U.S. | ||
forces. | ||
The United States is in Syria, in the east. | ||
The United States is in Iraq. | ||
And Iran, over the past 20 years since the deposition of Saddam Hussein, has supported Shiite militias in both countries, and especially since the Syrian civil war. | ||
And so now those proxies have bombed American forces in Iraq and Syria over 100 times since October 7th. | ||
In Yemen, the Iranian-backed Houthi movement in the northwest of Yemen is now attacking Israeli ships in the Red Sea, which is not only an affront to Israel, but also an affront to the United States and the world, because it is causing a disruption in a global shipping route, because it is causing a disruption in a global shipping route, through which 10% of the world's oil and petroleum products and This is how the war has expanded. | ||
And I would also add, in minor ways in the West Bank, the entire population now supports Hamas and there has been isolated fighting and rioting over there as well. | ||
So this is where we are in the Middle East. | ||
Now, on Monday, and what we just talked about a moment ago, the United States said that we are going to go to war with Yemen. | ||
We will begin potentially bombing Yemen directly because they're interfering in the global shipping routes. | ||
So the United States is now They're also engaged in fighting in Iraq and Syria. | ||
They keep threatening that the more Iran attacks them in Iraq and Syria, the more that they will escalate. | ||
And so now you have the United States bombing the Iranian paramilitary group, the IRGC, in Syria and Iraq. | ||
We're engaging almost directly with Iran in two countries. | ||
And now, Israel is saying that if Hezbollah does not leave their northern border, then we will destroy Hezbollah. | ||
If we cannot convince them to leave the border, then we will destroy them. | ||
And Israel is engaging with the United States, France, and the UK to negotiate or demand Hezbollah to do the same, to leave southern Lebanon, to leave Israel's northern border. | ||
And if Hezbollah doesn't, then Israel will attack. | ||
Now the thing is, Hezbollah is the strongest force in Lebanon. | ||
They're stronger than the Lebanese military. | ||
Hezbollah really runs Lebanon. | ||
And so if Hezbollah withdraws from Lebanon's southern border, Israel could invade. | ||
Hezbollah deployed to Israel's northern border, rather, not to attack Israel, but in anticipation that Israel would attack Lebanon. | ||
Because Israel is threatening everybody. | ||
Israel is saying, as I've said from the beginning, they have said that they are going to fundamentally alter the geopolitical situation on the ground for 50 years. | ||
For a generation. | ||
We're going to change things forever. | ||
That's what they keep saying. | ||
They're talking about a greater Israel. | ||
There is a, like I said, the evidence suggests that they are preparing to annex Gaza. | ||
And so, Hezbollah deploys to the northern border, or rather, Lebanon's southern border, and they have said repeatedly, we do not seek a war with Israel. | ||
The Lebanese people don't want it. | ||
Hezbollah doesn't want it. | ||
They've been remarkably restrained. | ||
And now Israel is saying, well they have to leave, as we basically clean up in Gaza, as we expand the war and we finish them off, well now we don't want Hezbollah on our northern border. | ||
We're going to be on our northern border, we will have our most elite forces, we will have a massive number, because most of the people in Gaza are reservists. | ||
Israel's real ground force is on their northern border with Hezbollah. | ||
And now they're saying Hezbollah must retreat. | ||
Hezbollah must withdraw and effectively leave Lebanon's border open. | ||
And now we, the United States, and the other NATO countries are attempting to convince Hezbollah to leave under the threat from Israel. | ||
And really, when you think about it, Israel is threatening not just Hezbollah, but they're also threatening us. | ||
When Israel says, if Hezbollah doesn't leave, we will destroy them, that is just as much a threat against Hezbollah as it is to the United States. | ||
Because, of course, Israel is threatening Hezbollah and saying, you know, we'll kill you, you better leave or we'll go to war with you, and we know the Lebanese people don't want war. | ||
But it's also a threat against the United States because the United States does not want this war to escalate and widen. | ||
The United States knows that if Israel gets into a fight in Lebanon, it is going to draw Iran into the conflict. | ||
It will draw all of Iran's proxies in, and that will draw the United States in. | ||
Because if Israel goes to war with Hezbollah, Iran is bombing the United States in Iraq and Syria more than they are now. | ||
And we will be forced to defend Israel. | ||
So we will not only have to defend our own interest in the region and our own assets in the region, we will also be politically and strategically drawn into the war to defend Israel and to make sure that Israel wins in Lebanon. | ||
So when Israel says, if Hezbollah doesn't withdraw, we're going to war with them, they're saying that to the White House. | ||
They're really even saying it more so to Washington More so, they're saying to Washington, if you don't force these guys to go back, we're going to shit on everything and make you clean it up. | ||
We're going to take a dump everywhere, because they know full well that if they go into Lebanon, the whole region is going to turn into chaos. | ||
And the United States will be deployed everywhere and have to clean it up, which we absolutely cannot do. | ||
I mean, we just do not have the means to do that. | ||
The debt is $30 trillion. | ||
It's an election year. | ||
We already spent a quarter of a trillion dollars in Ukraine. | ||
We have to begin arming Taiwan to prepare for a potential Chinese invasion in the next five to ten years. | ||
We're already outmatched in the Pacific. | ||
And Israel is saying, you better convince Hezbollah to back off or we will turn the Middle East into a global war, into a regional war. | ||
Something the United States absolutely cannot afford to do, but will be forced to do to our own detriment and at our own peril. | ||
Two areas! | ||
So, now the United States is committed in Yemen. | ||
Okay, think about all the ways the United States is engaged in this conflict. | ||
We have our aircraft carriers there. | ||
We have our fighters there. | ||
We're shooting down missiles that Yemen is launching at Israel. | ||
United States military bases are being bombed every single day in both Iraq and Syria. | ||
We are retaliating with airstrikes every single day in Iraq and Syria. | ||
We're giving $10 billion in aid to Israel. | ||
Potentially, the way that this could expand is that we would be negotiating Hezbollah's withdrawal from the Lebanese border. | ||
We're negotiating with the Gulf states on some kind of solution to the Palestinian refugee crisis. | ||
We're begging Saudi Arabia and Egypt and Jordan to take Palestinian refugees. | ||
We will wind up taking a lot of refugees ourselves. | ||
And we're also now involved in Yemen, where we're deploying a major strike force to protect the shipping lanes in the Red Sea. | ||
And any one of these theaters could pop off at any given time. | ||
Israel wants more. | ||
They want us to support their war in Lebanon. | ||
They want us to destroy the Houthi movement with Saudi Arabia in Yemen. | ||
They want us to bomb Iran and Iraq and Syria. | ||
Ultimately, and I think this is the goal, I really genuinely think that Israel's goal is to do precisely this. | ||
They want to instigate this regional conflict. | ||
They know they can't be the aggressor. | ||
If they attacked Gaza outright, maybe the United States wouldn't support them right now. | ||
They had to have Gaza attack first to justify this worst humanitarian catastrophe in this century. | ||
They had to... | ||
Let their guard down and stand down and allow Hamas to attack them to justify this. | ||
In the same way... | ||
I think that Israel is waiting, and they're killing as many people as possible. | ||
The brutality is part of it, because they want to provoke the region into attacking them first. | ||
Because I think their ambitions are they want to annex the Golan Heights, I think they want to defeat Hezbollah forever, I think they want to topple Assad, I think they want the Houthi movement destroyed, and fundamentally, they want the United States to confront Iran. | ||
They want the United States to denuclearize Iran. | ||
They want us to bomb their centrifuges. | ||
They want us to topple the Iranian government. | ||
I think that's their long-term vision. | ||
And this is what they've spoken about repeatedly over the decades. | ||
They've said that they want to destroy all of the strong Arab dictatorships. | ||
And when you look at it, they've been mostly successful. | ||
You know, 20-30 years ago, the Middle East was a dangerous place for Israel. | ||
And if you go back even further, very dangerous. | ||
You had a very strong Iran, a very strong Iraq, a very strong Syria, a strong Libya. | ||
Libya's done. | ||
Iraq is done. | ||
Egypt has been pacified and neutralized. | ||
Jordan, same thing. | ||
Syria has been destabilized. | ||
In the wake of 20 years of conflict, of the United States defeating all of Israel's enemies, there's only one country, there's only one that has survived and remained strong and stood to benefit from the chaos, and that is Iran. | ||
Iran's biggest rival in the region was Iraq. | ||
And now that Iraq is gone, Iran has moved in. | ||
And as people have pointed out for a long time now, for the past 10 years, Iran has expanded its influence all over the region. | ||
And now Iran has become the only rival to Israel in the entire Middle East. | ||
Israel has no rival, it has no competitor in the region other than Iran. | ||
As we've talked about throughout the year, Israel was on pace to normalize ties with all of the Arab Gulf states, meaning that Israel would be allied with Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Bahrain, and as a consequence, you know, Saudi Arabia controls that entire region. | ||
So, that would mean Yemen and Oman and the rest of it. | ||
They had already achieved peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan. | ||
Iraq is under the sovereignty of the United States. | ||
Syria was destabilized. | ||
Lebanon was weakened. | ||
And so their only rival was Iran, who is building up its influence by backing these militias in all these different countries. | ||
The Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, propping up Assad in Syria, backing the Popular Mobilization Front in Iraq. | ||
And Israel thinks this is unacceptable. | ||
Israel can have no competitors, can have no rivals. | ||
This is what they've been building towards. | ||
They've said for the last 25 years, the United States must bomb Iran. | ||
The United States must attack Iran. | ||
We must topple the Islamic Republic regime in Iran. | ||
And they can't get the United States to do it like they could with Iraq, because there's no 9-11. | ||
So they're instigating this regional war where we will be forced to intervene in virtually every country with Israel to defeat Iran. | ||
And I think that's what they're deliberately trying to do. | ||
And specifically, this is what Netanyahu wants. | ||
And Netanyahu knows that basically, unless that happens, he will be thrown out of power. | ||
So, there's a very scary, sinister agenda going on here, and I don't think it's by accident. | ||
I don't think it is, uh... I don't think it's simply good luck that Israel appears to be setting up to achieve its ambitions, which is to dominate the Middle East. | ||
70 years ago, the Middle East was dominated by strong Arab socialist republics, powerful Arab dictators, rich with oil money. | ||
Awash with cash, getting armaments from the Soviet Union. | ||
Seventy years later, if Iran is taken out, Israel dominates the region. | ||
There is no competitor. | ||
It's over. | ||
You know, Turkey's a NATO country. | ||
Egypt and Jordan are the number two and three recipients of USAID. | ||
Saudi Arabia has been our partner for 70 years. | ||
We're doing arms deals with them. | ||
Syria and Iraq have been leveled by war. | ||
If Iran is gone, that's it. | ||
Israel controls the whole place. | ||
They're the nuclear power. | ||
They would be the center of this IMEC corridor, this India-Middle East-Europe corridor they're trying to build. | ||
And this paves the way. | ||
We're talking about Protocols of Elders of Zion. | ||
We're talking about Israel at the center of the Afro-Eurasian continent, at the center of global trade, geopolitically dominant in the region and with its support from the United States and even enjoying good relations with Russia, and maybe mediating between the two. | ||
We're talking about Israeli domination of the planet. | ||
Like, you thought it was bad when you had Wolfowitz in the government? | ||
You thought it was bad when they did the war in Iraq? | ||
I mean, we are talking about Antichrist, like, end times scenario. | ||
Protocols of Elders of Zion, a plan that was laid thousands of years ago. | ||
I mean, this is what we're talking about. | ||
And it's pretty scary to think about. | ||
And there might be nothing we could do. | ||
So, that's that. | ||
Then Merry Christmas, by the way! | ||
But if you can't see how this is all coming together, you're not paying attention. | ||
Gotta pray for peace. | ||
You have to pray that Israel stops. | ||
That the United States can get Israel to stop. | ||
Because otherwise, we're talking about Some scary stuff. | ||
It's not difficult to see. | ||
I mean, let's say Iran's out of the picture and Israel starts building the Third Temple. | ||
Who's going to stop them? | ||
Israel at the center of global trade? | ||
Between India, China, and Europe? | ||
And Israel enjoying relations with East and West? | ||
With the Communists and with the Liberals? | ||
Scary. | ||
They'll be the center of, you know, a lot of the technological developments, a lot of trade, nuclear power, this is... this is not good. | ||
We're in the endgame here. | ||
They are close to achieving every last Infinity Stone, and when they do, say goodbye to the universe, we're all gonna die. | ||
So anyway, that's that. | ||
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We're gonna take a look at our Super Chats. | ||
That's not really a great Christmas show. | ||
Not really a great Christmas message, but nevertheless... Hey, wake up! | ||
This is what's going on. | ||
Alright, but I'm gonna get set up. | ||
We'll do Super Chats and then I'll get out of here. | ||
Let's take a look It's gonna take I don't know why this things taking a minute to load lately wait. | ||
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10 years from now I'll remember your sermon about what's actually important in life. | ||
Long before I'll ever remember any advice Destiny has ever handed out. | ||
That's real generational wisdom. | ||
God bless. | ||
Thanks a lot, buddy. | ||
Well, I'm glad you like that. | ||
I don't know if that's really generational stuff, but I'm glad you appreciate it. | ||
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I hate how all these YouTube narrators, they all have exactly the same cadence in the video. | ||
It's it's like insufferable and I can't stand it I'm not gonna imitate it. | ||
I probably couldn't imitate it, but you know exactly what I'm talking about So yeah, I agree Very good. | ||
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Do you think there's a another timeline where you and Destiny actually garner a friendship that eventually influences him to change course in his marriage and life or do you buy more into the idea that something like this has to happen to catalyze a real change? | ||
We're living in that timeline. | ||
Just hasn't happened yet. | ||
Jordan B sent $8, do you think it's possible to live in the moment? | ||
When asked their regrets in life, many old PPL say they regret not appreciating what they had at the time, but that would require a zooming out most PPL aren't capable of. | ||
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That's a deep question. | ||
Is it possible? | ||
I would say it's impossible not to live in the moment, because the past and the future aren't real. | ||
You know, the past is not real. | ||
It only exists in your memory. | ||
If you didn't have a memory, you'd have no conception of past. | ||
And the future's not real because it hasn't happened yet. | ||
So all that is really real is the present. | ||
All you have is your understanding, your will, and your memory, which is your cognition of moments past. | ||
And so the question is, you know, living in the moment, I mean, that's all we can really do is live moment by moment. | ||
And we can make plans about the future and we can ponder the past. | ||
To inform us, but all all there really is is the now that's all that's all man can do is act in time We're always even if we're thinking about the past. | ||
We're still acting in time. | ||
We're still we're still actualizing the moment Even though we're you know considering the past or considering the future and a person may be more future oriented because You know their their outlook is | ||
Is based on future events and you say about a person living in the past or outlook is based on past events, but you know all we can really do is Is act in time act at any given passing moment now what you're saying is really You know should we be anxious should should we be sort of? | ||
Fixated or hung up on the past should we be anxious and About the future? | ||
Or should we be sort of... What's the word? | ||
Content in the moment? | ||
Should we sort of be at peace with and appreciating what's happening or our current station in the given moment? | ||
So the question is really more about mindset, I guess. | ||
living in the moment. | ||
It's really more about your mentality. | ||
And I would say that the key to this question is the fact that you're gonna die And a lot of people think that means you're gonna die in the future. | ||
No, you're gonna die now. | ||
Okay, because one day you will wake up, and you'll be eating your breakfast, and that will be the moment that you die. | ||
It's not gonna happen in the future, it's gonna happen in the present. | ||
A lot of people don't understand the difference. | ||
And yeah, it's not happening in this present, but it's gonna happen in the present. | ||
Okay, it wasn't this moment. | ||
It wasn't this moment. | ||
It wasn't this moment. | ||
It will be this moment. | ||
Lights out. | ||
Goodbye. | ||
And understanding that that can come at any time, and understanding that you have no control over it, and understanding that you have no control over events, it alleviates, I think, a lot of anxiety about the future. | ||
Understanding that this is a momentary world. | ||
Understanding that the world and all of its accumulated wealth and history and things, they're all as passing and transient as the present moment. | ||
And once you realize that, then you can begin to enjoy. | ||
Then it alleviates, I think, a lot of anxiety about past and present. | ||
And you kind of take things as they come. | ||
And that doesn't mean that you don't plan for the future. | ||
You do. | ||
That's why we have a lot of the rules that we have in conventional wisdom. | ||
And do you think about your past? | ||
Of course. | ||
You know, memories are a sweet and rich part of our lives. | ||
But you have to sort of liberate yourself from both. | ||
You have to liberate yourself from the anxiety of the future. | ||
Liberate yourself from regret for the past. | ||
And understand that we're not really in control. | ||
And that, you know, it's all, none of it really matters. | ||
On some level, none of the outcomes really matter. | ||
Because on a long enough timetable, the outcomes are all the same. | ||
You know? | ||
On an infinite timetable, you know, whether it goes one way or the other, As time goes on, these two outcomes tend to converge. | ||
You know, when we think about things and about our lives as going in completely distinct and different directions, maybe even opposite directions, it's really an illusion. | ||
On a long enough timeline, they all tend to converge. | ||
And you realize that outcomes don't matter too much. | ||
What matters are your thoughts and deeds and words in the moment, in your life. | ||
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So, I don't know. | |
Maybe that all sounds like bullshit, but that's my, that's how I feel about it. | ||
I feel pretty content. | ||
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I know that meme that that's from, and it's not funny. | ||
It just sucks. | ||
That's just like anti-content for, like, idiot conservatives. | ||
Jack sent $3. | ||
Just tried to watch a Christmas movie on Amazon Prime. | ||
All movies are only available by paying extra. | ||
I told the wife that's such a Jewish move. | ||
I checked the president of Amazon. | ||
No one cares. | ||
Mike Hinock is a fat Jew sent $3. | ||
How can you say you're against illegal immigration, when you support Tyler Russell overstaying his visa? | ||
That traitor belongs here pushing Canada first. | ||
I will report him to ICE if he doesn't come back. | ||
Tyler Russell... Well, first of all, Tyler Russell is white, so the rules shouldn't apply. | ||
The rules don't apply... I mean, that's... I've heard people say that. | ||
It's like, the rules shouldn't apply to white people. | ||
You know, the rules already don't apply to black and Hispanic people, and then people say, well, the rules should apply to whites. | ||
I don't think so. | ||
That's one. | ||
Two, Tyler Russell is here legally. | ||
Patrick DiCarlo sent $3. | ||
Nick, I got a car detailing biz out in Boise. | ||
I'm trying to drive out and give you and whoever a free detail just to JQ for a bit. | ||
You think it's a possibility? | ||
Appreciate you man and hoping to link. | ||
Hey, thanks for the offer, but no, I don't think so. | ||
I love using JQ as a verb. | ||
You free to J- What does that even mean when people say that? | ||
Let me get this straight. | ||
My show talks about politics, and you can't talk about politics without talking about Jews. | ||
You agree with me, you watch the show, you want to meet me in person to talk about the thing that we both know and agree about? | ||
Like, what does that even mean? | ||
Like, you want to hear me say the things I say on the show in person? | ||
Just to jq- so then I say- we just trade things that we both know and agree on about the Jews that I talk about every night on the show? | ||
I appreciate it, but I don't think so. | ||
DS sent $5. | ||
How can Christianity and race realism be compatible? | ||
How are they not? | ||
Pretty Fly White Guy sent $3. | ||
$283. | ||
Where is Nick? | ||
Is he safe? | ||
Is he alright? | ||
Hunter Phillips sent $20. | ||
Merry Christmas to all the Growipers. | ||
Feliz Navidad to Señor Fuentes. | ||
Christ is King. | ||
Very good. | ||
Thank you. | ||
Merry Christmas. | ||
Well it is. | ||
Wasn't it? | ||
It is. | ||
The Caucasus is still the same. | ||
I don't know. | ||
for Nick Fuentes. | ||
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- Thanks. | |
- Goob has sent $3. | ||
Why are white people called Caucasians today? | ||
Wasn't the Caucasus an Asian region? | ||
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- Well, it is. | |
What wasn't it? | ||
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It is. | |
The Caucasus is still the same. | ||
I don't know. | ||
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I never understood that either. | |
- A bee sent $3. | ||
Hey Nick. | ||
Your opinion of Vivek has improved but do you think he has a better chance in the primary? | ||
There are rumors of Trump slash Haley, do you think Vivek is a likely pick? | ||
Canuck89 sent $100. | ||
I've gone through several different meal prep services myself. | ||
I started with Freshly and switched to Factor. | ||
Eventually got tired of that and tried CookUnity. | ||
It's by far my favorite. | ||
Biggest menu and tastes the best. | ||
Just have to remember to select your meals ahead of time or else it'll pick randomly for you. | ||
Merry Christmas! | ||
CookUnity, huh? | ||
Well, hey, thanks for the rec. | ||
Is it cheap, though? | ||
Like, what's the cost? | ||
Some of these are a little expensive, but let me see. | ||
What's the cost? | ||
Meals are fresh in compostable, recyclable packaging. | ||
Heat your meals in the oven? | ||
You gotta heat them in the oven? | ||
This is a serious deal. | ||
What's the price? | ||
I love when they don't put the price on there. | ||
It's like, if you're gonna pay for it, They always want you to give them your email and all that first and then they say, well this is how much it costs. | ||
That's so... I fucking hate that. | ||
They should not do that. | ||
Should be a law against that. | ||
$8 per meal, huh? | ||
Not bad Maybe I'll give it a try What are your favorite proteins? | ||
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Beef. | |
Poultry pork. | ||
Things I need to avoid. | ||
Soybeans. | ||
No, I eat everything. | ||
When do you want to receive your first order? | ||
I don't even know how much it costs! | ||
They ask you when you want your first order before you even know how much it costs. | ||
Seriously? | ||
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Annoying ass. | |
How many meals would you like to receive? | ||
Sign up. | ||
Sign up with email. | ||
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I don't even know how much it costs yet! | |
I'll sign up. | ||
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Whatever. | |
I'll give them my email. | ||
That's how your inbox gets polluted with trash every single time, right? | ||
Can't stand this stuff, man. | ||
Oh, okay. | ||
These are some pretty... These are some serious meals. | ||
You know what? | ||
You know what? | ||
This looks like a great recommendation. | ||
I really approve. | ||
Finally a useful super chat. | ||
I think I will. | ||
I think I will. | ||
Let's just see what it costs. | ||
Mission style chicken burrito? | ||
Yum. | ||
Beefy baked mac and cheese? | ||
Yes. | ||
Let me change the selection though. | ||
Let's do Chicken Burrito, Baked Mac and Cheese, Chicken Curry. | ||
These all look good. | ||
Chicken Thighs with Artichoke. | ||
Let's see, what else? | ||
Pumpkin Pancakes! | ||
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Mmmmm! | |
Let's see. | ||
You're making me hungry. | ||
Taco Al Pastor? | ||
yeah yeah why not beef bibimbap how Housemade corned beef? | ||
Okay, well it's not a lot of calories. | ||
Let's do calories high to low because I want a lot of What the fuck? | ||
No, no. | ||
Go back. | ||
Take me back. | ||
Oh, it didn't save my selections. | ||
Dude, you know what? | ||
I just can't, dude. | ||
I'm like a caveman. | ||
You ever, like, operate a computer and it starts to piss you off and you're like, I just want to destroy this computer? | ||
Alright, I'll pick like four more. | ||
I just want to see what the price is. | ||
Adobo mac and chicken mac and cheese? | ||
Yeah, let's load up on mac and cheese. | ||
Need lots of carbs, lots of energy. | ||
Butter chicken and spiced cream sauce? | ||
That looks good. | ||
Alright, I got two more selections. | ||
How about... Ooh, Korean flank steak? | ||
That looks good. | ||
This looks good. | ||
Okay. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Street pork tacos. | ||
That doesn't look very filling. | ||
Okay. | ||
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Whoa! | |
It's only a hundred bucks? | ||
How is that even possible? | ||
No way, dude. | ||
Oh, pfft. | ||
Because there's a big discount. | ||
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Of course. | |
Yeah, your first time it's always a bit... $40 discount. | ||
Yeah, okay. | ||
I'll try it. | ||
I think I will. | ||
I think I will. | ||
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Okay. | |
Yeah. | ||
Can you cook them in the plastic? | ||
Because I don't want to do dishes. | ||
That's the whole reason I'm doing this. | ||
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I don't want to do dishes. | |
Okay. | ||
You're on. | ||
Great super chat. | ||
Thank you Canuck89. | ||
And he paid me $100 to give me a great tip. | ||
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Excellent. | |
Nice work. | ||
You're the man. | ||
I appreciate that. | ||
Thank you for the huge super chat. | ||
Thank you for the awesome advice. | ||
Amazing advice. | ||
Finally it paid off. | ||
One good super chat. | ||
Nate Cortes sent $3. | ||
Merry Christmas, Nick. | ||
God bless you and your family. | ||
Thank you very much, man. | ||
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Merry Christmas. | |
Reactionary Matt sent $10, went to an Italian-American restaurant the other day and instantly felt at home. | ||
It was hub of a whiteness. | ||
Different types of white people enjoying themselves with their polo shirts, jeans and big smiles over a delicious platter of New York Italian-American cuisine. | ||
Horrible super chat. | ||
Just horrible. | ||
You're like not a normal person. | ||
Most normal super chatter. | ||
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I went to an Italian-American restaurant and it was all white people there. | |
Nigga, shut up. | ||
You're welcome. | ||
Okay, so he was joking. | ||
Well done. | ||
Absolutely well done. | ||
for the afternoon show for us euros. | ||
Watching at 3:00 PM, so I guess it's pretty convenient for us, huh? | ||
Im from Europe, by the way, you should do more shows at this time, ha ha. | ||
Im from Europe and it's convenient for me, by the way. - Okay, so he was joking. | ||
Well done. | ||
Absolutely well done. | ||
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Hang on, I'm playing Call of War. | |
I'm like a baby. | ||
When I do the Super Chats, I have to play Call of War or else I'll throw a temper tantrum. | ||
I have to watch this to... I'm like a baby with an iPad. | ||
I'm like a crying baby. | ||
And then you give me an iPad and I'm like... You know, then you give me like a video game or like a bag of goldfish. | ||
Give me like a bag of M&Ms. | ||
I'm simple like that. | ||
So anyway, terrible joke. | ||
Ricky Schiffer sent $3. | ||
Did you hear Tim Pool say Britain colonizing India was a great thing? | ||
No, I don't watch Tim Pool. | ||
DM sent $3. | ||
Good morning, Nick. | ||
Nice to catch you live in the AM. | ||
I've been watching you since Scraper Wars. | ||
I've since married and have a one-year-old and my wife is pregnant again. | ||
Glory to Jesus Christ forever. | ||
God bless, buddy. | ||
Congratulations. | ||
I'm happy to hear it. | ||
We love families. | ||
We love babies. | ||
Women, eh. | ||
Wives, W. Women, eh. | ||
But hey, I'm sure your wife is a W. She's a walking W. Your baby's a baby W. God bless, buddy. | ||
Congrats! | ||
I'm joking, of course. | ||
We love, we love women. | ||
Monk winner sent $5. | ||
Thoughts on Dan Bongino? | ||
I don't know. | ||
I don't really feel strongly. | ||
BananaNoContext sent $3. | ||
WMorningShow. | ||
Thanks. | ||
Thanks, Banana. | ||
Banana. | ||
GodOfConquest91 sent $35. | ||
Merry Christmas, Nick. | ||
Hope you and your family have a great Christmas and you get what you want from Santa. | ||
Thank you for the amazing content this year. | ||
God bless. | ||
Thanks a lot, buddy. | ||
Merry Christmas. | ||
Yeah, what did you guys ask for Santa? | ||
I can't believe he's coming in two days. | ||
I don't know what Santa's gonna bring me, probably coal. | ||
I don't know, though. | ||
Maybe he'll bring me, uh... Maybe he'll bring me... Cookies. | ||
I really have a taste for chocolate chip cookies. | ||
Jacqueline Kennedy sent $20. | ||
Merry Christmas. | ||
God bless your videos. | ||
Shout out to Ethan for being a wonderful human being. | ||
Ethan who? | ||
Thanks for the super chat though. | ||
Merry Christmas. | ||
Hope it's a good one. | ||
Hey, thanks a lot for the super chat, man. | ||
Merry Christmas. | ||
Hope it's a good one, buddy. | ||
God bless. | ||
I appreciate you. | ||
You've been one of the top super chatters throughout the years, so I appreciate all your support. | ||
You're a good guy. | ||
Merry Christmas! | ||
Thank you. | ||
I heard that! | ||
Merry Christmas. | ||
Thank you. | ||
Edgemaster69 sent $3. | ||
Trump said he's going to ramp up the poisoning the blood rhetoric. | ||
I heard that. | ||
Good stuff. | ||
Yeah, very good stuff. | ||
Tommy Savage sent $10. | ||
Hey Nick, at Tom Savage here. | ||
Today marks two weeks on my fast for freedom. | ||
No plans to let up on this hunger strike until your account is restored. | ||
It's beyond shameful that Elon Musk doesn't want me to eat Christmas dinner with my family. | ||
He would rather watch people starve than do what's right. | ||
Great. | ||
07. | ||
Wow, thanks for the super chat. | ||
Yeah, this is a great bit. | ||
Okay! | ||
Alright, that's our last super chat. | ||
Or no, uh, yeah, no, that is the last one. | ||
Okay, that's our last super chat. | ||
That's gonna do it for me tonight. | ||
Thanks for watching. | ||
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Um... And, uh... | |
What else? | ||
No, that's it. | ||
Okay. | ||
Yeah, that's the last Super Chat. | ||
Remember to follow me here on Rumble and Cozy. | ||
Get a push notification whenever I go live. | ||
I'm on the air Monday through Friday, usually at night. | ||
Remember, I'm doing a big special on Wednesday. | ||
Huge Money Bomb fundraiser marathon stream this Wednesday, so don't miss it. | ||
As always, thanks to our Super Chatters, especially our top Super Chatters. | ||
I'm Hoplite Canuck and French Catholic. | ||
Big thanks to them, but thanks to all our Super Chatters, everybody that watches the show. | ||
Merry Christmas. | ||
I hope you have a great Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. | ||
God bless you. | ||
Have a great week and have a great rest of your evening. | ||
I will see you on Tuesday. | ||
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Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo! | |
It's going to be only America first. | ||
America first. | ||
The American people will come first once again. | ||
With respect, the respect that we deserve. | ||
From this day forward, it's going to be over. | ||
America First! |