Dec. 10, 2024 - America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes
03:50:30
Participants
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The stars are brightly shining, it is the night of the dear Saviour's birth. | |
| Long may the world in sin and error pining, till he appeared and the soul melted. | ||
| A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices, for yonder breaks a new and glorious war. | ||
| Fall on your knees, O hear the angel voices, O night divine, O night when Christ was born. | ||
| O night, O holy night, O night divine. | ||
| So let my light of the stars sweetly gleaming, here came the wiser I | ||
| O hear the angel voices, O night divine, O night when Christ was born. O night when Christ was born. | ||
| O night, O holy night, O night divine. | ||
| And then nowadays, I am so upset that the things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for us, it's all gone down the drain. | ||
| Our country's gone to hell in a handbasket. | ||
| We haven't got the country we had when I was raised. | ||
| Not at all. | ||
| Nobody will have the fun I have. | ||
| Nobody will have the opportunity I have. | ||
| It's just not the same. | ||
| Jesus is the way and the life and the King of Israel. | ||
| We just leave with love. | ||
| We're really at a crossroads here. | ||
| Look around you. | ||
| It's drag queens in schools. | ||
| It's 18-year-olds joining OnlyFans. | ||
| It's the filth on TikTok. | ||
| It's this country not having a border. | ||
| It's the idea that our kids and we, this generation, are never going to own anything. | ||
| Think about it. | ||
| Never making an income to support a family. | ||
| Never being able to have a family. | ||
| People being corrupted before they're even a teenager by things on their phone. | ||
| Sick addiction to technology. | ||
| The future is so bleak, but that has changed the calculation. | ||
|
unidentified
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God is using me. | |
| He's breaking me down. | ||
| Removing all of the, you know, richest person, all of this, so I can serve him. | ||
| I think they've been extremely unfair to you. | ||
| Who is they, though? | ||
| We can't tell you who they is, can we? | ||
| There is no future if we do nothing now. | ||
| There is nothing to lose. | ||
| Their ever-shrinking share of what they have are foolish. | ||
| It's all going. | ||
| It's all going away. | ||
| This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted. | ||
| We're being slowly poisoned and in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated. | ||
| And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see. | ||
| People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing. | ||
| People have got to start to get courageous. | ||
| And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God And to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country. | ||
| And the alternative is that there will be no country. | ||
| Is it really only as big as low gas prices? | ||
| Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down? | ||
| It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better. | ||
| it's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ. | ||
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unidentified
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I want to be a dictator. | |
| *music* And you know why I want to be a dictator? | ||
| Because I want a wall, right? | ||
| I want a wall, and I want to drill, drill, drill. | ||
| My own narrative is not one of some sudden, booming bolt of lightning out of the blue. | ||
| It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see. | ||
| And then finally, a point of no return reckoning. | ||
|
unidentified
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Why are you called Mommy Malcolm? | |
| I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Griper Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and, of course, defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement. | ||
|
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who through an increasing amount of activism are really going to ensure the future America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics. | |
| These interests have rigged our political and economic system for their exclusive benefit. | ||
| Believe me, it's for their benefit. | ||
| My message is that things have to change, and they have to change right now. | ||
| My sole and exclusive mission is to go to work for you. | ||
| It's time to deliver a victory for the American people. | ||
| We don't win anymore, but we are going to start winning again. | ||
| So to every parent who dreams for their child, and every child who dreams for their future, I say these words to you tonight. | ||
| I am with you, I will fight for you, and I will win for you. | ||
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unidentified
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I'm not supposed to be here tonight. | |
| I'm supposed to be here. | ||
| I want this earth out for myself. | ||
| I'm doing drugs without a hand. | ||
| My voice is nothing but a scream without fire. | ||
| I stretch my hair but my cup just goes up. | ||
| I'm supposed to be here. | ||
| O come, O come, Emmanuel, to free your captive Israel, that mourns to free your captive Israel, that mourns in lonely exile here, that mourns in lonely exile here, until the Son | ||
| Rejoice, rejoice. | ||
| Rejoice! | ||
| O Israel! | ||
| To you shall come, Emmanuel. | ||
| And even Emmanuel, Captivum Captivum Soli Israel, Qui gemet And even Emmanuel, Captivum soli Israel, Qui gemet Captivum | ||
| soli Israel, Qui gemet in exilio, Qui gemet in exilio, Privatus defiliu, Privatus defiliu, Gaudem, Gaudem, Emma anduem, | ||
| Emma anduem, Nasi tur Satsang with Mooji | ||
| Satsang with Mooji | ||
| The End | ||
| The End | ||
| Saying to me is like, this is probably pretty cool for you. | ||
| I'm like, yeah, it is. | ||
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Hey. | |
| And I feel different when I say my heart, I ain't gone, it's starven on me, I'm on me. | ||
| I feel different when I say my heart, I ain't gone, it's starven on me, I'm on me. | ||
| I feel different when I say my heart, I ain't gone, it's starven on me, I'm on me. | ||
| I feel different when I say my heart, I'm on me. | ||
| I will fight for you with every breath in my body and I will never ever let you down. | ||
| A new droiper war. | ||
| Yeah, nigga, this war. | ||
| I'm taking bodies on the floor. | ||
| I'm with it all. | ||
| I talk to my demons and I see the writings on the wall. | ||
| Niggas is dying when it's so weak. | ||
| I get excited for them cops. | ||
| And no one ain't crying when he gone. | ||
| Cause Brody was fighting for them. | ||
| I do this shit for my brothers. | ||
| We do this shit for each other. | ||
| We do this shit for each other. | ||
| The courageous fallen! | ||
| The anguished fallen! | ||
| Their lives have meaning because we, the living, refuse to forget them! | ||
| And as we ride to certain death, we trust our successors to do the same for us! | ||
| Because my soldiers do not buckle or yield when faced with the cruelty of this world! | ||
| My soldiers push forward! | ||
| My soldiers scream out! | ||
| My soldiers reach! | ||
| We can't go back to the past. | ||
| That's what people always say, isn't it? | ||
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They say, can we really go back? | |
| And the answer is, whether you're conservative or liberal, right when you're left with, the answer is no. | ||
| We're never going back. | ||
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It's gone. | |
| It's gone. | ||
| All of that is gone. | ||
| But I would call myself something like a Christian futurist instead. | ||
| Because Jesus Christ was our past before any of us were born or conceived. | ||
| Jesus Christ is our present now. | ||
| And Jesus Christ is our future after we die on earth. | ||
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We want this century to be the most Christian century in the history of planet earth. | |
| We want this century to be the most Christian century in the history of planet earth. | ||
| We love everybody. | ||
| And we want people that can burn really more than anybody. | ||
| But this country can no longer be held hostage by a small minority that doesn't believe in the real world. | ||
| The mission of our movement is to make this country a Christian country. | ||
| The mission is to create a Christian future in our time. | ||
| The only way we're going to do it is not by infiltrating, not by subverting, not by lying, which is what a lot of people do. | ||
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The only way that we're going to make this happen is with the boldness of a real Christian. | |
| It's the only way. | ||
| We have got to be willing to die for Jesus Christ. | ||
| We have to want it more than they do. | ||
| because if there are thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Christians ready to meet their final destiny, then nothing can stop us and nothing will. | ||
| The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead. . | ||
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Because it's the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference. | |
| Nothing worth doing ever came easy. | ||
| Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation. | ||
| The future belongs to the people who follow their heart no matter what the critics say. | ||
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We must always remember that we share one home And one glorious destiny. | |
| We all bleed the same red blood of patriots. | ||
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We all salute the same great American flag. | |
| Our best days are yet to come. | ||
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unidentified
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I am officially running for president of the United States. | |
| We need a leader. | ||
| I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created. | ||
| It can be wonderful if you have smart people, but we have people that are stupid. | ||
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The American dream is dead. | |
| But if I get elected president, I will bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before. | ||
| The American dream. | ||
| And we will make America great again. | ||
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Again. | |
| And we will make America great again. | ||
| And we will make America great again. | ||
| We will make America great again. | ||
| And we will make America great again. | ||
| We will make America great again. | ||
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We want trouble! | |
| And nobody builds walls better than me, believe me. | ||
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Bigger and better and stronger than ever before. | |
| And we will make America great again. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| And we will make America great again. | ||
| We will make America great again. | ||
| And we will make America great again. | ||
| And we will make America great again. | ||
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We will make America great again. | |
| We will be right back. | ||
| We will be right back. | ||
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We will be right back. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Years from now, some of them may look back and ask themselves whether they've made the right choice, whether they've made the most of the opportunities they've been given. | ||
| Together, we have the same mission. | ||
| Over the course of your life, you will find that things are not always fair. | ||
| You will find that things happen to you that you do not deserve and that are not always warranted. | ||
| But you have to put your head down and fight, fight, fight. | ||
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Never, ever, ever give up. | |
| Don't give in. | ||
| Don't back down. | ||
| And never stop doing what you know is right. | ||
| Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy. | ||
| And the more righteous you fight, the more opposition that you will face. | ||
| In your hearts are inscribed the values of service, sacrifice and devotion. | ||
| Now you must go forth into the world and turn your hopes and dreams into action. | ||
| America has always been the land of dreams because America is a nation of true believers. | ||
| When the pilgrims landed, At Plymouth, they prayed. | ||
| When the founders wrote the Declaration of Independence, they invoked our Creator four times. | ||
| Because in America, we don't worship government, we worship God. | ||
| It is why our currency proudly declares, in God we trust. | ||
| And it's why we proudly proclaim that we are one nation under God. | ||
| The story of America is the story of an adventure that began with deep faith, big dreams, and humble beginnings. | ||
| The next generation of American leaders. | ||
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Never, ever give up. | |
| There'll be times in your life you'll want to quit. | ||
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Never quit. | |
| Never stop fighting for what you believe in and for the people who care about you. | ||
| Carry yourself with dignity and pride. | ||
| Demand the best from yourself. | ||
| The more people tell you it's not possible, that it can't be done, the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong. | ||
| Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation. | ||
| Relish the opportunity to be an outsider. | ||
| The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, The more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead. | ||
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You must keep pushing forward. | |
| And always have the courage to be yourself. | ||
| America is better when people put their faith into action. | ||
| Pray to God. | ||
| And follow his teachings. | ||
| Today, each of you begins a new chapter as well. | ||
| When your story goes from here, it will be defined by your vision, your perseverance, and your grit You will build a future where we have the courage to chase our dreams no matter what the cynics and the doubters have to say. | ||
| You will have the confidence to speak the hopes in your hearts and to express the love that stirs your souls. | ||
| As long as you have pride in your beliefs, courage in your convictions, and faith in God, Then you will not fail. | ||
| As long as America remains true to its values, loyal to its citizens, and devoted to its creator, then our best days are yet to come. | ||
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The End | |
| May God bless the United States of America. | ||
| And I just want to let you know that God blesses you. | ||
| And I want to just say you are special in every way. | ||
| God bless you and God bless America. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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unidentified
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Thank you so much, everybody. | |
| can I just say are you trusting Brian Adams? | ||
| Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you the American people. | ||
| The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it exist for only one reason, to protect and enrich itself. | ||
| The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election. | ||
| For those who control the levers of power in Washington and for the global special interest, they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind. | ||
| Our campaign represents a true existential threat like they haven't seen before. | ||
| This is not simply another four-year election. | ||
| This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether or not we the people reclaim control over our government. | ||
| The political establishment That is trying to stop us is the same group responsible for our disastrous trade deals, massive illegal immigration, and economic and foreign policies that have bled our country dry. | ||
| The political establishment has brought about the destruction of our factories and our jobs as they flee to Mexico, China, and other countries all around the world. | ||
| It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities. | ||
| This is a struggle for the survival of our nation, and this will be our last chance to save it. | ||
| This election will determine whether we're a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system, and our system is rigged. | ||
| This is reality. | ||
| You know it, they know it, I know it, and pretty much the whole world knows it. | ||
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The thing that said, take a look at what happened. | |
| These are people who work hard, but no longer have a voice. | ||
| I am your voice. | ||
| I am dreaming of a white Christmas. | ||
| Just like the ones I used to know. | ||
| Where the treetops glisten and children listen to hear. | ||
| sleigh bells in the snow I'm dreaming of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days | ||
| be merry and bright And may all your Christmases be white I'm dreaming white Like | ||
| the ones I used to know Where the treetops glisten And children listen To hear sway bells in the snow Dreaming | ||
| of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days be merry and bright And may all your | ||
| Christmas be wild. | ||
| Christmas be wild. | ||
| Christmas be wild. | ||
| Because it's the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference. | ||
| Nothing worth doing ever came easy. | ||
| Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation. | ||
| The future belongs to the people who follow their heart no matter what the critics say. | ||
|
unidentified
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We must always remember that we share one home And one glorious destiny. | |
| We all bleed the same red blood of patriots. | ||
|
unidentified
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We all salute the same great American flag. | |
| Our best days are yet to come. | ||
|
unidentified
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Are you winning, son? | |
| Are you winning? | ||
| Wish that you cocaine in my baby I want nothing to do. | ||
| My own narrative is not one of some sudden, booming bolt of lightning out of the blue. | ||
| It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see. | ||
| And then finally, a point of no return reckoning. | ||
|
unidentified
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Why are you called Mommy Malcolm? | |
| I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Griper Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill, Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and, of course, defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement. | ||
| Who, through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure the future and the success of that movement. | ||
|
unidentified
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Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Donald Trump, were all cut from the same cloth. | |
| And that cloth is very, very large. | ||
| It's not too big, is it? | ||
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unidentified
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Hey. | |
| Kill yourself. | ||
| It's wrong, isn't it? | ||
| It feels so right. | ||
| And it's a deal? | ||
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I put together some really impressive deals. | |
| I like that. | ||
| Go gig or go home. | ||
| Donald Trump. | ||
| You know, you're really beautiful. | ||
| A woman who looks like that has to have a special set. | ||
| It's the night. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| Hey, Donald Trump. | ||
| I told you, you look great. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| I'm told it's a special one. | ||
| Just a minute. | ||
| Are you Megan here? | ||
| Huh? | ||
| Are you? | ||
| No, no, no, you speak just back. | ||
| I'm calling this. | ||
| No. | ||
| Look at this right here on the street. | ||
| It's Donald Trump. | ||
| What do you want? | ||
| Everything's set for tonight, Mr. Trump. | ||
| I wonder what Trump's game is this time. | ||
| Trump's got a new day. | ||
| Hey, Crop, get a new deal. | ||
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What's your game, though? | |
| Heard about Crop's new deal? | ||
| What? | ||
| Mr. Crop! | ||
| Crop has a new game. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Mr. Trump, what is it? | ||
| What is it? | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Mr. Trump, what is it? | ||
| My new game is Trump. | ||
| The game. | ||
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Trump. | |
| The game. | ||
| This sounds like political presidential. | ||
| You said, though, that if you did run for president, you believe you'd win. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| I would say that I would have a hell of a chance of winning. | ||
| I never learned to lose. | ||
| I've never learned to lose in my life. | ||
| I don't know how your audience goes, but I think people are tired of seeing the United States ripped off. | ||
| That's the guy on the far right. | ||
| Mm-hmm. | ||
| Captain. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I believe that. | ||
| Okay, kids, make it fast. | ||
| I've got a plane. | ||
| Jimmy Crean Magazine. | ||
| Mr. Trump, what do you do? | ||
| Scabby. Scabby. Scabby. Scabby. Scabby. | ||
| Excuse me, personally. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. Thank you. . | ||
| If you want to really see something that said, take a look at what happened. | ||
| We will make America proud again. | ||
| We will make America proud again. | ||
| We will make America wealthy again. | ||
| And yes, together, we will make America great again. | ||
| Why wouldn't you dedicate yourself to public service? | ||
| Because I think it's a very mean life. | ||
| I would love and I would dedicate my life to this country, but I see it as being a mean life. | ||
| And I also see it as somebody with strong views. | ||
| And somebody with the kind of views that are maybe a little bit unpopular, which may be right, but may be unpopular, wouldn't necessarily have a chance of getting elected against somebody with no great brain but a big smile. | ||
| And that's a sad commentary for the political process. | ||
| And if you have a minute, why don't we go? | ||
| Talk about it somewhere only we know. | ||
| This can be the end of everything. | ||
| So why don't we go somewhere only we know? | ||
| Somewhere only we know. | ||
| I'm not supposed to be here tonight. | ||
| I'm supposed to be you. | ||
| I want this earth on for myself. | ||
| I'm doing drugs and I have. | ||
| My voice says nothing but I scream and I'm for help. | ||
| I stretch my hair but my cup just goes up. | ||
| I'm supposed to be you. | ||
| Long may the world in sin and error pining, till he appeared and the soul melted A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices, for yonder breaks a new and glorious war. | ||
| Fall on your knees O hear the angel voices O night divine | ||
| O night when Christ was born O night, O holy night O night O holy night O night divine Amen. | ||
| you | ||
| So let my light of the stars, sweetly gleaming, here came the wise The King of kings laid us in lowly manger In all our trials born to be our friend Fall | ||
| on your knees O hear the angel voices And | ||
| then nowadays, I am so upset that the things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for us, it's all gone down the drain. | ||
| Our country's gone to hell in a handbasket. | ||
| We haven't got the country we had when I was raised. | ||
| Not at all. | ||
| Nobody will have the fun I have. | ||
| Nobody will have the opportunity I have. | ||
| It's just not the same. | ||
| Jesus is the way and the life and the King of Israel. | ||
| We just lead with love. | ||
| We're really at a crossroads here. | ||
| Look around you. | ||
| It's drag queens in schools. | ||
| It's 18-year-olds joining OnlyFans. | ||
| It's the filth on TikTok. | ||
| It's this country not having a border. | ||
| It's the idea that our kids and we, this generation, are never going to own anything. | ||
| Think about it. | ||
| Never making an income to support a family. | ||
| Never being able to have a family. | ||
| People being corrupted before they're even a teenager by things on their phone. | ||
| Sick addiction to technology. | ||
| The future is so bleak, but that has changed the calculation. | ||
|
unidentified
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God is using me. | |
| He's breaking me down. | ||
| Removing all of the, you know, richest person, all of this, so I can serve him. | ||
| I think they've been extremely unfair to you. | ||
| Who is they though? | ||
| We can't tell you who they is, can we? | ||
| There is no future if we do nothing now. | ||
| There is nothing to lose. | ||
| People that are scrambling, trying to protect their ever-shrinking share of what they have are foolish. | ||
| It's all going. | ||
| It's all going away. | ||
| This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted. | ||
| We're being slowly poisoned and in some cases quickly murdered and assassinated. | ||
| And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see. | ||
| People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing. | ||
| People have got to start to get courageous. | ||
| And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God. | ||
| And to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country. | ||
| And the alternative is that there will be no country. | ||
| Is it really only as big as low gas prices? | ||
| Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down? | ||
| It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better. | ||
| it's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ. | ||
|
unidentified
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I want to be a dictator. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| And you know why I want to be a dictator? | ||
| Because I want a wall, right? | ||
| I want a wall and I want to drill, drill, drill. | ||
| My own narrative is not one of some sudden, booming bolt of lightning out of the blue. | ||
| It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see. | ||
| And then finally, a point of no return reckoning. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Why are you called Mommy Malkin? | |
| I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Griper Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and of course defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement who through an increasing amount of activism are really going to ensure the future and the success of that movement. | ||
|
unidentified
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America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics. | |
| These interests have rigged our political and economic system for their exclusive benefit. | ||
| It's for their benefit. | ||
| My message is that things have to change, and they have to change right now. | ||
| My sole and exclusive mission is to go to work for you. | ||
| It's time to deliver a victory for the American people. | ||
| We don't win anymore, but we are going to start winning again. | ||
| So to every parent who dreams for their child, and every child who dreams for their future, I say these words to you tonight. | ||
| I am with you, I will fight for you, and I will win for you. | ||
|
unidentified
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I'm not supposed to be here tonight. | |
| I'm supposed to be here. | ||
|
unidentified
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I want this earth off by myself. | |
| I'm doing drugs and I have. | ||
| My voice says nothing but I scream without fire. | ||
| I stretch my hair, but my coat just goes up | ||
| I stretch my hair, but my coat is a little bit | ||
| O come, O come, Emmanuel To free your captive Israel That mourns in lonely exile Here | ||
| Until their son of God God appear Rejoice! | ||
| Rejoice! | ||
| O Israel To you shall come, Emmanuel Welcome | ||
| Oh, yeah. yeah. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| I will fight for you with every breath in my body and I will never ever let you down. | ||
| A new droiper war. | ||
| Yeah, nigga this war. | ||
| I'm tricking bodies on the floor. | ||
| I'm with it all. | ||
| I talk to my demons and I see the writings on the wall. | ||
| Niggas is dying when it's so weak. | ||
| I get excited for them coals. | ||
| And no one ain't crying when he gone. | ||
| Cause Brody was fighting for them coals. | ||
| I do this shit for my brothers. | ||
| We do this shit for each other. | ||
| The courageous fallen! | ||
| The anguished fallen! | ||
| Their lives have meaning because we, the living, refuse to forget them! | ||
| And as we ride to certain death, we trust our successors to do the same for us! | ||
| Because my soldiers do not buckle or yield when faced with the cruelty of this world! | ||
| My soldiers push forward! | ||
| My soldiers scream out! | ||
| My soldiers reach! | ||
| We can't go back to the past. | ||
| That's what people always say, isn't it? | ||
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They say, can we really go back? | |
| And the answer is, whether you're conservative or liberal, right when you're left wing, the answer is no. | ||
| We're never going back. | ||
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It's gone. | |
| It's gone. | ||
| All of that is gone. | ||
| But I would call myself something like a Christian futurist instead. | ||
| Because Jesus Christ was our past before any of us were born or conceived. | ||
| Jesus Christ is our present now. | ||
| and Jesus Christ is our future after we die on earth. | ||
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We want this century to be the most Christian century in the history of planet earth. - We love everybody. | |
| And we want people that can burn really more than anybody. | ||
| But this country can no longer be held hostage by a small minority that doesn't believe in the real world. | ||
| The mission of our movement is to make this country a Christian country. | ||
| The mission is to create a Christian future in our time. | ||
| The only way we're going to do it is not by infiltrating, not by subverting, not by lying, which is what a lot of people do. | ||
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The only way that we're going to make this happen is with the boldness of a real Christian. | |
| It's the only way. | ||
| We have got to be willing to die for Jesus Christ. | ||
| We have to want it more than they do. | ||
| because there are thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Christians ready to meet their final destiny. | ||
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Then nothing can stop us and nothing will. | |
| The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead. | ||
| Because it's the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference. | ||
| Nothing worth doing ever came easy. | ||
| Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation. | ||
| The future belongs to the people who follow their heart no matter what the critics say. | ||
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We must always remember that we share one home and one glorious destiny. | |
| We all bleed the same red blood of patriots. | ||
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We all salute the same great American flag. | |
| Our best days are yet to come. | ||
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I am officially running for president of the United States. | |
| We need a leader. | ||
| I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created. | ||
| It can be wonderful if you have smart people, but we have people that are still living. | ||
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The American dream is dead, dead, dead, dead, dead. | |
| But if I get elected president, I will bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before. | ||
| The American dream. | ||
| And we will make America great again. | ||
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And we will make America great again. | |
| And we will make America great again. | ||
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America great again. | |
| And we will make America great again. | ||
| from now, some of them may look back and ask themselves whether they've made the right choice, whether they've made the most of the opportunities they've been given. | ||
| Together, we have the same mission. | ||
| Over the course of your life, you will find that things are not always fair. | ||
| You will find that things happen to you that you do not deserve and that are not always warranted. | ||
| But you have to put your head down and fight, fight, fight. | ||
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Never, ever, ever give up. | |
| Don't give in. | ||
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Don't back down. | |
| And never stop doing what you know is right. | ||
| Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy. | ||
| And the more righteous you fight, the more opposition that you will face. | ||
| In your hearts are inscribed the values of service, sacrifice, and devotion. | ||
| Now you must go forth into the world and turn your hopes and dreams into action. | ||
| America has always been the land of dreams because America is a nation of true believers. | ||
| When the pilgrims landed, At Plymouth, they prayed. | ||
| When the founders wrote the Declaration of Independence, they invoked our Creator four times. | ||
| Because in America, we don't worship government, we worship God. | ||
| It is why our currency proudly declares, in God we trust. | ||
| And it's why we proudly proclaim that we are one nation under God. | ||
| The story of America is the story of an adventure that began with deep faith, big dreams, and humble beginnings. | ||
| The next generation of American leaders. | ||
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Never, ever give up. | |
| There'll be times in your life you'll want to quit. | ||
| Never quit. | ||
| Never stop fighting for what you believe in and for the people who care about you. | ||
| Carry yourself with dignity and pride. | ||
| Demand the best from yourself. | ||
| The more people tell you it's not possible, that it can't be done, the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong. | ||
| Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation. | ||
| Relish the opportunity to be an outsider. | ||
| The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, The more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead. | ||
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You must keep pushing forward. | |
| And always have the courage to be yourself. | ||
| America is better when people put their faith into action. | ||
| Pray to God. | ||
| And follow his teachings. | ||
| Today each of you begins a new chapter as well. | ||
| When your story goes from here, it will be defined by your vision, your perseverance, and your grit. | ||
| You will build a future where we have the courage to chase our dreams no matter what the cynics and the doubters have to say. | ||
| You will have the confidence to speak the hopes in your hearts and to express the love that stirs your souls. | ||
| As long as you have pride in your beliefs, courage in your convictions, and faith in God, Then you will not fail. | ||
| As long as America remains true to its values, loyal to its citizens, and devoted to its creator, then our best days are yet to come. | ||
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| May God bless the United States of America. | ||
| And I just want to let you know that God blesses you. | ||
| And I want to just say you are special in every way. | ||
| God bless you and God bless America. | ||
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| Thank you very much. | ||
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Thank you so much, everybody. | |
| Can I just say, are you trusting Brian Adams? | ||
| Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people. | ||
| The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it exist for only one reason, to protect and enrich itself. | ||
| The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election. | ||
| For those who control the levers of power in Washington and for the global special interest, they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind. | ||
| Our campaign represents a true existential threat like they haven't seen before. | ||
| This is not simply another four-year election. | ||
| This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether or not we, the people, reclaim control over our government. | ||
| The political establishment That is trying to stop us is the same group responsible for our disastrous trade deals, massive illegal immigration, and economic and foreign policies that have bled our country dry. | ||
| The political establishment has brought about the destruction of our factories and our jobs as they flee to Mexico, China, and other countries all around the world. | ||
| It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities. | ||
| This is a struggle for the survival of our nation, and this will be our last chance to save it. | ||
| This election will determine whether we're a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system, and our system is rigged. | ||
| This is reality. | ||
| You know it, they know it, I know it, and pretty much the whole world knows it. | ||
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The thing that said take a look what happened No I am your voice | |
| Of a white Christmas Just like the ones I used to know Where the treetops glisten And children listen to hear | ||
| sleigh bells in the snow I'm dreaming of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days | ||
| be merry and bright And may all your Christmases be well I'm dreaming Americanism, | ||
| not globalism, will be our credo. | ||
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It's going to be only America first. | |
| America first. | ||
| The American people will come first once again. | ||
| With respect, the respect that we deserve. | ||
| From this day forward, it's going to be only America first. | ||
| America first America first America first | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| 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 Monday. | ||
| We have a lot to talk about tonight. | ||
| Lots to get into. | ||
| Big show. | ||
| It's going to be a huge show tonight. | ||
| So much to cover. | ||
| Our featured story tonight, we're going to be talking all about the civil war in Syria and Which is not over but seems to have entered into a new phase as of this weekend. | ||
| I'm sure you've heard the news but the Assad regime has officially collapsed. | ||
| It's over. | ||
| Assad has fled to Russia. | ||
| And now the rebel group which took over Aleppo only last week is now in control of the capital Damascus and most of the country. | ||
| Now there is chaos in the streets. | ||
| The future is very uncertain. | ||
| Already some of the emerging conflicts are beginning over who will control Syria. | ||
| And so tonight we're going to be talking about all of it. | ||
| We're going to talk about how we got here. | ||
| Why the Syrian government collapsed. | ||
| Because it's pretty remarkable it happened in just two weeks ago. | ||
| This was a frozen conflict that Assad was expected to win imminently with offensive against the remaining rebel stronghold in Idlib. | ||
| But the opposite happened. | ||
| The remaining rebel stronghold in Idlib invaded the rest of Syria and toppled the government. | ||
| And after 13 years, the Assad regime has fallen. | ||
| The Syrian revolution, some would say, is complete. | ||
| At least that initial goal has been achieved. | ||
| And now outside players, as well as various factions that fought against Assad, will determine the future of Syria. | ||
| And there's a few different pathways that it can take. | ||
| And we'll talk about those. | ||
| Syria could become partitioned like Libya or Yemen into effectively different countries. | ||
| It could become a Sunni Islamist government like Afghanistan. | ||
| It could become a Sunni Islamist government like Egypt and then be overthrown by a Ba'athist remnant, which is what happened to Egypt later on. | ||
| We don't know. | ||
| And so we'll talk about all the different possibilities. | ||
| We'll talk about the dynamics of the conflict. | ||
| We'll talk about the different players and how it affects them and what they want. | ||
| And what's next for each of them, specifically Russia, Iran, Israel, America, Turkey. | ||
| And we'll also talk about the factions inside of Syria, like the Kurds, HTS, the SNA... And some of the other smaller ones. | ||
| So it's going to be a big show. | ||
| We're going to cover all of it. | ||
| A lot of ground to cover, but it's a huge historic moment. | ||
| And I did predict this. | ||
| We covered this on the show last week. | ||
| And I told you this was it for the Assad government. | ||
| I said that was it. | ||
| I said they're going to go for Hamas, and then nothing stands in their way. | ||
| Between there and Damascus. | ||
| And that's exactly what happened. | ||
| So we're going to cover all of it. | ||
| It's going to be thorough. | ||
| takes anywhere else because nobody knows yet. | ||
| But I do because we know all the history. | ||
| I know the history. | ||
| We know what's going on. | ||
| You've heard it here first. | ||
| This is going to be the most comprehensive, thorough analysis of Syria to date because it's developing and nobody knows. | ||
| So we're going to get into all that. | ||
| We will probably cover the story of the UnitedHealthcare assassin tomorrow. | ||
| The other big development from today is that the assassin who killed the healthcare executive last week in New York was apprehended and identified. | ||
| It's pretty interesting. | ||
| He's like a radical centrist. | ||
| He's like a 130 IQ, Ivy League graduate, coder, computer science major, apparently a prolific reader. | ||
| He's got nearly 300 books on goodreads.com on his bookshelf. | ||
| Apparently, he is a disgruntled client of UnitedHealthcare, like some people speculated. | ||
| I thought he was government. | ||
| I thought he was a paid assassin. | ||
| Turns out to actually be a disgruntled consumer. | ||
| And effectively a terrorist, a political terrorist, in the sense that it was political in nature, with political goals, premeditated, targeted. | ||
| And so I think we'll talk about that, though, tomorrow, because that's another big story. | ||
| We'll get into it tomorrow. | ||
| It is funny, though. | ||
| I mean, he's like a radical centrist. | ||
| And I said, I don't think it's based. | ||
| A lot of people are debating on the timeline. | ||
| Almost everybody likes him. | ||
| Almost everybody thinks he's great. | ||
| I don't. | ||
| The right wing, the left wing, people in the middle, everybody is on this guy's side. | ||
| I'm not. | ||
| And I said it's very left wing coded to kill businessmen in general, like for any reason. | ||
| And then we find out the guy is like a walking TED talk. | ||
| We find his Twitter and he's retweeting Yuval Harari, Mike Benz. | ||
| He follows Joe Rogan, AOC. And his Goodreads list, it is a parody. | ||
| It's The Giver. | ||
| The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, Zero to One. | ||
| Biography of Malcolm X. I mean, it's like a literal who's who of New York Times Top 100. Yearly New York Times book list. | ||
| That's what he's, he's not reading, you know, and he read the Unabomber manifesto, I think, and Mein Kampf is on there. | ||
| But it's also a lot of self-help literature and nonviolence type stuff. | ||
| Very centrist coded. | ||
| So it's sort of interesting. | ||
| And I think we'll probably cover that on tomorrow's show. | ||
| Tonight, we're going to spend all the time talking about Syria. | ||
| So we'll save that for tomorrow. | ||
| Before we get into it, though, I want to remind you to smash the follow button on Rumble. | ||
| Smash the like button. | ||
| Leave a comment. | ||
| Let me know what you think about the show. | ||
| I'm going to be here all week. | ||
| Might not be here Friday, but I'll be here the rest of the week. | ||
| I have a big collaboration this weekend. | ||
| I might be doing it Friday or Saturday, so I don't want to overcommit and do a show Friday. | ||
| So I think I'm just going to tell you now. | ||
| I'm not going to do it Friday because I might be doing a stream then. | ||
| Other than that, I guess that's all of our announcements. | ||
| I am selling mugshot t-shirts. | ||
| If you saw last week, I did get charged with battery. | ||
| A violent crime. | ||
| I'm now a violent criminal. | ||
| That's not a confession. | ||
| That's a joke. | ||
| But they have charged me with battery. | ||
| And I had my mugshot taken. | ||
| So you could buy a hoodie or a crew neck or a t-shirt with my mugshot. | ||
| Fuentes.store. | ||
| And if you're worried about... | ||
| Shipping time. | ||
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| That means that we don't handle the fulfillment. | ||
| You place the order, it gets shipped. | ||
| The hats are different. | ||
| I know the hats are taking a long time. | ||
| We're handling the fulfillment because they're made in America. | ||
| It's a whole thing. | ||
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| I believe we're only accepting crypto. | ||
| Which sucks, but it is what it is. | ||
| The Jews banned me from banking, so we have to use crypto. | ||
| It is what it is. | ||
| So, that's that. | ||
| What else? | ||
| Yeah, I guess that's about it. | ||
| I don't really have too much to say. | ||
| I'm just getting excited to talk about the civil war in Syria. | ||
| It's been a real treat. | ||
| I've been analyzing it, researching it all weekend. | ||
| You know what's really funny? | ||
| Before we dive into the Syria topic, because I do want to get into it quickly because there's so much to cover. | ||
| There is one thing I want to say. | ||
| So when something like this happens, you really do rely on people that actually know what they're talking about. | ||
| Because when something that is unexpected happens, Like this. | ||
| And it happens so quickly. | ||
| And it happens really without explanation. | ||
| People who rely on others to do their thinking for them are at a loss. | ||
| Questions like, why did the Assad government collapse? | ||
| It actually requires critical thinking. | ||
| Nobody really knows yet. | ||
| It's not clear. | ||
| It's ambiguous. | ||
| It's And so times like this, you're actually relying on people that can think and know the situation. | ||
| It's not one of these takes. | ||
| It's not one of these situations where you read the conservative thinking or the liberal thinking and they do the thinking for you. | ||
| It's not – you can't easily rip it off from somebody else. | ||
| You actually have to think about it. | ||
| That's one thing. | ||
| So it's going to be really good. | ||
| But the other thing specifically I wanted to get into is I have been heavily critical. | ||
| This is related recently of Scott Ritter. | ||
| You know, I'm a big fan of Judge Andrew Napolitano. | ||
| He's got a daily show and he brings on all of the Israel critical analysts, people like Jeffrey Sachs and Scott Ritter and Max Blumenthal and John Mearsheimer. | ||
| He brings these guys on to his morning show and they analyze Ukraine and the Middle East conflict primarily. | ||
| And all these different guys come on and they give their takes. | ||
| And really, it's must-watch viewing. | ||
| Okay, this is really like a must-watch show for anybody that's interested in the subject. | ||
| In my opinion, a lot of these guys are really hit or miss. | ||
| And I think a lot of it is either foreign intelligence or wishful thinking. | ||
| Because what I tend to find among this community, and I like the show and I like a lot of the people on it, But I think what you tend to find in that community, these guys like Pablo Escobar and other people who write on UnzReview and Antiwar.com, there's a lot of wishful thinking or maybe just willful misdirection. | ||
| And they're heavily critical of Israel and sometimes it crosses the line into delusion. | ||
| Where they won't even admit that Israel is successful on the battlefield. | ||
| So, for example, lately, I've been very critical of Scott Ritter. | ||
| I've been poking fun at him because Israel seems to be succeeding in this Middle Eastern conflict. | ||
| As you know, ever since October 7th, there has been a war that has engulfed the entire region. | ||
| There's fighting in Gaza, the West Bank, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen. | ||
| Iran itself. | ||
| And no matter what happens, no matter what the development is, Scott Ritter will always be reliably on the show, on the judge, on Judge Napolitano saying, Hezbollah is going to beat Israel. | ||
| Hezbollah is going to kick their ass. | ||
| Israel does not know who they're messing with. | ||
| They have no army. | ||
| All of this intelligence is All of this apparently open source intelligence, or maybe these are his sources because he's a weapons inspector. | ||
| So every show, it's always this chest beating about how Israel doesn't know what they're getting into. | ||
| And yet, what we see in the news every week is that Israel is successful, that they have routed Hamas. | ||
| They've defeated 22 out of 25 Hamas battalions, that they've conducted thousands of airstrikes in Lebanon, that they have killed the leader of Hezbollah, the successor to the leader, the successor to the successor, the successor to the the successor to the successor, the successor to the successor to the successor to the leader. | ||
| That they've been spying on their radios for a decade and then blew them up with remote explosives. | ||
| And no matter what seems to happen, Scott Ritter will come on the show and say, Israel will fall. | ||
| Israel is losing. | ||
| It's over for Israel. | ||
| And last week was no different. | ||
| The Assad government was routed. | ||
| They just retreated, actually. | ||
| We'll talk about that. | ||
| From Aleppo. | ||
| And then Hamas. | ||
| And it looked like they were going to make their last stand in Damascus. | ||
| And Scott Ritter says, oh, it's over for the rebels. | ||
| Russia is going to come in with air power. | ||
| The Iranians are deploying from Iraq. | ||
| And yeah, it's over for the rebels. | ||
| They're going to be turned back and then defeated decisively in Idlib. | ||
| And that's it. | ||
| And the opposite happened. | ||
| The Assad government, on the contrary, not only did that not happen, the Iranians did the opposite. | ||
| The Iranians left. | ||
| The Russians didn't come. | ||
| Assad fled. | ||
| His government collapsed. | ||
| And now the rebels are in control. | ||
| And look, I don't hate the guy. | ||
| I'm not like against Scott Ritter, but I do think there is something to be said. | ||
| This is very important. | ||
| It is very, very important to realize that just like there is Israeli intelligence and American intelligence, and just like there are people that are witting or unwitting pawns of the Israeli and American state, people kind of understand that if you watch this show. | ||
| You know that Fox News is owned by the Zionists. | ||
| You know that Tucker Carlson is some sort of intelligence asset. | ||
| You know these things. | ||
| At the same time, we must be equally cautious because there are people out there that are in fact owned by Turkey or that are owned by Russia or by Iran or, yes, by Qatar or the Emirates or Saudi Arabia or by other elements. | ||
| And so it's important to remember the name of this show is America First. | ||
| America First. | ||
| And while I do take joy in seeing Russia take Ukrainian territory... | ||
| Because we just like to see the American regime take a hit. | ||
| And while we like to see the United States defeated in Afghanistan because this undermines the credibility of the neocons, among other things, the triumph of history, of tribalism, of We're a regressive fundamentalist religion. | ||
| For various reasons, we like to see American empire rolled back. | ||
| At our core, we're America first. | ||
| We're about America. | ||
| And more importantly, we're independent. | ||
| We're of America. | ||
| We're by America. | ||
| We're for America. | ||
| We're not like Tenet Media. | ||
| We're not like Tim Pool or Dave Rubin. | ||
| We don't get paid by the Russians. | ||
| We're also not like Ben Shapiro or Jordan Peterson where we're owned by the Israelis. | ||
| And it's important to keep it 100. | ||
| It's important to keep it real. | ||
| We are hypercritical of the Israeli occupation of America. | ||
| We're critical of our support for what they're doing. | ||
| At the same time, I am under no financial pressure or the sway of a foreign government to lie to you or to promulgate disinformation about what is happening. | ||
| Russia is not a bastion of tradition. | ||
| Hezbollah and Hamas are not 21st century fighting forces. | ||
| Israel is prevailing. | ||
| America is prevailing, for better or for worse. | ||
| The empire has struck back, and the opponents of American empire have been reeling for the past couple of years. | ||
| So it's just an important note on some of these analysts, because there are layers. | ||
| The most important thing to understand, one of them, is that there are layers to the Many people realize they're being deceived by an Israeli-owned press, by an American-owned press. | ||
| And then they rush to Russia Today, Al Jazeera. | ||
| They rush to some other source. | ||
| They rush to some of these analysts who purport to be telling the truth. | ||
| And in fact, we don't even really know who these people are. | ||
| So, I don't really trust any of them. | ||
| You know, I trust myself. | ||
| And you still have to parse the information. | ||
| I'm just putting that out there. | ||
| So, I don't have a problem with Scott Ritter. | ||
| I'm not making any accusations. | ||
| But I do think, you know, there's some suspicious things going on there. | ||
| And his tendency to always come on the air and exaggerate the capabilities of these groups like Hezbollah... | ||
| I think it makes him a little bit unreliable, and I think the proof of that, I think you're seeing it in this conflict right now. | ||
| I think you're seeing it with Israel's incursion into Lebanon, the collapse of the Assad government. | ||
| It goes to show not everybody that criticizes Israel is necessarily on our side. | ||
| People like Max Blumenthal, he's another one that goes on the show. | ||
| And again, I'm just saying he's part of this coterie of Israel critics that People like Max Blumenthal from the gray zone, he's another one. | ||
| He criticizes Israel heavily, but he's also a Jew. | ||
| And his father, Sidney Blumenthal, was the hatchet man of Bill Clinton. | ||
| And for whatever reason, Max Blumenthal doesn't like to talk about Israel's role in 9-11. | ||
| He also says that some people like myself who criticize Israel are real anti-Semites. | ||
| So why is a Jew the son of someone who worked for one of the neoliberal political dynasties? | ||
| Why is he unwilling to talk about Israel's role in 9-11? | ||
| Why is he unwilling to criticize world Jewry on the whole as opposed to just one part of it? | ||
| These are valid questions. | ||
| And the same extends to the rest of the whole lot of them. | ||
| People like Scott Ritter, Max Blumenthal, the others. | ||
| I'd be a little bit suspicious. | ||
| Just saying. | ||
| So anyway, so with that, we're going to dive in. | ||
| We're going to get into the Syrian civil war. | ||
| And I'm going to tell you my take on the whole situation. | ||
| So the big development from this weekend is that the Assad government has officially collapsed. | ||
| And this is a world historic moment. | ||
| The Syrian civil war is, I believe, the longest. | ||
| It is certainly the deadliest conflict of the 21st century. | ||
| It's disputed a little bit. | ||
| In my opinion, it's the deadliest of the 21st century. | ||
| 500,000 dead. | ||
| It's been going on since 2011. And we talked about it a little bit last week. | ||
| What makes it so shocking, aside from the pace, the rate at which the Assad government fell, it happened completely suddenly and unexpectedly. | ||
| It's also that it completely goes against the momentum of the Assad government for the past five or seven years. | ||
| The tide in the Syrian civil war started to turn in favor of the Assad regime nine years ago. | ||
| When Russia intervened in the conflict in 2015 and in 2016 when the Assad government held on to Aleppo and defended it from the rebels, that is the point after which it became clear that Assad would not lose power. | ||
| By 2017, ISIS was defeated, and after a series of Turkish invasions by 2020, with the implementation of the Astana Agreement, the conflict lines have been frozen and have not changed considerably. | ||
| And not only that, but the Assad government has actually moved towards normalization in that period. | ||
| So the tide turned nine years ago in 2015. ISIS is defeated in 2017. By 2020, the conflict lines are frozen. | ||
| And in that period since then, in the past four years, the Assad government has actually moved closer towards normalization diplomatically with its neighbors. | ||
| It was brought back into the Arab League. | ||
| Diplomatic relations were restored with the Gulf countries and And Erdogan, the president of Turkey, who was an early opponent of Assad and one of Assad's biggest foes since 2011, since the beginning, actually made and extended the olive branch to Assad in the past four years. | ||
| It was Assad that rejected him. | ||
| So in other words, it seemed that everything was going wrong. | ||
| In the direction that Assad wanted it to, it looked like not only had he won the war, but he would remain in power indefinitely and all of his neighbors would have to deal with it. | ||
| And really, it was only a matter of time before the last rebels, the remaining stronghold in Idlib, was confronted and defeated by the government. | ||
| This was the reality as of Thanksgiving. | ||
| Literally two weeks ago, this was the reality. | ||
| Assad controlled two-thirds of the territory, and even though he only controlled 60% of the territory, it was stable. | ||
| Most of the rest of the territory was controlled by the Americans and the Kurds in northeastern Syria. | ||
| So even to say that Assad controlled 60% of the territory is deceptive. | ||
| Although he had lost a good percentage of his territory, the other side of the Euphrates River to an autonomous government led by the Kurds, backed by the Americans, it was only about 5 to 10% of the population that was controlled by rebels in Idlib province, which it was only about 5 to 10% of the population that was controlled by rebels | ||
| There were only about 10 to 15,000 remaining rebel fighters, which the Assad government began bombing in the past couple of years, putting pressure on them. | ||
| So as of two weeks ago, like I said, conflict lines are frozen. | ||
| Assad is normalizing relations with his neighbor, with his neighbors, the Arabs, which he had bad relations with before. | ||
| Erdogan is coming to Damascus hat in hand, looking to make concessions, looking to make a deal. | ||
| And the Assad government is on their way to defeating the rebels. | ||
| This was the situation. | ||
| And like I said, it is that coupled with the pace of the collapse of the government, the suddenness, which is what has made it so surprising. | ||
| In the span of two weeks, this previously unknown group, which nobody had ever heard of, a group called HTS, invaded Aleppo, which is Syria's second biggest city, launched a major offensive and took it immediately within three or four days, took control and closed launched a major offensive and took it immediately within three or four days, took control and closed off the major highways, connecting And then they marched south to the capital, basically unopposed. | ||
| People were expecting Russian air power to come through. | ||
| They were expecting Iranian militias or proxies to come through. | ||
| They were expecting the Syrian military eventually to regroup and make some sort of last stand at Homs or maybe eventually in Damascus. | ||
| But it never happened. | ||
| And so, basically, the Assad government was in free fall. | ||
| The rebels faced no resistance. | ||
| They cut through Syria like a hot knife through butter. | ||
| And by this weekend, it was over. | ||
| They captured the capital, really with no major fighting. | ||
| There was no major battle, no protracted fighting, no serious casualties. | ||
| The casualties were in the hundreds. | ||
| And you see this situation. | ||
| This is why it was so difficult to understand as it was happening. | ||
| And this is why, by the way, nobody predicted it. | ||
| Although I called it as it happened, nobody predicted this offensive. | ||
| Allegedly, there were warnings given. | ||
| Allegedly, Turkey knew in advance of some of the preparations. | ||
| Allegedly, Israel knew in advance, and there are some signs that they knew, and we'll talk about those things. | ||
| But first, let's talk about the offensive itself. | ||
| It happened in two weeks, and this is maybe the first thing to say about it, is how conspicuous this really is. | ||
| And I pointed this out on Twitter. | ||
| What is the force composition of both sides in the conflict? | ||
| The Syrian government forces number close to 300,000 personnel. | ||
| So Syria controls two-thirds of the territory. | ||
| They have the Russian Air Force. | ||
| They have a Russian base, air base and naval base. | ||
| They have Iranian militias. | ||
| They have about 200,000 regular army personnel. | ||
| They've got about 70,000 to 90,000 other personnel in the presidential guard and the special forces in the air force. | ||
| In some of their militias. | ||
| So the Syrian army, 300,000 strong, and a modern military with armor, with an air force, with the backing of the Russians, with the backing of the Iranians, furnished with equipment from both. | ||
| And so the question is, because the suddenness of it is not only unpredictable, but it's also strange, right? | ||
| How is it that the Syrian army, the Syrian Arab army, with 300,000 personnel, with modern military equipment from Russia, with the backing of Russia and Iran, and bolstered by Iranian militias, how was it defeated without any protracted fighting? | ||
| Without any major battles? | ||
| Without any serious casualties. | ||
| How were all of its cities taken? | ||
| Like I said, in a straight shot. | ||
| The rebels went east to Aleppo and then straight south through Homs, through Hama, Homs, and then the capital Damascus. | ||
| With no resistance. | ||
| On the other side, the rebels, the group HTS, number 10 to 15,000. | ||
| As of... | ||
| Five, six years ago, they were virtually defeated, non-existent. | ||
| They went from about 5,000 to 15,000. | ||
| They did not, contrary to what some people were reporting last week, they did not have the full backing of the Turks. | ||
| They did not have Turkish air power. | ||
| They did not have Turkish armor. | ||
| They were not supported by the Turkish-backed rebels, the Syrian National Army, which have much larger numbers as they march south. | ||
| So how did a force, which is really amateurish, And again, vastly outnumbered, 20 to 1. How was it this faction out of all the factions? | ||
| Not the Turkish-backed SNA, not the American-backed Kurdish SDF, not the Syrian Free Army, which emerged from the Free Syrian Army in the South. | ||
| How was it that it was this Islamist faction, previously unknown, that Besieged in Idlib province, not even fully supported by any patron state, why was it this faction which seemingly took over all of Syria without any fighting? | ||
| That's the big question. | ||
| And the answer, I think, is clear. | ||
| And I said this on Twitter. | ||
| This was not a battle. | ||
| This was a coup. | ||
| Clearly, the Syrian Arab Army, for some reason, stood down. | ||
| That's the answer. | ||
| There was no fighting. | ||
| And there were reports throughout the past couple weeks of officers in the Syrian Army retreating and defecting, giving up. | ||
| It seems like the Syrian Army either stood down spontaneously of their own accord or They grew tired of the Assad regime and defending the Assad regime from the rebels. | ||
| But because they gave it up quickly, it seems like that was a decision that was made very rapidly or in advance of the offensive by the rebels. | ||
| Or one theory is that maybe the officers in the Syrian military was bribed. | ||
| Syria is broke. | ||
| They are out of money. | ||
| They have been sanctioned since 2011. And their primary export, which is oil, except for Captagon, which is an amphetamine, which is what the Syrian government has been selling, their primary natural resource, oil, is controlled by the American-backed Kurds northeast of the Euphrates River. | ||
| So if the Syrian army, Syrian government is broke, they're not getting revenue from trade because they're under immense sanctions. | ||
| They're not getting revenue from oil because the oil fields are controlled by the Americans. | ||
| If the Syrian army is not being paid, if the Syrian economy is failing, if the Assad government is rejecting an overture by Turkey. | ||
| And if Syria is pivoting away from Iran, their major supporter in the past 10 years and towards the Arabs instead, Iran's rivals, then maybe the Syrian military was either bribed by the Americans or by the Turks or by the Israelis or some other then maybe the Syrian military was either bribed by the Americans Or they simply gave up and this was a peaceful transfer of power. | ||
| But that was clearly what took place over the past couple of weeks. | ||
| This was not, contrary to what everybody's calling it, this was not, strictly speaking, a military offensive. | ||
| There was no major battle. | ||
| It wasn't a war. | ||
| What really took place was a coup. | ||
| It was a quiet, a silent coup. | ||
| At some point, and for some reason, maybe due to outside influence, maybe was just a spontaneous collapse, the Assad government, which was upheld by the military, decided they would no longer fight. | ||
| And so they retreated into the capital and then surrendered without any real battle. | ||
| And you could see that there were other factors that led up to this as well, which people have pointed out. | ||
| Over the past 13 years, the Assad government has been bolstered by two countries, like I said earlier. | ||
| Initially, when the Syrian revolution began in 2011, the Assad government was on the back foot. | ||
| The rebels were taking a lot of territory. | ||
| After a period of time, all the rebels defected and became radical Muslims. | ||
| Most of Syria is Sunni Muslim. | ||
| They are being ruled over by an Alawite Muslim minority. | ||
| And so the military, which defected from the government in 2011 and 2012, could no longer control its personnel. | ||
| The personnel that defected from the Syrian government then defected from the moderate rebels and joined up with ISIS or the al-Nusra front or al-Qaeda. | ||
| And by 2013-2014, you had a radical Muslim insurgency, mostly led by ISIS take over the country. | ||
| And it seemed like Assad was finished. | ||
| That is when, in 2015, Russia came in with air power, with its air force, to roll back the rebels, which they succeeded in doing. | ||
| And Iran sent in its militias and its revolutionary guard to expand their influence inside Syria, and they worked as the ground force to roll back ISIS and the rebels. | ||
| So this is what must be understood. | ||
| It was Russian air power and Iranian ground forces which secured the Assad government in the period, roughly speaking, from 2015 to 2017. That's when the Assad government recaptured most of its territory. | ||
| And they have been the guarantors of the Assad government's consolidation and subsequent stability. | ||
| Of course, recent developments have compromised both of those forces. | ||
| Russia and Iran were vying for power inside of Syria between 2017 and 2022. Iran wanted to use Syria as a base to supply Hezbollah inside of Lebanon and to train Hezbollah inside of Syria. | ||
| Syria was a staging ground for Iranian forces and Iranian proxies. | ||
| But Iran using Syria in this way put Syria in the crosshairs of Israel. | ||
| Syria is not fundamentally aligned with Iran's strategic goals. | ||
| Syria is a Ba'athist state. | ||
| Iran is a revolutionary Shiite state. | ||
| Syria is a secular Arab nationalist socialist dictatorship. | ||
| Iran is a revolutionary theocratic dictatorship. | ||
| And so Iran and Syria have very different goals. | ||
| Iran wants to take over the Middle East by influencing all of the Shiite populations in all of the different Middle Eastern countries. | ||
| Syria wants to consolidate control over their own territory. | ||
| They don't want to provoke Israel necessarily. | ||
| They don't seek a regional Shiite revolution, and they're not a religious government. | ||
| But they relied upon Iran to bolster their security. | ||
| So they hosted Iranian forces. | ||
| It is Russia that opposed this because Iran, using Syria as a base of operations, made it a target of the United States and Israel. | ||
| This is why Israel has been bombing Syria for years. | ||
| This is why the United States has maintained a presence in Syria. | ||
| At least that's one of the reasons. | ||
| To roll back and check the influence of Iran. | ||
| Russia is involved in Syria for a couple of reasons. | ||
| Russia moved into Syria in 2015, largely for symbolic reasons. | ||
| This was Russia's reentry into the global stage. | ||
| After the fall of Soviet Union, Russia was constrained and became a country that was in effect not even a regional power. | ||
| Had no force projection capability outside of its own borders. | ||
| Could not intervene in Eastern Europe. | ||
| Could not intervene in the Middle East. | ||
| Could not intervene in Africa or Latin America or Asia like they did in the heyday of the Soviet Union. | ||
| And after 15 years of rebuilding by Vladimir Putin, Syria was the first testing ground for Russia to export its arms and its influence and provide for the security needs of a country in a different region. | ||
| And Russia acted as a kingmaker. | ||
| Assad was on the ropes, Russia intervened, and Assad remained in power. | ||
| And this is part of Russia's offering to other countries in the world. | ||
| The United States and Russia compete with each other as arms traffickers, as arms exporters. | ||
| And so this was a demonstration of Russian-provided capabilities, Russian-provided weapons. | ||
| But it was also a demonstration of Russia as a patron for a client state. | ||
| America gains its influence by providing for the security needs of other states. | ||
| For example, the United States provides Saudi Arabia with security in exchange for oil. | ||
| In this case, Russia provided Syria with security, and that was a demonstration that Russia could provide for other countries' security. | ||
| In addition, there was something more pragmatic. | ||
| Russia was able to host a naval base in the Mediterranean Sea in the Syrian port city of Tardis. | ||
| This is very important because Russia's only other port nearby is in the Black Sea in Crimea. | ||
| And for Russia to access the Mediterranean, it has to cross through a choke point controlled by Turkey, a NATO member. | ||
| So for Russia to exercise naval power in the Mediterranean Sea, it has to go through a choke point controlled by a NATO country. | ||
| With the naval base at TARDIS in Syria, it can project power in the Mediterranean without having to do that. | ||
| So Russia not only built a naval base there, but also an air base and a number of other military outposts, and Syria became a critical client state, maybe the critical client state of Russia. | ||
| Russia did not want Iran there using Syria as a base for Hezbollah because it compromised the Syrian state. | ||
| And if the Syrian state fell, if the Assad regime fell under pressure from Israel and the United States, then Russia loses its bases. | ||
| So Russia and Iran had an immense rivalry inside of Syria after the Assad regime gained control. | ||
| But this all changed in 2022. When Russia invaded Ukraine, it had to withdraw its forces from Syria and redirect them in Ukraine. | ||
| As such, Iran expanded its influence in the past couple of years, unchecked by Russia in Syria. | ||
| But then another development compromised Iran's involvement in Syria. | ||
| and that is Israel's regional war. | ||
| Because Israel is at war with Iran's proxies in every country, in Yemen, against Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and by carrying out airstrikes in Syria, Iran's forces have been seriously weakened. | ||
| In the past couple of months since September, Israel has stepped up its airstrikes considerably, bombing Hezbollah thousands of times in Lebanon, bombing the border between Lebanon and Syria, bombing the border between Syria and Iraq, bombing Iranian positions bombing the border between Syria and Iraq, bombing Iranian positions inside of Syria. | ||
| And so after 2022, Russia was disengaged from Syria. | ||
| After the past couple of months, Iran's forces have been considerably weakened in and around Syria, inside of Syria, but also inside of Lebanon and Iraq. | ||
| So these are the factors which contributed to the fall of the Assad government. | ||
| There was a fragile peace that has been in place since 2015. Well, I shouldn't say that. | ||
| There has been a fragile peace that has been in place since 2020. The tide started to turn and the consolidation was underwritten by Russian air power and Iranian ground forces. | ||
| Those were the guarantors of Assad's control over the country. | ||
| With Russia out of the picture, with Iran severely weakened, and because the Assad government was made poor by sanctions, because the oil was taken from them by the Americans... | ||
| And because probably Iran lost interest in defending Syria on some level because Syria pivoted away from Iran and towards the Arabs, seeking acceptance from the Gulf states, being reinstated in the Arab League, reinstating diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries. | ||
| Maybe they didn't even want to defend the Assad regime. | ||
| All of these factors contributed basically to the Assad regime giving up. | ||
| And there are some reports that said that Russia and Iran didn't even want to engage for that reason. | ||
| They said if Assad's forces won't fight, if the Assad forces are giving up Aleppo, giving up the cities on the way to Damascus, if they have given up, then why would Russia... | ||
| Why would Iran rapidly deploy their forces to defend Syria if Assad's forces won't fight? | ||
| And so there are some reports, unconfirmed, that Assad decided there would be a peaceful transfer of power. | ||
| He left Syria probably at some point in the middle of last week. | ||
| Russia, Iran, and the Syrian military just abandoned the fight. | ||
| And now the country has been taken over by HTS. So that's the first part. | ||
| That's the anatomy of the collapse. | ||
| That's my take on what exactly transpired because everybody is wondering how and why and what explains the timing. | ||
| I think it's clear. | ||
| It wasn't clear last week, but since HTS moved into Damascus effectively unopposed, outnumbered 20 to 1, without any fighting, without any battles, it seems without even an effort by Iran or Russia to stop them, Iran began to evacuate last week. | ||
| Russia sent its warships out last week from their base in TARDIS. It seems that there was something like a coup. | ||
| They just gave up. | ||
| And the Syrian regime collapsed because without Russia engaged, with Iran's forces weakened, with the Assad government broke, and maybe with some kind of deal being made behind the scenes to bribe the generals and officers, or some warning that was given to the Assad regime. | ||
| If you were to be more conspiratorial, I started to think this. | ||
| I almost wonder if maybe the Israelis are behind this. | ||
| I wonder if they communicated to the Syrian military that they would get bombed like Hezbollah if they didn't surrender. | ||
| But that's a little conspiratorial. | ||
| There's no evidence for that. | ||
| Because there still is some weirdness about it. | ||
| But I think what characterizes what has happened over the past two weeks is that this is more like a silent, bloodless coup than it is like some climactic final battle. | ||
| And so the Assad regime was effectively bled and its allies abandoned it. | ||
| Now let's talk about who took over. | ||
| So this is the other mystery. | ||
| Who exactly launched the offensive? | ||
| It's a group called HTS, which stands for Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham. | ||
| Not much is known about them. | ||
| Well, at least I should say in the public consciousness, there hasn't been a ton of reporting on them lately. | ||
| But the group is called HTS, and they are an Islamist, Salafist, Sunni Muslim militant group. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| They are Salafist. | ||
| That is a fundamentalist Muslim ideology which has been exported by Saudi Arabia. | ||
| They're the most extreme Muslims. | ||
| So ISIS, Al-Qaeda, these are two groups that have a Salafist theology, Salafist Muslim theology. | ||
| Also goes by the name Wahhabism, which is named after one of the clerics which pushed this in Saudi Arabia. | ||
| They're Islamist, which means they're theocrats. | ||
| Islamism means they believe that Islam should be the state religion. | ||
| There should be a Muslim government implementing Sharia law at the level of the state, and that the leader should be a cleric. | ||
| And so they actually have much in common with Al-Qaeda and ISIS. More on that in a moment. | ||
| But that is their ideology. | ||
| They're Sunni Muslim. | ||
| The reason I'm pointing all this out is because they are in, they're the diametric opposite of the pre-existing Syrian regime. | ||
| The Assad government is a Ba'athist Alawite government. | ||
| The Alawites are an offshoot of Shiite Islam. | ||
| They're in the minority in the west of the country. | ||
| And as Ba'athists, they are secular socialist Arab nationalists, meaning that they basically have a fascist government inside of Syria. | ||
| They do not have a religious law. | ||
| They're ruling over a country that is mostly Sunni, and they are in the religious sectarian minority. | ||
| And because they are a secular regime, this is the critical word that people are using, they're tolerant of minorities. | ||
| Because it is not a fundamentalist, theocratic, Muslim, Sunni government, they're tolerant of the many minority groups in Syria, of which there are a lot. | ||
| There is a significant Kurdish minority in the Northeast. | ||
| There is a significant Druze minority in the South. | ||
| There is a significant Christian minority and Alawite minority in the West. | ||
| And so it's a secular government that is organized really on ideological and ethnic principles rather than a religion. | ||
| And their principles are that they want to unite all the Arab countries. | ||
| That's where their flag comes from. | ||
| Their flag comes from their union with Egypt in the 1950s. | ||
| The Syrians and the Egyptians were both fascist governments united under one government for a short time. | ||
| And so that reflects the fact that they want to unite the Middle East as ethnic Arabs rather than as a particular variety of Muslims. | ||
| And as a secular government, they are more tolerant of religious minorities like the Druze, like the Christians, like the Shiites. | ||
| And so, HTS, the rebel group, which is now in control of the capital, which is now in control of most of Syria, it is completely different. | ||
| It is a completely different faction. | ||
| The Syrian regime was socialist, ruled by minority Shiite. | ||
| They were allied with Iran for that reason and other pragmatic reasons. | ||
| Now it's ruled by Sunni fundamentalists. | ||
| So they would be more aligned now with Saudi Arabia. | ||
| And Afghanistan, then they would be aligned with Iran. | ||
| So the alignment of Syria, if it is controlled by this group, is completely different. | ||
| That's what makes this such a big deal. | ||
| Syria being a pan-Arabist Ba'athist, fascist country was naturally aligned with Iran, was naturally aligned with the axis of resistance. | ||
| Now, if under control of HTS would be aligned with Saudi Arabia, would be aligned with the United Arab Emirates, would be aligned with the United States, potentially. | ||
| So it's a complete sea change. | ||
| Now, this group, HTS, in particular, this is actually a new name for an old group. | ||
| The leader's name is al-Julani. | ||
| He used to be a leader in al-Qaeda. | ||
| And what's interesting about him is he actually comes from the Golan Heights, which is occupied Syrian territory controlled by Israel. | ||
| That's where he's from. | ||
| That's what he's named after. | ||
| Al-Julani did fight with al-Qaeda, and he joined up with the resistance in Syria during the Syrian revolution in 2011. | ||
| And it's important to understand what happened in the Syrian revolution. | ||
| I guess we could go back there. | ||
| So in 2011, when the Syrian revolution started, it was largely led by former members of the military. | ||
| There were pro-democracy protests. | ||
| Many of the Syrians wanted a pluralistic democratic republic to be established in Syria. | ||
| They wanted real elections. | ||
| They wanted minorities to be represented. | ||
| They wanted the Sunnis to be represented. | ||
| And this was following the Arab Spring when there were a surge of these types of protests in North Africa and in the Middle East. | ||
| In Tunisia, in Libya, in Egypt, in Lebanon, elsewhere. | ||
| So there was a huge swell of pro-democracy protests happening. | ||
| Assad killed them all. | ||
| Assad sent in the military and the police and had the military fire upon the protesters. | ||
| Eventually the military said we don't want to fire upon our own people. | ||
| So the early leaders of the revolution were defectors from the military. | ||
| They formed a military council. | ||
| And using military weapons, military training and tactics, organized disciplined forces who defected from the Assad government, who received training, they fought against government forces and had a lot of successes in 2011, 2012. But eventually the character of the rebels began to change. | ||
| The United States was arming these rebels. | ||
| The CIA was directing the rebels. | ||
| And the goal of the rebels, who again were former military members, was they wanted a pluralistic democracy and a republic in Syria. | ||
| The tone and objectives started to change. | ||
| After a while, the bulk of the rebels started to drift more towards Islamism. | ||
| They started to drift more towards groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda and a splinter group called Al-Nusra Front, which eventually became HTS. | ||
| And we'll give some details on that. | ||
| But that's the important details that the character of the revolution started to change. | ||
| And so by about 2013, after two years of fighting, the rebels were no longer former military seeking a democratic republic, including... | ||
| Increasingly, they were radical Muslims who wanted a Muslim government. | ||
| And they were aligned then with Al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra Front, other factions, and then eventually ISIS. And so then the United States began to reevaluate their support for the rebels. | ||
| All the rebels that they had been giving weapons and training began to pledge allegiance to Al-Qaeda. | ||
| Big problem. | ||
| The United States was arming these rebels who were talking about democracy and pluralism and liberalism and an organic democratic liberal revolution in the Middle East in the center of the region. | ||
| And they all started pledging allegiance to Al-Qaeda immediately. | ||
| Big problem. | ||
| And then ISIS sweeps in in April 2013. They cross the border from Iraq. | ||
| And very quickly, many of these Islamist factions who then constitute the majority of the rebels who had been trained and armed by the United States, they started to pledge allegiance to ISIS. And they joined up with ISIS. ISIS swept through the region. | ||
| They took Raqqa, which is a major city in Syria. | ||
| And then suddenly, the nature of the conflict changed. | ||
| And many of the former military started to conditionally work with ISIS, but also start negotiating with the government. | ||
| And they said, you know, we don't really want ISIS to run Syria. | ||
| That's actually worse. | ||
| And so this is where Russia and the United States come in. | ||
| The United States comes in to fight ISIS. Russia comes in to fight the rebels on behalf of Assad. | ||
| And in a sense, Assad is saved by the fact that the character of the rebellion changed. | ||
| Russia comes in as the liberator, not from the rebels seeking democracy, but the liberator saving Syria from ISIS and from radical Islam. | ||
| But this is where HTS is formed. | ||
| HTS was formed out of a group called Al-Nusra Front. | ||
| Al-Nusra Front came out of Al-Qaeda. | ||
| The leader of HTS and one of the commanders of Al-Nusra Front, Joulani, was a leader in Al-Qaeda inside of Syria during the early days of the Syrian revolution. | ||
| The problem is that many of the Al-Qaeda fighters had international ambitions. | ||
| Al-Qaeda wanted a caliphate that stretched all over the Middle East. | ||
| And they were very hard-line religiously and ideologically. | ||
| Joulani, who was one of the key members in Al-Nusra Front, he and others inside of Al-Qaeda decided to break away from Al-Qaeda because they wanted to focus on Syria alone. | ||
| Al-Qaeda wanted to fight, and they have operations in Yemen and in Iraq and in North Africa and in Syria alone. | ||
| But the people like those that went on to form this group, people like the rebel leader who's currently in control of Syria, they wanted to focus only on Syria. | ||
| So they broke away from Al-Qaeda and formed Al-Nusra Front. | ||
| But they have the same goals. | ||
| Al-Qaeda and the Al-Nusra Front have the same theology. | ||
| They're both radical. | ||
| They both use terrorism. | ||
| They're both Salafist, Muslim fundamentalists. | ||
| They both want Muslim theocracy. | ||
| So the Al-Nusra Front was formed out of Al-Qaeda. | ||
| It was a splinter group from Al-Qaeda. | ||
| Many of them were from Al-Qaeda, but they wanted to focus on Syria. | ||
| Al-Nusra Front became one of the biggest rebel groups inside of Syria. | ||
| Eventually, they were beaten back by the Russians. | ||
| They were called a terrorist group by the United States because of their connections to Al-Qaeda. | ||
| And by 2018 or 2019, they were nearly defeated. | ||
| They were in a small corner in northern Syria. | ||
| Eventually, they were given control over Idlib province. | ||
| That was the last stronghold. | ||
| Idlib province in northern Syria was the last pocket of resistance after the Russians and Americans intervened against the rebels and against ISIS, and Assad was able to consolidate control. | ||
| So 2015, the Russians come in. | ||
| 2017, the Americans abandon regime change. | ||
| Around 2018, 2019, the al-Nusra front is given control over all of Idlib province, which is a state in the north, but that's the last pocket of resistance. | ||
| Everything else is controlled by Assad or Turkey or by the American-backed Kurds. | ||
| We'll talk about the Kurds in a moment because they're separate. | ||
| Al-Nusra Front rebrands as Hayat al-Sham. | ||
| They actually had a different name change and then later became Hayat al-Sham. | ||
| But in a short period of time, they go through a series of rebrands and change their name to HTS around 2020. And they say that unlike Al-Qaeda, and in order to distance themselves from Al-Qaeda further... | ||
| They changed their name and they say that they are willing to be pragmatic and work with Turkey and work with Western nations like the United States. | ||
| They recognized that if they were too closely associated with ISIS or Al-Qaeda that they could not get Western support. | ||
| They couldn't get Western money, couldn't get diplomatic recognition, couldn't get weapons, couldn't work with Syria. | ||
| So they rebranded. | ||
| But they are fundamentally the successors of al-Qaeda in Syria. | ||
| You have al-Qaeda in Syria. | ||
| They break away to focus on Syria alone and become al-Nusra front. | ||
| There's dispute. | ||
| Some of them join ISIS. Some of them remain. | ||
| Al-Nusra Front rebrands to HTS and then they control the last pocket in northern Syria. | ||
| And they do it really, again, for pragmatic reasons so that they will not be snuffed out. | ||
| If they're Al-Qaeda, they're going to get the full brunt of the American military. | ||
| If they are HTS... There's a little bit of obfuscation. | ||
| It's complicated. | ||
| And maybe in the future they could get support from the United States or from a NATO country like Turkey. | ||
| And that's precisely what happens. | ||
| Turkey starts to work with HTS. Even though HTS is not a proxy of Turkey. | ||
| They are not controlled by Turkey. | ||
| They're not a client of Turkey. | ||
| They weren't created by Turkey. | ||
| They start to work with Turkey as the occupying force inside of Idlib province, which borders Turkey. | ||
| So they buy energy from Turkey and they do receive weapons from Turkey like drones and other things, but they're not controlled by them. | ||
| And they are the group that for the past two years, the leader of the group, Julani, gave a speech two years ago and said, Aleppo is the goal. | ||
| That is how we're going to change the strategic situation in Syria. | ||
| This is the group that then invaded Aleppo. | ||
| And again, for whatever reason, a decision was made in the Syrian army to stand down. | ||
| Maybe they were bribed. | ||
| Maybe they were threatened. | ||
| Maybe they just simultaneously, spontaneously gave up. | ||
| But this is the group that when they marched into Aleppo from Idlib, without many fighters, facilitated the collapse of the government. | ||
| They entered Aleppo from Idlib, where they had been gathering strength, moved directly south and marched into the capital, and now they're in control. | ||
| Their leader is named al-Julani. | ||
| Like I said, he was literally a commander in al-Qaeda. | ||
| And at one time, when fighting alongside al-Qaeda and then al-Nusra Front, was collaborating with commanders inside of ISIS. | ||
| This is the group that now controls most of Syria. | ||
| They control most of its major towns, including Aleppo, the second biggest city, and the capital city, Damascus, as well as the strategic cities of Homs and Hama, which have military resources. | ||
| They control the intersection between Western Syria, which has port cities and the Alawite minority and the rest of the country. | ||
| The question is, now that they have taken over, will this group rule? | ||
| What happens next? | ||
| Will they hold elections in a few months and establish some sort of democratic governance which would be the realization again of the original goals of the revolution? | ||
| Back in 2011, when the Free Syrian Army, the consolidated factions of the resistance, when they fought Assad, they dreamed of a pluralistic democratic republic with elections and tolerance for minority groups. | ||
| Will this rebel group... | ||
| One, maintain control. | ||
| And if they do, will they hold elections? | ||
| Or will they try to implement something like Taliban rule inside of Syria? | ||
| Or will it be more moderate? | ||
| Will they be more pragmatic like the Emirates or like Saudi Arabia and have tolerance for the minorities? | ||
| It's worth pointing out that on their march to Damascus, the leader insisted repeatedly they will be tolerant of minorities. | ||
| They will be tolerant of the Christians, the Alawites, the Druze, the Kurds. | ||
| But what does that mean in practice? | ||
| Now that they have control over the government and now that they're conducting diplomacy with Iran, with Turkey, with their neighbors... | ||
| What will that look like in practice? | ||
| That is the question. | ||
| Who will now rule? | ||
| Now that this small faction, because that's really what it is, they just happen to be the faction, not the strongest, not the most organized, not the best, but just for whatever reason happen to be the one. | ||
| Will they be the ones to rule? | ||
| Will they try? | ||
| And if they do try, can they hold on to power? | ||
| But that is the current situation as it stands. | ||
| Here are some of the outstanding questions and some of the consequences for the other people in the region. | ||
| This is what happens next. | ||
| First of all, I'd like to point out that the number one beneficiary of this revolution is Israel. | ||
| By far and away, they're the clearest. | ||
| They are the first in terms of chronology. | ||
| They're the number one beneficiary of the conflict. | ||
| And here's why. | ||
| Because the first thing that has happened, and it has already happened so far, now that Syria is under the control of Sunni fundamentalists, is that Iran is out. | ||
| Syria was critical in Iran's power projection in the region. | ||
| If you look at a map of the Middle East, in order for Iran to reach Hezbollah inside of Lebanon on Israel's border, the only way for Iran to reach them is across a land bridge that connects Iran to Lebanon through Iraq, which is controlled by a security the only way for Iran to reach them is across a land bridge that connects Iran to Lebanon through | ||
| So in the aftermath of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, in the aftermath of the Syrian civil war, Iran has been able to create a huge footprint inside both countries and take significant control over the security situation in both countries. | ||
| The popular mobilization force inside of Iraq is officially under the national security services of the government. | ||
| inside of Syria, the IRGC and Hezbollah and other Iranian militias bolster Assad's security forces inside of Syria. | ||
| And And so with Iraq and Syria, Iran is able to supply Hezbollah with weapons. | ||
| Now that Syria is under the control of a Sunni fundamentalist regime, the Iranians have already left. | ||
| And that means that land bridge is severed. | ||
| So that means that Iran is no longer connected to Hezbollah. | ||
| And although Iran can supply Hezbollah in other ways, they could do it covertly, they could theoretically do it by air or by ship or something. | ||
| It will be limited, constrained and extremely complicated. | ||
| So this, after Israel's been bombing Hezbollah with thousands of airstrikes over the past couple of months, significantly diminishes Hezbollah and Iran's control over Lebanon. | ||
| So the fall of Syria, it's not just the fall of Syria for Iran. | ||
| It's also the fall of Lebanon for them as well. | ||
| It means that Syria can no longer be used as a forward operating base of Iran. | ||
| It cannot be used as a supply line for Hezbollah. | ||
| And it means that Iran's influence over Syria and Lebanon is finished. | ||
| And Hezbollah is significantly diminished because of this. | ||
| That means that now Damascus and Beirut, Syria and Lebanon, realistically are more under the sphere of influence of Israel and Turkey, more so than Iran. | ||
| That makes Israel the biggest winner. | ||
| Because as we've talked about for the past year, the biggest threat to Israel, the biggest proximate immediate threat is Hezbollah. | ||
| And it is that way because Iran is able to supply them. | ||
| So the biggest strategic victor in all of this immediately is Israel. | ||
| Assad is out and with them the Iranians are out as well. | ||
| Iran is the big loser. | ||
| They are significantly diminished. | ||
| Here are some other questions. | ||
| Here is what else will happen next. | ||
| Already, Israel has invaded Syria. | ||
| Israel has occupied a portion of Syria called the Golan Heights since the war in 1967. | ||
| And this is a huge matter of contention. | ||
| Technically, Donald Trump recognized it as part of Israel. | ||
| If we recognize it, it's basically no other country is going to roll that back. | ||
| Israel occupies the Golan. | ||
| Since Assad left, Israel invaded Syria from the Golan Heights. | ||
| A demilitarized zone was established in 1974 between the occupied Golan and the rest of Syria. | ||
| Israel has invaded and occupied all of that territory. | ||
| They've occupied all of the checkpoints in the DMZ. | ||
| And they're even invading western Syrian towns outside of the DMZ. | ||
| They're moving into western Damascus province. | ||
| And they're moving up north along the border with Lebanon. | ||
| Which would seem to suggest that Israel might seek to control Syria's border with Lebanon in its entirety. | ||
| Or at least the border crossings in the east. | ||
| And that might mean that Israel intends to invade Lebanon from the east. | ||
| Where they're vulnerable. | ||
| Where they're not protected by Hezbollah, which is in the south. | ||
| Or it might mean that Israel is securing that border crossing so that it cannot be used in any scenario as a supply line for Iran to resupply Hezbollah. | ||
| But that is what is happening next. | ||
| Israel is securing its border with Syria and moving to secure their border, Syria's border with Lebanon. | ||
| And we don't even know. | ||
| That might not be the end of their ambitions. | ||
| That is what is happening so far. | ||
| Israel is also launching hundreds of airstrikes against Syrian military facilities. | ||
| Now that the Assad government has collapsed, the big question is who inherits all of their facilities, infrastructure, and hardware. | ||
| If HTS, if this successor to Al-Qaeda, if they're here to stay and running the government, that means they inherit Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons, they inherit his helicopters, planes, naval ships, ammunition, all of it. | ||
| So Israel has been systematically carrying out airstrikes, hundreds of them, in just the past 48 hours. | ||
| Allegedly, they've destroyed all of Assad's naval ships. | ||
| They've destroyed the chemical weapons stockpiles, ammunition depots, helicopters, air bases, all of it. | ||
| Israel is right now in the process of destroying all of the hardware so that whoever comes to power won't inherit any of it. | ||
| And then therefore cannot pose a threat to Israel. | ||
| Because of course, even if it's a Sunni fundamentalist government, there's no guarantee that they will necessarily be in the pocket of Israel with so much uncertainty. | ||
| Israel's not taking any chances. | ||
| They're moving to disarm and neutralize whatever potential government comes to power by destroying any of the military hardware. | ||
| That is what is happening on the southern front in the south and southwest. | ||
| The next big question, this is something else that's already underway, is the fate of the Kurds and of the Americans. | ||
| So one of the significant ethnic minorities in Syria are the Kurds in northeastern Syria. | ||
| The Kurds are a huge transnational stateless ethnic group. | ||
| There are about 45 million of them. | ||
| And they're located in southeastern Turkey, northeastern Syria, northern Iraq, and northwestern Iran. | ||
| They have no country of their own. | ||
| There's no Kurdistan. | ||
| They are an Iranian ethnicity, and they're a big problem for all these countries. | ||
| There are serious Kurdish separatist movements in Turkey. | ||
| They're a big problem for the Turkish government. | ||
| They were recently a big problem for the Iraqi government, and now they're going to be a big problem for the Syrian government. | ||
| They have taken control of the Syrian territory northeast of the Euphrates River, which happens to also be where all of Syria's oil fields are. | ||
| That's a big problem. | ||
| So during the fighting with ISIS, the United States came in. | ||
| They were looking for rebels to back against Assad that weren't pledging allegiance to ISIS and Al-Qaeda, and the Kurds happened to be some of them. | ||
| So the United States began to arm and train and actually sent in military personnel to fight alongside the Kurds. | ||
| They reorganized the Kurdish forces into a group called the SDF, the Syrian Democratic Forces. | ||
| Problem is the Syrian Democratic Forces are made up almost entirely of a group called the YPG or the People's Protection Unit. | ||
| The YPG is the Syrian arm of a terrorist group called the Kurdish Workers' Party, and they're from Turkey. | ||
| The Kurdish Workers' Party is a separatist group. | ||
| It's a Kurdish-Turkish group. | ||
| They operate in southeastern Turkey, and they are responsible for many terrorist attacks in Istanbul and Ankara and other places. | ||
| They back Kurdish separatists in Iraq, in Syria— The reason this is a big problem is because the Kurdish Workers' Party is the mortal enemy of Turkey. | ||
| Turkey believes that the Kurdish Workers' Party, which operates in Turkey, is backing the People's Protection Unit, which is their wing in Syria, which has been renamed and reorganized into the Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria. | ||
| Since around 2017 or 2018, the SDF has provided security for an autonomous government. | ||
| They're calling it the Autonomous Administration of Northeastern Syria or Rojava. | ||
| And they're effectively a separate state altogether. | ||
| Northeast of the Euphrates, where the Kurds are in control of the security, even though they're not even the majority of the population there, they've established an autonomous government. | ||
| It is socialist. | ||
| It is feminist. | ||
| It is democratic. | ||
| I mean these guys are like communists. | ||
| They're not even Muslim. | ||
| And they're carving out what is being called like a socialist utopia. | ||
| It's called the Rojava Project. | ||
| That's what they're calling this polity. | ||
| And it is totally backed by the United States. | ||
| There's hundreds of American personnel officially there. | ||
| Unofficially, there's probably thousands of mercenaries there. | ||
| And again, this is where all the oil is. | ||
| Now, the question is, after Assad falls, will the new government incorporate northeastern Syria into their government? | ||
| Will they try to bring them back into the fold? | ||
| Right now, or as of two weeks ago, they were autonomous and separate from the Assad government. | ||
| When Assad was in control of Damascus and control of 60 percent of Syria, he was not in control of Rojava. | ||
| They were autonomous, independent, Kurdish, credibly accused of ethnic cleansing, forced conscription, child kidnapping, and backed by the Americans. | ||
| And that's where all the oil is, and they're getting a lot of revenue, billions of dollars a year from the oil. | ||
| But now that there's a new government, that new government is going to want the oil. | ||
| If it's HTS or whoever it is, they're going to want the oil. | ||
| They're going to want the territory. | ||
| They're going to want to bring Rojava back under the control of the capital. | ||
| But the Kurds aren't going to want to go. | ||
| They've enjoyed years of independence and autonomy, and probably they dream of statehood. | ||
| Probably they believe that they're going to become an independent Syrian Kurdish country. | ||
| So this puts them at odds with Damascus. | ||
| HTS, I would imagine, is going to try to create a federal government. | ||
| They're going to want to bring in Rojava as a semi-autonomous state or province. | ||
| And maybe Rojava will negotiate or maybe they'll want complete autonomy. | ||
| But the Syrian Democratic Forces are well-armed. | ||
| They're backed by the Americans. | ||
| And if they don't go along with the government in Damascus, there will be a fight. | ||
| So that is one of the emerging questions, is what will be done about Syria and Kurdistan? | ||
| Will they join up with the Syrian national government or will they be partitioned away and either enjoy unofficial autonomy or will they declare independence as a state? | ||
| But there's another complicating factor, which is Turkey. | ||
| Turkey has intervened in Syria many times since the civil war in Syria started. | ||
| They intervened in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020. They've conducted, I think it's in all, six cross-border operations. | ||
| And when Turkey invades Syria, they fought ISIS initially, but they also fought the Kurds. | ||
| They invaded in Euphrates Shield in 2016 and they drove ISIS away from their border, but they also fought the SDF. | ||
| They also fought the Kurds and they have fought the Kurds repeatedly. | ||
| In recent years, Erdogan, the president of Turkey, has promised to carve out a 30-kilometer buffer zone across all of Turkey's border with Syria. | ||
| That runs through all of Rojava's northern border. | ||
| So Turkey has pledged that they will invade Rojava and they will take 30 kilometers of their territory in the north to create a safety zone where they will then expel all the Syrian refugees inside of Turkey into that zone. | ||
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| So Turkey will never accept a Syrian Kurdish state if Rojava declares independence, if they say they're going to be an independent Syrian Kurdish country, Turkey would go to war to prevent that from happening. | ||
| Moreover, Turkey will not even allow them to have what they have. | ||
| Turkey is going to seize a significant portion of their territory along the border to prevent and basically sever Kurdistan inside of Turkey from Kurdistan inside of Syria. | ||
| That way the Kurdish Workers' Party can't support the SDF and the SDF can't export their revolution inside of Turkey. | ||
| By creating a safety zone, they will sever the two and cut them off from each other, probably prevent statehood, and they'll be able to exert control inside of that territory. | ||
| That's already happening. | ||
| Since the HTS offensive against the Assad regime, the SDF has made advances west of the Euphrates River and they've taken over the city of Manbij. | ||
| In the past couple of days, Turkey and the SDF have been fighting intensely. | ||
| Turkey has taken manbij from them. | ||
| And probably they're going to keep going and secure control over their border. | ||
| This would seem cut and dry. | ||
| The government in Damascus wants to bring Kurdistan. | ||
| They want to bring Rojava back into the fold. | ||
| Turkey wants to prevent the emergence of a Kurdish state. | ||
| They want to establish a safety zone. | ||
| They're already fighting them. | ||
| And if they're going to fight them, they will win because Turkey has air power. | ||
| Turkey has a huge military. | ||
| Turkey has a massive native drone industry. | ||
| And so if Turkey fights the SDF and gives it their all, they're going to win. | ||
| The complicating factor is that, of course, the United States is backing the SDF. So if Turkey invades Rojava, if they invade northeastern Syria to fight the SDF, the Kurds, they're going to run right into American personnel. | ||
| We've been backing the Kurds for years. | ||
| So the question is, what will the Americans do? | ||
| Will the Americans defend the Kurds from Turkey? | ||
| Will the Americans stand in the way? | ||
| Will they attempt a diplomatic resolution? | ||
| Will they back a Kurdish bid for independence? | ||
| Will they force the Kurds to integrate into a Syrian state? | ||
| Will the Americans be caught in the crossfire with Turkey? | ||
| That is the question. | ||
| What will Damascus do? | ||
| What will Ankara do? | ||
| What will Washington do about northeastern Syria? | ||
| Damascus wants it for the oil and the territory, maybe in a federated structure with semi-autonomy. | ||
| Turkey wants to take a lot of their land and they will refuse to accept any kind of statehood. | ||
| Washington's goals are a little bit unclear, but this might make it a little bit more clear. | ||
| Donald Trump is coming into the White House and Trump has a history of dealing with the Kurds. | ||
| In 2019, one of Turkey's operations out of six was launched against the Syrian Kurds. | ||
| Donald Trump was ridiculed for this and attacked for it, but he stayed out of it. | ||
| Trump sought to withdraw all the Americans from Syria, and when Americans were caught in the crossfire, when they were in the way of invading Turkish forces inside of Kurdish-occupied Syria, Trump said, we will stay out of your way. | ||
| We will stay out of it. | ||
| So under Trump, the United States let Turkey conduct operations against the SDF in Syria. | ||
| He let them do it. | ||
| He said, we're withdrawing anyway, but we will not interfere. | ||
| We will not get involved. | ||
| And he let the Turkish operation go forward. | ||
| There was another battle inside of Iraq. | ||
| After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, basically the same thing played out in Iraq. | ||
| There's a significant Kurdish minority in the north of Iraq. | ||
| In their fight against the Saddam Hussein regime, they basically gained something like autonomy. | ||
| In their fight against ISIS, they expanded their holdings significantly. | ||
| And there was a significant dispute over a city called Urqaq. | ||
| The United States did not intervene. | ||
| They stayed out of it and they let the Iraqi government recapture 20% of Iraqi Kurdistan's territory and it led to the fall of the Iraqi government inside of Iraqi Kurdistan. | ||
| They voted on a referendum for independence. | ||
| It caused tensions with the Iraqi government in Baghdad. | ||
| Baghdad invaded to take back some of the territory. | ||
| The United States stayed out of it. | ||
| So in 2017 in Iraq and in 2019 in Syria, when there were disputes between the Baghdad government and Iraqi Kurdistan, when there were disputes between Ankara and Syrian Kurdistan, Trump stayed out and let Baghdad take territory and let Ankara take territory from the Kurds. | ||
| That would seem to suggest that Trump is not about to die on the hill of establishing an independent Syrian Kurdistan in the Northeast and would probably allow for a deal to be made. | ||
| I imagine where Ankara will take territory, Damascus will bring them to heel and incorporate them into some sort of federal government and the United States may withdraw. | ||
| The only thing that's in dispute is the oil, but since the Assad regime is out, and since we're not getting the oil, the oil revenue is going to the Kurds, I imagine there'll be no qualm about releasing the oil to the government in Damascus. | ||
| So I think that might give us some evidence about where this is going. | ||
| Now, the reason Turkey doesn't want a state, obviously, is because if the Kurds establish their own government, then they will use that as a base of operations to support independence in Turkey, which would result in a significant loss of territory. | ||
| They would support it in Iraq and in Iran, and none of those governments support that. | ||
| So unless there is some sort of significant development, I doubt that that will come to fruition. | ||
| That is another one of the major questions. | ||
| Some other outstanding questions about Syria. | ||
| Now that there's a new government in Damascus, what is the fate of Russia's fleet? | ||
| Russia has a significant naval base in Tardis, and they have an air base in Latakia. | ||
| They have military outposts elsewhere. | ||
| Russia's withdrawn its ships, but will the new Syrian government renew their lease with Russia? | ||
| That is heavily dependent on who controls Syria, and it depends on how the government in Syria aligns. | ||
| If it aligns with the United States, probably they won't renew it. | ||
| If somehow they're aligned with these other powers, maybe they'll wind up renewing the lease. | ||
| But that's another question for them. | ||
| I think that covers just about everything. | ||
| Yeah, I think that covers all the bases. | ||
| That is what happens next in Syria. | ||
| So those are the things we're going to be looking out for. | ||
| We're going to be looking out for which faction will consolidate control over Syria. | ||
| Will it be HTS? Will they be the ones that rule in Syria? | ||
| And how stable will their regime be? | ||
| That's question number one. | ||
| Question number two, what are Israel's ambitions? | ||
| Israel's neutralizing their military hardware, but they also seem to be expanding outside the DMZ. Do they seek to control the border with Lebanon? | ||
| Do they seek to expand further towards Damascus? | ||
| Will they invade Lebanon through Syria? | ||
| Will they hold that territory in perpetuity or for limited strategic objectives? | ||
| Other question, what happens to northeastern Syria? | ||
| Will the Americans withdraw? | ||
| Will they support the Kurds? | ||
| Will they support a claim to independence? | ||
| Will Turkey continue fighting, not just in Manbij, but to secure a 30-kilometer safety zone inside of Syrian Kurdistan? | ||
| Will the government in Damascus accept the 3.5 million Syrian refugees inside of Turkey that Erdogan wants to get rid of? | ||
| Will the new Syrian government renew the lease of Russia's naval and air base in western Syria? | ||
| And then maybe the next question, the ultimate fate of Syria is how stable is this order? | ||
| So in the foreseeable future, HTS will be tasked with consolidating Syria. | ||
| And they will have to consolidate Druze militias and various other rebel factions in the south and They will have to consolidate the Kurds in the northeast. | ||
| They will have to consolidate the minorities in the west. | ||
| They will have to work with Turkey. | ||
| They will have to work with the United States. | ||
| They will have to work with Iran and Russia. | ||
| Maybe they do it. | ||
| Maybe they create some kind of moderate Muslim Sunni federal system. | ||
| But there's another outstanding factor, and that is the imperial remnant. | ||
| What happens to Assad's military forces? | ||
| Because the military was loyal to Assad. | ||
| The military is Ba'athist. | ||
| And so you could see a couple of different outcomes. | ||
| After the revolution in Yemen and in Libya, the revolution in Yemen in 2012, the revolution in Yemen and Libya in 2011, the governments were partitioned. | ||
| Today in Libya, you have competing claims in Tripoli and Tobruk. | ||
| In Yemen, you have competing claims in the west and in the east of the country. | ||
| So will Syria be partitioned? | ||
| Maybe the rebels will be unable to consolidate control and they'll be rival militias vying for power. | ||
| Maybe there'll be a Sunni coalition and a Druze coalition and a Shiite coalition supported by officers and Kurds in the Northeast. | ||
| And maybe it'll be a failed state and no one group will emerge and consolidate the old borders around Syria. | ||
| Another outcome could be like the fate of Egypt. | ||
| After Egypt's revolution, which deposed their military dictator, Hosni Mubarak, they had democratic elections and they voted in the Muslim Brotherhood. | ||
| Just like HTS, Muslim Brotherhood is a radical Sunni Islamist group. | ||
| Then in 2013, the military staged a coup. | ||
| They overthrew Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood, democratically elected president, and they had another military dictatorship under LCC. So will that happen in Syria? | ||
| Maybe HTS holds elections. | ||
| Maybe they establish a government. | ||
| But will it be successful if it consolidates? | ||
| What will be the fate of Syria's military? | ||
| Maybe they made a bid to overthrow Assad, but does that mean they're ready to accept Sunni Islamist control? | ||
| And are the Syrian people ready to accept that? | ||
| Maybe they will then support a military coup, a popular military coup against whatever this administration is. | ||
| Will it just become a Sunni Islamist state that oppresses everybody? | ||
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| These are the uncertainties after the ouster of Assad. | ||
| But I think anybody would agree this is an altogether worse outcome. | ||
| This is a terrible situation. | ||
| 500,000 people are dead. | ||
| Syria is destroyed. | ||
| It's gone on for 14 years. | ||
| The territory may never be reestablished. | ||
| They may never have the same borders that they used to. | ||
| They're being raped by outside powers like Israel, the United States, Turkey, Iran, Russia. | ||
| And in the end, they're controlled by Al-Qaeda. | ||
| In the end, they're being controlled by Al-Qaeda and ISIS. And the rich irony is that the Assad regime was Ba'athist, which is ideologically the same as Saddam Hussein. | ||
| And one of the charges for why we intervened in Iraq in the first place, why we're even in the Middle East, is because of 9-11. | ||
| So we back the Mujahideen. | ||
| We back Osama bin Laden against the Soviets. | ||
| They form Al-Qaeda. | ||
| They train. | ||
| Allegedly, they do 9-11. | ||
| We didn't care. | ||
| Allegedly. | ||
| They do 9-11. | ||
| They bring the fighting to our shores. | ||
| Now we've got to remake the Middle East in our image. | ||
| So we invade Afghanistan because that's where they trained, even though we used to support them. | ||
| We invade Iraq because Saddam allegedly helped Al-Qaeda. | ||
| They didn't. | ||
| Even though we used to support Saddam Hussein against Iran. | ||
| Then we support the overthrow of Syria, even though we used to work with Syria. | ||
| And then Syria falls under the control of ISIS. We're funding the rebels who become ISIS. We defeat ISIS. And then ultimately Al-Qaeda comes to power in Syria. | ||
| And so when all is said and done, we have achieved nothing. | ||
| 25 years have gone by. | ||
| 25 years in the Middle East. | ||
| And the Taliban rules Afghanistan. | ||
| Iraq is on the brink of coming apart. | ||
| It's basically controlled by Iran. | ||
| And Syria is controlled by Al-Qaeda. | ||
| That was our victory. | ||
| And by the way, now all the mainstream media is calling Al-Qaeda a moderate opposition. | ||
| Have you seen this? | ||
| Now all the headlines say that HTS vowed to protect children. | ||
| That's the headline. | ||
| When HTS collapsed the government of Assad... | ||
| Their leader, Al Julani, said, do not scare the children. | ||
| He said, we will protect Israel. | ||
| He said, we will protect minorities. | ||
| Now CNN and the mainstream media are giving HTS a facelift. | ||
| They are officially recognized as the state sponsor of terrorism by the United States, by Russia, by Turkey, by Iran, by Israel. | ||
| And now the mainstream media says, yeah, you know, maybe they're not so bad. | ||
| And they're the successors of Al-Qaeda and former collaborators of ISIS. And now they run Syria. | ||
| Thanks almost entirely to the United States. | ||
| Thanks to the United States undermining and overthrowing Assad. | ||
| Thanks to Israel weakening Iran and Syria. | ||
| Thanks to the United States drawing Russia away from the conflict. | ||
| So the big winners in all of this, the winners are Israel and The winners maybe are Turkey. | ||
| They may be a winner. | ||
| The big losers are Iran, Russia, Assad, Hezbollah. | ||
| And with the United States, it's sort of in the middle. | ||
| I mean, we opposed Assad, but is a government run by Al-Qaeda better? | ||
| Kind of puts us in the crosshairs. | ||
| So... | ||
| This group, they used to say Idlib province, this was said by the Department of Defense two years ago. | ||
| The DOD said that Idlib was the biggest hotspot of al-Qaeda terrorists anywhere in the world. | ||
| It is from Idlib that these rebels broke out and took control of Syria. | ||
| Now they run Syria. | ||
| Is that a victory? | ||
| the only way that this is a victory is because it is a huge defeat for russia that is the benefit for the united states it is a humiliation and a major defeat for russia and arguably this puts us in a position where we can draw down the war in ukraine without losing face arguably this is the case but of course everything is connected and so here's the here's the big picture the | ||
| Trump is coming in on January 20th. | ||
| And think about what he is inheriting in a month. | ||
| He is inheriting the use of long-range missiles inside of Russia by Ukraine, which was just authorized. | ||
| He's inheriting the collapsed Assad regime, which no doubt he'll be tied up in for years now. | ||
| Reconstituting Syria will be a real dilemma for a long time and it will suck him into it and all of his attention. | ||
| At the same time, China is conducting unprecedented naval and air exercises outside of Taiwan. | ||
| Taiwan is preparing for war. | ||
| This is all in advance of Trump getting into office. | ||
| And think about what happens here. | ||
| So Trump gets in. | ||
| Iran is totally weakened. | ||
| Israel has a ceasefire with Hezbollah and they're withdrawing from Lebanon. | ||
| They have severed Iran from Hezbollah. | ||
| And it looks like with Syria defeated, Hezbollah is going the way of Hamas. | ||
| North Gaza is going to be ethnically cleansed. | ||
| Israel will be focused on fighting a greatly diminished Iran and expecting Western backing. | ||
| Iran has been revealed to be a paper tiger and no doubt will lose support from Russia and China. | ||
| The United States is looking to make a deal in Ukraine, which will have to involve territorial concessions to Russia, demilitarizing Ukraine, forbidding NATO membership. | ||
| But both of these things must be accomplished in order for Trump to truly confront China. | ||
| The threat of China invading Taiwan and the threat posed by China in the long term in the Pacific. | ||
| This has been the unrealized goal of the American government for a decade. | ||
| The so-called pivot to Asia initiated by Obama. | ||
| But we have been bogged down in Eastern Europe, fighting Russia over Ukraine and bogged down in the Middle East in the proxy war between Israel and Iran. | ||
| And so it will be the task of the incoming Trump administration to extricate the United States from the Middle East and from the war in Ukraine so that we can adequately address the China problem, which is arguably a legitimate problem. | ||
| And, you know, Obama, Trump and Biden all made efforts toward that with the TTP, the TTIP, with the AUKUS agreement, the sub agreement, bolstering the quad, you know, winning some of these other governments like the Philippines back into our orbit. | ||
| that But Trump cannot fully commit to that. | ||
| Our island chain in the defense of the Pacific if we're bogged down in a proxy war with Iran. | ||
| But China knows that. | ||
| China and Russia know that. | ||
| So China and Russia will attempt to make it hurt for us in Iran. | ||
| We're going to have to ratchet up the pressure in Ukraine by escalating. | ||
| That seems to be the only language that And we're going to have to restrain Israel to prevent regime change in Iran, which would just blow up the whole region and demand a serious confrontation from the US military. | ||
| So if I were to make predictions, I would say that Trump is going to come in with fire and fury like he did the last time. | ||
| He's going to come in with fire and fury like he did the last time to reestablish deterrence. | ||
| Contrary to what everybody is saying, people say Trump is going to come in and make peace. | ||
| I think that's what he intends to do, but first he will make war. | ||
| He will look for a target that he can hit that will not complicate matters, but it will demonstrate to the world that he's serious. | ||
| And I can think of a couple. | ||
| The cartels or the Houthis. | ||
| He's going to do something provocative in the first few months. | ||
| He's going to consult with his advisors. | ||
| He's going to come in because the first step in the negotiation with Russia, China, Iran, Israel, Ukraine, all of them, is to demonstrate that he is in control, that America is willing to fight it to the end. | ||
| And to do that, he's going to need a victory right out of the gate. | ||
| And I think he's not going to withdraw the Americans from Syria right away because that will look like capitulation. | ||
| He's not going to give Russia everything they want right away because that will look like capitulation. | ||
| And you can't capitulate on two things before you try to exert maximum pressure on Iran and China or deter China. | ||
| You have to exercise force and then make a deal with concessions. | ||
| How do you do that? | ||
| I think he's going to do something provocative against the axis of resistance, and maybe that includes, I think, the Houthis because we're already at war with them and we've been failing. | ||
| Maybe Hezbollah, maybe does something unrelated like goes after the cartels, but this will consume a lot of his attention. | ||
| And then I think he'll have to make some serious, incredible threats against Russia. | ||
| He'll at the minimum have to threaten something extraordinary, if not do something extraordinary, to make Russia bend the knee. | ||
| And I don't think Russia's going to go for that. | ||
| So that's going to be complicated. | ||
| And then in the Middle East, he's going to have a cabinet working against him. | ||
| He'll try to get Israel to expedite the end of their war. | ||
| But I think they are looking to provoke Iran into a wider conflict, especially while Syria is reeling. | ||
| Maybe they'll wait for some stability there. | ||
| And who knows? | ||
| It's a wild card what they're doing right now in Syria and what their goals are for Lebanon. | ||
| But it seems that they will try to get the situation in Lebanon and Gaza and the West Bank further under control and then look to a confrontation with Iran. | ||
| I don't think Trump will be successful in restraining them. | ||
| If anything, he's going to reinstate sanctions. | ||
| He's going to open up. | ||
| He's going to Undo the LNG ban. | ||
| Destroy energy for Russia and Iran. | ||
| That may bring them to their knees. | ||
| That may be sufficient. | ||
| He's going to attack them hard. | ||
| And that'll bolster... | ||
| That'll all help him in his bid to reorient our foreign policy towards China. | ||
| I think that's going to be the... | ||
| If I'm sketching out a rough outline, to me it looks something like that, but... | ||
| We have to watch the signals very closely, have to watch what they're doing. | ||
| It's interesting. | ||
| Trump visited France this week. | ||
| This is not, hey, idiot, every dumbass is looking at Trump visiting France for the reopening of the Notre Dame and they're saying, oh, it's good to see Trump as a world leader again. | ||
| Okay, why did Trump visit France first? | ||
| This is not a coincidence. | ||
| Trump had a very chummy relationship with Macron his first term. | ||
| Macron is one of the biggest Russia hawks in Europe. | ||
| Macron is also one of the biggest supporters of Iran and Lebanon, one of the biggest critics of Israel in Europe. | ||
| It's a big signal. | ||
| It's all signaling. | ||
| In Trump's first foreign visit since becoming president, he travels to Paris, France, and gets all chummy with Macron and Zelensky. | ||
| Macron is a huge Russia hawk. | ||
| Because Russia is overthrowing his proxies in West Africa. | ||
| We've talked about this. | ||
| Trump has had only glowing praise for Zelensky, meets with Zelensky and Macron. | ||
| Macron's a Russia hog. | ||
| Zelensky is Ukraine. | ||
| So what does that mean? | ||
| That's a signal to Russia. | ||
| Putin reads that. | ||
| While Tucker's interviewing Sergei Lavrov, Trump is meeting with Putin's mortal enemies, Macron and Zelensky. | ||
| Plotting out what exactly? | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| But the timing is really interesting. | ||
| So what did they discuss? | ||
| I'm sure they discussed Ukraine and how they don't want to give it up. | ||
| But anyway, so that's that. | ||
| So that's everything. | ||
| That's the whole big picture. | ||
| That's the big story. | ||
| The next phase of the conflict is this. | ||
| The rebels consolidating power, the Turks and their Syrian National Army, which is their proxy. | ||
| That's their Wagner group. | ||
| That's their foreign legion. | ||
| The SNA and the Kurds fighting the SDF. I'm sorry, the Turks. | ||
| Did I say that right? | ||
| The Turks and the SNA fighting the Kurds, the SDF, the YPG. We're going to see what America does. | ||
| Will Trump withdraw them? | ||
| Will Biden try to negotiate something? | ||
| Will Trump try to negotiate something? | ||
| And then we have to see what Israel's operation is on their border with Lebanon, on Syria's border with Lebanon. | ||
| And what will be the character of the Syrian regime? | ||
| How will that evolve over time? | ||
| And will it bog down Trump as he enters into a second term? | ||
| But that is the conflict in a nutshell. | ||
| It's an historic moment. | ||
| It's a huge deal. | ||
| Everybody's talking about it. | ||
| And that's my take. | ||
| So that's going to do it for me on that tonight. | ||
| We're going to move on and take a look at our super chats. | ||
| Like I said, tomorrow we'll cover the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO and the suspect who has been named the killer. | ||
| But for now, we're going to take a look at our super chats. | ||
| We'll see what you guys have to say about all this. | ||
| Let's take a look. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| What's your take? | ||
| Syria super show. | ||
| Okay. | ||
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| Oliver Santana sent $5. | ||
| Free my nigga Nick Fuentes until it's backwards also. | ||
| How can you eat Taco Bell? | ||
| Nasty shit. | ||
| This is low IQ conversation, but thank you. | ||
| Rosa Parks Groyper sent $5. | ||
| Hi Nick. | ||
| Hope you had a fantastic day. | ||
| I was wondering if you would do the Lily Gaddis show. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| She hate me still? | ||
| She still think I'm a gay Groyper or whatever? | ||
| It's kind of interesting. | ||
| She flipped a little bit on me, I think. | ||
| Astute Groyper sent $100. | ||
| Thank you for the big super chat. | ||
| I don't know what that says, but I appreciate it. | ||
| I'll take this as a Jewish Christian. | ||
| I'll take that. | ||
| I'll assume you're a Jewish Christian, but thank you for the big super chat. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| I see people online saying it's retarded. | ||
| You still live in Chicago. | ||
| I think it's based. | ||
| It's actually fucking gay to just scatter away from your parents and family heritage where your grandparents were born. | ||
| I think it destroys society at the base level to have no roots. | ||
| I totally agree. | ||
| I absolutely agree. | ||
| People go, oh, you still live in that shithole? | ||
| It's like this was a great city. | ||
| Chicago was a great American city. | ||
| If you've never been here, you would never understand. | ||
| And my family's been here for five generations. | ||
| So some people, you know, they're immigrants. | ||
| Or some people, they're transplants. | ||
| My family's been here since the beginning. | ||
| You know, my great-grandparents lived on Taylor Street. | ||
| And they built the city. | ||
| So, they were there from the beginning. | ||
| They made sculptures in the churches. | ||
| They worked in the city. | ||
| They were part of Little Italy at the beginning. | ||
| This is a relatively new city, you know? | ||
| So... | ||
| It's not so simple. | ||
| I mean, I'm... | ||
| My mom's an Italian-American. | ||
| We were the original Italian-Americans here in Chicago that built Chicago. | ||
| We're like our own ethnicity. | ||
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| And Mexican and Irish. | ||
| We also built this city. | ||
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| Yeah, it's not so simple for me to just leave like... | ||
| Where am I going to go and live? | ||
| West Virginia? | ||
| I have no roots in West Virginia. | ||
| You can't get... | ||
| Food in West Virginia. | ||
| What are we going to get? | ||
| You can't get anything we get here in West Virginia. | ||
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| Yeah, I'm a big believer in that. | ||
| Oh, actually, I guess you can pretty easily, too. | ||
| At least we can enjoy seeing Jackson Hinkle and Scott Ritter seethe. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| All these like third world-esque lasers. | ||
| I was never big into the Assad thing. | ||
| I mean... | ||
| We joke about it a little bit, but some people are like serious Assad glazers. | ||
| Hint, hint. | ||
| Keith Woods. | ||
| Keith Woods has been crying for 48 hours about the downfall of Assad. | ||
| I'm like, hey, buddy, get it together. | ||
| It's called taking your own side. | ||
| So I'm a first-worldist, not a third-worldist. | ||
| I don't really give a shit that much about some Arab dictator. | ||
| It's sad what happened there, but it doesn't keep me up at night. | ||
| Well, I kind of got cheated because I listen to Vultures a lot. | ||
| So it's Kanye, Ty Dolla $ign, and YS, which are really all the same thing. | ||
| And then four and five was like, what, Suicide Boys and Vacations? | ||
| Let me take a look. | ||
| Yeah, so on Artists, I kind of got cheated a little bit, but let me see. | ||
| Yep, yeah, that was it. | ||
| So I should have had two more spaces. | ||
| You know, because YS, Ty Dolla $ign, and Kanye are all the same group. | ||
| That's all Vultures. | ||
| And then Suicide Boys, I listen to some of that. | ||
| And Vacations, they had a new album. | ||
| I listen to that a lot. | ||
| So mine was a little bit fake. | ||
| Mine was a little bit fake, but... | ||
| Yeah, Kanye, number one artist for like the eighth year in a row. | ||
| But, yeah, those are my top five. | ||
| I saw that yesterday. | ||
| Yeah, dude. | ||
| It's ridiculous. | ||
| Canada's like third world now. | ||
| Happy Feast Day. | ||
| Feast Day. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| George Droid sent $5. | ||
| The Menthol Fenth Blend Pro Plus comes with an integrated nano-cooling system for Arctic-grade hits. | ||
| Blockchain-enabled puff tracking for the ultimate decentralized CloudFlex. | ||
| Wineware Palestine sent $500. | ||
| Been away for a while. | ||
| Just wanted to drop back in and show some support. | ||
| God bless Brother PS Fire Mugshot. | ||
| Thank you for the huge super chat. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| Thank you very much, man. | ||
| Thank you, YNWA Palestine, one of our biggest supporters. | ||
| Hope you're doing okay, buddy. | ||
| Kind of an L for the Assad regime to crumble for you guys, but I appreciate it, buddy. | ||
| Thank you, and I'm glad you like the mugshot. | ||
| It was pretty good, right? | ||
| People said I look Mexican. | ||
| I was trying to. | ||
| It's like a bad ombre. | ||
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| Like an outlaw. | ||
| Im just based sent $5. | ||
| Crazy, we got Batman, Daniel Penny, and the Riddler, Luigi Maggioni, in the same week. | ||
| Thank you for red pilling me and my friends. | ||
| That's funny. | ||
| He really is. | ||
| They're both in New York, too. | ||
| You have some, like, clean-cut former Marine subway hero versus, like, a political terrorist who labels his bullets, kills the CEO, and is, like, dropping videos and sub stacks with riddles in them. | ||
| That's pretty funny and it's all happening in New York. | ||
| I kneel. | ||
| I kneel. | ||
| I kneel for New York. | ||
| Do you know the Hussong won't get fooled again? | ||
| Was listening to it and it reminds me of how the McGaugh movement sold out on us. | ||
| Yeah, it's quite similar. | ||
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| Foily sent $10. | ||
| I had wagey rage and thought the CEO getting whacked was funny. | ||
| But I know deep in my heart this never happens to the real evil people. | ||
| They live long, comfortable lives and rarely suffer consequences. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| UHC was under investigation and CEO was probably going to blow the whistle and all the plebs celebrate. | ||
| True. | ||
| Very true. | ||
| It's just cringe and killing businessmen just like as a concept is very cringe. | ||
| Computer Zoomer sent $10. | ||
| They trained the new Grot 2 AI model on your face and it's super realistic. | ||
| Thoughts? | ||
| No, it's not realistic at all. | ||
| It doesn't look like me at all. | ||
| Here's the last $5 I'll ever have. | ||
| It's over. | ||
| I'm bankrupt. | ||
| Pray for Vita. | ||
| Wow, thank you. | ||
| Rosa Parks Groy percent $5. | ||
| Hi, Nick. | ||
| I hope you had awesome data. | ||
| Duplicate. | ||
| Sheboygan Groy percent $5. | ||
| Sending this chat before the show start. | ||
| So if you address this during, sorry, but with the Assad regime falling, just how drastically will this negatively affect Russia over the next decade? | ||
| Well, it doesn't affect them directly so much. | ||
| Here... | ||
| Like I said, the indirect, other than the loss of the base potentially, but the indirect consequence is that this hurts BRICS as an alternative system. | ||
| Right now, there is no other superpower that can provide for the security needs of other countries. | ||
| Just isn't one. | ||
| China can provide financing. | ||
| They cannot provide security. | ||
| The United States provides security. | ||
| Russia's an arms dealer. | ||
| Russia has a mercenary army, but they cannot provide security services the way the United States can. | ||
| For Syria to fall is a serious blow. | ||
| I mean, Syria is like their only client state in that regard. | ||
| So, you know, you have Russia and China. | ||
| They have this dual benefit. | ||
| China is the money power. | ||
| Russia is the military power. | ||
| But what Ukraine and Syria are demonstrating is that there is no force like the United States. | ||
| The U.S. and NATO are the undisputed military power by far. | ||
| And if there's a next most powerful, maybe it's China. | ||
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| Russian credibility has taken a huge hit. | ||
| And if they are supposed to be the military power that underlies the BRICS alternative system, took a serious devastating blow with the fall of the Assad regime. | ||
| So that might be a problem for them. | ||
| Base Texas Gamer sent $20. | ||
| It's as frustrating to see the online Catholic sphere constantly attacking you. | ||
| I am a cradle Catholic that fell away from the church, but you brought me back to the faith. | ||
| I'm sure you have brought hundreds or more to Catholicism, and I know for a fact that some are even becoming priests because of you and this movement. | ||
| It's totally true. | ||
| They, yeah, well, you know, a lot of them are very uptight. | ||
| A lot of the online Catholics are very haughty, and that totally goes against the religion. | ||
| They're very smug, and everything's got to be trad, and they're very judgmental and uncharitable, and that's just bullshit, so... | ||
| That doesn't surprise me. | ||
| Yeah, that's basically accurate. | ||
| That's great. | ||
| What? | ||
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You've shown how to carry yourself with composure when you're facing this machine, this American judicial system that cannibalizes our people. | |
| But I'm going to tell you this, and I'm going to say it loud and clear. | ||
| Let the marchers march and let the steppers step. | ||
| Let the marchers march and let the steppers step. | ||
| You want to do something about this verdict? | ||
| Then you go into your neighborhood and you promote black unity. | ||
| Black people, we are all we have. | ||
| This system protects every other group except for the very people that built this country. | ||
| Dude, if you just translate that, he sounds like a white nationalist. | ||
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| There is no love for black people. | ||
| There is no love in the system. | ||
| How can you make a moral appeal to a people that have no moral code? | ||
| How can you preach Alright, whatever. | ||
| We didn't hear all the rest of that. | ||
| Thank you, though. | ||
| It is very sad. | ||
| Why didn't Netanyahu say that October 7th was like 10-9-11-S? Because, so that in about 50 years, he can say that over 100,000 people died that day. | ||
| JP3 sent $50. | ||
| Have you seen this trend of boomers videoing planes at night and spreading rumors that they are Chinese drones disguised as planes mapping out military bases? | ||
| It say a huge thing in NJ right now. | ||
| I think you were right. | ||
| These past four years made conspiratorial types too mainstream. | ||
| We must embrace Keithism and take our schizomeds. | ||
| Okay, you are a plant. | ||
| You were sent here by Keith Woods. | ||
| Keith Woods is not the only one promoting anti-conspiracy. | ||
| That is, this is a Keith conspiracy. | ||
| I haven't seen that. | ||
| It doesn't surprise me. | ||
| I mean... | ||
| It has gone too far. | ||
| It's like a psyoped, brain-damaged country. | ||
| They'll now believe any hoax. | ||
| They'll believe any influence operation. | ||
| And they're now under the control of whoever has the biggest megaphone on Twitter or Facebook. | ||
| So it definitely has gone too far. | ||
| And I'm with you. | ||
| I'm with Keith. | ||
| I'm with Hanania. | ||
| Scott, I'm against kookism, kookery on this one. | ||
| You know, like crazy people. | ||
| That's not a dog whistle. | ||
| Not really. | ||
| Me too. | ||
| Thanks for the big super chat! | ||
| I appreciate it! | ||
| A norm-groid, I assume you mean, right? | ||
| Like a normie? | ||
| I agree. | ||
| Good for you. | ||
| Good for you, you're a hero. | ||
| Thank you for that. | ||
| We don't need anyone else to be working for the enemy anymore. | ||
| If you work at Chili's, time to quit. | ||
| Beatles. | ||
| Beatles all the way. | ||
| Thank you for the huge super chat. | ||
| I appreciated Harry Reid, who was like a mobster. | ||
| Harry Reid, the senator from Vegas, the state that's built on gambling, and you think he's a credible source of information? | ||
| The guy's like organized crime. | ||
| Thank you for the huge super chat. | ||
| I appreciate it, but that's all bullshit. | ||
| I don't believe in aliens. | ||
| All that stuff is coming from the DOD. It's all coming from the government. | ||
| I don't believe a word of it. | ||
| I think it's fake. | ||
| Do you think we have alien spaceships? | ||
| Dude, that would just never... | ||
| There's no way that that's real. | ||
| Like, someone would say something. | ||
| Where's the video? | ||
| Where's the video? | ||
| Where's the reports? | ||
| I don't believe in that. | ||
| I think that's totally fake. | ||
| But thank you anyway. | ||
| In what way? | ||
| What is goated? | ||
| MetroZoomer sent $5. | ||
| These raw milk and meat people are retarded. | ||
| Someone at my parents' work had eaten a store, bought steak a little too rare, and he developed Kreutzfeldt-Jakob disease, mad cow disease, and is now set to die in the next few months. | ||
| Yeah, I believe it. | ||
| Yeah, it's backwards. | ||
| It's backwards. | ||
| Let's cook our food. | ||
| Let's pasteurize our milk. | ||
| Let's wash our fucking hands. | ||
| And let's use eggs and flour to create, you know, actual food. | ||
| These people have gone insane. | ||
| They're just going backwards in time. | ||
| People are getting listeria because they think it's based. | ||
| Like, that's not based at all. | ||
| So that's bullshit. | ||
| Jews are laughing at you. | ||
| Jews are eating filet mignon and they're watching you drink raw eggs over raw meat, drinking raw milk and getting sick and dying and they think it's funny. | ||
| So I'm good. | ||
| I stole something out of your storage unit. | ||
| Oh, it's a little guy. | ||
| Very good. | ||
| Thank you, Zafed. | ||
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| Jack McGuire sent $5. | ||
| Why are your supporters so retarded? | ||
| It's not them. | ||
| It's everybody. | ||
| Everybody's retarded. | ||
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| I spoke to Jonathan GF40 Boys, Fish Tank, Vampire Blood Games, and Ice Poseidon Hunger Games fame in an X space today, and he expressed interest in being your running mate in 2028. Oh, yeah? | ||
| With the tragic passing of John Pork, would you consider giving him a shot? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Well, I can't run in 28. I won't be old enough. | ||
| I'll have to consult with Haley Welch. | ||
| Abdul Bosnian sent $5. | ||
| By the way, who's this guy, Charles Johnson? | ||
| I had to argue with this idiot on Soleim in Space last week, almost 15, about how someone like you can't depend on the system or government to protect you. | ||
| He claims he knows you. | ||
| Oh yeah, he's a friend of mine. | ||
| He's a good guy. | ||
| John of Arcroy, percent $7. | ||
| Nick, it seems like now if you want to be a famous Zoomer these days, you shouldn't shoot up at school anymore. | ||
| You could instead just kill a CEO and claim you have a political... | ||
| Okay, disavow, disavow. | ||
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| WStream, WJawline, WNick. | ||
| Oh, this? | ||
| Oh, this old thing? | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| Oh, that old thing? | ||
| Get out of here. | ||
| Stop. | ||
| Stop it. | ||
| I did, yeah. | ||
| You know the original title? | ||
| jaded eyes wide shut as the original title. | ||
| Judge Knapp's my favorite. | ||
| The The rest of them I, you know... | ||
| McGregor I like okay. | ||
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| Sure. | ||
| I didn't see that. | ||
| I didn't watch that. | ||
| I'm too old. | ||
| I'm too old and washed. | ||
| I had asked some guy who's three years younger than me the other day, what's FaZe Clan? | ||
| And I felt like the oldest man in the world. | ||
| I felt like ancient... | ||
| Oldest man in the world dies at age 307. Hey, Sonny, what's this FaZe Clan? | ||
| He was telling me about Ronaldo, something Ronaldo. | ||
| I was like, who the fuck is that? | ||
| I'm like, I'm so old and so washed. | ||
| He's telling me about Clix. | ||
| He goes, so he was actually a mod in Clix's stream, and then he became his own streamer. | ||
| What's the guy's name? | ||
| Something with an L. It's like, what the fuck is that guy's name? | ||
| So I don't even know who these people are. | ||
| I mean, I've seen him, but I don't know. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Stable Rinaldo? | ||
| Stable Rinaldo, and who's the other one? | ||
| Lacey. | ||
| Lacey, yeah. | ||
| He's telling me about Lacey. | ||
| Because I'm like, who even are the big streamers? | ||
| I'm like, Aiden Ross isn't on kick anymore. | ||
| Kick is going south. | ||
| I'm like, who's even a big streamer? | ||
| I'm like, I know Neon. | ||
| I know Jack Doherty. | ||
| I know Aiden Ross. | ||
| I know that lineup. | ||
| I know Sneeko. | ||
| I know Nelk. | ||
| I'm like, who the fuck is even big anymore? | ||
| He's like, oh, Stable Ronaldo is probably the biggest. | ||
| I'm like, I don't even know who that is. | ||
| But then he told me, Bradley Martin hit stable Ronaldo. | ||
| I'm like, oh, I saw that. | ||
| Okay, so I know who that is. | ||
| I've seen Lacey. | ||
| So, yeah, I'm out of it. | ||
| I'm out of the loop now. | ||
| I'm an old head. | ||
| I don't even know any young people. | ||
| Everybody I know is old now. | ||
| Everybody I know is... | ||
| I need a new cast of characters, you know? | ||
| I need some new squeakers. | ||
| Okay, pause. | ||
| But you know what I mean? | ||
| We need somebody to keep me in the loop here. | ||
| I guess that's Chad Champion. | ||
| Because I'm out of touch with the young people now. | ||
| I'm an old fart talking about fucking Syria for three hours. | ||
| I don't even know what's up anymore, you know? | ||
| Jack sent $20. | ||
| Sucks. | ||
| Getting old sucks. | ||
| He sings about being considered a criminal just because he utters words in a song and that people think he will do the things he says in his songs like killing hoes, while in reality he's just joking and that people became so obsessed with him they even want to see his dick. | ||
| The song is about you, nigga. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Yeah, that sounds similar. | ||
| Similar. | ||
| Yeah, very similar. | ||
| Where is she, guys? | ||
| Where is she? | ||
| I'll rescue her. | ||
| It's going to be like Taken. | ||
| I'm going to go and track her down across the world. | ||
| I'll wind up on some, like, sultan's whore barge in a river in Europe, killing a bunch of people. | ||
| And then she's there. | ||
| She's about to be taken by the sultan. | ||
| My queen, she'll cling to me. | ||
| I told you I'd come and get you. | ||
| Oh, Lauren, where are you? | ||
| I'm on the phone with some, like, Russian oligarch. | ||
| I will find you. | ||
| I will kill you. | ||
| Where in the world is Lauren Chen? | ||
| I will stop at nothing! | ||
| I will do anything to free her from sexual slavery. | ||
| You know, she got compromised, and then they sold her into sexual slavery. | ||
| She compromised Russia. | ||
| She blew the whole operation. | ||
| Now she's in some Russian labor camp in Siberia. | ||
| I'm going to have to come and free her. | ||
| Some overseer, some Asiatic prison overseers taking advantage of her sexually out there in some prison outpost. | ||
| I'll have to come liberate her. | ||
| I'll free you. | ||
| Don't do anything. | ||
| I'll free you. | ||
| I'll chase her down. | ||
| I'll be on the Trans-Siberian Railroad fighting off henchmen on the top of the train cars. | ||
| That's how I imagine it. | ||
| I'll be on the top of the Trans-Siberian Railroad in snow, climbing on top of the train cars, fighting off henchmen, throwing them into the furnace on the train, disconnecting the rail cars, I'll be on the locomotive, sailing in to victory. | ||
| I'll be hanging on to a pole, hanging off of it. | ||
| I'm coming for you! | ||
| Then I'm situated outside the headquarters with a scope. | ||
| I have a team. | ||
| I have an overwatch, like a guy on a laptop. | ||
| Who's going to be my tech guy on the laptop? | ||
| Some girl, some super hot girl. | ||
| Well, no. | ||
| Lauren Chen's the hot girl. | ||
| Maybe it's just me. | ||
| Maybe it's just me. | ||
| This is like, I don't know. | ||
| It's like, is the mission impossible? | ||
| Is it taken? | ||
| What are we doing here? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| You know, but I'm like killing guards. | ||
| I'm stabbing guards, cutting their necks open. | ||
| Anything. | ||
| Anything for her. | ||
| I'm shooting like red barrels. | ||
| They're blowing up. | ||
| Outposts are exploding. | ||
| I hit a button. | ||
| Siren goes off. | ||
| It's a total prison break. | ||
| It's chaos. | ||
| Prisoners are being armed. | ||
| It's an international incident. | ||
| What's my escape plan? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| A helicopter? | ||
| Speedboat? | ||
| Snowmobile? | ||
| That's the one. | ||
| She's in a parka? | ||
| Oh my gosh. | ||
| Could you imagine she's in a big fluffy parka? | ||
| She's wearing like a nushanka or something. | ||
| She's on my back on the snowmobile driving away. | ||
| Take refuge in Russia or in China. | ||
| I get Mongolia. | ||
| Maybe we take refuge in Mongolia. | ||
| There's like a funny scene where I'm riding like a donkey. | ||
| We're riding like on a donkey in Kazakhstan. | ||
| That's how we get away. | ||
| It's a big laugh. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Then she gets killed in the end. | ||
| But then she gets killed, you know, the comic relief ends, you know, just when you think it's over, just when you think we ride off into the sunset, bullet right through her face, right between the eyes, she gets assassinated by my arch nemesis, Keith Woods, my mortal enemy. | ||
| Just when I think we're about to live happily ever after. | ||
| Just when I think it's over. | ||
| I'm finally done with this life. | ||
| Right through the eyes. | ||
| Dead instantly. | ||
| And I try to chase in vain, but he's already gone. | ||
| He's already gone. | ||
| That sets up the next movie, you know? | ||
| And that sets up the next movie. | ||
| I'll never leave. | ||
| I'll never leave the agency. | ||
| Oh, you never leave this life. | ||
| Once you enter into this life, it's too complicated. | ||
| You can never leave. | ||
| We all know how this is going to end. | ||
| So, she takes one right between the eyes. | ||
| After we make love, of course. | ||
| Pregnant with my son. | ||
| Pregnant with my son. | ||
| The bastard. | ||
| So... | ||
| We're going to get him. | ||
| Then it ends in Dublin. | ||
| It ends in Keith's childhood home. | ||
| Now it's Skyfall. | ||
| It ends in Keith, but I'm the good guy. | ||
| It ends in Skyfall, Keith's childhood home. | ||
| I'm not going to dox his childhood home. | ||
| I'm not going to dox where he's from. | ||
| But that's where it all ends. | ||
| You know, on some sheep farm, very low tech. | ||
| No gimmicks, no CGI, no big explosions. | ||
| It's like a return to form, just like Skyfall. | ||
| And it's just a brawl. | ||
| It's just an all-out brawl. | ||
| No music, no soundtrack. | ||
| It's just brutality. | ||
| Just bare-knuckle brawl to the end. | ||
| Punching, rocks, hitting each other over the head with rocks. | ||
| You know, tumbling down a hill. | ||
| And then I just kill him in a really brutal way, like a big boulder. | ||
| Cave his head in. | ||
| Something like that, I don't know. | ||
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So... | |
| We're setting ourselves up. | ||
| This is good stuff. | ||
| We're setting ourselves up here. | ||
| That's going to be the trilogy. | ||
| I don't know what the first movie is. | ||
| First movie is how she gets kidnapped. | ||
| That's the end of the first movie. | ||
| You know, she's like a Russian spy. | ||
| I'm fighting her a little bit. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Can I trust her? | ||
| Is she a spy? | ||
| Who's she working for? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Super sexy. | ||
| It's super sexy. | ||
| It's super like, you know, she's pulling me by my necktie. | ||
| Oh, bro, my goodness. | ||
| She's pulling me by the necktie. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| She's got boots on. | ||
| She's got high heel boots on. | ||
| She's fucking kicking me. | ||
| I punch her at some point. | ||
| You gotta have one punch. | ||
| I gotta punch her one time. | ||
| I'm like about to apprehend her, you know? | ||
| She does something where I'm like, oh, I never hit a woman. | ||
| She like kicks me in the face, gets away. | ||
| Then I capture again. | ||
| Fucking blast her. | ||
| Yeah, nice try. | ||
| I'm not gonna give... | ||
| Then I arrest her, hand her over to Interpol. | ||
| Hand her over to the NSA. Hand her over to Chuck Johnson. | ||
| He goes, thanks. | ||
| We'll take... | ||
| Chuck Johnson's a recurring character. | ||
| He goes, thanks. | ||
| We'll take it from here. | ||
| he's got his glasses on. | ||
| He's got his beard. | ||
| He goes, thanks. | ||
| We'll take it from here. | ||
| You know, he comes in and like a windbreaker, he comes into a windbreaker that says like NSA or I don't know, geospatial intelligence, something you never heard of counterterrorism unit. | ||
| We'll take it from here. | ||
| We got her. | ||
| You know, he's on an aircraft carrier with his hands in his pockets. | ||
| Well, Fuentes, you've done it again. | ||
| We'll take it from here. | ||
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We've been tracking you all along. | |
| He brings the reinforcements. | ||
| He brings the helicopters. | ||
| But then it turns out she double-crosses. | ||
| There's a sleeper cell on the prison barge. | ||
| She gets put on some prison barge, some prison ship or something. | ||
| There's a jailbreak. | ||
| That's what sets up the next one. | ||
| But then I found out she'd fallen to the wrong hands. | ||
| She double-crossed me, but I fell in love with her. | ||
| you'd you they don't get to kill you only i get to kill you all right so anyway um so anyway so yeah so that's that one um I don't know. | ||
| What are we going to do with her? | ||
| What are we going to do with Lauren Chen? | ||
| The Russia thing's overplayed. | ||
| Maybe she's a Chinese spy because she's Chinese, you know? | ||
| Anyway. | ||
| So that's that. | ||
| Is that what he did? | ||
| Is that what he's doing? | ||
| I wouldn't be surprised. | ||
| Farron sent $20 with Syria's collapse. | ||
| The corridor to transport weapons from Iran to Hezbollah is compromised. | ||
| Access of resistance is very vulnerable now. | ||
| Do you think Iran will seriously consider testing a nuke as a show of deterrence before Trump is inaugurated if they feel they are cornered? | ||
| I haven't thought about that. | ||
| I think if they tested a nuke, it would basically invite an invasion. | ||
| I think that it would make it more complicated, though. | ||
| I think they've got a few steps to go before they do that. | ||
| But yeah, that's a possibility. | ||
| I'm really proud of myself for the Charles Johnson cameo. | ||
| I'm really proud of myself for that one. | ||
| That's really good. | ||
| Charles Johnson comes in. | ||
| We'll take it from here. | ||
| That's so good. | ||
| That's the best part. | ||
|
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Anyway. | |
| Anyway. | ||
| I just wanted to congratulate myself. | ||
| It's up to you, buddy. | ||
| remorse for the christians who are going to be killed is frustrating to see when we literally supported their people in gaza dot do these people even have any love for us only care for themselves they do not awoken american sent five dollars there seems to be so much action during this lame duck period what do you make of it it's all in anticipation of a sea change in u.s policy nick fuentes sent 100 this is literally the smartest and funniest show on the internet well maybe not the smartest thank you nick rachel super informative and actually very aesthetic Wow, that's great. | ||
| Thank you for the big super chat. | ||
| Yeah, it's the best show ever, dude. | ||
| It's funny. | ||
| It's smart. | ||
| I'm awesome. | ||
| It's independent. | ||
| No Jews are controlling us. | ||
| No mud slimes. | ||
| We say nigger all the time. | ||
| Like, who else can say all that? | ||
| Who else can say we don't take Jewish money? | ||
| We say the N-word. | ||
| What was the other thing I said? | ||
| We're not like mudslime third-worldists. | ||
| It's funny and not boring. | ||
| It's high production quality and not stupid. | ||
| It's the best show ever. | ||
| Roy Per Spool sent $5. | ||
| Say, work with turkey again, please. | ||
| What did I say? | ||
| Work with turkey? | ||
| What did I say? | ||
| Shut up, ass. | ||
| You've done so much for my faith, brother. | ||
| Keep up the great work. | ||
| Thank you, man. | ||
|
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that. | |
| I appreciate it. | ||
| Oh, your friend works for the king of Saudi Arabia? | ||
| The crown prince? | ||
| Russia? | ||
| No, I don't believe Russia and the U.S. cut it. | ||
| That's just ridiculous. | ||
| I don't believe that for one second. | ||
| And that's what we get Syria and they get Ukraine. | ||
| I don't believe that for one second. | ||
| Zuma Rick sent $5. | ||
| Tell me what is Gageets again? | ||
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Gageets? | |
| It's like, you know, dirt, you know, shit. - Ryan Amess sent $5. | ||
| Did you see the clip of Ben Shapiro hand waving Christian deaths in Syria because the Assad collapse was good for Israel? | ||
| So evil. - I did see that, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, big surprise. | ||
| Thank you for the big super chat. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, it wasn't like 100% complete, but I think we hit all the important stuff. | ||
| So thank you very much. | ||
| I appreciate the support for the show. | ||
| I have seen it. | ||
| I saw their first episode. | ||
| But I haven't been keeping up with it super closely. | ||
| I haven't been watching a lot of streams in general, but I will check it out. | ||
| They're all good. | ||
| I like Vince. | ||
| Cameron McGregor's good. | ||
| You know... | ||
| Dave Reilly. | ||
| I like Dave. | ||
| Like, I'm aligned with Dave, but, you know, he's got some beef with some people that I'm close with, so... | ||
| You know, there's a little, like, politics there. | ||
| But he's aligned. | ||
| I mean, his message I agree with. | ||
| And the girl. | ||
| The girl is... | ||
| I don't watch girls, so... | ||
| Pause. | ||
| I don't watch girls talking about politics, so I don't really know that much about her. | ||
| Do you watch Brian Berlittic of the new Atlas? | ||
| He's one of the few geopolitical analysts that give you a run for your money, but he is considerably lessora. | ||
| Anyways, after this HTS takeover, there's a decent chance we get a CW false flag on Israel. | ||
|
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New Atlas. | |
| No, I haven't seen this. | ||
| But I'll check it out. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Does he speak English? | ||
| I hate all these geopolitical analysts. | ||
| None of them speak fucking English. | ||
| They'll have a thick accent, you know? | ||
| Like, real-life lore. | ||
| He speaks English, but he always says during. | ||
| You ever notice that? | ||
| Can he just fucking stop that, please? | ||
| Can we start a petition for real-life lore to stop saying during? | ||
| Instead of saying during, like, you know, I was... | ||
| I was talking during my walk. | ||
| You know, he'll say during. | ||
| And it makes it unlistenable. | ||
| So he has a weird accent. | ||
| Caspian Report has a weird accent. | ||
| All the other ones are Indian. | ||
| So it's like, why the fuck are all the geopolitical people? | ||
| They're all like non-English speakers. | ||
| It's gross. | ||
| Kaze sent $10. | ||
| No message. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Yeah, I agree. | ||
| Well, and the whole thing is just like left-wing coded. | ||
| I mean, look at the guy. | ||
| The guy was like a walking TED Talk. | ||
| He killed someone over healthcare costs. | ||
| What is he radicalized by John Oliver? | ||
| You know, Jarvis. | ||
| Search last week tonight for episodes about UnitedHealthcare. | ||
| I mean, the guy's book list included The Giver and Malcolm X and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. | ||
| And people go, you know, he's a base rep. | ||
| Joel Davis said, of course, he was a right-wing chud. | ||
| He was not a fucking right-wing chud. | ||
| He was like a centrist. | ||
| He was a Redditor. | ||
| Dude, he was retweeting Yuval Harari. | ||
| He was not a right-wing chud. | ||
| Like, the guy was fucking lib shit NPR on steroids. | ||
| Hey, Nick, do you think we should kick out immigrants that have worked hard and assimilated and that have been here for 20 plus years? | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Yes, we should. | ||
| Do you think this makes her end much closer to development? | ||
| It definitely makes it more likely. | ||
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These are crazy names for cities, right? | |
| Do you think Vivek is some type of asset or something? | ||
| He came out of nowhere and skin suited to be the most base GOP candidate on stage. | ||
| I don't know, but I am suspicious of him. | ||
| Base mode sent $5. | ||
| All my homies love man bitch. | ||
| We ain't rocking with her cucked. | ||
| Pull up to TARDIS and see what's good you heard. | ||
| Test terrible Groyper sent $5. | ||
| Can you either give summary slash key points or recommend others explanations of post-Saddam Iraq and post-2011 Egypt slash Libya? | ||
| Wicca Spooks has nothing and there wasn't as much contemporary coverage as Syria slash Ukraine. | ||
| More like Sudan or Nagorno-Karabakh. | ||
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I Read stuff about it. | |
| I love when people do your own fucking research. | ||
| Somebody said to me the other night, you know, I said this thing on an interview. | ||
| I said like, oh, whenever there's a color revolution, they go for student groups, women's groups, and minorities. | ||
| And someone said, where can I read more about that? | ||
| And I'm like, it's called drawing your own insights from knowing stuff. | ||
| Like, someone told me that. | ||
| Like, because that's the only concept of knowledge that you have, is that someone else pre-packaged your information for you and spoon-fed it to you in a TED Talk. | ||
| Where did you hear that? | ||
| It's a novel insight. | ||
| I came up with it because I know about the things that happen in the world. | ||
| Do your own research. | ||
| A war is likely between Egypt and Ethiopia over the damming of the Upper Nile, reducing flow to Egypt. | ||
| Would be perfect for Israel to join Christian Ethiopia and seize the Suez slash Nile Delta expanding Greater Israel. | ||
| Yeah, I saw that video too. | ||
| Yo, yo, yo, sent $5. | ||
| I watched Scott Horton on Candace today. | ||
| He mentioned he had a distant cousin who died in the October 7th attack. | ||
| He also mentioned he doesn't believe any 9-11 conspiracy theories. | ||
| Another anti-Israel Jewish expert softening the truth, in my opinion. | ||
| They're all doing that. | ||
| None of them are really, uh, you pay attention. | ||
| Even like, dude, Dave Smith is totally being propped up. | ||
| I know we had beef and we kind of subsided a little bit, but that guy's totally propped up, in my opinion. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Why does he seem to be there, like, catching all of these debates as a fucking liberal? | ||
| You know, like, first he inherited the Israel critical position when that was a hot topic. | ||
| Now he's inheriting the woke right position when that's a hot topic. | ||
| And it's like, he's not even what they're calling woke right. | ||
| He's a fucking libertarian. | ||
| And so, uh, what's his name? | ||
| Kaufman says, well, what would you say to the guys that say calling me Jewish is an argument? | ||
| And Dave Smith goes, they're retards. | ||
| All I'm saying is this. | ||
| So, I don't know. | ||
| He's super sus to me for that. | ||
| would taking out Iran not be part of pivoting to the Pacific considering China buys a lot of oil from Iran from the POV of the China Hawks you don't understand anything Texas Groy percent $5 Woodrow Wilson in 1914 says he won enter World War I FDR in 1939 says he won enter World War II Trump in 2024 says he won enter World War III retard Retard. | ||
| Chicago fell off when they got rid of Kitty Land. | ||
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Oh my god, that's so relatable. | |
| So true. | ||
| It's so true. | ||
| Is that the real... | ||
| No way. | ||
| That's not the real Polish-American, Groyper. | ||
| No way. | ||
| Anglo-Acadians sent $5. | ||
| Funniest thing about the gun ban in Canada, like the previous gun bans, is that the Israeli devore rifle will still be available to the public. | ||
| Crazy how that works. | ||
| Israeli interesting. | ||
| Oy vey. | ||
| Shefazik sent $5. | ||
| Mom Groyper here. | ||
| Love the mugshot. | ||
| Looking like head of the Gropire cartel. | ||
| Keep up the great work. | ||
| What is that supposed to mean? | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because I look Mexican? | ||
| Is that why? | ||
| I'm kidding. | ||
| Thank you, though. | ||
| Thank you, Groyper Mom. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| True. | ||
| Canuck sent $10. | ||
| Geography for $10. | ||
| What is the name of the busiest sea trade route in the world? | ||
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Oh. | |
| The busiest? | ||
| Are you talking about a straight or a particular route? | ||
| I wouldn't know what the name of the route is. | ||
| Marcus Aurelius sent $10. | ||
| We are sending hundreds of billions of dollars weapons to SDF and they just shot down our $30 million Reaper UAV today and they endanger our NATO ally Turkey. | ||
| Why do you think our government do this nonsense? | ||
| What's the end goal? | ||
| greater is real? | ||
| They shot down our UAV or somebody else's? | ||
| I didn't see that. | ||
| I don't think SDF shot down a UAV. Did that happen? | ||
| I didn't see it. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Why is that ironic? | ||
| Do you believe in Bigfoot? | ||
| No, I don't. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah, I would play Fortnite with Lacey, but he would lose Twitch. | ||
| He would never do that. | ||
| Is that that your body my choice meme? | ||
| Dude, it is still massive. - Yeah, you said that like, you've been saying that for weeks. - Skibi-Egroir percent $5. | ||
| The female infatuation with a stark, sensitive, athletic, and handsome conscientious killer will be off the charts. | ||
| A far more compelling Andy hero than Ted Bundy. - I saw that tweet as well. | ||
| Canuck sent $10. | ||
| Did something happen over the weekend to shoot up Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth's confirmation odds to 70% plus? | ||
| Yeah, I think he had another meeting with Joni Ernst and Trump is backing him and he didn't withdraw. | ||
| So maybe they'll get confirmed. | ||
| I mean, Tulsi's one is connected to the Pete Hegseth one. | ||
| And I think Pete Hegseth... | ||
| There's negotiations happening behind the scenes. | ||
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means they're gonna let him do the hearing and maybe they'll confirm him. - Chad Champion, he sent $5. | |
| And Ick, I actually learned about Fuzzy Clan from Keith Woods, you should follow him on Substack. | ||
| His recent expose on Assad really woke me up. | ||
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No, you didn't. | |
| You mean my confirmation saint? | ||
| You don't choose your patron saint. | ||
| W. I'll check out that thread, but that sounds like BS. Why do you think that we should deport immigrants that have worked hard and assimilated and that have been here for 20 plus years and is that realistic? | ||
| Uh, cause they came here illegally and they gotta go back and yeah, with political will. | ||
| Why are you a fucking illegal immigrant? | ||
| Piece of shit. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| Good to hear from you, buddy. | ||
| It's been a minute. | ||
| No, I haven't. - Based mode sent $5. | ||
| Trump just now on truth. | ||
| It was a pleasure to have dinner the other night with Governor Justin Trudeau of the great state of Canada. | ||
| I look forward to seeing the governor again soon so that we may continue our in-depth talks on tariffs and trade. - Okay, so what? | ||
| Okay, all right. | ||
| That's our last super chat. | ||
| That's going to do it for me. | ||
| Yeah, great super chats tonight. | ||
| Really good stuff, guys. | ||
| That's going to do it for me. | ||
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| I will see you tomorrow. | ||
| Until then, have a great rest of your evening. | ||
| Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo. | ||
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It's going to be only America first. | |
| America first. | ||
| The American people will come first once again. | ||
| America first! |
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