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America First with Nicholas J. Fuentes Repost
DAILYWIRE DESTROYED??? Mass Layoffs, Collapsing Viewership, TOTAL GROYPER VICTORY | America First Ep. 1683
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Good evening, everybody. You are 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 Thursday. We have a lot to talk about tonight, lots to get into. Big show. And actually, I'm gonna switch it up a little bit. I said on Twitter that tonight we would talk about Iran and China and Cuba, but at the last minute, I totally forgot. There's another huge story. By the way, you can hear me, right? We're not muted, okay? Somebody in the live chat said muted. I got freaked out. We had some technical difficulties last night, but last minute I had to switch it up because I totally forgot. There was a huge piece today, I think, in Vanity Fair about the downfall of the Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro. And so that will actually be our big story tonight. Featured story, huge piece. Like I said, I think it was in Vanity Fair. Uh, no, pardon me, the New Yorker. And it talks about how Ben Shapiro's media empire, the Daily Wire, is finished. And the article goes into the history of the Daily Wire, how at one point, they truly were number one. They really were. They were the biggest publisher on Facebook in the English language. Shapiro was the number one up and coming ascended pundit. And now it is unequivocally true that Daily Wire is the big loser in the conservative media space. Emerging views subscribers, money. They had a huge round of layoffs. By some estimates, they've laid off 60% of their staff in the past year. So we're gonna go through that article, we're gonna talk about all that and everything that's happening over a Daily Wire. I never thought I would see the day, but truly, truly, things are getting better. Things are changing. And I said on Twitter today, I, quote, tweeted the article, I said, I won. I won. When I got started nine years ago, it was Daily Wire trying to throttle me in the crib. Daily Wire tried to blacklist me. There was a whisper campaign. They really tried to prevent me from building any kind of career. Not only did they fail, but I became arguably the most influential commentator among Generation Z conservatives. We talked about it last night. I am the archetype. Who do they emulate? Hassan Piker, John Doyle, all these other people from different countries. It's this show simultaneously, not six months after the generational run. Daily Wire is on its way out. There's like an inverse correlation as America first and me and others too. Candace, Owens, Tucker, Megan, as we have all risen. And I would say that that is the. It's really a result of the Israel issue. Simultaneously, Daily Wire and Shapiro have fallen off hard and now they're cooked. It's over for them. So we're gonna talk all about that. Well, like I said, we'll work through this article. We're also gonna talk tonight about what is happening in Cuba. One of the rare bright spots, I have to say now I know this is controversial among the, you know, communist filth. The workers of the world, unite crowd. Left wing garbage hippies. It's actually a good thing that America is colonizing the Caribbean and Latin America. That's a good thing. That's our backyard. That's our neighborhood. And the big story tonight is that our CIA director, John Radcliffe visited Havana, Cuba and met with their government there. It's a huge deal. It's not completely unprecedented. The director under Obama, John Brennan, visited Cuba about 15 years ago and they brokered a diplomatic thaw. But this time, Trump administration is coming in seeking something a little bit more ambitious. After the Trump administration took control of Venezuela, they effectively shut down all oil, all energy that is being imported into Cuba. Cuba relied primarily on Mexico and Venezuela for all of its energy. Trump administration seized control over Venezuela and its oil and has put considerable pressure on the shine bomb government of Mexico. And they have shut down all the oil that goes in as of last week. Cuba says they're out of oil. No diesel, no oil, no nothing. They're out of energy. Now the Electricity blackouts last 22 hours a day. They got nothing. So we effectively broke their back. It is like a domino theory in the Caribbean. You bring down Venezuela, Cuba goes next. And so Ratcliffe is there in Cuba. And the ask from Cuba, after exerting this considerable pressure upon them through energy, is we want them to decouple and break apart from Russia and China. Russia and China operate surveillance posts there, listening posts. So they are probably spying on America and they're spying on all the activity in those surrounding waters in the Gulf of America and elsewhere. And so the ask right now from the Trump administration is to, from an intelligence and surveillance point of view, decouple from our adversaries. And the ultimate goal, it seems, is to weaken the power of the Communist Party there and eventually have a democratic regime change, which, by the way, I think that's a good thing. I'm all for that. I was very in favor of the operation in Venezuela and all of these erstwhile allies of ours on the Israel critical side. They said, this is horrific. It's colonialism, it's neo imperialism. I'm like, yeah, that's a good thing. We're America. We're gonna take orders from a bunch of Mexicans. Well, hang on. We're gonna take orders from a bunch of communist Mexicans in other countries? I don't think so. There's actually nothing good in itself about socialism and communism. There's nothing good in itself about having neighbors and countries within our rightful sphere of influence that are aligned with our enemies or rivals, adversaries. However you wanna frame it, nothing beneficial about that. And so I think an aligned south and Central America and aligned Central and Latin America, this is clearly geostrategically beneficial for the United States. Now, you may argue, and this is a, it's a valid argument, you may argue that in order for the United States to free itself from the Jewish oligarchy, that America has to be strategically defeated by its adversaries. And in that frame you might say that naturally, if America's enemies are stronger and America's weaker, then that, that is a good thing, that's progress towards our ultimate goal. But you cannot say that it's good in and of itself that we are surrounded by enemies. Eventually we would have to deal with that. Eventually, when we have our regime change, when we, when we decouple from Israel or from this Jewish syndicate, well, then we would have to deal with the fact that China and Russia have expanded their influence over the world. Uh, but I maintain that I think this is, it is beneficial for us to have more power regardless. So we're gonna get into all that. We'll talk about it and we'll talk about the situation unfolding there. That I have no problem with. You wanna go to war in Iran, on the other side of the world. Causes an energy shock. No chance of winning. It's gonna cost us a hundred billion dollars. We lose all our bases. I want nothing to do with that. But you go into Venezuela, nobody dies. It costs us no money. We get all their oil, we topple vent. We topple Cuba a couple months later. I think that's a great deal. And it's in our neighborhood, it's in our backyard. I think that's totally fine. But like I said, we'll, we'll get into it. Before we do, I wanna 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. Remember to check out our merch store, Fuentes store, get our spring and summer collection. We got the new hat, all the new merch. We got the quarter zip still, and I'm wearing it tonight. I'm so. I'm not gonna be here tomorrow. What do you think? Not gonna be here tomorrow? Cause I have some collaborations this weekend. I got some stuff lined up. I think you'll be excited about it. I'm missing casual Friday. I didn't feel like wearing a suit tonight, so I said I'll just wear the quarter zip. I don't know, though. Do you think I should wear it with the collar up, or do you think I should wear it with the. With it like this? What do you think? One's in the chat for collar up, two for collar down. See, I feel like this is how it's supposed to look, but this makes me feel like a super villain. Like, from the side kind of makes me feel villainous, you know, like I'm brooding. So I don't know. I like it with the beard, too. The beard makes me look evil. I'm evil. The beard makes me look. The beard makes me look a little bit more mature, a little more evil. Like, I'm on the island. I'm on the island with Epstein. We're like Darth Vader and Palpatine, you know, looking at the construction of the island. So let me know. I like it like this. I think I'm gonna wear it like this. Yeah. People are saying, keep it popped. Okay. All right. We're gonna move on. Anyway, so that's the quarter zip. Check it out. People are still mad about the quarters. If we got the white one as well. Let me just grab this. They're still crashing out about. So we have it in white, too. It's the same thing. It's just different colors. People are crashing out about the quarter zip. Still. It's just a shirt. It's crazy. My widow shirt. No one wants to wear my widow shirt. Me and me and me. Widow shirt. Doing America first with the hat. I mean, this is just like an unbeatable combination. Okay, take a look. Now watch this. Ready? Watch this. Blue hat, blue quarter zip. Okay, white hat, white quarter zip. And it matches because the letters are blue on both of them. It's the same color, blue. This is just an unbeat. I gotta get this in a small. I'm too small. I gotta get in a small with the hat. That'll be next week maybe. Anyway, so check it out. Oh, you know what? I have it. I have. I have a small. It's somewhere else next week. Next week, I'll. I'll wear the small anyway. But, yeah, I did see, of course, all the usual suspects crashing out over the quarter zip. Yesterday I said, we fuck with Epstein. They took the bait, they clipped it again. Here's my thing, okay? And I'm just gonna say this and then we're gonna move on. So I see Jake Shields, all the usual suspects. They say he's wearing the quarter zip, Epstein's this horrible person. Then they're gonna go and talk about like killing everybody. So you're okay with going out and killing people in real life? You're talking about. I saw a text from Jake Shields where he says, I think we should have gassed those K words. So you're in. So you're in favor of genocide. You're saying, I don't think it happened, but it should have. So you think genocide is good, but a quarter zip is bad. Make that one make sense. I get people saying the Holocaust never happened. Valid. But I see a text where he says, it didn't happen, but it should have. Then he's gonna cry about a shirt. It's like something is not something. Doesn't make sense here. You can't be mad that I'm selling a shirt and also say, we're gonna exterminate Israel and the Holocaust should have happened. It's not very consistent. But anyway, we are gonna move on. We're gonna get into it. Our big story for the night. Like I said, we're gonna shift gears a little bit. I was gonna talk a lot about the situation in China, but to be honest with you, nothing is really happening in China. As you know, President Trump is there for a multi day visit with Xi Jinping and they're talking about a number of things. They're getting into trade and Iran and Taiwan talking about a grand bargain. But it doesn't seem that there is a ton of progress. There's really no need for Beijing to come to the table and make a deal. And their relationship to the war in the Persian Gulf is very complicated. A lot of people think it's cut and dry. Like China is on Iran's side and so they're gonna defend them. It's a little more complicated than that. So we're not gonna talk too much about that. There just hasn't been too many major developments outta Beijing. Right now we're gonna talk about this big article from the New Yorker and it's all about the downfall of the Daily Wire. And finally, someone has reported on this. I think we covered this a few weeks ago. It was earlier in the year that Daily Wire announced a round of major layoffs. We don't know how substantial they were, but some People are saying it was 50% of their staff from across the board, but concentrated in their Nashville headquarters. So they lost a ton of people. Simultaneously, everybody is pointing out how Daily Wire just doesn't get views anymore. If you look at their YouTube channel, if you look at Shapiro's show in particular, their viewership, new subscribers have taken a massive dive. Viewership is a disaster and they're just not gaining subscribers at all. They're actually losing subscribers every month. And this is a really big deal because everybody I think, looks at the conservative media landscape and maybe they don't understand exactly the dynamics that are going on there. But for those that do not know, at one point in time Daily Wire was the biggest, the richest, the most substantial conservative media outlet in the ecosystem cannot be overstated. Do you know that at one point in time Daily Wire was the number one English language publisher on all of Facebook? Facebook is the biggest platform in the world. Three billion active users, I believe. YouTube is at two and a half billion. Instagram's at one and a half billion. It's been a long time since I looked at these numbers. They might have changed, but Facebook is by far and away the biggest. Now you would suspect that because conservatives are censored and canceled and there's this big problem of ideological editorial censorship on the Internet, you might think that Daily Wire, like the rest of us, might be struggling or might be suppressed. It's the opposite. Daily Wire had a deal with all these big tech companies. At least this is what was represented to me by people in the know. They had a deal with YouTube, they had a deal with Facebook. And at Facebook they became for several years in a row, the number one publisher on the entire platform, not the number one conservative publisher, not the number one political publisher. They were bigger than cnn, bigger than the New York Times. On liberal Facebook, they were making a hundred million dollars a year selling razors, chocolate bars, T shirts, movies. They thought they were gonna be Hollywood. And now it looks like they're on the brink of collapse. Now this is the article. We're gonna read through it and then talk about some of the significance of says quote. There was a time not very long ago when Ben Shapiro could reasonably call himself the king of all conservative media. In 2020, as Drew Harwell at the Washington Post explains, Shapiro's media company, the Daily Wire, ranked as Facebook's top English language publisher for three straight months. It's sarcastic news items on then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Salon visit gained millions more views than the websites of Fox News, cnn and the New York Times. Shapiro himself was ubiquitous. A right wing star who had risen to fame before Donald Trump and seamlessly adapted to the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party. He was a digital battering ram against Democrats and the progressive left. He seemed guaranteed, like Fox itself, for an indefinite run at the top of the media heap. That's all over now. The Daily Wire is instituting significant layoffs. Its website has emerged as one of the great traffic losers in conservative media. Meanwhile, the company has seen its subscriber base on YouTube starting to shrink. There are Daily Wire YouTube videos that now, after a few days online, have fewer than 10,000 views. 10,000 views. A catastrophically small number for a channel with 3 million subscribers. The top comments all mock the low view counts. Brutal, absolutely brutal. If a variety of poor business decisions can be blamed in part for the Daily Wire's downfall, ill fated investments in feature films and epic fantasy series and peculiar merchandise, the greater story is the collapse of Shapiro's constituency, especially among the young media consumers and who once fueled the Daily Wire's runaway growth. There are two realities to Shapiro conservatism. In 2026, it retains a significant foothold among Republican elites. At the same time, it is fast being rejected by the future grassroots of the party. Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew, is fiercely pro Israel. His support for Israel and hatred of the Palestinian cause are issues that define him as a political figure. He is an unequivocal backer of Netanyahu's Israel and a committed, conventional neoconservative, he has been predictably thrilled by Trump's war against Iran. Also a fiscal libertarian and social conservative, Shapiro once sat at the happy median of the Republican voter and could claim, at least in the 2010s, that he understood the beating heart of campus conservatism. No longer the anti Israel, antisemitic groipers led by Nick Fuentes are in ascendance. Kanis Owens, who once worked with Shapiro at the Daily Wire, now boasts a YouTube channel larger than his where she's indulged in anti Israel conspiracy theories, ward with Charlie Kirk's widow, and even broken with Trump without suffering any financial consequences. It's just me and Candace. It's always should have just been about me and Candace Owens. Look at us again. Here we are reuniting on Daily Wire's grave. Yo, Candace, I gotta take a. Where's Ben Shapiro's grave? Candace, I gotta go to the bathroom quick. Where's Ben Shapiro's grave? I gotta take a leak. It should have always just been about me and Candace Owens. We're like Bonnie and Clyde, but Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Ebony and Ivory. You can't have one without the other. Anyway, that's, that's besides the point. Isn't it funny though? Together again, united. In the article, it goes on. It says, beyond Owens and Fuentes, Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly have found massive audiences of their own brand of conspiratorial commentary that marries Israel skepticism and isolationist advocacy. Carlson and Kelly have loudly opposed the war in Iran. Trump reviles them. But neither X Fox talking head has backed down. Carlson seems to be moving on from Trump completely. The collapse of the Daily Wire can be seen as a dire warning for traditional Republicans. Young conservatives are looking on as the Iran war rapidly devolves into a quagmire and seeing all the damage it has wrought. They view this as an outgrowth of Israeli foreign policy and they don't like it and a post Trump future. They'll have little desire to repeat these interventions like the Rockefeller Republicans of yore. The Shapiro Republican could go extinct entirely. Guys, after nine long years, nine years, we won. We finally won. Think about it. Nine years ago, do you remember what it was like? I was 18 years old. I was in college. I had a show on Right side Broadcasting Network. I was getting a hundred viewers per night. I was lucky if I cracked a thousand views on an episode. Ben Shapiro was number one. He spoke at CPAC making a hundred million dollars a year. They were creating the intellectual dark web, all this. They had all the talent. Jordan Peterson, Candice Owens, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, Andrew Clavin. They had the big documentaries, what is a Woman. They had the Pen Dragon cycle. They had the razors and the chocolate bars. It was the place to be. At the same time, back in 2017, nobody was talking about Israel and nobody could. Nobody was talking about Israel, nobody was talking about Jews and nobody wanted to hear about it. They didn't even wanna go there. And everybody was unequivocally, unthinkingly, unquestioningly pro Israel. Fast forward nine years later. Nick Fuentes and the groipers are in ascendance. The clips are viral. We are on the generational run. I don't think there's a single Gen Z conservative. I don't know that there's a conservative under the age of 30 that has not been influenced by the gripers. There's some flavor of griper. We're all groipers now. There are no more. There is an increasingly tiny contingent of anybody that is even remotely sympathetic to Shapiro. Trump for that matter, anything that is going on on the institutional right wing. We're all groipers at the same time. The biggest podcasts, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Megan Kelly, Tim Dillon, Joe Rogan, Theo Von. All of which at the minimum are not pro Israel. They might be in the middle questioning, maybe they have one foot in, one foot out play both sides. Most of them are stridently anti Israel and explicitly anti Shapiro, anti neocon, vocally against the wars. And now Shapiro is finished. They get no views, no subscriber growth, revenue has fallen off a cliff, mass layoffs, and everybody recognizes where the needle is pointing. It took nine years, but we finally did it. We made it outta the hood, made it outta the streets. We used to pray for times like this. We used to pray for times like this when we were on Maker Support and Hatrion, when I was banned on Twitter, when I was banned from cpac. And look at how the tables have turned. Amazing. This is one of the few areas where I'm actually white pill. That is one of the few bright spots because you have to say that while the majority of people overall are probably still not red pill, they're not really ready for what is about to come next. The real source of optimism is that the young people are specifically the young men. And that's what matters. If you ever get black pilled, just remember all the exit polling, all the, all the surveys, all the opinion polling. When you look at any measure of public opinion, or elections for that matter, it's always talking about the general public. But the general public is diverse by age, by race, socioeconomic class, by ideological conviction. But when you look at the young white men, when you control for all of those variables, when you focus on the demographic that matters, they're all groipers. When you look at the young conservative white men, they are all, for the most part, on the same page. And it's really just a question of taste. They might not all be my biggest fan, but if they're not my biggest fan, they're a big Tucker fan. And if they're not a Tucker fan, they're a Candace fan. And if they're not a Candace fan, they're watching Theo Vaughn or they're just broadly speaking conspiratorial about Israel and Jews, which is a far cry from what it was 10 years ago. And the thing about that is it is one never going back in the bottle. You're never gonna get back to where you were, where there was an enforced silence and nobody was questioning the issue and no one would even Consider skepticism of Israel. That's over. We're on the other side. We're through the looking glass on that. Irreversible. But number two, if you have the young men, you own the future. The young men. Not. Not even the young people. It's not about young people. It's about the young men. Forget about the boomers. Forget about the Xers. Forget about the older people. And forget about the women. Women are always followers. If you have the young, precocious, ambitious, politically engaged men, well, guess who's gonna be running everything in 20 years? Those people. Those are the people that are in the Ivy Leagues. Those are the people running the conservative student papers. Those are the people taking the American Moment fellowships, the internships at the think tanks. They're the ones that are the seasonal interns and staffers in the White House, in the administration, and those are the people building their resumes that are going to be the apparatchiks and the cadre of the right wing. In 15 or 20 years. It won't be anybody else. So that is actually a huge white pill. And it goes to show, by the way, that the ideas do matter. And maybe there's something to say about this latest conversation. What is happening in the Israel critical right. Let's say this in the first place. Shapiro had every advantage like we talked about. He had platform access when we didn't. We were all censored. We were all banned. He had a backroom deal with YouTube and Facebook to stay in business and actually to be a monopoly on conservative publishing. So they had the platforms, we didn't. They had an ungodly amount of money. We're talking hundreds of millions of dollars. We had nothing. We were canceled. They were not. They were welcome at every Republican conservative event. They were also tolerated. And the left would engage with them. The left would show up and debate them and deal them in. They were even profiled in liberal publications like the New York Times or the Atlantic or wherever. They had every single advantage. But in the end, what is it that did them in? And this article talks about it. It says, it's not that they blew all their money on their Game of Thrones imitation act. It's not because they blew all their money on the Mr. Burcham cartoon. It's not for any of those reasons. The real reason, fundamentally, is they stopped getting the business because they lost the youth. We all know that. In 2016, it was the campus conservatives that loved Shapiro. He was owning the libs. He was annihilating leftists in a debate daily Wire were the pioneers in digital content. I don't know if you remember, but back in like 2012 through 2016, there was not a ton of highly produced viral digital content from the political sphere. Cuz it was all older people. So in those days, Shapiro was one of the younger guys. And first at PJ Media and then at Daily Wire it was guys like him and Clavin and Bill Whittle and others. They were the first ones to the scene doing clips, doing short form video essays. They were on YouTube and Twitter and Facebook. They were getting the word out. So that is what was there. And that's how they accumulated this huge youth audience and that is what propelled the growth. And so even notwithstanding all of the bad business decisions, even notwithstanding, let's say, a general audience falling out of love with them and their operation and what they were doing, what ultimately did them in, in the end is they no longer had that fuel, they no longer have the subscriber base, they don't have the energy because they lost the youth. It was the youth that fell out of love with Shapiro. When you go and talk to high schoolers and, and college students and people that have recently graduated college, none of them love Shapiro, none of them watch Shapiro, none of them care what he has to say. Why is that? Despite all those advantages and the Head Start, they lost their number one secret ingredient. Because they did not have the truth on their side. They did not have the truth. And in the end, that was the most powerful thing that we had in which they lacked. And they could censor and they could avoid, they could dodge the debate with me. They could do their little whisper campaign behind the scenes and blacklist all their competition. But over time, it became very transparent that what Shapiro is, is an Israel First Jew, not a conservative, not a constitutionalist, not a Republican, not an American patriot. Over time, there's nowhere to run, there's nowhere to hide. It became obvious that who is he out for? He's out for Israel. He's out for Israel's wars, Israel's foreign aid, Israel's best interest. And it became clear he's not like us. He's a liar. He is a chameleon. This is an alien from another planet, metaphorically speaking, who has come to our country pretending to be like us, pretending to like us and care about us so he can advance the real cause, which is that of the foreign country. And it only took time and persistence and honesty and forcefulness for people to see this. It only took the Griper War and Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens breaking off, and Tucker finally joining the fray. All these people played their part, all of you played their part. But it was that forcefulness, that consistency, transparency, pushing that message in spite of the cost, in spite of losing, in spite of drawing the short end of the stick for all this time for people to realize who is really American, who is really telling the truth, and who's out there for Israel now. What insights can we draw from this? We can't celebrate too soon and say, daily Wire's dead. We won. Israel criticism won. The Zionists have lost. Because we have to consider something very important here. We didn't win because we're us. We won because we were a vessel for the truth. We didn't win. The truth won. We won in spite of ourselves, in spite of the things that turn people off, mistakes. We made ways that we played it in a way that wasn't strategic or tactical. The truth won. We were representatives, we were custodians. We were a vessel for the truth. That is what enabled us and empowered us to win. That was the weapon. If we didn't have that, we wouldn't have won. You could be as funny as you want. You can be charismatic, you can be anything. But if we didn't have the objective, independent truth that exists outside of all of us, it wouldn't have been powerful enough to carry the day. That's why we won, because the truth is good and the truth exists independently of us. And the truth is something that cannot be suppressed forever. Eventually, rational people are going to hear it. If the signal is going out and. And they did, why is this relevant for us going forward? Well, there's something poignant to say here, which is that as long as we have the truth, then we will win. As long as we have the truth, then on a long enough timeline and in spite of the overwhelming odds, we will win. And we can feel confident about that and we can feel encouraged by that. Look at what we have achieved in 10 years. I. I went from a sad, small webcam live stream in my college dorm room where I'm setting up the green screen myself. I'm in a $200 suit from Macy's. My production was terrible. I had no viewership. I went from that to arguably one of the most famous people in the country at one point last year, through nothing other than sheer persistence and. And telling the truth every day for a decade. And that's very encouraging. And it tells us that if we maintain our commitment to that, that we can overcome everything and anything. And we don't need to worry about these questions that people like to ask. People say, are we too far gone? Can we make it? Are we going to make it out the other side? Is it over? We don't have to worry about those questions because somehow, although the arc of history is long, it bends towards the truth, which is irrepressible. And so all we have to worry about then, day in and day out, is not the odds, the outcome, the twists and turns of the battle. All we have to worry about is are we on the side of the truth? Do we possess the charism of truth? Because if we do, then we got nothing to worry about. History will look favorably even if we are martyred, even if we fail, it will look favorably on those that told the truth. And maybe it doesn't work out for you, and maybe it doesn't work out now, but everyone that is telling the truth is causing a ripple effect. The signal is getting out there and you never know how and in what ways and on what timeline that is going to deliver the victory. But you have to be confident that it will. Why am I saying this now? Because there has been this discussion on this show that I think people on our side are starting to overplay our hand. And in the exact same way that Ben Shapiro got caught with his hand in the cookie jar, overplayed his hand. He could have had a good thing, but in the end, he was so committed to. To the fraud he was perpetrating, which is this inherently deceptive front where he's gonna pretend to be a conservative in America, but he's got an Israeli wife, he lives in a Jewish community, he's friends with Netanyahu, he's pro Israel till the day he dies, he got so caught up that that was his ruin. And I suspect that there is something like that happening on our side. The second that people start to get carried away and they say we are anti Israel or anti Zionist, first, we don't care about the truth. We don't care the truth value of what we are saying or whether what we are saying is supportable with evidence, or whether what we are saying is rational. All we care about is we're in a battle. It's us versus them. It's us on this side, it's them on the other side. We just gonna say everything, flood the zone, take a side. According to this tribal mentality, if we embrace that kind of thinking, we no longer possess the truth. If you no longer possess the truth, you don't win. You don't win. And what you're doing, in my opinion, ceases to be worthwhile. And what I have noticed this year is that to the extent that we are on a side, that this side has gotten sloppy and lazy and irresponsible. And what starts to happen when people that are criticizing Shapiro and criticizing the other side, when we start to get careless and reckless and we start to be wrong all the time, then we lose our credibility. And the second we lose our credibility and people start to say, you know, I don't know about these guys. I thought they were onto something. They're. They're definitely right that Israel's cooked and Shapiro's a Jew, et cetera, et cetera. But, you know, they're not super reliable. There's a lot of disinformation. They seem to be jumping to conclusions. The second that happens, then we'd become just another offering in the media ecosystem. Whereas for the past 10 years, we were in a pitched battle of truth tellers versus censors. People that are willing to tell the truth at any cost, people that are invested in knowing the truth, no matter how taboo it is, versus people that are telling us lies on behalf of the powerful. People that are censoring and lying and using deception and. And other other wicked tactics. Now we're just another company. We're just another influencer with another agenda like everybody else. We're just another offering. And at that point, people start to look at every other offering and say, well, I like. I like Tucker for some things, but, you know, he loses me when he talks about aliens and giants and demons and astral projection. Or I like Candace Owens, but she lost me with the Erica Kirk stuff. Lot of smoke but no fire. Didn't seem like there was a lot going on there. It's getting a little too weird for me. And they're going to start to look at other stuff. And so I really believe that we are at an inflection point. We are at a crossroads. Certainly this is a moment in time. It's a remarkable moment. Something has happened. Something has changed. Like I said, Daily Wire was untouchable. It is obvious now they're on their way out. And all those people that a few years ago couldn't get on a podcast were debang, demonetized, banned. They are now ascendant. They're now number one. There is a temptation now, perhaps, to become like our erstwhile adversaries and embrace some of those temptations, to become like them. I think it's more important now than ever, actually, that we double down on telling the truth. We double down on having the highest standards, double down on having the most true message. Because this is what I'll tell you about Ben Shapiro. And this is, I think this is maybe gonna make it all make sense. What you need to understand about Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire is that they are actually not like us in any way. And it's not just because Shapiro's a Jew and pro Israel and the rest of it. What I mean by that is we are playing fundamentally different games. I do this show in my house and I make money from the super chats. And I am in a competition with everybody else in the media market. I'm in a competition for clicks and eyeballs and engagement and super chats. And you know what? If I stop doing a good show and I lose the viewership and I lose all my money, then I'm done. I, I go bankrupt. And then I can no longer do the show. I'll have to do something else. So for me, this has, this has to be competitive, it has to be profitable, it has to be successful as a media venture. For me to keep doing this, I need to keep having an audience. I need for people to care what I have to say. I need there to be a viable business behind it as well. Otherwise I'm out and that's it. And not only am I out, but then I get ground into the dirt. Cuz then I can't go and get another job. No one's gonna hire me. And then I got all these legal problems, they're gonna kill me with all, all the legal bills. Then I'm in real trouble. I'm screwed. Well, that is not true about Ben Shapiro at all. Ben Shapiro's a daily wire. Let me tell you a dirty little secret about Daily Wire. And all of them. You might say they're losing viewership, they're unpopular, they're losing money, they might go bankrupt. They laid off their staff. Let me tell you a secret about that. They don't need to be profitable. They don't need to be competitive. They don't need to be popular. They don't need an audience. They don't. Because fundamentally that is not what Daily Wire is there to do. If you understand what Ben Shapiro is, you understand he is first and foremost a propagandist. And so the benefit that he confers upon his patrons, his political and financial patrons, is that he is spreading a political message using propaganda. That is his benefit. That is his value. His value is not that he is going to make somebody money. It's not that he is going to deliver shareholder value. They're not looking to make money off of him. That's not the point. They don't need money. He is there effectively as a nonprofit. He can turn a profit, but he's not there to make a profit. He is effectively there as a megaphone and a mouthpiece for the state of Israel and for the Jewish nation. And what that means is that if he no longer is profitable, if he is no longer popular, he will simply get bought out. A wealthy benefactor will come in and inject capital and restructure the company, or a larger conglomerate will acquire it and eat the losses so that he can keep doing what he is doing because he is part of something else. He is a part of a patronage and network. So you might be thinking, let's all celebrate. Ben Shapiro's over. Daily Wire is over. They don't make money, they don't have views. And what is contained in this is the assumption that Shapiro is a for profit entity. That he is a in a competitive market with other similar and comparable offerings, other similar and comparable products. But he isn't. He can be a net negative. He can be a fiscal liability. He exists in a symbolic way to act as a gatekeeper, as an authority on Republican political messaging and as a propagandist. And the day that he is not profitable, the casino, the House, will simply deal him back in. It's like we're all at a poker table. If I bust out and I lose all my chips, I gotta go home. I have no more chips to play with. I don't have any more money in my wallet. Well, I gotta go home now and that's it for me. Thanks for playing. But if you're Shapiro, it's almost like he's working for the casino. The casino is paying him to promote the casino. They're paying him to be there. They're paying him to play. So if he busts out and runs outta chips, they will come in. The pit boss will come in and give them a bunch more chips. Here you go. We want you to keep playing. That is how that works. Because they are institutional. And so what this means is that we can't take a look at these victories and take them in stride like this is some done deal. Okay? It looks like Shapiro's on the ropes. We got it made, we won, it's over. Everyone's red pill, cuz it doesn't work like that. Take a look at Barry Weiss at the Free Press. Barry Weiss started the Free Press and the publication sucks. Nobody reads It. Nobody pays for it. And this is exactly what happened there. Larry Ellison, the bigger fish, the biggest fish. He is a centibillionaire. A net worth in the hundreds of billions of dollars. He's not even in the media business. He's in the software business. He's in the. He's in the data business. He's a tech oligarch. Larry Ellison funds his son's company to go in and acquire the Free Press for $150 million. That's not a business decision. That's not a financial decision. Do you think Larry Ellison needs the Free Press? Do you think he needs the money the Free Press brings in? You think he's really interested in restructuring it? He needs a subscriber base. They're just doing something really interesting. He don't need them at all because that is not a for profit activity. He acquired them. He bailed them out so they could continue doing their propaganda. And. And then he plucked Barry Weiss out of Free Press and stuck her at CBS News so she could keep doing her job. The same job she did at Free Press, the same job she did at the New York Times, at the Wall Street Journal before that, at the Shalem center and Columbia before that. It is a sinecure. It is a nonprofit activity paid for by a patron for its political value. She is a henchman. Glorified henchmen. So these people will always fail upward, no matter how many times they bust out, no matter how many times they lose all their chips because they objectively suck at what they do, no matter how many towns they get chased out of by the peasants with the pitchforks and torches, once they catch on to this operation they're running, they will always have a safe harbor because of institutional Jewish power. They will always fall back into the arms of. Of the World Jewish Organization, the World Zionist Organization, some Jewish billionaire in bed with the state of Israel, because that is how they operate. What this means is that there is no reprieve for us. It's never over. It is literally never over. Shapiro's not done. Not by a long shot. He will be invoked, invited to symposiums and conventions and conferences. He will be doing his podcast until he is dead. When they will write some glowing. What do they call that? When somebody dies? They will write some glowing piece for him in the New York Post and the New York Times and all these other Weekly Standard about how he was the icon, the standard, standard bearer. He was the authority on conservatism. I promise you, that is how it will go. He is going nowhere. There is no scenario where he retires, no scenario where he goes away, crashes out, he gets some job. He doesn't need to be popular. He'll be like Bill Crystal. He will keep existing at the bottom of the ocean floor eating zoo plankton if he has to, because that is how that works. And we, on the other hand, we will never get any reprieve. People like me and Candace Owens and Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson, we will be fighting our entire lives to keep our heads above the water. We will be treading water, born back against the waves until we are either again bankrupted, killed, die from the pressure. Think about what is happening. Candace Owens is being sued by Brigitte McCrone. She's being sued by Turning Point. Everybody is piling on. Laura Loomer is investigating the whole family, cranking up the pressure on this family business, which is what it is. I saw their operation. It's in her house. It's in her basement. It's not even that big. It's Candace and her husband, their kids running around, and then they got their little studio and nobody's coming at you. Think some billionaire is gonna come and bail her out? Never gonna happen. Alex Jones, same thing. He got sued by the Sandy Hook parents, the Onion bought him out, and now he's in his mansion doing his show with a skeleton crew. No bailout, no nothing. No Larry Ellison. And it's the same story with me. If I stop doing the show, I stop going live on time. I get swallowed up by legal problems, financial problems. I'm not getting bailed out either. So that's why we always have to keep our foot on the gas. There is no scenario where we sit back and take it easy and we get to be careless and we get to be irresponsible. We get to lower our standards and let our guard down. It doesn't work like that because we are fighting an enemy that has infinite resources. They will keep coming back and coming back and coming back until we are dead. And that is the task for us. We have to keep coming back and meeting them on the battlefield and hope that one day they don't show up. Hope that one day they collapse under their own weight. But more likely than not, we're going to perish first. And that's what is called for. So that's the unfortunate reality that that's sort of the. It's a mixed bag. It's a clear pill. Yes, it's true. The tides have turned. Attitudes have changed. It's a different country now. That whole pro Israel thing is dead and it's never coming back. And nobody takes Shapiro seriously. But I'm gonna tell you the next big conceit. The Jews are extremely clever. Do not underestimate the Jews. This is what they do. This is what they have done for generations and they have written the playbook on it. So you think we got em all figured out? You think we're gonna go on Twitter and say hey, you did 9, 11 and 6 million didn't die? We have all our talking points about your hypocrisy and about how you got kicked out of 109 countries. And you think the Jews who have been lawyers, lawyers and conjurers and media moguls and middlemen for thousands of years, thousands of years empowered by the devil. Realistically, you think they will not have any response? You think they're gonna take all this in stride and say we got outsmarted by Jake Shields. The these thousands of years building up this edifice of lies, it all came crumbling down because some kept spamming the same tweet. I think Hitler was right. I think it wasn't 6 billion tower 7. What happened there. You think they're gonna take that laying down? Oh shucks. I, I guess we got foiled again. Absolutely not. The Jews are extremely sophisticated. They will outlast us, they will outsmart us and they will come up with a new conceit. And by the way, they already have. They already have. It's. It's Michael Millerman, it's Joe Lonsdale, it's Sean McGuire. For everybody that has eyes to see and ears to hear. You know what I'm talking about and you've seen it. They're rebranding it. They're rebranding it. They know they're never going to get everybody to be pro Israel again. That ship has sailed. They're never going to get everybody to be dispensationalist Christians worshiping Israel. Those that blast shall be blessed, never going back. So they're changing tactics and they're trying something new. And what they are doing is they are starting to conflate the word civilization and the west with the Judeo Christian narrative. They say it's Christians and Jews, the United States and Israel as civilization versus the barbarism of the communists and the Muslims. This is their new line. It's everywhere. If you're paying attention, it's everywhere. This is Joe Lonsdale's line. Joe Lonsdale From Founders Fund, PayPal, Mafia, Cicero Institute Jew. This is Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of staff who says we are pro civilization, pro Iran war, pro mass deportations. Chew. Randy Fine, you know that when we're grading congressmen, America first foundation is creating a scorecard for every congressman currently seated in the past two sessions. You know that when we graded Randy Fine, he ranked A plus on immigration, but F on foreign policy. Randy Fine too will say mass deportations, no Muslims in America, build the wall, no dual citizens. But then he'll support the war in Iran and the genocide in Gaza. This is the conceit. Sean McGuire. This may be the most telling thing of all. Sean McGuire, who is a partner at Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. And they invest, it's this long tail investing in a lot of tech defense companies, almost all of them in El Segundo and Silicon Valley. It's either Sequoia or it's Andreessen Horowitz, few others. Sean McGuire, who has an Israeli wife and kids, he went on Twitter and said, my fellow Jews. He said, stop talking about Israel. He said, because Americans don't care about Israel anymore. He said, start talking about Western civilization instead. He said, because we can couch our pro Israel advocacy between, between the lines of a pro Western civilization message. A pro civilization message. If we talk about America and talk about the west, we can shoehorn in Israel in a way where people either be indifferent to it, at least they won't oppose it. Michael Millerman, another Claremont Jew, did a big video about the new pro civilization movement. Same story. Joel Pollock at Breitbart, same story. Josh Hammer, who wrote his book about this, and he is a huge hasbara agent, maybe one of the preeminent ones. Same story. They're all running the same playbook. And here's my point is we have to always adapt to survive. The old pro Israel thing is destroyed. We are inoculated against it. We found the cure, we have the antibodies. A Jew starts to say, those that bless shall be blessed. We all know the answer to that one. A Jew says, you know the, the liberty we have the answer to that one. But they change the script and they're pushing that out there in a very coordinated way. Among the pro Trump cadre, among the Claremont Institute shills, all these teal funded projects, little tech funded projects, they all contain this poison pill and I promise you they will outflank us with the next generation if we don't keep refining our ideas. We have to get a little bit smarter here, have to get a little bit smarter. What do we have to say when Stephen Miller Says, hey, I'm in favor of mass deportations, but I support the war in Iran because we're choking off China, and if America wants to win, we need to fight China. You need a better answer than, well, Jews were kicked out of 109 countries. Doesn't work, you see. So I would say that that previous battle is over. Now a new battle is starting. There is, believe it or not, a new battle. And that, that old version, that old iteration of Shapiro style pro Israel advocacy, it has been routed, but it has been succeeded by a refined, more sophisticated form of the virus. And that's why we need to get to work, you know, to continue the metaphor and develop the antibodies to protect against that. And, and that means a positive message, a refined and positive and more sophisticated message that can answer the new challenges posed by this intellectual strain. So we cannot rest on our laurels. Yes, yes, Shapiro and all that stuff is finished. Yes, Lindsay Graham is finished. Shapiro's finished. It's all over. But I promise you, they contain inside them the ability and the potential that to keep coming back. And they've been doing it for generations and thousands of years. And that's why we have to stay motivated, stay fresh, stay dynamic, stay dedicated, stay committed to the truth. You start to let it go and watch how quickly it'll creep back in. It's already there. I already see it, and I've seen it since October 7th. It's a lot of these types of accounts that say if you're pro Israel, you're a Muslim sympathizer, you're a third Worldist, you're a left winger opposing Israel's left wing and all different species of that, that kind of argument. And I promise you, there are a lot of young people that are looking at anti Israel as anti intellectual, as a drag, as a ghettoized kind of ideology. I promise you it's happening because. Because I talked to him. There's a lot of young men, precocious, brilliant young men at Stanford and Yale and Harvard and UChicago and everywhere where, where we want them to be in the administration. And, you know, they're smart. And they look at a guy like Jake Shields and they say he's dumb. And they say, if he believes this stuff, I don't want to. And they say, he's saying this stuff. It's not really satisfactory. It's not. It's not really compelling. It's not. It's not really doing it for me. You know who is intelligent? Peter Thiel. And he's making the case that we should be apathetic about Israel. And all of his proxies are intelligent, cosmopolitan people. They're in tech, they're in government, they make lots of money. They can talk to you about industry and manufacturing and tech and AI. They can have a smart conversation about those things that they're in the cities that matter. And young people are attracted to that. That's a magnet for young people. Young people want to be at the cutting edge of those kinds of things. And if those are the types of people that are there and they're pro Israel, guess where the, the future elites are going? They're going to them, they're going to Lonsdale, they're going to these types of people. And that's what we need to be very aware of. So I'm trying to chart a course where we have an intelligent discourse, we have something to offer those people. Because I could tell you Shapiro is done for now. But this anti Israel thing is gassed. It's no pun intended, it is out of gas. And some people are saying, hey man, you, you know, you just, you're not loyal enough to the message. I promise you, I could sense these things. The wave has crested. It's now time to. We need to inject some new energy into it if we want to keep the advantage. Just a little bit of game theory, but that's the situation with Shapiro. We are going to move on. Do we want to talk about Cuba? When did I start? Did you start? I think I started at midnight. So you know what? Yeah, we'll keep going. We'll talk a little bit about what's happening in Cuba as well. Not gonna spend too much time on it and I might as well, by the way, just change the title of the show because our big story was about Shapiro. So let me just do that really quickly and then we'll pick up on Cuba. Gimme one second. Let's see. Daily wire destroyed, question mark. Mass layoffs, Total groiper victory. Okay, so we are going to move on. We'll talk a little bit about Cuba, like I said. Then we'll move on to the super chats. So it's been a minute since we talked about what's going on in the Caribbean and Latin America. But. But I'm sure you knew this was coming eventually. And I hate to say it, but I predicted this. So, as you know, the United States went into Venezuela at the beginning of the year in an operation effectively to extradite the President of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro. Now, at that time, within this space, this was Very controversial. And there were some language problems. There were some semantic confusion. People characterized that operation as a regime change, as a war. But when you look at what happened in Venezuela in retrospect, now five months have gone by, we can look at it with clear eyes here. What precisely happened in January when the United States Special Forces moved in and kidnapped the President of Venezuela? Well, it was not a war. It was not. There were no major kinetic operations, no ongoing hostilities. We didn't lose any equipment, we didn't lose any men. We barely suffered any injuries on their side. There were fewer than a hundred casualties. We kidnapped their leader and that effectively ended the hostilities. It was not long and drawn out. It was not protracted there. There were not any escalating actions, no other operations. It cost us virtually nothing. It wasn't a war, by the way. It wasn't even a regime change. Because to this day, Nicholas Maduro's Vice president, his Security Minister, his Interior minister, they all remain in their positions. What does that mean? It means that the political and security apparatus of the Maduro Chavista regime remain fully intact. So it's the same military, the same cops, same personnel, same civilian government. It's the same operation. They are just being treated like a colony, effectively governed indirectly by an American viceroy, which looks to be Energy Secretary Chris Wright or something like this, maybe Marco Rubio to some extent. And I will say that in retrospect, I think that is actually a model of what soft or arguably smart American power projection can look like in the world. Let's be honest. We have the biggest military. We have a considerable military advantage over every other country. And on occasion it is beneficial to us in our interest to use it. And that is just politics. Now, a lot of people are very apprehensive about this idea. People describe themselves as ideological, non interventionists or isolationists, or they think that America first means something like that. But typically when they say they don't like intervention or they think intervention is almost never justified, they'll bring up the legacy of the war in Iraq. And what are the problems with that? Well, the problems with the war in Iraq are that it was expensive, too many people died, it went on for too long. There wasn't a clear objective. It's debatable whether it actually benefited us and in what ways. It was on the other side of the globe. So because of proximity, how could it possibly affect US national security or the security of the homeland directly. But that does not apply. Those questions and concerns and criticisms don't apply to every intervention. This One in particular in Venezuela. It was not expensive. Nobody was hurt or died. It was not long and drawn out. There were clear objectives and they were met. There was no mission creep. And there's a very articulable and clear and objective benefit for the United States. It's in our neighborhood. So let's just clear the air. In retrospect, I was right about Venezuela. There were all these people saying, oh, this has something to do with Israel. And people were saying, oh, this is another forever war. Oh, this is a betrayal of Trump's promises. I don't think so. I think that fits neatly within the Trump Doctrine. A Jacksonian foreign policy enforcing the Monroe Doctrine with the Trump corollary and pursuing legitimate American interests where it is possible. Look, Venezuela's in our neighborhood. It's not like Iran, which is on the other side of the planet. What's more, Venezuela is not a middle power like Iran is. Venezuela is not rich, does not control a vital choke point, does not have any strategic arsenal of conventional or non conventional weapons, doesn't have a substantial military. And by the way, they're hosting rival nations, militaries in our sphere of influence, which is the entire Western Hemisphere. So I think in retrospect, that was totally the right thing to do. Cost us nothing, gained us something. And one of the big legacies of the intervention in Venezuela is that, of course, it was never just about Venezuela. This was a part of our new national defense strategy, national security strategy promulgated by the Pentagon earlier in the year. And what was our new strategic outlook under the second Trump administration? Well, the rewritten playbook said that our new priority will not be Europe countering and balancing against Russia. It will not be the Middle east guaranteeing the security of Israel and balancing against Iran. As a matter of fact, they said it won't even be the Indo Pacific trying to prevent a Chinese invasion of Taiwan and building up our alliances with the Quad and other Pacific allies. Rather, the new grand strategy of the United States was something called hemispheric defense. They said, actually we are going to prioritize the neglected region of the Caribbean and Latin America. They say that what has been happening over the past 15 years is that China has supplanted the United States as the number one trading partner of all the Latin American countries and as such has come into these countries with credit, building infrastructure, specifically dual use infrastructure like deep water ports, radar dishes, in some cases space stations, military installations that could in the future be converted to a strategic or military purpose. A deep water port on the coast of Peru could handle super heavy tankers and the biggest cargo ships. It could also one day in the future host an aircraft carrier from China. A radar dish in Argentina, which is ostensibly for looking at the stars, could also be used to surveil U.S. activity in Latin America. You could look at even some of the other ports in the Caribbean, in Haiti, in Port au Prince, in Jamaica, that actually can be used for surveillance. Their surveillance posts advanced sensors and in these ports can monitor naval and seaborne activity, whether commercial or military, in what should be American waters. What's more, in the era of missiles and missile defense, you can actually conceal a missile launch system inside of a container, inside a shipping container that you might see on a train or a truck or a cargo ship. This they containerize a missile launch platform, they put it on a cargo ship. And you could actually have Chinese missile systems. They appear to be regular commercial cargo on a cargo ship docked in Haiti, not far from the United States, where our vital shipping lanes are. So it's in response to these threats that the United States says we actually have to reprioritize the Caribbean and Latin America. It's been neglected for too long. We went overseas to fight Russia, to fight Iran, to fight Iraq, in some cases even to fight China in their home turf. And what has happened in the meantime is we've lost our home. China has made this economic incursion, which is rapidly becoming something like a military incursion into our hemisphere. And the whole basis of American foreign policy is that we are always safe because we don't have to worry about our hemisphere. There are no threats here. Well, that doesn't work if China and Russia have a foothold in this area. So in any case, we invaded or rather extradited Maduro in Venezuela as part of this new grand strategy. But it wasn't just about Venezuela. It was about changing the whole dynamic here. And the next step in this domino theory is that if we took Venezuela out of the picture, if we took them offline, then the next to fall would be Cuba. There is this axis in Central America, the Caribbean and Latin America, which consists in Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, previously Bolivia. These were all far left governments, socialist governments in league with Russia and China, formerly the Soviet Union, that had military partnerships with Russia, economic partnerships with China, which were opposed to US hegemony, They're not aligned with the United States. And so the idea is we take down Venezuela, Cuba falls next and then Nicaragua. And once this happens, then the western hemisphere becomes the uncontested domain of, of the American empire that's the idea. And the way that this would be achieved is that Cuba is totally dependent on Venezuela and Mexico for its oil. Cuba is an island. They don't have any native energy production. They have to import all their energy, literally all of it, and it's all coming from Mexico, our largest trading partner, and Venezuela. So the idea is that if we can control Venezuela's oil exports, if we can lean on Mexico, then we can effectively shut down all of Cuba's energy. And if Cuba doesn't have energy, then they don't have a country. You don't have oil and diesel. Well, you don't have transportation and you don't have electricity. You don't have air conditioning. You don't have supply chains. You got nothing. And so the premise was, we shut down Venezuela, we shut down Mexico, and. And over time, Cuba will be strangled and they will have to beg to negotiate, and they will have to work out some kind of a deal with the United States. Well, it looks like that is now working. And I don't want to say that it's a done deal, but it looks like that strategy is now bearing fruit. As of last week, Cuba is officially out of energy. Their president came out and said, literally, we got nothing. We're out. We have no diesel, we have no nothing. He said, and now the blackouts can be expected to last 20 to 22 hours per day. You're not gonna have electricity outside of two, maybe four hours every day. That's it. We're running on fumes here. And it is in this context that there was a high profile meeting between the CIA director, John Ratcliffe, and the Cuban government in Havana. And what was expressed at the meeting is that the United States is looking for Cuba to abandon some of these Russian and Chinese surveillance posts that they harbor inside their country. This is a story from the New York Times. We'll work through this. It says, quote, John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, traveled to Cuba on Thursday, a day after Havana admitted that its fuel oil supplies had been exhausted for consumers and businesses. Ratcliffe made the visit to deliver a warning to the government that it had to make economic changes and stop allowing Russia and China to operate intelligence posts in Cuba. In a statement, the CIA said that Mr. Ratcliffe had traveled to Havana to personally deliver President Trump's message, quote, that the United States is prepared to seriously engage on economic and security issues, but only if Cuba makes fundamental changes. Ratcliffe arrived in Cuba the day after Vicente de la Olivi, the Minister of Energy and Mines, announced that oil supplies for Domestic use and power plants had been exhausted. He said, quote, we have absolutely no fuel oil, absolutely no diesel in a van. Of the Blackouts today exceed 20 or 22 hours. The Cuban government has been grappling with a severe energy crisis for more than two years because of crumbling infrastructure and a dwindling oil supply from Venezuela, it's longtime benefactor. Venezuelan oil stopped flowing to Cuba entirely in January after the United States seized Venezuela's leader and took control of its oil industry. Later, the Trump administration imposed an effective blockade barring all foreign oil from reaching Cuba, which also received shipments from Mexico. The. The Trump administration has not explicitly said what political or economic changes it would like to see in Cuba, but the broad goal is apparently to end the Communist Party's lock on political and economic control. During his visit, Mr. Ratcliffe's most concrete demand was for Cuba to close the intelligence listening posts that Russia and China operate there and which Mr. Trump has singled out in the executive order on Cuba that Mr. Trump issued in January. He criticized their government for hosting Russia's largest overseas signals intelligence facility, which tried to steal sensitive national security information from the United States. So to me, all of that sounds good. This is the foreign policy that we should have because, see, this makes sense. This is a clear, articulable, limited and narrow operation with a distinct benefit for the United States. What are we doing? We want Venezuela and Cuba to align with the United States away from Russia and China. How are we gonna do it? We're gonna extradite Venezuela's president. We're going to blockade Cuba's energy? What will it cost us? Nothing. What will it benefit us? We will regain control of the Western Hemisphere. We can resume flights to Cuba and Venezuela for tourism. We can open up bilateral trade with these countries. We can get Venezuela's oil, we can invest in it and actually increase the ceiling for their oil output, which is good for us. More energy means cheaper electricity for AI and other things. Open up bilateral trade with Cuba. They have a lot of human capital, doctors, educators, among other things. We can even use them for military purposes. It's, it's positively good that we can now use Cuba and Venezuela as military allies. It's also good that Russia and China will no longer have a foothold there where they can build their dual use infrastructure, where they can disguise, potentially drone or missile launch systems, and they can plant surveillance systems, listening posts where they can spy on us. All of this is a tangible benefit, strategically, economically, politically for the United States. And the way to achieve it, like I said, is economical and Limited. And there is no prospect of a strategic disaster or some kind of runaway mission with no clear and defined endpoint. You contrast that with the situation in Iran. What are we going for there? We're going to do regime change. Impossible. Okay, we're gonna destroy their missiles. Well without regime change they'll just rebuild them. You can't destroy all of em anyway. What about cost? Well Iran happens to be able to close the Strait of Hormuz which is a fifth of the world's oil. So that's pretty not economical. What's the benefit? I'm not even really sure what happens when we achieve regime change. What does that really do for us in any way? We don't get Persian Gulf oil, we don't get oil from Iran. Doesn't really matter too much for us. I don't see them hosting an American base anytime soon. And in any case we have bases. We have bases in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the uae. Why do we need em in Iran? It just doesn't even make any sense. Arguably there might be a benefit, but the juice isn't worth the squeeze. It is a strategic disaster. It's on the opposite side of the world. There's no articulable way that this is going to work out or a tangible benefit. So I look at what's happening in the Caribbean and I say why couldn't we just do this and not do Iran? Why couldn't we just focus on what is 50 miles from us? Is Cuba not 50 miles from Florida at the narrowest point? It's right there. It's right there. They are an enemy. They work with Russia and China. They are living in pen. They're absolutely impoverished. If we could, why would we not? All we have to do is restrict our oil supplies and we could potentially gain an ally. Flip one of the only countries that opposes us in our hemisphere to claim the western he hemisphere for America and then we're totally safe from any great power conflict with Russia and China. I think it's much safer to engage in a non confrontational and peaceful way with Beijing if we don't have to worry about this stuff going on in the Pacific on our side of it. And I believe you can maintain that position without this neocon view that we're going to go to war in Nigeria and Congo and Iran and Ukraine and and Taiwan and literally anywhere and everywhere else. So I saw that story and to me this sounds like an America first foreign policy. This is an expansive, imaginative, ambitious, smart use of US power that benefits Americans. Wouldn't it would it not be nice for Cuba to be a source of tourism. That Cuba could have bilateral trade with the United States. We could fly there and take vacations. We could stimulate their economy, we could engage them in trade. We could build a naval base there, we could get Russia and China out. And in Venezuela you can bring in Chevron and all the American companies to increase their oil output and then we can consume all of it. Or. Well, I, I don't know exactly. So I suppose they have heavy sour oil. That's the oil that we need. I had to remember there for a second. We're light and sweet, they're heavy and sour. That's what that's. We built all our oil infrastructure in Texas and Louisiana for their oil. Let's get them pumping out 3 million, 4 million barrels per day. Let's send that to Texas and that will replace all the fall off all of the oil that we are not going to get anymore from the oil sands, from fracking, which is seems to be running out. That's good for us. And once again, tourism, bilateral trade, security cooperation. To me these are all positives. So I support it. I like that foreign policy. Why could we not have an aggressive over the top America first foreign policy in Mexico and Cuba, Venezuela, where it matters. Think about our partnership with El Salvador. In El Salvador you have. And I'm not a. Just full disclosure, I'm not an El Salvador shill, okay? You're not gonna see me going there. I'm deeply distrusting of San Salvador, their regime over there. I'm not a bouquet shill. Let me just say that however they have these prison colonies and in the future could we not deport all our illegals there? El Salvador at one time was an enemy nation, hotbed of violence. The violence was creating a refugee crisis because of the gang violence. El Salvador is one of these northern triangle countries. Their failing state status actually pushed all of their people into our country cuz nobody wanted to live there. Well, if a friendly right wing regime brutally cracks down on it, not only do you one have a chance at preventing those, preventing that immigration, but also you have some unique opportunities for cooperation. Could that not be the case with Cuba? Could that not be the case with Venezuela? Can we not use these states for some political arbitrage? And you know, if, if those are the nationalist right wing colonies of a future party, could we not, you know, do some things over there? Let's dream a little bigger. Let's dream. If your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough you people want a wholesome Chungus republic where we say hands off Venezuela. Okay, socialist piece of. We'll play it on your terms. Nah, fuck that. Fuck that. We're a hemispheric empire. We are huge. We have the biggest military. We are an empire. This half of the planet belongs to us. And everything they make and everything in the ground beneath their feet is ours. Because they cannot defend it. It is ours for the taking. We should go in, build a favorable regime. We should go in and harvest all of it. For our economy, our military machine, our quality of life. And they will thank us and they will greet us with gratitude. And they will thank us for bringing economic activity and security and stability to their backwards nations. That's a vision I can get behind. And we can send all these people back to where they came from. Once we rebuild their homes off of extracting their resources for our consumption. And that is what we can do. As a matter of fact, it's what we must do. Because we are facing down the barrel of a gun of a great power rivalry with China and India. China is a factory with a billion people. India is trying to become something like that with a billion and a half people. We are entering an age of renewed great power. Strategic competition. Our population growth is falling off without immigration. We need somewhere where we can send the manufacturing that's friendly and that is not prone to supply chain disruptions. That is not compromised. Hey, news flash. You know where that's going to come from? It's called our island. It's called the world island. North and South America. Yes, the world island is Afro Eurasia. But we also are an island too. And we basically have to build up this fort. Turn Latin and North America into a factory that builds tanks and missiles and drones and compute. So that we can have a chance at achieving parity with the rest of the world put together. That's kind of the long term vision. I think that's a very good idea. And that's something that we can all get behind. I don't want this low rent, cheapo, wholesome chungus a republic if you can keep it. And what are we gonna do? We're all gonna get our muskets and make some apple pies and play our banjos outside. Well, the Chinese are building Guangzhou and Shanghai and all the rest of it. They're going to the moon and Mars. I don't think so. No. It's time for the American Republic to die. Maybe you don't wanna hear that. Maybe your provincial sensibilities, sentimentality, you're clinging to the Republic. The Republic is dead. The American Republic is dead and it's never coming back. Long live the American Empire which must be born from its ashes. It's gone. It's never coming back. The Constitution, the founding. Our way of life before is dead. That chapter is over. We have turned the page. Throw out the Norman Rockwell paintings and the Boy Scout uniforms. You're clinging to something that is already gone. We have to start to think about the future, which is an American empire that constitutes all of North Central and South America. We have to turn this half of the planet into a tank, a fortress, a factory, an aircraft carrier. It will be a base for lunar and Martian expedition. It will be a base of operations for war against the entire world. And it's going to be the engine and the guarantor of our quality of life and our prosperity. Because you have to know that that is all ending very soon if we don't do anything. You think it's going to go on like this forever? AC and TVs and eating meat every day of the week? Slaves delivering your door, Dash driving you around town in an Uber. Cheap electricity, cheap energy. You think that's going to go on forever? You think AI will save us from all that? Nah, we're going to need more. More stuff. So it's coming out of somebody's Central and South America. That's the future. So anyway, I'm larping a little bit. We're larping a little bit. Holy larp. Yeah, it's a little bit of a larp, but it's also interesting to think about. So anyway, that's that. We're gonna move on. I'm just like, cl. Honestly, I'm just. Clip farming. We're gonna move on. That. That was just pure clip farming. The American Republic is dead. I'm. I'm just Cliff farming. We're gonna move on. We're gonna take a look at our super chats. We'll see what you guys have to say. But it is just like, interesting to think about. I don't know. That makes me excited about the future when people start talking about like, hey man, I'm a heritage American. Don't tread on me. Don't tread on my, like, whatever. Don't tread on my banjo. I'm like, dude, you're. It's going, it's gone. Your country is going, it's gone. Let it go. What's dead is dead. You know, I see these knucklehead and they're like, let's start The Bull Moose Club. Let's start the Teddy Roosevelt Society for Norman Rockwell Boy Scout paintings. We're all heritage Americans. Let's all dress up like the pioneers. Gucci backpack, bro. Gucci backpack. Let it go. Gucci backpack. There ain't no Norman Rockwell Boy Scout nut. Heritage America, brother. The whitest kids you know are ris Are listening to Radiohead, okay? The whitest niggas, you know, your, your heritage Americans, they're listening to Radiohead, they're smoking weed, they're making indie music, they're DJing a party in New York. They're bisexual, okay? Like they're, they're eating Asian fusion or I don't even know what's new Caribbean fusion. And you have these like washed faggots. You have these like washed faggots that aren't even white. You have a guy that's like, you know, an eighth Cherokee, a quarter Japanese, whatever. And they're like, well, I'm a heritage American. Well, remember the Alamo? You got a guy who's like a quarter Guatemalan and he's like, whoa, I'm a heritage American. Remember Davy Crockett in the Alamo? It's like, dude, dude, your mom is Mexican. Like, dude, your mom is Guatemalan. What are you talking about? You know, the real what? The real founding stock, the real founding stock is like some wigger in Milwaukee. The real founding stock is like a bisexual DJ in New York. The real founding stock is like some stoner on Venice Beach. They don't give a fuck about banjos. They don't give a fuck about Lewis and Clark or that guy that makes those archaic recipes from the revolutionary war on YouTube. And I love that guy, he's a great guy, but like they, you know. So let's stop larping, okay? Let's put that to bed. Give em some milk and honey and put em to fucking bed. Cuz that's done. And I hate to be the bearer of bad news. People say, of course the, of course the fucking spic would say that. Yeah, it's called reality. You know, I can already imagine the replies. The replies are gonna say, of course this 25% Sephardic gay guy is gonna tell us, blah blah blah. He would never understand. I know I wouldn't. I'm rich and successful. You're some broke loser hanging onto the past. You've got you, you have some, you know, pine tree ass account, an appeal to heaven. You know, it's like the pioneers again. We're the Bull Moose Society. We're the, we're gonna be like, whatever. It's like. I know, bro. I know. You. You have a 200 follower account where you post Norman Rockwell paintings, Gucci backpack. I'm rich and successful and, you know, the smartest people like me. You're right. I wouldn't get it. True. So anyway, what was I saying again? But yeah, I mean, that. That kind of stuff just makes me feel sad. It makes me feel sad inside. It makes me feel sad that all these pathetic LARPers are gonna get together in their clubhouse and say, remember the Alamo? And by the way, they're all like. They're watching Disney plus too. So. So, no, we need a new idea. We need to be like evilla, bro. We need to be futurist. What had. Do you remember when fascism was revolutionary? Fascism was not conservative. It was revolutionary. The fascists were futurists. And so they want. They. They were archaeo. Futurists. They were thinking about the past, imagining the future. Let's build new monuments. Let's build new monuments to greatness. New coliseums, new art styles, new. New everything. They weren't clinging to the past. So anyway, no, I'm not conservative. Anyway, we're gonna move on. We're gonna take a look at our super chats. I'm clip farming a little. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm clip farming. Well, whatever, dude. You know what's so funny? I shouldn't. I'm not gonna say it. Somebody texted me today something so funny about clipping, I don't even wanna repeat it. It was so embarrassing. All right, let's take a look. We'll see what you guys have to say.
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Destiny is a Seal Center. $20 or poor pork. Destiny might be a seal.
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That was crazy, bro. The seal role play. That's a new one.
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CAD Camike sent $100. Watching your talk with Crowder was frustrating. Talking points mean you don't have an original thought for yourself. You explain your thought process. Meanwhile, he literally uses conservative talking points without explaining his own logic. We need to demand more of our political commentators.
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Thank you for the big super chat. Yeah, it was just the script, man. It was just the talking points.
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But it's whatever Denzel From Mouse sent $50. Do you ever think about how many souls you may be saving by your testimony and reach? If so, would that alone be worth any possible failures? Im becoming kath cuz of you. I pray for your success. Red heart emoji. Latin cross emoji.
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It's the only thing that I feel good about. No put. No. No joke. No Meme like. Cause sometimes it gets. You really start to wonder, what are we really even doing? Like, it gets so confusing at times. We're being deceived all the time. There's these convoluted intelligence operations, and. And you look around and you go, I don't know who I trust. I don't know who really is who they say they are. I don't even know what side we're on. I don't even know who we're fighting anymore. You know, sometimes you start to feel like it's just a little bit too confusing. But the one thing I know that is good is that we're bringing people to the Catholic Church. That's the only thing that I have. Absolute, unshakable conviction is good, and I feel good that I did that. That's the only thing that is accumulated over time. The money, the clicks, whether people like me, whether they're based. It's all nothing. But whether people become Christian, that's everything. So I really do mean that. It's the. It's the only thing that sometimes prevents me from thinking it was all for nothing. Cause sometimes I really do wake up and think, what is even the fucking point? I'm miserable. I've sacrificed so much of my life to do this in ways you'll never understand. And it's been so hard and. And everything. And I. Sometimes I wake up and say, and we're. You know, we might just lose, or they might just fucking kill me. Or, you know, maybe I was just confused the whole time. Like I said, these intelligence operations, you just don't even know what's going on. Like, who is Tucker? Who are these people? But the one thing that gives me any conviction that it was worth it is people say they're Catholic, they had families, they had kids, they sincerely repented, they sincerely sought a communion with God. And I'm not a perfect person, and I might be going to hell, but. But that might be the only redeeming thing. I mean, I. That is the one responsibility I take seriously, which is, even if I can't be perfect, I can't will myself in a direction towards that. Sometimes if I can just be a voice of conscience or telling people to listen to their conscience, then that might redeem me in the end. At least I hope it counts for something. So. And I take it seriously, it would be very easy for me to just really give into my worst impulses and just be completely irresponsible. And sometimes I feel like the guy that's kind of like, stuck Inside while everybody's having fun. Cuz everybody's having fun. Everybody's out there fucking around and doing drugs and drinking and going to parties and you know, living these carefree lives. And sometimes I feel like, man, like I can't live a normal life. Everybody recognizes me. I can't trust anybody. The FBI's trying to set me up all the time. They're trying to get to me. Um, I know that everybody's trying to get to me. And sometimes I'm like, wow. Like I re really. Lately I felt like I want to just go and live an anonymous life, right? Can maybe have some semblance of happiness. But then I remember I have an obligation. Like I, at the end of the day, I just can't because I do have an obligation. And I, you know, sometimes, maybe it makes people feel better to realize that I am a human being also. And I have those doubts also. Sometimes I question myself and sometimes I long for a fuller life as a real person. But there's some things I just can't compromise. There's some things I just, there's some lines I just can't cross. And so we do have obligations. So anyway, you have obligations as people. There's some things you just have to do. I have to do the show. So anyway, so that's me patting myself on the back. I'm very self righteous. No, but I appreciate you saying Israel's goodest goy.
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Sent $20 shout out to the guy in the comments who posts the timestamps under every upload. A real wager. Hero.
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True. Very unsung hero.
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Piker. I hardly know her. Sent $30. Who is going to clean your toilet? Donald Trump?
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That was awesome, bro. That was awesome. That was a W clip.
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Mark. Sent $1,218.
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Yo, no message. Beautiful. Thank you for the huge super chat. I appreciate it. Amazing, beautiful, giant super chat. No message. God bless you, man. Thank you for all the support. 07's for Mark. Mark's been helping us out this week. Really appreciate it.
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Green jelly. Sent $1,001.
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Whoa.
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I had a dream last night where you escaped the Matrix. It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever witnessed. You finally became proud of your Catholic lives and you proclaimed there is only one thing that matters and that is love.
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Wow. That's crazy. That's a crazy message.
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Green jelly. Sent $1,002. You started saying Zionism never had a shred of love in it and Jesus would scream at the genocidal slaughter of Palestinians. Okay, but I can't Remember all the details and you put it better in the dream.
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Now you're making me sound gay now you're making me sound like a bleeding heart. Jesus would scream at the. Come on now. Come on now. Holy moly. Come on now. What is even that? What is even that? Okay, you had me. You had me in the first half. I'm proud to be Catholic. Jesus would scream at the slaughter of Palestine. Come on now. Now you're making me sound gay. Stop dreaming about me, please.
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Green jelly sent $1,003. And most importantly, you had the courage to call out the incessant bullying of Sneako. You had the character to stand up for your friend. Anyone who said fuck Sneako or rape Sneako or kill Sneako would be ambushed and humiliated.
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I'm not saying that anymore. I'm not saying that anymore. Thank you for the huge super chats. Yeah, well, no good deed goes unpunished, huh? Where's the fucking loyalty? Doesn't anybody care about me? No. You know who cares about me? Keith Woods. Keith woods cares about me. My mom cares about me. Some other notables, but. Yeah. Just when you think nobody can hurt you, isn't that always how it goes? You live your life. You think you've seen it all. You think I've been betrayed. Over and over, you say to yourself, I'll never hurt like that again. No one can ever get to me like that. Betrayed so many times, nothing surprises me. I'm an old, cynical, jaded person. And then people keep surprising you. They just keep surprising you. Really, Sneako? Really unreal. And to think I've been holding it down for him. I apologize. I reached out to him when he got punched. People on the show hate him. My audience hates him. They hate him. And every show I say, stop. We love him. Enough outta you. I get attacked. There's just a full on coordinated attack. Once again, everybody beating up on me, unprovided, provoked these people. What did I do to Dan Bilzerian other than I disagreed with him? He goes, you know this guy's a fucking fed. And. And every other nitwit piles on beating up on me. Piling on as always. And Sneako goes, I don't wanna get involved in the drama. I don't want it to look like I'm taking a side that's not gonna be good for me. Good. All right. Loud and clear. I hear you, buddy. No, no, but I appreciate the huge super chats. Virgil. Dude, the goat was right. Virgil. You are Virgil. You Virgil me. You are Virgil. Virgil. Let me down, bro. Virgil, let me down. Sneako let me down. That's crazy. That one hurt. That one surprised me. I thought we were back. I thought we were boys again now we were friends again. I thought it was gonna be all good. Well, whatever, I guess that's. You know what? You guys, you told me all. Every. You know what? You know what the worst part is? Everybody around me said. Literally all my friends said, this guy, he's a brown clown. You know, this guy's not loyal. And I said, no, no, I love Sneako. I said, this is my guy. He's always going to come around. I really did. And then you get this. And I even told him. I said, hey, man, I need this. I said, I. I need to collab. Like, you know, I haven't told them. I'm like, let's do a collab. But, you know. And he goes, oh, I don't know. That would kind of fuck me up, don't you think? I'm like, oh, yeah, I forgot. I forgot about that. It's true. Good point. So, yeah, whatever. I don't wanna do any drama about it. I said what? I said, he's gonna respond as he does. I think that's all there is to say. Think that's all there is to say. But I appreciate the huge super chats now. Don't. Don't say fuck Sneako. Just let it go. I don't hate him. I'll never hate him. I don't hate him. I'm just letting him go, you know, it was real. We had some good times. It's okay. It's really. It's okay. So, no, no, I still will say. Don't. Don't say fuck Sneako. I don't. I don't even say that. Just disappointed. Hurt, disappointed. Surprised. Surprised at your lack of character. But I. I can't. I can't hold it against you. It is what it is. But I appreciate the huge super chats. Thank you to Green Jelly for coming in Clutch. That's really. I'm really just disappointed. I'm hurt and I'm disappointed. That's all there is to it. I'm not even mad. I'm just surprised. And I'm not saying that to Sal. Oh, I'm not mad. I'm disappointed. But it's, you know, I'm not. I'm not mad. I legitimately am. Just a little bit. I am surprised and it hurts my feelings and it's disappointing and I just, you know, but whatever. More. More of that, more of that. You try to be a good guy. You try to embrace people. You try to, you try to give freely and it's okay. What happens.
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Mrs. Groep, Rex. Sent $25.
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Thanks a lot. Appreciate it.
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Sent $20. Why? Candace Owens, wasn't it? No E girls. She was so nasty to you before.
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Yeah, I don't know, I don't know what's going on with me.
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Armando Andrade sent $20. Sneako just love sitting on the fence. Couldn't be any more obvious that you were deliberately attacked by Jake and Dan.
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That's what I told them. I said, bro, they attacked me. I'm like, they launched this attack on me. I did nothing to them other than forgive them. And they launched this. It's like, dude, we were friends, we hung out. I went to your house, I went on your show, we talked on the phone. We've known each other for years. And what did I do to them? Nothing. They disagree with me, so they accuse me. They tried to destroy me because I didn't agree with them. Cuz they, they doubted my motivations. They suspected me. I get this all out attack. He goes, oh, I don't wanna get involved in the drama. He's texting me. This some fucking motherfucking bullshit saying Charlie Kirk was a leader cuz he was a unifier. You need to unify everybody. It's my fault. I, I, I'm at fault. Nobody gets with my program. They attack me for it. I, it's my fault. It's also tiresome. Truly, truly. You know, they do this big conference without me and they're sticking it to me in the New York Times saying, yeah, you know, they're literally biting my whole flow, going to the Times and saying, yeah, you know, Nick is great, but he's just bitching on the Internet. We're gonna succeed without him. Numb nuts is doing an interview. Yeah, he's not a leader. You're literally provoking me. I was as diplomatic as possible. I went on the show and said, look, I know it's hard to do a conference. I'm not trying to pile on, but not for nothing, you tried to do it without me. It didn't work. I said, you know, we are the essential ingredient. And then they try to bury me. It's crazy. It's actually, and then everyone victim, then I'm, then I'm at fault for everyone attacking me. Why'd you let everybody try to attack you? Well, listen, I'm not gonna take credit for them trying to attack me. I will absolutely, I will absolutely take credit for winning? You wanna blame me for the fight? You can blame me for winning. Oh, yeah. You can blame me for making Dan Bilzerian lose. Fine. I don't start the fight. I'll finish it. And you will lament and say, why couldn't we adjust Unified? Ask them. I didn't fire the first shot. But you know what? In two years, when Jake Shields and Dan Bil are irrelevant, you can thank me for finishing it. I'll take the credit for hitting back a thousand times harder and more effectively. Isn't that always how it goes? They think you're virtuous because you have no claws. Dan Bilzerian and Jake Shields and all of them put together are virtuous because they have no claws, because they draw no blood. But that's not how it works. You know, if I were weak. If I were weak and they were able to knock me off, maybe then everybody would be feeling sorry for me. Maybe then they would come around and wanna support me. It's only ever because I punch back a hundred times harder that then suddenly everybody's got a problem, isn't it? That's why it's two sides. You tried it, you failed. You destroyed yourself in the process. So I'm the villain, okay? I'll be the villain in your story. Just remember who made me this way. What's that video that Groepster posted? Isn't that so true? All of them put together. All of them put together. All the king's men tried to knock me off. They failed. They're destroying themselves. Now people say stop. Stop. Just unify everybody. Oh, now it's stop. Wasn't stopped last Thursday. Wasn't st. Stopped last Thursday when everybody was getting their licks in. Oh, now it's please stop. Why? When we find out he's 12% Jewish and he's got no chances on poly market. Now it's two sides. Interesting how that works. The end of the day, they're not. It's not about friendship. At the end of the day, it is about these dynamics. And it is what it is. But anyway, that's why it's so rare to find a true friend.
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Tennessee grow I percent $20 Catholic convert, have a pregnant wife, plumber becoming an architect. All overcoming schizophrenia. Never Black Pill Brothers AF.
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Really? Wow. Well, congratulations. Sounds great.
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Step up. Grow I percent $20 hey, Nick. Hooked up with my high school crush. She has one black son and two Mexican daughters. I can't. If kids could use prayers. That's crazy brown clown. Balinthazi sent $20.
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Thanks.
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Roy Peck rumor sent $100. 78 years ago today, Ben Gurion read the Declaration of Independence of the state of Israel. The Grouper curse is real, but what about the curse of the eighth decade?
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Yeah, you know, I've heard that. I guess it's possible. Doesn't seem very likely, though. Appreciate the big super chat. I tend not to buy into these, like, cyclical views of history because history is always changing. I don't think there's a lot of fixed rules that you can apply.
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Katherine Alexandria sent $20. The Iowa Repub primary for governor is June 2. Randy Feenstra, who takes money from IPAC versus Zaklan, a new to politics millennial farmer. He's been on Tucker. Srs Promotes Iowa first.
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Okay, I have to look into that. I'm not following that race.
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Catherine Alexandria sent $20. The Iowa Republic.
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That's a duplicate.
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Beth Murray sent $20. If Sneako researched Catholicism the way he does Islam, he would come home to the true church.
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You think so? I don't know.
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Cheesy sack sent $20. How can we trust the Dems? How will I tell my family, friends, church, classmates, or anyone I know that I went blue forever? Noisy 95 said $20. Nick. I'm just worried is all that the Jews have lobotomized Clab and turned him into a wig.
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I don't think that's true.
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Zephyr sent $40. Is space fake and gay? So God made the firmament and separated the waters? Anti Semitism Awareness sent $20. Shall we deploy to hashtag rapesnico now? The Blue Dreamer 95 cent 20.
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No, leave him alone. Leave him alone. I don't want to attack him, but that's just disappointing.
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The Blue Dreamer 95cent$20. Your goy is going hashtag vote democrat. Doodlebomb sent $100. Mihoy mi goy.
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Nice. Thank you for the big super chat.
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Florida Gruber sent $25. Three days ago someone named Florida Gripper left a low IQ chat plaza. Don't think that was me. And the fishback guy. Not the faith guy. I won't MX. Welcome to CHUD Hell. Nick. Smiley face emoji. Yeah, Waldo sent $20. Buy merch. Send super chats. Donate and learn something. Let Nick handle the movement. Do not speak for him. America first.
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Very true. Well said. Yeah. Do not speak for me. Thank you.
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DeGroy percent $50 if you kiss, it's done. We're fucknick.
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That was kind of fun.
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Okay, very good. Thank you for the big super chat. Very funny. Very well done. It's that bit again. Good stuff.
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Is that true? I didn't know that.
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I don't see what one has to do with the other.
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What happened in Tennessee? I don't know.
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I don't know what you mean by that, but thanks.
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David Lancaster sent $100. I know I'm days late, but the Crowder interview was hard to watch. Harder by far than Piers Morgan next time you gotta dip after an hour. His credulous shtick is so tiresome after a while. And you need to beat these people over the head more with the fact that it is only a midterm election year.
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Okay, thanks for the notes. Thanks for the big super chat.
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Okay. Thank you for the big super chat.
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Thank you for the huge super chat. Feminine. Is that another woman? What is with the women giving me all this money? That's crazy. Thank you for the massive super chat. Another void. Another female donor. What is the psychology of a woman that's giving me a thousand dollars? I just don't understand it. I just don't get it. But I appreciate the massive super chat. Thank you so much. God bless you. I appreciate the support.
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Thanks. Judge sent $20. When is the reaction to Iceman Stream?
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Probably never.
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No, usually I'm just hanging out.
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Yeah, I'll look into it.
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Favorite merch item probably the zip up
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No, no. Where do you guys come up with this stuff? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life.
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I say send him to jail. Honestly, I. I don't think what he did was defensible. What? Like yeah, at a certain point if you're running around with a gun antagonizing people and then you shoot somebody. Like it's one thing if somebody attacks you for no reason and you shoot them. It's another thing if it's like here I am with my live stream where I provoke confrontations. I hope I don't have to kill anybody today. Like, I don't know, man, I. I wish that he could just reform and you know, they Give him a slap on the wrist and he doesn't do anything again. But that's just. I mean that was gonna happen no matter what.
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I'm not reading that last one.
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Yeah. Another callback. Thank you for the big super chat. Remember that? That was really funny. That guy reached out to me. That guy who was in the clan. He's like, you were right. So I gotta. Maybe I'll reach out to him.
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I wouldn't encourage any more of that
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Crab leg grow I percent $50 Ayo Nick. Hope you're doing well. Wishing an early happy birthday to Groi Pet Sisamily. Both big fans and will be grilling this weekend in your honor. Praying for your continued safety and success.
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Alright, grill. Let a man grill. Love to hear.
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I'm not taking Friday off. I just have stuff going on. But I appreciate it.
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Thank you for the big super chat.
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Just some guy here. Sent $25. I need my hats from the salesman. When they coming? Pray for Sneako. Crying face. Joel Walsh said $20. Love the beard. Reminds me of J.D. vance.
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Reminds you of G.D. vance. What do you think? I'm liking it. Liking it a little bit. I like it with the quarter zip. Yeah. I'm skinny. I'm skinny as hell. Lost all this weight and Dan Bilzerian. Like I said, he says victim weight. It's like bro, I worked hard to get to a victim weight like this. Look at this thing is falling off of me. It's way too big. Cuz I'm I'm so tight. Okay, pause, pause. Never beating the allegations. Never beating the allegations. But it's true. Every muscle must be tight. I gotta be in fighting shape.
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No idea.
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True.
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Samuel Ray sent $50. My wife was watching the show over my shoulder tonight and said, wow, he looks way skinny. Or such a handsome boy.
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Thanks. Thank you so much, dude. I was hanging out with a friend this past weekend, good friend of mine. I sit down and the first thing he says is, whoa, you look really skinny. He goes, I are you on retta? I'm like, no. I'm like, no, I just stopped eating. Thanks. Thank you so much. I'm doing my impression of him. So, Nick, my next question is, are you on retta? But yeah, he's like, dude, you look so skinny. I'm like, thanks. No, I'm not on red. I just stopped eating. I just lost my appetite.
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Come on.
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Thank you for the big super chat. We like Dave Smith.
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Totally true.
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I'm not following every race. What do you think about this guy in Missouri's 4th? I'm not following every race action hand
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Thanks.
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Wow bro. Well, you're kind of cooked. I mean, you try to get back on your feet and get back in the game, but yeah, that's going to be hard to overcome.
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A eulogy. Eulogy is the word I was looking for. Not obituary.
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Coldro:55cent $20 got punched by a black dude at a concert after he tried to fight my girlfriend. Reminded me of your quote rather be racist than dead all heart Love you Nick Operatics and Kadri sent $21 after last night's SC. Thought ya'd be on the boat in the Almafi coast till next Monday. Thx for showing up and showing out. Needed that. Yeah, I started following you about two years ago, so I'm not an og, but I really appreciate your work. You're smart, funny and brutally honest. You provide insightful and important political commentary. I believe in and support your overall message. Keep fighting the good fight man.
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Thanks for the big super chat. Appreciate it. That's okay. You don't need to be an OG
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Thank you for the big super chat. That's the thing. I don't know that they'll be able to.
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Okay bro, please, like can I be raptured? Let. Let this chalice pass from my hands. Like D. Suicide is sounding like a viable alternative to any other choice of course of action. Right now. It's like my ears are ringing. I can't see straight right now. After that super chat, it's like my ears are ringing. I'm seeing double. I'm disassociating. I'm. I'm turning into my alternate personality right now. Thoughts on Knowles and Walsh. Are they subversive or genuine? But got co opted. Dude. It doesn't. It does not matter. It's a difference without a distinction. Holy. It's just like you're whatever and it didn't happen. That didn't happen.
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Ishti sent $20. Long time. What should happen with Canada? Carney wants a new world order. With China could be a Future Ukraine situation. AF Burger King sent 20. No AF Burger King sent $20. Being anti anime is such a LARP. You reference Evangelion so damn much.
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Yeah, I watched one show. But in general it's. It's crap. And fuck you.
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Cheryl writes your fates. Fine. Sent $50. Damn inspiring. Thank you. The Bull Moose sent $20. Went to Real Nigaville the other day. Everybody knew you. Alexander McCarthy sent $50 at Alexander McCarthy. I wanted my name a part of this historical moment. Episode 1683 hi Mom. I made it.
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That's crazy. 1683. Interesting sort of auspicious number, huh? 1683. Wasn't that the year that they repelled the siege of Vienna? If I'm not mistaken or I have that flipped. That's. That's correct, right? 1683. Siege of Vienna. Winged Hustlers. Sort of an auspicious number, wouldn't you say?
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It's. It's okay. Really. It's okay. It's. It's time. It's time to call it. It's okay. Don't. Don't be sad that it's over. Let's just smile that it happened. I don't want to argue. I don't want to fight. You said what you said. It is what it is.
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Thank you, man. Appreciate it. Okay, that's her last super chat. That's gonna do it for me. People are. What is it pronounced something else? People are saying Winged Husters. Is it hussars? What is it pronounced differently? Well, I believe I got the year right anyway. All right, that's her last super chat. That's gonna do it for me. Like I said, I'm not doing a show tomorrow. Not doing a show. I will be back on Monday. Rescheduled our Alex Jones appearance for Tuesday at 1. That's all I got for you this week. Remember to smash the follow button, smash the like button. Leave a comment, let me know what you think about the show. I'm on the air Monday through Friday. As always, thanks for watching. Thank you to our top super chatters. Big huge special. Thank you to Green Jelly, Mark Feminifeides, Titty Sprinkles, Winged Hollow, Groiper Television, David Lancaster, Broken Groiper, Cad Camike, Groiped groomer, Judal Bob, 6 or 7 million V, 1889, seaman, crypt heisentard and Andrea Low Laurer. Special thanks to them. Thanks to all our super chatters. Everybody that watches. We love you. I'll see you Monday. Until then, have a great weekend. Have a great rest of your evening. Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo. It's going to be only America First. America first. The American people will come first once again. With respect, the respect that we deserve. From this day forward, it's going to be only America First. America First.