The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1082

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 20th of January 2025.

00:00:05.600 Actually, I had to look at the date there, still not got used to the year.

00:00:08.860 It's a momentous date.

00:00:10.380 Give me 11 months, I might get used to it.

00:00:12.920 And it is indeed a momentous day because Trump is going to become president today.

00:00:16.880 All things going to plan, no stray bullets or anything like that.

00:00:20.580 And today I am joined by Leo Kearse as well as Beau.

00:00:24.800 Hello.

00:00:25.180 And of course, I am Josh.

00:00:26.900 And yes, I also have an announcement to make.

00:00:30.000 We will cover the Southport stuff later.

00:00:33.240 We were just waiting to find out more things about it.

00:00:36.000 And also, it's, you know, the Trump presidency.

00:00:39.320 And we wanted a bit more information to come out because now it's going to sentencing.

00:00:43.500 I think there's more to be said, right?

00:00:45.720 Because he pleaded guilty to all charges, you know, the murder charges.

00:00:49.580 And I guess he's pleaded guilty to the terror charges as well.

00:00:52.820 Does that mean we don't get to see the evidence against him?

00:00:56.700 That's what I have been led to believe.

00:00:59.340 But I'm not entirely sure yet.

00:01:00.720 This is why we've actually waited because we want to see where things are going and actually

00:01:05.600 have a proper look at the evidence rather than just jump on it and say, well, not a lot has

00:01:09.620 happened yet.

00:01:10.640 Because...

00:01:11.340 But can I just say I agree with the left-wing establishment that he is the most British person who has ever lived?

00:01:19.060 If I had to name my top three most British people, I think it would be Hugh Grant, the Queen, and Axel McGannua, Ruda Cabana.

00:01:26.920 Solid take.

00:01:27.580 Solid take.

00:01:28.100 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:01:28.880 If anything, he'd be number one, wouldn't he?

00:01:30.320 Oh, yeah.

00:01:30.840 So British.

00:01:31.520 I don't want to sound really, really boring and conservative with a small c, but it is

00:01:35.360 prudent to wait till a verdict.

00:01:38.380 It's just sort of the prudent thing to do.

00:01:41.520 Okay.

00:01:42.000 Yeah.

00:01:42.840 I think you're probably right there.

00:01:44.920 Plus, we don't want to give people ammunition to then try and sue us or whatever or say we've

00:01:49.920 committed contempt of court.

00:01:51.520 Because people will do that.

00:01:52.860 Just talking about the case had people saying, you're in contempt of court.

00:01:57.500 I'm saying, oh, hang on a minute.

00:01:58.320 I will rarely comment on a court case that's ongoing.

00:02:01.080 I mean, when it's done, go to town, right?

00:02:03.840 When it's done, do what you want.

00:02:05.680 But while it's going on, it's just best to...

00:02:08.740 And who could possibly have contempt for our criminal justice system?

00:02:12.060 Our fantastic, impartial criminal justice system.

00:02:15.220 They've never done anything.

00:02:15.780 That applies the law evenly to all people.

00:02:18.540 Best justice systems in the world.

00:02:20.120 North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Britain.

00:02:23.820 They're the best ones.

00:02:24.960 I think so, dear.

00:02:25.500 Sending order.

00:02:26.860 It actually is.

00:02:27.760 It's actually fairer.

00:02:29.160 You actually get justice there occasionally.

00:02:31.720 Anyway, let's talk about Trump, shall we?

00:02:34.840 So, Trump is going to be the next president.

00:02:39.400 All things going to plan.

00:02:41.560 Hopefully, there's going to be no more bullets going his way.

00:02:44.940 Who knows what's going to happen?

00:02:47.240 But it's looking pretty likely, I think, that he is going to be the next president.

00:02:50.420 And I thought it'd be useful to go over what he's actually going to do while he's in office

00:02:54.940 because he said a lot of things.

00:02:57.160 And also, I think it'd be worthwhile talking about the likelihood of him actually achieving

00:03:01.540 those things.

00:03:02.320 And I'm going to try and be as comprehensive as possible.

00:03:05.260 But obviously, I'm limited by a time limit.

00:03:07.540 So, there will be stuff that we might miss out that you'll think is important.

00:03:11.180 But that is why you should comment about it in the comments section and not have a go

00:03:15.220 at us and be nice.

00:03:16.080 Because, you know, we're limited by the amount of time we have.

00:03:19.260 But it is also worth mentioning, I've wrote a pretty comprehensive article about this,

00:03:24.080 as well as the fact that we're going to be covering this at four o'clock on the website.

00:03:28.620 We're going to be watching the inauguration live.

00:03:31.820 I think it's going to be a star-studded panel of ourselves, Carl and Dan, and maybe Harry.

00:03:39.760 I don't know.

00:03:40.220 I don't know who's going to be on it yet.

00:03:41.680 But we're going to be watching live if you wanted to come and join us doing so.

00:03:45.800 So, that'll be a long multi-hour stream where it's just relaxed like a lad's hour.

00:03:52.040 Yeah, exactly.

00:03:53.540 Sort of like a watch party, except online.

00:03:57.160 And we're not providing you with free alcohol.

00:03:59.560 Sorry about that.

00:04:00.960 But one thing I wanted to draw a lot of attention to is that Donald Trump has basically announced

00:04:07.220 that he's going to sign close to 100 executive orders.

00:04:12.200 And this is going to be on his first day.

00:04:14.640 That's what he's said, at least.

00:04:16.080 Whether that happens or not is a different thing.

00:04:18.560 But I think that's very interesting because Biden, in his first week, signed 17.

00:04:24.840 And this was seen as like an unprecedented move towards more dictatorial use of presidential powers.

00:04:30.880 And 17 in the first week was the equivalent of two months of Trump's previous presidency.

00:04:38.000 And so this is a massive ramping up of the use of executive orders.

00:04:41.940 Because if you're not familiar with what an executive order is, it's basically a president's way of signing something into law without having to go via Congress.

00:04:50.120 Although Congress can override it, I think off the top of my head, with a two-thirds majority.

00:04:55.700 Is that right?

00:04:56.640 I'm not totally sure.

00:04:57.540 But I think Trump sort of broke the seal on these in his first term because, you know, it was hard for him to get things done.

00:05:03.140 A lot of people in his own party were stymieing him as well.

00:05:06.740 And obviously the whole apparatus of the American public sector, the equivalent of the civil service, was stymieing him as well.

00:05:14.020 And also, you know, to make things happen, he started using them.

00:05:16.900 And then, yeah, like Joe Biden started using them more.

00:05:19.940 And now Trump's come back and he's like, yeah, let's have a million of them.

00:05:23.020 Come on.

00:05:24.400 I do think that the founding fathers will be turning in their grave at this.

00:05:30.620 Someone like John Adams or Benjamin Franklin or someone would be upset if they saw this.

00:05:36.340 Because it's now a tit-for-tat thing, sort of going forward, I feel like every time there's a change of party, change of presidential, it will just be this.

00:05:45.440 They'll do 100, 200, 500 in decades to come.

00:05:49.440 On day one, it's just de rigueur that you do 500 executive orders.

00:05:53.780 I feel like that's the way it's going to go.

00:05:55.320 There is a parallel there with the end of the Roman Republic where, because it isn't illegal, right?

00:06:00.560 It's sort of convention to do very few of them, similar to presidential pardons, isn't it?

00:06:05.380 They've traditionally just been used in wartime or times where something needs to happen very quickly and it's an emergency.

00:06:12.620 But then, I mean, I guess a lot of people would argue that after we've had decades, essentially, of this sort of left-wing big state government

00:06:21.040 that's gradually got more progressive, more lefty and bigger and more cumbersome,

00:06:26.300 that Trump, to actually make any changes in just four years, he has to hit the ground running.

00:06:30.760 And this is an emergency.

00:06:31.820 He has to sign, I mean, the emergency closing of the border and things like that, it kind of has to be done.

00:06:38.660 You can't just put legislation into play that's going to possibly come into action in, you know, 18 months' time.

00:06:45.840 Yeah, I think just like presidential pardons, you can see the progression over the centuries,

00:06:51.680 where it used to be quite a limited thing and now it's hundreds or even a few thousand.

00:06:56.160 Again, I think the Founding Fathers, it's not really what they intended.

00:07:01.300 But like the Roman Republic, you'll see people not doing things that are, strictly speaking, by the letter of the law illegal,

00:07:07.440 but just absolutely taking the mickey out of what was meant by it.

00:07:11.960 Yeah.

00:07:12.080 But then I guess it's a different world.

00:07:14.480 Like the Founding Fathers, you know, America was a much more homogenous, high-trust society.

00:07:20.220 So it's like our asylum system rules in the UK.

00:07:23.780 They're designed, you know, in the sort of post-war era,

00:07:26.800 when we weren't expecting, you know, thousands of, you know, Somalians or Libyans or whoever to exploit the rules to come here.

00:07:36.260 Well, they didn't have the technology to get here in the first place, did they?

00:07:39.160 Yeah, and they didn't have TikToks.

00:07:40.120 They couldn't see Britain.

00:07:41.300 They couldn't see, you know, social media accounts telling them what to do, you know, what lawyers to hire and all the rest of it.

00:07:46.900 Yeah, or the Welsh Council advertising young girls to...

00:07:49.620 Oh, my God.

00:07:50.740 What was that?

00:07:51.620 But, um...

00:07:52.180 What was that?

00:07:53.020 I'm a bit more optimistic about Trump's use of executive orders here,

00:07:57.000 because I think that there are multiple things that could be done.

00:07:59.560 First of all, I think that it's clear that he's very serious about getting his agenda sorted.

00:08:05.220 And for better or worse, I think worse, he's going to restore some faith in the American political system

00:08:11.640 by going in and actually doing things that he said he would do.

00:08:15.720 You know, there was an election where he clearly won,

00:08:18.520 and he's going to go in and do a bunch of things that he said he will do.

00:08:21.900 And there are things that people want as well.

00:08:23.580 I mean, I think the mistake that left-wing parties like the Democrats and Labour do is, you know,

00:08:27.520 they get this mandate to govern, and then they do things that the people don't want,

00:08:30.860 which isn't really...

00:08:31.960 Even though they've been democratically elected,

00:08:33.640 it's not democracy, if you're doing things that people don't want.

00:08:37.760 Very much so, yeah.

00:08:39.380 And lots of conversation has been had in the media,

00:08:44.780 like loads of articles from a plethora of different outlets

00:08:47.820 have been talking about what he's actually going to do with these 100 executive orders.

00:08:52.860 And I think the main point of concern, in my mind, is that of immigration,

00:08:58.300 and particularly things like deportations.

00:09:00.420 And obviously, Trump has vowed, and I'm quoting directly here,

00:09:04.160 to launch the largest deportation program in American history, starting from day one.

00:09:09.640 And that seems to signal to me that he's going to pass some sort of executive order making it happen,

00:09:15.260 which I'm very interested to see, because if America starts this,

00:09:18.620 and it's successful, then also that's going to have an impact across the world,

00:09:23.760 because it sets the acceptable parameters for policy, say, in Europe and elsewhere.

00:09:29.540 Lots of places that are experiencing mass migration,

00:09:31.500 and there might be a sort of domino effect from this.

00:09:35.360 And of course, I want Americans to do this just for their own benefit,

00:09:38.540 because they shouldn't have to suffer.

00:09:40.500 People breaking into their country and them having to pay for it is a massive injustice.

00:09:44.500 Yeah, well, yeah, the Tories and Labor have both used the excuse of, like,

00:09:48.020 well, these are just the rules we have to work with.

00:09:49.860 We have to let all the hundreds of illegal immigrants come in every day,

00:09:54.800 because there's nothing we can do.

00:09:56.240 And it's like, no, you could pass emergency laws.

00:09:58.720 How come during COVID there's this highly survivable virus,

00:10:02.080 and we managed to completely close the borders to stop that?

00:10:06.560 Now we've got some slightly less survivable jihadis who want to get into the country,

00:10:11.000 and there's, oh, there's nothing we can do, the rules won't let us.

00:10:14.760 I particularly hate that argument that they use,

00:10:16.760 oh, there's nothing we can do, our hands are tired.

00:10:18.600 When everyone from David Starkey to Matt Goodwin has said,

00:10:21.980 no, no, you can do this, this, this, and this.

00:10:23.860 You can be an actual government, an actual lead, actually lead.

00:10:27.760 But they just, like, refuse to.

00:10:29.620 One note of caution I would say about Trump getting in and doing all this stuff on day one.

00:10:33.860 I mean, obviously, I am, at least to a limited degree, a Trump partisan.

00:10:37.440 But a note of caution is, first time round, he did say stuff,

00:10:43.440 and then just simply didn't do it, like locking up Hillary or something.

00:10:47.200 I think there's...

00:10:48.340 He did, didn't he?

00:10:48.980 I think that was...

00:10:49.520 Basically, I'm going to, and then just on the first day in a press conference going,

00:10:53.420 yeah, no, I'm not doing that.

00:10:54.380 I think some of it is going to be rhetoric just sort of egging up his own base.

00:10:59.460 But some things are serious, and I think that this is one of them.

00:11:02.440 Um, and supposedly, um, he's expected to declare a national border emergency

00:11:07.000 and order the military to help as well.

00:11:08.980 Nice!

00:11:10.000 There we go.

00:11:11.420 Nice.

00:11:11.740 Beau's going to have a sequence of hats under that table

00:11:14.380 that he's going to work through throughout the whole segment.

00:11:17.320 Um, but yeah, I think this is important.

00:11:19.960 I think that it needs to be done, and it needs to be done quickly,

00:11:22.660 and with a lot of authority,

00:11:24.980 because, um, there is no excuse for people to break into the United States.

00:11:29.340 I mean, you look at countries as well.

00:11:31.980 There are lots of talk about things like human rights.

00:11:34.540 Well, how does Saudi Arabia get to, um,

00:11:37.600 shoot hundreds of people at their border?

00:11:39.300 And you never hear people stand up and say,

00:11:41.800 oh, well, have you thought about the human rights?

00:11:44.120 Because they know it's a lost cause.

00:11:45.660 And I think that when people smell weakness,

00:11:47.440 and they smell an opportunity, they're going to try and take it.

00:11:50.540 And so you've got to be tough on these things.

00:11:52.380 And give the perception that you're unwavering.

00:11:55.520 And the border system they had under the Democrats,

00:11:58.620 and pretty much over the last few decades,

00:12:00.620 is a kind of anti-civilizational border policy.

00:12:04.100 It sort of rewards people who don't follow the rules.

00:12:06.400 Like, I'd love to go and live in America.

00:12:08.180 I'd love it. You know what I mean?

00:12:09.460 I'm only in Britain because I can't do that.

00:12:11.720 You know what I mean?

00:12:12.200 Like, the British dream is to be able to leave Britain

00:12:15.580 and pursue the American dream.

00:12:17.140 But I can't do that because I'm British,

00:12:19.160 so I've got to, you know, I'm just, like,

00:12:21.480 I'm conditioned to form a queue, fill in a form,

00:12:24.780 and all the rest of it.

00:12:25.540 If I do that, I can't get in.

00:12:26.940 You know what I mean?

00:12:27.640 I'm not a tech guru.

00:12:29.120 I don't get an H-1B visa or whatever.

00:12:31.460 Whereas other people that aren't from sort of civilized cultures,

00:12:36.620 anybody who wants to can just rock up and go over the border.

00:12:38.800 I don't know.

00:12:39.140 Maybe Scottish people are doing it as well.

00:12:40.460 Have you seen any Scottish people come over the border?

00:12:44.800 I don't know.

00:12:45.560 Maybe.

00:12:46.080 Worth a shot.

00:12:46.940 So it's like the system, like, sort of rewards

00:12:50.160 and incentivizes the wrong kind of immigration.

00:12:54.400 Well, wasn't it that 4% of Haiti's population

00:12:57.580 is now in the United States?

00:12:59.040 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:12:59.860 Which is just absurd.

00:13:01.040 And that's a population of people, yeah,

00:13:03.080 that you wouldn't want.

00:13:03.660 The European Republic has been way more successful

00:13:06.020 in expelling hundreds of thousands of Haitians from its land

00:13:10.420 because, obviously, it's half of the same island.

00:13:13.460 And, you know, if you look at, you know,

00:13:14.260 we've got a problem with, you know,

00:13:15.940 Pakistani Muslim rape gangs in the UK.

00:13:18.360 We're like, oh, there's nothing we can do.

00:13:20.080 Oh, we've got to let them rape those kids

00:13:21.760 because, you know, we can't deport them.

00:13:23.100 We can't, you know, all the rest of it.

00:13:24.580 In Afghanistan, like, actually,

00:13:26.580 Pakistan's expelled, you know,

00:13:28.160 a million and a half Afghanis.

00:13:30.460 So, you know, other countries have no problem at all

00:13:34.240 enforcing borders, you know,

00:13:35.880 expelling people who they don't want,

00:13:37.920 you know, treating demographic groups like that.

00:13:42.240 So, I mean, I don't know why.

00:13:43.980 I don't know why the West can't.

00:13:45.840 There are plenty of examples,

00:13:47.500 both in recent times and historically,

00:13:49.760 of countries expelling, on a mass scale, people.

00:13:55.340 So it can be done.

00:13:56.880 There is lots and lots of precedent for it.

00:13:58.520 I mean, Russia recently got rid of loads of people.

00:14:01.680 Just look at the partition.

00:14:03.400 Got rid of loads of Russians as well.

00:14:06.120 Yeah.

00:14:06.920 Yeah.

00:14:08.020 So if you've got a government with the political will

00:14:10.160 and the balls to do it,

00:14:12.100 and the political capital,

00:14:13.600 you would need probably a decent majority

00:14:15.560 in the House and et cetera, et cetera.

00:14:17.240 Well, Congress is Republican, isn't it?

00:14:18.980 It can be done.

00:14:19.460 All right, yeah, I was thinking of our House of Commons.

00:14:21.360 But yeah, Trump's got,

00:14:23.240 he hasn't got two thirds in Congress,

00:14:24.880 but nonetheless, he's got the majority in Congress

00:14:27.100 and Senate and the Supreme Court behind him.

00:14:29.820 So he's got this window of two years

00:14:32.620 where if stuff like this is going to honestly

00:14:35.020 really get done,

00:14:36.480 then he's got like two years

00:14:37.380 and absolutely have to hit the ground running.

00:14:39.340 It's an old cliche, isn't it?

00:14:40.160 The first hundred days.

00:14:41.720 Yeah.

00:14:42.100 They always say what you do

00:14:43.320 or don't get done in the first hundred days

00:14:45.060 sets the tone,

00:14:46.480 or more than sets the tone.

00:14:47.600 It sort of sets you up

00:14:48.520 for what you're able to do, really.

00:14:49.900 Yeah, and we're seeing a real shift

00:14:51.800 in the mood of the American people

00:14:54.080 and people across the West.

00:14:55.880 So, you know, listening to AOC

00:14:57.560 and other people talk about Trump,

00:14:59.540 it's like, oh, he's fascist,

00:15:00.780 he's coming and he's doing all this stuff

00:15:01.760 that people don't want.

00:15:02.580 If you actually look at what the opinion polls are saying,

00:15:04.360 Trump's approval ratings continue to improve

00:15:06.980 as people find out what he's doing

00:15:09.140 and, you know, about these executive orders.

00:15:11.260 So people actually really like these ideas

00:15:13.600 and, you know, in aggregate.

00:15:15.080 And if you look at Biden,

00:15:17.500 his approval ratings have continued to fall,

00:15:20.580 even though he's not even going to be president anymore.

00:15:22.980 You know what I mean?

00:15:23.700 In fact, they did a survey

00:15:25.300 and most Americans can't remember

00:15:27.960 a single thing Biden did.

00:15:29.760 I mean, to be fair, neither can Biden.

00:15:31.540 Yeah, that's true.

00:15:32.920 I mean, the only thing that sticks out in my mind

00:15:34.880 are failures.

00:15:36.580 Things like pulling out of Afghanistan disastrously

00:15:38.980 or something like that.

00:15:40.160 Yeah.

00:15:41.080 Which led to, you know, Ukraine and everything.

00:15:43.300 But that's the sign of American weakness.

00:15:45.920 Let me fire through some of the things

00:15:47.240 that Trump intends to do to sort out the border then

00:15:49.360 because other than declaring the national emergency

00:15:52.660 and getting the military onto it,

00:15:54.080 he also said potentially that he would end the policy

00:15:57.580 that kept federal immigration authorities

00:15:59.300 from conducting raids on churches and schools,

00:16:02.500 being a safe haven.

00:16:04.080 He's going to re-implement his remain in Mexico policy

00:16:07.040 and probably expand it, I would imagine.

00:16:10.000 He wants to end birthright citizenship,

00:16:12.420 which is potentially a contentious one

00:16:13.940 because in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution,

00:16:17.160 it is written as such,

00:16:18.720 all persons born or naturalised in the United States

00:16:21.400 and subject to the jurisdiction thereof

00:16:23.240 are citizens of the United States

00:16:25.140 and of the states wherein they reside.

00:16:27.500 And so there's not really much wiggle room

00:16:29.960 in that wording.

00:16:31.440 You can't repeal an amendment.

00:16:33.180 That is true.

00:16:33.980 If he repeals the 14th,

00:16:35.300 that would be kind of hilarious, wouldn't it?

00:16:36.780 But the Supreme Court does lean right

00:16:39.560 and they would ultimately be the ones

00:16:41.080 that would adjudicate that decision.

00:16:44.180 And the Supreme Court can sometimes be funny

00:16:47.440 because they do take a certain amount of pride

00:16:50.780 in their independence

00:16:51.560 and they don't just exclusively rule on partisan lines.

00:16:55.160 But I could imagine there's some degree

00:16:57.060 of favourability to it amongst them

00:16:58.920 and so it's possible.

00:17:00.480 Also, he's mentioned about closing the border

00:17:02.980 on health grounds.

00:17:03.960 So there's a 1944 measure called Title 42

00:17:07.760 which allows the US government to curb migration

00:17:10.360 to protect public health

00:17:11.640 which is funny framing actually

00:17:13.700 because it's kind of true

00:17:15.020 that migrants do bring lots of crime

00:17:17.600 which is bad for your health

00:17:19.120 as well as large movements of people

00:17:21.500 is not just a stereotype

00:17:23.840 do often bring lots of diseases

00:17:25.960 that you wouldn't otherwise get.

00:17:27.460 Well, yeah, it was one of the justifications

00:17:28.840 given by the government

00:17:29.820 for migrants in this country

00:17:31.840 illegal migrants in this country

00:17:33.060 getting free private health care

00:17:35.500 from the government

00:17:36.160 while British citizens

00:17:37.640 who've paid into the system

00:17:38.920 have to wait years for their operations.

00:17:41.740 And they said,

00:17:42.200 well, people coming into the country

00:17:44.220 can have diseases

00:17:45.380 such as tuberculosis and stuff

00:17:46.800 so you want to treat these quickly

00:17:48.180 before they get out

00:17:48.880 into the general population.

00:17:49.960 It's like, man,

00:17:51.280 I'm not sure I want to treat them quickly.

00:17:52.660 I'd rather just, you know,

00:17:53.500 if people are bringing tuberculosis

00:17:54.860 maybe we don't need,

00:17:56.080 maybe we've got enough tuberculosis

00:17:57.320 already in the UK.

00:17:58.440 Maybe we don't need any more.

00:17:59.820 Yeah, my desired amount

00:18:00.820 of tuberculosis is zero,

00:18:02.280 funnily enough.

00:18:02.680 Yeah.

00:18:03.680 Well, diseases that have essentially

00:18:04.840 been eradicated in the West.

00:18:06.900 Rabies.

00:18:07.220 And then they bring them back.

00:18:08.840 They bring them back.

00:18:09.160 Yeah.

00:18:09.960 Yeah.

00:18:11.200 Horrible.

00:18:11.740 Crazy situation.

00:18:12.140 But two other things

00:18:13.320 is that he's going to classify

00:18:14.380 potentially the drug cartels

00:18:15.940 as a foreign terrorist organisation

00:18:18.000 which may expand his ability

00:18:20.360 to deal with them

00:18:21.060 and also, of course,

00:18:22.420 finish the border wall

00:18:23.240 because it's still not

00:18:23.980 completely constructed.

00:18:25.780 And then I'm going to move on

00:18:27.200 to sort of trade

00:18:28.300 and the economy.

00:18:28.820 Obviously, a big deal

00:18:30.060 has been made about his tariffs

00:18:31.400 and this is heavily inspired

00:18:34.540 by the 25th president,

00:18:35.920 William McKinley,

00:18:37.220 who, Bo,

00:18:38.060 you've got a bit of trivia about him.

00:18:39.360 There's a sort of similarity between...

00:18:41.140 He was assassinated, wasn't he?

00:18:42.060 He was one of the assassination guys.

00:18:43.420 And Trump has obviously survived

00:18:46.740 assassination attempts.

00:18:47.760 So, yeah, a bit of prophecy there.

00:18:51.780 So, I've seen multiple different accounts here

00:18:54.860 of whether it's going to be

00:18:55.740 a 10% or 20% tariff on all imports,

00:18:59.380 25% on Canadian and Mexican goods,

00:19:02.120 and then 60% on all things coming from China,

00:19:04.860 which would obviously be massive.

00:19:06.460 And he's going to sort of get them

00:19:08.740 when they're vulnerable.

00:19:09.400 Although, a lot has been said

00:19:11.360 about the fact that these are

00:19:12.580 not necessarily serious tariffs

00:19:16.460 that he's going to go with

00:19:17.440 and they're negotiable.

00:19:18.680 He's just going in with something

00:19:19.940 quite severe

00:19:20.680 to then negotiate a better deal,

00:19:23.060 which sounds like something

00:19:24.420 Trump would do.

00:19:25.600 Although, basing things off

00:19:27.760 of import tariffs

00:19:28.740 is good if you want to protect

00:19:30.540 domestic industries,

00:19:31.680 things like that.

00:19:32.060 You want to protect jobs.

00:19:33.520 You know, a lot of the Rust Belt

00:19:34.940 who voted for Trump

00:19:36.140 approve of this sort of thing

00:19:38.240 because it keeps jobs in America

00:19:40.160 that they do.

00:19:41.820 And you can make an argument for that

00:19:43.560 in that it grows domestic industry.

00:19:45.320 The flip side of that

00:19:46.120 is it pushes up costs

00:19:47.220 for the consumer in America.

00:19:49.980 You know, I don't know

00:19:50.540 if they'd appreciate that.

00:19:51.600 And it makes the entire global economy

00:19:53.820 less efficient in aggregate.

00:19:55.780 You know, if everybody's having to

00:19:56.820 design and build their own

00:19:58.560 flat screen televisions

00:20:00.740 instead of just getting

00:20:01.540 the Korean ones

00:20:02.400 where they've perfected it,

00:20:03.780 you know, it's like

00:20:04.080 Scotland's perfected shortbread.

00:20:05.840 Why would you try and

00:20:07.340 make your own shortbread industry?

00:20:09.940 That's a good point.

00:20:10.980 I just like the whole thing

00:20:12.180 that it's a rebalancing of power.

00:20:16.060 It's an exercise in that as well, right?

00:20:17.940 Just telling the Chinese

00:20:19.180 or whoever that,

00:20:21.340 no, we, the American government,

00:20:22.900 are just not a complete pushover.

00:20:24.660 No, we're not going to let you

00:20:25.680 just steamroller us forever.

00:20:27.660 Yeah.

00:20:28.240 Whether he actually puts in 60% or not,

00:20:30.260 it just sends a signal.

00:20:32.300 Yeah.

00:20:32.520 And also China uses

00:20:34.040 a lot of its industry.

00:20:35.300 You know, the state subsidizes

00:20:37.420 the industry

00:20:37.900 and it's a sort of strategic weapon.

00:20:40.240 If you look at, you know,

00:20:40.940 what they've done

00:20:41.300 with the solar industry,

00:20:42.860 I mean, solar is going to be

00:20:43.700 huge for the world.

00:20:45.080 Germany used to be

00:20:45.880 a world leader in solar power

00:20:47.520 and China's just subsidized it.

00:20:50.080 So now, you know,

00:20:50.840 it's pushed all the German producers

00:20:52.420 out of business

00:20:54.440 and China is now producing,

00:20:56.780 you know, almost all of the world's,

00:20:58.060 you know, solar panels.

00:21:00.280 So if you've got a strategic industry

00:21:01.840 like steel, energy,

00:21:03.720 anything like that,

00:21:04.780 then, you know,

00:21:06.020 malicious states can subsidize it

00:21:08.180 and use it as a weapon.

00:21:10.120 Yeah, you want any industry

00:21:11.420 that is important

00:21:12.740 to national security

00:21:13.680 under your jurisdiction,

00:21:14.940 really, don't you?

00:21:15.580 Because things like agriculture,

00:21:17.640 energy production,

00:21:19.160 arms manufacturing,

00:21:20.040 you want on your own home soil

00:21:21.800 for obvious reasons, right?

00:21:23.520 And things like steel production,

00:21:25.280 which is something that

00:21:26.140 Trump put tariffs on China

00:21:27.560 originally because he had tariffs,

00:21:29.740 but they were much more targeted

00:21:31.880 and specific in his previous term.

00:21:34.740 I think it was aluminium

00:21:35.920 or aluminum,

00:21:36.960 if I must,

00:21:40.160 and steel

00:21:41.240 and I think things used

00:21:43.620 in solar panels, actually,

00:21:45.360 that his tariffs were on

00:21:46.840 off the top of my head.

00:21:48.180 And so by blanketly doing this,

00:21:50.600 I think what he's doing

00:21:51.960 is signalling,

00:21:52.680 I want to negotiate,

00:21:53.720 come to the table,

00:21:54.440 we'll figure something out

00:21:55.280 that's more beneficial

00:21:56.280 to the US, hopefully.

00:21:57.320 And also it's got the potential

00:21:58.540 to raise a huge amount of revenue.

00:22:00.440 So in the old days,

00:22:01.440 you know, states used to make

00:22:02.640 so much money from tariffs,

00:22:04.140 I guess because just

00:22:04.920 the administrative burden

00:22:06.500 of, you know,

00:22:07.460 levying income taxes

00:22:08.620 and things,

00:22:09.040 it wouldn't have been

00:22:09.580 practicable in, you know,

00:22:12.340 the 12th century or whatever.

00:22:13.540 But, you know,

00:22:13.960 right up until quite recently,

00:22:16.360 tariffs generated

00:22:17.460 a huge amount of money

00:22:19.400 for the state.

00:22:20.760 And that's been almost

00:22:21.760 completely replaced

00:22:22.640 with, like, income tax,

00:22:23.980 VAT, stuff like that.

00:22:25.700 And this is what Trump's

00:22:26.480 actually explicitly said

00:22:27.460 is that he likes tariffs

00:22:28.560 because it means

00:22:29.120 he can reduce taxes.

00:22:30.320 Yeah.

00:22:30.680 And as someone who

00:22:31.180 absolutely hates taxes,

00:22:32.840 I like the sound of that.

00:22:34.140 Yeah.

00:22:34.420 And I'm not importing many goods.

00:22:35.740 But it's also

00:22:36.540 good for me.

00:22:37.120 It's also kind of,

00:22:38.460 it's almost like

00:22:39.580 replacing income tax

00:22:40.600 with VAT.

00:22:41.500 Like, tariffs are essentially

00:22:42.620 a form of VAT

00:22:43.320 because the price you pay

00:22:44.140 for the product

00:22:45.060 is going to go up.

00:22:46.220 And also,

00:22:46.740 the thing I like

00:22:47.660 about offshoring production

00:22:50.040 means that,

00:22:51.740 you know,

00:22:51.920 the argument

00:22:52.440 that big businesses make

00:22:53.520 for open borders

00:22:54.720 and mass immigration

00:22:55.460 is like,

00:22:55.740 oh, we need all the people,

00:22:57.700 we need the entire population

00:22:58.780 of the Mirpur Valley

00:22:59.780 in Pakistan

00:23:00.260 to come here

00:23:00.860 to work in the factories.

00:23:02.340 And it's like,

00:23:03.420 if the stuff can get made

00:23:05.020 in the factories there,

00:23:06.380 then, you know,

00:23:07.840 you can prevent

00:23:08.960 the social conflict here.

00:23:11.440 That's true.

00:23:12.160 Yeah.

00:23:12.720 I mean,

00:23:13.380 I would rather still have

00:23:14.620 domestic industry if possible,

00:23:15.760 but some things

00:23:17.340 don't need to be made here.

00:23:18.800 Like,

00:23:19.020 we don't need cheap

00:23:19.780 plastic tap

00:23:20.560 that China makes

00:23:21.500 made domestically.

00:23:23.060 Whereas it would be nice

00:23:23.720 to have a steel industry

00:23:24.920 of our own.

00:23:25.800 Yeah.

00:23:25.980 Yeah.

00:23:26.440 Especially if we go to war

00:23:27.500 with China.

00:23:28.340 And then they're like,

00:23:29.380 oh, wait a minute,

00:23:29.880 we're not going to sell you

00:23:30.620 any steel to make

00:23:31.660 any aircraft carriers.

00:23:33.000 So you just lost the war.

00:23:34.680 Yeah.

00:23:35.480 Yeah.

00:23:36.020 Return to wooden ships again,

00:23:37.540 perhaps.

00:23:38.180 I mean,

00:23:38.440 I know that China have,

00:23:39.800 I guess it must be

00:23:41.140 for strategic reasons,

00:23:42.760 have stockpiled

00:23:43.900 loads and loads of steel,

00:23:45.680 like the majority

00:23:46.160 of all the steel

00:23:47.020 in the world.

00:23:48.280 I mean,

00:23:48.480 China have had

00:23:49.160 a thing about steel

00:23:50.740 ever since the Maoist era.

00:23:52.280 It was one of Mao's

00:23:53.120 giant promises,

00:23:54.840 pledges,

00:23:55.460 hopes,

00:23:55.960 is that he could

00:23:56.520 outproduce

00:23:57.360 Britain,

00:23:57.960 specifically Britain,

00:23:59.440 in terms of steel.

00:24:00.420 Well,

00:24:00.480 they've now done that.

00:24:01.400 They've now completed

00:24:02.080 that many times over.

00:24:04.620 So,

00:24:05.080 yeah,

00:24:05.200 should we find ourselves

00:24:06.360 at war with China?

00:24:07.840 Yeah,

00:24:07.980 it's already over.

00:24:09.120 It would already,

00:24:11.080 it's a fait accompli,

00:24:12.200 essentially.

00:24:13.560 That's one of the things

00:24:14.100 if I found myself

00:24:14.780 king of England

00:24:16.040 or lord protector

00:24:17.140 or something,

00:24:17.860 I would restart

00:24:18.640 our steel industry.

00:24:19.780 Yeah.

00:24:20.040 Definitely,

00:24:20.620 100%.

00:24:21.120 So,

00:24:21.780 yeah,

00:24:21.960 it makes sense

00:24:22.740 from America's perspective

00:24:24.400 to do this

00:24:25.040 because,

00:24:25.380 of course,

00:24:26.060 their main competitor

00:24:26.740 is China now.

00:24:28.180 Another thing

00:24:28.660 that he's potentially

00:24:29.880 going to do,

00:24:30.580 it's been sort of

00:24:31.820 banded around,

00:24:32.560 is maybe there'll be

00:24:33.800 a federal Bitcoin

00:24:34.800 stockpile,

00:24:35.780 similar to,

00:24:36.680 you know,

00:24:36.920 how the state

00:24:37.920 stockpiles gold.

00:24:39.800 We're going to use

00:24:40.180 Trump's meme coin.

00:24:42.700 Trump.

00:24:43.740 It's Trump coin.

00:24:44.940 And also,

00:24:45.720 there's Smillenia

00:24:46.980 has also been launched.

00:24:49.520 Really?

00:24:49.940 It's not got a good

00:24:51.080 ring to it,

00:24:51.620 really,

00:24:51.940 has it?

00:24:52.040 The thing is,

00:24:52.380 the Trump meme coin,

00:24:53.320 it crashed last night.

00:24:55.720 Oh,

00:24:55.800 did it?

00:24:56.080 Yeah,

00:24:56.440 after his speech

00:24:57.780 and after

00:24:58.120 Millennium's meme coin

00:24:59.360 was launched.

00:24:59.880 So,

00:24:59.980 I don't know if

00:25:00.540 Trump's doing

00:25:01.260 a Hawk Tua style.

00:25:04.540 I was going to say,

00:25:05.280 because I didn't know

00:25:05.820 it crashed overnight.

00:25:06.740 I heard it launched

00:25:07.820 and went through the roof,

00:25:08.980 but now it's crashed.

00:25:09.960 Now it's crashed.

00:25:10.560 Oh,

00:25:10.720 right.

00:25:11.180 Who'd have thought?

00:25:12.180 I'd have thought

00:25:12.540 a Trump meme coin

00:25:13.680 would be like a solid,

00:25:15.060 just get rid of all the gold

00:25:16.940 in the Federal Reserve

00:25:17.900 and replace it to Millennia.

00:25:19.820 I wonder what it will do

00:25:21.160 to the Bitcoin price

00:25:21.980 if Trump does announce

00:25:23.880 or actually buy

00:25:24.820 a massive stockpile

00:25:25.980 of Bitcoin.

00:25:26.720 Yeah.

00:25:27.040 I wonder whether

00:25:27.540 that will sort of

00:25:28.720 devalue it on some level

00:25:30.800 and so the price will dip

00:25:32.240 or whether that will

00:25:33.300 boost confidence

00:25:33.900 and so the price will spike.

00:25:35.460 I've got no idea.

00:25:36.560 I think the confidence

00:25:36.740 would be a determining factor

00:25:38.160 and also the fact

00:25:38.840 that they're just going

00:25:39.540 to buy a bunch

00:25:40.720 and the market would react

00:25:41.980 by increasing the price.

00:25:43.480 If there's an increase

00:25:44.180 in demand,

00:25:44.800 a massive bump,

00:25:46.140 like a US government

00:25:47.720 style bump in demand

00:25:48.980 would be significant

00:25:50.260 enough to shift prices.

00:25:51.040 I mean,

00:25:51.300 because Bitcoin,

00:25:52.000 the nature of it

00:25:52.540 is that there's

00:25:52.920 a finite number

00:25:53.680 of Bitcoin

00:25:54.100 so it's not the same

00:25:55.420 as many other equities

00:25:57.780 or commodities.

00:25:59.440 Right.

00:25:59.960 But nonetheless,

00:26:00.700 you would think

00:26:01.320 what you just said

00:26:01.900 would be true

00:26:02.220 but it might not.

00:26:03.200 Markets,

00:26:03.860 particularly crypto markets,

00:26:05.640 do react in odd ways.

00:26:07.480 That's true.

00:26:08.060 Yeah.

00:26:08.620 I mean,

00:26:09.000 we'll see.

00:26:09.760 Another thing as well,

00:26:10.740 he's promised to issue

00:26:12.100 an executive order

00:26:12.940 that would postpone

00:26:13.680 a law banning

00:26:14.460 the app TikTok

00:26:15.800 which is of course

00:26:16.600 Chinese owned

00:26:17.440 and that would give them

00:26:19.060 time to find a US partner

00:26:20.380 to buy a 50% stake

00:26:22.500 in the company

00:26:23.020 and then Trump feels

00:26:24.620 that this would be

00:26:26.100 sort of grounds

00:26:27.280 where it would be okay

00:26:28.100 for them to operate.

00:26:29.580 So it's basically

00:26:30.060 a way of the US

00:26:30.820 making money

00:26:31.520 off of threatening

00:26:32.380 to ban TikTok.

00:26:33.580 Yeah.

00:26:33.860 I couldn't believe

00:26:34.780 the Democrats

00:26:35.600 handed Trump

00:26:36.560 this propaganda coup

00:26:37.920 like before he's even

00:26:39.040 in power.

00:26:39.740 So the,

00:26:40.160 you know,

00:26:40.320 everything was set in place

00:26:41.900 to ban TikTok

00:26:42.980 because it's Chinese

00:26:44.420 might actually be

00:26:45.180 a good idea

00:26:45.960 to ban it.

00:26:46.580 You know,

00:26:46.700 it's not like

00:26:47.400 if you look at

00:26:47.820 It's very annoying.

00:26:48.540 If you look at the equivalent

00:26:49.320 of TikTok in China,

00:26:50.760 if you look at Red Note

00:26:51.420 or whatever,

00:26:51.800 it's all just like,

00:26:52.780 you know,

00:26:53.100 maths and how to be

00:26:54.340 a good citizen.

00:26:55.080 If you look at TikTok,

00:26:56.080 it's all like how to transition,

00:26:57.900 you know,

00:26:58.060 how to be a communist.

00:26:59.560 It's all,

00:27:00.220 you know,

00:27:00.400 it's horrific.

00:27:02.340 But the Democrats

00:27:05.020 were going to ban it

00:27:06.020 and so they handed

00:27:06.640 Trump this coup

00:27:07.680 where he can be like

00:27:08.360 the savior of TikTok

00:27:09.360 and he stepped in

00:27:10.120 and millions of people

00:27:11.060 use TikTok

00:27:11.580 and a lot of them

00:27:12.240 probably aren't that

00:27:13.000 politically engaged.

00:27:14.280 So now they just know

00:27:15.260 Trump as the savior

00:27:16.400 of their favorite platform

00:27:17.760 and I don't know

00:27:19.340 why the Democrats

00:27:19.840 would snatch

00:27:21.320 another defeat

00:27:22.940 from the jaws

00:27:23.600 of already quite a lot

00:27:24.680 of defeats.

00:27:26.640 Yeah,

00:27:27.360 the Dems,

00:27:28.200 they're not good

00:27:28.640 at 4D chess.

00:27:30.380 They're just not good

00:27:31.240 at it.

00:27:31.860 They've got like

00:27:32.320 this one ideological

00:27:33.220 view of the world

00:27:34.040 and let's do something

00:27:34.780 that moves towards that

00:27:35.520 and that's it.

00:27:36.280 Can't even do

00:27:37.040 the 2D chess.

00:27:38.040 Yeah,

00:27:38.260 they're like,

00:27:38.560 don't worry,

00:27:39.360 we're going to get,

00:27:39.940 we're going to pay

00:27:40.460 Beyonce lots of money

00:27:41.620 to sing,

00:27:42.500 that'll fix everything.

00:27:44.620 That's the amount

00:27:45.620 of contempt

00:27:46.160 you've got to have

00:27:46.940 to be like,

00:27:47.500 yes,

00:27:47.740 let's just pay

00:27:48.540 celebrities

00:27:49.140 to endorse us.

00:27:50.440 That'll be enough.

00:27:51.560 Let's not tangibly

00:27:52.300 improve their lives

00:27:53.140 in any way.

00:27:53.960 This is new to me,

00:27:54.620 the idea that Trump

00:27:55.400 would sort of do

00:27:56.200 an aggressive

00:27:56.940 takeover

00:28:00.220 of TikTok.

00:28:01.400 Yeah.

00:28:01.660 Okay.

00:28:03.080 Yeah,

00:28:03.440 I think it's a good idea

00:28:04.600 actually because then

00:28:05.620 it undermines

00:28:06.820 the argument

00:28:08.860 against Chinese

00:28:09.780 influence because

00:28:10.440 at least there's

00:28:11.020 a stakeholder

00:28:12.260 that I imagine

00:28:13.040 Trump would have

00:28:13.740 to approve of,

00:28:14.520 right,

00:28:15.080 to then give it

00:28:16.040 the go-ahead

00:28:16.540 to not be banned

00:28:17.620 and so it's a way

00:28:19.060 of the US making

00:28:19.840 money and also

00:28:20.740 them not having

00:28:21.440 to ban something

00:28:22.100 that's popular.

00:28:23.160 So this is a win-win

00:28:24.720 which is quite clever.

00:28:26.860 So on to climate

00:28:27.880 and energy.

00:28:28.980 He's going to scrap

00:28:30.060 a lot of the green

00:28:30.680 energy policies that

00:28:31.580 Biden introduced

00:28:32.240 which is not a

00:28:34.100 surprise to anyone.

00:28:34.720 Obviously he hates

00:28:36.640 windmills as he

00:28:37.580 calls them.

00:28:38.880 I hate them as well

00:28:40.080 mainly because they're

00:28:41.420 aesthetic abominations

00:28:42.600 but...

00:28:43.120 I quite like them

00:28:43.800 because if you're

00:28:44.800 walking on the

00:28:45.360 Scottish Highlands

00:28:45.960 it just looks cool.

00:28:46.720 It looks like

00:28:47.020 science fiction.

00:28:48.460 It really does.

00:28:49.600 I've always thought

00:28:50.300 that Scotland needs

00:28:51.060 a bit more of a

00:28:51.680 dystopian look about it

00:28:52.960 you know.

00:28:53.500 We've got enough

00:28:54.200 dystopia in the cities

00:28:55.200 but this is a nice

00:28:56.200 clean dystopia.

00:28:58.080 This is,

00:28:58.500 you know...

00:28:58.980 But do you not find

00:29:00.280 that when you're

00:29:00.900 looking at a lovely

00:29:01.480 beautiful landscape

00:29:02.280 and you can just see

00:29:03.080 this artificial man-made

00:29:04.440 thing spinning?

00:29:05.560 No, like artificial

00:29:06.340 man-made stuff.

00:29:08.700 Lost cause.

00:29:10.480 You are worlds apart

00:29:11.240 and you're thinking

00:29:11.700 you two.

00:29:12.320 Worlds apart.

00:29:13.740 So he's obviously

00:29:15.360 going to remove things

00:29:16.600 like drilling

00:29:17.060 restrictions.

00:29:18.320 I think what has

00:29:19.420 been listed is

00:29:20.620 offshore and federal

00:29:21.860 land for oil.

00:29:23.260 So it looks like

00:29:23.860 oil's back again.

00:29:25.160 He's also going to

00:29:25.780 pull out of the

00:29:26.260 Paris Agreement

00:29:27.260 again, the climate

00:29:28.080 agreement, which he

00:29:29.160 did after six months

00:29:30.060 of assuming office

00:29:30.740 last time.

00:29:31.720 There's no reason to

00:29:32.360 think he wouldn't do

00:29:32.900 it again because

00:29:33.900 Biden, I think in

00:29:34.780 2021, off the top

00:29:36.200 of my head, went

00:29:38.780 back into it and

00:29:39.760 obviously it's a waste

00:29:40.580 of time.

00:29:40.960 It expects America

00:29:41.600 to solve the world's

00:29:42.440 problems and it isn't

00:29:43.660 a good deal for them.

00:29:44.680 It's very punitive to

00:29:45.860 America, which doesn't

00:29:47.620 really benefit from it.

00:29:48.660 And also you don't get

00:29:49.720 energy innovation by

00:29:51.140 pushing up the cost of

00:29:52.080 innovating.

00:29:52.940 That's madness.

00:29:54.040 Absolutely.

00:29:54.520 And with all this red

00:29:55.300 tape around innovating

00:29:56.500 and if you look at the

00:29:57.240 left, I mean, there's

00:29:58.140 there's so many signs

00:29:59.360 that climate change

00:30:00.800 isn't actually about

00:30:02.260 the climate.

00:30:02.900 It's about implementing

00:30:03.860 some sort of one world

00:30:04.840 communism.

00:30:06.000 Because if you look at

00:30:06.520 all the people who bang

00:30:07.760 on about climate change,

00:30:09.240 one of the main ways we

00:30:10.420 can reduce our carbon

00:30:11.260 footprint is to stop

00:30:12.220 illegal immigration.

00:30:12.980 If somebody's coming

00:30:13.460 from Sierra Leone or the

00:30:14.580 Congo or whatever,

00:30:15.680 their carbon footprint

00:30:16.880 increases 150 times

00:30:19.240 when they come to the

00:30:20.660 UK because they start

00:30:21.800 living a modern Western

00:30:23.420 lifestyle with, you know,

00:30:24.660 all the fun, energy

00:30:26.400 consuming stuff that

00:30:27.360 that entails.

00:30:28.560 So you'd think, you

00:30:29.760 know, Greta Thunberg

00:30:30.500 and all these people

00:30:31.280 would be like, yeah,

00:30:31.860 we need to absolutely

00:30:32.560 shut the borders right

00:30:33.340 now.

00:30:33.780 You know, absolutely

00:30:34.620 shut the borders.

00:30:36.340 In fact, we need to

00:30:37.080 where we can deport

00:30:38.800 people back to low

00:30:40.180 carbon countries.

00:30:41.020 But no, they don't

00:30:41.420 want that at all.

00:30:42.580 So mass deportations

00:30:43.500 are green.

00:30:44.320 That's a green policy.

00:30:45.460 If the greens were

00:30:46.220 actually about the

00:30:47.040 environment, then yeah,

00:30:48.180 they would be.

00:30:48.960 Well, that's I think

00:30:50.280 the green energy

00:30:50.960 policies in the West are,

00:30:52.900 as you say, it's about

00:30:54.420 power.

00:30:54.880 It's not about the

00:30:56.880 parts per million of

00:30:58.040 CO2 in the atmosphere,

00:30:59.680 of which it's only like

00:31:00.620 400 odd parts per million.

00:31:02.040 Also, a lot of the

00:31:02.920 people that get contracts

00:31:05.320 from the government and

00:31:06.740 get these tax breaks to

00:31:08.740 build this technology,

00:31:10.220 they're friends with the

00:31:11.020 people who are making

00:31:12.440 the legislation in the

00:31:13.500 first place.

00:31:14.740 You only need to look at

00:31:16.260 both the US and Europe

00:31:17.600 to see that the people

00:31:19.340 who are leading in green

00:31:21.400 technology are normally

00:31:24.940 pally with left-wing

00:31:26.280 politicians that are

00:31:27.060 pushing it.

00:31:27.840 And of course, making

00:31:29.320 money through government

00:31:30.100 contracts is one of the

00:31:31.820 best ways you can make

00:31:32.720 money.

00:31:33.440 Look at Elon Musk.

00:31:34.840 Yeah.

00:31:35.160 If you look at Elon Musk,

00:31:36.500 so through Tesla, through

00:31:37.880 not just cars, but also

00:31:39.320 the battery technology,

00:31:40.840 he's somebody who's really

00:31:41.860 pushing forward green

00:31:43.180 technology and saving the

00:31:44.360 planet.

00:31:44.560 And Tesla's were the

00:31:45.480 must-have accessory for

00:31:46.960 any Hollywood celebrity.

00:31:48.900 Adding one to their 20-car

00:31:50.800 fleet was somehow helping

00:31:52.120 the environment.

00:31:53.280 But now, all the lefties

00:31:55.020 are saying, oh, we need

00:31:55.760 to ban Elon Musk.

00:31:56.940 We should stop buying

00:31:57.740 Tesla's because of his

00:31:58.760 stuff on Twitter.

00:31:59.300 And it's like, what about

00:31:59.780 the environment?

00:32:00.700 I thought the environment

00:32:01.320 was so important.

00:32:02.220 Oh, is the environment not

00:32:03.120 important now because Elon

00:32:04.600 Musk has been revealed not

00:32:05.800 to be a fellow communist?

00:32:07.760 It's an absolute nonsense.

00:32:09.980 It's like paying 20p for a

00:32:11.560 carrier bag.

00:32:12.120 Yeah, that will save the

00:32:13.040 environment.

00:32:13.600 Yeah, that makes sense.

00:32:15.800 Sure.

00:32:17.140 It's just nonsense, isn't it?

00:32:18.280 When you look back on

00:32:18.960 geological timescales, we've

00:32:21.160 had CO2 many, many, many

00:32:23.240 times more than it is today.

00:32:24.580 And the net result is not

00:32:25.420 a runaway greenhouse effect.

00:32:27.120 The net result is

00:32:27.900 dinosaurs.

00:32:28.780 Yeah, you get mega flora.

00:32:29.900 Which is fun.

00:32:30.640 You get giant lily pads.

00:32:31.980 Yeah, who doesn't want a

00:32:33.140 giant lily pad?

00:32:33.280 Right, who doesn't want

00:32:34.060 that?

00:32:34.400 Yeah.

00:32:34.800 With dinosaurs, it would do

00:32:36.540 a lot to reduce the

00:32:37.520 carbon footprint of

00:32:38.380 humanity, wouldn't it?

00:32:39.800 Yeah.

00:32:40.620 I mean, yeah, I've got, I'm,

00:32:42.480 I think climate change is

00:32:43.560 happening and I think it's

00:32:44.900 going to be, you know, quite

00:32:45.980 bad.

00:32:46.500 But I think the best thing to

00:32:47.460 do is work to ameliorate it

00:32:50.580 rather than try to stop it by

00:32:52.340 turning ourselves into stone age

00:32:53.540 communists.

00:32:54.480 I think also whether it's

00:32:55.760 happening or not, I think the

00:32:57.200 right thing to do is the same

00:32:58.760 regardless, which is not

00:33:01.640 needlessly punish your society

00:33:04.120 with ridiculous technology that's

00:33:07.160 not ready and not efficient.

00:33:08.220 I think you just need to accept

00:33:10.420 that it's going to be oil and

00:33:11.540 gas.

00:33:12.140 Yeah.

00:33:12.360 And I mean, you know, the

00:33:13.520 fumes from oil and gas are not

00:33:15.280 ideal.

00:33:15.720 They still do harm to people.

00:33:17.780 However, you've got to make the

00:33:20.200 cost of producing new technology

00:33:21.980 as cheap as possible to be able to

00:33:23.440 get it in the first place.

00:33:24.400 And the good news is in the West,

00:33:26.160 we've pretty much decoupled our

00:33:27.780 sort of economic progress from oil

00:33:30.640 and gas and fossil fuel consumption.

00:33:32.560 So, you know, it used to be that

00:33:33.780 they just marched step and step.

00:33:36.000 If you if you use more energy like

00:33:37.960 that, then then your economy would

00:33:40.520 do better.

00:33:41.460 You couldn't really have one without

00:33:42.980 the other.

00:33:43.840 But now now we've got one without

00:33:45.320 the other.

00:33:45.720 Now we've got we're using much less

00:33:47.700 much less carbon per unit of

00:33:51.700 economic activity.

00:33:53.400 And the great news is solar power is

00:33:55.800 really going to I mean, it just

00:33:57.080 keeps outstripping all expectations.

00:33:59.120 It's it's just it's getting so cheap

00:34:01.560 and it's getting so efficient.

00:34:03.900 It's going to it's going to really

00:34:06.080 revolutionize energy.

00:34:08.460 And I think it's going to be great

00:34:09.900 for people who want to be independent

00:34:11.260 from the government as well, because

00:34:12.560 you won't need to be plugged into a

00:34:14.160 grid.

00:34:14.880 That's what sort of appeals to me is

00:34:17.460 that I can generate my own

00:34:18.780 electricity and not be beholden to

00:34:20.400 the companies setting my rates.

00:34:22.780 Yeah.

00:34:23.600 But also in Britain, it's a bit of a

00:34:26.500 tough sell, isn't it?

00:34:28.520 Overcast, no sunshine.

00:34:30.300 Even in Britain, it's going to be like

00:34:31.940 solar power is becoming so cheap and

00:34:33.680 so efficient that it's going to work

00:34:35.000 in Britain, not just in the Sahara

00:34:37.080 Desert.

00:34:37.940 It's true to say the climate is

00:34:39.740 changing because by its very nature,

00:34:41.880 it will always be in flux.

00:34:43.760 Yeah.

00:34:44.100 So the idea that it could stay exactly

00:34:45.560 the same as when records first started

00:34:47.120 in the 19th century or 20th century,

00:34:49.300 whatever it is, that's that's a

00:34:51.080 nonsense.

00:34:51.620 Yeah.

00:34:51.820 But to think that human CO2 output is

00:34:55.000 like profoundly change the planet.

00:34:57.640 I don't buy that.

00:34:58.900 Lots of scientists don't buy that.

00:35:00.300 Yeah.

00:35:00.800 Right.

00:35:01.140 Like volcanism and the sun dictate our

00:35:04.740 weather patterns far more than CO2,

00:35:07.320 which again is in this hundreds of

00:35:08.900 parts per million.

00:35:10.300 So a tiny amount, tiny amount.

00:35:12.660 Just capture it and send it to Mars

00:35:14.220 and then Elon Musk can have his colony

00:35:15.680 because you actually need it there.

00:35:17.440 And also they always say, talking

00:35:18.720 about when records began, they always

00:35:19.960 say when there's a storm and it's

00:35:21.220 linked to climate change,

00:35:22.300 they're like, this is the worst storm

00:35:23.660 in 200 years.

00:35:24.660 This is because of climate change.

00:35:25.900 It's like the worst storm in 200 years.

00:35:27.320 So what was causing it 200 years ago

00:35:29.060 then?

00:35:29.640 You know what I mean?

00:35:30.900 200 years ago before the automobile,

00:35:33.660 like what was happening then?

00:35:36.460 What dinosaurs were like

00:35:38.020 riding their bicycles around?

00:35:39.860 There was more shamanism back then.

00:35:42.600 I always find it funny when they say

00:35:43.860 it's the hottest day or the coldest day

00:35:45.300 since 2019.

00:35:47.900 It's like, what?

00:35:49.280 Like not that long ago then at all.

00:35:52.140 Anyway.

00:35:53.060 Yeah.

00:35:53.420 Nonsense stuff.

00:35:54.280 On to some other nonsense.

00:35:56.220 I've got a section here about woke BS

00:35:58.520 that he's probably going to get rid of.

00:36:00.860 There could well be an executive order

00:36:02.700 that forbids federal funding going to schools

00:36:04.880 or other institutions that have DEI programs.

00:36:08.320 That could be quite significant.

00:36:10.340 There could also be a ban for funding schools

00:36:13.420 that teach critical race theory,

00:36:14.940 which would be another interesting one.

00:36:17.260 And something else that has been

00:36:18.760 potentially suggested is

00:36:20.440 a ban on transgender women

00:36:22.680 from competing in women's sports,

00:36:24.560 which a lot more people talk about

00:36:27.820 than actually care about women's sports.

00:36:29.260 It's just common sense, right?

00:36:30.560 Of course it is, yeah.

00:36:32.120 But, I mean, surely,

00:36:33.640 if you like betting on sports,

00:36:36.180 you don't want this.

00:36:37.160 Yeah.

00:36:37.600 You want to know who's going to win.

00:36:39.180 You're not going to get good odds though, right?

00:36:40.700 On the dude that's doing the 400 metres

00:36:42.980 with all the women.

00:36:43.960 Everyone knows.

00:36:44.740 The bookies know.

00:36:45.520 Everyone knows.

00:36:46.140 You're going to get shit odds, aren't you?

00:36:47.900 Basically.

00:36:50.200 Some other things that are going on as well.

00:36:52.440 Freeing the Jan 6 hostages.

00:36:54.800 Oh, that'd be nice.

00:36:55.820 It'd be free as of this evening.

00:36:57.940 Potentially.

00:36:58.620 There's still quite a few in jail.

00:37:00.160 There are, yeah.

00:37:01.060 I've spoke to a couple of them.

00:37:02.880 Man, that is such a, like,

00:37:04.980 you know what I mean?

00:37:05.820 For that, they locked up these people.

00:37:07.580 I saw photos.

00:37:08.840 They were like, they were just walking

00:37:10.700 inside the ropes and stuff.

00:37:12.100 Then you compare that to the BLM stuff.

00:37:13.900 And, like, some of the BLM protesters

00:37:16.080 and rioters got money.

00:37:18.240 They got paid compensation

00:37:20.000 for being arrested.

00:37:21.540 It's just so blatant.

00:37:23.740 It's so two-tier.

00:37:25.400 It's like something that could happen in Britain.

00:37:27.380 Yeah, that's true.

00:37:28.040 So, one thing I do think will happen

00:37:29.880 is that he will pardon the people

00:37:32.300 accused of non-violent crimes

00:37:33.900 because some of them

00:37:35.140 still haven't been to trial yet.

00:37:37.520 So, that's worth mentioning as well,

00:37:38.640 that they've been held,

00:37:40.840 some of them in solitary confinement,

00:37:42.960 for an incredibly long amount of time

00:37:45.340 without a trial,

00:37:46.240 which I believe is unconstitutional.

00:37:48.820 You talked about Saudi

00:37:50.220 or Chinese justice.

00:37:52.580 I mean, that is terrible.

00:37:54.780 Well, they're political prisoners, aren't they?

00:37:56.140 Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

00:37:59.980 Yeah, what a bit of a shame, really,

00:38:03.440 on the Dems for doing that.

00:38:05.060 Yeah, no, I very much agree.

00:38:06.720 And also sets a precedent for, you know,

00:38:09.160 if Trump wanted to do that

00:38:10.560 to any left-wing-aligned protests,

00:38:13.300 you know, they've set the precedent

00:38:14.320 for him to do that.

00:38:16.420 Yeah, it's worrying.

00:38:17.500 Again, it's that slide,

00:38:18.300 that tit-for-tat thing.

00:38:19.660 Yeah.

00:38:19.940 A slide into getting further and further away

00:38:22.340 from the way the Republic was meant to function.

00:38:26.960 In the end, hopefully this isn't the case.

00:38:28.940 Fingers crossed this isn't the case.

00:38:30.060 But decades or maybe a century from now,

00:38:32.600 you'll get a new president in

00:38:33.820 and on day one,

00:38:34.700 he's just rounding up his political enemies

00:38:36.360 and putting them in prison without trial

00:38:38.300 for four years.

00:38:39.120 Yeah.

00:38:39.680 I mean, it's not that crazy of a thing.

00:38:41.720 Well, it happens in a lot of countries.

00:38:43.100 Right.

00:38:43.640 Yeah, exactly.

00:38:44.900 Right.

00:38:45.160 I'm going to power through a few things

00:38:46.780 ever so quickly.

00:38:48.980 I know you wanted to talk a little bit

00:38:50.340 about the intelligence stuff,

00:38:51.700 so I'll leave some time for that.

00:38:52.900 But he wants to buy Greenland.

00:38:54.680 I think that it's running a 600 million black hole

00:38:57.820 in Denmark's pocket,

00:38:58.940 and I think that there's an appetite

00:39:00.800 for being separate,

00:39:02.400 and I've seen opinion polls

00:39:03.560 that seem favourable for Greenland

00:39:05.340 going over to the US,

00:39:06.880 so that might well happen.

00:39:08.040 I've seen lots of signals

00:39:09.940 about Ukraine willing to come

00:39:13.460 to the peace agreement with Russia,

00:39:16.400 and Trump has vowed to end the war

00:39:18.760 within the first six months

00:39:19.840 of assuming office.

00:39:20.820 He's really,

00:39:21.400 but that's changed from day one.

00:39:22.940 Trump is talking a lot more

00:39:24.960 sort of hawkishly on Ukraine now.

00:39:29.000 So, and I think Putin's,

00:39:30.720 to be honest,

00:39:31.120 kind of shitting himself

00:39:31.840 because, you know,

00:39:33.060 you can see Trump,

00:39:33.920 you can see with Gaza,

00:39:35.260 with the release of the hostages and stuff,

00:39:36.680 when Trump goes in to negotiate,

00:39:38.600 he doesn't fuck around,

00:39:39.880 and he's ready to play hardball,

00:39:42.780 and I think Putin knows that,

00:39:44.060 and there's not going to be any more of this.

00:39:45.400 Like, Biden for so long

00:39:46.740 was holding back on weapons

00:39:48.500 and not letting them use HIMARS

00:39:50.160 to hit strategic sites,

00:39:51.620 not letting them hit sites within Russia,

00:39:53.940 and, you know,

00:39:54.340 always stymie him,

00:39:55.100 not giving them F-16s,

00:39:56.560 always holding them back,

00:39:57.600 almost trying to bleed both sides,

00:39:59.160 trying to bleed Ukraine,

00:40:00.480 trying to bleed Europe,

00:40:01.200 and bleed Russia as well.

00:40:02.820 So, you know,

00:40:03.240 all these strategic,

00:40:04.320 you know,

00:40:04.920 competitors would be weakened.

00:40:07.380 Whereas Trump is like,

00:40:08.500 you know,

00:40:08.720 Trump doesn't want to see

00:40:09.860 any more lives lost.

00:40:11.940 So he's like,

00:40:12.720 no,

00:40:13.020 we need this to end,

00:40:14.920 and if it doesn't end,

00:40:17.100 you're going to get hit very hard,

00:40:19.260 and it'd probably be the end of Putin as well.

00:40:21.860 So I think Putin's going to,

00:40:24.820 I think it's going to be bad.

00:40:25.860 It's going to be a much worse deal for Putin

00:40:27.500 than the Guardian told us.

00:40:28.900 I think one of Trump's greatest strengths

00:40:31.640 is that he's very,

00:40:32.980 very good at negotiating with foreign powers,

00:40:35.300 and I think that a lot of what he's doing,

00:40:38.160 and he said he would do,

00:40:39.920 ties into that quite nicely,

00:40:41.280 that he wants to get better deals for America,

00:40:43.680 and as his background as a businessman,

00:40:46.540 that sort of makes sense

00:40:47.920 that he thinks in those terms,

00:40:49.400 and I think that we're going to see a lot of that.

00:40:51.540 Maybe he's going to be perhaps

00:40:53.460 less focused on some of the domestic things

00:40:55.780 that people would like to get done

00:40:57.660 in the face of being a sort of world leader

00:41:00.700 and being what is effectively

00:41:02.720 the figurehead of the American Empire.

00:41:04.940 And he's going to push Europe to be more muscular

00:41:07.400 and stop pussying around

00:41:09.140 and focusing on, you know,

00:41:10.760 turning everyone into a transgender communist.

00:41:13.840 That'd be nice, wouldn't it?

00:41:14.620 They're going to say,

00:41:15.980 no, you've got to be militarily strong

00:41:18.740 to support Ukraine

00:41:20.000 and to support yourself against the threat from Russia,

00:41:22.580 because, you know, we're not going to come over there

00:41:24.380 and keep doing it.

00:41:25.620 It's fair enough, really.

00:41:26.900 It's not on their back door, is it?

00:41:29.540 So let's talk about some of the intelligence stuff

00:41:32.140 to finish up.

00:41:34.140 Obviously, one of the things that is going on

00:41:36.640 that's sort of tied into this,

00:41:38.600 that's sort of tied into the government itself being bad,

00:41:42.300 is that they've got the Department of Government Efficiency,

00:41:45.600 where they're cutting down all of the fat

00:41:50.080 from all of these government departments,

00:41:51.960 hopefully abolishing lots of them

00:41:53.500 akin to, you know, Mille's Argentina,

00:41:55.820 where just entire government departments vanish,

00:41:58.740 because that's my sort of ideal dream state.

00:42:03.180 But as well as, you know,

00:42:05.260 getting rid of entrenched bureaucrats,

00:42:06.960 I think Trump's going to pass some sort of executive order

00:42:09.220 whereby it becomes easier to get rid of federal employees

00:42:12.080 because they've got lots of conditions

00:42:13.860 and things like that that make them difficult to remove.

00:42:16.920 And tied into that is all of the intelligence stuff.

00:42:19.460 And of course, there's lots of documents

00:42:22.060 that are potentially going to be released,

00:42:23.620 the JFK, RFK and MLK,

00:42:26.540 lots of K assassination documents being released.

00:42:30.420 Whether they'll actually show anything,

00:42:32.280 I'm not too sure.

00:42:34.700 I mean, I hope they do,

00:42:36.120 but I suspect that real slam dunk bits of evidence

00:42:39.620 have been quote-unquote lost decades ago.

00:42:42.540 But nonetheless, it would be nice to see that.

00:42:44.960 I mean, there's this idea of Trump draining the swamp

00:42:48.300 or the deep state or a shadow government

00:42:50.580 or whatever you want to call it,

00:42:52.320 that he'll actually go to war with them on some level.

00:42:56.020 I mean, that would be nice.

00:42:57.380 He released a video months and months ago, didn't he,

00:42:59.280 with his 10-point plan,

00:43:00.940 talking about how he's, and this is a quote,

00:43:02.620 dismantle the deep state

00:43:03.760 and reclaim our democracy from Washington corruption,

00:43:06.620 and it is corruption.

00:43:08.000 He wants to clean out corrupt actors in these agencies,

00:43:10.940 of which there's like 17 intelligence agencies in America.

00:43:15.400 It's like the CIA is the tip of the iceberg, you know.

00:43:18.060 There's like the DIA, the NSA.

00:43:20.620 It goes, there's many, there's many.

00:43:22.280 You'd actually struggle to remember them all.

00:43:23.920 Right.

00:43:24.260 Sitting, wouldn't you?

00:43:24.920 Yeah.

00:43:26.120 And talk about how these agencies have been weaponized

00:43:28.820 against Americans.

00:43:31.760 Intelligence services that are supposed to be just about

00:43:34.140 foreign powers and counter-espionage,

00:43:37.000 but have been turned on the people, basically.

00:43:41.320 You know, turned on conservatives, Christians,

00:43:43.940 and the left's political enemies.

00:43:46.080 He wants to stop that.

00:43:47.900 A war on what he called rogue bureaucrats.

00:43:51.640 This is really important stuff as well, in my opinion.

00:43:54.280 This isn't just, you know,

00:43:55.940 which bathroom are you using,

00:43:57.700 which is, you know, somewhat important,

00:44:00.440 but sort of theatre in comparison to this stuff,

00:44:02.620 which is the nuts and bolts of how the entire political system operates.

00:44:07.500 Yeah.

00:44:07.940 I think if, since the, oh, sorry.

00:44:09.540 Well, you just, when you've got a large government,

00:44:12.100 a large state bureaucracy,

00:44:13.640 it naturally drifts into authoritarianism.

00:44:16.500 It makes too many rules,

00:44:18.020 it applies those rules too officiously

00:44:19.360 and with too much, too much bias.

00:44:21.700 So shrinking the state,

00:44:23.040 and it's only done as a sort of,

00:44:25.480 the only possible use for having a huge state

00:44:27.800 is as a sort of Keynesian stimulus

00:44:29.120 to, you know, to employ people

00:44:30.540 who wouldn't be employed otherwise.

00:44:32.580 We've got,

00:44:33.680 our economies are running pretty hot in the West.

00:44:35.860 So, you know, in America and in the UK,

00:44:38.180 the argument is that, you know,

00:44:39.360 oh, we need to have open borders

00:44:40.280 because there's all these jobs we need to fill.

00:44:41.780 No, the people who can fill those jobs are here.

00:44:43.640 They're just working, doing unproductive jobs

00:44:45.660 for Haringey Council or wherever it is.

00:44:47.980 So we need to absolutely slash the size of the state,

00:44:51.520 like, like Milay did in Argentina.

00:44:54.360 Because, I mean, like the Peronists,

00:44:56.460 the socialists in Argentina

00:44:57.600 were just creating all these state jobs

00:45:00.400 as a sort of, as a way to buy votes.

00:45:03.560 It's, you know, sort of rewards a block of people

00:45:06.620 by giving them these cushy government salaries.

00:45:09.960 And then, you know, the tacit agreement is,

00:45:12.000 well, you vote for us

00:45:12.860 and we'll keep, you know,

00:45:13.920 we'll keep this trough open for your snouts to go in.

00:45:17.240 I think specifically in America as well,

00:45:19.660 there's been a power struggle for decades

00:45:21.820 between the intelligence services

00:45:24.080 and the legit government.

00:45:26.500 I think ever since Eisenhower,

00:45:28.140 ever since the end of World War II, really.

00:45:30.140 I mean, Eisenhower, when he left office

00:45:31.680 in the very early 60s, would it have been,

00:45:34.600 there's a famous video of him

00:45:36.380 talking about how you need to be careful

00:45:38.500 of a shadow government growing up.

00:45:40.760 It's like, thanks for that, Ike.

00:45:41.760 The shadow government, you essentially allowed to happen.

00:45:44.220 But anyway, ever since then,

00:45:45.680 it's just got out of control

00:45:46.640 that the intelligence services

00:45:47.860 do wield more power in various senses

00:45:50.740 than Congress or the president.

00:45:54.940 To the point where they are sort of subverting

00:45:57.140 and perverting the republic itself.

00:45:59.160 Yeah.

00:45:59.480 And that Trump actually says, anyway,

00:46:01.620 he wants to do something about that.

00:46:04.060 Yeah.

00:46:04.300 And he had a 10 point plan,

00:46:05.440 like reform the FISA courts.

00:46:08.420 That's like foreign intelligence surveillance stuff

00:46:10.260 where they, the intelligence services

00:46:12.140 go before a judge and say,

00:46:13.180 oh, we need to wiretap X, Y, Z,

00:46:15.080 da, da, da, da, da,

00:46:15.580 do all these sort of extra constitutional things.

00:46:18.200 And the judges, the FISA court judges

00:46:19.900 just say, yeah, do it.

00:46:20.640 They just rubber stamp it.

00:46:21.920 And he's saying, that's got out of control.

00:46:23.560 That's just one tiny example.

00:46:26.400 So, you know, if he does

00:46:27.760 even some of these things,

00:46:29.940 it would be great.

00:46:30.680 I mean, what he talks about

00:46:31.460 exposing the hoaxes and abuses of power,

00:46:34.360 of deep state spying,

00:46:35.880 censorship and corruption,

00:46:36.780 again, in the United States

00:46:38.280 against United States citizens.

00:46:40.920 Once again, I think the founding fathers

00:46:42.440 would be turning in their graves.

00:46:44.280 A crackdown on government leakers

00:46:46.460 that collude with fake,

00:46:47.900 so-called fake news

00:46:48.900 to weave false narratives

00:46:51.320 and subvert our government and democracy.

00:46:53.340 Yeah.

00:46:53.700 Great.

00:46:54.740 What, like Snowden or people like that

00:46:57.260 where they leak?

00:46:59.140 I think he's talking about

00:47:00.300 probably like CNN or MSNBC

00:47:02.500 where they just say

00:47:03.800 he is a stooge of Russia

00:47:07.960 or that he had some sort of

00:47:09.760 some sort of sex games

00:47:11.440 with prostitutes in hotels

00:47:12.980 or whatever.

00:47:13.660 And it's just all...

00:47:14.300 Okay, where they invite

00:47:15.660 like someone who's got intelligence

00:47:17.240 as their background

00:47:18.720 onto their show

00:47:19.900 and use it as political capital, basically.

00:47:22.400 Yeah.

00:47:22.760 Okay, that would make sense.

00:47:24.000 You remember with the Biden laptop,

00:47:25.900 like...

00:47:26.000 The Hunter Biden stuff, yeah.

00:47:27.260 All these...

00:47:29.000 50 experts.

00:47:30.280 Right, yeah.

00:47:30.900 There's a collusion between

00:47:32.140 like the executive arms of the state

00:47:35.120 and the Democrats

00:47:36.160 and also big tech.

00:47:38.300 I mean, it's the total state.

00:47:39.620 You've got these private companies

00:47:40.820 that are essentially working

00:47:42.740 as arms of the Democrats as well.

00:47:44.680 Well, there was the Twitter files,

00:47:45.780 wasn't there,

00:47:46.200 that showed that

00:47:47.500 the White House

00:47:48.840 was explicitly taking a role

00:47:50.340 in which accounts

00:47:51.280 they wanted removed

00:47:52.260 and that they were saying

00:47:52.940 we want this, this and this removed

00:47:54.720 and they would just go along with it.

00:47:56.080 So actually to take on that

00:47:57.240 and spend a decent amount

00:47:58.280 of political capital

00:47:59.180 and time and energy

00:48:00.100 on those battles,

00:48:03.280 I'm there for it.

00:48:04.220 Yeah.

00:48:04.480 It's great.

00:48:05.220 Yeah.

00:48:05.520 It's actually great.

00:48:06.480 It's great that it's even on the agenda

00:48:07.960 in the first place.

00:48:09.300 Like, that's a massive

00:48:10.400 step in the right direction.

00:48:12.460 You know, if he's able

00:48:13.500 to do something about it,

00:48:14.480 it's one of the parts of the agenda

00:48:15.600 I'm sort of most sceptical

00:48:17.900 he can get done.

00:48:19.000 And also if he slashes

00:48:19.900 the right parts of the government

00:48:21.860 because we've seen, you know,

00:48:22.720 when the government tries to shrink

00:48:25.460 in the UK,

00:48:26.820 they slash the wrong parts.

00:48:28.760 We've got swathes of government

00:48:30.380 that can just go.

00:48:31.080 I mean, look at the Arts Council,

00:48:32.600 for example,

00:48:33.040 which is just something

00:48:33.600 that makes the arts worse.

00:48:35.120 And it taxes.

00:48:36.600 You've got bus drivers being taxed

00:48:38.220 to pay for ballet and opera

00:48:40.440 so that rich people can go and enjoy it.

00:48:41.980 It's like, why don't we tax?

00:48:43.840 Why don't rich people just pay more

00:48:45.300 for their tickets

00:48:45.900 rather than taxing working people

00:48:47.580 for their hobbies?

00:48:49.340 It's an absolute nonsense.

00:48:50.800 And anything that the government touches,

00:48:53.220 you know, instantly becomes,

00:48:54.440 you know, infected with their biases

00:48:56.020 and instantly becomes corrupted

00:48:58.000 and shittier.

00:48:59.900 Give me an afternoon

00:49:00.840 and I can half the spending

00:49:01.940 on the government.

00:49:02.740 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:49:04.180 I have a long list.

00:49:06.360 But yes, that's more or less

00:49:07.600 what seems to be speculated

00:49:10.080 is happening.

00:49:10.680 Obviously, we don't know for certain,

00:49:12.760 but we can go off

00:49:13.900 of what Trump has said.

00:49:15.540 And that's what a lot of this

00:49:16.900 is based on,

00:49:18.000 what he said he's going to do

00:49:19.520 when he's in office.

00:49:20.620 You know, a lot of these things,

00:49:22.140 he said a lot of things

00:49:23.240 in the lead up

00:49:24.380 to him assuming office in 2016

00:49:26.380 that didn't necessarily happen.

00:49:28.460 A lot of it's dependent

00:49:29.420 on the political situation,

00:49:31.900 you know, his ability to enact it

00:49:33.340 and also whether he changes his mind.

00:49:35.640 Obviously, he changed his mind

00:49:36.920 about the H-1B visa stuff,

00:49:38.900 which I was very disappointed about.

00:49:41.020 But none of these things

00:49:43.120 are necessarily guarantees.

00:49:44.740 But I think the fact

00:49:45.380 that he's intending to enact

00:49:46.640 so much on day one

00:49:48.120 should be promising

00:49:49.400 that he's intending

00:49:50.500 to take a lot of

00:49:51.340 what he said seriously.

00:49:53.160 And I'm very hopeful

00:49:53.980 to see what happens.

00:49:55.660 And I'm also a bit worried

00:49:57.260 about the fact

00:49:57.900 that the regime,

00:49:59.480 you know,

00:49:59.860 the political establishment

00:50:00.760 has been so welcoming

00:50:02.080 towards him now.

00:50:03.300 A lot of the tech sector

00:50:04.360 that censored and opposed him

00:50:06.000 before has now turned

00:50:07.000 to his side.

00:50:07.900 Is this going to be

00:50:08.760 a situation where

00:50:09.660 he's invited in the devil

00:50:10.940 into his home

00:50:11.620 and it's going to sabotage

00:50:13.140 a lot of his aims?

00:50:13.980 It's entirely possible.

00:50:15.540 But we'll just have

00:50:16.720 to wait and see.

00:50:17.400 And talking of pardons,

00:50:18.820 presidential pardons,

00:50:19.820 so Biden has pardoned

00:50:20.840 General Milley,

00:50:22.120 Fauci,

00:50:22.760 members of the January 6th

00:50:23.900 Congressional Committee

00:50:24.680 and the staff and police officers

00:50:25.820 who testified at it.

00:50:27.320 So both sides,

00:50:28.500 both sides can do

00:50:29.880 presidential pardons

00:50:30.960 and, you know,

00:50:31.880 flex their,

00:50:32.740 I mean,

00:50:32.900 this is one of the things

00:50:33.640 that the founding fathers

00:50:34.460 would have been rolling.

00:50:35.840 They're doing a lot

00:50:36.640 of rolling today.

00:50:38.020 Absolutely.

00:50:38.380 Can I add one last

00:50:41.120 quick thing?

00:50:41.760 Of course.

00:50:42.220 To the list.

00:50:44.720 The Podesta Clinton stuff

00:50:47.200 and the Epstein list.

00:50:50.400 Epstein list!

00:50:51.560 Yeah, that'd be nice.

00:50:53.020 I mean,

00:50:53.260 people are always like,

00:50:54.280 oh,

00:50:54.720 why is there all these

00:50:55.500 conspiracy theories

00:50:56.740 about elite pedophile

00:50:58.120 networks and stuff?

00:50:59.180 Because there is one

00:51:00.060 and we have still

00:51:00.780 found out who's on it.

00:51:01.980 Who's on that list?

00:51:03.580 I saw a great image

00:51:05.060 on Twitter

00:51:05.580 where it was

00:51:06.040 a small little tugboat,

00:51:07.500 a decent-sized

00:51:08.240 yacht

00:51:08.560 and a giant

00:51:09.180 cruise ship

00:51:09.820 and it said,

00:51:10.740 on the small tug,

00:51:11.800 it said the P. Diddy list.

00:51:13.280 On the yacht,

00:51:14.260 it said the Epstein list

00:51:16.480 and on the giant,

00:51:17.720 the giant cruise ship,

00:51:19.760 it was Clinton Podesta.

00:51:21.520 Right.

00:51:22.440 And,

00:51:22.900 and I think Elon

00:51:24.160 retweeted it saying,

00:51:25.320 let's find out.

00:51:26.260 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:51:27.120 That would be nice,

00:51:27.920 wouldn't it?

00:51:28.180 Yeah.

00:51:28.520 I'd love it.

00:51:29.620 I'd love it.

00:51:30.300 Make it happen,

00:51:31.020 Trump.

00:51:31.280 I know you're watching.

00:51:32.340 Right.

00:51:32.640 We got some,

00:51:33.340 some chats here

00:51:34.720 to read through

00:51:35.440 ever so quickly.

00:51:36.700 I know we've run

00:51:37.660 over time.

00:51:38.980 I can't see the mouse.

00:51:43.820 All right.

00:51:45.100 Who's named themselves

00:51:45.880 Leo's Cursed Haircut?

00:51:49.000 Great name.

00:51:50.000 But,

00:51:50.240 yes,

00:51:51.600 we have some

00:51:52.840 presidential merch

00:51:53.800 that you need to get

00:51:55.060 before it goes,

00:51:56.460 basically,

00:51:57.060 because it's all

00:51:57.940 of the stuff

00:51:58.380 from the Trump election

00:51:59.500 that we were selling.

00:52:00.760 I don't know how long

00:52:01.780 that's going to stay up,

00:52:02.660 but if you're interested,

00:52:03.780 it's going to be there

00:52:04.560 for a limited time.

00:52:05.940 I don't know

00:52:06.420 what's going on

00:52:06.840 with this stuff.

00:52:07.320 I've only just been told

00:52:08.100 that we're selling it,

00:52:09.100 so there we go.

00:52:09.840 It's here.

00:52:10.660 There you go.

00:52:11.520 Buy it,

00:52:12.120 because it's good stuff.

00:52:13.680 But anyway,

00:52:14.800 here is the Rumble stuff.

00:52:17.740 So,

00:52:18.400 where is the,

00:52:19.240 there it is,

00:52:19.780 okay.

00:52:20.740 So,

00:52:21.160 Garvin Ambrose says,

00:52:22.220 good morning from Minnesota

00:52:23.360 where it is a balmy

00:52:24.920 negative 18 degrees Fahrenheit.

00:52:27.140 That's negative 28 Celsius

00:52:28.600 for you people

00:52:29.220 who don't believe

00:52:29.900 in freedom units.

00:52:30.880 28 Celsius?

00:52:33.080 Yeah,

00:52:33.580 negative,

00:52:34.600 minus.

00:52:35.440 What's that in Kelvin?

00:52:38.660 That is freezing.

00:52:40.200 Stay warm,

00:52:41.620 and thank you.

00:52:44.700 Sigil Stone says,

00:52:45.920 Joe Biden,

00:52:46.880 pardon,

00:52:47.280 Anthony,

00:52:47.660 yes,

00:52:48.640 we've just read that,

00:52:49.980 but thank you.

00:52:50.540 That admits that

00:52:52.460 Anthony Fauci

00:52:53.220 did something wrong

00:52:54.020 as well,

00:52:54.360 which is interesting.

00:52:55.100 He's convicted of stuff

00:52:56.180 to be pardoned for.

00:52:57.340 I don't know.

00:52:58.280 It's a bit strange.

00:52:59.740 On the subway to DC now,

00:53:01.000 drove from NJ,

00:53:03.000 packed with patriots,

00:53:03.940 happy 26th birthday to me.

00:53:05.420 Happy birthday.

00:53:06.620 God bless America,

00:53:07.720 much love to the Lotus Eaters,

00:53:09.000 appreciate you keeping me sane

00:53:10.320 when the Empire struck back.

00:53:12.340 Well,

00:53:12.560 thank you very much,

00:53:13.340 and I hope you have a nice time.

00:53:15.520 Sigil Stone again,

00:53:16.480 I'm so sorry to see Leo

00:53:17.800 lost his hair to cancer

00:53:19.300 like Bo did.

00:53:20.540 I wish them both

00:53:21.340 a speedy recovery.

00:53:23.520 Blimey.

00:53:24.300 You wish the COVID

00:53:25.040 a speedy recovery as well.

00:53:27.680 I like how for two US dollars

00:53:30.080 you can get me to read out

00:53:31.240 an insult to both of my panellists.

00:53:35.740 That's good value for money,

00:53:36.940 folks.

00:53:36.960 Yeah, it's good value.

00:53:37.500 I was going to say that.

00:53:39.620 I might start doing this myself.

00:53:41.980 Matt G. Hammond says,

00:53:42.800 An executive order

00:53:43.600 is how the administrative

00:53:44.560 should function

00:53:46.100 based off existing law.

00:53:47.760 There are limits,

00:53:48.300 as seen by the Biden admin.

00:53:50.260 He tried to forgive student loans

00:53:51.560 and the court stopped it.

00:53:52.540 That is true, actually, yes.

00:53:54.920 Bally Sacker says,

00:53:56.180 if Greens really cared about climate,

00:53:58.340 they would try to court the right

00:53:59.920 by emphasising the fact

00:54:01.360 that under their scenario

00:54:02.360 of hundreds of millions

00:54:03.240 of sub-Saharans

00:54:04.080 will have to flee

00:54:04.780 to Europe to survive.

00:54:06.980 That is true.

00:54:08.200 Yes, the whole notion

00:54:09.680 of climate migration.

00:54:10.640 But anyway,

00:54:13.620 it's all yours.

00:54:14.500 So I'm going to do a segment

00:54:15.820 on Britain's Syrian terrorist problem

00:54:18.460 that looks like it could

00:54:19.580 get a whole lot worse.

00:54:21.240 So Western media

00:54:22.040 has been applauding

00:54:23.020 the revolution in Syria

00:54:24.340 as the rebel leader

00:54:26.500 who's taken power

00:54:27.740 praises diversity.

00:54:29.520 But just before you book

00:54:30.420 your tickets to

00:54:31.040 Damascus Pride 2025,

00:54:33.220 just let me explain.

00:54:34.400 This is actually going to be

00:54:35.180 a disaster for Britain.

00:54:36.240 They're emptying Syria's

00:54:37.580 prisons of Islamists.

00:54:38.960 There are 10,000,

00:54:41.220 possibly way more

00:54:42.440 coming out of the prison.

00:54:45.100 And there are now

00:54:45.980 tens of thousands of jihadis

00:54:47.580 with no dictator

00:54:48.720 to fight against.

00:54:49.980 So Assad has been banished.

00:54:52.040 And they've got even more

00:54:53.200 of a grudge against the West

00:54:54.160 than your average

00:54:54.760 Islamic fundamentalist.

00:54:56.560 And this is all

00:54:57.860 against the backdrop of Britain

00:54:59.220 having open borders

00:55:00.340 and security services

00:55:01.580 who now admit

00:55:02.420 they're going to have to pay

00:55:03.100 less attention

00:55:03.880 to Islamic terrorism

00:55:04.900 because they've got to focus

00:55:06.200 on China, Iran and Russia.

00:55:08.960 So state-backed terror

00:55:12.400 or state-backed actors

00:55:14.840 and malfeasance

00:55:15.880 and bad stuff

00:55:17.280 is taking over once again

00:55:20.240 after a few decades

00:55:22.560 of it not being there.

00:55:25.520 But yeah, so Bashar al-Assad

00:55:27.140 has fled to Russia.

00:55:28.900 He's a rare example

00:55:29.880 of a Syrian refugee

00:55:30.800 who actually is a doctor.

00:55:33.100 So he's in Moscow now.

00:55:35.180 And yeah, this is all

00:55:36.320 this has all been celebrated

00:55:37.940 in the media as, you know,

00:55:39.880 how serious diversity-friendly

00:55:41.700 jihadists plan on building a state.

00:55:44.740 And yeah, we move to the next one.

00:55:46.760 We've got a video of,

00:55:48.220 look, there's a woman.

00:55:49.340 We might as well just play this

00:55:50.460 with no noise

00:55:51.060 because they're just talking

00:55:52.540 absolute platitudes.

00:55:55.100 So this is, you know,

00:55:56.800 a woman with no headscarf on

00:55:58.620 interviewing a woman

00:56:00.280 with no headscarf on.

00:56:01.400 Oh, it's amazing.

00:56:03.880 And interesting,

00:56:04.800 the leader of HTS,

00:56:06.380 which is the biggest faction

00:56:08.660 of the Syrian rebels,

00:56:09.940 he was a wanted terrorist

00:56:11.260 affiliated with Al-Qaeda

00:56:12.600 with a $10 million bounty

00:56:14.480 on his head.

00:56:15.060 And now he's cropped his beard

00:56:16.520 and he's got new togs.

00:56:18.500 He's had a glow-up,

00:56:19.320 not a blow-up.

00:56:19.960 He's done a shemima begum.

00:56:21.400 Remember when she appeared

00:56:22.280 on the BBC

00:56:22.920 in like a baseball cap

00:56:24.180 and stuff being like,

00:56:24.960 hey, I could live

00:56:26.240 in a semi-detached house

00:56:27.260 in Birmingham next to you.

00:56:28.340 This is going to be fine.

00:56:30.260 So the same sort of thing.

00:56:31.780 He's told his troops

00:56:32.600 not to frighten children.

00:56:34.240 And he allegedly celebrates

00:56:36.280 Syria's diversity,

00:56:38.260 which, you know,

00:56:38.920 just saying this alone

00:56:39.780 makes these Islamic extremists

00:56:41.780 eligible for BlackRock funding.

00:56:44.060 Yeah, they'll burn

00:56:45.020 Yazidi sex slaves in a cage,

00:56:46.980 but they've got an amazing

00:56:47.840 diversity and inclusion strategy.

00:56:49.740 Have they actually,

00:56:50.240 what they actually said

00:56:51.480 about diversity,

00:56:52.680 is that a,

00:56:54.000 are they really committed to that?

00:56:55.400 Is that like,

00:56:56.140 we want some funding?

00:56:57.320 The thing is,

00:56:58.500 I think this main guy

00:56:59.560 might actually be,

00:57:01.220 you know,

00:57:01.420 he might want a cohesive

00:57:02.580 Syrian state

00:57:03.720 because you would,

00:57:04.380 you wouldn't want

00:57:04.860 all the different factions

00:57:05.860 fighting against each other,

00:57:07.060 which, you know,

00:57:07.860 which tends to happen

00:57:09.460 in tribalistic

00:57:10.560 Middle Eastern

00:57:11.400 or North African countries.

00:57:13.320 And look at Libya.

00:57:14.080 Unless you've got like

00:57:14.740 a real strongman dictator,

00:57:16.680 not that I'm saying

00:57:17.100 Bashar al-Assad was good

00:57:18.580 or a particularly strong man,

00:57:20.160 but unless you've got,

00:57:20.940 you know,

00:57:21.180 a dictator there

00:57:22.200 holding everything together,

00:57:23.880 then all the different

00:57:25.040 tribalistic factions

00:57:26.180 just war amongst themselves.

00:57:27.680 It's horrific.

00:57:28.420 You know,

00:57:28.560 for all that we're told

00:57:29.400 diversity is strength,

00:57:31.080 I'd like to see a country

00:57:31.980 where that's true.

00:57:33.780 I'm hearing.

00:57:34.140 I mean,

00:57:34.720 diversity tends to mean

00:57:35.980 internecine tribal conflict.

00:57:37.840 Dictatorship is strength,

00:57:38.680 if you're saying.

00:57:39.220 This is an interesting arc,

00:57:40.760 Leo.

00:57:41.220 Or a homogenous,

00:57:42.340 high-trust society

00:57:43.300 is strength,

00:57:44.380 you know,

00:57:44.580 and I don't know

00:57:44.940 if Syria's going to get redrawn,

00:57:46.780 you know,

00:57:47.120 break up and get redrawn,

00:57:49.100 you know,

00:57:49.320 balkanized and redrawn

00:57:50.560 around these sort of tribal lines.

00:57:52.480 The thing about Syria

00:57:53.240 is ever since the ancient times,

00:57:55.140 it's been one of the crossroads

00:57:56.520 of the world.

00:57:57.240 Yeah.

00:57:57.800 It has always been

00:57:59.080 a mishmash of different peoples,

00:58:01.140 ethnicities,

00:58:01.740 religions,

00:58:02.380 however you want to say it.

00:58:03.860 So they have never been,

00:58:05.900 and I suspect will never be,

00:58:07.820 like some sort of

00:58:08.740 homogenous society.

00:58:10.920 Yeah.

00:58:11.300 But this new guy,

00:58:12.060 it's funny,

00:58:12.340 when he first came in,

00:58:13.340 people were,

00:58:14.120 what,

00:58:14.260 what,

00:58:14.600 these weird pro-jihadist people

00:58:17.040 trying to make out

00:58:18.020 that he's like a,

00:58:19.680 a great trustworthy type person.

00:58:22.300 There was jokes going around Twitter,

00:58:24.220 I've made one myself,

00:58:25.040 that,

00:58:25.260 you know,

00:58:25.380 like he gets his cufflinks

00:58:26.680 from Cartier or something.

00:58:27.960 Yeah.

00:58:28.280 So you can trust him.

00:58:29.060 So he's one of us.

00:58:30.000 Yeah.

00:58:30.320 He's basically a gentleman

00:58:31.660 in the Western tradition.

00:58:33.120 Yeah.

00:58:33.440 It's like,

00:58:33.920 no,

00:58:34.600 no,

00:58:35.700 of course he's not.

00:58:37.140 No,

00:58:37.260 of course he's not.

00:58:37.940 He's a crazy jihadist,

00:58:40.000 just of a slightly different stripe

00:58:41.560 to the one we've had before.

00:58:43.060 I mean,

00:58:43.420 come on.

00:58:43.980 It's like the media

00:58:44.820 has just forgotten

00:58:45.820 that Assad was the one

00:58:47.420 that wasn't the Islamist.

00:58:49.340 Yeah.

00:58:49.380 Yeah.

00:58:49.820 He was actually

00:58:50.900 a type of secular,

00:58:52.180 a type of secular ruler.

00:58:54.120 Yeah.

00:58:54.640 I mean,

00:58:55.380 Syria,

00:58:56.300 I think Syria

00:58:56.920 is always doomed

00:58:58.280 because of the geography

00:58:59.920 of where it is in the world.

00:59:01.060 It's always doomed

00:59:01.960 to be a place of conflict

00:59:04.240 on and off,

00:59:05.060 on and off.

00:59:05.840 Like when I was a kid,

00:59:06.980 it wasn't too bad.

00:59:08.160 Yeah.

00:59:08.380 In the 80s and 90s

00:59:09.200 or even early 2000s,

00:59:10.020 you could go and have a holiday

00:59:10.820 in Syria,

00:59:11.380 no problem.

00:59:12.320 But it's unlikely

00:59:14.940 to ever be

00:59:16.400 just a completely peaceful society,

00:59:19.280 homogenous society.

00:59:20.260 Yeah,

00:59:20.460 absolutely.

00:59:20.840 And the idea

00:59:21.420 that the lines

00:59:22.940 on the map

00:59:23.400 don't really mean anything.

00:59:25.100 I mean,

00:59:25.460 you've got the Kurdish bit,

00:59:26.760 you've got the Alawite,

00:59:27.520 you've got the Druze

00:59:28.060 and all the rest of it.

00:59:29.720 And we've been here before.

00:59:31.360 You know,

00:59:31.960 when Gaddafi went,

00:59:32.960 everybody's like,

00:59:33.280 oh,

00:59:33.440 springtime for Libya.

00:59:34.660 How did that work out?

00:59:35.720 You know,

00:59:35.880 Saddam is gone.

00:59:36.900 Oh,

00:59:37.360 springtime for Iraq.

00:59:38.580 Nah,

00:59:39.100 not really.

00:59:39.680 Didn't really work out.

00:59:40.340 Yeah,

00:59:40.740 oh,

00:59:40.920 the Shah of Iran

00:59:41.700 has been deposed.

00:59:42.680 Wahey!

00:59:43.460 You know,

00:59:43.800 this isn't always great news.

00:59:47.560 And I'm in a group,

00:59:51.380 a telegram group

00:59:52.220 for Syrian Christians

00:59:53.860 and there's horrific stuff posted there

00:59:56.300 of people getting flogged

00:59:57.240 and all the rest of it.

00:59:57.940 And you can see here,

00:59:59.060 look at these new Islamic jihadis,

01:00:01.660 how they're respecting Syria's Christians.

01:00:05.080 So this is a Christmas tree in Syria.

01:00:08.200 I want to know where they got that stand,

01:00:10.560 by the way.

01:00:11.100 That's a really good stand.

01:00:12.280 I mean,

01:00:12.660 that is an amazing advert

01:00:13.500 for a Christmas tree stand.

01:00:14.700 Normally they can get knocked over by a cat,

01:00:16.880 but this one is a full-grown jihadi

01:00:18.720 and he can't knock over that Christmas tree.

01:00:20.440 I mean,

01:00:20.540 he sort of made it point over there.

01:00:21.840 He made it point towards the star.

01:00:25.360 And also they've been burning Christmas trees.

01:00:27.780 I mean,

01:00:27.940 here's a big one

01:00:29.040 in a roundabout.

01:00:30.800 Yeah.

01:00:33.320 So,

01:00:33.700 you know,

01:00:33.960 horrible stuff.

01:00:35.220 It's not as bad

01:00:36.340 as I've seen Christians

01:00:38.020 being threatened,

01:00:40.640 being flogged,

01:00:41.980 being killed.

01:00:44.200 It's horrific footage.

01:00:45.340 We're not going to show it.

01:00:46.860 But it's interesting to see

01:00:47.700 how Muslims are treated

01:00:48.500 in Christian countries.

01:00:49.540 You know,

01:00:49.660 we ban references to Christmas

01:00:51.620 and say happy holidays.

01:00:52.820 We fund the mosques.

01:00:54.020 We celebrate Eid

01:00:54.920 and we bend over backwards

01:00:56.040 to accommodate them.

01:00:57.440 I mean,

01:00:58.300 just a month ago,

01:01:00.080 polite Germans looked the other way

01:01:01.320 while Syrian immigrants

01:01:02.580 rampaged through a Christmas market.

01:01:04.220 It's not the

01:01:04.840 it's not the

01:01:06.040 it's not the horrific

01:01:07.860 car

01:01:10.740 that went into the Christmas market.

01:01:12.440 There was

01:01:12.680 Syrians

01:01:13.400 rampage through a Christmas market

01:01:15.620 celebrating the fall of Assad.

01:01:18.060 But,

01:01:18.540 you know,

01:01:18.720 they're allowed to do that

01:01:19.720 in Western countries.

01:01:21.520 And now

01:01:22.360 the minorities

01:01:23.280 in Syria,

01:01:24.900 so this is the

01:01:25.640 you've got Christians,

01:01:26.540 you've got Druze,

01:01:27.120 this is the Druze community.

01:01:28.760 they're actually asking

01:01:30.100 to be part of Israel.

01:01:31.880 We can play this

01:01:33.120 if you want to hear him

01:01:34.760 say exactly what I just said.

01:01:43.520 So they all want to go to Israel.

01:01:51.980 So yeah,

01:01:52.540 we don't need to watch the whole thing.

01:01:54.900 But you can see,

01:01:55.500 so obviously Druze,

01:01:56.900 Christians,

01:01:57.640 Alawites,

01:01:58.120 they're all going to want to leave

01:01:59.180 Syria

01:01:59.880 because they don't want to get killed

01:02:01.360 by the Islamists.

01:02:02.680 So they're going to be coming

01:02:03.800 just like in 2015.

01:02:05.320 You know,

01:02:05.460 we had that wave of millions of refugees,

01:02:07.320 Syrian refugees coming up to Europe.

01:02:08.840 You know,

01:02:08.980 some came to the UK,

01:02:09.800 most went to Germany

01:02:10.980 and to Turkey.

01:02:12.580 But mixed in with the legitimate refugees

01:02:14.880 could be jihadis.

01:02:15.880 I mean,

01:02:16.040 for the last decade,

01:02:17.360 Syria has been a magnet

01:02:18.460 for Islamist fighters

01:02:19.540 from around the world

01:02:20.480 who went to fight against Assad

01:02:21.840 and establish

01:02:22.800 an Islamic state.

01:02:25.120 And so you had Chechens

01:02:26.080 and all kinds of people

01:02:27.400 from all across the world.

01:02:29.880 All the Islamists

01:02:30.760 were going there.

01:02:31.760 Birmingham.

01:02:32.460 Yeah,

01:02:32.760 you did.

01:02:33.300 Bradford.

01:02:34.240 Yeah,

01:02:34.800 yeah,

01:02:35.040 yeah.

01:02:35.820 Yeah.

01:02:36.460 Some proper hell holes.

01:02:38.720 And now with Assad gone,

01:02:41.120 they're going to be looking

01:02:41.720 for the next battle.

01:02:43.000 Now Syria is going to,

01:02:43.860 you know,

01:02:44.040 become,

01:02:44.520 you know,

01:02:44.700 turn into,

01:02:45.360 you know,

01:02:45.920 an Islamic state

01:02:46.940 under HTS.

01:02:48.020 So now you've got all these

01:02:50.160 people who've been fighting

01:02:51.400 for a decade.

01:02:52.840 They're armed.

01:02:54.220 They're trained.

01:02:55.540 They know what they're doing.

01:02:56.740 They've had lots of experience.

01:02:59.220 So they're going to be

01:03:00.300 much more effective

01:03:01.580 and efficient

01:03:02.060 than the jihadis

01:03:03.040 who attacked Europe

01:03:03.940 a decade ago.

01:03:05.140 And Britain has a weak

01:03:05.960 asylum system

01:03:06.680 that,

01:03:06.960 you know,

01:03:07.080 we've already spoken about

01:03:08.040 in the show

01:03:08.320 that anyone can cheat.

01:03:09.480 There are thousands

01:03:10.020 of hardcore Islamists

01:03:11.260 being released.

01:03:12.840 And our counter-terror

01:03:14.120 services

01:03:14.700 are openly admitting

01:03:16.120 that they're taking their focus

01:03:17.880 off Islamic terror

01:03:18.660 to deal with Russia

01:03:19.660 and China

01:03:20.540 and also to deal with,

01:03:22.500 you know,

01:03:22.680 the far right

01:03:23.780 who they seem to

01:03:24.860 pay a lot of attention to.

01:03:26.260 Well,

01:03:26.420 it only ever seems to be

01:03:27.160 a 14-year-old autistic kid

01:03:28.700 who's read Lord of the Rings

01:03:29.720 or something.

01:03:30.240 You know what I mean?

01:03:30.640 It's very rarely

01:03:31.600 a credible actual threat.

01:03:34.480 I remember in 20,

01:03:35.660 was it 2021,

01:03:37.060 they changed the definition

01:03:38.220 of terrorism

01:03:38.880 to include the far right.

01:03:40.900 And the number of pensioners

01:03:42.280 that went on that terror list

01:03:45.320 went up by something

01:03:46.280 like 85%.

01:03:47.900 Yeah.

01:03:48.680 It was just absurd.

01:03:50.020 So it's just all of these

01:03:50.820 old, you know,

01:03:51.680 biddies going about

01:03:52.560 with their Zimmer frames

01:03:53.780 harbouring malicious intent

01:03:55.800 apparently.

01:03:56.440 Yeah.

01:03:56.820 That might dare to fly

01:03:58.180 a St George's Cross

01:03:59.080 or something.

01:03:59.380 Yeah.

01:04:00.040 It was just that

01:04:01.080 they have right-wing opinions

01:04:02.380 and that's it.

01:04:03.540 That's what that tells me.

01:04:04.920 Well, this comes down

01:04:05.620 to sort of the question

01:04:06.760 of tolerance, right?

01:04:07.780 In the West,

01:04:09.400 sort of liberal-leaning people

01:04:11.500 you're sort of required

01:04:12.940 to be tolerant, right?

01:04:13.840 There's something wrong with you.

01:04:15.020 If you're not tolerant,

01:04:17.160 if you don't tolerate,

01:04:18.120 you're supposed to even tolerate

01:04:19.340 among you the intolerant.

01:04:22.800 Yeah.

01:04:23.160 Whereas in Islam,

01:04:24.180 often,

01:04:24.780 there's many different stripes

01:04:26.080 of Islam, of course,

01:04:26.760 but often,

01:04:27.740 no, you're commanded

01:04:28.480 to be intolerant

01:04:29.480 of certain things, right?

01:04:31.200 So, you know,

01:04:32.160 obviously the Syrian Islamists

01:04:33.840 are intolerant

01:04:34.680 of the Druze population

01:04:35.880 or the Christian population.

01:04:37.300 But we're expected

01:04:38.160 to tolerate,

01:04:39.520 I think Christopher Hitchens

01:04:40.400 talked about tolerance

01:04:41.600 once or twice,

01:04:42.140 very interesting.

01:04:42.520 It's like you tolerate

01:04:43.540 something you don't like.

01:04:45.380 Yeah.

01:04:45.880 Right?

01:04:46.460 You tolerate sound pollution

01:04:48.080 or something.

01:04:48.700 Yeah.

01:04:49.100 Whereas in an ideal world,

01:04:50.080 you shouldn't have to.

01:04:51.000 Yeah.

01:04:52.000 And so just one more angle

01:04:54.140 in the ocean of things

01:04:57.900 we've been sort of subverted by

01:04:59.580 or weakened by

01:05:00.620 is the very idea

01:05:01.860 that you must be tolerant.

01:05:03.160 Yeah.

01:05:04.080 Well, and this is the thing.

01:05:05.180 I mean,

01:05:05.440 when Britain was a

01:05:07.100 sort of homogenous,

01:05:07.960 high-trust society,

01:05:09.280 the tolerance thing

01:05:10.080 made sense

01:05:10.940 because we're all,

01:05:12.740 we all share roughly

01:05:14.340 the same cultural values

01:05:16.220 and social values.

01:05:17.560 Now that we've brought in people

01:05:19.820 from tribalistic,

01:05:21.080 medieval,

01:05:21.760 barbaric societies

01:05:22.820 and we're applying

01:05:24.000 the same rules,

01:05:24.820 treating them as if

01:05:25.600 they're individualistic Westerners

01:05:27.940 instead of,

01:05:28.660 you know,

01:05:29.480 instead of having

01:05:30.420 a tribalistic view

01:05:31.300 of the world

01:05:31.600 based on an honor system.

01:05:32.740 I mean,

01:05:33.180 if you look at Pakistan,

01:05:34.260 the way the justice works

01:05:36.920 in Pakistan,

01:05:37.940 there's a guy raped a girl

01:05:40.960 and the council,

01:05:43.560 the town council

01:05:44.200 then said that

01:05:45.340 the girl's,

01:05:46.980 the victim,

01:05:47.800 the rape victim's brother

01:05:48.740 was allowed to rape

01:05:49.860 the attacker's sister.

01:05:52.380 And so that's the,

01:05:53.580 you know,

01:05:53.840 it's like the family honor.

01:05:56.060 It's a completely different way

01:05:57.460 of looking at the world

01:05:58.060 from the Western individualism.

01:06:00.300 And so when you're,

01:06:01.700 when you're bringing,

01:06:02.380 you know,

01:06:03.200 that sort of culture

01:06:03.920 into the,

01:06:04.480 into the West,

01:06:05.020 obviously tolerance

01:06:06.280 doesn't,

01:06:06.960 doesn't work

01:06:07.500 because you're applying

01:06:09.020 completely,

01:06:10.340 it's a completely different culture

01:06:11.720 to apply these rules to.

01:06:12.840 Well,

01:06:13.580 that reminds me of

01:06:15.220 when I was reading about

01:06:16.460 Papua New Guinea injustice,

01:06:18.440 which not many people do,

01:06:19.960 funnily.

01:06:21.200 Pretty niche.

01:06:22.000 Yeah,

01:06:22.440 that someone murdered

01:06:23.600 someone else

01:06:24.180 from another tribe

01:06:25.100 and to placate the family,

01:06:26.860 they gave them free pigs.

01:06:29.980 That's moved it over,

01:06:31.060 apparently.

01:06:32.520 We probably work in Scotland

01:06:33.820 as well.

01:06:34.600 The irony is,

01:06:35.300 you know,

01:06:35.600 some Syrian refugees

01:06:37.500 are returning to Syria.

01:06:39.140 So the Turkey,

01:06:40.020 I think in the next,

01:06:40.720 the next tab.

01:06:42.120 By the way,

01:06:42.500 yeah,

01:06:42.680 so there's links,

01:06:43.300 there's already links

01:06:44.000 between the Syrian,

01:06:46.640 the part,

01:06:47.160 HTS that are controlling Syria now

01:06:49.380 and terrorists in Europe.

01:06:52.120 So the Syrian rebel,

01:06:53.400 rebel propagandist

01:06:54.400 praised the killer

01:06:55.180 of the French teacher,

01:06:56.680 Samuel Paty.

01:06:57.320 And if we move on

01:06:57.860 to the next tab,

01:06:59.320 so,

01:07:00.540 you know,

01:07:01.020 they are sending,

01:07:02.320 I think on the,

01:07:02.720 on the tab after this,

01:07:04.060 we can see,

01:07:05.100 you know,

01:07:05.560 Britain saying,

01:07:06.780 we want to send

01:07:07.200 some Syrian refugees back.

01:07:08.340 They're not actually going to

01:07:09.260 make anything happen.

01:07:10.020 This is the streams of car

01:07:11.120 returning to Syria

01:07:12.260 from Turkey.

01:07:13.700 But obviously the people

01:07:14.380 who stayed in refugee camps

01:07:15.520 in Turkey

01:07:15.940 instead of coming to Britain,

01:07:17.160 they sort of wanted

01:07:17.860 to go back to Syria.

01:07:18.660 So that's why

01:07:19.000 they stayed nearby.

01:07:20.400 The irony is,

01:07:21.380 if you look at the refugees

01:07:22.740 that are in Britain,

01:07:24.520 a lot of economic migrants

01:07:26.300 from places like Africa

01:07:27.260 and Asia

01:07:27.620 pretended to be Syrian

01:07:28.860 to get into Britain

01:07:29.820 in the first place.

01:07:30.720 So if we start

01:07:31.300 repatriating Syrian refugees,

01:07:33.540 we're going to be getting guys

01:07:34.680 who've never been

01:07:35.620 anywhere near Syria

01:07:36.560 and just,

01:07:37.280 they're going to end up

01:07:37.820 in this Islamic hellhole.

01:07:39.340 I don't know,

01:07:39.620 maybe we should...

01:07:40.100 Well,

01:07:40.380 why not just start referring

01:07:41.620 to everyone as Syrian?

01:07:43.020 Why not?

01:07:43.740 It's like,

01:07:44.040 you might be sub-Saharan,

01:07:45.100 but you know,

01:07:45.660 you grew up in Syria,

01:07:46.940 didn't you?

01:07:47.960 There are loads of people

01:07:49.100 in this country

01:07:49.560 in the Turkish barber's shops

01:07:50.940 and things.

01:07:51.780 If you ask them,

01:07:52.660 they all claim to be Turkish,

01:07:53.900 but they're Syrian

01:07:55.300 or Iraqi or something.

01:07:56.580 Yeah, yeah.

01:07:56.860 It just sounds bad to say that,

01:07:58.100 so they say they're Turkish.

01:07:59.120 It's whatever's

01:07:59.580 the most convenient,

01:08:00.640 the most expeditious thing

01:08:02.080 to put on the form

01:08:03.040 when you're claiming asylum.

01:08:04.260 Because, you know,

01:08:04.740 you rip up your passports

01:08:05.980 at sea

01:08:06.800 and then you just say...

01:08:08.080 Because I think at present,

01:08:09.680 the UK has rules

01:08:10.500 that I think

01:08:11.260 if you're from Afghanistan,

01:08:12.440 Iraq,

01:08:13.040 and a couple of other places,

01:08:14.480 you automatically get

01:08:15.600 your asylum case,

01:08:18.120 you know,

01:08:18.580 rubber stamp kind of thing.

01:08:19.700 So people would say that

01:08:20.760 even if they're from,

01:08:21.700 you know,

01:08:21.940 a safe country.

01:08:24.420 The irony is then,

01:08:25.680 you know,

01:08:26.100 if that country is then freed,

01:08:27.600 they might get sent

01:08:28.600 to that country

01:08:29.040 when they're actually

01:08:29.460 from the Gambia.

01:08:30.780 But, yeah,

01:08:33.860 this is

01:08:34.660 Operation Scatter.

01:08:36.820 This is why,

01:08:37.340 you know,

01:08:37.580 the UK...

01:08:38.160 You might be wondering

01:08:39.300 why the UK government

01:08:40.360 doesn't do anything

01:08:41.160 to really close our borders

01:08:42.480 or send anyone back.

01:08:44.060 It's because our

01:08:44.760 immigration system

01:08:45.980 is set up

01:08:46.640 to provide voters

01:08:47.700 for Labour.

01:08:48.680 And under Operation Scatter,

01:08:50.200 the Labour government

01:08:50.780 is moving migrants...

01:08:52.280 Traditionally,

01:08:52.760 migrants tend to

01:08:53.580 accumulate in cities,

01:08:55.740 city centres.

01:08:56.880 So London,

01:08:57.520 Birmingham,

01:08:57.860 places like that.

01:08:58.420 Those places are already

01:08:59.560 solidly Labour-voting places.

01:09:02.000 So they're going to

01:09:02.740 move them out

01:09:03.300 to the country,

01:09:04.360 put them in Tory constituencies

01:09:05.680 to try and tilt

01:09:06.760 the electoral balance

01:09:07.980 in Labour's favour,

01:09:09.540 which, I mean,

01:09:10.000 it's going to cause

01:09:10.460 a huge amount

01:09:10.940 of social conflict.

01:09:11.680 I was up in Dumfries

01:09:12.700 not long ago

01:09:13.560 from my dad's funeral

01:09:14.460 and I was talking to mates

01:09:16.320 and they've moved

01:09:17.020 like hundreds of asylum seekers

01:09:18.580 into Dumfries.

01:09:19.680 So you've got like

01:09:20.220 this place that was

01:09:21.160 completely,

01:09:22.220 you know,

01:09:22.380 it's not a rich place,

01:09:23.880 but, you know,

01:09:24.420 it was kind of

01:09:24.940 pretty homogenous

01:09:26.120 and, you know,

01:09:26.740 people got on.

01:09:27.860 Now they've had problems

01:09:28.460 with, you know,

01:09:29.340 these guys going down

01:09:30.000 to the school

01:09:30.620 and, you know,

01:09:31.600 hanging around outside

01:09:32.360 and, you know,

01:09:33.480 it's causing ructions

01:09:35.520 in people

01:09:36.740 and it's making people

01:09:37.580 who never really saw it

01:09:39.260 as an issue

01:09:39.840 see it as an issue.

01:09:41.020 So I think it could be

01:09:41.680 a massive own goal.

01:09:42.980 A terrible, terrible crime.

01:09:44.580 Ruining the very fabric

01:09:45.900 of our society

01:09:46.720 to do that.

01:09:47.320 I mean,

01:09:47.940 it's always been the case

01:09:49.280 across all time

01:09:50.060 that foreign people

01:09:51.300 go to a new land

01:09:52.320 and live in enclaves.

01:09:54.180 It's completely natural.

01:09:55.460 Yeah.

01:09:55.800 Like you get English expats

01:09:57.260 all live together

01:09:58.140 in Spain,

01:09:58.800 let's say.

01:09:59.520 That's just completely natural.

01:10:00.820 So to,

01:10:02.220 if you're going to have

01:10:02.940 any sort of

01:10:03.780 foreign enclaves

01:10:05.320 in your country,

01:10:05.980 okay,

01:10:06.360 but to deliberately

01:10:07.540 smear them across

01:10:09.620 the country

01:10:10.660 in places

01:10:11.120 where they would

01:10:11.780 just not naturally

01:10:12.980 be or go.

01:10:14.120 Yeah.

01:10:14.240 I mean,

01:10:14.460 what a terrible,

01:10:15.740 terrible crime.

01:10:16.620 And it's terrible

01:10:17.240 for them as well

01:10:18.480 because...

01:10:18.900 Nobody wins with this.

01:10:19.920 Yeah, yeah.

01:10:20.460 It's horrible.

01:10:20.880 It's horrible.

01:10:21.620 Yeah,

01:10:21.760 it's really malicious

01:10:22.600 and it's all just

01:10:23.700 to get...

01:10:24.940 The only reason,

01:10:25.680 the only logical reason

01:10:26.780 I can think of doing it

01:10:27.600 is to get those votes

01:10:29.200 in those areas

01:10:29.860 when the people

01:10:30.620 get registered to vote.

01:10:32.160 And mass migration

01:10:32.840 was started by Labour

01:10:34.720 and they admit,

01:10:36.800 Labour advisor admitted

01:10:37.840 it was for political gain.

01:10:39.080 It was to rub

01:10:39.560 the right's nose

01:10:40.080 in diversity

01:10:40.680 and, you know,

01:10:41.760 get those change,

01:10:42.920 you know,

01:10:43.120 long-term change,

01:10:43.700 the voting demographics

01:10:44.660 of the country.

01:10:45.520 So this is why they're doing.

01:10:46.780 And they're also emptying

01:10:47.780 the prisons in Syria.

01:10:49.040 If we move to the next tab,

01:10:50.480 there's a video

01:10:51.300 of Sinaya prison.

01:10:53.920 If we play this,

01:10:55.420 we know sound.

01:10:57.800 So they're...

01:10:58.840 I mean, honestly,

01:11:00.180 this prison sounded

01:11:00.940 like an absolute hellhole.

01:11:01.920 They found bodies

01:11:02.680 being dissolved in acid.

01:11:04.000 They found people

01:11:04.600 who had been so traumatized

01:11:06.020 and tortured

01:11:06.500 they couldn't talk

01:11:07.380 or walk or anything.

01:11:10.040 Thousands and thousands,

01:11:11.080 tens of thousands

01:11:11.820 of men died here.

01:11:12.840 They found...

01:11:14.160 It goes underground

01:11:15.920 and there were families

01:11:17.640 under there.

01:11:19.660 It's insane that,

01:11:20.760 you know,

01:11:20.920 I don't even think

01:11:21.500 any women were put down there,

01:11:22.640 but it's like Jurassic Park.

01:11:24.180 You know,

01:11:24.900 just...

01:11:26.140 The nature found a way

01:11:27.460 to turn some of the men

01:11:28.420 into women

01:11:28.920 and make them pregnant.

01:11:30.000 Oh my gosh.

01:11:30.460 By...

01:11:31.260 They spliced them

01:11:32.600 with frog DNA or something.

01:11:34.220 I don't know.

01:11:35.120 But, yeah,

01:11:35.900 I mean,

01:11:36.100 it's absolutely horrific.

01:11:37.240 But then again,

01:11:38.560 a lot of the people

01:11:39.180 in the jail

01:11:39.820 would have been

01:11:40.440 Islamic radicals

01:11:42.260 locked up

01:11:43.060 by the Assad regime

01:11:44.600 because they were going to

01:11:46.080 commit terror atrocities

01:11:47.460 in Syria.

01:11:48.460 So,

01:11:49.840 ISIS is back,

01:11:51.000 basically.

01:11:52.860 And also,

01:11:53.900 if there's a lesson

01:11:54.520 to learn from British prisons,

01:11:55.680 it's that when you lock up

01:11:56.580 thousands of jihadis,

01:11:57.780 they don't de-radicalize

01:11:59.100 each other.

01:11:59.720 You know,

01:11:59.980 our prisons in Britain

01:12:01.340 are...

01:12:01.740 And we've got over

01:12:02.700 40,000 Islamists

01:12:04.080 on terror watch lists

01:12:05.020 at the moment.

01:12:05.940 So,

01:12:06.520 prisons have become

01:12:07.160 sort of almost like

01:12:08.000 Islamic radicalization camps.

01:12:09.520 So,

01:12:09.800 these jihadis coming out

01:12:11.340 will have extra reasons

01:12:12.400 to bear a grudge

01:12:13.420 against the West as well

01:12:14.280 because Syria

01:12:14.960 was a favoured location

01:12:16.440 for the CIA

01:12:17.140 to rendition people to

01:12:18.480 for,

01:12:18.900 you know,

01:12:20.040 enhanced interrogation,

01:12:21.820 which is what happens

01:12:22.560 when somebody attaches

01:12:23.940 electricity to your testicles.

01:12:26.420 So,

01:12:27.300 yeah,

01:12:27.500 they're going to want

01:12:28.420 some revenge on the West.

01:12:29.840 So,

01:12:29.980 what about

01:12:30.560 when they get here?

01:12:32.440 So,

01:12:32.620 Ken McCallum,

01:12:33.320 the director of Britain's

01:12:34.460 domestic security service,

01:12:36.200 told a press conference,

01:12:37.800 today's Islamic state

01:12:39.280 is not the force

01:12:39.860 it was a decade ago,

01:12:40.940 but after a few years

01:12:41.820 of being pinned well back,

01:12:42.820 they've resumed their efforts

01:12:43.680 to export terrorism.

01:12:44.960 And now he's warned

01:12:45.660 that MI5

01:12:46.440 has had to pare back

01:12:47.700 counter-terrorism work

01:12:49.000 due to rogue states.

01:12:50.920 So,

01:12:51.440 I mean,

01:12:51.700 this is terrifying.

01:12:52.660 So,

01:12:52.920 there's a growing threat

01:12:53.960 from hostile states

01:12:54.960 such as Russia,

01:12:55.680 China,

01:12:56.000 and Iran,

01:12:56.460 and they've got

01:12:57.260 finite resources

01:12:58.260 and have to make

01:12:59.000 uncomfortable choices.

01:13:00.300 This is his words.

01:13:02.000 But this isn't like

01:13:02.700 a normal government department

01:13:03.980 where cutting back

01:13:04.900 in one area

01:13:05.440 might mean people

01:13:06.160 waiting longer

01:13:06.820 for their driving license

01:13:07.820 or a planning application

01:13:08.860 to be approved

01:13:09.400 for a garden shed

01:13:10.080 or something.

01:13:10.520 This is going to result

01:13:11.300 in British children

01:13:12.440 getting killed.

01:13:14.240 As I said,

01:13:14.900 we've already got

01:13:15.560 over 40,000 Islamists

01:13:17.140 on terror watch lists

01:13:18.380 and sometimes

01:13:19.280 they get through.

01:13:21.280 So,

01:13:21.740 there's going to be

01:13:22.120 more chance

01:13:22.620 of that happening

01:13:23.120 if resources are cut

01:13:24.040 for counter-terror services.

01:13:26.440 So,

01:13:27.040 you know,

01:13:27.220 this is why we need to

01:13:28.080 cut some parts

01:13:29.380 of the government

01:13:30.140 to divert resources

01:13:31.520 to,

01:13:32.100 you know,

01:13:32.500 parts that are

01:13:33.200 kind of needed.

01:13:34.160 Although,

01:13:34.440 we wouldn't need

01:13:35.080 counter-terror.

01:13:37.220 We wouldn't need

01:13:37.700 so much counter-terror

01:13:38.580 resourcing

01:13:39.840 if we just controlled

01:13:41.740 our borders

01:13:42.180 and deported

01:13:43.240 people who

01:13:44.300 are convicted of crimes.

01:13:45.840 Just stuff that makes sense.

01:13:47.020 It's also worth

01:13:47.720 mentioning as well

01:13:50.220 that what can

01:13:51.660 the Chinese,

01:13:54.180 Russians or Iranians

01:13:55.520 do to demoralize

01:13:56.980 and foment discontent

01:13:58.540 in our population

01:13:59.340 than the Labour Party

01:14:00.640 is already doing now?

01:14:02.040 Yeah.

01:14:02.760 Like,

01:14:03.060 what can they possibly do

01:14:04.840 to make things worse for us?

01:14:06.240 Well,

01:14:06.280 the first wave

01:14:06.940 of Syrian refugees,

01:14:08.260 that was Putin

01:14:08.780 got involved

01:14:09.600 and propped up Assad

01:14:10.680 and then bombed

01:14:11.660 a whole bunch of Syria.

01:14:13.220 You know,

01:14:13.460 part of the reason

01:14:14.440 for doing that,

01:14:15.060 apart from getting

01:14:15.540 a strategic ally

01:14:16.540 in the Middle East,

01:14:18.100 part of the reason

01:14:18.540 for doing that

01:14:18.960 was to send

01:14:19.580 a wave of refugees

01:14:20.660 up to Britain.

01:14:22.360 Putin's used

01:14:23.020 mass migration

01:14:23.940 as a weapon

01:14:24.800 against Europe

01:14:25.660 for a long time.

01:14:26.720 He was putting adverts,

01:14:28.140 Russia was putting adverts

01:14:28.980 in papers and stuff

01:14:30.380 in Africa

01:14:31.720 and in the Middle East

01:14:32.760 and flying people

01:14:34.220 to St. Petersburg,

01:14:35.740 flying them to Minsk

01:14:36.620 and then putting them,

01:14:38.120 driving them to the border

01:14:39.680 between Belarus

01:14:41.060 and Europe

01:14:42.040 and then sending them

01:14:43.180 over the border.

01:14:43.820 Now Europe's got

01:14:44.980 an insanely robust border

01:14:46.640 against Belarus

01:14:47.900 and Russia

01:14:48.540 and that's because

01:14:51.540 immigration was being

01:14:52.780 used as a weapon.

01:14:54.120 The Turks were using it

01:14:55.180 against the Greeks

01:14:55.800 as well.

01:14:56.300 I know that

01:14:56.920 large companies,

01:14:59.500 particularly ones

01:15:00.240 run by figures

01:15:01.900 like George Soros,

01:15:02.860 were flying people

01:15:03.660 out to the southern border

01:15:05.160 of the United States.

01:15:07.260 I've seen the tickets

01:15:08.460 and the flight logs

01:15:09.560 and things

01:15:09.940 that people had come

01:15:10.940 from like India

01:15:11.840 and then went to Mexico

01:15:13.480 to then cross

01:15:14.540 the southern border

01:15:15.320 as facilitated

01:15:16.300 by a non-governmental

01:15:18.380 organisation.

01:15:19.240 It's mental.

01:15:19.860 It is madness

01:15:20.700 to have the combination

01:15:22.520 of some sort

01:15:24.520 of open border policy

01:15:25.620 and a welfare state.

01:15:28.480 In exactly the same way,

01:15:29.700 it's a type of madness

01:15:30.680 to have porous borders,

01:15:31.980 essentially open borders

01:15:32.880 and a weak security state.

01:15:35.580 Yeah.

01:15:35.940 That's madness.

01:15:36.820 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:15:37.740 Absolute madness.

01:15:38.460 MI5, i.e.

01:15:40.280 domestic intelligence services,

01:15:42.740 can't cover the threat

01:15:45.180 from places like China

01:15:46.580 and Russia

01:15:47.020 and all the jihadis.

01:15:48.820 They couldn't cover it already.

01:15:51.460 So, again,

01:15:52.080 it's a type of sort of

01:15:52.960 national suicide

01:15:54.000 on some level.

01:15:55.020 Yeah.

01:15:56.180 Bleeding yourself out,

01:15:57.760 however you want

01:15:58.480 to think of it.

01:15:59.620 Yeah.

01:16:00.100 It's the strange death

01:16:01.160 of Europe,

01:16:01.800 as Douglas Lewis said.

01:16:03.080 I mean,

01:16:03.680 to combat this properly,

01:16:07.020 sort of stop the bleeding,

01:16:08.040 i.e. close the borders,

01:16:09.440 and then pump loads

01:16:10.820 and loads of money

01:16:11.460 and resources

01:16:11.960 into things like

01:16:12.780 special branch

01:16:13.440 or the police

01:16:13.940 and MI5.

01:16:15.260 Yeah.

01:16:16.140 That's what it would require.

01:16:18.140 And, you know,

01:16:19.000 in an ideal world,

01:16:19.980 you wouldn't want

01:16:20.640 a big, powerful,

01:16:22.480 extremely well-funded MI5.

01:16:23.800 In an ideal world,

01:16:24.560 you wouldn't need it.

01:16:25.880 Yeah.

01:16:26.000 But now we do.

01:16:27.840 Yeah.

01:16:28.140 Brilliant.

01:16:28.780 And they're just at the point

01:16:30.140 where they're cutting

01:16:30.720 resources to it.

01:16:32.020 And we've already got,

01:16:32.700 you know,

01:16:32.920 tens of thousands

01:16:33.520 of Syrians here.

01:16:34.320 And obviously,

01:16:34.780 you know,

01:16:34.920 a lot of people

01:16:35.380 just come here.

01:16:36.120 They want to work.

01:16:36.920 Syria,

01:16:37.400 back in the day,

01:16:38.040 was, you know,

01:16:38.500 quite a modern country.

01:16:40.200 My mate Hassan

01:16:40.820 is from Syria.

01:16:41.560 Very educated guy.

01:16:43.220 Very nice guy.

01:16:43.980 Hasn't ever blown anybody up.

01:16:45.340 But, you know,

01:16:45.860 like,

01:16:46.180 it's not about the majority.

01:16:47.620 It's about the people

01:16:48.200 who can get through

01:16:49.240 as well.

01:16:50.300 And it's also about

01:16:51.060 the, you know,

01:16:51.500 the social upheaval

01:16:52.560 of having the social conflict

01:16:54.160 of having, you know,

01:16:54.780 different cultures

01:16:55.560 in, you know,

01:16:57.600 what's a formerly

01:16:58.300 homogenous society.

01:16:59.560 And now, also,

01:17:00.480 everybody is bombing Syria.

01:17:02.100 So there's going to be,

01:17:03.180 I mean,

01:17:03.340 I think it's tailed off now,

01:17:04.540 but Israel, Turkey,

01:17:05.580 Russia, and America

01:17:06.220 is bombing Syria

01:17:06.920 to protect their interests

01:17:08.020 or destroy the military kit

01:17:09.640 they left behind.

01:17:11.180 And Syria now,

01:17:12.520 you know,

01:17:12.900 there's so many,

01:17:14.800 there's so many pressures,

01:17:16.220 you know,

01:17:16.740 contributing to Syria.

01:17:18.200 Refugees coming from Syria.

01:17:22.080 And just looking at Syria

01:17:23.580 in total,

01:17:24.800 Syria used to be

01:17:25.400 a Christian country

01:17:26.040 just like Lebanon.

01:17:26.880 And they now show

01:17:28.060 how a multicultural society

01:17:29.740 can descend into hell

01:17:31.000 with different sects

01:17:32.120 all fighting it out

01:17:33.140 just like Lebanon.

01:17:34.940 And Britain used to be

01:17:35.820 a culturally homogenous,

01:17:37.220 high-trust society.

01:17:38.380 And I just find it weird

01:17:39.720 that the progressive cabal

01:17:40.880 who run Britain,

01:17:41.840 not just talking about

01:17:42.520 the politicians,

01:17:43.220 but also the civil service,

01:17:44.820 the lawyers,

01:17:45.400 the media,

01:17:46.240 et cetera,

01:17:46.720 the NGOs,

01:17:47.240 have all been actively

01:17:48.280 working to destroy

01:17:49.340 that strong society

01:17:50.500 and replace it

01:17:51.240 with a tribal patchwork

01:17:52.440 like Syria.

01:17:53.760 And just as the issue

01:17:55.000 with the terror attacks

01:17:55.820 from imported cultures

01:17:56.780 looks likely to get worse,

01:17:57.960 the government is cutting back

01:17:59.060 resources to deal

01:17:59.880 with the problem.

01:18:00.740 I mean,

01:18:01.140 I just don't think

01:18:01.920 this looks good.

01:18:03.300 And I'm not sure,

01:18:04.240 you know,

01:18:04.460 if things get worse,

01:18:06.000 we saw what happened

01:18:06.800 this summer.

01:18:07.320 If things continue like that,

01:18:09.220 if there's another attack

01:18:10.160 like that,

01:18:10.680 and it's in the summer

01:18:12.260 and it's hot

01:18:12.860 and people can go outside,

01:18:14.860 I think,

01:18:16.720 you know,

01:18:17.440 we could see a revolution

01:18:19.060 in this country.

01:18:20.640 I don't think Syria

01:18:21.160 is the only place

01:18:21.740 that's going to see

01:18:22.180 its leaders overthrown.

01:18:23.460 It's mad that,

01:18:24.320 I remember the 2005

01:18:25.700 bombings in London

01:18:27.560 and off the back of 9-11,

01:18:29.840 they went to war,

01:18:30.560 Blair and Bush Jr.

01:18:32.020 went to war in Afghanistan

01:18:33.700 and Iraq

01:18:34.160 and they were saying,

01:18:34.860 this makes the world safer.

01:18:36.780 We're making the world safer

01:18:38.040 by doing these wars.

01:18:39.400 And then even when 2005 happens,

01:18:42.060 7-7,

01:18:43.460 they didn't change that line.

01:18:45.860 They're saying,

01:18:46.300 yeah,

01:18:46.360 this is unfortunate,

01:18:47.140 it's really terrible

01:18:47.700 these few people died,

01:18:48.740 these few dozen,

01:18:49.400 50 odd people died,

01:18:50.160 whatever.

01:18:50.400 But overall,

01:18:52.040 the world is safer,

01:18:53.220 we are safer.

01:18:54.060 And obviously it's a lie.

01:18:55.600 Yeah.

01:18:55.920 Obviously it's not true.

01:18:58.180 They'll just do the same thing.

01:18:59.440 They'll just,

01:19:00.000 the pro-diversity lobby

01:19:01.600 will never ever change their line

01:19:04.140 that it's for the best,

01:19:05.640 that it's better this way.

01:19:07.060 They'll never admit it.

01:19:08.120 They're too committed.

01:19:09.080 Programming.

01:19:09.580 A lot of the programming

01:19:10.300 just isn't working anymore.

01:19:11.920 You know,

01:19:12.140 this sort of almost manufactured

01:19:13.720 consent and this idea

01:19:14.960 that,

01:19:15.340 you know,

01:19:15.800 oh,

01:19:16.080 don't look back in anger.

01:19:17.680 You know,

01:19:17.940 oh,

01:19:18.240 we're,

01:19:18.700 you know,

01:19:19.040 if you do anything

01:19:20.280 about the terrorists,

01:19:21.080 then the terrorists win.

01:19:22.200 It's like,

01:19:22.640 no,

01:19:22.900 I think if we do something

01:19:23.980 about the terrorists,

01:19:24.620 then we win

01:19:25.340 and the terrorists win.

01:19:26.060 Terrorists will be dead.

01:19:26.900 Yeah.

01:19:27.680 All that is starting to,

01:19:29.400 people are just seeing

01:19:30.480 through it now.

01:19:32.460 He's hoping.

01:19:34.020 Okay,

01:19:34.540 do we have any video comments,

01:19:35.860 Samson?

01:19:37.020 A couple.

01:19:37.460 A couple.

01:19:38.660 Okay.

01:19:39.440 Oh,

01:19:39.600 we got some chats through.

01:19:41.360 That's Random Names says,

01:19:42.620 that moment when Blackrock

01:19:43.540 is so batshit insane

01:19:44.940 that they have

01:19:45.620 jihadi DEI programs.

01:19:47.500 What a time to be alive.

01:19:48.360 And they said again,

01:19:51.280 Trump wins the presidency

01:19:52.520 against a woman.

01:19:53.620 ISIS is at it again.

01:19:55.180 There's a new refugee crisis brewing.

01:19:58.780 Is this 2016 2.0?

01:20:01.160 Yeah,

01:20:01.440 it does feel the same,

01:20:02.440 doesn't it?

01:20:03.240 Starting from a much darker,

01:20:05.240 more cynical place.

01:20:08.240 Okay.

01:20:09.200 Go ahead,

01:20:09.800 Samson.

01:20:10.080 Hey guys.

01:20:14.180 Walked into my office this morning,

01:20:15.860 sat down and started going through the mail

01:20:17.640 and what's,

01:20:19.560 what,

01:20:19.860 what is,

01:20:20.300 what is this?

01:20:21.320 What is this?

01:20:21.880 This is here.

01:20:23.100 Look at that.

01:20:23.720 It's from,

01:20:24.560 from the Lotus Eaters.

01:20:26.480 What could this possibly be?

01:20:27.940 It is indeed,

01:20:28.620 yeah.

01:20:28.800 Let's see.

01:20:29.380 Opening it up for the first time.

01:20:32.720 Oh no,

01:20:33.320 not yet.

01:20:34.080 My Islander copy.

01:20:35.640 I thought maybe I actually hadn't ordered it.

01:20:38.620 Thanks guys.

01:20:39.900 I'm glad you finally received it.

01:20:41.560 Yeah.

01:20:41.680 We had a bit of a problem with our,

01:20:42.920 our distributor basically.

01:20:44.260 Oh yeah.

01:20:44.820 And they,

01:20:45.540 they,

01:20:45.820 they basically screwed us and our audience and,

01:20:49.740 No way.

01:20:51.620 Sent it,

01:20:52.300 sent them out long after we expected them.

01:20:55.480 Right.

01:20:56.260 Yeah.

01:20:56.500 We're on the next issue.

01:20:57.820 So just to let people know if they didn't know,

01:21:01.020 we're,

01:21:01.260 we're,

01:21:01.500 we're still new at this is we're only on the third issue.

01:21:03.280 And the first time we did it one way

01:21:04.840 and it wasn't very good.

01:21:06.340 It wasn't,

01:21:06.640 it was far from ideal.

01:21:07.980 The product itself was good.

01:21:08.960 Yeah.

01:21:09.120 The product itself is great.

01:21:10.060 The magazine is great.

01:21:10.700 Buy it.

01:21:11.560 But the distribution method to get it out to people didn't work that well.

01:21:15.660 So we completely changed it and did it a completely different way.

01:21:19.300 Turns out if anything,

01:21:19.980 it was probably even less efficient.

01:21:22.400 So this time,

01:21:23.300 the third edition,

01:21:24.220 we're doing it a whole nother way.

01:21:26.100 And hopefully this time it will actually get to people in a reasonable amount of time.

01:21:30.180 No,

01:21:30.420 no one's going to go without it.

01:21:32.080 Apologies to anyone that has,

01:21:34.240 you know,

01:21:34.600 had to wait ages for it.

01:21:36.360 No one,

01:21:36.660 no one's going to go without,

01:21:37.660 we've got a team on making sure everyone gets what they paid for.

01:21:41.620 So at least that's the case.

01:21:45.300 Gems,

01:21:45.800 the inauguration is here.

01:21:47.340 I've got the Marga hat.

01:21:48.440 I've got the Trump art of the grill shirt.

01:21:51.020 I've actually got a piece of this shirt.

01:21:53.600 I'm going to get them signed by Trump.

01:21:55.640 I'll find a way.

01:21:56.540 And then I'll give you guys a copy as well,

01:21:58.580 because you're such legends and continue to be legends by going to CS cooper.com.au and buying a copy of my awesome books.

01:22:06.440 Use the promo code Marga forever.

01:22:08.980 I can't wait for the 100 executive orders.

01:22:13.800 Yeah.

01:22:16.000 Buy a Coop's book.

01:22:17.580 If he does somehow against all the odds actually get a signed Trump t-shirt and sent it to us,

01:22:22.720 we'll put that on the wall.

01:22:23.800 We'll frame that.

01:22:24.360 Put that on the wall.

01:22:25.560 We'll freely advertise your books forever.

01:22:28.000 I'm just here for the cute duck content.

01:22:34.720 Also in the capital.

01:22:36.740 I'm mostly here for the ducks.

01:22:39.720 Is that why they moved it inside?

01:22:41.300 Because it's cold.

01:22:41.840 I think so.

01:22:42.520 I thought it was an assassination thing.

01:22:44.540 You know,

01:22:44.720 I'd like.

01:22:45.240 So did I at first.

01:22:46.280 They moved it inside because of the weather.

01:22:48.960 Yeah.

01:22:49.340 Well,

01:22:49.540 that's sort of a perennial thing.

01:22:52.160 It's always been nearly always been the thing that inauguration day takes place in sort

01:22:57.080 of a blisteringly cold climate because it's just the way Washington is.

01:23:01.820 I believe in summer,

01:23:02.700 Washington's really,

01:23:04.140 really hot,

01:23:04.520 but in winter,

01:23:04.920 it's really,

01:23:05.420 really,

01:23:05.660 really cold.

01:23:06.420 So it's nearly always the way that the inauguration crowd are freezing their balls off.

01:23:10.420 Yeah.

01:23:10.660 But it's so bad,

01:23:11.440 is it that they've actually moved it into it?

01:23:12.680 It must be pretty bad then.

01:23:14.100 I feel really sorry for those ducks.

01:23:15.440 They look confused.

01:23:16.540 Yeah.

01:23:17.040 And look,

01:23:17.380 just there on the Guardian,

01:23:18.500 it says Axel Rudokabana was referred to counter extremism scheme three times.

01:23:22.760 I mean,

01:23:22.880 that's unusual for the most British man ever.

01:23:25.720 Oh,

01:23:26.360 is that a new picture of him?

01:23:29.380 He looks nice.

01:23:30.300 Yeah,

01:23:30.460 he looks friendly.

01:23:31.920 I think I've seen people that look like that on the bus before.

01:23:35.480 I was,

01:23:35.740 I was reliably informed by the left wing establishment that he's a Christian.

01:23:40.320 So it's,

01:23:41.480 it's interesting.

01:23:42.320 He was referred to a counter extremism scheme three times as a Christian.

01:23:47.120 As a Christian.

01:23:47.620 He's just an extreme Anabaptist.

01:23:51.240 Yeah.

01:23:51.460 Looking to murder some Catholics if he can.

01:23:53.340 Yeah,

01:23:53.520 yeah.

01:23:53.840 I guess that's what it was.

01:23:55.100 You know,

01:23:55.520 who knows,

01:23:56.080 but.

01:23:56.700 Presbyterian extremism.

01:23:59.600 Oh,

01:24:00.060 there's a question for you here,

01:24:01.160 Bo,

01:24:01.380 quickly.

01:24:02.200 Are we going to get another Bo space segment?

01:24:04.460 I'm hoping he'll talk more about launching missions to penetrate Uranus.

01:24:08.840 Hey!

01:24:09.700 Yes.

01:24:11.340 I shall periodically be doing space and science based stuff.

01:24:14.580 Definitely.

01:24:15.080 Hopefully this year,

01:24:16.140 if not perhaps more realistically next year.

01:24:19.100 Hopefully.

01:24:19.600 The Artemis missions,

01:24:20.300 we're going back to the moon.

01:24:21.440 Yes,

01:24:21.620 going back.

01:24:22.120 Yes,

01:24:22.340 yes.

01:24:22.740 Not for the first time.

01:24:23.460 We're going back to the moon.

01:24:24.980 All that stuff I'll cover for sure.

01:24:26.680 Yeah.

01:24:27.220 If and when SpaceX.

01:24:27.800 Please make sure it's when I'm on because I love this sort of thing.

01:24:29.860 If and when SpaceX do new stuff,

01:24:33.080 I'll cover it.

01:24:33.840 Definitely.

01:24:34.840 Yeah,

01:24:35.060 yeah.

01:24:35.180 I love it.

01:24:35.520 I love it.

01:24:35.900 It's nice to have actual uplifting things because nice things are going on.

01:24:39.700 We like to make you miserable,

01:24:41.100 but I think we could be better at giving you positive things,

01:24:45.220 even though the market's response to that,

01:24:47.820 as in people don't like positive,

01:24:50.840 it turns out.

01:24:52.520 Yeah,

01:24:52.720 white pills do get less clicks.

01:24:54.920 They really do.

01:24:55.540 It's a shame,

01:24:56.220 but.

01:24:57.200 It's all right.

01:24:57.440 We do them anyway.

01:24:58.340 It's a matter of principle.

01:24:59.180 We've demonetised off YouTube,

01:25:00.620 so it doesn't actually matter that much.

01:25:02.240 It doesn't matter too much.

01:25:03.100 That's why we do them a bit more.

01:25:04.680 We're going to make you happy against the odds.

01:25:06.980 Whether you like it or not.

01:25:08.300 Yeah.

01:25:09.680 So,

01:25:10.760 for my segment,

01:25:12.480 Charles Francis,

01:25:13.980 a very long name.

01:25:15.020 I'm not going to read all of that.

01:25:15.780 I can remember something Biden did.

01:25:18.300 Shat himself when he visited the Pope.

01:25:21.020 That is true.

01:25:21.500 Was that confirmed as an actual fact?

01:25:23.400 Did that really happen?

01:25:24.700 I think it did.

01:25:25.560 I'm not sure if it was confirmed as an actual fact,

01:25:27.860 because the media wouldn't do that,

01:25:28.860 but everything around it seemed true,

01:25:32.800 to the point that you could see Jill Biden's face

01:25:35.320 looking very depressed.

01:25:39.100 Hector X says,

01:25:39.900 Biden pardons Dr. Fauci.

01:25:42.340 Yes.

01:25:43.620 Blatant corruption.

01:25:45.140 It is.

01:25:45.800 Also,

01:25:47.380 have they even been accused of any crimes?

01:25:50.080 Mark Milley,

01:25:51.100 Fauci,

01:25:51.980 or the entirety of the Jan 6th committee?

01:25:54.860 I think it's a pre-emptive pardon in case Trump.

01:25:57.600 But then Trump's going to be president,

01:25:59.500 so can't he be like,

01:26:00.220 I unpardon you?

01:26:01.540 Yeah.

01:26:02.000 I'm not sure how it works,

01:26:03.260 in that sense.

01:26:04.380 I think presidential pardons are,

01:26:06.960 for all time.

01:26:09.120 Right.

01:26:09.260 So you can go out,

01:26:09.980 if you get pardoned by the president,

01:26:11.520 you can,

01:26:12.340 you know,

01:26:13.000 rape and pillage,

01:26:13.700 cause chaos,

01:26:15.600 and it's fine.

01:26:16.880 I don't know if it's for...

01:26:18.760 Hunter Biden,

01:26:19.600 it's going to have a field day.

01:26:21.640 Yeah.

01:26:22.080 Okay.

01:26:22.600 So,

01:26:23.160 it's pardoning things that have happened in the past,

01:26:25.500 but,

01:26:25.980 it makes you immune in the future.

01:26:27.800 Yeah.

01:26:28.080 Prosecution.

01:26:28.600 Okay.

01:26:30.300 That's terrible.

01:26:31.160 That's a real incentive,

01:26:32.800 you don't want people to have.

01:26:34.160 You can do whatever you like,

01:26:35.640 nothing can happen.

01:26:37.160 Well,

01:26:37.480 eventually it's going to get to the point where...

01:26:39.720 It's like being Colonel Gaddafi's son.

01:26:41.080 Yeah.

01:26:42.040 It's like,

01:26:42.660 you could be rich enough,

01:26:43.920 and pay,

01:26:44.720 donate a lot of money to,

01:26:46.280 a political party,

01:26:47.220 and then,

01:26:47.580 if you've done plenty of actual bad things,

01:26:50.200 they can pardon you just as a,

01:26:51.640 cheers for the money.

01:26:52.920 You're quite right,

01:26:53.460 it does just speak volumes about,

01:26:56.780 for example,

01:26:57.620 Fauci,

01:26:58.800 that he hasn't,

01:26:59.460 he's not even on trial for anything yet.

01:27:01.780 And,

01:27:02.340 they feel the need,

01:27:03.560 to do that.

01:27:04.820 They know what's coming up.

01:27:05.860 Obviously.

01:27:07.440 RFK is gunning for him,

01:27:09.140 wasn't he's going to be?

01:27:10.060 Rightly so,

01:27:10.760 yeah.

01:27:11.280 Wendy Gold says,

01:27:12.120 Beau really does suit that hat.

01:27:13.860 There you go.

01:27:14.360 Oh.

01:27:15.600 What,

01:27:15.920 the camo one.

01:27:16.920 I prefer the camo one.

01:27:19.260 There we go.

01:27:20.280 You look like you're about to skin a deer now.

01:27:22.500 Yeah,

01:27:22.860 yeah.

01:27:23.360 Especially with a bushy beard.

01:27:24.680 With a suit on,

01:27:25.320 you look like you're in court for some firearms.

01:27:29.240 Well,

01:27:29.520 I'll be dipped in shit.

01:27:32.300 You've been soaring off shotguns again.

01:27:34.120 Randy Weaver over there.

01:27:37.800 Kevin Fox says,

01:27:39.080 Scottish people can't rock up and cross the border into the USA.

01:27:42.180 There's a desert to cross,

01:27:43.360 and that's kryptonite to blue-skinned,

01:27:45.600 ginger-haired Scots.

01:27:46.620 My mate went to the Rio Grande,

01:27:48.860 the bit where you have to cross the border,

01:27:51.060 and he says,

01:27:51.540 you've just got to walk a mile down,

01:27:53.480 and you can just walk across this river.

01:27:55.420 It's like the border,

01:27:56.560 it's not stopping immigration,

01:27:59.320 it's just stopping lazy immigration.

01:28:01.620 If you can't be bothered walking for a bit,

01:28:03.180 then you can't get in,

01:28:04.040 which is, I guess,

01:28:04.900 a good system.

01:28:05.640 What they should do is turn it into an elite assault course,

01:28:08.320 so only the best athletes can break into the country.

01:28:10.820 Like we've got with the English Channel.

01:28:12.660 Think of the Olympic rowing squad we're going to have in a few years.

01:28:17.740 Yeah, the dinghy squad.

01:28:19.900 Is that in the Olympics?

01:28:20.800 I don't know.

01:28:21.540 We're going to have some really good water parks, aren't we?

01:28:23.820 The thing about that American-Mexico border

01:28:25.820 is it's fantastically long.

01:28:28.540 Is it hundreds or even a thousand or two?

01:28:31.240 I don't know.

01:28:32.160 It's just an extremely long border.

01:28:34.140 And so it's not possible to build any sort of continuous wall.

01:28:38.160 It's not possible to police it entirely.

01:28:41.420 That sort of physical impossibility,

01:28:43.240 as I understand it.

01:28:45.000 So I guess the hostile environment idea

01:28:48.520 would be more of a deterrent in that case.

01:28:51.520 And already a lot of it is hostile, right?

01:28:53.380 It's deserty.

01:28:54.300 Yeah.

01:28:54.640 Right?

01:28:55.060 Like southern Arizona, southern Texas,

01:28:56.900 New Mexico, it's not...

01:28:59.220 Politically hostile to illegal immigrants.

01:29:03.540 Yeah.

01:29:04.140 Yeah, that'd be nice.

01:29:05.940 I don't know.

01:29:06.760 So Trump made a statement just the other day saying,

01:29:10.280 I think he said it last night,

01:29:11.440 he said this time tomorrow evening

01:29:12.740 the border crisis will be fixed or something.

01:29:15.080 Or he said that our borders will be secure and safe

01:29:17.040 or something or other, something along those lines.

01:29:18.500 I'm paraphrasing.

01:29:19.200 But it's like, well, sorry, Donald.

01:29:22.060 That's a physical impossibility

01:29:23.720 with the best within the world,

01:29:24.980 with all the political capital in the world.

01:29:27.260 That's not going to happen.

01:29:28.920 Yeah.

01:29:29.320 Ah.

01:29:30.200 Yeah.

01:29:31.260 So some comments from your segment, Leo.

01:29:33.880 Michael says,

01:29:35.100 Leo points out that in the Middle East,

01:29:38.480 when they say how much worse could it be,

01:29:40.500 it's like an effing challenge.

01:29:42.080 Every new dictator,

01:29:43.700 is that how much worse than the previous one?

01:29:46.620 So basically, it's like the argument of,

01:29:49.840 well, if we kill Hitler, we'll get someone worse.

01:29:52.880 Or if someone assassinates Trump,

01:29:55.520 you'll get J.D. Vance, who's mini-Trump at this point.

01:29:58.700 So it doesn't really,

01:30:00.520 the logic doesn't necessarily pan out to take out the leader.

01:30:03.560 Stuff in the Middle East never gets better.

01:30:05.260 Although actually, Iraq seems to be slightly more stable.

01:30:08.240 I was offered a gig in Iraq.

01:30:09.800 I was over doing shows in Dubai,

01:30:13.320 and now they've started stringing together more shows.

01:30:17.000 If you want to stay out longer,

01:30:18.020 you can do shows in Saudi Arabia.

01:30:19.980 And apparently, they've already sold the liquor licenses for,

01:30:22.660 they're going to start selling booze in Saudi Arabia.

01:30:25.740 And it was Arbil.

01:30:27.420 So this is a while back,

01:30:28.660 this is a few years back,

01:30:29.700 but Arbil, apparently,

01:30:31.420 is somewhere that's got people pay to go and see comedy.

01:30:36.220 Well, you're going to have to be very careful

01:30:37.500 talking about Islam now, aren't you?

01:30:39.040 Because if you're doing gigs out there,

01:30:41.240 you're going to be Leo Kierce in Kabul.

01:30:43.280 Well, I did Comedy Unleashed on Tuesday,

01:30:47.160 and I've got a new bit about grooming gangs.

01:30:50.440 And I don't think I could have done that.

01:30:52.240 And about Islamophobia.

01:30:54.120 If you could do that in Islamabad,

01:30:55.260 I'd have unending respect to you.

01:30:57.760 Yeah, yeah.

01:30:58.280 Well, the bit about grooming gangs is based around,

01:31:00.100 you know, people used to be like,

01:31:01.720 people used to say,

01:31:02.340 they're coming over here, they're taking our jobs.

01:31:03.900 And now, you know, with the rape gangs,

01:31:05.820 it's like, no, they're coming over here,

01:31:07.020 they're taking our paedophilia.

01:31:08.600 This is, you know,

01:31:09.080 there's good, honest, hard-working British paedophiles

01:31:11.080 being put out of their God-given right.

01:31:13.300 I was going to say, you know, Arbil,

01:31:14.320 you can write some anti-Christian bits, can't you?

01:31:17.320 Some observational comedy about Abrams' tanks or something.

01:31:21.820 So what is it with these Druze?

01:31:25.260 What is it with these Christians?

01:31:27.420 Have you seen this?

01:31:27.960 Have you heard about this?

01:31:29.080 Bloody Christians everywhere running around.

01:31:30.800 Why do these Christmas trees burn so good?

01:31:32.700 I mean, right, guys?

01:31:33.740 Oh, right.

01:31:34.440 If you didn't want a Christmas tree to burn,

01:31:36.740 you wouldn't make it out of a tree, would you?

01:31:38.140 Yeah, I'm here all week.

01:31:39.200 Try the falafel.

01:31:41.260 One final one from Omar Awad says,

01:31:44.400 Syrians might be laughing at our immigration system now,

01:31:47.320 but if we start deporting people,

01:31:48.780 they're going to get a lot more undocumented nationals

01:31:51.100 than has any right to be funny.

01:31:53.880 That is true.

01:31:55.000 Yeah.

01:31:55.260 They're going to have a lot of people

01:31:56.420 that are secretly not Syrian.

01:31:59.000 And fair enough, really.

01:32:01.040 But anyway, time to end the show.

01:32:03.000 Make sure to tune in at four o'clock our time

01:32:06.200 for our Trump inauguration live stream.

01:32:09.240 It's just going to be a nice chill one

01:32:10.480 where we watch what's going on and have a chat,

01:32:13.720 maybe drink some champagne.

01:32:14.820 Who knows?

01:32:15.800 See how it goes.

01:32:16.840 But thank you very much for watching

01:32:17.980 and see you next time.

01:32:19.740 Bye-bye.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - January 20, 2025

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1082

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