Based Camp - China's Military Just Tried to Kidnap Xi!

00:00:00.000 hello simone i am excited to be here with you today and i mean i'm actually excited because

00:00:04.540 there is world changing news like like way bigger news than the maduro situation

00:00:12.960 way bigger news than anything that's happened maybe in like the last half decade but you

00:00:19.240 probably haven't heard about it not that many people are covering it and i don't understand

00:00:24.240 why so because we're so obsessed with this little city in the united states called minneanapolis

00:00:30.000 i for clarification there was essentially a military coup just happened in china in china

00:00:39.160 like china china like i'll make the second major power minneapolis or china the head of the military

00:00:50.800 and so far of the the cmc the committee that makes up the military and i'll put a picture on screen

00:00:57.860 here every single member of it now this is this is the entire top of the chinese government oh we've

00:01:03.820 gone to all of them every member but she and the secret police head like the guy who's in charge

00:01:09.380 okay no that's what i saw yeah there was one left is arrested or killed at this point and the two last

00:01:16.820 one of these guys who hadn't been had a group of military members go and try to abduct g from where

00:01:26.580 he lives which is a hotel and there was a fire fight and a bunch of people died and they locked

00:01:32.660 down parts of beijing imagine i bet they just didn't have the l rats if only they had our in washington

00:01:38.780 the head of our military attempted to abduct trump and the next day what we were talking about was some

00:01:47.620 dumb piece of nonsense who got shot by law enforcement because he physically attacked

00:01:55.060 them while carrying a gun right like that's an officer approaches your car be polite

00:02:03.620 is there a problem officer

00:02:05.140 right you know that that video people watching they're like well they had already gotten

00:02:23.540 the gun out of his hand before he had it when he attacked them right like what do you mean

00:02:30.180 a i understand yes you shouldn't shoot him after you get the gun out of his hand but that's a

00:02:35.220 heightened situation okay these are still human beings right if you're in a conflict with somebody

00:02:41.860 and note they have a gun even if you successfully think you might have just knocked it out of their

00:02:47.860 hands or didn't see that somebody just knocked it out of their hands you're you're taking fire i'm sorry

00:02:52.740 the way i look at it is it's it's obviously illegal to hit someone who's crossing the street

00:03:00.820 like in a crosswalk well and at any point right yeah but before you cross the street you should

00:03:06.340 probably look both ways you know like don't don't just walk blindly into the street and i think you

00:03:10.660 know obviously one attacking someone in some kind of you know federal position they're not law

00:03:18.180 enforcement they are law enforcement okay attacking law enforcement officer and doing so while armed

00:03:24.660 like those are sort of two things that you shouldn't have done an ice shooting we got another ice

00:03:28.580 shooting here nobody cares so yeah it's one of those like this shouldn't have happened but but

00:03:36.260 the larger scheme of things though we are talking about one conflict here versus china that the future

00:03:45.060 of the country the end of a regime possibly and this is really big this is yeah this is a complete

00:03:51.140 transformation of how the the government in china functions and is structured it's going to completely

00:03:57.300 change the types of actions they are likely to carry out in the future it completely aligns with all of

00:04:03.700 my china predictions that i need so i'm i've spent probably three hours watching coverage of this and i

00:04:10.580 still can't really make heads or tails and there's a tunnel there's an explosion people are

00:04:14.740 disappearing families have been arrested individuals so this please break it down for

00:04:19.540 people even who have been aware of this because i think it's actually quite confusing and i'll break

00:04:25.220 it down simply then we'll go into more detail okay yeah so the the the head of the pla and then i think

00:04:32.500 the head of the air force so the two final like heads the the all of chinese armed forces okay all right

00:04:37.940 they have been in a sort of conflict with xi jinping for a while at this point they both really

00:04:44.740 well wanted to kill each other basically now the heads of the army i do not feel like they started

00:04:49.780 it right they were maybe against him over consolidating power but obviously they're they're worried about

00:04:56.980 this and they're backed by the princeling faction these are the people who are the descendants of the

00:05:01.540 people who worked in mao's government and various very wealthy people in china because i heard that

00:05:06.500 some are also they were loyalists to hu jintao but not xi jinping and so the pla guy like the the he

00:05:14.420 was a very senior official because he both had military honors in china because he served in actual

00:05:20.260 combat which was a long time ago so not a lot of people have combat medals and he was the descendant

00:05:26.100 the son of the head of mao's personal bodyguard force so oh wow so this is going way way back to og

00:05:33.940 leaders basically he has all the the cred connections everything like that you could

00:05:39.540 need if you were going to try an overthrow right okay so anyway xi tries to have this guy killed

00:05:45.780 right so he he has so she was the was the aggressor in this case he started oh yeah so he has this guy's

00:05:52.900 secretary killed or one of the high level general guys killed we'll get to it in a second died mysteriously

00:05:58.580 then this guy has an assassination attempt on him and it looks like the united states may have helped him

00:06:03.540 avoid that assassination attempt this is when he was on a a trip and so obviously you know he's like

00:06:09.220 i just have to do it now or not then there's this giant explosion in a tunnel okay it blew up a car

00:06:16.740 and what we know about this car this was last month and if you're like i didn't know any of this stuff

00:06:21.220 like this is because the the slop storm that you are in is keeping you from the important information

00:06:29.940 about how the world is functioning right now a car that had xi xi ping's body double blew up in that

00:06:34.980 tunnel and the explosion like was really under reported on in chinese media so we know that

00:06:40.100 there was something like weird going on with it and they were trying to cover it up so then

00:06:46.580 the two remaining guys because he's been doing sweeps of all of these other guys recently like

00:06:50.500 the reason you got all these x's on this picture is because he's been getting rid of everyone

00:06:55.460 so where are we here okay so they they're like oh my god i'm gonna be killed i'm gonna be killed

00:06:58.820 i'm gonna be killed so what do i do next let's get together and organize a capture of xi xi ping

00:07:05.060 so they try to corner him in because he he moves between residences and one of the places he stays

00:07:10.500 is a hotel that's just for like ccp officials so they do this raid on the hotel with their military

00:07:18.900 forces to attempt to arrest him they had already started to put out the pr about this like how they

00:07:22.420 were going to frame it which is like we're doing this to save china to save the ccp like she is no

00:07:28.580 longer and a lot of people could feel that way i mean he was definitely going in a a direction that

00:07:33.060 a lot of people didn't like um it was the future of the country in in this consolidation and this

00:07:38.260 matter if you wipe out because i'd had a debate with somebody and i've said for a long time china

00:07:43.460 is screwed china does not have a future and this is where i most frequently get into debates with like

00:07:51.700 the hardest core like alignment people we have this has always been my biggest debate with we've got a

00:07:56.340 lot of china stands yeah yeah like a lot of people like really not even like i there's a world in

00:08:02.500 which i i very much care about china and its people it's not that i don't care about china or don't like

00:08:10.180 china and they do they just somehow believe that china is is miraculously shielded from the effects of

00:08:18.180 demographic collapse and and not not in terms of its sovereignty in terms of energy and food

00:08:26.260 independence like i don't know the problem is china's even if china didn't have its current

00:08:31.220 demographics it would still be effed like their their water situation is terrible their geographic

00:08:37.620 security situation is terrible security yeah the amount of food and energy that they import is is

00:08:43.860 is quite high including i think some like minerals for fertilizer when you guys so okay i'll quickly

00:08:49.940 explain why they're so screwed you can watch our video on the future of east asia where we go into

00:08:53.300 this but essentially if china gets in a conflict and the strait of of malacca is blockaded china will

00:09:02.820 not be able to get and and keep in mind to get its oil china imports something like 83 of its oil

00:09:08.340 oil and 86 of that 83 is coming from the middle east so that means that oil is coming on tankers

00:09:15.700 through the suez canal going past india who hates china's guts and then if you blockade malacca it has

00:09:23.940 to go around australia who would also be anti-china in one of these situations and then try to get

00:09:30.100 through i mean this is even assuming that they have taiwan at this point right which which you know

00:09:36.420 unlikely that they'll capture that and we'll get to that in a second it's just it's just comical

00:09:40.500 they're not going to be able to get their oil and they're they don't even produce enough food

00:09:44.100 themselves not even close they're not like the united states united states produces tons of food

00:09:47.860 tons of oil we're fine even if you could blockade us which you can't and and then you've got the

00:09:54.100 problem of okay so so so you've got all of that but even though they're importing all this food

00:10:00.100 they would be making even less of their own food because they also import their fertilizer

00:10:04.100 yeah china is just a comically cucked country if a war does break out they they it would be one of

00:10:12.740 the it would be suicide it would be more suicidal than what russia is doing right now and and you you

00:10:19.620 could point this out to people you'd be like this would be horrifying for them and and it's not just

00:10:24.900 that so like suppose they avoid war which seems less likely now we'll get to why in a second and they

00:10:29.940 they just ride this out well their demographics are terrible a lot of their ai's are basically

00:10:34.980 faked well what was the last interesting thing from china is deep seek and i i hate the deep seek ai

00:10:39.460 model for anyone who's actually used it it's not a good model like mistral from france is more

00:10:45.300 interesting to me than deep seek i actually am a big mistral stan that's saying a lot because malcolm

00:10:50.980 cannot stand france yeah after after grok i think it is for me the most useful ai model because it's

00:10:59.860 both almost as smart as the mainstream models but also extremely not safe for work tolerant so it really

00:11:05.780 doesn't break on anything during stories i know this for my work was reality fabricator and putting

00:11:11.140 together all that so rfab.ai if you want to check out chatbots but anyway so even if all those things

00:11:15.620 weren't the case its entire economy is a house of cards built on a real estate bubble which is

00:11:20.660 already popped right like and that house of cards has only been righted because a lot of people are

00:11:27.140 like oh you know the real estate bubble popped why hasn't china collapsed and it's because the

00:11:34.900 government basically optically shifted where their economy was to like the tech sector but we actually

00:11:40.900 actually seen the gross in the tech sector that you would need to justify this offshoot so

00:11:46.980 comically effed country i i just mean it like comical levels and their one hope when i argue

00:11:53.140 as the china stands and i always point out because i'm like well they would need to change x y and z right

00:11:58.020 and they'll say well they'll do that and i'm like then why aren't they doing that right now and they're

00:12:04.260 like well we'll get somebody other than xi in power eventually right and i'm like no you won't because

00:12:10.500 g has gutted the government of everyone competent and they've always said to me and this is why you

00:12:15.620 watch this channel because hopefully i i predict things well geopolitically right they say to me oh

00:12:20.100 malcolm oh malcolm there's still some competent people left he hasn't gutted everyone competent from

00:12:26.100 the government now that's beginning in force because this was the final like he has admitted this to the

00:12:33.860 public this was published in the the mainstream chinese news that these two individuals were traitors

00:12:40.340 now this is never done immediately when you're taking out traitors like this it's always slow

00:12:44.740 this is basically just a declaration of war and they've basically just been arresting anyone with

00:12:49.940 power in the country now and you saw this earlier was what was his name the the famous like the elon

00:12:55.860 of china they take out jack mom and you know now he's he's you know cucked and can't say anything

00:13:01.780 and basically under house arrest just to make sure that everybody in china knows no matter who you are no

00:13:06.820 matter how much money you have we still control you and now no one no one can speak back even you

00:13:12.340 know a jackie chan who's famously like a stan of china has said some stuff recently where he seems to

00:13:18.020 be implying that one of his friends another actor who did a lot of like charity work and stuff like

00:13:23.460 that may have been taken out from the ccp simply because his charity work made them look bad

00:13:28.340 he implied that he he thought that as well right like because if you admit that there's poor people in

00:13:32.580 the country well the government says there's not poor people so if you're doing charity work

00:13:36.740 you're you're arguing that the government hasn't solved poverty they haven't solved starvation

00:13:42.260 why are you filming this why are you showing this right so they're the the china stands pushback has

00:13:49.540 always been they're still competent people left in the government somebody you'll still take over

00:13:54.020 other than she a situation like this is just putting china on the pathway to be the next venezuela

00:13:58.980 because what would and it justifiably does this is why autocracies are so bad but i guess i'm going

00:14:04.900 to get to the point of this before i get into the details of this autocracy always ends in this

00:14:10.100 scenario this is why nick fuentes idea about how the united states should be run is objectively stupid

00:14:16.260 and it's why when people come out there and they say something like we just need a king we just need

00:14:22.660 a monarchy that and i'm sorry to curtis yervin about this we like curtis yervin you know we've had

00:14:26.980 him on the show that's stupid because it leads to this always when you centralize power around a

00:14:35.060 single individual that individual's best interest is served i.e maintaining that power because

00:14:41.780 they're going to make mistakes sometimes right or things that undermine their rule like a lot of

00:14:47.380 mandate of heaven things a lot of major cities have been flooding and stuff in china recently you

00:14:50.900 know that gives people the opportunity to historically with emperors when there's natural disasters that

00:14:55.700 mean they need to be replaced well oh my god they may want to replace me right so then what do you

00:15:01.300 think you think well the last thing i want is anyone who's an obvious choice to replace me left in the

00:15:07.700 country right like if you get scared like that right and this this is this is the end state of all

00:15:15.780 autocratic regimes the reasons why monarchies worked in a historic context is because the people that could

00:15:22.580 replace you even during the coup were small there were very explicit rules like even when people

00:15:31.540 were cooing against the king you needed to have somebody who had a plausible claim to the throne for

00:15:37.860 the coup to be accepted like you just wouldn't do a coup if you didn't have anyone because then what

00:15:42.660 they would say is well then just everyone will do coups and it could just be an endless cycle of coups

00:15:46.260 right which they're right about that's like even back in the days of the old monarchies they

00:15:50.660 understood why you couldn't have a non-traditional monarchy if you if you have a monarchy you need a

00:15:56.020 royal family and it's it doesn't like in rome where they tried to do it by like choosing the

00:16:01.940 next emperor at various times that never worked for more than a couple generations right like and we

00:16:07.300 see this from ancient rome it's what ultimately led to the collapse of ancient rome right so if you're

00:16:11.220 doing a monarchy you actually need it to be a hereditary monarchy with strict rules about hereditary

00:16:15.620 procession but that is not going to be easy to set up within a modern context and and a hereditary

00:16:21.380 monarchy basically doesn't count until it's been hereditary for like two to three generations you

00:16:26.180 need somebody with well simone would have claim to the throne right you know the descendant of george

00:16:30.820 washington's siblings to to fold over and he didn't have any kids himself so you know if they were

00:16:35.940 offering king george got king simone here queen simone i think a lot of people would be down with that

00:16:40.900 you seem like the more even-headed of the two of us yeah but everyone would know that you're

00:16:45.220 driving all my choices so it's a two for one all the better yeah and for simile and for simile and for

00:16:52.420 simone but the point being is is this is everyone was like oh china is more ordered like the government

00:16:58.180 can just make decisions and force everyone to follow them right and you have me in the background

00:17:02.100 being like that form of government is intrinsically unstable it's not going to last you cannot do things

00:17:08.260 that way if you attempt to you end up with power centralizing and fewer fewer competent people at

00:17:14.500 the higher brains of power also you get more corruption because you run into the secondary

00:17:19.220 problem which is now you have a bunch of dumb people around you okay but you've got the second

00:17:22.980 issue right which is you've got to give these dumb people incrementally more money than they had before

00:17:29.540 right like that's how you keep them loyal to you because people forget to be grateful for a long

00:17:34.340 because okay so one of the dumb guys goes to all the other four or five dumb guys right who have a

00:17:40.580 ton of power now and he says hey you help put me in power and i'll get you more stuff than you have

00:17:48.500 right now right now now why not put him in power right and so how do you prevent that if you're number

00:17:55.780 one guy the way you prevent that if you're number one guy is you be like i've given you literally as

00:18:03.940 much as the state can afford to give you i have i have already maximized the corruption i i you know

00:18:10.420 the the other three guys are like hey we can take more from the people and give it to you you know

00:18:16.340 nepotistic bureaucrats and and if that sounds plausible then you're at risk of a coup but if somebody

00:18:21.860 comes to you and says that and they're like no no no you really couldn't believe these people for

00:18:24.980 anything more like he's already she's already maxed the corruption of this this bad boy then there's no

00:18:30.740 reason to do the coup and and that's basically where china is right now as a state it's already

00:18:36.580 we have and if you look at the debauchery that the heads of these these groups you know they always

00:18:40.820 have their mistresses they always have their you know horrible horrible scandals their kids

00:18:45.700 yeah we discussed the mistress villages in another episode i can't remember the name of it but it's wild

00:18:50.900 like their entire district's known for hosting the apartments of of the women the kept women

00:18:58.660 of ccp officials well and this is why people don't want to breathe there you know she goes around and

00:19:04.580 she says with putin they were talking and they were talking joyfully about how well you know as medical

00:19:10.580 advances today people are going to live to 150 and everyone here knows that they don't mean normal

00:19:16.340 chinese people are going to be live to 150 they mean this entrenched bureaucratic class is going

00:19:21.380 to harvest the organs which is a major problem in china right now from citizens and and kids

00:19:26.660 disappearing is a major issue in china right now under extremely mysterious circumstances schools

00:19:31.380 covering it up kids just like quote-unquote dying in their in their classrooms or in their dorms

00:19:37.540 and then their bodies disappear college students what yeah yeah yeah this is like a regular thing

00:19:44.740 in china there's been a lot because presumably ccp officials want young kids origins or young adults

00:19:50.260 organs yeah and they can do it and there's pretty much nothing you can do i mean the stories are really

00:19:55.620 horrifying like the parents have tried to even like look at the bodies and stuff like that and the ccp

00:20:00.580 won't release them so i decided to do some follow-up on this story and it it has a fun and happy ending

00:20:07.060 when a lawyer hired by the family attempted to conduct an independent investigation into the school

00:20:13.060 official personnel smashed his phone and wiped his account data according to reports it was later

00:20:18.100 reported that the victim's family could no longer be contacted a parent identified as zui lu

00:20:23.860 wrote online the family can't be found anymore the videos are gone anything posted from hanan is

00:20:29.380 either throttled or taken down directly accounts are disabled we are treated like weeds we speak out

00:20:36.580 so they know that even a blade of grass has a temper parents and hanan are still watching

00:20:42.900 so the family disappeared great so yeah i mean they're they're basically debauchery maxing their

00:20:48.740 society and i think that's one of the core reasons why nobody wants to breed because they know that

00:20:52.660 through breeding they're just supporting this broken system and the only way that you can be safe

00:20:57.700 against the system and this was shown in covet there was a viral viral video on china where officers

00:21:03.060 that were trying to enforce the you know insane zero covet policy we're talking to each other

00:21:09.060 and the somebody somebody watched them talk to each other and recorded it and they said how do we get

00:21:15.620 this this guy to do what we want him to and they go oh his son that's his weakness that that's our

00:21:21.700 leverage right and everyone realized that's the way the government sees your kids as soon as you have

00:21:26.180 them as a way to manipulate you further right and and and beyond that just a resource for the ultra

00:21:31.540 wealthy and so it leads to this debauchery maxing at the at the core of the elite within chinese society

00:21:41.060 and unfortunately it's it's known by the average person now and nobody wants to you know that that's

00:21:46.580 that's where they're they're pulling the line but let's get into the details of this any any thoughts

00:21:51.060 before i do some of them no that's just i mean on that front though one thing i do worry about

00:21:57.300 we're already dealing with what it's like to be ruled by a gerontocracy around the world when you

00:22:02.340 look at most world governments the the people in them the legislators and the other leaders are

00:22:09.140 tremendously old and the problem is when it comes to life extension whether or not there's illegal

00:22:15.540 horrific organ harvesting life extension especially when we're talking about 80 plus years old is just

00:22:24.100 going to be a rich person thing it's not an every person thing you know brian johnson can do don't die

00:22:29.940 because he has insane amounts of money right and that it just worries me that not only are only the

00:22:36.100 wealthy really going to access crazy levels of life extension but they're also going to maintain an iron

00:22:43.460 grip on power and just try to accumulate more for themselves and even further ossify terrible

00:22:50.580 bureaucratic systems that are tearing the rest of us apart which really just makes me so sad

00:22:56.180 yeah okay so the central military commission the cmc is the highest military leadership body in china

00:23:02.420 it serves the command authority over the people's liberation army pla which includes the army navy

00:23:08.580 air force rocket force strategic support forces as well as the people's armed police and

00:23:13.140 militia who is their rocket force like our space force yes in practice the cmc is the top decision

00:23:19.380 making organ for all military strategy operations personnel appointments budgets and policy so this

00:23:25.860 literally runs everything right and that's where this picture comes from where there's only two people

00:23:32.020 left the guy who's in charge of arresting high profile people within the organization and she himself

00:23:38.180 and this other guy we'll go into a bit about him he came out of nowhere he's he's like a new guy

00:23:44.740 he's not like some some all of the all of the legacy people in this org have been taken out yikes

00:23:50.820 which is wild this is a complete restructuring of the chinese government to continue here

00:23:56.900 in mid-january 2026 the top two operational leaders of the people's liberation army

00:24:02.340 vice chairman of the central military commission zeng yawa and chief of the joint staff department

00:24:08.500 lu zhen lee attempted a coup against xi jinping on january 18th they moved forces to the jinxi hotel in

00:24:17.380 beijing intended to capture or neutralize ji during what they framed internally as a save the party and save the

00:24:25.620 the country the plan leaked roughly two hours before execution only two hours before execution

00:24:31.940 she was quietly evacuated countermeasures were ordered and a gunfight broke out when zeng's troops

00:24:37.780 arrived nine of xi's personal guards and dozens of attackers were killed immediately afterward zeng

00:24:43.460 lu and their families secretaries and a number of close associates were all arrested and neither of

00:24:49.380 them had moved their families out of the country because they thought one that they were going to win

00:24:52.420 and two that would have alerted g who is watching all of them incredibly closely right yeah it would

00:24:58.180 have been a dead giveaway if their families suddenly start heading out to non-extradition countries but

00:25:03.300 now everyone in their family is gone right and keep in mind that this was the head of the princeling

00:25:08.340 faction in china like the rich person faction so if you're a wealthy person in china right now

00:25:14.900 everything you're thinking about is how do i get my money and myself out of the country

00:25:18.260 every competent person in china is thinking about this right now and if they're not they're not that

00:25:23.300 competent or they are overconfident in their ability to play the system because things only go down

00:25:29.140 uphill from here when when something like this happens right this is terrible news for the people of

00:25:36.580 china if the coup had worked it would have been fairly good news things could have gotten back on track

00:25:41.620 some sanity to the way the government was organized could have been restored

00:25:44.260 um uh and these two were both the other thing that's important about the purges is they removed

00:25:52.500 all the heads of the military command and a lot of them especially one of these guys which we'll get

00:25:57.220 into in a second was really against attacking taiwan because i thought that this meant that basically

00:26:02.660 their military would be on like oh i guess we have to rethink everything mode and not okay let's go for

00:26:09.460 taiwan but you're saying maybe one of the few people holding china back on taiwan is now gone

00:26:16.660 removing a major impediment to potential i mean the question is is why did they need to remove

00:26:21.700 literally everyone who was a highly experienced person in the military every highly experienced

00:26:27.860 individual in the military had to be removed why is it that everyone was actual warfare scenario had to

00:26:32.660 be removed and the answer is because those were the people saying this plan is unrealistic

00:26:38.660 and so it means that what we might be about to see is a horrifyingly stupid move on china's part

00:26:46.180 and a move that the ai safety crowd is probably salivating for because if executed and if taiwan

00:26:53.620 is knocked off they make 85 of the high-end semiconductors on on earth right yeah so that's

00:26:58.900 going to set back ai a decade i still would be completely shocked if taiwan was invaded because i mean

00:27:06.020 just so many factors it just doesn't it china has a lot going on right now

00:27:11.940 engaging in military conflict with taiwan is the last thing they need at this time i would be shocked

00:27:18.020 if in the next two years taiwan were invaded and i would need to reevaluate after that but i i could

00:27:24.740 even see just taiwan with five plus years taiwan being totally fine only a crazy person would attempt to

00:27:31.300 invade taiwan at this point yeah the problem is you're just saying she is crazy it's kind of a

00:27:35.940 crazy person and on top of that you know you just went on this long rant explaining and i'm not saying

00:27:41.060 rant crazy right i'm saying logical rant explaining to people why he is acting entirely logically right

00:27:48.180 back into a corner but what you yeah yeah but it's also logical for xi to attack taiwan it's not

00:27:54.660 logical for china to attack taiwan but what i mean by this is china would get their butts handed to them

00:28:00.340 hundreds of millions of people would likely die of starvation the the because of blockades and stuff

00:28:05.300 because of blockades and stuff yeah and blackouts and and you know not being able to move water

00:28:10.340 it would be one of the worst human rights tragedies our planet has seen since the last time china did

00:28:16.180 something um i did not i that had not even occurred to me i don't know it seems like i didn't hear about

00:28:22.100 there being humanitarian crises in russia due to all the blockades do you really think that that would

00:28:26.500 be the case china has spent years and years with the belt and road initiative trying to shore up

00:28:32.500 its supply chains so i don't imagine it would be a humanitarian crisis to the scale that you

00:28:38.180 no no no no i mean russia didn't invest russia has not invested anywhere close to the amount

00:28:43.780 that china has in shoring up its its belt and road initiative mostly turned into a scheme for chinese

00:28:50.340 officials to just get money out of the country you know the the reality is that there was a lot of

00:28:54.420 buying toilet seats for a million dollars right like if you if you actually look at the durable

00:28:59.780 alliances they have quote unquote built with this they are not anywhere that is actually useful to

00:29:05.220 china um who did who did they need to get to like them with the belt and road initiative most if they

00:29:11.140 were going to make this happen right well the players that they could potentially still win over

00:29:16.260 were vietnam and cambodia and laos and the philippines and all of these people hate them so much

00:29:24.740 more now than they did historically because of just stupid after stupid after stupid decision that china

00:29:31.380 made and they're all pushed closer to the united states the only person that they may arguably have

00:29:38.180 closer ties with now than historically is south korea but even in the case of south korea if china goes to

00:29:44.100 a military conflict south korea is not sitting that one out right like they they neither is japan yeah

00:29:50.580 no japan is excited for this at this point japan wants to be japan isn't like germany okay well they

00:29:58.340 gotta take that nice naval fleet for a little spin you know what have they been able to do aside from

00:30:04.900 move their boats in threatening locations germany got cucked by world war ii and now they enjoy cucking

00:30:12.500 themselves um they would not japan has since world war ii been dying for a chance to regain their

00:30:19.060 well and hasn't their their their newest prime minister the new margaret thatcher of of japan the

00:30:25.220 successor to shinzo abe is isn't she investing more in what is more in the military public defense and

00:30:33.940 their their military is pretty good like their navy is pretty solid and it's important not only that but

00:30:39.540 their technology is pretty solid as well keep in mind you know if you're going to an ai war or a

00:30:46.740 drone war having japan and south korea on your side is a pretty useful thing to have now in favor

00:30:54.180 the the what the reason i'm saying she may still do it is okay so china is increasingly hostile they are

00:31:03.140 dealing with an economic collapse it's all blamed on she there isn't anyone else to point the blame at

00:31:08.820 anymore because there's no one else to say is corrupt and kick it out of the government right

00:31:12.420 and so that is the problem of getting rid of all the other leadership although it's i wanted to

00:31:17.300 actually ask about this is it just the military leadership i mean there are many other facets of

00:31:23.060 ccp governance surely those are not disrupted and everything else is normal there's been arrests

00:31:28.980 throughout those the military is just the most extreme example oh okay okay so so okay if you

00:31:34.740 you it's saying here so if you so if you're in she's position here rightly like you're trying to

00:31:41.140 control consolidate power yes you say okay the economy's failing everyone's blaming me or i know the

00:31:49.140 economy's about to start failing and everyone will start blaming me right so what do you do to avoid

00:31:54.580 that you attack taiwan because then you say well the economy's failing because of the blockades the economy's

00:32:00.180 failing or we we can't do elections right now we have to shut down all political processes because

00:32:06.180 we're in a state of emergency no one's even going to like the international community isn't even going

00:32:11.380 to care if he starts assassinating top officials during a siege on taiwan right like they're only

00:32:17.140 going to care about the taiwan thing right basically it gives him part lunch anyone who's been involved

00:32:22.580 in a protest now just execution time right like it gives him the excuse for mass executions it gives him

00:32:27.540 the excuse for mass arrest it gives him an explanation for why the economy is failing it gives him a

00:32:32.100 nationalist push with the citizen body it is a smart thing to do at a him level now it would cause a

00:32:41.780 human rights catastrophe many times within central china it would be the death knell of china in the same

00:32:47.380 way russia's attack on the ukraine was the death knell of russia many times worse than the holocaust it

00:32:52.500 would be holocausting his own people essentially i'm talking in terms of sheer numbers but like what

00:32:58.580 do you do and the other thing i know here is this is not necessarily good for us before i go further

00:33:02.740 on this one point i wanted to make about china which some people often forget about china is the ccp

00:33:08.900 has been a fairly good enemy for the united states to have as our core political opponent before them we

00:33:18.500 were dealing with the soviet union and that was constant like cold wars like actual wars like you

00:33:24.660 know the korean war the vietnam war you know just constantly this stuff right china doesn't get us

00:33:30.580 involved in that nonsense right before that it was the nazis right we had to actually fight them that

00:33:37.540 sucked i don't want to do that nonsense again and note here i don't want to downplay how much you know

00:33:44.500 the whole fentanyl thing sucks that they're flooding our country with how much the tiktok thing sucks

00:33:50.180 they're flooding our country with but these things are infinitely better than like a vietnam war or a

00:33:56.420 world war ii like and i pointed out now that i think that the next multipolar world is going to be

00:34:01.300 the united states and israel because europe is obviously collapsing as a power center and has their

00:34:06.180 ai bands and their low fertility rates so the only place where you see decent fertility rates other than

00:34:11.300 the united states and good ai technology is israel and and they show a lot of potential for dynamism

00:34:17.620 they can pretty much expand wherever they want within the region because there's nowhere around

00:34:20.740 them boxing them in as soon as europe is done cucking them you know what is it territory acquisition

00:34:26.420 blocking them cock blocking them because that's that's i mean that's the they would just expand if they

00:34:32.260 could and and so israel is in a position where we're the next uh world weights is going to likely

00:34:42.100 be the united states and israel can we stay allies when we're the two top powers i think it's unlikely

00:34:47.300 like we'll be able to be more friendly and the same way that like we've moved to a friendlier stance

00:34:51.860 with every nazis to communist to china to ccp i think we'll move yet again friendlier with israel

00:34:57.620 but that's going to be a very and that's a whole other lecture going to but he has a reason to do

00:35:02.500 it okay now to continue here and the and the military leaders who would have said no to this

00:35:09.700 they had a reason to say no like we can't win what do you mean he may not care about winning

00:35:13.700 right let me that may not be the point so a few days later on january 23rd china's uh ministry of

00:35:19.860 national defense publicly confirmed the arrest of zhang wudon and louis zelin for serious violations of

00:35:26.660 discipline and law a rare harshly worded editorial from the pla daily directly claim both men accused

00:35:33.860 them of betraying xi's trust undermining cmc authority shattering military uniting and damaging

00:35:40.180 the political system and combat readiness this was the fastest public condemnation ever for such a high

00:35:45.540 level pla arrest wow now note here that the condemnation was interesting because it was published

00:35:52.500 as an editorial written by a newspaper that didn't publish it like they sent it to another

00:35:56.180 newspaper that then published it but they didn't publish anything about this event and then the

00:35:59.860 newspaper that published it redacted it not redacted it but it just disappeared from their

00:36:03.540 wed link and i think it's back up now but basically what we're seeing there is there is

00:36:08.980 an internal power struggle right now like some people are like hey we don't know that this is

00:36:14.500 played out yet these guys might end up getting out like we don't want to end up on their bad side

00:36:18.020 like what happens with the coup so what we're seeing is people in china are like god i don't i don't know

00:36:23.940 what to do next right like yeah is there gonna be an actual full-scale coup my my answer is probably not

00:36:31.620 xi has taken out what he can because china is so hierarchical you cut the head off a snake you stop the

00:36:37.380 snake so this is bad for anyone who's hoping for a coup in china the coup failed and triggered sweeping

00:36:45.860 emergency measures across the pla the general staff department with effectively suspended

00:36:50.020 operational control shifted to direct encrypted telegrams from the cmc and the entire force was

00:36:55.780 placed on level one combat readiness now keep in mind direct encrypted telegrams to the cmc the cmc

00:37:00.580 is now just she in the head of police right well i'm sure their meetings are a lot more efficient now

00:37:06.340 so they're sad yeah troop movements were frozen personal mobile phones were collected for inspection so

00:37:13.140 god knows if you got any any email about any of this any text about any of this and mass political

00:37:19.780 study sessions have been ordered these steps treated the military itself as potentially an internal threat

00:37:26.100 and significantly raise the risk of mutiny from the lower ranks they're basically saying all of you you

00:37:30.900 know we might be coming for you next and not now that's what every low-level person is debating

00:37:35.220 everyone who's thinking of mutiny do i try to do something now before i'm taken but do i even have the

00:37:40.580 operational capacity to do something now right like you need the whole military to be on board and

00:37:46.980 that's harder to do with the heads of the military under arrest yeah yikes so for the other information

00:37:53.700 you heard about during the november december trip to moscow jeng wang reportedly survived an assassination

00:37:59.780 attempt and this is one that the united states possibly warned him about and helped him out of shortly

00:38:04.580 after returning from russia the pla air force commander died under unclear circumstances so

00:38:11.460 this is the guy that was secretary probably murdered and an explosion in beijing tunnel killed a man and

00:38:18.100 described as inner circles or rumors as being xi's body double along with several bodyguards now note

00:38:24.180 when we talk about china and rumors it's hard to get anything exact but the same who were saying these

00:38:29.380 rumors were right about this attempted coup before any mainstream source claimed that this was an

00:38:35.700 attempted coup which makes me think that they were right on this stuff as well basically documenting

00:38:40.100 this inner war that's been happening in china in terms of what's going on in china right now power outages

00:38:46.260 are hitting parts of beijing there are armored vehicles on the streets dissident sources warn

00:38:51.860 people to avoid chong avenue because of possible remnant counter moves by loyalists the arrests

00:38:58.420 were overseen by kai kui head of the central security bureau and wang zion's ninth bureau and an open

00:39:05.140 letter began circulating online openly accusing xi of tyranny economic plunder and isolating china

00:39:10.900 while calling on military officers and the public to revolt against him and the polita borough's standing

00:39:16.820 committee so broader impact on the pla and its leadership right now the purge has left the central

00:39:24.740 military command gutted only xi and vice chairman hi wen dong remain as full cmc members four theater

00:39:32.340 level full generals are left standing dozens of senior officers have been removed over the past year

00:39:38.100 including most of the previous eastern theater command leadership responsible for the taiwan

00:39:42.900 contingencies the easter theater itself has been on an internal cleanup since september 2025 with the new

00:39:50.740 acting commanders focus on rooting out influence from the sacked previous leaders rather than preparing

00:39:56.820 for actual operations so to to note here if you're like where am i reading this from basically everything

00:40:04.500 that i found on this is way too wordy like lay's wheel real talk has about four videos on this event

00:40:10.500 i found them to be the best sources she's great yeah she is good but she talks so slowly and she goes way

00:40:18.660 too much into detail about some things that i just don't care about so i took transcripts of her

00:40:23.380 videos and i put them into ai and i summarized them and tried to organize them tighter for you guys

00:40:28.100 so that we could get to just the juicy bits that explain the stuff where you're thinking like wait what

00:40:32.420 like what i wish we could go through more primary sources but we're not familiar with what chinese

00:40:38.340 language publications are and are not accurate and reputable beyond that she has a lot of on the ground

00:40:45.460 sources in china that report to her thing report things to her directly so she has just access to

00:40:52.180 information that we don't i wish we could do more primary research but i've always really struggled

00:40:57.540 with china in this way it's it's very difficult as someone who is not a native language speaker but also

00:41:03.940 not on the ground in china to actually know what's going on and i know this too just having

00:41:09.540 in my college years traveled to china and different parts of china quite a lot like some even rather

00:41:15.860 rural more remote areas where there just were zero western tourists there's all the reading i did did

00:41:25.060 not give even anywhere close to an accurate representation of what these things were ultimately like

00:41:29.860 so well what what shocked you the most just elements of life and culture and the way that people lived

00:41:37.460 in different parts of china how cities were different i mean a lot of it's stuff that's more

00:41:44.340 i guess you could say tacit than explicit like people wouldn't write about this stuff anyway they

00:41:48.580 wouldn't write about the yields or the way the foods are prepared or the random things you would find

00:41:52.900 hiking on trails or if you want to see this style of china that she is talking about

00:41:58.580 i would strongly suggest you check out the content of winston and laowai they have now branded

00:42:05.540 themselves as china fact chasers do not look at their more recent videos if you come back to the

00:42:11.060 weight like pre-2018 stuff yeah so they used to live in china and what they would do is they would put

00:42:18.100 cameras on top of their motorcycles and they just drive around the countryside city motorcycle helmets yeah

00:42:22.980 they would i think they would both be miked and they would both be riding motorcycles

00:42:26.980 together on the same road but they would have gopros on their helmets and just be riding around it was

00:42:32.740 so cool to watch because you just go on the roads in china and then they made two documentaries that

00:42:37.300 are in this style that you can watch on amazon yeah and after leaving china they have become a sort of

00:42:42.980 anti-china critics when they were in china they couldn't say anything against china right and i find

00:42:47.540 them to be uh entertaining the most entertaining people who cover china i have seen all of their videos i think

00:42:53.460 i think i do too and what i loved so much about them was that was the closest i ever got after being

00:42:58.180 in china myself to seeing what china was actually like because unless you're there unless you're like

00:43:02.740 in the real actual restaurants you're you're basically seeing the media equivalent of what

00:43:09.380 western tourists to north korea see right you're like you have a minder you're only staying in very

00:43:13.540 specific places you have blinders on essentially you don't well and what they show you is as a

00:43:19.060 non-chinese person there's some towns where you can't even get a hotel right like it is it is that

00:43:24.420 hard if you don't have your government license so you're just not going to see this in a way this

00:43:28.740 is very hard to see this through anyone else's eyes i think they've done the best job of any two humans

00:43:32.500 of documenting chinese culture yeah what i wish they had done if instead of moving to be anti-china

00:43:37.860 youtubers i think just if anyone who knows them is watching this i think they should move to doing what

00:43:42.820 they used to do but in other countries delightful that in peru across the united states i'd love to

00:43:49.220 see somebody do that yeah just like actually stay in hotels actually yeah my my best experience is

00:43:55.540 in terms of really getting what it's like to be in china were leave major cities leave hotels and just

00:44:02.420 take buses everywhere i wouldn't say it was pleasant but even if you're not allowed to stay in certain

00:44:07.700 towns or stay in certain hotels you're going to see what it's really like when you take public

00:44:10.820 transport everywhere especially if it's in rural areas yeah and it yeah i mean they had their

00:44:15.780 motorcycles and that that was a sort of you can't do that anymore by the way simone they now have

00:44:19.540 government ids to track you um so they were sort of the last generation where you could even get away

00:44:23.780 with what they did no but the point i'm making here is lay's real talk is the best channel if you want

00:44:30.180 sort of underground gossip and you're okay was listening for a really long time because she's better than

00:44:34.500 them at that because she has more in inside ccp insurrectionist group contacts than they have

00:44:40.900 but anyway to continue here and i'll note here the people who seem to understand china the least

00:44:46.420 are the ones who work the most with china is what i found basically anyone who's ever done business

00:44:51.780 with china has no idea how china operates and i think it's because you're sort of forced to put on

00:44:57.860 blinders if you're doing business with china or you can lose business contacts or ability to do business

00:45:02.580 in china and people are underestimating how much that is corrupting their vision of how bad things

00:45:10.260 are actually for china well you're being told the sales pitch if you're doing business in china

00:45:16.580 it's because there are chinese businesses trying to get you to invest in them in some way or buy from

00:45:21.380 them in some way so of course you're going to be given this you have to turn around and do that sale

00:45:25.220 pitch to other people 100 percent yeah because that that is actually how i first discovered china

00:45:31.380 my my dad worked in a medical field selling medical devices and then would go to china for trade shows

00:45:38.500 and would use his airline points to let me as a young teen sometimes fly with him on business trips

00:45:44.740 and then just like crash in his hotel and do whatever it is i did during the day wander the streets

00:45:50.740 while he did business meetings but sometimes i'd go to the business meetings at night and oh my god i hate

00:45:55.860 chinese business meetings they're the worst because you're to drink so i mean they didn't make me drink

00:46:00.180 but what i'm saying is my experience in those business meetings was so different from my experience

00:46:05.460 walking the streets as a teen girl just randomly like by myself and yeah 100 there is it yeah and i i

00:46:15.620 totally agree with you people who are doing business in china don't listen to what they say

00:46:20.740 it's not that what they're saying isn't 100 true they're not lying to you they're just not being

00:46:26.020 given well though they're being forced to buy into the propaganda to an extent and they don't

00:46:31.780 realize that when they then turn around and tell somebody else oh you know i'm working with this

00:46:35.380 person and they're part selling the narrative of chinese internal stability when you know when i

00:46:40.980 look at my friends in china like stanford mbas and stuff like that like they've gone like

00:46:45.780 completely hikikomori like off the grid not doing anything like that's the state of like

00:46:49.620 actual educated china right now is is not working haven't left their house since covid

00:46:55.460 sort of stuff not not all not everyone but this is like actually still a thing right like and i

00:47:01.220 think that people don't realize how much china never woke up from covid and and it sort of entered

00:47:05.380 a different state when that happened but to continue here what who's this guy who survived

00:47:08.340 right i i saw all this and i was like i want to know more about this guy right yeah yeah zang

00:47:13.060 shing minh is still in place as a central military commissioner or sorry at the cmc because he is

00:47:20.100 widely regarded as one of xi's most reliable loyal and incorruptible figures within the military

00:47:25.220 leadership his survival is not accidental it's tied directly to his role and track record so he has

00:47:31.060 long-headed the cmc discipline inspections commission the military's internal watchdog making him the chief

00:47:37.460 enforcer of these anti-corruption campaigns was in the pla october 2025 during the fourth plenum

00:47:44.660 he woundong then a cnc vice chairman was purged and expelled zang jimin was immediately promoted to

00:47:50.980 replace him as a second race vice chairman of the cmc elevating him from a regular member to one of the

00:47:56.340 uniform positions so he didn't move into a position within this organization that everyone else has been

00:48:01.060 kicked out of until october 2025 like again very new blood here multiple reports describe him as

00:48:08.020 incorruptible a strong supporter of xi's systemic purge policy and who enjoys direct presidential

00:48:13.140 favors he embodies the loyalty and discipline model xi wants at the top analysts note that his job

00:48:21.060 literally involves rooting out disloyalty and corruption so he's the one holding the knife in

00:48:25.540 these purges not the target as long as he keeps basically feeding xi people's heads

00:48:30.820 he keeps his job and he's going to stay around so he's not it's not like he's quaking in his boots

00:48:34.980 because everyone else has been kicked out here in regards to the the competence of what's left the

00:48:41.700 leaders were often battle tested or technically skilled eg rocket force exports or operational

00:48:46.340 commanders leaving gaps filled by political appointees because of loyalty over expertise this

00:48:51.220 has eroded military effectiveness which already we had a lot of reason to question was analysts

00:48:56.020 noting potential delays and readiness of six to twelve months for eastern theater recovery in and broader

00:49:02.180 party inefficiencies so yeah that's where we are in china right now it is a very i mean it's a fascinating

00:49:12.980 time to be alive it's it's an interesting thing if people say is this a good thing or a bad thing for america

00:49:19.220 china was going to die either way this moves their death closer and sooner and if that's a good thing

00:49:28.820 to you then this is a good thing or well i mean is is this more just what one would expect given

00:49:36.820 the inevitable incentives well the the obvious writing on the wall incentives and headwinds tailwinds that

00:49:44.340 china is facing isn't this more just exactly what we would i mean we can never say well i think this

00:49:50.100 exact thing is going to happen but i mean i was a shake-ups like this it was a coin flip whether this

00:49:55.860 succeeded okay yeah it is no longer a coin flip what happens next if this had succeeded it could have

00:50:01.860 been very good for china and potentially the world especially if america had helped organize this right

00:50:07.220 now we're in a situation where it's it's it only gets worse for china and and note here if we talk

00:50:13.460 about a military invasion of taiwan this also could be a good thing for human civilization one if it

00:50:21.540 gives us time to adjust to ai's increasing logarithmically increasing capabilities these

00:50:26.660 days you know because it will delay technology so much so that would be really really positive the the

00:50:32.260 second thing is is if taiwan and taiwan is going to scuttle their factories if they're invaded right like

00:50:37.860 these the china is not going to get the capacity to produce these semiconductors

00:50:42.100 simply because they take taiwan right if that happens they go full scorched earth

00:50:47.700 from what i've heard the factories are already rigged to detonate my lord that's terrible i mean

00:50:52.740 why wouldn't you it's your core economic asset you need to have leverage over it you need to have

00:50:58.580 something you can negotiate with and so if these factories go boom um even if china takes them

00:51:06.020 they probably won't be able to operate them because nobody's going to give them the parts and to make

00:51:08.980 semiconductors you need a giant international the supply chain right so if if china takes it

00:51:16.820 where is global semiconductor manufacturing going to center the answer i think is pretty obvious to

00:51:24.180 people who are not stupid is the united states is going it will take us time but we will likely become

00:51:33.140 the next head of this and that only gives us more power so whatever whatever i don't like that

00:51:41.940 they're doing it but should we intervene taiwan has a birth rate under one potentially the lowest in

00:51:47.220 the regions i've seen numbers as low as 0.7 what why would you do anything to save a country that's not

00:51:53.940 going to exist in a couple generations like what why would you risk your blood to save a country that's not

00:51:59.620 going to exist now would we do some blockades of course i think i think that makes a lot of sense

00:52:05.940 just to you know make sure that china doesn't go crazy with this especially if you make this too

00:52:10.340 easy on them but is it doesn't make sense to intervene to save them no i think it makes sense to do

00:52:15.140 the blockade and that's where you get the big human rights crisis right with all the starvation and you

00:52:20.420 know a multi-cost i guess i call it so

00:52:26.580 yikes i i gotta put that scene from the hilarious and like youtube skit where a guy gets taken to

00:52:35.300 the multiverse and he realizes he's the only one from a universe where hitler didn't win and they're

00:52:40.020 like what we're trying to do right now is save not just your world but every world in the multiverse

00:52:44.500 all right trillions upon trillions of lives all right like like three holocaust how big were your

00:52:49.220 holocaust as a side note here if you try to look this up because i decided to ask an ai like has

00:52:53.700 anything new come out and it's like well a lot of what you're talking about is what's going through

00:52:59.060 the rumor mill in china watcher circles but no no major news outlet in china has reported it as

00:53:07.700 confirmed yet and it's like china's not going to report this as confirmed how do you think this works

00:53:13.940 you think the ccp is like yeah we had an attempted coup like the top generals tried to arrest xi jinping

00:53:21.540 no no that's not the way any of this works and if that's what you need to report on a story you're

00:53:28.660 not going to get that story to the public right everyone else on the war council was arrested and

00:53:35.460 then immediately admitted to be arrested by china public news which has never happened during one of

00:53:42.260 these purges before something super unique is going on and no one is talking about it anyway anyway

00:53:51.140 but the point here being this is this is an inflection point for humanity and people

00:53:56.500 online are focused on some streamer who was caught with cp and and and some you know why what are you

00:54:05.860 people doing this is like literally one of the most important things in human civilization right now

00:54:14.980 i just think it goes to show that no one really cares

00:54:19.300 same with demographical apps people just don't really care they've already priced it in and you

00:54:23.620 can see it in the rampant nihilism that both exists in china and the united states and other countries too

00:54:28.900 people don't think money matters anymore they're never going to get a house they know they're not

00:54:35.860 going to get any social benefits in old age gerontocracies run everything and are just voting

00:54:41.060 themselves more benefits recently on x there was a lot of discussion about this six thousand dollar

00:54:46.660 tax credit that is going to be sent to boomers and retired people as part of the i think working

00:54:52.740 families tax cut because that makes sense and everyone on x is like great okay so my like child

00:55:01.460 tax credit is capped out at 2500 but retired people who neither have children at home nor are working

00:55:11.700 are getting six thousand dollars explain this to me so anyway it doesn't surprise me it doesn't

00:55:18.820 surprise me the world is burning everyone understands of course china is falling apart

00:55:23.620 of course we have no future at least we can just gossip about so and so who's pervy at least we can talk

00:55:30.500 about the the fight you know what did what did asmongold call it in minnesota gta like return of karen's

00:55:40.740 the return of karen's oh my god so there was this cool game yeah postal 2 back in the day and people

00:55:48.420 would be protesting stupid stuff and stuff like that and you could go out and like like like you know

00:55:56.100 and do gta things to the protesters if you felt like it i think it'd be really fun for some

00:56:04.020 based person to make a gta style open world game that takes place right now in minnesota with ice

00:56:14.740 what what i see though and i mean what you also see with these ice protests is that there's just

00:56:18.660 a lot of people out there who have so much pent-up rage and displaced aggression that they're just

00:56:24.740 taking it out on ice officers that they just want to go out with their little little whistles

00:56:31.700 their super annoying whistles and their their screams and they just want to yell at someone

00:56:36.100 who's in a position of authority because on all sides of the political spectrum people are super fed

00:56:42.420 up with positions and authorities so if you're on the left and if you are against what ice is doing

00:56:48.500 an easy way to express that displaced aggression into which has been shown in research to actually be

00:56:54.980 very effective expressing displaced aggression like if you're a mouse that's being stressed out taking

00:57:00.180 it out on another mouse that reduces your cortisol levels more than a mouse that is

00:57:04.580 if i was not working on our chatbot platform right now our fab.ai literally i would make this game

00:57:11.860 and you know what i i would try to make that there be at least three factions and so you can join the

00:57:18.900 anti-ice side or you can join the pro ice side or you can join we probably just have a a pro like meme burn

00:57:27.940 everything down oh yeah just run down everyone no no literally to make everyone infinitely mad at us

00:57:36.180 to make the most offensive game in history would be the goal of this and i bet that game would sell

00:57:43.460 so bad what no why when apparently people feel like they have license to do the real thing

00:57:50.100 it's as though imagine you know you're some esoteric rich sociopath that wishes they could hunt humans

00:57:58.100 for sport but then they discovered that they could with free license that is basically i think how many

00:58:02.660 people actually feel about these ice protests like oh wait i'm allowed to just beat up law enforcement

00:58:09.620 officers with impunity i mean they're discovering now that oh actually i might end up getting shot because

00:58:14.340 they're gonna you know respond but i think that's a lot of what's going on is they just feel like well

00:58:24.260 i'm a u.s citizen they don't they're not allowed to do anything to me so i'm going to do all this i'm

00:58:31.220 going to create a database of all their license plates and i'm going to go around and track them

00:58:35.300 and terrorize them like ripping up their cars and stuff and taking and running away like they can do so

00:58:40.660 with impunity and to a great extent a lot of the things that they've done have not been met with

00:58:47.620 frankly i think there needs to be more lethal force i think trump needs to change the laws so that

00:58:51.460 disrupting this stuff can just be met with lethal force because when you see stuff like people

00:58:56.260 ripping apart ice vans stopping and harassing random people in the streets because they're driving vans

00:59:00.900 that could plausibly be ice vans it's just horrifying what we're seeing now right like they're basically

00:59:06.660 turning on any random person they think they can we are seeing the true horror of this faction and

00:59:12.580 it's and it's it's wild that it's happening where we're seeing all of this fraud where we actually know

00:59:17.460 that these are actively benevolent groups who are stealing money from the poor people like that

00:59:22.500 that is literally what the these illegal immigrants are doing in these areas they are running they are

00:59:26.660 not just like people scared little people looking for a place to stay they're like actively running

00:59:31.860 multi-billion dollar scams that we have documented at this point that are directly stealing from

00:59:39.700 poor people and mothers right like i don't why is why is shutting this down controversial

00:59:46.260 but wait i mean we know why it's controversial that's what we talk about on this channel so

00:59:49.620 you know that's where we are yeah crazy times but we're very curious to see what happens with china

00:59:56.900 very curious do you have any prediction what happens next i think she consolidates his power

01:00:02.020 i think it was in a year he might even begin to be making more aggressive moves about attacking

01:00:09.220 somebody does he necessarily go after taiwan no he might go after some parts of russian territory

01:00:16.580 if he thinks russia is cheap enough it would be an easy enough victory but the problem is is that

01:00:21.060 if they can make friendly enough with russia then they can run oil veins through russia and not

01:00:26.740 have to worry as much about the blockades so the question is really just like what what calculation

01:00:32.900 does he do um are we going to see more crackdowns yes is china going to get more brutalistic yes is

01:00:37.620 their economy going to continue to collapse yes are they going to continue to pretend to be making

01:00:42.020 advancements in the sciences that they're not actually making yes that's that's sort of where

01:00:46.100 we are with china very bleak and if i lived in china right now i'd be getting out i just don't see

01:00:52.740 other than any future left and a lot of people already have gotten out a lot of people have been

01:00:58.740 doing everything they can it's it's just it's just been difficult for i think that the challenge

01:01:04.580 is if you are a person who actually can get out meaning you're a person of means and wealth it is

01:01:09.060 very difficult to get your wealth out of the country which is why many people for example

01:01:13.380 are using ivf clinics and surrogacy to have babies in the united states that are u.s citizens who

01:01:19.620 can have you know they can slowly transfer their wealth to them i remember i watched at one point

01:01:23.940 this fascinating youtube video on essentially the money laundering process whereby this is where anchor

01:01:30.420 babies are actually good for the u.s so we they we we then siphon money from china now obviously this

01:01:36.580 hurts things like real estate prices don't get me wrong i i know that right but it's hurting real

01:01:40.980 estate prices because real estate i mean more than boomers well no i mean it's it's helping boomers

01:01:46.660 right when when we hurt real estate prices we typically help the boomers who own the real

01:01:50.500 estate who are predominantly americans the the bidding up of the price of real estate

01:01:56.660 predominantly helps americans just not the americans we want to help which are the boomers you know we

01:02:00.260 need to send them to maid right you know but what i'm putting on it broadly it makes america stronger

01:02:05.380 to have more money to take rich people from other countries even if it is very annoying if you live in

01:02:11.300 a city but then why are you living in a city you knob anyway i love you love you too life is good

01:02:22.980 every show that i watch regularly i don't think that there are any which do as much interspersion

01:02:31.060 of evergreen lives into things content and news related content or even also including

01:02:40.980 like me more type stuff culture war type stuff i am like rev says desu is like only memes asma gold

01:02:47.860 is like only news as no he does more coverage too he does game game stuff yeah he does game stuff too

01:02:58.660 um leaflet in streamer gossip he does gossip but like for a very specific yeah he does do

01:03:04.820 gossip yeah i love gossip no that's not really like that more evergreen stuff like whiter theories

01:03:11.780 and things like that probably ed dutton i was just watching one of his streams who's doing one with

01:03:17.700 aiden who got back to me about being on our stream but we never organized a day and then they stopped

01:03:23.220 following up so i got a aiden palin or something she she has a good channel and then there's a new one

01:03:30.180 i reached out to recently kirsha i mean we've done stuff you reached out to her never said to her

01:03:35.060 again i was just like hey you know really should go on you know we went viral again recently so mary

01:03:41.700 and now our channel's you know getting closer to being the size of hers so yeah i mean there's

01:03:47.140 like average stream numbers so it'd be weird for her to say no but no i mean guest appearances on our

01:03:57.060 show haven't performed well and so we just don't really do them anymore i can't somehow the person's

01:04:02.740 particularly famous yeah i mean i i think our best performing episode ever is whole math isn't it when

01:04:09.220 he came on ones that have done really well have been leaflet curtis yarvin the whole math like they had

01:04:15.140 to be famous in our community um you can't just take like a random

01:04:21.060 person which i think a lot of people like don't get they're like oh you can't you just put on

01:04:25.380 anyone no unfortunately not so that won't really damage us in the metrics the i wasn't gonna say

01:04:32.020 how did how did the episode what were the comments about it overwhelmingly people just had to chime in to

01:04:38.420 say sure there's demographic collapse in india because they're all in canada now or just insert

01:04:44.260 wherever they are they were just super mad about india sending all its it is the largest source it's

01:04:53.140 the in terms of countries in the world that are producing the most emigrants that is to say people

01:04:57.620 leaving the country india does take the cake that is absolutely true and so i think that can that can

01:05:05.220 hide or obscure the fact that india is not that doesn't somehow protect it from demographic collapse

01:05:11.620 in fact it of course makes it worse if your people are leaving the country in droves on top of the

01:05:16.900 fact that urbanization within the country is driving lower fertility so india is extra screwed but people

01:05:24.500 don't really think about it because they feel like they're being surrounded by indian immigrants now you

01:05:30.100 tell me if i should drink this okay i just opened this and it was really pressurized and a lot of air

01:05:34.740 came out of it and that's not normal for this which means something was growing in it right

01:05:41.380 and now it tastes carbonated but not bad so have you produced that is it fermented now

01:05:49.780 well hold on actual taste doesn't have like a

01:05:57.140 yeah it's got like a little vinegary taste

01:05:58.740 you're the sensitive one she my my horrible wife ate spoiled so we were watching apothecary's

01:06:12.340 diaries and she's always like trying to poison herself and they have to keep poison away from

01:06:16.420 her because she's like addicted to the stuff and finds it very fun to to learn about new types of

01:06:20.740 poisons and my wife ended up getting very very sick she admitted this to me because she knew i'd be mad at

01:06:26.980 her got very sick from eating expired nuts almond paste and so i was like okay well at least we have

01:06:35.460 notified that it's the almond paste and you're not going to do that again so she did butter today

01:06:39.700 she's like i finished that almond butter i knew it was making me sick but i just couldn't help it

01:06:46.020 expired food is the most delicious food because you don't have to feel guilty dwindling the household

01:06:51.780 supplies because anyone else can eat it it's too much of a liability i i am of oaky stock

01:07:01.220 when the dust bowl hit oklahoma all the farming families fled except for my ancestors who were like

01:07:08.180 this is nice i'm gonna stay here i like eating sand and and rotten spoiled food let's do this

01:07:15.460 buckle in and they were still there post world war ii having a blast

01:07:24.980 maybe it was the right choice if you've read you know books from the period

01:07:27.620 yeah right yeah no we were so against the concept of of migrants that we would never be migrants

01:07:37.860 right let's to disagree with the indian one people were like hey you guys like the h1b thing is like

01:07:44.260 a problem we're like we said the h1b thing with a problem we were super clear on that like i don't

01:07:49.140 know we said literally that you should just have requirements of not hiring above a certain

01:07:52.820 percentage of indians like i don't know how you could get more extreme on that issue like how

01:07:57.380 extreme do they want us to be i don't know man but i i understand now from many anecdotes that

01:08:04.500 people have shared with us in comments and direct messages that a lot of people have been very

01:08:09.620 personally touched by this and it's extremely frustrating it's one thing to see something

01:08:16.660 abstractly in the news and to get involved in the oh we're going in for more okay the the polarized

01:08:23.620 mistake isn't it i can see the bubbles in it well the bubbles got up to like here when i first opened it

01:08:29.700 oh but you just discovered that you like fermented pomegranate juice so

01:08:38.020 you could ask ai not that it's going to give you a an ironclad response i just heard of some

01:08:45.220 influencer talking about how chat gpt insisted to her friend that hemlock was just carrot sprouts

01:08:53.140 it's hilarious don't worry about it ai's trying to kill us one person at a time yeah i mean

01:09:06.660 were they wrong or were they right was this a mistake i don't know i don't know you tell me

01:09:14.340 oh sorry so you're going in a blizzard to change the chicken's water

01:09:30.980 because their their their water is frozen the cold seems to have messed with the heater for the water

01:09:36.660 so warm growler

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Based Camp - January 27, 2026

China's Military Just Tried to Kidnap Xi!

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