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00:01:08.000Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard.
00:01:11.000We've got another Thought Crime Thursday here for you.
00:01:15.000Jack Posobiec here back in Washington, D.C. Of course, last week I was there at the Vatican, so we got to see the giant St. Peter's Basilica behind me.
00:01:28.000Now I have this wonderful graphic of, I guess the other ear, of the dome of US Capitol, not quite as old as that one, also not designed by Michelangelo, but a lot cooler because it's America.
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00:02:02.000Jack, I thought you were going to call it the Devil's Basilica behind you.
00:03:21.000What it taught me, though, was the power of memes, right?
00:03:24.000And so this idea that if you had a meme that was stronger than another meme, that just that one meme getting out there into the world and being released into the wild would catch fire across...
00:03:37.000You know, across people from person to person.
00:03:39.000And then even two Catholics who, you know, are sitting there like, yes, we've always believed this for thousands of years, but whoa, there's a Hollywood movie about it.
00:03:48.000And everybody's reading this book at the beach.
00:03:50.000And suddenly, so it's like, okay, so if this is the way the world works, then it's the person with the most powerful memes that wins.
00:03:58.000So, before we start today, I have just a little bit of a hook.
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00:05:18.000So I was following, this was at Tucker Carlson's show at Fox, and we were following the news because what happens is every few years they make a new push to seize Whitey's land in South Africa.
00:05:29.000And just seize it without compensation.
00:05:31.000And then there will always be some sort of excuse where they'll delay it or not quite do it because I think they know once they do it, the country will completely collapse.
00:05:40.000Well, there'll also be a pariah state.
00:05:42.000And so what happened was we ran a segment that they were about...
00:05:47.000I think it was that they were about to do it, and maybe Tucker mildly misspoke or we mildly misworded it as it was already happening.
00:05:54.000Or maybe we even did it accurately, but whatever it was...
00:05:57.000Trump watched that segment and then did a very angry tweet about it that night or the following morning, and then South Africa put out a statement disavowing this, and it was a minor diplomatic incident, and it's flared up five times since then.
00:06:10.000I remember when the moment happened, and Jack, I don't know if you remember, I'm sure you do remember this, because you're very with it online, but it was like, the...
00:06:21.000The outrageousness of it, the cartoonishness of having a popular political party in any country, let alone one that's in the G20 and that's hosting international competitions and we all think of it as part of the League of Nations kind of thing, not necessarily the old vestige of the 1920s or whatever.
00:06:42.000I just mean they're part of the civilization.
00:06:46.000To have a political party in a country like that that...
00:07:38.000USA ahead of California or something is really like what the meaning is in the song.
00:07:42.000And then like they freak out about that and you'll have like ponderous CNN pieces where it's like, you know, the dark national socialist tone of saying that.
00:07:50.000And then you have this song where the lyrics are just kill the boar, shoot, shoot.
00:07:54.000And like you could watch them and they're like doing popping gun shots in the air.
00:07:57.000The left is coming after me for jokingly saying Deutschland über alles.
00:10:21.000And there are groups to the left of them, such as the Economic Freedom Fighters.
00:10:25.000And so a common demand in South African politics is that there should be forcible land redistribution, that they should seize land that is owned by white farmers in South Africa.
00:10:38.000Without paying for it, and forcibly redistribute it to the black majority in South Africa.
00:10:44.000Now, it's worth noting, this has been done in other African countries.
00:10:48.000It's been done in neighboring Zimbabwe.
00:10:55.000This is an idea that has been attempted, and it has failed badly.
00:10:59.000Now, in addition to this, South Africa is a dangerous country.
00:11:02.000No one denies that, and it's dangerous wherever you go.
00:11:06.000But within the dangers there, there's a particular type of murder that happens.
00:11:10.000They call them, like, farm murders, where you'll have people who usually a lot of them are workers on farms or they live near them, and you'll have intrusions on farms, and they will just rob and often horribly murder the people on the farms.
00:11:24.000Now, yes, this is within the context of a lot of crime happening in South Africa, but there's very much a targeted element where, like, you would not...
00:11:35.000Need to do this level of depraved violence against them, except that you do, in fact, want to do, you want to, like, murder these white farmers who you've been whipped into a frenzy against.
00:11:44.000And so this is what happens in South Africa, is people who are running these successful farms get targeted, and while they're getting targeted for these horrifying murders, you have members of the South African parliament, of the government, who talk about we should...
00:14:32.000Everybody thinks he's just making fun of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but that's literally the best he can do.
00:14:39.000I think my personal favorite is that with Bolsonaro, Javier Bolsonaro of Brazil, it's just Bolsonaro, but it's Latin American, so he has the compulsion, Bolsonaro!
00:14:52.000When I met him and I interviewed him, the team was like, it's Bolsonaro.
00:14:56.000And he's like, Bolsonaro, not Bolsonaro.
00:15:43.000We'll kill their children, we'll kill their women.
00:15:45.000And I don't know if it was in the clip, but he also says we'll even kill their pets.
00:15:48.000But this feels like a perfect example of Michael Anton's Celebration Parallax, because if you listen to the media, they're like, it's not happening.
00:16:05.000We tweeted this, and so they have this whole thing disavowed, the falsehood of Afrikaner refugees, and they included this line.
00:16:13.000So they have a thing where, like, we commemorate our Constitution, affirms equality, dignity, and non-racialism as the bedrock of national life.
00:17:34.000In South Africa, they have it literally written into Their constitution.
00:17:40.000So that means it's like in their Bill of Rights.
00:17:43.000So if you wanted to get rid of CRT in South Africa as it stands right now, for every single position at every job, at every government institution, this has been something that's led to, by the way, massive blackouts, what they call load shedding.
00:17:57.000So there's huge blackouts throughout the country because they can't keep their power grid going because they can't hire qualified people because they always have to go through this CRT filter for every single position.
00:18:08.000that they do, the whole thing's falling apart.
00:18:10.000And you can't just get a new president elected and turn it off.
00:18:14.000You actually have to change their foundational constitution from the 90s, which, by the way, was something that Bill Clinton supposedly in his administration helped Nelson Mandela on.
00:18:37.000So the Trump administration, they're saying that essentially these white South Africans assimilate better and they're also not as much of a security risk.
00:18:44.000That's really causing a lot of people to be appalled, frankly.
00:18:49.000And I should tell people that this violence that they're talking about that are dealing with these Afrikaners, I've been hearing from people that say there is violence in South Africa, but it's affecting everybody of every single race, Katie.
00:19:01.000Really, it's what you said on Twitter the other day.
00:19:05.000Deep down, what a lot of these people want is they actually want it to boil over and they kill a ton of people so they can come in and say, this is what happens because they were racist.
00:19:15.000They deserve to have this happen to them.
00:19:17.000They really, really deep down want that to happen.
00:19:21.000You know, with, like, the Floyd riots, where sometimes, like, people, some people really wanted that to blow up, and they would go burn down some middle-class suburb, and then they could see, like, see, that's what happened, because you didn't abolish the police.
00:19:35.000This relates to, like, BLM rioting, where people were just like...
00:19:39.000Like, the liberal media was bending over backwards, twisting themselves into pretzels to try and justify the looting as, like, a form of reparations, or this is what happens.
00:20:02.000And and I think that's kind of the way that liberal progressives are looking at the South Africa.
00:20:08.000They look at the fact that they own 70 percent of the land and they think that that's not I mean, that's really besides the point, because they don't want productivity.
00:20:30.000What they want is they just, like, want to kill and just, like, I totally agree.
00:20:38.000None of this can be understood without understanding that the core of it is driven by resentment and hatred of people who are productive, who are successful, who are innovative.
00:20:48.000That is fundamentally what undergirds any Marxist-Leninist movement.
00:20:52.000But I do think that they think, in the back of their minds, if we could just seize this land and give it to the black South Africans, everything would be better.
00:20:58.000Because our people would then share with all the wealth.
00:21:05.000But I'm challenging that assumption, being like, if you stole all that land...
00:21:11.000There is not a single guarantee that it would be productive moving forward.
00:21:14.000I don't know the example of Zimbabwe, like how it's gone after, but it doesn't seem like it's gone very well after they drove all the white farmers out.
00:21:21.000Yeah, what happened, Rhodesia was the gem of Africa.
00:22:35.000And he just lived there the rest of his life.
00:22:37.000And what's really incredible is if you look at videos of modern-day Zimbabwe, any news stories about it on YouTube and stuff, you'll find comments.
00:23:22.000It usually starts off with, if you remember that movie Blood Diamond, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Connelly, and they're at this bar, and she goes, oh, well, that's something.
00:23:35.000You know, that's easy for you to say as a white South African.
00:23:38.000And he goes, white South African, I'm a Rhodesian.
00:23:42.000And she goes, I thought we said Zimbabwe now.
00:23:45.000And he looks at her, he just goes, do we?
00:23:47.000And then it cuts to like the music comes in and everybody's like, and it's just showing how nice Rhodesia was when it was, you know, when it was not under communist control.
00:23:56.000But they're really, really all over TikTok right now.
00:24:01.000There's something happening with our farmland here in America that isn't always getting attention The Chinese have been buying up hundreds of thousands of acres of US farmland That's
00:24:35.000That's four weeks of delicious meals that last over 25 years, delivering 2,000-plus calories per day.
00:25:35.000English and Afrikaners who have built up the country and have worked very hard to sustain it, and this sort of Marxist ideology that views any form of success or any wealth disparity as the greatest crime ever, they will blow the country to smithereens.
00:25:50.000Well, one of the only other functional sub-Saharan African nations is Kenya, which is also in the English system.
00:25:58.000The way that we do laws and the way that we have customs and a form of government.
00:26:04.000I mean, the English exports across the world succeeded at the highest clip, I would say, ever.
00:26:09.000And what they're doing is trying to dismantle that vestige as well as drive out the whites and kill the whites.
00:26:15.000And a lot of the most successful African countries are often the ones that were the most determined to...
00:26:21.000Kind of sustain their European legacy.
00:26:25.000West Africa is not a great place in general.
00:26:28.000But for about 20 years after independence, probably the most successful one was Ivory Coast, which is so French that they go around making everyone call them Côte d 'Ivoire instead of Ivory Coast.
00:27:38.000The police are just not super effective.
00:27:40.000What is cool, you may like this, though, is in, I think in Kenya, maybe some others, but because poachers are so bad and, like, so aggressive, in some African states, I think Kenya, but I just want to preface that I might be wrong.
00:27:53.000The anti-poaching police have the right to just shoot to kill if they find a poacher.
00:27:57.000And the most effective anti-poaching groups, though, are the mercenaries.
00:28:02.000Poaching is a very serious thing in Africa.
00:28:08.000Rhinos are going to go extinct because our next topic we'll get to.
00:28:12.000If there's an animal and it's beautiful and rare and you'd want to make an animal cracker out of it, the Chinese want to eat it because they think it's an aphrodisiac.
00:29:40.000It's just the entire cultural of being anti-Marxist.
00:29:45.000Every single one that I've met here in Arizona, again, we have a lot.
00:29:49.000We have a lot of oddly conservative...
00:29:54.000South Africans, and they're all vocal.
00:29:57.000One of the best ear, nose, and throat doctors in Scottsdale was a guy by the name, he's still alive, a doctor, head and neck surgery, Dr. Gordon Chait, South African.
00:34:04.000All of her casting dried up after Harvey Weinstein got arrested, and nobody even said anything about it because everybody knew what was going on there.
00:34:12.000She's objectively just a bad, bad actress.
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00:40:11.000And James Cameron spent a lot of time, by the way, in the interim between Titanic and that, making those movies that you watch at the observatory kind of things where you're like, oh, wow, I'm at the planetarium, but now I'm underwater.
00:42:13.000I've never talked about Godfather in this show.
00:42:15.000The worst part about Godfather 3 is that Sofia Coppola is in it, and the best part of Godfather 3 is that she gets shot at the end of the Godfather 3. She's not that bad in it.
00:42:54.000But that was the point of Back to the Future 2 because it changes the stuff.
00:42:57.000I think the stuff with Corleone is good.
00:42:59.000I think the stuff with Michael is good.
00:43:00.000But they aren't really that strongly related to each other.
00:43:03.000I'm sure some film nerd can say, oh, these things play together.
00:43:09.000But really, for the most part, they don't.
00:43:13.000And you could tell the entire story that was in Godfather Part 2 from Michael's perspective without needing the veto stuff.
00:43:21.000And really, the only part where the overlap matters is at the end where there's the flashback and it's right after he's killed his brother.
00:43:28.000His brother's the only one who sticks up for him when he joins the military.
00:43:32.000That's a great scene, but you didn't need any of the prelude stuff.
00:43:37.000Yeah, but none of the original veto cutting that dude open with a knife.
00:43:42.000You're just getting more information that you already knew that doesn't actually add to the dramatic tension of the events that are ongoing.
00:43:49.000Whereas in the first movie, it is a wholly self-contained film within one timeline as opposed to needing these bridges to go into the past that don't end up going anywhere.
00:44:46.000I generally don't like mob movies because I personally watch them and I just want the police to kick in the door and gun everyone down for the sake of law and order.
00:46:01.000It was one of the movies I would watch when I was doing language learning, even though I don't speak Cantonese, but you can still do it with the Mandarin subtitles.
00:46:43.000It's not like Phantom of the Opera or something?
00:46:46.000I never knew that was a favorite movie.
00:46:48.000The Phantom of the Opera movie, this is going to annoy you again because I remember it.
00:46:54.000So the original Phantom of the Opera, the musical, takes place in the 1890s.
00:46:58.000In the movie version, they changed the year to 1870 for no reason.
00:47:02.000And that was the one year they should not have picked because in 1870, Paris is surrounded by the Prussian army and they're all starving and they're eating the animals in the city's zoo.
00:47:12.000It would be like if you made a movie that was set in 1955 Germany and you just moved it to 1945 for no reason and there was no mention of World War II at all and everything was just normal.
00:47:25.000I don't find that annoying, for the record.
00:47:27.000I think it's really intriguing that you have all this information in your head.
00:47:30.000But at the same time, the real issue with that isn't the dating of it.
00:47:38.000And by the way, Emily Rossum is fantastic in that.
00:47:43.000For all the fun that he is and the great characters that he's played in 300 and everything else, I'm sorry, but King Leonidas should not be singing love songs.
00:51:43.000It's plausible that we hate South Africans or a certain cohort hates South Africans simply because of the movie depictions and things like that.
00:51:51.000I mean, we really have to be on guard for that, right?
00:51:53.000I mean, I grew up hating Germans when I was like 12 years old because of all the World War II movies I watched.
00:51:58.000What was your guys' favorite movie, though?
00:52:35.000The Godfather 2. I like it better than 1, but I love 1. And then I was going to go with Back to the Future 2. 2. I love going to the future.
00:54:25.000And Gladiator 2 are two of the worst movies I have ever seen in my life.
00:54:30.000If you ever want, Charlie, if we need to fill time, you can give me a camera and a microphone and I could go for an hour straight uninterrupted on how bad Napoleon was.
00:54:45.000Go back to Russell Crowe, though, because, you know, we got to say, it's just weird, though, when I see the current big, big fat Russell Crowe.
00:54:54.000As opposed to like the gladiator Russell Crowe because that's like in my head that's always who he'll be but I guess he's on that like Taylor Swift tour diet or something because he's just all chubbed up now.
00:55:05.000He got fat during A Beautiful Mind, which was right next to him.
00:55:08.000Russell Crowe's gained a ton of weight.
00:55:11.000That video of him driving the little scooter in The Pope's Exorcist is the funniest thing.
00:55:19.000That became this meme for a while because it's big, fat Russell Crowe driving a tiny little Vespa around Vatican City in a priest's cassock.
00:55:39.000I overall don't like Quentin Tarantino that much.
00:55:43.000I feel like whenever I'm watching a Quentin Tarantino movie, I can't help escaping the feeling this is a movie made by a really weird person.
00:59:45.000He took the ban to avoid any further investigation which could have been criminal in nature.
00:59:50.000So he took this ban to stay out of prison.
00:59:52.000And then he suddenly tries to have it both ways by coming back 15 years later and saying, now I'm going to admit I bet, but not on my own team.