The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1011

00:00:00.000 Good afternoon, folks. Welcome to the podcast, The Lotus Eaters. Bad news is Monday, September

00:00:13.400 the 30th, but we're here, so it could have been worse. And today I'm joined by Stelios

00:00:18.220 and Josh.

00:00:19.120 Hello there.

00:00:19.400 And we're going to be talking about the far right winning in Austria, the army of murderers

00:00:25.680 that has invaded the United States. And I'm not actually overstating things very much

00:00:29.460 there. And how there was a Syrian that went on a rampage in Germany with a machete, which

00:00:34.840 I did see images of. We realized that in America there's been a massive, devastating hurricane.

00:00:41.260 We're going to cover it tomorrow because we're waiting for more information to come out so

00:00:44.800 we know the full extent of things. So, of course, we're quite remote from the thing. But hopefully

00:00:49.460 anyone who watches us from the areas affected, I hope you're okay. And I hope you have power

00:00:56.360 to your house and things like that. So, yeah, like I said, we're not being ignorant of that.

00:01:00.940 We're just going to cover it tomorrow when we've got more information. So, moving on,

00:01:05.360 let's talk about the far right in Austria. It's new, isn't it?

00:01:10.680 It is.

00:01:11.200 It is indeed. Second time's a charm.

00:01:14.480 So, just to be clear, that's really unfair. We shouldn't have made that joke, but it's

00:01:18.800 hard not to make jokes about this sort of thing.

00:01:21.220 We're going to start the segment now, by the way. I'm not going to include that because

00:01:24.600 that's a very mean joke.

00:01:25.600 Yeah, it's very mean. It's very mean. I shouldn't have done it.

00:01:28.880 Europe is moving towards the right. And I think that this is pretty safe to say now.

00:01:33.520 You know, lots of people have been saying it prematurely. But now, as Hurtwild has said

00:01:38.500 here, the Netherlands, Hungary, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Sweden, France, Spain, the

00:01:44.060 Czech Republic, and today, Austria. Of course, this was from yesterday. And he's saying we are

00:01:49.480 winning. And of course, he is, of course, the leader of the Freedom Party in the Netherlands.

00:01:56.320 So, this is quite significant that he's listing off all these countries that are seeing meaningful

00:02:00.820 right-wing movements that are sort of alternatives to the regime-approved, sort of centre-right.

00:02:06.920 They're a bit more populist and a bit better on immigration, usually, except for Italy.

00:02:12.260 The Remainers never mention this, right? They're like, we should rejoin Europe. It's like, what?

00:02:16.000 The far-right Europe? Yeah, I'm starting to get a little bit of regret here. It's like,

00:02:21.220 actually, the continent is sort of outdoing us a little bit here. So, well done if you

00:02:25.940 voted for any of the parties here that are right-wing in those countries. And so, another

00:02:32.480 thing that is revitalising Europe is Islander magazine.

00:02:36.160 Not an overstatement at all.

00:02:37.740 No. Of course it is.

00:02:39.040 Totally true, yeah.

00:02:39.960 More so than electoral politics, this magazine is restoring European men and women.

00:02:46.000 With the vitality they need.

00:02:49.340 Think of it like 17th century pamphleteering. We're bringing it back. We're going to be 0.99

00:02:55.160 revolutionaries, in a way.

00:02:57.840 So, here it is. There is the magazine. 14.99, great British pounds. Not very much to have

00:03:04.180 your life changed by an amazing work of art.

00:03:07.420 Again, that's not overstating at all. It's a genuinely life-changing magazine.

00:03:10.260 No, I'm really looking forward to reading it when, you know, I finally get my hands on

00:03:14.100 a copy I'm allowed to read.

00:03:16.340 You are allowed to read, I think.

00:03:18.040 Oh, okay. Well, there we go.

00:03:20.360 You know what I'm doing after this.

00:03:22.160 But anyway, buy the magazine. It's only going to be there for a short time.

00:03:24.900 There's also mugs and t-shirts as well, which are cool. Buy them.

00:03:29.280 Anyway.

00:03:30.600 I like your sales pitch. Just buy them.

00:03:32.460 Yeah, just buy them.

00:03:33.180 Yeah, stop making excuses. Just buy them.

00:03:37.000 So, obviously, Austria has seen the far-right party, as the BBC calls it.

00:03:43.140 It's not even in quotes.

00:03:44.160 Come first.

00:03:44.740 I know.

00:03:45.460 It's as if this is their platform.

00:03:49.300 We're a centre-left party.

00:03:50.520 Oh, we're a centre-right party.

00:03:51.200 Oh, we're the far-right party.

00:03:52.740 Yeah, it's funny how they always take people at their word unless they're, you know, a populist

00:03:57.920 right-wing party.

00:03:58.860 But there we go.

00:03:59.900 It's the scary word, but it hasn't put off the Austrians, apparently.

00:04:03.180 So, Karl, no.

00:04:06.040 Carry on.

00:04:06.560 I know why you're laughing.

00:04:08.040 So, I wanted to talk through some of the results and who the parties are if you're outside

00:04:12.000 of Austria.

00:04:12.500 If you're inside of Austria, then it might be a little bit more difficult.

00:04:18.740 But anyway, you can't really see what's going on here.

00:04:20.880 I don't know why this has happened.

00:04:22.400 But at the top there is FPO, which is the Freedom Party of Austria, at 29.2%.

00:04:30.080 And they're a nationalist party, believe it or not.

00:04:33.840 They want stricter measures on migration.

00:04:35.900 They're also Eurosceptic.

00:04:37.720 They're also very critical of sanctions with Russia and want more normalised relations with

00:04:41.880 them.

00:04:42.700 And this is the first time in a National Council action that they have come first.

00:04:46.640 So, it is historic as well.

00:04:49.140 And then following them...

00:04:50.100 Sorry, can I just interrupt there?

00:04:51.500 Like, so that wouldn't have been an unusual thing to have heard in the 1990s after the

00:04:58.160 fall of the Berlin Wall.

00:04:59.580 All of these things, oh, we're for freedom, we're for the normalisation of relations, we're

00:05:03.380 for peace, we're for prosperity, we're for people living their lives.

00:05:06.800 This is not like some radical right-wing agenda.

00:05:11.040 This is the 90s liberal consensus.

00:05:13.900 It is.

00:05:14.800 It's just taking things back a little bit.

00:05:16.560 But I think that people are so hesitant to give up on it because once this gets momentum

00:05:20.760 and people realise that actually it's tangibly made their lives better, then it's going to

00:05:25.840 upset the current paradigm.

00:05:27.680 And I'll tell you what, things were tangibly better to 30 years ago.

00:05:31.400 Absolutely.

00:05:32.380 I mean, I wasn't alive, but I can tell.

00:05:33.760 I was, I remember it.

00:05:34.620 But, yeah, this is their leader.

00:05:37.080 This is a guy called Herbert Kickl, I think.

00:05:40.240 I don't know how to pronounce his name.

00:05:42.140 But you also have the Austrian People's Party, the OVP there, coming in second at 26.5%.

00:05:49.780 They're a centre-right party, allegedly socially conservative, and they're economically liberal.

00:05:56.400 What's the LGBT wing say?

00:05:58.700 Yeah, good question.

00:05:59.760 But, yes, they were second as well.

00:06:02.940 And then, finally, you have the SPO, which is your bog-standard left-wing party.

00:06:08.300 Their platform is the same as all other left-wing parties ever.

00:06:11.540 And, of course, the same goes for the Greens as well, who actually were in coalition with the OVP,

00:06:17.260 if that gives you an indication of how conservative they are.

00:06:20.520 They go into coalition with the Greens.

00:06:21.820 And, of course, you also have NEOS, NEOS, I think, at 9% there.

00:06:29.500 They're just a liberal party that are very pro-EU.

00:06:32.580 Question.

00:06:33.240 Do you know if the KPO is a communist party?

00:06:36.860 I don't know.

00:06:37.880 They're so irrelevant that I didn't even look them up.

00:06:39.900 Yes, because there was a communist party in Austria about a year ago,

00:06:44.600 and they were saying that it's going to be massive.

00:06:46.420 It's going to get close to 12%.

00:06:48.440 It looks like it wasn't.

00:06:50.180 Who are the beer party, and what's their platform?

00:06:53.540 Beer party.

00:06:54.340 Yeah, Stelios, look that up.

00:06:56.100 Yeah.

00:06:57.720 Yes, Communist Party of Austria, the KPO.

00:07:00.700 There were a rumour to get close to 12%, but now it looks like 2.3.

00:07:05.320 So what about the beer party?

00:07:07.060 Beer party.

00:07:07.960 I mean, beer is forever.

00:07:09.860 I want a beer party.

00:07:11.040 I mean, is it actually beer?

00:07:12.380 Because I think in German it would be B-E-I-R.

00:07:15.520 So I think I'm going to be slightly disappointed.

00:07:17.940 Beer party Austria.

00:07:19.500 Here it is.

00:07:21.340 It's B-I-E-R. 1.00

00:07:23.860 So what are they offering?

00:07:25.480 They actually call beer.

00:07:26.780 It says here, Minor Austrian Satirical Party.

00:07:32.740 Right.

00:07:33.600 Okay.

00:07:34.940 There they go. 0.97

00:07:35.740 A party of trolls. 0.83

00:07:36.780 They got 2%. 0.76

00:07:37.640 But they're selling me just on the name alone.

00:07:40.000 I'm just saying.

00:07:40.880 Anyway, sorry.

00:07:41.700 Can't continue.

00:07:42.180 They need like a beer and bratwurst party and that would just do well.

00:07:45.840 The beer party, almost as popular as the Communist Party.

00:07:48.440 Both satirical.

00:07:48.900 It's also worth mentioning this guy here.

00:07:51.440 So he's the current chancellor and the leader of the OVP, the centre-right party, called Kar

00:07:58.180 Nehammer. 0.65

00:07:59.820 Or Nehammer. 0.60

00:08:00.440 I don't know how to pronounce his name, but he's a key figure who I'll be bringing up

00:08:04.380 in a bit.

00:08:06.100 Is this a toothpaste commercial?

00:08:07.580 Because he has really white teeth.

00:08:08.960 He does, yeah.

00:08:10.180 His dentist will be very proud of him.

00:08:11.980 Is there anything wrong with dental health?

00:08:13.260 I didn't say there was.

00:08:14.580 It's just an observation.

00:08:16.100 So, it's worth mentioning as well that because they only got 29%, they're not necessarily

00:08:20.500 going to directly go into government.

00:08:22.420 And so they've got to form a coalition and it's speculated that this could drag on for

00:08:26.500 months.

00:08:27.060 And if there's one thing the centre-right party have done, it's looked around to every

00:08:30.780 leftist and said, guys, we need a coalition right now.

00:08:33.220 Well, that seems somewhat likely.

00:08:36.020 How did I know?

00:08:37.220 How did I know?

00:08:38.880 Because he might take the sort of similar thing as they've done in France.

00:08:43.480 And they've tried to do in the Netherlands and other parties as well in Europe of just

00:08:48.100 trying to keep out the alternative right party.

00:08:52.000 Conservatives really are just the right wing of the left, aren't they?

00:08:55.180 Well, of course, yeah.

00:08:56.260 Can't stand it, man.

00:08:58.320 So, it could also be the case that the FPO and the OVP form a coalition, but without Kickel,

00:09:07.440 I'm probably mispronouncing that, as their leader, as happened in the Netherlands to

00:09:14.320 Wilders, because basically, Nehammer said, it's impossible to form a government with someone

00:09:22.040 who adores conspiracy theories.

00:09:23.600 That's his words, the current chancellor.

00:09:26.140 And it's also unlikely, I think, that Kickel would agree to that.

00:09:29.680 But it's not necessarily impossible, because Wilders also agreed to a coalition where he

00:09:33.960 was not the leader, despite his party doing the best.

00:09:37.860 Conspiracy theories are so much fun.

00:09:41.900 Also, I think it's also worth considering that there are intelligence agencies that do

00:09:46.980 do things in a conspiratorial way.

00:09:49.040 That does happen.

00:09:50.260 Like, the Nord Stream Pipeline, that was a conspiracy of some kind, no matter who did it.

00:09:55.600 Yeah, but they're the boring ones.

00:09:57.800 I'm more interested in the big questions, such as, who benefits from denying the flat

00:10:03.900 earth?

00:10:06.560 That's not a conspiracy.

00:10:08.120 Well, no, there's a conspiracy to cover up the fact that it's flat, right?

00:10:10.800 And we're actually surrounded by an ice wall.

00:10:12.400 But who benefits from this?

00:10:13.960 What's the point of the conspiracy?

00:10:15.860 Well, I think it ties in quite nicely to some other conspiracies.

00:10:18.740 I did some digging, and they believe a certain mid-century German is still alive and living

00:10:22.500 in Antarctica.

00:10:23.000 Hit the benefits from the conspiracy of the flat earth.

00:10:25.280 For some reason.

00:10:26.000 Right, okay.

00:10:26.840 I thought you were going to say Bigfoot, to be honest.

00:10:28.620 Well, I mean, Bigfoot's a different conspiracy.

00:10:31.100 He's tied in with aliens.

00:10:32.480 But if this Freedom Party does form a coalition, the EU would be facing basically a Eurosceptic

00:10:38.860 populist bloc in the right, encompassing lots of countries, all those countries we listed,

00:10:43.600 but Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, and potentially Czechia in the future as well, because they've

00:10:47.860 got an election next year, I think.

00:10:50.260 And so it could be that the European Union has more sceptics than actual believers in

00:10:56.020 it, which would be quite an interesting development for Europe.

00:10:59.560 And once again, Britain lags behind every other political change that happens.

00:11:03.860 Yes.

00:11:04.420 We're stuck with a radical left-wing government.

00:11:06.620 Oh, God.

00:11:07.280 Well, all of a sudden, those rejoiners are going to sound hilarious when they're just 1.00

00:11:11.840 like, let's rejoin the far-right EU.

00:11:13.880 I agree.

00:11:14.460 You're going to have Grayling.

00:11:15.540 What's Grayling going to say?

00:11:17.080 Yeah, exactly.

00:11:17.720 What is he going to say?

00:11:20.760 They're going to switch sides.

00:11:22.020 But it's also interesting as well.

00:11:23.900 What happens when the EU leaves the ECHR?

00:11:27.280 They'll just abolish it when it doesn't apply anymore.

00:11:29.640 And therefore, we'll be free of it as well.

00:11:31.940 Well, I think the ECHR, whatever.

00:11:35.780 It's part of the European Court of Justice.

00:11:37.500 Yeah, it's not part of the EU.

00:11:39.860 So the EU members are sort of leave it and just leave it there, essentially governing Britain.

00:11:45.560 Like, we'd be the last thing in it.

00:11:48.100 I know.

00:11:48.460 It'd be hilarious, wouldn't it?

00:11:49.940 But also interesting.

00:11:50.860 It would be hilarious, but it'd be infuriating at the same time.

00:11:53.660 So men and women also voted pretty much on parity for the Freedom Party as well, which

00:11:59.460 is interesting because normally we've seen these parties erring towards men more than

00:12:04.080 women. 0.81

00:12:04.700 And in fact, the BBC's analysis of it suggested that more women voted for the Freedom Party

00:12:09.920 than men, which is, yeah, fair play.

00:12:12.800 Also, the age bracket, 35 to 59, were the most likely to back, which is slightly different

00:12:17.780 than the AFD and National Rally in France, I think, in terms of the most populous category,

00:12:25.780 which is good because it suggests that these messages are resonating with a wider demographic

00:12:31.180 of people than simply just young people who have no prospects or future.

00:12:35.980 Sorry, did women not vote for the Beer Party? 1.00

00:12:38.660 Apparently not.

00:12:41.000 There we go.

00:12:42.100 They don't like beer, do they?

00:12:43.200 That's generally well known.

00:12:44.500 So, also, Ralph Schollhammer also pointed this out, that, you know, a country of seven

00:12:52.180 million, Austria, is able to wrap up their election, polling stations closed at five,

00:12:59.080 they counted all the ballots by midnight.

00:13:01.260 It's nine million, but, yeah.

00:13:02.620 Oh, nine million, sorry.

00:13:04.060 Misrep, got them right the wrong way.

00:13:05.160 Sorry.

00:13:05.180 Thank you.

00:13:06.060 And in Arizona, they can't do the same thing, even though there are two million less.

00:13:11.160 So, that's just something to think about there.

00:13:14.640 I wanted to include that one.

00:13:16.840 So, let's have a look at the reason why Austria has been doing this, because I think that they've

00:13:21.960 been receiving the brunt of migration based on things like this.

00:13:27.720 Nearly one out of three Austrians is a foreign origin, which is insane. 1.00

00:13:32.400 You know, we thought we had it bad here, but 27% of Austrian nationals are either first 1.00

00:13:38.640 or second generation immigrants, apparently.

00:13:41.420 Close to 33%.

00:13:43.000 Oh, yeah.

00:13:43.720 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:13:44.340 Over 27, yeah.

00:13:46.260 And also, this, one third of primary school children in Vienna are Muslims, overtaking Catholics

00:13:51.360 as the largest religious group, which would just be unheard of 10, 15 years ago, perhaps.

00:13:57.660 Because, you know, go back 100, and this is another sort of conquest of Vienna here.

00:14:04.180 You need the poles to come in, sort it out. 1.00

00:14:06.400 Jan Sobieski's just rotating in his grave.

00:14:11.120 And here we have this.

00:14:13.420 Because of the infiltration of all of the schools, loads of teachers fled.

00:14:18.640 And this was because not only were there large numbers of Muslims, and they were worried about

00:14:23.600 how their teaching would be received at home, so to speak.

00:14:26.900 Also, they just found it impossible to teach the children, because a decent portion of them

00:14:31.960 could not even speak the language.

00:14:33.840 As in, they had to repeat what they were saying to the point whereby it made teaching pointless.

00:14:40.760 And it completely broke down the entire education system to the point whereby they just couldn't

00:14:46.560 do their job and resigned.

00:14:48.820 And of course, go ahead.

00:14:50.000 You lose your culture, if that's the case.

00:14:51.920 Oh yeah, definitely.

00:14:52.760 I don't think that, you know, there should be any Islam or any second language, you know, 1.00

00:14:58.420 speakers in the classroom at all.

00:15:00.700 If you're slowing down other children, your reliability, you don't deserve to be there.

00:15:05.500 You don't have to.

00:15:06.500 I don't like the utilitarian answer, though.

00:15:09.260 No.

00:15:10.360 In Austria, you speak German, because that's the traditional language of Austria, right?

00:15:13.960 I thought that was implicit, but it was just making another argument on top of that.

00:15:17.000 Sure, yeah.

00:15:17.420 But I think we should be more firm about the, you know, when you come, you know, when in

00:15:21.680 Rome, you do as the Romans do, or you don't come. 0.97

00:15:24.540 Well, I would rather they just not come to Europe at all. 0.75

00:15:27.180 I agree, but it seems a bit late for that, doesn't it?

00:15:29.500 I want to add something, because when we're talking about elections, it's very usual for

00:15:35.120 us to just look at the short-term effects of policies.

00:15:37.600 But we should also bear in mind that everything you show right now has massively negative long-term

00:15:44.560 effects, unless some policies are being pursued.

00:15:47.760 And I'm just looking at here, the current fertility rate for Austria in 2024 is 1.57, which is just

00:15:55.240 ridiculous if we bear in mind.

00:15:57.720 I reject. 0.94

00:15:59.340 Whenever immigration comes up and people bring up fertility, I sort of want to just say it's 1.00

00:16:03.680 not relevant at all.

00:16:04.700 I don't want to concede any ground to that argument that, you know, we need in any way,

00:16:12.040 shape, or form foreign peoples in our country, because we've got a sub-replacement fertility 1.00

00:16:16.880 rate.

00:16:17.240 It doesn't change it.

00:16:18.120 You know, the population in the UK has remained about 40 million native Brits for the past 20,

00:16:24.420 30 years, and it's going to remain static.

00:16:27.460 In England and Wales, it's been about 44, 45 million.

00:16:31.340 So, and in Scotland, you've got another 8 million or something.

00:16:33.520 But you are, you are right.

00:16:34.880 Yeah, it's remained static.

00:16:35.920 And even if it goes down a little bit, I think, you know, about 40 million is more than enough

00:16:41.020 to sustain a population.

00:16:42.340 It's not like we're going to run out of people.

00:16:44.100 It's not like we're in the thousands, is it?

00:16:46.000 But even then, I mean, okay, well, even if we do need to improve our birth rates, which

00:16:49.620 we probably do, why are we entering into a breeding competition with a bunch of foreigners 1.00

00:16:54.880 we've imported?

00:16:56.320 Do we agree to that?

00:16:57.500 Well, I'm of the, I sort of take the Rourke's Drift position on Europeans in... 1.00

00:17:02.680 Go on.

00:17:04.260 I don't know what that means.

00:17:05.280 As in, we don't need as many people to stand up for ourselves.

00:17:10.200 Right, right, right.

00:17:11.060 Well, what did you think I was going to say?

00:17:12.320 I don't know.

00:17:12.820 I don't know.

00:17:13.260 I know what Rourke's Drift is.

00:17:14.700 So I was just like, okay, where's this going?

00:17:17.280 You know?

00:17:17.760 But anyway, we shouldn't be in a breeding competition.

00:17:19.860 It doesn't improve birth rates, so, you know.

00:17:22.940 Yeah, but presumably, if you don't want to enter in a breeding competition, you shouldn't

00:17:27.240 allow people who are entering in a breeding competition with you.

00:17:30.900 Exactly, yeah.

00:17:32.320 I think that also, we shouldn't be paying for other people to be winning that competition.

00:17:37.200 But another thing that lots of people heard about was this Taylor Swift concert being cancelled

00:17:43.360 due to a terror threat from an Islamic State convert.

00:17:46.500 But this was back, when was it, in August.

00:17:50.980 So that was international news because, of course, their problems with Islam run so deep

00:17:57.160 that they're having to cancel things now.

00:18:00.460 And there was this as well.

00:18:03.120 Afghan murder suspect detained at Berlin Airport, accused of stabbing wife to death in Vienna.

00:18:07.900 Of course, no point in him being there.

00:18:10.080 This is an unnecessary burden on the Austrian people.

00:18:12.680 It's the pretty standard consequences of our greatest strength, isn't it?

00:18:18.060 But these are just the things that have happened in the past couple of months leading up to

00:18:21.400 the election.

00:18:22.040 Like, the military needs to patrol migration hotspots.

00:18:25.660 It's our greatest strength.

00:18:26.160 At least what the Freedom Party said right before the election.

00:18:31.360 Which I think is actually a reasonable thing because they are the most dangerous places,

00:18:37.020 the places that receive the most migration now.

00:18:39.240 We know this, we have the crime data, it's true all over Europe.

00:18:43.560 So, there's also this one as well.

00:18:46.080 They've refused to accept illegal migrants because Germany's now decided that they actually 1.00

00:18:50.360 like borders.

00:18:51.920 Oh yeah.

00:18:52.580 And all of these rejected people are being pushed over to Austria. 0.99

00:18:57.580 And so they're having problems with that in the lead up to the election, which probably

00:19:01.040 helped the Freedom Party because all of a sudden they had a spike.

00:19:04.520 And that made it all the more serious a problem to solve.

00:19:08.340 As well as the Freedom Party applauding Hungary's move to ship the migrants to Brussels, probably 0.51

00:19:15.280 helped them along.

00:19:16.640 Which is...

00:19:17.240 Doing like the...

00:19:18.140 What was it?

00:19:18.480 Greg Abbott.

00:19:19.080 Yeah, yeah.

00:19:19.520 Texas, yeah.

00:19:20.260 Shipping them to New York.

00:19:21.040 You like migrants so much?

00:19:22.800 Well, you can have them.

00:19:24.080 Mm-hmm.

00:19:24.280 And then also, Bavarian government is trying to make them take them, which probably...

00:19:31.700 Brussels can take them.

00:19:32.740 Yeah.

00:19:33.140 Probably unpopular, I imagine.

00:19:35.180 And then finally, this was shortly before the election itself, it turned out that the

00:19:41.760 migrants were getting luxury apartments for, yeah, the refugees, supposedly, which sparked

00:19:48.340 lots of protests.

00:19:49.780 It used to be a joke.

00:19:51.120 It used to be a joke.

00:19:51.960 Oh, you know, the far right think they're going to get luxury apartments.

00:19:54.800 Well, here we go.

00:19:55.760 Well, yeah, there they are.

00:19:57.060 Proof.

00:19:58.020 And so, it seems like the Austrian electorate have seen the problem that migration is facing.

00:20:03.320 I mean, a third of their population is now no longer Austrian.

00:20:07.840 And I think that that's probably enough.

00:20:10.440 And I don't think that things are going to get better if it continues.

00:20:14.980 And so, they're only going to continue voting in this direction until things start to improve.

00:20:19.820 And the way I see it is that the way all of Europe is going is trending towards at least

00:20:26.300 ending mass migration, if not starting remigrating people, because the multicultural experiment

00:20:31.800 has failed.

00:20:33.020 That's why so many countries in Europe have sided more along the right wing of politics, because

00:20:39.340 this isn't working.

00:20:40.460 Well, I agree.

00:20:43.800 Austria says, Auslander Aus. 0.91

00:20:48.180 I do love the fact that, you know, this is a meme now.

00:20:51.860 It's so good.

00:20:53.180 Anyway. 0.81

00:20:53.400 So, turns out that an army of literal murderers has invaded America.

00:21:01.720 Now, I wish I was overstating the case.

00:21:04.820 But I just want to point out that William the Conqueror conquered England with 10,000 men.

00:21:09.680 Bear that number in mind when you realise how many people, how many criminals, have been

00:21:14.180 let into the United States under Kamala Harris' watch.

00:21:17.480 But before we begin, of course, go and get your copy of Islander.

00:21:20.380 Islander is the best way to support us, because obviously we've been demonetised, so it helps

00:21:24.360 keep the lights on, and it's a brilliant product.

00:21:27.120 You're going to love it.

00:21:27.860 And my particular article in there is the best, I just want to say.

00:21:31.180 But do tweet at me if you have a disagreement when you get your copy of Islander, because

00:21:36.120 no doubt you will have a point.

00:21:37.680 Anyway, moving on.

00:21:39.200 So, let's go to BBC Verify to find out how many migrants have crossed the US border illegally.

00:21:44.600 Now, I was googling around for the numbers on this, just to be clearer and be accurate on

00:21:49.080 this, and I found this ask and I thought, you know what, let's see what they say.

00:21:53.080 And unbelievably, they had a relatively accurate take on it.

00:21:57.600 Since January 2021, when Joe Biden came to office, there have been more than 10 million

00:22:02.020 encounters across the US border with Mexico.

00:22:05.440 Under the Trump administration, there were 2.4 million.

00:22:08.120 So, surprising that BBC Verify were to tell the truth on this.

00:22:13.860 Interesting.

00:22:14.220 So, that's a massive number.

00:22:16.980 I mean, just to be clear, that's more than the population of Austria, as we've just seen.

00:22:22.100 Genuinely incredible numbers of people coming from South America to the United States.

00:22:27.740 And the thing is about illegal border crossings, is they are actually very poorly regulated.

00:22:34.360 Can you believe it?

00:22:35.740 No way.

00:22:36.740 Tell us more about this, this newfound fact.

00:22:38.840 Yeah, this is breaking news.

00:22:41.540 Illegals breaking into your country actually aren't always the best people, and you don't 1.00

00:22:47.080 always want them in your country.

00:22:49.560 The US Department of Homeland Security, though, has estimated there are 11 million illegal migrants

00:22:56.260 living in the United States as of January 2022.

00:23:00.120 No way is there only 11 million.

00:23:02.720 I would say probably double that.

00:23:04.720 It's unbelievable numbers.

00:23:06.220 So, anyway, there was one Tony Gonzalez, the representative of Texas's, I nearly said

00:23:13.540 Swindon's 23rd District then.

00:23:15.780 It's just, keep the plan for Imperial Swindon under wraps for now.

00:23:20.640 But Tony Gonzalez for the Texas House of Representatives 23rd District.

00:23:27.220 He's a very moderate Republican.

00:23:28.880 He recently defeated Brandon Herrera by, like, one point to become the nominee for the Republican

00:23:36.740 Party.

00:23:37.500 He's wishy-washy, pro-life, pro-Ukane, pro-gun, mild anti-immigration, very pro-Israel, very

00:23:44.980 soft and LGBT.

00:23:46.180 So he's not exactly the best.

00:23:48.880 But he did write to the Department of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and asked

00:23:56.480 them, can I have some numbers on this?

00:23:59.200 Like, how many, like, what do you know about these people?

00:24:02.160 Like, how many have there been?

00:24:03.600 Are there any criminals?

00:24:05.100 And he wrote to them in March this year.

00:24:07.340 And they finally got back to him being like, so legally we have to tell you the things that

00:24:12.720 we know?

00:24:13.580 And it's not good news, right?

00:24:15.920 So they sent him back a bunch of tables.

00:24:17.800 And my God, this is worrying.

00:24:20.080 So as you can see, they've got two categories, currently detained and non-detained there.

00:24:24.640 One is convicted criminal, and the other is pending criminal charges.

00:24:28.500 Now, for fairness's sake, we should say, well, we're going to presume the innocence of these

00:24:32.460 people, but I'm not really feeling very fair about this.

00:24:37.460 So that's the two columns on the left, it's convicted and pending.

00:24:41.060 And as you can see on the right, non-detained, so at large, in the United States, convicted

00:24:46.820 criminals, 425,000.

00:24:50.100 That is massively, it's proportionate in that direction, isn't it?

00:24:54.700 Pending criminal charges, 222,000.

00:24:59.360 Oh my God.

00:25:00.720 This is just what they know about.

00:25:02.340 Yeah, that's another point.

00:25:05.580 That's just what they know about.

00:25:07.220 So if we went with, oh, there are 11 million illegal immigrants, somewhere around 6% of

00:25:13.720 them that they know of are criminals.

00:25:16.480 So, okay, that's quite a lot. 0.98

00:25:19.240 That turns out to be a huge number of illegal immigrant criminals. 0.77

00:25:23.000 I mean, aside from the fact that every single one of them is a criminal by entering illegally.

00:25:26.760 But I also find it hilarious that one of them is convicted of antitrust crime.

00:25:31.500 Like some CEO is breaking across the southern border.

00:25:37.180 Well, I had to flee from Caracas or something, I don't know.

00:25:40.560 What a strange crime to be measuring at the border.

00:25:43.220 Yeah, but you can see how they start stacking up in certain columns, right?

00:25:47.360 Assault.

00:25:48.400 62,000 violent criminals with another 42,000 pending criminal charges.

00:25:54.020 So, I'm just going to be uncharitable here.

00:25:57.160 100,000 violent criminals are currently at large in the United States.

00:26:02.060 Probably ties nicely with the dangerous drugs there.

00:26:05.100 56,000 with another 13,000 pending.

00:26:07.700 So, about 70,000 drug dealers.

00:26:10.920 Probably a huge amount of overlap on those Venn diagrams.

00:26:14.300 Massive numbers of them.

00:26:16.400 I mean, I don't know what conservation crimes are.

00:26:19.460 225 conservation...

00:26:20.440 Eating geese.

00:26:21.060 Yeah, I do.

00:26:21.860 Oh, yeah.

00:26:22.200 Is that it?

00:26:24.300 You know, there were 20,000 Haitians.

00:26:26.940 So, as you...

00:26:27.900 Is there family offences?

00:26:29.260 I don't know.

00:26:30.140 That's got to be like domestic abuse.

00:26:31.680 6.5...

00:26:33.340 6,500.

00:26:34.240 Some of them are probably not measured in some of the countries that they're coming from as well.

00:26:38.960 233 for embezzlement.

00:26:40.520 But that's not the, you know, the 14,000 burglars.

00:26:44.720 Well, nearly 20,000 burglars are in the United States.

00:26:48.360 Just that large.

00:26:48.940 Civil rights, one.

00:26:51.220 That also.

00:26:52.200 If you scroll down, some people were gambling.

00:26:55.600 Civil...

00:26:56.160 Have 155 gamblers.

00:26:58.580 Can you be convicted for civil rights?

00:27:00.100 What was a civil rights charge?

00:27:03.360 You've been charged for being...

00:27:05.340 Racist on the internet?

00:27:06.460 I don't know.

00:27:06.800 So, anyway, you go down and, you know, you've got 7,000 for forgery, 15,000 for fraud, 155 for gambling, 10,000 general crimes.

00:27:16.400 But then you get to homicide.

00:27:17.200 So, 13,000 convicted murderers, with other 1,845 pending charges, are currently at large in the United States?

00:27:30.060 Wow.

00:27:30.320 But also, there are 151 who did obscene acts.

00:27:35.320 They just broke into the country, twerking. 0.98

00:27:39.060 Sure, but...

00:27:39.820 They flashed the border.

00:27:40.920 But, I mean, that's, you know, 15,000.

00:27:44.080 That is staggering, isn't it?

00:27:45.520 Who are just wandering around America.

00:27:47.220 Also, they have just admitted to 2,000 people who've been convicted of murder, just roaming around, not accounted for, in the U.S., which is horrifying.

00:27:58.720 Yeah.

00:27:59.400 Well, no, like, the...

00:28:01.960 With homicide, it's only 320-odd who are even in custody, right?

00:28:06.760 That's insane, yeah.

00:28:07.860 So, the two columns on the right are just at large.

00:28:12.300 So, the 13,000 and, say, 15,000 are just roaming around.

00:28:17.040 Oh, yeah, they're not...

00:28:18.120 Sorry, I forgot that it was the convicted on the left-hand side, isn't it?

00:28:20.880 And then the pending on the right side.

00:28:22.580 Yeah, and then of the two right-hand side columns.

00:28:25.560 On the left-hand side ones, they're the ones in custody.

00:28:27.520 As you can see, a massive number, you know, not in custody.

00:28:31.300 So, that's a bit terrifying.

00:28:34.360 Convicted murderers just at large in the United States, because they illegally broke into the country.

00:28:38.280 So, when I said there's an army of murderers who have invaded the United States,

00:28:42.720 well, yeah, I mean, it's 50% bigger than William the Conqueror's army.

00:28:46.360 So, just bigger than Harold Hardrada's army.

00:28:50.320 Bigger than Harold Godwin's army.

00:28:51.220 Like, this is a huge number of men that are going to be around.

00:28:55.640 Yeah, loads of historic battles were won with less.

00:28:58.580 Oh, yeah.

00:28:59.240 Oh, yeah.

00:28:59.580 You know, world historic battles were won with less.

00:29:02.960 I mean, you know, it goes on, like, kidnapping, larceny, like, liquor.

00:29:07.720 Liquor crimes, I guess.

00:29:09.980 You know, but...

00:29:11.000 Martial crimes.

00:29:11.760 Another one that's quite concerning is 20,000 rapists are just wandering around the United States.

00:29:18.780 People who are either convicted or being charged with rape or sexual assault.

00:29:22.160 So, good luck, ladies. 1.00

00:29:24.220 You're on your own here.

00:29:25.520 You're not going to get any help, as we'll cover in a minute.

00:29:29.360 Literally, this is just normal.

00:29:31.260 And, I mean, it keeps going on.

00:29:32.520 Weapon offences, another 16,000, 17,000 people with weapon offences.

00:29:38.380 Tax revenue.

00:29:39.200 They're legitimate refugees, I imagine.

00:29:40.820 Yeah, I'd take them.

00:29:43.280 But, you know, 77,000 or 130,000 traffic offences.

00:29:49.200 But there are a large number of very concerning people who have been just allowed into the United States.

00:29:57.260 I didn't realise the scale of the criminality of it was this widespread.

00:30:01.400 Because, obviously, we've talked about the kinds of countries that they've been coming from.

00:30:05.360 Like, Haiti's a significant one.

00:30:07.080 Lots of South American, you know, lots of them are coming from El Salvador.

00:30:10.120 Or fleeing the Kalo. 0.98

00:30:13.000 But to actually have...

00:30:14.060 A lot of them are from Venezuela.

00:30:14.980 That's true.

00:30:15.960 That's true, yeah.

00:30:16.780 But this seems to me to be far worse than even I thought it was.

00:30:22.600 Yeah.

00:30:23.320 And I think that's why it took them six months to finally release the numbers.

00:30:27.680 Because, I mean, just to have 15,000 murderers just wandering around.

00:30:32.460 And, again, these are just the ones they know.

00:30:35.300 These are just the ones that they can identify.

00:30:37.600 So, there will almost certainly be more.

00:30:41.380 There's no question that there's going to be a huge number.

00:30:44.940 And, again, these are just the ones that are charged as if there hasn't been questions of law and order and oversight in their journey over.

00:30:53.620 Like, who knows how much...

00:30:56.480 Excuse me.

00:30:56.920 It could even be, like, one in ten of these migrants is guilty of some sort of crime. 0.98

00:31:01.440 I wouldn't be surprised, yeah.

00:31:02.720 It's crazy.

00:31:03.880 And so...

00:31:04.440 I think it's interesting as well that this is dropped, you know, leading up to an election.

00:31:08.880 Yeah.

00:31:09.040 I imagine that there isn't going to be much mainstream media discussion of this new declaration.

00:31:13.920 No.

00:31:14.460 I mean, this only came out yesterday, so there hasn't been that much yet.

00:31:17.120 But it is crazy how many.

00:31:21.700 I mean, these are the seven million migrants that ICE released while the cases are being processed.

00:31:26.540 And so, just, they just let out.

00:31:30.180 And, again, these are the ones they know about.

00:31:32.360 So, it's crazy.

00:31:33.380 So, the question then becomes kind of, okay, let's go back to what Trump was saying about this.

00:31:39.000 Did Venezuela send a bunch of criminals to the United States?

00:31:43.480 Possibly, actually.

00:31:44.840 It kind of seems that way.

00:31:46.420 As the New York Times here says, quote,

00:31:50.240 There's no evidence that the Venezuelan government is systematically or selectively releasing prisoners and expelling them from the country.

00:31:57.560 But they do also say that Venezuela is notoriously opaque on these things.

00:32:02.800 So, they don't release any kind of crime statistics.

00:32:05.100 They tend not to cooperate with the capitalist powers for some reason.

00:32:09.380 And, quote,

00:32:10.080 There's no credible research showing that increased immigration leads to increased crime, says Romero Martinez, a sociology and criminology professor at Northeastern Europe University.

00:32:20.020 In fact, studies suggest that migrants are less likely to commit crimes than people born in the United States.

00:32:25.240 Okay!

00:32:26.260 Which studies?

00:32:27.140 Okay, so, what, 10% of the American public?

00:32:30.160 Criminals?

00:32:31.080 Like, what are we saying here?

00:32:32.300 I mean, it's obviously nonsense, right?

00:32:33.640 How many Caracas bucks did he get paid to do that study?

00:32:38.380 Well, this is the point.

00:32:39.040 Like, I just want to frame this around the New York Times, being like, what are you, a racist?

00:32:44.860 Well, I mean, you know, if you actually look any further into this, it's looking a bit rough.

00:32:50.160 I mean, 800,000 Venezuelans have crossed since 2021.

00:32:53.780 Of course, that surged after Biden came in.

00:32:57.900 A former Border Patrol agent told NBC News that unless they get the migrants' criminal history from Interpol or Venezuela,

00:33:06.580 then we don't know who they are.

00:33:09.960 And so we can't get any further information on them.

00:33:12.660 So, okay.

00:33:14.020 The New York PD calls them ghost criminals with little to identify them except gang tattoos.

00:33:19.140 And so some of the gangs that have been affiliated, or one of them in particular, is Trendy Aragua.

00:33:26.300 Yeah, I think Trendy Aragua.

00:33:28.420 I'm not pronouncing it.

00:33:29.380 It's the largest, one of their largest.

00:33:32.140 Oh, yeah.

00:33:32.640 You've covered it before, haven't you, Staleos?

00:33:34.400 Yeah, yeah.

00:33:34.700 They did something in Aurora Complex.

00:33:36.980 We're going to get to that in a minute, because it seems that Trump is completely correct about that.

00:33:42.540 So, yeah, they've got 100 ongoing investigations into incidents involving members of this gang.

00:33:50.600 They are at least kind enough to tattoo their own faces so you know that they're a criminal.

00:33:55.640 Yeah.

00:33:55.780 I mean, that's literally the NYPD.

00:33:58.360 Like, well, that's how we identify them, because we can't get any information from the Venezuelan government for some reason.

00:34:03.860 And, incidentally, Venezuela's violent deaths have fallen to a 22-year low, and Bloomberg's like, yeah, it's because of migration.

00:34:12.400 So, the director of the Venezuelan Violence Observatory, Roberto Brincino Leon, has said, well, it's fallen to its lowest rates since 2001 because they've all left.

00:34:27.000 Where have they gone?

00:34:28.140 Young people who have been traditionally the main victims of the violence have fled, while criminals and gangs have emigrated due to the lack of opportunities to commit crimes.

00:34:36.740 So, they're looking for a new frontier country in which to commit crimes. 0.90

00:34:42.120 And, coincidentally, there was a Biden administration that completely opened the borders, and millions of people started going across under Bordersar Harris's total failure to act.

00:34:56.780 Imagine your country being so bad that the criminals are just like, we don't have any opportunities to commit crime here.

00:35:03.960 They haven't got anything to steal.

00:35:05.700 You know, normally, an economic downturn is where criminals sort of shine.

00:35:10.580 But, alas, even Venezuela is inhospitable to criminals.

00:35:15.160 I mean, I just want to see where the data comes from.

00:35:19.340 Well, again, this is from the Venezuelan Violence Observatory.

00:35:22.820 Yeah.

00:35:24.220 Notoriously reliable agency.

00:35:26.760 I'm sure it is.

00:35:28.240 But, like I said, I don't know.

00:35:31.260 So, anyway, the point being, they think that the criminals have fled to the United States.

00:35:36.440 And, of course, that means we see lots of Venezuelan gang activity popping up in the United States.

00:35:41.580 And, as you mentioned earlier, this was in Colorado, where the Venezuelan gang was taking over an apartment building.

00:35:48.460 Cindy Romero, who lives there, said, well, this has become a daily struggle against escalating violence and neglect.

00:35:55.480 As I said, no one's coming to save you.

00:35:57.560 The police would call me and say they weren't coming unless it was a severe crime.

00:36:00.820 Is this not a severe crime?

00:36:03.280 Armed men have taken over the building and are holding me hostage in my own apartment.

00:36:08.920 In this apartment, there are people who have five, six locks and there are doors.

00:36:12.500 Yeah.

00:36:12.680 But, this is completely terrified.

00:36:15.040 What is a severe crime if not, you know, armed delinquents?

00:36:19.160 You don't need a lock if you have a Glock.

00:36:20.840 There you go.

00:36:21.600 Very peculiar.

00:36:23.060 But, these, you know.

00:36:23.860 They have many Glocks. 0.92

00:36:24.800 That's a problem.

00:36:25.400 When I called the police to report a shooting, one officer asked if I'd considered moving.

00:36:31.760 Yeah.

00:36:32.720 Yes.

00:36:33.180 Yes, officer.

00:36:33.900 I have considered moving.

00:36:35.120 But, as she says, if I could have afforded to leave, I would.

00:36:38.720 Obviously, she can't afford to leave.

00:36:40.540 It's mad.

00:36:41.860 So, essentially, tens of thousands of violent criminals are invading the United States.

00:36:49.140 They're taking over areas in the United States.

00:36:51.300 Trump was right. 0.98

00:36:52.640 And, the New York Times is a bunch of liars. 0.97

00:36:56.140 I'll leave that there. 0.87

00:36:57.460 I better read the comments because I forgot to do those.

00:37:00.260 Of course.

00:37:01.320 What constitutes an encounter?

00:37:03.000 One person, a group of people?

00:37:04.360 I suspect they're the only ones they actually find.

00:37:06.540 I believe it's any encounter.

00:37:08.320 However, there are going to be literally hundreds of thousands, if not millions, who get by without any detection whatsoever.

00:37:16.620 Bald Eagle says, Gonzalez is a rhino?

00:37:18.540 Yes, I know.

00:37:19.940 He voted with the Democrats on everything until he almost got primary down.

00:37:23.160 Well, he did vote against impeaching Trump.

00:37:25.400 I think.

00:37:25.900 So, there is one thing.

00:37:26.860 But, yeah, I agree with you.

00:37:27.680 He's a wet, as we call him.

00:37:30.240 WhatRider says, was that FOI request made by Tony Gonzalez or from his office? 1.00

00:37:36.440 He is the lying scumbag that Brandon Herrera ran against. 0.99

00:37:38.940 Yes, I'm aware. 1.00

00:37:40.140 Well, it says by him, but I don't know.

00:37:42.380 And it's undoubtedly like the office of, isn't it?

00:37:45.160 So, it might be some based Zoomer who, look, we can just do this, and he won't know.

00:37:51.020 Get it done.

00:37:52.420 Bald Eagle says, fun fact, US gangs are US-based gangs and are beginning to target illegals that have also started taking over cities.

00:37:59.420 Who knew the local crime gangs would be more patriotic and defending the US and the government?

00:38:03.180 Well, at least someone's defending the US, right?

00:38:04.720 I mean, well, the thing is that the Italian mafia is like, we can't have this.

00:38:09.660 If I remember looking at the economics of it, just purely the numbers, and if you have just one organized crime gang running everything,

00:38:17.740 you actually have the lowest crime rates and lower rates of corruption than if there are multiple crime gangs competing.

00:38:25.420 So, it's actually kind of good, in a way, to have these US crime gangs fighting the foreign ones. 1.00

00:38:31.120 The problem of monopolies right there, folks.

00:38:33.060 You get less of whatever it is you're trying to do.

00:38:35.180 Yeah, and if that's crime, it's actually good.

00:38:37.520 Yeah, it's actually a good thing in the case of crime.

00:38:39.580 If it's trade, say, you don't.

00:38:42.120 Binary says, if these crime stats are in line with unreported versus reported crimes in the UK,

00:38:46.520 the real numbers would be five to ten times this.

00:38:48.600 And they probably are.

00:38:50.440 But, anyway, we'll leave that there.

00:38:52.040 I think I need some equipment.

00:38:53.800 Yes, you do.

00:38:54.340 And also some merch.

00:38:57.040 I'll slide it over there.

00:38:58.340 There you go.

00:38:58.920 Yep.

00:39:04.340 Right, it's working.

00:39:06.180 It's working.

00:39:07.440 Okay.

00:39:10.040 Right, two days ago in Germany's Essen, which is in the northeast of the country,

00:39:14.940 there was a 41-year-old Syrian who literally went on a rampage. 0.52

00:39:19.660 He literally went nuts.

00:39:20.780 So, he set fire to multiple houses and then ran into several shops with his van.

00:39:28.280 And then, at some point, some people tried to detain him.

00:39:31.940 And the police came.

00:39:33.980 They arrested him.

00:39:34.980 And there is a sort of debate about his motives right now.

00:39:39.400 But what is interesting...

00:39:39.680 Surely it's white supremacy.

00:39:42.220 Probably.

00:39:42.760 I think that's 99.9% of the people believe this.

00:39:46.220 He was far right, wasn't he?

00:39:47.260 Yeah.

00:39:48.100 He must have been.

00:39:48.900 You know, he was just a person concerned about how racist Germany is.

00:39:54.680 And that was the issue.

00:39:55.800 Exactly.

00:39:56.400 So, what is interesting in this case is that you don't see that much of coverage here,

00:40:00.660 despite the fact that there were around 30 people injured and two children are in critical condition.

00:40:06.660 And because there haven't been victims, at least yet, hopefully there won't be,

00:40:12.820 you don't see the same pattern of politicians making the same kinds of...

00:40:17.780 Okay, there's nothing to say about this.

00:40:19.280 ...statements and...

00:40:20.840 Yeah, you don't see them doing this.

00:40:23.280 They are trying to bury the news.

00:40:25.340 Is it an isolated incident, Stelios, do you reckon?

00:40:28.960 It is an isolated incident that most people don't want to talk about.

00:40:32.820 It's so isolated that it just keeps on happening over and over again.

00:40:35.900 Yeah, so we have far less things open to us to say about them.

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00:42:02.680 Right, so let's say what we know so far.

00:42:07.220 So it began this Saturday around 7 p.m. in Essen, in northeast Germany.

00:42:12.820 We will talk about this horrifying picture in a bit.

00:42:16.280 So what happened is that we have a 41-year-old Syrian.

00:42:19.660 He set fire to a residential building and then drove to another street to set another house on fire.

00:42:26.560 And we'll just start talking a bit about this.

00:42:29.860 So what we see here is we literally see people who are trying to save their children

00:42:35.040 and taking considerable risks at themselves because the fire brigade had ladders,

00:42:41.180 but they couldn't reach the top floor.

00:42:43.380 So you literally see there a mother exiting the window on the roof.

00:42:50.840 She literally risks her life to save her small child.

00:42:58.300 So you can see the smoke billowing out of the top window there?

00:43:00.660 You can see the smoke.

00:43:02.020 And a lot of children inhaled smoke and they were in critical condition.

00:43:05.860 Two are in critical condition, but more have been severely injured.

00:43:10.360 So did he set fire to the whole apartment complex then?

00:43:13.860 Yes.

00:43:14.920 Yeah.

00:43:15.860 And that wasn't enough.

00:43:17.880 He continued.

00:43:18.520 And if you see here, he went and he did the same to another house,

00:43:29.420 but also he took the van and he rammed a flower shop, a vegetable shop.

00:43:35.880 Oh, yeah.

00:43:36.700 We see him here.

00:43:38.160 He's going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

00:43:41.700 And that wasn't enough.

00:43:43.040 What could his possible motivations for this be?

00:43:47.240 Hates vegetables.

00:43:47.860 No, he absolutely hates vegetables.

00:43:53.040 We can watch it again here.

00:43:55.060 He's just ramming the store. 0.98

00:44:00.040 Seems like he's got mental health issues. 0.96

00:44:04.160 Yeah, it's a bit loud. 0.94

00:44:05.340 No, I'm sick of sweeping this under the carpet.

00:44:08.920 Oh, it's just mental health issues.

00:44:10.040 Well, I don't think it should be just mental health issues.

00:44:13.320 I think that why should we be letting mentally ill people in, 1.00

00:44:16.640 or anyone at all from Syria in the country? 0.68

00:44:20.740 Because this is what you get.

00:44:22.320 Some people are more predisposed towards these sorts of things than others.

00:44:24.920 He'll have his reasons for this.

00:44:26.860 Well, lack of sensitivity training.

00:44:28.620 You have anticipated some of the stuff that I want to,

00:44:31.580 some of the questions I want to raise with the segment,

00:44:33.660 but a lot of people are speculating whether this is a terrorist incident or not.

00:44:37.960 But at the end of the day, what is the most important thing is that this has no place in Europe.

00:44:45.080 Yeah.

00:44:45.420 This has zero place in Europe.

00:44:46.600 So whether this person had links with terrorist groups or not,

00:44:50.820 whether he just idolized them but wasn't involved with them,

00:44:53.840 all this is secondary.

00:44:55.420 The main thing is that this has zero place in Europe,

00:44:58.060 and it should have zero place anywhere in the world.

00:45:01.400 So he rammed the flower shop, and then he went out to the machete.

00:45:06.960 We have here some footage.

00:45:12.400 He comes out of it.

00:45:14.420 He's wielding a machete, and he's shouting, and he's going to enter.

00:45:21.300 So it's interesting that you can hear Muslim noises around this fruit and veg shop.

00:45:27.780 So is this like a grudge thing, potentially?

00:45:31.360 Could be.

00:45:31.920 Where he's, yeah.

00:45:34.460 Yeah, so now people are speculating whether he was a terrorist or not.

00:45:39.800 There has been zero official account whether he was or not.

00:45:43.720 But some people are pointing out similarities and differences.

00:45:47.840 Some people are saying that the modus operandi,

00:45:50.860 the way he went about it, bears striking resemblance with some previous...

00:45:55.420 Sure, it's just crusading for human rights.

00:45:56.760 Attacks?

00:45:58.060 Yeah, especially the use of the van in order to...

00:46:02.120 There's a few cases in London where a van's been used, yeah.

00:46:05.500 Yeah, and not just there.

00:46:06.880 It's just really widespread.

00:46:08.420 And you see him there having machetes and knives.

00:46:11.600 Some people say he's wearing a keffiyeh, which is, I think, the Palestinian scarf.

00:46:17.380 Yeah, that's right, yeah.

00:46:18.200 And also he has some other...

00:46:20.440 He had a symbol with a Palestinian flag.

00:46:24.080 Right.

00:46:25.460 Right, so how was this covered?

00:46:29.440 In major networks.

00:46:32.540 Who is to blame?

00:46:33.560 With weird amounts of sensitivity, probably.

00:46:35.960 Who is to blame?

00:46:36.920 Someone has to be blamed.

00:46:38.440 Or surely the machete is to blame.

00:46:40.160 Was it an accident?

00:46:41.000 Was it a failure to integrate the man?

00:46:43.620 This poor refugee felt so, you know, put upon and such a victim of racism that he had

00:46:51.160 to crash the van into the veg shop and set fire to an apartment complex.

00:46:54.540 That remains to be seen, but it's manhood that is to blame.

00:46:58.180 Oh, men.

00:46:59.700 Yeah, we have it.

00:47:01.520 Could have been anything.

00:47:02.160 Yeah, I think that's the Deutsche Welle, and it says, police arrest man over arson attacks

00:47:09.820 and van crash.

00:47:11.120 Police in Germany say they have arrested a man over two arson attacks and a van collision.

00:47:16.080 Two children were critically injured in one of the attacks, believed to have been aimed

00:47:19.640 at a particular family.

00:47:21.440 Okay, so vengeance.

00:47:22.500 Yeah, it's men.

00:47:24.340 Take this.

00:47:24.780 Also, in Euronews, eight children seriously hurt in arson attack in Germany's city in Essen.

00:47:29.960 And they say a man's been arrested after allegedly setting two fires in Essen.

00:47:34.160 They left 30 people injured and driving a van into two shops.

00:47:37.460 Authorities.

00:47:37.940 I love the undifferentiated man, just the man, a man, just a man, human, male.

00:47:45.900 Yeah, because that's how they categorize all men.

00:47:49.940 But there's only one way to give less information about this, is say a human has been arrested.

00:47:56.580 As opposed to an alien or something.

00:47:58.140 Well, yeah, exactly.

00:47:58.980 A sapien.

00:47:59.680 Yeah, exactly.

00:48:00.740 You know, so at least we know it's male, so it's more of a, not female, that's more information.

00:48:05.260 So there's only one way to make this less informative.

00:48:07.200 I mean, I guess you could say a sentient being, maybe?

00:48:10.800 I'd be very interested to see, just as a sort of experiment, if they just started reporting on an ethnic Syrian did this,

00:48:18.440 and how much it would change people's political attitudes, their news just for a week.

00:48:22.780 Which is precisely why they reported.

00:48:24.620 Of course.

00:48:25.120 Again, they say the same thing.

00:48:26.360 A man has been arrested after allegedly setting off two fires in the western German city of Essen

00:48:30.700 that left 30 people injured and driving a van into two shops, authorities said on Sunday.

00:48:35.480 They say the fire services said that when it arrived at the scene of the first blaze, smoke was billowing from the entrance of the building and people were calling for help from windows.

00:48:45.500 Neighbors had app ladders to help people escape, but they weren't long enough to reach the upper floors.

00:48:50.420 And here we have some more information than man.

00:48:55.240 Again, the way that he says it, sorry, I'm sorry to interrupt.

00:48:58.700 No, no, it's just infuriating.

00:49:00.480 He's an Essen resident, right?

00:49:03.040 Okay, is he on holiday?

00:49:05.100 Oh, he has Syrian citizenship.

00:49:06.500 Again, not a Syrian living in Essen.

00:49:09.680 No, not an immigrant, a Syrian immigrant, no.

00:49:13.480 He's, like, all of this is external, right?

00:49:16.760 So, if he was a Syrian immigrant, that would imply agency on his part.

00:49:20.760 He had chosen to move from Syria to Essen.

00:49:23.360 No, this is all the passive voice.

00:49:26.720 This is a thing that has happened to him.

00:49:28.120 Oh, well, he has Syrian citizenship, as if this is something that just happened to him, and it's completely outside of his control, and as if it's childlike, infantilizing this guy. 0.98

00:49:39.860 It reminds me of the language of people of color.

00:49:42.720 Yeah, very much.

00:49:43.400 It's that same sort of weird, sanitized, passive language.

00:49:46.580 Yeah.

00:49:47.400 When they put the Essen resident first, it's like, that's the essential bit.

00:49:51.180 That's all you need to care about.

00:49:52.620 All you need to care about.

00:49:53.980 The other is just entirely contingent.

00:49:55.780 Yeah, that's kind of an appeal to the magic soil, isn't it?

00:49:58.880 You know, he's an Essen resident, so, you know, he must just be like everyone else in Essen.

00:50:02.340 Maybe there's something about Essen.

00:50:04.080 You just don't go there.

00:50:04.960 That's what they're trying to say.

00:50:06.040 Yeah, what's wrong with the soil of Essen to turn people into people like this?

00:50:09.360 By the way, I've been to Essen, and I think it's lovely.

00:50:11.980 I'm sure it is.

00:50:12.620 And one person who's really close to mine got a surgery there, and she's fine, and it's a place I always remember in a good way.

00:50:23.420 And it saddens me to see things like that happening, and it also saddens me to see the hypocrisy of, you know, what people are saying.

00:50:30.020 And you have been hinting towards it, the word mental.

00:50:36.440 According to the German press agency, the man's lawyer, Volker Schroeder, said he had no political motive, and that it was a purely tragic family story.

00:50:48.480 A fight against his wife for the children, and probably a mental disorder.

00:50:53.080 So, his plan was to, did they own the grocery shop? 0.95

00:50:58.620 Like, was he going to burn down the apartment with his kids in it, and destroy her livelihood, and then machete them?

00:51:06.740 What was his plan?

00:51:07.720 Maybe they were shopping from there, and he said that if you're shopping from that place, I need to punish the grocery store. 0.74

00:51:14.780 And I realize, I realize that to us, this looks like a mental disorder, but that's because we're different to these people.

00:51:20.420 We think differently to them.

00:51:21.740 Well, I mean, whether it's not or not, whether it is or not, the thing is that too many, there are too many mental disorders out there.

00:51:31.160 Too many, yeah.

00:51:31.880 I think you might just, it could potentially be a Middle Eastern mental disorder enthusiast as well.

00:51:37.600 Or, that's entirely possible.

00:51:40.400 And not only possible, it may be probable.

00:51:43.780 They just have very different reactions to these things than we do.

00:51:47.220 Yeah, but I want us to focus and dwell a bit on that, the purely tragic family story.

00:51:52.500 Because, you remember, there seems to be a particular leniency when a lot of people from particular groups are violent towards women,

00:52:01.040 in ways that leniency would not be shown to Europeans.

00:52:05.320 Yeah, I mean, if Europeans were, I don't know, committing honor killings, then it wouldn't be like, well, it's just their culture.

00:52:12.640 It's just, you know, we have to be understanding.

00:52:14.400 Yeah, it wouldn't be like that.

00:52:15.740 It would be the exact opposite.

00:52:16.980 But the thing is, the thing is that we have plenty of evidence about this.

00:52:21.260 So, for instance, just out of nowhere, a very simple incident I was reminded of was the incident at a particular food chain,

00:52:30.600 where there was someone who was very angry with the order, and he slapped the waitress.

00:52:36.940 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.

00:52:38.000 Yeah, and nothing was done about it.

00:52:39.880 The police was no biggie or something.

00:52:41.000 It was a cultural issue.

00:52:41.980 There were police in the restaurant at the time.

00:52:44.680 Yeah.

00:52:45.040 And he wasn't arrested, nothing happened, and this woman, she was a black woman from London, wasn't she?

00:52:49.420 I think so.

00:52:49.800 And this young black woman was like, well, I can't believe that I'm just being ignored.

00:52:53.580 The police aren't going to do anything about it.

00:52:54.620 So, right, you found out where you are on the progressive stack.

00:52:57.080 Like, you're beneath the Muslim man, you know, sorry to tell you that. 1.00

00:53:01.240 You know, the rule should be one rule for all, but not in London.

00:53:04.340 And it's interesting that the man's lawyer says this, because obviously he wants to portray what happens with him in a positive light.

00:53:11.780 And this shows exactly the kind of defense the lawyer thinks would work in a court of law.

00:53:19.180 To appeal to mental disorder. 0.98

00:53:20.020 Murder his wife and kids. 1.00

00:53:21.160 But also, to appeal to a tragic family story, a fight against his wife or the children.

00:53:26.160 So, this isn't exactly the type of fatherly figure of the stable family man who you want to raise children with.

00:53:35.640 You know, a good relationship with your father can warm your heart for the rest of your life.

00:53:41.020 A very brief period.

00:53:42.520 Just saying, you know, if I ever got a divorce and my wife got the kids, I'm not going to murder my wife or ex-wife to get the kids.

00:53:48.800 I'm not going to set fire to a house.

00:53:50.240 But how is this supposed to be a defense that's supposed to work in the way that it would minimize sort of the kind of culpability?

00:54:00.120 They would say he is less responsible for what he's doing.

00:54:02.300 It doesn't have to appeal to a European morality is, I think, the reason for it. 0.99

00:54:07.360 He's a dangerous lunatic. 0.99

00:54:08.520 Send him across the southern border from Mexico. 0.99

00:54:10.280 But also, that is the issue, though, that there are a lot of people who are being defended on such grounds, that they're not responsible.

00:54:18.500 Or it's their culture.

00:54:19.960 It's different.

00:54:21.240 Right.

00:54:21.480 So, here we see someone, Lars Pellinat, saying,

00:54:26.820 And our German media, from ARD, ZDF to RTL, wants to sell us this incident as crime motivated by relationship issues.

00:54:36.140 And he is speculating that there is something more into it.

00:54:40.020 I think that...

00:54:40.820 Fair, reasonable speculation.

00:54:43.160 Fair, reasonable speculation.

00:54:44.180 But it doesn't add much to this here.

00:54:47.660 I think whether we are talking about someone here who is affiliated with terrorist groups or not, it's just entirely besides the point.

00:54:57.520 Because even if he isn't, that's not acceptable.

00:55:01.480 So, I think that in this case, if people are highlighting the idea that, no, no, he may not be a terrorist, or that there has been no motive established in this case...

00:55:14.500 Who cares?

00:55:14.880 He was trying to murder people. 0.99

00:55:16.960 He was trying to kill people.

00:55:17.740 We can see all of the crime data from other European countries as well, that suggests that Syrians are some of the most likely to commit violent crimes of any group.

00:55:27.880 And I don't think it should be Europe's problem to solve problems in Syria.

00:55:32.500 Yes.

00:55:32.900 And also, that's what I wanted to say.

00:55:35.220 It's completely secondary if he is affiliated with any group or something.

00:55:39.620 That's not acceptable.

00:55:41.940 People shouldn't put up with it.

00:55:43.240 And it seems that Germany isn't putting up with it.

00:55:47.100 And this is evident, particularly in the good performance of the AFD in several state elections in Saxony, Thuringia, and in Brandenburg.

00:55:56.340 And the government is giving completely mixed signals to people.

00:56:01.920 So, they said on the one hand that they are going to tighten control borders for an immigration crackdown, and they said they're going to do this just for six months.

00:56:12.180 Sorry.

00:56:12.620 They're literally like, we want to be really woke, but they keep murdering people.

00:56:15.980 We want to be really woke, but people are actually dying.

00:56:19.540 Yes.

00:56:19.700 The funny thing is, the border controls in Germany as well are so lacklustre and uninfused.

00:56:26.040 I think my sort of suspicion of this, I don't have enough evidence to necessarily say definitively, is that they're running these border controls, but they're doing it poorly.

00:56:35.160 So, they can say, well, we tried to control the border, and it didn't work.

00:56:38.540 Our crime didn't really go down very much.

00:56:40.400 And so, it's a waste of time.

00:56:42.360 Whereas, they're just, you know, standing on the main roads.

00:56:46.260 And, for example, they're letting, like, large lorries and certain vehicles go through whilst they're stopping cars, when actually it should probably be the other way around, judging from the border between France and the UK.

00:56:58.280 But I'm saying that this was a mixed signal, because the party that did this, led by Olaf Scholz, is the Social Democrat Party.

00:57:06.820 And they did this just in order to portray that they are doing something against immigration.

00:57:14.100 Particularly, they wanted to hurt the AFD in Brandenburg.

00:57:17.280 But then he immediately went to Central Asia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and countries of the sort.

00:57:23.820 And he wanted to say that we are going to make it easier for skilled workers from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and the countries of Central Asia to go to Germany.

00:57:32.620 So, what he did wasn't something to say that, okay, it's a moment of self-criticism.

00:57:39.220 We have suffered things like the Solingen stabbings, or the stabbing in Mannheim, or the stabbings in just several neighborhoods.

00:57:48.740 That was just not an attempt to say that we are going to put our country in order.

00:57:55.020 That was just an attempt to...

00:57:56.540 A nerve on the guy, though, to say, well, okay, you've had enough of Turks and Syrians. 1.00

00:58:01.960 We're going to rotate now and get, you know, tens of thousands of boar rats into your country. 0.98

00:58:06.360 Why does it always have to be Muslim countries? 1.00

00:58:09.160 I know, yeah.

00:58:10.240 I mean, okay, we need loads of movements.

00:58:13.740 Okay, let's assume that was true.

00:58:15.260 Can we have, like, East Asians, please? 0.97

00:58:17.300 You know, like...

00:58:18.620 They probably don't want to move here that much, to be fair.

00:58:21.820 But, you know, you could look at a group like the Chinese, for example, which commit crime at a lower rate in all of the countries they've settled in Europe. 0.98

00:58:30.260 That's sort of a more model group that they could turn to if they wanted to, if they really wanted to justify it.

00:58:36.020 But at the end of the day, it's all about whether you want to prioritize your own population or not.

00:58:41.560 And the problem is that a lot of parties have reconceived who we and they are.

00:58:49.040 I always question the concept of the skills shortage.

00:58:53.780 Really, in Germany, that's hard to believe because the Germans are really smart and really hardworking.

00:59:00.080 So, you know, how is it, you know, it must be a lack of training.

00:59:05.040 Well, it's a fallacious argument because it's arguing that there is a lack of employees that are skilled and that we need to get people in.

00:59:15.340 But then they're going to, like, sub-Saharan Africa, to the Middle East.

00:59:19.460 People whose qualifications can't really match those of Europe because the institutions in their home country aren't up to the same standard of Europeans.

00:59:27.280 And anyway, when it gets to the point of lots of things being, you know, automated and AI running a lot of things, lots of industries,

00:59:35.880 we're going to actually need far fewer jobs even if we had no immigration, let alone bussing in loads of people.

00:59:42.240 I just refuse to believe that the Germans are like, well, you know, no one's working hard or doing training or smart enough to get these jobs. 0.99

00:59:49.040 No, I don't really believe that's the case.

00:59:51.080 Maybe it's the case in England, but it's definitely not the case in Germany.

00:59:54.380 I think it's a post hoc rationalization wherever it goes.

00:59:57.700 Yeah, of course.

00:59:58.440 But it's a nonsense.

00:59:59.720 But to carry on with the segment, because I'll have to draw it to a close in a bit.

01:00:04.980 I think that the governments of Europe, they are essentially trying to not solve the issue.

01:00:14.960 Oh, yeah.

01:00:15.380 They want to pretend that they're trying to do something, but actually they're not doing anything.

01:00:22.740 And it's telling when they're sort of excusing people.

01:00:29.560 They're letting people get away with it.

01:00:31.380 Because here I have the Solingen stabbing incident where three people were killed and five seriously injured.

01:00:37.420 It was again someone from Syria who had been denied asylum status.

01:00:42.940 And it wasn't granted and there was a deportation-ish order that had expired and they hadn't deported him.

01:00:52.440 And he went and he killed.

01:00:54.080 So what I want to say is that all this virtue signaling rhetoric about human rights is completely abused by European governments.

01:01:01.900 They are disrespecting Europeans first and foremost because they are not literally caring about the public safety of Europeans.

01:01:11.780 And this isn't by any stretch of the imagination something that just happened now.

01:01:17.280 I have this video from eight years ago.

01:01:21.780 They are talking about again another Syrian who killed someone with a machete and injured two other people.

01:01:27.600 They are saying the exact same things that they are saying now.

01:01:30.680 Let's play this video.

01:01:34.060 A machete attack by a Syrian asylum seeker in the German town of Reutlingen has no apparent connection to terrorism.

01:01:42.060 Police say the incident, which left one woman dead and two others injured, happened after an argument.

01:01:46.760 We have leads that this was a crime connected to a relationship.

01:01:54.880 That means that there was a relationship between the killed woman and the 21-year-old suspect.

01:02:00.200 We have absolutely no hints that this was a religiously motivated crime or that there is a terrorist background.

01:02:07.000 Okay, that's worse. That's way worse.

01:02:11.940 Let's play the video and add to this.

01:02:14.860 The attacker, who was apprehended by police, is said to have been involved in previous incidents causing injuries to other people and was apparently acting alone.

01:02:24.040 The victim and her attacker both worked at the same Turkish fast food restaurant close to where the argument took place.

01:02:29.880 The incident comes amid tension after other violent events in Germany in the past week.

01:02:34.300 The same thing. And this is from eight years ago.

01:02:39.380 This is from, yeah, eight years ago, 27th of July, 2016.

01:02:44.980 This is worse. If it's political, it's like, okay, people get involved in politics, people get caught in politics.

01:02:51.720 You know, someone does something insane in politics.

01:02:53.640 Okay, fair enough. At least there's like, there's reason involved.

01:02:56.040 You know, it's like, okay, well, he had reasons for it.

01:02:58.320 This is about the habituation of these people.

01:03:01.120 It's about the way that they think it's appropriate to deal with their interpersonal relationships.

01:03:05.460 It's the conflict of a dignity culture versus an honor culture.

01:03:09.140 And the honor culture says, no, if a woman has slighted you in some way, her dignity doesn't matter. 1.00

01:03:13.740 In fact, it's your honor that matters. 0.99

01:03:14.980 So go and get the goddamn machete and go and deal with her. 0.99

01:03:17.760 And that's why he did what he did. 1.00

01:03:19.260 Like, this is atrocious.

01:03:21.980 This is way worse than it being political. 0.95

01:03:23.280 Well, it shows that any Syrian could basically just be a sleeper agent of violence. 1.00

01:03:28.500 Like, they could just be...

01:03:29.760 To call it a sleeper agent is to give them a political overarching emotion.

01:03:33.860 That's true, yeah.

01:03:34.560 Right? That's the thing.

01:03:35.600 It's that there is a habitual problem with the community that we have to be worried about.

01:03:41.240 And I'm not saying that, you know, every Syrian is going to do this or anything like that.

01:03:45.200 There are going to be lots of Syrians who don't agree with this.

01:03:47.200 But the way they're from is, oh, it was just a relational issue.

01:03:50.920 No, that's worse.

01:03:51.680 That's way worse.

01:03:52.880 Because all of society is just a series of relations that we live within.

01:03:57.060 Yes.

01:03:57.340 And I think the most important thing you said has to do with the symbolism.

01:04:01.180 Because just by people changing geographical location, they don't change culture.

01:04:07.380 And some cultures see things very symbolically.

01:04:10.960 They don't look at the individual.

01:04:12.740 So what people misunderstand here is that in the minds of some people,

01:04:16.680 everything is to be judged in a collectivist basis.

01:04:20.160 And they see things symbolically.

01:04:22.320 So when they have feuds, particularly with a family member or something,

01:04:27.360 they can also want to punish the culture that they blame for changing the minds of the people they're having fight with.

01:04:35.180 So, for instance, whether he is linked with terrorism or not,

01:04:39.600 maybe my gut instinct says that this particular person was not because there were five people who were able to detain him and throwing objects at him.

01:04:49.920 He wasn't particularly well trained.

01:04:52.020 But that's just speculation.

01:04:53.240 But all this doesn't matter.

01:04:55.700 What seems to matter is that symbolically, in his mind, he wanted to punish the culture that he thought was responsible for his wife having a feud with him.

01:05:07.480 He may well be defending his honor as well.

01:05:09.720 He feels that the culture has dishonored him more broadly.

01:05:14.880 And there are the virtue signaling policies have disastrous effects.

01:05:21.700 It's not just that, you know, we're just having a go at some people and we're just ranting.

01:05:26.700 We have this article from European Conservative.

01:05:30.080 I've shown it before several times.

01:05:31.980 If you want to find out more about the crime statistics in Germany, check on our website.

01:05:38.360 But I'll just say that annual crime in Germany has risen for the year 2023 by 12.5%.

01:05:46.600 Jesus Christ.

01:05:47.740 That's a lot in a year.

01:05:48.760 Yeah.

01:05:49.460 Just saying that.

01:05:50.820 Anyway, I think...

01:05:51.580 And that's an increase from the previous year on that.

01:05:53.660 Yeah, it's the annual crime increase.

01:05:55.820 Yeah, so there's zero room in Europe for behavior like that.

01:06:01.360 Yeah.

01:06:01.980 I agree.

01:06:03.960 White Rider says,

01:06:05.020 We're all very familiar with,

01:06:06.680 Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.

01:06:09.260 If only these people lived by, sometimes unreasonable men must do reasonable things.

01:06:13.660 Yeah, God, if only.

01:06:15.020 It's possible to do that.

01:06:17.100 A.U.

01:06:18.260 Minna says, 0.81

01:06:19.180 Poor impulse control.

01:06:20.540 Some Islamic men are raised with no boundaries and no consequences. 0.96

01:06:23.340 They are very narcissistic and feel very entitled. 0.87

01:06:25.620 I don't think it's just some Islamic men. 0.92

01:06:27.620 I mean, it seems to be a large number of Islamic men.

01:06:29.940 Because Islam places all the burden of responsibility on the women and children and very little on the men. 0.99

01:06:36.680 Well, they order their entire society around...

01:06:39.500 Men.

01:06:40.080 Yeah.

01:06:40.900 Yeah.

01:06:41.000 And so very...

01:06:42.460 The men are not...

01:06:43.820 They don't have the burden of self-control placed on themselves.

01:06:46.680 Women have to cover up. 1.00

01:06:47.740 Children have to cover up.

01:06:48.820 This, that, and the other. 0.69

01:06:49.540 It's like, okay, but that encourages you to be a hysterical, screeching woman about things, frankly. 0.55

01:06:55.520 And I don't like it.

01:06:56.500 I agree.

01:06:57.700 Anyway, let's go to the video comments.

01:07:00.560 Really loved all your content.

01:07:01.960 It's been great watching you guys grow.

01:07:03.320 It's really helped me motivate myself.

01:07:04.760 Last October, I left Salisbury to go and do a fine furniture making course just outside Edinburgh.

01:07:09.360 I was planning on documenting and sending in some videos over the course, but never got around to it.

01:07:16.960 Anyway, at the end of the course, I entered the Young Persons Function Makers Awards.

01:07:22.780 And I've been shortlisted.

01:07:25.280 And will be in London on the 2nd of October.

01:07:28.260 That's really, really cool.

01:07:31.940 I love, I love woodworking.

01:07:33.940 I don't do any of it myself.

01:07:35.240 I watch, I vicariously watch a lot of woodworking.

01:07:37.600 So do I, yeah.

01:07:38.420 On Facebook.

01:07:39.280 But the thing is, the algorithm knows I like it.

01:07:41.580 Because it comes up and I'll sit there for, you know, two minutes or whatever watching this thing.

01:07:44.740 And I'm like, that was satisfying to watch.

01:07:46.880 So, well done.

01:07:48.040 Yeah, congratulations on the nomination.

01:07:49.680 And also, nice furniture.

01:07:51.080 Yeah, yeah.

01:07:51.440 I was looking and thinking, oh, that looks cool.

01:07:53.800 I queued for the Reform Party Conference 24.

01:07:56.640 And to me, this was the important part of Farage's speech.

01:08:01.140 We don't want extremists.

01:08:03.080 We don't want bigots.

01:08:04.620 We don't want people who think that way.

01:08:06.760 Because we represent the silent, decent majority of this great country that we live in.

01:08:11.860 The silent majority is who Reform represents.

01:08:17.660 Well, I mean, I think the silent majority is actually a bit more right-wing than Nigel Farage is prepared to give him credit for being.

01:08:24.220 60% of the country don't want immigration.

01:08:26.640 Just flat out.

01:08:28.260 So, Farage should be like, no, the policy is zero immigration.

01:08:31.340 Because there's literally the majority opinion of the British public.

01:08:34.960 So, I mean, I agree.

01:08:35.880 He should be representing the silent majority. 0.99

01:08:37.860 But he should just come out and be a bit more hard on it.

01:08:40.280 I mean, the public opinion is even harder than that, to be fair.

01:08:43.700 Well, it depends how it's framed.

01:08:46.620 Yeah, that's true.

01:08:47.100 But in the sort of softest opinion, 60% of people think there's been too much immigration.

01:08:52.220 So, okay, yeah.

01:08:52.880 Then say zero.

01:08:54.340 But, yeah, like you say, it depends on how it's framed.

01:08:55.880 You can get up to, like, 70%.

01:08:57.360 Let's go to the next one.

01:08:59.340 David Lammy is infuriating with his chronic victim narrative.

01:09:03.240 Well, that summarizes my thoughts on it.

01:09:33.020 Exactly.

01:09:34.580 It's just bloody insufferable.

01:09:36.800 Absolutely insufferable.

01:09:37.740 I like the framing there.

01:09:39.620 The Western civilization is the exception and not the rule.

01:09:42.560 Totally true.

01:09:43.520 The rule is definitely the opposite.

01:09:46.060 And this is...

01:09:46.960 Oh, God, I just...

01:09:49.020 I'm not even going to go for one.

01:09:50.100 I'm just going to...

01:09:50.880 That's a good observation, I think.

01:09:52.460 It's a very good observation.

01:09:54.260 It's the exceptional set of standards that we uphold, that are difficult.

01:09:59.300 I'm not going to go into it because it's just...

01:10:01.500 Rile me up and make me angry.

01:10:03.140 Let's go to the next one.

01:10:04.300 You know, I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.

01:10:06.400 And I'm the kind of guy who likes looking back at historical films, too.

01:10:09.220 It used to be they sang the praises of my once fair city in that wonderful transatlantic accent.

01:10:14.020 But there was a distinct change in the 60s.

01:10:16.000 Instead of endorsing the future, they slandered the past.

01:10:18.600 Where suddenly all those wonderful Tudor homes were no longer something to aspire to, but urban blight.

01:10:23.840 Even in my own upbringing here in the 90s, you can see how fair the streets are.

01:10:27.560 Everyone's happy, well-dressed.

01:10:29.260 The streets are clean and orderly.

01:10:30.860 And now here's roughly the same place on Hastings today.

01:10:33.600 And our masters have the sheer temerity to lean down from their legislature and declare it progress.

01:10:39.680 The thing is, though, this is something that really...

01:10:42.540 Zombie apocalypse.

01:10:43.540 No, no, no.

01:10:43.920 It's become very apparent to me that the sort of traditional standards are exclusionary.

01:10:49.080 That's the very nature of a standard, right?

01:10:50.840 And so if the traditional standard is for X, Y, and Z, then the liberal, the doctrinaire liberal extremist, says,

01:10:57.720 Well, hang on a second.

01:10:58.760 All of these people are being left out of the standard.

01:11:01.000 Therefore, the standard is racist, sexist, homophobic, whatever it is.

01:11:04.640 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right?

01:11:05.420 And so the standard has to be torn down.

01:11:08.160 And the second half of that was just what you get when you tear down the standard.

01:11:12.080 Well, you get the worst of everything everywhere all the time.

01:11:15.340 So, okay, well, this is just...

01:11:17.360 It's becoming increasingly clear to me that...

01:11:20.100 And I did the video about Rhodesia the other day where Ian Smith was just...

01:11:23.120 I knew this was coming.

01:11:23.840 Yeah, well, it's because it's literally his thing.

01:11:25.740 No, we just want standards.

01:11:26.980 We just want standards.

01:11:28.340 And if it was right then, why is it wrong now?

01:11:30.340 And it's obviously the liberal revolution.

01:11:32.220 Again, at the same time, you know, across the West, after the war in the 60s,

01:11:36.220 there was a liberal ideological revolution that rendered our entire civilization to actually be defective

01:11:42.320 because it wasn't built on liberal principles.

01:11:44.820 It was built on traditional principles.

01:11:46.360 And you can see how they've just been working to erase all of these good things that were built up. 0.99

01:11:51.620 And we're coming to the end of that process where everything's turning into shit. 0.96

01:11:55.480 Well, the thing is that Ian Smith, I think, was right on a lot of things. 0.98

01:11:59.220 But he was coming at it from a more traditional liberal standpoint than...

01:12:03.980 Well, it's a traditional English perspective.

01:12:05.260 Yeah, exactly, yeah.

01:12:06.660 It's not a liberal one.

01:12:07.960 Well, I think it was liberal to a certain extent.

01:12:11.440 Well, no, it's not ideological.

01:12:14.300 It's about the inherited traditions based on practical experience, right?

01:12:19.060 So it's, you know, if something worked, then you do it.

01:12:21.540 If it doesn't work, then you don't do it.

01:12:23.320 Unlike liberalism, where it's like it doesn't matter whether it works or not.

01:12:25.780 We've established in advance of reality that this is right.

01:12:29.640 And so we're going to do it regardless of the consequences.

01:12:32.200 And it's like, okay, but that's madness.

01:12:35.860 And this is where it leads us to.

01:12:38.160 You know, this unbelievable nonsense. 0.62

01:12:41.200 What do you reckon, Stelios?

01:12:42.800 No, it's just...

01:12:43.760 I just think that, as we said before, that the West is exceptional.

01:12:47.780 And one of the exceptional features of Western civilization is the degree of respect afforded to liberties.

01:12:57.340 Now, in some cases, this comes more natural than in others.

01:13:00.500 And I don't doubt this.

01:13:02.400 But I think, you know, I just don't see the problem you see.

01:13:10.240 Well, the problem is that some people deserve to be excluded.

01:13:14.400 Yeah, for instance, criminals.

01:13:15.620 Yeah, or just not just criminals.

01:13:18.040 It should be.

01:13:19.100 Homeless encampments.

01:13:20.080 No, go and get a job.

01:13:21.680 You have to go and get a job.

01:13:23.020 We're not just going to give you money to sit around and do drugs on the street.

01:13:26.000 These people aren't necessarily criminals legally.

01:13:29.040 No, I mean, in my mind, I would say that the people who are saying that let's just constantly give handouts to everyone aren't particularly liberal.

01:13:40.480 No, they're very liberal and they think of themselves as very liberal.

01:13:43.680 But one thing, I think, because we could say to the audience so they could debrief our discussions on the topic.

01:13:53.280 I think that after the 70s, Rawlsians have incorporated the term liberals.

01:13:58.460 And people from left and right, they have played along with this.

01:14:03.420 And now a lot of people are playing along with it.

01:14:07.340 According to myself, I think that's a mistake.

01:14:10.260 But if you mean Rawlsians, then I'm fully in agreement. 0.80

01:14:13.420 I think that Rawls definitely captured liberalism during the latter half of the 20th century.

01:14:18.480 But he didn't reinvent the wheel.

01:14:21.440 He didn't change the principles.

01:14:22.660 He just essentially made it more assertive.

01:14:25.600 Well, why did Hayek go at him like mad?

01:14:28.800 Because Hayek had a camp in the past.

01:14:32.440 But Hayek was concerned about reality.

01:14:35.560 Yeah.

01:14:36.060 But Rawls isn't.

01:14:36.980 He literally makes up a thought experiment that has nothing to do with reality.

01:14:40.960 So it's like...

01:14:41.960 That's why I draw a lot of inspiration from Hayek.

01:14:44.340 And I'm not saying that he's wrong or bad, but the problem is the idealistic wing of liberalism

01:14:49.580 always beats the pragmatic wing of liberalism, which is why we're at the point we're at now.

01:14:54.060 And so there must be some significant ideological power in the idealistic wing

01:14:58.500 if it can always win over the pragmatics.

01:15:00.940 I think the problem comes with conservatives.

01:15:03.600 Not in the US sense.

01:15:05.360 Not in the US sense.

01:15:06.360 But I think a lot of conservatives, they have turned their back to their principles

01:15:10.500 and they don't subscribe to traditional values.

01:15:13.660 But they're not traditionalists.

01:15:15.200 Yeah, but...

01:15:15.520 That's the thing.

01:15:15.820 Ah, okay.

01:15:16.540 Then why are...

01:15:17.880 Why...

01:15:18.520 So, I'm saying that some people are not liberals and you're telling me they are...

01:15:22.480 All the conservatives...

01:15:23.160 But when I'm telling you that they are conservatives, you tell me they're not conservatives.

01:15:27.940 No, no, they are conservatives, but conservative means liberal.

01:15:30.820 Okay, they're conservatives, I think, in terms of temperament.

01:15:34.020 That they are more likely to accept slow changes.

01:15:38.100 And I think that's particularly bad in any kind of society.

01:15:41.460 Conservatives genuinely are liberals, though.

01:15:43.040 But they agree with all the liberal principles.

01:15:44.860 They just don't want to rush it.

01:15:46.300 And it's like, okay, well, brilliant.

01:15:48.280 But we'd better carry on and go on to the next one.

01:15:54.520 Can we do the next one?

01:15:56.220 I was quite amused to go on Facebook and see that the Corbinars in my local town were kicking off

01:16:00.640 because the Homeland Party held in their conference across the road from their favourite pub.

01:16:05.680 And I have a new mug.

01:16:10.000 Very nice mugs.

01:16:11.000 I saw that Sports Direct mug.

01:16:14.920 They're all good size, though, for a cup of tea, aren't they?

01:16:17.980 Nice mugs, though.

01:16:19.020 Yeah.

01:16:19.660 And shirt.

01:16:21.040 Thank you for supporting us.

01:16:22.200 Yeah.

01:16:22.300 Let's go to the next one, if there's another one.

01:16:27.580 Nope.

01:16:28.080 Okay.

01:16:28.380 We go to the comments.

01:16:29.880 Yeah.

01:16:30.220 I'll do it.

01:16:32.460 Right, okay.

01:16:33.760 Okay, okay.

01:16:34.600 I hope it's a good one.

01:16:36.200 I hope.

01:16:36.660 I have my high hopes.

01:16:37.760 Conqueror Thunderer says, when we get the BBN, the base British news sister company, Carl.

01:16:43.840 I guess when we've sold 100,000 copies of Islander.

01:16:46.820 Make it happen.

01:16:47.620 Yeah.

01:16:48.080 So, you know, only a little way to go.

01:16:50.400 Or when we get investment from sort of Paul Marshall or someone.

01:16:54.240 Roman Observer says, suits wholly approved.

01:16:56.380 Well done to our esteemed hosts.

01:16:57.700 Thank you.

01:16:58.340 I think your combination today is really good.

01:17:01.120 Oh, really?

01:17:01.840 Yeah, works well.

01:17:02.920 I think people's hearts were won by your white suit.

01:17:06.120 I've got that same guy.

01:17:07.100 Really?

01:17:07.360 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:17:08.260 It's the one from Moss, right?

01:17:10.460 Yeah, that's right.

01:17:11.020 I think people loved your white suit, though.

01:17:13.120 Oh, well, I'm glad they did.

01:17:15.460 Omar says, while it's true that Europe is moving politically right, it's more accurate

01:17:19.280 to say that it's moving to the center.

01:17:21.380 Even five or ten years ago, these would have been common sense policies.

01:17:24.420 Yeah, that's true.

01:17:26.180 Gabriel says, I feel like these cordon sanitaire method of blocking right-wing winners from

01:17:31.420 forming governments cannot last.

01:17:33.340 This is the actual threat to democracy.

01:17:35.080 If you make it systematically impossible to pursue these policies democratically, then

01:17:38.940 you open the door to coups, revolutions, and worse.

01:17:41.360 I don't think we're going to see coups and revolutions.

01:17:43.100 I think the time for that has passed.

01:17:45.680 But I do think the cordon sanitaire is breaking down.

01:17:49.180 What do you think?

01:17:50.160 No, I think you're right.

01:17:51.180 I think you're right.

01:17:52.020 We're seeing it in Sweden.

01:17:53.360 I think it's going to happen in Austria.

01:17:55.480 Absolutely.

01:17:55.840 Maybe it'll happen in Britain. 0.95

01:17:58.400 I think no one wants revolutions now.

01:18:00.620 I think that we're not masculine enough for revolutions anymore.

01:18:04.060 Weapons are too good.

01:18:05.800 Weapons?

01:18:06.420 Weapons are just too lethal.

01:18:08.020 I'm not worried about that.

01:18:09.060 I don't think the British police have got it in them.

01:18:11.260 No, no, no.

01:18:11.620 Whereas in the cost of that sort of disorder was limited by the arms in which were available

01:18:19.000 at the time.

01:18:19.420 Well, it would hurt the GDP.

01:18:21.320 Yeah, no, I just...

01:18:22.680 That was not what I was saying.

01:18:24.240 I don't think it's that.

01:18:25.100 I think it's just people are less spirited than they used to be.

01:18:28.660 And so they're less inclined to form an angry mob and storm the Bastille.

01:18:31.980 But if you pick at them enough, at some point some people may go...

01:18:36.820 Yeah, I don't know.

01:18:37.400 Human nature hasn't changed, at least.

01:18:39.100 You can't really change that, can you?

01:18:40.720 No, I'm kind of with Hegel on this.

01:18:41.880 Human nature does change.

01:18:44.280 It's a problem.

01:18:45.960 Look, people are way more passive than they used to be.

01:18:48.440 We've still got quirks from like 500,000 years ago.

01:18:53.360 If we haven't lost those, how are we going to...

01:18:55.060 We've still got what's...

01:18:56.000 Like evolutionary quirks, yeah.

01:18:58.140 Yeah, but just the nature of people's temperament has clearly changed.

01:19:01.620 It's about weak men create bad times.

01:19:04.840 That's true.

01:19:05.560 Bad times.

01:19:06.440 Yeah.

01:19:06.860 We're entering the bad times.

01:19:08.760 We're going into the...

01:19:09.580 It's an unprecedented historic environment, isn't it?

01:19:12.200 Yeah, yeah.

01:19:12.900 We're not set up for this future.

01:19:14.880 Yeah, no, absolutely.

01:19:17.280 Ewan says, new phrase is,

01:19:19.920 when in Europe, do as the Muslims do. 1.00

01:19:23.040 And that's the thing.

01:19:23.960 This is...

01:19:24.960 The Muslims and the newcomers, like the Africans, 1.00

01:19:28.480 they're acting in ways that Europeans would have acted like this 1.00

01:19:31.720 like 200 years ago.

01:19:32.920 Yeah.

01:19:33.040 They would have done things like this.

01:19:35.120 It's, you know, these are just old world people 1.00

01:19:37.020 arriving in the new world.

01:19:38.740 I think 2000...

01:19:39.540 I'm not even joking.

01:19:40.460 It's just the term old world

01:19:42.300 that's often used to describe primates.

01:19:45.920 Well, it's political.

01:19:47.980 Of course, yeah.

01:19:48.840 I know...

01:19:49.300 New world politics from America

01:19:50.620 being moved to the old world of Asia and Europe. 0.93

01:19:54.420 But unironically, like, during the 17th century,

01:19:59.120 we had mutilation as a punishment.

01:20:01.820 I know. 1.00

01:20:02.320 Cut your ears off. 0.98

01:20:03.480 Well, you say it's barbaric, is it? 0.99

01:20:05.540 You know? 0.95

01:20:06.100 Cutting someone's ear off, I think, is... 0.91

01:20:07.540 Well, I'm saying Ahmed would have agreed 0.98

01:20:09.100 with his machetes. 1.00

01:20:09.920 Yeah, no, we probably should cut someone's ear off. 1.00

01:20:11.180 That's why I'm better than Ahmed with the machete. 0.98

01:20:13.500 I don't know about that.

01:20:14.220 I don't believe in cutting people's ears off.

01:20:16.520 If you want people to listen to you,

01:20:17.740 that's the worst thing you could do.

01:20:19.040 Maybe I don't.

01:20:20.260 You know, maybe these people deserve it.

01:20:22.120 I don't know.

01:20:22.880 As long as you don't start doing that.

01:20:23.940 I've been waiting for the next one.

01:20:25.660 What Justin says,

01:20:26.640 I think there's a fertility rate in Immigration Link. 1.00

01:20:28.940 The more migration there is, 0.96

01:20:29.920 the less safe the country feels

01:20:31.000 and the worse the economy is,

01:20:32.360 the less likely the natives feel able to breed.

01:20:36.020 That's the right way around, yeah.

01:20:37.560 I want to say something about this

01:20:39.260 because, you know,

01:20:39.820 I don't want to derail the first segment.

01:20:41.660 But, you know,

01:20:42.280 when we said about the fertility rate,

01:20:45.540 I think there are several reasons

01:20:48.100 why you could care about it.

01:20:49.680 So, number one is, you know,

01:20:51.300 if you live in a world and in a country

01:20:53.520 and you have a lot of, you know,

01:20:55.960 foreigners within the population

01:20:57.800 and the domestic population decreases,

01:21:01.480 then, yeah, fertility rate does play a role 0.77

01:21:03.880 because it directly affects

01:21:05.680 the number of people

01:21:08.060 that could potentially sustain a culture organically.

01:21:11.640 So, I think that's one thing.

01:21:14.080 And also, maybe, you know,

01:21:17.720 I'm thinking of different settings,

01:21:20.740 but you could say that, you know,

01:21:22.460 the same way you want your family to survive,

01:21:25.260 you also want your nation to survive.

01:21:27.720 So, you want some good numbers.

01:21:29.640 The way I'm sort of coming at it

01:21:31.040 is that there are more than enough Britons already.

01:21:35.320 We just need to get rid of our uninvited guests.

01:21:38.620 And that, if anything, you know,

01:21:41.840 $40 million in England is overcrowded

01:21:43.780 and it's naturally declining.

01:21:45.380 Why interfere with it?

01:21:46.420 $40 million in England wasn't overcrowded.

01:21:48.480 Again, you go back to, like, the 90s

01:21:50.180 where house prices were, like,

01:21:51.820 three or four times average salary.

01:21:54.820 And you realise that's how it should be.

01:21:56.860 You know, that's actually,

01:21:57.720 it's a good equilibrium.

01:21:59.780 You know, because houses were completely affordable.

01:22:02.780 You know, there were opportunities.

01:22:04.300 Because you've got a large country,

01:22:05.520 you can make a lot of money

01:22:06.240 if you do very well and things like this.

01:22:07.820 You know, it's a good size.

01:22:09.780 I think it's an unacceptable amount of our countryside

01:22:12.880 that we've concreted over.

01:22:14.720 And I think that we're...

01:22:15.460 Isn't it like 4%?

01:22:17.140 It's still too much.

01:22:18.980 It's, like, it's going to get worse.

01:22:21.260 But, like, it wasn't bad back then.

01:22:23.960 It was a big, prosperous country

01:22:26.100 full of happy people.

01:22:27.480 Just one thing that I observe, you know,

01:22:29.960 judging from Greece and other countries and England

01:22:32.880 is that you seem to build up.

01:22:34.820 When you build new houses,

01:22:36.200 you sort of build up.

01:22:37.700 Whereas, in other cases,

01:22:39.040 people spread how they're buildings.

01:22:41.540 Our countryside's way nicer than Greece's. 0.97

01:22:44.260 I mean, it's a different thing.

01:22:46.080 No, no, it's totally different.

01:22:46.700 Honestly, I love both.

01:22:47.840 Yeah, I love Greece as well.

01:22:49.320 I love the countryside as well.

01:22:50.580 We have 80% mountain.

01:22:52.320 It's different.

01:22:52.760 It's a different thing.

01:22:54.780 It's a different nature.

01:22:56.220 I'll take Greek beaches anytime.

01:22:57.940 Oh, yeah.

01:22:58.300 Greek beach is way better than ours.

01:22:59.580 But, like, you know,

01:23:00.980 you don't have luscious grass, you know.

01:23:03.240 That's true.

01:23:04.660 No, it's wonderful here in that respect.

01:23:06.700 But it is wonderful in Greece as well.

01:23:07.880 I'm not trying to put Greece down.

01:23:09.660 No, but I'm just saying that...

01:23:11.220 The weather's so much better.

01:23:12.220 Do you think that that's a wrong observation?

01:23:14.340 No, I think that's correct.

01:23:14.980 How people build and expand cities.

01:23:17.200 Yeah, yeah.

01:23:17.780 One thing I did notice is that in Greece,

01:23:21.300 your buildings are bigger,

01:23:23.120 even though the economies are obviously

01:23:25.320 of a different scale, aren't they?

01:23:27.500 Yeah, we're just like space.

01:23:28.740 Yeah, we do live like hobbits.

01:23:32.520 Anyway, Rude the Day says,

01:23:33.900 lads, having children is not that expensive

01:23:35.840 and having consecutive children,

01:23:37.220 even less so, can confirm.

01:23:39.460 Grant says,

01:23:40.340 I don't think ICE is a wet organisation.

01:23:42.640 It's not a hydra.

01:23:43.580 If you put the right person in charge,

01:23:44.680 it could be effective again.

01:23:46.200 Undoubtedly, but look at who's running your country.

01:23:48.960 Jimbo says,

01:23:49.760 we need an audit of politicians in Western countries. 1.00

01:23:52.600 There is no way they're this stupid, 1.00

01:23:54.600 deliberately changing the demographics 1.00

01:23:55.840 of entire countries

01:23:56.720 and demanding that we not only accept it,

01:23:59.660 but that we have absolutely no standards

01:24:01.320 for new arrivals.

01:24:02.660 If they're just thick,

01:24:03.600 then their gamble has failed

01:24:04.540 and they need to about turn fast.

01:24:06.700 Well, this is why so many people

01:24:07.940 have come to the conclusion

01:24:08.740 it's not that they're thick,

01:24:10.000 they're just evil

01:24:10.560 and they hate us. 0.99

01:24:11.580 They're trying to destroy us.

01:24:13.180 Andrew says,

01:24:14.000 how long before Venezuela sent convicted criminals

01:24:16.080 to the United States?

01:24:16.800 And that's a good thing.

01:24:18.700 Incoming, actually.

01:24:20.180 Given these numbers

01:24:20.960 and given how,

01:24:21.840 what,

01:24:22.440 again,

01:24:22.860 I can't definitively link these,

01:24:25.100 but it seems very,

01:24:26.180 very bloody likely,

01:24:27.100 doesn't it?

01:24:29.040 Baron Vaughn War Kiwi says,

01:24:30.840 my laptops,

01:24:32.160 my thing's about to run out

01:24:33.540 of bloody battery.

01:24:35.860 Says, 0.97

01:24:36.480 a small number of these murderous gangsters

01:24:38.320 could take over an opponent block in Colorado.

01:24:40.680 It's terrifying to think

01:24:41.460 what 15,000 of them could do.

01:24:43.660 Of course,

01:24:44.120 it would be easier to stop them

01:24:45.100 if the media and the government

01:24:46.000 would stop helping them

01:24:46.800 or at least admit they exist.

01:24:48.440 Yes, it would.

01:24:49.500 If it does run out,

01:24:50.240 you can use my laptop if you want.

01:24:51.920 I don't know why I found it funny.

01:24:53.500 What?

01:24:54.140 That your laptop's running out of bad.

01:24:56.100 I don't know why.

01:24:57.100 I think I need a light

01:24:57.960 in the suffering of others.

01:24:59.140 I need to get a new one.

01:24:59.800 It's just a jolly mood or something.

01:25:01.780 It's gone.

01:25:03.040 Madly.

01:25:03.860 Reading about a Syrian going wild in Germany 0.99

01:25:06.400 cheer you up.

01:25:07.880 That was 20 minutes ago.

01:25:09.520 That's true.

01:25:10.340 Life goes on.

01:25:12.800 Truly embracing the news cycle now.

01:25:15.100 God, I hate the news cycle so much.

01:25:19.740 Omar says,

01:25:20.840 you can never hate journalists enough.

01:25:22.660 How the hell do you justify

01:25:23.500 writing an article that implies

01:25:24.780 importing literal convicted criminals

01:25:26.380 doesn't increase crime?

01:25:27.380 That's why I included it.

01:25:28.240 That's why it was one of the first ones

01:25:29.840 you find on Google.

01:25:30.960 It's, by the way,

01:25:31.840 there's no link.

01:25:32.920 It's just they're literal criminals

01:25:34.340 and the Immigration and Customers Enforcement

01:25:38.080 just lets them off into the country.

01:25:39.960 Good luck.

01:25:40.660 It's kind of like the purge.

01:25:41.680 For his next article,

01:25:44.580 no link between bashing object

01:25:46.000 against my head and brain damage.

01:25:47.520 Yeah.

01:25:48.260 Arizona Desert Rat says,

01:25:49.360 blaming antisocial behavior like this 0.96

01:25:50.800 on a mental disorder

01:25:51.560 does a huge disservice

01:25:53.140 to the everyday person

01:25:54.520 who struggles with depression,

01:25:55.600 anxiety, etc.

01:25:56.760 It paints any people with mental illness

01:25:58.360 or disorders being violent and aggressive.

01:25:59.860 Exactly.

01:26:00.560 Especially as I don't think,

01:26:01.800 I think the problem is

01:26:02.760 the Western liberal mind

01:26:03.760 has difficulty understanding

01:26:05.400 things that are not itself, right?

01:26:07.980 Because it's actually not irrational

01:26:09.760 that a Syrian who's deeply

01:26:12.620 in this honor culture

01:26:14.380 goes,

01:26:15.080 well,

01:26:15.940 the way that my honor is restored 1.00

01:26:18.460 is to kill that woman 1.00

01:26:19.860 and therefore everyone around me 1.00

01:26:21.820 will agree that my honor

01:26:22.640 has been restored.

01:26:23.780 You know,

01:26:23.960 this will be,

01:26:24.760 the common conception will be,

01:26:26.020 yep, no,

01:26:26.320 well,

01:26:26.520 that's what he had to do.

01:26:27.520 I mean,

01:26:27.860 what did she expect?

01:26:29.160 You know,

01:26:29.600 this is just a completely different paradigm

01:26:31.420 that we don't live in.

01:26:32.680 I think you're absolutely correct

01:26:34.140 and I did an interview

01:26:35.220 with Professor Jeffrey Bale

01:26:37.020 who's also working

01:26:39.580 in counterterrorism studies

01:26:41.100 and he said that

01:26:41.960 this was one of the main problems

01:26:44.340 before the 9-11 happened

01:26:47.500 because a lot of,

01:26:48.580 he and other people were saying

01:26:50.280 these are extremists,

01:26:51.720 you take extremists seriously,

01:26:53.960 they are true believers

01:26:54.780 and a lot of people,

01:26:56.840 just the people in the agencies

01:26:58.660 that were responsible

01:26:59.680 for national security

01:27:01.400 weren't paying attention

01:27:02.560 because they said,

01:27:03.960 no,

01:27:04.280 they're not really,

01:27:06.080 they don't really mean it.

01:27:07.400 It's more like maximalist language.

01:27:09.160 Exactly.

01:27:09.440 They're not like you

01:27:10.220 and you don't understand them.

01:27:11.920 This is the thing. 0.95

01:27:12.880 They genuinely believe this nonsense.

01:27:14.740 People can check the interview

01:27:15.880 on our website.

01:27:17.720 Right, right, okay.

01:27:19.080 Baron Von War Kiwi says,

01:27:20.760 because he was a migrant

01:27:21.560 and because so far

01:27:22.460 nobody has been killed,

01:27:23.760 I'm going to get,

01:27:24.400 bet my bottom dollar

01:27:25.140 that he is going to get off

01:27:26.200 on an insanity charge

01:27:27.440 and give him a slap on the wrist.

01:27:29.260 In a just world, 0.99

01:27:30.040 he'd be hanging from the gallows

01:27:31.240 for trying to burn 0.99

01:27:32.540 children alive, 0.79

01:27:33.280 but instead,

01:27:34.280 he's going to spend a year

01:27:35.380 in a comfy hospital.

01:27:36.460 Yeah, and I've just...

01:27:38.420 We're in the Alps

01:27:39.400 and, you know,

01:27:40.140 in a very chilled atmosphere

01:27:42.060 looking at the mountainside.

01:27:44.940 Base Ape says,

01:27:45.820 the problem isn't going to go away

01:27:47.320 until the judges face

01:27:48.220 extremely harsh punishments

01:27:49.260 for their selective leniency.

01:27:51.440 When you start demanding

01:27:52.300 these judges

01:27:52.880 have the right to practice law

01:27:54.040 stripped from them

01:27:54.620 for things like this.

01:27:55.840 I figure you should only have to

01:27:56.880 do it a handful of times

01:27:57.820 before getting the message approved.

01:27:59.160 To be honest with you,

01:27:59.920 I'm very tired

01:28:01.540 of mental health

01:28:02.360 being an exculpatory factor

01:28:03.620 because at the end of the day,

01:28:05.220 like, okay,

01:28:05.920 so what are you saying?

01:28:07.140 They're not rational,

01:28:08.200 they're not in control

01:28:08.840 of their actions,

01:28:09.400 they're effectively an animal.

01:28:11.040 So, okay,

01:28:11.580 but what do we do

01:28:12.120 with dangerous animals? 1.00

01:28:13.520 Kill them. 1.00

01:28:13.920 Exactly, right? 1.00

01:28:15.760 So, okay,

01:28:16.800 you've reduced them

01:28:17.480 to the level of an animal

01:28:18.360 and they're like,

01:28:18.900 yeah, so we're just going

01:28:19.840 to release them back

01:28:20.380 into societies

01:28:20.900 and that's not what we do

01:28:21.780 with dangerous animals.

01:28:21.980 Well, that's diversion, yeah.

01:28:23.800 It's just not the right thing

01:28:25.600 to do with a dangerous,

01:28:26.680 non-rational creature.

01:28:28.460 Like, that's just not

01:28:29.140 what we do with them.

01:28:29.760 We don't allow them

01:28:30.480 their liberty

01:28:30.960 to go off

01:28:31.600 and do this again.

01:28:33.140 So, you know,

01:28:34.180 I'm totally against it.

01:28:36.980 And I guess we'll end

01:28:38.560 on that, Texas Gals. 1.00

01:28:40.320 We are in a breeding

01:28:41.060 competition, though, 0.82

01:28:42.020 because white women 1.00

01:28:43.100 keep breeding 0.97

01:28:43.740 with non-European men.

01:28:45.340 Take a scroll

01:28:45.940 through Instagram

01:28:46.480 and count how many

01:28:47.220 white babies you see.

01:28:48.300 Well, we actually have

01:28:49.100 the statistics

01:28:49.720 and it's only,

01:28:50.720 in Britain,

01:28:51.160 it's only 7% of marriages 0.68

01:28:53.080 or interracial marriages.

01:28:54.600 So it's actually

01:28:55.140 a really low number.

01:28:56.380 And to be honest with you,

01:28:57.520 they should

01:28:58.300 because they need

01:28:59.080 to incorporate

01:28:59.540 into the population

01:29:00.340 if we can't just

01:29:01.000 mass deport them.

01:29:02.140 So, in a couple

01:29:02.920 of generations,

01:29:03.380 I'm a third generation

01:29:04.400 product of misogyny

01:29:06.640 and I'm telling you

01:29:08.740 they become very English.

01:29:10.560 If you make them

01:29:11.360 become very English.

01:29:12.360 No one even made me,

01:29:13.280 actually.

01:29:14.000 But that's not the problem.

01:29:15.520 The problem is

01:29:16.300 we've just got

01:29:16.800 an unbelievable

01:29:17.580 topsy-turvy

01:29:18.300 upside-down world

01:29:19.120 in which foreigners

01:29:20.620 are privileged

01:29:21.180 over the natives. 0.66

01:29:22.420 Anyway,

01:29:23.120 with that being said,

01:29:26.000 not good news

01:29:26.600 exactly, is it?

01:29:28.180 That's all from us

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - September 30, 2024

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1011

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