The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1071

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 3rd of January 2025. I had to

00:00:14.380 look down to make sure that was right because it's a new year. It's the first podcast I've

00:00:18.720 hosted and the first one I've been on since. And today I'm joined by Beau and Harry. Hello.

00:00:25.260 And we're going to be talking about a new way to understand legal migration, Elon Musk's

00:00:30.880 meltdown over H1B visas and whether X, formerly Twitter, is in danger. And I also have an

00:00:38.420 announcement to make and that is the Gold Tier Zoom call is going ahead at 3pm UK time. And

00:00:44.900 so if you want to talk to Carl, who I'm assured is going to be on this one, I think also you

00:00:50.840 and I are on it, aren't we? Yes. And so if you want to talk to us for whatever reason,

00:00:57.960 come along. But anyway. You're really selling it to them there. Well, they want to talk to

00:01:02.800 Carl, they don't want to talk to me. I know that much. Josh just wants to scroll his Twitter,

00:01:06.900 that's all. No one wants to talk to me. Now they're going to ask me questions out of sympathy.

00:01:11.800 I don't need your pity. No, he does, he does. I actually do. He's a very sorry person. He

00:01:18.260 is correct. Starting off the new year very positively. But anyway. So recently some figures

00:01:28.440 came out about illegal migration in the UK. And I'm going to use this not only as a means

00:01:34.400 of talking about the nature of illegal migration across all different Northern Hemisphere countries,

00:01:39.960 because let's be honest, it's not going on in the Southern Hemisphere because no one wants

00:01:42.880 to live there, maybe other than Australia, of course, and New Zealand. With those exceptions

00:01:47.720 aside, I have spotted a trend. And I think it's a very useful way of understanding illegal

00:01:53.760 migration. And I'm going to lay down some of the facts about the UK situation. And then

00:02:00.720 we're going to use that as an example to understand illegal immigration elsewhere. But you don't

00:02:06.800 necessarily need to follow the numbers or even be invested in the UK situation necessarily

00:02:11.220 to find this useful. And the figures that actually came out were these over 36,000 migrants crossed

00:02:19.700 the channel into Britain in 2024, marking a 25% increase compared to the previous year.

00:02:25.020 But the record number was actually 2022, in which 2024 was a 20% decrease. So I suppose that's

00:02:37.060 a slight silver lining, I guess. But because of this, there was recently a calculation done towards

00:02:45.180 the end of December of last year, that found that since 2018, there has been 150,243 illegal crossings

00:02:56.620 from, I imagine, the boat people, but also, obviously, heavy goods vehicles taking the channel tunnel as

00:03:03.620 well. And that's just the ones that they know about. Obviously, there's going to be a lot more than that.

00:03:09.100 And that's only what they can measure right. And so it's always worth mentioning that when these

00:03:15.960 figures are taken, they're only an approximation, and there'll no doubt be a much grander scale to

00:03:22.360 the problem in the first place. And so let's go on to this. It's worth mentioning as well that actually

00:03:30.800 the Labour Party has been much better at getting rid of asylum seekers than the previous incumbent 1.00

00:03:36.640 Conservative Party. And they've supposedly expelled a record 13,500 asylum seekers. And of course,

00:03:44.800 this doesn't go nearly far enough, because obviously, we've seen the numbers. And this is a

00:03:50.260 drop in the ocean compared to who's actually here already. And that's not to mention all the legal

00:03:54.660 people who, you could argue, contribute nothing to the UK. And it's worth also mentioning as well

00:03:59.660 that illegal migration usually is much, much smaller than the legal migration. And many of the problems

00:04:05.400 we experience are because of legal migration. And the two should be part of the same discussion

00:04:11.320 about, you know, maintaining one's nation. I think, I think that that's what most of us believe,

00:04:16.980 that low-to-seaters, you know, it's very rare that we all agree on something, but that's one of them.

00:04:21.900 And...

00:04:22.180 It does annoy me when people on the centre-right, or even Labour people trying to garner some sort of

00:04:27.560 support, talk about deporting foreign criminals. Yeah, that's, that's not even scratching the tip 0.95

00:04:35.140 of the iceberg. Deporting illegal immigrants. Yeah, 100%, all of them on day one. Now let's talk 1.00

00:04:41.560 about the legal migration.

00:04:43.680 Yeah, exactly. And of course, there are many people that are sponging off the state, don't contribute

00:04:47.720 anything, or their main contribution is crime, which, you know, we produce enough of domestically

00:04:52.740 already. We don't need any more foreign criminals. Yeah. I mean, we've touched on this quite a lot, 1.00

00:04:58.880 so I'm not going to dwell on it. The hundreds of thousands of people have come here completely

00:05:02.080 legally and committed no crime. A lot of them still need to go back to their countries of origin, 1.00

00:05:06.500 though, don't they? No, I very much agree, yes. Demographics are destiny. Mm-hmm. And I don't

00:05:10.180 want to become, like, an India or Turkish. Mm-hmm. Because a nation is made up of its people,

00:05:15.140 and if, you know, what made Great Britain great was its people. And, uh, it's worth mentioning

00:05:21.440 as well. Um, I think, yes, I should be going down to, all the way down to figure five, because

00:05:27.920 when we look at the breakdown of who's actually coming, we get a bit more of a complete picture.

00:05:32.660 So, here we are. This is by nationality. Iran is number one, then Afghanistan, Iraq, Albania,

00:05:40.580 Syria, Eritrea, Sudan, Turkey, and then Vietnam, which is a bit left of field. But, um, a lot

00:05:47.600 of these countries, they're the last places you would want people from if you wanted a safe country,

00:05:52.500 say. So, a lot of these countries are Islamic or some of the closest to being the most third world 1.00

00:05:58.440 possible. I'm thinking Eritrea, Sudan, you know, that part of the world, Ethiopia. It's very, very,

00:06:05.740 very poor. How are they going to, yeah, how are they going to contribute to a modern economy? I don't

00:06:10.260 think they can. Their cultures are completely antithetical to ours. Exactly. Not only are they not 0.99

00:06:15.480 able to economically contribute, but they're also going to erode our culture. And, um, this gives us

00:06:21.740 a sort of idea of how, um, the backgrounds of these people shape the nature of their illegal and

00:06:30.140 both legal migration, because many of these countries also export legal migrants to us as well.

00:06:35.820 And, of course, um, people advertise this, and this will tie in quite nicely, um, to this new trend

00:06:44.320 that I've spotted in illegal migration. So, it's worth mentioning. One advert removed earlier this

00:06:50.840 year said in Albanian, interesting that it said in Albanian, isn't it? It's almost like they're running

00:06:55.420 this whole operation, isn't it? We take people to the UK by speedboat. It is a done deal. Within 45

00:07:00.440 minutes, the crossing is 100% guaranteed safe, which I don't know how they can guarantee that. Do they know

00:07:05.360 the weather in advance? I think they might be lying. I think you might be right. Um, but yes, um, all of this

00:07:12.060 is advertised on platforms like TikTok and Facebook and Instagram, and we've covered this before.

00:07:17.180 This isn't necessarily that new, and it's worth mentioning as well that Albanians, largely speaking,

00:07:23.280 are operating a large degree of our criminal gangs, both drug gangs and people smuggling,

00:07:28.600 and it's led to a situation where they're 0.05% of the UK population, but 1.6% of all prisoners,

00:07:35.160 which is 32 times overrepresented, um, the largest number of foreign prison population at 14%,

00:07:41.900 of course, they, um, by spending a year in prison, they're costing on average £51,000 a year,

00:07:47.380 which is above the average salary of a UK, um, taxpayer, um, and as of March of 2023,

00:07:53.780 we actually pay them if they agree to deportation, and, uh...

00:07:58.580 Even though they're already criminals.

00:07:59.960 Yes, and in, of course, doesn't create, uh, an incentive not to come back, does it?

00:08:05.060 You get imprisoned, and then you get paid to go home again, and you do it all again.

00:08:08.680 I mean, that sounds like a scam all in and of itself, doesn't it?

00:08:11.760 And in 2022, there were, um, 28% of illegal immigrants, so that's a very significant portion,

00:08:17.860 um, they're largely involved in the people smuggling in the first place,

00:08:20.860 and then 27% of their asylum applications are granted, even though Albania is not at war with anyone.

00:08:26.800 Um, I don't know what grounds they have for that, and, uh, it's also worth mentioning as well,

00:08:31.200 um, Afghans are doing it as well, and they also abused the child migrants, the young boys, um, as they were doing so. 0.96

00:08:39.700 Um, so, who's actually paying attention to the story about our Channel Crossings?

00:08:45.440 Because this gives us a really good window into who has a vested interest in this,

00:08:50.840 and so, there are countries like Germany, for example,

00:08:54.800 here's some of the German media talking about it,

00:08:57.080 that, uh, experiencing a similar thing, right?

00:09:00.160 And they're a comparable country to Britain,

00:09:02.260 and they have lots of illegal migration, much the same,

00:09:05.820 and so it makes sense that they're interested in our situation.

00:09:09.780 Here's another one as well,

00:09:11.200 and in fact, to emphasise just how much, um, Germany, um,

00:09:14.980 is going through with this sort of thing.

00:09:16.140 In 2023, Germany reported the largest number of non-EU citizens found to be illegally present.

00:09:20.820 Um, almost, well, just over a quarter of a million individuals in one year,

00:09:26.720 and, um, in the first half of 2024,

00:09:29.600 Germany received about 20% fewer asylum applications compared to the same period in 2023,

00:09:34.800 which also mirrors, um, Britain's situation as well.

00:09:37.480 So, it's not necessarily that we've been doing anything different,

00:09:40.140 it just seems like, uh, things are organically slowing down for whatever reason.

00:09:44.640 I'm not, I've not been able to get to the bottom of that quite yet.

00:09:47.060 Either that, or they've changed how figures are measured,

00:09:49.120 uh, because that's always worth bearing in mind.

00:09:51.980 France as well has been talking about it, um, uh,

00:09:54.920 in multiple different, um, outlets,

00:09:57.080 as has Portugal, which actually received far less,

00:10:00.200 and, uh, Ireland as well.

00:10:01.860 And it's worth mentioning that Ireland has the highest rate of illegal migrants per capita in the EU,

00:10:06.280 uh, in 2023.

00:10:07.560 That's the first full year, we don't have the 2024 figures,

00:10:10.240 um, with 28.9 illegal migrants per thousand inhabitants.

00:10:14.680 Because it's a small populous country,

00:10:17.000 it's part of the reason why it's so nice.

00:10:19.340 There's lots of land, it's very green.

00:10:21.320 And, um, in the 12 months leading up to April 2024,

00:10:25.080 Ireland experienced a 17-year high in immigration,

00:10:27.820 with nearly 150,000 people entering the country.

00:10:31.260 Um, so, this is a country of 4 million people.

00:10:34.920 So, it makes sense that all of these countries are concerned.

00:10:37.520 Now, why would India take an interest?

00:10:41.860 This is an Indian outlet.

00:10:42.940 Um, why would they take an interest in this?

00:10:45.600 Well, they're the largest foreign-born, uh, group by country of birth.

00:10:49.680 Um, they're almost numbering a million residents in Britain.

00:10:53.200 And, of course, not all of them can meet the very low criteria

00:10:55.900 in which, um, we allow them to migrate here legally.

00:10:59.460 And so, potentially, a legal migration is a consideration.

00:11:03.020 And, therefore, it is of interest to them.

00:11:05.540 Here's another Indian outlet reporting on it.

00:11:07.600 The Indian Daily Mail here.

00:11:08.920 Um, another one which is not surprising.

00:11:11.740 This is a Pakistani outlet, um, that's talking about it.

00:11:15.300 And, of course, Pakistanis, um, are the third, um, most populous nation in Britain.

00:11:20.240 About 624,000 residents.

00:11:23.360 And they are only beat out by Poland, 0.74

00:11:26.180 which has almost three-quarters of a million.

00:11:29.960 And so, it's interesting that these countries

00:11:32.240 are taking an interest in illegal migration,

00:11:36.080 but for a very different reason, I think, than the European countries.

00:11:39.660 Because, of course, the European countries are interested

00:11:41.960 because they have a similar situation.

00:11:44.760 But, why would an Indian care about the integrity of the border? 1.00

00:11:48.620 Or a Pakistani? 1.00

00:11:50.000 Well, it's not because they, all of a sudden,

00:11:53.100 are very patriotic about the British people, is it?

00:11:55.460 It's that they want to break into a country. 0.89

00:11:57.680 Well, they have a massive, uh, from a top-down perspective,

00:12:00.160 they've got a massive excess population.

00:12:02.560 That's true, yes.

00:12:03.560 And so, they, you know, they can export them.

00:12:06.060 They can afford to lose a couple of million people,

00:12:08.920 especially in India.

00:12:09.900 Mm-hmm.

00:12:10.300 There's lots of people there.

00:12:11.560 Another country that's very significant in this story is Turkey.

00:12:15.260 And they actually talked about, um,

00:12:17.360 our migration situation quite a lot.

00:12:19.980 Um, I don't know why that article's there.

00:12:22.720 It was a different one earlier.

00:12:24.020 But this outlet was talking about, um, migration.

00:12:27.560 I don't know why it's talking about, um, space travel or whatever.

00:12:30.540 But, um, previously, um, what I'd linked, um,

00:12:33.980 was talking about number of migrants arriving in the UK.

00:12:36.460 And then here's another one here.

00:12:38.680 Another, um, Turkish paper talking about it.

00:12:41.900 And, um, this is because they play a key role in people smuggling.

00:12:49.080 And, um, here's a video showing people from Afghanistan,

00:12:52.580 uh, travelling through Turkey.

00:12:55.740 I don't want to hear the noise, but you get the idea.

00:12:59.800 They, they, they show the flag of Afghanistan to Turkey, to the EU.

00:13:03.460 And you see lots of people trekking through the desert.

00:13:05.740 These aren't extras for a new Star Wars film.

00:13:08.500 Um, they are, um, economic migrants.

00:13:11.620 And Turkey has been using the, the, the migration of people trying to break into Europe,

00:13:17.040 um, to its advantage because they don't like the Greeks, do they, famously?

00:13:21.100 And, you know, they, there's a, a dispute between the Greek-controlled and, uh,

00:13:25.860 Turkish-controlled areas of Cyprus.

00:13:27.880 And lots of tensions between the Turkish and Greek borders.

00:13:30.760 Because, of course, long and historic, uh, conflicts.

00:13:34.860 And, uh, so they have been using migrants, uh, to, uh, basically torment the Greeks. 1.00

00:13:41.440 And because the Greeks are in the EU,

00:13:43.100 and the EU makes, the Greeks share the burden of these migrants, 0.86

00:13:47.360 then it, it means that the rest of Europe has to also pick up the slack to a certain extent.

00:13:53.640 Although many of them are getting into Europe and then migrating to their country of choice.

00:13:57.920 Normally either Germany or the UK, because we offer them, uh, the best financial benefits.

00:14:03.500 And, you know, it's very revealing that these two countries,

00:14:06.000 the ones that offer them most, are the ones that they choose to go to, isn't it?

00:14:09.420 You'd think that perhaps they would be a bit more discriminatory.

00:14:12.020 But no, they are, they're going to the ones that give them the most money.

00:14:14.840 Which kind of reveals their motivation in the first place, doesn't it?

00:14:18.600 But the fact that Turkey's talking about this a lot

00:14:21.340 suggests that they are, in some part, complicit in this.

00:14:25.200 Which they are.

00:14:25.980 And, uh, so are Pakistanis, at least their state and the way they govern.

00:14:31.900 Uh, and, and India is.

00:14:33.400 And we can see other countries as well, unsurprisingly.

00:14:36.360 The Afghani, uh, press is talking about this as well.

00:14:40.420 Um, because, uh,

00:14:42.020 because, of course, lots of people, as we saw from the chart,

00:14:44.660 come from Afghanistan to get to Britain.

00:14:46.840 Which is a bit more worrying, because we were only in their country

00:14:51.360 as an invading force not too long ago.

00:14:54.040 So, of course, there's a lot of potential for terror.

00:14:57.360 And by following which countries are talking about your news,

00:15:02.520 you can find out.

00:15:03.500 It's a bit more difficult if you're America, of course,

00:15:05.420 because everyone talks about it.

00:15:06.600 But, um, there are, there are lots of countries that haven't talked about this.

00:15:10.300 But many of the ones you have are either European,

00:15:12.760 and therefore have solidarity,

00:15:14.300 or are actively involved in the migrant crisis in the first place.

00:15:18.300 Here's another country that's also involved.

00:15:20.660 Morocco.

00:15:21.200 This is a Moroccan, uh, paper.

00:15:24.920 Here they are talking about it as well.

00:15:26.960 Obviously, Morocco doesn't care about Britain's borders. 0.98

00:15:29.960 They're talking about it from, because there's interest in moving here to Britain.

00:15:36.460 And again, Sudan, they don't care about the UK, 1.00

00:15:39.780 except if they can move here to make more money.

00:15:42.280 And, uh, I suppose, what are your thoughts on this?

00:15:47.700 Because this is a sort of novel way that I've come up with

00:15:50.740 to figure out who is benefiting from this sort of thing,

00:15:54.740 who is interested in moving here.

00:15:56.860 And it could be a potential way of predicting, um,

00:16:00.200 if there are changes in people's demographics

00:16:02.960 from their country of origin, um,

00:16:05.920 where they will come from in advance.

00:16:07.900 And if we were to actually have a government

00:16:10.080 that were to do anything about it,

00:16:11.920 you could easily have just one person monitoring

00:16:14.240 who's talking about migration to the UK

00:16:16.120 and preemptively stopping it before they even leave.

00:16:20.660 What do you reckon?

00:16:22.460 I'll just say that I'm not prepared to call these people economic migrants. 0.93

00:16:26.860 Well, they're invaders. 0.56

00:16:28.560 They're here illegally. 0.99

00:16:29.980 But the point being that they're not refugees, are they? 0.89

00:16:32.680 Columnists.

00:16:33.160 Yeah, no, they're not.

00:16:34.060 That's why I'm highlighting the economic aspect, is that...

00:16:37.180 It wasn't criticism of you.

00:16:38.460 No, no, of course not.

00:16:39.660 The mainstream media. 1.00

00:16:41.340 Yeah, just, um, parasites. 0.99

00:16:44.380 Chances. 0.97

00:16:45.080 Fifth columnists.

00:16:45.960 Well, I mean, what you're pointing to is that

00:16:48.620 these are essentially acting as a large advertisement

00:16:50.880 to the populations of these countries

00:16:53.080 who may want to go out and act as mercenaries

00:16:57.260 to make money elsewhere and then send the money back home

00:17:00.020 or just, you know, involve themselves in criminal trade,

00:17:02.660 which is what they would be doing

00:17:03.700 if the first thing they're thinking about doing

00:17:05.500 is taking a boat over here

00:17:07.820 instead of going through the legal routes.

00:17:09.820 Yeah, and, of course, if you...

00:17:11.840 If a media outlet is reporting on this, you know,

00:17:14.500 with data collection as it is,

00:17:16.360 they don't...

00:17:16.920 They know now which articles gain the most interest.

00:17:19.880 And so the fact these outlets are running these stories

00:17:23.420 suggests that there is interest in the home countries about this.

00:17:26.660 And I don't think the average Sudanese person

00:17:28.740 is going to be reading about this saying

00:17:30.440 how terrible that all of these people like me

00:17:33.280 are breaking into a country more rich

00:17:35.040 and finding, you know, that they're better off.

00:17:38.200 They're not going to be saying that.

00:17:39.680 Not in a million years.

00:17:40.700 They're going to be looking at these sorts of stories

00:17:42.860 and thinking, oh, wow, I could do this too.

00:17:45.520 That's why they exist.

00:17:46.980 And I think it's worth drawing attention to it.

00:17:49.320 And a little tidbit before I finish as well

00:17:51.340 is that I think the discourse on immigration

00:17:55.420 has shifted a lot in the UK and Europe

00:17:58.540 in the past year or so, really.

00:18:01.260 It's shifted quite rapidly as well.

00:18:03.580 And I think this can be best illustrated by this article.

00:18:07.300 So there was recently released some official files

00:18:10.000 that talked about how Tony Blair dealt with migration.

00:18:13.480 And here's The Independent, which is left-leaning.

00:18:15.920 And I'm just going to read a little bit from the start

00:18:18.680 because their framing is very, very different

00:18:22.180 than it would be a couple of years ago.

00:18:24.220 It says,

00:18:24.460 Tony Blair's government pressed ahead with plans

00:18:26.960 to grant unrestricted access to the UK

00:18:29.120 for workers from Eastern Europe,

00:18:31.240 despite mounting concerns among senior ministers,

00:18:33.680 according to newly released official files.

00:18:36.100 Papers released at the National Archives in Kew, West London,

00:18:38.900 have revealed how Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott

00:18:41.140 and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw both urged delay warning

00:18:44.560 of a surge in immigration unless some controls were put in place.

00:18:48.180 The move was widely seen as having contributed

00:18:49.940 to a major increase in immigration in the years that followed,

00:18:53.060 with successive governments struggling

00:18:54.500 to get the numbers back under control.

00:18:56.180 It is feared to have helped fuel the anti-EU sentiment

00:18:58.800 which culminated in the 2016 Brexit vote.

00:19:02.240 And so they are sort of tracing the lineage

00:19:05.200 in a bit more of an accurate way

00:19:07.080 because I think although Thatcher could, 0.93

00:19:10.680 in some way, be held culpable to a certain degree,

00:19:13.420 I think Tony Blair was the one that opened the floodgates.

00:19:15.880 And they've correctly identified it stemming with him

00:19:18.740 and him personally.

00:19:21.300 And it's interesting here that they're framing it

00:19:24.060 as a negative thing,

00:19:25.080 even though this is talking about Eastern Europeans,

00:19:27.220 which I think most of us have no issue with really.

00:19:30.900 And I think it's particularly Polish people who came here.

00:19:34.200 And I still don't want them coming over in huge numbers.

00:19:36.660 Of course not.

00:19:37.440 But Polish people are very different than Pakistanis. 0.54

00:19:40.960 My experience of Polish people is they integrate very well,

00:19:43.900 they're very polite, they do a good job.

00:19:46.520 Maybe that's just the Polish people I've come across. 0.98

00:19:48.360 I have a different experience with Polish people.

00:19:50.620 Maybe they're different up north.

00:19:52.100 Probably.

00:19:52.960 They're better able to integrate than others,

00:19:55.660 but they do still form their own ethnic enclaves.

00:19:58.440 For instance, a lot of the corner shops in my town

00:20:00.800 that are not owned by Indians are owned by Poles 0.99

00:20:04.300 who explicitly brand themselves as Polish shops

00:20:06.620 selling Polish products for Polish people.

00:20:09.200 So they do still have that problem

00:20:11.100 of separating themselves from the native population 0.69

00:20:13.620 when they're in great enough numbers are not integrating.

00:20:16.480 That's true.

00:20:17.260 I mean, there is a reason that a lot of people,

00:20:20.640 especially where I'm from,

00:20:21.980 had a lot of problems with Poles leading up to Brexit.

00:20:25.560 Obviously, those problems have been sidelined now

00:20:28.020 due to mass third world immigration, 0.82

00:20:29.980 which wasn't as much of a problem before the Boris wave.

00:20:32.580 But I don't think it's right to say

00:20:34.760 that there's still no problems with it.

00:20:36.440 Yeah, I agree with that.

00:20:37.680 I just think the scale of the problem now

00:20:40.300 are in the midst of Africans and Southeast Asia. 0.95

00:20:44.680 Well, basically, you know, subcontinentals and sub-Saharans.

00:20:48.240 The Polish people that I've met I liked.

00:20:50.960 It's just that a lot of them have been scrounging off of the dole

00:20:54.020 and a lot of my family,

00:20:56.220 well, some of my family friends have worked for the Home Office

00:20:59.800 tracking down lots of benefits cheats

00:21:01.640 who tended to be Poles. 0.85

00:21:03.300 That's what Eastern Europeans are pretty bad for. 1.00

00:21:05.900 But my point being, not that, you know,

00:21:07.760 I want lots of immigration.

00:21:10.040 I want no immigration whatsoever. 1.00

00:21:12.280 And in fact, I want to send lots of people home.

00:21:14.320 And my point being is that

00:21:16.240 if the discourse has got to the point where

00:21:18.080 Eastern Europeans who cause far less problems 1.00

00:21:20.840 than our more recent arrivals

00:21:22.700 are being discussed in this way,

00:21:24.260 then the discourse has come a long way

00:21:26.800 because beforehand it'd be like,

00:21:28.640 they're brilliant, they're helping the country,

00:21:30.640 they can't do any wrong.

00:21:31.600 Now there's a sort of accusatory tone of

00:21:34.000 look at what you've done.

00:21:36.460 Yeah, your average Pole is less of a worry

00:21:38.980 than your average Somali, let's say.

00:21:42.100 It's not even comparable, is it?

00:21:43.980 But there's absolutely no reason to have

00:21:46.040 hundreds of thousands or a million Poles in Britain.

00:21:48.820 There's no need for that.

00:21:50.420 That's crazy.

00:21:51.560 Well, the Poles aren't going to come here anymore anyway 1.00

00:21:53.480 because Poland's now nicer than Britain.

00:21:56.260 Right, yeah.

00:21:56.960 So if anything, we're going to be going over there

00:21:58.800 and doing their electrical work and taxi driving.

00:22:02.340 It's funny that places like Albania,

00:22:06.120 Albania's in terms of scenery,

00:22:09.860 is way nicer than Britain.

00:22:11.620 You're thinking as a British tourist now, aren't you?

00:22:14.540 I don't know, I'm thinking back to the Top Gear episode

00:22:16.840 where they went to Albania and it looked horrible.

00:22:20.080 Oh, really?

00:22:20.680 Obviously the scenery looked nice

00:22:22.160 but the actual civilisation there did not look very nice.

00:22:24.600 Just go to Greece.

00:22:25.920 Yeah, you've got Greece on one side

00:22:27.840 and I think you've got, is it Montenegro on the other?

00:22:30.220 I'm off the top of my head.

00:22:32.040 But you've got lots of nice countries in the Adriatic there

00:22:34.600 that you could pick from.

00:22:35.320 But anyway, my point being that

00:22:37.680 there's a lot of contextualisation required

00:22:40.360 from the illegal migration statistics

00:22:42.720 but you can infer a lot from them

00:22:44.680 and once you understand the statistics

00:22:46.260 you can go out and look into the world

00:22:48.360 look at who's talking about these things

00:22:51.160 and you can actually learn quite a lot

00:22:53.300 about the nature of the problem

00:22:54.980 simply by who is interested in it

00:22:57.100 and that is my lesson for this segment.

00:23:00.460 Okay, we've got some rumble chats here.

00:23:04.700 So, unfortunately we have another government

00:23:06.640 that will not do anything to stop illegal immigration

00:23:08.980 no tariffs or removing foreign aid to use as persuasion

00:23:11.780 nothing at all.

00:23:12.840 I know.

00:23:13.320 They won't do as much as we would like

00:23:15.780 to stop illegal immigration 0.90

00:23:16.980 but they are going to try to make it look like

00:23:19.120 they are doing

00:23:19.720 and they are going to deport people

00:23:20.980 as they have been doing

00:23:21.880 not because of the fact that

00:23:23.540 they desperately want to preserve

00:23:25.320 the integrity of this country

00:23:26.640 more that, well, the levers of power

00:23:30.360 are already owned by Labour

00:23:31.920 which is one of the reasons that

00:23:33.700 even Tories who did want to do something 0.99

00:23:35.720 obviously they were useless and weak 0.99

00:23:37.520 and didn't actually want to do something 0.99

00:23:38.820 but when they tried to do something

00:23:40.400 the civil service blocked them at every step.

00:23:42.660 With Labour back in place

00:23:45.220 the civil service already belongs to them

00:23:47.740 so if they say

00:23:48.320 oh, we're going to need to deport a few thousand people 0.69

00:23:50.480 so it looks like we're actually doing something

00:23:52.140 they'll actually do it

00:23:52.980 because they already believe in Labour.

00:23:54.520 That's true.

00:23:55.560 I just, I always thought it was a bad take

00:23:58.440 when some people were saying

00:24:00.300 that Starmer would actually do something about this.

00:24:03.620 Sure, they've deported a few more than the Tories were

00:24:05.700 but we're still being absolutely flooded.

00:24:08.660 Yeah, yeah.

00:24:09.200 The idea that Keir Starmer will

00:24:10.680 in order to get re-elected

00:24:14.520 forever, he will actually be strong on borders.

00:24:18.520 It's like, no.

00:24:19.200 It's like squirting a water pistol at a house fire, isn't it?

00:24:22.080 He's not going to do anything in the grand scheme of things.

00:24:23.980 He'll present like he's being strong on borders

00:24:27.040 but that's not the same as actually doing

00:24:29.360 what we need to happen.

00:24:32.260 So that's a random name says

00:24:33.280 just wanted to say happy new year

00:24:34.700 happy new year to you

00:24:35.920 and missed yesterday's stream

00:24:37.980 but loved Harry's expression

00:24:39.300 I 100% agree with you Harry

00:24:40.960 words are wind

00:24:42.380 what Elon is doing is cute

00:24:44.180 but I want to see actions

00:24:45.280 and what I can't say.

00:24:47.200 Well, that's actually a perfect segue

00:24:49.440 into my segment

00:24:51.240 because there is a lot of Elon praise

00:24:55.960 that goes on on this podcast.

00:24:57.560 Elon has done, you know,

00:24:58.720 quite a few good things

00:24:59.980 that I have to be very thankful to him for

00:25:03.740 but at the same time

00:25:04.980 I am nothing if not very sceptical

00:25:07.140 and cynical in my outlook on the world

00:25:09.560 and have to apply that same cynicism

00:25:11.620 and scepticism to Elon Musk

00:25:13.580 after he had an enormous

00:25:15.620 and terrible outburst

00:25:17.620 last week

00:25:18.880 on Christmas Day no less

00:25:20.820 that showed that

00:25:21.960 I do not think he is our friend

00:25:23.720 in the long run

00:25:24.720 I do not think that his long-term goals

00:25:26.900 align with ours

00:25:28.120 I think he is a globalist

00:25:30.560 at the end of the day

00:25:31.760 who wants to see America

00:25:33.560 he said this explicitly

00:25:34.700 as a sports team

00:25:36.280 with which he can hire

00:25:37.700 any talent from anywhere in the world

00:25:40.760 to reach his own goals

00:25:42.960 I do not see him as

00:25:44.640 as being our friend

00:25:46.540 in that way

00:25:47.280 and I will go over

00:25:48.680 all of the evidence for that

00:25:50.180 and I have quite a lot

00:25:51.080 so I will try not to take up

00:25:52.460 too much time

00:25:53.420 but just to say

00:25:54.820 that this all kick-started

00:25:56.360 from what I can tell

00:25:57.280 over this

00:25:59.140 so this man

00:26:00.520 is Sriram Krishnan

00:26:03.680 who has been appointed

00:26:05.680 as Donald Trump's new

00:26:07.540 AI advisor

00:26:09.220 coming into his next term

00:26:11.600 as president

00:26:12.280 and a lot of people

00:26:13.720 saw this

00:26:14.480 and had issues

00:26:15.900 obviously I think

00:26:17.240 that this post

00:26:17.920 is over-egging it a little bit

00:26:19.640 because it says

00:26:20.100 did any of y'all vote

00:26:21.300 for this Indian

00:26:21.920 to run America

00:26:22.640 he's only an AI advisor

00:26:24.320 so he's not going to be

00:26:25.220 running America

00:26:26.400 but a lot of people

00:26:27.520 have noticed

00:26:28.260 that a lot of

00:26:29.140 Donald Trump's picks

00:26:30.320 outside of the immediate ones

00:26:33.380 regarding illegal immigration

00:26:35.080 like Tom Homan

00:26:35.960 who's going to shut down

00:26:36.740 the borders and all this

00:26:37.580 are very very in favour

00:26:40.280 of opening the floodgates

00:26:41.760 to more legal migration

00:26:44.020 and we always talk about this

00:26:45.500 how illegal immigration

00:26:46.540 is everything that the press

00:26:47.800 wants you to think about

00:26:48.800 everything that the media

00:26:49.720 wants you to focus on

00:26:51.280 because where the real numbers

00:26:52.900 tend to be coming from 0.99

00:26:54.000 is legal migration

00:26:56.260 and they treat it as if

00:26:57.900 there's some qualitative difference

00:26:59.600 and there can be

00:27:00.920 sometimes

00:27:01.520 between the quality of people

00:27:03.060 coming in illegally

00:27:04.100 and coming in legally

00:27:05.680 but I make the argument

00:27:07.260 that if the same person

00:27:09.340 comes in illegally

00:27:10.620 gets deported

00:27:11.900 and then comes back in legally

00:27:13.740 guess what

00:27:14.680 they're still the same person

00:27:16.060 nothing about them

00:27:17.220 qualitatively has changed

00:27:18.880 and so there's still going to be

00:27:20.660 a negative

00:27:21.420 coming into your society

00:27:22.920 and on a broader level

00:27:24.200 a nation cannot survive

00:27:26.060 if its entire population

00:27:27.740 is swamped by foreigners 1.00

00:27:29.560 that will fundamentally

00:27:30.700 change the character

00:27:32.080 of the nation

00:27:32.820 and so a lot of people

00:27:34.340 were very upset about this

00:27:36.320 and just to give a bit more

00:27:37.540 background

00:27:37.960 so he himself

00:27:39.340 came to the US

00:27:40.720 from India in 2007

00:27:42.340 and became a US citizen

00:27:44.160 in 2016

00:27:45.060 Indian tech workers

00:27:46.780 initially praised

00:27:47.840 his appointment

00:27:48.420 but have grown concerned

00:27:50.040 by MAGA criticism

00:27:51.440 because most of the criticism

00:27:52.500 has been coming from

00:27:53.440 the MAGA base

00:27:54.880 who see the problems

00:27:56.720 with legal as well

00:27:57.900 as illegal migration

00:27:58.960 and say

00:27:59.420 well I don't care

00:28:01.000 if they're coming in

00:28:02.120 legally

00:28:02.880 I don't want them

00:28:04.280 coming in

00:28:04.920 at all

00:28:05.760 if I'm going to be

00:28:06.660 replaced

00:28:07.380 then just by saying

00:28:09.640 oh well it's legal

00:28:10.600 so therefore it's fine

00:28:11.500 is like saying

00:28:12.400 well it's legal

00:28:13.520 to break into your house

00:28:14.760 now

00:28:15.000 so it's fine

00:28:15.660 that we stole

00:28:16.180 all your stuff

00:28:16.880 yeah

00:28:17.560 legal justifications

00:28:19.820 are not moral

00:28:20.460 justifications

00:28:21.220 are they

00:28:21.720 and I think

00:28:22.560 that people

00:28:23.160 are right

00:28:23.760 to be concerned

00:28:24.440 about this

00:28:24.880 and I think

00:28:25.260 that I'm a bit

00:28:26.780 worried about

00:28:27.620 Trump's

00:28:28.620 allegiance

00:28:29.960 to the

00:28:30.980 techno-globalist

00:28:32.020 faction

00:28:32.400 they helped

00:28:33.160 put Trump

00:28:33.980 in power

00:28:34.520 pretty explicitly

00:28:36.320 yeah

00:28:36.900 they all

00:28:37.460 suddenly aligned

00:28:38.580 with him

00:28:39.040 and a lot of

00:28:39.900 people saw this

00:28:40.800 as the

00:28:41.460 tech bros

00:28:42.520 have come over

00:28:43.240 to MAGA

00:28:43.880 I see it more

00:28:45.260 as an alignment

00:28:45.800 of MAGA

00:28:46.300 with the tech bros

00:28:47.420 yeah

00:28:48.000 because at the end

00:28:48.860 of the day

00:28:49.420 politics is decided

00:28:51.820 by capital

00:28:52.560 not capital

00:28:53.340 by politics

00:28:54.220 and

00:28:55.120 it's the money

00:28:56.500 that's going to

00:28:57.160 decide which direction

00:28:58.420 politics goes

00:28:59.320 because that's the way

00:29:00.180 it's gone

00:29:01.580 in Europe

00:29:03.680 and North America

00:29:04.500 for time immemorial

00:29:06.840 at this point

00:29:07.520 yeah so this article

00:29:09.160 quotes somebody

00:29:09.920 called Anuj

00:29:10.900 Christian

00:29:11.520 who is an Indian

00:29:13.440 who's trying to go

00:29:14.160 through the visa

00:29:14.820 system in America

00:29:15.680 so that he can get

00:29:16.640 his green card

00:29:17.440 and he says that

00:29:18.820 Christian's appointment

00:29:19.820 felt personal

00:29:20.640 because quote

00:29:21.360 he has personally

00:29:22.400 been through the

00:29:23.200 immigration system

00:29:24.400 someone who has

00:29:25.620 personally been

00:29:26.240 through this issue

00:29:27.040 is close to the

00:29:28.180 president now

00:29:28.920 that's never

00:29:29.660 happened before

00:29:30.380 would it shock you

00:29:31.280 if I told you

00:29:31.800 that this Anuj

00:29:32.460 Christian also

00:29:33.500 runs an immigration

00:29:34.680 advocacy group

00:29:35.760 called FAIR

00:29:36.560 so immigrant

00:29:38.140 sees another

00:29:39.400 immigrant get 0.84

00:29:40.260 close to the

00:29:41.620 to the president

00:29:42.640 this immigrant

00:29:43.720 runs a group

00:29:45.120 that says you

00:29:45.640 need more immigrants 0.69

00:29:46.540 and says this is

00:29:47.680 good for me

00:29:48.500 and my group

00:29:50.260 not good for

00:29:51.580 America

00:29:52.000 that's not what

00:29:53.260 he's thinking about

00:29:54.100 it's good for

00:29:55.200 my group

00:29:56.300 because more

00:29:57.000 people like me

00:29:58.140 can come over

00:29:58.880 and take

00:29:59.480 advantage of

00:30:00.020 the system

00:30:00.480 well this

00:30:01.100 this is something

00:30:01.740 that we've seen

00:30:02.740 lots of examples

00:30:03.600 of where that

00:30:04.300 you get one

00:30:04.920 Indian and then

00:30:06.080 all of a sudden

00:30:06.720 overnight everyone's

00:30:08.260 Indian

00:30:08.580 and this has

00:30:09.640 happened with a

00:30:10.280 number of tech

00:30:11.440 companies themselves

00:30:12.260 I forget the name

00:30:13.360 and Swindon

00:30:14.280 and Swindon

00:30:15.200 yes

00:30:15.380 where we're based

00:30:16.480 but one tech

00:30:17.700 company whose name

00:30:18.540 I cannot recall

00:30:19.380 I should have

00:30:19.860 looked it up

00:30:20.700 appointed an

00:30:22.020 Indian CEO

00:30:22.820 who then

00:30:23.440 immediately over

00:30:24.440 Zoom fired all

00:30:25.840 of the American

00:30:26.520 workers and replaced

00:30:27.520 them with overseas

00:30:28.720 Indian workers

00:30:29.520 this is just a

00:30:31.400 repeated pattern

00:30:32.160 that we can see

00:30:33.200 over and over

00:30:34.240 and over again

00:30:35.060 and Krishnan

00:30:35.900 is going to be

00:30:36.820 no different

00:30:37.380 because it says

00:30:37.880 here

00:30:38.060 his appointment

00:30:38.900 has a unique

00:30:39.540 resonance for

00:30:40.140 those who've

00:30:40.460 gone through

00:30:40.720 the system

00:30:41.120 he's spoken

00:30:41.900 openly about

00:30:42.600 the challenges

00:30:43.080 of navigating

00:30:43.760 US immigration

00:30:44.580 and has advocated

00:30:45.940 for raising

00:30:46.660 the country

00:30:47.340 based green

00:30:48.200 card caps

00:30:49.120 these calls

00:30:50.060 for change

00:30:50.500 have been

00:30:50.920 a recurring

00:30:51.480 theme of

00:30:52.120 the Arthi 0.94

00:30:52.760 and Shriram

00:30:53.400 show

00:30:53.740 a podcast

00:30:54.440 he hosts

00:30:55.040 with his

00:30:55.380 tech

00:30:55.600 entrepreneur

00:30:56.060 wife

00:30:56.600 so

00:30:57.660 this guy

00:30:58.700 has been

00:30:58.920 appointed

00:30:59.340 and he

00:31:00.460 is going

00:31:00.780 to be

00:31:00.920 close to

00:31:01.320 Trump

00:31:01.660 and presumably

00:31:02.660 along with

00:31:03.500 all of the

00:31:03.940 other stuff

00:31:04.400 that he

00:31:04.620 talks about

00:31:05.120 he's going

00:31:05.460 to say

00:31:05.680 well you

00:31:06.140 know who's

00:31:06.420 great at

00:31:06.720 AI

00:31:07.080 Indians

00:31:08.020 but we've

00:31:09.320 got this

00:31:09.620 cap on

00:31:10.280 Indian

00:31:10.540 migration

00:31:11.060 so maybe

00:31:11.940 if we want

00:31:12.380 to win

00:31:13.160 whatever that

00:31:14.440 means in

00:31:14.900 this context

00:31:15.540 winning on

00:31:16.140 the global

00:31:16.880 America's

00:31:17.520 already the

00:31:17.900 global

00:31:18.180 hegemon

00:31:18.600 China is a 1.00

00:31:19.540 paper tiger

00:31:20.140 but they

00:31:20.500 always infer it

00:31:21.260 so that you

00:31:21.660 can think

00:31:22.020 that oh

00:31:22.540 China might 0.71

00:31:23.080 win

00:31:23.420 oh China 0.99

00:31:24.240 might have

00:31:24.680 higher market

00:31:25.280 caps than

00:31:25.780 we will

00:31:26.120 and then

00:31:26.420 America will 0.92

00:31:28.480 sink 0.52

00:31:28.900 if China 0.99

00:31:30.720 has a higher

00:31:31.400 GDP than

00:31:32.060 America

00:31:32.440 America will 0.92

00:31:33.080 literally sink

00:31:33.720 into the

00:31:34.060 ocean

00:31:34.360 that's what

00:31:35.260 happens

00:31:35.620 right

00:31:35.820 that's what

00:31:36.660 global

00:31:37.420 warfare looks

00:31:38.460 like now

00:31:39.060 who has

00:31:39.780 the biggest

00:31:40.100 GDP

00:31:40.640 whoever

00:31:41.240 doesn't

00:31:41.700 sinks like 1.00

00:31:42.260 it's

00:31:42.540 battleship

00:31:43.400 or something

00:31:43.900 it's also

00:31:44.340 worth mentioning

00:31:44.860 as well

00:31:45.180 that China 0.93

00:31:45.660 has a

00:31:47.100 significantly

00:31:47.720 larger

00:31:48.320 population

00:31:48.920 which is

00:31:49.400 not an

00:31:49.720 advantage

00:31:50.120 it is a

00:31:50.740 disadvantage

00:31:51.160 for China

00:31:52.000 because

00:31:52.740 the average

00:31:53.660 American

00:31:54.040 has a lot

00:31:54.920 more disposable

00:31:55.500 income to

00:31:56.120 invest in

00:31:57.220 business

00:31:57.940 ventures

00:31:58.500 than the

00:31:59.420 average

00:31:59.620 Chinese

00:31:59.960 person

00:32:00.400 so either

00:32:01.480 way I think

00:32:02.060 it's perfectly

00:32:02.620 reasonable that

00:32:03.300 people are

00:32:03.800 worried that

00:32:04.360 they see this

00:32:04.860 guy come in

00:32:05.560 and they go

00:32:06.120 well he

00:32:06.920 alongside a few

00:32:07.820 of the other

00:32:08.320 people that

00:32:08.920 he's appointed

00:32:09.860 even Elon

00:32:11.140 is going to be

00:32:12.040 saying we need

00:32:13.080 more immigrants

00:32:14.220 and America's

00:32:15.220 immigration situation

00:32:16.180 is interesting

00:32:16.800 the globalists

00:32:17.620 just are not

00:32:18.240 going to stop

00:32:18.740 are they

00:32:19.080 no of course

00:32:19.780 not

00:32:20.000 they will

00:32:20.420 not stop

00:32:21.000 until it

00:32:21.480 comes to

00:32:22.040 blood and

00:32:22.900 misery and

00:32:23.440 tears

00:32:23.820 well I don't

00:32:25.900 think they

00:32:26.340 see it that

00:32:26.980 way but

00:32:27.560 going to

00:32:28.680 American

00:32:29.120 immigration

00:32:29.840 figures on

00:32:30.400 the legal

00:32:30.800 side of it

00:32:31.360 so in

00:32:31.720 2023

00:32:32.380 you can see

00:32:33.700 that there

00:32:34.000 was already

00:32:34.540 what was that

00:32:35.160 about

00:32:35.540 1,172,000

00:32:38.520 people come in

00:32:39.820 and these are

00:32:40.380 legal permanent

00:32:41.660 residents

00:32:42.240 now that's

00:32:43.220 actually not

00:32:46.060 that big a

00:32:46.940 number when

00:32:47.800 compared to

00:32:48.580 the UK

00:32:49.260 because the

00:32:49.780 UK has

00:32:50.620 similar figures

00:32:51.920 for people

00:32:52.580 coming in

00:32:53.060 not net but 0.70

00:32:53.880 gross and

00:32:54.880 we're a much

00:32:55.280 much smaller

00:32:55.760 country and

00:32:57.220 America's much

00:32:57.720 bigger they can

00:32:58.260 take more

00:32:58.580 people but I

00:32:59.360 think it's

00:32:59.600 important to

00:33:00.000 keep in mind

00:33:00.400 that's still a

00:33:01.120 huge number

00:33:01.880 that is still

00:33:03.060 an absurdly

00:33:04.840 large number

00:33:06.100 of people

00:33:06.860 coming into

00:33:07.540 the US

00:33:07.920 every year

00:33:08.320 and you can

00:33:08.640 look back

00:33:09.420 and go well

00:33:09.880 yeah but

00:33:10.220 American

00:33:10.620 immigration

00:33:11.100 has always

00:33:11.600 been pretty

00:33:12.500 high because

00:33:13.140 it was the

00:33:13.540 new world

00:33:13.980 where people

00:33:14.380 wanted to

00:33:14.880 go to in

00:33:15.300 the first

00:33:15.560 place but

00:33:16.100 the fact is

00:33:16.720 that all

00:33:17.760 of these

00:33:18.420 spikes depending 0.72

00:33:20.420 on where those

00:33:21.040 immigrants come

00:33:21.640 from constitute

00:33:22.640 a change in

00:33:23.660 the American

00:33:24.200 character people

00:33:25.300 have noted that

00:33:26.060 the various

00:33:26.840 ethnicities that

00:33:27.800 have come to

00:33:28.240 America over 0.86

00:33:28.980 the centuries

00:33:29.560 have always

00:33:30.660 brought their

00:33:31.160 own culture

00:33:31.740 and always

00:33:32.240 brought a

00:33:32.600 change to

00:33:33.400 America but

00:33:34.820 previously they

00:33:36.420 were mostly

00:33:36.880 from European

00:33:37.620 backgrounds but

00:33:38.480 even in the

00:33:39.080 early 20th

00:33:39.680 century when

00:33:40.500 you had massive

00:33:41.200 numbers of

00:33:42.460 Jews and

00:33:43.980 Italians 0.69

00:33:44.660 mostly from

00:33:46.100 eastern parts

00:33:47.880 of Europe

00:33:48.380 that were

00:33:48.720 very very

00:33:49.120 socialistic

00:33:50.020 flooding through

00:33:51.180 into places

00:33:51.680 like New

00:33:52.160 York that

00:33:53.180 massively changed

00:33:54.200 the character

00:33:54.760 of those cities

00:33:56.180 at a point

00:33:56.900 where the

00:33:57.180 people who

00:33:57.560 had previously

00:33:58.240 occupied them

00:33:59.180 did not like

00:34:00.220 that's just a

00:34:01.500 fact this is

00:34:02.140 what always

00:34:02.880 happens it will

00:34:03.440 always change

00:34:04.120 the character

00:34:04.840 of your country

00:34:05.520 obviously you

00:34:06.240 had the

00:34:06.720 immigration

00:34:07.700 restrictions

00:34:08.300 for a long

00:34:08.900 time up until

00:34:09.580 1965 and

00:34:10.620 then it starts

00:34:11.000 to go back

00:34:11.440 up again

00:34:11.840 then you

00:34:12.400 start to get

00:34:12.820 more and more

00:34:13.500 third world

00:34:14.140 immigrants coming 0.86

00:34:14.940 into the country

00:34:15.460 more and more

00:34:15.860 Mexicans

00:34:16.280 but still

00:34:17.700 this is still

00:34:19.200 huge numbers

00:34:20.320 and what does

00:34:21.420 Elon want

00:34:22.160 he wants more

00:34:23.760 and he's been

00:34:24.360 going on about

00:34:24.960 this for a

00:34:25.920 long time

00:34:26.680 this is as

00:34:27.700 recent as

00:34:28.200 December 12th

00:34:29.080 legal immigration

00:34:29.700 of talented

00:34:30.300 hard-working

00:34:30.880 and honest

00:34:31.260 people will be

00:34:32.120 expedited in

00:34:33.440 this administration

00:34:34.300 going back to

00:34:35.580 June

00:34:36.120 I'm in favour

00:34:37.020 of greatly

00:34:37.660 expediting

00:34:38.440 legal immigration

00:34:39.180 we're going

00:34:39.520 to sort out

00:34:40.000 the illegal

00:34:40.460 borders but

00:34:41.100 we're going

00:34:41.340 to make it

00:34:41.820 so there's

00:34:42.280 much bigger

00:34:42.900 numbers of

00:34:43.480 legal immigrants

00:34:44.160 coming into

00:34:44.620 the US

00:34:45.100 going back

00:34:46.080 to March

00:34:46.960 I think it's

00:34:48.220 good actually

00:34:48.800 to increase

00:34:49.620 legal immigration

00:34:50.520 with a simple

00:34:51.620 requirement like

00:34:52.320 hard-working and

00:34:53.140 high integrity

00:34:53.900 let them in

00:34:55.040 and then you

00:34:55.940 can go back

00:34:56.560 even further

00:34:57.160 than that

00:34:57.400 this is going

00:34:57.860 back to 2023

00:34:58.720 it's trivial to

00:34:59.820 enter the United

00:35:00.340 States illegally

00:35:00.900 it's insanely

00:35:01.660 difficult for

00:35:02.440 legal immigrants

00:35:03.100 to move to

00:35:03.680 the US

00:35:04.140 this is madness

00:35:05.120 we should greatly

00:35:06.000 increase legal

00:35:06.860 immigration

00:35:07.460 we should greatly

00:35:08.440 increase legal

00:35:09.180 immigration

00:35:09.600 I think we

00:35:10.200 should significantly

00:35:10.940 increase legal

00:35:11.960 immigration

00:35:12.340 this has been

00:35:13.320 a repeating

00:35:14.100 pattern of

00:35:15.180 things that he

00:35:15.800 has said

00:35:16.200 over and over

00:35:17.420 and over again

00:35:18.180 and I do not

00:35:19.160 think that

00:35:20.020 if you

00:35:20.940 just because of

00:35:21.700 the fact that

00:35:22.100 you are a rich

00:35:22.820 billionaire

00:35:23.300 who runs a

00:35:24.280 tech company

00:35:24.980 means that you

00:35:25.760 should have

00:35:26.100 anything to do

00:35:27.580 with the legal

00:35:28.620 immigration policy

00:35:29.820 of the country

00:35:31.000 that you occupy

00:35:31.820 because guess what

00:35:32.720 your priorities

00:35:34.020 are not going

00:35:34.740 to be the same

00:35:35.380 as the nation's

00:35:36.480 priorities as a

00:35:37.220 whole especially

00:35:38.120 when it comes to

00:35:38.700 the MAGA base

00:35:39.440 one of the

00:35:40.060 promises of MAGA

00:35:40.960 back in 2016

00:35:42.700 was that they

00:35:44.060 were going to

00:35:44.740 save American

00:35:46.200 jobs

00:35:46.740 there'd been so

00:35:47.220 much offshoring

00:35:48.060 and so much

00:35:48.560 extra foreign

00:35:49.380 labour coming

00:35:49.960 to the country

00:35:50.420 to undercut

00:35:51.020 wages

00:35:51.500 that people

00:35:52.600 were sick

00:35:53.100 of it

00:35:53.340 they saw the

00:35:53.820 white working

00:35:54.420 classes having

00:35:55.020 been left

00:35:55.440 behind and

00:35:55.860 abandoned

00:35:56.260 this seems

00:35:57.520 like that

00:35:58.180 same betrayal

00:35:59.200 all over again

00:36:00.920 because I do

00:36:01.860 not think

00:36:02.560 that Elon Musk

00:36:03.560 is doing it

00:36:04.300 for the sake

00:36:05.240 of some kind

00:36:06.040 of great

00:36:06.680 innovation

00:36:07.360 that Americans

00:36:08.560 will be able

00:36:09.260 to have as a

00:36:09.960 result of this

00:36:10.400 I think he's

00:36:10.860 doing it for

00:36:11.340 labour

00:36:11.640 for cheap

00:36:12.320 labour costs

00:36:13.040 as soon as

00:36:14.080 this whole

00:36:14.460 controversy

00:36:15.100 around Trump's

00:36:15.840 new pick

00:36:16.560 came out

00:36:17.380 you had

00:36:17.900 the sycophants

00:36:19.300 Elon Musk's

00:36:21.560 favourite sycophants

00:36:22.860 come out like

00:36:23.940 Mario Narfel

00:36:25.180 coming out saying

00:36:26.340 highly skilled

00:36:27.320 immigrants

00:36:27.860 supercharge

00:36:28.820 US innovation

00:36:29.780 slop siren

00:36:30.740 bold

00:36:31.280 full capital

00:36:32.480 letters

00:36:32.920 a new study

00:36:33.940 found they

00:36:34.340 deliver a

00:36:34.840 staggering

00:36:35.160 23% of

00:36:36.900 US

00:36:37.420 innovation

00:36:38.240 output

00:36:38.940 innovation

00:36:39.940 output

00:36:40.580 dominating

00:36:41.200 patents

00:36:41.680 value

00:36:42.180 and global

00:36:43.220 impact

00:36:43.680 I mean

00:36:43.960 I will say

00:36:45.020 not all

00:36:45.740 patents

00:36:46.180 are equally

00:36:47.440 of value

00:36:48.220 not all

00:36:48.820 innovation

00:36:49.460 is of

00:36:50.520 equal value

00:36:51.400 so I

00:36:51.720 recently

00:36:52.040 re-watched

00:36:52.780 Better Call

00:36:54.580 Saul

00:36:54.880 the first

00:36:55.460 series

00:36:55.940 there's a

00:36:56.800 wonderful

00:36:57.120 scene

00:36:57.680 in one of

00:36:58.420 those episodes

00:36:59.000 where Saul

00:36:59.560 is trying to

00:37:00.780 sort patents

00:37:01.360 out for people

00:37:01.920 and some guy

00:37:02.320 calls him over

00:37:02.900 to his house

00:37:03.480 and he's like

00:37:04.260 I've created

00:37:04.900 the best toilet

00:37:05.900 for potty

00:37:06.480 training children

00:37:07.300 it talks to

00:37:08.340 them and

00:37:08.860 gives them

00:37:09.280 encouragement

00:37:09.920 when they

00:37:11.000 use it

00:37:12.480 to make them

00:37:13.480 want to use

00:37:14.000 the toilet

00:37:14.440 more

00:37:14.840 and it talks

00:37:15.860 in this big

00:37:16.360 exaggerated voice

00:37:17.260 and every time

00:37:18.020 he drops

00:37:18.420 something into

00:37:18.900 the toilet

00:37:19.220 he goes

00:37:19.440 ooh yeah

00:37:20.220 fill me up

00:37:21.460 give me that

00:37:22.720 and it's very

00:37:23.400 disturbing

00:37:24.160 that's innovation

00:37:25.500 that's quite

00:37:27.440 innovative

00:37:27.960 isn't it

00:37:28.660 so that's

00:37:29.280 just a good

00:37:29.640 thing

00:37:29.940 right

00:37:30.280 so that's

00:37:31.200 good

00:37:31.580 so just

00:37:32.320 overall

00:37:33.440 just innovative

00:37:34.300 output

00:37:34.860 it doesn't

00:37:35.420 delineate in

00:37:36.060 terms of where

00:37:36.720 these immigrants

00:37:37.240 are coming from

00:37:37.900 either in this

00:37:38.740 just immigrants 0.52

00:37:39.660 good

00:37:40.200 and here's

00:37:41.000 where it

00:37:41.280 goes even

00:37:41.740 better

00:37:42.160 where he

00:37:42.720 basically

00:37:43.000 just says

00:37:43.440 minorities

00:37:44.240 are better 1.00

00:37:45.400 than you

00:37:45.880 because look

00:37:47.480 at this graph

00:37:48.240 look at

00:37:48.700 lowly 0.99

00:37:49.620 disgusting 1.00

00:37:50.380 white 1.00

00:37:51.020 Americans 0.71

00:37:51.640 only having

00:37:52.680 a household

00:37:53.400 median

00:37:54.120 income

00:37:54.920 of

00:37:55.380 $69,000

00:37:56.840 whereas

00:37:58.700 Indians

00:37:59.640 well they

00:38:00.660 earn almost

00:38:01.220 double that

00:38:01.760 so they're

00:38:02.220 just better

00:38:02.580 than you

00:38:02.940 they're just

00:38:03.980 better than you

00:38:04.440 because they

00:38:04.700 earn more

00:38:05.220 than you

00:38:05.600 as households

00:38:06.660 go

00:38:07.080 maybe this is

00:38:08.260 because their

00:38:08.760 households tend to

00:38:09.480 be upwards of

00:38:09.980 eight people

00:38:10.560 but you never

00:38:11.720 know

00:38:12.000 yeah if you have

00:38:12.920 a larger

00:38:13.320 household

00:38:13.940 and also there

00:38:14.980 are more

00:38:15.360 selective

00:38:15.900 immigration

00:38:17.440 standards for

00:38:18.240 your population

00:38:19.040 because of course

00:38:20.040 India

00:38:20.420 1.4 billion

00:38:21.620 isn't it

00:38:22.000 last time I

00:38:22.540 checked

00:38:22.780 maybe it's

00:38:23.140 1.5 by now

00:38:24.120 maybe by the

00:38:24.980 end of this

00:38:25.280 podcast it'll

00:38:25.820 be 1.6

00:38:26.560 but yeah

00:38:27.980 it's just

00:38:29.320 looking at the

00:38:29.860 number at

00:38:30.380 face value

00:38:31.040 rather than

00:38:32.480 contextualizing it

00:38:33.640 in a way

00:38:34.140 that is actually

00:38:34.940 useful to make

00:38:35.880 judgments

00:38:36.300 if Indians are

00:38:37.600 so industrious

00:38:38.660 and clever

00:38:39.500 why is India 0.65

00:38:41.580 objectively a 0.99

00:38:43.500 shithole 0.99

00:38:44.100 and Taiwan 0.93

00:38:45.700 Taiwan as well

00:38:47.080 the Taiwanese

00:38:47.560 just better than

00:38:48.360 you

00:38:48.560 the Indonesians

00:38:49.780 Indonesia

00:38:50.360 that's

00:38:50.680 I'm even gonna

00:38:50.960 try to answer

00:38:51.660 my question

00:38:52.320 about India

00:38:52.960 well Indonesia

00:38:54.560 that's a lovely

00:38:55.220 country right

00:38:55.840 that's in the

00:38:56.740 lovely part of

00:38:57.220 the world

00:38:57.380 you want to

00:38:57.660 live there

00:38:58.120 so they must

00:38:59.080 just be better

00:38:59.500 than you 0.99

00:38:59.680 Pakistanis 0.80

00:39:00.560 Pakistanis 0.80

00:39:01.760 you want to

00:39:02.100 move to

00:39:02.420 Pakistan

00:39:02.840 don't you

00:39:03.360 because that's

00:39:03.680 such a wonderful

00:39:04.320 country

00:39:04.940 definitely less

00:39:05.840 inbred than

00:39:06.500 whites

00:39:06.780 definitely

00:39:08.260 if these highly

00:39:09.320 selective groups

00:39:10.840 of immigrants

00:39:11.600 in America

00:39:12.560 who've been

00:39:13.020 allowed in

00:39:13.580 earn more money

00:39:14.880 than you

00:39:15.480 in the nation

00:39:16.920 that means

00:39:17.420 they're just

00:39:17.700 better than you

00:39:18.380 perfect logic

00:39:20.820 makes sense

00:39:21.300 doesn't it

00:39:21.700 and so Elon

00:39:22.420 starts responding

00:39:23.180 to things

00:39:23.640 like this

00:39:24.180 where he's

00:39:25.060 like oh

00:39:25.420 we've got

00:39:26.220 a biggest

00:39:26.580 limitation

00:39:27.220 in Silicon

00:39:27.860 Valley

00:39:28.240 because I

00:39:28.600 care so

00:39:29.140 much about

00:39:29.620 the well-being

00:39:30.280 of Silicon

00:39:30.860 Valley's

00:39:31.420 bottom line

00:39:32.180 as opposed

00:39:32.680 to you

00:39:33.760 know

00:39:33.980 civilization

00:39:35.120 but Silicon

00:39:36.380 Valley is

00:39:36.920 civilization

00:39:37.360 it's the

00:39:37.880 ultimate

00:39:38.520 end point

00:39:39.140 of civilization

00:39:39.820 I completely

00:39:40.620 forgot

00:39:41.000 the US

00:39:41.820 semiconductor

00:39:42.420 industry

00:39:43.180 alone

00:39:43.560 needs over

00:39:44.300 160,000

00:39:45.820 engineers

00:39:46.420 by 2032

00:39:47.500 Elon responds

00:39:48.720 to that

00:39:48.920 saying

00:39:49.200 no

00:39:49.980 we need

00:39:50.580 double that

00:39:51.380 number

00:39:51.700 yesterday

00:39:52.140 so we

00:39:52.560 need

00:39:52.760 320,000

00:39:55.020 new

00:39:55.680 semiconductor

00:39:56.880 engineers

00:39:57.660 and I

00:39:57.920 suppose

00:39:58.180 all of

00:39:58.940 the world's

00:39:59.800 best engineers

00:40:00.420 that are

00:40:00.720 homegrown

00:40:01.100 Americans

00:40:01.560 you know

00:40:02.140 there's simply

00:40:03.020 not enough

00:40:03.460 of them

00:40:03.720 there's not

00:40:04.060 enough people

00:40:04.520 going through

00:40:05.020 education

00:40:05.920 there's not

00:40:06.300 enough

00:40:06.560 scholarships

00:40:07.100 being put

00:40:07.700 out

00:40:07.840 I mean

00:40:08.120 that's what

00:40:08.500 was normally

00:40:08.960 done

00:40:09.180 wasn't it

00:40:09.420 well I mean

00:40:09.540 that's what

00:40:09.880 he says here

00:40:10.600 the number

00:40:10.920 of people

00:40:11.300 who are

00:40:11.560 super talented

00:40:12.080 engineers

00:40:12.500 and super

00:40:13.380 motivated

00:40:13.860 in the USA

00:40:14.480 is far

00:40:15.340 too low

00:40:15.860 think of

00:40:16.820 this like

00:40:17.340 a pro

00:40:18.060 sports team

00:40:19.040 if you want

00:40:19.960 your team

00:40:20.800 to win

00:40:21.240 the championship

00:40:21.920 you need

00:40:22.640 to recruit

00:40:23.120 top talent

00:40:23.840 wherever they

00:40:24.400 may be

00:40:24.920 that enables

00:40:25.660 the whole

00:40:26.100 team to

00:40:26.700 win

00:40:26.900 because

00:40:27.080 America

00:40:27.520 it's not

00:40:28.080 a nation

00:40:28.680 it's not

00:40:29.600 an ethnos

00:40:30.300 it's not

00:40:30.780 a group

00:40:31.580 of people

00:40:32.140 connected

00:40:32.600 by shared

00:40:33.340 culture

00:40:33.840 and history

00:40:34.640 and

00:40:35.520 ethnic ties

00:40:37.960 or anything

00:40:38.260 like that

00:40:38.980 it's a sports

00:40:39.960 team

00:40:40.380 I can swap

00:40:41.500 you out

00:40:41.940 with anybody

00:40:42.620 if they're

00:40:43.120 more efficient

00:40:44.000 if they're

00:40:44.580 better for

00:40:45.060 the bottom

00:40:45.460 line

00:40:45.880 that's a 0.84

00:40:46.820 disgusting

00:40:47.440 view 0.97

00:40:47.960 of culture

00:40:48.860 in civilization

00:40:49.980 it's not even

00:40:51.320 true

00:40:51.800 that you know

00:40:52.600 if one person

00:40:54.020 succeeds

00:40:54.600 that everyone

00:40:55.600 benefits

00:40:56.240 that's not

00:40:57.020 that isn't

00:40:58.720 how an economy

00:40:59.240 works

00:40:59.540 the rising tide

00:41:00.240 doesn't lift

00:41:01.120 all boats

00:41:01.860 actually

00:41:02.380 if anything

00:41:03.480 the opposite

00:41:03.980 happens

00:41:04.640 we need

00:41:05.080 better AI

00:41:05.920 engineers

00:41:06.460 so we can

00:41:06.940 better

00:41:07.420 tailor our

00:41:08.680 algorithms

00:41:09.360 to activate

00:41:10.300 the dopamine

00:41:10.880 in your brain

00:41:11.860 so that you're

00:41:12.600 more addicted

00:41:13.220 to our tech

00:41:13.920 products

00:41:14.400 and that's

00:41:15.080 innovation

00:41:15.680 and that's

00:41:16.540 a good thing

00:41:17.260 and that's

00:41:17.660 why you can't

00:41:18.160 have a nation

00:41:18.640 anymore

00:41:19.080 sorry that's

00:41:20.740 why you just

00:41:21.140 can't have

00:41:21.580 nations or

00:41:22.240 countries anymore

00:41:23.060 because we need

00:41:24.220 more tech

00:41:25.320 engineers

00:41:25.900 does that make

00:41:27.060 sense

00:41:27.440 it makes

00:41:28.200 perfect sense

00:41:28.900 to me

00:41:29.220 Elon says

00:41:30.420 think of this

00:41:31.320 like a sports

00:41:32.040 franchise

00:41:32.480 no

00:41:32.920 no I'm not

00:41:34.640 going to do

00:41:35.120 that

00:41:35.360 and he says

00:41:35.780 of course

00:41:37.140 my companies

00:41:38.300 and I

00:41:38.560 would prefer

00:41:39.540 to hire

00:41:40.060 Americans

00:41:40.600 and we do

00:41:41.220 as it's much

00:41:42.200 easier

00:41:42.640 but there's

00:41:43.340 just such

00:41:44.020 a shortage

00:41:44.720 and I think

00:41:45.200 this whole

00:41:45.840 like sports

00:41:46.800 team

00:41:47.220 because he

00:41:47.720 says again

00:41:48.180 look at

00:41:48.520 NBA teams

00:41:49.320 this whole

00:41:49.860 sports team

00:41:50.460 mentality is

00:41:51.200 perfectly summed

00:41:51.760 up by this

00:41:52.180 meme

00:41:52.680 oh so I

00:41:53.640 should just

00:41:53.960 pay you

00:41:54.320 full allowance

00:41:55.700 timmy

00:41:56.160 timmy when

00:41:56.580 this russian

00:41:57.120 is willing

00:41:57.520 to be

00:41:57.800 my son

00:41:58.260 for one

00:41:58.740 quarter

00:41:59.160 of the

00:41:59.500 price

00:41:59.840 with twice

00:42:00.480 the level

00:42:00.900 of obedience

00:42:01.420 this is just

00:42:02.400 economics 101

00:42:03.640 and then if you

00:42:04.540 scroll down

00:42:05.040 they were both

00:42:05.640 later made

00:42:06.160 redundant

00:42:06.540 by automation

00:42:07.900 that's the kind

00:42:09.900 of mentality

00:42:10.700 this is going

00:42:11.300 into

00:42:11.560 because of

00:42:12.240 course

00:42:12.580 nations

00:42:13.720 can be seen

00:42:14.680 as extended

00:42:15.240 family groups

00:42:16.080 genetically

00:42:16.500 speaking

00:42:17.100 so if you

00:42:18.240 wanted to

00:42:18.780 scale it down

00:42:20.380 to the family

00:42:21.020 yeah why

00:42:21.620 wouldn't you

00:42:21.960 just replace

00:42:22.580 your kid

00:42:23.180 with somebody

00:42:23.800 who's a bit

00:42:24.660 better behaved

00:42:25.560 brings more

00:42:26.520 income into

00:42:27.240 the family

00:42:27.820 because you

00:42:28.520 know this

00:42:29.000 family's a team

00:42:29.900 right

00:42:30.240 we're a team

00:42:31.180 a pro sports

00:42:32.340 team

00:42:32.840 yeah

00:42:33.340 that's how

00:42:34.020 this works

00:42:34.780 think of your

00:42:35.860 family as a

00:42:36.700 sports franchise

00:42:37.400 is it right

00:42:37.800 yeah

00:42:38.040 and it's a

00:42:39.060 horrible

00:42:39.480 bug man

00:42:40.160 mentality

00:42:40.780 and on the

00:42:41.640 bug man

00:42:42.360 mentality

00:42:43.020 what are they

00:42:44.120 actually talking

00:42:44.860 about when they

00:42:45.480 say that you're

00:42:46.120 high skilled

00:42:46.740 we need high

00:42:47.400 skilled people

00:42:48.220 coming into the

00:42:49.160 country

00:42:49.360 well Shriram

00:42:50.500 himself

00:42:51.260 posted a

00:42:52.500 retweeted this

00:42:53.260 saying empirically

00:42:53.940 this is very true

00:42:54.700 so what does this

00:42:55.280 say what's the

00:42:55.860 high skilled

00:42:56.820 mentality

00:42:57.460 it's underrated

00:42:58.900 how many mega

00:43:00.080 successful people

00:43:01.100 are just innately

00:43:02.080 way higher energy

00:43:03.380 sleep five to six

00:43:04.520 hours a night

00:43:05.080 always on

00:43:05.960 work through

00:43:06.740 weekends for the

00:43:07.500 fun of it etc

00:43:08.280 it becomes painfully

00:43:09.560 evident the more of

00:43:10.420 these you interact

00:43:11.080 with they just

00:43:11.780 operate at high

00:43:12.660 frequency

00:43:13.300 if you've ever met

00:43:14.180 people like that

00:43:14.840 they're utterly 0.98

00:43:15.440 insufferable

00:43:16.180 and no one likes

00:43:17.340 them

00:43:17.540 yeah and also

00:43:18.420 I'm sorry

00:43:19.220 just because you

00:43:20.160 are always switched

00:43:21.260 on doesn't mean

00:43:22.380 that you're coming

00:43:22.940 up with good

00:43:23.480 ideas

00:43:24.000 doesn't mean the

00:43:24.740 innovation that

00:43:25.520 you may be coming

00:43:26.180 up with because

00:43:26.720 he says here

00:43:27.260 are they going to

00:43:27.960 be throwing out

00:43:28.640 ideas at a mile

00:43:29.480 a minute

00:43:29.760 I'm sorry those

00:43:30.360 ideas are going to 0.98

00:43:30.880 be shit 1.00

00:43:31.420 if you are not 1.00

00:43:33.380 sleeping well

00:43:34.360 if you have no

00:43:35.720 leisure time

00:43:36.660 no family time

00:43:38.260 no time

00:43:38.960 don't exercise

00:43:39.580 you don't exercise

00:43:40.940 I'm sorry

00:43:41.840 you're going to be

00:43:42.860 a barely functioning 1.00

00:43:44.360 retard 1.00

00:43:45.180 this is a third

00:43:46.420 world mindset

00:43:47.160 isn't it

00:43:47.600 that quantity

00:43:48.720 is a quality

00:43:49.500 all on its own

00:43:50.320 whereas actually

00:43:51.140 I think no

00:43:51.800 quality is good

00:43:53.140 that's what

00:43:54.020 Europeans built

00:43:55.640 our civilisation

00:43:56.540 on is that we

00:43:57.640 adhere to the

00:43:58.880 standards of

00:43:59.380 quality and not

00:44:00.560 quantity

00:44:01.180 I mean what

00:44:01.700 they're pointing

00:44:02.140 out here is

00:44:03.560 that they want

00:44:04.280 highly agreeable

00:44:05.220 wage slaves

00:44:06.060 that's what

00:44:07.200 they're after

00:44:07.580 because somebody

00:44:08.500 in response to

00:44:09.480 this kind of

00:44:10.060 attitude posted

00:44:11.580 Benjamin Franklin's

00:44:13.720 old daily work

00:44:15.140 schedule and

00:44:16.140 actually he slept

00:44:17.100 about eight

00:44:17.600 hours a night

00:44:18.280 only worked

00:44:19.420 seven hours a

00:44:20.400 day took

00:44:21.180 naps went

00:44:22.500 for walks

00:44:23.300 thought about

00:44:24.260 things and

00:44:25.260 just contemplated

00:44:26.120 and if anything

00:44:26.900 they would go

00:44:27.360 oh that's lazy

00:44:28.140 that's like who 0.63

00:44:29.280 cares that he

00:44:29.800 helped build a

00:44:30.400 country you know

00:44:31.780 he if he'd been

00:44:32.600 working 14 hours

00:44:34.700 a day imagine

00:44:35.360 how much more he

00:44:36.160 could have

00:44:36.420 accomplished right

00:44:37.300 fetishizing

00:44:38.140 it's being a 0.89

00:44:39.080 slave

00:44:39.480 two people

00:44:40.140 sprung to my

00:44:40.780 mind was

00:44:41.460 Charles Darwin

00:44:42.400 and Benjamin

00:44:43.600 Disraeli

00:44:44.260 both of whom

00:44:45.600 would spend

00:44:46.260 lots of time

00:44:47.180 doing nothing

00:44:48.520 sort of literally

00:44:49.600 like Disraeli

00:44:50.960 sometimes said

00:44:51.580 he would sit

00:44:52.600 there and just

00:44:53.580 sort of stare

00:44:54.060 into space

00:44:54.600 just stare at

00:44:55.140 his garden

00:44:55.580 for like hours

00:44:56.440 on end

00:44:56.760 yeah just

00:44:57.120 daydreaming

00:44:57.420 that can actually

00:44:57.860 be really good

00:44:58.640 for clearing

00:44:59.440 your mental

00:45:00.080 processes

00:45:00.720 it's like

00:45:01.820 I mean one of

00:45:03.160 my favourite

00:45:03.620 artists

00:45:04.120 David Lynch

00:45:05.100 he has an

00:45:06.100 incredibly rigid

00:45:07.460 schedule where

00:45:08.320 he eats the

00:45:09.080 same thing

00:45:09.600 every day

00:45:10.060 he works the

00:45:10.680 same hours

00:45:11.380 every day

00:45:12.280 and it's not

00:45:13.500 changed for

00:45:13.980 decades and people

00:45:14.680 have asked him

00:45:15.100 why

00:45:15.300 he's like well

00:45:15.660 if I've got

00:45:16.000 everything already

00:45:16.720 set up

00:45:17.240 it allows my

00:45:17.860 mind to kind

00:45:18.480 of wander

00:45:18.960 and be free

00:45:20.120 and get the

00:45:20.860 creative ideas

00:45:21.920 this is like

00:45:23.080 anti-western

00:45:24.440 mentality

00:45:24.940 anti-creativity

00:45:26.320 anti-innovation

00:45:28.300 anti-human

00:45:29.120 yes

00:45:29.720 just grind as

00:45:31.060 hard as you

00:45:31.700 possibly can

00:45:32.380 forever until

00:45:33.200 you die 0.60

00:45:33.540 that's life

00:45:34.700 it's like the

00:45:35.420 Jocko Willink

00:45:36.220 ization of

00:45:37.060 society

00:45:37.620 that you've

00:45:38.200 got to sleep

00:45:38.720 on a bed

00:45:39.080 of nails

00:45:39.520 wake up at

00:45:40.200 four in the

00:45:40.600 morning and

00:45:41.000 run barefoot on

00:45:42.280 broken glass

00:45:43.040 to be anyone of

00:45:44.000 any substance

00:45:44.720 I mean if

00:45:46.340 that's just

00:45:46.640 what you've

00:45:46.920 got to do

00:45:47.260 to make it

00:45:47.740 in America

00:45:48.220 right

00:45:48.600 but apparently

00:45:49.600 actually

00:45:50.100 Elon doesn't

00:45:50.760 realize that

00:45:51.380 the things that

00:45:51.820 everybody already

00:45:52.460 knows about

00:45:52.940 are going on

00:45:53.480 because he

00:45:53.720 says oh

00:45:54.020 there's just

00:45:54.260 not enough

00:45:54.560 people

00:45:54.940 there's not

00:45:55.740 enough

00:45:56.080 Americans

00:45:56.900 already available

00:45:57.860 to fill all

00:45:58.700 of these

00:45:58.920 spaces

00:45:59.200 well actually

00:45:59.720 that's just

00:46:00.200 bollocks

00:46:00.880 that's bollocks

00:46:02.220 because loads of

00:46:03.440 people came out

00:46:04.160 with basically

00:46:04.620 this same

00:46:05.440 story

00:46:05.920 here's my

00:46:06.720 story

00:46:07.100 born in

00:46:07.500 Appalachia

00:46:08.080 went to a

00:46:08.840 top tier

00:46:09.160 university

00:46:09.760 interned in

00:46:10.420 wealth management

00:46:10.940 and training

00:46:11.460 recruited for

00:46:12.380 all top

00:46:12.760 investment banks

00:46:13.520 and research

00:46:13.980 firms

00:46:14.240 only offer I

00:46:15.280 received as a

00:46:15.880 job was to

00:46:16.400 cold call

00:46:17.540 South American

00:46:18.340 high net worth

00:46:19.400 individuals on a

00:46:20.120 commission based

00:46:20.780 salary with a

00:46:21.460 10k base

00:46:22.280 couldn't afford to

00:46:23.240 take the job

00:46:23.720 but all of my

00:46:24.700 foreign born

00:46:25.460 friends and

00:46:25.980 classmates got the

00:46:27.260 jobs I was

00:46:27.840 actually after

00:46:28.520 and you don't

00:46:30.260 even need to go

00:46:30.860 to these because

00:46:31.600 corporate America

00:46:32.840 bragged about it

00:46:34.440 in 2023

00:46:35.840 remember this

00:46:36.680 corporate America

00:46:37.440 promised to hire a

00:46:38.340 lot more people of 0.66

00:46:39.020 color it actually

00:46:39.980 did the year after

00:46:40.780 the Black Lives

00:46:41.300 Matter protests

00:46:42.040 S&P 100 added

00:46:43.820 more than 300,000

00:46:44.820 jobs 94% of

00:46:46.760 which went to

00:46:47.540 people of

00:46:48.640 color I'm sure

00:46:49.540 that was based on

00:46:50.200 merit wasn't it

00:46:50.720 yeah that was

00:46:51.100 just pure merit

00:46:53.040 there's other

00:46:53.560 examples merit

00:46:54.400 yeah and that one

00:46:56.020 where he said oh

00:46:56.540 we need to double

00:46:57.080 the number well

00:46:57.660 somebody responded

00:46:58.460 to this saying

00:46:58.980 well my son

00:46:59.840 graduated with

00:47:00.620 honors with

00:47:01.240 electrical and

00:47:01.800 commuter

00:47:02.160 engineering degrees

00:47:03.560 in 2023 he could

00:47:04.880 not get an

00:47:05.260 interview let alone

00:47:05.920 a job any white 0.80

00:47:07.000 male he knew in

00:47:07.720 college can't get

00:47:08.920 jobs either many

00:47:10.020 are currently

00:47:10.380 working in data

00:47:11.160 center jobs that

00:47:11.940 don't actually

00:47:12.360 require their

00:47:12.840 education guess

00:47:13.720 what happened to

00:47:14.220 this account

00:47:14.700 did it get

00:47:16.000 suspended

00:47:16.500 deleted

00:47:17.200 deleted

00:47:17.820 yeah because he

00:47:19.040 ratioed Elon Musk

00:47:20.060 we don't know

00:47:20.560 exactly why so

00:47:22.000 then people said

00:47:22.600 well actually there's

00:47:23.540 a ridiculous amount

00:47:24.460 of talent in

00:47:25.020 America because

00:47:26.280 before third world

00:47:27.460 immigration America

00:47:28.560 was actually still a

00:47:29.860 really successful

00:47:30.600 company country

00:47:32.360 so it's run like a

00:47:33.660 company to be fair

00:47:34.460 so how is it we

00:47:35.800 were able to do

00:47:36.540 that before all of

00:47:37.580 these foreigners 1.00

00:47:38.140 came in well

00:47:39.060 we had a culture

00:47:40.880 of success

00:47:41.700 education but we

00:47:43.340 know that that's

00:47:43.940 gone downhill

00:47:44.480 American education

00:47:45.900 has gone downhill

00:47:46.620 they discriminate

00:47:47.760 against against

00:47:49.140 white Americans

00:47:49.820 we know all of

00:47:50.560 these things they

00:47:51.060 teach frivolous

00:47:51.740 degrees etc etc

00:47:53.020 so how about this

00:47:54.140 how about this

00:47:54.860 open a school then

00:47:56.300 we have brains

00:47:57.400 Elon Musk's

00:47:58.260 response if you

00:47:59.520 need a school

00:48:00.120 you've lost already 1.00

00:48:01.200 oh shut up 1.00

00:48:03.100 what does that mean 1.00

00:48:04.500 one of the things

00:48:05.200 when this first

00:48:06.200 sort of started to

00:48:06.980 break on Christmas

00:48:07.700 day or Boxing

00:48:08.540 day or whatever

00:48:09.040 someone asked me

00:48:09.840 on Twitter

00:48:10.120 what's your take

00:48:11.400 on it

00:48:11.740 I just immediately

00:48:12.940 said without even

00:48:14.340 really looking at

00:48:15.060 what Elon had said

00:48:16.120 I'd only seen a few

00:48:16.920 retweets but I just

00:48:18.620 said immediately

00:48:19.200 no America's got a

00:48:20.320 population of over

00:48:21.440 300 million

00:48:22.380 330 350 odd million

00:48:24.280 whatever it is

00:48:25.400 they've got plenty

00:48:26.600 of people

00:48:27.040 it's one of the most

00:48:27.840 qualified populations

00:48:28.820 on earth

00:48:29.140 in the 20th century

00:48:30.160 they achieved

00:48:31.740 engineering feats

00:48:33.000 that the rest of the

00:48:34.280 world weren't capable

00:48:35.180 of so the idea

00:48:37.020 that there's just

00:48:39.360 not enough clever

00:48:40.360 people in the

00:48:41.220 United States

00:48:42.040 native or not

00:48:44.380 Native Americans

00:48:45.100 but you know

00:48:46.880 they're very good

00:48:47.820 with their casinos

00:48:48.340 these days

00:48:48.720 white Americans

00:48:49.080 European

00:48:49.800 Protestants

00:48:50.660 Protestant European 0.93

00:48:52.260 Americans

00:48:52.900 the idea that

00:48:53.740 there's not enough

00:48:54.340 of them that are

00:48:55.240 clever enough 0.65

00:48:55.780 nonsense

00:48:56.140 absolute

00:48:57.240 border dash

00:48:58.520 obviously so as

00:49:00.040 well

00:49:00.280 and look at this

00:49:01.940 look at this as

00:49:02.460 well

00:49:02.560 who pops up

00:49:03.240 straight underneath

00:49:03.800 is it

00:49:04.380 is it the festering

00:49:05.620 tapeworm himself

00:49:06.960 yes it is

00:49:08.260 Ian Miles Chong

00:49:09.520 always willing to 1.00

00:49:10.420 eat up any shit 1.00

00:49:11.640 that Elon dumps on 1.00

00:49:12.820 him

00:49:12.960 it's painful how

00:49:14.360 people just don't

00:49:15.440 get it

00:49:15.940 it's so painful

00:49:16.780 oh it's painful

00:49:17.640 poor Ian

00:49:18.300 he's in pain

00:49:19.340 what people don't

00:49:20.220 want to be replaced

00:49:21.100 in their own country

00:49:22.100 they think if they

00:49:23.040 want jobs that you

00:49:23.960 might want to educate

00:49:24.900 them oh these people 1.00

00:49:25.820 are idiots 1.00

00:49:26.320 these people are 1.00

00:49:27.240 idiots they want 1.00

00:49:27.640 opportunities 1.00

00:49:28.260 oh sorry that's

00:49:29.380 going to Sriram

00:49:30.440 and his extended

00:49:31.220 family

00:49:31.660 by the way I mean

00:49:32.880 Ian Miles Chong

00:49:33.880 has a vested

00:49:34.520 interest

00:49:34.980 also not an

00:49:35.940 American

00:49:36.220 never been to

00:49:37.340 America

00:49:37.580 he can't wait

00:49:38.220 for us to be

00:49:38.900 replaced

00:49:39.380 I saw him

00:49:40.620 reply to Steve

00:49:41.340 Lewis

00:49:41.560 good luck

00:49:42.540 hope you enjoy

00:49:43.900 your replacement

00:49:44.460 or something he

00:49:45.080 said 1.00

00:49:45.480 he's a scumbag 1.00

00:49:46.360 an absolute 1.00

00:49:47.120 yeah

00:49:47.980 and one of the

00:49:49.460 worst ones

00:49:49.960 the funny thing

00:49:51.180 is again

00:49:51.620 all of this

00:49:52.400 completely unprompted

00:49:53.780 Elon just decided

00:49:54.700 to go to war

00:49:55.760 on this issue

00:49:56.820 as he said

00:49:57.400 explicitly himself

00:49:58.300 the biggest slip

00:49:59.920 up was this

00:50:00.740 one right

00:50:01.300 he deleted

00:50:02.280 this tweet

00:50:03.320 and a few

00:50:03.840 others but

00:50:04.260 this was the

00:50:04.780 most damning

00:50:05.280 so this 0.99

00:50:06.800 Elon dick 1.00

00:50:07.900 stroking account 1.00

00:50:08.740 autism capital

00:50:09.880 said oh so

00:50:11.020 basically the

00:50:11.580 right split into

00:50:12.100 two factions

00:50:12.700 tech right

00:50:13.140 right right

00:50:13.920 tech jobs

00:50:14.460 tech right is

00:50:15.180 like hey we

00:50:15.620 need the h1b

00:50:16.360 visa people to

00:50:17.020 do the jobs

00:50:17.440 and the right

00:50:17.740 right was like

00:50:18.140 no you need

00:50:18.500 to hire

00:50:18.760 Americans

00:50:19.180 and the

00:50:19.400 tech right

00:50:19.720 is like

00:50:20.100 but you guys 1.00

00:50:20.960 are retarded 1.00

00:50:21.560 so you're just 1.00

00:50:22.460 calling Americans 0.99

00:50:23.380 retarded 1.00

00:50:24.040 okay okay

00:50:25.900 and what does

00:50:26.800 Elon respond

00:50:27.460 oh that pretty much

00:50:28.160 sums it up

00:50:28.700 that's so insulting

00:50:30.600 he deleted that

00:50:31.460 one

00:50:31.760 sorry I can't

00:50:33.580 educate you

00:50:34.320 and you're too 1.00

00:50:34.800 stupid to educate 1.00

00:50:35.720 and you're too 1.00

00:50:36.220 stupid to hire 1.00

00:50:36.920 in the first place 1.00

00:50:37.640 also I've deleted

00:50:38.760 this one because

00:50:39.760 this looks terrible

00:50:41.020 okay

00:50:42.520 and then he says

00:50:44.340 later on

00:50:45.020 the reason I'm in

00:50:47.200 America along with

00:50:47.980 so many people

00:50:48.560 critical who built

00:50:49.620 SpaceX Tesla and

00:50:50.980 hundreds of other

00:50:51.460 companies that made

00:50:52.100 is because

00:50:52.800 H1B

00:50:53.840 take a big step

00:50:55.120 back and F

00:50:55.820 yourself in the 0.99

00:50:56.420 face 0.99

00:50:56.620 I will go to

00:50:57.580 war on this

00:50:58.260 issue the likes

00:50:58.960 of which you

00:50:59.400 cannot possibly

00:50:59.960 comprehend

00:51:00.200 I'm comfortable

00:51:00.960 with this guy

00:51:01.720 advising Trump

00:51:02.460 now

00:51:02.780 aren't you

00:51:03.820 him and Vivek

00:51:04.840 when they you

00:51:05.580 know gut the

00:51:06.140 American government

00:51:06.920 are they actually

00:51:07.440 going to gut the

00:51:08.080 American government

00:51:08.780 are they just

00:51:09.200 going to replace

00:51:09.940 they're going to

00:51:10.580 gut it and then

00:51:11.460 fill it full 0.90

00:51:12.220 again with Indians 1.00

00:51:13.620 sew it back up

00:51:15.020 and he says

00:51:15.780 explicitly again

00:51:16.920 in response

00:51:18.300 that was a weird

00:51:18.880 tweet though

00:51:19.540 yeah

00:51:19.960 I couldn't believe

00:51:21.420 my eyes when I

00:51:22.540 saw that

00:51:22.940 and then he says

00:51:23.860 oh these contemptible 1.00

00:51:25.000 fools that being 1.00

00:51:25.960 the MAGA base 1.00

00:51:27.040 people that voted

00:51:29.060 for Trump the first

00:51:30.220 time and the second

00:51:30.980 time on the promises

00:51:32.260 that Trump was going

00:51:32.980 to make America

00:51:33.560 great again and the

00:51:34.660 whole point of make

00:51:35.380 America great again

00:51:36.480 was the whole point

00:51:37.220 of Americans in the

00:51:39.280 country the citizens

00:51:39.960 of the country just

00:51:41.360 remove those 1.00

00:51:42.640 contemptible fools 1.00

00:51:43.800 from the Republican 1.00

00:51:44.540 Party root and stem

00:51:45.580 because we're

00:51:46.300 racist because we're

00:51:48.220 meany-buny 0.83

00:51:49.020 racists

00:51:49.920 yeah it's also

00:51:52.740 not you know the

00:51:54.260 people that you get

00:51:55.400 in that are high

00:51:56.040 skilled on H1B

00:51:56.920 visas they still

00:51:57.720 devalue the average

00:51:59.440 American's life 0.70

00:52:01.440 they still repress

00:52:02.500 wages

00:52:03.080 they do yeah

00:52:03.860 therefore and are

00:52:05.440 we surprised

00:52:06.100 are we really

00:52:07.680 surprised when

00:52:08.520 Elon's teams tend

00:52:09.660 to look like this

00:52:10.680 notice anything

00:52:13.020 missing

00:52:13.760 women 1.00

00:52:14.780 well there's one

00:52:16.480 there but notice

00:52:18.020 anything else

00:52:18.960 missing

00:52:19.440 other than this

00:52:20.400 one gentleman

00:52:21.840 right here

00:52:22.540 he seems to have a

00:52:23.460 particular preference

00:52:24.440 for the kind of

00:52:25.200 people that he

00:52:25.880 hires and surrounds

00:52:26.780 himself with

00:52:27.400 but then he began

00:52:29.400 walking it back

00:52:31.180 maybe this is a

00:52:32.320 helpful clarification

00:52:33.260 I'm referring to

00:52:34.200 bringing in via legal

00:52:35.220 immigration the top

00:52:36.300 0.1% of engineering

00:52:38.440 talent as being

00:52:39.560 essential for America

00:52:40.900 to keep winning

00:52:41.780 keep thinking of

00:52:42.920 America as a pro

00:52:43.720 sports team but

00:52:44.600 that's not what you've

00:52:45.260 said though Elon

00:52:45.880 what you've said

00:52:46.460 is you want to

00:52:47.040 massively increase

00:52:48.400 legal immigration

00:52:49.320 into the country

00:52:50.240 and you've said

00:52:50.740 that over and over

00:52:51.320 again you said you

00:52:52.160 want to go to war 0.95

00:52:52.920 over this and you've

00:52:53.880 said that anybody

00:52:54.320 that disagrees with

00:52:55.160 you is a racist

00:52:56.120 so let me ask you 0.99

00:52:57.640 this how is your

00:52:58.980 rhetoric on this

00:53:00.280 outside of it being

00:53:01.200 for your own benefit

00:53:02.200 for your own

00:53:02.720 company's bottom line

00:53:03.700 any different from

00:53:05.320 an average leftist

00:53:06.440 that says oh sorry

00:53:10.240 you want to keep

00:53:10.920 your historic nation

00:53:11.880 that's racist

00:53:12.700 except instead of

00:53:15.480 saying well we want

00:53:16.120 to do it so we can 0.56

00:53:16.820 destroy western

00:53:17.580 civilization you're

00:53:18.540 saying well so I

00:53:19.320 can increase Tesla

00:53:20.120 stocks

00:53:20.600 it's not much

00:53:21.760 better is it

00:53:22.480 no

00:53:22.940 no it's not

00:53:24.000 and then I made

00:53:25.400 a prediction

00:53:25.900 after this

00:53:27.340 all went down

00:53:28.960 this little joke

00:53:30.360 right here

00:53:30.900 well Elon's gonna

00:53:32.240 have to start

00:53:32.840 spamming interesting

00:53:34.020 under a hell of a

00:53:35.240 lot of racist

00:53:35.860 posts if he hopes

00:53:36.880 to win us back

00:53:37.500 over said this

00:53:38.400 as a joke

00:53:38.980 said this as a

00:53:40.840 joke

00:53:41.080 okay what's he

00:53:42.880 doing now

00:53:43.400 what's he done

00:53:43.940 this morning

00:53:44.580 Carl Benjamin

00:53:46.600 remember that

00:53:47.260 Labour

00:53:47.500 created Britain's

00:53:48.720 Pakistani

00:53:49.200 blah blah blah

00:53:50.380 Elon Musk

00:53:51.240 wow

00:53:51.860 I'm sorry

00:53:55.980 you know that

00:53:56.800 Carl Benjamin

00:53:57.340 that Sargonfella 0.99

00:53:58.280 yeah I know

00:53:58.900 he's alright

00:53:59.480 isn't he

00:53:59.740 Elon actually

00:54:01.500 retweeting it

00:54:02.500 yeah

00:54:03.000 you know

00:54:04.000 again I don't

00:54:04.720 think there's

00:54:05.020 any problem

00:54:05.480 with Elon

00:54:07.120 amplifying this

00:54:08.640 but is it not

00:54:09.720 funny that he's

00:54:10.440 literally doing

00:54:11.160 exactly what I

00:54:12.440 said he would

00:54:12.960 have to do

00:54:13.500 to win people

00:54:14.480 back over

00:54:15.100 and he's

00:54:16.560 winning people

00:54:17.320 back over

00:54:18.060 that's funny

00:54:20.100 that's funny

00:54:21.360 isn't it

00:54:21.960 people often

00:54:22.740 have amnesia

00:54:23.520 in politics

00:54:23.980 don't they

00:54:24.400 and at the

00:54:25.000 exact same

00:54:25.640 time he also

00:54:26.540 reinstates Jared

00:54:27.620 Taylor

00:54:28.080 onto Twitter

00:54:29.480 long time

00:54:31.780 coming yeah

00:54:32.320 as of yesterday

00:54:33.480 could this be

00:54:35.000 some kind of

00:54:36.640 like PR

00:54:38.240 campaign to

00:54:39.060 save his

00:54:39.480 image after

00:54:40.140 he made so

00:54:41.240 many completely

00:54:42.000 unprompted

00:54:42.760 mistakes

00:54:43.560 no maybe

00:54:45.200 maybe I'm just

00:54:46.000 throwing it out

00:54:46.540 there and also

00:54:47.620 Vivek Ramaswamy

00:54:48.640 echoed the same

00:54:49.960 sentiments

00:54:50.500 unsurprisingly

00:54:51.520 America first 0.69

00:54:52.760 means we want

00:54:53.280 America to win

00:54:54.120 playing for second

00:54:54.920 place doesn't

00:54:55.580 cut it

00:54:56.040 what does second

00:54:57.760 place look like

00:54:58.560 does America

00:54:59.140 win mean

00:54:59.900 what does win

00:55:00.720 mean in this

00:55:01.660 does it mean

00:55:02.340 you have to make

00:55:03.140 a massive mistake

00:55:04.120 not to remain

00:55:05.120 the global hegemon

00:55:06.040 yeah does it mean

00:55:07.000 that your company

00:55:07.640 doesn't have as

00:55:08.520 great a bottom

00:55:09.500 line as you would

00:55:10.220 like it to

00:55:10.720 therefore China

00:55:11.420 wins

00:55:11.800 even if you had

00:55:13.060 a random raffle

00:55:13.860 where an American

00:55:14.900 city was disassembled

00:55:16.060 brick by brick

00:55:16.900 every year

00:55:17.840 you would still be

00:55:18.620 the dominant economy

00:55:19.500 in the world

00:55:20.560 also he revealed

00:55:21.940 after this

00:55:22.760 probably the most

00:55:23.520 unsurprising thing

00:55:24.680 imaginable

00:55:25.320 which is that

00:55:26.160 he's actually a

00:55:27.020 massively resentful 0.97

00:55:28.300 nerd 0.98

00:55:28.760 with this huge 0.98

00:55:31.380 post

00:55:31.780 the reason top

00:55:32.580 tech companies

00:55:33.180 often hire

00:55:33.680 foreign born

00:55:34.260 and first

00:55:34.680 generation

00:55:35.100 engineers over

00:55:35.740 Native Americans

00:55:36.420 in quotes

00:55:37.720 isn't because of

00:55:39.480 an innate

00:55:39.820 American IQ

00:55:40.660 deficit

00:55:41.220 a key part of

00:55:42.500 it comes down

00:55:42.940 to the C word

00:55:43.660 culture

00:55:44.480 our American

00:55:45.540 culture has

00:55:46.120 venerated

00:55:46.580 mediocrity over

00:55:47.460 excellence for

00:55:48.040 way too long

00:55:48.780 that doesn't start

00:55:49.580 in college

00:55:50.000 it starts young

00:55:50.680 a culture

00:55:51.420 that celebrates

00:55:52.220 sorry I need

00:55:53.180 a culture

00:55:54.240 that celebrates

00:55:55.080 the prom queen

00:55:55.960 over the math

00:55:56.720 olympiad champ

00:55:57.940 or the jock

00:55:58.660 over the valedictorian

00:56:00.080 will not produce

00:56:01.060 the best engineers

00:56:02.400 get back

00:56:02.960 that's worryingly good

00:56:03.860 Harry

00:56:04.060 get back 1.00

00:56:04.720 in the fucking 1.00

00:56:05.960 locker 1.00

00:56:06.880 Vivek

00:56:07.960 I'm sorry that you

00:56:09.020 nerd

00:56:09.500 you clearly 0.63

00:56:10.500 just saw

00:56:11.380 beautiful people

00:56:12.520 having a good time

00:56:13.500 at high school

00:56:14.380 while you were

00:56:15.100 going

00:56:15.200 I've been studying

00:56:16.160 for so long

00:56:17.080 why won't you

00:56:17.700 girls like me 0.95

00:56:18.760 I'm sorry

00:56:19.480 this is the

00:56:20.960 complete opposite

00:56:21.940 this is the

00:56:23.260 complete opposite

00:56:23.920 of reality

00:56:24.580 America since the

00:56:25.900 80s has been

00:56:26.620 operating on

00:56:27.680 revenge of the

00:56:28.560 nerd logic

00:56:29.300 where most

00:56:30.280 mass media

00:56:30.880 has been going

00:56:31.480 out of its way

00:56:32.260 to denigrate

00:56:33.040 beautiful successful

00:56:34.460 people

00:56:34.980 because I hate

00:56:35.800 to break it

00:56:36.320 to you mate

00:56:36.900 generally speaking

00:56:38.600 the jocks are

00:56:39.180 the nice people

00:56:39.840 in real life

00:56:40.580 they're not

00:56:41.800 ugly resentful

00:56:43.200 people 0.94

00:56:43.600 and they tend

00:56:44.040 to be quite

00:56:44.520 smart as well

00:56:45.360 so this is

00:56:46.600 this is just

00:56:47.300 resentment

00:56:49.020 seeping through

00:56:50.600 I'm sorry

00:56:51.520 I've never liked

00:56:52.380 Vivek

00:56:52.780 I've never trusted

00:56:53.480 him

00:56:53.720 I don't either

00:56:54.540 something about

00:56:55.460 him which

00:56:56.040 just screams

00:56:58.300 sort of

00:56:59.500 snake oil salesman

00:57:00.920 I don't know

00:57:01.840 what

00:57:02.080 it's difficult

00:57:03.520 to put your

00:57:04.180 finger on exactly

00:57:05.160 but I just

00:57:06.100 don't

00:57:06.960 you don't trust

00:57:07.480 him

00:57:07.640 I wouldn't want

00:57:08.140 him on

00:57:08.500 on the board

00:57:10.220 of a business

00:57:11.000 I was running

00:57:11.500 let alone

00:57:12.140 running the

00:57:13.500 government

00:57:13.740 having a central

00:57:16.080 role in government

00:57:16.900 do you want to

00:57:17.260 see the slave

00:57:17.880 mentality come

00:57:18.800 back into it

00:57:19.440 as well

00:57:19.860 we need more

00:57:20.840 movies like

00:57:21.460 Whiplash

00:57:22.120 fewer reruns

00:57:23.020 of Friends

00:57:23.520 more math

00:57:24.120 tutoring

00:57:24.540 fewer sleepovers

00:57:25.920 more weekend

00:57:26.860 science competitions

00:57:28.260 fewer Saturday

00:57:29.320 morning cartoons

00:57:30.240 more books

00:57:31.200 less TV

00:57:31.780 more creating

00:57:32.580 less chilling

00:57:33.300 more extracurriculars

00:57:34.780 less hanging out

00:57:35.560 of them all

00:57:35.780 sorry if you

00:57:36.420 want to sleep

00:57:37.220 over with your

00:57:37.740 friends

00:57:38.120 you want to

00:57:38.600 have friends

00:57:39.340 that's

00:57:39.760 that's anti-innovation

00:57:40.960 I was going to say

00:57:41.420 I want less

00:57:42.260 being told what I

00:57:43.040 can and can't do

00:57:43.640 by some Indian

00:57:44.280 dude

00:57:44.680 how about that

00:57:46.480 how about that

00:57:47.160 this absolutely

00:57:47.780 reeks of

00:57:48.960 this reeks of

00:57:50.460 the only way I've

00:57:51.340 been able to

00:57:51.740 succeed in life

00:57:52.420 is I worked

00:57:53.040 very hard

00:57:53.720 and therefore I

00:57:54.520 think that this

00:57:54.980 is the only way

00:57:55.800 to be successful

00:57:56.640 and happy

00:57:56.980 except did he

00:57:57.560 don't look into

00:57:59.920 how Vivek made

00:58:00.880 his money

00:58:01.340 don't look into

00:58:02.500 how he made

00:58:03.020 his money

00:58:03.560 don't do anything

00:58:04.620 like that

00:58:05.020 his mum definitely

00:58:05.740 didn't have anything

00:58:06.500 to do with

00:58:07.200 weird drugs trials

00:58:08.700 that he made a lot

00:58:09.340 of money off of

00:58:09.960 anyway

00:58:10.660 so this is all

00:58:13.060 in positive news

00:58:14.520 brought a lot of

00:58:15.060 attention onto the

00:58:16.080 H-1B visas

00:58:17.600 and what they're

00:58:18.240 actually being used

00:58:19.200 for seeing as

00:58:19.920 techs, bros and

00:58:20.840 Silicon Valley

00:58:21.520 are very very eager

00:58:23.140 to bring in masses

00:58:24.040 of people using

00:58:25.140 them

00:58:25.540 okay so there's

00:58:26.800 actually a very

00:58:27.320 interesting BBC

00:58:28.040 article that addressed

00:58:29.000 a lot of it

00:58:29.460 so since 2004

00:58:30.920 the number of new

00:58:31.760 H-1B visas issued

00:58:33.120 have been capped

00:58:33.700 at 85,000 per year

00:58:35.520 20,000 of which

00:58:36.600 are reserved for

00:58:37.300 foreign students

00:58:37.840 with master's degrees

00:58:38.600 or higher from

00:58:39.120 US universities

00:58:39.920 so a lot of

00:58:40.660 people were saying

00:58:41.160 well it's only

00:58:41.560 capped at 85,000

00:58:42.760 per year

00:58:43.240 so why should

00:58:44.240 you care

00:58:44.680 well it's not

00:58:46.360 actually

00:58:46.820 that cap does

00:58:47.900 not apply to

00:58:48.500 some institutions

00:58:49.200 such as universities

00:58:50.100 think tanks

00:58:50.640 and other non-profit

00:58:51.380 research groups

00:58:52.240 so more are

00:58:53.140 often issued

00:58:53.740 just over 386,000

00:58:56.200 applications were

00:58:57.000 approved in 2023

00:58:58.340 alone

00:58:58.640 that's a significant

00:58:59.420 amount more

00:59:00.200 yeah but the

00:59:01.580 2023 total is down

00:59:03.020 from more than

00:59:03.520 474,000 in 2022

00:59:07.300 in 2017

00:59:09.360 then-president

00:59:10.700 trump

00:59:11.140 signed an

00:59:11.800 executive order

00:59:12.720 external that

00:59:13.640 increased scrutiny

00:59:14.620 of H-1B visa

00:59:15.660 applications

00:59:16.320 the order sought

00:59:17.320 to enhance fraud

00:59:18.520 detection within

00:59:19.160 the scheme

00:59:19.580 rejection rates

00:59:21.300 hit an all-time

00:59:22.020 high under the

00:59:22.580 first trump

00:59:22.980 administration

00:59:23.620 external reaching

00:59:25.020 24%

00:59:26.140 I think

00:59:26.620 that's just not

00:59:27.980 supposed to have

00:59:28.440 been copied in

00:59:28.900 there

00:59:29.020 reaching 24%

00:59:30.300 in the 2018

00:59:31.180 fiscal year

00:59:32.120 compared with

00:59:32.880 rejection rates

00:59:33.500 between 5-8%

00:59:34.520 under the

00:59:34.860 Obama administration

00:59:35.800 and 2-4%

00:59:37.220 under president

00:59:37.780 biden

00:59:38.020 so trump

00:59:38.700 has previously

00:59:39.620 improved this

00:59:41.360 somewhat

00:59:42.060 so we can hope

00:59:43.180 going into his

00:59:43.800 next term

00:59:44.360 maybe he'll

00:59:45.320 carry that over

00:59:46.100 but with these

00:59:46.740 kinds of people

00:59:47.360 advising him

00:59:48.000 I don't know

00:59:49.100 in the three years

00:59:50.120 that followed

00:59:50.580 president trump's

00:59:51.320 executive order

00:59:52.240 about 1.1 million

00:59:53.560 applications were

00:59:54.520 approved with

00:59:55.220 about 343,000

00:59:56.660 of these being

00:59:57.520 new applicants

00:59:58.440 in terms of

00:59:59.320 companies amazon

01:00:00.240 was the top

01:00:00.860 employer

01:00:01.280 external of

01:00:02.260 people on

01:00:03.160 h1b visas

01:00:04.520 in 2024

01:00:05.260 hiring more

01:00:05.820 than 13,000

01:00:06.940 so they were

01:00:07.920 ranked number

01:00:08.380 one

01:00:08.760 tesla ranked

01:00:10.100 22nd employing

01:00:11.900 more than

01:00:12.260 1700 people

01:00:13.540 on the

01:00:14.420 h1b visas

01:00:15.980 can you guess

01:00:17.040 where most of

01:00:18.480 these come from

01:00:19.580 these people

01:00:20.240 coming on

01:00:20.920 these visas

01:00:21.540 can you guess

01:00:23.140 walmart

01:00:23.960 i don't know

01:00:24.420 no no no

01:00:24.800 actually the

01:00:25.300 countries

01:00:25.860 oh the countries

01:00:26.820 yeah

01:00:27.220 is it india

01:00:28.040 massively

01:00:29.520 72%

01:00:32.040 of these visas

01:00:32.920 were issued

01:00:33.440 to indian

01:00:34.200 nationals

01:00:34.680 followed by

01:00:35.040 12%

01:00:35.640 to chinese

01:00:36.100 citizens

01:00:36.500 and that's

01:00:36.840 how you win

01:00:37.260 against china 0.98

01:00:37.840 right

01:00:38.160 by importing

01:00:39.720 beat china 1.00

01:00:40.320 by becoming

01:00:40.960 chinese

01:00:41.340 yeah by becoming

01:00:42.340 chinese

01:00:42.960 so that's

01:00:45.380 that's interesting

01:00:46.200 and people tried

01:00:47.260 to say well

01:00:47.880 don't you know

01:00:48.600 verno von braun

01:00:50.300 he was an

01:00:51.120 immigrant who

01:00:51.740 came over and

01:00:52.340 got us to the

01:00:52.960 moon

01:00:53.260 but people were

01:00:54.580 also like yeah

01:00:55.160 he was german

01:00:56.020 he was german

01:00:57.280 how many germans

01:00:58.100 came over in

01:00:58.680 2022 on

01:00:59.380 h1b

01:00:59.880 less than

01:01:00.480 2,000

01:01:01.020 how many

01:01:02.160 indians

01:01:02.480 came up

01:01:02.880 320,000

01:01:03.980 it's not even

01:01:05.440 comparable is it

01:01:06.240 it's a drop

01:01:07.420 in the ocean

01:01:07.900 but also

01:01:08.940 people then

01:01:09.600 started to

01:01:09.980 actually scrutinise

01:01:10.940 okay what are

01:01:11.540 these people

01:01:11.940 being brought

01:01:12.640 in for

01:01:13.080 is it the

01:01:13.500 top 0.1%

01:01:15.040 high tech

01:01:15.660 silicon valley

01:01:16.980 jobs

01:01:17.500 well it turns

01:01:18.920 out there's a

01:01:19.460 database that

01:01:20.280 you can look at

01:01:20.980 turns out most

01:01:21.600 indian people are

01:01:22.280 actually far 0.99

01:01:22.900 more lazy than

01:01:23.780 your average 0.99

01:01:24.300 northwest european

01:01:25.440 not that they're

01:01:26.540 super efficient

01:01:27.460 and super

01:01:28.280 hard working

01:01:29.080 no actually

01:01:30.020 it's not even

01:01:30.600 necessarily that

01:01:31.700 it's not even

01:01:32.380 necessarily that

01:01:33.220 right okay

01:01:33.760 is that there's a

01:01:34.800 big database that

01:01:35.700 gives you the

01:01:36.200 breakdown of jobs

01:01:37.500 that these people

01:01:38.200 have got and

01:01:39.160 what their salaries

01:01:39.840 are so what

01:01:41.460 would you want

01:01:42.060 h1b's for well 1.00

01:01:43.200 you if you really

01:01:44.220 need them you

01:01:44.880 would want them

01:01:45.320 for these top

01:01:46.480 percentage jobs

01:01:47.460 that can't be

01:01:48.100 filled any other

01:01:48.720 way not for

01:01:50.680 janitors earning

01:01:51.980 30k a year

01:01:53.300 sheena's cleaning

01:01:55.140 services got an

01:01:56.200 h1b janitor

01:01:57.760 really no

01:02:00.840 7-eleven managed

01:02:02.180 to get a couple

01:02:02.860 of cashiers on

01:02:04.080 an h1b 1.00

01:02:04.940 you've got plumbers

01:02:08.020 and welders

01:02:08.780 coming in can

01:02:09.380 america really not

01:02:10.360 produce its own

01:02:11.500 plumbers anymore

01:02:12.660 it's just suppressing

01:02:14.120 wages across the

01:02:15.040 economy isn't it

01:02:15.640 can it not get

01:02:16.420 welders anymore 1.00

01:02:18.020 can american

01:02:18.840 people just too 1.00

01:02:19.720 dumb 1.00

01:02:20.040 yeah can american 1.00

01:02:20.820 people not cook 1.00

01:02:22.620 too dumb 0.97

01:02:23.640 anymore 1.00

01:02:25.080 can they really

01:02:26.500 what a joke

01:02:28.280 didn't elon say

01:02:29.020 that as well

01:02:29.420 did i see that

01:02:30.160 well they're just

01:02:31.380 saying just

01:02:32.480 flatly said 0.99

01:02:33.320 we're too dumb 0.99

01:02:34.260 there's i don't 0.99

01:02:36.380 want to go over

01:02:36.780 that because people

01:02:37.400 were there was

01:02:38.200 some ambiguity

01:02:38.900 in who he meant

01:02:39.960 when he said

01:02:40.580 we because he

01:02:41.300 might have just

01:02:41.720 meant tesla

01:02:42.360 but then all of a

01:02:44.120 sudden out of

01:02:46.080 nowhere with the

01:02:46.820 steel chair

01:02:47.620 bernie sanders

01:02:49.500 decides that he's

01:02:50.340 on our side

01:02:51.240 in this issue

01:02:52.980 saying that

01:02:53.980 actually this is

01:02:54.640 all just to

01:02:55.160 suppress american

01:02:55.920 wages and this

01:02:56.640 document that he

01:02:57.300 produced has some

01:02:58.440 good stats on it

01:02:59.360 saying well uh if

01:03:01.060 there is really a

01:03:01.840 shortage of skilled

01:03:02.700 tech workers in

01:03:03.360 america why did

01:03:04.620 tesla lay off over 0.67

01:03:06.300 seven thousand five

01:03:07.640 hundred american

01:03:08.440 workers this year

01:03:09.480 while approving

01:03:10.820 uh thousands of

01:03:12.340 h1b guest workers

01:03:13.960 it's funny when a

01:03:16.680 hardline genuine

01:03:18.700 lefty um their

01:03:20.980 view just happens

01:03:21.800 to line up with

01:03:22.760 sort of a

01:03:24.020 nationalist or

01:03:24.900 patriotic view

01:03:25.540 like jeremy

01:03:26.400 corbyn being

01:03:27.040 anti-eu because

01:03:28.780 it got in the

01:03:29.280 way of you know

01:03:31.160 because it got in

01:03:31.620 the way of the

01:03:32.040 international workers

01:03:33.000 revolution nonetheless

01:03:34.440 he was on the same

01:03:35.820 page as someone like

01:03:36.720 nigel oh yeah

01:03:37.580 uh you know like

01:03:39.600 twice a day at least

01:03:40.900 a commie is correct 1.00

01:03:41.800 at least twice a day

01:03:42.740 temporarily

01:03:43.540 right yeah

01:03:44.440 and as well just to

01:03:50.600 point it out because

01:03:51.180 i know people are

01:03:51.780 saying sam hyde also

01:03:53.300 decided that he was

01:03:54.320 going to become the

01:03:55.360 american statesman that

01:03:56.600 we actually all need

01:03:57.660 and posted this

01:03:58.880 enormous 45 minute

01:04:00.100 discussion on the

01:04:00.920 subject called dear

01:04:01.840 elon well worth a 0.75

01:04:03.300 watch i was gonna say

01:04:03.980 is it worth watching

01:04:04.880 it's really i saw that

01:04:05.740 he did something i saw

01:04:06.680 the first half an

01:04:08.180 hour i haven't watched

01:04:09.380 it is it is it worth

01:04:10.380 it it's it's excellent

01:04:11.900 but then there's the

01:04:13.140 other thing that came

01:04:14.420 from this which is

01:04:15.800 uh unsurprising for

01:04:17.520 anybody who knows

01:04:18.280 anything about group

01:04:19.540 dynamics which is the

01:04:21.080 ethnic resentment that

01:04:23.980 came from this now

01:04:24.860 this gentleman cash is

01:04:27.280 an engineer employed at

01:04:28.840 twitter so it's good

01:04:30.900 to know that these

01:04:31.580 sorts of sentiments are

01:04:32.400 coming from him he 0.70

01:04:33.740 says racist whites 0.98

01:04:35.580 will do anything to 0.95

01:04:36.500 save their quote

01:04:37.600 unquote white quote

01:04:38.960 unquote race so you 0.89

01:04:40.980 denying our existence

01:04:41.900 okay except getting a

01:04:43.520 job and having

01:04:44.160 children except we

01:04:45.260 already covered how a

01:04:47.320 lot of them just aren't

01:04:48.260 allowed jobs anymore so

01:04:50.000 that's a great start if

01:04:52.100 you're getting replaced

01:04:52.880 it's because you're

01:04:53.480 incapable of successfully

01:04:54.600 playing your part there's

01:04:55.440 also been lots of

01:04:56.160 studies done into the

01:04:57.360 effects of massive

01:04:58.180 ethnic diversity on

01:04:59.520 native birth rates in

01:05:00.740 countries and massive

01:05:01.920 overpopulation well they

01:05:03.240 don't it doesn't work

01:05:04.640 well and genocidal thing 0.96

01:05:06.420 go back to where he just

01:05:07.500 said if you if you're

01:05:08.540 getting replaced it's

01:05:09.320 just because you can't

01:05:09.960 compete what absolute

01:05:12.040 insane insane nonsense 0.79

01:05:14.460 and then you get other 0.97

01:05:15.820 people like this danielle

01:05:17.120 fong saying america first

01:05:18.960 but by america we mean 0.99

01:05:20.040 mediocre white guys so 0.99

01:05:21.960 this is just this is just 0.99

01:05:23.200 racial hatred but that's

01:05:24.780 allowed that that's

01:05:26.240 allowed when it's danielle

01:05:27.860 fong and cash and other

01:05:30.620 people if they just hate 0.97

01:05:31.640 white people that's that's 0.83

01:05:32.880 absolutely fine and here's

01:05:35.120 one where i'm an

01:05:35.960 immigrant i think native

01:05:37.120 born americans are effing 0.63

01:05:38.360 spoiled and entitled they 0.98

01:05:39.740 just they just hate us i'm

01:05:41.380 sorry they they just hate

01:05:43.200 us and then they just end

01:05:44.260 up by saying we're like the

01:05:45.620 jews now american indians are 1.00

01:05:48.260 in the same boat as

01:05:49.140 american jews now the hate 1.00

01:05:51.200 is tangible it's biting it's 0.60

01:05:52.860 in dms down to start an

01:05:54.700 indian jew matchmaking

01:05:56.020 website let's win this s win

01:05:58.480 against who win against

01:06:00.420 china no that's not about

01:06:01.780 china is it no that's win

01:06:03.680 against the people that you

01:06:05.100 hate which are america

01:06:07.480 foundational americans

01:06:08.720 who've been there for

01:06:09.460 generations okay but there

01:06:11.960 is there is hope just to

01:06:13.380 finish off this second

01:06:14.120 wonder what the jewish 0.98

01:06:15.200 people think about an

01:06:16.200 explicitly indian jewish

01:06:17.640 matchmaking website will

01:06:19.240 they be up for that i don't

01:06:20.420 think i feel it's unlikely

01:06:23.020 but there is some hope that

01:06:26.080 i'll get to in a moment

01:06:26.940 because sadly the whole

01:06:28.680 point of this is okay what's

01:06:30.060 trump going to do in response

01:06:31.960 to this with these people in

01:06:33.340 his ears what is trump going

01:06:35.480 to do well sadly last year

01:06:37.780 he made a comment on a

01:06:40.240 podcast that he wanted to

01:06:42.420 give green cards automatically

01:06:44.780 to all graduates from college

01:06:46.860 which is not promising and he

01:06:49.180 has stated a number of times

01:06:51.100 that he supports legal

01:06:52.280 migration that being huge

01:06:54.460 numbers of new people coming

01:06:55.800 into the country so that he's 0.94

01:06:58.420 made some worrying statements

01:06:59.720 regarding this but some have

01:07:01.860 said patrick casey has said

01:07:03.320 he said these sorts of things

01:07:04.520 back in 2016 as well and yet

01:07:06.620 if you look at the figures

01:07:07.640 they still went down under his

01:07:09.220 presidency so maybe people

01:07:12.300 are worrying a little bit too

01:07:13.580 much about what trump himself

01:07:14.920 has said but i do think it is

01:07:17.140 very worrying what people like

01:07:18.720 ramazwamy what like elon and

01:07:21.060 the people they surround

01:07:21.980 themselves with have said on

01:07:24.120 this subject because they

01:07:25.900 clearly want to push for

01:07:28.060 massively opening the borders of

01:07:30.680 america as a nation to the

01:07:32.820 detriment of the american

01:07:34.240 workers and the american

01:07:35.220 people who are already there

01:07:36.880 and yep he's gone on he's

01:07:39.040 trying to say oh we need to

01:07:40.780 pay attention to the grooming

01:07:41.820 gangs in the uk we need to do

01:07:43.420 this and that he's buttering up

01:07:45.320 carl i think it's all a pr move

01:07:48.320 i think he's trying to repair his

01:07:50.000 reputational damage that he's

01:07:51.400 received over the past few over

01:07:52.920 the past week because all of this

01:07:54.780 is absolutely terrible was

01:07:56.400 completely unprompted but

01:07:58.200 clearly how he actually feels

01:07:59.700 okay so as mentioned briefly

01:08:01.980 a minute ago i think building on

01:08:04.340 that is the idea that people are

01:08:06.700 going after elon the uk government

01:08:10.000 and the eu government he does seem

01:08:12.960 to have entered into a war of words

01:08:14.900 with the british government what was

01:08:16.940 he saying yes cole did a bit 0.99

01:08:18.640 yesterday i didn't watch it but i'm

01:08:20.340 talking about jess phillips where he

01:08:21.960 just explicitly saying she should be

01:08:24.660 arrested yeah or uh i saw today he

01:08:27.300 said that she's like a a genocidal 1.00

01:08:31.980 rapist apologist or something i'm 0.98

01:08:34.700 paraphrasing slightly but something

01:08:36.020 along those lines very very strong

01:08:37.620 words in other in other words um so

01:08:41.520 yeah now it does seem that the

01:08:45.380 mainstream media the mainstream

01:08:46.600 corporate media and all sorts of

01:08:48.800 interests do want to try and take elon

01:08:52.820 down a peg if they can um for

01:08:56.680 example every now and again you'll

01:08:58.080 see that the headline that sort of

01:08:59.980 twitter is in trouble twitter is going

01:09:02.220 or x is going to fold it's uh it's a

01:09:05.400 terrible failure it doesn't make any

01:09:07.100 money never did but um so i mean

01:09:10.340 channel 4 did a channel 4 news did a

01:09:13.420 piece which was basically just um

01:09:15.400 trying to say in without explicitly

01:09:18.700 saying it uh leave twitter well i did

01:09:21.120 explicitly say leave twitter and join

01:09:23.060 blue sky is it called blue sky that's

01:09:24.980 it yeah um by the way don't go on

01:09:28.080 there if you value your opinion on

01:09:29.980 humanity i'm never gonna go on there

01:09:31.920 please like i'm not going on truth or

01:09:35.100 gab or whatever it's fine twitter till

01:09:38.820 you die yeah um so yeah channel 4 news

01:09:43.620 just did a piece and it's just i just

01:09:45.760 picked it out because it was it's

01:09:47.420 indicative of the the type of hit piece

01:09:51.100 you see fairly regularly and

01:09:53.560 increasingly more so i mean even you

01:09:55.720 guys are old enough to remember that

01:09:57.440 not that long ago or five ten years

01:09:59.880 ago elon was more or less the darling

01:10:03.520 of sort of mainstream media was they

01:10:05.340 would bang on about him all the time

01:10:06.600 wouldn't they and say how great it was

01:10:08.120 because he had electric car yeah

01:10:10.800 exactly right but um i'm not sure if

01:10:13.500 you're going to get onto it but a lot of

01:10:15.560 the purpose of these articles isn't

01:10:16.840 necessarily to represent the truth i'm

01:10:19.460 sorry i'm seeing what you're going to

01:10:21.060 say um it it's to damage their bottom 0.63

01:10:24.420 line for political reasons right by them

01:10:26.640 saying it's failing people believe it's

01:10:28.440 failing and therefore treat it as it's

01:10:29.980 as if it's failing which damages the

01:10:32.100 company even though um i don't think

01:10:35.120 it's in any any much more of a worse

01:10:37.940 place than it was before and the fact

01:10:40.180 that some people are leaving i do think i

01:10:42.140 have a bit of a controversial opinion

01:10:43.460 here that a lot of the leftists leaving

01:10:45.560 uh x or twitter whatever you want to

01:10:47.760 call it is a bad thing because i think

01:10:49.760 it's better to have everyone on one

01:10:51.200 platform than having their own sort of

01:10:54.160 echo chamber

01:10:54.860 i i i yeah it's a shame not only because

01:10:59.780 i enjoy winding them up but also that it

01:11:04.000 it gives them a certain amount of

01:11:06.580 accountability like having politicians on

01:11:10.300 there they you can give them a piece of

01:11:12.560 your mind they can get load up their

01:11:14.100 twitter and everyone hates them i think

01:11:16.020 that's important knowing that no one

01:11:18.040 actually likes them and and you only need

01:11:21.300 to see a keir starmer post or you know a

01:11:24.000 post from joe biden where everyone is

01:11:25.840 replying saying how much they hate them

01:11:27.400 that i think that's somewhat valuable of

01:11:32.600 course there is somewhere between um just

01:11:35.560 being completely open to all and being an

01:11:39.220 echo chamber right so i imagine that if

01:11:42.540 anything blue sky is more of a lefty echo

01:11:46.180 chamber than twitter is a right leaning

01:11:48.560 echo chamber i think there's well there's 0.99

01:11:50.360 still plenty of crazy lefty commie traitor 0.99

01:11:53.940 globalists on on x there's still plenty of 0.99

01:11:57.300 there are yeah there's no shortage of those

01:11:59.800 i know i i want to see all of them in one

01:12:02.600 place so i can diversify my torment no i

01:12:05.740 like twitter i like that it's just a 1.00

01:12:07.500 stupid crazy royal rumble free-for-all 0.99

01:12:11.480 all-on-all at all times with almost no 1.00

01:12:13.840 holes barred it's pretty brutal right it

01:12:16.100 can be pretty brutal but i like it i think

01:12:19.220 it's it's good you know you live by the

01:12:20.840 sword you die by the sword right it can

01:12:23.040 certainly be fun yeah it means you have

01:12:25.340 good days and bad days right some days

01:12:27.520 you get pwned or you get dogpiled on or

01:12:29.840 whatever i'm fairly or unfairly sometimes

01:12:32.780 you get a nice sweet little win against

01:12:34.740 someone get a jab in against someone you

01:12:36.640 hate and they've got no comeback

01:12:37.680 i like the crazy free-for-all but i i did

01:12:42.280 get how it's not everyone's cup of tea

01:12:44.340 i do think that if you were very sensitive

01:12:46.620 about hearing political views that you

01:12:48.980 can't handle i can see why people would

01:12:51.900 hate it or want to destroy it or undermine

01:12:54.320 it or dismantle it in whatever way they can

01:12:56.180 i do think since musk has taken over there 0.99

01:12:58.480 has been a financial incentive placed in

01:13:01.020 the way the changes he's made to

01:13:02.420 monetization for more low quality

01:13:04.880 engagement baiting posts comparable to

01:13:08.320 you know the meta on youtube where the

01:13:11.580 clickbait titles and thumbnails you know

01:13:13.720 that are pretty much everywhere and the

01:13:16.700 only way to have a channel that is

01:13:18.760 sustainable is to play the game the same

01:13:21.580 thing is going on with twitter whereby

01:13:23.620 you've got a you know spoon out as much

01:13:26.160 slop as humanly possible to play the

01:13:28.440 numbers game to to make it whereas you

01:13:32.500 know actual high quality posts and things

01:13:35.200 that people have taken time over tend to

01:13:37.720 get buried in mush in in nonsense drivel

01:13:40.960 that elon musk actively promotes as does

01:13:44.720 his algorithm and i think that this is a

01:13:48.120 bad thing and i think that although i don't

01:13:52.240 support the you know the censorship that

01:13:53.960 came before people tended to be more

01:13:57.220 articulate well that's what i was going

01:13:59.240 to say it's just different i would say

01:14:01.720 it's not as bad i'd much rather this

01:14:04.200 model which promotes slop than just a

01:14:08.140 lefty censorship if it was an either or of

01:14:10.900 course yeah right yeah yeah yeah still

01:14:12.960 you're quite right all the things you

01:14:14.980 said the way it's monetized does just

01:14:17.840 favor uh engagement farming i just

01:14:21.600 personally i'm not actually monetized on

01:14:24.160 there but i am close could could get

01:14:26.020 there quite easily but i've just decided

01:14:27.980 to not do just made a conscious decision

01:14:30.260 i'm not going to um engagement farm or

01:14:33.720 i'm not going to post slop i mean once

01:14:35.880 in a blue moon maybe if it's funny but

01:14:37.300 largely just write whatever i'm going to

01:14:39.940 write organically and if i get loads more

01:14:43.340 followers or if i get monetized so be it

01:14:45.060 that'll be nice it'll be a cherry on that's

01:14:46.480 a healthy attitude towards it on on on

01:14:48.380 what josh was talking about though i've

01:14:50.060 noticed two things which is uh on the

01:14:52.120 monetization side one some of elon's

01:14:55.260 preferred posters that he likes to

01:14:57.720 interact with seem to have suspiciously

01:15:01.920 large amounts of money that they get

01:15:04.280 from their monetization for the amount

01:15:05.700 of uh interaction they get sometimes i've

01:15:10.300 i've i've thought it's a bit funny

01:15:12.200 sometimes and and secondly he he and a

01:15:14.980 few others recently announced that

01:15:16.780 there is also something that uh is going

01:15:19.160 on where basically verified accounts

01:15:21.620 blocking you means that your reach will

01:15:24.500 gradually be made smaller and smaller and

01:15:27.200 smaller so the way that i phrased it is

01:15:30.100 that if elon's preferred pay pigs don't

01:15:32.300 like what you have to say you'll basically 0.86

01:15:34.220 get shadow banned he's he's unintentionally

01:15:36.860 sort of deputized a bunch of paid hall

01:15:40.120 monitors it's what he's done and you know

01:15:43.420 the the slop merchants if you get in the 1.00

01:15:45.940 way of their their swilling of slop even

01:15:48.400 if you're having a legitimate political

01:15:50.140 debate you're going to be punished

01:15:51.680 financially basically if you're a large

01:15:53.520 enough account that it's going to

01:15:55.460 disincentivize people having legitimate

01:15:57.460 discourse and for a free speech

01:15:59.320 platform that is a catastrophic failure

01:16:01.920 yeah um so anyway the lefties and

01:16:07.780 globalists although we were just talking

01:16:10.020 about how elon is something for globalists

01:16:11.760 but anyway the anti the anti elon brigade

01:16:15.480 uh do you like to talk about in the

01:16:18.240 mainstream media from time to time how

01:16:19.880 he's just about to fail how everything

01:16:22.840 he touches looks like it turns to gold but 0.98

01:16:24.960 in fact it all turns to crap and it's just 0.87

01:16:27.420 about to all fall apart he's going to be 0.95

01:16:29.220 he's going to be in the government and

01:16:31.680 i've never known a person who is part of

01:16:34.920 a government having their business fail

01:16:36.420 ever it's funny that isn't it it's funny

01:16:38.840 how that works but i mean i would bet my

01:16:41.460 bottom dollar that if um starmer thought

01:16:44.180 he could get away with it if he thought

01:16:45.540 there were no repercussions whatsoever i'm

01:16:49.000 sure he would just ban twitter in the uk i

01:16:50.980 would have thought yeah i would have thought

01:16:52.400 but um i don't think there would be a

01:16:55.360 massive amount of pushback to be honest

01:16:57.020 it's like he's interfering in our

01:16:59.300 democracy and we need to do this for our

01:17:01.200 national security and all the lefties

01:17:03.600 would agree with it most people would be

01:17:05.000 like grumble about it and go along with

01:17:06.740 it and it'd be a small minority of people

01:17:08.060 that wouldn't agree with starmer anyway

01:17:09.400 yeah so um yeah channel 4 just saying

01:17:14.060 uh a few thousand people have left twitter

01:17:16.940 so uh it's sort of it's all over a few

01:17:20.460 thousand oh i know it's still absolutely

01:17:23.720 the most dominant website of its type

01:17:26.080 isn't it by a long long long way i thought

01:17:28.860 i'd just look up the uh if you go to

01:17:30.480 someone go to that third link

01:17:31.980 um that's one day can you go to max on

01:17:36.300 the far right i've got one year five year

01:17:38.400 max yeah just click on that yeah make

01:17:40.620 twitter follow the share price is fine

01:17:42.320 there's there's no there's no peak or

01:17:45.360 trough it's it's remained pretty static

01:17:48.760 for the past 15 years really yeah

01:17:51.620 so once again the corporate mainstream

01:17:55.520 media in this one example channel 4 news 0.72

01:17:58.440 um just feeding you liars and lies by 0.70

01:18:03.100 omission and half truths and the whole 0.99

01:18:06.520 smorgasbord of different types of liar 0.94

01:18:09.200 but hey that's what they do that's their 0.98

01:18:11.400 stock in trade

01:18:12.100 wait was we just is that that's not oh

01:18:16.060 it is x

01:18:16.740 united states steel core

01:18:20.780 were you looking at the right one

01:18:23.700 i think i wasn't

01:18:25.960 i thought as i was looking at it i was

01:18:28.520 like this is an x but maybe maybe bo's

01:18:31.000 playing some 5d chess here

01:18:32.640 well let's let's fact check ourselves in

01:18:34.860 real time here yeah it's basically the

01:18:37.280 same okay so you you will have comments

01:18:39.580 saying actually but also the argument still

01:18:41.820 stands it's fine as long as it doesn't

01:18:43.160 take a massive fall off then my point is

01:18:45.200 value

01:18:45.500 okay we've got some more rumble chats

01:18:49.720 before we do the video comments um i'm

01:18:51.800 presuming we do have some um do you want

01:18:53.660 me to read them quickly i'll i'll go

01:18:55.200 through them of course related to mine

01:18:56.320 so sure evan626 sends in three uh

01:18:59.940 saying on the h1b debate i want to

01:19:01.740 assert that everybody on all sides is

01:19:02.900 being dishonest elon doesn't want the 0.97

01:19:04.200 best and brightest he wants cheap

01:19:05.420 labor two we're not primarily upset

01:19:07.540 that american jobs are taken by

01:19:08.680 foreigners we're upset that they're 1.00

01:19:09.780 non-white if trump said we're

01:19:11.520 bringing in millions of scandinavians

01:19:12.920 many of us would support it i i actually

01:19:15.000 disagree on that because one if you

01:19:17.780 bring in a million scandinavians they're

01:19:19.260 still going to be competing for the

01:19:20.360 same jobs that others will which will

01:19:22.300 depress wages uh two scandinavia needs

01:19:25.000 scandinavians and so i don't support the

01:19:27.360 drain of scandinavians from

01:19:28.940 scandinavia the same way that britain

01:19:30.640 needs british people if it wants to

01:19:32.720 maintain its own character and he adds a

01:19:34.420 third one uh why the job losses would be

01:19:36.420 more offset by the benefits of having

01:19:38.220 like-minded and light-blooded people who

01:19:39.640 would probably vote with me to kick the

01:19:41.340 rest of to deport a lot of people um yeah

01:19:44.520 obviously they'll be able to uh culturally

01:19:46.880 integrate a lot easier into american

01:19:49.640 culture but still i i think that uh the

01:19:52.260 massive drains of uh european populations

01:19:56.080 from european countries is not something

01:19:58.080 that we should be encouraging when europe is

01:19:59.900 already at threat right now yeah you only

01:20:01.780 need to look at say the archaeological record

01:20:04.140 that most tragedies um come after a large

01:20:07.700 migration of people just as a law of 1.00

01:20:10.880 human nature so large movements of people

01:20:13.200 generally speaking is not good no matter

01:20:15.020 who they are um also i would like to say

01:20:18.360 the last russian is now a monthly

01:20:19.620 supporter so thank you yes thank you very

01:20:21.420 much okay video comments

01:20:23.280 i don't think that's been playing properly

01:20:50.120 i don't know what's going on nationally

01:20:54.460 oh there we go

01:20:55.440 report on rotherham and other reports on

01:20:58.300 telford and oxford they appear to have

01:21:02.780 been upwards of 250 000 young white girls 1.00

01:21:06.540 raped in this century very largely by 0.99

01:21:10.080 muslim men and given these girls are 0.99

01:21:13.560 usually raped several times a day for 0.99

01:21:16.080 years 0.94

01:21:16.740 yep it's just it's very true an

01:21:22.080 unimaginable crime

01:21:23.120 unimaginable

01:21:25.480 good morning lotus eaters if you're

01:21:31.300 seeing this video that means i didn't

01:21:33.260 have any better luck tomorrow making a

01:21:35.440 better one uh it's a bit rainy and

01:21:38.260 drippy on this friday morning up here in

01:21:41.980 the cascades western washington i just

01:21:46.580 wanted to wish you all a very merry

01:21:48.420 christmas hope you have a happy new

01:21:51.400 year god bless

01:21:52.960 and the same goes to you as well and

01:21:55.800 that looks lovely i'm very jealous i'd

01:21:58.440 love to go hiking there yeah me too if i

01:22:00.980 was wrapped up

01:22:01.800 nice and snug snug as a bug yeah yeah

01:22:04.960 had decent footwear on sensible

01:22:07.460 goatex line walking shoes i'd be i'd love to

01:22:11.460 i'd love to have your goatex line

01:22:14.800 walking

01:22:15.060 come on come on and gators uh no i'd

01:22:18.820 love to go hiking there that looks

01:22:19.860 great look at these strange fellas 0.99

01:22:21.260 this is just the eye of sauron that

01:22:23.000 we're staring into looking back at us

01:22:24.820 yeah no big deal just just real eye of

01:22:27.260 sauron

01:22:27.720 much much much bigger cosmically bigger

01:22:30.060 than

01:22:30.460 tolkien could ever imagine probably more

01:22:32.340 powerful

01:22:32.840 gamma ray bursts or grbs are the most

01:22:37.600 energetic events in the universe they

01:22:40.240 are hundreds of times more powerful

01:22:41.960 than a supernova

01:22:42.760 typically last about a minute and

01:22:45.740 briefly

01:22:46.220 outshine the rest of the gamma ray

01:22:48.660 universe

01:22:49.260 that's awesome it is awesome space is

01:22:53.320 one of those things where if i'm ever

01:22:55.600 feeling

01:22:56.100 low or like things don't matter i watch

01:22:59.380 something about space and it makes me

01:23:01.420 feel like wow i am so lucky to to be

01:23:04.700 here right now and the conditions for

01:23:07.400 my existence

01:23:08.160 it could have all gone so wrong and it

01:23:12.220 makes you feel incredibly grateful um

01:23:14.140 not that it's not interesting in and of

01:23:15.960 itself

01:23:16.440 well thank you very much

01:23:28.440 there she is

01:23:29.060 i didn't read the thing that was up

01:23:31.600 okay

01:23:32.180 he actually donated an extra 100

01:23:35.100 dollars well thank you very much um

01:23:36.760 i don't like to see inter-commentary uh

01:23:40.060 arguments going on i want everybody to

01:23:42.000 be happy and full of love and getting

01:23:44.120 along with one another because i agree

01:23:45.720 with you

01:23:46.120 everything is already negative enough on

01:23:49.160 this that's true

01:23:49.840 okay here's my idea for a lad's hour

01:23:55.320 just do a bunch of two choice ultimatums

01:23:57.960 either you have to choose one or the

01:23:59.860 other option

01:24:00.500 i always do clever horrific things but

01:24:02.980 you could do nice things though that's

01:24:04.560 more boring

01:24:05.140 you can ask the audience for input if

01:24:07.440 needed

01:24:07.720 for example either all meat tastes like

01:24:10.280 kale to you

01:24:10.940 or all dogs and cats are compelled to

01:24:13.140 mark you whenever you come near them

01:24:14.640 or my go-to would you rather have eyes

01:24:17.540 for hair

01:24:18.200 or hair for eyes

01:24:20.060 eyes for hair man eyes for hair i'd be

01:24:26.700 able to see everything

01:24:27.600 you'd be like in bloodborne you've got

01:24:29.960 eyes on the inside

01:24:31.440 you've got hidden insight

01:24:33.360 the elder ones

01:24:35.360 yeah oh god 1.00

01:24:36.560 russian garbage human says that 0.99

01:24:38.540 thumbnail is stellar perfect 0.99

01:24:39.740 and then uh new way to understand uh

01:24:42.900 illegal migration

01:24:44.360 calvin robinson starting a fight in

01:24:46.300 waffle house

01:24:47.140 what a great name

01:24:48.440 so let me get this straight a giant

01:24:50.100 mass of men from the east are

01:24:51.420 traveling through anatolia to get to

01:24:53.080 greece

01:24:53.440 herodotus must have been a historian

01:24:55.800 and a fortune teller

01:24:57.260 i did think of it as interesting it's

01:24:58.940 one of those

01:24:59.340 sort of geographical factors isn't it

01:25:01.880 that invasions from the east

01:25:03.240 go via greece

01:25:04.540 so you know

01:25:05.540 gotta back the greeks

01:25:07.100 i'm just gonna read the one

01:25:09.120 um i haven't actually got that many

01:25:10.660 all right i'll read a

01:25:12.200 one or two

01:25:13.840 uh lord nerevar

01:25:14.980 elon's h1b meltdown was seriously

01:25:16.620 disappointing to see although i can't

01:25:18.080 say it's particularly surprising

01:25:19.040 giving his outlook on other issues

01:25:20.500 however i continue to believe that

01:25:21.900 his heart is in the right place on

01:25:22.980 most issues

01:25:23.600 and he is still a friend to our

01:25:25.600 camp for now

01:25:26.540 one to be wary of though

01:25:28.040 there could be no doubt about that

01:25:29.500 yeah i went very hard against him

01:25:30.880 but that's because honestly

01:25:31.940 um i don't know better

01:25:34.100 i don't trust people

01:25:35.400 i don't trust these people

01:25:37.660 because at the end of the day

01:25:38.840 you get into a sort of position

01:25:40.280 that elon has

01:25:41.240 through working people

01:25:42.540 and he's gotten himself into a

01:25:44.680 huge position of power

01:25:46.580 now when the trump administration

01:25:48.500 gets sworn in

01:25:49.600 and so i worry that he will use that

01:25:51.660 power not in our own interests

01:25:53.180 and i think he's made it pretty

01:25:54.440 explicitly clear

01:25:55.420 even if he is posting

01:25:57.400 moobased things

01:25:58.760 on twitter

01:25:59.660 at the moment

01:26:00.500 and i'll read

01:26:02.060 one or two more

01:26:02.880 uh

01:26:04.460 annie moss

01:26:05.460 harry

01:26:06.020 thank you so much for elevating

01:26:07.260 what elon said about the h1b's 1.00

01:26:08.960 i was not working

01:26:10.080 enjoying not working

01:26:11.220 and missed most of this

01:26:12.260 i didn't hate elon

01:26:13.080 before i do now

01:26:14.260 i was excluded from a job

01:26:15.740 as i am not indian

01:26:16.520 and i've seen what the h1b

01:26:17.760 has done to tech

01:26:18.420 and it's not positive

01:26:19.160 i'm really sorry

01:26:19.860 to hear about that

01:26:21.340 calvin robinson again

01:26:22.760 it's weird how sam hyde of all people

01:26:24.180 came out of the woodwork

01:26:24.980 and scolded elon

01:26:26.040 all the while he was calling himself

01:26:27.500 kekius maximus

01:26:28.440 yeah elon changed his name on twitter

01:26:29.880 to kekius maximus

01:26:31.060 for a few days

01:26:31.740 elon did

01:26:32.480 yeah it was very cringe

01:26:33.800 it truly felt like the king

01:26:35.240 became the jester

01:26:36.060 and the jester became the king

01:26:37.280 i believe you may have got that

01:26:38.980 line from carl's video

01:26:40.900 on the subject

01:26:42.120 and omar awad as well

01:26:44.220 h1b isn't fighting for the top 0.01% of jobs

01:26:47.980 it shouldn't be a prerequisite

01:26:49.380 to compete with the 0.01% innovative

01:26:51.920 80 hour per week

01:26:53.360 talent of the world

01:26:54.240 in order to need

01:26:55.060 to be able to afford

01:26:56.020 to feed your family

01:26:56.700 i agree

01:26:57.300 and

01:27:00.360 michael says

01:27:02.260 bo strikes me as the type 1.00

01:27:03.500 that in public

01:27:04.440 is very erudite

01:27:05.300 but gets wild

01:27:06.080 when watching pro wrestling

01:27:07.380 he gets his red and yellow on

01:27:11.560 oh i was just imagining

01:27:14.100 you dressed like hogan

01:27:15.260 i'm more of a macho man

01:27:17.600 that's fair

01:27:18.360 that's a valid choice

01:27:20.080 michael again says

01:27:21.860 josh echo chambers are bad

01:27:23.340 also josh

01:27:24.140 because i enjoy winding them up

01:27:25.400 and on that note

01:27:26.720 it's time to end the show

01:27:29.460 make sure to go

01:27:31.100 to the gold tier zoom call

01:27:32.320 if you are a gold tier subscriber

01:27:34.000 and you can talk to

01:27:35.340 harry

01:27:35.800 i

01:27:36.500 and carl

01:27:37.460 that'll be in 25 minutes

01:27:39.300 that was awful

01:27:40.180 i have used all my words already

01:27:41.860 i haven't had to speak professionally

01:27:45.000 for over a week

01:27:45.980 so

01:27:46.320 you know

01:27:46.980 this is a warm-up

01:27:48.240 but anyway

01:27:49.180 bye

01:27:49.860 bye

01:27:50.360 you

01:28:07.860 you

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - January 03, 2025

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1071

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