The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1109

00:00:00.000 Oh, sorry, ladies and gentlemen, I was just reading this brand new edition of Islander.

00:00:05.220 But in the meantime, welcome to the podcast of The Lotus Eaters, episode 1109.

00:00:10.220 My, how time flies.

00:00:11.600 It's the 26th of February, 2025.

00:00:14.000 I'm your host, Connor, joined by Carl and by Josh.

00:00:16.780 And today we're going to be discussing America's pervert occupied government, why Europe's 0.68

00:00:20.800 going mad, and Japan's record-breaking migration, something very close and painful to my heart.

00:00:26.840 Before we do begin, it's a Wednesday, so at three o'clock, if you are a member of Lotus

00:00:32.320 Eaters' premium subscription, and you should because we've got lots of good content behind

00:00:35.300 the paywall, I'll be doing Tomlinson Talks, where I'll be discussing ARK, CPAC, the banality

00:00:39.880 of British values, and an interesting announcement.

00:00:43.020 So you go over there and catch that live.

00:00:45.640 But unless there's anything else, gents, we'll get into today's stories. 0.97

00:00:49.900 So Doge is currently conducting a financial revolution in the US, trying to cut government

00:00:55.120 waste and attempt to balance the US's bloated budget, but predominantly undo the diversity, 0.86

00:01:02.700 equity, and inclusion infiltration in all of America's institutions.

00:01:07.080 And I would humbly suggest that if they look over to the intelligence departments, they

00:01:11.620 might have missed a few eligible candidates for sacking, as recent leaks by Chris Rufo over

00:01:16.840 at City Journal have pointed out.

00:01:18.480 Before we get into America's pervert occupied government, go over and consume something

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00:01:54.160 Now, what I'm referring to in terms of Musk's revolution is he sent an email to pretty much

00:01:59.900 every federal employee in the government, of absolute millions of them. The email, which

00:02:04.220 I've read from friends that work in the State Department, reads,

00:02:07.420 What did you do last week? Please reply to this email with approximately five bullet points of

00:02:11.680 what you accomplished last week and CC your manager. Please do not send any classified

00:02:15.460 information, links, or attachments. Deadline is Monday at 11.59 EST. He sent the exact same email

00:02:22.500 to former CEO and employees at Twitter as well before firing back 80% of the staff, and for the

00:02:28.520 most part, Twitter works quite nicely now. A bit of a bot problem, but they should get on that.

00:02:33.840 A third of employees, according to Politico, have already complied and responded. Now,

00:02:38.760 Musk obviously doesn't have the power himself to fire loads of federal employees,

00:02:43.220 but the purpose of this is to register how many of them are actually active and checking their email,

00:02:48.980 because then Trump can say, okay, if you guys didn't comply with this, either you're doing make

00:02:54.240 work jobs, you're working from home, you're not actually checking your emails, and you're just a

00:02:58.020 parasite on the taxpayer, or you're engaging in what they call, euphemistically,

00:03:03.220 strategic non-compliance. Basically, you're quiet quitting or gumming up the works and trying to

00:03:08.100 frustrate Trump's agenda as a member of the permanent unelected bureaucracy. And so Trump's

00:03:12.620 given them a second chance to comply, and some of the departments, like Health and Human Services,

00:03:17.160 Transportation, a few others, have gone, oh, okay, you serious about this one? We better respond to

00:03:22.780 this, otherwise you're all going to get sacked. I've seen a few things about this, and lots of media

00:03:27.260 outlets have been really upset at this demand, as if it's somehow an untoward thing to do. But this

00:03:33.140 is pretty standard in lots and lots of different industries, and if you can't come up with five

00:03:37.780 bullet points to justify your existence, then you're really, really not pulling your weight,

00:03:42.880 are you? And I don't know why they're making such a fuss about this, because it's actually being done

00:03:50.860 with quite a degree of caution, if you know what I mean. They're not necessarily being gung-ho about

00:03:56.880 it, and in fact, I would have liked to have seen just, you know, you're out, you're fired, you're

00:04:01.460 fired, you, you, and then, you know, just pointing over the back, someone just clearing loads of them

00:04:06.560 out. So they're being quite methodical and fair, which I suppose...

00:04:10.800 Elon's got an experience of this. He's like, wow, I will literally find out what people actually do,

00:04:15.240 and those people who seem to be full of S are just gone. I mean, the fact that the... I mean, 1.00

00:04:19.980 the Federer... 3 million people, at least, from what they're giving here. I don't know what the

00:04:24.380 American bureaucracy is. Ours is half a million, more than. If America isn't among 3 million,

00:04:29.100 my God, and only a million of them are replied. I mean, 2 million of them are literally out to

00:04:32.940 lunch. Obviously don't turn up to the office, obviously don't do any goddamn work. Get rid of 0.99

00:04:36.740 them. It's not even controversial. It's not a difficult thing to do. If you turned to me,

00:04:41.520 Carl, as my boss, and said, Josh, name 5 things you do in a day, I'd be like, I can do that right

00:04:46.500 now. Yeah, of course. Wine. Ag. That's just a matter of passion. That's a fair point. Josh is

00:04:53.160 the office Karen. He enforces standards, etc. But point being, yes, I agree with you, but the purpose

00:04:59.340 of the system is what it does. And if the system increasingly hires a number of do-nothings on

00:05:04.780 diversity characteristics, then it's not about public sector productivity. It's a left-wing patronage

00:05:09.960 scheme. And that's why they're upset. Yes. And we've identified a few of those people

00:05:13.700 in this segment. And the purpose of this segment is actually to say, hey guys, you missed a

00:05:18.500 few. So, this caused complete ire among all of the associated NGOs from the patronage network.

00:05:25.220 Fox News have profiled a few of them. I won't go into all the various groups here. They've

00:05:28.840 said that some are funded by Soros. It's basically like a network of race communists who want to 0.54

00:05:33.400 abolish ICE, sympathize with Hamas. They're all the same people. They're all doing the same thing.

00:05:37.480 They gave loads of money to former Democrat congresspeople like Jamal Bowman and Cori Bush,

00:05:42.220 all the busted flushes. But what's more interesting is not these NGOs that are attached like barnacles

00:05:47.680 to the aircraft carrier of the US state. It's the permanent bureaucrats inside who have yet

00:05:54.420 to be fired. Now, something else that's contested, and I know people will say, well, hang on a minute,

00:05:59.980 you know, Doge hasn't quite done what it said it's done, because it hasn't touched a lot of the

00:06:03.940 entitlements, and it's probably going to need to do that to balance the deficit. Wall Street Journal

00:06:08.180 have done a breakdown of exactly how much Doge has saved compared to how much it has said it has

00:06:13.120 saved. And their contention is that Doge is claiming to have cut $55 billion on its website.

00:06:18.220 Now, USAID is only $1.2 billion there, and obviously that's under Marco Rubio's jurisdiction.

00:06:24.220 It might get reactivated, especially selectively, but I think the people in Rubio's team are keen for

00:06:28.980 that not to happen, so fingers crossed. The Wall Street Journal analysis projects the actual savings

00:06:34.220 of Doge is closer to $2.6 billion over the next year if spending levels remain constant, and about

00:06:39.480 2% of the funds would have gone to contracts related to DEI. Now, this means still that, you know,

00:06:44.380 millions and billions have been wasted on DEI, that that's snipped. Not nearly as much as we were hoping for.

00:06:49.100 Unfortunately not. So they're going to have to do a lot more of Curtis Yarvin's policy of rage,

00:06:54.140 which is retire all government employees in order to make sufficient cuts to try and

00:06:58.980 deliver public sector accountability and productivity.

00:07:02.220 You can start at the Federal Reserve if you want. But one thing I wanted to say was that

00:07:06.340 Doge actually do have their work cut out to a certain degree, because for some government

00:07:11.140 departments they might not necessarily spend as much money as other ones, but it doesn't necessarily

00:07:16.260 mean that the amount of money saved is proportionate to the amount of work you need to put in.

00:07:21.060 And so I understand why they maybe not hit the ground running as quickly as some people would like,

00:07:28.280 but so far I think they've actually done quite a good job considering the amount of time they've

00:07:32.820 actually been doing it.

00:07:33.700 Well also there are...

00:07:34.440 Any amount of reduction is good.

00:07:35.740 Exactly.

00:07:36.280 There are two things here, is that the direct savings of Doge aren't going to be the entire

00:07:40.780 savings of the Trump administration. So if the Trump administration does away with the

00:07:44.260 Department for Education, that can't be laid at the feet of Doge, but there's a lot of

00:07:47.420 money saved. Or for example, a department regulating small businesses is probably going to cost

00:07:52.700 the economy a lot of money, but they're probably not spending as much on personnel as HHS. So

00:07:57.040 even if they cut large amounts of HHS, it might translate to fewer actual savings than just

00:08:01.560 doing away with all those regulations and unleashing the economy. So there's a bit fudging the numbers

00:08:05.560 here. Anyway, even though, you know, Doge might not be cutting as much as we want, or as much

00:08:11.640 as they're stating, it's still a net good. It's still a plank in the Trojan horse of revolution

00:08:17.240 that is bursting through the gates of the deep state. And that's fantastic. One example

00:08:21.340 they use here of why they haven't saved as much, which just sounds like putting up a

00:08:25.940 Mengele memorial in Dachau to me, but more than a quarter of the contracts listed by Doge

00:08:30.220 were already paid, including $168,000 for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum

00:08:37.640 exhibit that had already been fully installed.

00:08:41.300 That's what a US taxpayer wants to hear, isn't it? Like, it's also worth pointing out that just

00:08:46.600 the optics for Trump of reining in all of this stuff is wonderful, isn't it?

00:08:52.360 Yeah.

00:08:52.580 I think actually, when it comes to the midterms in 26, he's going to do relatively well if

00:08:58.880 the US taxpayers hearing, look at all the things we're stopping the government spending

00:09:02.360 your money on.

00:09:03.020 Basically, when it comes to the next tax year, if the average taxpayer in the US finds

00:09:07.780 they're not paying as much, that's when it's going to matter.

00:09:10.340 As long as they've got inflation under control, because the Fed is doing some shaky and rogue

00:09:14.700 things with interest rates, see what happens to Liz Truss for a warning. But there you 0.99

00:09:19.080 go. Hopefully, midterms still serve Trump well.

00:09:21.900 Now, if Doge hasn't made as many cuts as we would like, I would suggest that Musk and

00:09:27.080 Trump's other appointees have an abundance of candidates to retire forcefully.

00:09:32.140 And we go over to the National Security Agency, the NSA, because Chris Ruffo over at City Journal

00:09:38.560 has got hold of some leaked transcripts of an internal chat room with NSA employees. And

00:09:44.400 I'm just going to read a little from the report before we look at some of the disturbing screenshots.

00:09:49.200 So, City Journal have cultivated sources within the NSA, one current employee and one former

00:09:53.460 employee who provided chat logs from the NSA's interlink messaging program. Makes you think

00:09:58.100 of Blade Runner 2049. According to NSA press official, all NSA employees sign agreements

00:10:02.700 stating that publishing non-mission-related material on interlink is a usage violation

00:10:06.820 and will result in disciplinary action. So, if you go off-topic and talk about non-work

00:10:11.560 things, you could get sacked. Nonetheless, these logs, dating back for two years, so under

00:10:16.600 the Biden administration, feature word-ranging discussions of sex, kink, polyamory and castration.

00:10:22.300 It's worth mentioning here that the NSA, of course, are responsible for accessing American

00:10:27.540 people's data. So, these people are responsible for your privacy. And when you hear what they're

00:10:34.000 talking about behind closed doors, it raises a lot of questions about how ethical they've

00:10:39.540 been about these sorts of things. Because I would imagine that with this kind of unchecked

00:10:44.600 government power, a lot of untoward things have happened.

00:10:47.460 It raises the issue, who watches the watchers? And apparently nobody was watching the watchers.

00:10:51.760 Apparently.

00:10:52.320 Well, they were all watching each other, chagging each other's mouth.

00:10:54.480 Well, yeah. It seems to be something like Reddit-occupied government, right?

00:10:57.580 Yeah, pretty much. Not inaccurate, actually. Also, what you're referencing is the Patriot

00:11:02.640 Act, of course. And that means that they had a backdoor, so to speak, to all of your devices.

00:11:06.600 So, they would be able to access your iCloud, your chat logs. And so, if these kinds of degenerates,

00:11:11.740 politically motivated degenerates, had access to all your data, kind of worrying. But there

00:11:16.640 you go. I'm sure Tulsi Gabbard, who's now got this under her jurisdiction, will be investigating

00:11:20.720 all of this. So, Rufo writes...

00:11:22.720 She is.

00:11:23.540 Very good.

00:11:24.300 She's on it.

00:11:25.820 According to our sources, sex chats were legitimised as part of the NSA's commitment

00:11:29.140 to diversity, equity, and inclusion...

00:11:30.820 What a name, girl.

00:11:33.460 Well, we've got to allow them to be complete pervs. Why? Because otherwise, we're not woke.

00:11:36.900 But this is how they square this, right? All NSA employees sign agreements stating that

00:11:41.900 publishing non-mission-related material will result in disciplinary action.

00:11:45.500 The purpose of this is what it does.

00:11:47.660 Reddit is non-missionary. 0.90

00:11:48.760 So, gay sex is the mission-specific material of the American State Department, at least 0.97

00:11:54.440 under the Biden administration. 0.99

00:11:55.260 I could have told you that already.

00:11:56.080 Well, didn't they... Wasn't that the video that came out of the Senate?

00:11:59.000 That was... Yeah, that was a Senate aide.

00:12:00.740 Yeah, well, there we go. It's just a normal part of the culture.

00:12:03.980 Yeah.

00:12:04.640 Fair point.

00:12:05.580 Yep.

00:12:06.140 So, activists within the agency used LGBTQ plus employee resource groups to turn kinks

00:12:12.120 and pathologies into official work duties. According to the current NSA employee, these groups...

00:12:17.020 It's so classic. Like, if this was, like, I don't know, The Office or something, you know,

00:12:23.180 it just... It would seem like a ridiculous brass ice skit, right? That's the thing. It's just so stupid. 0.64

00:12:30.660 Walk into a meeting room and it would just be an orgy and they're like, oh, we're having a team-building meeting. 1.00

00:12:35.700 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt.

00:12:37.820 No, no, it's the pride equivalent of putting the stapler in a thingy of jelly.

00:12:41.600 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:12:42.140 Like, at least that's less damaging.

00:12:45.620 Yeah, point being.

00:12:47.140 So, apparently, according to the current employee, these employees spent all day recruiting activists

00:12:51.800 and holding meetings with titles such as Privilege, Ally Awareness, Pride, and Transgender Community Inclusion.

00:12:56.740 And they did so with the full support of NSA leadership, which declared DEI was, quote,

00:13:00.320 not only mission-critical, but mission-imperative.

00:13:04.580 Yeah.

00:13:05.320 The active source at the NSA claimed to have witnessed hundreds of sexually-provocative discussions,

00:13:09.100 which, he added, occurred mostly on taxpayer time.

00:13:11.940 The former NSA source, who is familiar with the chat, recalled being disgusted,

00:13:15.460 and if you have children listening, put some earphones in for the rest of this,

00:13:20.120 disgusted by a particularly shocking thread discussing weekend gangbangs.

00:13:23.180 How is this keeping America safe?

00:13:26.380 Keeping America safe?

00:13:27.360 Yeah, exactly, yeah.

00:13:29.140 Well, isn't this all, you know, isn't the entire modus operandi of the NSA to protect terror attacks, right?

00:13:37.980 Yeah, but you forget, the intelligence agencies have been reclassifying terrorists as traditionalist Catholics

00:13:42.360 and saying the rosary is a hate symbol, meanwhile completely overlooking Islamist terrorism 0.54

00:13:46.120 and all the transgender shooters we've had recently. 0.65

00:13:49.540 Looking in all the wrong places. 0.99

00:13:50.980 Yeah, so we're going to look in some horrible places,

00:13:53.840 because we're going to look at some of the transcripts that Chris Russo has so generously posted to X.

00:13:57.360 Oh, thank you very much for this.

00:13:58.560 Yeah, so there's a really nice thread here.

00:14:00.080 So, the first one is, uh, let's, let's, there we go.

00:14:04.420 The first one is about male-to-female transition.

00:14:08.500 So, so here's, here's one employee.

00:14:10.420 Okay, I mean, honestly, the rest is nice too.

00:14:12.700 Wearing panties without worrying about anything showing, because he's had, um, snip.

00:14:18.540 Seeing my reflection in the mirror, wearing leggings, but the pee thing is something I never thought of.

00:14:22.940 It's really nice. 0.98

00:14:24.240 Mine, referring to his neo-vagina, is everything. 0.99

00:14:26.740 I found that I like being penetrated. 0.92

00:14:28.520 Never liked it before gender reassignment surgery, but the rest is just as important as well. 1.00

00:14:32.520 I can say this was one...

00:14:33.860 Thank God the terrorists didn't win.

00:14:35.260 Yeah, one million percent worth it.

00:14:37.140 Despite having to fly to Thailand, pay out of pocket in the recovery, I would not change anything if I had to do it over again.

00:14:43.720 Of course, these are the people I trust to keep America safe.

00:14:45.740 You told me that this was a plant by Al-Qaeda to justify them over the NSA.

00:14:52.360 I might believe it.

00:14:53.300 Can you imagine sending this back to George W. Bush?

00:14:57.260 George Washington?

00:14:58.480 Well, not anyone.

00:14:59.260 You'd be like, I'm becoming king.

00:15:00.540 No, we need the Patriot Act, we need the NSA to keep us safe from the terrorists.

00:15:03.400 Here's some leaks from 20 years in the future.

00:15:06.200 He'd be like, what is this?

00:15:07.440 What am I looking at?

00:15:09.680 Hey, are you implying that NSA agents discussing how he can wear leggings and bikini without a gaff under it is not mission critical, Carl?

00:15:17.820 What a terrible time to have eyes and ears.

00:15:19.660 Yeah, yeah.

00:15:20.380 Oh, don't worry.

00:15:20.860 It just keeps getting worse.

00:15:22.060 So here's another one. 0.95

00:15:24.160 They say that we want hermaphrodite babies in order to advance transgender ideology.

00:15:27.740 An intersex birth would be a great opportunity to raise a kid as non-binary and let them choose later.

00:15:33.600 It's such a caricature of woke.

00:15:35.780 It's like, you just want Ash Sarkar to have to weigh in on this.

00:15:40.120 You know, it's raining about, oh, well, you know, woke went too far.

00:15:42.320 Did it go too far, Ash?

00:15:43.940 Didn't he say anything about this sort of stuff?

00:15:45.800 I mean, credit to these people for being able to hold down a full-time job whilst in a padded room.

00:15:51.120 Yeah, they're probably chewing on the walls of the cell.

00:15:54.600 There's a bunch more in this thread as well. 0.99

00:15:56.000 There's one trans employee discussing hair removal, particularly getting my butthole zapped by a laser. 0.94

00:16:02.540 Hello, a lotus heater's out of context. 0.99

00:16:04.360 Thanks for that. 0.87

00:16:07.840 And saying that they're talking about their installed plastic breasts with language like booba. 0.54

00:16:18.220 Deaf happy so far with how HRT has given me to booba.

00:16:20.900 Yeah, it's just Reddit.

00:16:22.120 Just pure Reddit.

00:16:23.160 I thought that was BBC Pigeon for a second.

00:16:29.660 Sure, it's not a form of patois.

00:16:31.780 Yeah, there's discussions about laser hair removal. 0.98

00:16:35.700 Medical science is going to give me tits one way or another. 1.00

00:16:38.040 So it's just fetish. 0.99

00:16:38.700 That's more true than they realise, but it's just in their food.

00:16:41.180 Always was.

00:16:41.680 EGP fetishist.

00:16:42.760 Always was.

00:16:43.360 It's literally that meme of the astronaut holding a gun to your back.

00:16:46.040 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0.99

00:16:46.600 It was always about being a porn addict.

00:16:48.920 Just Posey Parker toastely vindicated by all of this.

00:16:52.700 I want her appointed head of the Home Office. 1.00

00:16:54.400 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:16:55.180 One NSA official claims to use it, its pronouns.

00:16:58.060 Oh, God.

00:16:59.420 Operative Pennywise.

00:17:00.280 I love the argument.

00:17:02.680 Oh, they're always dehumanising us.

00:17:04.280 Yes, I'm an it.

00:17:05.740 Oh, okay.

00:17:07.240 Yeah.

00:17:07.540 Hi, it, its user here.

00:17:09.420 While I understand we can make some people uncomfortable, keep in mind that the dehumanising aspect...

00:17:13.280 There we go!

00:17:14.560 There we go!

00:17:14.920 They literally used the word de...

00:17:15.960 I haven't even seen this.

00:17:17.420 But literally, I'm going to talk about dehumanising, but I'm actually going to describe myself as an it, an object.

00:17:22.140 Let's hear them out.

00:17:22.900 Like, just preposterous.

00:17:26.420 Yeah.

00:17:27.080 Oh, we're talking about something name.

00:17:29.000 Its pronouns are it and its.

00:17:30.340 Ola name.

00:17:31.260 And if they look weirded out further, clarify that those are the pronouns it chose.

00:17:35.540 Like, when we call a ship a she, you know, when you use, like, female pronouns to refer to a ship, we are humanising the ship.

00:17:43.260 The pronouns humanise the thing.

00:17:45.980 Going, it is literally what you've stepped in on the street.

00:17:49.800 You know, it's like, oh, what about...

00:17:50.820 Oh, look at it.

00:17:51.580 You know, like...

00:17:52.540 People want to demonise themselves, Carl.

00:17:55.600 Quite literally demonise.

00:17:57.220 Literally dehumanising themselves. 0.99

00:17:59.980 God damn it. 0.99

00:18:00.620 They're also discussing the intimate details of their polyhules. 0.99

00:18:03.980 So, here's...

00:18:05.860 A polycule is a polyamorous group.

00:18:07.560 Okay.

00:18:08.060 Story time, ladies and gentlemen.

00:18:09.640 But not everyone is dating everyone else.

00:18:11.540 There's actually a really good infograph of it on the Rain webcomic.

00:18:14.740 It's just Reddit.

00:18:15.740 It's just Tumblr Reddit.

00:18:16.720 Yeah.

00:18:17.200 So, mine looks like a triple bond with P2, double bonds with P3, and P4, who have a triple bond between each other.

00:18:24.420 It's like they're putting up a bridge. 0.98

00:18:25.620 Yeah, shut up. 0.99

00:18:26.460 It sounds like they're making loads of comparisons to chemistry here. 0.98

00:18:30.420 If you've got to have, like...

00:18:31.720 I think they're on something chemistry.

00:18:32.920 So, that's probably...

00:18:33.960 This was only in 2024 as well.

00:18:35.920 Yep.

00:18:36.220 It's not like these are historic chats.

00:18:37.760 Yep, welcome to the Biden administration.

00:18:39.060 Jesus Christ.

00:18:39.700 And you wonder why America's been in terminal decline. 1.00

00:18:42.000 Think of the most disgusting, ugliest, poly-couple... 1.00

00:18:46.740 Whatever they call them. 1.00

00:18:48.440 Polycule that you see.

00:18:49.340 That's what's running the NSA.

00:18:50.960 Yeah, pretty much.

00:18:51.700 There's some other things as well.

00:18:52.860 So, no wonder Tulsi Gabbard wants to look into this, because there's a bunch of literal they-thems here

00:18:57.060 that call her a Russian agent and suggest they're going to do strategic non-compliance and ignore her dictates.

00:19:03.660 So, all those people, sack. 0.94

00:19:06.200 They also say that she defended Assad's killing of his own people, so I assume they've read a Barry Weiss column or something like that.

00:19:11.200 Then there's a Z-they who says that they should be working to block RFK's confirmation as department for HHS secretary. 0.99

00:19:21.840 Should they?

00:19:22.340 Is that in the NSA's purview as an institution?

00:19:25.560 No, but do you remember when the FBI agents that were having an illicit affair said that we're going to ensure that Trump doesn't get elected or stay president?

00:19:32.700 I don't think they want to stay within their mission brief.

00:19:35.400 That's funny, that, isn't it?

00:19:36.760 Yeah, it seems that they're insistent.

00:19:38.500 There's one more as well, which I found really weird.

00:19:40.440 NSA, DIA, and Navy intel officers were debating whether or not Chaya Rychik, Libs of TikTok, and Ben Shapiro should remain members of the tribe.

00:19:49.040 Oh.

00:19:49.520 They said we should expel them from the tribe, direct quote, because they spew hate speech. 0.97

00:19:54.880 So they're not Jewish anymore. 0.92

00:19:56.540 Yeah, so the American government is paying...

00:19:58.620 It's going to be news to Ben Shapiro.

00:19:59.900 Yeah, the American government is paying your yarmulke card.

00:20:02.800 Yeah, yeah, hand it over, Ben.

00:20:04.320 Yeah, the American government is currently paying trans-Jewish activists to debate who isn't Jewish on taxpayer time.

00:20:12.320 Right.

00:20:12.580 Again, just there's loads of these people that could be sacked.

00:20:15.640 I don't normally watch Ben Shapiro's show, but I might tune in for this one.

00:20:18.940 It was good.

00:20:19.580 He surely replied to this.

00:20:21.660 He spoke to Chris Rufo about it.

00:20:23.000 I'm going to have to watch that.

00:20:24.440 That's actually going to be funny.

00:20:25.540 Yeah, yeah. 0.92

00:20:26.280 There's also a racial patronage scheme going on, because of course it wouldn't be gay race communism without race communism. 0.78

00:20:31.640 Why wouldn't it be?

00:20:32.220 So NBC have written this piece weeping, but it's very mask-off.

00:20:36.120 So remember when you said, well, why wouldn't you just fire these people?

00:20:39.100 It's almost like some kind of racial patronage scheme.

00:20:41.080 They're like, yes.

00:20:42.540 How else would black people enter the middle class if it weren't for massive redistribution? 0.99

00:20:46.420 So they write,

00:20:47.000 When Francine Verdeen took a job as a clerk at the Internal Revenue Service in Houston, 1.00

00:20:51.940 oh, wouldn't you think of the poor IRS agents?

00:20:54.440 In 1983, it was supposed to be a stopgap until something better came along.

00:20:57.900 She didn't expect that 42 years later, she would look back on it as the start of a rewarding career

00:21:02.940 that provided growth in various management positions, upward mobility,

00:21:06.740 and the opportunity to build a comfortable life for her family.

00:21:08.960 She's a tax collector. 1.00

00:21:10.360 Remember this.

00:21:10.900 She collects your taxes.

00:21:12.400 They are literally the lowest of the lowest of the Bible for a reason. 1.00

00:21:14.500 Also, they're presenting government jobs like they're a work program.

00:21:18.200 Yes, they are.

00:21:19.480 And that's what the Soviets basically did. 0.88

00:21:23.720 Yes.

00:21:24.040 And FDR.

00:21:24.880 But I repeat myself.

00:21:25.860 Yeah, same thing.

00:21:26.800 Yeah, exactly.

00:21:27.620 For decades, the federal government provided both reliable jobs and guardrails

00:21:30.500 to offset systemic racial bias in hiring and promotions.

00:21:33.340 It's so naked.

00:21:34.920 It's so mask-off.

00:21:36.440 The American government is just one giant affirmative action plan, basically.

00:21:39.080 Really?

00:21:39.540 Yep.

00:21:39.920 Offering an alternative for capital B black workers who might be overlooked or ignored in the private sector.

00:21:44.220 Right.

00:21:44.680 So when they have to compete in the market, they don't get a job.

00:21:48.160 I tell you, it did crack me up when AA just had to pack his octopus diagram in.

00:21:52.780 He came up with this really elaborate theory of how gay race communism spread everywhere. 0.96

00:21:58.020 And literally, the day all of this started coming out, I was like,

00:21:59.700 no, okay, that was all wrong.

00:22:00.740 It was just the US government.

00:22:02.140 It was just the US government.

00:22:03.880 Yep.

00:22:04.120 And it so is.

00:22:05.540 It's just all right.

00:22:06.800 Apparently, the US government played a crucial role in helping black workers like Vadim join the middle class and fright. 0.98

00:22:11.080 But vast cuts by the Trump administration, on behalf of taxpayers, led by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency,

00:22:17.180 God bless boys, are threatening to close down that once dependable path to financial stability.

00:22:21.820 Oh, boo-hoo, you're going to have to get a real job.

00:22:23.620 Yeah.

00:22:23.980 The government, which has about 3 million employees, is the largest employer in the country.

00:22:28.520 That statement alone should be staggering.

00:22:30.800 I mean, that's more than the Chinese army.

00:22:32.600 Um, yeah.

00:22:33.180 The Chinese army's 2.5 million.

00:22:34.280 We actually have more per capita civil servants than the Chinese do. 0.99

00:22:36.960 Oh, I know, but we're just a smaller country.

00:22:39.100 Yeah.

00:22:39.600 The NHS has got something like 1.3 million, whereas the Chinese army's 2.7 million.

00:22:43.440 I looked it up the other day.

00:22:44.540 Yeah, the NHS is more than McDonald's, isn't it?

00:22:46.040 Oh, it's crazy.

00:22:46.600 Yep.

00:22:47.000 Great.

00:22:47.320 It's absolutely mental.

00:22:48.080 Another target for UK doge, if you're listening.

00:22:50.360 Many of the workers fired were either for new hires, or were either new hires or told they were let go for subpar performance.

00:22:56.580 This is the 75,000 that they've already sacked.

00:22:58.780 Quote,

00:22:59.260 The federal workforce was a means to help the black middle class.

00:23:03.100 It hired black Americans at a higher rate than private employers, said Sharia Smith, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, which represents Education Department employees.

00:23:13.400 Obviously, that's on the chopping block.

00:23:14.840 Nearly 30% of education employees are black, according to a 2024 report by the government.

00:23:20.340 Smith said 74 workers at the department had been let go so far, 60 of whom were black.

00:23:24.800 And so there's more to come.

00:23:25.980 Do you want to see an interview with one of them?

00:23:27.680 Go on, then.

00:23:28.040 You couldn't make this up, right?

00:23:30.100 This is a Houston black IRS employee who tells his sob story about how he has now been deprived of a ladder to the American middle class.

00:23:39.380 ...with Michelle Choi to share how he's feeling and his message to those in power.

00:23:47.280 Nothing there.

00:23:50.260 Nope.

00:23:52.040 Nothing there.

00:23:53.180 As he waits for an official termination letter to arrive at his front door, Jason Charles shared the toll.

00:23:57.940 The last 48 hours has taken on him.

00:24:00.160 I can't believe this is happening.

00:24:01.960 And it happened so fast.

00:24:04.200 Like I said, I was just in training.

00:24:06.760 I was just in training.

00:24:07.720 I waited four months to go to training just to be fired.

00:24:11.660 He's one of 6,000-plus federal employees who work for the Internal Revenue Service fired this week as part of mass layoffs happening under the Trump administration.

00:24:19.600 The majority of those workers, like Charles, were probationary workers employed for less than a year.

00:24:25.280 Charles told us more than two dozen employees were laid off from his office here off Gessner.

00:24:29.460 He says it took over a year to get his dream job as a tax-exempt officer dealing with nonprofit organizations and compliance.

00:24:37.320 I wanted to serve the people.

00:24:38.560 And despite recent news, he'd held out hope his job would be spared.

00:24:42.420 How are you feeling?

00:24:44.820 Numb.

00:24:46.580 Confused.

00:24:48.580 Sad.

00:24:49.240 Angry.

00:24:49.660 What's going on?

00:24:54.080 Lost.

00:24:54.560 When did you get the official notice?

00:24:57.160 Or was there an official notice?

00:24:59.100 We never got official notice.

00:25:02.120 I got word from managers that had to be in the office yesterday.

00:25:08.260 And we waited there all day until maybe 12, 1 o'clock.

00:25:13.440 And then it was kind of like a firing range.

00:25:16.480 They lined us up, took our equipment, and sent us home.

00:25:19.260 His pride and passion taken away.

00:25:21.420 Excited.

00:25:22.500 I was so excited.

00:25:23.620 To learn the job.

00:25:28.440 I was telling my management.

00:25:29.500 He's not going to make it as an actor.

00:25:30.700 Yeah, I was going to say, he's not getting an Oscar for this.

00:25:36.260 It's not like I have...

00:25:38.420 I have no so-so.

00:25:41.700 I knew this was coming.

00:25:43.080 I knew it.

00:25:45.360 I thought corporate America was like this, not the government.

00:25:49.400 How would you feel?

00:25:49.900 I love the government.

00:25:50.500 How would you feel if you did work for the IRS this morning?

00:25:53.580 This was the only way I had a voice.

00:25:55.040 I can't go to Washington and go into an office.

00:25:59.760 I can't contact my congressman.

00:26:02.140 He's too busy.

00:26:03.440 He doesn't want to hear me.

00:26:04.760 I try to reach out.

00:26:05.620 This is the only way I can get people to hear what happened.

00:26:11.280 According to a statement sent to Cade, show you a lesson.

00:26:14.020 Yeah, so that's the kind of people they've sacked. 0.93

00:26:15.900 Yeah, no, piss off. 0.90

00:26:16.980 Hard to feel sorry for them. 0.97

00:26:18.620 So one final suggestion before we wrap up.

00:26:20.900 I helped Ayaan Hirsi Ali with this piece, basically, on the Department of Justice's Community Relations Service, which, anytime there's like a terrorist attack or something, they send out a community leader, be it for trans or Muslims or black, to go and represent this.

00:26:36.020 And this is actually baked into law by Title X of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Hate Crime Prevention Act of 2009.

00:26:42.680 So if Trump actually just repealed others in executive order, you could immediately defund the entire racial grift industrial complex and all of these activist groups that the government is currently mandated to fund. 0.57

00:26:54.240 So Tulsi, get on the NSA.

00:26:56.140 Elon, keep going on the IRS.

00:26:58.840 And Trump, get rid of the Civil Rights Act. 0.85

00:27:00.460 And we can ensure that American taxpayers aren't lining the pockets of these race communists. 1.00

00:27:06.720 Excellent.

00:27:08.200 Right, Samson, just a quick thing.

00:27:09.780 The Rumble Rants thing seems to have crashed.

00:27:14.200 Right, okay.

00:27:15.540 Yeah, no problem.

00:27:16.800 We'll just carry on or do them there.

00:27:18.600 So I would like to talk about why Europe appears to be going completely mad over Ukraine.

00:27:23.180 Because I don't know whether anyone's noticed, but Keir Starmer looks like he's in the Führer bunker.

00:27:29.480 Like the Russians are literally coming over the hills and are about to storm Berlin. 0.97

00:27:35.380 And actually nothing like that's happening.

00:27:38.280 Actually, nothing really has changed at all, actually.

00:27:42.000 There's been no particular significant movement or action.

00:27:44.960 What has happened is people have spoken.

00:27:47.540 There's been talking.

00:27:48.780 And it's making them all freak out.

00:27:50.280 And I'm going to explain why they're all freaking out.

00:27:52.960 Because a lot of people seem to...

00:27:55.940 Well, a lot of people are just looking at the way that all of Europe is responding to the Trump administration.

00:28:00.080 And they don't understand why these things are going as they are.

00:28:03.360 And so I'm going to explain it.

00:28:04.680 And one of the things you should do is go and get the latest copy of Islander.

00:28:07.860 Because this is actually kind of core to the analysis.

00:28:11.600 There's a lot of essays in there that will explain the different forms of political impulse that underpin everything that we do.

00:28:22.180 And the Europeans have one. 0.98

00:28:23.460 And the Americans and actually the Russians have another. 0.68

00:28:26.500 And that's why we've arrived at the point that we've arrived at.

00:28:29.580 So just to give a quick explainer from full fact here, which is nice.

00:28:35.540 The last time there were any sort of threat of a peace deal in Ukraine.

00:28:40.240 Just to remember, all of Europe has been 100% on board with total war against Russia in Ukraine.

00:28:46.280 Certainly the states have, not necessarily the citizens themselves.

00:28:49.740 Yeah, yeah.

00:28:50.080 Sorry, yeah.

00:28:50.560 The governments of Europe.

00:28:52.040 Yeah, I should make that clear.

00:28:54.100 I'm talking on a state level here.

00:28:55.380 I'm not talking on a citizenry level.

00:28:57.040 Because what choice do we have in all this?

00:28:59.040 And there was no threat of peace in Ukraine.

00:29:02.580 No threat of peace.

00:29:03.480 Yeah, no.

00:29:03.920 Well, that's literally what happened in 2022 when Boris went over and scuppered it.

00:29:07.400 Right.

00:29:08.020 You know what's really threatening?

00:29:09.120 Peace.

00:29:09.820 Yeah, no.

00:29:10.260 No, no, no.

00:29:11.140 It is.

00:29:11.540 And I'll explain why they view peace as threatening as well, actually.

00:29:15.720 So Boris went and interceded there.

00:29:18.580 And so this changed on February the 12th when Trump got in and was like, look, Vlad, we need to sort this out.

00:29:24.240 Can't have people dying forever.

00:29:25.660 And so they had a 90-minute call where they agreed that they've both got shared interests in making peace come about.

00:29:31.960 And nobody has been more threatened by that than the European Union and Keir Starmer.

00:29:36.460 So this has been something that's very much upset them.

00:29:42.420 Rubio and Lavrov went to Riyadh on the 18th of February to have a preliminary talk about these things.

00:29:49.880 Zelensky is not happy about this because he wasn't involved.

00:29:52.580 Then Trump started attacking Zelensky, frankly, in ways I thought were just unfair.

00:29:58.680 Zelensky isn't a dictator.

00:30:00.340 There's a reason for it, of course.

00:30:02.760 Because the Biden administration never once called Vladimir Putin during the entire thing.

00:30:07.320 Yeah.

00:30:07.520 So the strategic play, whether you like it or not, is that Trump thinks he can butter up Vladimir Putin so that he's going to make him more likely to come to the negotiating table and make concessions.

00:30:17.520 Whereas he already recognises that Europe has financially and morally doubled down on Zelensky at every available opportunity.

00:30:23.280 So he's trying to take a couple of cards away from Zelensky, give them to himself, and make it look like Vladimir Putin has more to do.

00:30:29.020 Yes.

00:30:29.440 But the primary thing is he's essentially bullying Zelensky.

00:30:34.760 He's basically saying, no, you are going to be under my thumb, you are in that place, shut up, or I will literally bully you on Twitter.

00:30:45.200 Other than lunch money, it's minerals, though, isn't it?

00:30:47.040 It is, yeah.

00:30:47.680 And Zelensky has capitulated to Trump's demands on this.

00:30:51.180 But that's kind of ancillary to what's happening here.

00:30:53.120 But anyway, so yeah, Pete Hegseth, U.S. Defense Secretary, said, look, you're not getting your 2014 borders back.

00:30:59.420 Russia is going to take the Russian-occupied and Russian population of Ukraine over to Russia.

00:31:05.860 And this is something that is just going to be the way it is.

00:31:10.080 Because there is an argument from the Russian side that, hang on a second, promises were made to us. 0.69

00:31:16.580 And so this is why Trump said that Ukraine provoked the war.

00:31:21.120 It's a controversial thing, but there is an argument to it.

00:31:25.540 And I'm not saying I necessarily endorse it.

00:31:27.300 And I would say I don't support an invasion or something like that.

00:31:29.520 But this isn't about what ought to be.

00:31:32.040 This is about what really is.

00:31:33.700 And so they point out that, you know, in 2007, basically, the conversation between Georgia and Ukraine entering NATO was essentially put on the table and began percolating through the institutions.

00:31:46.180 And, of course, Russia invaded Georgia in, was it 2022?

00:31:51.120 Come on, where did Russia invade Georgia?

00:31:52.860 I'll look it up.

00:31:55.000 And so you can see this is a part of a long-standing pattern of what Russia would say is defensive actions against the expansion of NATO, right?

00:32:03.540 Okay.

00:32:04.560 Fair enough.

00:32:05.360 Apparently 2008.

00:32:06.800 It was 2008.

00:32:08.220 The Crimea was 2014, wasn't it?

00:32:09.800 Yeah.

00:32:09.960 So it was Georgia, I thought it was, for some reason, I feel that it was much more recent than that.

00:32:15.280 It's just the way time's going.

00:32:16.500 Yeah, apparently, yeah.

00:32:17.560 But the point is, since this point, you can see that the Russians have been making, from their perspective, what are defensive moves to secure areas from becoming part of NATO, right?

00:32:28.180 Because in 2007, this was all floated and started going into the system, but nothing has actually happened, right?

00:32:36.500 And Hegseth, on the 12th of February, said that, look, the U.S. doesn't believe NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement.

00:32:43.440 Whereas, of course, Zelensky is actively asking for that.

00:32:45.600 And, of course, all of the European leaders are like, oh, yeah, we definitely want Ukraine in.

00:32:49.700 Well, Kamala Harris, right before the invasion happened, promised it.

00:32:52.320 Yeah, and this has been something that Putin has been guaranteed by various American administrations would not happen, because he views it as being NATO being too close to his own borders.

00:33:02.940 Which, again, you don't have to like Russia or agree with him to understand why he would feel that way in his position, right?

00:33:11.560 So, anyway, when it comes to the negotiations, it does seem that the Russians have won the war, which isn't terribly surprising,

00:33:19.760 given that Ukraine's like a quarter of the size of Russia, and Putin had clearly been preparing his economy to deal with this.

00:33:28.300 And so, when America starts putting sanctions on Russia, actually, it just leads to inflation over here,

00:33:32.660 because Russia produces huge amounts of raw materials, huge amounts of fertilizer, huge amounts of food.

00:33:38.040 Costs on goods actually went down in Russia, didn't they?

00:33:40.620 Yes.

00:33:41.080 It became cheaper.

00:33:41.620 And so, everyone was well aware that Putin had basically judo-flipped the West, using our own reliance on their, 0.84

00:33:48.020 and, I mean, look at Germany's energy problems and things like this, right?

00:33:50.880 So, Putin knew that this was coming, and he had prepared for it.

00:33:54.580 We were not prepared for it, and the sanctions didn't work, right?

00:33:57.600 And so, Trump has been like, look, okay, yeah, fair enough.

00:33:59.660 They've won this war.

00:34:01.460 Let's just come to the table and talk about it.

00:34:03.640 They're taking lots of territory.

00:34:04.520 They hold all the cards.

00:34:05.440 Now, this made Keir Starmer freak out, right?

00:34:08.020 Absolutely freak out.

00:34:09.020 And you probably saw him delivering this speech, like a hostage negotiation.

00:34:14.000 Like, someone was like, Keir, you have to read this on camera now.

00:34:16.300 No time to prepare.

00:34:17.860 Read these things now, right?

00:34:19.480 And so, we'll go through just, it was embarrassing, right?

00:34:22.180 And there's a kind of, like, just a domino effect,

00:34:26.340 whether it's, like, catastrophe after catastrophe after catastrophe.

00:34:29.420 And so, we'll go through some of these, because it's just remarkable, right?

00:34:31.760 So, he says to Ukraine, okay, the UK is with you.

00:34:34.460 Today and every day, from His Majesty the King to the NHS workers volunteering hospitals

00:34:39.120 in Ukraine, to the communities that took Ukrainian refugees to their heart,

00:34:42.520 that's why I signed a 100-year partnership with Zelensky last month.

00:34:46.840 Because we believe in Ukraine's fight today, the country's incredible potential to thrive

00:34:51.320 in the years to come.

00:34:53.140 I don't give a damn, I don't care about Ukraine at all. 1.00

00:34:56.120 But they view it as part of their kind of imperium, right?

00:35:00.820 Ukraine was due to become another part of the European Union,

00:35:03.560 and we'll get into that in a bit more.

00:35:06.280 But notice how it's, like, the country's incredible potential to thrive.

00:35:12.720 Part of this can be chalked up to virtue signaling.

00:35:15.500 I believe that they genuinely believe it.

00:35:17.280 I believe they think this.

00:35:18.100 But, of course, when Starmer says, I'm going to station 30,000 troops in Ukraine,

00:35:21.700 he's not going to do it.

00:35:22.320 He knows that he can make these commitments while, actually,

00:35:25.540 we're under the thumb of the global American empire.

00:35:27.840 And until recently, the Americans have been, well, the Americans have supported

00:35:31.260 Yeah, this is all progressive expansionism.

00:35:33.960 So now, rather than 30,000 British troops being stationed there, or NATO troops,

00:35:38.280 Trump will selectively station NATO troops to protect his mineral reserves,

00:35:42.540 rather than just protect Ukraine and its borders.

00:35:44.920 To be fair, that's probably what they would have always done anyway.

00:35:48.380 It would have, I think, been largely symbolic.

00:35:50.020 But it will be scaled down, and also Trump will then be able to say,

00:35:52.720 I've kept my promise not to station any more American servicemen overseas,

00:35:56.040 while also, you know, using the EU and NATO as a glorified security force.

00:36:01.040 Sure.

00:36:01.640 But the point is, he just views Ukraine as an economic zone,

00:36:05.280 which is not surprising, considering Keir Starmer is a harsh materialist.

00:36:09.760 But he says, Russia does not hold all the cards in this war,

00:36:12.780 because the Ukrainians have the courage to defend their country.

00:36:14.920 But there are far fewer Ukrainians left to defend their country. 0.94

00:36:19.120 Like, you have to accept at some point that you run out of manpower, you ghoul.

00:36:23.860 And he says, because Russia's economy is in trouble.

00:36:26.640 No, Russia's economy doesn't seem to be in trouble.

00:36:29.200 And because they...

00:36:29.820 Self-sufficient, aren't they, as far as I'm aware.

00:36:31.600 Yeah, because we made them be self-sufficient.

00:36:33.340 We've also driven them into the arms of bricks,

00:36:35.100 and that the entire purpose of Trump's resource grab

00:36:38.620 is to ensure that, one, America becomes a proper economic challenge to bricks, 0.95

00:36:44.700 in terms of raw materials,

00:36:45.900 but, two, that it can try and pry Russia back away from allying with bricks.

00:36:50.760 And he says, because they've lost the best of their land forces

00:36:53.720 and their Black Sea fleet in this pointless invasion.

00:36:58.260 I've seen various estimates.

00:37:00.560 Somewhere between 160,000 to 500,000 men.

00:37:04.040 I mean, that's a lot of men, but it's Russia.

00:37:08.140 Russia's way of war has always been attritional. 0.70

00:37:10.920 They don't care.

00:37:11.600 Also, their equipment was cheaper to produce than the stuff supplied to the Ukrainians

00:37:15.640 via the Brits, Europe, and America.

00:37:17.380 And they have now a full wartime economy that they've been roaring on for three years.

00:37:21.720 And also, their equipment is uniform,

00:37:23.840 which makes things a lot easier when you're a military.

00:37:27.400 If it's coming from all of the European countries and America,

00:37:30.340 it's more difficult to train troops to use that stuff.

00:37:32.760 So, Kirsten appears to basically be delusional at this point.

00:37:36.360 I mean, it just seems to be wishful thinking.

00:37:39.160 I want it to be that Russia's economy is failing and all of their men are dead 1.00

00:37:43.080 and their equipment is all broken and they've got no fleet.

00:37:45.600 I don't think that's true, Kier.

00:37:47.600 And so he says, look, so what we're going to do is step up our military support to Ukraine.

00:37:51.120 We're going to provide another four and a half billion in military aid.

00:37:53.560 Right, so Kirsten intends for the war to continue. 0.99

00:37:56.660 That's what he's saying.

00:37:57.900 And same with the EU.

00:37:59.320 They think the war is going to continue under European auspices

00:38:03.160 rather than with the backing of the United States.

00:38:05.460 We're going to train even more Ukrainian troops

00:38:07.300 and help them mobilize even further.

00:38:08.880 So, for Kier Starmer, there is no end to this

00:38:12.180 that isn't a total Russian withdrawal from everything.

00:38:15.020 He will sacrifice every man, woman and child in Ukraine 1.00

00:38:18.600 if it means Vladimir Putin loses a foot of ground that he has taken.

00:38:22.860 Which is mad until you understand what he thinks he's fighting for.

00:38:27.240 Secondly, he's going to keep up the economic pressure.

00:38:29.460 He's going to make a series of sanctions to force Putin to make concessions,

00:38:44.180 which I think he's going to do that.

00:38:46.300 And then he's going to bring the collective strength to the peace effort.

00:38:49.020 He's like, okay, what's that mean?

00:38:50.680 This is all nonsense. 0.99

00:38:51.820 You are totally delusional. 0.96

00:38:54.160 And you think that this is going to be the case.

00:38:56.760 And he says, quote,

00:38:58.480 A patient called Petro from the Burns unit I visited in Kyiv

00:39:03.720 said to me, if Ukraine falls, Europe will be next.

00:39:08.920 Can Russia take over all of Europe? 0.92

00:39:11.160 No.

00:39:11.540 After a long, drawn-out war with Ukraine?

00:39:14.040 I don't think so.

00:39:15.240 I mean, Russia couldn't even take all of Ukraine.

00:39:17.280 Yeah.

00:39:17.600 So it's like, no, that's not going to happen.

00:39:20.680 And also, the border's going to be militarized

00:39:22.880 and people are going to expect another potential incursion, right?

00:39:25.640 Well, I mean, they're going to be prepared for one.

00:39:27.880 Exactly.

00:39:28.140 But it's not going to happen.

00:39:29.240 Russia, like, it's not going to...

00:39:31.520 Like, Keir Starmer is acting, and he says in other places,

00:39:34.640 like, he thinks Britain will be directly under threat from Russia.

00:39:37.700 And it's like, that's not going to happen, Keir.

00:39:39.540 There's also, there's kind of a whiplash that we get,

00:39:41.800 which is inducing, I think, our collective apathy here,

00:39:44.240 which is that Keir Starmer is attempting to sound Churchillian.

00:39:48.120 I mean, Boris Johnson explicitly tried to fashion himself as Churchill,

00:39:52.140 which is why the peace deal was scuffered.

00:39:53.740 And so we're locked in this idea that it is permanently 1938

00:39:58.680 and that anything other than militarizing Ukraine

00:40:03.480 until the heat death of the universe is considered appeasement.

00:40:06.420 But the problem is they've got this attitude of Churchillian foreign policy abroad

00:40:12.480 and then appeasement to every single tribal minority they import 0.99

00:40:15.960 into our country at home.

00:40:17.180 So they're literally Chamberlain at home, Churchill abroad.

00:40:20.240 And so why should we care about being Churchill abroad

00:40:24.880 if you're currently destroying my home at home?

00:40:27.300 Hence the sort of apathy of us lot around here.

00:40:29.680 Yeah.

00:40:30.060 But it's also too late for appeasement when you're three years into the war. 1.00

00:40:33.540 Like, appeasement happens before the war, idiots. 1.00

00:40:35.900 But anyway, moving on. 1.00

00:40:37.900 So, obviously, Keir Starmer is convinced that this means we're going to go to war with Russia.

00:40:46.540 And so he's willing to put troops on the ground in Ukraine

00:40:48.680 as if the Russians are worried about the British military,

00:40:52.060 whether it's like 72,000 men.

00:40:54.780 Like, do have a good military.

00:40:56.280 Oh, I'm sure it's great.

00:40:56.380 But we're not necessarily...

00:40:57.680 It would be a peacekeeping thing.

00:40:59.800 So we're not going to be, you know, in the front lines.

00:41:01.900 Yeah.

00:41:02.040 As I understand it, anyway.

00:41:03.240 No, no.

00:41:03.680 I'm not saying the British military isn't good.

00:41:05.040 What I'm saying is it's tiny, right?

00:41:07.480 It is absolutely tiny.

00:41:09.360 Like, Britain's got, like, something like two or three times the population we had

00:41:12.980 when we had a world empire.

00:41:14.560 And now we have half the manpower in our army, right?

00:41:17.200 We've got the lowest reserve since the Napoleonic War.

00:41:19.360 Yeah.

00:41:19.780 And, exactly.

00:41:21.100 Like, I mean, we are not a fearsome military power.

00:41:24.540 And so, like, imagine Vladimir Putin going,

00:41:26.200 oh, Britain's going to deploy to...

00:41:27.300 Oh, yeah, what, 30,000 men?

00:41:29.600 Piss off, you know. 0.56

00:41:30.540 Like, Russia's got 600,000 men in Ukraine at the moment, right? 0.97

00:41:33.940 He can get away with saying this because it's performative

00:41:35.900 because, basically, we're just asking what the Americans do.

00:41:37.520 It's not just performative because if you watch him speaking,

00:41:40.440 he is speaking through conviction.

00:41:42.100 And I saw him in question time yesterday.

00:41:44.000 Like, the Labour front bench looked like they were on the verge of having to go

00:41:47.940 towards Hitler, right? 0.84

00:41:49.880 They looked deathly.

00:41:52.040 This, to them, is deeply serious.

00:41:53.800 And it's representative of the end of a world order.

00:41:56.320 And it frightens them.

00:41:58.660 And they are genuinely thinking that it might happen to be 1938 again.

00:42:03.280 And, actually, they're going to go to war with Putla over there, right?

00:42:06.100 Even though...

00:42:07.480 It's to work on his moustache.

00:42:08.860 Well, no, there's the thing.

00:42:09.880 Like, a normal person who's not invested in either side was looking,

00:42:12.480 okay, Putin's war goals are fairly realistic and he seems to have achieved them.

00:42:16.280 Our war goals are mental and we will never achieve them.

00:42:19.780 And yet, our guys are doubling down and will fight forever

00:42:23.460 until every single Ukrainian has been wiped from the map. 0.88

00:42:26.040 I'm very cynical about this, though.

00:42:27.580 I think everyone in any position of power knows that it's all rhetoric

00:42:31.560 and it's not actually real.

00:42:33.740 I don't know.

00:42:34.340 Because you can see the tension in Starmer's face when he's talking about this.

00:42:39.060 They really...

00:42:39.540 And, like, the EU guys...

00:42:41.600 Like, there's a reason when Vance went to the EU,

00:42:43.740 one of them started crying.

00:42:45.200 Like, this is emotionally real to these people.

00:42:47.680 And they really believe in what they're saying.

00:42:49.040 And I'll explain why in a second.

00:42:50.200 We had a conversation with one person whose position we can't disclose.

00:42:54.080 This was last year.

00:42:54.960 And he said, never underestimate the level to which, like,

00:42:59.300 boomers in either the US State Department or the UK Foreign Office and that

00:43:03.420 were eager to get their go against the Soviet Union.

00:43:06.980 Like, some of the people were actually stationed at the Berlin Wall

00:43:09.780 and never got to trade shots with the Russians.

00:43:12.120 And so they now see this as their chance.

00:43:14.100 It's like, Russia, as an entity, even though it's completely different,

00:43:17.160 haunts the boomer mind.

00:43:18.640 It totally does.

00:43:19.300 And so, therefore, that's driving our foreign policy.

00:43:21.300 Why does every problem in the world stem to the boomer's unrealistic view of the world?

00:43:26.340 As Napoleon said, when revolution comes, never trust a man below the age of 40. 0.61

00:43:30.080 Over the age of 40, rather.

00:43:31.200 Yeah, that's true.

00:43:32.080 But anyway, so, Keir Starmer today published this in the mail.

00:43:36.980 Putin's aggression threatens us at home.

00:43:38.900 So, he's arguing in this that literally Russians are going to rock up with soldiers on British shores

00:43:44.560 and they will take us over.

00:43:45.680 It's like, that's not going to happen.

00:43:46.780 It's just not going to happen.

00:43:47.880 You sound delusional.

00:43:49.140 And yet, this is the Prime Minister's forward-facing position.

00:43:53.680 Totally unbothered by Islamic subversion currently happening. 1.00

00:43:55.560 No, no, no, they don't care about any of that, right?

00:43:57.020 Because that's part of the plan, right?

00:43:58.460 That's all part of the plan.

00:43:59.440 That's normal for what we are.

00:44:02.700 It's not normal that Putin is able to do what he's doing.

00:44:06.720 Some things are planned for and regulated and other things are not.

00:44:09.920 And that's the thing that he's so bothered about.

00:44:12.120 And so, the last thing he wants is an unregulated world.

00:44:15.660 And that's what Putin is threatening, right?

00:44:17.780 Macron has ruled it out, but he's also, in other places, said, yes, I will.

00:44:21.860 Schultz, before he got ousted, was saying, you know, we're going to do stuff.

00:44:25.580 In fact, I've got a thing on Schultz here.

00:44:28.260 He's probably going to be the coalition partner as well.

00:44:30.560 Yeah, yeah.

00:44:31.080 And Schultz, he's going to hang around in the background even if there's nothing else.

00:44:34.260 But he says, look, we don't want an independent European force.

00:44:40.120 We want the NATO forces doing it because we want it to be a big coalition.

00:44:43.960 Lithuania's defense minister said that, look, Trump was right about Europe's defense spending

00:44:48.580 and military strength.

00:44:50.220 We don't want to hear it, but it is true that Europe isn't really in a position to do this

00:44:54.420 itself, which is why Schultz is like, well, we need NATO behind us, right?

00:44:58.020 But this is leading to a rift.

00:45:00.720 And so, we ended up seeing this rift at a UN resolution that was recently passed.

00:45:06.360 So, it looks like what's going to happen is Trump and Putin are going to negotiate peace.

00:45:11.120 Whether this holds on or not is anyone's guess.

00:45:13.000 But it is the liberal international establishment that is freaking out about it because of the

00:45:17.120 nature of what's being done here. 0.99

00:45:19.000 Because they, I mean, this was the most pathetic thing in the world. 0.97

00:45:22.020 It shows you the UN, right? 0.96

00:45:23.480 There's, you know, the instantiation of the global rules-based order is a nothing.

00:45:30.340 It's an absolute nothing.

00:45:31.880 Apart from, it's kind of like an emotional support system for the, no, I really mean

00:45:37.160 this.

00:45:37.440 Like a llama they take on the planet.

00:45:38.480 I'm laughing because I agree.

00:45:39.560 I'm not joking.

00:45:40.380 It's basically like this emotional support meetings they have, right?

00:45:43.480 And so, there was a resolution that was passed in the UN to end the Ukraine war.

00:45:50.420 And Russia and the United States both voted against this.

00:45:54.640 And this made them freak out.

00:45:56.680 It's like, well, hang on a second.

00:45:57.420 Why isn't the US voting with us?

00:45:58.540 Is that because Trump is going to do this in a different way to you, right?

00:46:03.360 They sit down.

00:46:04.200 They want their rules-based order.

00:46:05.900 So, right, we're going to sit there.

00:46:06.800 We're going to sign these.

00:46:07.420 Everyone's going to agree on the rules.

00:46:09.500 And Trump is saying, no, I'm just going to literally speak to Putin and we're going

00:46:12.360 to get it done.

00:46:13.060 And that's it.

00:46:13.740 I don't need your rules-based order, right?

00:46:15.780 So, what we are looking at here is two ways of running the world.

00:46:20.740 We've got the imperium of the international liberal rules-based order, which was the European 0.88

00:46:25.400 Union, Biden's America, Canada, the Anglosphere, the West.

00:46:28.540 Whatever you want to call it.

00:46:29.320 Five eyes, yeah.

00:46:29.960 The five eyes.

00:46:31.100 Imagine that placed out on a map, right?

00:46:32.800 And opposed to that, you say that's in green.

00:46:35.600 That's us.

00:46:36.120 That's the good guys.

00:46:37.140 The liberal.

00:46:37.720 We sit down at the UN and have these resolutions.

00:46:40.680 Basically globalism.

00:46:41.940 Yeah, but it's managerial globalism, right?

00:46:44.480 And then alternative to that.

00:46:46.700 So, that is the sphere of the end of history.

00:46:49.940 The Francis Fukuyama types.

00:46:52.040 And then outside of that, you have the great men of history.

00:46:54.540 You have the Putins.

00:46:55.440 You have various other sort of dictators, Kim Jong-uns and stuff like this, who act politically

00:47:01.180 in a way that is counter to the rules-based order.

00:47:03.980 They don't care.

00:47:04.540 Why do I?

00:47:04.920 I don't need a rules-based order.

00:47:06.200 What I have is political power that I'm going to exercise using my will and the force that

00:47:11.040 we have behind it.

00:47:12.200 And Trump is one of those guys.

00:47:14.600 So is, again, like him or not, Netanyahu as well.

00:47:18.600 So, the Israelis have done the exact same thing.

00:47:20.460 They've disregarded the UN resolutions, the International Court of Justice, the Biden administration,

00:47:24.320 trying to rein them in and just said, no, we're just going to bomb the absolute hell

00:47:28.280 out of Gaza and turn it into a parking lot until Hamas and Hezbollah are gone. 0.82

00:47:31.660 And it's only through Trump saying, I'll help you manage the Gaza problem, making a deal, 0.95

00:47:36.560 that this has been brought to an end.

00:47:37.880 Exactly.

00:47:38.280 Well, it's hard power versus soft power as well, isn't it?

00:47:40.400 It's not just that.

00:47:41.880 It's not that the international rules-based order can't use hard power.

00:47:44.780 It absolutely can.

00:47:46.080 What it's about is the method by which you approach resolving problems.

00:47:50.560 And so, they are what, in fact, I'm going to use Karl Mannheim's Ideology and Utopia

00:47:55.660 to give us a theoretical framework on this.

00:47:58.020 So, Mannheim points out that the bourgeois liberal is a rationalist and he wants to use reason

00:48:03.500 to solve every problem.

00:48:04.560 And so, he addresses in this whether there could be such a thing, therefore, as scientific

00:48:10.440 politics.

00:48:11.560 And this is what they all want to do, right?

00:48:13.620 They want a science of politics.

00:48:15.580 Political science already exists.

00:48:17.020 Yeah, but it's such a misnomer.

00:48:18.380 It is.

00:48:18.900 It's such a misnomer.

00:48:20.220 There is no science being done.

00:48:21.420 They want to set the business of the state on rails.

00:48:23.780 Precisely, right?

00:48:24.520 And in fact, he's got a great quote here that I'm going to read.

00:48:26.340 It says, every social process may be divided into a rationalized sphere consisting of a

00:48:31.060 settled and routinized procedures in dealing with situations that recur in an orderly fashion

00:48:36.140 and then the irrational by which it is surrounded.

00:48:39.380 We are, therefore, distinguishing between the rationalized structure of society and the

00:48:42.640 irrational matrix.

00:48:43.360 And already you can see how this applies to world politics, right? 0.99

00:48:46.160 This is why they call Trump and Putin a madman. 0.99

00:48:47.820 Exactly. 0.95

00:48:48.400 And this is why they say Trump and Putin love each other and they're kissing them.

00:48:51.660 Because they act in the same way.

00:48:53.180 Obviously, they're rivals.

00:48:54.660 They're obviously rivals, just they come from a different paradigm.

00:48:57.240 Trump comes from this irrational paradigm and they are rationalistic.

00:49:01.560 And again, this carries on.

00:49:02.840 It's just so good.

00:49:03.840 The chief characteristic of modern culture is the tendency to include as much as possible

00:49:07.880 in the realm of the rational as in the ever-pervasive nature of bureaucracy that wants

00:49:12.180 to literally bureaucratize absolutely everything about your life.

00:49:15.020 They can't help it.

00:49:16.280 To reduce the irrational element to the vanishing point, right?

00:49:19.520 And so he says, conduct, therefore, in the sense that we use it.

00:49:23.180 Means that it doesn't really begin until we reach the area of the irrational.

00:49:27.480 So everything up until this point is rules-based.

00:49:29.980 And so you don't really need to, you follow the rules or you don't follow the rules.

00:49:32.920 The nature of your character doesn't matter, right?

00:49:35.980 And that's very important to the rules-based order.

00:49:38.840 Which is why they literally bring in God knows how many foreigners and say, well, look, 1.00

00:49:42.380 who cares about their character?

00:49:43.880 If they're following the rules, they're fine.

00:49:46.100 It's like, no, no.

00:49:47.380 You know, I don't want this guy on three different bloody speaker phones like Samson had on the

00:49:51.560 train in today.

00:49:52.460 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:49:53.940 It's the character.

00:49:55.200 The conduct of these people matters, right?

00:49:57.440 But these people don't see that and they don't think this way.

00:49:59.680 All they're thinking is, right, no, we've systematized, we've rationalized, we've rule-based,

00:50:03.900 all of this.

00:50:04.740 And therefore, this is all fine.

00:50:06.500 And where we have dominion of the rules, there is good and there is order.

00:50:11.180 Where we don't have dominion of the rules, we have chaos.

00:50:13.400 And that's what Trump is promising them.

00:50:15.540 In Schmittian terms, they're rendering things apolitical because they presume to be neutral,

00:50:19.180 they presume to be settled, they presume to be on rails.

00:50:21.500 And they are terrified of Trump, Putin, Xi, for various reasons, acting in their own expressly

00:50:27.100 national political interest.

00:50:28.680 Yes.

00:50:28.940 And this is what Francis Fukuyama actually talks about in The End of History and the Last

00:50:32.380 Man.

00:50:32.820 So Fukuyama gets a lot of stick, but actually I think his analysis is basically correct on

00:50:38.120 the way that these things are done.

00:50:39.180 And so he begins it on the sort of platonic, tripartite soul of reason, spirit, and the

00:50:44.540 appetite.

00:50:45.560 So reason is, of course, your rational mind.

00:50:47.440 Your spirit is that part of you that fights when you get punched in the face, you know,

00:50:52.220 that stands up for yourself, that demands dignity and respect and acknowledgement from

00:50:58.300 your peers.

00:50:59.140 It is the part of yourself that holds you to be important, that you view yourself as an

00:51:04.580 important thing.

00:51:05.420 And then, of course, the appetites are your just base pleasures.

00:51:07.760 This is Eros, Thumos, Logos, right?

00:51:10.320 Yes.

00:51:11.040 Yeah.

00:51:11.300 Or Thymothes.

00:51:13.540 I'm going to call it Thymothes, which is what Fukuyama calls it.

00:51:16.820 But the point is, you can see how this fits into the different paradigms that we're looking

00:51:22.020 for.

00:51:22.780 Obviously, your reason, the logisticon, is where the European Union wants to live.

00:51:28.760 It's like, no, this is how everything ought to be done.

00:51:30.720 Why?

00:51:30.980 Because we're soft-handed bureaucrats and we're afraid of conflict.

00:51:33.920 And this makes us comfortable.

00:51:35.180 This makes everything predictable.

00:51:36.160 We know what tomorrow is going to be like because we set the rules and everyone's going

00:51:38.900 to follow the rules.

00:51:39.780 And you can see why it meshes so well with the appetites. 0.95

00:51:43.780 So, yeah, go and be degenerate. 0.63

00:51:44.980 Your character does not matter. 0.53

00:51:46.300 That you follow the rules is what matters, right?

00:51:48.520 Whereas when you've got someone who comes from the Thymus, like, I mean, literally like 0.97

00:51:52.940 Putin, Trump, you know, any of the sort of great dictators, you know, come from this.

00:51:58.820 But also any of the great politicians, Winston Churchill was someone who comes out of the

00:52:03.660 Thymus.

00:52:04.400 You know, Nigel Farage is a Thymotic man.

00:52:07.240 You know, he's not, you know, an EU bureaucrat.

00:52:10.060 You know, you can have your criticisms and whatever, but he's one of those guys who's like, no, I care

00:52:14.680 about the history and the dignity of the United Kingdom and I want to see it sovereign.

00:52:18.160 Blimey off.

00:52:18.680 All this sort of stuff.

00:52:19.420 So it's not that you have to be a bad person to be one of the great men whose order is

00:52:24.200 based in Thymus.

00:52:24.980 But you can see from the other side, well, Obama, Biden, Blair, the Tories, Starmer, they're

00:52:29.620 all Davos men.

00:52:30.600 They're all the international rules-based order guys.

00:52:32.400 They don't live in the Thymus, but they can get on with the appetite. 0.74

00:52:36.900 And you, sorry, go on.

00:52:38.780 It's also worth adding there that in this rational rules-based order, they're sort of

00:52:44.200 modus operandi and the reason for doing it in part is to predict the future, as you

00:52:48.160 said. But of course, character, I find, is the better judge of character.

00:52:52.620 Yes, it is.

00:52:53.960 Because it predicts future behavior in a much more reliable way than simply, you know, saying,

00:53:00.480 well, you didn't follow the rules. Well, you're pigeonholing the possibilities there,

00:53:04.420 aren't you? You're not viewing what is possible based on the actual evidence in front of you.

00:53:08.640 It presumes the universal correct nature of the rules, and it also presumes that the

00:53:14.640 unpredictable, well, what they consider the unpredictable nature of the thematic politics

00:53:19.300 is actually as unpredictable as you think. And it's actually not, it's actually completely,

00:53:23.900 like, any idiot can actually predict how it's going to go when, you know, Trump and 0.99

00:53:30.260 Zelensky have an argument on Twitter, right? You can feel it in your gut because you're 1.00

00:53:33.660 looking at the big dog fighting the small dog.

00:53:35.480 Yeah, Trump has political pixie dust.

00:53:37.400 Yeah.

00:53:37.960 Zelensky doesn't.

00:53:38.640 But the point of the character, though, this shows everywhere, right? Now, much has been made

00:53:42.680 of Vladimir Putin's relationship with dogs, right? There was a Chinese guy who was holding 0.83

00:53:47.160 this dog by the scruff of its neck, and Putin, like, sees it and goes, oh, no, no, no, and

00:53:50.480 goes over and grabs the dog. That speaks to his character, right? Now, whether you like

00:53:55.820 Putin or not, you know, he obviously loves dogs, and this is something that is, it shows

00:54:01.560 he's from a different world. Like, I can't imagine an EU bureaucrat would have seen this

00:54:05.180 Chinese guy holding a dog like that and go, oh, no, no, no, no, no. EU bureaucrat would have 0.78

00:54:07.980 stood there and goes, well, I'm not supposed to formally do something.

00:54:10.000 The complete inverse of this would be that Starmer's stage-managed, very quick laying

00:54:15.640 of the wreath at Southport and then being whisked away by his handlers. Yes. He couldn't do

00:54:19.600 anything spontaneous or emotional. Yes. And why would he want to? You know, it's not

00:54:23.160 in his character. The rules say, I lay the wreath. I lay the wreath and then I piss off.

00:54:27.700 And it's because of a profound incompetence in himself to be able to set the boundaries

00:54:31.760 of politics. Exactly.

00:54:33.480 So he has to stick to the rules, otherwise he loses his position, whereas Putin can basically

00:54:37.160 set up these dog-based photo ops. It's basically whether you see virtue as being internal or

00:54:41.800 external. Yes. Can you be virtuous in yourself or is it a system in place to encourage virtue?

00:54:47.000 Yeah. Is your politics rooted in your thymos where you're prepared to fight for the boundaries,

00:54:52.180 right? I mean, all of this war is Putin fighting for the thymotic boundaries of Russia, saying,

00:54:57.440 no, we as the Russians will have these boundaries and we will fight for them. And the Europeans

00:55:02.120 not liking this. Trump's the same, very much the same when it comes to the McDonald's stuff.

00:55:06.060 This is all like, no, no, I think this is cool. I think this is, you know, American. This

00:55:10.520 is all in the, all in the sort of spirited part of his entire, his entire like frame is

00:55:18.440 all part of the spirited part.

00:55:19.700 It's imminent transcendence.

00:55:21.020 Yes. Yeah, it very much is. And this, this gets results, right? This gets results. Like

00:55:25.180 I remember when this happened a few years ago, like probably like six years ago now, whatever

00:55:28.900 it was. And Trump and Kim Jong-un are shaking hands on the demilitarized border between North

00:55:34.960 and South Korea. Everyone was like, this is preposterous. No, this is how thymotic politics

00:55:39.380 works. This is how great man politics works. You know, when, when you have an understanding

00:55:43.140 that you're both operating the same way, like this can happen. For example, like the, you

00:55:47.840 could, you could see something like this could have happened. I mean, you can see why the,

00:55:51.680 the, the, the allies and the Soviets were able to get along, right? Because they were both

00:55:56.740 going for this kind of rationalized rule-based order, whether you agree with the Soviet order

00:56:00.260 or not, but you can see why they can get along because they're, they're speaking to each

00:56:03.180 of the same language. These guys are speaking the same language, even though they're on 0.93

00:56:06.720 opposite sides. And what this does is put the rules-based order on notice, right? They

00:56:12.500 are like, oh my God, the great men of history are taking over again. We're screwed. 0.99

00:56:18.180 I read this and he, and he just said, Starmer has to basically pretend to be Churchill. 0.98

00:56:22.980 Yes.

00:56:23.260 But the problem is you cannot be Churchill because Churchill was thymotic, whereas Starmer

00:56:27.320 is the civil service in a badly fitting suit. Exactly. But these guys don't understand

00:56:30.980 this. They don't, you know, they would never be able to give you this analysis that I'm

00:56:33.900 giving you. All they can do is react in the way that they react to these things. But say

00:56:37.180 the US is now the enemy of the West. What does that mean? How can America, which is essentially

00:56:43.240 the lodestone of the West, there's a heart of the West at the moment. It's where all Western

00:56:46.800 innovation comes from. It's where the power is, where the money is. How can that be the enemy

00:56:50.760 of the West? Unless the West means the international rationalist rules-based order that has been

00:56:56.200 since World War II projected across the West. And Trump now is like, no, we're just going

00:57:00.680 to do this old style in the same way that like ancient Kings would have done it just out

00:57:04.880 of the thymos. It makes more sense. And it actually makes sense. And it's not just that

00:57:09.340 like, you know, foreign policy. Yes, America is Europe's enemy now. So yeah, it's the enemy

00:57:13.960 of the international rules-based order. Trump wouldn't be the enemy of Napoleon, right?

00:57:19.160 Trump and Napoleon, they might be rivals. They would understand each other. But no, Trump is

00:57:23.940 an existential enemy to the rules-based order because he's prepared to deal with things

00:57:27.740 on his own terms in the way that all the old world was done. And this is what they're afraid

00:57:33.520 of. This is why they're freaking out. Because what they can see on the horizon is the end

00:57:37.900 of the rational logisticon-based order. They can see, oh my God, we might have to go into

00:57:43.720 a world of unpredictability where we have to show strength, where we have to project confidence,

00:57:48.500 where we have to actually nurture our own character. And as you can imagine, this is

00:57:53.520 a terrifying prospect to the average Soviet-EU bureaucrat. So anyway, I'll leave that there. 0.66

00:57:59.640 But I'll probably do a more detailed analysis on this at some point. But I really think this

00:58:03.440 explains why the European Union is about to freak out and do something stupid. Same with 1.00

00:58:07.720 Starmer. They're about to freak out and do something really stupid that doesn't have to 1.00

00:58:10.900 happen. 1.00

00:58:11.180 Very good. Do we want to do Rumble Ruts?

00:58:14.460 Yes. Sorry. Cranky Texan says, don't underestimate your military. It may be small, but it's been

00:58:21.340 strengthened through diversity. Yeah, well, the problem is modern militaries are just numbers

00:58:26.280 games these days, really, aren't they?

00:58:27.580 Also, our military is entirely white.

00:58:31.580 Yeah, but it's...

00:58:32.400 They've tried to make it diverse.

00:58:34.320 Yeah. Sorry, the military itself isn't diverse, but the people in charge have diversity in their

00:58:39.560 minds. You know, the use of the straight white male pilots who are applying to join 0.60

00:58:43.540 the RAF. It's like, Hedgehog Dilemma says, Thucydides explained everything we need to

00:58:48.720 know about the international relations system 2,500 years ago. The strong do what they can

00:58:52.840 and the weak suffer what they must. And that's what they're most concerned about. That's what

00:58:57.180 they're most concerned about. A return to realistic power politics rather than the fiction

00:59:00.840 of the, oh, you know, Ukraine is just as important as Russia in these negotiations. It's

00:59:04.840 like, no, Ukraine is not. And you wouldn't need to say it if that were the

00:59:08.700 case, right? If that were true, you wouldn't say it. But anyway, as time dictates, I'll

00:59:12.960 let you carry on.

00:59:14.060 Okay. So, oh, I should probably have the actual equipment first before I start.

00:59:20.040 There you go.

00:59:20.580 Good way to start. Thank you.

00:59:23.760 Japan has faced its biggest jump in foreign workers recorded in its history. And this article

00:59:31.680 is framing it as a labor shortage. By the way, Japan has no shortage of people. You've been

00:59:38.680 into Japan. Did it feel like there was a shortage of Japanese people to fill jobs?

00:59:42.660 No. It has an aging population, an inverted demographic pyramid, but they're also, I mean,

00:59:50.400 on the cutting edge of financial services and robotics. So you would think they might

00:59:55.120 be able to automate some of this stuff rather than presumably hiring, like, foreign slave

01:00:00.900 labor.

01:00:01.160 And of course, robots, although I did see a video recently of one attacking a crowd,

01:00:06.140 they tend to come with less adverse social consequences, directly at least, than some

01:00:13.200 of the people they're bringing in. And I've talked about this, about how there are people

01:00:18.500 from Africa, people from places like Pakistan, and in particular, they're concerned with the

01:00:25.020 Kurds. And we're going to touch on them briefly today. 0.84

01:00:27.740 And I covered that here, talking about their cultural enrichment, because of course, Japan

01:00:35.280 needs to be improved by becoming more diverse, apparently. And I was saying that how the replacement

01:00:41.840 of Japanese cultures already started to begin in certain areas. And some of these actually

01:00:47.440 got translated into Japanese and got quite good views. So the Japanese translation there,

01:00:53.520 almost at 400,000 views.

01:00:56.520 That's my favorite dating, Sam.

01:00:58.380 There's one of me, you, and Stelios, if you just scroll down slightly on the right-hand

01:01:01.700 sidebar.

01:01:02.100 Oh, yeah, so there is. Another one's been translated. My favorite thing about this is that someone

01:01:06.280 in the comments referred to Dan as the Bearded Baron, which is an excellent nickname. 1.00

01:01:11.500 It's like, this guy is just laying out the facts, and the Bearded Baron is just astonished,

01:01:16.060 I think they said. Something like that. I just thought that was brilliant.

01:01:18.060 What a wonderful wave of words they have. And then I explained what had happened to Britain

01:01:25.300 and how there's already a blueprint in place, that this seems to operate in stages, and there

01:01:30.800 is a very clear formula in which immigration ruins your country. And Japan's at an earlier 1.00

01:01:37.740 stage than many European countries. But they seem to be mirroring these effects perfectly.

01:01:43.600 And then, finally, I looked at what had started in 2025, how they looked like they were opening

01:01:49.280 up to things like Indian labor as well. And that's what Britain has done. And it's not 0.63

01:01:54.660 really jump-started our economy. In fact, our economy has not really grown at all, even

01:01:59.580 though we're told that we need immigration to grow our GDP, because GDP is the only thing

01:02:04.180 that matters, apparently.

01:02:05.900 Well, 95% of all visas every single year are given to non-net tax contributors.

01:02:10.020 Yeah. Exactly. And if you want to support our work and for us to continue covering Japanese

01:02:16.360 politics, what you need to do is buy this wonderful magazine. Not only is it aesthetically

01:02:21.980 beautiful, and I was very impressed with some of the graphics. I'm going to show you just

01:02:25.560 a little page, but you can't read it. You're not allowed yet. But look at it. It's beautiful.

01:02:31.040 If you get a copy, translate it into Japanese, make a manga and send it in.

01:02:33.880 Exactly. But this magazine, lots of really interesting articles, an aesthetic work of

01:02:41.760 art. Very much recommend it. I'm looking forward to reading this when I finally get my hands

01:02:46.740 on a copy. Distribution is going to be very speedy this time around, I'm told. So check

01:02:52.280 it out. Go buy it. It's not that expensive. Cheaper than a book. But anyway, one of the main

01:02:58.320 groups that the Japanese are upset with at the minute, you know, you're going to have

01:03:03.820 to, you know, rein in your surprise here. The Chinese. Who'd have thought? 1.00

01:03:10.080 Are they really the most disruptive immigrants? I think they're just the biggest affront to 1.00

01:03:15.320 their politeness culture. Don't underestimate intra-Asian racism. 0.76

01:03:20.280 Oh, I don't. I don't. Don't worry. There's enough racism in Japan to go around for lots of 0.95

01:03:25.100 different groups, I think. But the Chinese in particular have been occupying the discourse

01:03:29.480 and then there have been people here. Look at how widely this has circulated. 13 million

01:03:35.080 people viewed this, of them just being frustrated at the cases blocking the route, which is

01:03:39.240 inconsiderate and I'd be annoyed as well.

01:03:41.860 I can attest to the Japanese having much better civilizational standards than the Chinese. 0.62

01:03:45.900 Oh, no doubt.

01:03:47.200 It's not even close, is it? And I can understand why they're annoyed because they're not playing

01:03:52.960 by the rules, are they? Not playing by the implicit politeness? And I would be annoyed

01:03:57.400 as well. And then you get things like this. What this is, is a woman, a Chinese woman, 0.97

01:04:03.260 who was going to the toilet in the street.

01:04:06.400 What?

01:04:07.420 Number two.

01:04:08.640 What?

01:04:09.580 In Japan.

01:04:10.700 But, like, our Chinese immigrants seem a lot more civilized. I've never seen, I've never 1.00

01:04:15.720 had any problem with a Chinese immigrant.

01:04:16.920 I know.

01:04:18.060 I've never seen them do anything disgusting.

01:04:19.320 I wonder if it's just because of geographic proximity and the ease of travel, you get

01:04:23.500 a lower quality.

01:04:24.520 Yeah, maybe.

01:04:25.280 I was about to say that.

01:04:26.320 When we opened up the doors to the Indians and Nigerians, the real terms wages of Nigerians

01:04:31.140 and Indians went down in the UK because of the sheer volume. So we were getting, like, 1.00

01:04:34.140 the dregs of their civilization. I wonder if the Japanese are basically getting the Chinese 1.00

01:04:37.200 dregs.

01:04:38.020 I wouldn't be surprised based on that. But obviously this riled up a few people and it did the rounds

01:04:44.200 again. As you can imagine, we see this sort of thing constantly in the West now.

01:04:50.220 We expect better from the Chinese, though. 1.00

01:04:52.040 We do. 0.99

01:04:53.320 That's gross. 0.92

01:04:54.660 I know you guys are like holes in the ground, but still, it doesn't have to be in the middle 0.88

01:04:58.840 of what looks like a pretty urban area, does it?

01:05:02.380 It's in the middle of a high street.

01:05:03.860 I know.

01:05:04.560 Shops around.

01:05:05.340 Apparently, this is a story about how Chinese people are refusing to clean up after themselves

01:05:12.940 in fast food places. And they're saying, like, it's such a hassle. I'm not going to.

01:05:19.140 And they say that even in Europe and America and Africa, they don't clean up after themselves.

01:05:23.360 They're using our multicultural societies. The British do clean up after ourselves. Thank 1.00

01:05:29.340 you very much.

01:05:29.700 But that's because, like, he means even in Europe, the Chinese don't clean up. 0.99

01:05:33.260 In a communist country, there's no such thing as a public space that you treat with consideration.

01:05:37.960 So this is just that. The Japanese are very family and private-based.

01:05:42.060 There's no sense of collective ownership.

01:05:44.000 That's true.

01:05:44.740 Yeah. And another thing is that the Chinese are going on, like, holiday tours and then

01:05:49.820 just vanishing into the mist like Hannibal Lecter. They just sort of blend into the crowd

01:05:54.760 and apparently...

01:05:55.860 That's a great character.

01:05:56.560 Yeah.

01:05:57.680 Except the Japanese one, ironically. 0.84

01:05:59.160 Yeah.

01:05:59.600 Yeah. So lots of Chinese illegals are supposedly in the country now, which obviously comes 1.00

01:06:06.320 with all of the fun of illegal migration, as well as the fact that they're taking up lots

01:06:12.700 of university places and school spaces as well. And they're talking about how some schools

01:06:20.800 are actually teaching children in Chinese and how they're taking over, more or less, and

01:06:25.340 trying to dictate terms in education.

01:06:27.080 That's crazy considering the Chinese birth rate is also stratospherically low.

01:06:31.140 Yeah.

01:06:31.780 Well, they're half of school places. That means that that's just madness.

01:06:35.840 There's no shortage of Chinese people. I don't think they're going to run out.

01:06:37.860 Well, yeah. There's still like 1.3 billion of them.

01:06:39.560 Yeah, but of children specifically. Because China is, again, still a heavily weighted ageing 0.90

01:06:43.680 population. So that's just...

01:06:44.800 Another thing here. It says,

01:06:47.340 At a history conference held at the end of last year, Chinese students made up the majority

01:06:51.220 and demanded that presentations be changed to Chinese. We've seen this sort of thing

01:06:55.420 in Britain, of course, haven't we, where road signs are changed and certain public speeches...

01:07:00.760 Not to Chinese. 0.98

01:07:01.160 Not to Chinese, but to other languages.

01:07:02.180 Well, the Confucius Institutes in universities are a great example because now the universities

01:07:06.440 are so reliant on Chinese student funding that they've been told not to fail Chinese

01:07:09.980 students, even if they can't speak English. And the Confucius Institutes basically policed

01:07:13.780 the behaviour of Chinese students on campus. And then there was the Higher Education Freedom

01:07:17.440 of Speech Bill that was already passed through Parliament that the Labour government wanted

01:07:19.880 to axe because of pressure from the Chinese Communist government.

01:07:24.100 So this is also... Some of the rhetoric has caught up to some degree with Europe to a

01:07:28.280 certain degree. It says,

01:07:30.840 Under the current system in Japan, foreigners can join insurance after three months of coming

01:07:35.100 to Japan. And not only can they themselves, but their dependents also receive treatment

01:07:39.500 worth 160 million yen by paying a few 10,000 of yen. What if a lot of foreigners came

01:07:45.120 to Japan for medical treatment, like the Chinese? Aren't we paying taxes for foreigners? 1.00

01:07:49.140 Yes. Welcome to the club, buddy.

01:07:50.320 Yes. Exactly what happens. It ruins your economy. Everything starts falling apart. Take our word

01:07:54.300 for it. 0.85

01:07:55.400 They will destroy you. 0.99

01:07:57.100 They will destroy you.

01:07:58.020 Our National Health Service is now advertised as an international health service. It's like

01:08:02.400 200 nationalities, one NHS. That's an actual mural that has been commissioned.

01:08:06.660 Half of London's social housing is first-generation immigrants. We're paying for foreigners to 1.00

01:08:10.580 live here for some reason. No one can explain it.

01:08:14.460 And interestingly, this has had an effect on rice.

01:08:18.220 Not anything. There's been, basically, the price of rice in Japan has risen sharply.

01:08:26.040 Some claim up to as much as 90%.

01:08:28.360 Really?

01:08:28.760 And factors like poor harvest, inflation, and increasing demand have played a part. And

01:08:34.400 also, Japan imposes a 778% import tariff on rice as a protectionist measure for their

01:08:41.560 own domestic industries.

01:08:42.680 Maybe against the Chinese. 1.00

01:08:43.540 It is, yeah, because Japanese rice is better than Chinese rice. 0.77

01:08:46.880 But also, China's going to produce God knows how much rice.

01:08:49.840 Exactly. You don't want to flood the market with cheap rice, necessarily.

01:08:53.320 Especially using slave labor, which the Japanese don't use. 0.99

01:08:55.880 So, apparently, the Chinese are also partly to blame for this as well. Because it's becoming 1.00

01:09:04.720 a luxury food good in China for the Chinese elite. And the problem is, in China, they're 0.93

01:09:12.400 worried that the local variants aren't safe. And so they're buying the Japanese stuff because

01:09:16.680 they have higher health standards. And they know that they can eat this without fear of

01:09:20.300 getting sick.

01:09:21.560 You could impose health standards. It's your country. You could do it.

01:09:25.880 You could just do things.

01:09:27.260 Yeah, just be high trust. So, apparently, it was 160 tons last year of rice, which, in

01:09:33.500 the grand scheme of things, isn't a massive amount. This is according to Japan's National

01:09:37.860 Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations. What a mouthful. But this is more than triple

01:09:45.300 the total in 2013. It's only increasing. And so it seems like, unless Japan is even more 0.97

01:09:51.440 protectionist of its rice and keeping it domestic, this is only going to increase and put more

01:09:56.620 pressure on an industry that's already pretty strained. And many of the rice growers have

01:10:02.900 turned to the Chinese market as the home market is supposedly also, to some degree, shrinking.

01:10:09.240 And apparently, Japanese products cost two or three times the crop grown in China or the US, because

01:10:16.860 apparently some rice is grown in the US as well. But they're trying to grow these industries

01:10:21.700 more. And apparently, people are giving Japanese rice as a gift for Lunar New Year. And that's

01:10:29.720 another big boom. And a spike in the sales, apparently. But it's got to the point where

01:10:36.360 they had to release 200,000 tons of emergency rice stockpiles, which is a very Japanese thing 1.00

01:10:43.660 to hear.

01:10:43.880 Most Asian headline.

01:10:46.340 But what's the emergency?

01:10:48.160 They don't have enough rice.

01:10:49.860 The emergency is they're being flooded by foreigners. 1.00

01:10:53.100 Yes.

01:10:53.420 That's the emergency. There's no shortage of rice. The demand has gone sky high, right?

01:10:59.140 Like, they're not growing rice.

01:11:02.100 So there's also been this. And I've translated this picture. And it says,

01:11:07.020 Providing stockpiled rice is a secret trick. So it would be a problem if someone did it.

01:11:12.540 The price of rice I'm currently brewing has crashed, and I'm going to die because of the loss.

01:11:17.140 So they basically stockpiled lots of rice when there's a shortage. And then the Japanese 1.00

01:11:21.160 person here, because this is, I think, being done by largely Chinese people. What they've

01:11:26.100 said up there, which I'm not going to translate, is, I think it'd be better if you did die.

01:11:29.160 So they're taking it well. And also, there's another post here that's done very well.

01:11:36.660 Apparently, Chinese people are buying up rice for the purpose of reselling them.

01:11:40.300 This happened with PPE in Australia right before COVID, didn't it?

01:11:44.080 That's right.

01:11:44.940 Do you think they would preserve rice in a way that's appropriate for them to resell it?

01:11:48.220 There is a possibility that rice containing highly carcinogenic rice mould, I'm not going

01:11:53.280 to pronounce that, may be distributed. Because, of course, one of the main reasons that the

01:11:58.280 Chinese are buying the Japanese rice in the first place is that they can't guarantee that 1.00

01:12:02.820 the rice they're getting in China is safe for consumption. And so they're concerned, well,

01:12:07.460 if the Chinese are buying our rice and holding onto it, are they storing it in a way that is

01:12:12.000 responsible?

01:12:12.860 Exactly. And so this is causing a massive problem because it means that Japanese are now worried

01:12:18.020 about trusting their own rice, which, you know, as such a food staple as rice in Japan,

01:12:25.680 it's crazy that this has been allowed to happen in the first place. And I understand it's a

01:12:30.080 difficult problem to solve because, you know, you're going to have to limit the, you say,

01:12:33.660 Chinese people can't buy rice. It'd be funny. 1.00

01:12:37.280 Just don't flood your country for the foreign nationals and turn it into a low-trust hellhole. 1.00

01:12:40.920 The easiest solution, isn't it?

01:12:42.140 Yeah.

01:12:42.380 And apparently there have been sort of things that have been advising people and to cook for

01:12:54.260 children in ways in which they don't eat as much rice. And they say, have, you know, fish and

01:12:59.140 vegetable dishes as the main dish. And this Japanese person saying, it's too dystopian.

01:13:04.780 Tears. Instead of that, please criticize the government and the Liberal Democratic Party a little

01:13:09.100 for the sake of the children. So they're very upset that they're going to have to change

01:13:14.100 basically their diet to accommodate.

01:13:16.460 Shinzo wouldn't have done this.

01:13:17.860 No.

01:13:18.440 By Mottak Man.

01:13:19.280 Exactly.

01:13:19.880 Read.

01:13:20.300 By Mottak Man.

01:13:21.680 And that also brings us on to another group that's been causing problems, and that is...

01:13:25.460 The Japanese try and translate that.

01:13:27.820 Hey, look, you know, if you're Japanese, hit me up. I'm sure I can help you out.

01:13:31.300 So, another group that I've talked a lot about is the Kurds. And this is something that's

01:13:37.820 very close.

01:13:38.860 You know what Japan was lacking?

01:13:40.700 Barbershops. 0.84

01:13:41.260 Muslim immigration.

01:13:42.380 Yes.

01:13:42.740 That's what it needed.

01:13:43.740 And funnily enough, all are the same problems.

01:13:46.740 Oh, really?

01:13:47.680 So this is a Kurd, 21-year-old, who's got a suspended sentence from a Liberal judge for 1.00

01:13:53.200 sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. This sounds exactly like Britain, doesn't it? 0.90

01:13:57.340 Yeah.

01:13:57.360 This could have happened over here.

01:13:58.300 Where a Muslim, who doesn't have the same sort of horrific response to this sort of 1.00

01:14:05.420 thing, they go over there, they start acting as they do, and cause the same problems.

01:14:11.560 Apparently he was arrested again after being released on a suspended sentence, and he was

01:14:18.520 arrested for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in a car park.

01:14:22.600 Why wouldn't he do it again?

01:14:23.660 Oh, if he got away with it, yeah.

01:14:25.120 Yeah, it's literally, he's going to be let go, then why wouldn't he do it twice?

01:14:28.980 Yeah, and this is exactly the same thing that's going on in Britain. Just don't have these

01:14:33.960 people in your country. Don't let them in. 1.00

01:14:35.760 Yeah.

01:14:36.640 It's that simple. Learn from our mistake.

01:14:39.420 The entire Islamic world is not going to add anything to Japan, I'm afraid. 1.00

01:14:43.540 I just want to, so I actually really personally dislike Japanese culture, right? There's nothing 1.00

01:14:49.860 Oh my goodness.

01:14:51.220 All of it. Like the aesthetic.

01:14:52.980 You can't dislike the Samurai and the Edo period and things like that.

01:14:56.780 No, but modern Japanese culture.

01:14:58.200 Oh yeah, anime's great.

01:14:59.740 It's anime.

01:15:00.440 YouTube comments are going to be horrific.

01:15:01.920 You're talking about the stuff that comes to the West, right?

01:15:04.540 Well no.

01:15:04.760 Rather than like their history and their martial history.

01:15:08.100 Yeah, no, no. Modern Japan, right? I kind of despise it. 0.99

01:15:11.760 It's not as prominent as you think over there, fortunately. It's mainly exported, but yes.

01:15:15.380 Maybe not, but like, you know, every time I've seen Japanese food being prepared, I'm like,

01:15:18.260 I'd never eat that. That looks disgusting. I don't like...

01:15:21.140 These foods are lovely.

01:15:23.400 Sushi.

01:15:24.460 I hate... Raw fish? Why would I want that?

01:15:27.140 It's good.

01:15:27.680 The shime is nice.

01:15:28.420 No, I hate Japanese food.

01:15:30.760 I don't like...

01:15:31.080 Look at what you're doing to Samurai.

01:15:31.780 I don't like the sound of the language.

01:15:33.980 The sound of the language kind of bothers me.

01:15:36.240 What?

01:15:36.420 They have a very similar speaking pattern to the English, actually.

01:15:38.640 Yeah, they do.

01:15:39.260 They have a specific word for um.

01:15:41.940 I'm not saying they don't. I'm saying I don't like it, right?

01:15:45.760 And I just sit there and I see all of the cultural output.

01:15:49.240 I see like the sweets.

01:15:50.720 I see the food. I see...

01:15:52.260 You'd love it if you went there.

01:15:53.120 The cities.

01:15:54.060 And I'm just like, I've got no interest.

01:15:55.560 But the thing is, I can understand that, like, this is like, kind of like the Oriental version of Britain.

01:16:02.800 I can understand why there would be some sort of Italian who'd like, no, I just hate Britain. 0.86

01:16:07.040 I just hate everything about it. 0.83

01:16:07.800 I hate the sound of the language.

01:16:08.600 I hate the terrain.

01:16:09.960 I hate the buildings.

01:16:11.120 I hate everything about it.

01:16:12.140 I could understand it.

01:16:13.200 If you're watching and you're Japanese, by the way, this is not typical of what we think of you, by the way. 1.00

01:16:17.100 No, no, this is my personal opinion.

01:16:18.380 I just, it just, I don't like it, right?

01:16:20.300 I love Japan.

01:16:20.900 And that's...

01:16:21.320 No, no, but I'm not saying people shouldn't like Japan.

01:16:23.120 I'm just saying I personally don't, right?

01:16:24.520 But I don't want to see Japan overrun by a bunch of barbarians and changed into something terribly different. 1.00

01:16:31.180 Like, you know, there's nothing wrong with them being something I don't like.

01:16:34.240 I'm not going to demand that they be something I like.

01:16:36.180 You know, okay, that's fine.

01:16:37.200 You guys have fun.

01:16:38.420 It's just not for me.

01:16:39.440 That's great. 1.00

01:16:40.100 I don't want to see, like, a bunch of fucking Kurds going... 1.00

01:16:42.220 I shouldn't swear, sorry. 1.00

01:16:43.160 A bunch of Kurds going over and, like, raping children. 1.00

01:16:46.120 Or a bunch of Chinese and just running, oh, we're going to turn this into China. 1.00

01:16:48.380 It's like, this is awful, man. 0.58

01:16:50.520 You know, this is awful.

01:16:51.340 And I say this as someone who's got no interest in Japan or Japanese culture at all.

01:16:56.900 So, here are Kurdish immigrants shouting... 0.84

01:17:02.340 Immediately. 1.00

01:17:03.520 ...the Japanese must die. 1.00

01:17:05.660 Just, this is awful. 1.00

01:17:06.940 ...guessed in their country calling for the death of the native population.

01:17:11.160 We also have this.

01:17:13.280 This is not necessarily anything new.

01:17:15.700 But, yeah, get rid of them while you still can.

01:17:17.580 And there's also been this as well.

01:17:19.960 A Kurdish organisation has called for a ban on hate demonstrations. 0.99

01:17:24.500 Because lots of people have been demonstrating against the Kurds being rapey monsters. 0.99

01:17:29.800 Which they are. 0.99

01:17:31.300 Not all of them.

01:17:32.500 Not all of them.

01:17:33.360 But some run barbershops, I'm sure.

01:17:35.100 Yeah.

01:17:35.880 However, there have been so many barbaric cases that it's understandable that Japanese society is having an immune system response to this.

01:17:45.440 And they're trying to weasel their way into getting 5.5 million yen in damages for having these demonstrations against them.

01:17:54.940 Just leave.

01:17:55.860 Yeah.

01:17:56.280 Just leave.

01:17:57.280 But why is there a Kurdish organisation in Japan?

01:17:59.660 There should be.

01:18:00.360 It should be prescribed as a terror group. 0.96

01:18:01.760 Well, not necessarily as a terror group. 0.56

01:18:03.280 If they're saying death to the Japanese...

01:18:04.960 Oh, yeah, okay, fair enough.

01:18:06.100 But, like, it just shouldn't be allowed.

01:18:07.620 That foreign people come in are allowed to organise in your country.

01:18:10.280 And, again, I say this as not someone who's, like, a lover of Japan.

01:18:13.080 And someone who doesn't like Japan.

01:18:14.720 But I'm like, no, look after yourselves.

01:18:16.580 Look after yourselves.

01:18:18.020 You have to.

01:18:19.120 Otherwise, you won't have a Japan just like we don't have an England. 0.99

01:18:22.820 And also, you've seen lots of Japanese people getting very angry about this.

01:18:32.500 Good. 1.00

01:18:32.840 You thieving, bold, mad native. 1.00

01:18:34.740 Go back. 1.00

01:18:36.060 I think that's just a translation thing, calling him a native.

01:18:38.600 I think the word is probably closer to savage.

01:18:42.740 Probably, yeah.

01:18:43.880 It's just being mistranslated by Google.

01:18:45.860 And the Prime Minister finally addressed the Kurdish problem as it's...

01:18:51.440 Shifily weak. 1.00

01:18:52.060 We are going to see Muslims dress up in Japanese outfits saying, 1.00

01:18:54.920 oh, they're just as Japanese as the rest of us, bro.

01:18:57.740 The funny thing is, they're all wearing Western suits as well.

01:19:00.160 Sure.

01:19:00.680 We cannot coexist with foreigners who do not follow the rules, is what he said.

01:19:04.600 But it needs to be a bit stronger than that.

01:19:07.820 David Cameron said multiculturalism failed in 2015 and then continued to open the board.

01:19:11.400 Yeah.

01:19:11.580 The local said it in 2011.

01:19:12.620 Words are cheap.

01:19:13.500 Actions are better. 1.00

01:19:15.160 And yes, this has been going around Japanese right-wing circles saying,

01:19:21.600 the only way to save Japan, illegal immigrants disguised as refugees, mass deportations. 0.92

01:19:27.180 Godspeed.

01:19:28.040 Yeah.

01:19:28.680 It's what you need to do.

01:19:29.880 It's the only way to preserve your culture.

01:19:31.840 And it's getting to the point where left-wing outlets, this one's a South Korean one,

01:19:38.680 are saying that they're targeting Kurds because they're racist.

01:19:43.700 And we've seen it all before.

01:19:45.640 It's like, you see all these horrible things that the Kurds are doing to you? 1.00

01:19:50.260 Ignore your morals and your senses.

01:19:53.900 Why don't you care about my feelings instead?

01:19:56.240 Listen, Japan, you're not like historically liberal, right?

01:19:59.000 I expect you to say yes.

01:20:01.260 Right?

01:20:01.440 That's what I expect from the Japanese. 1.00

01:20:02.860 And if you don't say that, I'm going to be very disappointed.

01:20:05.620 Also, notice the flag they're flying there.

01:20:08.260 Yeah.

01:20:08.780 Interesting.

01:20:09.520 Imperial Japanese flag.

01:20:10.560 But yes, I can see all of the problems here are mirroring perfectly those of Europe. 0.85

01:20:20.660 Even with the Chinese, the same sorts of things are happening where they're hollowing out their own little section of Japan 1.00

01:20:26.480 to create their own enclave where it's about their culture and not the Japanese culture.

01:20:30.940 And all it does is undermine Japanese culture, weakens you, weakens your nation, and you have to pay for it. 1.00

01:20:38.860 There's no incentive to do this whatsoever.

01:20:41.420 I've seen no real benefit to Britain from multiculturalism. 0.99

01:20:45.880 And so the best thing to do, as this says, is to send them back home.

01:20:52.160 You know, China's not that bad. 0.99

01:20:54.420 Kurdistan, I mean, might become a state.

01:20:56.040 They can go back home.

01:20:56.940 There's no harm done.

01:20:58.420 You know, they're not going to die.

01:20:59.680 They can live a perfectly fine life.

01:21:01.560 They just don't have to live it in Japan. 0.56

01:21:03.920 So Hedgehog's Dilemma says,

01:21:05.440 I spent the best 10 years of my life in Japan.

01:21:07.300 Man, I'm going to have nothing but people in my mansion.

01:21:10.480 Whining that I don't like Japan.

01:21:11.980 Other than this recent batch of immigration, it's an amazing family. 1.00

01:21:14.740 I've never made a secret of it.

01:21:18.120 He says,

01:21:18.860 I will buy gold-tier memberships and copies of Islander for everyone I know.

01:21:21.600 If you stop Josh making these...

01:21:25.400 What?

01:21:26.520 I will buy gold-tier memberships and copies of Islander for everyone I know.

01:21:29.980 If you stop Josh from making these segments.

01:21:31.960 Truly the blackest of pills.

01:21:33.000 Look, man, if we stop talking about it, it doesn't stop it happening.

01:21:36.160 Yep.

01:21:36.620 That's the thing.

01:21:37.320 And like I said, I'm not a lover of Japan,

01:21:39.680 but I'm entirely sympathetic to watching an ancient settled nation

01:21:42.340 losing its culture because of a traitorous elite.

01:21:44.760 And I don't want that to happen to the Japanese at all.

01:21:48.180 I don't want that to happen anywhere, frankly.

01:21:49.860 But, you know, when it's happening to somewhere that I'm not going to say

01:21:52.820 isn't beautiful, you know, Japan's definitely beautiful.

01:21:55.540 People wouldn't have such attachment to it.

01:21:57.960 In the same way that loads of Americans are attached to Old England.

01:22:00.120 And, you know, there's clearly a beauty there.

01:22:02.540 It's just not for me.

01:22:03.420 But I hate to see it.

01:22:04.920 I absolutely hate to see it.

01:22:06.180 And so I can't stop him from making these segments.

01:22:08.820 You can't have your white pills if you don't eat your black pills, okay?

01:22:14.080 Can't close your eyes to these things.

01:22:15.340 Hey, Lotus Eaters. 0.96

01:22:21.600 I finally got around to editing my first video comment,

01:22:25.080 so hopefully I can make more improvements going forward.

01:22:28.340 Last week, I went snowshoeing in the Alpine Lakes wilderness area,

01:22:31.980 which I'm sure you'll see more of in the future.

01:22:34.640 My goal was Surprise Lake,

01:22:36.480 but the snow eventually got too deep for me to keep going.

01:22:39.580 Still worth the trip just for the scenery,

01:22:41.580 especially before all the snow melted.

01:22:42.960 I hope y'all are having a good winter so far.

01:22:46.240 It looks wonderful.

01:22:46.960 It looks beautiful.

01:22:47.920 I'm very, very jealous.

01:22:49.160 Very Islander appropriate. 0.97

01:22:51.500 If only Swindon looked like that. 0.92

01:22:54.860 And gays of all stripes, 0.51

01:22:56.480 plus your standard fair, 0.97

01:22:58.020 seething,

01:22:59.440 rogan-listening bros,

01:23:00.800 few of them would call themselves Republican,

01:23:02.280 lest they be... 0.98

01:23:02.720 Sorry, it's the main complaint that there are loads of gays 1.00

01:23:05.380 that aren't attracted to this writer.

01:23:07.120 Yes.

01:23:07.540 No, I thought so.

01:23:08.180 I mean,

01:23:09.020 I can see why you're at this party with this description now.

01:23:11.920 Thanks. 0.82

01:23:12.180 Not the gay part. 0.99

01:23:13.500 No, definitely. 0.98

01:23:14.420 The gay part. 0.93

01:23:15.300 Well, gee, golly gosh, 1.00

01:23:17.440 and fuck me up the wrong in this... 0.99

01:23:20.220 What? 0.99

01:23:21.500 What?

01:23:22.720 I didn't hear most of that,

01:23:24.100 because it got turned down for some reason.

01:23:26.260 Hmm.

01:23:26.720 Too nice.

01:23:27.060 No, no, it's fine.

01:23:32.480 Move on.

01:23:32.880 We're moving for time.

01:23:35.520 You know,

01:23:36.020 whenever the topic of architecture revival comes up,

01:23:37.920 everyone always just posts neoclassical,

01:23:39.620 or even beau arts.

01:23:40.600 Oh, I love those styles to death.

01:23:41.940 It's all very continental.

01:23:43.340 I think whenever we talk about it in England,

01:23:45.100 or especially here in North America,

01:23:46.520 any architecture revival should look like our own styles.

01:23:49.520 It should look like the Americanized beau art skyscrapers,

01:23:52.160 like the Flatiron Building,

01:23:53.260 or Art Nouveau,

01:23:54.300 the obligatory Art Deco,

01:23:55.620 or Streamline Modern.

01:23:56.520 Maybe even push it into the 50,

01:23:57.940 with something like Googie.

01:23:58.780 Really, I just want to live in the future

01:24:00.040 that Batman the Animated Series promised me,

01:24:02.180 if that weren't clear enough already.

01:24:08.280 What a beautiful sound, that one.

01:24:09.940 Inefficient blimps over Art Deco skyscrapers.

01:24:13.020 To be fair,

01:24:13.880 I was thinking about this the other day.

01:24:14.960 Blimps would actually be a nice holiday, right?

01:24:17.300 But, you know,

01:24:18.040 because they used to have...

01:24:19.340 Oh, the Hindenburg.

01:24:20.140 Well, yeah, but that's the thing.

01:24:21.060 And everyone freaked out about it, right?

01:24:23.200 I feel like a holiday's always improved,

01:24:25.340 and your ability to relax

01:24:26.500 when the prospect of an immolating, fiery death

01:24:31.240 and collapse to the ground

01:24:33.220 is in the back of your mind.

01:24:34.960 That happens with planes.

01:24:37.960 Not for me,

01:24:39.180 because I don't fly out of Europe.

01:24:41.500 Okay, but planes crash.

01:24:42.940 Like, these things happen.

01:24:44.000 Sometimes they get flipped over

01:24:45.180 because women are completely piloting it. 1.00

01:24:47.140 Last holiday, I drove there.

01:24:48.440 But they used to have, like, you know,

01:24:50.980 like, a week-long journey over the Atlantic

01:24:52.980 on, like, fancy blimps and stuff like that.

01:24:56.640 That sounds cool.

01:24:58.500 You're going to have an aerial Titanic.

01:25:00.540 Yeah, a week in the air is, like,

01:25:02.560 a lot of risk.

01:25:05.880 What if you're above the...

01:25:06.780 There's only one, right?

01:25:07.320 What if you're on the way through the Atlantic

01:25:08.700 and there's a storm?

01:25:09.580 Anyway, yeah, sorry.

01:25:10.400 Going on.

01:25:10.760 I'm observing monkeys

01:25:13.280 at the Monkey Mountain in Japan. 1.00

01:25:17.680 Damn. 1.00

01:25:19.180 Probably. 1.00

01:25:20.080 These are some very well-behaved monkeys.

01:25:22.120 Normally you see them stealing people's stuff

01:25:23.800 and holding them to ransom.

01:25:24.820 I think that's...

01:25:25.260 Yeah, I think that's New Kyoto.

01:25:26.320 Even their monkeys are well-behaved.

01:25:28.380 Yeah, that is true.

01:25:29.800 Very polite.

01:25:30.680 Yeah, I bet. 1.00

01:25:32.360 Thai monkeys are bastards. 1.00

01:25:34.200 Oh, probably. 1.00

01:25:37.600 Good morning from Beppu, Japan.

01:25:40.760 There's a view from my window this morning

01:25:45.700 in our hotel

01:25:49.300 here in Kanawa.

01:25:58.600 See, how does that one look?

01:26:00.060 Homely and awesome.

01:26:04.380 Soulless.

01:26:05.360 No, I just don't like it.

01:26:06.920 I don't have to.

01:26:09.200 Terrible.

01:26:09.720 I'm allowed to not like it.

01:26:11.240 Right.

01:26:11.580 Hey, we got the comments.

01:26:12.620 Are we going to have to wrap up?

01:26:13.400 Yeah, we haven't got time.

01:26:14.620 Okay, we're being culled, I'm afraid.

01:26:16.740 Come back in 25 minutes for Thomson Talks.

01:26:19.300 It'll be an interesting episode.

01:26:21.380 Thanks very much, gents.

01:26:22.520 Otherwise, we will be back tomorrow at 1 o'clock.

01:26:24.460 Take care and goodbye.

01:26:25.780 And if we look at this episode.

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01:26:27.680 Let's see you next time.

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - February 26, 2025

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1109

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