The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1122

00:00:00.000 i am joined by the olive oil lord himself the stelios hello josh hello brother josh

00:00:14.160 hello there and we're going to be talking about the end of trudeau as a sort of retrospective

00:00:21.120 a gloating i think it's the end it's okay it's like one of those concerts where you know it's

00:00:25.880 constantly announced that it's ending but do you have an encore we don't want an encore yeah nobody

00:00:31.660 wants an encore um i'm going to be talking about how things are getting more tense in japan

00:00:36.460 and then stelios is going to tell us about how the french are demanding the return of the statue of

00:00:40.740 liberty which is funny yeah you have an announcement to make don't you have an announcement i had an

00:00:48.280 interview i had the pleasure of interviewing dr eric lidstrom could you please have the link here

00:00:54.760 yeah we've got one in the dock to pull up harry yep just in the announcements but um anyway so

00:01:01.920 we have a an interview with dr eric lidstrom we're talking about multiculturalism in sweden

00:01:08.000 evolutionary psychology high x knowledge problem and also talking about education and decentralization

00:01:14.680 and i have a feeling josh that you will absolutely love the interview i have to check it out and as

00:01:21.500 all you at home eric is pro decentralizing education massively that's just take the state away so

00:01:28.660 well yeah of course i mean we got to where we are that music without it is music to my ears exactly

00:01:35.460 i'm hearing music right now exactly but anyway um looks like we don't have a link so i suppose take

00:01:43.220 us away with some trudeau and take your breath away that's gonna get clear right okay so justin trudeau

00:01:52.620 has resigned i think it's about the seventh or eighth time but rumor has it that it's final

00:01:59.500 is it final this time i think it is because they have a new pm mark carney so if justin trudeau hasn't

00:02:07.340 in fact resigned and they have two pms all hell's gonna break it's it's like um having two dads it's

00:02:14.900 very inclusive it's justin trudeau will love it but also it's you'd say you would expect by someone

00:02:21.040 who claims to put canada first to not go back and try to challenge the guy who succeeded him

00:02:27.340 and to split the country in two because he he really doesn't he really wants to be the first person

00:02:33.380 to resign for 10 times something it's about eighth or ninth now so it's a record yeah so we're gonna

00:02:40.220 talk about the legacy of justin trudeau you you know you know you know most of it but we are gonna

00:02:46.200 also tell you some of the funny stuff but before we do we have oil under three magazine definitely go

00:02:52.680 and check it's josh really likes it when i say this way right and the oil under oil under yeah okay it

00:03:02.640 doesn't come with a free pack of crude oil unfortunately but um right so it's only 14.99

00:03:08.140 pounds just it's a no-brainer go and get it go and get it go and don't even need to remortgage your

00:03:15.660 house to buy it exactly yeah i mean there are lots of people who are spending money and they

00:03:21.820 really regret it so you can either spend 15 pounds and regret it or spend 15 pounds and not regret it by

00:03:30.260 buying islander three right let's go to trudeau now so this happened in january 6 we had trudeau

00:03:39.640 who went out jan 6 jan 6 yes is that the holidays disaster we've been hearing about i've also had a

00:03:45.720 chance to reflect he went out there there is context behind their video they literally had the podium

00:03:51.960 and papers on top and the wind started blowing and the leaves scattered in the wind and trudeau

00:04:00.020 didn't want to hear his speech is what exactly so trudeau went out and he said that he wants to be

00:04:04.140 close to his family and he wants a new chapter in his life and he said that he is a proud canadian

00:04:12.260 who put the nation first now yesterday we have another announcement that he resigned

00:04:19.700 really don't know what he's putting the nation first so he's stepping down that's the best thing

00:04:26.480 he's ever done and this is march 14 so he is resigning for a long time reply i saw the first

00:04:33.900 reply i saw to that canada has lost a good prime minister according to who according to a person

00:04:40.840 calling himself true history apparently right so here is his final messenger thing this is going

00:04:48.440 to be one of his final videos and i literally want to you to hear it because i heard it so you have to

00:04:54.760 hear it as well but i literally want to torture people with this video you literally want to torture

00:05:01.540 them yes rather than figuratively yeah it's one of those cases where i feel comfortable saying it

00:05:06.220 let's hear it to what he has to say and also examine what he has to say because you know we

00:05:12.940 should give people the benefit of the doubt i think he's well past it so proud of canadians

00:05:19.460 i'm proud to have served a country full of people who stand up for what's right rise to every occasion

00:05:25.820 and always have each other's backs when it matters most this may be my last day here in this office

00:05:33.420 but i will always be boldly and unapologetically canadian my only ask is that no matter what the

00:05:43.000 world throws at us you always be the same we go once legion through those i mean just i want more of

00:05:51.320 you the funny thing is he's he's talking about how much he loves canadians he loves them so much that

00:05:56.460 on his watch he flooded the country full of people who are not canadians but they weren't true canadians 1.00

00:06:01.820 those who protested against him were they they weren't trudeau were they they weren't true canadians

00:06:07.280 but also yeah he's he's done loads of things to name a few you know obviously massive indian

00:06:13.020 migration he's done joint didn't they do joint military ops with the chinese and the americans

00:06:18.940 um were very upset about this because they're like well they're scoping out north america 0.99

00:06:23.240 for a potential invasion you idiots what are you doing that was uh another trudeau success 0.99

00:06:28.740 well he is one of the world princes and we are going to talk about several stuff here so here we 1.00

00:06:34.980 have one of those videos that uh went viral we have many people uploading it don't just go and tell me

00:06:43.120 this is only 280 views and only 3.6k it millions watched it right so it's this is just one version of it

00:06:51.620 yes he i've shown it before he's confronted by a canadian steel worker who basically says i don't

00:06:57.120 believe you you you're doing nothing for me i'm paying 40 percent taxes and i i don't have access

00:07:04.000 to basic goods i don't sound like most people who are yeah exactly yes yeah but it's good he knows

00:07:11.640 his position in the world exactly look at what he told him

00:07:17.140 every time we go for a dental visit it's cost me about 50 in my pocket per person okay why i have a

00:07:27.560 good job you're not really doing anything for us justin well actually we just invested so half a

00:07:33.700 million people haven't been with the dentist got to go to the dentist over the past few months probably

00:07:37.260 like my neighbor that doesn't go to work because she's lazy she just doesn't go to work she lives 1.00

00:07:41.940 the same way most canadians try to stick up to each other and that's what we're gonna keep doing

00:07:45.120 yeah good luck and we'll tell you something awesome no all right have a nice day have a good day sir

00:07:49.620 i think that epitomizes trudeau basically because he literally had severe egalitarian instincts

00:07:56.660 and he literally wanted to level everyone down literally yes now why'd you hate me saying

00:08:04.320 literally josh brother josh why because it's one of those things where people say it and don't

00:08:09.460 mean it i say it and i do mean it you confuse me for a politician stay off i believe everything you

00:08:17.520 say don't worry but um the interesting thing here is that his his rebuttal to him was basically just

00:08:24.980 like well attitudes yeah well that's just what canadians are like we we like being ripped off by

00:08:31.460 lazy people in our own country it's if you read the subtext he's saying you're not a true canadian

00:08:37.120 so and being an apologetically canadian means that you want everyone leveled down according to trudeau

00:08:43.000 it means sitting on your backside and collecting welfare right so we have here the new prime minister

00:08:49.480 of canada mark carney who basically vows to get straight to work and um he basically has

00:08:57.320 a career in financing he was governor of the bank of canada i think for seven years from 2008 he was

00:09:06.020 working at goldman sachs and why is it working for goldman sachs is like a golden ticket

00:09:13.060 political leadership isn't it i don't know why josh it's funny isn't it is there some sort of revolving

00:09:20.400 door system here isn't there yeah right here we have pierre poilievre basically saying that

00:09:26.500 as trudeau's economic advisor carney made canada weaker and poorer and working for himself he made

00:09:32.480 america stronger and richer and he's basically saying that he wasn't elected and that he announces

00:09:39.780 that he's going to cut trudeau's carbon tax that he himself was a supporter of it but he just obviously

00:09:46.360 he's going to announce it because the elections are coming any such cases this is like your typical

00:09:51.300 conservative the same thing that you get in britain where they're conservative in name only

00:09:56.280 and their actual politics are just left-wing politics of a few years before the current left-wing

00:10:02.860 establishment yeah that's uh but he's he's saying also about carney that he supported the he supported

00:10:10.120 the green the carbon tax and now carney goes out and says that i'm gonna slash it but it says

00:10:16.240 basically it's you can't have a career constantly advocating for taxes of the sort and then mysteriously

00:10:24.320 slash them a few months before a general election and sounds very familiar doesn't it exactly i think

00:10:30.820 canada's politics are some of the most comparable to britain going because their party dynamic is very

00:10:36.800 similar to ours but sorry to carry on no just no reason to apologize it looks like though that even

00:10:43.020 the canadian libs had an issue with trudeau and ever since he resigned their popularity has increased

00:10:52.040 yeah he was probably a dead weight for them wasn't he i mean he's he's sort of tanked their

00:10:58.040 uh reputation yeah as much as you possibly could he he was losing momentum and he has a legacy that

00:11:09.880 if you find out what it is you're not gonna you're not gonna have any second your legacy is making

00:11:17.760 canada objectively worse exactly and we have here a really good list it says worst housing affordability

00:11:23.800 ever skyrocketing national debt rampant inflation homelessness and 10 cities i've been hearing by

00:11:30.840 people that it's almost double the cost to buy a house right now in canada that it used to be a few

00:11:37.460 years ago it doesn't surprise me to be honest yeah that sounds about right violent crime soaring

00:11:42.200 opioid deaths on the rise healthcare system breakdown bank account freezes during protests that was the

00:11:48.860 truckers wasn't it truckers protests ethics scandal censorship of citizens food bank use at record

00:11:55.760 highs excessive government spending 25 years high interest rates reckless immigration policy so one of

00:12:02.940 the things there uh the food bank use i would like to inject a little bit of uh red pill wisdom here

00:12:09.980 so canada's got a lot of indian people and there was a scandal in britain of all of the indian people

00:12:16.420 coming to britain using food banks even though they were in full-time work just because they're cheap

00:12:21.500 and they were doing it to just save money there's like well no one asks us any questions so we get

00:12:26.420 free food i do wonder whether that's a similar thing there although of course i i don't uh imagine

00:12:32.600 that people are sort of at their financial best in canada at the minute i like your rogan josh version

00:12:38.760 when you're talking about indian recipes right so let's just remember a few things i think one of

00:12:46.300 the worst elements of uh trudeau's apart from the economic ones obviously because it's a huge harm

00:12:53.120 i think he was excessively bad at free speech issues he was putting forward uh certainly true yeah all

00:13:00.540 those hate speech bills that were some of them had retroactive clauses and uh he the way he handled the

00:13:08.300 tracker pro tracker's protest was appalling and it was visibly different to the way that pro pro

00:13:16.720 palestine and pro hamas protests were were dealt with and uh we have here several of the bloopers and

00:13:25.240 i think that this is it's tragic but also comic because the very people who are constantly saying

00:13:33.080 that we are going to be the experts of sigling out basically nazis and uh telling you where hate

00:13:40.600 speech leads and if you just make a joke or a meme you're gonna be a you're gonna be a nazi they 0.67

00:13:47.520 literally a literal nazi flew under the radar and they gave him a standing i remember this yes it's

00:13:53.940 just he gave him a standing ovation there was also one for this man a 98 year old ukrainian canadian

00:14:04.660 who fought for ukrainian independence against the russians during the second world war yes so this

00:14:11.200 is i think this is one of the major bloopers of his candidacy because of course i imagine that

00:14:18.100 was it a ukrainian guy they were saying so they they invited in the ukrainian when the ukraine invasion

00:14:24.460 stuff was going on right and they think oh well he's a veteran of world war ii and he's ukrainian

00:14:30.640 he's the perfect guy little did they know which side they actually fought on but also we need to

00:14:35.240 talk about the tracker's protests and how he handled them and how lots of mainstream media were portraying

00:14:41.200 the issue we have here just a searching bar from no bbc says trudeau vows to freeze anti-mandate

00:14:49.120 protesters bank accounts and i think he did didn't he eventually i think eventually yeah look at new

00:14:56.020 york times there trudeau was right to use emergency powers no no new york times he wasn't yes um canada

00:15:03.340 yeah they had free they froze hundreds of accounts what did trudeau say when he announced the freeze did

00:15:10.360 he say a freeze is coming yeah the iceman cometh that's what he said i think yes and uh here we

00:15:17.720 have a canadian judge saying basically that the emergencies act to quell truckers protests over

00:15:22.900 covid was unreasonable and i think that's a reasonable thing to to make i think i literally

00:15:29.060 think that it's it's not that easy where if it's not that hard basically okay i i mixed my words but

00:15:36.640 it's not that hard for western governments to not alienate their people and it looks like easy 0.89

00:15:43.320 actually it's almost like they don't care or something isn't it exactly but it also it's you

00:15:47.940 can also show that you care about basics stuff you care to represent your people you care to listen

00:15:55.240 to what they what may concern them they don't do even that and trudeau was basically the the woke

00:16:02.000 prince of it if i think trudeau and biden were were really close there if a politician assumed office

00:16:08.540 and just went on holiday on their first day and never came back they would be one of the best

00:16:13.800 politicians the western world has seen in decades i think actually this sounds like a good a good

00:16:20.840 politician like just stay away stay away from people if you want to nominate me to go on a permanent

00:16:25.580 holiday somewhere um i'm more than happy so uh yeah if you want to get that campaign going um i do

00:16:31.460 take investors but what was he doing then when he was unconstitutional he was ecstatic we have here a

00:16:40.260 video where he he is ecstatic and euphoric about getting the jab let let us watch no it's amazing

00:16:47.440 because we were talking about how important it was for everyone to get vaccinated and what a big deal

00:16:52.200 it was to get vaccinated so i thought that was all built in already but getting that shot

00:16:58.160 really was an amazing feeling it it it hits you did you cry i cry you know i cry at movies i didn't cry

00:17:09.080 at the at the at the shot but you know it was a moment where where you realize okay this is it and it

00:17:15.180 wasn't so much because i felt that i'm at high risk because we're being careful and i'm healthy and i'm

00:17:19.940 young and all that but at the same time it's knowing that each of us doing our part is getting

00:17:27.440 through this because we don't get through this unless you know the vast majority of the population

00:17:32.200 gets that first shot and then a few months later gets that second shot that's how we get through it

00:17:37.720 and it's something that everyone can do and we're just seeing canadians come out in such strong numbers

00:17:43.980 all across the country he felt great he felt great and he said do it for the crusty uncle who resists

00:17:50.380 but josh really i need i took issue with something you said you did yes you you you equated crying in

00:17:58.320 movies with peeing standing down it depends on down but i cry at the lord of the rings when the rohirim

00:18:05.360 are charging to the orcs you're allowed to there there are exceptions i think majesty and glory

00:18:11.540 yeah are acceptable you know funerals maybe close relative yeah other than that but lord of the

00:18:19.100 rings definitely oh no no no okay yeah that's like tippity top right so trudeau was insufferable for

00:18:25.160 uh everyone basically also for political leaders here we have a political article saying that trudeau

00:18:29.720 slams maloney over lgbtq plus record and i don't know where at a g7 meeting he started lashing at her 0.51

00:18:37.080 about the rights of 2s lgbtq plus people

00:18:42.580 right so he was insufferable to uh people from all walks of life but he also had an issue with the

00:18:55.260 word mankind didn't he let's this is my favorite cringe video this is like so that's why we came here

00:19:01.740 today to ask you to also look into the policies that religious charitable organizations have in

00:19:08.380 our legislation so that it can also be changed because maternal love is the love that's going 0.98

00:19:14.780 to change the future of mankind so we'd like you to we like to say people kind not necessarily

00:19:21.400 she was so sexist wasn't she yeah everything about this is mankind mankind everything about

00:19:32.540 this annoyed me just like the future is is is about you know women doing stuff and then he's like

00:19:39.580 actually we can't even say mankind anymore you have internalized toxic masculinity so even at a speech

00:19:46.200 where you're talking about how the future belongs to mothers you're actually toxically masculine yeah

00:19:52.060 if you say something that isn't actively facilitating the destruction of any male agency in society justin

00:19:59.680 trudeau pops up out of the ground and corrects your speech your terminology also we couldn't not

00:20:06.600 mention mention um the resemblance between fidel castron and justin trudeau could we could we omit this

00:20:14.660 it's it's surprising isn't it i've seen the theories of how uh the picture of uh his mother

00:20:23.660 clasping onto castro like he's a beloved dear friend like they're very close to one another and

00:20:29.760 then you see the similarities and you're like wow okay they do look quite similar don't they i do have

00:20:35.420 um the impression that we are going to hear about this in the future as well maybe he isn't going to be

00:20:41.720 he isn't going to be the pm but this story is is going to come back he's going to be going to

00:20:47.240 cuba maybe for his next political move i don't know maybe maybe to live to try and lift the embargo

00:20:54.640 i don't think he would be successful now with trump though that's true right so he was also a good

00:21:00.800 dancer wasn't he was he i don't know have you watched this video was i haven't but i'm going to be

00:21:07.700 horrified dancing and indian dance here 0.95

00:21:10.900 it's a weird video what do you think about his dancing moves um i mean he got it down to be fair

00:21:31.040 i can't really criticize it because he did do the the indian dancing as spot on as you could have

00:21:36.980 i'm not going to be harsh here let's be honest right so okay i don't want you to look at what is

00:21:42.260 written up there but i want you to

00:21:44.560 trop important pour prendre au sérieux on un escalier on peut-tu avoir une démonstration

00:21:49.300 aucun problème non oui oui oui donc le truc normalement comment ça fonctionne

00:21:55.860 that's justin trudeau yeah it threw me off because he's speaking french i i don't know if it's a fake or not but it's just so funny it does look like him yeah that's speaking of which

00:22:19.860 which speaking of which oh technology is an issue here okay so we have justin trudeau doing the face

00:22:30.260 he's stocking out his tongue yeah this he's he's that's the kalima thing in the spirit of the dance

00:22:37.820 before what the indiana jones one where he's taking the heart out yeah let's have a proper look at that

00:22:43.700 picture the uh oh this is the uh a video of him

00:22:48.560 and wait no

00:22:52.260 where is it wait wait if you go to the previous one there's a proper picture of it yes

00:23:01.300 yeah that one yeah okay blackface during a 2001 arabian night i would like to point out i don't 0.95

00:23:10.760 care whatsoever about this sort of thing i just think it's funny when if you're woke and you

00:23:15.120 supposedly oppose it then you always find out that they've done stuff like this it's like how

00:23:21.120 feminists date really manly men yeah it's this people are compensating do you think that this was the 1.00

00:23:29.760 the straw that broke the camel's back or was it the castro thing because i think after this

00:23:36.580 he literally wanted to overcompensate and convince everyone how

00:23:40.740 he isn't doing any sort of cultural appropriation although the indian dance video was a bit

00:23:47.120 appropriative culturally speaking wasn't it was he in india though he was surrounded by indians and

00:23:52.900 they they facilitated it therefore they allowed him they gave him a pass they gave him the indian pass

00:23:58.000 yeah they gave him um also i mean he's not even got the right color there um just a point about

00:24:05.680 correct application of blackface here if you're depicting an arab you don't want to be like 1.00

00:24:10.580 pitch black as night do you that's just that's just a poor depiction have a bit of have a bit

00:24:16.880 of class and etiquette with your blackface please and i want to end with this declaration of memes 0.95

00:24:21.680 meme where they post a video there on youtube and say sometimes you accidentally gets it right

00:24:28.900 everyone has watched it but it's it's a good way to uh bid farewell to trudeau and say bye bye trudeau

00:24:36.800 i don't know if canada will miss him no i certainly won't what do you think tell us

00:24:42.400 uh canadian friends tell us if you're gonna miss justin trudeau

00:24:46.600 something tells me no we've got a chat here uh gonna miss connor keep up the good work folks

00:24:55.280 daisy is the hardest worker there how much did she pay you apparently more than twenty dollars but 1.00

00:25:00.520 um no thank you very much for the donation and uh thank you very much for being supportive

00:25:05.040 okay japan time i haven't covered any news in over two weeks really so uh a bit rusty so i've gone for

00:25:16.180 the old familiar uh in japanese politics i'm more familiar with it now than i am actual

00:25:22.320 uh british politics for whatever reason but anyway i've talked a lot about japan newly becoming

00:25:30.700 multicultural because i find it fascinating uh i'm not just talking about it because you know i'm

00:25:36.280 interested in japanese culture but also because the whole um way in which japan is interacting with

00:25:43.920 mass migration and multiculturalism and that ideology follows exactly the same blueprint that has

00:25:49.680 happened in the west it seems to suggest that there's some sort of objective criteria some sort

00:25:55.060 of uh series of stages that countries go through whilst dealing with this up until the point that

00:26:02.300 the native culture is entirely displaced and uh as it's been pointed out this has been going on

00:26:07.900 and attempted for a long time this is from 2006 this has been dug up recently newsweek magazine saying

00:26:14.000 the new face of japan foreigners are not only coming they're staying they've got some is there 1.00

00:26:21.940 asian people that are indian fella maybe a european yeah i mean there's no one there's no japanese 0.52

00:26:30.120 person there no the new face of japan is apparently not japanese full arts ubisoft have been taking notes

00:26:38.040 also they look very stern and serious so that's 19 years ago i know yeah yeah but it wasn't sticking

00:26:45.660 and um instead um until recently basically there was a their financial problems um were leveraged by

00:26:57.860 ngos to impose mass migration on them because culturally and politically the japanese don't want it 0.98

00:27:05.040 similar to britain right in that at no point was the british public ever up for mass migration it was

00:27:10.840 imposed on us um by globalists basically and also i think people need to be very explicit about this

00:27:19.600 that whenever we're voting for parties in democracies of the sort we're living in

00:27:24.880 we are voting for overall agendas so a lot of them are just throwing back inserting into the agenda

00:27:33.360 elements that people may vote for the overall agenda but find that particular policy particularly

00:27:39.680 unpopular i think that this is what goes on with mass migration

00:27:44.180 no very much so i've mentioned this one before but this was back in december the indian-born head of

00:27:52.060 one of japan's most famous snack brands has warned that the country must change its mindset and admit more

00:27:56.600 immigrants to get the economy back to its glory of its boom years 1.00

00:27:59.960 but the problem is that they've got a massive amount of debt so that's not going to happen

00:28:04.700 unfortunately all of that deficit spending that the west has been doing and japan did as well

00:28:10.560 hasn't done us any good whatsoever but the idea that the solution to your economic woes is more

00:28:17.620 indians basically is is not true it doesn't make any economic sense because 1.00

00:28:23.160 you're you're hiring people from a country which has a worse per capita economy than you have right 0.93

00:28:31.060 in japan so if you're taking people from a poorer country and taking them to a richer country

00:28:37.200 is it in the flight do they just lose the traits that make their country poor i don't it makes no sense

00:28:43.860 well i think basically it's it's always there are two sides of the of this discussion there's always

00:28:49.920 the individual basis because sometimes you know from backgrounds of poverty there are people who

00:28:54.560 are very incentivized to go and work and some sometimes they literally want to turn their back

00:29:01.160 on the cultures that don't give them economic opportunities to work there but there is definitely

00:29:07.420 the aspect that isn't talked about that isn't discussed at all and in fact whenever people are

00:29:13.020 pointing it out they are being penalized of the cultural influence as you said because it's not that

00:29:18.980 it's not like everyone just by moving a place on the map completely sheds all their cultural

00:29:26.060 influences so at the end of the day i don't know specifically about india but i think that

00:29:30.660 at the end of the day the question would be when you have migration policy you ask its purpose whether

00:29:37.360 it's supposed to help the country or whether like in the west it's supposed to be a human right

00:29:42.620 it's portrayed as a human right and also the question of what are the cultural compatibilities

00:29:48.520 incompatibilities and incompatibilities between host country and country from which someone

00:29:54.740 migrates and i couldn't see his countrymen getting along well with the japanese hygiene standards for

00:30:00.020 example i mean japanese toilets for an indian will blow their mind they're going from a hole in the 0.96

00:30:06.740 ground to a toilet that speaks to you and can squirt water at you this is just too much it's in it's

00:30:12.540 impossible um but um it's also worth mentioning as well that they've had the biggest jump in foreign

00:30:20.960 workers in the year of 2024 the previous year and this is probably the biggest jump in their entire

00:30:27.000 history and uh if you want to read about some of the the dangers of this sort of thing in a very nice

00:30:33.700 well-designed magazine well you should get islander magazine it's only for sale for a short period of

00:30:39.220 time this is issue number three we've also got some merch on the store if you want to expand your

00:30:44.300 mind to inoculate yourself against the evils of the modern world this is the way that you do it you

00:30:50.460 buy this magazine the way it's a very cheap investment into your future you see and this is

00:30:56.240 not financial advice but also please buy a magazine it helps us out a lot we don't get paid for these

00:31:02.380 podcast segments and so we need your support thank you very much but anyway it's worth mentioning as

00:31:09.480 well that they're getting the full works of propaganda as well uh that this guy here is

00:31:14.320 saying westerners make up 0.05 percent of the foreign population in japan yet the japanese government

00:31:19.720 uses white people to push multiculturalism despite the fact most foreigners coming in are not westerners

00:31:25.140 sounds familiar doesn't it yes that's what we're getting in europe and north america to a certain

00:31:30.640 extent as well and the the love of european culture from the japanese because they do appreciate our

00:31:36.960 culture and it's very nice and we do appreciate it thank you um they're basically using this this

00:31:43.980 veneer to indoctrinate people into believing that this is the face of immigration and it's not and the

00:31:50.900 same thing happened here as well exactly that same campaign and uh there's also a similar thing here

00:31:56.940 that uh they're using the human rights sort of angle to get in apparently um there are loads of

00:32:05.120 north african lgbt refugees flooding into japan because everyone knows north africa is a hotbed for 0.99

00:32:12.740 for the alphabet people for some reason you know that islamic part of the world yeah especially in

00:32:19.880 north africa it's not that they're just gaming the system of human rights and lying about their 0.76

00:32:25.380 um sexual proclivities to get immigration status approved to japan that's definitely not happening

00:32:34.120 and ultimately it's it boils down to an issue of people who want to push this agenda because

00:32:39.480 a lot of the times we constantly hear to people who are criminals and serial rapists who are not

00:32:45.860 getting deported because they appeal to the echr the european convention of human rights and the echr if

00:32:56.000 you actually read it it's it doesn't say something weird on an article 8 it conditions everything not

00:33:03.780 deport non-deportation is conditional upon public public security considerations so it's just people

00:33:12.880 who are giving an incredibly biased interpretation and wrong interpretation of a particular law

00:33:20.340 because they literally want this policy there are definitely people out there that will

00:33:25.620 bend the rules and bend the law and stand in the way of the deportation of murderers and rapists

00:33:31.360 and there's far too many of them i think that these people should face consequences personally

00:33:35.620 legal ones of course um so yes there's that there's also uh lots of videos of people on the street

00:33:42.860 talking to people about immigration now it's become a point of concern and there are lots of people 1.00

00:33:46.820 saying i've got no problem and they're talking they're basically saying immigration is good for

00:33:51.380 the economy and as long as they accept our way of life they should be welcome they're trusting out that

00:33:55.980 line which us europeans are sort of turning our back on now we've realized where that leads

00:34:01.520 and um also accepting a way of life without qualifying what way of life that is is notorious

00:34:09.580 it basically doesn't mean anything well it's basically an impossible standard to completely

00:34:15.000 adopt someone else's way of life unless it's very similar exactly you know if if i were to move to like

00:34:20.460 ireland or scotland i could adapt to the way of life because it's very similar to the way of life in

00:34:26.360 england exactly yes but also the issue is that in europe one of one of the things that people care

00:34:32.540 about is also you know they want to be patriots they want their countries to flourish and solve

00:34:37.680 demographic uh adverse indexes adverse demographic indexes and one of the one of the main problems

00:34:45.180 is that with mass migration it becomes incredibly more difficult for people to actually for for let's

00:34:52.260 say workers especially you know as you go economically down you go to least to to less specialized jobs

00:35:01.920 it becomes much more harder to have a family because they're the increase of people in the country

00:35:09.300 drives the wages down it becomes essentially impossible well it's basically the but also japan does

00:35:17.540 have an issue with demographic indexes for a long time now they do have a large population though

00:35:22.520 they've got what is it 125 million people or something something like that in that ballpark

00:35:27.540 and so that it's not like they're going to ever run out of people uh demographically speaking but they

00:35:32.140 have a very top heavy population pyramid with lots of old people relative to young people don't know

00:35:37.060 but it's my personal belief that this sort of thing i know it's a bit of a tangent but

00:35:41.560 i think that a lot of focus is overstated on it and i think that actually it's probably a natural

00:35:47.120 corrective to adverse environmental conditions if you make the conditions right people will have

00:35:52.660 children because you're programmed to want to do it but here we have uh an advert put out by the

00:35:58.520 government which is showing a western and not knowing how to sort out her rubbish and it's caused a 0.94

00:36:04.500 problem and the whole advert is that people believed that she was doing it on purpose because she's 0.98

00:36:10.280 dirty and horrible and mean but actually a japanese person teaches them the correct way of doing it 0.99

00:36:17.000 and therefore they become friends and she cooks nice food for them go out you dirty european yeah 0.99

00:36:24.020 and i think the the intention here is clear it's not necessarily the europeans that are making all the 0.94

00:36:29.600 mess but they're trying to say um listen japanese people you should pick up the slack for what these

00:36:35.240 these people are you know failing to live up to your standards and uh maybe if you do you you can

00:36:41.960 get something out of it in the end you can make a friend who will cook you foreign food that's tasty

00:36:46.140 um and i mean if it were actually europeans it'd be a nice sentiment but actually it is potentially

00:36:52.060 dangerous people in japan from what we're about to see and also i'm sure that in the ads they are 1.00

00:36:57.760 giving a kind of facade the thing is going to be received as more respectable it is worth mentioning

00:37:04.940 as well though that now us aid has been cut there might be fewer astroturfed um left-wing causes

00:37:13.080 because apparently black lives matter was was was found to be funded by us aid in japan because it is a

00:37:21.600 bit weird that the japanese got involved in that it's like why would they be involved i mean why

00:37:26.540 i don't know i don't know i don't know why anyone cared to be honest i'm a sane man in a world of

00:37:33.060 insane people stellios when i saw the video i was just like what was the problem who cares he was a

00:37:38.380 criminal got what he deserved anyway um enough about george floyd um another thing as well is that

00:37:45.120 companies are now eligible for a 720 000 yen uh reward basically they'll just be given like a grant

00:37:53.880 if they hire foreigners over japanese people which is the the equivalent of 484 um us dollars i think

00:38:01.200 is that right i don't know that can't be right because it's 3 738 pounds i don't think the pound

00:38:08.120 has become that uh devalued overnight but it's a reasonable enough portion of money um

00:38:15.020 that that's obviously going to shape things isn't it yes and that's unfortunate and it's also worth

00:38:22.320 mentioning that even though japan's opened up to immigration poland um oh no uh where's that link

00:38:30.200 gone i think that's afterwards yes it is uh poland has overtaken it in gd real gdp per capita

00:38:36.920 at purchasing power parity so that's a better gdp metric i suppose than before

00:38:44.960 and poland famous for not having much mass migration and they've had a little bit more

00:38:50.800 thanks to globalists getting into power in poland but it's worth mentioning that you don't need

00:38:59.180 to have multiculturalism to grow your economy it's not true all of the metrics suggest otherwise it's

00:39:06.160 also worth mentioning as well that they don't need people to fill skills gaps because japan has

00:39:12.700 something like 10 times the number of practicing pharmacists that um the netherlands have has and

00:39:19.160 the netherlands if you know your european countries is one of the more functional european countries

00:39:23.620 right everything's very neat and tidy and works and it's nice and so if japan has 10 times that

00:39:29.700 perhaps maybe they've got enough people in japan to fill these gaps and then some by the looks of it

00:39:35.860 i mean this is just one example of course but it goes to show that you don't actually need

00:39:41.440 foreigners to prop up this because of course you can train people at home and there are people 0.95

00:39:48.620 talking about this there's a guy here um talking about how you can deport all illegal migrants and

00:39:55.080 that they want to start with the kurds because they're causing the most problems which they certainly 1.00

00:40:00.100 are from the previous coverage and also there's another one here um he was saying that foreigners

00:40:06.680 who don't respect japanese culture and bring their own culture instead should leave and the only 1.00

00:40:11.020 foreigners who love japan and want to integrate should be allowed to stay so they've still got this 1.00

00:40:15.120 sort of this line of um well if you integrate you're okay but again as we mentioned earlier a lot of

00:40:23.420 europeans have hardened against this that um unless you're from a specific culture that's similar to

00:40:28.920 ours you can't really integrate there is no integration from certain countries yeah because

00:40:33.940 integration can be we need to distinguish between integration in public discussion and political

00:40:41.060 rhetoric and actual integration it's i also don't think it's that desirable unless someone's already

00:40:47.540 from a very similar culture already and you you've got compatibility it doesn't really make sense

00:40:53.140 like going to i don't know papua new guinea and i i pluck out a tribesman and take him to

00:40:59.900 england isn't it's not fair on him or the people around him to expect him to integrate because he's from

00:41:05.360 such a different culture yeah no i i'm not disagreeing with you of course what i want to add to the

00:41:11.580 conversation is that a lot a lot of the time exceptions exist but it's too utopian to just look at it as an

00:41:20.040 issue of possibility you have to look at it as an issue of probability you've also got to just look

00:41:25.420 at the results in reality exactly that that's why i'm saying that's why i'm literally bringing back

00:41:32.060 it back to that issue when you're discussing policy it's not an issue of looking at two three success

00:41:42.020 stories of people on the news if the trend is adverse you have to look at yeah there's a great

00:41:48.580 example of this of there's a guy who was held as a model um integration case of a man from the

00:41:54.600 congo that moved to germany and he's just like isn't he great he's become a baker he's all smiley

00:41:59.940 and happy isn't he lovely and then he um what was it he did he uh sexually assaulted his own mother

00:42:06.640 at knife point and hospitalized her um this is the the success story that people want you to believe

00:42:14.400 there are lots of examples of this there was another one in sweden of a kid that was held up

00:42:19.180 as an integration success case and he shot his classmate in the head that's what happens um

00:42:25.120 of course japanese culture is far more inoculated against this sort of thing than usual it's usual

00:42:30.960 for well it's not unusual i should say for places like japanese restaurants to have signs in the window

00:42:38.280 saying japanese only there's no one who can deal with foreigners uh i'm sorry basically please leave us

00:42:44.060 alone i want to go there well we're foreigners so we're not allowed apparently but i respect this 1.00

00:42:51.240 sort of thing it's basically saying it's acknowledging hey we can't speak your language so unfortunately we

00:42:57.560 can't deal with you um but this should just be allowed in britain this would be illegal yeah it would

00:43:04.080 be non-inclusive you get a fine you might even get sent to prison um and because the culture is

00:43:10.160 accepting of this sort of thing i think there's a natural resistance that we've lost in britain

00:43:14.260 that we had previously so it's not permanent necessarily and also um there was a sort of

00:43:21.420 horror here this wasn't an immigration related thing but um well it he's controversial because of

00:43:30.240 his opinions on immigration but a guy was slashed in the ear um he had his ear slashed a bit like trump

00:43:36.220 actually maybe he's a japanese trump in waiting and um he was bad for you here's a video of what

00:43:42.620 happened you don't see anything but keep an eye on that guy with a green jacket there he's just shaking

00:43:47.680 hands and the crazy left winger just tries to attack him with a knife i think it's because um he's a right

00:43:56.280 winger and uh unfortunately that's uh bad but according to some people there's the guy that did it i think 0.55

00:44:03.960 that guy so yes um maybe there is a trump in waiting he had his his ear injured as you can

00:44:10.820 you can see there um he's got a little thing covering his ear if he manages to mass deport all

00:44:18.140 the people causing problems then that's something good and uh they've also got things like this that

00:44:24.280 we get in the west as well people that care about palestine for some reason um they've got the same

00:44:29.960 thing of the left loves waving palestinian flags but if you wave your national flag you're hateful

00:44:36.400 and racist and bad blah blah blah blah we have this here as well and throughout the throughout the

00:44:43.120 us and europe may i direct you to the graph that that yeah this is about in-group preference

00:44:49.940 conservatives prefer people closer to them like a normal human being leftists prefer

00:44:55.620 space dust over their family and therefore should not be listened to in any sense whatsoever and

00:45:03.260 that's a perfectly reasonable point um even though i'm being a bit hyperbolic and also they're not

00:45:08.880 hyperbolic at all and actually it ties a lot a lot to what we said before about rhetoric rhetoric some

00:45:14.840 very often tries to conceal truth so they overcompensate with their humanistic rhetoric because deep down

00:45:23.260 a lot of them hate hate human beings they love less talking about humanity in their head and to

00:45:30.580 other people but they literally don't they have they have a sort of skin suit of caring about other

00:45:38.380 human beings but when you actually look at the research about how they feel about other human

00:45:42.860 beings deep down when nobody's watching it's pretty dark to be honest i've looked at that psychological

00:45:48.340 literature they're also larping as hamas for some reason some of the leftists which i think is funny

00:45:54.160 i mean this one in particular i don't know why it's so funny but yes that's going on as well and um

00:46:04.560 unfortunately they're also getting things that are similar to europe as well a 28 year old woman

00:46:11.040 uh was sexually assaulted in japan and apparently as a man of uzbek nationality

00:46:16.200 he was arrested on the spot um apparently he dragged the woman away on her way to work

00:46:22.300 in a car park and apparently this happened at eight in the morning as well it's not like the

00:46:27.220 middle of the night it was a lady basically just on her way to work i guess parking in a car 1.00

00:46:33.000 so someone just going about their ordinary daily life and they were attacked and uh this has

00:46:39.140 obviously got japan pretty riled up doesn't happen that often the fact it's an uzbek a foreigner 0.98

00:46:45.220 that did it um has obviously got them worried and i think that this is symptomatic of a wider

00:46:52.000 problem there have been lots of kurds doing similar things and it's just that part of the

00:46:56.120 world unfortunately is like that and uh you can't change that aspect of their culture you don't know

00:47:02.980 who you're going to get in so it's better not to allow them whatsoever in my opinion see several of

00:47:08.180 these groups coming from that region that are overrepresented in sexual crime six times more

00:47:15.380 than the massively overrepresented population of european countries it's a massive discrepancy

00:47:22.840 now japan's not entirely uh rid of its own domestic problems so there was a case of a youtuber who she

00:47:30.800 was streaming to about 6 000 people watching live and she basically streamed her own murder

00:47:36.960 so um yes murder or suicide murder as in someone killed her while she was streaming apparently um

00:47:46.220 it was this guy who is a 42 year old man apparently he um lent her money

00:47:56.480 2.5 million yen which is around according to this canadian outlet uh 24 225 canadian dollars which is

00:48:06.260 a lot of money um and apparently she didn't pay him back despite a court order to do so 0.99

00:48:11.440 and apparently he was lending her money for years and then uh they found receipts for bank transfers

00:48:20.620 and things like that in his apartment after he carried out the murder and apparently he admitted

00:48:27.240 to the attack but said he didn't mean to kill her um but according to the police he used a survival

00:48:34.200 knife to stab her in the head neck and torso which kills people believe it or not um so yeah i don't

00:48:40.840 buy that he didn't intend to kill her and um yes so there there is obviously horrific things still

00:48:47.660 going on amongst the native japanese population but this is far rarer than it's come to be in europe

00:48:54.500 because the foreign population massively increases the rates of violent crime in europe and north 1.00

00:49:00.240 america that's why it's important to focus on probabilities and also on statistics when it comes

00:49:05.420 to crime and see how it's distributed per capita because if you have 10 people from from a place and

00:49:12.100 they commit 50 murders 50 murders on its own isn't gonna look a lot but if you consider that there are

00:49:19.520 10 people it's massive of course that's the per capita you've sort of presaged my point in bringing

00:49:24.500 this up that people will point out that well japanese people sometimes do bad things as well

00:49:29.080 but it's not on the same scale and it's quite often not to the same degree of severity

00:49:34.400 as some other cultures right if you look at japan's crime rates abroad that often the nationality that 1.00

00:49:42.420 is absolutely at the bottom for rates of crime like they disproportionately are not criminals more so

00:49:49.320 than pretty much everyone yeah and uh in european countries usually if they have national metrics

00:49:56.180 the japanese are the best they're the best people to have visiting your country

00:49:59.980 and to have this alongside you know some of the violence that they have recently seen from places

00:50:07.620 like the middle east then it's a real stark difference and the problem here is though that

00:50:14.080 most people remember stuff by how easy it is to recall to mind and it's not necessarily by proportion

00:50:21.480 they're not people aren't very good at probabilities and being statistically numerate and so they'll recall

00:50:27.480 things like this and say well things go on in japan but actually if you look at the data

00:50:32.720 there's a massive imbalance already yeah from a philosophical perspective there's a very nice

00:50:38.840 distinction between the combative or competitive virtues and the cooperative ones and it in in cases

00:50:47.080 of war it's the combative ones that are being highlighted where they are accompanied we know with

00:50:53.260 escalation of the situation but civilization requires also the cooperative ones and they are routinely

00:51:01.360 the ones that are that are associated with de-escalating situation because the more civilization

00:51:07.480 goes forward the more complex society gets the more social conflicts there are so there needs to be

00:51:14.600 a method a good method for resolving these social conflicts people who come from places where they're

00:51:21.320 constantly incentivized to be combative and escalate everything and treat everything in terms of an

00:51:27.680 honor killing or an honor or a dishonor they can't function well in cases where they need to be able to

00:51:35.440 de-escalate and with people who are mainly because they're very civilized they're mainly told to de-escalate

00:51:44.440 circumstances whenever there is a kind of conflict there's also a bitter irony there that people who

00:51:51.180 come from honor cultures usually live in conditions and in a way of life that most british people would

00:51:57.260 be absolutely ashamed of as in just a level of squalor unacceptable to our mind and the fact that

00:52:04.900 they're doing it for their honor whatever that means yeah you've got no honor you live like an animal

00:52:11.140 um but anyway i'm gonna end on something a bit more wholesome and that is uh the japanese ambassador

00:52:17.780 to the uk um today i saw a nice post of him uh doing a nice little uh latte shamrock uh for saint

00:52:27.840 patrick's day today uh don't tell him that ireland is not part of the uk because uh that might be a bit

00:52:35.300 unfortunate but he did do something nice uh for um saint david's day as well um he put out a happy saint

00:52:44.300 david's day uh in welsh there that's more welsh than i can ever speak and uh also i noticed in japan

00:52:52.660 that they celebrate saint patrick's day and i think uh from what i've heard it's because a lot of the

00:52:58.300 people who helped industrialize their country although many of them were british some of them

00:53:03.360 were from ireland and so they sort of have almost a weird sort of foundation myth equivalent if you will

00:53:10.900 of uh how the irish have helped uh shape japan which i thought was wholesome and they were

00:53:17.260 doing some irish dancing and playing the fiddle which is a bit strange to see and uh there's also

00:53:24.800 this where they all dress up in green and uh it's a bit unusual there's an irish flag

00:53:32.000 so um yes i wanted to do this just as a little palate cleanser because it's a lot of horrible

00:53:38.700 stuff isn't it i did like them dressing up the dogs as well don't know about the kilts that seemed

00:53:44.780 a bit scottish but anyway um my point being here that things seem to be getting worse and worse in

00:53:52.600 japan and um we're seeing an escalation in the rhetoric to push immigration on people we're seeing

00:54:00.020 some of the more insidious adverse effects of it we're seeing some of the violence that comes with

00:54:06.180 the politics and it's all following the same sort of trajectory that europe and north america and lots

00:54:12.080 of the western world has been on and the fact that they're doing it maybe 10 years behind us

00:54:17.420 is interesting because again it shows that there's this this formula this this step process

00:54:23.780 that countries go through when they have this imposed upon them

00:54:26.980 okay

00:54:30.480 got your segment next we've got no rumble comments okay

00:54:35.840 let me collect my collect your mind stellios yes i'm losing my voice

00:54:48.020 speaking yeah okay sorry no that's your segment right so the statue of liberty is an iconic monument

00:54:59.180 and the french want it back and i don't know if the the u.s wants to give it back tell us in the

00:55:06.040 comments whether you want to give the statue of liberty back to france but i think that this is

00:55:11.520 really and if you're french tell us in the comments how much you want it back exactly and and start

00:55:15.760 fighting in the comments yeah exactly because that's what we want to see we want engagement

00:55:21.100 also tell us what you feel about it do you think the statue of liberty should leave new york and go

00:55:28.120 back to france they already have one a smaller one they've already got one at home have they yeah

00:55:33.560 the statue of liberty they tell you about and the one you've got at home exactly right so before we

00:55:39.660 begin with this uh really interesting uh discussion we have islander 3 magazine this is the third issue

00:55:46.000 and rory did a really good uh job at uh with the artistic view of it carl has written an article for

00:55:52.700 it as well luke johnson has uh also written about it he is uh taking characters from lord of the rings

00:55:59.840 and writing for them and it's it's really there's lots of interesting stuff in here exactly and it's just

00:56:05.900 uh 14.99 pounds you can also buy it anywhere in the world from what i've been told exactly america

00:56:13.460 you can buy it australia you can buy it yeah canada you can buy it france you can buy it if you if

00:56:20.380 you're waiting for the for the statue of liberty and it doesn't come and you want and you and you

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00:56:31.540 merch we have the islander mug we have the islander t-shirt but also we have other stuff here you can

00:56:37.400 definitely check out our merch store t-shirts yeah we have also admiral nelson the winner of the

00:56:46.160 trafalgar well he did die i feel like that's a strange win but he won the battle yeah right we also

00:56:55.240 have calvin's common sense crusade t-shirt anyway check our store right so we have here a french

00:57:03.200 member of the european parliament called rafael gluxman who basically says give us back the statue

00:57:10.720 of liberty we gave it to you as a gift but apparently you despise it so it will be just fine here at home

00:57:18.500 he does know what liberty means right i mean they're getting rid of um government spending

00:57:27.500 and wanting to reduce taxes wasn't the american revolution about reducing you know it's about

00:57:35.000 taxation without representation that tax that we imposed upon them well the british empire imposed

00:57:41.020 upon them and now they're getting rid of taxes apparently that's different uh in a minute for me

00:57:49.580 what would you think should this happen i mean why why if france was okay with it then what has changed

00:57:58.360 well i know that politics has become a lot lamer not gayer but anyway do carry on right so we have

00:58:06.820 here a this person who says basically that the reason is that the u.s does not any longer represent

00:58:14.360 its values and i want i want to ask whether he thinks he represents france's values i don't know

00:58:23.660 whether whether he actually represents france's values i'm going to say something controversial here

00:58:28.240 i don't think any one person can represent the values of a nation because they are one person

00:58:33.520 and a nation is a nation a nation is a multiple people you can't embody the values of multiple

00:58:39.940 people because those values might be different even if they're of the same ethnicity yeah but

00:58:44.700 wouldn't you say that there are trends and cultures that arise and people tend to value the same things

00:58:50.020 and disvalue others i think that when people talk about it they're confusing existing in a monoculture

00:58:57.640 which has created a sort of common culture but not everyone adheres to it anyway so looking at the

00:59:03.680 culture is not the interesting part looking at the ethnicity is always the best bit so he says basically

00:59:08.620 that whatever the that whatever you say josh glucksmann wants the statue of liberty back and it's because

00:59:16.400 the the u.s has turned its back on its values now if if we if we isolate the demand you can say that to a lot

00:59:26.820 to a lot to a long extent a lot of people in western countries have actually turned their backs on their

00:59:33.600 values but i would put him as well and i did see a story today where a woman said the n-word 200 times

00:59:41.580 and she got arrested for it so they've turned their back on free speech apparently that's that's

00:59:47.100 that's one that's the hill i'm dying on i mean hate speech is uh turning your back to free speech

00:59:52.980 oh yes because the whole idea of a of a liberal society is that civil society should be vigilant and

01:00:02.160 do whatever they want do whatever they think is right and pursue the the what what they think is good

01:00:08.500 so if you can't have someone who says i i i am in a member of this government and want to let's say

01:00:16.800 persecute the these people who have that abhorrent to me opinion you have to allow people to you know

01:00:24.440 listen or not listen to the people they think they want that's what praising civil society amounts to

01:00:31.440 that's what empowering civil society amounts to just terrible is right what's the uh political

01:00:38.340 background of this gentleman i think he has to do something with trump right so a friend we have

01:00:43.480 here this france 24 article says a french member of the european parliament has called for the u.s

01:00:48.900 to return the statue of liberty because the u.s does not represent its core values but the core values

01:00:57.900 have he is talking about here obviously about trump and about how the u.s is siding now with dictators

01:01:06.040 and um that wasn't what i was supposed to be and about the rise of the far right you know that's

01:01:12.220 it's exactly what you'd expect to hear from someone who is very progressive and i have here the wikipedia

01:01:20.320 article says that he is basically we don't have this working for some reason would you like a mouse

01:01:27.260 hang on no i don't like i don't want a mouse just keep it there you don't want my infected mouse

01:01:33.800 keep it there germ ridden i don't want to i don't want to risk another interesting background there

01:01:39.480 yeah so he's he is basically a he founded the french center-left party place publique

01:01:47.440 of course he did exactly and here we see this party it's exactly what you'd expect a progressive

01:01:55.920 alliance of socialists and democrat party i don't know just why would the u.s be interested in

01:02:04.100 upholding the democrat socialist values why is it that that's the demand of his and says just because

01:02:13.040 you didn't do this just because you don't like what i'm saying and don't like my takes you have

01:02:18.060 to give it back you have to give the gift back that's not how gifts work also no but also he's

01:02:24.380 he's chose a difficult path for the virtue signaling socialist because he's appealed to the u.s

01:02:29.200 constitution he's talked about its founding and we all know that the republicans generally speaking

01:02:35.540 at least the good ones tend to be a lot more reverent of the u.s constitution and keen to

01:02:43.000 preserve it as it was written and intended and i mean the only time that a democrat will argue

01:02:49.020 um about the intention of the constitution as it was founded will be the second amendment when

01:02:55.060 they're saying well they only had muskets and cannons which um you know it's worth mentioning that

01:03:00.680 owning a cannon is still pretty deadly um but no shall not be infringed that's all i'm saying

01:03:08.260 and here they say that one of the other co-founders of that party is not necessarily

01:03:14.380 against several positions of jean-lique melanchon who is someone who basically says that replacement

01:03:22.720 is happening and is a good thing i don't even think he's ethnically french and he's trying to pursue

01:03:30.100 algerian isn't he i think so i don't think he he he's ethnically french but he is promoting that 0.98

01:03:36.640 in france and he basically says that replacement in france is happening and it's a good thing i'm

01:03:42.880 gonna have a quick early i don't think i don't know if he is actually turning his back on france's

01:03:48.660 values i don't last time i checked french values weren't about just not just replacing your population

01:03:56.840 basically he was born in tangier in morocco and is of spanish descent yes also sicilian he also has

01:04:05.700 some algerian background right so we have here a very several leftists who are saying hilarious to

01:04:12.780 see mega furious at france and frothing at the mouth of the statue of liberty the one based on a muslim 1.00

01:04:18.880 women woman and here we have a brutal response by john rocker france wants the united states to 0.99

01:04:27.420 return the statue of liberty instead of returning it i suggest we manufacture and ship them a statue

01:04:32.880 that represents the values of the modern day french government i mean that looks more like a sari than a

01:04:38.840 burqa or a niqab or whatever um so it's made her made the woman look more indian than islamic as the 0.67

01:04:47.080 intention but uh quibbles about accuracy aside it's a good idea right so i see here several people

01:04:54.640 who are contemplating it because they say that there is a particular poem engraved at a plaque the

01:05:01.000 nicolosis that is one of the symbols of multiculturalism in the minds of many now my position here which

01:05:11.500 is is maybe it may be a bit um controversial or unpopular but you know that's how that's how it

01:05:19.020 goes is that we constantly need to look at the time and place what that poem meant in 1883 when it was

01:05:28.420 written isn't necessarily what it what its author would mean right now if they uttered the same words

01:05:36.920 but even if that were the case even if it's just one person who she was a poet and she she wanted

01:05:43.840 to contribute to the fundraising for the for the development of the statue it doesn't mean that

01:05:48.440 just because one person wrote it who was interested in the cause of erecting that statue that definitely

01:05:54.940 the whole nation needs to constantly abide by her words everywhere yeah one person wrote a poem

01:06:01.140 therefore you need infinite mexicans right so it's here we have the statue of liberty.org website and 0.98

01:06:10.420 they are saying essentially about its history about uh how we have uh the sculptor frederick august

01:06:18.980 bertholdi who was uh really close with a really pro-american frenchman called edward laboulaye who

01:06:27.380 proposed the idea of of erecting that statue they teamed together and they started building the

01:06:34.020 statue and it was originally called liberty enlightening the world and it was supposed to be

01:06:41.800 a gift for the centennial celebrations the hundred years of the of american the existence of the american

01:06:49.660 state and they built it it took a long time and they shipped it and i think it was completed

01:06:56.600 in 1886 right and what happened was that we have here the plaque engraved with at the nicolosis

01:07:04.320 in 1903 it's 20 years afterwards and i'll give you what it says here at the end which is what a lot

01:07:11.680 of people are debating about with respect to its meaning it's uh it has a big plague and it says

01:07:18.140 towards the end give me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to breathe free 0.99

01:07:23.660 the wretched refused of your teeming shore send these the homeless tempest lost to me i lift my 1.00

01:07:30.880 lamp beside the golden door it's by emma lazarus so it's constantly an issue of debating what does

01:07:38.320 the statue represent and how is it going to be constantly reinterpreted in every new historical

01:07:45.520 period i mean it's it's at that point immigration to the united states was largely a european affair

01:07:54.060 wasn't it so if if they were talking about masses of people i don't imagine they thought we're going

01:08:01.280 to get lots of people from africa and india and places like that because they didn't have the air 0.79

01:08:07.380 travel that makes it possible and there wasn't widespread shipping in that direction so it simply

01:08:12.860 wasn't a reality but i for one would like to see it replaced with like a statue maybe of donald trump

01:08:19.960 and a trebuchet with a you know it'd be more interesting wouldn't it right but i i agree with

01:08:27.800 what you said before about the what what it meant then and what it means in each different case because

01:08:34.320 the world changes and society gets more complex uh in at least in the modern world and we are constantly

01:08:40.980 we we are dealing with new challenges that we didn't deal with in the 1880s or in the 1780s

01:08:48.420 i think also a colossus of roads would be good you know how you have a big bronze man with a sword 0.62

01:08:54.260 and you and you've got to you know you've got to go underneath in a boat to just get into the harbor

01:09:00.900 that's cool so what what is interesting here is that the statue of liberty is has become a popular

01:09:06.460 icon as well it's very symbolic everyone wants to incorporate it in their rhetoric in their in

01:09:13.280 their position it's synonymous with the united states really isn't it to an outsider anyway i mean

01:09:17.900 an american might view it differently from within but as as a british person if i were to list 30 things

01:09:26.780 sort of quintessentially american you you would think to mention the statue of liberty even though

01:09:32.160 it was made by the french and that's why i've owned it it's become yours right and that's why

01:09:36.780 the people want to incorporate it in the rhetoric and want to say that the spirit of the u.s is what

01:09:43.300 we are saying is always rhetorical isn't it exactly and here we have just a wikipedia entry for the

01:09:49.780 statue of liberty in popular culture you can definitely scroll down and see where it has been

01:09:55.060 used in several in books countless things surely yeah i'll just show you two of my oh of course

01:10:00.700 my favorite this is dawn of the beginning of the rise of the planet of the apes no that's the

01:10:06.820 dawn of the beginning of the planet of the apes yeah they constantly add beginnings in every new

01:10:12.980 um sequel but this is the original one the planet of the apes with charlton heston and he he walks and

01:10:20.040 he finds the statue of liberty literally buried under the sun and here we have the ghostbusters

01:10:27.120 number two in 1989 they literally go into the into the statue towards the end and somehow it

01:10:35.200 it becomes alive because in ghostbusters you know lots of stuff were becoming alive the french 0.95

01:10:41.680 pressed a button and it became activated yes and the ghostbusters were on the helmet of the of the

01:10:48.680 statue of liberty the crown and they tried to go and defeat vigo of carpathia i think but it's it's

01:10:56.000 nice because it's it's jolly and uh it's um it shows how in different decades people try to incorporate

01:11:03.700 that in popular culture but also now we go to we are going to the more political stuff and i have some

01:11:11.760 rainbow interpretations of it so stay with here we have the spooky twist for halloween

01:11:19.360 that's sure it's not just uh a southern statue of liberty there

01:11:23.360 no it's not it doesn't have a pointy head it looks very pointy to me yeah but it's it's it's

01:11:33.500 five or six there no yeah yeah they purposefully avoided it let us put it that way right and here

01:11:40.920 we have the trans version now the freestyle forever and we have and we have heel chap chapel

01:11:48.480 chapel ron i haven't heard the i have no idea who this person is yeah but she is basically saying

01:11:55.280 i'm in drag of the biggest queen of all in case you've forgotten what's etched in my pretty little

01:12:00.480 toes give me your tide you're poor your huddled masses yearning to be free and she says that 1.00

01:12:06.300 means freedom and trans rights freedom and women yeah it meant trans rights in the late 90s in the

01:12:12.760 late 80s yeah so again they're trying to incorporate this so i don't know if people look at this and they

01:12:19.760 want to keep up with it or maybe say let's just take it back to france tell us in the comments

01:12:25.380 i don't know about you but this lady is not the kind of person that i would take political 1.00

01:12:31.620 commentary advice from she's green um i wouldn't get advice from it but if you saw the democrats had

01:12:40.680 many of influences and and just uh teleprompter reading singers and songstresses well it didn't win

01:12:49.620 in the election did it it didn't but they thought it would here we have her showing us her um haddled 0.99

01:12:55.760 asses or her salacious buttocks what yeah 1.00

01:12:59.460 this is taking a weird turn it's taking a weird turn and we have statue of liberty here writing 0.98

01:13:07.720 about pride in the ellis island experience the statue of liberty wrote this yeah they say that they

01:13:13.440 have ellis island has watched over iconic lgbtq figures on their passage into new york coming from

01:13:21.300 a variety of backgrounds and seeking diverse opportunities these passengers exemplified the

01:13:26.860 bravery the lgbtq pride month celebrates and they're basically trying to they're trying to make

01:13:33.740 the statue of liberty proud they have i don't know if they've made it yet but they're they're doing

01:13:41.600 this so what's worse what's worse it happening a rainbow statue of liberty or statue of liberty 0.70

01:13:49.460 going back to france um i saw that picture it's it's a difficult one isn't it because i think the

01:13:58.480 statue of liberty should stay but also you shouldn't have to you know it feels like you'd be giving up

01:14:06.040 part of america because the leftists have latched onto it yeah if you if you um have a limpet latching

01:14:12.900 onto the hull of your boat you don't get rid of your boat you you get a chisel and and get off the 0.63

01:14:18.520 limpet don't you exactly i think i think basically the it's it's it's a non-issue fundamentally but but

01:14:27.700 the at the end of the day it's an important a good indication of how people are constantly taking

01:14:35.600 symbols and reinterpreting them and putting their interpretation in public discussion while paying

01:14:42.680 lip service to the symbol i do think that these sorts of things are important though in that the

01:14:47.500 symbols of your civilization are rallying points for basically patriotism right and if you uh surrender

01:14:55.000 these things or are too dispassionate and not um aggressive enough in your rhetoric in guarding

01:15:02.200 the legacy of these things then you surrender them to the left the same sort of thing happened with

01:15:06.340 statues yeah and i think that uh you should never give any grounds to these dogs i i absolutely agree

01:15:13.620 with you that wasn't what i meant when i said non-issue but of course thank you for telling me to

01:15:19.100 clarify i meant the demand to take it back to france it's not going to happen no just and also i

01:15:24.920 the end of the day why not build a new one or build build a build a bigger one and uh instead of

01:15:30.780 building mosques in france that's why instead of focusing on monuments first why not focusing on

01:15:37.140 actually may pursuing sensible policies in france that reverse the trends of its decline and then build

01:15:45.580 a monument commemorating your success as opposed to just wanting to get to add to

01:15:51.260 get something you gave as a gift back just build build your own build a bigger one and also focus

01:15:58.820 on making your country great also in reversing its decline i think that's what counts more good advice

01:16:04.840 but it's also i i think it's really important to to tell people and focus again on this that a lot of

01:16:11.820 the time the the the minds of people has several symbol functions with symbols and people want to

01:16:20.340 incorporate the symbols for what is good in their rhetoric and subversion works to a very large

01:16:28.760 extent by going into a population into a people with a particular more or less with a core set of values

01:16:37.560 that is particularly specific but sometimes may be implicit in their minds if not explicit

01:16:42.960 and try to say right you like liberty you like the statue of liberty you like the the tradition of

01:16:49.560 liberty here is what liberty is and and you like liberty well you like men now because it's lgbt 1.00

01:16:56.100 yes that's exactly what what's going on and i'm saying this because i think that

01:17:00.460 a lot of people also from from maga and the right not so much maga but a lot of from other right spaces

01:17:08.260 right neocons perhaps i don't know a lot of people right who enter a debate right now

01:17:13.840 they x they fall for the trap of this leftist subversion so they would say well if liberty i don't

01:17:21.860 want liberty because liberty is that no you shouldn't allow the leftist to dictate what symbols mean

01:17:26.820 on the first place so what we have is we have a culture that has particular values like free speech

01:17:36.320 like liberty like kind of patriotism and you have people who are trying to subvert them slowly from

01:17:44.500 within and saying yeah but i know what true liberty is i know what true free speech is and i'm promoting

01:17:50.240 hate speech laws because i want to promote free speech we have heard this and um i'm a true patriot

01:17:57.280 and true patriots are basically pro open borders that's another thing that they're incorporating in

01:18:04.500 the rhetoric that's why trudeau was saying i'm a proud canadian you've got to be very hot on this

01:18:09.020 sort of stuff to spot these things these rhetorical tricks but i think people are wising up to it aren't

01:18:13.300 they they are generally speaking that's why i want to say this and that's why i have

01:18:17.120 been constantly defending classical liberalism it's because a lot of people are taking the modern view

01:18:23.500 or what is sometimes smeared as the modern view and say okay that's what liberty is so the only

01:18:30.120 remedy is to turn our backs on liberty so i think it's possible to live in a classical liberal society

01:18:36.420 if you've got high trust europeans no mass migration and a healthy society hence why it's an important 0.95

01:18:44.240 debate to see whether the plaque should be reinterpreted or should be understood to see

01:18:49.220 how it applies to the world of 2025

01:18:51.840 okay we have a comment for you stellios neon realist hello um lifelong new yorker here haven't 0.98

01:19:02.660 gone to see oh haven't gone to see that damn statue in 30 years no one who lives here gives a crap about 0.88

01:19:09.240 it it never comes up in conversation just one of thousands of things to see here that's like the 0.97

01:19:15.040 most new york attitude about new york i've ever heard constantly busy come on if suddenly left you

01:19:22.180 you'll be asking where is it no i i'll be asking to i think that's what i suspected a new yorker would

01:19:28.560 feel like to be honest is that who cares is it's basically an eyesore at this point isn't it

01:19:34.000 you do have a bit a bit of a clean but wherever you live you tend to get used to it and you don't

01:19:39.100 see it as you know something you you get sort of i mean growing up near plymouth they have a famous

01:19:44.680 lighthouse there and i'm just like other than like tourism it doesn't really serve a purpose it's just

01:19:50.120 sort of in the way but anyway let's uh go to the video comments shall we

01:19:54.800 the season has started and i thought it was very quiet by the way would you be able to start it

01:20:03.720 again so we can hear it sounds like the voice of god as well with that much reverb

01:20:09.840 the season has started and i thought i'd give you a quick tour of bisley

01:20:17.480 i've spoken with my club and i can bring two or three of you

01:20:40.940 so get in touch if you want to come along

01:20:44.340 how do we get in touch because i would like to go shooting um and i've seen your i think i've seen

01:20:51.140 your comment before i was thinking how on earth do i actually get hold of you so next time you submit

01:20:56.900 a video comment would you be able to provide i don't know an email or something um just so i can

01:21:02.220 actually sort it out because i don't maybe i'll look up the name of the range or something like that

01:21:07.360 has anyone ever read the death of grass by john christopher amazon recommended it to me a few days

01:21:21.580 ago and if you have read it i'd be curious to know what your thoughts are on it and whether or not it is

01:21:30.680 something you would recommend reading i haven't read it but what is it it oh it's a post-apocalyptic

01:21:39.640 novel okay i'll i'll definitely check it out i love post-apocalyptic novels and

01:21:45.400 sam tell me if you know this it's one of my favorites is is by

01:21:51.480 great great mac swan song it's a really great post-apocalyptic one with

01:21:57.640 oh yeah as of last night i started june for the it's the first bit of fiction i've started reading

01:22:06.200 in about 10 years maybe i don't know roughly especially the first novel i've got the whole

01:22:13.380 trilogy in a great big sort of burglar killing uh tome i've also uh thanks to someone in the chat

01:22:20.300 they told me where it is um someone says i can make you some cardboard owen jones targets josh

01:22:26.380 um that would be good actually uh no i don't want to shoot him um even in a cardboard cutout form uh

01:22:33.740 so yeah they've told me where it is apparently it's in bisley near woking so thank you

01:22:39.420 okay we got some written comments i believe can i i want to read the some of them go ahead right okay

01:22:49.260 so we have tim with them hi tim says welcome back josh and hello stellios i'm actually watching

01:22:55.180 live for the first time and not on delay love islander three that's very kind of you thank you

01:23:00.060 thank you first keeper orland the trudeau segment was an assault on my ears first you play indian music

01:23:07.420 without an auditory warning you then follow it straight up with french trudeau will not be missed

01:23:12.940 i actually find it funny doing it and some of the times especially in the beginning i was putting

01:23:19.020 screeching activists without warning and people were constantly telling me in the comments

01:23:24.100 say let's don't do this it's inconsiderate very scholarly behavior they're being disruptive

01:23:29.660 uh captain charlie the beagle happy saint patrick's day from ireland happy saint patrick's day

01:23:35.980 captain charlie happy saint patrick's day and thank you brayden degrasse just got my copy of

01:23:42.940 islander three out in western canada this past friday it only took a week to arrive it looks stunning

01:23:48.860 you guys have really outdone yourselves this time i'm glad everyone's getting them soon because i was

01:23:54.460 rather upset about the fact that the distributor cocked it up uh the second time because rory puts in so

01:24:00.940 much work you can see it in his face that when he's done he is drained he's poured his heart and soul

01:24:06.980 into it and to have you know something that's effectively out of our control sort of spoil it

01:24:13.220 for everyone is is a shame but this third one has been smooth sailing not you know touch wood

01:24:19.060 right furious dan says so long to the prime minister who can remember how many times he dressed in blackface

01:24:26.600 hey sounds good to me baron von warhock justin trudeau may be gone for good but his poison will

01:24:32.620 linger in the veins of canada for years to come just like how tony blair still poisons england from

01:24:38.160 the shadows the liberal policies that have crippled canada will remain yes i i don't think woken is going

01:24:44.760 anywhere in fact i think it's coming back with a vengeance alpha of the beaters trudeau and starmas

01:24:50.680 saying from the same globalist hymn book ignore policies that create protests called protesters 0.93

01:24:56.440 nazis and scum unleash the police with new powers of arrest to brutalize them

01:25:02.020 that's yeah true alternately go on vacation or pretend to have covid and hide for two weeks 0.99

01:25:09.200 okay yeah because trudeau i think when the truckers protest was going on wasn't he away on holiday

01:25:15.220 yeah yeah no i completely blanked and i just started reading out of context so wait a minute what am i

01:25:20.820 reading okay george happ says people should miss trudeau given the opportunity here's the face of

01:25:26.820 the modern administrative tyrant a pretty boy feminist who coined the term current year by far 1.00

01:25:32.960 one of the most violent individuals to have ever lived and paul noibala competition there let's get a

01:25:40.140 dna test of justin and see who the daddy is he's gonna go he's gonna go on jeremy kyle afterwards

01:25:46.400 i like this comment josh it's true about indians using canadian food banks i volunteer occasionally

01:25:52.160 and have stopped donating because i would say 90 to 95 percent of users are now fresh off the boat

01:25:56.700 immigrants with the other five percent making up the typically downtrodden 1.00

01:26:00.380 natives and white trash it is truly sickening so there we go my my suspicion was correct 1.00

01:26:06.840 shall i read some japan ones just a couple yes of course eloise says my dad worked and lived in japan 0.99

01:26:14.160 when he was a younger man for around six months in the 70s i think and even then it was light years

01:26:19.340 ahead uh re small space construction and optimization electronics weird their economy um is suggested as

01:26:27.440 so depressed constantly when the quality of life there seems to be pretty good consistently

01:26:31.780 it's pretty homogenous though or at least it used to be i think it still is by a lot of western

01:26:36.920 standards and i think that the problem with japan is they borrowed too much money and their debt

01:26:42.240 obligations are massive like their their debt to gdp ratio is one of the highest in uh the developed

01:26:48.500 world uh matt d says i've lived in japan for eight years and in total now uh and i've literally never

01:26:55.780 seen a no foreigners sign i know they exist and i've heard the legend many times but in reality

01:27:00.720 they're extremely rare that's what i suspected and i imagine it's probably in more touristy areas

01:27:05.500 that they have them and um finally sophie live says uh what amazes me about this too is that the

01:27:12.720 japanese have the best work ethic in the world they work hard um harder and more consistently than

01:27:18.680 pretty much anybody else with a few exceptions they have a high level of pride in the quality

01:27:23.860 of their products and so forth maybe germans or something similar but overall you don't get a better

01:27:29.720 worker than the japanese so to even think that people from india will have the same level of work

01:27:35.260 ethic and therefore can lift the economy is insane most europeans do not have the same work ethic at

01:27:39.900 all because it's actually a little bit insane i agree i think the japanese work too much i have a very

01:27:45.580 uh continental view on uh work-life balance in that i think there should be one there definitely should

01:27:53.960 but i want to um address another comment by sophie that i see here she says let's be real what really

01:28:01.200 happened here is that trump just bullied him out of office which i can respect speaking of trudeau

01:28:06.440 also stellios do you keep bullying harry because i bully you the secret is out you're always so scared

01:28:12.360 of reading my comments well i am scared of reading your comments sophie but i'm not bullying harry it's

01:28:18.640 his spartan education so he can unleash his inner maximum inner viking potential i think people also

01:28:25.920 don't understand that a bit of laddish banter is not being mean to each other it's it's a sort of

01:28:30.760 people don't understand that in britain it's normal to be mean to the people you like and polite to the

01:28:36.760 people you aren't familiar with right this is anyway um apparently i'm also wearing green for saint

01:28:44.200 patrick's day which was not deliberate but uh i do according to my recent genealogy test have

01:28:49.600 a fair amount almost eight percent i think it was irish ancestry is this green this is green

01:28:55.920 this is like a racing green okay what would you say it was i don't know my knowledge of colors isn't

01:29:04.140 that good stellios only sees in gray yeah i only see in in in red with infrared like like the predator 0.98

01:29:12.160 or like the terminator right okay annie moss i will really be happy france took back the stupid 0.97

01:29:19.100 statue of liberty i'm tired of all the left is saying a statue is why we should not have borders 0.91

01:29:23.980 to the you to the u.s and happy saint patrick's day good of you patrick's day good of you to wear green

01:29:29.900 josh okay it's green baron von warhock if the french want the statue back then they should come back and

01:29:38.280 take it if they can't sail a force into america and take it back by themselves then they should shut the

01:29:44.460 hell up and on warhock the original text that came with a statue in which was said as its unveiling

01:29:51.900 was there is room in america and brotherhood for all but those who come to disturb our peace and dethrone 0.99

01:29:58.380 our laws are aliens and enemies forever the poem that we are all told from birth was written by some

01:30:04.860 jewish women seven years after others build the statue just saying i think what should happen is

01:30:11.420 they should turn it into liberty prime um from the fallout say pride for a minute no no no um

01:30:17.580 that's a robot in fallout that talks about killing communists and democracy and freedom

01:30:24.780 and uh it shoots laser beams and it's cool and speaking of uh shooting beams furious dan says trump

01:30:31.420 should turn the statue of liberty into a giant robot we're on the same wavelength yeah a giant robot

01:30:37.180 shooting beams but i think that's all we've got time for for today uh for today i can't speak

01:30:44.700 because i've been off for two weeks almost um but we will be back tomorrow same sort of time

01:30:51.020 and uh thank you very much for watching and bye-bye

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - March 17, 2025

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1122

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