The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1167

00:00:00.000 Hello everyone, welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Seaters. Today it's Monday the 19th of May

00:00:05.940 2025. This is podcast number 1167. I'm your host Stelios and today I'm joined by Firas and Stephen.

00:00:13.700 Hey, hi. So we are going to discuss the presidential elections in Romania,

00:00:20.340 the pride cult and the manufacturing of consent for World War III. So buckle up, 0.97

00:00:25.760 this is going to be a really good podcast. There were several elections in Europe. There were

00:00:31.440 elections in Poland, elections in Romania, elections in Portugal. We're going to talk

00:00:36.100 about them, but for this segment we're going to talk about the presidential elections in Romania.

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00:01:36.820 Right, so we are talking about now presidential elections in Romania. And I think this is the first

00:01:43.640 segment we are doing about Romania and its presidential elections. But we have been following what happens

00:01:49.880 there pretty closely. And we are definitely going to talk about the wider context and especially

00:01:55.880 the presidential candidacy of Kalindro Jesku that was annulled back in December and after his performance

00:02:06.200 at the first presidential elections at the end of November 2024. But the main contestants of this

00:02:14.960 presidential elections of the second round were Niko Jordan and George Simeon. So we're going to talk a bit

00:02:22.640 about them, what they represent, what happened in those elections. And then we're going to talk to you

00:02:29.920 about the wider context and whether the EU went out of its way to be very authoritarian in ways that

00:02:37.840 arguably it didn't have to. Definitely we are going to talk about what happened there. So this is Niko

00:02:45.680 Jordan. He is the mayor of Bucharest, elected twice as a mayor of the capital of Romania, who yesterday won

00:02:55.760 the elections. That was the second round. What happens is that for a person to be elected president in

00:03:03.600 Romania, they need more than 50 percent of the vote. In the first round, he secured around 21 percent,

00:03:11.280 whereas George Simeon, who lost yesterday, got 41 percent. But there were three other candidates

00:03:17.600 who had a large share that disproportionately went for Niko Jordan on the second round.

00:03:25.600 So let's see what's going on. So are they saying with 100 percent of the votes counted, the centrist

00:03:31.200 candidate won nearly 54 percent of the ballots cost. A clear win of a hard right candidate, George Simeon,

00:03:38.080 who is a fan of Donald Trump. Simeon opposes providing military aid to Ukraine and is critical of the EU.

00:03:45.520 Looked on track to win the election after he swept the first round on May 4.

00:03:50.320 As I said, he got around 41 percent. However, Dan gained ground after trouncing Simeon in a televised

00:03:57.120 debate. So they engaged in a debate that seemed to be going in favor of Niko Jordan. Let me say some

00:04:08.160 things about it. So yesterday, Nick Jordan got around 54 percent and George Simeon got around 46 percent.

00:04:16.160 So who is Niko Jordan? So he's a maths prodigy. In 2015, he founded the Save Bucharest Union.

00:04:26.320 Next year, it turned into the USR, which is called the Save Romania Union. And about a year afterwards,

00:04:39.120 in 2017, he left and he has been independent ever since. He left allegedly due to the internal factions

00:04:46.400 of conservatives and progressives within the USR. Now, let's note that within the EU parliament,

00:04:54.080 the USR is adjacent to what we'd call the liberal center, to the Macron side of things.

00:05:01.120 Absolutely. There's nothing independent about him. So in 2020, he won the mayorship of Bucharest. He was

00:05:10.880 reelected in 2024. And he basically stands for, I'd say, a pro-EU agenda, a liberal centrist agenda,

00:05:20.480 if you would like. He is in favor of the EU. He's against Eurosceptic narratives. He is pro-NATO. He says

00:05:28.240 that there has to be a partnership with the US and NATO within the context of an EU membership.

00:05:35.200 And he's also in favor of boosting the military spending of Romania and arguably capitalizing

00:05:41.440 upon its internal, its domestic defense industry. Right. So...

00:05:46.560 So all in all, so far, he's a perfect Davos man. Perfect Davos man. Yes. Yeah. Super.

00:05:52.880 Good summary. Yeah. Perfect Davos man looking for a good career and a retirement somewhere

00:05:57.920 after he's done what he's told. So I will reserve judgment for this, but it looks like it looks like

00:06:03.280 he's definitely advancing the... He's definitely advancing the narrative of the EU at the moment,

00:06:10.320 especially when it comes to Ukraine. Now, I will say, and the reason why I am a bit

00:06:16.240 reluctant to say either way is because I don't know that much about Romanian politics.

00:06:20.880 I'd like to know much more to give you an informed opinion. So I have to be honest on this. But also,

00:06:26.480 I think there is a tendency of Americanizing non-American politics. And I think that at the

00:06:32.960 moment there is, especially on X, the reign and the domination of the MAGA infospace. And there is

00:06:39.760 a tendency of trying to apply MAGA categories on the non-US area of things, which should be taken with

00:06:48.320 a pinch of salt. If you look at both the previous tweets, this one and the previous tweet, so George

00:06:54.160 Simeon is not only pro-Trump, he's pro-Putin, but anti-Von der Leyen. Yes. So, you know, at the end of

00:07:02.000 the day, this is all about just painting them in the pictures of what the elites are now

00:07:07.200 doing across the whole of the global, in particular, Western politics. It's that you're

00:07:12.480 either pro-EU, pro-dying in Ukraine and not supporting Trump. And if you do support Trump,

00:07:18.480 then you're bound to be supporting Putin as well. There's like, there's no non sequitur on that.

00:07:22.720 You're either one or the other. No nuances. I'd say that this is the more, you'd say,

00:07:29.040 U.S. perspective. And these elections definitely represented a clash of perspectives. One is the

00:07:36.080 pro-U.S. that tries to talk about the EU as being a uniquely globalist organization, which,

00:07:45.120 unfortunately, at very large is. But on the other hand, I think that there are definitely globalist

00:07:51.680 elements within the U.S. and they still remain. Including within the MAGA movement itself,

00:07:57.760 including within the Trump camp. And got rid of everyone, unfortunately.

00:08:03.200 So let's talk about George Simeon. George Simeon was the pro-sovereignty of Romania candidate,

00:08:10.080 the pro-MAGA candidate. And he did have a large support by the MAGA camp. Here we have Mike Benz

00:08:17.680 saying, George Simeon, the pro-Trump candidate in Romania, won the first round election 41-21

00:08:24.000 against the NATO-EU blob candidate two weeks ago, and somehow lost or ran off today.

00:08:30.160 It's the same thing that happened with Marine Le Pen, basically, where she would do extremely well

00:08:37.520 in the first round. And in the second round, the entire political spectrum would unite to try to

00:08:43.360 defeat her. In Hungary, to try to defeat Viktor Orban, they managed to get literal Nazis and literal

00:08:49.280 communists into the same, I think it was a nine-party bloc trying to oppose, to oppose Orban.

00:08:55.520 So you see the same story being repeated, but yes.

00:08:58.240 And the same strategy. If you look at what happens in Turkey, the capital is more left-wing, more EU

00:09:05.680 supportive, and they're more students, and all of them vote for this kind of wet weakling of a man

00:09:13.760 who is the opposite to the president. You've got the same in Hungary, where they try and get the

00:09:20.880 capital. Here you've got the same, the same in Paris, the same in London. That's their first strategy.

00:09:27.040 Let's get somebody in there, that's one of us, and then we can utilise him to promote their name,

00:09:32.320 their face, their character, and the funding to take on anyone that might come from the sticks,

00:09:37.840 the suburbs, where the proles live. And then we can control the proles from our own elitist centres.

00:09:45.200 Right. So here we also have people linking Simeon to the pro-Trump camp. Here we hear

00:09:53.040 Romania is at a crossroads, and so is the US influence in Eastern Europe. George Simeon stands

00:09:58.640 for sovereignty for a strategic alliance with Trump's America, not Biden, Macron, and Brussels.

00:10:04.000 A vote for Nico Jordan is a vote for the globalist elite. Romania first, America first. Now, I don't

00:10:09.920 know to what extent it's particularly good for non-US campaigns to attach their name to Trump,

00:10:18.080 not necessarily because Trump is mistaken or about lots of things. Lots of things he gets right. But I

00:10:26.160 think that to a very large extent, it works to a segment of the population, but to the greater

00:10:32.160 segment of the population, the general public, I think it definitely seems a bit servile to US

00:10:37.280 interests at the expense of others. It's alienating. Yeah. And you could arguably say that in Canada,

00:10:44.480 this didn't work. And it hurt Pierre Pauliever, who was seen as, in a way, the closer to Trump

00:10:50.400 country. And Australia. And Australia. Yeah. So Marine Le Pen here also endorsed George Simeon.

00:10:59.200 She definitely feels, I'd say, targeted by the EU establishment. And she has every right to,

00:11:08.320 every justification. Here he appeared, George Simeon appeared on, on Stephen Bannon,

00:11:15.840 here with Jack Posobiec. So definitely, he seemed to be the pro-MAGA favorite. Yeah. And from an EU

00:11:22.800 perspective, because we hear the MAGA perspective, from an EU perspective, there is definitely lots of

00:11:29.360 worry about candidates who are necessary, who are, who make their pro-MAGA, let's say, nature as their

00:11:37.440 flagship. Yes. It's because they are saying, well, what if suddenly the MAGA establishment

00:11:44.480 thinks that it has to make concessions to Russia and give lots of European, let's say, and gives,

00:11:53.200 give lots of parts of Europe to Europe, to Russia, in order to secure a sort of aid of Russia against

00:12:00.960 China. This is one of the things that the European establishment is thinking, when it comes to

00:12:07.440 think about it this way. For the Europeans, the worst possible outcome is a Russian-American 1.00

00:12:14.720 agreement. Because given the extent of European military weakness and economic weakness, between them,

00:12:21.280 they can dominate the continent with no challengers. And so the EU establishment needs to

00:12:29.440 rally and ensure that these challengers fail in order to keep up their own space of autonomy.

00:12:37.200 And the other argument that builds on that is that if you're going to allow these two big

00:12:42.880 powers on the side of you to actually have an influence, the worst thing you do then is allow

00:12:47.760 your nation states within your group to also have patriotic, conservative-based nationalist parties

00:12:55.120 who believe in their country over a set of individuals that are running it from the centre

00:13:00.400 in the European Commission. And so that EU elite, which has been built up over 40, 50 years, which

00:13:07.840 includes the large corporations that are benefiting from the commissions, from the NGOs and charities that

00:13:13.440 are benefiting from their largesse, all of them will see weakness because they too might say,

00:13:19.200 okay, we're not actually going to get our funding anymore and our lives and our luxuries will go.

00:13:24.240 Here we have George Simeon talking about mass migration.

00:13:27.440 We will oppose illegal migration. We will stop the anti-american change in Europe.

00:13:36.400 We will go beyond illegal immigration and under uh anti-american protests.

00:13:51.280 Donald Trump! Donald Trump!

00:13:54.260 Donald Trump! Donald Trump! Donald Trump! Donald Trump!

00:14:02.480 Donald Trump is not just a person, he's a symbol of freedom that will cover all the free world.

00:14:12.160 I don't know, how does this sound from the perspective of someone from, let's say, in Romania?

00:14:20.140 Or how does this look?

00:14:22.580 Well, it's interesting. I was in a small coffee shop just outside of Winchester by chance with my daughter yesterday.

00:14:28.240 And we're having an ice cream and we ended up with a conversation with a chap who was from Romania.

00:14:33.700 Bogdan, if you're listening, now that I've told you to watch, very interesting man, all about freedom.

00:14:40.180 He felt that his nation, after Ceaușescu, had become more dominated by a new form of communism.

00:14:48.320 And that new form of communism, in his view, was the European Union.

00:14:52.700 So there are those who see alternatives to the European Union, whether it's coming from Trump, whether it's coming from Simeon,

00:15:00.620 to actually say that we want a different way of thinking in our country, not the way of the elites.

00:15:06.560 Because, of course, straight after Ceaușescu, in we came with the European Union, in we came with the MI6 and the US,

00:15:16.000 and we started to decide who were our people.

00:15:19.940 We positioned the politicians and we positioned the business people to be in charge of the influential areas

00:15:26.600 before stripping out the parts that they wanted.

00:15:29.800 So you've kept an elite, you've built on an elite.

00:15:32.780 And some of those that decided to get rid of Ceaușescu, ardent communists realised where the wind was blowing

00:15:37.880 and they kept their jobs, they kept their influence, they were suddenly promoted into big companies, NGOs and moved to the EU.

00:15:43.880 So they kept their good lives.

00:15:46.180 That's what we're up against, the same people, and their families and friends who continued after that.

00:15:51.780 Right. Let me say something.

00:15:56.040 I think that this rhetoric was designed to address the Romanian diaspora, but I don't think it worked well within Romania.

00:16:04.560 No.

00:16:05.080 Because if you see the issue with immigration to Romania, they have a very small migration population.

00:16:12.120 It's 3.6, and most of it is of European origin.

00:16:16.580 And this rhetoric targeted Romanians from the diaspora, but it worked only to Romanians that were outside of Romania,

00:16:26.860 who were in more Western nations, and not to the extent that they particularly expected.

00:16:33.180 Whereas in other cases, the Roman diaspora chose to help Nicosia or Dan.

00:16:42.160 So there's another issue.

00:16:44.000 So let me just give you a really fun thing, which was, I think, very unfair to George Simeone.

00:16:49.580 At some point he announced, I'm the new president of Romania, and he used the flag of Chad, which I thought that it was a bit weird.

00:17:03.000 But I checked out and I saw that the flags are really close, and it's just the shade of blue that is a bit different.

00:17:10.580 And so he just made a mistake, but then people made fun of him, and they said, you know, make Chad great again.

00:17:17.200 That was a fun moment, but I think it was a bit unfair to him.

00:17:20.420 Right.

00:17:20.640 So he made this, initially he said that he won the election.

00:17:24.220 Then he said that he is, that the votes have been counted and that Nick Jordan won,

00:17:29.600 and that he isn't going to challenge the results.

00:17:32.340 And let us go to Georgescu now, because what happened was that there were presidential elections in Romania at the end of November 2024,

00:17:43.940 and Kalin Georgescu won the first round.

00:17:46.460 He didn't become president, he won the first round with around 23%.

00:17:50.840 And then what happened was that the EU annulled the results, and they basically said that there is a campaign of misinformation surrounded by Georgescu.

00:18:04.240 There have been more than 800 TikTok accounts that are boosting his image and his message, cultivating support for Georgescu.

00:18:12.660 800 accounts, that massive number, wow.

00:18:15.560 And also they accused him of being pro-fascist, being essentially someone who is supporting anti-constitutional and anti-democratic forces within Romania,

00:18:29.560 and forces that are pro-corruption as opposed to anti-corruption, which is the big flagship of Nicko Jordan.

00:18:37.160 Didn't it turn out that the campaign was actually organized by the opposition to him,

00:18:42.860 and that they themselves had sponsored some kind of campaign.

00:18:48.360 Then the Romanian courts annulled it, annulled the election on that basis,

00:18:52.800 and it turned out that the Russians were not involved in any way.

00:18:55.860 So they sort of manufactured a story themselves, very similar to the Russia collusion story in the United States,

00:19:03.360 and then used that to annul the elections with full EU endorsement and support.

00:19:08.560 And you had also the founder of Telegram saying that the French intelligence had told him to make sure

00:19:21.100 that right-wing voices in Romania were suppressed, except that he only spoke about it after the election.

00:19:27.160 Now, I'm not in his position, and I don't understand the pressures he's under,

00:19:30.460 and he's been arrested for owning Telegram, essentially, in the past.

00:19:34.360 But there is a concerted effort to play around with elections and to make sure that the right person wins.

00:19:42.100 I think that I take everything with a pinch of salt.

00:19:46.780 We're in the digital age, and I think that basically we cannot have election campaigns without digital foreign interference.

00:19:55.500 There will be propaganda campaigns in every election.

00:19:59.400 The flip side of it is that you then end up in the position where, for any electoral result,

00:20:06.100 you can allege some foreign intervention online.

00:20:10.760 It will be partially true, and it can be used as an excuse to annul any election.

00:20:17.080 These are the dangers, and that's what points to the potentially,

00:20:22.180 to the unnecessary exercise of authoritarian might by the EU,

00:20:28.820 because I think that the way they acted on Georgescu's case essentially was completely unnecessary.

00:20:37.680 Yes.

00:20:38.000 Because Georgescu fought a campaign that was based upon a very specific agenda

00:20:44.400 that on the second round was almost bound to lose.

00:20:48.360 The way that they reacted, that the EU reacted, and especially here we have Thierry Breton,

00:20:54.340 I'm definitely certain, Stephen, that this isn't your favorite person from the EU.

00:21:00.600 No, no.

00:21:01.500 He'd have us all arrested and put behind some sort of fencing walls

00:21:05.580 and only allowed out when we've been re-educated to accept the European Union,

00:21:10.400 as many like Thierry is, unfortunately.

00:21:12.740 And the point is that he is the smug face of the EU.

00:21:18.100 He was out on a panel, and he was so happy that they did this,

00:21:22.720 and they were saying, well, we can cancel elections.

00:21:25.860 We did it in Romania.

00:21:27.220 We can do it in Germany if necessary. 0.83

00:21:29.120 Of course.

00:21:29.660 And they're also using their own state agents to manipulate the social media framework.

00:21:37.700 If it was Russia or China, the Americans are doing it. 0.99

00:21:40.440 We're doing it. The European Union countries are doing it.

00:21:43.220 And then they turn around and say, oh, it's misinformation.

00:21:47.060 Well, we're doing misinformation too.

00:21:49.140 So everybody is now smart enough to understand.

00:21:51.820 The lines are being drawn because people are understanding the misinformation

00:21:55.940 that's coming from both sides.

00:21:57.760 They just are making sides.

00:21:59.340 They don't like people like Thierry Breton.

00:22:02.780 And that's what's happening.

00:22:04.220 People like Thierry Breton, who are making money, living nice lives,

00:22:07.500 wants us keep it that way and keep the poor out in their own walls. 1.00

00:22:12.420 The rest, which is a bigger number of people, are saying we're fed up.

00:22:15.340 It's just the middle ground who have yet to understand that they're the people

00:22:19.400 who are going to be wiped out as well.

00:22:21.300 They're beginning to understand it slowly in different countries.

00:22:24.140 They're going, oh, well, we better stick with what we know first, the safety hands.

00:22:28.280 And as it gets closer and closer, then they're going to move over to the other parties.

00:22:31.960 And they're aware of it and they know it.

00:22:34.320 Right.

00:22:34.500 And I think basically that this face of the EU is what is boosting the anti-EU sentiment.

00:22:40.880 And justifiably so.

00:22:43.980 Right.

00:22:44.380 So I think ultimately speaking that this has been a very telling case, case study.

00:22:52.920 And it represents a clash of perspectives that we're going to see more of in the near future.

00:23:02.700 Yep.

00:23:03.580 Right.

00:23:03.900 So let's go to the comment.

00:23:05.280 That's a random name.

00:23:07.360 He says, I usually do other stuff while listening to the podcast.

00:23:12.580 My first name is Simeon.

00:23:14.160 So every time any of you say Simeon, I get startled.

00:23:18.780 Sorry.

00:23:19.560 Okay.

00:23:21.900 All right.

00:23:23.360 Moving on to the next segment, again, wanting to remind you of the importance of the Trivium course

00:23:29.700 and wanting to encourage you to go to the webinar and then see if this course is right for you.

00:23:35.940 And you will see that it does help you argue.

00:23:39.500 And you will see that somebody like Barack Obama could have used a course like that in his own arguments.

00:23:44.520 But before we get there, the point I want to make in this segment is that the state is inherently and always going to be dogmatic.

00:23:55.220 And it's always going to try to teach some kind of values.

00:23:59.640 The idea of separation of values and politics is completely delusional.

00:24:04.060 You see the example that I want to use here is with results to the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biophobia.

00:24:14.280 Now, the UN is all on board.

00:24:18.260 They have a UN free and equal agency.

00:24:20.780 Apparently, they have enough money to splurge on that.

00:24:23.160 You see UN women insisting that there is no difference between men and women.

00:24:29.020 I frankly don't understand the logic here, but here you are.

00:24:32.900 You see Dr. Tedros, I think he's the former Ethiopian Prime Minister or Minister of Health, and he's now with the WHO.

00:24:43.380 The World Health Organization tells you that there is no difference between men and women.

00:24:49.940 And you see this, obviously, in NATO.

00:24:55.520 Previous years, NATO would have a big celebration for this kind of thing.

00:24:59.360 Now, with Trump in office, they seem to have toned it down.

00:25:02.900 But they would always be insisting on the extent of their support for pride, for transgenderism, etc.

00:25:12.780 UK and Mozambique, because Mozambique doesn't have bigger problems, I'm sure.

00:25:18.000 And therefore, the most important thing is the commitment to equality and inclusion.

00:25:24.440 Across different states, the Canadians know to homophobia, transphobia and biphobia.

00:25:31.020 And somehow, this has got to do with hockey.

00:25:35.740 So you can't really enjoy your time with a sport.

00:25:42.840 You must always think about this kind of thing.

00:25:46.580 EU in South Africa, the International Organization of Migration.

00:25:51.080 I mean, do you think that if people are genuinely fleeing from war, they would have bigger problems than this?

00:25:59.000 But apparently not.

00:26:01.140 And of course, the European Central Bank, because it's not like European banks are close to bankruptcy.

00:26:06.640 It's not that the EU needs a bailout from the American Federal Reserve every time there's a crisis.

00:26:12.440 They have enough time on their hands to show their support for the LGBT plus community.

00:26:20.240 And a new one there.

00:26:21.380 Across the world.

00:26:22.320 Compared to everybody else.

00:26:23.620 Intersexphobia. 0.66

00:26:24.460 Oh, intersex, yes. 1.00

00:26:25.920 They've added that one as well.

00:26:27.340 Yes.

00:26:27.980 Well, I'm sure they will adjust it for next year.

00:26:30.820 Normal sexphobia.

00:26:32.440 Plain sexphobia.

00:26:33.360 It really, really never ends.

00:26:37.920 We need to put forward, we need to push phobophobia and all these phobias should be banned or something.

00:26:44.520 And then you have Miss Ursula von der Leyen, be proud, proud of whom you love, proud of who you are, proud of who you are becoming.

00:26:54.240 Because your journey is your power.

00:26:56.580 They're special.

00:26:57.140 So, if somebody were to say to Miss von der Leyen that someone should be proud of being German or British or English or Romanian,

00:27:08.700 I think she would have a little bit of a panic attack. 1.00

00:27:12.220 Yeah.

00:27:12.600 And she would absolutely refuse to acknowledge that it's legitimate to be proud of your nation.

00:27:18.760 However, of your, what I would argue, your sexual deviance, that you should be absolutely proud of.

00:27:28.660 What's happened here is clearly that every institution globally is parroting the same narrative.

00:27:37.140 I could go and show you various corporations.

00:27:39.520 You could go and see what the World Economic Forum is saying.

00:27:42.660 They're all repeating the same message.

00:27:44.720 And the reason that I bring this up and the reason that I think this is important is because we've gone from tolerance to intolerance.

00:27:54.260 And I want to show you an example of what I mean by that here.

00:27:57.760 This is the evolution of Barack Obama on the question of homosexual marriage.

00:28:04.120 So, let's sort of go through it for a second here.

00:28:08.200 Samson, can we have audio for this, please?

00:28:09.760 I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

00:28:14.540 But I also detest the sort of bashing and vilifying of gays and lesbians because I think it's unduly divisive.

00:28:28.380 It's unnecessary.

00:28:30.320 Most gays and lesbians are simply seeking basic recognition of their rights.

00:28:37.400 So, let me just pause here for a split second.

00:28:39.760 This is being presented as an argument for equality and against discrimination.

00:28:46.020 Now, let's see how that's evolved over time.

00:28:48.920 We've got to make sure that everybody is equal under the law.

00:28:52.700 And the civil unions that I proposed would be equivalent in terms of making sure that all the rights that are conferred by the state are equal for same-sex couples as well as for heterosexual couples.

00:29:07.360 Now, with respect to marriage, it's my belief that it's up to the individual denominations to make a decision as to whether they want to recognize marriage or not.

00:29:16.220 First change.

00:29:16.880 First change.

00:29:17.440 So, now you can decide how you want to recognize it.

00:29:22.980 And you are left with a degree of freedom as to whether or not you accept it.

00:29:28.360 So, it's equality, but your own personal freedom.

00:29:31.320 No longer just between men and women.

00:29:32.960 It's now a decision of a church.

00:29:36.340 Fair enough.

00:29:37.060 So, with respect to gay marriage, I do not support gay marriage, but I support a very strong version of civil unions where I think the state has to recognize the same rights and responsibilities for gay people, same-sex couples as they do for anybody else.

00:29:56.500 Because the state is not a religious institution.

00:30:01.300 I think this is the most important point.

00:30:04.360 To deny that there is religion in the state is belied by the fact that every organ of the state is now parroting the same message.

00:30:14.820 They're all adamant that you must celebrate homosexuality, you must celebrate transgenderism, you must celebrate et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, or the various identities that they've developed over the years.

00:30:28.320 This was happening at a time when the whole trans debate wasn't even happening.

00:30:32.340 And what followed from the recognition of the so-called right of homosexuals to marry was the imposition of this new dogma on everybody else. 0.78

00:30:45.780 And I'm not going to show you the whole clip here, but then Obama goes on to say that he's going to use executive power to make sure that all hospitals throughout the United States,

00:30:57.820 a huge chunk of which are Catholic hospitals, must treat homosexuals and normal people, I'm going to say, equally, because anything else wouldn't be acceptable. 0.97

00:31:10.940 And he's threatened to deny federal funding to any hospital that receives Medicare or Medicaid.

00:31:17.500 But isn't an argument here now, he's talking about, you know, religion.

00:31:21.240 Isn't the state become a religion?

00:31:23.940 Well, the state...

00:31:24.820 Isn't it saying that I am now the head of the church of the state, and therefore I'm going to deny the state what our morals are?

00:31:32.260 Yep, I'm going to jump in here because one of the comments is brilliant.

00:31:35.220 We're not allowed to discuss what religion the state has adopted.

00:31:38.500 Ah, okay.

00:31:39.180 But we must, because the state is an arbiter of moral values.

00:31:44.400 All questions of politics, all questions of law, have a moral foundation.

00:31:49.980 And to deny that and to pretend, as Obama did here, that the state is always secular.

00:31:57.640 No, no.

00:31:58.140 The hierarchy of the secular state is different from the hierarchy of the church.

00:32:02.020 I think, basically, there cannot be any kind of valueless and value-free governance.

00:32:10.540 Exactly.

00:32:11.040 This is just, people don't know, people who say this don't know what they're talking about.

00:32:15.540 But one thing that is, from a realistic perspective, really important, has to do with the tyranny of minority.

00:32:21.820 Because in many cases, in many countries, I'd say the majority of countries where we have democracy, we have parties that make a sort of forecasting, sort of calculation of what kind, of how many votes they expect from particular groups of population.

00:32:41.160 Yes.

00:32:41.260 And if we have a group that can have, let's say, 3-4% of the population, maybe a bit less, it can be a very important player in tilting elections.

00:32:53.360 Yes.

00:32:53.620 That is why we have center-left and center-right parties and centrist parties being pro-LGBTQ plus agenda.

00:33:04.620 Because they want to count on their votes at the end of the day.

00:33:08.280 Yes.

00:33:08.560 And because we're voting for agendas of parties, not specific policies, they're putting in this from the back end?

00:33:19.000 Well, all political parties are trying to find different groups of people.

00:33:22.280 But if you look at the LGBT community, one of the things that they also have is higher levels of income, higher levels of influence in media and TV and music.

00:33:32.860 And so those modern-day powers, which have much more control over the young and the younger voters, that's also incredibly influential.

00:33:42.640 And can run disinformation campaigns.

00:33:45.580 Well, we're going to talk about disinformation in a second because this is relevant to the discussion here.

00:33:50.840 I mean, Obama went from saying that he's neutral on this to saying that legalizing homosexual marriage is a huge victory for America because everybody must be equal.

00:34:02.040 But as Thomas Jefferson understood, there is, and he was basing this on Aristotle, I understand, there is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

00:34:15.280 Yeah, that's in Nicomachean Ethics' book 5 on justice, where he's talking about fairness.

00:34:21.280 He says, treating equal claims equally is fairness plus treating unequal claims unequally.

00:34:29.360 Yes.

00:34:29.580 If you treat everyone equally, you're unfair for Aristotle, and he's correct. 1.00

00:34:34.500 Absolutely.

00:34:35.240 Absolutely.

00:34:35.660 Because the issue that can't be avoided here is that this has become a new state dogma.

00:34:46.660 And that this, the state, using its power, is trying to impose this dogma on anybody who dares to disagree.

00:34:59.860 Imagine working for a big corporation and saying that you disagree with homosexual marriage publicly.

00:35:06.200 Oh, you'd be fired.

00:35:07.780 Well, that's exactly what...

00:35:09.040 You just won't be able to do it.

00:35:11.000 I was lucky because I was only made redundant as opposed to being directly sacked.

00:35:14.900 Yeah.

00:35:16.660 But it's what this is about.

00:35:18.580 And I think we need to understand their perspective more.

00:35:21.060 So part of Christian charity is to try to understand the perspective of the enemy as best as you can.

00:35:28.340 Not the enemy, just anybody you oppose.

00:35:31.200 And as this is the court philosopher of the World Economic Forum,

00:35:36.640 I think we need to take a minute to listen to what he has to say about...

00:35:41.060 Yeah.

00:35:42.020 About Darwin.

00:35:43.060 About Darwin.

00:35:43.700 Darwin is the kind of prophet of sexual liberation.

00:35:49.060 If I think about the liberation of gay people, of LGBTQ people,

00:35:53.520 then if you dig underneath, you eventually find Darwin.

00:35:56.880 For centuries upon centuries, gay people were persecuted and oppressed because of this mythological idea about sex,

00:36:07.980 that sex was created by God for the purpose of procreation. 0.99

00:36:15.500 And if you use sex for anything else, you're sinning against the purpose of the thing, so you must be punished.

00:36:24.520 And then Darwin came and Darwin said,

00:36:27.240 She's nodding as if she knows what she's talking about.

00:36:38.060 Yes.

00:36:38.380 Like a nodding dog.

00:36:39.680 Yes.

00:36:40.260 She would understand philosophy if someone wrote it down in front of her in a word.

00:36:43.760 And see how he summarizes his own point of view.

00:36:48.280 Nothing in nature has a purpose.

00:36:50.980 And nothing that exists is unnatural.

00:36:54.180 Does this apply, say, to cannibalism, which exists in nature?

00:37:00.300 Yes.

00:37:00.640 Does this apply to incest?

00:37:03.620 Does this apply to anything?

00:37:07.440 The idea that there is no purpose to our lives and to our nature...

00:37:11.520 Or that nature has no purpose.

00:37:12.940 Or that nature has no purpose is revolutionary in the worst way possible,

00:37:19.540 in that it is purely destructive and deprives us of having any kind of ordered thinking.

00:37:25.760 Now, you would assume that someone like Harari would therefore conclude that there are no values to be worried about.

00:37:34.100 But in reality, the man is a big political player in Israel.

00:37:39.280 He's opposing Benjamin Netanyahu over the judicial reforms that Netanyahu is trying to impose

00:37:45.540 that would limit the ability of the Israeli judiciary to intervene in democratic decisions.

00:37:52.580 So Harari is of the view that a certain expert class must use its superior knowledge and intelligence to govern.

00:38:01.660 And that the hoi polloi, us people, who vote on things, shouldn't have a say.

00:38:08.340 And he views any challenge to that as an attack on democratic norms.

00:38:14.700 So it's not that the man concludes that his own values should be treated in the same way

00:38:19.020 as having no purpose and no relevance and what have you.

00:38:22.580 He is fully dogmatic, but about his own dogma, and doesn't realize that he's dogmatic.

00:38:30.380 Which brings us to a point that Chesterton made, and I know you're familiar with it,

00:38:35.400 that there are only two kinds of people in the world, those who are dogmatic and know it,

00:38:40.040 and those who are dogmatic and do not know it.

00:38:42.100 And the continuation is that the latter, the ones who are dogmatic but do not know it,

00:38:47.740 are far more dogmatic than the former.

00:38:50.620 Because if you know your dogma, you know where it's bounded, and you know that it's dogma.

00:38:55.320 Whereas these guys have no idea that they're being dogmatic,

00:38:57.940 and that they're trying to impose things that haven't been...

00:39:00.900 Or they have and they conceal it.

00:39:02.420 You know, if they are that nefarious, we have a problem.

00:39:06.160 We have an even bigger problem.

00:39:07.180 I just think Yuval Noah Harari knows exactly what he's talking about,

00:39:10.280 and he's just being utterly dishonest about it.

00:39:12.080 Nothing in nature has a purpose.

00:39:14.560 Possibly so.

00:39:15.820 How do you have a purpose of a plant, or an animal that tries to eat you

00:39:19.680 and wants to devour everything else?

00:39:21.300 How about a virus?

00:39:22.680 That's in nature.

00:39:23.640 That has a purpose to devour you, and to destroy you. 0.89

00:39:26.900 This is nonsense. 0.95

00:39:28.420 If we can go back to the previous link...

00:39:32.080 Let me allow Samson to do it.

00:39:33.900 Yeah, because I could...

00:39:35.320 Literally, I could talk about it for 10 hours plus.

00:39:38.480 Yeah.

00:39:39.060 And if you take the statement, nothing is a natural...

00:39:42.940 Nothing in nature has a purpose.

00:39:45.260 Yeah.

00:39:45.540 And nothing that exists is a natural.

00:39:47.640 There are several implications there.

00:39:49.400 One implication is that there is basically no morality.

00:39:54.800 Why?

00:39:54.960 Because this is reductive naturalism.

00:39:58.660 Everything that exists in nature, nothing in nature has a purpose.

00:40:02.920 Therefore, nothing that exists has a purpose.

00:40:05.840 Well, this is a very subversive way of viewing things.

00:40:09.960 And this is very ideological.

00:40:12.580 Because what happens?

00:40:13.340 You can distinguish between an ideologue and a theorist

00:40:17.420 by how much they are asking you to part with.

00:40:21.060 Yes.

00:40:21.140 And the idea that we should part with common sense is the mark of the ideologue.

00:40:28.380 And when they begin saying things like, well, there's nothing that has a purpose.

00:40:33.920 Action has a purpose.

00:40:35.860 Thought has a purpose, which is to portray the truth.

00:40:38.120 Well, he's missed out one thing.

00:40:39.400 He says, nothing in nature has a purpose.

00:40:41.300 Nothing else is unnatural.

00:40:42.400 Even the very writing of what he's done.

00:40:44.680 That's a purpose.

00:40:46.480 And it might not be natural.

00:40:49.000 So, you know, what you're thinking about is totally unnatural.

00:40:51.480 You know, this man tries to be a brain.

00:40:55.280 And the only thing that's, for me, that makes him look like a brain 0.93

00:40:58.020 is he's trying to show more of it because he hasn't got anything on his head.

00:41:01.040 Well, there's another implication.

00:41:02.780 There's another implication.

00:41:04.240 If nothing that exists is unnatural, therefore, all the things he criticizes are natural.

00:41:09.280 Yes.

00:41:09.680 Yeah.

00:41:10.020 That's another... 1.00

00:41:10.900 It's a circular stupidity. 1.00

00:41:12.540 It is. 1.00

00:41:12.940 He just says, most people are so completely false about it.

00:41:21.060 We need essentially a strong state to tell them...

00:41:24.140 Nothing about Darwin.

00:41:25.180 Darwin wouldn't have even been considering homophobia, biphobia, transphobia,

00:41:30.600 any of these issues when he was looking at the way that the world that considered,

00:41:34.500 unless he was looking at animals not being able to have sex between, you know,

00:41:38.380 the male and female version.

00:41:39.560 But other than that, he had no concept of what this Yuval has tried to create. 0.94

00:41:44.220 He's just trying to be smart for being smart's sake.

00:41:46.780 Yes.

00:41:47.740 Yes.

00:41:48.360 And I think with all of these things, we should always look at the consequences.

00:41:53.260 If you believe this, then here are some of the consequences.

00:41:57.620 One of the consequences is that now you can just buy a baby.

00:42:01.960 You can design and manufacture a baby and go and buy one.

00:42:05.240 And we no longer have to pretend that, okay, we're a happy couple

00:42:09.780 and a gay couple is equal to a straight couple.

00:42:14.940 No, no.

00:42:16.140 Single men can just go and purchase babies and take them from their mothers. 1.00

00:42:23.580 I mean...

00:42:23.740 I know.

00:42:24.160 I'm just...

00:42:24.780 It just makes me feel ill.

00:42:26.060 I find it disgusting.

00:42:28.080 Single man can go out and buy a baby and then he can raise him 0.98

00:42:31.460 and do whatever he likes inside and we just do not know what sort of perversions

00:42:35.460 these people are doing.

00:42:37.460 And it's impossible not to assume the worst.

00:42:40.080 Of course it's not.

00:42:40.720 It's really impossible not to assume the worst about these men.

00:42:45.740 Why would you do it?

00:42:47.600 A 60-something guy buys a baby in South America.

00:42:50.400 I mean, you find an impoverished woman, you get her to carry a baby for you 1.00

00:42:54.440 and then you take the boy and you are behind closed doors with him

00:43:00.880 having zero instincts for how to raise him.

00:43:04.000 Yeah, look at him.

00:43:06.080 You can't breastfeed him. 0.88

00:43:08.120 He doesn't know he's going to be dead whilst the child is growing up.

00:43:12.020 It's not his own.

00:43:13.240 He doesn't have any understanding of the pain that you would go through

00:43:16.360 if something hurts, you know, like a blood parent would do.

00:43:19.640 You know, I'm not saying that people don't because they don't adopt people

00:43:23.380 but look at his age.

00:43:24.700 Look at the way that this is just the buying of children.

00:43:30.000 I mean, this is just unacceptable.

00:43:33.500 It makes children into a commodity.

00:43:35.460 They're no more than an iPhone.

00:43:36.920 A child is an iPhone.

00:43:38.300 According to the philosophy of Harari, all we are is just matter, emotion.

00:43:44.360 We're just weight.

00:43:45.860 So let's just have this weight flowing around.

00:43:48.580 Yep.

00:43:49.180 It doesn't matter.

00:43:51.220 There is no basis to say that this is wrong from the standpoint of Yuval Harari.

00:43:59.700 He is undermining, he is self-undermining.

00:44:02.900 Or Obama for that case.

00:44:04.620 Or from what Obama is saying.

00:44:05.960 His extension is that anyone can do it.

00:44:08.680 Exactly.

00:44:09.380 Exactly.

00:44:09.740 So we need to look at these philosophies and go beyond the sentimentalism of,

00:44:15.680 oh, but equality, oh, but poor so-and-so, oh, but whatever.

00:44:18.920 There is real evil that's being perpetuated against innocent children.

00:44:24.860 And if everything is natural and nothing is unnatural, there's no reason to object.

00:44:29.760 If all there is is matter, what do I care?

00:44:32.180 But also it shows the ridiculous extent they are prepared to go in order to whitewash their political allies.

00:44:41.360 Yes, absolutely.

00:44:42.420 It's one thing to say, guys, there is such a thing as morality, and maybe you're a bit harsher on group A, B, and C.

00:44:49.400 Yes.

00:44:49.820 But they straightforwardly go for the nuclear option, which implies there is no morality.

00:44:53.740 No, they didn't go straightforwardly for the nuclear option.

00:44:55.900 You have to remember, Obama was arguing that it should be about equality and justice and fairness and including everybody.

00:45:06.540 The Economist was writing articles about how legalizing gay marriage was a good thing because then they'd just be normal, suburban, middle-class parents and nothing would change. 0.90

00:45:18.000 So the argument, the revolutionary argument came after they won.

00:45:22.160 They revealed their agenda after they captured the state, after they became in a position to use the state's dogma and the state's ability to impose dogma on others.

00:45:33.380 You hear endless stories about teachers being sacked for saying, okay, I don't believe that this child could be trans.

00:45:40.280 I don't believe that homosexuality is a good thing, etc. 1.00

00:45:44.060 If you as a teacher say this, you immediately get sacked for it.

00:45:48.720 You'd get sacked in any job nowadays.

00:45:50.440 Now you get pretty much sacked in any job.

00:45:53.220 A lot of things, to be honest.

00:45:55.560 And the argument for it also came from nature.

00:45:58.220 They found, okay, there's no...

00:46:00.340 They were arguing for a very long time. 0.50

00:46:03.300 Obama personally was arguing that homosexuality was innate.

00:46:07.240 And that because it was innate, it came from nature.

00:46:10.940 And if it came from nature, as Harari was saying, then there's nothing wrong with it.

00:46:14.840 But even that materialist argument fails.

00:46:18.340 Because in reality, there isn't anything genetic that determines homosexuality.

00:46:24.120 There are various genes that interplay with homosexuality.

00:46:28.120 But there is no way to predict someone being homosexual based on their genes.

00:46:33.420 It's impossible to do it.

00:46:36.160 So, even starting from nature, this argument falls pretty much flat on its face.

00:46:43.500 And yet they keep on insisting.

00:46:45.920 And yet they keep on pushing.

00:46:47.120 And we've ended up in a situation where just you can randomly purchase children from any poor country

00:46:56.180 because a young woman needs a bit of extra income. 1.00

00:47:00.180 I think that this...

00:47:02.220 I don't know.

00:47:03.080 First of all, I reject biological determinism.

00:47:05.820 So, the idea that everything boils down to genes is completely foreign to me.

00:47:09.680 And I just think it's mistaken.

00:47:11.680 I don't think that everything boils down to genes.

00:47:13.500 But even if it did, I think there is such a thing as saying that if there were absolutely

00:47:19.540 no disposition whatsoever in any human being, it would never have arisen in the first place.

00:47:26.120 So, there are people who say, well, it's not biology.

00:47:28.820 It's society.

00:47:30.900 Well, society wouldn't try to enforce it in the first place or wouldn't involve it

00:47:36.420 if there wasn't such a thing as biology.

00:47:38.480 Because society occurs within biological grounds, let's say.

00:47:43.500 Yes, my argument would be slightly different.

00:47:45.760 My argument would be that we are naturally prone to doing some evil because of original sin

00:47:52.140 and that sexual perversions, including cheating on your partner,

00:47:58.760 including doing things that you shouldn't do, form part of our menu of sins that we choose from. 0.71

00:48:07.300 Does it mean that human nature has a disposition towards homosexuality?

00:48:10.380 It would imply that human nature is naturally flawed.

00:48:13.520 Okay.

00:48:14.060 It would imply that human nature is flawed.

00:48:16.220 If we were all capable of being saints, we wouldn't be a fallen species.

00:48:21.340 But we are.

00:48:22.100 We're capable of being saints, but we must struggle with evil to be saints.

00:48:27.020 It would imply that the correct way to view humanity is through the mix of original sin and divine grace

00:48:35.360 that we are all born with and that we are all called upon to struggle to let the grace shine and to bury the sin.

00:48:43.600 That's what it would imply.

00:48:48.780 And then, you know, they tried to teach this stuff in schools as it was normal.

00:48:53.380 But then when you look at the promiscuity rates in the homosexual community, 1.00

00:48:59.540 you find that they're extremely high and that older homosexual people are much more likely to be promiscuous 1.00

00:49:07.080 than older people in general, and I'll leave your imagination to sort of think through what that means.

00:49:15.040 You end up with dogs infected with monkeypox, which is something that I really don't want to discuss

00:49:22.000 more than just point out that it exists.

00:49:25.080 How could this happen?

00:49:26.740 Let's not discuss that.

00:49:29.020 If you don't mind, let's not discuss that.

00:49:31.240 And you end up in a situation where this dogma is being forced on children as though it was neutral.

00:49:40.220 However, I want to read another Chesterton quote here.

00:49:44.680 Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education.

00:49:49.200 It is education.

00:49:51.240 A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

00:49:55.200 There are no uneducated people.

00:49:57.800 Only most people are educated wrong.

00:50:00.160 The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection and rejection.

00:50:08.280 The educationist must find a creed and teach it.

00:50:12.820 To be honest, this is the nature of teaching.

00:50:14.620 This is the nature of education.

00:50:16.040 It's about values.

00:50:17.580 It's about right and wrong.

00:50:19.140 The Catholic Church and the schools that I went to are so different to the way that I was educated

00:50:24.660 in a Catholic school today.

00:50:27.760 And they are following the dogma of the state.

00:50:31.260 In many cases, they are.

00:50:32.740 Yeah.

00:50:33.080 And they're actively doing it.

00:50:34.900 We have an archbishop who went over to Rome to vote.

00:50:39.120 Archbishop of Canterbury, who I kind of met his team about immigration.

00:50:44.640 And they're all openly, happily bringing as many people in as possible.

00:50:49.540 So they're in that kind of group of individuals that just simply no longer care about the education.

00:50:56.800 They're not willing to challenge the state.

00:50:58.800 They have enough schools here and here, enough teachers.

00:51:00.820 You could protect those teachers who want to follow true rules.

00:51:04.540 But they won't.

00:51:05.540 They fail to do so in schools across the UK all the time.

00:51:08.960 Being nominally Catholic or even being a good Catholic or trying to be a good Catholic 0.69

00:51:15.160 doesn't protect you about being wrong all the time or against falling behind the currents.

00:51:22.260 Yeah.

00:51:22.660 And yes, there are certainly elements in the Catholic establishment that are chasing this

00:51:28.420 current, that are following this fad.

00:51:30.340 But the bedrock is fundamentally opposed to it.

00:51:33.580 I think basically, I have taught at university for six years.

00:51:44.340 And I'm really into it, let's say.

00:51:48.340 So I like looking at where terms come from.

00:51:52.100 And the term dogmatic was initially the opposition to the term skeptic.

00:51:57.480 But both of those terms have changed.

00:52:01.100 So being dogmatic originally meant you think you possess knowledge.

00:52:07.380 Being a skeptic meant originally you suspended judgment.

00:52:11.920 The skeptic, nowadays, you'd say the dominant intellectual orthodoxy in Western countries is

00:52:18.340 reductive naturalism.

00:52:20.460 It tries to say that being a skeptic essentially means being very dogmatic about things that

00:52:27.300 bring human nature down to the level of matter.

00:52:30.160 It's not at all suspending judgment because they make constant judgments all the time.

00:52:36.220 Like Harari was saying.

00:52:37.240 It's performative skepticism.

00:52:38.120 It's performative skepticism.

00:52:39.620 Yes.

00:52:40.120 So one thing, I think that it's a good thing to try to instill both a kind of dogmatic element

00:52:47.880 in education, but also a kind of critical element.

00:52:50.860 Because without the critical element, you make students essentially into people who are going

00:52:57.360 to fall for propaganda.

00:52:58.980 You should be very dogmatic about dogma.

00:53:02.520 But you shouldn't confuse what is dogma and what isn't dogma.

00:53:06.460 Well, it depends again, because we will have discussions about whether something is true or false.

00:53:13.500 But I think that it's important to cultivate to students both a dogmatic disposition, but also a skeptical one.

00:53:21.100 I was just going to say, but putting a bit of levity in, I do like dogmatics.

00:53:24.860 He's the dog in asterisk to go.

00:53:28.380 Yes.

00:53:28.820 It's a tweet of a cartoon by Carl Benjamin.

00:53:35.020 A corporation needs 50% male board members and 50% female board members, and everybody celebrates.

00:53:41.400 A child needs a mother and a father, and everybody gets angry.

00:53:45.100 And this is the result of this complete loss of reality that we live in.

00:53:49.440 And the last thing that I want to conclude with is an argument from first principles in defense of what marriage really is.

00:54:02.000 Mr. Keyes, on the Channel 7 debate last Thursday night, you said, and I'm quoting you,

00:54:06.680 where procreation is, in principle, impossible, marriage is irrelevant.

00:54:12.380 You went on to say it was irrelevant and not needed.

00:54:15.540 What about marriage between people who are well beyond their childbearing age?

00:54:19.440 Irrelevant?

00:54:20.140 Not needed?

00:54:20.840 No, it's simply a misunderstanding.

00:54:22.800 The word in principle means relating to the definition of, not relating to particular circumstances.

00:54:29.600 So if an apple has a worm in it, the worm is not part of the definition of the apple.

00:54:33.840 It doesn't change what the apple is in principle.

00:54:36.980 So the fact...

00:54:37.400 It retains its apple.

00:54:38.360 Can I...

00:54:38.820 It retains...

00:54:39.660 No, it retains...

00:54:41.100 To act as if concepts are laughable means that you want to be irrational.

00:54:45.840 Human beings reason...

00:54:47.160 Excuse me.

00:54:47.740 Let me finish.

00:54:48.740 You said it was irrelevant and not needed.

00:54:50.260 Human beings reason by means of concepts and definition.

00:54:53.340 We also make laws by means of definitions.

00:54:56.260 And if you don't know how to operate with respect for those definitions, you can't make the law.

00:55:00.760 An individual who is impotent or another who is infertile does not change the definition

00:55:05.540 of marriage in principle because between a man and a woman in principle, procreation is always possible. 0.63

00:55:12.920 And it is that possibility which gave rise to the institution of marriage in the first place as a matter of law...

00:55:18.360 To 80-year-olds, it's still possible in principle.

00:55:22.240 But when it is impossible, as between two males or two females, you're talking about something

00:55:27.280 that's not just incidentally impossible, it's impossible in principle.

00:55:30.860 And that means that if you say that that's a marriage, you are saying marriage can be understood

00:55:35.560 in principle apart from procreation.

00:55:38.280 You have changed its definition in such a way as, in fact, to destroy the necessity for the institution.

00:55:45.280 That's the summary of it.

00:55:46.980 And if you want to learn to argue like this, please go for the trivium course.

00:55:50.500 Because that is the right way to think.

00:55:52.320 There is such a thing as natural and unnatural.

00:55:57.240 There is such a thing as right and wrong.

00:55:59.500 When you pretend that the state doesn't have a dogma or that you can have a state without morality,

00:56:04.800 what you end up with is men buying children and much, much worse. 0.83

00:56:09.660 We've ran this experiment.

00:56:11.640 We've seen the fruits of it.

00:56:13.500 It's turned out that there is no possibility of a truly secular, amoral state.

00:56:18.860 The state always has a morality.

00:56:20.320 And therefore, the question is, which one is the right morality?

00:56:24.320 The one that allows the buying and selling of children or the one that forbids it?

00:56:28.960 And that's what I want to end this segment with.

00:56:31.540 Okay.

00:56:32.140 Right.

00:56:33.820 So we have several comments.

00:56:36.740 We read this.

00:56:38.480 That's a random name.

00:56:39.480 I wonder if Barak's stance on rainbow marriage changed once he finally consummated his marriage to Big Mike.

00:56:47.760 Sigilstone 17.

00:56:49.180 Nothing is Unnatural.

00:56:50.360 He said into that camera that grew on a tree.

00:56:55.380 Exactly.

00:56:56.540 The habsification. 0.99

00:56:58.420 These people always end up giving back their credence and justification to PDF files.

00:57:04.620 Understand what this means.

00:57:06.100 To do what they want.

00:57:07.020 I'd want all PDF files to be given.

00:57:10.000 He says the capital punishment.

00:57:13.480 Right.

00:57:15.200 Let's go to this.

00:57:19.660 The third segment.

00:57:20.900 Do you want the...

00:57:21.600 Yeah.

00:57:21.900 No, let's give it a go on here.

00:57:23.660 So I think everybody needs to understand following that and looking at that last video,

00:57:28.220 how important it is a classical education can give you, particularly one of grammar and logic.

00:57:33.780 And in this case, rhetoric.

00:57:36.140 And although I'm not suggesting that we're committing rhetoric, I think we're doing the logic part of this course.

00:57:41.360 But you can see very well the importance of it.

00:57:43.740 And that's why this course is going to be invaluable to people.

00:57:47.920 And I recommend that you go onto it and try.

00:57:51.460 I don't know if you can do Sanson, the next part, which is the introductory part.

00:57:57.320 I think just for yourself, for those who are not understanding the old classical ideas of Aristotle

00:58:03.580 and all of those points that will be raised by improving your logic today,

00:58:09.500 that's the segment, my Carl and Nima.

00:58:11.860 You just get a chance to get a flavour of what it actually is.

00:58:15.800 So I'm going to move on today and I'm going to get rid of this and move on to my part,

00:58:22.100 which is this, the ex-army chief issues a World War III warning

00:58:27.880 and brands the new access of power as more dangerous than Nazis.

00:58:33.340 This is all part for me in the context of what I see now is a very growing

00:58:38.240 and concerningly growing rhetoric across the West

00:58:41.860 where we're beginning to manufacture consent for World War III.

00:58:46.600 And what I'm going to show in this kind of segment is the way that they're preparing

00:58:52.040 the public in six different segments.

00:58:54.760 Now, I think what you'll see as we go through this, ladies,

00:58:56.760 and part of the reasons why we were late today is because I had a whole load of links

00:59:00.000 and it's my apologies to the team that just didn't work.

00:59:03.660 So after the show, I will actually recreate all those links that you can see

00:59:08.220 in the whole links after the show.

00:59:10.680 But there'll be lots more than what we're going to talk about here

00:59:13.340 because I think it's important to see how all the categories I talk about

00:59:17.860 are being used in the US, in the EU, in the UK

00:59:21.780 in order to try and persuade the public, not just this year,

00:59:25.640 but over the next coming decades to prepare ourselves

00:59:28.540 for what I think will be a war of all wars, to be honest,

00:59:32.860 particularly where we are.

00:59:34.420 So I begin here in the UK as part of preparing the public

00:59:38.180 for defining the enemy.

00:59:41.320 And you have a number of things, actually.

00:59:43.420 I don't think I can see in terms of flying.

00:59:46.260 Here we have General Sir Patrick Sanders,

00:59:49.880 who talks about, he's a former military chief, Sandhurst,

00:59:55.880 and he talked about the need that Russia, China and Iran

00:59:59.800 were the new Axis power and a third world war could break out 0.99

01:00:04.000 within the next five years.

01:00:06.800 Think about the time scale of that by the time of 2030

01:00:10.820 and that these people, these countries,

01:00:14.420 are a greater threat than the Nazis were in 1935 0.61

01:00:18.760 because they're more independent and more aligned

01:00:21.500 than the original Axis powers.

01:00:24.180 I don't want to look at that language. 1.00

01:00:27.000 The date of this was in May, I believe, of 2021, July.

01:00:33.800 In April of 21, the House Speaker of the United States

01:00:37.240 is one of the links I will put up.

01:00:38.780 Didn't he say 24?

01:00:40.180 24.

01:00:41.260 In 24 was Mike Johnson.

01:00:43.300 And he said almost the exactly same language,

01:00:46.640 the new Axis powers of Russia, China and Iran.

01:00:50.540 Following that, about a month after this,

01:00:53.480 came an article from NATO's think tanks

01:00:56.200 talking about the new Axis powers of Russia, China and Iran.

01:01:01.720 So clearly, our military and intelligence services

01:01:06.040 had created the framework

01:01:07.540 and that was how they were going to begin this

01:01:11.640 by defining who the enemy is

01:01:14.880 and letting the public know who that enemy is.

01:01:18.640 This was published across many, many websites,

01:01:21.500 not just here, many, many mainstream newspapers.

01:01:25.060 And so what we already start to see now

01:01:27.120 is that argument is now being consistently used

01:01:29.760 in our current media.

01:01:31.800 The next thing that we see here

01:01:34.220 is what I call in Politico,

01:01:40.680 and I'm looking, trying to find in terms of that,

01:01:45.280 without European rearmament,

01:01:47.560 NATO is setting itself up for failure here.

01:01:51.220 I think this actually is more of a little bit later on

01:01:53.640 when we're talking about the money.

01:01:54.760 But I think this is an important point here

01:01:57.840 in Politico, which has always been

01:01:59.640 a very kind of pro-EU,

01:02:02.500 pro-the-establishment argument.

01:02:04.360 They've used a very clear mainstream argument

01:02:07.800 of military intervention,

01:02:10.120 that of the Atlantic Council.

01:02:12.080 And with the war in the Ukraine advancing,

01:02:13.960 the West has finally awakened up

01:02:15.400 from its strategic slumber,

01:02:17.320 facing up to the threat.

01:02:18.700 Russia poses in Europe. 0.82

01:02:19.860 Now, we've heard this since before the war in Ukraine,

01:02:24.760 and now it's emphasised,

01:02:26.220 and we need to put more aid packages,

01:02:28.120 more military weapons towards Ukraine,

01:02:30.840 because what we're doing

01:02:32.320 is we're creating the military knowledge,

01:02:35.520 technological knowledge,

01:02:38.040 the groundwork knowledge

01:02:39.000 of how to deal with a war with Russia.

01:02:42.240 Not now, but later on.

01:02:43.960 One where we have 175 million people in Russia,

01:02:46.660 and we have 975 million people in the EU.

01:02:50.880 Bigger numbers.

01:02:52.560 Our kind of GDPs dwarf that of Russia.

01:02:56.460 The amount that we spend in military aid in NATO

01:02:59.740 dwarfs that of Russia.

01:03:01.120 But nonetheless, this is where we're going.

01:03:03.680 We're warning the public that this is necessary.

01:03:07.400 And so I think that...

01:03:09.660 If we go here into the next stage,

01:03:14.100 we look at this,

01:03:16.900 which is the next stage of this is part two.

01:03:20.580 We now need to look at our neighbours.

01:03:23.260 Who are our allies?

01:03:24.720 The US, UK, and Australia say Japan

01:03:27.060 could join part of the AUKUS pact.

01:03:30.100 I don't know whether you say AUKUS or AUKUS pact.

01:03:33.480 But here we're now looking over to neighbours

01:03:35.680 across the globe and saying,

01:03:37.120 come, this is coming.

01:03:39.720 At the moment, you've got UK,

01:03:41.600 we and Europe, we're going to take on Russia.

01:03:46.080 US and Australia are going to take on China.

01:03:50.160 Japan, come and join us as part of our team.

01:03:53.280 You must be the part of the team that's essential.

01:03:55.960 And as they say here,

01:03:56.760 statement from the security minister,

01:03:57.940 come and make,

01:03:58.460 mounting focus on Chinese threats in Asia.

01:04:01.560 Japan, you could be taken over by China.

01:04:04.340 You will be controlled by them.

01:04:06.240 The usual fear threat.

01:04:07.320 So join us in this battle.

01:04:10.440 So you've got NATO talking about a China problem

01:04:13.900 and you're saying,

01:04:15.920 here, mates, we're the team together.

01:04:18.100 Come and join our side now.

01:04:19.740 Stage two.

01:04:21.320 I'm going to go down then into,

01:04:23.360 you've got to increase defence budgets.

01:04:25.760 It's the third section.

01:04:27.980 And so here we have,

01:04:30.400 oh, sorry, this carries on here.

01:04:31.780 NATO are planning to open a Japan office

01:04:34.420 to deepen Asia-Pacific ties.

01:04:36.900 I thought NATO was about the North Atlantic Treaty,

01:04:39.180 about defence.

01:04:40.920 Now they're saying we need to go across the Asia-Pacific.

01:04:43.780 So you're drawing a new line with that of China.

01:04:47.900 We're drawing a Cold War. 0.82

01:04:49.480 But that Cold War is very open.

01:04:50.820 It's not cold.

01:04:51.940 This is mega war.

01:04:53.520 We're actually feeling this.

01:04:55.780 So neighbours,

01:04:57.300 defining the enemy.

01:04:58.300 Then we, of course, we need to spend.

01:05:01.280 And we need to spend like mad.

01:05:03.480 So,

01:05:04.060 I don't know what this,

01:05:06.700 this part is coming in.

01:05:10.160 Where we have here,

01:05:11.960 we've got this section here now.

01:05:14.560 Very clearly is the third section

01:05:16.580 is we now need to boost

01:05:18.580 our spending on the military.

01:05:20.880 Stage three of all part of this control package.

01:05:24.320 And we've got the Pentagon

01:05:25.140 talking about here reinvesting 50 billion

01:05:27.740 into the Trump defence priorities.

01:05:30.460 But more importantly,

01:05:31.320 you've got to look down,

01:05:32.440 down into this article from Reuters,

01:05:35.500 which talks about

01:05:36.400 how Peter Hesketh is using money.

01:05:39.600 And much further down here,

01:05:42.020 you can see an even bigger number

01:05:44.720 of 895 billion

01:05:48.400 in defence spending

01:05:50.380 for the fiscal year September 30.

01:05:53.340 Just look at that number.

01:05:55.860 Nearly a trillion dollars

01:05:57.580 in one year

01:05:59.040 is going to be spent

01:06:00.600 on defence spending

01:06:01.640 in the US.

01:06:02.720 That dwarfs anything

01:06:04.540 that Russia has.

01:06:06.620 It's mega.

01:06:08.120 But we've also just heard

01:06:09.960 that a deal is being done

01:06:12.000 with Saudi Arabia

01:06:13.040 with the US

01:06:14.940 for 192 billion

01:06:17.360 in defence spending.

01:06:18.640 And why is Saudi Arabia

01:06:21.160 now spending

01:06:21.800 that much money

01:06:22.480 to the US?

01:06:23.500 Who are they going up

01:06:24.240 against the war with?

01:06:25.460 The UAE?

01:06:26.680 Certainly not Israel. 0.96

01:06:28.320 They're not going to try

01:06:28.900 and take over Lebanon 0.95

01:06:29.880 or Syria

01:06:30.500 now that they've allowed

01:06:31.380 the terrorists

01:06:32.020 to come in from the light

01:06:33.440 and take control.

01:06:34.780 The whole part

01:06:35.960 of Saudi Arabia

01:06:37.400 is that their weaponry

01:06:39.020 now is the part

01:06:39.840 of the third tier,

01:06:41.100 which is to take on Iran.

01:06:42.740 So we now know

01:06:44.120 that we're going to be

01:06:44.780 spending military

01:06:45.660 huge numbers

01:06:47.680 in Europe

01:06:48.640 for Russia.

01:06:50.300 Huge amounts of money

01:06:51.460 in the Middle East

01:06:52.160 against Iran 0.78

01:06:53.100 led by Saudi Arabia

01:06:54.600 and the US

01:06:55.980 and Australia

01:06:57.060 bringing in Japan,

01:06:58.760 no doubt the Philippines,

01:07:00.120 no doubt Taiwan

01:07:00.960 up against China.

01:07:02.760 So the organisations

01:07:04.200 are being created

01:07:05.420 in military spending.

01:07:08.160 Then we've got to

01:07:09.520 carry on with training

01:07:10.580 in terms of

01:07:11.720 defining the war zones.

01:07:13.720 Now in this part

01:07:15.060 I just want to say

01:07:15.960 we've defined those war zones

01:07:17.240 in my view

01:07:17.800 against these

01:07:18.400 the kind of axis of evil

01:07:21.120 but here we've got

01:07:22.400 the US

01:07:23.000 are going to train

01:07:24.460 to enable

01:07:25.260 Arctic dominance

01:07:26.380 and this comes from

01:07:28.220 the army military

01:07:29.460 the US army themselves

01:07:31.380 there's lots of military bases

01:07:32.760 that you've got.

01:07:33.900 They're talking about

01:07:34.520 how they're training

01:07:35.240 in the cold

01:07:36.140 how they're training

01:07:37.520 to take on

01:07:38.180 the Russians at the north

01:07:39.220 so this multidisciplinary

01:07:41.700 way of defining

01:07:42.900 the globe

01:07:43.620 and training for it.

01:07:46.080 So they're preparing

01:07:46.860 for this

01:07:47.360 very, very carefully

01:07:49.200 I think

01:07:50.440 and I've set up

01:07:51.680 different zones

01:07:52.420 you've got

01:07:52.880 NATO talking about

01:07:53.900 its China problem

01:07:54.880 and their plans

01:07:56.220 for the Indo-Pacific

01:07:57.340 putting out bases

01:07:58.280 the United States

01:07:59.960 are now doing

01:08:00.660 many, many campaigns

01:08:01.980 of training

01:08:02.480 we've just had

01:08:03.100 the US

01:08:03.600 UK are sending

01:08:04.760 our own ships

01:08:06.400 down for a major

01:08:07.800 training program

01:08:09.520 in September

01:08:10.440 which is going to bring

01:08:11.280 Australia

01:08:11.980 European countries

01:08:13.540 together

01:08:14.020 all to see

01:08:14.940 into the Straits

01:08:16.140 with China

01:08:16.660 even threatening

01:08:17.420 to go through

01:08:18.140 the Straits of Taiwan

01:08:19.100 which China

01:08:19.880 have threatened them

01:08:20.580 not to do

01:08:21.160 so far

01:08:21.900 we haven't done it

01:08:22.460 last time

01:08:22.940 but we're going

01:08:23.660 right up to the edges

01:08:24.660 so this is about now

01:08:26.240 defining the war zones

01:08:27.980 and the participants

01:08:28.960 in that

01:08:30.220 and I think here

01:08:31.980 is the next thing

01:08:33.300 that I find

01:08:34.540 completely concerning

01:08:35.700 I call it

01:08:36.700 increasing the numbers 0.93

01:08:37.760 to die 0.95

01:08:38.220 they're going to 0.81

01:08:39.740 actually let you know

01:08:40.480 that you're going to die 0.99

01:08:41.120 but we need to have you 1.00

01:08:43.260 to die 1.00

01:08:44.100 so because you're aware

01:08:45.960 that you're going to die

01:08:47.200 and you're aware

01:08:48.760 that maybe your nation states

01:08:50.220 in Europe

01:08:50.620 no longer represent

01:08:51.680 the values that you want

01:08:52.900 or you want to protect

01:08:54.440 them

01:08:54.600 why would you go away

01:08:55.500 and fight for your country

01:08:57.120 that you know

01:08:58.060 A. might get

01:08:58.980 militarily charged

01:09:00.200 in the defence

01:09:00.980 back in the UK

01:09:01.620 you're preparing it

01:09:03.180 for a country

01:09:04.020 that you don't really like

01:09:05.260 so what are they

01:09:06.420 going to say

01:09:06.880 conscription

01:09:07.440 well we know

01:09:08.800 what conscription

01:09:09.500 has done in Ukraine

01:09:10.380 yes

01:09:11.460 thousands

01:09:12.740 eliminated a generation 0.99

01:09:13.940 yeah

01:09:14.200 you've murdered a generation 0.99

01:09:16.160 those who are wealthy enough

01:09:17.980 or part of the elites

01:09:18.820 or go to university

01:09:19.900 who are all the big backers

01:09:21.280 of the war

01:09:21.680 we're back at the EU

01:09:22.680 we're all at university

01:09:23.660 I'm studying philosophy

01:09:24.580 PPE

01:09:25.040 all the rest of it

01:09:26.340 we've avoided war

01:09:27.800 but the working class 0.99

01:09:28.580 you can go off and die 0.99

01:09:29.520 yes 1.00

01:09:30.080 the working class

01:09:30.700 in this country

01:09:31.240 don't want to die

01:09:31.900 the working class

01:09:32.780 in Europe

01:09:33.140 don't want to die

01:09:33.940 so what are they going to do

01:09:35.140 conscript us

01:09:36.120 because you are the fodder first

01:09:38.520 not the ones that will stand

01:09:41.120 and not fight for the country

01:09:42.960 not the ones that we believe

01:09:44.300 should be

01:09:44.760 in your

01:09:45.140 running our moral values

01:09:46.700 of the state

01:09:47.280 no we won't put them in

01:09:48.960 so we're going to conscript you

01:09:51.000 and we're going to make sure

01:09:52.660 that you're aware of it now

01:09:53.860 that this is going to happen

01:09:55.140 yes

01:09:55.700 so we're leading on the message five

01:09:58.000 and then I think

01:09:59.880 I'm going to go through

01:10:00.900 quickly here

01:10:01.940 is

01:10:02.380 next section

01:10:04.000 is

01:10:04.760 what I call

01:10:06.580 the technological

01:10:08.480 warfare

01:10:10.600 sanctions

01:10:11.420 tech bans

01:10:12.800 financial isolation

01:10:14.360 we're pretty aware

01:10:15.340 of what happened

01:10:15.900 with Russia

01:10:16.400 okay

01:10:17.340 we've moved billions

01:10:18.960 from them

01:10:19.520 took them out

01:10:20.120 of the financial system

01:10:21.280 but

01:10:22.280 the EU

01:10:23.060 has also

01:10:23.640 adopted

01:10:24.200 the 12 pack

01:10:24.900 sanctions here

01:10:26.120 as it continues

01:10:26.940 what it says

01:10:27.440 the illegal war

01:10:28.060 against Ukraine

01:10:28.700 but we have

01:10:30.340 tech isolation

01:10:31.560 against Chinese companies

01:10:33.380 TikTok

01:10:34.380 is the classic example

01:10:35.880 you're not allowed

01:10:36.580 to be

01:10:37.100 a successful

01:10:38.240 Chinese tech company

01:10:39.900 in the US

01:10:41.260 so you have to sell

01:10:42.120 your assets

01:10:42.640 or not be able

01:10:43.440 to be there

01:10:44.000 Huawei

01:10:44.920 which is

01:10:45.760 one of the best phones

01:10:46.800 I've ever had

01:10:47.560 wasn't capable

01:10:48.660 of being able

01:10:49.340 to be used

01:10:50.200 they've had to be

01:10:50.840 they were taken out

01:10:51.860 of major contracts

01:10:52.900 on telecommunications

01:10:54.360 in the UK

01:10:55.160 you see lots of packages

01:10:57.360 going through the Senate

01:10:58.520 at the moment

01:10:59.160 and Congress

01:10:59.780 in the US

01:11:00.320 to ban

01:11:01.160 various Chinese companies

01:11:03.300 from being able

01:11:04.140 to bid for contracts

01:11:06.040 at all

01:11:06.500 same is now beginning

01:11:07.440 to happen

01:11:07.980 in Europe too

01:11:09.380 so these are

01:11:10.760 six levels

01:11:11.920 of the preparation

01:11:13.500 for war against them

01:11:15.300 I mean I would say

01:11:16.120 there's a seventh

01:11:16.820 which is

01:11:17.720 how we're now using

01:11:19.220 movies and films

01:11:20.580 to define 0.83

01:11:21.380 Russians as gangsters 1.00

01:11:23.140 China as gangsters 1.00

01:11:25.360 let me just sort of 0.90

01:11:27.080 try to come in here

01:11:28.000 with a couple

01:11:28.380 of quick comments

01:11:29.080 the most striking thing

01:11:32.740 about the Russia

01:11:33.420 Iran

01:11:34.040 China alliance

01:11:36.020 is how unnatural

01:11:36.860 it is

01:11:38.000 Russia at some point

01:11:39.460 gave the Iranians 0.99

01:11:40.340 I think faulty centrifuges

01:11:41.720 for their nuclear program

01:11:43.440 as a way of sabotaging them

01:11:45.360 because the Russians

01:11:46.020 don't want

01:11:46.800 Iran with nuclear weapons 0.85

01:11:48.520 they're competing

01:11:49.740 in Central Asia

01:11:50.380 and in the Caucasus

01:11:51.180 they don't need that

01:11:52.520 China and Russia 0.57

01:11:54.080 are natural competitors

01:11:55.100 over the Far East

01:11:56.680 over Central Asia

01:11:57.560 etc

01:11:57.940 so forcing them

01:12:01.260 into an alliance

01:12:02.280 is mainly

01:12:03.940 the result

01:12:04.980 of the same

01:12:06.040 establishment

01:12:06.740 that has been pushing

01:12:08.020 endless escalation

01:12:09.860 everywhere

01:12:10.300 the same people

01:12:11.560 who went to Iraq

01:12:12.340 the same people

01:12:12.920 who went to Libya

01:12:13.580 the same people

01:12:14.220 who backed their jihadis

01:12:15.080 in Syria

01:12:15.540 have pushed

01:12:17.300 Russia

01:12:18.200 China

01:12:18.660 and Iran

01:12:19.120 into an unholy alliance

01:12:21.980 that would probably

01:12:23.320 break down

01:12:24.220 if Trump

01:12:26.140 were able

01:12:27.140 to make a deal

01:12:27.960 with Iran

01:12:28.500 and make a deal

01:12:29.640 with Russia

01:12:30.180 over areas

01:12:31.780 that concern them

01:12:32.560 with China

01:12:33.880 there's a real challenge

01:12:35.140 and there's a real problem

01:12:36.520 and you certainly

01:12:37.780 don't want the Chinese 1.00

01:12:38.660 controlling your

01:12:39.280 telecommunications networks

01:12:40.460 for the same reason

01:12:41.160 you wouldn't want

01:12:41.820 any foreign entity

01:12:42.780 controlling them

01:12:43.480 yeah but we have

01:12:44.540 we have Microsoft

01:12:45.900 we have Google

01:12:46.740 we have Apple

01:12:47.520 they're all controlling

01:12:48.560 our networks

01:12:49.020 but the Americans

01:12:49.880 are going to

01:12:50.280 I ask you this

01:12:50.800 this is a general point

01:12:51.940 would you rather

01:12:52.740 the CIA being able

01:12:53.840 to monitor

01:12:54.240 what you're actually saying

01:12:55.220 or whether you like

01:12:55.800 the Chinese

01:12:56.280 because personally speaking

01:12:57.100 I don't care if the Chinese 1.00

01:12:58.100 are monitoring my phone

01:12:59.160 because whether I'm going

01:13:00.140 shopping in Sainsbury's

01:13:01.560 or doing something on X

01:13:03.160 they're not going to have

01:13:04.200 two hoots about it

01:13:05.500 but the US

01:13:06.560 will ban me

01:13:07.440 they'll lead you

01:13:08.360 to losing your job

01:13:09.300 I think

01:13:10.260 that with the American

01:13:12.300 establishment being captured

01:13:14.000 the priority should be

01:13:16.100 to uncapture it

01:13:17.400 not stop it

01:13:18.320 for the Chinese

01:13:19.100 yeah I mean I'd rather have

01:13:20.720 as just being able

01:13:21.300 to be free from whoever

01:13:22.340 I don't want anyone

01:13:23.260 controlling me

01:13:23.960 yes

01:13:24.160 I don't want any

01:13:24.940 security services

01:13:25.780 but given that you're stuck

01:13:26.980 in the West

01:13:28.440 yes

01:13:29.040 and that in the West

01:13:31.180 there is an empire

01:13:32.240 and the leaders of these

01:13:33.660 of this empire

01:13:34.460 is the United States

01:13:35.840 yes

01:13:36.180 you're sort of stuck

01:13:37.860 with reality

01:13:38.580 in the hope that they

01:13:39.660 actually make things

01:13:40.380 better for us

01:13:41.060 yes

01:13:41.460 I have several questions

01:13:42.620 here

01:13:42.980 pardon me for interjecting

01:13:44.840 but one thing is

01:13:46.080 in a way I think

01:13:47.080 most alliances

01:13:48.440 are a bit unnatural

01:13:49.500 for instance

01:13:51.120 the alliance between

01:13:51.940 the US and the Middle East

01:13:53.140 right now

01:13:53.740 could be seen as

01:13:55.000 unnatural in some cases

01:13:56.800 but apart from this

01:13:58.940 I don't know

01:13:59.740 to what extent

01:14:00.640 it's

01:14:01.220 this is just

01:14:03.060 the rhetoric

01:14:04.120 that accompanies

01:14:05.220 an arms race

01:14:06.200 which just tries

01:14:07.920 to panic

01:14:09.040 the other side

01:14:10.320 in order to 0.99

01:14:11.660 destroy them

01:14:12.600 economically

01:14:13.160 because you could say

01:14:14.460 that Trump has come in

01:14:15.580 he's going to be like

01:14:16.840 he's going to try to do

01:14:17.960 what Reagan did

01:14:18.700 with the Soviet Union

01:14:19.700 vastly outspend

01:14:21.700 the Soviet Union

01:14:23.680 militarily speaking

01:14:25.340 so all this is just

01:14:27.680 a cultivation of rhetoric

01:14:29.000 of preparation

01:14:30.100 and I don't know

01:14:31.260 to what extent

01:14:32.080 we rush

01:14:33.560 into portraying

01:14:35.200 necessarily this

01:14:36.280 as a

01:14:37.280 as an assault

01:14:38.800 on the other side

01:14:40.440 whether it could be

01:14:41.340 a defensive war

01:14:42.660 we don't know

01:14:43.680 yet

01:14:44.220 whether it's

01:14:45.400 a defense

01:14:45.940 or an attack

01:14:46.780 it could

01:14:47.660 in some cases

01:14:48.580 there is such a thing

01:14:49.700 as the rhetoric

01:14:50.800 that if you want peace

01:14:51.940 prepare for war

01:14:53.080 and sometimes

01:14:53.800 a very aggressive rhetoric

01:14:56.740 could help

01:14:57.680 but

01:14:58.600 are we robbing

01:15:00.420 others of agency

01:15:02.040 if we're saying

01:15:02.700 that this is

01:15:03.620 100%

01:15:05.060 what the establishment

01:15:05.820 is doing

01:15:06.380 my view on it is

01:15:08.120 I agree with

01:15:09.200 what you're saying

01:15:10.280 in terms of

01:15:10.840 Trump

01:15:11.220 it's trying to

01:15:11.960 solve the issue

01:15:12.860 with Russia

01:15:13.220 because I don't think

01:15:13.880 it's a natural alliance

01:15:14.860 it actually feels

01:15:15.940 as though it's more European

01:15:16.900 it wanted to join

01:15:17.940 NATO

01:15:18.640 straight after

01:15:19.920 Gorbachev

01:15:21.000 it felt that

01:15:21.640 it should be part of us

01:15:22.760 working towards it

01:15:23.940 and I would much rather

01:15:25.100 to see that

01:15:25.820 sort of link

01:15:26.620 and my hope

01:15:27.320 is that

01:15:28.460 Trump

01:15:28.820 recognizes that

01:15:30.020 the team

01:15:30.460 recognizes that

01:15:31.340 we can end this war

01:15:32.240 and we can move

01:15:33.300 to a much more

01:15:33.880 European base

01:15:34.500 not based on

01:15:35.520 a group of elites

01:15:36.620 that have come out

01:15:37.200 from the Democrats

01:15:37.840 or the deep state

01:15:38.960 that see this as a

01:15:40.220 financial benefit

01:15:41.400 for them by having

01:15:42.280 this war

01:15:42.820 I think also then

01:15:44.560 you've got the

01:15:45.120 economic point

01:15:45.940 with China

01:15:46.460 which is growing

01:15:47.460 and that's a challenge

01:15:49.060 for anybody

01:15:49.780 and you've got

01:15:51.300 the kind of

01:15:51.760 free market element

01:15:52.560 of us that's saying

01:15:53.140 let's do trade 0.83

01:15:53.860 I'm quite happy with that

01:15:55.400 as long as there's no

01:15:56.220 espionage

01:15:56.960 and I think

01:15:58.040 therefore my hope

01:15:59.100 is that Trump's team

01:16:00.000 can work a way

01:16:01.020 that we can get

01:16:01.980 to the trade

01:16:02.680 and actually send a message

01:16:04.080 we don't want the espionage

01:16:05.400 as well

01:16:05.900 I think

01:16:06.960 that's more

01:16:07.500 China will always be a rival 1.00

01:16:09.160 because it's a different

01:16:10.060 civilization

01:16:10.780 yeah

01:16:11.260 and that's much more

01:16:12.020 different

01:16:12.120 set of values

01:16:12.820 with a different identity

01:16:14.220 with a different ethnicity

01:16:16.300 and I think that

01:16:17.320 these things matter

01:16:18.140 I think we

01:16:19.260 unfortunately

01:16:20.120 naturally divide

01:16:22.420 along ethnic

01:16:23.500 and religious lines

01:16:24.640 everywhere

01:16:25.200 I understand that too

01:16:26.380 but I

01:16:26.860 can we have

01:16:27.840 a spheres of influence

01:16:28.980 arrangement with China

01:16:30.100 that says

01:16:31.260 you stay in your lane

01:16:32.180 and we stay in ours

01:16:33.140 that's one possibility

01:16:34.180 that's a possibility

01:16:34.700 much better one

01:16:36.040 than going to war

01:16:36.660 much better one

01:16:37.340 than going to war

01:16:38.020 or

01:16:38.900 do we

01:16:40.300 end up stuck

01:16:41.300 in a competition

01:16:42.060 where through

01:16:43.480 the

01:16:44.120 perfidy

01:16:45.260 and recklessness

01:16:46.220 of the existing elite

01:16:47.720 the Chinese

01:16:48.780 get two wonderful

01:16:50.200 natural resource suppliers

01:16:51.640 Iran

01:16:52.560 and Russia

01:16:53.360 exactly

01:16:53.900 feeding their military machine

01:16:55.220 I think these are

01:16:56.460 the realistic options

01:16:57.400 that we face

01:16:57.860 and this is where

01:16:58.360 the problem comes in

01:16:59.180 and I think

01:16:59.700 to tell you this point

01:17:01.340 I don't

01:17:02.040 I

01:17:02.540 it's not just

01:17:04.780 that the western elite

01:17:06.400 wants the confrontation

01:17:07.180 there is an element

01:17:08.840 in China

01:17:09.620 that believes

01:17:10.520 that it must prepare

01:17:11.420 for a full confrontation

01:17:12.400 with the west

01:17:13.180 and that this is

01:17:14.300 the only way

01:17:14.980 to guarantee

01:17:15.820 China's place 1.00

01:17:17.260 in the world

01:17:17.700 and its own security

01:17:18.580 exactly

01:17:19.260 so it's

01:17:19.940 it's

01:17:20.220 it's not

01:17:20.780 I wouldn't

01:17:22.540 I would cast it

01:17:24.520 as definitely

01:17:25.180 the elites

01:17:25.660 on both sides

01:17:26.380 I would say

01:17:27.800 that western elites

01:17:29.480 have been

01:17:30.040 giving the advantage

01:17:31.900 to China

01:17:32.620 by insisting

01:17:34.420 on a simultaneous

01:17:35.060 conflict

01:17:35.760 with China

01:17:36.960 and Russia

01:17:37.660 and Iran

01:17:38.300 yes

01:17:38.880 and this is why

01:17:39.960 I take the view

01:17:41.320 that we're

01:17:41.900 the axis of evil element

01:17:43.600 is the preparation

01:17:45.000 I would argue

01:17:46.500 that these

01:17:46.960 are all characteristics

01:17:48.280 of that preparation

01:17:49.420 do I believe

01:17:50.240 it's necessary

01:17:50.940 no

01:17:51.560 do I believe

01:17:52.520 there are alternative routes

01:17:53.560 that we should be looking for

01:17:54.780 I do not want to see

01:17:56.140 the regime of Iran

01:17:57.300 being able to solidify itself

01:17:59.380 by having an amalgamation

01:18:01.220 with Russia and China

01:18:02.360 in which you've got resources

01:18:03.980 and weaponry

01:18:04.880 that I'll come on to

01:18:06.400 I'd much rather have

01:18:07.960 our kind of

01:18:08.900 patriotic parties

01:18:10.320 taking control

01:18:11.140 of our nations

01:18:11.800 removing the woke element

01:18:12.900 that's in there

01:18:13.600 turning back

01:18:15.320 parts of what

01:18:16.460 their destructive

01:18:17.200 economic arguments

01:18:18.260 and then leading to

01:18:19.460 saying to those people

01:18:20.860 who are the next generation

01:18:21.960 of Russia

01:18:22.480 that you can come

01:18:23.960 and join us

01:18:24.620 as we promised in before

01:18:26.080 but let's have some trade

01:18:27.500 and you've got to recognise

01:18:28.400 some values

01:18:29.440 that you've got to respond to

01:18:30.920 and that way

01:18:32.120 that we can then deal

01:18:32.900 with China on its own 0.88

01:18:33.840 rather than preparing

01:18:34.800 a war against

01:18:35.420 all three countries

01:18:36.320 yes

01:18:36.580 but if I'm

01:18:37.400 I'm just going to

01:18:38.600 quickly go through this

01:18:39.660 you know

01:18:40.560 I look at this

01:18:41.580 because

01:18:42.380 this is what

01:18:43.400 China has just 0.81

01:18:44.700 published

01:18:45.340 in terms of its

01:18:46.220 first aerial mothership

01:18:47.500 I'm sure we've got

01:18:49.180 the same

01:18:49.680 this is

01:18:53.420 7,000

01:18:55.520 kind of

01:18:57.280 kilometres

01:18:58.420 and it has

01:18:59.960 over

01:19:00.560 a hundred small drones

01:19:01.700 a thousand

01:19:02.380 kilo-runs of missiles

01:19:03.820 they are preparing

01:19:05.340 for this

01:19:05.840 exactly as you've

01:19:06.600 just talked about

01:19:07.220 Chris

01:19:07.520 their elites

01:19:09.000 are going to say

01:19:09.800 we do not want

01:19:11.140 to stand here

01:19:11.880 and be walked over

01:19:12.700 by you

01:19:13.360 so we do need

01:19:14.720 to have some

01:19:15.280 sort of a level

01:19:15.740 of preparation

01:19:16.440 but then you've got

01:19:18.060 these Chinese soldiers

01:19:19.360 here

01:19:19.880 who are hulking back

01:19:21.480 to when

01:19:22.000 they lost millions

01:19:23.400 to Japan

01:19:24.740 yes

01:19:25.620 they have a pride

01:19:26.880 in their military

01:19:27.720 but we don't

01:19:28.600 we'd rather have

01:19:29.340 wokeism

01:19:29.900 and the flags

01:19:31.240 you have pride

01:19:32.000 in your military

01:19:32.560 yes

01:19:33.180 you do have pride

01:19:35.260 in your military

01:19:35.920 so they've got

01:19:37.520 the kind of mentality

01:19:38.360 to say we're going

01:19:38.920 to produce it

01:19:39.500 we've got pride

01:19:40.060 in our military

01:19:40.780 this kind of

01:19:43.200 automatic production

01:19:44.200 line of weapons

01:19:45.980 that they've got

01:19:46.720 so they're preparing

01:19:48.480 for this

01:19:49.180 just a point about this

01:19:50.280 this is the missile

01:19:51.380 that brought down

01:19:52.200 the Rafal jets

01:19:53.100 in the India-Pakistan

01:19:54.180 confrontation

01:19:54.720 and I'll turn around

01:19:55.920 and say here

01:19:56.580 this is the plane

01:19:58.020 that they do

01:19:59.540 this is the plane

01:20:00.480 that they're really

01:20:01.260 happy about

01:20:01.880 and the J-10

01:20:02.600 is the older model

01:20:03.680 yes

01:20:04.260 they are building

01:20:05.220 things that are

01:20:06.280 much more capable

01:20:07.080 and much more advanced

01:20:08.060 that can

01:20:08.700 perhaps out-compete

01:20:11.080 the F-35

01:20:11.720 that's correct

01:20:12.820 and this is it

01:20:14.120 yeah

01:20:14.500 so I get it

01:20:16.080 on the one side

01:20:16.780 the military guys

01:20:17.600 are going

01:20:17.900 we need to put

01:20:18.640 895 billion

01:20:20.160 in to compete

01:20:20.980 where China

01:20:21.460 is already ahead of us

01:20:22.340 in so many ways

01:20:23.360 or caught up

01:20:24.080 in so many ways

01:20:25.380 that is understandable

01:20:27.260 my view is

01:20:28.880 that everybody's

01:20:29.940 doing this

01:20:30.400 and it will lead

01:20:31.240 to the war

01:20:32.300 the preparation

01:20:32.940 of it

01:20:33.480 will lead to war 0.98

01:20:34.500 unless we get

01:20:35.780 smart people

01:20:36.640 which I believe

01:20:38.080 we're starting

01:20:39.220 to look at that

01:20:39.880 with saying

01:20:40.280 let's do a deal

01:20:41.500 with Iran

01:20:42.060 let's do a deal

01:20:43.200 with Russia

01:20:43.760 perhaps these are

01:20:44.900 the people

01:20:45.300 that will end this

01:20:46.380 and then we could

01:20:47.380 have some sort

01:20:48.700 of stay in your lanes

01:20:50.000 argument with China

01:20:51.160 if that would work

01:20:52.520 not sure that would

01:20:53.340 actually work

01:20:53.820 with the Chinese elite

01:20:54.680 themselves

01:20:55.620 many of them

01:20:56.580 still feel

01:20:57.400 they need to be

01:20:58.420 on a greater par

01:20:59.600 with the United States

01:21:00.560 or greater than

01:21:01.660 the United States

01:21:02.540 that's much more

01:21:03.500 difficult

01:21:03.860 but I'd rather

01:21:05.200 that we deal

01:21:05.820 with this

01:21:06.340 than actually

01:21:07.060 prepare for war

01:21:07.960 which I think

01:21:08.800 these are the stages

01:21:10.100 that we've got

01:21:10.860 and that's my piece

01:21:15.280 today

01:21:15.560 thank you

01:21:16.700 thank you

01:21:17.360 right so

01:21:17.880 Sigilstone17

01:21:19.140 says

01:21:19.620 Trivium course

01:21:20.460 does it teach

01:21:21.400 how to take

01:21:21.980 the heart

01:21:22.680 from your hate

01:21:23.380 Harry would like

01:21:24.640 that joke

01:21:25.100 Trivium is a rock band

01:21:26.320 right

01:21:27.340 I don't know

01:21:28.340 that one

01:21:28.780 right so

01:21:29.820 let me just

01:21:30.660 read

01:21:31.180 that's very kind

01:21:36.000 of you

01:21:36.260 Scotty

01:21:36.580 not just

01:21:38.380 Strang

01:21:39.120 says

01:21:39.520 think a discussion

01:21:40.400 on men

01:21:40.940 choosing

01:21:41.340 surrogacy

01:21:42.020 versus their 0.95

01:21:42.780 country women

01:21:43.500 that don't marry 1.00

01:21:44.660 and have kids

01:21:45.460 would be interesting

01:21:46.640 surrogacy isn't good

01:21:47.740 but so is not

01:21:48.540 marrying timely

01:21:49.400 absolutely

01:21:50.080 Scotty guy

01:21:51.940 says

01:21:52.300 my flat sale

01:21:53.040 just went

01:21:53.580 thank you very much

01:21:54.420 for the $50 donation

01:21:55.760 well done

01:21:56.440 my flat sale

01:21:57.360 just went

01:21:57.960 through today

01:21:58.480 so sharing

01:21:59.100 the love

01:21:59.580 outstanding podcast

01:22:00.860 today

01:22:01.220 Firas and Stephen

01:22:02.140 are such great

01:22:03.020 additions to the podcast

01:22:04.200 goes without saying

01:22:05.880 Stelius is great too

01:22:07.060 thank you very much

01:22:07.720 feeling the love

01:22:08.300 so Josie Angel

01:22:11.060 says

01:22:11.560 what is the purpose

01:22:12.500 of government

01:22:13.120 that's the most

01:22:14.480 basic friction

01:22:15.260 that creates

01:22:15.860 these alliances

01:22:16.560 and war

01:22:17.160 yeah that's a good point

01:22:18.320 good point

01:22:18.820 Sigilstone17

01:22:19.900 says

01:22:20.580 it's easy to say

01:22:21.920 I don't care

01:22:22.800 if China monitors

01:22:23.660 my communications

01:22:24.540 until they open

01:22:25.600 one of their

01:22:26.100 clandestine

01:22:26.820 international police

01:22:28.320 stations in your city

01:22:29.380 and have questions

01:22:30.100 about

01:22:30.460 what you said

01:22:31.420 that's true

01:22:32.220 that's why

01:22:32.580 I don't

01:22:32.800 I'm not saying

01:22:33.400 I would want

01:22:33.820 to live in China

01:22:34.560 or want to be

01:22:35.320 part of China

01:22:36.000 I just don't want

01:22:36.760 to have a war

01:22:37.320 with them

01:22:38.060 and see my daughter 0.99

01:22:38.720 obliterated

01:22:39.680 by all the weapons

01:22:40.680 that we have

01:22:41.220 let's find a solution

01:22:42.220 out of this

01:22:42.880 that's a random name

01:22:44.660 says

01:22:45.160 speaking of clandestine

01:22:46.520 Chinese police stations

01:22:47.820 one of them

01:22:48.380 is a couple of streets

01:22:49.240 away from where I live

01:22:50.200 I'm sure it has nothing

01:22:51.080 to do with my yellow fever

01:22:52.300 freddie65

01:22:56.060 my father was sent

01:23:00.340 to Korea

01:23:00.780 because the Chinese

01:23:01.660 will be here

01:23:03.320 within quotation marks

01:23:04.340 if we don't defeat them

01:23:05.360 we lost

01:23:05.840 and yeah

01:23:06.260 they didn't come

01:23:07.000 it was a draw

01:23:07.820 it wasn't a loss

01:23:08.480 but okay

01:23:08.960 and Lotha Truther 0.54

01:23:11.460 says

01:23:11.920 the EU

01:23:12.440 can try to rearm

01:23:13.680 none of their

01:23:14.420 conscripts

01:23:15.080 will use their weapons

01:23:16.100 once they realize

01:23:17.500 this

01:23:17.800 the only security

01:23:18.840 guarantee

01:23:19.300 they can buy

01:23:20.660 with money

01:23:21.140 are nukes

01:23:21.840 but think of

01:23:23.640 if it's a problem

01:23:25.440 to have

01:23:26.040 Europeans

01:23:26.820 in the army

01:23:27.780 what about

01:23:29.160 pride

01:23:29.560 in the army

01:23:30.440 right

01:23:31.900 okay

01:23:32.280 let's go to the

01:23:33.380 video comments

01:23:34.080 but free and will speech

01:23:35.900 is not just being free

01:23:37.780 to utter speech

01:23:39.220 but to also

01:23:40.580 hear

01:23:41.360 I was born

01:23:42.200 in the former

01:23:43.220 Soviet Union

01:23:43.960 and I lived there

01:23:44.800 until I was almost nine

01:23:45.940 I think that part of

01:23:47.200 the reason

01:23:47.600 former residents

01:23:48.460 of Socialists

01:23:49.200 bloc's value 0.95

01:23:49.940 living under

01:23:50.480 the English

01:23:50.980 model of state

01:23:51.820 is the promise

01:23:52.460 of parliament

01:23:53.140 that place

01:23:54.180 we gather

01:23:54.680 to discuss

01:23:55.540 I will invoke

01:23:56.840 John Milton

01:23:57.420 for why

01:23:58.100 when Satan

01:23:59.080 was cast out

01:23:59.800 of heaven

01:24:00.180 he ordered

01:24:00.680 constructed

01:24:01.240 a vast hall

01:24:02.040 in hell

01:24:02.460 where the ruinous

01:24:03.220 powers could meet

01:24:04.140 named

01:24:05.000 not parliament

01:24:05.920 but pandemonium

01:24:07.460 that's fun

01:24:11.600 that's fun

01:24:11.620 but I want to say

01:24:12.580 that a lot

01:24:13.240 of eastern

01:24:14.160 Europeans

01:24:14.600 I've met

01:24:15.140 they're really

01:24:16.040 anti-communist

01:24:16.880 because of

01:24:17.620 because of

01:24:19.080 their experiences

01:24:19.780 and the experience

01:24:20.340 of course

01:24:20.540 yeah

01:24:20.880 okay let's go

01:24:22.560 next video

01:24:23.080 on Harry's segment

01:24:24.420 on the music industry

01:24:25.260 I got family

01:24:25.980 in the business

01:24:26.500 and it's always

01:24:27.020 been a cartel

01:24:27.820 that ain't what changed

01:24:28.740 back in the day

01:24:29.260 there used to be

01:24:29.600 an extensive hierarchy

01:24:30.620 of talent scouts

01:24:31.560 always on the prowl

01:24:32.600 for the next big thing

01:24:33.540 and these guys

01:24:34.000 were very musically literate

01:24:35.300 and they knew what sold

01:24:36.260 and they'd take

01:24:36.820 their big catch

01:24:37.560 and pitch them

01:24:38.080 personally to the executives

01:24:39.240 now this system

01:24:39.820 worked very well

01:24:40.460 right up until

01:24:40.880 the early 80s

01:24:41.720 when the executives

01:24:42.280 started dragging in

01:24:43.180 the marketing guys

01:24:43.980 to advise them

01:24:44.620 during the pitch meeting

01:24:45.440 then by the late 80s

01:24:46.340 the talent scouts

01:24:46.920 were expected to pitch

01:24:47.720 to the bean counters

01:24:48.500 who would then relay it

01:24:49.380 to the executives

01:24:50.040 and by the late 90s

01:24:51.180 the talent scouts

01:24:51.740 were basically extinct

01:24:52.940 yet another case

01:24:53.860 of the managerial aristocracy

01:24:55.540 ruining everything

01:24:56.840 interesting

01:24:58.940 yeah

01:24:59.440 they're really lovely cars

01:25:00.580 oh gosh yeah

01:25:01.920 let's go with that

01:25:02.460 yeah next one

01:25:03.540 so I know we don't like

01:25:04.900 Luigi Mangione

01:25:05.700 for obvious reasons

01:25:06.860 but I think there's

01:25:08.060 a 5D chess move

01:25:09.320 that we could be making here

01:25:11.000 so he's got hordes

01:25:12.300 of liberal white women

01:25:13.580 groupies

01:25:14.140 that want to pay

01:25:14.640 him college legal visits

01:25:15.480 and I think we should

01:25:16.240 allow this

01:25:16.860 because it could

01:25:17.980 potentially create

01:25:18.960 a baby boom 0.91

01:25:19.940 among the

01:25:20.540 white liberal women 0.99

01:25:21.660 of New York

01:25:22.240 and it'll proliferate

01:25:23.140 the thing

01:25:23.720 that the liberals

01:25:24.780 hate the most 1.00

01:25:25.780 white children 0.99

01:25:27.280 this is three dimensional

01:25:29.000 snakes and ladders

01:25:29.820 my friends

01:25:30.320 three dimensional

01:25:31.320 snakes and ladders

01:25:32.340 I want to remind you

01:25:35.520 of the 7D chess

01:25:37.100 move Conor wanted

01:25:38.620 with Taylor Swift

01:25:41.440 and Sidney Sweeney

01:25:42.480 causing a

01:25:43.420 causing a baby boom 1.00

01:25:44.800 hasn't worked

01:25:46.020 so I hope

01:25:47.700 I hope Sidney Sweeney

01:25:49.820 helps with a baby boom 0.99

01:25:51.880 but she hasn't

01:25:53.660 let's go to the next one

01:25:56.480 with it finally being

01:25:57.800 springtime for me

01:25:58.860 I have been rather busy

01:25:59.980 outside

01:26:00.700 taking advantage

01:26:01.700 of the good weather

01:26:02.540 to work on the mech

01:26:03.980 getting it in the zone

01:26:05.420 on a project

01:26:06.580 on a project

01:26:06.600 is a transcendent

01:26:07.720 experience

01:26:08.260 that I would highly

01:26:09.180 recommend for anyone

01:26:10.280 if you want to keep up

01:26:11.680 with my efforts

01:26:12.360 to make the fun parts

01:26:13.980 of the cyberpunk dystopia

01:26:15.400 real

01:26:15.700 check out my youtube channel

01:26:17.760 at

01:26:18.080 nye mechworks

01:26:19.380 that's pretty cool

01:26:21.260 does it work though

01:26:23.260 does it lift

01:26:23.920 and talk

01:26:24.440 and move

01:26:25.000 I want to know

01:26:26.940 I want to know

01:26:27.700 I might have to go

01:26:28.180 just to see

01:26:28.740 right so let's go

01:26:30.600 to the comments

01:26:31.360 we will take more time

01:26:34.460 today because

01:26:35.100 it's a Monday

01:26:35.800 and also we started

01:26:36.700 late

01:26:37.100 apologies for that

01:26:38.440 let me see

01:26:39.600 where are the comments

01:26:41.100 here

01:26:41.420 presidential elections

01:26:43.040 in Romania

01:26:43.520 metal Dave

01:26:44.200 yeah let me

01:26:45.200 issues with the

01:26:48.180 document

01:26:49.220 right

01:26:50.320 metal Dave says

01:26:51.300 as it happens

01:26:52.140 I'm going to Romania

01:26:53.080 in August

01:26:53.560 for Rockstar Metal Festival

01:26:55.020 sad to see

01:26:56.060 their elections

01:26:56.640 were compromised

01:26:57.220 by the same

01:26:57.900 globalist liberals

01:26:58.860 bonding together

01:27:00.180 to obstruct

01:27:00.780 the will of the patriots

01:27:01.900 who they

01:27:02.440 deem as far-right thugs

01:27:04.200 who are no welcome 0.80

01:27:04.960 in their democracy

01:27:05.980 Arizona Desert Rat

01:27:07.700 says

01:27:08.000 so the EU

01:27:08.700 is meddling in elections

01:27:09.900 that's highly disconcerting

01:27:11.820 very unusual

01:27:12.520 Roman Observer

01:27:13.560 foreign intervention

01:27:14.680 in elections

01:27:15.360 was invented

01:27:16.300 on the same day

01:27:17.300 of the first election

01:27:18.360 that's true

01:27:20.940 Arizona Desert Rat

01:27:22.500 if he's a math prodigy

01:27:24.020 does that mean

01:27:25.200 he's hypological

01:27:26.340 right so

01:27:29.380 do you want to read

01:27:30.140 some of them

01:27:30.880 for yours

01:27:31.280 yeah

01:27:32.220 Lord Nerevar

01:27:34.480 the place I worked

01:27:36.080 at in Birmingham

01:27:36.780 right now

01:27:37.320 is right at the end

01:27:39.340 of the annual

01:27:39.860 pride parade

01:27:40.600 which is happening

01:27:41.280 this weekend

01:27:41.980 every year

01:27:43.360 I get that weekend

01:27:44.160 off work

01:27:44.960 to avoid it

01:27:45.700 because not only

01:27:46.560 does it make the city

01:27:47.460 a nightmare

01:27:47.900 to navigate

01:27:48.500 but it's a particularly

01:27:50.200 disgusting 0.94

01:27:50.840 and degenerate affair 0.97

01:27:51.900 and even most 0.99

01:27:52.840 of the gay people 0.69

01:27:53.460 I work with 0.99

01:27:54.040 despise it

01:27:54.780 so you can find me

01:27:56.260 on holiday instead

01:27:57.200 yeah

01:27:57.960 fair enough

01:27:58.780 Roman Observer

01:28:00.440 the slippery slope

01:28:01.700 the slippery slope

01:28:01.720 of leftist language

01:28:02.840 difference becomes

01:28:04.340 discrimination

01:28:04.900 and then persecution

01:28:05.880 absolutely

01:28:06.680 matters between

01:28:08.040 a man and a woman

01:28:08.800 is different

01:28:09.360 and must be treated

01:28:10.180 differently than

01:28:11.000 civil union

01:28:11.700 having children

01:28:13.020 is possible

01:28:13.580 only for the former

01:28:14.740 making it hugely

01:28:16.300 more important

01:28:16.980 for the community

01:28:17.760 something that the state

01:28:19.200 cannot ignore

01:28:20.100 or put on equal

01:28:21.220 plane of a civil union

01:28:22.860 I absolutely agree

01:28:23.840 with you

01:28:24.180 I'd go further

01:28:25.540 on the civil unions

01:28:26.460 and I would say

01:28:28.000 that the basic

01:28:29.440 institution

01:28:30.080 of any society

01:28:30.980 is the family

01:28:31.660 and that we ignore

01:28:33.020 that at our peril

01:28:34.280 but also

01:28:35.440 is it false

01:28:36.820 that lots of people

01:28:38.080 just want to be

01:28:39.240 left alone

01:28:39.880 on the woke side

01:28:42.840 I don't believe that

01:28:44.240 I think it's false

01:28:44.940 I think it's not

01:28:45.640 human nature

01:28:46.160 human nature

01:28:47.540 is to try to push

01:28:48.800 what you think

01:28:49.460 is right

01:28:49.900 even if you're

01:28:51.040 wrong about it

01:28:51.740 Captain Charlie

01:28:53.700 the Beagle

01:28:54.160 hello

01:28:54.880 regarding the pride cult 1.00

01:28:57.020 you might be interested

01:28:57.760 to hear that

01:28:58.400 the Eurovision

01:28:59.000 of all places

01:28:59.840 banned all contestants

01:29:01.100 from waving pride flags

01:29:02.400 or other political flags

01:29:03.680 they were only allowed

01:29:05.120 to fly their national flag

01:29:06.320 I did not know that

01:29:07.360 I did not know that either

01:29:09.140 that's improvement

01:29:10.480 they did that

01:29:11.740 they had guys with strings

01:29:14.200 well yes

01:29:15.740 it's not that it's become

01:29:18.340 wholesome all of a sudden

01:29:19.300 right

01:29:19.620 Michael Brooks

01:29:23.360 biphobia is a binary

01:29:25.120 is a binary

01:29:27.640 you are or you are not

01:29:29.120 these people seem

01:29:29.980 incapable of logic

01:29:30.840 I know brother

01:29:31.580 not a fed

01:29:32.940 of course Obama

01:29:33.760 supports gay marriage

01:29:34.920 let's leave it there

01:29:36.120 yes

01:29:37.780 I'll let you

01:29:39.240 take care of it

01:29:39.920 all right

01:29:40.460 so we're going to move on

01:29:41.380 to manufacturing consent

01:29:42.700 my bit

01:29:43.140 Roman Observer

01:29:44.300 great name

01:29:45.100 thanks very much

01:29:45.960 military PPP

01:29:47.080 is much less forgiving

01:29:48.160 for Euro countries

01:29:49.580 than the US

01:29:50.140 compared to Russia

01:29:51.080 or China

01:29:51.680 also cost of energy

01:29:53.500 and materials

01:29:54.100 is so high in Europe

01:29:55.140 right now

01:29:55.620 that all costs

01:29:56.360 are basically tripled

01:29:57.400 that is very very true

01:29:58.840 all the debt we spend

01:30:00.200 for rearming

01:30:00.860 will only deliver

01:30:01.580 a fraction of what we need

01:30:02.920 CV

01:30:03.800 Parchem Parabellum

01:30:05.520 is still valid

01:30:06.820 in my opinion

01:30:07.580 I think that's a very good point

01:30:08.820 very much so

01:30:09.520 General Haiping

01:30:11.180 Chinese Internet Battalion

01:30:12.880 fantastic

01:30:16.120 Sturmer sign us back

01:30:17.860 to the nearest equivalent

01:30:18.780 of a freedom movement

01:30:19.880 pack within the EU again

01:30:21.280 get ready for another wave

01:30:22.840 of EU's economic burdens

01:30:24.480 to get pushed

01:30:25.100 onto our shores

01:30:25.960 rebel

01:30:27.200 rise

01:30:28.060 okay

01:30:28.700 well you're trying

01:30:29.580 hopefully to do that

01:30:30.780 and Omar Awad

01:30:32.160 thank you for

01:30:32.840 your message

01:30:33.540 to my allies

01:30:34.300 rare anecdote

01:30:35.420 to my enemy's

01:30:36.500 natural law

01:30:37.320 a very sneaky

01:30:39.480 Mott and Bailey

01:30:40.220 where they lose

01:30:41.200 standards for evidence

01:30:42.300 only last as long

01:30:43.520 as their argument

01:30:44.320 brilliant

01:30:45.440 right

01:30:47.220 so thank you very much

01:30:48.540 for your comments

01:30:49.500 and for watching

01:30:50.660 we have

01:30:51.960 we have finished

01:30:53.440 we have ran out of time

01:30:54.560 see you tomorrow

01:30:55.620 at 1pm

01:30:56.480 take care

01:30:57.580 bye bye

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - May 19, 2025

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1167

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