The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1172

00:00:00.000 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the podcast, The Lotus Eaters, for Monday, the 26th of May, 2025.

00:00:06.000 I'm joined by Luca and Beau, and today we're going to be talking about some good news.

00:00:10.800 Antifa finally getting arrested. How Trump is teaching Harvard a lesson or two.

00:00:16.860 More good news.

00:00:17.560 Yeah, more good news. And whatever chaos is going on in Ukraine.

00:00:22.080 I haven't been following it, so I'm actually quite looking forward to finding out.

00:00:24.640 But, in the meantime, go and pick up the Trivium, but also join us on Thursday at 7pm for our free webinar,

00:00:33.060 where Dr. Nima Parvini and myself will be discussing my favourite part of the Trivium, rhetoric.

00:00:39.380 Rhetoric is by far the most interesting part of the Trivium, in my opinion.

00:00:44.560 Obviously, writing and logic are very important, and you need these foundations to be able to actively and efficiently put across your message.

00:00:53.060 But it's in the rhetoric where the magic happens, so join us on Thursday at 7pm British time for that.

00:00:59.840 So, let's begin, shall we? Because I've been covering Antifa for probably about 10 years now.

00:01:06.580 So, coming on something like that. And it was insufferable watching Antifa essentially kind of crawl out of the woodwork 1.00

00:01:13.000 in the United States and Europe and in Britain.

00:01:16.320 In Britain, our Antifa was a lot more muted than elsewhere. 0.93

00:01:20.980 The American ones were quite radical, but it was really the German ones that are the most insane. 1.00

00:01:26.020 The largest black bloc ever of about 13,000 people took place, I think it was in Frankfurt a few years ago. 0.64

00:01:32.540 Yeah, it was huge. 0.59

00:01:33.440 And a black bloc, for anyone who doesn't know, is where they just dress up in black and act like a roving gang of barbarians, 1.00

00:01:39.380 attacking everything they deemed to be fascist, which includes family values and Christians and anything that's not communist. 0.87

00:01:49.520 And it's used as a way to, like, push out their most negative feelings and really act as just a violent mob.

00:02:00.240 And so it's nice to see them actually getting cracked down, because you may remember that in, sort of, 2018-2019,

00:02:06.720 they'd get favourable coverage from places like CNN or Vice News or any, you know, vaguely MSNBC, lefty outlets.

00:02:13.640 And it was quite shocking because, of course, the fundamental problem with Antifa

00:02:17.400 is they break the base agreement that underpins liberal democracy.

00:02:22.960 That is, we will solve our problems non-violently.

00:02:26.780 We will solve them democratically, through discourse and the vote,

00:02:30.280 rather than actually just beating each other up.

00:02:33.200 And watching the police forces and the powers that be being very soft on Antifa was very frustrating.

00:02:40.160 I'm not going to give people a long list of things they've done

00:02:42.560 that they should have been deeply, deeply punished for now,

00:02:45.880 but you can go and find basically loads of things.

00:02:49.200 I mean, like, the mayor of Portland getting his apartment blocks set on fire,

00:02:54.240 and things like this, which just genuinely endangers, you know, dozens of people.

00:02:58.260 And so many of those people being people that push them on and continue to support them.

00:03:04.380 Many of the people in Antifa themselves being academics,

00:03:08.280 or people who have radicalised themselves in universities.

00:03:11.760 But anyway, so, there's a very brief history of Antifa, but some good news.

00:03:16.580 So, over the weekend, there was, well, I think it was on Friday, actually,

00:03:20.920 there was a protest in Seattle.

00:03:23.580 Now, this was a Christian organisation that decided that they were going to have

00:03:28.360 a national tour being opposed to the transing of children.

00:03:34.480 Now, I would have thought this would have been a fairly straightforward thing

00:03:38.820 that we could all agree upon, but of course, there are evil people in society.

00:03:43.420 And what I like about the evil people in our society is,

00:03:45.660 they'll just come out and tell you that they're evil.

00:03:48.000 So, the Christian protest was about 500 people,

00:03:52.060 and they were met by about 500 people counter-protesting them.

00:03:56.780 And the counter-protesters, so the Christian protesters were waving flags 0.94

00:04:01.060 that had things like, don't mess with our kids,

00:04:03.580 you know, children can't consent to this kind of thing, etc., etc.

00:04:07.480 all very sensible, all very mature, and the people on the other side

00:04:11.460 denounced them as, quote, fascist family values protest.

00:04:16.540 Of course.

00:04:17.100 So, of all of the long list of things that are now fascism,

00:04:21.540 clean streets, safety, law and order, family values have been added to that.

00:04:26.840 Having children, probably.

00:04:28.020 Probably having children itself.

00:04:29.980 Keeping time.

00:04:31.320 Yeah.

00:04:32.020 Maths.

00:04:32.760 Yes.

00:04:34.300 Civilization.

00:04:35.200 Yes.

00:04:35.780 Yeah, I mean, it's hard to think of anything that hasn't been called fascist at this point.

00:04:40.720 And so, yeah, the counter-protesters turned up with their Trump fascist regime flags,

00:04:46.860 and we were clearly given a show of who's on the side of good and who is on the side of evil.

00:04:53.880 As the Seattle Times here reports, sorry, it was on Saturday, not Friday.

00:04:58.880 By Saturday night, police had made 23 arrests on various charges.

00:05:03.520 That's a lot of arrests.

00:05:05.740 I mean, like, the average, like, Tommy Robinson back in the EDL days,

00:05:10.360 you wouldn't get 23 arrests.

00:05:12.080 But that's a lot of arrests from very white, middle-class, well-to-do types,

00:05:18.660 who, as you can see, like, there's not very much diversity being represented here.

00:05:30.260 Kind of insufferable.

00:05:31.740 But anyway, so, the police had arrested 23 of them, which is a lot.

00:05:36.380 Well, the protesters said they aimed to counter the, quote,

00:05:40.100 well-funded anti-trans, anti-queer event that was led by far-right Christian activists.

00:05:45.680 Well, the question is, who's funding you?

00:05:47.500 Because, I mean, this is another thing with Antifa,

00:05:49.640 and all of these sort of rent-a-mob protesters that they have,

00:05:52.540 is they're always very well-funded.

00:05:54.400 So the fact that they're like, oh, you're very well-funded,

00:05:56.800 it's like, yeah, I feel like you might be holding up a mirror here.

00:05:59.700 But anyway, so this was the Mayday rally that was held at the heart of the queer community.

00:06:08.340 So we have identified the heart of the queer community.

00:06:11.240 It's in Seattle.

00:06:12.840 Wouldn't have known, actually.

00:06:14.100 I wouldn't have guessed.

00:06:15.880 And roughly 500 people attended either way. 0.91

00:06:18.880 The protesters, of course, shouted, go home fascists.

00:06:21.720 The mayor of Seattle released a statement,

00:06:25.600 siding with the rioters.

00:06:27.180 Of course he did.

00:06:27.920 Because the thing is, with a place like Seattle and Portland,

00:06:30.900 they have been incrementally more left-ized as time has gone on.

00:06:35.920 And the people in charge of these places have, of course,

00:06:41.440 found themselves trying to appease a mob that fundamentally wants the abolition of their positions.

00:06:47.560 And this is what Wheeler found in Portland when he tried to join an Antifa mob

00:06:53.360 back in, like, 2019 or something like this.

00:06:56.240 And he just got chased out.

00:06:58.600 Because, of course, they're like, no, you're part of the fascist system.

00:07:01.220 Don't you understand our values?

00:07:02.740 We are anarchists.

00:07:03.720 We are communists.

00:07:04.380 We want the total destruction of the state and every position within it.

00:07:09.080 I was going to say, it's one of the things that true commies or even anarchists,

00:07:15.060 leftist anarchists, say is that liberals get the noose too.

00:07:18.240 Yes.

00:07:19.480 Yeah, we hate the far right, of course.

00:07:21.060 No, that was a particular thing from California.

00:07:23.140 Liberals get the bloke too.

00:07:24.480 Liberals are standing in the way just as much.

00:07:26.580 Yes.

00:07:27.400 So, there's that.

00:07:29.500 There's one thing, a broader point to make.

00:07:31.660 I think it's interesting that when we were younger,

00:07:34.420 Antifa, the 80s, the 90s, even the early 2000s,

00:07:38.020 Antifa just wasn't a thing.

00:07:39.400 Well, wait, not that it wasn't a thing.

00:07:40.700 Not in Britain, anyway.

00:07:41.500 But it just wasn't ever part of the discourse.

00:07:44.260 You'd never see black blocs or anything like that.

00:07:46.560 I found it interesting because by the time it did become a thing in the 2010 era,

00:07:53.740 I was already conversant enough with history to know that sort of anti-fascism does go back

00:07:59.360 deep, deep into the 20th century, way back.

00:08:02.200 I mean, look at George Orwell in Spain, for example.

00:08:04.900 You've got Italy, Germany and Spain.

00:08:06.920 Yeah.

00:08:07.620 So, the idea of an anti-fascist movement,

00:08:10.600 it didn't come out of nowhere in sort of 2015, right?

00:08:13.600 It was rekindled.

00:08:15.560 It was re-brought alive.

00:08:17.280 Just one of the things that is kind of surprising,

00:08:19.900 if you'd asked me in the year 2000,

00:08:21.660 what's going to be going down in the year 2020, say.

00:08:25.080 Most of the armed communists, terrorizing people was not on my list.

00:08:28.780 Yeah.

00:08:29.180 I wouldn't have said that a rise of militant anti-fascists in Western democracies.

00:08:35.580 You would not have guessed that.

00:08:36.900 No.

00:08:38.280 This is fundamentally the problem of the liberals and the communists,

00:08:42.300 is that they follow the same value set fundamentally,

00:08:45.160 which is why the liberals are always like,

00:08:46.540 well, you know, they are saying they're for freedom and equality and tolerance

00:08:50.360 and good things that I agree with. 0.74

00:08:53.200 They're just insane radicals who have decided that actually

00:08:56.080 the norms of democratic society go out of the window in pursuit of these things.

00:09:00.420 And so the liberals are incredibly soft on this.

00:09:02.560 Whereas if you had a rally of actual fascists 0.99

00:09:04.580 who were chanting like death to all black people or something like that, 0.99

00:09:07.020 they'd crack down on that like this. 0.99

00:09:08.440 They would have absolutely no sympathy for it whatsoever.

00:09:10.760 But instead, you've got Bruce Harrell here.

00:09:13.800 Speaking of the violent communist riots,

00:09:17.020 quote,

00:09:17.620 the far right rally was held here to provoke a reaction

00:09:20.220 by promoting beliefs that are inherently opposed to our city's values.

00:09:23.620 But apparently, a mob of violent communists

00:09:26.200 are not inherently opposed to the city's values.

00:09:28.140 And that's the problem with the liberal and the communists.

00:09:30.720 The communists will always dog the liberal

00:09:32.280 because the liberal made a series of promises

00:09:34.320 at the beginning of their own philosophy saying,

00:09:36.400 yeah, no, we're going to have liberty and equality for all.

00:09:38.040 And the communists are like, okay, where is it?

00:09:40.260 And the liberal's like, what do you mean where is it?

00:09:42.580 And it's like, no, no, we've got the liberty.

00:09:44.840 Where's the equality? 0.58

00:09:45.760 And the liberal's like, well, I mean,

00:09:47.480 we'd have to do some really radical stuff to get that.

00:09:49.820 And they're like, yeah, we would.

00:09:51.400 And we're waiting.

00:09:52.880 And so this is why they'll sit there and say,

00:09:55.300 well, those Christians who are like protect children,

00:09:58.340 far right, don't agree with their values.

00:10:00.600 Also, when they say about the values of our city,

00:10:03.420 of course, they're saying that Seattle is our commune.

00:10:06.500 And actually that, you know, the city itself,

00:10:09.480 because we've taken over it,

00:10:11.300 fundamentally stands for something apart

00:10:13.760 from what the rest of the country stands for,

00:10:15.900 what America more broadly stands for in an act of defiance.

00:10:20.320 You know, they think that they're the guys on the walls

00:10:23.140 in the French Revolution, you know, standing against.

00:10:26.380 They do.

00:10:27.280 Yeah, this is the Paris commune.

00:10:29.060 Storming the Bastille.

00:10:29.820 I mean, you've spoken lots about the route

00:10:33.860 where liberalism and the far left

00:10:36.700 come from sort of, ideologically speaking,

00:10:40.300 the same route, the same place.

00:10:42.760 But in the modern era or in the 20th century,

00:10:45.780 certainly I think it's fair to say,

00:10:47.840 is that it's just sort of a fundamental misunderstanding

00:10:50.300 whether the liberal or not on the part of the liberals

00:10:52.500 to think that the extreme left are in fact

00:10:57.220 just a more radical version of themselves.

00:11:02.400 When they say we just want liberal things,

00:11:05.500 you know, we just want liberty, laissez-faire,

00:11:07.560 all that sort of thing.

00:11:08.660 And the communists, laissez-faire economics.

00:11:10.860 And the commies, the anarchists, are like,

00:11:12.500 no, we fundamentally want something different.

00:11:16.180 And the liberals just often just don't hear it.

00:11:18.540 Well, you see this...

00:11:19.580 It's because it's couched in the language

00:11:20.820 the liberal uses to describe the world.

00:11:22.580 And this is why consistently you see

00:11:24.440 with different democratic parties across Europe

00:11:27.260 that invariably the centrist or centre-right parties

00:11:30.320 will always side with the far left party

00:11:32.660 when it comes to a coalition

00:11:33.880 against something more reactionary.

00:11:36.540 Yeah, I mean, not even...

00:11:38.180 I mean, is it even reactionary to say

00:11:39.580 a bunch of Christians saying stop transing kids?

00:11:42.240 Is that even political, right?

00:11:44.300 Like, where would you put that on a political compass?

00:11:47.320 Prior to the modern era of woke, right?

00:11:50.200 Because, you know, if you go back to, like, the 60s or 70s,

00:11:53.060 literally everyone's going to, like,

00:11:54.180 of course we're not going to transgender children. 0.92

00:11:55.980 What, are you mad? 0.98

00:11:57.020 You know, the most hardened Democrat would be like, 0.99

00:11:59.080 that would be insane.

00:11:59.980 Why would we do that?

00:12:01.320 Certainly not reactionary.

00:12:02.320 And if it is, if you choose to label it,

00:12:04.080 then good, I'm a reactionary.

00:12:05.300 Yeah, okay, there we go.

00:12:06.300 I'll be a reactionary.

00:12:07.380 Well, fine.

00:12:07.780 I'm reacting against something evil.

00:12:09.380 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:12:10.780 And I feel I have an obligation to do so.

00:12:13.260 So, like...

00:12:13.620 But this is the point.

00:12:15.260 Like, to provoke a reaction by promoting beliefs

00:12:19.480 that are inherently opposed to our city's value.

00:12:21.380 So, our city is predicated on transing children, right? 0.98

00:12:25.000 If Seattle can't trans children, 0.98

00:12:26.660 it's basically a fascist city, 0.92

00:12:28.200 is what the mayor is saying.

00:12:29.620 Because this took place in the heart of

00:12:31.460 Seattle's most prominent LGBTQ plus neighborhood.

00:12:34.760 It took place on Capitol Hill.

00:12:37.800 So, I mean, I believe it, you know.

00:12:40.980 I see.

00:12:41.460 He went on.

00:12:42.300 But the thing is,

00:12:43.880 and this is where, Bo,

00:12:45.140 your liberal anarchist distinction comes in, right?

00:12:47.400 He says,

00:12:48.080 anarchists infiltrated the counter-protesters

00:12:50.340 and inspired violence.

00:12:52.240 They are the counter-protesters.

00:12:54.300 The liberal, like,

00:12:55.040 look, I just don't want to believe 1.00

00:12:56.220 that they're all a bunch of insane, 1.00

00:12:57.680 brutal commies. 0.99

00:12:58.700 It's like, yeah, well, I mean,

00:12:59.860 the thing is,

00:13:01.120 you had to arrest a bunch of them.

00:13:02.820 They're the ones who started the violence.

00:13:06.220 They went on to criticize the Christian group,

00:13:09.080 of course,

00:13:09.960 saying, like,

00:13:11.080 various activists were saying things like,

00:13:13.060 well, they want to protect children

00:13:14.060 from people supposedly bad

00:13:15.400 because of misinformation about trans people.

00:13:17.800 You didn't say they were lying, though.

00:13:20.400 Misinformation.

00:13:21.560 That's not a lie.

00:13:22.860 Interesting use of language.

00:13:25.020 But, yeah, no.

00:13:26.000 So, obviously,

00:13:27.660 the Christian side said,

00:13:30.160 look, you know,

00:13:30.680 they say we don't like people,

00:13:31.780 but we're not the ones throwing things.

00:13:33.040 We're here to love Jesus,

00:13:34.740 which sounds pretty stock Christian to me.

00:13:37.360 It's the sort of thing

00:13:38.160 I'd expect Christians to say. 1.00

00:13:39.860 And, of course,

00:13:40.440 they weren't the ones throwing things. 0.78

00:13:42.600 They did get stuff thrown at them.

00:13:43.980 They were called fascists.

00:13:45.640 So, there were some updates in this one,

00:13:47.440 which was funny.

00:13:48.860 So, basically,

00:13:49.940 by the middle of the afternoon,

00:13:51.560 clashes had continued around the park

00:13:53.180 with police deploying pepper spray

00:13:54.840 on the protesters.

00:13:56.960 Various arrests were committed

00:13:58.980 after objects were thrown

00:14:01.020 and minor property damage was done.

00:14:04.760 By six o'clock,

00:14:06.100 the police had requested,

00:14:07.520 quote,

00:14:07.800 mutual aid.

00:14:12.380 What was that mean?

00:14:13.440 Yes, isn't it?

00:14:14.820 What does that mean?

00:14:15.580 What does that mean?

00:14:16.100 Aid.

00:14:17.200 Does that not ring a bell or two?

00:14:18.680 I'm hoping that means the National Guard.

00:14:20.440 I know it won't.

00:14:21.540 We're bringing the National Guard, 0.94

00:14:23.280 rolling an Abrams or two.

00:14:25.340 It wasn't the National Guard.

00:14:26.440 They just requested extra police officers.

00:14:28.460 But they tweeted out,

00:14:30.140 we have requested mutual aid.

00:14:32.540 There's only one particular reference

00:14:35.700 to the term mutual aid

00:14:37.220 that I'm aware of.

00:14:38.080 And it's a book written by

00:14:39.800 anarchist-communist Peter Kropotkin

00:14:42.420 called Mutual Aid.

00:14:45.080 Okay.

00:14:45.720 I've not heard of it.

00:14:46.720 Well, I had to read it for my degree.

00:14:48.540 And so,

00:14:49.060 it's a very strange turn of phrase

00:14:52.560 that they would use

00:14:53.440 because you would think

00:14:54.340 they'd request backup,

00:14:55.800 reinforcements,

00:14:56.820 or something just normal.

00:14:58.680 Rather,

00:14:59.120 mutual aid?

00:15:00.920 That's a very peculiar thing.

00:15:03.300 And it seems that they're kind of

00:15:04.620 signalling to the protesters

00:15:06.020 that they are currently...

00:15:07.200 That's what it sounds like,

00:15:07.940 doesn't it?

00:15:08.280 Right?

00:15:08.980 And I'm not saying

00:15:10.200 that that is what's happening.

00:15:11.240 I don't know.

00:15:11.820 But there's only one,

00:15:13.000 like,

00:15:14.040 the one term,

00:15:16.060 the one place

00:15:17.600 that the phrase mutual aid

00:15:18.520 is used that I can think of.

00:15:19.620 And it's literally in a book

00:15:20.640 by a communist revolutionary.

00:15:22.540 So that's weird.

00:15:23.400 Very.

00:15:23.800 Someone in the press department

00:15:25.260 of the Seattle PD

00:15:26.440 is a well-read pinko.

00:15:28.360 I mean...

00:15:28.940 It seems.

00:15:29.380 I certainly wouldn't...

00:15:31.300 Certainly wouldn't doubt it.

00:15:32.800 The shock there being

00:15:33.580 that they're well-read at all.

00:15:35.020 Well, yeah.

00:15:36.160 So by seven o'clock,

00:15:37.860 the mayor had taken

00:15:38.720 the unusual step

00:15:39.480 of putting out a statement

00:15:40.360 saying that,

00:15:41.880 look,

00:15:42.340 the protesters did nothing wrong.

00:15:43.980 It was the anarchists

00:15:44.800 who had stepped in.

00:15:46.360 Seattle is proud

00:15:47.180 of our reputation

00:15:47.980 as a welcoming

00:15:48.620 and inclusive city

00:15:49.560 unless you're in favour

00:15:51.140 of the integrity

00:15:51.840 of children's bodies

00:15:52.920 and then we're literally

00:15:54.360 going to throw things at you 0.76

00:15:55.560 and get ourselves arrested 0.98

00:15:56.880 trying to stop you.

00:15:58.500 So very...

00:15:58.820 For love and peace.

00:15:59.740 Yeah, yeah.

00:16:00.020 Unless you're a Christian. 0.99

00:16:01.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:16:02.340 Literally, yes.

00:16:03.640 There is something

00:16:04.260 hard-baked into even socialism,

00:16:06.220 let alone actual communism

00:16:07.300 or anarchism,

00:16:08.160 which is at odds

00:16:09.540 with the family unit.

00:16:10.700 I mean,

00:16:11.260 collectivisation,

00:16:12.060 the collectivisation

00:16:13.220 of people

00:16:13.880 is at war

00:16:16.640 with the family unit.

00:16:19.020 Yeah.

00:16:19.640 All of...

00:16:21.340 Well,

00:16:21.580 it's...

00:16:21.880 Honestly,

00:16:22.640 liberal philosophy

00:16:23.380 at bottom

00:16:23.960 kind of is

00:16:24.720 because it

00:16:25.880 bases itself

00:16:27.040 on chosen obligations

00:16:28.900 rather than

00:16:29.780 unchosen obligations

00:16:30.740 and the family

00:16:31.480 is a series

00:16:31.960 of unchosen obligations

00:16:33.140 that you are born into

00:16:34.560 whether you like it or not.

00:16:35.900 And so,

00:16:36.260 this is why you get

00:16:37.100 social services

00:16:38.380 trying to liberate children

00:16:39.380 from their parents

00:16:40.160 if the parents

00:16:41.240 are being untoward.

00:16:42.680 Now,

00:16:42.900 don't get me wrong,

00:16:43.520 something has to be done

00:16:44.740 in those cases,

00:16:46.240 but the liberal answer

00:16:49.160 is just,

00:16:49.760 well,

00:16:50.220 put them into foster care

00:16:51.160 and then good luck.

00:16:52.520 So,

00:16:52.720 I don't know,

00:16:53.360 man,

00:16:53.500 that seems like

00:16:54.620 it might be a little bit extreme

00:16:55.720 and I think there might come

00:16:56.620 a time in the future

00:16:57.480 where the state being able

00:16:59.040 to arbitrarily take children

00:17:00.600 off of their parents

00:17:01.600 might actually be considered

00:17:03.180 a bad thing.

00:17:04.780 That in the final analysis

00:17:06.200 you belong to the party

00:17:07.760 or the state,

00:17:08.560 not your parents.

00:17:09.620 Yes,

00:17:09.880 because the state

00:17:10.680 is the one that has

00:17:11.600 taken upon itself

00:17:12.360 the obligation

00:17:12.960 to enforce your

00:17:13.860 quote-unquote

00:17:14.420 human rights.

00:17:15.680 So,

00:17:16.080 the state has imbued

00:17:16.980 in children

00:17:17.760 the liberatory message

00:17:19.340 and requirement

00:17:20.160 for it to justify

00:17:21.680 coming in and saying,

00:17:22.560 nope,

00:17:22.740 you're not doing

00:17:23.280 what we want.

00:17:23.720 So,

00:17:23.920 you might be homeschooling

00:17:24.720 your children

00:17:25.100 into Christian morality

00:17:26.600 or something

00:17:27.120 and the state

00:17:27.940 might be like,

00:17:28.440 well,

00:17:28.740 that doesn't teach them

00:17:29.640 about transgenderism,

00:17:30.660 does it?

00:17:31.420 And you'll be like,

00:17:32.160 no,

00:17:32.800 it doesn't.

00:17:33.300 And the state,

00:17:33.740 well,

00:17:34.060 they need liberating men.

00:17:35.540 You know,

00:17:35.720 this is a form of a pressure.

00:17:36.620 Re-education.

00:17:37.700 Yeah,

00:17:37.940 it could be anything.

00:17:39.640 So,

00:17:39.960 anyway,

00:17:40.280 by the end of the day,

00:17:41.840 22 people have been arrested

00:17:43.480 and not a great

00:17:45.660 look,

00:17:46.020 but again,

00:17:46.600 like,

00:17:47.320 the mayor comes out

00:17:48.760 and says,

00:17:49.020 look,

00:17:49.340 we oppose the extreme

00:17:51.240 right wing

00:17:51.980 who are in opposition

00:17:53.080 to trans people's

00:17:53.920 humanity.

00:17:55.220 It's like,

00:17:55.680 no one's saying

00:17:56.280 they can't have humanity.

00:17:57.340 What we're saying is, 0.99

00:17:58.520 don't transgender children 1.00

00:17:59.900 because they can't 0.98

00:18:01.180 consent to it.

00:18:01.840 it's really not an extreme

00:18:04.060 position,

00:18:04.620 right?

00:18:05.060 I don't think that makes you

00:18:06.000 extreme right wing

00:18:06.820 and I would be very concerned

00:18:08.200 if I lived in Seattle

00:18:08.980 if that did make me

00:18:10.760 extreme right wing,

00:18:11.940 frankly.

00:18:13.280 But anyway,

00:18:13.820 either way,

00:18:14.200 it's nice to see them

00:18:14.960 getting arrested

00:18:15.540 and I can't help but feel

00:18:17.100 if they weren't getting

00:18:18.340 arrested,

00:18:19.000 then Trump would be

00:18:20.040 weighing in on this,

00:18:21.040 right?

00:18:21.540 So,

00:18:22.100 the fact that the police,

00:18:22.940 I mean,

00:18:23.120 there are lots of photos

00:18:23.960 of the police just yet,

00:18:24.960 right,

00:18:25.200 that's it,

00:18:25.840 you know,

00:18:26.140 Billy Club time,

00:18:27.040 pep spray time,

00:18:28.100 no more of this nonsense

00:18:29.240 and one can't help but think

00:18:30.640 that if this had been

00:18:32.000 handled in the way

00:18:32.660 that it had been handled

00:18:33.260 in previous eras,

00:18:34.960 Trump would be coming down

00:18:35.800 on this like a ton of brakes.

00:18:38.360 Yeah,

00:18:38.800 it's interesting,

00:18:39.440 isn't it,

00:18:39.600 when you think back

00:18:40.220 to about four or five years ago

00:18:41.780 how easily,

00:18:42.900 you know,

00:18:43.200 Antifa would have been able

00:18:44.240 to get on with all this

00:18:45.740 just without any pushback

00:18:47.320 whatsoever from war enforcement

00:18:48.800 and,

00:18:49.160 you know,

00:18:49.440 BLM as well,

00:18:50.520 when the BLM riots

00:18:51.500 were going on,

00:18:52.060 how far they were able to get.

00:18:53.980 I feel like Trump

00:18:54.520 has actually shown

00:18:55.280 incredible restraint.

00:18:56.360 You remember in his

00:18:56.800 first administration,

00:18:57.660 there was that Chaz thing. 0.91

00:19:00.120 I kept thinking

00:19:01.320 any day he's going to send in,

00:19:04.120 swamp it with cops.

00:19:05.760 Yeah.

00:19:06.200 Like the sort of

00:19:06.660 those semi-militarized

00:19:07.860 American cops

00:19:08.540 and just end it all

00:19:09.240 and he never did.

00:19:09.980 He just let it implode.

00:19:11.200 That shows a remarkable

00:19:12.620 restraint really

00:19:14.220 because if it was,

00:19:15.480 if I was president

00:19:16.140 at the time,

00:19:16.800 I may well have ordered

00:19:18.160 the governor or whatever

00:19:19.440 to do something about it

00:19:21.260 before it descended

00:19:21.840 into actual homicides.

00:19:24.120 Well,

00:19:24.600 to be fair,

00:19:25.340 he was probably wise

00:19:26.360 of Trump to not.

00:19:26.980 In hindsight,

00:19:28.580 he made the right move.

00:19:30.120 I would have been

00:19:30.800 too authoritarian.

00:19:32.200 Yeah.

00:19:32.700 Trump did make the right move

00:19:34.240 in terms of optics

00:19:35.080 and everything.

00:19:35.720 Yeah.

00:19:36.080 Not only that,

00:19:36.860 there's going to be arguments

00:19:38.000 about what,

00:19:38.520 you know,

00:19:38.780 federal and state power

00:19:39.880 and,

00:19:40.440 you know,

00:19:40.800 what he's entitled to do,

00:19:41.880 but also just allowing

00:19:43.300 the fruits of their own

00:19:44.900 product to blossom.

00:19:46.640 Okay,

00:19:46.820 well,

00:19:47.160 and we'll get into the chas

00:19:48.200 in a minute.

00:19:49.140 So anyway,

00:19:49.880 you're not going to be

00:19:50.600 surprised to learn that

00:19:51.660 many,

00:19:52.780 many of the people involved

00:19:54.160 were not exactly

00:19:56.160 their best and brightest.

00:19:57.840 You've got here

00:19:58.880 Antifa,

00:20:00.900 Tranifa member,

00:20:02.060 Mikhail,

00:20:02.780 Mikhaili Andrew Baker,

00:20:04.740 who is a member of the

00:20:05.740 Youth Liberation Front

00:20:06.940 who was arrested.

00:20:08.280 Baker is a certified

00:20:09.420 state delegate

00:20:10.080 for Bernie Sanders

00:20:10.880 in 2020.

00:20:13.220 Been arrested repeatedly

00:20:14.580 at Antifa riots

00:20:15.340 but has faced

00:20:15.900 no consequences.

00:20:17.140 So,

00:20:17.380 I mean,

00:20:17.660 basically,

00:20:18.400 they are kind of

00:20:19.700 sending people

00:20:21.340 who definitely don't

00:20:22.140 have a history

00:20:22.620 of mental illness,

00:20:23.740 right?

00:20:24.220 I think we can all agree

00:20:25.560 that that's certainly

00:20:26.800 not the case there.

00:20:28.200 And this has been

00:20:29.600 supported by,

00:20:30.440 of course,

00:20:31.560 the people involved.

00:20:32.420 As you can see here,

00:20:33.760 Sean Scott is a

00:20:34.720 Washington state

00:20:35.420 representative

00:20:35.980 for the 43rd district.

00:20:37.600 And,

00:20:38.460 I assume he,

00:20:40.040 him says,

00:20:41.220 we should celebrate

00:20:41.900 Capitol Hill

00:20:42.440 counter-protesters

00:20:43.240 who aren't letting

00:20:43.880 anti-trans extremists

00:20:45.100 into Washington's

00:20:45.900 historic stronghold

00:20:46.840 of LGBT life

00:20:48.600 without a fight

00:20:49.540 and standing up

00:20:50.520 for the unaccountable

00:20:51.300 police in the process.

00:20:53.000 Just,

00:20:54.020 okay,

00:20:55.120 I guess that's

00:20:56.600 one perspective on it.

00:20:58.200 And this,

00:20:59.620 of course,

00:21:00.340 hate has no place

00:21:01.160 in the 43rd

00:21:01.920 legislative district

00:21:02.920 unless it's against

00:21:03.820 anti-trans extremists,

00:21:05.640 right?

00:21:05.820 We're allowed to hate that.

00:21:06.500 Normal people.

00:21:07.600 It's against pro-family

00:21:09.320 Christians,

00:21:10.120 in which case, 0.65

00:21:11.120 go for your life.

00:21:11.820 Yeah.

00:21:12.240 And this was indeed

00:21:13.240 on the site of the

00:21:14.400 Capitol Hill

00:21:15.640 occupied protests

00:21:16.740 at the Chas.

00:21:17.780 Oh,

00:21:18.140 the exact same spot?

00:21:19.460 I'm not sure.

00:21:20.820 More or less.

00:21:21.160 It's at the Capitol Hill.

00:21:22.060 So,

00:21:22.200 yeah,

00:21:22.280 I think it was.

00:21:23.040 Right.

00:21:23.220 So this was at the Capitol Hill

00:21:25.740 in Seattle itself

00:21:27.260 where several blocks,

00:21:29.860 I think there's actually

00:21:30.360 a map here.

00:21:30.840 There we go.

00:21:31.540 So you can see the area

00:21:32.360 occupied by the Chas 1.00

00:21:34.080 or the CHOP,

00:21:34.800 however it's called,

00:21:36.200 where two people

00:21:37.280 were shot and killed.

00:21:38.180 There were two

00:21:38.480 non-fatal shootings.

00:21:39.520 There was a series of

00:21:40.220 arsons,

00:21:40.740 theft,

00:21:41.020 sexual assaults.

00:21:41.820 And one study

00:21:42.980 after the fact

00:21:44.280 came to the conclusion

00:21:45.680 that the crime rate

00:21:46.740 in the CHOP

00:21:47.680 in the Chas

00:21:48.320 was 132.9% higher

00:21:50.920 than in other areas

00:21:52.960 of Seattle

00:21:53.660 during the same period,

00:21:55.600 which is very interesting,

00:21:57.000 isn't it?

00:21:57.380 It ended up

00:21:58.060 taken over by a warlord,

00:22:00.100 didn't it?

00:22:00.500 Yeah.

00:22:00.980 An individual gang member,

00:22:02.400 dude,

00:22:02.940 who just proclaimed himself

00:22:04.480 sort of emperor.

00:22:06.500 That's proper communism.

00:22:07.880 Yeah.

00:22:08.200 And then the feds

00:22:08.880 had to come in

00:22:09.400 and basically bulldoze

00:22:10.240 the lot of it.

00:22:10.720 So that was

00:22:12.520 an interesting experiment

00:22:13.400 that went very well.

00:22:14.480 And there was another trial

00:22:15.960 that I found

00:22:16.800 from 2024 in May

00:22:18.760 that I did a bit

00:22:20.920 of snooping around

00:22:21.900 the subject.

00:22:22.520 And a jury in San Diego

00:22:24.700 found a couple

00:22:25.760 of anti-fascist conspirators

00:22:27.540 guilty of conspiracy

00:22:28.880 to riot.

00:22:29.960 So them going

00:22:31.060 to a protest

00:22:32.840 in January 2021,

00:22:34.760 fighting members

00:22:35.440 of the Proud Boys

00:22:36.180 and calling Donald Trump

00:22:37.780 fascist, 0.85

00:22:38.740 they were found

00:22:39.420 guilty of conspiracy

00:22:40.700 to riot,

00:22:41.740 which is interesting

00:22:42.400 because that kind of means

00:22:43.480 that this could be used

00:22:44.680 as a precedent

00:22:45.440 in future cases.

00:22:46.320 Oh, you've turned up

00:22:46.980 in Black Block

00:22:47.820 with various pieces

00:22:50.380 of equipment

00:22:51.340 that could be used

00:22:51.980 as weapons.

00:22:52.860 Well, that's conspiracy

00:22:53.600 to riot

00:22:54.160 and this is now

00:22:55.920 a precedent

00:22:56.380 in US law.

00:22:57.780 So whether that goes

00:22:59.040 anywhere or not,

00:22:59.500 I have no idea.

00:23:00.300 But the point being,

00:23:01.440 it's nice to see

00:23:02.320 that Antifa are actually

00:23:03.080 starting to get

00:23:03.820 their comeuppance

00:23:04.600 as they should have been.

00:23:06.140 They should never have been

00:23:06.820 tolerated in the first place.

00:23:08.500 But thankfully,

00:23:09.540 it's not being tolerated now.

00:23:11.280 It reminds me

00:23:12.000 of an incident

00:23:12.440 back in the,

00:23:13.680 I can't remember

00:23:14.740 the exact dates,

00:23:15.420 but I think it might

00:23:15.900 have been the 70s

00:23:16.860 back when Ronald Reagan

00:23:19.200 was governor

00:23:19.700 of California.

00:23:22.000 And there was a big,

00:23:22.780 basically some sort

00:23:24.180 of Antifa,

00:23:25.740 hippie,

00:23:27.900 some sort of leftist

00:23:28.920 thing going on

00:23:29.960 in a park in Berkeley,

00:23:31.660 California.

00:23:32.440 And he sent in

00:23:33.660 sort of the riot squad.

00:23:35.000 He read the riot act,

00:23:36.360 smashed it all up

00:23:37.100 and they hark back

00:23:38.900 to that even to this day.

00:23:40.420 But yeah,

00:23:40.900 just at some point.

00:23:42.260 We should be doing

00:23:43.120 the same,

00:23:43.680 but just being,

00:23:44.300 yeah,

00:23:44.580 but a good thing.

00:23:45.580 At some point,

00:23:46.280 it does turn into,

00:23:48.780 well,

00:23:49.140 what you can only

00:23:49.820 really describe

00:23:50.720 as sedition.

00:23:51.380 Like that Chaz thing 1.00

00:23:52.420 is sort of,

00:23:54.320 I would describe it

00:23:55.280 as seditious.

00:23:56.740 It's hard to describe

00:23:57.680 it as anything else.

00:23:58.940 Yeah.

00:23:59.180 They literally call it

00:24:00.160 an autonomous zone

00:24:01.080 liberated from the United States.

00:24:03.320 Like,

00:24:03.860 I don't know what else

00:24:04.520 that's supposed to be called.

00:24:05.540 The Constitution of the United States

00:24:06.920 doesn't run here.

00:24:08.340 Which is why so many people 0.85

00:24:09.160 are getting raped and murdered. 0.65

00:24:11.180 Exactly. 1.00

00:24:13.580 I'm not even joking,

00:24:14.760 actually.

00:24:15.640 But yeah,

00:24:16.120 so good news,

00:24:17.420 basically,

00:24:18.060 is that law and order

00:24:19.300 seems to be being restored

00:24:20.640 even in the most lefty areas

00:24:23.040 of the United States.

00:24:23.940 I suspect it's probably

00:24:25.200 Trump's influence.

00:24:27.120 It's good.

00:24:27.680 Shamo says,

00:24:29.780 what do you think?

00:24:30.600 This is how I came

00:24:31.200 to understand Infinity.

00:24:32.360 It's the moment

00:24:32.940 that the killer realises

00:24:33.900 the mother has been

00:24:34.740 visiting him every day

00:24:35.680 as the son that he killed

00:24:36.900 equals Christ is king.

00:24:37.980 I'm afraid I'd have to spend

00:24:39.100 a bit of time

00:24:39.500 thinking about that

00:24:40.420 and I wouldn't be able

00:24:41.600 to give you a satisfying answer

00:24:42.900 just off the cuff.

00:24:44.100 But thank you

00:24:44.780 for the super chat.

00:24:46.160 Right,

00:24:46.580 let's move on.

00:24:47.720 All right then.

00:24:48.440 So there's been

00:24:49.260 a real

00:24:50.400 battle of wills

00:24:52.340 commencing

00:24:52.940 over this past

00:24:54.040 few months really.

00:24:55.400 Ever since

00:24:56.080 Trump

00:24:56.760 came back to office

00:24:58.740 between Harvard University,

00:25:01.080 the oldest university

00:25:02.300 in America

00:25:03.440 and the Trump administration.

00:25:06.280 Now obviously

00:25:06.960 as we can see here

00:25:07.900 a lot of this

00:25:08.700 is off of

00:25:09.380 events that we'll remember

00:25:11.440 before Trump

00:25:12.500 actually

00:25:13.100 got his second term

00:25:14.880 in office

00:25:15.800 because we were obviously

00:25:17.020 after October 7th

00:25:18.600 we will witness

00:25:19.340 to all manner

00:25:20.760 of protests

00:25:21.640 across campuses

00:25:22.720 mostly in America

00:25:23.820 but of course

00:25:24.560 as we'll know

00:25:25.540 ourselves

00:25:26.040 very much

00:25:26.620 here as well

00:25:27.400 in Europe

00:25:28.680 and Britain

00:25:29.500 all these

00:25:30.200 pro-Palestine

00:25:31.600 and in some cases

00:25:33.920 even pro-Hamas 0.97

00:25:35.440 you know.

00:25:38.080 It is remarkable

00:25:38.920 how Hamas 0.88

00:25:39.980 can kill 0.64

00:25:40.360 like 1,300 people

00:25:41.620 and suddenly

00:25:42.500 there are people

00:25:43.040 yelling yeah

00:25:43.500 from the river

00:25:43.940 to the sea.

00:25:44.320 I don't like

00:25:46.380 weighing in

00:25:46.960 on this

00:25:47.360 like debate

00:25:48.060 but it is

00:25:48.620 hard to

00:25:49.620 separate

00:25:50.560 this kind of

00:25:51.340 activism

00:25:51.700 from just

00:25:52.200 pro-terrorism.

00:25:53.720 Oh yeah.

00:25:54.360 This is

00:25:54.760 you know

00:25:55.300 and I'm trying

00:25:56.280 to be charitable

00:25:56.820 but come on.

00:25:58.440 From the river

00:25:59.260 to the sea

00:25:59.760 what the river

00:26:00.360 Potomac

00:26:00.980 to the Atlantic Ocean

00:26:02.060 what we're talking

00:26:02.740 about

00:26:03.100 what we're talking

00:26:03.920 about here.

00:26:04.700 Well I think

00:26:05.440 part of that

00:26:06.140 certainly comes

00:26:07.200 between the fact

00:26:07.880 that well

00:26:08.420 okay if you are

00:26:09.520 of course

00:26:09.980 pro-Palestine

00:26:10.820 then it means

00:26:12.440 that well

00:26:12.860 what is

00:26:13.700 the Palestinian

00:26:14.740 line of defense

00:26:16.040 against the things

00:26:16.920 that are being

00:26:17.320 done to it

00:26:17.980 and then that

00:26:18.920 naturally means

00:26:19.720 well you have

00:26:20.280 to put your faith

00:26:21.120 in the prescribed

00:26:21.960 terrorist organization

00:26:23.120 and because that's

00:26:24.760 really the first

00:26:25.880 line of defense

00:26:26.680 and so that's

00:26:27.660 where the two

00:26:28.120 now really

00:26:28.860 what I'm

00:26:29.580 you know

00:26:30.080 obviously

00:26:30.460 talking about

00:26:31.140 here is

00:26:31.580 not necessarily

00:26:32.520 I'm not

00:26:33.600 suggesting

00:26:34.240 on a personal

00:26:34.900 level

00:26:35.300 that fidelity

00:26:36.860 to one

00:26:37.580 particular

00:26:38.220 you know

00:26:38.700 whether it's

00:26:39.160 Palestine

00:26:39.520 or Israel

00:26:40.280 in any way

00:26:42.120 for an American

00:26:42.940 citizen

00:26:43.500 for someone

00:26:44.120 who is actually

00:26:44.900 American

00:26:45.340 means being

00:26:46.580 any more or

00:26:47.360 less American 0.87

00:26:48.000 fundamentally

00:26:48.640 being for

00:26:49.500 America

00:26:50.020 and being

00:26:51.360 born American

00:26:52.160 makes you

00:26:52.800 American

00:26:53.300 however it

00:26:54.580 is interesting

00:26:55.620 to point out

00:26:56.960 that really

00:26:57.460 this war

00:26:58.680 on Harvard

00:26:59.580 is not to do

00:27:01.300 so much

00:27:02.000 with the

00:27:02.740 American

00:27:03.460 students

00:27:05.020 but more

00:27:06.040 to do with

00:27:06.620 the fact

00:27:07.000 that there's

00:27:07.500 an enormous

00:27:08.000 number of

00:27:08.820 foreign students

00:27:10.080 who have

00:27:11.000 been invited

00:27:12.000 in

00:27:12.440 on visas

00:27:13.440 come over

00:27:14.560 as a guest

00:27:15.560 to America

00:27:16.400 to participate

00:27:17.620 in their

00:27:18.480 wonderful

00:27:18.960 you know

00:27:19.620 well I say

00:27:20.500 wonderful

00:27:21.000 I'm more

00:27:22.520 doubtful about

00:27:23.160 that after

00:27:23.560 looking into

00:27:24.220 the recent

00:27:24.880 antics of

00:27:25.580 Harvard

00:27:25.880 but for the

00:27:26.520 sake of

00:27:26.820 argument

00:27:27.160 a higher

00:27:27.780 form of

00:27:28.540 education

00:27:29.040 than they

00:27:29.480 could have

00:27:29.800 possibly

00:27:30.180 achieved

00:27:30.700 in whichever

00:27:31.520 country

00:27:31.980 they come

00:27:32.420 from

00:27:32.780 somehow

00:27:33.360 they were

00:27:33.780 radicalized

00:27:34.320 against the

00:27:34.820 United States

00:27:35.540 yes

00:27:36.260 incredible

00:27:37.920 if they

00:27:38.780 weren't

00:27:39.140 already

00:27:39.560 of course

00:27:40.180 yeah

00:27:40.540 so we

00:27:41.640 have here

00:27:42.180 this all

00:27:43.280 naturally

00:27:43.820 boils down

00:27:44.540 to the

00:27:44.880 fact that

00:27:45.440 eventually

00:27:45.980 what you're

00:27:47.160 getting is

00:27:47.820 a statement

00:27:48.360 like this

00:27:48.980 from Chrissy

00:27:49.560 Gnome

00:27:49.760 from Homeland

00:27:50.380 Security

00:27:50.900 where amongst

00:27:51.780 other things

00:27:52.360 she says

00:27:52.760 I'm writing

00:27:53.640 to inform

00:27:54.260 you that

00:27:54.600 effective

00:27:55.040 immediately

00:27:55.720 Harvard

00:27:56.400 University's

00:27:57.360 student and

00:27:57.900 exchange

00:27:58.400 visitors

00:27:58.880 program

00:27:59.460 is revoked

00:28:00.700 and as I

00:28:02.180 explained to

00:28:02.800 you in my

00:28:03.540 April letter

00:28:04.260 it is a

00:28:05.080 privilege to

00:28:05.820 enroll foreign

00:28:06.600 students and

00:28:07.640 it is also a

00:28:08.620 privilege to

00:28:09.220 employ aliens 0.90

00:28:10.260 on campus

00:28:11.200 all universities

00:28:12.460 must comply

00:28:13.340 with homeland

00:28:13.960 security

00:28:14.600 requirements

00:28:15.420 and failure

00:28:17.380 to comply

00:28:17.900 with multiple

00:28:18.960 requests

00:28:20.780 because that's

00:28:21.680 actually where

00:28:22.360 this started

00:28:23.000 when she

00:28:23.400 refers to

00:28:24.000 what's funny

00:28:26.300 nothing

00:28:27.240 I wish I

00:28:29.340 had mine

00:28:29.620 the thing

00:28:30.760 is that

00:28:31.300 really what

00:28:32.800 originally in

00:28:33.740 April all

00:28:34.500 they asked

00:28:35.400 for all the

00:28:36.080 government

00:28:36.340 actually asked

00:28:37.040 for was

00:28:37.440 look can you

00:28:38.040 please give

00:28:38.660 us the

00:28:39.620 names and

00:28:40.580 information of

00:28:41.840 foreign students

00:28:43.280 on your

00:28:44.200 campus who

00:28:45.240 have been

00:28:45.940 engaging in

00:28:47.060 anti-American

00:28:47.960 and pro-terrorist

00:28:49.640 sympathies and

00:28:50.620 Harvard's like

00:28:51.220 absolutely not

00:28:52.360 how dare you

00:28:54.980 we're gonna

00:28:55.540 defend our

00:28:56.240 foreign terrorists 0.81

00:28:57.240 thank you very

00:28:57.940 much

00:28:58.140 we're proud

00:29:00.140 of them

00:29:00.480 that's very

00:29:01.080 weird

00:29:01.520 I think I

00:29:02.780 hope in

00:29:03.620 America just

00:29:04.380 like in

00:29:05.060 Britain or 0.86

00:29:06.700 in a lot of

00:29:07.140 Europe if

00:29:07.680 you're not

00:29:08.060 actually Muslim

00:29:10.280 or Jewish

00:29:10.980 you look upon

00:29:12.560 that sort of

00:29:13.340 forever war

00:29:14.360 yes in the

00:29:15.340 holy land in

00:29:16.220 the Levant

00:29:16.720 and you just

00:29:18.500 look upon it

00:29:19.200 aghast without

00:29:20.040 a dog in the

00:29:21.280 fight

00:29:21.520 yeah

00:29:21.880 well I mean

00:29:23.680 I hope I do

00:29:24.360 I think yeah I

00:29:25.120 think I hope

00:29:26.100 most Americans

00:29:27.820 again if you're

00:29:28.880 not Jewish 0.82

00:29:29.560 or Muslim 0.94

00:29:30.080 you just

00:29:30.540 think

00:29:30.900 so in

00:29:32.500 America Israel 0.89

00:29:33.400 has a

00:29:34.120 particularly

00:29:34.540 kind of

00:29:34.960 important place

00:29:36.340 in

00:29:36.880 I guess you

00:29:39.280 say something

00:29:39.740 of the national

00:29:40.300 mythology at this

00:29:41.140 point

00:29:41.280 so it's

00:29:42.860 it's not a

00:29:43.920 neutral subject

00:29:44.960 for them

00:29:45.480 no you've been

00:29:46.260 told ever since

00:29:46.920 the 40s that

00:29:47.800 Israel's interests 0.95

00:29:49.440 are your best

00:29:50.420 interests

00:29:50.880 it's not just

00:29:51.640 about interest

00:29:52.140 there's a huge

00:29:52.880 number of

00:29:53.300 evangelicals who

00:29:54.540 view Israel's

00:29:55.300 existence as a

00:29:56.000 part of a

00:29:56.600 kind of

00:29:57.120 revolutionary

00:29:57.900 mission

00:29:58.660 certainly

00:29:59.060 yeah that's

00:29:59.580 true

00:29:59.940 so it goes

00:30:01.260 beyond merely

00:30:02.040 strategic interest

00:30:02.940 there is a

00:30:03.260 stripe of

00:30:03.680 Christianity which 0.83

00:30:04.560 is essentially

00:30:05.380 pro-Zionist 0.86

00:30:06.800 yes

00:30:07.100 sure okay

00:30:08.760 yeah

00:30:09.240 but this is

00:30:10.760 really so

00:30:11.440 what it says

00:30:11.920 while perpetuating

00:30:13.240 an unsafe

00:30:14.600 environment that

00:30:15.880 is hostile to

00:30:16.720 Jewish students

00:30:17.480 promotes pro-Hamas 1.00

00:30:18.400 sympathies and

00:30:19.580 employs racist

00:30:21.020 diversity equity

00:30:22.520 and inclusion

00:30:23.260 policies and

00:30:24.720 so you have

00:30:25.240 lost this

00:30:25.660 privilege

00:30:26.120 so I mean

00:30:26.920 Harvard are

00:30:27.320 like well you

00:30:27.740 got us there

00:30:28.300 I mean like

00:30:29.380 we do all of

00:30:30.020 those things

00:30:30.620 yeah that's the

00:30:31.160 thing we're

00:30:31.520 proudest of if

00:30:32.300 anything

00:30:32.620 right

00:30:32.940 that's how we

00:30:33.320 got our job

00:30:33.840 doing this

00:30:34.440 and you have

00:30:35.800 to bear in

00:30:36.240 mind as well

00:30:36.780 that obviously

00:30:37.460 when Trump

00:30:39.340 you know gained

00:30:40.080 his second

00:30:40.500 term in office

00:30:41.380 obviously and

00:30:42.700 said look this

00:30:43.480 is the end of

00:30:44.560 DEI

00:30:45.260 this is the end

00:30:46.460 of it we are 0.98

00:30:47.060 killing it here 1.00

00:30:47.860 and now as 1.00

00:30:48.800 far as we can

00:30:49.920 throughout America

00:30:50.980 and so Harvard

00:30:52.600 said well

00:30:53.200 we'll just

00:30:53.860 rebrand then

00:30:54.660 that's not how

00:30:55.420 that works

00:30:55.900 right but what

00:30:56.860 I find so

00:30:58.020 bizarre I suppose

00:30:59.840 about this is

00:31:00.780 the fact because

00:31:01.400 this is here

00:31:01.780 this is the

00:31:02.460 Harvard Crimson

00:31:03.360 the commie

00:31:04.320 crimson the

00:31:05.320 newspaper of

00:31:07.340 Harvard University

00:31:08.260 the student

00:31:08.780 newspaper and

00:31:10.480 the fact that

00:31:11.400 they just say

00:31:12.360 oh well we're

00:31:13.480 not going to do

00:31:13.980 that and here's

00:31:14.800 our entire plan

00:31:15.940 for how we're

00:31:16.920 not going to go

00:31:17.740 along with all

00:31:18.620 of this

00:31:19.180 thank you for

00:31:19.720 publishing that

00:31:20.220 it's going to

00:31:21.680 make catching

00:31:22.520 you out so

00:31:23.060 much easier

00:31:23.520 the great

00:31:23.940 tactical minds

00:31:24.940 of Harvard

00:31:25.460 clearly yes

00:31:26.740 from their

00:31:27.240 education there

00:31:28.840 it's something

00:31:29.480 they're just

00:31:29.820 proactively proud

00:31:31.080 of

00:31:31.400 yeah

00:31:31.680 totally proud

00:31:33.220 of it

00:31:33.600 yeah

00:31:33.760 and you know

00:31:35.320 so this

00:31:36.420 this new

00:31:37.080 directive

00:31:37.460 this new

00:31:38.020 from the

00:31:39.580 from the

00:31:40.000 White House

00:31:40.600 means that

00:31:41.680 the F

00:31:43.140 visas

00:31:43.620 and the

00:31:44.500 J visas 1.00

00:31:45.120 so these are

00:31:45.780 visas relating

00:31:46.640 to internet

00:31:47.660 all international

00:31:48.480 students

00:31:49.200 that's the

00:31:50.280 F visa 0.98

00:31:50.660 and the

00:31:51.040 J ones are 0.97

00:31:51.840 foreigners who

00:31:53.200 were there on

00:31:53.880 exchange visits

00:31:54.800 right

00:31:55.120 or visitors

00:31:56.060 just on the

00:31:56.760 visiting

00:31:57.140 and so this

00:31:59.200 here means that

00:32:00.600 before you know

00:32:01.420 it you're going

00:32:02.140 to have

00:32:02.680 potentially

00:32:04.060 thousands upon

00:32:05.600 thousands of

00:32:07.260 foreign students

00:32:08.320 from Harvard

00:32:09.320 possibly over

00:32:10.480 8,000

00:32:11.240 in a position

00:32:12.740 where they

00:32:13.300 either will be

00:32:14.620 deported

00:32:15.060 because their

00:32:16.380 visas

00:32:16.860 no longer

00:32:18.380 because that's

00:32:18.980 the tactic

00:32:20.220 is okay

00:32:20.740 well if you

00:32:21.400 don't give us

00:32:22.400 this information

00:32:23.160 and tell us

00:32:24.300 who these people

00:32:25.320 are that have

00:32:26.140 been engaging

00:32:26.700 in this activity

00:32:27.560 then we'll just

00:32:28.740 send them all

00:32:29.260 home and

00:32:30.480 you'll lose

00:32:31.400 all of this

00:32:32.580 money that

00:32:33.480 you're getting

00:32:33.980 that is fascinating

00:32:34.860 because you've

00:32:35.540 got to ask the

00:32:36.260 sort of foreign

00:32:37.200 student body

00:32:38.080 there why did

00:32:38.900 you decide to

00:32:39.340 get involved in

00:32:39.820 American activism

00:32:40.560 what were you

00:32:41.700 thinking you

00:32:42.720 know you were

00:32:43.320 told oh no

00:32:43.900 we're going to

00:32:44.180 go out and

00:32:44.460 march for human

00:32:45.020 rights or

00:32:45.480 something it's

00:32:45.880 like yeah but

00:32:46.380 dude I'm here

00:32:46.800 to get my

00:32:47.100 degree you

00:32:48.080 know I'm

00:32:48.300 here to get

00:32:48.660 an education

00:32:49.200 surely and

00:32:50.200 now you're

00:32:51.160 pulling a war

00:32:52.780 against the

00:32:53.440 Trump administration

00:32:54.320 by the deans

00:32:55.520 of Harvard

00:32:56.080 like this isn't

00:32:57.240 serving you is

00:32:57.940 it you know you

00:32:58.540 should have just 0.97

00:32:58.900 kept your bloody 1.00

00:32:59.440 head down and 1.00

00:33:00.100 got on with

00:33:00.460 your studies

00:33:01.700 there's one

00:33:03.000 actually if you'll

00:33:03.820 just indulge

00:33:04.660 this anecdote

00:33:05.200 back when I

00:33:06.100 was at

00:33:06.380 university we

00:33:07.400 had an

00:33:08.200 exchange student

00:33:09.080 come to us

00:33:09.780 I won't say

00:33:10.300 from where but

00:33:11.020 we had an

00:33:11.380 exchange student

00:33:12.020 come to us

00:33:12.700 and within two

00:33:14.300 weeks of

00:33:14.820 arriving from

00:33:16.120 a foreign 0.60

00:33:16.520 country they

00:33:17.640 were very proud

00:33:18.480 about the fact

00:33:19.120 that says oh

00:33:19.620 yes I was in

00:33:20.320 London last

00:33:20.920 weekend protesting

00:33:22.520 brexit it's like

00:33:23.980 you've been here

00:33:25.200 two weeks we're

00:33:26.220 having a really

00:33:27.120 delicate really

00:33:27.980 volatile conversation

00:33:29.480 in our country

00:33:30.840 about the future

00:33:32.540 of our country

00:33:33.220 and this random

00:33:34.340 foreigner just 0.97

00:33:35.080 thinks she can get

00:33:36.160 involved with

00:33:36.820 there were

00:33:37.220 absolutely loads

00:33:38.000 of them as well

00:33:38.640 like I remember

00:33:39.340 the brexit

00:33:39.680 protest and you'd

00:33:40.480 see like infuse

00:33:41.300 where it's like

00:33:41.620 I'm Spanish

00:33:42.560 and I'm against

00:33:43.100 brexit it's like

00:33:44.040 I don't care

00:33:44.920 what your opinion

00:33:46.080 on brexit is I

00:33:46.700 mean you're not

00:33:46.980 even eligible to

00:33:47.620 vote in the

00:33:47.960 bloody referendum 1.00

00:33:48.620 so shut up 1.00

00:33:49.560 you know 0.99

00:33:49.960 but because they

00:33:50.680 see themselves as

00:33:51.740 universal citizens

00:33:52.940 they see all

00:33:54.180 struggles all

00:33:54.880 political questions

00:33:55.880 as universal

00:33:56.640 questions that

00:33:57.520 they have a

00:33:58.420 right to an

00:33:59.000 opinion on and

00:33:59.940 not as a

00:34:00.480 national conversation

00:34:01.580 particular to

00:34:02.440 national peoples

00:34:03.360 I can't even

00:34:03.900 imagine going

00:34:04.860 over to another

00:34:05.380 country after a

00:34:06.500 couple of weeks

00:34:06.880 being like yeah

00:34:07.320 I'm gonna get

00:34:07.720 involved

00:34:08.180 not my business

00:34:09.800 I wouldn't dare

00:34:10.760 to yeah I'd

00:34:11.580 feel embarrassed

00:34:12.060 yeah it'd be

00:34:12.760 embarrassing to do

00:34:13.580 that I remember

00:34:14.560 around all during

00:34:15.800 the brexit time I

00:34:16.660 was working in

00:34:17.420 Westminster Pimlico

00:34:18.640 Victoria area right

00:34:19.820 by there and I

00:34:21.040 could walk to

00:34:22.140 parliament square at

00:34:23.400 lunchtime easily

00:34:24.680 and did loads of

00:34:26.080 times loads and

00:34:26.900 loads of times not

00:34:27.600 every single day but

00:34:28.500 multiple times a week

00:34:29.340 and anyway you

00:34:30.080 remember that guy

00:34:30.620 that was just

00:34:31.300 permanently there

00:34:32.640 Steve Ray

00:34:33.380 yeah yeah yeah

00:34:34.600 I spoke to him a

00:34:36.280 number of times and

00:34:37.240 and and yeah most

00:34:39.200 days when there

00:34:39.900 was sort of again

00:34:40.700 that sort of

00:34:41.220 perma protesting

00:34:42.600 going on and

00:34:43.700 you just listen

00:34:44.220 out and it's all

00:34:45.060 foreign languages or

00:34:45.920 at least foreign

00:34:46.420 accents there's a

00:34:47.260 guy that used to

00:34:47.800 wear this big

00:34:48.420 Boris head remember

00:34:50.020 that for a while

00:34:50.920 anyway he'd wear

00:34:52.180 this big fake I

00:34:54.080 don't remember that

00:34:54.580 one no spitting

00:34:55.340 image style Boris

00:34:56.900 head and yeah he

00:34:58.800 was like I can't

00:34:59.560 remember exactly what

00:35:00.300 he was but he

00:35:00.860 wasn't British I

00:35:01.480 think he was like

00:35:01.960 South American or

00:35:02.940 something or

00:35:03.400 Spanish or something 0.53

00:35:04.000 like that in the

00:35:04.920 end it turned out

00:35:06.300 the temerity

00:35:08.900 right of that

00:35:11.080 well absolutely

00:35:12.020 and so the

00:35:13.240 Donald did what

00:35:14.120 he does best

00:35:14.780 rolled up his

00:35:15.540 sleeves and posted

00:35:16.600 on truth because

00:35:17.620 that's so he says

00:35:18.820 why isn't Harvard

00:35:19.940 saying that almost

00:35:20.920 31 it's actually

00:35:22.380 27 but it's fine

00:35:23.820 of their students

00:35:25.280 are from foreign

00:35:26.440 lands and yet

00:35:27.760 those countries

00:35:28.560 some not at all

00:35:29.640 friendly to the

00:35:30.300 United States pay

00:35:31.340 nothing towards

00:35:32.620 their students

00:35:33.160 education nor do

00:35:34.520 they ever intend

00:35:35.220 to nobody told us

00:35:36.680 that we want to

00:35:37.920 know who these

00:35:38.800 foreign students

00:35:39.540 are a reasonable

00:35:40.600 request since we

00:35:41.720 give Harvard

00:35:42.460 billions of

00:35:43.720 dollars but

00:35:44.680 Harvard isn't

00:35:45.400 exactly forthcoming

00:35:46.400 we want those

00:35:47.460 names and

00:35:48.260 countries Harvard

00:35:49.340 has 52 million

00:35:50.780 dollars use it

00:35:52.180 and stop asking

00:35:53.340 for the federal

00:35:53.980 government to

00:35:54.640 continue granting

00:35:55.440 money to you

00:35:56.240 right so Trump's

00:35:57.620 threatening to just

00:35:58.280 turn the taps off

00:35:59.180 yes yes he is

00:36:01.480 I love the use of

00:36:02.840 the term foreign

00:36:03.640 lands it's so

00:36:04.520 perfectly archaic

00:36:05.800 yeah it just comes

00:36:07.160 straight from

00:36:07.900 but yeah it's

00:36:09.420 interesting to know

00:36:10.060 that's a bit

00:36:10.500 different to what

00:36:11.160 goes on in Great

00:36:12.220 Britain because in 0.97

00:36:12.700 Great Britain it's

00:36:13.220 not that foreign 0.99

00:36:13.780 students are

00:36:14.340 subsidized directly

00:36:15.240 by his majesty's

00:36:17.000 treasury it's just

00:36:17.840 that you're charged

00:36:18.560 a lot more

00:36:19.400 yeah they trust

00:36:20.080 as much

00:36:21.220 right so it's

00:36:22.340 that's a whole

00:36:22.760 different dynamic

00:36:23.400 for us

00:36:24.160 that's very

00:36:24.620 interesting

00:36:24.840 it means that

00:36:26.300 it's in the

00:36:27.140 universities interest

00:36:28.960 have as many of

00:36:29.660 them as possible

00:36:30.180 because they make

00:36:30.680 more money

00:36:31.300 but it's not

00:36:32.280 that they're

00:36:33.460 stealing directly

00:36:34.340 out of the

00:36:34.940 treasury

00:36:35.260 I mean the

00:36:37.440 net result is the

00:36:38.160 same as many

00:36:38.700 foreigners as

00:36:39.140 possible

00:36:39.440 yeah it can't

00:36:40.940 just be that the

00:36:41.780 US government

00:36:42.480 funds all of

00:36:43.280 Harvard right

00:36:43.920 they have to

00:36:44.420 have some sort

00:36:45.280 of private

00:36:46.300 income as well

00:36:47.660 yeah they must

00:36:48.400 do

00:36:49.000 sure well sponsors

00:36:50.020 donors all sorts

00:36:51.080 of things but it's

00:36:51.980 the fact that

00:36:52.740 Harvard obviously

00:36:53.620 being one of the

00:36:54.420 oldest and most

00:36:55.240 prestigious universities

00:36:56.460 in America that it

00:36:57.560 has enough money to

00:36:59.000 actually mount

00:37:00.220 legal battles

00:37:01.340 against the

00:37:02.840 White House on

00:37:03.980 these sorts of

00:37:04.740 questions which

00:37:05.560 is not an

00:37:06.380 inconsistency oh

00:37:07.040 sorry I've

00:37:07.440 accidentally well

00:37:08.800 this one here

00:37:09.380 so I've lost

00:37:12.620 that link but oh

00:37:13.780 yes here we are

00:37:14.360 so Harvard foreign 0.99

00:37:15.720 students face

00:37:16.360 uncertainty and

00:37:17.800 essentially what's

00:37:18.860 happened is that

00:37:20.280 the US district

00:37:21.580 judge Allison

00:37:22.720 Burroughs has

00:37:23.920 issued a temporary

00:37:24.960 restraining order

00:37:25.880 and this means that

00:37:27.440 there will be a

00:37:28.040 pause on what

00:37:30.040 the Department of

00:37:30.940 Homeland Security

00:37:31.540 can do and

00:37:32.840 there's set to be

00:37:33.520 a court hearing on

00:37:34.580 the 29th of May

00:37:35.620 yeah so Trump is

00:37:37.000 now also at war

00:37:37.820 with the judiciary

00:37:38.560 yes I mean good

00:37:40.280 he needs to be at

00:37:40.880 war with everyone

00:37:41.420 who's standing in

00:37:42.200 his way but how

00:37:43.620 exactly did the

00:37:44.440 judges find in

00:37:45.220 their authority the

00:37:46.060 ability to just

00:37:46.940 countermand

00:37:48.740 presidential executive

00:37:50.200 orders that's a

00:37:51.420 very good question

00:37:52.440 I thought that the

00:37:53.860 Patriot Act gave

00:37:56.040 gave Homeland Security

00:37:58.400 not exactly

00:37:59.360 carte blanche but

00:38:00.360 they were within

00:38:01.980 reason allowed to

00:38:02.640 do well they were

00:38:03.680 certainly something

00:38:04.700 like this I thought

00:38:05.840 Homeland Security

00:38:06.580 could just do it

00:38:07.520 but moreover I

00:38:08.280 thought judges

00:38:08.780 could only were

00:38:10.520 only the decision

00:38:11.100 makers when cases

00:38:12.060 were brought to

00:38:12.920 them as in you

00:38:14.780 okay well we're

00:38:15.600 going to take this

00:38:16.020 through the courts

00:38:16.540 so a legal case has

00:38:17.500 been brought the

00:38:18.520 judge has to make a

00:38:19.280 ruling on it not

00:38:20.260 just judge wakes up I

00:38:21.540 don't know what

00:38:22.100 Trump's done I

00:38:23.540 incede on that

00:38:24.860 like sorry do you

00:38:26.120 have the authority

00:38:26.660 to do that I don't

00:38:27.300 know how this works

00:38:27.860 but I mean like this

00:38:29.480 surely is a question

00:38:30.300 that needs resolving

00:38:31.000 right but a doc

00:38:33.240 dr Alan Garber the

00:38:34.920 president of Harvard

00:38:36.940 he said that with the

00:38:38.220 stroke of a pen the

00:38:39.360 government has sought

00:38:40.160 to erase a quarter of

00:38:41.580 Harvard student body

00:38:43.120 this but a good thing

00:38:46.280 yes international

00:38:47.740 students who

00:38:48.500 contribute significantly

00:38:50.000 to the university and

00:38:51.640 its mission well just

00:38:53.520 FYI they do pay

00:38:54.800 tuition fees I

00:38:55.620 looked it up although

00:38:57.380 this may well be

00:38:58.340 reduced by government

00:38:59.680 aid so I don't know

00:39:01.820 and they do contribute

00:39:02.760 significantly to the

00:39:04.920 disorder yeah yes

00:39:06.360 yes the mission of

00:39:08.420 more and more DEI and

00:39:10.880 basically just more and

00:39:11.820 more obstruction of

00:39:12.640 just the general things

00:39:13.900 that the American

00:39:14.460 population are

00:39:15.400 interested in seeing

00:39:16.520 come through but

00:39:18.520 obviously we have to

00:39:19.300 ask the question of

00:39:20.120 course well this

00:39:21.300 dr Alan Garber is a

00:39:23.420 president of Harvard

00:39:24.260 University why is he

00:39:25.860 the president oh

00:39:26.580 yes that's right

00:39:27.600 because their most

00:39:28.460 recent president

00:39:29.460 dr Claudine Gay

00:39:31.860 lasted for exactly

00:39:33.180 three months because

00:39:34.280 she was found to just

00:39:35.440 have rampant

00:39:36.560 plagiarism

00:39:37.400 wasn't this Chris

00:39:38.280 Rufo's crusade

00:39:39.380 all yeah yeah yeah

00:39:40.760 superb work

00:39:42.060 yes professional papers

00:39:45.220 from 2001 2017 so it's

00:39:49.180 over a span of two

00:39:50.220 and they also found as

00:39:51.540 well even as far back as

00:39:53.160 when she was studying for

00:39:54.420 her PhD back in the 90s

00:39:57.000 so you know determined

00:39:58.580 never to kick a bad

00:40:00.120 habit as we can see here

00:40:02.200 and fundamentally it comes

00:40:04.160 down to the thing that

00:40:05.300 look if you're ever

00:40:06.380 complicated then just go

00:40:07.560 for what America First

00:40:09.100 Auron has to say

00:40:10.520 which is

00:40:11.160 I love when they use

00:40:12.860 native as a pejorative

00:40:14.100 yes Bill

00:40:14.820 America is for

00:40:15.820 Americans

00:40:16.360 and fundamentally

00:40:17.880 American education

00:40:19.180 should be tailored

00:40:20.600 to

00:40:21.700 American students

00:40:23.440 and not foreign ones

00:40:24.720 yeah I mean

00:40:25.460 literally Bill

00:40:26.620 Crystal's

00:40:27.240 comment here

00:40:28.200 foreigners studying and

00:40:29.120 working here are not

00:40:29.720 damaging to the United

00:40:30.480 States

00:40:30.780 a virulently

00:40:31.800 nativist administration

00:40:34.340 is what's damaging the

00:40:35.220 United States

00:40:35.560 okay but what does the

00:40:37.560 United States mean in

00:40:39.640 this sentence then

00:40:40.760 because if Harvard is

00:40:42.520 being a third of Harvard

00:40:44.200 nearly a quarter of

00:40:45.360 Harvard

00:40:45.580 is populated by non-native 0.53

00:40:47.400 students

00:40:47.920 then they are positions

00:40:49.180 like Harvard is an

00:40:50.380 institution of limited

00:40:51.180 scope

00:40:51.880 there are only so many

00:40:52.900 classrooms

00:40:53.360 there are only so many

00:40:54.200 buildings

00:40:54.560 there's only so much

00:40:55.720 room that students can

00:40:57.900 actually work in

00:40:59.160 then a quarter of those

00:41:00.420 are being used in lieu of

00:41:02.120 Americans occupying those 0.98

00:41:03.600 positions

00:41:04.000 so what does the

00:41:06.620 United States mean

00:41:07.820 if

00:41:08.620 we're talking about

00:41:11.160 like nativism being

00:41:12.260 bad for America

00:41:13.200 the United States must

00:41:14.880 mean some kind of

00:41:15.740 global liberal universal

00:41:17.100 order

00:41:17.600 that is promising

00:41:18.780 something to all

00:41:20.060 all mankind

00:41:20.900 anyway

00:41:22.140 what a perverse

00:41:23.080 subversive couple of

00:41:24.220 statements that is

00:41:25.100 it is totally

00:41:25.920 foreigners studying and

00:41:27.060 working here are not

00:41:27.940 damaging the United States

00:41:29.040 full stop

00:41:29.460 well doesn't it depend

00:41:30.440 what they're doing

00:41:31.120 surely

00:41:32.740 you mean the Chinese

00:41:33.640 spies sending back all

00:41:34.980 of the research that's

00:41:35.860 being done at American

00:41:36.540 universities that's not

00:41:37.400 damaging

00:41:37.660 not going to take into

00:41:38.420 account what they're

00:41:38.960 saying or doing

00:41:39.580 they just

00:41:40.020 what does the United

00:41:41.140 States mean then if

00:41:41.940 that's not damaging it

00:41:42.860 all right you must mean

00:41:43.920 some kind of universal

00:41:44.900 liberal human order

00:41:45.980 I'm so glad you brought

00:41:47.220 up the Chinese spies 0.95

00:41:48.260 by the way Carl

00:41:49.280 because this is

00:41:50.600 again if we talk about

00:41:52.440 the academic

00:41:53.500 independence of Harvard

00:41:55.200 and the mission of

00:41:56.880 Harvard

00:41:57.240 and you know as we say

00:41:58.980 about the fact that

00:41:59.940 as much research as

00:42:01.020 possible to China

00:42:01.720 you know the function

00:42:03.080 is what it does

00:42:04.160 yeah then we have to

00:42:05.620 bear in mind the fact

00:42:06.380 that Republicans led

00:42:07.740 by committee chair

00:42:09.300 John

00:42:10.160 Mughiner 0.67

00:42:12.200 very hard one to

00:42:13.460 pronounce

00:42:13.740 accused Harvard of

00:42:15.700 hosting and training

00:42:16.900 members of a CCP

00:42:18.540 paramilitary

00:42:19.860 organization

00:42:20.700 right so this

00:42:22.500 Jesus Christ

00:42:23.600 I mean there's a

00:42:24.660 commitment to like

00:42:25.400 fostering foreign 0.99

00:42:27.180 terrorists

00:42:27.860 that you you know

00:42:29.080 okay well we're just

00:42:30.340 going to have public

00:42:31.240 support for terrorism

00:42:32.300 right which is legal in

00:42:33.300 Britain obviously 0.83

00:42:33.900 but you know people

00:42:35.080 going out there and

00:42:35.760 saying you know down

00:42:36.460 with Jews up with 0.93

00:42:37.580 Hamas whatever it is 0.70

00:42:38.640 but then there's

00:42:39.660 actively training

00:42:41.140 paramilitary

00:42:42.680 organization

00:42:43.460 foreign country

00:42:44.540 yes

00:42:45.220 well this is to do

00:42:46.920 with the Xinjiang

00:42:48.060 production and

00:42:49.100 constructions corp or

00:42:50.560 the XPCC

00:42:51.920 and the reason why

00:42:53.760 they are designated

00:42:54.820 in such a way

00:42:56.220 and faced sanctions

00:42:57.780 both in Trump's

00:42:59.220 first term and

00:43:00.020 Biden's term

00:43:00.940 oddly enough

00:43:02.040 right so there's

00:43:03.060 some consistency

00:43:04.140 on what these guys

00:43:05.660 stand for

00:43:06.320 is that they

00:43:07.520 had a major part

00:43:08.860 in the

00:43:09.620 logistical

00:43:10.500 question

00:43:12.160 of building

00:43:13.300 the Uyghur 0.92

00:43:14.360 labor camps

00:43:15.140 oh

00:43:15.600 and yet

00:43:17.000 they were

00:43:17.500 just

00:43:18.160 turning up

00:43:19.120 they were

00:43:19.540 invited to

00:43:20.460 host events

00:43:21.440 at Harvard

00:43:22.260 they were

00:43:22.680 part of events

00:43:24.000 you know

00:43:24.680 some years back

00:43:25.640 and that

00:43:26.620 seemed to be all

00:43:27.860 fine and in

00:43:28.680 keeping with

00:43:29.280 American values

00:43:30.280 and the good

00:43:31.240 of the American

00:43:31.880 people

00:43:32.420 so they're

00:43:33.500 anti-Uyghur

00:43:35.220 Chinese

00:43:36.460 I take it

00:43:37.260 well I mean

00:43:37.660 they were

00:43:38.060 doing terrible

00:43:39.560 things

00:43:39.880 just to be clear

00:43:40.540 okay

00:43:40.720 so isn't there

00:43:41.520 any sort of

00:43:42.000 tension between

00:43:42.820 those and the

00:43:44.240 pro-Palestine

00:43:45.180 types

00:43:45.760 did they ever

00:43:47.640 clash with each

00:43:48.220 other

00:43:48.460 I guess not

00:43:49.760 I guess their

00:43:50.240 mutual enemy

00:43:51.040 Uncle Sam

00:43:52.120 comes first

00:43:53.300 and foremost

00:43:53.760 I guess

00:43:54.380 yes

00:43:55.060 well it's

00:43:56.920 it's not about

00:43:57.840 how well

00:43:58.800 the you know

00:44:00.240 their views on

00:44:01.900 particular conflicts

00:44:02.880 gel with one

00:44:03.580 another is it

00:44:04.260 it's more about

00:44:04.900 the fact that

00:44:05.640 America is always 0.73

00:44:06.800 a bad guy 0.91

00:44:07.480 it's completely

00:44:08.160 irrelevant

00:44:08.560 it is literally

00:44:09.340 just anti-American

00:44:10.160 it is

00:44:10.680 it is

00:44:11.880 and so

00:44:12.760 obviously

00:44:13.300 what we've also

00:44:14.740 got here

00:44:15.260 is the fact

00:44:15.800 that off the

00:44:16.480 back of

00:44:17.040 such things

00:44:17.600 as this

00:44:17.960 Trump has

00:44:19.340 threatened

00:44:20.280 to remove

00:44:21.780 the tax

00:44:22.740 exemptions

00:44:23.560 oh really

00:44:24.320 that Harvard

00:44:25.220 has under

00:44:26.620 the from

00:44:27.480 that they were

00:44:27.980 given by the

00:44:28.580 IRS 0.92

00:44:29.080 going back to

00:44:30.640 the 50s

00:44:31.220 I think it was

00:44:32.200 so yeah

00:44:32.600 he's willing

00:44:33.140 to play that

00:44:34.180 card

00:44:34.640 so Trump

00:44:35.100 is playing

00:44:35.400 hardball

00:44:35.880 oh yeah

00:44:36.240 really

00:44:36.760 yeah

00:44:37.060 he's using

00:44:37.480 as much

00:44:37.840 hard power

00:44:38.320 as he can

00:44:38.880 here

00:44:39.480 and I suppose

00:44:40.620 that means

00:44:41.120 that you have

00:44:41.980 to ask yourself

00:44:42.860 with all of

00:44:43.480 these sorts

00:44:44.060 of things

00:44:44.560 you know

00:44:44.860 between

00:44:45.340 potentially

00:44:46.960 losing

00:44:47.700 all of

00:44:48.280 their foreign 0.75

00:44:48.760 students

00:44:49.420 between

00:44:49.880 the fact

00:44:51.160 that they

00:44:51.500 seem to be

00:44:52.040 implicated

00:44:52.640 in Chinese

00:44:53.840 espionage

00:44:54.740 and even

00:44:55.980 worse things

00:44:56.880 that the

00:44:57.180 Chinese could

00:44:57.800 be accused

00:44:58.340 of

00:44:58.620 how could

00:44:59.460 it possibly

00:45:00.080 get any

00:45:01.420 worse

00:45:02.020 for Harvard

00:45:03.040 right

00:45:03.460 you get the

00:45:04.020 feeling like

00:45:04.780 it's one of

00:45:05.840 those things

00:45:06.360 assaults are

00:45:07.640 coming at you

00:45:08.320 from all

00:45:08.840 sides right

00:45:09.480 now 0.89

00:45:09.780 bloody hell 1.00

00:45:10.560 keep your 0.89

00:45:10.980 head down

00:45:11.420 everyone just

00:45:12.040 be on your

00:45:12.460 best behavior

00:45:13.140 do the best

00:45:14.100 you can

00:45:14.560 and please

00:45:15.760 for the

00:45:16.540 love of

00:45:16.940 God

00:45:17.400 let's not

00:45:18.500 have the

00:45:18.920 head of

00:45:19.240 our morgue

00:45:19.980 plead guilty

00:45:20.860 for selling

00:45:21.480 human body

00:45:22.280 parts

00:45:22.800 is this

00:45:23.160 real

00:45:23.460 this is

00:45:23.980 real

00:45:24.380 and not

00:45:26.300 only is it

00:45:26.860 real

00:45:27.120 it's current

00:45:27.940 it's current

00:45:28.880 this is this

00:45:29.920 week

00:45:30.580 so what

00:45:31.880 what

00:45:32.660 so what

00:45:34.460 right

00:45:35.100 well the

00:45:35.760 what is

00:45:36.480 that Cedric

00:45:37.320 Lodge

00:45:37.860 57

00:45:38.660 admitted that

00:45:40.280 he took

00:45:40.840 parts of

00:45:41.720 donated

00:45:42.260 cadavers

00:45:42.900 after they'd

00:45:43.700 been used

00:45:44.100 for research

00:45:44.860 and sold

00:45:46.220 them

00:45:47.100 rather

00:45:47.440 who

00:45:48.000 that's a

00:45:49.340 great question

00:45:49.980 who's buying

00:45:50.360 that

00:45:50.760 so it's not

00:45:51.260 the 18th

00:45:51.800 century where

00:45:52.340 people actually

00:45:52.900 want to do

00:45:53.520 research and

00:45:54.320 they're not

00:45:54.540 allowed to so

00:45:55.220 you go and

00:45:55.760 get bodies

00:45:56.320 illegally

00:45:56.720 i don't think

00:45:57.320 we don't live

00:45:57.740 in that world

00:45:58.200 anymore

00:45:58.480 what no

00:45:59.200 who's buying

00:45:59.900 the severed

00:46:00.520 heads

00:46:00.760 this guy's

00:46:01.300 not emulating

00:46:02.020 da vinci

00:46:02.560 i think this

00:46:03.620 isn't entirely

00:46:04.760 yeah and

00:46:05.840 obviously but

00:46:06.760 totally out

00:46:08.200 of um

00:46:09.260 you know out

00:46:10.080 of the wishes

00:46:10.620 of the people

00:46:11.480 who've donated

00:46:12.200 the organs

00:46:13.020 as well

00:46:13.940 he and his

00:46:14.820 wife sold 0.97

00:46:15.360 the parts

00:46:15.740 to a network

00:46:16.380 of body

00:46:16.880 parts

00:46:17.300 dealers

00:46:17.800 some of

00:46:19.100 those in

00:46:19.400 the network

00:46:19.620 still face

00:46:20.040 challenges

00:46:20.360 more

00:46:20.580 than his

00:46:20.780 own

00:46:20.940 jesus christ

00:46:22.900 there are

00:46:23.140 body part

00:46:23.660 dealers

00:46:24.040 what yeah

00:46:25.020 to what

00:46:25.460 end

00:46:25.920 in massachusetts

00:46:27.180 to what

00:46:28.780 end

00:46:29.000 yeah

00:46:30.040 okay

00:46:31.760 yes

00:46:33.260 wow

00:46:33.700 creepy

00:46:34.260 i yeah

00:46:34.880 i will

00:46:35.380 personally

00:46:35.860 follow

00:46:36.200 developments

00:46:36.780 on this

00:46:37.280 story

00:46:37.820 ladies and 0.98

00:46:38.620 gentlemen

00:46:39.160 out of

00:46:40.120 sheer morbid

00:46:40.960 curiosity

00:46:41.620 but as i

00:46:42.760 say the

00:46:43.140 fact of

00:46:43.500 the matter

00:46:43.760 is that

00:46:44.440 really as

00:46:45.100 well that

00:46:45.600 harvard being

00:46:46.880 uh one

00:46:47.960 obviously the

00:46:48.620 most high

00:46:49.120 profile university

00:46:50.220 in america

00:46:51.200 it's really

00:46:52.440 important that

00:46:53.220 trump wins

00:46:53.920 this fight

00:46:54.520 oh yeah

00:46:55.040 uh it's really

00:46:55.980 important not

00:46:56.980 only because of

00:46:57.900 its symbolic

00:46:58.480 significance but

00:46:59.520 also to set

00:47:00.720 the precedent of

00:47:01.720 what a universe

00:47:02.680 what is actually

00:47:03.740 acceptable on

00:47:05.380 the american

00:47:06.180 university of

00:47:07.120 university campus

00:47:08.700 like say if

00:47:09.800 an if an

00:47:10.320 actual american

00:47:11.100 citizen

00:47:11.700 feels sympathies

00:47:13.720 towards the

00:47:14.200 pro-palestinian

00:47:15.100 cause of course

00:47:16.240 that's your

00:47:17.000 prerogative but

00:47:18.140 to just allow

00:47:19.720 thousands upon

00:47:21.000 thousands of

00:47:22.220 foreign students

00:47:23.200 to come and

00:47:24.280 just meddling

00:47:25.700 your politics

00:47:26.700 in any way

00:47:27.800 also foster a

00:47:29.060 distinctly anti-american

00:47:30.400 sentiment within the

00:47:31.600 university itself

00:47:32.580 it's like sorry this

00:47:33.900 is just not an

00:47:34.580 acceptable thing to

00:47:35.380 do

00:47:35.680 and it seems to

00:47:36.760 me from this

00:47:37.480 segment i'm

00:47:38.100 learning things

00:47:38.760 um not just

00:47:40.280 not just your

00:47:41.200 classic student

00:47:42.460 sort of protest

00:47:43.340 disruption but

00:47:44.060 actually going into

00:47:44.740 sort of the

00:47:45.320 the realm of

00:47:46.140 paramilitary

00:47:46.860 yeah yeah

00:47:47.980 stuff that's

00:47:49.300 what are you

00:47:49.720 doing that's

00:47:50.520 obviously beyond

00:47:51.080 the pale um

00:47:52.140 there's there

00:47:52.940 must come a

00:47:53.540 point really when

00:47:54.640 something has to

00:47:56.400 be done a line

00:47:57.120 in the sand needs

00:47:58.000 to be drawn um

00:47:59.960 stelios was telling

00:48:01.180 me something i

00:48:01.680 didn't know about

00:48:02.200 last week that in

00:48:03.140 greece uh up

00:48:04.780 until fairly

00:48:05.280 recently um

00:48:06.860 they had it i

00:48:08.040 don't think it

00:48:08.380 was actually a

00:48:08.860 law sort of on

00:48:09.540 their statute

00:48:09.980 books but it

00:48:10.440 was just sort

00:48:10.880 of a de rigueur

00:48:12.140 thing that the

00:48:12.800 police would never

00:48:13.620 ever go into

00:48:14.660 onto university

00:48:16.660 campuses uh they

00:48:18.520 would just never do

00:48:19.200 it um i mean greece

00:48:20.940 has got a long

00:48:22.040 history with sort of

00:48:22.880 student protests

00:48:23.540 going back decades

00:48:24.160 and decades and

00:48:24.580 decades but anyway

00:48:25.100 in recent decades

00:48:26.440 that was what was

00:48:27.280 done and so

00:48:28.360 criminals just took

00:48:30.180 it over it was

00:48:30.720 like as if it was

00:48:31.460 a church or

00:48:32.140 something like

00:48:32.520 yeah or if it

00:48:33.500 was like a

00:48:33.860 criminal's embassy

00:48:34.740 yeah or something

00:48:35.580 like that and he

00:48:36.140 said that their

00:48:36.560 actual there'll be

00:48:37.280 like drug dealers

00:48:38.060 would set up on

00:48:39.140 the campus never

00:48:39.700 one knew what was

00:48:40.260 going on and the

00:48:41.360 police until recently

00:48:42.660 again will just

00:48:43.520 never go in there

00:48:44.500 and so they

00:48:45.300 flourished um and

00:48:47.500 apparently that

00:48:48.020 doesn't happen

00:48:48.520 anymore the greeks

00:48:49.360 have sort of come

00:48:49.800 around to it a bit

00:48:50.460 and stomped it out

00:48:51.440 but maybe they're

00:48:52.040 not sacred spaces

00:48:53.280 maybe the police are

00:48:54.520 allowed in to the

00:48:56.040 universities to

00:48:56.680 clear out the

00:48:57.180 criminals a sacred 1.00

00:48:58.160 grove for criminals

00:48:59.260 and subversives but

00:49:00.700 so that's sort of the

00:49:01.740 extreme end of where

00:49:02.620 it goes if you

00:49:03.160 don't if you don't

00:49:04.560 intervene then

00:49:05.840 somewhere like

00:49:06.420 harvard or any

00:49:07.300 any number of

00:49:08.560 universities across

00:49:09.240 america might end

00:49:10.640 up like there's just

00:49:11.200 a sort of a um

00:49:13.140 hive for criminals

00:49:14.980 yes and leftists 0.99

00:49:16.380 yeah well same thing

00:49:18.000 yeah exactly

00:49:18.580 venn diagram um

00:49:20.000 yeah very interesting

00:49:20.880 yes um right

00:49:22.160 okay well let's

00:49:23.540 let's move on

00:49:24.240 what's happening in

00:49:24.880 ukraine

00:49:25.120 can i get the mouse

00:49:25.920 you can yeah

00:49:27.040 um scroll down on

00:49:29.900 my thing there

00:49:30.480 cool

00:49:30.780 okay so um

00:49:33.500 i think we need to

00:49:34.640 talk about ukraine a

00:49:35.700 little bit some

00:49:36.160 their developments

00:49:37.080 over the weekend

00:49:37.880 can i can i be

00:49:38.960 honest i haven't

00:49:39.500 followed this for

00:49:40.080 months so i have no

00:49:41.580 idea what's happening

00:49:42.300 well a broad overview

00:49:44.820 headline is that it

00:49:46.700 seems it's increasingly

00:49:47.680 apparent that the

00:49:49.400 ukrainian side of the

00:49:50.560 leisure leisure um are

00:49:53.020 losing or have lost on

00:49:54.800 the battlefield um that

00:49:57.300 seems to be the case

00:49:58.380 uh so over the weekend

00:50:01.080 basically the kremlin

00:50:03.100 unleashed a bombardment

00:50:06.560 of kiev um quite a big

00:50:09.040 one actually it seems

00:50:10.060 um something hundreds and

00:50:13.520 hundreds of drone

00:50:14.420 missile and drone and

00:50:15.560 missile strikes on the

00:50:17.020 ukraine uh on saturday

00:50:18.820 going into sunday but on

00:50:20.140 saturday night russia fired

00:50:21.580 367 drones and missiles

00:50:23.480 at ukraine it's biggest

00:50:25.780 aerial assault on ukraine

00:50:26.920 since the start of the

00:50:27.860 full-scale invasion in

00:50:28.960 2022 at least 12 people

00:50:30.400 were killed meanwhile

00:50:32.380 russia's defense ministry

00:50:33.680 said it's destroying and

00:50:36.000 intercepting 96 ukrainian

00:50:38.100 drones across 12 regions

00:50:39.960 including moscow overnight

00:50:41.240 so just a bit of an

00:50:43.340 escalation um of the air

00:50:45.640 war

00:50:45.940 ceasefire and there

00:50:46.900 were going to be

00:50:47.180 negotiations

00:50:47.860 well so that's the that's

00:50:50.400 the the next thing to say

00:50:51.700 that a lot of people have

00:50:52.480 pointed out the last

00:50:53.540 segment we just did was a

00:50:54.700 bit of a win for trump

00:50:56.160 and the trump

00:50:56.800 administration and the

00:50:57.780 mega movement this is a

00:50:59.740 bit of a fail sort of

00:51:00.640 undeniably i mean trump

00:51:02.320 said he would end that

00:51:04.500 conflict within 24 hours

00:51:06.200 um i mean uh you know

00:51:08.940 we're all here pro pro

00:51:10.580 trump or at least gunning

00:51:11.520 for mega over the

00:51:12.540 democrats if nothing else

00:51:13.640 obviously there are issues

00:51:15.120 with the mega movement

00:51:16.280 and trump's not a perfect

00:51:17.120 not perfect perfect man but

00:51:18.600 still we go with him over

00:51:20.080 the democrats but

00:51:21.420 unfortunately he didn't

00:51:23.160 stop it in 24 hours did

00:51:24.380 he well let's play the

00:51:26.080 clip of him saying in

00:51:27.300 fact samson can you do

00:51:28.120 it

00:51:28.620 you play it

00:51:38.000 there we go

00:51:44.000 i will prevent and very

00:51:47.340 easily world war three

00:51:49.240 very easily before i even

00:51:52.040 arrive at the oval office i

00:51:53.600 will have the disastrous

00:51:54.900 war between russia and

00:51:56.580 ukraine settled it will be

00:51:58.780 settled quickly

00:51:59.540 quickly i will get the

00:52:04.040 problem solved and i will

00:52:06.600 get it solved in rapid order

00:52:08.500 and it will take me no longer

00:52:10.840 than one day i know exactly

00:52:12.440 what to say to each of them i

00:52:13.580 got along with very well with

00:52:14.940 i will if prevent that was a

00:52:17.920 bit optimistic

00:52:18.580 yeah if you just play the

00:52:21.220 other link real quick the

00:52:22.260 next one

00:52:22.800 um just the first few

00:52:25.460 seconds

00:52:25.760 we're president and i say

00:52:27.420 this i will end that war in

00:52:28.860 one day it'll take 24 hours

00:52:30.480 i know zelinski well

00:52:32.640 that's enough that's enough

00:52:33.800 you get it

00:52:34.280 yeah i would get it

00:52:36.000 this is a promise he made

00:52:37.100 repeatedly he's actually

00:52:38.000 talking to nigel in this 1.00

00:52:39.220 interview

00:52:39.560 oh is he

00:52:39.980 oh right

00:52:40.620 um uh so i mean i'm not

00:52:43.100 gloating about it it's

00:52:44.040 unfortunate it'd be nice if

00:52:45.120 he'd ended it in 24 hours

00:52:46.280 that would have been great

00:52:46.800 so it was a that's a

00:52:48.040 miscalculation

00:52:48.720 it seems well it doesn't

00:52:50.840 say it is the case that

00:52:52.020 this conflict is sort of

00:52:53.520 much deeper much more

00:52:55.080 bitter than many including

00:52:58.060 the donald uh thought um

00:53:01.900 that both sides are

00:53:03.740 politically anyway much more

00:53:05.440 entrenched the ukrainians are 0.78

00:53:07.120 refusing to give in refusing

00:53:09.120 to accept the battlefield

00:53:10.260 reality

00:53:10.820 and the russians or putin

00:53:13.240 uh are just not going to

00:53:14.720 stop

00:53:15.000 the thing is but both sides

00:53:17.140 are basically in a position

00:53:19.140 where one has to be destroyed

00:53:21.260 right

00:53:21.700 so if if putin must be like

00:53:23.640 yeah okay fair enough that

00:53:24.580 was a mistake and we're just

00:53:25.360 going to pull out of

00:53:25.960 everywhere

00:53:26.280 well that's gonna that's

00:53:28.240 gonna have a massive hit to

00:53:29.240 his credibility in russia

00:53:30.500 as in sorry you you know the

00:53:32.580 strong man

00:53:33.260 uh who has

00:53:35.860 the claim to have guided russia

00:53:38.000 well since the end of the

00:53:39.280 cold war well that was a

00:53:40.620 huge mistake got hundreds of

00:53:42.520 thousands of people killed

00:53:43.500 god knows how much money

00:53:44.380 wasted and ruins russian uh

00:53:46.700 ruins russians credibility on

00:53:48.420 the world stage whereas for

00:53:49.660 zelinski i mean this is going

00:53:51.160 to get him giving away like a

00:53:52.740 fifth of the country

00:53:53.580 is again a political death

00:53:56.480 sentence if not an actual death

00:53:58.260 sentence for him so he's got

00:54:01.280 nowhere to go either he can't

00:54:02.840 concede anything

00:54:03.600 and for the time being we

00:54:05.440 still at least seem to be on

00:54:06.620 the page where

00:54:07.400 all of the european countries

00:54:09.360 are still giving unconditional

00:54:11.060 backing to ukraine so as long

00:54:12.740 as he has

00:54:13.280 that support and some allies

00:54:15.400 still funding him even if

00:54:17.300 trump has you know gone cold

00:54:19.160 on the question of ukraine then

00:54:21.160 that's at least something for him

00:54:23.560 to carry on with some means for

00:54:25.260 him to continue

00:54:26.000 a lot of the european countries

00:54:27.640 are still off the line um as

00:54:29.720 long as it takes yes don't worry

00:54:31.540 about how many ukrainians die

00:54:32.900 or how impoverished we become

00:54:35.220 doing it yeah yeah uh i mean

00:54:37.980 you said you didn't say

00:54:39.180 anything incorrect at all there

00:54:40.320 i completely agree with all

00:54:41.200 your analysis other than the

00:54:42.380 one thing we say zelinski gave 0.98

00:54:43.900 away a fifth it was taken from

00:54:45.720 him well yeah but you know i'm

00:54:46.940 not to concede it is right

00:54:48.600 will be seen for him to be

00:54:49.540 giving it away

00:54:50.260 but he's got no choice yeah it's

00:54:53.120 happened it's a fate of

00:54:54.260 complete yeah um so okay it

00:54:57.020 just seems that um again that

00:54:59.900 sort of the military purely strictly

00:55:01.400 military side of it uh all the

00:55:03.560 all the momentum really is with

00:55:05.060 russia yeah um i don't know if

00:55:07.760 ukraine are exactly exhausted

00:55:09.180 war weariness is an element in it

00:55:11.740 um but they just they haven't got

00:55:13.620 a reply i said this before when i've

00:55:15.720 talked i've talked about ukraine

00:55:16.680 quite a lot probably more than any

00:55:17.940 other individual lotus seat has

00:55:19.580 done more segments on it uh but it

00:55:21.560 seems to it was clear at least a

00:55:24.140 year ago or arguably right from the

00:55:25.720 outset um that it was not going to

00:55:28.520 be possible for the ukrainians to

00:55:30.580 to win or if they were they would

00:55:32.700 have needed extraordinary

00:55:34.020 extraordinary wins against the

00:55:36.780 odds and that didn't happen for

00:55:39.160 them i think two summers ago there

00:55:41.120 was a big there's going to be a big

00:55:42.360 sort of spring offensive yeah um it

00:55:45.080 came to nothing it bogged down and

00:55:46.400 came to nothing there's a big push in

00:55:48.240 the kursk region it came to nothing

00:55:50.980 um so that that's sort of it yeah

00:55:54.620 they've shot their bolt and it didn't

00:55:56.380 work because the the problem with

00:55:57.900 modern warfare generally is it's just

00:55:59.520 a game of numbers at this point

00:56:00.880 especially if you've got and material

00:56:02.560 and material yeah yeah it's all about

00:56:04.300 numbers and if you've got one side

00:56:07.740 whose entire strategy is attrition

00:56:09.620 well good luck yeah um so where there

00:56:15.240 was this sort of escalation in the air

00:56:17.260 war over the weekend um trump was

00:56:20.640 calling it crazy that putin's gone

00:56:22.420 unquote absolutely crazy um but there

00:56:26.680 is the idea that once the momentum's

00:56:29.320 with you it's like being chip leader

00:56:30.480 in a game of a game of cards you bully

00:56:32.380 everyone else in order to win the game

00:56:35.140 overall and that happens in war lots

00:56:37.440 if you look at wars um and you look at

00:56:40.220 the casualty figures often it's the case

00:56:42.680 both world war one and world war two that

00:56:44.700 right at the end there's a massive uptick

00:56:47.520 in casualties because one side smells

00:56:50.560 blood and realizes this is our

00:56:52.420 opportunity to really crush the enemy

00:56:55.320 now um and force them to up the peace

00:56:59.200 table maybe that's what's going on here

00:57:02.380 maybe that's the calculation that's

00:57:03.660 gone on in kremlin and in putin's head

00:57:05.260 i don't know uh but that would make

00:57:07.840 sense um it's easy for me to sit here

00:57:11.460 and say this when there's completely

00:57:13.000 innocent civilians getting killed in uh

00:57:15.520 in kiev but i mean that there you go

00:57:18.640 uh but trump called it

00:57:20.340 is calling putin crazy

00:57:23.860 um i mean this is what he said i've

00:57:27.320 always had a very good relationship

00:57:28.460 with vladimir putin of russia

00:57:30.220 uh but something has happened to him

00:57:32.100 he's gone absolutely crazy

00:57:33.680 exclamation mark um he's needlessly

00:57:37.680 killing a lot of people and i'm not

00:57:39.620 and i'm not just talking about soldiers

00:57:41.540 missiles and drones are being shot into

00:57:43.240 cities in ukraine for no reason

00:57:44.540 whatsoever well it's not for no reason

00:57:46.980 whatsoever well yes i mean it's not

00:57:48.600 nice i don't agree there i'm not

00:57:49.780 justifying it but it's not for no

00:57:51.520 reason whatsoever um i've always said

00:57:53.720 that uh he wants all of ukraine i don't

00:57:57.220 i've never i've never bought that line

00:57:59.140 yeah um but okay there we go uh not

00:58:01.980 just a piece of it uh and maybe that's

00:58:04.020 proving to be right but if he does it

00:58:06.560 will lead to the downfall of russia 0.99

00:58:07.820 will it what you're going to nuke

00:58:09.780 moscow yeah well what are we saying

00:58:11.500 is it yeah is it uh likewise president

00:58:14.280 zelinski is doing his country no favours 0.99

00:58:16.620 by talking the way he does um everything

00:58:18.640 out of his mouth causes problems i don't

00:58:20.780 like it and it better stop well you've done

00:58:25.480 that you've tried that and he's not

00:58:27.060 stopping at this point gave him a dressing

00:58:28.740 down in the oval office on camera and he

00:58:31.360 hasn't the entire world so you don't like

00:58:34.360 it it better stop it sounds redundant now

00:58:36.520 that sounds yeah if you don't empty yeah

00:58:39.380 now i'm afraid i wish it weren't i wish

00:58:42.660 he could just wag his finger at both

00:58:43.980 parties and they just stopped immediately

00:58:45.340 that would be great but it's not

00:58:47.200 happening yeah i remember going back

00:58:49.380 years people tried to wag their finger

00:58:51.740 at putin i remember when um david

00:58:54.220 miliband was foreign secretary saying

00:58:56.300 mr putin better not subvert his

00:58:58.760 democracy anymore and and run for

00:59:00.460 president for like the fourth time

00:59:01.580 wherever it was like naughty boy

00:59:03.700 he didn't putin doesn't get and putin

00:59:06.000 was like yeah yeah sure dave yeah sure

00:59:10.160 sure the foreign and commonwealth office

00:59:12.720 didn't even think about it no right yeah

00:59:14.800 who are you uh trump continues saying

00:59:17.140 this is a war wouldn't that would never

00:59:19.240 have started if i were president yeah

00:59:21.360 but we're too far gone on yeah but it

00:59:22.840 has yeah yeah yeah but it has um this is

00:59:26.600 zelinski uh this is zelinski's putin's

00:59:29.840 and biden's war not trump's i mean yeah

00:59:32.120 true but you're the president yeah you

00:59:34.680 know you've got to deal with the issue

00:59:35.760 i'm only helping to put out uh the big

00:59:38.940 and ugly fires that have been started

00:59:40.940 through gross incompetence and hatred

00:59:43.380 um but the thing is the fires don't even

00:59:46.140 seem to be dwindling do they yeah well

00:59:50.600 that's the next thing so lots of lots of

00:59:52.580 drone stuff's going on i did segment the

00:59:54.980 other week talking about that sort of the

00:59:56.440 future of war what it might be and um

00:59:58.240 unsurprisingly it's drones drone stuff

01:00:00.320 because everyone's seen those sort of

01:00:02.020 like quadcopter style drones but there

01:00:04.640 are in fact loads of different types

01:00:06.800 most military drone drones are not like

01:00:09.040 that in fact you have much heavier bigger

01:00:11.180 airplanes that drop missiles and we've

01:00:13.260 been using them over like iraq and

01:00:14.700 wherever for decades now yeah yeah you

01:00:17.040 can describe ones that are like those

01:00:18.700 predator drones yeah where it's like a

01:00:20.600 small airplane really there's a picture

01:00:22.540 here of one yeah actually with its rail

01:00:24.560 it actually puts me in mind of a v1

01:00:26.600 you've seen the nazi v1 rockets not

01:00:30.580 from memory oh i can't think the do

01:00:32.600 the doodle bugs no people out there will

01:00:35.220 know what i'm talking about i don't know

01:00:36.760 i'm afraid the v1 doodle bug check it

01:00:38.600 out um vengeance weapon one um this puts

01:00:42.800 me in mind of sort of a 21st century

01:00:44.600 version of that i see it um obviously

01:00:47.340 much much more sophisticated um the v1

01:00:51.020 they just flew a rough trajectory into

01:00:52.940 the fuel run out and it just fell

01:00:54.580 wherever it fell but this is something

01:00:55.900 but so yeah drone and anti-drone

01:00:58.460 warfare seems to be the thing now um

01:01:02.400 people have must have seen lots and

01:01:10.420 lots of versions of this type of

01:01:11.980 footage

01:01:12.460 um i i genuinely hate this kind of

01:01:16.500 warfare as well

01:01:17.240 this is really impersonal isn't it it's

01:01:19.640 awful

01:01:20.120 absolutely awful

01:01:21.220 there's a drone right above us um i feel

01:01:23.920 like this is a lot of what will happen is

01:01:25.600 uh guys trying to shoot drones out of

01:01:27.840 the air

01:01:28.200 yeah it's like you say it's so

01:01:31.180 impersonal it's like it's one thing being

01:01:32.600 blown up by a rocket or something but it's

01:01:34.760 like no this thing is now tracking you and

01:01:37.100 it's just can try and blow you up

01:01:39.540 completely merciless

01:01:41.480 and uh this one doesn't even look like a

01:01:44.800 really really fast one

01:01:45.920 no it's like one of those quad

01:01:48.100 quad ones

01:01:49.500 anyway they happen to get it

01:01:51.800 yeah they happen to get that one

01:01:56.740 yeah um but yeah there's some different

01:02:00.300 images of all different much much more

01:02:01.840 sophisticated ones

01:02:02.880 um would you say that russia and ukraine are

01:02:07.180 now the two most advanced countries when it comes to drone development 0.97

01:02:10.760 absolutely the americans sent switchblades turned out to be total junk

01:02:15.560 if we're talking about what actually worked from the west in this war

01:02:20.160 it's starlink

01:02:21.320 if you take starlink away from ukraine their naval drones are done

01:02:27.060 the chinese have their own version of a heavy drone 1.00

01:02:30.860 the problem with chinese weapons is they build everything like it's a toy 1.00

01:02:35.980 early in the war most injuries and deaths came from artillery now it seems

01:02:40.420 like 70 of casualties are from drones

01:02:42.740 when it comes to protecting foot soldiers the only real defense is to run fast

01:02:47.360 backpack jammers are useless

01:02:49.520 is there any countermeasure against fiber optic drones

01:02:53.360 nope ukrainian vehicles roll up and the drone launches just 15 meters away

01:02:57.620 those ukrainian drivers don't stand a chance 0.98

01:02:59.660 that was pure hell for the ukraine 0.76

01:03:02.040 okay so

01:03:03.480 so this is sort of what's going on i was

01:03:07.120 if those numbers are correct i don't know if they are or not

01:03:10.500 so i'm not sure on the ground

01:03:11.860 but if it's uh the drone drone casualties have overtaken artillery casualties

01:03:16.700 that's that's truly remarkable that the counter drone technology like jammers and things

01:03:22.100 are sort of losing

01:03:24.000 in that in that

01:03:26.000 because you would think that it would be very easy to have some kind of jamming technology that would just interfere with the signal or something like that render the drone useless you think that'd be a really easy defense

01:03:37.440 i don't know you know i don't know but apparently not

01:03:40.860 christ um i'm sure that countries will put um

01:03:44.320 money and time and resources into oh yeah research and development into anti-drone measures

01:03:49.140 yeah they've got to um quite often when you're often a few times on twitter and things i've talked about drones

01:03:54.620 um people say oh you just all you need is an emp device and they fall out of the air

01:03:59.760 that's all i need is you can build your own emp device at home for 30 dollars it's like can you

01:04:04.400 um yeah is that going to be battlefield effective most of the time is it um

01:04:09.460 well at the moment again if you believe that and and other videos and accounts i've seen and read

01:04:15.920 um say that yeah the the anti-drone side of the ledger is falling behind um significantly um

01:04:24.180 it's very science fiction isn't it i mean like there there was a there was a movie back in the 90s

01:04:29.720 where humanity is fighting like a robot uprising they have like buzzsaw drones that go along the uh

01:04:35.580 the ground or go into the ground and then you know kill people it's just horrific and we're arriving in that sort of stage

01:04:42.020 so impersonal yeah i just i i feel like the future might be both sides drones fight each other

01:04:52.800 long before the actual men do yeah um they just become redundant or pointless to send any men

01:05:00.040 into a battlefield area because the drones will dominate them so easily and so quickly then it's 0.67

01:05:06.540 just manufacturing capacity as to who wins the war so it's just a drone on drone thing and taking out

01:05:11.400 your enemy's ability to manufacture drones yeah yeah maybe welcome to the future yeah um okay so back

01:05:19.360 to back to sort of the politics side of it um even the mainstream media sort of admitting that uh

01:05:25.580 that russia are confident again purely in military terms that uh all the sort of momentum is kind of

01:05:33.440 with them um here's one about ukraine's quote chaotic withdrawal from from russia saying the article

01:05:42.560 goes on to say that uh ukrainian forces used to even in on a small scale relatively small scale bounce

01:05:48.700 across the russian border not with impunity but here and there where they could and they're not really

01:05:52.820 doing that anymore in fact they're sort of on entirely on the back foot or nearly entirely on the back

01:05:58.360 foot um so there's that um yeah even like the bbc saying is at the beginning of the end um are we

01:06:06.320 there at what point is zelensky completely painted into a corner yeah i mean completely at some point

01:06:13.740 there'll just be no options left it'll be i don't want to compare him to hitler obviously but like

01:06:18.240 you know where i i watched a video about downfall the other day was it the history buffs one it was

01:06:24.320 yeah yeah yeah um but the the the point is going to be the same though uh obviously they're not the

01:06:30.480 same people but like the point is the same where it's just like okay what can we do but there's

01:06:33.460 nothing we can do you know at some point the red army is going to be arriving in berlin at some point

01:06:37.640 the russian army is going to be arriving in kiev and we just don't have any men or munitions to fight

01:06:41.980 them with so it's over i mean yeah very interesting i don't know if the if the russian army will

01:06:48.740 actually go to kiev because this is a classic example of a limited war right it's not total war

01:06:56.620 sure putin could nuke kiev if he could nuke carpet nuke all of ukraine if he wanted to this is a

01:07:02.600 limited war um i don't i don't think his war aims are to storm kiev uh i don't i don't think he does

01:07:12.540 want to take the whole thing uh i mean showing no signs that there was right at the beginning of the

01:07:17.580 war they put armor as though it were going to kiev yeah it was a really aggressive attempt to

01:07:22.680 surround the capital yeah some say that was a feint that was a tactical thing that that was a feint to

01:07:29.380 take uh ukrainian material away from the east of the country um there's another time more in the

01:07:36.360 middle of the war where they did a similar thing it looked like they were going to kiev but it might

01:07:40.240 have been a shimmy it might have been a feint uh well it was um so anyway here's an interest i think

01:07:45.880 quite an interesting uh web page where they show us a few different maps um one of them i think's

01:07:54.720 quite interesting is this one uh we're around in the kursk region where even last summer we were

01:08:05.280 we were told all about sort of the ukrainian push towards kursk or certainly across the border into

01:08:12.220 russia proper and that now um it it just utterly failed it just utterly failed russia taking it

01:08:19.600 all back um so it seems like and i could be wrong i don't know all the details and the secrets of

01:08:26.660 ukrainian military tactics and strategy but it looks like that they're they're kind of done

01:08:32.180 on the battlefield well the surely the only thing that would actually change this calculus

01:08:40.320 in any conceivable way would be european boots on the ground or you know just other countries

01:08:46.900 british troops french troops whoever it may be aren't there thousands of european troops in ukraine

01:08:52.220 at the moment as well uh well not i don't believe that they're fighting well well okay that's an

01:08:57.020 interesting question um and there's also special operations people where

01:09:03.340 the reality is that countries like britain and the united states wherever there's a hot spot where

01:09:09.780 there's even remotely our interests are involved there will be covert special special forces dudes

01:09:17.320 no doubt i mean like technically the sas is supposed to be completely secret right technically

01:09:24.240 that is what it's supposed to be um but you it gets out people know um so yeah there will be

01:09:31.400 western or european soldiers of whatever ilk um in and around there uh so yeah i just don't know how long

01:09:40.760 zelensky and the political side of it can keep going and if putin just keeps ramping up the pressure

01:09:50.500 uh how long can they how long can they take it um that's what's being you know trump saying he's 0.91

01:09:59.980 crazy he's crazy i don't like it stop doing it and putin's just ignoring it the kremlin just 0.71

01:10:04.380 completely ignoring it yeah if you if you cut the signal out of the noise you see that russia has just 0.64

01:10:09.840 advanced on every front and is winning victory after victory right like they're consolidating the

01:10:15.220 things they've taken and there doesn't seem to be a lot the ukrainians can do about it right

01:10:19.600 i mean look at this set of maps it just it tells the story yeah so from 2022 to now it just tells

01:10:25.660 the whole story really the ability for the ukrainians to push the russians out of anywhere 0.98

01:10:29.900 has failed it's this old thing from from sun tzu to von klauswitz don't start a fight you can't win

01:10:38.600 or you're almost certainly not going to win even if the odds if the odds are anything less than 75

01:10:43.340 percent you likely to win it's best not to do it yeah like it's me starting a fight with john jones

01:10:48.840 it's not a good idea it's not a good idea i mean sun tzu the end result of it is i get beaten up

01:10:54.120 sun tzu would argue that the the best battle is the one you don't have to fight right yeah your

01:10:58.640 objective so right and we tried the thing of giving them fantastic amounts of money lots and lots of

01:11:05.540 material crazy amounts really that all that has all now failed so and even trump throwing his oar in

01:11:14.760 politically isn't doing anything trump thought he was going to leverage his leverage his relationships

01:11:19.920 with them uh which didn't go anywhere so all the cards are really with the ukrainians or zelensky

01:11:25.480 to come to the peace table now it seems well they had um uh the other week didn't they there was uh

01:11:31.740 two delegations that met in istanbul with one another but all they actually agreed on was just an

01:11:37.080 exchange of prisoners of war they couldn't get any further than that as regards to winding down the

01:11:42.460 actual conflict because at some point they will just have to come to terms with the fact that

01:11:47.660 they've lost it puts me in mind of the the german surrender in world war one yeah but the last thing

01:11:54.780 they want to do is it's so much so embarrassing humiliating to have to give in but it's that or you

01:12:02.980 or you lose all your men right it's that or you are truly crushed world war two style where they

01:12:10.240 where we do have to come all the way to your capital and end you sort of carthaginian style

01:12:16.020 um are you going to go there is zelensky going to play his political hand to the point where

01:12:22.760 putin's got no option but to do thunder runs through the middle of kiev is that where he's going to take

01:12:29.180 it i hope not uh so one other thing that one other development for the ukrainian update is that um

01:12:35.920 putin took a trip to the front or near the front the region on the on the border yeah and um the

01:12:43.180 ukrainians tried to take out his helicopter uh i'm like lads i'm surprised both sides haven't tried

01:12:50.460 to assassinate their leader more yeah again this is a limited war this is a limited war i'm surprised

01:12:57.180 the russians haven't tried to smart bomb zelensky before now um yeah i'm surprised because both sides

01:13:04.960 are doing it a bit but the ukrainians are also assassinating generals and things in moscow yeah

01:13:09.560 i'm surprised they haven't tried something more aggressive against putin's uh actual physical body

01:13:18.360 but um he went to the front and um they tried to take out his his helicopter and various various

01:13:23.960 outlets reporting on that so i'm saying that his helicopter was able to sort of thwart the drone strike

01:13:30.220 um uh there you go it fended off a drone attack um but okay so they're sort of the updates

01:13:40.220 from the weekend and uh it's just it's just a sad story i mean it was always sad from the beginning

01:13:45.360 um but it feels like to me that zelensky is running out of options quite quickly yeah and if the russians

01:13:55.680 play their hand ruthlessly which is kind of what they do best it's what i expect them to do um then

01:14:02.280 uh he's going to be truly painted into a corner if if not already um okay so there's that matt says

01:14:09.640 could trump have expected when he said he was going to end the war that the european allies would have

01:14:13.500 undermined his request for peace well if trump had been more diplomatic with his european allies to

01:14:19.440 begin with and maybe he could have brought them along but the problem is trump uh did the diplomacy

01:14:25.040 after attacking them and putting them in their place which okay i mean don't get me wrong i enjoyed

01:14:31.420 watching the europeans getting humbled as well uh but tactically i think that was the wrong move

01:14:37.140 trump should have been shoring up his alliance making them essentially completely dependent on him

01:14:41.200 and then judo flipping the table saying right so this is what we're doing now and they would have

01:14:46.160 committed and but i've spoken about it before but you said this about with the canada question

01:14:50.060 and all sorts of things i think you're absolutely right it's just the 2024 maga administration was

01:14:56.660 don't be like we're going to annex canada and then rely on canada for things that's not

01:15:01.320 their headspace was simply we don't need anyone else to tell us what to do ever on any level what we say

01:15:07.960 goes we are the boss of the world we're the hegemon of the world uh we don't need coalitions

01:15:12.620 what we say goes and yet on a couple of different fronts that hasn't worked it has worked on a i

01:15:18.920 think it has worked on a number on some but on others this particular one it hasn't uh the engaged

01:15:26.000 few says it might not be so ruinous for putin as he could blame the loss on western interference

01:15:30.100 uh i hope he can do that because i think putin is standing in the way of even worse russian leaders

01:15:34.520 uh to be honest with you that's probably true possible uh the one i i was at a sort of meeting a

01:15:41.600 while ago speaking to a bunch of conservatives i was like look it is like putin is not unrepresentative

01:15:47.840 of russia like putin is like thematically like uh the sort of leader i'd expect russia to produce

01:15:55.060 at its best like at its worst you could have a way worse leader in russia who understands the

01:16:01.100 situation far less than what we've got you'd have a starling figure true mania yeah yeah someone who's

01:16:06.760 actually mental uh in charge someone who would have used the nukes maybe like you know someone who

01:16:13.620 wasn't capable of laying up because putin has spent a long time planning for this and shored up his uh

01:16:20.620 position in the right ways and things like this and so the the western sanctions didn't crush russia

01:16:25.520 didn't in fact hurt ourselves and things like this so the the point being there could definitely be a

01:16:30.580 leader in russia than putin um the engaged few says microwave-based weapons are likely the most

01:16:36.020 effective anti-drone countermeasure interesting i don't know anything about that so uh oph uk says

01:16:42.420 american drones cost 10 million a piece russian drones put together with plywood duct tape and

01:16:46.280 alcoholism yeah that's another thing but the the americans have got a lot more money to spend than

01:16:50.540 russia so um and the american drones are probably more effective i imagine the russian drones are just

01:16:56.480 one-shot drones whereas american drones can find missiles and then return again it um just i said

01:17:02.200 in the segment there's drones and there's drones there's like the super high-tech sort of uh reaper

01:17:06.900 drones uh and then there's those little quad things chasing down an individual uh pickup some are super

01:17:15.480 high-tech and really advanced and some aren't yeah there's heavy drones yeah there's all sorts of things

01:17:20.680 the habsification says you have to sell c and dural they're an american defense company that only

01:17:25.640 develop and use autonomous drone war devices well i hate the name uh why oh that's the name of

01:17:32.060 aragon sword yeah i was gonna say why do you well well because it's like it's a sword of a king it's a

01:17:37.320 well sure and it's like drone what again to go back to that impersonal thing it's yeah yeah but the i

01:17:44.080 mean the thing is eventually it's going to be ai dominated drone warfare because the nature of the

01:17:49.880 war will require sort of 24 7 administration of the drones right so you're going to have just ais

01:17:56.360 commanding fleets of drones and you'll get a report oh we've lost this one oh have we okay well there

01:18:02.020 we go we've lost this war the ai has told us this war is over and therefore that's going to be what

01:18:07.540 war is going to become it'd be funny you realize you've lost the war when you're your drone app

01:18:11.920 there's a pop-up on your drone app saying you're lost notification comes through it's going to be

01:18:17.200 like you know a game a paradox game where he's looking as oh yeah you've lost you know three

01:18:21.520 provinces and the enemy has gained three provinces and your war indemnity is x amount and this is

01:18:28.220 just what you have to pay now so this is being garnished from your wages oh brilliant you know

01:18:33.220 just brilliant anyway uh lotha says i wonder if donald will continue consider starting a reverse

01:18:39.280 cuban missile crisis and sticking a few hundred nukes in poland in the baltic states would putin

01:18:43.880 sit down for that or embrace escalation i have no idea man like like i i really don't like making

01:18:50.260 predictions in such uncertain times um and oph uk says the usa doesn't need coalitions they just need

01:18:57.120 the germans and russians not to form a coalition well the thing is they kind of do and that's the

01:19:02.040 problem with like europe's support for ukraine in the face of america's desire to in the war

01:19:06.020 but if zielinski had all of his resources essentially pulled from the west he would have

01:19:11.160 no choice and he would have to sit down which is what trump obviously wanted i just think he went

01:19:15.240 about it in the wrong way i feel like um yeah the us doesn't need coalitions well not in order to

01:19:20.660 defend its own skies and its own coastline but yeah to do something by proxy in central europe it does

01:19:27.500 need coalitions even at the height of the british empire we still had other foreign allies we still

01:19:32.240 needed you know coalitions or i mean think about taking on napoleon well just every every time

01:19:37.940 britain's engaged in a major war in europe we had a coalition yes i mean was it like the eight

01:19:42.580 coalitions or something fighting napoleon all right yeah you know it's like literally they call them the

01:19:46.520 war of the fifth coalition or whatever you know so it's like the idea that coalitions aren't

01:19:51.220 essentially uh needed it's kind of bizarre unless you want to go full crazy like the u.s could

01:19:58.760 drop paratroops or send in the entire marine corps or something anywhere it wanted okay it could do

01:20:04.760 that right and in in that sense it doesn't need a coalition okay sure but like it could send a giant

01:20:12.040 fleet anywhere in the world in any sea it wants if it wants to go there but if you don't want to do

01:20:18.480 that or you're not prepared to do that then you then you need a coalition right let's go to the video

01:20:23.180 comments hey i was just thinking about the guy who blew up that fertility clinic and i was reminded

01:20:31.020 of a time i was trying to sell one of my books to a lady at a show a couple of years ago and i said

01:20:37.640 that the main character by the end of the story she decides she wants to get married and have kids

01:20:42.820 and the lady turned around and said oh she'll change her mind once she has kids 1.00

01:20:47.620 and she was surrounded by her own children who were younger than 10

01:20:51.460 that's not nice jesus i've got a little update for coop oh yeah um i did a fair about a fair amount

01:21:00.880 of uh writing this weekend oh well done on my novel because he always asked me right he said he'll

01:21:05.600 help me get published if and when i finish when i finish my novel um still a long way off letting

01:21:12.540 anyone see it but i did a fair amount of writing this weekend so um well that's tremendous still get

01:21:16.940 i will get there one day you do at least a page a day and then you'll get i know it's the little

01:21:22.200 and often yeah um that's easier said than done or you just turn out crap gotta commit nine but i've

01:21:29.280 tried that before and then you look back at it and nine tenths of it is crap and unusable so is that

01:21:33.920 i'm the best way of doing it i'm absolutely sure that yours will come out before george r r martin's does

01:21:39.320 let's go to the next one

01:21:41.580 where the rock has climbed or woodless swing

01:21:51.320 our broken brothers set us free

01:22:01.700 through the mansions of the lord

01:22:10.700 i don't know who that was it's memorial day in america right okay that explains it uh let's go to the next one

01:22:20.960 the funny thing about kirstarmer's hard right turn is that no one buys it yeah no literally has done

01:22:41.220 nothing for him in the polls other than people to the left of him that are using it as ammo against him

01:22:45.900 yeah exactly it's completely served no one yeah so well can you imagine the strategy meeting after

01:22:52.520 those local elections like literally the next morning you need to get really racist yeah is that

01:22:57.420 gonna work i don't know but we've got nowhere else to go someone floats it should we quote enoch pal

01:23:02.080 and and and and starmer's like i like the cut of your jib we're doing it oh i've not been

01:23:10.140 ratioed for the first time in three years this is great i'll keep going yeah but the thing is

01:23:14.600 it's just everyone knows that it's bs yeah everyone knows so he's transparent yeah you don't believe

01:23:20.400 this kit we know you don't now let's go to the next one nothing beats a jet two holiday and right

01:23:27.880 now you can save 50 pounds per person that's 200 pounds off for a family of four

01:23:33.520 we've got millions of free child place holidays available with 22 kilograms of baggage included

01:23:42.620 so bad it's so bad for any foreign people watching that the audio to that is an advert

01:23:50.640 that's constantly on tv right anyone in britain would would get that the holiday advert for our

01:23:56.520 city of culture i'll just say it about zesty king real quick um a big fan of the show oh shout out to

01:24:03.240 zesty king he sent in a bunch of material about uh some institutions um museums and things going

01:24:10.860 super woke thank you for that really appreciate it um at some point soon uh i will probably

01:24:17.600 certainly do a segment on that but i appreciate the work that went into that very much so hopefully

01:24:21.920 zesty king sees me say that thank you very much uh alex says uh there's something baked in socialism

01:24:27.340 he replies bow socialism is the underlying ideology communism fascism national socialism etc

01:24:32.680 or manifestations of socialism they all resort to the same methods because they want the same thing

01:24:36.520 they only differ in who is going to have power um probably true yeah i was gonna say broadly yeah

01:24:43.400 that's true it's a little bit a little bit of a low resolution but nonetheless i fundamentally don't

01:24:48.680 disagree with that um yeah no i agree uh matthew says are democrats finally seeing the anti-file types

01:24:54.260 are not popular and supplicating them um well that's the question isn't it like you know who knows i think

01:25:01.220 that they just realize the political environment has changed uh there isn't going to be a sort of

01:25:05.300 permissive government uh or the the trump administration has at least shown it's prepared

01:25:10.960 to do things right and so i think back in 2017 2018 they're like well trump's not going to do

01:25:17.920 anything because he's at war with literally all of the institutions and even if he does he'll be out

01:25:22.900 in two years and he'll never be back again exactly i wonder what the details are the real drill down

01:25:29.040 into the fine detail of what happened at seattle whether they were attacking police because quite often

01:25:33.860 the police right that'll so that's a big thing there's one thing letting antifa attack a few

01:25:39.040 patriots or a few christians but when they attack the police yeah i know yeah and they just let it

01:25:43.540 happen to them yeah yeah on this day in history they decided no i'm not having that which is good

01:25:48.700 to see right uh arizona desert rat says call them what they are kyle uh spoiled entitled entitled

01:25:54.520 children it's genic children yeah that is true they are also that as well um uh korak says the only thing

01:26:01.540 in recent history that has not been called fascist is actual fascism uh it's a good point actually you

01:26:06.560 know they never actually talk about actual fascism do they is there much actual fascism i don't see a

01:26:12.940 lot of it i mean but the thing is like get the odd larper yeah like the a true fascist state what

01:26:18.900 was that what was the guy where he's literally dressed in red like satan and he's parading around

01:26:24.480 like he's a theater kid in front of a bunch of national socialists in america i can't remember the name of

01:26:29.240 them uh but the left had nothing to say about them and he's literally yelling yes i'm a nazi by the

01:26:34.700 way i'm a nazi we've got a bunch of nazi flags and like that's been tripped yeah it probably is but

01:26:39.360 like but the point is the left had nothing to say about that guy dressed in red like he's satan

01:26:43.700 himself yeah uh but it's like oh yeah the christians have come out and like don't trans

01:26:47.600 children look at those nazis uh omar says uh this uh this made itself evident during the h1b

01:26:53.480 saga talking about the uh harvard thing over christmas but people have really vastly

01:26:57.400 overinflated the sense of the number of elite human capital they talk about every foreign

01:27:02.160 harvard's applicant like the next einstein von braun or stephen hawkin but those geniuses are

01:27:07.580 0.1 of the 0.1 percent even spread across every possible discipline you'll never find enough in

01:27:12.500 existence for a quarter of harvard let alone the rest of the universities yeah a lot of it is just

01:27:16.320 diploma mill for money which is precisely what our universities are doing when they cram themselves

01:27:21.220 full of foreign students uh yeah the the myth that this is us taking in the best and brightest of

01:27:28.540 foreign lands it's not true i mean most of them go home anyway so even if it was well this thing 1.00

01:27:33.620 you just simply in britain anyway you just simply get three or four times the amount of money from a

01:27:37.580 foreign student and it's more or less at least twice it's at least and it's um and it is a zero-sum

01:27:42.920 game they've got a finite number of places so you can only imagine their senior leadership or their

01:27:47.920 bursas whatever and like well get as many foreign ones in then because it's filthy lucre for us yeah 1.00

01:27:54.800 well it's doesn't even worth calculating is it well one thing that i um uh didn't mention when i did my

01:28:00.540 actual segment was just uh even if um you know a foreign like a foreign chinese student was you know

01:28:06.240 perfectly well behaved just is it really in america's interest to be taking in thousands of

01:28:12.820 chinese students from a national adversary of theirs you know like just educating the people

01:28:19.100 who want to overthrow us let's see what your problem is luca um but yeah no no it's a great

01:28:24.760 point to be honest uh grant says international students at harvard technically pay a high rate

01:28:29.640 too but the thing about us education is that nobody pays the sticker price and knowing how much a

01:28:33.860 student would actually pay to go to harvard would require navigating a labyrinth of weird rules and

01:28:38.500 idiosyncrasies fair enough that's probably why we couldn't find it um and uh lord equista rex says

01:28:46.060 harvard will be brought to heal and stop allowing subversive elements to be trained within our borders

01:28:50.000 that the age of their aristocracy has come to an end uh that would be nice i mean you know the problem

01:28:55.140 is what happens when trump's leaves office harvard's still going to be there still important subversives

01:28:59.280 alfred the beta says putin doesn't want a ceasefire he wants a peace deal ukraine used the last ceasefire

01:29:04.200 as a chance to regroup and rearm and biden's government bragged about it putin isn't falling for it

01:29:08.320 twice seems to be the case doesn't it you know you sort of can't blame him if you put yourself in

01:29:13.720 his situation i'm not i'm not saying you know he's done something wrong but at some point you're

01:29:20.400 gonna have to look facts in the face and say right so i've lost a fifth of my country and like 500 000

01:29:25.880 men and the prospects of winning at some point you're gonna have to look these facts in the face

01:29:31.880 i'm saying you can't blame putin i mean oh right well i don't blame zelinski either to be honest you

01:29:36.380 know like i i can totally understand why you'd be like no if i'm going to be given resources to

01:29:42.580 fight i'm going to fight right but the facts are the facts uh risk says why would russia want to

01:29:49.980 eliminate zelinski they might elect a competent general rather than the actor they currently have

01:29:53.580 as president honestly that's a good point yeah that is actually yeah that's actually genuinely a

01:29:57.820 fair point yeah russia's not like we're not taking him out he's key to the victory yeah yeah well also if

01:30:04.220 they um you know if they take out either of the two leaders then it could potentially mean that you

01:30:09.620 know it gives the other side that opportunity to to back away because it says well that was his plan

01:30:15.700 that wasn't our plan you know yeah yeah yeah that's a great point and alan uh finally says the film

01:30:22.640 carlos format is screamers that's it that was it was a really good film i had the guy who played

01:30:26.200 robocop in it uh but it had a sequel to apparently but i never watched those but anyway uh thank you for

01:30:32.480 joining us folks have a great afternoon and we'll be back tomorrow

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - May 26, 2025

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