Elias, Harry and Stephen discuss a Danish politician's attempt to explain democracy to a confused journalist, the problem with social cohesion in Denmark, and the dangers of multiculturalism in a country that values its own cultural identity and values diversity.
00:03:56.740I just want to go back to it just for one moment, because the whole presentation of the BBC, the
00:04:02.020perspective that was being put forward when he was saying about all the social cohesion, was this
00:04:06.320idea that Denmark shouldn't really be a country for Danish people, right?
00:04:12.080Because non-Danes would feel uncomfortable.
00:04:14.680Yeah, it should be a country for anybody who wants to show up in Denmark and presumably take
00:04:19.140advantage of the social welfare system. No, I believe that Denmark should be a country for
00:04:23.820Danish people and broadly European people, if they're happy to take them.
00:04:28.940Yeah. It's a country you can go and shop and steal from if you want and have no consequences.
00:04:33.180So there is rise in crime and terrorism, as this person says. And in response to this,
00:04:39.280the government is taking some measures. Let us look at this in the next clip.
00:04:43.320I am. But still, we are not accepted as equal in the country.
00:04:52.460Partly in response to the crime wave in Sweden and terrorism here, Denmark's taken a really
00:04:57.740tough line on integration. Not just encouraging it, but pushing it.
00:05:02.460Islamic full face coverings are banned. The government even introduced what was called a ghetto law, aimed at preventing neighbourhoods being dominated by so-called non-Western immigrants, along with high crime and unemployment.
00:05:14.800Let's get out. Let's go and have a look.
00:05:17.820One designated ghetto was the multicultural neighbourhood Mjolnir Parkin, where Mohammed raised his family.
00:05:24.940So he is taking him to that, as he says, multicultural ghetto neighbourhood.
00:05:31.300Which looks notably more run down than some of the other places.
00:05:34.940But I don't understand, because he says it's a multicultural ghetto, and he laments the ghetto laws that essentially destroy ghettos, but also laments the loss of multiculturalism.
00:05:47.080You can't have a multicultural ghetto, because ghettos are, by definition, monocultural.
00:06:17.260Yeah, like Paris, that push the natives out of their homes that they've lived in for who knows how long, and stops it from being completely unrecognisable in five years' time.
00:06:28.200Good. Good. Again, Denmark is a country that was established by and for Danish people, and they have every right to protect that.
00:06:35.040So, now he's talking about what he says the greatest social experiment of the century, which I think it's a bit...
00:06:41.040Really? The greatest. The greatest social.
00:06:57.960It's been described as the social experiment of the century.
00:07:01.460It's also been described as social policy with a bulldozer.
00:07:08.460No one's ended up homeless, but Mohammed's family and thousands more from other ghetto areas have been or will be rehoused in predominantly white areas.
00:07:16.460With the stated aim, they'll become more integrated into Danish society, with access to better jobs and education.
00:07:23.460And people, including those from very different cultures, will absorb Danish liberal values.
00:07:31.460Reports identified early language skills as key to...
00:07:34.460So, one of the issues that the stated aim of this policy is integration.
00:07:38.460It's forced integration, by the sounds of it, which we've seen in America.
00:07:44.460It doesn't work. It just ruins the neighborhoods that they go into, frankly.
00:14:14.460If you have to have a society as ours, you have to be aware of what keeps us together than what's taking us apart.
00:14:28.460And the thing that could take us apart is if people were living parallel to each other in restricted areas where there only were people of non-Western.
00:14:42.460So basically, the journalist has an issue with the term non-Western.
00:14:46.460And the politician, Thomas Monberg, tells him essentially, we are Danish, we want to be Danish.
00:14:52.460If people come here, they should integrate, they should play by our rules.
00:14:59.460If you want to come in and get a season ticket for Man United and you want to support Man United
00:15:04.460and you want to come into the back of our club and shake hands with the Man United fans,
00:15:08.460don't wear a City fan club. Don't wear a City hat and don't start chanting Manchester City on your hands and knees in the middle of the club.
00:15:16.460I think the best part is that he's having to explain all of this to Mr. Journalist man like he's a child.
00:15:24.460You can see the confusion on his face like, why isn't this getting through to you mate?
00:15:30.460This is the simplest thing in the world.
00:26:12.460And you were right as well with this particular clip.
00:26:14.460The way he was being, as that's a random name said, a bit of a weasel.
00:26:19.460In the middle of a sentence, he switches the framing talking about England, about how, well, yes, the people are concerned about immigration and want less of it.
00:26:27.460But we in England, implying the people of England, are in favor of multiculturalism.
00:26:33.460Well, those two seem to be contradicting statements there.
00:26:36.460So either he doesn't understand in his own mind the contradiction or he's doing it on purpose.
00:26:41.460Well, in his own mind, social cohesion is bad.
00:28:35.460Anyway, so, this has been going around recently.
00:28:39.460And it caused a bit of a wave where people were asking how accurate this was.
00:28:43.460Was this person, Cairo Smith, never encountered them before.
00:28:47.460So this is my first exposure to this particular account.
00:28:50.460Saying that he'd spoken to a literary agent who told him that teens can't read third person omniscience anymore.
00:28:56.460Now, this is unusual for me because whenever I've read fiction in the past, it's much more common to read books written from third person than from first person.
00:29:07.460A lot of the fiction that I've enjoyed as a teenager, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, going back to my childhood, Harry Potter, the Song of Ice and Fire book series, and George R. R. Martin's other works, all tend to be written in varying degrees of third person.
00:29:23.460Either omniscient or a third person that's more informed by the perspective of the character that you're following.
00:29:28.460By the way, it's a very familiar mode of reading to me.
00:29:32.460The only first person book that I can really think of, it's quite a unique one, that is really stuck in my mind, was the book L.A. Confidential that was turned into the 1990s film.
00:29:47.460It's written from first person perspective in very clipped short sentences that mirror 1950s slang to really get you into the mind of the characters.
00:29:56.460That can be effective. But it just confused me to think that these, apparently, according to a literary agent, the younger people can't read in this style anymore,
00:30:05.460which would of course encourage people going to literary agents and trying to get published to purely write in first person.
00:30:12.460In the only book that I remember that was first person was American Psycho.
00:30:16.460Oh yeah, but that's a very intentional one as well.
00:30:20.460You also get people like Stephen King who write in third...
00:30:22.460I just wondered whether it was a memoir.
00:30:24.460Stephen King writes in third person, but he interjects the character's thoughts in there, so you get a little bit of first person as well.
00:30:32.460But there's all sorts of different ways.
00:30:33.460So to be able to cut yourself off from a huge swath of literature seems confusing to me.
00:30:39.460And he'd posted about this before saying that young adults, of course teenagers, most of their literature they're going to be reading is probably going to be young adult fiction, YA fiction, whatever you want to call it.
00:30:54.460Young adult. Yeah, it's like the Twilight books, the Hunger Games books, Harry Potter as well, things like that.
00:31:03.460Apparently in the more recent stuff, and he got this little excerpt from a 2024 rainbow book list, which was, of course it was the gay book list.
00:31:13.460Saying that it isn't even comparing books in the tagline anymore as inspirations, just movies.
00:31:19.460So in this one, Abhida Jai-Girdar, author of one of Time's best young adult books of all time, gives Titanic an Ocean's 8 makeover in this nail-biting heist set on board the infamous ship.
00:31:34.460Why don't you actually use literary sources to compare your literary fiction novel to, rather than films?
00:31:43.460Well, I imagine it's because most of young people's cultural references these days come more from films than literature, because people sadly read less and less.
00:31:51.460But again, all of this was just the word of this one person, so I decided to do a little bit of looking into it.
00:31:59.460And then all of a sudden, afterwards, this hits the algorithm, and I come across this, which is somebody posting, saying that they find out that the book that they've been waiting to read for weeks is in third person, and they immediately abandon it.
00:32:12.460Very strange. So, maybe there is something to this.
00:32:17.460And then I found this from last year. Now, of course, I can't see the post that it's replying to, because the person it's replying to is a part of the castration committee, and has their posts protected.
00:32:29.460But it seemed to be in response to BookTok, being book-focused TikTok, complaining about third person, whereas this person responding is saying third person's the best POV to write in, I don't know what BookTok is on about.
00:32:43.460So, I found a thread to follow here, which is, it seems that a lot of this is coming from people posting on TikTok about how much they hate reading in third person.
00:32:53.460So, I thought, is there any truth to this?
00:32:55.460Is there something actually called BookTok?
00:33:26.460I did the hashtag BookTok and then typed in third person.
00:33:30.460And I'm starting to sound like Dan when he's doing his boomer segments where he's explaining how he figured out how to Google things for the first time ever.
00:33:37.460The first one that I found was this, where it was somebody who got, you know, 54,000 likes.
00:38:11.460I scrolled through some of the replies and one person said that, uh, there is a subsection of TikTok book readers that vastly prefer first person.
00:38:19.460I only heard about it because an author I followed talked about joining a group with some of these people.
00:38:24.460And they literally kicked her out of the group because she said that she preferred third person and shifting perspectives.
00:38:30.460So they're very protective over how retarded they are.
00:40:36.460That would be a good thing in today's world.
00:40:38.460But, actually, the idea of being able to have a billionaire is because there's one company, one of the many companies that I would love to buy and just destroy.
00:40:48.460I mean, I would really love to be able to buy up all of Waterstones, destroy the brand, destroy the image, destroy those, fire everybody in there, and actually get back to having some normal books.
00:41:55.460The first one, this is one that I see promoted everywhere, which is Heartstopper, which is a graphic novel series, a gay graphic novel series, unsurprisingly.
00:42:04.460And you don't just see this promoted in bookshops.
00:42:07.460You go into other media shops like HMV about the place.
00:42:11.460They'll have it front and centre, around the children's sections as well.
00:43:27.460I mean, basically, if you want to do it, they can find some little corner shop next to a barber's.
00:43:31.460But the funniest one that I found was that when I did my Google search, these were only
00:43:37.460the second and third results that popped up.
00:43:39.460The first was this little bar that comes up of Amazon Books that it recommends you under the search terms.
00:43:44.460And the first one listed in that was this.
00:43:48.460The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abby Darry, where you can- or Dare or whatever, where you can see the front cover, which just seems to be loud black girl, the novel.
00:44:21.460The vast majority of it will be written into a first-person narrative perspective so that it will draw you into it.
00:44:28.460And also because I would assume you putting yourself in the mind of that character when the whole message is progressive is going to be a more effective way of indoctrinating you as you read as well.
00:44:38.460There was another theory that I saw regarding the original post though as well, which is of course changing demographics, where the younger people are going to be people who are made up of a greater diversity of groups.
00:44:53.460Uh, so, this person said that, uh, half of the 25s being, uh, black or Latino, and I followed this up as well when I first saw this one by basically making the point of this skews all sorts of mass demographic or mass statistical analysis,
00:45:10.460where you get headlines saying things like English jaws are getting smaller, English are getting shorter, getting more heart disease, getting fatter, um, becoming stupider, not reading as much, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
00:45:22.460When the fact of the matter is that they will be massively skewed by people coming from different cultures who have different physical characteristics than the rest of us as well.
00:45:30.460And you see this again, as I pointed out in my segment yesterday, uh, where everybody notices this, everybody points out that this is what's happening,
00:45:38.460but they don't take it into account when they're looking at the more mass statistical analysis of these things.
00:45:45.460Um, and also again, going back to the, uh, oh, young adult literature is more, is too white.
00:45:51.460Actually, there is stuff that points out that young adult fiction is actually some of the most inclusive fiction as well.
00:46:01.460And, uh, this I think is only a small part of it because...
00:46:05.460Well, if you force a different culture and ideology upon the majority, then they're going to be have to have to read something and then either switch off or not.
00:46:59.460Yeah. You know, you wouldn't be able to see the original written there about the stories of where it comes from.
00:47:04.460But these kinds of narcissistic, self-absorbed, overtly progressive novels do seem to be very popular.
00:47:12.460This article comes from 2023, but they pointed out that in the five years between 2018 and 2023, YA fiction print sales had increased by 50%.
00:47:22.460Now, I find it difficult to believe bestseller lists and print book sales in the first place.
00:47:29.460Mainly because you don't really get straight statistics for them.
00:47:35.460Because a lot of them will count, say, being placed in libraries as book sales as well when you get these books into libraries.
00:47:44.460You also find, like, the New York Times bestseller list is very shadowy with how they correlate what constitutes a bestseller.
00:47:56.460They're not transparent at all with how they're determining how many sales books have made.
00:48:01.460So it can be quite difficult to determine this.
00:48:04.460But, either way, if that is the case that they are being more read than ever, that could also be part of this.
00:48:10.460The fact that the books that are being marketed to young people are entirely written from the first person
00:48:16.460and also kind of put you in a state of mind where you can only experience these stories in the first person
00:48:24.460because they're entirely self-absorbed and self-obsessed.
00:48:27.460They're to draw you into these characters' progressive struggles anyway.
00:48:32.460In 2021, research by the Book Trust found that 11.7% of children's authors were people of colour,
00:48:40.460which had risen from 5.6% in 2017. Combine that with how inclusive the stories in general tend to be on sexual characteristics and other things as well.
00:48:51.460A great success for DEI and inclusivity.
00:48:56.460And also, research found that 78%, now this is a concerning figure,
00:49:01.460of over 18 buyers are purchasing YA books with the intention of reading them themselves.
00:49:08.460So you're getting people who are over the target audience age who are reading these books for pleasure in the first place.
00:49:16.460And this is more than just a worry about the ability of young people to read in a particular perspective,
00:49:22.460whether that be first person or third person in the first place.
00:49:25.460It also goes into the wider trend that we've been seeing for ages,
00:49:28.460that people just aren't reading books anywhere near as much as they used to.
00:49:32.460And some can't read books anywhere near as much as they used to.
00:49:37.460Now this is data talking about Columbia University, along with a number of other universities in America,
00:49:44.460where they're talking about, for instance, no comprehensive data exists on this trend,
00:49:48.460but the majority of the 33 professors that this journalist, Rose Horowitz, spoke with,
00:49:54.460relayed experiences where many discussed the change at faculty meetings and in conversations with fellow instructors.
00:50:00.460Instructors Anthony Grafton, a Princeton historian, said his students arrive on campus with a narrower vocabulary
00:50:07.460and less understanding of language than they used to have.
00:50:10.460There are always students who read insightfully and easily and write beautifully, he said,
00:50:14.460but now they are more exceptions than the rule.
00:50:17.460Jack Chen, a Chinese literature professor at the University of Virginia,
00:50:22.460finds his students shutting down when confronted with ideas they didn't understand.
00:50:27.460They're less able to persist through a challenging text than they used to be.
00:50:30.460Daniel Shaw, the chair of Georgetown's English department, told the journalist that his students have trouble staying focused on even a sonnet.
00:50:40.460Failing to complete a 14-line poem without succumbing to distractions suggests one familiar explanation, as suggested by this journalist,
00:50:47.460for the decline in reading aptitude, which would be smartphones distracting people.
00:50:51.460I certainly think that that is going to be one factor.
00:50:53.460I think the other factor with it affecting universities so much would be DEI practices.
00:50:59.460Explicitly getting in students of a lower calibre purely to make up quota numbers.
00:51:07.460I think that is clearly one of the reasons that isn't addressed in this as well.
00:51:11.460I'm not being encouraged to read, but it does go to the kind of view that I've formed over the elite colleges that are pumping out the people going into the media, into politics, into business are thick.
00:51:26.460And the people going into the universities are...
00:51:28.460If you can't read a book and you're supposed to be Oxford and Cambridge and Columbia, then I would say, quite clearly, you're thick.
00:51:34.460Well, and to draw it all the way back to the young adult fiction as well, one of the final paragraphs of this Atlantic article is quite indicative, saying that over and over the professors I spoke with painted a grim picture of young people's reading habits.
00:51:49.460The historian Adrian Johns was one dissenter, but allowed...
00:51:52.460My experience is a bit unusual because the University of Chicago is the last bastion of people who do read things.
00:51:58.460So there is apparently one university where people still go to to learn and do the thing that they signed up for.
00:52:04.460For years, Dames has asked his first students, Dames being one of the people that was interviewed for this, about their favourite book.
00:52:13.460In the past, I cited books such as Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, two books that I read as part of my A-level English course.
00:52:19.460Now, he says, almost half of them cite young adult books. Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series seems to be a particular favourite.
00:52:29.460So that is the kind of calibre of books that people are going to. They're not going to the classics. They're not going to more cultured literature.
00:52:36.460They're reading self-absorbed, narcissistic bog roll.
00:52:41.460Yeah, what I say is you stick them in the toilet so that you can read them whilst you're...
00:52:46.460You know, because you used to have newspapers.
00:52:48.460I mean, if you sit there reading on the toilet in the newspaper, I'd give them these books.
00:52:51.460If you are taught to hate your culture, yes, standards are going to go down.
00:52:57.460There you go. So I think I've presented a few reasons why, if it is entirely true,
00:53:01.460and I think there is some evidence that at least a subsection of younger people cannot read in the third-person omniscient perspective anymore.
00:53:09.460I think that I've presented some of the reasons why that is.
00:53:13.460Right. Ricky Oli says, no one reads those books.
00:53:18.460Only a handful of tradbath authors even get read by more than 50 people.
00:54:09.460And we've got one more from Alex Adamson again saying, now that I've had a think about it, there are some good first-person perspective books, and those are the Warhammer 40k Kyphos Kane books.
00:54:19.460That's a pretty damn good read. I still have not read any Warhammer books, but I'll take your word for it.
00:54:55.460Right, I'm going to turn my glasses off because it's easier to read the glasses on there, which are short-term, rather than looking at the videos.
00:55:01.460So what we've got is that last night, Trump was at it again with another executive order.
00:55:08.460I love this man for the way that he just turns around and goes, I'm going to do some analysis.
00:55:13.460And he comes out and goes, right, here we go.
00:55:16.460I'm going to issue a ban on several countries across the globe.
00:55:21.460No one from that country is going to get a visa.
00:55:25.460No one is allowed to come into that country.
00:55:28.460And then he gives a second tier where some of you might be allowed to come into this country.
00:55:34.460And some of you may get visas, if I feel like it, tomorrow morning, if I've got a nice good breakfast.
00:55:43.460But I just love the fact that what he's done again is having gone for all two, his first term, where he got hammered consistently, right, up to about 2017, about what was called the global Muslim ban, where he just said all these countries, you Muslims, you can't come in.
00:55:58.460I can't come in. He's kind of learned from that and said, we're coming back in once more and we're going to start it all over again.
00:56:08.460And so what you've got here is this is how he frames it last night.
00:56:23.460But I just think he's he's pretty emphatic and he's quite dominant in this.
00:56:28.460And it's really interesting the way he just stares at camera and says, we don't want them.
00:56:33.460The recent terror attack in Boulder, Colorado has underscored the extreme dangers posed to our country by the entry of foreign nationals who are not properly vetted, as well as those who come here as temporary visitors and overstay their visas.
00:56:51.460In the 21st century, we've seen one terror attack after another carried out by foreign visa overstayers from dangerous places all over the world.
00:57:01.460And thanks to Biden's open door policies today, there are millions and millions of these illegals who should not be in our country.
00:57:10.460In my first term, my powerful travel restrictions were one of our most successful policies, and they were a key part of preventing major foreign terror attacks on American soil.
00:57:22.460We will not let what happened in Europe happen to America.
00:57:26.460That's why on my first day back in office, I directed the secretary of state to perform.
00:57:32.460I'm going to stop there because I want to carry on a little bit.
00:59:40.460Form a security review of high risk regions and make recommendations for where restrictions should be imposed.
00:59:49.460Among the national security threats, their analysis considered are the large scale presence of terrorists,
00:59:56.460failure to cooperate on visa security, inability to verify travellers identities,
01:00:03.460inadequate record keeping of criminal histories and persistently high rates of illegal visa overstays and other things.
01:00:13.460Very simply, we cannot have open migration from any country where we cannot safely and reliably vet and screen those who seek to enter the United States.
01:00:24.460That is why today I am signing a new executive order placing travel restrictions on countries including Yemen, Somalia, Haiti, Libya and numerous others.
01:00:38.460The strength of the restrictions we're applying depends on the severity of the threat posed.
01:00:44.460The list is subject to revision based on whether material improvements are made.
01:00:50.460And likewise, new countries can be added as threats emerge around the world.
01:00:55.460But we will not allow people to enter our country who wish to do us harm.
01:01:01.460And nothing will stop us from keeping America safe.
01:01:39.460He also attacked the universities and said he's restricting the numbers of people from those countries also coming to universities in Harvard and Yale and Columbia and others.
01:01:48.460So he's making a very, very clear determination.
01:01:59.460And if you can, then we might look at allowing you to come into this country at all.
01:02:05.460But there's also a very clever part that we're considering on that.
01:02:09.460I have a question on this because it sounded like maybe a completely misunderstood, but maybe it sounded like you are describing it as Trump signing that executive order and issuing it in order to address the policies of these countries.
01:02:25.460Whereas, in fact, it seems more like, you know, he's trying to exercise political pressure.
01:02:32.460I mean, quite frankly, he is actually exerting political pressure here in the UK, but also onto those countries by saying to them, look, here is our country.
01:03:06.460So just to get on the same page, the implication of what you're saying is that he will escalate and say that unless, for instance, European countries, you control your borders.
01:03:17.460I'm going to probably introduce a travel ban because I don't want people who aren't allowed to fly directly into the US, fly indirectly via, let's say.
01:03:31.460You know, you're picking up at a very interesting point on that.
01:03:47.460So I'm just saying entry of immigrants and non-immigrants banned from 12 countries.
01:03:51.460So he's basically saying, look here to the left in this country, I'm now having effective deportation and restriction policies in place.
01:03:59.460The clever point that I think picking out on that is he's learned from 2017 and some of the court cases that are going through in America at the moment.
01:04:09.460Remember, they're challenging him on the individuals being deported to Venezuela.
01:04:12.460On this occasion, he said, we've done a complete security check.
01:04:33.460I've addressed certain specific countries.
01:04:35.460And I've classed it as this, restricting the entry to protect the United States from foreign terrorists and other national security and public safety threats as well.
01:05:26.460Rather than read through all of it, I just want to pick up, this is actually the restriction sheet that's been provided by the White House.
01:05:34.460So everybody can go online and have a look and see exactly what he's doing.
01:05:51.460It's the left, the liberals, the unions, the NCAL, who are all going to go to the courts and say, let's challenge him now for being wrong on this.
01:06:33.460And here he's now also doing a special justification for each country as well.
01:06:38.460I think the problem with that is he's trying to protect himself from the courts.
01:06:42.460So in Afghanistan, he says the Taliban controls Afghanistan and lets people just get out of the country.
01:06:49.460And this is where I think it's a clever point from him.
01:06:52.460He could start using this against Europe by allowing people to say they're escaping Afghanistan to go into Europe and then they want to come and travel to the United States.
01:07:02.460I mean, there would be terrible repercussions on it, if not just economical ones.
01:07:25.460So he goes all through the different countries and I want to say Somalia, Sudan.
01:07:29.460He's got Sierra Leone in there, which is really interesting because I met the Sierra Leone president who's currently in there.
01:07:37.460Cleverley is a really good friend of his family of Sierra Leone based.
01:07:44.460So he goes over there fairly regularly.
01:07:46.460So I'm intrigued to see why Sierra Leone is on that list when it's supposed to be an ally of kind of Western Europe in the bulk against Russia and China.
01:07:57.460And I think that comes to your political pressure point.
01:08:00.460Listen, Sierra Leone, too many of you have been allowed to allow China in.
01:08:05.460For example, we had an American port that we wanted to have in the capital.
01:08:10.460You came in straight away, cancelled that port and gave it over to the Chinese.
01:08:16.460Well, and the Chinese are now being able to build it.
01:08:19.460Well, to be fair, I read both the conditions.
01:08:21.460The Chinese were giving them a hell of a lot more roads, infrastructure through the country from where all the assets and gold and materials that would come up to the port.
01:08:32.460So the Chinese are actually giving them for a lot less, a lot more.
01:08:35.460So if you were a pure business person, I could understand why Sierra Leone went in.
01:08:39.460But they are now being seen as too close to China.
01:08:42.460So I think Sierra Leone is well on that.
01:08:46.460They're falling within the kind of remit of Russia.
01:08:49.460So I think they're also being targeted for that.
01:08:52.460Turkmenistan I found also slightly interesting because that's one of the places that Tony Blair has been cultivating for quite a long time.
01:09:01.460And that's part of the long term war against Russia.
01:09:04.460Turkmenistan is an important place for them.
01:09:06.460So I suspect this is about political pressure in there too.
01:09:13.460So what I've got here is I'm going to go try and go that he's learned from that because I think some of the White House issued a fact sheet.
01:09:23.460But one of the countries, if you look on there, who is not on it, on that list, when he talks about terrorism, I find it interesting, is this, Pakistan.
01:09:37.460He's not put Pakistan on the list, yet they're the biggest exporter of terrorism, some would say that, between them and Saudi Arabia.
01:09:44.460Because a lot of people like those are involved in the big terrorist organizations.
01:09:49.460I think the danger of that is if he did so, then he'd be capturing a lot of the people in Syria who are all very nasty terrorists,
01:09:56.460who are now being lauded as leaders of a free country in Syria as they go off murdering Christians.
01:10:02.460But didn't Trump also meet Julani, the leader of the Syrian interim government, and actually praise him?
01:10:22.460And that's because, basically, the CIA helped fund them, along with Turkey, in order to get rid of the Russian supporters who were in charge.
01:10:32.460It doesn't matter what sort of level of terrorism you've done.
01:10:35.460But if we did go through Pakistan and you did ban Saudi Arabians, these people would also be suddenly caught within that net.
01:10:42.460There could be other reasons why Pakistan is not there.
01:10:45.460And maybe others can bring out the particular views of why are we not banning Pakistanis who are involved in that, particularly in the northern connections to Afghanistan.
01:10:53.460So politically, I think there is another game that's being played on that once more might be down to the issue of more global politics and where they want to go.
01:12:12.460I mean, I think basically empire goes with a kind of multiculturalism together because if you try to exercise global influence, you will need allies.
01:12:21.460And you will sometimes pressure them, but also sometimes try to make concessions to them.
01:12:27.460And migration flows maybe one such concession.
01:12:31.460Well, I think that's what we've obviously adopted.
01:12:34.460But as we're seeing now with economics, cultural changes, terrorism, people are now beginning to have a different view, as we saw in Denmark.
01:12:41.460You know, the lack of integration there, the rising criminality.
01:12:45.460So countries now need to be able to look at whether they're globalized links with those nations and having some sort of connectivity with them, making them an ally.
01:12:54.460Do we necessarily have to bring in so many from that country from one route or another, whether it's determined from students, whether it goes all the way to asylum seekers?
01:13:03.460Policies now need to be made in the interests of the people that live in your country.
01:13:09.460And I think America's making it very clear.
01:16:01.460It's nothing to do about people throwing petrol bombs over Jews.
01:16:04.460No, it's about hiding the fact that the richest people in America can get a $270,000 tax cut.
01:16:14.460Well, I'm not even going to play this because it was just so banal when you listened to him.
01:16:18.460I think even the way just looking at the eyes and the face will tell you everything about this man and his ideology that it's just he's trying to hide the bill that we talked about yesterday.
01:16:28.460I don't think the level of nonsense on that.
01:16:33.460I mean, here in India, across the globe, India fairly okay about it, blocking travel from several high-risk countries over terrorism concerns, visa abuse, and the lack of security cooperation.
01:16:46.460That's the Indian Hindustan Herald, and I thought to myself, okay, that seems pretty reasonable way of assessing that, because that's exactly what he's saying.
01:18:33.460And they had to spend a night in a hotel.
01:18:35.460And literally, they were guarded by police to the hotel and told not to leave the hotel in the morning.
01:18:42.460Because obviously, Venezuela is clearly a safe, culturally accepting place for people who are wealthy from other areas of the world or deemed to be wealthy because they live in those other parts of the world.
01:18:56.460So otherwise, if it was such a place where there wasn't some form of fascism, which that is about, they would have been able to go around Venezuela in the evening.
01:28:13.460Every day's a school day and I learned.
01:28:14.460They basically tried to make the argument that he was micro dosing fentanyl so he could survive lethal weapons grade doses, which is why Chauvin...
01:28:19.460You know, that's, that's a Count of Monte Cristo. That's where they got it from.