The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1338

00:00:00.000 good afternoon ladies and gentlemen welcome to the podcast the latest it is for thursday the

00:00:03.420 22nd of january 2026 i'm joined by josh and dan and today we're going to be talking about subjects

00:00:09.560 that you think might be incongruent but i swear to god they're not trump going to the wef how

00:00:14.780 are they responding to it and then giant women fighting dwarves yes trump's speech mainly focused

00:00:21.540 on that latter one it's not impossible that he actually would if he'd sort of seen it i think

00:00:28.520 we could just say metaphorically they have a con yes situation here but um right okay well let's

00:00:34.620 let's get into it so trump was speaking at the world economic forum and it went just about how

00:00:41.000 you would imagine really in that of course trump not a big fan of techno globalists although he does

00:00:47.180 have his own sort of tech faction backing him and helped him rise to power and one of the thing that

00:00:53.140 did surprise me is that when he went to davos to speak the entire crowd rose and applauded him

00:01:00.600 when he walked in really yeah here you go oh

00:01:05.140 what do you expect him to be hitting or something

00:01:16.340 he's silent yeah i would have imagined them throwing maybe blocks of gold you know they're

00:01:26.480 all very rich aren't they i would have thought it would have been a sort of stony silence yeah like

00:01:31.460 oh the enemy has arrived yeah okay that's interesting it's it was interesting how he was welcomed and

00:01:37.680 you know people were laughing at his jokes and it was quite surprising because i've watched the full

00:01:41.840 thing through twice now and you know people were actually sort of into it at davos which is

00:01:48.120 interesting in and of itself yeah i watched the full thing through this morning and i didn't see

00:01:52.760 this because i basically skimmed ahead to where he starts talking don't blame you it's like an hour

00:01:56.580 and a half yeah yeah and i mean to be honest with you it was kind of old man rambles at crowd

00:02:02.720 it was a lot of that because he's not on his teleprompter he's on his teleprompter for like the first

00:02:08.100 five minutes or whatever and then he just starts riffing as he does but he's not in friendly

00:02:12.700 company or at least it doesn't feel like he's in friendly company so he's just explaining and

00:02:16.100 sometimes he'll go off on like old man anecdote tangents things like this and it was i mean you

00:02:21.620 know it was amusing like i think it's him at his best when he's not on the teleprompter it always

00:02:26.060 is but he seems quite exhausted he's obviously doing a lot so he's not he's not well rested oh he

00:02:31.140 must be a hell of a job being president yeah yeah and so he was a bit like tired i think it

00:02:35.620 actually did him some favors because yeah the energetic american style of delivering you know

00:02:42.300 public speaking doesn't go down as well in europe and so him being a bit more subdued i think was

00:02:47.540 part of the reason that um people were so i was gonna say he came across actually as very reasonable

00:02:52.640 he did yeah which we like and don't get me wrong i love trump's campaign rallies and stuff like this

00:02:57.440 when he's you know firing off fireworks basically but this felt actually as you say very appropriate for

00:03:03.680 the audience yeah he was he was surprisingly measured um and saying that he did still go

00:03:10.100 after people um a fair amount um like like canada let's have a listen to what he had to say

00:03:16.020 we're building a golden dome that's going to just by its very nature

00:03:20.900 going to be defending canada canada gets a lot of freebies from us by the way they should be grateful

00:03:29.540 also but they're not i watched your prime minister yesterday he wasn't so grateful

00:03:34.340 they should be grateful to us canada canada lives because of the united states remember that

00:03:41.600 mark the next time you make your statements

00:03:44.120 but you can see what i mean he's a bit a little bit tired he's obviously been doing a lot recently

00:03:52.220 yeah i did think it was interesting because loads of people were talking about his speech

00:03:57.580 carnies and yeah they were yeah it's a good way of diffusing it in a way i think just saying you've

00:04:03.480 got to be grateful to us you can't be that hostile to us you know your your defense is um partly because

00:04:10.520 of us at the very least not even partly yeah i mean come on yeah massively and one of the interesting

00:04:17.800 things that he did um particularly in front of a weff crowd was he was commenting about the

00:04:22.840 changes in europe and i think that this was one of the parts that was clipped the most particularly

00:04:27.880 on our side of the atlantic but it's happened very quickly this afternoon i want to discuss

00:04:35.180 how we have achieved this economic miracle how we intend to raise living standards for our citizens

00:04:41.100 to levels never seen before and perhaps how you too and the places where you come from

00:04:47.200 can do much better by following what we're doing because certain places in europe are not even

00:04:53.100 recognizable frankly anymore they're not recognizable and we can argue about it but there's no argument

00:05:00.560 friends come back from different places i don't want to insult anybody and say i don't recognize it

00:05:07.640 and that's not in a positive way that's in a very negative way and i love europe and i want to see

00:05:13.780 europe go good but it's not heading in the right direction i think that was actually handled very

00:05:20.500 well by trump and particularly the way he framed it he was appealing to european pride of you know it's

00:05:26.800 not the same as it was before he wasn't necessarily saying you know it's not as good as america as he

00:05:30.880 could have done um but i think that what he's trying to do there is try and get under some of the people

00:05:37.400 their skin and say listen we can see things are getting worse here and he's entirely right to 1.00

00:05:43.020 say that that's the case and things have changed when he's doing the salesman trick of talking past

00:05:47.600 a sale because for 10 15 years we've been in the whole argument is it even happening in the first

00:05:52.520 place um you know should you be concerned he's skipping past all of that and he's just going to

00:05:57.500 it's such a shame so tragic that's i mean it's perfect framing for it and also sympathetic as well

00:06:04.460 yeah you know he's like look you know we love europe you know we use a beautiful continent

00:06:08.520 what are you why are you doing this to yourselves yeah and trump's never been quite about his

00:06:14.060 affections for europe as well so it does come across as believable although some people in his

00:06:19.460 administration are a bit more hostile than perhaps trump is but that's to be expected i think

00:06:24.840 and um he also commented on something that i found interesting as well that he's just explicitly

00:06:31.720 admitting that there was this governing consensus that we've talked about uh constantly and he just

00:06:38.080 explicitly outlines what it is decades it became conventional wisdom in washington and european

00:06:44.920 capitals that the only way to grow a modern western economy was through ever increasing government

00:06:50.100 spending unchecked mass migration and endless foreign imports the consensus was that so-called dirty jobs 1.00

00:06:58.280 and heavy industry should be sent elsewhere that affordable energy should be replaced by the green

00:07:04.160 new scam and that countries could be propped up by importing new and entirely different populations from

00:07:11.500 faraway lands this was the path that sleepy joe biden administration and many other western governments

00:07:19.280 very foolishly followed turning their backs on everything that makes nations rich and powerful and strong

00:07:27.360 and there's so much potential in so many nations the result was record budget and trade deficits and a

00:07:35.520 growing sovereign deficit driven by the largest wave of mass migration in human history we've never seen

00:07:43.040 anything like it quite frankly many parts of our world are being destroyed before our very eyes and

00:07:48.820 the leaders don't even understand what's happening and the ones that do understand aren't doing

00:07:53.940 anything about it virtually that's pretty on the money though isn't it yeah but what i love about

00:08:01.180 this he's reading from the teleprompter and he's still like the green new scam and sleepy joe

00:08:05.460 it's obviously written on the teleprompter but he's on the money how could you argue with any of it

00:08:10.020 it's perfect summation yeah so another thing that he kept on banging on about was energy for a long time

00:08:17.520 i think that part of the reason he was so focused on that is because he was at the world economic

00:08:22.880 forum which was a nexus for a lot of the green energy policies that uh were adopted by european

00:08:30.320 countries and proved fatal to cheap energy and listening ed milliband it is one of the the major

00:08:37.040 crises in europe that is preventing us from prospering um obviously mass migration being the most important 1.00

00:08:42.880 but cheap energy as well means that we'll never have a strong industrial base so let's have a look

00:08:50.400 at what he said because of my landslide election victory the united states avoided the catastrophic

00:08:58.320 energy collapse which befell every european nation that pursued the green new scam perhaps the greatest 0.92

00:09:06.320 hoax in history the green new scam windmills all over the place destroy your land destroy your land

00:09:13.920 every time that goes around you lose a thousand dollars you're supposed to make money with energy

00:09:20.160 not lose money here in europe we've seen the fate that the radical level well i'm gonna miss it when trump's

00:09:28.720 not in politics anymore no one talks like this so it is refreshing to hear it isn't it because

00:09:34.640 he is right that you are meant to make money and that it's nice to hear it put that way actually

00:09:41.280 and he's right as well i like the term energy collapse actually because at the moment uh ed milliband

00:09:47.360 and his merry band of lunatics are convinced that oh we're gonna have all these wind farms it's like

00:09:53.360 yeah but our energy is more expensive than ever and that's going to increase the price of the energy

00:09:57.760 we're the we're the most expensive place in the world for energy so this is mental and they have no

00:10:01.920 answer for the baseload problem i just don't even think about it and he actually mentions the uk

00:10:07.280 uh specifically electricity prices are 64 percent higher the united kingdom produces just one third

00:10:16.320 of the total energy from all sources that it did in 1999 i think of that one third

00:10:22.320 and they're sitting on top of the north sea one of the greatest reserves anywhere in the world

00:10:28.800 but they don't use it and that's one reason why their energy has reached catastrophically

00:10:35.040 low levels with equally high prices high you get the idea totally true yeah we've been made

00:10:42.480 dependent on um french nuclear energy and norwegian oil yeah and that's why we could be getting

00:10:50.800 exactly we have a larger share of it's mad and the thing that really frustrates me about the

00:10:56.720 oil situation is norway um has been cutting its government spending because they have this

00:11:02.880 publicly owned oil company which is run like a private company and returns the profits

00:11:07.680 to everyday citizens so they have a sovereign wealth fund and they you know their citizens are

00:11:13.120 very prosperous because of it i mean we're just doing nothing we don't even have the cheap energy

00:11:18.080 from it thank god ed milliband's in charge i know and uh predictably um he also talks

00:11:26.560 about his hatred of windmills this has been a running theme for the entirety of trump's political

00:11:31.600 career there are windmills all over the place and they are losers one thing i've

00:11:40.640 is that the more windmills a country has the more money that country loses and the worst that country

00:11:47.280 is doing china makes almost all of the windmills and yet i haven't been able to find any wind farms in

00:11:54.960 china did you ever think of that it's a good way of looking at this more china's very smart they make

00:11:59.920 them they sell them for a fortune they sell them to the stupid people that buy them but they don't use

00:12:06.080 them themselves they put up a couple of big wind farms but they don't use them they just put them

00:12:13.120 up to show people what they could look like they don't spin they don't do anything but it's been

00:12:18.320 a constant hatred of trump's for a long time he talks about killing the birds i also like how he

00:12:22.880 doesn't even dignify wind turbines by their actual name at windmills the dutch feeling very

00:12:28.560 cool that i was just about the exact same thing um yeah he hates milling wheat um but no he's right

00:12:37.520 to point this out again yeah it is just uh a naked loss of money investing in them although um china 0.80

00:12:46.480 does actually have quite a few wind farms and he says they're sort of only for show but i think that

00:12:52.080 they've got enough of them that you could sort of say that they also burn a lot of coal they do yes

00:12:56.560 they're just like okay yeah we have that but i know they're not exactly conscious on the green

00:13:01.040 energy side of things it's just as much energy as possible uh he also talked about nato which i found

00:13:06.720 interesting but the problem with nato is that we'll be there for them a hundred percent but i'm not sure

00:13:18.320 that they'd be there for us if we gave them the call gentlemen we are being attacked we're

00:13:26.240 under attack by such and such a nation i know them all very well i'm not sure that they'd be there

00:13:32.800 i know we'd be there for them i don't know that they'd be there for us so with all of the money we

00:13:38.080 expend with all of the blood sweat and tears i don't know that they'd be there for us

00:13:45.760 but the problem i mean i think the last time we helped the us was after 2001 wasn't it in

00:13:52.480 iraq and afghanistan yeah so you know we pat ourselves on the back for that but that was also

00:13:58.960 about 20 years ago now so um things could have changed i don't know ideologically europe and

00:14:05.200 america have definitely diverged yeah there's not that there's not as friendly relations between our

00:14:10.240 governments as there once were not at all and so i can somewhat believe it although i think what

00:14:16.720 he's doing here is sort of goading them to be better allies a little bit by trying to shame them

00:14:21.920 yep i think there's an element of that at the very least and um here he is on greenland because he

00:14:29.280 wasn't going to mention it but then he talks about it for about half an hour um of course he does so we

00:14:35.360 want a piece of ice for world protection and they won't give it we've never asked for anything else

00:14:42.480 and we could have kept that piece of land and we didn't so they have a choice you can say yes

00:14:52.720 and we will be very appreciative or you can say no and we will remember

00:14:58.880 which is uh a bit of a threat i suppose but also he did announce that he wouldn't implement

00:15:07.840 tariffs in relation to greenland so he also said he wouldn't invade right as well he came up and was

00:15:13.120 like yeah we're not going to do that it's like well i mean the thing the thing about all of this that's

00:15:17.920 been really frustrating for me right is literally he wrote a book explaining how he does his deals yes he

00:15:24.400 makes a ridiculous ask say i want 100 of this and then he gets 30 of it and calls it a win

00:15:29.920 and it's like okay why does nobody take this seriously like instead he'll tweet oh yeah i'm

00:15:35.360 about to invade greenland oh my god he's gonna invade a nato alley is this nato over it's like

00:15:39.200 are you a retard yeah no he's he's dealing with you you know and the thing is as well about this 0.92

00:15:44.400 i don't even know what trump got because it's all wound down now i don't even know what trump got

00:15:49.040 that he couldn't have just got by just ringing up saying hi guys uh we're just going to put some

00:15:52.640 more extra bases on greenland because they've already got bases on greenland i'm pretty sure

00:15:56.320 it could be done in a way whereby the danish would be like oh that's great you're actually

00:15:59.920 helping us out worried about the ruskies so we're going to stack a few more bases on greenland 1.00

00:16:04.400 is that okay well it's not exactly overpopulated yeah i suspect there will be things when the

00:16:08.080 details come out but at the very least he made the eu spend about three weeks considering what does

00:16:13.360 our defense look like without the us yes and the moment they start to consider that they go oh

00:16:18.080 it is nice seeing him put the fear of god into yeah i mean if it if it simultaneously gives europe

00:16:24.800 a kick up the backside to you know actually expand on military capabilities a bit that's a good thing

00:16:30.560 but i think that he could have perhaps done this a little bit better it just seems to have been an

00:16:36.160 attempt to deliberately rile them up there's certainly an element of that there because i think he also

00:16:41.440 enjoys it a little bit yeah exactly i think he probably because i suspect the existing treaties

00:16:46.080 give him the access to everything that he's looking for anyway right so and it probably

00:16:50.160 wouldn't have been very difficult to ring up the danes and go look you're not getting all these rare

00:16:54.160 earth minerals out there how about we invest it and we give you like 30 of the profits or something

00:16:59.280 so you just get suddenly denmark is making money out of greenland and we get what we want and everyone

00:17:05.360 wins like he could have he could have done this in an afternoon in a phone call and instead he spent

00:17:10.240 like three weeks trying to annex a nato members territory i suspect i suspect this is not the last

00:17:16.480 we hear about greenland though no i think it's gonna go on for a while but he's just gonna get

00:17:19.920 what he wants out of it yeah because what are they gonna do what they're gonna say you know

00:17:24.320 there's nothing they can do one thing that i thought was interesting was at davos he was talking

00:17:30.240 about how um people can't um buy houses anymore because companies are buying them up and i think

00:17:40.160 wait is this the right one it's the wrong one but a lot of people in the room must have felt called

00:17:43.680 out about that i know it was the the place for it really wasn't it people are people are buying up

00:17:49.360 houses no you you you you're all buying up houses yeah isn't davos in switzerland it is yes

00:17:55.840 don't they speak german in switzerland they do yes that's worth pointing out he said um well let's

00:18:00.320 just play it in world war ii when denmark fell to germany after just six hours of fighting

00:18:08.480 and was totally unable to defend either itself or greenland so the united states was then compelled

00:18:15.840 we did it we felt an obligation to do it to send our own forces to hold the greenland territory and hold

00:18:24.240 it we did at great cost and expense they didn't have a chance of getting on it and they tried through

00:18:30.880 this a little bit because he's just talking about successfully prevented our enemies from gaining a

00:18:35.600 foothold in our hemisphere so we did it for ourselves also and then after the war which we won we won it

00:18:44.560 big without us right now you'd all be speaking german and a little japanese perhaps

00:18:50.720 because that's not as threatening for the germans austrians and swiss in the audience as it is for

00:18:57.040 perhaps some others but no but i i did tweet about this it's like there's a midwit take like oh he's in

00:19:01.920 switzerland they speak german it's like yeah okay but this is an international gathering that is true

00:19:08.320 that is true like he's not he's not rocked up to a local swiss council meeting and actually sometimes

00:19:13.040 i do walk through swindon and think how bad would it be german it would certainly be worse right yeah

00:19:18.160 yeah it's a clunky language but yeah there could have been some upsides

00:19:23.520 so um i forgot i put that extra link in there so this is the one where he's talking about homes will

00:19:28.080 never be owned but homes are built for people not for corporations and america will not become a

00:19:35.040 nation of renters we're not going to do that that's why i have signed an executive order banning large

00:19:41.280 institutional investors from buying single-family homes it's just not fair to the public they're not

00:19:46.080 they're not able to buy a house i mean that's such a good thing that isn't being made enough of a big

00:19:52.480 deal out of i very much agree like pushing up the cost of a home a home is the main expense a family

00:19:58.160 will ever have ever have and so making that as cheap as possible for them is the number one way the

00:20:04.720 government can help people out financially i think in if they were only to do one thing and you get like

00:20:10.720 the sort of you know the sort of uh retard left youtubers who are like blackrock's buying up all 0.99

00:20:15.840 the homes it's like okay what's your response then you know maybe trump was watching your video

00:20:21.200 like trump's completely on your side on this is trump the great satan now that he's actually done the

00:20:26.240 thing you want i mean i don't recall you know keir starmer didn't do this joe biden didn't do this

00:20:30.880 barack obama didn't do this you know no it was donald trump that did this in fact keir starmer invited

00:20:37.040 larry thinking for a meeting didn't he opposite and uh i dread to think what was agreed there

00:20:43.440 so here's another one he's talking about the somalians um of course but equally importantly

00:20:50.480 we're cracking down on more than 19 billion dollars in fraud that was stolen by somalian bandits can you

00:20:59.040 believe that somalia they turned out to be higher iq than we thought and we say these are low iq people 1.00

00:21:05.360 how do they go into minnesota and steal all that money and we have you know they're pirates they're

00:21:10.320 good pirates right but we shoot them out of the water just like we shoot the drug boats out they're

00:21:14.640 not pirating too many boats lately do you notice when they go out into those boats they want to take

00:21:20.320 over a billion and a half dollar tanker loaded up with oil and they say we're going to blow up your

00:21:26.400 boat they have powerful weapons you hit the side of the boat you blow the whole thing up the insurance

00:21:31.280 companies are petrified so they say just give them the boat we'll give them money and he starts going

00:21:36.880 on about pirates for some reason for a little bit and then he gets starts talking about by the way how

00:21:41.440 long is this it was this like a six hour speech hour and a half hour and a half trump mostly just

00:21:46.080 talking off the cuff but he's been calling the somalis low iq for ages yeah i guess they're not that

00:21:52.320 low iq if they just rip us off i did find that joke quite funny amazing um and what you fail to

00:21:59.840 ever build a successful society of their own and they were taking people from somalia and somalia 0.87

00:22:07.120 is a failed it's not a nation got no government got no police got no military got no nothing

00:22:13.200 and then we have this fake congressperson who they just reported is worth 30 million dollars

00:22:20.960 you believe this elan omar talking about the constitution provides me she comes from a

00:22:27.200 country that's not a country and she's telling us how to run america not going to get away with

00:22:32.240 it much longer let me tell you but equal

00:22:38.320 what's on his mind at the time

00:22:40.000 what am i thinking about our somalians oh don't get me started about the bloody somalians 1.00

00:22:43.600 that elan omar it's like grandad over the dinner table at this right yeah that's why it's like

00:22:49.200 grandad rambles at a room for people who can't get away he looked like he was having a good time to

00:22:56.400 be honest and he was salient throughout the whole thing to be fair my favorite moment of the whole

00:23:00.400 thing was this tough so when i called up emmanuel macron i watched him yesterday with those beautiful

00:23:08.080 sunglasses what the hell happened 0.50

00:23:16.320 just laughing at the fact he was wearing sunglasses everyone's like did your wife punch you

00:23:21.760 mackerel what is that thing with elites and they get one black eye and then they go and give a speech

00:23:26.080 i don't i don't know that's a thing isn't it yeah but i mean you remember when the plane door opened

00:23:31.280 and bridget macron's like smacking me in the face oh yes yes i remember that now that that might be the

00:23:36.320 reason he was wearing the sunglasses yeah i mean that's the average french woman experience quite 0.67

00:23:40.560 possibly but macron being like oh yeah oh no everyone can see me oh no yeah um one thing i

00:23:46.640 didn't expect was this i'm just gonna one of the biggest barriers to saving for a down payment has been

00:23:52.960 surging credit card debt the profit margin for credit card companies now exceeds 50 percent one of the

00:23:59.280 the biggest and they charge americans interest rates of 28 percent 30 percent 31 percent 32 percent

00:24:08.320 what have happened to usury

00:24:13.680 spicy donald

00:24:18.720 i mean it's fair enough it's a great point yeah american interest rates are insane

00:24:22.960 like they on on literally like everything you know any any small thing that you have to make

00:24:28.480 a a long-term purchase on the the interest i just highway robbery man yeah well they've expanded

00:24:36.160 you know the the whole society is financialized to a point where pretty much anyone can borrow money

00:24:40.960 but they'll just have extortionate interest on it since their student loans are mental yeah

00:24:47.280 it's lifetime debt and and i saw i think it was jp morgan they they put out a statement saying that you

00:24:52.640 know if these changes that donald trump is talking about goes through 80 percent of americans won't

00:24:57.040 be able to get a credit card it's like great 80 percent of americans should not have a credit yeah

00:25:01.760 good well yeah the it's just an incentive to live beyond your means really isn't it this expansion of

00:25:08.560 credit and and loans and things like that and it's never in the interest of the people receiving it

00:25:13.520 just creates a system where they have to depend on it okay so just a quick thing the average mortgage

00:25:17.920 interest rate in the u.s is over six percent i mean on my house it's like three percent or two

00:25:24.400 percent something like that i can't remember exactly how much it was but it's a lot lower

00:25:28.320 like guys you're getting absolutely screwed anyway sorry and uh the the penultimate one 0.80

00:25:36.320 was just that he said that america's basically keeping the whole world afloat i don't know i was so

00:25:42.400 because she was so aggressive and i realized in that conversation that the united states 0.88

00:25:50.240 is keeping the whole world afloat many places i could give you six seven places just in the people

00:25:57.520 in this little area i know every one of them they're sort of they're looking down they don't

00:26:02.400 want to see me and they don't want to stare me in the eyes but they're taking advantage of everybody

00:26:07.280 took advantage of the united states but i've been very fair and i gave them a tariff and it was fine

00:26:14.640 but i realized that without us it's not switzerland anymore without us it's not any of

00:26:22.640 the countries that are represented here and we want to work with the countries we want to work with

00:26:28.240 them we're not looking to destroy them so this was literally the crux of the argument when he

00:26:33.680 canceled us aid but africans rely on that to survive yeah that's weird maybe africans should do it then 1.00

00:26:42.160 yeah maybe africans should get jobs also now it's been canceled they're fine yeah i've not heard of 1.00

00:26:48.160 any mass starvations in africa other than you know the usual the usual bandit-led ones i mean

00:26:54.880 stopping government funding in minnesota would probably have more of effect on africa than

00:26:58.640 smileys can no longer buy their gold ak's and the final thing i wanted to mention was another

00:27:06.240 person who was at the world economic forum was howard lutnik the secretary of commerce and he gave

00:27:13.120 quite a fire and brimstone speech about how globalism has failed net zero makes you subservient to china

00:27:20.400 um you are allowed to have borders and things like that um so he was um a lot less calm than

00:27:27.920 than trump was and sort of reveled in the fact he was going into the the nexus of all of these policies

00:27:33.120 belly of the beast so um if you've seen the trump one that's also another one to check out but

00:27:38.800 overall i found trump's speech to be um more on the money than i was expecting to be fair it was a lot

00:27:45.840 more appropriate um for the audience and he the things he was talking about he did in a way that

00:27:50.960 i think was constructive some of the things he said about you know rubbing europe's nose in like

00:27:56.640 yeah we saved you yeah you've got no security i don't think that would necessarily go down too well

00:28:01.680 but again this could be a sort of art of the deal thing of like listen we think we're doing everything

00:28:06.720 for you maybe you should meet in the middle and do a little bit more so you could argue that it's a

00:28:12.400 negotiating tactic all on its own and so overall i was relatively impressed by it i wasn't necessarily

00:28:18.880 surprised there weren't any curveballs there a lot of this is sort of his greatest hits but it was good

00:28:23.840 to see it in the world economic forum right to the people who are the authors of many of the policies

00:28:29.440 that have made europe decline in the first place there were some bangers in there too anyway uh cranky

00:28:35.200 texan says uh the so-called climate crisis has nothing to do with the environment it's coded language

00:28:39.520 it's a metaphor for the anger of the masses in reaction to wealth concentration and the policies

00:28:42.880 of the elites the thing is a lot of it is being done by the policies of the elites can we get the

00:28:46.400 next one up please samson um a lot of it is being done by the policies of the elites which is itself

00:28:51.600 the problem right because i think genuinely a lot of it is that the sort of like you know

00:28:55.920 populist left if such a thing can be claimed to exist sort of zach polanski types yeah that that is

00:29:00.880 how they think but a lot of it with the elites is this ideological and guilt-based frankly they feel

00:29:05.920 guilty about being in the position that they're in um and so for them um these these things kind

00:29:11.520 of dovetail very interestingly together but anyway let's move on so uh as we just saw from josh's

00:29:17.040 segment uh we watched how trump gave quite a wide-ranging and i thought yeah calm and relaxed uh speech at

00:29:25.760 the un um but it does come in the context of him uh posting things on truth social that are basically

00:29:32.960 we're going to annex greenland we're going to ask canada we're going to do whatever we like because

00:29:36.240 we're america now this has not been taken very well and we did a very detailed discussion about

00:29:44.560 it that itself got quite heated uh on notices.com you can go sign up and watch that if you want to

00:29:50.240 see what we thought about it because i'm going to be building off of that so if you want to know

00:29:54.480 what the context for what i'm about to say is that's it so i was looking at the news about all of

00:30:01.120 this and i have to say i don't think they're taking trump's attitude well now trump hasn't

00:30:07.040 actually done anything yet he hasn't actually annexed anywhere he hasn't actually i mean he

00:30:12.400 didn't even tariff them in the end right he he just it was a lot of fire and fury and then in the end

00:30:18.560 trump came out and gave the reasonable speech said reasonable things and is probably just going to get

00:30:23.920 what he wants i think what's actually happened is denmark's agreed to do some sort of negotiation with

00:30:29.760 him now and therefore now they've agreed to that he said okay we're not going to tariff you yes

00:30:34.720 we're also not going to invade which i think was pretty obvious yeah and if you look on polymarket

00:30:40.640 it's like 80 70 percent that trump's going to get a piece of greenland you know like i think denmark

00:30:45.760 can afford to sell a piece of greenland um but the point is he's going to get what he wants and he

00:30:50.000 probably could have got all of these things anyway without all of this drama but i like the drama

00:30:54.640 because the drama causes the libs to go mental right and what it did as we talked about in the

00:31:01.200 round table is it brought in sharp relief the the emaciated weakness of europe right and this is

00:31:08.560 our own fault and i say our i don't really think of ourselves as being part of europe

00:31:12.240 um but it is still we're still suffering from the same sort of problem because having the protective

00:31:17.360 banner of oh you know the big daddy america is going to come in and save us no matter what happens

00:31:22.560 um has made us incredibly complacent but it's also allowed a class of people who just think in i

00:31:29.040 think the wrong way about international politics to find themselves at the very top of our civilizations

00:31:34.400 and make a series of decisions that just ruin everything and this is why trump's like look

00:31:39.600 your your countries are unrecognized but it's not even that i don't know if they're even making

00:31:43.200 decisions they're just making a series of virtue statements it's just mobilizing i think that the

00:31:49.200 the way i understand how europe has been run is that it's been optimized to have all of the wealth

00:31:56.000 harvested out by the the very wealthy donors to the politicians and that the only people who've

00:32:03.520 really benefited from the policies were people who had a significant amount of money to begin with

00:32:08.880 and have seen unprecedented um growth in their assets well not not just that the the other people

00:32:15.440 who have benefited are the indolent scroungers at the bottom that's true we've been given all of our

00:32:20.880 money and so this this is one of those things where it's like okay we've brought in sharp relief

00:32:25.280 that europe is essentially a kind of sickly continent right we're the sick man of the world

00:32:29.600 we are not capable of defending ourselves we are not confident in ourselves and we're not even

00:32:34.880 looking to improve what we're trying to do the general philosophy of europe is to have a peaceful

00:32:41.360 repose as we pass away right and now i'm very tired of this um i i have the temperament of a man

00:32:48.640 of action and not a man of cowardice not a man who uh wants to just avoid danger every point i'm

00:32:55.520 prepared to take risk which is why any of this is here right which is why any of us are here we're

00:32:59.440 prepared to take risk we're risk taking people well the people in charge of europe are not risk taking

00:33:04.000 people they're people who abhor risks they hate thinking oh something might happen and i can't be

00:33:09.600 certain of the conclusion right they are looking for certainty in everything now the only way you

00:33:14.240 can get certainty in anything in life is that you're going to die and so this kind of thinking

00:33:19.920 leads you on the path of decline you're not growing you're not innovating you are just slowly slowly

00:33:26.000 passing into the grave and so as we got here from the new york times the this this mindset is not just

00:33:31.760 europe it is the liberal international mindset and they've come to the point where they realize

00:33:38.320 okay trump is forcing this to change so as they say europe is basically at a crossroads and we've

00:33:44.720 got europe must decide what it's going to do and so they they complained at the beginning saying well

00:33:51.200 look he's threatened to impose tariffs on us but he didn't provide any details of what a new framework

00:33:56.480 might look like or the you know with the danish uh debate and so the danish member of parliament from

00:34:01.920 greenland was like well this is total confusion and it's like yes because actually chaos is a ladder

00:34:08.240 right you can advance somewhere out of the mire that you are in if the pieces are all thrown up in

00:34:15.200 the air if it's all just predictable slow decline into the grave well chaos sounds like a good thing

00:34:22.240 right chaos change is a good thing if you know that you're going in this direction you definitely want

00:34:27.520 change but also stability is owned by our enemies absolutely but the the stability if the stability

00:34:32.480 was a slow upward trajectory yeah okay oh no it's steady decline yeah exactly stay the course you know

00:34:38.400 and you know slowly but surely we'll get get to where we're going but no we can see where we're going

00:34:42.880 the steady decline is what the stability is for and i'm i'm personally like right now bring the chaos

00:34:48.800 yeah bring chaos i'm convinced if the current order in europe remains in 15 years it will just be a

00:34:55.360 destination of a chinese sex tourist yes and i mean volatility is at least an opportunity to change

00:35:01.840 things right exactly and it makes sense to have stability when things are going well it's a good

00:35:07.920 way of preserving things but when things are declining then all you're doing is managing the decline as

00:35:13.040 we've talked about many many times and so yes every time trump goes europe into to rethinking its

00:35:21.920 approach to things i think that's a good thing yeah and this is why they cried when jd vance came

00:35:27.360 over and just basically gave a moral declaration that europe was on the wrong track like the gut

00:35:32.800 the german mp literally cried because what vance was basically stating is that look this comfortable

00:35:41.680 retirement that europe is in is over right history did not end and has actually come storming back

00:35:48.080 and you're expecting us to hold the bag and actually we want you to start doing something

00:35:52.320 you are not old folks in the world's retirement home you've got to do something with your countries

00:35:57.840 otherwise you're going to lose everything and so this is this is what they're essentially coming to

00:36:03.120 the crux of here um they interview a senior fellow at a research institute in brussels he says look we're

00:36:08.560 fundamentally odds in a way that can only reflect the very different values between most governments in

00:36:12.320 europe and the trump administration that's true but if you look at the governments that are coming

00:36:16.400 up or have recently come up actually their values are not so different right nigel farage maloney um

00:36:22.720 orban or whoever you know like various other like right-wing governments are actually more aligned with

00:36:26.880 trump on this they're like yeah no no we we should do something we shouldn't just quietly die off uh and

00:36:32.880 so correct right what they're calling like the european values the way that europe's currently run

00:36:38.640 are basically the values of a defeated man right are the values of a man who doesn't want to just

00:36:43.840 just stop hitting me just stop hurting me i just i don't have the energy to deal with this anymore

00:36:48.160 and trump has got the values of the conqueror he's here

00:36:52.240 to win he's here to take over things fundamentally what i think is going to happen here

00:36:58.240 is that there's going to have to be some sort of restoration of competition between europe and

00:37:03.200 the united states friendly competition not necessarily entirely adversarial but sort of economic

00:37:08.320 competition that betters both parties right yeah and at the minute europe has been far too complacent

00:37:14.080 and just allowing things to go to the united states and not seeking to be like you know we actually

00:37:21.040 should have a very solid manufacturing center or we can attract these businesses these tech companies

00:37:27.520 to europe there's no cutting uh tax and things cheap and europe just outsources everything apart from

00:37:35.040 wine cheese and regulation it's like the only thing that you produces and very miserable people these

00:37:41.120 days yes and and so i think this sort of measure would be very very good because not only does it

00:37:47.840 um reduce the burden on the united states and allow them to focus their attention elsewhere but also

00:37:54.640 it reinvigorates europe because the way i sort of personify the situation is that of learned

00:38:01.600 helplessness in a way which is a psychological phenomenon where and providing care for someone

00:38:08.400 stops them from being able to um stand on their own two feet and improve their own situation

00:38:14.960 themselves we see this with aid to africa on a sort of individual level and i think what is actually

00:38:20.240 happening here um in europe is much the same but at a statewide level because the united states has been

00:38:27.280 helping europe for such a long time it's it genuinely has been a blanket that europe has

00:38:34.400 basically nursed itself with while sucking its thumb and it's just embarrassing i mean look this is from

00:38:38.960 this article right um trump had announced over the weekend that he intended to apply levies of 10

00:38:43.200 percent on several european nations that recently sent troops to greenland as part of the nato exercise

00:38:47.360 good thing we sent that one soldier to greenland isn't it you said something funny in the office that

00:38:52.640 would have made a superb sitcom yeah that was melissa chan's point like this this would be an

00:38:57.200 incredible sitcom yeah we've got like a black anna style sitcom so you know the europeans doing all

00:39:01.040 the things and it's the one lone brit who basically wins at the end 15 germans whatever it was the

00:39:05.680 seven french yeah yeah one brit yeah but um but they he did suspend the terrace so it didn't happen

00:39:10.640 but it's unclear that it lost the mere possibility set off a panicked flurry european ambassadors met for

00:39:16.720 an emergency gathering on sunday oh go go go emergency meeting oh oh really okay yeah you nerds right

00:39:23.280 to discuss the development and many european leaders called trump directly thursday summit

00:39:27.200 was called in response to the event the shift in the international order is not only seismic but

00:39:31.280 it's permanent says ursula von de leyen the unelected president of the european commission

00:39:36.080 and so so you've got the school mom and first you say oh right okay something has changed and it's

00:39:40.240 changed forever and so they're sat there scratching their heads why has this happened why is this

00:39:45.920 happening to us you've got like the news agents where you've got uh emily mateless we won't watch it but 0.99

00:39:50.320 like i'll just you know so we want to show you their faces because again the face is like just

00:39:56.320 total confusion they don't know what's going on and why and she always looks like she's about to have 0.93

00:40:01.200 an aneurysm or something because of things that are happening are so far out of the liberal consensus

00:40:07.440 that she would love to agree to that she's just like my god why is this happening oh and it's like

00:40:12.240 okay look actually this is explainable you're just not going to like the answer yep

00:40:17.280 yep and and the funny thing is right is is these kind of class of people i mean not just in the

00:40:22.400 media but i mean across the entire set of institutions they're always dismissing and

00:40:27.280 belittling trump but he can make them dance like circus monkeys whenever he wants to trump tweets

00:40:33.440 10 tariff thousands of bureaucrats and world leaders have to get into boarding there they are

00:40:38.640 their little gongs running around exactly how much energy did he expend to get them to expense

00:40:43.280 how much energy in return right and and it's just and yet emily maklis is sat there like acting like

00:40:48.800 she's like the expert on all of this and it's like but you don't she doesn't have a clue no she

00:40:53.440 doesn't have a clue and they literally are like you know oh is is he is he a mafia gangster is he

00:40:58.560 bored is he incoherent is he diverting attention from the epstein files look i'll tell you what is

00:41:03.840 happening he sees reality yeah yeah but you're not going to like it right because it it means basically

00:41:10.720 the sort of emily maklis class the the lanyard wearing rule following class of europe are the

00:41:17.600 wrong people for the job right that's what it means right and i'm going to reference an essay

00:41:22.640 in island of five because there is an essay in here called men against darkness by dr luke gilfeder

00:41:29.840 and it is incredible an incredible incredible essay right not only obviously it's beautifully produced

00:41:35.360 but uh this is the essay men against darkness right and i'm just going to read you one small passage

00:41:38.880 from it that just summarizes the entire thing so the essay is structured around a a critique

00:41:44.880 or not critique an examination of css lewis's uh work the lion and the fox where he explains the

00:41:50.640 anti-heroic perspective of the fox right the lion embodies the heroic perspective because the lion is

00:41:56.880 big bold and strong it can be heroic right but he explains that europe is playing the role of the fox

00:42:02.160 anyway he doesn't reference europe but you can see that europe is playing the role of the fox

00:42:05.920 and is pursuing what he calls the strategy of defeat right the end goal of the fox's stratagems

00:42:11.600 lewis says is survival bare survival by constant adaptation to environment nothing more smaller and

00:42:18.080 weaker by nature than the lion the king or the colossus the foxish man of the world is the true 0.96

00:42:23.920 illustration of darwinian survival a survival not by means of fitness but by means of strategy he is a

00:42:30.240 type that nature has marked for death and knows it and so his system of defense uh his his is a system

00:42:38.320 of defense not attack hiding within the defensive mechanism of his labyrinth civilization he becomes

00:42:44.400 the champion of the mechanical and the constant adversary of the individual and if you think about

00:42:49.280 it right it's trump versus europe well i'm on the entire ruling class exactly foxes exactly and trump is

00:42:58.000 one man with a heroic narrative actually this is a point i should have made yesterday in our

00:43:02.560 in our greenland debate with harry and stellios yes we kind of agreed that trump could have been

00:43:08.880 more artful the way he went about the greenland thing but he's not a fox no not at all he can

00:43:13.840 only do lion things yes lions don't do this clever grand strategy stuff no and and luckily for us trump

00:43:22.000 is a kind-hearted man like you know trump could be really belligerent he just tweets belligerently

00:43:28.080 and then he takes actually reasonable actions but there's a little bit more here so he carries on

00:43:34.320 his strategy mirrors the playing for safety of the man of science whose ambition is lewis for sore

00:43:39.440 is to discipline and mechanize society to still men and women into quiescence and receptivity and to

00:43:46.400 quiet at last a world once filled with fretful and disordered life as in they want everything to

00:43:54.000 be predictable to be constant to be safe because they are frankly not the people who are either

00:44:00.720 temperamentally or physically equipped to deal with conflict right that's the problem you are the wrong

00:44:07.440 people at the wrong time for the wrong job anyway island of five link will be in the description

00:44:12.240 shop.loses.com it's an incredible and that's that's just one paragraph from a three-page essay

00:44:16.800 is it broadly the theory that in any system is created by lions it's defended by lions and then

00:44:22.560 eventually the foxes kind of worm their way in until the thing collapses and then you need lions again yes

00:44:28.160 and the lion is saying listen we are now overextended you know if you want to maintain this

00:44:34.160 comfortable retirement that you think you have this gentle repose then you need to act in a way that

00:44:40.960 i'm going to make you act and the fox is just panicking going okay but we had we had a fretful

00:44:47.280 a fretless and orderly life and he's throwing it all into the chaos and we're not the people to do

00:44:53.200 yeah we've got this rules-based global order just do that imagine imagine the kind of people that

00:44:57.360 selects for yeah well i think the philosophy of of leadership in europe also seems to push that the

00:45:05.600 fox types towards politics because our view and i didn't really think about it until you actually

00:45:11.200 read those quotes seems to be by default that we send the lions to the military and the foxes into

00:45:16.880 politics don't we correct and in the united states it's not quite as clear cut as that they don't

00:45:22.960 have this clear delineation obviously there's still that um approach to some degree because you do want

00:45:28.720 brave people that are you know not fearful and willing to face their enemies down just a quick

00:45:33.840 military actually our system selects against the lion right like nigel farage for all his faults

00:45:40.640 is still embodying the lion archetype right he still wants things to happen you know he wanted brexit

00:45:45.360 regardless of the consequences really right and so it's he's been trained by foxes though sure and

00:45:50.560 i'm not saying you know he's you know the the best lion we can find but the the point being he wants

00:45:56.400 change in the system he wants uncertainty he he feels in the sort of that right mode that he we

00:46:00.800 can prosper if we just give an opportunity and the system has always been no we want stability and

00:46:06.240 the managed decline into nothingness isn't that a great quote though like i was i was reading this

00:46:10.960 the other day like again all of the articles in there just bangers and i'm just reading that thing

00:46:14.800 and it's just like that i was just like oh yeah i hadn't thought of that before anyway get it while

00:46:18.880 it's while you still can because it's selling really fast um but the point is europe wants a

00:46:23.360 comfortable retirement is not mentally prepared to seize any kind of destiny the the destiny europe

00:46:30.640 had pitched for itself was one of being protected by the united states as they just sunk into

00:46:36.240 nothingness right and so but they're beginning to accept oh no this this is another article from today

00:46:41.360 from the new york times where they're like oh yeah no actually i think we might have a problem right

00:46:46.160 and look at the framing that i'm of this quote that i'm about to read to you because this is just kind

00:46:50.240 of preposterous when you start picking it apart right so alexander stubb the finnish president

00:46:56.000 and a key power broker in europe stood up ashen faced at the end of the speech that took aim at

00:47:01.280 people like him trump's speech that we've just seen the leaders of the western uh economic and

00:47:05.920 political elite as he made for the other exits mr stubb approached lindsey graham the republican

00:47:10.640 senate of south carolina seeking to learn more graham later said about trump and the united states

00:47:15.760 position everybody in europe is concerned mr graham and ally of trump dismissively said after speaking

00:47:20.800 stub they're concerned when they get up and when they go to bed so the europeans are the retirement

00:47:25.360 home of the world how is the president of finland a major power broker in europe finland is a country

00:47:32.000 of four four million people yeah it has nothing well because it's all backroom deals from a

00:47:37.600 self-selected group because it's all foxes who are talking right there's no point where

00:47:42.880 finland can enact the the will of the lion and say right we've had enough finland refuses like britain

00:47:48.640 with brexit right that was actually lion-like activity on part of the brits no no we've had

00:47:52.960 enough oh and there was there was a backlash yeah hell to pay they were up in arms we're the worst

00:47:59.040 people in the world what could finland do that was lion-like in europe nothing so how is this a key

00:48:04.560 power broker because it's a continent of foxes they're being ruled by the wrong people and lindsey 1.00

00:48:09.760 graham's just like i'm dismissive of it like why does he care and i'm not like you know why does

00:48:14.960 why does america care about finland's opinion right the american doesn't care about the opinion of the

00:48:20.240 finn um and so he carries on phil gordon the former national security advisor for kamala harris

00:48:26.880 who was there um said foreign officials approached him during the summit after asking if mr trump's

00:48:32.080 position was now permanent uh is this america they asked him and is the post world war ii era

00:48:37.840 definitively over or is there any hope that it comes back oh it's been over for a while people

00:48:42.960 are just trying to realize it now exactly right like we were talking about in the round table

00:48:47.600 the the reality of what's happening and then the fantasy or the the narrative of what's happening

00:48:53.120 have diverged so sufficiently there's too much light between them yep the tectonic plates moved apart

00:48:57.600 the earthquake has happened oh look i'm just clicking look at the supine servile request is there any

00:49:04.800 way we can go back to being under your protective wing because we don't want to have to be men of 0.98

00:49:10.080 our own we're foxes and we just want to be away from danger it's like no you weaklings you absolute

00:49:17.200 weaklings you're not going back to the end of history it's interesting to me that these people

00:49:21.280 are in this position and still don't realize that the post the liberal post world war ii order is over

00:49:28.240 it's been clear to us for a long time just as political commentators that this has been the case

00:49:34.080 so in their position presumably as plugged in as they possibly could be you know even leaders of

00:49:40.160 european countries they should be on this and it just speaks of the failures of them to keep their

00:49:45.440 fingers on the pulse uh and it it makes clear why there's such a decline in europe in the first place

00:49:52.640 if they're sticking to ideas that as they say are old old world that's exactly right the there is a 1.00

00:49:58.960 there is a distinct string of self-delusion amongst european elites that no we have the european union

00:50:04.880 we're in the european parliament we have all of these institutions ngos and other sort of

00:50:10.160 bureaucratic structures in which everyone agrees with us and therefore when vance or trump comes over

00:50:17.280 and says the complete opposite we start crying because we realize that is the end of our world we

00:50:22.240 weren't prepared for this we weren't you know we weren't adults about this and it's it's just ridiculous

00:50:27.120 right and there there are a couple of people who who understand this and what one thing i found

00:50:32.160 interesting was gavin newsom who was just like well there's no rule of law it's the rule of don uh

00:50:37.600 donald trump trying to steal the election blah blah blah but the point is at least he understands

00:50:41.200 right he comes from california which has all of these sort of fox-like structures but at least he's

00:50:48.240 in america and not insulated to the point where he can just delude himself into thinking oh yeah well

00:50:54.400 it's just this forever because we're at the end of history at least he understands he's fighting for

00:50:58.320 something that isn't guaranteed whereas the europeans thought they had this sewn up forever

00:51:04.880 um then you have this fake maloney response going around just to fyi this is not her real response to

00:51:10.320 this at india tales 7 i'll let you guess what continent they come from trump nato is nothing without

00:51:18.640 america which is obviously true maloney perfect then we'll close your bases ditch your trade deals and 0.96

00:51:22.320 boycott mcdonald's for good measure she doesn't even say that in the video she does ai slop is it

00:51:27.280 it's not even ai slop it's just a video from like three weeks ago or something so it's not even talking

00:51:31.920 about this and she's saying look what we supposed to do about this you know she's being realistic

00:51:35.680 about it right what her actual response was is to say look there's been a problem of understanding

00:51:40.640 your communication we must resume dialogue avoid escalation and that's what i'm working on

00:51:45.840 you know i spoke to donald trump i know what he's trying to do because maloney is not just a

00:51:49.920 technocrat now i'm not saying that she's perfect or anything like that she's the on the immigration 0.96

00:51:53.520 issues been atrocious but she is more lion-like than she is fox-like and this is the same ironically

00:52:01.760 with mark root right mark root got in trouble or he got mocked the a couple of months back for calling

00:52:08.640 trump daddy saying daddy's coming that also has something to do with the fact that it's an open

00:52:14.400 secret in dutch politics that he is not a heterosexual man no kidding um but the but the

00:52:21.200 point is that mark root has actually been doing a lot of good work for the europeans to charm trump

00:52:27.760 because mark root has realized okay the reign of the foxes is over right i can't just legislate i can't

00:52:34.640 just you know tell donald trump no i have rules and you have to follow these rules right it's come to

00:52:39.360 the point where it's clearly trump doesn't care about the rules and so what's mark root doing

00:52:43.920 mark root is invoking hierarchy right because in any pride of lions you have a hierarchy you have

00:52:50.720 the alpha who is at the top and then you have everyone else and they're in their own little

00:52:54.000 hierarchies underneath him and mark root has basically gone yeah no i am actually not the

00:52:58.960 alpha here whereas ursula von der leyen and all those they're trying to act like alpha foxes over the 1.00

00:53:03.840 lion it's like no no it's not gonna work exactly it's not gonna work and trump is just going to

00:53:09.200 literally wreck you as we've seen here and mark root he everyone's like oh my god he's licking 0.83

00:53:13.280 trump's boots or whatever it's like no he's just accepting he's not the boss right he's accepting

00:53:17.520 his place here ruta has been in politics enough that he knows when he's got to relent to someone

00:53:24.480 and he he he picked this up very quickly actually because he used to be a liberal global technocrat

00:53:30.720 blah blah blah when he was in charge of holland until suddenly it became apparent that trump wasn't

00:53:35.840 going to play that game and so he was like right okay yeah i know and so he's been very charming to

00:53:40.400 trump uh in the same way that frankly keir starmer has been as well right and so he's been uh deeply

00:53:46.960 uh invested in trying to mollify trump because you'll notice that what trump said is europe won't

00:53:52.320 come and help us if we're attacked right now there is the argument that they can't come and help you

00:53:56.720 because they're frankly a retirement home for the world but the question is the moral aspect would

00:54:05.120 if america if if a million chinese troops landed in america tomorrow and took over like california

00:54:10.240 uh would europe how many troops is europe sending and trump mentioned it in his speech i don't think

00:54:14.560 you're coming to our aid and that's because of california but it's for america right yeah but

00:54:20.240 and and there's every reason to think that because the europeans spend all of their time the european

00:54:24.080 leadership spend all their time condemning trump and trump views himself as a representation of

00:54:29.760 america and so they think as you see in the new york times oh there's a moral rift here so yes there

00:54:34.880 is and that's what trump has been arguing for you've got to stop being opposed to us you're meant to be our

00:54:40.880 allies we're meant to be in nature and that means you're meant to morally agree with us and the thing

00:54:45.760 is trump is not a moral innovator right trump has got orthodox american morality that was completely

00:54:52.640 stock in trade the moment the ceasefires hit after world war ii right every american thought what

00:54:58.560 donald trump thought every european thought what donald trump thought and it's the europeans who

00:55:02.560 have changed they're the ones who have gone doolally they drifted into the fantasy world exactly

00:55:07.680 managerial technocracy or whatever like this this libtard nonsense and so mark wright is actually 0.98

00:55:13.440 what's he saying here no no we will come out and help you if you're in trouble right he is saying

00:55:18.480 international relations will not be based on rules they'll be based on relationships we have

00:55:25.360 a relationship with you and you have a relationship with us because that's what trump's been complaining

00:55:28.880 about the whole time he's saying you you are not friendly to us you don't act like friends you act

00:55:35.120 like enemies you act like people who hate and despise us and we're not taking anymore and so he's saying

00:55:40.400 look i don't care about you because you think you've superseded relationships with the rules and you

00:55:45.440 you think that we're bound by the rules but we're the enforcers of the rules and if you don't treat

00:55:49.280 us in the way we want to be treated you're in trouble and mark ruck gets this and it's also worth

00:55:55.040 mentioning as well because he's secretary general of nato um that if ruta came out and said oh yeah by

00:56:02.320 the way um we're not going to help you it would sort of mean that nato would collapse and that would

00:56:08.720 and so he has to be somewhat uh deferential to trump because he wants everyone to stay on the

00:56:15.440 side and be on the same team you would think greenland but uh denmark would have the same

00:56:19.200 opinion then right because i mean if trump takes date greenland off of denmark well then nato collapses

00:56:23.760 as well so like you know the collapse of nato is definitely on the cards theoretically from all of

00:56:28.560 this but the the point being rutt is just speaking to him as someone with a relationship to him right

00:56:36.160 rather than someone who is appealing to an abstract impersonal set of rules that could be decided by

00:56:41.360 some you know arbitrary court or whatever and that's how trump wants to talk he already mentioned

00:56:46.800 it we don't think you'll come and help us and we're like oh no we absolutely would well there we go

00:56:50.400 so stop condemning us stop coming at us like we're enemies like we're morally repugnant or something

00:56:57.520 because you guys have adopted basically a new religion and you don't want to hear it and so that's

00:57:02.400 basically what i think the the main cause of the um rift is and why the europeans frankly will never

00:57:08.320 win this argument oh they're not winning then and even morally like they can never win the argument

00:57:14.400 because what they're asking for is preposterous and what trump's arguing for has been the moral

00:57:18.160 consensus of the united states for hundreds of years so he's never going to change but the europeans

00:57:24.880 are definitely out on a limb with all the mass immigration with the incredibly high tax with the

00:57:28.640 the same regulation with the top-down nature of society that's that's actually what was being

00:57:32.720 fought against in world war ii anyway i'll leave it there because i'm keep going on but anyway like

00:57:36.640 i said the islander article i've referenced it was just one paragraph the entire thing's gold i'm

00:57:40.720 probably gonna do another video about it because it's brilliant get a copy while you can right um

00:57:46.400 get some links samson

00:57:50.800 um sigil stone says the lion does not concern himself and the fox i'm not reading the rest of that

00:57:55.520 foxes sound very feminine the lions sound very masculine yeah another example of our society

00:58:02.400 being feminized to death it exactly is it is exactly that so the bad news is that we didn't make it but 0.87

00:58:09.200 the good news is the greatest youtube video of all time has been made i refer of course to this this is

00:58:14.960 a jesse james west who has made um female giants versus strongest dwarfs i mean you need to know nothing

00:58:22.800 more than that to know that i need to i need to watch this it's like a video idea if i were 12 years

00:58:28.880 old and that was like the best i could think of yes but it's also the best thing when you're like 40.

00:58:34.160 oh no i i'm not i'm not denigrating it whatsoever this is a genius idea if this had come up in my

00:58:39.200 recommended feed i would absolutely have clicked on it oh 100 100 yeah 100 brilliant brilliant really he

00:58:45.280 does a whole bunch of these videos like um and it's a lot of stuff like this so i saw him do one

00:58:49.840 which was um construction workers versus versus bodybuilders construction workers uh comprehensively

00:58:55.760 run that um and a whole bunch of other ones to be honest yeah these are important things though

00:59:00.320 because yes you need to know this yeah because the principle at play with the construction worker

00:59:05.200 thing is is applied fitness better than trained fitness and obviously it is right and everyone

00:59:11.120 knows that i saw a video a while ago about a guy who does rock climbing all right he was in the gym

00:59:16.320 and he's you know he doesn't look very big yeah he's wiry right and then you've got these massive

00:59:20.880 like inflated bodybuilds and so he's just on the seat he's just like and they're just like oh my god

00:59:27.680 you know and it's like yeah well you know actually you're not producing real strength when you're

00:59:32.240 building up these muscles you know you're producing size it's all those connected muscles and all that

00:59:37.120 kind of thing yeah absolutely uh one of the videos that he did and and and we dwell on this one for a

00:59:41.680 second is one of the videos he did is he got a whole bunch of female bodybuilders and then he went

00:59:47.520 out onto the street and just got like five random guys like one of them he met at the airport who

00:59:52.640 recognized him and he was like i'm doing a video later can you come along so he's got five completely

00:59:57.200 random guys and this uh lovely lady here um she she's an arm wrestling champion oh and as you can 0.95

01:00:03.680 see you'll see her arms are quite big you know she's got she's got some muscle on her i think she may 1.00

01:00:07.680 have injected something along the way um and steroid women versus average and she has this arm 0.80

01:00:12.720 wrestling competition you note she's she's perfect form she's dedicated she's focused he's got rubbish

01:00:19.040 form and he's laughing and joking the whole way through so how does a yeah you can uh but i just

01:00:25.040 set it up so so place your bets as to who wins a a arm wrestling champion who's huge or some random

01:00:32.480 guy who's larking around definitely the random guy yeah joe where's the sound gone samson

01:00:42.480 where is i've seen this

01:00:43.520 flexed off two one go get it done come on come on come on come on come on come on

01:01:03.520 ryan ryan stop laughing he's having such a laugh over this come on oh my god push push push

01:01:13.520 she's winning oh come on a little more dude 1.00

01:01:17.520 he's messing around with her he's playing put her down 0.98

01:01:23.520 he was letting her get that back yeah let's go and the whole video is like this it's uh oh we missed

01:01:29.520 the whole video is like this is this he's and and you can see that one behind i mean he is skinny as

01:01:34.640 hell yeah and i think they do lose a couple of events closely but but it's just five random guys and

01:01:41.040 they just win because and it's a lot and her muscles are bigger oh yeah but the thing is um 1.00

01:01:45.840 they need to be on women because there's a whole bunch of attributes i mean for a start men have got

01:01:49.440 stronger skeletons denser skeletons our muscles are denser and apparently the huge thing is our tendons

01:01:55.440 are significantly stronger and denser right and so it all adds up so women basically need 60 percent 1.00

01:02:00.880 more muscle to equal a blokes well the the sort of stat that is often banded around is men have 30

01:02:08.400 um higher upper body strength than women do on average it was 50. well i'll double check i think 0.77

01:02:15.760 yeah i think it's more than that when you add on the sort of skeleton the tendons as well

01:02:19.680 there are all sorts of other um physical advantages that men have though again not to try and

01:02:24.160 bigger supper oh there's a whole list yeah i'd look yeah it's playing to our strengths as a sex

01:02:29.360 really isn't it it's like motion detection okay it's saying anywhere between 40 to 90 percent

01:02:34.640 greater upper body strength okay men men detect movement swifter than women but women see more

01:02:40.800 colors than men and things like this like we are genuinely biologically different well there's the

01:02:45.120 i actually did a study at university um where we measured recognition of emotion you'd think well

01:02:50.720 that would be pretty comparable but men are better at recognizing anger in faces and women are better 0.79

01:02:56.160 at recognizing sadness and of course this plays on the different social roles we we adopt so so let's

01:03:01.680 get to the uh the main video there's a couple of bits i'm going to highlight from here i'm going to

01:03:06.000 i'm going to give you the first bit um uh and just just give you a flavor and then we'll start doing

01:03:11.680 some of the segments these are female giants i will point out at least one of them is a wood and they 1.00

01:03:20.400 are the world's strongest dwarves and they'll be competing in strength competitions all to find out

01:03:25.840 who is stronger starting with one rep max on the squats we've got maya right so um yeah then they go 0.57

01:03:34.400 into various things let's take us apparently 217 is where i want to go all right can i just declare

01:03:39.280 i'm immediately team dwarf regardless oh regardless we didn't have yes well one of them is attractive

01:03:45.520 but anyway yeah so uh so so the first bit i think i've got about a minute for you here so let's just

01:03:51.760 enjoy this we've got this um beast of a lovely lady and and and to be fair to her she looks strong 1.00

01:03:57.200 i mean yeah that is that is a damn decent squat i'll give you that uh so let's see how this um

01:04:03.600 absolute monster female squat compares against a dwarf dude 1.00

01:04:23.520 don't respect thank you however even though that was a PR for maya 495 was no problem for lorenzo

01:04:33.600 he had less far to go that is true that is true it's okay to quit do you need another talk i know

01:04:39.360 jesse already gave you guys one but i could come give you another one oh my god okay i will quickly

01:04:44.960 point out that talking on height happens constantly throughout this video i mean constantly that's

01:04:53.520 great i mean she they they even keep having a go at this jesse guy yeah and he's like 5'11 and they

01:04:59.040 they keep they keep mogging him and i don't know i don't know what it is with women but they have 1.00

01:05:03.120 like this absolute fixation about six foot yeah i guess yeah and but i've not noticed but but but

01:05:09.120 the thing is right you even if you are a female giant you can still date a dwarf and he still gets to 0.99

01:05:19.280 be your big strong man as we find out well maybe not well you're spoiling it here hang on a second

01:05:23.520 end you know i i couldn't predict beforehand that the all right okay we okay we still have no

01:05:28.880 idea how this is going to go so so the rest of the first event we did it a little two and a half

01:05:33.280 to make it five hundo 500 pounds baby which is a squat that most people only dream of ever reaching

01:05:39.440 there you go there you go okay we've been very sloppy on their support of the squat now i noticed

01:05:46.000 the guys are spotted and they should have been a bit more important go for something big all

01:05:55.200 right let's do it let's do it so so can he match 500 no he just blows straight past it to 585

01:06:02.720 that's another one just for the head of it one more why not oh the absence you should be dwarf maxed

01:06:21.040 as a tool person i do take it a little bit personally yeah he's got he's got

01:06:25.360 far less to squat finally i've got an advantage well i mean there are various things that he does

01:06:31.840 with it but um there we go that's the key image i've got to say as soon as they invent the holodeck

01:06:37.520 the first thing i'm doing in is going in this way computer i want a dwarf army of a hundred thousand

01:06:42.480 and and then i'm fighting like various historical battles at least one tyrannosaurus rex it will be

01:06:47.920 it'll be bloody awesome the only problem is is is being being a tool trap myself i'm gonna have to get

01:06:54.480 like a little human triangle pyramid just in case i've got snipers or anything i guess yeah

01:06:59.120 but uh you know that will be absolutely immense fun what you were saying about the dwarf protector

01:07:03.920 earlier i've just been thinking like you know this not only is is great for the reputation of

01:07:09.600 dwarfs worldwide but i was thinking about it like a dwarf protector if they're this strong

01:07:14.880 and the fact that many people i feel wouldn't want to fight a dwarf on principle i wouldn't i

01:07:20.880 wouldn't fight a dwarf on principle no matter how rude you want to fight anyone uh some people

01:07:25.280 fight anyone but not dwarf well not ideally but if if if another person of an a comparable height were

01:07:32.400 did something that right deserved it well you're more willing yes than than a dwarf and therefore i 0.65

01:07:38.960 feel like the society has been overlooking them i'm just thinking get this man a battle axe man you

01:07:43.760 know oh yeah yeah brilliant i want my dwarf army yeah and and you're right they should be dwarf maxing they

01:07:49.520 should be growing out the beard and everything yeah and also you know conventional militaries you

01:07:54.640 know the war in ukraine is trench warfare you know who's perfectly adapted yeah they are until you've

01:07:59.680 got to get out the trench well there's going to be little stairs you know they'll be all right and

01:08:05.040 there is a serious reason why i wanted to talk about this i mean i remember actually from your channel

01:08:09.840 years ago when you first started you you have this thing with anita sarkisian and i remember once you

01:08:16.560 played one of her videos and in that she actually says and she's being 100 serious here she says it's

01:08:22.960 a myth that men are stronger than women right yeah they think it's down to boys doing gym and sports

01:08:30.720 when they're young yes i mean girls they genuinely think this you know there are many women out there

01:08:35.760 that just think genetics don't exist because they've got no direct experience of them therefore

01:08:40.560 they're not a factor the thing is though that doesn't even make sense because i mean like during pe

01:08:44.960 the women weren't like in maths or something right they also had pe so everyone's got pe at the same 1.00

01:08:50.560 time you're both on two different fields yeah so i mean i found a whole bunch of videos of like of

01:08:55.600 those vox pop strings in the street where they go in there where they go to like liberal universities

01:08:59.520 and ask women uh is it true that men are stronger and and so many of them to say no this this was a

01:09:04.880 thread um um which is about you know these feminists talking about it and um some of them are saying oh 1.00

01:09:11.120 yeah uh actually no um men men are stronger and why are so many of these feminists why why are so 1.00

01:09:18.080 many people because this is the feminist board of mumsnet right right they're saying why so many

01:09:22.320 women saying it's not i mean i've had women say i hate myself because i don't think the fastest

01:09:27.360 hundred meter runner will ever be female yes so obviously true and and then this actually

01:09:32.240 particular thread gets filled up with anecdotes of women saying yeah actually i found out i used to 1.00

01:09:36.480 to think that and then i found out that my boyfriend could just put me over his shoulder

01:09:39.680 and run up a hill i think it was like serena or venus williams that were having an interview i've

01:09:44.000 said this before there was a few years ago where they were being interviewed by feminists in like 0.98

01:09:47.680 2014 or something oh you're the number one tennis player in the world how would you be if you were

01:09:51.360 competing against men she's like oh 500th something like that yeah yeah start me at 500 down yeah and 0.96

01:09:56.240 you like it when they're realistic about it it's just like oh yeah i can give you a direct example of

01:10:01.280 this so this is um julia penner and she is a ultimate fighting champion um she was the champion

01:10:08.320 in 2021 now she she's not considered to be in the top 10 of all time but just outside it right she's

01:10:16.880 somewhere like 11th to 15th i'm sure she could kick my ass you know i i don't well okay and in fact 0.99

01:10:23.120 she's going to tell a story exactly like this so when she was on her way up in eminent just before she

01:10:28.000 made it really big but she was you know basically a full-time nma fighter at this point but still 1.00

01:10:33.520 doing a little bit of waitressing she got into well i'll i'll let her tell you uh the story herself

01:10:39.440 uh let's make sure we've got sound on this i could beat a man i went into the back alley while

01:10:45.200 i was serving and i fought the line cook going at each other for a long time a long story he dropped

01:10:51.440 me uh three times i got dropped i popped right back up i went at him again he dropped me again i had

01:10:57.040 my eyes swollen shut for three days and 11 stitches in my eye i thought that i could fight a man i don't

01:11:02.320 have any ego to be like i could beat a man learned my lesson i don't want anything to do with fighting

01:11:07.120 dudes i actually was in my head of being like no i'm a pro fighter i can fight this guy and i'm gonna

01:11:13.600 beat him juliana he's six three you're five six like take that into account you know or like trying to

01:11:19.840 like bob and weave your way in there to like get him down all i gotta do is get in close and take him

01:11:25.120 down and then i'll choke him i couldn't even do that because the second that i tried to enter i 0.63

01:11:28.640 was getting dropped i got fired and he got to keep his job there was a guy that was watching the whole

01:11:33.840 time and he didn't stop it who is this line you might miss the bit yeah but the funniest bit is

01:11:38.480 some bloke just having a cigarette just watching the whole thing it doesn't get involved i would

01:11:42.640 like to say one thing ever so quickly that the notion of there being female ufc fighters and mma 1.00

01:11:48.880 fighters makes me a little bit uncomfortable in that when i've i've watched a fair amount of it

01:11:54.640 and it i always feel like i shouldn't be watching this this is a bit dirty you know it's just like

01:11:59.200 this doesn't feel right but it's even worse when you're who's the trans man well that that was the 0.99

01:12:04.640 thing that i was dancing around because youtube is a bit funny about this yeah but literally like

01:12:08.560 broke someone's skull or something yeah that's right yeah i can't remember if it was ronda rousey or

01:12:12.240 whatever but this woman was like i'd never been punched like that before yeah i'd never felt she said 0.99

01:12:16.160 i've never felt forced like that before and it's a real question mark is why are women in women's 1.00

01:12:22.960 sport why why are they delusional enough to think that yeah and why why is it being allowed and it's

01:12:27.760 obviously just feminism yeah and the thing that really got me about this is um my my oldest now

01:12:33.920 at the sort of the age where she can watch iron man um you know marvel movies and we watched this

01:12:38.960 and then there was this scene and it's the one where um was it black widow i think it is he's fighting

01:12:44.960 like five or six guys in a row and my daughter saw this and turned around and said wow women can 1.00

01:12:49.760 fight men and i was going to say something but the wife was on it straight away she like paused 1.00

01:12:55.200 paused the thing and she was like no don't believe that this is fantasy if you ever try this it will

01:13:00.800 just it'll go back anyway let's watch the fight scene i'm going to do the sound off so we don't get

01:13:05.920 copyright and i've slowed it down a bit so we we can chat about it as we go so here we go um a couple of

01:13:11.360 guys are coming nice shot of uh scarlett johansson i don't know anything about marvel like does she

01:13:17.360 have magical powers or something no she doesn't no she's had magical training right so she's right

01:13:22.560 so she's she's a normal human woman yes that's had a complete baseline human just advanced training

01:13:28.320 yes right okay so first of all she throws a couple of tic-tacs that explode at the men seems 1.00

01:13:33.280 inconvenient um and then and then let's go for it so she sweeps that guy out and he falls on his 1.00

01:13:38.560 shoulder right that's him done he he's he is now out he's now out of the fight and funny like that

01:13:46.480 exact thing happened to me just the other day do you remember when it was really icy we had all that

01:13:50.000 black ice outside the office and and you came pulling up on your bike but i i was just getting

01:13:54.720 off my getting off my ass at that point because i've been walking along stood on some black ice 0.73

01:13:59.040 and basically did that but the thing is on that same journey i'd basically come off my bike onto

01:14:04.880 my shoulder yes it wasn't it didn't happen and and what didn't happen is we didn't didn't lie there

01:14:09.200 for the rest of the day no no we got straight back up again but anyway so that that guy is down and he's

01:14:13.840 he's out of the fight so let's see how she's going to handle the next one so what's she gonna do she

01:14:20.160 stands on his leg and kicks him in the face there we go and he's down he's done right then she's got her 0.95

01:14:27.520 clothesline or maybe one of her hair ties she blocks a strike what does she do he stopped kicks 0.99

01:14:34.640 him in the upper thigh well you slow it down the choreography looks even worse right and she's 1.00

01:14:41.440 got a clothesline around his neck right he can't do anything now now he's grotted she he she did you

01:14:48.240 see that she she dodged that guy yeah he couldn't connect so he fell over and he's now out of it

01:14:53.120 idiot um this guy what was he gonna do how's she gonna handle that she's gonna send in the dwarves 1.00

01:14:58.400 yeah she's going to oh kick his upper arm and he's down and clothesline the other guy now he's out so 1.00

01:15:06.880 that's that's six guys down with barely any contact but they do it fast enough that it just about looks

01:15:14.720 plausible when you watch it why are the other two guys just laying on the floor oh and all she's going

01:15:19.600 to do a signature move here where she basically uh tea bags him but in reality he would be perfectly

01:15:26.400 happy with this scenario just be holding her like yeah like she's no scarlet breathing deep

01:15:34.640 dear lord she catches his arm oh what's he gonna do oh he's he's suffering real stress what's going

01:15:43.920 on with his left arm why isn't he attacking her well because oh and a kick to the back of the 1.00

01:15:49.360 shoulders that's it he's done right and now we've got the only legitimate takedown in the

01:15:55.920 entire thing the only one that i actually believe how does she do the next guy 1.00

01:16:01.520 we get it might take a while since i've slowed this right down

01:16:05.360 still we get to what watch scarlet i guess i don't yeah she pepper sprays him oh she should 1.00

01:16:12.000 have been doing that from the beginning to be honest why was he just standing there well because

01:16:16.080 otherwise he wouldn't be able to be pepper sprayed so um so there was that so um yes this is the kind

01:16:23.120 of thing i'm talking about now let's get back to the um to the dwarves shall we i think we've been

01:16:27.600 away for too long so so the next segment uh 4 10 apparently so oh yes this is fun um we are going to

01:16:36.480 have um they're going to be versus versus a car now i've got to say this is brilliant if i ever become

01:16:46.560 a very rich man i'm not going to have an engine in my car i'm just going to have a team of dwarves 0.97

01:16:50.640 if you want to talk over you got to turn the sound off all right

01:16:55.280 there's just two of them as well it's just two of them yeah this is going to be my apocalypse

01:16:59.440 mode of meditation i want this

01:17:05.600 there we go easy now this one i this one i would say favors the women because they've got 1.00

01:17:10.800 they're much taller one step for them is um yeah you think there'd be something about like the way

01:17:17.920 that physics works with legs that you get more of a grip because you've got a longer stride so you've

01:17:24.000 got more pull i don't imagine it would be the other way around i don't know lower to the ground

01:17:28.560 it'll be easier to to pull something because of the you know it's like i'm not a physicist i don't

01:17:35.040 know you you reckon the dwarves should win this one do you josh let's see i think the dwarves will win 0.73

01:17:39.520 yeah my first instinct was the women when i saw this the first time i would have thought something 1.00

01:17:45.440 about their body mass just being higher would have been more helpful yes

01:17:52.000 really close looks like they're pulling in slightly different directions yeah they're struggling

01:17:55.840 oh no but the yeah it's really coming into play now there's long legs

01:18:03.440 and get good speed up yeah

01:18:06.880 well dwarves are deadly sprinters over short distances all right wasted on cross country 1.00

01:18:14.560 though they are wasted on cross country so um yeah surprisingly close this one

01:18:19.840 it came down to as you will see milliseconds really really oh yeah wow okay i mean that

01:18:27.040 it's extremely close it's a win for the girls win is it is a win for the girls right uh where's my mouse

01:18:35.600 where's the bloody mouse oh here we go right okay next one i've got is the bar pool at 7 44.

01:18:42.320 uh now this one yep okay um a pool place your bets now quickly before

01:18:53.280 what here we go yeah who's who's going to win this i was definitely going to be dwarves look at the

01:18:57.600 the difference in arm mass what do you say carl i i say this is where the dwarf starts coming into his

01:19:02.240 own oh what no no i suppose because you can use your legs on the wooden plank can't you so it's like

01:19:09.040 a row she's got a lot of yeah yeah it's like a row i just realized now what they're actually

01:19:13.920 trying to do so yeah i think i think they did a couple of those and the women do win them every 1.00

01:19:17.440 time that's playing playing to their height advantage i think yeah there is that come on

01:19:23.040 dwarves yeah we've we've got to get it back right uh what's uh 10 24 um just remind myself what happens

01:19:32.560 there oh right okay this is oh this okay so they're doing deadlift and basically the dwarves 0.75

01:19:38.160 are destroying them absolutely destroying the women on deadlift then the women they have they 1.00

01:19:45.760 have an innovation they realize uh that they can put two of them on a bar well this is the typical

01:19:52.240 girl maths yes so um there you go they take it so so this this guy has just absolutely mugged them

01:19:59.360 you can see he's got like a an extra two plates this like josh was saying this is about the height

01:20:03.760 thing right like he only has to lift it a couple of inches and he's there is a squat and compact and

01:20:08.160 stuff like that so he's got like all of his core muscles are like engaged whereas she's all the way

01:20:12.400 down and it's probably in her shoulders or whatever right so the door's got natural advantage here 0.99

01:20:17.200 i'm saying this partly out of self-interest because i see short people out squat me at the gym it's

01:20:22.320 annoying you've you've missed the innovation because the girls have gone too the dwarves suddenly 0.74

01:20:26.480 realized oh hang on a minute well we can fit free in easy they could hold that all day absolutely

01:20:34.240 i think one of them could have could have could have done that by themselves um let's get a bit

01:20:39.520 of classic tug of war going at 3 15 shall we oh yeah um who do you reckon wins a tug of war tiny

01:20:47.200 people i think it's the same thing with the rowing right because the wrong legs is going to give the

01:20:50.480 women the advantage i think you're probably right there let's maybe the low center of gravity i don't 1.00

01:20:55.120 know let's have a bit of sound back so we can hear the mugging it's all good the short guys

01:21:00.000 three two one go pull pull pull oh this is quick let's go let's go let's go it's stuck it's not

01:21:06.720 there yet let's go come on come on nice coordination with the dwarves

01:21:15.440 yeah long legs long legs do win that one they will give them that one probably body mass as well 1.00

01:21:20.240 now that the ladies got the lead their confidence was taller oh i'm pretty sure they are like 1.00

01:21:25.200 literally twice the height yeah so so well done well done ladies on that one um i think probably the 0.98

01:21:34.640 most um fun one that's an interesting gap um 14 47 okay how do we think um wrestling i've seen this

01:21:46.800 part clipped already so i can't answer women and three dwarves is gonna go you've got to get the 1.00

01:21:52.960 other party out of the ring i've got to say the women were super hyped about this one i bet they 1.00

01:21:57.600 were and to be honest with you if i were one of the doors i'd probably be hyped about it too

01:22:02.960 i i'm team dwarf all the way so so the women the women were loving it when they got to this bit 0.99

01:22:08.720 because they have this little huddle beforehand and they're like just pick them up and throw them

01:22:12.960 out yeah that's what i would be thinking just do that but they don't understand the mindset of the

01:22:16.720 dwarf yeah but so so the dwarves are coming into this one with a bit of a disadvantage um because

01:22:23.600 because they they can just be picked up and thrown out can team dwarf give us the goods

01:22:30.160 i'll give us a bit of extra volume for this one actually let's let's let's crank up the volume

01:22:35.600 play it next up we got the three versus three and this round should be a bit more interesting

01:22:40.720 assuming each team chose their competitors wisely keep those knees off the ground three 0.50

01:22:46.560 two come on big dog one go come on

01:22:54.720 are you are you okay are you okay yo boys bring it in bring it in round two to the boys with the

01:23:14.960 last round it's gonna be worth five points with everyone everyone step in all right you guys need a

01:23:23.440 strategy last round they they they are scrambling around you and pushing you guys out i did not

01:23:28.720 expect this pick them up and throw them out i think i need to see some viciousness from you guys don't

01:23:33.760 let her pick you up you right good idea hands in team tall three one two three team tall and so with 0.99

01:23:40.560 the strategies in place their quest for victory continued which is just like my quest for 10 million

01:23:45.600 subscribers which reminds me every 250 000 subscribers that we gain on our way to 10 million

01:23:53.440 come on careful careful careful careful no way he's out he's out he's out that's not out that's not

01:24:00.800 out oh my god oh my god last man standing last man standing wait i hear you you fell didn't you fall

01:24:08.240 no i didn't touch the guys win are you okay are you okay i need to watch the replay because i literally

01:24:16.880 jumped on top of him so i don't believe that he didn't touch the ground so she went into the

01:24:22.720 strategy of just pick them up and throw them out and it ended up i just jumped on top of him and he

01:24:27.840 chucked me out but the point being it's not the worst thing in the world for the dwarves right you 1.00

01:24:30.960 mean yeah i think the doors are having fun i didn't see a very funny comment about this um when there was

01:24:35.760 a dwarf with a woman oh no no wait wait wait wait wait wait wait we we're coming we're coming to 0.99

01:24:40.880 that um uh 16 uh 50 here right um i i i think we i think we've got to listen to this because because

01:24:49.520 this is the absolute cherry on top of the entire event everyone's okay that was nuts the final tie

01:24:57.920 breaker i didn't want to get to this point guys i didn't want to do it but we're gonna have to do it

01:25:01.520 we're doing fireman carries for time with opposing teams on your back let's go guys will carry the

01:25:07.600 girls girls will carry the guys who wants to step forward to carry somebody step forward okay who 0.98

01:25:13.360 do you want to carry oh what did i do oh you want emily samson save us all right here we go so anyway

01:25:24.240 whoever gets back to me first you have to go get around the green plate and back three two one go

01:25:31.520 oh this is good viewing right here oh this is a leg leg leg leg yeah the women should win this 1.00

01:25:40.160 i saw someone say that this is what it was like to watch the romans carry back their northern

01:25:46.080 european life the celtic one go go go winners winners he he stole his lord at crime yeah just

01:25:56.640 he gets a keeper if you enjoyed the video subscribe to the channel check out everybody's socials down

01:26:13.920 below but most importantly do not forget one two three stay relentless peace oh maybe okay maybe

01:26:23.200 there's a lovely bit where they where they do as the doors to a somersault and that's what you want

01:26:26.800 you want somersaulting dwarves uh but yeah this is the bit that josh was mentioning how many times

01:26:33.440 throughout human history has this happened too many i'm going to guess quite a lot quite in fact i think

01:26:39.360 for for about 290 of our 300 000 years of human evolution this was basically just a regular scene

01:26:48.160 all the time so i'm here for that return to tradition there we go have we got video comments

01:26:55.120 today samson um hector x says uh what surprised me most about the trump thing when he pulled out a

01:27:00.000 copy of island of five and told everyone he'd tariff them if they didn't all buy a copy that's a good

01:27:03.760 point i should uh i should message him about that uh cumbrian kulak says uh totalitarian bs i remember

01:27:09.680 seeing something on x about how intermittent energy wasn't going to cut it for ai panopticon needs our

01:27:14.720 dear leaders are suddenly demanding nuclear and fossil fuels it's always about control

01:27:19.200 uh resistance to tyranny is obedience to god uh but that's correct that's exactly correct

01:27:24.720 while they thought it affected you alone they were fine with it as soon as they think it affects them

01:27:30.240 and their system oh well hang on a second guys but sorry let's go to the video comments

01:27:36.560 yesterday's coverage of trump and greenland was well let's not mince words retarded 0.85

01:27:41.680 ferraz covered it so much better in his real politic and it's a shame the lotuses of staff

01:27:45.840 appear not to keep up with him trump is not going to invade greenland while denmark owns it but

01:27:50.960 denmark is transitioning greenland to independence leaving it utterly vulnerable china will step in at 0.81

01:27:57.200 that point forcing trump to react trump wants idiots like carney or starmer in charge of canada 0.84

01:28:02.800 and britain because they're weak and they cannot stand against him ultimately the populations will

01:28:07.360 realize they need right-wing leaders and trump can welcome them from a position of strength

01:28:12.400 you know that's a really good i i didn't see yesterday's podcast no i didn't i was on it i

01:28:16.480 didn't okay were you the one with the crap take no i was talking about something else i can't even 0.56

01:28:22.560 remember what i was covering yesterday i know it's i'm free in a row right as soon as the day's over

01:28:27.600 that's it man i'm done um yeah i didn't see the take on the podcast but uh could see that ferraz is on

01:28:33.680 the money but that's i think that's exactly the right take trump wants the nation of foxes the continent of

01:28:39.120 foxes to do as they're told and when we finally get some lions they're going to know their place in

01:28:43.760 the pack let's get to the next one so our cringy spineless get of a prime minister is trying to

01:28:51.760 push in a hate speech law here in australia and it went as well as an unsinkable turn in the mcdonald's 0.99

01:28:57.680 bathroom the bill has been rejected by the opposition as well as the greens because they didn't want a

01:29:03.440 discrimination against muslims surprise surprise so albanese has decided to split the bill into a

01:29:09.840 guns reform act which means banning guns and a hate speech bill which will work as well as it did in

01:29:15.440 the uk rules for thee but not for me says albanese yeah australia was terrifying all of these foxes are

01:29:24.000 the same yeah all the same i mean if if you guys didn't have the the terrifying government you have

01:29:30.720 probably one of the the most dystopian other than maybe new zealand in this sort of anglo sphere

01:29:37.440 you're it would sort of be heaven on earth for anglos wouldn't it in australia because everything

01:29:42.080 else is going very well apart from the fact that the spiders and snakes are as toxic as the politicians

01:29:48.320 that's true but there's not i found out recently that they're not really that common to come across

01:29:53.920 them there are many australians that never come across these things especially if they live in a city

01:29:58.640 okay that makes me feel better just don't go into the outback and i wouldn't go into the outback

01:30:03.280 let's go to the next one i have a dream that one day democrats will stop acting like retards 0.97

01:30:14.080 that one day they'll stop letting criminals into our country just so they can steal elections with their 0.88

01:30:21.280 ballots they finally realize they're only two genders and that men can never get pregnant 0.89

01:30:33.680 ai really is good for politics oh it's it's it's top meme team i don't know what you're on about he

01:30:39.040 actually said that this is a real video is there another one samson no uh canis familiar says uh

01:30:45.760 would be great for us in europe if trump which uh here is telling the truth hadn't just made himself

01:30:50.240 toxic even to european nationalists well this is the point that um alex just made isn't it um

01:30:56.480 the basically we've got to man up on our own and we can't expect trump to sort of raise us up we've

01:31:01.760 got to do this ourselves um because he's just batting around us but also the the right has just

01:31:06.640 got to be less squeamish yeah yeah yeah 100 um sorry we're out we're almost out of time but i'll go

01:31:12.720 for a few more just uh because uh mason says ultimately standing up for oneself requires not only a

01:31:17.200 credible threat of force but a willingness to accept sacrifice as a principal beneficiary of

01:31:21.440 world war the second world war the united states could at least justify the cost in lives as

01:31:24.720 worthwhile in the post war era europe has largely lost the appetite for such sacrifice yeah that's

01:31:28.960 what we were talking about in the round table it's just like look we just haven't got it in us anymore

01:31:33.280 you know it's just sad frankly um omar says it's common for sci-fi uh in sci-fi for factions of

01:31:40.080 diverging philosophy to develop between extraordinary extortionately expensive green energy and mandatory

01:31:45.200 and multi-culti brownie i get the feeling that we're locked in we're locked out of the technological

01:31:49.520 and purist progression trees so hideous by so the hideous bio engineered mutant faction it is 0.74

01:31:55.120 well i mean this is this is what they've chosen for us uh we better get one from the dwarves uh from 0.97

01:32:00.160 the dwarf section jan havvy says uh i think men have better spatial awareness than women too that's correct 0.86

01:32:06.560 which is why women drivers is a meme uh which is one of the reasons probably they're better in combat 1.00

01:32:11.600 generally speaking yeah it's it's loads of stuff though but it's like it's like reaction time um

01:32:16.640 noticing things is is yeah spatial awareness the entire physiology is built around combat yes whereas

01:32:22.400 women's entire physiology is built around children children yeah not combat yeah more dwarf representation 1.00

01:32:28.400 yes it's been very good isn't it um bodybuilders lift to look pretty construction workers lift to make

01:32:33.440 sure they're alive yeah exactly um exactly um uh cumber and cool like also says carl and dan i really

01:32:39.760 enjoyed the heated round table you had with harry and stelios completely on your side perspective

01:32:44.000 might is right portrayal of this eternal and enduring truth welcomes a much needed reality check

01:32:48.880 hope you hope you hopefully europe stops being so pathetic yeah it would be nice if that were the 1.00

01:32:53.200 case but unfortunately run by a bunch of school moms and that's not going to change anytime soon 1.00

01:32:57.040 but maybe in a few years that will change so fingers crossed anyway thank you all for joining us

01:33:01.680 i hope you had a good time i i particularly enjoyed dan's segment although i enjoyed my own and yours

01:33:06.080 you know thank you was also fun um but uh i don't think we've got any other shows this afternoon

01:33:10.800 so i've got nothing to promote so we'll see you tomorrow have a great day well

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - January 22, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1338

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