The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1401

00:00:01.000 Hello, and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1,401 for Tuesday, the 21st

00:00:08.200 of April, 2026.

00:00:09.880 I'm your host, Luca, joined today by two very sound gentlemen, Stelios and Dan.

00:00:14.260 How are you both?

00:00:14.880 Chaps.

00:00:15.080 Hi, everyone.

00:00:15.820 Wonderful.

00:00:16.500 And today we're going to be talking all about Syrians actually starting to return home. 0.84

00:00:21.260 We're then going to be talking about Zach Polanski's very communist solutions, I suppose

00:00:27.640 is the way to put it.

00:00:28.760 And then we're going to be talking about the dialectic of progressivism, because apparently Clarence Thomas has a few things to say about it.

00:00:37.400 So that should all be very good.

00:00:39.860 That's a good reason to talk about it.

00:00:41.760 Yeah, if Clarence Thomas is saying something, then it's good to listen.

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00:01:26.980 sensible haven't done one of harpies yet i'm gonna have to cover that yes yeah well if you if you need

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00:01:44.000 all right so with that all said let's get into things shall we so obviously the syrian civil war

00:01:51.280 erupted back in 2011 around the time when the rest of the arab spring was you know going up all

00:01:57.360 across uh you know north africa and many of the arab muslim countries in the world and as a result

00:02:03.840 of this you know as things escalated year on year as well um angela merkel took it on herself out of

00:02:11.040 her own sense of very very overpowering german guilt and also the fact that she saw the refugee

00:02:18.560 crisis as a means to basically um kind of rehabilitate germany's reputation right on

00:02:26.960 amongst the international community if we can just be seen to do this selfless benevolent thing 0.91

00:02:32.640 that is a pure unalloyed good then everything will work out all right the germans never need 0.51

00:02:38.560 much excuse to hit the self-destruct button no no this is true but the problem as well with all of

00:02:44.300 this is of course if the sort of expectations of said international community and the un the

00:02:51.440 refugee council all these sorts of institutions the eu itself of course if they're all saying

00:02:56.920 that the policies you have to enact to for us to basically have you in the good books happen to be 0.65

00:03:03.780 policies that Germany has to enact that will endanger German lives, then I would suggest

00:03:09.520 that actually those institutions aren't really worth listening to. And actually, that would be

00:03:15.140 a very morally unacceptable thing to do as the leader of Germany. But we could see it all started

00:03:22.840 very much quite literally with flowers and candles and coffee as refugees began to pour into

00:03:29.680 Germany from across Syria. And as this went on, of course, we basically got to the now very, 0.87

00:03:37.340 very infamous and, you know, a point, frankly, in European history in the 21st century that will

00:03:43.940 never be forgotten, which was, of course, Angela Merkel's Verschaffendass, you know,

00:03:48.440 we can do it, where she went on, as it reporting from the time went on to say,

00:03:53.780 the Chancellor made the issue of refugees the focus of her press conference. It is not a natural

00:03:58.540 disaster that we are seeing in many places she said but we are seeing a large number of disastrous

00:04:03.900 situations she pointed the to the example of the tragedy in austria where only last week the bodies

00:04:10.080 of 71 refugees were found in a lorry angler merkel spoke of quote inconceivable atrocities 1.00

00:04:17.040 and unimaginable images and she stressed that this is before she brought them all in yes right

00:04:24.200 because it's also after yes yes yes i mean the the horrors it's there's a thing of course there

00:04:29.740 were only certain horrors right that she couldn't bear to see the horrors that matter the ones that

00:04:34.740 happen to people who aren't german yes who aren't her concern that's right she's not concerned about

00:04:39.400 the horrors that happen to germans who are her you've got it right right but also just let me

00:04:43.820 just say because this was a very complex period back then i remember all of it because greece was

00:04:49.580 also involved we had a very uh bad government at the time citizen that uh did play a part in 0.98

00:04:55.740 in flooding europe with uh you know lots of people from syria but one thing to say that

00:05:01.240 when it comes to merkel merkel didn't live during the world war ii she had the uh different

00:05:09.300 experience in her mind she was born in east germany and the east west germany divide is what

00:05:16.180 essentially formed her psyche she wanted to be in the west and was denied in a way she couldn't

00:05:23.180 well there's a wall yeah so that's much more uh formative for her an experience than any other

00:05:31.420 you know experience regarding world war ii as people on in some circles imply yeah okay uh and

00:05:38.780 but merkel stressed that it's important to have clear principles and that we must be um

00:05:43.400 And these must be complied with in dealing with refugees.

00:05:47.940 These principles are laid out in our basic law or constitution, she said.

00:05:52.100 The German law provides basic law provides for the right to asylum for individuals fleeing political persecution.

00:05:58.220 We should be proud of the humanitarian principles enshrined in the basic law, said Merkel.

00:06:03.900 Germany also guarantees to protect individuals fleeing from these wars.

00:06:07.960 and at the same time the chancellor took a clear stance on every form of xenophobia we will be

00:06:15.600 using the full force of the law against those who verbally or physically attack others who

00:06:20.980 torch shelters or try to resort to violence there is zero tolerance for those who call in to question

00:06:26.580 the dignity of others stressed angler merkel and the chancellor urged germans not to get involved

00:06:32.700 in demonstrations to protest against the refugees coming into the country now there is one thing

00:06:39.040 here because if you were say for example attack like burning refugee shelters then that is one

00:06:45.600 thing that's not what she said what she said was zero tolerance for questions yes right okay and

00:06:50.560 here we go and so we see the the natural conclusion of all of that playing out now you know 10 years

00:06:56.160 down the line where the the afd is under constant surveillance from german intelligence how they're 0.83

00:07:02.320 basically just making germans second-class citizens in their own home and not to mention 0.89

00:07:06.980 of course all of the rampant crime that has come with it um she went on to say germany is a strong

00:07:12.820 country we have already achieved so much time and time again germany has risen to a challenge said

00:07:18.420 she said giving the examples of german reunification 25 years ago and the country's

00:07:24.420 energy shift to put energy supplies on the more sustainable footing and the effective assistance

00:07:30.840 of um it is provided in the face of natural disasters and as we've covered in a lot of the

00:07:36.680 time since then those energy disasters that germany was dealing with and many of the other

00:07:42.140 things it seems that they weren't quite the german elites weren't quite as um you know didn't have

00:07:48.520 quite as a thorough plan as they anticipated in doing so let's go to the statistics quickly on

00:07:54.280 the energy thing i mean that's because they because they were reliant on russian gas and

00:07:58.300 nuclear they closed down all the nuclear went all in on russian gas and then decided to sanction

00:08:02.040 russian gas right not a great plan but my point is is kind of predictable yes yeah don't become

00:08:09.120 energy dependent 100 yeah and then sanction them yes um you could arguably say that there was

00:08:17.760 tremendous pressure by the biden administration to the germans to sanction them because the germans

00:08:24.000 didn't rush to sanction russia so we can see here from the uh this ranking table so turkey took by

00:08:31.720 far and away the most syrian refugees followed by lebanon and then germany ahead of surrounding

00:08:38.540 you know areas such as jordan iraq egypt that were obviously much much closer and much more

00:08:44.940 current uh culturally you know i would suggest in sync with um syrian people then uh secular

00:08:52.400 Christian, whichever it may be, you know, Germany. However, it is what it is, and as a result of all

00:08:59.320 of this, this obviously resulted in quite a good number of atrocities. And I will just say with

00:09:05.560 this as well that though I am going to go through and pick out some of the worst examples that 1.00

00:09:11.460 have been committed by, you know, the actions of Syrians who have, you know, come under the guise

00:09:16.780 of asylum into germany i just want to clarify that what i am not doing is suggesting that

00:09:22.580 every syrian refugee is a murderer in waiting or just a criminal that's not what i'm suggesting

00:09:29.200 there are many uh families you know from syria who have naturally um kept the safety of their

00:09:36.540 families at heart and have tried to flee the country i understand that what i don't understand

00:09:42.060 is the european gamble for basically well we are going to do this and at what point does it become

00:09:50.040 okay we're losing too many of our own people to to those that have been there in that right

00:09:55.500 there is no risk there is no regard for the safety of the europeans themselves and this is what my 1.00

00:10:02.200 contention is with you know if a syrian wants to go to uh lebanon to to try and you know find 0.98

00:10:07.720 sanctuary absolutely fine but why would germany allow this especially after ever since this 0.69

00:10:14.740 happened we have an entire litany of examples of where it all goes disastrously wrong so we can see

00:10:21.260 here that the 15 people were injured for seriously in the suicide bombing back in 2016 in bavaria

00:10:28.660 we also point to the fact that in 2016 a syrian asylum seeker stabbed um his girlfriend with a

00:10:35.880 on a kebab knife surrounded by bystanders and they were also harmed in it too and then of course we

00:10:43.840 get onto the fact that whilst all of this was going on this was still at a time when ISIS was

00:10:48.620 very much powerful in the region of the Middle East and were trying to create the little caliphate

00:10:54.500 and so as a result of that a German court found Syrian citizen Issa al-Hassan guilty of an Islamic

00:11:01.980 state inspired uh 2024 stabbing attack on the festival in the western city of uh solingen

00:11:10.760 solingen uh in which three people were killed and 10 others injured and this is my point

00:11:16.560 how many refugees does it take for you to feel good about yourself as a world leader and how 0.97

00:11:23.680 many lives of german people does it take to negate that good feeling and maybe give you a bit of 1.00

00:11:29.660 pause for thought that you might this all might have been a bit of a disaster there's no answer

00:11:34.260 there no because the it's just infinite and you you mentioned the solingen knife attacks because

00:11:41.140 that was a i think there was a diversity festival there i may be mistaken check it out check it out

00:11:46.400 but i think there was a diversity festival there yes in which this attack happened and the response

00:11:52.080 was let's ban knives and what is interesting when we're covering germany is that the government of

00:11:59.460 Germany both the previous coalition and the one that is currently governing which is the same

00:12:04.580 basically the same two parties with a different leadership is that they are they seem to be very

00:12:10.600 much interested in micromanaging decline and something that really annoys people and I'm

00:12:17.240 annoyed with it I imagine that if you're a German you're annoyed even more with it is that this

00:12:23.140 whatever this policy is it is clothed in the name of is presented in the name of humanitarianism

00:12:30.300 but the humanitarianism involved is very selective and this ties to exactly what you were saying

00:12:35.160 before it's like when you are taking a huge risk you are putting your own population in danger 0.87

00:12:42.800 because let's face it multiculturalism especially in europe when it comes with people from the mean 1.00

00:12:50.260 countries doesn't have exactly a track record of success so when you're taking such a massive risk 0.99

00:12:57.180 and after every event you don't show that you're willing to self-correct or at least allow criticism

00:13:06.940 that's when people start saying well no you're you're against me you don't care about the human

00:13:12.600 rights in general you care about the human rights of refugees who come here and disrespect the human

00:13:19.480 rights of Europeans. Absolutely. Before the attack on August 23rd, he had been in touch with an IS 1.00

00:13:28.400 handler via Telegram messaging platform and recorded a video announcing his allegiance to

00:13:34.120 them. And the other thing to just mention with all of this is that, of course, though I am

00:13:38.880 focusing on Germany in this segment, of course, it's not just Germany, right? Germany is not the

00:13:45.340 only country in Europe to have taken in Syrian refugees and so we have here Syrian brothers

00:13:51.160 Omar and Mohammed who came over I believe so sorry I'll read further down the attackers were

00:13:59.360 aged between 15 and 21 when the abuser victim between 2018-2019 Newcastle Crown Court heard

00:14:08.120 the girl said they tortured her making her childhood a living nightmare and I am sure

00:14:14.640 that's somewhere further down here i meant to put it in my notes i apologize um yes uh who moved

00:14:21.120 to the uk as refugees from the war in syria uh telling her she would be killed and taken to

00:14:27.500 another country so this was all monstrous and britain took significantly fewer syrian refugees 0.93

00:14:34.900 than other countries and yet we have here such films were made about it like the old oak by 0.98

00:14:42.280 ken loach which was basically a film from someone who was well i'm far left too left wing for my

00:14:49.120 take but taste but he was a very respected filmmaker um sort of you know for many decades

00:14:55.220 now in british cinema and he used the opportunity for his last ever film bear in mind this is a man

00:15:00.860 who was born in 1936 when all of these problems didn't exist in britain to basically make a film

00:15:09.360 telling you yeah but they're not actually here are they it's all far-right propaganda and none of 0.69

00:15:15.180 it's really real and really shouldn't we just be accepting syrians into our own lives and so

00:15:22.920 obviously going further down as well they just more and more information came out as the as the

00:15:28.460 years went on and we grow to realize as the european conservative point out here that from

00:15:33.880 the German Federal Criminal Police Officer's own statistics were able to highlight a stark

00:15:39.680 difference in crime rates between German and foreign suspects, with Syrians and Afghans

00:15:44.860 showing particularly high figures. The federal report Crime in the Context of Migration for 2024

00:15:51.120 revealed that across numerous types of offences, Syrians and Afghans appeared as suspects

00:15:58.840 significantly more than german citizens who'd have thought it among germans 163 suspects per

00:16:06.380 100 000 inhabitants are recorded by contrast for syrians it's 1740 and for afghans it's about the

00:16:17.060 same per 100 000 so and marked you know more than 10 times likely to commit a serious crime against 0.97

00:16:24.720 a person yes but the schaff and ass i suppose um a similar pattern emerges in sexual and drug 0.88

00:16:31.600 related offenses and overall non-german suspects were now making for over 40 of all cases 0.98

00:16:39.280 while the proportion of foreign uh convicts had grown over the past decade and now exceeds one

00:16:45.520 third so sorry do you want me to jump in here right so i remember these because i've covered

00:16:52.720 several times these crimes and also these statistics it is very interesting to note that

00:17:03.520 they are official statistics so when it comes to this remember that it's the it's the state

00:17:11.200 that publishes them but it's also the state that penalizes people uh for talking about them and

00:17:18.080 And there was an MP, or a member of the AFD, a really young member of the AFD,

00:17:25.740 who was fined with thousands of euros about it.

00:17:29.520 For citing government numbers.

00:17:33.940 And this suggests something.

00:17:36.620 First of all, obviously there's a hypocrisy in it.

00:17:40.100 The usual criticism that the state doesn't allow people to criticize the disastrous policies they're implementing.

00:17:47.100 implementing but there's also the other bit is there's another reason why they're doing it is

00:17:51.580 because on the one hand they're saying well don't talk about it but on the other hand they say well

00:17:56.380 if you're going to talk about it you will be allowed only to refer to this data only in a

00:18:02.060 very specific way and this way it implies that if these communities if these groups are over

00:18:11.180 represented in violent crime or crime of any other sort the solution to that is to to tax even more

00:18:20.700 yeah the native german and the native europeans in other countries in order to bear the costs

00:18:26.620 of integration so they never see these groups at least this is what their rhetoric is suggesting

00:18:34.140 i'm talking about the establishment they never see these groups as actually agents who are

00:18:39.100 responsible for crimes because because these figures are actually important to the german

00:18:45.060 government the german government does need these figures but of course they're only ever to be

00:18:49.680 interpreted in a particular way as you say it's about um using these statistics to highlight

00:18:56.100 socio-economic differences and the prevalence of racism it's not to be used to come to i don't know

00:19:03.280 maybe the conclusion that these people shouldn't be in germany well they can't accept there's any

00:19:07.980 difference between cultures no even though we see it every day in front of our very eyes and the

00:19:13.040 question is how many victims must there be in order for the establishment to at least appear

00:19:20.540 puzzled that this perhaps isn't done in the proper way and in fact actually just just off the top of

00:19:26.660 my head but to bring it up as well the idea of just hospitality and guest right and just honoring

00:19:32.020 the people that come into your home and also the people who come into your home honoring you as

00:19:37.400 the host as well right is a very old honor tradition in european cultures uh obviously

00:19:43.760 it's something we talk about a lot when it comes to the ancient greek stuff on chronicles

00:19:47.340 but there is aspects of it throughout all of european societies for the most part

00:19:52.720 and when you are coming from refugees when you are asylum seekers and you choose to repay the

00:20:00.420 host nation with brutal crimes um that does rather sour the goodwill somewhat and how and obviously 0.86

00:20:10.620 would in normal circumstances make it even more conditional that well as soon as the osad regime

00:20:17.240 falls and you're able to go home you really it's it's kind of time for you to leave it has fallen

00:20:23.760 It has fallen, yes. Quite a while ago, in fact, at this point. And as the United Nations points out here, they're a refugee agency. A year after the Assad regime fell, over 3 million displaced Syrians have returned home.

00:20:40.160 But greater international support is urgently needed to maintain the trend and ensure stability.

00:20:46.940 So, according to them, more than 1.2 million Syrians have voluntarily returned from neighbouring countries since December 2024, alongside over 1.9 million internally within Syria who have just internally, domestically fled to another part of it, right?

00:21:04.540 So all of this displacement is slowly being returned to a state of normalcy, who have gone back to their areas of origin, and many more have expressed a desire to return. This is all good news. This marks a critical step, as they say here, in Syria's healing process. 0.64

00:21:21.220 Force displacement was among the deep wounds inflicted by the conflict, and return is critical to end years of suffering and ensure stabilisation.

00:21:30.780 This is a, quote here,

00:21:33.020 This is a once-in-a-generation chance to help end one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, said UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi.

00:21:46.100 But without urgent global backing, this window of hope will close.

00:21:50.580 syrians are ready to rebuild the question is whether the world is ready to help them do it or 0.70

00:21:56.160 not and we can see here from projections as well they were anticipating quite um a big call right

00:22:03.860 from the rest of the world and syrians around scattered around the world that they would now 0.70

00:22:08.280 want to go home and after the rebuilding of the war and indeed there does seem to be some truth

00:22:13.280 to it as well given that uh apparently in turkey uh now over 1.3 million syrian refugees have

00:22:21.140 actually left turkey to go back home which is nearly half of them but i can spot a pattern here

00:22:26.920 yes if they were deplaced internally well they're going to be better off by going back and if they

00:22:32.900 were deplaced to the neighboring countries were they going to be better off going back yes they

00:22:36.720 were and if they went to turkey and i was in turkey during this and they all just camped out

00:22:42.060 the middle of the street you'd walk up a turkish high street not even in a major town but even even

00:22:46.920 the smaller towns and the middle of the high street would just be these rows of tents full 0.98

00:22:52.120 of syrians now if that's your alternative yeah of course you're going to go back but i mean you 1.00

00:22:57.860 haven't got to it yet and i wonder if you're going to but what about the people who've been given

00:23:01.480 houses and incomes in places like germany yes yes about so about that um not so great now

00:23:09.560 Well, apparently, only about 6,000 Syrians have voluntarily left Germany in 2025.

00:23:18.880 So in Turkey, they're able to basically push, as you say, 1.3 million off, which I believe is about half of them.

00:23:26.340 It's something like nearer to 3 million that went into Turkey, and many are returning from Lebanon as well. 0.52

00:23:33.720 But as a result of this, naturally, and especially with the AFD breathing down the neck of the German establishment, 0.55

00:23:42.920 Mertz has to be seen to obviously offer some red meat-up to actually concern German voters here.

00:23:51.580 So we can see the BBC reporting that most Syrian refugees in Germany are expected to return home in three years.

00:23:59.560 And this is from Mertz's mouth himself.

00:24:01.760 It goes on to say,

00:24:31.760 their homeland without giving up the stability and lives they have built here for those who wish to

00:24:37.920 stay says shirah uh and as i point out only 6 000 have gone home because this isn't really an

00:24:45.980 incentive is it you can stay here and have a free house and free staff and also i just want to

00:24:51.240 comment on just scrolling down looking at this picture the sheer lunacy of this that that for 0.70

00:24:56.400 what was it 15 20 years isis and the jihadi head choppers were the west's enemy number one and now 0.63

00:25:03.360 you've got a situation where you've got an isis jihadi head chopper stood next to the chancellor 0.53

00:25:09.600 of germany it's the madness of the world we live in i have to mention something here because i 0.50

00:25:14.480 remember this really well um for uh some time european leaders met with uh syria the current

00:25:24.080 syrian president and there was lots of uh discussion and blame against them that you know

00:25:29.760 you're just traitors to your country and then trump met him in uh the tour he did of the gulf

00:25:36.560 and suddenly everything everyone was yeah trump is doing the great art of the deal and uh suddenly

00:25:42.320 wasn't so bad i want to say something i don't like this picture but from a realistic perspective

00:25:47.840 i think this is what mertz should be doing he should want to try and see and take reality at

00:25:55.760 face value and see how to uh take that how to make many syrians leave germany and go to syria

00:26:06.000 the trouble with this though isn't what i see in the picture it's uh actually something to

00:26:11.600 do with the character of Mertz. He has a habit of stating the obvious decades after the general

00:26:19.360 public can see it. And he does it in a very demoralizing way. I'll give you a very quick

00:26:24.480 example. When he's talking about, he recently talked about denuclearization and said it was

00:26:29.920 just ridiculous, but it's too late to do anything about it. Sorry, no, it's not too late. You can

00:26:36.560 start rebuilding your nuclear plants so what i what i think is that character is destiny

00:26:43.520 the same way i've i've said this about other people in other areas of the political spectrum

00:26:49.680 the same applies for mertz what i see here is weakness and an inability to defend the interests

00:26:58.800 of his own country because fundamentally what he wants to be seen as doing is to honor the firewall

00:27:07.520 of german politics ie in other words he doesn't want to be seen as teaming up with the afd

00:27:14.640 and particular policies right this is sort of changing in in europe in some respects but i

00:27:20.400 think that mertz is not showing me reason to be optimistic for germany no and of course there are

00:27:28.480 none of these caveats about circular migration with the turks right the turks like war's over

00:27:34.040 get yourselves off right it's all very straightforward um and this comes down to

00:27:38.620 the fact as well so that everything as you just say but also he is trying to stave off the threat

00:27:44.260 of the afd which does seem to get stronger in the polls every time an election comes around

00:27:49.620 it's just a shame that so many people have to die between those election cycles and suffer

00:27:55.300 as all of this continues to go on and it doesn't help either when other voices from within Mertz's

00:28:01.780 coalition are basically trying to counter-signal him and say what are you thinking about sending

00:28:08.080 Syrians back to Syria now the war's over what a preposterous position Mr Mertz um and basically

00:28:15.360 saying that it has no plan and no legal basis now the problem with that of course is that 0.99

00:28:20.600 You can criticise Mertz for having no plan and no legal basis, but of course those voices around him aren't interested in creating a plan or a legal basis either, because they want to keep the Syrians in Germany. 0.97

00:28:35.560 I realise time, but I will just go through this little bit here, where it says, 0.52

00:28:39.840 Although it's not the first time Mertz has urged Syrians to return home to help rebuild their country, following its long and brutal civil war that ended in 2024, his latest remarks have drawn a wider rebuke due to their specificity, meaning it might be a bit more serious this time, I suppose, and the setting in which they were made alongside the Syrian president.

00:29:01.460 what remains is a figure with no plan no legal basis and no respect for so many people who are

00:29:10.020 part of our society pay attention to that word our there because it comes from a lawmaker in

00:29:17.140 the social democratic party and the name is um aiden ozoguz um which i'm definitely butchering

00:29:27.460 But all this to say both of her parents are Turkish.

00:29:30.640 And it's like, well, that's very interesting because in what world are we now in where the Turk gets to describe who gets to stay in Germany? 0.60

00:29:39.000 And also as well, would she apply that same standard to her own native country of Turkey, even as it dispels as many of the refugees from Turkey as it possibly can?

00:29:49.620 so once again it's there's an entrenched cabal of foreigners within Germany as well who are going

00:29:55.860 to do absolutely everything they can to keep Germany as multicultural as they possibly can

00:30:01.420 and they'll they'll talk about all the tried and tested points at this point about birth rates

00:30:06.400 and about all these sorts of things but as the the article itself goes on to point out

00:30:11.320 approximately 1.23 million people of Syrian origin were registered in Germany

00:30:17.380 at the end of 2024 and of these about a quarter of a million and acquired german citizenship

00:30:24.460 which i will just point out the german state didn't have to give them leaving close to a

00:30:30.720 million syrian nationals in germany at risk of being affected by the proposals proposed large

00:30:36.980 scale return policy but of all of these as well only about 5 000 of them are doctors 2 000 of

00:30:43.680 them are nurses um so all right well i mean if you want to go down that road as a bit of a

00:30:50.200 compromise keep 2 000 nurses but is there any reason why you have to keep the other million

00:30:55.660 of them right even if you keep the doctors wasn't one of the guys who ran over a christmas market

00:31:01.260 a doctor well and that too again i just come back to the same point that i made towards the beginning

00:31:06.940 why take the risk

00:31:08.740 alright

00:31:11.520 I'll go through the rumble rants

00:31:14.040 141 Paladin says

00:31:16.680 Thomas Aquinas video when

00:31:18.180 also would love to see

00:31:20.160 content evaluating forms of government

00:31:22.580 fairly, I haven't read

00:31:24.820 Aquinas, but thank you for $20 by the way

00:31:27.020 did you do a video on Aquinas, somebody did

00:31:28.760 maybe it was both, no me

00:31:29.980 okay, maybe there will be

00:31:32.460 also while we're in between segments

00:31:34.580 does anyone know why chat has been

00:31:36.620 talking about bananas and rice for about

00:31:38.600 half an hour. What the hell has that got to do with

00:31:40.620 anything? I've no idea.

00:31:43.180 No idea.

00:31:44.500 Okay, fine. I'm sure

00:31:46.540 it's an innuendo. Right.

00:31:48.760 Whilst, actually, speaking of being between

00:31:50.620 segments, I've got to take this whisk.

00:31:52.680 I am absolutely... I was going

00:31:54.620 through the hotline at the end of Airplane, where he's

00:31:56.420 just wiping sweat from him.

00:31:59.740 You have to

00:32:00.480 Euromax a bit. Yeah.

00:32:02.400 Opunk for $5, thank you, says,

00:32:04.280 someone needs to ask Merkel on live TV 0.53

00:32:06.400 if her conscience was worth all the the great murders and jihadism I want to see

00:32:12.520 a squirm her way out of it well no one would ever ask of that though would they 1.00

00:32:16.960 and for one dollar that's a random name says the traitors who rule over us sorry

00:32:22.360 this is the clumsiest rumble read ever had the who think about think being

00:32:29.200 non-white as a disability and that the terrorism and crime inflicted on us is a

00:32:33.760 the price we must pay to reach equality yes we have just witnessed the poshest striptease ever 1.00

00:32:40.140 and only took 26 dollars so keep those super chats coming you know we will peel him down

00:32:47.340 ties next ladies and gentlemen yeah yeah all right then if it gets really racy the cufflinks

00:32:53.160 might come off all right proper undressed then all right go on then dan oh um samson why don't

00:33:01.780 you do the the linky there we go thank you right um so we should talk about uh zach polanski and

00:33:07.860 the green party because uh i mean their support just keeps going up and i'm starting to get a

00:33:12.860 tiny bit concerned because they're quite clearly mad um i mean did i mean just to give some of

00:33:19.080 their uh policies i mean obviously legalize all drugs yes scrap the nuclear deterrent close prison

00:33:24.340 And it really is all drugs as well.

00:33:27.000 It's not just right up to heroin.

00:33:29.200 Yes, why not?

00:33:31.280 We've got a link for this one.

00:33:32.960 Lower the speed limit on motorways to 55 miles per hour.

00:33:37.680 And his justification is apparently that it will save fuel.

00:33:42.960 So the thing is as well,

00:33:44.700 coupling this with their open borders policy as well.

00:33:48.680 So not only are we going to have infinitely more cars on the road

00:33:52.780 because there are going to be more people here

00:33:54.960 and then for more traffic, more deadlocks

00:33:57.540 because I hardly think the Green Party

00:33:59.440 are going to go around building new roads for us.

00:34:01.800 No.

00:34:02.960 And on top of that,

00:34:04.260 once you are finally out of the traffic

00:34:06.080 and the deadlock that you've been sat in 0.95

00:34:07.780 for four hours behind 20,000 Indian drivers,

00:34:11.780 you then have to go 15 miles per hour slower 0.94

00:34:14.220 than when you were first elected.

00:34:15.040 As I'll be coming to,

00:34:15.760 they're going to get rid of the fuel as well.

00:34:17.540 So if the argument is to get rid of,

00:34:19.760 to lower the motorway speed in order to save fuel,

00:34:22.780 but the only people on the road will be the people like me

00:34:25.140 who can charge a Tesla on their solar panels on their roof.

00:34:28.200 So why do I have to go at 55?

00:34:29.680 Why can't I go as fast as I bloody like on these empty roads

00:34:31.980 that hasn't got anyone driving on it?

00:34:33.200 Can I say something about this?

00:34:36.100 Because this is affecting me immensely.

00:34:38.640 I basically think that this is Kazoo's belly. 0.76

00:34:42.220 It crosses my red lines. 0.98

00:34:44.940 Well, driving at 55?

00:34:46.120 Yes, on multiple.

00:34:47.140 I agree.

00:34:47.520 Yes, so I think basically that they are declaring themselves

00:34:51.780 to be in the state of nature with civilized society they're mental i mean i haven't i haven't

00:34:56.920 finished the list yet no dogs in public spaces um i wonder which part of their coalition

00:35:02.160 that is appealing to open borders yeah more migrants um and as i say open borders more

00:35:09.860 migrants i should quickly point out that the support for uh the green party is overwhelmingly

00:35:15.160 young women so um i did a post on this the other day let's let's let's watch this video

00:35:20.220 um here we go um play that for me samson uh this is a um a young woman voting um for open borders

00:35:29.960 apologies for those of you that are um

00:35:35.280 uh for those of you that are yeah uh what uh listening rather than watching but um yeah

00:35:42.340 classic classic uh western female voter uh behavior there right go to that um what else

00:35:48.200 we got oh yes not only we got more migrants coming um but we've got um he wants to pay them

00:35:54.760 at 1600 pounds a month just because they're foreign again because because you've got it 0.57

00:36:03.580 you've got to give the migrants money haven't you i mean you can't you can't just bring them here 0.99

00:36:06.800 and then not give them money so he wants to give them 1600 pounds per month he is the logical

00:36:15.220 conclusion of of leftism he's a logical conclusion of fetal alcohol syndrome perhaps i don't know

00:36:20.840 but yeah he's mental now he thinks that that policy will cost 19 billion and he calls it

00:36:26.580 simple yet transformative yet it's obviously not going to cost 19 billion is it because what he did

00:36:31.700 he did his little sums based on the number of migrants that are here now if you start giving 0.98

00:36:35.860 them 1600 a month and you open the borders entirely yes you're just going to get all of them

00:36:41.740 yes um until we can't pay anymore um oh yeah scrap fossil fuels i should have put that next

00:36:47.180 to the motorway thing on his thing to save fuel um charge per mile driven well you won't be raising

00:36:52.680 much on that one because nobody will be driving because you've just scrapped fossil fuels and 0.98

00:36:56.600 therefore nobody can drive anywhere um oh he's up for sterilizing children via the whole trans thing

00:37:02.120 obviously obviously um he wants sex work to be completely legal i don't know if he's doing that 0.84

00:37:08.360 Let me choose my words carefully.

00:37:09.700 I don't know if he's doing that because of some sort of vested interest

00:37:14.540 in the family line.

00:37:15.580 I'm not going to say any more on that because I don't know

00:37:17.280 if it's 100% true or not, but if you know, you know.

00:37:20.780 He wants clothes or zoos because apparently it's cruel to animals

00:37:24.180 or something like that.

00:37:25.620 I don't know.

00:37:26.840 Gender equality across all of them.

00:37:29.860 He thinks there's more than two.

00:37:31.200 It's like basically 12 Monkeys, the movie.

00:37:34.580 Terry Gilliam's movie.

00:37:36.220 Yes.

00:37:36.500 let all animals roam free

00:37:38.420 I mean yes why not

00:37:39.580 what could possibly go wrong

00:37:41.360 he wants to get rid of safe spaces 0.87

00:37:44.800 for women and girls 1.00

00:37:45.580 well there won't be any left in the country

00:37:48.980 well there might be some women or girls 0.95

00:37:51.060 but yes

00:37:51.920 they'll be in danger

00:37:54.120 and not just take away safe spaces

00:37:56.740 obviously men 0.95

00:37:58.680 can just go into women's and girls

00:38:00.640 changing women's whenever they damn well want

00:38:02.240 but he also wants men in women's sport

00:38:04.840 including combat sports

00:38:06.400 such as rugby and boxing and martial arts and stuff.

00:38:10.180 What could possibly go wrong?

00:38:11.680 Legalise shoplifting, obviously.

00:38:14.860 Teaching kids how to take drugs.

00:38:18.360 I presume as well, if he's going to legalise shoplifting,

00:38:20.600 does that mean they're also going to pass a bill

00:38:22.440 to take the items in the shops out of those plastic containers

00:38:26.240 that everything's sealed?

00:38:27.060 Well, they would just get in the way, wouldn't it?

00:38:28.440 Yes.

00:38:29.220 So we'll have to get rid of those.

00:38:30.080 You've got to top up your £1,600 a month somehow.

00:38:32.040 Bad for the environment as well. 0.72

00:38:33.700 Leave NATO. 0.72

00:38:34.580 he's gonna ask putin to scrap his nukes i mean obviously putin i mean we'll just go for that

00:38:40.180 i mean why wouldn't he mr putin uh he's gonna write off our national debt and refuse to pay

00:38:44.880 it because i mean what what consequences could there be for that i mean it's only the underpinning

00:38:48.660 of the entire pensions and insurance industry um but i'd go no i suppose that'd be fine um

00:38:55.780 and and just do just print money when he runs out of money which will be immediately

00:38:59.560 yeah first of all he's disgusting second i can't take him seriously third i have to take him

00:39:06.400 seriously because lots of people are voting for him and it looks like um he is uh heading the

00:39:14.300 polls on the left wing uh side of the spectrum oh he's surging yeah he's surging and i have seen

00:39:21.280 political lunacy in my time in the time i've walked the earth and um it looks like he is

00:39:28.360 going to be the next big party of the left almost only i think the next election or at least the

00:39:33.480 one after but probably the next election is going to be the greens versus restore and and because

00:39:38.640 the greens are just searching especially with young people especially with young women um i've

00:39:42.880 got here um their their last um green party manifesto and that was when these two completely

00:39:48.960 forgettable characters were actually running it not polanski he's just over here this is the last

00:39:54.140 election when they were um obviously mad but nowhere near as mad as they are now and i'll just

00:40:00.280 i'll just go through some of their manifesto but i mean you you'll get the sense of it straight

00:40:04.240 away uh what's this so this is about homes or something here we go so straight away 29 billion

00:40:09.640 over the next five years to to insulate homes um you know fair deals for for rent it's basically

00:40:16.220 make it impossible to get rid of a renter and put in rent controls the supply of rented homes

00:40:20.540 will crater immediately um let me just go to the the i'll just do i'll just do a few of these

00:40:26.580 um but you'll you'll see very quickly all of these has is like x here we are three billion for this

00:40:33.220 um there'll be more maybe i should have created this i'll go through another one and all this

00:40:40.280 just in the very mamdani sense comes from taxing the rich until all the rich yeah i mean uh yeah

00:40:46.480 they can steal from you it's okay it's going to be legal if they shoplift from your from your store

00:40:51.480 because you're a bad you're a bad entrepreneur who is drinking the blood of the of the working 0.96

00:40:57.020 class yeah that's the kind of yes he that that also as well like the green party like mamdani's 0.75

00:41:03.500 campaign as mamdani's campaign was funded by alex soros you know like the green party has

00:41:08.880 millionaire backers oh yeah it's an entirely conditional he seems to me to be worse than

00:41:14.960 mamdani and i've been incredibly critical then yes yeah i'm done of mamdani but i don't remember

00:41:20.540 mamdani saying yes to shoplift obviously he's gonna he's gonna say yeah the those poor people

00:41:26.960 just let them let them steal but he he didn't say let's legalize shoplifting but i mean i mean

00:41:33.080 this page here we go there's another 20 billion for that another 3 billion for that anyway i'll

00:41:38.380 go through but this is this is i'm i'm looking at again this is basically varoufakis for for england

00:41:44.320 yeah something like that yeah i mean i mean varoufakis though he had he had a quite a good

00:41:50.060 iq on him though i mean he was relatively smart well he was he he was bonkers but he was smart

00:41:55.920 but i mean he isn't either here we go this page for another 40 billion for this uh another 12.4

00:42:02.000 billion for this you can just you can just see the whole thing oh yeah and how are they going

00:42:05.780 to pay for all this um they're going to put a wealth tax um of of one percent on people with

00:42:11.960 assets over 10 10 million the sheer impracticality of that oh he's also going to normalize the rates

00:42:18.560 of capital gains and um and income tax so basically meaning but if it looked like it was going to be

00:42:23.980 a green victory wouldn't everyone just sell their assets and move abroad before it happened because

00:42:28.820 let's say you've got a one percent wealth tax well actually you've got to sell two percent of

00:42:33.000 whatever it is you own just to pay the one percent tax because you're now paying tax on the capital

00:42:37.720 gains of selling the thing assuming it's liquid assuming that you can sell it and and he thinks

00:42:42.820 that it's going to raise all of the money to do all these billions and billions that you're spending

00:42:46.420 here every single time you hear he says he says he reckons it's going to it's going to earn between

00:42:52.140 50 and 70 billion every single time a wealth tax has been tried not only did it not raise the money

00:42:58.780 they thought it was going to raise it actually lowered the rate of taxes that the state was

00:43:02.520 collecting as a whole because people did exactly what you said which is they just buggered off

00:43:06.220 yes um i mean i could go through more of this but every single page is just gonna oh there's

00:43:11.560 another two billion there when i'll ask you turned around was like to you know to the dogs with

00:43:17.960 precedent yeah and examples from history of where this has been tried i mean if there's a movie

00:43:24.780 describing this called doomsday it's a great apocalyptic movie of 2008

00:43:30.460 and there's a scene where they you know they enter scotland which i think is completely

00:43:35.740 greenized yeah watch this movie to see what polanski wants for for the uk yeah but i mean

00:43:42.980 he's going to get he's going to get rid of nuclear fuel um nuclear sorry fossil fuels and nuclear

00:43:47.420 energy so it's it's purely going to be um wind and solar i mean these these people are bonkers

00:43:54.580 And I won't go through it because it's all going to just be billions and billions and billions.

00:43:57.980 Anyway, the thing that I kind of wanted to get to was this fascinating video

00:44:02.840 where he kind of, you know, just says the quiet part out loud,

00:44:06.100 where he's going to do what leftists always do.

00:44:09.220 So let's listen to Zach Polanski in his own words.

00:44:14.760 Before we go into complete utopia, which I'm totally there for.

00:44:18.460 I mean, I'll just stop there.

00:44:19.720 Before we get into complete utopia, which I'm completely there for.

00:44:23.760 i mean that that is the that that is his political philosophy are smarter men than zach polanski

00:44:29.600 have tried to create utopia and failed well i mean i i mean you know this uh stellios but isn't isn't

00:44:35.920 utopian the greek word for nowhere yeah right okay so he's going to create nowhere it's all vibes for

00:44:42.400 him that's that's the problem if we look at the policy it's all bonkers yes but this is the really

00:44:47.760 worrying bit the bit after he commits himself to utopia which is a a farcical idea this is

00:44:53.440 the chilling bit where he he says what he's going to do with us uh there are people though who would

00:44:58.440 identify as right-wing or indeed even far-right and no matter what humanity or community we put

00:45:04.200 them in they are uh set on destroying or pushing this toxicity do we think we can change their

00:45:12.480 minds or is it a case of building a society that doesn't include them well he's evil there's no

00:45:19.000 other way of saying it of saying it he's evil but you can't you can't be an adult running a 1.00

00:45:24.980 seemingly successful campaign and be that stupid it's all faint vibes he's evil yes but also his 1.00

00:45:32.460 entire point it's like oh well you know there's not a community to put them in it's like no no 0.99

00:45:36.680 no they were the community yes they were the entire community the community of the english

00:45:42.520 people of england and then you've gone around you know and advocated for years and he and the rest

00:45:47.940 of the establishment you know because the migration issue has basically been the the open

00:45:51.960 door that they push at whilst continually pretending to be edgy and different yes more

00:45:57.740 radical so like no you've destroyed communities which is why the far right have rosen up because

00:46:06.080 they hate seeing day to day i mean honestly just the conversations i've had yeah i'll just quickly

00:46:14.440 restate his words um there are people who we would identify as right wing or even far right

00:46:20.620 and no matter what humanity or community we put them on they were in the center of destroying it

00:46:25.760 um do we think we can change their minds or do we build a society that doesn't include them

00:46:31.880 so so what what does he mean by that is he is he going to have a shot or is he going to put his

00:46:35.540 gulags um the reason i ask this question is because this exact philosophy has been tried

00:46:41.820 many many times i put together my little presentation on this to give you an example

00:46:45.880 but the the philosophy is you have your utopian vision right and then you get disappointed and

00:46:53.360 then you have to blame somebody and then you have to use coercion and i've got my top 10 examples of

00:46:58.340 when commies have done this before so there's the khmer rouge um you know there's a bloody mouse 0.93

00:47:03.640 thing how do i make that's basically the evil retard regime samson how oh here we go there we 0.95

00:47:08.900 So Khmer Rouge, they killed 30 percent of their own population, pursuing exactly this philosophy, which is utopian vision, disappointment, blame, coercion. 0.99

00:47:20.300 Can I say something? Because I think Pol Pot was the most mental of them all, because it was also just stupid moves. 1.00

00:47:27.720 Yes. 0.99

00:47:28.040 He was aided by the Viet Cong to get power, and one and a half, two years afterwards, he just out of nowhere started attacking the Viet Cong. 0.92

00:47:35.920 Yes, he was quite bad.

00:47:37.200 I suppose Polanski's criticism of Pol Pot would be that he didn't have enough wind farms in Cambodia.

00:47:43.500 Yes, quite possibly. But I mean, there's many other examples.

00:47:47.020 The Great Purge, hundreds of thousands have executed, Holdemore, the Chinese Cultural Revolution,

00:47:54.340 you know, the Great Leap Forward, 30 million dead on that one. That was a good one. 1.00

00:47:58.660 The North Korean political prisoners camps. 0.98

00:48:01.740 I mean, maybe that's what he's got in mind for us because he's going to remove this from society.

00:48:05.080 so is he well hopefully he's going to put us in camps and not shoot us i don't know um but also 0.99

00:48:10.040 as well think of all that the huge how many people within the population zach polanski himself would

00:48:17.060 qualify as right wing slash far right i mean there are people in the labor party that zach

00:48:23.920 well and that's the thing i have what i have watching green party um content from from their

00:48:28.900 supporters and yes they class the labor party as the right so it's just the majority of the

00:48:33.340 population would have to be done away with the the vietnamese re-education camps the uh cuban

00:48:40.100 political repression the ethiopian red terror um the romanian communist repression i've only picked

00:48:47.840 out 10 there but the point is they all follow this pathway which is they have a totalizing

00:48:54.380 vision of a utopia because you see the difference between a a right winger and a left winger is a

00:48:59.540 right-winger is my my perfect world comes in heaven after i die right right that's for the

00:49:07.120 religious one yes now what what what would you do um if somebody tried to take that away well

00:49:12.700 you're kind of obligated to destroy the devil but you can't access the devil because he's a you know

00:49:17.700 he's a supreme being or whatever he is and so therefore you have to purge the devil's influence

00:49:23.120 on yourself you need to make yourself better but left-wingers don't think like that their

00:49:27.020 their perfect world is not in an afterlife their perfect world is in this world and they are just

00:49:33.960 about to create it except for you and you you're standing in their way and just like you would do

00:49:42.240 anything you could to destroy the devil they will do anything they can to destroy you and that is

00:49:47.060 why this exact pathway always leads to purges yeah shootings and camps dan i want to mention

00:49:53.280 this here because first of all i really like this uh thing you've made there and i agree with it

00:49:59.040 it's it's really great and uh nothing to disagree with it here um one thing is that i'm completely

00:50:06.800 annoyed at the hypocrisy of people who are now um amazed that polanski has said this this is

00:50:15.840 the far left agenda that's what they always do this is the far left agenda so don't act surprised

00:50:21.760 if you're watching us you know that this is what's happening the problem is people who aren't

00:50:27.460 watching um who aren't following it and they just think that the far left the extremist left is

00:50:34.600 is basically uh someone you can reason with no this isn't just a momentary expression of anger

00:50:40.720 this is their agenda they're very explicit about it for instance everyone who is a communist says

00:50:46.700 i'm basically waiting for the opportune moment to overthrow your system yes and 99.9 percent

00:50:53.600 it's going to require violence what is interesting is that every now and then we see figures like

00:50:59.940 julius malema in south africa and like polanski's beginning to do here who are really up front with

00:51:07.460 what they want to do and the thing is that they feel emboldened to say this perhaps they wouldn't

00:51:13.100 be able to get away with it 10 years ago or five years ago 15 years ago but when we say to people

00:51:19.680 no understand where we are we are at the point where um someone in england is saying

00:51:27.960 straightforwardly my utopian society my society involves getting rid of you involves getting rid

00:51:35.920 of you and i'm totally for this utopia and unlike the realist or the pessimist of strength who can

00:51:42.840 say yeah i'd like to this or that thing and is sort of in a way larping they actually want to

00:51:48.700 do what they what you're saying we can actually let me finish the pathway because because i do

00:51:54.180 kind of want to make this point um so they got their totalizing vision which you know he talks

00:51:59.440 about it as a utopia but it's this complete correct model of society then they want to

00:52:03.920 monopolize power which they would do if they won an election then they get into their reality gap

00:52:09.600 and the reality gap is that what they imagined would instantly come to fruition by virtue of

00:52:15.600 them taking power doesn't yeah because it's not reality and that's also an economic yeah economic

00:52:20.920 failure economic failure social disorder unmet expectation that gives them a legitimate five

00:52:25.860 year plan but also as well this entire reality gap this is only taking into account things on

00:52:31.160 the domestic front it's not taking in the unknown variables of what geopolitical events might happen

00:52:36.520 throughout the rest yeah so so one of the things i didn't get to on the manifesto is they talked

00:52:40.760 about um they're going to end the um israeli gaza conflict how are they going to do it

00:52:48.280 vote for me i'm going to end suffering exactly so they then they then start i know you will

00:52:54.620 they then start to have a legitimacy problem with their own supporters so then they need

00:53:01.080 an attribution shift on this which is instead of reversing the model instead of what your segment

00:53:05.840 at what point do they admit they made a mistake yes they have to find the enemies the counter

00:53:11.060 revolutions then you've got to morally delegitimize them um and then you've got to use coercion

00:53:17.180 against them and that's why this pattern keeps coming up in history again and again and again

00:53:22.400 and i was talking to carl about this this morning and he framed it in a really good way

00:53:26.180 um which is all communism is if everybody just did x right yeah but okay what if some people

00:53:34.260 don't do x and they will say well we can make 80 of people do x because their delusion is not it

00:53:38.600 won't be 80 but they say we can make 80 of people do x and then you say well what do you do with the

00:53:43.360 other 20 and that and that's why this keeps coming any amount of free agency in this system destroys

00:53:49.600 their dystopian vision yes so they must crush down on it now do i think they're actually going

00:53:54.740 to put us in camps or shooters um i mean actually maybe maybe it could get to that it could get to

00:54:02.320 but they're certainly going to start doing things like debanking and de-platforming and depersoning

00:54:08.560 yeah yeah go on first of all i think what uh has happened the the way if i'm if i'm correct

00:54:14.640 in what i've seen here it seems to me that this is much more subversion than actual engineering

00:54:20.720 of society i don't think that the average brit wants this well but what what is really uh troublesome

00:54:28.560 here is that when people vote every five years for general elections they are voting for overall

00:54:34.960 agendas and they're voting for the one that they see overall to be overall best better than the

00:54:40.280 other so they could they could disagree completely with parts of the agenda that they're going to

00:54:46.760 vote for and and that will is going to give uh it's going to make the life easier for people

00:54:52.600 um to say afterwards no no they all agree with my agenda and of course i mean i haven't got

00:54:58.540 into the fact that there were coalition between um basically islam and um should we should we

00:55:05.260 describe them as characters young young characters somewhat disconnected from reality who um imbibe 0.79

00:55:12.100 a pure spite for anybody that they see standing in the way of their utopia now i don't want to

00:55:18.820 call out any individuals but uh i i need to try and be balanced to them and say well who are the

00:55:24.080 greens i mean who who who are these people and and are they the sort of people we should be

00:55:29.220 worried about i mean um we got here cinnamon and rainbow are those um those wealth creators

00:55:35.800 yes cinnamon and rainbow here um i'm sure if they if they purge all wealth creators from society

00:55:42.200 they're gonna have uh they're gonna experience lots of affluence yes yes yeah now it has been

00:55:48.240 said that all left-wing politics is

00:55:50.480 resenting their

00:55:52.120 father. So, I mean,

00:55:54.440 do we think there is a limit

00:55:55.940 to the amount of unbridled spite

00:55:58.480 that they might have for people

00:56:00.320 who remind them of their father?

00:56:02.420 It's a rhetorical question.

00:56:05.120 So, Cinnamon and Rainbow

00:56:06.200 here. Incy.

00:56:08.480 What would Incy do 0.86

00:56:10.400 to you right-wingers?

00:56:12.220 I don't know.

00:56:14.200 Possibly nothing bad. Possibly put you in a camp.

00:56:16.460 We don't know. 1.00

00:56:18.240 tessa uh where would where would tessa come down on what how do we solve the uh the right wing

00:56:25.280 problem uh tom tom might have a view tom no we we will be at tessa's and tom's mercy if this ever

00:56:33.380 if this ever comes to pass um alexandria head apparently um slightly funny second name there

00:56:41.240 given anyway um it's good that yeah they're they're the first and of course in swindon here

00:56:46.760 ah in in swindon here we have our um yeah we have our candidates um who is is in this video

00:56:55.500 one of the green party counter yes there we go um got a you well you're a lovely dress

00:57:03.440 is it a skirt thing maybe maybe it's a kilt maybe maybe he or she is scottish i don't want to assume

00:57:09.240 your um the the thing is as well right i mean this is a great example of it you don't think

00:57:15.740 to yourself okay we actually just need to put someone forward who is going to be popular on

00:57:21.880 the door right who is going to be like trustworthy to to just get into the position of power and

00:57:27.660 authority in the first place and then we can be ideological about it no it's just straight into

00:57:33.060 the ideological yes from the very beginning damn the consequences or the result that might come

00:57:38.580 And do we think that these people might have any spite, you know, for Lotus Eaters and the people who watch us?

00:57:45.040 I mean, I suspect so, because that particular candidate was screaming at us that we were Nazis for a couple of hours during our live event.

00:57:54.020 I mean, we were all indoors.

00:57:55.320 I remember that. We had a really good time that night.

00:57:57.100 We had a really good time, yeah.

00:57:58.180 I mean, we were indoors having beers and watching the segments live on stage.

00:58:03.360 and the Green Party candidate was outside in bunny ears

00:58:06.580 screaming at us that we were Nazis

00:58:08.080 and that the police should do something about it

00:58:11.580 and remonstrating with them.

00:58:12.540 What the police were meant to do, I'm not entirely sure.

00:58:15.660 I'm not sure that was articulated to them,

00:58:17.920 but presumably come in and either shoot us or taser us 0.95

00:58:20.480 or beat us with truncheons or something like that.

00:58:22.840 And I'm just a little bit sniffy about giving people like this,

00:58:26.100 supreme executive authority, power over the army and the police,

00:58:30.420 given that Zach Polanski has quite clearly stated

00:58:32.840 that he needs to construct a society that doesn't include us and every historical example of this

00:58:38.140 philosophy being deployed has led to absolutely horrific acts against large proportions of the

00:58:44.780 population because not everybody wants to live in their um unachievable utopia something that

00:58:51.500 these people should consider is who they are forming an alliance with that's all i'm going

00:58:58.460 to tell them because

00:58:59.300 indeed

00:58:59.740 indeed

00:59:00.640 right okay so

00:59:02.440 don't think that the

00:59:03.140 people they are

00:59:03.900 forming an alliance

00:59:04.940 with will

00:59:05.860 appreciate them

00:59:07.380 let's say

00:59:07.920 no

00:59:08.300 so we've got some

00:59:09.400 comedy comment

00:59:10.140 things here

00:59:11.220 that's a random

00:59:14.680 at this point

00:59:15.340 the far right

00:59:15.760 means any European 1.00

00:59:16.640 who refuses to be 0.99

00:59:17.540 replaced

00:59:18.180 yes

00:59:18.580 opac says

00:59:19.420 I'm all for it

00:59:20.480 aggravate

00:59:21.560 alliterate

00:59:23.880 accelerate

00:59:24.920 until it's worse

00:59:25.820 from here 1.00

00:59:26.200 and the foreign

00:59:26.800 yes

00:59:27.600 um uh fall on firebird daily reminder that aa in his sphere actively big up the greens on a

00:59:34.920 regular basis uh yes i have a word with him about that um i mean isn't he calling for a left-right

00:59:41.480 alliance yeah i i'm not in favor of a left-right alliance i yeah i wouldn't well there's nothing

00:59:48.580 to ally with with these people i think i just wants us to vote for labor i think that's what

00:59:53.160 they will end the palestine crisis by pog no i'm not saying that no um that in parts delus is why

01:00:02.660 i don't believe most people should be voting that is true uh and my mother-in-law is in hospital

01:00:07.100 uh brighton post-cancer surgery i'm hoping for a quick recovery well i wish you the best

01:00:11.720 i wish you and your mother the best very much so yes

01:00:14.440 great thanks samson

01:00:22.480 give me the mouse

01:00:24.120 give it to me

01:00:27.260 hands up

01:00:27.960 do not override my mouse authority

01:00:31.020 awesome

01:00:33.420 great thanks

01:00:34.760 okay let's before we start

01:00:37.040 we're gonna talk about the dialectic of progressivism

01:00:42.520 where progressivism

01:00:44.060 this really bad ideology

01:00:45.980 that is destroying the western world right now

01:00:48.220 comes from and where it is going

01:00:50.280 And we are going to focus a lot on the distinction between the principles of the founding of the American Declaration of Independence of 1776.

01:01:04.360 Don't shoot me, I understand.

01:01:06.480 The great treason, the great mistake.

01:01:10.040 Right, but we are going to draw a particular distinction between these principles and how progressives understand them.

01:01:17.320 And we will talk a lot about the excellent speech by Justice Clarence Thomas against progressivism.

01:01:24.460 Just one thing to say, we are giving criticisms of the establishment on a daily basis, but it's good every now and then where we have a really high-profile individual within the establishment who is making a really great case for things that we believe in and against ideologies that we are rejecting.

01:01:49.600 Thomas is someone with a good number of victories under his belt.

01:01:54.300 You know, he's contributed some great wins for the American, you know, whether it's Roe v. Wade being repealed or, you know, a lot of the DEI stuff that was going on with Harvard and that being unconstitutional, et cetera.

01:02:05.400 So there are, you know, many things there.

01:02:07.100 Yes. And just let me contextualize briefly. The idea is basically that in the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was later ratified by more of the U.S. founding fathers.

01:02:22.080 he was talking about the government as having to protect the rights to life liberty and the pursuit

01:02:27.600 of happiness and i want us to focus a lot on how progressives take this very language and they

01:02:35.360 twist it and essentially they go against the principles of the u.s founding and they are

01:02:41.600 basically making it unrecognizable they try to create they try to create a foobar situation

01:02:48.400 yeah so it's a good thing to remember the original uh spirit of the declaration of

01:02:55.500 independence and the principles that uh were inspired it and uh never forget this because

01:03:02.460 fundamentally in this case you could argue that in 70 76 you were on opposing sides

01:03:08.120 with uh the americans but now i don't think that's the case benjamin arnold did nothing

01:03:14.460 rock now it's the same philosophy wreck wreaking havoc against the west so i think that in this

01:03:21.800 case this is something interesting to bear in mind but also very also remember that lots of

01:03:27.520 the principles of the american founding were of english origin philosophically speaking oh sorry

01:03:34.100 benedict arnold i meant yes no you're right though yeah of course no i had to name the right

01:03:39.100 So let's look at some parts of the speech.

01:03:43.860 He particularly targets Woodrow Wilson as, you know, one of the worst presidents of the U.S.

01:03:50.700 And then we are going to talk about the dialectic of progressivism and how it is that progressives are taking the sort of software, the cultural software of the Western world, which is to a very large extent classically liberal.

01:04:06.180 and they're trying to completely twist it and make it unrecognizable and justify basically

01:04:12.360 government overreach and the kinds of things that we talked about in the previous segment

01:04:16.460 dan segment which was apple which by the time you're looking at it at this segment right now

01:04:23.400 will have been uploaded 8 p.m uk time of tuesday this is going to be a saturday all right okay

01:04:32.620 let's look at what he says here. Since Wilson's presidency, progressivism has made many inroads

01:04:40.460 into our system of government and our way of life. It has coexisted uneasily with the principles

01:04:49.720 of the Declaration. Because it is opposed to those principles, it is not possible for the

01:04:56.740 two to coexist forever.

01:05:02.640 Progressivism was not native to America.

01:05:05.860 Wilson and the progressives candidly admitted that they took it from Otto von Bismarck's

01:05:12.180 Germany, whose state-centric society they admired.

01:05:19.280 Progressives like Wilson argued that America needed to leave behind the principles of the

01:05:25.680 founding and catch up with the more advanced and sophisticated system of relatively unimpeded state

01:05:34.400 power nearly perfect perfected he acknowledged that right so the first thing here is how does

01:05:44.760 this happen in a way and there are some progressives who are completely anti-constitutional

01:05:50.740 and it's easy to spot them and easy to argue against them.

01:05:54.760 But there are also some others who are a bit more subversive.

01:05:57.900 And the subversive ones aren't saying directly,

01:06:01.540 let's destroy the Constitution.

01:06:03.720 They're paying lip service to the importance of the Constitution 0.79

01:06:07.940 and they're paying lip service to the ideals of the right to life,

01:06:12.500 liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

01:06:14.180 But they make a very crucial twist.

01:06:15.720 And there is zero logical inevitability for this twist

01:06:19.740 as people who are saying that somehow communism is the inevitable result of classical liberalism

01:06:25.820 or frequently saying it.

01:06:27.660 This is a complete mistake.

01:06:31.100 What is this?

01:06:32.300 It has to do with the role of the state.

01:06:35.360 The progressives and the modern liberals, they are basically statists, fundamentally.

01:06:41.320 And what they're saying is that you can actually do many more things with a state

01:06:47.720 than classical liberals believe in.

01:06:50.640 And essentially, they think that you can force people

01:06:54.120 in a way to be moral.

01:06:55.860 It's like Rousseau was saying,

01:06:57.860 individuals can be forced to be free

01:07:00.260 when he was writing in the 1750s.

01:07:02.520 And his spirit definitely influenced modern liberals

01:07:06.680 and progressives and leftists

01:07:08.760 and people who are very subversive, generally speaking.

01:07:13.520 And what the classical liberals are saying

01:07:16.620 is that you need civil society to you need to allow human beings to be human beings yes there's

01:07:22.300 a natural instinct for human beings to be social and you the government should basically be a

01:07:28.420 night watchman state that is going to protect these rights and these rights are rights of

01:07:33.900 non-interference in other words negative rights jefferson's it is the pursuit of happiness it's

01:07:41.000 your pursuit yeah of the happiness of your family it's something you attain for yourself it's

01:07:45.960 something that requires the exercising of your agency it's not something that the state is going

01:07:51.120 to give you i mean jefferson would never have believed that it's it's uh it's uh that's exactly

01:07:57.900 it because what they are saying what the progressives are saying and the modern liberals

01:08:03.380 is that the state should be the main engine of social life and in a way they're saying that

01:08:11.040 society is irreparably morally corrupt it's selfish as danny mentioned before with the

01:08:17.480 communist pipeline it's like everything would be great if it weren't for you or acting like this

01:08:23.580 so they're saying the state is the fundamental engine of social life and the fundamental way

01:08:30.900 to sustain the moral fiber of the nation and they believe that individuals can't make themselves

01:08:38.260 happy and that basically the state needs to give people life liberty and and make them happy so

01:08:49.760 it's not like we are going to create a framework within which you will have to be an active being

01:08:57.420 who will have to respect limits but also within those limits you will pursue your own the

01:09:05.100 conception of your own good um they're basically saying we are going to tell you what the good is

01:09:11.960 consistent we're going to force it upon you enforcing it upon you we're making you free

01:09:17.660 and we are going to essentially grant you life we're going to make you free and we're going to

01:09:26.480 make you happy and this obviously is nonsense um well sorry may i just say one focus on one

01:09:33.960 other word in there as well truths to be self-evident life it's like okay well life itself

01:09:41.080 given that these guys are radical abortionists yeah and well one thing to say here is because

01:09:47.280 methodology is important and how we arrive at some conclusions and the wider framework that we

01:09:55.480 integrate these conclusions in is sometimes as important as the conclusions we draw and what

01:10:02.080 What Justice Thomas mentions is that it was especially with John Dewey that there was a massive onslaught on the idea of self-evident rights.

01:10:14.100 So rights stopped being, in the minds of progressives, natural rights that are to hold for everyone.

01:10:23.760 They became contingent, historical, particular rights that weren't rights that the government had to respect.

01:10:32.080 but they were rights that were privileges to be enjoyed at the bureaucrats discretion right

01:10:39.060 yeah i mean i just think about my own life and you know i mean yeah amongst the hell that is

01:10:45.700 becoming modern britain you know it's like you know so many people who've helped me attain some

01:10:50.620 state of happiness it's been your family your loved ones right your nearest and dearest it's

01:10:55.560 never been a whoever sent you that york gt a bureaucrat yeah people who sent me the york

01:11:00.700 tea yesterday thank you it's never been some faceless bureaucrat no yeah and uh yeah and but

01:11:07.760 think of it also on a daily basis and i'm sure our audience has several examples of wokeness

01:11:13.660 wokeness is specifically such a governmental intervention it says ye as a society are

01:11:20.780 irreparably corrupt it's a form i have engineering absolutely i have to step in because i'm the

01:11:26.380 enlightened bureaucrat, I have to step in and I have to force upon you my vision of what constitutes

01:11:33.760 a good community. And that community is, for instance, an inclusive community. It's a DEI

01:11:40.380 community. Now, we hear by particularly emboldened individuals like Zach Polanski that their community

01:11:47.620 doesn't involve right-wingers. But that's the language that they are using. And when you're

01:11:53.080 using this language essentially you understand you everyone who's an adult understands that you

01:11:59.320 can't make people happy you can't make everyone happy so they want to make their political allies

01:12:04.780 happy by how but they're saying right you are the haves and i'm going to completely wage war on you 0.94

01:12:13.300 in order to give to the have-nots and when i'm talking about the have-nots i'm not talking just 0.77

01:12:19.120 materially we're also talking psychologically think of for instance the idea of offending

01:12:25.620 people it's like when the government goes and says don't offend people or address them with

01:12:30.900 their preferred pronoun they aren't just saying well just you know respect them they're going to

01:12:36.560 say you are going to do this and this and that because the role of the government is to make

01:12:41.280 that individual happy so the guy if that individual requires to be addressed with a particular pronoun

01:12:47.640 The job of the government is to force everyone else to address them with a pronoun.

01:12:53.680 Right, let's continue.

01:12:55.300 In a Lockean world with its weak, decentralized government and strong individual rights,

01:13:03.280 they say our 18th century declaration has prevented us from progressing to higher forms of government.

01:13:11.380 But we were fortunate not to trade our lock-in bonds for the supposedly enlightened world of Hegel, Marx and their followers.

01:13:23.800 I don't think it's wrong. I don't think it's wrong.

01:13:26.880 If you look at Europe right now, and obviously the same challenges are present in the US,

01:13:34.420 But if you look at Europe right now, it does seem to be a continent that is governed by people who are cocked by Marxists in a way, even despite the fact that Marxism lost as a major system.

01:13:50.720 We do have a bureaucratic leadership in the EU that constantly talks about how progressive it is and how enlightened it is and how their system of government is basically better than the parochial decentralization of the Lockean U.S. Constitution.

01:14:11.920 i don't think that we are experiencing anything other than cultural warfare against europe here

01:14:20.760 you could argue that this happens in the states and i don't think that he would disagree with you

01:14:25.680 there either but i think that he he does have a point where he says that in a way within within

01:14:32.920 europe there seems to be a cultural influence that is incredibly negative and it comes directly

01:14:40.120 from people with Marxist and philo-Marxist sentiments who have infiltrated the top echelons

01:14:48.460 of power within Europe and are governing with an ecophobic way.

01:14:52.400 And they're clear, sometimes they're adamant about wanting to destroy European civilization.

01:14:58.340 And sometimes they are cheering for saying, we want to replace European individuals.

01:15:03.960 I'm talking, for instance, Philippe Melenchon in France and his acolytes, also some members of the Podemos in Spain.

01:15:13.420 Yeah. And even those who are less bold than Melenchon, it's still the natural conclusion of the policies they espouse.

01:15:20.080 And I will speed up a bit due to time considerations.

01:15:23.660 It's just there is something really deeply problematic about the whole notion of progressivism.

01:15:29.780 And I think that this is important because it's important to notice and bear in mind because I think it's important to be realistic.

01:15:37.100 And Dan, I think you were completely correct when we were discussing your segment is that people who are of a more right-wing persuasion are more realistic and are more prone to think that whatever they consider to be the utopia isn't necessarily achievable in this world.

01:15:55.180 Yes.

01:15:55.580 I think that there is a spirit of humility there and a spirit of realism that is important to recapture.

01:16:03.660 And when it comes to right now the right wing, I think that there is an overcompensation for something that was a mistake of the past.

01:16:13.280 In the last decades of the Cold War, there was an overemphasis on economics.

01:16:18.720 and almost everyone was talking about economics and was forgetting lots of the crucial other

01:16:24.440 stuff like the importance of culture the importance of institutions the importance

01:16:28.360 of tradition and i want to say that it seems to me particularly uh understandable and reasonable

01:16:35.480 and justified to an extent to try to compensate for that loss but i will say it seems to me that

01:16:42.320 right now i do see people within the right wing in the western world to be very much prone to 0.57

01:16:50.000 completely neglect economics and i will say that yeah the homo economicus reductionist view of

01:16:56.960 human beings is mistaken that doesn't mean that economics isn't a very important thing an activity 0.53

01:17:05.480 that we constantly engage in and we can't afford to we can't afford to lose that that's how i see

01:17:12.760 this is true but i i think it's also important to uh concede i mean of you to understand economics

01:17:19.720 much better than i do but we have to also address the fact that um economic or just wealth inequality

01:17:26.040 is becoming a decisive pull factor factor for many many voters you know particularly amongst

01:17:33.400 are young and those are the things that restore are going to have to address you know well basically

01:17:39.360 they should address this but one of the other things is that when you essentially what what

01:17:45.820 what uh the argument is and i think that history supports it is that when you have in it when you

01:17:51.880 you accept inequality in economics you are giving the right incentives to people you're saying you

01:17:58.840 will get ahead by producing something that many people will find a value instead of just saying

01:18:04.380 you will get ahead by sucking up to the government so you're creating a system where people have the

01:18:10.420 incentive to create wealth instead of just thinking that wealth is going to magically

01:18:15.200 be created and they're going there will be entrusted with the power to redistribute it

01:18:20.920 So when you allow inequality in proper conditions, in conditions where you don't have massive intervention, government intervention in the economy and society, you do have a pie that is much bigger than the pie you would produce otherwise.

01:18:38.560 So inequality doesn't necessarily imply that those who are worse off in the hierarchy are going to be worse off than they would be in a condition where there would be zero wealth inequality, where such incentives wouldn't exist.

01:18:57.180 So this is an argument that it's good to remember.

01:19:00.840 And one thing to say is that if you want to peel through the onion of deception

01:19:05.080 of the modern liberal propaganda is that they are promising a goal

01:19:10.220 and they can't achieve that goal with the means that they want to, with the state.

01:19:17.320 Why? Because their goal is autonomy.

01:19:19.440 They constantly say, I want to make you happy.

01:19:22.300 I want to make you autonomous.

01:19:23.620 and autonomy has an irreducibly individualistic aspect into it it stands for self-governance

01:19:31.100 the state cannot self-govern you the state cannot self-develop you the state cannot self-improve

01:19:37.220 you it cannot self-realize you you cannot outsource what is irreducibly something that is a task of

01:19:45.680 the individual to a community a group or a state and this is where the illusion comes in this is

01:19:53.420 where it comes in and dan in a way i had this uh thread and i was talking something relatively

01:19:59.460 close to what you mentioned before with a communist pipeline that essentially progressives

01:20:04.800 respond by saying that they want to aid self-development by granting benefits to individuals

01:20:09.420 who will proceed to achieve autonomy for themselves and here is where equity and di

01:20:14.500 policies in general come into the picture because they're going to pay lip service to

01:20:18.740 equality of opportunity as being distinct from equity but if you see they constantly use equity

01:20:25.520 and equality of outcome as the criterion for whether equal opportunities were present

01:20:31.060 and essentially this means that they pay lip service to the difference between equality of

01:20:37.020 opportunity and equality of outcome but essentially they're saying unless communism we aren't going to

01:20:43.140 be free and the job of the government is to make you free and the the government will force you to

01:20:48.920 be free if communism that's essentially the trick they're using and i want people to remember when

01:20:56.760 they're talking now about the midterms and they constantly talk about how they want to punish

01:21:01.520 trump for not having deported many individuals um or not having deported as many people is just

01:21:10.180 remember be realistic uh be grounded remember what the alternative is um people don't like

01:21:19.740 this question the question what is the alternative but there is no alternative when we're talking

01:21:24.760 about practical contexts we're not choosing between ideal options or the absolute good

01:21:30.500 option and the absolute evil option we are talking about imperfect options so just uh

01:21:37.060 next time people are saying well trump hasn't deported many people so i want to vote for open

01:21:44.140 borders just you know just ask yourself right what am i doing here is this actually going to help

01:21:51.060 or is this actually um aiding a government that is uh essentially ecophobic wants to destroy western

01:22:00.480 culture a european culture american culture and proudly so because they think that this is

01:22:07.440 because they think that this is the enlightened thing to do for the sake of time i there is just

01:22:14.560 one small point that i'd like to make on that which is that the whole point of deporting all

01:22:18.960 of the illegals was because the democrats were going to rig give them basically citizenship

01:22:23.700 give them the right to vote and rig the entire apparatus of state and the elections in their

01:22:29.020 favor forever and so if trump has failed to deport a sufficient number of those people then the

01:22:36.300 outcome is still going to be the same whether the republicans fail in two elections time or this

01:22:42.660 elections time well there there are several um responses to this there are several things to

01:22:48.900 say in response first of all he he does he has had he has done some things on on the deportation

01:22:55.800 front. It's not as many as some people on the right expected. And even if what you say is the

01:23:03.820 case, the alternative of reopen the US-Mexico border and granting mass amnesty to every single

01:23:10.320 alien currently inside of the US and granting them political rights, as you mentioned here,

01:23:17.780 is hardly an improvement. It's a difficult situation given that there are only two real 0.97

01:23:22.560 parties contending you know for it because on the one hand you don't want to reward bad behavior

01:23:28.700 from the from the republican party but on the other hand you also don't want that yeah so yeah

01:23:35.760 you don't want um where is the sorry no though i had a link there that i can't find there but it's

01:23:42.940 it's okay okay so that's it all right great uh any video comments today samson

01:23:49.660 Go on then, let's have a look at them.

01:23:57.500 Hey Lotus Eaters, quick question for y'all.

01:24:00.900 If I was to move it over to the United Kingdom anytime soon, would I be fine driving my inky

01:24:07.140 dinky little box truck?

01:24:08.620 It's only 34 feet.

01:24:10.360 I know it's pretty small, but hey, I can drive it fine.

01:24:15.320 I can also drive the 58 footers if you need me to.

01:24:18.840 buddy if you need me to i can drive them i hope i hope that's not how you see because that is

01:24:27.560 because you shouldn't be driving anything if that's the state of your vision

01:24:32.220 payload seaters i'm here today at stokes a castle here it is right here so you've got the gatehouse

01:24:43.440 there, the castle wall and the moat there, a church there, a great wall there and I'm on the keep.

01:24:50.720 In this 13th century hall you see here it has something called a crocked roof because the

01:24:57.200 wooden beams here are bent and they were chosen that way. It's a very elaborately carved fireplace.

01:25:07.520 You know how leftists just really hate the world because they've got the seething resentment for

01:25:11.520 for people who have things that they don't have i get a bit of that when i look at that i should

01:25:16.620 be a 13th century lord with a keep what a great lord you'd have made dan yes would have been quite

01:25:24.140 superb all right that's uh all the videos is it samson all right uh uh comments from my segment

01:25:30.480 we've got zester king says a few years ago i visited berlin with a left-wing relative she

01:25:35.560 took me to the kaiserville memorial church which was bombed in world war ii outside of it she

01:25:41.280 stated that a terror attack had happened outside where um quote a man had driven into a crowd one

01:25:47.800 christmas she said it's so matter of fact and emotionless that i was taken aback then she

01:25:53.500 refused to elaborate on it and change the conversation well i mean this is the problem

01:25:58.820 isn't it they're not there's just an innate dishonesty about the problem they won't call

01:26:05.020 the problem the problem um and so the suffering will continue um the proletariat says in fargo 0.59

01:26:12.900 north dakota in 2023 there was a syrian who had been settled in the town who launched a terror 0.66

01:26:18.760 attack murdering a police officer and wounding two more if it can happen in fargo it can happen

01:26:24.600 in anywhere absolutely so i come back to the point why take the chance and uh actually i've got time

01:26:31.160 for a few more uh that's a random name says if millions of syrian refugees only chose to return

01:26:36.840 to syria after islam islamist took over what does that say about them in the first place

01:26:42.280 well i mean yes but there is also i suppose the aspect of i mean islamist or not is it is syria

01:26:50.540 stable now does it look like there is another counter regime that is going to vie for power

01:26:56.020 and there's going to be, you know, two other civil war in two years' time.

01:27:01.300 But I do take the point.

01:27:03.140 And ultimately, another point that I meant to make in my segment

01:27:06.160 was just that, look, if the Syrians don't return home to rebuild Syria, 0.91

01:27:11.080 then who else should be expected to, right? 0.74

01:27:14.600 Like, whose job is it more than the Syrians to rebuild Syria?

01:27:20.240 And then Lord Enquista Hector X says,

01:27:22.840 Merkel did admit she intentionally sabotaged the country

01:27:26.480 to import left-wing voters to stop the far-right.

01:27:29.080 Yeah, typical Blairite playbook.

01:27:31.640 And Derek Power, master of chippy, says, 1.00

01:27:34.460 Merkel is what happens when women don't make babies. 1.00

01:27:37.940 Is she... I mean, well, I mean... 1.00

01:27:40.580 Yeah, OK, that checks out.

01:27:42.740 I won't check that, but it checks out.

01:27:44.680 All right, over to you, Dan.

01:27:46.100 I've just been enjoying the chat,

01:27:47.780 who under the impression that I would make a merciful 13th century lord.

01:27:52.100 Yeah.

01:27:52.540 And I have to say, I think you were right, actually.

01:27:54.940 No, Merkel does not have biological children.

01:27:58.500 Oh, no, no.

01:27:59.420 Yeah.

01:28:00.320 Her husband has two adult sons from a previous marriage.

01:28:03.800 Right.

01:28:05.620 I'm also going to highlight a very sensible comment from That's a Random Name. 0.98

01:28:09.120 It says, all leftism is just the dregs of humanity hating the world because they were born ugly. 0.78

01:28:13.960 I think that is like 90% of it.

01:28:16.680 90 people carl did a really good video the other day on his maybe a cad daily or maybe well maybe

01:28:22.380 his main one whatever it was and he was basically saying all left-wing politics is hating your 1.00

01:28:27.560 father and all right-wing politics is being frustrated and annoyed by the stupidity of 0.99

01:28:33.300 your first grade teacher and i'm like yeah that is so true checks out because i quite like my 1.00

01:28:41.200 parents and then i then i started going to school and it's like who are these idiots with authority 0.96

01:28:47.440 over me yes they can't get anything right like i'm six and i know that you're wrong what are 0.96

01:28:52.640 you doing woman didn't like that at all anyway um that it does kind of make sense actually that as

01:28:59.740 soon as you were able to start speaking you just went around telling people they were wrong that

01:29:04.360 they were they didn't want me to do that they shouldn't have been wrong

01:29:08.460 yes especially not miss margaret i mean god um what else does he say um only there's some other

01:29:17.300 people there um even if zesty king says i think even if the greens won the next general election

01:29:24.220 the british armed forces would perform a military coup um can i comment on that is that fed posty

01:29:31.180 i mean i'll be there for that if if zach polanski can say i'm there for um utopia i can say i'm there

01:29:38.000 for the military coup if they ever get in because god well i mean polanski's position of basically

01:29:44.480 saying yeah these people just don't really have a place in society it's like and you think that's

01:29:49.580 going to be a peaceful transfer of power do you zach after saying that i mean very unlikely when

01:29:56.880 you put people in that much of an existential position for the safety and i'm certainly not

01:30:01.860 going to respond to what chat is talking about now so let's move on right uh derek power master

01:30:06.960 of chippies the key overlooked word is pursuit meaning there is no guarantee of having and no

01:30:12.520 obligation of obtaining it proletariat says there's a jefferson quote you have the right to pursue

01:30:17.760 happiness but you have to catch it yourself uh ben gale says communism isn't a huge problem in

01:30:23.700 europe or britain american style progressiveness and neoliberal economics is far more of a problem

01:30:29.420 than a mythical communist takeover the people would call communists are mainly neoliberals

01:30:34.640 If you want to call them liberals because they talk about liberty and autonomy all the time, I specifically mentioned them. That was a segment about them. But there is also the other bit, the subversion element and the element of incrementalism that you see, especially in the Fabian philosophy.

01:30:54.840 And I will say this, there were many Rawlsians in academia who had marks for their wallpaper

01:31:02.380 when they were giving speeches.

01:31:06.880 So, yeah, when I see people saying they're neoliberals or something, I tend to think

01:31:12.920 they're a bit communist-y.

01:31:15.500 Right. 0.96

01:31:15.780 And Michael Dribelbis, Woodrow Wilson, and his later counterpart, FDR, fat, drunk, and 0.95

01:31:22.360 racist i literally set the wheels in motion to destroy the u.s the british empire lasted 0.95

01:31:28.200 centuries and these progressives are treasonous yeah all right well said okay well uh that's all

01:31:34.440 the time we've um used up today ladies and gentlemen i hope you've enjoyed the show

01:31:37.980 and we look forward to of course seeing you tomorrow at 1 p.m have a good day cheerio chaps

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - April 21, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1401

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