The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1535

00:00:00.000 good afternoon and welcome to the podcast of the lotus eaters episode 1535 i'm your host harry

00:00:06.580 joined today by brother stelios hello brother harry and uncle firas i got to be an unk now

00:00:12.740 i mean you're on the panel it's weird because his brother firas to me uncle firas to you but

00:00:19.840 we are brothers well i mean it's a we are integrated it's a twisty family what can i

00:00:25.260 say it's a very dusty family dynamic we're all actually from pakistan and uh today we're going

00:00:29.920 to be talking about the uh fishy elections over in uh brazil land which has a real threat of 0.51

00:00:35.980 becoming just like that third world hellhole brazil uh we're also going to be talking about

00:00:40.700 identity politics for me but not for thee and i'm going to be talking about uh bukele's action in 0.71

00:00:46.760 haiti and some rather bizarre stuff i've also found out about haiti today that i decided you

00:00:51.680 all needed to know about as well and uh with that we also have realpolitik this afternoon

00:00:57.320 broadcasting live as usual yes yes so if you have a premium membership on the website please do

00:01:03.980 watch that it'll be well worth your time with nothing else to say let's move on before we start

00:01:09.560 i want to just say one thing which the audience will find interesting it is about the segment but

00:01:14.180 this is not youtube territory right so you mentioned this joke before harry about brazil

00:01:20.680 becoming brazil that's deadly serious yeah but i want to say i'm thinking i'm thinking of asking

00:01:28.440 for hazard pay because i had to do it's the third segment i'm doing now which involves lula

00:01:34.800 and i find him absolutely and you're beginning to fall for him no absolutely appalling it's just

00:01:41.040 you can't help but look into his eyes and see passion no i see evil right okay passion is a

00:01:47.920 evil can be a form of passion reminded of george bush talking about i looked into putin's eye and

00:01:53.780 i thought he was a good man um what about this box uh wait no if i move the technology has

00:01:59.240 failed us yet again there you go i think it should work now do it there you go let me check

00:02:04.580 right amazing yesterday brazilians voted for the second round of their presidential elections

00:02:13.560 and the results were a bit unexpected.

00:02:18.720 So what I'm going to do in this segment is

00:02:21.060 I'm going to give you the two conflicting narratives

00:02:24.380 and you're going to make up your mind.

00:02:26.280 Right, so these were the results of the first round.

00:02:30.860 In the first round that was held three weeks ago,

00:02:34.800 Flavio Bolsonaro had a clear lead of 2%,

00:02:37.940 which translated into a two point almost uh 2.2 million votes

00:02:44.860 right he got 56.1 million 104 503 votes and lula de silva going for the first for the fourth

00:02:56.220 term now he got 53 million eight hundred and seventy nine thousand five hundred and thirty

00:03:03.540 eight votes so they competed they went for the second round and and for those who may be unfamiliar

00:03:12.560 even though this is your third lula segment uh what does bolsonaro represent what does

00:03:17.800 lula represent right so lula represents a sort of a very um communist third worldist approach

00:03:27.300 huge government handouts and uh yeah lots of let's say government intervention in hugs not

00:03:35.540 bullets for the gangs hikes not bullets for the gangs he's very he's very let's say relaxed when

00:03:40.860 it comes to crime and what was interesting now what was in bolsonaro is a bit more you know the

00:03:48.300 the establishment of the west would call him far-right trump adjacent right so you can get an

00:03:54.740 idea here's a bit more tough on crime he is admiring bukele's stance on crime and he's a bit

00:04:01.380 more close to the to the idea of a free market and he wants to be closer to the sort of western camp

00:04:09.840 and lula wants to be closer to china and the brics coalition or less right more or less exactly

00:04:18.560 right so what was interesting was that bolsonaro had the momentum right lula is representing this

00:04:27.280 age-old leftist tactic of let's give government handouts to all of my people right now but he

00:04:35.580 found himself having to tell brazilians to be patient it's his fourth term now it's not

00:04:41.620 consecutive but it is going to be his fourth term now but the the person in the middle the

00:04:46.560 the lady in the middle was one of his people yes uh what's her name uh don't remember it now but

00:04:52.360 okay fine right so it's not exactly that he doesn't have a hold in the brazilian political

00:04:58.040 system he absolutely does but what was interesting was that he he appeared to have completely lost

00:05:04.560 momentum and bolsonaro had the momentum he was sort of the um the underdog and the outsider who

00:05:12.800 stunned everyone in the first round as here adrian blomfield says in the telegraph bolsonaro

00:05:19.600 junior stands brazil and they're saying here although he fell short of the majority needed to

00:05:24.960 avoid the second round it will take something extraordinary to stop him now though in a country

00:05:31.840 as scandal-ridden as Brazil, nothing is impossible.

00:05:36.400 Well, that's an understatement.

00:05:37.560 Well, yeah, but maybe, you don't know, extraordinary things happen.

00:05:42.520 Do they? Okay.

00:05:43.760 Don't the laws of physics get suspended occasionally?

00:05:47.080 Occasionally, occasionally, yes, I'm sure.

00:05:49.280 Okay, so they had several debates and I don't understand Portuguese.

00:05:55.160 I don't know how good the subtitles were,

00:05:58.600 But I will say that the body language showed clearly a very tired, exhausted and angry and resentful Lula and a calm, collected and occasionally joyous and humorous Bolsonaro Jr.

00:06:14.420 And I have two clips here. He says here at some point that we're talking about security.

00:06:21.260 Bolsonaro Jr. said, Lula, can you explain why 73 percent of prison inmates voted for you?

00:06:26.620 lula says what i want is for a hundred percent of her for me even your father now what i want both

00:06:31.580 lula and bolsonaro jr to explain to me is why where the hell do prison inmates vote just that's

00:06:39.280 one thing i would like both we are speaking about brazil so harry that's going to be that's just

00:06:45.000 going to be my stock answer for every bizarre question that you may have about the country

00:06:49.300 as well it is brazil yeah this is this is your haiti segment is not going to be much better no

00:06:54.240 this is south america south and central america we're talking about this is this is the um harry

00:06:59.340 there are good people this is the if god created a gigantic online server like south and central

00:07:05.940 america is the pvp zone right that's that's what we're talking about right here okay right so here

00:07:13.120 lula at one point completely lost his temper and he threatened flavio bolsonaro with legal action

00:07:19.680 Now, that's not particularly unprecedented. Both Lula was in prison for about a year, I think between 2018 and 2019. And also Jair Bolsonaro is under house arrest.

00:07:32.240 i mean how else do you get on the electoral ballot down there thank you very much harry right

00:07:37.980 here um some as the word um according to the telegraph author of the previous article as he

00:07:48.520 said i quote him something completely extraordinary would require would be required for lula to turn

00:07:55.320 this and several events happened and let's see what to make of them at some point lula

00:08:05.000 said that they would ask for a two-hour voting extension so the voting deadline was 5 p.m

00:08:14.520 and he asked for it just a few moments before the deadline expired he asked for it to be

00:08:21.960 postponed for two hours citing transportation issues and weather conditions

00:08:31.000 things that are completely for some reason the buses were uh operating on a 60 capacity

00:08:38.200 and no one had thought uh lula who is the incumbent president hadn't thought to apparently

00:08:46.200 to tell the best drivers well maybe today you have to be 100 capacity and i'll give you tomorrow as

00:08:53.960 a work for i'll just give it to you i'll give you a free day uh he he didn't think of it in advance

00:09:00.840 apparently is that too much to ask for from an incumbent president understand the transport

00:09:07.880 system in a country where he's been president for four to four three consecutive four three

00:09:11.560 for three terms and now a fourth yes no i can read harry's mind we are talking about brazil i

00:09:17.380 mean he was probably taking a nap right so lula and as they're saying lula has asked to postpone

00:09:22.080 nothing wrong with a midday nap i'm not saying i'm not saying that perfectly reasonable mediterranean

00:09:28.140 habit i respect the stelius and i are going to gang up on you on this no i respect the siesta

00:09:33.040 i wish i was having one right now yeah it makes two of us right so uh flavio bolsonaro contests

00:09:41.180 the results and he said they didn't postpone the election they they continued voting for another

00:09:48.700 two hours yes okay fair enough from 5 p.m to 7 p.m okay and then we also it's interesting and i'll

00:09:56.960 say this uh you know especially about californians is like more than 100 million people voted and

00:10:04.480 they counted the results whereas california can get lost in counting for for weeks yes occasionally

00:10:12.220 months i don't know if actually they've stopped counting if they've ever stopped they're still

00:10:17.740 going they're rounding it back around for the midterms come november that's all so this is a

00:10:24.160 reuters article from brazil brazil heads back to the future as flavia bolsonaro refuses to

00:10:29.940 recognize lula win brazilian right-wing senator flavia bolsonaro has followed his imprisoned

00:10:35.480 father's lead by refusing to concede defeat to leftist president lula de silva who won a historic

00:10:41.520 fourth term in sunday's presidential election so reuters doesn't um question what happened it's it

00:10:49.020 is an interest in at least asking whether the process was violated or not right they

00:10:56.500 straightforwardly went and said that this is a win and they are saying here Lula won 51.8 percent

00:11:04.720 and Flavio Bolsonaro got 48.2 percent now do you notice something the number of votes for

00:11:15.280 before lula had around 54 53.9 let's say let's up him up a bit now 64.3 million right so according

00:11:28.240 to this narrative he managed to mobilize more than um 10 and a half million people to vote for him

00:11:36.180 right and only uh less than four million people went to vote for bolsonaro about

00:11:41.880 3.5 million extra voters went to vote for bolsonaro now um one thing to say is that and this

00:11:51.340 was what in the space of the two hours for extra counting not in the space of the three the two

00:11:56.880 elections relative to the first round of the elections what they got right so bolsonaro says

00:12:04.600 that he won't accept the result and he says that this has never happened in the history of brazil

00:12:10.920 and he says that this was a last-minute decision by Lula's former personal lawyer

00:12:15.940 and current Supreme Court Justice, Cristiano Zanin, to extend voting by two hours.

00:12:21.180 We are going to talk about this justice and his relationship to Lula.

00:12:28.780 In fact, I have several pieces of information to share with you.

00:12:33.660 But before we talk about this, let us look at who is happy

00:12:37.980 because you can always tell a lot about a candidate based on who is happy or not happy about them so

00:12:45.660 pedro sanchez is particularly happy about the election of lula says what has happened in brazil

00:12:55.020 will happen in spain that's a threat the comeback of global progressivism has just begun

00:13:01.340 Why do you call it globalism?

00:13:04.340 Well, it is globalism, and globalism is essentially anti-Westernism and anti-Europeanism. 0.71

00:13:11.340 And the way it manifests right now, it also is anti-white hatred, because that's what wokeness is.

00:13:17.340 Right?

00:13:19.340 Emmanuel Macron, my heartfelt congratulations for Lula on his re-election.

00:13:24.340 He says France and Brazil have much to build together, and he says that in face of the great challenges of their time,

00:13:30.340 let us strengthen our strategic partnership and bring to life the friendship between our two

00:13:35.220 countries in service of a more just world. Right. Alex Soros. Lula, lula, lula. He felt compelled

00:13:44.800 to say three times for one reason. I have no idea why. They say it's the magic number in rhetoric.

00:13:49.720 It sort of gets the message across, creates a habit in the mind of being receptive to a particular

00:13:55.100 name or slogan says congrats to brazil for standing up against authoritarianism once again

00:14:02.060 now what is interesting is that in today's world you can blatantly violate the electoral process

00:14:09.820 and the democratic institutions you can call for your political opponents to get to be jailed you

00:14:15.580 can censor whoever you want and get away with it so long as as you say you're a leftist if you're

00:14:21.900 a leftist you can basically have a blank check to do everything because everything you do is going

00:14:27.580 to be baptized as reaction against tyranny and yeah the authoritarianism is not authoritarianism

00:14:35.260 when we do it it's anti-authoritarianism it's like mal was talking about anti-imperialism

00:14:40.060 when we do it it's anti-imperialism well it was correct me if i'm wrong was alex soros the one

00:14:45.260 who was hanging out with curtis yarvin uh probably thanks because i remember curtis

00:14:51.300 yarvin hanging out with one of the sororses right i would i would assume it wasn't it wasn't george

00:14:56.820 uh so alex soros seems to be able to straddle different sides of the political aisle dependent

00:15:04.620 on what seems to be within his interests in in in the place he's examining i'm i'm sure that as a

00:15:11.960 businessman he will try to find seek no favorable terms from so governments from both sides but

00:15:19.420 especially alex soros has definitely gone full globalist i don't think he has ever expressed

00:15:25.800 support for opposite people who oppose globalism but i'm sure that when it comes to business

00:15:32.820 i mean here he has business across the world so yavin's not much of a businessman he's explicitly

00:15:38.500 just a political guy well okay so trump says that an international investigation must take

00:15:44.680 place on the election in brazil on the communist lula regime and he says according to trump

00:15:51.240 flavio bolsonaro just like his father had the election stolen from him after winning the first

00:15:55.960 round and highly favored in the second round trump was followed by also by um javier mille

00:16:04.340 in Argentina, who had 100% sided with Flavio Bolsonaro.

00:16:11.160 They're also saying that it's impossible for the U.S. to recognize the result of elections in Brazil as it occurred.

00:16:18.600 So there is considerable skepticism from the anti-Lula camp and narrative.

00:16:24.340 So this is a graph that shows roughly the mobility of the result that was announced.

00:16:31.260 there was a massive abstention in the first round it was 33.5 million then it was

00:16:38.060 30.5 million so three million people um basically uh three more million people voted out of these

00:16:47.900 three million three and a half million almost three million went to lula half a million went

00:16:54.720 to bolsonaro now one of the reasons why people are skeptical of this narrative or some people

00:17:01.000 the people who are skeptical of this narrative is to say the following that it's very weird that

00:17:07.880 you can have someone lose the first round so much and proceed to um to um inspire such a mobilization

00:17:18.440 on the second round simply based on a fear campaign because lula was when it came to

00:17:24.840 economics he started finding himself in the sort of position of having to tell his people

00:17:30.600 be patient the economy in the long run or mid to long run is going to recover which isn't what the

00:17:37.880 average leftist voter wants to hear about next you have the fear campaign where bolsonaro was

00:17:43.800 supposed to be the antichrist according to lula and the someone who would try to bring a next

00:17:50.360 dictatorship in in uh in brazil now you could say that people who actually fell for that narrative

00:17:59.880 would have and actually believe that would have voted for lula in the first round

00:18:04.920 and also bolsonaro had the momentum the younger generation seems to be um very much siding with

00:18:12.440 bolsonaro they're saying that we we have a future uh to to care about we don't want to constantly

00:18:19.880 listen about the the scaremongering about the 20-year in the 60s and eight between the 60s and

00:18:26.040 80s but anyway these are the this is the voter mobility of the results that were announced

00:18:33.680 to present um steel man for you know what uh what this graph is representing i don't see it entirely

00:18:40.680 out of the realm of possibility that it was simply a case of strategic voting we have in many european

00:18:46.880 countries examples of the same thing happening as a form of cordon sanitaire against the threat of

00:18:52.580 the far right so we have other examples elsewhere if those if all of these elections to be taken to

00:18:58.180 be legitimate that yes people will go out and strategically vote for the party that they weren't

00:19:05.000 as favorable for just to keep the other guy out it could be the case definitely the other side of

00:19:10.100 the narrative says that the candidates that were that lost in the first round weren't exactly pro

00:19:17.420 lula and they didn't treat bolsonaro as in the way that you know other establishment here in

00:19:24.000 parties treat in europe treat for instance so it'd be strange to see so many people voting for those

00:19:29.720 according to the pro bolsonaro narrative yes according to the pro bolsonaro narrative

00:19:34.280 right here we have this from cnn brazil.com 213 cities that chose flavia bolsonaro in the first

00:19:41.920 round gave victory to lula in the second and they're saying minas gerais the decisive state

00:19:49.840 in the election has the largest number of municipality turned around by the vote the

00:19:54.480 workers party candidate rio de janeiro and macapa are among the municipality that changed the winners

00:20:01.840 so that's a that's a relatively big change wouldn't you say 213 cities voted for flavio

00:20:11.360 bolsonaro in the first round then all of them all of those 213 cities voted for lula's workers

00:20:19.040 party in the second round that's uh you know the and the results were uh the following as i said

00:20:27.120 51.8 to lula and uh 48.2 for flavio bolsonaro now there was a an interesting thing to notice here

00:20:38.800 uh polymarket bet on a bolsonaro victory and when the uh the change was announced

00:20:48.400 this was completely changed so people who were betting on polymarket they instantly interpreted

00:20:55.920 the sign of the extension as a sort of interference that would hand lula the victory

00:21:03.920 and we have an interesting um issue here we have cristiano zanin ordering and authorizing the

00:21:14.400 request of lula there was a two-hour extension of brazil runner voting after transport problems

00:21:20.640 okay right so stf judge cristiano zanin extended voting by two hours nationwide due to transportation

00:21:32.720 problems the extension followed requests from both lula and bolsonaro campaign citing bus

00:21:39.120 transportation issues that's according to news court um to the news court outlet and it's

00:21:47.280 interesting here to see uh what is the relationship between christiana zanin and lula right um

00:21:56.720 christiana zanin isn't someone who doesn't know lula and doesn't have a past with lula that's him

00:22:02.800 over here right so let me just tell you in a nutshell lula was allegedly involved in a massive

00:22:12.560 scandal it's not the only scandal he has been accused of being involved in but operation car

00:22:18.300 wash the so-called lava jato one was a corruption investigation that he was accused of being

00:22:26.420 involved in who was his defense attorney in 2013 back in 2013 this guy yes right so he represented

00:22:36.180 lula through the high profile operation car wash corruption investigations and subsequent

00:22:41.940 imprisonment in 2018. So Lula was imprisoned in 2018, and Cristiano Zanin was his main defense

00:22:50.140 attorney. In 2021, Zanin argued the successful habeas corpus petitions before the federal

00:22:57.480 Supreme Court that annulled Lula's criminal convictions, fully restoring Lula's political

00:23:03.900 rights and enabling him to run for president again. Is that where it stops? No. Then he became

00:23:11.780 campaign advisor and had a prominent cabinet role during lula's 2022 presidential campaign

00:23:18.500 zanin worked as a top legal strategist following lula's victory zanin served in the judicial

00:23:24.600 security transition team for the incoming administration

00:23:28.500 in june 2023 during his third presidential term lula nominated christiano zanin to the federal

00:23:39.060 supreme court to fill a seat vacated by retiring justice ricardo lawandowski following approval by

00:23:47.380 the senate sanin was sworn in as a supreme court justice in august 2023 harry what do you have in

00:23:55.380 mind i know what you have in mind not much yeah and addressing criticism regarding the sort of

00:24:02.420 connection that they had lula responded that zanin was selected purely for his professional

00:24:08.980 competence yes legal rigor and technical qualifications rather than personal friendship

00:24:18.580 okay yeah strange yes strange right um but i i'm are you sure it's not meritocratic

00:24:28.820 you don't have to answer i i have some doubt right so according to the uh most of the

00:24:35.140 international community lula wins shock brazil election but bolsonaro refuses to concede

00:24:41.540 and we have um several people contesting this uh this is a post from geiger capital

00:24:49.060 even the new york time realizes as according to geiger capital how obvious this was this is from

00:24:56.660 the new york times several election lawyers say today's vote could be annulled due to confusion

00:25:04.260 over the late decision to extend voting hours all four lawyers interviewed called the situation

00:25:11.380 unprecedented they're saying that this is an extremely serious critical situation according to

00:25:18.020 priscilla sodra pereda an electoral lawyer supreme court justice christiana zanin decided minutes

00:25:24.740 before the polls closed to extend all polling stations by two additional hours by the time of

00:25:31.220 of the announcements, some polling centers had already closed, their voting machines

00:25:35.500 had shut down, and they could not reopen. Fernando Nacer, an electoral law professor

00:25:41.120 at Fundacao Getulio Vargas, a Brazilian research institute, said the election could be annulled

00:25:47.900 if the margin is very narrow, and it is shown that polling stations stayed open longer in

00:25:54.160 areas that strongly favor one candidate. Personally, I will say that I don't think that the results

00:25:59.860 are going to be annulled because in some cases uh it's not what the law says it's who is mostly

00:26:08.660 represented in the law from a political side so so so was it when this decision was made by the

00:26:14.580 supreme court that the poly market odds changed immediately yes yes yes so they were like oh

00:26:20.720 okay we see what's going on here then yes so they um they interpreted as a signal of election

00:26:27.180 interference but that is one narrative or just like a legitimate election just what normally

00:26:35.020 happens in a legitimate election in brazil they went oh okay i see i see some doubts in your mind

00:26:39.860 they went oh well this just seems like a perfectly legitimate thing to happen luke is

00:26:44.080 lula's gonna win not luca he wasn't up for election right and uh the question now is what

00:26:50.560 is lula going to do if the results uh aren't um annulled and if he starts his fourth term

00:26:59.840 i'll just show you some of the clips he just announced do you see this here vamos a regular

00:27:07.040 las plataformas digitales you you don't need to know i can guess what i don't need to know

00:27:12.320 portuguese to see this yeah right right so it has to do with regulating digital platforms

00:27:20.400 in line with eu policy in line with uk policy australia exactly the united states because he

00:27:26.080 wants to protect our democracy of course and there is no better signal to a democrat

00:27:34.960 democratically mounted people that you're pro-democracy apparently than saying that you

00:27:39.760 have to censor the public dialogue apparently dialogue isn't the lifeblood of democracy

00:27:45.600 according to lula and according to the our democ the our democrats yes right um brazilian president

00:27:54.080 lula we will teach more mathematics more engineering because i don't want to remain

00:27:58.640 dependent on chinese or american artificial intelligence i want to create a brazilian one

00:28:04.480 that's good if he does this i don't think that's an actually bad strategy um he does want more

00:28:12.000 scholars and engineers because he says he wants to teach more mathematics and engineering um

00:28:18.720 you think he's be he's going to be importing some probably why not it's all uh you know

00:28:26.480 yes the global progress of his camp if of course uh if what is interesting is that lula occasionally

00:28:33.600 uh wears a hat that says brazil belongs to the brazilians which i have nothing against as a

00:28:41.440 slogan and as a policy for brazil i have nothing against but what is interesting is that as far as

00:28:47.280 the left is concerned or the globalist left people like sanchez when someone says england for the

00:28:54.720 english right britain for the british france for the french germany for germans that's far right

00:29:02.080 yes if they say spain for the spanish that's far right yes but if lula says here brazil for the

00:29:08.880 the brazilians apparently that's not far right for sanchez well we know that there's the double

00:29:14.060 standards there would it not also be a stance of defiance against potential in american influence

00:29:20.360 it definitely is it definitely is yes so uh yeah so so so so so my my question is from a from a

00:29:28.480 british and european perspective what would have been the benefits for us with a more american

00:29:36.120 aligned Brazil under Bolsonaro than Lula who wants to decouple and move away from

00:29:42.900 America in that way would we have had greater access to Brazilian natural

00:29:47.520 resources what strategic possibilities does it offer presumably it would all

00:29:56.560 depend how Flavio Bolsonaro would act if he were elected because I

00:30:03.540 know obviously with Venezuela the big important thing that America wanted from there and why they

00:30:07.420 wanted to get the socialist sales of Venezuela because they wanted access to the oil. Well if

00:30:12.840 Flavio Bolsonaro for instance moved like Millet and he opened up the market a bit presumably that

00:30:20.640 would be a sign for hey we are okay with you investing in us right this could include this

00:30:27.540 could evolve into greater trade between you know brazil and and european countries and also trade

00:30:34.580 without the sort of strings attached that each side tries to pull on the other and it would also

00:30:40.900 mean i would say um indirectly a weaker globalist left on an indirect uh way right because

00:30:53.300 Because, you know, global alliances matter.

00:30:57.260 The greater the alliance on a global scale, the more internationally organized in mind that it is, the stronger hold it has.

00:31:05.800 So now this, if this election, if these results aren't annulled and they're accepted as the de facto results of the election, that will also be, in a sense, the first victory of the left in Latin America post the cancellation of USAID.

00:31:26.900 Yeah, that's also it would also mean now that Lula is much more interested in approaching China and the BRICS camp, it would mean increased BRICS influence in Latin America.

00:31:41.900 Right. At a time when the Americans are trying to consolidate over Latin America. So that really matters.

00:31:46.540 Yes. And he says here, our army is bigger than the Chinese army, better than the American army and bigger than the Russian army.

00:31:54.020 our army is the army of dignity democracy education and health

00:31:58.220 at least they got all the buzzwords over there they got all the buzzwords the sloganistic

00:32:04.580 left and here we have uh duda salabert who is a communist mp calling for the seizure of

00:32:12.240 flavio bolsonaro's passport and his arrest this uh i'm not going to affirm the um

00:32:20.260 what origin or uh that's just that's just a south american classic though isn't it

00:32:29.080 we've won the election uh arrest my opponent yeah i'll tell you after the the segment finishes

00:32:35.000 says urgent i just requested the seizure of flavio bolsonaro's passport the next step for

00:32:41.780 this criminal is to try to flee brazil to avoid facing the numerous inquiries against him he needs

00:32:48.240 to be arrested soon we cannot allow him to join his brother in the u.s to plot against national

00:32:53.040 sovereignty um this shows i'd say this is completely extremist and dictatorial thinking

00:32:59.900 it's like um this person thinks that they're a judge jury and executioner they've already said

00:33:07.620 flavia bolsonaro is a criminal um overturn his rights yes and i don't see much condemnation of

00:33:17.060 this i don't see people condemning this from the the internet the internet the our democrats yes

00:33:26.420 of the globalist left they aren't uh sounding the alarm and saying well maybe you maybe this

00:33:33.140 is a bit goes a bit too far you have a person here who has announced Bolsonaro to be a criminal and

00:33:41.860 calls for his rights to be let's say violated maybe something's going on here no no because

00:33:49.940 as we said before you can violate the democratic process you can call for people to be censored

00:33:56.340 you can um you can blatantly ignore democratic norms you can uh you know you can do everything

00:34:06.700 so long as you say so long as you say you're a leftist well what what was fear is about to say

00:34:11.580 because i think you were about to put a counterpoint out there my point is that the problem

00:34:15.540 with bolsonaro and with trump is that they uh as somebody online put it that they skinny dipped

00:34:20.580 into the into the rubicon or they dipped their toes into the rubicon without actually going

00:34:25.080 through i mean skinny dipping would be the absolute like fullest extreme no if you're

00:34:31.520 going to cross the rubicon cross the rubicon don't do it halfway because you're at a stage

00:34:37.640 now when the notion of democracy is collapsing because democracy relies on a very broad consensus

00:34:43.640 between uh the different factions that largely agree on everything and that are therefore willing

00:34:48.840 to alternate power because on the important principles they're in agreement well i mean

00:34:53.660 You could say, though, that there is a sort of value in the attempt to keep democratic norms, because you could say that, well, for instance, one of the reasons for the pro-Bolsonaro side, for instance, they could say that one of the main criticisms that they have of Lula is that he violated all these norms.

00:35:14.480 and you mentioned this about democracy all of all of these political systems have their pitfalls

00:35:19.360 and for instance we know when it comes to um attempts at popular sovereignty that they are

00:35:25.620 for instance very much susceptible to the sort of triumvirate when we have the you know the

00:35:31.500 the executive the legislative and the and the um judicial yeah there are there are always

00:35:40.400 background alliances uh triumvirates in the background but you could say that all all this

00:35:48.080 it it could happen fundamentally under any system yes but you can have unpopular decision does

00:35:55.340 permit is the covering of oligarchy with a fig leaf of popular support but on the other hand

00:36:02.900 it's unique in the in in its ability to deceive it's unique authoritarianism is authoritarian

00:36:09.340 authoritarian frequently is you can also say that authoritarianism frequently comes forth

00:36:17.320 from the mantle of popular support because you have authoritarians saying well democracy doesn't

00:36:23.120 work it leads to chaos and vote for me to care for you think about it and they could also and

00:36:30.500 let me just finish this they could also say that they could also deceive and it's just that they

00:36:35.840 wouldn't use democratic rhetoric to receive to deceive government can deceive of course but

00:36:41.560 think about it this way the appeal of authoritarianism right now can be exemplified in

00:36:46.200 putin the situation of a lot of europe is that it's spending more than soviet russia

00:36:50.940 as a share of gdp uh with absolutely horrific results with rampant crime with rampant filth

00:36:59.840 with with collapsing uh demographics uh putin is popular because he provided an authoritarian

00:37:07.680 solution for this so when you let things decline to this extent which brazil is a prime example of

00:37:14.000 because it's constantly used as a warning of the consequences of decline um then the best solution

00:37:21.040 is going to be actually i'm going to crack some skulls now and that is how things will go forward

00:37:28.560 well i i don't know because i think that to a very large extent you're opening a very big

00:37:35.040 discussion that now we don't have that much time to enter into but i i think that fundamentally

00:37:41.040 people fixate on democracy monarchy and oligarchy they are they are essentially answers to the

00:37:47.280 question how many people participate in decision making we are forgetting what is the right and

00:37:54.000 what is the wrong decision and you can have a monarch making wrong decisions you can have

00:38:00.960 oligarchs making wrong decisions you can have a mob or uh you know or clocracy and uh even the

00:38:08.000 popular majority making wrong decisions and this notion of of uh you know insufficient 0.83

00:38:16.400 information flow in democracies also characterizes many authoritarians it's like

00:38:22.800 authoritarianism has an allure because people do have occasionally these sort of right okay i don't

00:38:28.720 want any limit to what i want to do but these i i think it's worth defending democratic institutions

00:38:36.320 and you know republican institutions that have evolved in the western world because they have

00:38:42.000 evolved for a reason and the same way we talk about tradition as being a sort of uh kind of

00:38:47.360 answers to to problems we have forgotten right now people fixate on the problems of democracy

00:38:53.200 and popular government but they are forgetting problems with authoritarianism there have been

00:38:58.880 problems with authoritarianism in the past so anyway let's let's continue this discussion

00:39:04.800 uh at another time i'm more than happy to have it because um you know i'm that would be amazing

00:39:10.080 very interested in it i'm sure that we are going to go to the second segment very quickly yes you

00:39:17.120 are going to make something of the hat of uh lula that says brazil belongs to the brazilians which

00:39:23.760 is allowed which is permitted now which is permitted now yes uh should we read some of the

00:39:31.120 comments uh let's let's just go through a cranky one of them maybe yes soros jr celebrating election

00:39:38.320 results suggests that his network had a hand in rigging it we're saying that now because we're

00:39:42.800 off of youtube mr editor make sure this is not put onto youtube that's who and what learn about

00:39:48.640 the money he and his network make on green energy mandates to understand the why yes

00:39:55.600 so i want to talk about identity politics and when is it allowed and when it is not allowed

00:40:01.680 uh you frequently see people like uh nice mr jean-luc melanchon here of france the leader of

00:40:08.880 the far-left, La France Insoumise, saying that actually the French people do not exist

00:40:21.700 except as a political construction, in the same way that perhaps gender is a social construct

00:40:28.380 or race is a social construct.

00:40:29.580 Is there anything the French don't think is a social construction?

00:40:33.220 Well that's a great question.

00:40:35.280 That's a great question.

00:40:36.280 i mean if he wants to break france down into the composite ethnic blocks of each particular region

00:40:41.960 then maybe you could make maybe you could make that broader i don't think he's going to do that

00:40:46.800 no i don't think he's just i think he's just going to sort of import a huge number of people

00:40:50.720 and use them as a battering ram against the majority do do do the french often talk about

00:40:55.160 how the people coming in they just need to embrace french values oh unfortunately some of them do

00:41:00.420 some of them do it's it's the infidelity widespread moving on uh danny krueger kind of

00:41:07.700 makes a similar point here what unites us not ethnicity it's a common commitment it's a set

00:41:13.380 of values really um it's basically uh there's a christian foundation but really everybody's

00:41:20.580 invited and i'm as a foreigner i appreciate the sentiment i i recognize that this is uh perhaps

00:41:29.220 from somebody with the naivety of Danny Kruger said in good faith and that it is a nice thing

00:41:35.720 to try and say. I don't agree with it but I appreciate that this is what is being that

00:41:41.360 there is an attempt here to try to be good to outsiders but it does involve a bit of bending

00:41:51.380 of reality shall we say well coming from reform here a lot of the reform supporters

00:41:58.040 who defend some of Nigel Farage's more questionable statements over the years

00:42:03.960 regarding the existence of the English and you know English nationalism and what what not say

00:42:10.660 that and I think there is some truth to this that Farage does adjust his rhetoric depending on what

00:42:15.860 the temperature of public conversation seems to be at the time so he will get away with what he can

00:42:21.780 um i don't see danny krueger as the same kind of savvy political rhetorician in the way that

00:42:28.840 faraj is no he sort of sticks to this and i think in the same speech he said that you know

00:42:33.600 aside from a few radical muslims really islam isn't a particular problem in and of itself

00:42:38.920 or something to that effect now what I want to do is to try to contrast this

00:42:45.460 with some of the other statements that that we have been seeing and maybe let's

00:42:50.860 start here with Dawn Butler explaining her position on reparations and maybe

00:42:56.860 we would read some of it here and then listen to her a stolen watch doesn't

00:43:01.540 become yours just because you pass it down to your children so why apply a

00:43:05.440 different rule to stolen labor wealth and land reparations are about inherited benefit and

00:43:11.600 inherited loss time does not erase injustice how does this represent the people of brent east

00:43:18.480 question well they're 80 something not british oh okay that explains it yeah do you hear the left

00:43:24.560 talking about reparations for the arab slave trade no no never but this is why because what is

00:43:31.280 was that not a past historical injustice that uh well it was a much bigger one yeah but

00:43:36.960 according to the left well their descendants never existed so that they don't have a contingent of

00:43:42.560 of salty descendants asking what what's dawn bartler's position on the arab slave 0.89

00:43:46.880 now she has one i really doubt that she's aware of it frankly uh and if she is aware of it she

00:43:52.560 will bury it very deep in the recesses of her memory uh shallow as it might be what i wanted

00:43:58.720 to point out to what would point out here is is the nature of claim that's being made here

00:44:04.560 because what's being made here is a collective claim there is an us according to dawn butler

00:44:11.440 who includes the uh for the descendants of slaves who are marked by their skin color let's let's

00:44:20.160 let's be clear about that, and who have a collective claim against another group who are

00:44:28.860 the English, or who are white Europeans in general, perhaps. And this claim fundamentally

00:44:36.620 is ancestral. It comes by dissent. And it's a collective claim, and it's making a claim of

00:44:45.560 collective guilt by dissent against the whites. This is the nature of reparations claims,

00:44:53.040 fundamentally. She isn't just saying that slavery was an injustice, which from a Christian 0.98

00:44:58.680 perspective it was, but that is what makes Christianity unique, because from an Islamic

00:45:05.100 perspective, from a Chinese perspective, it isn't actually unique. Slavery is a universal historic

00:45:13.080 norm the objection to slavery is what is unique and this isn't about the slaves who still exist 0.73

00:45:20.400 today you see enslaved ukrainian women you see enslaved russian and bulgarian and romanian all

00:45:25.840 kinds of eastern european women uh sent to to work in brothels all over the world well if some

00:45:31.620 if some of the reports of the extent of some of the grooming gangs is to believe it be believed

00:45:36.880 then you would expect that sadly there are probably english girls out there as well this

00:45:40.680 is true being trafficked this is absolutely true this is absolutely true so the with which i'm

00:45:47.240 trying to say is that her objection isn't to the nature of slavery itself because as you say she's

00:45:54.440 not making a claim against the arabs they're not going to listen to her to begin with uh they're

00:46:00.380 not going to have any concern with her to begin with um and it's not about the slavery that exists

00:46:06.980 today. It's about an ethnic collective acting as an ethnic collective through the means of

00:46:14.640 collective guilt, collective responsibility, and inherited guilt and inherited responsibility. 0.96

00:46:20.260 This is what she's saying here, and this is important, because while you have the likes

00:46:26.260 of Mélenchon denying the existence of the French, you have Jacob B. Smog saying that the English are

00:46:33.520 mongrel race you have danny krueger saying oh really it's not ethnicity and maybe in his case

00:46:39.760 it's coming from a from from a good place what she's saying here is that no no we have inherited

00:46:48.720 claims against you yeah that's that's what she's saying it's like schrodinger's ethnicity it 0.97

00:46:54.560 simultaneously doesn't exist but it also exists and is uniquely bad and has to return for itself

00:47:00.080 but the question here to don't to follow up with your analogy the english are a mongrel race until 0.66

00:47:06.400 it comes time for reparations because we know that reparations won't be sought from the pakistanis in

00:47:12.640 britain or from the indians in britain so will she pay for the whites will she pay for reparations

00:47:18.480 if she wants to be if the english if the or if let's say the british have to pay reparations

00:47:24.080 and she says no we are british we have to be recognized as british will she pay for reparations

00:47:30.480 well clearly not or will she say then no then i'm not british i'm british when i have to

00:47:36.480 take well she's trying to have to give i'm not british exactly exactly exactly this is the logic

00:47:41.840 here and you see the same logic here here from uh bell riverio adi who was speaking out in defense

00:47:51.040 of the unfortunate Jason Arde.

00:47:53.620 And you can see clearly the reasoning behind it

00:47:57.160 because nobody contests that Arde was a fraud fundamentally.

00:48:02.680 That was one of the things they probably liked best about him.

00:48:05.560 Well, that's a different story.

00:48:07.460 There's no serious claim that he wasn't a fraud.

00:48:10.260 Some people now are saying, well, actually he didn't plagiarize.

00:48:13.600 But they're saying that by redefining plagiarism.

00:48:16.080 They're saying that copy-pasting isn't plagiarism.

00:48:19.020 if you add an in and an and into it somewhere.

00:48:25.660 If only some of my university lecturers had known,

00:48:28.760 it would have saved me a lot of trouble.

00:48:30.600 Yes, yes.

00:48:32.620 So here what she's doing is acting out of a collective self-interest.

00:48:37.860 She's using her identity as both a weapon and a shield,

00:48:40.820 and she's saying that it is her duty to defend the fraud 0.84

00:48:46.260 because he belongs to her ethnic group

00:48:48.800 If she doesn't defend that fraud, what happens then is the shutting down of the DEI hiring line, which would hurt her kin group.

00:48:59.040 So she insists on judging Jason R.D. not by the content of his character, but by the color of his skin.

00:49:08.180 Precisely. Precisely.

00:49:09.940 She's expressing a collective ethnic interest here. 0.92

00:49:13.560 Moving on from the Afro-Caribbean community and looking at an entity like Five Pillars.

00:49:23.560 Five Pillars is named after the Five Pillars of Islam, prayer, Hajj, fasting Ramadan, giving zakat and all of that stuff.

00:49:34.560 and you look at the content there it's purely i mean their coverage of lula here

00:49:42.480 he's the pro-palestine president it's not about left or right it's not about the everything's

00:49:49.580 about regularities or irregularities in the election yes exactly everything is about a

00:49:55.000 collective identity a collective claim it's in this case it's not a racial one as in the case

00:50:00.540 of Ribeiro, whatever her name is, and Dawn Butler.

00:50:06.600 In this case, it's an Ummah one.

00:50:08.880 It's a Nation of Islam claim. 0.83

00:50:11.740 But you see this all through five pillars.

00:50:15.180 Pretty much every conversation, every topic is about Muslims as Muslims.

00:50:20.200 You see here Tower Hamlets.

00:50:22.740 The Council of Tower Hamlets organized an Islamophobia awareness month,

00:50:27.320 and they were holding a conference to discuss Islamophobia

00:50:33.580 on 11 November at 11 a.m.

00:50:37.720 The time at which there are the two minutes of silence

00:50:41.140 to commemorate the soldiers of World War I and World War II.

00:50:46.220 It's Remembrance Day and it is widely celebrated all over Britain. 0.64

00:50:50.920 They tried to essentially subvert that

00:50:53.980 and turn it into an Islamophobia discussion.

00:50:57.320 can I make this about me well yes they then apologized and said that there had

00:51:01.760 been a scheduling error and actually was going to be on the 10th of November

00:51:05.000 actually we were just celebrating the release date of Skyrim yeah I guess

00:51:09.680 maybe but you sort of see that really this collective identity doesn't even

00:51:19.400 recognize the English collective identity and tries to trample over it by when it

00:51:25.460 comes to paying something that's when they're not well yes that's going to be a different conversation

00:51:30.880 uh they ended up deleting this post and saying that they uh made a collection then you see here

00:51:38.140 uh this is from the whole kerfuffle around uh vivek ramaswamy vivek ramaswamy came up with an

00:51:46.340 ad against his rival in the US elections.

00:51:51.740 He got his rival in the American election, by all accounts, seems to have been abused

00:51:59.740 by her stepfather, with her mother knowing about it and covering it up when she was a

00:52:05.540 child. 0.99

00:52:07.020 And you see this random Indian lady who says that she's a conservative coming out to attack 0.78

00:52:14.620 Vivek Rama Swami's rival and to say that why if if you were abused as a child why

00:52:22.380 didn't you tell anybody about it for three years unapologetically MAGA oh

00:52:26.680 well because because children in abusive relationships with their parents have

00:52:32.800 such agency yes historically just like we yes we know what what were the

00:52:38.620 replies like this because this person's like labeling themselves oh they were

00:52:41.860 How is the rest of MAGA responding to it?

00:52:45.520 First, there was the community note correcting her

00:52:48.420 and saying that Amy Acton's claims about being abused

00:52:52.260 are actually very credible

00:52:53.740 because they're demonstrated by court records

00:52:55.620 and by newspaper reporting, from what I could see.

00:52:59.480 And view to like ratio.

00:53:00.680 And you see a sort of a bunch of questions

00:53:06.660 about her sanity and morality, shall we say.

00:53:10.140 But what's happening here is again the same thing. 0.82

00:53:13.980 This is an ethnic defense mechanism that is happening all over the West where you see... 0.69

00:53:20.540 You saw it with Dinesh D'Souza, a much less extreme example, but Dinesh D'Souza as well came out in defense of his co-ethnics. 0.50

00:53:28.300 And I don't necessarily blame people for coming out and defending their own co-ethnics.

00:53:34.760 But there's a line somewhere.

00:53:36.140 There is a line when you're going this far with it.

00:53:38.600 a there's a line somewhere i mean you know you're also taking on a particular political movement

00:53:44.740 in stating that you're doing it for one reason when it seems actually when it comes out in the

00:53:50.020 wash that you're doing it primarily to advance your own perceived ethnic interests deceptive

00:53:55.920 yes it is it was the same thing here with the digvas family after the henry novak murder i mean

00:54:03.460 first there was the actions of the family themselves. Without any hesitation, without

00:54:09.020 any questioning, we saw the brother lie to the police and the mother hide the murder

00:54:14.640 weapon. And that is ethnic solidarity. And then it seems that they called the Novak

00:54:22.940 family racists during the trial, I believe, on one of the links here. Or did I not find

00:54:29.680 that one anyway anyway but you see the statement coming from the digua family about novak where

00:54:37.900 they where they essentially are uh embarrassed at the shame that he has brought them not at the

00:54:47.360 outcome that that kind of happened we're sorry he got caught yeah or we're sorry if only he'd

00:54:53.600 If only we'd covered his tracks better, we wouldn't be in this mess.

00:54:57.920 Yes.

00:54:58.900 And then you see Seek Lawyer Bobby Singh saying that he's supportive of Vikram Digwa,

00:55:06.580 the guy who killed Henry Novak. 0.99

00:55:10.960 Called Great Britain a bastard country. 1.00

00:55:15.780 Let's listen to this. 1.00

00:55:17.020 no government in the fucking united bastard kingdom should allow tommy fuck bastard robinson 1.00

00:55:25.600 on any motherfucking stage ever is this real this is an ai i'm not being fed like a fake video or 1.00

00:55:34.400 something because that is that was too stereotypical yeah yeah and you see harman singh kapoor who is 0.98

00:55:41.760 who is Sikh, saying that the Digva family called the family of Henry Novak racists

00:55:47.440 in the courtroom after their son was sentenced.

00:55:51.700 And again, what you're seeing here is collective action.

00:55:55.120 What you're seeing here is people rejecting the claim of atomized individualism.

00:56:01.180 Not all the time.

00:56:02.800 Harman Kapoor himself is an exception here.

00:56:05.500 But from the Digbas family, from Bobby Singh, from this supporter of Vivek Ramaswamy, from Dinesh D'Souza, from Five Pillars, from the female MPs representing the black community, from a lot of male black celebrities who go on about reparations, David Lamy, etc. 0.50

00:56:26.320 you see essentially collective action collective guilt collective claims

00:56:33.560 yeah and these are the norm yes and these are the norm well we'll see it sorry are you please

00:56:42.200 yeah i'm just i just want to add what for us is saying is that when we see this sort of

00:56:48.560 schizoid approach it's like you're far-right extremist racist if you say i'm not british

00:56:55.160 when it comes to me receiving benefits and having freedoms, 0.98

00:56:59.460 but you're also a far-right extremist racist 0.91

00:57:02.300 if you're insisting on treating me 0.98

00:57:04.440 as having the same responsibility that the British have

00:57:07.580 when it comes to having responsibilities, right? 0.83

00:57:11.600 It's completely, completely double.

00:57:14.920 It's a complete double standard.

00:57:16.680 Yeah, yeah.

00:57:17.960 And you see here something again from Singh,

00:57:20.440 I won't go into it,

00:57:21.400 but then you see the speech from Rishi Sunak.

00:57:25.160 and uh for the sake of time i won't play it but he goes on about the debts that he owes

00:57:32.120 to other individuals who are of indian descent in britain uh the fact that his his parents were

00:57:40.360 born in east africa doesn't in any way play a role in his identity he is claiming uh loyalty

00:57:49.320 based on ancestry. And he is expressing his obligations towards people who share his

00:57:58.120 ancestry. And he is making a collective claim. He's speaking of an us that is Indians in Britain

00:58:05.040 or British Indians or whatever term you wish to use. But again, you see that from someone like

00:58:11.340 Rishi Sunak. You saw the same from Kemi Beidinok talking about her ethnic enemies in Nigeria.

00:58:16.820 you saw it in her campaign leaflets to when she was first running for parliament saying that she

00:58:23.700 was there to represent the interests of nigerians you see this collective identity across the board

00:58:29.960 well you've got to remember though rishi sunak is at least as english as you or stelios precisely

00:58:35.680 yeah exactly exactly i think i think that goes also back in time also for instance correct me

00:58:44.120 i'm wrong but wasn't uh the hanoverian dynasty very much into what was happening in hanover

00:58:51.080 well yes and they until george iii i believe yes yes uh i believe george iii was the first to speak

00:58:58.920 english as a native language uh and then he loses america and whatever but here you see

00:59:06.360 Mandy Patinkin, who is Jewish-American, and he's defending Abdul Saeed to run for Senate.

00:59:14.680 But the reasoning here is quite unusual.

00:59:18.800 He says, his words, not mine, Jewish safety depends on a real multiracial democracy.

00:59:25.520 And Abdul is the one fighting to protect it.

00:59:28.220 Yeah, that's what many progressive Jews claim.

00:59:31.900 But the importance of this is that it is a collective claim.

00:59:36.360 The importance of this is that our community will be safe if there is a multiracial democracy.

00:59:43.740 Now, the supporters, the Western Jews who are also supporters of Ben Gvin and Smotrich in Israel or of Netanyahu in Israel, fundamentally disagree with this perspective and will have told and have told Mandy Patinkin as much.

01:00:03.040 Well, there's a difference there.

01:00:03.900 But they're also acting on the basis of collective identity and collective claims.

01:00:10.020 There are disagreements within groups over how to pursue the collective benefit,

01:00:16.520 but there are no groups other than Europeans who are told to only act and think as individuals. 0.97

01:00:25.320 Well, yeah, this is the strategy for all diaspora politics.

01:00:29.360 Yes.

01:00:29.480 any diaspora that comes into the country with its own sense of collective identity

01:00:34.200 will want to if if they want any sort of foot in the door of uh of national politics yes will try

01:00:42.080 to diffuse the power yes of the ruling majority and coalition in america's case it being the white

01:00:49.280 american um white anglo-saxon yeah white yeah the what the wasps and all of the white europeans

01:00:55.100 that came over afterwards diffuse them and their power and one of the methods of diffusing their 0.76

01:01:00.680 power is to get them to question their own sense of self in the first place yes absolutely uh 0.96

01:01:07.300 we're just stupid enough to have an elite who go along with it like danny krueger yes and we 0.98

01:01:11.780 remember eric weinstein and his expression of inherited guilt inherited responsibility inherited 0.99

01:01:19.440 grievances uh exemplified by his photograph here in front of the uh arch of titus in rome

01:01:27.060 um and this was pointed out to him after he objected to some resentment being expressed

01:01:34.240 against um indians and hindus in general that's a really weak bird that's being flipped right

01:01:39.820 there that's that's possibly the worst middle finger i've ever seen well yes but what you see

01:01:46.660 here is, again, a sense of inherited claims and collective identity. And it's impossible to fight

01:01:56.720 against collective claims except through your own collective claims. So when Mélenchon says that

01:02:04.340 the French don't exist, he's just an evil subversive. You can ignore him. When Danny 0.89

01:02:09.020 Kruger says this, and I accept that he might be saying it with good intentions, what he's saying 0.93

01:02:14.920 to the whites essentially is fight this battle of collective identities with both hands tied 0.92

01:02:21.940 behind your backs because you are discouraged from cooperating amongst yourself you're

01:02:27.280 discouraged from even identifying yourselves as a group you're discouraged from thinking of

01:02:32.780 yourselves as a collective you're discouraged from making the collective claim to your own

01:02:38.860 homeland while everybody else is making collective claims against you and is playing politics as a

01:02:46.220 team sport. And it's just important to remember this because now the battle of ideas is largely

01:02:52.560 dead. There are a bunch of leftists who just want to destroy the West and who are using diversity

01:03:00.140 as a battering ram to ruin it. And they will say things like, well, our safety depends on it,

01:03:07.460 blah, blah, blah. This is what it is to save ourselves. And there are people who are saying,

01:03:13.240 actually, no, Westerners are various collectives. The French are a collective, the English are a

01:03:18.400 collective, the Dutch, the Germans, the Poles, the Russians. There's no middle ground between those 0.96

01:03:24.320 two. And this isn't going to be a question about which are the best policies, what should we do

01:03:30.360 with taxes, what should be done with traffic laws. It's not that. What's been done essentially

01:03:38.580 is the disarming of the Europeans by denying that they are a collective and a full frontal

01:03:46.480 attack on them by other collectives. And it's gone so far that it's just a battle of identities now.

01:03:54.660 and this is dangerous you want to have your ethnic identity and remember your christianity

01:04:01.580 i would be remiss if if i if i didn't say that and i would be remiss if i didn't say 0.58

01:04:06.440 that christianity must always come first but what danny kruger isn't helping what what danny

01:04:13.640 kruger is doing is not helping christendom because he is saying to the peoples of christendom no you

01:04:19.300 should disarm yourselves and forget your identities in the name of a misguided inclusivity that isn't

01:04:27.120 shared by the other collective identities that are now living in the West. Well, for a thousand

01:04:34.120 years, Christendom was almost entirely identified with Europe. So by taking that aspect out of it,

01:04:42.360 he is europe and the roman provinces yes he he's just completely eviscerating it and making it

01:04:49.380 easier to victimize and what was it you read old accounts of europeans in say like sub-saharan

01:04:55.220 africa during the scramble who run into another european person and all of their correspondence

01:05:00.920 like oh how grateful i was to run into another christian yes and that was the way they were

01:05:05.380 identifying one another even outside of purely national boundaries yes all amer the laws of

01:05:11.680 american states or the constitutions of american states emphasized that you had to worship the

01:05:16.240 triune god to be included which meant that if you were an indian you had to convert and if you were

01:05:22.640 not a christian you were excluded from the collective well in the next segment we will

01:05:27.440 get into some details about a particular nation which is nominally christian but whose actual

01:05:32.720 practices don't seem to really reflect much of the religion switchcrafted what whatsoever no

01:05:38.640 No matter how many anthropologists, woke anthropologists,

01:05:42.860 would try and tell you otherwise, even going back 20 years.

01:05:45.600 Let's go through a couple of rumble rants.

01:05:47.100 One tall order.

01:05:47.780 Remarkable for me is that I have right-wing acquaintances this morning

01:05:50.540 who are pleased Lula won.

01:05:52.880 Merrick Mel.

01:05:54.180 We need to understand India is not Pakistan or Lebanon.

01:05:57.020 They have insane leverage over the West with industrial ownership

01:05:59.660 and literally supplying 50% of UK's pharma, for example,

01:06:02.260 with no other alternative.

01:06:04.380 No, absolutely, India is very successful in many of its plays 1.00

01:06:07.880 that it's been making on the international stage uh palm put a bloody good bastard show today 0.94

01:06:13.160 that guy was just a little bit too much of a stereotype for me it was quite remarkable just

01:06:19.420 how much he leaned into it base tape why does the stolen watch not transfer down with decency but

01:06:24.680 victimization does pass down uh with decency because the stolen watch doesn't matter anymore

01:06:29.200 they just want your stuff yep there you go can we bring up my segment please samson this will be a

01:06:35.240 A little bit rapid fire, I hope, because we're on limited time now.

01:06:38.900 So what's going on in Haiti, in South and Central America at the moment,

01:06:43.720 following on from what Stelios was telling us about what's going on with Lula?

01:06:47.260 Well, currently, Haiti, a glorious bastion of liberty and prosperity,

01:06:53.900 is being turned over by powerful gangs,

01:06:57.380 according to a very far-right dissident organisation like the UN,

01:07:02.120 who sent in a peacekeeping force just a few months ago called the Gang Suppression Force or GSF

01:07:09.800 which has been put together in collaboration particularly with El Salvador

01:07:16.800 who seems to be getting some kind of international recognition for the fact that they were able to

01:07:21.520 completely, under Bukele, solve their gang problem by taking the drastic and rather radical

01:07:27.820 evil far-right measure of putting all of the gangsters in prison.

01:07:32.120 So just for some context on what's going on in Haiti and why they've been pushed to this point,

01:07:38.260 it's estimated by the UN there's at least 26 sometimes heavily armed gangs control

01:07:44.220 up to 90% of Port-au-Prince, which is the capital city of Haiti,

01:07:49.760 for as much as Haiti can be said to have a capital city or a city at all,

01:07:53.960 and surrounding areas fomenting terror amongst Haitians through violence,

01:07:57.320 summary executions extortion and kidnappings for ransom and preventing commerce by blocking the

01:08:03.480 free flow of goods since the beginning of the year that being 2026 gang violence has left more than

01:08:09.660 2,300 people dead and more than 1,100 injured what's now different is the patrols by UN security

01:08:17.700 backed force the GSF the base for whom is just located just a few blocks from the boulevard

01:08:24.720 do 15 octobre i don't know it's pronounced these words i'm sorry october yes there you go gsf is

01:08:32.080 receiving logistical and operational and technical support including supply of rations medical care

01:08:39.560 and transportation from the un support office in haiti uh they carry on to say you haiti suffered

01:08:47.000 years of instability you don't say gang violence has contributed to some 1.5 million haitians

01:08:52.440 fleeing their homes and i'm sure that the gang violence has had a lot to do with it but a lot of

01:08:56.660 the western states in america saying hey come over here and please extort our benefit system take on

01:09:03.440 welfare and also just scam our citizens probably had something of a pull factor as well millions

01:09:09.220 more haitians require humanitarian support as poverty deepens while the country has not had

01:09:14.400 an elected president since the last incumbent jovenel moise was assassinated in july 2021 so

01:09:21.200 we're talking about a very very stable and a reasonable country here folks they basically

01:09:25.860 don't have a government no right now uh because well the last president was assassinated and

01:09:32.960 everybody else just said well i don't want that to happen to me uh thank you very much

01:09:37.080 and it is a hobson state of nature isn't it i mean this is as close as one is likely to exist

01:09:43.380 in the real world yes uh and just for some more information the gsf arrived back in april with

01:09:49.000 mandate to take the fight to the gangs and take back control unlike previous international

01:09:53.880 initiative known as the multinational security support mission all of these titles is roll off

01:09:58.280 tongue it would be five times larger conduct intelligence-led operations have arrest powers

01:10:03.360 and work independently without having to coordinate with the haitian national police because i would

01:10:07.800 imagine they are probably in the pocket of the gangs in the first place i mean obviously so are

01:10:12.260 we having the world's most weird alliance do we have bukele and antonio gutierrez teaming up

01:10:19.180 against general barbecue of haiti it seems so it seems that that's what's going on uh they're

01:10:25.740 being funded again by the un expected to cost about 400 million per year the fund has received

01:10:31.440 only 194 million it was supposed to have 5 500 soldiers but only has about 2 000 from six nations

01:10:39.220 So the UN, as always, has decided they're just going to go in half-cocked.

01:10:43.880 This is a 10.5 million human being country.

01:10:50.260 Yes.

01:10:50.400 Ten and a half million people there.

01:10:52.600 2,000 soldiers, 5,000 soldiers is not going to cut it.

01:10:56.680 No.

01:10:57.560 It's going to need to be a considerably bigger force.

01:11:00.480 It depends how disorganized the majority and the resistance they'll find.

01:11:06.140 I mean, yeah, but I would guess that the gangs are going to be 100,000 to 100,000.

01:11:10.040 It depends also on the objective.

01:11:12.380 Yeah, I suppose.

01:11:13.760 And what has happened since then, because they're a little bit underfunded and understaffed,

01:11:18.160 what we're finding is that conflict is already breaking out, and Bukele is not taking it lightly.

01:11:24.060 So in early October, El Salvador passed a law extending its armed forces participation in the force for a year.

01:11:31.500 so the el salvadorian army will be able to get way more involved which would presumably

01:11:36.420 massively expand the amount of forces available in haiti um the law also authorized the mission

01:11:42.940 to deploy civilian and military personnel according to the mission's needs expanding

01:11:47.080 its roles beyond medical evacuations multinational force relieved a received a six-month extension

01:11:53.420 through march 2027 from the un security council and it goes on to talk about how uh on this past

01:12:00.320 Wednesday, last week, Bukali announced he had launched a military operation to rescue four

01:12:06.860 Salvadorian aviation technicians who had been kidnapped by these gangs. They opened fire on

01:12:13.340 an armoured vehicle three days earlier, which was the first major attack since the suppression

01:12:20.740 force began operating in Haiti. The four Salvadorian soldiers have been missing since

01:12:26.120 they fled the burning vehicle, assumed

01:12:28.140 to have been kidnapped. Addressing

01:12:30.080 Haitian leaders, Bukele demanded that

01:12:32.080 they return the Salvadorians alive and unharmed

01:12:34.360 and if they 1.00

01:12:35.900 did so, everything would go back

01:12:38.160 to the way it was before the kidnapping.

01:12:40.400 If not, he said it would result

01:12:42.160 in a more powerful operation. So he might

01:12:44.060 just be threatening to invade Haiti.

01:12:46.940 Yeah. Would this be

01:12:48.060 good for Haiti? Probably. 1.00

01:12:50.400 I mean, the fact that he's adding

01:12:52.240 civilian bureaucrats

01:12:54.100 and all of that kind of stuff

01:12:56.120 this is a very good colonial mission like Haiti needs colonial rule clearly

01:13:03.360 Haiti cannot govern itself it the the rulers of Haiti have always been 0.99

01:13:07.960 criminals and insane and so revolution was started by a voodoo ritual I'll get 0.97

01:13:12.720 I'll get to that that was it was a televised that was something well this 0.99

01:13:16.640 was 1791 so I don't think it wasn't televised so so perhaps there would

01:13:21.320 been some sort of like an iphone voodoo voodoo sort of you know vision sent out telepathically

01:13:27.800 so maybe maybe but one thing i don't know if the objective here is to make haiti a colony of el

01:13:34.720 salvador i think it's mostly uh the guys an ops you know an operation it's like get the guys back

01:13:41.440 yes but he said today's attack is nothing compared to what's coming if they do not release the four

01:13:45.980 hostages alive do not take our words as empty threats haiti's government what little of a 0.60

01:13:52.720 government you could even say it has in the first place so tim in the back room of what used to be

01:13:58.640 the government municipal building i assume uh issued a news release wednesday evening saying

01:14:03.480 the abduction of the aviation technicians was an absolute priority it noted that a meeting was held

01:14:08.260 at the prime minister's office to assess the ongoing interventions and determine the necessary

01:14:12.680 measures so that's what's going on with haiti of course you get a lot of hand wringing about the

01:14:17.660 state of haiti about how it's everybody's fault that haiti is the way it is except for the actual

01:14:22.580 people of haiti but it's also important just to know you know what people are saying you know

01:14:28.960 obviously it's a very poor country because of lack of trade and all of these different aspects of it

01:14:33.600 but just to show how bad it is there this number one on this list of five reasons why haiti is a 0.98

01:14:40.420 complete shit oh no that's not the title of the article um number one sounds like something trump 0.98

01:14:45.340 would say it sounds like an accurate description of the country but number one how things got so 0.98

01:14:50.320 bad in the last seven years the roots of the current crisis in haiti can be traced back to

01:14:53.940 march of 2018 when venezuela stopped exporting oil to the country that summer the haitian

01:14:59.320 government halted fuel subsidies leading to price increases as high as 50 and violent protests by

01:15:05.400 september of 2019 the country went into lockdown a period of 10 weeks that led to deteriorating

01:15:10.040 security situation blocked access for humanitarian groups and increasing levels of hunger how are all

01:15:16.260 of the billions of dollars that are sent in humanitarian aid to haiti going to get to their

01:15:20.960 designated bribe recipients now the following year president juvenel moise was assassinated

01:15:26.960 in his own home is setting off a political crisis that dovetailed with the rise of armed group

01:15:32.040 warfare wasn't it the americans who killed him i wouldn't be shocked i wouldn't i wouldn't be

01:15:37.320 shocked i'm not saying that haiti someone in the chat check for us and let us know please i'm not

01:15:41.140 saying that haiti has not been massively interfered with by america and all of the rest of the country

01:15:46.320 surrounding it but haiti has never been a particularly stable country no it was not started

01:15:51.680 in a reasonable nor stable way and has frankly made itself easy pickings i've gone over before

01:15:58.920 but their excuse of well the french government saddled us with a load of debt which is after

01:16:05.140 the revolution which is why we could never get off of our feet well the brits also saddled the

01:16:09.320 americans with a load of debt after their revolution plenty of countries have been saddled

01:16:13.840 with debt over the years and this is basically the fault of of french colonialism of late uh

01:16:19.400 18th century obviously the only time that haiti has ever been a stable country when it was a

01:16:24.540 colony has nothing to do with it yeah there's nothing to do with it and everything that

01:16:31.320 happened afterwards yep it's all to do with the debt and i don't want to defend international

01:16:35.220 debt levies because they are often used in an incredibly coercive way to try and destroy other

01:16:41.100 nation's economies but if you're talking about the revolutions that kicked off around the end

01:16:45.480 of the 18th century most of the a lot of those other countries ended up saddled with a lot of

01:16:49.900 debt as well and still managed to pull themselves up haiti was quite a shocking outlier then in

01:16:55.760 2023 the last of haiti's democratically elected officials left office creating a vacuum for more

01:17:01.520 violence across the country so they just they just don't really have a government at the moment but

01:17:07.420 one of the other aspects that doesn't often go mentioned by many people in the mainstream about

01:17:13.740 why haiti may be in such a terrible position right now outside of you know the widespread poverty

01:17:20.080 the lack of effective human capital can we say and the rampant gang violence is the fact that 1.00

01:17:29.120 they all they all worship voodoo as well and this was something i just felt the need to to highlight

01:17:35.300 and baron samedi and let everybody know i don't know what that is it's in james bond's movie i've

01:17:41.780 not watched that one whichever it is i'm terribly sorry um they is gonna get clipped they they talk

01:17:47.780 that's fine uh they talk about you know a particular this is an article from national

01:17:51.700 geographic going back to 2004 and things won't have changed uh very much since then uh because

01:17:57.760 things hadn't changed from the 60s very much or the 1910s or the 1850s or even 1791 when the

01:18:05.640 basically are they making effigies of bukele and antonio gutierrez and try to do to maybe the

01:18:11.980 gangs are perhaps the gangs are so it discusses and gives an example of a roman catholic ritual

01:18:20.860 that the natives of well that the population of haiti were presenting here they were involved in

01:18:28.360 three drum drummers they start off with a roman catholic prayer three drummers begin to play

01:18:33.160 syncopated rhythms the attendees begin to dance around a tree at the center of the yard moving

01:18:37.800 faster and harder with the rising pulse of the beat the priest draws sacred symbols in the dust

01:18:42.220 with cornmeal and rum is then poured on the ground to honor the spirits does this sound like a roman

01:18:48.440 catholic ritual that you've been involved in okay one woman falls to the ground convulsing for a

01:18:54.920 moment before she's held back to her feet she resumes the dance moving differently now she is

01:18:59.660 in a trance because she has been possessed by a spirit a voodoo spirit according to the rest of

01:19:08.400 the article it is an honor to be entered and quote ridden by the lao or spirit in haiti these rituals

01:19:16.500 are commonplace as voodoo this is according to the national geographic in 2004 in collaboration

01:19:22.260 with a haitian and voodoo expert anthropologist being entered and ridden is has to do with

01:19:29.580 voodoo nobody mentioned as it in the comments thank you moving on yes voodoo is the dominant

01:19:35.600 religion one common saying is that haitians are 70 catholic 30 protestant and 100 voodoo

01:19:45.100 said lynn warburg a photographer who has documented haitian voodoo for over a decade

01:19:50.060 in 2003 an executive decree by then president jean-bertrand aristide arrested thank you

01:19:57.700 sanctioned voodoo as an officially recognized religion it's a religion in the same way judaism

01:20:03.740 or christianity is said bob corbett professor emeritus of philosophy at webster university

01:20:10.440 are you voodophobic do we have an international day against voodophobia i'm uh i have an

01:20:16.660 international day against voodoo i'm uh 365 days a year you know me stelios i'm an equalitarian 0.55

01:20:21.880 i uh i respect the rights of voodoo practitioners just don't do it near me voodoo doesn't have a

01:20:28.580 sacred text or church or a hierarchical structure of leaders but it is very similar culturally to

01:20:34.920 christianity he says seems like a bit of a stretch and then it goes on to describe some more

01:20:41.540 like interesting practices within the ceremonies during the ceremony the haungen or mambo priest

01:20:48.560 or priestess, sacrifices a sanctified chicken or other animal to the Lao, that being the

01:20:54.280 spirit. Participants then ask the spirits for advice or help with problems. More than

01:20:58.880 half the requests are for health.

01:21:00.460 I'm sure they'll integrate.

01:21:01.960 Westerners tend to believe in free will and personal choice, not so in voodoo. The Haitian

01:21:07.760 people have a view of the world that is unimaginably different from ours, Corbett said. The Lao 1.00

01:21:13.280 are believed to determine our lives to an astonishing degree, he explains, and they

01:21:17.780 are always present in great numbers there might be two people in a room but there are also 20

01:21:23.760 lower lower sorry our view is dominated by physical touchable reality in haiti the spirits

01:21:31.680 are as real as your wife or your dog corbett said right before you put the dog on the spit roast in

01:21:37.000 haiti i'd imagine so when when you think about the haitians in ohio springfield or anywhere else

01:21:42.960 across the western hemisphere outside of haiti itself like in america just understand that the

01:21:48.660 vast majority if not all of them are probably believing that there is no such thing as free

01:21:53.760 will or personal choice all of their actions are constantly being directed by lower who outnumber

01:22:00.220 us to a great deal and require animal ritualistic sacrifices could this have anything to do with

01:22:08.280 the current state of haiti i wonder did loa help against the french no well no actually technically

01:22:16.280 maybe let's look into that i saw this story and i had to look into it this is what made me took me

01:22:21.680 down this rabbit hole a little bit um of that time the president of haiti had every black dog in haiti

01:22:28.160 rounded up and killed oh what a strange choice what a strange thing to do papa doc duvalier 0.51

01:22:35.780 President of Haiti in the 1960s

01:22:39.120 here he is there in 1957 1.00

01:22:42.000 was a voodoo

01:22:45.920 hungen priest 0.93

01:22:47.400 this was the president

01:22:49.160 and used to do radio broadcasts to his nation

01:22:52.140 affecting a nasal accent

01:22:53.680 claiming he was channeling Baron Samedi

01:22:56.280 at one point

01:22:57.680 at one point Clement Barbeau

01:23:01.660 the head of Duvalier's secret police

01:23:03.820 turned against him and had to go into hiding.

01:23:06.740 He was also rumoured to be a powerful sorcerer 0.76

01:23:09.040 who was capable of turning himself into a black dog. 0.94

01:23:12.440 So Papa Doc had every black dog in Haiti 1.00

01:23:15.060 rounded up and killed. 0.94

01:23:16.960 Now I thought to myself, 0.98

01:23:18.060 this must be some kind of racist hallucination. 0.99

01:23:21.280 What kind of a ridiculous thing to expect me to believe? 0.99

01:23:24.500 But then I actually checked

01:23:25.680 and it's on his Wikipedia page.

01:23:28.120 This actually happened.

01:23:29.980 During the search, Duvalier was told

01:23:31.760 that Barbeau had transformed himself into a black dog which prompted Duvalier to order that all 1.00

01:23:37.160 black dogs in Haiti be put to death. The Tonton Makuti captured and killed Barbeau in July of 0.99

01:23:43.420 1963. In other incidents he ordered the head of an executed rebel packed in ice and brought to him 0.91

01:23:49.600 so that he could commune with the dead man's spirit. This was the president of the country.

01:23:54.460 Peepholes were carved into the walls of the interrogation chambers through which Duvalier

01:23:58.560 watched Haitian detainees being tortured and submerged in baths of sulphuric acid.

01:24:05.780 Sometimes he was in the room during the torture.

01:24:08.440 It's interesting to note, again, this man was not only the actual leader of the country at the time,

01:24:14.600 he was a priest of their voodoo religion.

01:24:17.260 And his son became president after him. 0.62

01:24:18.880 There you go.

01:24:20.520 Could this have anything to do with the current state of Haiti if this is what they all believe?

01:24:25.020 Could we check out that clip of him channeling whatever it is?

01:24:28.560 Oh, yeah, sure.

01:24:29.560 Dabon Samadhi himself was meant to speak in a particular way.

01:24:33.460 It was a particular low-pitched, lisping sort of voice.

01:24:37.460 Duvali himself started to affect precisely that voice.

01:24:42.560 He is now floating in the air to remind everyone Haitians. 0.66

01:24:54.460 So the poster here goes on to clarify that his voice is nasal to reflect the fact that as a corpse,

01:24:59.960 his nose would have been stuffed with cotton, and you can hear this in the recording.

01:25:03.720 So to channel the spirit, he had to, like, stuff cotton in his nose as well?

01:25:08.120 I check out here, it doesn't have to do, it's just mentioned in the James Bond, but he's the lure of the dead.

01:25:15.860 Makes sense to me.

01:25:16.680 So just for context.

01:25:18.080 And the little thread here goes on to mention that the Haitian Revolution, which led to the founding of Haiti,

01:25:22.780 was itself a direct product of voodoo on the night of the 14th of august 1791 the slaves of haiti

01:25:29.920 were called the boy caiman or caiman for a voodoo gathering these were regular gatherings and

01:25:36.300 social events for the slaves of haiti a pig was slaughtered and the attendees were anointed with

01:25:41.280 its blood and swore to kill all of the whites on the island which they then made tragically quite 0.75

01:25:47.360 a rather successful attempt at doing and that was the founding of haiti i wonder if these continued

01:25:53.060 behaviors practices and beliefs have anything to do with the current state of haiti or if it's just

01:26:00.440 because mean old france put a load of debt onto them for the um for the the minor inconvenience

01:26:07.460 of trying to murder all of the white people on the island including the women and children

01:26:12.220 and so um yeah um if bukele is going to try and do something to clean up 0.99

01:26:18.260 haiti uh he's kind of got his work cut out for him chaps 0.93

01:26:23.720 yep all right a few rumble rants here uh why people killed him somehow trust me bro 0.97

01:26:32.580 um one tall order we need a south african memory tv the uh tie me to a missile

01:26:38.660 and fire it at port-au-prince i am ready yes i don't know that meme yes no i know i know i've

01:26:47.440 seen i've seen a few clips of memory tv it is a gold mine memory is epic yeah memory is epic

01:26:52.800 uh random name no i'm just looking this oh no oh no i can't read these but i do appreciate them

01:27:02.600 thank you as ever. You also wrote one in French, and I refuse to speak that devil tongue. 0.61

01:27:08.600 Let's carry on. 1.00

01:27:15.600 Are we going to play it, Samson?

01:27:17.600 I've always found comics vapid and trite, and I find the art manages to portray the

01:27:21.600 opposite of the aphorism that a picture paints a thousand words. However, the Eagles flagship

01:27:26.600 character, Dan Dare, embodied stout British and Christian values, and fortunately for

01:27:30.600 for me, the story Voyage to Venus, where Dan Dare first encounters the Mekon, was transcribed

01:27:35.620 to book form with fun writing and quick pacing. It seems that select writers' ruining earlier

01:27:40.480 properties dates back to at least the 1990s, where two Thatcher haters traduce the character

01:27:45.260 of Dan Dare in a way that could have inspired Rian Johnson's treatment of Luke Skywalker. 0.99

01:27:49.940 Grant Morrison, damn you. 0.97

01:27:51.700 Warn us that a new Dan Dare is imminent with the usual mistakes being made. 1.00

01:27:55.120 why does grant morrison keep whenever i cover comics and something cringe and gay is happening

01:28:01.020 why does grant morrison's name keep cropping up also just to correct the record that was not

01:28:05.440 michael drabelbus that was mislabeled that was alex so i was listening to this very interesting

01:28:12.320 fellow on youtube the other day this sargon of a cod guy never heard great stuff maybe invite him

01:28:18.500 on his guest sometime but no seriously folks on this video carl was talking about how some npc

01:28:24.080 Bint had written a book about how horrible the SAS men are. The same men who jump from planes,

01:28:31.240 get launched by torpedo, hike 100 miles carrying 50 kilos just to shoot some godless commie in 0.98

01:28:36.060 the face at point-blank range. Better idea, find this book. Having worked with the SAS, 0.96

01:28:41.960 not a flex or brag, my unit's missions and one of the SAS functional areas intersect. 0.91

01:28:47.660 And from experience, this Bint is clueless. 0.99

01:28:50.220 what i most know about the sas more than anything is that they are tough bastards 0.99

01:28:56.120 yeah exceptionally tough bastards and again that one actually was michael jay belvis so thank you 0.98

01:29:02.460 for sending in your comment and so we are two first through inktober where i am learning how 0.97

01:29:08.060 to draw with ink this is my first time drawing with ink and yeah so good so far sometimes you

01:29:14.040 have a good idea but it doesn't turn out as well as you hope then you make a really good drawing

01:29:18.960 that's not part of inktober but it's really freaking good and you try and you try and then

01:29:23.220 you have a really good page this was today so yeah this looks great i think and only 10 days left

01:29:30.500 very nice i'm sure this isn't particularly useful um feedback but it all looks great to me to be

01:29:37.760 honest i think i think you look it looks really good still in liverpool cathedral and here i'm at

01:29:43.880 memorial to a man called andre melli who died with the british red cross helping the abyssinians

01:29:50.040 when they were invaded by the italians in 1936. something interesting about this i find is leftists

01:29:56.360 and post mondes wouldn't possibly be able to tell you why he did this a british man went to africa

01:30:02.760 to help africans who were being invaded by europeans they won't be able to tell you what

01:30:08.520 power game was happening here he was doing this that was good well interesting i've not heard of

01:30:15.460 this man so tom crapman had an interesting story about his service in a kurdish village where all

01:30:26.340 the men had gone off somewhere and basically the only boys around were like really young children

01:30:31.580 but they were still ruling the roost like tyrants and basically abusing all the women and bossing

01:30:36.560 around all the women went along with it one of his comrades said the only way this changes if 0.96

01:30:41.520 we kill all the men in this village and start anew and he said honestly that's not going to work 0.99

01:30:46.480 because the women will just raise all their young men to be this way once they have next generation 0.99

01:30:52.800 because the women that raise their boys to be empathetic will become the property of women 0.79

01:30:56.720 that don't do that not a great plan

01:31:04.560 so follow this all right so mexico and canada were having trade talks with america 0.99

01:31:10.080 mexico realizes that canada is um an idiot so immediately sells out with canada because the 1.00

01:31:17.200 canadians are being an idiot right now canada then goes to the eu okay eu realizes that the 1.00

01:31:24.560 Canadians are idiots and sell them out, Canadians go to Chinese, Chinese, maybe he bends them over. 1.00

01:31:34.160 Fun times. 1.00

01:31:38.000 As expected.

01:31:46.880 You have sent me this. You have sent me this before.

01:31:54.560 One of my best mates just sends these kinds of memes at me on Instagram constantly.

01:32:05.160 God's sake.

01:32:07.040 If you can't watch, it's the siege of Helm's Deep.

01:32:11.320 That's the siege of Gondor.

01:32:12.760 Is it Gondor?

01:32:13.740 Oh my God, I'm so sorry, folks.

01:32:15.700 I was about to get very angry then, Harry.

01:32:18.180 I'm terribly sorry.

01:32:19.320 Is that all the video comments that we've got?

01:32:20.940 so okay yes well that's all that we've got time for we've gone a little bit over and

01:32:29.900 firaz has a wonderful live show to host in half an hour so again if you're subscribed to the

01:32:35.100 website please tune in for that i'll be talking about the corruption and the trump administration

01:32:39.940 what does that do for the midterms and how things are spiraling a little bit in the united states

01:32:45.800 when you think about it okay that's very interesting i'll certainly be tuning in for

01:32:49.460 that, and you should too. But we'll see you again tomorrow, Brother Stelios, Uncle Firas,

01:32:54.800 thanks for joining me. Goodbye.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - October 26, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1535

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