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Jan. 3, 2025 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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How ‘Youths’ Celebrate New Year’s in Europe

Jared Taylor reports on New Year's Eve in Europe, the New Orleans attack, a scheme to fast-track citizenship, birth rates in high-IQ countries, and Dashawna Williams. Thumbnail credit: © Marcus Brandt/dpa via ZUMA Press

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm your host, Jared Taylor, and my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey, is still on sabbatical, but we will expect him back soon.
Today is January 3rd of the new year, 2025, the first podcast of 2025, and I hope you've all had a wonderful, happy new year so far, and And I have high hopes that 2025 will be an excellent year for the World Brotherhood of Europeans, of which we are all a part.
And I'd like to start with comments from listeners.
One writes in to say, Last week I asked a question that I believe was misconstrued.
Well, as it turns out, I did misconstru it.
I asked whether Trump's re-election could be seen as evidence of the worse-is-better theory.
My view is that Trump's re-election was largely a result of the fact that the left overplayed its hand, particularly on illegal immigration during Biden's term.
Like you, I think this theory is broadly naive, the worse-is-better theory.
But in this instance, I believe it was correct.
If Biden had been even remotely reasonable on immigration and racial matters, he, or Harris, might have gained or retained support from moderates and delivered a second term.
That would have made the first term seem like a mere warm-up.
Well, yes, in this sense, I certainly do agree.
Although I'm not sure that this is a really good example of worse is better.
When people say worse is better, they are inclined to try to make things worse in the hope that that will make things better.
I do agree that the terrible excesses and all of the horrible anti-white activism of the Biden administration made it more likely that whites would be motivated and go to the polls.
So yes, as things get worse, then it motivates people to try to make them better.
Again, to me, the idea of the theory of worse is better is you want things to get worse.
And therefore, you want them to get worse in the hope that that will make things better.
So in the case of this election, the people who would have said worse is better would have been the ones who voted for Kamala Harris because that would make things so much worse that white people would wake up and...
But no, in this case, it is certainly true.
The excesses of the Biden administration, I think, certainly motivated a lot of people to go to the polls.
But this is not what I would call a worse is better situation because people weren't voting to make things worse.
They were making to make things better because things had become worse, if that's a distinction that our readers will accept.
Next comment.
I support the deportation of millions of illegal immigrants and curbing legal immigration, but there remains a large elephant in the room, and that is an aging population in the United States below replacement fertility.
Without enough future workers to sustain economic growth, while supporting a ballooning elderly population, our economy will falter and social instability will follow.
China ended its cruel one-child policy in 2015 not because it capitulated to Western morality but to save itself from a future demographic catastrophe of having too few workers to support its massive aging population.
The late Romans tried to persuade their elites to have more children to no avail.
Now Japanese Koreans and Hungarians are attempting incentives to boost their own birth rates to little effect.
I'm afraid that without allowing a steady flow of immigration from other parts of the world, we in the West will not be able to sustain our prosperous societies.
Who will be our future workforce, taxpayers, consumers, and caregivers if our own people don't want to replace themselves?
Should we accept non-white immigration to slow down this intractable problem, or should we restrict non-white immigration and suffer devastating economic and social consequences in the coming decades?
Well, this, of course, is an extremely difficult question to answer, and this is the prospect that all the high IQ countries are facing, East Asians even more so than white countries.
And in another item on this podcast, I'll get into some of the devastating figures that we have to deal with.
The question though is posed as if it were one in which we have only two choices.
Restrict, let's see, should restrict non-white immigration and suffer devastating economic and social consequences.
Well, will there really be devastating consequences?
If you care about GNP, and that is the most important thing, well, yes, there will be very unfortunate consequences.
Now, also, this calling it an intractable problem.
So far, it appears to be intractable.
No country has been able to slow down or at least reverse in any substantial way this declining birth rate.
I don't think that that is an impossible thing.
So, we have to think in terms of this.
Are we going to put GNP, prosperity, and a high standard of living ahead of the preservation of our people?
And my answer to that question should be, no, we should not.
Only in the worst circumstances, only if we are about to die out anyway, I would think, would we be in a position in which it would be better to import non-whites to do the jobs that my listener suggests need to be done.
I think that the Japanese, for example, their population has been declining by more than a million every year.
It keeps going down.
And they are tentatively toying with the idea of letting even non-skilled, non-Japanese workers into the country.
This has been a very wrenching decision for them, but they are really on the forefront of what's happening here.
And they have hesitated to do this, and they still have only a very small non-Japanese population.
So, I think that if we were to change the zeitgeist in the high IQ countries, focus on promoting normal, traditional, male-female relationships, Having more children.
I think that if the entire message of society were one of pro-family, pro-children, I think it is not impossible to turn this population decline around.
Now, perhaps I'm foolish, but I would try to do this for far longer than to finally give up on the idea and say, okay, it's hopeless.
We're not having babies.
We're going to turn our country into some non-white population.
Or non-Japanese or non-Taiwanese country because we want to have a prosperous country.
Note to me, I am prepared to pay the price in lower economic level of life for us in order to preserve our people in the hope that at some point in the future we will regain our higher birth rates.
So it would be very interesting to hear from other listeners as to how they think about how those choices should be made.
Another comment.
Mr. Taylor takes a hard line on illegal immigration, so do I. But what about illegal immigrants who have been legalized, some of whom have become citizens?
It seems to me that putting aside issues of practicality, the moral and optimal view is that such individuals should be stripped of citizenship and deported as well.
What is Mr. Taylor's opinion on that, particularly from a moral, ethical standpoint?
Well, the whole question of stripping people of citizenship and deporting them, that is a very, very difficult one.
I would hesitate to do that.
It is certainly the case that people who have been legalized under regimes that we think are illegitimate, all this business about birthright citizenship or people who have achieved citizenship through all sorts of unusual ways, And I'll talk about one of those later on in the podcast.
It does really stick in my craw to think that these people are now citizens and you would have to go through an extraordinary procedure to expel them.
On the other hand, it may be possible to offer current citizens of the United States who are from those groups who are unassimilable financial incentives to go back to the country of their origin.
I think that is the far more moral and proper way to go about things.
Ultimately, if it is impossible to send large numbers of non-whites back, I think then the moral and proper solution is some kind of de facto division of the country.
An enormous amount of local autonomy for majority white areas, and also the same kind of local autonomy for majority non-white areas, with the understanding that it is perfectly natural, normal, and healthy for people to prefer to be around people of their own race, culture, etc.
So, no stripping people of their U.S. citizenship, that would be a very difficult move, and I would hesitate to try to undertake that.
I would not rule it out in extremis, but...
Hopefully, we'd be able to persuade people to go back voluntarily, so long as we gave them sufficient incentives.
Here's yet another comment.
People are upset with Elon Musk and Trump's Indian appointees like Vivek Ramaswamy, as am I. I didn't vote at all because I didn't think it mattered who I voted for, and I didn't want to make it look as though I consented to anything either side might do.
By the way, I think that's a somewhat irresponsible approach.
That's saying, I didn't vote for either of them, so it's not my fault.
Well, you really ought to vote, because elections matter.
Obviously, Trump isn't giving us much hope, as his high-tech appointees are indicative of the direction that he is bought out.
I don't think he's necessarily bought out.
I just don't think he's committed to preserving any kind of European quality to the United States.
He goes on to say, Trump has also made oddball comments.
Such as making Canada a state, buying Greenland, taking the Panama Canal back, and here's this fourth one that the listener mentions, something about the Jewish president of Mexico.
I don't recall anything that he said about the Jewish president of Mexico.
So this listener wants to know, is he throwing these random things out in a short period of time in order just to assess public reaction?
No, I don't think so.
Is Trump really about to make a North American Union in which driving to Mexico or Canada would be no different from driving to Texas or Indiana, like the EU, open borders?
No, I don't think he's about to do that at all.
If he were to annex Canada, then Canada might be part of the United States, but Canada is not going to be annexed.
I don't think Trump has any notion of making Mexico part of the United States.
He's building a wall after all.
And so the listener concludes, is Trump much worse than the people who voted for him thought at the time?
We have to wait and see.
We have to wait and see.
And Trump always makes crazy statements, buying Greenland or taking over the Panama Canal.
No, we'll just have to wait and see.
Whatever happens, Whatever happens, whatever disappointing things Donald Trump does, I will persist, unless he blows up the world, in saying that he is vastly better than the alternative was.
Here's one final comment.
I have a question for Mr. Taylor.
The Chinese and Koreans still hold the Japanese responsible for their actions in World War II. I've met blacks in Africa who don't like Arabs because of the Arab slave trade.
I've met Mexicans who don't like gringos because of the Mexican-American War.
But I have never met a young white man who hates Japs, so to speak, because of the Second World War.
Are our people more willing to forgive past crimes than others?
Is this genetic?
As our altruism most likely is.
Yes, it is remarkable.
White people, Europeans, are rarely, they rarely walk around with some sort of huge chip on their shoulder about things that happened in the past that were done to them by other people.
I think there are two reasons for this.
One is this pathological altruism of which we suffer.
We have a tendency to think that everything that goes wrong for other people is our fault.
I think that this is part of our nature, part of our concern for the underdog, part of the way we feel about the world in general.
We have a sense of responsibility for things.
We don't carry grudges.
We instead let other people carry grudges against us, even if what they're complaining about is not our fault.
That's one of it, pathological altruism.
The other is, we live better.
We are better off than the Arabs.
We are better off than the blacks.
And when you are living better than everyone else, when you have societies that are objectively in so many ways superior to theirs, It is not so easy to carry around a grudge.
So I think it is these two things.
But, for example, the fact that millions of white Europeans were abducted into slavery by the Arabs.
Not only do we not carry a grudge, we don't have a chip on our shoulder about that.
A lot of white people don't even know about that.
Or the enormous amount of crime committed by blacks against whites.
Whites are vaguely aware of this, but we don't make a big deal of this.
We don't.
The fact of the destruction of our societies by non-whites.
I'll be talking about some of the awful things that happened in Europe over New Year's Eve.
We do not immediately realize the implications of this and say, out, out, out.
No.
In virtually all countries, all white countries, we are extremely hesitant to take our own side in any question of who is responsible for something that's gone wrong.
This is part of our nature.
And, as I said before, it's also due to the fact, I believe, that we live so much better than these other people.
And that's what makes it possible for liberals to say, oh, these immigrants in Berlin or Paris or wherever it is, they live so badly, we have excluded them, we've let them into our country, but it's our fault that So, those are my two reasons.
Now, part of the big news, of course, was the New Orleans attack.
This guy, Shamsuddin Bahar Jabbar, who drove a pickup truck into the crowd of New Year's Eve revelers in New Orleans.
He killed at least 15 people, and he wounded at least 45. At least the number of dead may increase.
And, of course, at the site, there were security bollards designed to prevent vehicles from hitting pedestrians.
they'd been removed because they were being replaced ahead of the Super Bowl next month.
Well, that's in January.
Police cars were set up in place, but Jabbar apparently just drove around them.
Pretty effective and stupid police action here.
And then, of course, after he crashed with his truck, after he'd done all this terrible damage and killed so many people, wounded so many others, he got out of the truck, opened fire, three police officers returned fire and killed him.
He had explosives in the truck.
Now, what a lot of people are saying about this Jabbar guy is, well, gosh, he wasn't really a foreigner.
He was about as American as you can be.
He was an army veteran.
He was a Texas native.
And according to his brother, he grew up as a Christian, but then he converted to Islam.
A lot of, as I say, fairly intelligent people say, well, this has got nothing to do with immigration.
He was a native grown.
He was a homegrown black guy.
Well, it doesn't necessarily have to do with immigration.
It doesn't necessarily have to do even with religion.
It has to do with race.
Would a white guy who had grown up in Texas, had been an army veteran, would he have converted to Islam and waved the ISIS flag and driven his truck into a crowd of people and tried to kill as many as possible?
No.
That's what happened to this guy.
I don't even know if this is his real name, Shamsuddin Bahar Jabbar.
Did he used to be Joe Green or something before that happened?
But no.
He did this.
It's impossible to know his motives entirely, but I cannot imagine a white person going through this process.
It just goes to show you how susceptible particularly blacks are to any kind of ideology that is against the West.
This is part of their immense chip on their shoulder about living in a white society and complaining about slavery and everything else.
I think this makes them particularly likely to fall for Islam.
There are black Muslims, as you know, this would not have happened.
This would not have happened to a white guy.
It's not impossible, but it's very difficult to imagine.
Now, let's see how this particular New Orleans slaughter stacks up against various mass killings in the United States.
And I took a look into this, and I tried to find out what the worst ones were.
Now, as it turns out, the worst mass killing was the Las Vegas Strip Massacre.
That killed 58 people, 546 injured, for total victims of 604.
This Las Vegas thing is still really rather unclear.
Nobody's really gotten to the bottom of why this guy did what he did.
Then, number two in terms of total victims was the Orlando Nightclub Massacre.
This guy, Omar Mateen, he killed a bunch of people at a homosexual nightclub.
That's number two with 102 total victims.
Then the Aurora Theater shooting.
That was a white guy who did that.
Virginia Tech massacre.
That was an Asian guy who killed a lot of his fellow students at VTech.
He had 55 total victims.
Then the El Paso Walmart mass shooting.
That was by a white guy.
He was against the idea of Hispanics coming into the United States replacing whites.
That was 48 victims.
Then the Texas First Baptist Church Massacre.
I don't recall the circumstances.
46 victims.
Then Luby's Massacre in Killeen, Texas back in 1991. One of those wacko events.
And then the Fort Hood Massacre.
Fort Hood, Texas.
That, of course, was by an American homegrown Middle Easterner.
He was opposed to American policy in Texas.
In the Middle East.
So that guy opened fire and killed 13, wounded 31 for a total victim count of 44. So where does this latest fit into that?
Well, I try to look into other ways that Americans have recently single-handedly killed others.
And the only person that I know that would fit into the top ten of these mass slaughters was the Waukesha Christmas Parade attack.
That was in November 2021. A black guy, Darryl Brooks, he drove an SUV through the parade.
He killed six people and injured 62 for a total of 72 victims.
Now, that, it's pretty clear to anybody who really paid attention that he was motivated by anti-white animus.
So here you have these top ten cases in which someone in the United States has slaughtered just as many people as he possibly could.
And here you get this Hispanic guy who, as it turned out, in the Orlando Massacre, he had pledged allegiance to ISIS. He is the number two with the whole victim count.
Then you have VTech.
That's an Asian.
Then you have the Fort Hood massacre.
That, of course, is another Middle Easterner.
And you have this guy, Daryl Brooks.
We just talked about an anti-white massacre.
And so if you look at the top 10, three of the top 10, including this guy in New Orleans, they were motivated by Islam.
Nobody's going to talk about this.
Nobody's going to say Islam is a problem.
And nobody's going to say these things are consequences, in some respects, of the kind of diverse society we live in.
The only one of these top ten massacres that had to do with a white person taking it out on non-whites, that, of course, was Patrick Crucius in El Paso, Texas.
By the way, he got 90 consecutive life sentences for that.
90. I don't know quite where that number comes from, and I've never quite understood the idea of consecutive life sentences.
Isn't one going to be good enough?
He's going to die in jail.
He got 90 consecutive life sentences.
Anyway, moving on to a different matter.
As we now know, this Shamsuddin Bahar Jabbar was a military veteran and That doesn't seem to have done him much good.
When he went out shooting the police, they shot him dead.
And being a military veteran used to be something that earned respect.
Well, times are changing.
Now, this is a story from 2023, but it came to my attention just recently, so I thought I would talk to you about it.
It's a story from the AP about recruiting non-citizens for the U.S. military as a fast track to citizenship.
And it starts with the story of Esmita Spudes Bidari.
That's somebody's name.
She was a young girl in, guess where?
Nepal.
This Nepali young girl.
She dreamed of being in the military, but that wasn't an option in her country.
I guess they don't let women fight in Nepal.
But last week she raised her hand and took the oath to join the U.S. Army Reserves thanks in part to a recruiter in Dallas who is also Nepalese and reached out to her through an online group.
So we have an army recruiter who is Nepalese looking for more Nepalese living in the United States who are not citizens and trying to get them to join the military.
And one of the big lures that he can dangle in their faces is, yep, this is a fast track to citizenship.
It is so fast, as a matter of fact, That after seven weeks of basic training, when you complete basic training, you can be sworn in as a citizen.
That is so much quicker than usual.
Several years that go into becoming a citizen.
So, let's see.
Because, of course, the problem is the Army and the Air Force have trouble meeting their quotas.
Only the Marines are any good at getting enough people.
So, the U.S. military is aggressively seeking out immigrants and offering them citizenship.
So, what the armed forces are doing is they are putting out pamphlets, working social media, and broadening their outreach, and according to the AP, particularly in inner cities.
Oh boy, in inner cities.
I guess that's where they find these weird people like Nepalese.
But are these really the best people?
Are they going to be soldiers?
Love America?
Are they going to defend it?
And one key element is the use of recruiters with similar backgrounds.
Now, this is an obvious admission that there is an ethnic or racial loyalty.
When a Nepali approached her, this woman, who is now on her way, she's probably a citizen by now because this had to do back in 23, because a Nepali asked her, yes, okay, So, people respond to people like themselves.
People are loyal to people like themselves.
Does this mean in order to get them to fight, well, we're going to have special Nepali units?
Are we going to have to have a certain quota of Nepali officers in order to motivate these people because they respond to folks who are just like them?
This is all just so utterly, utterly cuckoo.
According to the AP, These newcomers, these immigrants who are becoming soldiers and sailors and then citizens, they require more help filling out the application forms because they are likely to be less proficient in English.
What does that say about the kind of soldiers they're going to be?
And listen, here's a great quote from Air Force Major General Ed Thomas.
He is the head of the Air Force's Recruiting Command.
He says, We have large populations of legal U.S. residents who are exceptionally patriotic.
How does he know that?
I think this is just such rubbish.
Exceptionally patriotic?
They want to fight and die for America?
I bet very few of them actually go into combat arms.
They learn how to be nurses or radio repair or truck mechanics or something like that.
He goes on to say they're exceptionally grateful for the opportunities this country has provided.
Yeah, I'm sure it's pure gratitude they want to enter the U.S. military.
So anyway, the Air Force effort began this year.
Again, this was written in 2023 on the basis of a new program to make this happen that was set up in October of 2022. That was under Joe Biden.
Now, I haven't seen, I hadn't even heard about this.
I'd be curious to know if any of my listeners had known about this system today.
It's brand new, set up in October 2022, under Joe and Kamala, to take these non-citizens, these people from who knows where, and turn them into soldiers, and then immediately turn them into citizens.
Now, the largest number who have been coming in, at least as the time this article was written, are from Jamaica.
Boy, they're going to sing reggae, I'm sure, as they go into combat.
Followed by Mexico, the Philippines, and Haiti.
Haiti, yeah, Haitian soldiers.
Boy, we need them.
But many are from Nepal, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Colombia.
Colombia.
Boy, Colombia's a wreck of a country, but I'm sure they'll just make absolutely dandy commanders in the Navy.
Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria.
And as of 2023, when this article was written, approximately 5,000 legal permanent residents were enlisting every year.
So it's not a huge number, but the...
The whole implication of this thing is so wrong.
Non-citizens joining the U.S. military, I suspect primarily, not of course because they love America or are prepared to die for America, because they want all the benefits of being a U.S. citizen.
Now, I mentioned earlier I was going to talk about all the horrible things that have happened in Europe over New Year's Eve, almost exclusively by people who don't belong in Europe.
Now, all of this reminds me, frankly, just the chaos and the arson.
It reminds me of Devil's Night in Detroit.
Some of you older listeners will probably remember, certainly back in the 1990s and then on into the beginning of the 21st century, there was an absolute chaos every Halloween season.
Blacks would run around town burning down buildings.
And they would bring in the fire departments from all the surrounding places.
They'd have huge police presence.
It didn't stop them.
They'd burn down hundreds of buildings, hundreds of buildings.
Now I think all the buildings have been consumed.
This isn't a problem anymore.
But what is happening now in Europe is very reminiscent of this non-white eruption of horror, violence, and destruction.
As it turns out, this is now a regular thing, and so in the case of Berlin, hundreds of extra police officers from around the country were sent there to try to stop the violence.
But in one of the troubled areas of the city, troubled areas, I wonder why it's troubled.
It's called the Schoenberg district.
Youths, youths, yes they're always youths according to the media, they deployed a ball bomb, mortar firework, more about ball bombs later, which produced a tremendous explosion that blew out all the windows in an entire apartment building.
This is some kind of firecracker.
All the windows.
Blow out all the windows.
And the house that lost all its windows also experienced damage to the facade.
The blast left 36 apartments temporarily uninhabitable.
And a spokesman for the fire department described the scene as a battlefield.
This is some sort of enormous firecracker.
Four people were injured.
Two of them had to be taken to the hospital.
This is the way they celebrate New Year's.
These imports, these people who absolutely do not belong in Europe.
These ball bombs are called Kugelbomben in Germany.
And apparently, although they are spherical, and they are the kind of fireworks that people use in these commercial fireworks displays, where something goes up in the air way high and then goes boom!
You see this wonderful, huge, huge...
A circle of light, sparks, colors, everything else, and maybe subsidiary things that go crack, crack, crack, crack after the main one goes off.
People are getting their hands on these things.
I don't know how.
And they are firing them at buildings in Berlin to celebrate New Year's.
In another incident in Berlin, a suspected ball bomb detonated in the middle of a crowd.
Eight people were injured, two of them with life-threatening injuries, I can imagine, including a seven-year-old boy.
These ball bombs are illegal, but youths, once again youths in Berlin, get a hold of them through the black market.
They come in various sizes, some weighing up to several kilograms, that would be at least four or five pounds, and can produce a blast radius of up to 100 meters.
As it says, they're shot out of mortars at professional fireworks displays.
There was chaos all over Berlin.
As the youth celebrated the new year, it resulted in 400 arrests.
There are videos throughout social media showing them targeting buildings with firework rockets, hitting vehicles with mortar bombs, And attacking police and firefighters.
This is a great thing.
You know, you set an automobile on fire.
Or you destroy the facade of a building with a bomb.
And then when the police come or the firemen come, then you attack them.
First reports indicate that 30 police officers were injured in Berlin and one firefighter.
Last year, 34 police officers were injured.
So yes, this is a regular occurrence.
As one of the police officers in Berlin said, they have confused New Year's Eve with war.
Well, it really is war of these people who hate the West.
They hate white people.
They hate Germany.
I think largely because they know in their bones that they don't belong.
And they realize that white people, Germans, have built a society of the kind that's vastly superior to their own.
They're resentful.
They are envious.
And they're just going to make as much destruction as possible.
And also because they know they won't be punished.
The alternative for Germany, AFD, co-leader Alice Wiedel, now running for chancellor, went to X and said, Civil war-like conditions in the usual Berlin districts.
The usual.
We know why they're usual.
She says, Citizens who just want to celebrate are paying the price for the migration policy.
On New Year's Eve.
Yes, that's it.
She is the one, that's the one party, Alternative for Deutschland, that's prepared to state the obvious.
This is a function of immigration.
These people don't belong.
And the federal chairman of the police union, he said it wasn't just Berlin, Leipzig, Munich, Cologne, Hamburg.
Officers were targeted and injured in all of these places.
There also appeared to be widespread arson attacks.
28 vehicles were seriously damaged by burning.
And let's see.
Oh, this was nice.
In another incident, a 26-year-old German, he was pushed onto the tracks of a subway station after he complained about two men who were lighting fireworks and throwing them onto the train tracks.
This is in the subway.
This is in the subway.
Great.
He started complaining.
He said, stop doing that.
They attacked him with glass bottles and then pushed him right onto the tracks.
Witnesses were able to help him back up before the next train arrived so he wasn't cut into little pieces.
And the perps fled the area, later arrested.
It turns out these Middle Easterners were 40, age 40, and 49. 40 and 49. These weren't youths.
These people were middle-aged men who are setting off firecrackers, trying to make as much bother as possible, and they push this guy in the tracks.
As it turns out, in Germany, a total of five people were killed by fireworks.
And many of the youths arrested, the genuine youths, not these 40 and 49-year-olds, are back on the streets the next day.
Many are too young to be held criminally liable in many cases.
And in Berlin, the court system is lenient, even towards repeat offenders.
Of course they behave this way.
They know they're going to be back on the street.
This is just a terrible, vicious cycle, and unless the AFD gets a whole lot more influence, all these other political parties are going to continue to supervise the destruction and eventual extinction of Germany.
Well, we have the same thing going on.
In France, 984 cars went up in flames around the country.
A thousand cars burned.
That's sort of the usual way that these youths, usually North African, some of them black, that's how they celebrate New Year.
They burn cars.
This is a tradition.
And it's usually about a thousand a year.
As it turns out, in Paris, 10,000 police officers were on patrol.
As a security precaution.
10,000!
And still, all of this terrible stuff happens.
Police in Strasbourg, that's in the east, describe New Year's Eve as a classic New Year's Eve.
This is the way things always happen.
A total of 60 cars were burnt in that city, 44 people arrested, youths throwing paving stones and other projectiles at officers and who they targeted with fireworks.
Same thing in Belgium, because they've got the same problem.
The same people who don't belong in Europe are in Belgium, too.
In Brussels, 60 cars were set on fire, and then the people who set them on fire threw Molotov cocktails at the firefighters who came to deal with the fires.
In Italy, the annual pre-New Year's Eve clampdown by Italian police to get firecrackers off the street did not have the effect hoped for.
309 people were injured by fireworks.
And in Puglia, six families were evacuated from their apartment building after it suffered structural damage from a particularly powerful firecracker.
So they have the same thing.
They must have these Kugelbomben in Italy as well.
And let's see, police in Sicily seized a firework that contained as much explosive as an anti-tank weapon.
In Naples, at least two hands were blown off by people whose fireworks went off a little bit before they expected to.
They were hoping to blow off somebody else's hand, but their own were blown off.
And a number of people were injured by bullets that had been fired into the air.
Now, this is all very interesting to me.
This is a kind of form of New Year's Eve celebration we don't have in the United States.
Not quite as bad as this.
And it's fascinating to me that these immigrants who clearly do not belong in Europe have developed their own way of celebrating their own ethnic identity.
And this is what they do to welcome in the New Year.
It's not as though we don't have problems in the United States, however.
In Memphis, Tennessee, Dashana Williams, age 26. I needn't tell you just what her ethnic or racial extraction was.
Dashana, she was being treated at Methodist South Hospital for a condition that has not been specified in the news reports.
Here she was, getting treated, and she hauled off and punched a nurse practitioner in the face just as hard as she could.
Now, I've seen a photograph of Dashana.
She's a husky gal, and she's got very substantial lower quarters where a real punch gets its original force.
and, well, the poor woman was treated for her injuries, and Dashauna admitted that she hit the white woman because she didn't want to be treated by a white medical attendant.
Well, as I often say, people do prefer to be around people like themselves, and if I were being treated for some sort of injury or disease, I'd prefer to be treated by a white person, but I certainly would not express myself the way Dashauna did.
Well, she was taken into custody and charged with assault, and police noted that she was wanted.
Wanted.
She was desired.
She was so wanted because on November 13th of 2023, she walked up to a man sitting in a Nissan Altima and she held her hand in her purse as if she had a gun and she demanded the man's car.
He handed it over to her.
Then she drove off in the guy's Altima and she told police that she later sold it to an unknown person for $40.
A Nissan Altima.
$40.
Inquiring minds want to know what subsequently happened with this car.
$40.
Maybe it's been taken into pieces and sent across the border.
Who knows?
She sold it for $40.
Now, Dashana must not be all that bright because they were able to identify her after the store owner said, Outside of which this took place, said the woman who was seen on store surveillance hijacking the car had left her identification in the store that day.
So that's really a great achievement of the human mind.
She leaves her ID on the counter.
She walks out under the surveillance camera and hijacks the car.
The odd thing is the charges of carjacking and the employment of a firearm and a felony were dismissed for lack of prosecution.
What in heaven's name is that?
Lack of prosecution.
Well, lack of prosecution is a terrible problem we have.
That seems to happen all the time in this United States.
Lack of prosecution.
Well, let's see.
I mentioned earlier I was going to talk about catastrophic birth rates.
And it really is a terrible problem in all high IQ countries.
And I happen to have a list here of the 15 countries or territories With the lowest fertility rates, lowest total fertility rates in the world.
And these are figures from 2023, and probably the numbers are going down.
And every one of these 15 localities has a total fertility rate, that is number of children per woman, of 1.2%.
Or less.
As you know, you have to have about 2.2 in order to keep the generations going.
So these are places where rapidly the population is going to shrink.
Certainly, the births are very soon going to be outnumbered by deaths, if that's not already the case.
So, Italy.
The whole country of Italy.
About 1.2.
Malta.
That's a very small island.
1.2.
Poland.
Another big country.
1.2.
Bosnian-Herzegovina.
That's about 1.1.
And then we get to China.
Mainland China.
Likewise, about 1.1.
China is really We're really going to be in for a bother, just like all the other high IQ countries.
Spain, 1.1.
Thailand, 1.1.
I was surprised to see Thailand because you don't think of it as sort of modern and people not having children.
You think of it as still sort of third world.
Only 1.1 children per woman.
Then San Marino, that's a very tiny principality in Europe.
That is about 1.0.
Singapore, also a small place, 1.0.
Andorra, that's a small relic of the feudal era that's on the border between France and Spain.
Andorra, very small.
It's under 1, maybe about 0.9.
But this is serious.
Taiwan, the whole country of Taiwan.
Total fertility, about 0.9.
At that rate, every generation of the population falls by more than half.
Now, here's a surprise to me.
Puerto Rico in the United States, 0.9 children per woman.
I guess I haven't been paying attention.
I would have thought that Puerto Rico had at least a little bit of that sort of third-world quality, happy-go-lucky, make a lot of babies.
But no, Puerto Rico, 0.9 children per woman.
Now, here are the real catastrophes.
South Korea, 0.8.
This is terrible.
Taiwan and South Korea, such low, low birth rates.
Then Hong Kong, that's also a very small area, about 0.7 children.
Macau, it's likewise 0.7.
These are really very, very tough things.
And a lot of these countries, I suppose, they will be tempted at some point to bring in people unlike themselves.
And as we all know, the places where baby-making is still the norm and where they just pop them out regularly, that is Black Africa.
Let's just hope...
Can you imagine Taiwan trying to fill its gaps with black Africans?
And Japan doesn't quite make the 15 countries or territories with the lowest fertility at about 1.2.
Japan is 1.3.
Very, very bad.
U.S. The fertility rate in the U.S. is about 1.6 or 7 per woman.
It's the lowest it's been since the 1930s when the government kept tracking these things.
And non-Hispanic whites, that 1.5.
Interesting to me, these days, non-Hispanic blacks, well, the people we just used to call blacks in the old days, They have about 1.7 births per woman.
So the black rate, which used to be considerably higher than the white rate, is down almost as low as the white rate.
And Hispanics, which until low, maybe I think it was about four or five years ago, they had replacement-level fertility.
Even Hispanics in the United States have dropped to just below two children per woman, 1.97%.
Asians have the lowest birth rates of all, 1.31.
So, yes, the questioner, the person who sent the question that we started the program with, it's a worry.
What do you do about this?
What do you do about this?
And, again, I remain convinced that you don't want to start importing foreigners.
Maybe never.
We have to arrange our societies in order to encourage childbirth, and we have to grit our teeth and prepare to suffer a certain amount of economic difficulty rather than let ourselves be replaced by people who are unlike us, do not want to be us, and in many cases hate us.
Now here's a little additional bit of info about the Trump and H-1B problem.
Many of you are aware that over Christmas, a debate over H-1B visas really flared up in a big way on X. And, of course, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump's Indian appointees were all talking about H-1B visas.
We're just going to get the best in the world.
All these lazy bum Americans, we will replace them with hardworking Indians.
Well, on New Year's Eve, A reporter asked Donald Trump why he changed his mind and started publicly backing the H1B visa program.
He said, I didn't change my mind.
I've always felt that we have to have the most competent people in our country.
He said, we need competent people, smart people, and we need a lot of people coming in because we're going to have jobs like we've never had before.
Like we've never had before.
You know, it's going to be the greatest presidency ever.
The economy is going to boom.
That's why we need more people.
He says he's always been in favor of H-1B. However, as people who have longer memories than mine have pointed out, during the 2016 primary debate, Donald Trump called H-1Bs very bad and unfair to American workers.
That is precisely the point that Steve Bannon, Laura Loomer, and others who were attacking Elon Musk and Ramaswamy were making.
That's precisely the point.
And in 2016, Donald Trump himself said, First of all, I think I know the H-1B very well.
It's something I frankly use, and I shouldn't be allowed to use it.
We shouldn't have it.
That's what he said.
Shouldn't have H-1Bs.
Then he also said...
And it's important to say, though, that I'm a businessman, and I have to do what I have to do.
This sounds like typical Trump.
He says, okay, it's a bad thing, but, of course, I'm in business.
I've got to compete.
I've got to have low wages, too, so I use this program that shouldn't even exist.
Now, once he took office the first time...
He had a Buy American and Hire American executive order.
It directed cabinet officers to suggest reforms to the H-1B program so as to protect jobs for Americans.
In October 2020, just one month before the 2020 presidential election the first time around, The Trump White House announced a plan severely to curb H-1B visas.
Of course, Trump lost the election and now it seems Trump has lost his memory in terms of what he used to say about H-1B visas.
And that's of course one of the problems with Donald J. He frequently changes his mind and I don't think he remembers very well what happened in the past.
Now here's an interesting story.
When I first heard about this I was furious as I'm sure most of you would be.
But the latest news about this is the Biden administration said it's going to stop selling off the materials that were slated to be used to build the border wall.
He confirmed to a court that it will stop disposing of any further border wall materials and this will allow President-elect Trump to use the materials when he comes back in office.
This suit was bought by the state of Texas.
The Biden administration had been auctioning the stuff off since at least 2023. And some of the parts were listed for auction on marketplaces.
And this happened after, of course, he immediately shut down the border wall construction in 2021 when Biden took office.
Now, auctioning the border wall started the parts of the border wall that were lying around that Trump had intended to use but that Biden wasn't ever going to use.
This started in 2023. Trump has called Biden's efforts to sell unused border wall materials as a criminal act.
He said this cost millions of dollars because it'd go on to cheap.
It'll have to be bought back higher prices.
Ted Cruz of Texas called the sale sabotage.
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said it was a last-bitch attempt by Biden to hinder the wall construction.
And after the decision, Trump celebrated it as a win for America.
Now, I guess some of these people don't have the memories, the recollections that they should, and I certainly didn't remember this, but the sale of the border materials was ordered last year by the Congress of the United States.
I guess it's a year before last.
I'm still thinking 2024. It happened in 2023. The plan for the unused material was voted by Congress as part of the National Defense Authorization Act.
This was one of those enormous builds that was decorated and festooned with all kinds of things that shouldn't have been in there.
In any case, it ordered Congress to dispose of the border wall material.
Now, this would have been at a time when probably no one, thinking Trump would be back in office and would want to finish the wall, DOD submitted its plan allowing the transfer of the materials to Again,
This was not a crazy thing to do on the assumption that we're probably going to continue to have people in the office who are not going to build the wall.
And it turned out, a border patrol in Texas and California received more than 60% of the stuff.
Texas bought $12 million worth, enough to build about 4 miles of border wall.
And the remaining 40% went to government and military surplus auction company, Governor Planet, and it was being auctioned.
Now, it was Governor Planet's auction that sounded outrageous to people, and it was a Daily Wire article that first reported this.
And when I read that, the Daily Wire, and this seems like irresponsible reporting to me, failed to mention the 2023 Act of Congress that required disposition of this stuff that was lying around.
And the disposition was to be made in a way that made sense, at least to use it by the states or the Border Patrol to bolster existing wall.
So here is the actual facts about the story that really put a different complexion on it.
When I first heard about it, Biden selling off the stuff, I thought, gosh, he decided this after he lost the election, and what a terrible way to sabotage his incoming opponent.
It wasn't that way at all.
Now here is a surprising story.
The city of Fremont California has introduced a $100,000 signing bonus for up to 10 lateral police officer hires.
In other words, if you're already a police officer somewhere, you want to come work in Fremont, they'll give you a signing bonus of $100,000.
This initiative significantly expands the previous $20,000 signing bonus.
It's part of a broader effort by the city to address a national decline in law enforcement applicants and to fill the department's staffing gaps.
It's got 35 vacancies out of 205 sworn positions.
Now, this, of course, is a consequence of all the horrible things that have been said about police officers and done to police officers, and also the fact that you can be simply doing your job in the most effective way you know how.
Breaking no laws and your life can be turned inside out.
You can lose your job, even go to jail, because so many people in the United States think all cops are bastards.
Now, the new police lateral hiring incentive reflects our dedication to attracting experienced high-caliber officers, says the spokesman at the City of Fremont.
According to a 2024 survey by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, 70% of agencies report that recruitment is difficult.
Far more difficult now than five years ago.
What happened five years ago?
2020, 2020. What happened in 2020?
Oh, yes.
I remember the date itself, May 25th.
That is when George Floyd ascended into heaven.
He went to glory.
And that was the beginning of a terrible downhill, downhill spike.
Can you have a spike that goes down?
A downhill spike in the way Americans talked and acted about the police.
Now, Let's take a look at the city of Fremont.
When I heard about this $100,000 signing bonus, I thought, gosh, you know, it must be one of these really heavily black places where crime is terrible.
Nobody wants to work there.
As it turns out, Fremont is 62% Asian.
62% Asian.
I mean, Asians are usually not crime-prone.
Only 18% white.
Whites are usually not very crime-prone.
And other, let's see, Hispanics.
Hold on here.
Only 3.1% black.
And only about 7% Hispanic.
It's really quite surprising.
This hugely Asian city, I would think that that would be pretty much an easy place for the police to operate $100,000 to make a lateral transfer.
So you never know.
Now, a new little bit about Joe Biden.
When I first read this story, I had a completely mistaken understanding of what was going to follow.
I'm so naive.
The story starts with, President Joe Biden is said to regret choosing Merrick Garland as Attorney General and blames the federal judge, former federal judge, for his election defeat.
Merrick Garland.
I thought, golly, well, maybe he has a better understanding of what the horrible things is that his...
Merrick Garland was certainly collusive in the border fiasco.
And I thought, maybe that was it?
No.
It's because the Justice Department has aggressively prosecuted his son, Hunter, but slowed down prosecution for President-elect Donald Trump.
Fancy that.
He thinks Merrick Garland was working against him, I guess.
He prosecuted his son aggressively.
Well, no, he didn't do that at all.
A federal judge made him speed up the prosecution.
He'd gotten this absolute sweetheart deal.
Federal judge quashed that.
And he says Merrick Garland slowed down prosecution of Donald Trump.
He thinks if the Justice Department moved faster on Trump allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election and mishandle classified documents, Trump might have faced trial before the recent election, ultimately damaging his political career, where he already was tried.
He was already tried and found guilty in this trumped-up, phony sexual assault case.
But no, this is an admission, ladies and gentlemen, by Joe Biden that he really wanted lawfare.
He really wanted to throw the book at his most powerful and potential opponent.
This is a remarkable admission.
And he thinks Merrick Garland, of all people, Marilyn Garten, who probably hates Trump as much as anyone in the world, just didn't do a good enough job.
Didn't throw the book at him hard enough.
Didn't hit him in the head with it.
Besides, other than regretting Garland, Biden is remorseful about stepping down to let Vice President Kamala Harris run.
He and his aides believe that he could have won another term.
Wow.
I mean, this strikes me as one of the most hair-raising bits of evidence of just how far that guy is out of touch.
I'm sure you'll remember when he stepped down and Kamala, the great Kamala, stepped in.
They were such rejoicing among the Democrats, they were supercharged with excitement and energy.
But Joe Biden, he thinks he could have won.
Wow.
It do take all sorts, don't it?
It do take all sorts.
Now, here's just one thing to close with.
President Joe Biden has appointed more federal judges of color than any president before him.
And he has overtaken Donald Trump on his number of federal judge appointments.
Biden appointed 63 black federal judges.
Of that number, 40 were women.
40 black women.
He appointed more black women judges in a single term than Barack Obama did in two terms.
Even Barack Obama appointed only 26 black women judges.
Biden appointed 40 of them in half the time.
Half the time.
Overall, 60% of Biden's 235 appointees were people of color.
We thought Trump did pretty well managing to appoint 234 federal judges, but...
Biden takes the cake.
235. One more than Donald Trump.
Every one of them, I'm sure, a ferocious, foaming-at-the-mouth liberal.
Well, of course, Donald Trump is going to have another chance.
And so many of Biden's appointees have been women.
And his appointees, of course, have included several LGBTQ judges out of the closet but on the bench.
But, ladies and gentlemen, we've run out of time, and I never told you how to get in touch with me.
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