Knowledge Fight Interactive Search Tool

July 11, 2025 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

01:00:06

Carnival Doesn’t Want to be the Section 8 of Cruise Lines

Blacks are beefing; Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey are amused. The hosts also discuss Democrat fury, attacks on ICE agents, and the frisky Irish. Thumbnail credit: © Imago via ZUMA Press

Large

Audio Only |

Scroll

Time	Text
	Ladies and gentlemen, dear listeners, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I'm your host, Jared Teira with American Renaissance, and with me is my indispensable co-host, none other than Paula Kersey.
	Today is July 11th, Anno Domini, 2025.
	And as usual, we will begin with comments from listeners.
	This is a rather open-ended one, a question really.
	Do you believe that in any part of our struggle, we are past the point of no return?
	You know, Mr. Kersey, I think if we are past the point of no return on anything, it is the battle to save grammar.
	Now, a lot of people think that's unimportant, and I feel like a lonely man in rearguard action trying to make sure that parts of speech are used correctly.
	But in terms of the salvation of the white race, I don't think anything is past the point of no return.
	I am more encouraged than ever.
	As you have said many times, this year seems to be a remarkable series of developments that suggests that maybe the 20th century finally has come to a close.
	Do you think any part of our struggle is past the point of no return?
	Wow, what a great question to start out this episode with on July 11th, 2025.
	I know, I think eventually you have to let go of a lot of the illusions that hold your average conservative back.
	You know, I've been reading Sam Francis' his biography that just came out recently, sir, by Joe Scocci.
	Joe Scochie, is that how you pronounce his last name?
	I think it's Scochie, but I'm not sure.
	And it's fascinating because in the 1994 American Renaissance Conference, he said, you've got to get that word conservative out of your mind.
	We're not conservatives.
	There's nothing worth conserving.
	You know, I've never called myself an identitarian, a white nationalist.
	I consider myself an American because our founding fathers made it quite clear what an American was.
	And I think that's where we are at the point of no return is are we going to have a country or not?
	And I think that's what we're seeing now play out across the country.
	And I think this podcast is going to be a very interesting one for a lot of reasons.
	Well, but do you think it's past the point of no return?
	Do you think white people will never have a country on the North American continent?
	Absolutely not.
	No, no.
	I think the exact opposite.
	I think people have to realize the point of no return is thinking that a colorblind meritocracy is plausible.
	That we, and when I say a colorblind multiracial meritocracy is plausible, I think that was the idea that Charles Murray had in that book that he wrote during the George Floyd insurrection.
	I don't remember the title of the book.
	Facing reality.
	Facing reality.
	I think that's what you have to do.
	And Charles Murray, he blinked.
	And I think that's the most important thing is not blinking.
	And it's realizing we don't have to live this way.
	And our posterity doesn't have to either.
	And that's the point of no return you have to accept.
	But no, it is not.
	It is not too late because there's like you're going to find out in this podcast today, there's something happening in every sector of Western society.
	And it is very encouraging.
	Well, very good.
	The next commenter says, I enjoyed reading your thought-provoking essay on the reasons why you choose not to celebrate Independence Day, not until we are truly independent as white people.
	However, I disagree.
	I suppose it's a matter of both principle and perspective, but I choose to see the 4th of July as a celebration of all the good our wise and brave ancestors accomplished, as well as an occasion to participate in a pro-social joie de vivre.
	Perhaps we need an occasion or a holiday that looks to and encourages all the good truths and beauties that will surely be brought forth into the world by our descendants.
	Well, that is one of my recent essays that produced a certain amount of opposition, similar to that expressed by our listener.
	I look askance upon the 4th of July, partly because it's a glorification of a war that I'm not absolutely sure was necessary.
	And this idea that we have to go out and slay dragons hither and thither, which we've been doing all around the world, I don't like that at all.
	Now, when it comes to that war that I, as I say, I have second thoughts about, my ancestors fought in it, of course, on the colonial side.
	But was it really necessary to kill our British cousins?
	Now, we did end up with the First and Second Amendments, and no other former British colony has anything like that.
	So, okay, perhaps it was worth it, perhaps not.
	But independence from Britain at that cost, I'm just skeptical about it.
	And my main objection to celebrating the 4th of July is that the country has just been so seriously and thoroughly hijacked, although we seem to be gaining a certain amount of control.
	The rock is certainly slowing.
	Well, let's see.
	Here is another comment.
	Surely, the editors of this site have seen wellness culture's craze over Japanese longevity.
	The Japanese keep making the news.
	Of course, according to Russians' RK theory, the Japanese simply live longer due to genetic predisposition.
	And all the whites abstaining from barbecue or eating less meat think that that will turn them Japanese may simply be denying genetic reality.
	In fact, the healthy Japanese diet touted by Westerners might actually be based on the Japanese diet during the food shortages of World War II, and modern long-lived Japanese don't even follow it anymore anyway.
	What is your view on this?
	Oh, I think our listener is entirely correct.
	East Asians, wherever they live, in the United States or in Japan, it seems whatever diet they have, they live longer than Caucasians.
	I think it's all part of the genetic evolution of the different sub-races of man.
	It's essentially the same with Africans.
	Africans don't live as long as Caucasians, Whether it's in the United States or in Africa.
	Of course, they live longer in the United States than in Africa.
	But under similar circumstances, the major races of man simply don't have the same life expectation.
	That is my assumption.
	And all this jabber about how the Japanese do it right, the Japanese don't think about it.
	They just eat what they like to eat.
	They eat what they've always eaten.
	And they don't eat their fish thinking, oh my, I eat this and I'll live a long time.
	So that is my view on that.
	Mr. Taylor, I want to go back and ask you something real quick.
	You said you in that essay, which I also greatly enjoyed, although I did partake in celebrating Independence Day, though like you, I have a number of questions and find myself many times wondering if I would have been a Tory or not.
	But my question is this.
	What is like a symbolic act that could transpire that would lead you to believe that we're closer to the independence you wish to celebrate?
	Is there something just easily symbolic that you would see that there is a stirring in the white man in America or throughout Western Europe?
	To me, to me, the real turning point will come when there is an increasingly widespread realization that it is perfectly natural, normal, and healthy for people, including white people, to want to live among people like themselves.
	That, to me, is going to be the breakthrough.
	Now, it might even come during my lifetime in terms of greater acceptance, the fact that white people have every right to go their own way.
	Now, how the modalities of making that happen, how that will be worked out, that's a different matter.
	But this is a conceptual psychological breakthrough that I think is not to be excluded even during my lifetime.
	So that to me, that's not even symbolic.
	That would be very concrete.
	Just the idea of this conception of what makes people happy, how society should be organized, that to me would be the real, at least psychological and then ultimately conceptual and concrete turning point for the United States.
	Does that make sense to you?
	It does.
	It does make sense.
	Yes.
	Let's see.
	Here, another comment.
	This is a little outside of our usual concerns, but I thought it was thoughtful.
	So I will read this comment.
	A nuclear-equipped Iran could mean a nuclear-equipped 9-11, but with devastation that could end the USA as a functioning entity.
	Well, I don't know if terrorists equipped with atomic bombs would have enough to end the U.S. as a functioning entity, but even a single atomic bomb would be devastating.
	And this listener writes in to say, Iran doesn't have to attack us directly.
	Just think of Shiite Islamism and the kinds of damage that those fanatics can do.
	Therefore, by joining Israel in a bunker bomb checking of Iran, Trump also sends a useful message to both Shi and Putin.
	Mess with America at your greatest peril.
	He goes on to say, all of this noted, I cannot but agree with your oft-stated view about the idiotic ADL, the Anti-Defamation League, as a fiercely patriotic anti-leftist Jew.
	I find their actions and stated positions beyond deplorable.
	To draw an imperfect analogy, it's tantamount to trying to prevent shark attacks by throwing blood and guts into the water.
	I think that's a pretty good parallel.
	The idea if they're trying to stop anti-Semitism, boy, they certainly provoke anti-Jewish thought and behavior by the kinds of crazy things they do.
	Let's see, yet another comment here.
	There are a lot of people out here who agree with you.
	I talk to people in everyday life in the People's Republic of Maryland, and the last year I've had dozens of conversations with random people who have opened their eyes to what's going on.
	This is especially striking with people you would never suspect would agree with us.
	The most common topic is community.
	I've had dozens of random people with whom I don't even start the conversation, but they are looking for community.
	Not rallies, not street crap is what our listener calls it.
	Not shouting and screaming, but community.
	That's what I believe is the hardest thing for our people to find.
	They are groping for something to belong to and sense that community means white people.
	So again, that's something else that adds to my reasons for optimism.
	This sense that the 20th century, as you put it, is beginning to end.
	So that's very encouraging.
	Now, this is a comment that someone sent in about Zoran Kwame Mandari, who is New York City's mayor-to-be.
	And you're aware of this, Mr. Kersey, but he claimed to be black or African American on his college applications.
	He applied to Columbia, where he was rejected.
	It let students provide more specific information of where relevant.
	So, in addition to being black and African American, he wrote that he was Ugandan because he was born in Uganda.
	That's a neat trick.
	He says, even though these boxes are constraining, I wanted my college application to reflect who I was.
	So, he claimed to be black on every one of his college applications.
	So, this is a message that I think is quite important.
	You can be born in Uganda, but you can learn the tricks of the racial shaped on by the time you are in high school.
	So, he picked that up pretty quickly.
	And boy, what a terrible mayor he is likely to be.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, like you, I very much enjoy receiving messages from our listeners.
	And you can get messages to us in two ways.
	You can get directly to me by going to amran.com, amre n.com, which is the website of American Renaissance.
	There's a contact us tab, and what you write will come to me.
	And the other way to do it is send me an email, ladies and gentlemen, because we live here at protonmail.com.
	Once again, that email address is becauseweve here at protonmail.com.
	And when you do that, you are going to be registered to get the weekly New Century Foundation newsletter.
	Great email, great digest of all of the latest blogs, columns, and of course, videos that Mr. Taylor does.
	Well, very good.
	Now, this is yet another example.
	And I'm going to ask you to explain this to our listeners.
	But just as it, I think it was a remarkable milestone when the Wall Street Journal did an admiring profile of Renault Camus, who coined the term the great replacement and explained his concerns in, I think, quite sympathetic ways.
	Here we have The Economist, which has traditionally just been relentlessly lefty, saying that the whole refugee system has got to be scrapped.
	Yet another important mainstream turning point.
	But do tell us about it, Mr. Kersey.
	Well, this is a cover story from The Economist, and it is a cover that reflects the fact that we're about to get a new English translation of Camp of the Saints in a couple months.
	And it titles pretty incredible.
	Scrap the asylum system and build something better.
	Rich countries need to separate asylum from labor migration.
	Mr. Taylor, I'd ask real quick if you would tell our listeners who might not know the weight of the economist opining on this subject, the importance of this magazine.
	Well, golly, it is perhaps the most respected magazine about politics and economics in the English-speaking world.
	Perhaps I'm exaggerating, but if it's not the most respected and influential, it is pretty doggone close.
	I read The Economist for years.
	I subscribed to it because it covers an enormous amount of many, many different subjects, largely in an intelligent way, but I got tired of its just blinkered liberalism on anything having to do with race or immigration.
	And so for that reason, this change in its policy is, I think, very important and definitely to be celebrated.
	Yeah, and they write this.
	The rules for refugees arose haphazardly.
	The UN Refugee Convention of 1951 applied only to Europe and aimed to stop fugitives from Stalin being sent back to face his fury.
	It declared that anyone forced to flee by a well-founded fear of persecution must have sanctuary and must not be returned to face peril.
	The principle of non-refoulement.
	In 1967, the treaty was extended to the rest of the world.
	Most countries have signed it, yet dwindling numbers honor it.
	China admits fewer refugees than tiny lestho.
	Gosh, I've never even heard this nation before.
	Is this South Africa?
	Okay, Les Sotho.
	And sends North Koreans home to face the Gulag.
	President Donald Trump has ended asylum in America for nearly everyone except white South Africans, which, by the way, Mr. Taylor, I still can't believe that's a fact.
	Yes, amazing.
	And he plans to spend more on deporting irregular migrants in other countries than other countries spend on defense.
	Western attitudes are hardening.
	In Europe, the views of social democrats and right-wing populists are converging.
	The system is not working.
	Mr. Taylor, I got to stop there.
	I mean, that right there is one of the most important lines.
	Talk about burying the lead.
	The system is not working.
	Again, I would go on record and say that The Economist is probably the most important periodical for understanding what the English elite are thinking.
	Certainly the British, yes.
	But I think it has tremendous impact in the United States, all the English-speaking world.
	In fact, I remember oh, years ago, somebody complaining that the United States doesn't have anything just as good as The Economist.
	And one of their plies was, well, we have The Economist, so we don't need anything else.
	That's a good point.
	And again, I'm going to reiterate what I just said.
	The system is not working.
	That carries a lot of weight when this is an unsigned editorial by The Economist.
	Designed for post-war Europe, it cannot cope with a world of proliferating conflict, cheap travel, and huge wage disparities.
	Roughly 900 million people would like to migrate permanently, since it is almost impossible for a citizen of a poor country to move legally to a rich one.
	Many move without permission.
	Illegally, mind you.
	In the past two decades, many have discovered that asylum offers a back door.
	Instead of crossing a border stealthily, as in the past, they walk up to a border guard and request asylum, knowing that the claim will take years to adjudicate.
	And in the meantime, they can melt into the shadows and find work.
	Voters are right to think the system has been gamed.
	Most asylum claims in the European Union are now rejected outright.
	Fear of border chaos has fueled the rise of populism from Brexit to Trump and poisoned the debate about legal migration.
	To create a system that offers safety for those who need it, but also a reasonable flow of labor migration, policymakers need to separate one from the other.
	Around 123 million people have been displaced by conflict, disaster, persecution, three times more than in 2010, partly because wars are lasting longer.
	All these people have a right to seek safety, but safety need not mean access to a rich country's labor market.
	Instead, resettlement in rich countries will never be more than a tiny part of the solution.
	In 2023, OECD countries received 2.7 million claims for asylum, a record number, but a pinprick compared with the size of the problem.
	The pragmatic approach would be to offer more refugees sanctuary close to home.
	Typically, this means in the first safe country or regional block where they set foot.
	Refugees who travel shorter distances are more likely one day to return home.
	They're also more likely to be welcomed by their hosts, who tend to be culturally close to them and be aware that they are seeking the first available refuge from a calamity.
	This is why Europeans have largely welcomed Ukrainians.
	Turks have been generous to Syrians and Chadians to Sudanese.
	Is it Chadians or Chadians?
	Chadians.
	I would guess.
	People don't often talk about the people from Chad, but they don't even speak English there anyway.
	No, no, but apparently they do in Liberia.
	Looking after refugees closer to home is often much cheaper.
	The UN Refugee Agency spends less than $1 a day on a refugee in Chad.
	Given limited budgets, rich countries would help far more people by funding refugee agencies properly, which they currently do not, than by housing refugees in first world hostels or paying armies of lawyers to argue over their cases.
	They should also assist the host countries generously and encourage them to let refugees support themselves by working, as an increasing number do.
	Compassionate Westerners may feel an urge to help the refugees they see arriving on their shores.
	But if the journey is long, arduous, and costly, the ones who complete it will usually not be the most desperate, but male, healthy, and relatively well off.
	What an astonishing point.
	Fugitives from Syria's war who made it to the next door Turkey were a broad cross-section of Syrians.
	Those who reached Europe were 15 times more likely to have college degrees.
	When Germany opened its doors to Syrians in 2015, 2016, it inspired 1 million refugees who had already found safety in Turkey to move to Europe in pursuit of higher wages.
	Many went on to lead productive lives, but it's not obvious why they deserve priority over the legions of others, sometimes better qualified people, who would have relished the same opportunity.
	Voters have made it clear they want to choose whom to let in, and this does not mean everyone who shows up and claims asylum.
	If rich countries want to stem such arrivals, they need to change the incentives.
	Migrants who trek from a safe country to a richer one should not be considered for asylum.
	Those who arrive should be sent to a third country for processing.
	If governments want to host refugees from far-off places, they can select them at a source where the UN already registers them as they flee from war zones.
	Well, yes, all entirely reasonable.
	All entirely reasonable.
	Now, I have a question for you, and I don't know if this leader, as they call their editorials, says anything about it, but there's no reason why a country can't withdraw from these treaties.
	Every treaty has a withdrawal clause.
	And the British have talked about doing this.
	The French have talked about doing this, but nobody has.
	Nobody has.
	You don't have to wait for some sort of massive change in the system simply to say, okay, we did sign this treaty, but it doesn't apply to us anymore, so bye-bye.
	I wish nations would do that.
	Well, I wonder if there's some provision within the European Union contract, which brought those countries together, that disallows that to take place.
	But I mean, again, when China is admitting fewer refugees than Tiny Lesotho and sends North Koreans home to face the gulag, I mean, why do we have to sit here and watch, you know, because we've seen Hungary, I believe Hungary and Poland have both faced sanctions for refusing refugees by the European Union.
	So that's a good question.
	That's a good question.
	Maybe because you're in the European Union, but I would guess that if, as individual nations, they've all signed these treaties, I bet they could rescind their participation.
	But anyway, who knows?
	It's complicated.
	But thank goodness the economist is saying enough.
	It ain't working.
	Now, the economists would never go so far as to say Europe deserves to remain European, but at least this is an important first step.
	It's the first step in a long process of watching people wonder, of people watching this all wondering, this isn't working.
	And just say that.
	It's okay to say that because that then gives the step toward what you want.
	And that is saying we have a right to exist and not just be a nation that exists to be colonized.
	And, you know, it's interesting.
	I point this out.
	I do believe that a nation, say Germany had tried to stop the Syrians, would the other nations of the European Union, would they have launched sanctions on Germany back in 2015, 2016?
	I mean, that's where we were, where there was this united front in allowing all this to take place.
	And as we're going to learn about what's happening in Northern Ireland in a few minutes on this podcast, I think there are people who are ready to do what you said, sir, at the start of this podcast.
	I think so.
	I think so.
	Now, let's see.
	Another big piece of news has to do with these attacks on ICE officers.
	Ten people have been arrested on attempted murder charges after attackers in black military-style clothing opened fire outside a Texas immigration detention center in an ambush that left one police officer wounded.
	This was at the Prairie Land Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, about 40 miles southwest of Dallas.
	The attackers first set off fireworks and then damaged cars and structures by spray painting traitor and ice pig on them.
	I don't think ice pig is some kind of Chinese delicacy.
	The attack seemed to be designed to draw U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel outside the facility, and it worked.
	Two unarmed corrections officers came out and spoke to the group as someone standing in a nearby woods appeared to be signaling with a flashlight.
	Well, the correctional officer said, this looks very fishy, and they called 911 to report suspicious activity.
	And when the Alvarado police arrived, somebody in the woods opened fire and wounded an officer in the neck.
	Another assailant who was across the street, so this looks like some sort of pronged attack.
	They're shooting from one direction, shooting from another direction.
	And another assailant who was across the street shot 20 or 30 rounds at the unarmed corrections office after the police showed up.
	And there was an AR-style rifle found at the scene that was jammed, along with a flag Saying, resist fascism, fight oligarchy, and flyers with words such as fight ICE terror with the class war.
	Now, it seems very odd to me that you're going to go on an ambush and you've got flags and flyers.
	Seems like a very kind of ham-handed way to go about it.
	The group fled, but sheriff's deputies stopped seven people about 300 yards from where the officer was shot.
	Some were wearing body armor.
	Some were covered with mud, according to police reports.
	Is this some kind of camouflage?
	I don't know.
	And some had two-way radios.
	It was a planned ambush, and the idea was to kill ICE personnel.
	They also stopped a van leaving the area that found two AR-style rifles and a pistol, along with ballistic vests and a helmet.
	There have been searches in Alvarado later led to discovery masks, goggles, tactical gloves, more body armor and weapons, fireworks.
	This sounds like a very serious undertaking.
	One of the rifles abandoned at the scene had a binary trigger.
	Now, I'm sure, Mr. Kersey, you know what a binary trigger is, but probably most of our listeners do not.
	That's a trigger.
	Ordinarily, when you pull the trigger on a semi-automatic rifle, then it will fire around, and then when you let off, it will go click, and then you could pull again, and you can fire the next round.
	A binary trigger is spring-loaded, so you pull, you fire around, and then when you let off, it likewise fires around.
	And you can buy these conversion kits for an AR-15 in most states in the United States.
	In any case, one of these things had a binary trigger.
	It doubles the regular rate of fire.
	I suspect this is the AR that jammed, actually, because those things are a little bit tricky.
	In any case, these people are really intending to send a lot of rounds downrange.
	Now, the names of the 10 people charged in the attack, Cameron Arnold, sounds probably white, Savannah Batten, B-A-T-D-N, Nathan Bauman, Zachary Evitz, Joy Gibson, Bradford Morris, all these people sound like white antiphotypes to me.
	And then we've got somebody named Marciela Rueta, clearly Hispanic, Elizabeth Soto and Inez Soto, no doubt married Hispanics.
	And an 11th suspect, Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada, obviously a Hispanic, husband of one of the attackers, probably one of the females with a non-Hispanic sounding name.
	He was arrested on charges of conspiracy to tamper with evidence.
	He had what's called insurrectionist propaganda at his home called organizing for attack, insurrectionary anarchy.
	And the FBI is searching for a 12th person.
	He is Benjamin Hanil Song.
	There was a photograph of him on the internet.
	He's a former Marine Corps reservist, clearly Asian, judging from his photo.
	So we had what looks like a real rainbow coalition of insurrectionist antifa types.
	Now, I use the word insurrectionist somewhat tongue-in-cheek because I don't think that's a word that should be thrown around.
	But I draw a contrast between what happened on January 6th, not one round fire.
	And here are people loaded for bear, blazing away at ICE officials and at local police.
	Nobody's calling this an insurrection.
	No, no, no.
	And in fact, this to me is a very serious undertaking when you have people organized in a way to try to kill federal agents.
	I don't think there's been a word about this in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal.
	Adding to the seriousness of all this, there was a different attack the same week.
	A man with an assault rifle, he fired what are called many, many dozens of rounds.
	I wonder how many that was.
	At federal agents at a U.S. Border Patrol facility more than 400 miles south of McAllen, Texas.
	He injured a police officer.
	This guy was Ryan Luis Mosqueda, clearly Hispanic, shot and killed by federal agents.
	He, too, wearing tactical gear, body armor.
	They searched his vehicles and found several more weapons, including an additional AR and ammunition.
	So I love the way the lefties jabber about insurrection if the wrong people are doing it, but they don't even notice when something like this happens.
	And I believe, Mr. Kersey, you have agreed with me just how important this business of opening fire on federal agents really is.
	Yeah, I mean, yesterday we saw at the raid in California by ICE agents on what the media tried to claim was a farm, which incidentally turned out to be a marijuana growing facility employing what appears to be child labor.
	And there's video evidence that shows a masked individual who is part of the group that ICE is trying to wrangle opening fire.
	Looks like he's got a nine millimeter and he's firing multiple rounds indiscriminately.
	And we're, you know, I believe you have an Axio story that details what Democrats are talking about right now behind the scenes.
	It might be a good segue to go into that because the language on the left on Twitter is already unhinged in regards to attacks and openly calling for violence against ICE agents.
	And I've heard that Blue Sky, which was set up as a left of center space for refugees from Twitter to have their own conversations, that the language of insurrection is far more in your face in regards to what you need.
	I think one of us needs to go to Blue Sky and lurk.
	Just report what those people are talking about.
	Because, well, okay, let's talk about this Axio story.
	Yeah, please.
	Yes.
	The Dems are really getting pretty frisky is what it boils down to.
	Apparently, at town halls in their districts and in meetings with constituents, Democratic members of Congress are facing a growing series of demands to break the rules, fight dirty, And not afraid of getting physically hurt themselves.
	The Democrats told Axios they see a growing fury in their base of voters.
	One House Democrat said: There's a sense of fear and despair and anger.
	This puts us in a different position where we can't keep following norms of decorum.
	In other words, break the rules.
	Axios spoke to more than two dozen House Democrats.
	Many requested anonymity.
	One says, we've got people who are desperately wanting us to do something.
	No matter what we say, they want more.
	Voters have angrily accosted Democrats at town halls for, in their view, not doing enough against Trump.
	Some Democrats have upped the ante, heckling Trump, mounting rogue impeachment attempts, which everyone agrees is a waste of time, but their base loves that, and getting tackled by law enforcement for interfering with ICE action and even indicted in their efforts to scrutinize the president's deportation campaign.
	Some voters have said what we really need to do is willing to get shot, says a Democratic congressman.
	When we visit ICE facilities or federal agents, our own base is telling us there needs to be blood in order to grab the attention of the press and the public.
	Another House Democrat said constituents say civility doesn't work, and they have to prepare for violence in order to protect our democracy.
	I love that.
	Only violence can protect our democracy.
	Another House Democrat told Axios, the people online have sent me crazy shit, told me to storm the White House and stuff like that.
	And a sixth House Democrat said when they try to persuade voters to channel their frustrations into a focus on winning back Congress in 2026, people don't accept them.
	Now, I thought this was very interesting and ultimately not at all surprising.
	The lawmakers said these crazy bomb-throwing voters tend to be white, well-educated, and live in upscale suburban or urban neighborhoods.
	One Democrat says, what I've seen is a demand that we get ourselves arrested intentionally or allow ourselves to be victims of violence.
	And a lot of the time, that's coming from economically very secure white people.
	They're probably not going to let themselves be shot at or arrested.
	The expectations aren't just unreal, says Democrat.
	They are dangerous.
	Now, this last comment is to me really quite significant.
	Another lawmaker told Axios, I actually said in a meeting, when they light a fire, and he's talking about Republicans, my thought is to grab an extinguisher, and a constituent said, why not throw gasoline on the fire instead?
	This is wild talk.
	And so this is the kind of thing that's reflected by these people going shooting up ICE agents.
	We really, we really are coming to an interesting, interesting state of affairs.
	But when you think about it, Mr. Kersey, in a way, I understand the frustration and anger of these people who have suddenly seen the entire posture of the federal government do a 180.
	You and I were furious at the way Joe Biden was just waving millions and millions of illegal immigrants across the border.
	And they were just showing up in all sorts of American cities, getting free room and board and medicine, dental care, everything you want.
	We were furious about that.
	We certainly didn't go out and shoot anybody.
	But you can imagine people on the other side who thought that was absolutely wonderful, that this is the way the country was going to be from now on, forever and ever.
	They are furious and upset.
	And boy, they are being mighty poor sports about it.
	You know, real quick anecdote.
	I have a lot of friends who are pilots, flew in the Air Force, and now are employed as pilots for our major airlines.
	And starting in 2021, they started texting me and telling me, you were always right about this illegal alien problem, man.
	We are flying so many people who all are wearing the same clothes.
	They all have the same bag, and they're going from Tucson to Birmingham, you know, Phoenix to Charlotte to Raleigh, and they don't speak English.
	We have no idea what's going on.
	We're afraid to speak out, though.
	We have all the passenger manifests.
	They have a liaison that they all go to when they land at these airports, these smaller airports, and we have no idea what's going on.
	And that's all stopped, of course, but it went on for four years.
	And a lot of them didn't even have to take airplanes.
	They just walked across the border, and then they got free bus rides thanks to Governor Abbott, which I think was a brilliant thing, to places like Chicago and Denver and New York City.
	And I am 100% convinced that the media attention to all of these thousands and thousands of people that came crashed and freeloaded in all of these cities, all of that got a fair amount of media.
	And I'm sure that very much helped push the election in Donald Trump's direction.
	But Mr. Kersey, tell us about Ireland.
	Well, this is one of those stories that I hope will be a white pill for a lot of listeners.
	Give me just one second as I scroll down here.
	This happened yesterday, and this is from one of the papers, I believe The Sun, in London.
	Burning of migrant boat effigy in Northern Ireland triggers police investigation.
	Authorities in Northern Ireland are investigating a bonfire that featured effigies of migrants in a boat and a banner reading, stop the boats, to determine whether if it was a hate incident.
	Church leaders and politicians complained about the display in Mogashel, a village in County Tyrone, about 40 miles west of Belfast, before it was lit Thursday night.
	Parts of Northern Ireland were gripped by anti-immigrant rioting last month amid tensions surrounding a recent influx of people from Eastern Europe.
	Police said they didn't intervene before the bonfire was lit because they can only act within the legislative framework that exists.
	Some 300 bonfires are set to be lit in the days ahead of July 12th, when Protestant groups in Northern Ireland celebrate the victory of the Protestant king William III over the forces of the disposed Catholic king James II, commemorating a battle from 1690.
	The battle turned the tide against James' efforts to regain the throne and submitted Protestant control of Ireland.
	While many Protestants celebrate the victory as part of Northern Ireland's history and culture, the celebrations often fuel tensions with Catholics who oppose continuing British rule in the territory.
	Bonfires have sometimes been an issue due to flags, effigies, or election posters that are placed on the pyres before they are ignited.
	The police service in Northern Ireland said its officers would be on the ground through the weekend and would take firm and proportional action to keep people safe.
	Well, let's hope they don't keep the effigies safe.
	I mean, they don't.
	Well, no, if you haven't seen the image, this bonfire, it was a massive pyre.
	You know, years ago, Texas A ⁇ M used to do a bonfire before they played the Texas, University of Texas in football.
	And unfortunately, there was a mishap at one of the events causing a lot of people to pass away when these huge logs fell on the student body members who were constructing it.
	But this one looked to be 30 or 40 feet tall from the photos I've seen.
	It was massive.
	Well, no, no, my point is, I mean, it's just so absurd.
	You should be able to burn anything you like.
	I mean, you can burn an American flag on a bonfire if you want to.
	I don't know if they have any flag laws in Ireland, but burn the transgender flag, Mr. Taylor.
	Careful now.
	Sorry, sorry.
	You're right.
	You're right.
	I take it all back.
	But the idea that you can't burn an effigy of a political enemy, this is just so awful.
	And I guess I suppose in a way it gets back to the whole question of the Revolutionary War.
	Was it worth it?
	Wasn't it worth it?
	But that's a question that we won't go up into any further.
	But yes, it's good to see resistance, Northern Ireland and in the Republic.
	Both places they're whooping about it.
	I think it's wonderful.
	I agree.
	And that's the end of the story.
	I just encourage all of our listeners to this to seek out this story, watch the video, and just understand where we are right now.
	When The Economist is talking about this is no longer working, when the Irish people are building this effigy and setting it on fire, when Conor McGregor is running for president to save Ireland, things are changing.
	Yeah, it's really that simple.
	Here's another little change.
	Carnival Cruises has some new rules.
	Carnival has the most frequent allegations of serious crimes committed at sea than any other cruise line sailing from North America.
	And they've got new rules.
	Marijuana, including cannabis and its derivatives and other illegal substances, are unlawful and strictly prohibited on board.
	Now, why do you think they had to make that explicit?
	Even if marijuana is legal for recreation or medicinal use in your home state, it remains illegal under U.S. federal law.
	Cruise ships sailing from U.S. ports operate under federal maritime law.
	All forms of cannabis are prohibited.
	If caught, passengers are immediately removed from the ship at the next port with no refund.
	They get a permanent ban, and they are turned over to law enforcement if need be.
	Well, who do you think the people that they are targeting with this rule might be?
	White citizenarians.
	You're right.
	You're right.
	People like your grandma.
	Guests 17 years of age and under must be out of public areas by 1 a.m. unless accompanied by an adult traveling in their party.
	Boy, 1 a.m., that seems pretty late to be out, but apparently they were just probably raving all night.
	Although Carnival Cruise Line has not officially announced a ban on hip-hop or rap music in their nightclubs, significant online chatter from some black passengers say they noticed a reduction or absence of those genre.
	Furthermore, Carnival always had a 15-drink limit per 24-hour period for the Cheers alcoholic beverage package.
	Apparently, if you pony up more, you can have as much booze as you like, but it's not really as much booze as you like because you're limited to 15 drinks in 24 hours.
	I guess that cramps some people's style.
	Because there is now a perception that enforcement has become stricter.
	And some black cruisers feel this targets groups such as their own who tend to purchase these packages and enjoy lively celebrations.
	Well, yes, we've seen videos of just how lively those celebrations can get.
	Carnival has reinforced rules against guests playing their own music in public areas, including by pools and hallways.
	While ostensibly for everyone's comfort, black passengers feel this rule is selectively enforced against them.
	One TikToker says, Carnival won't have to worry about me anymore.
	She says she's canceled her reservation for a friend's birthday.
	We got the message loud and clear.
	We are not your demographic anymore.
	Well, sometimes you see photographs of a deck on a Carnival cruise line.
	Practically everybody in sight is black, packed in there like sardines.
	Yes, and the whole, well, it's like when schools were integrated.
	Generally, the tipping point was about 30% black.
	After about 30% black, then the whole atmosphere, the texture of life in the school changed and white people began to clear out.
	And I don't think Carnival Cruise wants to become the black line or the riot line or the get drunk line or play your own music loud line or the fight with the people on board line.
	However, there are some blacks who understand.
	One person posted, it's not a crackdown on color, it's a crackdown on people's behavior.
	Another commented, Carnival just got tired of being the Section 8 of the C. I think that's pretty funny.
	And then another says, God forbid the company wants to protect its brand and what's racist about asking people to act right.
	But of course, this is always the way.
	When there are rules, when there are rules that black people refuse to observe, and when they are enforced, then it's racism.
	And the general feature usually is, well, we just have to suspend the rules if black people can't abide by the rules.
	I'm very glad to see that Carnival is, as these people say, trying to protect their brand.
	Well, let's see.
	One other little story here.
	What have we got?
	Oh, yes.
	Microsoft.
	Microsoft is in the news because between September, last September and this March, it submitted petitions indicating to the U.S. government that it intends to fill 14,181 positions with foreign workers this fiscal year.
	That includes extensions to existing employees, that's 3,680, but it also includes new foreign workers, 9,738.
	At the same time, Microsoft has been laying off U.S. workers.
	About 6,000 jobs were axed in May.
	Another 300 or so were slashed in June, bringing the total number of employees let go over the last few months to approximately 15,000.
	Now, is it somehow a coincidence that they have axed 15,000 U.S. jobs and they're looking to fill 14,181 positions with foreigners?
	Is that a coincidence?
	Maybe not.
	All of Microsoft's preliminary H-1B applications were prepared by an India-based business.
	This is something that I was very surprised to learn about when I did a video about how H-1B visas work.
	First of all, you do not have to somehow demonstrate that no American would do the job.
	I'd always thought that was part of the deal.
	You can't go out hiring these cheap Indians unless you have tried to hire Americans.
	No, you just say, I need them.
	And that's all it takes.
	And practically all of these big companies use these Indian-based middlemen.
	So the middlemen who makes the money are Indians.
	And the people who show up and take American jobs are Indians.
	Let's see.
	Now, just as a matter of coincidence, Mr. Kersey, Microsoft chairman and CEO is someone named Satya Narayana Nadella.
	And he is, yes, sure enough, Indian.
	Microsoft is, just by coincidence, expanding operations in India.
	Nadella announced a strategic partnership with the government, as well as a $3 billion investment in India cloud and AI infrastructure.
	It's part of its commitment to accelerating AI innovation in India.
	And if this figure is to believed, this report says Microsoft is training 10 million Indians in AI skills.
	I guess once they've learned them, maybe they'll import them.
	10 million?
	That's the figure from this report.
	Now, I looked a little further into Satcha Narayana Nadella.
	His wife is someone named Anna Anupama, likewise Indian.
	He was born in Hyderabad.
	He came to the U.S. when he was 22 to study computer science.
	He is now a dual citizen, both Indian and an American.
	And under Nadella, Microsoft revised its mission statement to, quote, empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
	Well, that includes you, Mr. Kersey.
	He is empowering you so that you can achieve more.
	Hope that makes you feel better about yourself.
	And just a little sidelight here, in 2024, his compensation from Microsoft was $79.1 million.
	In 2020, he was recognized as Global Indian Businessman Icon at CNBC-TV18's India Business Leader Awards in Mumbai.
	He's Global Indian Businessman Icon.
	In 2022, the Government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan, which is the third highest civilian award available from India.
	Well, well.
	And in 2017, he published a book called Hit Refresh, The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone.
	What a swell guy.
	So here's this Indian.
	He's going to rediscover Microsoft's soul.
	I guess it just lost its soul under Bill Gates.
	And who is it, Steve Ballmer?
	Those are the only two CEOs so far.
	But it lost its soul, Mr. Kersey.
	And this Indian is going to find it.
	And I guess once he's found that soul, he's going to implant it back in his old homeland.
	What a, what a great guy.
	Well, they can always take that pilgrimage down to Texas, and they can go to that 60-foot, no, it's a 90-foot monkey god statue where I'm sure there's plenty of soul to go around if you burn the right incense.
	I'll say, I'll say, all very soulful.
	Well, let's see.
	Mr. Kersey, you have a jolly story here about black Superman.
	He got the axe.
	Well, the only reason we're doing this story, ladies and gentlemen, is because yesterday, the newest $250 million Warner Brothers Superman film was released, and the Superman is portrayed by a white actor.
	But turns out, a couple years ago, there was a push with one of our favorite black intellectuals, Tanizi Coates, to have a black Superman.
	Wall Street Journal reports that the black Superman movie was canceled.
	David Corn Sweat's take on Clark Kent had just debuted in the brand new DC universe.
	The highly anticipated film is making waves at the box office, surpassing projections, which could lead to the movie recouping its budget and then some, so it will be profitable.
	While DCU has its own Superman, another version of the character was scrapped.
	Like I said, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the black Superman movie by writer Tanizi Coates was canceled for being too woke in the eyes of Warner Brothers Discovery CEO David Zazlav after he assumed the studio back in 2022.
	So it was too woke even for David Zazlav, huh?
	It was too woke.
	Yeah, the planned Superman movie.
	It must have been positively insomniac.
	Well, I'll tell you what, the planned Superman movie Reimagining would have focused on a black Superman from Krypton in the civil rights era.
	So you can only imagine how many evil bigots he would have confronted all across the South.
	And then, of course, in the North when de facto versus Dujur segregation, a far greater threat than Lex Luthor, I would assume.
	I guess those dogs would have been in for a surprise when Bill Connor sicked them on him and he just tossed them off.
	Those water hoses would have not been emitting as much pressure per square inch.
	No.
	That's right.
	By the way, those are my favorite monuments in America in Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham.
	I'm not sure if I've ever seen them, but being a son of the great city of Birmingham with deep roots to it, I do love those monuments.
	J.J. Abrams was originally set to produce the Black Superman movie, among other DC ventures.
	While Zazalev killed the project years ago, the new DC report reveals there is still a possibility it could come back.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, the Black Superman movie could still happen in the future under James Gunn and Peter Safran's DC Studios as an Else World project.
	For the report, a long time had passed without updates on the state of the Black Superman movie.
	Again, the guy who now runs the whole DC Studios, James Gunn, has basically said, my vision is what's going to take place.
	So any other projects have to be scrapped, except for Matt Reeves, Batman.
	But anyways, with the report leaving the door open for Black Superman movie to come back under DC Studios, there's a way it could happen.
	Like I said, while David Corn Sweat is a Superman of the shared DCU, the studio now has the Else Worlds label for DC projects that exist outside the canon of Gunn's DC universe.
	Now, Mr. Taylor, I initially understanding this is all very nerdy stuff.
	You dwindle me on all of that.
	The point is, there was a major push to make this happen.
	I do recall when it was announced that this was going to happen.
	Tynesi Coates was given the pen for writing A Black Panther and Captain America story when he was at his zenith of his popularity.
	I guess back in what, 2016, 2017, when he was considered one of the great intellectuals in America.
	Sounds about right.
	Yeah, so he got to write some really cringy, I hate that word, but that's the right way to describe how he retconned Captain America as a bigot.
	And you can only imagine what we would have seen had his film of a black Superman in the civil rights era had come to fruition.
	Well, I guess they wouldn't have said it's a bird, it's a plane.
	They would have said, it's a bat, it's a plane, if it were a black Superman.
	Hey, who's that brother in the sky coming out to look for you?
	That's right.
	Yes.
	Whale Mr. Kersey, moving on to Australia.
	Australians were left shocked by footage of thousands of Muslims surrounding St. Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne during an Islamic parade.
	They surround the main cathedral in Melbourne.
	The crowds gathered in the city center to observe Ashura.
	That's a day of mourning, during which Shia Muslims commemorate the death of Imam Husayn.
	Well, photos and videos of the parade show a huge crowd of black-clad mourners praying in the park before heading along the parade route, many with Palestinian flags, waving banners, and moving in unison while singing and chanting.
	Yes, this is a remarkable photograph.
	There they are, bums in the air, praying as far as the eye can see in a public park.
	Then they hop up and they start marching all the way to a cathedral.
	Isn't that great?
	One video taken from a car shows crowds surrounding the cathedral, chanting in what they call a foreign language.
	I'd bet you any amount of money, it's Arabic.
	And there is this chanting played from a loudspeaker.
	Commenters noted that a similar march by other groups would soon be shut down.
	Can you imagine a march of Christians encircling the Tarnate Mosque?
	I don't know what that is, but that must be Melbourne's Central Mosque.
	The police would be all over it, said one person.
	Now, this is quite charming.
	Labor MP Julian Hill, who is an open homosexual and who would therefore face the death penalty in several countries where Ashura, this festival is observed, such as Iran, he addressed a crowd of Muslims for Ashura that very day.
	He said, Shia Muslims remember the martyrdom of Imam Hussein.
	I don't.
	A story that echoes down the centuries.
	And this Assistant Minister for Citizenship, Customs, and Multicultural Affairs says, this got an openly gay man having multicultural affairs, I guess.
	That's what he wrote on public social media.
	He says, Australians are the most diverse people, and we are strengthened when we understand more about each other's beliefs and heritage.
	You don't have to be Muslim to reflect and learn from stories of sacrifice, justice, and freedom from tyranny.
	Apparently, that is the story of the death of the Imam Hussein.
	Well, I didn't check up on that, but I somehow suspect it doesn't have much to do with what we would consider justice and freedom from tyranny.
	But there you go.
	Thousands, thousands of these Muslims surrounding the Catholic.
	I mean, and the videos are just striking.
	It must have been thousands of them.
	What a just open declaration of invasion.
	And if this was either on Saturday or Sunday, I couldn't figure out which day it was, but imagine if it were on Sunday.
	What an intimidating thing to anybody who wanted to worship at the cathedral.
	Even if it were on Saturday, the idea of surrounding the church and chanting these Islamic songs, this to me is just outrageous.
	It's watching your intimidation.
	Australia is a country that I believe, I just read a horrifying stat, that 52% of the residents in Australia are first or second generation individuals now.
	The amount of change is almost on par with what we've seen in Canada.
	Over half, over half of the people living in Australia are first or second generation immigrants?
	Again, I saw that on Twitter.
	It's something I want to investigate before we talk because there's a very good piece that we're going to hold until next week by the former editor of American Conservative, Helen Andrews, who's taken a very, very deep look at Australia recently in regards to what we're seeing.
	Especially the story you just read, Mr. Taylor.
	If you're wrong, Mr. Kersey, one of our on-the-ball listeners will let us know.
	And on-the-ball listeners, we really do like to know, especially if we have made a mistake.
	Our time is up.
	And as always, we thank you, our listeners, for spending this time with us.
	It is a joy.
	It is an honor.
	And we look forward to speaking with you next week.

▲