Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Live Seaters for the 26th of July 2024 and today I'm joined by Carl and Stelios.
Hello.
And today we're going to be talking about France being bad, Kamala's past getting scrubbed and Venezuela's elections.
Is it more socialism, Stelios?
Yes.
Okay.
Well, there we go.
Well, there we go, yeah.
That's simple enough.
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But anyway.
Let's talk about France, shall we?
If we have to.
So, about every four years, athletes from every country in the world compete to push the boundaries of what is possible.
That is, of course, the Olympics.
And that is taking place this year in Paris.
And normally a host nation uses the opportunity to actually show off their country, make sure it looks good, right?
You know, we did that in 2012.
We actually kind of made Britain look good, particularly London, and it actually went quite well.
And there is a bit of an issue because the Olympics, as I said, are being held in Paris.
How do you make that look good?
I can't go to it.
No?
No, I don't speak Arabic.
Yeah and as pretty much any reasonable person could have predicted it's gone horribly wrong for France and instead it's pushed the boundaries of how much it can embarrass the French nation which you know there have been many attempts and this seems to do quite well although there is a small consolation if you're French and you're watching this that we do know that you probably don't like Parisians just as much as we do right so yeah we'll give you a little bit of a sort of caveat there But they elected a new government.
Isn't that supposed to be efficient and productive?
What do you mean?
And on top of things?
The socialist, openly Marxist political party that won despite not winning the popular vote, yes.
We'll be getting on to that, don't worry.
Here is the lighting of the torch and here we have a man and what I can only say a demon, I would say.
This woman.
The communists have been in charge for five minutes and this is what they're doing.
An agent of Satan is helping light the torch.
Amazing.
I mean, this helps your country look good, doesn't it?
What an embarrassment.
The prophecy of this segment has already been fulfilled.
We're not even started yet.
I'm already embarrassed for France that this is how they've done it.
Speaking of embarrassment, they've had to resort to some unusual things.
This is unprecedented.
So armoured vehicles, night vision binoculars, Qatar lends equipment to the French police for Olympics.
So they're having to appeal to the Islamic nation of Qatar to help them with policing.
And I have a little theory here.
Go on.
One, that there's a mutual benefit here, sort of in a more practical sense, that Qatar gets to show off its military.
Whilst, you know, on the international stage, stealing a bit of the glory of the Olympic spotlight, as well as France gets a little bit of money on the side for this benefit, as well as France also gets the sort of get out of jail for free card of, hey, we've got Muslims policing this, so it's not racism from the French if we do things to police our Muslim communities, because we have Muslim security.
Do you think there's a kind of hierarchy in the Muslim world?
Where the oil-rich, unbelievably prosperous, bountiful, well-educated Qataris look down on the sort of North Africans who have moved to France.
I would not be surprised in the slightest.
I wouldn't be surprised either.
Because everyone knows the sort of infighting in the Islamic world.
Oh yeah.
It's not exactly minuscule, is it?
Yeah, there's lots of ethnic jostling for prestige.
And so I just find it interesting that it's Qataris who are doing it, rather than, I mean, But it is an admission of weakness.
It is, yes.
And you can see they've got their vehicles there, very obvious vehicles that are not French.
Oh, I don't know why that's zooming in.
Here we go.
There they are arriving, some forces, and they've done some PR shots, which just looks embarrassing for France.
It's like they can't even police their own events.
They can't.
Well, we'll see that actually it's still not enough.
So, as I suggested... Just go back a second.
Brigadier General Nawaf Majid al-Ali, commander of the Qatari security forces, to secure Paris Olympics.
I mean, that sentence.
Imagine just saying that 200 years ago.
Napoleon being like, we're going to do what?
Why would we have Arabs?
Yeah, France known for, at one point in history, having the greatest army on earth.
The greatest land power on earth has been reduced to, please Qataris, come and police the Muslim immigrants to our country.
I'm willing to bet that there will be much better policing.
I'm not saying that the Qataris are going to be bad at policing.
They're not going to be soft, that's for sure.
Well again, if there is this kind of hierarchy of different groups in the Arab world, Well, yeah, they might be like, no, we'll look down on you.
They might be quite contemptuous of the sort of Moroccans or Algerians.
I don't know, you know.
I've also heard that in some of these places, people just don't contemplate stealing.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I'll leave that for another time.
There is law and order in Arabia, that's true.
Moving on, there has been monetary exchanges leading up to this, and Qatar has pledged 10 billion euros.
So they've paid for the privilege?
It seems like there's something going on here.
Because I would have expected the French having to pay the Qataris to do this.
Well, they're showcasing it.
It's sort of a show of strength for Qatar, isn't it?
That they have this prestige.
And there's been a large investment leading up to this.
This was within the sort of purview of when they were planning for the Olympics.
And so it seems related that the security comes along with investment in the country as well.
And obviously this is very embarrassing, and of course there is also an unprecedented level of security at this Olympics, more so than any other.
So there are 45 police, 10,000 soldiers, 2,000 private security agents, and there'll be snipers on rooftops and drones watching from the air.
God, diversity is such a strength, isn't it?
I know, it's wonderful, isn't it?
So, before the Olympics even started, it already wasn't looking good for France because of this.
So, there was a man who stabbed a French soldier ahead of the Olympics, and this man who stabbed the soldier was taken to a psychiatric hospital.
This is harkening back to Stelios' segment from yesterday.
about how these knives just seem to have all of these psychiatric problems.
Potential mental illness.
It does mirror very closely what happened in England just a couple of days ago.
It did, yeah.
It's almost like deliberate attacks on our military personnel in the West.
But the treatment of these people as being, they have somehow psychiatric problems and not authentically terrorists and knowing what they're going to do.
Who can guess where this gentleman with this psychiatric problem is from?
I'm going to guess Algeria?
Nope.
Nope.
Right continent.
I don't know.
I think south of the Sahara.
I mean, it's a big continent.
It is, yeah.
So, I'm not making this up, 40-year-old Christian Ngondo, who was born in the Congo.
So, yeah.
What they're saying is these people are congenitally mentally ill, and this is actually a real problem that the West has, is to try and make cultural differences, a therapeutic problem to bring them in line with the way that we view the world and not understanding that they can have an authentic belief system that lies outside of the sort of Western materialist paradigm under which they take what are to them rational actions.
We should be punishing this person as a criminal, not treating him as someone who is mentally deficient.
100% agree, yeah.
But it's not just this.
There was also, while I was preparing this segment, another attack which wounded a police officer in Paris from just a knife man.
We don't know any details of who they were yet, but one can only guess, based on prior evidence, about the background of this supposed gentleman.
I'm sure his name was Jacques.
Yeah.
He had a nice French name I'm sure.
But sort of turning to even darker things here, Australian woman on holiday in Paris raped by five African type individuals and she actually had to flee to a kebab shop where one of the attackers, one of the Africans, followed her in there and while she was sat there trying to seek refuge he came over and like patted her on the back.
Jesus.
And eventually the kebab shop owners said, is that the guy?
And they basically chased him off.
Well, I mean, good, but God, what's, what's his name?
He went to Africa and was interviewing those guys about rape.
And they were just like, well, you know, I don't want to catch a disease.
I don't want to get him pregnant.
So yeah, but what about her?
They don't talk about them like they have any feelings whatsoever about any consideration to the other person.
Yeah.
It's just, this is vile.
Yeah well it seems to be part of a running trend because 77% of rape cases on the Paris streets are committed by foreigners in 2023 and I imagine that's probably only going up not down in 2024.
So you've invited these people into your country, they're doing this to not only the natives but also the tourists as well and it's got to such a point that Some French women are actually creating videos for tourists, instructing them about how to be safe in Paris because it's not safe.
And she's saying, OK, look, lots of these sexual assaults are happening to people in Paris, women, and they're committed by foreigners, and you need to be careful.
She's basically saying, this is the type of person you need to watch out for.
Here are some situations where these sorts of things happen.
And the fact that this is even necessary in the first place, that you have to warn foreign tourists that, listen, just because you're a tourist doesn't mean you won't be targeted, is horrifying.
This shouldn't happen in a European country and it never used to be necessary.
It was only until recently, until we imported the third world, that we started getting this sort of thing.
So, I imagine the French left are going to point to this being responsible, that there are NGOs claiming that the French police are cracking down on prostitutes ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games.
Obviously, having lots of prostitutes about doesn't make your city look good.
Is this the...?
The sex criminal version of if only they had more play parks and youth centres.
It is, I think.
If only there were more prostitutes in Paris then the migrants wouldn't have to rape people.
I'm calling it now.
They're going to come out and say this series of assaults is because of this and not because of the culture that they brought over.
So some of the football matches for the Olympics started earlier.
I think they always do this because there are a lot of rounds to get through a lot of countries.
And so there were actually some matches going on before the opening ceremony and there was this one, Argentina versus Morocco, and lots of the Moroccan fans ran onto the pitch and started throwing firecrackers at the Argentinians.
And although, you know, as a Brit I'm not the biggest fan of Argentinians and, you know, I still don't think that this is a particularly good thing to happen.
And it seems like a failure of all of the security, you can see them there, to keep them away from the pitch because they're running on, they're disrupting the match.
They're attacking the players.
Yeah, I think there's a picture somewhere, there we go, of one of the security personnel dragging away a Moroccan nerd by the looks of it.
Why are these people here?
I know, yeah.
Why are they on the pitch?
You can see a bunch of people just wandering about.
So yes, even with all of the security, it's still not enough.
I'm surprised they're able to get firecrackers into the stadium.
Normally football matches are pretty hot on this sort of thing, and so it is a failure.
And perhaps more concerning is this, basically Islamist mobs just walking around hunting for Jewish people.
Of course, these are not the native French, but cultural enrichers.
Here they are, sort of parading around.
This is probably why they have the Qataris in.
In the first place, they saw this coming, right?
There are going to be people trying to attack Israelis because of the Israel-Palestine thing.
Not a problem for Western countries.
Well, it's not just Israelis.
They're going to be attacking Jews because of the Israel-Palestine thing.
Well, that too, as well, yes.
So that is all going on.
That is why there is an increase in policing and it doesn't look good.
So when you think of Paris, you think, OK, well, maybe around the Olympic areas, you might want to stay clear of those.
Things are not looking good there.
There's trouble, Islamists, you know, violence, firecrackers, football, hooligans, all of that.
Rapists!
That too, yeah.
So you might think, oh, well, at least Paris, you know, it looks like this.
It's beautiful.
It's the city of love, isn't it?
That's a great photo.
It is.
I'm not entirely sure whether it's genuine or not, but this is what people imagine when they think of Paris, isn't it?
It is called the City of Lights for a reason, because at night time it's quite beautiful.
It can be, at least.
But the reality is there are parades of leftists, Antifa, being led by... A drag queen?
A drag queen.
I don't know.
Maybe any number of degeneracies.
Just walking around the streets of Paris calling about fascists not being welcome in Paris.
I hope everyone who voted for the opponents of Le Pen are just so pleased with themselves they kept her out.
I mean, everything's just going so well.
I know, it's almost like there was a reason that people voted for them, isn't it?
But also, you can expect things like this.
So this is Paris, this isn't necessarily close to the Olympics but it's still posted in July time.
It's not necessarily relevant but one thing you can certainly notice about this is that you don't see many French people No, also to London.
It looks like a slum.
It does, yeah.
I mean, this could have been a beautiful street, it could have been a nice place, but it's beginning to look a bit like, you know there's parts in South Africa and Johannesburg where it once looked prosperous, but now you see rubbish all over the floor and everything's run down, it's overcrowded.
Because the people just don't take care of the area.
Yeah.
They don't have to throw the rubbish on the floor, they just don't care.
It's a choice, isn't it?
And there's actually a syndrome known as Paris Syndrome, and I'm going to read a little bit about this because it's got its own Wikipedia page, and I think it's quite funny.
Paris Syndrome is a cluster of psychiatric symptoms exhibited by some individuals when visiting Paris that can be viewed as a severe form of culture shock.
The syndrome is characterized by symptoms such as acute delusional states, hallucinations, feeling of persecution, Well, derealization, depersonalization, anxiety as well as psychosomatic manifestations such as dizziness, tachycardia, sweating and most notably, but also others, such as vomiting.
So going to Paris can be so unnerving it makes you vomit.
Well look, the syndrome is particularly noted amongst Japanese tourists.
I know, yeah.
Which is weird, because I guess they've got this amazing view of what Paris should be like.
That's exactly it.
They've got a very romanticised view, and then they turn up and it's dirty and unclean, and we know that the Japanese love cleanliness.
Salute them for that, right?
However, there was something that I would like to address that is being attributed to France that wasn't actually French.
It is this.
The Australians on the way to France had their van broken into in Brussels in Belgium.
Welcome to Europe.
Yes.
Brussels is hardly much better than Paris.
It's not.
It's probably worse to be honest.
I went through Belgium recently and it was kind of, everything about it was negative.
The roads were like they hadn't paved them since World War One, like they were still mortar shells.
It rained the whole time, both there and back, and there was horrendous traffic jams.
Yeah, massive degrees of criminality.
Like, anyway.
They did find some of their stuff at the end, but just as a bit of a consolation here, so the French don't feel like I'm hating on you too much.
I actually quite like France, but I will hate on Belgium.
I've got no problems against that.
So some more stuff that happened before the ceremony even opened.
There has been an arson attack on many of the train networks leading into Paris.
This is purportedly a very coordinated attack that's targeted lots of different areas.
And I'm going to read a direct quote here from the article.
The state-owned railway operator said arsonists had targeted installations along the lines connecting Paris with cities such as Lille in the north, Bordeaux in the west, and Strasbourg in the east.
And these will be disrupted until they're repaired, which is estimated to be at the end of the weekend.
So it's going to interfere with people actually getting in to view the opening ceremony.
And I think the rail line said one in four trains are cancelled because of this, which is quite a disruption when it's going to be particularly busy.
So supposedly they targeted multiple different places, so it does seem to be coordinated.
Yeah, some sort of coordinated, organized thing that I don't think is in the purview of, say, Islamists, this level of coordination.
Or at least we've not seen it in the West.
Who knows who's done it, but someone has.
There are suspicions that it might be, well actually before I get onto that I'll just show you the situations in the train stations.
It's not looking good.
I bet it's a nightmare.
Yeah, it's ruined lots of people's plans, obviously.
But there are suspicions that it could be Russians because here we have a Russian reality TV chef who's been accused of being a spy.
who's been sent there to sabotage the Paris Olympics.
But he was found out because he was talking about it while he was really drunk, which sounds like satire.
Average Russian.
Yeah, the only foil to Russian spies is alcohol.
But I'd be quite surprised if they relied on someone with a bit of face recognition, right?
Someone who dresses like that isn't exactly subtle.
He's got a low profile.
Yeah.
And also, you know, he's been on TV.
And although I don't think many French people watch Russian reality TV.
It's a strange choice.
He's above suspicion.
Well, apparently not, actually.
Stelios.
Yeah, but because he said it.
Yeah.
But to be fair, apparently the French police have searched where he was staying and they have found connections to the FSB, which is the Russian Secret Service.
However, that doesn't necessarily mean he's the person behind the train attacks.
He could be there for any number of reasons.
He could also just- I'm not inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt, though.
No, I mean, we just don't know yet because it's going on at the minute.
So, I might have accidentally snuck in a little meme.
Here it is.
This summarises the sort of sentiment I think the French should be feeling.
Fascism is over!
You kept out the fascists, but this is what your capital looks like at the minute.
You've got rats, you've got the Palestinian flag flying, you've got ethnic minorities with bloodied machetes and tents everywhere.
Tent markets in flames, bravo.
Obviously what this is referencing is the alliance between Macron, the centrists, and the left to keep the far right, as they call it, not really far right, they've got socialist policies if anything, economic policies, and they pulled a bunch of candidates out in a bid to stop National Rally, which is basically a sort of Electoral gerrymandering, I suppose, is not really the correct word.
It's more tactics.
They can do this legally.
So it is legal, however, it gets a result whereby, you can see here, here's the election result.
So National Rally got 37.1% of the vote, which is the highest out of any, but they had You know, the third least number of seats compared to people who had a lower vote share because they tactically coordinated and kept them out in specific seats.
And so the solution to many of these problems was there.
It was, you know, getting rid of the people from your country that were causing all the problems.
However, through a coordinated effort between Macron and the supposed centrists, you should read left-wingers, and the even further left-wingers, the New Popular Front, That hasn't happened, and therefore what we're going to see is this problem only continue, and probably more embarrassments.
I'm personally predicting that there is going to be some sort of violent unrest in France because of what has been done to the country.
And yes, if you're there for the Olympics, be careful.
And if you are French, and particularly if you're living in Paris, please be careful.
Russian points out it was Ross Kemp speaking to those African chaps.
Thank you, Russian.
Ramshackalotta says, in 2008 on a uni trip to Paris, a group of girls were followed back to our hostel by Enrichers.
The girls locked themselves in their room and the Enrichers hospitalized some male students.
Amazing.
Bald Eagle says, I'm so glad the barbarians are showing they're in control of Paris.
Keep showing the incompetence of security since they brought barbarians to police the barbarians.
What could go wrong?
Yeah, I know at some point they're going to realize the native French are just not necessary in any of this.
Caleb says, I'm suddenly for police militarization.
And Russian again says, where I go, I must also rape Congolese soldier yesterday.
And will the security the French brought in leave the Olympics when they are done?
I'm sure they will, to be honest.
I doubt the Qataris have got any desire to occupy.
It'd be a bit of an international upset if they just occupied Paris, wouldn't it?
Well, why would you want to?
Well, it's already occupied anyway.
What are you getting here for your money?
It costs money to occupy a country.
Anyway, let's talk about how Kamala Harris's stupid past is being scrubbed because they've anointed her the new saviour of the Democrat Party and actually she was a known quantity and everyone's like, wait, she's terrible, why are we choosing her?
They're like, aha, well, too bad.
I love democracy.
We're doing it literally to defend our democracy.
And that's the thing, at least the French are getting what they voted for, right?
Well, they're not.
They're not getting the same thing.
Well, they're getting communism, you know.
Well, they didn't even vote for that.
They did.
They voted for the left-wing coalition.
Well, some people did.
Enough to make the unformed government did it.
And so, you know, that's the way democracy works.
I like it when people get what they vote for.
And so anyway, people don't get to vote for Kamala Harris.
So now you've just got to be like, right, okay, why do we have Kamala Harris?
And it's like, because it's her time.
That's why.
Do you not remember the Hillary Clinton messaging?
They haven't had a woman of color in office and it's so important to America that she be the next president.
That is interestingly the place where we're going to begin, right?
Because a lot of people are like, okay but Kamala Harris has got lots and lots of weaknesses and so there's been a mad struggle over the past couple of days by the media, by the politicians, to try and cover up the fact that she has a terrible record and everyone hates her.
Beginning with Kevin McCarthy saying, oh well we should stop calling Harris a DEI hire.
So McCarthy is a California Republican.
He was ousted from his seat by the Ultra-MAGA wing, as the Independent called them.
Based.
That's so great.
Ultra-MAGA.
Right?
And he was like, yes, like every... What's the bloody...
What's the, I can't remember, the National Review Republicans, right?
It's like, yes, I'm a Republican, which is why I'm always in defense of the Democrats, and I love everything the Democrats do, and I hate the MAGA types.
I'm a real Republican.
Kevin McCarthy's like, well, you know, I don't like DEI either, guys.
Literally says, look, I disagree with DEI, but she's the vice president of the United States.
She's a former senator.
These congressmen are saying it.
They're wrong in their own instincts, like Kevin.
She literally was a DEI selection.
Right.
Joe Biden knew, for a start, Kamala Harris, of course, has lots of different identity categories that are relevant to the woke coalition.
And so Joe Biden began with, I'm going to choose a woman.
I say, OK, Kamala, sir.
And then everyone's like, just a woman, Joe.
And he was like, oh.
Good point.
A black woman.
Ah, well we've got four black women that you can be considering as your running mate.
I remember in, what was it, 2012 where Mitt Romney said he had binders full of women and that was a scandal.
Now Joe Biden's just openly saying it and it's fine.
Yeah, Joe Biden's got binders of women, it's fine.
I mean he just said he's pledged when he was choosing his running mate.
In 2020, he was like, you know, I'm going to choose a woman.
And so people were like, it's got to be a black woman, right, Joe?
It's got to be a black woman.
And he was like, yeah, good point.
I mean, God, look at them with the bloody masks.
Doesn't that just look like a bizarre episode in history now?
It does, yeah.
But yeah, no, it's got to be a black woman.
And so like hundreds of black women who are leaders and activists within the Democrat Party signed open letters calling on Joe Biden to select a black woman as his running mate.
46% of Democrats said it was, quote, important for Biden to choose a, quote, candidate of color as his running mate.
So right, okay, we can see where they're going with this.
And the New York Times was like, right, okay, how was Harris chosen?
Well, according to Harry Reid, the former Senate Majority Leader, race had been essential to Mr Biden's decision.
So, gender was essential, and a race was essential.
It wouldn't have been someone who didn't fulfill these categories.
Quote, I think he came to the conclusion that he should pick a black woman, said Mr. Reid.
There are most loyal voters, and I think the black women of America deserve the black vice-presidential candidates.
Okay, so, obviously DEI higher.
And then, once he had chosen Harris, oh, this writes black women into history.
Says, long-time Democrat, political operative, Minyon Moore.
As if there hasn't been, there's been no attempt at all to do that.
I mean, that's not been going on for years.
I mean, she was choking back tears as she spoke in a television interview with NBC News, moments after the news broke.
He has decided to write us into history.
My nieces will see this in generations to come.
Childless cat lady has to lean on her nieces.
It's fun because they want all the positives from the marketing to these communities, but when it comes to suffering the consequences and the costs, don't want that.
Yeah, but what I find really funny about this, right, is they all think they're pressuring Biden.
But Biden is as radically left-wing as anyone in the Democrat Party anyway.
So he was like, oh, I didn't feel any pressure.
I was going to do that.
I was going to hire a woman, and then I realized it'd have to be a black woman.
And he says, look, it's, you know, 51% of the country are women.
As the old expression goes, women hold up half the sky.
I want the party to represent them, look like the country.
It's like, yeah, he was always on board with hiring a black woman.
He'd already think, in his mind, he was like, you know, I'm going to get a black woman as my VP.
Doesn't matter which one.
I'll just find one.
I've got four in my binders to choose from.
It's totally fine.
D.I.
Hire.
He wasn't like Kamala Harris has an amazing record.
It has to be Kamala.
It can't be anyone else.
No, it was just someone chosen on identity groups.
So don't even begin with that.
Right.
So the next thing is that just basically trying to cover up that Kamala is essentially a communist, right?
Now you can see here that I had to go to the Wayback Machine to pull up this page on GovTrack.us, which is a website that just catalogues what the politicians actually do with their time in office.
What they actually vote for, what they actually put forward, what they actually accomplish.
And they have, on this, a kind of ideological way of ranking people.
Kamala Harris, because of the things she voted for, was ranked the most liberal of all of the senators.
Every single one?
Every single one.
In 2019, this is.
So she was the most left-wing senator that they had.
Okay, interesting.
And just a quick look at her record, right?
Up until this point, out of the 471 bills that she co-sponsored, only 15% were introduced by a legislator who was also not a Democrat.
So, highly partisan.
85% partisanship on this.
She held the fewest committee positions with zero committees and subcommittees.
She was the third most absent.
She missed 62% of the votes.
Can you imagine if you didn't turn up for your job 62% of the time?
I find this really funny.
And it shows a lot about leftists because they're talking about equal status.
They hate meritocracy.
They're constantly talking about DI stuff.
But when she's called a DI hire, she really doesn't like it.
But she has no problem with others being DI hires.
No, I mean, and again, just going through, she got bipartisan co-sponsors on the third fewest bills compared to the other Senate Democrats.
Eight of her 54 bills had a co-sponsor from a Republican Party.
Okay, so she's just incredibly partisan.
She introduced one bill that became law.
Don't know what it is?
The St.
Francis Dam Disaster National Memorial Act.
So basically in 1928, A dam collapsed in San Francisco, killing like 450 people, and she put forward a bill to get a memorial built.
So she's like one of the least productive senators ever, which, if that matters to you, is a big problem.
Yeah, yeah, if that matters to you.
Didn't matter to Joe Biden because she was also a black woman, so you know.
But yeah, no, she literally did nothing.
She's got nothing to her name, right?
And when people are like, hang on a second, aren't you like the most left-wing senator in the country?
You're very different in the policies that you've supported in the past.
You're considered the most liberal United States senator.
Somebody said that, and it actually was Mike Pence on the debate stage.
Basically, as you can see with her stupid joke and grin, what she's saying is, you know, was that Mike Pence that said that?
No, that was GovTrack.
And then she just gawks, being like, yeah, okay, I am basically a communist.
Because she is basically a communist.
But anyway, for some reason GovTrack deleted that 2019 page.
Funny that, isn't it?
Why would they do that?
Why does she not own it?
I don't know.
Because she absolutely goes out and says every other time that she is basically a communist.
I mean, like, again, Chris Rufo put this up.
I don't know.
Samson, can people hear this?
Or is it just we can't hear this?
It has to be about a goal of saying everybody should end up in the same place.
And since we didn't start in the same place, some folks might need more equitable distribution.
Giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality, but we also need to fight for equity, understanding not everyone starts out at the same place.
So there's a big difference between equality and equity.
Equality suggests often everybody should get the same thing.
Well, that often assumes everybody started out in the same place.
This is just a compilation of her saying exactly that same thing.
Yeah.
It's just communism.
Yeah, and actually she ends up in the same position as well because she uses equity as a means for equality of outcome.
Yes.
Which is basically, you know, disastrous.
Yeah, but that's communism.
Everyone has to have the same.
So yeah, but I don't want the same as everyone else.
I want the things I want.
So she is the most left wing that Joe Biden could have chosen, and he chose her because she was a black woman.
OK, and so let's OK, well, what did she do in her time as vice president?
Right.
She must have some accomplishments to her name as vice president.
And so people like, well, hang on.
Didn't Joe Biden make her the border czar?
In March of 2021, and the media were like, no, that's not what happened.
It's like, no, that's exactly what happened.
I remember it happening.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because there was a massive, so Joe Biden came in and he started unsigning all of Trump's executive orders, issuing his own executive orders, counter, say, countermanding everything Trump had done.
And one of those was the border wall and extra border security.
Joe Biden was like, get rid of that.
Within a year, There was obviously a massive crisis at the southern border.
The number of people was just spiking to literally hundreds of thousands a month who were encountered coming across.
We don't know how many non-encountered people went across, but massive problems.
So Joe Biden was like, right, I do have to do something about this.
Oh, I'm glad I've got Kamala Harris, the most competent senator that has been a senator in the history of the United States.
And we can make her the person in charge of the border.
Now, the title of Border Czar is informal, right?
It is to designate someone who is just in charge of a thing.
A person with the executive authority to use that thing.
And, I mean, Wikipedia, again, just, you know, they actually call her, as you can see here, The Borders Are.
Kamala Harris, 2021 to 2024.
appointed by President Joe Biden.
Again, it's an informal designation that simply means the person tasked with dealing with the southern border.
And she was terrible at it, as you can imagine, right?
Literally, five months later, Marco Rubio puts forward this, writing to Joe Biden saying, look, she's done a terrible job.
She has not done anything to stem the flow.
And he calls her the border czar in this.
Because it's just the name, the term they used to describe the person in charge of the security of the southern border.
I don't know whether you remember, but there was an interview with Kamala Harris, where they asked her, well, have you been to the southern border?
She didn't, yeah.
And she never went, even though she was trying to make out like she had.
She hadn't gone to the southern border.
And within only a few months, Rubio's just like, look, she's done nothing, because hundreds of thousands, millions had crossed.
And so the liberal media was using it as well.
I mean Axios here, you can see that this is part of the scrubbing.
This article has been updated to clarify to know that Axios was among the news outlets that incorrectly labeled Harris a border czar back in 2021.
It wasn't incorrect.
You will use the term because it's just a casual term to designate the person in charge of a particular thing, which she was put in charge of.
This is disgraceful.
And then they're all out there claiming now, well, we never called it that.
Again, we'll play this nice compilation that the Republicans are putting around because it's so true.
Vice President Harris was not a border czar.
Meantime, Vice President and border czar Kamala Harris facing some backlash.
What he said about Harris and immigration was not true.
She was never appointed border czar.
And this will be her first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border region since she was appointed as the border czar by President Biden.
People are going to have to counter the misinformation.
You already hear folks talking about the Border Czar.
She wasn't the Border Czar.
President Biden tapped Kamala Harris, Vice President Kamala Harris, to be the Border Czar.
Now she wasn't the Border Czar.
That's what Republicans labeled her.
They were very critical of Kamala Harris, especially in her role as Border Czar.
Now what she's up against is folks lying about her border record, calling her a Border Czar.
Kamala Harris, who was appointed as the Border Czar.
We can keep going.
It goes on and on and on.
You see the pattern.
Yeah, exactly.
The term, again, was just an informal term that they all used to describe her.
And then Trump, the other day, tweeted on Truth Social, oh, she was terrible as the borders on that.
Oh, she was never the borders out.
It's like, yes, she was.
It's just an informal term.
You're trying to hide behind semantics.
It's just bold-faced lying, isn't it?
I mean, this is some of the most explicit lying because it's within people's living memory.
It wasn't that long ago.
It's not even just living memory, it's recent political memory.
It's three years ago.
Yeah, but it's the past and they want to be unburdened.
That's a good point.
And the thing is, it's not like she did anything for the border anyway.
She did nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
It was just a complete catastrophe.
That's why she was bad at it, though.
She did nothing.
Yeah, but it seems to be that's why she's bad at everything.
But it was a complete catastrophe, right?
And so the third thing they're talking about, which is the fourth thing, is that, well, she did bail out a bunch of criminals.
And so, you know, Trump was like, well, she bailed out criminals.
And they were like, no, she didn't.
Yes, she did.
She supported the 2020 Minnesota Bail Fund, which literally bailed out a bunch of the people who were rampaging and committing crimes during the Summer of Love, a specifically racial initiative.
I mean, give some examples here.
Republican Senator Tom Emmer said, Sorry, Congressman.
One convict she sprung from prison killed a man after Kamala helped release him.
Yeah, that guy's name was Sean Michael Tillman, right?
So in 2021, he was charged with gross misdemeanor indecent exposure.
So he had been exposing himself to people.
And so they posted 2000 bail on his behalf.
And then not long after, he shot someone.
So now he's in jail without parole.
That also happened to someone else.
George Howard was in on a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge in August 2021.
He was bailed.
Then later that month, he fatally shot a man in a road rage incident.
He's now in jail.
It's like, God, how is it, you know, like, how is it you can constantly be this bad?
And so here she is, Virtue Signing, if you're able, chip in now to the Freedom Fund, help post bail.
This tweet's still up, of course.
And the media's like, she didn't do that.
She didn't do that.
It's like, yeah, no, she did.
She absolutely did.
It's still up.
You can still donate to it if you want.
And they're like, yeah, no, no, no, that's fake news.
She didn't donate.
That's even worse!
It's not correct that Harris has donated to our organisation.
She just tweeted about it.
So she's cheap as well.
She's not even putting her money where her mouth is.
But she is going to help get this.
It's just preposterous.
And so what we've seen in the past couple of days, and this is why I've just done this, is this complete, absolute...
Like cavalcade, this scramble to try and clean up Kamala's record.
And it's been terrible.
And everyone knows it's been terrible.
I think there's a really interesting thing about the Borders Are thing, because you have lots of high-profile Democrat people, like Chuck Schumer, who is very adamant about immigration as being the solution to the demographic, and Kamala Harris has never expressed any vocal opposition to it.
So there's a really interesting question of why they're trying to disassociate herself with the Borders Are, because you could say that this was precisely what she was There to do.
To just have the border open.
Well, so if that holds water, then it means that the Democrats think that the swing voters are not happy with illegal migration.
It's also kind of even worse.
It's like, no, Kamala Harris is never the borders are.
It's like, OK, well, who's in charge of the southern border then?
Oh, no one.
Biden created a massive migration crisis and put no one in charge of it, of solving it.
It's like, OK, but that's worse.
You know, at least he tried to put someone in charge who herself was terrible.
But at least then, you know, he shows he's taking some responsibility for the circumstance.
Oh no, he didn't do anything.
Don't worry about it.
Kamala Harris was never the board designer.
It was just completely wide open for, you know, whoever millions of people, who knows how many of them are criminals, to come across.
It's just mad, frankly.
And so, like I said, there's been this madcap rush to try and clean up her record.
And it results in, like you said, brazen lies being told in real time by politicians, by the media, by the activists, by the entire sort of Democrat class that's currently just...
In a really unenviable position where they've got a terrible candidate they now have to all pretend to rally behind.
They don't rally behind her.
They just have no choice.
What are they going to do?
Where are they going to go?
They're going to be like, yeah, no, I think I might vote for Trump this time.
No, of course not.
They're stuck.
They're stuck with Kamala Harris.
I'm not very envious of that myself.
But yeah, it's just embarrassing to watch.
And if you think this is bad now, and this is bad, man, it's going to be way worse in like two or three months time.
Oh, we've got some comments here.
Yeah, Buka says, Border Tsar in Russian, it is Emperor of Ukraine.
Don't even inform Zelensky.
Paul Neagle says, I think there's another reason why they're trying to scrub the term Border Tsar.
Remember what happened to the last person that had the Tsar title?
Russia remembers.
No, this is a common thing.
It just, again, it just designates someone who is in charge of a thing and has executive power.
We have it in the civil service in the UK.
Exactly.
It's not a controversial term.
And the reason I want to scrub it is because she did a bloody terrible job.
Talking about a terrible job, Stelios.
Let's hear about Venezuela.
Right.
So this Sunday, July 28, Venezuela is heading for presidential elections.
And the sitting president is Nicolás Maduro.
He is the president of Venezuela for 12 years.
And in these 12 years, there has been a massive migratory flow from Venezuela to presumably the US.
Around 7 million Venezuelans have left.
Some people are saying 7.5s, around 8.
I'm just giving a conservative estimation.
Bad policies, socialist policies are creating humanitarian crises and humanitarian crises are generating migration flows to other non-socialist countries.
And this is not new for Venezuela?
Not at all.
As far back as I can remember they've basically been a communist country.
Yeah, well, they used to be the wealthiest country in all of South America because of their oil wealth, and they sort of recklessly spent money on welfare that they couldn't afford to continue paying because the oil money slowly dried up and the welfare got out of hand, which is a story true of most countries.
And they've squandered that to now be one of the poorest countries in South America from being one of the richest due to their natural resources.
So they've obviously had a very strong political fumble here.
Yes, and according to some sources they have even larger oil reserves than Saudi Arabia, and also the whole country is based just on oil.
As I understand it, the communists took over the oil industry and inserted into it party loyalists who really screwed up the production of oil, and so the actual efficacy of the industry itself is the problem.
In a nutshell, communism doesn't work.
So people are interested in this election, although admittedly a bit pessimistic.
Are they taking any advice from Brazil or Argentina?
You will see.
You have anticipated something because Maduro is talking about the far right and about Millet.
Oh, okay.
Who's going to be the Venezuelan Bolsonaro?
I'm up for it.
Okay, so they're saying basically that this is an election that if Maduro loses, Venezuela most probably will change orientation in foreign affairs, maybe something will be done about poverty, and maybe something will be done about the Such a condemnation of their socialist policies, isn't it?
I haven't condemned socialist policies enough.
You can never do that enough.
Maduro loses, maybe something will be done about poverty.
I mean, that's his base.
Right, so what happened was interesting because there were two key opposition figures that were banned, that were incredibly popular and were banned.
We will talk about them, but we will see about who is running against Nicolas Maduro.
We are talking about an ex-diplomat called Edmundo Gonzalez, who is confident he can beat Maduro.
Here is his face.
People are, generally speaking, saying good things about him and that he has A good disposition and something that to some philosophically minded people is going to sound nice.
He wasn't particularly ambitious with respect to holding power, so it's more like a call of duty for him and that may be something good.
So he's not a communist?
Yeah, so we don't know much about him.
Most people up until days ago didn't know, I mean months ago, didn't know that much about him.
He's a 74 year old retired diplomat.
He was the diplomat of Venezuela in Algeria in 1991 to 1993 and also the diplomat in Argentina between 1998 and 2002.
He is considered to be a critic of Maduro but a sort of conciliatory character.
Well, he's a diplomat.
Yes.
And anyway, he is raising issues of corruption, poverty, and the human rights violations that take place.
It's just like covering your eyes and throwing a dart at a wall.
Yeah, I've hit corruption, I've hit poverty, I've hit human rights abuses.
Yeah, obviously.
It's bloody Venezuelan regime.
Yes.
So we have some polls here.
Obviously, every poll should be taken with a pinch of salt.
And also there are some reasons to be skeptical about the processes that will take place.
So the polls indicate that basically he is ahead of Maduro by a long margin.
Jesus!
So that is pretty resounding.
That's like North Korean election level predictions there, isn't it?
Yeah, but I think they're in favor of him.
Yeah, yeah, the blue one's him.
Yeah, so obviously now you can guess what is going on.
This is sort of Bukaley levels of approval.
Yeah, close to them.
They need to pump those numbers up a bit.
I know that there is some... How can I talk about this when this is going out on certain platforms?
I know Venezuela is known for having problems with election integrity and there have been accusations in the past, I don't know the truth of them, that certain candidates, mainly left-wing ones, have been paying people to vote certain ways.
I don't know, but... I mean, that's literally all of left-wing political strategy.
It is, really, yeah.
Don't have to be so euphemistic about it.
They're pretty open.
Yeah, so we can have this playing without sound here.
Let me eliminate sound with extreme prejudice.
Yes, and they're saying basically that, from France 24, that uncertainty is overshadowing Venezuela's presidential vote on Sunday, with many fearful that incumbent Nicolas Maduro will try to steal it from the opposition candidate who is outshining him in the polls.
Now, you have also the supporters of Maduro who are saying that this is the evil US imperialists who are interfering.
With the polls and all of that is a lie that you shouldn't believe so you have the two different sides.
People US imperialists who got this great sea of people to come out here and speak.
Yes.
Here we see Machado who is one of the very popular politicians in Venezuela who was banned from running and we will see here that she was a prominent figure Who is not in the ballot due to allegations of not declaring some assets.
She is saying that these allegations are illegitimate and basically baseless.
Yeah.
I can't believe the socialist government had lied.
Yes, and we have a video here saying that she is basically persecuted in Venezuela.
No way!
And her human rights and political rights are being stripped and her freedom of expression is being taken away.
I'm just going to take her word.
I mean, a socialist regime in South America, I don't think they're treating people fairly, let's be honest.
Yes, and here we have basically the opposition's campaign closure rally in Las Mercedes, Main Avenue, and Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez, they are going to be there.
We have some footage, you know, if people want to watch.
Massive, massive crowds.
Yeah, massive crowds.
Right now we have here Nicolas Maduro and I'll also show the crowds that have gathered here that are also big crowds so people don't say that we're showing only some of them and he is basically Urging people to vote against the far-right, against the far-right interference.
The far-right's going to take away your welfare spending?
Yes.
That's literally going to be the main argument he's making.
Yes, you see here, he strongly condemned the far-right opposition leaders who for the past decade have been promoting violence, sanctions, coups and other actions.
What?
the government and ultimately overthrow him.
That's literally what the socialist governments did.
Yes.
But that's the thing, you know, socialists love to victimize themselves.
Yeah.
In all cases, they're the victims.
But also they just accuse the opponents of what they do themselves.
Well, socialism is basically an economic theory in, you know, wearing the skin suit of what is actually morality.
It's moralizing and there's no economics there.
All those people are going to be economically illiterate.
They don't understand supply and demand and how prices are determined and all of that sort of stuff that is basic.
Or they could understand the economics of personal salary at the expense of public good.
Maybe they could understand this much.
These people may well be state workers.
That's actually just the government.
You have anticipated the worries of some people.
That's what happens when you massively expand the state.
There are lots of people who are basically linking their own economic survival with your retaining of power.
And I wanted to add to something you said before about socialists.
They just stick an auntie in front of what they're doing and they do the same thing they're accusing others of doing.
But they're anti-imperialists now.
So they can do anything they criticize others in the name of anti-imperialism and anti-far-right Now, here we have Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro closing out his campaign in front of a massive crowd of supporters, framing the election as a choice between socialism or fascism.
It's going to be socialism or capitalism, isn't it?
Why is he being introduced by what looks like a bunch of F1 engineers?
Maybe it's a pit stop!
Changing tires!
One thing that people will note if they play the video, I'm not playing it because they're singing a song and you never know with those copyright things and also it's a very atrocious song.
They have lyrics that they're publicly exalting Chavez and they say that he had a heart of fire.
And also they're having other songs, they're saying Maduro is gonna win, it's gonna be victorious.
I'll never forget the bit of Chavez where he walked into some guy's shop and was like, I like this shop, it's publicly owned now.
It's just like, that's theft!
That's just theft, you f***ing thug!
It's like a mafia boss.
It is literally a mafia boss.
Wait, I need to think of this.
So you mean that in Maduro's Venezuela, in Chavez's Venezuela, there was a business that was not state-owned?
Yeah, it was like some small business.
He walked into it, he was like, this is really nice, I'm going to nationalize it.
It was on camera, it was on the documentary.
Probably owned by one guy.
Yeah, it was a little family business.
He did the same with oil, I think.
Yeah, he did.
And with farms as well.
Yes.
So and you have him here basically asking people an interesting series of questions here.
You will see.
He said, we will translate, he said, do you want Venezuela to become Argentina?
Prosperous.
Do you want Millet to come?
And reduce your taxes.
Do you want a puppet president beholden to the US?
And they say an endless sea of Venezuelans say no.
And we have here Combate, who is someone who is a communist from Puerto Vallarta.
So what is interesting here is that You could say that there are significant similarities between Venezuela and Argentina, because they had massive economies at one point, and they were both wrecked by the same policies.
And Millet is the guy who's doing something about it.
And it seems to be working.
And it seems to be working.
Maduro isn't doing anything.
He's actually making things work.
He is the problem.
And he is doubling down on the rhetoric, which is typical leftist.
It's such a weird thing.
Do you want a Malay to come and balance the budget?
Do you want him to come and stop inflation?
Do you want him to come and make your country prosperous?
No!
Save the Venezuelans!
Do you want the terrible chainsaw man to come and poverty to plummet 9 points to 48.5%?
Do you want him to lower inflation and eliminate it?
Please.
Yeah, here is a really nice thread for Argentina.
Long story short, capitalism works, socialism doesn't.
The same thing that works for Argentina will work for Venezuela and here the same things that wrecked Argentina are wrecking Venezuela.
And moreover, Venezuela's just, like, being sat on a huge amount of oil wealth.
Like, just ask the Arabs, man.
It's like, you guys socialists know, we sell our oil at good capitalist prices.
And we have here some Western supporters who are trying to actually interfere on the internet and declare their support.
We have self-proclaimed the mega-communist, mega-patriot Jackson Hinkle who is just coming in and he says Venezuela is ready to re-elect President Maduro and continue fighting US imperialism and Zionism.
I basically view this guy as a parody account.
This guy had a massive audience boost.
In a matter of just a few months, he had close to 2.5 million followers.
Yeah, and he is going out and talking to a lot of people who are in the, generally speaking, BRICS camp.
We also have Roger Waters here.
Oh, yeah.
And he is talking about power to the people and how the Bolivarian Revolution needs to carry on.
And I watched it, so you have to watch it, too.
But let me be very careful.
Could we just have zero sound, please?
That's very close to his face as well.
That's proper boomer cam there.
Yeah, but let's... Let's hear what multi-millionaire Roger Waters says about... Yes, so let me eliminate sound with extreme prejudice and I want us to go to second 17, where the music has stopped and we listen to him.
Okay, let's... Unfortunate place to pause.
Six years ago, when you had an attack upon your great country, By Guido.
Was that his name?
He was a puppet of the United States government, as I recall.
In fact, they declared him the president from Washington, D.C.
Okay, they failed.
That was six years ago.
Thank goodness.
Okay, here we are six years later.
There is another snake in the grass.
She's called Machado.
And she has another puppet.
I've seen pictures of him.
He's an old bloke called Gonzales.
Okay, he's a sock puppet.
But he is also representative of the government of the United States of America.
OK, so revolutions are difficult.
The Bolivarian Revolution is difficult, but it is succeeding.
I like how you're cringing.
It's just bonkers.
I always preferred David Gilmour personally.
I will be very merciful and spare you the last minute.
Thank you.
What is the point of the Bolivarian Revolution?
That you have lots of people... Trapped in poverty with a dictator above them.
Probably public employees who go on massive Roger Waters concerts.
You have maximalist voices now saying that everything we hear about support for Gonzalez is wrong and that Nicolas Maduro will win.
Again, the same combative communist from Puerto Rico.
You have another voice, Anatoly Kurmanaev, who is saying something interesting here.
He says that at the close of the campaign, Maduro showed he could still mobilize a sizable crowd despite a steady loss of support.
Yeah, the people are paying.
Many attendees are public sector employees.
There we go!
How did I know, right?
How did I know?
I must be psychic.
You had the orb, the pondering orb.
Yeah, exactly.
Opposition hopes many will end up voting against Maduro on Sunday, an untested theory at best.
Could you imagine, Carl, if you were going to some event and you bust in all of the lotuses to support you?
It's like, these are just my voters, you know?
If I had state funding, I would.
And I have a less than a minute clip that shows some really interesting thing about the Venezuelan, the Bolivarian revolution that Jackson Hinkle and Roger Waters are supporting.
Let us have a look.
For those who are listening, it says in Petare, Venezuela's biggest slum, loyalty to the socialist Revolution is large.
In the previous presidential election, 18 out of 23 districts voted for Maduro.
The outcome is a massive blow for the opposition.
And you have people here who will say he prefers Chavez because they care a lot for poor people.
That's what happens.
That's why people are for them.
a lot of football people.
That's what happens.
That's why people are for them.
There are more people than...
And they're saying basically, there's another person saying that Travis knew how to show love.
But that's amazing because he's the one literally keeping you in poverty.
Yes, but in the name of the revolution.
I love the way that we identify as poor people.
So if you make us rich, we'll no longer be poor people.
And Travis won't show us his love anymore.
And Maduro won't show his love anymore.
And so we can't stop being poor.
But I do imagine in this sort of slum area they don't get many copies of Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell, so he probably doesn't realise that actually he's poor because of... It's literally identity though.
If we become rich, they hate us.
But imagine living in a place like this and living in a country that has a massive economic crisis and massive humanitarian crisis.
I'm finding it easier and easier.
But also massive amounts of natural resources.
Yes.
Valuable natural resources.
Yeah.
And that's why we have to live in a slum.
And they still say that the government cares for them.
Now, obviously, There is some room for doubt there.
Either case, it's either supreme lack of intelligence or they're very much afraid and very much scared of declaring the truth.
Because I really can't understand how people can live in situations like these and most of them just thinking that, no, it's not the government's fault.
Especially when they're sitting on the world's largest oil reserve.
And we need to talk a bit about AOC because here is the blame game of the left.
The nature of the left is blaming everyone else for what they're doing.
I do love this angle of attack.
Well, you see, Venezuela is poor, not because of socialism.
Exactly.
but because of American sanctions.
So that must mean that socialism requires access to a capitalist country for them to even exist properly and not in complete slums, even though they still exist in complete slums.
So the whole nature of socialism undermines itself by requiring capitalism to leech off of.
Thank you, AOC.
Truly, you are an economic genius.
Exactly.
And she is blaming it on the southern border crisis.
If socialism is that good, why do you need to migrate somewhere else?
Yeah, exactly.
Oh, it's the capitalists won't give us access to their markets.
I feel like Venezuelans are at least some of the more legitimate refugees because their country has been ruined by a political class.
Yes.
Unlike, well, I actually suppose Mexico is a bad example as well, but I can't actually think of any now.
All of South America is wracked with socialism.
Forget what I said.
No, I've met some and they're very based and they're saying any good thing you hear about the Maduro government is just censorship and just state-funded propaganda.
I went to Florida last year and you meet so many Cubans who say, yeah, they're just socialist thugs, they're all liars, don't believe them, they ruin us and we hate them.
And I want to end with Francis J. Foster, because I think he has some ties with Venezuela.
His mom was Venezuelan.
Yes.
The funnest joke of 2020 will always be middle class, privately educated comedians lecturing me about why socialism is great.
Mate, my cousin lives in Venezuela and drinks water from a tank on his roof.
I think there's a couple of flaws in your argument.
Not real socialism though, Francis.
And to people who say this is so 2020.
Well, this is so four years ago.
Those who forget history are destined to repeat it.
Socialism doesn't work.
Remember this.
Sixteenth says, will you cover the Tommy rally tomorrow?
Thanks for the stream.
Yes.
Well, I'm going to be there speaking at it.
So we will.
I'm going there as well.
Yeah.
Come down.
It'll be good.
It'll be huge.
Be fun.
And it'll be wholesome.
So I wanted to say something about the tank on the roof, because that is my aspiration, actually.
I want off-the-grid living, it's not fair.
I just want a really socialist government to force me off the grid.
Yes.
And ironically, yes.
Do we have any video comments?
We do.
Aha.
California Flower Friday.
Today we have Circium oxidantale, which is the cobweb thistle.
Most people rightfully hate thistles, but this one's different.
The web-like fibers protect the plant and give it drought tolerance, and it won't become an out-of-control weed, but it will grow in loose bunches like a bunchgrass, with several flowers per plant.
Despite the thistle's reputation, these are rather soft, and even the spines are far less stabby.
And you can't beat that crimson red, though it can be pink, purple, or even white, and even has some dwarf varieties.
It's quite beautiful, really.
Yeah, it is pretty.
Also, not everyone hates thistles, because Scots love them, because it's a national symbol of theirs, the thistle.
It's the best plant that grows in Scotland.
What is it, a thistle?
What's the best animal?
A unicorn?
they're everywhere in scotland aren't they freako has an unbelievably large inferiority complex Born looking like a clown, he ran away to the only place he felt at home, the circus.
And here, he's been planning his revenge ever since.
I've no idea what that is.
Saying someone had such an inferiority complex they ran away to join the circus and then plot to plot their revenge, which I think is analogous to LGBT stuff, I imagine.
Leftism in general, yeah.
To relieve your customer service face tension, take your power fingers again, locate the bottom ridge of your cheekbone.
And just hang your head off of your fingers again until each point feels better and keep moving along until you reach the mandible joint.
That's where you really want to dig in and massage yourself out.
Maybe just pinch along the bottom of your jaw.
Breathe it out, release it out.
Inhaling through your nose, exhaling through your mouth.
I feel calmer.
It's not working.
No, it's not working.
No.
I appreciate the mindfulness stuff.
There's actually a lot of psychology suggesting that it's really quite effective as well.
What are you giggling about?
I just found it funny the way Karl looked at you, you know?
What is this new age nonsense?
I like it.
I'm for it these days.
A Gentleman's Observations of Swindon, Chapter 16.
At the end of World War II, Londoners moved to Swindon to seek better housing and jobs, including by recently wed grandparents, and to accommodate them, the new residential estates of Penhill, Walcott East, Park North, and Park South were built.
Oakers Quarry was closed and notified in 1951, and Press Steel Company Ltd.
built a metalworking factory, which is now owned by BMW.
The increasingly industrial town required a new hospital, and in 1957, Princess Margaret laid the foundation stone for what would go on to become the Princess Margaret Hospital, which was completed in 1960.
God, that does explain an awful lot about pain.
Londoners, yeah.
Londoners.
It's always Londoners, isn't it?
Sorry, I know you said your family were from there, so that was a bit rude of me.
Didn't mean it, promise.
Now, just an illustration of how far standards have fallen.
Here's a promotional film the LMS did for the Duchess class in 1935, called A Study in Steel.
Here in the foundry, the boys are about to pour a cylinder block.
And you can see from the man in the ladle to every boy desculling the risers, each and every one of them is in a waistcoat and a white dress shirt.
And just as the ladle is tipped, up rolls the foreman to observe the pour in a three-piece suit and bowler hat.
Now I've done foundry work.
Copes, drags, cores, runners and risers.
I loved it all.
But never in a million years would I do a hot metal pour in a three-piece suit.
They really were built different.
Standards.
They've slipped.
I agree.
We need to return to more formal dress.
Yep.
Oh?
I really like this mug.
It's an absolute perfect size and a great design.
I would like one with a Lotitas logo on it.
But there's no Lodeseater's Merchant website.
Could you also put an events or schedule calendar up?
As I can never remember where my Zoom call is.
Thank you guys.
Well, the Zoom call is in half an hour.
Well, about an hour, actually.
But there should be Lotus Eaters merch on.
Check the website.
You go on the website, you click shop, and then it sounds like you're in the UK.
You click the UK link and it takes you to all the stuff.
Although there might not be the Lotus Eaters mug you're on about.
We'll get that put back up.
This is a beautiful view.
Hmm.
Nice garden, yeah.
In fact, let's have a look at mugs.
Haven't looked at it for a while.
Yeah, we've got a bunch of mugs, but there isn't the Lotus Eaters general one.
Get that put back up, I guess.
Run!
Run, run, run!
Meanwhile, in opposite land known as reality...
Yeah, I saw this story, actually.
So the guy ran over a Trump sign in his yard, not fatally, and then shot himself afterwards, fatally.
Just seemingly for political reasons, but obviously he's a very troubled person.
Thomas says, Stelios, you are a low-key comedy mastermind.
I can see it weighing heavily on your countenance.
Thank you, Thomas.
None of the above says, hey lad, first issue of Islander Magazine arrived in my mailbox, located in a convict colony.
Well, I'm glad to hear it.
It reached Australia.
TMK of Context says, seeing this, can you make any predictions about Euro 2028?
Games will be played in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Birmingham, Belfast, Glasgow, Cardiff and Dublin.
So the next euro is a good thing there aren't going to be any bicycles because in lots of those places they're going to be nicked.
In Liverpool, you're going to get into your hotel and the TV is going to be gone.
Manchester is probably going to be, Islamists everywhere.
London, you're going to have to speak at least 30 languages to know where you are.
Those are my predictions.
That's all I can predict.
I have to say that if the EU is particularly punitive, it will be in Budapest.
Why?
Why?
Because they want to punish Orban.
Punish them with the Euros?
Yeah, they are punishing them.
They fine them with 200 million Euros just a few minutes before we started the podcast.
Oh, did they?
So somehow they will want to... Yeah, but won't they make loads of money out of the Euros?
They will.
The question is how will Hungary be transformed in four years?
California refugee says, I can't believe the Islamic brown people hunting Jews in the streets of Paris is being done by this white supremacy.
Good question.
Norfolk C. Zuma says, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I actually have some sympathy for the French and what has been done for them in recent decades.
Even their chance to change things democratically got scuppered by what was effectively election rigging.
It wasn't election rigging, it was just strategic politicking.
It shouldn't necessarily... a political system shouldn't be that...
Bad, I suppose, for want of a better word, that you can win on the popular vote by a significant degree and still come third.
Yeah, but the problem is, if people are like, oh, I'm going to stand down my candidates or form a coalition or whatever, OK, but you can't stop that.
It was within the law, but I think it's not in the spirit of democracy, I think is the easiest way to say it.
I have sympathy for the French too, but of course, France actually suffers from immigration less than we do, because France is bigger.
So we've got a higher proportion of immigrants than the French have.
I think they also get different kinds of immigrant, don't they?
They get more Africans, which tend to be more criminally inclined, but also they do have more space in the country, there's larger... It's more localised.
They're a lot more dense.
North F.C.
Zumas Anar.
Carl eating waffle.
I love waffle, but I can't eat it.
As much as I hate to say it, but as an Englishman, I feel sorry for the French.
Yep.
Me too.
George says, I'm so happy I was never a big sports fan.
These days, the events are just political theatre.
Expect lots of medals given to Ukrainians.
Yeah.
Well, I don't think they're necessarily going to award them if, you know, they lose in a race and they're just like, well, never mind the person who came first.
We're going to put it over this Ukrainian.
Yeah, but the thing is, from a virtue signaling perspective, they would all accept it.
Like, the person who goes first might give it to the Ukrainian or something, you know?
And so, I'm not saying the Ukrainians haven't suffered or anything, but like, don't support any of this sort of stuff.
Their athletes should be on the front line.
They shouldn't be rolling around.
No, I'm joking.
Of course.
Screwtape Laser says, every four years, the world gathers to push the limits of performance-enhancing drug detection evasion.
Well, the question is, are trans people going to be competing in the wrong category?
Maybe.
So are a bunch of men going to win the women's sports?
We're going to take over everything.
JJHW says, there's no consolation being French.
Can you imagine waking up every day and realizing you're French?
Why do you think they're so surly?
Kevin says, any chance Keir Starmer and Leibar can make the Qatari forces move to the coast after the Olympics finish to do what the French haven't done for all the money we gave them?
Well, I mean, the Labour Party are actually getting the illegal boats sorted.
Well, at least one of them so far.
I haven't, I'm not sure.
No, no, I saw Active Patriot was on the coast of Normandy and he was saying there aren't any boats going.
Oh, right.
Oh, well.
Well, Keir's ruling with an iron fist, clearly.
Yeah, no he is.
He's an absolute tyrant, which is funny when he's turning it on the left wing of his own party, but not funny when he's turning it on me.
Roman Observer says, in these last weeks, Yeah, we've heard so many appeals to the spirit of the Olympics, including from our progressive Pope, for a truce in the wars as it was in ancient Greek times, except those ancient cities had a common culture and worshipped the same gods.
To what common culture or deity should we appeal in modern times, when Argentina and Morocco have a disagreement in a football match?
I don't have an answer.
This doesn't seem to be an answer.
Are we upholding the Olympic spirit when we preclude Russia from participating as a nation?
Well, that's a really great question, and one to which there is nothing to appeal.
What can you do?
Thomas says, using a trans woman at the Olympic ceremony is hyper misogyny.
Use a man to represent how awesome women could be is peak misogyny.
It is also just kind of hilarious.
Just left when government takes over France.
Here's our transgender person.
Not an immigrant though.
Couldn't find an immigrant transgender.
Gay, immigrant, transgender.
Missing their legs.
Well, to be fair, it's not the... I forgot what the actual name is.
I just want to call it the Special Olympics, but I don't know what it's actually called.
The Parallel.
That's the one, yeah.
Lance says, Trump voters must not get complacent.
Correct.
It's not Kamala the person who presents a challenge to Trump, it's Kamala the myth.
Do not underestimate the power of the Democrat.
Get out the vote machine, especially if they have 10 million brand new votes that came over the border.
Fight, fight, fight.
Yeah, that's something I'm genuinely worried about, is the Republicans are going to get complacent, being like, well, obviously Trump's going to win.
And it's like, yeah, if you do the work, Trump will win.
And, you know, don't underestimate the power of the Democrat vote-rigging machine, the ballot-harvesting, and the general lies they're going to tell.
It's difficult sometimes to think like Democrats would think, because I literally see nothing good about Kamala Harris as a candidate.
I don't know why many Democrats... She imprisoned a lot of black guys.
I did.
No, no, but the Trump campaign are thinking about going, flanking her to the left on that and being like, look, she locked up a bunch of black guys.
I was like, no, that's really lame.
Isn't it?
Yeah.
But the, um, no, no, I, I saw her, um, what was it?
She's on like the view with Oprah Winfrey or something, but some with, with some, it's an extremely woke campaign.
She's already started running and she was basically like, hi, I'm a black woman.
is such a great thing, why is calling someone a D.I.
higher an insult?
Great question.
To which they'll never give you an answer.
Henry says, I'm surprised that so little is being made of Kamala keeping people in prison after their sentence is finished for the purposes of providing cheap labor.
She's essentially a modern day slaver.
Democrats going to Democrat.
Well, you know what's interesting?
Her grandfather, I think it was, was an Irish slave plantation, or great-grandfather was an Irish slave plantation owner.
What, in the Caribbean?
Yeah.
So she was actually descended of slaves.
Just like, um, who's that guy from the TV show?
Well, you're not talking about Ainsley Harriot, are you?
No, no, no, not Ainsley Harriot.
It was an American Jewish guy who was, like, presented with this stuff and he's like, haha, that's really funny.
It's like, that's not funny.
Anyway, Henry says, I know, the proletariat says in Crusader Kings 2, it's a popular strategy.
Have female characters sleep with all their vassals to get positive opinion modifiers.
I'm going to choose to believe the Heels Up Harris keeps her political allies in line with the same methodology.
Well, it is interesting how that's literally how she got her start in politics is by having an affair with A politician to get her on the ladder and say, okay, well, I mean, I just, there's nothing redeeming about the Democrat party.
I spend a lot of time being like, right, okay, you've got to recognize the virtues of your opponents, but what are their virtues?
I mean, it's not virtue most probably, it's their ability to brainwash people.
Yeah, and just create client groups by offering money and favors.
Yes, but it's like, Their virtue, I guess, coalition building.
Their ability to pull together all the evil.
Propaganda.
I was about to say exactly that, yeah.
Lies.
That's another, that's not a virtue, but.
Shamelessly lying.
That's the thing.
I'm genuinely trying to figure out what their actual virtues are.
I mean, a lot of these virtues are basically vices, aren't they?
Yeah, they are.
They're just a coalition of vices.
Like shamelessness.
Okay.
Lawlessness.
Yeah.
Um, fecklessness.
They're not loyal.
You know, they quite happily write Joe Biden's under the bus.
You know, they're not loyal to anybody.
It's just, they seem to genuinely be a coalition of evil.
The party of Sodom and Gomorrah, isn't it?
Every kind of evil in one place.
The party of Sodom and Gomorrah, it's true.
They're not the party of the common good, of the greater good.
No, they're not.
No, no, they are the party.
The Neighbourhood Watch, that is.
JJHW says, Scrubbin Kamala's record is actually Orwellian.
And then he gives the falsification quote from Orwell.
I know, it's cliche to say that something's Orwellian, but they genuinely are acting in an Orwellian manner.
Almost certainly.
It's just like, ugh.
Redmond Observer says, Kamala is the Board of S.A.R.
Software Update.
Kamala was never the Board of S.A.R., comrade.
And that's the thing, it's three years.
It's only been three years.
There are loads of, like, Motions and stuff like that have been put into the American government records, the official annals, calling her the Border Czar, because that's just the thing they called her, to designate her as the person in charge of the border.
I like how the Czar comes from Caesar.
Yeah, yeah.
And also Kaiser.
California Refugee says, reminded that Kamala Harris has a family history of owning slaves.
Don't worry, I was on it.
I was on it.
Ironically, yeah, Trump's, was it Trump's granddad who was German?
Who came over like a hundred years ago or something like that, so he could never have owned slaves.
So Trump cannot have been part of this.
Ironically, Kamala is.
Harry and Josh says, imagine being dirt poor in a country with the largest reserves of black liquid gold in the world.
I know.
He's just... Imagine you just literally sat in a slum being like, yeah, thank God Chavez likes me.
He knows how to show love.
Yeah, exactly.
It's like, he's not your dad, you know?
Well, the thing is, the lionization of Maduro, like, ah, he went from being a bus driver to, you know, the leader.
Dictator.
Yeah, dictator of the country, as if that's some sort of aspiration.
But he still runs it like a bus driver.
I mean, that's class mobility, man.
We need more bus drivers in politics, as I've always said.
That's a good pun, by the way.
Latin American politics has always just looked like a total S-show to me, anyway.
Well, I think a lot of it's a smokescreen for corruption, isn't it?
Yes.
It's like a theatre production on the outside, whereas actually it's just money changing hands behind the scenes.
Whereas literally Maduro gets all the government workers out and says, I mean, I'm saying that as if I'm judging, but I think that's also true of British politics.
I don't think we've nearly got the sort of corruption issue that Latin America does.
We've just legalised it, haven't we?
Yeah, we're just all so stupid.
Waffle says, I'd day to name a former Spanish colony that is anyway successful.
Even Spain's not really that successful.
Yeah.
Even Spain sucks.
What chance did they have?
Well, they've been colonized by Britain unintentionally.
All the buzz is going over.
Have you ever read Why Nations Fail?
I haven't actually.
Oh, you really get a lot out of it.
Basically, I can't remember the name of the author now, but he distinguishes between two types of economies as well.
There's inclusive economies and extractive economies.
And the British had an inclusive economy where people would have property ownership and they'd be given a piece of land in the colony to work themselves.
And of course, that made a prosperous country.
When you have an extractive economy, basically Spain enslaves and Portugal enslaves South America and just extracts resources from them.
Obviously, they're poor and terrible.
I think it is Darren Asimoglou who wrote it.
And James A. Robinson as well.
I read it years ago, but it was like, no, that's a really great point.
Two different philosophies towards economics.
JJHW says, the problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other people's money from Margaret Thatcher.
Completely true.
Omar says, if I didn't know rainbow femme capitalism to be the result of communist subversion, I'd probably prefer to be dirt poor socialists subsisting on gruel thin enough to make homeopathist blush.
Yeah.
But I mean, I don't think the only choice we have is money or wokeism.
Ross says, is Roger Waters a backer of Just Stop Oil?
I bet he is a backer of Just Stop Oil.
I wouldn't be surprised, yeah.
He needs the socialist government so that they don't use the oil reserves to help the poor.
It's for the sake of the climate.
That's probably true.
I bet they get to that.
It's like, well, look, if the capitalists are allowed to use the oil, then, I mean, they do it in Brazil.
It's like, oh, if they can chop down any of the rainforest and the planet dies, therefore socialism saves the planet.
And yes, you need to be poor.
One of my favorite things about it as well is it's always, oh, well, someone else has to be poor, right?
It's those guys over there have to be poor.
No, no, no, no.
I'm Roger Waters.
I'm a multimillionaire.
I live in the West.
I've got everything I need.
You guys, though, socialism is good for you.
Don't you support the Bolivarian Revolution, comrade?
Theodore says, Venezuela is totally not fascist.
It just wants to invade their easterly neighbor to expand their labors around, I mean, natural borders, to steal Guyana's oil.
What use have they got for Guyana's oil?
Yeah, they can't even use their own.
But yeah, isn't Guyana also French?
It's part of France, so they want to declare war on France.
I mean, Even with my previous segment that I presented, that's still not a good idea for Venezuela.
You know, the French could send over a legion of paper airplanes.
The French could send over the Qatari military.
Yeah, they could.
Charlie Swordsman says, Maduro saying the election is a choice between socialism and socialism but with better aesthetics.
Yeah, I mean fascism is absolutely a branch of socialism.
Nick Taylor says, Jackson is always pushing comedy gobbledygook for monetization.
True believer.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Like, I just basically view him as a parody account because everything he says is totally incoherent.
So it's just like, I don't pay any... I go communist because the two things are antithetical.
Yeah, exactly.
I don't pay any attention to him.
Waffle says, at this point, socialism is giving the Spanish a run for its money in terms of who destroyed the continent the most.
Well, the thing is, the Spanish are pretty socialist themselves.
So, you know... I do like their private road system.
They've got much better roads than we do, despite being a larger country by surface area.
And it's because a lot of them are private and maintained, not by the state.
Do you know what's really funny?
The American government doesn't consider Spain to be a white country.
They call it a Hispanic country.
So if you list things, Hispanic country, Spain is a Hispanic country.
So most of Europe is white.
Yeah, except Spain.
Which is Hispanic.
Probably Portugal too.
JJHW says, does anyone remember Juan Gaido being recognized by the U.S.
and the U.K.
as the president of Venezuela?
No, I've never even heard of it.
I don't remember it either, but isn't Roger Waters infallible?
Um, he's definitely, uh, bonkers.
That's what you mean by that.
Definitely an insane virtu sigum latte.
Would he ever lie?
Well, would a latte liberal lie about communism?
The war wasn't even that good either.
Just saying, throwing it out there.
The proletariat says, I would be tempted to round up all the Venezuelan Cubans back to their own countries after providing them with copious amounts of guns, ammo, and military training.
Well, that was tried in Cuba and didn't work.
We're pretty much out of comments.
Oh no, we've got a few more.
Lord Nerevar says, Kamala is the Dems' suicide candidate.
She's woefully unpopular, disgracefully incompetent, and creepily unpleasant.
There's no way to ride this out with her.
They're planning for 2028 now.
Yeah, I'm of the opinion as well.
I absolutely agree with Lord Nerevar.
Sacrifice.
I think that she's basically being, you know, she's the scapegoat.
The sins of the Democrat Party.
She's running the most left-wing thing ever.
I think it could well be they're trying to copy what the Labour Party's done.
I don't know, we'll put all the left-wing stuff on Jeremy Corbyn and just kick it out of the party.
And so we're actually an electable force in 2028.
Well I think that also you need to follow where the money's going in American politics and all of the Silicon Valley people switching to Trump is quite significant isn't it?
To my mind it's interesting that a lot of the people that would have been considered the regime and very much clued in as the establishment... Zuckerberg!
Yeah, is now supporting Trump.
Yeah, and notice how Elon and a bunch of others are literally leaving California for taxes.
They've announced it in the past week or so.
The Tech Bro Alliance is going Republican, probably because of taxes.
It's probably just because the Californians are taxing them to the ground.
But it's like, OK, well, fair enough, if that's what they're going to do.
Supreme Duck says, meditation lady is nice to listen to.
Yeah, she was nice to listen to, wasn't she?
And Waffle says, Kamala failed the bar, AOC worked in a bar, Joe Biden can't spell bar, and Hillary Clinton belongs behind bars.
Coincidence?
I think not.
Well, that's a good note to end on.
It is.
We won't be live tomorrow because it is Saturday but we'll be back on Monday and also don't forget we've got the Goaltear Zoom call at three o'clock today so if you are a Goaltear member and signed up for the election stream for example make sure to tune in.
Hope to see some new faces there because it'll be us three.