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Sept. 30, 2024 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
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*Music* Good afternoon folks Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters.
Bad news, it is Monday, September the 30th, but we're here, so it could have been worse.
And today I'm joined by Stelios and Josh.
Hello there.
And we're going to be talking about the far right winning in Austria, the army of murderers that has invaded the United States.
And I'm not actually overstating things very much there.
And how there was a Syrian that went on a rampage in Germany with a machete, which I did see images of.
We realize that in America there's been a massive devastating hurricane.
We're going to cover it tomorrow because we're waiting for more information to come out so we know the full extent of things.
Of course, we're quite remote from the thing, but hopefully anyone who watches us from the areas affected, I hope you're okay and I hope you have power to your house and things like that.
So yeah, like I said, we're not being ignorant of that.
We're just going to cover it tomorrow when we've got more information.
So moving on, let's talk about the far right.
In Austria.
It's new, isn't it?
It is indeed.
Second time's the charm.
So just to be clear, that's really unfair.
We shouldn't have made that joke, but it's hard not to make jokes about this sort of thing.
We're going to start the segment now, by the way.
From the English perspective.
I'm not going to include that because that's a very mean... Yeah, it's very mean.
It's very mean.
I shouldn't have done it.
Europe is moving towards the right, and I think that this is pretty safe to say now, you know, lots of people have been saying it prematurely, but now, as Herr Wilders has said here, the Netherlands, Hungary, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Sweden, France, Spain, the Czech Republic, and today Austria, of course this was from
yesterday and he's saying we are winning and of course he is of course the leader of the freedom party uh in the netherlands so this is quite significant that he's listing off all these countries that are seeing meaningful right-wing movements that are sort of alternatives to the regime approved sort of center-right they're a bit more populist and a bit better on immigration usually except for italy the remainders never mentioned this right we should rejoin europe it's like what the far right europe
Yeah, I'm starting to get a little bit of regret here.
It's like, actually, the continent is sort of outdoing us a little bit here, so well done if you voted for any of the parties here that are right-wing in those countries.
And so, another thing that is revitalising Europe is Islander magazine.
Not an overstatement at all.
No.
Of course it is.
More so than electoral politics, this magazine is restoring European men and women with the vitality they need.
Think of it like 17th century pamphleteering.
We're bringing it back.
We're going to be revolutionaries.
In a way.
So here it is.
There is the magazine.
£14.99, Greatly British Pounds.
Not very much to have your life changed by an amazing work of art.
Again, that's not overstating at all.
It's a genuinely life-changing magazine.
No, I'm really looking forward to reading it when I finally get my hands on a copy I'm allowed to read.
You're not allowed to read it, I think.
Oh, okay.
Well, there we go.
You know what I'm doing after this.
But anyway, buy the magazine.
It's only going to be there for a short time.
There's also mugs and t-shirts as well, which are cool.
Buy them.
Anyway.
I like his sales pitch.
Just buy them.
Yeah, just buy them.
Stop making excuses, just buy them.
So, obviously, Austria has seen the far-right party, as the BBC calls it, come first.
It's not even close.
I know.
It's as if this is their platform.
We're a centre-left party.
No, we're a centre-right party.
Oh, we're the far-right party.
Yeah, it's funny how they always take people at their word unless they're, you know, a populist right-wing party.
But there we go.
It's the scary word, but it hasn't put off the Austrians apparently.
Karl, no.
Carry on.
I know why you're laughing.
So, I wanted to talk through some of the results and who the parties are if you're outside of Austria.
If you're inside of Austria, then it might be A little bit more difficult.
But anyway, you can't really see what's going on here.
I don't know why this has happened, but at the top there is FPO, which is the Freedom Party of Austria at 29.2%.
And they're a nationalist party, believe it or not.
They want stricter measures on migration.
They're also Eurosceptic.
They're also very critical of sanctions with Russia and want more normalised relations with them.
And this is the first time in a National Council election that they have come first.
So it is historic as well.
And then following them... Sorry, can I just interrupt there?
So that wouldn't have been an unusual thing to have heard in the 1990s after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
All of these things, we're for freedom, we're for the normalization of relations, we're for peace, we're for prosperity, we're for people living their lives.
This is not like some radical right-wing agenda.
This is the 90s liberal consensus.
It is.
It's just taking things back a little bit but I think that people are so hesitant to give up on it because once this gets momentum and people realise that actually it's tangibly made their lives better then it's going to upset the current paradigm.
And I tell you what, things were tangibly better 30 years ago.
Absolutely.
I mean I wasn't alive but I can tell.
I was, I remember it.
But yeah, this is their leader.
This is a guy called Herbert Kickl, I think.
I don't know how to pronounce his name.
But you also have the Austrian People's Party, the OVP there, coming in second at 26.5%.
They're a centre-right party, allegedly socially conservative, and they're economically liberal.
What's the LGBT wing say?
Yeah, good question.
But yes, they were second as well.
And then finally you have the SPO, which is your bog-standard left-wing party.
Their platform is the same as all other left-wing parties ever.
And of course the same goes for the Greens as well, who actually were in coalition with the OVP, if that gives you an indication of how conservative they are.
They go into coalition with the Greens.
And of course you also have NEOS, I think, at 9% there.
They're just a liberal party that are very pro-EU.
Question, do you know if the KPO is a communist party?
I don't know.
They're so irrelevant that I didn't even look them up.
Yes, because there was a Communist Party in Austria about a year ago and they were saying that it's going to be massive, it's going to get close to 12%.
It looks like it wasn't.
Who are the Beer Party and what's their platform?
Beer party.
Yeah, Stelios, look that up.
Communist Party of Austria, the KPO.
They were rumoured to get close to 12, but now it looks like 2.3.
So what about the beer party?
Beer party, I mean...
Beers forever!
I want a beer party.
I mean, is it actually beer?
Because I think in Germany it'd be B-E-I-R.
So I think I'm going to be slightly disappointed.
Beer party Austria.
Here it is.
It's B-I-E-R.
So what are they offering?
They actually pour beer?
It says here...
Minor Austrian satirical party.
Right, okay.
They're trolls, a party of trolls.
But they're selling me just on the name alone, I'm just saying.
Anyway, sorry, continue.
They need like a beer and bratwurst party and that would just do well.
The beer party, almost as popular as the communist party, both satirical.
It's also worth mentioning this guy here.
So he's the current chancellor and the leader of the OVP, the centre-right party.
Is this a toothpaste commercial?
Because he has really white teeth.
Is there something wrong with dental health?
He's a key figure who I'll be bringing up in a bit.
Is this a toothpaste commercial?
Because he has really white teeth.
He does, yeah.
His dentist will be very proud of him.
Is there anything wrong with dental health?
I didn't say there was.
It's just an observation.
So it's worth mentioning as well that because they only got 29%, they're not necessarily going to directly go into government.
And so they've got to form a coalition.
And it's speculated that this could drag on for months.
And if there's one thing the centre-right party have done it's looked around to every leftist and said guys we need a coalition right now.
Well that seems somewhat likely.
How did I know?
How did I know?
Because he might take the sort of similar thing as they've done in France and they've tried to do in the Netherlands and other parties as well in Europe of just trying to keep out the alternative right party.
Conservatives really are just the right wing of the left, aren't they?
Well, of course, yeah.
I just can't stand it, man.
So it could also be the case that the FPO and the OVP form a coalition, but without Kickl, I'm probably mispronouncing that, as their leader, as happened in the Netherlands to Hertenvelders, because Basically, Nehammer said it's impossible to form a government with someone who adores conspiracy theories.
That's his words, the current Chancellor.
And it's also unlikely, I think, that Kicill would agree to that.
But it's not necessarily impossible, because Wilders also agreed to a coalition where he was not the leader, despite his party doing the best.
Conspiracy theories are so much fun.
Also, I think it's also worth considering that there are intelligence agencies that do do things in a conspiratorial way.
That does happen.
Like the Nord Stream Pipeline.
That was a conspiracy of some kind, no matter who did it.
Yeah, but they're the boring ones.
I'm more interested in the big questions, such as who benefits from denying the flat earth?
That's not a conspiracy.
Well, no, there's a conspiracy to cover up the fact that it's flat, right, and we're actually surrounded by an ice wall.
But who benefits from this?
What's the point of the conspiracy?
Well, I think it ties in quite nicely to some other conspiracies.
I did some digging, and they believe a certain mid-century German is still alive and living in Antarctica.
Hitler benefits from the conspiracy of the flat.
For some reason.
I thought you were going to say Bigfoot, to be honest.
Well, I mean, Bigfoot's a different conspiracy.
He's tied in with aliens.
But if this Freedom Party does form a coalition the EU would be facing basically a Eurosceptic populist bloc in the right encompassing lots of countries all those countries we listed but Austria, Hungary, Slovakia and potentially Czechia in the future as well because they've got an election next year I think and so it could be that the European Union has more sceptics than actual believers in it which would be quite an interesting development for Europe
And once again, Britain lags behind every other political change that happens.
Yes.
We're stuck with a radical left-wing government.
Well, all of a sudden those rejoiners are going to sound hilarious, and they're just like, let's rejoin the far-right EU.
I agree.
We're going to have Grayling.
What's Grayling going to say?
Yeah, exactly.
What is he going to say?
We're gonna switch sides, but it's also interesting as well... What happens when the EU leaves the ECHR?
They'll just abolish it, it won't apply anymore, and therefore we'll be free of it as well.
Well, I think the ECHR, or whatever... It's part of the European Court of Justice.
Yeah, it's not part of the EU.
So the EU member states could all leave it, and just leave it there, essentially governing Britain.
Like, we'd be the last thing in it.
I know, it'd be hilarious wouldn't it?
It would be hilarious but it'd be infuriating at the same time.
So men and women also voted pretty much on parity for the Freedom Party as well which is interesting because normally we've seen these parties erring towards men more than women and in fact the BBC's analysis of it suggested that more women voted for the Freedom Party than men which is Yeah, fair play.
Also, the age bracket 35 to 59 were the most likely to back, which is slightly different than the AFD and National Rally in France, I think, in terms of the most populous category, which is good because it suggests that these messages are resonating with a wider demographic of people than simply just young people who have no prospects or future.
Sorry, did women not vote for the beer party?
Apparently not.
There we go.
They don't like beer, do they?
That's well known.
So also, Ralf Schollhammer also pointed this out, that a country of seven million, Austria, is able to wrap up their election, polling stations closed at five, they counted all the ballots by midnight.
It's nine million, but yeah.
Oh, nine million, sorry.
Got them wrong.
Thank you.
And in Arizona, they can't do the same thing, even though there are two million less.
So that's just something to think about there.
I wanted to include that one.
So let's have a look at the reason why Austria has been doing this, because I think that they've been receiving the brunt of migration based on things like this.
Nearly one out of three Austrians is of foreign origin, which is insane.
You know, we thought we had it bad here, but 27% of Austrian nationals are either first or second generation immigrants.
Apparently.
Close to 33 percent.
Oh yeah, over 27.
And also this, one third of primary school children in Vienna are Muslims overtaking Catholics as the largest religious group.
Which would just be unheard of ten, fifteen years ago perhaps.
You know, go back a hundred and this is another sort of conquest of Vienna here.
You need the Poles to come in.
Jan Sobieski's just rotating in his grave.
And here we have this.
Because of the infiltration of all of the schools, loads of teachers fled.
And this was because not only were there large numbers of Muslims and they were worried about how their teaching would be received at home, so to speak, also they just found it impossible to teach the children because a decent portion of them could not even speak the language.
As in, they had to repeat what they were saying to the point whereby it made teaching pointless.
And it completely broke down the entire education system to the point whereby they just couldn't do their job and resigned.
You lose your culture if that's the case.
Oh yeah, definitely.
I don't think that there should be any Islam or any second language speakers in the classroom at all.
If you're slowing down other children, you're a liability.
You don't deserve to be there.
You don't have to I don't like the utilitarian answer though.
In Austria you speak German, because that's the traditional language of Austria, right?
I thought that was implicit, but it was making another argument on top of that.
Sure, but I think we should be more firm about the, you know, when you come, you know, when in Rome you do as the Romans do, or you don't come.
Well, I would rather they just not come to Europe at all.
I agree, but it seems a bit late for that, doesn't it?
I want to add something, because when we're talking about elections, it's very usual for us to just look at the short-term effects of policies.
But we should also bear in mind that everything you show right now has massively negative long-term effects, unless some policies are being pursued.
And I'm just looking at here, the current fertility rate for Austria in 2024 is 1.57.
Which is just ridiculous if we bear in mind that.
I reject.
Whenever immigration comes up and people bring up fertility I sort of want to just say it's not relevant at all.
I don't want to concede any ground to that argument.
You know, we need, in any way, shape or form, foreign peoples in our country because we've got a sub-replacement fertility rate.
It doesn't change it.
The population in the UK has remained about 40 million native Brits for the past 20-30 years and it's going to remain static.
In England and Wales it's been about 44-45 million.
And in Scotland you've got another 8 million or something.
But you are right.
It's remained static, and even if it goes down a little bit, I think about 40 million is more than enough to sustain a population.
It's not like we're going to run out of people.
It's not like we're in the thousands, is it?
But even then, even if we do need to improve our birth rates, which we probably do, why are we entering into a breeding competition with a bunch of foreigners we've imported?
Do we agree to that?
I'm of the... I sort of take the Rorke's Drift position on Europeans in... Go on!
I don't know what that means.
As in, we don't need as many people to stand up for ourselves.
Well, what did you think I was going to say?
I don't know!
I know what Rorke's Drift is, so I was just like, okay, where's this going?
Anyway, we shouldn't be in a breeding competition.
It doesn't improve birth rates, so...
Yeah, but presumably if you don't want to enter in a breeding competition, you shouldn't allow people who are entering in a breeding competition with you.
Exactly, yeah.
I think that also we shouldn't be paying for other people to be winning that competition.
But another thing that lots of people heard about was this Taylor Swift concert being cancelled due to a terror threat from an Islamic State convert.
This was back, when was it?
in august so that that was international news because of course their problems with islam run so deep that they're having to cancel things now and There was this as well.
Afghan murder suspect detained at Berlin airport.
Accused of stabbing wife to death in Vienna.
Of course, no point him being there.
This is an unnecessary burden on the Austrian people.
It's the pretty standard consequences of our great strength.
But these are just the things that have happened in the past couple of months leading up to the election.
Like the military needs to patrol migration hotspots.
At least what the Freedom Party said.
Right before the election, which I think is actually a reasonable thing because they are the most dangerous places, the places that receive the most migration now.
We know this, we have the crime data, it's true all over Europe.
There's also this one as well, they've refused to accept illegal migrants because Germany's now decided that they actually like borders and all of these rejected people are being pushed over to Austria and so they're having problems with that in the lead-up to the election which probably helped the Freedom Party because all of a sudden they had a spike and that made it all the more serious a problem to solve as well as
The Freedom Party applauding Hungary's move to ship the migrants to Brussels probably helped them along.
Which is Greg Abbott in Texas, yeah, shipping them to New York.
You like migrants so much?
Well, you can have them.
And then also, the Bavarian government is trying to make them take them, which probably... Brussels can take them.
Yeah, probably unpopular, I imagine.
And then finally, this was shortly before the election itself, it turned out that The migrants were getting luxury apartments for, yeah, the refugees, supposedly, which sparked lots of protests.
It used to be a joke.
It used to be a joke.
Oh, you know, the far-right think they're gonna get luxury apartments.
Well, here we go.
Well, yeah, there they are.
Proof!
And so, it seems like the Austrian electorate have seen the problem that migration is facing.
I mean, a third of their population is now no longer Austrian, and I think that that's probably enough.
And I don't think that things are going to get better if it continues, and so they're only going to continue voting in this direction until things start to improve.
And the way I see it is that the way all of Europe is going is trending towards at least ending mass migration, if not starting re-migrating people, because the multicultural experiment has failed.
That's why so many countries in Europe have sided more along the right wing of politics, because this isn't working.
Wow, I agree.
Austria says, Auslander aus!
I do love the fact that this is a meme now.
It's so good.
Anyway.
So, turns out that an army of literal murderers has invaded America.
I wish I was overstating the case, but I just want to point out that William the Conqueror conquered England with 10,000 men.
Bear that number in mind when you realise how many people, how many criminals, have been let into the United States under Kamala Harris' watch.
But before we begin, of course, go and get your copy of Islander.
It's the best way to support us because Obviously we've been demonetised, so it helps keep the lights on, and it's a brilliant product.
You're going to love it.
And my particular article in there is the best, I just want to say.
Do tweet at me if you have a disagreement when you get your copy of Islander, because no doubt you will have a point.
Anyway, moving on.
So, let's go to BBC Verified to find out how many migrants have crossed the US border illegally.
Now, I was googling around for the numbers on this, just to be clearer and be accurate on this, and I found this article and I thought, you know what?
Let's see what they say.
And unbelievably, they had a relatively accurate take on it.
Since January 2021, when Joe Biden came to office, there have been more than 10 million encounters across the US border with Mexico.
Under the Trump administration, there were 2.4 million.
So, surprising that BBC Verify were to tell the truth on this.
Interesting.
So that's a massive number.
I mean, just to be clear, that's more than the population of Austria, as we've just seen.
Genuinely incredible numbers of people are coming from South America to the United States.
And the thing is about illegal border crossings is they are actually very poorly regulated.
Can you believe it?
No way.
Tell us more about this newfound fact.
Yeah, this is breaking news.
Illegals breaking into your country actually aren't always the best people and you don't always want them in your country.
The US Department of Homeland Security, though, has estimated there are 11 million illegal migrants living in the United States as of January 2022.
No way is there only 11 million.
I would say probably double that.
It's unbelievable numbers.
So anyway, there was one Tony Gonzalez, the representative of Texas is, I nearly said Swindon's 23rd district then.
Keep the plan for Imperial Swindon under wraps for now.
But Tony Gonzales for the Texas House of Representatives 23rd district.
He's a very moderate Republican.
He recently defeated Brandon Herrera, by like one point, to become the nominee for the Republican Party.
He's wishy-washy, pro-life, pro-Ukraine, pro-gun, mild anti-immigration, very pro-Israel, very soft on LGBT.
So he's not exactly the best.
But he did write to the Department of U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and asked them, can I have some numbers on this?
What do you know about these people?
How many have there been?
Are there any criminals?
He wrote to them in March this year and they finally got back to him being like So legally we have to tell you the things that we know and it's not good news right?
So they sent him back a bunch of tables and my god this is worrying.
So as you can see they've got two categories currently detained and non-detained there.
One is convicted criminal and the other is pending criminal charges.
Now for fairness's sake we should say well we're going to presume the innocence of these people But I'm not really feeling very fair about this.
So that's the two columns on the left.
It's convicted and pending.
And as you can see on the right, non-detained, so at large, in the United States, convicted criminals, 425,000.
That is massively... It's proportionate in that direction, isn't it?
Pending criminal charges, 222,000.
Oh my God!
This is just what they know about.
Yeah, that's another point.
That's just what they know about.
So if we went with, oh, there are 11 million illegal immigrants, somewhere around 6% of them that they know of are criminals.
So, OK, that's quite a lot.
It turns out to be a huge number of illegal immigrant criminals.
I mean, aside from the fact that every single one of them is a criminal by entering illegally.
I also find it hilarious that one of them is convicted of antitrust crime, like some CEO is.
He's breaking across the southern border.
Well, I had to flee from Caracas or something, I don't know.
What a strange crime to be measuring at the border.
Yeah, but you can see how they start stacking up in certain columns, right?
Assault.
62,000 violent criminals.
With another 42,000 pending criminal charges.
So, I'm just going to be uncharitable here.
100,000 violent criminals are currently at large in the United States.
Probably ties nicely with the dangerous drugs there.
56,000 with another 13,000 pending.
So about 70,000 drug dealers.
Probably huge amount of overlap on those Venn diagrams.
Massive numbers of them.
I mean, I don't know what conservation crimes are.
225... Eating geese.
Is that it?
You know, there were 20,000 Haitians.
There's family offences.
I don't know.
That's gotta be like domestic abuse.
6.5... 6,500.
Some of them are probably not measured in some of the countries that they're coming from as well.
233 for embezzlement.
But that's not the 14,000 burglars.
33 for embezzlement.
But that's not the 14,000 burglars.
Well, nearly 20,000 burglars are in the United States.
Just at large.
Civil rights won.
But also, if you scroll down, some people were gambling.
Civil... Can you be convicted for civil rights?
What was a civil rights charge?
You've been charged for being... Racist on the internet?
I don't know.
So anyway, you go down and you've got 7,000 forgery, 15,000 fraud, 155 for gambling, 10,000 general crimes, but then you get homicide.
So 13,000 convicted murderers with over 1,845 pending charges are currently at large in the United States?
1,845 pending charges are currently at large in the United States.
Wow.
But also there are 151 who did obscene acts.
They just broke into the country twerking.
Sure, but- They flashed the border.
I mean, that's, you know, 15,000 murderers.
That is staggering, isn't it?
Who are just wandering around America.
Also, they have just admitted to 2,000 people who've been convicted of murder just roaming around, not accounted for in the US.
Which is horrifying.
Right.
Well, no, like, with homicide, it's only 320-odd who are even in custody, right?
That's insane, yeah.
So the two columns on the right are just at large.
So the 13,000 and, say, 15,000 are just roaming around.
Oh, yeah.
Sorry, I forgot that it was the convicted on the left-hand side, isn't it, and then the pending on the right.
Yeah, and then of the two right-hand side columns.
On the left-hand side ones, they're the ones in custody.
As you can see, massive number, you know, not in custody.
So that's a bit terrifying.
Convicted murder is just at large in the United States because they illegally broke into the country.
So when I said there is an army of murderers who have invaded the United States, Well, yeah.
I mean, it's 50% bigger than William the Conqueror's army.
So just bigger than Harold Hardrada's army.
Bigger than Harold Godwin's army.
Like, this is a huge number of men that are going to be around.
Yeah, loads of historic battles were won with less.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
You know, world historic battles were won with less.
I mean, you know, it goes on, like, kidnapping, larceny, like... Liquor?
Liquor crimes?
I guess, you know.
Martial crimes?
Another one that's quite concerning is patrol assault.
20,000 rapists?
I'm just wandering around the United States, people who are either convicted or being charged with rape or sexual assault.
So good luck ladies, you're on your own here, you're not going to get any help, as we'll cover in a minute.
Literally this is just normal.
And it keeps going on.
Weapon offences, another 16,000, 17,000 people with weapon offences.
Tax revenue, they're legitimate refugees, I imagine.
Yeah, I'd take them.
But, you know, 77,000 or 130,000 traffic events is...
But there are a large number of very concerning people who have been just allowed into the United States.
I didn't realise the scale of the criminality of it was this widespread, because obviously we've talked about the kinds of countries that they've been coming from, like Haiti's a significant one, lots of South American, you know, lots of them are coming from El Salvador fleeing the Kelo.
A lot of them are from Venezuela.
That's true.
That's true, yeah.
But this seems to me to be far worse than even I thought it was.
Yeah, and I think that's why it took them six months to finally release the numbers.
Because, I mean, just to have 15,000 murderers just wandering around.
And again, these are just the ones they know, right?
These are just the ones that they can identify.
There will almost certainly be more.
There's no question that there's going to be a huge number, and again, these are all charged as if there hasn't been questions of law and order and oversight in their journey over.
Like, who knows how much, excuse me, it could even be like 1 in 10 of these migrants is guilty of some sort of crime.
I wouldn't be surprised, yeah.
It's crazy.
I think it's interesting as well that this is dropped, you know, leading up to an election.
I imagine that there isn't going to be much mainstream media discussion of this new declaration.
No, I mean this only came out yesterday so there hasn't been that much yet.
But it is crazy.
How many?
I mean, these are the seven million migrants that ICE released while the cases are being processed.
And so just, just they let out.
And again, these are the ones they know about.
So it's crazy.
So the question then becomes kind of, okay, let's go back to what Trump was saying about this.
Did Venezuela send a bunch of criminals to the United States?
Possibly, actually.
It kind of seems that way.
As the New York Times here says, quote, there's no evidence that the Venezuelan government is systematically or selectively releasing prisoners and expelling them from the country.
But they do also say that Venezuela is notoriously opaque on these things.
So they don't release any kind of crime statistics.
They tend not to cooperate with the capitalist powers for some reason.
And, uh, quote, there's no credible research showing that increased immigration leads to increased crime, says Ramiro Martinez, a sociology and criminology professor at Northeastern University.
In fact, studies suggest that migrants are less likely to commit crimes than people born in the United States.
Okay!
Which studies?
Okay, so what, 10% of the American public?
Criminals?
Like, what are we saying here?
I mean, it's obviously nonsense, right?
How many, uh, caracas bucks did he get paid to do that study?
Well, this is the point.
Like, I just wanted to frame this around the New York Times, being like, what are you, a racist?
Well, I mean, you know, if you actually look any further into this, it's looking a bit rough.
I mean, 800,000 Venezuelans have crossed since 2021.
Of course that surged after Biden came in.
A former Border Patrol agent told NBC News that unless they get the migrant's criminal history from Interpol or Venezuela, then we don't know who they are.
And so we can't get any further information on them.
So, okay.
The New York PD calls them ghost criminals with little to identify them except gang tattoos.
And so some of the gangs that have been affiliated, or one in particular, is Trendy Arega.
Yeah, I think Frente Aragua.
It's the largest, one of their largest... You've covered it before, haven't you, Stelios?
Yeah, yeah, they did something in the Aurora Complex in Queens.
We're going to get to that in a minute because it seems that Trump is completely correct about that.
So, yeah, they've got a hundred ongoing investigations.
into incidents involving members of this gang.
They are at least kind enough to tattoo their own faces, so you know that they're a criminal.
Yeah, I mean, that's literally the NYPD.
Well, that's how we identify them, because we can't get any information from the Venezuelan government for some reason.
And incidentally, Venezuela's violent deaths have fallen to a 22-year low, and Bloomberg's like, yeah, it's because of migration.
So the director of the Venezuelan Violence Observatory, Roberto Brincinu Leon has said, well, it's fallen to its lowest rates since 2001 because they've all left.
Where have they gone?
Young people who have been traditionally the main victims of the violence have fled, while criminals and gangs have emigrated due to the lack of opportunities to commit crimes.
So they're looking for a new frontier country in which to commit crimes.
And coincidentally, there was a Biden administration that completely opened the borders and millions of people started going across under Bordasar Harris's total failure to act.
Imagine your country being so bad that the criminals are just like, we don't have any opportunities to commit crime here.
They haven't got anything to steal.
You know, normally an economic downturn is where criminals sort of shine.
But alas, even Venezuela is inhospitable to criminals.
I mean, I just want to see where the data comes from.
Well, again, this is from the Venezuelan Violence Observatory.
Notoriously reliable agency.
I'm sure it is.
But, like I said, I don't know.
So, anyway, the point being they think that the criminals have fled to the United States.
And, of course, that means we see lots of Venezuelan gang activity popping up in the United States, as you mentioned earlier.
This was in Colorado, where the venus gang was taking over our apartment building um cindy romero who lives there uh said well this has become a daily struggle against escalating violence and neglect as i said no one's coming to save you uh the police would call me and say they weren't coming unless it was a severe crime is this not a severe crime armed men have taken over the building and are holding me hostage in my own apartment in this apartment there are people who have five six locks in their doors
Yeah.
This is completely terrifying.
What is a severe crime if not, you know, armed delinquents?
You don't need a lock if you have a Glock.
There you go.
Very peculiar.
They have many Glocks, that's a problem.
When I called the police to report a shooting, one officer asked if I'd considered moving.
Yes officer I have considered moving but as she says if I could have afforded to leave I would.
Obviously she can't afford to leave.
It's mad.
So essentially tens of thousands of violent criminals are invading the United States.
They're taking over areas in the United States.
Trump was right and the New York Times is a bunch of liars.
I'll leave that there.
I better read the comments because I forgot to do those.
What constitutes an encounter?
One person?
A group of people?
I suspect that the only ones they actually find.
I believe it's any encounter.
However, there are going to be literally hundreds of thousands, if not millions, who get by without any detection whatsoever.
Bald Eagle says, Gonzalez is a rhino.
Yes, I know.
He voted with the Democrats on everything until he almost got primary down.
Well, he did vote against impeaching Trump, I think.
So there is one thing.
But yeah, I agree with you.
He's a wet, as we call him.
Wetroader says, was that FOI request made by Tony Gonzalez or from his office?
He is the lying scumbag that Brandon Herrera ran against.
Yes, I'm aware.
Well, it says by him, but I don't know, and it's undoubtedly, like, the office of, isn't it?
So it might be some based Zoomer who, uh, managed to work from inside.
Look, we can just do this, and he won't know.
Uh, get it done.
Uh, Bald Eagle says, uh, fun fact, U.S.
gangs are, uh, U.S.
based gangs, and now begin to target illegals that have also started taking over cities, who knew the local crime gangs would be more patriotic in defending the U.S.
than the government.
Well, at least someone's defending the U.S., right?
I mean... Well, the thing is that, uh... The Italian Mafia's like, we can't have this!
I remember looking at the economics of it, just purely the numbers, and if you have just one organised crime gang running everything, you actually have the lowest crime rates and lower rates of corruption than if there are multiple crime gangs competing.
So it's actually kind of good, in a way, to have these US crime gangs fighting the foreign ones.
Problem of monopolies right there, folks.
You get less of whatever it is you're trying to do.
Yeah, and if that's crime, it's actually good.
Yeah, it's actually a good thing in the case of crime.
If it's trade, say, you don't.
Binary says, if these crime stats were in line with unreported versus reported crimes in the UK, the real numbers would be 5 to 10 times this.
And they probably are.
But anyway, we'll leave that there.
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Right, two days ago in Germany's Essen, which is in the northeast of the country, there was a 41-year-old Syrian who literally went on a rampage.
He literally went nuts.
So he set fire to multiple houses and then ran into several shops with his van.
And then at some point some people tried to detain him.
and the police came they arrested him and there is a sort of debate about his motives right now but what is surely it's white supremacy probably I think that's 99.9% of the people believe this it was far right wasn't it yeah you know he was a just a person concerned about how racist Germany is Exactly.
So what is interesting in this case is that you don't see that much of coverage here, despite the fact that there were around 30 people injured and two children are in critical condition.
And because there haven't been victims, at least yet, hopefully there won't be.
You don't see the same pattern of politicians making the same kinds of statements.
You don't see them doing this.
They are trying to bury the news.
Is it an isolated incident, Stelios, do you reckon?
It is an isolated incident that most people don't want to talk about.
It's so isolated that it just keeps on happening over and over again.
Yes, so we have far less things open to us to say about them and this is interesting because it shows that there has been a consistent effort to bury this.
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Right, so let's say what we know so far.
So it began this Saturday around 7 p.m.
in Essen in northeast Germany.
We will talk about this horrifying picture in a bit.
So what happened is that we have a 41 year old Syrian.
He set fire to a residential building and then drove to another street to set another house on fire.
And we'll just start talking a bit about this.
So what we see here is We literally see people who are trying to save their children and taking considerable risks at themselves because they had, the fire brigade had ladders, but they couldn't reach the top floor.
So you literally see their mother exiting the window on the roof.
She literally runs a risk.
She literally risks her life to save her small child.
So you can see the smoke billowing out of the top window.
You can see the smoke and a lot of children inhaled smoke and they're in critical condition.
Two are in critical condition but more have been severely injured.
So did he set fire to the whole apartment complex then?
Yes.
And that wasn't enough.
He continued.
if you see here he went and he he went and he did the same to another house but also he took the van and he rammed a flower shop a vegetable shop We see him here, he's going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
And that wasn't enough also.
What could his possible motivations for this be?
Hates vegetables.
No, he absolutely hates vegetables.
We can watch it again here.
He's just ramming the store.
It seems like he's got mental health issues.
Yeah, it's a bit loud.
No, I'm sick of, like, sweeping this under the carpet, oh, it's just mental health issues.
Well, I don't think it should be just mental health issues.
I think that why should we be letting mentally ill people in, or anyone at all from Syria, in the country?
Because this is what you get.
Some people are more predisposed towards these sorts of things than other people.
He'll have his reasons for this.
Well, lack of sensitivity training.
You have anticipated some of the stuff that I want to some of the questions I want to raise with a segment, but a lot of people are speculating whether this is a terrorist incident or not.
But at the end of the day, what is the most important thing is that this is has no place in Europe.
Yeah.
This has zero place in Europe.
So whether this person had links with terrorist groups or not, whether he just idolized them but wasn't involved with them, all this is secondary.
The main thing is that this has zero place in Europe and it should have zero place anywhere in the world.
So he rammed the flower shop and then he went out with a machete.
We have here some footage.
He comes out of it, he's wielding a machete and he's shouting and he's gonna enter.
So it's interesting that you can hear Muslim noises around this fruit and veg shop.
Is this like a grudge thing potentially?
Could be.
Yes, so now people are speculating whether he was a terrorist or not.
There has been zero official account whether he was or not, but some people are pointing out similarities and differences.
Some people are saying that the modus operandi, the way he went about it, bears striking resemblance with some previous attacks.
Yeah, especially the use of the van in order to There's a few cases in London where a van's been used, yeah.
Yeah, and not just there, it's just really widespread.
And you see him there having machetes and knives.
Some people say he's wearing a keffiyeh, which is, I think, the Palestinian scarf.
That's right, yeah.
And also he has some other... He had a small symbol with a Palestinian flag.
Right, so how was this covered in major networks?
Who is to blame?
With weird amounts of sensitivity, probably.
Who is to blame?
Someone has to be blamed.
Well, surely the guy with the machete is to blame.
Was it an accident?
Was it a failure to integrate the man?
This poor refugee felt so, you know, put upon and such a victim of racism that he had to crash the van into the veg shop and set fire to an apartment complex.
That remains to be seen, but it's manhood that is to blame.
Oh, isn't it men?
Yeah, we have it.
Could have been anything.
I think that's the Deutsche Welle and it says police arrest man over arson attacks and van crash.
Police in Germany say they have arrested a man over two Arson attacks and a van collision.
Two children were critically injured in one of the attacks, believed to have been aimed at a particular family.
So it's... Vengeance.
Yeah, it's men.
Take this.
Also in Euronews, eight children seriously hurt in arson attack in Germany's city in Essen.
And they say a man's been arrested after allegedly setting two fires in Essen that left 30 people injured and driving a van into two shops.
Authorities... I love the undifferentiated man.
The man.
A man.
Yeah.
Man.
Human male.
Yeah, because that's how Venom categorize all men.
But there's only one way to give less information about this, is say a human has been arrested.
As opposed to an alien or something.
Or a sapien.
So at least we know it's male, so that's more information.
Not female, that's more information.
So there's only one way to make this less informative.
I mean, I guess you could say a sentient being, maybe?
I'd be very interested to see, just as a sort of experiment, if they just started reporting on an ethnic Syrian did this, and how much it would change people's political attitudes if they're news just for a week.
Which is precisely why they report it.
Of course.
Again, they say the same thing.
A man has been arrested after allegedly setting off two fires in the western German city of Essen that left 30 people injured and driving a van into two shops authorities said on Sunday.
The fire services said that when it arrived at the scene of the first blaze, smoke was billowing from the entrance of the building and people were calling for help from windows.
Neighbors had app ladders to help people escape, but they weren't long enough to reach the upper floors.
And here we have some more information than man.
Again, the way that he says it, sorry, I'm sorry to interrupt.
No, no, it's just confusing.
He's an Essen resident, right?
Okay.
Is he on holiday?
Oh, he has Syrian citizenship.
Again, not a Syrian living in Essen.
No, not an immigrant, a Syrian immigrant.
No, he's like, all of this is external, right?
So if he was a Syrian immigrant, that would imply agency on his part.
He had chosen to move from Syria to Essen.
But no, this is all the passive voice.
This is a thing that has happened to him.
Oh, well, he has Syrian citizenship, as if this is something that just happened to him, and it's completely outside of his control.
As if it's childlike, infantilising this guy.
It reminds me of the language of people of colour.
Yeah, very much.
It's that same sort of weird, sanitised, passive language.
When they put the Essen resident first, it's like that's the essential bit.
That's all you need to care about.
All you need to care about.
The other is just entirely contingent.
That's kind of an appeal to the magic soil, isn't it?
He's an Essen resident, so he must just be like everyone else in Essen.
Maybe there's something about Essen.
Just don't go there, that's what they're trying to say.
Yeah, what's wrong with the soil of Essen to turn people into people like this?
By the way, I've been to Essen and I think it's lovely.
I'm sure it is.
And one person who's really close to mine got a surgery there and she's fine and it's a place I always remember in a good way.
And it saddens me to see things like that happening.
And it also saddens me to see the hypocrisy of what people are saying.
You have been hinting towards it, the word mental.
According to the German press agency, the man's lawyer, Volker Schroeder, said he had no political motive and that it was a purely tragic family story.
A fight against his wife for the children and probably a mental disorder.
So, his plan was to, did they own the grocery shop?
Like, were they, was he going to burn down the apartment with his kids in it, and destroy her livelihood, and then machete them?
What was his plan?
Maybe they were shopping from there, and he said that if you're shopping from their place, I need to punch the grocery store.
I realise that to us, this looks like a mental disorder, but that's because we're different to these people.
We think differently to them.
Well, I mean, whether it is or not, the thing is that there are too many mental disorders out there.
I think you could potentially be a Middle Eastern mental disorder enthusiast as well.
That's entirely possible.
And not only possible, it may be probable.
They just have very different reactions to these things than we do.
Yeah, but I want us to focus and dwell a bit on that, the purely tragic family story, because you remember there seems to be a particular leniency when a lot of people from particular groups are violent towards women in ways that leniency would not be shown to Europeans.
Yeah, and if Europeans were, I don't know, committing honour killings, then it wouldn't be like, well, it's just their culture.
It's just, you know, we have to be understanding.
Yeah, it wouldn't be like that.
It would be the exact opposite.
But the thing is that we have plenty of evidence about this.
So for instance, just out of nowhere, a very simple incident I was reminded of was the incident at a particular food chain where there was someone who was very angry with the order and he slapped the waitress.
The police was no biggie or something.
It was a cultural issue.
There were police in the restaurant at the time.
He wasn't arrested.
Nothing happened.
And this woman, she was a black woman from London, wasn't she?
I think so.
This young black woman was like, well, I can't believe I'm just being ignored.
The police aren't going to do anything about it.
It's like, right, you found out where you are on the progressive stack.
You're beneath the Muslim man.
You know, sorry to tell you that.
The rule should be one rule for all, but not in London.
It is interesting that the man's lawyer says this, because obviously he wants to portray what happens with him in a positive light.
And this shows exactly the kind of defense the lawyer thinks would work in a court of law.
To appeal to mental disorder, but also to appeal to a tragic family story, a fight against his wife or the children.
This isn't exactly the type of fatherly figure of the stable family man who you want to raise children with, so... You know, a good relationship with your father can warm your heart for the rest of your life.
A very brief period.
Just saying, you know, if I ever got a divorce and my wife got the kids, I'm not going to murder my wife.
Or ex-wife, to get the kids.
I'm not going to set fire to my house.
But how is this supposed to be a defence?
That's supposed to work in the way that it would minimise the kind of culpability.
They would say he is less responsible for what he's doing.
It doesn't have to appeal to a European morality, is I think the reason for it.
Dangerous lunatic, send him across the southern border from Mexico.
But also that is the issue though, that there are a lot of people who are being defended on such grounds that they're not responsible.
Or it's their culture.
It's different.
Right, so here we see we see someone Lars Pellinat saying in our German media from ARD ZDF to RTL wants to sell us this incident as crime motivated by relationship issues.
And he is speculating that there is something more into it.
I think that Fair, reasonable speculation?
Fair, reasonable speculation, but it doesn't add much to this here.
I think whether we are talking about someone here who is affiliated with terrorist groups or not, it's just entirely besides the point, because even if he isn't, that's not acceptable.
So I think that in this case, if people are highlighting the idea that he may not be a terrorist or that there has been no motive established in this case... Who cares?
He was trying to murder people.
He was trying to kill people.
We can see all of the crime data from other European countries as well that suggest that Syrians are some of the most likely to commit violent crimes of any group and I don't think it should be Europe's problem to solve problems in Syria.
Yes.
And also, that's what I wanted to say.
It's completely secondary if he is affiliated with any group or something.
That's not acceptable.
People shouldn't put up with it.
And it seems that Germany isn't putting up with it.
And this is evident particularly in the good performance of the AFD in several state elections in Saxony, Thuringia and in Brandenburg.
And the government is giving completely mixed signals to people.
So they said on the one hand that they are going to tighten control borders.
for an immigration crackdown and they said they're going to do this just for six months.
They're literally like, we want to be really woke, but they keep murdering people.
We want to be really woke, but people are actually dying.
Yes, that's it.
The funny thing is the border controls in Germany as well are so lackluster and uninfused that I think My sort of suspicion of this, I don't have enough evidence to necessarily say definitively, is that they're running these border controls but they're doing it poorly so they can say, well we tried to control the border and it didn't work, our crime didn't really go down very much and so it's a waste of time.
Whereas they're just, you know, standing on the main roads and, for example, they're letting large lorries and certain vehicles go through whilst they're stopping cars, when actually it should probably be the other way around, judging from the border between France and the UK.
But I'm saying that this was a mixed signal because the party that did this, led by Olaf Scholz, is the Social Democrat Party.
And they did this just in order to portray that they are doing something against immigration, particularly they wanted to hurt the AFD in Brandenburg.
But then he immediately went to Central Asia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and countries of the sort and he wanted to say that we are gonna make it easier for skilled workers from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and the countries of Central Asia to go to Germany.
So what he did wasn't something to say that okay it's a moment of self-criticism We have suffered things like the Solingen stabbings or the stabbing in Mannheim or the stabbings in just several neighbourhoods.
That was just not an attempt to say that we are going to put our country in order.
That was just an attempt to... The nerve on the guy though to say, well, okay, you've had enough of Turks and Syrians.
We're going to rotate now and get, you know, tens of thousands of boar rats into your country.
Why does it always have to be Muslim countries?
I know, yeah.
Okay, we need loads of immigrants.
Okay, let's assume that was true.
Can we have, like, East Asians, please?
They probably don't want to move here that much, to be fair.
But, you know, you could look at a group like the Chinese, for example, which commit crime at a lower rate in all of the countries they've settled in Europe.
That's sort of a more model group that they could turn to if they wanted to, if they really wanted to justify it.
But at the end of the day, it's all about whether you want to prioritize your own population or not.
And the problem is that a lot of parties have reconceived who we and they are.
I always question the concept of the skills shortage, really, in Germany.
That's hard to believe because the Germans are really smart and really hard-working.
It must be a lack of training.
Well it's a fallacious argument because it's arguing that there is a lack of employees that are skilled and that we need to get people in but then they're going to Sub-Saharan Africa to the Middle East.
People whose qualifications can't really match those of Europe because the institutions in their home country aren't up to the same standard of Europeans.
And anyway, when it gets to the point of lots of things being automated and AI running a lot of things, lots of industries, we're going to actually need far fewer jobs, even if we had no immigration, let alone bussing in loads of people.
I just refuse to believe that the Germans are like, well, you know, no one's working hard or doing training or smart enough to get these jobs.
No, I don't really believe that's the case.
Maybe it's the case in England, but it's definitely not the case in Germany.
I think it's a post hoc rationalization wherever it goes, yeah, of course.
But it's a nonsense.
But to carry on with the segment, because I'll have to draw it to a close in a bit, I think that the governments of of Europe.
They are essentially trying to not solve the issue.
They want to pretend that they're trying to do something but actually they're not doing anything.
And it's telling when they're sort of excusing people.
They're letting people get away with it.
Because here I have the Solingen stabbing incident where three people were killed and five seriously injured.
It was again someone from Syria who had been denied asylum status and it wasn't granted and there was a deportation order that had expired and they hadn't deported him and he went and he killed.
So what I want to say is that all this virtue signaling rhetoric about human rights is completely abused by European governments.
They are disrespecting Europeans, first and foremost, because they are not literally caring about the public safety of Europeans.
And this isn't by any stretch of the imagination something that just happened now.
I have this video from eight years ago, They're talking about, again, another Syrian who killed someone with a machete and injured two other people.
They're saying the exact same things that they're saying now.
Let's play this video.
A machete attack by a Syrian asylum seeker in the German town of Reutlingen has no apparent connection to terrorism.
Police say the incident, which left one woman dead and two others injured, happened after an argument.
That's worse!
We have leads that this was a crime connected to a relationship.
That means that there was a relationship between the killed woman and the 21-year-old suspect.
We have absolutely no hints that this was a religiously motivated crime or that there is a terrorist background.
That's worse.
That's way worse.
- Yeah, that's worse, that's way worse. - Let's play the video and add to this. - Sorry, go on. - The attacker, who was apprehended by police, is said to have been involved in previous incidents causing injuries to other people and was apparently acting alone.
The victim and her attacker both worked at the same Turkish fast food restaurant close to where the argument took place.
The incident comes amid tension after other violent events in Germany in the past week.
The same thing and this is from eight years ago.
This is from Yeah, eight years ago, 27th of July 2016.
This is worse.
If it's political, it's like, okay, people get involved in politics, people get caught up in politics.
You know, someone does something insane in politics.
Okay, fair enough.
At least there's like, there's reason involved.
You know, it's like, okay, well he had reasons for it.
This is about the habituation of these people.
It's about the way that they think it's appropriate to deal with their interpersonal relationships.
It's the conflict of a dignity culture versus an honor culture.
And the honour culture says, no, if a woman has slighted you in some way, her dignity doesn't matter.
In fact, it's your honour that matters.
So go and get the goddamn machete and go and deal with her.
And that's why he did what he did.
This is atrocious.
This is way worse than it being political.
Well, it shows that any Syrian could basically just be a sleeper agent of violence.
A sleeper agent is to give them a political overarching notion.
That's true, yeah.
That's the thing.
There is a habitual problem With the community that we have to be worried about.
And I'm not saying that every Syrian is going to do this or anything like that.
There are going to be lots of Syrians who don't agree with this.
But the way they're framing it is, oh, it's just a relational issue.
No, that's worse.
That's way worse.
Because all of society is just a series of relations that we live within.
Yes, and I think the most important thing you said has to do with the symbolism.
Because Just by people changing geographical location, they don't change culture.
And some cultures see things very symbolically, they don't look at the individual.
So what people misunderstand here is that in the minds of some people, everything is to be judged in a collectivist basis, and they see things symbolically.
So when they have feuds, particularly with a family member or something, They can also want to punish the culture that they blame for changing the minds of the people they're having fight with.
So, for instance, whether he is linked with terrorism or not, maybe my gut instinct says that this particular person was not, because there were five people who were able to detain him and throwing objects at him.
He wasn't particularly well trained, but that's just speculation.
But all this doesn't matter.
What seems to matter is that Symbolically in his mind he wanted to punish the culture that he thought was responsible for his wife having a feud with him.
He may well be defending his honor as well.
He feels that the culture has dishonored him more broadly.
And there are the virtue signaling policies have disastrous effects.
It's not just that, you know, we were just having a go at some people and we're just ranting.
We have this article from European Conservative.
I've shown it before several times.
If you want to find out more about the crime statistics in Germany, check on our website.
But I'll just say that Annual crime in Germany has risen for the year 2023 by 12.5%.
Jesus Christ, that's a lot in a year.
Yeah, just saying that.
Anyway, I think... And that's an increase from the previous year on that.
Yeah, it's the annual crime increase.
Yeah, so there's zero room in Europe for behaviour like that.
I agree.
WhiteRider says, we're all very familiar with, sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.
If only these people lived by, sometimes unreasonable men must do reasonable things.
Oh yeah, God, if only it was possible to do that.
Aouf Minna says, poor impulse control.
Some Islamic men are raised with no boundaries and no consequences.
They are very narcissistic and feel very entitled.
I don't think it's just some Islamic men.
I mean, it seems to be a large number of Islamic men.
Because Islam places all the burden of responsibility on the women and children and very little on the men.
Well, they order their entire society around men.
Yeah.
So very, the men are not, they don't have the burden of self-control placed on themselves.
Women have to cover up, children have to cover up, this that and the other.
It's like, okay, but that encourages you to be a hysterical screeching woman about things, frankly, and I don't like it.
I agree.
Anyway, let's go to the video comments.
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I was planning on documenting and sending in some videos over the course but never got round to it.
Anyway, so at the end of the course I entered the Young Persons Furniture Makers Awards and I've been shortlisted and will be in London on the 2nd October.
That's really, really cool.
I love woodworking.
I don't do any of it myself.
I vicariously watch a lot of woodworking videos on Facebook.
But the thing is, the algorithm knows I like it because it comes up and I'll sit there for, you know, two minutes or whatever watching this thing and be like, that was satisfying to watch.
So, well done.
Yeah, congratulations on the nomination and also nice furniture.
Yeah, I was looking and thinking, that looks cool.
I queued for the Reform Party Conference 24 and to me this was the important part of Farage's speech.
We don't want extremists.
We don't want bigots.
We don't want people who think that way because we represent the silent decent majority of this great country that we live in.
The silent majority is who Reform represents.
Well, I mean, I think the silent majority is actually a bit more right-wing than Nigel Farage is prepared to give credit for being.
60% of the country don't want immigration.
Just flat out.
Farage should be like, no, the policy is zero immigration, because it's literally the majority opinion of the British public.
So, I mean, I agree, he should be representing the silent majority, but he should just come out and be a bit more hard on it.
I mean, the public opinion is even harder than that, to be fair.
It depends on how it's framed.
Yeah, that's true.
But in the sort of softest opinion, 60% of people think there's been too much immigration.
Then say zero.
But yeah, like you say, it depends on how it's framed.
You can get up to like 70%.
Let's go to the next one.
David Lammy is infuriating with his chronic victim narrative.
Here's a man born in England and afforded the finest education.
A man who has literally never worked a day in his life, nor suffered any actual deprivations.
Far worse, though, are the virtue-signaling leftist whites like queer Stalin, who failed to recognize that Western civilization remains the exception, not the rule.
And it was built by the blood, labor, and sacrifice that apparently their bench-sitting peasant ancestors weren't a part of.
Well that summarises my thoughts on it exactly.
It's just bloody insufferable.
Absolutely insufferable.
I like the framing there.
The western civilisation is the exception and not the rule.
Totally true.
The rule is definitely the opposite.
I'm not even going to go for one.
That's a good observation, I think.
It's a very good observation.
It's the exceptional set of standards that we uphold that are difficult.
I'm not going to go into it because it's just going to rile me up and make me angry.
Let's go to the next one.
You know, I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, and I'm the kind of guy who likes looking back at historical films, too.
It used to be they sang the praises of my once-fair city in that wonderful transatlantic accent, but there was a distinct change in the 60s.
Instead of endorsing the future, they slandered the past, where suddenly all those wonderful Tudor homes were no longer something to aspire to, but urban blight.
Even in my own upbringing here in the 90s, you can see how fair the streets are.
Everyone's happy, well-dressed, the streets are clean and orderly, and now here's roughly the same place on Hastings today.
And our masters have the sheer temerity to lean down from their legislature and declare it progress.
Thing is, though, this is something that really... Zombie apocalypse.
No, no, no.
It's become very apparent to me that the sort of traditional standards are exclusionary.
That's the very nature of a standard, right?
And so if the traditional standard is for X, Y, and Z, then the liberal, the doctrinaire liberal extremist says, well, hang on a second.
All of these people are being left out of the standard.
Therefore, the standard is racist, sexist, And so the standard has to be torn down.
And the second half of that was just what you get when you tear down the standard.
Well, you get the worst of everything, everywhere, all the time.
So, okay, well, this is just, it's becoming increasingly clear to me that, and I did, I did the video about Rhodesia the other day, where Ian Smith was just... I knew this was coming.
Yeah, well, it's because it's literally, he's saying, you know, we just want standards.
We just want standards.
And if it was right then, why is it wrong now?
It's obviously the liberal revolution.
Again, at the same time, you know, across the West, after the war in the 60s, there was a liberal ideological revolution that rendered our entire civilization to actually be defective because it wasn't built on liberal principles.
It was built on traditional principles.
And you can see how they've just been working to erase all of these good things that were built up.
And we're coming to the end of that process, where everything's turning into shit.
Well, the thing is, Ian Smith, I think, was right on a lot of things.
But he was coming at it from a more traditional, liberal standpoint.
What is a traditional English perspective?
Yeah, exactly, yeah.
It's not a liberal one.
Well, I think it was liberal to a certain extent.
Well, no, it's not ideological.
It's about the inherited traditions based on practical experience, right?
So it's, you know, if something worked, then you do it.
If it doesn't work, you don't do it.
Unlike liberalism, where it's like, it doesn't matter whether it works or not.
We've established in advance of reality that this is right.
And so we're going to do it regardless of the consequences.
And it's like, okay, but that's madness.
And this is where it leads us to, you know, this unbelievable nonsense.
What do you reckon, Stelios?
No, I just think that, as we said before, that the West is exceptional.
And one of the exceptional features of Western civilization is the degree of respect afforded to liberties.
Now in some cases this comes in more natural than in others and I don't doubt this but I think you know I just don't see the problem you see.
Well the problem is that some people deserve to be excluded.
Yeah, for instance criminals.
Or not just criminals.
Homeless encampments.
No, go and get a job.
You have to go and get a job.
We're not going to give you money to sit around and do drugs on the street.
Not necessarily criminals.
No, I mean, in my mind, I would say that the people who are saying that let's just constantly give handouts to everyone aren't particularly liberal.
No, they're very liberal and they think of themselves as very liberal.
One thing I think because we could... We will.
We could say to the audience so they could debrief our discussions on the topic.
I think that after the 70s Rawlsians have incorporated the term liberals and people from left and right they have played along with this and now a lot of people are playing along with it.
According to myself, I think that's a mistake.
But if you mean Rawlsians, then I'm fully in agreement.
I think that Rawls definitely captured liberalism during the latter half of the 20th century.
But he didn't reinvent the wheel.
He didn't change the principles.
He just essentially made it more assertive.
Why did Hayek go at him like mad?
Because Hayek had a camp in the past.
Hayek was concerned about reality.
Yeah.
But Rawls isn't!
He literally makes up a thought experiment that has nothing to do with reality.
So it's like... That's why I draw a lot of inspiration from Hayek.
And I'm not saying that he's wrong or bad, but the problem is the idealistic wing of liberalism always beats the pragmatic wing of liberalism, which is why we're at the point right now.
And so there must be some significant ideological power in the idealistic wing, if it can always win over the pragmatic.
I think the problem comes with conservatives.
Not in the U.S.
sense.
Not in the U.S.
sense.
But I think a lot of conservatives, they have turned their back to their principles and they don't subscribe to traditional values.
But they're not traditionalists.
That's the thing.
I'm saying that some people are not liberals and you're telling me they are.
All the conservatives... But when I'm telling you that they are conservatives, you tell me they're not conservatives.
No, no, they are conservatives, but conservative means liberal.
OK, they're conservatives, I think, in terms of temperament.
They're more likely to accept slow changes, and I think that's particularly bad in any kind of society.
Conservatives genuinely are liberals, though.
They agree with all the liberal principles.
They just don't want to rush it, and it's like, OK, well, Brilliant.
We'd better carry on and go on to the next one.
Can we do the next one?
Very nice mugs!
used to go on Facebook and see that the Corbinats in my local town were kicking off because the Homeland Party held in their conference across the road from their favourite pub.
And I have a new mug.
Very nice mugs.
I saw that Sports Direct mug.
They're all good size though for a cup of tea, aren't they?
Thank you.
Nice mugs, though.
And shirt.
Thank you for supporting us.
Let's go to the next one.
Can we go to the comments?
I hope it's a good one.
Conchra Thunderous says, when we get the BBN, the base British news sister company, Carl, I guess when we've sold 100,000 copies of Islander.
Make it happen.
Yeah, so only a little way to go.
Or when we get investment from Paul Marshall or someone.
Roman Observer says, suits wholly approved.
Well done to our esteemed hosts.
Thank you.
I think your combination today is really good.
Oh, really?
I think people's hearts were won by your white suit.
Really?
Yeah.
It's the one from Moss, right?
Yeah, that's right.
I think people loved your white suit, though.
I'm glad they did.
Omar says, well, it's true that Europe is moving politically right.
It's more accurate to say that it's moving to the centre.
Even five or ten years ago, these would have been common sense policies.
Yeah, that's true.
Gabriel says, I feel like these Cordon Sanitaire method of blocking right-wing winners from forming governments cannot last.
This is the actual threat to democracy.
If you make it systematically impossible to pursue these policies democratically, then you open the door to coups, revolutions, and worse.
I don't think we're going to see coups and revolutions.
I think the time for that has passed.
But I do think the Cordon Sanitaire is breaking down.
What do you think?
No, I think you're right.
I think you're right.
I've seen it in Sweden.
I think it's going to happen in Austria.
Absolutely.
Maybe it'll happen in Britain.
I think no one wants revolutions now.
It's just... I think that we're not masculine enough for revolutions anymore.
Weapons are too good.
Weapons?
Weapons are just too lethal.
I'm not worried about that.
I don't think the British police have got it in them.
No, no, no, as in... The cost of that sort of disorder was limited by the arms in which were available at the time.
Well, it hurt the GDP.
Yeah, no, I just... That was not what I was saying.
I don't think it's that.
I think it's just people are less spirited than they used to be.
So they're less inclined to form an angry mob and storm the Bastille.
But if you pick at them enough, some people may go... Maybe, I don't know.
Human nature hasn't changed, at least.
You can't really change that, can you?
No, I'm kind of with Hegel on this.
Human nature does change.
It's a product.
Look, people are way more passive than they used to be.
We've still got quirks from, like, 500,000 years ago.
If we haven't lost those, how are we gonna... We've still got what's?
Like, evolutionary quirks, yeah.
Yeah, but just the nature of people's temperament has clearly changed in the past hundred years.
Wick men create bad times.
That's true.
Bad times.
We're entering into the bad times, we're going into the... What is an unprecedented historic environment, isn't it?
We're not set up for this future.
Yeah, no, absolutely.
Ewan says, new phrase is, when in Europe do as the Muslims do.
And that's the thing.
The Muslims and the newcomers, the Africans, they're acting in ways that Europeans would have acted like this 200 years ago.
They would have done things like this.
These are just old world people arriving in the new world.
I'm not even joking!
It's just the term old world that's often used to describe primates.
Well, it's political.
Of course, yeah.
New world politics from America being moved to the old world of Asia and Europe.
But unironically, during the 17th century, we had mutilation as a punishment.
I know, it's barbaric.
Cut your ears off.
Well, you say it's barbaric, is it?
You know.
Cutting someone's ear off, I think, is pretty... Well, I'm saying that Ahmed would have agreed with his machete.
He's like, yeah, no, we probably should cut someone's... That's why I'm better than Ahmed with a machete.
I don't know about that!
I don't believe in cutting people's ears off.
If you want people to listen to you, that's the worst thing you could do.
Maybe I don't.
Maybe these people deserve it, I don't know.
I've been waiting for the next one.
What Justin says, I think there's a fertility rate and immigration link.
The more migration there is, the less safe the country feels and the worse the economy is.
Less likely the natives feel able to breed.
That's the right way round, yeah.
I want to say something about this because you know I didn't want to derail the first segment but you know when we said about the fertility rate I think there are several reasons why you could care about it so number one is you know if you live in a world and in a country and you have a lot of You know, foreigners within the population and the domestic population decreases.
Then, yeah, fraternity rate does play a role because it directly affects the number of people that could potentially sustain a culture organically.
So I think that's one thing.
And also, maybe, you know, I'm thinking of different settings, but you could say that, you know, the same way you want your family to survive, you also want your nation to survive.
So you want some good numbers.
The way I'm sort of coming at it is that there are more than enough Britons already.
We just need to get rid of our uninvited guests and that, if anything, £40 million in England is overcrowded and it's naturally declining.
Why interfere with it?
£40 million in England wasn't overcrowded.
Again, you go back to the 90s, where house prices were like three or four times average salary, and you realise that's how it should be.
It's a good equilibrium.
Houses were completely affordable.
There were opportunities.
Because you've got a large country, you can make a lot of money if you do very well and things like this.
It's a good size.
I think it's an unacceptable amount of our countryside that we've concreted over.
It's only like 4%.
It's still too much.
It's going to get worse, but it wasn't bad back then.
It was a big, prosperous country full of happy people.
Just one thing that I observe, judging from Greece and other countries and England, is that you seem to build up.
When you build new houses, you sort of build up, whereas in other cases people spread their buildings.
Our countryside is way nicer than Greece's.
I mean, it's a different thing.
Honestly, I love both.
I love Greece as well.
I love the countryside as well.
We have the Aegean mountain.
It's different.
It's a different thing.
It's a different nature.
I'll take Greek beaches any time.
Oh yeah, Greek beach is way better than ours.
But like, you know, you don't have luscious grass, you know.
That's true.
No, it's wonderful here in that respect.
But it is wonderful in Greece as well.
I'm not trying to put Greece down.
No, but I'm just saying... The weather's so much better.
Do you think that that's a wrong observation?
How people build and expand cities?
One thing I did notice is that in Greece your buildings are bigger even though the economies are obviously of a different scale, aren't they?
Yeah, we're just like space.
Yeah, we do live like hobbits.
Anyway, Ruth the Day says, lads, having children is not that expensive and having consecutive children, even less so, can confirm.
Grant says, I don't think ICE is a wet organisation.
It's not a hydra, if you put the right person in charge it could be effective again.
Undoubtedly, but look at who's running your country.
Jimbo says, We need an audit of politicians in Western countries.
There is no way they are this stupid, deliberately changing the demographics of entire countries, and demanding that we not only accept it, but that we have absolutely no standards for new arrivals.
If they are just thick, then their gamble has failed, and they need to about turn fast.
Well, this is why so many people have come to the conclusion that it's not they're thick, they're just evil, and they hate us, and they're trying to destroy us.
Andrew says, how long before Venezuela sent convicted criminals to the United States?
And that's a good thing.
Incoming, actually, given these numbers and given how... Again, I can't definitively link these, but it seems very, very bloody likely, doesn't it?
Baron Von War Kiwi says, are my laptops, are my things about to run out of bloody battery?
says a small number of these murderous gangsters could take over an apartment block in Colorado.
It's terrifying to think what 15,000 of them could do.
Of course, it would be easier to stop them if the media and the government would stop helping them, or at least admit they exist.
Yes, it would.
If it does run out, you can use my laptop if you want.
I don't know why I found it funny.
What?
That your laptop's running out of battery.
I don't know why!
I think I need a light in the suffering of others.
I need to get a new one, I think.
A jolly mood or something.
It's gone.
Madly.
Reading about a Syrian going wild in Germany cheer you up.
That was 20 minutes ago.
That's true.
Life goes on.
Truly embracing the news cycle now.
God, I hate the news cycle so much.
Omar says, you can never hate journalists enough.
How the hell would you justify writing an article that implies importing literal convicted criminals doesn't increase crime?
That's why I included it.
It was one of the first ones you found on Google.
By the way, there's no link.
It's just they're literal criminals, and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement just lets them off into the country.
Good luck.
It's kind of like The Purge.
For his next article, no link between bashing object against my head and brain damage.
Arizona Desert Rat says, blaming antisocial behavior like this on a mental disorder does a huge disservice to the everyday person who struggles with depression, anxiety, etc.
It paints any people with mental illness or disorders as being violent and aggressive.
Exactly.
Especially as I don't think... I think the problem is the Western liberal mind has difficulty understanding things that are not itself, right?
Because it's actually not irrational The Assyrian who's deeply in this honour culture goes, well, the way that my honour is restored is to kill that woman and therefore everyone around me will agree that my honour has been restored.
The common conception will be, yep, well that's what you had to do.
I mean, what did she expect?
This is just a completely different paradigm that we don't live in.
I think you're absolutely correct, and I did an interview with Professor Geoffrey Bale, who's also working in counter-terrorism studies, and he said that this was one of the main problems before the 9-11 happened, because he and other people were saying, these are extremists, you take extremists seriously, they are true believers.
And a lot of people, just the people in the agencies that were responsible for national security, weren't paying attention because they said, no, they're not really, they don't really mean it.
It's more like maximalist language.
Exactly.
They're not like you and you don't understand them.
This is the thing.
They genuinely believe this nonsense.
People can check the interview on our website.
Baron Von War Kiwi says because he was a migrant and because so far nobody has been killed I'm going to bet my bottom dollar that he is going to get off on an insanity charge and given a slap on the wrist.
In a just world he'd be hanging from the gallows for trying to burn children alive but instead he's going to spend a year in a comfy hospital.
Or in the Alps, in a very chilled atmosphere, looking at the mountainside or something.
Base Ape says, the problem isn't going to go away until the judges face extremely harsh punishments for their selective leniency.
When you start demanding these judges have the right to practice law, strip from them for things like this.
I figure you should only have to do it a handful of times before getting the message of Bruce.
To be honest with you, I'm very tired of mental health being an exculpatory factor.
Because at the end of the day, like, okay, so what are you saying?
They're not rational, they're not in control of their actions, they're effectively an animal.
So, okay, but what do we do with dangerous animals?
Kill them.
Exactly.
So, okay, you've reduced them to the level of an animal, and they're like, yeah, so, let's go release them back into society, isn't it?
That's not what we do with dangerous animals.
Well, that's diversion, yeah.
It's just not the right thing to do with a dangerous, non-rational creature.
Like, that's just not what we do with them.
We don't allow their liberty to go off and do this again.
So, you know, I'm totally against it.
And I guess we'll end on that, Texas gals.
We are in a breeding competition, though, because white women keep breeding with non-European men.
Take a scroll through Instagram and count how many white babies you see.
Well, we actually have the statistics, and in Britain it's only 7% of marriages are interracial marriages, so it's actually a really low number.
And to be honest with you, they should, because they need to incorporate into the population if we can't just mass deport them.
So, in a couple of generations I'm a third generation product of misogyny and I'm telling you they become very English.
If you make them become very English.
Nobody made me actually.
But that's not the problem.
The problem is we've just got an unbelievable topsy-turvy upside-down world in which foreigners are privileged over the natives.
Anyway, with that being said, Exactly is it?
That's all from us for today.
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