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March 17, 2025 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1122
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I am joined by the olive oil lord himself, the Stelios.
Hello Josh.
Hello brother Josh.
Hello there.
And we're going to be talking about the end of Trudeau as a sort of retrospective, a gloating...
I think it's the end.
It's like one of those concerts where, you know, it's constantly announced that it's ending.
But do you have an encore?
We don't want an encore.
Nobody wants an encore.
I'm going to be talking about how things are getting more tense in Japan, and then Stelios is going to tell us about how the French are demanding the return of the Statue of Liberty, which is funny.
You have an announcement to make, don't you?
Yeah, I have an announcement.
I had an interview.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Eric Lidstrom.
Could you please have the link here?
Yeah, we've got one in the dock to pull up, Harry.
Just in the announcements.
Anyway, so we have an interview with Dr. Eric Lidstrom.
We're talking about multiculturalism in Sweden, evolutionary psychology, high X knowledge problem, and also talking about education and decentralization.
And I have a feeling, Josh, that you will absolutely love the interview.
I have to check it out.
And as will you at home.
Eric is pro-decentralizing education massively.
Just take the state away.
Well, yeah, of course.
I mean, we got to where we are.
Damn music to your ears.
It is music to my ears.
Exactly.
I'm hearing music right now.
Exactly.
But anyway, looks like we don't have a link, so I suppose take us away with some Trudeau.
And take your breath away.
That's going to get clipped.
Right, okay, so Justin Trudeau has resigned.
I think it's about the seventh or eighth time, but rumor has it that it's final.
Is it final this time?
I think it is, because they have a new PM, Mark Carney, so if Justin Trudeau hasn't in fact resigned and they have two PMs, all hell's going to break loose.
It's like having two dads.
It's very inclusive.
Justin Trudeau will love it.
But also, you'd say you would expect by someone who claims to put Canada first to...
Not go back and try to challenge the guy who succeeded him.
And to split the country in two because he really wants to be the first person to resign for ten times.
It's about eighth or ninth now.
It's a record.
So we're going to talk about the legacy of Justin Trudeau.
You know most of it.
But we're going to also tell you some of the funny stuff.
But before we do, we have Oil Under 3 magazine.
Definitely go and check.
It's...
Josh really likes it when I say it this way.
The oilander.
Oilander, yeah.
It doesn't come with a free pack of crude oil, unfortunately.
Right, so it's only £14.99.
Just, it's a no-brainer.
Go and get it.
Go and get it.
You don't even need to remortgage your house to buy it.
Exactly, yeah.
I mean, there are lots of people who are spending money and they...
Really regret it.
So you can either spend £15 and regret it or spend £15 and not regret it by buying Islander 3. Right.
Let's go to Trudeau now.
So this happened in January 6. We had Trudeau who went out.
Jan 6. Jan 6, yes.
Is that over the holidays?
That disaster we've been hearing about.
I've also had a chance to reflect.
He went out.
There is context behind that video.
They literally had the podium and papers on top and the wind started blowing and the leaves scattered in the wind.
And Trudeau didn't want to hear his speech is what I'm hearing.
So Trudeau went out and he said that he wants to be close to his family and he wants a new chapter in his life.
And he said that he is a proud Canadian who put the nation first.
Now, yesterday we have another announcement that he resigned.
Really don't know what to make of it.
He's putting the nation first, so he's stepping down.
That's the best thing he's ever done.
And this is March 14, so he is resigning for a long time now.
The first reply I saw to that, Canada has lost a good Prime Minister.
According to who?
According to a person calling himself True History.
Apparently.
Right.
So here is his final messenger thing.
This is going to be one of his final videos.
And I literally want you to hear it, because I heard it, so you have to hear it as well.
But I literally want to torture people with this video.
You literally want to torture them?
Yes.
Rather than figuratively?
Yeah, it's one of those cases where I feel comfortable saying it.
Let's hear it to what he has to say, and also examine what he has to say, because we should give people the benefit of the doubt.
I think he's well past it.
So proud of Canadians.
I'm proud to have served a country full of people who stand up for what's right, rise to every occasion, and always have each other's backs when it matters most.
This may be my last day here in this office, but I will always be boldly and unapologetically Canadian.
My only ask is that no matter what the world throws at us, you always be the same.
Trudeau wants Legion, Trudeau's.
I want more of you.
The funny thing is, he's talking about how much he loves Canadians.
He loves them so much that on his watch he flooded the country full of people who are not Canadians.
But they weren't true Canadians, those who protested against him, were they?
They weren't Trudeau.
They weren't Trudeau Canadians.
But also, yeah, he's done loads of things, to name a few.
You know, obviously massive Indian migration.
Didn't they do joint military ops with the Chinese?
And the Americans were very upset about this because they're like, well, they're scoping out North America for a potential invasion, you idiots.
What are you doing?
That was another Trudeau success.
Well...
He is one of the world princes, and we are going to talk about several stuff here.
So here we have one of those videos that went viral.
We have many people uploading it.
Don't just go and tell me this is only 280 views and only 3.6k.
Millions watched it, right?
This is just one version of it.
Yes.
I've shown it before.
He's confronted by a Canadian steel worker who basically says, I don't believe you.
You're doing nothing for me.
I'm paying 40% taxes and I don't have access to basic goods.
That sounds like most people who...
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, but it's good.
He knows his position in the world.
Exactly.
Look at what he told him.
Every time we go for a dental visit, it costs me about $50 in my pocket per person.
Okay.
Why?
I have a good job.
You're not really doing anything for us, Justin.
Actually, we just invested so half a million people haven't been to the dentist.
We've got to go to the dentist over the past few months.
Probably like my neighbor that doesn't go to work because she's lazy.
She just doesn't go to work.
She lives the same way if I do.
Most Canadians try to stick up to each other.
That's what we're going to keep doing.
Good luck and I'll tell you something.
Have a nice day.
Have a good day, sir.
I think that epitomizes Trudeau basically because he literally had severe egalitarian instincts and he literally wanted to level everyone down.
Literally? Yes.
Why do you hate me saying literally, Josh?
Brother Josh, why?
Because it's one of those things where people say it and don't mean it.
I say it and I do mean it.
You confuse me for a politician.
Stay off.
I believe everything you say, don't worry.
But the interesting thing here is that his...
Rebuttal to him was basically just like, well...
Platitudes.
Yeah, well, that's just what Canadians are like.
We like being ripped off by lazy people in our own country.
If you read the subtext, he's saying...
Yeah, you're not a true Canadian.
So being unapologetically Canadian means that you want everyone leveled down.
According to Trudeau, it means sitting on your backside and collecting welfare.
Right, so we have here the new Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, who...
Basically vows to get straight to work.
And he basically has a career in financing.
He was governor of the Bank of Canada, I think, for seven years, from 2008.
He was working at Goldman Sachs.
Why is it...
Working for Goldman Sachs is like a golden ticket to political leadership, isn't it?
I don't know why, Josh.
It's funny, isn't it?
There's some sort of revolving door system here, isn't there?
Yeah.
Right.
Here we have Pierre Poilievre basically saying that as Trudeau's economic advisor, Carney made Canada weaker and poorer and working for himself, he made America stronger and richer.
And he's basically saying that he wasn't elected and that he...
He announces that he's going to cut Trudeau's carbon tax, that he himself was a supporter of it, but obviously he's going to announce it because the elections are coming.
Many such cases.
This is like your typical Conservative, the same thing that you get in Britain, where they're Conservative in name only, and their actual politics are just left-wing politics of a few years before the current left-wing establishment.
Yeah, but he's saying also about Carney that he supported the carbon tax and now Carney goes out and says that I'm going to slash it.
Basically, you can't have a career constantly advocating for taxes of the sort and then mysteriously.
Slash them a few months before a general election.
Sounds very familiar, doesn't it?
Exactly.
I think Canada's politics are some of the most comparable to Britain going, because their party dynamic is very similar to ours.
But sorry, do carry on.
No, just no reason to apologise.
It looks like, though, that even the Canadian libs had an issue with Trudeau, and ever since he resigned, their popularity has increased.
Yeah, he was probably a dead weight for them, wasn't he?
I mean, he's sort of tanked their reputation as much as you possibly could.
He was losing momentum, and he has a legacy that if you find out what it is, you're not going to...
You're not going to have any second dance.
Your legacy is making Canada objectively worse.
Exactly.
And we have here a really good list that says worst housing affordability ever, skyrocketing national debt, rampant inflation, homelessness in 10 cities.
I've been hearing by people that it's almost double the cost to buy a house right now in Canada, that it used to be a few years ago.
It doesn't surprise me, to be honest.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Violent crime soaring.
Opioid deaths on the rise, healthcare system breakdown, bank account freezes during protests.
That was the truckers, wasn't it?
Truckers protests.
Ethics scandal, censorship of citizens, food bank use at record highs, excessive government spending, 25 years high interest rates, reckless immigration policy.
So one of the things there, the food bank use, I would like to inject a little bit of red pill wisdom here.
Canada's got a lot of Indian people, and there was a scandal in Britain of all of the Indian people coming to Britain using food banks, even though they were in full-time work, just because they're cheap, and they were doing it to just save money.
They're just like, well, no one asks us any questions, so we get free food.
I do wonder whether that's a similar thing there, although, of course, I don't imagine that people are sort of at their financial best in Canada at the minute.
I like your Rogan Josh version when you're talking about Indian recipes.
Right, so let's just remember a few things.
I think one of the worst elements of Trudeau's, apart from the economic ones, obviously, because it's a huge harm.
I think he was excessively bad at free speech issues.
He was putting forward...
That's certainly true, yeah.
All those...
Hate speech bills.
Some of them had retroactive clauses.
And the way he handled the tracker's protests was appalling.
And it was visibly different to the way that pro-Palestine and pro-Hamas protests were dealt with.
And we have here several of the bloopers.
And I think that this is tragic, but also comic.
Because the very people who are constantly saying that we are going to be the experts of singling out basically Nazis and telling you where hate speech leads and if you just make a joke or a meme, you're going to be a Nazi.
A literal Nazi flew under the radar and they gave him a standing ovation.
I remember this.
Yes, it's just...
Zelensky's speech received at least a dozen standing ovations.
There was also one for this man, a 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians during the Second World War.
Yes.
So I think this is one of the major bloopers of his candidacy.
Because of course, imagine that, was it a Ukrainian guy they were saying?
So they invited in the Ukrainian when the Ukraine invasion stuff was going on, right?
And they think, oh well, he's a veteran of World War II and he's Ukrainian, he's the perfect guy.
Little did they know which side they actually fought on.
But also we need to talk about the Tracker's protests and how he handled them and how lots of mainstream media were portraying the issue.
We have here just a searching bar from...
No, BBC says Trudeau vows to freeze anti-mandate protesters' bank accounts.
And I think he did, didn't he?
Eventually, I think.
Eventually, yeah.
Look at New York Times there.
Trudeau was right to use emergency powers.
No, no, New York Times.
He wasn't.
Yes.
Canada, yeah, they froze hundreds of accounts.
What did Trudeau say when he announced the freeze?
Did he say, a freeze is coming?
Yeah, the Iceman cometh.
That's what he said, I think.
Yes.
And here we have a Canadian judge saying basically that the Emergencies Act to quell truckers' protests over COVID was unreasonable, and I think that's a reasonable thing to make.
I literally think that it's not that easy.
It's not that hard, basically.
I mixed my words, but it's not that hard for Western governments to not alienate their people.
It's quite easy, actually.
It's almost like they don't care or something, isn't it?
Exactly.
But you can also show that you care about basic stuff.
You care to represent your people.
You care to listen to what may concern them.
They don't do even that.
And Trudeau was basically the woke prince of it.
I think Trudeau and Biden were really close there.
If a politician assumed office and just went on holiday on their first day and never came back, they would be one of the best politicians the Western world has seen in decades.
I think, actually, this sounds like a good politician.
Like, just stay away, stay away from people.
If you want to nominate me to go on a permanent holiday somewhere, I'm more than happy.
So, yeah, if you want to get that campaign going, I do take investors.
But what was he doing then?
When he was unconstitutional.
He was ecstatic.
We have here a video where he is ecstatic and euphoric about getting the jab.
Let us watch.
No, it's amazing because we were talking about how important it was for everyone to get vaccinated and what a big deal it was to get vaccinated.
So I thought that was all built in already.
But getting that shot...
It really was an amazing feeling.
It hits you.
Did you cry?
I cry at movies.
I didn't cry at the shot, but it was a moment where you realize, okay, this is it.
And it wasn't so much because I felt that I'm at high risk because we're being careful and I'm healthy and I'm young and all that.
But at the same time, it's knowing that each of us doing our part.
Look at his eyes.
Because we don't get through this unless the vast majority of the population gets that first shot and then a few months later gets that second shot.
That's how we get through it.
And it's something that everyone can do.
And we're just seeing Canadians come out in such strong numbers all across the country.
He felt great.
He felt great.
And he said, do it for the crusty uncle who desists.
But Josh, really, I took issue with something you said.
You did?
Yes.
You equated crying in movies with peeing, standing down.
I cried at the Lord of the Rings when the Rohirrim are charging to the orcs.
There are exceptions.
I think majesty and glory are acceptable.
Funerals, maybe.
Close relative.
Other than that...
But Lord of the Rings, definitely.
Oh, no, no, no.
That's like tippity-top.
Right, so Trudeau was insufferable for everyone, basically, also for political leaders.
Here we have a Politico article saying that Trudeau slams Maloney over LGBTQ plus record.
And out of nowhere, at a G7 meeting, he started lashing at her about the rights of 2SLGBTQI plus people.
Right, so he was insufferable to people from all...
So walks of life.
But he also had an issue with the word mankind.
This is my favorite cringe video.
This is like the Canadian office.
So that's why we came here today to ask you to also look into the policies that religious charitable organizations have in our legislation so that it can also be changed because maternal love is the love that's going to change the future of mankind.
So we'd like you to...
We like to say people kind, not necessarily mankind.
She was so sexist, wasn't she?
Yeah, everything about this is annoying.
She said mankind.
Everything about this annoyed me.
Just like, the future is about, you know, women doing stuff.
And then he's like, actually, we can't even say mankind anymore.
Actually, you have internalized toxic masculinity.
So even at a speech where you were talking about how the future belongs to mothers, you're actually toxically masculine.
Yeah, if you say something that isn't...
Actively facilitating the destruction of any male agency in society.
Justin Trudeau pops up out of the ground and corrects your speech, your terminology.
Also, we couldn't not mention the resemblance between Fidel Castro and Justin Trudeau.
Could we omit this?
It's surprising, isn't it?
I've seen the theories of how the picture of...
His mother clasping onto Castro like he's a beloved dear friend, like they're very close to one another, and then you see the similarities, and you're like, wow, okay.
They do look quite similar, don't they?
I do have the impression that we are going to hear about this in the future as well.
Maybe he isn't going to be the PM, but this story is going to come back.
He's going to be going to Cuba, maybe, for his next political move?
I don't know.
Maybe.
To try and lift the embargo.
I don't think he would be successful now with Trump, though.
That's true.
Right, so he was also a good dancer, wasn't he?
Was he?
I don't know.
Have you watched this video?
I haven't, but I'm going to be horrified.
Dancing and Indian dance here.
Music by Ben Thede.
It's a weird video.
What do you think about his dancing moves?
I mean, he got it down, to be fair.
I can't really criticise it, because he did do the Indian dancing as spot-on as you could have.
I'm not going to be harsh here, let's be honest.
So, okay, I don't want you to look at what is written up there, but I want you to...
Oh, trop important pour prendre au sérieux.
On a un escalier, on peut-tu avoir une démonstration?
Aucun problème.
Non! Oui?
Oui? Donc, le truc, normalement, comment ça fonctionne?
Normalement, je te mettrais genre ici, là, puis tu t'as assez, puis dis, hey, comment ça va?
Oh, oui, c'est vraiment un fun, là, puis là, tu es...
That's just in Trudeau.
Threw me off because you're speaking French.
I don't know if it's a fake or not, but it's just so funny.
It does look like him.
Speaking of which...
Speaking of which...
Technology is an issue here.
Okay, so we have Justin Trudeau doing the face.
He's stalking out his tongue.
Yeah, he's...
He's doing the Kalima thing in the spirit of the dance before.
What, the Indiana Jones one where he's taking the heart out?
Let's have a proper look at that picture.
This is a video of him.
Wait, no.
Where is it?
Wait, wait.
If you go to the previous one, there's a proper picture of it.
Yes.
Yeah, that one.
Blackface.
During a 2001 Arabian night.
I would like to point out I don't care whatsoever about this sort of thing.
I just think it's funny when if you're woke and you supposedly oppose it, then you always find out that they've done stuff like this.
It's like how feminists date really manly men.
People are compensating.
Do you think that this was the straw that broke the camel's back?
Or was it the Castro thing?
Because I think after this, he literally wanted to overcompensate and convince everyone how he isn't doing any sort of cultural appropriation.
Although the Indian dance video was a bit appropriative, culturally speaking, wasn't it?
Was he in India, though?
He was surrounded by Indians, and they facilitated it.
They allowed him.
They gave him a pass.
They gave him the Indian pass, yeah.
Also, I mean, he's not even got the right colour there.
Just a point about correct application of blackface here.
If you're depicting an Arab, you don't want to be, like, pitch black as night, do you?
That's just a poor depiction.
Have a bit of class and etiquette with your blackface, please.
And I want to end with this declaration of memes.
Meme, where they post a video there on YouTube and say, sometimes he accidentally gets it right.
Everyone has watched it, but it's a good way to bid farewell to Trudeau and say bye-bye, Trudeau.
I don't know if Canada will miss him.
No, I certainly won't.
What do you think?
Tell us, Canadian friends, tell us if you're going to miss Justin Trudeau.
Something tells me no.
We've got a chat here.
Going to miss Connor.
Keep up the good work, folks.
Daisy is the hardest worker there.
How much did she pay you?
Apparently more than $20, but no, thank you very much for the donation, and thank you very much for being supportive.
Okay.
Japan time.
I haven't covered any news in over two weeks, really, so I'm a bit rusty, so I've gone for the old familiar in Japanese politics.
I'm more familiar with it now than I am actual British politics for whatever reason.
But anyway.
I've talked a lot about Japan newly becoming multicultural because I find it fascinating.
I'm not just talking about it because I'm interested in Japanese culture, but also because the whole way in which Japan is interacting with mass migration and multiculturalism and that ideology follows exactly the same blueprint that has happened in the West.
It seems to suggest that there's some sort of objective criteria, some sort of series of stages that countries go through whilst dealing with this up until the point that the native culture is entirely displaced.
And as it's been pointed out, this has been going on and attempted for a long time.
This is from 2006.
This has been dug up recently.
Newsweek magazine saying the new face of Japan.
Foreigners are not only coming, they're staying.
They've got some Asian people, an Indian fella maybe, and a European.
I mean, there's no Japanese person there.
No.
The new face of Japan is apparently not Japanese.
Ubisoft have been taking notes, apparently.
Also, they look very stern and serious.
Also, that's 19 years ago.
I know, yeah.
But it wasn't sticking, and instead...
Until recently, basically, their financial problems were leveraged by NGOs to impose mass migration on them because culturally and politically, the Japanese don't want it.
Similar to Britain, right?
In that at no point was the British public ever up for mass migration.
It was imposed on us by globalists, basically.
And also, I think...
People need to be very explicit about this, that whenever we're voting for parties in democracies of the sort we're living in, we are voting for overall agendas.
So a lot of them are just throwing back, inserting into the agenda elements that people may vote for the overall agenda but find that particular policy particularly unpopular.
I think that this is what goes on with mass migration.
No, very much so.
I've mentioned this one before, but this was back in December.
The Indian-born head of one of Japan's most famous snack brands has warned that the country must change its mindset and admit more immigrants to get the economy back to its glory of its boom years.
But the problem is that they've got a massive amount of debt, so that's not going to happen, unfortunately.
All of that deficit spending that the West has been doing, and Japan did as well, hasn't done us any good whatsoever.
But the idea that the solution to your economic woes is more Indians, basically, is not true.
It doesn't make any economic sense, because you're hiring people from a country which has a worse per capita economy than you have, right, in Japan.
So, if you're taking people from a poorer country and taking them to a richer country, is it in the flight?
Do they just lose the traits that make their country poor?
It makes no sense.
Well, I think, basically, there are two sides of this discussion.
There's always the individual basis, because sometimes, you know, from...
Backgrounds of poverty, there are people who are very incentivized to go and work.
And sometimes they literally want to turn their back on the cultures that don't give them economic opportunities to work there.
But there is definitely the aspect that isn't talked about, that isn't discussed at all.
And in fact, whenever people are pointing it out, they are being penalized of the cultural influence, as you said.
Because it's not like everyone just by moving...
A place on the map completely sheds all their cultural influences.
So at the end of the day, I don't know specifically about India, but I think that at the end of the day, the question would be when you have migration policy, you ask its purpose, whether it's supposed to help the country or whether, like in the West, it's supposed to be a human right.
It's portrayed as a human right.
And also the question of what are the cultural compatibilities and incompatibilities between host country and country from which someone
I couldn't see his countrymen getting along well with the Japanese hygiene standards, for example.
I mean, Japanese toilets for an Indian will blow their mind.
They're going from a hole in the ground to a toilet that speaks to you and can squirt water at you.
This is just too much.
It's impossible.
But it's also worth mentioning as well that...
They've had the biggest jump in foreign workers in the year of 2024, the previous year, and this is probably the biggest jump in their entire history.
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But anyway, it's worth mentioning as well that they're getting the full works of propaganda as well.
This guy here is saying, Westerners make up 0.05% of the foreign population in Japan, yet the Japanese government uses white people to push multiculturalism, despite the fact most foreigners coming in are not Westerners.
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
Yes.
That's what we're getting in Europe and North America to a certain extent as well.
And the love of European culture from the Japanese, because they do appreciate our culture and it's very nice and we do appreciate it.
Thank you.
They're basically using this veneer to indoctrinate people into believing that this is the face of immigration, and it's not.
And the same thing happened here as well, exactly that same campaign.
And there's also a similar thing here, that they're using the human rights sort of angle to get in.
Apparently...
There are loads of North African LGBT refugees flooding into Japan because everyone knows North Africa is a hotbed for the alphabet people for some reason.
You know, that Islamic part of the world.
Especially in North Africa.
It's not that they're just gaming the system of human rights and lying about their sexual proclivities to get immigration status approved.
Japan.
That's definitely not happening.
And ultimately, it boils down to an issue of people who want to push this agenda, because a lot of the times we constantly hear to people who are criminals and serial rapists who are not getting deported because they appeal to the ECHR,
the European Convention of Human Rights.
And the ECHR, if you actually read it, it doesn't say something weird.
In Article 8, it...
Conditions, everything, non-deportation, is conditional upon public security considerations.
So it's just people who are giving an incredibly biased interpretation and wrong interpretation of a particular law because they literally want this policy.
There are definitely people out there that will...
Bend the rules and bend the law and stand in the way of the deportation of murderers and rapists.
And there's far too many of them.
I think that these people should face consequences personally.
Legal ones, of course.
So yes, there's that.
There's also lots of videos of people on the street talking to people about immigration now.
It's become a point of concern.
And there are lots of people saying, I've got no problem.
And they're basically saying, immigration is good for the economy.
And as long as they accept our way of life, they should be welcome.
They're trusting out that line, which us Europeans are sort of turning our back on now.
We've realized where that leads.
Also, accepting a way of life without qualifying what way of life that is, basically doesn't mean anything.
Well, it's basically an impossible standard to completely adopt someone else's way of life, unless it's very similar.
Exactly.
If I were to move to, like, Ireland or Scotland, I could adapt to the way of life because it's very similar to the way of life in England.
Exactly, yes.
But also the issue is that in Europe, one of the things that people care about is also, you know, they want to be patriots.
They want their countries to flourish and solve demographic adverse indexes.
Adverse demographic indexes.
And one of the...
One of the main problems is that with mass migration, it becomes incredibly more difficult for people to, for, let's say, workers, especially, you know, as you go economically down, you go to less specialized jobs,
it becomes much more harder to have a family because the increase of people in the country drives the wages down.
It becomes essentially impossible.
Well, it's basically the...
But also, Japan does have an issue with demographic indexes for a long time now.
They do have a large population, though.
They've got, what was it, 125 million people or something like that in that ballpark.
And so it's not like they're going to ever run out of people, demographically speaking, but they have a very top-heavy population pyramid with lots of old people relative to young people, don't they?
But it's my personal belief that this sort of thing...
I know it's a bit of a tangent, but I think that a lot...
Our focus is overstated on it, and I think that actually it's probably a natural corrective to adverse environmental conditions.
If you make the conditions right, people will have children because you're programmed to want to do it.
But here we have an advert put out by the government, which is showing a Western and not knowing how to sort out her rubbish.
And it's caused a problem.
And the whole advert is that people believed that she was doing it on purpose because she's dirty and horrible and mean.
But actually, a Japanese person teaches them the correct way of doing it.
And therefore, they become friends and she cooks
Go out, you dirty European.
Yeah, and I think the...
The intention here is clear.
It's not necessarily the Europeans that are making all the mess, but they're trying to say, listen, Japanese people, you should pick up the slack for what these people are failing to live up to your standards.
And maybe if you do, you can get something out of it in the end.
You can make a friend who will cook you foreign food that's tasty.
And I mean, if it were actually Europeans, it'd be a nice sentiment, but actually it's potentially dangerous people in Japan from what we're about to see.
And also I'm sure that in the ads they are giving a kind of facade the thing is going to be received as more respectable.
It is worth mentioning as well, though, that now USAID has been cut.
There might be fewer astroturfed left-wing causes because apparently Black Lives Matter was Was found to be funded by USAID in Japan.
Because it is a bit weird that the Japanese got involved in that.
Why would they be involved?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know why anyone cared, to be honest.
I'm a sane man in a world of insane people, Stelios.
When I saw the video, I was just like, what was the problem?
Who cares?
He was a criminal.
Got what he deserved.
Anyway.
Enough about George Floyd.
Another thing as well is that companies are now eligible for a 720,000 yen reward, basically.
They'll just be given, like, a grant if they hire foreigners over Japanese people, which is the equivalent of 484 US dollars, I think.
Is that right?
I don't know.
That can't be right because it's 3,700...
And £38.
I don't think the pound has become that devalued overnight.
But it's a reasonable enough portion of money that that's obviously going to shape things, isn't it?
And that's unfortunate.
And it's also worth mentioning that even though Japan's opened up to immigration, Poland...
Oh no, where's that link gone?
I think that's afterwards.
Yes, it is.
Poland has overtaken it in real GDP per capita at purchasing power parity, so that's a better GDP metric, I suppose, than before.
And Poland, famous for not having much mass migration, and they've had a little bit more, thanks to globalists getting into power in Poland.
But it's worth mentioning that you don't need...
To have multiculturalism, to grow your economy.
It's not true.
All of the metrics suggest otherwise.
It's also worth mentioning as well that they don't need people to fill skills gaps because Japan has something like 10 times the number of practicing pharmacists that the Netherlands has.
And the Netherlands, if you know your European countries, is one of the more functional European countries, right?
Everything's very neat and tidy and works and is nice.
And so if Japan has ten times that, perhaps maybe they've got enough people in Japan to fill these gaps, and then some, by the looks of it.
I mean, this is just one example, of course, but it goes to show that you don't actually need foreigners to prop up this, because, of course, you can train people at home.
And there are people talking about this.
There's a guy here.
Talking about how you can deport all illegal migrants.
They want to start with the Kurds because they're causing the most problems, which they certainly are from the previous coverage.
And also there's another one here.
He was saying that foreigners who don't respect Japanese culture and bring their own culture instead should leave and that only foreigners who love Japan and want to integrate should be allowed to stay.
So they've still got this line of, well, if you integrate, you're okay.
But again, as we mentioned earlier, a lot of Europeans have hardened against this, that unless you're from a specific culture that's similar to ours, you can't really integrate.
There is no integration from certain countries.
Yeah, because integration can be...
We need to distinguish between integration in public discussion and political rhetoric and actual integration.
I also don't think it's that desirable.
Unless someone's already from a very similar culture already and you've got compatibility, it doesn't really make sense.
Like going to, I don't know, Papua New Guinea and I pluck out a tribesman and take him to England.
It's not fair on him or the people around him to expect him to integrate because he's from such a different culture.
Yeah.
No, I'm not disagreeing with you.
Of course.
What I want to add to the conversation is that a lot...
A lot of the time exceptions exist, but it's too utopian to just look at it as an issue of possibility.
You have to look at it as an issue of probability.
You've also got to just look at the results in reality.
Exactly.
That's what I'm saying.
That's why I'm literally bringing back to that issue.
when you're discussing policy it's not an issue of looking at two, three success stories of people on the news if the trend is adverse.
You have to
Yeah, there's a great example of this.
There's a guy who was held as a model integration case of a man from the Congo that moved to Germany.
And he's just like, isn't he great?
He's become a baker.
He's all smiley and happy.
Isn't he lovely?
And then he, what was it he did?
He sexually assaulted his own mother at knife point.
And hospitalised her.
This is the success story that people want you to believe.
There are lots of examples of this.
There was another one in Sweden of a kid that was held up as an integration success case and he shot his classmate in the head.
That's what happens.
Of course, Japanese culture is far more inoculated against this sort of thing than usual.
It's usual for, well...
It's not unusual, I should say, for places like Japanese restaurants to have signs in the window saying, Japanese only, there's no one who can deal with foreigners.
I'm sorry, basically.
Please leave us alone.
I want to go there.
Well, we're foreigners, so we're not allowed, apparently.
But I respect this sort of thing.
It's basically saying, it's acknowledging, hey, we can't speak your language, so unfortunately we can't deal with you.
But this should just be allowed.
In Britain, this would be illegal.
It would be non-inclusive.
You get a fine.
You might even get sent to prison.
And because the culture is accepting of this sort of thing, I think there's a natural resistance that we've lost in Britain, that we had previously.
So it's not permanent, necessarily.
And also, there was a sort of horror here.
This wasn't an immigration-related thing.
Well, he's controversial because of his opinions on immigration, but a guy was slashed in the ear.
He had his ear slashed.
A bit like Trump, actually.
Maybe he's a Japanese Trump-in-waiting.
Here's a video of what happened.
You don't see anything, but keep an eye on that guy with the green jacket there.
He's just shaking hands, and the crazy left-winger just tries to attack him with a knife.
I think it's because he's a right-winger.
And unfortunately that's bad, according to some people.
There's the guy that did it, I think.
That guy.
So yes, maybe there is a Trump in waiting.
He had his ear injured, as you can see there.
He's got a little thing covering his ear.
If he manages to mass-deport all the people causing problems, then that's something good.
They've also got things like this that we get in the West as well, people that care about Palestine for some reason.
They've got the same thing of the left loves waving Palestinian flags, but if you wave your national flag, you're hateful and racist and bad, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
They have this here as well and throughout the US and Europe.
May I direct you to the graph?
Yes, of course.
Yeah, this is about in-group preference.
Conservatives prefer people closer to them, like a normal human being.
Leftists prefer space dust over their family, and therefore should not be listened to in any sense whatsoever.
And that's a perfectly reasonable point, even though I'm being a bit hyperbolic.
You're not hyperbolic at all, and actually it ties a lot to what we said before about rhetoric.
Rhetoric very often tries to conceal truth.
So they overcompensate with their humanistic rhetoric because deep down, a lot of them hate human beings.
They love talking about humanity in their head and to other people, but they literally don't
They have a sort of skin suit of caring about other human beings, but when you actually look at the research about how they feel about other human beings deep down when nobody's watching...
It's pretty dark, to be honest.
I've looked at that psychological literature.
They're also LARPing as Hamas for some reason, some of the leftists, which I think is funny.
I mean, this one in particular, I don't know why it's so funny.
But yes, that's going on as well.
Unfortunately, they're also getting things that are similar to Europe as well.
A 28-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in Japan, and apparently it was a man of Uzbek nationality.
He was arrested on the spot.
Apparently he dragged the woman away on her way to work in a car park.
And apparently this happened at 8 in the morning as well.
It's not like the middle of the night.
It was a lady basically just on her way to work, I guess parking in a car.
So it's someone just going about their ordinary daily life and they were attacked.
And this has obviously got Japan pretty riled up.
It doesn't happen that often.
The fact it's an Uzbek, a foreigner, that did it has obviously got them worried.
And I think that this is symptomatic of a wider problem.
There have been lots of Kurds doing similar things.
And it's just that part of the world, unfortunately, is like that.
And you can't change...
That aspect of their culture.
You don't know who you're going to get in, so it's better not to allow them whatsoever, in my opinion.
We see several of these groups coming from that region that are over-represented in sexual crime six times more than the native population of European countries.
It's a massive discrepancy.
Now, Japan's not entirely rid of its own domestic problems, so...
There was a case of a YouTuber who, she was streaming to about 6,000 people watching live, and she basically streamed her own murder.
So, yes.
Murder or suicide?
Murder, as in someone killed her while she was streaming.
Apparently, it was this guy, who is a 42-year-old man, and apparently, he lent her money.
2.5 million yen, which is around, according to this Canadian outlet, 24,225 Canadian dollars, which is a lot of money.
And apparently she didn't pay him back despite a court order to do so.
And apparently he was lending her money for years.
And then they found receipts for bank transfers and things like that in his apartment after he carried out the murder.
And apparently he admitted to the attack, but said he didn't mean to kill her.
But, according to the police, he used a survival knife to stab her in the head, neck and torso, which kills people, believe it or not.
So yeah, I don't buy that he didn't intend to kill her.
And yes, so there is obviously horrific things still going on amongst the native Japanese population, but this is...
Far rarer than it's come to be in Europe because the foreign population massively increases the rates of violent crime in Europe and North America.
That's why it's important to focus on probabilities and also on statistics when it comes to crime and see how it's distributed per capita.
Because if you have 10 people from a place and they commit 50 murders, 50 murders on its own isn't going to look a lot.
But if you consider that there are 10 people, it's massive.
Of course.
That's the per capita.
You've sort of presaged my point in bringing this up, that people will point out that, well, Japanese people sometimes do bad things as well, but it's not on the same scale, and it's quite often not to the same degree of severity as some other cultures, right?
If you look at Japan's crime rates abroad, they're often the nationality that is absolutely...
At the bottom for rates of crime, like they disproportionately are not criminals, more so than pretty much everyone.
And in European countries, usually if they have national metrics, the Japanese are the best.
They're the best people to have visiting your country.
And to have this alongside, you know, some of the violence that they have recently seen from places like the Middle East, then it's a real stark difference.
The problem here is, though, that most people remember stuff by how easy it is to recall to mind.
And it's not necessarily by proportion.
People aren't very good at probabilities and being statistically numerate.
And so they'll recall things like this and say, well, things go on in Japan, but actually, if you look at the data, there's a massive imbalance already.
From a philosophical perspective, there's a very nice distinction between the combative...
Or competitive virtues and the cooperative ones.
And in cases of war, it's the combative ones that are being highlighted, where they are accompanied, we know, with escalation of the situation.
But civilization requires also the cooperative ones.
And they are routinely the ones that are associated with de-escalating situation, because the more civilization goes forward...
The more complex society gets, the more social conflicts there are, so there needs to be a good method for resolving these social conflicts.
People who come from places where they're constantly incentivized to be combative and escalate everything and treat everything in terms of an honor killing or a dishonor, they can't function well in cases where they need to be able to de-escalate.
And with people who are mainly, because they're very civilised, they're mainly told to de-escalate circumstances whenever there is a kind of conflict.
There's also a bitter irony there that people who come from honour cultures usually live in conditions and in a way of life that most British people would be absolutely ashamed of, as in just a level of squalor unacceptable to our mind,
and the fact that they're doing it for their honour.
Whatever that means.
You've got no honour.
You live like an animal.
But anyway, I'm going to end on something a bit more wholesome.
And that is the Japanese ambassador to the UK.
Today I saw a nice post of him doing a nice little latte shamrock for St. Patrick's Day today.
Don't tell him that...
Ireland is not part of the UK, because that might be a bit unfortunate.
But he did do something nice for St. David's Day as well.
He put out Happy St. David's Day in Welsh there.
That's more Welsh than I can ever speak.
And also I noticed in Japan that they celebrate.
St. Patrick's Day.
And I think, from what I've heard, it's because a lot of the people who helped industrialise their country, although many of them were British, some of them were from Ireland.
And so they sort of have almost a weird sort of foundation myth equivalent, if you will, of how the Irish have helped shape Japan, which I thought was wholesome.
And they were doing some Irish dancing and playing the fiddle.
Which is a bit strange to see.
And there's also this where they all dress up in green.
And it's a bit unusual.
There's an Irish flag.
So, yes, I wanted to do this just as a little palette cleanser because it's a lot of horrible stuff, isn't it?
I did like them dressing up the dogs as well.
Don't know about the kilts.
That seemed a bit Scottish.
But anyway.
My point being here that things seem to be getting worse and worse in Japan and we're seeing an escalation in the rhetoric to push immigration on people.
We're seeing some of the More insidious, adverse effects of it.
We're seeing some of the violence that comes with the politics.
And it's all following the same sort of trajectory that Europe and North America and lots of the Western world has been on.
And the fact that they're doing it maybe ten years behind us is interesting because, again, it shows that there's this formula, this step process that countries go through when they have this imposed upon them.
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Let me collect my...
Collect your mind, Stelios.
I'm losing my voice.
Speaking of...
Sorry.
No, that's your segment.
Right, so...
The Statue of Liberty is an iconic monument and the French want it back.
And I don't know if the US wants to give it back.
Tell us in the comments whether you want to give the Statue of Liberty back to France.
But I think that this is a really...
And if you're French, tell us in the comments how much you want it back.
Exactly.
And start fighting in the comments.
Yeah, exactly.
Because that's what we want to see.
We want engagement also.
Tell us what you feel about it.
Do you think the Statue of Liberty should leave New York and go back to France?
They already have one.
A smaller one.
They've already got one at home, have they?
Yeah.
The Statue of Liberty they tell you about and the one you've got at home.
Exactly.
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There's lots of interesting stuff in here.
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You can also buy it anywhere in the world, from what I've been told.
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Right, so we have here a French member of the European Parliament called Raphael Glucksmann, who basically says, give us back the Statue of Liberty.
We gave it to you as a gift.
But apparently you despise it.
So it will be just fine here at home.
He does know what liberty means, right?
I mean, they're getting rid of government spending and wanting to reduce taxes.
Wasn't the American Revolution about reducing, you know, it's about taxation without representation, that tax that we imposed upon them?
Well, the British Empire imposed upon them.
Now they're getting rid of taxes.
Apparently that's different.
Wait a minute.
What did you think?
Should this happen?
I mean, why if France was okay with it then?
What has changed?
Well, I know that politics has become a lot lamer.
A lot gayer.
But anyway, do carry on.
Right, so we have here this person who says basically that the reason is that the US does not Any longer represent its values.
And I want to ask whether he thinks he represents France's values.
I don't know.
Whether he actually represents France's values.
I'm going to say something controversial here.
I don't think any one person can represent the values of a nation because they are one person and a nation is a nation.
A nation is of multiple people.
You can't embody the values of multiple people because those values might be different, even if they're of the same ethnicity.
Yeah, but wouldn't you say that there are trends and cultures that arise and people tend to value the same things and disvalue others?
I think that when people talk about it, they're confusing.
Existing in a monoculture which has created a sort of common culture, but not everyone adheres to it anyway.
So looking at the culture is not the interesting part.
Looking at the ethnicity is always the best bit.
So he says basically that whatever you say, Josh, Glucksmann wants the Statue of Liberty back.
And it's because the US has turned its back on its values.
Now, if we isolate the demand...
You can say that to a long extent, a lot of people in Western countries have actually turned their backs on their values.
But I would put him as well.
I did see a story today where a woman said the N-word 200 times and she got arrested for it.
So they've turned their back on free speech, apparently.
That's the hill I'm dying on.
I mean, hate speech is turning your back to free speech.
Because the whole idea of a liberal society is that civil society should be vigilant and do whatever they think is right and pursue what they think is good.
So if you can't have someone who says, I am a member of this government and want to, let's say, persecute these people who have that abhorrent to me opinion.
You have to allow people to listen or not listen to the people they think they want.
That's what praising civil society amounts to.
That's what empowering civil society amounts to.
What's the political background of this gentleman?
I think he has to do something with Trump.
We have here this France 24 article.
It says a French member of the European Parliament has called for the US to return the Statue of Liberty.
Because the U.S. does not represent its core values.
But the core values have to...
He is talking about here, obviously, about Trump and about how the U.S. is siding now with dictators and that wasn't what it was supposed to be and about the rise of the far right.
It's exactly what you'd expect to hear from someone who is very progressive.
And I have here the Wikipedia article says that he is basically...
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Interesting background there.
Yeah, so he is basically a...
He founded the French center-left party, Place Publique.
Of course he did.
Exactly, and here we see this party.
It's exactly what you'd expect a progressive alliance of socialists and democrat party be.
I don't know, just why would the US be interested in upholding the democrat socialist values?
Why is it that that's the demand of his and says, just because you didn't do this, just because you don't like what I'm saying and don't like my takes, you have to give it back.
You have to give the gift back.
That's not how gifts work also.
No, but also he's chose a difficult path for the virtue signaling socialist because he's appealed to the US Constitution.
He's talked about its founding.
And we all know that the Republicans, generally speaking, at least the good ones, tend to be a lot more reverent of the US Constitution and keen to preserve it as it was written and intended.
And I mean, the only time that a Democrat will argue about the intention of the Constitution as it was founded will be the Second Amendment, when they're saying, well, they only had muskets and cannons, which, you know, it's worth mentioning that...
Owning a cannon is still pretty deadly.
But no, shall not be infringed.
That's all I'm saying.
And here they say that one of the other co-founders of that party is not necessarily against several positions of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who is someone who basically says that replacement is happening and is a good thing.
I don't even think he's ethnically French and he's trying to pursue...
He's Algerian, isn't he?
I think so.
I don't think he's ethnically French, but he is promoting that in France and he basically says that replacement in France is happening and it's a good thing.
I'm going to have a quick early life check.
I don't know if he is actually turning his back on France's values.
Last time I checked, French values weren't about just not...
Just replacing your population, basically.
He was born in Tangier in Morocco and is of Spanish descent.
Sicilian.
He also has some Algerian background.
Right, so we have here several leftists who are saying, hilarious to see Maga furious at France and frothing at the mouth of the Statue of Liberty, the one based on a Muslim woman.
Here we have a brutal response by John Rocker.
France wants the United States to return the Statue of Liberty.
Instead of returning it, I suggest we manufacture and ship them a statue that represents the values of the modern-day French government.
I mean, that looks more like a sari than a burka or a niqab or whatever.
So it's made the woman look more Indian than...
Islamic as the intention, but quibbles about accuracy aside, it's a good idea.
Right, so I see here several people who are contemplating it because they say that there is a particular poem engraved at a plaque, the Nicolosis, that is one of the symbols of multiculturalism in the minds of many.
Now, my position here, which is maybe a bit controversial or unpopular, but that's how it goes, is that we constantly need to look at the time and place.
What that poem meant in 1883 when it was written isn't necessarily what its author would mean right now if they...
uttered the same words.
But even if that were the case, even if it's just one person who she was a poet and she wanted to contribute
Yeah, one person wrote a poem,
therefore you need infinite Mexicans.
Here we have the statueofliberty.org website, and they are saying essentially about its history, about how we have the sculptor Frederick Auguste Bertoldi, who was really close with a really pro-American Frenchman called Edward Laboulaye,
who proposed the idea of...
Of erecting that statue.
They teamed together and they started building the statue.
And it was originally called Liberty Enlightening the World.
And it was supposed to be a gift for the centennial celebrations.
The hundred years of the existence of the American state.
And they built it.
It took a long time and they shipped it.
And I think it was completed in 1886.
Right.
And what happened was that we have here the plaque engraved at the Nicolosis in 1903, 20 years afterwards.
And I'll give you what it says here at the end, which is what a lot of people are debating.
With respect to its meaning, it has a big play and it says towards the end, Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
The wretched refused of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest lost to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
It's by Emma Lazarus.
So it's constantly an issue of debating what does the statue represent and how...
Is it going to be constantly reinterpreted in every new historical period?
I mean, at that point, immigration to the United States was largely a European affair, wasn't it?
So, if they were talking about masses of people, I don't imagine they thought we're going to get lots of people from Africa and India and places like that because they didn't have the air travel that makes it possible and there wasn't...
Widespread shipping in that direction.
So it simply wasn't a reality.
But I, for one, would like to see it replaced with a statue, maybe, of Donald Trump and a trebuchet.
It'd be more interesting, wouldn't it?
Right, but I agree with what you said before about what it meant then and what it means in each different case.
Because the world changes and society gets more complex, at least in the modern world.
We are constantly, we are dealing with new challenges that we didn't deal with in the 1880s or in the 1780s.
I think also a colossus of roads would be good.
You know how you have a big bronze man with a sword and you've got to, you know, you've got to go underneath in a boat to just get into the harbour.
That's cool.
So what is interesting here is that the Statue of Liberty has become a popular icon as well.
It's very symbolic.
Everyone wants to incorporate it in their rhetoric, in their position.
It's synonymous with the United States, really, isn't it?
To an outsider, anyway.
I mean, an American might view it differently from within, but as a British person, if I were to list 30 things that are quintessentially American, you would think to mention the Statue of Liberty, even though it was made by the French.
You've owned it.
It's become yours, right?
And that's why people want to incorporate it in the rhetoric and want to say that the spirit of the US is what we are saying.
It's always rhetorical, isn't it?
Exactly.
And here we have just a Wikipedia entry for the Statue of Liberty in popular culture.
You can definitely scroll down and see.
Where it has been used in books.
Countless things, surely.
I'll just show you two of my favorites.
This is Dawn of the Beginning of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
No, that's the first one.
Dawn of the Beginning of the Planet of the Apes.
Yeah, they constantly add beginnings in every new sequel.
But this is the original one, The Planet of the Apes, with Charlton Heston.
And he walks and he finds the Statue of Liberty literally buried under the sun.
And here we have the Ghostbusters, number two, in 1989.
They literally go into the statue towards the end and somehow it becomes alive.
Because in Ghostbusters, you know, lots of stuff were becoming alive.
The French pressed a button and it became activated.
Yes, and the Ghostbusters were on the helmet of the Statue of Liberty.
The Crown.
And they will try to go and defeat Vigo of Carpathia, I think.
But it's nice because it's jolly.
And it shows how in different decades people try to incorporate that in popular culture.
But also now we are going to the more political stuff.
And I have some rainbow interpretations of it.
So stay with.
Here we have the spooky twist for Halloween.
Are you sure it's not just a Southern Statue of Liberty there?
No, it's not.
It doesn't have a pointy head.
It looks very pointy to me.
Yeah, but it's five or six there.
No, yeah, they purposefully avoided it.
Let us put it that way.
Right, and here we have the trans version now.
The freestyle for everybody.
And we have a heel chap, Chappelle Rhone.
I haven't heard the...
I have no idea who this person is.
Yeah, but she is basically saying, I'm in drag of the biggest queen of all, in case you've forgotten what's etched on my pretty little toes.
Give me your tide, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free.
And she says that means freedom and trans rights, freedom and women's rights.
Yeah, it meant trans rights in the late 19th century.
In the late 1880s, yeah.
So...
Again, they're trying to incorporate this.
So I don't know if people look at this and they want to keep up with it or maybe say, let's just take it back to France.
Tell us in the comments.
I don't know about you, but this lady is not the kind of person that I would take political commentary advice from.
She's green.
I wouldn't get advice from it, but if you saw, the Democrats had many of influences and just teleprompter reading singers and songstresses.
Well, it didn't win in the election, did it?
It didn't, but they thought it would.
Here we have her showing us her haddled asses or her salacious buttocks.
What?
Yeah.
This is taking a weird turn.
And we have Statue of Liberty here writing about Pride and the Ellis Island experience.
The Statue of Liberty wrote this?
Yeah, they say that Ellis Island has watched over iconic LGBTQ figures on their passage into New York.
Coming from a variety of backgrounds and seeking diverse opportunities, these passengers exemplify the bravery that LGBTQ Pride Month celebrates.
And they're basically trying to make the Statue of Liberty proud.
I don't know if they've made it yet, but they're doing this.
So what's worse?
What's worse?
A rainbow statue?
Of liberty or Statue of Liberty going back to France?
I saw that picture.
It's a difficult one, isn't it?
Because I think the Statue of Liberty should stay, but also you shouldn't have to...
It feels like you'd be giving up part of America because the leftists have latched onto it.
If you have a limpet latching onto the hull of your boat, you don't get rid of your boat.
You get a chisel and get off the limpet, don't you?
Exactly.
I think, basically, it's a non-issue, fundamentally.
But at the end of the day, it's an important, a good indication of how people are constantly taking symbols and reinterpreting them and putting their interpretation...
In public discussion while paying lip service to the symbol.
I do think that these sorts of things are important, though, in that the symbols of your civilization are rallying points for basically patriotism, right?
And if you surrender these things or are too dispassionate and not aggressive enough in your rhetoric in guarding the legacy of these things, then you surrender them to the left.
The same sort of thing happened with statues.
And I think that you should never give any ground to these dogs.
I absolutely agree with you.
That wasn't what I meant when I said non-issue, but thank you for telling me to clarify.
I meant the demand to take it back to France.
It's not going to happen.
No.
And also, at the end of the day, why not build a new one?
Or build a bigger one?
They're too busy building mosques in France, that's why.
Instead of focusing on monuments first, why not focusing on actually pursuing sensible policies in France that reverse the trends of its decline and then build a monument commemorating your success as opposed to just wanting to get something you gave as a gift back.
Just build your own, build a bigger one and also focus on making your country great.
Also in reversing its decline.
I think that's what counts more.
That's good advice.
But it's also, I think it's really important to tell people and focus again on this, that a lot of the time the minds of people have several functions with symbols.
And people want to incorporate the symbols for what is good in their rhetoric.
And subversion works.
To a very large extent, by going into a population, into a people, with a particular, more or less, with a core set of values that is particularly specific, but sometimes may be implicit in their minds, if not explicit,
and try to say, right, you like liberty, you like the Statue of Liberty.
We like the tradition of liberty.
Here is what liberty is.
You like liberty?
Well, you like men now because it's LGBT.
Yes, that's exactly what's going on.
And I'm saying this because I think that a lot of people also from MAGA and the right, not so much MAGA, but from other right spaces.
Neocons, perhaps?
Not neocons.
A lot of people who enter a debate right now, they fall for the trap of this leftist subversion.
So they would say, well, if liberty...
I don't want liberty, because liberty is that.
No, you shouldn't allow the leftists to dictate what symbols mean on the first place.
So what we have is we have a culture that has particular values.
Like free speech, like liberty, like kind of patriotism.
And you have people who are trying to subvert them slowly from within and saying, yeah, but I know what true liberty is.
I know what true free speech is.
And I'm promoting hate speech laws because I want to promote free speech.
We have heard this.
And I'm a true patriot.
And true patriots are basically pro-open borders.
That's another thing that they're incorporating in the rhetoric.
That's why Trudeau was saying I'm a proud Canadian.
You've got to be very hot on this sort of stuff to spot these things, these rhetorical tricks.
But I think people are wising up to it, aren't they?
They are.
Generally speaking.
That's why I want to say this and that's why I have been constantly defending classical liberalism.
It's because a lot of people are taking the modern view or what is...
Sometimes smeared as the modern view and say, okay, that's what liberty is.
So the only remedy is to turn our backs on liberty.
I think it's possible to live in a classical liberal society if you've got high-trust Europeans, no mass migration and a healthy society.
Hence why it's an important debate to see whether the plaque should be reinterpreted or should be understood to see how it applies to the world of 2025.
Okay, we have a comment for you, Stelios.
Yeah, Neon Realist.
Hello!
Lifelong New Yorker here.
Haven't gone to see...
Haven't gone to see that damn statue in 30 years.
No one who lives here gives a crap about it.
It never comes up in conversation.
Just one of thousands of things to see here.
That's like the most New York attitude about New York I've ever heard.
Constantly busy.
Come on.
If suddenly it left, you'll be asking, where is it?
I think that's what I suspected a New Yorker would feel like, to be honest.
Who cares?
It's basically an eyesore at this point, isn't it?
You do have a bit of a clean...
Wherever you live, you tend to get used to it and you don't see it as something new.
Growing up near Plymouth, they have a famous lighthouse there.
Other than tourism, it doesn't really serve a purpose.
It's just sort of in the way.
But anyway, let's go to the video comments, shall we?
started and I thought
That's very quiet, by the way.
Would you be able to start it again so we can hear it?
Sounds like the voice of God as well, with that much reverb.
started, and I thought I'd give you a quick tour of Bisley.
season has started, and I thought I'd give you a quick tour of Bisley.
I've spoken with my club, and I can bring two or three of you.
So get in touch if you want to come along.
How do we get in touch?
Because I would like to go shooting, and I think I've seen your comment before, and I was thinking, how on earth do I actually get hold of you?
So next time you submit a video comment, would you be able to provide, I don't know, an email or something, just so I can actually sort it out?
Maybe I'll look up the name of the range or something like that, but we'll figure something out.
Has anyone ever read The Death of Grass by John Christopher?
Amazon recommended it to me a few days ago, and if you have read it, I'd be curious to know what your thoughts are on it, and whether or not it is something you would recommend reading.
I haven't read it, but what is it?
Oh, it's a post-apocalyptic novel.
Okay, I'll definitely check it out.
I love post-apocalyptic novels, and Sam, tell me if you know this.
One of my favorites is by Swan Song.
It's a really great post-apocalyptic one.
As of last night, I started Dune.
It's the first bit of fiction I've started reading in about ten years.
Maybe.
I don't know.
Roughly.
Especially the first novel.
I've got the whole trilogy in a great big sort of burglar-killing tome.
I've also, thanks to someone in the chat, they told me where it is.
Someone says, I can make you some cardboard Owen Jones targets, Josh.
That would be good, actually.
No, I don't want to shoot him.
Even in a cardboard cutout form.
So yeah, they've told me where it is.
Apparently it's in Bisley, near Woking.
So, thank you.
Okay, we've got some written comments, I believe.
I want to read some of them.
Go ahead.
Right, okay.
So we have Tim with him.
Hi, Tim.
He says, Welcome back, Josh, and hello, Stelios.
I'm actually watching live for the first time and not on delay.
Love Islander 3. That's very kind of you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
First Keeper Orland.
The Trudeau segment was an assault on my ears.
First you play Indian music without an auditory warning.
You then follow it straight up with French.
Trudeau will not be missed.
I actually find it funny doing it.
And some of the times, especially in the beginning, I was putting screeching activists without warning.
And people were constantly telling me in the comments, Salus, don't do this.
It's inconsiderate.
Very scholarly behavior there, being disruptive.
Captain Charlie the Beagle, happy St. Patrick's Day from Ireland.
Happy St. Patrick's Day, Captain Charlie.
Happy St. Patrick's Day, and thank you.
Brayden de Grasse, just got my copy of Islander 3 out in Western Canada this past Friday.
It only took a week to arrive.
It looks stunning.
You guys have really outdone yourselves this time.
I'm glad everyone's getting them soon because I was rather upset about the fact that the distributor cocked it up the second time because Rory puts in so much work.
You can see it in his face that when he's done, he is drained.
Right, Furious Dan says,
so long to the Prime Minister who can remember how many times he dressed in blackface.
Hey, sounds good to me.
Baron Von Warhawk, Justin Trudeau may be gone for good, but his poison will linger in the veins of Canada for years to come.
Just like how Tony Blair still poisons England from the shadows, the liberal policies that have crippled Canada will remain.
Yes, I don't think Woken is going anywhere.
In fact, I think it's coming back with a vengeance.
Alpha of the Beaters, Trudeau and Starmus saying from the same globalist hymn book, ignore policies that create protests, call protesters Nazis and scum, unleash the police with new powers of arrest to brutalize them.
*sad music*
Yeah, true.
Yeah, because Trudeau, I think when the trucker's protest was going on, wasn't he away on holiday?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, I completely...
Blanked.
And I just started reading out of context.
I said, wait a minute, what am I reading?
Okay, George Happ says, people should miss Trudeau given the opportunity.
He is the face of the modern administrative tyrant, a pretty boy feminist who coined the term current year.
By far, one of the most violent individuals to have ever lived.
And Paul Neubauer.
Stiff competition there.
Let's get a DNA test of Justin and see who the dad is.
He's going to go on Jeremy Kyle.
I like this comment.
Josh, it's true about Indians using Canadian food banks.
I volunteer occasionally and have stopped donating because I would say 90-95% of users are now fresh off the boat immigrants with the other 5% making up the typically downtrodden natives and white trash.
It is truly sickening.
So there we go.
My suspicion was correct.
Shall I read some Japan ones?
Just a couple?
Yes, of course.
Eloise says my dad worked and lived in Japan when he was a younger man for around six months in the seventies I think and even then it was light years ahead re small I think it still is by a lot of Western standards,
and I think that the problem with Japan is they borrowed too much money, and their debt obligations are massive.
Like, their debt-to-GDP ratio is one of the highest in the developed world.
Matt D says, I've lived in Japan for eight years and in total now and I've literally never seen a no foreigners sign.
I know they exist and I've heard the legend many times but in reality they're extremely rare.
That's what I suspected and I imagine it's probably in more touristy areas that they have them.
And finally, Sophie Liv says, what amazes me about this too is that the Japanese have the best work ethic in the world.
They work hard.
Harder and more consistently than pretty much anybody else with a few exceptions.
They have a high level of pride in the quality of their products and so forth.
Maybe Germans or something similar, but overall you don't get a better worker than the Japanese.
So to even think that people from India will have the same level of work ethic and therefore can lift the economy is insane.
Most Europeans do not have the same work ethic at all because it's actually a little bit insane.
I agree.
I think the Japanese work too much.
I have a very continental view on...
Work-life balance in that I think there should be one.
There definitely should.
But I want to address another comment by Sophie that I see here.
She says, let's be real, what really happened here is that Trump just bullied him out of office, which I can respect, speaking of Trudeau.
Also, Stelios, do you keep bullying Harry because I bully you?
The secret is out.
You're always so scared of reading my comments.
Well, I am scared of reading your comments, Sophie, but I'm not bullying Harry.
It's his Spartan education, so he can unleash his inner maximum, inner Viking potential.
I think people also don't understand that a bit of laddish banter is not being mean to each other.
It's a sort of...
People don't understand that in Britain it's normal to be mean to the people you like and polite to the people you aren't familiar with.
Right?
Anyway.
Apparently I'm also wearing green for St. Patrick's Day, which was not deliberate, but I do, according to my recent genealogy test, have a fair amount, almost 8%, I think it was, Irish ancestry.
Is this green?
This is green.
This is like a racing green.
Okay.
What would you say it was?
No, my knowledge of colours isn't that good.
Stelios only sees in grey.
Yeah, I only see it in red, with infrared, like the Predator.
Or like the Terminator.
Right, okay.
Annie Moss, I would really be happy if France took back the stupid Statue of Liberty.
I'm tired of all the leftists saying a statue is why we should not have borders to the US.
And happy St. Patrick's Day.
Happy St. Patrick's Day.
Good of you to wear green Josh.
Okay.
It's green.
Baron Von Warhawk.
If the French want the statue back, then they should come back and take it.
If they can't sail a force into America and take it back by themselves, then they should shut the hell up.
And on Warhawk, the original text that came with a statue in which was said as its unveiling was "There is room in America and brotherhood for all, but those who come to disturb our peace and dethrone our laws are aliens and enemies forever."
The poem that we are all told from birth was written by some Jewish women seven years after
I think what should happen is they should turn it into Liberty Prime.
You wouldn't say Pride for a minute.
No, no, no.
That's the robot in Fallout that talks about killing communists and democracy and freedom and it shoots laser beams and it's cool.
And speaking of shooting beams, Furious Dan says Trump should turn the Statue of Liberty into a giant robot.
We're on the same wavelength.
A giant robot shooting beams.
But...
I think that's all we've got time for for today.
I can't speak because I've been off for two weeks almost.
But we will be back tomorrow.
Same sort of time.
And thank you very much for watching.
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