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Trump at WEF: Windmills and Conundrums 00:13:35
	Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
	Welcome to the podcast of Lucas for Thursday, the 22nd of January, 2026.
	I'm joined by Josh and Dan.
	And today we're going to be talking about subjects that you think might be incongruent, but I swear to God they're not.
	Trump going to the WEF, how are they responding to it?
	And then giant women fighting dwarves.
	Trump's speech mainly focused on that latter one.
	It's not impossible that he actually would if he'd sort of seen it.
	I think we could just say metaphorically they have a conundrum here.
	But right, okay, well, let's get into it.
	So Trump was speaking at the World Economic Forum, and it went just about how you would imagine, really, in that, of course, Trump, not a big fan of techno-globalists, although he does have his own sort of tech faction backing him and helped him rise to power.
	And one of the things that did surprise me is that when he went to Davos to speak, the entire crowd rose and applauded him when he walked in, which, yeah, here you go.
	Oh, what are you expecting to be hitting or something?
	He's silent.
	Yeah.
	I would have imagined them throwing maybe blocks of gold.
	You know, they're all very rich, aren't they?
	I would have thought it would have been a sort of stony silence.
	Yeah.
	Like, oh, the enemy has arrived.
	Yeah.
	Okay, that's interesting.
	It was interesting how he was welcomed.
	And, you know, people were laughing at his jokes.
	And it was quite surprising because I've watched the full thing through twice now.
	And, you know, people were actually sort of into it at Davos, which is interesting in and of itself.
	Yeah, I watched the full thing through this morning and I didn't see this bit because I basically skimmed ahead to where he starts talking.
	It's like an hour and a half long.
	Yeah.
	And I mean, to be honest with you, it was kind of old man rambles at crowd.
	There was a lot of that.
	Because he's not on his teleprompter.
	He's on his teleprompter for like the first five minutes or whatever.
	And then he just starts riffing as he does.
	But he's not in friendly company, or at least it doesn't feel like he's in friendly company.
	So he's just explaining.
	And sometimes he'll go off on like old man anecdote tangents, things like this.
	And it was, I mean, you know, it was amusing.
	I think it's him at his best when he's not on the teleprompter.
	It always is, but he seems quite exhausted.
	He's obviously doing a lot.
	So he's not well rested.
	Oh, he must be a hell of a job being president.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And so he was a bit like tired.
	I think it actually did him some favours because the energetic American style of delivering public speaking doesn't go down as well in Europe.
	And so him being a bit more subdued, I think, was part of the reason that people were so...
	I was going to say, he came across actually as very reasonable.
	He did, yeah.
	Which we like, and don't get me wrong, I love Trump's campaign rallies and stuff like this when he's firing off fireworks, basically.
	But this felt actually, as you say, very appropriate for the audience.
	Yeah, he was surprisingly measured.
	And saying that, he did still go after people a fair amount.
	Like Canada.
	Let's have a listen to what he had to say.
	We're building a golden dome that's going to, just by its very nature, going to be defending Canada.
	Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way.
	They should be grateful also, but they're not.
	I watched your Prime Minister yesterday.
	He wasn't so grateful.
	They should be grateful to us.
	Canada.
	Canada lives because of the United States.
	Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.
	But you can see what I mean.
	He's a little bit tired.
	He's obviously been doing a lot recently.
	I did think it was interesting because loads of people were talking about his speech, Ka'ani's, and...
	Yeah, they were, yeah.
	It's a good way of diffusing it in a way, I think.
	Just saying, you've got to be grateful to us.
	You can't be that hostile to us, you know.
	Your defense is partly because of us, at the very least.
	Not even partly.
	Yeah, I mean, come on, yeah.
	Massively.
	And one of the interesting things that he did, particularly in front of a WEF crowd, was he was commenting about the changes in Europe.
	And I think that this was one of the parts that was clipped the most, particularly on our side of the Atlantic.
	But it's happened very quickly.
	This afternoon, I want to discuss how we've achieved this economic miracle, how we intend to raise living standards for our citizens to levels never seen before.
	And perhaps how you too and the places where you come from can do much better by following what we're doing because certain places in Europe are not even recognizable, frankly, anymore.
	They're not recognizable.
	And we can argue about it, but there's no argument.
	Friends come back from different places.
	I don't want to insult anybody and say, I don't recognize it.
	And that's not in a positive way.
	That's in a very negative way.
	And I love Europe, and I want to see Europe go good, but it's not heading in the right direction.
	I think that was actually handled very well by Trump, and particularly the way he framed it.
	He was appealing to European pride of, you know, it's not the same as it was before.
	He wasn't necessarily saying, you know, it's not as good as America as he could have done.
	But I think that what he's trying to do there is try and get under some of the people there's skin and say, listen, we can see things are getting worse here.
	And he's entirely right to say that that's the case and things have changed.
	When he's doing the salesman trick of talking past a sale, because for 10, 15 years we've been in the whole argument, is it even happening in the first place?
	You know, should you be concerned?
	He's skipping past all of that and he's just going to, it's such a shame.
	So tragic.
	That's, I mean, it's perfect framing for it.
	And also sympathetic as well.
	Yeah.
	You know, he's like, look, you know, we love Europe.
	You know, we view you as a beautiful continent.
	Why are you doing this to yourselves?
	And Trump's never been quite about his affections for Europe as well.
	So it does come across as believable, although some people in his administration are a bit more hostile than perhaps Trump is.
	But that's to be expected, I think.
	And he also commented on something that I found interesting as well.
	He's just explicitly admitting that there was this governing consensus that we've talked about constantly.
	And he just explicitly outlines what it is.
	For decades, it became conventional wisdom in Washington and European capitals that the only way to grow a modern Western economy was through ever-increasing government spending, unchecked mass migration and endless foreign imports.
	The consensus was that so-called dirty jobs and heavy industry should be sent elsewhere, that affordable energy should be replaced by the Green New scam, and that countries could be propped up by importing new and entirely different populations from faraway lands.
	This was the path that Sleepy Joe Biden administration and many other Western governments very foolishly followed, turning their backs on everything that makes nations rich and powerful and strong.
	And there's so much potential in so many nations.
	The result was record budget and trade deficits and a growing sovereign deficit, driven by the largest wave of mass migration in human history.
	We've never seen anything like it.
	Quite frankly, many parts of our world are being destroyed before our very eyes and the leaders don't even understand what's happening.
	And the ones that do understand aren't doing anything about it.
	Virtually all.
	That's pretty on the money though, isn't it?
	Yeah, but what I love about this is he's reading from the teleprompter and he's still like the green new scam and sleepy Joe.
	It's obviously written on the teleprompter.
	But he's on the money.
	How could you argue with any of it?
	Oh, it's perfect summation.
	So another thing that he kept on banging on about was energy for a long time.
	And I think that part of the reason he was so focused on that is because he was at the World Economic Forum, which was a nexus for a lot of the green energy policies that were adopted by European countries and proved fatal to cheap energy.
	Listening Ed Miliband.
	It is one of the major crises in Europe that is preventing us from prospering.
	Obviously, mass migration being the most important.
	But cheap energy as well means that we'll never have a strong industrial base.
	So let's have a look at what he said.
	Because of my landslide election victory, the United States avoided the catastrophic energy collapse which befell every European nation that pursued the Green New scam.
	Perhaps the greatest hoax in history.
	The Green News scam.
	Windmills all over the place.
	Destroy your land.
	Destroy your land.
	Every time that goes around, you lose $1,000.
	You're supposed to make money with energy, not lose money.
	Here in Europe, we've seen the fate that the radical level...
	Well, I'm going to miss it when Trump's not in politics anymore.
	No one talks like this.
	It is refreshing to hear it, isn't it?
	Because he is right that you are meant to make money.
	And it's nice to hear it put that way, actually.
	And he's right as well.
	I like the term energy collapse, actually, because at the moment, Ed Miliband and his merry band of lunatics are convinced that, oh, we're going to have all these wind farms.
	It's like, yeah, but our energy is more expensive than ever.
	And that's going to increase the price of the energy.
	We're the most expensive place in the world for energy.
	This is mental.
	And they have no answer for the baseload problem.
	And he actually mentions the UK specifically.
	Because electricity prices are 64% higher.
	The United Kingdom produces just one-third of the total energy from all sources that it did in 1999.
	Think of that, one-third.
	And they're sitting on top of the North Sea, one of the greatest reserves anywhere in the world, but they don't use it.
	And that's one reason why their energy has reached catastrophically low levels with equally high prices.
	You get the idea.
	Totally true.
	Yeah.
	We've been made dependent on French nuclear energy.
	And Norwegian oil.
	Yeah.
	And that's why we should be getting.
	Exactly.
	We have a larger share of.
	It's mad.
	And the thing that really frustrates me about the oil situation is Norway has been cutting its government spending because they have this publicly owned oil company, which is run like a private company and returns the profits to everyday citizens.
	So they have a sovereign wealth fund.
	And their citizens are very prosperous because of it.
	I mean, we're just doing nothing.
	We don't even have the cheap energy from it.
	Thank God Ed Miliband's in charge.
	I know.
	And predictably, he also talks about his hatred of windmills.
	This has been a running theme for the entirety of Trump's political career.
	Windmills all over Europe.
	There are windmills all over the place.
	And they are losers.
	One thing I've is that the more windmills a country has, the more money that country loses, and the worse that country is doing.
	China makes almost all of the windmills, and yet I haven't been able to find any wind farms in China.
	Did you ever think of that?
	It's a good way of looking at it.
	They're smart.
	China's very smart.
	They make them, they sell them for a fortune.
	They sell them to the stupid people that buy them.
	But they don't use them themselves.
	They put up a couple of big wind farms, but they don't use them.
	They just put them up to show people what they could look like.
	They don't spin the thing.
	But it's been a constant hatred of Trump's for a long time.
	He talks about killing the birds.
	I also like how he doesn't even dignify wind turbines by their actual name.
	Windmills.
	The Dutch feeling very cool.
	I was just about to say that.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Exactly same thing.
	Yeah, he hates milling wheat.
	But no, he's right to point this out again in that it is just a naked loss of money investing in them.
	Although, China does actually have quite a few wind farms, and he says they're sort of only for show.
	But I think that they've got enough of them that you could sort of say that they also burn a lot of coal.
	They do, yes.
	They're just like, okay, yeah, yeah, we have that, but I know they're not exactly conscious on the green energy side of things.
	It's just as much energy as possible.
	He also talked about NATO, which I found interesting.
	But the problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100%, but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us if we gave them the call.
Suspicions And House Buys 00:06:15
	Gentlemen, we are being attacked.
	We're under attack by such and such a nation.
	I know them all very well.
	I'm not sure that they'd be there.
	I know we'd be there for them.
	I don't know that they'd be there for us.
	So, with all of the money we expend, with all of the blood, sweat, and tears, I don't know that they'd be there for us.
	But the problem with the US was after 2001, wasn't it?
	In Iraq and Afghanistan.
	Yeah.
	In the border, so you know, we pat ourselves on the back for that.
	But that was also about 20 years ago now.
	So things could have changed.
	I don't know how this is.
	Europe and America have definitely diverged.
	Yeah, there's not as friendly relations between our governments as there once were.
	Not at all.
	And so I can somewhat believe it, although I think what he's doing here is sort of goading them to be better allies a little bit by trying to shame them.
	Yep.
	I think there's an element of that at the very least.
	And here he is on Greenland because he wasn't going to mention it, but then he talks about it for about half an hour.
	Of course, he does.
	So we want a piece of ice for world protection and they won't give it.
	We'd never ask for anything else.
	And we could have kept that piece of land and we didn't.
	So they have a choice.
	You can say yes and we will be very appreciative.
	Or you can say no and we will remember.
	Which is a bit of a threat, I suppose.
	But also, he did announce that he wouldn't implement tariffs in relation to Greenland.
	So he also said he wouldn't invade, right?
	As well.
	He came up and was like, yeah, we're not going to do that.
	It's like, well, I mean, the thing about all of this that's been really frustrating for me, right, is literally he wrote a book explaining how he does his deals.
	He makes a ridiculous ask, say, I want 100% of this, and then he gets 30% of it and calls it a win.
	And it's like, okay, why does nobody take this seriously?
	Like, instead, he'll tweet, oh, yeah, I'm about to invade Greenland.
	Oh, my God, he's going to invade a NATO alley.
	Is this NATO over?
	It's like, are you a retard?
	No, he's dealing with you.
	And the thing is, as well about this, I don't even know what Trump got because it's all wound down now.
	I don't even know what Trump got that he couldn't have just got by just ringing him up and saying, hi, guys.
	We're just going to put some extra bases on Greenland.
	Because they've already got bases on Greenland.
	I'm pretty sure it could be done in a way whereby the Danish would be like, oh, that's great.
	You're actually helping us out.
	Worried about the Ruskies.
	So we're going to stack a few more bases on Greenland.
	Is that okay?
	It's like, well, it's not exactly overpopulated.
	I suspect there will be things when the details come out.
	But at the very least, he made the EU spend about three weeks considering what does our defense look like without the US.
	Yes.
	And the moment they start to consider that, they go, oh, shit.
	It is nice seeing him put the fear of God into them.
	I mean, if it simultaneously gives Europe a kick up the backside to, you know, actually expand our military capabilities a bit, that's a good thing.
	But I think that he could have perhaps done this a little bit better.
	It just seems to have been an attempt to deliberately rile them up.
	There's certainly an element of that there.
	And I think he also enjoys it a little bit.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I think he probably, because I suspect the existing treaties give him the access to everything that he's looking for anyway, right?
	So, and it probably wouldn't have been very difficult to ring up the Danes and go, look, you're not getting all these rare earth minerals out there.
	How about we invest it and we give you like 30% of the profits or something?
	So suddenly Denmark is making money out of Greenland and we get what we want and everyone wins.
	Like he could have he could have done this in an afternoon in a phone call and instead he spent like three weeks trying to annex a NATO member's territory.
	I suspect this is not the last we'll hear about Greenland though.
	No, He's just going to get what he wants out of it.
	Yeah.
	Because what are they going to do?
	What are they going to say?
	There's nothing they can do.
	One thing that I thought was interesting was at Davos he was talking about how people can't buy houses anymore because companies are buying them up and I think.
	Oh, wait, is this the right one?
	It's the wrong one, but a lot of people in the room must have felt called out about that.
	I know.
	It was the place for it, really, wasn't it?
	People are buying up houses.
	No, you, you, you, you're all buying up houses.
	Yeah.
	Isn't Davos in Switzerland?
	It is, yes.
	Don't they speak German in Switzerland?
	They do, yes.
	That's worth pointing out.
	He said, well, let's just play it.
	In World War II, when Denmark fell to Germany after just six hours of fighting and was totally unable to defend either itself or Greenland.
	So the United States was then compelled, we did it, we felt an obligation to do it, to send our own forces to hold the Greenland territory and hold it we did at great cost and expense.
	They didn't have a chance of getting on it.
	And they tried.
	He's got through this a little bit because he's just talking about successfully prevented our enemies from gaining a foothold in our hemisphere.
	So we did it for ourselves also.
	And then after the war, which we won, we won it big.
	Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German and a little Japanese, perhaps.
	I suppose that's not as threatening for the Germans, Austrians, and Swiss in the audience as it is for perhaps some others.
	No, but I did tweet about this.
	It's like there's a midwit take, like, oh, he's in Switzerland.
	They speak German.
	It's like, yeah, okay, but this is an international gathering.
	That is true.
	That is true.
	Like, he's not rocked up to a local Swiss council meeting.
	And actually, sometimes I do walk through Swindon and think, how bad would it be German?
	It would certainly be worse, right?
	Yeah.
	It's a clunky language, but there could have been some upsides.
Why Pirates Aren't So Stupid 00:03:51
	So I forgot I put that extra link in there.
	So this is the one where he's talking about homes will never be owned.
	But homes are built for people, not for corporations, and America will not become a nation of renters.
	We're not going to do that.
	That's why I have signed an executive order banning large institutional investors from buying single-family homes.
	It's just not fair to the public.
	They're not able to buy a house.
	I mean, that's such a good thing that isn't being made enough of a big deal out of.
	I very much agree.
	Like pushing up the cost of a home.
	A home is the main expense a family will ever have.
	And so making that as cheap as possible for them is the number one way the government can help people out financially, I think, if they were only to do one thing.
	And you get like the sort of, you know, the sort of retard left YouTubers who are like, Black Rod's buying up all the homes.
	It's like, okay, what's your response?
	Maybe Trump was watching your video.
	Like, Trump's completely on your side on this.
	Is Trump the great Satan?
	Now that he's actually done the thing you want?
	I mean, I don't recall, you know, Keir Stahmer didn't do this.
	Joe Biden didn't do this.
	Barack Obama didn't do this.
	You know, no, it was Donald Trump that did this.
	In fact, Keir Stahmer invited Larry Thinking for a meeting, didn't he?
	And I dread to think what was agreed there.
	So here's another one.
	He's talking about the Somalians.
	Of course, equally importantly, we're cracking down on more than $19 billion in fraud that was stolen by Somalian bandits.
	Can you believe that Somalians, they turned out to be higher IQ than we thought?
	And we say, these are low IQ people.
	How did they go into Minnesota and steal all that money?
	And we have, you know, they're pirates.
	They're good pirates, right?
	But we shoot them out of the water just like we shoot the drug boats out.
	They're not pirating too many boats lately.
	Do you notice?
	When they go out into those boats, they want to take over a billion and a half dollar tanker loaded up with oil.
	And they say, we're going to blow up your boat.
	They have powerful weapons.
	You hit the side of the boat, you blow the whole thing up.
	The insurance companies are petrified.
	So they say, just give them the boat.
	We'll give them money.
	He starts going on about pirates for some reason for a little bit and then he starts talking about...
	By the way, how long is this?
	Was this like a six-hour speech?
	Hour and a half.
	Hour and a half.
	Trump mostly just talking off the cuff.
	But he's been calling the Somalis low IQ for ages.
	I guess they're not that low IQ if they just rip us off.
	I did find that joke quite funny.
	It's amazing.
	And what they're doing is fail to ever build a successful society of their own.
	I mean, we're taking people from Somalia, and Somalia is a failed.
	It's not a nation.
	Got no government, got no police, got no million, got no nothing.
	And then we have this fake congressperson who they just reported is worth $30 million.
	You believe this?
	Elan Omar talking about the Constitution that provides me.
	She comes from a country that's not a country.
	And she's telling us how to run America.
	Not going to get away with it much longer, let me tell you.
	It was just what's on his mind at the time.
	What am I thinking about?
	Somalis.
	Oh, don't get me started about the bloody Somalis.
	Not Ilan Omar.
	It's like granddad over the dinner table at this rate.
	I suppose it's like granddad rambles at a room full of people who can't get away.
	It looks like he was having a good time, to be honest.
	And he was salient throughout the whole thing.
American Interest Rates Madness 00:03:45
	To be fair, my favorite moment of the whole thing was this.
	Tough.
	So when I called up Emmanuel Macron, I watched him yesterday with those beautiful sunglasses.
	What the hell happened?
	Just laughing at the fact he was wearing sunglasses.
	Everyone's like, did your wife punch you?
	Macron.
	What is that thing with elites and they get one black eye and then they go and give a speech?
	I don't.
	I don't know.
	That's a thing, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	But I mean, you remember when the plane door opened and British Macron's like smacking him in the face.
	Oh, yes.
	Yes.
	I remember that now.
	That might be the reason that he was wearing the sunglasses.
	Yeah.
	I mean, that's the average French woman experience.
	Quite possibly.
	But Macron being like, oh, yeah, no, everyone can see me.
	Oh, no.
	One thing I didn't expect was this.
	I'm just going to.
	One of the biggest barriers to saving for a down payment has been surging credit card debt.
	The profit margin for credit card companies now exceeds 50%, one of the biggest.
	And they charge Americans interest rates of 28%, 30%, 31%, 32%, whatever happened to usury.
	Spicy, Donald.
	He just says it.
	I mean, it's fair enough.
	That's a great point.
	American interest rates are insane.
	On literally everything.
	Any small thing that you have to make a long-term purchase on.
	The interest rates are just highway robbery, man.
	Well, they've expanded, you know, the whole society is financialized to a point where pretty much anyone can borrow money, but they'll just have extortionate interest on it.
	Oh, their student loans are mental.
	Yeah.
	It's a lifetime debt.
	And I saw, I think it was JP Morgan.
	They put out a statement saying that, you know, if these changes that Donald Trump is talking about go through, 80% of Americans won't be able to get a credit card.
	It's like 80% of Americans should not have a credit card.
	Yeah, good.
	Well, yeah, it's just an incentive to live beyond your means, really, isn't it?
	This expansion of credit and loans and things like that.
	And it's never in the interest of the people receiving it.
	It just creates a system where they have to depend on it.
	Okay, so just a quick thing.
	The average mortgage interest rate in the US is over 6%.
	I mean, on my house, it's like 3% or 2%, something like that.
	I can't remember exactly how much it was, but it's a lot lower.
	Like, guys, you're getting absolutely screwed.
	Anyway, sorry, Cameron.
	And the penultimate one was just that he said that America is basically keeping the whole world afloat.
	I don't know.
	I was so because she was so aggressive.
	And I realized in that conversation that the United States is keeping the whole world afloat.
	Many places, I could give you six, seven places, just in the people in this little area.
	I know every one of them.
	They're sort of, they're looking down.
	They don't want to see me.
	They don't want to stare me in the eyes.
	But they're taking advantage of.
	Everybody took advantage of the United States.
	But I've been very fair and I gave them a tariff and it was fine.
	But I realized that without us, it's not Switzerland anymore.
	Without us, it's not any of the countries that are represented here.
	And we want to work with the countries.
	We want to work with them.
Values at Risk 00:12:32
	We're not looking to destroy them.
	So this was literally the crux of the argument when he cancelled USAID.
	But Africans rely on that to survive.
	Yeah.
	That's weird.
	Maybe Africans should do it then.
	Yeah, maybe Africans should get jobs.
	Also, now it's been cancelled.
	They're fine.
	I've not heard of any mass starvations in Africa other than the usual.
	The usual bandit-led ones.
	I mean, stopping government funding in Minnesota would probably have more of effect on Africa than Smiley's can no longer buy their gold AKs.
	And the final thing I wanted to mention was another person who was at the World Economic Forum was Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of Commerce.
	And he gave quite a fire and brimstone speech about how globalism has failed.
	Net zero makes you subservient to China.
	You are allowed to have borders and things like that.
	So he was a lot less calm than Trump was and sort of reveled in the fact he was going into the nexus of all of these policies.
	Ellie is a beast.
	So if you've seen the Trump one, that's also another one to check out.
	But overall, I found Trump's speech to be more on the money than I was expecting, to be fair.
	It was a lot more appropriate for the audience.
	And the things he was talking about, he did in a way that I think was constructive.
	Some of the things he said about, you know, rubbing Europe's nose in, like, yeah, we saved you.
	Yeah, you've got no security.
	I don't think that would necessarily go down too well.
	But again, this could be a sort of art of the deal thing of, like, listen, we think we're doing everything for you.
	Maybe you should meet in the middle and do a little bit more.
	So you could argue that it's a negotiating tactic all on its own.
	And so overall, I was relatively impressed by it.
	I wasn't necessarily surprised.
	There weren't any curveballs there.
	A lot of this is sort of his greatest hits.
	But it was good to see it in the World Economic Forum right to the people who are the authors of many of the policies that have made Europe decline in the first place.
	There were some bangers in there, too.
	Anyway, Cranky Texan says, the so-called climate crisis has nothing to do with the environment.
	It's coded language.
	It's a metaphor for the anger of the masses in reaction to wealth concentration and the policies of the elites.
	The thing is, a lot of it is being done by the policies of the elites.
	Can we get the next one up, please, Samson?
	A lot of it is being done by the policies of the elites, which is itself the problem, right?
	Because I think genuinely, a lot of it is that.
	The sort of like, you know, populist left, if such a thing can be claimed to exist, sort of Zach Polanski types.
	Yeah, that is how they think.
	But a lot of it with the elites is this ideological and guilt-based, frankly.
	They feel guilty about being in the position that they're in.
	And so for them, these new things kind of dovetail very interestingly together.
	But anyway, let's move on.
	So, as we just saw from Josh's segment, we watched how Trump gave quite a wide-ranging and I thought, yeah, calm and relaxed speech at the UN.
	But it does come in the context of him posting things on Truth Social that are basically we're going to annex Greenland, we're going to annex Canada, we're going to do whatever we like because we're America.
	Now, this has not been taken very well.
	And we did a very detailed discussion about it that itself got quite heated on lotacies.com.
	You can go sign up and watch that if you want to see what we thought about it because I'm going to be building off of that.
	So if you want to know what the context for what I'm about to say is, that's it.
	So I was looking at the news about all of this.
	And I have to say, I don't think they're taking Trump's attitude well.
	Now, Trump hasn't actually done anything yet.
	He hasn't actually annexed anywhere.
	He hasn't actually, I mean, he didn't even tariff them in the end, right?
	He just, it was a lot of fire and fury.
	And then in the end, Trump came out and gave the reasonable speech, said reasonable things, and is probably just going to get what he wants.
	I think what's actually happened is Denmark's agreed to do some sort of negotiation with him now.
	And therefore, now they've agreed to that, he's said, okay, we're not going to tariff you.
	Yes.
	We're also not going to invade, which I think was pretty obvious.
	And yeah, and if you look on polymarket, it's like 80, 70% that Trump's going to get a piece of Greenland.
	You know, it's like, I think Denmark can afford to sell a piece of Greenland.
	But the point is, he's going to get what he wants.
	And he probably could have got all of these things anyway without all of this drama.
	But I like the drama because the drama causes the shitlibs to go mental, right?
	And what it did, as we talked about in the roundtable, is it brought in sharp relief the emaciated weakness of Europe, right?
	And this is our own fault.
	And I say our, I don't really think of ourselves as being part of Europe.
	But it is still, we're still suffering from the same sort of problem because having the protective banner of, oh, you know, big daddy America is going to come in and save us no matter what happens has made us incredibly complacent.
	But it's also allowed a class of people who just think in, I think, the wrong way about international politics to find themselves at the very top of our civilizations and make a series of decisions that just ruin everything.
	And this is why Trump's like, look, your countries are unrecognizable.
	It's not even that.
	I don't know if they're even making decisions.
	They're just making a series of virtue statements.
	It's just mobilizing.
	I think that the way I understand how Europe has been run is that it's been optimized to have all of the wealth harvested out by the very wealthy donors to the politicians and that the only people who've really benefited from the policies were people who had a significant amount of money to begin with and have seen unprecedented growth in their assets.
	Well, not just that.
	The other people who have benefited are the indolent scroungers at the bottom.
	That's true as well.
	We've been given all of our money.
	And so this is one of those things where it's like, okay, we've brought in sharp relief that Europe is essentially a kind of sickly continent, right?
	We're the sick man of the world.
	We are not capable of defending ourselves.
	We are not confident in ourselves.
	And we're not even looking to improve.
	What we're trying to do, the general philosophy of Europe, is to have a peaceful repose as we pass away.
	And now I'm very tired of this.
	I have the temperament of a man of action and not a man of cowardice, not a man who wants to just avoid danger at every point.
	I'm prepared to take risk, which is why any of this is here, right?
	Which is why any of us are here.
	We're prepared to take risk.
	We're risk-taking people.
	Well, the people in charge of Europe are not risk-taking people.
	They're people who abore risks.
	They hate thinking, oh, something might happen and I can't be certain of the conclusion, right?
	They are looking for certainty in everything.
	Now, the only way you can get certainty in anything in life is that you're going to die.
	And so this kind of thinking leads you on the path of decline.
	You're not growing.
	You're not innovating.
	You are just slowly, slowly passing into the grave.
	And so, as we got here from the New York Times, this mindset is not just Europe.
	It is the liberal international mindset.
	And they've come to the point where they realize, okay, Trump is forcing this to change.
	So as they say, Europe is basically at a crossroads and Europe must decide what it's going to do.
	And so they complain at the beginning, saying, well, look, he's threatened to impose tariffs on us, but he didn't provide any details of what a new framework might look like or, you know, with the Danish debate.
	And so the Danish member of parliament from Greenland was like, well, this is total confusion.
	And it's like, yes, because actually chaos is a ladder, right?
	You can advance somewhere out of the mire that you are in if the pieces are all thrown up in the air.
	If it's all just predictable, slow decline into the grave, well, chaos sounds like a good thing, right?
	Chaos change is a good thing.
	If you know that you're going in this direction, you definitely want change.
	But also stability is owned by our enemies.
	Absolutely.
	But the stability, if the stability was a slow upward trajectory, okay.
	Oh, no, it's steady decline, yeah.
	Exactly.
	Stay the course, you know, and you know, slowly but surely we'll get to where we're going.
	But no, we can see where we're going.
	The steady decline is what the stability is for.
	And I'm personally like, right, no, bring the chaos.
	Bring chaos.
	I'm convinced if the current order in Europe remains, in 15 years, it will just be a destination for Chinese extravagant.
	Yes.
	I mean, volatility is at least an opportunity to change things, right?
	Exactly.
	And it makes sense to have stability when things are going well.
	It's a good way of preserving things.
	But when things are declining, then all you're doing is managing the decline, as we've talked about many, many times.
	And so, yes, every time Trump goads Europe into rethinking its approach to things, I think that's a good thing.
	Yeah, and this is why they cried when JD Vance came over and just basically gave a moral declaration that Europe was on the wrong track.
	Like the German MP literally cried because what Vance was basically stating is that, look, this comfortable retirement that Europe is in is over, right?
	History did not end and has actually come storming back, and you're expecting us to hold the bag.
	And actually, we want you to start doing something.
	You are not old folks in the world's retirement home.
	You have got to do something with your countries.
	Otherwise, you're going to lose everything.
	And so, this is what they're essentially coming to the crux of here.
	They interview a senior fellow at a research institute in Brussels.
	He says, look, we're fundamentally at odds in a way that can only reflect the very different values between most governments in Europe and the Trump administration.
	That's true.
	But if you look at the governments that are coming up or have recently come up, actually, their values are not so different, right?
	Nigel Farage, Maloney, Orban, or whoever, you know, like various other right-wing governments are actually more aligned with Trump on this.
	They're like, yeah, no, no, we should do something.
	We shouldn't just quietly die off.
	And so, correct, right?
	What they're calling the European values, the way that Europe's current run are basically the values of a defeated man, are the values of a man who doesn't want to.
	Just stop hitting me.
	Just stop hurting me.
	I just, I don't have the energy to deal with this anymore.
	And Trump has got the values of the conqueror.
	He's here to win.
	He's here to take over things.
	Fundamentally, what I think is going to happen here is that there's going to have to be some sort of restoration of competition between Europe and the United States.
	Friendly competition, not necessarily entirely adversarial, but sort of economic competition that betters both parties, right?
	And at the minute, Europe has been far too complacent in just allowing things to go to the United States and not seeking to be like, you know, we actually should have a very solid manufacturing center or we can attract these businesses, these tech companies to Europe.
	There's no cutting tax and things.
	Europe just outsources everything apart from wine, cheese and regulation.
	And that's like the only thing that Europe produces.
	And very miserable people these days.
	Yes.
	And so I think this sort of measure would be very, very good because not only does it reduce the burden on the United States and allow them to focus their attention elsewhere, but also it reinvigorates Europe.
	Because the way I sort of personify the situation is that of learned helplessness in a way, which is a psychological phenomenon where providing care for someone stops them from being able to stand on their own two feet and improve their own situation themselves.
	We see this with aid to Africa on a sort of individual level.
	And I think what is actually happening here in Europe is much the same, but at a statewide level, because the United States has been helping Europe for such a long time.
	It genuinely has been a blanket that Europe has basically nursed itself with while sucking its thumb.
	And it's just embarrassing.
	I mean, look, this is from this article, right?
	Trump had announced over the weekend that he intended to apply levies of 10% on several European nations that recently sent troops to Greenland as part of the NATO exercise.
Europeans Scratching Heads 00:02:21
	Good thing we sent that one soldier to Greenland, isn't it?
	You said something funny in the office.
	That would have made a superb sitcom.
	Yeah, that was Melissa Chen's point.
	This would be an incredible sitcom.
	We've got like a black Alasar sitcom.
	So, you know, the Europeans are doing all the things.
	And it's the one lone Brit who basically wins at the end of the day.
	15 Germans, whatever it was, the seven French of Bomberit.
	But he did suspend the tariffs, so it didn't happen.
	But it's unclear that it lost.
	The mere possibility set off a panicked flurry.
	European ambassadors met for an emergency gathering on Sunday.
	Oh, God, emergency meeting.
	Oh, oh, really?
	Okay, yeah, you fucking nerds.
	Right?
	To discuss the development.
	And many European leaders called Trump directly.
	Thursday summit was called in response to the event.
	The shift in the international order is not only seismic, but it's permanent, says Ursula von der Leyen, the unelected president of the European Commission.
	And so you've got the school marman, oh, right, okay, something has changed, and it's changed forever.
	And so they're sat there scratching their heads.
	Why has this happened?
	Why is this happening to us?
	You've got like the news agents where you've got Emily Maitlis.
	We won't watch it, but like, I'll just, you know, show you their faces.
	Because, again, the faces, like, just total confusion, that they don't know what's going on and why.
	And she always looks like she's about to have an aneurysm or something because of things that are happening are so far out of the liberal consensus that she would love to agree to that she's just like, my God, why is this happening?
	Oh, and it's like, okay, look, actually, this is explainable.
	You're just not going to like the answer.
	Yep.
	And the funny thing is, right, is these kind of class of people, I mean, not just in the media, but I mean, across the entire set of institutions, they're always dismissing and belittling Trump.
	He can make them dance like circus monkeys whenever he wants to.
	Trump tweets 10% tariff, thousands of bureaucrats and world leaders have to get into board meetings.
	There they are with their little gongs running around.
	Exactly.
	How much energy did he expend to get them to expend how much energy in return?
	Right?
	And it's just, and yet Emily Maitless is sat there like acting like she's like the expert on all of this.
	And it's like, but you don't.
	She doesn't have a clue.
Lions vs. Foxes in Politics 00:15:15
	No, she doesn't have a clue.
	And they literally are like, you know, oh, is he a mafia, a gangster?
	Is he bored?
	Is he incoherent?
	Is he diverting attention from the Epstein filter?
	Look, I'll tell you what is happening.
	He sees reality.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But you're not going to like it, right?
	Because it means basically the sort of Emily Maitlis class, the lanyard-wearing rule-following class of Europe, are the wrong people for the job.
	That's what it means, right?
	And I'm going to reference an essay in Islander Five because there is an essay in here called Men Against Darkness by Dr. Luke Gilfedder.
	And it is incredible.
	An incredible, incredible essay, right?
	Not only obviously, it's beautifully produced, but this is the essay, Men Against Darkness.
	And I'm just going to read you one small passage from it that just summarizes the entire thing.
	So the essay is structured around a critique, or not critique, an examination of C.S.S. Lewis's work, The Lion and the Fox, where he explains the anti-heroic perspective of the fox, right?
	The lion embodies the heroic perspective because the lion is big, bold, and strong.
	It can be heroic, right?
	But he explains that Europe is playing the role of the fox here.
	He doesn't reference Europe, but you can see that Europe is playing the role of the fox and is pursuing what he calls the strategy of defeat, right?
	The end goal of the fox's stratagems, Lewis says, is survival.
	Bare survival by constant adaptation to environment, nothing more.
	Smaller and weaker by nature than the lion, the king, or the colossus, the foxish man of the world is the true illustration of Darwinian survival.
	A survival not by means of fitness, but by means of strategy.
	He is a type that nature has marked for death and knows it.
	And so his system of defense, his is a system of defense, not attack.
	Hiding within the defensive mechanism of his labyrinth, civilization, he becomes the champion of the mechanical and the constant adversary of the individual.
	And if you think about it, right, it's Trump versus Europe.
	Well, and the entire ruling class is foxes.
	Exactly.
	And Trump is one man with a heroic narrative.
	Actually, this is a point I should have made yesterday in our Greenland debate with Harry and Stellios.
	Yes, we kind of agreed that Trump could have been more artful the way he went about the Greenland thing, but he's not a fox.
	No, not at all.
	He can only do lion things.
	Yes.
	And lions don't do this clever grand strategy stuff.
	No, and luckily for us, Trump is a kind-hearted man.
	Like, you know, Trump could be really belligerent.
	He just tweets belligerently, and then he takes actually reasonable actions.
	There's a little bit more here.
	So he carries on.
	His strategy mirrors the playing for safety of the man of science, whose ambition, as Lewis foresaw, is to discipline and mechanize society, to still men and women into quiescence and receptivity, and to quiet at last a world once filled with fretful and disordered life.
	As in, they want everything to be predictable, to be constant, to be safe, because they are frankly not the people who are either temperamentally or physically equipped to deal with conflict.
	That's the problem.
	You are the wrong people at the wrong time for the wrong job.
	Anyway, Island of 5, link will be in the description, shop.lewices.com.
	And that's just one paragraph from a three-page essay.
	It's often broadly the theory that in any system is created by lions, it's defended by lions, and then eventually the foxes kind of worm their way in until the thing collapses and then you need lions again.
	Yes.
	And the lion is saying, listen, we are now overextended.
	You know, if you want to maintain this comfortable retirement that you think you have, this gentle repose, then you need to act in a way that I'm going to make you act.
	And the foxes just panic and go, okay, but we had a fretless and orderly life.
	And he's throwing it all into the chaos.
	And we're not the people to do it.
	Yeah, we've got this rules-based global order.
	Just do that.
	Imagine the kind of people that selects for.
	Well, I think that philosophy of leadership in Europe also seems to push the fox types towards politics because our view, and I didn't really think about it until you actually read those quotes, seems to be by default that we send the lions to the military and the foxes into politics, don't we?
	Correct.
	And in the United States, it's not quite as clear-cut as that.
	They don't have this clear delineation.
	Obviously, there's still that approach to some degree because you do want brave people that are, you know, not fearful and willing to face their enemies down in the military.
	Actually, our system selects against the lion, right?
	Like, Nigel Farage, for all his faults, is still embodying the lion archetype, right?
	He still wants things to happen.
	You know, he wanted Brexit regardless of the consequences, really, right?
	And so it's...
	He's been trained by foxes, though.
	Sure, and I'm not saying he's the best lion we can find.
	But the point being, he wants change in the system.
	He wants uncertainty.
	He feels in the sort of Thatrite mold that we can prosper if we just give an opportunity.
	And the system has always been, no, we want stability and the managed decline into nothingness.
	Isn't that a great quote, though?
	I was reading this the other day.
	Again, all of the articles in there are just bangers.
	And I'm just reading that thing.
	And it's just like that.
	I was just like, oh, yeah, I hadn't thought of that before.
	Anyway, get it while you still can because it's selling really fast.
	But the point is, Europe wants a comfortable retirement, is not mentally prepared to seize any kind of destiny.
	The destiny Europe had pitched for itself was one of being protected by the United States as they just sunk into nothingness.
	But they're beginning to accept, oh no, this is another article from today from the New York Times, where they're like, oh yeah, no, actually, I think we might have a problem, right?
	And look at the framing of this quote that I'm about to read to you, because this is just kind of preposterous when you start picking it apart, right?
	So Alexander Stubb, the Finnish president and a key power broker in Europe, stood up, ash and faced at the end of the speech that took aim at people like him, Trump's speech that we've just seen.
	The leaders of the Western economic and political elite, as he made for the other exits, Mr. Stubb approached Lindsey Graham, the Republican Senator for South Carolina, seeking to learn more, Graham later said, about Trump and the United States' position.
	Everybody in Europe is concerned, Mr. Graham, an ally of Trump, dismissively said after speaking, Stubb, they're concerned when they get up and when they go to bed.
	So the Europeans are the retirement home of the world.
	How is the president of Finland a major power broker in Europe?
	Finland is a country of 4 million people and has nothing.
	Well, because it's all backroom deals from a self-selected group.
	Because it's all foxes who are talking, right?
	There's no point where Finland can enact the will of the lion and say, right, we've had enough.
	Finland refuses, like Britain with Brexit, right?
	That was actually lion-like activity on the part of the Brits.
	No, we've had enough.
	Oh, and there was a pack to pay.
	Yeah, hell to pay.
	They were up in arms.
	We're the worst people in the world.
	What could Finland do that was lion-like in Europe?
	Nothing.
	So how is this a key power broker?
	Because it's a continent of foxes that are being ruled by the wrong people.
	And Lindsey Graham's just like, I'm dismissive of it.
	Like, why does he care?
	And I'm not even like, you know, why does America care about Finland's opinion?
	The American doesn't care about the opinion of the Finn.
	And so he carries on.
	Phil Gordon, the former national security advisor of Kamala Harris, who was there, said foreign officials approached him during the summit afternoon asking if Mr. Trump's position was now permanent.
	Is this America?
	They asked him.
	And is the post-World War II era definitively over?
	Or is there any hope that it comes back?
	Oh, it's been over for a while.
	People are just trying to realize it now.
	Exactly, right?
	Like we were talking about in the roundtable, the reality of what's happening and then the fancy or the narrative of what's happening have diverged so sufficiently, there's too much light between them.
	Yep, the tectonic plates have moved apart.
	The earthquake has happened.
	But just clicking, look at the supine, servile request.
	Is there any way we can go back to being under your protective wing?
	Because we don't want to have to be men of our own.
	We're foxes and we just want to be away from danger.
	It's like, no, you weaklings, you absolute weaklings.
	You're not going back to the end of history.
	It's interesting to me that these people are in this position and still don't realize that the post, the liberal post-World War II order is over.
	It's been clear to us for a long time, just as political commentators, that this has been the case.
	So in their position, presumably as plugged in as they possibly could be, you know, even leaders of European countries, they should be on this.
	And it just speaks of the failures of them to keep their fingers on the pulse.
	And it makes clear why there's such a decline in Europe in the first place, if they're sticking to ideas that, as they say, are old, old world.
	That's exactly right.
	There is a distinct strain of self-delusion amongst European elites that, no, we have the European Union, we're in the European Parliament, we have all of these institutions, NGOs, and other sort of bureaucratic structures in which everyone agrees with us.
	And therefore, when Vance or Trump comes over and says the complete opposite, we start crying because we realize that is the end of our world.
	We weren't prepared for this.
	We weren't adults about this.
	And it's just ridiculous, right?
	And there are a couple of people who understand this.
	And one thing I found interesting was Gavin Newsom, who was just like, well, there's no rule of law.
	It's the rule of Don.
	Donald Trump tried to steal the election, blah, But the point is, at least he understands, right?
	He comes from California, which has all of these sort of fox-like structures.
	But at least he's in America and not insulated to the point where he can just delude himself into thinking, oh, yeah, well, it's just this forever because we're at the end of history.
	At least he understands he's fighting for something that isn't guaranteed.
	Whereas the Europeans thought they had this sewn up forever.
	Then you have this fake Maloney response going around just to FYI.
	This is not her real response to this.
	At India Tale 7, I'll let you guess what continent they come from.
	Trump, NATO is nothing without America, which is obviously true.
	Maloney, perfect.
	They're going to close your bases, ditch your trade deals, and boycott McDonald's for good measures.
	She doesn't even say that in the video.
	AI slop, is it?
	It's not even AI slop.
	Just a video from like three weeks ago or something, so it's not even talking about this.
	And she's saying, Look, what are we supposed to do about this?
	You know, she's being realistic about it, right?
	What her actual response was is to say, look, there's been a problem with understanding and communication.
	We must resume dialogue, avoid escalation.
	And that's what I'm working on.
	You know, I spoke to Donald Trump, I know what he's trying to do because Maloney is not just a technocrat.
	Now, I'm not saying that she's perfect or anything like that.
	She's on the immigration issue, she's been atrocious, but she is more lion-like than she is fox-like.
	And this is the same, ironically, with Mark Rutt, right?
	Mark Rutt got in trouble, or he got mocked a couple of months back for calling Trump daddy, saying daddy's coming.
	I think that also has something to do with the fact that it's an open secret in Dutch politics that he is not a heterosexual man.
	No kidding.
	But the point is that Mark Rut has actually been doing a lot of good work for the Europeans to charm Trump because Mark Rutt has realized, okay, the reign of the foxes is over, right?
	I can't just legislate.
	I can't just, you know, tell Donald Trump, no, I have rules and you have to follow these rules, right?
	It's come to the point where it's clear that Trump doesn't care about the rules.
	And so what's Mark Rutt doing?
	Mark Rutt is invoking hierarchy, right?
	Because in any pride of lions, you have a hierarchy.
	You have the alpha who is at the top, and then you have everyone else, and they're in their own little hierarchies underneath him.
	And Mark Rutt has basically gone, yeah, no, I am actually not the alpha here.
	Whereas Ursula von der Leyen and all those, they're trying to act like alpha foxes over the lion.
	It's like, no, no, you're not.
	It's not going to work.
	Exactly.
	It's not going to work.
	And Trump is just going to literally wreck you, as we've seen here.
	And Mark Rutt, everyone's like, oh my God, he's licking Trump's boots all over.
	It's like, no, he's just accepting he's not the boss, right?
	He's accepting his place here.
	Ruta has been in politics enough that he knows when he's got to relent to someone.
	And he, he, he picked this up very quickly, actually, because he used to be a liberal global technocrat, blah, blah, blah.
	When he was in charge of Holland, until suddenly it became apparent that Trump wasn't going to play that game.
	And so he was like, right, okay, yeah, no.
	And so he's been very charming to Trump in the same way that, frankly, Kier Starmer has been as well, right?
	And so he's been deeply invested in trying to mollify Trump.
	Because you'll notice that what Trump said is, Europe won't come and help us if we're attacked, right?
	Now, there is the argument that they can't come and help you because they're, frankly, a retirement home for the world.
	But the question is the moral aspect.
	Would if America, if a million Chinese troops landed in America tomorrow and took over like California, would Europe, how many troops is Europe sending?
	And Trump mentioned it in his speech.
	I don't think you're coming to our aid.
	And that's because California.
	But it's for America, right?
	And there's every reason to think that because the Europeans spend all of their time, the European leadership spend all of their time condemning Trump.
	And Trump views himself as a representation of America.
	And so they think, as you see in the New York Times, oh, there's a moral rift here.
	It's like, yes, there is.
	And that's what Trump has been arguing for.
	You've got to stop being opposed to us.
	You're meant to be our allies.
	We're meant to be in NATO.
	And that means you're meant to morally agree with us.
	And the thing is, Trump is not a moral innovator, right?
	Trump has got orthodox American morality that was completely stock in trade the moment the ceasefires hit after World War II.
	Right?
	Every American thought what Donald Trump thought.
	Every European thought what Donald Trump thought.
	And it's the Europeans who have changed.
	They're the ones who have gone do Lally with them.
	Oh, they've drifted into the fantasy world.
	Exactly.
	Managerial technocracy or whatever, like this libt hard nonsense.
	And so Mark Rutt is actually, what's he saying here?
	No, no, we will come out and help you if you're in trouble, right?
	He is saying international relations will not be based on rules.
	They'll be based on relationships.
	We have a relationship with you and you have a relationship with us because that's what Trump's been complaining about the whole time.
	He's saying, you are not friendly to us.
	You don't act like friends.
	You act like enemies.
	You act like people who hate and despise us.
	And we're not taking anymore.
	And so he's saying, look, I don't care about your because you think you've superseded relationships with the rules and you think that we're bound by the rules, but we're the enforcers of the rules.
	And if you don't treat us in the way we want to be treated, you're in trouble.
	And Mark Root gets this.
NATO's Fragile Balance 00:02:20
	It's also worth mentioning as well because he's Secretary General of NATO.
	That if Ruta came out and said, oh, yeah, by the way, we're not going to help you.
	It would sort of mean that NATO would collapse.
	And that would.
	And so he has to be somewhat deferential to Trump because he wants everyone to stay on side and be on the same team.
	You would think Denmark would have had the same opinion then, right?
	Because I mean, if Trump takes Greenland off of Denmark, well, then NATO collapses as well.
	So like, you know, the collapse of NATO is definitely on the cards theoretically from all of this.
	But the point being, Root is just speaking to him as someone with a relationship to him, right?
	Rather than someone who is appealing to an abstract, impersonal set of rules that could be decided by some, you know, arbitrary court or whatever.
	And that's how Trump wants to talk.
	He already mentioned it.
	We don't think you'll come and help us.
	And we're like, oh no, we absolutely would.
	Well, there we go.
	So stop condemning us.
	Stop coming at us like we're enemies, like we're morally repugnant or something, because you guys have adopted basically a new religion and you don't want to hear it.
	And so that's basically what I think the main cause of the rift is.
	And why the Europeans, frankly, will never win this argument.
	Oh, no, they're not winning.
	And even morally, like, they can never win the argument because what they're asking for is preposterous.
	And what Trump's arguing for has been the moral consensus of the United States for hundreds of years.
	So he's never going to change.
	But the Europeans are definitely out on a limb with all the mass immigration, with all the incredibly high tax, with the insane regulation, with the top-down nature of society.
	That's actually what was being fought against in World War II.
	Anyway, I'll leave it there because I'm keep going on.
	But anyway, like I said, the Islander article I've referenced, it was just one paragraph.
	The entire thing's gold.
	I'm probably going to do another video about it because it's brilliant.
	Get a copy while you can.
	Great.
	Get us some links, Samson.
	Sigilstone says, the lion does not concern himself with the fox.
	I'm not reading the rest of that.
	Foxes sound very feminine, the lions sound very masculine.
Jesse James West's Video 00:10:52
	Another example of our society being feminized to death.
	It exactly is.
	It is exactly that.
	So the bad news is that we didn't make it, but the good news is the greatest YouTube video of all time has been made.
	And I refer, of course, to this.
	This is Jesse James West, who has made female giants versus strongest dwarfs.
	I mean, you need to know nothing more than that to know that I need to watch this.
	This gives like a video idea if I were 12 years old and that was like the best I could think of.
	Yes, but it's also the best thing when you're like 40.
	Oh, no, I'm not denigrating it whatsoever.
	This is a genius idea.
	If this had come up in my recommended feed, I would absolutely have clicked on it.
	Oh, 100%.
	Yeah, 100%.
	Brilliant, brilliant, really.
	He does a whole bunch of these videos.
	And it's a lot of stuff like this.
	So I saw him do one which was construction workers versus bodybuilders.
	Construction workers comprehensively won that.
	And a whole bunch of other ones.
	To be honest.
	These are important things, though, because...
	Yes, you need to know this.
	Yeah, because the principle at play with the construction worker thing is, is applied fitness better than trained fitness?
	And obviously it is, right?
	Everyone knows that.
	I saw a video a while ago about a guy who does rock climbing.
	He was in the gym and he's, you know, he doesn't look very big at all, right?
	Yeah, he's wiry, right?
	And then you've got these massive, like, inflated bodybuilds.
	And so he's just on the situation.
	He's just like, shh, and they're just like, oh my God.
	And it's like, yeah, well, you know, actually, you're not producing real strength when you're building up these muscles.
	You know, you're producing size.
	Size.
	There's all those connected muscles and all that kind of thing.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Absolutely.
	One of the videos that he did, and we dwell on this one for a second, is one of the videos he did is he got a whole bunch of female bodybuilders.
	And then he went out onto the street and just got like five random guys.
	Like one of them he met at the airport who recognized him and he was like, I'm doing a video later.
	Can you come along?
	So he's got five completely random guys.
	And this lovely lady here, she's an arm wrestling champion.
	Oh, and as you can see, you'll see her arms are quite big.
	You know, she's got some muscle on her.
	I think she may have injected something along the way.
	Steroid women versus this arm wrestling competition.
	You note, she's perfect form.
	She's dedicated.
	She's focused.
	He's got rubbish form and he's laughing and joking the whole way through.
	Can we watch it?
	So how does a wreck?
	Yeah, you can.
	But I just set it up.
	So place your bets as to who wins.
	A arm wrestling champion who's huge or some random guy who's larking around.
	Definitely the random guy.
	Joe.
	Where's the sound gone, Samson?
	Where is it?
	I've seen this.
	Flex off!
	Two, one, go!
	Get it done, Grom.
	Get it done.
	Come on!
	Ashes!
	Ryan, go!
	Go!
	Grab the table with your other arm.
	Hold!
	Pull!
	Come on!
	Come on!
	Come on, Ryan!
	Ryan, stop!
	He's having such a laugh over this.
	Come on!
	Oh, my God.
	Push!
	Go!
	Use your muscles!
	She's winning!
	Oh, come on!
	He's messing around.
	Ryan is playing.
	Put her down!
	He's letting her get the cat!
	Let's go!
	And the whole video is like this.
	The whole video is like this.
	And you can see that one behind.
	I mean, he is skinny as hell.
	And I think they do lose a couple of events closely, but it's just five random guys and they just win.
	And her muscles are bigger.
	But the thing is, they need to be on women because there's a whole bunch of attributes.
	I mean, for a start, men have got stronger skeletons, denser skeletons.
	Our muscles are tensor.
	And apparently the huge thing is our tendons are significantly stronger and denser.
	And so it all adds up.
	So women basically need 60% more muscle to equal a blokes.
	Well, the sort of stat that's often banded around is men have 30% higher upper body strength than women do on average.
	It was 50%.
	Well, I'll double check.
	It was 30% higher.
	I think it's more than that when you add on the sort of skeleton and the tendons as well.
	There are all sorts of other physical advantages that men have, though.
	Again, not to try and big us up or anything.
	Oh, there's a whole list.
	So I had a look.
	It's playing some of our strengths as a sex, really, isn't it?
	Like motion detection.
	Okay, it's saying anywhere between 40 to 90% greater upper body strength.
	Men detect movement swifter than women, but women see more colours than men and things like this.
	They are genuinely biologically different.
	I actually did a study at university where we measured recognition of emotion.
	You'd think, well, that would be pretty comparable.
	But men are better at recognising anger in faces and women are better at recognising sadness.
	And of course, this plays on the different social roles we adopt.
	So let's get to the main video.
	There's a couple of bits I'm going to highlight from here.
	I'm going to give you the first bit.
	Hell of a thumb.
	And just to give you a flavour, and then we'll start doing some of the segments.
	These are female giants.
	I will point out at least one of them is a wood.
	And they are the world's strongest dwarves.
	And they'll be competing in strength competitions all to find out who is stronger.
	Starting with one rev max on the squats, we've got Maya versus right.
	So, yeah, then they go into various things.
	Let's take us apparently 217 is where I want to go.
	Can I just declare I am immediately team dwarf, regardless of how we did the giant?
	Yes.
	Well, one of them is attracting, but anyway.
	Oh, dwarves.
	Yeah.
	So the first bit, I think I've got about a minute for you here.
	So let's just enjoy this.
	We've got this beast of a lovely lady.
	And to be fair to her.
	She looks strong.
	I mean, yeah, that is a damn decent squat.
	I'll give you that.
	So let's see how this absolutely monster female squat compares against a dwarf dude.
	Come on.
	Drive, drive, drive, drive.
	Oh, that was all you.
	That was all you.
	25 checkpoints.
	I mean, that is a good squat.
	Oh, hail, Jack Women!
	495.
	Yo, respect.
	Respect.
	However, even though that was a power for Maya, 495 was no problem for Lorenzo.
	You sure you got it?
	Easy, easy.
	It's okay to quit.
	Do you need another Pap Chalk?
	I know Jesse already gave you guys one, but I could come give you another one.
	Oh, my God, no!
	Okay, I will quickly point out that shit talking on height happens constantly throughout this video.
	I mean, constantly.
	That's great.
	They even keep having a go at this Jesse guy, and he's like 5'11.
	Yeah, yeah.
	They keep mogging him.
	And I don't know what it is with women, but they have this absolute fixation about six foot.
	Yeah, I guess.
	I've not noticed.
	But the thing is, right?
	Even if you are a female giant, you can still date a dwarf and he still gets to be your big strong man, as we find out.
	Well, maybe not.
	Well, you're spoiling it here.
	Hang on a second.
	You know, I couldn't predict beforehand that the.
	Right, okay, okay, we still have no idea how this is going to go.
	So the rest of the first event.
	We did it!
	A little two and a half to make it 500.
	500 pounds, baby.
	Which is a squat that most people only dream of ever reaching.
	There you go.
	Okay.
	Women are very sloppy on their support of the squat now, I noticed.
	PR!
	Mega PR.
	All right, boys.
	The guys are spotting me.
	They should have been a bit gone for it.
	Go for something big.
	All right, let's do it.
	Let's do it.
	So, so 500.
	Can he match 500?
	No, he just blows straight past it to 585.
	Good job, though.
	There's another one just for the head of it.
	One more, why not?
	Oh, the absolute.
	You should be dwarf max.
	Round one.
	As a tall person, I do take it a little bit personally.
	Yeah, you can.
	He's got far less to squat.
	Finally, there is an advantage.
	Well, I mean, there are various things that he does with it, but there we go.
	That's the key image.
	I've got to say, as soon as they invent the holodeck, the first thing I'm doing in is going in and saying, computer, I want a dwarf army of 100,000.
	And then I'm fighting various historical battles, at least one Tyrannosaurus Rex.
	It would be bloody awesome.
	The only problem is being a tall trap myself.
	I'm going to have to get a little human triangle pyramid just because I've got snipers or anything.
	But, you know, that will be absolutely immense fun.
	What you were saying about the dwarf protector earlier, I've just been thinking, like, you know, this not only is great for the reputation of dwarfs worldwide, but I was thinking about it, like, a dwarf protector, if they're this strong, and the fact that many people I feel wouldn't want to fight a dwarf on principle.
	I wouldn't fight a dwarf on principle, no matter how rude.
	I don't want to fight anyone.
	Some want to fight anyone, but like not a dwarf.
	Well, not ideally, but if another person of a comparable height did something that deserved it, you'd be more willing than a dwarf.
	And therefore, I feel like society has been overlooking them.
	I'm just thinking about it.
	Get this man a battle axe, man.
	Oh, yeah.
	What a brilliant thing.
	I want my dwarf army.
	And you're right, they should be dwarf maxing.
	They should be growing out the beard and everything.
	Yeah.
	And also, you know, conventional military, as you know, the war in Ukraine is trench warfare, you know, who's perfectly adapted.
	Yeah, they are.
	Until you've got to get out of the trench, to be fair.
	Well, there's going to be little stairs, you know, they'll be.
	And there is a serious reason why I wanted to talk about this.
	I mean, I remember, actually, from your channel, years ago, when you first started, you have this thing with Anita Sikizian.
	And I remember once you played one of her videos, and in that, she actually says, and she's been 100% serious here.
	She says it's a myth that men are stronger than women.
	They think it's down to boys doing gym and sports when they're young.
	Yes.
	I mean, they genuinely think this.
	You know, there are many women out there that just think genetics don't exist because they've got no direct experience of them.
Dropped Clothesline, Never Felt Right 00:08:06
	Therefore, they're not a factor.
	The thing is, though, that doesn't even make sense because, I mean, like, during PE, the women weren't, like, in maths or something, right?
	They also had PE.
	So everyone's got PA at the same time.
	You're both on two different fields.
	Yeah.
	So, I mean, I found a whole bunch of videos of like, of those Vox pop strings in the street where they go to like liberal universities and ask women, is it true that men are stronger?
	And so many of them just say no.
	This was a thread which is about, you know, these feminists talking about it.
	And some of them are saying, oh, yeah, actually, no, men are stronger.
	And why are so many of these feminists?
	Why are so many people?
	Because this is the feminist board of Mumsnet.
	Right.
	Right, right.
	They're saying, why are so many women saying it's not?
	I've had women say, I hate myself because I don't think the fastest 100-meter runner will ever be female.
	It's so obviously true.
	And then this actually particular thread gets filled up with anecdotes of women saying, yeah, actually, I found out I used to think that.
	And then I found out that my boyfriend could just put me over his shoulder and run up a hill.
	I think it was like Serena Ravenus Williams.
	We're having an interview.
	I've said this before, though.
	There was an interview years ago with her being interviewed by a feminist in like 2014 or something.
	Oh, you're the number one tennis player in the world.
	How would you be if you were competing against men?
	She's like, oh, 500th, something like that.
	Yeah, start me at 500 down.
	And they like it when they're realistic about it.
	It's just like, oh, yeah.
	I can give you a direct example of this.
	So this is Julia Penna, and she is an ultimate fighting champion.
	She was the champion in 2021.
	Now, she's not considered to be in the top 10 of all time, but just outside it.
	She's somewhere like 11th to 15th.
	I'm sure she could kick my ass.
	I don't know.
	Well, okay, I don't.
	And in fact, she's going to tell a story exactly like this.
	So when she was on her way up in Eminent, just before she made it really big, but she was, you know, basically a full-time MMA fighter at this point, but still doing a little bit of waitressing, she got into...
	Well, I'll let her tell you the story herself.
	Let's make sure we've got sound on this.
	I could beat a man.
	I went into the back alley while I was serving and I fought the line cook going at each other for a long time.
	A long story.
	He dropped me three times.
	I got dropped.
	I popped right back up.
	I went at him again.
	He dropped me again.
	I had my eyes swollen shut for three days and 11 stitches in my eye.
	I thought that I could fight a man.
	I don't have any ego to be like, I could beat a man.
	I learned my lesson.
	I don't want anything to do with fighting dudes.
	I actually was in my head of being like, no, I'm a pro fighter.
	I can fight this guy and I'm going to beat him.
	Juliana, he's 6'3.
	You're 5'6.
	Like, take that into account, you know, or like trying to like bob and weave your way in there to like get him down.
	All I got to do is get in close and take him down, and then I'll choke him.
	I couldn't even do that because the second that I tried to enter, I was getting dropped.
	I got fired, and he got to keep his job.
	There was a guy that was watching the whole time.
	He didn't stop it.
	Who is this lying?
	You might have missed the bit at the end, but the funniest bit is some bloke just having a cigarette, just watching the whole thing.
	It doesn't get involved.
	I would like to say one thing ever so quickly: that the notion of there being female UFC fighters and MMA fighters makes me a little bit uncomfortable.
	In that, when I've watched a fair amount of it, and I always feel like I shouldn't be watching this, this is a bit dirty.
	You know, it's just like this doesn't feel right.
	But it's even worse when you got who is the trans man.
	Well, that was the thing that I was dancing around because YouTube is a bit funny about this.
	Yeah, but literally, like, broke someone's skull or something.
	Yeah, that's right.
	I can't remember if it was Ronda Rousey or whatever, but this woman was like, I'd never been punched like that before.
	Yeah, I've never felt, she said, I've never felt forced like that before.
	And it's a real question: why are women in women's sport?
	Why are they delusional enough to think that yeah, and why is it being allowed?
	And it's obviously just feminism and stuff.
	Yeah.
	And the thing that really got me about this is my eldest now at sort of the age where she can watch Iron Man, you know, Marvel movies.
	And we watched this, and then there was this scene.
	And it's the one where, was it Black Widow?
	I think it is.
	He's fighting like five or six guys in a row.
	And my daughter saw this and turned around and said, wow, women can fight men.
	And I was going to say something, but the wife was on it straight away.
	She paused the thing.
	She was like, no, don't believe that.
	This is fantasy.
	If you ever try this, it will just go bad.
	Anyway, let's watch the fight scene.
	I'm going to do it with the sound off so we don't get copyright.
	And I've slowed it down a bit so we can chat about it as we go.
	So here we go.
	A couple of guys are coming.
	Nice shot of Scarlet Jackson.
	Just before we go in, I don't know anything about Carvel.
	Like, does she have magical powers or something?
	No, she doesn't.
	No, she's had magical training.
	Right.
	So she's right.
	So she's a normal human woman.
	Yes.
	That's had a complete baseline human.
	Just advanced training.
	Yes.
	Right, okay.
	So first of all, she throws a couple of tic-tacs that explode at the men.
	Seems inconvenient.
	And then let's go for it.
	So she sweeps that guy out and he falls on his shoulder.
	Right.
	That's him done.
	He is now out of it.
	He is now out of the fight.
	And funny, like, that exact thing happened to me just the other day.
	Do you remember when it was really icy?
	We had all that black ice outside the office.
	And you came pulling up on your bike, but I was just getting off my ass at that point because I've been walking along, stood on some black ice, and basically did that.
	But the thing is, on that same journey, I basically come off my bike onto my shoulder as well.
	It didn't happen.
	And what didn't happen is we didn't lie there for the rest of the day.
	No.
	No, we got straight back up again.
	But anyway, so that guy is down and he's out of the fight.
	So let's see how she's going to handle the next one.
	So what's she going to do?
	She stands on his leg and kicks him in the face.
	There we go.
	And he's down.
	He's done.
	She's got her clothesline, or maybe one of her hair ties.
	She blocks a strike.
	What does she do?
	He stopped it.
	Kicks him in the upper thigh.
	Let me slow it down.
	The choreography looks even worse.
	And she's got a clothesline around his neck.
	Right.
	He can't do anything now.
	Now he's grotted.
	Did you see that?
	She dodged that guy.
	He couldn't connect, so he fell over and he's now out of it.
	This guy, what was he going to do?
	How's she going to handle that?
	She sent in the dwarves.
	She's going to kick his upper arm and he's down and clothesline the other guy.
	Now he's out.
	So that's six guys down with barely any contact, but they do it fast enough that it just about looks plausible when you watch it.
	Why are the other two guys just laying on the floor?
	And she's going to do a signature move here where she basically teabags him.
	But in reality, he's perfectly happy with this scenario.
	He's holding her.
	She's on Scarlet.
	Breathing deeply.
	Yeah, Lord.
	She catches his arm.
	Oh.
	What's he going to do?
	He's suffering real stress.
	What's going on with his left arm?
	Why isn't he attacking her?
	Well, because.
	Oh, and a kick to the back of the shoulders.
	That's it.
	He's done.
	And now we've got the only legitimate takedown in the entire thing.
	The only one that I actually believe.
	How does she do the next guy?
	It might take a while since I've slowed this right down.
	Still, we get to watch Scarlett.
	I guess.
	So I don't.
	Yeah, she pepper sprays him.
	She should have been doing that from the beginning, to be honest.
	Why was he just standing there?
	Well, because otherwise he wouldn't have been able to be pepper sprayed.
	So there was that.
	So yes, this is the kind of thing I'm talking about.
	Now let's get back to the dwarves, shall we?
	I think we've been away for too long.
Dwarves vs Car! 00:15:37
	So the next segment, 4-10, apparently.
	Oh, yes, this is fun.
	We are going to have.
	They're going to be versus 2!
	One!
	Go!
	Versus a car.
	Now, I've got to say, this is brilliant.
	If I ever become a very rich man, I'm not going to have an engine in my car.
	I'm just going to have a team of dwarves.
	If you want to talk over it, you've got to turn the sound off.
	All right.
	There's just two of them as well.
	It's just two of them.
	Yeah.
	This is going to be my apocalypse mode of presentation.
	I want this.
	There we go.
	Easy.
	Now, this one I would say favours the women because they're much taller.
	One step for them is.
	Yeah.
	You'd think there'd be something about the way that physics works with legs, that you get more of a grip because you've got a longer stride, so you've got more pull.
	I would have imagined it would be the other way around.
	I don't know.
	If you're going to go lower to the ground, it would be easier to pull something because of the.
	You know, it's like.
	I'm not a physicist.
	I don't know.
	So you reckon the dwarves should win this one, do you, Josh?
	Let's see.
	I think the dwarves will win, yeah.
	My first instinct was the women when I saw this the first time.
	I would have thought something about their body mass just being higher would have been more helpful.
	Yes.
	Really close.
	Looks like they're pulling different directions, isn't it?
	Yeah, they're struggling.
	Oh, no.
	But the.
	Yeah, it's really coming into play now, those long legs.
	They can get good speed up.
	Yeah.
	Well, dwarves are deadly sprinters over short distances, I'm told.
	All right.
	Wasted on cross-country, though.
	They are wasted on CrossCrunchy.
	So, yeah, surprisingly close this one.
	It came down to, as you will see, milliseconds.
	Really?
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Wow, okay.
	I mean, extremely close.
	It's a win for the girls.
	It is a win for the girls, right?
	Where's my mouse?
	Where's the bloody mouse?
	Oh, here we go.
	Right, okay.
	Next one I've got is the bar pull at 744.
	Now, this one, yeah, okay.
	A pool place your bets now quickly before.
	Here we go.
	Yeah, who's going to win this?
	Oh, it's definitely going to be dwarves.
	Look at the different arm mass.
	What do you say, Carl?
	I say this is where the dwarf starts coming into his own.
	Oh, what?
	No.
	I suppose because you can use your legs on the wooden plank, can't you?
	So it's like a raw dwarf.
	She's got a lot of row.
	I just realized now what they're actually trying to do.
	I think they did a couple of those and the women do win them every time Fernskin.
	Playing to their height advantage, I think.
	Yeah, there is that.
	Come on, dwarves.
	Yeah, we've got to get it back.
	1024.
	Just remind myself what happens there.
	Oh, right.
	Okay, this is.
	Oh, this is okay.
	So they're doing deadlift, and basically the dwarves are destroying them.
	Absolutely destroying the women on deadlift.
	Then the women, they have an innovation.
	They realize that they can put two of them on a bar.
	Bro, this is typical girl maths.
	Yes.
	So there you go.
	They take it.
	So this guy has just absolutely mogged them.
	You can see he's got like an extra two plates.
	This, like Josh was saying, this is about the height thing, right?
	Like, he only has to lift it a couple of inches and he's squat and compact and stuff like that.
	So he's got all of his core muscles are like engaged.
	Whereas she's all the way down and it's probably in her shoulders or whatever, right?
	So the dwarves got a natural advantage here.
	I mean, I'm saying this partly out of self-interest because I see short people outswap me at the gym.
	It's annoying.
	You missed the innovation.
	Because the girls are gone too, the dwarves suddenly realize, oh, hang on a minute.
	Well, we can fit three in.
	Easy.
	They could hold that all day.
	Absolutely crap.
	I think one of them could have done that by themselves.
	Let's get a bit of classic tug of war going at 3.15, shall we?
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	Who do you reckon wins a tug of war?
	Tiny people.
	I think it's the same thing with the rowing, right?
	Because the long legs is going to give the women the advantage.
	I think you're probably right there.
	Maybe the low center of gravity.
	I don't know.
	Let's have a bit of sound back so we can hear them mogging.
	Three, two, one, go.
	Pull, pull, pull.
	Oh, this is quick.
	Let's go, let's go, let's go.
	It's dark.
	It's not there yet.
	Let's go.
	Come on, come on, mine.
	Nice coordination with the dwarves.
	Yeah, long legs do win that one.
	They will give them that one.
	Probably body mass as well.
	Now that the women probably are literally twice the height.
	I think the actual body mass.
	I'm 5'10.
	Yeah, so well done.
	Well done, ladies, on that one.
	I think probably the most fun one.
	That's an interesting gap.
	1447.
	Okay.
	How do we think wrestling already?
	So three giant women and three dwarves is going to go.
	You've got to get the other party out of the ring.
	I've got to say, the women were super hyped about this one.
	I bet they were.
	And to be honest with you, if I won on the dwarves, I'd probably be hyped about it too.
	I'm team dwarf all the way.
	So the women were loving it when they got to this bit because they have this little huddle beforehand and they're like, just pick them up and throw them out.
	Yeah.
	That's what I'd be thinking about.
	Just do that.
	But they don't understand the mindset of the dwarf.
	Yeah.
	So the dwarves are coming into this one with a bit of a disadvantage.
	I think.
	Because they can just be picked up and thrown out.
	Can Team Dwarf give us the goods?
	Or give us a bit of extra volume for this one, actually.
	Let's crank up the volume.
	Play it.
	Next up, we got the three versus three.
	And this round should be a bit more interesting, assuming each team chose their competitors wisely.
	Keep those knees off the ground!
	Three, two.
	Come on, big dog.
	One, go!
	Come on!
	No worries!
	Good!
	Traching perfect dream.
	Are you okay?
	Are you okay?
	Yo, boys!
	Bring it in, bring it in.
	Round two to the boys.
	But the last round, it's going to be worth five points with everyone.
	Everyone, step in.
	All right.
	You guys need a strategy.
	Last round.
	They are scrambling around you and pushing you guys out.
	I did not expect this.
	Pick them up and throw them out.
	I think I need to see some viciousness from you guys.
	Don't let her pick you up.
	Right, good idea.
	Hands in.
	Team 12.
	Team Call.
	One, two, three.
	Team.
	Take them off.
	And so, with the strategies in place, their quest for victory continues.
	Which is just like my quest for 10 million subscribers.
	Which reminds me, every 250,000 subscribers that we gain on our way to 10 million subscribers.
	She's the first one.
	Come on!
	Careful, careful, careful.
	No way, he's out.
	He's out.
	He's out.
	Oh, out.
	That's not out.
	That's not out.
	Oh, my God.
	Oh, my God.
	Last man standing.
	Last man standing.
	Wait, here it is.
	You fell.
	Didn't you fall?
	No, no, I didn't fight.
	Oh, the guys win.
	Are you okay?
	I need to watch the replay because I literally jumped on top of him.
	So he was.
	I don't believe that he didn't touch the ground.
	So she went with the strategy of just pick them up and throw them out.
	And it ended up I just jumped on top of him and he chucked me out.
	But the point being, it's not the worst thing in the world for the dwarves, right?
	No, I think the dwarves are having fun.
	I did see a very funny comment about this when there was a dwarf with a woman.
	Oh, no, no, wait, We're coming to that.
	6050 here, right.
	I think we've got to listen to this because this is the absolute cherry on top of the entire event.
	Everyone's okay.
	That was nuts.
	The final tiebreaker.
	I didn't want to get to this point, guys.
	I didn't want to do it.
	But we're going to have to do it.
	We're doing fireman carries for time with opposing teams on your back.
	Let's go.
	Guys will carry the girls.
	Girls will carry the guys.
	Who wants to step forward to carry somebody?
	Step forward.
	Okay.
	Who do you want to carry?
	Oh, shit.
	What did I do?
	Oh, you want Emily.
	You have Emily.
	He's sick.
	All right, here we go.
	If you like it, so TV immediately steps forward.
	Whoever gets back to me first, you have to go get around the green plate and back.
	Three, two, one, go.
	Dude, this is good viewing right here.
	Oh, this is a legal leg left before.
	Yeah, the woman should win this.
	I saw someone say that this is what it was like to watch the Romans carry back their northern European wife.
	Go!
	Wait!
	Winners!
	Winners!
	He stole his Mordant Pride.
	So I think that's how the rules work on this one.
	The ancient laws.
	Let's go!
	All right, come on.
	Hey, shake hands, everybody.
	If you enjoyed the video, subscribe to the channel.
	Check out everybody's socials down below.
	But most importantly, do not forget: one, two, three.
	Stay relentless.
	Oh, maybe, okay, maybe it was.
	Oh, that was.
	There's a lovely bit where the dwarves do a somersault, and that's what you want.
	You want somersaulting dwarves.
	But yeah, this is the bit that Josh was mentioning.
	How many times throughout human history has this happened?
	Too late.
	I'm going to guess quite a lot.
	In fact, I think for about 290 of our 300,000 years of human evolution, this was basically just a regular scene all the time.
	So I'm here for that.
	Return to tradition.
	There we go.
	We've got video comments today, Samson.
	Hector X says, what surprised me most about the Trump thing when he pulled out a copy of Island of 5 and told everyone he'd tariff them if they didn't all buy a copy.
	That's a good point.
	I should message him about that.
	Cumbrian Kulak says, Totalitarian BS.
	I remember seeing something on X about how intermittent energy wasn't going to cut it for AI panopticon needs.
	Our dear leaders are suddenly demanding nuclear and fossil fuels.
	It's always about control.
	Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
	But that's correct.
	That's exactly correct.
	While they thought it affected you alone, they were fine with it.
	As soon as they think it affects them and their system...
	Oh, well, hang on a second, guys.
	Sorry, let's go to the video comments.
	Yesterday's coverage of Trump and Greenland was, well, let's not mint words, retarded.
	Fira's covered it so much better in his real politic, and it's a shame the Lotuses of staff appear not to keep up with him.
	Trump is not going to invade Greenland while Denmark owns it, but Denmark is transitioning Greenland to independence, leaving it utterly vulnerable.
	China will step in at that point, forcing Trump to react.
	Trump wants idiots like Carney or Starmer in charge of Canada and Britain because they're weak and they cannot stand against him.
	Ultimately, the populations will realize they need right-wing leaders, and Trump can welcome them from a position of strength.
	You know, that's a really good.
	I didn't see yesterday's podcast.
	No, I didn't.
	I didn't.
	Okay, were you the one with the crap take?
	No, I was talking about something else.
	I can't even remember what I was covering yesterday.
	I know.
	Sunfree in a row, or right?
	As soon as the day's over, that's it, man.
	I'm done.
	Yeah, I didn't see the take on the podcast, but I could see that Firas is on the money.
	But I think that's exactly the right take.
	Trump wants the nation of foxes, the continent of the foxes, to do as they're told.
	And when we finally get some lions, they're going to know their place in the pack.
	Let's get to the next one.
	So a cringy, spineless gid of a prime minister is trying to push in a hate speech law here in Australia.
	And it went as well as an insinkable turn in the McDonald's bathroom.
	The bill has been rejected by the opposition, as well as the Greens, because they didn't want discrimination against Muslims.
	Surprise, surprise.
	So Albanese has decided to split the bill into a guns reform act, which means banning guns, and a hate speech bill, which will work as well as it did in the UK.
	Vuls for thee, but not for me, says Albanese.
	Australia was terrifying.
	All of these foxes are the same.
	All the same.
	I mean, if you guys didn't have the terrifying government you have, probably one of the most dystopian other than maybe New Zealand in the sort of Anglo sphere, it would sort of be heaven on earth for Anglos in Australia, because everything else is going very well.
	Apart from the fact that the spiders and the snakes are as toxic as the politicians.
	That's true, but I found out recently that they're not really that common to come across them.
	There are many Australians that never come across these things, especially if they live in a city.
	Okay, that makes me feel better.
	Just don't go into the outback.
	And I wouldn't go into the outback.
	Let's get to the next one.
	I have a dream that one day Democrats will stop acting like retards.
	That one day they'll stop letting criminals into our country just so they can steal elections with their ballots.
	That they finally realize there are only two genders and that men can never get pregnant.
	I mean, AI really is good for politics.
	Oh, it's top meme material.
	I don't know what you're on about.
	He actually said that.
	This is a real video.
	Is there another one, Samson?
	No.
	Keynes Familiaris says, it would be great for us in Europe if Trump, which here is telling the truth, hadn't just made himself toxic even to European nationalists.
	Well, this is the point that Alex just made, isn't it?
	Basically, we've got to man up on our own.
	We can't expect Trump to sort of raise us up.
	We've got to do this ourselves because he's just batting around us for a while.
	Also, the right has just got to be a little less squeamish.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, 100%.
	Sorry, we're almost out of time, but I'll go for a few more just because.
	Mason says: ultimately, standing up for oneself requires not only a credible threat of force, but a willingness to accept sacrifice.
	As a principal beneficiary of the Second World War, the United States could at least justify the cost in lives as worthwhile.
	In the post-war era, Europe has largely lost the appetite for such sacrifice.
	Yeah, that's what we were talking about in the roundtable.
	It's just like, look, we just haven't got it in us anymore.
	You know, it's just sad, frankly.
	Omar says, it's common for sci-fi in sci-fi for factions of diverging philosophy to develop.
	Between extortionately expensive green energy and mandatory multi-culture browning, I get the feeling that we're locked out of the technological and purist progression trees.
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	So hideous, bio, so the hideous bioengineered mutant faction it is.
	Well, I mean, this is what they've chosen for us.
	We better get one from the dwarves, from the dwarf section.
	Jan Havy says, I think men have better spatial awareness than women too.
	That's correct, which is why women drivers is a meme, which is one of the reasons probably they're better in combat, generally speaking.
	Yeah, it's loads of stuff there, but it's like reaction time, noticing things.
	Spatial awareness.
	The entire physiology is built around combat.
	Yes, whereas women's entire physiology is built around children.
	Children, yeah, not combat.
	More dwarf representation, yes.
	It's been very good, isn't it?
	Bodybuilders lift to look pretty.
	Construction workers lift to make sure they're alive.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	Cumbrian Kunak also says, Carl and Dan, I really enjoyed the heated roundtable you had with Harry and Stellios.
	Completely on your side, perspective.
	Might is right.
	Betrayal of this eternal and enduring truth.
	Welcomes a much-needed reality check.
	Hopefully, Europe stops being so pathetic.
	Yeah, it would be nice if that were the case, but unfortunately, we're run by a bunch of school moms, and that's not going to change anytime soon.
	But maybe in a few years, that will change.
	So, fingers crossed.
	Anyway, thank you all for joining us.
	Hope you had a good time.
	I particularly enjoyed Dan's segment.
	Although I enjoyed my own and yours, you know, the trump bomb was also fun.
	But I don't think we've got any other shows this afternoon, so I've got nothing to promote.
	So we'll see you tomorrow.
	Have a great day.

Chapters

00:00:00 Trump at WEF: Windmills and Conundrums
00:13:21 Suspicions And House Buys
00:19:21 Why Pirates Aren't So Stupid
00:22:57 American Interest Rates Madness
00:26:28 Values at Risk
00:38:46 Europeans Scratching Heads
00:40:53 Lions vs. Foxes in Politics
00:55:53 NATO's Fragile Balance
00:57:59 Jesse James West's Video
01:08:37 Dropped Clothesline, Never Felt Right
01:16:28 Dwarves vs Car!
01:31:51 Combat Physiology