The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1401
Aired: 2026-04-21
Duration: 01:31:43


=== Angela Merkel's Forgotten Horrors (15:09) ===

[00:00:01]  Hello, and welcome to the podcast of the Road Seaters, episode 1401 for Tuesday, the 21st of April, 2026.
[00:00:09]  I'm your host, Luca, joined today by two very sound gentlemen, Stelios and Dan.
[00:00:14]  How are you both?
[00:00:14]  Chat.
[00:00:15]  How are you, everyone?
[00:00:15]  Wonderful.
[00:00:16]  And today we're going to be talking all about Syrians actually starting to return home.
[00:00:21]  We're then going to be talking about Zach Polanski's very communist solutions, I suppose, is the way to put it.
[00:00:28]  And then we're going to be talking about the dialectic of progressivism.
[00:00:33]  Because apparently, Clarence Thomas has a few things to say about it.
[00:00:37]  So, that should all be very good.
[00:00:39]  That's a good reason to talk about it.
[00:00:41]  Yeah, if Clarence Thomas is saying something, then it's good to listen.
[00:00:45]  So, also, just to announce, we have the second part of Stellius and I's conversation now, all about Jason and the Argonauts.
[00:00:52]  So, if you want to hear more about Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece as he manages to batter and, you know, heroic, heroic, you know, use some heroic skills to get through, oh, I don't know.
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[00:01:26]  Yes, which is very sensible.
[00:01:27]  Haven't done one on harpies yet?
[00:01:28]  I'm gonna have to cover that.
[00:01:29]  Yes, yeah.
[00:01:30]  Well, if you need my input, yes, you know about that sort of thing, do you?
[00:01:34]  Brokenomics and harpies.
[00:01:35]  Yes, yeah.
[00:01:37]  How much does dating a harpy cost you?
[00:01:39]  Oh, I did one like that.
[00:01:41]  Sets you back quite a bit.
[00:01:42]  Yeah.
[00:01:44]  All right.
[00:01:44]  So, with that all said, let's get into things, shall we?
[00:01:48]  So, obviously, the Syrian civil war erupted back in 2011, around the time when the rest of the Arab Spring was going up all across North Africa and many of the Arab Muslim countries in the world.
[00:02:02]  And as a result of this, as things escalated year on year as well, Angela Merkel took it on herself out of her own sense of.
[00:02:13]  Very, very overpowering German guilt, and also the fact that she saw the refugee crisis as a means to basically kind of rehabilitate Germany's reputation, right, amongst the international community.
[00:02:29]  If we can just be seen to do this selfless, benevolent thing that is a pure on allies good, then everything will work out all right.
[00:02:37]  But the Germans never need much excuse to hit the self destruct button.
[00:02:41]  No, no, this is true.
[00:02:42]  But the problem as well with all of this is, of course, that if the.
[00:02:47]  Sort of expectations of said international community and the UN, the Refugee Council, all these sorts of institutions, the EU itself, of course, if they're all saying that the policies you have to enact for us to basically have you in the good books happen to be policies that Germany has to enact that will endanger German lives, then I would suggest that actually those institutions aren't really worth listening to.
[00:03:13]  And actually, that would be a very morally unacceptable thing to do as the leader of Germany.
[00:03:21]  But we could see it all started very much, quite literally, with flowers and candles and coffee as refugees began to pour into Germany from across Syria.
[00:03:33]  And as this went on, of course, we basically got to the now very, very infamous and, you know, a point, frankly, in European history in the 21st century that will never be forgotten, which was, of course, Angela Merkel's Vishaf and Das, you know, we can do it, where she went on as a Reporting from the Time went on to say, the Chancellor made the issue of refugees the focus of her press conference.
[00:03:57]  It is not a natural disaster that we are seeing in many places, she said, but we are seeing a large number of disastrous situations.
[00:04:05]  She pointed to the example of the tragedy in Austria, where only last week the bodies of 71 refugees were found in a lorry.
[00:04:13]  Angela Merkel spoke of, quote, inconceivable atrocities and unimaginable images.
[00:04:20]  And she stressed that it was.
[00:04:21]  This is before she brought them all in.
[00:04:23]  Yes.
[00:04:23]  Right, because it's also after.
[00:04:25]  Yes.
[00:04:25]  Yes, yes.
[00:04:26]  I mean, the horrors, there's a thing, of course, there were only certain horrors that she couldn't bear to see.
[00:04:33]  Obviously, the horrors that matter are the ones that happen to people who aren't German, who aren't her concern.
[00:04:38]  That's right.
[00:04:38]  She's not concerned about the horrors that happen to Germans who are her concern.
[00:04:41]  You've got it.
[00:04:42]  Right, right.
[00:04:43]  But also, let me just say, because this was a very complex period back then.
[00:04:47]  I remember all of it because Greece was also involved.
[00:04:50]  We had a very bad government at the Time series that did play a part in flooding Europe with lots of people from Syria.
[00:05:00]  But one thing to say is that when it comes to Merkel, Merkel didn't live during World War II.
[00:05:07]  She had a different experience in her mind.
[00:05:10]  She was born in East Germany, and the East West Germany divide is what essentially formed her psyche.
[00:05:18]  She wanted to be in the West and was denied, in a way, she couldn't.
[00:05:23]  Well, there was a war.
[00:05:24]  Yeah.
[00:05:25]  So that's much more formative for her, an experience, than any other experience regarding World War II, as people in some circles imply.
[00:05:37]  Yeah.
[00:05:37]  Okay.
[00:05:38]  But Merkel stressed that it's important to have clear principles and that we must be complied with in dealing with refugees.
[00:05:47]  These principles are laid out in our basic law or constitution, she said.
[00:05:52]  The German law provides basic law, provides for the right to asylum for individuals free from political persecution.
[00:05:58]  We should be proud of the humanitarian principles enshrined in the Basic Law, said Merkel.
[00:06:04]  Germany also guarantees to protect individuals fleeing from these wars.
[00:06:08]  And at the same time, the Chancellor took a clear stance on every form of xenophobia.
[00:06:15]  We will be using the full force of the law against those who verbally or physically attack others, who torture shelters or try to resort to violence.
[00:06:23]  There is zero tolerance for those who call into question the dignity of others, stressed Angela Merkel.
[00:06:29]  And the Chancellor urged Germans not to get involved in demonstrations to protest against the refugees coming into the country.
[00:06:37]  Now, there is one thing here, because if you were, say, for example, attacking, like burning refugee shelters, then that is one thing.
[00:06:46]  That's not what she said.
[00:06:47]  What she said was zero tolerance for questions.
[00:06:49]  Yes, right.
[00:06:50]  Okay, and here we go.
[00:06:51]  And so we see the natural conclusion of all of that playing out now, you know, 10 years down the line, where the AFD is under constant surveillance.
[00:07:00]  From German intelligence, how they're basically just making Germans second class citizens in their own home, and not to mention, of course, all of the rampant crime that has come with it.
[00:07:10]  She went on to say Germany is a strong country.
[00:07:13]  We have already achieved so much.
[00:07:15]  Time and time again, Germany has risen to a challenge, she said, giving the examples of German reunification 25 years ago and the country's energy shift to put energy supplies on a more sustainable footing and the effective assistance of.
[00:07:32]  It is provided in the face of natural disasters.
[00:07:34]  And as we've covered in a lot of the time since then, those energy disasters that Germany was dealing with and many of the other things, it seems that the German elites weren't quite as, you know, didn't have quite as a thorough plan as they anticipated in doing.
[00:07:52]  So let's go to the statistics, shall we?
[00:07:54]  Quickly on the energy thing, I mean, that's because they were reliant on Russian gas and nuclear.
[00:07:58]  They closed down all the nuclear, went all in on Russian gas, and then decided to sanction Russian gas.
[00:08:02]  Right.
[00:08:04]  Not a great plan.
[00:08:04]  But my point is, it's kind of predictable.
[00:08:07]  Yes.
[00:08:07]  Yeah, don't become energy dependent 100%.
[00:08:11]  Yeah, and then sanction them.
[00:08:13]  Yes.
[00:08:15]  You could arguably say that there was tremendous pressure by the Biden administration to the Germans to sanction them because the Germans didn't rush to sanction Russia.
[00:08:27]  So we can see here from this ranking table.
[00:08:30]  So Turkey took by far and away the most Syrian refugees, followed by Lebanon, and then Germany ahead of.
[00:08:38]  Surrounding areas such as Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, that were obviously much, much closer and much more current, culturally, I would suggest, in sync with Syrian people than secular, Christian, whichever it may be, Germany.
[00:08:56]  However, it is what it is.
[00:08:58]  And as a result of all of this, this obviously resulted in quite a good number of atrocities.
[00:09:03]  And I will just say with this as well that though I am going to go through and pick out some of the worst examples that.
[00:09:11]  Have been committed by the actions of Syrians who have come under the guise of asylum into Germany.
[00:09:19]  I just want to clarify that what I am not doing is suggesting that every Syrian refugee is a murderer in waiting or just a criminal.
[00:09:28]  That's not what I'm suggesting.
[00:09:29]  There are many families from Syria who have naturally kept the safety of their families at heart and have tried to flee the country.
[00:09:39]  I understand that.
[00:09:41]  What I don't understand is the European gamble.
[00:09:45]  For basically, well, we are going to do this.
[00:09:48]  And at what point does it become, okay, we're losing too many of our own people to those that have been let in now, right?
[00:09:57]  There is no regard for the safety of the Europeans themselves.
[00:10:01]  And this is what my contention is with.
[00:10:03]  You know, if a Syrian wants to go to Lebanon to try and, you know, find sanctuary, absolutely fine.
[00:10:09]  But why would Germany allow this, especially after ever since this happened?
[00:10:15]  We have an entire litany of examples of where it all goes disastrously wrong.
[00:10:20]  So we can see here that the 15 people were injured for seriously in a suicide bombing back in 2016 in Bavaria.
[00:10:29]  We also point to the fact that in 2016, a Syrian asylum seeker stabbed his girlfriend with a Donner kebab knife, surrounded by bystanders, and they were also harmed in it too.
[00:10:43]  And then, of course, we get onto the fact that whilst all of this was going on, this was still at a time when ISIS was very much.
[00:10:49]  Powerful in the region of the Middle East and were trying to create the little caliphate.
[00:10:55]  And so, as a result of that, a German court found Syrian citizen Issa al Hassan guilty of an Islamic State inspired 2024 stabbing attack on the festival in the western city of Solingen, in which three people were killed and 10 others injured.
[00:11:15]  And this is my point how many refugees does it take for you to feel good?
[00:11:20]  About yourself as a world leader, and how many lives of German people does it take to negate that good feeling and maybe give you a bit of pause for thought that this all might have been a bit of a disaster?
[00:11:33]  There's no answer there.
[00:11:34]  No.
[00:11:35]  Because it's just infinite.
[00:11:37]  And you mentioned the Solingen knife attacks because I think there was a diversity festival there.
[00:11:44]  I may be mistaken, check it out.
[00:11:46]  But I think there was a diversity festival there in which this attack happened.
[00:11:51]  And the response was let's ban knives.
[00:11:54]  And what is interesting when we're covering Germany is that the government of Germany, both the previous coalition and the one that is currently governing, which is basically the same two parties with a different leadership, is that they seem to be very much interested in micromanaging decline.
[00:12:13]  And something that really annoys people, and I'm annoyed with it, I imagine that if you're a German, you're annoyed even more with it, is that this, whatever this policy is, It is clothed in the name of, is presented in the name of humanitarianism, but the humanitarianism involved is very selective.
[00:12:33]  And this ties to exactly what you were saying before.
[00:12:35]  It's like when you are taking a huge risk, you are putting your own population in danger.
[00:12:43]  Because let's face it, multiculturalism, especially in Europe, when it comes with people from the MENAD countries, doesn't have exactly a track record of success.
[00:12:54]  So when you're taking such a massive risk and After every event, you don't show that you're willing to self correct or at least allow criticism.
[00:13:07]  That's when people start saying, well, no, you're against me.
[00:13:11]  You don't care about the human rights in general.
[00:13:14]  You care about the human rights of refugees who come here and disrespect the human rights of Europeans.
[00:13:22]  Absolutely.
[00:13:24]  Before the attack on August 23rd, he had been in touch with an IS handler via Telegram messaging platform.
[00:13:31]  And recorded a video announcing his allegiance to them.
[00:13:34]  And the other thing to just mention with all of this is that, of course, though I am focusing on Germany in this segment, of course, it's not just Germany, right?
[00:13:44]  Germany is not the only country in Europe to have taken in Syrian refugees.
[00:13:49]  And so we have here Syrian brothers, Omar and Mohammed, who came over, I believe.
[00:13:56]  So, sorry, I'll read further down.
[00:13:58]  The attackers were aged between 15 and 21 when the abuser victim, between 18 and 21, 2018 2019, Newcastle Crown Court heard the girl said they tortured her, making her childhood a living nightmare.
[00:14:13]  And I am sure that somewhere further down here, I meant to put it in my notes, I apologise.
[00:14:19]  Yes, who moved to the UK as refugees from the war in Syria, telling her she would be killed and taken to another country.
[00:14:29]  So this was all monstrous, and Britain took significantly fewer Syrian refugees than other countries, and yet.
[00:14:38]  We have here such films made about it, like The Old Oak by Ken Loach, which was basically a film from someone who was, well, it's far left to left wing for my taste, but he was a very respected filmmaker, sort of, you know, for many decades now in British cinema.
[00:14:56]  And he used the opportunity for his last ever film, bearing in mind this is a man who was born in 1936, when all of these problems didn't exist in Britain, to basically make a film telling you, yeah.

=== Suspects Among Migrants (04:32) ===

[00:15:10]  But they're not actually here, are they?
[00:15:12]  It's all far right propaganda and none of it's really real.
[00:15:16]  And really, shouldn't we just be accepting Syrians into our own lives?
[00:15:22]  And so, obviously, going further down as well, they just more and more information came out as the years went on, and we grow to realize, as a European conservative, point out here that from the German Federal Criminal Police Office's own statistics, we're able to highlight a stark difference in crime rates between German and foreign suspects, with Syrians and Afghans showing particularly high figures.
[00:15:47]  The Federal Report Crime in the Context of Migration for 2024 revealed that across numerous types of offences, Uh, offenses, Syrians and Afghans appeared as suspects significantly more than German citizens who'd have thought it.
[00:16:03]  Among Germans, 163 suspects per 100,000 inhabitants are recorded.
[00:16:09]  By contrast, for Syrians, it's 1,740, and for Afghans, it's about the same per 100,000.
[00:16:18]  So, a marked you know, more than 10 times likely to commit a serious crime against a person, yes.
[00:16:26]  But, I suppose.
[00:16:29]  A similar pattern emerges in sexual and drug related offences, and overall, non German suspects were now making for over 40% of all cases, while the proportion of foreign convicts had grown over the past decade and now exceeds one third.
[00:16:47]  So, sorry, go ahead.
[00:16:48]  Do you want me to jump in here?
[00:16:49]  Oh, yeah, so what?
[00:16:50]  Right, so I remember these because I've covered several times these crimes and also these statistics.
[00:16:56]  It is very interesting to note that.
[00:17:03]  They are official statistics.
[00:17:07]  So, when it comes to this, remember that it's the state that publishes them.
[00:17:13]  But it's also the state that penalizes people for talking about them.
[00:17:18]  And there was an MP or a member of the AFD, a really young member of the AFD, who was fined with thousands of euros about it for citing government numbers.
[00:17:34]  And this suggests something.
[00:17:36]  First of all, obviously, there's a hypocrisy in it.
[00:17:40]  The usual criticism that the state doesn't allow people to criticize the disastrous policies they're implementing.
[00:17:47]  But there's also the other bit there's another reason why they're doing it.
[00:17:51]  It's because, on the one hand, they're saying, well, don't talk about it.
[00:17:54]  But on the other hand, they say, well, if you're going to talk about it, you will be allowed only to refer to this data in a very specific way.
[00:18:03]  And this way implies that if these communities, if these groups are overrepresented in violent crime or Crime of any other sort.
[00:18:16]  The solution to that is to tax even more the native German and the native Europeans in other countries in order to bear the costs of integration.
[00:18:27]  So they never see these groups, at least this is what their rhetoric is suggesting.
[00:18:34]  I'm talking about the establishment.
[00:18:35]  They never see these groups as actually agents who are responsible for crimes.
[00:18:41]  Because these figures are actually important.
[00:18:44]  To the German government.
[00:18:45]  The German government does need these figures, but of course they're only ever to be interpreted in a particular way, as you say.
[00:18:52]  It's about using these statistics to highlight socio economic differences and the prevalence of racism.
[00:19:00]  It's not to be used to come to, I don't know, maybe the conclusion that these people shouldn't be in Germany.
[00:19:06]  Well, they can't accept there's any difference between cultures.
[00:19:09]  No.
[00:19:10]  Even though we see it every day in front of our very eyes.
[00:19:13]  And the question is, how many victims must there be in order for the establishment to at least appear puzzled that this perhaps isn't done in the proper way?
[00:19:24]  And in fact, actually, just off the top of my head, but to bring it up as well, the idea of just hospitality and guest rights and just honouring the people that come into your home and also the people who come into your home honouring you as the host as well, right, is a very old, honoured tradition in European cultures.

=== The Legal Basis for Return (15:02) ===

[00:19:43]  Obviously, it's something we talk about a lot when it comes to the ancient Greek stuff on Chronicles.
[00:19:47]  But there are aspects of it throughout all of European societies for the most part.
[00:19:53]  And when you are coming from refugees, when you are asylum seekers, and you choose to repay the host nation with brutal crimes, that does rather sour the goodwill somewhat.
[00:20:10]  And obviously, in normal circumstances, Make it even more conditional that, well, as soon as the Assad regime falls and you're able to go home, you really, it's kind of time for you to leave.
[00:20:23]  But it has fallen.
[00:20:24]  It has fallen, yes.
[00:20:25]  Quite a while ago, in fact, at this point.
[00:20:27]  And as the United Nations points out here, they're a refugee agency.
[00:20:34]  A year after the Assad regime fell, over 3 million displaced Syrians have returned home.
[00:20:41]  But greater international support is urgently needed to maintain the trend and ensure stability.
[00:20:46]  So.
[00:20:48]  According to them, more than 1.2 million Syrians have voluntarily returned from neighboring countries since December 2024, alongside over 1.9 million internally within Syria who have just internally, domestically fled to another part of it.
[00:21:04]  So, all of this displacement is slowly being returned to a state of normalcy, who have gone back to their areas of origin, and many more have expressed a desire to return.
[00:21:15]  This is all good news.
[00:21:17]  This marks a critical step, as they say here, in Syria's healing process.
[00:21:21]  Forced displacement was among the deep wounds inflicted by the conflict, and return is critical to end years of suffering and ensure stabilization.
[00:21:30]  This is a quote here this is a once in a generation chance to help end one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, said UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
[00:21:44]  Filippo Grandi, but without urgent global backing, this window of hope will close.
[00:21:51]  Syrians are ready to rebuild.
[00:21:53]  The question is whether the world is ready to help them do it or not.
[00:21:57]  And we can see here from projections as well, they were anticipating quite a big call, right, from the rest of the world and Syrians scattered around the world that they would now want to go home after the rebuilding of the war.
[00:22:11]  And indeed, there does seem to be some truth to it as well, given that apparently in Turkey, Now, over 1.3 million Syrian refugees have actually left Turkey to go back home, which is nearly half of them.
[00:22:25]  But I can spot a pattern here.
[00:22:27]  Yes.
[00:22:28]  If they were displaced internally, well, they're going to be better off by going back.
[00:22:32]  And if they were displaced to the neighbouring countries, well, they're going to be better off going back than they were.
[00:22:37]  And if they went to Turkey, and I was in Turkey during this, and they all just camped out in the middle of the street.
[00:22:43]  You'd walk up a Turkish high street, not even in a major town, but even the smaller towns, and the middle of the high street would just be these rows of tents.
[00:22:51]  Full of Syrians.
[00:22:53]  Now, if that's your alternative, yeah, of course you're going to go back.
[00:22:56]  But, I mean, you haven't got to it yet, and I wonder if you're going to.
[00:22:59]  But what about the people who've been given houses and incomes in places like Germany?
[00:23:04]  Yes.
[00:23:05]  Yes, about that, not so great.
[00:23:09]  Now, apparently, only about 6,000 Syrians have voluntarily left Germany in 2025.
[00:23:18]  So in Turkey, they're able to basically push a As you say, 1.3 million off, which I believe is about half of them.
[00:23:26]  It's something like nearer to 3 million that went into Turkey, and many are returning from Lebanon as well.
[00:23:34]  But as a result of this, naturally, and especially with the AFD breathing down the neck of the German establishment, Mertz has to be seen to obviously offer some red meat up to actually concern German voters here.
[00:23:52]  So we can see the BBC reporting that most Syrian refugees in Germany.
[00:23:56]  Are expected to return home in three years.
[00:23:59]  And this is from Merz's mouth himself.
[00:24:02]  It goes on to say the German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, says that he and the Syrian President, Ahmed al-Sharah, hope that 80% of the Syrians in Germany will return home in the next three years.
[00:24:15]  We are proud that Syrians have quickly learned very quickly to contribute to society, he said.
[00:24:21]  We are working with our friends in the German government to establish a circular migration model.
[00:24:28]  This would enable Syrians to contribute to the reconstruction of their homeland without giving up the stability and lives they have built here for those who wish to stay, says Shirah.
[00:24:40]  And as I point out, only 6,000 have gone home because this isn't really an incentive, is it?
[00:24:48]  You can stay here and have a free house and free staff.
[00:24:50]  And also, I just want to comment on just scrolling down looking at this picture the sheer lunacy of this that for what was it, 15, 20 years, ISIS and the jihadi head choppers.
[00:25:01]  We're the West's enemy number one.
[00:25:03]  And now you've got a situation where you've got an ISIS jihadi head chopper stood next to the Chancellor of Germany.
[00:25:10]  It's the madness of the world we live in.
[00:25:12]  I have to mention something here because I remember this really well.
[00:25:17]  For some time, European leaders met with the current Syrian president.
[00:25:25]  And there was lots of discussion and blame against them that, you know, you're just traitors to your country.
[00:25:32]  And then Trump met him.
[00:25:34]  In the tour he did of the Gulf, and suddenly everyone was, yeah, Trump is doing the great art of the deal.
[00:25:41]  And suddenly it wasn't so bad.
[00:25:43]  I want to say something.
[00:25:44]  I don't like this picture, but from a realistic perspective, I think this is what Mertz should be doing.
[00:25:51]  He should want to try and see and take reality at face value and see how to take back, how to make many Syrians leave Germany and go to Syria.
[00:26:06]  The trouble with this, though, Isn't what I see in the picture.
[00:26:09]  It's actually something to do with the character of Mertz.
[00:26:13]  He has a habit of stating the obvious decades after the general public can see it.
[00:26:20]  Yes.
[00:26:21]  And he does it in a very demoralizing way.
[00:26:23]  I'll give you a very quick example.
[00:26:25]  When he's talking about, he recently talked about denuclearization and said it was just ridiculous, but it's too late to do anything about it.
[00:26:34]  Sorry, no, it's not too late.
[00:26:36]  You can start rebuilding your nuclear plants.
[00:26:39]  So what I think is that.
[00:26:42]  Character is destiny.
[00:26:43]  The same way I've said this about other people in other areas of the political spectrum, the same applies for Mertz.
[00:26:51]  What I see here is weakness and an inability to defend the interests of his own country because fundamentally, what he wants to be seen as doing is to honor the firewall of German politics, i.e., in other words, he doesn't want to be seen as teaming up with the AFD and particular policies.
[00:27:16]  Right.
[00:27:16]  This is sort of changing in Europe in some respects, but I think that Mertz is.
[00:27:24]  Not showing me reason to be optimistic for Germany.
[00:27:27]  No.
[00:27:27]  And of course, there are none of these caveats about circular migration with the Turks, right?
[00:27:32]  The Turks like war's over, get yourselves off, right?
[00:27:35]  It's all very straightforward.
[00:27:37]  And this comes down to the fact as well.
[00:27:39]  So, everything as you just say, but also he is trying to stave off the threat of the AFD, which does seem to get stronger in the polls every time an election comes round.
[00:27:50]  It's just a shame that so many people have to die between those election cycles and suffer.
[00:27:55]  As all of this continues to go on.
[00:27:58]  And it doesn't help either when other voices from within Mertz's coalition are basically trying to counter signal him and say, What are you thinking about sending Syrians back to Syria now the war's over?
[00:28:11]  What a preposterous position, Mr. Mertz.
[00:28:14]  And basically saying that it has no plan and no legal basis.
[00:28:18]  Now, the problem with that, of course, is that you can criticize Mertz for having no plan and no legal basis, but of course, those voices around him aren't interested in creating a plan.
[00:28:29]  Or a legal basis either, because they want to keep the Syrians in Germany.
[00:28:36]  I realise time, but I will just go through this little bit here where it says Although it's not the first time Mertz has urged Syrians to return home to help rebuild their country, following its long and brutal civil war that ended in 2024, his latest remarks have drawn a wider rebuke due to their specificity, meaning it might be a bit more serious this time, I suppose, and the setting in which they were made alongside the Syrian president.
[00:29:02]  What remains.
[00:29:04]  Is a figure with no plan, no legal basis, and no respect for so many people who are part of our society.
[00:29:12]  Pay attention to that word our there, because it comes from a lawmaker in the Social Democratic Party, and her name is Aydin Ozoguz, which I'm definitely butchering, but all this to say both of her parents are Turkish.
[00:29:30]  It's like, well, that's very interesting, because in what world are we now in where the Turk gets to describe.
[00:29:37]  Who gets to stay in Germany, and also, as well, would she apply that same standard to her own native country of Turkey, even as it dispels as many of the refugees from Turkey as it possibly can?
[00:29:50]  So, once again, it's there's an entrenched cabal of foreigners within Germany as well who are going to do absolutely everything they can to keep Germany as multicultural as they possibly can.
[00:30:01]  And they'll talk about all the tried and tested points at this point about birth rates and about all these sorts of things.
[00:30:08]  But as the article itself goes on to point out.
[00:30:12]  Approximately 1.23 million people of Syrian origin were registered in Germany at the end of 2024, and of these, about a quarter of a million had acquired German citizenship, which I will just point out the German state didn't have to give them, leaving close to a million Syrian nationals in Germany at risk of being affected by the proposed large scale return policy.
[00:30:38]  But of all of these as well, only about 5,000 of them are doctors, 2,000 of them are nurses.
[00:30:45]  So, all right, well, I mean, if you want to go down that road as a bit of a compromise, keep 2,000 nurses, but is there any reason why you have to keep the other million of them?
[00:30:57]  Even if you keep the doctors, wasn't one of the guys who ran over a Christmas market a doctor?
[00:31:02]  Well, and that too.
[00:31:03]  Again, I just come back to the same point that I made towards the beginning why take the risk?
[00:31:11]  All right, I'll go through the rumble rants.
[00:31:15]  141 Paladin says Thomas Aquinas video when?
[00:31:18]  Also, would love to see content evaluating forms of government fairly.
[00:31:23]  I haven't read Aquinas, but thank you for $20, by the way.
[00:31:27]  Did you do a video on Aquinas?
[00:31:28]  Somebody did.
[00:31:28]  Maybe it was both.
[00:31:29]  No, not me, not me.
[00:31:31]  Okay.
[00:31:31]  Maybe that will do it.
[00:31:32]  Also, while we're in between segments, does anyone know why chat has been talking about bananas and rice for about half an hour?
[00:31:39]  What the hell has that got to do with anything?
[00:31:41]  I've no idea.
[00:31:43]  No idea.
[00:31:44]  Okay, fine.
[00:31:46]  I'm sure it's an innuendo.
[00:31:47]  Right.
[00:31:48]  I'm very sorry.
[00:31:49]  Whilst, actually, speaking of being between segments, I've got to take this waistcoat off.
[00:31:52]  I am absolutely.
[00:31:54]  I was going through the hot like the end of airplane waves.
[00:31:56]  I was wiping sweat from him.
[00:32:00]  You have to Euromax a bit.
[00:32:01]  Yeah.
[00:32:02]  O Punk for $5, thank you, says Someone needs to ask Merkel on live TV if her conscience was worth all the grapes, murders, and jihadism.
[00:32:12]  I want to see her squirm her way out of it.
[00:32:14]  Well, no one would ever ask her that, though, would they?
[00:32:17]  And for $1, that's a random name, says the traitors who rule over us.
[00:32:22]  Sorry, this is the clumsiest rumble read ever.
[00:32:26]  Who think being non white is a disability and that the terrorism and crime inflicted on us is a price we must pay to reach equality.
[00:32:36]  Yes.
[00:32:37]  We have just witnessed the poshest striptease ever and only took $26.
[00:32:43]  So keep those super chats coming.
[00:32:45]  You know, we will peel him down.
[00:32:48]  Ties next, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:32:49]  Yeah.
[00:32:50]  Yeah.
[00:32:50]  All right then.
[00:32:51]  If it gets really racy, the cufflinks might come off.
[00:32:54]  Ooh.
[00:32:55]  All right.
[00:32:55]  Proper undress then.
[00:32:57]  All right.
[00:32:58]  Go on then, Dan.
[00:32:59]  Oh, Samson, why don't you do the linky thing?
[00:33:02]  There we go.
[00:33:04]  Thank you.
[00:33:04]  All right.
[00:33:05]  So we should talk about Zach Polanski and the Green Party because, I mean, their support just keeps going up and I'm starting to get a tiny bit concerned because they're quite clearly mad.
[00:33:17]  I mean, just to give some of their policies, I mean, obviously, legalise all drugs.
[00:33:22]  Yes.
[00:33:22]  Scrap the nuclear deterrent, close prisons.
[00:33:24]  And it really is all drugs as well.
[00:33:26]  It's not just right up to heroin.
[00:33:29]  Yes, why not?
[00:33:31]  Lower, here we've got a link for this one, lower the speed limits on motorways to 55 miles per hour.
[00:33:37]  And his justification is apparently that it will save fuel.
[00:33:42]  But it, so the thing is as well, coupling this with their open borders policy as well.
[00:33:48]  So not only are we going to have infinitely more cars on the road, because there are going to be more people here.
[00:33:55]  And then for more traffic, more deadlocks, because I hardly think the Green Party are going to go around building new roads for us.
[00:34:01]  No.
[00:34:03]  And on top of that, once you are finally out of the traffic and the deadlock that you've been sat in for four hours behind 20,000 Indian drivers, you then have to go 15 miles per hour slower than when you're driving.
[00:34:15]  As I'll be coming to, they're going to get rid of the fuel as well.
[00:34:17]  So if the argument is to lower the motorway speed in order to save fuel, but the only people on the road will be the people like me who can charge a Tesla on their solar panels on their roof.
[00:34:28]  So, why do I have to go at 55?
[00:34:29]  Why can't I go as fast as I bloody like on these empty roads that haven't got anyone driving on it?
[00:34:34]  Can I say something about this?
[00:34:36]  Because this is affecting me immensely.
[00:34:38]  I basically think that this is a casus belli, it crosses my red lines.
[00:34:45]  Or driving at 55.

=== Billion Dollar Utopia Fails (14:50) ===

[00:34:46]  Yes.
[00:34:46]  On multiple.
[00:34:47]  I agree.
[00:34:47]  Yes.
[00:34:48]  So it's, I think basically that they are declaring themselves to be in the state of nature with civilized society.
[00:34:54]  They're mental.
[00:34:55]  I mean, I haven't finished the list yet.
[00:34:58]  No dogs in public spaces.
[00:35:00]  I wonder which part of their coalition that is appealing to.
[00:35:04]  Open borders.
[00:35:05]  Yeah.
[00:35:06]  More migrants.
[00:35:08]  And as I say, open borders and more migrants, I should quickly point out that the support for the Green Party is overwhelmingly young women.
[00:35:16]  So, I did a post on this the other day.
[00:35:19]  Let's watch this video.
[00:35:22]  Here we go.
[00:35:24]  Play that for me, Samson.
[00:35:25]  This is a young woman voting for open borders.
[00:35:33]  Apologies for those of you that are listening rather than watching.
[00:35:41]  But, yep, classic Western female voter behaviour there.
[00:35:46]  I can go with that.
[00:35:47]  What else have we got?
[00:35:48]  Oh, yes.
[00:35:49]  Not only have we got more migrants coming, but we've got.
[00:35:53]  He wants to pay them £1,600 a month.
[00:35:59]  Just because they're foreign.
[00:36:02]  Because you've got to give the migrants money, haven't you?
[00:36:05]  You can't just bring them here.
[00:36:07]  And then not give them money.
[00:36:08]  So he wants to give them £1,600 per month.
[00:36:14]  He is the logical conclusion of leftism.
[00:36:17]  He's the logical conclusion of fetal alcohol syndrome, perhaps.
[00:36:20]  I don't know.
[00:36:21]  But yeah, he's mental.
[00:36:22]  Now he thinks that that policy will cost £19 billion and he calls it simple yet transformative.
[00:36:28]  Yet it's obviously not going to cost £19 billion, is it?
[00:36:31]  Because what he did, he did his little sums based on the number of migrants that are here now.
[00:36:35]  If you start giving them £1,600 a month and you open the borders entirely, you're just going to get all of them.
[00:36:42]  Yes.
[00:36:43]  Until we can't pay anymore.
[00:36:44]  Oh, yeah.
[00:36:45]  Scrap fossil fuels.
[00:36:46]  I should have put that next to the motorway thing on his thing to save fuel.
[00:36:50]  Charge per mile driven.
[00:36:51]  Well, you won't be raising much on that one because nobody will be driving because you've just scrapped fossil fuels and therefore nobody can drive anywhere.
[00:36:59]  Oh, he's up for sterilising children via the whole trans thing, obviously.
[00:37:03]  Obviously.
[00:37:04]  He wants sex work to be completely legal.
[00:37:07]  I don't know if he's doing that.
[00:37:08]  Let me choose my words carefully.
[00:37:09]  I don't know if he's doing that because of some sort of.
[00:37:13]  Vested interest in the family line.
[00:37:15]  I'm not going to say any more on that because I don't know if it's 100% true or not, but if you know, you know.
[00:37:19]  Yes.
[00:37:21]  It was close all zoos because apparently it's cruel to animals or something like that.
[00:37:25]  I don't know.
[00:37:27]  Gender equality across all of them.
[00:37:29]  He thinks there's more than two.
[00:37:31]  It's like basically 12 monkeys.
[00:37:33]  The movie.
[00:37:34]  Yes.
[00:37:34]  Terry Gilliams movie.
[00:37:36]  Yes.
[00:37:36]  Let all animals roam free.
[00:37:38]  I mean, yes, why not?
[00:37:39]  I mean, why not?
[00:37:40]  What could possibly go wrong?
[00:37:43]  It was get rid of safe spaces for women and girls.
[00:37:46]  So, you know.
[00:37:47]  Well, there won't be any left in the country.
[00:37:49]  Well, there might be some women and girls left.
[00:37:51]  But yes, there'd be in danger.
[00:37:55]  And not just take away safe spaces.
[00:37:58]  Obviously, men can just go into women's and girls' changing rooms whenever they damn well want.
[00:38:02]  But he also wants men in women's sports, including combat sports such as rugby and boxing and martial arts and stuff.
[00:38:10]  What could possibly go wrong?
[00:38:11]  Legalised shoplifting, obviously.
[00:38:15]  Teaching drugs.
[00:38:16]  Teaching kids how to take drugs.
[00:38:18]  I presume as well, if he's going to legalise shoplifting, does that mean they're also going to pass a bill to take the items in the shops out of those plastic containers that everything's.
[00:38:26]  Well, they would just get in the way, wouldn't it?
[00:38:28]  Yes.
[00:38:29]  So I'll have to get rid of that.
[00:38:30]  You've got to top up your £1,600 a month somehow.
[00:38:32]  Bad for the environment as well.
[00:38:34]  Leave NATO.
[00:38:35]  He's going to ask Putin to scrap his nukes.
[00:38:37]  I mean, obviously, Putin, I mean, we'll just go for that.
[00:38:40]  I mean, why wouldn't he?
[00:38:42]  He's going to write off our national debt and refuse to pay it because, I mean, what consequences could there be for that?
[00:38:47]  I mean, it's only the underpinning of the entire.
[00:38:49]  Pensions and insurance industry, but I'd go no, I suppose that'll be fine.
[00:38:56]  And just do just print money when he runs out of money, which will be immediately.
[00:39:01]  First of all, he's disgusting.
[00:39:03]  Second, I can't take him seriously.
[00:39:05]  Third, I have to take him seriously because lots of people are voting for him.
[00:39:10]  And it looks like he is heading the polls on the left wing side of the spectrum.
[00:39:18]  Oh, he's surging.
[00:39:18]  Yeah, he's surging.
[00:39:20]  And I have seen political lunacy in my time, in the time I've walked the earth.
[00:39:26]  And it looks like he is going to be the next big party of the left.
[00:39:30]  Almost certainly.
[00:39:31]  I think the next election.
[00:39:32]  Or at least the one after, but probably the next election is going to be the Greens versus Restore.
[00:39:38]  Because the Greens are just surging, especially with young people, especially with young women.
[00:39:42]  I've got here their last Green Party manifesto, and that was when these two completely forgettable characters were actually running it, not Polanski.
[00:39:52]  He's just over here.
[00:39:53]  This is the last election when they were obviously mad, but nowhere near as mad as they are now.
[00:39:59]  And I'll just go through some of their manifesto.
[00:40:02]  I mean, you'll get a sense of it straight away.
[00:40:05]  What's this?
[00:40:06]  Oh, this is about homes or something.
[00:40:07]  Here we go.
[00:40:07]  So, straight away, 29 billion over the next five years to insulate homes.
[00:40:14]  You know, fair deals for renters basically make it impossible to get rid of a renter and put in rent controls.
[00:40:19]  The supply of rented homes will crater immediately.
[00:40:23]  Let me just go to the next.
[00:40:25]  I'll just do a few of these.
[00:40:28]  But you'll see very quickly, all of these has like X. Here we are, three billion for this.
[00:40:35]  There'd be more.
[00:40:37]  Maybe I should have created this.
[00:40:38]  I'll go through another one.
[00:40:39]  And all this, just in the very Mamdani sense, comes from taxing the rich until all the rich.
[00:40:45]  Yeah, I mean.
[00:40:46]  Yeah, they can steal from you.
[00:40:47]  It's okay.
[00:40:48]  It's going to be legal if they shoplift from your store because you're a bad entrepreneur who is drinking the blood of the working class.
[00:40:58]  That's the kind of BS that Lurk is.
[00:41:01]  Also, as well, the Green Party, like Mamdani's campaign, was funded by Alex Soros.
[00:41:07]  The Green Party has millionaire backers.
[00:41:10]  So it's entirely conditional.
[00:41:13]  He seems to me to be worse than Mamdani.
[00:41:15]  And I've been incredibly critical of Mamdani.
[00:41:19]  I don't remember Mamdani saying yes to shoplift.
[00:41:23]  Obviously, he's going to say, yeah, those poor people just let them steal.
[00:41:29]  But he didn't say, let's legalize shoplifting.
[00:41:32]  But I mean, this page, here we go.
[00:41:34]  There's another 20 billion for that, another 3 billion for that.
[00:41:37]  Anyway, I'll go through this.
[00:41:40]  I'm looking at it again.
[00:41:41]  This is basically Varoufakis for England.
[00:41:45]  Yeah, something like that.
[00:41:46]  I mean, Varoufakis, though, he had quite a good IQ on him, though.
[00:41:51]  I mean, he was relatively smart.
[00:41:53]  He was.
[00:41:54]  He was bonkers, but he was smart.
[00:41:56]  But I mean, he isn't either.
[00:41:57]  Here we go.
[00:41:58]  This page: another 40 billion for this, another 12.4 billion for this.
[00:42:03]  You can just see the whole thing.
[00:42:04]  Oh, and how are they going to pay for all this?
[00:42:07]  They're going to put a wealth tax of 1% on people with assets over 10 million.
[00:42:14]  The sheer impracticality of that.
[00:42:16]  Oh, he's also going to normalize the rates of capital gains and income tax.
[00:42:21]  So basically, meaning.
[00:42:22]  But if it looked like it was going to be a green victory, wouldn't everyone just sell their assets and move abroad before it happened?
[00:42:28]  Because let's say you've got a 1% wealth tax.
[00:42:30]  Well, actually, you've got to sell 2% of whatever it is you own just to pay the 1% tax because you're now paying tax on the capital gains of selling the thing, assuming it's liquid, assuming that you can sell it.
[00:42:42]  And he thinks that it's going to raise all of the money to do all these billions and billions that you're spending here.
[00:42:47]  Every single time you hear, he says he reckons it's going to earn between 50 and 70 billion.
[00:42:54]  Every single time a wealth tax has been tried, not only did it not raise the money that they thought it was going to raise, it actually lowered the rate of taxes that the state was collecting.
[00:43:03]  As a whole, because people did exactly what you said, which is they just buggered off.
[00:43:06]  Yes.
[00:43:07]  I mean, I could go through more of this, but every single page is just going to, oh, well, there's another two billion there.
[00:43:13]  Sansky turned around and was like, to the dogs with precedent and examples from history of where this has been tried and failed.
[00:43:22]  I mean, there's a movie describing this called Doomsday, it's a great apocalyptic movie of 2008.
[00:43:31]  And there's a scene where they enter Scotland, which I think is completely greenised.
[00:43:38]  Watch this movie to see what Polanski wants for the UK.
[00:43:42]  But I mean, he's going to get rid of fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
[00:43:48]  So it's purely going to be wind and solar.
[00:43:53]  These people are bonkers.
[00:43:54]  And I won't go through it because it's all going to just be billions and billions and billions.
[00:43:58]  Anyway, the thing that I kind of wanted to get to was this fascinating video.
[00:44:03]  Where he kind of, you know, just says the quiet part out loud, where he's going to do what leftists always do.
[00:44:09]  So let's listen to Zach Polanski in his own words.
[00:44:15]  Before we go into complete utopia, which I'm totally there for.
[00:44:18]  I mean, I'll just stop there.
[00:44:20]  Before we get into complete utopia, which I'm completely there for.
[00:44:23]  I mean, that is his political philosophy.
[00:44:27]  Far smarter men than Zach Polanski have tried to create utopia and failed.
[00:44:32]  Well, I mean,.
[00:44:33]  I mean, you all know this, Stelios, but isn't utopian the Greek word for nowhere?
[00:44:38]  Yeah.
[00:44:39]  Right.
[00:44:39]  Okay.
[00:44:40]  So he's going to create nowhere.
[00:44:41]  It's all vibes for him.
[00:44:43]  That's the problem.
[00:44:44]  If we look at the policy, it's all bonkers.
[00:44:46]  Yes.
[00:44:46]  But this is the really worrying bit.
[00:44:49]  After he commits himself to utopia, which is a farcical idea, this is the chilling bit where he says what he's going to do with us.
[00:44:57]  There are people, though, who would identify as right wing or indeed even far right.
[00:45:01]  And no matter what humanity or community we put them in, they are.
[00:45:06]  Set on destroying or pushing this toxicity.
[00:45:10]  Do we think we can change their minds or is it a case of building a society that doesn't include them?
[00:45:16]  Well, he's evil.
[00:45:18]  There's no other way of saying it.
[00:45:20]  He's evil.
[00:45:22]  You can't be an adult running a seemingly successful campaign and be that stupid.
[00:45:29]  It's all feigned vibes.
[00:45:30]  He's evil.
[00:45:31]  Yes.
[00:45:31]  But also, his entire point is like, oh, there's not a community to put them in.
[00:45:36]  It's like, no, no, no.
[00:45:37]  They were the community.
[00:45:39]  They were the entire community, the community of the English people of England.
[00:45:44]  And then you've gone around and advocated for years, and he and the rest of the establishment, because the migration issue has basically been the open door that they push at whilst continually pretending to be edgy and different and more radical.
[00:45:58]  So, no, you've destroyed communities, which is why the far right have risen up because they hate seeing day to day.
[00:46:09]  I mean, honestly, just the conversations I've had with patients.
[00:46:13]  I'll just quickly restate his words.
[00:46:16]  There are people who we would identify as right wing or even far right, and no matter what humanity or community we put them on, they were in the center of destroying it.
[00:46:26]  Do we think we can change their minds, or do we build a society that doesn't include them?
[00:46:32]  So, what does he mean by that?
[00:46:34]  Is he going to have a shot, or is he going to put us in gulags?
[00:46:37]  The reason I ask this question is because this exact philosophy.
[00:46:41]  Has been tried many, many times.
[00:46:43]  I put together my little presentation on this to give you an example.
[00:46:47]  The philosophy is you have your utopian vision, right?
[00:46:51]  And then you get disappointed, and then you have to blame somebody, and then you have to use coercion.
[00:46:56]  And I've got my top 10 examples of when commies have done this before.
[00:46:59]  So there's the Khmer Rouge.
[00:47:02]  You know, where's a bloody mouse thing?
[00:47:04]  How do I make that?
[00:47:04]  That's basically the evil retard regime.
[00:47:07]  Samson, how.
[00:47:08]  Oh, here we go.
[00:47:08]  There we go.
[00:47:09]  So Khmer Rouge, they killed 30% of their own population, pursuing exactly this philosophy, which is utopian vision, disappointment, blame, Coercion.
[00:47:20]  Can I say something?
[00:47:21]  Because I think Pol Pot was the most mental of them all, because it was also just stupid moves.
[00:47:27]  Yes.
[00:47:28]  He was aided by the Viet Cong to get power, and one and a half, two years afterwards, he just, out of nowhere, started attacking the Viet Cong.
[00:47:36]  Yes, he was quite bad.
[00:47:37]  I suppose Polanski's criticism of Pol Pot would be that he didn't have enough wind farms in Cambodia.
[00:47:43]  Yes, quite possibly.
[00:47:45]  But I mean, there are many other examples.
[00:47:47]  The Great Purge, hundreds of thousands of executed, Holdemore.
[00:47:51]  The Chinese Cultural Revolution, you know, the Great Leap Forward, 30 million dead on that one, that was a good one.
[00:47:59]  The North Korean political prisoners' camps, I mean, maybe that's what he's got in mind for us because he's going to remove us from society.
[00:48:05]  So, is he, well, hopefully he's going to put us in camps and not shoot us, I don't know.
[00:48:09]  But also, as well, think of all that the huge, how many people within the population Zach Polanski himself would qualify as right wingslash far right.
[00:48:20]  I mean, there are people in the Labour Party.
[00:48:23]  That Zachary.
[00:48:23]  Well, and that's the thing.
[00:48:25]  I have watched Green Party content from their supporters, and yes, they class the Labour Party as the right one.
[00:48:31]  So it's just the majority of the population would have to be done away with.
[00:48:36]  The Vietnamese re education camps, the Cuban political repression, the Ethiopian red terror, the Romanian communist repression.
[00:48:47]  I've only picked out 10 there, but the point is they all follow this pathway, which is.
[00:48:53]  They have a totalizing vision of a utopia because you see, the difference between a right winger and a left winger is a right winger, my perfect world comes in heaven after I die.
[00:49:07]  As for the religious one.
[00:49:08]  Yes.
[00:49:08]  Now, what would you do if somebody tried to take that away?
[00:49:12]  Well, you're kind of obligated to destroy the devil.
[00:49:15]  But you can't access the devil because he's a supreme being or whatever he is.
[00:49:20]  And so, therefore, you have to purge the devil's influence on yourself.
[00:49:23]  You need to make yourself better.
[00:49:25]  But left wingers don't think like that.
[00:49:27]  Their perfect world is not in an afterlife.
[00:49:30]  Their perfect world is in this world, and they are just about to create it.

=== Left Agenda and Spite (10:34) ===

[00:49:36]  Except for you and you.
[00:49:39]  You're standing in their way, and just like you would do anything you could to destroy the devil, they will do anything they can to destroy you.
[00:49:46]  And that is why this exact pathway always leads to purges, shootings, and camps.
[00:49:52]  Dan, I want to mention this here because, first of all, I really like this thing you've made there, and I agree with it.
[00:49:59]  It's really great, and nothing to disagree with here.
[00:50:04]  One thing is that I'm completely annoyed at the hypocrisy of people who are now.
[00:50:12]  Amazed that Polanski has said this.
[00:50:15]  This is the far left agenda.
[00:50:18]  So it's what they always do.
[00:50:19]  This is the far left agenda.
[00:50:20]  So don't act surprised.
[00:50:22]  If you're watching us, you know that this is what's happening.
[00:50:25]  The problem is people who aren't watching, who aren't following it, and they just think that the far left, the extremist left, is basically someone you can reason with.
[00:50:38]  No, this isn't just a momentary expression of anger.
[00:50:41]  This is their agenda.
[00:50:42]  They're very explicit about it.
[00:50:44]  For instance, everyone who is a communist says, I'm basically waiting.
[00:50:48]  For the opportune moment to overthrow your system, yes, and 99.9% it's going to require violence.
[00:50:56]  What is interesting is that every now and then we see figures like Julius Malema in South Africa and like Polanski is beginning to do here who are really upfront with what they want to do.
[00:51:09]  The thing is that they feel emboldened to say this, perhaps they wouldn't be able to get away with it 10 years ago, or five years ago, or 15 years ago.
[00:51:18]  But when we say To people, no, understand where we are.
[00:51:21]  We are at the point where someone in England is saying straightforwardly, My utopian society involves getting rid of you, and I'm totally for this utopia.
[00:51:39]  And unlike the realist or the pessimist of strength who can say, Yeah, I'd like this or that thing, and is sort of in a way LARPing, they actually want to do what you're saying.
[00:51:50]  We can actually do this.
[00:51:52]  Let me finish the pathway because I do kind of want to make this point.
[00:51:56]  So they've got their totalising vision, which he talks about it as a utopia, but it's this complete correct model of society.
[00:52:03]  Then they want to monopolise power, which they would do if they won an election.
[00:52:07]  Then they get into their reality gap.
[00:52:09]  And the reality gap is that what they imagined would instantly come to fruition by virtue of them taking power doesn't because it's not reality.
[00:52:18]  And that's also an economic failure.
[00:52:20]  Yeah, economic failure.
[00:52:21]  So economic failure, social disorder, unmet expectation.
[00:52:24]  Gives them a huge five year plan, but also, as well, this entire reality gap is only taking into account things on the domestic front, it's not taking in the unknown variables of what geopolitical events might happen throughout the rest.
[00:52:37]  Yeah, so one of the things I didn't get to on the manifesto is they talked about they're going to end the Israeli Gaza conflict.
[00:52:47]  How are they going to do it?
[00:52:48]  That's the guy, vote for me, I'm going to end suffering, exactly.
[00:52:52]  So they then start to face.
[00:52:56]  They then start to have a legitimacy problem with their own supporters.
[00:53:00]  So then they need an attribution shift on this, which is instead of reversing the model, instead of what your segment was about, at what point do they admit they made a mistake?
[00:53:08]  Yes.
[00:53:09]  They have to find the enemies, the counter revolutions.
[00:53:12]  Then you've got to morally delegitimize them.
[00:53:15]  And then you've got to use coercion against them.
[00:53:17]  And that's why this pattern keeps coming up in history again and again and again.
[00:53:22]  And I was talking to Carl about this this this morning, and he framed it in a really good way, which is all communism is.
[00:53:29]  If everybody just did X, right?
[00:53:33]  But, okay, what if some people don't do X?
[00:53:35]  And they will say, well, we can make 80% of people do X because their delusion is not, it won't be 80%.
[00:53:39]  But they say, we can make 80% of people do X.
[00:53:41]  And then you say, well, what do you do with the other 20%?
[00:53:45]  And that's why this keeps coming.
[00:53:47]  Any amount of free agency in this system destroys their utopian vision.
[00:53:51]  So they must crush down on it.
[00:53:53]  Now, do I think they're actually going to put us in camps or shoot us?
[00:53:58]  I mean, actually, maybe, maybe it could get to that.
[00:54:01]  It could get to that.
[00:54:02]  But they're certainly going to start doing things like debanking and deplatforming and depersoning.
[00:54:08]  Yeah, go on.
[00:54:10]  First of all, I think what has happened, if I'm correct in what I've seen here, it seems to me that this is much more subversion than actual engineering of society.
[00:54:22]  I don't think that the average Brit wants this.
[00:54:25]  Well.
[00:54:26]  But what is really troublesome here is that when people vote, Every five years for general elections, they are voting for overall agendas and they're voting for the one that they see overall to be overall best, better than the other.
[00:54:41]  So they could disagree completely with parts of the agenda that they're going to vote for, and that will is going to give it's going to make the life easier for people to say afterwards, No, no, they all agree with my agenda.
[00:54:57]  And of course, I mean, I haven't got into the fact that they're a coalition between basically Islam and.
[00:55:05]  Should we describe them as characters?
[00:55:06]  Young characters, somewhat disconnected from reality, who imbibe a pure spite for anybody that they see standing in the way of their utopia.
[00:55:18]  Now, I don't want to call out any individuals, but I need to try and be balanced to them and say, well, look, who are the Greens?
[00:55:24]  I mean, who are these people?
[00:55:27]  And are they the sort of people we should be worried about?
[00:55:29]  I mean, we've got here Cinnamon and Rainbow.
[00:55:33]  Oh, those wealth creators.
[00:55:36]  Yes, Cinnamon and Rainbow here.
[00:55:38]  I'm sure if they purge all wealth creators from society, they're going to experience lots of affluence.
[00:55:45]  Yes.
[00:55:47]  Now, it has been said that all left wing politics is resenting their father.
[00:55:53]  So, I mean, do we think there is a limit to the amount of unbridled spite that they might have for people who remind them of their father?
[00:56:03]  Rhetorical question.
[00:56:05]  So, Cinnamon and Rainbow here, Ince.
[00:56:09]  What would INSEE do to you right wingers?
[00:56:12]  I don't know.
[00:56:14]  Possibly nothing bad, possibly put you in a camp.
[00:56:16]  We don't know.
[00:56:18]  Tessa.
[00:56:20]  Where would Tessa come down on how do we solve the right wing problem?
[00:56:26]  Tom!
[00:56:27]  Tom might have a view.
[00:56:29]  Tom?
[00:56:29]  No.
[00:56:30]  We will be at Tessa's and Tom's mercy if this ever comes to pass.
[00:56:35]  Alexandria, head, apparently.
[00:56:40]  Slightly funny second name there, given.
[00:56:42]  Anyway.
[00:56:43]  It's good that.
[00:56:44]  Yeah, they're the first.
[00:56:45]  And of course, in Swindon here.
[00:56:47]  Ah.
[00:56:48]  In Swindon here, we have our.
[00:56:51]  We have our candidate who is in this video.
[00:56:55]  I'm Bruce Bennett, one of the Green Party counter candidates.
[00:56:58]  Yes, there we go.
[00:57:00]  A lovely dress.
[00:57:04]  Is it a skirt thing?
[00:57:05]  Maybe it's a kilt.
[00:57:06]  Maybe he or she is Scottish.
[00:57:08]  I don't want to assume you're.
[00:57:11]  The thing is, as well, right, this is a great example of that.
[00:57:15]  You don't think to yourself, okay, we actually just need to put someone forward who is going to be popular on the door.
[00:57:23]  Who is going to be trustworthy to just get into the position of power and authority in the first place, and then we can be ideological about it?
[00:57:31]  No, it's just straight into the ideological from the very beginning, damn the consequences or the result that might come.
[00:57:39]  And do we think that these people might have any spite for Lotus Eaters and the people who watch us?
[00:57:45]  I mean, I suspect so, because that particular candidate was screaming at us that we were Nazis for a couple of hours.
[00:57:53]  During our live event, I mean, we were all indoors.
[00:57:55]  I remember that.
[00:57:55]  We had a really good time that night.
[00:57:57]  We had a really good time, yeah.
[00:57:58]  I mean, we were indoors having beers and watching the segments live on stage.
[00:58:04]  And the Green Party candidate was outside in bunny years screaming at us that we were Nazis and that the police should do something about it and remonstrating with them.
[00:58:12]  What the police were meant to do, I'm not entirely sure.
[00:58:15]  I'm not sure that was articulated to them, but presumably come in and either shoot us or taser us or beat us with truncheons or something like that.
[00:58:22]  And I'm just a little bit sniffy.
[00:58:25]  About giving people like this supreme executive authority, power over the army and the police, given that Zach Polanski has quite clearly stated that he needs to construct a society that doesn't include us, and every historical example of this philosophy being deployed has led to absolutely horrific acts against large proportions of the population, because not everybody wants to live in their unachievable utopia.
[00:58:51]  Something that these people should consider is who they are forming an alliance with.
[00:58:57]  That's all I'm going to tell them because.
[00:58:59]  Indeed.
[00:59:00]  Indeed.
[00:59:01]  Right.
[00:59:01]  Okay.
[00:59:02]  So.
[00:59:02]  Don't think that the people they are forming an alliance with will appreciate them, let's say.
[00:59:08]  No.
[00:59:09]  So we've got some comedy comment things here.
[00:59:14]  That's a random list, but at this point, the far right means any European who refuses to be replaced.
[00:59:18]  Yes.
[00:59:18]  O'Puck says, I'm all for it.
[00:59:20]  Aggravate, alliterate, accelerate until it's worse from here and the foreign.
[00:59:27]  Yes.
[00:59:30]  Fallen Fatherbird, daily reminder that AA in his sphere actively big up the Greens on a regular basis.
[00:59:36]  Yes, I have to have a word with him about that.
[00:59:39]  I mean, isn't he calling for a left right alliance?
[00:59:43]  Yeah, I'm not in favour of a left-right alliance.
[00:59:48]  There's nothing to ally with these people.
[00:59:50]  I think AA just wants us to vote for Labour.
[00:59:52]  I think that's what it is.
[00:59:56]  They will end the Palestine crisis by.
[00:59:58]  No, I'm not saying that.
[00:59:59]  No.
[01:00:01]  That, in part, still loses why I don't believe most people should be voting.
[01:00:04]  That is true.
[01:00:05]  And my mother-in-law is in hospital, Brighton, post-cancer surgery.
[01:00:09]  I'm hoping for a quick recovery.

=== Twisting Founding Principles (15:13) ===

[01:00:10]  Well, I wish you the best.
[01:00:12]  I wish you and your mother the best.
[01:00:13]  Very much so.
[01:00:14]  Yes.
[01:00:21]  Great, thanks, Samson.
[01:00:23]  Give me the mouse.
[01:00:26]  Give me the mouse.
[01:00:27]  Hands up, go on.
[01:00:28]  Do not override my mouse authority.
[01:00:33]  Awesome, great, thanks.
[01:00:35]  Okay, let's, before we start.
[01:00:39]  We're going to talk about the dialectic of progressivism, where progressivism, this really bad ideology that is destroying the Western world right now, comes from and where it is going.
[01:00:50]  And we are going to focus a lot on the distinction between.
[01:00:55]  The principles of the founding of the American Declaration of Independence of 1776.
[01:01:05]  Don't shoot me.
[01:01:06]  Understand the great treason and the great mistake.
[01:01:10]  Right.
[01:01:10]  But we are going to draw a particular distinction between these principles and how progressives understand them.
[01:01:17]  And we will talk a lot about the excellent speech by Justice Clarence Thomas against progressivism.
[01:01:24]  And just one thing to say it's just we are giving criticisms of the establishment on a daily basis.
[01:01:31]  But it's good every now and then where we have a really high profile individual within the establishment.
[01:01:38]  Who is making a really great case for things that we believe in and against ideologies that we are.
[01:01:49]  Well, and Thomas is someone with a good number of victories under his belt.
[01:01:54]  He's contributed to some great wins for the America, whether it's Roe v. Wade being repealed or a lot of the DEI stuff that was going on with Harvard and that being unconstitutional, etc.
[01:02:05]  So there are many things there.
[01:02:07]  Yes.
[01:02:07]  And just let me contextualize briefly.
[01:02:11]  The idea is basically that in the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was, and it was later ratified by more of the U.S. founding fathers.
[01:02:22]  He was talking about the government as having to protect the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
[01:02:28]  And I want us to focus a lot on how progressives take this very language, they twist it, and essentially they go against the principles of the U.S. founding.
[01:02:40]  And they are basically.
[01:02:43]  Making it unrecognizable.
[01:02:46]  They tried to create a foobar situation.
[01:02:48]  Yeah.
[01:02:49]  So it's a good thing to remember the original spirit of the Declaration of Independence and the principles that inspired it.
[01:03:00]  And never forget this because fundamentally, in this case, you could argue that in 1776 you were on opposing sides with the Americans.
[01:03:10]  But now I don't think that's the case.
[01:03:13]  Benjamin Arnold did nothing wrong.
[01:03:14]  Now I'm joking.
[01:03:16]  It's the same philosophy wreaking havoc against the West.
[01:03:20]  So I think that in this case, this is something interesting to bear in mind.
[01:03:25]  But also remember that lots of the principles of the American founding were of English origin, philosophically speaking.
[01:03:33]  Oh, sorry, Benedict Arnold.
[01:03:35]  I meant, yes, no, you're right, though.
[01:03:36]  Yeah, of course.
[01:03:37]  No, I had to name the right trick.
[01:03:39]  So let's look at some parts of the speech.
[01:03:44]  He particularly targets Woodrow Wilson.
[01:03:47]  As one of the worst presidents of the US.
[01:03:51]  And then we are going to talk about the dialectic of progressivism and how it is that progressives are taking the sort of software, the cultural software of the Western world, which is to a very large extent classically liberal, and they're trying to completely twist it and make it unrecognizable and justify basically government overreach and the kinds of things that we talked about in the previous segment, Dan's segment.
[01:04:18]  Which was, by the time you're looking at it, at this segment right now, will have been uploaded at 8 p.m. UK time of Tuesday.
[01:04:29]  This is going to be a Saturday.
[01:04:31]  All right, okay, let's look at what he says here.
[01:04:35]  Since Wilson's presidency, progressivism has made many inroads into our system of government and our way of life.
[01:04:46]  It has coexisted uneasily with the principles of the Declaration.
[01:04:52]  Because it is opposed to those principles, it is not possible for the two to coexist forever.
[01:05:02]  Progressivism was not native to America.
[01:05:05]  Wilson and the progressives candidly admitted that they took it from Otto von Bismarck's Germany, whose state centric society they admired.
[01:05:18]  Progressives like Wilson argued that America needed to leave behind the principles of the founding and catch up with the more advanced and sophisticated system of relatively unimpeded state power.
[01:05:36]  nearly perfect, perfected.
[01:05:40]  He acknowledged that.
[01:05:41]  Right.
[01:05:42]  So the first thing here is how does this happen in a way?
[01:05:46]  And there are some progressives who are completely anti constitutional, and it's easy to spot them and easy to argue against them.
[01:05:54]  But there are also some others who are a bit more subversive.
[01:05:57]  And the subversive ones aren't saying directly, let's destroy the constitution.
[01:06:04]  They're paying lip service to the importance of the constitution and they're paying lip service to the ideals of the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
[01:06:14]  But they make a very crucial twist.
[01:06:16]  And there is zero logical inevitability for this twist, as people who are saying that somehow communism is the inevitable result of classical liberalism are frequently saying.
[01:06:27]  This is a complete mistake.
[01:06:31]  What is this?
[01:06:32]  It has to do with the role of the state.
[01:06:35]  The progressives and the modern liberals and other, they are basically statists fundamentally.
[01:06:41]  Yes.
[01:06:41]  And what they're saying is that you can actually do many more things with a state than classical liberals believe in.
[01:06:50]  And essentially, they think that you can make, you can force people in a way to be moral.
[01:06:55]  It's like Rousseau was saying the individuals can be forced to be free when he was writing in the 1750s.
[01:07:02]  And his spirit definitely influenced modern liberals and progressives and leftists and, you know, People who were very subversive, generally speaking.
[01:07:13]  And What the classical liberals are saying is that you need civil society to allow human beings to be human beings.
[01:07:21]  Yes.
[01:07:22]  There's a natural instinct for human beings to be social, and the government should basically be a night watchman state that is going to protect these rights.
[01:07:32]  And these rights are rights of non interference.
[01:07:34]  In other words, negative rights.
[01:07:37]  Jefferson's, it is the pursuit of happiness.
[01:07:40]  It's your pursuit of the happiness of your family.
[01:07:44]  It's something you attain for yourself, it's something that requires the exercising.
[01:07:48]  Of your agency.
[01:07:49]  It's not something that the state is going to give you.
[01:07:52]  I mean, Jefferson would never have believed that.
[01:07:55]  It's, it's, uh, it's, uh, that's exactly it.
[01:07:58]  Because what they are saying, what the progressives are saying and the modern liberals is that the state should be the main engine of social life.
[01:08:09]  And in a way, they're saying that society is irreparably morally corrupt.
[01:08:14]  It's selfish, as Danny mentioned before, with the communist pipeline.
[01:08:18]  It's like everything would be great if it weren't for you.
[01:08:22]  We're acting like this.
[01:08:23]  So they're saying the state is the fundamental engine of social life and the fundamental way to sustain the moral fiber of the nation.
[01:08:33]  And they believe that individuals can't make themselves happy and that basically the state needs to give people life, liberty, and make them happy.
[01:08:49]  So it's not like we are going to.
[01:08:52]  Create a framework within which you will have to be an active being who will have to respect limits, but also within those limits, you will pursue your own, the conception of your own good.
[01:09:08]  They're basically saying, We are going to tell you what the good is, consists in.
[01:09:13]  We're going to force it upon you.
[01:09:15]  In forcing it upon you, we're making you free.
[01:09:18]  And we are going to essentially grant you life.
[01:09:23]  We're going to make you free and we're going to make you happy.
[01:09:27]  And this obviously is nonsense.
[01:09:32]  Sorry, may I just say one, focus on one other word in there as well?
[01:09:37]  Proves to be self evident.
[01:09:38]  Life.
[01:09:39]  It's like, okay, well, life itself, given that these guys are radical abortionists.
[01:09:44]  Yeah, and one thing to say here is because methodology is important and how we arrive at some conclusions and the wider framework.
[01:09:55]  That we integrate these conclusions in is sometimes as important as the conclusions we draw.
[01:10:01]  And what Justice Thomas mentions is that it was especially with John Dewey that there was a massive onslaught on the idea of self evident rights.
[01:10:13]  So, rights stopped being, in the minds of the progressives, natural rights that are to hold for everyone, they became contingent.
[01:10:26]  Historical particular rights that weren't rights that the government had to respect, but they were rights that were privileges to be enjoyed at the bureaucrats' discretion.
[01:10:39]  Right.
[01:10:40]  Yeah, I mean, I just think about my own life, and, you know, I mean, yeah, amongst the hell that is becoming modern Britain, you know, it's like, you know, so many people who've helped me attain some state of happiness.
[01:10:52]  It's been your family, your loved ones, right?
[01:10:54]  You know, your nearest and dearest.
[01:10:55]  It's never been a.
[01:10:56]  Whoever sent you that Yorkshire tea.
[01:10:58]  A bureaucrat.
[01:10:59]  Yeah, people who sent me the Yorkshire tea yesterday, thank you.
[01:11:01]  It's never been some faceless bureaucrat.
[01:11:04]  No, yeah.
[01:11:06]  And, yeah, but think of it also on a daily basis, and I'm sure our audience has several examples of wokeness.
[01:11:13]  Wokeness is specifically such a governmental intervention.
[01:11:18]  It says, you as a society are irreparably corrupt.
[01:11:22]  It's a thompson of engineering.
[01:11:23]  Absolutely.
[01:11:24]  I have to step in because I'm the enlightened bureaucrat.
[01:11:28]  I have to step in and I have to force upon you my vision of what constitutes a good community.
[01:11:35]  And that community is, for instance, an inclusive community, it's a DEI community.
[01:11:41]  Now, we hear by particularly emboldened individuals like Zach Polanski that.
[01:11:47]  Their community doesn't involve right wingers, but that's the language that they are using.
[01:11:52]  And when you're using this language, essentially, you understand everyone who's an adult understands that you can make people happy, you can make everyone happy.
[01:12:02]  So, they want to make their political allies happy by how, but they're saying, Right, you are the haves, and I'm going to completely wage war on you in order to give to the have nots.
[01:12:16]  And when I'm talking about the have nots, I'm not talking just materially.
[01:12:20]  We're also talking psychologically.
[01:12:22]  Think of, for instance, the idea of offending people.
[01:12:26]  It's like when the government goes and says, don't offend people or address them with their preferred pronoun.
[01:12:32]  They aren't just saying, well, just, you know, respect them.
[01:12:35]  They're going to say, you are going to do this and this and that because the role of the government is to make that individual happy.
[01:12:43]  So if that individual requires to be addressed with a particular pronoun, the job of the government is to force everyone else to address them with that pronoun.
[01:12:54]  Right, let's continue.
[01:12:55]  In a Lockean world with its weak decentralized government and strong individual rights, they say our 18th century declaration has prevented us from progressing to higher forms of government.
[01:13:12]  But we were fortunate not to trade our Lockean bonds for the supposedly enlightened world of Hegel, Marx, and their followers.
[01:13:24]  I don't think it's wrong.
[01:13:25]  I don't think it's wrong.
[01:13:27]  If you look at Europe right now, and obviously that the same challenges are present in the US, but if you look at Europe right now, it does seem to be a continent that is governed by people who are cucked by Marxists in a way, even despite the fact that Marxism lost as a major system.
[01:13:52]  We do have a bureaucratic leadership in the EU that constantly talks about how progressive it is and how enlightened it is and how their system of government is basically better than the parochial decentralization of the Lockean US Constitution.
[01:14:12]  I don't think that we are experiencing anything other than cultural warfare against Europe here.
[01:14:21]  You could argue that this happens in the States, and I don't think that he would disagree with you there either.
[01:14:27]  But I think that he does have a point where he says that, in a way, within Europe, there seems to be a cultural influence that is incredibly negative.
[01:14:38]  And it comes directly from people with Marxist and philo Marxist sentiments who have infiltrated the top echelons of power within Europe and are governing with an ecophobic way.
[01:14:52]  And they're clear.
[01:14:53]  Sometimes they're adamant about wanting to destroy European civilization.
[01:14:58]  And sometimes they are cheering.
[01:15:00]  For saying we want to replace European individuals.
[01:15:04]  I'm talking, for instance, Philippe Mélenchon in France and his acolytes, also some members of the Podemos in Spain.
[01:15:13]  Yeah, and even those who are less bold than Mélenchon, it's still the natural conclusion of the policies they espouse.
[01:15:20]  And I will speed up a bit due to time considerations.

=== Inequality Creates Bad Incentives (02:44) ===

[01:15:23]  It's just there's something really deeply problematic about the whole notion of progressivism.
[01:15:30]  And I think that this is important because.
[01:15:32]  It's important to notice and bear in mind because I think it's important to be realistic.
[01:15:37]  And Dan, I think you were completely correct when we were discussing your segment that people who are of a more right wing persuasion are more realistic and are more prone to think that whatever they consider to be their utopia isn't necessarily achievable in this world.
[01:15:55]  Yes.
[01:15:55]  I think that there is a spirit of humility there and a spirit of realism that is important to recapture.
[01:16:03]  And when it comes to right now the right wing, I think that there is an overcompensation for something that was a mistake of the past.
[01:16:13]  In the last decades of the Cold War, there was an overemphasis on economics.
[01:16:19]  And almost everyone was talking about economics and was forgetting lots of the crucial other stuff, like the importance of culture, the importance of institutions, the importance of tradition.
[01:16:30]  And I want to say that it seems to me particularly understandable and reasonable.
[01:16:35]  And justify to an extent to try to compensate for that loss.
[01:16:40]  But I will say, it seems to me that right now, I do see people within the right wing in the Western world to be very much prone to completely neglect economics.
[01:16:52]  And I will say that, yeah, the Homo economicus reductionist view of human beings is mistaken.
[01:16:59]  That doesn't mean that economics isn't a very important thing, an activity that we constantly engage in.
[01:17:07]  And we can't afford to lose that.
[01:17:11]  That's how I see it.
[01:17:13]  This is true.
[01:17:13]  But I think it's also important to concede I mean, you two understand economics much better than I do.
[01:17:21]  But we have to also address the fact that economic, just wealth inequality, Is becoming a decisive pull factor for many, many voters, you know, particularly amongst the young.
[01:17:34]  And those are the things that Restore are going to have to address, you know, to basically.
[01:17:40]  They should address this.
[01:17:41]  But one of the other things is that when you, essentially, what the argument is, and I think that history supports it, is that when you accept inequality in economics, you are giving the right incentives to people.
[01:17:58]  You're saying you will get ahead.
[01:18:00]  By producing something that many people will find a value, instead of just saying you will get ahead by sucking up to the government.

=== State Cannot Ensure Equity (04:41) ===

[01:18:07]  So you're creating a system where people have the incentive to create wealth, instead of just thinking that wealth is going to magically be created and they will be entrusted with the power to redistribute it.
[01:18:21]  So when you allow inequality in proper conditions, in conditions where you don't have massive intervention, Government and intervention in the economy and society, you do have a pie that is much bigger than the pie you would produce otherwise.
[01:18:39]  So, inequality doesn't necessarily imply that those who are worse off in the hierarchy are going to be worse off than they would be in a condition where there would be zero wealth inequality, where such incentives wouldn't exist.
[01:18:57]  So, this is an argument that it's good to remember.
[01:19:00]  And one thing to say is that if you want to Peel through the onion of deception of the modern liberal propaganda is that they are promising a goal and they can't achieve that goal with the means that they want to, with the state.
[01:19:17]  Why?
[01:19:17]  Because their goal is autonomy.
[01:19:19]  They constantly say, I want to make you happy, I want to make you autonomous.
[01:19:24]  And autonomy has an irreducibly individualistic aspect into it, it stands for self governance.
[01:19:31]  The state cannot self govern you.
[01:19:34]  The state cannot self develop you.
[01:19:35]  The state cannot self improve you.
[01:19:37]  It cannot self realize you.
[01:19:39]  You cannot outsource what is irreducibly.
[01:19:44]  Something that is a task of the individual to a community, a group, or a state.
[01:19:50]  And this is where the illusion comes in.
[01:19:53]  This is where it comes in.
[01:19:54]  And Dan, in a way, I had this thread and I was talking something relatively close to what you mentioned before with a communist pipeline that essentially progressives respond by saying that they want to aid self development by granting benefits to individuals who will proceed to achieve autonomy for themselves.
[01:20:12]  And here is where equity and DI policies in general come into the picture because.
[01:20:17]  They're going to pay lip service to equality of opportunity as being distinct from equity.
[01:20:22]  But if you see, they constantly use equity and equality of outcome as a criterion for whether equal opportunities were present.
[01:20:31]  And essentially, this means that they pay lip service to the difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome.
[01:20:39]  But essentially, they're saying, unless communism, we aren't going to be free.
[01:20:43]  And the job of the government is to make you free.
[01:20:46]  And the government will force you to be free if communism.
[01:20:51]  That's essentially the trick they're using.
[01:20:53]  And I want people to remember when they're talking now about the midterms and they constantly talk about how they want to punish Trump for not having deported many individuals or not having deported as many people, just remember, be realistic, be grounded, remember what the alternative is.
[01:21:18]  People don't like this question the question, what is the alternative?
[01:21:22]  But there is no alternative.
[01:21:24]  When we're talking about practical contexts, we're not choosing between ideal options or the absolute good option and the absolute evil option.
[01:21:33]  We are talking about imperfect options.
[01:21:36]  So, just next time people are saying, well, Trump hasn't deported many people, so I want to vote for open borders, just ask yourself, what am I doing here?
[01:21:49]  Is this actually going to help?
[01:21:51]  Or is this actually.
[01:21:53]  Aiding a government that is essentially ecophobic, wants to destroy Western culture, European culture, American culture, and proudly so, because they think that this is the enlightened thing to do.
[01:22:12]  For the sake of time, there is just one small point that I'd like to make on that, which is that the whole point of deporting all of the illegals was because the Democrats were going to rig, give them basically citizenship, give them the right to vote, and rig the entire.
[01:22:26]  Apparatus of state and the elections in their favor forever.
[01:22:30]  And so, if Trump has failed to deport a sufficient number of those people, then the outcome is still going to be the same whether the Republicans fail in two elections' time or this election's time.
[01:22:44]  Well, there are several responses to this.
[01:22:47]  There are several things to say in response.

=== Neoliberal Checks on Power (08:53) ===

[01:22:49]  First of all, he has done some things on the deportation front.
[01:22:56]  It's not as many as some people on the right expected.
[01:23:00]  And Even if what you say is the case, the alternative of reopening the US Mexico border and granting mass amnesty to every single alien currently inside of the US and granting them political rights, as you mentioned here, is hardly an improvement.
[01:23:19]  It's a difficult situation given that there are only two real parties contending for it.
[01:23:25]  Because on the one hand, you don't want to reward bad behavior from the Republican Party, but on the other hand, you also don't want Yeah.
[01:23:35]  So.
[01:23:35]  Yeah, you don't want.
[01:23:37]  Where is the.
[01:23:39]  Sorry, no, I had a link there that I can't find there, but it's okay.
[01:23:45]  So that's it.
[01:23:46]  All right, great.
[01:23:47]  Any video comments today, Samson?
[01:23:51]  Go on, then let's have a look at them.
[01:23:57]  Hey, Lotus Eaters.
[01:23:59]  Quick question for y'all.
[01:24:00]  If I was to move you over to the United Kingdom anytime soon, would I be fine driving my Inky Dinky Lotus box truck?
[01:24:08]  It's only 34 feet.
[01:24:10]  I know it's pretty small, but hey, I can drive it fine.
[01:24:15]  I can also drive the 50.
[01:24:17]  58 porters if you need me to, but hey, if you need me to, I can drive them.
[01:24:24]  I hope that's not how you see, because that is incredibly focused.
[01:24:29]  You shouldn't be driving anything if that's the state of your vision.
[01:24:35]  Hey, load seaters, I'm here today at Stokes A Castle.
[01:24:40]  Here it is, right here.
[01:24:42]  So you've got the gatehouse there, the castle wall on the moat there, a church there, a great wall there, and I'm on the keep.
[01:24:50]  In this 13th century hall, you see here, it has something called a crooked roof because the wooden beams here are bent and they were chosen that way.
[01:25:02]  It's a very elaborately carved fireplace.
[01:25:07]  You know how leftists just really hate the world because they've got the seething resentment for people who have things that they don't have.
[01:25:14]  I get a bit of that when I look at that.
[01:25:16]  I should be a 13th century lord with a keep.
[01:25:20]  What a great lord you'd have made, Dan.
[01:25:22]  Yes.
[01:25:23]  It would have been quite superb.
[01:25:24]  All right.
[01:25:25]  That's all the videos, is it, Samson?
[01:25:27]  All right.
[01:25:29]  Comments from my segment.
[01:25:30]  We've got Zesta King says A few years ago, I visited Berlin with a left wing relative.
[01:25:35]  She took me to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, which was bombed in World War II.
[01:25:40]  Outside of it, she stated that a terror attack had happened outside where, quote, a man had driven into a crowd one Christmas.
[01:25:48]  She said it's so matter of fact and emotionless that I was taken aback.
[01:25:53]  Then she refused to elaborate on it and changed the conversation.
[01:25:57]  Well, I mean, this is the problem, isn't it?
[01:25:59]  They're not.
[01:26:00]  There's just an innate dishonesty about the problem.
[01:26:04]  They won't call the problem the problem.
[01:26:07]  And so the suffering will continue.
[01:26:10]  The proletariat says in Fargo, North Dakota, in 2023, there was a Syrian who had been settled in the town who launched a terror attack, murdering a police officer and wounding two more.
[01:26:22]  If it can happen in Fargo, it can happen in anywhere.
[01:26:25]  Absolutely.
[01:26:26]  So I come back to the point why take the chance?
[01:26:29]  And.
[01:26:30]  Actually, I've got time for a few more.
[01:26:32]  That's a random name says If millions of Syrian refugees only chose to return to Syria after Islamists took over, what does that say about them in the first place?
[01:26:42]  Well, I mean, yes, but there is also, I suppose, the aspect of, I mean, Islamist or not, is Syria stable now?
[01:26:52]  Does it look like there is another counter regime that is going to vie for power and there's going to be, you know, two other civil war in two years' time?
[01:27:00]  So.
[01:27:01]  But I do take the point.
[01:27:03]  And ultimately, another point that I meant to make in my segment was just that look, if the Syrians don't return home to rebuild Syria, then who else should be expected to, right?
[01:27:14]  Like, whose job is it more than the Syrians to rebuild Syria?
[01:27:19]  So, and then Lordenquister Hector X says Merkel did admit she intentionally sabotaged the country to import left wing voters to stop the far right.
[01:27:29]  Yeah, typical Blair Wright playbook.
[01:27:31]  And Derek Power, master of Chippy, says, Merkel is what happens when women don't make babies.
[01:27:38]  Is she.
[01:27:38]  I mean, well, I mean.
[01:27:40]  Yeah, okay.
[01:27:42]  That checks out.
[01:27:42]  I won't check that, but it checks out.
[01:27:44]  All right.
[01:27:45]  Over to you, Dan.
[01:27:46]  No, I've just been enjoying the chat, who are under the impression that I would make a merciful 13th century lord.
[01:27:52]  Yeah.
[01:27:52]  And I have to say, I think you're right, actually.
[01:27:54]  No, Merkel does not have biological children.
[01:27:58]  Oh, no, no.
[01:27:59]  Yeah, absolutely.
[01:28:00]  Her husband has two adult sons from a previous marriage.
[01:28:03]  Right.
[01:28:05]  I'm also going to highlight a very sensible comment from That's a Random Name.
[01:28:09]  It says, All leftism is just the dregs of humanity hating the world because they were born ugly.
[01:28:14]  I think.
[01:28:14]  I think that is like 90% of it.
[01:28:17]  90%.
[01:28:18]  Carl did a really good video the other day on his maybe a CAD daily or maybe his main one, whatever it was.
[01:28:23]  And he was basically saying that all left wing politics is hating your father, and all right wing politics is being frustrated and annoyed by the stupidity of your first grade teacher.
[01:28:35]  And I'm like, yeah, that is so true.
[01:28:39]  Checks out.
[01:28:40]  Because I quite like my parents, and then I started going to school, and it's like, Who are these idiots with authority over me?
[01:28:48]  Yes.
[01:28:48]  They can't get anything right.
[01:28:50]  Like, I'm six and I know that you're wrong.
[01:28:52]  What are you doing, woman?
[01:28:54]  Didn't like that at all.
[01:28:55]  Anyway.
[01:28:58]  It does kind of make sense, actually, that as soon as you were able to start speaking, you just went around telling people they were wrong.
[01:29:04]  Well, they were.
[01:29:05]  Let's explain.
[01:29:06]  They didn't want me to do that.
[01:29:07]  They shouldn't have been wrong.
[01:29:10]  Yes.
[01:29:11]  Especially not Miss Margaret.
[01:29:12]  I mean, God.
[01:29:15]  What else does he say?
[01:29:16]  I know there's some other people there.
[01:29:19]  Even if Zesty King says, I think even if the Greens won the next general election, the British armed forces would perform a military coup.
[01:29:29]  Can I comment on that?
[01:29:30]  Is that Fed Posty?
[01:29:31]  I mean, I'd be there for that.
[01:29:33]  If Zach Polanski can say, I'm there for Utopia, I can say, I'm there for the military coup if they ever get in, because God.
[01:29:41]  Well, I mean, Polanski's position of basically saying, yeah, these people just don't really have a place in society.
[01:29:48]  And you think that's going to be a peaceful transfer of power?
[01:29:52]  Do you, Zach, after saying that?
[01:29:54]  I mean, very unlikely when you put people in that much of an existential position for the safety.
[01:30:00]  And I'm certainly not going to respond to what Chat is talking about now.
[01:30:03]  So let's move on.
[01:30:05]  Right.
[01:30:05]  Derek Power, master of chippies, the key overlooked word is pursuit, meaning there is no guarantee of having and no obligation of obtaining it.
[01:30:14]  Proletariat says there's a Jefferson quote you have the right to pursue happiness, but you have to catch it yourself.
[01:30:20]  Ben Gale says communism isn't a huge problem in Europe or Britain.
[01:30:24]  American style progressiveness.
[01:30:26]  And neoliberal economics is far more of a problem than a mythical communist takeover.
[01:30:32]  The people we call communists are mainly neoliberals.
[01:30:35]  Where, if you want to call them liberals because they talk about liberty and autonomy all the time, I specifically mentioned them.
[01:30:44]  That was a segment about them.
[01:30:46]  But there is also the other bit, the subversion element and the element of incrementalism that you see, especially in the Fabian philosophy.
[01:30:55]  And I will say this there were many Rawlsians in academia.
[01:31:00]  Who had marks for their wallpaper when they were giving speeches?
[01:31:06]  So, yeah, don't.
[01:31:08]  When I see people saying they're neoliberals or something, I tend to think they're a bit communist y.
[01:31:15]  Right.
[01:31:15]  And Michael Drybelbis, Woodrow Wilson, and his later counterpart, FDR, fat, drunk, and racist, literally set the wheels in motion to destroy the US.
[01:31:27]  The British Empire lasted centuries, and these progressives are treasonous.
[01:31:31]  Yeah.
[01:31:32]  All right.
[01:31:32]  Well said.
[01:31:33]  Okay.
[01:31:33]  Well, that's all the time we've used up today, ladies and gentlemen.
[01:31:37]  I hope you've enjoyed the show.
[01:31:38]  And we look forward to, of course, seeing you tomorrow at 1 p.m.
[01:31:41]  Have a good day.
[01:31:42]  Cheerio, chaps.