Trump MOGS The World At Davos, Europe FURIOUS
Host: Tate Brown @realTateBrown (everywhere)Show more Guest: Scott Greer @ScottMGreer (X) Show less
Host: Tate Brown @realTateBrown (everywhere)Show more Guest: Scott Greer @ScottMGreer (X) Show less
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Live From Rumble Studios
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| What is going on, Patriots? | ||
| This is Tate Brown here, holding it down. | ||
| We are here live from near Rumble Studios here in Florida. | ||
| We're actually working out of Tim's personal studio today. | ||
| So this is really exciting change of scenery. | ||
| It's a bit cold in here. | ||
| Again, I've been expressing my concern over, I feel deceived by the temperatures here in Florida. | ||
| I was coming down here expecting sunshine and rainbows and like this perfect utopian society. | ||
| But dude, it's freezing. | ||
| I feel like I'm back in the trailer. | ||
| I don't know if you OG Timcast viewers from a month ago, remember when I was in the trailer, I got banished to the Tate Cast trailer for the noon live. | ||
| It's kind of the same deal. | ||
| It's a little nippy in here. | ||
| I don't know what's going on. | ||
| I have an iced coffee. | ||
| I don't know if that's improving things, but this is how we do it. | ||
| You know, this is what I hear a lot from Timcast fans, people that have been following Tim for years, is they actually kind of like that we're a little bit more raw of a show. | ||
| You know, these sorts of things. | ||
| You know, we're not this high, high-powered, high-octane, flashy graphics, you know, whatever you want to, whatever you want to call it. | ||
| This ain't Fox News. | ||
| You know, this is raw. | ||
| We're just bringing you the news, bringing you our thoughts, hearing what you guys have to say. | ||
| And I think it's a beautiful thing. | ||
| I think it allows us to really sort of be in touch with what you guys are up to, what you're saying, what you think about these stories. | ||
| So with that, again, I want to, first of all, thank Stephen Crowder for the raid as we head into the afternoon of our Rumble Daily lineup. | ||
| We have really a big story today. | ||
| Obviously, Davos is underway. | ||
| Trump is speaking there. | ||
| Well, he just wrapped his speech about an hour ago. | ||
| Obviously, the world's leaders, some of the world's most important people have descended on the country of Switzerland. | ||
| It was actually looking a bit dicey last night if Trump was even going to make it. | ||
| There was something going on at this plane, some sort of electrical failure as he made his way over the Atlantic. | ||
| And so they had to turn back around, head back to DC. | ||
| They wrenched on the plane a little bit and then got Trump over there in time for his speech today. | ||
| I actually speculated last night that maybe he was just adding to the mogging by just not even showing up. | ||
| That would have been kind of funny. | ||
| But as you see in the title, I did say that Trump was mogging the world at Davos today. | ||
| And that is absolutely true. | ||
| I have some clips to show you guys. | ||
| And more importantly, I think what the show is really going to be hinged on today is at the half hour mark, we're bringing on the great writer, Scott Greer. | ||
| He's been providing some sort of really interesting commentary on this whole Greenland situation. | ||
| I don't even think, I think the story is interesting enough, or even if you're not really a geopolitics person, I still think you're deriving a lot of entertainment from this saga because it really is something. | ||
| And we're really like living in a really historic moment. | ||
| I mean, this is a situation where the U.S. could potentially acquire a massive, massive chunk of land, which we haven't done for a very long time. | ||
| Your children, your grandchildren will be looking at a map with an expanded United States. | ||
| And I think that's really something to be said, just to be able to say, hey, I was here when that happened. | ||
| So I think I, myself, will be looking back at these videos, these clips, the streams or whatever, and being like, wow, that was really something, a sight to behold. | ||
| So we'll be bringing Scott in at the half hour mark to break down more of the negotiation side, maybe what the Europeans' point of view is. | ||
| Why do the Europeans keep crashing out over this? | ||
| That's a very salient question. | ||
| So we'll be bringing him to ask about that. | ||
| Also, there's a lot of discourse going on on Twitter today over birth rate numbers. | ||
| A lot of these economists and academics who study birth rates for a living have been putting up some really interesting stats. | ||
| You're kind of seeing everyone go back and forth on it. | ||
| Things are really, really grim on the birth rate front. | ||
| I know here at Timcast, We spend a lot of time, a considerable amount of time, discussing civil war, fears of civil war, or really just civil strife broadly. | ||
| I mean, that's where pretty much every presenter at the show, certainly me, certainly Tim, and then to a lesser extent me, really, you know, cut our teeth, got introduced to the game. | ||
| I myself working with a lot of Ilyahu in New York, covering protests and on-the-ground stuff. | ||
| So, again, this is something that's always in the front of our minds. | ||
| But Tim has spoken about it at length over the years, and this has always been an issue for me as well. | ||
| I've really focused quite a bit of time on is the birth rates. | ||
| The birth rates are extremely low. | ||
| This is something that Elon Musk has been sounding the alarm on. | ||
| And obviously, there's some dissenting takes on sort of how severe the implications are going to be if the birth rates continue dropping as they are right now. | ||
| You know, some people are saying, well, you know, the population was pretty stagnant for 6,000 years. | ||
| So, you know, if we just have this weird baby boom period and then it kind of, again, levels out somewhere, perhaps it's not the worst thing in the world. | ||
| But other people are saying, no, this is a doomsday scenario. | ||
| All of our infrastructure is built for, you know, in the United States case, 330 million people. | ||
| So if the population drops precipitously, it could cause a huge chain reaction that could destroy civilization. | ||
| Me personally, I think the truth is somewhere in the middle between those two takes, but we'll get into that. | ||
| We'll take a look at some of the data that a lot of these gentlemen have been posting and giving their commentary on, and I'll provide some of my thoughts on it. | ||
| But very interesting stuff. | ||
| And yeah, we have a few more stories that if we have time, we'll get to them. | ||
| But first, I want to start off with some of the action that we've been seeing from Davos. | ||
| It's really something. | ||
| I don't know if you can hear. | ||
| I'm like shaking because it's so cold in here. | ||
| I'm not really nervous on stream anymore. | ||
| I think the first time I ever hosted for Timcast, I was fairly nervous, but now I'm pretty chill. | ||
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Variety Of Reasons For A Strong Europe
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| I'm pretty used to it, but very shaky right now just because it's cold and I don't even want to drink my coffee because it's so cold. | ||
| Let's get into this first story. | ||
| Here's the clip from Vicegrad24. | ||
| Actually, you know what? | ||
| Let me frame this first. | ||
| I should have done that before the show. | ||
| Again, working out of Tim's studio today, so things are a bit different. | ||
| But let's see. | ||
| Let me edge it over a little bit. | ||
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Pause. | |
| Can I get a little edge on? | ||
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There we go. | |
| Look at that. | ||
| We do it live. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| I was talking about how raw these things are. | ||
| It's so true. | ||
| So let's play this first clip here. | ||
| And hopefully the audio feeds through. | ||
| Let me take a look. | ||
| I don't know if you guys can even hear that. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| Now you should be able to hear it. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| The United States cares greatly about the people of Europe. | ||
| We really do. | ||
| I mean, look, I am derived from Europe, Scotland and Germany. | ||
| 100% Scotland, my mother, 100% German, my father. | ||
| And we believe deeply in the bonds we share with Europe as a civilization. | ||
| I want to see it do great. | ||
| That's why issues like energy, trade, immigration, and economic growth must be central concerns to anyone who wants to see a strong and united West. | ||
| Because Europe and those countries have to do their thing. | ||
| They have to get out of the culture that they've created over the last 10 years. | ||
| It's horrible what they're doing to themselves. | ||
| They're destroying themselves. | ||
| It's beautiful, beautiful places. | ||
| We want strong allies, not seriously weakened ones. | ||
| We want Europe to be strong. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| So, I mean, this is really clear, concise messaging from the President of the United States. | ||
| And look, obviously, this Greenland situation, obviously the negotiations or lack thereof have been quite frustrating for the Europeans who do feel like the Americans are sort of not taking these sort of historic alliances very seriously. | ||
| And I get where they're coming from, but I really, I'm a plan truster. | ||
| I'm a plannikin, as they say, as opposed to a panikin. | ||
| And I have a lot of faith in Donald Trump specifically, maybe not so much in his apparatus. | ||
| But in Donald Trump, the man, him specifically, I do think he's fairly understanding of really what the situation is. | ||
| I think he understands that ultimately one of two things is true is a rising tide lifts all boats. | ||
| So, you know, if you look at Western civilization as one big family, so that includes, you know, Europe, that includes the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. | ||
| He views these civilization as one, you know, there's a thread running through all of them. | ||
| So although the United States is certainly cut from a different cloth, we are the finest product of Western civilization. | ||
| We're the finest product since Rome. | ||
| There's really no question about that. | ||
| There is some truth that the civilization is still all linked in a very non-discrete way. | ||
| And so this is at the forefront of, this is what's relieving to hear. | ||
| It's relieving to hear from the president of the United States is that he wants to see a strong, united Western civilization. | ||
| He wants to see Europe do well. | ||
| I mean, he alludes to the fact that he's of 100% European stock. | ||
| He's saying his mother, whose mother is Mary, is an immigrant from Scotland. | ||
| Obviously, being of Scottish heritage is unfortunately is not a given anymore out of Britain. | ||
| But again, she's a Scot. | ||
| And he's saying his father's of 100% German extraction. | ||
| So his grandparents on his father's side, so his father's parents were also immigrants from Germany. | ||
| So he does, he's talking about, and this is the way a lot of Americans feel is that, look, we do have this link to Europe. | ||
| It's a very real link. | ||
| We can't just pretend like we're the first humans to ever exist. | ||
| You know, the past is always going to make claims on the present. | ||
| And this is something this discussion, this discourse started where it kicked off, kicked up a lot during Amfest when Vivek Ramaswamy, you know, took the stage and he said this whole idea of a heritage American is ridiculous and that Americans are actually, you know, the condition to being an American is based on your ideals rather than your heritage. | ||
| And to steel man his position, I mean, I do understand what he's saying. | ||
| That like defining American can't be a strictly racial thing. | ||
| I think that's broadly true to a degree. | ||
| But where he's completely wrong and where it's like a very pernicious liberal presupposition is that heritage has no influence over whether someone's an American or not. | ||
| And it really creates a lot of interesting quandaries if, again, the sort of bar to being an American is purely your ideology. | ||
| Because then it doesn't really mean much. | ||
| Because all that really effectively does is it divides the world between Americans and future Americans. | ||
| There's not actually anything distinct about being an American. | ||
| As long as you say the right things, you're an American in Vivek Ramaswamy's eyes. | ||
| And that really, if anything, is more to the left of what a lot of liberals were saying in the last century. | ||
| I mean, a lot of liberals in the last century even acknowledged the idea that like, okay, if you have an ancestry that traces back to the Mayflower, you do have like a distinct claim to the United States. | ||
| I think even a lot of liberals in the 20th century would even concede that. | ||
| So it's just really a ridiculous, anti-conservative, it's certainly not a right-wing position to completely strip away the heritage component of being an American. | ||
| And so this is why it's so important what Trump is saying. | ||
| He's saying, like, look, you know, me, as an American, and most Americans, myself, probably a lot of you guys watching, will trace your heritage back to Europe. | ||
| There's, you know, no way around that. | ||
| And so, with that being true, again, seeing as we're not the first people that have ever lived on the planet, that will create, again, a link between the United States and Europe. | ||
| And you can't really sever that. | ||
| It's being severed due to mass migration. | ||
| But the historic American people, again, that have made up the majority of the country since its founding, again, have this link to Europe. | ||
| You know, there can be a discussion over: is this link, should it just be a curiosity or should it, like you know, manifest in um giving them favorable foreign policy treatment? | ||
| Again, that's a debate that could be had. | ||
| All that Trump is saying here is, look, we're broadly on the same team as with Western civilization. | ||
| We are united. | ||
| We're united by a lot of things, certainly our heritage, but we're also united by Christianity um, we're united by culture uh, we're united by um sort of ethic um, ethic preferences, these sorts of things. | ||
| Like you know, people again Westerners broadly kind of have the same, um sort of moral distinctions and these sorts of things, a lot of the same mannerisms. | ||
| So there's a lot of things that really unite us. | ||
| So what he's saying is like, look Europe, you need to get your act together, because if you fall, if you crumble, that is an arm of western civilization that's gone forever. | ||
| We don't. | ||
| Western civilization, such a beautiful thing, western civilization is really this tremendous thing that we don't want to see it just commit suicide. | ||
| We don't want America to be the only bastion of western civilization. | ||
| Would be quite nice actually, if Western civilization continued to expand over the globe rather than retract right now. | ||
| It's retracting right now, not only has it retracted from the globe, I mean, all these colonial powers like France and and Britain have decolonized um, you know, given away a lot of their colonial possessions, they're still doing this. | ||
| For example, the Uk is fighting Trump right now over literally trying to hand away the Chagos islands um, but yeah, whether it's even retracting at home. | ||
| I mean, you're seeing, in Paris and London Berlin, a lot of these cities are feeling increasingly foreign. | ||
| Um, United States has the same problems, but Europe it's it's completely different. | ||
| Because again Europeans, it's like very clear what a Frenchman is, what an Englishman is, where in America, even people that would be directly descended from the Mayflower are still having that discussion of what is an American. | ||
| In England and France and Germany, it's undeniable who is a German, who is French, who is English. | ||
| So, very encouraging rhetoric from Trump. | ||
| Because again, a lot of the Europeans, I think, have been fearful that Trump doesn't view Europe as like, he views him as an adversary, and I just don't see it that way. | ||
| I think yes, you could maybe have some critiques of how he's handled the Greenland situation. | ||
| You know, a lot of people are saying okay well, these terrorists are necessary. | ||
| Do we really need to be antagonizing these powers or, you know, maybe would it be better to again handle these negotiations behind closed doors. | ||
| I mean, i'll ask Scott what he thinks about that, but I do think this indicates this speech is very clear. | ||
| It's very concise. | ||
| This outlines what the ultimate Trump policy is in regards to Europe, in which he views them, again, as a group, a continent that is down on its luck, really at their own fault, to their own peril, and that they need to get their act together because, again, Americans are linked to Europe. | ||
| Again, we spawned from Europe. | ||
| We spawned from England. | ||
| We speak English. | ||
| Our faith, our majority faith is Christianity. | ||
| Christianity really cut its teeth in Europe. | ||
| So again, there's these things that link us to Europe. | ||
| I don't think I need to explain that much further. | ||
| But here's some mogging that was going on. | ||
| So Trump was quite encouraging to Europe in that, saying, look, I want to make you guys stronger. | ||
| Part of the reason I think Trump is so frustrated with the NATO spending situation where a lot of these European countries aren't pulling their weight with NATO is because he wants to see a strong Europe. | ||
| He wants to see Europe, again, sort of return to their former glory in a lot of ways. | ||
| But here's some mogging going on. | ||
| Here's where Trump is just basically saying, like, hey, where's our thank you? | ||
| Just give us Greenland. | ||
| Foothold in our hemisphere. | ||
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So we did it for ourselves also. | |
| And then after the war, which we won, we won it big. | ||
| Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German and a little Japanese, perhaps. | ||
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After the war, we gave Greenland back. | |
| So he's talking about, again, following World War II. | ||
| Let me make sure this is paused. | ||
| Okay, I think it's paused. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| He's talking about, again, following World War II, or during World War II, we controlled Greenland. | ||
| Again, this was a strategic thing. | ||
| So why we had to control Greenland? | ||
| Denmark obviously fell to the Germans, among other reasons. | ||
| There's a variety of reasons that we ended up taking control of Greenland, but we did give Greenland back. | ||
| We returned, so to speak, Greenland to Denmark following the war. | ||
| Again, because following World War II, the American people wanted to rebuild Europe. | ||
| Again, because there was just this link to Europe. | ||
| There was this affinity Americans had and still have in large regards for Europe. | ||
| And so, you know, he had the Marshall Plan, which is where we just spent the equivalent of trillions of dollars rebuilding Europe. | ||
| And so Trump, what he's saying in this clip, why he's saying, well, without us right now, you'd all be speaking German or a little Japanese, perhaps. | ||
| He's saying, like, where's our thank you? | ||
| Like, you know, when we say, hey, we need Greenland for strategic importance, this isn't like some vain thing. | ||
| This is like legitimately a geopolitical move that we are conducting, that we are sort of making happen for the express purpose of, again, geopolitical stability for defense, again, to protect NATO broadly. | ||
| Because the Chinese have auspices. | ||
| They have goals. | ||
| They would like to see Greenland fall under their purview because that gives them a foothold in the Western Hemisphere, especially now that Venezuela is off the table. | ||
| China is going to be sniffing around. | ||
| Russia is going to be sniffing around in the Arctic. | ||
| You know, we discussed on the show with Nick Fuences on Monday sort of the importance of the Northwest Passage that's opening up. | ||
| Again, as the ice for a variety of reasons, which we could get into, retreats or at least sort of softens, for lack of a better word. | ||
| It is becoming increasingly possible for international shipping traffic to cross through Canada, cross through the Northwest Passage. | ||
| And as that opens up, there's going to be a lot of powers that are going to be sniffing around the region. | ||
| And Trump's whole argument with Greenland is like, hey, the Danes aren't prepared to defend the island. | ||
| They're certainly not prepared to keep a close eye on the Northwest Passage. | ||
| So we need to take that. | ||
| We need to handle that situation. | ||
| And they're digging their heels in, which I suppose they have the right to. | ||
| I certainly think they would have the right to negotiate a sale. | ||
| But back to Trump's original point, where's our thank you? | ||
| Like instead, it's just lecturing. | ||
| We saw the same thing after we conducted our operation in Venezuela. | ||
| Is after our operation in Venezuela, virtually every European leader, even guys like Farage that are supposedly Trump allies, which I highly doubt he would actually conduct his government that way, come out and they're like, well, what about international law and these things? | ||
| I'm like, we are international law. | ||
| We are the enforcers of international law. | ||
| Venezuela stole our stuff, so this is all above board anyway. | ||
| Why not say, great job? | ||
| Great job. | ||
| You removed a stronghold of our shared adversary as NATO members. | ||
| You removed their stronghold from the Western Hemisphere. | ||
| That should be like a cause for celebration. | ||
| But again, these European leaders, for a variety of reasons, have TDS. | ||
| I know that's like a really kitschy take to have. | ||
| I know that's a really, you know, boomer-fox news take to have, but it's just the truth. | ||
| I mean, it really is. | ||
| They just, they have to counter-signal Trump to the ground. | ||
| So we're just seeing a variety of reasons in which the Europeans, understandably so, do feel a bit of insecurity as their position in the globe continues to slip. | ||
| But the refusal to admit that Trump has a point regarding Greenland. | ||
| They refuse to admit, like, actually, yeah, that does make a lot of sense. | ||
| And let's make this happen. | ||
| So we have a few more clips here. | ||
| That was, this is the same clip from earlier. | ||
| This was a good one. | ||
| A rogue nationalist put his commentary on here. | ||
| He's the goat. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| There's no one better. | ||
| This was just Trump mogging Macron. | ||
| Take a look at this. | ||
| Emmanuel Macron. | ||
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I watched him yesterday with those beautiful sunglasses. | |
| What the hell happened? | ||
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Trump's Wife Beat Story
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| Very salient point from the president of the United States. | ||
| Are we really buying the eye surgery story? | ||
| That's the official narrative that's been explained to us by Emmanuel Macron himself: again, he had some sort of operation on his eyes. | ||
| Or do we go with the story that Trump is sort of alluding to that I think everyone suspects is that maybe his wife beat the tar out of him before he showed up to Davos? | ||
| I think that's probably more likely. | ||
| I think, you know, maybe she went for like a three Stooges style double finger prong into the eyes because, you know, he didn't take the laundry out or something like that. | ||
| Macron is really the definition of Longhouse, if you really think about it. | ||
| Like he is the quintessential wife guy in the worst way possible because he really has no leverage in that marriage when you really think about it. | ||
| She really is his superior. | ||
| I mean, you know, typically in a male-female arrangement, which is a marriage, the man is by default the leader. | ||
| Again, because he, you know, he's still able to, you know, conduct a lot of these. | ||
| He's still able to lead and provide an income and these sorts of things. | ||
| But in Macron's case, his wife's like 20, 30 years older than him. | ||
| How much older is, let me just look this up live. | ||
| Macron marriage age gap. | ||
| Dude, dude. | ||
| Yeah, so Brigitte Bridget is 24 years older than Emmanuel. | ||
| So it's like there's zero ground for Emmanuel to stand on. | ||
| His wife's older than him. | ||
| She was like his teacher. | ||
| I think that's the story. | ||
| So yeah, she can just like really beat the tar out of him. | ||
| And he has respect his elders. | ||
| Again, this is a biblical commandment to respect your elders. | ||
| So Emmanuel really has no leg to stand on. | ||
| He just has to take the beating. | ||
| And all he can really do is just throw some sunglasses on and try to do the Joe Biden thing. | ||
| That's really his only option is he's just got to LARP like he's Joe Biden. | ||
| He's got to do the dark Brandon, dark woke routine. | ||
| But it just doesn't really land, dude. | ||
| We know, we know you're just getting tossed around by your wife. | ||
| We all know it. | ||
| We all saw it. | ||
| We all saw the video on the plane where she just boom hits him with like kind of the kind of the you know the kame kame ha, you know, palms to the face. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| He gets knocked back. | ||
| He's startled. | ||
| He's got to wave to the camera. | ||
| He's just, he's just, it's not even long. | ||
| That's not the proper term. | ||
| And I know BAP is quite, I know he's quite frustrated when people improperly use Longhouse. | ||
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Minneapolis: The Cucked Conundrum
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| I think he's just cucked. | ||
| I think that would be the better term to use. | ||
| If we really want to get, you know, you really want to intellectualize what's happening here. | ||
| We really want to get analytical and use the proper terminology. | ||
| He's really just cucked. | ||
| I think that would be the proper term. | ||
| We've got one more clip here I want to show you from Trump's. | ||
| It was quite a long speech, but this was a good clip here. | ||
| He's referring to the situation in Minnesota, what is really driving the situation in Minnesota. | ||
| It's a very good clip. | ||
| Take a look. | ||
| The situation in Minnesota reminds us that the West cannot mass import foreign cultures, which have failed to ever build a successful society of their own. | ||
| I mean, we're taking people from Somalia, and Somalia is a failed, it's not a nation, got no government, got no police, got no military, got no nothing. | ||
| And then we have this fake congressperson who they just reported is worth $30 million. | ||
| You believe this? | ||
| Elon Omar talking about the Constitution that provides me. | ||
| She comes from a country that's not a country, and she's telling us how to run America. | ||
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Not going to get away with it much longer, let me tell you. | |
| It's so true. | ||
| I mean, like, first, he really incisively breaks down what specifically is wrong with Minnesota because it's still a lot of people in the conservative commentary space are just attributing it to like white liberals. | ||
| And it's like, yes, white liberals are the ones that have facilitated this, obviously, through policy and these sorts of things. | ||
| But a state that's primarily occupied by white liberals, where they make up a, they dominate the demographics would be Vermont. | ||
| Vermont's a quite pleasant place. | ||
| This is not to endorse their politics. | ||
| I think Vermont's politics are ridiculous. | ||
| But there's a reason why Vermont is very pleasant and Minnesota is not very pleasant, or Minneapolis specifically is not very pleasant, even though they have the same ruling party. | ||
| And the reality is it's the demographic makeup of the two places. | ||
| Again, you just can't get around that. | ||
| Vermont and Minneapolis have indistinguishable politics for the most part. | ||
| Yet the two places are vastly different. | ||
| You have to ask yourself, okay, well, what's the X factor? | ||
| What is it that makes Minneapolis so horrible? | ||
| And it's like President Trump said, we've imported, mass imported foreign cultures. | ||
| And that's already bad enough. | ||
| You know, we experienced a lot of these problems during the Ellis Island wave. | ||
| But beyond that, they are coming from a place that's not even, as Trump said, not even a real country. | ||
| I mean, Somalia is just some lines on a map, but that's unenforceable. | ||
| It's like freaking Mad Max over there. | ||
| You know, they're like the only profession available in Somalia is being a pirate. | ||
| If you want my thoughts broadly on Somalia, I could point you to my Twitter where I screen capped what I had to say on the show last week that was clipped by Media Matters. | ||
| If you really want to see my concise thoughts on Somalians, this is not to say there's always exceptions to the norm. | ||
| Ian, Ayan Harsi Ali, she's Somali, she's great, but she's an exception to the norm. | ||
| Generally, you don't want to conduct your immigration policy based off of exceptions. | ||
| You want to base your immigration policy based off of predictable outcomes. | ||
| And typically, Somalis is quite predictable what the outcome is going to be when you bring them en masse somewhere. | ||
| You get scamming, you get violence, you get, you know, corruption. | ||
| These things are all obvious and they're all manifesting in the city of Minneapolis, Minneapolis. | ||
| Some people have been getting on to my case about how I say Minneapolis. | ||
| Apparently, it's Minneapolis, Min, you know what I'm talking about, the city in Minnesota. | ||
| So Trump's absolutely on the money here. | ||
| It's good to see. | ||
| I mean, it's good. | ||
| Again, he's made this sort of, he's made this charge towards Elon Omar that she shouldn't be in the country. | ||
| He said on television, she should get the hell out of the country. | ||
| That was his words, not mine. | ||
| But again, it's one of those things that's like, okay, great. | ||
| The rhetoric's good. | ||
| We totally agree. | ||
| Let's get her out now. | ||
| Like, let's see this manifest in policy. | ||
| Let's see her ejected from the country because it's frustrating that she's still permitted to be here. | ||
| So with that, before we grab Scott, I'm still waiting on some updates from the team if Scott's ready or not. | ||
| He says Scott's good to go. | ||
| So I have some articles on birth rates, but I think we should just jump straight into the interview, if you ask me. | ||
| I think we should just keep the ball rolling on the Davos situation. | ||
| So you know what? | ||
| I'm going to go grab Scott. | ||
| We're going to see what he has to say. | ||
| Let me see here. | ||
| Bada bing, bada boom. | ||
| Hey, Scott, can you hear me? | ||
| Hey, what's up? | ||
| What is going on here? | ||
| Let me get this fired up for the audience at home. | ||
| Scott Greer, how are you doing today, man? | ||
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World Changing Fates
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| Can you give the people, you were on the show recently, so I imagine a lot of people are familiar with you, but could you give the people at home a quick intro of who you are and what you do? | ||
| Well, I am a highly respected writer and podcaster. | ||
| I host a highly respected podcast. | ||
| I also have the highly respected sub-zach at highly-respected.com, where I have plenty of articles and podcasts every day. | ||
| And I also have a new book coming out this year called White Pill, The Online Write in the Making of Trump's America, which you can pre-order now at passage.press and get a copy. | ||
| You're going to love the book. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| I'm super excited about White Pill. | ||
| I'm a big fan of what Passage is doing, big fan of yours. | ||
| So I'm stoked to get my mitts on a copy. | ||
| But you know what jumped out to me this morning? | ||
| You put out a substack article. | ||
| The Europeans are crashing out over Greenland. | ||
| I've seen you going back and forth with a few of these Euros on Twitter. | ||
| And look, I love the Europeans. | ||
| You know, I was making the case on the show. | ||
| I was playing Trump's clip where he talked about his heritage and I was sort of laying out why Americans are sort of undeniably linked to Europe. | ||
| Our fates are sort of intertwined in a particular way. | ||
| But can you maybe outline what the rift is right now between the Europeans and Americans? | ||
| Why does it seem so obvious to Trump supporters why we should control Greenland? | ||
| Why does it seem to be not so obvious to even right-wingers in Europe? | ||
| Well, Europeans have decided that this is European clay, that this is territory that will always be a part of Europe, even though Greenland is not a member of the EU. | ||
| It is, or it's not a part of the EU, even though it is controlled by an EU member, but it's not a part of the EU, but it's still subject to, then this is a problem with American projects there and economic projects that it's still subject to some EU regulations, which has been a problem for America. | ||
| But that's another story, is that they have decided that this is territory that they're going to control and that this is their own and they're annexing a part of Europe. | ||
| So they view this as the most valuable thing in Europe right now and that they are rallying to the flag of no America is not for sale. | ||
| Now, maybe in some ways it could be Trump's way of going about it in his typical Trumpian fashion of, you know, posting memes and being, you know, bombast might not be the best way to do that. | ||
| But a lot of European leaders need to realize that this is Trump being Trump. | ||
| And there's a way, and many of them remember him the first term. | ||
| Many of them have known him for years. | ||
| And instead of just going along and saying, this is Trump being Trump, we'll work out a negotiation. | ||
| They have decided to make a lot of empty threats, hysterically shrieking over America, inviting China to do more projects there and trying to provoke us. | ||
| I mean, they did a military exercise last week. | ||
| Obviously, that's going to be seen as a provocation to America. | ||
| They're all like saying that we're going to fight and defend this to the last man if some sorts of people are making these assumptions. | ||
| And even at Davos, what they're doing is they're all trying to insult America. | ||
| They're all going there and saying, oh, we don't need American support for defense funding. | ||
| We can defend Ukraine on our own. | ||
| Then why the hell were you guys flipping out last year when we were trying to make a peace deal? | ||
| If you guys can defend Ukraine on your own, then why are you flipping out at us? | ||
| And they reacted the same way when Trump tried to end the bloodshed in Ukraine. | ||
| When he tried to offer a peace deal, when he tried to do this, all the Europeans flipped out and said, no, no, no, no, we're going to fight. | ||
| We demand you continue to give billions to Ukraine and that this war continues on, even though it's not in our best interest for that to happen. | ||
| And so they aggressively attacked us and insulted us and pretended that they can have their own Europe free of America and free of China, free of Russia. | ||
| And I don't know how else they're going to imagine. | ||
| So they just think that they can do these things and they can scold America and talk down to us like they're the superior power here. | ||
| And Trump is tired of dealing with that because he knows there's a great power imbalance between America and Europe. | ||
| But Europeans still imagine that they're the principal and they're calling disobedient first grader Trump to the office to scold him about proper norms and how to properly guide the world. | ||
| And, you know, even some of the reaction to Greenland, instead of actually being like, oh, we'll try to have a serious negotiation, they smugly like, oh, you're free to invest, free to invest there. | ||
| You know, and this, they just did everything possible to irritate Trump. | ||
| And now we're in the situation that we're at now. | ||
| And so, you know, Europeans in some ways want to have, you know, it's fine if the Europeans want to go, you know, have a greater degree of independence and autonomy from America. | ||
| If they don't want to, you know, that they decide that NATO's not working out for them. | ||
| I think that's perfectly fine. | ||
| But in a lot of ways, this goes along with a ton of delusions about their, you know, the state of geopolitics, their state of relationship with America. | ||
| And they can't help but try to insult us and provoke us at any time. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| I mean, we saw after Venezuela where like they lined up to give denunciations. | ||
| Even the right-wing or supposedly right-wing guys like Farage, you know, for example, were coming out and they're like, they're like, you know, it was impressive or whatever, but he violated international law. | ||
| That's like their only, you know, recourse left to like signal that they have some like standing on the global stage. | ||
| And it's just really frustrating to see. | ||
| And then I think you're the one that pointed it out, pointed it out on Twitter when Trump posted Macron's text message where it's like in public, this guy, again, is giving that like kindergarten level schooling finger wagging, but then he's like totally glazing them privately. | ||
| And it just kind of shows that what's driving a lot of this really is insecurity about their standing on the global stage. | ||
| And then there's this disconnect, like you just touched on, I mean, especially regarding Ukraine, where it's like, on one hand, they'll position themselves as if they're client states of the U.S. and they expect, you know, this umbrella to be provided with zero conditions, zero, you know, strings attached. | ||
| But then on the flip side, when suddenly Trump demands something of Europe, all of a sudden they're like this, you know, we're on equal footing and like they totally, Denmark is completely equipped to defend Greenland from, you know, like other global adversaries. | ||
| It's just, it's just so much, it's almost like kind of schizophrenic. | ||
| And I know this is like a turbo Fox News boomer take. | ||
| It's going to like, I almost roll my own eyes saying it. | ||
| But to a degree, these European leaders do have a degree of TDS. | ||
| It's actually really something to behold. | ||
| So, I mean, is that a fair assessment? | ||
| It's an international virus infecting people, and there's no vaccine for it either. | ||
| We don't even know if we want a vaccine for it. | ||
| We don't know what type of ingredients would be in that. | ||
| But yeah, no, they do have this type of TDS. | ||
| And the funny thing is, if Biden had asked for Greenland, they would have offered him at a discount and they would have done like, oh, yes. | ||
| Or if Obama had, they would have been like, oh, Obama wants Greenland. | ||
| When can we rush into it? | ||
| We'll give it to you for free, Mr. Barack. | ||
| Because, you know, it's all these Europeans. | ||
| You know, they polled them in 2012. | ||
| It's like 90% of the Europeans would have voted for Obama. | ||
| And some of these Europeans who are right-wingers, they always try to imagine that everything bad in Europe is due to America, that America, you know, America must have made a fake poll showing that 90% of them wanted to vote for Barack Obama. | ||
| They actually wanted to vote for, I don't know, the Habsburg, a successor or whatever. | ||
| But, you know, they do this. | ||
| If this had all been Democrats, and you have to even look at how Biden was treating them under his administration, you know, they blow up the Nord Stream pipeline, which, you know, we're now trying to claim was the Ukrainians, but, you know, it's not hard to think that America had some involvement in it. | ||
| And Europeans, when that happened, that's a huge humiliation. | ||
| That is where a lot of their energy supply is supposed to come from. | ||
| And then they're like, all there, like, we think it's Russia. | ||
| It's like, why would Russia blow up their own fast pipeline? | ||
| And they didn't do a damn thing. | ||
| And this is a greater insult to them and a greater violation of their sovereignty than Trump talking about posting a meme about Greenland. | ||
| But here, you know, when Biden, you know, blows up their pipeline, destroys their energy supply, makes a mockery of them, punks them, they, you know, say essentially thank you. | ||
| Well, when Trump posts some meme about Greenland, they act like they're going to go to World War III. | ||
| They can't fight World War III, but they're going to pretend they can. | ||
| And it's just insulting. | ||
| If a Democrat asked for Greenland, they would happily give it over. | ||
| They would give it, they would put a bow on it. | ||
| They would have no, they wouldn't have no opposition towards it. | ||
| And all of them had a much more respectful attitude towards, you know, see now Biden going around who forgets their name, thinking he's talking to Mitterron instead of Macron. | ||
| And then they all like in public, like, he's so smart. | ||
| He's so cogent. | ||
| And then here, you know, they're all insulting Trump in public, making these provocative statements with empty threats. | ||
| And then their text message is like, oh, Mr. Trump, we love you. | ||
| We're doing so many great things together. | ||
| Why can't we work on Greenland? | ||
| And so, but Trump responds to the public comments. | ||
| And if he's seeing them being two-faced, he's not going to be happy with it. | ||
| And so it is an attitude where, you know, the world is changing. | ||
| And Europeans want the world order that they were experiencing in 90s and 2000s, where America provided their defense. | ||
| America treated them as equals. | ||
| I mean, we should treat them well, but we're not equals on the world stage. | ||
| We're providing their defense. | ||
| They're able to maintain their welfare state. | ||
| They don't have really any problems. | ||
| They can scold us about being lay, stupid Americans or whatever. | ||
| But in the day, it works well. | ||
| But now the world's changing because we now have a new rising global hegemon and China emerging. | ||
| Russia is trying to do its hurt, expand its fear. | ||
| And the world is a changing place from how it was following the end of the Cold War. | ||
| And Europeans aren't sure of how to adjust to this. | ||
| And their economies are in a lot worse shape than they were, you know, 20 and 30 years ago. | ||
| They're much more precarious. | ||
| They were now having to be forced to do defense spending. | ||
| And they have got even a far worse problem with immigration and a lot of other internal problems. | ||
| And they're in a precarious state and they don't know how to adjust to it. | ||
| And generally, the majority of Europeans do hate Trump. | ||
| I mean, it is what it is. | ||
| But, you know, for some, some Americans like, this is why we got to get rid of Trump. | ||
| It's like, you know, America first. | ||
| We don't really care about what the world thinks of our world, of our leaders, as long as we like our leaders. | ||
| But, you know, so they don't know really what to do in this situation. | ||
| And so they're kind of lashing out at the way the world's changing and trying to find a way to keep that world that they're secure with to stay there longer. | ||
| It's not really working. | ||
| And they still want to do these smug lectures against America, against Trump, because their population and they themselves hate Trump. | ||
| And if it's a Democrat, they did way more humiliating things and did much more obedient. | ||
| I don't know if obedient is the way term, but they had a much more undignified posture towards America when it's a Democrat enforcing this stuff. | ||
| So I don't, I find that, you know, once it's just Trump in office, they completely change and want to pretend that they're defined and resistant. | ||
| You know, they're members of the resistance towards Trump. | ||
| But even with their threats over at Greenland, you know, they're not going to fight a war over this. | ||
| I mean, we shouldn't invite a war. | ||
| We shouldn't invade. | ||
| I think invading Greenland wouldn't be even very popular in America because America is fine with military action so long as it's not sending boots on the ground or it's a limited operation without any casualties like we saw in Venezuela and elsewhere. | ||
| But if you're sending boots on the ground, if you send like a division of Marines over or whatever, and people are going to be like, why are we invading Greenland? | ||
| We interrupt the Super Bowl broadcast to bring you news about invading Greenland. | ||
| And they're like, is this a comedy movie? | ||
| Like, why are we invading Greenland? | ||
| So it wouldn't be popular here. | ||
| We shouldn't do that. | ||
| But Europeans have to realize this situation. | ||
| And if it's in our national interest to have a greater control over Greenland, which it is, I think it's necessary to negotiate. | ||
| And it's not, you know, this future of Europe does not depend on Greenland. | ||
| And even a lot of Europeans probably weren't even aware it was a part of Europe or part of a European member state until now. | ||
| And then, you know, they've got a lot of other issues to worry about besides Greenland. | ||
| I mean, there's a way we can do about it more diplomatically. | ||
| And Trump in his speech today said we're going to use diplomacy. | ||
| We're not going to use force. | ||
| We're going to work this out. | ||
| And, you know, even with the tariff threats, I think that's a little unnecessary and too coercive at least a bad taste in the mouth. | ||
| But I think Europeans need to come to their senses, realize that they need to make a deal and stop trying to provoke and insult Trump and America. | ||
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| Well, before we get into the other themes, I just want to settle this score real quick because you made the point. | ||
| It was like Vander Leyton, like yesterday, she gave this speech at Davos and she was like, we're cutting a deal with India. | ||
| Like we're turning to these emerging powers. | ||
| We're going to cut a deal with India. | ||
| And of course, that just translates to we're going to flood Europe with Indians. | ||
| Like this is very obvious what's going on here. | ||
| So I just want to settle the score real quick because you have a lot of these, like the point you made where you have these guys on the right in Europe who are like, you know, if we can just get the Yankees, if we get that boot off of our neck, then we're going to like elect all these super base politicians. | ||
| And then you like look around at what their base politicians are up to and you're like, no, that's likely the future. | ||
| I mean, Vox is a train wreck, reform's a train wreck. | ||
| The AFD is probably one of the better right-wing emerging parties. | ||
| And even they have like some weird leadership questions. | ||
| They have like a lesbian running the show. | ||
| So it's like this, this entire idea, this LARP that's existing on the European right where they're like, if the Americans would just get out of our business, we would like, yeah, like you said, like re-elect the Habsburgs. | ||
| It's like, dude, that is just not the reality on the ground. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, I support the right-wing parties. | ||
| I think they're fine, but they're not the ones in power and they're having to struggle with these Eurocrats and they keep electing people of an Anglo-Miracle type. | ||
| I mean, I don't know many people who would claim von der Leyen is based. | ||
| Von der Leyen, I mean, she did come from the center right party, but they've generally, she was even considered to the left a miracle in that party. | ||
| But at the end of the day, these are their leaders. | ||
| They are the ones who they pick. | ||
| And even with the mention of the India deal is that if they totally turn on America and they give us the middle finger, they're going to have to find other backers and they're going to go to the third world. | ||
| They're going to go to the non-Western world for support. | ||
| So they're more inclined to make these deals and to work with these foreign powers because, you know, India, China, and other places, they're emerging forces and they have a lot more sway to over Europe or in these negotiations than would have happened 100 years ago. | ||
| You know, the age of European imperialism is over, right? | ||
| You know, right or long. | ||
| I mean, you could say that I'm not one of those people who's like, this is terrible of European colonialism and the empires are terrible. | ||
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Europe's Illusions About Global Power
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| I'm not one of those people. | ||
| I think there was a lot of great things about them, but they're not coming back. | ||
| And Europe is in a far weaker position. | ||
| And America shielded them from that, you know, vicious reality of the world around them. | ||
| And now, if they go on their own, they're going to be realizing that now India can dictate terms to them. | ||
| Now, even maybe Pakistan could dictate terms. | ||
| And the Gulf states can certainly dictate terms to them. | ||
| And if they make these deals with China and India, they're also going to want to flood the country because in China's negotiations with Trump over the trade deals, you know, they want to insist that Trump will not limit the student, the foreign student visas. | ||
| And China would do the exact same thing. | ||
| If they start to do these partnerships with China and they're like, oh, now we can do immigration restriction. | ||
| No, they're not because China and India, who are they going to make deals with, are going to demand that they accept their people because any deals they do with across the globe, they want to have these deals. | ||
| Now, if they have a close relationship with America, that makes them less reliant on these non-Western countries. | ||
| And they do have the potential. | ||
| If America, you know, if you don't have, you know, Democrats telling them they can't limit immigration or things that we have better American leadership, then they can make themselves a lot stronger. | ||
| But they have to be more realistic with this. | ||
| And a lot of the claims that like everything bad in Europe is zoo to America. | ||
| It's like this idea. | ||
| It's like this third wave feminist idea where women have no agency and anything bad they do, if like they choose to go home with a guy that then they regret, you know, that's, that's not their fault. | ||
| It's like that with Europe. | ||
| But instead, like Europe is blaming another guy, not even the guy they went home with for being responsible for this. | ||
| It's like, why did you make me do this? | ||
| You know, I wouldn't be surprised if some of these guys claim the CIA did the French Revolution and any other thing. | ||
| And, you know, CIA started World War I. | ||
| It didn't exist at the time, but I'm sure that they'll blame it for this. | ||
| Like they have this whole fantasy that all of Europe was in complete peace and harmony. | ||
| There was no one calling into question monarchies or anything that until suddenly, you know, peace-loving Europe in 1945, you know, we're not going to, we're going to ignore the two wars before then, you know, suddenly got taken over by America. | ||
| I mean, you know, there's been, there was issues with American influence over Europe. | ||
| And I think that they, you know, they have grounds to criticize them. | ||
| But then they imagine that they have zero agency and that they have not had a lot of these left-wing trends and ideologies and movements in their own country. | ||
| And that it's all just an America creation. | ||
| And it's easier to just blame some outside party rather than to look into yourself and take responsibility. | ||
| It's the same with these feminists. | ||
| Whenever they do bad actions, they then pretend that they have no agency. | ||
| It's always the men's fault. | ||
| And you now see that a lot among, unfortunately, some Europeans. | ||
| And I think they have to look at their bad leaders and their internal problems rather than imagining that once they kick America out of its military bases, that they're suddenly going to turn back into the Holy Roman Empire or something. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, they're just like, again, they're taking like the Libtard presupposition where, if you see these like TikToks from, like these European Libtards, and though there was one that I commented on the other day on Twitter where she was just like walking down the street and there was like a group of Americans wearing these like tacky berets in Paris and like all the vitriol and all the bandwidth for like xenophobic bandwidth that Europeans have gets expended on like American tourists, like in Paris and Barcelona, and it's like, okay, like I get it. | ||
| It's probably a little annoying, like they are a little kitschy, but it's like, is that really where you're gonna again spend all of your like xenophobic bandwidth is on American tourists like I think you have a little bit bigger fish to fry, and I'm not saying that like our more like our right-wing guys in Europe are doing that, but they apply that to the upper echelon where again, they're like, no, it's to your point like this, this weird idea that the Americans are just simply restraining the European right. | ||
| Um, but I guess that kind of hits at another theme in the Trump speech, which I think should be a breath of fresh air for a lot of again. | ||
| These guys are our friends in Europe that are on the right again. | ||
| They they have sort of sort of the same presuppositions presuppositions that a lot of us in MA have is that look, they want Europe to be strong. | ||
| They want Europe to, you know, again kind of reclaim a lot of that former glory again to be able to throw their weight around the global stage. | ||
| We've already outlined why. | ||
| As it stands right now, it's going to be difficult to see how that sort of manifests. | ||
| But that is what they want, that's what they aspire. | ||
| They want to see again their countries consolidate around a national identity again. | ||
| They want to see an end to mass migration. | ||
| So when Trump comes out and he says, like look, Americans have this link to Europe, there's no question about that, we want to see a strong Europe. | ||
| And then he explicitly says mass migration is what is undercutting Europe's like re-emergence. | ||
| He says like, without that, you've until you mop that situation up, there's no, there is no going back. | ||
| You can't have both. | ||
| And he goes on and he explains in Minnesota he's like, look, Americans aren't you know, we're not exempt from this. | ||
| If anything in many cases is worse in America. | ||
| And then he sort of explicitly points out Somalia, how Somalians have flooded into Minnesota. | ||
| He's like Somalia is not even a real country, which is true, by the way. | ||
| So it's like I think, if you're on the European right and you see that that's the refined Trump speech, that is what, like the the, the group gets together and they say okay well, this isn't an off the comp the cuff Trump remark, this is the consolidated again, aim and goals of the Trump administration. | ||
| I think they should see that and they should see that as a white bill. | ||
| Oh absolutely, I think they should focus on that, even this situation with European nationalists. | ||
| I think they should see this as an opportunity for themselves to exert themselves and to show how they would present stronger leadership than the pathetic leaders of Europe, that they would know how to deal with America and that they would be capable of showing greater resolve than what these European leaders do where they and then we saw this in trade deals uh, trade negotiations Last year, when Trump initiated his tariffs against Europe, they all, you know, thumped their chests and like, dude, this is, we're going to retaliate in kind. | ||
| And then they went in negotiations, realized they were with a weaker party, and had a complete capitulation to America. | ||
| You know, it's, they, you know, they can't, they always want to make these empty threats and do this scolding. | ||
| And I think with this is showing the pathetic leadership of Europe and how they need real right-wing nationalists who understand the real issues of Europe and are able to build a more positive relationship with America, | ||
| that maybe that they are able to exert more independence and force within Europe and build up their defense capabilities and are not, you know, succumbing to all these stupidity around eliminating their nuclear energy or engaged in these idiotic regulations that kill the economies of Europe and they're able to build up a strong independent Europe. | ||
| And now we can treat them more like equals that they demand to be treated and they're more capable of resolving, having this resolve rather than doing this, insult Trump publicly, insult America publicly, and then in private negotiations and in text messages, they bow their heads. | ||
| They're like, we're sorry, Mr. Trump, we love you. | ||
| And then they get out of the meeting and they immediately start trashing Trump. | ||
| I think that this presents them an opportunity. | ||
| It also presents an opportunity to reassess NATO, reassess these other global institutions that maybe aren't in the best interests of Europe, are not in the best interest of America, and then can be properly assessed to be more nationalist and right-wing. | ||
| So I think that it does present an opportunity, and Trump made that clear. | ||
| And the real issue with Europe is not Greenland, it is mass migration. | ||
| And it is rather disappointing to see a lot of normal Europeans. | ||
| I don't think this is the case with European nationalists and right-wingers, but with a lot of Europeans that they're more outraged by Greenland than they are about these migrant rape gangs and all these other terrible things that are visited upon them by mass migration. | ||
| But then they start marching in the streets and turning on America. | ||
| And because Americans are a safe force, a safe target for xenophobia, no one's going to call you a racist for being anti-American. | ||
| You can, in fact, be anti-racist by being anti-American. | ||
| Because look, they elected that bigot, Donald J. Trump. | ||
| So we're now showing we're so superior to them. | ||
| But then, you know, if they see, you know, some Pakistani gang threatening them, they're like, oh, we're going to focus on the evil American tourists instead of these guys running the edge gang. | ||
| So I think that's, I mean, that's not to, I'm not saying that that's the case with all Europeans because Europeans are waking up to this issue. | ||
| And that's why so many of them are turning towards these right-wing parties and nationalist parties. | ||
| And I think there is a growing awareness of the real issues, but then a lot of them get, you know, distracted by Greenland stuff. | ||
| And it leads to the situation we're in right now. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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| And I think that's, that's what these right-wing parties and, I mean, because, you know, I, you know, I'm pretty hard on like specifically like reform UK. | ||
| I just don't think they're sufficiently positioned to, again, like enact what I think is popular policy in England. | ||
| I think they have similar sentiments on immigration that Americans do. | ||
| And they just don't seem well equipped to do that. | ||
| And I think what these parties should learn is they should take a look at what happened in Canada where Polyev, again, postured himself like, you know, the conservative candidate. | ||
| He's going to mop up the mess that, you know, the liberals left, that Trudeau left. | ||
| But he just couldn't resist it, like taking little snips at Trump every once in a while or, again, capitulating on certain things. | ||
| So Trump just said, like, okay, we'll just like, screw you. | ||
| I'm just going to like completely derail your ambitions. | ||
| And I think if you're like a right-wing party in Europe, you need to take a look at that and react accordingly. | ||
| This isn't to say that you need to like glaze them at every turn, but it's just like, again, is applauding, you know, and I'm not saying they all did this, but is like applauding Mark Carney after he gives this speech, basically just attributing every evil in the world to Trump, like a smart idea. | ||
| Because again, I mean, back to her earlier point, Mark Carney, if you like, go look at hot mic moments, he's quite cordial to Trump when the cameras aren't on. | ||
| He's quite friendly to Trump. | ||
| But then on stage, he gives this like riveting speech about how the global order has been completely upended by this madman and this sort of thing. | ||
| And I'm like, I think if you're on the European right, coming out decisively against that kind of rhetoric will actually play well in the long term. | ||
| It guarantees that the Trump administration, when it's time, will play ball with your government. | ||
| He clearly rewards loyalty on the global stage. | ||
| I mean, he's quite friendly with Hungary. | ||
| Although the situation in Hungary is sort of devolving a little bit, but even look at Bukele. | ||
| He's very friendly with Bukele. | ||
| So it's like even Millay and Millay like glazes him a little too much sometimes. | ||
| So it's like, clearly, Trump will reward loyalty on the global stage. | ||
| And if you're a European, that maybe they may instigate a little bit of insecurity saying like, hey, why do we have to suck up to this guy? | ||
| You know, we should be on our own two feet. | ||
| But the situation as it stands is like, look, you are minnows on the global stage if you're just a random country. | ||
| And it is worthwhile to, again, at least, you know, at least look for an alliance, look for a building relationship. | ||
| Because the Trump administration is not one guy. | ||
| It's not just Trump. | ||
| It's not just Stephen Miller. | ||
| It's an entire apparatus. | ||
| There's a lot of people that make up the Trump administration. | ||
| You can build those relationships. | ||
| You can start to build that repertoire early on. | ||
| So then, again, if you are poised to take leadership in your country, then you'll have those existing relationships. | ||
| I just don't, I just, I just don't understand the impulse from Europeans to, again, not steelman Trump when he's saying some of these off-the-cuff comments. | ||
| Like you said at the opening of the show, it's like Trump does behave like Trump. | ||
| He's been around for 10 years now. | ||
| If you don't understand how he operates by now, I don't know what to tell you. | ||
| Yeah, Trump always respects strength. | ||
| I mean, look at his relationship with Xi. | ||
| I mean, Xi, he realizes this guy actually has power and what his words make sense. | ||
| He's not doing this over, you know, anti-I mean, they'll make anti-American statements, but it's, you know, reasonable or I don't want to actually coming from a point of strength. | ||
| They're coming. | ||
| This is a power that they have to respect. | ||
| And the same with Putin, the same with a lot of these other merging powers. | ||
| But when Canada and Europe are engaged in this rhetoric and they go far more insulting, far more provocative towards Trump, it is a, and it's not coming from a position of shame. | ||
| It's coming from a position of weakness. | ||
| It's also coming from a perspective where Trump and America has been providing their defense, has been providing this shield from the rest of the world to where they've been able to have these generous welfare states that they can no longer support, but they still want to keep up. | ||
| Then they pretend that they are on the equal stature of America, and then that pisses off Trump. | ||
| And we're seeing this even with Carney. | ||
| Carney, you know, he made that Trump made a great point that like, you, you know, Canada is a product of us. | ||
| Like you owe us. | ||
| This is, you need to choose your words wisely rather than provoking us. | ||
| And Carney, far more than in the rest of Europe, is trying to provoke us more. | ||
| I mean, he was just in China making these deals, really signaling with his speech, because his speech is like, oh, we're now going to have a new order where the middle powers are working. | ||
| No, what he means is the middle powers are now going to go align themselves with China because they somehow think that China will support liberal democracy more than America will, or whatever they think. | ||
| It's so much nonsense. | ||
| And they think they can do this while being our, you know, to our border. | ||
| And sometimes I wince at, you know, anti-European rhetoric. | ||
| I don't really like it. | ||
| Sometimes, you know, a lot of the neocons made the rhetoric around the Iraq war, and that was very stupid. | ||
| And I generally don't tend to think that. | ||
| I mean, we come from Europe. | ||
| Most of Americans come from Europe. | ||
| So we've always had a special issue. | ||
| So we shouldn't pretend they're like China. | ||
| But when it comes to Canada, no, we shouldn't have. | ||
| I hate this stuff where anyone's talking about like our brother nation of Canada. | ||
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I hate that. | |
| And everyone was making those points like last year, like Trump needs the impeached. | ||
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He made the conservatives lose. | |
| Like they're liptards. | ||
| Like the conservatives suck. | ||
| Like they back all the hate speech laws. | ||
| They're not even good on immigration. | ||
| I mean, Polye only got good on immigration when he realized he lost and because he didn't address that. | ||
| And his immigration stance was not that in the campaign was not that radically different from Carney's. | ||
| And we're supposed to care this guy's anti-Trump, not really good on the issues, loses, and it's Canada. | ||
| We don't give a shit about Canada. | ||
| I'm sorry if I'm not allowed to swear on Rumble. | ||
| But, yeah, actually, but it's for Canada. | ||
| We have to say this. | ||
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It's so true. | |
| You know, really in a way with Carney's actions, he, you know, we might have to consider a Maduro raid on Ottawa with Carney. | ||
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You know, that would not be good, but it'd be really funny. | |
| It would be great. | ||
| Install the Quebecois, like the ruling party. | ||
| You know, that would be the funniest move. | ||
| Like, we would just have to build like a hundred-foot statue of Trump for that happen. | ||
| But not good on the world stage. | ||
| I'm not supporting it, but it would be really funny. | ||
| And this guy just has no idea what it is. | ||
| And he's like inviting China into our backyard just because he doesn't like this dangerous bigot of Trump. | ||
| And he's like, oh, he's so mean. | ||
| He, you know, he's not very nice to immigrants and all this nonsense. | ||
| And then he gives this, he gives his full-on anti-American speech and what Trump watches. | ||
| You know, they need a, they really, Canadians really need to learn their place. | ||
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| I, I, because all Canadian identity is based around not being American. | ||
| Yeah, literally. | ||
| And they like to think that, I mean, there's more of an identity for these European countries, but for Canada, it's just not being American. | ||
| I mean, that's, I mean, they split off because they weren't, they didn't get included in the American Revolution. | ||
| You know, the War of 1812 is an important event because they stopped the evil Americans from conquering them. | ||
| And so it's a big part of their identity to not be American because they, you know, they sound like us, look, I mean, look, have a similar cultural background and everything. | ||
| And what makes them different is not being American. | ||
| You know, it's like an imagine just a giant Vermont. | ||
| I mean, they're still good Canadians. | ||
| We're not insulting all Canadians, not all Canadian attention. | ||
| But, you know, a lot of their leadership and everything. | ||
| And they don't even have like the real right-wing movements that Europe does. | ||
| So literally. | ||
| I do get sick of the Canadian lectures. | ||
| you just go through poly f's twitter and he's just talking about like bread and milk prices it's like dude you just don't get it's literally just like reddit as a country yeah It's like overused now. | ||
| Everyone's calling everything Reddit, but Canada is literally like the Reddit Republic. | ||
| I'm not endorsing the Maduro style raid either. | ||
| I'm just saying like, but like, you know, you can, we'll take a look. | ||
| If it comes across the desk, we'll take a look. | ||
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But Scott, anti-China guy, you know, we might have to do it. | |
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Yeah. | |
| I mean, not an anti-China guy or becomes a full China stooge, but we disavow. | ||
| But thanks for having me on. | ||
| Yeah, dude. | ||
| Don Rodo, what are you going to do? | ||
| So, Scott, I appreciate you, dude. | ||
| We are running out of time here, but where can people find you and where can people grab your new book coming out? | ||
| Yeah, so follow my sub stack, highly-respected.com. | ||
| You can find all my work there. | ||
| Follow me on X at Scott M. Greer, and you can pre-order my book at passage.press. | ||
| That's the URL. | ||
| White Pill, the online writing, the making of Trump's America. | ||
| I love it, dude. | ||
| Well, thank you so much for hopping on. | ||
| I'll catch you next time. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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All right. | |
| Well, that was the great Scott Greer. | ||
| Yeah, dude. | ||
| As soon as I saw the, as soon as I saw these, these Euros mouthing off, I saw Scott instantly going in and just settling scores. | ||
| It was really a beautiful thing. | ||
| So I'm going to send you guys over to another great Devori Darkins. | ||
| We love him. | ||
| You know him. | ||
| You love him. | ||
| You see him after me every day. | ||
| So I'm going to get that raid going for you, fine gentlemen and gentlewomen, ladies, I hear is what they're calling them these days. | ||
| And I'm going to send you boys and gals over there. | ||
| Let me see if I can do it. | ||
| I'm working by myself today. | ||
| No producer. | ||
| We literally can't even fit them in here because we're literally just in a bedroom back, basically. | ||
| It's really something, something a sight to behold. | ||
| So let me get that raid going. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| Raid. | ||
| I think I got it figured out. | ||
| Yes, it's working. | ||
| It's working. | ||
| Oh, we're so back. | ||
| All right, the raid is going. | ||
| Let's do some housekeeping. | ||
| X and Instagram at Realtate Brown. | ||
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| A lot of people are saying that I thought I was following you already. | ||
| I didn't even realize that I wasn't following you. | ||
| So make sure you're following me on Twitter. | ||
| I will, or on X, so I don't want to dead name it. | ||
| And I will give you guys some updates. | ||
| With that, I will see you guys tonight on Timcast IRL at 8 p.m. | ||