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Whatever's going on in the world, you can best believe that I'm going to be talking about it.
With that, we're not talking Iran today.
I'm sick and tired of talking about it.
So we're not talking about Iran.
We're talking about the massive, oh my gosh, the groundswell.
You know, the walls might be closing in on Trump.
The end might be, this might be the beginning of the end for Trump.
No Kings protests nationwide, just going rushing through the streets.
The youth of America just brimming over.
And really, it was really a petrifying sight to see as a Chud, as a right-wing, you know, extremist or whatever you want to call me.
It's really a petrifying moment to see the Liptards mobilized, you know, in full strength.
The PMS Waffen was, you know, pouring through the streets like a, it reminded me of Spain, seeing like a bull running through the street and everyone scattering.
That's how I felt.
You know, I felt like I was the innocent Spaniards fleeing and the, you know, the massive No Kings protest groundswell was the bull just storming through as I walked around.
No, actually, what happened is I walked around DC on Saturday in a Trump hat.
Totally, nothing happened to me.
So yeah, No Kings happened.
Again, another installation of the No Kings protests.
The numbers were impressed.
I'll give them that.
They actually had a lot of people show up.
And I'll get to that later.
I'll get to the story later.
Why we shouldn't be in a rush to necessarily downplay the numbers because it's itch.
We'll get to that.
We'll get to that.
Don't worry.
We have another story.
The Democrats, with the Democrats, the strategists have weighed in.
The greatest minds of the Democrat Party have weighed in.
And they are saying that the best chance of winning in 2028 for the Democrats might just be nominating a straight white Christian male.
I wish I was joking around.
This is a piece from Axios that dropped, and it seems credible.
It sounds like they got a lot of sources.
And we've seen some of these sources, so to speak, out in the open saying this.
So we'll get to that.
And then finally, the story everyone's talking about.
Everyone across the Twitter sphere specifically is talking about, oh, it's the Japanese, the Japanese and the Americans.
This might be the most beautiful example, instance of cross-cultural friendmaking I've ever seen in my entire life.
I mean, the relationship has never been stronger between us and the Japanese right now as it will be right now.
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It is the story everyone is talking about.
No Kings protest recap.
More than 8 million turned out across all 50 states organizers say.
This is from Yahoo News.
You know, because the No Kings, the No Kings protesters are mostly the elderly.
Hence the title.
They're not okay.
Mostly the elderly.
So I felt like I needed to turn back the clock a little bit, ratchet back the clock and use Yahoo News.
I mean, Yahoo News.
When's the last time you heard?
It's like an old friend.
It's like an old lover almost.
It's almost like an old lover.
Yahoo News.
All the great memories you used to have with Yahoo.
Whatever happened to Yahoo?
You know, it's been a while.
I mean, these poor bastards that work for him, Jack Brewster.
I don't know.
He sounds, he could be a nice guy, but he's working with Yahoo.
I mean, Jesus.
Anyway, Yahoo News.
We're going to go with Yahoo News.
I don't know.
I just feel like it would be very appropriate, you know, considering we're talking about the elderly.
Bruce Springsteen, that's right.
We're going with the music that's really, you know, really punches to the center of the culture.
What are the youth listening to right now?
What really would indicate that your movement has the finger on the pulse of America?
You got to go for something in vogue, something new, something fresh.
It's Bruce Springsteen, who hasn't been popular in like 50 years.
Bruce Springsteen performed at the flagship Minneapolis rally.
More than 3,300 protests took place across all 50 states.
President Trump has not commented.
Can you blame him?
There's not really much to comment on here.
More than 8 million people turned out at over 3,300 No Kings protests across all 50 states on Saturday, organizers said, calling it the largest.
Oh, my apologies.
The largest single day demonstration in U.S. history.
The first rounds in June and October 2025 drew an estimated 5 million and 7 million, respectively.
That's why I don't think we should be like, you know, some people right now online are like trying to pick apart the numbers.
It's actually kind of more pathetic if we should boost the numbers because it's almost more pathetic if there's more people, like if there really is 8 million people at the protest, that's kind of that's like worse.
That's a worse look for them than if there were like 100,000 because it really shows that with that many people, there's still nothing they can do about Trump.
That's almost kind of more demoralizing.
And also, when you do look at the pictures from the protests, I'll show you some of the pictures here that we're seeing.
Well, I mean, it's just like cringe.
It really just is cringe.
I mean, like.
You know, the ones that aren't elderly are like Reddit users.
That's pretty much the coalition at play here.
We have Reddit users and kind of like SSRI, just she's gone.
She's just gone.
That's kind of the combo for like the under 80 crowd is Reddit, SSRIs primarily.
No children, really not many children at all.
And then the elderly obviously are just going to show up to these things because they got nothing better going on.
The hilarious thing is like you're seeing these videos of the handmaids tale, the handmaids tale.
That's what everyone's talking about, the handmaids tale.
Let me see if I can find one real quick.
I thought I had one in my stack, but it turns out I don't.
You know, if there really were to be this like incel takeover of the government and like government-mandated girlfriends became a thing, which I'm willing to listen.
You know, I'm willing.
I am spoken for, so I don't think I would really be necessarily a beneficiary of this policy, but I'm listening.
That's all I'll say.
These, most of these people, if not all these people at No Kings, would not be in consideration for being turned into, I guess, what they're afraid of becoming like concubines of the state or something.
All of this fear of being like turned into like a concubine of the state stems from the like abortion laws, which is like the funniest thing.
It's like you, you, you, menopause was like 15 years ago for these people, and they're still worried about like abortion laws.
It's the most bizarre thing I've ever seen.
Um, and so we'll read a little more here.
Uh, tens of thousands more marched through Times Square in New York across Memorial Bridge in Washington, D.C.
This is the one I saw.
There was actually like a lot of people there, but they're mostly elderly.
And like, we were walking around, you know, we were walking around like downtown D.C.
We were doing some stuff down there, and um, we look, we see all the people going to the protest, and they are literally.
I'm not even trying to, you know, stir things up for the show, or I'm not even trying to be biased.
Like, I'm not even trying to have confirmation bias play in here.
Legitimately, the majority of people that we saw with signs are some sort of organized, you know, showing some sort of like organization that we are a part of this protest were literally over 55, 60 years old.
It was a very, very, very old thing.
It has a terrible look.
So, this is why I'm like, I wouldn't even bother trying to downplay the numbers because it's a worse look if it's millions of old people.
Millions of people who have zero stake in the country, like the future of the country, they're going to be out in 10 years anyway.
So, why do they care?
That's actually a much better look for conservatives if it's like, hey, the only people that are like actually serious about opposing Trump and like are going out in the streets are the elderly, the people that are going to be gone in 10 years anyway.
So, it's like, who cares what they think?
You know, I mean, like, let's just be honest here.
It's actually not a bad look for us.
In Dallas, clashes erupted between marchers and counter-protesters that included pardon J6 figures.
In Los Angeles, nine people were arrested after demonstrators hurled rocks and bottles at federal officers outside detention centers overnight.
As a Sunday morning, President Trump did not comment on the protests.
The White House dismissed the events Thursday with spokesperson Abigail Jackson calling them a Trump derangement therapy syndrome sessions.
So true.
Seeing the protests, I mean, there is like a good amount of people that, you know, they did in LA have, again, some action.
I would check out Tim's video he did this morning.
He covered a lot of the like the, I guess you would say, conflict, you know, etc.
And there was, there was a bit, but it was in places where it had already been happening.
So it was in Los Angeles, where we've had, you know, skirmishes with the police.
Dallas, same thing.
Dallas, Dallas is always due.
I love Dallas.
It's always due for just some action.
But like New York, New York, D.C., nothing really interesting really went down.
It was just kind of like a bunch of old people walking around.
Not really a surprise.
This is a really interesting clip here.
Take a look at this.
This is from Tim Waltz, the governor of Minnesota, at the Minnesota rally, kind of really just concisely talking about what we're all saying, what we're all, what we all are accusing the Democrat Party of, and they deny it.
Then they just come out and say it a few weeks later.
I mean, look, if we get our way with the deportations, that won't be true.
Even so, this is kind of an admission because, you know, they're talking about the refugees.
We're talking about the refugees, the Somali refugees, et cetera, et cetera.
And the line for the longest time is they're refugees, right?
You know, these aren't even like immigrants, these are refugees.
Their great-grandchildren are gonna be here.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, they came in as refugees.
I thought that meant when the country's stable, they go back all of a sudden.
The Somalia, okay, it's like a little confusing here.
The mixed messaging, you know, we were told these are refugees.
Um, but no, it's as soon as they pop.
This is this is what makes birthright citizenship so ridiculous: refugees can have kids in the United States and they become citizens.
It's the most absurd uh immigration system in the entire world.
No, it's just like literally Tim Waltz just like simping over Somalis.
Again, all of this started because Nick Shirley was walking around and like filming the most egregious cases of fraud you've ever seen in your entire life.
That's how all of this started.
That's why this is why he has to make these grand overtures to Somalis who sit never leaving the side of Somalis.
Yeah, you'll be lucky if they don't eat you, they might eat you before you know all that goes down.
Um, again, just old lady in Statue of Liberty costume getting arrested.
Um, hilarious to be expected.
Um, this is this is really good comments.
We're selling this video of like the cringe warm-up with the Redditors, the Reddit Waffen getting active.
Look at their getting active here.
Bang, bang, bang.
Interesting commentary here from the Euroris Press.
I've never seen this poster before.
This is really interesting commentary.
There is sadly a whole subset of whites that have rendered themselves not just feeble and useless, but in an unholy abomination of cringe, hatred, or hated by nature, and absolutely doomed.
And this is absolutely true.
Where, again, like you see all this data that like white people are the only people that have an out-group preference, while all the other ethnic groups in the United States have an in-group preference.
And sadly, this is what this manifests in: is like not just as in an out-group preference, but they just hate their own in-group so much where they just lower themselves like in every single way.
They just hate, like, they destroy the way they look, they destroy the way they're perceived by their actions by acting as cringe as humanly possible.
They really just go into the subsidy.
Some of this is just Redditors, by and large.
And like, Reddit's very white-coated.
This is a very like white thing.
Um, this is just Redditors, it's just the Reddit waffle.
It's really a tragic thing.
So, I think we need to keep going here.
We're going to keep chugging along just so I can get to the Japanese tweets in time because that's really where the action is.
Uh, this is from Axios.
Some Democrats are quietly debating a fraught question whether the party's best bet for winning back the presidency in 2028 is to nominate a man, perhaps a straight white Christian man.
Former first lady, Michelle Obama, field such talk recently saying the U.S. is quote, not ready for a woman.
Democratic strategists have put it bluntly, with several saying a version of it has to be a white guy.
I think this is probably true.
You saw it in the Texas primary in the Senate primary.
You saw this in action where they're running James Tallarico, who is like a leftist, who is holds, you know, he's Christian, supposedly, but he holds these beliefs that are just completely like you can, you know, you can dismiss them with like a quick cursory reading of the New Testament.
Like, it's really not that difficult.
The guys are just a total bonehead, but you know, he knows what he's doing, he knows what he's doing, he knows how to position himself.
Therefore, the Democrats totally came in, stuck their finger on the scale in the Democrat Senate primary in Texas.
I mean, we saw a few weeks ago where, you know, Tallarica goes on Colbert and they do this whole stage thing to make it look like Trump wanted the interview not there, even though Trump probably couldn't care less.
Um, where they're basically just admitting that Trump would rather see Jasmine Crockett.
So, like, they basically just buried James Tallarico and Colbert in many ways buried Jasmine Crockett's political career.
I mean, she's kind of done.
You know, it's hard to imagine her making a comeback.
She'd probably just go on television if I had to guess.
Jasmine Crockett, obviously, running against James Tallarico for the Texas Senate primary.
And yet, that whole thing was just the Democrats trying to figure out how to say they wanted a straight white Christian guy over a whatever minority of some sort because they wanted to win elections.
They had to figure out how to like couch that in terms that would play with like CNN or MSNBC.
So they were just using terms like, you know, Tolerico might have more experience campaigning.
And, you know, like campaigning in Texas, such a big state.
You know, you need someone that really knows how to campaign.
They were like trying to come up with all these different terms just so they couldn't admit the obvious, which is if you're trying to win the state of Texas, you need to win like, you know, some center, you know, center, even center-right-leaning voters.
Therefore, you can't just scare the crap out of them by bringing out Jasmine Crockett, who talks like a crazy person and has politics that honestly wouldn't be out of place in South Africa.
That's just the reality of the situation.
Axios puts this piece out really fascinating stuff here.
This is the headline.
Some Dems 2028 strategy, a straight white Christian man.
Again, the fear divulged with dismay and group chat at cocktail parties and increasingly in public is that parts of the electorate are too biased to support a woman or other diverse candidates for president.
I'm in that gap.
I don't think I, unless I had no choice and they just trounced the Republicans, rest of the candidates, I wouldn't really want to vote for a woman.
I think I'd rather have a man in charge.
I don't think that's crazy.
And I think a lot of the electorate feels that way.
They won't say that out loud.
I mean, I'm saying it out loud, but a lot of people feel that way.
A lot of men, even like a lot of women feel that way.
I know them personally.
They just will never say that out loud.
They'll just, again, come up with other terms.
I mean, dude, like if you're tall, that gives you an edge and political primaries.
Like, you know, what's like pretty much every president has been like, or, you know, every president in like the last 30, 40 years has been over 5, 10 or something like that.
Like, if you're tall, that does, that plays considerably well.
So being a woman, I mean, these things are real.
Like, people, like, visual cues, et cetera, they need to see a president that feels, you know, like, boom.
And can you imagine Kamala Harris?
Can you imagine Kamala Harris sitting down with Vladimir Putin?
I mean, goodness gracious.
Former first lady Michelle Obama fielded such talk recently saying the U.S. is, quote, not ready for a woman.
Democratic strategists have to put it bluntly, with several saying a version of, quote, it has to be a white guy.
Here's the big picture, according to Axios.
The Democrat Party, they keep saying the Democratic.
It's the Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party takes pride in being a champion of women, people of color, the LGBTQ plus community, and religious minorities.
Electing Barack Obama, the nation's first black president, was the high point for the party's goal of boosting diversity in the executive branch.
But falling short twice to President Trump, both times with women on the ticket, has left some Democrat voters, donors, and strategists deeply pessimistic about what voters will accept now.
Quote, there is a fear, and I don't actually, and I actually don't think that this is just a grass tops fear.
I think you'd hear it from voters too, that a woman has now lost twice.
A National Democratic strategist told Axios.
So not discounting the hundreds of other times men have lost, but is it the right thing to nominate a woman?
Driving the news, most of the conversations have unfolded behind closed doors, but a striking number of Democrats have begun voicing their concerns more openly, exposing a larger debate within the party over electability.
See Michelle Obama.
Jim Clyburn said the former first lady was absolutely correct.
The view, President Biden blames sexism and racism on Harris's loss to Trump, which is hilarious.
It's not the fact that she just sucked.
Even Harris, she's talking about the country.
So it's really tough for the country to vote for a woman, et cetera, et cetera, or just minorities, whatever.
I mean, is it controversial?
You'll have to read this article.
It's really fascinating.
There's a lot going on here.
Is it really like shocking that the country with?
Oh, here, wait, one second.
One second.
Let me, we got to mop something up with a guest.
Boom, boom, boom.
Anyway, is it really shocking that like the people that make up the largest voting block would want to see someone that reflects them?
I mean, is that really that?
This is kind of like Democracy 101.
You want to appeal to the largest group possible because that would be the group that could deliver you a political victory.
Now, the Democrats have obviously stitched together this Rainbow Coalition.
You know, it's everyone that's not a white person.
Our Rainbow Coalition, also known as the Not White Man Coalition.
No, it's just the we don't like white guys coalition.
That's the coalition.
Now that coalition is starting to go, maybe Obama was like a one-time thing.
Maybe we should just get a white man.
Maybe we should go back on the Democrat plantation, the Democrat plantation.
Maybe we should go back onto that.
You know, and maybe we need, you know, Gavin Newsome crack in the web.
That's maybe that's what we need.
That might have been too far.
Anyway, anyway, it's in the right.
That's actually kind of the sad thing is they're actually right.
Is if they run like a normal white Christian male, you know, I'm saying Christian in quote in quotes, like, you know, a James Tallarico, and we nominated someone like we did in Virginia, like what's her name, Winsom Earl Sears, like a Jamaican immigrant woman, the white Democrat trounces her.
I mean, that's just like the real, it's just the reality because the Democrats have a locked-in voter base.
Their voter base is already done.
It's not going to move.
That coalition is not going anywhere.
Republicans can pick off like 5 or 10% at a time, but winning over 5% more with white people will deliver you a political victory versus winning 5% more of black people doesn't do anything.
It doesn't move the needle at all.
Especially because the majority of black people live in states that are already voting red anyway.
So why even bother appealing?
Like the majority of black people live in South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi.
You don't need to appeal to that voter base.
You have those states locked down.
And then the rest of them live in major cities like New York City, Chicago, Oakland.
You're not winning California, Illinois, or New York.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are like, we only need to win like 3% of the white vote over.
And we could literally flip Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, you know, you name it, even North Carolina.
Like these states all come into play if you just win like 3% to 4% of the white vote away from the Republicans.
So it's actually kind of crazy that Democrat strategists are saying something that is more like that is true and that the Republicans can't seem to figure out.
Unbelievable.
Before we get into the interview, I do need to couch this.
This is really some hilarious stuff.
So there's just a lot of tweets going on.
Something happened.
I don't know what happened, but something, Twitter tweaked their algorithm.
And we're getting some really great tweets from the Japanese.
It's automatically translating and we're getting some keynote, quite frankly.
Here's a dog playing with water.
God, please just let the algorithm stay this way.
It's so true.
There's just this really beautiful thing happening.
This is translated from Japanese.
I've got a question that I'd like to ask the American barbecue bros.
Suppose I get invited to a barbecue.
At that time, if I bring soy sauce, masabi, plus Japanese rice and a rice cooker and start cooking up a pot of plain white rice for the top of my gift, would that leave a bad impression?
The thing is, Japanese meals are actually built around what you eat with a base of rice.
And like all these Americans start weighing in.
They start giving them advice.
It's a really beautiful thing.
We're just seeing this trans-Pacific partnership come to life.
And it's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
And we're seeing this cross-cultural dialogue.
Look, this Japanese poster says, great grandpa, are you watching?
In your generation, everyone hated Americans, but now I'm having a fun chat with one about meat.
You saw them talking about barbecue.
Hello, everyone in Japan.
This is the Americans now sending messages to the Japanese.
This is a typical American breakfast, and this is true.
This is absolutely true for the Japanese viewers.
Dear American bros, I love everything but America.
V8 American cars are the best.
My dad, who passed away last year at 54 from cancer, was a guy who loved America too.
I got the same American-style tattoo on my right arm as him.
I live in Kyoto with its narrow roads and small plots of land.
I want to come play in America again someday.
Come visit Kyoto too.
We should like make it as easy as possible for the Japanese people to visit the United States.
We should like, if any, we should ban all tourists from India, ban them all from China, and then put a tariff on India and China that will go into a fund that will fund air travel for the Japanese to come and visit the United States.
And they can do like a buddy program.
Because look, this is just a beautiful, really beautiful thing.
I am just absolutely loving this.
Gem after gem.
This guy said, this Japanese poster said he put pop rocks in yogurt and then it turned into noisy yogurt, which is gross.
Yeah, that is gross.
It's so true.
I would have never saw that if the Japanese didn't get access to our Twitter.
This Japanese poster is weighed in on immigration.
He says, Muslim go home, pig, Muslim go home, pig, Muslim go home, pig, Muslim go home, pig, Muslims go home, pig.
It's like really interesting some of the things they're saying.
In America, using water to clean.
This is all translated from Japanese, by the way.
This is all originally in Japanese.
Look, I'll show you.
See?
Can you read that?
I can't.
Boom.
Twitter.
Thank you.
We love Twitter.
X. Using water to cleanly wipe the poop off your butt is illegal.
You must absolutely use your hands.
That's because it's considered an act that goes against the traditional concept of masculinity, known as no homo, to eliminate any hint of homoness.
I personally don't quite get the logic behind it myself, but I've decided to trust in their quote wisdom of civilization.
This is absolutely true.
This poster said, yes, this is true.
This is a Patriot fact chat, verifiably true.
A few more posts here.
Seeing Japanese girls tweeting about cherry blossoms is so much better than getting force-fed Pakistani men trying to maximize their payout by posting about Massey Epstein in Israel.
So true.
Thank you much, very much, Japanese poster lady.
Reverse gem translator posting.
So this says translate to Japanese in Japanese, and we're seeing that.
It's a beautiful thing.
And Japan, look, they're giving commentary on black Americans.
Very interesting.
Thank you, Japan.
And then finally, we'll read this from Oron and then we'll grab them.
The recent flood of appreciation for the Japanese and Americans for each other's culture highlights the importance of real diversity by maintaining and protecting distinct cultures.
Americans want the Japanese to exist in 100 years.
Not an island with the geographical boundaries and name of Japan, but full of Indians, Palestinians, and Somalians.
The Japanese feel the same way about America.
We want our grandchildren to be able to visit and appreciate the cultures that we see them now, but that requires our dedication to maintaining the character of our homelands.
An island named Japan that is full of Haitians would not be Japan.
It would be Haiti with some cherry blossoms.
Diversity is the enemy of this effort, not some great strength.
It's absolutely the case.
So we're going to grab the great Oran McIntyre.
We're going to see what he has to say about this and so much more.
This is the topic that is dominating everyone's Twitter feeds right now.
It is this beautiful, the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
This is what it was actually supposed to look like.
saw your tweet i thought it was the perfect kind of this is what everyone's feeling on both in japan and america is that we had a little more in common than we thought we did We both want to protect our homelands.
We both want Japan to remain Japanese.
So when we visit, it feels like Japan.
And likewise, you're seeing this outpouring of love from the Japanese about Americans.
And they're saying stuff along the lines of, hey, we would like if America remained American.
We want to have barbecues and we want to see your cowboy hats and your skyscrapers and everything.
Can you maybe weigh in on what your feed has looked like?
Because my feed has been all Twitter posts ranging from deep anthropological breakdowns of different Western nations from the Japanese.
And then one guy poured pop rocks into yogurt and then his yogurt started making a nasty sizzling noise.
And that was really interesting as well.
But I'm wondering what your feed's looking like right now.
It really has been a glorious timeline cleanse on Twitter.
We have for so long been subjected to like this horrific third world infestation into our Twitter experience, just the worst slot point posts from the most despicable people in the saddest countries in the world trying to sow division, trying to sow ugliness into the American experience.
And then all of a sudden we receive just this deluge of intelligent, kind, cultured people who appreciate what we're doing over here.
And it was almost a shock to feel that back into the system again.
You know, a lot of Americans are, of course, familiar that we have like this whole Japanese appreciation culture in the United States, people who like karate and Asian food and anime and all these things.
But they didn't know that the Japanese have a very similar type of culture appreciating America.
You know, they practice six shooters, you know, six shooting competitions for old Westerns.
They reenact bluegrass bands and all these things.
They enjoy monster truck shows and the idea of these giant barbecues that America is doing.
And it just felt good for Americans to look at someone who appreciates their culture.
You know, we've had all this debate over what is an American?
What is an American?
Well, guess what?
The Japanese know exactly what is American and they are celebrating it.
And it gave us the ability to celebrate our own culture and appreciate our own culture.
And I think that was a beautiful moment for everybody.
I mean, well, there was that old tweet where I think it was following the assassination attempt on Trump and there was like an anime rendition of what happened.
And it was like, you know, it was epic.
I'm not even really like an anime fan, but I was like, well, if it's all like this, maybe I need to tune in.
And someone, you know, added the commentary a few people did where they were like, look, be the American that the Japanese think Americans are.
And that's like a really salient point because we're seeing on their feed the depictions of what they think America is like.
And I almost kind of, I almost kind of don't want them to visit right now.
Like just we need a little bit longer so then that can be true because I'm afraid they'll get like completely demoralized.
You know, there's this thing called Paris syndrome where Japanese tourists visit the city of Paris and they're expecting it to be like the movies, you know, this romantic, you know, lovey-dovey place and there's, you know, flower petals floating through the air and, you know, it's this beautiful, there's this French music playing in the background.
And then they go and they just get harassed by like Senegalese migrants and they have this, like they fall into this emotional despair.
This isn't just getting like let down.
That's why they call it Paris syndrome because these Japanese tourists are literally getting their heart broken like someone died.
And I'm just really afraid of these Japanese men coming to America and expecting the V8 only to find that Ford and Dodge are like eliminating the V8s from their platforms entirely.
I actually, I know people who have gone to Europe recently, have gone to places like Paris and they've canceled their vacation.
They've come back early because it's so depressing.
It's so transformed.
It just fell short of everything that they understood.
But that really is what this whole experience highlights, right?
What we're recognizing, what the Japanese and Americans are mirroring, you know, we hear all the time, oh, Americans are xenophobic.
They're small-minded.
They don't like other cultures.
No, it's very clear we love other cultures.
We appreciate other cultures as long as they're good cultures.
We have this weird thing where we like high trust, well-developed, interesting, responsible cultures.
And then we don't like the ones where they like poop in the streets and leave trash everywhere.
And it's this weird thing that we have going on.
But it also highlights how important it is to protect these cultures.
Look, Japan is famous for having been rather insular compared to other nations when it comes to immigration to the point where they've received outside pressure telling them they have to import people because of their low birth rates or otherwise their society will collapse.
But they've continued more or less with a few caveats to stick to their understanding of keeping Japan Japanese, despite all the other epithets that get thrown at them for doing so.
And we recognize how important that is because the only reason Japanese culture is worth visiting, worth understanding, worth appreciating, is that it's full of Japanese people.
Japan would not be Japan if it was a bunch of Haitians or Somalians or Palestinians on the island of Japan.
That would be a different nation.
It would be a different culture.
Yeah, technically it would be inside the geography, but it'd be radically different.
And likewise, the Japanese recognize what real Americans are.
They see us, they know us, they know our culture, and they celebrate us.
And they also want to see our culture exist.
Not because we need to completely adopt each other's cultures.
We're not going to move the population of Japan into the United States or vice versa, but because that actual difference, that actual, God bless it, diversity of cultures is beautiful when it's real, when it's organic, when it's maintained.
And that's what I think we're recognizing in this moment.
And I guess because it's like couched in terms that we're usually used to hearing when it's being weaponized against us, but there actually is something rather beautiful about like a global mosaic, right?
Like you look at a map and you're like looking at a country and you're like, I know what the people in that country are like.
And they have this certain culture.
It's the global, you know, the, you know, mixing everyone until they're a shade of beige.
I think like Joel Berry said that or something about America.
And I'm like, that's actually what they want to see on the global scale.
They want to see the entire world kind of just merge together until this, I guess, consumerist culture broadly, you know, this kind of with like a hint of American flavor, this just consumer culture where every downtown is just an H ⁇ M and a McDonald's and whatnot.
And now you're seeing some of these countries pop up and they're saying like, no, actually, I want my country to remain, you know, homogenously of my oak.
And what's so funny to your point, like the Japanese correctly recognize, you know, what like the core American population looks like and what that resembles.
When in America, even on the right, because we're afraid of stepping on toes, we kind of like make these, you know, broad distinctions and they're like, I don't know, it's kind of a conversation.
You know, there's different, you know, flavors and stages where people kind of melt it in.
And then you look at it like a Japanese video game and the American character is like, I'm Johnny Smithson.
And I, you know, like a blonde flat top and like it's like we, I think we all, he looks like a NASCAR driver.
I'm like, that's kind of, you know, that's kind of what actually is.
You know, just ask the Japanese and that'll help us sort of, you know, we can define our immigration policy around that.
But that's what's so beautiful.
And it's kind of interesting that this is happening on X simultaneously while you're seeing a lot of these governments having more and more conversations about, you know, limiting X, because we saw an MP in Britain literally take the mask off and he said, X is allowing people who are opponents of mass migration to increase their platform.
Therefore, we need to regulate it.
Like he literally said that verbatim in front of a camera.
And so we're kind of seeing the juxtaposition of like, oh, we're actually getting exposed to other cultures who maybe we wouldn't typically interact with because of the language barrier.
And they're on the same page.
If not, they're actually, I would say the Japanese are even probably more locked in on this on this specific issue than Westerners are.
And we're not crazy.
We're not crazy.
I think that's like the beautiful thing in all of this, because yeah, to your point where we led up the show, you know, the posts that we are used to seeing from the world is from the global south and it's just like harping on and on and on about the same topic, watering down the discourse more and more, where the Japanese are just, it's just gem after gem after gem.
And it's just a beautiful thing.
And it's such a breath of fresh air.
That's kind of the two thing: breath of fresh air, but we're also not crazy.
And I think that's why we're seeing a rebellion against this idea of mass immigration pretty much everywhere in the West where it has been implemented.
That's why you have to have people in the UK or Germany start talking about banning free speech, banning social media platforms, banning right-wing parties, because what the people really want is to maintain the character of the place they live.
And as in so many other cases, they're fine having people visit.
They're even fine often having a select number of people come and join in small numbers the country that they love.
But in general, they want to maintain the demographics, the religion, the tradition, and the understandings that built these cultures.
They understand that this is not some random universal thing that gets stapled on to everybody.
And I wrote about this in my book, The Total State, that the mass managerial regime wants to erode these cultural differences.
This is not some kind of weird thing that we just all started to do.
We weren't just seized by wokeness, though this is part of the woke ideology.
Ultimately, if you want to have these global supranational structures that govern the human population, you have to get rid of the differences between nations because there are things that Japanese people won't do that Indians will do.
And there are things that Americans won't do that people from Venezuela will do.
They are different cultures with very different understandings of the world.
And if you try to form everyone into this one mass managerial government, the only way to do that is get rid of those cultural differences.
But we recognize these things as not weaknesses, but strengths because we are nationalists.
We can recognize the beauty of a place like Japan.
We can understand the wonder that the United Kingdom has brought to so many of the Anglo-spheric nations in the world.
And we can want those things preserved because they are beautiful and they were built by the people who lived there before, not new people who come in and just declare themselves or get some piece of paper and suddenly they're a paperwork, you know, a British person or a paperwork Japanese person.
That doesn't exist for the Japanese and it shouldn't exist for the UK or America either.
We are distinct peoples and we should have the cultural confidence that Japanese people have in us.
They recognize the beauty of our culture just as we recognize the beauty of their culture.
And we should both be confident enough to love each other's cultures and respect our own enough to protect them.
Well, it's so interesting too with Japan where they didn't even, they, I mean, it's kind of now it's tapered off a bit with their new government, but they weren't even experiencing migration at any level approximating something like they've experienced in the UK or here or Canada.
And they immediately elected a right-wing government.
And I remembered like seeing a few Indian, the only time I would ever see any like non-Japanese people in public that were not obviously tourists were working at like convenience stores and they would be working into cashier.
And I'm not going to lie, is that America is kind of nice because they usually speak English.
So it actually kind of like worked out for me.
And then in my head, I was like, that's a terrible thing is that if this person working the counter is of more utility to a tourist from a different hemisphere than it is for the locals, then that's a completely broken immigration system.
And like I said, there was maybe out of, I've seen the numbers, like only a couple dozen thousand, you know, like 30, 40,000 migrants had arrived in like the last few years.
And that was enough for the Japanese to go, nope, nope, shut this down.
Bad idea, bad, nope, go home.
Because they have problems there.
The main source of their migration for like working factories and stuff was from Brazil, but it was from the Japanese diaspora in Brazil who moved there 200 years ago.
And even bringing those Japanese, ethnically Japanese people back to Japan, they were having problems integrating those people.
So what made you thought it was going to be possible to integrate someone from somewhere as far away as culturally as possible, like India?
Well, that insight into the convenience store worker and how that was easier for you, I think that's really critical because the fact that that person who's foreign to that nation makes you feel more welcome is itself a kind of bolstering of this idea of this homogenous global managerial understanding, right?
You don't understand Japanese culture because it's so distinct and so different, but you can recognize a globalized Indian speaking the global language of commerce.
Now, the good thing is because you're a nationalist, you recognize that your ease is not the key factor here, that his presence in that nation destroys the ethnic homogeny that creates the beautiful culture you are appreciating.
And it's actually, if you wanted to stay there, if you wanted to become someone who's actually part of that, you would need to climb the mountain of being able to interact with people who had a fundamentally different view of the world, different language, different understanding.
And you would have to appreciate that.
That's what real assimilation looks like, the desire not to just be around and collect a paycheck and be the most economically useful widget, but to get in there and really understand.
And the fact that you recognize that moment, I think is so important.
I mean, would anybody seriously contend that like, you know, Jared Taylor, for those in the audience, like Jared Taylor, you know, you may be familiar with him.
He's like, you know, an American political figure, for lack of a better word.
Born and raised in Japan.
Like he's literally speaks fluent Japanese.
It might even have been his first language.
I'm not entirely sure, but I've seen him on like Japanese television and he speaks literally.
All the people, the commenters are from Japan.
They're like, wow, he sounds like, you know, like a native Japanese speaker.
But no one would look at him and say, that's a Japanese person.
They'd look at him and say, that's clearly an American person.
And when he moved to the United States, I don't know what age, he's probably like a teenager.
He just integrated right away to American society.
Not a problem.
Because it's like when cultures are that strong, when cultures have that much cohesion to them, it's kind of impenetrable for countries that they would probably not mind, like American, like clearly they like Americans.
And it was even impossible for someone born and raised in that society to truly feel like they were of that society.
In addition to that, I remember I watched a video, maybe I'll tweet it out or something, of a guy who was like a missionary kid.
He was like a third generation born in Japan to parents that were from Britain or grandparents from Britain.
And he had a British accent.
He was obviously like an Anglican, you know, like his, even though his gestures were a little bit more Japanese, by and large, he said, when I go to England, I just feel more comfortable there.
He's like, it's not as familiar, but it's more comfortable.
That's just, it just makes sense.
And I'm like, because a lot of cultural elements, and this is where, you know, people kind of get in trouble a little bit.
A lot of cultural elements didn't just come out of like thin air, right?
They just like occur to people, hey, we should, you know, bow instead of say hi or something like that or, you know, shake hands.
Like a lot of these do come from some of the impulses that these people have.
And so again, like the Japanese are the way they are because they're Japanese, not because of an invisible culture, like a cultural fog that once you step in, you just like slowly pick up a lot of these different gestures and ways of thinking and ways of sort of connecting ideas.
It's just intrinsic to the Japanese people.
Likewise for that English man or for Jared Taylor, they have thousands of years of like genetic memory of like England, that sort of.
That's why they kind of behave a little more like someone from England would.
I mean, it's not, it's not really that controversial of an idea when you say it out loud, but people like repel when they hear this idea.
Well, because we've been told that there has to be this global melting pot, that everyone has to be able to move into any country they want, at any time they want, for any reason they want, and immediately be welcomed in as if they were a citizen that is just as equal as anyone else who has ever been there.
But that's just not how the world works.
And by the way, that's okay.
It's all right to recognize that.
You don't have to be ashamed to recognize that.
If you were standing in a room with a bunch of northern Europeans, there would be one distance at which you would stand next to that person to have a conversation.
And that would be the correct distance.
If you stood in a room full of North Africans, there would be a very different conception of personal space at which you would need to stand to have that conversation.
And by the way, they're not wrong either.
But if you put those two groups together in a room, they're not naturally going to know how to interact.
They might even offend each other.
Again, there's nothing wrong with recognizing these realities.
It doesn't mean one of these people is good, one of these people is bad, that these people have to be hated or excluded in some way, but it is recognizing that there is something innate about peoples and the way that they live their lives.
And that is what our principles and our traditions and our ways of life come from.
They emanate from that cultural substrate, that way of being that we understand as peoples.
Again, we can still have beautiful relationships with people of other nations as we're seeing with Japan.
We can appreciate those people.
We can love those people.
But we can also recognize that our nations are best when they are majority populated by people who share the understanding of at which space you should have a conversation.
I mean, and when, and when there's not the tension of like the government is imposing this and or this, like the, the, the, the outcome of my civilization depends on how much we can get along, like there is in the West, where when you're interacting, like, you know, for with your example, like someone from Algeria, and in the back of your head, you're thinking like this person was brought here like against the will of everyone in the country.
There's kind of that tension.
So when kind of the conversation breaks down, there's frustration and aggravation.
And you see people all the time just crash out on both ends just because it's like neither of us should be interacting right now.
You shouldn't be here.
Again, I would love to visit you in Algiers.
That'd be a great thing.
It'd be a lot of fun.
There's some stuff I want to see there.
I like Camus as much as the next guy, but you shouldn't be here right now.
That tension like ruins the whole interaction.
Where when I was in Japan and I would interact with the Japanese locals and I would like screw up the bow or like, you know, I would like, you know, not correctly hand something to them.
It was like this funny moment.
We both laughed and thought it was very funny and they would kind of like show me how to do it.
They would speak in Google Translate and like tell me how to do it.
And it was this beautiful thing because there was no tension.
Like I was there to appreciate them.
And likewise, when they come to America, like we would have a lot of fun as well.
It's like a beautiful thing.
And I'm like, this is, when I went there, I was like, this is how it should be.
There shouldn't be this like tension or frustration.
It should be like funny.
It should be this curiosity because in their head, they know I'm going back in a week.
And it was funny.
I went to the F1 race in Japan.
Just one more story.
And I sat next to this guy from New Zealand who was on a student exchange.
So he was there for a year studying.
And he was like, every time the Japanese, they would ask me, do you like being here?
Like, are you enjoying your time?
He'd be like, yeah, yeah.
And he's like, and then he said, every single time they'd say, well, when you go back, make sure you tell everyone that like, you know, we're these really nice and kind people.
So none of them were speaking with like the, you know, the couching of like, you should, oh, you should, you should come stay.
Like they're all like, well, I'm glad, you know, you enjoyed your time.
When you go back, like it's a completely different vibe over there.
But without that tension, again, of like mass migration, it makes these really enjoyable experiences and quite a lot of fun, at least for someone like me.
Well, one of the reasons you get to have that interaction is that they have maintained a distinct culture, right?
So there are things that you know as an American expectations that you need to meet.
I need to understand the bow.
I need to know how to introduce myself.
I know how to have proper etiquette at dinner.
And I recognize these as substantially different from my own culture.
And I want to honor them by learning this.
And that allows you to have this positive interaction because they see you as someone who wants to understand their culture, who wants to understand how to be kind in that position.
And that makes them more amenable to you.
You're not walking in and saying, hey, where's my welfare?
And why am I not in college?
And why don't I get a business loan?
You're walking in and saying, how can I learn for this brief time while I'm in your country to honor the customs that you have built?
And this is one of the terrible things about the attacks on American culture.
The fact that we have tried to make American culture somehow lower class or something to be ashamed of.
Because then when foreigners come here, there is nothing for them to adapt to.
If you watch most of the Japanese aping of American culture, most of their honoring American culture, you'll notice that it is distinctly southern.
It's a lot of bluegrass.
It's a lot of barbecue.
It's a lot of Texas hats and old West gun showdowns.
And the reason is that's the only part of American culture that hasn't been deconstructed entirely.
The South is the only place that still has certain understandings of the way you greet someone and the way you walk into a room and the way that you address people.
And if you don't conform to it, you will be looked down upon.
That's not a bad sign.
That's a good sign.
And that's a reason that Japanese pick up on those aspects and they're not like trying to ape what is happening in Massachusetts right now because it's an actual distinct culture that's still somewhat intact.
And that's the case across the West, certainly across the Anglosphere.
I mean, again, what is our internet?
When you think about an Australian, what do you think of?
Do you think of someone like running a coffee shop in Melbourne?
No, you think of like Steve Irwin and like the Outback and Crocodile Dundee.
And you think about all these like, you know, you know, these rural kind of Australian identities.
They're in one of the most urbanized countries on planet Earth.
There's barely anybody that actually lives like that in Australia.
No disrespect, most Australians would agree, but that's what you think of because it's the only part of Australia that feels distinct.
If I went to Melbourne or Sydney, it would feel like New York or Los Angeles, maybe a little like whiter, but like it would feel like that.
Maybe not anymore.
Same thing with Canada.
When you think about Canada, you think about a guy in a flannel, like a lumberjack, you know, and he's like, you know, like hanging out with moose.
Or you think about the mounties or something like that.
You don't think about someone in Toronto or you don't think about what the lifestyle in Vancouver is like because that's the only part of Canada that is like identifiably Canadian.
That's not part of the global slop culture.
So it's like a thing all across the West, really.
I mean, Europe's slightly different, but even it's more so becoming that way.
I mean, Germany, you know, you think about like, you know, the Bavarians for the most part, when you think about Germany, you don't think about like Berlin, really.
I mean, maybe if you're in a certain subculture, you would, but I don't, it's just interesting to be like, this is, this is the way like it is across, certainly across the Anglosphere.
Like there's, there's no British culture in London.
Everyone knows this at this point if you've been there more than once.
But who is looking to gather people together and forge Britain back into a distinct nation, a distinct people, put a lit on immigration?
Rupert Lowe.
Rupert Lowe.
And what's his vision?
Like, what does he put forward?
The Urbanite, the Bank of London, the city of London?
No, he puts forward himself as a farmer, a rural British farmer, because that's what invokes the idea of a distinctly British identity at this point.
Now, this is not to say that cities can't be distinctly of their nation, but we have worked so hard in this globalized culture to make urban areas hollowed out and homogenous and really just these in-between zones that have no real cultural output that increasingly you have to get to the hinterlands of all countries just to recognize them as something different.
So it would be great if we get back to a point where cities are distinctly ethnic, distinctly the people that are involved there and have those identities and those people groups are kind of showing their traditions through the cities as well.
But right now, if you want to escape kind of the global slop culture, as you put it, then really the only way to do that is to get outside of the major cities.
And that's why so many of these representations of authentic culture basically all happen outside.
If you go to Paris, you're not getting French people.
If you go to London, you're not getting the British.
If you go to New York, sadly, increasingly, you're not getting Americans.
I mean, this is why I say like with Donald Trump specifically, put us out of the politics.
If you just want a snapshot of like what American cities used to be like when they were American, Donald Trump is like kind of a fossil of that because he's from Queens, right?
He's from like an outer borough.
His neighborhood, Jamaica States, if it's not majority foreign born, I'd be surprised because like I used to live right near there.
I went to university in the area.
And again, it's mostly like Russians, to be fair.
It's not like the third world entirely, but it's like Russians.
It's just not American.
New York City, like the majority of Queens is foreign-born.
You know, across New York City, it's increasingly like less and less American, less and less English speaking.
I mean, hello, Zorhan Mamdani.
So Trump in many ways is like a snapshot, a fossil from what an American would look like that came from a city.
So if Queens was full of people like Donald Trump, maybe not like with his, you know, like success and stature, but people that were culturally similar to him, then yeah, we probably could build an American identity around New York City.
And we used to have that for the record.
I mean, Teddy Roosevelt, like by and large, kind of identified himself in a lot of ways as kind of like, you know, kind of this New Yorker that was kind of, you know, conscious of the rest of the country.
That's gone.
And we can't.
I mean, I would like to see that.
I would say I would like to see sort of a broad American culture that's defined by its cities and its relationship.
It's just not going to happen.
There's no cities left that we can even do that with.
And, you know, like to your point, same thing with the UK and increasingly so Australia, certainly Canada.
I, of course, have my show, The Orin McIntyre show, on Blaze TV, and you can find it on YouTube and Rumble and on all the podcasts as well.
But when it comes to Florida barbecue, sadly, we have a slightly less developed barbecue culture than the rest of the South.
We don't have our own distinct style that you might get in Texas or Georgia or Alabama or the Carolinas.
We do have Gator, however.
And if you have not ever seen a Gator captured, it's very entertaining.
You have to first get some very scarce tags, some hunting tags, but you also need a device called a bang stick, which is basically like a bullet on the end of a stick, and you spear the gator with the bullet.
And that's how you actually get a Gator in Florida.
My buddy got caught too this year.
So we had some fine deep-fried gator bites this year is a good delicacy of the Florida people, to be sure.