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Why The UK's Culture is Dead | Episode 38 · Propaganda

• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to the show.
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for tuning in to another episode of Propaganda with Mick and Jacob.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just the other weekend, we saw another example of what a third worldist immigrant can do to a first world country, how it changes its culture, how it can destroy its culture, and the effects it has.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_01: So we've seen this a million times before.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's nothing new.
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  SPEAKER_01: But over the weekend, a Pakistani boy.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_01: Boy, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: A Pakistani man was seen out in the London countryside just destroying a wall.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_01: So it's about a, you know, elbow, elbow height wall on the London countryside.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this kid is just there like kicking in the wall, knocking the bricks over for no reason.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_01: There's paths on both sides of it.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_01: The guy uh providing the commentary the video said.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there's a what I assume to be a native British man who has a very British accent yelling at the guy, saying, Hey, stop, stop kicking the wall.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not your wall.
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  SPEAKER_01: What are you doing?
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  SPEAKER_01: You know?
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_01: And he's yelling at the kid to stop breaking the wall.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you can see the wall, it just has this like hole in it, and the top is still together.
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  SPEAKER_01: But he's knocking over this wall, what turns out to be a 300-year-old wall placed in the London countryside.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this is who knows?
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  SPEAKER_01: A farmer property, an old town, whatever.
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  SPEAKER_01: 300 years old.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's older than the US is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: And a Pakistani who got here who knows how long ago, 5, 10, 20 years ago, is just out there kicking the wall down.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, he answered.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_01: The British man asks him, Why are you destroying the wall?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not your wall.
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  SPEAKER_01: Stop touching it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: His reason is he needed to cross over.
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  SPEAKER_01: He needed to get to the other side of the wall.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: Oh.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you can't jump the wall, apparently.
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  SPEAKER_01: Can't walk around the wall.
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  SPEAKER_01: So what's the most logical conclusion following that would be just to destroy the wall.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not yours, it doesn't bother you, doesn't matter to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not worth anything to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: So what would be the problem with just, you know, punching the wall over?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, it turns out they think there is no problem.
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  SPEAKER_01: They think that they are allowed to do whatever they want in a foreign country that's not their own, that they didn't build, that they have no ties to, historically or presently.
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  SPEAKER_01: They just got off a boat or a plane.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're here, and they are just as British.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're just as much of a Londoner, whatever you want to call them, as the UK-born thousand-year-old generation that they had before them, you know, people that inhabited that land.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I mean, this is this isn't just in the US, obviously.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a lot of times it's even worse in Europe.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I thought it was interesting.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, this is from the House of Commons Library.
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  SPEAKER_01: A more recent estimate says that as of June of 2023, there were around 11.4 million non-UK born residents of England and Wales.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, including 3.4 million of them that were born in the the EU, European Union, and 8 million who were not born in the European Union.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, what does that mean?
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  SPEAKER_01: Just in England and Wales, there are 11.4 million people that were not born there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Under the Biden administration, we saw what, like 16 million, 15 million, somewhere around there, come across our borders here just in four years.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the UK, there's 11.4 million of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it sounds like a pretty high number.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe maybe not as bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_01: No, they're they're not UK born.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're from somewhere else.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I misheard you.
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  SPEAKER_01: They were born somewhere else, and now there's 11 million of them in Scotland and Wales.
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  SPEAKER_01: So those 11 million people not born in the UK that are living there right now, residents, they are around 19% of the population of England and Wales.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's around 61 million people combined living in England and Wales.
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  SPEAKER_01: And 19%.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're talking 20%, one in five.
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  SPEAKER_01: One in five people in England and Wales are not born there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Does this does this sit right with you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Does this do you not have a problem with this?
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  SPEAKER_01: That 20% of a country they weren't born there.
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  SPEAKER_01: They have no ties there.
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  SPEAKER_01: They don't know what England is, they don't know anything about its culture.
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  SPEAKER_01: They don't know how to act there.
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  SPEAKER_01: A lot of them don't speak the language.
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  SPEAKER_01: They have no respect for, I wouldn't even say the modern religion, because there is no religion left in in England anymore, but they have no respect for the historical religion of Christianity.
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  SPEAKER_01: One in five, essentially.
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  SPEAKER_01: One in five.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, it gets worse.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where was this wall, this 300-year-old wall?
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  SPEAKER_01: It was right outside of London.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: According to the 2021 census, London is a highly diverse majority-minority city where 53% of the residents identify as white.
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  SPEAKER_01: So 53% of people that living in London identify as white.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, interesting.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's because throughout all of human history, England, London was an entirely white country, entirely white city.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're barely just the majority.
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  SPEAKER_01: Correct.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how you erase heritage and culture.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's how that's where that's where culture goes to die is multiculturalism.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm not saying that no place ever can be multicultural or whatever you want to argue, but uh this isn't it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you can see what it does.
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  SPEAKER_01: And unchecked migration, whether legal or illegal, this is what it does.
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  SPEAKER_01: Forty percent of residents in London, 40% of the people that live in London were born outside of the UK.
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  SPEAKER_01: It tells you where they're at, it tells you where they will be.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um I don't know, that's about as depressing as it gets.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_01: You wanna so for anyone that this doesn't bother, let's say, let's say you go to Japan, take a trip to Japan, and one in five people there are not Japanese.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're not born in Asia.
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  SPEAKER_01: They are not from there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Would that feel like Japan to you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Would something feel off?
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  SPEAKER_01: It for sure wouldn't be the same country, would it?
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  SPEAKER_01: There would be a lot of issues with the country, the culture wouldn't be as intact, the level of trust in the society won't be as intact.
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  SPEAKER_01: It wouldn't feel like Japan to you, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: But you go to a white country, you go to England, you go to Europe, you go to the US, that's expected.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the norm.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because we we need to allow multiculturalism.
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  SPEAKER_01: We need to allow everyone else to come here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everyone else is allowed to have their own culture and customs in their borders, in their own policy, in their country, and everything can stay intact, except white countries.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this is like almost without exception that you see white countries being taken over, overran with unchecked migration, primarily illegally, but also a lot of it's legally as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I mean, go to any major city in the US and you'll see it.
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  SPEAKER_01: But if you want to take a trip across the sea, go to England, go to London, go to any city in Europe and check it out for yourself.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not Europe anymore.
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  SPEAKER_01: And pretty soon the US won't be the US anymore.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know why we know that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because a country is not just its borders.
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  SPEAKER_01: The country is not a set of walls and lines and rivers and oceans that form a place.
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  SPEAKER_01: A country is primarily its inhabitants in what they believe, what they stand for, their religion.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're almost there, their religion, maybe.
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  SPEAKER_01: It does, as we can see, if you look around the world throughout all of human history, yeah, the religion of the people, the inhabitants of a land, it does, it really affects how the country is shaped, what the people do, how they enact their laws.
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  SPEAKER_01: It does, it changes it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when you have millions of people, 10, 15, 20 percent of your country being changed for people that are not born there, that will change fundamentally the entirety of the country.
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  SPEAKER_01: For not, oh might be good, might be, I don't know, maybe there's some no, it'll be bad, it'll always be bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't mix cultures and expect one not to die out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something will always get left behind, something will always die out.
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  SPEAKER_00: It won't be as cool or popular, or it just you won't teach it to the next generation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're fine with that.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're fine with white culture, European culture, Christian culture, the US.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're fine with that dying out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I say people groups, I'm not talking skin color.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everyone's gonna take that as skin color.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm talking like culturally, you cannot, you cannot have two cultures reside next door.
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  SPEAKER_00: You just can't.
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  SPEAKER_00: It it there's no such thing as a melting pot that will be successful long term.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's true.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know everyone hates to hear it.
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  SPEAKER_00: They do.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_00: When you have a culture, like Jacob said, a big part of that culture is their religion.
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  SPEAKER_00: It just is name any religion, even if there's an absence of religion, that's still a religion, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: You're following something, you have faith in something, even if it's just science.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a type of religion.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when religion is such a fundamental part of cultures, it's hard to then mix those cultures because the fundamental aspects of those cultures butt heads.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't have a neighborhood full of Jewish people and Muslims.
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  SPEAKER_01: The idea of the melting pot, however recent that was constructed, however illegitimate it's starting, the idea of the melting pot is um ingredient and they come together and they make one thing whole.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was what they said was the dream of the US.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what they promised.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what they said it would be great, be it'd be wonderful.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is what it's about.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, in reality, if you bring large amounts of people from all over the world and they don't assimilate and they don't care to, and they don't want to, and they're not made to, then it's not melting at all.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's adding a bunch of random ingredients that would never go together or mix well into a whatever, a food, an item, a creation that it was never meant to be.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because they said multiculturalism is you're taking the best parts of everyone.
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  SPEAKER_01: You get a you get to experience the good and the best of everything, and you combine them and you get this whole perfect, beautiful picture of what humanity should be.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's like, no, because countries, places, they have their own laws and rules and expectations and religion, like we said.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you want to fundamentally change that, then you go and try to change that.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_01: But don't pretend that you can bring in all these random people from everywhere on the planet Earth and say, yep, America, it's still America.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_01: It's still like this is what it's all about.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like, no, no, America has a set of ideals.
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  SPEAKER_01: America had a founding, a very clear one.
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  SPEAKER_01: And people that don't agree with that, people that don't believe in it, people that don't care to believe in it, they don't belong here, and they're not going to help create this utopian picture of America that we had.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's been studies on this before, but there's also real-world examples.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but studies show the more diverse, they've taken it on the neighborhood level.
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  SPEAKER_01: The more diverse a neighborhood, a community, a town, the more diverse it is, there's lower social trust.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay?
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  SPEAKER_01: And this is not racism.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is not some phobia, okay?
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  SPEAKER_01: This is how humans are.
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  SPEAKER_01: You like to be around people that look and act and talk and are like you.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's simple.
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  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't mean you don't have other friends, it doesn't mean you can't go to other places, it doesn't mean you can't live with them.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: It does that's not what this means at all.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_01: It just means if there's such a crazy high, diverse area, whatever it may be, there will be lower social trust.
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  SPEAKER_01: Especially when no one is conforming or melting to anyone else's culture.
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  SPEAKER_01: They cannot coincide, they can't coexist.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_01: And we're not talking about like Lutherans versus Catholics, okay?
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  SPEAKER_01: We're talking about like atheists, far leftists, Christians, conservatives, Muslims, Jews.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's just religion and ideology, you know?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like they cannot all coexist together.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_01: You see those stupid co-exist stickers on people's face.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was just thinking that where every possible ideology and religion and whatever is on there.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_01: That's not how that works.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: And anyone that's observed the real world, anyone that's been out in the real world knows that's not how it works.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just crazy to assume that you can do all this and import all these people and fundamentally change the shape of your country, the structure of your country, and not expect negative consequences.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: That's not how that works.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's not how it'll ever work.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_01: And it doesn't matter if it's in Asia or Africa or Europe or here.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't change it.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: Sorry to go off on a tangent there.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, and and for everyone to think that we're just I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel like everyone always takes this the wrong way, too.
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  SPEAKER_00: That we're just talking about they will.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will.
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  SPEAKER_00: That we're just talking about the European countries.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like that's a big example right now because of how many people are being flooded into the country.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's an issue here too in the US.
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  SPEAKER_00: But let's take, like, I like you mentioned Japan before.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would not be okay if all of a sudden Japan had open borders and everyone from the UK flooded that country and just lived there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Japan would not be Japan anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, it's not.
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  SPEAKER_00: They wouldn't have their culture, their heritage.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a beautiful culture, but it wouldn't be Japan anymore, would it?
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's a like if we want like everyone's gonna play the race car.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a bunch of white people going to Japan.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would not agree with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would think that's wrong because that's erase that's erasing their culture.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_01: No one would want that either.
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  SPEAKER_01: They want to go to Japan to see the Japanese culture.
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  SPEAKER_01: They would be shocked and abhorred if they went to Japan and there was a bunch of third world immigrants destroying the country, kicking down walls of 700-year-old whatever, imperial era structures.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like well, it's just if you're not most of the time, if you are not raised in that country, you don't have the same reverence for it and its history.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's true with anyone anywhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anywhere.
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  SPEAKER_01: You see this with tourism.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, anywhere you go, they are always wary of the tourists.
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  SPEAKER_01: No country likes tourists.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because they're different and they change things and they a lot of times they ruin things.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: And I like tourism, and a lot of countries rely on it heavily.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_01: But it's universal that when you go to these places, hey, they can I meet like they can immediately identify you.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: They immediately stereotype you, which is funny, and then they know, you know, okay, we gotta be careful with these people.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_01: They might litter, they might leave something out, they might not know this cult, this custom we have here, they might go down the wrong path over here.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_01: We gotta have signs up everywhere, you know.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: Countries are wary of this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Countries used to go to war over stuff like this, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mass amounts of foreign people coming in there, they'd be like, hey, what this can't do this, you know.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: That's why we have borders and walls and designated landmarks and natural boundaries that represent borders and countries.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: And everyone loves to make this argument for Hawaii.
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  SPEAKER_00: They always say tourism's bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: The people come there, they don't they don't respect the the customs, the culture.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: And to a certain extent, I can see where they're coming from.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: Because I agree, tourists can be very rude, right?
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: So you but they only for some reason let that be the one example of that.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_00: It's not true anywhere else, it's not true for London, it's not true for for the US.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: Why, why I guess Hawaii is in the U.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_00: But you know what I mean?
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's not true for the floor.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_01: It's true for Hawaii, but not Florida.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: Right, right.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's not true when Florida gets flooded with illegal immigrants or Texas and things are getting destroyed and our walls are getting knocked down, like in one example.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_00: So you'll sit here in in one breath, argue for Hawaii in that sense, but it's happening other places too.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's a perfect example of what we're talking about.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_00: And flipping it for you too, because people see race for some reason and they can't apply the same logic across the board.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: When you go fishing, they ask that you check your boat for invasive species when you get out of the water, so that the next time you go fishing, you don't put your boat in a different lake and bring invasive species into it.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_01: That's how critical our water wildlife ecosystem is.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: That's how important it is.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: But no, take millions of unchecked third world people and drop them in a random spot in the US, that's totally fine.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: That's not invasive, that's totally normal.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_01: That's not gonna ruin the ecosystem, you know, the the integrity of the society, the place they're going to, right?
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_01: So everyone knows this to be true.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: Everyone can think of an example, tourism, Hawaii, the wildlife fish ecosystem with the invasive species on your boat.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_01: Like, these are all normal things that we can see.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: But some for some reason, third worldists can just go in and fundamentally change what was once a white European Christian country, specifically the US, specifically Australia, specifically most of Europe.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_01: You know, those are just a few examples.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're just supposed to know or agree with or go along with that this is a totally normal thing and nothing will change.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_01: It makes our lives better because we have multi- we have multicultural and diversity.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's great.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_01: And it makes their lives better because they're coming to a new place.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_01: This is just wonderful.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: No, that's not how it works.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_01: Someone, something has to give.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_01: Some people, someone has to change.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_01: And fundamentally, the country, especially one like the US, it will change.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: For the worst, we know this to be true, and we're seeing it.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_01: We're we're getting a little glimpse, we're getting a future, a vision of 10 years down the road in England, in Europe, in the broader UK, you know, we mentioned England and Wales, whatever.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_01: That's what we're gonna be.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_01: Canada.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_01: That's what we'll be.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: Our country clearly isn't perfect either.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_00: We're not saying that.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_00: There's issues.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: There definitely are a lot of issues, and that's been apparent recently with a lot of things coming out about Congress members.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_00: Recently, it was discovered that$18 million of taxpayer money from Congress's slush fund was used to settle workplace misconduct.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_00: So, Congress, they have the slush fund.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: It's a lot of money.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: From, and this is this is drawing from the US Treasury.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: So this is taxpayer money, okay?
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: This is our money.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: And they take this money and they use it to pay settlements when congressional workers file complaints at the workplace.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_00: So this could be, gosh, this could be like discrimination.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: This could be sexual harassment, this could be about pay.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_00: Basically, if someone just files a complaint at their job, then they take our money to settle it and just and just make it go away, you know?
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: And with when you when you settle something, everything becomes private.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: The names of the lawmakers, they're they're kept secret.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's resolved between two parties without involving any judge, jury.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_00: It just kind of goes away.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_00: Nice and pretty.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: So$18 million between the years of 1997 and 2019.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: So that's what?
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: About 1.2 million per year.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_00: That was used to settle these workplace complaints.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's not all sexual harassment.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure a lot of it is.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_01: Definitely it is.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: It could be it could be discrimination, pay, whatever.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but it's irritating because our money shouldn't be used to cover up misconduct and keeping names a secret.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's there's an issue then because it doesn't hold any politicians accountable for their actions.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: And it doesn't work like this anymore, thankfully.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_00: But during the whole Me Too movement in 2018, women are finding their voice to call out their abusers.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if anyone remembers that.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_00: But Congress reformed that system, so now lawmakers have to pay back that settlement money themselves rather than just our tax money covering it forever.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_00: They're supposed to pay it back.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_00: I yeah, I don't know how that holds up, but that's what happened in 2018.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: So, besides that, though, from 1997 to 2019, 18 million dollars was used from that slush fund to pay off all of these settlements.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: That's a staggering amount of money.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: Makes you feel real good just after this tax season.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: And I I think we all know that our tax money isn't going to where they're saying it's going or promising it's going.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, this is no surprise.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, but I don't know.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_00: But hearing it confirmed is still, I don't know.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's not even so much the amount, it's the fact that they can just, whatever.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_01: If they're discriminating against someone or they're select they're sexually harassing someone at work.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_01: And instead of them getting in trouble for it, here's let me just go to the the treasury real quick.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: Let me just go to our slush fund over here and we'll just send you 500 grand right here.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_01: You know, boom, we're good.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_01: All's good, right?
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like, okay, that's not your money.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_01: Like you that was taxed from us, and you're able to use it to pay off work complaints that were caused by it or inflicted by or whatever, made worse by you, a congressman.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: Like, there's no world where that's okay.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: No, it's not.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: And then like I said, there are more guidelines in place.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if those guidelines are being really upheld at all.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_00: But it's it's still for that long$18 million.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: It was shocking.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: There's just been a few, I guess you could say, allegations that are coming to light with Congress members.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Eric Swalwell was.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: One of them and then Tony Gonzalez was another.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: So a few congressmen allegations are coming out.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: And people are just, I don't know, it's just it's a kind of a wake-up, and you're like, okay, what is really going on up there?
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_01: How many of these allegations?
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: Like those are just two.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: And they were pretty bad.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: I I don't even want to know.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: I don't even want to know what else has been covered up between 1997 to 2019.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_00: And currently now here in 2026, I'm sure there's more.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_00: To think that there's not is just it's naive.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_01: And again, that's our taxpayer money.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: What is private?
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: What's maybe a donation?
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_01: What's a buddy lending you a couple hundred grand to pay off, you know, like because they want to be elected with you or for you, you know.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: That's just what's available.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_01: That's just what's being shown to us.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_01: That's just what we know about.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: So I had to share that with you guys.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: I had to talk about it because, geez, yeah, it's very eye-opening.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_00: Again, not a surprise, but still very shocking.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: 18 million for one little thing.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: And again, yeah, that's what we know.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm sure, I'm sure that is just the tip of the iceberg.
• 23:12
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