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- 1:02Speaker 1: let's let's jump in. I thought today we do kind
- 1:06Speaker 1: of take on a topic, a topic that keeps coming
- 1:10Speaker 1: back and people keep writing to me about and people
- 1:14Speaker 1: keep misrepresenting my views on and and I thought we'd
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- 1:30Speaker 1: cover a lot of it. And of course it's a
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- 1:37Speaker 1: in particular, or about anything else you want to ask.
- 1:40Speaker 1: The super Chat is available to ask about anything. But
- 1:43Speaker 1: it would be good if we kind of add out
- 1:46Speaker 1: all the questions around this issue, all the questions about
- 1:51Speaker 1: specifically Islamic immigration to Europe, what to do in the future,
- 1:58Speaker 1: what to do with the most that are there, how
- 2:03Speaker 1: to approach immigration in the future. Uh yeah, any anything, anything,
- 2:09Speaker 1: any questions you have about these things, ask now or forever,
- 2:16Speaker 1: hold your peace or something like that. As now. It's
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- 2:21Speaker 1: to try to cover it all. I'm open to talk
- 2:24Speaker 1: about other things. I know some of you wanted me
- 2:26Speaker 1: to talk about the Piece deal. There's just nothing new.
- 2:29Speaker 1: They're going to start negotiating tomorrow. I mean, it's all babe.
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- 2:37Speaker 1: there's no question. Hostages are coming home, you know. So
- 2:41Speaker 1: he's he's on the assumption that nothing can go wrong.
- 2:48Speaker 1: I don't know anything that you guys don't know. I
- 2:50Speaker 1: think I will talk about it tomorrow probably and Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
- 2:55Speaker 1: It'll be in the news every day. We'll see how
- 2:58Speaker 1: this evolves and how it develops. Been happy to ask
- 3:01Speaker 1: answer any questions you have in the super chat around
- 3:05Speaker 1: it on once we complete our discussion of of Islam
- 3:14Speaker 1: in Europe. All right, I see Michael's already coming in
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- 3:53Speaker 1: get it off their chest, you know, lecture me tell
- 3:57Speaker 1: me why I'm wrong. It'd be good to air all
- 4:02Speaker 1: these issues out, all right, So let me just say
- 4:06Speaker 1: I you know, first, my proposals around this are not
- 4:12Speaker 1: proposals that have that are what I think will happen.
- 4:18Speaker 1: There are proposals around what I think is politically feasible.
- 4:23Speaker 1: I have no idea what's political feasible, and the political
- 4:27Speaker 1: feasible is pretty lame and pretty limited. And this is
- 4:32Speaker 1: what I would propose if I were running for the
- 4:35Speaker 1: government of the UK or France or Germany. This is
- 4:40Speaker 1: what I think Europe should do. This is what I
- 4:42Speaker 1: think political parties in Europe should propose, should stand by,
- 4:46Speaker 1: should implement, Whether it's doable, whether the citizens would go
- 4:53Speaker 1: for it, I have no idea, But that's true of
- 4:56Speaker 1: any radical proposals. They're always going to be questions about implementations,
- 5:02Speaker 1: about the ability to implement, given the world in which
- 5:04Speaker 1: we live. But you know, this is again what I
- 5:07Speaker 1: think should happen. Why is this even an issue? Right? So,
- 5:10Speaker 1: I'm very poor immigration, as you know, I'm poor immigration
- 5:16Speaker 1: pretty much everywhere. I would love to see a world
- 5:19Speaker 1: in which we have, for the most part, with some
- 5:23Speaker 1: security screenings and some yeah, basically security screenings. I would
- 5:29Speaker 1: like to see a world of open immigration. This is
- 5:35Speaker 1: an issue because there's basically a war going on, a
- 5:44Speaker 1: war that we'll see how things go with his own
- 5:48Speaker 1: ramas and what happens in Iran and what happens in
- 5:52Speaker 1: a few other places. Could be that the war is
- 5:54Speaker 1: going to be winding up winding down in the years
- 5:58Speaker 1: to come. But there is a war going on, and
- 6:00Speaker 1: that war fundamentally is between the West, between those who
- 6:04Speaker 1: old Western values and between Islamism, between the Islamist powers
- 6:10Speaker 1: in the world, you know, motivated primarily or guided primarily
- 6:14Speaker 1: funded primarily by Iran and often by Katah, and in
- 6:20Speaker 1: some of the other Islamic countries in the Middle East.
- 6:25Speaker 1: This war is being fought as we speak, and in
- 6:28Speaker 1: h in Africa, it's a it's a war being fought
- 6:30Speaker 1: in Israel. It's a war being fought all of them,
- 6:34Speaker 1: at least in one way or another. It's a war
- 6:37Speaker 1: that's being fought on and off over the decades, at
- 6:42Speaker 1: least over the last four so decades in Asia, in
- 6:46Speaker 1: India and Pakistan, but also in place like Indonesia and Malaysia,
- 6:52Speaker 1: though it's on a on a Philippines or so on
- 6:54Speaker 1: a on a lower flame over there more recently. It
- 7:00Speaker 1: is a war between those who would impose Sharia law,
- 7:04Speaker 1: would enslave all in the entire world to a Sharia
- 7:10Speaker 1: law based system, to Islamic law. They would impose it
- 7:14Speaker 1: by force, and those who would like to hold on
- 7:19Speaker 1: to the vestiges of Western civilization, the vestiges of enlightenment
- 7:24Speaker 1: that we still have. It is an undeclared war at
- 7:28Speaker 1: least in terms of those who are more aligned with
- 7:31Speaker 1: the West. It is a word that the Muslims, the
- 7:35Speaker 1: Islamists know that they are waging. They know the purpose,
- 7:38Speaker 1: and they know their motivation and their goal, and know
- 7:41Speaker 1: what they want and know exactly what they seek to achieve.
- 7:49Speaker 1: But it is a war which the West has chosen
- 7:53Speaker 1: to ignore, to pretend it doesn't exist. Islam, after all,
- 8:00Speaker 1: George Bush told us, was a religion of peace. Uh.
- 8:05Speaker 1: Islamists so a tiny little minority. They're not you know,
- 8:10Speaker 1: they're not serious. They can't really achieve their goal. They're
- 8:15Speaker 1: not you know, there's not there's no there there, there's
- 8:18Speaker 1: there's nothing to be worried about. Be happy, just just
- 8:23Speaker 1: you don't don't think about it. Don't think about it.
- 8:29Speaker 1: That's the context. The context is that there's all going on.
- 8:33Speaker 1: And within that context there has been a large increase
- 8:41Speaker 1: in Muslims living in Europe. And of course, one of
- 8:45Speaker 1: the big questions how many of those Muslims, of Islamists,
- 8:49Speaker 1: how many of them are committed to this ideology and
- 8:51Speaker 1: and part of the problem is we we don't even know,
- 8:55Speaker 1: We don't really have good stats on that. But it's
- 8:58Speaker 1: important because they are if they are Islamists, they are
- 9:03Speaker 1: agents of the enemy, which we again unknowingly maybe to ourselves,
- 9:09Speaker 1: are at war with. So there is all going on,
- 9:23Speaker 1: and that's one of the many problems that immigration that
- 9:29Speaker 1: is expressed through immigration. It's not the only problem, you know,
- 9:34Speaker 1: the issues of crime and poverty and culture and all
- 9:37Speaker 1: of that, But those I think are minor problems. Those
- 9:40Speaker 1: are not problems that are that difficult to solve, and indeed,
- 9:44Speaker 1: the proposals I have which solve those problems at the
- 9:47Speaker 1: same time. But the only reason this rises to actually
- 9:52Speaker 1: being a substantive issue is that there's a war and
- 10:01Speaker 1: they've taken up aalms, and they have institutions, and they
- 10:07Speaker 1: are organized, and there is if you will, you know,
- 10:11Speaker 1: they're guiding principles and guiding organizations and coordination across different
- 10:19Speaker 1: organizations under the big broad umbrella of the Muslim Brotherhood
- 10:23Speaker 1: or maybe other umbrellas. But it's real. It's real, And
- 10:29Speaker 1: those of you who don't believe it's real, just remember
- 10:32Speaker 1: isis not that long ago. Well, Ice is still alive
- 10:34Speaker 1: and well, both in Iraq and Syria, but also in
- 10:37Speaker 1: Northern Africa. So's a Kaida. They're both very active in Afghanistan,
- 10:43Speaker 1: and the spin offs are active in Pakistan. And Hamas
- 10:49Speaker 1: is no different than ISIS and has no different goals
- 10:52Speaker 1: in ISIS and Rizbala is maybe Shiite instead of Sunni,
- 10:57Speaker 1: but fundamentally shares the same goal and same motivations and
- 11:02Speaker 1: same you know, long term aspirations as ISIS and al
- 11:08Speaker 1: Qaida and all of these. So you know, the issue
- 11:14Speaker 1: here is that all these entities exist. Another thing that's
- 11:20Speaker 1: really really important to note when they are confronted militarily,
- 11:26Speaker 1: because it's all they're defeated easily and quickly. This is
- 11:33Speaker 1: a one which one of the sides, the side of
- 11:35Speaker 1: the Islamists, is very weak. They have no capacity to
- 11:41Speaker 1: build weapons. They can steal them, they can buy them,
- 11:45Speaker 1: but they can't build them. They can't improve them, they
- 11:48Speaker 1: can't innovate. They can terrorize, but not for very long.
- 11:54Speaker 1: Once a Western force, any Western force really is ralled
- 11:58Speaker 1: in the United States, fans any Western force, it takes
- 12:04Speaker 1: the war seriously, it can wipe them out. It can
- 12:08Speaker 1: wipe them out in a matter of days, weeks, months,
- 12:10Speaker 1: But they can be wiped out. Isis was destroyed once
- 12:14Speaker 1: the West became semi serious and actually it was Russia
- 12:19Speaker 1: that took that one pretty seriously. You know, Iran is
- 12:24Speaker 1: maybe a force, but it too is a paper tiger,
- 12:28Speaker 1: as Israel showed in its twelve day war against Iran.
- 12:33Speaker 1: You know, Iran is an insignificant military force, insignificant military power. Again,
- 12:40Speaker 1: there's no there, there, there's nothing if one identifies it.
- 12:46Speaker 1: So the real problem with this war is not the
- 12:51Speaker 1: strength of the enemy. It's the unwillingness of the West
- 12:57Speaker 1: to recognize that it is at war it seriously and
- 13:01Speaker 1: to deal with it. So that is the context. And
- 13:09Speaker 1: in that context they are significant numbers of Islamists in Europe,
- 13:15Speaker 1: some in the United States, really all over the world
- 13:19Speaker 1: who are acting as agents of the enemies of the West,
- 13:24Speaker 1: whether explicitly as part of networks or implicitly as those
- 13:28Speaker 1: who would advocate for sure real law, or those who
- 13:32Speaker 1: on occasion pick up a knife and commit acts of
- 13:37Speaker 1: terror in support of the goal of the enemy without
- 13:43Speaker 1: any coordination, as did you know that the monster who
- 13:48Speaker 1: killed the Jews in the UK a couple of days ago.
- 13:55Speaker 1: So there's a war once I knows it. Now the
- 13:58Speaker 1: site doesn't. The one side is committed, it knows what
- 14:00Speaker 1: its goals. It knows what its long term mission is.
- 14:03Speaker 1: The other side doesn't want to see it. It's buried
- 14:07Speaker 1: its head in the sand. But when it brings its
- 14:09Speaker 1: head out of the sand and it confronts the situation,
- 14:13Speaker 1: victory is easy, simple, quick, not that big of a deal.
- 14:22Speaker 1: So what do you do about the fact that is
- 14:25Speaker 1: now a significant number of Muslims in Europe? Well, my
- 14:31Speaker 1: view is the uh, the only problem with Muslims in
- 14:36Speaker 1: Europe is the extent to which those Muslims affiliated with
- 14:40Speaker 1: associated with supportive of or potentially supportive of the Islamist cause.
- 14:49Speaker 1: To that extent, they are agents of the enemy and
- 14:51Speaker 1: they need to be dealt with. So what should Europe do. Well, first,
- 14:58Speaker 1: your past to recognize that's it. It's a war. It's
- 15:02Speaker 1: a pretty low flame war. It's not one that they
- 15:06Speaker 1: need aircraft carriers for. But they need to recognize that
- 15:10Speaker 1: the war, and indeed Europe is doing the opposite. It
- 15:14Speaker 1: would be great, for example, if European countries, the European
- 15:18Speaker 1: country I was in charge of, in order to deal
- 15:20Speaker 1: with the Islamic problem in Europe, would for example, declare
- 15:25Speaker 1: made a declaration of hostility to Islamism, maybe a declasion
- 15:31Speaker 1: of war, maybe a declasion of some kind of declasion
- 15:33Speaker 1: of hostility, declaring that Islamism is an enemy. It is
- 15:39Speaker 1: hostile to everything Europe stands for and believes in. It
- 15:45Speaker 1: is Islamism, by its very nature, is militant. It is
- 15:50Speaker 1: about using force, it is about violating rights, and it
- 15:54Speaker 1: is about the negation of any kind of separation of
- 15:57Speaker 1: state from religion. And there needs to be an unequivocal,
- 16:03Speaker 1: unequivocal declaration that that is unacceptable, that is evil, and
- 16:07Speaker 1: that is wrong, that is anti the principles on which
- 16:12Speaker 1: Europe stands on, and that this particularly European country is
- 16:22Speaker 1: going to dedicate itself to separating state from religion and
- 16:28Speaker 1: to fighting Islamism, and for all its citizens to recognize
- 16:36Speaker 1: that Islamism Sharia law will never ever ever become the
- 16:42Speaker 1: governing law in a particular country. So first politicians need
- 16:47Speaker 1: to go out there and say, those seeking sharia law
- 16:52Speaker 1: in this country, it's never happening, never going to happen.
- 16:58Speaker 1: And to the extent that you advocate violence to achieve this,
- 17:03Speaker 1: you are the enemy. So that has to be the beginning.
- 17:11Speaker 1: So that's step number one. It then has to declare
- 17:17Speaker 1: that anybody affiliated with this ideology, anybody who takes an
- 17:22Speaker 1: active role in support of establishing Sharia law or active
- 17:29Speaker 1: role in support of a terrorist organization, they will be deported.
- 17:38Speaker 1: There we send out of the country, and if they're
- 17:42Speaker 1: applying to immigrate to the country, they will not be accepted.
- 17:45Speaker 1: That is as part of the background check. Support for
- 17:50Speaker 1: organizations promoting Sharia law, organizations promoting terrorism, and that includes
- 17:57Speaker 1: by the way, Jamas, you're out of here. That is
- 18:05Speaker 1: you know. Of course, this will require a huge mental
- 18:08Speaker 1: shift in Europe because that means that Europe needs to
- 18:11Speaker 1: become the number one ally of Israel and needs to
- 18:15Speaker 1: support Israel's attempt to destroy Islamism in Israel, to destroy
- 18:21Speaker 1: Islamic organizations like Hamas and Islamic Jihad and Risabalah and
- 18:26Speaker 1: Iran and all of that. So active support for sharia,
- 18:41Speaker 1: the establishment of Sharia law, active support of terrorists organizations,
- 18:45Speaker 1: active supports of terrorist organizations in cludey Hmas, any terrorist
- 18:50Speaker 1: organization that is affiliate with the Islamist movement the Islamist
- 18:54Speaker 1: world is reason for deputation and for denial of immigration status.
- 19:03Speaker 1: Now in terms of Islamism to a loge extent, that is,
- 19:09Speaker 1: most of what you need. Now, what do you do
- 19:15Speaker 1: with the fact that Muslims making such a different culture
- 19:20Speaker 1: to Europe and they come and they leach off the
- 19:24Speaker 1: welfare state, and you know, they they have rape gangs
- 19:31Speaker 1: and they treat women horribly, and they get involved in
- 19:34Speaker 1: violent gangs and they do all stuff like that. What
- 19:38Speaker 1: do you do with that? Well, here again it's fairly simple.
- 19:44Speaker 1: You do the opposite of what Labor Party is doing
- 19:46Speaker 1: right now in the UK. First you declare an un compromising,
- 19:55Speaker 1: unbending commitment to the rule of law, and then the
- 20:02Speaker 1: law applies to everybody. You don't get special treatment because
- 20:09Speaker 1: you're a Muslim or you immigrant. Everybody is treated the same.
- 20:15Speaker 1: You rape, you go to jail for a very very
- 20:18Speaker 1: long time. You murder, you go to jail and we
- 20:22Speaker 1: throw away the keys. You participate in any kind of violence,
- 20:27Speaker 1: I think penalties should be increased, particularly in Europe, where
- 20:30Speaker 1: you guys are particularly particularly lenient when it comes to
- 20:38Speaker 1: penalties visa your violent crime. So by by the law,
- 20:47Speaker 1: I mean the biggest problem in Europe has is that
- 20:50Speaker 1: it doesn't it doesn't prosecute immigrants who violate the law.
- 20:56Speaker 1: And what does that do And encourages people to violate
- 20:59Speaker 1: the law. Second, so rule of law. You know you
- 21:09Speaker 1: got rape gangs, then you don't put them in jail. Fava.
- 21:15Speaker 1: They should never see the light of jay. You rape
- 21:17Speaker 1: the little kids, you should never see the light of day.
- 21:22Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter what your colored skin is. It
- 21:25Speaker 1: doesn't matter where you come from, doesn't matter what your
- 21:27Speaker 1: religion is. Second, immigrants should get no welfare, zero zilch.
- 21:43Speaker 1: They should get no welfare. And by the way, if
- 21:48Speaker 1: policemen are not doing their jobs in terms of prosecuting
- 21:52Speaker 1: the rule of law, then the policeman should be fired.
- 21:56Speaker 1: If cities telling their policemen local policemen don abide by
- 22:05Speaker 1: the law, then the city should be taken over by
- 22:09Speaker 1: the national government and the police should be fired and
- 22:14Speaker 1: the city council should be fired. There's a law in
- 22:18Speaker 1: the land. You've got to abide by the law, and
- 22:22Speaker 1: if law enforcement won't do it, then their law enforcement
- 22:25Speaker 1: needs to be replaced. There can be no tolerance and
- 22:30Speaker 1: should be zero tolerance. The police will look the other
- 22:33Speaker 1: way because they're members of the same tribe of their
- 22:37Speaker 1: friends or whatever. And indeed, you know police don't do
- 22:43Speaker 1: their jobs, should be tried for corruption and everything else,
- 22:47Speaker 1: just like you would treat anywhere else. So rule of
- 22:54Speaker 1: law number one second zero welfare. Immigrant should get no welfare.
- 23:06Speaker 1: Now I don't think anybody should get welfare. Welfare should
- 23:09Speaker 1: be zero for everybody, but at the very least immigrant
- 23:13Speaker 1: should get no welfare. There should be no incentive to
- 23:16Speaker 1: come in order to get welfare. So you come to
- 23:21Speaker 1: work or you don't come. You don't get housing, you
- 23:26Speaker 1: don't get put up in hotels, you don't get benefits,
- 23:31Speaker 1: you don't get paid, and not to work. You don't work,
- 23:39Speaker 1: you starve or let local charity take care of you,
- 23:44Speaker 1: or you get kicked out you leave. Generally, the immigration
- 23:49Speaker 1: system should be shifted from an asylum immigration system, which
- 23:53Speaker 1: should be basically zero, to an immigration system that is
- 23:57Speaker 1: built around work. You want to come and work, welcome,
- 24:06Speaker 1: You're not gonna get any welfare, and if you don't
- 24:09Speaker 1: work after a while, you're gonna be asked to leave.
- 24:16Speaker 1: So rule of law no welfare. Immigration based on work.
- 24:21Speaker 1: And when you qualify for citizenship. Citizenship should be tough.
- 24:30Speaker 1: So one you know, it should take a long time
- 24:33Speaker 1: before you qualify for citizenship. I don't know, twenty years
- 24:38Speaker 1: or more. And when you qualify for citizenship, you should
- 24:43Speaker 1: have to pass a pretty rigorous task that shows your
- 24:49Speaker 1: familiarity with the political system. You should be able to
- 24:55Speaker 1: you should have to swear alliance to this political s
- 25:00Speaker 1: system and thus a rejection of the idea of Sharia law.
- 25:09Speaker 1: So citizens, you cannot become a citizen. You cannot start
- 25:12Speaker 1: voting until you are fully committed, until you've been in
- 25:16Speaker 1: the country for a long time, you speak the language fluently,
- 25:21Speaker 1: you understand the political system involved, and this is true
- 25:26Speaker 1: in the United States as well, and you've embraced that
- 25:32Speaker 1: political system, and you've excluded in this case we're talking
- 25:36Speaker 1: about Muslims. You've excluded Sharia law as a possibility to
- 25:41Speaker 1: the extent that you support Youuria law shouldn't become a citizen,
- 25:47Speaker 1: should not be allowed to become a citizen. So these
- 25:54Speaker 1: are the basic requirements. Declare war are still to Islamism,
- 26:03Speaker 1: Read out those of which are rea or terrorism and
- 26:07Speaker 1: throw them out. Don't allow them into the country, make
- 26:12Speaker 1: immigration work based, enforce the rule of law, reject welfare
- 26:18Speaker 1: for immigrants, and make citizenship hard to get and requiring
- 26:25Speaker 1: a real commitment to the political system and really to
- 26:29Speaker 1: the culture of the place. Do that through language, for example,
- 26:33Speaker 1: and work, and I think if you do those things,
- 26:37Speaker 1: Islam is not a problem in Europe. Immigrants will assimilate,
- 26:44Speaker 1: they will secularize, they will move away from whatever culture
- 26:54Speaker 1: and whatever religious threat they might pose to the to Europe,
- 27:02Speaker 1: to the UK, to Frans to whatever it happens to be.
- 27:06Speaker 1: All the problems in Europe today a consequence of the
- 27:09Speaker 1: fact that these principles are not practiced. That there's a
- 27:13Speaker 1: buryed a head in the same mentality with regard to Islamism,
- 27:17Speaker 1: that immigration is based on welfare, on guilt, on asylum,
- 27:22Speaker 1: not on work. Indeed, the places where you have the
- 27:26Speaker 1: worst outcomes for immigrants are those places that he cease
- 27:30Speaker 1: to insist the least about work requirements, and it's just
- 27:37Speaker 1: the least about assimilation. Those places that segregate immigrants and
- 27:47Speaker 1: therefore don't require assimilation are the ones that have the
- 27:50Speaker 1: biggest problems with immigrants. If you assimilate, if you acquire language,
- 28:00Speaker 1: if you acquire work, and you're rigorous in imposing the
- 28:07Speaker 1: rule of law, and you weed out the radicals like
- 28:13Speaker 1: in moms in mosques preaching the takeover of the British
- 28:18Speaker 1: government and the position of Sharia law should have long
- 28:21Speaker 1: been gone from Britain, you know, in moms in mosques
- 28:28Speaker 1: hailing terrorist organizations are Hamas Chris bala isis al Kaida,
- 28:36Speaker 1: or there was the Brotherhood and more generally should be
- 28:39Speaker 1: gone from Europe to the intellectual leadership that makes that
- 28:45Speaker 1: possible should be gone, all right, So that is my solution.
- 28:50Speaker 1: Now to what extent, How big of a problem is this, right,
- 28:54Speaker 1: how big of a problem is this? To what extent
- 29:02Speaker 1: the Muslims in Europe identifies Islamists? How many Muslims are
- 29:07Speaker 1: they in Europe to begin with? So it's really hard
- 29:10Speaker 1: to get kind of statistics about the Islamism thing because
- 29:14Speaker 1: I think partially because Europeans don't want to know. It's
- 29:18Speaker 1: part of the bury their head in the sand. They
- 29:21Speaker 1: don't want to find out, they don't ask the surveys.
- 29:26Speaker 1: But you know, it appears that if you look at
- 29:30Speaker 1: various areas in Europe and different areas are gonna get
- 29:33Speaker 1: us slightly different results. You know, Muslim particularly recent immigrants,
- 29:41Speaker 1: have a very favorable view of sharia law, but very
- 29:44Speaker 1: few of them actually want to impose it on the
- 29:48Speaker 1: country that they're coming into. So you know among For example,
- 30:02Speaker 1: in France, in twenty nineteen, a poll showed that a
- 30:06Speaker 1: significant number forty six percent of farm born Muslims believe
- 30:10Speaker 1: Sharia law should be applied in the country. Now it's
- 30:13Speaker 1: not clear what that means. Does that mean like marriage
- 30:16Speaker 1: law should be applied to Muslims in the country, or
- 30:19Speaker 1: does it mean that it should replace the existing law
- 30:24Speaker 1: of France. But among Muslims born in France the number
- 30:31Speaker 1: is only eighteen percent. Generally, it seems that it's you know,
- 30:37Speaker 1: well under twenty percent of Muslims that actually want to
- 30:43Speaker 1: impose Sharial law beyond their own Muslim community. Let's see,
- 30:51Speaker 1: it's it's probably around you know, two percent of Muslims
- 30:57Speaker 1: in Europe who actually want to replace existing low with Sharia.
- 31:02Speaker 1: So twenty percent would leturial law to be applied to
- 31:04Speaker 1: them in a sense of marriage and civil law like that,
- 31:11Speaker 1: but two percent wanted to apply to the entire country. Okay,
- 31:15Speaker 1: two two percent is a lot of people. If there
- 31:22Speaker 1: are millions of Muslims, two percent could be thousands. And
- 31:26Speaker 1: those are the people who grab knives and attack people.
- 31:29Speaker 1: Those are the people who commit terrorist attacks. Islam is
- 31:32Speaker 1: going to do a lot of damage before it is
- 31:34Speaker 1: completely pacified, because it doesn't take much to do damage. Sadly,
- 31:45Speaker 1: a small minority, a tiny minority, concrete, real havoc. But
- 31:53Speaker 1: part of declaring one's hostility to Islamism and in a sense,
- 31:57Speaker 1: declaring war with it, is beefing security, beefing up monitoring,
- 32:03Speaker 1: beefing up intelligence and stopping them. All right. Uh so,
- 32:13Speaker 1: you know, it's it's really odd to tell. We see
- 32:16Speaker 1: videos all the time with people during these demonstrations going
- 32:20Speaker 1: up to cops and yelling, you know, we want to
- 32:23Speaker 1: post your real law in the UK. We want sharia
- 32:25Speaker 1: law everywhere. Is that one guy? Is that one hundred?
- 32:31Speaker 1: Is it one hundred thousand? Is it a million? Do
- 32:35Speaker 1: we know? It seems like we know very little. Maybe
- 32:41Speaker 1: somebody should do more research and try to figure this out.
- 32:45Speaker 1: It seems like it would be an important data point
- 32:48Speaker 1: to have. Right again, different polls, so different things. Sony
- 32:55Speaker 1: four percent of Muslims in the UK in twenty sixteen
- 32:58Speaker 1: said they supported ISIS. A four percent is a lot
- 33:01Speaker 1: supporting ISIS. That's about as evil as it gets. And
- 33:09Speaker 1: doing something about those four percent. They should be watched, monitored,
- 33:14Speaker 1: and some of them should be deported immediately. So you know,
- 33:23Speaker 1: it's it's going to be important to identify, monitor and
- 33:30Speaker 1: get rid of how big is how big is the
- 33:37Speaker 1: is the Muslim population in Europe. I mean, you'd think
- 33:41Speaker 1: that they're going to be taking over any minute now
- 33:44Speaker 1: by kind of the panic that so many people express.
- 33:49Speaker 1: Let's take a few countries, Fans for example, Fans, I mean,
- 33:57Speaker 1: let's I also have here. Yes, so France has today
- 34:03Speaker 1: between five to six million Muslims. They constitute between eight
- 34:08Speaker 1: to ten percent of the population, eight to ten percent
- 34:14Speaker 1: in some areas. It's much more than that, if you
- 34:17Speaker 1: go to Marseilles, for example, some neighborhoods in Paris. In
- 34:21Speaker 1: some areas you don't see wisdoms anyway, but eight to
- 34:24Speaker 1: ten percent of the total population if immigration continues, let's say,
- 34:32Speaker 1: at medium levels, or even if high immigration. And given
- 34:37Speaker 1: that you know France, the French, they don't have a
- 34:41Speaker 1: place for births, but they have a reasonable level of
- 34:45Speaker 1: having children, not like Italy, where it's completely shrinking that
- 34:58Speaker 1: by twenty fifty, you know, Muslims might be between thirteen
- 35:03Speaker 1: to eighteen percent. Say neither case. Are we talking about
- 35:09Speaker 1: the fact that Muslims are going to be a majority
- 35:15Speaker 1: even by twenty one hundred than not a majority. They're
- 35:18Speaker 1: not close to being a majority. In a place like France,
- 35:23Speaker 1: Germany Muslim population is six point one percent. And you know,
- 35:30Speaker 1: even if you have crazy high migration, like you're in
- 35:33Speaker 1: the mid twenty teens, which is unlikely, it might reach
- 35:37Speaker 1: by twenty fifty, might reach again twenty percent. Twenty percent
- 35:42Speaker 1: ceased to be the highest percentage you could get to
- 35:46Speaker 1: by by twenty fifty if you had really high migration
- 35:53Speaker 1: and you didn't put any of the restrictions that I
- 35:54Speaker 1: talked about in place. Let me see, I know, to
- 35:59Speaker 1: see if the UK, I thought I did Frans the
- 36:06Speaker 1: United Kingdom twenty fifty projection is that if you had
- 36:11Speaker 1: a high immigration migration, no deportation, high migration, you would
- 36:19Speaker 1: get to sixteen point seven percent of the UK population
- 36:22Speaker 1: by twenty one hundred. You maybe get to twenty percent.
- 36:28Speaker 1: Now that's a lot, but it's it's not a majority.
- 36:34Speaker 1: And by then twenty one hundred, that's what sixty something
- 36:38Speaker 1: is seventy seventy seventy five years. How many of those
- 36:47Speaker 1: are regional Muslims, even Muslims, how many of them have
- 36:50Speaker 1: completely assimilated become secular. How much is islami in a
- 36:55Speaker 1: factor And suddenly if you take into account the way
- 37:00Speaker 1: I think about it, that is, you know, the complete
- 37:04Speaker 1: repression of anybody supporting Sharia or the explicit advocacy of
- 37:15Speaker 1: rule of law and oppression of welfare. So immigration rates
- 37:19Speaker 1: would come down. Right. A lot of Muslim immigrants who
- 37:22Speaker 1: come are coming for the paycheck. So if you get
- 37:27Speaker 1: rid of the wef estate, as I said, for immigrants,
- 37:30Speaker 1: if you make citizens re climate really difficult, if you're
- 37:34Speaker 1: a hostile to Islamism, immigration would plummet. Immigration Muslim countries
- 37:44Speaker 1: would come down. Now UK created this mass anyway, because
- 37:51Speaker 1: the UK was doing you know, this is a consequence
- 37:55Speaker 1: of Brexit. If the UK was still part of the EU,
- 37:58Speaker 1: then it would have a lot of immigrants from Ukraine
- 38:03Speaker 1: and would have a lot fewer immigrants right now from
- 38:05Speaker 1: Bangladesh and Pakistan. So yeah, anyway, so yeah, work requirement,
- 38:25Speaker 1: no welfare, apply the rule of law, tough suggestions, requirements
- 38:32Speaker 1: and make it really difficult for anybody to uphold charial
- 38:38Speaker 1: law and to advocate for Islamism. And the problem of
- 38:44Speaker 1: Muslims in Europe is solved, all right. I am open
- 38:54Speaker 1: to questions. Let me, God, my voice is going again,
- 39:02Speaker 1: so we're not gonna go for very long today. Sorry,
- 39:05Speaker 1: but my voice just doesn't exist the last few days.
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- 45:06Speaker 1: All right, let's jump in with uh and Michael another
- 45:10Speaker 1: one hundred dollars question. Michael did this yesterday as well.
- 45:13Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, Thank you, Michael. I really appreciate that.
- 45:17Speaker 1: So Michael asks, what Donald Trump is clearly showing is
- 45:22Speaker 1: that we do not have three functional branches of government.
- 45:26Speaker 1: Were one branch trying to dominate the other two, and
- 45:29Speaker 1: we see Congressional Republicans acting as if they are cabinet
- 45:32Speaker 1: members and Trump administration. Yeah, I mean, I think that's
- 45:35Speaker 1: absolutely right. I think that we have a dysfunctional Congress
- 45:40Speaker 1: and it's been dysfunctional for a while. Trump has suffaced
- 45:45Speaker 1: that in a way that we haven't seen with any
- 45:52Speaker 1: other administration. He's surfaced that because he does whatever the
- 45:56Speaker 1: hell he wants, in Congress will do nothing, nothing to
- 45:59Speaker 1: stand in a way to block him, to counter him,
- 46:02Speaker 1: to you know, and to try to reassert its own
- 46:06Speaker 1: power again. This is a consequence of decades and decades
- 46:12Speaker 1: and decades of dysfunction, of decades of not passing laws,
- 46:16Speaker 1: of decades of basically handing to the executive more and
- 46:20Speaker 1: more and more power and being willing to tolerate that.
- 46:22Speaker 1: And Donald Trump now is the beneficiary of all that,
- 46:25Speaker 1: and the exploiter, the exploiter of all that. And that
- 46:30Speaker 1: is what he is doing, and he is making it
- 46:32Speaker 1: clear that Congress is useless. Now, let us hope, and
- 46:39Speaker 1: a real push needs to be made to reassert congressional power.
- 46:44Speaker 1: It is really, really important that we have a fully
- 46:46Speaker 1: functional government, not just the government of a strong executive
- 46:50Speaker 1: and nothing else. So we need a strong Congress. We
- 46:57Speaker 1: will see the extent to which the Supreme Court, the
- 47:00Speaker 1: Court seemed to be standing up to Trump, or see
- 47:02Speaker 1: if the swim Court is willing to let that stand
- 47:06Speaker 1: and willing to do its constitutional job of checks and balances.
- 47:11Speaker 1: But one thing is unequivocal, and this is what Michael
- 47:14Speaker 1: is pointing out that Congress has defaulted on its responsibilities,
- 47:19Speaker 1: and it's a damn tragedy that they're not taking it
- 47:22Speaker 1: more seriously and that they're not introspecting and thinking about it.
- 47:27Speaker 1: But a rebirth, a re energizing, re energizing Congress should
- 47:34Speaker 1: be a big part of whatever future agenda a decent
- 47:38Speaker 1: political party has in America. Right equal to reality? Off topic,
- 47:46Speaker 1: but I know an atheist who claims the Enlightenment came
- 47:49Speaker 1: from Christianity. Any book recommendation showing it was actually against
- 47:53Speaker 1: religion and a Christianity was irontained enlightenment and not its source.
- 47:59Speaker 1: You are going to have a wait. There will be
- 48:02Speaker 1: a book coming, I don't know when on this particular
- 48:08Speaker 1: topic or authored by Don Watkins and myself, So it's
- 48:16Speaker 1: it's in the works. The talk I gave this summer
- 48:21Speaker 1: at o'conn was in a sense kind of an outline
- 48:24Speaker 1: of the project. Uh. But but there is a there's
- 48:27Speaker 1: a book project in the works around exactly this question.
- 48:32Speaker 1: The you know, if you're willing to do the work,
- 48:36Speaker 1: there are lots of books that show that, but but
- 48:38Speaker 1: you have to do the work yourself. Nobody actually walks
- 48:41Speaker 1: you through it. We will, We'll walk you through it.
- 48:45Speaker 1: We'll walk you through how the Enlightenment is not christian
- 48:48Speaker 1: The Enlightenment is a rejection of Christianity. It's it's lighting up.
- 48:53Speaker 1: It's it's it's enlightening after an era of lack of light.
- 49:01Speaker 1: But it is exactly it's The Enlightenment isn't move away
- 49:05Speaker 1: from religion. It's not a complete rejection of religion. And
- 49:09Speaker 1: that's part of its weakness that it doesn't completely reject religion,
- 49:12Speaker 1: and it doesn't have a complete philosophical alternative to religion.
- 49:17Speaker 1: That is part of its weakness. But it certainly is
- 49:20Speaker 1: a move away from religion. It doesn't come out of Christianity.
- 49:24Speaker 1: It develops in spite of and to spite Christianity. And
- 49:31Speaker 1: to do that you would have to do a lot
- 49:33Speaker 1: of reading around the Enlightenment. You know Jonathan Israel's book
- 49:36Speaker 1: Books in the Enlightenment, the fantastic books that I've talked
- 49:39Speaker 1: about in the past called The Closing of the Western Mind,
- 49:44Speaker 1: which shows how Christianity closed the Western Mind, and then
- 49:47Speaker 1: the reopening of the Western Mind showing what led to
- 49:51Speaker 1: the reopening of the Western mind. But Christianity is the
- 49:56Speaker 1: enemy of reason, the enemy of thought, the enemy of progress.
- 50:01Speaker 1: And you know, and to the extent that Christianity's reasonable,
- 50:06Speaker 1: it's because it has been influenced by the Enlightenment, not
- 50:09Speaker 1: the other way around, Brian. With Trump taking over the military,
- 50:17Speaker 1: are you going to move to Portugal? Will AIRI move
- 50:20Speaker 1: to another country? I'll ask again in a year, Yeah,
- 50:23Speaker 1: ask again any year. The answer now is no. You know,
- 50:26Speaker 1: Trump is not taken over the military. He is according
- 50:30Speaker 1: to American law. He is the commander of a chief,
- 50:32Speaker 1: always has been every president is. Nothing special has happened.
- 50:38Speaker 1: What's happened is the use of the military in the
- 50:40Speaker 1: American streets. We will see how that develops, and how
- 50:45Speaker 1: that develops, and how that evolves, and whether that justifies
- 50:50Speaker 1: running away or not talking a year. But no, I
- 50:54Speaker 1: have no plans to absolutely not bread pants hi on.
- 51:01Speaker 1: I'm curious if you read The Mohammed Code by Howard Bloom.
- 51:05Speaker 1: It's a scathing indicament and condensation or history of Islam,
- 51:09Speaker 1: highlighting the West's evasion. I had to put it down
- 51:13Speaker 1: many times, and maybe it's too angry. I haven't. I haven't,
- 51:18Speaker 1: but I've read a lot of stuff on Islam. I
- 51:21Speaker 1: know exactly the extent to which the West has evaded.
- 51:27Speaker 1: So it wouldn't I'm sure it wouldn't surprise me. I
- 51:31Speaker 1: don't think there's anything particularly new. And again, you know,
- 51:36Speaker 1: to the extent that Islam goes stronger, it's only because
- 51:39Speaker 1: of the west evasion. Islam has nothing to offer the world.
- 51:44Speaker 1: It has nothing to offer its own people. It's weak.
- 51:48Speaker 1: Uh it's it's weak. It's pathetic, it's it's it's it's
- 51:51Speaker 1: it's it's there's nothing there. Uh So, so I would
- 51:57Speaker 1: it's only the sanction of the victim. It's only the
- 52:00Speaker 1: sanction of the West that makes Islam have any any
- 52:05Speaker 1: strength at all, has any bearing on the world. By
- 52:09Speaker 1: the way, my talk from Okon on the West, on
- 52:12Speaker 1: Western civilization in Christianity is available now on my channel
- 52:18Speaker 1: on YouTube and on the I'm an Institute channel, but
- 52:21Speaker 1: it's on my channel, so you can find it right now.
- 52:28Speaker 1: You should go watch it. I think you'll find it.
- 52:30Speaker 1: It's a forty minute talk with a Q and A
- 52:33Speaker 1: I think you'll find it interesting and you should send
- 52:37Speaker 1: your friend. Equal to reality, you should send your friend
- 52:40Speaker 1: to listen to my talk. I lay out the argument
- 52:43Speaker 1: there lyon is it legit to criticize the worn drugs
- 52:49Speaker 1: because there's no defined enemy. Is a warn Islamism similar?
- 52:55Speaker 1: It is different because it's an ideology. Is it like
- 52:59Speaker 1: if not had been a globally sporadic versus concentrated in Germany. Yeah,
- 53:08Speaker 1: that's a good question. I mean, I wouldn't I wouldn't
- 53:12Speaker 1: say that the war is with Islamism. Islamism needs to
- 53:17Speaker 1: be identified as the cause of the enemy, the ideology
- 53:21Speaker 1: of the enemy. But the war needs to be with
- 53:23Speaker 1: specific organizations. That is, the war needs to be with
- 53:26Speaker 1: the Muslim Brotherhood, with Iran, with Ramas, with Balah, and
- 53:32Speaker 1: with all the different spin offs of the Muslim brotherhoods
- 53:36Speaker 1: in Europe and elsewhere. So one of the things that
- 53:41Speaker 1: you need to do. One of the things that you
- 53:44Speaker 1: need to do is once you identify Islamism is the
- 53:50Speaker 1: ideology of the enemy, now you have to make a
- 53:53Speaker 1: list of all the organizations, all the entities, all the
- 53:59Speaker 1: country trees, the constitutomy. But you're right, you can't fight
- 54:06Speaker 1: an ideology. You have to fight a concrete political entity
- 54:12Speaker 1: eon Ramas, Muslim otherhood. But to do that, to be
- 54:18Speaker 1: able to identify which entities you're fighting, you have to
- 54:22Speaker 1: know what the ideology is Liman, thank you for the
- 54:29Speaker 1: question that helped me clarify that for everybody. Andrew feel bad.
- 54:34Speaker 1: Dems and Republicans agree on subsidizing people for healthcare. That
- 54:38Speaker 1: odds of a power for power's sake. It's a crude
- 54:42Speaker 1: political climate. Both sides agree on the fundamentals. You fight
- 54:45Speaker 1: to the death comments. Yeah, no, absolutely. I mean I
- 54:48Speaker 1: haven't commented on the government closure because it's all theater.
- 54:52Speaker 1: It's meaningless, it has no real meaning ideologically or existentially
- 54:58Speaker 1: or economically. It's a power grab each party. It's a
- 55:03Speaker 1: power grap and it's a performance art, right, So each
- 55:06Speaker 1: party is trying to be perceived as tough for its
- 55:09Speaker 1: own voters before their twenty twenty six elections. So Democrats
- 55:14Speaker 1: have to do something because otherwise they seem like they're
- 55:16Speaker 1: caving to Trump on everything. And Trump has to be
- 55:19Speaker 1: perceived as going after the Dems and getting them and
- 55:25Speaker 1: schooling with them. So he's going to use the shut
- 55:27Speaker 1: down to shut off all the favorite programs of the Democrats.
- 55:32Speaker 1: It yeah, it's one hundred percent power. There's no fundamental
- 55:36Speaker 1: difference between the two political parties. You know, maybe they
- 55:41Speaker 1: disagree about transgender and sports. That's one issue I think
- 55:47Speaker 1: they disagree about. But what else do they disagree about?
- 55:50Speaker 1: Not much, right other than that, gay marriage maybe, but
- 55:54Speaker 1: that's about it. It's these a few culture issues, abortion,
- 55:58Speaker 1: a few cultural issues, and everything else they agree on.
- 56:03Speaker 1: They agree on spending our money like there's no tomorrow.
- 56:06Speaker 1: They agree on subsidizing everything. They agree on essentially planning
- 56:11Speaker 1: the economy. They agree on the government should have immense power.
- 56:16Speaker 1: They agree on everything. So if you think, as some
- 56:21Speaker 1: of you think, I think that the most important issue
- 56:25Speaker 1: in the world is transgender in sports, then that makes you,
- 56:30Speaker 1: you know, you hate the fact that sports. Then you
- 56:35Speaker 1: vote for one party and if you have a different
- 56:37Speaker 1: perspective and transgenderism in sports, you have a different I mean,
- 56:41Speaker 1: that's it. No, there's no difference in immigration, not really,
- 56:45Speaker 1: Now would you boil it down? I mean again, immigration
- 56:51Speaker 1: was used more as a club than as a difference. Ideologically,
- 56:57Speaker 1: there's very little ideologic difference between the two parties and
- 57:01Speaker 1: immigration when you boil it down. They don't like immigration.
- 57:09Speaker 1: Now Democrats have become more the party of immigration because
- 57:15Speaker 1: Republicans don't like immigration, so the Democrats are the opposite.
- 57:20Speaker 1: Not because there's any real belief, not because there's any
- 57:25Speaker 1: real belief. Remember that Biden negotiated this immigration deal with Republicans.
- 57:38Speaker 1: There was going to close the border and basically dramatically
- 57:42Speaker 1: limited immigration, and he was fine with it in congression
- 57:47Speaker 1: of Democrats will fine with it and Republicans ultimately wouldn't
- 57:51Speaker 1: pass it because Trump wanted the immigration issue for the campaign.
- 57:57Speaker 1: But there was a lot of agreement around immigration across Yeah.
- 58:04Speaker 1: I mean, they are Democrats on the left who want
- 58:09Speaker 1: the chaos and who want just to bring in whatever,
- 58:11Speaker 1: but they don't dominate the Democratic Party. The people who
- 58:15Speaker 1: dominate the Democratic Party would have cut a deal, but
- 58:19Speaker 1: Trump didn't want a deal. So yeah, maybe there's some
- 58:22Speaker 1: differences on immigration, but they're not big. And whose side
- 58:26Speaker 1: are you on on that one? I'm probably more in
- 58:28Speaker 1: the Democrats side than the Republicans. So yeah, when Bush
- 58:37Speaker 1: tried to pass biparties and immigration reform and it looked
- 58:42Speaker 1: like it was going to pass, Democrats killed it because
- 58:47Speaker 1: the unions slapped them down. Unions anti immigration. So Americans.
- 58:55Speaker 1: The reality is Americans. Americans say in polls they're very
- 58:59Speaker 1: pro immigration, but the activists on both parties, both left
- 59:05Speaker 1: and right, do not want immigrants, the unions don't want immigrants,
- 59:11Speaker 1: and of course Maggot, the mago or the Republican base
- 59:14Speaker 1: doesn't want immigrants. So but the parties are not that different.
- 59:25Speaker 1: Parties are not that different, Jamie. A YouTube video titled
- 59:31Speaker 1: the Death of Economics one to one ft MESI, who
- 59:36Speaker 1: were a guy apparently with an ECON degree, claims were
- 59:39Speaker 1: foolish to believe in supplying demand and that rent weight
- 59:43Speaker 1: controls on bad. Can you review refute it? I'll look
- 59:48Speaker 1: for it. There's really good article. I think it was
- 59:55Speaker 1: in the Law Street Journal by Brian Abracht abr on
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: exactly this. He shows quite the opposite. Supplying demand work
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: beautifully and the laws of supplying demand work amazingly and
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: a great at predicting. And you know, so this is
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: whatever this video is. It's foolish, all right, Michael. Do
- 1:00:24Speaker 1: you think Americans are more prone to initiation of force
- 1:00:27Speaker 1: than Europeans because Americans are saturated with an immaturity and
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: narcissism the Europeans have grown out of. He continues, there's
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: more pressure to appear materially successful as a way to
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: achieve suitour self esteem in the US that doesn't exist
- 1:00:44Speaker 1: in Europe. You know, I don't know. I don't know
- 1:00:49Speaker 1: if that's true. You know, this is a complicated question
- 1:00:55Speaker 1: of what is it about America that makes American you know,
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: more violent society? And look, even with all the terrorist
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: attacks in Europe, America is a more violent society and
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: more likely to die of a violent crime in the
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: United States than you are in Europe. Even though we
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: have a lot less terrorism from Islamists, we have a
- 1:01:20Speaker 1: lot more violent crime. Now what makes that? So? What
- 1:01:27Speaker 1: is it about Asian cultures that makes them so nonviolent?
- 1:01:32Speaker 1: Like Japan and South Korea unbelievably low crime rates and
- 1:01:37Speaker 1: no violence. I mean, that is a complicated question and
- 1:01:44Speaker 1: I don't have an answer to it, but there is
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: something and the sounds contradict you, but there's something about
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: the ambition, the willingness to break social conventions that exist
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: in American society that when filtered through bad values and
- 1:02:15Speaker 1: and and and and and bad choices and and maybe
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: this pseudo self esteem and narcissism that Michael's talking about
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: produced violence. So, uh, you know, the the these other
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: cultures are more uh, I don't know, rules following uh
- 1:02:39Speaker 1: less entrepreneurial less innovative, less ambitious, which makes them less
- 1:02:49Speaker 1: violent maybe, but also makes them less of all the
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: positives that associated with that and most of these positives.
- 1:02:59Speaker 1: And again it's when that ambition gets channeled into bad
- 1:03:08Speaker 1: values in bad directions. Uh, that's you know, when bad
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: things happen on that end. You know, Latin American culture,
- 1:03:23Speaker 1: which is not particularly ambitious, is quite violent. So the
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: countries which have some of the highest violence rates in
- 1:03:30Speaker 1: Latin America and Africa, and it's not linked there to ambition.
- 1:03:38Speaker 1: So you'd have to really think through culture and attitude
- 1:03:44Speaker 1: and and and exactly what's going on and why some
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: cultures are more likely to be violent than others. I
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: don't I don't have I don't have an answer. It's
- 1:03:55Speaker 1: not like, yeah, what's the similar between I don't know,
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: violence and Olsavado and violence and America and violence in
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: Central Congo. I mean, you have to control for so
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: many variables. But I don't know. I do think that
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: the fact that Europeans a little bit more passive, less
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: take initiative, less ambitious has something to do with it.
- 1:04:22Speaker 1: But those all virtues. So why do virtues lead de
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: vice only when they're filtered through something like narcissism or
- 1:04:30Speaker 1: or you know, a desire for pseudo self esteem materialism.
- 1:04:39Speaker 1: I like numbers. How does left Islamist alliance fit within DIM? Well,
- 1:04:45Speaker 1: I mean I think that DIM will teach us that
- 1:04:50Speaker 1: it's not I think, you know, I don't know how
- 1:04:53Speaker 1: it fits. Put it that way. I shouldn't speak for DIM.
- 1:04:57Speaker 1: It's not sustainable alliance. It's not an equilibrium alliance. It's
- 1:05:03Speaker 1: an alliance of convenience that falls apart at the at
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: the at the earliest opportunity. You could see that with
- 1:05:09Speaker 1: the flotilla that that came across the Mediterranean. As soon
- 1:05:13Speaker 1: as some of the Islamists discovered that some of the
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: activists and the flotilla were gay, they wanted to walk away.
- 1:05:21Speaker 1: There was a huge fight between the different elements within
- 1:05:26Speaker 1: within the flotilla. They separated, they disintegrated. So I think
- 1:05:32Speaker 1: the leftist Islamist alliance is unstable. It cannot survive. It's
- 1:05:39Speaker 1: it's a it's an alliance of opportunity, nothing more neo.
- 1:05:47Speaker 1: How can the government find out whose Islamists are not
- 1:05:50Speaker 1: without mass surveillance, Well, you don't need mass aveilance. All
- 1:05:54Speaker 1: you need is to survey those mosques that are teaching
- 1:05:58Speaker 1: Islamist ideology, those preachers that are advocating for Sharia law
- 1:06:05Speaker 1: that is completely legit, and they should be surveyed, and
- 1:06:09Speaker 1: they're being surveyed today. You know, you have already intelligence
- 1:06:16Speaker 1: agents in many of these Muslim communities because you're monitoring
- 1:06:20Speaker 1: them because there's terrorism there. It's not that hard given
- 1:06:25Speaker 1: that to be able to identify you is and isn't
- 1:06:29Speaker 1: affiliated with these groups, So not that hard to do
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: they congregate together, particularly today, Michael, is there a chance
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: that stock crocket boom is not a bubble? AI? Is
- 1:06:43Speaker 1: that revolution? I mean, anything's possible. I just think that
- 1:06:48Speaker 1: what you're seeing right now is probably massive over investment
- 1:06:52Speaker 1: in AI infrastructure. And how that all plays out I
- 1:06:59Speaker 1: don't know exactly, but the valuations right now AI might
- 1:07:04Speaker 1: be a revolution. But how you turn that revolution to money,
- 1:07:07Speaker 1: which is what you would have to do in order
- 1:07:09Speaker 1: to make these valuations make sense. Nobody has that business
- 1:07:13Speaker 1: model yet that I've seen. You know, how can vetting
- 1:07:19Speaker 1: be done in individuals from third world countries if their
- 1:07:22Speaker 1: governments don't have data on their citizens? Oh? I mean,
- 1:07:27Speaker 1: it's not that hard to vet an individual. And if
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: there's no data. You have to make the call about
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: whether you want to give them the benefit of the
- 1:07:39Speaker 1: doubt or not. I don't think it's a big risk
- 1:07:42Speaker 1: and I don't think there's a big issue about who
- 1:07:45Speaker 1: you let in. Once they're in, you can keep surveying,
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: surveilling them and for period. You can give them a
- 1:07:56Speaker 1: period in which they're being surveyed and to see if
- 1:07:59Speaker 1: they're if they're part of any kind of hostile group
- 1:08:04Speaker 1: or it what happens when the majority of police and
- 1:08:12Speaker 1: prosecutors and Muslims. Then you live in a Muslim country.
- 1:08:15Speaker 1: But where are the majority of police when prosecutors Muslim?
- 1:08:20Speaker 1: And if it's a local issue, then fire them if
- 1:08:23Speaker 1: they're not abiding by the law. The central Gumma should
- 1:08:27Speaker 1: have that power. And if it's at the federal level,
- 1:08:30Speaker 1: then it's too later. Ready they're all Muslims already, so
- 1:08:32Speaker 1: you're living in a Muslim country. Move But if you
- 1:08:38Speaker 1: follow the rule of law, and if you've done all
- 1:08:40Speaker 1: these things, then that will never happen. Jacob, how much
- 1:08:48Speaker 1: of this plan can be done as a solo European
- 1:08:51Speaker 1: country versus the EU as a whole? Would you have
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: to leave the EU to employment specifically deportation. No, I mean,
- 1:08:57Speaker 1: look at how much Denmark has done relative, for example,
- 1:09:00Speaker 1: to Sweden. Denmark has done a lot of this, has
- 1:09:05Speaker 1: deported a lot of people that has a very different
- 1:09:09Speaker 1: immigration policies than Sweden does. And indeed, in twenty fifteen
- 1:09:13Speaker 1: when all the Muslims were coming after the Serians Civil War,
- 1:09:17Speaker 1: they didn't come to Denmark. They went right through Denmark
- 1:09:20Speaker 1: to Sweden. Because Denmark was giving no welfare, was giving
- 1:09:25Speaker 1: zero welfare, was not hospitable, Sweden was. They skipped Denmark
- 1:09:33Speaker 1: and went straight to Sweden. Curious if you said this
- 1:09:40Speaker 1: to Harry and he gets and if he gets it,
- 1:09:43Speaker 1: I don't think I said anything here that I think
- 1:09:45Speaker 1: Harry would disagree with. I'd be surprised. Psa Urons Oconn
- 1:09:53Speaker 1: Talk has recently been available on the Aris YouTube channel.
- 1:09:57Speaker 1: It's on my channel forget a Rice channel. Check it
- 1:10:02Speaker 1: out on my channel, Jamie. The video is by the
- 1:10:08Speaker 1: videos by channel called Unlearning Economics and it does takedown
- 1:10:14Speaker 1: videos of Thomas soul Milay speaks unfavorably of Melay speaks unfavorably.
- 1:10:21Speaker 1: Henriy Hazlitt seems like a leftist with a vendetta yeah,
- 1:10:24Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I mean it makes sense, but yeah,
- 1:10:33Speaker 1: it makes sense for a leftist to do that, but
- 1:10:38Speaker 1: I can't imagine that there's any real quality there. All right,
- 1:10:45Speaker 1: thank you guys. I better get off because I am
- 1:10:48Speaker 1: losing my voice. I apologize for this being a short show.
- 1:10:52Speaker 1: Thank you again for all the support. Thanks to all
- 1:10:57Speaker 1: the super chatters in particularly, thank you, thank you, thank you.
- 1:11:01Speaker 1: Really really appreciate it. And I will see you guys
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