1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: Michael, why is this story being drug through all of 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: the conservative channels? Why isn't the White House talking about 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: this more? I mean, newscom would have zero champs of 4 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: being elected for much less being a candidate if this 5 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 1: got drugged through all the media. 6 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 2: Its editorial omission. And remember yesterday's conversation about how this 7 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:34,239 Speaker 2: cabal works. You don't how we distribute talking points, how 8 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:38,159 Speaker 2: Democrats have a complete ecosystem for doing it. Part of 9 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:42,239 Speaker 2: that ecosystem is what gets reported and not gets reported. 10 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 2: But so that's why you don't see anything other than 11 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 2: a quick blurb from twenty twenty on NBC News. Still 12 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 2: upon the website, you can still find it. We scept that, 13 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 2: Michael says, go here dot com, but there's no follow up. 14 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 2: Somebody you know puts puts the report out because it's 15 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,680 Speaker 2: kind of hard to ignore the auditor's report. And then 16 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 2: nobody else picks it up, and so it just you know, 17 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:15,479 Speaker 2: so that NBC they c ya leave c ya. 18 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 3: So that's all we need to do. 19 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,120 Speaker 2: And why to your second point, which I think is 20 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:28,840 Speaker 2: the more important point, why don't conservatives, libertarians, why why 21 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 2: why why why don't Republicans they're tell me what Republicans 22 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 2: are doing in Congress right now? 23 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 3: What are they doing? I know that today. 24 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 2: I think the Jack Smith special Prosecutor, I think he's 25 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 2: appearing before you the House of the Senate Judiciary Committee. 26 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 2: I don't know whether it's open or behind closed doors. 27 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 2: My guess is behind closed doors. So yeah, they're doing that. 28 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 2: But you you can't do more than one thing at 29 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 2: a time. I mean, the whether it's the House or 30 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 2: the Senate Judiciary Committee. It's not like all four hundred 31 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 2: and thirty five members of the House or one hundred 32 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 2: members of the Senate. So you got you still some 33 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 2: people around it. You can do other things. This is 34 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 2: why I hate them. I truly despise them because and 35 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:17,839 Speaker 2: I think I don't want to spend too much time 36 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 2: here because I want to get to my next story. 37 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 2: But the reason I get so irate about this, whether 38 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:27,799 Speaker 2: it's you or it's you, it doesn't make a difference 39 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 2: to me any of you. I know that people in 40 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 2: this audience and friends of mine, and there are people 41 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 2: that I don't know who work their tails off to 42 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 2: do things the right way. They pay their taxes, they 43 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 2: take care of their families. They may work at a job, 44 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 2: they don't like, but they can't find anything else, so 45 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 2: they tough it out and they do it, and they 46 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 2: do a good job. It's not like they just slough 47 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 2: off and then they pay their tax bill. Oh most 48 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:06,359 Speaker 2: of them don't pay a tax bill because they think 49 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:10,640 Speaker 2: it's somehow a savings account. So they they get a 50 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 2: refund and they're happy about it. They've given the government 51 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 2: their money they could have used by grocery. They've given 52 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 2: the government a free loan for a while. Drives me crazy. 53 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 2: Need to do better planning than that. And on top 54 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 2: of that, they pay an effective income tax rate that 55 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 2: if that were cut in half, or if we were 56 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 2: able to eliminate you know, we didn't always have an 57 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 2: income tax. You realize that, right, So rather than taxing 58 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 2: our labor, if you want to tax my consumption, that's fine, 59 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 2: do it because that leads me in control. If you 60 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 2: tax my consumption, I get to decide how much I consume. 61 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 2: But when you tax my labor, I don't have any 62 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 2: choice because who determines how much labor I put into 63 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 2: working for iHeartMedia. iHeartMedia contract with iHeart Media. And then 64 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 2: the government swoops in and says, ah, you're gonna pay 65 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 2: him X. Well, we're gonna take a certain portion of X. 66 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 2: I have no choice in the matter, and I can 67 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 2: I can beg plead and borrow, steal, do whatever I 68 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:19,719 Speaker 2: want to with iHeart and say, why don't you won't 69 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 2: you let me form a trust and let me put 70 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 2: you know, pay pay the trust or pay you know, 71 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 2: a c corp or what another? Because I'm an individual, 72 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 2: they're not. They're not gonna They're not gonna do that. 73 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 2: They're gonna pay the individual. So those people get their 74 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 2: money taken away from them and then it gets wasted. 75 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 2: And maybe it's a personality flaw, but it makes me 76 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:52,160 Speaker 2: angry on their behalf. And it makes me really angry 77 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,799 Speaker 2: when I see the coalition that I'm a part of, 78 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 2: the so called Republican Party not doing a damn thing about. 79 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 3: It just drives me nuts. Oh, they just break time. 80 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 2: When I get back, I'm want to talk about the 81 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 2: word democracy, because I want to define the word democracy 82 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 2: before I get into the story. 83 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 4: Fun fact, Representative Eric Swallow, who's running for California governor, 84 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 4: has missed miss floor votes of any active member of 85 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 4: the House. He's even missed more floor votes than an 86 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 4: Arizona Rep. Who died in March. Who in the hades 87 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 4: would vote for this slime bag? 88 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 2: Well, I would just suggest, Alexa, that you take a 89 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:44,479 Speaker 2: h go on to the you know, House dot gov 90 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 2: or Senate dot gov website and. 91 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 3: Just peruse through the. 92 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:53,359 Speaker 2: Current membership and then ask yourself that question because you 93 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 2: won't like the answer. Crazy people, stupid people. I'm going 94 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 2: to use the word democral, but I want to define 95 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 2: it because democracy encompasses a broader meaning beyond pure direct democracy, because, 96 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:18,359 Speaker 2: as Aristotle and Plato criticized, pure democracy is prone to 97 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 2: mob rule. It's unrestrained majority decisions that lead to anarchy. 98 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 2: Pure direct democracy is essentially you and I voting on 99 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 2: every single law and. 100 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 3: Policy, as as done in ancient Athens, and. 101 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 2: That fosters factionalism and demagogery and tyranny of the majority, 102 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:45,920 Speaker 2: where passions are easily overriding minority rights or even reason. 103 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 2: James Madison talked about that in Federalist Number ten, warning 104 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 2: that small scale direct systems like pure democracy or direct 105 00:06:55,560 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 2: democracy amplify factions that invade other people's rights. So I 106 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 2: want to think in terms of representative democracy or liberal democracy, 107 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 2: and liberal in the true sense of the word, not 108 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 2: the current political iteration of it. Modern representative democracy is 109 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 2: where citizens elect their officials to deliberate and legislate that 110 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 2: filters the mob of impulses through deliberation. Our constitution uses 111 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 2: things like separation of powers, federalism, and of course the 112 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 2: electoral college to prevent majority overreach, and liberal democracy in 113 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 2: addition to representative democracy, because they're really where a combination 114 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 2: of both adds the rule of law, individual rights, judicial checks, 115 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 2: all of which is designed to protect minorities from majority whims. 116 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 2: You know, Toupeville is I just kind of reminded me 117 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 2: as I was thinking about this. Topeville praised our moras 118 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 2: and our institutions from mitigating all those risks that I 119 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 2: just described, distinguishing stable republics from chaotic direct rule. So 120 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 2: when I use the word democracy in this segment, I'm 121 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 2: talking about representative liberal democracy. But I don't want to, 122 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 2: you know, I want to try to be a little 123 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 2: more concise in my conversation, and the reason for that 124 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 2: is that democracy. The reason that democracy has thrived in 125 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 2: Western civilization and in societies that have adopted Western norms 126 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 2: is not because democratic institutions alone make democracy work. It's 127 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:42,440 Speaker 2: the values that keep those institutions stable over time. And 128 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 2: historically we know that truly democratic societies have been rare 129 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 2: because the values that sustain those societies are the results, 130 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 2: like in this country, of very specific historical and cultural conditions. 131 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 2: It's not a fault setting for a society to be 132 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 2: what we are. That's why we are. Dare I say 133 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 2: exceptional and exceptional doesn't mean that we're better than anybody else. 134 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 2: It means that we're unique. We're unique because we've taken 135 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 2: the concept of democracy made it representative and liberal by 136 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 2: applying rule of law, judicial systems, the institutions that we have, 137 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:29,680 Speaker 2: the separation of powers in the constitution. That's what makes 138 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:35,079 Speaker 2: us unique, and that's what makes us exceptional. A Harvard 139 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:40,599 Speaker 2: professor once described Western societies as weird. It's an acronym, 140 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 2: not the word weird. Western educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic weird. 141 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 2: What he noted was that Western values that we enjoy 142 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 2: in this country stood in sharp contrast with what has 143 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 2: long been the default throughout the history of mankind. So 144 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 2: compared to most of the world, Western individuals like us 145 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:09,679 Speaker 2: tend to be more individualistic. 146 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 3: We're kind of. 147 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 2: More trusting as strangers, we tend to be a little 148 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:18,000 Speaker 2: more real oriented, and we tend to be less bound 149 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 2: by clan or tribe, or for that matter, even extended 150 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 2: family obligations. I often think about the latter, because as 151 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 2: my extended family has grown and grown and grown, you know, 152 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 2: cousins and nieces and nephews and people all over the place, 153 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 2: we've become more extended, and I don't feel I mean, 154 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 2: it's it's not usual for someone to say this, but 155 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:49,200 Speaker 2: it's the truth. I feel distant from a lot of 156 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:55,959 Speaker 2: cousins or nieces or nephews because geographically we're dispersed and 157 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:00,439 Speaker 2: we don't, you know, congregate that much anymore. Well, all 158 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 2: those things I just described shape our institutions, and that's 159 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 2: important for the following reasons. 160 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:09,680 Speaker 5: I just got to call that Jeff Coo is closing 161 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 5: all schools because Excel is planning power outages for the wind. 162 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 5: Apparently it is acceptable now to just cut the power 163 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 5: when weather comes along instead of actually maintaining the infrastructure. 164 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 5: The worst thing is that no one and I've seen 165 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 5: seems to be even asking why this is even an option. 166 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 5: That grid should never be voluntarily shut off. This is 167 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 5: still the United States of America, right sure doesn't feel 168 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 5: like it. 169 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 6: Sometimes every day we've be done more and more like 170 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:37,959 Speaker 6: a third world country, which fits writing with what I'm 171 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 6: talking about. So let's compare an individualistic society to a 172 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 6: collective of society. Everything I described about democracy, liberal democracy 173 00:11:54,400 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 6: and represents a democracy more individualistic, stronger rule of law, 174 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 6: limits on you know, on authority figures. Those those are 175 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:12,319 Speaker 6: individualistic societies. A collectivist society tends to be very hierarchy hierarchical, 176 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 6: it's loyalty based, it's more accepting of really strong authority figures, 177 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 6: even dictatorial and tyrannical figures, and it creates conditions that 178 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 6: naturally lend themselves to authoritarian institutions. So where are we 179 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 6: if there's a spectrum over here, you know, if my 180 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 6: left hand is an individualistic society and my right palm 181 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:38,679 Speaker 6: over here is a collective of society. 182 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 2: Are we moving in the wrong direction? I think we are, 183 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 2: And is on that basis of us moving in the 184 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 2: wrong direction that I want to make the argument that 185 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 2: mass immigration and democracy, as I'm using it in this 186 00:12:56,240 --> 00:13:00,680 Speaker 2: segment struggle to coexist because when law large numbers of 187 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 2: people arived from fundamentally different value systems, there is little 188 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 2: time space room incentive for genuine assimilation, and over time, 189 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 2: if assimilation fails and then the number starts to grow 190 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:23,079 Speaker 2: large enough, the institutions that once depended upon shared values 191 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 2: start to weaken, a breakdown. And I think a great 192 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:31,719 Speaker 2: example of that, which I think you can transfer to 193 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 2: us the United States, is the welfare system that exists 194 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 2: in most Western European countries. Those systems were built in 195 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 2: high trust societies where most people held individualistic values and 196 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 2: they aspired towards self reliance. 197 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 3: Seems contradictory, doesn't, doesn't it? 198 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 2: Because in that context there was little fear of widespread abuse, 199 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 2: and they certainly never anticipated a permanent dependency. So what happened? 200 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 2: What happened to Western Europe? Those same countries have experienced 201 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 2: record levels of non European immigration in a very compact 202 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 2: and short period of time, and those new arrivals relied 203 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:22,920 Speaker 2: heavily on welfare. 204 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 3: So rather than integrating into the. 205 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 2: Workforce as promised, they added a strain to an already 206 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 2: aging population. And of course they overwhelmed the system, cloud 207 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 2: and piven the cloud Piven strategy. And when you overwhelm 208 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 2: that system, people clamor for it's just human nature to 209 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 2: clamor force. Somebody come in and take control, somebody come 210 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 2: in and fix this. And in Europe, native workers are 211 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 2: now expected. They're just they just do. They just pay 212 00:14:55,080 --> 00:15:00,080 Speaker 2: higher taxes because they're supporting both a growing elderly population 213 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 2: at the same time that they're supporting a rapidly expanding 214 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 2: welfare base. Now you add into that mix an uptaking crime, 215 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 2: ethnic tensions, and an erosion of the common values. 216 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 3: That is. 217 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 2: What's the Christmas vacation scene where the old man says 218 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 2: something you couldn't hear a nitro glyssen truck driving through 219 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 2: a or a dump truck driving through a nitrol glyssering 220 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 2: factory or something. 221 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 3: That's what that's what it creates. 222 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 2: It creates a dump truck driving through a nitro glyssen factory. 223 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 2: So that brings me to Australia and what happened there 224 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 2: over the weekend. Humanitarian immigrants are notorious for remaining welfare 225 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 2: dependent even after a decade of living in Australia, and 226 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 2: since the Labor Government took office, it's estimated that more 227 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 2: than fifty fould and immigrants who ended Australia were over 228 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 2: the age of sixty, and in official Australian data, several 229 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 2: overseas born groups show higher per capita offending and contact 230 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 2: with the cops, and higher imprisonment rates than native born 231 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 2: Australian citizens. I can only conclude from that that this 232 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 2: mass immigration has, at least for some cohorts and some 233 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 2: offense types, they've imported additional risk, an additional workload into 234 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:35,240 Speaker 2: their policing, their courts, their prisons, and of course their 235 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 2: social welfare systems. I think this is not just a 236 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 2: social economic issue. I think it's a cultural issue. And 237 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 2: many immigrants come from more collective of societies. Where do 238 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 2: most Muslims come from? Oh, they come from kingdoms, they 239 00:16:57,080 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 2: come from the Middle East, or they come from some 240 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:04,400 Speaker 2: third world crabhole country that's run somebody, some ten horned dictator. 241 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 2: And when they come to a new liberal representative democracy, 242 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 2: what do you think their priorities are? Because they come 243 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:21,959 Speaker 2: from a collective of society where the priority for them 244 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 2: is the klan, the extended family, and the status within 245 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:32,119 Speaker 2: that group, it's not a contribution to a broader national society. 246 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 2: So if welfare benefits and occasional work already provide a 247 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 2: better standard of living than they get they were getting 248 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 2: from from where they came back home. Then they're what 249 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 2: incentive is there to fully integrate or to improve your 250 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 2: work skills, or to upskill or to adopt the new 251 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 2: civic norms of the new country that you're in, And 252 00:17:55,760 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 2: with regarding crime, it's clearly a lack of respect for 253 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 2: the local culture. It's the mentality of the tribe before 254 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 2: the nation, its group supremacy over individual aspiration. So if 255 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:15,399 Speaker 2: that's the case, why aren't we asking an honest question, 256 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:22,159 Speaker 2: which societies that have experienced mass immigration at scale have 257 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:28,440 Speaker 2: actually become more cohesive or more trusting, or more representative 258 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 2: democratic or liberal democratic as a result of that. Immigration 259 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:38,199 Speaker 2: Probably makes people uncomfortable to even think about that, but 260 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 2: I think it's a necessary question, particularly given Islamist terror 261 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:47,960 Speaker 2: attacks in both Australia and in the United States. We 262 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:54,719 Speaker 2: won't recognize that, we should recognize that, I think to 263 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:57,399 Speaker 2: some degree, maybe not as much as I would like. 264 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:02,000 Speaker 3: But Trump has confirmed. 265 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 2: A significant expansion of his travel policy just travel ban policy, 266 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:10,680 Speaker 2: excuse me, adding some new injury restrictions for citizens from 267 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 2: twenty additional countries. Now, the new measures that he announced 268 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 2: feature full bands on individuals from Burkina, Faso, Mali, Niger, 269 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 2: South Sudan, and even Syria anybody seeking. 270 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 3: To enter this country from those countries. 271 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:32,760 Speaker 2: Now the administration is defending the moves as necessary to 272 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 2: bolster border security, pointing to all the widespread corruption, the 273 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:39,800 Speaker 2: fake documents, the inconsistent criminal records in the liistic countries. 274 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 2: In fact, the inability of us of US to even 275 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:46,400 Speaker 2: communicate with their systems because they don't even have systems 276 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:48,680 Speaker 2: with which we could communicate to find out whether, no 277 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 2: there's even a criminal record. So that makes it increasingly challenging, 278 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 2: if not completely ineffective, to screen applicants coming to this country. 279 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:04,640 Speaker 2: Why the decision all of a sudden based on everything 280 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:09,880 Speaker 2: I just said up until this point about democracy and 281 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:15,640 Speaker 2: an individualist society versus the collective of society. I think 282 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:19,439 Speaker 2: the decision. I think that the deadly shooting over the 283 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:23,359 Speaker 2: Thanksgiving period in which the Afghan National Lacana Wall has 284 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:27,120 Speaker 2: likely shot to national those two National Guard soldiers near 285 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:30,920 Speaker 2: the White House, Sarah Baxterm who died from her injuries. 286 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:35,439 Speaker 2: Andrew Wolf I think is still in critical condition. That 287 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:38,639 Speaker 2: guy arrived in the United States amid former Biden's botched 288 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:42,639 Speaker 2: twenty twenty one withdrawal from Kabble. He entered not guilty 289 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:46,200 Speaker 2: plead to murder assault charges. But I think the decision 290 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 2: is about that, It's about Australia, and I think it's 291 00:20:50,880 --> 00:21:00,680 Speaker 2: a strategic recognition that this slow, but defendit even move 292 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:08,200 Speaker 2: from an individualistic, a liberal representative democracy to a collective 293 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 2: of society that again, now it's we've turned off the bathwater, 294 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 2: so the bathtub's not overflowing anymore. But we still have 295 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 2: some who are coming here from those third World crap 296 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:27,119 Speaker 2: hole countries that will, even though they might do it 297 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 2: the right way, once they get here, degrade the national culture. 298 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,800 Speaker 2: And I'm not picking on any one individual, I am 299 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:44,120 Speaker 2: generalizing and saying that as a group. When you think 300 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 2: about those countries out and even I've never been to Syria, 301 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 2: but I've been to Burkina Faso Malli. I've been to Niger, 302 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 2: but I've been to and I've been to all the 303 00:21:56,480 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 2: Middle East countries save Iraq, and i've been to Syria either. 304 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 2: But what I witness in those countries is slavery. Yes, 305 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 2: if you don't think that slavery exists in the Middle East, 306 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 2: you've not been to the Middle East. Oh, I know 307 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:22,399 Speaker 2: that many Indians from India travel to say Abu Dhabi 308 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:27,439 Speaker 2: or Dubai, or they travel to Kuwait and they essentially 309 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:32,640 Speaker 2: become indentured servants. They become indentured servants because well, their 310 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:36,119 Speaker 2: passports are taken away and they are assigned jobs and 311 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,680 Speaker 2: they work for whatever wages that the kingdom is willing 312 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 2: to pay them or the business is willing to pay them, 313 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 2: and it's substandards. What you know, the natives get for 314 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,680 Speaker 2: doing similar work, but they don't really do similar work. 315 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:58,199 Speaker 2: So that collectivist society in Burkina, Faso, Mali, Niger or 316 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 2: South Sudan, Syria, Arabia, the UAE. 317 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:07,480 Speaker 3: Cutter, Kuwait Oman. 318 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:16,360 Speaker 2: They come here even legitimately and they're overwhelmed because they're 319 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,680 Speaker 2: not brought up in the culture that we are brought up. 320 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:25,160 Speaker 2: So the shootings may be the excuse. But I think 321 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 2: that the update of proclamation that applies partial IMMAs to 322 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:33,920 Speaker 2: those fifteen countries, by the way, also Angola and Nigeria, Senegal, 323 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:39,919 Speaker 2: in Zimbabwe, I think it is a recognition that if 324 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:45,400 Speaker 2: we are to stop this slow descent into a collective 325 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 2: of society, then One way to do that is for 326 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 2: us to I don't want to say close our borders, 327 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 2: but to be a lot more discerning about who it 328 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,879 Speaker 2: is that we welcome into this country, whether that be 329 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 2: on a tourist visa, a student visa, someone that's on 330 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,640 Speaker 2: a pathway to get a green cart. I really don't 331 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 2: care now if you're coming from if you're native Britain, 332 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:15,639 Speaker 2: a native brit coming here from somewhere in the United Kingdom, 333 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 2: I really don't care. You're probably escaping, well we're trying 334 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,919 Speaker 2: to avoid and the same probably for some Germans, or 335 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 2: for some Frenchmen, or from Portuguese or Spanish. Oh I 336 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:32,879 Speaker 2: get it. But Western Europe is suffering. Well, let me 337 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 2: rephrase that. What we saw Western Europe suffering from, we're 338 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:44,119 Speaker 2: now seeing it kind of manifesting itself in Australia. And 339 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 2: if we don't pay attention to that manifestation and recognize 340 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:53,360 Speaker 2: what is the source of that trouble in Australia, then 341 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 2: we're doomed to repeat what's already happened to Europe and 342 00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:04,400 Speaker 2: what is now happening in Australia. This failure to recognize 343 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,640 Speaker 2: and to deal truthfully and honestly with what is happening 344 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 2: with mass immigration is ignorance and I think it is 345 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 2: devastating to the country. I'll give you some more, a 346 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:23,399 Speaker 2: little more, few more data points. Independent analysts are starting 347 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 2: to raise alarms about the involvement of foreigners in serious 348 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 2: crime in Spain. According to a new study by the 349 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:38,399 Speaker 2: Demographic Observatory, those immigrants are quote significantly overrepresented in the 350 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 2: European Union. They are member state's most serious criminal stats. 351 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,120 Speaker 2: When you look at their criminal stats, and I'm using 352 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 2: Spain as an example, you can look at the Demographic Observatory. 353 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:55,400 Speaker 2: You can find it for other countries too. The headline 354 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:59,359 Speaker 2: would simply be this, immigrants are committing five hundred percent 355 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 2: more rate and four hundred percent more murders than locals 356 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 2: in this western country. In Catalonia. The report notes that 357 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 2: although immigrants account for only about seventeen percent of the population, 358 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 2: ninety one percent of convicted rapists are immigrants. 359 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:21,440 Speaker 3: What more do you need? 360 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:25,879 Speaker 2: The data point across Spain's entire prison system, where foreign 361 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 2: nationals make up around thirty one percent, almost a third 362 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,920 Speaker 2: of the inmates, the study says they commit five hundred 363 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 2: percent more rapes and four hundred and furteen percent more 364 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:40,120 Speaker 2: murders per capita than the Spanish citizens do now isolate 365 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 2: twenty nineteen to twenty twenty three, attempted murders nearly doubled, 366 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,560 Speaker 2: while penetrative rape cases climbed one hundred and forty three 367 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:51,440 Speaker 2: percent from over twenty two hundred to over fifty two hundred. 368 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 2: Illegal property occupation squatters is also growing sharply, with foreigners 369 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:01,119 Speaker 2: accounting for more than fifty percent of the arrests in 370 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,439 Speaker 2: those kinds of cases. Now, that is a figure that 371 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 2: far exceeds their share of the population. Now, this particular 372 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:17,680 Speaker 2: report attributes those trends to imported crime. Where's the study 373 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,400 Speaker 2: for this country? And of course the study goes on 374 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:25,880 Speaker 2: to call for stricter immigration controls, additional law enforcement, additional 375 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 2: judicial resources, and of course tougher penalties. You kind of 376 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,440 Speaker 2: look down into the study, you look at some of 377 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 2: the regional data. I think it reinforces those concerns. In Barcelona, 378 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:42,399 Speaker 2: police figures for last year twenty twenty four show that 379 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 2: nearly eighty percent of arrests involving foreign nationals, particularly in theft, 380 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 2: violet robbery, drug traffic and sexual assault. In the Bosque country, 381 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,919 Speaker 2: people of foreign origin accounted for nearly two thirds of 382 00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 2: the arrests so far, despite immigrants representing a very small 383 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 2: portion of the entire population. And then you can find 384 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 2: comparable patterns that have been reported elsewhere. In Europe and Austria, 385 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,920 Speaker 2: police data from last year showed that foreign nationals made 386 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,919 Speaker 2: up almost fifty percent forty six point eight percent of 387 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 2: all criminal suspects, even though they only account for about 388 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,200 Speaker 2: twenty percent only about one fifth of the entire population. 389 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 2: In Germany, same thing. Foreigners are also over represented in 390 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:35,919 Speaker 2: crime stats. In Berlin, excluding the per se immigration violations, 391 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 2: forty four percent are recorded crimes involved a foreign immigrant, 392 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 2: a figure that rises above fifty seven percent when you 393 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 2: get to places like Frankfurt. And notably, violent crime, including homicide, 394 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 2: has increased in a lot of German regions in recent years. 395 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:58,680 Speaker 2: The United Kingdom, they've reported similar disparities. Police data indicated 396 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 2: that foreign nationals account for just share of sexual offense 397 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 2: charges in London compared with the overall per capita share 398 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 2: of the population. It's that kind of data that doesn't 399 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:14,360 Speaker 2: get reported and then we don't internalize. And when we 400 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:18,160 Speaker 2: don't internalize it and we hear the old tropes this 401 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 2: nation was built on immigrants. You can't compare in fact that. 402 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 2: That's simply a falsehood because when when people came here, 403 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 2: let's say, to build the colonies, they weren't immigrants. They 404 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,880 Speaker 2: were people from the United Kingdom. They were people from England, 405 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:43,560 Speaker 2: the mother country, who came here to settle. So they're 406 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:45,960 Speaker 2: not technically immigrants. If you want to play lawyer with 407 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,840 Speaker 2: the words, I'll happily play lawyer with the words all 408 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 2: day long. They weren't immigrants. Now, once the colonies formed 409 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 2: into the United States of America and we adopted the 410 00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 2: constitution in seventeen eighty nine, then people who came, you know, 411 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,240 Speaker 2: whether it was the Irish wave or it was the 412 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:07,320 Speaker 2: German wave or whatever it was, Yes, they came. What's 413 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 2: the difference. What did the Irish and the Germans and 414 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 2: the Jews and all the others that immigrated to this country. 415 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:16,120 Speaker 3: What did they do? 416 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 4: Oh? 417 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, that stupid word that keeps getting in our way. 418 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 2: They assimilate.