Speaker 1: Good evening, everybody, and welcome to another edition of The
Speaker 1: Cajun Night Live. I am your host, the Cajun Knight,
Speaker 1: Jacob Mook. We're gonna start off talking about some European
Speaker 1: debacles going on right now. We're gonna stop off in Dublin, Ireland.
Speaker 1: We're gonna swing over to England. We're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: some things going on in that region of the world
Speaker 1: for just a little bit. Then we're gonna take a
Speaker 1: side step over to America. Trump is doing a lot
Speaker 1: of things right now. Trump is being Trump. And this
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Speaker 2: I guess it really does depend.
Speaker 1: On your your perspective, right, your vantage point, your opinions
Speaker 1: on Donnie t himself. Although I gotta say, and we're
Speaker 1: not gonna spend too much time on this now. We're
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Speaker 1: A lot of people who voted for him, a lot
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Speaker 1: lot of the Forever Trump is all of them.
Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: lot of people start to lose faith in him right
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Speaker 1: start to lose faith in him as more time has
Speaker 1: gone on. We're not even a full year into his
Speaker 1: first term or second term, i should say, and a
Speaker 1: lot of his support base has shifted gears and are
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Speaker 2: I'm not against this.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that you should just believe anything that
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Speaker 1: on the Art of the Deal and all these things.
Speaker 1: I feel like Donnie t has absolutely lost the ability
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about it more in death, but first
Speaker 1: we are gonna talk about Dublin, Ireland. Let's start off there,
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Speaker 1: started with Dublin, Ireland. This is from Fox, but we
Speaker 1: have another article that's gonna be a little closer to
Speaker 1: home for the Irish. Dublin protesters clash with police, burn
Speaker 1: vehicle after migrant accused of sexually assaulting.
Speaker 2: An Irish girl.
Speaker 1: The migrant accused of attacking a ten year old Irish
Speaker 1: girl reportedly has deportation orders standing against him since last year. Yes,
Speaker 1: since last year. They got a little video on the conversation.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go ahead and listen to it at this time. Wow,
Speaker 1: absolute chaos in the streets and the cop cars on fire.
Speaker 2: Cool burn to the ground, dude, for.
Speaker 1: Anybody that's just listening to I'm trying my best to
Speaker 1: describe it, but basically it's just you know, protests, massive fires,
Speaker 1: cop car on fire. In certain cities of America, it's
Speaker 1: something that we're very accustomed to seeing. But in Ireland
Speaker 1: they haven't seen this in a few decades, ever since
Speaker 1: the IRA signed the peace Trees. They're using fireworks as weapons.
Speaker 1: Look at them being created because they can't have weapons.
Speaker 3: You know, is there no Chinese?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Wow, all right, so it doesn't seem like there's
Speaker 1: gonna be much dialogue on the videos, but yeah, Ireland
Speaker 1: is in full protest at this time. Ireland Teller tears
Speaker 1: itself apart over migrant again. How Dublin has become a
Speaker 1: tinder box amid mounting asylum crisis, with represent resentment boiling
Speaker 1: over nationwide as riots break out over child sex assault
Speaker 1: near migrant hotel.
Speaker 2: I also think it's worth.
Speaker 1: Mentioning that they're all empty beer bottles that they're throwing.
Speaker 1: No bricks, no rocks, They just have that many empty
Speaker 1: beer bottles on hand. Get them out, Okay, well the
Speaker 1: Irish be irishman, of course, they got the empty beer
Speaker 1: bottles on hand ready to go at a moment's notice,
Speaker 1: I suppose Overnight riots in Dublin that saw hundreds of
Speaker 1: protests over the alleged sexual assault of a ten year
Speaker 1: old girl by an asylum seeker have added more fuel
Speaker 1: to a crisis that is increasingly tearing Ireland apart. The man,
Speaker 1: a twenty six year old who has not yet been identified,
Speaker 1: is alleged to have attacked the girl near the City
Speaker 1: West Hotel, which houses asylum seekers just southwest of the city.
Speaker 1: Around one thousand in raged protesters clashed with police last night,
Speaker 1: throwing bottles and bricks and launched fireworks at cops.
Speaker 2: Outside the hotel.
Speaker 1: Many carried signs reading Irish lives Matter while chanting get
Speaker 1: them out. Okay, yeah, it is now going to become
Speaker 1: a quote unquote racial thing because Ireland wants to take
Speaker 1: care of Ireland and not the migrants.
Speaker 2: But that's what their politicians did.
Speaker 1: Tuesday's protests saw police arrest six in the latest instance
Speaker 1: of fury at the government over its asylum process or policies.
Speaker 1: It was the latest instance of manifested anger to sweep
Speaker 1: over the country, which has become increasingly divided over the
Speaker 1: issue of immigration. Tensions were already heightened in Dublin this
Speaker 1: week after a Ukrainian teenager was killed in an attack
Speaker 1: at a Dublin refugee center, allegedly carried out by a
Speaker 1: Somali migrant. Wow, and there's all kinds of pictures of
Speaker 1: the protests and the things going on here. There's encampments.
Speaker 1: Vadim Devi Dinko Sure, seventeen, died last week following what
Speaker 1: authorities described as a serious incident quote unquote at an
Speaker 1: emergency accommodation facility in gratan Wood, donnag Meade. Two others,
Speaker 1: a teenage boy and a woman, were also taken to
Speaker 1: hospital with non life threatening injuries. Guarday confirmed that one
Speaker 1: teenage male, under stood to be of Somali origin, was
Speaker 1: arrested after receiving medical treatment. Officers have said they are
Speaker 1: not seeking anyone else in connection.
Speaker 2: With the case.
Speaker 1: Even before this week's unrest, Dublin had already become the
Speaker 1: physical heart of a debate around immigration in the country.
Speaker 1: Images of asylum seekers setting up home in a squalid
Speaker 1: tent city along the city's Grand Canal over the last
Speaker 1: few years have added to the tints added to the
Speaker 1: sense of a growing crisis. In June, around a dozen
Speaker 1: of the tints were slashed with thugs stealing the belongings
Speaker 1: of the homeless migrants.
Speaker 2: Yeah okay.
Speaker 1: One volunteer who helps asylum seekers told RTE that several
Speaker 1: men quote came around threatening that they had to leave.
Speaker 2: It was probably a cop, but okay.
Speaker 1: The same month, thousands took to the streets in another
Speaker 1: part of Ireland against what they describe as mass migration.
Speaker 1: Some three thousand people joined the anti immigration rally in
Speaker 1: Cork organized by Ireland's Say No, which attendees said signaled
Speaker 1: a feeling in the country that enough is in Protesters,
Speaker 1: describing themselves as Irish patriots and nationalists, said they have
Speaker 1: two main grievances, mass migration and a belief that they
Speaker 1: have been forgotten by the government.
Speaker 2: I would agree with these things.
Speaker 1: Footage of the march showed a sea of tricolor flags
Speaker 1: raised above the crowd, with chants including Ireland for the
Speaker 1: Irish and who streets our streets. At the time, the
Speaker 1: rallies leader organizer Ulternationalist Dublin councilor Malachie Stephenson, said that
Speaker 1: the size of the crowd would instill confidence in people
Speaker 1: who were concerned about airing their criticisms. We don't care
Speaker 1: what Brussels says. He told the crowd. We are going
Speaker 1: to take this country and run it for the benefit
Speaker 1: of its people.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah.
Speaker 1: Speaking before the local elections in November, he stated his
Speaker 1: view on how he felt this could be achieved. We
Speaker 1: need to close the borders and stop any more migrants
Speaker 1: coming in. Bro you're closing the borders of an island
Speaker 1: that this can only be done by your government flying
Speaker 1: or boating these people in. It's not like you have
Speaker 1: a when America has a border crisis.
Speaker 2: It's because people are.
Speaker 1: Literally walking through open gates that we have because we
Speaker 1: have a massive land border. The only border that Ireland
Speaker 1: has is to Northern Ireland, which is a part of
Speaker 1: the UK.
Speaker 2: So maybe that's what they're talking about.
Speaker 1: The migrants made their way into England, then to North
Speaker 1: Ireland and then somehow made it through the barriers into
Speaker 1: Ireland proper.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but anyway.
Speaker 1: Last month, Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan yeah, said there
Speaker 1: were currently about thirty three thousand people in what Ireland
Speaker 1: describes as international protection. According to the BBC, that figure
Speaker 1: was seventy two forty four in twenty seventeen. So just
Speaker 1: seven years ago. Seven years ago there was seven two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty four of these International protection asylum seekers.
Speaker 1: There's now thirty three thousand. That is a massive jump
Speaker 1: in seven years. But okay, and Ireland's not even very
Speaker 1: big country. They don't have a lot of space. This
Speaker 1: increase comes alongside a growing issue of migrants attempting to
Speaker 1: use Ireland as a stopover to reach the UK ah
Speaker 1: There it is criminal gangs reportedly charge up to eight
Speaker 1: thousand euro where six thousand, six hundred pounds to smuggle
Speaker 1: migrants across the border from Ireland into Northern Ireland after
Speaker 1: advertising it as a safer route than crossing the Channel
Speaker 1: on small boats. According to officials who spoke to The
Speaker 1: Mail last year, They then have to the choice of
Speaker 1: staying in Northern Ireland or traveling to mainland Great Britain.
Speaker 1: Hundreds of people were intercepted as a part of the
Speaker 1: Home Office campaign known as Operation Comby, launched in April
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three to tackle abuses of the Common Travel Area,
Speaker 1: which allows people to travel between Northern Ireland and the
Speaker 1: Republic without restrictions. Meanwhile, figures associated with the hard right
Speaker 1: including former MMA fighter Connor McGregor, are increasingly speaking out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: McGregor has well pun intended. McGregor has not been pulling
Speaker 1: any punches when he talks about the migrants coming into Ireland.
Speaker 1: He has been a massive proponent of it, to the
Speaker 1: point to where some people are curious if he's going
Speaker 1: to actually make a run for some political office in
Speaker 1: the country, which I.
Speaker 2: Mean, I don't know. I don't know if he would
Speaker 2: do well with the position or not.
Speaker 1: But looking at his background, coming from abject poverty to
Speaker 1: what some would call some of the wealthiest one percent
Speaker 1: on Earth.
Speaker 2: Based off of his ability to fight.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he would probably do a pretty
Speaker 1: decent job at being some sort of a politician in Ireland.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: McGregor spoke earlier this year at the White House claiming
Speaker 1: that the Irish government had abandoned the voices of the
Speaker 1: Irish people, adding Ireland is at the cusp of potentially
Speaker 1: losing its Irishness. The ex fighter, who last month dropped
Speaker 1: his bid for Irish president, Yeah Buddy, said ahead of
Speaker 1: his April meeting with Donald Trump, it's about time that
Speaker 1: America is made aware of what's going on in Ireland.
Speaker 1: What is going on in Ireland is a travesty. Our
Speaker 1: government is the government of zero action with zero accountability.
Speaker 1: His remarks have only added fuel to the fire. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll bet so. In Dublin on Tuesday nights, riots resulted
Speaker 1: in five people being charged, with many in public office
Speaker 1: condemning their actions. Here we got a couple more pictures
Speaker 1: of some slashed up tents in their little tent city
Speaker 1: that the migrants have made. Police were attacked with missiles
Speaker 1: and fireworks after violent flare violence flared outside the hotel.
Speaker 2: Okay, the missiles, just so everybody's clear.
Speaker 1: When Americans hear that, they typically mean like weaponry and rockets.
Speaker 1: Technically speaking, any kind of airborne flying object could be
Speaker 1: a missile, so like it should just say projectiles, like
Speaker 1: you know, bottles and bricks and shit. But yeah, for this,
Speaker 1: missiles and fireworks.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: A female GUARDA member injured during the violence has since
Speaker 1: been discharged from the hospital after receiving treatment for a
Speaker 1: foot injury. A GUARDA vehicle was also set on fire
Speaker 1: during the unrest. And I believe I'm not mistaken GUARDA
Speaker 1: is the Irish police. I mean that might be the
Speaker 1: Gaelic Irish Gaelic word for police.
Speaker 2: I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: Irish Premier Michael Martin condemned the scenes of violence, stating
Speaker 1: there could be no justification for attacks on Guarday. He said, Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the weaponizing of a crime by people who wish to
Speaker 1: so dissent in our society is not unexpected. The Guarday
Speaker 1: are prepared for this, but attacking Guarday and property is
Speaker 1: not an answer and won't help to make anyone feel safe.
Speaker 2: He added.
Speaker 1: Peaceful protest is a cornerstone of our democracy. Violence is not.
Speaker 1: There's no excuse for the scenes we have witnessed, all right,
Speaker 1: I hate to be that guy, I really do. Peaceful
Speaker 1: protests are not how Ireland got their independence from Britain. Right,
Speaker 1: That was done because of a group of people that
Speaker 1: took weapons and fought against the Black and Tan and
Speaker 1: fought against the British.
Speaker 2: If we're gonna be.
Speaker 1: Honest here talking about is the cornerstone of the democracy
Speaker 1: and there's no excuse for the scenes they've witnessed. The
Speaker 1: IRA would have a different opinion on that one. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be honest with you, and yes, the IRA for
Speaker 1: the most part is dead. I understand that, but they
Speaker 1: have gone into the political side and they now had
Speaker 1: the political party called shn Fane. The other side to
Speaker 1: that is shn Fane is a socialist political party. So
Speaker 1: while the IRA does want shn Fane does want an
Speaker 1: Ireland owned Ireland like by Irish for Irish. They also
Speaker 1: have made very clear that if Ireland was to be
Speaker 1: one hundred percent free and clear of the UK and
Speaker 1: Northern Ireland Ireland was to be associated with the rest
Speaker 1: of the Republic, they would then turn themselves into a
Speaker 1: socialist country and go super neutral. They wouldn't be a
Speaker 1: part of NATO, they wouldn't be a part of the EU,
Speaker 1: and their waters would be open to whatever country wanted
Speaker 1: to go through them. And that's not a good sign
Speaker 1: for a lot of reasons, but at least on this
Speaker 1: point I can agree with them. When you have this
Speaker 1: many illegal immigrants making their way into your country, thirty
Speaker 1: three thousand as opposed to seventy two hundred.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the thing too.
Speaker 1: It's not like these migrants are getting to Ireland and
Speaker 1: trying to make their lives better and assimilating to the
Speaker 1: society and picking up jobs and paying taxes and buying
Speaker 1: homes and just like just trying to start a new
Speaker 1: life in a new place. No, they're all intense cities
Speaker 1: and in specific hotels that were forced by the government
Speaker 1: to house these migrants. The Irish people are pissed, and
Speaker 1: in my opinion, rightfully so go ahead, Sam Not so.
Speaker 3: A lot of them aren't illegal. A lot of them was.
Speaker 4: A lot of them went there and they went through
Speaker 4: the refugee process and everything, but a lot of them
Speaker 4: have been using that as a clutch, especially since that
Speaker 4: they all have a certain faith uh. They This has
Speaker 4: also been the sense of global leader, the leaders of
Speaker 4: Islam Uh. They all they've been they've said they've they
Speaker 4: wanted to globalize into fight, which this is they Muslims
Speaker 4: have been going to every UH country and they've been
Speaker 4: trying to they for like the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 4: and you in the u k uh in Mischigan, dearborn.
Speaker 2: For years and years, that's not a new thing. But
Speaker 2: I hear you.
Speaker 3: That they've been doing parades.
Speaker 4: They've been doing they they've been slowly trying to take everything,
Speaker 4: take over. And when somebody calls them out, they say,
Speaker 4: oh that's racist, you're you're being islamophobic.
Speaker 3: They know how to play the system.
Speaker 1: They do, they do indeed, and uh, but most of
Speaker 1: the people who live in Deer Park, Michigan are US
Speaker 1: citizens at least at this point. They are the ones
Speaker 1: that are in Ireland right now. Yeah, you're right, a
Speaker 1: lot of them did make their way there legally as
Speaker 1: political refugees. But again they apparently have an illegal immigration
Speaker 1: crisis on their hands.
Speaker 2: And I thought it was the other way around. I
Speaker 2: thought it was people leaving.
Speaker 1: Somehow, the illegals from Ireland are making their way to
Speaker 1: Northern Ireland and going to UK to start problems. Apparently
Speaker 1: that's a UNO Reverso they're getting to England. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: becoming political refugees in the UK, making their way to
Speaker 1: Northern Ireland and then going through the corridors to where
Speaker 1: they have free and open travel between the Republic and
Speaker 1: the Northern Ireland. I guess for lack of betterwards nation,
Speaker 1: I think that's an incorrect moniker to put on that.
Speaker 2: But territory, maybe.
Speaker 4: Did you hear about all, because we're talking about the
Speaker 4: UK and all. Did you hear about what happened to
Speaker 4: the thirteen yearld go in Scotland? How she got arrested
Speaker 4: because a a scumbag try to get her and her friend.
Speaker 4: Both of these blue girls told them to back off,
Speaker 4: leave them alone, that they're onder age, and he still
Speaker 4: try to make advance.
Speaker 3: So she pulled a kitchen knife and a hatchet and
Speaker 3: the police arrested her. Yep, but they didn't go after
Speaker 3: the pedophile.
Speaker 1: No, because he's a refugee. This poor, underprivileged person clearly
Speaker 1: could not be guilty of any kind of violence because
Speaker 1: he's a refugee. He would never And yeah, he.
Speaker 4: Seems to be suffering from a disease that there's only
Speaker 4: one Q four.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 1: I got a couple of those curers actually in my
Speaker 1: hand on screen as we speak.
Speaker 4: But you know, yeah, called pedestalin non milimeter version. But
Speaker 4: I was talking about something more nate, nature, funny.
Speaker 5: And but if we do it now, by this time
Speaker 5: next year, we'll have perfectly good Halloween derec questions.
Speaker 1: We could. Yeah, the nine milim actually older in my
Speaker 1: hand as a silver bullet. Believe it or not, it's
Speaker 1: a firing nine mil but it's a it's an actual
Speaker 1: silver bullet. It's felegit just in case vampires want to
Speaker 1: play around. It's it's a hollow point too, So anyway, I.
Speaker 3: Was thinking more of like the rugoo since you in
Speaker 3: the Bayue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you know it goes for whatever. You know.
Speaker 2: It's better safe than sorry if you will, But go ahead, Royce.
Speaker 1: I was just actually curious how much you had to
Speaker 1: pay for a rack of nine mili bullets their silver.
Speaker 2: Yeah, believe it or not.
Speaker 1: A buddy of mine at the time worked at Cabela's
Speaker 1: and he got a couple of boxes of these silver
Speaker 1: nine meals when the time came, and he gave me
Speaker 1: enough for two mags just to hook me up.
Speaker 2: So I have no idea what.
Speaker 1: They cost, but if anybody's curious, it was a Winchester
Speaker 1: Luger nine mil. They came out with the silver edition,
Speaker 1: which is, in my opinion, pimp as hell, which I mean,
Speaker 1: I only have one nine mil. I carry a thirty
Speaker 1: eight or forty five, but I do have a nine
Speaker 1: mil and I have two mags of silver bullets. Justint
Speaker 1: you never know, right, you never know, but favors the prepared.
Speaker 2: So there's that. What's up, Sam?
Speaker 4: So quick question, do you think Boga Woo would go
Speaker 4: good of Lice and Grady?
Speaker 1: No, Because to the knowledge that I have once you
Speaker 1: kill it, it becomes human again, and cannibalism is frowned
Speaker 1: upon in this culture.
Speaker 3: Yeah, think of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which on the other side of that, I have
Speaker 1: no idea what wolf tastes like, but if it was
Speaker 1: to retain its rugaroo form, then I'm assuming it'd be
Speaker 1: more like a wolf. And but they only eat Catholics
Speaker 1: that cheat on lynt. So it's a wolf that only
Speaker 1: subsists off of human meat and or communal wafers. So
Speaker 1: I don't assume that's gonna taste great.
Speaker 4: Do you think that's because that that that the rugaro
Speaker 4: is really because it only goes after the Catholics. That's
Speaker 4: probably based off of the base of Guinevere, France.
Speaker 6: So so, technically speaking, rugaroo is the Cajun adaptation of
Speaker 6: the French word lugaru, which lugaroo is where wolf and
Speaker 6: French rugaroo is the Cajun French version.
Speaker 1: Cajun French and French are not exactly interchangeable dialogue, but
Speaker 1: it's close enough to where you can kind of understand.
Speaker 2: Each other.
Speaker 4: Linguistically, isn't it Because the French went through Louisiana and
Speaker 4: the gat with the Kioles, and that's why it's called
Speaker 4: creole French.
Speaker 1: You know, Creole French is different than Cajun French, believe
Speaker 1: it or not. So Creole French came from Haiti. Cajun
Speaker 1: French came from Nova.
Speaker 3: Scotia on the Canadians.
Speaker 1: So history lesson that nobody asked for. But we're here now,
Speaker 1: said okay, cool, French revolution happened, right, and all the
Speaker 1: bourgeoir z right. All the rich people had to go somewhere,
Speaker 1: and they had a French outpost in Canada that we're
Speaker 1: doing a lot of fur trading in that area and whatnot. Right,
Speaker 1: the British came in and removed them because Britain owned Canada,
Speaker 1: which is why most of Canada speaks English now except
Speaker 1: for Quebec. But that's the area where the Cajuns came from.
Speaker 1: They made their way down the Mississippi River and they
Speaker 1: ended up in New Orleans and in South Louisiana. So
Speaker 1: they had that dialect of French and when they got
Speaker 1: here that kind of blended with some of the Spanish
Speaker 1: influences here and some of the Native American influences here,
Speaker 1: and some of the English influences.
Speaker 2: Here as well.
Speaker 1: Then you couple that with Haitian Creole, and that made
Speaker 1: its way into New Orleans in a very similar fashion.
Speaker 1: So you had Haitian French Creole French blending with Nova
Speaker 1: Scotian and Quebec French to create what we now have
Speaker 1: as Cajun French. Now it's not a complete misnomer, Like
Speaker 1: somebody from France could probably understand the grand scheme of
Speaker 1: Cajun French, kind of like I want to say, a
Speaker 1: Spain to Mexico translation, but more like a Portugal to Brazil.
Speaker 1: There are some key differences in turns of phrases that
Speaker 1: are completely different, but the overarching like way the sentence
Speaker 1: structure works out in some of the words themselves, it's
Speaker 1: like a one to one translation. So yeah, and it
Speaker 1: also depends on where in Louisiana you're at. If you're
Speaker 1: gonna be hearing creole French versus Cajun French, it really
Speaker 1: depends on what city you're in.
Speaker 3: All I know is I had a buddy in BNP.
Speaker 3: His last name was Bougeoirs.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh, when.
Speaker 4: He taught me a little bit of French. Whenever he'd
Speaker 4: get drunk, he'd just speak in the French.
Speaker 3: It was funny.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I'm like, dude, I speak Panjo, not Viola speak.
Speaker 1: I will say this, you could tell if they're Creole
Speaker 1: versus Cajun, that they put tomatoes in their gumbo. That
Speaker 1: would be creole. And it's very different than Cajun. I
Speaker 1: am of the Cajun variety I am. I am not Creole.
Speaker 1: I am a pasty wat. I don't have any Creole
Speaker 1: within my within my my heritage. But no shade being
Speaker 1: thrown towards the creoles. I just I don't agree with
Speaker 1: putting tomatoes in your gumbo. Like something's wrong here. But
Speaker 1: these people swear by but anyone, anyone.
Speaker 2: So getting back on topic and sticking in the.
Speaker 1: UK, let's take a quick shift over to in fact,
Speaker 1: the United Kingdom.
Speaker 2: This article is from Al Jazeera.
Speaker 1: Why the UK introducing digital IDs and why are they
Speaker 1: so controversial? Kure Starmer's digital ID proposal has been criticized
Speaker 1: by rivals and civil liberties groups over privacy concerns. Now again,
Speaker 1: as we're talking about the migrant problem, I'm using the
Speaker 1: term migrant very very loosely here the problem that they're
Speaker 1: having in the UK right now, it's very interesting to
Speaker 1: me that here Starmer is now wanting to put in
Speaker 1: this digital system because we're keep in mind, we're talking
Speaker 1: about a country that does not have the freedom of speech,
Speaker 1: and then now you're gonna couple that with digital IDs
Speaker 1: that make it to where everything you do you have
Speaker 1: to use your identification card to do and buy everything,
Speaker 1: I mean filling up your tank of whatnot gas they
Speaker 1: call it petrol there, whether it's that buying beer, posting
Speaker 1: on social media, whatever the case is, it all is
Speaker 1: going to tie back to your digital ID card. But
Speaker 1: let's hear what Al Jazeera has to say on this.
Speaker 1: The British government announced last week that all employees will
Speaker 1: be required to hold a digital identification card amid Prime
Speaker 1: Minister Keir Starmer's attempt to curb undocumented immigration and reduce
Speaker 1: the apparent threat from the populist reform UK Party. Addressing
Speaker 1: the Global Progress Action summoned on Friday alongside leaders from Canada,
Speaker 1: Australia and Iceland, Starmer said his left leaning labor government
Speaker 1: had been overly squeamish about discussing voters concerns on immigration.
Speaker 1: Yeah you would think so, right, The left leaning party
Speaker 1: is squeamish about discussing concerns on immigration. Yeah, that sounds
Speaker 1: like it's a going trend for every country that has
Speaker 1: one of these.
Speaker 2: But let's get into it here.
Speaker 1: That he added has allowed parties such as Reform UK,
Speaker 1: which campaigns on a strongly anti immigrant ticket, to gain popularity. Shocker,
Speaker 1: I know. Reform, which is led by Brexit campaigner Nigel
Speaker 1: far Farage, has been touted by polling groups and is
Speaker 1: likely to be the Labour's main challenger at the next
Speaker 1: election due in twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 2: Direct quote here. That is why today I am announcing
Speaker 2: this government will.
Speaker 1: Make a new free of charge digital ID mandatory for
Speaker 1: the right to work by the end of this parliament.
Speaker 1: So to have a job, to do anything, if you
Speaker 1: are an employee of company, company, doesn't matter whatever. If
Speaker 1: you have a job and you're drawing a check, you
Speaker 1: are then now going to be required to have a
Speaker 1: digital ID or you're not going to get paid.
Speaker 2: You'll probably get fired.
Speaker 1: But Starmer's move has led to a civil liberties row
Speaker 1: in United Kingdom, where the concept of national identity cards
Speaker 1: has traditionally been unpopular. Here is what we know. Actually,
Speaker 1: you've got a video right here. Let's see if this
Speaker 1: tells us anything new reforms anti immigration message.
Speaker 7: In the rolling hills of central England, Mattlocke feels a
Speaker 7: world away from the front line of immigration. More than
Speaker 7: ninety five percent of residents here were born in the UK,
Speaker 7: and yet in local elections in May, the anti immigration
Speaker 7: Reform Party swept to power in this county. Brian has
Speaker 7: lived in Derbyshire for three decades and is one of
Speaker 7: their new supporters.
Speaker 8: It's the first time I've ever vaulted this year because
Speaker 8: i wanted Reform to get to win.
Speaker 9: It's a legal immigration stopping, which which I think everybody does.
Speaker 7: Why was that still a concern for you personally considering
Speaker 7: there isn't much immigration just in this county.
Speaker 2: Well you see it.
Speaker 10: On TV every day, you know, it's it's all over
Speaker 10: the country.
Speaker 7: Reform has just five MP's, but it's pushed immigration to
Speaker 7: the top of the national agenda, with Labor scrambling to
Speaker 7: respond and Prime Minister Kirs Starmer toughening his language on
Speaker 7: asylum seekers.
Speaker 2: Will finally take back control of our.
Speaker 7: Borders, saying Labor was wrong to shy away from concerns
Speaker 7: over illegal immigration, even here in Derbyshire, where immigration is
Speaker 7: below the national average. The issue has helped reform take
Speaker 7: the county. For some Labor and Peace say that a
Speaker 7: more hard line language or migration isn't the answer, and
Speaker 7: they accuse Kirstarmer of shifting too far to the right.
Speaker 7: It could be a losing strategy.
Speaker 8: I think Kirstarmer's got himself into a difficult position because
Speaker 8: essentially what's happened over the past year is that he's
Speaker 8: tried to respond to the growing threat of reform. But
Speaker 8: what that's created is a bigger dilemma in terms of
Speaker 8: building a coalition that would vote for Labor at the
Speaker 8: next election. Because for every speech that he comes out
Speaker 8: with on immigration where he sounds like Nigel Farage or
Speaker 8: even in at Pell, he is turning off many of
Speaker 8: his own supporters.
Speaker 7: Labor Party members for whom the change in tone on
Speaker 7: those seeking asylum has been damaging.
Speaker 3: I'm just.
Speaker 11: Appalled, really inquired to shame. I feel the response should
Speaker 11: be actually much more asserted about the positive contribution immigration
Speaker 11: to make, reminding people that we're all immigrants. You know,
Speaker 11: it might be many, many centuries about, but that's what
Speaker 11: the life is about.
Speaker 3: People move around.
Speaker 7: From Derbyshire to Westminster. The fight to shave the narrative
Speaker 7: is the fight to win votes. Lena Usilinovich Al Jazeera, Mattlock.
Speaker 1: Okay, that one chick in the coffee shop, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: You need to remind the people of England that we
Speaker 1: are all migrants. I could be wrong here, but I
Speaker 1: thought that English people had a pretty strong claim to
Speaker 1: the island itself, as you don't know when the last
Speaker 1: time there was a massive migrant push into England was
Speaker 1: like the sixteen hundreds, like aside from Vikings. Aside from Vikings,
Speaker 1: I get that, aside from the Romans way back in
Speaker 1: you know, two hundred and one hundred ad. Okay, fine then,
Speaker 1: but like we're talking about over a thousand years right now.
Speaker 1: But all right, sure, that's that is a perspective I suppose.
Speaker 1: Moving on here, why is labor going head to head
Speaker 1: with reform over immigration? There is a direct quote here
Speaker 1: from Starmer himself. There's a battle for the soul of
Speaker 1: this country now as to what sort of country we
Speaker 1: want to be. This is what he told a conference
Speaker 1: of left wing and liberal Western leaders on September twenty sixth.
Speaker 1: That's why I want this to be out as as
Speaker 1: an open fight between labor and reform. So he wants
Speaker 1: this to be an open fight on the political spectrum,
Speaker 1: and he's using his country as the Wow.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's that's a move. That is a move.
Speaker 1: You're wanting this to be an all out fight between
Speaker 1: the politicians, and you're gonna use the destruction of your
Speaker 1: country as collateral damage while y'all play pissing match. And
Speaker 1: I understand that American politics does this to an extent.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: The immigration problem in America might be worse to scale,
Speaker 1: but I would argue that the immigration problem that is
Speaker 1: happening right let's just call it migrants, not immigration. The
Speaker 1: migrant and refugee crisis that England is facing right now
Speaker 1: is a lot more detrimental to their country, just because
Speaker 1: of the sheer scale and numbers. I could be wrong here,
Speaker 1: but that's quite a claim. But anyway, let's continue here.
Speaker 1: Reform UK, headed by the right wing populist Farage, has
Speaker 1: moved ahead of Labor in public opinion polls and make
Speaker 1: growing concerns about immigration into the UK, fuel by record
Speaker 1: numbers of illegal small boats crossings from France to the
Speaker 1: this year. In an effort to assuage right wing voters
Speaker 1: concerned about immigration, Starmer wrote in an article in the
Speaker 1: Conservative Telegraph newspaper on September twenty fifth, there is no
Speaker 1: doubt that for years, left wing parties, including my own,
Speaker 1: did shy away from people's concerns about illegal immigration. A
Speaker 1: Yugov poll published on September twenty six showed that in
Speaker 1: general election, Reform would most likely win three hundred and
Speaker 1: eleven seats in the British Parliament, far higher than the
Speaker 1: five that it holds currently, while Labor would slump to
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty four from the three hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety nine currently. So it's obvious to everybody looking at
Speaker 1: the numbers in the polls here that this problem isn't
Speaker 1: a small bit. This is a massive thing that the
Speaker 1: population of this country feels very strongly about. Yet Starmer
Speaker 1: decided that he wants to make this a fight. Instead
Speaker 1: of reading the room, hearing the people, and being a
Speaker 1: representative of the people that elected him that position, he
Speaker 1: just decided, no, no, we're going to do it this way.
Speaker 2: But all right.
Speaker 1: There are a total of six hundred and fifty seats
Speaker 1: in the UK's House of Commons. To win a majority,
Speaker 1: a single party must win more than half which is
Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty six seats if Reform does win
Speaker 1: the next election. It has promised to deport undocumented immigrants
Speaker 1: on mass I have a feeling that they are going
Speaker 1: to probably take Trump's lead on that. But you know, hey,
Speaker 1: all right, so this is actually the speaker. I think
Speaker 1: this is a Farage speaking for Reform UK. Let's hear
Speaker 1: what he has to say on this.
Speaker 9: With all the glitz of a big party conference, what
Speaker 9: was until recently a small party on the edge of
Speaker 9: politics is taking center stage.
Speaker 10: We are the patriotic party. We are the party that
Speaker 10: stands up for decent, working people, and we are.
Speaker 9: The party on the rise. It's leader, Nigel Farage, changed
Speaker 9: the face of Britain by doing more than most to
Speaker 9: bring him out Brexit. Now says he'll rescue the country
Speaker 9: from decline and despair.
Speaker 10: They will not be forgiven for their betrayals over the
Speaker 10: course of the last five years, mass migrations, illegal immigrants
Speaker 10: crossing the Channel, sky high taxes and much else.
Speaker 1: But in the middle of this meltdown.
Speaker 10: Of these two parties that have dominated for one hundred
Speaker 10: years British politics, in the middle of all of this,
Speaker 10: there is a new strong, unified party that speaks with
Speaker 10: one voice, that knows it's determined to put the interests
Speaker 10: of Britain and the British people above that of out
Speaker 10: dated international treaties or dubious courts.
Speaker 9: His speech this conference comes in the week that Parliament
Speaker 9: returned from a summer break that saw nationwide protests outside
Speaker 9: hotels housing illegal migrants and asylum seekers. The mood and
Speaker 9: the lack of an effective counter narrative from Prime Minister
Speaker 9: Keirstarmer's Labor government and has helped propel reform to the
Speaker 9: top of the opinion polls. Many among the faithful see
Speaker 9: Parage as a Prime Minister in waiting.
Speaker 12: Whether it's part of reform or not.
Speaker 9: You know, if you believe in the UK and Britain,
Speaker 9: this is stuff you want to hear, isn't.
Speaker 12: It, Prime Minister in Waiting? Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 13: As neither said many times, we don't care your color,
Speaker 13: cast creed, your background or where you come from. It's
Speaker 13: all about the Britishness, the shared of values. If you're
Speaker 13: ready to save this country, come and join and become
Speaker 13: a part of her deal.
Speaker 2: Real quick.
Speaker 1: Shout out to that dude, the Sikh gentleman who had
Speaker 1: one of the most pimp nasty mustaches in the game.
Speaker 2: Just got to throw that out. I got to give
Speaker 2: respect where it's due. Let's continue.
Speaker 9: Ajael Farash has told his party to prepare for an
Speaker 9: early election as Labour battle's weak growth, growing unpopularity and
Speaker 9: internal division, and with more than faint echoes of the
Speaker 9: US President that he calls a friend. Para Arch says,
Speaker 9: you'll stop migrants, small boat crossings from France to port
Speaker 9: all illegal migrants that make Britain safe and great again.
Speaker 9: It's far less upbeat for the government, as Prime Minister
Speaker 9: Starma reshuffles his cabinet trying to reinvigorate his promise of change.
Speaker 9: Deputy Prime Minister Angela Raina resigned for paying too little
Speaker 9: tax on a new house purchase the Independent Ethics Adviser,
Speaker 9: saying she should have been more careful with the advice
Speaker 9: she'd sought. The label of tax evasion now hangs around
Speaker 9: the government's neck, and Kiostarma has lost perhaps his party's
Speaker 9: strongest link to its working class roots. While Nigel Farage
Speaker 9: revels in taking the next step his conference slogan towards
Speaker 9: making Reform UK the next party of government.
Speaker 1: All right, So that was Faraj, And I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know. You could hear the rhetoric that your boy
Speaker 1: Farage is saying. It sounds very similar to something that
Speaker 1: we heard in American politics not too terribly long ago,
Speaker 1: interestingly enough, But again, I as an American who has
Speaker 1: no dog in the fight of the UK and their Britishness,
Speaker 1: I can at least get down what the man is saying.
Speaker 1: He wants to, in their words, make Britain great again again.
Speaker 1: It sounds like he's taking a couple of notes from
Speaker 1: Trump's playbook. But hey, I hope he does a better
Speaker 1: job with his role than Trump's doing with his currently,
Speaker 1: But hey, who knows. So why does the UK government
Speaker 1: want to introduce digital IDs? The UK Government's website says
Speaker 1: the new digital ID scheme will make it easier for
Speaker 1: people to for people across the UK to use vital
Speaker 1: government services.
Speaker 2: It's for people who have jobs. It's only for employment.
Speaker 1: So how is this gonna help people across the UK
Speaker 1: use vital government services?
Speaker 2: Interesting?
Speaker 1: It will quote improve access to public services like education
Speaker 1: and social benefits by making it easier for everyone too
Speaker 1: quickly and easily prove their identity.
Speaker 2: The website says.
Speaker 1: I don't know this for a fact, but I thought
Speaker 1: Britain had something similar to America as far as a
Speaker 1: driver's license was concerned.
Speaker 2: I thought they had something similar to that.
Speaker 1: I thought that pretty much every adult had to carry
Speaker 1: some form of identification on them.
Speaker 2: But all right, it.
Speaker 1: Will also be available to use to prove your identity
Speaker 1: when voting in elections and will reduce identity fraud by
Speaker 1: minimizing personal details you give out. I don't think that
Speaker 1: that's gonna help. Actually, your identity can be stolen with
Speaker 1: very few information given about you prove your identity when
Speaker 1: voting in elections. Okay, I get down with that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I personally believe that you should show your driver's license
Speaker 1: when you go in to vote. That's I don't think
Speaker 1: that's a crazy thing. I don't think that that's an
Speaker 1: infringement on our freedoms or anything like that. I know
Speaker 1: the Democrats tried pulling that this last election and making
Speaker 1: its awhere you didn't have to show any identification to
Speaker 1: walk up into a voting booth and just cast your vote.
Speaker 1: So I don't have an issue with showing that. But
Speaker 1: how is it going to improve education and social benefits.
Speaker 1: I don't understand. I must be missing something here. However,
Speaker 1: Stromer told attendees at the Global Progress Action Summit that
Speaker 1: digital IDs would also make it tougher to work illegally
Speaker 1: in this country, making our borders more secure, as it
Speaker 1: would make it much harder for people without permission to
Speaker 1: be in the country to find a job. You mean,
Speaker 1: the people living intents, it's going to be harder for
Speaker 1: them to work illegally. They're not They're not working illegally.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the all right, sure, Sam, go ahead, boy.
Speaker 4: My first and only thought about this digital idea besides
Speaker 4: nineteen eighty.
Speaker 3: Four is the mark of the beast.
Speaker 1: But that's any Yeah. I mean, I do say in
Speaker 1: the in the biblical prophecy that you're not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to buy or sell anything.
Speaker 2: Basically, you're not gonna be.
Speaker 1: Able to go to the store or be a vendor
Speaker 1: if you don't have this mark.
Speaker 4: And in the UK, I've seen various videos and as
Speaker 4: far as I can tell.
Speaker 5: The not ai. But you can walk up and it's
Speaker 5: even shown on the news that you can just tat
Speaker 5: walk up, put your hand to a thing.
Speaker 3: It scans your hand and boom. You just bought something
Speaker 3: with your palm of your hand.
Speaker 1: So if they already have that in place, then what's
Speaker 1: the point of the digital id?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Big Brother eight nineteen eighty four and the them being
Speaker 4: trying to bring onto Satan.
Speaker 1: Is Britain becoming like it did in the movie vift
Speaker 1: Indata because I feel like it's about to get ready
Speaker 1: because Viva Vendetta.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: But what was the religion in vif of Vendetta? Were
Speaker 3: they still.
Speaker 1: Catholic Anglican which they the Anglicans are The Church of
Speaker 1: England considers itself a type of Catholicism.
Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, but their head of the state is the
Speaker 3: king and not the pope.
Speaker 2: Right but he is seen as the Pope of the
Speaker 2: Anglican Church.
Speaker 4: And isn't that because King Henry divorce beheaded, died, divorce beheaded, survived.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, pretty.
Speaker 3: Much because none of his old ladies could give him
Speaker 3: a son. But in reality, maybe it wasn't their baby factory.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's you had low testosterone, you fat fuck?
Speaker 1: Oh well he wasn't always fat, but yes, also it
Speaker 1: was absolutely because he was you know, low tee. But
Speaker 1: that's not there's there's other things when it comes to
Speaker 1: like what you can do to ensure that you'll produce
Speaker 1: a boy.
Speaker 2: Most of its wives tales.
Speaker 1: But I gotta say I I'm three for three as
Speaker 1: far as my shots were concerned. I shot for a boy,
Speaker 1: had a boy, shot for a girl, had a girl,
Speaker 1: shot for a boy, had a boy.
Speaker 2: So I mean, I I don't know those wives tales
Speaker 2: worked out for me.
Speaker 1: But it's also very possible that that was complete luck
Speaker 1: of the draw, you know, I mean, it is what
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: But uh yeah.
Speaker 1: So the Church of England was an aka. The Anglican
Speaker 1: Church was founded because of was it Henry the fifth
Speaker 1: or eighth? I forget which one, but the guy in question, right,
Speaker 1: the tutors, and uh yeah, I think so. And yeah.
Speaker 1: Ever since then, the King of England is seen as
Speaker 1: the absolute religious figurehead of the Church of England.
Speaker 2: That's a thing.
Speaker 3: Funny enough.
Speaker 4: The wife that he had put in the bloody tower
Speaker 4: that was decapitated, well it said that her ghost is
Speaker 4: seen there a lot. I had a book on a
Speaker 4: ghosts and when I was a kid, even the the
Speaker 4: White House is haunted to by the way, I've.
Speaker 1: Been to the White House more times than I can count.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that it's not haunted. I'm saying
Speaker 1: I've never seen any kind of thing. Although the building
Speaker 1: where I was stationed Washington, d C. Eighth and I,
Speaker 1: the Barracks. It is the oldest occupied residence in DC
Speaker 1: because although it was founded in eighteen oh one, DC
Speaker 1: was burned to the ground in eighteen fourteen during the
Speaker 1: War of eighteen twelve. The only building in the city
Speaker 1: that was not destroyed was the Marine Barracks at eighth
Speaker 1: and I, because the British occupied it and used it
Speaker 1: as their headquarters for a time. When they left, they
Speaker 1: did not destroy it. There's many reasons and myths and
Speaker 1: legends as to why they didn't burn it down on
Speaker 1: the way out the door. But to that point, the
Speaker 1: commonade of the Marine Corps house is in fact the
Speaker 1: oldest occupied residence in DC to date. So there's something
Speaker 1: except for that, and it is haunted as all get out.
Speaker 2: So there's that home.
Speaker 4: From what I remember, it said that they the ghost
Speaker 4: of Lincoln is in the house, like in the bedroom
Speaker 4: that he slept in and everything, and that they hear
Speaker 4: the footsteps, and that what's the maid of the house
Speaker 4: even seen like thirty years after Lincoln was dead. They
Speaker 4: saw him looking out the mirror out the windows. So
Speaker 4: I don't know, that's too far north for my like,
Speaker 4: And so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm making a trip there here in about two weeks,
Speaker 1: so I will be stopping through DC as well.
Speaker 3: Will you please do me a favor and take a
Speaker 3: picture of Ton Tavern for me? Please?
Speaker 2: So, Ton Tavern is still under construction.
Speaker 1: The plan was for it to be rebuilt for the
Speaker 1: Marine Corps two fiftieth birthday. Some things fell through on
Speaker 1: the construction side of things and it's not completed as
Speaker 1: of this moment, but we will be checking out the
Speaker 1: side of where it once.
Speaker 2: Was and where it is going to be rebuilt. Also, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the original.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll take a picture of the a national marker
Speaker 1: for sure. But they're building a replica Ton Tavern on
Speaker 1: the site or like across the street from But I
Speaker 1: am also gonna be making a stop through Quantico, Virginia
Speaker 1: at the Marine Corps Museum. If any of the listeners
Speaker 1: out there are Marine Corps veterans, I cannot recommend enough
Speaker 1: that you, at some point in time make a trip
Speaker 1: to Quantico, Virginia. And go check out the Marine Corps Museum.
Speaker 1: It is so freaking cool start to finish. It's awesome.
Speaker 1: The Vietnam room is kept really hot and really humid,
Speaker 1: and it's like you just stepped into Vietnam. The Korean
Speaker 1: War room is frozen and it's set up as the
Speaker 1: Frozen Shosen and it's cold as hell in there. It's
Speaker 1: it is sick. It is really cool how they've done
Speaker 1: the museum. So if ever you get the opportunity, highly
Speaker 1: ten out of ten recommend I'm excited to go back.
Speaker 2: But anyway, anyway, let's continue in here.
Speaker 1: Ministers argue that the relative ease of finding work with
Speaker 1: out a visa is one of the key reasons that
Speaker 1: undocumented immigrants are attracted to the UK compared with other
Speaker 1: European countries where ID cards are relatively common. Germany, France, Greece,
Speaker 1: Spain and Italy require citizens and residents to hold them,
Speaker 1: and last week in Switzerland narrowly approved a plan to
Speaker 1: introduce voluntary electronic ID cards as well. So more and
Speaker 1: more these countries are requiring electric IDs. That's interesting again,
Speaker 1: you could just show your proof of residency. You could
Speaker 1: just show a driver's license and I don't know if
Speaker 1: all these countries have something, but I feel like most
Speaker 1: of them have something along the lines of that.
Speaker 2: Why is that not sufficient?
Speaker 1: In order to get a job, you have to prove
Speaker 1: that you're a resident, you have to show bills that
Speaker 1: you're paying to a certain building that you happen to
Speaker 1: reside in, or whatever the case is. You shouldn't need
Speaker 1: a digital ID. But sure, Okay, moving on here, how
Speaker 1: would digital IDs work? The idea of a digital brit
Speaker 1: card quote unquote has been proposed by the Labor Together
Speaker 1: think tank, which is closely associated with.
Speaker 2: The governing party.
Speaker 1: In June, it published a paper which put forward the
Speaker 1: concept of a free digital ID stored on a person's
Speaker 1: smartphone using a planned gov dot UK wallet app. It
Speaker 1: is understood that information about a holder's residency status, name,
Speaker 1: date of birth, nationality and a photo will be included.
Speaker 1: The card could then be presented to employers, immigration off officials,
Speaker 1: Jesus I can't speak and banks to verify a person's
Speaker 1: legal status in the country. Currently, UK citizens had to
Speaker 1: present another form of ID, such as a passport or
Speaker 1: driver's license.
Speaker 2: Okay, I knew it. I knew they had a driver's license.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they drive on the wrong side of the road
Speaker 1: and their steering wheels are on the different side of
Speaker 1: the car or whatever. But I knew they had to
Speaker 1: have a driver's license. I know it wasn't crazy to
Speaker 1: prove their identity when applying for services such as banking
Speaker 1: or when applying for a job. So currently they already
Speaker 1: have in place what I've been talking about this whole time,
Speaker 1: all right. The government says, however, that about ten percent
Speaker 1: of UK citizens have never hailed a passport, while ninety
Speaker 1: three percent of adults own a smartphone. Okay, ten percent
Speaker 1: don't own a passport. That is your justification for forcing
Speaker 1: everyone who has a job to get a digital ID
Speaker 1: because of the ten percent out loud like that sounds crazy,
Speaker 1: but sure, Okay, that's that's a thing.
Speaker 2: I suppose. Moving on, let's see.
Speaker 1: Through Star Wars proposal or those star Wars proposal has
Speaker 1: not been fully fleshed out yet. The digital ID would
Speaker 1: be hailed by all UK citizens and legal residents. It
Speaker 1: is unclear whether self employed people would be required to
Speaker 1: hold a digital ID. Wow, but unemployed people would not
Speaker 1: be required to obtain the digital ID unless they seek employment.
Speaker 1: So if you're unemployed, it doesn't even apply to you.
Speaker 1: Cool and if you work for yourself, if you're self employed,
Speaker 1: as somebody that is self employed, I can I can,
Speaker 1: you know, get down on this. They're saying that they're
Speaker 1: not even sure if a self employed individual is going
Speaker 1: to be required to have one of these.
Speaker 2: So you're already showing cracks in your fallacies here.
Speaker 1: Okay, Anyway, over time, the ID could also provide users
Speaker 1: with access to services such as tax records, childcare and
Speaker 1: social welfare benefits. Again, I know they have something akin
Speaker 1: to a social security number. I feel like you could
Speaker 1: just use that, but all right, According to the UK
Speaker 1: Government's website, you will just need one ID in one
Speaker 1: secure place on your phone. This will make it easier
Speaker 1: to access some services without tracking down your physical passport,
Speaker 1: birth certificate or driver's license, as well as various utility
Speaker 1: bills and council tax letters. So what happens if, for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, cell phone service just goes down? You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not even saying some sort of like a hacking situation,
Speaker 1: although that is a conversation that definitely needs to be
Speaker 1: had on this one, But I digress on that.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Let's assume that there's not going to be a terrorist
Speaker 1: group that is big with hacking, although all of them are.
Speaker 1: But let's just assume, right, and what happens if all
Speaker 1: the cell phone providers for whatever reason all went down
Speaker 1: and was having like weeks until they could get back up.
Speaker 1: So you're saying that the entire country would be screwed
Speaker 1: during that time. Yeah, all right. Anyway, according to the
Speaker 1: UK's government website, you just need it to one secure
Speaker 1: place on your phone.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 1: It will provide you who It will prove who you
Speaker 1: are instantly instead of waiting for manual checks and paperwork.
Speaker 1: That means you can get faster services across government departments. Again,
Speaker 1: you could just pull out your driver's license. It's an
Speaker 1: instant thing. You don't have to wait for manual checks
Speaker 1: and paperwork. You just pull it out. They look, hey,
Speaker 1: you're good to go. But all right, it will cut
Speaker 1: lengthy time spent filing in forms or filling in forms
Speaker 1: and documents, scanning by verification your identity in seconds rather
Speaker 1: than days or.
Speaker 2: Weeks for processing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Freedom is always going to be handed over because of
Speaker 1: ease and comfort, right, Despite historical resistance of national ID
Speaker 1: cards among the Brits. More than half fifty seven percent
Speaker 1: exact now support a national identity card scheme, polling by
Speaker 1: IPSOS found in July. The Labor Party attempted to introduce
Speaker 1: an identity card when it was in power in the
Speaker 1: two thousands under the then Prime Minister Tony Blair, but
Speaker 1: the plan was dropped because of civil liberty concerns.
Speaker 2: I can't agree with that, all right.
Speaker 1: What are the criticisms of the digital ID privacy issues?
Speaker 1: Although Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said that the government had
Speaker 1: no intention of pursuing a dystopian mess. Wow, they're already
Speaker 1: calling their shot, but all right, civil liberty groups say
Speaker 1: they are concerned about privacy. Is privacy issues as people
Speaker 1: would be required to provide personal information to be stored
Speaker 1: on a government app. Okay, the government already knows all
Speaker 1: of your personal information. Having it on an app just
Speaker 1: makes it easier for somebody to hack into insteal.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna throw that out.
Speaker 1: Even though more people are in favor of national digital
Speaker 1: ID today than they were in the past, there are
Speaker 1: still a good deal of resistance to the ideas, said
Speaker 1: Tony Travers, professor in the Government Department at the London
Speaker 1: School of economics. There is a deep cultural and political
Speaker 1: opposition to digital ID cards in the UK. Many people
Speaker 1: feel they are one short step from authoritarianism and state control,
Speaker 1: he told Al Jazeera. Yeah, I think again most people
Speaker 1: could agree with that. Indeed, more than one point six
Speaker 1: million people have already signed a petition against introducing digital
Speaker 1: ID cards on the UK Parliament's website. Petitions which gain
Speaker 1: more than one hundred thousand signatures have to be considered
Speaker 1: for debate in Parliament. The Liberal Democrats party has also
Speaker 1: said it would not support mandatory ID cards. Last week,
Speaker 1: party spokesperson Victoria Collins said people would be forced to
Speaker 1: turn over their private data just to go about their
Speaker 1: daily lives.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 1: And of course the liberals are going to say that
Speaker 1: the marginalization of already vulnerable groups.
Speaker 14: Yes.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind, this is the group that is currently
Speaker 1: fighting about whether they should outlaw first cousin marriages and
Speaker 1: their reason for this was because it was being very
Speaker 1: racist and bigoted towards marginalized groups such as the Gypsies
Speaker 1: and the Muslims. So okay, make as you're all on
Speaker 1: the same page with everything here Elsewhere, Some research groups
Speaker 1: have suggested that digital IDs could create additional barriers for
Speaker 1: people already living on the margins and exacerbate the risk
Speaker 1: of exploitation, social exclusion and poverty for undocumented migrants. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's kind of the point. That's kind of the point,
Speaker 1: but all right. Alongside seven other organizations, Big brother Watch,
Speaker 1: a nonpartisan civil liberties organization, has written to the Prime
Speaker 1: Minister urging him to abandon the plan, saying it will
Speaker 1: push unauthorized migrants further into the shadows. Again, I think
Speaker 1: that might be the point. But sure, I won't solve
Speaker 1: illegal immigration. Well, no shit, it won't. The leader of
Speaker 1: the Conservative Party, which governed the UK till last year,
Speaker 1: Kimmy bodenknock bad knock bad notch I don't know, dismissed
Speaker 1: the plans for a digital ID as a gimmick that
Speaker 1: will do nothing to stop the boats.
Speaker 2: Very accurate.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Reform UK called the plans a cynical ploy designed
Speaker 1: to full voters into thinking something is being.
Speaker 2: Done about immigration. I agree.
Speaker 1: Writing in the right wing Daily Express newspaper last week,
Speaker 1: Faraj said the Labor government's plan to impose digital ID
Speaker 1: cards on all adults would do nothing to combat undocumented immigration,
Speaker 1: but it will give the state more power to control
Speaker 1: the British people. For Tony Travers, Starmer's proposal won't do
Speaker 1: anything to kirby illegal immigration in and of itself. It's
Speaker 1: one of the it's one of a series of proposals
Speaker 1: aimed at the issue. We're in a situation where reducing
Speaker 1: the number of illegal immigrants may stave off the electoral
Speaker 1: threat of reform, he said, adding there's no guarantee.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 1: So once again, I don't see this as a net positive,
Speaker 1: and I think they know that it's not. But I
Speaker 1: also think that they are trying to hedge their bets
Speaker 1: in whatever way they can to try to hold power
Speaker 1: over this nation at this time. So, yeah, everybody be
Speaker 1: on the lookout for digital IDs.
Speaker 2: If you're listening from the UK, this may become a.
Speaker 1: Thing that you have to have just to have a job,
Speaker 1: and the government is telling you that it's to make
Speaker 1: your life easier and more convenient.
Speaker 2: In reality, from.
Speaker 1: Everything we just read here, it doesn't sound like that's
Speaker 1: accurate at all. It sounds like this is trying to
Speaker 1: replace the system that's already in place. You should just
Speaker 1: be able to show your driver's license to get a
Speaker 1: job or to vote or to go sign up for
Speaker 1: some sort of a government program or education or whatever else.
Speaker 1: A digital ID does nothing to help you in the
Speaker 1: ten percent that don't have passports in the country. Again,
Speaker 1: I could be wrong. I'm speaking on this as an
Speaker 1: ignorant American, but I feel like of the ten percent
Speaker 1: that don't have passports, I would say the majority of
Speaker 1: them do have driver's licenses or some other form of
Speaker 1: identification that they could use to live their daily lives.
Speaker 2: Otherwise they wouldn't be living their daily lives. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It could be way off base here anyway.
Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about this. Thousands of protesters march through
Speaker 1: London streets against the digital ID plans. Yes, indeed, more
Speaker 1: and more people are saying we.
Speaker 2: Don't want this. Let's watch this video and learn a
Speaker 2: little bit together.
Speaker 15: If I told you your phone is about to become
Speaker 15: your ID, whether you like it or not, well, it's
Speaker 15: all part of a controversial government plan to try and
Speaker 15: discourage illegal migrants.
Speaker 12: Let spell that out.
Speaker 9: You will not be able to work in the United
Speaker 9: Kingdom if you do not have digital ID.
Speaker 2: It's as simple as that.
Speaker 15: Well, the government says digital ID will be compulsory for
Speaker 15: everyone in the UK, but you won't actually have to
Speaker 15: use it, to carry it or show it to anyone
Speaker 15: unless you're applying for a job. The idea will be
Speaker 15: held on your phone like the NHS app or a
Speaker 15: bank card, and it'll include your name, date of birth,
Speaker 15: nationality or residency status, and a photo and possibly your
Speaker 15: address as well. By the end of twenty twenty nine,
Speaker 15: you'll have to show it to your employer to prove
Speaker 15: you have the right to work in the UK or
Speaker 15: they could be prosecuted, but the government says it'll also
Speaker 15: make life easier when applying for services like driving licenses,
Speaker 15: childcare or benefits.
Speaker 7: All European countries.
Speaker 15: Have ID cards, some of them, like Estonia, have digital
Speaker 15: ones too. Identity cards were brought in during the First
Speaker 15: and Second World Wars, but they were abolished in nineteen
Speaker 15: fifty two. Former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair tried to
Speaker 15: reintroduce them twenty years ago, but the plans were dropped
Speaker 15: by the Coalition government because of concerns about cost, privacy
Speaker 15: and civil liberties. Digital ID wasn't in the Labor manifesto
Speaker 15: at the last election, and the then Home Secretary denied
Speaker 15: looking at the idea last year. It's opposed by the
Speaker 15: Tories and Reform who say it's a gimmick which won't
Speaker 15: stop the votes.
Speaker 10: I do not see a single benefit to the government
Speaker 10: having digital ID other than them controlling what we do,
Speaker 10: what we spend and.
Speaker 15: Where we go a mandatory ID supposed by the Libdems too.
Speaker 15: Contrary to prove us reports, the government isn't going to
Speaker 15: be branding it a brick card. Whole idea is hugely controversial.
Speaker 16: Employers already have a legal duty to check people's right
Speaker 16: to work. That doesn't happen in the black economy, and
Speaker 16: there's no reason that digital IDs will make that happen.
Speaker 16: If somebody's going to work for twenty quid a day
Speaker 16: in a kebab shot, they're going to do that. Digital
Speaker 16: ID or no digital ID. Nobody voted for this. This
Speaker 16: wasn't in the labor manifesto, and I think there are
Speaker 16: millions of people in the public who will say I
Speaker 16: will simply not do this. This is unwittish. We are
Speaker 16: not a checkpoint society. We don't carry papers and we
Speaker 16: don't like this sort of thing.
Speaker 15: So is this the end of digital pri in the UK,
Speaker 15: or small tech solution to the problem of illegal migration.
Speaker 1: Okay, so, as we just heard, it's interesting how the
Speaker 1: far right conservatives and the far left liberals are both
Speaker 1: equally against the digital IDs, but for very different reasons.
Speaker 1: Right the Libs are saying that it's because this is
Speaker 1: mean to migrants and this is racist.
Speaker 2: The Conservatives are.
Speaker 1: Saying, no, we don't want more government control in our
Speaker 1: daily lives.
Speaker 2: Either way it goes.
Speaker 1: It seems pretty unilateral that most people do not want
Speaker 1: anything to do with the digital ID, but the government
Speaker 1: officials are pretty much saying, nah, we're just gonna go
Speaker 1: through with it anyway.
Speaker 2: And I have to.
Speaker 1: Agree with what the lady said. For the black market workers,
Speaker 1: the ones that are working in some you know, kebab
Speaker 1: shop for twenty bucks a day under the table, they're
Speaker 1: already working illegally. The digital idea is not going to
Speaker 1: magically make them start working legally because the business owner
Speaker 1: already is supposed to be these checks to make sure
Speaker 1: that these people are in fact British citizens, and if
Speaker 1: they're not, they get reprimanded and they get fined and
Speaker 1: these types of things. The same way in America, if
Speaker 1: you get caught hiring illegals, you'll probably get reprimanded in
Speaker 1: some way, shape or form, because you, as the employer,
Speaker 1: have a duty to make sure that the person you're
Speaker 1: hiring is who they say they are. So again, I
Speaker 1: don't see this as going positively, but anyway. Crowds of
Speaker 1: protesters have marched through the London streets rallying against the
Speaker 1: government's plans for digital IDs. Thousands of demonstrators, controlled by
Speaker 1: strict police conditions, chanted and waved banners along the route
Speaker 1: on Saturday, which ended at the heart of the government Whitehall.
Speaker 1: The Prime Minister announced in September that the digital ID
Speaker 1: system would be introduced in twenty twenty nine and would
Speaker 1: be mandatory for people working in the UK as part
Speaker 1: of a bid to tackle illegal immigration. Former Conservative MP
Speaker 1: and Andrew Brigden Bridgden, Yeah, who was expelled from the
Speaker 1: Conservative Party in twenty twenty three for comparing COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: vaccines to the Holocaust based walked at the front of
Speaker 1: the march. One protester carried an effigy of Sirkir Starmer.
Speaker 1: See okay, there's people that are still protesting in these
Speaker 1: peaceful yet very much sending a message type of way.
Speaker 1: An advert for the protests on the website of organizer
Speaker 1: Mass Non Compliance said, if you accept digital ID now,
Speaker 1: it may be the last real choice you ever make.
Speaker 1: The Metropolitan Police told demonstrators not to deviate from their
Speaker 1: pre planned route and said and to stay on the
Speaker 1: left hand side of the road. Plans to roll out
Speaker 1: digital IDs have already faced criticism. Conservative former minister Sir
Speaker 1: David Davis, who campaigned against their introduction to during Sir
Speaker 1: Tony Blair's labor government, said while digital IDs and ID
Speaker 1: cards sound like modern, inefficient solutions to problems like legal immigration,
Speaker 1: such claims are.
Speaker 2: Misleading at best.
Speaker 1: The systems involved are profoundly dangerous to the privacy and
Speaker 1: fundamental freedoms of the British people. Very interesting, they're talking
Speaker 1: about fundamental freedoms. They don't even have the freedom of
Speaker 1: speech and somehow they're going to talk about fundamental freedoms.
Speaker 1: But sure, okay, So anyway, that is the current goings
Speaker 1: on in Great Britain as far as digital ideas are concerned.
Speaker 2: Now, yeah, Sam, go ahead, no, keep them mind.
Speaker 5: This is also the same culture that can't be trusted
Speaker 5: with kitchen knives.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep.
Speaker 1: Which those are pood.
Speaker 5: Even if you take the guns away from people, people
Speaker 5: are still gonna find ways to kill people.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 1: Have you seen the weapons that they are using now,
Speaker 1: They're they're basically taking a hockey stick and they're cutting
Speaker 1: it off to about two foot long, and they're electrical
Speaker 1: taping a pocket knife to the end of it to
Speaker 1: essentially make a makeshift pickaxe. And I've watched people use
Speaker 1: this weapon on ballistic dummies, like you know, all the
Speaker 1: way through the human atomically correct skulls and everything.
Speaker 2: Dude, this is legal. We oh, it's very very effective
Speaker 2: with a pocket knife and.
Speaker 1: A stick, Dude.
Speaker 5: All a sword is is a stick that your place
Speaker 5: have to stick.
Speaker 2: With metal and sharpen it right right.
Speaker 5: A bow is a stick that launches another stick.
Speaker 4: But no.
Speaker 1: Case in point.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, I got a battle axe, and
Speaker 5: but I would like the bush acts also known as
Speaker 5: a kaiser blade or sling blade.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've seen somebody use that. Oh, like it's.
Speaker 1: Crazy, bro, And then they started they don't have they
Speaker 1: have no guns, right, even the police do not carry guns. Right,
Speaker 1: the police carry billy clubs. And if you have somebody
Speaker 1: that is that violent to where like weapons are needed,
Speaker 1: then they have to basically sequester off the entire city block.
Speaker 1: They call in their version of the SWAT team to
Speaker 1: come in with real guns and then they take out
Speaker 1: the threat. It's insane And how many more people could
Speaker 1: this person hurt while you're waiting on the swat team
Speaker 1: to get there.
Speaker 2: It blows my mind. But neither here nor there.
Speaker 1: They started amnesty boxes, which looked like a like an
Speaker 1: American post box, like the blue box that you would
Speaker 1: drop your letters in.
Speaker 2: For knives, they want you to get rid of your kitchen, knives,
Speaker 2: anything that's big.
Speaker 1: This kookery that I'm holding, Oh man, this would get
Speaker 1: me imprisoned in Great Britain right now. And somehow they
Speaker 1: think the digital IDs are going.
Speaker 2: To solve all their problems. It makes no sense to me,
Speaker 2: but again I'm just an ignorant American.
Speaker 17: The Irish created a thing called a shelley, a fighting stick.
Speaker 2: Yes, very effective one.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I have something similar to it that I had
Speaker 17: made myself.
Speaker 2: I called it the walk cup.
Speaker 17: But huh, the shit it's effected and the mess up
Speaker 17: thing is like, how does Britain, the London, England, whatever
Speaker 17: you want to call the damn thing go from a
Speaker 17: wall dominating force to like the wolves was battered life.
Speaker 3: I don't understand it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because they decolonize themselves in very drastic ways.
Speaker 2: And they have yeah, old.
Speaker 1: Beans on toast over there is a shell of its
Speaker 1: former self. I'm gonna be very honest with you.
Speaker 17: But it still eats like the Blitzkriigs going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all those spices that they have from all over
Speaker 1: the world, they learned how to use none of them.
Speaker 1: It still blows my mind, but neither mine. No, not
Speaker 1: just turn to take this opportunity to shit on British
Speaker 1: cuisine or lack the robe, I should say. But as
Speaker 1: far as their government is concerned, it is more and
Speaker 1: more of them showing that they have not only lost
Speaker 1: touch with what the people want, they truly don't care
Speaker 1: what the people want, and now they're taking steps to
Speaker 1: go against what the people want. Not a group, both
Speaker 1: big sides, very polar opposite sides of the political spectrum
Speaker 1: don't want this, and the British government's saying, na, we're
Speaker 1: still doing it anyway.
Speaker 3: They they should have just stayed with the King, not gonna.
Speaker 1: Lie say that we're gonna be talking about a group
Speaker 1: in America that once a monarchy, just not Trump. But
Speaker 1: we'll get to that here in a bit. Anyway, anyone
Speaker 1: still sticking to the European continent here. I don't know
Speaker 1: how many of you have heard, but apparently thieves have
Speaker 1: stolen priceless Napoleon era jewels in a daring daylight heist
Speaker 1: at the Louver in Paris. So I gotta say, when
Speaker 1: I did stop at the Louver while I was in
Speaker 1: Paris once upon a gap, I did not go and
Speaker 1: see the jewels of this, of Napoleon and these types
Speaker 1: of things. I pretty much made a bee line to
Speaker 1: go see the Mona Lisa, because that was pretty much
Speaker 1: the only thing I really wanted to see. Such a letdown,
Speaker 1: it's the size of a textbook, and it is not
Speaker 1: worth all the hype that it has gotten, like at all.
Speaker 1: Da Vinci is one of my favorite artists and inventors
Speaker 1: and engineers and minds of all.
Speaker 2: But even still, but you want to talk about over hyped.
Speaker 5: The reason why I was hyped was the fact that
Speaker 5: it was stolen. It was a covered years later. That's
Speaker 5: the only reason I was so very hyped. And then
Speaker 5: the Ministry of like it with her half the smile
Speaker 5: or whatever. It's a smoke and it really isn't that
Speaker 5: noticeable and all.
Speaker 2: But like and if you.
Speaker 5: And then there's people that say, but if you take
Speaker 5: it and you flip it and you fold it in
Speaker 5: on itself, you see an ady. I'm like, that's just
Speaker 5: you just storting a picture of within on ourself. You're
Speaker 5: gonna get weird shit, agreed.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not taking away from it being a
Speaker 1: masterpiece in its own right. I'll give the credit where
Speaker 1: it's due, and I will always be the first to
Speaker 1: give Da.
Speaker 2: Vinci his flowers. Right.
Speaker 1: But that being said, it is not worth the amount
Speaker 1: of effort and sprinting through this museum that we did
Speaker 1: to try to see it before it closed and everything.
Speaker 1: It was the big womp womp, the biggest wamp womp
Speaker 1: of anything.
Speaker 2: But whatever.
Speaker 1: Anyway, somebody went to the louver and decided to use
Speaker 1: miniature chainsaws to cut into the exhibit and steal Napoleon's jewelry.
Speaker 1: This is pretty interesting, and I got another article pulled
Speaker 1: up that shows better pictures of it than this article.
Speaker 1: But let's get into it here. This is from Art News.
Speaker 1: Let's dive straight in here. Professionals. Thieves stole jewels of
Speaker 1: the incalculate excuse me, stole jewels of incalculable value, including
Speaker 1: pieces once belonging to Emperor Napoleon the Third and Empress Eugenie,
Speaker 1: in a brazen daylight robbery at the Louver Museum in
Speaker 1: Paris on Sunday, according to French officials and a New
Speaker 1: York Times report, so we are not talking about Napoleon,
Speaker 1: the dude that could, did all the conquering and brought
Speaker 1: back parts of Egypt and all these things. We're talking
Speaker 1: about his nephew, as a matter of fact, Napoleon the third.
Speaker 1: But still interesting and really really ballsy of these used
Speaker 1: to do it in the way that they did. Let's
Speaker 1: get into it. Interior Minister Lorent Nunez told French Interior
Speaker 1: Radio that the thieves struck around nine thirty am, using
Speaker 1: a cherry picker and an angle grinder to break through
Speaker 1: a window of the Gallery de d paulon the grand
Speaker 1: first floor gallery that houses France's crown jewels. The group
Speaker 1: smashed open two display cases and escaped on scooters within minutes.
Speaker 1: Bro they used a crane. A cherry picker is a
Speaker 1: small crane they used a crane and an angle grinder,
Speaker 1: and then once they got inside, used many chainsaws and
Speaker 1: then made their great escape on electric scooters. It's it's
Speaker 1: that's just I'm sorry, that's ballsy, but let's get into
Speaker 1: it here.
Speaker 2: Both led Parisian and le Monde.
Speaker 1: Which is in fringe. That would be the Parisian which
Speaker 1: is somebody from Paris, and Lamond would be the Mountain. Anyway,
Speaker 1: reported that the heist last between seven and ten minutes.
Speaker 1: The robbers, believed to be three masked men, used small
Speaker 1: chainsaws to breach the window, according to the Parisian. Surveillance
Speaker 1: footage reportedly shows them fleeing towards the A six highway,
Speaker 1: which runs southeast out of Paris. A third scooter was
Speaker 1: later found abandoned among the nine pieces reportedly stolen, where
Speaker 1: a necklace, a broach, and a tiara thought to have
Speaker 1: belonged to Empress Eugenie. One damaged crown believed to be hers,
Speaker 1: was discovered outside the gallery. Beyond their market value, the
Speaker 1: items have inestimatable heritage and historical value, the Interior Ministry
Speaker 1: said in a statement. Forensic teams are now compiling an
Speaker 1: inventory of what was taken The Paris Prosecutor's office confirmed
Speaker 1: that an investigation has been opened and that the extent
Speaker 1: of the losses is currently being assessed. Police are reviewing
Speaker 1: video footage and objects abandoned by the thieves. Police told
Speaker 1: reporters that no one was injured in the raid and
Speaker 1: that all means are being implemented to recover the loot.
Speaker 1: The Louver said it remained closed Sunday to preserve traces
Speaker 1: and clues for the investigation. I mean broad daylight, breaking
Speaker 1: into one of the most famous museums on earth and
Speaker 1: stealing crown jewels of France. I mean the stones on
Speaker 1: these dudes. The robbery has ignited political outrage. Jordan Bardella,
Speaker 1: president of the right wing National Rally party, called the
Speaker 1: theft an intolerable humiliation for our country, adding to the
Speaker 1: social media platform x the Louver is a global symbol
Speaker 1: of our culture.
Speaker 2: How far will the decay of the state go?
Speaker 1: I mean, your state would probably start to benefit a
Speaker 1: little bit more if you would acknowledge that your first
Speaker 1: lady is actually a dude. But neither here nor there.
Speaker 1: The incident comes amid growing security concerns at France's most
Speaker 1: visited museum in June, Louve staff stage day walkout overcrowding
Speaker 1: and chronic understaffing, with unions warning that mass tourism was
Speaker 1: putting safety at risk. Okay, I didn't know the Louver
Speaker 1: was understaffed, but okay, they've they've been striking there.
Speaker 2: Who knew.
Speaker 1: The Gallery Da Paulion, overlooking the sin also houses treasures
Speaker 1: once owned by Louis the fourteenth, including the one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty card Regent Diamond. The Louver, home to Leonard
Speaker 1: da Vinci's Mona Lisa, attracts nearly nine million visitors a year,
Speaker 1: with up to thirty thousand daily. France has faced a
Speaker 1: wave of museum thefts in recent months. In September, thieves
Speaker 1: stole gold nuggets worth seven hundred thousand dollars from Paris's
Speaker 1: Natural History Museum, while a robbery at a porcelain museum
Speaker 1: in Lemunge caused an estimated seven million dollars in losses.
Speaker 1: Organized crime today is targeting art objects. Rashada Dotti, France's
Speaker 1: cultural minister, said, museums have become targets. So this is
Speaker 1: some of the guards that are now protecting paintings. It's
Speaker 1: pretty incredible, you know, but Again, I'm not for theft.
Speaker 1: I'm not exactly a fan of burglary or anything like that.
Speaker 1: But also, you gotta give people their props. I don't
Speaker 1: know many people that's gonna be brazen enough to commit
Speaker 1: this type of act. And it wasn't like they were
Speaker 1: trying to be slick and look over here, look over there,
Speaker 1: none of this Ocean's eleven type of foolishness. No, dude,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna break in with a crane. We're gonna
Speaker 1: use an angle grind or break through the window. We're
Speaker 1: just gonna walk in three of us. We're gonna use
Speaker 1: little chainsaws. We're just gonna cut, We're gonna take it.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna get.
Speaker 2: On some scooters and scoot scoot on.
Speaker 1: Out of there. Bro, it's gonna be great. They're gonna
Speaker 1: they're not gonna know what hit them. And they actually
Speaker 1: did it, and they actually didn't know what hit them
Speaker 1: and they got away with it. Like that's mind blowing me.
Speaker 1: But you know he So let's talk a little bit
Speaker 1: more about it. Is from the BBC Priceless Jewels stolen
Speaker 1: in raid On Louver Museum in Paris. So this is
Speaker 1: one of the items that were stolen. This is an
Speaker 1: emerald necklace and earring set that belong to Empress Marie Luise.
Speaker 2: Napoleon Bonaparte's second wife.
Speaker 1: So this one is talking about Napoleon the first's wife,
Speaker 1: So that's wild. A man hunt is underway for a
Speaker 1: gang of thieves who carried out a broad daylight rave
Speaker 1: raid on the Louver Museum and stole jewels. Described as priceless.
Speaker 1: We already heard a little bit about this. They appear
Speaker 1: to have used a mechanical ladder to reach the first
Speaker 1: floor window before breaking into.
Speaker 2: The display cases.
Speaker 1: And escaping on mopeds. The gallery targeted house France. The
Speaker 1: Royal Jewels officials said nine items are taken. A crown
Speaker 1: belonging to Napoleon the Third's wife was seemingly dropped and
Speaker 1: found nearby.
Speaker 2: Now that's another thing too.
Speaker 1: You got away with it, but you dropped one of
Speaker 1: the nine items. Like of all of the things, you
Speaker 1: each only have three things to hold, and you damaged
Speaker 1: and dropped one of them. This is priceless, but sure
Speaker 1: I guess accidents happened.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 1: Listen, let me cut down here to the uh so,
Speaker 1: this is the picture of the Louver itself, right, this,
Speaker 1: this fancy glass pyramid is the image of the louver
Speaker 1: that so many people have seen so many times before.
Speaker 2: It's very very famous.
Speaker 1: This is the seand river, which is apparently where they
Speaker 1: made their escape and then took off down this highway
Speaker 1: and out. So I mean again, just stones on these dudes.
Speaker 1: So this is Marie Louise's necklace and the pair of
Speaker 1: ear rings that's emerald, which I mean that is phenomen
Speaker 1: Let's see zoom out a little bit bit a better
Speaker 1: screen image of it.
Speaker 2: I cannot all right, moving on to the next one.
Speaker 2: What where is it up?
Speaker 1: This is the tiara worn by a prince or Empress Eugene.
Speaker 1: This is the wife of Napoleon. The third it was taken.
Speaker 1: I think this is the one that was recovered after
Speaker 1: it was damaged. This is a diamond bow that also,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, was yeah, it was owned by
Speaker 1: the empress. It is also among the items on accounted for.
Speaker 1: So all every bit of shiny speck you see on
Speaker 1: this is a die. I mean, that's just artistry. Next
Speaker 1: this is it's a number of items. This one was
Speaker 1: owned by Queen Marie Emily, who was married to King
Speaker 1: Louis Philippe the first Wow. So it's I guess a
Speaker 1: sapphire necklace, or it might be something. I'm not like
Speaker 1: a stone expert by any means, but it is a
Speaker 1: gorgeous piece. There's a pair of earrings that was previously
Speaker 1: belonged to the nineteenth century queen also missing. I think
Speaker 1: those are a part of the set that goes with
Speaker 1: the necklace that we just looked at a second ago.
Speaker 2: And then this is Marie Emily's crown.
Speaker 1: It was taken though another warned by Princess Eugenie was
Speaker 1: apparently dropped during the thieves escape. So again, priceless artifacts
Speaker 1: that maybe they'll get seen again, maybe they'll catch these dudes.
Speaker 1: But I have a weird suspicion that these items are
Speaker 1: already on the black market. France doesn't need any more embarrassment,
Speaker 1: and these dudes just brazenly committed a daylight burglary of
Speaker 1: some of the most priceless French artifacts. According to them,
Speaker 1: not my own opinion, from one of the most famous
Speaker 1: museums on earth. That is just that's incredible. That is
Speaker 1: absolutely incredible, all right, all right, So let me go
Speaker 1: ahead and check the comments real quick to see if
Speaker 1: anybody has shared anything else that we should talk about
Speaker 1: before we get to America.
Speaker 2: Let's see here. WHOA all right?
Speaker 1: So I let go away to the top here because
Speaker 1: I just saw some I think that's Elvish lettering.
Speaker 18: I don't know, Hey, everybody, that's the one now, the Shavian.
Speaker 19: That I was telling about.
Speaker 2: So that's a that's a Jewish language.
Speaker 20: No, it's English.
Speaker 1: Remind me, it's been a minute since we talked about it.
Speaker 1: I remember the word.
Speaker 20: Basically, this gentleman named Shaw did not like the fact
Speaker 20: that English was comprised of Greek letters, and like you
Speaker 20: have all these different combinations, and basically he put posthumously,
Speaker 20: they basically figured out a way to like rewrite the
Speaker 20: English alphabet.
Speaker 2: But it's fanatic, got you?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Well I'm gonna get to that. In just
Speaker 1: secon ho, Sam, you sent something. It's a picture talking
Speaker 1: about the Communist Control Act.
Speaker 2: What was that in reference to?
Speaker 19: Yeah, So that was earlier when we were talking about
Speaker 19: anti finnel on everything about how there's a certain group
Speaker 19: of here and everything and I can't help but like,
Speaker 19: well technically I was then I was like, hey, communism
Speaker 19: is a it did fundamentally is mental.
Speaker 3: It wants to fundamentally overthrow the government.
Speaker 5: And that reminded me of that McCarthy Act Anti Communism
Speaker 5: Act of nineteen forty three or forty four.
Speaker 1: I can't remember.
Speaker 3: Well, it's right.
Speaker 19: There, and if you can wait it up a lot,
Speaker 19: you'd probably be able to wait it a lot better
Speaker 19: than I can remember it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna read it. It's kind of off topic,
Speaker 1: but very interesting to bring up.
Speaker 4: Dude.
Speaker 1: Yes, the Communists Control Act of nineteen fifty four is
Speaker 1: still on the books, but it is not. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: is not. It's considered a relic of the Cold War legislation.
Speaker 1: While the law technically remains on the books, its provisions
Speaker 1: have been significantly weakened by court rulings and a general
Speaker 1: decline and anti communist sentiment, making it a practical non
Speaker 1: factor today.
Speaker 2: The legal status the Act.
Speaker 1: Was never formally repealed, so it technically remains law enforcement.
Speaker 1: It has not been enforced in decades. This is partly
Speaker 1: because of court rulings that have stuck or struck down
Speaker 1: or limited some of its provisions or constitutional grounds, particularly
Speaker 1: those related to First Amendment rights practical effect. While the
Speaker 1: Communist Party of the United State. It still exists and
Speaker 1: participates in elections. It is not actively targeted under this law.
Speaker 1: Its enforcement is considered.
Speaker 2: Legally and practically difficult. Today.
Speaker 1: I think we need to revitalize that. I think that
Speaker 1: if you are a communist sympathizer, then that would make
Speaker 1: you an anti American. Yeah, and I know that everybody
Speaker 1: has the rights of their opinions. I respect that, and
Speaker 1: I am the type I believe that you should have
Speaker 1: the right to the freedom of speech and all of
Speaker 1: the beliefs. And yes, that being said, I believe also
Speaker 1: that communism spits in the face of the American way
Speaker 1: as a very fundamental basis.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm with that.
Speaker 4: And it spits in the face of God. They want
Speaker 4: the government to be a god, and I feel like cool.
Speaker 4: So if you want to be a communist, fine, then you.
Speaker 3: Get to choose and choose what you get to choose.
Speaker 5: The gallows or phone squad, the.
Speaker 2: Thing that kills me.
Speaker 1: There are communist countries operating today.
Speaker 2: Just go move to one of them. They'll take you
Speaker 2: with open arms. I just.
Speaker 3: Go to communism, go to North Korea.
Speaker 1: You'll have a great.
Speaker 2: Time, you know.
Speaker 1: Just get used to not eating and if like that's
Speaker 1: the thing that you're cool with, then like get after it, homie.
Speaker 2: More more power to you.
Speaker 5: But by the way, call Kim Jong un call him
Speaker 5: a panda.
Speaker 2: Kim John called Hua panda.
Speaker 4: No, I'm telling them to call him one.
Speaker 1: While Jizuping is the one that it's illegal to call
Speaker 1: him a panda. But that is also the Chinese Communist
Speaker 1: Party leader. So I mean yes to that. But also
Speaker 1: I feel like your life would be exponentially better in
Speaker 1: China than in North Korea.
Speaker 2: But that's another great example.
Speaker 1: Hey, I don't know what the Chinese immigration policy looks like,
Speaker 1: but if you want to be in a communist nation
Speaker 1: that bad, see what you can do to you know,
Speaker 1: become a Chinese citizen.
Speaker 2: And then move the I go for it.
Speaker 1: I believe that everybody should have the freedom to live
Speaker 1: wherever the hell they want. You have to abide by
Speaker 1: the laws of the land when.
Speaker 2: You get there.
Speaker 1: But if you're already a communist sympathizer, they have these places,
Speaker 1: we have the technology.
Speaker 3: You know, y'all could also go to Russia.
Speaker 4: They're commus.
Speaker 1: They are technically a democratic country these days, although it's
Speaker 1: more of an oligarchical type of situation. But the remnants
Speaker 1: of communism and communist sympathies are still in the country,
Speaker 1: but not on a governmental standpoint. That's more of the
Speaker 1: small pockets of the civilian population. Some of them really
Speaker 1: do still believe in communism, but I would say it's
Speaker 1: the minority in today's day.
Speaker 4: And Age didn't putin say he wants to rebuild the Union,
Speaker 4: the Soviet Union.
Speaker 1: He wants to restore Russia to its former glory, but
Speaker 1: he he has made no inclinations aside from, of course,
Speaker 1: him invading Ukraine as a sovereign nation. He has not
Speaker 1: made any movements as far as wanting to make all
Speaker 1: of the stands Russia again, or any of these things. So, yeah, Tony,
Speaker 1: I see, I knew you were going to weigh in
Speaker 1: on this and please give us some clarification.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you knew.
Speaker 12: Yeah, He's on record saying quote similar to what we
Speaker 12: have here, but he said anyone who doesn't lament the
Speaker 12: fall of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who
Speaker 12: wants to bring it back has no brain.
Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough, so there we have it. Russia is
Speaker 1: not trying to take over its former Soviet states. But
Speaker 1: I do think that Putin is trying to make Russia
Speaker 1: a very serious competitor as far as a world leading
Speaker 1: nation goes, which that also kind of makes sense.
Speaker 12: Yeah, just to expand another little bit, he was specifically
Speaker 12: talking about communism and he's been in charge. He was
Speaker 12: in charge through twenty seve and the communists were expecting
Speaker 12: a big celebration of the centenary of the Russian Revolution,
Speaker 12: and he decided to really downplay that and say, now,
Speaker 12: let's not do that. However, there's another kind of complicated
Speaker 12: thing going on, because Stalin is still very popular in Russia,
Speaker 12: and you might be interested to know that they recently
Speaker 12: renamed the Stalingrad airport after Stalin again, and there's even
Speaker 12: a movement that's probably gonna succeed to rename the city
Speaker 12: of Volgograd back to Stalingrad. Surprising to me, because Stalin
Speaker 12: is very popular in Russia.
Speaker 2: That's my question. Why is he so popular?
Speaker 1: People hated him, not in the beginning, of course, but
Speaker 1: when it got to the end of his life, they
Speaker 1: literally sat there and watched him slowly die painfully and
Speaker 1: just like, oh no, maybe we should do something for
Speaker 1: like days, Why is he very popular in the Russian
Speaker 1: Zeitgeist these days.
Speaker 12: Well, he's got a reputation for saving Russia multiple times
Speaker 12: from the worst of the Communists in the twenties and
Speaker 12: early thirties and then also in World War Two, and
Speaker 12: outside of Russia and the other sovieta former Soviet territories,
Speaker 12: he's actually not popular, especially in a place like Ukraine,
Speaker 12: but within Russia, for some reason, he's very popular even
Speaker 12: to this day, even though Communism itself is not that popular.
Speaker 2: That is mind blowing to me.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's hard to wrap your mind around. It's hard
Speaker 12: for me to wrap my mind around. But I think
Speaker 12: they got kind of a troubled relationship with their past,
Speaker 12: kind of like our Southern Confederates and their descendants, where
Speaker 12: they're not proud of many aspects of their past, but
Speaker 12: there's other ways that they just don't want to repudiate
Speaker 12: all of it, and they think that there was some
Speaker 12: good in it. So it's they got the same kind
Speaker 12: of relationship with the US and especially the former Confederate
Speaker 12: states do with their own. So you know, like tear
Speaker 12: down statues and stuff, there's a very similar controversy over
Speaker 12: there anytime they want to tear down a statue, just
Speaker 12: like when our people tear down the statue of Robert E. Lee,
Speaker 12: and I'm kind of against that in this country. Yeah,
Speaker 12: same though, Yeah, it's very similar over there.
Speaker 1: And I guess, and I'm not an expert in Russian
Speaker 1: history by any means here, but they don't have a
Speaker 1: long long list of like national heroes that they can
Speaker 1: rally behind like they have some. They absolutely have some
Speaker 1: like very prominent names that come up when you think
Speaker 1: about Russian history outside of communism, right, like, they do
Speaker 1: in fact have them, but I mean, at least within
Speaker 1: living memory. Stalin was one of their top dogs for
Speaker 1: a very long time and he did put I don't
Speaker 1: mean to say Russia on the map as far as
Speaker 1: that's concerned, but as far as bringing them into the
Speaker 1: modern day and age, Stalin did a lot for that.
Speaker 1: So I could at least see how they don't want
Speaker 1: to forget that portion of their history. But again, I'm
Speaker 1: very I'm with you on that, like the people in
Speaker 1: the South are remembering Robert E. Lee or even you know,
Speaker 1: the Antebellum South. Yeah, they do want to move past
Speaker 1: the slave ownership aspect of it. But a lot of
Speaker 1: the Confederate generals and the leaders of the Confederate States
Speaker 1: are still looked at by the majority of the people
Speaker 1: in the South with at least some level of respect,
Speaker 1: not to the level of nothing, nothing like that, but
Speaker 1: to the point where there is still Civil War reenactments.
Speaker 1: The Daughters of the American Confederacy are still a thing.
Speaker 1: It's uh, it's I don't know, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: that's I guess.
Speaker 2: Stalin is popular again in Russia. So that's a thing
Speaker 2: that we all know now. Anyway, Sam, I see your
Speaker 2: hand raised.
Speaker 4: Keep in mind, Lenin's body is still on a display
Speaker 4: in Russia. Also talking about Stalin, he his key, he
Speaker 4: let his son die a German pow camp, even though
Speaker 4: the Grummansville gut Wood was gonna trade him back because
Speaker 4: they actually respected him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm about that.
Speaker 4: Also, Stalin was before everybody seems to forget that Russia
Speaker 4: was a part of the Axis halfway through the war.
Speaker 2: So yeah, the ribbon soft pack people forget about that one.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but again, hey, I I honestly had no
Speaker 1: idea that Stalin was popular in Russia again, but.
Speaker 2: That is a thing that we know. Now.
Speaker 4: Do you know what Stalin at You know that that's
Speaker 4: not his actual birth name. He changed his name to
Speaker 4: Stalin because he wanted it to be the Man of Steel, Uh,
Speaker 4: something equivalent. I think it's Man of Iron, but the
Speaker 4: name actually translates something of that calibric.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just kind of fascinating.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I can confirm it. It style does mean steel.
Speaker 12: And his real name was Josip Jushvili. He was from Georgia,
Speaker 12: which is a completely different language that very Wait you
Speaker 12: say Georgia, the country Georgia over there, like to blee see,
Speaker 12: but not not US Georgia.
Speaker 1: There's a country named Georgia.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 12: Back in fifth grade, we all had to do a
Speaker 12: state project and mine was Georgia. And I tried to
Speaker 12: look it up in the encyclopedia and I kept on, like,
Speaker 12: where where's the US Georgia? I'm getting is this central
Speaker 12: Asian place I never heard of?
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Their flag it's very remnant of the Cross of Jerusalem,
Speaker 1: which I like.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I had to do the same thing about a state,
Speaker 3: but I didn't do it.
Speaker 5: In third grade, I learned about Idaho, which are buddy
Speaker 5: white boy wizards from Yeah, which pretty cool, and they're there.
Speaker 3: They had their state dance is a square dance, and they're.
Speaker 5: State motto is here we have Idaho and they they're
Speaker 5: the biggest export of their state is the potato, which
Speaker 5: they call the apple of the earth.
Speaker 1: Which is also the French word for it, palm deter,
Speaker 1: which means apple of the earth.
Speaker 2: So there's that. Yeah, North Dakota.
Speaker 18: So there's the same thing with Hebrew the word for
Speaker 18: potatoes which means the apple.
Speaker 1: Of the earth. Damn, who knew. Yeah, my state project
Speaker 1: was on North Dakota. And then later when I did
Speaker 1: another project on a country, I ended up with Luxembourg,
Speaker 1: which was cool because I later on met people from Luxembourg.
Speaker 2: They're really solid people.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's like one of these No, it is
Speaker 1: its own independent, sovereign nation.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 1: They are one of the only true monarchies left on earth.
Speaker 1: Although they don't have a king, they have a grand Duke. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a very small nation.
Speaker 19: It was held to zohnick this and win the kaiser
Speaker 19: Windhilm and all.
Speaker 1: No, No, he was so like a duke is not
Speaker 1: like necessarily kin to the kings and all that things.
Speaker 1: Back in the day they were, of course, but the
Speaker 1: Grand Duke of Luxembourg. I forget which house of royalty
Speaker 1: he stems from, but uh yeah, it's a very small country.
Speaker 1: Their main export is like wine, and a lot of
Speaker 1: international companies are based out of there strictly for the
Speaker 1: tax exemption and like the low, low low tax rates.
Speaker 1: But it's like their company address is like a Luxembourgish
Speaker 1: like po box and shit like that. But yeah, interesting things,
Speaker 1: interesting things, all right, getting back to the chat here,
Speaker 1: let's see an official child Molliss's in Alabama will now
Speaker 1: be chemically castrated, which I believe they should be more
Speaker 1: than just chemically castrated, because you could still injure the
Speaker 1: youth with your hands and things. So I'm still the
Speaker 1: belief that a bullet fixes so many problems, y do what.
Speaker 4: I can't remember which state it is, but now they're
Speaker 4: pushing for total castration, which is not just the the
Speaker 4: the family jewels, but it's also the branch and everything,
Speaker 4: which they actually did that back it The Muslims country
Speaker 4: did that way back when.
Speaker 3: And but when they did.
Speaker 4: It, they would actually have to take a read like
Speaker 4: a like a read from like a river, those like
Speaker 4: the tubings and all. They would actually have to insert
Speaker 4: it into the tube to actually piss and everything and
Speaker 4: it yeah, and it was a wound that never really
Speaker 4: healed up. Okay, because they took everything and like clean
Speaker 4: shaven everything.
Speaker 1: Uh again, I feel like that's even still too good
Speaker 1: for these animals. But anyway, all right, moving on in
Speaker 1: the chain, at Roy sent us something here, a vehicle
Speaker 1: helicopter combo like an uber. What in the actual hell
Speaker 1: is this? Okay, let's explore this together. A six wheeled
Speaker 1: electric cybervan launches its own personal air taxi.
Speaker 2: Okay, you got my attention. Let's check it out.
Speaker 14: What if you could drive to your destination and fly
Speaker 14: to the next. Well expung AEROHT is bringing this vision
Speaker 14: to life with their land Aircraft Carrier. This vehicle is
Speaker 14: a combination of an electric six wheeled car aka mothership,
Speaker 14: and an eVTOL electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. While
Speaker 14: you drive it on the road, the EVTL remains safely
Speaker 14: stored on the car's rear, ready for takeoff. Once you
Speaker 14: reach your desired spot, the flying car is deployed, taking
Speaker 14: off vertically like a drone. The car itself is designed
Speaker 14: to be sleek and aerodynamic, with high tech features that
Speaker 14: ensure a smooth driving experience. The eVTOL itself is powered
Speaker 14: by hybrid electric engines, which makes it not only powerful
Speaker 14: but also eco friendly. With a combined range of four
Speaker 14: hundred ninety seven miles, it's the best of both worlds,
Speaker 14: offering ground and sky travel in one package. And speaking
Speaker 14: of tech, the aircraft comes with AI assisted navigation that
Speaker 14: keeps you safe while you soar through the skies, and
Speaker 14: offering a two hundred and seventy degree panoramic cockpit. The
Speaker 14: flying body of this land air hybrid features an innovative
Speaker 14: six rotor double duct configuration. The arms and blades are foldable,
Speaker 14: making it easy to store and deploy, and while it's
Speaker 14: still in its prototype phase, it's clear that expung ARROWHT
Speaker 14: is pushing the boundaries of transportation innovation. This flying car
Speaker 14: combo offers versatility, cutting down on travel time and bringing
Speaker 14: sustainability into the future. With the rise of urban congestion,
Speaker 14: vehicles like this could offer a new and faster way
Speaker 14: to travel between cities, cutting down on hours spent in traffic.
Speaker 14: If this technology reaches its full potential, we might soon
Speaker 14: see a world where roadways and skies are just as
Speaker 14: connected as they are in sci Fi movies changing how.
Speaker 2: We travel, live, and work.
Speaker 14: So will we be flying to work within the next decade.
Speaker 14: It seems like a real possibility with the rapid pace
Speaker 14: of innovation.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's first off, pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Second off, I don't be trusting the AI to get
Speaker 1: you from point A to point B like that. But
Speaker 1: then also, yeah, now you're gonna have to get like
Speaker 1: air clearance to go from point A to point B.
Speaker 1: But I mean, if you're able to find a way
Speaker 1: to do it, as long as it stays like so
Speaker 1: low that you don't need the air clearance or whatever.
Speaker 1: The only other thing I'm worried about is I'm running
Speaker 1: into each other. But I mean, if they have AI
Speaker 1: driven cars like way Mow and shit, why wouldn't they
Speaker 1: be able to make this? That is that's wild? Okay,
Speaker 1: gee Royce, thank you for sharing that one. Holy shit, Sam,
Speaker 1: go ahead, I want.
Speaker 2: To pushing question.
Speaker 3: So something looks like it's a test to built.
Speaker 2: Look at motherfucker for sure?
Speaker 12: Is this U?
Speaker 5: Is this made by Elon or China? If it's by Alon,
Speaker 5: I'd probably buy one. But if it's by China, I
Speaker 5: ain't buy it.
Speaker 1: It's set X, So I'm assuming it's a Elon subsidiary,
Speaker 1: but I also don't know either way. It's as far
Speaker 1: as just an idea goes, that's pretty cool. That's pretty
Speaker 1: cool that you could have a van that it being electronic.
Speaker 1: I'm not the biggest fan of but okay, let's let's
Speaker 1: just take it for the prototype that it is an
Speaker 1: electronic van that is set to go for so long
Speaker 1: and it's a passenger vehicle. And then once it runs
Speaker 1: out or you get to somewhere where you don't want
Speaker 1: to have to like find parking or whatever, you deploy
Speaker 1: your helicopter.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I have no idea where you're supposed to park that
Speaker 1: bitch at, but it seems cool as a concept. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's actually gonna get some real weight
Speaker 1: thrown behind it, but as a concept is dope.
Speaker 5: I could see it being used by black ops and everything.
Speaker 5: Take it up through some let them use it on
Speaker 5: everything to get what they're going, and they could throw some
Speaker 5: staining missiles on that thing.
Speaker 2: The song I can.
Speaker 5: Totally see it being used. I use the little chopper
Speaker 5: thing for will the common sense and all.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, dude, if you were to take
Speaker 1: out the windows of that thing, you could do some
Speaker 1: serious night hunting on hogs in Texas, so I can
Speaker 1: see that also being pretty cool.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that maybe it'll get to the production phase
Speaker 1: at some point. No idea what that thing would cost,
Speaker 1: but uh nsrp on that thing is gonna be fucking insane.
Speaker 2: But okay, I know a.
Speaker 5: Lot of leadnecks that if they could get that, it
Speaker 5: would red down, would be looking like a birthday party.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, indeed. All right, So next, Royce, you sent
Speaker 1: in this language, this is the one you were talking
Speaker 1: about that it's the English language but spelled out phonetically
Speaker 1: correct correct.
Speaker 12: Wow.
Speaker 2: Okay, so what is that sentence that you typed.
Speaker 18: Let me find I'm sorry, Uh, that says I'm getting
Speaker 18: tired at L.
Speaker 2: I'm getting tired l O L.
Speaker 1: And that's what you said in the You said Cyrillic,
Speaker 1: not cyrillic.
Speaker 2: Shavian Shavian Hivian Shavian s h A V I A
Speaker 2: N Shavian.
Speaker 20: And then I said, yawn, it's very d Okay.
Speaker 1: One more thing that we have to learn, I suppose,
Speaker 1: But yeah, it is pretty cool.
Speaker 2: There's another language that was made that way.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see, let's see, Tony says, I wonder
Speaker 1: how long they will remain stolen. Yeah, we're talking about
Speaker 1: jewels in France because everyone has to know what they
Speaker 1: look like. It is stolen property, so anyone caught with
Speaker 1: it will be in trouble. Maybe they'll go uh, they
Speaker 1: be able, they will hide it and ransom it.
Speaker 2: It's very possible. It's very possible that they will.
Speaker 1: Ransom this jewelry back, but it's also equally possible that
Speaker 1: it would just go onto the black market because there
Speaker 1: are some very very wealthy collectors of very very illegal
Speaker 1: things all over the world. So I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: what you know, who knows. It's very possible that they'll
Speaker 1: get caught in the next two days and be facing
Speaker 1: French federal charges.
Speaker 2: And I don't know.
Speaker 1: But again, just I gotta put a little bit of
Speaker 1: respect on the macone's it took to pull.
Speaker 2: Off this heist. It's impressive.
Speaker 1: But all right, now, let's get to the next topic
Speaker 1: of discussion this evening. Apparently, Trump has asked the Justice
Speaker 1: Department for two hundred and thirty million dollars for claims
Speaker 1: involving past criminal cases against him. We're not gonna spend
Speaker 1: too much time on it, but yeah, all the allegations
Speaker 1: that were brought against him in years past, he's basically
Speaker 1: not only saying that he wants them to recant their statements,
Speaker 1: he's asking for restitution.
Speaker 2: Let's listen in.
Speaker 21: In an unprecedented move, President Donald Trump says he could
Speaker 21: be seeking to one hundred and thirty million dollars from
Speaker 21: the Department of Justice. That money is for compensation and
Speaker 21: damages over their prior investigations into his actions. According to
Speaker 21: our report brought the New York Times, the President's focusing
Speaker 21: on the two federal indictments brought against him after his
Speaker 21: first term. Both those indictments were dropped following his reelection.
Speaker 21: Julia Binbrooke reports from the White House.
Speaker 22: While President Donald Trump said that he had little knowledge
Speaker 22: of the specifics here, he also said that he quote
Speaker 22: could be seeking two hundred and thirty million dollars from
Speaker 22: his own Justice Department as compensation for previous investigations into him.
Speaker 22: This potential and unprecedented arrangement was first reported by The
Speaker 22: New York Times. The report suggested that Trump was seeking
Speaker 22: the money in connection with complaints that he had filed
Speaker 22: before returning to office. While speaking with reporters in the
Speaker 22: Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump was pressed for more information because.
Speaker 21: The New York Times is reporting that your legal team
Speaker 21: is seeking two hundred thirty million dollars from your own
Speaker 21: Justice Department now in response to the investigations and to
Speaker 21: you the good being, is that something you want your
Speaker 21: legal team.
Speaker 23: I don't know what the numbers.
Speaker 2: I don't even talk to them about it.
Speaker 23: All I know is that they would owe me a
Speaker 23: lot of money. But I'm not looking for money and
Speaker 23: give it to charity or something.
Speaker 2: I would give it to charity.
Speaker 22: Now, Trump did acknowledge the unprecedented nature of the situation
Speaker 22: where he would essentially be pain himself. As you heard there,
Speaker 22: He did say that he would give the money away
Speaker 22: to charity. He also mentioned possibly using it for the
Speaker 22: ongoing White House renovations, though many details remain unclear. It's
Speaker 22: important to note that any settlement might be approved by
Speaker 22: Justice Department officials who defended Trump or those close to
Speaker 22: him during the investigations at the center of this, and
Speaker 22: a settlement to Trump would come from taxpayer funds.
Speaker 1: Okay, so again, taxpayer funds are going to pay Trump
Speaker 1: for the pain and suffering that he endured during the
Speaker 1: investigations into him reading what was put up here. Trump
Speaker 1: complaint against the DOJ late twenty twenty three over FBI
Speaker 1: and Special Council probes into Russian election interference, and then
Speaker 1: in the summer of twenty twenty four over the mar
Speaker 1: A Lago search. During the classified documents probe, they were
Speaker 1: kept saying that it was illegal for him to have
Speaker 1: those documents, even though it was completely legal because he
Speaker 1: took those while he was president and the president has
Speaker 1: the privilege to do that. However, Joe Biden took insane
Speaker 1: amounts of paperwork and things with him, and the vice
Speaker 1: president does not have the same, you know, abilities as
Speaker 1: the president. Everybody pushed that one under the rug, so
Speaker 1: it all went away. Now he's seeking two hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty million dollars, and it's interesting because he said that
Speaker 1: he might give it to charity, might totally do that,
Speaker 1: or it might go to his renovations to the White House.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna talk about that one next because the
Speaker 1: American people are not too happy that he is doing this.
Speaker 1: Right now, Trump demolishes part of the White House's East
Speaker 1: wing for a two hundred and fifty million dollar ballroom. Indeed,
Speaker 1: bulldozers ripped chunks from the building on Monday to make
Speaker 1: room for the president's ornate event space. President Trump has
Speaker 1: begun demolishing parts of the White House as he bulldozes
Speaker 1: ahead with his plan to build a two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty million dollar ballroom. The US president says the much
Speaker 1: needed project would come at zero cost to the American taxpayer,
Speaker 1: because that's how that works. After photos emerged of diggers
Speaker 1: tearing away at the facade of the East Wing. Trump
Speaker 1: is personally overseeing the refurbishment, having paved over the rose
Speaker 1: garden lawn and redecorated the Oval Office to better suit
Speaker 1: his taste since returning to the White House.
Speaker 2: I'm good at building things, he said earlier this year.
Speaker 1: Just were all clear here the rose garden that was
Speaker 1: put in place by Jackie Kennedy.
Speaker 2: He paved over it, sugain. There are some people that
Speaker 2: have some issues with this.
Speaker 1: Work began on Monday on one of the most ambitious
Speaker 1: parts of his renovation, the construction of a lavish event
Speaker 1: space to replace the East Wing. We're looking right now
Speaker 1: at a map of sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue. This is
Speaker 1: the east wing in question. This is the West wing,
Speaker 1: the legendary West Wing. And then this main building, this
Speaker 1: is the executive residence, the actual White House itself.
Speaker 2: So yeah.
Speaker 1: Trump has argued the ballroom was necessary because women must
Speaker 1: currently walk across wet grass and high heels to reach
Speaker 1: a marquee used for White House events. Their heels are
Speaker 1: going right through the grass like four inches deep, he
Speaker 1: said when announcing his plans for a ballroom in July.
Speaker 1: Is because the women are wearing heels in the grass.
Speaker 1: These poor women don't know what a sidewalk is. So
Speaker 1: we need to tear down the East wing, paveover Jackie
Speaker 1: Kennedy's Rose Garden.
Speaker 2: And make a ballroom.
Speaker 1: Clearly, that's the right course of action. He gave the
Speaker 1: same reason when explaining his plans to paveover Jackie Kennedy's
Speaker 1: Rose Garden lawn in March. With a capacity of nine
Speaker 1: hundred people, the ballroom will add ninety thousand square feet
Speaker 1: of ornately designed architecture to the White House. It was
Speaker 1: designed by McCrary Architects, which has released renderings of a
Speaker 1: neoclassical hall with a coffered ceiling and golden chandeliers. Trump
Speaker 1: has said the project will be entirely paid for by
Speaker 1: quote unquote patriots or donors. He has already received twenty
Speaker 1: five million from companies including Apple, Amazon, and.
Speaker 2: Lockheed Martin Shocker.
Speaker 1: In an interview with NBC News in September, Trump said
Speaker 1: it would hold nine hundred people, up from the six
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty previously estimated by the White House. The
Speaker 1: cost of the work has also increased from two hundred
Speaker 1: million to an estimated two hundred and fifty million. I
Speaker 1: am pleased to announce that ground has been broken on
Speaker 1: the White House grounds to build the new, big, beautiful
Speaker 1: White House ballroom, Trump wrote on True Social on Monday,
Speaker 1: completely separate from the White House itself. The East Wing
Speaker 1: is being fully modernized as part of this process and
Speaker 1: will be more beautiful than ever when it is complete.
Speaker 1: So again, I don't think it's a random turn of
Speaker 1: events that he is seeking a restitution of two hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty million dollars from the Department of Justice, and
Speaker 1: his new renovation to the White House will cost two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million, and he's already received twenty five
Speaker 1: million from donors. You see what I'm getting at here.
Speaker 1: You see what I'm getting at here. And then let's
Speaker 1: also not forget the Department of Justice being headed by
Speaker 1: his homegirl Attorney General Pam Bondy, the one who literally
Speaker 1: used to lobby for Qatar and then did the paperwork
Speaker 1: to make it okay for Qatar to donate a four
Speaker 1: hundred million billion dollar plane excuse me as the new
Speaker 1: air Force one that was done specifically by Pam Bondi
Speaker 1: for Qatar, which we're going to get into that on
Speaker 1: a culture Conspiracy episode here soon. But then you look
Speaker 1: at how what's going to be the legal precedence for this.
Speaker 1: It's unprecedented, as they said, somehow, I feel like he's
Speaker 1: gonna get that win.
Speaker 2: I feel like the DJ is.
Speaker 1: Gonna award him two hundred and thirty million dollars and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, it won't cost the taxpayers anything to build this,
Speaker 1: even though the money from the DOJ came from the taxpayers.
Speaker 1: So it's robbing Peter to pay Peter. But at least
Speaker 1: everybody feels good about it, I guess. But you know,
Speaker 1: let's watch this little vigia about it here. This is
Speaker 1: from Bloomberg Television, so you know it's gonna have its bias,
Speaker 1: but on this one, I think it's interesting.
Speaker 2: Let's watch.
Speaker 1: There seems to be no sound on this video, but
Speaker 1: uh yeah, you're watching. If anybody who's on here on
Speaker 1: the Patreon watching this, we are watching equipment destroy the
Speaker 1: east wing and just rip down the ceiling, rip down
Speaker 1: the pillars. They've already paved over Jackie Kennedy's Rose Garden. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and as a matter of fact, I'm going to be
Speaker 1: in DC in two weeks, so I'm going to get
Speaker 1: a very up close and personal view of this. And
Speaker 1: uh yeah, there'll probably be a YouTube video dropping on
Speaker 1: the CA Tonight YouTube channel. I know. I have not
Speaker 1: done anything with that channel in forever, being kind of busy.
Speaker 2: Life has been lifing like crazy, but I.
Speaker 1: Am hoping to revitalize the YouTube channel if has nothing
Speaker 1: else as a hobby. But uh yeah, the video of
Speaker 1: me going to Philadelphia and DC and Quatica and all that,
Speaker 1: that is going to be a YouTube video, so stand
Speaker 1: by for that one.
Speaker 2: But yeah, wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Trump is doing Trump things and now he
Speaker 1: is giving the White House East Wing a massive renovation.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I thought this article was kind of weird
Speaker 1: in the title. I felt like it would be worth
Speaker 1: our time to read it. Here it says, meet the
Speaker 1: young Americans who want a monarchy, but not King Trump. Yes,
Speaker 1: we are gonna be talking about the no Kings protests here.
Speaker 1: While millions of protesters took to the streets in fear
Speaker 1: for the future of the Republic, a growing fringe says
Speaker 1: it's time for an absolute monarchy. I don't think I
Speaker 1: would have ever had that one of my Bengo cards.
Speaker 1: Gonna be honest with you, because I mean, if you
Speaker 1: would have said it was time for a communist overthrow
Speaker 1: or something like that, yeah, I could. I could see that.
Speaker 1: I could at least put the pieces together in my
Speaker 1: mind a monarchy. But sure, all right, let's get after it.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: In seventeen seventy six, the citizens of the United States
Speaker 1: valwed to free themselves from the absolute tyranny of monarchy.
Speaker 1: But when America marks the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary,
Speaker 1: if it's independence from the British crown next year, not
Speaker 1: everyone will be celebrating. I am a big r Republican
Speaker 1: because I'm a member of the Republican Party, said Eric Zurlippi,
Speaker 1: twenty one, a political science major at North Carolina State University.
Speaker 1: But I am not a small r Republican because I
Speaker 1: do not believe in republicanism. I don't even know what
Speaker 1: he's trying to say on that, but all right. Zilippi
Speaker 1: represents what appears to be a growing but still fringe
Speaker 1: trained among young Americans. A believe that democracy is overrated
Speaker 1: and it's time to replace it with an absolute monarchy.
Speaker 2: Okay, if I were.
Speaker 1: Alive at the time of the revolution, I would have
Speaker 1: supported the Royalists and King Jordan's the third, said Zirlippi,
Speaker 1: the vice chancellor of Monarchists of America. So I don't
Speaker 1: know why he calls himself a Republican at all, but okay.
Speaker 1: The rise of monarchism among young Americans is consistent with
Speaker 1: a number of studies that suggests gen Z is more
Speaker 1: suspicious of democracy than previous generations. Fewer than one percent
Speaker 1: of the over sixty fives are in favor of an
Speaker 1: American monarchy. Yeah, no shit, But twenty seven percent of
Speaker 1: eighteen to twenty nine year olds in the USA would
Speaker 1: like to have a king or queen, according to you
Speaker 1: gov poll in twenty twenty three. Twenty seven percent of
Speaker 1: these and keep in mind eighteen to twenty nine. These
Speaker 1: are the college age, and like the young adults who
Speaker 1: haven't always quite figured it out just yet, you're telling
Speaker 1: me that one in four over one in four of
Speaker 1: them want to see a king or of America.
Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: Benevolent monarchy works, but that only works for the generation
Speaker 1: where it's still a benevolent monarch, typically the next generation,
Speaker 1: whereas this spoiled, rotten prince that becomes king ruins everything
Speaker 1: that their father made happen.
Speaker 2: But like, okay, the.
Speaker 1: Eldest generation is the most pro republicanism, said Zerlipia, who
Speaker 1: blogged under the alias Clements Magnolia, whereas our generation is
Speaker 1: the most pro monarchism. I feel like he's way off
Speaker 1: base here, but again, he's a college kid, so he's
Speaker 1: kind of out of touch with reality. On Saturday, millions
Speaker 1: of Americans attended the No Kings demonstration of protests against
Speaker 1: President Trump's perceived illiberalism okay, from San Diego to Boston.
Speaker 1: Rallies were held across more than twenty or two thousand
Speaker 1: American cities, with many protesters wearing frag costumes, a symbol
Speaker 1: of anti Trump resistance. I'm gonna be honest, I don't
Speaker 1: know when Pepe became an anti conservative thing. I know
Speaker 1: it was a big Internet meme for a long time,
Speaker 1: But Pepe of the Frog I thought was a whole
Speaker 1: different thing. But I guess there's been a cultural shift
Speaker 1: in that regard. Outside mar A Lago, where the President
Speaker 1: was enjoying a weekend playing golf, protesters in West Palm
Speaker 1: Beach held up signs of warning that democracy dies in
Speaker 1: silence and dictators fall when the people rise. But unlike
Speaker 1: their compatriots concerned about the future of the US democracy,
Speaker 1: the Monarchists of America are exercising for an entirely different reason.
Speaker 1: They want the USA to become more autocratic, not less.
Speaker 1: So these people are just on American It's roughly ninety
Speaker 1: five percent male. Yeah, shocker, It's a bunch of in cells,
Speaker 1: said Zerlippy, the associated the association's growing but still small membership.
Speaker 1: That's mainly due to the fact that women are not
Speaker 1: very often active within political circles. We are also active
Speaker 1: in gouts. That's incorrect, but all right. Similar organizations and
Speaker 1: individuals harboring doubt about American democracy include the United Monarchists
Speaker 1: Party of America, which says that monarchy is a completely
Speaker 1: legitimate form of government. And Curtis Jarvin, a blogger whose
Speaker 1: admirers include JD. Vance, the Vice President, Steve Bannon, the
Speaker 1: godfather of the MAGA movement, and Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire.
Speaker 1: Under the pseudonym Minchius muldbug Yarvin has built up a
Speaker 1: cult following within his with his theory that the president
Speaker 1: should be replaced with a CEO monarch.
Speaker 2: Oh boy.
Speaker 1: Given Trump's business background and his taste in the gilded furniture,
Speaker 1: some have suggested Jarvis's theory is fast becoming a reality.
Speaker 1: Some of Trump' supporters are openly urging him to adopt
Speaker 1: a more regal approach to the presidency. On Friday, the
Speaker 1: Team Trump campaign group posted an AI generated video of
Speaker 1: the President wearing a crown and ermine cloak and waving
Speaker 1: a crown or waving at crowds from the White House balcony.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, So this is Ian Hoover, twenty one
Speaker 1: years old, head of the ideolog Ideologists of Monarchist America.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, yeap, I said Incell. I did say Incell,
Speaker 2: And that's yup this dude.
Speaker 1: But Trump says that comparisons between himself and a monarch
Speaker 1: are wide of the mark. I don't feel like a king,
Speaker 1: he said this year. I have to go through hell
Speaker 1: to get stuff approved.
Speaker 2: It's very accurate. Kings say things and they get done
Speaker 2: because they're the king.
Speaker 1: He has to go through checks and balances because it's America,
Speaker 1: unless he does an executive order, which is just pretty
Speaker 1: much anyway. That said, the President posted a bizarre AI
Speaker 1: generated video on Saturday night which seemed to just suggest
Speaker 1: that he may have come around to the idea. The
Speaker 1: twenty second clip shows the President wearing a crown piloting
Speaker 1: a fighter jet adorned with the words King Trump. It's
Speaker 1: an AI video, y'all. He has seen soaring above a
Speaker 1: crowd of protesters in Times Square, Manhattan, before dumping vast
Speaker 1: amounts of brown liquid on them. Okay, supporters of a
Speaker 1: monarchy do not necessarily see the serving president in the role. However,
Speaker 1: Ian Hoover twenty one, who blogs that Thomas A. Briitsworth
Speaker 1: or Thomas B. Breitsworth and is the head ideologist of
Speaker 1: the Monarchs of America, said most American monarchs monarchists who
Speaker 1: actually want a monarchy don't want the Trump family. This
Speaker 1: is ludicrous here, but anyway, Yeah, so apparently this is
Speaker 1: the Monarchists of America's proposed royal insignia. Gotta be honest,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that there was a monarchist party in America,
Speaker 1: but I shouldn't be surprised. There's a fringe group for
Speaker 1: everything these days. But in what world do they believe
Speaker 1: that a monarchy would take over in America? That completely
Speaker 1: goes against the very basics of our foundation.
Speaker 2: But okay, anyway.
Speaker 1: There's a Reuters article talking about the no Kings protests
Speaker 1: anti Trump demonstrators gather in New York, Washington, and Chicago.
Speaker 1: As it happened, let's get into it here. Here's what
Speaker 1: happened on Saturday. Protesters from from all age groups, many
Speaker 1: with children and pets and tow took to the streets
Speaker 1: on mass denouncing what they view as an authoritarian tendencies
Speaker 1: of Trump. Organizers expected millions of people to turn out
Speaker 1: by day's end at more than two hundred or two
Speaker 1: six hundred planned rallies in major cities, small towns, and suburbs.
Speaker 1: New York City police departments said that more than one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand people protested peacefully across all five boroughs. Events
Speaker 1: in Boston, Chicago, and Atlanta also drew crowds. Demonstrations were
Speaker 1: largely festive, many featuring inflatable characters and marchers dressed in red, white,
Speaker 1: and blue. Little if any lawlessness was reported. The protesters
Speaker 1: reflected growing unease among many Americans with developments such as
Speaker 1: the militarized immigration crackdown and the sending of National Guard
Speaker 1: troops into US cities, a move Trump has said was
Speaker 1: aimed at fighting crime and protecting immigration agents.
Speaker 2: You know, that's another thing.
Speaker 1: They keep pushing against them for sending troops into these
Speaker 1: big cities until it gets too late. For instance, in Portland,
Speaker 1: the mayor said, no way, we don't want your troops here.
Speaker 1: The governor said, this is unconstitutional. They both just begged
Speaker 1: him to send the troops in. For weeks they were
Speaker 1: saying that this was unconstitutional, and they were fighting against
Speaker 1: them and all these things until it got to the
Speaker 1: point that they couldn't fix it anymore and they couldn't
Speaker 1: hide the dangers that are happening now now they asked
Speaker 1: him to send in the troops. It was all a show,
Speaker 1: It was all a ploy, and they let their cops
Speaker 1: take the brunt of the burden because they were trying
Speaker 1: to prove a point. I guess I don't know. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the protests were reflected all. He said that one Trump
Speaker 1: has said nothing about the protest Saturday. In an interview
Speaker 1: with Fox Business that aired on Friday, he said, they're
Speaker 1: referring to me as a king, not a king. Republicans
Speaker 1: have called the protests hate America, rallies urging participants to
Speaker 1: push Democrats on government shutdowns instead. Yeah, I could agree
Speaker 1: with that. Y'all are protesting all of these things. Why
Speaker 1: don't we try to just protest the Democrats who are
Speaker 1: pushing for a government shut down right now? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm just crazy, but yeah, anyway, just wanted to
Speaker 1: bring up the no Kings protests. It's a thing also
Speaker 1: worth mentioning. The United States is about to pull out
Speaker 1: of UNESCO.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: To a lot of people, this may not be a
Speaker 1: big deal. To the archaeologists and anthropologists, this is kind
Speaker 1: of huge. You might have seen the UNESCO World Heritage
Speaker 1: plaques at places like Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, the
Speaker 1: Statue of Liberty, and the Hopewell Ceremonial earthworks along the
Speaker 1: Ohio River river rather signaling their cultural or natural significance.
Speaker 1: But on July twenty second, twenty twenty five, the US
Speaker 1: State Department announced it would withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific,
Speaker 1: and Cultural Organization also called UNESCO, effective December thirty one,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Over two hundred countries and territories are
Speaker 1: members of this agency, which promotes international cooperation in education, science,
Speaker 1: co culture, and communication. Among the main reasons for this
Speaker 1: severance are political and ideological disputes between Washington and the agency.
Speaker 1: The State Department stated continued involvement in UNESCO is not
Speaker 1: in the national interests of the United States. UNESCO works
Speaker 1: to advance divisive social and cultural causes and maintains an
Speaker 1: outsized focus on the UN sustainable development goals, a globalist
Speaker 1: ideological agenda for international development at odds with our America
Speaker 1: first foreign policy. Furthermore, it condemned UNESCO's admission of Palestine
Speaker 1: as a member state in general anti Israel rhetoric within UNESCO.
Speaker 1: Director General Audrey Azulei denied these anti Israel claims in
Speaker 1: a statement by mentioning UNESCO's multiple educational projects about the
Speaker 1: Holocaust and anti Semitism. What will happen to the twenty
Speaker 1: six UNESCO World Heritage Sites in America, like Yellowstone National
Speaker 1: Park or the Statue of Liberty. Fortunately, UNESCO's status is
Speaker 1: conferred on the sites themselves, it doesn't go away when
Speaker 1: the member state steps away from the agency. Those designations
Speaker 1: were made under the World Heritage Convention, a separate treaty
Speaker 1: that the US ratified in nineteen seventy three, so the
Speaker 1: country will continue to preserve these sites. The US, however,
Speaker 1: will face a handful of consequences after its withdrawal. Now
Speaker 1: what these might be, let's.
Speaker 2: Talk about it. So what will actually change for the US.
Speaker 1: The United States won't be able to vote anymore in
Speaker 1: UNESCO bodies or shape priorities on cultural issues from heritage
Speaker 1: conservation to designing an educational framework for generative AI and
Speaker 1: op ed by the I'm sorry. They will not be
Speaker 1: able to vote anymore in UNESCO bodies or shape priorities
Speaker 1: or cultural or on cultural issues from heritage conservation to
Speaker 1: designing an educational framework for generative AI.
Speaker 2: They won't be able to vote on a.
Speaker 1: UNESCO issue for designing an educational framework for generative AI.
Speaker 1: I feel like that one might be a little bit
Speaker 1: more important than they just kind of make it out
Speaker 1: to be. But okay.
Speaker 2: An op ed by the conservative leaning think tank Brookings Institution,
Speaker 2: which Yeah, it's conservative ish, claim that America's withdrawal will
Speaker 2: leave a void in that America's presence and influence in
Speaker 2: international cultural and scientific cooperation will be significantly weakened. There
Speaker 2: will be.
Speaker 1: Fewer American examples and experts, decreased invitations to join convenings,
Speaker 1: and a sizable whole in the global consensus. An op
Speaker 1: ed written by Anne Campbell and Emily Markovic Morris reads okay. Furthermore,
Speaker 1: the well being of American parks and monuments could actually
Speaker 1: be at risk without UNESCO. Though the US was once
Speaker 1: a major financial contributor to UNESCO, the country has reportedly
Speaker 1: not paid its dues to the organization since twenty eleven. Still,
Speaker 1: the US will lose access to the agency's financial assistance,
Speaker 1: visibility and tourism promotion via UNESCO networks, partnerships within with
Speaker 1: other member countries, and data sharing with agencies like UNESCO's
Speaker 1: biosphere and marine programs. Add that to President Trump's budget
Speaker 1: cuts during twenty twenty five, even less funding and support.
Speaker 1: Now losing money from UNESCO can further impact the National
Speaker 1: Park Services, which has already lost roughly a quarter of
Speaker 1: its permanent positions in twenty twenty five, according to the
Speaker 1: Coalition to Protect America's National Parks.
Speaker 2: Wow, all right, so I did want to bring that up.
Speaker 1: You know, for a lot of people, UNESCO World Heritage
Speaker 1: Sites may not mean a lot.
Speaker 2: I personally love to believe that that's a that's a
Speaker 2: pretty solid hit to US as a as a nation.
Speaker 1: But anyway, but I think we're gonna wrap this episode
Speaker 1: up on this note. Trump responds to Colombian president's threat
Speaker 1: as US war on cartels intensifies.
Speaker 2: Let's listen into this.
Speaker 4: The president of Columbia, in recent interviews said that if
Speaker 4: you won't change, he thinks that people should get.
Speaker 23: We're talking about now Columbia, the country, not the university
Speaker 23: go to He said what he said that if you.
Speaker 1: Won't change, then perhaps you need.
Speaker 5: To be gotten rid of you as well.
Speaker 23: He's a thug and bad guy. He's a guy that
Speaker 23: is making a lot of drugs. We've just as if
Speaker 23: today's stopped all payments going to Columbia, the country, Columbia
Speaker 23: also the School of Columbia.
Speaker 2: Now we settled, we met his settlement with her.
Speaker 23: But now he's a thug and he's a bad guy,
Speaker 23: and he's hurt his country very badly. They're doing very
Speaker 23: poorly Columbia. They make cocaine, They have cocaine factories, They
Speaker 23: grow all sorts of crap that drugs, bad drugs coming
Speaker 23: into the United States goes generally through Mexico. And he
Speaker 23: better watch it or will take very serious action against
Speaker 23: him and his country. His country is what he has
Speaker 23: led his country into is a death trap.
Speaker 1: So the Columbian president decided that he said he made
Speaker 1: a statement saying that Trump should be taken out he
Speaker 1: it is, in fact the leader of a cartel. Cartel
Speaker 1: members that have been arrested on US soil have all
Speaker 1: declared that they are working for the president, So to
Speaker 1: say that he is saying that he is not a
Speaker 1: leader of a cartel, even though the cartel members acknowledge
Speaker 1: that that is a fact.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm still of the.
Speaker 1: Belief as of this moment that America is not going
Speaker 1: to go to war with Colombia. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: gonna happen, but you know, hey, I've been wrong before.
Speaker 1: We shall see how it goes. But yeah, things are
Speaker 1: still quote unquote heating up. As far as that's concerned.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's really gonna go anywhere. I think
Speaker 1: that every one of the drug ships that comes out
Speaker 1: of Colombia are going to be shot and blown up,
Speaker 1: as so many of them have been already in the
Speaker 1: past few weeks. But we shall see, and I'll be
Speaker 1: reporting on it as that comes through to fruition. What
Speaker 1: you got, Sam, do.
Speaker 4: You would think Colombia or I would have learned in
Speaker 4: the eighties that if America really wanted to flex on him,
Speaker 4: we've done it before, we can do it again.
Speaker 1: I could see a coup coming his way here in
Speaker 1: the next I'm still suspecting within the next year, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be because of some democratic revolution quote unquote
Speaker 1: that just takes Columbia by storm.
Speaker 2: And that's the thing.
Speaker 1: It's it's dirty politics, especially in that region of the world.
Speaker 1: It always has been, probably always will be. I don't
Speaker 1: see this going well for him, but it's gonna be
Speaker 1: given to another you know, warlord for lack of better words,
Speaker 1: but one that's more heavily aligned with a pro American sentiment.
Speaker 1: We there's been videos I've played the video last week
Speaker 1: of how many South American and Central American countries have
Speaker 1: had coups that were kickstarted by the CIA in the
Speaker 1: last seventy years, and it's not a small number. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Columbia is about to see another one.
Speaker 3: Ain't it about around thirty five to fifty.
Speaker 2: Something like that.
Speaker 1: But I mean, how Colombia had a coup in two
Speaker 1: thousand and four that we put in place, or Venezuela,
Speaker 1: I should say, so, yeah, Columbia, it's right there in
Speaker 1: the mix with the rest of it. So hey, we'll see.
Speaker 1: I don't think America is gonna go to war with Venezuela.
Speaker 1: I think they're about to have a coup very similar
Speaker 1: to what happened in two thousand and four.
Speaker 2: Colombia.
Speaker 1: I couldn't even tell you, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1: The cartels run that country and they have for a
Speaker 1: very long time, ever since, ever since Pablo. It's not
Speaker 1: changed anytime soon. Hell, even Mexico is run by the cartels.
Speaker 1: The president that's currently there. In the election year, they
Speaker 1: had what was it like thirty two assassinations of everybody
Speaker 1: that seemed like they were about to win the election,
Speaker 1: all got taken out. Something crazy like that, all within
Speaker 1: a year, and then this woman just got put in
Speaker 1: place in the last second. She's obviously cartel controlled, that's
Speaker 1: how that section of the world works.
Speaker 4: And the chick that's in control of like Mexican no
Speaker 4: not yeah, Mexico, all the ones that was running against
Speaker 4: so they all died, and then doing the primaries of
Speaker 4: when in Germany, like twenty nine of the right leaning
Speaker 4: up people were killed. Yeah, some were killed to gunshot
Speaker 4: wounds and others to unidentified sequences. So I'm thinking she'sus
Speaker 4: having them go loaded.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a it's a thing. It is a thing politics,
Speaker 1: They messy business.
Speaker 2: But as as this.
Speaker 1: Continues on and as the world keeps spinning in very
Speaker 1: wild directions, the Cajun Night Show is going to be
Speaker 1: here to talk about all of it. So this episode,
Speaker 1: we kind of started off in Ireland, went to England,
Speaker 1: talked about some things going on around the world, a
Speaker 1: little bit of some French conversation. Then of course we
Speaker 1: had to talk about what the hell Trump was doing
Speaker 1: this week. So I thought it was a fun one
Speaker 1: and I do again want to thank everybody for joining
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Speaker 1: Just trying to grow this into its own community that
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Speaker 1: I am the Cajun Night and as always, God bless