Episode Transcript
[00:00:04] Speaker A: Hi, my name is Brendan Malone and you're listening to the dispatches, the podcast that strives to cut through all the noise in order to challenge the popular narratives of the day with some good old fashioned contrarian thinking. You might not always agree, but at least you'll be taking a deeper look at the world around you.
Hi everybody. Welcome along to this Friday Freebie edition of the Dispatches podcast. My name is Brendan Malone. It is great to be back with you again. And today we have another episode of Dispatches with Dewa. Lots of stuff to talk about this month. And don't forget the second episode. We always break this conversation into two parts, and the second part is available exclusively to our five dollar monthly patrons. So if you want to hear part two on Monday, go to patreon.com leftfootmedia and become a five dollar monthly patron. The link is in today's show notes a huge thank you to our patrons. It's thanks to you that we can keep producing all of this great content. So without any further ado, let's have a listen to this latest edition of Dispatches with Dewa.
Welcome to Dispatches with Dewa, the monthly episode of the Dispatches podcast where we talk with political commentator Dewa DeBoer about exactly what is going on in the world of New Zealand politics, and we discuss and dissect everything that's trending globally as well. Dewa de Boer is a political commentator who runs conservative think tank right minds New Zealand. He also writes a column for the BFD and he has a Friday morning radio show on reality czech radio. He advocates for a return to tradition, is optimistic about the future, and he lives in Auckland with his wife and their three kids. So without any further ado, let's get into this episode of Dispatches with Dewa.
[00:01:55] Speaker B: Run out loud, better run on, run all day till you can't be found. Run out loud, gotta run on, keep on running until the sun goes down.
You can outrun the devil, but you.
[00:02:10] Speaker A: Ain'T gonna outrun me, dewa. Welcome back to another episode of the Dispatchers. And in the background there, one of your hounds of the Baskervilles is scraping away. And so, yeah, this is a very, very domesticated podcast tonight, isn't it?
[00:02:27] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, sorry. I did suggest locking him up somewhere just before we started. But anyway, he's wandering around. He'll settle down at some stage. But if you hear the clickety clackety noises in the background, that's just. That's just the dog. A very old dog. He's like 1516 years old now, and he's in the evening. Sometimes he gets a bit confused and restless and walks around in circles, mate.
[00:02:48] Speaker A: He's earned his right to do whatever he pleases. We'll call him the third guest on the podcast.
Now, we've got lots to talk about over these two, two episodes. This obviously is the free to air episode. And then on Monday, there is the patrons only episode. Holy moly. We're going to be talking about Tim Waltz, we're going to be talking about Kamala Harris. We're going to be talking about the UK behind the paywall. There's lots to talk about. But before we get into any of that, in this free to air episode today, Dewa, the Green Party. The Green Party has been a running theme for what, however many months now for us. And just when you thought, okay, they got a new leader, it's all starting to settle down. They've come to the end of the scandal train. And holy moly, we get this situation of three Green party members resign amid accusations of injustice and racism. And let me just read to you from this Radio New Zealand article. Three Green Party members say they have resigned over the party's treatment of Darlene Tana at the party's AGM. The members are party members, not mp's. The Green co leaders had intentionally smeared Taner's character and integrity. Sorry. And Mana, the trio have said.
Two of them said that former MP Elizabeth Kerikeri had also been subjected to disappointingly disgusting, that's a, quote, treatment. And the Greens had shown blatant disregard for the Pacifica network. Following the death of Efeso Collins, Green Party members will hold a special general meeting on the 1 September to vote on the issue unless Tana resigned before then. So, yeah, Tehiwa, what do you make of this?
[00:04:27] Speaker C: I think I said last month, or it may have been the month before that, that we're getting a Green MP resigning or kicked out every single month at the current rate. So I think I said that we had to keep it, had to have a little look at their party list to make sure that they wouldn't run out of people to put into parliament because, you know, that's always a possibility.
But the accusation of the Green Party is racist. I quite like that because I agree that the Green party is very, very racist. And the problem, though, that the people who are resigning have, of course, is that their demands are not easy to meet because the demands involve basically the end of normal due process for the Greens, where everyone gets the same due process when it comes to a disciplinary issue. And they want different treatment for different MP's of different ethnicities. And when it comes to basically keeping maintaining order and discipline in a party that obviously doesn't work. They want to implement all of this in society, the Greens. But they understand that at some level to maintain order within their own party, they can't do that.
[00:05:40] Speaker A: What's kind of funny too, right? If you can't manage your own party, then what does Jordan Peterson say? You know, make your own bed. If you can get that right every day, then maybe we can trust you with some bigger responsibilities. But they can't even manage a party. And it's interesting to me, it looks like perhaps, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on this, that the Green party is perhaps starting to devolve into that sort of privileged, reactionary youth class that most reactionary revolutionary type movements often spawn from and end up being. Ultimately, because, I don't know, it seems to me that the Green Party, like one of the things that they've been trying to do is really market themselves as sort of being of a broader appeal, right? They're the people who care and they care about everybody and there's a place for everybody in the Greens. It seems they have been trying to market themselves that way over the last ten years. And this.
Yeah, well, things like this tend to undo all of that, I would have thought.
[00:06:39] Speaker C: Well, the Green Party has basically always been led by white people, whether men or women. Their actual front leadership, you know, the frontline leadership have been of european descent, ethnic Europeans. And I mean, that's not strange in a country that's at least still like 70, 80% european.
But I. In the left, this causes problems. And we have talked about the school students strike for climate group in the past, an Auckland division there that disbanded themselves because they said they were, they were irredeemably racist and so they disbanded themselves and they said that no Europeans should fill the gap, that, you know, this climate justice had to be led by people of color and other ethnic minorities. And nobody stepped into the gap, by the way. It just has been dead since then. They murdered their own movement.
They outwoked themselves. The revolution, they shot the, you know, it's like, forget lining people up against the wall and shooting them. They just decided to line themselves up against the wall and then it was over. There was no revolution. There's no more revolution to continue. So, very bizarre situation. Obviously, the Green Party knows it can't function like that. And so it is gotten rid of this attempted insurgency. You could say it was an attempted coup or an attempted revolution or whatever, but it just doesn't work.
The white liberals in the Green party are in control and obviously these more conservative, traditional polynesian cultures are clashing with that liberal core of the Green party and they can't both exist in the same space. And so they're.
These polynesian leaders are being pushed out.
[00:08:24] Speaker A: Well, as the old joke goes, the peasants truly are revolting.
I was reading this article and it kind of reminded me of the tragedy of Efeso CollinS in a sense, that this man I know, people who know him, are on the complete other side of the political spectrum to him and they spoke of him in really high regard. These are people who are absolutely on the sort of christian conservative side who knew him personally and said that he really was a man of character.
And yeah, it was always interesting to me that he popped up in the Greens when he did, but the fact that they've lost him, it just reminded me, like, potentially he was a guy who could have been a real pillar for them to move forward. But there's a lot that they've lost, really, isn't it?
Whether it's brand recognition with someone, some of their higher profile mp's who have gone down the googler of their own making, or whether it's things like this or the sad, tragic death of Efeso Collins, the Green Party is. Well, it's a vacuous shadow of what.
[00:09:26] Speaker C: It was in terms of talent, perhaps, but it does not seem to have dented their electoral prospects at all for the moment. So it remains to be seen whether or not any real depth is necessary in the current political climate.
[00:09:40] Speaker A: Do you think, though, that they might end up with a situation whereby they are just, particularly with Chloe at the helm, almost just a youth movement?
[00:09:50] Speaker C: Well, Chloe will only get older, but for now, in a sense, they are Chloe's movement. And that's not uncommon for minor parties to be led by a single person who represents the movement, as it were. Obviously, New Zealand first with Winston Peters comes to mind. Where Winston Peters is the party, even the act party with David Seymour, in that sense that you get the feeling he is the party. If he's not there, there's no party. Seems the Greens have fully followed that path. In the past. They sort of.
It did feel like they had a bit more depth to them. But now you can tell it's just the Chloe Shawbrook party.
[00:10:30] Speaker A: We're going to move on because we don't want to labour the point and we'll be probably talking about them next month at this rate, if their batting average keeps up. So let's talk about what is, well, should have been really the political news of the decade, and that was the Trump assassination attempt. Holy moly. We were talking last month about the reality of the looming us elections, about where things were heading. We're going to talk more about that in the next episode with the, the other departure. But this astounding moment when someone tried to kill the presidential candidate. And basically, before we get into any of the specifics of the actual, the incident itself and the aftermath of controversy, it seems to me here we are weeks later, and there are still all these unresolved questions about this seemingly almost anonymous young man who carried out this act. And it's just like it's been forgotten. Like almost like no one cares anymore.
[00:11:30] Speaker C: It's becoming more and more common to have these assassins or mass shooters be effectively anonymous. Nobodies just get completely memory holed and there's no information about them.
The only thing that did come up was the founder and CEO of Gab, Andrew Torber, who said he got a request from the FBI about an account that they believe belonged to the shooter. And he simply just posted all the posts that this guy had made in public. And he seemed to, what he was described as being a sort of normal Biden supporter. And since he was positive about Joe Biden's presidency, he was pro immigration. He was.
But no, no strange beliefs, no radical beliefs, and he'd only made a half a dozen comments on the website. And that's, that's about it. That's the only thing that's gone public. The FBI have since kept their, you know, kept the mouth shut a little bit more. They haven't gone out and denied that this was, in fact, an account that belonged to the shooter. That's the reason why they asked him to provide them with that information. But of course, he provided everybody with information because he knew they would simply memory hole it.
[00:12:44] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:12:46] Speaker C: But yeah, it feeds into sort of the conspiracy where it's kind of like, well, the FBI set this guy out to shoot the president or whatever. You know, like, that's what, that's the feeling you get.
And it doesn't, it doesn't sound that crazy of a conspiracy when all said and done, people are rightly asking if that's it, because the media just moved on. It was kind of like, oh, oops, he was supposed to die and didn't die. Oops, forget about that. Let's just move on, let's pretend that didn't happen kind of situation. And if we put the conspiracy aside, then for the reason for them to move on is really just that. They do actually hate him. They do want to defeat him, they do wish that he had died. They would have been genuinely happy if he had died. And they simply want to move on from an event that's a positive for Trump and they want to defeat him at all costs.
And so, of course, they move on as quickly as they can.
[00:13:49] Speaker A: It's quite astounding. That is an aspect of it for me, just the way the media clearly, you're right, it was like they just wanted to get out of this bad, bad place they didn't want to be in. It was the worst of all cases for them, really. All of a sudden, Trump goes from this propaganda zero where they'd worked really hard to put him in the box, put the lid on the box, and all of a sudden he is now just like everyone. I mean, Mark Zuckerberg comes out and says, man, that was just, that was something else. And, you know, you look at that.
[00:14:20] Speaker C: Photo, you know, I saw in that moment, he got up and he, first thing he said, fight. And Mark Zuckerberg, who, you know, Mark Zuckerberg, stopped eating seed oils and started lifting weights. And suddenly he's turned into like a man again. He's no longer like a robotic lizard creature. He's like, he just, he just stopped, stopped consuming seed oils and soy and started, you know, picking up some sports, did some jujitsu, got thrown around on the mat, threw a few punches, did a bit of wrestling, and, oh, wow, suddenly he's a real mandeh.
[00:14:57] Speaker A: It's quite funny, that moment, apparently. I read somewhere, I think yesterday, Trump has said, I think it was on truth social, that Zuckerberg has actually since also apologised to him for censoring material last election campaign around his campaign. So how much of this is Trump's sort of typical, sort of bloviating hyperbole and expansion of truth is another thing, but it seems believable.
[00:15:22] Speaker C: And he is back, apparently, on the meta networks. He's back on Instagram, back on Facebook posting, and his campaign is fully reinstated, as I understand it, although I haven't seen anything myself on those platforms, I don't use them very much, but it seems to be the case. Unfortunately, Trump hasn't gone back to Twitter, but Elon Musk is trying to interview him next week, I believe.
[00:15:45] Speaker A: Yeah, that's happening.
[00:15:45] Speaker C: He will be back on there whether or not it's still a thing for us to talk about next month. I don't know, but it's definitely something people should keep an eye on and would be an interview worth listening to.
[00:15:55] Speaker A: How we'll talk about Elon probably in the next episode when we talk about the UK, because in the last 12 hours, he is suddenly being targeted with some very extreme and I think very serious vitriolic accusations that are quite defamatory but very serious, too, in nature. We'll talk about those in the next episode. By the way, folks, if you want to hear the next episode, go to patreon.com leftfootmedia. Become a dollar five monthly patron. The link is in today's show notes. But dewa, that photo, I mean, that is, I mean, the media might have moved on, but that image, I look at that image and even just sort of the symbolic framing of it, it has a almost similar type of iconography to the famous planting of the flag during World War Two during the Pacific campaign. It's got that kind of flag. That's exactly, yeah, exactly that one. Now it's different, obviously, the makeup of the photo, but it's got that kind of, I mean, that, I mean, talk about a moment, the flag in the background, the fist in the air, it's just, it's something else. Right?
[00:16:59] Speaker C: I've got a, an account that I follow on Twitter that reposts the, the video every day, and there's several others that post the photo. So I see it come across my feed almost every day and I'll say, you know, remember, you know, daily reminder that you witnessed a miracle that, you know, just a few days ago, a few weeks ago, a few months ago, like, so keep, I keep looking at it. I keep coming back to it almost every single day because it just, to me, one of the most amazing moments in politics that I've ever witnessed in my life and perhaps that I will witness in my life. So something that is worth dwelling on for extended periods of time, I think.
[00:17:40] Speaker A: It'Ll be one of those things, too, where people remember where they were. Like, I can tell you exactly where we were. And it was after church Sunday morning, and we were out with some friends who don't live in our neck of the woods and we don't often see. And we went out for a coffee and with our two families. And next minute this message pings in from my wife's brother, who's in, they were in the states at the time, actually, and he said, someone's just tried to kill Trump. And, like, it's one of those kind of moments where you're like, what? No. And it's almost like in an information heavy, where we're constantly bombarded world with just constant images and everything else all the time on our devices, this was still something that cut through all of that and burned into your memory.
[00:18:25] Speaker C: Certainly I can remember where I was, like I said, Sunday, having lunch. Basically, I'd made the lunch. Amy, Amy was away and I'd made lunch, and I was expecting a message from another family member. And I glanced at my phone and I saw that I had like a dozen messages on my phone. I thought, that's weird. You know, people like, people know that I'm not available on Sunday and why, why am I getting all these messages? And, wow, someone's tried to assassinate the president. President Trump in the United States. Wow.
And, yeah, it wasn't until much later that I, you know, followed up on it properly. I just checked. Oh, he survived. Okay. Phew.
[00:18:57] Speaker A: You know, yeah, yeah.
[00:18:58] Speaker C: I always remember that, you know, where I was standing. Where I was standing, basically. I'll remember exactly when I, when I looked at it. Yeah.
[00:19:05] Speaker A: Amazing stuff.
There's one other thing I want to talk about relating to the actual assassination attempt. But before we get there, just in the aftermath, obviously, the Republican Congress happened and there were lots of interesting moments there. We'll talk more about that in the next episode. But what did you think of the speech afterwards?
Because this was a big moment and the floor was basically handed to Trump in that moment. How do you feel about that speech?
[00:19:36] Speaker C: I think the speech was, was well delivered. I'm not sure if it was iconic in a sense that it made a big impact. The thing that I remember from the speech was the uniform of the firefighter and the helmet that they had up. The firefighter who was killed.
[00:19:54] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:19:54] Speaker C: And he kissed the helmet in that, enduring that speech. That's all I really remember from the speech. That's maybe the only thing anyone will remember from the speech in that moment. But he, he spoke very calmly and he went on, and I didn't even listen to the whole speech because he went on and on like, yeah, like for an hour and a half, which was an amazing comparison to, you know, Joe Biden, who is gone now. But even Kamala Harris, I couldn't, I don't think she could speak for an hour and a half and, yeah, yeah. So he, he seemed, he seemed very humbled by it as well. I think in terms of, as his speeches go, it was a very calm speech and he seemed, seemed like he had been very touched by what had happened in a very serious way.
[00:20:41] Speaker A: Yeah, he did a, my personal take is that the first probably 20 minutes of that speech were pretty good. And he really, I thought, wow, this is a very strategic moment where they're going to take full advantage of it. But then I think he probably went too long. I did listen to the whole thing because I was doing other things. So I had it going in the background. And it was interesting how he, he peaked and then he would dip again. It was not like Joe Biden rambling, but it was just, it would sort of go back to a typical energy and then he would go up again and then he'd be usual Trump. And then he went off script a couple times, told some jokes. The left hate the fact that he's talking about Hannibal Lecter. He said, they really hate that. And I just, for me, I look at it and I go, yeah, there's things that I would disagree with about Trump and there's things about his character that we should rightly critique. But you know what? He also just reminds me of many of my relatives and ordinary, everyday, I guess, like a dad or an uncle or. You know what I mean? Like, I think if you've lived in sanity world, you know, and you've had a pretty normal upbringing, then this does not seem weird at all. Do you know what I mean? It's just, it's very normal. But if you've isolated yourself in the liberal bubble in, like, really extreme ways, I'm not going to Thanksgiving with my relatives because they vote the wrong way, then, yeah, you, obviously, this must be just totally foreign. He must be speaking another language as far as you're concerned.
[00:22:07] Speaker C: You're making me think of this poll that David Farrar from courier polling released just this week, where he said he was surprised. He was shocked, even he did polling in New Zealand as to who, you know, would New Zealanders vote for Kamala Harris or for Donald Trump? And he said that among younger people, there was more support for Donald Trump than among older people in New Zealand, and that he was very surprised by that. And I thought, well, I'm not surprised by that. It's, the older people are more likely to be plugged in to the mainstream media. They're plugged in to the propaganda machine, and it's the younger people who are less likely to be plugged into propaganda, and they would see these organic moments from Trump or they wouldn't, you know, they wouldn't hear all the negative propaganda and they'd have a far more normal view of him.
[00:22:51] Speaker A: Well, it's also too, I think the progressives made a real, like, as much as the media, mainstream media ran into fearance for them. This is where you're right. This is the online spaces where younger people are. And in those spaces, consistently, the progressives are cannibalizing themselves and doing stupid things. And one of them was, they ridiculed that moment where he went and kissed the helmet of the firefighter. And they said, look, they couldn't even get their prop right. His name's spelt wrong. Without realizing that, in actual fact, that was his exact jacket. Everyone in the family and everyone on the other side who actually did care that someone had been killed knew already that this was like a, it was like a gaffe of sorts. They didn't have enough space, I don't think, to fit the full name on. And so that's what they did. Everyone knew that. And it was just, it was a beautiful sort of organic, everyday messiness of life type thing. But to the left, they saw a moment to pounce and attack and they looked, and, like, not just idiots, but they looked like absolute sociopaths.
Like, this is a dead man. It's a memorial. It's, you know, everything that you, a humane person, wouldn't do in that moment, they did. And young people are there watching this and they see this happening time and time again at the moment.
[00:24:03] Speaker C: It is. One of the things that does come up in the social media bubbles is that people latch onto very strange details or strange narratives. And sometimes I see it, if you go and look into another bubble or something comes across your feed from another bubble and you think, wow, this is weird. It's really strange. These people are commenting on this particular thing or mocking this particular thing. It just seems.
Just seems so disconnected from reality. And it can be, people can, from our side can get caught up in that, too. Of course, you should be careful of it. You're not detaching yourself from reality and getting, like, really focused in on a, on a really bizarre piece of media.
[00:24:46] Speaker A: That's right. We're not toxic roadway rage warriors. We should be conservatives trying to conserve goodness, truth and beauty. And that means online as well.
The one thing I wanted to talk about, though, was the, a lot of people have made reference to this, the DEI and competency crisis in all of this because, I mean, I don't, I think this is inescapable, right.
And this has fueled the conspiracy theory stuff, I think.
But I think, you know, you don't need to attribute much to malice here, the ineptitude on display was very real and just something to behold. I mean, when we found out, I think it was well after the fact, wasn't it? When we found out that the police were guarding the roof from inside the building, you're like, wow, they just didn't. They didn't care. And maybe no one was aware that that's not a smart thing to do when you have the job that they have been entrusted with. It's just. And seeing all of the members of Congress, even AOC, in agreement, and really grilling the head of the secret service because they know that it could be them next time, because they recognise, I think, that, yeah, there's a competency problem here. It was just. It was just shocking, right?
[00:26:02] Speaker C: The director of the secret Service did resign in the end, I believe, and she'd made comments there about how the sloped roof was health and safety concern.
Completely insane.
And that's, again, like, that's diversity hires, that's the competency issues where people are put in charge of these agencies because they're breaking glass ceilings or whatever and they're meeting quotas and there's no.
No real focus on actual skill.
And this has created another reason why you have conspiracy theories. Because they knew the roof was there. It had been identified, they were deliberately not looking at the roof. You had members of the public who saw the sniper climb onto the roof and walk on the roof for 2030 minutes before he opened fire and. And, like, telling the police and the secret Service, and they didn't do anything. Then you had the audio of the guy who had him in his sights and basically like, no, no, you don't have permission to shoot because I guess the people in charge were like, oh, you might kill someone. You know, which that. I mean, that's kind of the point, isn't it?
[00:27:11] Speaker A: Yeah. Gosh.
[00:27:14] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. So, like you say, like, at this point, can you really tell the difference between incompetence or malice?
It becomes the same thing. They become indistinguishable.
[00:27:26] Speaker A: Well, there is a certain moral argument, I think, that when you have a degree of incompetence that is that grave, it actually does become an act of lovelessness. You lack love for virtue and you lack love for, in this case, the subject that you are supposed to be guarding to such a degree that you don't actually care enough to do what is right and proper. And there is. I think there is an argument in that it doesn't even necessarily need to be any great conspiracy it just, you know, that lack of virtue.
[00:27:55] Speaker C: Yeah. Like you said in that they didn't care. I believe a number of his agents had been pulled away to protect the president's wife, who was speaking in the area somewhere else. So they had already pulled resources away from him to protect someone else, which, like I said, goes to show that just were not serious about. About keeping him safe. Of course, now they are, because they have to be. But he nearly died because they didn't care.
[00:28:22] Speaker A: Man. Just astounding stuff. Moving on. Speaking of didn't care, the Paris Olympics, the opening ceremony we had. Did you watch this?
[00:28:34] Speaker C: No. No. So I just put this in the notes. I should have told you. I was like, I haven't seen it. I like, I've seen a few photos. I've seen a few photos. Haven't seen any video at all. I've seen two photos from the Olympic opening ceremony and haven't really watched any of the actual events and things. I've seen some of the funny clips and stuff that people will share, the things that people are enjoying. But no, I don't do the Olympics.
[00:28:58] Speaker A: You didn't need to bleach your eyes out then after, which is, you know, you're blessed.
We don't even need to talk about the absurd gaslighting that went on after they snuck in subversive imagery of the Last Supper. If you're interested in that, I did a whole podcast episode last Friday where I just went through over an hour and 40 minutes and broke it all down and explained how layering and artistic symbolism works and how this sort of subversive behavior goes. But the fact that they even had a deviant sort of orgy depiction, the opening of the Olympics, they've got three militant, pro abortion female activists rising from the river of filth, which we know it is now. A river of filth. Athletes have told us that of those ten statues, three of them were militant pro abortion activists. Another one was an anarchist who promoted class warfare and political violence. I mean, it's just like, trust the French to post enlightenment France. Sorry, I should say.
[00:30:00] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, this is what we talked about last month, wasn't it?
The french revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. You know, this is France. This is the consequence of the french revolution. And you saw it. You get to see it on full display in France. When they get their chance to show the world who they really are, they do a really good job of it.
[00:30:21] Speaker A: I'll tell you what, they didn't build the Notre Dame cathedral. That was before all the madness broke out in France. But they gave us a blue Smurf demon orgy depiction of a guy singing some awful weird song about nudity. It was just mental.
[00:30:38] Speaker C: And they can still imitate the past. Aren't you talking about the Notre Dame? They could rebuild it. They haven't quite finished yet. I was just watching a video on the infrastructure of rebuilding it. But they rebuilt it as it was, and they made arguments about innovating on it. But because it's the modern, they couldn't have made improvements on it, as has potentially been done in the past to some of these buildings where things have been fixed up and improved even, or they've gone above and beyond. But because of how decayed things are in the moderna society, ultimately they one of the few smart things that it was. Okay, we're not going to try to change anything. We're just going to put it back as it was, which we can still do. But it does tell you that we no longer have the ability to kind of make things better. No, but at the very least, we have the ability to sort of replicate the past, which is that's still a good thing to be able to do because the worst, you could say the worst, like, oh, sorry, we don't know how to put it back together anymore.
[00:31:39] Speaker A: What a beautiful, grand old lady to replicate as well. If you're gonna imitate something, that's the thing to replicate. But, yeah, that is a good point. They are so philosophically bereft and the cultural decline is such now that, yeah, if you don't have a motivation to build beautiful things and grand things and noble things, you won't do it. It's just that simple. You won't. You will engineer concrete block buildings, super max prisons from the future. But this Olympics, I think, is shaping up possibly to be the worst. And I really do think that on memory, that certainly that I can remember, you've got the opening ceremony debacle even regardless of how you feel about that. You might be the most rabid, militant, you know, french revolutionary atheist type who just loves, you know, the iconoclasm and everything else, but still, you got to admit, that was just cheap garbage.
The boxing scandal that's going on over there now, the food issues, apparently they decided they were going to force vegan fear upon athletes in the village. And the athletes are sneaking out to get meat because it's not enough, the filthy river that they've been forced to swim in. And I saw one triathlete, she said, I saw things under that bridge that no one should ever have to see or be near. So how many dead bodies were in there? The AC. Apparently there was issues with the AC in the village, and they were warning about the dangers of a possible heat wave and people dying in the Olympic village. Last week, they hung the flag upside down at the opening ceremony, and they called South Korea North Korea. Not a gaffe, but they actually named it wrong in the programs. Man, this is just.
What is this?
[00:33:21] Speaker C: Well, the first thing I would say is, yes, it is the worst. And I would expect every Olympics to be the worst Olympics. And in terms of talking about social decay and decline, you would expect every Olympics to become worse than the previous one. Although I do hope that people will be able to say in the future, this one was the worst. I certainly hoped that would be the case, because I don't want it to get worse, but it's certainly possible.
[00:33:47] Speaker A: This is incompetence again. I guess it's the competency crisis come to the Olympics.
[00:33:51] Speaker C: Yeah, it is. It's diversity, equity, and inclusion on display for everyone to see again. And we will see more of that unless it's pulled back. And we know that Elon Musk has become the greatest proponent of destroying diversity, equity, inclusion. He's declaring war on it. He's posting all the time, but he's going to war. It's war, war. And it's because he's realized, and he explained this as well, he basically said he just wants to run his company and make money, and he wants to make technology and make cool stuff and send people to the other, colonize this whole system, whatever he wants to do. And because of diversity, equity, inclusion, he can't do. It literally will no longer be possible to create competent businesses, to make money, to achieve technological feats that eclipse anything that mankind has done before.
Diversity, equity, inclusion makes it impossible. And that's why he's just openly gone to war with it, because he sees it as an existential threat to any kind of human progress, which at least technological progress. We can debate about whether progress is a good thing depending on the context. But in Elon Musk's context, where he wants technological progress, technological advance, the growth of the human species, none of those, I think, are necessarily bad things. Reaching out to the heavens, increasing our understanding of God's creation and so on, that's what we want to do, and we need to be able to do those things, and that it's good to be able to do those things. And if you support diversity, equity, and inclusion. Well, then you are at war with humanity itself.
[00:35:24] Speaker A: Well, it's like a cancerous rot, too, because that's where it starts. It peels off the top layer, which is the grand, noble quest that we can't achieve anymore, and then it keeps peeling. And then you end up in situations where you can't even trust your local airline to get you somewhere without crashing the plane. That's the kind of madness that probably starts happening next. And I don't know, man, I really hope we turn it around before then.
[00:35:49] Speaker C: But Boeing has got astronauts trapped on the international space Station, as we see, because Boeing can't get their spacecraft back down. You know, people make jokes about their planes. And unfortunately, I booked some flights on a Boeing plane in the near future. In the near future. So I'm wondering whether I need to cancel those now. But putting that aside for a moment, you know, like, it's only, it's only going to get worse unless we put a stop to it.
[00:36:14] Speaker A: Yeah, I agree. And the Olympics. The Olympics is the canary in the coal mine. For those who didn't get the message, we've got one more issue to talk about. Dewa in this episode, this free to air episode. We're doing pretty good for time, actually. We're doing all right. Great.
[00:36:27] Speaker C: Keep going. We're doing great.
[00:36:28] Speaker A: Now, before I do that, though, folks, don't forget this is the free to air episode and we've got some nice juicy issues to talk about behind the paywall. We're going to talk about JD Vance, the new vice president. We're going to talk about Biden, his sunset departure. We're going to talk about Kamala Harris. We're going to talk about Tim Waltz, and we're going to talk about the UK, what's going on over there in the UK, because holy moly, it's really kicked off in a big way over there. If you want to get access to that, go to patreon.com leftfootmedia. Become a five dollar monthly patron. The link is in today's show notes Dewa. Before we close up this episode, though, Maduro wins in Venezuela. But yeah, I mean, we all saw the exit polls that were going wildly in one direction, but then the final election result went the other way. So clearly, you know, something's gone on here.
[00:37:25] Speaker C: Well, firstly, to all of the listeners, if you're not a communist like Maduro, you should make sure you've gone to sign up for your five dollar monthly subscription. Please do, to pay for your media. We're capitalists here.
And then getting back to Venezuela and the communists, well, it's difficult to know what really went on or what's really going on there because obviously he's not committed to free and fair elections. So you know that he's only worried about winning and staying in power and there's a massive amount of corruption there and definitely he could have rigged the election.
The other side of this is interesting too. Like his side in a sense is interesting to know because the accusation there is the polling company that did the exit poll is connected with a lot of these international ngo's that are connected with Americans and other people who are connected with the CIA and so on. So there's sort of the accusation that this is an attempted color revolution by the CIA to overthrow Maduro with a government that would be friendly to the United States of America.
[00:38:39] Speaker A: Hold on, dewa dear. How could you say so? I mean, America would never do that. CIA has never done anything like this in its decades long history, since World War two. Oh, no, no.
[00:38:48] Speaker C: I know you're being sarcastic, but they have openly. You had. Was it Bolton? I think Bolton. The Bolton did an interview where he basically just openly said, yeah, we overthrow people's governments. And then the reporter's like, well, you don't do this anymore, do you? And then he just wouldn't, he wouldn't answer the question.
[00:39:05] Speaker A: Well, yes, we haven't done it today.
[00:39:07] Speaker C: No, you're not doing it right now, are you?
[00:39:10] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm being interviewed by you on that point, can I say? I'm reading a fascinating new historical book at the moment called Ascent to Power. And it's about FDR's unexpected sudden death in office, end of World War two. And then after him comes, oh, gosh, I can't even think of his name right now.
Terrible. Totally slipped my mind. But, yeah. So FDR, is it Truman or is he Montreal? Truman? Yeah. Yeah.
[00:39:42] Speaker C: Okay. I was gonna save you. I was like, should I save him? And then I thought, what if I get it wrong? It'll be embarrassing.
[00:39:47] Speaker A: All I could think of was haberdashery, because he was a failed haberdasher. And so that's all I could think of. I couldn't remember his name. So shocking. I'm reading a book about it at the moment, but yeah, it's a great book by David L. Roll. And it's interesting because it's just this history of these, like, from the end of World War Two, these moments of crisis. Plus Truman, who wasn't even expected to be that good in the role. And what's interesting is the beginnings of all of this. And it's these interesting insights I'd never really gleaned before about the very genesis of this madness in this America, as, you know, team America, world police. And, and, yeah, it's absolutely fascinating. And there's some really shaky beginnings to all of this. It's not like something that started out well and then got off track. The whole project from the very beginning was sketchy, basically. And you're right, it's been going on for decades now. It has been the american way.
[00:40:43] Speaker C: FDR basically built the deep state. What we know is the deep state today. He built it is basically FDR still in power.
[00:40:50] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:40:51] Speaker C: Ruling the world from beyond the grave.
One of the, was it the emperor of mankind who's like strapped to his throne and he's just a rotting corpse still pulling the, pulling the strings might as well be. That's sort of how you could describe the, the american system at the moment. Yeah. Back to Venezuela, though. Yeah, I, you know, what, what can really, what's really going on there is basically impossible to know because it's corruption. It's corruption on Maduro's side. He's a corrupt communist. And then the opposition is backed by the intelligence agencies of America and possibly the global intelligence agencies, the western intelligence agencies. So it's really hard to know what's actually going on. I do think the opposition would be better, especially if you support America. You're like, oh, great. I don't care how the opposition wins, as long as they do win. If the CIA puts them in power, well, at least they're putting our guy in power, so it wouldn't be a bad thing. In fact, I would say it would even be a good thing if Maduro was removed. It doesn't look like that's happening, though. It seems he has got proper control of the country. He's putting down the protests, he's issuing arrest warrants for the leaders of the opposition, basically saying they tried to, with foreign influence, run a coup against him. And so he's going to put them in jail, which is of course lovely to see that leaders of the opposition get thrown in prison. Good sign of a healthy, functioning society.
[00:42:15] Speaker A: Yeah, of course.
Wouldn't it be ironic too, though, if America was actually involved in doing what they've been accusing Russia of doing for about five years now?
[00:42:26] Speaker C: I guarantee you that they're doing it. So that's not really, that's not even up for debate in my opinion.
[00:42:32] Speaker A: Well, it's a mess and you're right. I think people need to understand as well that the South Americans, they do actually like their socialist dictator types. They do. They have a. I mean, they did. They've experienced a whole lot of american interference in the history of that for many decades and it's really steeped in their understanding of who they are and what they fight against and who they see as the enemy. And you really can't understate the very real possibility that they have actually voted him into power and that he did actually win by a margin, a smaller margin because possibly they saw him as better than the alternative.
[00:43:12] Speaker C: And yeah, that is definitely possible, but unfortunately there's no actual way for us to know for sure.
[00:43:19] Speaker A: Yeah. What happens from here, do you think?
[00:43:23] Speaker C: Very hard to predict the future, Brendan.
I'm no prophet. I don't want to become a false prophet either by giving it, trying to tell people what's going to happen in the future. But it seemed to me, like I've just said here, that he will hold on to power for another term and that he will put down the opposition. What happens after, you know, what happens to the opposition? Do you get a different kind of opposition rise? We're not sure.
You just can't really know that. It just seems like Venezuela is stable in a sense, stable under Maduro for the foreseeable future.
[00:44:00] Speaker A: Well, if he's serious about the accusations, he's probably going to want to beef up, sorry, his security detail as well. No Dei hires for that man because that could be the next step that they try and utilise.
[00:44:14] Speaker C: And he'll probably strengthen his friendships with China, with Russia and so on, the Brics, the eastern bloc. He's solidly behind them. So in terms of global geopolitics, that's where you'd expect to see greater.
I mean, he's already very closely aligned with them, but I would assume that he will double down on that, triple.
[00:44:34] Speaker A: Down on that dewa. We're going to leave it there for the free to air episode. Tell people again where they can go and check out your other content.
[00:44:42] Speaker C: So if you're listening to this on Friday morning, go and tune into reality czech radio at 01:00 p.m. for my show, weekly show on reality czech radio. I have a column on.
A weekly column, Saturday mornings on Goodoil News used to be the BFD, which is, I say, gone. It's been replaced with a new iteration called Goodoil News and I'm continuing my columns there now. I did take a break for a couple of months, but I'm back. And you can also go to writeminds NZ to find all of my other writings.
[00:45:19] Speaker A: Dewa thank you so much folks. Don't forget if you want to hear the rest of our conversation, and holy moly, we've got some juicy stuff to talk about. JD Vance, Biden, Kamala Harris, Tim Waltz and the UK rights, of course. And probably a whole lot of other banter as well, but it's all going to be in there. Go to patreon.com leftfootmedia. The link is in today's show notes and become a five dollar monthly patron. We will say goodbye and also thank you to our patrons. It's thanks to you that these episodes can keep happening, but we'll say goodbye to everyone else until next week. And patrons, we'll see you in a little bit on Monday morning.
[00:45:58] Speaker C: Thank you for listening, everyone, and until next time.
[00:46:08] Speaker B: Gonna come for you.
So my trigger fingers stay prepared. I've got my weapon and I got my prayers. Cause if you don't run this town, they'll walk all over you.
Run out loud?
Keep on running till the sun goes down. Run out loud.
Run all day till you can't be found now gotta run on. Keep on running till the sun goes down.
You can outrun the devil, but you ain't gonna outrun me.
