[00:00:02] Speaker A: Hear the sound of the waves.
Breathe in and breathe out.
This is Views from the Sea on yct with Mark McZee and I just want to welcome you to. I suppose this is like the pilot episode of Views from the Sea.
Someone turned that water off. Try to get podcast and if you have been following you call that radios audio podcast before, you'll know that the majority of episodes are interviews or conversations with interesting people.
And then usually about once a month I do a thing called this is the News and that's basically where I take the best bits from. You call that radio's YouTube channel and mash them all together. So it's kind of like an usual about. Until when I get about an hour worth of stuff, I usually mash it all together.
And yeah, that's this Is the News, but I'm replacing this Is the News with Views from the Sea.
And the reason being is predominantly this is supposed to be a music and arts and community show and I don't want to always talk about the news because the news can be quite depressing.
But at the same time, having a platform and not saying anything about anything when the world is in this kind of shape would also be wrong.
So by calling it Views from the Sea, it means that I can talk about things that might not be in the news, or just opinions or thoughts or talk about things that happened ages ago or things that are about to happen.
And it just basically frees up. So the view from the Sea could be about something that's happening in the news and that's what's going to happen, I think mostly in today's show and. And it's called Views from the Sea because I have moved to. I've moved next to the seaside. So it's Views from the Sea because it's Views from the Sea. There could be Views from the Sea because it's a cunt, but you know, that word doesn't mean the same thing in Scotland usually.
I told you, can you turn that water off inside?
I don't care if it's winter water.
Turn that off.
Cheers.
And another thing that's a little bit different is I think I'm just going to release Views from the Sea when it's ready.
Like, rather than wait a full month and then you're getting news or things that happened that month before.
The. The news is moving too fast these days.
The opinion that I had two weeks ago isn't always correct.
So where's.
This is pretty up to date. All this stuff happened in the last week. So we're going to start with the, the BAFTA controversy featuring John Davidson, who's obviously you've already heard about it, but I responded to that as soon as it happened.
I think I might also throw in Dan McGarvey's take on it because since then an apology has been made from John Davidson's team as well. So maybe I'd done the Garvey's taken after my take because the news has happens quite fast.
Then after that, Prince Andrew, sorry, the, the guy formerly known as Prince Andrew was arrested. He still has been arrested. He's been released since. But you know, he did get arrested. So that's still nothing's changed much in that regard.
And we're talking about Scottish AI rapper. There's a Scottish AI rapper now.
So that's a thing now.
So I'll add that in as well.
And then there's a couple of things that have changed. There was that one.
This seems so long ago now, but remember Trump went into a Latin American country and stole a president in a helicopter. Did you hear about that?
Do you remember that?
A month is a long time in politics. So I'll probably put that on at the end just to kind of take it up to an hour long show and then from then on I'm going to worry less about trying to make it a full hour.
Just when something happens. Just put it up.
Coming up, I'm actually interviewing Becky Wallace tomorrow. So that should be out with with you soon.
And we recorded a few episodes of beyond the Cringe panel show hosted by Jim Monaghan.
One's about television and one's about politics. The probably the next episode after today's will be beyond the Cringe about television featuring myself, Jim Onan, Tom Ury and Andrea Gibb. So it's a really good show.
Shouts to Glad Radio for hosting us.
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And we're starting with the BAFTA controversy. You call that radio?
John Davidson is a man from Scotland with severe Tourette Syndrome.
He's a bit of a celebrity in Scotland because there's been many documentaries made about him you can watch on YouTube. And last year a film on his life called I Swear was released. It's an incredible, moving, heartwarming, funny, sad.
It's one of the best films I've seen in a very long time. It was made in Scotland with next to zero budget.
And last night at the baftas should have been a really good night for John and all the team.
And obviously it's caused a lot of controversy because he was shouting out inappropriate things. First BAFTA of the night for a vital part of movie making.
We're here to celebrate in a place which is very troubled. We are delighted to be presenting the
[00:08:35] Speaker B: BAFTA for Supporting Actor this evening.
[00:08:40] Speaker A: A lot of people, but especially the one that this one has been talked about, is quite right with him dropping the N word.
And it's just the one thing that anyone who's watched the movie is didn't want to happen.
I think it's. I can totally understand people getting offended and.
But there is some context to this.
If you've not seen the film, please watch the film.
It explains it all.
This is a guy who's been beat up, lost jobs.
His whole life has been a nightmare because of this illness. And the film explains it really well.
In the film he says, fuck the Queen or something when he's meeting the Queen.
This is a horrible thing to happen.
And obviously he spent his whole life having to deal with the repercussions of him saying things that he doesn't want to say out loud all the time.
But this is the first time that the. The media are all over him and everybody.
You know, there's people saying that he meant to say that.
He didn't mean to say that stuff. This is what the movie is about, and it's heartbreaking. And he. What? He left the baftas of his own accord, halfway through because he realized that it shouldn't. That it was bad, it was going bad. He didn't want to be there. Nobody wanted me to be there.
He's not gonna be feeling good today. I hate to see people jumping down his throat.
Oh, man, it's such a shit situation.
And that's. Obviously, I can't tell the black community how to feel or how anyone should feel about hearing that words blotted out loud.
But there is context to it. He's not racist. He didn't mean to say it. And this is the only time that I've ever.
Or I would ever defend someday a white person using that word.
But please watch the film.
There is context to it. I've seen comparisons been made with Kramer and, you know, that south park episode and everything like that.
That is not a fair comparison. Kramer was a comedian who was having a bad night, and he just lost control and tried to be edgy.
And, you know, he's faced the consequences since then.
This is a completely different thing.
Please watch a documentary.
Please educate yourself on the illness. That's what the film is all about.
The.
The two things that. Obviously it's horrific for people that were on stage. They think they're getting heckled. They don't understand what's going on.
It's ridiculous that it took the baftas an hour and a half into the award ceremony before they got Alan Cummings to go on stage and explain the Tourette's syndrome is. And how this is an involuntary text. He cannot stop himself from saying these things.
[00:12:10] Speaker B: You may have heard some strong and offensive language tonight. If you have seen the film, I swear you will know that film is about the experience of a person with Tourette's syndrome. Tourette syndrome is a disability, and the tics you've heard tonight are involuntary, which means the person who has Tourette's syndrome has no control over their language. We apologize if you were offended.
[00:12:29] Speaker A: Maybe this could have been explained at the beginning.
Also BBC for them to keep that in to court controversy while at the same time removing Free Palestine day today
[00:12:46] Speaker C: and forever for Nigeria, for London, the Congo, Sudan.
[00:12:49] Speaker A: Free Palestine.
[00:12:50] Speaker C: Thank you.
[00:12:52] Speaker A: So it was run a two hour delay, so this didn't need to be broadcast, but they, they did broadcast it anyway.
And I suppose that should, that would have been the big story, would have been, why is BBC cutting out Free Palestine? Why. Why is BBC not wanting someone to, to take an anti genocide stance?
It's a total mess.
The BAFTA should explain the better at the start and BBC should, if they're going to, if they're not going to censor that, then they shouldn't be censoring Free Palestine.
But they did because it suits their agenda. And now you've got these big arguments breaking out online where people are saying you're either racist or you're ableist. And I don't want to be either of those.
But I do understand, without any context, if nobody knows John Davidson's story and they're just reading clickbait headlines, then they're quite right to be outraged.
[00:13:53] Speaker D: John Davidson is the most remarkable man I've ever met.
He's so forthcoming with education that he believes there's still so much more that we need to learn about Tourette's. And tonight especially, I just want to say that for people living with Tourette's, it's us around them that help define what their experience is. So to quote the film, they need support and understanding. Thank you so much.
[00:14:19] Speaker A: You know, he would have been really nervous and unfortunately when there's nerves and there's pressure, then he's more likely to blot out something.
It's a mess. It's a mess. And I just want, Obviously I'm not telling people how to feel, but I would just strongly recommend you watch the movie before jumping to any conclusions about who he is, what he is and why he did what he did.
The film is a brilliant piece of work. I did a review on it last year. It's.
It needs to be celebrated. And by watching the film you understand what it's all about and it's just, it's the one thing you don't want to see.
Yeah, watch the film. I would say watch it. Watch the film.
And then before you, before you, you jump on it. And also, by the way, I just want to. Also, I posted up something earlier on in Facebook without knowing all the information and I was corrected about a couple of things as well.
So it's always a problem with breaking news and try to jump in. You don't evolve full context and understand some people don't have full context. I didn't have full context earlier on and yeah, it was a bit worse than I thought it was.
It's made worse by the fact that BAFTA didn't tell anyone for an hour and a half what was going on.
It's made worse by the fact that John Davison had to escort himself out because he felt. He felt shit.
And it's. It's horrific for people who are on that stage to hear things like that being shouted on stage.
But the BBC to take out Free Palestine, but then keep that in. Now everybody's talking about this rather than the Free Palestine. I don't know.
And I'm also.
Feel free to educate me in the comments if I'm wrong here, but I think watch the movie and you may feel a little bit differently to how you feel without watching the film.
You call that radio?
Since I made that video just 40 hours ago, John Davidson made a statement which has been getting a bit of a mixed response. I think in general, everyone in Scotland seems to be supportive of John Davidson, but internationally it's not. Went down amazingly well.
And what I thought I would do is, is I would bring Dan McGarvey in.
Who a friend of the show, Dan McGarvey.
But Darren's got great insight into this. As somebody who became very famous overnight when he won the Orwell Prize, he's wrote a book about the trauma industrial complex and he'll be touring that all across the UK over the spring and summer.
[00:17:23] Speaker C: Why did John Davidson release a statement to the press?
In order to clarify his thoughts about what went down at the baftas.
He released that statement because he's under pressure, because he has become a lightning rod for a massive controversy in the entertainment world, a controversy which comprises disability, racism.
And these are issues that are very serious and close to a lot of people's hearts.
So the reason the statement was issued was because it's recognized that John played a role in that situation.
And while he certainly didn't intend for the fallout to occur, he's acknowledging that he was part of it.
The point of the statement is to get people off his back.
The point of the statement is to try and work his way out of a lot of the pressure that he's under.
Now, either he wrote that statement himself, if he did, he's been left for bed, or a public relations person crafted that statement for him and then he signed off on it.
Either way, if we judge the effectiveness of a public statement based on the metric of whether it actually calms a situation down and creates clarity or makes people angrier and creates confusion, the statement has failed.
The fact the statement was put out and Itself is an acknowledgment that there was an issue, which is why I'm confused about the wording of the statement.
And it doesn't seem like the statement and what she says he's mortified by the idea that anyone would think that him using racial slurs was intentional as opposed to a result of involuntary vocal tics.
The confusing thing for me is that just one or two extra sentences in that statement before that thing about him being mortified, I think, would have made the statement that much more effective.
Now, the argument online seems to be a disagreement between people about the purpose of an apology.
Some people see an apology as accepting full accountability and culpability for whatever injury has occurred.
Other people see it as an opportunity to show a bit of curiosity and empathy for an injured party, irrespective of what you believe your level of culpability and their pain is.
Think about it like this.
If you're driving a car and the brakes fail and your vehicle smashes into another car and damages some property by the roadside, what is the first thing that you think when you get out of the car?
You run over to the injured parties, you open the door and do you check if they're okay and apologize for what has occurred?
Or is the first thing that you do, make sure that everyone knows in that moment of trauma, in that moment of heightened stress and vigilance, make sure they know it's not your fault, or make sure that they understand that any pain that they might be experiencing maybe is a result of them not interpreting what has happened in the correct way.
See, that's the sort of thing that reveals a lack of understanding about the art of the apology.
With an apology, particularly one at the public relations level.
Let's remember, the whole point is to try and take the sting out of a controversy. To try and create a bit of clarity is to try and get the rhetoric dialed down.
The point of it, if you're going to go to the trouble of doing it, is to show a little bit of an understanding of the difficulty for the injured party.
That doesn't mean that John would be saying, okay, cool, you got me. I must be racist. Okay, you got me. It's all my fault.
Simply to say, the brakes broke on my car.
I've smashed into your vehicle.
I'm really sorry that this has happened, and I can only imagine the level of fear and fright that you would have experienced as this incident unfolded.
So I just want you to know that I'm there with you on how difficult that must have been.
When my broken brakes led to my vehicle smashing into you.
And let's just make sure everybody's cool now, if everybody is cool. What I would like to say now that I know that you guys are okay, is that I'm absolutely devastated and mortified to be the wheel of a car where the brakes have failed.
I checked the brakes. The MOT was passed. I have no idea how this happened.
So I just want to say that while I 100% understand the pain that you've gone through, I would never, ever, ever intend to hurt anybody or smash into anybody. And I hope that we can work together to understand how this all happened, why these breaks have failed, and make sure that everybody comes out on us as good as possible.
That's what an apology is about. An apology is almost a matter of emotional and psychological practicality.
You want to resolve a situation, but due to the injury, then people are emotionally dysregulated and operating from a less rational part of themselves.
In order to get people back on board in a place where things can be discussed, particularly complicated things, there has to be a level of attunement.
So this is relationships 101.
And a lot of the people who are making the logical argument that because John didn't intend this to happen, he shouldn't apologize.
What they're betraying is a lack of understanding about what the point of a good apology is.
It's not to say it's all my fault. I'm a terrible person.
It's to say I'm going to set aside my pride and my attachment to what I feel people should understand about this situation and recognition that there has been a big incident, there are injured parties, and we need to get everybody in a place of emotional regulation so that we can understand what's really happened here.
And then we can start to get into the ins and outs of what's actually transpired.
The public statement that John has released, either that he's written himself, which I highly doubt, or has been drafted by a public relations person, it's a failure because it hasn't created cam, it hasn't created understanding. And so while I still believe that John has been let down in terms of the BAFTAs and the BBC, and also there are questions about the protocols and safeguarding in place when people with lived experience, who've lived interesting lives worthy of higher levels of visibility, are made prominent at a level that they have no experience of how to handle, and what happens if something goes wrong.
But I also think the fact that John has Tourette's Syndrome does not mean that he cannot be brought to an understanding about why the public statement was poorly crafted. Tourette's syndrome is about involuntary vocal and physical tics. It's not about a lack of capacity to understand why showing empathy to injured parties who were injured as a result of the brakes failing on your car as just good practice.
And I think that actually the responsibility doesn't lie with John. The responsibility lies with whoever is doing his public relations.
Because the idea that you would put out a statement that would only make a lot of people angrier shows that there has been a failure at that level as well. So the pattern here is that John is being let down.
He's been let down badly.
These are my thoughts on the situation. I know some of you won't like it. I know some of you are very attached to what an apology actually is and you think that by saying sorry that means that you're taking full culpability.
That's not actually what it is about.
I hope I've been clear about what I think it's about.
I hope that somebody can get involved in this situation who can get around John and start making better decisions.
Because while I'm aware that he is a seasoned campaigner who's an effective communicator and he is well known and respected within that particular community, it's a whole different ball game doing public relations at a high level, at scale, where 50% of the people that you're talking to are already very skeptical about you as a result of a public contribution.
[00:27:48] Speaker A: You call that radio?
Y C E R Karma Police arrest this man.
He cannot sweat.
Is the pizza express in a prison room. Maybe this is what you get.
This is what you get.
That's a picture of Andrew Battenberg kick the formerly known as Prince.
And it looks a wee bit worried.
It looks like a guy who has been told for the first time in his life that he's not important, that he's not special, and he wishes he was special.
It looks like a guy who is maybe told, you're going to jail and you can't buy your way. At this time, he was maybe told.
That he's going to jail.
He can't buy his way.
And then he offered to grasp and he said, you can't grasp or you, you, you, you, you, you be gone.
I think to appease the masses. We talked about this last night in the Patreon show.
I think that they're just going to feed him to the wolves to appeal the masses the equivalent of Rolf Harris during the Savile Inquiry. Remember Rolf Harris went away deservedly.
And then nothing else happened to anyone else. I think they just went, right, this guy, his reputation is ruined anyway.
He's got no skills, he's got no talent and nobody even knows what it is he's meant to be doing.
The Queen's dead, the brother doesn't give a fuck, so he can just go to jail and he can't buy his way with it yet. We might, he might be able to, but it doesn't look like he's that confident.
And his ability to talk, I mean, you remember what he was like in that interview.
[00:30:56] Speaker C: Possibly.
[00:30:57] Speaker A: There's a slight problem with, with, with, with, with the sweating because I, I, I have a peculiar medical condition which is that I don't sweat.
He should have went in jail seconds after he said that. He didn't sweat.
He said he just cuffed him, put him away, threw away the key.
That is a jailable offense in its own right.
That should have been the end of this.
He tried to talk his way of an interview with an arrogance and a misplaced confidence and a contempt for the public, for the interviewer.
And more importantly, fair to say that suspicious circumstances just months after he got his ma, the Queen to pay 12 million quid to pay off someone he'd never met.
And he's not. It's Epstein feels that Scotland to bother again. But it's not my understanding is it's more to do with him giving away trade secrets to his pal Jeffrey Epstein.
Insider tips, that kind of thing. It sounds like that kind of thing.
Do you know else's pals, good pals with Jeffrey Epstein. That was Donald Trump.
It's worth remembering that one.
And I know you're gonna say, oh, you mentioned Trump. Oh, what about the Clintons? Jail them too.
The Clintons are guilty. Jail them. If Biden's guilty, jail them.
Just, just jail them all.
At a pivotal moment here, just jail all the politicians, all the celebrities, all the billionaires, just jail them all.
This is the last dying gasp of capitalism we're witnessing here.
And if Andrew gets let off with this, it's time to get angry.
But even if he goes, even if he does go to jail, everyone still stays angry because it's the people that are not redacted, that haven't been redacted in the fails yet. The black lines, the people that are just black lines.
Some of them may be in the royal family.
There's a very good chance of it, I would say abolish the monarchy.
Nobody knows what they're for.
They haven't done anything for anybody. They take a lot of money.
Some people argue that they bring in tourism, but they're the kind of people.
They hate tourists and people with different accents and stuff.
So let's just forget about the guys seeing about the tourism.
I'm practicing gratitude because a member of the royal family cut a ribbon today.
Why not turn all these big cussies into museums and charge people to walk a bit in them or use them for a housing crisis, which I seen. I think it was Jonathan dibble around talking about where's he going to stay?
Where's he going to stay, though?
He can stay in jail. He can live in jail.
This guy's quite obviously a below average person who was born into wealth, privilege, and a false sense of entitlement and importance.
He got a trade envoy job or whatever, paying hundreds of thousands and millions on top of his free money.
Now, the deal with mail would call. They don't like dull scroungers. But the way. The way this guy, this guy, this guy who thought he could. He was so smart, he could talk his way out on national television. But saying that he didn't sweat because he got a fright.
He got a fright and then he couldn't sweat anymore.
The same guy that said he went to pizza express, you think how bad his interview went.
Then this picture starts to make a lot more sense because this him just came out of the police interview.
Abolish the monarchy. I know that the queen just wanted the queen because, you know, people over 50 or whatever thought, oh, she seems like a nice old woman. You know, you could have a chalky becky and a gab with the queen. The queen would hate you.
The queen wouldn't have. She would get security to beat you up, knock you about if you tried to get a chalky bicky and a gab with the queen. But I understand you like the queen.
Nd likes Charles.
N likes this guy.
Nabdy likes William. Well, some people like William and some people like Harry, but nabd likes both of them.
Just abolish the monarchy.
Get rid of them all.
Get rid of the monarchy. Declare independence.
Ban the billionaires.
As soon as you make over a billion pound, the money goes back to charity.
It feels like a pivotal point.
And they're gonna distract us with aliens. Probably aliens new or a war or something. But stay focused.
These guys need to go. The world as a mess and stop arguing about immigration, stop arguing about trans people. Just focus.
These people need to go.
They're destroying the Planet for profit. They're doing some of the most horrific ever and they have no consequences.
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I'm not here to argue about whether AI is going to steal our jobs and kill the human race.
I'm not here to defend AI and say it's going to make our lives easier and it's going to cure all diseases.
I might be doing another day.
I'm just here to say that I had no idea how annoying this whole thing would get.
I had no idea that it would get this close to Scottish culture and how annoying it would get to me personally as a person.
I used to get annoyed by the Microsoft Paperclip guy, but now every app has got out the rehangs. I'm not going to get into that. That is not what we're here for today.
And I'm not going to talk about the fact that the Glasgow City Council thought it'd be a good idea to use an AI generated image on a mural.
I think they've shut the bed in that one due to a public outcry.
No here, no that. Not even that one.
And I'm not even going to get into the fact that this technology got me barred for Facebook, nearly got me kicked off.
Then I think a human knew that they'd made the mistake.
So I got my Facebook back and Instagram back, but they've still cut my reach till the end of the month as a punishment for nothing. Even though they admitted it was a mistake right in the middle of my book launch.
Weak gigs.
It's not about that. Is much worse than that.
I am getting followed on Tech Talk, which is my fault for being on Tech Talk.
But I'm getting followed in Tech Talk by an AI generated Scottish rapper who plays guitar.
And as an active recovery, like as in drugs and alcohol, plays a guitar. Scottish rapper.
But it's an AI generated artist, actually. So we warning under his thing. I'm gonna take the piss here.
It actually says AI artist under his.
You of all the things, there's obviously someone behind us. Truly.
And of all the things you could be, you could create.
You've went in to a very underground niche and it's not this niche is short of Scottish rappers with substance problems.
Then it says when he speeds real pain, but it's not a real guy.
And he raps, he plays guitar, as I said.
And I'm not going to share the thing.
If you think I'm making up, I'll share it.
DM me I'll share you this guy.
But I know this could generate curiosity which generates hits. So I'm not falling in to. I'm not going to reward the slop because I know that this fake Scottish rapper could be more popular than myself or any Scottish rapper. We talked about it last just a few months ago about how who will be the first Scottish rapper to break through?
Probably an AI guy.
And I didn't think it would happen this fast.
He's giving me a followers in me.
It could be bots or it could be that people like this, they like Scottish rappers with guitars, with drugs and alcohol problems as long as they're not a real person.
So I don't like that.
But the thing that's annoyed me the most isn't even that it's a hang about Avril Lavigne.
Yeah, Avril Lavigne.
This is the views from the sea.
This is the news. And you call that radio, by the way.
Robots are robust workers that don't take much days off. Big shots hit the jackpot and the purchase mugged us off.
Donald Trump.
Has he kidnapped a president and his wife from their own sovereign nation because he wants to make Venezuela great again and free the people out of the kindness of his own heart because he loves the Latinos and the Latinas?
Or is this about oil and money and power and making a huge distraction from the Epstein files?
This is the views from the sea on. You call that radio? I'm barred from the World cup. Anyway, so let's talk about it.
The first thing that strikes me is how early in the year everything's happened.
I haven't even managed to circle back. And on the emails from December where I said, let's circle back in January, people are circling back. And I'm trying to circle back, but it's been hard to even get a bed, never mind fly helicopters into Venezuela and steal a president and his wife.
It's almost like the military is more disciplined than I.
And if there's any yous who are going into work today who think life's tough, I can't be asked going into work, then spare a thought for the current leader in Venezuela, the interim interim president or leader or whatever they're calling it, that that's a job, that is a high pressured job.
Because if you look at her, look at her, she's feeling the pressure because in one hand it's death by Venezuela or death by America.
Now, it would be crazy to assume that she didn't have any prior knowledge to this all happening.
How do you sneak a squad of helicopters?
I mean, it's in a video.
It was at least 12 helicopters I seen in the footage. And there was bombs going off everywhere.
And it was a. And there was a power cut as well.
But it feels like security was switched off.
It feels like they could have maybe did a bit of a better job than just letting another country steal your fucking president and his wife.
So first things first, we don't know what's going on.
You can't take anything America says at face value because they tell lies.
And it's also worth pointing out that this was not a popular president.
I have spoken to people who are in Venezuela, and it's a very mixed reaction because people in general weren't very happy with the work he was doing.
But most people are also quite scared and unsettled because Donald Trump is now claiming he's in charge of the country.
And if you've seen the state of America recently, you know that he's not very good at making America great again, never mind Venezuela great again.
He doesn't look after his own voters.
So how's he going to deal with a country he's possibly never even visited before?
How is he going to make that? He's going to make it great for the oil companies, he's going to make it very great for his billionaire friends, and he's going to make it very great for himself and his family, that's for sure.
While the rest of the world were hungover, making do with the last bounty in a selection box, the USA has basically told an entire hemisphere that they run the show now.
And if you so much as say one single word questioning, then expect to be kidnapped, killed, or banned from traveling to the World Cup.
Why attack the world on the same day Congress was supposed to discuss all the redactions on the Epstein files?
Why release the Epstein files right before Christmas when everyone's not watching the news, and then incite an international incident the day people were meant to discuss the lack of files?
It would be fair, I think it's fair to assume that these files are so bad they would rather risk a nuclear war than deal with the consequences.
He would rather explode the planet into a ball of flames and be remembered for a few brief seconds as a powerful man than just admit to what he did.
And I know there's Trump fans out there, and I'd like to speak to you, but it's almost like voting a narcissistic criminal into the White House.
Second time was not the smartest move in hindsight and the one thing, you know, I was talking to people that are still defending Trump on a, on a Facebook thread.
And the one thing that has been fairly consistent and actually reasonable as the fight, the American first propaganda.
It was a justifiable reason that voting Trump would mean America would stop getting involved in random territories that didn't concern them. It was all American first propaganda.
There's no reason to believe a 34 time felon serial liar. There's no reason to believe him. But for some reason they did believe that he was a peaceful dove.
He's the President of peace.
I mean, even won the FIFA Peace Prize, for fuck's sake.
He didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize. He didn't win that one. They gave that award to the Venezuelan opposition who is currently in Switzerland and has been left in the dark about America's next move.
Probably because she took the peace prize off him.
If she had said, oh, I can't accept this award because Donald Trump is the most peaceful guy ever. He's the most peaceful guy in the world. He's the peaceful dove president.
The President of peace.
If she'd said that, then she'd been on a private jet to her homeland to host a press conference and physically pass over the oil barrels with their own bare hands.
I just watch the UN emergency meeting and all the United nations are like, you can't do that. You just, you cannot do that.
You cannot, you cannot do that.
Apart for Keir Starmer who's like, let's see if they can do that.
Useless shite bag as always.
And it seems very apparent that we're in a post rule society, we always have been.
But they used to have the pretenders rules.
Nobody is pretending there's any rules now.
They will do what they want and they'll gaslight you.
And some people continue to eat it up.
Some people still think this is a bit fentanyl, despite the fact nobody's mentioned drugs since they kidnapped El Presidente.
And the media, especially the American media, when they're speaking to Donald Trump,
[00:52:35] Speaker C: they
[00:52:37] Speaker A: don't question them because they're scared.
If there's no rules, if we're in a post rules society, then the media has never been more at risk.
Even the Prime Minister seems scared. Starmer seems terrified.
And then you have the Tories reform and Tommy fucking Robinson, they're welcoming it all with the latter. Even pointing out that Trump should kidnap Starmer.
This is the big patriot Robinson. I mean, what could be more patriotic than asking a foreign dictator to steal your prime minister?
Not once has the USA mentioned democracy for Venezuela or new elections for Venezuela.
They don't want that. They just want at all.
They want the oil, they want the minerals, they want everything that they can get if they get it. I mean, right now it's still, it's a developing story. Right now it's just the second in commands taken over.
A very stressed second in command is taken over and instead of explaining themselves, they're now talking about Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Iran, Nigeria, Somalia and even Canada and Greenland.
The message is loud and clear. There is no rules now.
There is just don't. We're just going to just attack as many or threaten to attack as many countries as possible just to stop you talking about Epstein.
Meanwhile, Russia and China are silently like Yasser, they're silently cheating.
And Israel isn't even silently cheering. Israel was just cheating out loud and applauding it all.
The rich get richer and innocent lives could be lost on a whole new scale as politicians and journalists use the racist textbook to convince scared people that it's the other nation's scared people's fault.
And sadly, I have no reason to believe that anything will change.
Death and destruction due to greed and blackmail while we argue over immigration and gender, but never the thing that we can all blatantly see.
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