 I'm going to talk about Kanye West, Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, P.A.D.L., Ali Alexander, G6 insurrectionist, and more. And I'm going to circle around the topic of Christian anti-Semitism. And by that, I mean some... So listening to Richard Spencer here talk about Christian anti-Semitism. So anti-Semitism is a fancy name for anti-Jewish or Jewish critical. And it's not an essential quality, right? There's no essential quality to being Jewish, or to being Christian, or to being white, or being black, or aborigine, right? Qualities manifest differently in different circumstances. Wow, look at that enormous ship coming into harbour. Wow. So I'm here at Sydney Harbour, and you can just see the outlines of the Sydney Opera House there in the distance. Okay. So just like it's Saudi money that's funding, Alon Musk's free speech takeover of Twitter, right? So the Saudis are on the side of freedom, guys. Well, in this circumstance, they are. But in other circumstances, they're certainly on the side of repression, right? So no group is eternally on the side of repression. No group is eternally on the side of freedom. No group is eternally on the side of God, or on what's right, or what's wrong, all right? So the side we're on depends upon circumstance and something very specific. So I'm sure that everyone listening to this has been exposed to what could probably be called most accurately casual anti-semitism. These usually involve... And so a lot of what's called casual anti-semitism or anti-semitism is simply that people tend to dislike and fear, even hate those who are different from them, right? Jews, just as high a proportion of Jews, have fear and hatred and negative feelings towards non-Jews, right, anti- Gentilism, as non-Jews have towards Jews, right? We all tend to have negative feelings towards those who are different depending on the circumstance, right? Those feelings may be more or less intense, but they absolutely have nothing to do whatsoever with the intrinsic qualities of whatever group or individuals we see representing a certain group. Evolve Jews being good with money or tight with money or not great athletes or something like that. I can remember when I was growing up there was a joke of, how do you lose a Jewish cop you take the toll road, you know, the implication that Jews, you know, are very tight with money and wouldn't chase you down the toll road. We only have so much time, so much energy, so much mental processing power and so to reduce all these variables, we put people into groups, right? We don't see people generally speaking here. We don't know. We don't see strangers as individuals, see them as members of groups, and that's just how it is. And we tend to fear and loathe and dislike those who are different from us, right? Everybody hates a stranger, says Mark Twain, and Jews are everywhere a stranger, even the angels. Yeah, I mean, these, in my mind, are the equivalent of, you know, funny jokes about Italians or whatever, in the sense that they might be mean-spirited in some cases. They might also contain a kernel of truth, but at the end of the day they're rather benign and maybe even rather meaningless. Christian anti-Semitism is something different, and I do think it's something more profound, and as I said on Twitter, I think there's a kind of... Of course it's going to be more profound because Christianity came from the Jews, all right? Why do people lose everything and get punished for expressing Jewish sentiment, but everything derogatory can be said about white people without penalty? Why is that? Because Jews, number one, are much more effective at organizing in their own interests. Wow, I was just talking to a family member and they talked about my chubby cheeks. And I went to synagogue here in Australia, they remembered me from a year ago, and they said, wow, you put on weight. So yeah, Jews are more effective at organizing in their own interests than white people are. All right? That's your answer right there. All right? A lot of this organization requires discipline and expertise and funds and shaping of narratives. So some people are just more effective at shaping a narrative than other people. And have pathological ambivalence to it. There's inherent mixed feelings and contradiction to this. Well, of course Christians are going to have mixed feelings about Jews and Judaism because Christianity emerged out of Judaism. Jesus was a Jew. He came first to the Jews to try to get them to accept his message, and they, of all the peoples in the world, have been the most resistant to the claims that Christianity made for him. So of course there's going to be ambivalence. Christianity took on the Jewish scriptures. Well, of course nobody believes that they're starting a new religion. Everybody just thinks that they're perfecting or fulfilling the existing religion. I mean, Muhammad had the same attitude towards Jews and Christians. And so the Christian anti-Semite can say... And a question from the chat just says, do Jews ally with blacks against white people? Well, sometimes, when Jews are part of the coalition of the fringe because they fear the white Christian core, they might find some common interests with blacks just like in other issues, Jews and whites may find common interest in supporting stronger law enforcement. So generally speaking, politics in America revolves around the coalition of the fringe. Blacks, Jews, Latinos, Chinese, Japanese, homosexuals kind of united against the white Christian core. And by and large, Jews like Asians have fit in with the coalition of the fringe. And the coalition of the fringe has almost nothing in common except fear and loathing of the white Christian core. Hey, some rather harsh stuff. Kanye West has talked about people in the media and people, he's had relationships with the recording industry. So if you are Jew critical, you have to think that Kanye West would be your last choice as a spokesman, right? This is not a guy who tends to sound particularly rational or compelling. I would not want Kanye West articulating my point of view. I would not want Kanye West fighting for my people. I mean, I would cringe at that prospect. As basically being a bunch of bastards, he can say some harsh things, but at the end of the day, I guess what's most telling about his anti-Semitism is that he considers himself to be a Jew and by being a Christian with the blood of Christ, he is a Jew. So my father, the preacher man, he would always talk about how Christians are the real Jews and the Jews that we have today and not the real Jews. So many people who are anti, the current crop of Jews still want to tie into the ancient lineage of Israel that goes back to the Hebrew Bible. So Kanye, my father, and hundreds of millions of other Christians are in the same camp. So that kind of seeming contradiction, I think, gets at the heart of this deep ambivalence. We're all ambivalent and contradictory. One day we hate our boss, the next day we love our boss. One day we hate our co-worker, the next day we love our co-worker. We're all filled with contradictory feelings and thoughts going in many different directions. We need a Wasp or Anglo-Saxon organization for protection for our rights. If we don't have that, we're going to lose, says Joseph. Yeah, so you would think that would be the Anglican church. Why doesn't the Anglican church serve as an organizing principle, an organization for Anglos around the world? Why doesn't the Anglican church unite the world's Anglo-Saxon tribes and make them a coherent civilization once again, perhaps under the reign of a philosopher king like King Charles? Will he do the trick? Jesus came to fulfill the laws of Moses. That is a text in the Gospels. One text does not a theological truth make. So Christianity quickly jettisoned most Torah laws. Jesus was observant of Torah law, but Christianity has never been about observing the ritual laws of the Torah, which are 95% of the laws of the Torah. This is the Pentateuch when he first bought books in the Old Testament. He did not come to cancel the Jewish scriptures, even though he did break some of the Jewish laws. Well, every new religion that comes along thinks that they're fulfilling the existing religion that they're a part of, so this isn't new or unique in his practice and also is notable for stressing grace and forgiveness above adherence to laws. There are plenty of segments and parts of Judaism that stress grace and forgiveness above adherence to law. So that's not a unique, brand new insight from Jesus. So from my Jewish perspective, everything Jesus said that was true is not new and everything he said that was new is not true. Jesus, even when he was raging against the Pharisees, even when he was seemingly contradicting Judaism, was ultimately a Jew and ultimately fulfilling... Jews are known for verbal disputes. Jews are known for being a difficult and challenging people. So Jews are constantly disputing within each other. So Jesus was part of this intra-Jewish dialogue. And then from my perspective and from the secular perspective on Christianity, then the apostle Paul came along and had these visions and completely transformed Jesus into the Christ who was part of a triune Godhead, comes to earth to save people from sin. As long as they believe in him and partake in a pseudo cannibalistic ritual of drinking the blood and eating the flesh. Judaism, very similar to Kanye, who in his anti-Semitic, quote, unquote, outburst is ultimately declaring himself to be a Jew and declare... Yeah, if Kanye's outburst was anti-Semitic, then anti-Semitic is a pretty weak thing. Kanye's outbursts were pretty weak tea. They're not exactly imperiling the lives of thousands of Jews around the world. Declaring Jews as, so to speak, pointing towards Christ. So this is the profound ambivalence that I think really should be taken seriously because you hear a lot of, you know, shrill shrieking in the media of, oh, you know, anti-Semitism is on the rise again. It's everywhere on these mainstream figures like Kanye West. And how do you get, you know, statements like anti-Semitism is on the rise again because there's no objective definition of it. All right. Just the most normal human reactions to people who are different. Suddenly gets classified as anti-Semitism. So how bad is the wind? How bad is the wind affecting the audio quality? Western high-reverting anti-Semitic. What are we going to do? You know, next thing you know, the third right is going to come back again. Well, that's overstated to begin with. But again, I would stress that what we're seeing right now is not mere Jew hatred. It's something deeper and something more contradictory. And it is. So you don't hate those who you think are below you, right? You only hate those who threaten you. So people who don't have any interactions with Jews are much less likely to have negative feelings about them. So for example, in Australia, you'll find the most concentrated anti-Jewish attitudes in Sydney and in Melbourne, where people are most likely to where people are most likely to encounter Jews. So apparently Richard Spencer is not coming across too clearly. In the minds of the people saying these things and attempt to redeem the Jews. So let me let me look at this a little more specifically in this ADL Kanye West controversy that is happening. All right. So why do Jews support immigration? Right into majority white European countries, but protect Israel against this? Is this a divide and conquest plan and for Jewish interests? Well, the same Jews who oppose immigration into Israel, right, oppose immigration into America. So left wing Ashkenazi Jews, right, they tend to be for open borders, whether it's for the Jewish state or for the American state or the Australian state. Sephardic and Mizraki Jews and right wing Jews tend to be opposed to immigration or open borders, you know, anywhere, including for the Jewish state. So blessings here to Elliot Blatt, the whole gang is here. And just a little Twitter and telegram exchange that I think reveals all the fault lines in this dialectic. Yeah, I recently was called out by the chief of the ADL. I was connected with Kanye West is spreading sludge on Twitter. So we'll see if I'm a sacrificial lamb, as it were in Elon Musk's stated attempt to protect his free speech. Anyway, I hope I'm not. But Max Blumenthal, I've known about Max Blumenthal for quite some time. I actually first encountered him, you know, a decade ago or more when he was mostly targeting the religious right and conservatives. I remember some of these cringe compilation videos that he would make when he would go to CPAC and he would interview Christian nationalist or Christian Zionist and they would say things like, you know, we love Israel, they have our steadfast support. And then he'd push them a little further and they would talk about the end times and and it effectively, I don't know how many it is, but, you know, 100,000 Jews. So Max Blumenthal is an interesting character, right? He's a bloke of the left, but he makes interesting videos. He raises, you know, provocative points. He deals with a lot of stuff that the mainstream media doesn't want to deal with. So, you know, kudos to Max for the good work that he does. I'm not aware of everything he does, but I certainly found those videos of his that I paid attention to thought provoking, converting to Christianity and the rest of them going out into flames, something like this. Yeah, I mean, I didn't really go in for his stuff, but there was something interesting about it. That's how I that's how I learned about Max Blumenthal. Over the past, say, four years, he's joined the Grey Zone or perhaps a co-founder, editor of the Grey Zone. He's most notable for becoming a Russian shell, which is a surprising choice, a surprising trajectory that I never would have guessed. Anyway, he was saying something that was critical, but also, you know, pretty true about the situation of the ADL right now as being the Anti-Defamation League that is protecting Jews from. So Russian shell, that's an interesting designation. So, you know, what makes a Russian shell? So often a Russian shell is simply someone who opposes the Biden administration's, you know, headlong rush into a massive conflict in Europe, risking nuclear exchange with Russia, risking World War Three. So anyone who's critical of the tens of billions of dollars that we're funneling towards Ukraine, suddenly they become known as Russian shells. Right, it's just it's just a put down. Right, it doesn't refer to some essential quality that you just always pro-Russia. Right, people are pro-Russia in certain contexts, particularly when they oppose the subsidizing and escalating of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. So plenty of people get called Russian shells. You know, without without being Russian shells, they're simply opposed to heading into World War Three. They want to exercise some cognitive empathy towards whatever Putin's doing. All right, and so like Jewish shells, Christian shells, conservative shells, all right, they're often just in a certain situation, they're standing up for a particular point of your interest. It's not an eternal quality. It's not an essential quality. They're just, you know, always pro-Russian or pro-Jewish. Slander and libel and all that kind of stuff. This is according to Maximum Law. We white American Jews are living through a golden age of power, fluency, or affluence and safety. Acceptance of this welcome reality threatens the entire Zionist enterprise. Well, it's true that American Jews are in a golden age. Right, things are really good for Jews in America. Jews are like the safest they've ever been. Now, that doesn't threaten the Zionist enterprise. The Zionist enterprise simply asserts that Jews like every other people in the world have a right to their own homeland where they can set the agenda, where they can have their own laws, where they can operate a culture and a civilization the way that they want to without the veto power of non-Jews. So why should Jews of all the people in the world not be allowed their own homeland? Unless you've got a good answer to that, then I don't see how you can be anti-Zionist. And Jewish success in America or in England or in Australia does nothing to threaten the Zionist enterprise. The Zionist enterprise is not primarily about finding and creating a safe space for Jews. That can be a side effect, that can be a blessing, but its primary mission is to simply normalize the Jewish experience. Yeah, I remember when George W. Bush referred to Putin as putty, but innocent times. And also the United States and Russia had more in common than we had common interests. Russia was a lot weaker. Russia's become much more formidable under Putin and therefore is more willing to assert its own interests. Also, the West has been steadily expanding NATO right up to the Russian border. Ukraine is de facto, right? This is the last near-Phisonia, so don't my your. Ukraine has become de facto, not de jure, a member of NATO. So de facto means not in law, but effectively. De jure means in law. And so Ukraine is not de jure, a member of NATO, but it is de facto a member of NATO. And so that obviously threatens Russia's best interests. Why would it want a hostile organization on its doorstep from lobby fronts like the ADL to the state of Israel? So maximum law is clearly anti-Zionist still because Zionism relies on Jewish and security to justify. So if you're left wing, right? Whether you're a left wing Jew or a left wing non-Jew, you're very likely to be anti-Zionist because Zionism is a form of ethnic nationalism, right? If you're not down with ethnic nationalism, if you're a true man of the left and it believes that the most fundamental divide is between people and not race or ethnicity, but they are economics, then you're gonna be anti-ethno-nationalism. So Joseph says that European countries are being destroyed by multiculturalism. Why your main argument is with your own people. Your own people have essentially signed on for the multicultural enterprise. And you have a few tribes around the world who are more resistant to the multicultural enterprise. So maybe there's something to be learned from Jewish nationalism and other types of nationalism. And how can that be applied to European types of nationalism so that people can preserve their own cultures? Well, I think there is a lot of truth to what he says. I think he's getting at a certain kind of ambivalence at the heart of the Zionist project, at least from... I don't think that Max Blumenthal is a self-hating Jew. I don't like that term. I don't use it. Not a self-hating Jew if you're opposed to Zionism. And he's simply a true man of the left. He has left-wing values that are of greater importance to him than his ethnic values as a Jew. So that doesn't make him self-hating, doesn't make him loathsome, doesn't make him a bad person. He simply values other things more important than ethnic solidarity, ethnic unity, group interests. So plenty of left-wing Jews, if they are more left-wing than they're Jewish, then, yeah, of course, they're gonna be opposed to Zionism, which is another form of ethnic nationalism. A Jewish standpoint. And also from the Christian standpoint, I might want to go into this actually. So, I mean, on the one hand, groups like the ADL want to fight anti-Semitism and call it out, apparently, with the intention that one day will end, one day. So what does the Anti-Defamation League and Liberals in general have in common? What do they have in common? They're both on eternal missions to educate. So the right looks around and the greatest threat that we see is disorder and contagion. But from a liberal and left-wing perspective, the greatest threat to our well-being is ignorance and attachments to traditional folk ways and not becoming modern and rejecting the Enlightenment from a liberal perspective that those are the greatest threats. So also what motivates the Anti-Defamation League is fundraising power influence, all right? Most people want more power rather than less. Most people would prefer more money rather than less. And so by agitating about anti-Semitism, the Anti-Defamation League gets to increase its own importance, it gets to increase its own fundraising, and it gets to give purpose and meaning to secular Jewish lives. So Orthodox Jews, by and large, don't care about anti-Semitism because there's no mitzvah in the Torah about combating anti-Semitism, right? Orthodox Jews are so busy fulfilling the 613 Commandments of the Torah, they don't have time or interest generally speaking to fight against anti-Semitism. But if you're not living a life revolving around Torah observance, a study of Torah, keeping the Sabbath, the kosher laws, laws of taharat, mishpacha, the laws of family purity, then you need something to fill up that emptiness beyond the pursuit of pleasure. Like people want to feel significant, right? One of our deepest fears is feeling insignificant. And so when you attach yourself to a cause that you feel is eternal and transcendent such as combating bigotry, then, right, you've got significance. Everybody wants to feel significant. We all, you know, sign on to various causes and ideologies and groups to keep those latent feelings of insignificance at bay. Some of us even make live streams. There will be no more anti-Semitism Jews will be just like Presbyterians or Methodists. It will just be another religious denomination and any criticism of Judaism itself will be much like a Presbyterian might criticize the Catholic dogma or something like that. Maybe he doesn't even want that, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. But on the other hand, Zionism relies on anti-Semitism in a way for its justification. Now, this is not, okay, that's not true. All right, Zionism simply means that Jews deserve a state just like any other people. Jews deserve a place where they can develop their own civilization and culture without the non-Jews having veto power over them. Why would you deny Jews out of all the people in the world the ability to have their own state? What do I think will be the outcome of the Kanye thing? I think he's in a lot of trouble and I don't see him coming back from this very effectively unless he does what Jews call chuva, unless he makes them dramatic repentance. Yeah, we want to feel significant. We want to go where everyone knows our name and they're always glad we came. We want to know where people are. People are all the same. We want to go where everyone knows our name. So I don't see this ending well for Kanye West or Kari Irving or anyone who's saying publicly Jewish critical things because if you're a celebrity or you're a famous person in America, there's just going to be unbearable media and elite pressure against you if you're publicly saying anti-Jewish things. It's the third rail. It's the most hot button issue because you have the most effective organized resistance against you. Completely accurate when you think about the history of Zionism in the state of Israel. But in terms of the way that it's legitimized, it's legitimized first as we're just a little democratic liberal state in the Middle East and we deserve your support, but also we are the last refuge for when anti-Semitism rears its head again. We are the one last escape from the next Hitler and this is why Israel should always exist. So in that sense, it justifies itself on the existence of anti-Semitism. It needs that, it needs anti-Semitism. It needs, even you could say, and I think Max Blumenthal is saying this, a kind of schizophrenia on the part of Jews that where they see... Okay, I think he's overstating it. Yeah, there are certainly lots of advantages to an in-group identity where you feel persecuted, where you can kind of team up and unite around your fear and loathing of the outsider. That's good for any in-group identity. If it's paranoia, if it's completely detached from reality, then that comes with an enormous price as well. I don't think Jewish existence or the existence of the Jewish state depends upon whipping up paranoia about how the Cossacks are coming to get you. See anti-Semitism everywhere. After all, more anti-Semitism, more justification for Israel. That's what I think Blumenthal is getting at. I don't know if Candice is getting at this. And she affirmatively retweets Max Blumenthal, says you are about to get into a lot of trouble for stating this, reminds me of when I said something similar about the NAACP and BLM way back when, when you disrupt the trauma economy and call out the not-for-profits that benefit from it, you become their next target. I would give Candice some credit for this. And I think if we're to be charitable to Kanye West, that is try to represent what he's saying in the best possible light and not just focus on that kind of contradictions and strangeness. So trauma economy, that's brand new. I don't think we had such a thing as the trauma economy 50, 60, 70 years ago. Right now it's become a big thing where trauma becomes a whole economy. It's a whole new concept. Like in the traditional Jewish outlook that there's no such category as trauma, right? For example, if you were molested, right? It wasn't expected to be something that would forever ruin your life, right? So trauma comes from the secular worldview where psychology has more importance, right? It's the importation of non-Jewish values. Really don't understand what Khairi did that was so bad. All he did was post a link to a book that Amazon hosts, right? It's still people are watching and buying the documentary and the book. So yeah, it strikes me as a huge overreaction. But Khairi Irving, I just saw a remark from a journalist that Khairi Irving was one of his five least favorite people in the NBA. I don't think Khairi Irving made a lot of friends in the news media, right? He's not someone that journalists like. And so I think part of the piling on against Khairi Irving is that journalists just don't like this guy. And so journalists will give a lot of slack to people that they like, but they're very happy to pile on to people that they don't like. And I think a lot of this piling on against Khairi Irving just simply means journalists don't like this guy, right? He's not very popular. He hasn't made many friends among the journalists. And so they're happy to see him go down. Also, there's probably resentment that this guy's making $30 million a year. And there's also probably a lot of journalist resentment that Khairi Irving refused to get vaccinated. And so sports journalists more so than other journalists tend to uniformly be on the left. So north of 95% of sports journalists are on the left. So they're particularly dedicated to denying human biodiversity. They have a very strong left-wing agenda. And I think they just welcome this opportunity to pile on to Khairi Irving. Yeah, all he did was tweet to a documentary that Amazon hosts. You'd think like, why is that such a big deal? And so I think part of it's just overreaction. Part of it is people just don't like Khairi Irving. And I think a normal person seeing all the piling against Khairi is gonna think, I feel sorry for this guy. What did he do that was so wrong? He just posted one link to a documentary that's good enough to be on Amazon. I do hear a lot of this. In that interview with Lex Friedman, I actually listened to a little bit more of it last night while I was going to bed. But Kanye was saying they create trauma. And so Disney creates trauma even with a movie like Bambi where Bambi's mom died. Oh, I remember seeing that in the theaters and crying my eyes out. And what he's saying is that they almost need to traumatize you in order to fleece you, you could say. They place this trauma in your mind very early on and then you kind of need to keep coming back to them. Now, maybe that's kind of taking it a bit too far, at least in the case of Bambi. But maybe it's not taking it too far in the case of BLM that there needs to be this suggestion of widespread rampant vindictive, immoral attacks on the black. So yeah, I think there's something to that that any group can ramp up its trauma story. And particularly if it's good at crafting narratives, if it has a larger role than average in culture, it can really light up the trauma narratives and eventually outsiders start to resent it. People don't want to be manipulated. So that's the Sydney Harbor Bridge in the background. That's the Sydney Opera House. Why do Gentiles and others have to bow to Jews and their groups? Never see Jews bowing to any other group of people. We all bow to those who are more powerful than us. So Jews haven't always been powerful. When Jews lacked power and influence, then I assure you Gentiles were not bowing to them. Right now, Jews disproportionately compared to their numbers successful in the United States, Australia, and Europe. And the natural human tendency is to bow towards people who are more successful than you are. And to expect other people to bow to you when you achieve great levels of success. All right, we all tend to be nice and respectful and to concede to those who are more powerful than us. So think you're walking down the street and there's just a narrow path and one person's gonna have to give way to the other person. The person who looks bigger and stronger, more formidable and more scary, right? He is much more likely to be acceded to. People are much more likely to effectively give him the right of way. And so groups that are highly effective at organizing and punishing their enemies, all right? And who had disproportionate influence on the high grounds of culture, such as in the academy, in the profession, such as legal profession, accounting, dentistry, medicine, law, right? Groups with tremendous power and the ability to organize and to punish their enemies, all right? They're gonna naturally find outside groups learning from them and frequently deferring to them, right? So just like hypocrisy is the obeisance the vice pays to virtue, bowing is the obeisance that the less powerful pay to the more powerful. That's just the way the world works. I'm coming back here a hundred times if I have to. We win, they lose. That's how the world works. Race in America, buy the police. It creates, generates this trauma or emphasizes things way out of proportion in order to fleece you, get your donations and so on. You know, I think there's a lot of truth to that actually. But what I wanna get at is this is a response to all this stuff by Ben Shapiro. Ben Shapiro responded to Candace Owens and he says, I think the ADL is a partisan hack organization too. But RTing Max Blumenthal, who spends his life covering for Jew haters and stumping for Israel's destruction, makes the conversation significantly worse. It's garbage. So he is, Ben Shapiro is publicly calling out Candace. And he's done this a few times. He has publicly called out Candace, almost pretending like he doesn't work with her. He couldn't just DM her or at the Daily Wire walk across. Right, they both work together at the Daily Wire. So why do many right-wing Jews regard the Anti-Defamation League as no good? Because the Anti-Defamation League doesn't just fight ethnic defamation. They also have very much a left-wing agenda. But they never pose it as a left-wing agenda, just like liberals and leftists in general. They don't pose as having an agenda. They pose as simply being objective seekers of truth. This is just what's objectively true. This is just what happens when you see the world openly and honestly and you let go of your traditional prejudices and folk ways and your traditional medieval ways of thinking. So when you develop the modern notion of a buffered, autonomous, strategic, rational self who can make decisions and pursue rational ends and has natural inclinations towards goodness, right? You just take that as the only enlightened way to be. And anyone who opposes that, well, they must be primitives. And so liberals by and large don't believe that they're liberals, that they're just another group of partisans, right? Liberals by and large think they're objective truth-seekers, that they're the rational ones, that they are the products of enlightenment and the rest of it just simply haven't caught up to their higher stakes. Cross the room and talk to her about these things. He needs to kind of signal about this and misrepresent Blumenthal. I'm no fan of Max Blumenthal overall, but I don't think he's a genocidal maniac. Interesting. So this goes a little further. So Canvas responded to that. And someone sent me this from Telegram. So Ali Alexander is a really strange and you could say, disreputable figure. I won't go into some of the rather horrifying rumors. They are rumors, I would say, but they seem to have some basis involving Karl Rove and so on. Google it, if you must. He has been, I believe, convicted of a felony car theft or something like this. It's rather bad. Then again, if people turn their life around, if they do the crime and serve their time, they can re-enter society and that's the way it should be. But yeah, still there's a little whiff of being disreputable about him. And also just being simply a grifter. He benefited immensely from, no doubt, from the stop the steal movement. He was taking donations. He was out in front. He is a behind the scenes operative. And after January 6th, so there's a huge amount of pressure on him, he was pretty much going nuts. He's also been interviewed by the J6 Committee. He's in the kind of mid range of J6. So there's the low hanging fruit that is the people who invaded the Capitol and did all sorts of things. There's the high hanging fruit, the Donald Trumps of the world, who kind of, you know, on whose behalf this whole movement was based, but also someone who spurred it on and gave big speeches and promised a walk arm and arm with his comrades to the Capitol. And then there's the kind of mid range. And that's where Ali Alexander is. He's kind of grifting off it. He's talking to congressmen according to his own account. He's working with women for America first and this kind of stuff who were renting places where these rallies took place. He is a mover and shaker, the one who's behind the scenes and not really a household name, like say Donald Trump or like the QAnon shaman. I don't believe he himself entered the Capitol but he certainly greased the wheels. And he is also a very public Christian now. And all this kind of stuff. So our girl Candace Owens is according to Ali calling out her boss's ethnic victimhood theater, Tantrum. And he goes on. So yeah, a lot of these people like Ali Alexander, Nick Fuentes, wrap themselves in Christianity, but you don't actually notice much that's particularly Christian in the way they live. So someone who's authentically Christian, they're gonna have to sacrifice for their Christianity. It's gonna shape their life. It's gonna change the way they speak. It's gonna limit the things that they can do. And so I think many people found it was disreputable to be alt-right or to be an ethnic nationalist or to be a Magatard. And they're now wrapping themselves in Christianity as a more socially acceptable vehicle for their values. And their values are simply, every organism wants to create an environment where it is best suited for thriving. Now, we develop ideologies on top of that about why the type of environment we seek is the best environment for all people. But it's very rare that anyone develops an ideology that is opposed to their self-interest. Ideologies are simply extensions of our evolutionary makeup where we try to recreate a world around us that is best suited for our own thriving. And then sometimes you may think the path to do that is through ethnic nationalism. Other times you say, oh, the best path to do this is through Christianity. And I'm in botanical gardens right now. So the ideologies may change, but what it comes down to is we all wanna thrive. We all wanna prosper. We all want more power rather than less. We all want more autonomy rather than less. We all want more safety rather than less. And so we may switch between various ideologies depending on how effective they are at promoting the world that we want within a certain situation. Looking out at the Sydney Harbour Bridge, looking out, you can see the Sydney Opera House in the distance. So I sit here in the botanical gardens.