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POPULIST WAVE SWEEPS EU ELECTIONS

Released Saturday, 22nd June 2024
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POPULIST WAVE SWEEPS EU ELECTIONS

POPULIST WAVE SWEEPS EU ELECTIONS

POPULIST WAVE SWEEPS EU ELECTIONS

POPULIST WAVE SWEEPS EU ELECTIONS

Saturday, 22nd June 2024
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0:01

Last week you opened the show, you

0:03

recounted your time in Geneva. You were

0:05

there, you were saying, look, it really

0:07

looks like the WHO, the WEF, they're

0:10

digging in here, they're building infrastructure, they're

0:12

not going anywhere anytime soon, and

0:15

you said they're really preparing to push

0:17

their agendas on the people and they

0:19

may have a little problem with that

0:21

because what just happened in Europe, a

0:23

lot of people in America really don't

0:25

understand the gravity of this, these were

0:28

the European Union parliamentary elections and

0:30

what are those? This is the

0:32

world's largest multi-country voting election really,

0:35

again, in the world. 27 nations, over 370 million

0:37

registered voters and they vote on

0:41

the seats. There's over 720 seats in this

0:43

European Union Parliament that are up for grabs.

0:46

The bigger the country, the more seats you

0:48

have. Germany has 96, France has 81, and

0:51

really, you know, the European Union, the Parliament

0:53

there, the members of Parliament, on

0:55

the power continuum, they don't wield a

0:57

lot of power compared to individual presidents

0:59

of countries, but what this was was

1:01

a pulse check of bellwether and

1:04

how did that go? Take a look. High

1:06

election drama in Europe as results

1:09

of elections to the EU Parliament

1:11

came in. Voters in 27 countries

1:13

have elected more far-right members. The

1:15

vote is having a significant impact.

1:17

European voters have pulled to the

1:19

farthest right it's ever been and

1:22

that is causing people anxiety. Voters

1:24

in Germany, Italy, Austria, and

1:26

the Netherlands also sent more

1:28

far-right candidates. In France right

1:30

now, where President Emmanuel Macron's

1:32

moderate party was beaten so

1:35

badly by the far-right party

1:37

of Marine Le Pen, that

1:39

Macron called for a snap

1:41

election, dissolving Parliament in the

1:43

process. German Chancellor Olaf Schulz's

1:45

SPD, the Social Democrats, heading for

1:48

their worst ever national election results.

2:00

have hit hard. In Italy, Giorgio Maloney

2:02

and her far-right brothers of Italy parties

2:04

forecast to more than double its seats

2:06

in the European Parliament since the last

2:08

election. European voters show

2:11

that they're more concerned about

2:13

what's directly and really negatively

2:15

impacting them. To a large degree, the

2:17

EU election results are a litmus test,

2:19

an indication of how the bloc will

2:21

handle critical issues. It's

2:26

really amazing. I'll just state it

2:28

because I haven't for a while

2:30

that I grew up a progressive

2:33

liberal Democrat from Boulder, Colorado, like

2:35

the Crystal Cathedral of liberalism. And

2:38

I find myself giddy when I watch a

2:40

news thing like this. And I even was

2:42

talking to my parents and

2:44

family members this last week who are very

2:46

concerned how everything's moving to the right. Everything's

2:48

going conservative. And I'm like, oh my God,

2:50

you guys, thank God

2:53

it is. And that's, you know,

2:56

and I'm trying to explain to those I

2:58

love as many of the ex-democrats that I

3:00

know are watching right now. We used to

3:03

be the party that was against war. We

3:05

were certainly against authoritarianism and definitely against censorship,

3:07

all of which are the tools that are

3:09

now being used by liberals. So as you

3:12

push in this conservative space, it's

3:14

all those that appear to be pushing

3:16

back against the insanity we all find

3:18

ourselves living in. And maybe maybe the

3:20

pendulum will go too far one way,

3:22

but God, we need a pendulum shift

3:25

right now. And it appears to be happening in

3:27

Europe. Right. And let's break

3:29

this down. So people have been taught to

3:31

think in polarization in this or that left

3:33

or right far right. But what does this

3:35

really mean? Let's you let's use a term

3:37

instead of far right, because that's been used

3:39

in context for people to think of certain

3:41

things when they think of that. Right. Just

3:44

is a less is a less charged

3:46

word or even just people concerned about what

3:49

is going on in their lives, in their

3:51

countries that are affecting their families and their

3:53

their home, their town, their communities. That's what

3:55

they're talking about here. And we can see

3:58

Germany, France, Italy, even Austria

4:00

also went far right, if you will, if you

4:02

look at these headlines, and they

4:04

topped the EU elections. So they're winning seats

4:06

in this parliament, this EU parliament. But

4:09

what are the big hot button

4:11

topics? Well, unchecked migration, you're talking

4:13

climate laws, these aggressive climate laws

4:15

that are rapidly changing society. This

4:18

is the first time this parliament has

4:20

voted since 2019. It's every

4:22

five years. So what happened since then? The

4:25

failed COVID response. So people were able

4:27

to vent their frustrations in this vote

4:29

about that. And we're talking also about

4:32

the war in Ukraine, and even the

4:35

economy, everyone it seems from the US

4:37

to the European Union, the countries in

4:39

there are dealing with economic issues. People

4:41

are having a hard time affording just

4:43

basic needs. And so this

4:45

is the New York Times on the run

4:47

up to the elections. And this is how

4:49

they framed it. The EU is voting, it

4:51

never mattered more. And it says the parliament

4:53

that emerges from these elections, weak though as

4:55

it, weak though it may be will serve

4:58

as a break or accelerator for the crucial

5:00

policies that will help shape Europe's immediate future.

5:02

And what are those? Well, you can see

5:04

them, you just look through the headlines here.

5:06

Here's one of them, far right victories in

5:08

EU elections in peril, Ukraine support. Another one

5:10

from Fox News, Europe expected to

5:13

move right in EU elections amid

5:15

voter anger over legal immigration crime

5:17

economy. But then we talk

5:19

about the green agenda, net zero

5:21

push. Before I do, I just want to

5:23

make a point because it pops into my

5:25

head as I was in Geneva, Switzerland last

5:27

week. You know what one of

5:29

the things that many of the people from the

5:31

different countries are saying is when the New York

5:34

Times is saying, well, the European Union is weak.

5:36

The opposite is proving to be true. These nations

5:38

are saying we no longer, our leaders have no

5:40

power in our country. We are being forced to

5:43

go along with whatever the EU decides,

5:45

it's dragging us around by our

5:47

tails. And we've had it that we

5:49

cannot stand up. Our finances

5:51

for the country are wrapped into it.

5:54

You know, how the dollar is where

5:56

the EU currency, all of it, they

5:58

are being manipulated by this over our...

6:00

marching authoritarian, sort of globalist regime, which

6:02

is the EU parliament. And so I

6:04

want to push back on that. Don't

6:06

listen to these newspapers. This is a

6:08

part of the propaganda. Oh, it's just

6:10

nothing. No, what is nothing now is

6:13

the sovereignty of those nations that are

6:15

part of the EU. Talk to anyone

6:17

that's watching what's happening inside of the

6:19

country. Exactly. So we're really

6:21

talking about massive centralization to these

6:23

authorities or power back to individual countries

6:26

and their leadership that is appointed by

6:28

the people. And one of the biggest

6:30

one of the biggest pushes across the

6:32

world and any country you're looking at

6:35

is the net zero push, this green

6:37

agenda, this rapid transition of economies onto

6:42

an ideology that the world is ending if

6:44

we don't move to net zero. So this

6:46

is one of the things that shaped these

6:48

boats. It says here, cost of going green

6:50

sparks backlash from Europe's boaters. And

6:52

never was that more really on

6:54

the front burner than the Netherlands. The Netherlands

6:57

is the breadbasket of the EU. They're

6:59

the second largest exporter of agriculture behind

7:02

the United States in the world. I

7:04

mean, this tiny little country is just

7:06

a little bigger than Maryland to give

7:08

you an idea and they have over

7:11

generations perfected farming. And remember, they went

7:13

to war against their farmers. Farmers

7:16

had to cut fertilizer. They were buying out

7:18

farms. They were cutting their heads of cattle

7:20

and people had enough. And they formed their

7:22

own party there. This is the headline when

7:24

it happened. They formed a farmer's protest party.

7:27

Farmer's protest party went shock Dutch boat victory.

7:29

And then right after they did that, they

7:31

said this, we can topple the prime minister

7:33

and form a government says leaders of the

7:35

Dutch farmer's party. And then what happened? Dutch

7:38

prime minister, Mark Root is quitting

7:40

politics. So they were obviously

7:42

somewhat successful in that. So these are the

7:45

these are the things that are shaping this,

7:47

but it's not, you know, these ideas are

7:49

not just confined to

7:51

Europe. They're not just confined to

7:53

these individual nations like Germany or

7:55

Italy. You're seeing this ideology of

7:58

populism. going to call it all over

8:01

the world. And it's almost like everyone

8:03

got the memo and said, we're done

8:05

with this. This is Peter Dutton in

8:07

Australia. He's the opposition leader. And over

8:09

the next year, many are saying

8:11

that he may be the next prime minister

8:13

of Australia. This is the headline coming out

8:15

of Australia right now. Dutton to pull Australia

8:17

out of the Paris Agreement if elected. So

8:19

he's making bold statement. Remember, the Paris agreement

8:21

is full net zero push. We can't let

8:24

the climate go over 1.5 degrees

8:26

Celsius or something's going to happen,

8:28

but we don't exactly know what. And

8:30

so you're seeing it at every

8:32

level, even at the court level.

8:35

So just two months ago, this is one

8:37

of the court rulings. It is a landmark

8:39

international ruling in Switzerland. This was the headline

8:41

that was made from it. International

8:43

court rule, Switzerland violated human rights and

8:45

landmark climate case brought by 2000 women.

8:49

So what happened? Well, just now,

8:51

Switzerland, their parliament is not going

8:54

to go along with that court

8:56

ruling. This parliament snubs European court

8:58

climate rulings. They're saying we're not doing

9:00

this. We refuse to do this. We want this

9:03

to go back to a vote, go back to the court. This

9:05

is, you know, they're not basically bowing to

9:08

this court rule. So again, at every level,

9:10

from the individual voter to the members of

9:12

parliament to actual court hearings and

9:14

precedent, people are not following what they've

9:16

been following over the last five years

9:19

or taught to follow, whether it's, you

9:21

know, this green energy, the COVID politics,

9:23

all of this stuff. There's a big

9:25

change happening. And this is

9:27

a litmus test for possibly what's going to

9:29

be happening in the U.S. as we move

9:31

into the elections. Wow. I

9:33

mean, it's really incredible developments. And it just

9:35

goes to show you when

9:37

push comes to shove, when you beat

9:39

your citizens with clubs, force them

9:42

back into their homes, forcibly inject them with

9:44

vaccines, tell them that they're going to stop

9:46

transmission. And then by shot number

9:48

nine, that becomes a reality that it's not

9:51

true. And then you parade out the heads

9:53

of the scientists that all told you that

9:55

locking down and standing six feet apart and

9:57

not allowing yourself into a hospital, see your

9:59

loved one die that. All that was based

10:01

on an assumption, no science whatsoever. When you

10:03

start seeing those things happen and attack on

10:06

your foods, by taking away farmers, the

10:08

lifeblood of every decent nation and stealing

10:10

their farms from them, just shocking that

10:12

the people that are against that end

10:15

up moving into power. Thank God that

10:17

the people still have the power. And

10:19

that's, I really want to celebrate that

10:21

because I know it was really heavy

10:23

last week. And though we're going to

10:25

get into some really heavy developments happening,

10:27

it's still proof people have the power.

10:29

We're still here. Do not. I

10:32

want to say this. Do not let people

10:34

convince you that your vote doesn't matter. It's

10:36

all totally rigged. If that

10:38

were the case, we wouldn't be seeing

10:40

this shift in Europe because I guarantee

10:42

you, no one wants to see an

10:44

opposition to this global push right now.

10:47

But that's exactly who's taking power is

10:49

the opposition. The rebels are

10:51

winning.

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