If This Is Progress, Why Is Everything on Fire
Show Notes
“If burning schools is now considered ‘activism,’ and a right‑wing comeback in Brazil is treated like a natural disaster, maybe the problem isn’t the world—it’s the media refusing to admit its ideology is collapsing.”
France is on fire—literally—with 500+ schools shut down, hundreds injured, and riots erupting because migrants claim there aren’t enough teachers. Instead of confronting the failure of open‑border, soft‑on‑crime, hyper‑progressive policies, the media calls it “unrest,” as if classrooms spontaneously combust. Meanwhile, Brazil just delivered a political earthquake: Flávio Bolsonaro leading the first round, signaling a massive rejection of socialist governance across Latin America. Argentina flipped. Italy flipped. Poland flipped. Now Brazil is flipping. And yet U.S. outlets still insist “MAGA is dead,” hoping repetition will replace reality. The pattern is unmistakable—countries that embraced progressive technocrats are drowning in crime, inflation, and cultural chaos, while voters worldwide are choosing order over ideology. If you want to know what the next decade of progressive governance looks like, look at France. If you want to know how voters respond, look at Brazil.
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Back And Calling Out Media
SPEAKER_01 0:05
Okay, David. I'm back. I'm back.
SPEAKER_00 0:11
I'm back. Wow. So it's like we in North America, we're not getting enough news from around the world, and especially the liberal media is, and I ranted about it a lot while you were away.
Brazil Election Shock For Commentators
SPEAKER_00 0:25
The liberal media doesn't want to tell you what's going on in the world. They're afraid. And one of the examples is Brazil, in which the first round of the country's presidential election, guess what? The right-wing candidate is leading. Senator Flavio Bolsonaro is taking the lead in that first round. And that is bad news. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad news for the liberal media, Stuart, because that would mean there is a pivot happening in these socialist countries. Remember, these same media want to turn North America to socialist countries. And these socialist countries are basically flipping the middle finger to the whole world and lefty policies. But Stuart, let's start off with where the shit is hitting the fan right now.
France Unrest And Progressive Policies
SPEAKER_00 1:13
Our dear friends, Emmanuel Macron's people in France.
SPEAKER_01 1:18
What's the Paris burns and Brazil recounts the votes? Ask yourself, which direction is the world actually moving and why? Nobody in American media wants to talk about what's gone on. Big slap in the face to those DSCs. Anyways, let's just sort of get uh what we've confirmed. Is the outlet's own framing of a piece, a glimpse of the future that the progressive left keeps prescribing? Let's get the take. Francis spent decades as a progressive left favorite on how Europe does it right. Generous welfare, open borders, rhetoric, manage multiculturism. If the streets are burning again, that's not an accident of circumstance. It's a predictable output of policies. American progressives want to import wholesale. This is the same failure mode Republicans have been warning about since the 2015 migrant crisis, when a Western nation won't enforce its borders or assimilate, who let in the bill comes due in the streets, not as a think tank or white paper, but as a burning school. Yep.
Populist Right Wave Across Countries
SPEAKER_01 2:59
The Bolasanaro comeback that has stunned Brazil and the world to utter silence. Yep. JR J A I R Bolasaro, a family member or allied candidate, what an office. What polling vote margins were not even retrieved in this body?
Confirmed. The headlines alone confirm that the fact is the line political comeback that the political establishment didn't even see coming. That is the Brazil establishment media and the global commentarists spent years declaring Balsamaramo dead and buried, and spent political force for no reason. If that comeback is now stunning, the same people who wrote its obituary, that's the establishment credibility problem.
Not a surprise to anyone who watched Nealy in Argentina, Maloney in Italy, or Trump in the U.S. prove the same point. Voters are with technocrats, progressive governance, and they're not afraid to say so at a ballot box. This is the same populist right wave, just with a Brazil accent.
Funny enough, the headlines in the United States is MAGA is dead. The counter argument, demolish. The media line will be that France's unrest is a purely law in order or economic story with no connection to immigration or progressive policy. That's Bolsonaro's resurgence, is just disinformation fueled by nostalgia.
From a disgrace figure, both Dodge rely, both Dodges rely on refusing to connect policy to outcome. You cannot run the open borders soft on crime experiment for a decade, watch it produce unrest, and then insist that the unrest has nothing to do with the experiment. And you cannot call the movement dead and then act shocked when it's not. You know, the progressive keeps telling us what the future looks like.
France is just showing us early. RCP framing a glimpse of the future that progressive left keeps prescribing. You know, the the the the balsanera piece, I mean, it's amazing. Working families don't get moved to the gate suburban when policy fails.
They're the ones living next to the unrest in France, anywhere else has been tried. The same people calling Balsano movement dead, and the French progressive model, the one that should be the model, and when thousands of schools are burning and the streets are on fire, you know, that's the future of the DSC's thing. You want to know what's next decade looks like for progressive? Look at France.
You know, that's what voters get. A chance to reject it. Look at Brazil. You know, maybe the DSC is trying to take a lesson from the Brazil.
Let's change the rules so you can't get voted out and cannot have the surprise. That is more likely how these two stories have one truth. The technocratic left keeps promising stability by more government, more open borders, more managed diversity from Paris to Brazil. The people who actually have to live there, well, they're still waiting for it to work.
Canada And US As Next Test
SPEAKER_01 7:03
Let me tell you a final note. Canada is well on its way to this experiment. It's true. United States isn't sitting that far behind. The reality is when it's safer to go to Brazil than it is to go to Canada. You gotta wonder.
SPEAKER_00 7:27
You gotta wonder. Well, that's that's an interesting segue, my friend, and thank you for throwing that out there. One of the few times I may not even disagree with you. Well, okay, let's take a step back here, okay, guys.
Schools Burn And Protests Escalate
SPEAKER_00 7:39
Why are they what what's going on here? And even the most liberal of media is having a hard time rationalizing these protests. Because what are they fighting about in France, right? I'll tell you what it is, people.
There's a shortage of teachers and support staff, and these immigrants are pissed. So what do they do? Riot, burn down schools, create havoc. That, ladies and gentlemen, is what they're doing.
These are not people who've adopted and adapted to society. They're not dealing with this in a how do I put this civil way of doing it. They're just creating civil unrest. Because burning schools, injuring people, physically, I'm not talking about, you know, you're talking about 170 students and 65 school staff members have been injured.
Foreign police officers have dealt with injuries. Let me put it this way, Stuart. 900 demonstrations took place around France, according to the police. More than 500 French schools are closed, and students set fires, blockade schools, and clash with riot police across the country.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the socialist mantra. This is the thing. And I know you trolls are gonna say you're going, you guys are just gaslighting. Prove me wrong.
Because we've seen this time and time again. Forget the George Floyd riots, folks, of a few years ago. This is gonna put this to shame. Because if this comes to America, as guys like El Said, Elon Omar, Rashida Taleb all want, Bernie Sanders want.
We've seen riots in California, Stuart. We've seen the riots in Minnesota, we've seen entire thing go crazy. That is what the Democrats want. Unrest.
But what this is creating by having these policies in place, Stuart, is you're bringing in these folks who don't care about your society. They don't care about what you based your whole lives on. They're gonna destroy it for you. Why?
Because you feel bad. That's the European problem. They felt bad as conquerors, conquist, conquetistas, whatever the fuck the word is. You know, they they're all going there now feeling bad that they look what they did conquering these nations.
And so their way of sympathizing is simple. Let's open up our borders, live in our countries, and everything will be fine. But everything's not fine. Because that's not what they want to come to.
Many of them are coming there to destroy, not to build. When you think of immigrants who've come through, whether it's Ellis Island or whether it's Montreal or whatever, you you basically vetted these people to say, you're here to help us build our country. If not, we don't want you. Borders were closed.
And I'm not suggesting close all the borders. But if you know that they're here to destroy your society, why do you want them? And ladies and gentlemen, Michigan and Minnesota are proof positive of how things are going to start. Oregon, we saw how Oregon went.
Washington State, these protests, but the liberal media doesn't want to show you the whole truth. They want to show you pieces where we can blame conservatives for all the problems. But Stuart, the conservatives aren't running France. It's a socialist in Emmanuel Macron, and he can't get control of his own country.
So now imagine a Democrat president. Imagine Imam Dani is a president, which of course he can't, right? But imagine we're gonna bring in one of these crazy socialists as president who's gonna say, yes, let's burn down major cities, schools, let's let's let's let's do it. Here's the nonsense.
Schools are being burned down. And they're saying, and their comment was, we're burning them down because there's not enough teachers in support staff. Does that make sense? That is what they're doing.
This is chaos driven by socialism.
Latin America’s Backlash Against Socialism
SPEAKER_00 11:53
If this is what you want in your country, just take a look at Argentina, take a look at Venezuela, take a look at Peru, take a look at Cuba, look at Cuba, look at Colombia. No, there's a reason I'm picking these countries because they all said after decades of this, they flipped the switch, Stuart. They went with the conservatives because the socialists, all the promises that they made for decades, not only didn't come true, but it ruined their lives. Incredible triple-digit inflation, poverty. I mean, you can't imagine the depths of economic ruin. If you guys think you have a bat in the US and Canada, you ain't seen nothing yet. Go talk to people in those countries I just listed. That's coming to a neighborhood by you if you continue to support these crazies. Stuart, that is not only coming to Canada, it's coming to the US. And that scares the hell out of me.
SPEAKER_01 12:55
Well, it's already in Canada, and it's already in the United States. So what's what you say is coming is already here. It's a question of whether or not, you know, it grabs hold. You know, I have a little faith in government in the United States because, you know, somehow I think that we'll come on the other side with a lot of
MAGA “Dead” Narrative And Wrap
SPEAKER_01 13:16
work. You know, that the media is already trying to predict that MAGA is dead. Well, because if they don't pronounce it dead, then people won't be able to do it.
SPEAKER_00 13:24
That's the thought process, right? Stuart, if MAGA is dead, right? Because we need to create some sort of vision. We have to we have to destroy someone's vision. And MAGA is far from dead, people. Like, don't get me started. The liberal media wants you to believe conservatism is dead and MAGA is dead, and yet you go out, Stuart, it's far from true. It's not the the the MAGA is not dead. You know what's dead? It's the the liberal media is dead. They're deadheads. Because all they want to do is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, it doesn't exist. I agree. And you know, to sit here and to say that Trump is gonna lose a hundred seats in the in the next in the midterms, uh these are crazies. This is nonsense. And when you watch Margaret Brennan go after Secretary Rubio on on a Sunday morning program, where she has an agenda, and he's like, it's irrelevant what you're saying, lady. Everything you're saying is irrelevant, and she wants to get her message across. She doesn't care that the man she's talking to is one of the most powerful people in the world with tremendous information, but she's smarter than him. That's how fucked up it is right now. And the Democrats, if you vote Democrat in this midterm, you're only bringing in what's going on in France and in England and in Spain and in the Netherlands way faster. Open your eyes, people. If you want riots in the streets, if you want civil unrest, if you want to see increased crime and increased welfare, keep doing what you're doing, because that's where you're heading.
SPEAKER_01 15:10
David, I got nothing left to add. And wrap it up, buddy. All right, everybody. I'm back. I know. Hi, David.
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Chapters
- 0:00 Back And Calling Out Media
- 0:25 Brazil Election Shock For Commentators
- 1:13 France Unrest And Progressive Policies
- 2:59 Populist Right Wave Across Countries
- 7:03 Canada And US As Next Test
- 7:39 Schools Burn And Protests Escalate
- 11:53 Latin America’s Backlash Against Socialism
- 13:16 MAGA “Dead” Narrative And Wrap
Transcript
Back And Calling Out Media SPEAKER_01 0:05 Okay, David. I'm back. I'm back. SPEAKER_00 0:11 I'm back.
Wow. So it's like we in North America, we're not getting enough news from around the world, and especially the liberal media is, and I ranted about it a lot while you were away. Brazil Election Shock For Commentators SPEAKER_00 0:25 The liberal media doesn't want to tell you what's going on in the world. They're afraid.
And one of the examples is Brazil, in which the first round of the country's presidential election, guess what? The right-wing candidate is leading. Senator Flavio Bolsonaro is taking the lead in that first round. And that is bad news.
Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad news for the liberal media, Stuart, because that would mean there is a pivot happening in these socialist countries. Remember, these same media want to turn North America to socialist countries. And these socialist countries are basically flipping the middle finger to the whole world and lefty policies. But Stuart, let's start off with where the shit is hitting the fan right now.
France Unrest And Progressive Policies SPEAKER_00 1:13 Our dear friends, Emmanuel Macron's people in France. SPEAKER_01 1:18 What's the Paris burns and Brazil recounts the votes? Ask yourself, which direction is the world actually moving and why? Nobody in American media wants to talk about what's gone on.
Big slap in the face to those DSCs. Anyways, let's just sort of get uh what we've confirmed. Is the outlet's own framing of a piece, a glimpse of the future that the progressive left keeps prescribing? Let's get the take.
Francis spent decades as a progressive left favorite on how Europe does it right. Generous welfare, open borders, rhetoric, manage multiculturism. If the streets are burning again, that's not an accident of circumstance. It's a predictable output of policies.
American progressives want to import wholesale. This is the same failure mode Republicans have been warning about since the 2015 migrant crisis, when a Western nation won't enforce its borders or assimilate, who let in the bill comes due in the streets, not as a think tank or white paper, but as a burning school. Yep. Populist Right Wave Across Countries SPEAKER_01 2:59 The Bolasanaro comeback that has stunned Brazil and the world to utter silence.
Yep. JR J A I R Bolasaro, a family member or allied candidate, what an office. What polling vote margins were not even retrieved in this body? Confirmed.
The headlines alone confirm that the fact is the line political comeback that the political establishment didn't even see coming. That is the Brazil establishment media and the global commentarists spent years declaring Balsamaramo dead and buried, and spent political force for no reason. If that comeback is now stunning, the same people who wrote its obituary, that's the establishment credibility problem. Not a surprise to anyone who watched Nealy in Argentina, Maloney in Italy, or Trump in the U.S.
prove the same point. Voters are with technocrats, progressive governance, and they're not afraid to say so at a ballot box. This is the same populist right wave, just with a Brazil accent. Funny enough, the headlines in the United States is MAGA is dead.
The counter argument, demolish. The media line will be that France's unrest is a purely law in order or economic story with no connection to immigration or progressive policy. That's Bolsonaro's resurgence, is just disinformation fueled by nostalgia. From a disgrace figure, both Dodge rely, both Dodges rely on refusing to connect policy to outcome.
You cannot run the open borders soft on crime experiment for a decade, watch it produce unrest, and then insist that the unrest has nothing to do with the experiment. And you cannot call the movement dead and then act shocked when it's not. You know, the progressive keeps telling us what the future looks like. France is just showing us early.
RCP framing a glimpse of the future that progressive left keeps prescribing. You know, the the the the balsanera piece, I mean, it's amazing. Working families don't get moved to the gate suburban when policy fails. They're the ones living next to the unrest in France, anywhere else has been tried.
The same people calling Balsano movement dead, and the French progressive model, the one that should be the model, and when thousands of schools are burning and the streets are on fire, you know, that's the future of the DSC's thing. You want to know what's next decade looks like for progressive? Look at France. You know, that's what voters get.
A chance to reject it. Look at Brazil. You know, maybe the DSC is trying to take a lesson from the Brazil. Let's change the rules so you can't get voted out and cannot have the surprise.
That is more likely how these two stories have one truth. The technocratic left keeps promising stability by more government, more open borders, more managed diversity from Paris to Brazil. The people who actually have to live there, well, they're still waiting for it to work. Canada And US As Next Test SPEAKER_01 7:03 Let me tell you a final note.
Canada is well on its way to this experiment. It's true. United States isn't sitting that far behind. The reality is when it's safer to go to Brazil than it is to go to Canada.
You gotta wonder. SPEAKER_00 7:27 You gotta wonder. Well, that's that's an interesting segue, my friend, and thank you for throwing that out there. One of the few times I may not even disagree with you.
Well, okay, let's take a step back here, okay, guys. Schools Burn And Protests Escalate SPEAKER_00 7:39 Why are they what what's going on here? And even the most liberal of media is having a hard time rationalizing these protests. Because what are they fighting about in France, right?
I'll tell you what it is, people. There's a shortage of teachers and support staff, and these immigrants are pissed. So what do they do? Riot, burn down schools, create havoc.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is what they're doing. These are not people who've adopted and adapted to society. They're not dealing with this in a how do I put this civil way of doing it. They're just creating civil unrest.
Because burning schools, injuring people, physically, I'm not talking about, you know, you're talking about 170 students and 65 school staff members have been injured. Foreign police officers have dealt with injuries. Let me put it this way, Stuart. 900 demonstrations took place around France, according to the police.
More than 500 French schools are closed, and students set fires, blockade schools, and clash with riot police across the country. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the socialist mantra. This is the thing. And I know you trolls are gonna say you're going, you guys are just gaslighting.
Prove me wrong. Because we've seen this time and time again. Forget the George Floyd riots, folks, of a few years ago. This is gonna put this to shame.
Because if this comes to America, as guys like El Said, Elon Omar, Rashida Taleb all want, Bernie Sanders want. We've seen riots in California, Stuart. We've seen the riots in Minnesota, we've seen entire thing go crazy. That is what the Democrats want.
Unrest. But what this is creating by having these policies in place, Stuart, is you're bringing in these folks who don't care about your society. They don't care about what you based your whole lives on. They're gonna destroy it for you.
Why? Because you feel bad. That's the European problem. They felt bad as conquerors, conquist, conquetistas, whatever the fuck the word is.
You know, they they're all going there now feeling bad that they look what they did conquering these nations. And so their way of sympathizing is simple. Let's open up our borders, live in our countries, and everything will be fine. But everything's not fine.
Because that's not what they want to come to. Many of them are coming there to destroy, not to build. When you think of immigrants who've come through, whether it's Ellis Island or whether it's Montreal or whatever, you you basically vetted these people to say, you're here to help us build our country. If not, we don't want you.
Borders were closed. And I'm not suggesting close all the borders. But if you know that they're here to destroy your society, why do you want them? And ladies and gentlemen, Michigan and Minnesota are proof positive of how things are going to start.
Oregon, we saw how Oregon went. Washington State, these protests, but the liberal media doesn't want to show you the whole truth. They want to show you pieces where we can blame conservatives for all the problems. But Stuart, the conservatives aren't running France.
It's a socialist in Emmanuel Macron, and he can't get control of his own country. So now imagine a Democrat president. Imagine Imam Dani is a president, which of course he can't, right? But imagine we're gonna bring in one of these crazy socialists as president who's gonna say, yes, let's burn down major cities, schools, let's let's let's let's do it.
Here's the nonsense. Schools are being burned down. And they're saying, and their comment was, we're burning them down because there's not enough teachers in support staff. Does that make sense?
That is what they're doing. This is chaos driven by socialism. Latin America’s Backlash Against Socialism SPEAKER_00 11:53 If this is what you want in your country, just take a look at Argentina, take a look at Venezuela, take a look at Peru, take a look at Cuba, look at Cuba, look at Colombia. No, there's a reason I'm picking these countries because they all said after decades of this, they flipped the switch, Stuart.
They went with the conservatives because the socialists, all the promises that they made for decades, not only didn't come true, but it ruined their lives. Incredible triple-digit inflation, poverty. I mean, you can't imagine the depths of economic ruin. If you guys think you have a bat in the US and Canada, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Go talk to people in those countries I just listed. That's coming to a neighborhood by you if you continue to support these crazies. Stuart, that is not only coming to Canada, it's coming to the US. And that scares the hell out of me.
SPEAKER_01 12:55 Well, it's already in Canada, and it's already in the United States. So what's what you say is coming is already here. It's a question of whether or not, you know, it grabs hold. You know, I have a little faith in government in the United States because, you know, somehow I think that we'll come on the other side with a lot of MAGA “Dead” Narrative And Wrap SPEAKER_01 13:16 work.
You know, that the media is already trying to predict that MAGA is dead. Well, because if they don't pronounce it dead, then people won't be able to do it. SPEAKER_00 13:24 That's the thought process, right? Stuart, if MAGA is dead, right?
Because we need to create some sort of vision. We have to we have to destroy someone's vision. And MAGA is far from dead, people. Like, don't get me started.
The liberal media wants you to believe conservatism is dead and MAGA is dead, and yet you go out, Stuart, it's far from true. It's not the the the MAGA is not dead. You know what's dead? It's the the liberal media is dead.
They're deadheads. Because all they want to do is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, it doesn't exist. I agree. And you know, to sit here and to say that Trump is gonna lose a hundred seats in the in the next in the midterms, uh these are crazies.
This is nonsense. And when you watch Margaret Brennan go after Secretary Rubio on on a Sunday morning program, where she has an agenda, and he's like, it's irrelevant what you're saying, lady. Everything you're saying is irrelevant, and she wants to get her message across. She doesn't care that the man she's talking to is one of the most powerful people in the world with tremendous information, but she's smarter than him.
That's how fucked up it is right now. And the Democrats, if you vote Democrat in this midterm, you're only bringing in what's going on in France and in England and in Spain and in the Netherlands way faster. Open your eyes, people. If you want riots in the streets, if you want civil unrest, if you want to see increased crime and increased welfare, keep doing what you're doing, because that's where you're heading.
SPEAKER_01 15:10 David, I got nothing left to add. And wrap it up, buddy. All right, everybody. I'm back.
I know. Hi, David.
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