France Burns + The Climate of Fear

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SPEAKER_2 (1:17)

All right, welcome everybody. Happy Monday, October 19th, 2026

We are live from the Y refi studios in Phoenix, Arizona. Honored to be with you all. Blake, how are we doing?

SPEAKER_3 (1:29)

I feel a little gloomy today.

SPEAKER_4 (1:31)

Really?

SPEAKER_3 (1:31)

Well, what we saw over the weekend, I'm grateful. It's not in my country, but I get really upset when I see bad stuff happen in Europe actually.

SPEAKER_4 (1:40)

I do too.

SPEAKER_3 (1:40)

Like really bad stuff. And that was the big story throughout the weekend as we're going to talk about. It's that France, a country with a lot of history, a country that's very beautiful, a country, a lot of people have probably been to at least, well, I don't want to say probably, many people have been to at least once in their life and they likely really enjoyed it while they were there. That country is becoming, along with Britain, just exhibit A to their exhibit B of what happens if you go too far down the leftward path.

SPEAKER_2 (2:08)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_3 (2:08)

And what that means right now is it means gigantic riots, which there have been a lot of riots in France, but what happened this past weekend, Town Hall and Limoges, a Beaux Arts iconic building from 150 years ago, extremely beautiful, just torched, destroyed by rioters.

The Louvre right now, famous museum where the Mona Lisa is, and about 10 million other famous paintings. It's closed right now because they have to worry about unrest in the city. And there's no signs that this is stopping.

SPEAKER_2 (2:40)

It's spreading to Lisbon and it's spread to Milan as well.

SPEAKER_3 (2:43)

Brussels, another very migrant heavy city. And it's a mixture of a lot of young migrant and migrant descended people rioting. You have the left defending it. I saw throughout the weekend, you saw all these takes from people who had the Hamas flag or the Gaza flag or that watermelon that they use as their logo because it has the color scheme. And they'll say things. This is one I just saw yesterday. Buildings can be rebuilt.

Lives lost to cruelty and exploitation cannot. Don't want to lose beautiful historic architecture. Don't F with people's well-being. So making excuses for incredibly depraved behavior and saying, more of it will happen if you don't give us what we want. And that's the flip side of it. Why is that country in a gigantic mess?

Well, they're broke actually. In France, a retiree makes more money than a working person. And it's an aging country. And they're claiming all these demonstrators are saying, we're rioting because our schools are underfunded. France has a higher percentage of spending coming from the government than the USSR in the year that it fell.

SPEAKER_2 (3:47)

Yeah, well, and that is a really big problem when you get those age trees that go up, right? And so you have very few young people supporting an aging gerontocracy, an aging retiree program that make a lot of money, that are guaranteed to have a lot of money.

So it's a massive problem. They're not having new kids, so that's an issue. France, by the way, it's worth stating, typically had more children than some of the other Western European nations.

It's still below replacement, but that is something that France has actually done better with than some of the other Western European nations. So this started, obviously, you've heard that this is supposed to be a student-led protest. They were originally, and this is kind of going by September, this was already starting. There was working class suburbs and poor school conditions that, like teacher shortages, dilapidated buildings, these kind of things. And it started overlapping with a call to revive the Yellow Vest protest movement. Now, you might remember, yes, it is true, France tends to erupt in protest from time to time. It just seems to be, about as sure as the sun coming up that France is gonna have some protests and some rioting. But this has morphed into something way larger and way bigger and way more destructive than your average French protest. And all the pictures seem to indicate that there are a lot of migrant children or children of migrants themselves, right? So they might be born in France, but they're still not exactly the image of a French student that you would have in your mind. They're burning, they're looting, and they're destroying beautiful French architecture. So it's a huge problem. And now it's morphed into this antifa, socialist, communist energy, which is globed on to this.