What the HELL is happening around the world right now?! | The Tom Bilyeu Show
Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
October 19, 2026
Hey everybody, Tom Bilyeu here. We’re diving headfirst into a world in chaos—mass protests erupting across Europe and beyond, from France and Italy to Argentina and India.
Speakers Tom Bilyeu, Drew, Peter Boghossian
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What the hell is happening around the world? There are massive protests and or riots going just all over the place. Like I said, France, Italy, Belgium, Albania, Spain, Argentina, India, Brazil.
It's really getting pretty crazy how many places are popping off right now.
On October 17th, which ended up being a big day, we'll see if that date gets remembered, certainly in European history or not. But over half a million people marched in France. If you guys haven't seen the footage, it is absolutely insane. We're going to be showing a bunch of it here on the screen. If you get a chance, take a look at it. It is wild to say the absolute least. There were 1,200 arrests and I'll say so far, 150 police officers were hurt. Unbelievable amounts of damage to property. There was looting everywhere, fires across multiple cities.
Now the question as to whether the looting was completely random is something that is going to be explored a lot more in the coming weeks. I assure you, there have been all kinds of reports about whether Jewish buildings were being targeted specifically. There's actually a Jewish group that said, doesn't look like, even though some people had like actual addresses of Jewish-owned businesses, when you take the totality of over 2,000 businesses being destroyed, that it doesn't look like there was in aggregate any serious targeting of Jewish businesses specifically.
But there's plenty of anecdotal stuff about that. There's also video of people standing in front of stores basically saying, the intimation being that they're saying that this is owned by a Muslim and so leave it be. That stuff I consider a lot of early questionable reporting. I consider that anecdotal from where I'm sitting for now. But you've got mayors across France asking for partial curfews. Now the same day that all of that was popping off in France, you've got riots rocking cities all across Italy, Belgium, Milan was like one big smashing grab. It was insane. There was a gigantic Palestinian flag draped over the Leaning Tower of Pisa, which was wild. You had people protesting there. I think that's where Greta Thunberg was. She was certainly at one of these protests speaking to an American audience. Always very interesting to see what language people are speaking in. You had stuff popping off in Brussels and Liege. Tirana, the capital of Albania, was on its fifth straight day of street battles. And Albania's Supreme Court was burned by rioters. They were demanding that the Prime Minister Rama resign. Spain had 20,000 people marching in the streets. You take this all in, it was absolutely wild. When you put it together, it is clear that something is going very, very wrong, largely in Europe, but it isn't exclusively to Europe. You've got Argentina in the mix, like I said, Brazil, India.
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