Neil Oliver: Who are these evil Jokers?!?

Neil Oliver

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Greetings one and all, great to have you with me for another look at what’s happening in the world around us. Hope you enjoy listening to me vent spleen to the same extent that I enjoy venting it. But before I launch into my weekly monologue, I just want to give you the heads up about my patreon.com site. If you go there, find me, join up and part with a little bit of cash, you’ll be supporting this channel in an irreplaceably practical way. It costs about as much as one cup of coffee a month to show that support, but it makes all the difference here. And in return, you get early access to all menu content and exclusive access to a Q&A, a question and answer session every week. It’s great, we enjoy it, the patreon family. So join, join up, stir yourself into the mix and make it better by being there. Okay, that’s the advert over, it’s now time for the rant.

The oddness of the people in charge, I mean beyond anything else, they’re just an odd squad. The heads of state, the high-profile people are just looking increasingly peculiar, sometimes even physically, but certainly kind of morally and ideologically. But anyway, what I detect then more and more is the distance between us and those who have declared themselves in power over us.

Obviously, this is a great deal to do with the antics of the elected, but perhaps more particularly the unelected and thereby unaccountable. Listen to this guy addressing some or other forum of the World Economic Forum:

“We are broadly speaking agreed that we need to get on track towards a net zero climate safe and nature positive future. But we know this will not be easy, and we’re going to need to change behaviors of both individuals but also the way that our industries and corporations and also our governments work and practice. We’re going to need to do this through a mixture of carrots and hopefully, perhaps not so many sticks, and some kind of mix. And there’s a very active and live debate as to how we go about this, but we’re likely to see an increasing move towards more stick-like interventions into the future as things worsen if we’re not able to act.”

Net zero climate safe nature positive future, he says. We know this will not be easy, he says. We’re going to need to change behaviors, he says. We’re going to need to do this through a mixture of carrots and perhaps not so many sticks, but we’re likely to see an increasing move towards more stick-like interventions. How do you think so?

I mean seriously, who do these people, whoever they are, think they are? Cheerily choosing the use of sticks, metaphorical or not, in the face of billions of people who haven’t a reason to know him from Adam. Net zero, which is a suicide note for half the world, 4 billion people alive today. Nature positive? Can you be talking about the wholesale destruction of entire ecosystems and environments to facilitate the strip mining of rare earth metals by child slaves? Is that what he means?

A move towards an increase in the amount of mining of 1,000, 2,000% who knows to meet demand for gold, silver, copper, lithium, cobalt, lead and the rest. Does he mean the piggy backing on the coal, oil and gas use of nations like China to make the windmills, solar panels, the electric vehicles and the rest of the window dressing of the green agenda that’s more accurately described as the greed agenda? Is he talking about the windmill farms that require the sterilization of vast areas of ground, clearing them of all life so as to erect turbines that harvest thousands of birds that sit anyway on monolithic blocks of concrete, one of the most energy hungry and toxic products on the planet? Or when they whack them out at sea where their very presence in the water kills whales and other marine life? That kind of nature positive, that kind of green, is that he’s talking about?

Carrot and stick, he says, with an increasing move towards more stick-like interventions. What sort of sticks exactly, we man? What are you talking about? Higher taxes maybe? The taking away of necessities of life? Or actual sticks, truncheons and batons for the uncooperative? What kind of stick?

So I ask again, who is this joker? Where do people like this, nobodies and non-entities like this, get the idea that while unelected and unaccountable, they could and should and would take unilateral decisions guaranteeing the immiseration of people like you and me? Why do they imagine for even a nanosecond that they’re somehow imbued with the right and the power to make harder, smaller, darker, colder and hungrier the lives of billions of people?

From Davos and the WEF to the frauds of Downing Street in London in Britain, the refrain is the same. Keir Starmer wallows in freebies like the rest of his cabinet lackeys while his Chancellor Rachel Reeves dots the i’s and crosses the t’s on a budget set to pick the pockets of everyone else, pensioners and plebs alike. A population already crushed beneath the greatest tax burden since World War II, already extorted for some of the most expensive and uneconomic energy in the world.

But do you know what really sticks in my craw, really sticks in my throat, what fills me to the brim with righteous anger? It’s the glaring certainty that the diminished lives they have in mind for their fellow human beings are absolutely not the lives they have in mind for themselves. What’s utterly lacking in all of this, every step of the way by those WEF, WHO, UN types is an iota of sincerity. And by sincerity, I mean that if these people sincerely believed in the necessity, far less the virtuousness of the kind of diminished, limited, lesser lives they have in mind for us, if they had so much as an ounce of sincerity in their self-righteous, narcissistic heads, then they would already be living those lives themselves as an example to the rest of us.

It’s the presumption of right, of being right, of having the right to disregard the hopes and dreams, even just the relative normality of the lives of others that makes me wonder if I’ve walked by accident through a door into a parallel universe where the very idea of natural law is entirely absent.

I keep replaying in my head statements by the likes of John Kerry, a so-called climate czar for Joe Biden, telling that meeting of the World Economic Forum that free speech is a massive obstacle to the ability to govern. Or Hillary Clinton demanding more censorship on the Internet. Or Barack Obama calling for likewise. Or Bill Gates, international peddler of gene therapies and other experimental, unsafe, ineffective if not demonstrably lethal medical interventions. Bill Gates, whose principal residence is a palace the size of a city block. Bill Gates, who wishes there were fewer people on the planet while simultaneously gushing about his fleet of private jets and other aircraft being his guilty pleasure. Bill Gates, friend of international pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

They’re everywhere, these parasite philanthropists. Al Gore had a net worth of around a million bucks when he ran and fell as Democrat presidential candidate in 2000, but he’s worth 300 million bucks now after decades of spouting nonsense about climate change from his beachfront property among other addresses. So no fear of sea level rises there, apparently. Remember his images of starving polar bears and the rest of the doom-laden prophecy that 20-odd years later still hasn’t happened? As in none of it.

They’re ten a penny, these self-seeking, self-aggrandizing fraudsters and con artists predicting the imminent end of the world while the cash registers ring loud, clear and endlessly in the background. Whatever delusions these people are laboring under, a consequence presumably of too long exposure to wealth and power combined, they have evidently reached and long since passed the point of reason.

I say they’re certifiably mad, these characters. That we’re dealing with a version of insanity, albeit disguised in expensive clothes, domiciled in beachfront palaces in Martha’s Vineyard and similar, aided and abetted by bought and paid for media and bought and paid for politicians. A kind of madness that has assumed the right to rule as though granted by God himself.

All of them, these prognosticators of perdition for us, have at least one thing in common. Like the worms around a corpse, they wriggle in skinny and they wriggle out fat. Every one of them bloated, enriched by their dishonesty to the tune of tens and hundreds of millions of pounds and dollars and euros. These people will never downsize to modest homes. They’ll never know the penetrating cold of a northern winter, the lethal heat of an equatorial summer. They’ll never have their horizons limited to a 15-minute walk from their front doors. They’ll never have to eat what others prescribe for them, and they’ll never have to keep their mouth shut out of fear of censure or worse.

They’re full-time hypocrites, saying one thing and doing another. Their words are invested with no heartfelt meaning, at best political expediency. They mean to force us to do as they say with sticks while themselves indulging lives unimaginable even to the emperors of old. They’re charlatans, liars, snake oil salesmen. They can never be trusted except to do and say whatever makes their lives more and our lives less.

For hundreds of thousands of innocents in Ukraine, life has been rendered non-existent by those who, in pursuit of yet more wealth, the furtherance of their ideologies and ambitions, peddle war as the most profitable racket in town. More souls are burned alive in the blighted holy land, or vaporized or rendered into bloody chunks for the enrichment of the international arms industry, for the material gain of more of the same people.

It’s like Ted Hughes’s poem of the same name. They’re determined to dominate, always to dominate. There’s nothing especially clever about a hawk. It’s just a creature that has found its niche, an ecosystem of likely prey in which to thrive. And we have permitted the ecosystem for these psychopathic parasites. We have a world patrolled by predators that desire only to perpetuate their own existence and their own kind. To quote: “I use no arguments, assert my right. The sun is behind me. Nothing has changed since I began. My eye has permitted no change. I am going to keep things like this.”

And then here’s the thing, here’s the thing behind it all but increasingly unavoidably apparent. As I said at the top, the downright oddness, the peculiarity of these people. I won’t name names, but have a look around at the, shall we say, nationally and internationally prominent class and go in search there of any that appear to you to lead lives, to have lifestyles, to have dreams and aspirations, even tastes and preferences that you can identify with or recognize for even a second.

Ask yourself, as I increasingly do, who are these people? Where on Earth do they come from? And what on Earth did we ever do to deserve them? Put simply, they are not like us. They do not like us. In fact, they regard us with contempt. The distance between us and them has long since grown too wide ever to be bridged. There are simply two tribes now: one very small and very odd, and one very large indeed. If it’s finally about dog eat dog, my money is always on the great big hungry dog.


H/T philincalifornia

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Alexy Scherbakoff
October 25, 2024 10:44 pm

We need to do some defenestration.

Reply to  Alexy Scherbakoff
October 25, 2024 11:27 pm

Maybe we should begin with Simon.

Simon
Reply to  Jim Masterson
October 26, 2024 12:33 pm

That’s rather violent Jim. Do you like the thought of “removing” people who don’t agree with you. I can why you are a Trump supporter.

Reply to  Simon
October 26, 2024 7:01 pm

Well, I don’t support General Kelly who was fired by Trump. I guess that means Kelly’s comment was politically motivated. I noticed Harris invoked both his and Milley’s names recently. Trump talked about Kelly at a rally yesterday. He denied Kelly’s comment.

Reply to  Simon
October 26, 2024 7:24 pm

It’s only violent if you don’t want to leave.

After Trump was shot in the head, your Democrat buddies said they wished Crooks was a better shot–that’s pretty violent. Your side wants Trump dead–that’s pretty violent. Your side is calling Trump: Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin–that’s pretty violent. Now Harris claims Trump is a fascist–I doubt she can spell the term let alone know what it means. Hillary said Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden is NAZI-like. I guess she forgot about when she and Bill were there in the 90’s.

Simon
Reply to  Jim Masterson
October 26, 2024 10:18 pm

“After Trump was shot in the head, your Democrat buddies said they wished Crooks was a better shot–that’s pretty violent.”
I call that bullshit. Got a reference? I mean, I’m sure you can find some weirdo somewhere who said some random thing, but no one who was a representative of the Democratic Party said any such thing. the leaders came out and condemned the action by the young Republican.

“Your side wants Trump dead–that’s pretty violent.”
Once again that is nonsense. You just make stuff up. Again provide a reference if you can or justify me calling you a liar?

Your side is calling Trump: Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin”
I think you will find the first person to do that was JD Vance. But I have no problem with comparing someone to Hitler who calls immigrants vermin and scum. That is what Hitler did. He reduced the status of groups so he could treat them poorly. How would you describe someone who uses Hitler type language?

Reply to  Simon
October 26, 2024 11:41 pm

Heh! He was no more a Republican then you are. So BS is just a phrase.

Liar Liar Liar!

So illegal migrants (illegal aliens) killing Americans is okay? Talk about vermin and scum.

I watched five seconds of Harris calling Trump a fascist. I couldn’t watch the whole nonsense statement. Did you write her statement that she read off a TelePrompter?

Reply to  Jim Masterson
October 27, 2024 8:05 am

Yep, Simon lives on lies.

Simon
Reply to  Jim Masterson
October 27, 2024 11:15 am

She’s not the only one. His own general called him a fascist. That will do me.

Simon
Reply to  Jim Masterson
October 27, 2024 11:22 am

So you have no quotes for the lies you spewed here? No quotes of Dems saying they wished Crooks ( the republican…. in September 2021, Crooks registered to vote in Pennsylvania as a member of the Republican Party and remained registered as a Republican until his death.) was a better shot. No quotes of Dems wishing Trump was dead. Admit it, you made it all up. What a sad man/boy you are……

Reply to  Simon
October 27, 2024 11:49 am

Do a search on X. There are easily dozens and dozens of posts sad about Crooks missing. And then there’s Kathy Griffin.

Simon
Reply to  Jim Masterson
October 27, 2024 12:40 pm

So you are going to judge what Democratic party stands for by comments on X. What a simple fool you are.

Reply to  Simon
October 27, 2024 7:52 pm

No, I judge what the Democrats say on MSM. X just verifies your party’s depravity.

Simon
Reply to  Jim Masterson
October 27, 2024 8:20 pm

And Kathy Griffen does not represent the Democratic party. She is a comedian who went too far. You really are a twisted man.

Reply to  Simon
October 27, 2024 8:30 pm

Heh, heh, heh. Kathy Griffin does represent your sorry party. “Too bad Crooks missed!” Your party is pure evil!

Simon
Reply to  Jim Masterson
October 27, 2024 10:02 pm

Once again you show you are a pathological liar. Show me where Kathy Griffin holds any formal position in the Democratic Party. She doesn’t, she is just another person with an opinion…. actually a comedian trying to be funny, which she wan’t. You really are a sicko….

Reply to  Simon
October 28, 2024 12:29 am

Heh, heh, heh.

Reply to  Simon
October 28, 2024 12:44 am

Sicko is basically a Democrat position. I never heard any Democrat denounce Griffin, because they agreed with her position/statement.

Reply to  Simon
October 28, 2024 12:28 am

Actually, Kathy Griffin does represent your party. And who really is twisted?

Reply to  Simon
October 28, 2024 12:35 am

General Milley violated the UCMJ. He should have been court martialed. General Kelly lied. He should resign his commission for violating the honor code.

Reply to  Simon
October 27, 2024 12:08 am

I like that you didn’t support your General Kelly loser.

Reply to  Alexy Scherbakoff
October 25, 2024 11:34 pm

Is that you, Vladimir?

Alexy Scherbakoff
Reply to  Zig Zag Wanderer
October 26, 2024 12:16 am

It’s very neat. Doesn’t involve pitchforks and lamp posts

October 25, 2024 11:29 pm

So the Mad Hatter’s tea party comes to mind.

October 25, 2024 11:44 pm

He does have some amazingly good points. I have long believed that these global, UN-led, overarching, wannabe global ruling organisations are full of sickeningly wealthy and ignorant fat-cats.

The bloated CEOs of private industry pale in comparison, and we have absolutely no choice about funding their insanely massive wages and totally unaudited expense accounts.

This needs to change. It’s a cancer on our economic success.

strativarius
October 26, 2024 12:38 am

GB News is under threat by the establishment. Easy to see why.

Corrigenda
October 26, 2024 2:28 am

We most certainly should not think that Net Zero is feasible -that has already long been disproved.

October 26, 2024 2:37 am

Neil Oliver is one of GB News’s best in my opinion, and surely is getting paid accordingly – so why set up a Patreon? Is OFCOM coming for his head?

strativarius
Reply to  PariahDog
October 26, 2024 3:16 am

He does his history and archaeology thing there as well.

nilocmal69
October 26, 2024 3:54 am

The voice of reason in a now completely insane clown world.

observa
October 26, 2024 6:18 am

we know this will not be easy, and we’re going to need to change behaviors of both individuals but also the way that our industries and corporations and also our governments work and practice.

Like picking winners with fully battery cars you mean?
A plug-in hybrid with more range than an EV? CATL announces game-changing PHEV battery tech that can deliver up to 400km of electric range, more than electric cars like the BYD Dolphin and GWM Ora – Car News | CarsGuide
and stuffing the profitability of legacy carmakers in the process-
Car Giant in Crisis Forced to Sell Iconic Arizona Test Track
That’ll sure help consumers get heat proofed cars. Try a strong dose of humility and that motto- DO NO HARM ignoramuses.

hdhoese
October 26, 2024 8:15 am

Pratt Institute got $2 million from NSF to fund this–“ “The ‘Co-Design for Climate Justice: Youth expression through Science-rich Public Art’ project, funded by the NSF’s Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, is led by Mark Rosin, associate professor of math and science.””
National Science Fdn. Gives $2 Million to Pratt Institute to Promote ‘Climate Justice’

Rosin also is executive director of Guerilla Science. NSF only funds about a third of submissions so every science student, faculty and administrator in the country should complain.No wonder real scientists are strained!   
https://guerillascience.org/who-we-are/   
“Our ethos of practicing ‘science by stealth’ has enabled us to stretch traditional boundaries of how people engage with science, inspiring them to examine the everyday and the spectacular with an alternative perspective.”   STORY TIP for the National Science Foundation.

atticman
October 26, 2024 10:27 am

Thank you Neil; it needed saying. I can’t understand why so few people seem to have asked themselves the questions you pose.

Bob
October 26, 2024 3:39 pm

Neil is right a big part of the problem is unelected and unaccountable government workers who have grossly overstepped their authority. We need to expose individuals and hold them accountable for their actions. In addition agencies need to have their budgets reduced drastically. They can’t do much of anything without our money.

trafamadore
October 26, 2024 4:09 pm

Wow.

trafamadore
Reply to  trafamadore
October 26, 2024 4:10 pm

Did your mother love you?

October 26, 2024 5:23 pm

my money is always on the great big hungry dog.

And when does the pack emerge? What does it take? How much must first be lost?

On another blog, I put the question to Philip, a British guy: “Why aren’t British men rising up to throw these people out? And the government? With all necessary prejudice.

His reply: “Pat – There’s a problem and a dilemma with British men.

Brits are by and large law abiding …

Maybe there will be a tipping point but I don’t see one. We are frogs in the slow boiling casserole. London’s population is now only 37% native English and the politicians don’t really see what is outside London.

So yeah, we’re f….

Governments across the West are in the hands of a hostile power. They intend a mortal cull. I ask: where are the men?

damp
October 26, 2024 7:20 pm

The question is, “Who are these evil jokers?” The answer is that they are people who have no personal merit or strength, but who desire power. So they invent a game. They invent a new morality whereby they can take what’s yours without having to fight you for it or out-perform you for it (which they cannot do).

If you choose to play the game, you lose.

October 27, 2024 8:04 am

This is a brilliant essay.

Ian Cooper
October 27, 2024 2:08 pm

I’m assuming that this is a transcript of what Neil says in the video. Nowadays I would assume that it is an AI transcript, or at least a transcript reviewed by an American. In the eighth paragraph, in the second sentence Neil asks, “What sort of sticks exactly, we man?” In British English there are three ‘we’s.’ The first one is as written and means ‘all of us.’ The second one has two e’s and is a polite way of saying urine, as in, “I’m just going to have a wee.” The third one is a Scottish word, again with two e’s, and means ‘small.’ I believe that the latter is what our Scottish friend actually said but was lost in translation as it were.

Reply to  Ian Cooper
October 28, 2024 3:21 am

He is a Highlander: the transcription service couldn’t translate “wee” correctly from the context. The sarcasm of “wee man” comes through clearly in his video presentation.