Evropa se pohybuje směrem doprava (a k ženským vůdcům)

Welcome to The Beau Show. Europe moves to the right. That is the subject of today's show. And just as notably, its leaders are increasingly female. This is a worthy topic as we think about the global climate. No, no, not the climate alarmism that the United Nations and Joe Biden fear monger you about, but just the political climate and the way the world is going. We are in a woke world. Wokeness has not just infected the United States, but it has spread like a cancer worldwide. Whether it's climate alarmism, gender redefinition, or immigration, the world has its collective issues. But perhaps more importantly, the world economy has come into focus as Europe has relied a great deal on Russia's oil and gas. And with the war in Ukraine still raging on, European countries have had to rethink how their future looks. Even on issues like abortion, European leaders are taking a stronger stand. I want to focus on a few newly elected leaders and how they aim to reshape their respective countries' futures. Let's first turn to Hungary, where the people elected Katalin Novak. She was formerly Hungary's minister of families. Just 10 years ago, Hungary's population was in decline. There were even some years where there were more abortions than births, if you can believe that. The divorce rate was high as well. Novak implemented policies that encouraged families to have more babies. Working Hungarian women who have four children no longer pay income taxes. They get three years off of work to care for their babies. Couples can get a $30,000 loan to help buy an interest-free house, and repayment goes down with each child they have. The result? Well, marriages are up 83%, divorce is at a 60-year low, and the abortion rate has dropped. Here she is discussing her philosophy. Most important outcomes of our 10-year family-friendly or family-oriented policy is that the abortions dropped by 41%. And I think that we still have work to be done in this matter because we have to point out the value of life. These policies were added to the Hungarian constitution, and they even clarified something that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson would not. The constitution reads, the mother shall be a woman, the father shall be a man. They also passed a law that allows parents to have more say in their kids' education with respect to sexual instruction. This was, of course, a very DeSantis-like thing to do. Novak is decidedly pro-Christian and pro-family. But these new changes angered European Union, which called them anti-LGBTQ. The EU even threatened sanctions on Hungary for these actions, which, if you think about it, they should be far more worried about other things than that. Here's President Novak again. I've never had the intention to have an international attention focusing on us or teaching lessons to anybody, but we don't want to be taught any lessons either. So even though she isn't trying to call attention to Hungary or virtue signal like so many leaders do, in a way, Hungary is becoming an example. But she's doing what she feels is best for her country and what the people elected her to do. And it is clear that with respect to declining population and increasing abortions, she has reversed that trend and made Hungary a more family-friendly country. Families are the building blocks of society. And it's interesting how she gets criticized by the EU for being pro-family. They seem to have no concern about declining populations and are more concerned about fringe identity issues. Now let's move over to Italy, where Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney has been elected. But before I do so, I want you to notice how media outlets describe her before you even learn a single thing about her. So take a look at this. From CBS News, who is Giorgia Maloney, the woman expected to become Italy's new right-wing prime minister? From NBC News, far-right nationalist Giorgia Maloney elected as Italy's first female prime minister. From CNBC, far-right Italian politician Giorgia Maloney elected Italy's first female PM. From Channel 4 News, Italy's set to elect most right-wing government since World War II. And from MSNBC, fascism is on the rise in Europe, not just in the US. When you search for her name on YouTube, these are the headlines that come up. They're not commending her for being Italy's first female prime minister, which usually they would. They want you to think that she's a far-right fascist, a female Mussolini. CNN has said so, so it must be true, right? VICE News parodied that same headline. Maloney, Mussolini. Te rima. Maloney built herself from the ground up in the Brothers of Italy party. Let's hear her philosophy. Because it defines us, because it's our identity. Because everything that defines us in this time is an enemy. For those who would like that we no longer have an identity and that we were only slaves, perfect consumers. And then it's under attack national identity, it's under attack religious identity, it's under attack gender identity, it's under attack family identity. I don't have to be able to define Italian, Christian, woman, mother, no. I have to be citizen X, gender X, parent 1, parent 2, I have to be a number. Because when I'll only be a number, when I'll no longer have an identity, when I'll no longer have roots, well then I'll be the perfect slave in the bag of great financial speculation. The perfect consumer. And this is the reason why this is the reason why today we are so afraid. This is the reason why today this appointment is so scary. Because we don't want to be numbers, we are here to say that we are not numbers, we will defend the value of the human person, of every single human person, because each of us has a unique and unrepeatable genetic code. And this is a sacred Noah's ark. We will defend it, we will defend God, the father and the family who disgust someone so much. We will do it to defend our freedom because we will never be slaves and simple consumers in the bag of financial speculation. Here is our mission, here is why I came here today. Chesterton wrote more than a century ago, let's see if I can find it, fires will be lit to show that 2 plus 2 is 4. Swords will be sharpened to show that leaves are green in summer. That time has come, gentlemen. We are ready. Thank you. This is a very fiery speech from Maloney and it's delivered in a very Trumpian style. It's a punch back against leftism and globalism. It's about identity and sovereignty. Her point about being not just a number, just a consumer, just a comrade is correct. Progressivism takes all of the individuality out of society and she evokes Chesterton to make the point that fires will be made and swords will be drawn just to prove the things we already know to be true, like 2 and 2 make 4 and that leaves are green in summer. Maloney is defiant in her defense of family, God and country and those are the three bedrocks of any society. One of her fellow brothers of Italy party members made the point that there is a difference between acknowledging the rights of other groups, for instance, in civil unions or marriage as distinguished from a lobby which wants to transform and upend society. And as I said earlier, Europe has been dealing with the immigration problem as well. Many Europeans are fed up and rightly so. We deal with this same immigration issue here in America where Joe Biden has allowed a record number, 2 million immigrants to illegally cross into this country and so governors have had to ship those immigrants to their doorstep. Europe has dealt with Arab migrants that have been scattered all throughout these various countries. Italians had become fed up with the Draghi government. Which got them into some serious financial trouble. And the brothers of Italy stayed out of joining the government on principle. So this populist, nationalist movement is something Italians can believe in. Much the same way that Americans saw Donald Trump as an outsider who wasn't drunk on DC power. And Trump delivered on the things they elected him to do. He rejected socialism and woke-ism. He got the economy zooming. He tightened up border policies. So Italians likely see the same hope in Georgia Maloney. But if we turn to the UK, Britons probably saw that same hope in Boris Johnson as he navigated Brexit. But Boris got drunk on his own power, holding parties during COVID. He proved to be an impotent leader of the Conservative Party and the UK as Prime Minister. He joined the climate paranoia bandwagon. So in the end, he stepped down because he had lost Brits' confidence. And now the Conservatives have elected a new Conservative leader, Liz Truss. The British pound had been declining and Truss is a financial mind. So rather than me explaining it, I'll let the bright guy, economist Stephen Moore and Larry Kudlow explain it. Well, Larry, look, Liz Truss is turning into a hero. I had some doubts about her when she was first nominated, but she has been a superstar. I mean, it's hard to find anything not to like about what she has done so far. You mentioned the tax cuts. You mentioned that, by the way, she wants to take that top tax rate, Larry, from 45 down to 40 percent, very much like what you guys did in the Trump administration in lowering our taxes. And that caused the economic boom and more tax revenues. This is a very sound policy. Britain's going to go from one of the highest tax rates now down towards the middle. That's going to attract capital. She's cutting 1 percent off of income taxes for all workers. Fantastic. Let's reward work. It's it's very related to your previous discussion with with Kevin McCarthy. We've got to reward work and reward people for getting back in the labor force. She's pro fracking. Did you know that, Larry? She's in favor of fracking. They have an energy crisis going on. Britain has a lot of energy. They have a lot of oil and gas that they should be using, and she's in favor of that. She's in favor of a hiring freeze by government. Great idea. So this is a you know what I call this, Larry. This is Bidenomics in reverse. It's it's fantastic. And look, the people in the in her camp are looking at what's happening in the United States. The disaster that's happened under Joe Biden, that 21 were down 25 percent in real terms or something like that with respect to the stock market. So I don't I don't have a good explanation for why the market has fallen there in Britain. But I'll tell you this, if she can get this all done, she is going to be the next Margaret Thatcher. Well, I'm just saying the the latest drop in the British pen British has been falling a long time because Boris Johnson was running Joe Biden, progressive big policies. That's exactly right. And Boris, you know, nice person, knowing well and so forth down through the years. But, you know, he was running an anti fossil fuel policy. So this is critical. Kudlow and more talk about how Boris was running a Biden like economy, much to British demise. Trust, on the other hand, has a very different philosophy. And if successful, could really pull the UK up out of the doldrums. Let's hear from Liz Trust herself. We want people to keep more of the money they earn so they can have more control of their own lives and contribute to the future. Secondly, it means securing affordable and reliable supplies of energy. We are cutting off the toxic power and pipelines from authoritarian regimes and strengthening our energy resilience. We will ensure that we can't be coerced or harmed by the reckless actions of rogue actors abroad. And we will transition to a future based on renewable and nuclear energy, while ensuring the gas used during that transition is from reliable sources, including our own North Sea production. We will be a net energy exporter by 2040. Thirdly, we're safeguarding the security of our economy, the supply chains, the critical minerals, the food, the technology that drive growth and protect the lives and health of people. We won't be strategically dependent on those who seek to weaponize the global economy. Do you hear these tenets? Citizens keeping more of their own hard-earned money, energy independence, and net energy exporter, reliable sources? See, these are the policies that make nations great. They rely on sovereignty and independence. And we saw that many European nations found themselves in a quagmire when relying upon Russian energy. Vladimir Putin used this to his advantage. And here's the problem with that. If a big economy like Germany goes into recession and has an energy crisis, you will see the de-industrialization of Germany. Just as we head into these cold winter months. With less energy availability, you'll see a drop off of production from cars to other materials. This could spell disaster for Germany and other dependent nations. But now let's shift to another female leader and the youngest of Europe, Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Merin, who became Prime Minister at the age of 34. She is a member of the Socialist Democrats and has championed many liberal progressive causes. Her millennial disposition and breastfeeding selfies seem to have attracted a younger voting demographic. However, her partying ways have perhaps attracted the wrong kind of attention. Videos like this and topless with her friends and her residents have called her suitability as a leader into question. And while people can appreciate the normalcy and the authenticity of a person who has become a leader, voters expect results. Her supporters say the criticism is misogynist. But look at Boris Johnson. He got in trouble with the public for the same thing. Mind you, it wasn't topless. Thank heavens. So it's not misogynist to criticize a Prime Minister partying in a Helsinki nightclub. And again, it may not be the partying that's the problem, but the lack of leadership, perhaps. As Finland's center-right National Coalition party is picking up steam and likely to unseat Merin in 2023. And if Merin's biggest accomplishment is leading Finland to NATO, well, that's only going to inflame tensions with Putin. Remember that Finland's top marginal tax rate is upwards of 60 percent, some of the highest in the world. But what's more, Finland doesn't just tax the rich more. They tax everyone as if they were rich. So this is an opposite approach of Liz Truss, who wants people to keep more of their own money. Someone who is more concerned with her own country's welfare than a collectivist Kumbaya EU approach. Poland and Hungary shut their borders off from migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries. Sweden, especially under the leadership by their Social Democrat party, had long accepted all kinds of migrants. They welcomed it. But in 2015, that changed as the influx of largely Muslim migrants put their social welfare system into overdrive. It overwhelmed it. Malmo became a hotbed of rape and Sharia law implementation. For this reason, the Swedish Democrat party, a right of center party with strong immigration policy, rose to prominence. So even Sweden decided it could no longer handle mass immigration. And if you'll notice, all the leaders that I've spoken about have had to face this immigration issue in one way or another. But have demanded a more responsible border policy to curb the influx of immigrants that overwhelm their economic and welfare systems. These leaders recognize that a nation must have its own borders, language and culture. What their detractors do is try to paint them as neo-Nazis or fascists. The way I showed you the YouTube results turn up on Georgia Maloney. It's exactly what the media did to Donald Trump. And they feel that if they repeat the lie enough, it'll stick. But in spite of this, the citizens of these respective countries, Hungary, Italy, the UK and even Poland, have wised up and have seen the writing on the wall. They've seen the inflation, the energy crisis, the immigration consequences and the dire straits. And they've decided to elect leaders that are more world-wise rather than utopian dreamers. Boris Johnson made the huge error of embracing the COP26 climate agenda. He must have wanted to be liked or something. But in the end, he couldn't even practice what he preached. He was a sore disappointment for the Brits. Liz Truss is a female who has stepped into this mess with a much more pragmatic approach. And as Larry Kudlow pointed out, when the UK previously raised taxes, they did not see a net increase in revenue. However, under Kudlow's leadership in the Trump years, tax cuts created revenue. So in general, what you see is a knee-jerk reaction by media to paint these new leaders in a certain way. None of them can seem to celebrate the novelty of female leadership, such as Italy's first female prime minister. However, when New Zealand got a new female prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, the media lapped it up and heaped praise on her for her pandemic response and lockdowns that sent the New Zealand economy into severe double-digit recession. Some journalists even got criticized for their line of questioning during Ardern's COVID press conferences, which that's odd, considering that it is the press's job to ask tough questions relevant to the public. But if you compare the media's handling of Ardern versus Truss, Maloney or Novak, you'll see a night and day difference. It also stands in stark contrast to the public's view of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, two of the least liked female public figures in the United States. Clinton's presidential hopes were constantly crushed. And Kamala's swift exit from the Democratic primaries was only saved by Joe Biden's virtue signal to have a female VP. He just happened to pick the least well-liked female in his party, other than maybe Nancy Pelosi. However, when you look at some of the new rock stars of the Republican Party, many are female. Marsha Blackburn, Elise Stefanik, Kristi Noem, Condi Rice, Maitre Flores, and the rising star from Arizona, Carrie Lake. All these women have proposed strong border policies. And of course, the media doesn't like any of them. The pandemic proved to be a test of what bad economic minds can do. And the debt and inflation crisis chickens have now come home to roost. So, for instance, Draghi, this supposed financial whiz, turned Italy into a total mess. Hence, the rise of Giorgio Meloni. The Brothers of Italy were able to fill in this void and rise to popularity rather quickly. Not because Italy became fascist again, but because they wanted to make Italy great again. And what these female leaders propose is not radical. It's, in fact, traditional. It just seems radical to anyone who embraces Marxism. If a nation has an underpopulation problem, you have to incentivize the family. And it worked in Hungary. When immigration overwhelms your resources and increases crime, you have to seal it up. When spending is out of control, you have to curtail it. You'll never be able to borrow your way out of debt. So, in some ways, these females of Europe have been elected as both economic and social minds. And good for Europeans for electing them to do the job that their male predecessors could not. The difference is, they didn't elect these women just because they were women on an identity politics basis. They elected these women to help their respective countries find their identities again and also stand up for the identity of the individual. To be not just a number easily manipulated in the financial system, but an actual person with an income, a family, and a dream. And as we change the lens from Europe to America, the same is true. Democrats wanted to herald the first female VP. But she has been inept on the border issue where Joe Biden put her in charge. Meanwhile, in the border state of Arizona, a female like Carrie Lake has proposed a tough border policy. And Arizonans seem to have responded to that. If the future is indeed female, there are some formidable women in the pack right now, both in America and in Europe. And they're getting elected on sensible policy, not on things like this. Break it down in layman's terms for people who don't understand what's going on and how can this directly affect the people of the United States. So Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. We campaign with the plan. Uppercase T, uppercase P, the plan. Do you plan to visit the border? Not today. But I have before and I'm sure I will again. I've said I'm going to go to the border. And when are you going to the border, Vice President? The administration has asked. I'm not finished. We've been to the border. So this whole, this whole, this whole thing about the border. You haven't been to the border. And I haven't been to Europe. And I don't, I don't understand the point that you're making. The difference between her and the trio of European leaders that I presented in this show is stark. Europe is facing some dark days ahead. So let's hope that these new leaders can weather the storm and steer the ship back to prosperity. I'm Beau, and that's the show.