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2:33:09

…on. And in this sense, I claim, I will go to the end, for which some leftists would hate me, and say, Sorry, but Trump is in this bad sense the real revolutionary. He is undermining moral foundation. An intelligent left will say today, we are the only…

2:33:32

…what is great in our conservative tradition. That would be my ideal leftist policy. If we understand revolution that they corrupted, Trump is a real revolution. Unfortunately, game of you make big change so that really nothing changes. And that's the magic…

2:33:46

…corrupted, Trump is a real revolution. Unfortunately, game of you make big change so that really nothing changes. And that's the magic of Trump. He lowers the taxes at the same time. I don't know how it will end. I don't know enough about economy. Do…

2:34:00

…have some economists who know better? Your friend, I'm still in contact with him, Guy Sorbonne, what does he think about Trump? I think that they could understand. It's the same that happened with all the intellectuals. the United States, they couldn't…

2:34:25

…You know what hurt me? Have you noticed them, this John Oliver, John Stewart, this Alec Baldwin, these endless jokes making fun of Trump. And the more they make fun, the better he is doing, my God. They don't get it, how Trump functions. You know what…

2:34:31

…jokes making fun of Trump. And the more they make fun, the better he is doing, my God. They don't get it, how Trump functions. You know what they shocked me? I remember the last month before elections. Trump made something that people took for a brutal…

2:34:38

…my God. They don't get it, how Trump functions. You know what they shocked me? I remember the last month before elections. Trump made something that people took for a brutal mistake. Do you remember? Like when he made fun of McCain, of some soldier…

2:34:56

…heroes, and they thought it's public suicide, he's finished. No, he wasn't finished. They really don't, even when they caught Trump with all that grabbing them by the pussies vulgarities. This didn't hurt his image because that's what conservatives, how they…

2:35:22

…you know. They identify with his weaknesses and so on. I'm so disappointed by how the liberal left failed to react properly to Trump. This is a great catastrophe. In one of your books, I read one quote that understands he's forgiven. I probably mean it…

4:19

…is what shocked me. Now I go more personal towards Julian. I was so shocked at the low level of the campaign. Donald Trump is almost a kind and polite guy if you compare the level of the campaign against Julian. It began with pure political…

6:39

…get rid of Julian is that he doesn't wash regularly and that he smells bad. I mean, here they went even lower than Trump. Trump is a model of civility and politeness. Sorry. And what really shocked me You know, it's how people sometimes get the…

6:40

…rid of Julian is that he doesn't wash regularly and that he smells bad. I mean, here they went even lower than Trump. Trump is a model of civility and politeness. Sorry. And what really shocked me You know, it's how people sometimes get the impression…

9:20

…surprised now a couple of days ago, yesterday, I read a ferocious attack on Susan Sarandon, claiming her practically to work for Donald Trump. Why? Because this is my big reproach to Clinton liberals. They attack Trump all the time and so on and so on.…

9:28

…Sarandon, claiming her practically to work for Donald Trump. Why? Because this is my big reproach to Clinton liberals. They attack Trump all the time and so on and so on. But they never ask the critical question. Hillary Clinton had practically... the…

20:10

…so on and so on and so on. The other thing where I agree with Julian is the impotence of American liberal left Look, Trump is occupying the space. The way it looks now, if there will not be some big economic or military catastrophe, he will win…

20:53

…oh my God, you see, now people will see. No, his supporters know this and this vulgar human side, this is what they like about Trump and so on. I think that as Julian wrote, this is already a year ago, a very good text where he simply said, if you…

21:07

…that as Julian wrote, this is already a year ago, a very good text where he simply said, if you want to beat Trump, a new in the Bernie Sanders style, American left should re-emerge. That's the only way to beat Julian Trump. Otherwise... My God, I…

21:17

…want to beat Trump, a new in the Bernie Sanders style, American left should re-emerge. That's the only way to beat Julian Trump. Otherwise... My God, I created a monster now, Julian Trump. Okay, Donald Trump. What I'm saying is that this is the United…

21:23

…style, American left should re-emerge. That's the only way to beat Julian Trump. Otherwise... My God, I created a monster now, Julian Trump. Okay, Donald Trump. What I'm saying is that this is the United States, this is Europe and so on. If things go…

21:25

…left should re-emerge. That's the only way to beat Julian Trump. Otherwise... My God, I created a monster now, Julian Trump. Okay, Donald Trump. What I'm saying is that this is the United States, this is Europe and so on. If things go on like this,…

30:20

…remain out of armed forces prohibited to everyone. Okay, you have planes still, but above outer space, you don't militarize it. Now, Trump, it was in the media, but just a notice, a small item of news which disappeared, that Trump ordered the constitution…

30:27

…you don't militarize it. Now, Trump, it was in the media, but just a notice, a small item of news which disappeared, that Trump ordered the constitution of the, after infantry, navy and air force, of the first unit of the US army space force and so…

45:38

…United States is that it's still relatively decentralized. They have so many civic life institutions and so on and so on. So Trump cannot simply behave like Hitler and centralize the government or whatever, you know. But He is doing the best. And that's,…

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14:48

…by her genetic or whatever DNA analysis and so on and so on. And the right answer to her came not from Donald Trump, who is disgusting, from the Cherokee tribal elders group, who denounced her brutally as manipulator and so on and so on. Now, my…

20:58

…think that this no longer I'm a pessimist here works today. Let's take the United States. Okay, you will say the enemy is Trump. No, it is immediately. But the enemy, the true enemy cannot be personalized. The true enemy is the failure of the liberal…

21:12

…enemy cannot be personalized. The true enemy is the failure of the liberal consensus in the last decades in the United States. Trump didn't fall from the moon onto the earth. He emerged as a result of certain failures of this predominant form of…

31:10

…up the arse effectively. And you said in a recent interview with Owen Jones that you think that Clinton is the problem, not Trump. So I was wondering whether you agree with Professor Peterson and whether you think that the Democrats got the kick up the…

32:30

…know, where do I more fundamentally disagree with Peterson? On the one hand, it's not that I am for, in any sense, for Trump. He is a horror. But maybe this is my wildly Leninist, speculative, brutal mind. I... I'm always obsessed by this idea, I don't…

33:01

…problem is the disintegration of this old centrist liberal democratic consensus. And this is what is really in crisis. And I see Trump as somebody who... further undermines this consensus and thus create a need and maybe even a chance for a new consensus.…

33:19

…maybe even a chance for a new consensus. I claim no Bernie Sanders and so on and so on, no democratic socialist without Trump. Now, I know this is an extremely dangerous game because some idiots who criticized me at this point... Use this idea, but this…

44:56

…But I think one should be careful, there are traps there. Then, there was, of course, all the problem, whom to blame, more Trump, Democrats, and so on, and so on. So, my status there is, my stocks are... Downward moving, sorry to interrupt you here. So,…

1:16:59

…part in that if you'd like to. At 7.30, we'll be welcoming Omarosa to the chamber. She was a former aide to President Trump. If members would like to attend, they're welcome to stay in the building. Cueing will take place through the Blue Room. And next…

8:07

…U.S. military, and I'm not here engaged in U.S. bashing. I think that today there are others who are, even in spite of Trump, worse than the United States. But nonetheless, the U.S. military is now searching for aggression. This is real, what I will read…

16:18

…I don't believe in it, I was told that it works even if you don't believe in it. That's ideology today. Nobody has to believe. Trump doesn't believe and so on. The illusion is in our acts. And I'm so sorry I don't have time to go in detail here…

25:43

…ruling ideological hegemony, this, let's call it, broad liberal consensus, is breaking down. And that's, for me, the true importance of Donald Trump. Not Trump as such, of course he is the mega enemy, but what his rise means. What was breaking down that…

25:44

…hegemony, this, let's call it, broad liberal consensus, is breaking down. And that's, for me, the true importance of Donald Trump. Not Trump as such, of course he is the mega enemy, but what his rise means. What was breaking down that he was able…

45:02

…but I can say I fell in love with that lady because of whatever, her nice smile, her witty character, her hair, even as Trump said in a obscene way about Ivanka, she has beautiful legs. Look at her legs. Yes, true, but in authentic love, it's not that…

50:57

…maybe in a difficult moment, a very difficult moment. I think that... The differences now between alt-right or the fundamentalist Trump people and liberal democratic consensus are growing so strong that you are reaching slowly the point of no compromise. Like…

51:25

…warn you, less and less possible to... to resolve this in the good old formal democratic way. And this is clear to Trump. Did you notice how he systematically... lays the foundations, prepares the public for an emergency state. Like, all the time he's…

53:37

…only a pact at the level of explicit political rules. It's also a pact at the level which is much more important. And here Trump, I must say, is almost a genius. A pact at the level of not only explicit rules, but a thick network of implicit rules…

53:52

…level of not only explicit rules, but a thick network of implicit rules of how you practice explicit rules, how you do it. Trump is a master not so much of breaking the explicit rules, but breaking this implicit customs which regulated the use of rules.…

54:20

…much earlier, but he respected too much the rules. No, we don't do it like that in the United States and so on. Trump doesn't have problems with this. He breaks these implicit rules all the time. Okay, let's go on. So now I'm coming finally to…

1:20:15

…think that cultural Marxism, if by this we mean the culturalization of the left from late 80s onwards. This is what enabled Trump, we all know, and in Europe, because the left, this post-modern left, which is terribly afraid to be connected with real…

1:21:36

…this sense, for me, it was... I support them totally, but... It was an obscenity of, do you remember, two, three months before Trump was elected, the big topic in left liberal media was how to solve the problem of toilets with transgender people. Do we…

1:22:12

…it. He succeeded in mobilizing for the left those who otherwise would not have voted for Hillary, but maybe even for Donald Trump. So, okay, I didn't answer your question, but you see the direction. That's great. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Actually, wait.…

1:29:47

…begin in such a kind way. So please strike. Okay. So I have a question about two words that you've used, Jews and Trump. First of all, not in connection. First of all, you mentioned something like Nazis and Jews, and also the Jews and the Palestinians.…

1:30:12

…you. I'm sorry to answer it. Okay. Yes. One for the lady, not a lady. And then the second thing is that you talked about Trump as this like ideal evil or something like that. I'm not sure what is exactly the word you use, but I agree with you that…

1:30:20

…like that. I'm not sure what is exactly the word you use, but I agree with you that we have this tendency to say, oh, Trump, right? As if like something is wrong about him and then we don't have to look at ourselves. So can you talk more about this,…

1:32:27

…it's himself in our societies, as easy to hate. And that's why I'm a little bit doubtful about all this liberal hatred of Trump. No, I do hate Trump. But again, as I said... Don't simply elevate him into evil, but ask yourself what went wrong with…

1:32:29

…as easy to hate. And that's why I'm a little bit doubtful about all this liberal hatred of Trump. No, I do hate Trump. But again, as I said... Don't simply elevate him into evil, but ask yourself what went wrong with liberal consensus and so on.…

3:10

…no? No, I'm quite serious. The worst thing is when you lie, you know, remember, my God, at least this we should learn from Trump, you know? I say, you are dead. You say, no, I'm alive. You can see it. You should just, if somebody shows you something…

12:26

…you have a little bit of non-white blood or whatever. you know who is for me the real hero in all this not only Trump predictably made that taste remarks back but did you read it the Cherokee tribal council rejected her said sorry being one of us is…

52:39

…admit, concede to the... Alternative for Germany or all those. No, they are not strong. What kind of a strength is this like Trump today when some hundred colon refugees is approaching and you are all in a panic? Sorry, this is not strength. You don't…

25:35

…rights. that the only political leader who has captured the significance of the Weinstein case is, in my mind, Donald Trump. He has quite understood the the importance of the question of the division, difference between structural force and weakness and…

28:41

…objectively and structurally the weakest among the structurally weak? The children. Hence, the necessity, the logical and practical necessity for Trump to aim at the children. In more general terms, I would say that it's not only a question of structural…

30:47

…it appears that usage is impossible, then you will go back to the first model. To summarize my position, I would say that Trump aims to be the whole world's Weinstadt. And of course, he's confident that, as opposed to women, No country outside the United…

55:55

…language are again extreme, okay, populist, not extreme for the time being, right-wingers. I'm always interested why, because it's not just Trump. When Why? Because one of the Trump revolutions is that a certain way to talk, which was still now reserved to…

55:59

…not extreme for the time being, right-wingers. I'm always interested why, because it's not just Trump. When Why? Because one of the Trump revolutions is that a certain way to talk, which was still now reserved to private, you know, like after the talk we…

56:17

…private, you know, like after the talk we go to a cafeteria and then all your racist prejudices, bad taste jokes explode. But Trump is more and more bringing this out into the public. For example, when he named some countries, he called countries and so…

59:06

…and so on. Why does this happen? So to conclude, more and more I think following your line that... It's not simply Trump versus MeToo political correctness. In some sense, my God, they are the mirror of each other. They belong together, I think, the…

1:01:10

…reply or what, and then we play democracy. Yeah, because you replied to him. If you want to respond to breaking through Trump and political correctness at the same time, what program do we have? Very interesting to have all these examples. Some of them…

1:01:50

…So thank you for that. I think we may agree on the fact that you have a sort of relationship between between Trump as a sort of incarnation of a structural, individual incarnation of a structural change in politics, and especially U.S. politics, And the…

1:03:20

…would have one face of a certain coin. And so, to some extent, it's a completely apparent event, the fact that Trump won the election. But this... apathetic event creates the conditions for a very important structural change, both in terms of…

1:03:57

…representations of sexual acts and in terms of representations of what are the possible limits in political expression. The idea that Trump promotes is that there are no limits. There are no limits. So human rights are not a limit in political expressions.…

1:04:36

…expression or even decision. Big institutions like CIA or FBI or IRS that are in fact really the pillars of the U.S. society for Trump are no less do not limit anything. And that goes, I think, with the fact that he considers that as opposed to the Me…

1:06:51

…that the novelty of what is happening is quite... Don't be afraid. Just one small remark on the occasion. When you said what Trump is doing no limits, recently I was at some stupid meeting where there was also a guy who was second in command when…

1:07:30

…rules, how you do it, and so on and so on. And that's, I'm almost sorry, tempted to say with horror, the genius of Trump. He knows, for example, president makes certain decisions, speaks in a certain way. But it is expected that he will speak with a…

1:07:47

…But it is expected that he will speak with a certain decency, that he will consult. It's not written as a rule. And Trump is a master to ignore all these implicit rules, which are absolutely basic. That's the big lesson of social ethics for me. Social…

1:09:18

…to criticize Stalin. It was prohibited even more to say publicly that you are not allowed to criticize Stalin. And, you know, Trump is breaking these secondary rules, and that's why I am really afraid, you know, like, what if he will win? The only…

1:11:43

…position. We have had this for a very, very long time. So that's the first thing I want to say. You were saying that Trump wants to be Weinstein. Slavoj was saying that they are flip sides, that Me Too and Whites and Trump are flip sides of the…

1:11:50

…You were saying that Trump wants to be Weinstein. Slavoj was saying that they are flip sides, that Me Too and Whites and Trump are flip sides of the same coin. Those are two very different political statements, and I don't want to hear Me Too tarred…

1:13:35

…mess of results as a consequence. But please don't equate me too with political correctness and with the other face of Donald Trump. And please don't say it's new, the idea that consent is never consent. That's been a fight within feminism for five…

1:16:37

…briefly answer? I'm so sad because this is the eternal problem here that I also want to clarify things. The most problematic point, Trump, me too. Of course, I'm not in any way equating them. in the sense of they are, how to put it, politically,…

1:17:33

…space where they fit each other as target. And they are not the same and so on and so on. In what sense? In sense that Trump is almost the ideal enemy for Me Too, in a quite justified way, and Me Too is the... in a broader sense, is the ideal…

1:17:48

…the ideal enemy for Me Too, in a quite justified way, and Me Too is the... in a broader sense, is the ideal enemy for Trump. And I don't have now time to go. I've written extensively on it. You may agree or not. But I think more and more that...…

1:48:58

…information, and disregarding precisely the whole collective suffering of those women, suffering on a daily basis by focusing on Weinstein and Trump? and this type of thing. I'll answer very briefly, not to the three questions, but to two of them, because…

1:53:00

…the United States, it's not a question of deriding. I never deride what happens in the United States. When I'm talking about Trump, in fact, I'm more deriding the other countries. For instance, I was quite struck by the fact that Trump behaved differently…

1:53:09

…talking about Trump, in fact, I'm more deriding the other countries. For instance, I was quite struck by the fact that Trump behaved differently with President Macron, the French president, as, let's say, a sort of dominant male would proceed with a young…

1:55:02

…technique of seduction and things like that. I would be interested, I don't know if it will happen, by a meeting between Trump and the Pope. But the meeting between Macron and Trump, I remember another interpretation of the dusting of the orange powder…

1:55:09

…be interested, I don't know if it will happen, by a meeting between Trump and the Pope. But the meeting between Macron and Trump, I remember another interpretation of the dusting of the orange powder was the gesture of what old guerrillas do when a young…

1:55:53

…I've written about it, I think they published it two days ago, I don't know where, digitally. The dream I have about Trump and Kim Jong-un is that with Trump's well-known sympathy for military parades in the States, that maybe Trump already said that he…

1:56:00

…The dream I have about Trump and Kim Jong-un is that with Trump's well-known sympathy for military parades in the States, that maybe Trump already said that he will invite Kim to the White House. What if then Kim will invite Trump back? to Pyongyang, and…

1:56:08

…the States, that maybe Trump already said that he will invite Kim to the White House. What if then Kim will invite Trump back? to Pyongyang, and Kim will organize for Trump, you know, this big socialist parade with hundreds of thousands of people trained…

1:56:13

…he will invite Kim to the White House. What if then Kim will invite Trump back? to Pyongyang, and Kim will organize for Trump, you know, this big socialist parade with hundreds of thousands of people trained to form Trump and Kim portray with all with…

1:56:20

…to Pyongyang, and Kim will organize for Trump, you know, this big socialist parade with hundreds of thousands of people trained to form Trump and Kim portray with all with those flags and so on, this mega spectacle. I think Trump will feel very well in…

1:56:27

…thousands of people trained to form Trump and Kim portray with all with those flags and so on, this mega spectacle. I think Trump will feel very well in that connection and so on. But more seriously, about... United States and so on. I agree with you.…

1:57:08

…although I wouldn't agree here, the five stars, and says this quite openly on CNN. He said, this is what we want. What Trump really is about is alt-right together with Bernie Sanders. So here, as Bannon said, maybe we in Europe are even with this…

3:44

…rules and prohibitions seriously while today we violate them. Let's compare the sexual lives of two United States presidents, Kennedy and Trump. As we all know, John Kennedy had numerous affairs, but the press and TV ignored them. While Trump's every... old…

4:01

…TV ignored them. While Trump's every... old and new step in this direction is followed by the media. Not to mention that Trump also speaks publicly in an obscene way that we cannot even imagine Kennedy doing it. So the gap that separates the dignified…

40:25

…give a push to some new form of left, If this will not happen, then all the left motives will be appropriated by Donald Trump and so on. That's another point. So my problem with PC is not it's too extreme. It's not extreme enough. Second thing, the…

54:45

…that's how those in power talk, you know. And we leftists like, fuck you, whatever, be vulgar as provoking power. Today with Trump and so on, those in power are vulgar enough. And maybe we the left should... Become people of decency immediately. Let me…

29:49

…subversive. She is simply, for example, in Gender Trouble, describing the predominant forms exploded and said, what about Trump, alt-right, neo-conservative, Christian fundamentalist? My answer is, maybe I am wrong. Yes, but they are a reactive phenomenon.…

46:23

…As Lacan puts it nicely, far from being subversive, Okay, sometimes this supplement comes open like you in the United States with Trump. Trump is kind of more complex. But what I want to say is that time maybe to adopt this old-fashioned position and…

46:24

…As Lacan puts it nicely, far from being subversive, Okay, sometimes this supplement comes open like you in the United States with Trump. Trump is kind of more complex. But what I want to say is that time maybe to adopt this old-fashioned position and to…

57:32

…idea, That's why I think, I find so problematic all this John Stewart, John Oliver, eternal sport of American liberals making fun of Trump all the time. I mean, you cannot beat Trump here. Trump is already his own human. Let's focus just on what I mean,…

57:37

…all this John Stewart, John Oliver, eternal sport of American liberals making fun of Trump all the time. I mean, you cannot beat Trump here. Trump is already his own human. Let's focus just on what I mean, for me, our late capitalist reality is, in some…

57:38

…John Stewart, John Oliver, eternal sport of American liberals making fun of Trump all the time. I mean, you cannot beat Trump here. Trump is already his own human. Let's focus just on what I mean, for me, our late capitalist reality is, in some sense,…

2:10

…this is a good critique of false liberal left intellectuals who criticize the stupid crowds, you know, the muscles like, oh, you take Trump seriously and so on. No, they, the nerves, are really guilty. And the way it goes on now, I will tell you, Trump

2:17

…take Trump seriously and so on. No, they, the nerves, are really guilty. And the way it goes on now, I will tell you, Trump will even be re-elected. You know that, first, his approval ratings are already over 50%. He's just doing well. I will tell you,…

20:02

…Brussels are doing the politics, the Greeks are doing the austerity or whatever. I mean, and not even mentioning to look at Donald Trump and so on. My point simply is how. And this is the sad experience of our life today. Isn't Donald Trump like…

20:12

…Donald Trump and so on. My point simply is how. And this is the sad experience of our life today. Isn't Donald Trump like concentration camp Erhard? Imagine Joseph Tura as Alec Baldwin impersonating Trump, and that's why I think Alec Baldwin is a failure.…

20:20

…the sad experience of our life today. Isn't Donald Trump like concentration camp Erhard? Imagine Joseph Tura as Alec Baldwin impersonating Trump, and that's why I think Alec Baldwin is a failure. I mean, Trump is already his own best comical impersonation.…

20:25

…camp Erhard? Imagine Joseph Tura as Alec Baldwin impersonating Trump, and that's why I think Alec Baldwin is a failure. I mean, Trump is already his own best comical impersonation. You cannot beat him. However... So, again, the idea is this one, that the…

20:38

…You cannot beat him. However... So, again, the idea is this one, that the obscenity is getting so open today with Donald Trump, that this liberal irony and so on and so on no longer works. But here I want to complicate things, to understand…

0:04

of this stupid liberal left politics and Trump will win again. Or even worse, somebody like Mike Pence, who is the true danger. He is a true fundamentalist madman. Trump is a filthy opportunist, murderer and so on. He will win. So I think the situation…

0:16

Trump will win again. Or even worse, somebody like Mike Pence, who is the true danger. He is a true fundamentalist madman. Trump is a filthy opportunist, murderer and so on. He will win. So I think the situation is extremely serious and everything depends…

24:07

…Brecht. What is even the best anti-Stalinist joke compared to the joke that is Stalinist politics itself? And of course, the same goes for Trump and so on and so on. Should we be then really surprised? One of the jokes, here I try to provoke you, but…

1:43

…or whatever. LAUGHTER I mean, let's have some theory. We have time. I'm open to all these questions like, was I really for Trump? My God, be serious. I just maybe in the wrong way thought, hoped that when you have figure as a figure like Donald…

1:54

…My God, be serious. I just maybe in the wrong way thought, hoped that when you have figure as a figure like Donald Trump as the leader that it will trigger, it will be in a good way. politically correct sense, a trigger warning. Obviously, even that…

35:07

…unique chance because, again, what is happening now is that the new right is getting full of blasphemies and so on. Look at Trump. Trump is a wonderful model of what is wrong with our world. And I think here liberal critics are mistaken. When they make…

35:08

…chance because, again, what is happening now is that the new right is getting full of blasphemies and so on. Look at Trump. Trump is a wonderful model of what is wrong with our world. And I think here liberal critics are mistaken. When they make all…

35:23

…our world. And I think here liberal critics are mistaken. When they make all the irony, you know, Jon Stewart, all of them, of Trump. But it's not enough. I mean, the more you make fun of Trump, the better he is doing. He is not ridiculous. But he…

35:27

…make all the irony, you know, Jon Stewart, all of them, of Trump. But it's not enough. I mean, the more you make fun of Trump, the better he is doing. He is not ridiculous. But he functions already in his behavior as his own joke. So you cannot make…

36:27

…We are not approaching some liberal democratic global utopia. Capitalism which really functions today is authoritarian capitalism with nationalist preferences. Trump is for me one of the figures in the line of China, China, India, Modi, Putin, and so on.…

41:35

…lost of the traditional economy of transgression because the tension is simply cancelled. And I wonder if up to some point Donald Trump doesn't function as that ashtray. I thought, okay. Okay, we have to finish at some, I don't know, five past seven or…

42:18

…I was taught many questions turn around precisely on the note on which you finished, which is... Our beloved Donald. Donald Trump. And maybe first for Alenka, the question is, is political correctness responsible for the election of Donald Trump? Um... Yeah,…

42:28

…beloved Donald. Donald Trump. And maybe first for Alenka, the question is, is political correctness responsible for the election of Donald Trump? Um... Yeah, I think it is, but not necessarily only in this simple way of understanding this claim, which is…

42:43

Trump? Um... Yeah, I think it is, but not necessarily only in this simple way of understanding this claim, which is that Trump or the people voting for him is a simple reaction to some kind of protest. political correctness going too far or running…

42:59

…too far or running crazy or something. There is this, of course, but I think what is more responsible for electing of Donald Trump is that for a very long time now, the left has been fighting all the wrong battles. And the fact that political…

44:18

…far from addressing what is really the problem. And this, I think, is part of what played in the hands of the election of Trump. Okay, Slavoj, I will not avoid a sort of critical note which are expressed in some questions, and the simplest one is this…

44:32

…not avoid a sort of critical note which are expressed in some questions, and the simplest one is this one. Did you endorse Donald Trump? I did in two interviews, never in a written text, but I still absolutely endorse. linked to it in what sense i know…

47:08

…into a problem. So my point was only this one. I hoped that only an imaginable thing like... Disgusting, like Trump, the president, can introduce a certain dynamic, especially to the center-left, democratic party, which may change things. Otherwise, and we…

47:40

…scene. You, Alenka, wrote about it very nicely, how insufficient this left-liberal reaction is. We have all those wonderful jokes against Trump, you know, John Stewart, John Oliver, and so on. And yes, we are dying of laughter, but Trump will be winning…

47:45

…have all those wonderful jokes against Trump, you know, John Stewart, John Oliver, and so on. And yes, we are dying of laughter, but Trump will be winning more and more, and so on, and so on. It's a very sad situation. So there is no... I'm disgusted…

47:54

…be winning more and more, and so on, and so on. It's a very sad situation. So there is no... I'm disgusted at Trump. Just what I like in him is that he is... Did you notice this? He's basically systematically ruining the Republican Party. It's total…

48:13

…It's total confusion there. This is why I will go now even a step further. In this situation now, you should pray that Trump doesn't get impeached. Why? If he gets impeached, you get Mike Pence. Which, I'm sorry to tell you, is much worse. What I…

48:23

…Why? If he gets impeached, you get Mike Pence. Which, I'm sorry to tell you, is much worse. What I like with Trump is all this crazy like. Disgusting. All this crazy inconsistency like, take a guy like Steve Bannon. Almost neo-fascist and so on.…

49:41

…politics means people have no organized forum to protest. They get totally and so on and so on. And another thing with Trump is that And beware that he's not an abomination. He's part of the global change in capitalism where a new authoritarian and…

50:01

…change in capitalism where a new authoritarian and more and more openly obscene leadership. is becoming the norm. It's not only Trump. I was told recently in Poland that Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the secret authority, de facto ruler of Poland, he was a couple…

51:01

…he was confronted by this on TV, he repeatedly stuck to it. I think this is not a simple inconsistency. I think what Trump brings out is not simply an abomination of neoconservatives. He is the truth. And this gives us in all his obscenity. And it's…

54:17

…You know that famous Lenin's so-called testament, advising, asking the Politburo to remove Stalin. today especially, and also in view of Trump and other obscenities. We should be attentive to this along the lines of what I mentioned, moral majority and so…

6:54

…good manners. And I fear that without any irony, we should take Lenin serious here, today. Can you imagine Lenin's shock at Donald Trump and so on? That's another topic. Let me go on. But the reference to human nature is not Lenin's last work. In…

44:29

…The so-called progressive post-modern capitalists themselves. And they are the true enemy today, I think. Even more maybe than Trump. People like Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk. They are today's organic intellectuals of corporate power. All…

51:06

…Idiot. And that's why, again, the true horror of the torture debate I'm here talking not only about obvious examples, Donald Trump, but this is a general movement with today's conservatives. And maybe it gives us, I like to define myself as referring…

1:05:09

…okay, I hate it, they are disgusting, the radical right. Look, who is so disgusting? It's a matter of choice. They say Trump is horrible. I say yes, but... United States will get Mike Pence, who is definitely more like Pence. God save Trump, not…

1:05:18

…say Trump is horrible. I say yes, but... United States will get Mike Pence, who is definitely more like Pence. God save Trump, not Mike Pence. So, maybe we should change the entire metaphor, which I will really conclude now. That's the last thought.…

1:24:39

…should ruthlessly, or not so much, I think the true result of Occupy Wall Street was then Bernie Sanders and so on. And not Trump. Sorry? I think it was Trump. This is the problem with you Russians. You like these paradoxes. But in some sense, you are…

1:24:41

…I think the true result of Occupy Wall Street was then Bernie Sanders and so on. And not Trump. Sorry? I think it was Trump. This is the problem with you Russians. You like these paradoxes. But in some sense, you are right. You know in what sense you…

1:24:56

…You like these paradoxes. But in some sense, you are right. You know in what sense you are right? I really think that Trump is the result of the failure of the democratic left. Yes, absolutely. He opened up the space for it. That's why I don't…

1:25:34

…and also try to interfere. But that's clearly not the main cause. The main cause was the way Hillary totally tried to sidetrack Trump to avoid everything. And then all those, of course, not all, okay, not many of them did actually vote for Trump, but…

1:25:42

…sidetrack Trump to avoid everything. And then all those, of course, not all, okay, not many of them did actually vote for Trump, but they abstained from voting then in the elections. What is the meaning of life for you? Short question, great. Everyone…

16:27

…maybe Mark Zuckerberg will try to be a candidate for US presidency. Well, I return to my old dogma. I would almost prefer Trump, not Biden. But to that guy. I mean, Zuckerberg is, you know, the usual hypocrite. You remember news in our media half a…

18:04

…no, we need better life for the poor, not, and so on. That's the danger. So again, my point is, don't just laugh at Trump. This is for me the saddest thing, this infinite parodies, making fun of Trump, and so on, and so on. This just renders visible,…

18:10

…danger. So again, my point is, don't just laugh at Trump. This is for me the saddest thing, this infinite parodies, making fun of Trump, and so on, and so on. This just renders visible, you don't have a true answer. So, let's go on. Where do we find…

4:00

…you may have noticed, lately our media report on the more and more ridiculous exchange of insults between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump. The situation I find very ironic because we get what appears to be two immature men letting go their rage and hurling…

7:49

…are ludic adolescents, outlaws, while women appear as much more mature, serious, legal, punitive. And this brings us back to Trump and Kim, these two eternal adolescents, both prone to irrational, brutal outbursts that hurt their own chances. Although the…

2:23

…don't underestimate the public. The publishers themselves, now they are putting pressure on me, why don't you write a nice bestseller on Donald Trump? Why should I? He's not interesting at all as a person. He's a boring idiot and so on. So... But are you…

16:02

…country which is fully integrated into global market, but at the same time, ideologically, it's ethnocentric, focused on its culture. Even Trump is doing this. That's why Trump gets well with all dictators. His basic deal with Saudi Arabia is, we are part…

16:04

…into global market, but at the same time, ideologically, it's ethnocentric, focused on its culture. Even Trump is doing this. That's why Trump gets well with all dictators. His basic deal with Saudi Arabia is, we are part of the same market, you buy our…

57:55

…view in that, and maybe we could talk about this, because your use of analytic concepts, and we haven't talked about things like Trump, we haven't talked about Brexit, and there are things that we could talk about maybe in the little bit that we have…

59:54

…about who they are. They give a performance increasingly. And that has felt like it's kind of snowballed. or even things like Trump, where I feel what's interesting is not the politics, but is much more a kind of psychical imperialism, the way he's in…

1:03:25

…that there the situation is much more paradoxical. Like take, you mentioned the guy, I didn't pronounce this obscene name, Donald Trump, you know. Just imagine the paradox. A guy who... flirts at least with neocons, moral revival, it's obviously an extremely…

1:03:53

…this happen? The official version is, and there is some truth to it, that conservative Americans, true fundamentalists, they know how Trump is. And I often in debate with them, some stupid public debate, got this answer. Don't mention Trump's private life.…

1:04:38

…be ethical neocon, but you are really an obscene guy, and so on and so on. Because this is the big tragedy with Trump. The more he is caught with his pants down, you know, like saying something stupid, obscene, instead of ruining him, it almost helps…

9:01

…We have again the same passage from impossibility to success. And I think it's the same thing today in United States with Trump victory. First, it was for liberals unimaginable. It's a bad joke, this cannot happen, and so on. Then, once it happened, it…

9:18

…bad joke, this cannot happen, and so on. Then, once it happened, it was instantly renormalized. Like, we should now take care, fight Trump, don't lose nerves in four or eight years, we will be back in power. This is, I think, again, the most dangerous…

18:41

…So we have, I think, some four, five strategies of mystifying ecological crisis. One is the most stupid one, which means Donald Trump strategy. Although I should love Trump because he writes Melania in East Slovene from my country. So you get in Ljubljana…

18:45

…five strategies of mystifying ecological crisis. One is the most stupid one, which means Donald Trump strategy. Although I should love Trump because he writes Melania in East Slovene from my country. So you get in Ljubljana already Trump cakes and so on.…

18:53

…Although I should love Trump because he writes Melania in East Slovene from my country. So you get in Ljubljana already Trump cakes and so on. Allegedly Melania's mother was baking them and so on. But the first attitude Trump's is simple ignorance.…

1:32:19

…you be a fascist? You know what I mean? Struggle for hegemony is a chain of equivalences and so on. Didn't Donald Trump do a wonderful struggle for hegemony? In an ingenious way, he established a chain of equivalences between this impoverished Bible Belt,…

22:54

…so on and so on. My God, even... Official ideologists, like, whom I really hate, I think they're more dangerous than Trump, even. These pseudo-progressive liberal corporate leaders, like, you know, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and so on. This is the big…

31:12

…party, and then you have some marginal parties, but basically the two parties replace each other. And all phenomena, like Trump, like Le Pen, and so on. signal in this direction that this standard duality, moderate left, moderate right, is disappearing.…

36:40

…to not just defeat, to make disappear a more radical leftist option. It's the same in United States even. I know what horror Donald Trump is, but I claim that the U.S. Democrats diabolize Trump as the evil horror and so on in order to get rid of…

36:47

…option. It's the same in United States even. I know what horror Donald Trump is, but I claim that the U.S. Democrats diabolize Trump as the evil horror and so on in order to get rid of Bernie Sanders, who poses a threat to the democratic establishment.…

37:37

…of Sanders. I claim Hillary Clinton lost because she got rid of Bernie Sanders' wing in her own party. And that's why you need Trump as a Russian agent, so that the image remains. We would have won, only we lost because of Putin and so on. In this…

38:17

…people call great regression, the rise of public obscenity. And here, Democrats in the United States were spectacularly wrong about Trump. Did you notice something so weird? How many times Trump said something which appeared catastrophic for liberals, and then…

38:23

…Democrats in the United States were spectacularly wrong about Trump. Did you notice something so weird? How many times Trump said something which appeared catastrophic for liberals, and then there were predictions, ooh, Trump just committed public suicide, he…

38:30

…something so weird? How many times Trump said something which appeared catastrophic for liberals, and then there were predictions, ooh, Trump just committed public suicide, he is out. You remember when his tapes were disclosed where Trump is boasting how he…

38:38

…and then there were predictions, ooh, Trump just committed public suicide, he is out. You remember when his tapes were disclosed where Trump is boasting how he was touching freely women between their legs, or when he made fun... of the father of an…

39:15

…go to the end. Many of my friends even ask a question, how can a corrupted, lewd, destitute person, vulgar like Donald Trump, the very opposite of Christian decency, how can he function as the chosen hero of the Christian moral majority conservatives? The…

39:32

…of the Christian moral majority conservatives? The usual answer that I hear is that they know what kind of a scam moral conservatives Trump is, but they care just about one or two points of his program. He promised to, for example, abolish or at least…

40:08

…think that something more complex is at work here for which we need psychoanalytic theory of identification. You know, when Trump made all these failures or mistakes, vulgar remarks and so on, brutal, almost openly racist, anti-feminist, at that point people…

40:25

…and so on, brutal, almost openly racist, anti-feminist, at that point people identified with him because what do they see in Trump? A person who professes to be Christian, high principles, but in reality he's a greedy, sexist, vulgar guy. But these are…

40:40

…but in reality he's a greedy, sexist, vulgar guy. But these are neoconservatives today. They don't have to be disappointed in what Trump is. That's what they are. They identify precisely with both sides of Trump. So I think that, I don't have time to…

40:48

…neoconservatives today. They don't have to be disappointed in what Trump is. That's what they are. They identify precisely with both sides of Trump. So I think that, I don't have time to go into it now, that this should be a chance of the left today…

40:56

…I think that, I don't have time to go into it now, that this should be a chance of the left today with people like Trump and so on. We should, the left should emerge, and I think, if I'm well informed, I don't know enough about you, that Podemos is…

41:21

…nice term, there is nothing wrong in it, about moral majority. The only true moral majority is the left today. With figures like Trump and so on, it's over. And let me give you another example of this. Public figures of great morality, but where you see…

48:14

…that something new is emerging now which worries me much more. Phenomena like Modi in India, Putin, Erdogan, and finally Trump himself making pact with Saudi Arabia, even China and so on, demonstrate clearly that a new, genuinely multicultural, but…

48:47

…can be perfectly combined with each country or civilization living in its own secluded world. For example, that's why it was easy for Trump to make pact with Saudi Arabia and so on and so on. The West even... resigned itself to accepting this. It's no…

50:17

…Jews control too much England, America, but there we should fully support them. And I think what is emerging now with Trump is something parallel. Not just anti-Semitic Zionism, but Islamophobic respect for Islam. Look what Trump is doing. At the same time…

50:29

…think what is emerging now with Trump is something parallel. Not just anti-Semitic Zionism, but Islamophobic respect for Islam. Look what Trump is doing. At the same time that he spreads this Islamophobic paranoia in the United States, he has no problem…

1:54:48

…wait a minute, most of Europe has it, Canada has it. But it was such a trauma for the United States that now the first thing Trump is doing is to repeal it, and so on and so on. So in one of my texts, I use this example of science fiction. Where,…

2:09:45

…not describing a utopian goal, but simply the ideal figure of today's late capitalist society. I think that what idiots like Trump and all those moral majority conservatives advocate, it's of course ridiculous, but it's a lost battle. This type of... This…

13:53

…lives. This is why, even if they formally protested, most of the Western powers, especially the bad guys from Trump onwards, immediately, sincerely congratulated Erdogan in winning that election. Referendum or whatever for the extension of his authoritarian…

15:22

…and rather harsh Hindu nationalist in ideology. China is doing the same, Turkey is now doing the same, and in its own way, even Trump is doing the same. I think that this tendency is very dangerous. And back to my point. Yes, I want to tell you…

1:11:57

…like that. As I already mentioned with the example of Erdogan, Russia, China, today's capitalism is more and more from Trump to Erdogan to Putin to China to India. Global neoliberal capitalism, but politically supplemented by a strong autarkic local…

1:17:20

…what is great in European legacy. No wonder that today it's so fashionable to be anti-Eurocentric. They're all united. Trump, Brexit, Putin, Erdogan, everybody. Why? Because precisely today, when Europe... When Europe is losing its geopolitical significance and…

1:25:30

…your presentation, your talk, namely how to actually... damage global capitalism or influence it in some way? Like, for example, now Trump just tonight arrived in Brussels for the NATO talks, and there are huge protest marches. Of course, to some extent, we…

1:25:27

…ein Schrecken ohne Ende. In this sense, it would be better, you would have, like in the United States, just elected Le Pen or Trump, that is not happening, and we now have the horror, but the end. I know what you are saying and when I said, although…

1:25:41

…we now have the horror, but the end. I know what you are saying and when I said, although I was misunderstood, that I prefer Trump, I was attacked for the same reason. You know what I hoped? No, in France I didn't support Le Pen because I think he…

1:25:58

…I hoped? No, in France I didn't support Le Pen because I think he is more dangerous with all the openly fascist tradition than Trump. But listen, I think still basically I was right. My logic was this one, first, and we can see it clearly now. No,…

1:26:09

…than Trump. But listen, I think still basically I was right. My logic was this one, first, and we can see it clearly now. No, Trump is a confused guy, he is not a fascist and so on. He is evil, dangerous. My point was this one, about Trump. Only a…

1:26:19

…now. No, Trump is a confused guy, he is not a fascist and so on. He is evil, dangerous. My point was this one, about Trump. Only a kind of a shock, which hopefully will not be too dangerous, can awaken the American I hoped for a more dynamic faced…

1:26:51

…as some of my leftist friends like Colin West said, it's not the problem of United States now, it's not even primarily Trump, it's the catastrophic reaction to him of Democratic Party. They were first horrified, Trump, the end of the world, now Democratic…

1:26:59

…States now, it's not even primarily Trump, it's the catastrophic reaction to him of Democratic Party. They were first horrified, Trump, the end of the world, now Democratic Party is radically renormalizing Trump. Nancy Pelosi said recently, Don't be afraid.…

1:27:05

…to him of Democratic Party. They were first horrified, Trump, the end of the world, now Democratic Party is radically renormalizing Trump. Nancy Pelosi said recently, Don't be afraid. Trump is like Reagan or Bush. After four or eight years, we'll be back.…

1:27:11

…horrified, Trump, the end of the world, now Democratic Party is radically renormalizing Trump. Nancy Pelosi said recently, Don't be afraid. Trump is like Reagan or Bush. After four or eight years, we'll be back. And the Democratic Party establishment is now…

1:27:22

…After four or eight years, we'll be back. And the Democratic Party establishment is now using all its energy not to really fight Trump, but to throw out the Bernie Sanders danger. So I still, you know, it's not an a priori statement. I'm not this…

1:30:15

…a Jewish plot to ruin Europe. Why I'm telling you this? Not to shock you, but for one reason. Isn't this sad? And Trump is part of the same movement. This... regression decadence of public speech such rumors were circulating all the time but till five…

1:36:53

…and so on. That was the reason, for example, I now suspect that I was wrong, why I, I'm not crazy, supported Donald Trump, but say maybe his victory can do what? Can bring new chaos, confusion, where maybe we can... catch or deserve an opportunity to…

1:41:54

…are figures like Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and so on, and so on? They are, for me, much more dangerous even than Trump, and so on. Because they embody the big threat today, the privatization of commons. And as a My friend Jean-Pierre Dupuy, the…

1:44:47

…are. It's easy. Nobody thinks they are really free there. But in the United States, the majority still thinks, even if they had Trump, we are free. The true danger is that you don't even know that you are controlled, but your choices, your desires are…

3:58

…it cannot even produce, generate, a convincing global vision, because for me therein resides the true revolution of, let us say, Trump. America first means screw the world, we don't even pretend to be Fukuyamaists, to have a global vision, whatever. Again,…

17:17

…a country with still some kind of formally Marxist-Communist government, is establishing itself as... the center of new global market. Because Trump is screwing things up, I'm more and more satisfied with Trump. I think four or five years of Trump and the…

17:21

…is establishing itself as... the center of new global market. Because Trump is screwing things up, I'm more and more satisfied with Trump. I think four or five years of Trump and the United States will be a stupid local power there. And there will…

17:24

…global market. Because Trump is screwing things up, I'm more and more satisfied with Trump. I think four or five years of Trump and the United States will be a stupid local power there. And there will be a totally new geopolitical constellation and so…

59:48

…should not, because of this, abandon universalism, but simply fight for a more authentic universalism. And the sad thing about Trump, what people like Trump, Putin, Erdogan in Turkey, China stand for, is precisely this. They got something very important, that…

59:51

…abandon universalism, but simply fight for a more authentic universalism. And the sad thing about Trump, what people like Trump, Putin, Erdogan in Turkey, China stand for, is precisely this. They got something very important, that universal global market...…

1:00:38

…fact that, as I already mentioned it, I think, and this is a wonderful, crazy fact, how today, after the stupidities of Trump, it's China which is emerging as the main organizer of a new global market. They are doing this really very intelligently.…

1:01:19

…about the names of Modi in India, China, Erdogan, Turkey, Putin, and so on. Strong ethnocentric nationalism, or America versus Trump, is a much more appropriate ideological form of global capitalism. What is happening here? You know, I developed this already…

1:02:26

…This is the first formula of, then later you find it in all modern right up to those obscure guys around Trump. Zionist anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in the sense of no Jews here, they are dangerous, invisible, but Jewish state, wonderful, we support them…

1:03:19

…version of this Zionist anti-Semitism. It is Islamophobic respect for Islam. Islam is good if it's there. No wonder Trump, Putin, they all immediately congratulated Erdogan, and even those Europeans who were... superficially critical of Erdogan. Silently said,…

1:05:06

…wars of all time when Western allies attacked China in 1840s, I think, you know. That's the world, I think, with Trump and so on, that we are approaching. And... What really worries me is how some so-called anti-colonialist leaders who present themselves…

1:05:35

…of, one month ago, something like this, a couple of weeks, Robert Mugabe even called, you should follow this, called Trump, ironically of course, but nonetheless, comrade. And said, Comrade Trump said, America first. We accept this. For Americans, America…

1:05:41

…weeks, Robert Mugabe even called, you should follow this, called Trump, ironically of course, but nonetheless, comrade. And said, Comrade Trump said, America first. We accept this. For Americans, America first. For us, Zimbabwe first. And so on. Which means,…

1:06:06

…just please allow us to screw our people. So, again, this is, I think... This is, I think, the danger. And the problem with Trump is just how far he will go in this direction. He still has some... towards America as a global policeman. For example, do…

1:07:02

…it's for universal human rights. Russians do it, it's a dark plot or whatever, but they will find the shared language. I think Trump is moving in the right way. I mean this in a very pessimistic way. And so again, we should absolutely... uh reject the…

8:46

…and to defecate. I must have an appreciation for it. Wouldn't it be nice if somebody were to tell you, I don't know, Kaczynski or Trump, so cute, I don't have to see them so long as I'm in the United States. Okay, but what I want most seriously to…

2:01

…talk too much. I just, a word, would like to begin with a warning so that I will not disappoint you. Neither the word Trump, I will just now mention things which brought me a lot of trouble lately. Neither the word Donald Trump, or the words, nor the…

2:08

…you. Neither the word Trump, I will just now mention things which brought me a lot of trouble lately. Neither the word Donald Trump, or the words, nor the word LGBTQ+, or however you put it now, will be pronounced here. I will not deal with that.…

35:45

…all your past decisions, sympathies and so on, and rationally conclude what are your actual interests and advise you how to vote, Trump would never have been elected. Okay, I violated my promise that I didn't mention the word Trump and so on, but what…

35:52

…interests and advise you how to vote, Trump would never have been elected. Okay, I violated my promise that I didn't mention the word Trump and so on, but what can we do? So, again, why should machines not vote on our behalf? Now you will say this is…

1:11:35

…today in our drug-infested culture, more and more, the opium of the people is opium itself. And the second one, the Donald Trump version, sorry, I mentioned him three times. No, I wanted to say I mentioned it three times. I don't consider the term…

1:26:35

…another propaganda, in two months, a new book of mine, Courage of Hopelessness, will be out. where you will get all the dirty stuff, LGBT, Trump, and you will be able to lynch me again and so on, you know. I just wanted to do a little bit more, not…

1:32:05

…the truth, the problem of the left for me. And that's why I did that crazy, sorry, I will break, you can lean to me, Trump, Trump, I will mention it again. That's why I don't like this idea of just mocking Trump and focusing on Trump. Trump is for…

1:32:06

…truth, the problem of the left for me. And that's why I did that crazy, sorry, I will break, you can lean to me, Trump, Trump, I will mention it again. That's why I don't like this idea of just mocking Trump and focusing on Trump. Trump is for me a…

1:32:11

…I will break, you can lean to me, Trump, Trump, I will mention it again. That's why I don't like this idea of just mocking Trump and focusing on Trump. Trump is for me a symptom, not in any deep sense, but in Trump it exploded what didn't function in…

1:32:13

…to me, Trump, Trump, I will mention it again. That's why I don't like this idea of just mocking Trump and focusing on Trump. Trump is for me a symptom, not in any deep sense, but in Trump it exploded what didn't function in predominant liberal ideology.…

1:32:14

…me, Trump, Trump, I will mention it again. That's why I don't like this idea of just mocking Trump and focusing on Trump. Trump is for me a symptom, not in any deep sense, but in Trump it exploded what didn't function in predominant liberal ideology.…

1:32:19

…of just mocking Trump and focusing on Trump. Trump is for me a symptom, not in any deep sense, but in Trump it exploded what didn't function in predominant liberal ideology. All this dissatisfaction, that's why I like Bernie, because Bernie Sanders was…

1:32:39

…only one who did try to capture this new dissatisfaction. And what I'm saying is that the only way to really get rid of Donald Trump is to change this liberal consensus to push it to the left. I mean, our task is now terrible of the new left. We…

4:08

…the dog last night. And then Sherlock Holmes answered, that was the curious incident. No? Like, wasn't something like this with Trump? Like, do you remember the strange incident in Sweden like last night? Nothing happened in Sweden last night. That was the…

4:32

…I must tell you something, and I'm not alone, surprisingly. You know what I'm also afraid of? Two things, at least, with Trump. One thing, don't underestimate this possibility, is that For a couple of years, he may succeed. What if there will not be…

5:37

…how should I call it, comicalization, comedization, you know, who is, at least academic intellectuals, what do they usually follow against Trump? It's mostly, you know, Jon Stewart and all that comedy and so on. Well, don't laugh too much, you know. I…

5:46

…and all that comedy and so on. Well, don't laugh too much, you know. I don't like this approach of just making fun of Trump because, you know, then we will be laughing on and on and Trump will be winning. Doesn't this tell you something? This is for…

5:50

…know. I don't like this approach of just making fun of Trump because, you know, then we will be laughing on and on and Trump will be winning. Doesn't this tell you something? This is for me, since we are here. At least both of us are card-carrying…

6:13

…or less. That the big... Just, my God, you have to think what happened with the... Think about it with the election of Trump. For example, do you remember a couple of months ago how... How often, almost every week towards the end, the press declared…

6:22

…For example, do you remember a couple of months ago how... How often, almost every week towards the end, the press declared Trump just committed public suicide. When he did some alleged mistake, it's over. And then they got it that it only helped him.…

6:48

…respect George Bush, the younger, he coined that properly Freudian word, you remember, don't mis-underestimate or whatever. Don't mis-underestimate Trump. The very thing that... were perceived as final mistakes, finally he killed himself, he helped him. And it…

7:26

…liberals, arrogant, attacking him, and so on and so on. So, again, it's hard work to be done. It's not enough to laugh at Trump. It's easy to do that. Now it's no longer John Stewart, although he reappears, returns from the dead from time to time. It's…

20:22

…this. the transformation of anti-Semitism today. That's why I'm telling to my Jewish friends, beware of the people like Donald Trump, because around Trump especially, they exemplify what I call, and I thought I was exaggerating, as they usually say, well,…

20:24

…of anti-Semitism today. That's why I'm telling to my Jewish friends, beware of the people like Donald Trump, because around Trump especially, they exemplify what I call, and I thought I was exaggerating, as they usually say, well, Zizek is provocative…

20:47

…new entity is emerging. Getting stronger and stronger. I call it Zionist anti-Semitism. There is no contradiction in what people around Trump are doing. They are at the same time pro-Zionist in the sense of supporting Israel and anti-Semitic in the sense…

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…on and so on. And this is the predominant line. There is no contradiction when some people say, but... But many guys around Trump are anti-Semitic. How can be pro-Israeli? That's the strategy of the new right today. This paradox of Jews are good if they…

23:19

…and so on. I don't have time to go into this. I just say this to make you aware how with all the horrors at Trump, immigration and so on, don't forget about Trump. the basic things that he's doing at the level of forum. As a good Marxist, I'm always…

23:23

…into this. I just say this to make you aware how with all the horrors at Trump, immigration and so on, don't forget about Trump. the basic things that he's doing at the level of forum. As a good Marxist, I'm always a formalist. Forum matters. Like, did…

23:35

…that he's doing at the level of forum. As a good Marxist, I'm always a formalist. Forum matters. Like, did you notice how Trump destroyed or lowered the level of public debate, thinks that it was possible to say them publicly. Sorry, it was not possible…

25:23

…are tortured, doctor examines you, you should be tortured in this way, in that way, or whatever. And here is the problem with Trump. Let me give you a vulgar example which I think clarifies in what sense he is really vulgar. Once he was praising his…

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…have a Melania cake, a Melania wine, and so on. Big tourist industry projects. But, and to show... how a refined lady she is. Trump says that in all the time that they are living together, I will not use the vulgar F word, he said that not once…

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…detail how I see it, how I do it. You don't do this. Okay, let's go on. And the third thing is that it's not only Trump. You know what is now? I will propose another crazy idea for the left. We need more dogmaticism, I claim. There is a very good…