The reason his followers have sunk to cult levels, is because he has made indecency acceptable, he has freed them from the constraints of decency, of morality, of empathy, of being just to everyone. He has allowed them to be their worse, to not just free their bigotry, but be proud of it, to be proud of their worse instincts, and so they love him for it, he is their beacon.

Born in ‘53. Mama pressed college into my brain from day one in school. She didn’t go. How did uneducated in power become a positive?

We are playing on the fears and prejudices on the worse human impulses..

You can move a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices, easier than you can move one man by logic.

When people were asked if they would want Trump as dictator instead of Biden as President, and they chose Trump as a dictator, I would have loved to hear a follow up question asking did they know what living in a dictatorship was like?

Conservatives haven't been the Conservative Party since 2016, they just kept the party name.

Daily reminder, republicans. Every donation you make to your GQP is a DIRECT PAYMENT to E. Jean Carroll. Have a nice day! 🤣🤣🥰🥰

I love James O’Brien 🇨🇦❤️

The problem is that nobody is willing or, able to ask the question, “Why is immigration a problem? Who is it a problem for?” Seems to me that people should be able to go where they want. You should be able to enter a country, let them know you’re here, be given a number and join society. If it works for people born in a certain place (children), it should work the same for somebody showing up full grown. It’s not as though that person could get away without paying taxes ( dang near everything you buy has a tax associated). Seems kind of bizarre to think, “I was born here, therefore I belong here. You were born over there, therefore you belong over there”.

I don't think these people know what a dictatorship is.

My old man use to say this is politics embeddeded with hatred and division and is dangerous.

“My job is to make you interested in where we are [politically], even if you’re not at the minute” - J. O’B I’m a 20-something year old French-Canadian, still living in Canada, more up to date on the current affairs and nuances in British politics than (what would appear to be) a majority of the British public, solely because of James’ enthralling presentations and explanations, so I’d say you’re doing a quite fine job Mr O’Brien!! 👏🏼

Why don't people ever look at how many people leave the UK every year? 508,000+ in 2022.. who's going to work if there aren't enough workers? Who's going to buy things? Who's going to take care of people, in the health services, or anywhere else? Where is the revenue going to come from? I could be wrong, but the UK, the living standards, the pollution, all the terrible results of Brexit - who would choose to move there that aren't desperate?

America pull your head out and save Democracy..........Vote Blue

I’m an immigrant and due to renew my visa this year, I’m concerned about the cost. Obviously they mean all immigrants because I came by plane. Raising my cost may make me leave with my British husband and our money. I know, I know…they “don’t mean you”. I could weigh in on Trump, as I’m American but it’s just too depressing

You know what I have to say about ⛵ boats is this....the billionaires and hundred millionaires need to get a smaller boat and pay some tax. The tax system has been bastardised by the politicians on behalf of their rich donor's. Tax,It pays for health and education and lots of great social security programmes.

You are trying to rationalize their actions when all they are doing is giving their voters something to hate, the more things to hate, the merrier.

James you are great. You have explained the mind of the Trump supporters very well. They enjoy being lied to.

This is a matter of imbalance between selfishness and selflessness. Chump voters love how they feel when they hurt others. Their feelings are more important than a healthy society.

Regardless of country, it always seems the conservative party is the silly party

The separation of children from their families was so cruel!

Just VOTE BLUE

Love you James 💛 putting the meat on the bones and calling out liars 👍🏽🙋🏽‍♀️

From St Louis MO US. Love your show. Please move here! We need you. 😂

Much love from nyc USA. Love you guys

Media is the same on both sides of the Atlantic. In each case, the media is made of two opposing teams who are somehow sworn to never face each other in public for a proper conversation.

The last 5 minutes of this make me worry, given the number of years I spent teaching US and world history. I've read this story for a couple thousand years, and I know how it ALWAYS ends

One thing Trump has done you might not of heard about. He praised China for Tiananmen Square

Wish I'd listened live, I could've got a book out of it! No way does James remember the time at a rally, he said he'd pay the legal bills for anyone attacking the journalists in the room.

Gender, possession of college degree (or lack thereof), and urban/rural are the most important factors that seperate liberals and conservatives in the U.S.

Donnie T is like his BO, it LINGERS!

He’s just argued against himself without realising it, by reading an official definition.

Thank you.😀

The policy has worked in Australia, so the Tories are just copying it. I hope the British are more ethical than that.

In the last Hr of the show. It's the former Confederacy. It's different people, but the same ideology. On different issue's now. The Big Lie= The 2nd lost cause. I can go on and on. Coming from here in the upper North here in the US. (Minnesota)

It's bizarre that anyone hosting a phone in about the Tories and immigration would say "May was probably the best one". Are we forgetting her "Go Home" vans from 2013? Her "hostile environment"? NO Tory has been even close to decent in many, many years, if any of them ever were. It's a disgusting political party and ideology that breed and thrives from hatred.

"If you invent dragons to slay and say that you're the person to slay them, what do you do when the dragon disappears?" Go back to Hobbiton, I guess. 🙂

Boats have a symbolic and therefore emotional appeal. It's more compelling than airport terminal or a port of entry through the legal means

"Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion." Emeritus professor of political science Robert Paxton.

Every time you think you see the whole picture, another appears before our eyes , so many protecting so much for so few .

The average Trump supporter: “All this equality sure is annoying when it’s not just me…”

I love the great big mug!

What is the equivalent? How about taking out a 2nd mortgage on your home or emptying your retirement to give to someone on T.V. that promises a gateway to heaven.

Pathology, not psychology.

" Courageous mariners " they've got the mariner British spirit.

I’m sorry, I’m from the US, I’m not familiar with the politician the host mentioned but the host described him as, “the most ridiculous politician in the last,”….. I forgot the time period but the host is hopelessly wrong. I’m prepared to give anyone anyone, as far as nominee for most ridiculous as long as I get George Santos.

I think for a lot of people who generally are attracted to criminality, will gravitate automatically to a guy who dismisses all the things they crave. It’s really that simple. That is why he can do literally almost anything and everything you and I find deplorable, and they’ll be fine with it.

I love this show, showing different opinions, most opinions threated with respect

Hamas were funded and supported by successive Netanyahu governments from its inception to create a division between the PLO under Yasser Arafat because they were a secular organisation , then both America and Israel urged them to run for political office in Gaza, as soon as Hamas won the Israeli government and America declared them a terrorist organisation.

They dont care because basicly they are just like him Hes like Olsten aProsperity Preacher

Legend.

Dear LBC - please fix the tech error which results in 90 second segments of JamesOBs show repeat - its an app error on the podcast errror. The bug makes it hard to focus

Completely agree with the caller that said small boats means immigration.

FOXTON LOCKS CANAL NEAR ME IS WORLD FAMOUS & COOL , IRON BRIDGE IS ONE MY FAVOURITE.😁💯

Well lying comes easy to people like Rishi he’s a Tory politician after all

Great mention of the hitch

Trump had a solid following long BEFORE he ran for President, Those that loved his Reality T.V. show. Most of those followers can't tell the differnce between what's true and what's a lie, they love Trump because he entertains them.

The ships targeted were those believed to be carrying aid to Israel from America and Britain, the attacks only began after Oct 19.

What if someone is speaking Spanish or French? Are they not immigrants too? Are they illegal? Or ir because their skin is white, it doesn't count? Are they not coming here to work, visit and pay taxes?

33:40 they dont need to stop them ... the daily mail and their ilk just have to stop reporting on them .. imaginary problems are the easyist to solve after all

Sorry, I can't imagine Farage using a train with the commoners.

I think the point of delinking the two issues is possibly too head of any argument saying, well lets have ceasefire. Because now they have the ready made counter argument, it would work...

I'm surprised that the Tories haven't used the trick and stopped counting students in the immigration figures

Yorkshire Alabama, Northumberland Mississippi, etc, etc, etc.

Donald Trump, buried his wife and documents on one of his golf courses!😢

The appeal of Trump is that he allows people who are guilty of the sins of racism, homophobia, mysogini to cast off any culpability. He also allows hatred to be legitimised and I think simple people enjoy the emotion of hate.

On the podcast version of this show bits of it repeat like the bit where he’s talking to the woman from Ealing like it repeats a 30 - 45 second segment - always happens everyday

I love how James O'Brien keeps his cool

Give sean his own show!

There’s setting a president with the Rwanda thing. It’s not specifically about Rwanda but the wars to come

THIS GUY GETS IT .

To me, morally the most vile thing trump has done was to separate kids from their parents and put them in cages. Everything else is tied for second.

A few interesting aspects of certain SE Asian countries. I am Filipino and I have many Vietnamese friends. Some Vietnamese who like Trump see him as the opposite of the Communist party that won the war. Many Filipinos, who voted for Duterte, saw Trump as someone like Duterte, someone who was anti-establishment. They also had a bromance as well during their tenures. I’m not saying this is right nor that it is much different in context from Trump supports in America. It’s interesting the different angles some people have that have led them to Trump but in context his abstract language and contrarian-like demeanour is the same regardless of where you are from. It’s how they “fill-in-the-blanks” of his ambiguous and abstract language. To me he is a salesman who is challenging his limits because of a fragile ego. And is a predatory pervert who would date his daughter if he had the chance.

Scary 😳

U.S.A ❤ O'Brian!

Rest in peace Tony. You’ll work will live on forever.

This is why the Tories will get in again, as it’s impossible is it not😂

thanks james for what you do. as for trump lovers.....you cant have a battle of wits with and unarmed person

LOL Godwins Law warning, I get it for being Scottish

I genuinely like that stuff wot comes out of this Jimmy's mouth. Genuinely.

I am an American, retired military and understand the language required by Sunak to assure Iran, Hamas, etc that the strikes were an isolated unrelated event. that clarity helps to avoid escalation in an already tense middle east where no one wants misunderstanding to evolve into a broader conflict. Diplomacy and wording is carefully choosing words to avoid misunderstanding and linking unrelated events. I believe Sunak, he spoke well. The enemy will always try to link unrelated events in an effort to expand or begin a conflict. If a country is upfront in an effort to get ahead of the situation then there is a chance the situation won't get worse in the short term. Diplomacy is an art of lacing words together so as to not accidentally antagonize anyone any further than they already are. Governments must use this technique , often the public does not understand why but if conflict can be de escalated one must give it a chance. words matter in diplomatic speak.

Nobody: James: *Sips from a mug as large as his head* 😂🤣

It has to be said that the staff of the Knowsley Suites hotel were sacked when it became an Asylum refuge. People with functions booked (weddings mostly) had them cancelled. This did cause ill feeling and don't shoot the messenger.

The psychopathic minds of his followers

James, did you hear yhat Donald Trump is full of the CLAP?

If I'm attacked by a wasp, I swat the wasp away. I don't destroy the nest.

Is there a way to watch this live?

Frosty is a laugh. Just like polio was.

Was out with my Trump loving friend circle which I do not do often any longer - as a deconstructed fundamentalist Christian black woman the things that are said are simply astonishing and has gotten considerably worse over the last 10 years- facts and decency have just died and they are completely unaware how horrid their views are - with elections this year may the odds be on our side because between them and the peeling off of those upset about the Palestinians not understanding Bibi will be encouraged by Trump to level Gaza, make a golf course with a gaudy Trump themed hotel we are in danger and it is disconcerting

wedge issues.

Same as a Sadick Kahn voter for Mayor... No Morals

I had hoped the UK had learned the lessons from the Iraq wars. Can if worms that will expand fast. Why does the UK jump into these things ? Pain and our own kids will suffer.

He may be able to stop boats but what’s he doing about the economy

Tax avoidance does not help

Trump voter ....average person from 20 years ago.

James: I cannot say how many of us are truly frightened by the possibility of Trump, a major threat to western Democracy, having a second term. The fact that so many Americans support him make me ashamed to be an American.

Common sense!! That's what you are missing!

Rishi Sunak's statement that our attacks on the Houthis are not linked to the Gaza conflict is clear and correct. The Houthi's attacks are obviously linked to that conflict, but our response is to protect world trade, our motive is not to directly support Israel. I don't understand your confusion.

what Houthis Charter James? please provide this reference you make..

James =. Southampton Are you serious with what you said regarding the immigration situation.