Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - The Question of Legitimacy

Nov. 8, 2024 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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The Question of Legitimacy

Let's have a talk about what is required to rule. Lad's Hour watching the fallout: https://www.lotuseaters.com/premium-live-lads-hour-52-or-total-trump-victory-08-11-2024

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	Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
	I should be live.
	Hello, chat.
	I hope you're doing very well.
	Let's see if I've boomered the audio or not, shall we?
	I can definitely hear myself.
	So that seems to be working.
	Right.
	I didn't quite boom the audio.
	I just had a tab playing to make it work.
	Right, okay.
	Bang on time.
	Look at that.
	God, everything's just getting better now that Trump is going to be back in the White House, isn't it?
	And that's a very interesting thing, I think.
	Very, very interesting.
	Because it really speaks to a concept that throughout political history has been honestly of the utmost importance.
	There is nothing more important.
	So one of the things I thought we would talk about is the concept and question of legitimacy.
	Because legitimacy is important, the most important thing to any kind of ruler.
	And this is something that the left has been lacking for the past four years, if not more.
	The left has lacked a legitimate mandate.
	What could be called the mandate of heaven in sort of ancient Chinese political doctrine is just that intangible substance that is upon a person when everyone basically agrees, yes, they are allowed to be in charge.
	When they have the general consent of a country, then the person has the mandate of heaven.
	And this is a very interesting thing because, like I said, it's something intangible.
	It's something metaphysical.
	It's not something that you can point to and say it's because of this, it's because of that.
	Although there are aspects of a person and things that a person goes through that bring this upon them, as we'll talk about later, a person either has a right to rule or not.
	And this is done by common consent.
	It is understood that this person has done whatever it is they ought to have done, given the current political paradigm.
	And the crown is on their head.
	And so Donald Trump's re-election very much has a kind of return of the king vibe.
	Now, calm down, Americans.
	I'm not actually talking about a literal king.
	What I'm talking about is someone with the legitimacy, the mandate of heaven, the right to rule.
	In people's minds, it is legitimate that he is in charge and they have their reasons for it.
	Everyone can agree.
	Yep, no, he did a good job, whatever it is.
	And yes, he is the guy to be in charge.
	And this is something that the Democrats perpetually lacked throughout the Biden presidency because Biden didn't really have it.
	He not only did more than half the country really, really dislike Biden, he had an approval rating of something like 39% or something like that towards the end.
	It was very, very low.
	Now, American presidents don't often have a very high approval rating, but the disapproval rating was very high.
	Now, Trump had this in his first term as well, right?
	Trump, a large portion of America was not happy with Donald Trump.
	And you can see the problems that his first presidency was beset by.
	Now, I'm not going to get into the events of the 2020 election because this is YouTube and it's still not a safe platform on which to speak.
	Brother Doom, I don't...
	Spoiler alert, Brother Doom.
	Come on, come on.
	We'll get to that.
	We'll get to it.
	But basically, yes, you're correct.
	There were steps leading up to it, but basically you are correct on that.
	But Trump spent a lot of his first presidency trying to establish the right to rule, trying to show that he was the guy who was going to fix all of the problems and deserved to be where he was.
	Even though he'd won the election, the problem is he hadn't won the popular vote.
	Now, technically, the popular vote doesn't mean anything, but sort of morally, spiritually, in a kind of ethereal sense, it does matter, actually, if most people actually didn't vote for you and most people did actually vote for the other guy or woman.
	That does actually matter, and there is something, again, intangible to it, but these are real political forces that do have to be contended with.
	And as you know, I'm a big history fan, and Julius Caesar is actually a great example of this in that when he was engaging in the civil war, one of the things that he was doing to create and generate a kind of myth of respectability and legitimacy around him was pardon his enemies.
	Because instead of persecuting them, what he was showing, he was self-confident that he was doing the right thing and that they would fall in line.
	Now, they probably would.
	It's entirely possible that had Pompey not been murdered in Egypt, he would have rejoined the triumvirate under the leadership of Julius Caesar.
	Crassus not died in bloody Parthia.
	Then they would have continued.
	And so winning a civil war, winning a war, winning a contest of any kind is a path to legitimacy.
	It definitely puts you in that realm.
	But with the way that the American presidential elections go, there isn't just a single competition.
	There are multiple layers to it.
	And at the moment, the way Trump has played this is that Trump's won it all at this point.
	Trump has won it all.
	Trump has the House, the Senate, the Presidency, the Supreme Court, was it state governors as well, I think.
	And he has the popular vote.
	He has the popular mandate.
	There is nothing that the left at this point can point to and say, well, he didn't get this.
	He didn't get that.
	He didn't get the other.
	No, he got everything.
	Everything.
	Because of the events.
	Like I said, I don't feel comfortable talking about on YouTube, but I'm sure that if you've watched any of my stuff off of YouTube, you know my opinion on it.
	The events of 2020 and the catastrophic Biden administration.
	Now, part of being the legitimate king, the having the right to rule, is ruling well, governing for everyone, and making sure that no matter what happens, you will always have your political opponents, but making sure that no matter what happens, the kingdom is in a good state.
	That's the most important thing.
	So people have money and overtaxing them.
	It's safe.
	There's law and order.
	Foreign enemies aren't causing trouble either on the borders or actually within the country itself.
	There are lots of different aspects to this.
	And Trump ticked off loads of these in his first presidency.
	Now, you might have thought, well, isn't that going to be enough for the Libtards to settle down?
	No, obviously not.
	They're inveterate enemies of his.
	And there were small chinks in his armor.
	Again, the fact that he couldn't get them to settle down is an issue.
	And also the fact, again, he didn't have a popular vote.
	And they carried on a long, long campaign against him.
	But he came through all of that actually, really well.
	And so the events of 2020 happen.
	And so that's the sort of fellowship of the rings stage of the Trump story.
	The events of 2020 happen.
	And we're in the two towers events now.
	Now we get the rise of Isengard and the marching of Sauron.
	And this is looking bad for the fellowship.
	Things start going wrong.
	Gandalf eventually reappears at the turning of the tide.
	And we come back to what is now the return of the king phase.
	Trump has won, and now he is going to assume his rightful throne and crown as the actual legitimate ruler of the United States, the kingdom.
	And you can see this in everything.
	Because when the king returns, and this is an old motif in English political history, the return of the king is a very popular idea in England.
	Because when things aren't going well in England, things for hundreds of years, right?
	Things for hundreds and hundreds of years, since not long after the Norman conquest, things were going great for the English, actually.
	And I've just been basically finished a book called The Origins of English Individualism by Alan McFarlane, who's a history professor.
	And he's got an amazing take and points out that, look, the English were a free people right from like the 12th century and probably before.
	And this is unusual.
	I'll do a deep dive into it at some point.
	But there was a reason that the medieval English were actually really arrogant and very proud of themselves.
	Because England was an insanely wealthy country because it was essentially being run along capitalist lines.
	And so to not flourish in a capitalist system means that you're being oppressed, basically, or there's something wrong with you.
	And as the English were the ones who wanted to live this way, and all of English political history from about that sort of time, like if you go to Magna Carta, the Bill of Right, Habeas Corpus and various other, and right up until the Bill of Rights of 1888, 1889, is essentially creating the distance between the overbearing authority.
	And again, this is what the English Civil War is all about.
	The overbearing authority and the rights of the people who live under him.
	The freedoms, the liberty of those people.
	And you had in the 17th century a chap called John Lilburn, who was just known as Freeborn John, who played very heavily into the rights of Englishmen.
	And he would publish pamphlets saying things like, I'm a freeborn Englishman, these are my rights.
	And the worst his critics could really say is, well, that's a bit of a tautology, isn't it?
	You know, to be an Englishman was to be free.
	That was implicit in it because of the kind of civilization we had and how different that was to the other civilizations around us.
	And so when things were going well, basically the kingdom would be at peace, at least internally, and people would be able to live their lives freely and get on with things.
	And this is the essence of the Robin Hood mythos.
	When things are not being run well under whatever tyrannical king, now the paradigm example is King John, right?
	King John was an overbearing, I mean, like almost a foreign king calling upon divine right while King Richard was off on crusade.
	And things were going very badly.
	The country was being completely mismanaged.
	Things were going badly in the external empire until Richard returns.
	He defeats John in a civil war, but then pardons John.
	And from that point onwards, for the rest of Richard's life, John is loyal to his older brother.
	John does not cause any more trouble.
	John does exactly what he says, exactly what he's told.
	And everything calms down because the hierarchy is put back in its proper place.
	And that's how you know when the king has returned.
	Problems start instantly resolving themselves.
	And this is something we are seeing already from the Trump victory.
	So before we begin, let's have a look at how people are treating the loss of Kamala.
	Now, I said in the video that I did about this just before the election, on the day of the election, if Kamala wins, nobody will remember her.
	And if Kamala loses, nobody will remember her.
	And God, is this not emblematic of that?
	Imagine painting a mural of someone.
	This is, oh, Kamala, we have anointed her.
	And again, she's not legitimate in any way.
	and we'll get to why in a second she's kamala is she's the savior that has suddenly been anointed by the democrat machine We've pulled her out of nowhere.
	She was totally unpopular, but now everyone has to pretend to love her.
	Here's a giant mural of her.
	And then she lost.
	Just get rid of it.
	Just get rid of it.
	Just paint over it.
	It doesn't matter.
	She's gone.
	She's been forgotten.
	History will not remember her.
	And in her concession speech, she was not bothered by this.
	She was not going to break down in tears.
	Do you remember when Theresa May was forced to resign from being the prime minister?
	And she welled up and blubbed and was like, something like, you know, I'm just proud to have been able to serve the country I love.
	lost it a bit, turned and walked off, right?
	That was someone who really cared about being there.
	Here's Kamala Harris just laughing.
	Just laughing.
	I mean, let's watch.
	Sorry, did you just lose a monumental election or not?
	Did Mecca Hitler just take over your country or not?
	Like, sorry, you're acting as if everything's fine.
	You're acting as if, like, nothing bad has happened and you're just here to have another one of your rallies.
	She's acting like there's no stake in this for her.
	She's acting like this is not something that bothers her.
	And in fact, maybe it's not.
	Because I think she knew she was a fraud.
	I think that deep down they knew what they were doing for the last, well, at least four years, was totally fraudulent.
	They were cosplaying as the people in charge, but nobody really thought they were in charge.
	And the state of the kingdom was that it was going straight downhill.
	I mean, millions of illegals crossed over.
	Inflation was through the roof.
	Everyone was getting poorer.
	Things were getting worse.
	Crime is more rampant.
	And everyone's like, Jesus Christ.
	And this is the symptom of having an illegitimate king in charge.
	This is the symptom of having a King John.
	And everyone's like, right, okay.
	Is King Richard still on crusade?
	We need him to come back.
	And as soon as he does, the atmosphere changes.
	And you can see in her face, look at she, she can barely suppress the smile.
	She's glad that this has happened.
	Oh, thank God.
	I don't have to pretend to be something I'm not.
	I don't have to take onto my shoulders a giant burden that I am not capable of carrying.
	But when the person who is capable of carrying it comes back, everyone can feel the relief.
	Everyone can feel it.
	Same with Joe Biden.
	Joe Biden seemed genuinely demented.
	And I don't mean that in a passe sort of, you know, just slanderous way.
	He genuinely seemed as if he had dementia.
	He was losing it.
	He was absolutely losing it.
	And yet, weirdly enough, he sounds incredibly composmentous here, doesn't he?
	Yeah.
	It's good to see you all.
	Particularly good to see my granddaughter sitting in the front row here.
	I've been in Hawaii, honey.
	For over 200 years, America has carried on the greatest experiment in self-government in the history of the world.
	I don't even think he's speaking from a teleprompter.
	I mean, maybe he is.
	I don't know.
	But the point is that you can watch the whole thing.
	He looks and sounds like his old self.
	Like Wormtongue has just been kicked out of Theodin's court and suddenly he's like, oh, yeah, yeah, great.
	Trump's back.
	I'll put my mag out on like he did the other day.
	Brilliant.
	You know, like, this is all going to work now.
	I don't know why I was screwing everything up.
	The country was going down the shitter.
	Everything was getting worse.
	And I don't know what I was doing wrong.
	But thank God Donald Trump is here to fix it.
	That's what I take.
	The feeling that I see coming out of all of this is, oh, relief.
	Oh, thank God.
	You know, we're committed to the peaceful transfer of power.
	You know, it's like, oh, well, I mean, no one thought you wouldn't be, actually.
	You know, like, this isn't something that you need to say, but it seems like you're very eager to offload this.
	Like, Joe Biden phoned up Donald Trump and was like, yeah, well, our teams will work together to make sure that you can get back in the White House, bro.
	It's like, sorry, you were calling him a Nazi the other day.
	Literally five minutes ago, this was American fascism taking over.
	And now you're like, yeah, okay, well, maybe, maybe the illegitimate king lies a bit, you know?
	Maybe I was bullshitting that a bit.
	And it's totally fine.
	And you can see it in their faces, right?
	These guys look genuinely bothered.
	These are all reactions to Donald Trump winning the presidency.
	The ones who thought they were going to win, who thought they were going to overthrow the established hierarchy and moral order of the United States, are fucking heartbroken.
	They wanted to win for their own evil, selfish reasons.
	Joe Biden looks like he's been set free.
	Joe Biden looks like he's going to be happy now.
	And again, same with Kamala Harris.
	Like, look at their faces compared to their faces.
	It's so weird.
	Anyway, again, the smile reaches the eyes.
	Anyway, the point being, you can see the magic at work.
	You can see the magic of legitimacy coming down.
	And the people who tried to usurp the rightful authority of the king all know that this is bad for them.
	They know now the king has returned and we are in trouble.
	And so, yeah, you have Joe Biden, brilliant.
	I can't wait to get this sorted.
	My entire team, my entire administration, we're all going to get this all sorted.
	This is going to be great.
	Perfect.
	No problems at all.
	No resistance.
	No, well, Donald Trump stole the election.
	No Russian interference.
	No this, no that.
	All the excuses, all of the bullshit, all of it dropped.
	He's not going on about him being an insurrectionist.
	He's not going on about him being a threat to democracy.
	He's not going on about him being a fascist or a Nazi or whatever.
	No, okay, I accept that's all over because you came back with every category I could have asked for.
	You won the election, you won the House, you want the Senate, you've got the governors, you've got the Supreme Court, you've got the popular mandate.
	Oh, God, it's over.
	It's so fucking over for these people.
	It's totally over for these people who thought, no, we are going to be able to usurp the legitimate king and usurp the legitimate American order of things.
	And we're going to get away with it.
	No, you're not going to get away with it.
	You didn't get away with it.
	It's fucking done, right?
	And like I said, as soon as the king returns, everything returns to normal.
	And you can feel this, right?
	I mean, I feel in my own house, right?
	Whenever my, some kids aren't always brilliant, right?
	Kids sometimes play up, have, you know, those days where they haven't had enough sleep, whatever, and they're very naughty.
	And some days my wife will miss me and go, oh my God, the kids have been a nightmare today.
	It's been really stressful.
	They've been running around doing all this, that, and the other.
	And as soon as I get through the house, through the front door, into the house, boom, domestic bliss.
	Everyone is suddenly calm, I was like, oh, thank God you're home.
	You know, all the kids start doing exactly as they're told.
	Everyone calms down.
	Everyone realizes the hierarchy has been restored.
	There is no question as to who is in charge now.
	And everything is back to normal as it ought to be.
	The correct ordering of the world has been restored.
	And that is what we're looking at here.
	And you see it everywhere.
	Look at some of these news reports.
	They're just incredible.
	Mexico's migrant caravan is breaking up after the Trump victory 2030 because they know they're in trouble.
	They know that daddy's home.
	Nope, no more fucking around now.
	This is done.
	You can't.
	Joe Biden literally leaving the border wide open.
	On day one, he comes in and undoes all of Trump's executive orders that are to stop crossings at the border.
	And then boom, crossings ramp up.
	Yeah, no, that's fucking over.
	Okay, that is fucking over.
	And they know it.
	And he knows it.
	And Obama and the rest of the subversives know it.
	They know it's done.
	It's absolutely done.
	Hamas are like, well, okay, maybe we can have an immediate, maybe we can surrender at this point.
	Yeah, it's over.
	It's over.
	Okay, the king has returned, and you're all going to fall into line.
	What about the Chinese?
	Oh, wait, the Chinese have been.
	Oh, no, no, wait, wait, okay, okay, calm down.
	We want a peaceful coexistence.
	We respect the choice of the American people.
	We understand the king has returned and shit is going back to how it was.
	And I don't doubt that Vladimir Putin will come out very shortly and be like, okay, well, if Trump wants to offer us a negotiated settlement, we're going to take whatever he wants because we appreciate things are back to normal, how they should be.
	And you just love to see it.
	Look at the EU bending the knee.
	This is like, this is literally like what in ancient Assyria, the Assyrian Empire was like a kingly empire, right?
	So most empires will take over a place, install a governor and install a bureaucratic infrastructure and start turning it into a province, right?
	The Assyrians didn't really do this very much.
	What they would usually do is basically march a giant army over to a place, get whatever king was there to bend the knee, give them tribute, maybe some soldiers or whatever, and then go off to the next place.
	And they had this kind of empire like that.
	It was a very inefficient way to run an empire.
	But this is just genuinely how this feels to me.
	This is everyone is bending the knee.
	Everyone who hates Trump, who hates America, is suddenly like, well, I mean, the EU is going to buy oil from America and not Russia now because Trump's in charge.
	Why?
	Why were you not doing that before?
	Well, because you thought you'd be able to usurp the legitimate authority.
	That's what this was.
	And as soon as Trump comes out, they're all just like, oh, yeah, okay.
	Yeah, no, we'll buy American oil.
	It's like, why wouldn't we have done that?
	I know why, but like, it's just so quickly.
	Trump isn't going to be in office for another two months or so, right?
	It's not going to be until January until Trump is actually inaugurated and actually takes the reins of executive control and is actually able to do things.
	And yet, things are just falling into place.
	People are just winding their fucking necks in.
	Oh, yeah, no, okay, yeah.
	Whatever we don't know, we're not going to do that anymore.
	We're just going to do exactly as you want because we've been told.
	Even Bill Gates is just like, oh, yeah, yeah, I did go to Epstein's Island, says Bill.
	Yeah, good point.
	Trump probably is going to be.
	Elon's been posting about this a lot to his 200 million followers on Twitter or X.
	And he's going to be in the government as well, isn't he?
	Shit.
	Okay, yeah.
	Well, congratulations.
	I hope we can work together to build a brighter future.
	Translation: please don't put me in jail, right?
	And it's only jail that he would get because in a previous, more less modern age, it would be way worse than jail for Bill Gates.
	So he should be bloody thankful that the best he's going to get is jail.
	Again, the total opposite.
	When Trump wasn't in power, yeah, he's an evil fascist.
	Oh, he tries to steal the election.
	We've got to make sure he never gets in power again.
	Boom, suddenly.
	Oh, shit.
	Nope.
	We're sorry.
	We're really sorry.
	We've just been caught.
	We're so sorry.
	Please don't, please don't hit us.
	Right?
	That's basically what is being said here.
	And we in Britain are not going to understand that this is good for us, right?
	I mean, look at James here, right?
	We must assume the US is no longer friendly and plan accordingly.
	We should lift defense, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	It's like, what?
	What are you talking about?
	Right?
	Trump is a well-known anglophile.
	Trump absolutely adores Britain.
	And as someone here, like from the art of the search, it's like Trump there just proudly being, look, look, I was hanging out with the Queen.
	You know, this is my trip to Britain.
	How great it was.
	I love Britain.
	He constantly goes on about loving Britain.
	He goes on about his mum being from, I can't remember which one it was from Scotland.
	I think it was his mum.
	But the point is, he has an affection for our country.
	This is nothing but good for us.
	Trump is going to be on our side.
	All of these fuckers, these people are not on our side.
	These people fucking hate us.
	Trump, the legitimate king, has come back and he thinks we're great.
	Brilliant.
	Let's be mates with him.
	I'd like to be friends with Trump and Trump's America.
	Why the hell wouldn't we?
	I mean, we like the Americans.
	Honestly, some people, man.
	Some fucking people.
	And so what was the response to the illegitimate people?
	Those people who know they don't have a legitimate moral order.
	Well, spurging out.
	It's been non-stop spurging out.
	And again, this is how you know they're not legitimate, right?
	So you have here a New York Times columnist saying, well, the Democrats need to double down on identity politics if they want to win next time.
	I mean, yeah, I would like you to double down on identity politics to guarantee the Trump era continues long after Trump.
	Because I'm assuming that it's going to be JD Vance next.
	It seems that he is a crown prince to Trump.
	And I assume that's why he was chosen for VP rather than someone like Mike Pence.
	And Vance has done really, really well.
	And we'll get to how you gain the mandate of heaven in a minute.
	Vance has done really, really well and seems to have very much ingratiated himself, not just with the MAGA movement, and settled any doubts that they had through his performances.
	But he seems to be quite popular just when he talks, just to regular Americans.
	I've watched loads of people on like Facebook and stuff.
	Like loads of women seem to like him in the comments.
	And then you click on their profiles and they're just like, you know, mum from Oklahoma or something.
	You know, it's just totally normal people.
	They didn't really know who Vance was, but there's, you know, clips of him going around.
	And then, oh, I quite like this guy.
	He's winning them over.
	Everything's great.
	Brilliant.
	Right.
	Then you've got them lashing out.
	And they're lashing out at their client groups.
	And as you see here, fuck Latinos and Arabs.
	There, I said it.
	I hope you all get deported and banned.
	Why?
	Why would you be like this?
	I mean, you would think you would, if anything, go into a kind of protective mode where you were like, oh, you know, no, we'll protect you against evil mechanism.
	But no, they're not like that.
	Right?
	They're actually vindictive.
	They're annoyed.
	They're power-seeking.
	And they've just been thwarted because what they had was not legitimate.
	It was not from the positive wellsprings of the human soul.
	It was out of envy and malice and hatred that they've been doing this.
	That's why they're like this.
	And this is a, again, a huge threat.
	Redditors, Reddit's being an insanely left-wing platform, if anyone didn't know.
	Redditors trying to get MAGA Latino neighbors deported because loads of Latinos, like 40% of Latinos, 45% of Latinos, decided to go to Trump because they were like, yeah, no, the Democrats are fucking this up.
	Trump gained in every single category.
	In fact, I've got a thing that I put on the podcast today, actually.
	Trump gained everywhere.
	There was no one he didn't increase in.
	So you've got, obviously, white men, white women.
	Well, that's all.
	That's all.
	But the white men and white women, black men and black women.
	And again, it's not a huge amount, but it's, I mean, that 5% increase.
	That's not terrible at all.
	But you've got the Asians who are like, yeah, no, we're going over to Trump slowly but surely.
	And then you've got the Latins, Latin men, nearly half of them.
	Nearly half of them.
	You can see why they're so angry because Trump's winning them over.
	Weirdly, Trump got 65% of Native Americans.
	Connor thinks that it's the tax on tips and casinos that might be doing this.
	Maybe.
	It's entirely possible.
	But it's just like, the point being, lots of people are like, well, hang on a second.
	If I've come to America, don't I want it to be ruled in the American way?
	Right?
	Because that's not what Biden's administration and Kamala's administration, prospective administration was offering.
	They're not offering to be ruled like Americans.
	What they're offering is to be ruled like bizarro Europeans.
	And you've got, again, you've got a huge, huge fucking thread of this.
	I hope Trump turns Gaza into a parking lot.
	He's not going to do that.
	That's not what the legitimate king does.
	The legitimate king settles grievances.
	And that's what he's going to do.
	I mean, that's what Amas are already like, well, could we have a ceasefire now?
	There we go.
	That's what we have to do.
	I'm sure he's going to get back the fucking hostages.
	I'm sure Gazans will stop dying.
	Everyone wins, actually.
	And that's, I honestly think that's what's going to happen.
	But yeah, no, these people were just evil and spiteful and horrible.
	Absolutely horrible.
	It's like, just again, do I still give out rewards for reporting undocumented Latinos?
	Oh my God, all right.
	Just like this, this was a mean joke that Short Vataku made years ago because it was funny when they were defending every illegal under the sun and instantly they just flip on it.
	And of course, being like, oh, you're all stupid and we hate you.
	Okay, whatever.
	But they're the ones who decide who the legitimate king is and it ain't you.
	And so you're not going to get this back.
	This is definitely something I think is not coming back.
	And you see, again, just ridiculousness.
	Anyone on their own side who's like, okay, the mandate of heaven has been revealed.
	The general will, in a Rousseauian sense, has been revealed because everything has been given to him.
	Everything has been given to him.
	And he didn't take it by force.
	It was given by common consent of the American people.
	And literally, like the majority of them.
	So now what?
	Well, this is the chairman of the Texas Democrats.
	He's resigned, right?
	He said, you've got a choice of the party.
	You can stand up for, you can support transgender rights up and down all the categories where the issues come up.
	Or you can understand there's certain things that we just go too far on and the bulk of our population does not support.
	If you're going to ignore the political consequences of these kind of things, then you're going to lose elections in the manner that we did.
	LGBTQ rights and transgender advocates swiftly criticized his remarks, saying he was blaming the Democrats' most vulnerable supporters for his and the party's failure.
	And it forced him to apologize and forced him to resign.
	Okay, but he's not wrong.
	You're evil and he's correct.
	What he's trying to do is steer your party back to legitimacy, to being the legitimate party of an American population.
	But you don't want that.
	You want something else.
	You want to usurp and subvert everything about the United States.
	And it ain't going to work.
	The American people, I think there's genuine sort of consciousness of this.
	Oh, the Democrats are evil and they're trying to destroy us.
	Got it.
	Yeah.
	I mean, Trump was saying, you know, the domestic enemies of America.
	Well, he's not wrong.
	He's absolutely not wrong.
	And everyone can see this.
	And I think subconsciously they feel it.
	Like, no, the Democrats are evil and they are trying something that's weird.
	And I am sus.
	You know, a lot of them are like, where are the 18 or 15 million voters that the Democrats had in 2020 gone?
	Yeah, great question.
	I wonder if we'll ever get an answer to that.
	You know, there's so many, so many sus things about all of this.
	And they know this.
	And so they decided to act out, right?
	You've got this woman here who's sat next to a Trump supporter and she starts flipping out at him.
	I mean, we just water.
	That man doesn't feel like that.
	This woman is not happy she's sitting next to a Trump supporter.
	Watch how her failure to settle down leaves her regretting her choices.
	He has called me names and insulted me just for sitting down this seat saying that I came here to celebrate today.
	Is there going to be a problem?
	I would have liked for him to change stage with someone else.
	Well, you don't have to.
	See, the establishment, the institutions, they're not on their side.
	They're acting out like spoiled children.
	They are not.
	They can't accept that they've lost by fair means.
	They do not have the mandate of heaven.
	They were not able to accomplish it.
	They were not able to bring it upon themselves.
	They lost and they can't handle it.
	It's so good to watch.
	And this is why you're getting all of the insane shitlib women meltdowns.
	Being like, right, that's it.
	I'm not going to have sex with men randomly every night on Tinder or whatever.
	Or, you know, or I'm not going to have sex without contraception.
	I'm not, if I can't get an abortion.
	It's like, brilliant.
	Again, the problems are solving themselves.
	The legitimate king returns.
	The problems just start resolving.
	Great.
	All of these problems.
	So Donald Trump, in a month's time, he's going to come into office.
	And things will already be getting better.
	Just the announcement that the king is on his way back from the crusade is more than enough to put everyone in the purpose.
	Yep.
	No, I won't do that.
	I know my place.
	And it's where I was told I should be from the start.
	That's what the...
	We're going to own the trads by becoming super trad.
	Great.
	Good job.
	Well done.
	I like to see it.
	And then you've got the Democrats influencers, the left-wing influencers.
	This is David Packman in this five-minute clip complaining that people are unsubscribing from him.
	Right, yeah.
	I mean, you've lost legitimacy.
	It seems that what you're promoting isn't real or true or good or leads to human flourishing.
	It looks like, and David Packman, of course, I'm sure, I actually didn't watch his content, but I'm absolutely sure he's going to have thought that Kamala was going to win.
	Apparently lost 5,000 subscribers and loads of paid subscribers and stuff like that.
	It's like, yep, that's what happens when the legitimacy of the United States is transferred from your entire movement to a different movement because you failed.
	You failed in every single way.
	Your country was going down the tubes.
	And your only response to this and to the real genuine grievances that people have was to lie to them.
	Tell them, no, you're not getting poorer.
	No, you're not noticing more illegals around or just more immigrants generally.
	No.
	You don't have to worry about freedom of speech being taken away by the government, even though that's what they did for four years.
	You don't have to worry about anything.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	Everything's fine.
	Everything's fine.
	Trust us, bro.
	It's like, no, people aren't trusting you.
	People remember what it was like four years ago, actually.
	People remember how good it was under the legitimate king.
	People remember how bad it was under you.
	And so I'm not surprised that 5,000 people have unsubscribed from David Packman.
	And he says in this, I messaged all of my like Democrat influencer coastal friends.
	And they all said, yeah, thousands of people have unsubscribed.
	Loads of paid subscribers have unsubscribed.
	It's like, what's going on, bros?
	Is it that there's some sort of giant purge going on?
	Or is it that people are disappointed in you and are checking out of politics?
	Because you didn't tell them the truth.
	You didn't explain to them the mood of the country.
	And again, just every left-wing influencer is in this doom spiral at the moment.
	And in fact, he says we're in an algorithmic de-subscription spiral right now.
	Because when people start unsubscribing on YouTube, YouTube thinks, oh, we shouldn't recommend this content.
	Okay.
	Interesting.
	But as Imal Cheng puts out, maybe this should stop lying.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Maybe you should, right?
	You were using these people for your agenda.
	You are not fairly informing them for their good.
	And therefore, why would they support you?
	Why would they not feel betrayed by you?
	Like, when I'm doing this, I genuinely think this is a state of affairs that I can see, that I can see historical precedent for, and I can see how this helps people understand what's going on, right?
	I don't need people to, like, not read the Democrats and see what the Democrats are saying.
	No, I want you to go and I want you to have as much exposure to these people as possible, because I'm convinced that the more you see of these people, the more you can be like, oh yeah, Sargon's right.
	Trump's right.
	The MAGA guys are right.
	They're all right.
	And I think this is what's happened with Tulsi Gabbard, RFK, Joe Rogan, and Elon Musk.
	I don't think these people are like, you know, MAGA extremists or anything.
	I just think they were given a choice.
	Do you want these insane lunatic Democrats who want to do things that are just basically evil and are going to lie about it?
	They're going to censor you.
	They're going to be authoritarian.
	They're going to engage in shenanigans because they've got no moral scruples about any of this.
	Or are you going to give Trump?
	I mean, he's not perfect, obviously, but he does seem to be on the side of good when it comes to making America what it is and making it a great place to live.
	That was the point of what he was doing, restore what America used to be when he was younger.
	And I think this is just a very natural thing that people are like, yeah, no, it is Trump.
	It is Trump.
	He's the guy.
	And I mean, we haven't had a problem with people unsubscribing, you know?
	Like, that's not been something that's affected us.
	In fact, how about you come and join us over at lotacies.com?
	If you want to support us, £5 a month at locities.com.
	We did an amazing Lad's Hour this afternoon where we're just going through the salt.
	I realize most of the content we do on Lotus Seeders is very highbrown intellectual.
	But we do the Lad's Hours for a reason because it's Friday afternoon.
	You want to kick back and relax.
	And it was just too good not to do a bit of salt mining.
	And so, I mean, the one where Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer, is trying to explain on Instagram that he's angry and he's thinking about leaving the country.
	And people have, apparently they, I know they can super chat or something to put like a turkey on his face, like a turkey gif on his face, or like sunglasses and Elvis Herr Cowboy House.
	And he's trying to give this.
	No, look, I've got something serious to say.
	And the chat is just trolling the shit at him.
	It's like, fuck me.
	That's how you know you've lost the legitimacy.
	People don't take you seriously.
	You are clowns to them.
	You are liars.
	You were opposed to the moral order that is genuine and good.
	And honestly, it was just so good going through it.
	I'll left a link in the description.
	Go sign up if you want to support us.
	And do go and enjoy the lad's hours.
	Because A, they're the most fun bit of the website.
	We've got loads of intellectual stuff on there as well.
	Watch that too.
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	So it's not surprising then, I think, that when voters were asked, yeah, you worried about democracy.
	Yeah, it was mostly Trump supporters, actually.
	Donald Trump won more voters among voters who said US democracy is being threatened than those who said it was secure versus Kamala Harris.
	So the people who thought it was like somewhat secure or very secure tended to go the other way.
	The very threatened and somewhat threatened were like, yeah, I think maybe something happened in 2020 that we need to worry about with the security of democracy.
	And I think a lot of people voted for Trump on those grounds.
	As in, they looked at what happened in 2020 askance.
	They were like, am I sure about this?
	Is Joe Biden really the most popular man in all of human history?
	81 million votes?
	More popular with blacks than Barack Obama?
	I don't know, man.
	Maybe, maybe something happened.
	And so after Trump scores this massive victory, the Democrat echo chamber is stuck in a death spiral.
	They don't know what to do.
	And this is just a really funny thread from Patrick here, where he's like, let's try to figure out what happened.
	And they have lots of excuses.
	And I've been making this point a lot recently because my son has been making some excuses recently because he plays piano and he only got a pass in his piano test when he could have got a distinction.
	And I was just saying to him, okay, well, let's have a look.
	And when we got the report there, I was like, okay, well, let's have a look at the things you did that weren't perfect and we'll improve them.
	And he was like, yeah, I don't know.
	This is that and that and that.
	He's making excuses.
	I'm like, look, son, every excuse you make is you saying, I don't need to change.
	But the problem is, you didn't win.
	You didn't succeed.
	You didn't get the highest that you could get.
	And therefore, you do need to change.
	You can see by the objective result that you have back that the world is telling you you are not as good as you could be.
	And therefore, you need to just look at that and go, okay, great.
	I actually, this is actually really useful.
	This tells me how I can become a more the best version of myself that I can be.
	And this is fantastic.
	And this is exactly the same position that the Democrats are in.
	Like, again, my son's nine, so you can completely forgive him for being like that.
	He's a nine-year-old boy.
	The Democrats don't have that excuse.
	So their excuses were, well, it wasn't because of her politics because she wasn't a white man.
	No, that's not, I don't think that's true at all.
	I think that, I mean, for example, Tulsi Gabbard, if she was basically running on exactly the same platform, I think she'd do very well as well.
	I don't think it's about him being a white man.
	I think it's about the journey, the hero's journey that Trump has been on that has provided him with this.
	And Kamala Harris has just not been on that journey.
	Kamala Harris has failed upwards, whereas Trump has overcome obstacles and some of them very big obstacles.
	The next one, Kamala lost because Americans are stupid, soft, privileged babies.
	Okay, maybe, but that's what you've that's the clay you have to mold.
	So why aren't you doing it successfully?
	Again, it's you, not everyone else.
	Sorry, I appreciate there are lots of super chats.
	I will get to them in a minute.
	Kamala lost because the election was rigged.
	Prove it.
	How do the Republicans do it?
	What's the machinery?
	Blah, blah, blah.
	Obviously, it wasn't rigged.
	Kamala lost because Russia cheated again.
	Ooh, the boogeyman of Russia is everywhere.
	Bollocks, don't believe it.
	Kamala lost because Elon Musk computing did something, but it's unclear what that is.
	Possibly.
	Again, what?
	But Patrick's favorite is Kamala lost because Anne Selza's poll showing Republicans doing poorly motivated them to prove her wrong.
	Uh-huh.
	Uh-huh.
	Again, just so many excuses after excuses after excuses, but no accountability.
	And that's one of the factors that make someone legitimate.
	That you know you are the person who is responsible for everything that is happening.
	Ultimately, the buck stops with you.
	And if you can't take accountability, if you can't take responsibility and show that you will be accountable for the things that happen under your watch, you don't deserve to be in charge.
	You aren't legitimate.
	You don't have the mandate of heaven.
	That's all what is happening here.
	And then you eventually just get to, oh, democracy has died in darkness.
	And my reply, democracy is when people get what they voted for.
	And people voted overwhelmingly in every category for Trump.
	This is the most democratic result.
	Again, in the Rousseauian sense, elections reveal the general will of the people.
	And you don't know the general will until you have the election.
	And if you find yourself on the wrong side of that election, then you were only following your particular will.
	You were being selfish.
	You hadn't touched your mind to the overarching need of the polity.
	You were just being selfish and trying to exploit people.
	Now, not saying I agree with Rousseau's formulation there, but I think Carol would be a lot closer to it.
	I think she's much more of a Rousseauian liberal.
	And therefore, what I'm saying by her standards would be completely correct.
	Trump won legitimately, and he deserved it.
	And I just want to point out, right, the Democrats' failure is just manifest.
	It's all over the place, right?
	The continual hounding and persecution of Trump when he was out of office.
	I mean, when he was in office, it was bad enough.
	But at least you can argue, well, I mean, it was unusual, it was unexpected.
	It's good to have someone heavily investigated so you know they're completely clean.
	I mean, as if politicians have any fucking right to that anyway.
	As if we're going to assume that politicians themselves aren't all corrupt and don't have skeletons in their closets.
	They obviously all do.
	And so apparently when a guy who doesn't have lots of skeletons in his closet comes among them, you know them by the coalition.
	The Confederacy of Dunces, but in this case, the Confederacy of Villains.
	They recoil.
	Yeah, he must be.
	We have to investigate.
	So four years of solid investigations turns up absolutely fucking nothing, which is remarkable, given it's Donald Trump.
	Now, when I was growing up, Donald Trump was like a New York wide boy, like he'd been a billionaire businessman.
	He was a CAD, a Chad.
	He was always pictured with beautiful women at parties.
	So you kind of assumed there was something on him, right?
	It was just, I mean, why?
	You know, everyone, you just assumed everyone living that kind of high life was probably in some weird stuff.
	You know, it's not your business.
	You're not going to get involved in it.
	So for them to, like, do, like, gigger investigations into Trump and find not much, a bunch of what appear to be false allegations, all things have been dropped at this point, by the way.
	Oh, yeah, all of those apparently have been dropped, haven't they?
	So again, the king returns and everyone's like, okay, all of this fucking around stops.
	All of it stops.
	It's just not, no, it's nonsense.
	We're not going to carry on with it because we were in the wrong.
	And it accumulated in the mugshot, right?
	That was the stupidest goddamn thing they could have done.
	Because a lot of people, at least half of the United States, I would say, were looking at this and going, yeah, this doesn't feel right.
	This doesn't feel right.
	It doesn't feel legitimate that they're doing this.
	In fact, Trump doesn't really seem to have done something wrong.
	He did, at January the 6th, say, go home.
	Do not do this.
	We are going to march peacefully and make our voices heard.
	These are not insurrectionist words.
	These are not insurrectionist instructions.
	And of course, no one there was armed.
	At least none of the protesters were armed.
	I'm happy to call January 6th a riot that got out of hand.
	I think there may have been ulterior motives and forces moving behind the scenes, but let's just assume on the face of it that it was just MAGA supporters were very angry, that they were living under the delusion of a conspiracy theory, and they went into Nancy Pelosi's office and were disrespectful and threw some papers on the floor.
	One guy ran around with the lectin, which is really funny.
	Okay, yeah, maybe they deserve a slap on the wrist, maybe some fines or something, maybe even a couple of months in jail.
	They're still in jail now, right?
	They're still in jail now, nearly four years fucking later.
	Not legitimate.
	Not legit is totally disproportionate.
	And then eventually getting the mugshot on Trump, which again, bullshit reasons, totally bullshit.
	This was a massive mistake and showed that they didn't feel like they'd done the right thing.
	If you felt confident and secure in who you were and what you were doing, you don't need to persecute the former president.
	You don't need to persecute your political enemies because the mandate of heaven being upon you makes that, it radiates off of you and it makes them realize, oh wait, okay, he's not going to go anywhere.
	We aren't going to be able to summon the strength to overthrow him because the glorious golden aura of being legitimate is around him and the institutions, the people themselves will protect him.
	And this is what Machiavelli argued.
	Best fortress is the love of a people.
	And they knew that they didn't have it.
	They knew that Trump did have it.
	And so they were trying to destroy him.
	And man, Trump very much showed he had the mandate of him.
	Now, this was a hard win, right?
	This to have a mugshot like this.
	This was great.
	How you turn a fucking mugshot into a giant W, I don't know.
	But then how you turn being shot into a giant W is just a whole nother level of being quite legendary.
	Again, the mythos of Trump totally comes into place when he gets shot.
	And it just becomes evident.
	Again, his response.
	And everyone, everyone was like, okay, that was badass.
	You know, that is a guy who doesn't, he's not like, this is not a safe environment, right?
	Or he's got his hands.
	He's like, fight, fight, fight.
	He doesn't know that he's not going to get shot again.
	He doesn't know it's safe.
	He's been wounded.
	And that's the response.
	That is incredible.
	That is a determination, a metal inside oneself to lead, to rule, to show and do the right thing.
	And everyone thought this was incredible.
	Joe Rogan, Mark Zuckerberg, people who hated him were like, okay, that is awesome.
	That is genuinely awesome.
	And it's okay.
	I mean, that, that.
	Yeah, and there are lots of religious people being like, well, that was pretty fucking miraculous, wasn't it?
	Yeah, it was very lucky.
	I'm not going to deny it.
	And the point being, this was the moment I think it really cemented.
	It was all building to this.
	Because, again, this isn't in isolation.
	There have been so many different things.
	Not only was the world better under Trump, the world was safer under Trump.
	Everyone is falling into line when Trump is in charge.
	Everything's getting out of control when Trump's not in charge.
	Lots of new wars, lots of difficulties, lots of upheavals everywhere.
	In fact, that all resolve themselves when Trump's coming back.
	And then, bam, this is how he responds.
	When under fire, when his life is in danger, he's not thinking of himself.
	He's thinking about everyone else.
	He knows he might die.
	He knows in this moment he might die.
	He's just been shot for fuck's sake.
	And his first response, his only response, was a message to you, to you, his supporters, the people, saying, look, keep fighting.
	That is the mark of a legitimate leader.
	And so they're going to get the God Emperor when he returns.
	This, believe it or not, was from 2017, 2018, something like that.
	It's from an Italian carnival.
	Fucking fly.
	Why is there a fly in here?
	How is there a fly in here in the middle of November?
	This is from an Italian carnival in 2016, 2017.
	And it's meant to be a parody.
	It's meant to be mocking Trump.
	And I'm just like, okay, this is like a 200-foot-tall statue of Trump in golden armor wielding a flaming sword with a laurel wreath around his head as the God Emperor of mankind from Warhammer 40,000.
	How the fuck did you think that was a parody?
	And I'm not joking, right?
	The artist said the sculpture was intended to mock the Trump presidency.
	I can only hope my enemies mock me in such a glorious and grandiose way because I. What are we looking at here?
	Like, this looks incredible.
	Like, this looks like you worship Trump.
	And like, this whole thing, there's a video of it.
	And you can watch the whole thing.
	It's got like a bunch of space marines marching as a vanguard ahead of him as Trump is ferried through this giant carnival.
	It's like you couldn't have paid for PR this good, in my opinion.
	Like, this is just amazing.
	And so, obviously, Trump has been memed as the God-Emperor of mankind for many years now.
	And it's not wrong, right?
	The theme, the energy fits.
	The halo around the head, it all fits because Trump on this journey has arrived at this point where he has won everything.
	He has been through the fire.
	He has defeated.
	He's been persecuted by his enemies.
	He's been shot.
	He's been actually physically hurt in this course.
	And yet, he has not backed down.
	He has not shown weakness or lack of will or lack of ability at any of these points.
	He has an excellent record to draw upon.
	And he then won everything.
	Like, he's got the halo.
	He's got the mandate of heaven.
	He seems to have it all and he seems to deserve it.
	And there are so many small things.
	Like, this is a great example of having the mandate of heaven for Americans.
	Now, this would never play in Britain, right?
	This would be cringe in Britain.
	But this is America, this is amazing in America.
	It's like, yeah, no, I'm going to invite loads of sportsmen to the White House and I'm going to put Big Macs on silver platters for them.
	And again, like the, oh, have I got rid of the.
	I thought I had him in the McDonald's outfit.
	Him then, you know, going to McDonald's and doing the, you know, waving out the window and things like this.
	It's all a part of the magic and the narrative and the legitimacy that gets woven into the spell of legitimacy that is cast over the country by Trump through the actions and motivations that he has undertaken.
	Trump is the legitimate ruler of the United States and everything is falling into place because of it.
	That's what the Democrats have to realize.
	They have to essentially accept they've lost and they have a position beneath Donald Trump and the MAGA movement morally, temporally, spiritually, in almost every respect.
	They are the inferiors, the subordinates.
	They are lower class.
	They're embarrassing.
	I mean, just, you know, like spurging out on a plane, no, no, you're gauche.
	You know, it's no wonder, you know, young men and women in college campuses now are like, you know, they're doing their MAGA TikToks and Donald Trump dancing.
	I can't dance.
	I can't, you know, whatever, you know, to YMCA and stuff like that.
	Because he is the cool God Emperor.
	And you are a bunch of cringe narcissists who are spurging out about people on trains, who are like, you know, lashing out at people.
	And who are just totally narcissistic and self-involved.
	Like, it's not a coincidence.
	So she's like, oh, we need to promote black identity politics.
	Well, you're a black person, aren't you?
	Yeah, well, it's direct self-interest then.
	This isn't for anyone else.
	This is just for you.
	Whereas Trump gets shot and keeps you, he tells you you've got to keep fighting.
	Right?
	The world has changed.
	We are in a new era.
	This is the final act of Trump's rule.
	And it looks like it's going to be quite good.
	Everything seems to have come together for him.
	We should be thankful, to be honest, that 2020 happened.
	And Joe Biden, the most popular man in the world, just stepped up for a couple of years to ruin the Democrats' chances when Trump came back.
	This, like, thing, we seem to be entering into the good ending, which is superb because I didn't think that was going to happen.
	I was shitting bricks during our election night coverage, which I'm sure that you saw.
	I thought things were going to go really, really badly.
	So, you know, thank God, right?
	But I guess we'll leave that there.
	Like I said, go follow the link in the description if you'd like to join us enjoying the bountiful harvest because there's so much of it as honest.
	You know, I did a salt mining video back in 2016 and I thought things were good then.
	Man, we are just, I mean, we do have to worry about our sodium intake, I suppose, but you really should go and enjoy it.
	And like I said, it helps us keep the lights on because at Lotus Eaters, we're still demonetized.
	But of course, the business wouldn't be possible without you guys subscribing anyway.
	So yeah, please do.
	And everyone's doing a great job, I think, and everything's going really well.
	And I think the universe is proving that since we happen to be on the right side and everyone that's our enemies are on the wrong side and they're dying slowly.
	Let's go through the super chats.
	Man, what a great, what a great, absolute great turnout.
	Absolutely great turnout.
	I mean, this all could have gone so that's the thing, the bullet through the ear, man.
	Like, we could be in the bad timeline right now, right?
	We could be looking at the bad timeline, but we're not.
	And again, I don't blame the religious folks for being like, well, that's interesting, isn't it?
	Almost like some sort of divine intervention, isn't it?
	I'm not surprised that you guys are saying stuff like that because it does kind of seem that way.
	Mitch, I'm not saying anything spicy.
	Very first super chat about the questioning election integrity.
	I'm not going to do that here because I'm a good boy and I'm going to be a good boy for the whole time, I think.
	I'm going to try anyway.
	But Brother Doom, I think the mandate with heaven was given to Trump seconds after he stirpoffs getting shot.
	What do you think?
	No, it was being woven around him the whole time, right?
	The very first time that he won, that was the beginning of it.
	And then how he handled himself through the years of persecution from the Democrats, that was part of it.
	But it was definitely like the crown was finally put on his head by the gods in his response to being shot 100%.
	So you basically are correct.
	But it's not an individual event.
	It's a continuum.
	John Soner says, and I tell you, this is a great point, right?
	I loathe to say it, but Biden needed to get elected so that Trump can see just how deep the corruption actually is.
	And now that he has experience in governing, he can get more done for the next four years than if he'd served back-to-back terms.
	Excellent point, especially as if he had won in 2020, he probably wouldn't have had the House and the Senate.
	And so he would have had a lot more institutional resistance.
	And also, as you say, the proof of the pudding wouldn't have been there.
	The proof of the pudding was in Biden's reign, Biden's illegitimate King John-style reign, where everything starts going fucking wrong.
	Everything goes just straight under.
	And so everyone is looking at it going, wow, I do wish Trump was in charge.
	Things were much better when Trump was in charge.
	And then Trump's like, yeah, okay, well, then let's do it.
	Let's go.
	And Trump wins everything.
	And it's just everyone knows that this was the right thing to do.
	No one regrets their vote for Trump.
	A lot of people regret their vote for Biden.
	No one regrets the vote for Trump.
	Libertarian Sasquatch says libs don't understand how alienating they are.
	They don't.
	And they also don't really care.
	And again, this is part of the illegitimacy.
	Like, Trump's response when he got shot was not for himself.
	It was for you.
	Whereas everything they say, oh, no, we need to double down in identity politics.
	How dare you?
	I'm so angry.
	It's all about them.
	And that's the flow of the energy is different.
	It's the complete opposite direction.
	And that's how you can see who's genuine, who's legitimate, who's not.
	Thomas Drake says, Carl, thanks so much for the support overseas.
	Just doing my duty.
	I should salute like that, actually, because I'm British.
	The arc of Trump's return to Destiny has been completed.
	Cheers.
	Well, we're not there yet.
	We're not there yet.
	He hasn't been inaugurated yet.
	And he hasn't actually been doing things yet.
	I'm sure.
	I'm personally very confident that John Soda's point of he'll get a lot done in the next four years.
	I think that's going to be true.
	So he'll be able to legislate without them being able to stop him.
	So he'll be like, no, this is the new law.
	I'm not just by executive fiat now that Biden could have just, you know, the next Democrat can just undo.
	No, it's going to be legislation.
	And it's going to get into the system.
	It's going to be a part of the law of the United States now.
	So you won't just be able to fuck around with it.
	So yeah, great stuff.
	But honestly, I'm very, I like the Americans.
	Every American I've ever met, and I've known Americans my whole life because we had shared bases in Germany and things like that.
	They've all been wonderful people.
	And America is a good place with good people in it.
	And like, honestly, like almost every other country I know, I'm sad to see it going down the fucking tubes.
	So anything I can do to at least provide moral support and insight, I'm more than happy to do.
	I want you to win.
	I want us to win.
	I want everyone to win.
	Brian says, American hero.
	I wouldn't mind a good king.
	As an aside, I wish Charles Love the Bridge was willing to be what a king should be.
	Well, the thing is, America doesn't want an actual king, right?
	Well, I'm using king in a metaphorical sense to mean the person who's legitimately in charge.
	And in the American story, in the narrative, the mythos of America, it's very tied up with being a republic.
	A king wouldn't actually be legitimate.
	A king would be something weird and alien to the United States and in position.
	So you've got to stick with your presidents, I'm afraid.
	I mean, in England, it would be lovely to have a king who is actually concerned about the country.
	Not that I can imagine such a thing.
	Rainy says, breaking Donald Trump has talked about Gaming Gate 2.
	That would be nice.
	Possible pilot deviation says, I don't want a Caesar, I want a Sulla.
	That's where you're ending up.
	Donald Trump's not Caesar.
	He's just a legitimate American president.
	It's too easy to fall into, well, this must be an exact replica of what happened then.
	It doesn't have to be.
	Donald Trump actually hasn't broken any rules.
	He hasn't actually crossed any lines.
	Or a Sulla did cross a line.
	And as soon as you cross that line, it's off.
	You know, the Republic's over, and now you're just descending into pogroms and tyranny.
	Donald Trump hasn't done that.
	Donald Trump's actually done things the right way for the American Republic, actually.
	And again, it didn't have to be that way.
	Donald Trump could have probably actually incited an insurrection if he'd wanted.
	And maybe he would have won.
	You know, I don't think it's off the table at all.
	But he didn't.
	He did things the right way.
	Again, mandate of heaven completely upon him at this point.
	Will Trump hold the globalists accountable?
	Well, I don't know, but Bill Gates is certainly worried about it, isn't he?
	You know, he wouldn't be like, oh, I hope we can work together peacefully, Trump.
	So, and the fact that the Ursula von der Leyen and the Europeans are like, oh, we'll buy American now for now.
	For some reason, we were buying Russian before.
	I don't know why they'd want to do that anyway.
	But yeah, notice how just, again, they seem to think he's going, fuck off, like, where have you come from?
	You don't have a fucking mandate of heaven.
	So they certainly seem to think he will.
	Ben says, a good king should represent the best of his people.
	Trump does that for Americans and the West in general.
	Yeah, I mean, he definitely does for Americans.
	He's not representative of the West necessarily.
	Definitely more representative of America.
	But again, this is what the McDonald's on the platters and him actually in the McDonald's getting the fries and him being like, yeah, no, none of them touched my fingers.
	You know, that sort of small detail, like perfectly American and exactly correct for the time, the place, and the people.
	Dashing Rogue says, it wasn't even a choice.
	Trump won by default.
	Intellectuals will rationalize it any which way.
	Well, yes and no, but the point is, Trump was kind of ordained to win at this point.
	We'll play Chadlet again for from oh shit, my Gnilleth fell off, but thank you for the 100 ARS.
	I don't even know what ARS is.
	Appreciate it though, much appreciate it.
	It's still the Metal Chad is still on my thinkery channel, and it's still one of the most listened to videos I have on there.
	Like, every now and again, like, literally every other day, I'll get a comment of someone commenting on it, an email of someone commenting on it.
	So that's good.
	Good faith Gary says, even Carl, a bit of a combative question, but if you can answer it in good faith, I'll resub and upgrade to gold on Lud Seaters, which you should do.
	If Trump fails to do what he promises with majority support in the House and the Senate, will you hold him accountable?
	Well, of course.
	I mean, in the same way that I'm critical of Nigel Farage for not embracing the role that has been thrust, or not even that it's been thrust upon him, that he has created for himself.
	There's a reason that Richard Tice has me blocked on Twitter, and it's because I was critical of him and Farage and the rest of reform.
	Like, you're not doing what you're supposed to be doing at this point, and I don't understand why, right?
	There's no reason why Farage, Farage should just be at war with the establishment in the same way that Trump has.
	Now, in America, the stakes are a lot higher, and Trump's had to go through more intense fires.
	Farage will still have to go through these fires, but he's been through them already.
	Essentially, in Britain, I think the worst you can expect is milkshaking, right?
	And Farage's been milkshaked a couple of times now.
	And I know he doesn't like it, but like, you've got to overthrow these people morally, politically.
	You have to overthrow the order and make them understand that it's legitimate that what you're doing.
	Trump has had the spine, the backbone to do this.
	I don't know if Farage has it.
	I don't know.
	But to answer your question, yes, I'm going to give exactly that kind of analysis if Trump fails, if Trump doesn't do what he's supposed to do.
	Because I'm going to be personally incredibly disappointed.
	I went to New York in 2017 on a holiday with my wife.
	And while there, I was like, look, we've got to go to the Trump Tower so I can get the MAGA hat.
	And I went to Trump Tower in New York, and it was very empty at the time because Trump was very unpopular at the time with the sort of people who'd go to Trump Tower and in New York.
	And it's quite deserted.
	But I went there and I got my MAGA hat and I wore it on the Election Night stream just now.
	So yes, if Trump doesn't do what he's promising, I'm going to be very disappointed.
	Jason says, oh, that reminds me.
	I don't know if anyone has said it yes or not.
	But thanks very much for the English Common Law and Magna Carta.
	Sincerely in American.
	Well, you're welcome.
	I mean, you're an English people.
	It's not just the Common Law and Magna Carta either.
	It's the very nature of the social structures.
	Again, this book is just superb and eye-opening.
	But you're welcome for it all.
	We're glad you're doing great.
	And I'm glad that there's such a close alliance between the British and the Americans at this point.
	It's really nice to see.
	Such close sentiments, you know, it's really nice to see.
	The Dashing Rose says, all aboard the plot railroad.
	Kind of, yeah.
	It's kind of like...
	I recently read The Hero with a Thousand Faces because I thought, okay, I haven't actually read this.
	I know the general thesis, but I feel like I better read it.
	And to be honest with you, it's actually quite boring.
	It's mostly just comparative mythology talking about the various stages of the heroic journey and using various examples from all over the world.
	He makes a compelling point.
	But it is kind of that we're being railroaded at this point.
	It's kind of like, yep, there's really only one way for Trump to go at this point.
	And he's got to finish the narrative, basically.
	Lord Rhino says, they knew she wasn't going to win.
	Media gaslit everyone into thinking she was popular.
	Bingo.
	That's exactly it.
	They knew.
	Biden knew.
	She knew.
	And I don't know why Obama and the rest of them, maybe they were deluding themselves.
	But they knew.
	And I think they are glad to have the relief, have the weight off their shoulders.
	I don't think Kamala Harris would have known what to do as the president.
	Logie says, America saved the world for a third time and Mars, the moon, and interstellar travel, the next hegemony will be interplanetary.
	Well, that would be lovely.
	I mean, it's funny, Elon Musk is like, look, I'm either going to Mars or going to jail.
	And so I'm glad that we're getting the Mars angle.
	I'm personally not going to Mars.
	I've got no interest in going to Mars.
	But I understand that a lot of people do, and that's great.
	You guys have a great time.
	Send me back a Mars rock or something.
	Mr. Smith's government class says, her laughing reminds me of Rico's teacher, Mr. Du Bois' anecdote about something that you earn.
	Yeah, again, this has all been very well earned by Trump.
	He's been on the journey.
	He's earned everything.
	And he's paid the price in blood.
	He deserves it.
	He is legitimate.
	He won everything, fair and square.
	He totally won fairly.
	He deserves it, and he deserves to get it.
	Soul Hunter says, to quote Kamala, it was a debate.
	I don't see how anyone can trust a word.
	They say, yeah, I know.
	I mean, her critique of Biden during the debates was scathing.
	How, and again, like, Tulsi Gabbard is the only person from the Democrats on that debate stage that I trust is on an authentic journey of her own.
	Because you don't scathingly attack Kamala and others in the way that she did and then go back to being buddies.
	Her going to the Republicans is a correct resolution of her narrative arc.
	Yeah, no, these are actually.
	Oh, wait, I'm an honorable person who served my country and seems to not be a resentful, spiteful mutant.
	What am I doing in the Democrats?
	Why am I in this way?
	These guys are all terrible.
	Obviously, she has to cross the aisle and go to the Republicans.
	And no one blinked twice.
	No one was like, oh, I don't trust Tulsi Gabbard.
	No, everyone could see what she'd been through, how she had been treated, obviously where her real loyalties and sympathies lie, obviously to the United States and the Republic.
	And so she's gone to the people that she feels are doing the right thing because they appear to be doing the right thing.
	Good on her.
	Absolutely good on her.
	Good faith, Gary says, okay, Led Citizen a second chance.
	Research God right now.
	Well, look, I appreciate that.
	I really do.
	And, you know, obviously, you know, if it wasn't for you guys subscribing, we would have nothing because YouTube aren't going to give us any money.
	They might give me personally some money, but that's not going to keep everything afloat.
	But I haven't in any way not been critical of Nigel Farage for failing in the same way.
	And I don't see why I wouldn't be critical of Donald Trump.
	Yeah, I want, I'm a big fan of Trump because what he's done so far and the things that have happened, I think he's got the mandate of heaven.
	If he starts backsliding, I'm going to be just as critical as Amber Farage.
	Reform Sauron says, never thought I'd be living inside the greatest modern epic, planning on going to the inauguration, the West has hope yet.
	Well, Godspeed.
	I hope, honestly, if you're an American, you should go to the inauguration, right?
	You should go.
	Remember the picture they always use of Barack Obama?
	It was packed out outside, what's the bit called, I can't remember the name of the bit, but it's packed out.
	And, you know, it goes back for miles.
	And on Trump's first one, because most of Trump's support was from a very long way away, they were like, see, see, people don't really trust him.
	People don't really like him.
	He doesn't have the mandate of heaven, is what they're saying.
	And so to have that packed out now would be amazing.
	That would be a real feather in his cap.
	So if you want to support Trump, you want to do something that will be good for him in the long run, definitely go to his inauguration.
	It will look good to have just huge numbers of people there.
	It will look amazing.
	And again, if you want to own the libs, like dunk on the left, make them understand that they are the lesser prestigious movement at this point.
	Pack it out.
	Absolutely pack it out.
	Mr. Twisted Frenzy says, now come the days of the king.
	May they be blessed.
	Exactly.
	Sarah says, What a time to be alive.
	Indeed, what a time.
	I know, it's great how this has played out.
	It didn't have to go this way.
	None of this was necessary.
	I think it was contingent.
	Getting shot through the ear could have easily been somewhere else, right?
	The Dashing Road says, after the return of the Jedi, there is the Force Awakens, Plot Railroads are cringe, run for office, and remember saving the West is a side quest.
	Well, I don't know.
	I mean, there's a lot to be said about that.
	There's a lot to be said.
	RFK Jr. or Vance in 2028?
	Well, I think Vance.
	The fact that he's younger and Vance Corpito has replied to you and seems like Vance, obviously.
	You know, I think Vance is doing great.
	And if what we want really now is for Vance to have a high profile as a vice president, right?
	Because Pence didn't.
	Pence kept quite a low profile, as did Kamala.
	But he doesn't have to, right?
	He could go out and talk to the media every day.
	And in his very well-managed bedside manner, use his excellent oratorical skills to simply explain why what Trump is doing is the right thing to the media.
	Calm them down.
	Again, bedside manners are important when dealing with these people.
	And Vance has got excellent bedside manner.
	And so he can just calm them down, explain to them securely why he's trustworthy, therefore why is Trump and the administration trustworthy, and just calm their tits.
	And I think if Vance does that basically solidly for four years, he will be an absolute shoo-in for 2028.
	Now, of course, a lot of things could go wrong.
	Again, nothing that I'm saying is necessary here.
	Lots and lots of things can go wrong or go differently or go badly and fluke events can happen.
	I'm not guaranteeing anything.
	But if he plays his cards right and he plays the game properly, I think he can do very well.
	The text vet says, brother, you have to realize when they're talking about our country, they mean it just like they when they say our democracy there.
	They only speak for their globalist agenda, which is correct.
	Yeah, of course.
	Of course.
	Dan says, the one ring has been tossed into Mount Doom, but the Shire still needs scouring.
	Well, that's totally true, Dan.
	Don't think that I'm not very conscious of that, which is why I'm very critical of Nigel Farage.
	And again, I personally really like Farage, right?
	For years, I've been an admirer of Farage's, and I'm a total supporter of Farage, even though he's not a good coalition builder.
	Trump is a great coalition builder.
	Trump has got an I can't remember.
	Some sort of fucking lib magazine.
	They describe it as what they call Trump world, right?
	Trump has a giant empire where lots and lots of people are under the umbrella of Trump and MAGA.
	He has a movement, you know.
	I mean, Trump, Farage's movement.
	He could just say, well, this is the Brexit movement, right?
	This is the Brexit movement.
	We're going to take our country back.
	We're going to win.
	Farage could just repurpose all of this for the British context in a way that would feel authentic, which would be authentic, and scour the Shire, which needs the scouring, as you say.
	But in the Stephen Edgington interview, he revealed that he just doesn't seem to have it in him, which is a shame because he's going to be here for the next five years, sucking up the energy.
	And so it's just like, okay, great.
	We've got another five years to wait.
	And then after that, it'll be another five years.
	Because the Conservatives have got their act together and get a kind of crappy government where it's like, you know, a very marginal win, maybe a coalition government, like with the Lib Dems.
	It'll be bad.
	Nothing good will happen.
	So we've got at least 10 years until something productive can happen.
	Not great.
	But Again, Farage could just sack up, I think.
	But he doesn't take criticism well, right?
	I don't think that my criticism is in any way not well-meaning.
	I'm trying to be very constructive because I would love, and again, I've said this before, the end point, the proper endpoint for the Farage story should be Prime Minister Farage.
	He spends his adult life campaigning for Brexit, wins Brexit, that gets betrayed, and so he goes in, wins the majority, becomes the Prime Minister, fixes all the problems.
	That's Trump's heroes, that's Farage's hero's journey.
	That's the mandate of heaven arriving on Farage if he would just stand up and embrace it.
	But for some reason, he's shying away from it at the moment.
	And I'm very annoyed to see it because it's all there.
	He could do this.
	Base Shaman says, looking at the chart comparing the vote counts from the previous elections, the chart says she won 67 million, but since it's gone up to 69 million, with 8% left, and California is reporting at 55%.
	Okay, I haven't kept a track of it today or yesterday, so I don't know what the thing is.
	JJ Jagerson says, nice guys are just as real in politics as they are in dating.
	The insane reaction against Latino voters is proof of it.
	Yeah, man, I tell you, I just can't get over this.
	Like, it's totally horrible.
	I just, these are just bad people, and it's good that they've lost, right?
	And they need to realize that essentially, morally, they're not as correct as the MAGA folk.
	Shaman McLamy says, for the last four years, I've been thinking about how Trump could and now will appear on the list of presidents twice to the end of time for all to see.
	Long live the former and future president Donald Trump.
	Yeah, that's the thing, isn't it?
	There's going to be the narrative.
	I mean, you can't not see the narrative around Trump.
	And any historical archive footage of his campaigns and stuff like that.
	The narrative will just spill forth into the future out of it.
	Like, again, the sort of King Richard-style narrative.
	It's going to be great.
	You're getting your own King Richard in Donald Trump.
	It's good stuff.
	Again, crusading against the globalists.
	It's brilliant.
	Mario says, Harriet Bain, Re Bookbringer, King in Orange, Meme Emperor, let the Code flow.
	Yes.
	Anonymous says, I tried to ask my progressive friend to name one thing, Kamala's campaign that appealed to men without reference to women.
	He couldn't see anything beyond abortion rights for their wives and daughters.
	What is this framing called?
	What's the framing called?
	There probably is a term for it, but it's escaping me at the moment.
	But exactly.
	That's exactly the problem.
	And they got themselves so convinced that women were going to win it for Kamala, and then women came out for Trump.
	Okay, well, again, she just didn't have it.
	The unfettered right to murder unborn babies is actually not a very moral platform on which to stand.
	Talking Mugcrab says, please not refer to Donald as king.
	We fought a war of this.
	Sorry, it's metaphorical, but I will refer to him as king, metaphorically.
	Eric says, thanks for all your wisdom and support in getting us Yanked on the right path.
	Do you know what happened?
	Your archived videos with Archiving at the Chaos Gods, an all-time favourite.
	They should all be on BitChute.
	So you'll have to find them there, I'm afraid.
	Mazinski says, Carl, you majestic sausage.
	Got my first edition of your mag, and it's amazing.
	Mr. Good Old Days, good old acidic content you had, but Trump might rehab Bolsonaro.
	Maybe.
	I mean, maybe Bolsonaro have a similar arc, where in however many years' time, he goes and runs again.
	I mean, he's had exactly the same story happen in Brazil that Trump's had in America.
	Things are a bit more hardcore in Brazil, so maybe not.
	I don't know.
	I'm not saying I know what's going to happen or anything like that, but who knows?
	I'm glad you got the magazine, though.
	There are a bunch of people saying, oh, I'm in America.
	I haven't had my magazine yet.
	I'm glad you're getting it.
	Although, are you in Brazil?
	I assume you're in Brazil.
	So the Brazilians got it before the Americans.
	But we will get on that.
	I apologise for the delay.
	Shaman says, the way you describe it, Trump sounds like the Fisher King.
	I actually don't know the reference.
	Sorry.
	Dapper Helljumper says, can you extrapolate on the comment you made about Americans having the noble quirk of being sincere, expecting the best?
	Yeah, it is a noble quirk.
	Americans are often viewed as being naive, right?
	Because of their sincerity, because they're just so open and straightforward and easy.
	You can read Americans like a book.
	There's very little guile in American souls.
	But I personally find this to be very noble and very admirable.
	And Americans, therefore, expect the best of people.
	And they assume everyone is a good person and doing the right thing.
	And this is why the Democrats have got away with what they've got away with for such a long time.
	And it's taken a long time for Republicans to actually be a bit cynical about the Democrats.
	Oh, right.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Just 4am ballot dumps.
	Okay, got it.
	You know, it's taken Americans quite a long time to realize that they're being taken for fools.
	And again, that's a very nice characteristic to have.
	And it will be sad if you lose it, right?
	Although you do have to develop a little bit of cynicism because you can't really trust some people.
	But it speaks of good people generally.
	And this is one of the things about Americans I've seen in them for their whole lives.
	Because I mean, like, you know, I'm a sarcastic English Gen Xer.
	Most Americans didn't get my jokes.
	They didn't realize I was making a joke a lot of the time.
	We take something I've said seriously.
	And I have, but no, no, I'm joking.
	I didn't mean that.
	Things like that.
	And so Americans are good people.
	I like them.
	The current mood says, Carl, I want to ask you if you haven't saw some postmodern traditionalism.
	You describe yourself as this recently.
	I find it very interesting.
	No, but I might write a book at some point.
	It's my own innovation.
	Caitlin, for $100 Australian dollars, I think that is.
	Thank you.
	Carl, you look 10 years younger today.
	Do I?
	I'm glad to hear that.
	Your happiness is infectious.
	I hope you can influence our leftist authoritarian Australian government too.
	Good luck.
	Good luck.
	As Helen Dale put it, she's Australian.
	She's like, look, people forget the Australians, a lot of them are convicts, but they were on the same continent as their jailers as well.
	So they had to form a state out of that.
	So difficult situation.
	I don't understand Australia like I understand America either.
	Because I've been to America a lot.
	I've been to America half a dozen times, something like that.
	I've spent a lot of time in America, just going, you know, going over lots of different places.
	I've been to Boston.
	I've been to Florida.
	I've been to Washington.
	I've been to Virginia.
	I've been to Utah.
	I've been to California.
	And I've been to Portland, Oregon.
	So, you know, and probably a couple of other places that are escaping me now.
	So I've been to America a lot.
	I've met hundreds of Americans.
	I've got loads of American friends.
	I understand America a lot better than many Americans, it seems.
	At least the American left.
	Because I like to speak to the regular Americans when I'm out there.
	They're really nice.
	And they're very polite and very decent.
	And so I know a lot about America.
	I don't know that much about Australia.
	I know lots of Australians.
	Lots of them come to England.
	But you don't get a feel for the country with people coming to you.
	You've got to go there.
	Luke says, why did Kamala lose?
	The answer is easy.
	Americans need affordable food and housing more than they need abortion to the end.
	Well, no, no, no.
	Let's not let's not reduce things to anti-metaphor.
	It's not just this thing.
	Those things are consequences of the lack of legitimate leadership in the country.
	The fact that America is being ruled for another purpose other than the good of the American people is why Americans can't get food and housing.
	There are higher principles that the Democrats would say that they're appealing to, but that's not necessarily good.
	So, and it's not just any, it's not just one thing, it's all of these things stacked up.
	So that is one part of it, but that's not the beginning or end of it.
	Shaker Silver, I don't know what's going on with Dev Man.
	I need to send him a message.
	Hey, man, do you want to hang out?
	I don't know what's going on with him.
	Grimoire says, I don't think Americans, Native Americans like foreign invaders.
	Don't know why I didn't think of that.
	Well, the white devil's bad enough, but it seems he's here.
	But do we have to have the rest of the devils from everywhere else?
	Basinski says, I'm reporting you to a democracy officer for this stream, Kyle.
	Less talking and more automaton bashing.
	Yeah, I haven't played Helldivers in ages, actually.
	Have there been any good updates for it?
	A guy I know, Horace says, a guy I know said that in regards to the Democrats platform, people wouldn't give a shit about idpol if the focus was on the economy.
	Thoughts?
	No, I think they would.
	I think that the, I mean, the fact that there's a focus on IDPOL is one of the things that keeps them away from the blah blah blah, the economy.
	But I think this is one of the reasons why Hassan Pika isn't having the cut through that he wants because he's constantly going on, like, well, look, in and um, Kyle Kalinsky has the same problem.
	They're like, look, in the abstract, if people like, would you like rich people to pay more in taxes?
	People say yes.
	Would you like people to have a fairer deal at this or that and the other?
	Would you think people having free health care is good?
	Yes.
	And they go, yeah, okay, I do like those things.
	But the problem is, those things are deeply embedded in a stew of hatred and resentment against white people, against men, against straight people, against the majority, against everything that the left like you know, the entire left-wing worldview is gross, resentful, and just venomous.
	And so it's like, hey, would you want this thing that's held by someone evil who's going to bite you as soon as you take it?
	You go, no, okay, I'm fine.
	Actually, I don't want that.
	Thank you from you because even though I would like that and that, the rest of it is just horrific.
	You're evil.
	Get away from me.
	And I think that's what that would speak to.
	They may well say, look, we're going to make the economy great.
	Hey, I don't believe you, but even if I did, you know, I'm not making a deal with the devil.
	I think a lot of people will feel that way.
	Ryan says, America will have a legitimate leader once they stop using with this president nonsense and use His Royal Majesty's governor of the American colonies.
	Jonathan says, Democrats are ridiculous.
	My older sister said she disowns me for voting Trump because she thinks I'm going to get she's going to get killed for being a lesbian.
	I think you can tell that she's safe.
	No one's going to get killed for anything.
	John says, Here's hoping my fellow Canadians follow suit and vote PP and end John Justin Trudeau's nosedive into hell.
	Yes.
	Although, is that the people's part?
	That's Maxine Bernier, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, Bernier is the guy.
	I like Pierre Polivair.
	I like him.
	I like the way he talks the media, especially.
	Disrespect journalists whenever you have to talk to them.
	But ultimately, I think he is basically like a British conservative and therefore it's containment.
	So definitely go for Maxine Bernier.
	I like him a lot.
	The Heilen Juggalo says, riot, yes.
	Insurrection, no.
	If that was really one, nobody would have been left alive in that building.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The most armed country in the world doesn't conduct a coup of the government unarmed.
	It's just ridiculous.
	It's ridiculous.
	Logan says, Edward has broken the tyranny of De Montfort.
	Yes.
	Again, there are so many examples of this through history.
	You know, the Richard and John one were just the easiest one to use.
	I thought people would be most familiar with.
	But there are just so many examples of this.
	Lorik says, Shinzo has delivered unto Trump the mandate of heaven.
	I've seen a lot of Japanese accounts posting things like, Trump often occasionally says, or just occasionally says, I wish I could see Shinzo again.
	And I've no idea how true that is.
	I've never seen it reported in English source, English-speaking source.
	But it's a very adorable meme.
	Because you remember when they went to, when Trump first went, I don't know if it's first went to Japan, but they're in Japan and they're feeding fish and Shinzo throws the fish food in.
	And Donald Trump's going, oh, fine, I'll just throw all the fish food in.
	And then they clipped it.
	Look at Donald Trump, the idiot, just throws all the fish food in.
	Look at Prat.
	It's like, no, he's literally doing what Shinzo did.
	And you could tell they were just having a good time hanging out together.
	And it seemed like a nice bromance.
	And then the Anglo-Merkel pick, where they sat there with their arms crossed.
	And the only other guy with them is Shinzo.
	So, nope, nope.
	Bros together here.
	You know, Merkel's furious.
	And the Longhouse is like looming over Trump.
	And Trump is just like, nope.
	You know, and it's just fucking bromance, man.
	It's such a great moment.
	And like I said, I don't really know the nature of their relationship or anything, but like, what a great image that was.
	That's my favorite picture of Trump with Shinzo there.
	And they've just got their arms crossed and they're just not having it.
	Love it.
	Daniel says, we're busy celebrating while the media are running Iranian assassination stories.
	Yeah, I tweeted about this.
	Like, really, really, really?
	Why would the Iranians want him assassinated?
	They're going to try and kill him for January 6th when he becomes president.
	Lect.
	Celebrate when he sworn it.
	Well, yeah, I know.
	I did say that.
	It's like, look, nothing's a done deal yet.
	It just looks like we're on the right course.
	And, you know, God willing, we are.
	And in four years' time, we'll all be like, guys, wasn't that fucking brilliant?
	Let's see what Vance is going to do, you know?
	It's God willing that's the case.
	Polly says, Trump took a bullet for us.
	Trump got dragged through the court for us.
	He's not right on everything, but he was 100% correct about one thing.
	They're not after him.
	They're after us.
	He's just in the way.
	Now he's POTUS.
	MAGA.
	Well, again, Polly, don't count the chickens before the hatch, but yes.
	Essentially correct.
	Just completely correct.
	Mr. Mandy says, nice argument.
	Unfortunately, I've depicted you as the God Emperor of mankind.
	Dang, we're gone, boys.
	Yes.
	I think I gave a reasonable explanation of how that came to be.
	Mike says, speaking of legitimacy, this is legitimately top 0.1% political analysis.
	Oh, thank you very much.
	I appreciate that.
	Very kind, kind words.
	Deadpool Kid says, if the God Emperor Trump is supposed to be a mockery, then boy, this is a sure sign of divine comedy.
	This will be a symbol that will last for decades.
	Memes prevail.
	Yeah, well, that's the thing.
	If I'm trying to mock my opponent, I'm not going to make him look like a giant, glorious emperor and march him down a massive parade.
	That would be fucking ridiculous, wouldn't it?
	What a ridiculous way to mock someone.
	Sorry.
	I mean, loads more have come in.
	So let me, um, there, uh, there are lots of, um, thank you chats and like just well-wishing chats.
	I really appreciate you sending them in.
	I'm going to summarize them all for the sake of time and just say thank you to everyone who wishes sending the well wishes.
	And subbing to load seaters as well.
	Thank you.
	Much appreciated, honestly.
	Really, honestly, we'd have nothing if it wasn't for you guys.
	So I'm really glad that everyone's happy with what we're doing and how we're doing it.
	And we're just going to keep going.
	You know, obviously, we've got no plans to stop because you turn us into professionals.
	You know, that's the thing.
	And so I have to go and get a degree.
	We have to go, you know, go and do all of these things.
	And, you know, it's tiring, but it's worthwhile.
	thank you um i had cash on the guy for four years Took 11 to 1 right after the 2020 election.
	Have some of the love.
	Tuesday was a good day.
	Glad to hear it, man.
	Glad to hear it.
	Long live the Groipers.
	Oh, man.
	The Groipers are here.
	I've got, you know, all right.
	Obviously, Nick Fuento has campaigned against Trump.
	I think he's just being contrarian, frankly.
	And then be like, oh, yeah, we won.
	Oh, shut up, Nick.
	But I have to say, the troll that he recently went on, where he was like, your body, my choice forever.
	And he's that, that was a very funny troll.
	Okay, half-tanded.
	He's insufferable in many ways.
	He campaigned against Trump, but that was really funny.
	And it did cause a lot of spurging.
	So, okay, fair enough.
	Good trolling.
	As Jocko says, for your son, all your excuses are lies.
	Well, I did say that, but I didn't put it in that terms.
	You know, I don't want to.
	He's a very sensitive soul, to be honest.
	So I had to, you know, I don't want to be mean to anything.
	Alan says, for those of you who doubt fate, you best start believing the hero story because you're in one.
	It's just not yours.
	Mandate from Home D.
	This is exactly what I said when DeSantis ran in 2020.
	I was just like, it's not the time, bros.
	It's not the time.
	I love DeSantis.
	He's a brilliant administrator, excellent executive.
	He has done wonders in Florida.
	And on a personal level, he seems a bit autistic, and I quite like that.
	Again, I feel quite represented.
	I know a lot of the people who are close around DeSantis.
	Lots of my friends live in Florida.
	They're all great people.
	Really love them.
	It's just it was Trump's story and it wasn't over.
	Now wasn't the right time.
	But one thing we should be is incredibly forgiving to the DeSantis folks.
	It might be his time in 2028.
	Who knows?
	Right?
	Who knows?
	I don't know.
	I haven't got a crystal ball or anything.
	It just wasn't in 2020.
	And I'm not, you know, I don't think we should be angry with him.
	We should just, we should forgive and forget.
	You know, again, DeSantis and his people, their hearts are in the right place.
	That's the important thing.
	Thank you for sending me an excellent meme on X. I'll check it out afterwards.
	If Hawksafe says, if Trump holds a World's Fair next year for the US 250 years of independence from you, am I going to see you in Iowa where I hear it might be held?
	You know, I did actually, I heard about that the other night, right?
	I'm laying in bed with my wife.
	Just before I go to bed, you know, we're bescrolling my fans.
	Oh, in 2025, 2026, sorry, not 25.
	I'll probably have to go to America for the independence thing.
	She's always saying you asking to go.
	I'm like, well, I mean, I probably will, right?
	I just probably will.
	So, entirely possible.
	Paul says, Peanut won it for him.
	No, Peanut didn't win it for him.
	He was winning it regardless of Peanut.
	Ayn Rhodes says, Is it just me or did the protests seem milquetoast this time compared to 2016?
	I feel expected the left to go full purge like they did during the draw Floyd Riot's lack of will.
	Yes, that's the thing.
	The mandate of heaven is upon Trump.
	They can oppose him, they can dislike him, they can hate him, but they know they can't sum up the strength to resist him.
	In 2016, they thought they could.
	They thought, oh, well, this is bullshit.
	This is an illegitimate usurper to their regime, their moral order.
	And so they thought they could overthrow him.
	But now it's so evident that Trump is the real deal.
	He's been through the fire.
	Everyone is behind him.
	They can half-heartedly, you know what, right?
	It's definitely half-hearted protests now.
	Very, very weak.
	Very weak.
	And all the institutions are essentially falling into line.
	All of the elites are falling into line.
	Foreign powers are falling into line.
	Like, Hamas and the Chinese are just like, yeah, okay, okay, fair enough.
	The fun's over.
	Like, he'll probably, he'll probably have a chat with Kim Jong-un again.
	Like, again, you can tell it's real because of the response of all the people bending the knee.
	Everyone's bending the knee to Trump.
	Good.
	Have I heard of Watiff Alt Hist?
	Yeah, yeah, I'd say I'm friends with Rudyard.
	You know, I've spoken to him via DMs and we've hang out on Discord a couple of times.
	He's a really, really good lad, really level-headed, really sensible, and does a lot of reading, which is very important.
	Really good chap.
	Definitely go and check out his channel.
	He does great videos.
	Like, one of my favourite things is just when I'm doing some paintings, I'll put one of his videos on and just listen to it for like 45 minutes or however long it is.
	And he'll tell me a bunch of stuff I didn't know, which is always great.
	Cowboy Curtis, maybe I'll come to Iowa.
	Who knows?
	We'll see.
	Benji says, who will save England?
	Well, we thought it was going to be Nigel Farage.
	Johnny says, I've cut back on my subscriptions due to the cost of living.
	Don't we know it?
	But Lud Cedars will always have my full support.
	Thank you so much.
	The UK is to America what Ukraine is to Russia, and you are a guardian of its finest principles.
	Well, thank you very much.
	I really appreciate that.
	And we appreciate your support.
	Wallace says, Chandelay Karl, your hero's journey since 2016 has been as impressive as the Don's.
	Well, it hasn't been quite that impressive.
	Oh, fuck this fly.
	But I've been through the fire myself, which is why I'm so grey on the chin.
	My chin is more white than my dad's because of the stress that I've been through.
	But I think that I've changed for the better and improved and come out the other side of it stronger than before.
	So I appreciate that, Wallace.
	It's been a conscious effort to be like, right, I will improve.
	I will make this work.
	And it would be easy not to have done.
	It would have been a lot easier to just kind of limp along like everyone else.
	But no, I decided things had to change for the better.
	Ultimately, I just want to be a good example to my kids.
	Lern Trant says, appreciate what we do.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Harris has to be president on January the 6th at the Capitol to be the head of the Senate to affirm Trump as president.
	I love it.
	Again, could not be more symbolically beautiful, could it?
	Couldn't lined up any better.
	Yep, the defeated, illegitimate King John is going to give Trump the crown.
	That's what they're going to do.
	They're literally going to hand him the crown.
	Again, it couldn't be better.
	He is the ruler and they know it.
	This election has made me understand why early Americans believe in manifest destiny, says Kerr.
	Well, I'm just saying.
	If Joe would step down for Kamala now, it would be bad luck, prime bad luck Brian meme.
	Woman becomes president, lame duck.
	Yeah, and it would be stealing the thunder from the genuine first female president as well.
	You know, like, it would be really bad for themselves, actually.
	And thank you for resubbing good faith, Carrie.
	I appreciate that.
	My father and grandfather always told me brutal stories of Britannia.
	Beowulf, Henry IV, Henry V.
	And my favourite bedtime stories, thinking of Britain Sunday not being British is heartbreaking.
	Yeah, it is.
	And I think we will win.
	It's just, everything in Britain takes a long time.
	We're a very old country.
	We don't do anything quickly.
	We will win.
	It's just going to take like 20 years to get the ship moving in the right direction.
	But honestly, I don't have anything else to do.
	You know, I've got this is my job, and I've got a bunch of kids that I want to make sure can grow up in England and live in England after I'm gone.
	Got nowhere else to go, got nothing else to do.
	And these, I'm a happy warrior, I'm happy to do it.
	And like, it's reading stuff like this is all part of it.
	Understanding what has truly gone wrong is all part of it.
	I'm going to have to go in a minute, guys, because I'm getting really fucking tired.
	And my voice is starting to give.
	But I realize there are loads of people who have sent super chats in that haven't addressed, so I'm really sorry about that.
	But yeah, Brian points out that the Harris podcast wasted their money, unbelievably wasted their money, which is just, I mean, they had over a billion and now 20 million in the hole.
	It's like, again, if you wanted a great example of how they're not responsible and can't be responsible for the country, look at their own fucking campaign, man.
	Look at their own campaign.
	It's atrocious.
	But anyway, thank you so much for joining me, folks.
	Thank you for the generous donations.
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