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	Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
	Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Friday the 11th of December 2020.
	Today we are going to be talking about how the civil war in the United States is really hotting up.
	And I shouldn't be laughing because this is really very serious stuff.
	But it's kind of ironic, and by the time we finish explaining it, you'll see why we find a bit of humor in this tragedy that is unfolding.
	Then we're going to go on to the Hunter Biden story, which is also amusing, even though it's deeply concerning.
	And then we're going to go on to what's happening with Brexit, which is also amusing, even though it's deeply concerning.
	So I guess I'll begin.
	History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.
	That's a phrase that has been proving incorrect because the Texas Supreme Court case against the four states that they have alleged have conducted electoral malfeasance Is totally snowballing into what I think is going to be the fault lines of what will effectively be the second American Civil War.
	And I think that this will be the case because the Democrats have too much to lose, and so do the Republicans.
	But I think that...
	The moral right is on the side of the Republicans here, because I think that they are right, the means of the things that justify the ends.
	And so if you adhere to the process, then that is how you determine what a good outcome is, whereas the Democrats appear to have the opinion that the good outcome is predetermined and the means are merely a method of obfuscating or denying that.
	And I think that's backwards.
	I think that's the wrong philosophy to adopt.
	But this conflict is essentially putting the Democrats back into their old position of arguing for states' rights.
	It's a neo-Confederacy, if you will.
	21 states have now joined Texas in their complaint against the four alleged offending states, and a huge neo-Confederacy has been assembled by the Democrats.
	Can we get the map up?
	So, on the left you can see how the states ostensibly voted in the 2020 presidential election, and on the right you can see the states that have joined in the lawsuit either for or against.
	It's pretty close, it's pretty similar, and Those states that were otherwise Republican, but in the last election voted Democrat, like Arizona, still have apparently Republican Attorney Generals.
	The divide is obviously partisan, and the source of the obviously partisan divide is philosophical.
	It's about values.
	It's about what you define to be right and wrong.
	Now, the Neo-Confederacy is comprised of the District of Columbia, with the states and territories of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Guam, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York...
	North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, US Virgin Islands, and Washington.
	They call themselves the Amici, or Amici States, which is a legal term.
	They're effectively giving legal aid.
	And just speaking up in support of, what was it, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and the other states.
	Wisconsin, Michigan.
	That's it.
	And it's really very interesting because they accept no legitimacy in the concerns of Texas, even though I think that there's more than enough evidence to show that Texas has legitimate grievances and concerns in this regard.
	And honestly, it kind of seems like old times.
	For the Democrats, not going to lie.
	I'm not impressed with the way that they run their states.
	I'm certainly not impressed with the way that they run their cities.
	And I think calling them the Democratic fiefdoms is not illegitimate, as some of my friends have called them.
	And as Candace Owens says, black people should leave the Democratic plantation once again.
	And I don't think she's wrong there either.
	But anyway...
	Yeah, this is just the Attorney General confirming more states joining the Republicans, who again seem to have her on their side.
	And this has not been well accepted by, oh I don't know, say the Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who has outright called Texas seditious in his filing on Thursday.
	He said, Texas's effort to get this court to pick the next president has no basis in law or in fact.
	The court should not abide this seditious abuse of the judicial process and should send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never be replicated.
	Highly suspicious.
	Not even, just, you can't say that about the things that are being alleged.
	There is enough evidence to show, video evidence and sworn witness testimony, that suggests that yes, there was a procedural problem with the way that these elections in these areas were carried out.
	And it seems that this is so cut and dried that even Pennsylvania are filing against themselves.
	Pennsylvania's House Speaker and Majority Leader filed an amicure brief with the Supreme Court against the state of Pennsylvania and in favor of Texas' lawsuit against the Commonwealth and three other states.
	The unimpeachability of our elections requires clear procedures of administration so that everyone gets a fair shake.
	He wrote, adding, I completely agree with that statement.
	I think there is, and as we've covered in previous podcasts, more than enough evidence to suggest that the Democrats have acted inappropriately, and at the very least, this would be worthy of an investigation.
	So this is a map of the population of density of the two factions.
	As you can see, Texas and California being the two big boys on the map, with the flyover states making up the remaining body And Florida, of course, of the Republican cause, the blue states led by California and New York, the neo-Confederacy, sorry, led by the Democrat-run, deeply Democrat California and New York, with Pennsylvania putting a gun to its own head, and I guess we'll see who pulls the trigger first.
	This is...
	Something that I'm genuinely concerned about.
	I know that we're making jokes about it and that there's memes here, but I think that if things do go as it looks to me, like these things are going, and I say this as just a student of history.
	I'm a big fan of reading about revolutions and the causes of revolutions.
	And civil wars all through history in various different kinds of states.
	This to me seems like an irreconcilable problem because, and we'll talk about this as we go into the Hunter Biden story, I think the Democratic Party is so riddled with corruption that so many people have too much to lose and would lose it all that it will come down to war.
	I don't think that they'll accept the people who have been behind all of this being put behind bars.
	Anyway, so the Texas Attorney General went on a Stephen Crowder clip rather than the Fox News clip, just to help out a fellow content creator.
	He went on Stephen Crowder's show, and this is what he said.
	Alright, here we go.
	Why should citizens want their AGs to join the fight?
	Because I think that they are being disenfranchised.
	If...
	Your state followed state law and produced election results that were based on state law as required by the U.S. Constitution.
	And other states said, we're not going to follow those constitutional requirements.
	We're not going to follow our state law.
	And as a result, we don't really know.
	We can't verify whether any of these 2.5 million mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania are real.
	Well, that's a problem for my state, because my state is following the law, and now we've got all these states.
	We don't know what the real result is, and it affects the outcome of an election, and that affects my state.
	Yeah, it affects a federal election.
	You have states changing laws that ultimately affect a federal election.
	So the question is, is the United States a united country or not, really?
	And again, just like before, the Democrats are saying, well, actually, can we just have some special laws?
	You can ban slavery in the Republican areas if you want, if you feel so strongly about being against slavery and, you know, freeing black people from bondage.
	But we'd like to keep ours because, you know, it's beneficial for us.
	It's our plantation.
	And now we're back to them saying, well, you can have honest and uncorrupted elections if you Republicans want, but we would like to be able to fix our own elections if that's OK with you.
	Needless to say, I think the Republicans cannot allow some certain areas of the country run by the Democrats to essentially descend into banana republics and still think that the rest of the country can function normally.
	This political corruption will spread if it is normalized, which it appears to be at this point.
	And if it's allowed to continue, it's unacceptable.
	It is just unacceptable that they can say, well, it's okay for us.
	As the Attorney General there says, if it is meant to be a consistent rule set by the Constitution for the entire country, then they have to abide by it.
	You can't just say, well, no, it's okay for these four blue states to be deeply corrupt.
	I think that what they are doing is illegitimate.
	What do you reckon?
	I mean, you're not wrong.
	I'm loving the state's rights rhyming.
	It's very true.
	Literally, how dare you interfere with us being corrupt in our elections?
	Our dead people are allowed to vote, damn you.
	I mean, how is it not the same thing?
	I ain't got nothing to say.
	I am kind of worried, though.
	I think you are right to be worried.
	I don't know if it'll end up in war, though.
	Maybe that's long-term thinking.
	What do you think will happen?
	Let's say Trump refuses to give a concession speech.
	Then what?
	Well, the Democrats and the media have been priming everyone for the last four years to believe that Trump is a dictator, that he's not going to relinquish power, and that he is going to do something illegitimate in order to maintain his whole grip over the United States.
	Not that he is much of a dictator by any measure, but it doesn't matter, you know.
	This is the narrative.
	And so there are definitely going to be millions of people who buy into the democratic narrative who will believe that Donald Trump has committed some kind of cesarean coup in the United States if the Texan side wins this lawsuit.
	And it seems to me, as an outsider who has no legal expertise in this regard whatsoever, but just as a layman reading the documents, reading the allegations, looking at the evidence independently that we have covered on this podcast in previous episodes, if you'd like to just go back and find it, you can find episodes looking at the evidence independently that we have covered on this podcast in previous episodes, if you'd like to just
	It's one of those things where it's like, okay, it just looks like on paper, from the constitutionalist perspective, that the Democrats are in the wrong and that the Republicans are in the right.
	And if you care about the process, if you care about the legal methods...
	Then the Democrats are effectively, they have lied.
	And I say the Democrats to mean the faction, the cathedral of the Democrats.
	And we'll talk more about this in the Hunter Biden thing, because it's manifestly obvious how they are working to defend the left-wing interests against the right-wing interests.
	But I just don't see how an independent observer could know what has happened and come to the conclusion the Democrats have done nothing wrong here.
	But, like I said, the followers of the Democrats are going to think that Trump is an unjust, tyrannical dictator, even though he's done nothing unconstitutional.
	All of this is completely within the realms of the Constitution.
	All of it.
	And, you know, I mean, I listen to lots of other Republican podcasters, I listen to lots of left-wing podcasters, and the left-wing podcasters are never really addressing the meat of what the Republicans are claiming, like the actual allegations, like, you know, keeping poll watchers out and Allowing the mailing votes to be counted like a week after the election and things like this.
	Things that are just, you know, the Republicans are citing like Georgia state law, you know, and Pennsylvania state law and saying, look, this says you can't do this.
	This says you can't do that.
	It's crystal clear.
	They're never addressing those things.
	And I genuinely think that the Republicans are in the right and I genuinely think the Democrats went back down.
	They can't address any of the things, because to address them would mean that it's not a big conspiracy theory, as they say.
	Exactly.
	Josh Shapiro just dismissed it.
	No, it wasn't Josh Shapiro, but yesterday we covered how one legal professor from California said it's garbage, dangerous garbage, but garbage.
	But that's not addressing the points.
	Tell us why.
	Tell us what the detail is.
	But the point I was trying to get at was, if let's say they lose this lawsuit and the rest of them and it's Joe Biden sworn in and Trump refuses to give concession speech, I can't imagine there being any massive uproar from the conservatives in an illegal or physical way.
	I can imagine a lot of Tea Party stuff, I can imagine a lot of mass protests, things like this.
	But if it's the other way around, I think you're right, but not war, but more just massive expansion of the current terrorism that's already going on in the United States.
	So the left-wing groups that are currently throwing molotovs at the police, them going up to their state legislatures and attacking them, I can't imagine that's outside the realm of possibility.
	Yeah, but this will expand to people like Ted Wheeler saying, we don't recognise the authority of Donald Trump.
	The very left-wing mayor of Portland...
	I don't think he did already, did he?
	I mean, that's why he was letting terrorism go on in the state.
	He may well have.
	I don't think he's repudiated Trump's authority.
	But he's been very difficult about the thing and said, look, I don't need your help and all this sort of thing.
	But I think there are some Democrats who are loopy enough to come out and formally object and say we're not going to take Trump's authority from the federal government.
	And then you're going to say – AOC is going to say that.
	Yeah, I mean these areas already have enough breakaway locations such as the – what was it?
	The Red House Autonomous Zone, the newest one that was reported on LosCitas.com by Josh, which is another left-wing commune that tries to declare itself not part of the United States like the George Floyd Autonomous Zone or the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.
	And this just keeps happening.
	It's just a feature of left-wing politics at this point.
	And I think that the people like Ted Wheeler who tried to join in with these protests in all of the left-wing movements will find themselves in a position where their own activists won't allow them to continue.
	And so they have to essentially come to the decision that this is it.
	And they may well themselves believe, genuinely believe, because of the media diet that they have.
	I mean, politicians and all the media pundits and all this sort of thing, they're not immune to the same sort of social media bubble effects that affect the rest of us, which is why I so consistently say watch from both sides.
	You have to watch from both sides an equal amount, because otherwise you are going to turn into a one-sided partisan.
	And so it is imperative that you watch people that you don't enjoy, you know, people that you find to be credible and informed.
	Sorry about the siren.
	The siren.
	Yeah, damn it, siren.
	It's a meme in the chat as well.
	Yeah, I know.
	Why is it every time, about one o'clock in the afternoon, that there are people that are committing crimes?
	Someone commits a crime.
	Yeah.
	Well, someone gets into an accident.
	But anyway, so I think that they will have a strength of belief they feel is justified.
	But also, I think they're aware that there is a kind of underlying tension about the corruption that has been going on in the Democratic Party that is now just all public, by the way, that they realize that it's all or nothing.
	It is going to be all or nothing.
	And I mean, hopefully my prediction is wrong, right?
	I'm hoping that this prediction is just deeply flawed and there were a bunch of other factors I hadn't included in my analysis.
	I mean, even then, your best case scenario would still be an escalation of anti-terrorism.
	Yeah, best case scenario, yeah, exactly.
	Even if there aren't mayors and governors across the country who reject Donald Trump enough to essentially secede from the United States, again, history repeating itself, even if there aren't enough for them to start doing that, yeah, as you say, the activists are going to be setting the world on fire.
	All of these democratic cities are going to get burnt down again.
	But yeah, I'm sorry.
	It's not going to be Republican cities that get burned down.
	I know, I was just thinking of a joke.
	It's just endless, isn't it?
	Let's burn it down.
	Let's burn it down again.
	It's just their politics.
	It's just part of their politics.
	Property is not important.
	The lives of individual people are...
	As if you can separate the two.
	The property belongs to individual people.
	You're affecting people's lives.
	But the Democrats, obviously being essentially led by the nose by Communists, don't recognize the value of property at all.
	But anyway.
	The only example on the right that's even considered an equivalent, I don't think it is, is the Proud Boys, compared to the anti-FAR BLM people who are currently burning down half the country.
	Proud Boys aren't going to go and burn something down, I don't think.
	If Joe Biden wins and Trump refuses to give a concession speech, I don't think the Proud Boys are going to burn down Texas.
	No, I don't think so.
	I think it's ridiculous.
	There we go.
	Yeah, that's what's going on there.
	So what do you think of that, folks?
	Where did we leave off?
	We're on Arden.
	Do you think if this turns violent, it could spill into other Western nations which are suffering from similar political-cultural divide as foreign factions seek to intervene, i.e.
	China or lesser groups like Momentum?
	Yes, it'd be very surprising if foreign actors didn't join in.
	I mean, China will definitely fund the Democrats.
	There is no question of it.
	China will definitely want...
	In the same way that the Brits...
	We funded the Democrats initially...
	In the Civil War because obviously we wanted the Republicans to lose and break up the United States because that would be advantageous for the power of Great Britain in the New World.
	China will do the same with the Democrats because it would be advantageous for them on the global stage if the United States...
	It successfully splits.
	If the Democrats lose and the Republicans can reconquer areas of the United States, then that's bad for China.
	Very bad for China.
	I don't want to dwell on this too much because it's sort of a bit of a semantic point.
	But you're making it out like it would be a full-scale civil war, you know, tanks, different arms of the military fighting.
	I just don't buy that.
	I can buy absolute...
	It's happened dozens of times in history.
	I can imagine an escalation in leftist terrorism, huge amounts of democratic activists being radicalized, and carrying out acts of terrorism.
	But I can't imagine the branches of the military revolting.
	Why?
	I don't think the US branches of the military, number one, are particularly sympathetic to the rebel cause, but also the fact that they are bound by the United States government.
	But if they don't recognise it as a legitimate government and they think that it's been taken over by Hitler, they would revolt.
	Those aren't the people in the US military, surely.
	Those are the people in the Democratic Party.
	Yes, but don't assume that these institutions are not connected.
	They are connected.
	The people in them also sometimes vote Democrats.
	Some of them vote Democrats.
	Most of them vote Republican, thankfully.
	We do get military terrorists.
	There was one guy, it was a while back, so I'm probably getting some of the information wrong.
	But I think he ended up shooting up a bunch of people at his barracks in some political attack.
	I mean, this happens.
	I'm not saying it can't, but I don't think it'll be entire branches of the military fighting each other.
	I think it'll be, you know, maybe 2% of people get radicalized and become terrorists.
	Well, I don't know.
	I can't say exactly what's going to happen, but that will happen, I think.
	I think there will be individuals who radicalise and become terrorists.
	I think we're already seeing that now.
	Yeah, that's already happening.
	It's just I'm saying there'll be an escalation.
	But no, if California declares itself and New York declares itself and Texas then essentially declares itself the republic because if they win the lawsuit and the democratic states refuse to accept it.
	They'd be agreeing the House and Senate are legitimate.
	They'd be disagreeing on the executive.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But it's not at all beyond the realms of possibility that the Californians or whatever essentially say you've stolen the republic.
	And so you'll have two factions each claiming to represent the true republic and they'll each have their own sort of centers of power.
	And they will raise armies and persuade whichever branch of the military they can to come on to them.
	It'll be sections of the military that defect to either side.
	Again, based on the sort of ideological bent of the commanders, really.
	So, like, you know, I mean, people have accused Mattis of being paid off by China and stuff.
	And he seems to have been opposing this.
	And he's not saying that Flynn is very much, you know, like, you know.
	What was his petition calling for?
	Oh, I can't remember now.
	Martial law?
	Yeah, martial law.
	Suspend the Constitution of Martial Law.
	Yeah.
	So it is actually major.
	And don't be fooled into thinking this can't happen, right?
	This already has happened in the United States for essentially the same reasons.
	An intractable political problem where the Democrat values just simply do not align with the Republican values and there can be no compromise.
	It's either one or the other and eventually it comes down to a war.
	And it's because of direct invested interests on both sides.
	Like the Democrats are not giving up their plantations.
	Again, just like before.
	They're not doing it.
	We have the right to have our plantations.
	We have the right to cheat our elections.
	We have the right to extend these things arbitrarily.
	It's like, you don't actually.
	You know, that's what the Constitution has said.
	You know, this is what the American Revolution was actually about.
	And the revolutionaries knew that at the time.
	They knew that at the time when they were compromising with the southern states, that this would come to a head and it would have to be decided.
	And this is another thing that is, I mean, obviously this is not the same exact thing, but it's another thing that's come to a head and it has to be decided.
	And again, like, these civil wars happen all the time.
	All the time.
	You get people declaring for one side or another, for whichever side they think they either believe in or think is going to win.
	And, like I said, China is definitely going to support the Democrats.
	I would hope that Britain supports the Republicans because they're in the right.
	And I think that being in the right is actually more important than winning in these regards.
	And I think that the strength of being honest and genuine is what gives you the strength to win, the will to win, you know.
	Anyway, I don't want to dwell on it too much, like I said.
	But don't think that a civil war can't happen.
	Don't think it can't happen.
	Gator159.
	The Lotus Seaters' outro music is partly similar to Last Call, The Final Boss Level, and Final Doom TNT. Was that intentional?
	No, that wasn't intentional.
	I had no idea.
	Also, any update on the Lotus Seaters' Google podcast?
	Are we getting on Google, Vicky?
	In the next couple of days, I've been told, because we now have an RSS feed.
	We'll let you all know when we're on the other podcast apps.
	Stanley, Fibo, in fact, do you want to read these acts?
	Yeah, sure.
	Do you think Cynthia Johnson will face punishment since she is essentially calling for violence against Trumpers?
	Right, so she was, what was she from?
	I don't even know who that is.
	Right, so I posted something about this on Parler earlier, but I can't remember who she was.
	She was a Democratic representative of some form, like Michigan or something, I think.
	And she posted a video just saying, calling for violence against Trumpers, as they say.
	I believe she's either resigned or been fired, or something like that.
	What is she, a government worker or a politician?
	I think she's a representative.
	But I'd have to double check.
	Sorry, I don't have a notebook.
	Yeah, she wouldn't be the first though, because remember, what is it?
	Is it Dianne Feinstein?
	Currently one of them was saying you can't let them even have a meal.
	No, that was Maxine Waters.
	Maxine Waters.
	Harass them in public, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, people have done this for a while and none of them have faced punishment, so...
	Again, the Democrats...
	Oh, sorry, yeah.
	So Representative Cynthia Johnson, Michigan Democratic lawmaker.
	Can we play her video so we can see what she said?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So, yeah, she's an elected representative calling for violence.
	Again, a Democrat.
	Calling for a civil war.
	Yeah, absolute fucking nutjob.
	Don't swear, and don't think that these people aren't serious.
	They are.
	No, I believe they're serious.
	They've got too much invested in what they have to allow law and order to prevail.
	And again, like, with Maxine Waters, harass them in public.
	This is outside of the bounds of what American society is meant to be like.
	And it's always the Democrats leaping over those barriers.
	We're going to pack the Supreme Court, we're going to harass you in public, we're going to do X, Y, and Z to get our way.
	Because our way is what we've confirmed people do.
	We're going to allow street violence against anyone who gathers who's conservative.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	This is not acceptable.
	And the Republicans have got to stick.
	Hold the line.
	You've got to hold the line on all of this.
	Okay.
	Sterling Jennings.
	At what point do we peaceably break with each other?
	We don't like them.
	They don't like us.
	Why stay?
	Let the left swallow in their own filth and bad governance, not like they could conquer us.
	Okay.
	Well, I wouldn't say that they couldn't conquer you, and I guess, I mean, if there could be a divestment, I would be surprised.
	I don't think it's going to happen, and I think it will end in war.
	But yeah, no, I just don't think it could be agreed.
	Okay, MuteStream.
	Cockroach here.
	Now let me simp.
	Hashtag Team Hugo forever.
	Oh god, it's like Twinkies.
	SmallLLibertarian.
	Shilling for my wife.
	She is a commission artist that is demoralized because people keep asking her if she is black.
	Sorry, asking if she is black and turning her down when she says she isn't.
	Check her out on at Sile Draws.
	S-I-L-E Draws.
	I don't know what platform though.
	I assume Parler or Twitter.
	That's crazy.
	People are sending a message saying, are you black?
	I'd like to commission you.
	And then when she says no, they don't commission her.
	I'm sorry for not being black.
	Yeah, you got me.
	Chris Cousins.
	Being from Northern Ireland, it's good to see Gove has agreed the border arrangements with the EU. That'll keep the old lads at bay.
	Love the podcast.
	Thank you very much.
	Well, we'll talk about that during the Brexit, but I assume...
	Not much in Northern Ireland, but...
	But apparently he's agreed the border.
	Which is nice, but that was always going to be agreed, I thought, to be honest.
	Jade92.
	Hello, Carl.
	I hope the Lotus team, you and the family are doing well.
	Even though this is off-topic, I would love to know if and when you're going to have Milo on the show.
	Well, we'll have to see.
	He's the one to come over, yeah.
	No nothing.
	Us Republicans are fighting for free soil, free labour, and free men.
	We will not secede.
	We are taking our republic back from China and Brussels.
	Good.
	Possible pilot...
	Devonator?
	Just to add to no nothing, I firmly recommend you retain the legal course you're on, because to me, the legal course looks completely sound.
	don't don't do anything stupid uh when i look at the state of the world democrats tiktok simps etc i often find that crusader mean bring i often find the crusader memes bring floating through my head Begin.
	Okay.
	Zach Redpillar.
	The second our method for the peaceful transfer of power was undermined, a violent method for the transfer of power became inevitable.
	Well, I guess that's the case when it appears that one side has done things wrong and they're not prepared to admit it.
	Filthy Jim, the internet peasant.
	When the Queen proclaims one King and the King's hand proclaims another, who does the...
	Sorry, who...
	Whose peace do the gold cloaks protect?
	Who do they follow?
	The man who pays them.
	Littlefinger.
	Well, let's hope that's true, because Trump being the President is theoretically the one paying them, or Congress.
	Republicans, I assume, control the Congress, don't they?
	Depends what you mean.
	They're projected to own the setup and not the house.
	Right, okay.
	Stigma of the Rose.
	I can't watch your premium content videos on my phone with the credentials muted.
	I paid money for this.
	I should be allowed to listen to this at work.
	You are right.
	We need to...
	You can't do it with the credentials muted?
	What does that mean?
	I'm not really sure, but if you can't watch it on your phone, can you send a list of what's wrong to that?
	Yeah, if you could email us at contact at lotusseaters.com with whatever the problem is.
	I don't see why you shouldn't be able to watch it.
	Yeah.
	Sorry.
	Easy E. Outcome aside, I look forward to watching Cali Conservatives leaving for Texas and watching the LA Progressives squirm without their working class.
	Yep.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's good to see Elon Musk finally made that dive and he's officially moved to Texas.
	One thing that's interesting is that in places like California and New York, the countryside is very Republican.
	Very Republican.
	It's just those cities.
	And it's the big cities that are very Democrat.
	So I imagine that much of the California countryside actually won't want to cooperate with a Democrat regime run from Silicon Valley.
	But anyway, let's hurry up because we are a bit late and we've got loads of stuff to do.
	In Lincoln elections, Southern States Dems cheated by excluding Lincoln's name from the ballot.
	He still won.
	They argued to secede because they claimed they didn't have equal representation.
	Funny.
	Yeah, right.
	Doomhand, this goes beyond states' rights.
	It does.
	What they're doing affects the whole damn union.
	It does.
	I didn't even vote for Trump, and I think it's clear the Dems played dirty and are trying to hide it.
	Yes, it's a moral question that's being posed here.
	Can you allow this level of corruption to continue?
	And the answer's got to be no.
	Richard Spears says, Hello, chaps.
	Love the show on the website.
	I'm not a vaccine sycophant, but if you want a fairly neutral look at the COVID stats and vaccine safety, take out Dr.
	John Campbell on YouTube.
	Good to see all sides of debate.
	Yes, it is.
	Bastiat says, or Bastiae, I should say, I'm in Pennsylvania.
	It's a Tinder box.
	If you're a Republican in Blue County, you're a pariah.
	Lockdown again for COVID again.
	Business is collapsing.
	Tom Wolfe is a tyrant.
	Look him and Rachel Levine up.
	I am familiar with them, and yes.
	Boojalicious33 says, Here in Illinois, it's solid red, but being held hostage by the urban hellhole of the massively corrupt Chicago machine.
	I told you.
	I told you.
	And the Democrats are going to find themselves in the sort of position that the Chinese nationalists will find themselves in, as Mao controlled the countryside during their civil war.
	But like I said, man, it's not beyond the realms of possibility.
	We're getting really close to that sort of time, I'm afraid.
	And people describing it as a tinderbox.
	Yes.
	Oh, great.
	Yes, exactly.
	I mean, these are people on the ground who live there as well.
	Don't call it neo-Confederacy Sargon.
	Old South Democrats would be appalled by today's Democrats.
	Republicans in the South still value Dixie heritage.
	Well, I'm afraid from the outside it looks very much like the Democrats up to their old tricks.
	I grew up in DC suburbs, aka North Virginia, and the first county to flip blue in VA was Fairfax, the home of the NRA. I have always had issues with this.
	We use ES&S machines and they look like trash bins.
	Hmm.
	In Michigan, and with certainty, say, we are a red state if the go time comes.
	First state to have armed protest lockdowns and active attempts to impeach the governor.
	Again, all of these things, it's all well and good, centralizing power in big cities, but it leaves you totally vulnerable in other ways.
	With Biden not being elected yet and his links to China, why isn't he termed the Manchurian candidate?
	Good question.
	Keto drink for today, Captain Morgan dark rum with sugarless cola.
	Good boy.
	And that's good as well.
	Good choice.
	Love the show.
	Police in car say hi to my son, Joel.
	Keep up the great work.
	Hi, Joel.
	Soldiers aren't loyal to their governments.
	They are loyal to their generals.
	Yes.
	Well, sometimes yes, no, sometimes no.
	And China might send military advisors like the US did in Vietnam.
	It certainly would.
	The biggest question is who would control the nukes?
	I live in Arizona.
	It's quite scary to see.
	People don't know the horrors of war.
	My uncle was in Vietnam and said war is hell.
	War is hell, but I don't think it will come to a nuclear exchange inside American soil.
	But maybe I'm being optimistic.
	Who knows how far the Democrats will go?
	Robin Card says, everyone assumes they have passed the final revolution.
	Just as there is no final number, there is no final revolution.
	Revolution is infinite.
	Yes, that's correct.
	Former Marine here, we aren't allowed to be politically openly, but the military is, in my own mind, 70% Republican because they joined for patriotic reasons.
	If sides say, come join us, the majority of the military would go red.
	Yeah, I do think that's the case as well.
	The government might be stupid, but even their nukes are going to be off limits for this one.
	Yeah, I agree.
	Emperor Trump first, Chief Executive of the Texas Republic and her allies, Conqueror of the Coasts, Liberator of Chicago, Destroyer of All, Far and Antifa.
	That's a great title.
	AA brought up an interesting point.
	China had deep influence in states like Georgia.
	We must defeat the CCP. See the left be consigned to history.
	Well, it's not surprising that the communists are siding with their own, frankly.
	I was born and raised in Texas.
	Yee-haw!
	The leader of the lawsuit and now live in Utah, a supporter of the lawsuit.
	Quite proud of my state.
	You should be.
	U.S. military are federal.
	Any successionists will be crushed.
	Statehood is forever.
	Let's hope so.
	The real question is who are the D.C. police loyal to?
	With regards to U.S. military involvement in the total breakdown of the Union, don't forget the states have their own armies, the National Guard.
	Yes, that's true.
	This is why I was saying, don't think the military won't split, because it will.
	Republicans were the party of anti-slavery.
	We're still on the correct side of history.
	YouTube didn't allow the original message.
	Well, I agree.
	I think that you are still the party of civil rights, to be honest.
	I remember the National Guard taking the knee in a few places.
	There we go.
	To Callum's point about the US military, the military cannot deploy domestically per the Constitution.
	This will be fought on the level of big banks' economic warfare to pacify them into submission.
	Trump dismissed Esper and Miller and put in Miller as SecDef.
	He elevated Spec 4 to a joint level branch, answerable directly to SecDef and controlled by the Flynn acolyte.
	Trump ain't going and he's going to fight.
	Well, let's hope so.
	Let's hope that's correct.
	I can't verify that, obviously.
	Aren't, like the majority of the US soldiers, conservative leanings, so if civil war comes it wouldn't look good for Democrats.
	Well, you know, if you cultivate an army of soy boys, I guess you get what you deserve.
	If I'm called to arms, I will answer that call.
	Well, everyone should.
	If you are called to arms, you have to.
	You know, you service guarantee citizenship.
	If Chicago thinks it can go against Texas by itself, go for the rest of Illinois.
	We'll revolt and we will have a Virginia-West Virginia situation.
	Kentucky neutral then, neutral now.
	I really enjoy the podcast, guys.
	Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it?
	Like, we were expecting Kentucky to easily join, but they've done nothing.
	Here is five US bucks to buy Callum, some reading lessons.
	Love you, Callum.
	Let's quote Joe Biden.
	Come on, man.
	Man, he's not wrong.
	No, he's not.
	Right, let's do the Brexit thing, because I don't think we'll have enough time for the Hunter Biden thing.
	And what I'll do is, after this, I'll record a podcast for Sunday, just on my own, just to go through the Hunter Biden stuff, because we've got too much to get on with.
	This is essentially the story that was Russian disinformation until it wasn't.
	Once the election's done, then it's not Russian disinformation.
	Yeah, we'll do one for the weekend.
	Anyway, yeah.
	So, what's going on with Brexit is, a few days ago, they were still negotiating.
	Things aren't looking any better.
	So Boris decided he'd head over to Brussels and negotiate directly with the Chief Commissioner of the EU, Ursula von der Leiden.
	Von der Leiden?
	Von der Leiden, I think it was.
	I can never get the German pronunciation right, but...
	So he decided he would go over with that, and there's some interesting quotes in this article from the Irish foreign minister talking about the situation, and he says, In Brussels, certainly the mood is starting to shift towards the contingency planning for no deal, as opposed to the compromises that are necessary to get the deal done.
	That's not where we want to go with this.
	So, things are looking like no deal, but...
	Yep.
	There's also some conservative MPs who were quoted talking about what Boris is up to, because a lot of people were worried that he would completely capitulate when he's over there.
	I was worried about that.
	Yeah, I mean, everyone was.
	Peter Bones said that he was confident that he'd come back with a good deal or he'd go no deal.
	And he said, I will bet my house on it that he will not betray those principles.
	So if he doesn't, we get Peter's house at least.
	Yeah.
	So that'll be nice.
	Wonderful.
	But the media response to this was pretty pathetic, if you can get the first tweet up.
	This is a guy from Sky News, and this is his commentary on him turning up in the debate.
	It's like, the Prime Minister's arrived in a German car.
	Yeah, and...
	Okay, that is such a dumb statement.
	I mean, A... Surely it shows the fact that we need a deal and they need a deal.
	They need a deal.
	That's what that shows.
	Because a third of our cars are German cars and we're a massive market for Germany.
	I think it's literally like a third or something of their car industry.
	It's us alone.
	In all of the world, a third of them is us.
	So turning up in a German car is actually a really quite strong statement of, you need us...
	You have interest with us.
	You're going to treat us fairly.
	And how would you turn up in a British car?
	I mean, what car manufacturers do we have left that are British?
	I mean, I think you've got like Jaguar.
	Are they owned by the Americans now?
	I think they might be, yeah.
	We sold everything.
	Okay.
	It's just what happened.
	So he turned up.
	He had this dinner with her for three hours, in which they just endlessly talked.
	That must have been comfortable.
	That's the BBC article talking about that.
	And then there's what they came up with, and what they came up with was what the EU came up with was pretty laughable.
	So if you can give the Telegraph one up, this is them talking about what she proposed to him.
	So if they couldn't agree, she was saying that we should have 12 months in which we are allowed to fish in your waters and things continue as they are with fishing.
	What?
	No.
	So the quote from them here is, the European Commission wants continued access to UK waters for 12 months under a no-deal Brexit.
	Why would we do that?
	And is threatening to stop British planes and lorries traveling to the block unless it caves to its level playing field demands.
	Doesn't sound like a level playing field to me to be like, we're going to block your stuff, but you're going to let us fish in your waters.
	It's a level playing field for us to own the things you have.
	Yeah.
	This is the level the EU's thinking.
	Unreal.
	Stupid.
	They also decided to come up with this, which is that they want to block British tourists turning up, and they used COVID as an excuse if you can get the next one.
	Do it.
	So there is some reason here.
	Do it!
	So their reasoning was that, well, if you're outside the EU, we have different agreements.
	So we allow travel to go on with South Korea, New Zealand, places that have low COVID. And because the UK will be then going out of the EU, there's a different standard.
	And because they have more COVID, we won't be allowing the tourists to come.
	Do it.
	Do it.
	Like, Greece's economy, again, is something like a third tourist.
	Greece, Italy, Spain.
	How many countries in the EU rely on British tourists?
	All of them.
	It's British and German tourists that keep the Mediterranean tourist industry alive.
	And we know this because the COVID lockdowns are ruining them all.
	And this is something I covered earlier on in the year.
	I was like, look, this is ruining places I like to go.
	I like to go to Greece.
	I like to go to Italy.
	I like to go to Spain.
	Because these are nice hot countries with European heritage and the heritage of Europe is based in these countries.
	All the old tourist sites, all of the old antiquity sites that you like to go to and see that the European Union is going to cut off its nose to spite its face because these places need that money.
	They need that money.
	It's unreal.
	Which I just don't understand.
	They seem to think that they're in such a strong position that they're almost taking the mickey with the British.
	So, of course, this didn't really amount to much, and Boris wasn't happy after three hours of a dinner with this woman.
	This is important, though, right?
	Because what they're saying is that Britain is inferior to the European Union.
	They consider us to be inferior in status.
	And the English-speaking world is effectively a kind of breakaway civilization from the European continental world.
	And it's large enough for us to make that claim.
	You know, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, you know, we can make the claim.
	The English-speaking world is a different civilization.
	And actually, you do have to treat us on a level playing field because we are still the Commonwealth.
	You know, there are still these political ties.
	How strong they are and how much they hold is obviously up for debate.
	This is one of the arguments about the trade.
	Roughly about 50%, it's 40-something, of our trade goes to the EU. But if we just leave, we're going to rebuild those bonds with the Commonwealth.
	And beyond.
	Sure, we'll still have a lot of trade with Europe, but we're not going to be so dependent on you.
	This idea that we are massively dependent on you and always will be was just not true.
	Yeah, and we haven't always been, and we don't have to be in the future.
	I mean, as Josh reported today on Lotacita.com, go and check it out, an article about us signing a trade deal with Singapore.
	You know, we've arranged something with Singapore already.
	Yeah, that's going to be at the end.
	Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to jump in.
	No, don't worry.
	This is pissing me off.
	Like, how dare the Europeans talk to us this way?
	How dare they?
	You need us.
	You're not wrong.
	You needed our money.
	You still do.
	You're literally going into debt right now.
	Yeah, the Irish used to be net beneficiaries of the EU. Now they're net payers into the EU. But also you've got the COVID day allow, which is God knows how many billions.
	Yeah, this is all the consequence of now us leaving, and now COVID is intensifying all of those problems.
	And they're acting like, oh, we can just do without the second largest beneficiary to the European Union.
	No, you've got to treat us for some respect.
	You guys are in real problems here.
	Yeah, you're screwed.
	So Boris, to his credit, was not impressed either and left.
	And the response, I think Ursula said that there were still large gaps or something like that.
	Oh, he's just putting up the UK-Singapore articles people can watch.
	All right, okay.
	But definitely go and check that out.
	Sorry, go on.
	Yeah.
	So, you know, she says there's still large gaps.
	He left and came back and he's given a few interviews since.
	And his message is get ready for no Brexit because, sorry, no deal.
	No deal, yeah.
	Because if they're going to treat us like this, if they're going to keep spouting nonsense.
	I mean, Barnier's response was saying that we will have 60% of your fish and in return you'll be able to sell them to us.
	And the British negotiator was just like, why do you think we would agree to that?
	And then, of course, he went back to Macron and was like, they're not agreeing to it.
	Why were you surprised by that?
	One of the massive points of the referendum was fishing and the fact that we want our fishing rights back.
	So if you're just going to say we own 60%, no.
	Do they intend to finally defeat us in a naval battle or something?
	Bring it on.
	How else are they going to claim 60% of our waters?
	They've got nothing.
	Again, it's going to have to come down to them fighting us if they think they're going to get that, but they know they're not going to get that, right?
	Do they?
	This is the arrogance.
	I mean, maybe they don't, you know?
	Maybe they don't.
	Maybe they genuinely are like, well, you know, we'll force them.
	Well, just bully them and they'll fold.
	Because, I mean, they had Theresa May before, so maybe they think Boris will be the same.
	Literally the continental opinion on Britain for hundreds of years.
	If we just pressure them enough, we'll fold.
	And we never have.
	And good on Boris, actually.
	I'm annoyed with Boris in many different ways, but at least this is one way that I can be pleased with the guy.
	Yeah, so the quote from the Times about this was, the Prime Minister said that the Cabinet's very strong backing in rejecting the deal on the table and warns that it was vital that everyone gets ready for the no deal option.
	So Boris just openly saying, look, I want to talk to them.
	They're not making me filled with positivity, so I've come back and I'm saying, look, get ready for no deal, because that's what we're doing.
	I mean, the government's paying for endless advertisements as well, if you watch TV or go on the radio.
	I haven't, actually.
	You don't watch Boomerbox.
	No, I don't, no, no.
	But they're saying to business owners, get a lawyer in, make sure you're going to be ready for no deal, because this is very likely to happen.
	Are we ready for no deal?
	Are we?
	We don't trade anything with the Europeans, so we don't even care.
	But the EU is actually doing the same.
	So the next thing from the BBC is the EU is also having a meeting talking about what to do if there's no deal, and they published their contingency plans in this article.
	God, it's because of their arrogance.
	She's prepared to be the Queen of the Ashes.
	I would rather burn everything down than give equal concessions to Britain.
	That's what this is.
	Yeah, because it's punishment.
	Yes.
	There were two options they could have done all along, which is to be reasonable or to punish us, and they've gone with the punishment.
	Yeah.
	I mean, there could have been a totally different narrative about Brexit from the European Union, right?
	And it could have been a sort of culturally understanding one where they said, look, we always knew that Britain has slightly different opinions on certain key issues to we Europeans.
	Rights, for start.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Rights, freedoms, you know, all these sort of, you know, like crazy ideas, you know, government intervention.
	And that really is where it comes down to, is where we think government is appropriate, right?
	And they could have taken this tack and said, look, we appreciate that the Brits have different views on this.
	And we accept that this wasn't a perfect fit and that the public have chosen to leave.
	So we will gracefully and do our best to facilitate a sensible and smooth transition where both sides get what they deserve effectively.
	And we will do everything that we can to be clement about it.
	That's what an economic bloc would have done.
	We're going to maximize economic growth by working together.
	That's not what they're doing because that's not what they are.
	They're an empire.
	Yes.
	So that's why they're doing this.
	But it's good to see him not bowing down, you know, Boris bowing down this.
	And the fact that we have him coming out and saying, get ready for no deal, and the EU actually thinking, okay, we're going to start preparing for no deal, you know, this late.
	I guess they weren't expecting it.
	It's been a while since I last checked, but public opinion wasn't against no deal, was it?
	No, because this is the thing.
	It's not...
	Well, maybe it was at the start of the referendum, but certainly now the public opinion is that, no, this was about independence, and yes, there will be a cost, and that's fine.
	That is just part of it now, which, okay.
	We'll pay it.
	Independence costs money.
	Yeah, you've got freedom isn't free.
	Okay, got it.
	Yeah, not a difficult lesson.
	Willing to pay.
	So that's where both of those are looking.
	We Got A Problem made a video on this that I watched.
	He made a good point, which is that this could be political theatre, and maybe in the last minute they'll sign something that screws over the British Fisherman.
	It doesn't look like it.
	There looks like too much on the line.
	They're all giving the right signals, so fair play to them on that.
	And the update on, as you mentioned, about signals...
	Well, as you say, it could be that this is the European Union effectively testing Boris.
	It could be playing chicken, where they...
	I don't doubt that in their back rooms and, you know, well-lit...
	A three-hour dinner.
	Yeah, but in their well-lit board meetings in Brussels, they've got a bunch of contingencies and they're like, well, it would be really bad for us if we had no deal.
	So what we'll do is we'll have no deal right up until the final move and then we'll just sign what they've asked for.
	Because what they're asking for isn't actually unreasonable.
	If we were making unreasonable demands, like if we were demanding 60% of France's fisheries, I would be like, why are we doing that?
	That's not fair.
	But say we want to control our own waters is totally fair.
	And any neutral independent observer can accept that statement, could accept that proviso.
	But I don't think he's raising an invalid point at all.
	I think he's got a good point.
	This could well be essentially a game of chicken, and they'll collapse on the last day.
	But I guess Boris doesn't think that.
	Otherwise, he wouldn't be warning us about no deal.
	I mean, also, he's never been a complete Brexiteer.
	Everyone's got a bit of a question about him, about his loyalties to it.
	But after the election and his position now, he's got no choice.
	Yeah.
	I don't know what he would do if it was a political suicide.
	It would be political suicide for him to cave on this.
	So the last piece of information on what's up for Brexit.
	The only way we can get Boris to do something useful is if the alternative will kill him.
	Well, at least now we know.
	I mean, at least he's in the right position to do the right thing.
	But God, man, come on.
	It doesn't have to be that tough.
	It didn't have to be this way.
	It didn't!
	You should have been leading the charge.
	Trump would have been leading the charge.
	Trump would have had these people bending the knee ages ago.
	This wouldn't have come to this.
	That's the art of the deal right there, what the EU are doing.
	The idea that you wait until the very last minute and then, okay, fine.
	I'd have been leveraging Trump's support and just going full Trumpist against them.
	I'd have just been doing it.
	Yeah, well, they didn't.
	Every day I would have been on TV. The European Union is screwing our fishermen.
	They're screwing our country.
	They don't respect our trade.
	They don't respect us as a civilization.
	The European Union must be destroyed.
	I'd be doing that every day on TV. Every day.
	And every time they came out and said something, I'd be like, no, blah, blah, blah.
	And that's what Trump would do.
	And the patriots who voted for the majority of the country that voted for this would be like, yep, that's exactly right.
	They are doing that.
	Screw them.
	We're off.
	And instead, he's giving press conferences about COVID every day.
	Yeah, and letting Keir Starmer creep up in the polls.
	Is that what you're doing, Boris?
	You've got all this power that's just untapped.
	Anyway.
	It's just such a shame.
	Anyway, the good news on this as well is that we've also now signed another trade agreement, this time with Singapore, which I did some pocket calculations before coming on.
	I think that brings up to about 15% of all of our trade is now secured, which is nice.
	It's not a disrespectful figure.
	Well, it's not very good when 85% isn't secure.
	Yeah, well, about 40% is the EU and a massive chunk is the Americans.
	So they're doing their best with everyone else.
	Another reason we want Joe Biden to lose, in fact, because Joe Biden hates Britain.
	Yeah.
	This lady here just going around country to country securing trade deals left, right and centre.
	She's actually rated as the most popular conservative by conservative members.
	Excellent.
	I think it's like 67% or something.
	Love her.
	Oh, great.
	And she's clearly getting the job done, so that's good.
	Yeah, I mean, you know, good news for her.
	But, yeah, that's what's going on there.
	He's still got time to mess it all up, obviously.
	So, you know, never say never.
	But we've got all the right signals from him and from the EU to say that he's not going to buckle on this.
	Good.
	Boris, you should be proud of your not...
	Give a speech about it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Give a speech.
	Come out in front of Buckingham Palace or something.
	Literally, make sure you've got the Queen in the background.
	Big pomp, big ceremony.
	Be like, look, this is the root, branch, and blossom of our civilization that you're standing in front of.
	That you're representing Britain as an entity, a historic, world-significant entity that you represent against the people we beat in every goddamn war.
	What are you...
	It's frustrating.
	Like, pick a century, we beat them.
	Yeah!
	Honestly, literally!
	The only one, probably 15th century with the Hundred Years' War.
	That's the last war I think we lost with France.
	Maybe the War of Jenkins' Ear.
	I'll have to check.
	What Jenkins' Ear?
	It's a small war about a chap called Jenkins who got his ear cut off, and I think we went to war with France and Spain over it.
	Sounds like a good war.
	I think we may have won that one as well, so I'll have to check.
	I might go through and actually do a tally.
	You know, Britain versus the continent.
	Who came out better?
	And obviously the Empire showed it was us.
	You don't end up with a giant colonial empire if you lose a bunch of continental wars.
	But yeah, I'll go through and actually get the statistics on it.
	Because I'm sick of Boris not invoking some of this.
	Because it's all there, and we're right.
	That's why.
	1939 will commence again.
	No, not 1939.
	Well, we've taken down the Germans.
	Well, yeah, I suppose.
	Yeah, see?
	Anyway.
	Yeah, okay.
	Let's do the Super Chats, because I need to get on with this.
	Yeah, well, if you want to find out more about the UK-Singapore trade deal, you can go and check it out.
	Hugo made a good point as well, he wanted me to mention, which is that even if you don't get a trade deal with someone and you go on WTO terms, you can unilaterally just set your own import tariffs.
	Yeah, that's what being a sovereign state is.
	So you could just say, actually, we just won't put tariffs on this, this, this from your country.
	Yeah, and that's what we were threatening, basically, with Ireland.
	They're like, oh, we're going to need a border with Ireland.
	It's like, no, you're going to need a border with Ireland.
	We're just going to do nothing.
	Like, we don't want to incite terrorism.
	And the European Union, like, yeah, but...
	Yeah, but we do.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, I know you do.
	Because you're not going to be affected by it.
	That's what it all comes down to.
	Oh, man.
	Yeah, he could still mess it up.
	Come on, Boris.
	Hold the line!
	Where did we leave off?
	Do you remember?
	Good grief.
	Texas G. Hall was above that.
	We went above, up, up, up, about here.
	Yeah, no, up.
	Oh, no, okay, yeah, easy.
	To Callum's point about the US military, the military cannot deploy domestically as per the Constitution.
	The war will be fought on the level of big banks in the common warfare.
	Yeah, I did read that one.
	But the thing is, in times of civil war, the constitution will be suspended.
	You've got to keep your eye too far down.
	But anyway, yeah, sorry, go up a bit.
	Go up a bit, John.
	Up a bit more.
	Right, Carl, you keep using these words wrong like moral, as if they have some kind of objective correspondence theory of truth meaning to Dems.
	Thank you for using the philosophical terms that I've been trying to impart to everyone against me.
	It's nice to see that you've been learning, and it's nice to see that I've fallen foul of these.
	Yes, that's true.
	The idea that truth has an objective correspondence to reality doesn't have much in the way of meaning to Democrats.
	It does seem that's correct.
	Leonard says, Hello from Bernie County, Vermont.
	There are plenty of Green Mountain boys left who will fight for Trump.
	Love the show.
	Again, I keep saying, it's useful and powerful to control the cities until you actually need to raise men to fight.
	And then you kind of want to control the countryside.
	Or even feed the cities.
	Or feed the cities, yeah, exactly.
	Shows you how far Ted Cruz has come, says Arden.
	Once known as Lying Ted, now he's the champion of the God Emperor and the Republic.
	Smart move from Ted, to be honest.
	He needs to be Trump's legate in the war.
	Yeah, well, he's the hero of the Republic.
	That's what I'm saying.
	Pedro says, soldiers aren't necessarily loyal to their generals.
	Remember Lepidus.
	Yes, so that's true.
	In fact, was it Sulla who, how did Plutarch put it?
	He debauched the soldiers of the enemy because Sulla was a really popular and famous commander who was known for winning battles and hadn't lost a battle in his career.
	And when he arrived back in Roman soil, in Italian soil, they sent armies down to go and fight him.
	And the armies were like, but Sulla's awesome.
	Sulla's great.
	And so Sulla would send some of his men into the enemy camp, you know, sneak in and they'd be like, yeah, okay.
	Well, actually, yeah, Sulla's gonna win this, obviously, 'cause he'd won everything else.
	And so, essentially, the entire army's defected to him, and then he marches on his own.
	Same with Napoleon.
	Yeah, it turns out just the entire army defects to his side.
	Yeah, will you attack your emperor after he returns from Elba?
	Yes, exactly.
	And, yeah, don't be surprised if the heroic...
	This is the thing.
	This is why I focus, and I'm very focused at the moment on, like, The heroic narrative, right?
	That's what motivates men's passions and their souls to take actions that otherwise on paper would look impossible.
	You know, an entire army can defect if a sort of heroic figure can give them the right inspiration to do so.
	And I mean, Trump is pretty close to that kind of guy.
	You know, he's looking quite cesarean these days.
	Cash for the Release Hugo Fund.
	He's stuck in the chat.
	We'll be doing a weekend podcast after this, which is why we actually need to wrap up fairly soon.
	So you will see you Hugo simps.
	We'll see more of Hugo tomorrow or Sunday.
	I can't remember.
	But anyway, Son of the Wolf, medically retired soldier here.
	Believe me when I say the soldiers aren't loyal to the government or their generals.
	We're loyal to the American people in the Constitution.
	That's to whom and to what we swear our oath to.
	Yes, but the question is who you think represents the American people in the Constitution.
	The Democrats would surely say their own, and the Republicans will of course say Trump.
	As they break the rules of the Constitution.
	Yeah, and thank you for the generous donation, son of the wolf.
	Yeah, exactly.
	As they break the Constitution.
	This is why I, as an outsider, if the Democrats weren't so obviously corrupt and weren't so obviously in the wrong and hadn't so obviously broken the rules, I would just say, well, I think the Republican case is weak.
	I would say, well, the Democrats have got a good argument here and here and here.
	It's the Democrats going, you're a racist, this is garbage.
	It's like, that's not an argument.
	I'm not persuaded.
	We can blackmail too.
	We will just deport all EU nationals from the UK. Well, we've already given them blanket amnesty, actually.
	So we won't do that.
	Dusty Time, $5.
	Thank you very much.
	Lord Bean, greetings from Night City.
	Which one's Night City?
	What's that in the name for?
	I have no idea.
	I'll Google it.
	Yeah, yeah, if you can look that up.
	Callum, pull that up.
	There's no one else on YouTube who says that anymore.
	We may as well fill into that role.
	Oh, it's from Cyberpunk.
	Oh, is it?
	Right, right, right.
	I haven't got Cyberpunk yet, but I will do this weekend, I promise.
	I didn't know you were a trans ally.
	I am a trans ally.
	Well, that's the thing.
	I was bribed specifically by the presumably Chinese agent who...
	Royal Oster Constabulary says, no deal will ruin Ireland economically based.
	Yeah.
	No, no, no.
	This is totally true, right?
	Ireland is going to be a sacrificial lamb for the European Union, and it will be out of an ancient prejudice against the English, and not undeserved, right?
	England hasn't exactly treated Ireland well over the centuries, but this...
	We're at a point now...
	They don't care about the Irish.
	Yeah, no, not at all.
	But we're at a point now where England is not a detriment to Ireland, right?
	England is a huge chunk of the domestic Irish agricultural economy.
	So we're talking about thousands of tons of beef and cheese and grain that they sell to us every year that will not be sold to us.
	And we will, in fact, get that from Argentina.
	I know this because the Times of Ireland published a very long and very detailed article about this, going, well, look...
	I hate to be the bearers of bad news, but we kind of need those English bastards.
	We need their money, because everyone needs their money.
	Everyone wants their money.
	It's like, okay, well, Argentina, we will actually...
	The West Falklands?
	Yeah, the West Falklands will actually provide us with cheaper beef and cheese.
	So our meat and cheese prices will go down.
	It'll suck to be in Europe, but everything will get better here.
	At least according to the Times of Ireland.
	Yeah.
	A very pro-Brexit source.
	Total bias.
	Anyway.
	Bombchus says, Trump is ending wars.
	The military leaders hate him.
	Some do.
	Some don't.
	But he's right.
	You know, those people, those military leaders who like the forever wars probably do dislike Trump.
	And anywhere, somewhere for 50 pounds.
	Well, thank you.
	What Christmas bonus came in?
	Just passing it straight on to Vicky and John at all simp because you peeps don't get to see those peeps who keep the wheels turning the most.
	Yeah, honestly, like, you know, essential workers being Vicky and John is completely true.
	The producer and the website administrator, these guys are the guys who make everything.
	They are the mechanisms that allow you guys to get the content that we're producing.
	So, yeah, thank you.
	I'd love to be able to give people Christmas bonuses, but in order for that to happen, more people have to sign up to Lotuses.com for our premium subscription.
	But on the plus side, at the moment, we've passed 1,600 subscribers on Lotuses.com, and I'd like to say thank you very much to all of you.
	We do definitely have intentions of doing that Zoom call, but at the moment we actually are lacking a method of sending a post or a message specifically to the people of the gold tier who subscribed for that function.
	We're working on it.
	We might send you an email or something, because we've got your emails, obviously.
	And you'll have to check your spam, because apparently we're still...
	I thought we fixed that.
	Just check it just in case.
	Apparently we didn't fix that.
	Right, okay, goddammit.
	But we are working on it.
	We will find a way of making sure that the monthly Zoom call can happen because I'm really looking forward to it happening anyway, generally.
	It'll be good fun to do because we can do it offline and so we can have a laugh and say things that YouTube won't be on YouTube so they can't just say, oh, you said this.
	You can hear the sound of journalists from BuzzFeed already signing up.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	What is it?
	Mark DiStefano.
	It doesn't even work there anymore, does he?
	Oh yeah, good point.
	He's probably still following us.
	You know he does it because he secretly thinks we're great.
	You can go for a couple of minutes.
	Asimov Pogging.
	I will know the difference in some of the states between the rural and the urban areas.
	I myself live in North Carolina and know that the vast majority of us Texans, even though Raleigh doesn't.
	Am I reading that right?
	Yeah.
	I think Raleigh is a city in Texas, or it might be North Carolina, actually.
	And again, I think we're talking about the city-countryside distinction here.
	Okay, so he's a Texan who's moved to North Carolina.
	It seems that way.
	Raleigh, I assume it's the capital of North Carolina, although I'd have to check.
	R can be, as a veteran that separated honorably two years ago, I can honestly say that more than you would be comfortable to know following left wing agendas.
	Yeah.
	I tell you, man, don't assume that all of the soldiers are Republicans.
	They're not.
	No.
	I mean, I never said all.
	Oh, you know what I mean.
	Yeah.
	I mean, the guy who went AWOL and started shooting people, I'm pretty sure was a leftist, but I'd have to double check it.
	You know, surprise, surprise.
	Did you hear what Putin said?
	If China fires one more rocket towards Russia, he will nuke them.
	America fighting each other, worried about the future.
	I mean, has anyone raised the question of what happens when China and Russia, if they did go to war?
	Because it's always assumed it's Russia and America, China and America.
	What if they're like, hang on, shut up, America.
	We actually don't care about you at all.
	We care about these guys stealing our territory in Manchuria or whatever.
	Well, they're sort of over that, is my understanding.
	There's no real point in taking it back.
	Well, you say that, but Putin's there saying, well, look, fire one more rocket towards us and you've got it.
	Yeah, but they sort of do that for fun all the time.
	There's a weird thing that the Russians do where they fly bombers towards enemy territory.
	They start doing this in the Soviet area.
	And you get just before the war, you know, the territory that becomes war, and then you turn around.
	And you do it all the time, everywhere, on everyone, just to know how fast the responses are.
	It's not just that.
	It's also head games.
	They don't know, you know, it's also mind games.
	It's very tactical.
	Very tactical.
	Which is what you'd expect from the Russian leadership.
	So I imagine the Chinese are doing the same, where they fire a rocket at the Russians and then just make it crash just before or something.
	Yeah.
	Just to mess with them.
	Anyway, the Royal Austin Constabulary.
	Oh, you've moved it.
	I can't read it now.
	Sorry, John's getting it back up.
	I love the Royal Austin Constabulary.
	Yeah.
	Solution to Ireland and Brexit is rejoin the UK. You've said that before and you're still right.
	Sal Rice, the Tea Party was about saying, we are not that dependent on you.
	The English need to stop a cargo train and dump everything into that Eurotunnel.
	That would be good, wouldn't it?
	We did have a big joke about breaking it up.
	But the annoying thing is we own half of it.
	Because, of course, we both built it together.
	Josian Mann?
	Jones-in Mann.
	The Texas lawsuit absolutely will not work.
	20 states already countersued us.
	We're already outnumbered.
	Time to negotiate terms of surrender.
	No.
	Absolutely not under any circumstances.
	I mean, A, I don't think it's actually the number of petitioners that is going to affect the outcome.
	I mean, it will influence because of the perception of the judges, but I don't think on a legal basis it has any bearing on the merits of the case.
	But even if you're outnumbered, that's great.
	That means that you don't have to go very far to find the enemy.
	No surrender.
	No surrender.
	When have we ever negotiated terms of surrender as the English-speaking world?
	Name a time we negotiate terms of surrender.
	It hasn't happened since 1066, and I think that we'd bloody well better not allow it to happen now.
	The Earl of Longford, I'd rejoin an economic union with UK, but would want to withdraw the borders promised in 1921 Anglo-Irish treaty.
	I'm guessing you're Irish, and he's saying you'd like to rejoin the UK, but we'd have to negotiate the borders.
	I mean, we missed one from Ian here.
	With these negotiations, Boris is playing the Civilization trading screen on Chieftain mode.
	I don't know anything about the borders of the Anglo-Irish Treaty beyond I know they were set.
	I don't know what a domestic issue is there, but to be honest with you, I mean, I don't care.
	Would you have free movement with Ireland at this point?
	Well, I mean, if they're going to come back into the UK... I mean, it was only 80 or 100 years ago now, actually.
	Well, almost 99 years ago.
	It's not that long in the grand scheme of things.
	So, I mean, you know, at the end of the day, when you're done being under the German boot, I'd be happy to have Ireland back.
	I went over to Ireland last year.
	It was lovely.
	Didn't you get a platform there from some Irish college?
	No, we went to the university.
	It was an Irish club in London, wasn't it?
	Yes, but I think we didn't get a platform from there, did we?
	Oh, we had to go to the Polish one.
	Anyway, Damaster012.
	The UK might as well send Howie Mandel with 24 deals hidden in his suitcase to negotiate because the EU are being just as stupid as D-O-N-D contestants.
	They are right that you need reading lessons.
	That's 26 deals.
	Did I say 26?
	You said 24.
	Oh, whatever.
	What's D-O-N-D? You only like 23.
	How are your eyes this bad?
	I'm not sleeping well.
	We've all got excuses.
	What's D-O-N-D? I actually don't know.
	Oh, sorry.
	Deal or no deal.
	Oh, okay, yeah.
	I always hated deal or no deal because it didn't seem like a game.
	It was just guess the box.
	No, it's like, do I want this box or one other box?
	Because all the rest of them are pointless.
	Yeah, I've got absolutely no metric by which to decide between either box until I open them.
	Anyway, just some random guy.
	Have you thought of having a too-long-didn't-read feature on your articles?
	Highlight key features of the articles in a few sentences.
	Would be great for peeps at work.
	You know, that's actually a really great idea, and I think that we probably should do something like that.
	I'll speak to Josh and Hugo about it.
	Hopefully they can hear me saying this already, so I don't have to follow up much on this.
	So, like, four bullet points at the start.
	Yeah, just bullet points of any major issues that are raised in the article at the start.
	The Daily Mail does this, and it is actually a really effective thing.
	Grumbledore, execute order 1776.
	Yes.
	Earl of Longford, border gore, Ireland happened before the War of Independence.
	Oh, what is that word?
	So, committed by the UK and the nothing that came out of the promised border reform is injustice.
	I'm afraid we haven't looked into it, so we can't comment.
	But it's something to bear in mind, and if we see something about it coming along, we can definitely make sure we start getting into it.
	Slower Boga says, another side effect of the US Civil War.
	US distracted, Russia swallows back up the other old Russian lands, the ex-Soviet states.
	Poland and the Baltics freak out and mobilize completely.
	Yeah, I don't think...
	Yeah, well, they'd lose, wouldn't they?
	Yeah.
	Russia is not the same country that the Soviet Union was.
	I mean, demographically.
	It doesn't have a growing population.
	It can't afford to pour its manpower out in endless wars anymore.
	But even if the US was to go into an unironic civil war full scale, like the European Union's already made commitments to the rest of them through NATO. Yeah.
	Like, Angela Merkel was talking about- But they're not paying their bill, though, are they?
	Well, combined, they actually have a decent military, so I know it's a bit of a joke, because it's all different languages.
	Is half of their decent military our military, though?
	Yes.
	How did I know?
	And so, if the Russians invade Germany, again, I mean...
	Are we obliged?
	Are we in alliance with them?
	We've sided with Russia twice before.
	Yeah, it's not the first time.
	It's like, you know, on either side of it, they know.
	They know that that's the danger.
	Sir Peter Hitchin actually says this, our natural ally is Moscow, not Berlin.
	Yeah, I don't hate Russia at all.
	I don't want our country to be run like Russia.
	I'd love to liberalize them, but it's Russia.
	It's unlikely to get liberalized.
	But I've been saying this for ages.
	We should be making it profitable for them to be our friends.
	That's what we should be doing by trade and business and industry.
	And they've got a lot of things that we want.
	They're a giant country with wheat, oil, gas.
	They've got a large labor force.
	Who knows?
	I'm not against...
	There's a reason they've been our allies before.
	Yeah.
	And geopolitically, they're in a position that's strategically advantageous to us.
	RedDragon412, where can we gold-tier Lotus Eaters?
	See info for getting into the video chat.
	Also, US patriots, remember that Far Cry 5 soundtrack.
	Yes.
	Well, at the moment, you can't, but we are working on it.
	I have sent the request to the developers to enable us to be able to message particular tiers.
	It'll be posting articles with particular tiers that we'll announce the Zoom chats on.
	There'll be a link there so that you can follow it that only your tier can follow.
	I'm afraid sorry about the delay.
	We'll try and – we'll definitely email you if we don't get the thing up, though, with a time and a date, probably like a Friday afternoon just before Christmas or something, so we can have some Christmas drinks or something in the office and congratulate ourselves on having a job for a month.
	And thank you very much.
	You are very much key to that.
	Because there have been a lot of people saying, well, why don't you do like an investment thing with it?
	And the reason is because we're not doing adverts, right?
	So we haven't got corporate money coming into this company.
	We only have grassroots support.
	And we'll have partnerships with, like, the academic agency and stuff like that when we're sufficiently settled and we're confident we've got our process moving – But I really wanted the thing to be a grassroots community-led thing.
	So at the end of the day...
	The incentives are right.
	The incentives are right, exactly.
	And we're also robust then.
	So if all of our means of support, like the advertising stuff, get cut off, like we get demonetized on YouTube and all this sort of stuff, you know, at the end of the day, we still have a job and we can still work for you.
	So, yeah.
	So that's why we didn't go for an investment thing.
	We doubtless could have raised loads of money if we'd taken investment from either the public or from certain investors, but we haven't.
	And I've been very careful about this, because I want us to be operating on the right ethos.
	But right, we're going to have to hurry up.
	Sorry.
	As an American, EU dilenta est.
	Yes.
	Hey, Sargon, since you love to bring up common law so much, why is your opinion on Emperor Justinian and his...
	Corpus Juris Civilis.
	You know, I haven't read Justinian's Code of Laws, I'll be honest.
	It was written in the 6th century, and I didn't feel it to be terribly pertinent to the things I'm doing, but I am aware of them, of course.
	Justinian's actually a very interesting emperor, and at some point I do intend on doing premium history podcasts.
	With a chap called HistoryBro on YouTube, who I've done many of them with him already, and they've always been really, really good podcasts.
	Justinian's Reign is a very interesting one that we should do.
	So thank you for reminding me of this.
	DRTSKing says, bring back the black and tans.
	If Three Gorges Dam breaks, billions of Chinese will die.
	The day will shorten, the CCP will die a bloody death.
	Well, I mean, I don't want any of those things to happen.
	Well, I want the CCP to die.
	Well, yeah, but I'd rather the CCP to be overthrown rather than billions of Chinese dying.
	Well, the CCP to die means destroying them.
	Yeah, I know.
	I know.
	I would rather that not involve millions of deaths.
	White Hot Peppers.
	Hey, dude.
	Hey, Carl, have you seen the Christmas movie Klaus?
	I have not.
	I highly recommend it.
	Great animation.
	A wonderful story about owning yourself and not being a kuma living on daddy's money.
	Lesson for the kids.
	I would love a movie review.
	Well, you know what?
	That sounds like the sort of thing I want my son to watch.
	So Klaus, I will find that.
	I hope it's on Netflix.
	Derek Havener says, you're welcome as far as beating the krauts those last two times from the other side of the pond.
	Yes, you're right.
	We do have the Russians to thank for an awful lot.
	Ooh, shots fired.
	No, thank you, obviously.
	But, you know, it's about doing the right thing.
	It's about the right kind of world order you want to see, isn't it?
	Robin Card, thank you very much for the donation.
	Derek Havener again.
	Susan wouldn't let me send the G word.
	What's the G word?
	I don't know, but it's probably something quite innocuous, really.
	Is it German?
	I guess so, yeah.
	YouTube, man.
	It's ultra, ultra...
	Sensitive about the German question.
	Sensorious, yeah.
	I had a video making fun of the German question and they took it down, so it might actually be true.
	Yeah.
	I think I've sent you it.
	It was just calling them Nazis and that was enough.
	That was hate speech.
	Calling Germans Nazis is hate speech.
	Yes, I'll show you it afterwards.
	God damn.
	Thug life bear.
	If Trump gets re-elected, normies won't join riots.
	No, they won't, but the communists will.
	The Black Lives Matter activists will.
	That's all it takes.
	Yeah.
	Robin Card, imagine being Ireland on an island surrounded by the richest fishing waters in the world and starving to death.
	Lol.
	Too soon.
	Too soon.
	Shake a silver.
	It is complicated as well.
	I've only read lightly into it as well and it's already...
	I've skimmed over the surface and been like, right, okay, this is going to take a lot of work if I want to properly understand this.
	Well, wasn't the leadership lying to him about troop dispositions in Syria?
	Some of the generals were lying to him about the number of troops in Syria.
	I think you've mentioned that before.
	I did see, what was it, a week ago, he says all the troops in Somalia are getting pulled out.
	I don't know.
	It seems like he's ramping it up to me.
	I don't think Trump is that kind of imperialist either.
	And I think the Democrats, if he was, they'd probably...
	I mean, remember when he had the strike on Syria.
	And for that day, the media coverage of Trump was glowing.
	Oh, he's finally presidential.
	No, that's literally the term they use.
	That's how they think, though.
	You have to declare war to be a president.
	Yeah, and it's like, you know, but Trump had done the right thing.
	But anyway, yeah, like, he's just not that kind of guy, you know?
	British rule, sorry, the Royal Ulster Constabulary say, British rule is always beneficial.
	Rule Britannia.
	No lies detected.
	By the way, I made a mistake.
	I meant Labeneus, Caesar's lieutenants on the Gallic Wars, not Lepidus.
	My mistake.
	I can't remember who the consul...
	That is correct.
	Yeah, you are right.
	I should have got that.
	This is something that happened during the Gallic Wars as well, where Caesar would recruit Gauls, leave them as garrisons or food storage, and then a Gallic army would come along and they'd just defect.
	This happens a lot.
	And this happened with Hannibal and the Romans as he came over the Alps.
	The Romans had recently conquered the Po Valley, which is full of Gauls.
	And Hannibal comes over and the Romans are like, right, okay, guard these grain stores.
	And the Gauls are like, actually, we've joined Hannibal with all the grain.
	But anyway...
	Cathal Gannon.
	Irishmen here, sick of my government and their incompetence.
	We're potentially months away from the commies of Sinn Féin and co.
	from taking over.
	Yeah, you are.
	And it's weird how all of the Celtic nationalist parties have become intersectionalist, you know, have become like left-wing radicals.
	And it's, you know, the SNP, Plaid Cymru, Sinn Féin.
	Like, I, as an Englishman, I'm looking at thinking, I mean, I would be gutted if there was, like, an English party.
	Yeah, if UKIP was full of SJWs.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And UKIP wasn't really an English party.
	It was a unionist party.
	But if there was, like, the English Democrats as a small party, and if they were, like, radical left-wingers, I'd be like, how?
	How are we here?
	But anyway, the Earl of Longford, Irish man who has lived and worked in the UK. You'll know little more accurately, nothing about Ireland and Irish history, so careful there, simping, genocide support, self-determination, and post-state discrimination on language and religion.
	Yeah, I was saying to you, we have not been kind to Ireland in previous centuries, but the 20th century and onwards, we've done okay.
	The Surrender Guy.
	Hello, my fellow Lotus Eaters.
	Yeah, but at least he sent us some money to get repudiated.
	But yeah, no, no surrender.
	God damn it.
	The Earl of Longford.
	We have freedom of movement and I met you in Dublin, Carl.
	Good fun.
	Well, it was lovely meeting you too, man.
	Yeah, it was a really good time in Dublin with the Irish guys.
	It was a really good time with the Irish liberalists.
	It was great.
	Generic Wolf.
	It's a war between patriots and Chinese loyalists.
	The patriots have guns and food.
	What's the other side have beside hurt feelings?
	Moral indignation?
	Benjamin Grieco for $30 Australian dollars.
	Thank you very much.
	Off topic, have you guys seen what China has been posting about us Australians?
	Yes, we have.
	And I thought I posted something about this in Parlour.
	So for anyone who doesn't know, they're at the top of the unfriendly list because the government wants COVID investigation.
	But for anyone who doesn't know, essentially China has been espousing war rhetoric towards Australia, claiming that they're photoshopping a picture of Chinese troops threatening a child.
	An Afghan child is a fake picture because of allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan.
	It's war rhetoric, as if China is in any position to say you're committing war crimes.
	Shut up.
	You're China.
	You're the communist Chinese party.
	You have death camps.
	Yeah, you have death camps.
	Don't talk to me.
	You invaded Tibet.
	Or my son.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Don't talk to me or my son Australia.
	I said old rust lands meaning Ukraine and Belarus.
	Yeah, but well, Ukrainians would argue with this.
	But anyway.
	They're already taking it back, that's the point.
	Yeah, they are, yeah.
	Political pothead.
	Trump needs to appoint a special council to investigate the election irregularities and big tech influence.
	In case the lawsuit fails and Biden is POTUS, that would be good.
	But I imagine he's got a lot going on right now.
	And there are lawsuits against Big Tech right now, so I did a video on the Lotus East channel.
	If you go to the channel, you can find the alternate channel through there.
	Sorry, we're trying to get through this because I want to record this other bit for the weekend.
	All of the Russia and China shadiness is ridiculous.
	We need to replace nuclear tensions with giant Pacific Rim robots and just box it out.
	That would be a great way of solving wars, actually.
	Hang on, that is actually a marketable way of solving wars as well.
	You could broadcast this.
	There's money that could be made here.
	The Civic Nationalist says, Remember when good men are forced to do evil to prevent greater evil from spreading, be worried.
	Well, yeah, I think that's going to be an opinion that a lot of Republicans are going to hold.
	They're going to be like, look, I don't want to have to fight a civil war, but I don't think they're going to just let their country go.
	But right, please don't send any more for now, chaps.
	You could go to lotuses.com and sign up for premium, though, because we've got loads of extra content.
	We've got the Frank DeCotta's Dictators coming up, and we've got a bunch of other great stuff up there that we've already done.
	Callum can't comprehend challenging circu...
	Aha!
	Shut up!
	Circulocution, clearly.
	Stop speaking French.
	Put it in English.
	Philip Aboudi, BLM waiting for meeting with Harris Biden 30 days ago.
	Really?
	Eric Edward, Team Hugo.
	Man, these Hugo simps are multiplying.
	A list for you of states who have not joined on either side.
	Oh, thank you for this, by the way.
	Alaska, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York.
	No, a bunch of these have joined.
	About a bunch of these have joined.
	You're a little bit out of date.
	He's Australian, so maybe...
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But right, thank you.
	Thank you very much, everyone, for joining us.
	We will, of course, have more stuff for you on the weekend.
	There won't be clips.
	It'll be the weekend podcast that we're going to record just after this.

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