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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 23rd of September 2021.
	I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be talking about the smear merchants who are living in fear of Kemi Badenok.
	Also, it's okay to be a housewife and Keir Starmer is yeeting the left.
	Yes.
	Which is fun to see.
	I'm enjoying the Civil War.
	Not my problem.
	So!
	Yeah.
	Sit on the side, throw the money for the monkeys with the little knives, and enjoy.
	Anyway, some things to mention first on the website.
	Some things to mention here is Hugo's article, The World's Biggest Daylight Robbery.
	I don't know if you had something to say about this, but they have the extra audio as well, of course, for Silver Tears to go and check out.
	Oh, no, this is a really good article.
	I know you particularly enjoyed it.
	Yeah, I did.
	But I won't spoil it.
	It's worth the time.
	Okay.
	So go and check that out.
	I believe that's premium as well.
	So go and sign up to get access to that one.
	And also, the next one being the video you did, The Medium is the Message.
	Yeah.
	AOC. Yeah.
	Yeah, well, the medium is the message is a particular phrase, and the fact that she posted this out on her Facebook page with that was very interesting, and so I'm just unraveling exactly what all this means, and it, I mean, either she is a complete moron, or she is being rather cynical and playing her audience for fools.
	Either way, it's quite a good read, quite a good video, I think, so I'm very pleased with this one.
	I'm edging on the side of Moron.
	I really hope it's Moron.
	Because if it's not, then...
	Wow, Jesus.
	Well, she's the one swanning around with millionaires and billionaires, not me.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, last thing to mention is the Gold Tier Zoom call.
	We'll be doing that today.
	Yep.
	So, Thursday, not Friday, because live event, Friday.
	And as for live event, we'll see you there.
	Yeah.
	We'll see you tomorrow.
	South London.
	It'll be good.
	Yeah.
	As for the Zoom call, today, 4pm UK time, Gold Tiers, come and join.
	It'll be good fun.
	So, we'll be doing that.
	But without further ado, let's get into Kenny Badenock.
	He's my favourite MP and minister.
	A little around politician, to be honest.
	Yeah, and just battering ram against left-wing nonsense.
	Yeah.
	So anyway, these smear merchants are in very big fear of Kemi Badenoch, the battering ram of left-wing nonsense, as you just call her.
	So we have, of course, the first one here, being this smear merchant, Ben Hunt.
	I'm presuming that's how you say that?
	Yep.
	Anyway, so exclusive.
	The UK's Equalities Minister, Kemi Badenoch, mocked LGBTQ rights, questioned same-sex marriage, and called trans women men.
	Before flexing on them and then moving on.
	In an audio recording obtained by Vice World News.
	Thank you, Miss Badenock.
	Just wanted to mention his bio.
	I wonder if you can hover over it just to get this point across.
	He describes himself as senior reporter at Vice, at Vice World News, LGBT rainbow flag race, ex-BBC LGBT correspondent.
	Right, okay.
	So he's particularly on suicide watch over this.
	But he's also, of course, a leftist smear merchant who comes directly from the BBC and goes into that lovely little pipeline into open leftist media instead of subversive leftist media like the BBC. Anyway, so let's move on from this.
	Let's go to the smear piece itself because it is of interest, let's say.
	And we're just going to cut out the quotes from Kemi because that's the only thing of interest here.
	Weird, we didn't get the audio though, did we?
	No.
	Didn't release the audio.
	He didn't provide a lovely little silver-tier perk audio.
	No.
	Listen to Kemi.
	No.
	If you subscribe to Vice News, no.
	This is why Vice is a worse website than ours.
	Anyway, so he does give the quotes.
	Of course, probably not in full, but he gives what he gives.
	So she said, It's no longer about minority rights in terms of race anymore or nationality.
	It's now, you know, like, it's not even about sexuality now.
	It's now like the whole transgender movement where, okay, well, we've got gay marriage and civil partnerships, so what are transsexuals looking for?
	Great question.
	Wonderful question.
	The LGB movement, the LGB alliance, would be like, we want civil partnerships, we want no discrimination in law, blah, blah, blah.
	They can point to these things and say, that's the legal thing we're looking for.
	They got it?
	Yep.
	What are the T's looking for?
	I don't know.
	The privilege to transition children?
	Presently.
	Seems to be the frontier of civil rights they're arguing for.
	Yeah.
	With the Tavistock Centre.
	So then a further quote from Kenny.
	Even when, you know, so people hear about, you know, like the whole bathroom thing, it's actually more of an American thing.
	But they have a similar problem.
	That, right, so now, it's not just about being free to marry who you want...
	You now want to use the men's rooms.
	Have men using women's bathrooms?
	Yes.
	You now want to use the men's rooms and the women's bathrooms.
	It's like, okay, yep, Kemi is right again.
	I mean, she's not wrong, and how mad was the left?
	Very mad.
	And this whole article is them being very mad.
	And you see, I mean, that's like two paragraphs of someone talking, so it's a bit disjointed, the quotes, but that's one thing.
	And then the rest of it is just like, he called up all his leftist mates to be like, so how mad are you about this?
	And Labour phoned back and went, we're so mad.
	And then he called up Stonewall, who went, oh yeah, we're mad too.
	And then SMP and the SMP said, we're mad.
	And that's it.
	Sorry, the mad is like, excuse me, did you hear that this conservative minister isn't a progressive?
	Oh my god, isn't she?
	I'm really mad about that.
	Yeah, that's the whole thing.
	Cry harder, why should she be?
	Of course she shouldn't, and that's fantastic.
	So I love in here as well.
	It's literally like me ringing up and being like, guys, are you guys for lower taxes?
	No, we're leftists, we want higher taxes.
	Oh my god, did you hear that they wanted higher taxes?
	Of course they do, they're leftists.
	That's it.
	So they end this, and we've mentioned it before, they end it with a nice little list of all of her trophies in the culture war, and the best one being that they say, during Black History Month in October 2020, they do not push back against calls for more teaching of black history in schools, because she's an integrationist.
	She doesn't want to segregate off the Browns to have their own little history.
	Oh, what a radical.
	She believes black history is British history.
	Hmm.
	But you don't.
	Fights news.
	So she said, saying she did not want white children being taught about white privilege and inherited racial guilt.
	Wow.
	Of course you did.
	What a radical.
	Yeah.
	How could you not want to bully children for being the wrong race?
	Yeah.
	So we're going to the next link here, which is just the full speech.
	I'm outraged.
	Which I've spoken about before, and everyone should go and check it out.
	Parliamentarians YouTube channel are actually quite good for this kind of thing, I must say.
	And she goes in here and she just says that critical race theory is illegal to be taught in schools because it's racial collectivist nonsense.
	We don't want that.
	And also, Labour took that very personally.
	We're very upset by that statement.
	Well, what else can we teach?
	Like, we don't have any other policies.
	What's the point of not a party otherwise?
	Exactly, that's what we do!
	Yeah, so go give that a full lesson, just because I think it's good.
	But anyway, we'll move on from that.
	So this was a while back, so it's just like, I'm still salty about this, that's good.
	So let's move on to the next thing he tweeted in between all this.
	Oh, sorry, this is a leftist response to this as well, in which this leftist who lists themselves as Vice UK Executive Editor at BBC Sounds host.
	Again, that lovely little pipeline.
	Just go straight for the BBC, Intervice News, and back, or whatever you want.
	Really makes me think.
	Same, thanks.
	Anyway, she has a quote.
	It's absolutely disgusting that Kimmy Baden-Ock is a qualities minister when this is the stuff coming out of her mouth.
	Yeah.
	It's literally bigoted word salad.
	Yeah.
	It doesn't even make any sense.
	You can't even understand why she doesn't care about your whining.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	What are transsexuals looking for?
	I don't know.
	I just don't understand that question at all.
	That's why you can't give an answer, is it?
	So let's move on to the in-between smear he tried to do.
	This Ben Hunt, rhymes with a certain word.
	So Breaking, Mike Freer, a Gay Tory MP, has just been announced as the new Minister for Equalities.
	He will work alongside Liz Truss and Kevin Badenot.
	So, another one.
	I hope he's as based as they are.
	Yeah, and I love it.
	It also shows that you're the weird, creepy losers.
	Everyone else is just getting on with their lives.
	Like, this guy is just like, I don't care what Kemi says.
	Based.
	And then just joins up because she's not bigoted.
	That's the point.
	It's just reality biting you in the arse.
	Anyway.
	So let's go on to a second smear, because that didn't work.
	So let's try again.
	So he got his source, which apparently is someone who used to work with Kemi, presumably, because they have WhatsApp chats with her.
	Yeah, I wonder how much they're paying for these leaks.
	And this person who left got mad, and so has decided to do some very, very purposeful screencaps, as you can see with some of them there on the right there.
	Hmm.
	What was after and before that?
	Doesn't say.
	Anyway.
	So the smear on this, they say the UK's Equality Minister Kevin Baitnock said, I don't care about colonialism, dismissed the impact of colonialism on African countries, and mocked black public figures in the UK. What, Diane Abbott and David Labby?
	No.
	No, it turned out to be some black Tory MP. Right.
	And the mocking was that the leaker asked her, would you like him as Prime Minister?
	And she said, F no.
	That's mocking public black figures.
	Yeah.
	Well, I mean, how dare she?
	All of the information in that sentence, burn.
	But the thing is, if you were to poll people on these things, they'd probably all agree with her.
	So let's go to the next link, which is all the screenshots, because I can't bother to read through that crap again, in which they just have everyone being mad.
	So let's go through these screenshots.
	First one, of course, very cut off.
	So Kemi's saying, I don't care about colonialism because I know what we were doing before colonialism got there.
	They came in and just made a different bunch of winners and losers.
	Yeah, and that ties into this next one.
	There was never any concept of rights, so the people who lost out were old elites, not everyday people.
	And that's exactly correct.
	Yes.
	That's exactly correct.
	I mean, literally, you've got the British telling the King of Benin, look, you're going to stop the slave trade.
	And the King of Benin saying, no, please don't.
	It's the glory of my people.
	It's like, hang on a second.
	This isn't like, you know, African human rights.
	This is a slave trading royal aristocracy going, well, no, hang on a second.
	All of our power and wealth comes from the slave trade.
	If you take that away, then that's bad for us.
	But that's not bad for the people who are being traded as slaves.
	Right.
	The direct quote from that African king was, it is the source of glory and wealth for my people.
	Yes.
	The mothers of his country would sing lullabies to their kids about enslaving other Africans.
	Yes.
	And the British said, yeah, that needs to stop, bro.
	It's nothing.
	We went up for that.
	It was just the crying Wojak face from the Benin King.
	And Kemi's accurately representing this.
	Africa was not a noble land of glory and peace.
	No, there was no universal human rights that the evil white man came in and oppressed for hundreds of years.
	This is not how it worked, and she can identify that.
	Yeah, so let's go to the next screenshot on this.
	So, hey, Kemi, what are your thoughts on Sam something?
	Gima.
	Don't know him that well.
	He seems all right, I guess.
	What do you need?
	Oh, nothing.
	Just thought he'd be a good future Tory leader.
	F no.
	That's the mocking.
	I don't know who he is, but...
	No, I don't know either.
	I don't care.
	But she's allowed to...
	Do you know who I think would be a good future Tory leader?
	Ooh, ooh.
	Maybe the first black woman prime minister that Labour won't ever have.
	And they will endlessly be crying about.
	Yes.
	Anyway, let's go to the next one on here.
	So this is the next screenshot in which they have Kemi saying, I was on a panel with Kimberley Crenshaw.
	Kimberley Crenshaw being one of the authors and prime movers of critical race theory.
	So she says, who is like the queen of critical race theory at UCLA or Stanford.
	She was practically in tears by the end of it because she literally had never heard the arguments I was making and could not respond.
	Based.
	Like, it makes it sound so good.
	So we went and dug this up, and yeah, Kimberly Crenshaw, so they only had about half of the...
	We will get into this.
	Oh, okay.
	So she responds, the leaker saying, I'm trying to meet you where you are and engage on your train of thought, and Kemi responds with, and then she started shouting that I had no right to be on the panel because I hadn't read her book.
	Anyway, let's stop there.
	Let's have a chat another time.
	So, it's just a conversation where Kemi's just like, yeah, so this critical racery lady, she's full of S, and she is pathetic, which she is.
	So, that's that.
	And then we have the last one here, of her being even more based.
	So, someone saying to Kemi, the leaker, I'll never understand why some people are so taken aback by articulate black people, i.e.
	in re-comments underneath it, it was really good.
	And then Kemi responding, don't mind them like if they found a talking monkey.
	Problem is that there are too many inarticulate black people given front and center stage.
	Look at Diane Abbott.
	True.
	How many more left shoes does she need?
	Practically the only black woman you see discussing politics.
	She can't count.
	And how she disgraced herself not knowing her brief.
	That kind of stuff is so bad for us.
	Yes.
	That's amazing.
	But I just think it's incredible that she basically BTFOs Kimberley Crenshaw just by, like, going, no.
	You're full of nonsense.
	You're American.
	I'm a black American.
	You're not even black.
	Yeah, we can be just like, I'm from Nigeria.
	Yeah, you know nothing of Africa.
	Exactly.
	Anyway, but also the point being made there, I mean, it is horrible that Diane Abbott is the first black PM, I think.
	No, MP. Sorry, because she is a joke.
	Like, international joke, because she's pathetic.
	Yes.
	I think an advocate of all women shortlists as well, which is probably why.
	Anyway, so in the article itself, you get the name of the leaker, and apparently the WhatsApp messages from Badenock were sent privately or posted to a group chat called...
	Conservative friends of Nigeria.
	So, there's people with Nigerian sources as well.
	Nigerians who are in contact with Nigeria, other Nigerians, and who are conservatives.
	Yes.
	And they weren't woke.
	No.
	Shocking.
	Actually, that is shocking, to be honest.
	The leaker themselves has a name of Funmi Aboayo.
	Sorry.
	Apparently, she's the leaker and was a former investment banker.
	Very oppressed.
	Gonna give a big cry to that lady.
	And then there's some quotes from Labour being mad and left this race trust being mad.
	But there were two other quotes out of it that I thought were just really funny.
	So in there it said, In another message sent to part of the same conversation, Badenock defended her beliefs around race, describing a mini-identity crisis that she had in her early mid-twenties.
	She discusses how she learned more about her race from someone who she believes would have been sacked for racism today.
	Someone set her straight away from the nonsense beliefs of the left and she believes he wouldn't be around anymore.
	She said that she had a colleague who took no prisoners on this issue and said he was very aggressive in challenging my view of what African achievement actually was.
	Hmm.
	So yeah, it's good to know as well.
	Like, she gets her baseness from someone who was based and came to her and was like, look, don't believe that leftist nonsense.
	Yeah.
	That's victimhood narrative that means nothing, doesn't reflect reality.
	Yeah.
	And she was like, you know what, you're right.
	Good point.
	Yeah.
	Fantastic.
	Anyway, so let's move on from this.
	So there's the response I saw.
	So you saw Politics for All tweeting that this happened.
	And then Julie Hartley Brewer saying, what's the uppercase B for black?
	It's an adjective, not a proper noun.
	Well, that's where you're wrong, Julia, because the critical race theorists who have taken command of the conversation regarding race, and in particular, capital B, black people, want to have B to be, the black to be, a proper noun, so it is a nation, and this is the term they use, a nation within a nation.
	It's a segregationist, separatist movement.
	And as you can see from below, if you can scroll, Politics for All is just like, wow, we just took it from the quote.
	So it's not Politics for All's fault.
	It's the race theorist type, like the chap who wrote the article from the BBC. Big surprise.
	So there's also some other leftist seething.
	So if we go to the next one, we have Dr.
	Schola.
	Dr.
	Scholar.
	So for anyone who doesn't know who Dr.
	Scholar is, right, you can see from her profile picture she's there screeching.
	This is all she does.
	She goes on Good Morning Britain or the BBC and she screeches about how much she hates Britain and everyone in Britain's racist, Britain's evil, it's an evil colonial legacy, everything's evil and Britain's bad, while being paid fat stacks of cash for working in Britain to tell us we're bad people.
	And that's Dr.
	Scholar in a nutshell.
	Yeah, so as you can see here, minister of no equalities, black executioner of Tory racist policies, racial gatekeeper extraordinaire.
	To be honest, it's kind of something like a superhero or something.
	A bloody disgrace.
	I mean, Kennedy's just like, well, I'm good, but I'm not that good.
	Racial gatekeeper extraordinaire.
	I don't know what the hell that means.
	Well, that's the point.
	This is Dr.
	Shola.
	Everything is about race, of course, to Dr.
	Shola.
	And she's oppressed, even though she's a doctor, and she's living in the UK, and she's getting loads of money, and she's got all these media gigs.
	She's oppressed, and this is her trying to speak on behalf of all black people.
	And Kemi's saying, no.
	Yes.
	You don't speak for me, and I'm a black person, so you're not the person who speaks for all black people.
	That's her being a racial gatekeeper.
	And this is the only attack the left have, which is to talk about race.
	And when it's someone like Kimmy, you can just tell them to go stuff themselves.
	Honestly, I'm amazed you didn't just call them an Uncle Tomina.
	They will within the coming weeks, I imagine.
	Apparently they already did in a bunch of the comments, but whatever.
	Interesting responses, though.
	Julie Bindle.
	On our side.
	So, let's go to the next one.
	You can see Julie Bendel.
	Perhaps Vice could begin to self-identify as a serious publication.
	That's a good burn.
	Good put-down.
	See, everyone's complaining, but now we're on the same side as the turf, and it's like, well, what choice do we have?
	Also, they're not wrong.
	On this, they're not wrong.
	When it comes to male-female interactions, they're, of course, full of it, but, you know, that conversation's been had.
	Yeah, but of course there was gushings of right-wing support, shall we say, or normal support for Kemi, because...
	Yeah, the right-wing otherwise called normal.
	I mean, is Judy Bindle part of the right-wing?
	No.
	That's the thing.
	So everyone pretty much in support of Kemi except the extremists.
	So as you can see from the spectator here, there was a guy who made a good point.
	He's a guy who apparently writes the Ethics and Empire Project, so trying to rebukes some of the lies about Britain.
	And on here he said, Thank you.
	Thank you.
	But of course, they don't know anything about history.
	No.
	Which is why they're so mad about Kemi pointing out the facts.
	So, he has a quote from here.
	In fact, Baden-Ock has a far better grasp of history than her critics.
	She is clearly referring to the fact that centuries before European colonizers arrived, Africans were enslaving other Africans, mostly by capturing them in wars and raids, and sometimes taking them instead of debt.
	Often, slaves were destined for profitable export, first to Roman markets and then to Arab ones.
	The one no one wants to talk about.
	but they also had their local uses which involved supplying victims for human sacrifices.
	Such sacrifices served a variety of purposes sometimes to appease the gods but more often to supply a deceased master with servants in the afterlife to make a copious display of extravagant wealth and to intimidate onlookers.
	Although wives, favourites, women and foreigners were liable to serve as victims too.
	Slaves were the main source.
	Commonly, their fate was to be buried alive.
	How progressive.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, but he makes the perfect point there that this is Kemi being completely true.
	He's someone who studies this kind of history for his project.
	And then he ends with this.
	What's more, while the British did follow the Arabs and the Africans into the slave trade, they were the first to repent of it.
	No one else abolished the slave trade except from the British.
	Moral good.
	Oh, well then we went around the world making everyone else abolish it by force.
	So, on the history side, full of it.
	On the facts side, full of it.
	On the narrative side, full of it.
	It's actually really amusing.
	So the first half of the 19th century, we were like, oh god, this African slave trade that we've been engaging in, no, no, that's got to stop.
	But also the Portuguese, the Spanish, everyone else has to stop it as well.
	So by the midpoint of the 19th century, they were like, right, okay, well, job's done.
	And then someone was like, by the way, you should look at the other side of Africa.
	And they were like, what?
	And so they said...
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	And then they're like, oh, look, the Arabs are doing it.
	Well, no, you're more than you're not.
	And, yeah.
	I mean, the Saudis abolished it in, what, like, 1976?
	I thought it was 1963.
	But either way, it's in the...
	Much sooner than I thought.
	Way into the 20th century.
	Unlike everyone else who had just got over it.
	So I looked up the audio, and apparently the full audio can be found here on SoundCloud.
	No, well, this is the thing.
	This is not the full audio, right?
	So you can go onto their website and get the 45-minute...
	This is only 33 minutes.
	45 minutes.
	But the thing is, that cuts off...
	At a certain point, just, you know, you're 45 minutes in and Kemi starts speaking and then that's it.
	Then it just fades to black and you can't get any more.
	And so it's obviously afterwards where Kimberley Crenshaw starts losing her S and screeching at her and stuff like that.
	And you don't get to see that.
	So it's nice that they protected Kimberley Crenshaw's dignity because otherwise we'd be able to mock it.
	If anyone has a copy, I'm sure I'd be happy to play a bounty for it.
	Oh, God, yeah.
	If you can get a copy of it, we'd love it.
	Fantastic.
	But I did go through some of this.
	I didn't get to listen to the full thing because of time constraints.
	But I did get to listen to some of it, and there was a very good section, which I presume is what made Kimberley Crenshaw cry the most.
	So let's enjoy it.
	So let's play this clip.
	environment now, but hostile environment for illegal immigration is something that there's been a greater push for, not just in the UK, but all over Europe.
	This is a European thing.
	So when Kim talks about, this is also a European thing, when Kim talks about what's happening at the border between, you know, say for instance, Mexico and the US, we're seeing this even between European countries where some, the further east you go, they don't want the Romanians and Bulgarians who again, you know, are white to, to, to come in because they they don't want the Romanians and Bulgarians who again, you know, are white to, to, to come in because they feel that they It is a lot more complex.
	And where I would challenge the language around white supremacy, for instance, I would challenge it because the group of people who suffer the most in the UK are not blacks or Asians.
	It's white working class boys.
	It's very much a class issue.
	If you are a middle class black or Asian person, you are not going to suffer in the same way that if you are black working class.
	It is class.
	And we don't want to talk about class.
	You know, Diane says we don't want to talk about race.
	We talk about race constantly.
	What she says is, I think what she really means is, I can't talk about race without my views being challenged.
	We've been talking about race non-stop for years.
	We have been.
	Love it.
	No, no, no.
	That's very interesting.
	So when she says it's white working class boys, you can hear the edit, right?
	So that you can hear the edit in that.
	And the only reason I was able to notice that, because I watched the full thing, after she says white working class boys, there's an audible boo from the audience who are mostly white themselves.
	They're literally like, boo!
	And it's like, that's factually true.
	Literally, why are you booing me?
	I'm right.
	I've got the goddamn report.
	Exactly.
	Why are you booing me?
	I'm right.
	The meme.
	Hmm.
	Kemi being absolutely right.
	There's the video we can find, but if someone's got a full version, please do send it in, because we're hoping to do a premium podcast and all that.
	Yeah, but unfortunately, like I said, I don't want to do it until we've got the footage of Kimberley Crenshaw actually responding to Kemi Batenock and screeching at her, because that's obviously the money that's in there, and I don't want to do it with that.
	Otherwise, it's just them making their points without actually engaging with each other's points.
	I mean, don't get me wrong, it's interesting and useful, but I would like that on there too.
	We've got to get the money shot of Kimberly Crenshaw crying after being BTFO'd by Kemi.
	But anyway, Kemi Bainong did nothing wrong.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So, let's talk about why women should make sandwiches for their husbands.
	What?
	That is anything.
	No.
	And there's nothing wrong with it at all.
	In fact, it's advantageous, as many women will tell us.
	This is a really, really amusing example.
	It came up in 2013, originally, I think it was.
	So this woman called Stephanie Smith, she's a 30-something colonist, and she's hanging out with her boyfriend one day, and she's like, well, you know, are you going to buy me a ring?
	He's like, well, maybe after you've made me 300 sandwiches.
	And she's like, right, okay, I'll get to work then.
	I like that kind of attitude.
	It's like, right, that's no problem at all.
	I can make 300 sandwiches for an engagement ring.
	And so she says, naturally, what's a woman to do other than get her butt into the kitchen and start slicing bread, meat, and cheese?
	Yeah, it's a good attitude, to be honest.
	I like that attitude a lot.
	As of this week, back in 2013, the senior reporter had made 124 sandwiches.
	Oh no, she had 124 sandwiches to make before he would buy her the ring.
	And after reading her plea for a book and or movie deal and a piece in the New York Post, we mostly learned that one should never learn about love from people who trade diamond rings from lifelong commitments for sandwiches.
	Why not?
	Huffington Post.
	Why not?
	She knows what she's doing.
	She's going to get that ring.
	She's making the sandwiches to get her ring.
	Living an interesting life.
	HuffPo are mad about this.
	Yes.
	Of course they're mad about it.
	Women are literally like, yeah, I'll make sandwiches for that diamond ring.
	I want that ring.
	I love it.
	Yeah, and as John points out, the only legitimate reason is because Kiso.
	But of course, sandwich is a metaphor for food, you know, making me a dinner, making me lunch.
	But anyway, so they say her entire narrative sounds terrifyingly retro.
	Oh no, not retro?
	What's wrong with that?
	That's not bad, that's good.
	Right, maybe I needed to show him how I could cook to prove that I'm wife material, she writes.
	If he wanted 300 sandwiches, I'd give him 300 sandwiches.
	And they say, note self, never use the phrase wife material earnestly in 2013.
	Yeah, okay, spin stuff.
	It's because you're not wife material.
	Yeah, you're not wife material, that's what you're saying.
	You know, it's not bad for a woman to want to be wife material, because if she wants a husband, that seems to be the easiest way to get one.
	And he's got to be husband material too.
	Exactly, yeah, exactly.
	It's a two-way negotiation.
	You know, if you want to get a man who's husband material, well then you have to be wife material.
	So anyway, they carry on, bitterly.
	Apparently Smith's blog is actually just a race between her sandwich-making skills and her ovaries.
	Three sandwiches a week times four weeks a month times 12 months a year meant I wouldn't be done until I was deep into my 30s, she writes.
	How would I finish 300 sandwiches in time for us to get engaged, married, and have babies before I exited my childbearing years?
	Okay, nothing focuses the mind like a ticking clock.
	Ladies, you're on a ticking clock.
	You just have to deal with that.
	I think I make three sandwiches a week.
	I don't know.
	If you make more than three sandwiches a week, I would.
	I do.
	Yeah, but John's saying, well, 365 days a year, sure, but, you know, maybe he doesn't want sandwiches every day of the week, you know, so she's only got so many opportunities, and so the clock's running down, she's like, right, I'm going to get this sorted out.
	She's the woman.
	She's the one who decides if he's having sandwiches.
	Well, I mean, maybe.
	I don't know.
	But if she's making the food for him, it's like, no, I'm having sandwiches today.
	What's he going to do?
	I mean, at the end of the day, that's what you would expect, wouldn't it?
	If you gave her 300 sandwiches, she's like, well, you're getting 300 sandwiches every day, then, aren't you?
	You know, sandwiches every day.
	Why not?
	Exactly.
	You said it at 300, mate.
	But anyway, they carry on.
	Her charming boyfriend wants the women of the world to know just how little we know about the men in our lives.
	You women read all these magazines to get advice on how to keep a man, and it's so easy.
	We're not complex, just do something nice for us like make a sandwich.
	That's not radical.
	Yeah.
	That's literally all men want, is someone who's going to take a bit of care of them because they've been working all day, show a bit of love.
	Yeah, or get your wife dinner or something.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, in exchange, she's going to do things for you.
	It's a partnership.
	But anyway, let's go over to her blog, right?
	So she's been carrying on this blog the whole time, and it's still going.
	Has she made 300 yet?
	I'll explain.
	I'm sorry.
	She says, you know, sandwich meant more to him than nice gifts, regular sex, or any other incentive I could use to get him close to putting a ring on it.
	I'm not sure how 300 became the magic number, but because it would perhaps take me about a year to make that many sandwiches, if I produce one Monday through Friday.
	But it seemed like a long enough time in the future to seem far away, and it seemed like a lofty goal, out of easy reach.
	I set about it without complete confidence that I would accomplish it.
	Some might argue the idea is sexist.
	A woman in the kitchen, how Stepford wife of you.
	What is this BS narrative?
	A woman can never be in the kitchen now.
	It's oppression.
	But she's just like, you know, some say I'm desperate to get engaged.
	Hardly.
	I don't have to be.
	You didn't say, cook me 300 sandwiches or I'm leaving you.
	And she says, you know the old saying, the weight of a man's heart is through his stomach.
	Well, it worked for her because in 2015 she got that ring.
	She did it.
	Yep.
	This is them being married for two years.
	You look at this childless spinster feminist.
	She got what she wanted.
	She's happy.
	Not just she got the ring.
	Look at the lovely wedding she got.
	Look at everything that she has.
	This is her perfect day, and she made it happen, and they look happy, you know?
	They look like they're happy with each other.
	And, of course, things just got better from there because she ended up with a baby.
	She got what she wanted.
	She thought, right, I'm going to be a good wife.
	I'm going to prove I'm wife material.
	Boom.
	He...
	Antied up.
	You know, he married her.
	She got the kids.
	She's got everything that she wanted.
	Spinsters BTFO'd.
	And this is not the only example of this, of course, right?
	So the next one is on the sun, right?
	And I love when the sun reports on stuff like this, because it's really about where they should be aiming at, right?
	So this one woman, a doting wife, had been slammed online because she revealed that she prepares a packed lunch for her tradesman husband every single day.
	So her husband works with her hands, does manual labour, and so she prepares him a lunch every day.
	That's kind.
	That's cute AF. It's adorable, right?
	And women online are mad about this.
	How could you?
	So she put a picture of her husband's lunch up, which looks amazing, I just want to say.
	I mean, I'm not a tradesman, I couldn't eat that much because I would just get really, really fat, right?
	But look at this, four sandwiches, or two sandwiches, crackers, frankfurters, cheese, a muesli bar, fruits.
	That's a hell of a good lunch, right?
	I could make a better lunch.
	In fact, I've seen wives make that lunch.
	I should have sent you the leg.
	Remember that I showed you the Japanese lady?
	Yes.
	But, like, for something your wife makes you every day, this looks like a pretty good lunch, in my opinion.
	I'd be very happy with this.
	And so, proud of her packed lunch, she posted the snap of a home-prepared meal on the Budget-Friendly Meals Australia Facebook group.
	Oh, yeah, she's doing it on a budget as well, right?
	But then they all started freaking out for treating her husband like a child and waiting on him hand and foot.
	What?
	For being kind.
	Not hand on foot, he made him lunch, Jesus Christ.
	Calm down.
	What, she sweeps the floor, you're a slave.
	Yeah, he sat there and she's like, you know...
	Anyway.
	So, among the criticisms a woman received, one woman said, do we have to feed them during the day in two now?
	It's like, what?
	Like...
	Yeah, I have to.
	But you're feeling personally attacked because this woman's doing a good job and you're thinking, oh my god, what if my husband sees that she's doing a good job and thinks, why isn't my wife doing as good a job?
	So now you're worried that you're going to be compared to her and worried that actually you're not a very good wife, are you?
	You're not like wife material, really, are you?
	You sound like you're doing the bare minimum, which isn't really what someone wants out of their partner, is it?
	No one wants the bare minimum, do they?
	But anyway, so, you know, other women started admitting, well, I write affectionate messages on the lid of my husband's lunchbox every morning, and while another says she once mixed up her husband's lunch with her sons, much to the amusement of her colleagues.
	And so if you go back up to that one, John, go back up to that one.
	So that's another wife posted that, and you can see, look at these adorable little messages she's left for her husband.
	Isn't that adorable?
	Like, you know, the good thing in life, something like, are better than you, or something like that.
	The good things in life are better than you.
	A little love heart.
	That's adorable.
	A little love heart on the eyes.
	Yeah.
	Like, you would not at all be upset to open, you know, your bag or whatever your life is packing for the day.
	Oh, that's so cute.
	You know, it makes doing my tradie job much more bearable.
	You're going to get the food and be like, that whore!
	And you're going to come home happy to see your wife who left you an adorable message for when you went out during the day.
	How nice is that?
	And so these women in this group, a lot of them were like, no, this is not acceptable.
	That means I have to do things and take responsibility for being a good wife, and I don't want that.
	And so, yeah.
	And a pensioner who made lunches for her husband every day until he retired praised the people who take the time to do this, saying it's fast becoming a thing of the past.
	Well, why?
	Because of feminism.
	Feminism teaching women that they don't have any responsibilities and that they shouldn't have any, you know...
	I don't care or love for the people around them, which is awful.
	And so this whole thing was triggered by me seeing another Sun article.
	I don't know how I keep seeing so many Sun articles.
	John sent it to me.
	Right, okay, that's why.
	He always sends me dadist stuff, because he loves these segments.
	But anyway, this is a great article.
	I really enjoyed this, right?
	Because this woman, if you can scroll down a bit, people have seen the title, right?
	She's just like, look, I'm a full-time wife.
	It's like, wow, breaking news.
	Woman is happy being a wife.
	You know, she gets up at 6am to make my husband's breakfast and clean, and if women looked after the men like me, they wouldn't get divorced.
	Be shamed, women.
	This woman is like, look, all you have to do is be a good wife, and your husband won't leave you.
	Do you not get, like, the Chad energy from this as well?
	Oh, yeah.
	She's like, yeah, I'm a Chad wife.
	Peak Chad.
	A, like, she's gorgeous.
	She's got a big, happy family.
	Her husband looks like he's thrilled.
	And she's just like, yeah, flexing all of these divorced or singleton women, being like, yeah, you know why you don't have this?
	Because you suck.
	Because you're not wife material.
	Look at me, I've got an amazing family.
	It's awesome, right?
	I love this.
	So what's interesting, though, is that she was privately educated, and then she's like, nah, I'd rather be a mum.
	And so her and her husband have been together since she was, like, 16 or something.
	And at 19, she had children, had her first child, and she loves being a traditional wife with no interest in her career.
	She's married to Phil, who owns a plumbing business, so he's a successful, productive man.
	And she says that staying at home and being feminine helps their marriage to flourish.
	And that screeching you can hear in the distance are fat, childless, purple-haired feminists.
	You can hear it.
	Just be feminine and be a homemaker and you'll have a great marriage, is what she's saying.
	She says, I believe that one of the reasons there are so many failed marriages is that women don't behave in the way that men want.
	I mean, she's not wrong, is she?
	I know my husband likes to be looked after and for me to be feminine so he can be masculine.
	We balance each other out.
	Just Chad, traditional housewife.
	Just being like, yeah, just be a woman.
	Don't be a screeching harpy.
	Why am I going to say this?
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's just, you know, your grandmother would have known this.
	Anyway, so she went to this private school and was like, no, I don't want to go to university.
	I want to be a mum.
	And her decision to become a teen mother...
	I love it, teen mother.
	She's 19.
	She's not like 12 or 13 or something.
	But anyway...
	Yeah, this isn't an Islamic country.
	No.
	But this stunned many of her school friends who now hold down big careers as lawyers and doctors.
	Yeah.
	And they probably go to their therapist and say, why can't I find a husband?
	You know?
	They're probably like, yeah, I'm out-earning every man I know.
	Why won't a man touch me?
	You know?
	And she's there just, like, with her Chad huge family, just being like, listen, losers, you know?
	Don't let that Californian woman look at us.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	Avert your gaze, children.
	You know?
	So anyway.
	So, anyway, so her mum, her parents were like, well, hang on a second, we wanted you to go to university, and she was just like, no.
	But this was quite, you know, their parents were quite annoyed, but apparently they were all right.
	But now, of course, they've got a bunch of grandkids, and what kind of parents can be annoyed that you've got a bunch of grandkids?
	Grandkids are awesome.
	So, the Suns say millions of Brits returned to their places of work for the first time earlier this month, having worked from home all throughout the pandemic, but Bronte is glad she's not one of them, and believes that women cannot have it all.
	So she's woke on feminism.
	Women, you can have everything.
	She's like, nah, but you can be happy if that helps.
	She says she's perfectly happy staying at home while Phil earns the money.
	She cleans all day and then goes to bed around 11pm.
	And she says, I love homemaking.
	It's my favourite thing to do.
	And that's alright.
	If that's what you enjoy, if that's what you want.
	And I saw another post about this, like, going around.
	I posted it on my Facebook page.
	Where it's just some, like, 19-year-old woman or 20-year-old woman going like, you know, oh, I've got to work until I'm 65 before I can retire, and all I want to do is be a wife and mum.
	Who made these rules?
	Feminists.
	Feminists made these rules.
	But if you're lucky, you can find a man who's not interested in playing that game, and you can be the wife and mother that you want to be.
	It's not what I was doing, in fact.
	But anyway, so she believes that everyone can make their own lifestyle choices, but she only wanted to be a traditional 50-styles mother.
	My parents paid a lot of money, but I just wanted to be a stay-at-home mum.
	Being a mum was all I could think about.
	Something was missing until I had her, which is her daughter.
	And she argues that people who belittle young mums are foolish because bringing up children is hard work, which it is.
	She says years ago, if you hadn't had a baby by the time you were 20, you were considered to be a spinster.
	Now it's the reverse.
	It takes an intelligent person to bring up children.
	People say I'm wasting myself, especially because I went to a private school, but I simply take a relaxed approach to education.
	I don't think university is the most important thing.
	And I agree.
	I don't think it is the most important thing.
	You know, I mean, actually having the life that you want is the most important thing.
	And she's got the life that she wants.
	Notice how she's not, like, posting on Twitter, I'm depressed.
	These are my mental health issues that I'll list in my bio.
	You know, oh, I just wish I wasn't being oppressed by the patriarchy.
	Oh, my life's terrible.
	Oh, I'm so sad.
	No, she's happy.
	She's healthy.
	She's having a great life.
	And she's doing it on her own terms.
	And all the sperm is just screeching about it.
	But she says, well look, I am anti-feminist.
	She says, there could be so much pressure on women to saturate the male environments that traditional femininity can become completely discredited and undervalued.
	I think that's true.
	There's nothing wrong with being a traditionally feminine woman.
	In fact, it's actually very advantageous, because if you think, like, in my own life, I've seen this many times, where, like, very feminine women just happen to get on really well with men, because men happen to respond to women playing the feminine role.
	You know, they know what's expected of them, and if a woman is sort of playing that game, then it's very easy for them to get exactly what they want out of pretty much every man around them, you know?
	But anyway...
	She says, it's considered a wasteful of a woman's education to just be a housewife.
	It's almost as if homemaking is only an appropriate occupation for a woman who has little intellect or prospects.
	Actress Emma Watson once said, feminism is not a stick with which to beat each other, but so often feminism seems to invoke a shame of being too traditionally female, or it should be a celebration of female choice.
	So here I am, a privately educated and strong-minded woman who is choosing to live the life of a traditional housewife.
	I couldn't be happier with it.
	Fantastic.
	Yeah.
	Chad Housewife, flexing on the lonely feminists.
	Enjoy your cats.
	I have my kids to deal with and my husband to make lunch for.
	Bye!
	I sent John another link because I just wanted to demonstrate.
	Because you mentioned Chad Housewife.
	Yeah.
	And the reason I was talking about the Japanese girl who makes food for her husband is I feel like there's some extra Chad energy there with her because she's made a massive YouTube channel out of it as well.
	Yeah.
	So, like, this is week one, right?
	Oh, wow.
	900,000 views.
	And you look at the food.
	It looks amazing.
	You know, she's got to know how to work the cameras.
	If you like Japanese food.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But it's, you know, it's very cutely done.
	It's fantastic.
	And if you go to her channel, if you scroll down, just click on her channel name just to show that she's kept this up.
	Like, she hasn't just done it once.
	And she's on, like, if you go to videos...
	Nearly 800,000 subscribers.
	Yeah, 800,000 subs.
	Go to videos.
	And you see she's on week 26.
	Still going.
	And they all look great.
	Yeah.
	I just feel like she's winning times ten, like this individual here.
	Like staggering numbers of views on these videos, actually.
	Again, Chad Housewife energy, I love it.
	And literally what she does is she makes lunchboxes.
	Yeah, versus the literal, well, probably not literal, virgin spinsters who are dying alone with their mental health problems.
	Don't take the advice of feminists on your own relationships, ladies.
	Make your choice.
	Let's move on to Keir Starmer.
	So Keir Starmer is yeething the left and causing more civil wars than I can count at this point.
	But it's fun.
	And it's not our problem.
	It's his problem.
	Again, this is like watching a spider and a wasp have a battle to the death.
	It's like, I don't care about any of these.
	I keep mentioning it because it keeps reminding me of the Simpsons meme with the two monkeys with knives on the boat.
	And I love throwing in the money.
	So let's have a look at this one first.
	So this is Labour votes to ban far-left factions that supported Corbyn's leadership.
	Oh, no.
	And it's just important to know that Corbyn's been chucked out of the Parliamentary Labour Party for being an anti-Semite.
	He's a Labour member but not a Labour MP. No.
	And they've been begging him, can we let him back in?
	No.
	So here's the National Executive Committee moved on Tuesday to prescribe resist and Labour against the witch hunt, which claims anti-Semitism allegations were politically motivated.
	Your anti-Semitism is politically motivated.
	Yeah, so also Labour in Exile Network.
	That's not saying we're not anti-Semites.
	That's just saying you're politically against anti-Semitism.
	So that's why we formed this group, and we shouldn't be banned.
	So Labour Exile Network...
	They were also banned, which expresses welcomes for suspended members to join them.
	So it's like, right.
	So you are literally an organisation within the party that is joining up with people who are banned from the party to fight the party.
	Yeah, I'm not surprised.
	And if I were to hear somewhere, I'd kick them out too.
	Yeah, I'm not surprised you got kicked on that one, but the other two were not saying that the accusations against them are false.
	They also banned Socialist Appeal.
	Socialist Appeal, a group that describes itself as a Marxist voice for labour and youth, will also become a banned group.
	Well, I like it when they just openly say, hey, we're a bunch of Marxists.
	Yeah.
	Like, we know.
	You're banned.
	Get lost.
	Anyone found to be a member of any of these groups could be automatically expelled from the Labour Party.
	So that's nice.
	And if I were Keir Starmer, I'd go a bit further.
	Anyone friends with them on Facebook would be expelled, too.
	Even if you follow them.
	Anyway, so that's one thing in which he banned a bunch of them, because, yeah, of course he did.
	We also started another civil war, which is funny, because it's about the TERFs versus trans activists, again.
	Yeah.
	Or these straight white men, as they have been called by Richard Duffield.
	So Keir Starmer backs women-only spaces in specific circumstances.
	What a radical.
	I love it, but it's in specific circumstances.
	Can't do it blanketly.
	Men shouldn't be allowed into women's spaces.
	Keir Starmer, radical socialist.
	I know, but I know he's trying to just sit on that fence post there again.
	Well, I'll do it, but I won't as well.
	Which is just, you know, every time.
	So Labour will continue to back the Equality Act, which allows for the provision of women's only spaces as issues around trans rights threaten to open a row within the party.
	So he's like, comrades, can we please stop fighting?
	Yeah.
	I love Rebecca Long-Bailey's confused expression.
	But do you remember when Keir Starmer was first elected?
	And they were like, okay, so on this Black Lives Matter, defund the police stuff.
	And Keir Starmer, this was obviously the first time he'd heard this or something.
	And the live reaction was just like, obviously that's nonsense.
	It's like, no, no, Keir, this is the Labour Party.
	This is the left at the moment.
	They honestly think that people with penises can be women.
	They honestly think that the police need to be gotten rid of.
	They honestly think that our countries are just entirely and irredeemably racist.
	That's what they think.
	I mean, you were at the previous conference.
	The one that I watched all of and then just cut down to the good bits for our YouTube channel.
	Yeah, it really is that bad.
	Anyway, so, continuing on this.
	The Labour leader's spokesman said he remained wedded to the policy on which the Labour Party thought the last general election and that there was, quote, no reason to expect it is going to change.
	So, he's claiming that the Equality Act is where they're going to stay because it allows women-only spaces and that's the thing.
	And it's like...
	That's not where the party is.
	No.
	That's not where any of the people involved are.
	Anyway.
	So the law rightly assumes...
	I mean, get him to define what a woman is.
	...rightly assumes the inclusion of trans women, except in specific circumstances, a spokesman said.
	Normally thought to include prisons and refuges.
	But what is a trans woman, then?
	I mean, again, it doesn't answer the question.
	It's just like, I'm just going to back to policy and walk away, because why would I want to be involved in this?
	Anyway, but Ash Sarkar wants to be involved in this, because of course she does.
	So Ash Sarkar tweeted out, Rosie Duffield is perfectly entitled to her view that trans people should have the protections they have had for years enshrined in the Equality Act.
	Thing is...
	No, she's perfectly entitled to the view that they should have these protections taken away from them, but the fact that she does so while a member of the supposedly progressive party is an embarrassment's kiss number.
	Okay, thank you, literal communist.
	But she's also just wrong.
	That's the point I was trying to get at.
	Like, it's not the case.
	I mean, there are two interpretations of the Equality Act here, one where it's yes and one where it's no.
	But also the idea that she's perfectly entitled to her view.
	That's interesting, isn't it?
	But I like the way the communist is shaming Keir Starmer for being insufficiently progressive.
	So is communism like the end stage of progressivism?
	Is that what she's saying?
	Two weeks ago, she would never have said she's entitled to her view.
	Well, that's true.
	But then Ash Sarkar's probably in danger of being kicked out of the Labour Party as well.
	I think she's left, actually.
	Ah, right.
	Well, I'm leaving before you yeet me.
	But I find that an interesting point because it's like, well, I actually think the TERFs might end on winning this.
	Because I feel like the trans-activists are slowly losing their grip and being like...
	Like, trying to hold on.
	It does feel that way.
	And it's not happening.
	Because their position is just fundamentally incoherent.
	So, there's that, which I found of interest.
	And also, all the Turfs retweeted Ashaka calling her a moron, because she is, apparently, on her definition of...
	I can't believe we've got to cheer for the Turfs.
	Yeah, I know.
	What a world.
	Anyways, let's go to the next one.
	So, of course, this is in regards to the straight white men who are bullying Rosie Duffield, as described by Rosie Duffield, as to what they are, because that's how Labour people speak.
	Oh yeah, we're very progressive here.
	We call them she.
	Yeah, we don't call them straight white men in this podcast.
	Shame, shame.
	Anyway, let's move on from this.
	So we go to the next one, because there's more civil war going on, because there's always more civil war to be made, isn't there?
	John McDonald has back calls for Labour leadership election if Sir Keir Starmer presses ahead with his rule changes.
	Right, so what are these rule changes?
	So there's the rules in the Labour Party, which are a bit of a joke anyway, in which the way the leader is elected is by trade unions have a bunch of votes, because history.
	MPs have a bunch of votes and Labour members have a bunch of votes.
	It all gets tallied up and eventually you get a leader, right?
	Song process like every other position.
	But this one, he wants to take away a bunch of the power from the members and move it towards the MPs, because the members are a bunch of fruitcakes.
	That's true.
	The MPs are also fruitcakes, mate, so I don't know how he's trying to solve there.
	Not my problem.
	I don't have to worry about this, but I find this really interesting.
	John, I'm a Marxist, McDonnell.
	Why is he still in the party, Kier?
	I mean, he's the one who literally said he's a Marxist whose job is to overthrow capitalism.
	Is that what your position is?
	Is that what the Labour Party is for, Kier?
	Or was it just meant to be sort of like a working class interest lobby group, basically?
	You know, like, are you here to overthrow private property ownership here?
	And if you're not, why are you sharing space with John McDonnell?
	Who is?
	It's obviously the Socialist Party.
	For Socialists to do Socialist things.
	And, yeah, they're the rightful owners, I think.
	Like, the Marxists are the rightful owners of this thing.
	I will agree with all that.
	But that's why you're nuts and you should never be in charge of anything and why the Labour Party should just die and then we can have some proper politics in this country.
	Oh, it sucks that the right wing has subverted the Labour Party from the Marxists then, doesn't it?
	But anyway, how's Keir Starmer going to fix all these civil wars that are going on?
	Sir Keir Starmer.
	It's important to note that because that implies that he is directly embedded within and supportive of the oppressive hierarchies of the British state, which is awful from a Marxist perspective.
	That is the very worst thing.
	So the fact that they're talking and being yeeted by Sir Keir Starmer is an expression of British imperialism over the working class solidarity movement.
	So the way he's going to fix it is Bloxotex.
	My 14,000-word essay that you've got to read.
	Yeah, Politics for All.
	Here we go.
	Politics for All has been passed a copy of Keir Starmer's 14,000-word essay.
	Highlights to follow.
	I assume he's written this just to punish them.
	Presumably.
	I don't know if you can scroll on this, because Politics for All just took the highlights just to show.
	I'm not going to read any of it, because who cares?
	But look at it.
	Just look at it.
	These are just the highlights.
	Can we see...
	Hang on.
	Can we see...
	Just click on one so I can see the headlines.
	You know, the...
	Segments that they're doing.
	Oh, it's just forward.
	Yeah, but no, no.
	Forward reflections.
	Okay, keep going.
	It's really politician-y.
	But if you go down a bit, there are some, like...
	Yeah, it's politician, stock, crap.
	Where it's just like, yeah, the world bad.
	I fixed the world, vote me.
	But anyway.
	This looks really dull.
	It's so dull that I didn't bother reading the full thing, because who was?
	You just look at it and be like, right, I don't know what this is in the trash.
	Anyway, but I love the fact that he did this, and apparently he's been working on this for months.
	He worked on that for months.
	Well, it's 14,000 words.
	Of course it's going to take months.
	Why the hell did he waste his time on this?
	Who on earth is going to read it?
	So, apparently, the Fabian Society are the ones who got him to do this.
	Oh, the communists, right.
	Yeah, I mean, if people don't know, especially foreigners, the Fabian Society are literal useless idiots.
	Sorry, I forgot to bring the book, The Robert Conquest, Reflections on a Ravaged Century.
	But I got this quote out of there just on the Fabian Society during the Soviet Union's era.
	So there's a Fabian Bernard Shaw who returned from the USSR at the highlight of the Stalin famine and reported an overfed population.
	Brilliant.
	There's also H.D. Wells, another Fabian, but was one who had been hostile to communism and regarded Stalin as a dictator.
	When Stalin gave him an audience in 1934, Wells was won over.
	His trust in his own powers of personal assessment enabled him to say of Stalin that he had, quote,"...never met a man more candid, fair, and honest." Attributing these qualities to his, quote, remarkable ascendancy over the country since no one is afraid of him and everybody trusts him.
	That is amazing.
	And this was something that happened a lot with the Soviet bloc and the Chinese and the North Koreans and whatnot, is that they would bring over Western intellectuals, academics, and journalists and lie to them.
	Present them with...
	Of course they would.
	Well, not I know, but for anyone who doesn't know.
	They would give them this very stage-managed tour of show villages, show cities, the capital, all this.
	And then they'd go away going, oh, wow, everyone's doing really great over there.
	Everything's brilliant.
	Jeremy Corbyn and...
	Bernie Sanders had this same treatment as well.
	Keila Hughes, actually, but I'll leave that one there.
	She went to Cuba.
	Yes, she went to Cuba.
	But Bernie Sanders particularly was massively impressed by their palaces of culture and how everyone was doing really well.
	It's like, Bernie...
	You're a moron.
	They're lying to you.
	They know you're useful idiots, and they know that you'll go back to the West and lie on their behalf, which is what they all did.
	Yeah, so the Fabian Society being useful idiots.
	Just to be clear as well, the Fabian Society, for anyone who doesn't know, when were they founded?
	It was the beginning of the 20th century, wasn't it?
	I can't remember the date.
	But they were founded basically when it became apparent that revolution wasn't going to work.
	And so they were like, right, okay, well, we'll try and get socialism through democratic means.
	Like the slow, delaying process of Fabius the Delayer, the man who saved Rome from Hannibal, incidentally, who they're named after.
	Because it became apparent they couldn't beat Hannibal in the field.
	So, you know...
	It was the same sort of attitude and maxims they're using.
	So basically they're trying to bring about communism or socialism, whichever version they would like to say, and they're a society we should deeply avoid.
	Yeah, but primarily because they are literal useful idiots by their history.
	They came back from Stalinist Russia and said that everyone was fed and also Stalin was a good man.
	Everyone loved him.
	He was not to be feared.
	Oh, there was no one speaking out against him, Callum.
	Anyway, but let's go to the full text that Keir Starmer did, so the one before this, if you can, John, just to show the absolute length of it.
	So if you could just scroll, just to show people.
	Right, yeah.
	Okay, but it's ridiculous.
	Like, no one's going to read it.
	Absolutely no one.
	And I love this meme from Poe.
	So if we go on this one, the first one here, Starmer writes essay to set out what he stands for.
	The Labour leader has wrote 11,500 words.
	It's not.
	It's even more than that.
	13,200, I think.
	Yeah.
	And if we go to the next one, I just love the meme.
	Yeah.
	Pray for me as I take this long and arduous journey to read this left-wing meme.
	I mean, it literally is what it is.
	Oh, God.
	This is 11,000 words.
	But the thing is, you can imagine that, like, the folks at Navarro Media are like, what?
	We've got to read this.
	Yeah, you've got to read this.
	Yeah, you guys do.
	Yeah, exactly.
	No, we don't, because we don't care.
	I've got to look at the cost.
	It's not like, I mean, you were mentioning, it's not like a left-wing academic, where it's like, you're going to say something interesting and nuts that can be talked about.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	Here's Starmer and Fabius as well.
	He gives a crap.
	It's going to be this tepid, like, nonsense.
	Yeah.
	So we go to the next one as well, just because apparently some people don't know about this meme.
	Fuck.
	So if we have this here, just left this meme to be like.
	Yep.
	Just boring text.
	Now I have to be lectured at.
	Yeah.
	By Tommy.
	There was a left-wing response to this, which is to complain that he wanted people to do work.
	I'm not joking.
	So on the left, one of Keir Starmer's...
	We're socialists.
	Of course we're not going to do work.
	So on the left, Keir Starmer's ten principles from his 14 million word essay.
	On the right, a phrase three pages in of David Cameron's 2015 Conservative Party Manifesto.
	If you work hard and play by the rules, you should be rewarded fairly.
	Well, that's not very socialist.
	That's Keir Starmer.
	What did David Cameron have to say?
	So you're rewarded for working hard and doing the right thing.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	The socialist is like, how dare we work hard to get rewarded for this?
	This is ridiculous!
	I mean, George Galloway's not wrong when it's two cheeks of the same arse, is he?
	No, it's just...
	Oh, boy.
	God, imagine complaining about having to do work.
	I should never have the work.
	I want socialism.
	Anyway.
	I mean, the thing is, it's not like the socialist Lenin who's like, you know, who does not work will not eat.
	And it's like, yeah, well, that's not wrong.
	Get up against the wall, like all the rest of you.
	I love the stone-tossed meme of that, you know, in each quadrant.
	Reasonable, reasonable, reasonable.
	And then you've just got Vor screeching about human rights.
	So we have the first one here from Politics for All as well, because Politics for All apparently has been a hate mail from Keir Starmer and his team.
	Because he leaked it.
	Because it wasn't ready to be published, let's say.
	Or at least there was a date set.
	And Politics for All got a hold of him and was just like, pfft, la mal.
	Don't worry, Keir.
	No one read it.
	As if anyone's going to read that.
	No one knows what's in it, mate.
	Yeah, it's Politics Raw.
	Politics Raw has been sent three angry messages from Keir Starmer's team for leaking his 14,000-word essay, including one threat.
	But look, scroll down a bit on this.
	I love this.
	Anton, you were a Tory.
	Oh, no.
	Maybe they are.
	Who knows?
	You know?
	But the fact that they sent him a threat, like, they didn't just send him, like, he says three angry messages.
	So, I mean, to be honest, imagine getting one.
	We're just like, God, who cares?
	They sent you another one from someone else, presumably.
	And then one is just a threat.
	It was like, if you do this again, kid, you're dead for leaking my blocks of text that no one reads.
	No one's ever going to read.
	Like, imagine giving a toss...
	Oh, yeah.
	So if we go to the next one as well, apparently there is some other civil wars brewing within Labour, because there endlessly is since his blocks of text reveal.
	So, Ash, again.
	Keir Starmer is considering lumping Labour with a less democratic leader selection process than the Conservative Party.
	Oh, no.
	And according to some sources, considering sacrificing the Green New Deal to get GMB on site.
	Oh, no.
	So that's the Labour Union in the UK that backed out.
	And I just find this funny.
	It's like he's going to sacrifice the Green New Deal to get votes.
	Oh, no.
	Like, how can you do that?
	Why is the Green New Deal such a point of opposition to popularity?
	Because of communism.
	Yeah.
	But this is the thing.
	I love this.
	I can't believe the Socialist Party is becoming less democratic.
	Oh, yeah.
	What a surprise.
	When has this happened before?
	Yeah.
	Does this sound like a leadership with its priorities right?
	Well, I mean, if you're interested in electoral success, yes.
	If you're not interested in that, like Ash Sarkar, no.
	So we go to the next one.
	I talk about the fact that it's communism.
	I love this.
	Marjorie Taylor Greene took this meme to the House to represent.
	Let's see who it really is.
	And it's the Green New Deal.
	And she's right.
	And it's communism.
	This is why Boris signed up to it.
	Because of course he did.
	So let's go to the last one here.
	Which is just to make the point.
	We made a video about this a while back.
	You can see Green Industrial Revolution.
	They got renames in the UK. And Boris was like, yeah, we'll do that.
	Because I'm a conservative.
	He's been really banging this drum as well.
	He's like, Boris, shut up.
	He's currently in the UN banging this drum.
	Yeah, I know.
	For what reason?
	His wife...
	And he's like, everyone else is holding the world back.
	He's like, Boris, just go and be corrupt or something.
	I'd rather you did that.
	Yeah, stop trying to fix things.
	Anyway, that's that.
	Geir Starmer purging everyone around him.
	Good job.
	Let's go to video comments.
	Hey guys, big fan, new to the GOAT here.
	I've been watching Carl since the GRE podcast.
	I know Carl appreciates watching people do stuff with their hands, so here's a little time-lapse of a phone repair I did today.
	Next, I'll probably be covering the Lotto Cedars elevator music once my finger heals up a little bit.
	And would you believe that I'm a mechanical engineer by trade?
	But in the post-industrial hellhole that is New York City, fixing phones pays better than being an engineer.
	Would you believe that?
	Love it.
	Love it.
	Keep sending me stuff if you're building or making or fixing things.
	This is how we make the world a best place.
	Just hopefully you're not working in a sweatshop.
	Like, I don't know, but seeing the Chinese writing below...
	Hello, I work from the sweatshop.
	Blink twice if you need help.
	I wonder what's happening with those as well, because presumably by the fact that he's redoing it.
	I saw there was a huge argument in the US about the right to repair.
	I never saw the outcome of that.
	Yeah, I saw the headlines of it, but I didn't read into it.
	But I imagine this chap would know, so let me know, because I'm just of interest.
	Stop meowing at me.
	Stop pretending to be cute.
	Um, guys, this is a very naughty cat.
	Do you want to know what she did this morning?
	I now have to sleep with my bedroom window shut.
	Bear in mind, I've never fed this cat.
	I wake up this morning, three in the morning, with someone sitting on my chest and meowing at me, desperate to be petted and played with.
	Three in the morning.
	I now sleep with my bedroom window shut.
	I don't know why this cat likes me so much.
	I've never fed it or anything.
	Ah...
	But now it's yours.
	Enjoy, I guess.
	I don't know if this is true, but I heard that apparently if it's a wild cat, when they get to adulthood, they stop meowing like that.
	John says yes, apparently.
	Because they know that the meowing to a human gets the human to do things.
	Yeah, it's kind of like an infantile attitude, isn't it?
	Kittens meow at their mums, but they don't meow at each other.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Hello there, fellow Lotus Eaters.
	Carl and Callum as well.
	Yesterday, after being a Bronze member for almost the year, I made a jump to Gold Tier membership as a show of open support for this project, and for the Yummy Gibbs.
	My name's Anton.
	I'm a long-time fan of Carl's work, compared to the recent fan of Callum, Bo, and Josh's work.
	As pointed out in several podcasts, I'm a native-born Swede.
	Ever have any questions about my country?
	Feel free to ask.
	Next time, I'll leave some feedback through excellent programming.
	Cheers, pals!
	Thanks, man.
	And because there's only so many hours in the day, we can't follow everything.
	So if anything interesting from Sweden or wherever you, if you're not that chap, happen to live, feel free to put it in a video message and screen record an article or something like that and tell us about what's happening because that would be really, really useful and we'd be interested in hearing it.
	I hope where you're living in Sweden is better than Stockholm.
	Well, yeah.
	I'd like to ask you something about building things, institutions, and culture.
	I'm inspired by you and Andrew Torba, and I recognize the need for good men to do things bigger than themselves, more than just wine on Facebook and vote every four years.
	I desperately want to build a non-woke entity like the Lotus Eaters that provides culture and jobs to people, maybe a bank or something else we desperately need.
	But all my like-minded friends don't want to.
	They all think it's too risky or doomed to fail and won't even try.
	I don't have a Callum or a John or a Vicky.
	How do you find good, capable people to do this with?
	That's a great question, but I don't really have a very good answer for.
	They just kind of presented themselves, and I was like, right, yep, you'll do.
	And they did very well, because they worked hard.
	I don't know.
	I've just been lucky.
	Best way of meeting people who are based is obviously networking and based communities.
	To be honest, my personal experience of political parties has been that they're literally that for pretty much every town in the country.
	Of course, it's like 50% of the party are people you don't want to hang out with.
	But you will meet based people.
	Of course, based communities, wherever the hell you live.
	But also, I would actually just say join the Republican Party and find some based people in there and see if they want to work together as well.
	Probably won't cost that much.
	Go to a couple of meetings, meet them.
	If they're not good, don't.
	Yeah, and at the end of the day, I think the phrase, if you build it, they will come, really does apply.
	You know, just whatever it is, just start doing it.
	And as you start constructing the thing and people can see, oh, that's coming together, if they've got a relevant skill, they'll often just volunteer it and they'll present themselves to you.
	You don't have to find them.
	They'll come to you.
	Hello, Carl and Bo.
	On your episode about the Sea Peoples, you mentioned that the empires at that time had What was called a palace economy.
	I'm wondering how a palace economy is different from a communist centralized planning economy.
	If everything comes there and then it's distributed, what's the difference?
	Is there a difference?
	Because it seems to me like these ancient empires were functional, unlike communism, but I just could be wrong about that too.
	Anyway, whatever insight you could offer on the difference, that would be great.
	Now, I would have to go off and do some reading to give you a really good answer to this.
	But as I understand it, the palace economy is kind of like...
	I mean, it's tributary, right?
	So the people in whatever provinces or villages, the palace doesn't own their land or own their goods or whatever like that.
	It's given as tribute to the king or emperor or whatever it is.
	And so it's a huge sort of central district where...
	Lots of things are coming in and then that has to be used and distributed for, you know, the king's army and any administrative functions and things like that.
	Whereas the communist economy is deeply ideological, as in it's ideologically, you're not allowed to own something.
	And so they have to have a bureaucracy to do all of these things.
	And so I would say that's probably the fundamental difference.
	Honestly, I mean, they're both quite parasitic sounding, though, from the sort of modern free market perspective.
	But I mean, how's it different to taxes, really?
	Tribute?
	Is that different?
	Depends.
	I was going to recommend reading about the ancient Egypt agricultural sector, because from what I've heard, it's really strange.
	So, like, the land was owned by the pharaoh.
	Oh, yeah, it can be.
	And then the seeds were owned by the pharaoh, the crop was owned by the pharaoh, and you'd work and you'd get a percentage of whatever, right?
	And that's entirely tyrannical in the same way that communism usually is.
	But the difference being the ideological versus practical aspect.
	Yeah.
	Where they were just more about just get it done.
	It wasn't some ideological demand that everything belongs to the fair.
	No, no.
	A lot of it was really about necessity.
	Because like you say, it's 3,000, 4,000 years ago.
	So it's not like Milton Friedman had been explaining the position.
	And they're like, no, that's wrong.
	It's immoral or anything.
	They were just struggling against the natural inclination to have nothing.
	But it's, again, like...
	Which socially stunt countries still are.
	Well, yeah, sure.
	But Egypt's a particular example because really all Egypt could do is produce grain.
	Whereas you've got other areas where you've got flocks and things like that, and it's hard to say.
	And also, we're talking about so many thousands of years ago, it's often difficult to know how these things function.
	Also, modern socialist economies get more and more complex.
	Yeah.
	So there's a difference between growing grain and building a bus.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah, absolutely.
	The amount of things you've got to do there.
	But the state didn't necessarily own your labor, but you definitely had to give tribute, so effectively they did.
	But I'd have to do some serious reading to be able to give you a really good answer on that.
	So, and maybe I will, actually, because that's an interesting question.
	Palace economies, how did they function?
	I'm not an expert.
	Depend on the palace, wouldn't it?
	Well, I suppose it would.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Come on!
	Are you prepared for your eternal vaccine booster shots and showing your papers?
	Labour dildo butt monkey.
	Billionaires in space.
	I'm a fucking spaceship.
	I'm a spaceship.
	I'm a spaceship.
	Nicki Minaj claims the title of Queen of E-Trolls by utterly S-ing on everyone.
	The Taliban on swan boats on a lake with assault rifles and RPGs.
	All right, ladies, it's time to start a new one.
	That's a bit stew that blew up the earth.
	Seriously, though, I mean, what a ridiculous set of events that have been going on.
	Everything's bizarre.
	I can't get over the...
	There's a lack of people wanting to go back to the normal.
	They remember the whole conversation at the start of the pandemic, we go back to new normal or even the new normal and all that crap.
	You see people walking around still wanting to live in this hell world.
	Yeah, wearing masks.
	I still see people wearing masks all the time and it's like, what is wrong with you people?
	Strange.
	Let's go to the next one.
	The Imperial Pride Flag, because that's the only way I can think of this variation of the Pride Flag.
	So, of course, you may remember the old Pride Flag, but it was just the rainbow flag.
	It was made in 1978.
	Is that taking up more percentage now as well?
	It is.
	As the Imperial March of Pride continues.
	There's no mental health issues here.
	laughter I love that the guy would have sent that in.
	I presume this is how this happened.
	He probably sent it in with the Imperial March and Michael's had the message back being like, yeah, copyright issues.
	And he's like, I'll choose my mouth then.
	Well done.
	Very well done.
	G'day Lotus Eaters, and I hope one day you will thank me for the meme of advertising books on your show, and Jace Doherty and Becca Neve, your books are on their way!
	Super white teeth.
	I tell you, I want to see you reviewing...
	CSCooper.com.au!
	Honestly, I want to see you reviewing each other's books.
	Send each other a copy of your books and then we can find out if they get it.
	Because I don't have time to read them.
	I've got critical race theory to read.
	I imagine it's going to devolve into my books better than your book.
	No, no.
	I think we can have a wholesome book reviewing.
	It's not what I would do if it were me.
	Yeah, that's why you're not doing that.
	The reason why the magazine is in the centre and feeds just above the grip...
	Is because Calico made rifles, submachine guns, and pistols all according to the same design, just switching out barrel lengths and stocks.
	On a pistol, that puts the magazine above the hand holding the gun, which is not the best spot, but it's arguably the least bad.
	Sorry, there's a pistol version of that gun.
	Can you get us an image?
	Because I'd love to see that as well, because it just sounds so stupid.
	Can you show us it in action?
	Yeah.
	I'd like to see how it works.
	I assume that's his drawing there, and it just looks like a super soaker or something?
	Yeah, it does.
	Oh, what a joke.
	Karl, what do you think of the development and adoption of online slang?
	These are terms I almost never use in real life.
	It just seems improper or wrong to do so.
	Some are better than others.
	The word based is fine, at least online.
	However, the recent open-seed trend is a good example of something that just sounds terrible.
	The use of these slang trends almost feels like they degrade the person who uses them.
	Do you agree?
	No, I'm a lot more progressive when it comes to language, actually.
	I think I don't mind.
	The thing is, a term only sticks around if it's useful, you know, if it has a particular use and identifies a particular thing that wasn't previously being spoken about and encapsulated in the meaning of a particular word.
	And so, say based means to say, you know, this person is speaking truth and talking about reality.
	And when you're living in a world of narrative lies, that's actually a really useful term.
	You know, it's, you know, is the person going to just parrot the sort of, you know, 10,000 words of progressive, you know, new speak at you?
	Living in the clouds.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Living in the sort of overarching meta-narrative of nonsense.
	That excuses lies, or are they going to speak to truth?
	And so that's a really useful thing.
	Seathe and cope.
	I actually don't mind those either, because, again, when a person's just screeching about something that's a lie, what they're essentially saying is, look, you're not adhering to my fictions, and I'm not obligated to adhere to your fictions.
	It's like trans women are women, blah, blah, blah, and it's like, okay, well then, you're angry that I don't think that.
	You're angry that Kemi Badenow doesn't think that.
	She's not obligated to think about it.
	She's a conservative.
	And what you're saying is, you must think like me.
	But I don't think like you.
	I don't agree with you.
	I don't agree with your definitions on words.
	You don't agree with your definitions on words.
	You can't even define your words.
	So go seethe and cope about it, because that's what that is.
	It's frustration and impotent rage that you can't be persuaded across by their unpersuasive arguments.
	And so I don't mind them, to be honest.
	I can see why you would be like, you know, it's appropriate.
	But the thing is, language is something that happens naturally and holistically and, you know, develops from the bottom up.
	And I do think that it is useful to have terms like that.
	So I don't mind them.
	I do like the word cope as well.
	Yeah, me too.
	Because the old English version would be like making excuses, maybe?
	Yeah.
	As a phrase?
	Yeah.
	Cope's shorter and it works.
	Yeah.
	Although, of course, it depends.
	I mean, there are words that don't work in everyday language.
	Oh, yeah, sure.
	It's from mean culture, but...
	Sure, but generally, I don't mind it.
	I try not to, obviously, you know, and I find myself in real life saying the word base occasionally.
	I'm like, damn it.
	Depends who you're hanging out with as well.
	It does.
	But I mean to, like, you know, people who aren't internet weirdos like us.
	You wouldn't say it to an 80-year-old grandma.
	Well, I try not to, but occasionally I do.
	But no, I don't mind it.
	I don't know if you guys are allowed to show clips of video games because copyright and stuff, but I thought it was funny because I do play into that stereotypical women can't drive thing when it comes to video games, and that includes horses.
	The only vehicle I'm actually very good at driving for some reason is the little hovercraft in Half-Life, because that makes no sense.
	Oh, you're scared.
	Horsy, horsy, horsy!
	I've never played Red Dead Redemption 2, but it looks like it's really good fun.
	Yeah.
	You played one?
	No.
	Oh, really?
	No.
	You should get it.
	It's super cheap now.
	It's great.
	I'd get two because it looks awesome.
	It's like the zombie mod as well.
	The expansion in which it was a zombie world is really good as well.
	The only thing that I've got thinking in my mind after that is that...
	You know how...
	She mentioned there's the joke that women can't drive.
	Yeah.
	I wonder if in the 1800s there was like, women can't ride.
	Yeah.
	Maybe.
	Probably.
	I'd love to find historical sources where it's like, damn, women.
	Just to read.
	Maybe.
	Tony D and Little Joan here with another legend of the Pines, the Smithville Inn in Smithville, New Jersey, established by James Barrymore in 1787.
	It's still in operation today.
	They brought in all the buildings from the surrounding area at the same time period and made a great little shop area.
	They still serve colonial food like corn chowder, brussels sprout salad, chicken pot pie, but it's probably most famous for being just down the street from Leeds Point, the birthplace of the Jersey Devil.
	Brussels sprout salad.
	That sounds awful.
	Yeah.
	Sounds like a punishment.
	Not good.
	But the rest of it sounded good.
	Lee's point sounds nice.
	Yeah.
	Birthplace of the devil and his little fiddle.
	I've got a question on my mind, though.
	So, my parents got a dog, and I don't go down there that often, so I don't get to interact with the dog.
	Is it a way of them trying to get you to come down more often?
	No, I think it's just about the dog.
	But it's got one leg missing, because it's from Romania, our district.
	I don't think Romanian dogs are missing a leg.
	Well, it was mistreated, as I was trying to get at.
	So they got shipped over here.
	The vet had to remove the leg.
	It's fine.
	You know, it just hops.
	But the thing is, it's very distrusting of people.
	And it took to me more.
	And my dad thinks it's because he listens to the podcast.
	And then when I went over, the dog knows my voice.
	Maybe.
	And I'm wondering if it's the same with if I ever met little Joe.
	I certainly wouldn't rule that out.
	I mean, familiarity.
	We'll meet up.
	You've got to bring Little Joe.
	That's what I'm saying.
	Yeah, yeah.
	If we're ever allowed to the United States again.
	George Hap says, Can we please have Kemi as PM already?
	I'm sure she could take Boris and Agni Kai.
	For anyone who doesn't know, Agni Kai is a formalized ritual of the firebenders in Avatar The Last Airbender, where they fight to become the ruler of the country.
	Which would be awesome.
	I do think she'd beat Boris.
	Well, I mean, in Boris's defense, he's not, like, against beating people up.
	What?
	Eight-year-old boys that he's rugby tackling?
	Yeah, and journalists.
	Do you not remember the phone call?
	No.
	Oh, where someone rang him up and was like, I'm going to go beat up this journalist, and Boris is just like, well, don't do anything too serious, you know.
	He's like, no, no, no, just be a broken rib or something.
	You could get an awful lot of trouble.
	Just dust him up.
	Basically, yeah.
	If you're going to Eton, there is at least one virtue in that, and that's you get to be beaten up a lot.
	So you're used to that kind of thing.
	So Kemi might be in for a fight.
	Old Boris.
	Something about him.
	Doesn't exist no more, but...
	Yeah, I miss old Boris.
	Radnor says, Yeah, but you can actually...
	In the last couple of years, we've seen blocks of baseness moving slowly and shifting throughout the party.
	And now, Kemi, Liz Trust, and what was the other lady?
	Nadine Doris.
	Nadine Doris.
	They've moved into the upper echelons and now are squatting on those organs the left has created and is trying to control.
	Now they're pushing them down and out.
	So, A, good.
	But it makes you wonder, what's wrong with the men of the Conservative Party?
	Yeah, it's interesting that it's all women, isn't it?
	They're hiding behind the women.
	It's like, oh no, we can't deal with that.
	Oh god, we'll get called names by feminists.
	You've got people like Philip Davies and whatnot who have done their thing, and they've done it for a long time.
	They have, but he's not in the cabinet.
	Yeah, we're speaking of ministers, aren't we?
	Yeah, we're speaking of cabinet positions.
	Why are there not men who are just like, look, this is the case and you can deal with it?
	End of story.
	Why does it require them to basically hide behind the skirts of the conservative women?
	It's deeply disappointing, is what I'm saying.
	Anyway.
	But, you know, on the plus side, at least there's some good news about the Conservative Party.
	At the very least, Boris is just like, look, I'll just move Kemi to there and Liz to there.
	And then we don't have to worry about anything.
	And they can take all the heat.
	You can see how the cowardice is playing out here.
	It's like, okay, fine.
	If that's the best you can do, I guess we've got to take it.
	Anyway.
	Adam says, imagine the autistic screeching from labour if Kemi became the first black female PM of the UK? Yeah, and it sounds like she'd do a good job as well, to be honest.
	One of the things in the discussions she had with Kimberley Crenshaw is that Kimberley Crenshaw is the critical race theorist.
	View affirmative action as a method of attacking white people.
	Culture, right?
	White structures and institutions.
	That's why they're in favor of it.
	But Kemi's like, well, look, I wasn't the product of affirmative action.
	I was from Nigeria.
	I moved here to a mostly white area.
	And normally that's difficult because you're not from the local area.
	But I just persuaded them and they were like, OK, you seem to be doing a good job.
	And so I beat all of these white male barristers and all these sort of things.
	But I wasn't, you know, selected for affirmative action.
	So I just beat them.
	So again, just flexing on, like, you know, Kimberley Crenshaw, just like Chad Kemi.
	The way it's meant to work most of the time, and it does, is you convince everyone in the local association, so branch of your party, to make you the candidate.
	Like, you literally vote for the candidate you want in your area because that makes sense.
	Yeah.
	And therefore, everyone chose Kemi.
	Yeah.
	They didn't pick her because women and brown.
	Yeah, she's good.
	I'll vote for her.
	And if we're a mostly white area...
	I mean, this is one of our examples.
	I don't think this is a racist country.
	In fact, she says I think it's one of the least racist countries.
	Because I, as a black Nigerian woman, can come over, be conservative, and all the white conservatives are like, great!
	It's the end of the conversation.
	Well, that was it.
	Great, you're a good conservative.
	We like that.
	And so, yeah, I mean, honestly, I would not mind Kemi being the first black female conservative.
	I'd just like her because she'd be stomping and kneeling on the neck of the left, and that would be wonderful.
	Something worth campaigning for.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	You know, actually get some of Tony Blair's disastrous policies undone, you know?
	Yeah, I mean, you know, they're Uncle Toms, basically.
	Matthew says...
	Is the British media forced to cover people like Kemi because of the positions they hold, or is it because they want to highlight their positions because they think they're unpopular?
	Yes.
	They see these unprogressive positions and think, right, we're going to go shame them to the public, and then they must remember that the public...
	Are very reactionary by their own standards, and mostly align with Kenny Badenock's position on men in female bathrooms.
	This happened previously with Boris.
	Yep.
	Look at all these things Boris said.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I mean, they literally...
	I honestly think this was a major contributing factor, when Boris was like, yeah, the gays are bum boys, and the Muslim women look like letterboxes.
	And the left were like, ah, posting everywhere, and Boris gets landslide.
	Yeah.
	Just saying.
	Boris.
	Bart says I've never thought black people or black women in particular sorry, I've never thought black people or black women in particular were stupid or incompetent because of Diane Abbott I presume that it's because she is stupid and incompetent yes she's not the only one in the Labour front benches though as Nadine Doris pointed out Like, the entire diversity hires of the Labour Party, along all of the intersecting lines, they could do it, are all pathetic.
	Yeah.
	All of them.
	But all of the Conservatives' ones are not pathetic.
	Yeah.
	You can disagree with them or whatever, but...
	They're not pathetic.
	They're actually forces to be reckoned with.
	Exactly.
	Like, you know, the conservative women are generally, like, you know, not incompetent, not playing the victim, you know, capable of an intellectual discussion, capable of reasoning out their positions.
	Not Diane Abbott, not Jess Phillips, not all of these people who unabashedly say, yeah, I was on an all-women shortlist.
	I was the diversity hire.
	I say, yeah, well, that's what you get.
	Get out my office.
	You get mediocrity through diversity hires.
	And the conservatives don't, you know, as far as I'm aware, aren't doing diversity hires.
	And what they're on, second female prime minister.
	Like, women of colour ministers who are just BTFOing their opposition left, right and centre.
	You can take Theresa May, I mean, disappointing all round, but still someone to be reckoned with.
	Sure.
	Like, she was not an embarrassment in the room as in, why the hell is she in the Parliament kind of thing?
	Why is she wearing two left shoes?
	You understood why she was in the Parliament, but you could find her ridiculous and not agreeing and all the rest of it.
	And Diane Abbott's counting.
	Counting on the radio.
	But it wasn't like, why is this person with special needs here?
	That wasn't happening.
	Yes, and that very obviously happened with the Labour Party.
	Radical Centrist God says, remember what you guys said about Kemi literally carrying the Conservatives on her back like an atlas ball?
	Yes, we absolutely need to crowdfund a statue of her carrying the Conservative atlas ball on her back.
	No idea where we put it, but I'd be all for it.
	Honestly, I'm totally down for it.
	You know what we do?
	We get a truck, put it on the back of the truck, and drive it in front of Tory party conference.
	And just sit there.
	Pay the parking fees.
	I don't care.
	Sorry, I've just got to refresh my notes, because you know how they go.
	Do you want to read one out while I'm doing that?
	Sure, should we move on to the Housewife stuff?
	Yeah.
	So, Tom Y says, boyfriend and girlfriend are having cute banter among themselves involving engagement rings and sandwiches.
	HuffPo most affected.
	I know, right?
	What's wrong with that?
	It's so adorable.
	And the thing is, it's not just the Huffington Post, either.
	It's loads of butthurt feminist commentators on the internet being like, oh, how could you?
	It's like...
	Leave them alone.
	I love how that last YouTube channel can show that actually most people love it as well.
	Yeah, yeah, it's totally wholesome.
	Here's the statistics.
	Where's HuffPost statistics?
	Who reads this crap?
	Shut up, you childless wine aunt.
	So BucketBot says...
	Sorry, I'm back on that.
	I think in the end, egalitarian society largely afforded to us by modern technology makes people lose sight of the fact that men and women are necessarily a team that in times past was socially and religiously enforced with marriage.
	300 sandwiches isn't about sandwiches, it's a token of commitment.
	Yes, that's exactly right.
	But also the team point.
	How dare she make lunch for me?
	Yeah.
	Well, he's going out and working all day.
	Imagine if you had that standard for anything else.
	Like, you'd never massage your wife because that's you showing yourself being inferior.
	Or you should never make your wife a gift because that makes you inferior.
	The radical incel position.
	Never buy your woman flowers or something.
	So, well, I mean, I should.
	But it doesn't stop anywhere, so at what point are you even husband and wife?
	Yeah, well that's a good point.
	Anyway, Student of History says, I'm just wondering how many sandwiches does it take to get a baby out of a man?
	Jokes aside, that kind of gumption, Jesus is a good way to know if you've got a keeper, that's how you treat a man, she's going to be a good mother.
	Also, two sandwiches a day for lunch, within half a year she gets an engagement.
	Yeah.
	Castrophic Regression Threshold says, I don't hate it, I'm just jealous, to be honest.
	Like, God, if there's one thing I can't stand to smell now, it's the freshly baked bread.
	Because it's just so tempting.
	Rose says, what I really wanted was to get married and have a family.
	His response was, you want to waste your life.
	And John's like, envious, not jealous.
	Well, small, fine distinction there, John.
	But, uh, that was the most offended I've ever been.
	It's my life and I will do what I want with it.
	Yeah, I totally agree.
	Like, if you...
	Like, there's nothing wrong with wanting to have a family.
	It's a great achievement that almost any woman can achieve if she puts her mind to it.
	300 sandwiches you even know the number Matthew says if the roles were reversed in the lunch making these feminist leftist nutjobs would claim the husband making his wife lunch was fulfilling a saviour complex merely using food as currency for the purpose of expecting sex in return yeah they sound a lot like incels don't they the moral of the story you simply can't argue with people who've sold gone in life is to destroy the foundations Yes.
	Just awful.
	I can't imagine, like, trying to stop someone from doing something nice for the person they love.
	But again, I say, you know, not just the sandwiches, but what else could they be mad about?
	Well, that's the point.
	It's just like, how dare you do a nice thing for your wife?
	Yeah.
	Edward says, damn, I want that sort of wholesomeness in my life.
	The annoying thing is that we're treated like scum for wanting this sort of lifestyle.
	Oh, you want a traditional family and all that entails?
	You're a monster.
	I know, right?
	It's literally the Pepe meme.
	It's like, guys only want one thing and it's disgusting and it's just sad.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I want a house.
	I want a family.
	It's a Pepe looking at the picture of the wife who's packed her lunch and written nice little loving messages on it for her husband.
	He's just like, that's all he wants.
	I'm not asking for very much, right?
	You know, I totally, totally get it, man.
	Lord Errol Tolkien says, my mother prepared lunch and cooked dinner for my dad every working day of his life.
	Well, I mean, he was working, wasn't he?
	Yeah, that's nice.
	Matthew Hammond says, these feminist women are upset because they have to be less selfish.
	Yes, that's exactly right.
	You know, they're looking at it going, well, hang on a second.
	Are you saying that I'm a bad person for being a selfish bitch?
	It's like, yeah.
	I feel personally attacked by that.
	Good.
	You should.
	You're a bad person.
	You're ruining society.
	On Starmer, Murray says, the day the Labour Party abandons leftism and Blairism is the day pigs will fly.
	Too little, too late, in my opinion.
	Yeah, the thing is, the Labour Party doesn't have another ideological position.
	Basically, the Labour Party should have been UKIP. That's what it should have been.
	No, just die.
	Well, sure.
	But, like, now, obviously.
	But, like, what Labour Party should have been is UKIP. And, like, if you go back, like, 30, 40 years, it basically was, you know?
	It's like, eh, UKIP's got a very sort of...
	It had quite a strong sense of, like, responsibility to working-class communities.
	But it was very patriotic, right?
	It was very, like, pro-British.
	And the Labour Party, look at it.
	Like, it was Corbyn's mentor.
	The guy Corbyn always quotes.
	Very, very pro-Brexit.
	Very anti-European Union.
	Stuff like this.
	The Labour Party should have had UKIP's platform, basically.
	I massively disagree.
	I'm very sceptical of this looking back at Labour as some party of the working man back in the day.
	Well, I mean, I'm not saying it wasn't also a commie party.
	I'm just saying there's a particular kind of British socialism that did exist in the 20th century.
	There was, like, parallel to continental socialism, and so definitely had a lot of crossover in some regards, but it did always have this kind of core in it that is a bit of British exceptionalism and a bit of particularness about Britain.
	It always was.
	It wasn't inevitable that it was going to flip to continental socialism or anything.
	It probably was inevitable that that would happen.
	But a working-class party that wasn't based on Marxism would be excellent, right?
	It would be a useful counterbalance.
	Sure.
	I mean, this is why I say it should die, so you can have essentially UK versus Tories, right?
	Yeah, that would be excellent.
	An actually liberal and conservative fight to be had.
	Yeah.
	And instead of, you know, what about this 20th century idea?
	Yeah.
	No, not even 20th, 19th century idea.
	Yeah.
	19th century failed idea that's killed more people than anything else in human history.
	Try number 20th.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Callum says, a divided enemy is a weak enemy.
	If only our own force and allies were strong, then we could unite.
	Oh, my God, yeah.
	I mean, this is the thing.
	Whenever you look at the Labour Party, like, occasionally we do, and there's just endless civil wars about stupid nonsense about what reality is.
	I know you go back to the Tories and they're, like, dipping in the polls compared to them.
	How are you losing to that, of all things?
	Yeah.
	Well, it's because Boris is like, right, we're going to try and take a bunch of their policies.
	I saw a thing in The Spectator, they were saying, you know, nobody's noticed that the conservative tanks are on the Labour lawn.
	It's like, I've noticed.
	What are they doing there?
	If the polls aren't going to do, the public have noticed.
	You know, stop raising taxes.
	But you know the people in CCHQ and all the rest of it will be like, oh, this is evidence that we're not getting enough of the left.
	Oh, no.
	Like, under Gabriel Cameron, they're like, well, win over the Guardian readers.
	And then I start tanking, I'm like, ah, we need to try harder for the Guardian readers.
	It's so ridiculous.
	You're there to represent Conservatives, for God's sakes.
	Ask Kemi Badenock what you should do.
	She'll tell you.
	Anyway, James says that women will be having grandkids and great-grandkids while pink-haired feminists die alone in old people's homes.
	Andrew says, Progressives, we want everyone to be accepted for who they are.
	Women, okay, I want to be a traditional stay-at-home wife and mother.
	other progressives re and those seven says that bento channel is pretty nifty and got another subscriber thanks for the recommendation Charlie Rogers afternoon gents do we need to print tickets for the live events with a barcode on the email on our phones be acceptable looking forward to having a beer with everyone on Saturday night John they need to print the tickets or can they just show the email right Right.
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	There's a QR code on it.
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	Also, come to our live event.
	It'll be fun.
	AngelBrain says, What we need to understand is the Europeans are the victims of history.
	What we now arrive at is the result of Germany becoming nation in 1871, the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, and the further fall of nation states afterwards.
	I'm old enough to remember when Czechoslovakia was a place on the map.
	Me too.
	And Yugoslavia.
	What happened was the rise of bureaucrats running everything, and now we are in this room.
	It used to be that civil servants were just that.
	Servants, now they are advisors.
	So now we have elected leaders taking direction from people we never voted in and can't vote out.
	That's true.
	There's a very weird take, though.
	He lays all the history out there correctly.
	And then he's like, but what we need to understand is that Europeans are victims of it.
	But the Europeans are the ones doing it.
	I mean, I know it's sad to be born in Europe rather than England, but, you know, that's not our problem.
	What?
	You disagree?
	No, I don't disagree.
	But the idea that, you know, we're looking at them and being like, well, you know, the poor victim of that French child.
	And yeah, he is a poor victim of his circumstance, but that's...
	He's a poor victim of being French.
	That is true, but, you know...
	And poor victims of being German.
	I don't wish to see Europeans as victims of themselves.
	It sounds strange.
	It's sort of like, they aren't what they are.
	But it's not wrong.
	No, no, no.
	It's not necessarily wrong.
	I just felt the idea strange.
	Anyway.
	Yeah.
	Robert says, Well, sandwich being a metaphor for any kind of food.
	I would recommend the Japanese one, but she uses a lot of rice.
	Yeah.
	But obviously, obviously, no sandwiches here.
	Disavow.
	Love sandwiches.
	Duffy says, I noticed a comment from a female friend who stated, Why should I care for another grown adult?
	Amusingly, it was part of her lament that she couldn't find a quality man, not even a sister, could get through to her.
	It seems that feminism has exacerbated narcissism among its adherents.
	Yeah.
	I mean, there is a grain of truth in there, which I don't believe that men should become children.
	Obviously.
	I know it goes without saying, but if there is a leftist in the audience, I'll come.
	What are you doing here?
	Nobody wants some person who can't take care of themselves.
	No, of course.
	But the point is, it's a partnership.
	The idea that making lunch is verboten and bad because it's heresy against socialist doctrine.
	What the hell is wrong with you?
	It's heresy against feminism.
	But that's the point, isn't it?
	It's about showing consideration for the other person.
	You know that he's going out and doing hard labour all day so you can sit at home, take care of the house and look after the children.
	It's really not a stretch to say, well, the least I could do is make him some lunch.
	That's a kind thing to do.
	It's considerate.
	But yeah, John's right.
	Feminists want women to provide nothing in this division of labour.
	And that's correct.
	Anyway...
	I guess the last one.
	Free will says, the reason they don't like stay-at-home wives is the left are authoritarian.
	They want to define you, categorize you, decide what you should think and what you should do.
	This is their utopia, and if you don't conform, you're a heretic.
	They have no interest in free will.
	After all, how can you descend from perfection?
	It's actually more than that, I think.
	What it actually is, is the family is a social structure outside of the control of the state.
	So what's happening between your husband and wife is not being dictated to by a government bureaucrat, and therefore that doesn't come up on their charts.
	That's not something they can interfere with.
	And they don't like the fact that you're outside of their control, which is why families should be defended by conservatives.
	And everything that conservatives do should be about encouraging the formation and maintenance of strong, healthy families.
	I think we're out of time now.
	On that bombshell?
	Yeah.
	Oh yeah, radical bombshell.
	Conservatives should be concerned about the family.
	Oh god, I've never heard this.
	In this country, yes.
	Yeah.
	God, that sucks.
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