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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #259

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	Good afternoon and welcome to episode 259 of the podcast of the Lotus Eaters.
	I'm your host Harry, joined here today by Carl.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be going through Belarus' act of hybrid warfare against the European Union.
	And we're also going to be going over a two-segment special covering the majority of the important details of the Rittenhouse case, including the absolute bombshell that was dropped last night.
	But first, it might be important to point out that this is in fact the one-year anniversary of the podcast of the Lotus Eaters.
	I hope you guys have been enjoying it and thank you all for staying with us and subscribing to the website because that's what's paid for all of this and kept it all going and we hope we're doing a good job.
	Yeah, thanks for sticking around for so long.
	And we've also got a few announcements to make about some articles and content on the website.
	So first of all, we've got this new direct video that went out yesterday from Carl about Generation Z being the victims of millennials.
	Yeah, just basically, Generation Z are the first generation not to remember a time before the internet, and most of them probably don't remember a time before social media.
	And so they are the products of this new environment.
	And this environment was created by the millennials.
	They're the ones who sort of established the infrastructure of the internet because obviously Generation X was too old.
	And so what's happened to them and what kind of people they are?
	And there's actually quite a lot of data on this that I'm citing in this video.
	Honestly, it's not good.
	And there are a lot of comments on the video, people going, you know what, that would have been me if I hadn't been watching you.
	And it's like, I'm welcome.
	I've noticed a few of them myself.
	Just doing my duty, you know?
	I mean, I'm a millennial, but I'm on that sort of, like, cut-off point 96, where it's like, I also don't remember a time before the internet, because when I was born, it was just really kicking in by the time I can start forming memories.
	I remember a time before mobile phones.
	And the thing is, it's not even because I'm that old, it's just because this technology has advanced really quickly.
	I got my first mobile phone at 19 when I was at university.
	To be fair, I was lucky enough to have parents that got me my first phone at 11.
	I think that's bad.
	It was a flip phone and everybody else had had phones before then that were starting to get to the iPhone stuff, so I was lucky enough to avoid that.
	Anyway, so check that out if you're interested.
	We've got Josh's new article, which I think is a free article.
	It is, yes.
	About why the right should embrace environmentalism, which This is pretty good, right?
	Because basically I gave him a chapter of a Scruton book to read.
	Yes.
	Because Scruton's got a few good points about this as well.
	He's got a full book about it, Green Philosophy.
	He does.
	You've read that, haven't you?
	I've not read it.
	I've got it.
	It's on my shelf.
	It's on your shelf too.
	It should be read at some point.
	Because, I mean, the Conservative case for environmentalism is obviously about conservation of the countryside and things like that.
	Honestly, it's a fair point.
	And, like, the Conservatives should be, A, making the case for the green spaces, B, for nuclear power as well.
	Because this is essentially how we can have a very clean form of energy that's very safe and preserve the countryside as it is.
	Yeah, I don't think anybody could really argue against just going outside and finding natural beauty there.
	Exactly.
	How can you argue against that?
	It's a good article.
	Yeah, give that a read.
	And then we've also got my new article, which came out yesterday on rock music's left-wing bias, which is about something that I've noticed and actually experienced firsthand, being a musician within that scene.
	Good picture of Raging Against the Machine.
	Excellent picture.
	Because, God, they are the worst.
	I used to love Raging Against the Machine.
	I know.
	Oh my god.
	I make mention in this of how when Fidel Castro died, Tom Morello, the guitarist, actively put out a post celebrating his life.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And talking about, oh, we went to Cuba to perform.
	But the thing is, I can be like, okay, so the radical left is fine, but at least the music's good, and at least they're against the establishment, you know?
	Yeah, they were.
	But now they just rage for the establishment.
	It's embarrassing watching them, like, suck up millions of dollars in ticket sales and stuff, where they're like, $400 tickets or whatever.
	Yeah.
	And it's just like, come on, you have become the fat old men that you decried.
	I can't stand it.
	Yeah, so give that a check out if you're a music fan.
	And also, just finally, make sure to give us a follow on Getter, which is just get away from traditional, well, traditional at this point, social media platforms.
	The legacy social media, yeah.
	Yeah, so we've got to support alternatives.
	And, of course, you can go and follow us on there and, you know, read our stuff, share our stuff, speak to us.
	We're all on there.
	You can find us with verified accounts because we can actually get verified on this platform, which is nice.
	I still need to sign up for Getter.
	You do.
	But then you'll be able to follow Harry and talk to him about music.
	Yes.
	Anyway, let's get into the stories.
	Yeah, so...
	Middle Eastern migrants are trying to invade Poland.
	Again.
	Now, this isn't the first time in Poland's history that they've had to send back waves of Middle Easterners from invading their country, but at least this time they aren't being commanded by a sultan.
	So this has been the consequence of, of course, the migrant crisis, and it seems that Belarus is weaponising waves of human beings against Poland's borders in an attempt presumably to destabilise the European Union.
	But I guess what they didn't count on is the fact that, well, it's the Polish.
	They're not very progressive in their view of migration, and they are very traditional in their view of borders, and so they're not having any of it.
	God bless Poland.
	Eastern Europe in general kind of puts us to shame.
	It does, in many ways.
	They're doing the correct thing for the survival of their countries, and thank God Poland exists.
	But this has been going on for several weeks now, but the tensions seem to have been increasing and intensifying dramatically in the past couple of days.
	And the issue does have enormous significance for the future of the European Union, especially in the attitude that the European Union has had to take towards mass and irregular migration.
	What we would call illegal immigration.
	Because you may remember that, go back four or five years, Mama Merkel was beating the drum for more migrants, more migrants, let millions in.
	And somewhere around two million were allowed into Germany.
	Of course, Germany being the Schengen zone meant they could go anywhere in Europe.
	And they were also trying to redistribute the migrants.
	Because they're a bunch of commies.
	By saying, you know, every country has to take their fair share.
	And of course, Poland and Hungary were like, we don't think so.
	And that obviously was a major point of contention.
	And this appears to be getting the European Union to kind of change their perspective on mass migration.
	So that's at least one positive that comes out of it.
	But anyway, so this is what Sky News reported.
	Poland has accused Belarus of trying to cause a violent provocation following reports that hundreds of migrants are attempting to cross Poland's borders.
	Polish officials have said they are prepared to defend the frontier and have increased security measures, deploying more than 12,000 soldiers, up from the 10,000 that were there recently.
	Migrants attempted to force their way through the barbed wire at the crossing in Kuznika.
	Oh, by the way, I'm going to pronounce all of this completely incorrectly.
	But that's what the Polish get for having such a bizarro language.
	I make no apologies.
	The European Union has accused Belarus of engaging in a form of hybrid warfare by encouraging thousands of migrants from the Middle East and Africa to cross into EU countries via its borders.
	The bloc perceives this to be an act of revenge for Western sanctions on Minsk over human rights abuses, which we'll get into shortly.
	Deputy Foreign Minister...
	P-I-O-T-R-W-A-W-R-Z-Y-K Maybe.
	Maybe.
	I hope I pronounced that completely wrong.
	I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be disrespectful either, but look, give me a break.
	I have trouble pronouncing French words.
	Belarus, he says on public radio, Belarus wants to cause a major incident, preferably with shots fired and casualties, according to media reports.
	They're preparing for a major provocation near some place, and there will be an attempt at a mass border crossing, he says.
	And it seems that he's probably right.
	Um...
	The Deputy Interior Minister tweeted that Polish authorities are ready for any scenario while Poland's security services described one of the videos as very worrying.
	Latvia has called the situation alarming whereas Lithuania has said it was moving additional troops to the border to prepare for a possible rise in migrant crossings.
	Poland's border guard has reported incidents of hostile behaviour and threats from Belarusian forces aimed at Polish forces across the border.
	So not good, all things considered.
	And so let's have a look at what's going on.
	if we can go for clip number one so you can see what's happening and we're listening that's That is large numbers of, well, I mean, like, probably a couple of thousand.
	Migrants throwing logs on the barbed wire fences and trees on the barbed wire fences to break them down.
	On the other side are ranks of Polish security forces.
	I mean, they're actively trying to destroy the border, so that's key.
	I think that's probably all you need to watch about, John.
	So yeah, so that's them not respecting the fact that they're not being allowed in.
	It's pretty blatant.
	Yeah.
	And then you get this next clip.
	we can play them chanting German! German! German! German! German! German! German!
	That's about all you can see of that one I didn't have time to edit it.
	But as you can see, that's, I guess, what we call fighting age men.
	And one child there, though.
	They did find a child, show us, chanting German.
	Presumably they want to get to Germany, where they have significant amounts of state-funded benefits.
	Thanks, Mama Merkel, again.
	Now, the migrants aren't stupid.
	They know what they're doing.
	We've got videos, in fact, of them essentially creating propaganda to manipulate the people at home watching, such as, as you can see in this one, migrants finding a young lad, looks about, I don't know, 13, 14, something like that, And blowing smoke, cigarette smoke, into his eyes to record an interview that can be then aired on CNN, MSNBC and BBC, claiming the Polish soldiers are tear-gassing poor children and things like this.
	So these poor crying children that they've made cry by blowing smoke in their eyes.
	Cynical.
	Very cynical.
	Anyway, so moving on, it seems that shots have been fired at the border.
	Now, I don't know the circumstance of this, but we have a clip that shows it from GB News.
	We can play that.
	Unfortunately, I have no idea what's going on.
	Although, no one seems to be panicking, so I guess people firing into the air or something.
	Yeah, I guess people don't really mind that much by the looks of it.
	What saddens me is the fact that when they're blowing smoke into children's eyes and stuff, you can be guaranteed that there are people who are still going to fall for anything that comes as a result of it.
	You can guarantee CNN are going to unironically air this, saying, look, the Polish forces are tear-gassing children.
	Oh, think of the children.
	Well, as a father, I am actually more susceptible to that argument now, but I'm not susceptible to people being deeply cynical.
	A, you shouldn't be there.
	B, you shouldn't be trying to manipulate the media.
	See, go home.
	I'm not very sympathetic, to be honest, considering in Britain we have literally thousands of migrants every week just sailing across the channel.
	Where are they getting these dinghies?
	How can they afford dinghies?
	And the media consistently blames the people trying to keep them out of the country for them taking the incredibly reckless and dangerous route of just sailing across the Channel.
	As if France is not a safe country.
	So why is this happening?
	Well, it seems to be the consequence of the EU's restrictive measures being placed on Belarus.
	This all started in August 2020 when the European imposed restrictive measures on Belarus as a response to the nature of their 2020 presidential election, which led to Alexander Lukashenko being elected.
	They felt that this was illegitimate.
	They think the election was fraudulent and rigged, fortified, if you will.
	I think I'm allowed to talk about that fortification on YouTube.
	It's weird.
	And the result of intimidation and violent repression of peaceful protesters, opposition members and journalists.
	This seems to be the case, to be honest.
	You may remember the footage going around of people laying in the streets and stuff like that.
	It looked quite brutal, to be honest.
	So they're not wrong that Belarus is a...
	An Eastern country.
	But anyway, this led to the EU placing economic sanctions on Belarus, as reported by the European Council.
	Tension statement by the European Council, sorry, from June.
	Tensions between Belarus and the EU have intensified considerably since the EU strengthened these restrictions.
	In June, following the forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Minsk and the related detention of a journalist, in fact two journalists, since these sanctions were implemented, Belarus has doubled down on its aggression against the EU at the direct expense of a neighbouring country to the west, which was Poland.
	It is suspected that this aggression is retaliation to the European Union's attempt to encroach on its political affairs and punish it economically for non-compliance, which it probably is.
	So there's a website called NotesFromPoland.com which has a fairly good explanation of the crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border.
	Not being an expert on these things, I'm going to rely on this.
	They say, Minsk is organising transport for foreigners or making this travel easier by readily providing Belarusian visas, offering to take them to the EU. Because, of course, why would migrants from the Middle East want to be in Belarus?
	Belarus is a very poor Eastern European country, like, with 8 million people in it.
	There's no reason for them to be there.
	After arriving legally in Belarus, they are transported by the country's authorities to the border and forced to cross it.
	Belarus, put simply, are using the migrants as pawns to put pressure on the EU and end the sanctions and probably stop interfering in their political affairs in general.
	The EU, as you may well expect, are not happy about this.
	At all.
	They're accusing, as we covered earlier, Belarus of a hybrid attack.
	They published this response from Ursula von der Leyen.
	She's accused Belarus of having launched a hybrid attack, saying, the regime in Minsk...
	I love regime.
	Now we're using the word regime.
	That's fine.
	I'll use the word regime for administrations.
	I don't think legitimate now.
	Minsk has instrumentalized human beings.
	They have put people on planes and literally pushed them towards Europe's borders.
	In much the same way that Erdogan was threatening to do, in fact.
	Back in, like, 2017, Erdogan basically said, look, I've got four million Syrian migrants here, and if you don't give me billions of euros, I'm literally going to send them to Europe.
	And so the European Union paid him off.
	So they just gave in to blackmail?
	Yeah, and it's not like Erdogan's like the world's most legitimate president either.
	What strong-willed leaders we have.
	Yeah, but at least they're resisting in this case.
	But yeah, she said, let's call it what it is, a hybrid attack to destabilise Europe, obviously expressly supporting the European Union states against Belarus.
	This is not really an unreasonable response from the European Union.
	In fact, it's a surprising response, considering five years ago it would have been the complete opposite and they would have just bent over and spread their cheeks.
	The article goes on that von der Leyen also urged EU member states to adopt the legislative package on migration and asylum that the European Commission proposed last September.
	If you ask most Europeans, she said, they would agree that we should act to curb irregular migration, but also act to provide a refuge for those forced to flee.
	Okay, well what are you going to do?
	How are you going to do that?
	How are you going to stop illegal immigration and mass migration, but also provide a refuge for those forced to flee?
	Who knows?
	This is, of course, bearing in mind the European Union's appalling record, as we just covered.
	But it seems they haven't really learned that much.
	They're essentially serving two masters.
	They know that mass migration is deeply unpopular with the European population because they've been subjected to it for the last five years and it's gone very poorly.
	But the thing is, they also know that this is completely in line with their sort of...
	Globalist, neoliberal, universal principles.
	If anything, it's shocking that they even just acknowledged that the people don't like it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, no, that's exactly right.
	It's actually shocking that they've at least paid lip service to this, and they can see, and what's more as well, is that they can see that Belarus, and presumably other actors, are using this as a way of destabilizing Europe, and they're weaponizing their own principles against them.
	Yeah, I mean like you've said, it's not like Erdogan has explicitly stated such things in the past anyway.
	Yeah, and so it becomes apparent that this universalist commitment that the European Union has is in fact a major Achilles heel that much poorer and weaker states can use to weaponise against the European Union to the point where the European Union recognises this is actually a threat to the stability of the entire continent.
	So it's impressive just how, like Belarus has only got like 8 million people in it.
	It's impressive how small a state can make the entire European Union tremble by just pulling on one of these principles, you know?
	Really makes you think.
	But anyway, so, some, rather predictably, have identified an opportunity in the crisis.
	Such as Amnesty International.
	Thanks for this, Amnesty.
	They say this.
	They use spatial reconstruction techniques to show how a group of 32 people from Afghanistan was left stranded at the border between Poland and Belarus without food, clean water, shelter and medicine for weeks, despite attempting to claim asylum in Poland.
	Why don't they claim asylum in Belarus?
	The Belarusians let them in, traffic them across the country, then dump them there.
	What did they think they were doing?
	Polish and Belarusian border guards have been keeping a group trapped in a small area on the border for over a month as both countries avoid responsibility for the four women, 27 men and one 15-year-old girl.
	Really gives you an impression of the kind of demographic breakdown of the migrants as well, doesn't it?
	Mostly men.
	But Poland isn't allowing them in, of course.
	I doubt that Amnesty International know this already, but they're using this, again, as a kind of moral weapon against the European Union, Poland specifically, because of course they've got to provide them with food, clean water and shelter.
	But this is going to encourage more migrants to come, because, I mean, if we just turn up and get dumped there by Belarus, you're obligated now by the European Union's moral standards to feed and clothe and shelter us.
	You're not going to renege on that obligation, and so why should more not come until the problem becomes unmanageable?
	And so Poland, we're like, well, actually, we have an idea.
	We're going to build a wall, a really big, beautiful wall, and We'll get Belarus to pay for it.
	Yeah, hopefully we'll get Belarus to pay for it.
	This is as reported by Rory.
	Polish lawmakers drafted legislation that will permit the construction of a $400 million wall on the Belarusian border.
	It was approved by the Polish Council of Ministers after amnesty crying like a bunch of girls.
	The Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Germany have all reported an increase in illegal immigration, which they believe is a result of Lukashenko's program of sending migrants, alleged program of sending migrants to the border.
	Don't sue me, Lukashenko.
	I'd hate to have to have all this out in court.
	In the last month, 2000 Middle Eastern migrants have crossed the German border, traveling from Poland to Belarus.
	And in early attempts to stem the crossings, Poland's barbed wire fence, as we saw in the video earlier, was being trampled down by the migrants.
	So note the dramatic shift in tone, though, about all of this.
	It's quite interesting.
	But the question is, how did they get there in the first place?
	How did they get there?
	Can we get the last link up a second, John?
	This is the map.
	The final link, please.
	The world map, yeah.
	So you see the Middle East, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, going into Asia where Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan are.
	How did they get to Belarus?
	Did they just walk over?
	No, they'd have to go through a massive country.
	A massive country that isn't a big fan of the European Union.
	Why aren't they going through Ukraine?
	Why aren't they at the Polish border through the Ukrainian border?
	Weird.
	Or the, you know, the Latvian or Estonian borders or whatever.
	You know, like, no, they've come through Belarus.
	And that's probably because I think Ukraine hates Russia.
	Because there are many, many allegations that Russia is, of course, behind this.
	Now, if we can go back to the previous one, a senior Polish security official has accused Russia of involvement in the migration crisis.
	Stanislaw Zarin, someone with a remarkably pronounceable name, the director of the National Security Department, also said Russia wants to avoid being linked to the situation, which has seen the migrants try to cross.
	And in his opinion, it's going on with significant Russian support.
	Well, how else could they have got there?
	How did they get to Belarus from the Middle East without going through Russia?
	It must have had Russian support.
	There's no question of it, in my opinion.
	Of course, this is speculation.
	This is just what I think about it.
	But it does appear that the Russians and the Belarusians, as a corollary, have worked out what the Achilles heel of the European Union is and is essentially forcing them to die on their own principles.
	And the European Union has turned around and said, well look, we can't actually afford to do that, and so they're going to have to compromise themselves.
	These four freedoms that we heard so much about during Brexit, that are apparently immutable, well, turns out they can be muted.
	There we go.
	Alright then, let's move on and take a thorough examination of what's been going on over the past week at the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.
	So, we're going to split this up into probably two segments, looking at the day one through three, and then day four and five.
	So, just to give an overview for anybody who...
	May or may not be in the know of what this is all about.
	So last year, everyone's fully aware of all of the Black Lives Matter rioting that was going on across, well, the protests that were going on across America, one of which was taking place on...
	I think we can call it rioting, because it was literally looting, burning and murdering people.
	Yes, that is true.
	So I think we can call it rioting.
	Thank you, Susan.
	Yeah, the one in particular that is relevant to this was taking place on August 25th, 2020, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as a result of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, which many thought was just another case of a white police officer randomly shooting a black man for the sake of it, but I believe that what came out afterwards was that he was trying to assault them with a knife...
	Well, yeah.
	I mean, he was being detained by the police, and then he walked to his car to get a knife, and they were trying to stop him, and then eventually had to shoot him because he refused to stop as he grabbed the knife.
	As you would imagine, BLM and other organizations decided to try and twist this, and it led to large-scale rioting throughout Kenosha.
	And in the process of that, there was a man, well, a boy, you would have to say, given that he was 17 years old at the time, called Kyle Rittenhouse, who was present, going about with an AR-15-style rifle, trying to administer medical attention to people who were on the ground.
	In the process, he was attempting to put out a fire that he'd seen, and in the process of pulling out the fire, he began to be pursued by an enraged group.
	One member of the group attempted to take Rittenhouse's rifle, who was Joseph Rosenbaum.
	A convicted pedophile.
	Yes, a convicted pedophile.
	And fearing for his life, Rittenhouse shot him, and he died.
	He tried to escape, but continued to be pursued by the group, and was attacked by another man, Anthony Huber, who...
	A convicted domestic abuser.
	Yes, who hit him over the head with a skateboard.
	These details are very important and will be important to the trial as well.
	He hit him with a skateboard and shot him.
	Huber also died, and while trying to escape again, he was, I believe, dropkicked by somebody while he was on the ground, who managed to run away and has not been seen since.
	Understandably, yeah.
	Yeah, he tried to shoot that guy but missed.
	And then a man called Gage Grosskrauts, I believe I'm pronouncing that correctly.
	Who I believe is a convicted domestic abuser and burglar.
	Yes, from the information that I've seen that we'll be going into later, I believe that to be the case.
	I just want this to be important.
	So, you have a 17-year-old boy who's being attacked by a convicted paedophile.
	I think that alone...
	I mean, isn't that not self-defence?
	Yeah.
	But yeah, no, these are scum.
	The absolute scum of the earth.
	These are not pictures of virtue, as some elements of the media might have initially led you to believe after this happened, making it sound as though Rittenhouse had been going through the crowds of protesters, shooting indiscriminately, accusing him of being...
	The Young Turks.
	Yeah.
	Accusing him of being a white supremacist because he apparently once liked a Blue Lives Matter post on Facebook.
	Gotcha now, Kyle.
	Yep.
	And he was once in the same cafe as Proud Boys may have been at some point.
	These are the sorts of lengths that these people are...
	This is the evidence these people are trying to stretch to make Rittenhouse seem guilty before he'd even been...
	tried of anything.
	Just to finish off that, Gage Grosskrauts, he approached Rittenhouse with a gun and tried to point it at him and then Rittenhouse shot him, blew off his bicep.
	Grosskrauts is the only one of these people he shot who has survived and he actually gave his testimony yesterday at the trial, which we'll get into.
	So as of last week, the trial began.
	We've covered a little bit of it on the podcast, including a lot of the pre-trial stuff, so they went through some pre-trial details, including how to define self-defense versus recklessness in the situation that Rittenhouse found himself in.
	You may also remember that the judge had decreed that the prosecution, which is the state prosecution trying to prosecute Kyle for murder, whereas the defense are retesting it as a clear case of self-defense, put forward the judge decried that the The prosecution weren't allowed to call any of these people.
	He shot victims, rightfully so, because it could be seen as prejudicial language towards the jury.
	And also the very fact that the defence is arguing self-defence means that, well, once the trial is over, then we'll figure out if we can call them victims.
	Are they victims or are they assailants?
	I mean, from the video evidence we've seen, I know where I stand on that.
	But the question is, what is up in the air?
	Yes, legally speaking, this is what all the trial is going to decide upon.
	So we've got a lot of this information from Legal Insurrection, who have been very good in their coverage of the trial, and also a lot of footage that has been broadcast on YouTube and other platforms that's been going live from the trial.
	Just to clear up some other details, so the judge is a man called Bruce Schroeder.
	The prosecution's being led by assistant district attorney for Wisconsin, Kenosha.
	Thomas Binger and the Rittenhouse defense is being led by an attorney called Mark Richards alongside a lawyer, Corey Chirifisi.
	Chirifisi.
	I don't know how you're supposed to pronounce his name because those names are all going to be relevant in the details going up.
	So, for day one, which I believe was last Tuesday, the prosecution and the defence were able to put forward their opening statements, and that's what we'll be going over right now.
	So the assistant district attorney, Binger, lead prosecutor in the case, presented the state's opening argument.
	Binger made repeated references to Kyle as having shot unarmed victims using an AR-15-style automatic rifle with 30 rounds in the magazine.
	It doesn't matter if they're unarmed, if they're trying to attack you, surely.
	But that's not even true.
	Oh yeah, that's also not true.
	I mean, Gage had a gun, and the other one was using a skateboarder as a heavy thing as a weapon, you know?
	That is true.
	So they're definitely not unarmed.
	Yeah, and they also made sure to point out that after he'd shot them, Kyle didn't stay to care for those he'd shot, but simply walked away.
	I mean...
	And handed himself in to the police?
	Well, attempted to.
	Presumably he also walked away because there was still a large mob of violent people trying to assault him.
	But yeah, they also made the strange point that property is not worth more than life, which is a very strange point to make, seeing as it's not like...
	In US law, that's not true.
	You're allowed to defend your property.
	That is true, but it's also not like it's relevant to this case in the first place, because they attacked him, as the footage shows, and as the trial will go on to repeatedly show.
	Is my property worth more than this pedophile's life?
	I... I think you could put forward a compelling argument.
	I have my arguments, yes.
	Yes.
	Of particular importance to Bingo was an oft-repeated theme that despite there being hundreds of people present that night in Kenosha, the only person who shot anybody was Kyle Rittenhouse.
	It's only because Gage didn't have the chance.
	Yes.
	I mean, once again, not really relevant to a self-defence case in the first place.
	Not even slightly.
	Yeah, and Bingo also introduced the topic of the late-released FBI footage taken by aircraft over the scene, suggesting that it was Kyle who chased down Rosenbaum, and that it was Kyle who was the initial provoker of the confrontation between the two men, rather than the reverse.
	So if we skip over to Jack Posobiec's tweet, he was one of the first people to break that this footage had been released.
	We don't need to show the footage properly, we'll just let it play there.
	He's actually showing the footage here, which is quite blurry and quite disorientating.
	The FBI supposedly had HD footage, which went missing, although Kosovyec himself has put forward the claim.
	I don't know what truth there is to this, that apparently they've managed to find the HD footage.
	I look forward to seeing it.
	And they might be releasing that to the trial as well.
	I wonder if they just left it on a shelf somewhere, you know, just gathering dust.
	Just absent-mindedness, don't worry.
	Yeah, but what this footage shows, because as I said, it's quite disorientating, but if you actually track down the footage itself, they have helpfully circled the important actors in the footage, and they have this overhead view of it where they've also circled and labelled who everybody is.
	What the footage actually shows is that Rosenbaum was ahead of Rittenhouse on this street, and Rittenhouse began approaching Rosenbaum and a few other of the important people.
	Presumably to try and put out this fire that was going on.
	And as soon as he starts to run towards him, Rosenbaum seems to skirt away to the right and hides among a few cars.
	It might show up on the footage in a moment.
	He seems to hide among a few cars, and it's only after Rittenhouse has run past him, which kind of suggests that Rittenhouse wasn't trying to chase after Rosenbaum in the first place.
	Well, yeah, if he runs past him...
	You can see right there, Rosenbaum hides among a few cars, Rick House runs past, and then all of a sudden Rosenbaum starts to sneak back out to try and get the jump on him.
	Yeah, you can see him.
	Yeah, and it's at that point that Rosenbaum starts chasing him, starts shouting after him, chases him into this car park, and what you can't hear on...
	He throws the bag with whatever in it at the time, and you can see him shoot there.
	Yeah, and you can also hear him on the footage, his last words being the ever-dignified F-U. And what you also can't hear just through watching a bit of that footage was that before that incident began, Rittenhouse himself was wandering about, shouting, anybody need a medic?
	Anybody need medical?
	So it's all seeming to point this footage towards Rittenhouse not having done anything wrong.
	At least in that initial confrontation.
	And he was actively trying to help people on the ground.
	Hmm.
	So if we go back to the article initially, yeah, you can see that was Posobiec saying that HD footage of the, HD version of the FBI footage to be introduced in Kyle Rittenhouse trial after human events broke the story that the FBI withheld it.
	They initially said that it didn't exist anymore, but they seem to have found it down the sofa cushions perhaps.
	So if we go back to the article again, so continuing their initial statement, the prosecution said that as for the attacks by others on Rittenhouse as he ran from the site of the shooting of Rosenbaum to the police line down the street, because he was trying to understandably get to the police, He was pursued and attacked and he shot Huber and Grosskraut as well as firing at an unknown male who was the person who dropkicked Rittenhouse in the face and then took a run for it.
	Before this though, there was a shot fired, wasn't there?
	Yes, I think somebody, I don't know if they confirmed if it was anyone, I think they might have confirmed it was somebody with a similarly Eastern European sounding name, might have shot a warning shot into the air.
	But one of the crowd, wasn't it?
	Someone in the crowd who had a gun who fired it in the air.
	So it's not like Rittenhouse would have been sat there going, well this is an unarmed crowd.
	Some people in the crowd definitely had weapons.
	Yeah, I am in danger.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And Rittenhouse would have been aware of that.
	Yeah.
	And Binger, the prosecution attorney, put this all down as Kyle's fault, because those other people purportedly reasonably perceived Kyle to be an active shooter that they wanted to stop.
	So he shoots somebody who he knows is trying to get his gun off of him and trying to assault him, and they automatically assume that this is an active shooter and try to stop him.
	That's not how it looked from the footage that I was watching.
	Also, if you thought there was an active shooter running about, surely my first instinct would be to run the opposite direction of an active shooter, so relatively irresponsible even if that was what they thought, and also doesn't affect Rittenhouse's own perception of himself as being in danger and defending himself as such.
	No, no, not at all.
	And then it moved on to the opening statements by the defence, Rittenhouse's defence.
	So it says here in the article that...
	You're not allowed to use evidence to defend yourselves.
	I know.
	His argument was basically, it's not fair, I didn't do any of that, so he can't either.
	Well, you don't have any video evidence that would exonerate any of your clients.
	Yeah, and he was like, oh, we don't know if these exhibits are relevant, even though surely they'd been already shown to be relevant in being accepted by the court.
	Yeah.
	And Schroeder found none of these exhibits of evidence to be objectionable for use in an opening statement, and he said just make sure that it doesn't go on longer than the state's opening did, and they made sure that it didn't.
	and in that state opening defense statement they read aloud the jury instruction of self-defense noting that the use of deadly defensive force was lawful if necessary to stop a reasonably perceived imminent and unlawful threat of death or grave bodily injury and he used the exhibits to illustrate exactly how thoroughly these conditions were met for each and every one of the use of force charges against kyle he then walks you through the timeline of events that we've
	He illustrates Kyle's desperate flight to the police line down the street to turn himself in, only to be pursued down the street as if by a pack of animals.
	He also highlighted Kyle's provision of medical care to those who had been injured, his genuine desire to protect the city's private property from riot, looting and arson, his running with a fire extinguisher to put out what he believed to be another car lot about to be incinerated.
	He also noted that the state-claimed reporter McGuinness, I think Richard McGuinness, who shows up later in this as a So moving on, we've got the first witness that they called up, Dominic Black, who was with Kyle during the events and carried his own gun and medical equipment.
	I believe that he was the primary person that Kyle was sort of teamed with during the whole riot.
	He says that they brought the medical equipment and guns to help people.
	I believe Black also testified that Kyle had stolen the gun from him somehow, for some reason.
	Although there is a bit of...
	Suspicious activity going on with this because Black himself is being charged with having provided Kyle Rittenhouse the gun.
	And the person presiding over those charges who brought those charges forward is Binger, the assistant district attorney.
	So it seems to be that there might be a little bit of suspicious behavior going on behind the scenes where it's like, if you say what we want you to say, then we may go a bit easier on you.
	Could be.
	As far as I can tell is what it looks like.
	So he said that they were there for a business called Carsource, which is where the initial confrontation with Rosenbaum went down, who had asked them to protect the business, and Black had stayed on the roof while Kyle had decided to stick to the streets to provide medical aid to people, which is a pretty ballsy thing to do, to be perfectly honest, when this riot is going down there.
	I think it clearly shows an intent that he wanted to help people, even putting himself in risk.
	He even said that he'd seen Kyle administer aid to people.
	Yep, so as part...
	So he said he was there to administer medical aid and put out fires and things, and he did do those things.
	Yep.
	Right, okay.
	Yep, so prosecution tried to get Black to state that once he had gotten home, because Black's the guy who drove Rittenhouse home, across state lines...
	Oh god, not across state lines.
	I know.
	Build a wall.
	He'd driven Rittenhouse home.
	Rittenhouse and his family discussed getting him across into a different state and hiding him.
	But upon cross-examination by the defence, they got him to admit that, no, that was just Kyle's mum.
	Just saying that she wanted to do that.
	And Kyle, of course, obviously, as shown by his actions, wanted to turn himself into the police.
	So that bit of evidence was just thrown straight out in terms of, well, that bit of testimony was just thrown straight out because, well, it clarified.
	The second witness is where we get a lot of the FBI information from, but that wasn't broadcast on television or online.
	I don't know exactly why.
	And the third witness for some reason was a social media influencer who was only a partial witness and after 40 minutes of questioning, they were just like, well, we'll just take a recess for the day.
	So evidently the social media influencer didn't really provide anything of much import for that.
	So then we skip on to day two.
	Uh, where the prosecution witnesses, as far as we can tell, were still failing to contradict self-defense.
	There were a few witnesses gone through here, but the most important thing was they were examining the criminal investigation done by the police after the initial shooting.
	So, in the case of Kyle Rittenhouse, the police simply seized physical possession of his phone, which obviously was taken for evidence.
	He was, after all, a criminal suspect and began the process to download its data.
	It turned out, however, that the phone could not be cracked by the Kenosha Police Department.
	And they thought, okay, well, we'll just send it off to the FBI and their lab will crack it.
	Except it turned out that the FBI also lacked the ability to crack Kyle's phone.
	Well, they had a big set-to with Apple a few years ago because they couldn't break into the phones and they were really annoyed that they couldn't force Apple to do it.
	Apple was like, oh no, civil rights!
	Well, that's the thing.
	Which is nice, but like...
	I mean, Kyle had an iPhone with the latest operating system, and the FBI's technology had not been developed to crack the combination.
	So when all this came to the attention of Kyle's attorneys, they consulted with their client and made an offer to the police.
	We'll just give you the passcode to unlock it if you want.
	Kyle's just like, well, this is the number.
	Yeah, and that will give you unlimited access to everything, because presumably there's nothing incriminating on there.
	Obviously there wasn't.
	And all they asked in return was a copy of the data for themselves.
	However, this is very different to how the police handled the investigation into gross crowds.
	Oh, really?
	Yes, so despite having the search warrant in hand during a meeting with Grosskreutz and his lawyers or people, and Grosskreutz was there and his cell phone was there at this meeting, the investigators ended up not serving the search warrant on him, not seizing his phone, and not downloading the contents.
	Not only was Grosskreutz the only person of interest to this investigation who did not have his phone downloaded, he was also the only person in Detective Howard's experience of any Kenosha PD investigation.
	Ever where a search warrant for a phone download had not been served.
	So it seems a little bit suspicious.
	So for some reason, on every other one they've done this, but not on him?
	Yes, just not on him, for some reason.
	Kind of makes it seem a little bit like they were trying to...
	As they put on the blog, though, this is an exceptional breach of standard investigative procedure.
	Yes.
	Absolutely.
	It seems as though they were trying to stack the deck against Kyle, because presumably on that phone was probably some evidence of Grosskreutz going, let's go F some people up at this riot tonight.
	Presumably.
	That's just speculation on my part.
	One of the things that...
	I looked through all the criminal histories of the people that Kyle was involved with here.
	And one of the things that unites them all is they're all just violent people.
	Oh, yes.
	They've got a history of violence.
	For years, many criminal convictions, and few of them have been to jail.
	Well, speaking of that, the day three, if we move along again, they brought in a few state witnesses for the prosecution, one being Richard McGinnis, who was the Daily Caller reporter who was physically present there following Rittenhouse and Rosenbaum while their confrontation and altercation was who was the Daily Caller reporter who was physically present there following And another witness called Ryan Balch, who was an industrial worker who was there on the night and met both Rosenbaum and Carl Rittenhouse.
	Both of these were supposed to help the prosecution's case, but seems to have both helped the defense instead by painting Rosenbaum as a very violent person who was looking to start a fight.
	There is more evidence.
	I mean, it seems to be self-evident from the...
	The footage, but it's nice to have some testimony to that as well.
	So if we play the clip, we'll get on to McGuinness, who kind of blew a big hole in it in the first place.
	But this is Balch, some of his testimony, if you just play this.
	And I stepped in and told everybody to chill out, calm down, stop doing that.
	I turned and had an exchange with one of the protesters.
	And...
	I kind of explained to that protester, hey, I get what you're trying to do, but not this.
	And when I turned around, Rosenbaum was right there in front of my face, yelling and screaming.
	And I said, dude, back up.
	Just chill.
	I don't know what your problem is.
	And he goes, you know what?
	If I catch any of you guys alone tonight, I'm going to fucking kill you.
	And he said that to you?
	Correct.
	Did he say that to the defendant as well?
	The defendant was there, so yes.
	And that's the prosecutor talking about.
	Yes, that is the prosecutor, who seemingly most of the witnesses he has brought forward just seem to have damaged his own case.
	Yes, the person I'm trying to make a case for is an absolute psychopath.
	I rest my case.
	Defence.
	It seems to show intent and motive for Rosenbaum wanting to assault Kyle, not the other way around.
	Absolutely.
	Yeah, and if we move along, so this is in regards to Richard McGuinness' testimony.
	He's once again the reporter from the Daily Caller.
	For more than 12 minutes, Binger tried to get McGuinness to testify that Rosenbaum was already falling to the ground when Rittenhouse began shooting him.
	In other words, that Rittenhouse simply executed Rosenbaum by shooting him in the back when he was helplessly falling.
	Right.
	The actual exchange is in a video in this, so if you're interested, check out the links.
	But they sort of paraphrase it here.
	So Rittenhouse shot Rosenbaum in the back as he was falling.
	No, Rittenhouse didn't fire until Rosenbaum charged and lunged at him.
	So he shot him as he was falling.
	No, not falling, lunging.
	So you're saying he shot him while he was falling.
	That's not my testimony.
	Yeah, that's paraphrasing it, but I've listened to it and it's basically that.
	Because McGinnis himself specifically states from what he could see that Rittenhouse was running away and stopped and turned around, had his gun pointed towards the ground...
	And Rosenbaum just kept going for him, and then lunged at him, and it was only after lunging at him, Rittenhouse opened fire, and then he fell over.
	And Binger was just trying desperately to make it sound like this falling action was what he was already doing with open fire.
	So, in Binger's defence, it is a very difficult thing to have to defend.
	Absolutely.
	I mean, you know, you've got to be really creative.
	Well, this paedophile was lunging a 17-year-old, Your Honour.
	And the 17-year-old defended himself with a gun.
	Right, okay.
	Oh, God, how can I make the boy look like he's in the wrong ear?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Not an enviable job, I have to say.
	Yeah.
	And then, after being cross-examined by the defense, who just confirmed everything that you already said, we got this wonderful clip of Bingo basically trying to dismiss his own witness's testimony.
	So if you just play this one...
	And you've already established that after the shooting, Mr.
	Rosenbaum never says a word.
	Correct?
	Correct.
	You don't know...
	As you sit here today, what Mr.
	Rosenbaum was thinking, do you?
	You mean at the time of the shooting?
	Yes.
	Or at any point in his life.
	I mean, you have no idea what Mr.
	Rosenbaum was ever thinking at any point in his life.
	You have never been inside his head.
	You never met him before.
	I've never exchanged words with him, if that's what your question is.
	So your interpretation of what he was trying to do or what he was intending to do or anything along those lines is complete guesswork, isn't it?
	Well, he said, fuck you, and then he reached for the weapon.
	Let's talk about that.
	At that very moment, you've I mean, how bad does that look?
	I love the guy's face.
	Well, he said, F you in the reach of the weapon.
	I mean, reasonable inferences abound, I think.
	He just looks confused.
	It's like, why are you asking me these questions?
	Yeah, no, I'm not a mind reader, but that's what we have speech for.
	And his speech and actions were pretty awful.
	Yeah, I suppose the question would be, yeah, what was he thinking when he was doing this?
	Okay, Mr.
	Bing, what's your takeaway from that?
	Yeah, so that's how the prosecution seems to be going.
	And just of note on day three as well, one of the jurors was dismissed for making a joke about the shooting of Jacob Blake, which people may be aware of.
	So this CNN article talks about a juror was dismissed in Kyle Rittenhouse homicide trial on Thursday morning after he told a joke to a deputy earlier in the week about the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
	Apparently he was being taken to his car and just made the joke offhand to a bailiff, which was a bad idea.
	Apparently the joke was something along the lines of, why did it take seven shots to shoot Jacob Blake?
	Because the police didn't have any more bullets.
	Something like that.
	Blake survived, you know.
	Did he?
	Yeah, he's in a wheelchair now.
	Oh yeah, he's paralysed, isn't he?
	Yeah.
	So the judge called the juror into court for questioning.
	The juror affirmed that he told the joke, but declined to repeat it.
	Juror, a middle-aged man, looked ill at ease, fumbling and holding a portable microphone as speaking through a multicoloured face mask, according to the pool reporter in court.
	So that's all just CNN there.
	My feelings is it has nothing to do with the case, but the judge and the defense and the prosecution all agreed to dismiss him.
	Because if he's making jokes about the police shooting, then it kind of points to a certain bias.
	Yeah, that's fine.
	Not terribly interesting, that bit.
	Yeah, they just chucked him out.
	Moving on to day four and five, which is where some of the really juicy stuff starts to come about, especially yesterday.
	See, I've seen clips and headlines going about, but I haven't taken the time to look into it, because I knew we were going to do it now.
	Yeah, it's very entertaining, so we'll get to that in a moment.
	First, though, covering day four, so legal insurrection again, says that the highlights of today were unfortunately delivered in the form of two major fumbles, one by the defence and one by the state.
	Interestingly, the nature of both fumbles places the ball in the hands of the defense.
	So the great defense fumble seems to have been, if I see here, which they may still recover from even if they recognize the error, was accidentally revealed by the state making its own small error and getting caught by the defense.
	This generalized legal smash-up occurred during the questioning of state's witness Susan Hughes, the great aunt of Anthony Huber.
	Huber, you'll remember for anybody who hasn't watched the previous video, Was the second man shot by Kyle Rittenhouse the night of August 25th, and fatally after he struck Kyle twice around the head with a heavy skateboard and then grabbed at Kyle's rifle to try and seize it from him.
	He's the wife-beater, not the paedophile.
	Yes.
	So basically what they were trying to do was introduce evidence of an occasion being told by this woman, Susan Hughes, his great-aunt, of a time where, as a child, Huber saved a family member from an explosion.
	Which was to try and prop up a narrative that they're trying to push of Huber and Grosskraut of being people who thought they were trying to save the city from an active shooter.
	And they were trying to introduce this as evidence that he was of a heroic disposition, you could describe it as.
	I'd like to ask the great aunt if she's ever been inside Huber's head.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	So, the defense's mistake, however, was that they did not point out...
	Wait, sorry.
	The defense pointed out that they had not, in fact, explicitly argued that Huber was the initial aggressor in confrontation with Kyle, and might never explicitly make that claim.
	They intended to let the video speak for itself, which is maybe not the best idea from what we can see, just because of the fact you need to make these things very, very clear for a jury to be able to...
	But I mean, if you're a jury and you're watching it, it's very clear who's attacking you.
	Yeah, it is very clear, but this is what this article is sort of suggesting in mind.
	No, no, no, fair point.
	Should have made it clearer.
	This, however, is a weak argument because Kyle's very claim of self-defence implicitly requires that it was Huber rather than Kyle who was the initial aggressor, so that's what these guys are saying.
	Second, as the defence notes, the statute allows for rebuttal purposes evidence of the person's peaceful disposition.
	The statute literally uses those words, but that's not really what the state is offering here in this evidence provided by his great aunt.
	Running to prevent an explosion may well be heroic, but it doesn't really qualify as evidence of a peaceful disposition, which is...
	Absolutely right.
	Third, the defence also notes, if Judge Schroeder decides to admit this child Huber save family from explosion evidence, then the defence wanted the equal opportunity to share with the jury its own rebuttal evidence.
	This evidence includes that they had in possession several criminal complaints against the then living Huber, in which he'd been credibly accused of far from peaceful conduct.
	In one complaint, he'd been charged with holding a large knife to the throat of his brother, Later also holding the same knife to his brother's stomach and threatening to gut him like a pig for failing to clean his room.
	Oh, he's a hero.
	I know.
	No, as a dad, I mean, having an unclean room is a bloody pain in the rear.
	I mean, I tell you, no, I'm joking.
	This guy's a psychopath.
	There was also a complaint in which he'd taken a plea to a charge of strangling.
	In another instance, he had threatened to burn down his home with all you effers inside of it.
	Wow, he sounds like a domestic abuser.
	Exactly.
	So, ultimately, that's the deal Judge Schroeder offered the state.
	If they wanted to have their witness, Ms.
	Hughes, testify that the child Huber saved a family from an explosion incident, he'd allow it, but then they'd also have to allow the defence to bring all of this evidence into the courtroom as well.
	So, unsurprisingly, the prosecution decided to withdraw that evidence.
	That's amazing.
	What they also point out is the problem that the defense has kind of allowed the prosecution to put forward this narrative in front of the jury of Huber, potentially thinking that he was a hero when he was dying, which might influence their thoughts, but I don't necessarily think that's it.
	I would be surprised if the jury is swayed by Yeah, I don't think that's going to be swaying them.
	Day 4 also saw the witness testimony of Jason Lekowski, previously a US Marine Corps infantryman who was friends with other Rittenhouse witness, Ryan Balch, who we've watched the footage of earlier.
	He, like Ryan, had been present in the company of Kyle on August 25th.
	And had his own share of interactions with Joseph Rosenbaum in particular.
	And remember, a lot of this does fall on the interaction with Joseph Rosenbaum, being that that was the initial altercation that led to the altercations with Huber and Grosskraut.
	Highlights of Lechowski's testimony included his description of Rosenbaum as acting very belligerently, asking people bluntly to shoot him, making false steps as if attacking, trying to incite violence, and shouting the N-word at a Black Lives Matter rally.
	Does this sound like the actions of a man there to peacefully protest on behalf of Black Lives Matter?
	Or does this sound like the actions of a man there to incite violence and just...
	He sounds like a lunatic.
	Yeah, mindlessly riot.
	Yes.
	This turned around to bite the state when the defence got to Lukowski on cross-examination.
	Shira Fisi asked him, You were never alone one-on-one with Rosenbach.
	Oh, excuse me.
	With Rosenbaum, were you?
	No.
	You had support with you?
	Yes.
	Rosenbaum had never threatened to kill him?
	No.
	Never told him, if I get you alone, I'll effing kill you?
	No.
	So, Rosenbaum...
	This particular?
	This particular person seems to be contradicting previous statements made.
	But, Chirif...
	God, his name.
	Chirifici asked, "If you had been alone and Rosenbaum had threatened to kill you under that circumstance and you saw him charging at you with full speed, screaming 'F you' and fighting to take your gun from you, would you then feel that he was a threat?" And Lekowski just responded, "Oh yeah, obviously a threat to my life, yes." So, the exact scenario that Rittenhouse found himself in, yeah, I'd shoot him.
	It's a totally reasonable response.
	I don't think anybody would contradict that, unless you're the defence, presumably.
	But yes, and then we move on to day five, which is when everything came crashing down.
	This is when they brought forward the alleged victim, Gage Grosskrauts, as the...
	Everyone give him a wave.
	Yes.
	Hi, Gage.
	Because he can't do it himself.
	He was supposed to be a star witness.
	Remember, he is the one person who survived being shot by Kyle Rittenhouse.
	You remember the famous picture of him clutching his bicep while still holding the gun in his hand?
	Yes, and they brought forward an equally striking picture of his bicep exploding after having, at the moment it was shot...
	About to try and shoot Kyle.
	In fact, he's literally bringing his gun around like that and kind of shoots him in the arm.
	That's the thing they bring up.
	So the cross-examination by the defence brought out most of the good stuff.
	So Gage Grosskreutz, who was the state star witness, testified repeatedly how Rittenhouse only ever shot at people who were actually attacking him and never fired a shot at anybody who was not or even anybody who appeared to have begun an attack.
	Grosskreutz admitted that?
	Yes, when the defence cross-examined him, he was just like...
	Yeah, okay.
	Okay, I admit it.
	He never shot at anybody who didn't just expressly attack him first off.
	He also admitted to having been in possession of a gun that he was concealed carrying.
	He at first stated that he was licensed for this gun.
	When they questioned him further, he admitted that his license had expired at that point, so he was illegally carrying a firearm as well.
	Huh.
	Grosskraut's also put a stake in the heart of the Saving the City narrative when he conceded that even he, the only identified of the attackers on Kyle who could have been so motivated, lacked any reasonable basis on which to come to such a conclusion.
	So he's like, well, I wasn't trying to save the city.
	He was probably burning it down.
	Yeah, and Huber's dead, so he can't really say anything for himself.
	So that kind of destroys that argument.
	He also admits to having been part of a revolutionary group where he repeatedly spoke at their rallies.
	Oh, so he's an Antifa member who is rioting, burning down the city and looting...
	And he got what he deserved.
	Doing typical Antifa stuff, basically.
	He also admits to having left out of his initial statement to the police when questioned after his surgery for his bicep that he was armed with the gun.
	He said it was because of the fact that he was going through trauma and he'd just come out of the surgery, he was all drugged up, but he was able to accurately identify every other detail of the situation and also identified the exact clothes that Carl Rittenhouse was wearing.
	Oh, So it's very convenient that the trauma just managed to leave out that he had a gun on him that was pointed at Rittenhouse.
	I mean, we've all seen the pictures and video.
	Exactly.
	And then there was this amazing moment.
	I've taken this clip from Viva Frey, his Twitter, of Rikita Law covering it.
	Rikita Law, another good boy.
	Yeah, if you just play this, John, I think it'll speak for itself, really.
	It wasn't until you pointed your gun at him...
	Advanced on him.
	With your gun, now your hands down, pointed at him.
	Then he fired.
	Right?
	Correct.
	Oh, shit!
	That's it!
	That's it!
	Directed verdict.
	Directed verdict on all the murder charges.
	Kyle knows.
	Yeah.
	Directed verdict on the murder charges.
	He just- he just exhaled.
	Kyle just- oh, he looks like he's gonna cry.
	How do you not- how do you not- how do you not- how do you not a twit after that?
	Yep.
	Oh, did I do something wrong?
	Look at Bigger!
	Look at the look at Big Boy!
	Absolutely just demolished their case right there.
	He's like, well, yeah, I mean, you pointed your gun at him, right, and then he shot you.
	Yes, correct.
	Just skip over.
	Timple's got the...
	Just look at that.
	That says everything it needs to.
	Their case is destroyed.
	Yeah.
	Oh no, my witness blew our case up.
	I mean, what are they going to do now?
	Why bring him onto the stage?
	I mean, he was onto the stand.
	He obviously was trying to shoot him.
	So what was he going to do, lie?
	I mean, all of the testimony points to Joseph Rosenbaum being a violent maniac who was there specifically to riot and cause damage and hurt people, actively telling people, shoot me, and shouting the N-word at BLM rioters.
	Anthony Huber attacked him while having no real need to, because the defense had been putting forward this argument that, oh, he's trying to save the city when there's no real evidence to say that that's what he was thinking at all.
	If anything, he seems to have been doing the opposite.
	And then the one person who survived admits that, yeah, he only shot me because I was about to shoot him.
	I mean, what kind of case do they have to put forward now?
	And now there's even worse, which is that if you skip forward, Jack Posobiec points out that there was a Facebook post from Gage Grosskraut's roommate where he said that his only regret was not killing Kyle.
	That roommate has now been subpoenaed.
	Oh, really?
	And will be appearing at some point in the next week or so in the trial to give testimony to just confirm that, yeah, he said that, right?
	Well done, Gage.
	That's usually a noggin.
	Yeah, so it's not looking great for the prosecution.
	Because Gage is a communist and he's an obvious comrade.
	You can see him tweeting and things like that.
	Oh yeah, he's been going crazy on Twitter.
	He's wildly ideological.
	And so he said, you know, he posted, oh, my only regret is not killing Kyle, in order to virtue signal to his fellow comrades to get some sort of public support.
	But that just means that you're a lunatic.
	Oh yeah, just to clarify, the Facebook post was from Gage's roommate, who said that he told him that personally.
	But yeah, his roommate was probably virtue signaling, like you say.
	Oh, probably, yeah.
	Yeah, and then just as a funny thing to end this segment off on, if you just skip along.
	That's not it, John.
	I don't think that's it.
	Yeah, here we go.
	Babylon Bee just put out a funny article.
	Prosecutors move for mistrial as jury has been tainted by clear video evidence of Kyle Rittenhouse defending himself.
	I mean, that's the thing.
	Babylon Bee are a parody site, but that's just real life now.
	Yeah, that's just a commentary.
	Yeah.
	That's not a joke.
	That's what's really happened.
	Yeah.
	So just to conclude, things aren't looking great for the Kyle Rittenhouse prosecution.
	But things are looking rosy for Kyle himself because the evidence that we've all seen for many times over the past year shows that he doesn't appear to have done anything wrong.
	Yep.
	And that's about that.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Hey Lotus Eaters, new subscriber from Germany here.
	For my first video comment I wanted to share an anecdote from my workplace.
	So recently I overheard two of my co-workers talking about, well, Corona in general.
	One of them said how basically the communist government of Vietnam was locking up vaccine skeptics for 20 years.
	And well, what do you guess the response was?
	I wish our government did that too.
	Oh god damn!
	Send help!
	There was something about Germany and the vaccines I saw the other day.
	What was it?
	They want to bring in a law that's two years in jail if you lie about vaccine passports?
	Do you have a fake vaccine passport?
	Who determines what a lie is in that scenario?
	Well, I mean, let's say you've got a fake one.
	Is that two years in jail?
	Oh, yeah, yeah, about the fake ones.
	I don't think that's reasonable.
	Totally unreasonable.
	For the amount of risk you're posing to other people.
	I don't think there should be vaccines.
	As John points out, there's mum stabbing someone.
	I don't think there should be any vaccine passports at all.
	I mean, God.
	And did he say that was his friend who said that?
	Yeah.
	Maybe you need to find a better circle of friends.
	Or maybe you need to sit them down and educate them.
	A colleague, sorry.
	Yeah, a colleague.
	Hello, children.
	Conduction AQ on queer theory.
	As it is most things in do with progress, everything must change.
	And recently, the LGBTQ plus community has also changed.
	Bisexual, unisex, intersex, lesbian, some queer, homosexual, trans, altogether is...
	Very good.
	True.
	Yeah.
	Big props for actually trying to read the full three editions of Gulag Archipelago.
	I don't know if...
	I've only read about 300 pages of the abridged version, and it is pretty heavy-going.
	Indeed it is, Harry.
	I listened to the audiobook versions and found them tough, but I was able to push through.
	However, Solzhenitsyn's work is a collation of witness accounts.
	For a much more readable, first-hand tale, try George Kitchen's Prisoner of the OGPU, which covers the same basic subject matter, but at least has a happy ending.
	Very interesting.
	Yeah, that's...
	Callum and I were talking about Gulag Archipelago.
	I really should pick it up and finish the rest of it as the abridged version.
	That's a lot of work, though.
	So it's just misery upon misery upon misery.
	It is, but it is an important historical document.
	Yeah.
	So...
	I mean, I read about...
	I listened to the audiobook of about half of the abridged version, and I was just like...
	It's just made me sad.
	It does leave you quite demoralized, I've found.
	Yeah, I've got it.
	The Soviet Union was bloody awful, you know.
	Mm-hmm.
	On the topic of Partic Veritas on Monday's podcast, I just wanted to add that if you actually search for National File Ashley Biden on Google, nothing actually shows up from the National File.
	Very interesting.
	And this isn't the first time someone's been rated who's had affiliations with the so-called evil right-wingers.
	Rudy Giuliani called.
	He wants his hard drive back.
	That's right.
	He did, didn't he?
	But that's a really salient point, and I'm glad you make it, because I actually have got my default browser.
	I use different browsers for different things.
	And my default search engine on my main browser is DuckDuckGo, because there are things in Google you literally can't find.
	Yeah, I've stopped using Google for the most part because of the censorship that obviously goes on.
	And I saw on the podcast yesterday that you had to dig up that national file.
	Yeah, and I had to use Dr.
	Go to do it.
	Because all of the mainstream articles reporting on it had no links.
	No links, and the New York Times wouldn't even name the national file as the website with it.
	They said a right-wing website.
	Oh, thanks for the information, New York Times.
	Very useful.
	Well, I don't want you finding it.
	Yeah.
	I'm not a doctor, more like a glorified social worker.
	And I left the practice because, dude, I've seen things.
	Please don't ask me to diagnose anyone.
	That would also be medical malpractice.
	Gee, I need to paint my eyebrows back on.
	You don't have to dunk on us for being on a train without a mask.
	We are allowed to do that.
	Oh yeah, we think it's good.
	We just get disapproving looks from some people.
	But it is the morally right thing to do.
	Absolutely.
	Getting into the holiday season, I thought it might be fun to recommend some Christmas movies.
	I'd like to submit Anna and the Apocalypse.
	It's my favorite zombie Christmas musical crossover, and it cracks me up every time I see it.
	Anyway, I hope some other folks can throw some suggestions out there, because I'm always interested in seeing something new.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, since we're getting near the season.
	I've never heard of that one.
	Zombie Christmas musical?
	That sounds fun.
	Sounds unique.
	Definitely.
	Hasn't been done before.
	To the fellow wondering about honor, I posit that your quandary expressing a strong sense of honor is not from a lack of it, but from having a balanced sense of virtues.
	Honor is balanced by humility, justice is balanced by mercy, kindness is balanced by responsibility, and so on.
	Cultures such as China or the Middle East that overemphasize honor at the expense of other virtues should provide ample evidence that the British got it right yet again.
	I mean, I'm not going to deny that.
	And we do get a lot of things right, historically.
	Yeah, but what I was kind of driving at is, I think we don't really understand the purpose of honour, again, metaphysically, like what it's for, the reason that you have it.
	And it's to guarantee a state of affairs, and the state of affairs in the Middle Eastern mindset is the social purity of the family.
	They haven't degraded themselves by doing something improper in Middle Eastern culture, such as having a slut for a daughter or something like that.
	And to restore this state of affairs, they feel they have to do terrible things.
	And I think the Western materialistic mindset has lost this understanding of the world in this kind of state of affairs, maintaining states of affairs.
	There are more important things for your child's happiness than just giving them a phone.
	Yeah, there are.
	And this is what the Generation Z video, this is one of the things I realised doing that.
	Generation Z totally disapproved of Donald Trump.
	Only 25% of them, even vaguely, were either very supportive or slightly supportive of him.
	75% were just like, no, he's terrible.
	Because he represents this big sort of inflated view of Americana, you know, this narrative that Donald Trump is appealing directly to, of what it is to be an American.
	And you can see it dripping off him in the campaign where he walks onto the stage with, I'm proud to be an American, playing, and you've got all these American flags, you've got loads of people with mad cats, traditional-looking Americans who believe in the grand narrative, the mythos.
	Trump is upholding that mythos and the Generation Z don't understand the idea of why you would uphold a mythos.
	And they hate that mythos.
	Yeah, well, they've been indoctrinated and hating it by the millennials.
	And so they just see the world in a very flat, two-dimensional way that it's me and the things I'm directly materially connected to.
	And it's like, I'm just going to.
	Yeah, same.
	I'm just going to classify myself.
	Neither Gen Z nor Millennial.
	I'm some amorphous generation.
	I totally appreciate all the Gen Z are saying, no, no, no, no, I'm not just like that.
	I know you're not, but that's because you're here.
	Unfortunately, three quarters of your comrades...
	I like that.
	And it's sad, I think.
	I think the mythos is important.
	I think it's wholesome and uplifting.
	And that's why I like Donald Trump, to be honest.
	I wasn't really a big fan of him to begin with, but then I could see what he was doing.
	I was like, yeah, no, I like the magic.
	The magic works.
	It's good.
	So this is just an idea for the future, because I know it's going to be a while before you guys are actually able to travel internationally and hold events in places like America.
	But when that day finally comes, here is my pitch to why you should pick the Lehigh Valley as the area you hold your event in.
	So there's three relatively sizable cities around here.
	Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton.
	All of them should have plenty of options for venues.
	The airport around here is an international airport, so people might be able to fly directly in.
	And the location is an hour south of New York and an hour north of Philadelphia.
	Two large population centers.
	Well, I will bear that in mind, but it is going to be a while until we can travel because I'm not getting a goddamn test, let alone a vaccine.
	And if I can't travel without getting a test, I'm not doing it.
	Yeah.
	I'm just not doing it.
	I'm non-compliant.
	Sorry.
	Well, what with Bonfire on last week, I took the opportunity to watch V for Vendetta for the first time, and I've got to say, it was quite an interesting film, absolutely packed with left-wing projection, enough to fill a cinema screen, but it was still an interesting idea, especially the idea of a government taking control because of a sudden virus which appears out there in the world.
	Admittedly, that one was released deliberately, not accidentally, however I... Oh!
	Whoops!
	I said too much.
	Yeah, it really is interesting how V for Vendetta is not a million miles away from reality now, isn't it?
	Yeah, I mean, Alan Moore, who wrote the original comic, is a bit of a nutter, but he was on the money with a lot of stuff.
	Well, overbearing administrative states using authoritarian tactics to protect us from a virus that they created.
	Yeah, and Hayek pointed out if there was a British fascism, it would probably be a lot nicer and more coddling than, say, a German or Italian fascism.
	And it certainly appears that if it is going that way, that he was on the money.
	Well, it's going to...
	Yeah, exactly.
	The British fascism will come waving the symbols of the NHS. That's when it'll come.
	And that's why I hate this NHS worship.
	I really can't stand it.
	But anyway, I don't want to dally on it.
	Let's carry on.
	so this is to expand on what sophie said yesterday so quite often individuals who are suffering from gender dysphoria have it as a result of some form of childhood trauma and this is a means of dissociation from it so if say i'm no longer the person that this happened to then that trauma is no longer mine to bear That's the chap who had the heart problem, isn't it, after getting the vaccine?
	I don't know if that was when I was here.
	I hope you're okay, Chet, because I don't envy you at all.
	I'm pretty sure that's correct.
	Correct me if I'm wrong.
	If that is true, best wishes to you.
	Hey, Dan Little Joan with another legend of the Pines, the Elizabeth V. Edwards School in Barnegat, New Jersey, rated the most haunted place in South Jersey by hauntedplaces.org.
	The school was in operation from 1930 to 2004 and is haunted by the ghost of a janitor that had a heart attack in the basement.
	It is said he turns lights off and on, calls phones that aren't operating anymore, knocks down pictures.
	Currently, the school is set for demolition or refurbishment at the cost of $25 million.
	Interesting.
	I'd like to visit somewhere like that.
	I'm not a believer in any of that stuff myself, but I do still think it would be really interesting just to...
	Because I feel like what causes people to think they're haunted, whether or not they are, is probably more of an atmosphere than anything when you go there.
	Certain places do have a bit of an atmosphere, a feeling of foreboding.
	I put it down to the ghosts.
	That might also be it.
	No, no, I don't believe in crazy things like ghosts.
	I only believe in Bigfoot.
	Goddammit, Callum and the rest of you degenerates in the chat.
	Like a horse, like a faithful beast of burden, like a gallant charger to ride in defiance of wreck and ruin.
	278 of them crammed all up into a marvelous chimera of metal and polymer.
	It's a longstanding tradition of Indo-European languages that vessels of conveyance are feminine nouns.
	Don't look at me.
	Take it up with Latinus firsticus, booking it away from the Tower of Battle.
	Playing it up, obviously, but the base sentiment is genuine, and it's likely part that which is freely given has no value kind of thing, but also the truck's utility as a tool beyond mere transportation.
	That's what I'm getting at.
	I, too, looked at scans at crazy truck people before, but now I kind of get it.
	P.S. Should we damn?
	Or can we just damn?
	I think Dam's fine, but don't apologise for loving the thing that you've earned and you use.
	We might tease, but that's fine.
	It's all in good humour.
	You're allowed to be appreciative and proud of the thing that you've purchased because you work very hard to be able to afford it, and you get a lot of good use out of it.
	Don't listen to us, basically, is what I'm saying.
	Hi lads, you alright?
	I was listening to talk radio this morning and there was this woman crying because she just lost her job as a care home worker because she was unvaccinated.
	I'm just thinking, what is safer for the government to do?
	Fire 60,000 care home workers because they're unvaccinated or whatever the number is, or just have them working unvaccinated.
	What's safer?
	I think we all know the answer.
	I think the main problem I would have is the point that has become dramatically apparent that the vaccine doesn't prevent you spreading it.
	So it's not that if you've been vaccinated, that prevents you from giving it to the care home residents, which I assume is the argument.
	Well, presumably, yeah.
	I mean, what are the reasons they're going to be giving other than compliance?
	And so if that's the case, if the care home residents are vaccinated, who cares if the carers are unvaccinated?
	Surely if it works, then that's all it needs to be.
	The government's full of anti-vaxxers now.
	If you're working in a job like that, or any job reasonably, if you're feeling too ill to go to work, just don't go to work.
	Again, I can't stand the way these things are going.
	Non-compliance.
	Respect to those people you did.
	Hey there!
	So, if my information is correctly, today is the one-year anniversary of the Lotus Eaters.
	So, by that, I just want to say congratulations for making it this far, and I hope for many more.
	Still a proud supporter, and I will keep on going and doing so.
	And yes, this is the Allspark, because why not?
	Have a wonderful day, guys.
	Enjoy.
	Thanks very much, man.
	And again, thanks to everyone who's, you know, watched and subscribed and everything.
	We've worked really, really hard, and we hope that you're enjoying what we're doing, and we're really proud of where we've managed to arrive at.
	Yeah, I've only been here for, like, less than a month now, but I'm already just...
	Is it less than a month?
	Yeah, it was the 11th of October, so I'm still two days away from my first month.
	Feels like you've been here forever.
	Oh, well, thank you very much.
	Yeah, no, I'm just incredibly proud to be part of this whole organisation.
	It's been wonderful.
	Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters.
	I've got to be informed to understand why that's funny.
	It gets worse.
	We like the stock, we like the stock!
	Ladies, it's time for us to have another talk.
	I'm not making the case for Bigfoot.
	I c*ed on a b*h.
	It gets worse.
	Go and make some tea or something.
	Good morning, Afghanistan!
	It's the Imperial March of Pride.
	It gets worse.
	I require no introduction.
	We're going to attempt to wipe him.
	Hello!
	What's a punt gun?
	Beast.
	People who were worried you were gonna lose the edge.
	Well, this is all very nice, isn't it?
	Happy one year.
	Oh, alright, I can break it for one dollar.
	There we go.
	Oh, fine.
	I know I've been here less than a month, but let's give a...
	Cheers.
	Cheers.
	Honestly, it's all these guys doing all the hard work.
	Like, you know...
	Honestly, if it wasn't for you guys, we'd have nothing, so...
	I mean it.
	Because I can't manage any of the technological banking.
	I guess we'll get to the comments.
	I'm just going to clean all this up.
	John.
	He made all the mess.
	This is his idea.
	Robert says, Indeed, the Eastern Europeans are leading the way.
	This is no surprise.
	Having survived decades of authoritarian socialism, they now refuse to have the woke version foisted upon them.
	And it's no coincidence that unlike the West, they have not jetsoned their religious roots and traditions.
	True, but also there is the word of Lithuania implementing vaccine passports and other such things, so sadly, not entirely immune.
	No.
	Yeah, Lithuania seems to have gone tyrannical.
	This is the first beer I've had and it must be coming on nearly two years.
	Really?
	Yeah, because I've been autistic about being keto, so I haven't had a beer.
	I'm really enjoying this now.
	Broke him, gentlemen.
	No, no, no.
	One exception will be fine.
	I'm not going to make a habit of it.
	The Island Guy says, What's the difference between what's going on in the Belarus-Poland border and what's happening in the English Channel?
	Not much, really.
	The French are definitely sending them across, in my opinion.
	Apart from us welcoming them in and giving them free food.
	Well, okay, yeah.
	The thing we're doing has a difference.
	There's a war going on against the people of Poland, the UK, and the politicians and NGOs all likely see of the spoils and none of the consequences.
	It's not even just likely that they will.
	They certainly will.
	Ignacio says, it's curb migration.
	You have to be blunt and show that you mean business.
	That's absolutely right.
	Weakness is provocation.
	If you show strength, then people won't do it.
	And what is that Hungary does?
	They just get them in, straight back out.
	We're a serious country.
	Yes.
	We should be a serious country.
	Yeah, as Tucker Carlson put, they're a serious country.
	These people are just opportunists being used by Belarus, just like Morocco did earlier this year.
	Yeah, and you can tell because they're just chanting, send us to Germany.
	You know, we want German money.
	That's why they're there.
	And it's the same as the people crossing the channel.
	They're like, we just want your money.
	We know.
	Go away.
	Jimbo says, It's almost impossible for many of my friends to accept a sensible immigration policy.
	They have pathologized anything but open borders as racist because of some severe Brexit cope.
	It's no surprise that they are middle class millennials who live in relative comfort and the problems it's causing in certain communities might well just be a TV show for them.
	Yeah, they don't care until it gets to their borders.
	And then it will be something they care about.
	Well, it's not even necessarily that it gets to their borders.
	It's already at our borders.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But I understand...
	But I mean in their little local communities.
	Yeah, that's what I mean.
	I know plenty of people who are just like that, because, of course, I do in my generation.
	And as long as it's not in their street or their neighbourhood, it may as well not be a problem.
	And if you want to bring it up, then, tough luck, you're a xenophobic racist.
	The best people to use as examples for this are Liberal Democrat voters and politicians.
	You'll notice they come from places like Devon, And like Durham and things like that, where it's like incredibly native, very few immigrants there, and they're sort of going, yeah, open borders sounds lovely.
	Yeah, yeah, it sounds lovely.
	Yeah, my girlfriend went to uni at Falmouth and it's full of those people and it's all very easy when you're literally at the arse end of the country and no one goes there.
	Right, yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	Sardock says, Well, no, they've authorised a wall.
	I mean, they are actually way more useful than the Tories, who failed to do anything about this migration.
	I mean, I'm not saying they're good, but I'm saying they're slightly better than the Tories, which isn't saying much.
	Marcus says, Yeah, I know.
	Love it.
	We'll go on to the Rittenhouse stuff.
	Yeah, you'd think there'd be some lessons learned.
	I think he's lefty now.
	Yeah.
	The base tape says, the image of the lawyer with his head in his hands will go down in history as the meme of the decade.
	John, can you get the image on the Discord that I sent through earlier of the defense's reaction to him saying that?
	Just if you can find it.
	Because it is hilarious.
	They just look thrilled.
	Oh yeah, they're laughing.
	It's like, yeah, it's brilliant.
	Well, we've won.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Paycheck earned.
	Yeah.
	S.H. Silver says But he should never have been in that riot with a gun in the first place to defend property, which is why they argue property is not worth more than life.
	It all puts the agency with him and none on the rioters themselves if the riot was a naturally occurring force and he was the aggressor of being armed around them.
	That is true.
	That is true, but the one thing I can see from that member of the jury being taken out last Thursday...
	It was a Discord link.
	It was an image, just a still image of the thing.
	But maybe it's in general or something.
	Yeah, if we can't find it.
	But yeah, the one hope that I have from that is that they identified someone who had an obvious bias and removed him.
	Whether the rest of the jury will be equally susceptible.
	Who knows?
	I mean, after Chauvin...
	I guess, yeah, well, yes, but at least, I mean, with Chauvin, at least from the perspective of people not involved, it at least looks like Chauvin is doing something wrong, right?
	Yeah.
	Whereas anybody who's watched the footage or even just paid even the slightest bit of attention to this...
	Yeah, I mean, these guys are leaping on him and kicking him to the floor.
	The prosecution's own witnesses.
	Yeah, admit that.
	I was about to shoot him and then he shot me.
	You know, so if, you know, this is the litmus test, really.
	How politicised is this?
	But, you know, I guess we'll see.
	Justin said, My main consult of Kyle are the FBI standing by to arrest him if he's found innocent, like they reported we were with Chauvin.
	I didn't even know about it.
	Not aware of anything to do with that, so.
	Speak One's Mind says, I don't think even an oof or a yikes can cover the massive balls up that Gage has done to the prosecutor's case.
	I was actually speechless when Gage responded with correct.
	Well, the thing is, it is an offence to lie under oath.
	Well, I mean, one of the things that I missed out there was the fact that he had initially, when confronted with that information, said, I don't agree with that.
	And then they just brought up the photo, made him look at it, and they're like, well, the gun is pointing at Rittenhouse, and your bicep is exploding.
	So he's only just pulled the trigger, and what is the gun?
	It's pointing at Rittenhouse.
	So, therefore, he only shot you when you were pointing the gun at him, correct.
	So they did pull it out of him when he initially didn't want to.
	I'm honestly just amazed at Rittenhouse's skill with the weapon, to be honest.
	Very impressive.
	Even when he was firing at the guy who dropkicked him, he didn't hit any random passersby or bystanders.
	Remarkably controlled in the circumstances.
	I've been freaking out.
	Alec Baldwin must be very jealous.
	Alec Baldwin hit two people with one shot.
	He's a remarkably good shot.
	Yeah, yeah.
	No, only one died.
	Callum said, everything I'm seeing and hearing on Carl Rittenhouse says an outstanding citizen of the Republic of the United States of America.
	And all accidents are taken against him.
	To paint him as a criminal, I think it speaks volumes at the absolute state of the US in general.
	Well, yeah.
	I mean, I don't know anything about Carl Rittenhouse other than the information we have publicly, but he seems that he was doing the right thing at each point in the evening.
	Yeah, he put himself in harm's way specifically with the intent to help people.
	Yeah.
	And he says, those Antifa thugs had big child-catcher energy.
	I mean, the convicted paedophile is running at the minor, saying, fuck you.
	So...
	Just saying it's a bit worrying, isn't it?
	I can see why Kyle was...
	That's a statement of intent right there.
	It sounds like it to me, and with a history of this kind of thing.
	Yeah, I might have missed or forgotten something.
	What was the initial reason for chasing down the teenage boy?
	He put out a fire.
	We aren't aware whether Rosenbaum had a boner or not at the time.
	I think the safe inference maybe did.
	The FBI HD footage might help to illuminate this for us.
	They'll add another little circle to point out.
	Castrophic Regression Threshold says, Wow, it's been a year already.
	Congrats on the success, guys.
	Keep up the good work.
	I look forward to seeing what you guys accomplished going forward.
	Yeah, I know.
	Just thanks again.
	Just thanks for everything.
	We work really hard and it's really nice to see that you guys are getting something out of it.
	I'm glad that we've all managed to build something good together.
	Joseph says, True.
	It is an excellent show, though.
	It is an excellent show, which is why I like it.
	Smaller Libertarian, F you, you better do what they tell you.
	Yep, that's what Raging Machine literally are chanting these days, embarrassingly enough.
	Jack Boot says, I heard this the other day and I thought I'm totally stealing this.
	Most people can join the dots because just because a small minority choose to draw willies doesn't mean we should confiscate all the pens.
	Yeah.
	Cindy says, Carl Rittenhouse is an American hero.
	Change my mind.
	Why would I want to change your mind?
	I agree.
	Christian says, as far as I know, most uranium can be used in nuclear power plants to find Africa.
	Well, actually, I had to look this up because I was designing a setting for like a video game, you know, a decade ago now.
	Oh, nice.
	I was going to use uranium as one of the resources.
	It turns out that Australia, Russia, and Africa have significant uranium deposits.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, Australia is one of the main sources, actually.
	So it's not just Africa.
	Leftists against nuclear power are probably against it because they want to keep the African down and not give them a bunch of tools they can hold as a hostage against the West.
	Why not?
	They've always been a bunch of racists.
	I would ascribe that motivation to them, but there's no evidence of that, I'm afraid.
	Catastrophic racial threshold.
	I've already read that one, actually.
	Excuse me.
	John Wade says, happy birthday, chaps.
	And Sardonic Spamfish says, happy birthday, lotus eaters.
	Thank you so much.
	Thanks.
	Have you got any more comments there?
	Because I've got to the end.
	It's ones we've missed out.
	Yeah, yeah, there's some ones we've missed.
	Because there were loads, but they're all about a car re-house thing.
	Yeah, I mean, there's a bunch of the Kyle Rittenhouse ones that we've not gone through.
	Free Will 2112, I think we missed this one.
	So why are the rioters who were looting and burning in any way victims?
	They were a violent mob intent on causing mayhem.
	Agree entirely, they were a violent mob.
	Everything to do with the testimony has shown that Rosenbaum specifically was a violent maniac.
	Yeah.
	Well, they all were.
	Yeah, I mean, they all were.
	I mean, Grosskraut seems to have been a revolutionary maniac.
	Yeah.
	So yeah, I agree with that entirely.
	The allegations and the charges against Huber were against his own family.
	Yeah, I mean, pointing a knife to his own brother's throat and his stomach saying, I'll gut you like a pig.
	Threatening to burn the house down.
	Well, I mean, if he'd burnt the house down, he might have jumped in to save some of his own family members.
	Heroically.
	Yeah.
	Eve the True to Caesar says, aside from the fact that it looks like Kyle walks, it's great that we now have on record just how violent the peaceful BLM protests really were.
	That's a good point, actually.
	Yeah.
	Well, a court has found that they were very violent revolutionaries, but what do you Yeah, the majority of people on there were actively shouting the N-word at the protesters.
	Well, yeah, that's another thing.
	It's like, you know, Rosenbaum, I don't think you're dark enough to be able to shout the N-word, mate.
	And final one, Jimbo says, I'm surprised there hasn't been a reaction to these sorts of lefty rights, seeing the establishment essentially endorses them.
	Anyone who wants to cause trouble simply has to bring the right flag because it immediately politicises the media coverage without question.
	This should be exploited until a more apolitical approach is necessary.
	Don't disagree.
	Yeah.
	Well, thank you very much for tuning in, and thank you once again for one year and sticking by us the whole time.
	Carl is very grateful.
	We're all incredibly grateful, so thanks for the support.
	Here's to another year, and we'll catch you again tomorrow at one o'clock, as usual.

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