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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 3rd of December 2021.
	I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be talking about how Britain owes nothing to the immigrants who are invading this country.
	Not a damn thing.
	Also, we cannot reform France, we can only save her, is the rallying cry of one French presidential candidate who has made a fantastic opening video.
	Viva la France!
	Yeah, Viva la France.
	God save the Republic.
	And speaking of French people, Youssez Smoulier, or however you pronounce his name, Thought he would get away with it and didn't.
	And it turns out that spider's web is way longer than we thought it was.
	Yeah, and it's really amusing how he clearly thought he would get away with it because of who he is, and he's not.
	So some things first to mention on the website.
	So the first thing here being a premium video that you and me did about CNN being worse than you remember.
	Yeah, we kind of just dissect one of Jim Acosta's segments and how he's lying by omission, and he makes a total fool of himself.
	It's just fascinating just how bad CNN actually is.
	Because I hadn't watched CNN in ages, and so I just thought, oh, I'll watch this segment.
	It's like, good God.
	Like, it's open propaganda.
	But the segment as well is about a Republican candidate who said something funny, and therefore CNN are freaking out.
	But by showing you the funny thing, it just makes you like the Republican.
	Yeah.
	And I mean, like, calling it the Freak Show Caucus.
	It's like, sorry, is this objective neutral journalism, CNN? Yes.
	You know, this mask is well and truly off.
	Oh, look at those freaks.
	Anyway, we're going to check it out.
	Good stuff.
	So if we go to the next one, we have a new article from Luna.
	So she's written here, What Will It Take for the Right to Act?
	And it has an audio track, as I can see, from Jonathan's name being there for Silver and Gold Team members to listen instead of reading, because reading is painful.
	But basically, when is the right one going to realise that they've actually got to do something?
	Yes.
	The Fauci thing is a good example, in my opinion.
	Do something.
	People are like, oh, but the Department of Justice is being run by Biden.
	Okay, the words direct action spring to mind.
	Go and blockade it.
	Stand in front of it and say, we're not going to do anything.
	We're not going to let you in your office until you prosecute Fauci.
	God damn it.
	Sorry, I'm annoyed.
	No, but it's a beautiful thing of the left, actually.
	They have this language throughout their entire movement.
	And therefore, when they're out of power, they know exactly what to do.
	Exactly.
	Go and do the same thing.
	Yeah.
	So moving on, we have In Defense of Postmodern Neomarxism from John Tangney.
	Yeah, this is a really good article by John, getting the silver track, because basically a lot of people are like, well, postmodernism and Neomarxism are contradictory.
	And John's like, shut up.
	We know.
	But that doesn't mean that you don't still swim in exactly the overlapping Venn diagram waters in the middle.
	You do.
	And so don't be so pedantic about it, basically.
	It's a good article.
	Go check that out.
	And the last thing to mention here, which is a video that will be going up at 3pm today, so after the podcast, which is the interview of Miles of Kabul.
	So this is Lord Miles himself, who has come from Afghanistan all the way here.
	Callum's personal hero.
	Clearly really enjoyed interviewing this chap.
	I love this guy because he really strikes me as being like one of these sort of Victorian English explorers who's just born in the wrong time period, you know?
	Well, there's still lots to do, and we're talking about dark tourism in general as well at the end of that, and his further trips to South Sudan, and hopefully some other things in the works that he's thinking about if he survives South Sudan, which, again, you know, it's his life.
	We can't stop him doing anything.
	All we can do is encourage him, as his classmates used to say.
	We should not encourage him.
	No, I'm not saying we should, but that's just what his friends used to say, because they just got to the point of being like, look, whatever.
	Which, I can see why.
	But what was interesting, and we didn't get into it in the interview, but I'm going to mention, was meeting him, his character is far more reserved and polite as a human being.
	Well, he comes across like an old English aristocrat.
	That's what I mean, yeah.
	Because I was half expecting him to be a bit boisterous and a bit, you know, look at this.
	But no, it's none of that.
	It is a humble guy who actually just wants to go out and help people and also explore some things because it's interesting.
	And get himself shot in Sudan.
	Yeah, I mean, it's a weird thing to want to go and do, but a lot of Englishmen did in the day.
	That is true, yeah.
	And we're continuing the tradition.
	Incidentally, this week's Epoch is going to be about such an Englishman.
	So, yeah, anyway.
	That's that.
	Let's move into Greater Britain.
	Britain owes the migrants that come here nothing.
	And I say this categorically.
	We do not owe them anything.
	Now, Nezrin Malik, an author for the Gaia, columnist for the Guardian, of course, disagrees.
	And we're going to go through her article because it's very interesting how her article actually blows up the idea that we do owe the immigrants everything or anything.
	And she doesn't seem to understand it.
	And of course, there's an argument contained in here that is just such preposterous nonsense, I couldn't resist it.
	Couldn't leave it alone.
	I saw it and I was like...
	Alright, Nazarene.
	Put that on the list.
	I mean, you know Nazarene Malik's my favourite leftist.
	Yes.
	She's mental.
	But the thing is, well, there's a genuine desperation that underpins this article as well.
	Because the arguments are not necessarily new, they're just becoming more explicit.
	You know, she's like, look, look, look, I'm masked fully off.
	You don't own your country.
	I own your country.
	It's like...
	Do you?
	Doesn't feel like you do.
	But anyway, she says, where we're born is sheer luck, yet our national delusion of meritocracy lets people shrug when others die in the channel.
	No, it's not.
	It's not sheer luck as if there was some God rolling dice and then be like, okay, you're born in, you know, America, you're born in Australia, you're born in the Congo.
	No, where you're born is inevitable.
	It is a direct, linear consequence of the product of your parents mating, Nezrin.
	It's literally beyond your choice and no chances involved at all.
	It is guaranteed that you will be born to your parents.
	I don't know how else to describe that.
	I mean, we were talking about this before we started, but there's this, I can't remember the origin, but this left-wing view that, oh, we'll think about if you are floating above the earth.
	Oh, it comes from John Rawls.
	This is his veil of ignorance theory.
	Yeah.
	What country would you like to be born in and therefore build a country like this?
	Exactly.
	But you have to believe in some kind of Hindu rebirth, where you could be born anywhere and you just happen to end up in a place.
	It's like, no, you literally come from your parents having sex.
	The idea, though, is that you assume you're born in the worst possible condition.
	But if, say, 10% of the society was slaves, you've got a 9 in 10 chance of not being a slave.
	So I'm going to go for that society.
	Oh, roll the dice, I've got a 7.
	Great, I'm not a slave.
	And now I just live on top of this slave caste.
	Well done, John.
	But also, no dice Yeah, no, obviously, this is total nonsense thought experiment from John Rawls.
	It's nonsense.
	But anyway, she carries on.
	How much are you worth?
	I don't mean what is the sum of your financial assets.
	I mean, as a human, if you had to come up with some formula to determine what your value is, how would you go about it?
	If that is too difficult, let me rephrase the question to make it more specific.
	Who values you?
	Who knows, loves, and cares for you?
	Who seeks your company who would miss it and whose lives would be poorer for it in your absence?
	This is great framing.
	Let's carry on.
	The answer is probably everyone whose relationship to you is not transactional.
	Put a pin in that and think about that in a minute.
	Whose affection for you is unconditional, for whom you are unique and irreplaceable.
	All other roles we have as employees, consumers, taxpayers are impersonal.
	We don't think of ourselves as units whose value is derived from making a measurable contribution to the economy.
	We do not wake up in the morning and congratulate ourselves for contributing to our country's GDP. So this is a deeply conservative framing here.
	This is unbelievably conservative.
	She's a communist, so it's remarkable that this framing comes out of her mouth.
	That's fantastic.
	Let's carry on.
	Similarly, if we fall on hard times, we do not personally berate ourselves for being a net drag on the economy.
	Maybe we should start doing that.
	Our sense of self is not shaped by calculations of what we put in and what we take out from some common pot of goods and services by other people and for the rich and enriching relationships we form around them.
	Fantastic frame, right?
	If we don't have a personal relationship with someone, we don't value them.
	Why would I care about migrants who died in the channel?
	I do not have a personal relationship with them.
	I don't value them.
	I don't care.
	It's not my problem.
	Now, obviously, in an abstract way, I'm sympathetic to someone dying in an accident.
	Well, it's not a famine, right?
	Because if there's a famine in X country where people can't help it and they're dying, you could say that, well, we could help and therefore we probably should.
	If grown adults get on some dinghies and kill themselves...
	Well, whose fault is that?
	Exactly.
	And also, when they're committing a crime, as in they're trying to break into someone's country, if a burglar killed himself trying to break into my house, I'm not going to be like, oh no, the poor burglar.
	Why would I be?
	But the point is, as she says, we don't have any kind of relationship with the people on the other side of the world.
	We don't have any connections of sentiment between them, especially as many of them don't really like our country anyway.
	And just here, for the economic calculation, she is decrying.
	So, why would I care about this at all?
	Fantastic framing from Nezrin here.
	She carries on.
	Our entire immigration system and its approach towards outsiders is based on reversing this definition of worth.
	People who are trying to enter the UK are not valued for this sort of humanity, but instead regarded as dud units of economic drag.
	Why might that be Nezrin?
	It's because we don't have that kind of relationship with them.
	We don't care about them at all.
	They're not ours.
	They're someone else's from somewhere else in the world.
	By definition.
	Exactly.
	By her own definition, in fact.
	Right?
	And this is a great point.
	Because we have no relationship to these foreigners, okay, well, they're going to come here.
	What do we need to do?
	We need to figure out why it's acceptable for them to come here.
	Well, there has to be some economic benefit to us.
	Because there is no relationship benefit.
	Exactly.
	So we're reduced to making an economic calculation in self-interest to try and justify why this is being done to us.
	Because otherwise, we have blown up the pro-immigration argument entirely.
	It's gone.
	She's right.
	There's no reason we should accept any of these people Her included.
	I think she's an immigrant too.
	I mean, we've covered previously her background.
	Like, she was born and raised in North Sudan and would look down on the South Sudanese as being black and therefore inferior, in her own words, and therefore would use the N-word to describe them.
	And then she moved to Saudi Arabia with her family, and the Arabs called her the N-word, and then she thought, hmm, yeah, racism is bad.
	It's like, brainlet.
	Absolute brainlet.
	And so it's just very interesting how she has totally demolished the pro-immigration argument from an immigrant herself.
	That's fantastic.
	She carries on.
	Their entry to this country becomes a matter of what they will take out and consume, what resources they will take away from the rest of us, and even how their cultural influences will dilute and compromise our own.
	Yeah, because that's the contribution they're making.
	We don't know who they are.
	They're not enriching our lives as friends and relatives and loved ones and things because they're not.
	They're foreigners.
	We don't know.
	They're strangers.
	And so we have to make a materialistic calculation because that's all we're left with.
	When they drown trying to make it to our shores, we don't blame their deaths on the fact that we have not set up safe routes, forcing them to carry their children and inflatable toys across the Channel.
	We instead enforce the cruel logic of borders and entitlement.
	I think I might be entitled to live in the country in which I was born.
	They're entitled to live in the country in which they're born.
	But there's some irresistible force that's shoving them onto a boat.
	Probably the money they pay people traffickers.
	Well, also, they're entitled to go to the first safe country.
	That's actually not true.
	Well, legally, they're entitled.
	No, that's actually not true.
	I looked this up.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, there'll be a segment about it on the weekend.
	It's actually not true.
	The Geneva Convention on this doesn't have any specification of where they're supposed to stop.
	However, British law does say that if we think they're coming from a safe country, aka France, we can say no.
	So we actually, for ourselves, have a little out on that.
	The rest of the world, I don't care.
	Why don't they write their own laws that say no, go away?
	But they're free to.
	Foreign law, who cares about it?
	Exactly.
	We don't have a relationship, not our problem.
	But the point is, look at this, the cruel logic of borders and entitlement.
	As if we're obligated to take anyone.
	As if anyone has a right to be here.
	We're not obligated to take a single foreigner anywhere in the world.
	You have no right to be here either.
	We don't control your countries and you don't own our land.
	It's not our problem.
	And that, frankly, this is deeply imperial thinking, I think, where she's like, well, Britain is obligated to help the people of Africa.
	It's like, why?
	Something about empire, surely.
	But you wanted independence.
	Independence means not connected to us.
	Independence means we don't have to do anything for you.
	And as she points out, the migrants are indeed a burden on Britain.
	and they cost us money there is also a factual lie there she says there's no safe routes oh there are loads how did all the asylum seekers we have in this country get here then oh exactly they all come on the boats of course they didn't no but uh these people are coming legally um but uh but she she does point out that yeah they damage the cultural fabric they cost us money and uh and then people like her will complain when we don't simply abandon all pretenses of having borders in the first place we're an island Like, our borders are imposed on us.
	We don't have a choice about the borders, really.
	But anyway, we don't set up safe routes through illegal immigration because it's not meant to be happening.
	These people are criminals.
	That's why it's illegal.
	Like I said, if a burglar was trying to break into my home and died, I wouldn't have that much of a problem.
	But she carries on.
	There has to be a system, you see.
	Those who are coming here merely to exercise needs, no matter how urgent those needs are, rather than contribute something, should be kept out.
	Yeah.
	Same with people in your own home.
	The homeless person outside has a need, but you don't, like, just let him in your house and sleep in your bed, do you?
	But he's entitled to your home and your house.
	By her logic, how could she ever refuse someone?
	A place in the UK and a high value of life apportioned within this country has to be earned rather than given away, like, arms to whoever asks.
	Based.
	Yes, I agree.
	That's exactly right.
	If we're going to let foreigners in, it should be earned.
	I totally agree.
	This is what independence looks like.
	You can't just ask the Brits to solve all of the world's problems.
	But anyway, she carries on.
	Here I ask you another question.
	Have you earned that place?
	Did you at any point have to go through a series of obstacles, near-death experiences, homelessness, and loyalty tests to win your place at the top of the human food chain?
	Britain is the top of the human food chain.
	I mean, thank you.
	Yeah, like literally Shangri-La.
	But also, yes, actually.
	My ancestors did have to go through hell to build the civilization up from the dirt that everyone else had, and then my parents had sex and produced me.
	Yeah.
	But that's what happens there.
	It's not that, you know, we just magically were born with this island.
	It was here, you know, time immemorial, in the state it is currently.
	I mean, you have to believe that the society of the world started when you were born, if you think that.
	I mean, that is A, her position, but B, it's also hilarious listening to the Romans talk about Britain.
	Like, the Romans talking about Britain, it's the worst island, it's got the dumbest people, there's nothing there.
	Poverty, famine.
	They go and sit in swamps and laugh at us until we go away.
	Literally, that's one...
	I'm not even joking!
	Apparently the Celts used to sit in swamps up to their necks and just be like, come and get us.
	Sounds like fun.
	There's a brilliant North FC meme about it.
	I'll find it sometime for you.
	But anyway...
	Who are you?
	But the point is, Nezrin, I didn't have to do any of these things because I was born here.
	That's it.
	Well, my ancestors suffered to make it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But even like, who cares?
	I don't have to justify myself.
	I was born here.
	I don't need to do that.
	In the same way that someone born in wherever else in the rest of the world could say the same.
	Well, I could say, did you, you know, have to travel across all these deserts and whatnot to live in Iran?
	No, I was born here.
	Why would I have to do that?
	Of course not.
	That's a ridiculous and redundant question.
	And again, it's the same way that, like, if I wanted to move to Japan, I would have to justify why I don't want to be able to live in Japan.
	And the Japanese would totally be entitled to say, no, this is our country.
	You didn't have any part in building it up.
	Neither did your ancestors.
	You've got no claim to our land at all.
	But anyway.
	And really, what kind of person sits there and goes, right, okay, I'm not going to show you any consideration.
	I'm going to act like I'm entitled to live in your country, and you've got to let me in.
	What kind of person does that?
	Well, you remember, we did a clip.
	There was some refugee who's a photojournalist in France who was just like, they didn't give me the visa.
	Let me in.
	I want to come legally.
	I was like, but you're fine in France.
	Yeah.
	You have status in France.
	Yes.
	No.
	Go away.
	But anyway, she carries on.
	The truth is that nobody wins their place in the UK. For most people, it is a result of luck and circumstance.
	And they have no more rights to ownership of it than the people risking their lives to get here.
	She just says it.
	The British do not own Britain.
	That's her opinion.
	You've got no right to your country and the piece of land you live on, no right to it whatsoever.
	I saw John making a very valid point as well.
	She's also arguing that these complete randos who have done nothing have as much entitlement.
	We will get to that.
	She makes that explicit.
	That's not just implicit.
	She gets to it.
	It's totally explicit, right?
	But what a ridiculous statement, right?
	Britain is the hereditary right.
	The inheritance of Britain is hereditary right of the British people.
	You wouldn't say to an Indian son that he's got no right to his father's inheritance.
	Why would you say that?
	I mean, we did once.
	And that was called imperialism.
	And that was called bad.
	But the thing is, what would be the criteria for earning it?
	What would be that criteria?
	What would you require?
	Having defended this territory as a sovereign people for a thousand years?
	Because actually we meet that criteria, Nezrin.
	And the events didn't.
	Yeah, exactly.
	We actually meet that criteria and you don't.
	But yeah, the work that went into making Britain has been done.
	And not by foreign chances.
	That's the thing.
	She says, if anything, those people are working hard for that place rather than simply being born into it.
	So the people who didn't get born in Britain, but are working hard by trying to sneak across the border, they're actually the rightful owners of Britain.
	It's literally what she's saying here.
	Borders aren't accidents, but being born within them is an accident.
	Your entire life is an accident.
	A random look at the draw.
	Look, I know you were an accident by your parents, but the rest of us weren't.
	You do not deserve to be here any more than anyone else deserves not to be here.
	You do not deserve to live in Britain.
	Says the foreigner.
	Unbelievable, isn't it?
	This means that people who aren't from Britain have done more for Britain than the people who put their blood, sweat and tears building up.
	The people who defended the borders, the people who made and built everything that we have.
	The foreigners did more for Britain than those people.
	It's a bizarro leap of logic.
	And this is where it totally belies the desperation that underpins the argument.
	If she says, like, foreigners have done more for your country than the people living in your country, that's absurd.
	They're not here.
	How could they?
	Exactly.
	It's just ridiculous.
	They have zero relationships with a single person in this land.
	So how have they done more than the people living in the land?
	How could they have done that by not being here?
	Like, physically.
	We use our psychic powers to build these buildings.
	Use the Trump, take my energy.
	Exactly.
	It's unbelievable, right?
	And again, it's not accidental that we're here.
	It's actually inevitable, because that's how ancestry works.
	But the thing is, what she's proposing is the total dispossession of Britain from the British people.
	And this is a direct contravention of a 1960 UN resolution called 1514, which we can get up now.
	In fact, That says in point two, John, all peoples have the right to self-determination.
	By virtue of that right, they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.
	And point six, any attempt aimed at the partial or total disruption of the national unity and the territorial integrity of a country is incompatible with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
	So she's trying to destroy the current international order.
	Not very progressive, I would say.
	In fact, I call it monstrous.
	And so anyway, returning to the article, let's carry on with the monstrous thing that Malik is trying to do here.
	She says, Are they?
	It's obvious that people with no relationship to X land have done more for that country than anyone else.
	I'm literally going to rock up in Greece and be like, so, I built that path and on.
	And that's obvious.
	Yeah.
	It's a banal observation, but many will resist them.
	Even if they acknowledge their truth, many will feel an urge to argue against them.
	I wonder why.
	I wonder why the people who built the Parthenon and their ancestors feel like they have more entitled to that and Greece than the random Turks who just turned up.
	I don't know.
	I mean, I would suggest that this is actually not an obvious banal observation, but in fact in total defiance of common sense, national traditions, hereditary relations, international law, and the common decency of mankind.
	And anti-imperialism.
	Yes.
	She carries on.
	That is because two large political constructions have dominated our way of thinking for so long, presented as facts and not choices.
	These accidental borders must be enforced as strictly as possible, and we as individuals in free market societies are the sole architects of our own prosperity.
	Bit of a straw man there, but the borders aren't accidental.
	We've had to defend them for millennia against foreign invaders.
	And now we're going to launch an assault on free enterprise and property ownership.
	I love the chat.
	It's just like, we built the pyramids and sheets.
	Yeah, that's basically what it is.
	That's literally what she's saying.
	You know, we built the British Museum.
	Maybe they did do that.
	But thank you for the mask coming off and the communist subversion that underpins this finally coming out.
	She says, if you become convinced that you won your place on this earth through hard graft, then you are more likely to support policies and economic ideologies that facilitate the hoarding of resources.
	Translation, if you worked hard for what you have, you're more likely to oppose politics that would steal those things from you.
	Yes.
	Yeah, obviously.
	I mean, do you remember the leftist MPs were like, this is vaccine apartheid?
	Britain paid for the vaccines and got them.
	Africa didn't pay for them, it didn't get them.
	Britain isn't entitled to those vaccines.
	We're entitled to those vaccines.
	We made those vaccines.
	Hand them over.
	It's like, yeah, but you literally didn't make them, nor did you pay for them, Nigeria.
	I'm sorry, but if you pay for them, then you'll get them.
	But this is amazing.
	I love this so much.
	It is harder to part with what you have when you believe that those who are in need of it have the same shot as you but simply didn't pull their weight.
	I'm not parting with what I have because some foreigners want it.
	It's mine!
	Why would you even make this argument?
	Like, this communist is literally telling you that they plan on stealing what you have and giving it to foreign criminals who are illegally invading the country.
	The absolute brass balls on this woman, I swear to God.
	I told you she's my favorite leftist.
	But again, the wild desperation that underpins this.
	The idea that, like, I'd literally burst into Malik's house and be like, listen, I own this now because I'm in need of it.
	You didn't own this.
	This is just luck and fortune.
	I'm taking your television.
	Wow, that's a great point!
	Here's the remote.
	Exactly!
	It's wild, isn't it?
	So anyway, she carries on.
	Britain has made national sport of condemning immigrants, single mothers, people on benefits.
	An entire cast of characters who dared be born in need.
	Single mothers are born in need, aren't they?
	I don't think you're born a single mother.
	I don't think you're born on benefits.
	Like, just round them all up.
	Oh, and the immigrants.
	Every immigrant, as well as in need.
	They're born immigrants.
	Yes.
	How does that work?
	Dunno.
	But they dared to be born in need.
	Again, as if them being born is their choice.
	What the fuck does that mean?
	You're born native to wherever you're born.
	Yes, and you're not born as a single mother either.
	They support a national delusion of perfect meritocracy, of deserves and deserve-nots, which in turn sustains our closed borders, purses, and hearts.
	Yes, there is definitely a view of people who deserve and people who don't deserve, because people have agency and can make choices, and those choices matter.
	That's where morality comes from, incidentally, Nezrine.
	If you don't get to make a choice, it's not moral.
	But the thing is, again, the strawman misframing.
	Who said it was a perfect meritocracy?
	No one said it was perfect.
	Meritocracy is an aspirational goal that is something to be forever striven towards, and that's what made this country what it is.
	And it's why you foreigners are so desperate to come here, frankly.
	And if you took this aspirational meritocratic approach to your own countries, and there are lots of foreign countries that do...
	Such as Sudan, could be.
	Use some of it.
	Sudan isn't one of those countries, but they could use it.
	Absolutely, they could use it.
	Then perhaps they wouldn't be so poorly run and you wouldn't be so eager to flee.
	But she carries on.
	This is why people shrug and move on when others die in Cold War to the Channel.
	Yeah.
	This is why nothing changes.
	Yeah, because we don't want it to change.
	This is good.
	This is why we fail to understand how our entire history as a species...
	Oh, oh, it's the royal, universal we now.
	Don't you realize, well, I mean, you know, you, a Sydney's woman, an Eskimo, what's the difference?
	None.
	Entitled to the same thing.
	Yeah, aren't you all entitled to the ice of that man's ice pick?
	How have I suddenly gained a claim on the Eskimos?
	That's a nice fish you've just fished out there, but it's mine now.
	Queen and country.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's deeply imperial.
	But this is why we fail to understand our history as a species has been shaped by the inevitability and necessity of the movement of people.
	Is it inevitable?
	And is it necessary?
	Because the population of Britain has been static for literally tens of thousands of years.
	It's really weird how you can trace the genes back to the Ice Age.
	And I love the inevitable movement of people.
	That's not inevitable if we just say no.
	We just stop you coming.
	Do you know there's an inevitable movement of people from North Korea to South Korea?
	Is there?
	No, there's not.
	There's a DMZ. Really?
	Yeah.
	Is it guarded?
	Yes.
	This is obviously pure communist subversion.
	Beating on the gates, demanding to be let in because they say that it's inevitable that we will capitulate.
	But we don't have to capitulate.
	We can just continue saying no.
	But anyway, she finishes with, If you don't let us illegals in to steal everything you've got, you're not being decent.
	It's not decent, but I like, again...
	Everyone's an immigrant narrative.
	At some point, they moved to find a safer place for their progeny, yes, and defended that for thousands of years.
	And so we should continue defending what we have for thousands more years.
	There's that hunter-gatherer thing, and then the rest of us, Nazreen, did the farming thing, and then settled the land that we were living in.
	But she's just undermined her whole point.
	But she's like, no, we're still all hunter-gatherers.
	We're all just travelling anywhere to get things.
	They gave their descendants better odds, as we should give our descendants better odds, and this is a perpetuation of a civilisation that works.
	Or you could open the gates and let the communists in.
	I have to say, I find this totally unconvincing.
	Go and fix your own countries.
	But there was just one article that I saw in Vox that was just amazing.
	I didn't even bother reading it.
	I just looked at the title.
	It was like, thank you, communist subverter.
	It's time to stop demonizing invasive species because climate change is forcing some animals to move.
	Don't call them invasives.
	They are going to apply this exact argument to immigrants.
	In fact, they are applying this exact argument to immigrants, which is why suddenly, you know, the red squirrels being driven to extinction...
	It's not because of the invasive grey squirrels.
	You know, it's climate change.
	But anyway, no, Nazreen, go back to Sudan.
	I would like to add a last point, because I don't think we got to it, which was John's point that she's essentially arguing as well, the randos, who come over with no claim, no relationship whatsoever to Britain or the land, have just as much right, not only as the people already living in Britain, but say like, as John gave an example of his father who served the, what is it, the British police or army for like 15 years?
	Oh, good point.
	Someone who actually won their place through service.
	You see how they have a relationship with Britain through 15 years of military service to Britain?
	And what did he get as a reward?
	Oh, citizenship and settlement in Britain.
	But, you know, there's that photojournalist in France who's like, let me in, I want a visa.
	Honestly, so that was just the worst article.
	I had to go through it.
	Anyway, let's move on to France.
	I'm really looking forward to this.
	We cannot reform France.
	We can only save her at this point.
	Or at least we must save her.
	That is the rallying cry of one presidential candidate for the French presidential elections which are coming up.
	A Mr.
	Eric Zimmer.
	I have no idea if I'm butchering that.
	I think I am because the French pronunciation is different but I'm an Anglo so I'm going to Anglify it.
	Anyway, so this is a launch campaign video that he did.
	And holy crap is it good.
	Oh yeah.
	Like unbelievably on the money on every single point of what is deeply wrong with the West.
	France being the worst candidate for the nation that has suffered the most.
	Yes.
	And not just in terms of terrorism and cultural change and quite frankly the destruction of Paris as Paris.
	I mean I mentioned I went there a couple of years ago with my ex-girlfriend.
	And it is like a museum.
	Oh I've been there too.
	There are no French.
	The French is gone.
	It is a bunch of French style buildings with...
	People like me and random...
	But it's not just like one kind of people.
	It's just a random collection of people from all over the world just walking around the streets.
	It's just like London.
	And the Islamification has hit them incredibly hard and all the rest of it.
	So, of course, it is going to produce politicians, or at least candidates, who are going to talk about these things.
	And as you can see here, he's a chap who's, in his campaign video, sitting there with a little microphone, old-style desk, old-style bookcase behind him.
	Perfect.
	The imagery of this, in case people don't know, if we can go to the next one, is just...
	It's meant to be de Gaulle.
	So he's taking on the de Gaulle's approach.
	So this is him delivering his speech when he was in Britain to the French to resist the Nazi occupation and to reclaim France for themselves.
	And that is...
	France for the French.
	What a radical notion.
	I'll ask Nesrine Malik how she feels about it.
	Yeah, but this is the argument Eric is putting forward.
	And if we go to the next one, this isn't just some nobody.
	He's polling at 14%.
	So if we can go down a little bit further, you can see the graphs.
	And in the graphs, you can see that he's polling up there.
	So he came out of nowhere.
	Oh, well, he's third.
	Yeah, he's third.
	Right, so he has a very persuasive message.
	Yeah.
	Essentially how the French system works is he'll be fighting with Le Pen for the right-wing bloc, and when it goes down to two candidates, it will either be him versus Macron or Le Pen versus Macron.
	So, not a nobody in the slightest.
	In fact, a shining star.
	Only five points behind her as well.
	And at one point, they were nearly neck and neck.
	So, yeah, okay.
	But anyway, we have to go through this video because it's amazing.
	So let's go for the first clip in which he talks about reclaiming France.
	My fellow compatriots, for years you have been gripped, oppressed, and haunted by the same feeling.
	A strange, persuasive feeling of dispossession.
	When you're walking in your street, you don't recognize your city.
	When you're watching television, you hear a strange unknown language.
	When you're looking at adverts, when you're watching a series, soccer games, movies, shows.
	When you're listening to music, when you're reading your children's school books.
	When you're using public transport.
	When you're in the station or the airport.
	When you feel, you no longer live in the same country.
	You remember the country you once knew.
	The country your parents told you about.
	The country you can find in movies and books.
	The country of Joan of Arc, of Louis XIV. The country of Napoleon and General de Gaulle.
	This incredible and intelligent, ambitious country.
	The country of Concord and nuclear energy.
	This country you cherish, and that is disappearing.
	You haven't moved out, yet you feel like you're not at home.
	You haven't left the country, yet it is as if the country has left you.
	So I've clipped it there.
	For people listening, it's going to be in French, so sorry about that.
	But the framing.
	It's amazing.
	It's unbelievably good.
	We were essentially given this country.
	You're given it by your ancestors.
	It's disappearing before your eyes.
	What will you have to give to your children?
	I mean, this is a deeply Burkean framework.
	Like, this is the sort of beating heart of conservatism.
	And what I find really interesting as well is that I've had to read a lot of French authors translated into English, obviously.
	And this is...
	Very much in a continuation and set in the sort of classic French idealist method of presenting an argument.
	It's deeply aesthetic, right?
	It's speaking from the first-person perspective.
	What do you feel?
	This is not, you know, he's not giving us numbers.
	He's telling, look, you can look around you and you can see the country has changed.
	It wasn't always this way.
	And it doesn't have to be this way.
	And this is being done to you.
	So you feel like a stranger in your own country.
	And it's so persuasively, brilliantly framed.
	I'm honestly in awe.
	When I was watching this, I was feeling patriotic for France.
	I'm like...
	Yeah, same.
	I mean, we've got loads of clips, so we'll go through it, but I've had to shorten them, of course, because of time.
	But there's one line in that first clip there that really got to me.
	You remember the country you once knew, the country your parents told you about, the country you can find in movies and books.
	And I was just reminded of when you were talking about the Cockneys.
	Yeah.
	Cockneys don't exist to me.
	No.
	No, I've been to London.
	I was going to say, we've had this conversation many a time where I've been like, it wasn't always this way.
	Cockneys are something that exist in movies and books for my generation.
	And for you, they existed.
	Oh yeah, in real life, yeah.
	It's a demonstrable change.
	I remember when I was...
	I think I first went to London on my own when I was like 22 to visit some friends and you'd just hear the accents.
	Done anymore.
	So let's go for the next clip.
	You feel like a stranger in your own country.
	You are inner exiles.
	For a long time you thought that you were the only ones who could see, hear, think, fear.
	You were scared to say it.
	You were ashamed of how you felt.
	For a long time you wouldn't dare say what you could see.
	And above all, you wouldn't dare see what you could see.
	Then you told your wife, your husband, your children, your father, your mother, your friends, your colleagues, your neighbours.
	Then told strangers, and you understood that this feeling of dispossession was shared by all.
	France was no longer France, and everyone had noticed it.
	I mean, again, just brilliant.
	Like, there are so many clips that are just so good, but there's another couple of quotes out there.
	So, again, just what he's saying there, this, again, it's Edmund Burke's framing, and it sounds a lot like Edmund Burke, where he's got this one line where, I'm going to do a book club on Burke's reflections, by the way, so that's how this is all so fresh in my mind, but he's got this one line where he's like, the revolutionaries effectively will make you feel ashamed for harbouring the common feelings of mankind.
	Because all of this grows from the family, the neighbourhood, the nation.
	This is a familial, relational view of what the country is.
	And it's based in sentiments.
	It's based in feelings.
	And that's what he's just tugging on these feelings, saying, look, you know, you are connected to all of this.
	You're in the inheritors of a great tradition, of a great country that's lasted for such a long time through so many trials, and you're just going to let them erode it, like a sandcastle on a beach.
	But also the point there, you are not alone.
	Yeah.
	All your friends, your family, strangers that you meet, you all feel the same and you will fight back.
	And it's very much, again, in line with de Gaulle's speech, the initial one.
	So him making the point in his speech in which he's like, look, France is not alone.
	We have our friends in England.
	We have our colonies around the world and they will liberate France.
	And also the line there from him saying, you are inner exiles.
	Again, with the occupation.
	It's a beautiful French flourish.
	Yeah.
	It's genuinely poetic.
	And this is the thing with, like, French idealists writing.
	It It has these beautiful flourishes that say a lot in only a couple of words.
	Inner exile is a great term.
	You must give it to the frogs.
	They have fantastic writing like this.
	Oh, they do.
	There's another line in that I just thought was great.
	So he says, for a long time, you wouldn't dare say what you could see.
	And above all, you wouldn't dare see what you could see.
	That's amazing.
	The denial you get in some people.
	How does that not ring true now?
	You know, when I was talking to V, being a Romanian, about the rape gangs, and I was like, look, they're not saying anything because they're afraid of being called racist, and he would not believe me.
	He would not believe me that that word would have such power in this country.
	But now, after many years, this is really the case.
	He's finally come to understand that we're mental.
	This wouldn't fly in Romania, basically, is what he's saying.
	But France has been through much worse.
	Oh, yeah.
	So the pain must be worse as well.
	Yeah.
	Let's go to the next clip.
	"The disappearance of our civilization isn't the only problem that is haunting us, even if it is the most important one.
	Immigration is not the cause of all our problems, even if it makes them all worse.
	The third worldation of our country and people makes it poorer as much as it tears it apart.
	It ruins it as much as it torments it.
	That is why you have trouble making ends meet." That is why we need to help small businesses thrive and be passed on from generation to generation.
	That is why we need to preserve our architecture, our culture, and our nature.
	That is why we need to restore our republican school system, its excellence and its cult of merit, and stop exposing our children to egalitarian experiments of child-centered educationalists, crazy gender theorists, and Islamo-leftists.
	Love it.
	Love everything about it.
	I mean, calling it the Islamo-leftists and crazy gender theorists and their egalitarian experiment, which is what it is, and saying, well, look, let's just go back to the cult of merit.
	This is perfect.
	And what he's saying, again, it's all Burke.
	He's saying the civilization we've given to us was given to us in trust.
	You know, it's not ours.
	It's something we hold for the future.
	It's really good.
	But also, we had this debate before we started, which was just as well, the fact that he uses the term the cult of merit.
	I mean, maybe it's just a Frenchism, the word cult or something, but it actually is perfect because you've got this cult of egalitarianism of the Islamo-leftists who are promoting their gender ideology and all the rest of it.
	And then if you just respond by going, no, we'll just believe in the cult of meritocracy...
	I mean, really, there are no arguments.
	It's just fields, right?
	And all they've got is their fields, and we can demonstrably see none of their stuff works.
	It just produces terrible outcomes.
	But deep down, everyone knows meritocracy.
	Of course, it's not a state of being.
	It is a state of striving.
	And it just produces everything much better.
	It produces better people.
	But everyone deeply knows it as well.
	It's not even about the outcomes, though.
	It's about the way that you feel about what you're doing.
	Sure.
	You know, I mean, like, no diversity hire can possibly feel good about being a diversity hire.
	Never.
	You know, they're just looking at the consequence being like, well, at least I've got more money now.
	This is good.
	But even if you don't have lots of money at the end of doing something meritorious, at least you knew you did the right thing.
	But reducing the dialogue to orcs, orcs, orcs, you know, our side is right because we feel it.
	And all they've got in response is, of course, well, no, our side is right because we feel it.
	It's like, yeah, but no one believes it.
	And you know no one believes it.
	Anyway, let's go to the next one.
	That is why we need to reclaim our sovereignty, which was given away to European technocrats and judges who have stripped us of the ability to choose our own fate in the name of the European Union that will never be a nation.
	Yes, we must give the power back to the people, take it back from minorities that keep imposing the tyranny on the majority, and from those who substitute legal power for the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
	For decades, the left and right have led us down this deadly path of decline and decadence.
	Left and right, they have lied to you.
	They have hidden the gravity of our decline.
	They have hidden the reality of our replacement.
	I mean, firstly, I want to talk about the EU boy there.
	Sure.
	I love how he essentially just comes in with a sledgehammer and just smashes the foundations of all the Euro fetishists.
	Yeah.
	Because all that fundamentally drives those kinds of people who fetishize the European Union is European Nation, European Nation.
	It is the ultimate goal.
	It is the thing that keeps them striving for saying, whatever the European Union has done wrong, it doesn't matter, because European Nation will be a thing.
	And when you come in and be like, it never will be.
	Yeah.
	And you know it.
	Yeah.
	You know it deep down.
	It's gone.
	Their entire Europhilia is based on nothing at that point.
	So just, again, fantastic.
	But also there's a point there he says, yes, we must give the power back to the people, take it back from minorities that keep imposing the tyranny on the majority.
	Again, a direct reference to intersectionality.
	Absolutely.
	You can see by the protest footage.
	That's precisely what it is.
	Intersectionality is about literally giving the margins, the minorities, supremacy over the majority of society.
	That's wrong.
	I mean, that's an ethnic aristocracy.
	It's wrong in and of itself.
	It doesn't just mean ethnic minorities either.
	No, just any minorities.
	Sexual minorities, this is why the LGBTQAI +, any minority, put them all together in a big coalition, and then use them to attack the centre.
	That's the idea.
	And he's like, no, we're doing this.
	It's producing obvious tyranny.
	Yes, because the minorities can't sustain the civilisation, that's the thing.
	By definition, they'd be a majority.
	Exactly.
	And the majority is the pillar of the civilization, the great trunk of the tree.
	And minorities are essentially the branch of the tree coming down and attacking the trunk.
	It's like, well, this is dangerous, and there's no reason this should be just.
	No.
	The foundations of what makes the society in the trunk of the tree is the families.
	Exactly.
	Family units throughout the country.
	If they're the ones who are holding up the civilization, why shouldn't the civilization serve their interests?
	Why should they be subjected?
	It certainly shouldn't tyrannise them for being so.
	Exactly.
	Anyway.
	And then he has the last point there he mentions as well, that the hidden reality of our replacement, this is common parlance in France, a bit stranger for the English world, but let's get into it with the next link.
	You have known me for years.
	You know my opinions, my analysis, my predictions, for a long time.
	I settled for the roles of journalist and writer, the role of Cassandra, the role of the whistleblower.
	I thought a politician would eventually take up the torch...
	I thought everyone should stick to his own job, his own role, his own fight.
	I went back on this delusion.
	Just like you, I can no longer trust.
	Just like you, I have decided to seize our destiny.
	I understood that no politician would be brave enough to save the country from its tragic fate.
	I understood that these supposedly competent politicians were actually powerless.
	That Macron, who claimed to be a new man, was actually a worse combination of his two predecessors.
	True.
	I love the background, though.
	It's very much like the French Douglas Murray running for Prime Minister or something.
	Oh, God, yeah.
	And, well, it's beautiful.
	Unfortunately, our system prevents this kind of thing from happening.
	So we can't get an outsider who can come in and actually fix a bunch of problems.
	But at least he sees the problems with clear eyes.
	Yes.
	Anyway, so that's his background and why he's saying, you know, basically everyone knows me.
	I've been doing this stuff as a journalist forever.
	I always thought someone else would do it and they didn't.
	So I'm going to do it myself.
	Good point of Macron being worse than the previous two options though.
	Yeah, so this is the next line in which he says, It is no longer time to reform France.
	It is time to save it.
	Let's go.
	It is no longer time to reform France.
	It is time to save it.
	This is why I've decided to stand in the presidential election.
	I have decided to ask for your votes to become your president of the republic.
	So that our children and grandchildren won't have to face barbarism.
	So that our daughters won't have to wear the Muslim headscarf.
	And so that our sons will not have to submit.
	So that we can pass on France as we knew it and as our ancestors passed it on to us.
	So that we can still preserve our way of life, our tradition, our language, our conversations, our arguments about history or fashion, our taste in literature, gastronomy.
	So that French people remain French, proud of their history and confident in their future.
	So that French people feel at home again.
	So that the latest immigrants assimilate and make the history of France their own.
	So that we create a new French people in France instead of foreigners in an unknown land.
	I mean, again, there are some lines in there that I just have to read out.
	So I mean, the one he said there, where he's saying that, so that our children and grandchildren won't have to face barbarism, so that our daughters won't have to wear the Muslim headscarf, and so that our sons will not have to submit.
	Islam being submit in English.
	The horrors we've read, I mean, when I had Bowen and we talked about the Ba'ath clan, Yes.
	Yes.
	But I also love that he's very clearly getting to the ancestor point.
	So he says, so that we can pass on France as we knew it and as our ancestors pass it on to us.
	Yes.
	And you have a job to do.
	Yes.
	You know you do.
	And then the last bit that I found amazing, so that French people can feel at home again and so the latest immigrants can assimilate and make the history of France their own.
	This is exactly the energy that conservatism needs at this point.
	Speaking not to science or mathematics or anything geometric, speaking to the moral sentiments and the feelings and the homeliness of what our countries were.
	But also, it's such a great point on migration that I don't see enough people pick up.
	If you expect to import loads of foreigners and then you'll be like, oh, they'll assimilate like us.
	If you don't defend what us is, what are they going to assimilate into?
	You don't give them anything to interact with.
	This is a point that Scruton makes.
	Look, we are presuming a first-person plural "we".
	We need to be cognizant of what that is and be able to confidently project it outwards.
	If we're going to invite anyone to join us in it, why would you?
	Especially when the intersectionals, the leftists, have put up all these barriers saying you're not allowed to assert your culture.
	Well no wonder they're not insimilating.
	Why would they?
	They wouldn't even know there was something to insimilate into.
	And that's the thing.
	I mean, he mentions at the start as well, which was immigration isn't the cause of all our problems, but it makes everything else worse.
	Yes, and that's true.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Our pleasant way of life arouses envy and joy in those who try it.
	We have had glorious victories and we have overcome bitter defeats.
	For a thousand years, we have been one of these powerful nations who have made history.
	We will be worthy of our ancestors.
	We will not be dominated, subdued, conquered, or colonized.
	We will not be replaced.
	We will have to face a cold, determined monster that will try to drag us through the mud.
	They will say that you are racist, that you are driven by dismal passion, while it is a passion of the utmost beauty, the passion for France.
	They will say horrible things about me, but I will endure.
	Insults and vicious attacks will not intimidate me.
	I will never bow down because we have a mission to fulfill.
	The people of France were intimidated, paralysed, indoctrinated and riddled with guilt.
	But they are picking themselves up, letting their masks slip, dispersing the noxious lies and chasing away bad shepherds.
	Why can't our conservatives speak like that?
	Good God.
	I know, it's so beautiful.
	I mean, the opening line there, our pleasant way of life arouses envy and joy in those who try it.
	Again, talking to the immigration part that they want to assimilate into.
	That's why they're here.
	Again, it's just like, look, we have something beautiful and not only can they come and take part in it, they're going to be envious of it because they don't fully have it.
	And it's like...
	So, right.
	There's also the point there, he says, again, hearkening back to the fact that you have a duty to hand on what you were given.
	For a thousand years, we have been one of the most powerful nations made in history.
	We will be worthy of our ancestors.
	We will not be dominated, subdued, conquered, or colonized.
	We will not be replaced.
	Again, just getting to the huge problems France has.
	Language we're not allowed to use in this country.
	But it's common parlance in France, because it's just a different type of word.
	So let's go for the next clip as well.
	We will make France continue.
	We will carry on this beautiful and noble French adventure.
	We will pass on the torch to future generations.
	Help me.
	Join me.
	Rise up.
	We, the people of France, have always overcome.
	Long live the Republic, and most importantly, long live France.
	Beautiful.
	I mean, that's your campaign video.
	I'm gonna run.
	Here's what I have to say.
	Hell yeah, you'd vote for him.
	Who wouldn't?
	I also wanted to mention, because I know that some people might be wondering, because the racist man, as he says, the media will call him, his two parents were Berber Jews in Algeria, who then migrated to France and assimilated because they loved it.
	They were envious of the culture, as he says.
	And that's what produced him.
	So that's why they're having a very tough time putting him down as well.
	Because he's like, no, look, this is what we're coming towards.
	And again, not anti-immigration either, just...
	Well, if you replace Paris to the point that there are no French cultural places to go, what are they going to assimilate into?
	Yes.
	What's around them, which is not French?
	As we saw, like, every two weeks, a mosque goes up and a church comes down in France.
	I mean, again, the language, fantastic.
	We will carry on this beautiful and noble French adventure.
	So good.
	Anyway, last thing to mention on that campaign, which you really should go see the full video, which is age-restricted on YouTube.
	Just is.
	The thing I wanted to mention is, of course, he's French, so he started off his campaign by cheating on his wife as well.
	That's a thing to end on.
	So, anyway.
	So, Eric Zuma gets his chief aide pregnant, apparently suing the papers for a breach of privacy, but not suing them for libel.
	The beautiful thing about these national sentiments is that they breed stereotypes that are eminently predictable and totally true.
	We didn't have time for it, but there's an interview he gave this morning to the Times, and in it, the interviewer asks, so what do you think about the fact that you've cheated on your wife and you've got your aide pregnant?
	And he responds with, French voters do not care about that.
	They don't.
	No.
	Again, I mean, Mr.
	France over there, fully loving it.
	I mean, that's literally true in France.
	But an amazing thing to see, and hats off to the chat.
	We need more like him.
	God.
	Anyway, okay, well, let's...
	Let's finish by, let's talk about the Jussie Smollett case, because it's come back to court, and you might be like, why is it back in court?
	Well, he's in court because he faked a hate crime, and it looks like he's not going to get away with it, which is fantastic.
	Mr.
	UCA Smollett himself.
	And the reason it's fantastic is because he clearly thought he was going to get away with this.
	So the Chicago Tribune have done us a good timeline of events.
	We're going to go through it very, very briefly.
	So on January 22nd, 2019, he claimed that he was attacked in the street at like 2 a.m.
	while going out to get eggs and then couldn't get eggs, so he had to go to a subway to get a sandwich.
	And two white men in downtown Chicago walked up to him, said, this is MAGA country, beat him up, put a noose around his neck and poured bleach over him for running off.
	The Chicago police went through all the footage.
	They found two images of the people.
	It was very dark, so you couldn't see anything about them, but they found two images of people they were looking for.
	And then on February the 1st, Smollett puts out a statement telling people that he's okay.
	Thank you for your support.
	Really milking this.
	Working with authorities and says, quote, I have been 100% factual and consistent on every level.
	On February 2nd, he gives a concert in West Hollywood and his performance, he says, I had to be here tonight, you all.
	I can't let them win.
	He says, visibly fighting tears.
	I have so many words in my heart.
	The most important thing I have to say is that thank you so much and I'm okay.
	I'm not fully healed yet, but I'm going to.
	I'm going to stand strong with you all because he couldn't let his attackers win.
	I mean, good God, talk about playing this up.
	Stunning and brave.
	Unbelievable.
	So on the 12th of February, Chicago police say that Jesse Smalley turned over his phone records, but not all of them.
	Some of them were redacted.
	To protect the privacy of some people.
	He's also cheating on his wife?
	He's gay.
	No.
	So no.
	But on February the 14th, he gave a national television interview on Good Morning America saying that, you know, he's putting to bed all of these rumours like it was a date gone ban or anything like that.
	He's like, no, this is ridiculous and offensive that you would...
	I'm not telling the truth.
	He says he was convinced that the men in the surveillance images were his attackers.
	Which, technically, I guess they were.
	I don't have any doubt in my mind that that's them.
	And that same day...
	I paid them good money.
	That's basically it.
	That same day, Chicago police announced that they were interviewing those two persons of interest captured on video, which Justin must have been like, oh, God, that's not good.
	I was hoping they'd just get away with it.
	And so a few days after that, on the 15th, the next day, in fact, they say that they're considered potential suspects.
	And then 12 hours later, they release them.
	No longer a potential suspect.
	And then the day after that, on February the 16th, the law enforcement sources say that they're now investigating whether Small A paid them to stage the attack, following up information they provided in custody.
	And so he issues a strongly worded letter, a statement, late on Saturday night, insisting that the attack happened.
	Jussie Smollett is angered and devastated by recent reports that his perpetrators are individuals he is familiar with.
	He has been further victimized by claims attributed to these alleged perpetrators that Jussie played a role in his own attack.
	Nothing could be further than the truth.
	I love how much he's constantly leaning into this, and the more the narrative starts eroding away, the more he leans into it, and the more he looks like an obvious brazen liar.
	On February 19th, they say there's another twist in the investigation as Cook County State's Attorney Kim Fox recuses herself from the case as prosecutors in her office begin questioning the two brothers who have been the suspects.
	Fox says she's made this decision out of an abundance of caution because of her familiarity with the potential witnesses in the case.
	She knows them.
	She also knows Jussie Smollett, who also knows Kamala Harris.
	This is getting weird, isn't it?
	Anyway, the next day, Smollett is charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false police report.
	New details emerged of why Fox recused herself.
	In a statement, one of her aides said that she had had conversations with a family member of Jussie Smollett about the incident.
	And the initial report of the attack facilitated a connection to the Chicago Police Department who were facilitating the incident.
	That's weird, isn't it?
	So Smellett knows her, she's connected to Kamala Harris and the police department, and he's faked hate crime.
	Why would he do that?
	Why would he then lean into it being a hate crime and not obviously faked?
	Because all the evidence shows it's faked.
	And he's lent into this as if he thinks that he's untouchable.
	Anyway, so on February the 21st, he's surrendered to the Chicago police and the superintendent, Eddie Johnson, said that he'd faked the letter and the attack because he was dissatisfied with his salary on the show.
	This has dragged Chicago's reputation from the mud.
	Chicago doesn't have a reputation, dude, come on.
	We're British, even we know it's crap.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And then that same day he went to the Empire Studios set to carry on with his job, but the next day he was cancelled from that because this was obviously untenable.
	So fast forward to, a lot of other stuff happens, but fast forward to March the 8th, and a Cook County Grand Judge indicts Smollett on 16 counts of disorderly conduct for allegedly lying to the police about being the victim of a racist and homophobic attack, and he pleads not guilty to all of them.
	But we have, like, the statements from the guys who you paid.
	We've got more than that.
	It's really bad.
	It's really, really bad.
	But the thing is, on March 26th, they dropped all charges, calling an appropriate resolution to the case.
	Fast forward to September, and for some reason, Jussie Smollett is saying that he could never have foreseen that the Chicago police would...
	Sorry, no, they do pick up the case again.
	Sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself.
	So in September, for some reason, his lawyers say that he would never have foreseen that the Chicago police would investigate his claims of a brutal hate attack so thoroughly because he was given the bill for investigating.
	So the police are like, you're clearly lying, but we're not going to waste our time or someone's paid us to not investigate it.
	So we've dropped all the charges.
	They dropped the charges, but tell him he's got to pay $130,000, which is what it costs to investigate all of this, right?
	And so his lawyers challenging this are like, well, we didn't realize they'd be so thorough about looking into it.
	Weird.
	It's really weird, isn't it?
	You thought they'd just be like, oh, well, yeah, obviously hate crime.
	You know, don't worry about looking into it.
	We don't need to find the perpetrators.
	We just need a big media sensation for Jussie Smollett.
	And so on February the 11th, he was facing new criminal charges, nearly a year afterwards, and he's been indicted.
	And so then also these new criminal charges don't violate his right against double jeopardy.
	So, that's really interesting, isn't it?
	Like, he's obviously lying, he's obviously got these weird connections, very intimate connections, and he's made up the story for narrative purposes.
	And these narratives worked.
	I mean, this was during the Democratic primary, you may recall, and so if we go to the next ones, you see Cory Booker say, oh, this vicious attack on actor Jussie Smollett was an attempted modern-day lynching.
	What's that?
	Because there was a noose involved.
	Does that make it a lynching?
	If you pay someone to put a noose on your neck?
	Can you lynch yourself?
	Yeah.
	Is it a lynching?
	And, of course, they were trying to pass an anti-lynching bill, because lynching's a huge problem in America at the moment, you see.
	Julian Castro, all of these candidates.
	The next one, oh, this is terrible.
	Oh, it's racially and homophobically motivated attack.
	They just trot out stock rhetoric.
	God willing, justice will be swift.
	Well, Allahu Akbar, I have good news for you.
	Kirsten Gillibrand from the next one.
	Stock rhetoric.
	They know what they're going to say before they say it, even when the thing isn't true.
	From the next one.
	Joe Biden.
	I mean, I agree.
	Base Joe Biden.
	You know, put him in jail.
	He's got three years that he's looking at, actually.
	So we must stand up and demand that we no longer give this hate safe harbor.
	I agree.
	That Jussie Smollett is a real piece of work.
	That homophobia and racism is no place in the street in our hearts.
	Again, all just stark rhetoric.
	And then you get Kamala Harris's tweets, which was gold.
	Jussie Smollett is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know.
	I'm praying for his quick recovery.
	This is an attempted modern-day lynching.
	No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or skin colour.
	We must confront this hate.
	Which is why he's on trial.
	This was something she had to backpedal in real time when Fox News was like, So, now that it turns out that he faked it, what do you have to say for yourself?
	And this is what she responded with.
	You don't have the clip.
	I didn't put the clip in.
	But she's just doing umming and ahhing.
	Oh, well, actually, I mean, ah.
	She does put out a statement, though.
	Again, it's full of backpedalling, if we can get the next one up.
	She's, like most of you, I'm sad, frustrated, and disappointed.
	And in other parts, she sits there saying, well, I mean, I just don't know.
	I just don't know what's going on.
	This is terrible.
	And, of course, we must always condemn racism and homophobia.
	What are you talking about?
	There wasn't any.
	No, he hired two Nigerian men to pretend to beat him up.
	I mean, is there racism in those Nigerian men appropriating MAGA culture by wearing MAGA hats?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I'm scrapping at straws here.
	I love the idea that there are just random gangs of Nigerian MAGA supporters beating up Hollywood celebrities in Chicago.
	Give me a Seth Rogen.
	Anyway.
	But the thing is, like, again, Jussie Smollett was a smirking twat about all of this.
	Like, after the charges were initially dropped, he posted on his Instagram, three months after this had happened, this smug smirking crap where he posts on his 37th birthday going, still grateful for love, still grateful for another year in the sun, still smiling.
	And it's like, you smug prat.
	He just thinks he's immune to all of this, and you can tell.
	And so the trial's been ongoing, and it hasn't been going very well for Jussie.
	I am shocked.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The evidence is just totally against him, and Vice magazine have had to report on it through gritted teeth.
	I thought we'd just go through it, because it's great.
	It's not looking great for him.
	I mean, we really want to say it's racism and homophobia, but he seems to have done something bad.
	A former police detective testified on Tuesday that Smollett and two brothers he'd allegedly paid to jump him had planned a dry run before the staged attack.
	So they had practiced this.
	At one point, jurors viewed a video of the brothers picking up a rope, mask and hats.
	Again, this was paid for by Jussie as well.
	He gave them $100 to buy these supplies and then paid them three and a half grand and then practiced it with them.
	I mean, he's a real actor.
	He is a real actor.
	He's a professional.
	Yeah.
	One of the brothers testified against him, said that Smollett told him in January 2019 that he needed help on the low, which turned out to be the fake plea to beat him up.
	And he told him to say during the attack, Empire, F word, N word, MAGA. It is like a leftist trying to imagine what a far right winger is like.
	Yes.
	What do Trump supporters say?
	Well, this is what they say.
	And no connecting words.
	No.
	I mean, there's no sentence there.
	No.
	There's no like, hey, you are an F word, N word.
	No, no, no.
	Just F word, N word.
	And then move on.
	I've got things to do.
	I don't have time for sentences.
	Trump supporters say MAGA when they're beating up black people, don't they?
	Yeah, I'm sure they do.
	Yeah, say MAGA. Oh, and the N word.
	Oh, call me an F word as well because I am gay.
	Do you reckon he wrote those three and then was like, hang on, but how do they know it has anything to do with Empire?
	Well, what Trump supporter has ever watched Empire?
	Is he trying to promote the show?
	It's a viral marketing campaign!
	Pulls up his director as well, and he's like, well, you've got to get the name of the show in there, come on.
	But the thing is, I don't know that he didn't, right?
	But anyway, yeah.
	What am I paying a three and a half grand for?
	Yeah, exactly.
	As part of the plan, one of the brothers testified that he had also instructed him to send the actor a condolence text, and that was, bruh, say it ain't true, I'm praying for speedy recovery.
	Sorry, hang on, what?
	One of the people he paid to beat him up is then supposed to send him a condolence text, because he's a friend, right?
	And so he's obviously heard, and I'm like, oh, tell me it ain't true, sort of thing.
	So try and make it sound and feel more plausible.
	So then he can screenshot it, and then crop it, put it on social media, and be like, my friends are sending me goodwill.
	Or send it to the cops, incidentally.
	See, my friends are...
	But it makes me wonder, every time you see a left-wing politician who's like, ooh, there's hate mail I get.
	Oh, well, David Lammy.
	Remember the one where it was Stacey Abrams, where it just looked like she said it to herself?
	Or David Lammy?
	David Lammy.
	It was his own handwriting.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, moving on.
	Jussie Smollett's defence is in a bit of a bind.
	He obviously seems to have done it.
	Why?
	So, what's the only option you've got now?
	He could do a Claudia Webb and try and claim the criminal justice system as racist.
	No, no, he's not going to do that one.
	Just double down.
	What?
	Double down on the lie.
	If we can go to the next one, John.
	Defense says Jussie Smollett is the real victim.
	What?
	Like, he's also the fake victim.
	Exactly.
	So he's both?
	He is the perpetrator.
	So, yeah, this was his poor defense attorney.
	It's just like, well, he paints, he wasted no time painting a picture of a hate crime, accusing the brothers of attacking Smollett in the early hours of the morning.
	Why?
	Because they did not like him as a person.
	What?
	They were friends.
	He paid them.
	They staged the dry run.
	They're both black guys, well, that's right.
	Yes.
	So, like, they were initially trying to say it was a hate crime, and now they're like, well, the two guys are black.
	They work with them on Empire.
	They're friends.
	So, now it's just assault?
	It's no longer hate assault?
	I suppose, yeah, I suppose so.
	Smollett's defence argued that the money the act paid for the brothers was for personal training sessions, not to attack him.
	And the defense was also brought up in the notion of a third attack, although no details were given on that.
	And outside the courthouse, the actor's brother, Jojo Smollett, told reporters, quote, We look forward to people hearing the actual facts of the case.
	It has been incredibly painful as this family has to watch someone as you love being accused of something they did not do.
	Well, I know who I believe.
	Well, release the cracker.
	Get on with it, you know?
	Yeah, exactly.
	We've got the actual facts.
	Well, show us.
	Where are they?
	But again, the reason this is all interesting, I think, is Kamala Harris' connections to Jussie Smollett because, of course, she leapt out very quickly going, oh, there's some modern-day lynching.
	But in an interview with Wolf Blitzer of CNN, she was like, well, I don't know.
	I'm completely confused.
	I don't understand.
	I don't know.
	Who's you say Smollett?
	I forget.
	I've never even heard of Kamala Harris.
	You know, I don't know the underlying evidence.
	If I haven't, you know, there's a sealed document.
	Obviously, I don't know.
	I'm at a loss.
	LAUGHTER I think we're going to have to leave it up to the judgment of the prosecutor.
	Maybe you should have not tweeted anything in the first place, Kamala.
	I have no idea what happened.
	I don't know what the evidence is.
	So why did you tweet anything?
	It was a modern-day lynching.
	But, again, totally abnegate any position of responsibility here after stepping and wading out into it.
	So, as it turns out, as they say in this article, Ms.
	Harris appears to happen to be, happens to also be close to the prosecutor, Kim Fox, who recused herself, of course.
	In a January 22nd tweet, she described a senator who Crowe chaired Ms.
	Fox's transition committee after being elected to the office in 2016 as her inspiration, and noted she had continued to mentor me as I worked to reform the criminal justice system in Cook County.
	It's all getting weird and swampy, isn't it?
	During the bizarre twists and turns of the case, Ms.
	Fox was contacted by Tina Chen, a former assistant to Barack Obama and chief of staff to Michelle Obama.
	Wow!
	This is a weird network that keeps going up and up and up.
	In an email, Ms.
	Chen told Fox that she was getting in touch on behalf of Jussie Smollett and the family who I know.
	They have concerns about the investigation.
	Strings are being pulled!
	But they're all out in the open.
	And so this is something, oh suddenly, I don't know, I'm not, recuse, recuse.
	Oh, I don't know anything about this.
	We're going to have to let the prosecutor do the work.
	It's like, sorry, you got caught.
	You got caught because your boy- I want their phone records.
	I want every text message they ever had was- Subpoena everything.
	That's what I would do.
	So just to summarize this very briefly, it looks like Smollett thought that because of his ties with Harris, Fox and the Obamas, he would be able to fake a politically motivated hate crime and get away with it for the purposes of creating a social media firestorm and advancing the goal of left-wing politics, I suppose, and wasn't banking on the fact that the police would actually investigate him because he expected that Fox would basically tell them not to.
	He thought he was untouchable.
	Smugly smirking throughout the whole thing too.
	And he might face three years in jail.
	So, who knows?
	Deserves them.
	Every, every minute.
	Let's go to video comments.
	Oops.
	Okay, there's no sound, apparently.
	Right.
	So, that was a Jesus that's now turning into a Transformer?
	Okay.
	Based crusading, I guess.
	Yeah, not what I was expecting.
	Carry on.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Because there's noblesse oblige, the nobility owe a decent standard of life and living to the peasants.
	Noblesse oblige is more than nobility simply being obligated to improve society.
	It is an extension of the concept of charity as the word caritas, the love of man for God.
	Charity in this sense is giving opportunity to improve, like to a perspicacious hobbit who can't speak English, to a man with a silky smooth voice who wears denim above the waistline, or listening to a man with an interminably boring voice gently rib your august organisation.
	I know!
	It was an offhanded comment in the middle of a separate subject.
	If I were to do a video on that and I didn't include it, fine.
	Okay, thank you for the correction.
	I appreciate that.
	Got me to it, T. Let's go to the next one.
	I was wondering about the Lotus Eater's opinions on the ideas of Ernst Younger.
	After World War I, he said that because technology is all about power and control, if you put technocrats in charge of society, they will always try to control it.
	And so he decided that a technological society would eventually lead to the rise of the class of technocratic tyrants.
	I mean, he's correct.
	I'm not familiar with Sionga's work, but I mean, it's implicit in the very notion of a technocrat.
	If you create a set of ideas that have a demand placed on all of society, then you've essentially captured everything through one thought.
	And now you're demanding everything be bent to this whim.
	It's like, sorry, I don't see why I should have to agree to that at all.
	Who are you again?
	Yeah, exactly.
	I run twitter.com.
	Yeah, I've got a theory.
	It's like, great, I've got a gun.
	Come and try and take my stuff.
	That's how every American conversation should go.
	Exactly, literally.
	Republicans, whenever you have a conversation with a Democrat, whatever their thought is, be like, yeah, but I'm armed.
	Well, I mean, that is the Cold War for the Americans, isn't it?
	Yes.
	I mean, every conversation is like, yeah, I'm a commie, and I'm American.
	Yeah, I own property.
	Go to the next one.
	Yeah, so I misspoke yesterday.
	It's not an LGBT cafe, it's an LGBT, everything included.
	But I am here a couple of days, so I'm sitting down with the customers and trying to learn, trying to understand.
	In good news, our Prime Minister has said flat out there will be no Vax mandate and no further lockdowns in Denmark, so it's only the masks and the passport.
	And to think that's the best outcome right now, what is this world, seriously?
	Only.
	Only passports.
	It's only forced mask wearing.
	You know, the needle has slipped so much that we just accept these things.
	Well, the Overton window is just so far over.
	The other point there being about the LGBT bookstore.
	If you're there to listen and understand, why don't you do something a little more fun as well, which is...
	Ask questions.
	No, accelerate.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	If you get a white man come into the store, tell her about how white men are oppressors and need to be put down and are not part of the intersectional movement.
	And if you have a white woman come into the store, start telling her that women are only really women if they're transgender.
	And then there are cis women, which is something else, and they're not part of the intersectionality.
	See, Rory predicted that this would all collapse in three years' time under its own weight, and I was thinking, now, that's too optimistic.
	But I suppose if we infiltrate and accelerate, then maybe that could be made to happen.
	But I really want, like, if a lesbian comes to the store, start telling them that they should be having sex with, what is it, trans women?
	Feminine penises.
	Yeah, and if they don't, then they're not really a lesbian and they need to get out of this store.
	They're transphobic.
	Moreover, they're actually oppressors.
	Maybe don't harm your sister's bookstore because it's a bit harsh, but I want to see them have the cogs turn and see what goes through their heads.
	Yeah, just kindly present this.
	Oh, you're a lesbian, right, okay.
	So would you sleep with a trans woman?
	If not, why not?
	Very transphobic of you.
	And I tell you, we're in no good position to say about the vaccine.
	I mean, we don't even have vaccine passports in England, but the Scottish and the Welsh do, and we've got a mandatory mask mandate that I'm not paying attention to.
	Since we went through the race manifesto yesterday from the Welsh government, I expect the Celts just to start killing everyone, and I'd be like, well, that's the Celts for you.
	Well, I mean, yeah.
	I don't know what they won't do at this point.
	Yeah.
	So...
	I mean, at least there is some restraint in England.
	Minimal.
	Let's go to the next one.
	What's this?
	Vaccine camp.
	What?
	People listening, it's like Pac-Man except he's being given booster shots.
	And the coronavirus is getting people.
	Oh no, it's killing the guards.
	He didn't get enough boosters.
	So that's Australia for you.
	Yeah.
	Whoever made that, is that like a real Flash game that someone's made?
	No, that's an animation.
	Well, they should.
	If anyone's got any gaming skills.
	Let's go to the next one.
	No way.
	Spider-Man predicted the Australian COVID response.
	A fascist camp full of civilians.
	I haven't seen the movie, sorry.
	No, but that is what's happening in Australia.
	It's wild.
	I still love the phrase.
	The way the story I got it from was actually I found out it was a Babylon Bee lady who was just trying to find stories and she's, you know, writing fake news.
	And then she runs across the...
	Trying to write fake news, but it all keeps coming true.
	Well, she ran across the story of, what was it?
	What was it?
	Inmate at volunteer-only camp escapes by calling over barbed wire.
	Voluntary camp.
	Barbed wire.
	She was just like, oh god.
	But that actually happened, right?
	Yes.
	So that's why she sat there at the Babylon Bee being like, what's the point?
	Why do I even write anything?
	Well, this is the thing with Fauci calling himself the Vicar of Science.
	I mean, he literally did.
	Apparently the Spider-Man thing's a game, not a movie.
	But again, I haven't played that, so sorry.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Crap.
	So I was going to do a nice little video showing me calibrating my new hotend after I replaced it.
	Unfortunately, I went to do the print and found that the top of the hotend was leaking plastic.
	Okay, that's annoying, but it's a fixable problem.
	Then I snapped one of the screw heads off.
	This isn't going well.
	Yeah.
	What was he making there?
	It's a 3D printer.
	I think he was making stuff, and he wanted to show off Elder Calibre or something.
	Right, right.
	I have been tempted to get one, but they look very complicated, and I'm worried that I'd just screw it up and waste a load of money.
	There was a friend of mine who I live with who set his up and was printing some stuff.
	It doesn't look too hard.
	You could do it in a couple of days or something if you aren't dumb-dumb.
	I am dumb, though.
	Well, okay, maybe four days.
	But, you know, it'll get done.
	But Games Workshop won't be happy.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Hey, so this is for Carl.
	If you want to let me know what the P.O. Box is for the studio, I'll send you a couple things.
	First is a pair of Battlemasters for you and your son that I made, so you can get started in Battletech.
	And I'll send you a book to read over the holidays, too.
	Oh, God, I've got so many books I've got to read.
	I don't need any more books, I'm afraid.
	But, yeah, I mean, we can send you the address.
	This is a question for Carl.
	So I just listened to your Star Trek podcast and I enjoyed it a lot, but one thing that you didn't address in the podcast is how they're constantly giving machines human rights in Star Trek, namely Commander Data and the Doctor from Voyager, and I was wondering what your opinion on that was.
	Machines must never, under any circumstances, have human rights.
	End of story.
	Yeah.
	Otherwise you're going to end up with Men of Iron.
	Have you seen Stellaris?
	It's a game, right?
	Yeah.
	I don't know if you're interested in that kind of universe.
	I think I've played it.
	Years ago, I've played it.
	They've added loads of expansions and free updates to different races and all that.
	I love the guys at Paradox.
	They do a fantastic job of exploring, or at least adding, all kinds of political philosophies.
	Which is probably why I like it so much, because you can play with whatever.
	I don't know anything about Star Trek.
	I just know about Star Wars.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Tony D and Little Joan with another Legend of the Pines from the Atlantic City Press, the story of Dr.
	Jonathan Pitney.
	His house is said to be haunted.
	It's now a B&B. He was considered the father of Atlantic City.
	He helped bring the railroad to the Jersey Shore and make Atlantic City what it is.
	The house is supposedly haunted with a strange presence.
	And the creepiest thing, on the last day of his life, in 1869, Dr.
	Pitney said to his wife, I want you to stay here forever.
	Okay, that is kind of creepy.
	Weird.
	I was looking at a map of America last night, and I was thinking about, like, if I did a trip, where would I want to go?
	And I was thinking, oh, there's a lot in DC I want to see because of Fallout 3, and I'm a bit obsessed with it.
	And then I started looking around, and I was like, you know what, I'm going to have to go to New Jersey.
	I just feel compelled at this point to go there.
	Oh, look at the pines, yeah.
	Yeah, go look at the pines and all the rest of it.
	Don't get haunted.
	Yeah, go to the next one.
	Success at San Diego Comic-Con, and now for my next trick, I'm going to make these books disappear.
	If any of you guys live in Sydney and you're going to be coming, I am booth 67 in the Art of Sally.
	Come and find me, cscooper.com.au.
	Remember it, Callum.
	Never forget it!
	Have it inscribed on your tombstone, Callum.
	Can you pre-order tombstones?
	I don't see why not.
	Why not?
	What's preventing it?
	Could be a laugh.
	Anyway, so let's go for the written comments.
	Edward says, the answer to why do you deserve to be here is a very simple answer.
	A, I pay taxes.
	Yeah, but that's contingent.
	All of these things.
	I don't have to have a contingent reason.
	I deserve to be here simply because I was born here.
	Right?
	Literally, I subscribe through the sweat of my brow system, not even because I was born here, because of the hereditary descent of myself through my parents.
	I also don't like that argument.
	I have the right citizenship because you pay taxes.
	I don't think that's good enough.
	No.
	But B, I subscribe to the principles and ideals of this country.
	Again, that implies that I have to.
	Don't like that argument either.
	And C, where else do I belong?
	Now, this is the right answer.
	Where do the British belong if not in Britain?
	Where but in England?
	Without us, it would not be England or Britain.
	That's the correct answer.
	It's about belonging.
	It's about what you were born into and why you belong there because it is that of your people.
	Ignacio says, this channel business hits close to me as a Spaniard.
	Yeah, they've got exactly the same problem in Spain, by the way.
	Yachts have been literally like derelict yachts are washing up on the Spanish shores because migrants are stealing them and sailing across them.
	It's like, okay.
	Or you've got the Spanish enclaves that are just being stormed 24-7.
	Well, you know, at least they're being defended.
	Literally Leonidas-style pushing them into the sea.
	This is Spain!
	It's the same situation we have our hands tied due to our treasonous government and the EU wanting that slave labour.
	Yeah.
	Omar says, every legal immigrant is an insult to every legal immigrant who came here as a law-abiding guest.
	That's exactly correct as well.
	There was a thing in America about they polled the legal Hispanic migrants to America and they were like, aren't you concerned that your Hispanic brothers are being turned back at the border?
	By the Border Force.
	And they were like, no, deport them all.
	As if the Hispanic, like, racial consciousness is a thing.
	Exactly.
	They're like, no, I had to work hard to get here.
	You know, Jose Kings get deported, you know, and I'll see him at Christmas.
	As the son of an immigrant who worked for their citizenship and obtained it the right way, I hope every legal drowns and they take their self-satisfied, not in my backyard advocates with them.
	Yeah, I don't hope they drown, but I understand where you're coming from there.
	And I, again, totally agree.
	I think it's exactly what you're saying with John and his dad and my grandfather.
	You do earn your place here, but once you've earned it, that's fine.
	No one thinks you don't deserve it.
	Apart from a communist.
	Ideally, you hope they realize what they're doing and return home.
	Well, yeah.
	That would be nice.
	People smugglers can definitely go in the water, though.
	Well, obviously.
	Jimbo says, as I've said this before, but my middle-class millennial friends absolutely believe this country must atone for the past via mass immigration.
	Atone for what?
	Exactly.
	Well, A, yeah, that's a great point.
	But then it's purely about revenge.
	This is revenge.
	This is your penance.
	Not a single one of them are in a position to be affected by the results of it.
	They're effectively Twitter Tories.
	They insist that the working class must be punished for having the wrong opinion.
	At least Kelly Osborne was honest and said, who's going to clean the toilet's mask off or just being...
	I agree.
	And, like, it's insufferable, frankly.
	Baron Von Warhawk said...
	Hang on, your revenge point there.
	I mean, what's interesting is that they're accepting, essentially, we are evil and we're going to do the most evil thing to you.
	Immigration is bad for you, and you deserve it because of the Empire.
	They are just saying that in that statement.
	I mean, thanks for saying that mass immigration is bad.
	Yeah, I agree.
	Moving on.
	Oh, God.
	We're not 3D printing this.
	No.
	Oil guy.
	Baron von Walker says, Alfred the Great had the right idea on how to deal with illegal immigrant raiders who appear on small boats to pillage and steal the wealth from women of England.
	If only Boris had one 25th of the balls of he had.
	Yeah, but the thing is, we're currently in the Ethelred, the unready phase of the Viking invasions.
	Do you know what he did?
	Bugger all.
	Paid them.
	That's worse.
	If I pay you money, you'll go back to Scandinavia.
	Hang on, no, we are doing that, aren't we?
	Yeah, we're literally doing that.
	We're paying the French.
	Yes.
	And the French are like, thanks for the money.
	Yes.
	We're literally paying the immigrants too.
	Well, I've done the restaurant or whatever the Frenchies do.
	With my vaccine passport.
	But we're literally in the unready phase.
	And do you know what happened to him?
	Overthrown by Vikings.
	Was he killed?
	Yes.
	Good boys.
	But the point is, if you pay invaders to go away, they go back to where they came from with stacks of treasure.
	We're not even doing that, though.
	We're not paying the Danish king while the Norwegians invade.
	No, you pay the Vikings themselves, right?
	But we're not doing that.
	We're paying the French government while some migrants from God knows where invade us.
	But the point is, what happens when they get home with all this money?
	Everyone's like, where'd you get that money?
	But, like, the invaders aren't even going back.
	We're just giving it off to some random king who isn't doing anything about it.
	And they can text their friends saying, hey, they're just giving me money and letting me stay.
	Continue to invade.
	I get paid.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You'll get paid too.
	Sign-up bonus.
	Exactly, you know.
	So, yeah, we're in a worse position than ever.
	Ethelred the Unready, and he's literally called the Unready, the Unread, as in the person who made bad decisions.
	To be honest, Boris the Unready does sound right.
	Yes.
	He was able to do the one thing if Brexit deal is done, and then everything else completely unready for it.
	It was a pun as well, because Ethelred means Elf Counsel, as in Wise Counsel, and Unread, you know, as in Poorly Counseled.
	So Ethelred, the Wise Counsel who's got Poor Counsel.
	But yeah, Boris the Unready is surprisingly accurate.
	Anyway, Student of History says, imagine being her trying to say, I've done as much as you for Britain, to a World War II RAF pilot or a seaman in the Royal Navy or a veteran of the Falklands War.
	Someone would be losing their head.
	I mean, it's just staggering.
	Like, Nazarene, what have you done with your life?
	Yeah, I've colonised your country.
	I used to live in Sudan and call black people the N-word.
	Yeah, you've done.
	I've done as much for Britain as anyone!
	But Alpha of the Beta has got a good point here.
	If you do not own your country, and in fact foreigners own it more, as a nation we become dispossessed and homeless.
	Will the act of dispossession and homelessness finally make us worthy of our own country because we lost it?
	Let my people go.
	If I'm a foreigner in my own country, then surely I have as much right to this country as any other foreigner.
	But isn't this, like, it's not the whole, but, like, part of the argument for the creation of Israel?
	It's like, we were dispossessed by it, therefore we deserve it back, is the argument?
	Are we going to be doing that in 10, 20 years?
	Well, no, so they don't ever make that argument against the Kurds.
	You don't have a right to Kurdistan.
	Yeah.
	Everyone says they have a right to Kurdistan, just not now.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And don't get me wrong, I think they have a right to Kurdistan.
	But then I think the British have a right to Britain.
	Because I support the UN. Anyway, Free Will says, of course if you start taking belongings off people on a whim, then they don't be surprised when things get unpleasant.
	A lot of people, including me, will not let it pass.
	Paul says, when I was last in London, I couldn't find an English pub.
	They do exist, you just have to go to the right parts of England.
	London.
	And England.
	Not even joking.
	Anyway, Joseph says, literally the national version of the poem, Your Name.
	We can't reform France this part.
	You got it from your father, it was the best he could give, and right gladly he bestowed it.
	It is yours while you live.
	You may lose the watch he gave you, another you may claim, but remember when you're tempted to be careful of his name.
	That's nice.
	That's good.
	Free Will again says, if Boris had one-tenth of this guy's spirit, it would be in the best place, but Boris is a globalist blob.
	Correct.
	Yeah, rather embarrassingly, Eric Zuma did the interview this morning and he compared himself to Boris, and it was on the basis that they were both journalists, they both talked about the problems of immigration and whatnot.
	I think Eric might not know much about Boris.
	Yeah, but one of you isn't a cuck.
	His wife is.
	Making him a chat.
	Yes.
	Will says, I can no longer tell the difference between Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and London.
	So is Boris's wife.
	Remember?
	Oh yeah.
	Because Boris had no relationship.
	Eric better not sell out.
	These are cesspits all our politicians can swim in.
	They have no care for our cultures because they've forgotten what those cultures look like.
	And this is what's so disappointing about Boris, because if you go back 10 years, Boris is actually a genuine English patriot.
	He really seemed to be anyway.
	Honestly, it's so disappointing.
	Well, we saw...
	It's hard to tell these things because it's office politics, essentially.
	But there was Dominic Cummings who released some text messages and emails he had with Boris.
	Like, the first month or whatever they were in, and they were getting...
	Like, Brexit was being sorted out by his ministers.
	He was just kind of bored.
	And he messaged Dominic saying, Hey, do you think I could go off and write a book about Churchill or something?
	Because I'm bored.
	I don't want to do writing again.
	And Dominic just messaged back, No, I think most people want the Prime Minister to be the Prime Minister.
	If you don't mind, Boris.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I don't know why they're just so blunt.
	It's just like, you're a fucking idiot.
	I mean, on the plus side, Boris, you're the one in charge, so you get to set the agenda.
	So if you're like, look, I think we need a Churchillian Britain here.
	Do it!
	We're all waiting!
	That sounds great!
	You know?
	They've been screeching about Churchill being a racist for ages, so let's see what happens.
	Anyway, Ignacio says, illegal immigrants will cry their eyes out while telling you they can't regularise the situation or they have no legal way in.
	That's for a reason.
	You don't deserve to get in.
	And if you are in and can't get papers, you should never have been there in the first place.
	And we should deport you.
	How many deportations have there been?
	Bugger all.
	Five.
	Wait, do you mean from the channel migrants?
	Yeah, from Britain.
	I think it's literally been five.
	Fantastic.
	Like, literally that many.
	Of those who are proven to be fake asylum seekers, when I saw the home of latest statistics, I think it's like 60%.
	Yeah.
	We just lose.
	They're just random people in this country now.
	No idea where they are.
	Not paying taxes.
	Well, yeah, yeah.
	Grant says, unreal how good that speech was in French.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's unreal how good that was.
	The English translation was just lacking, and I feel sorry if you've had to read it.
	No, no, no, no, don't, because it definitely pulled a bunch of my heartstrings, man.
	I was feeling it.
	I was genuinely feeling it.
	Like, if this guy doesn't win, that's a sad, sad thing.
	I sincerely hope Macron doesn't skate by again, but given the vote show for him, Le Pen may be able to win.
	Well, I mean, better than Macron.
	I don't know.
	I don't think Le Pen's done anything wrong, as far as I'm aware.
	No, no, no.
	But he's in touch with the soul of France, isn't he?
	I mean, quite frankly, if Le Pen's smart, you should turn around to that guy and be like, look, write every speech.
	I do.
	Let's join forces.
	Yeah.
	Well, they essentially will, because of the system.
	Right, right.
	But, like, you know, they must have some sort of vice president or something.
	Yeah, I mean, either way, this guy should be doing the agenda.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Felix says, It's amazing to me how the Zemmour speech resembles Nazi propaganda of yesteryear, minus the explicit pinning of blame on a specific group.
	Really brings to mind, and then one day for no reason at all.
	Hopefully the French are sensible enough to take the fighting for your national identity part without anything else.
	In other words, I'm hoping Eric Zemmour wins, because if he doesn't, whoever comes next will be quite interesting.
	Yeah, you could always say there's a ratchet effect here, couldn't you?
	But I don't know, I didn't actually find it very Nazi propaganda, because Nazi propaganda is strident, like angry and categoric and German, you know, whereas this felt to me like a romantic poem.
	Yeah, I mean, again, on the ideological level, instead of just the theatrics level as well, it doesn't have anything in common.
	No, I didn't fight.
	Again, I mean, this is the funny thing, like, Berber Jew can't really call him a racist, especially when he's arguing for integration into France on a cultural level.
	You know, he's not talking about race.
	France is good, and they're all just like...
	Yeah, but it's terrible.
	It's like, why did my parents come here, then?
	Yeah.
	Why are you all coming here?
	Why are they not in Algeria, my friends?
	Yeah.
	It's just like, eh, he's right.
	Anyway, Jimbo says, Jussie really helped those two Nigerian immigrants live the American dream?
	Yes, he did.
	Can you imagine being in Uganda and being like, one day I want to beat up a man and say, mark our country.
	Duffy says, Monsieur Zemmour's campaign ad was possibly the best thing since Trump's announcement.
	It proves that traditional nationalism, not all the world's jingoistic nationalism, is needed to save many nations' culture and way of life.
	Well, that's the thing is, I wouldn't even...
	I don't know if I'd call it nationalism.
	It's a kind of...
	I mean, I suppose there's no better word for it offhand, because it's not just patriotism.
	But it's just saying...
	The French adventure.
	Yeah, but...
	Yes.
	And it's the sort of romance of the country, and just acting in the interests of the country.
	Because everything that's being done is just acting deliberately against our interests.
	Whereas it would really be so much easier just to say no.
	But it's not acting in the interests of the country as a nation-state, but in the interests of the country, the people.
	Exactly.
	It's not the abstract construct of a nation-state.
	It's...
	The sort of patriotic reality of those individuals on the ground.
	I mean, you could see it in the localist language that he was saying, you know, the village churches.
	Yeah.
	These are the things we want defending.
	Again, deeply Burkean.
	It's fantastic.
	But got nothing to do with some supernatural, you know...
	It's nothing about a revolutionary future.
	That's the thing.
	It's a conservative past that they're talking about.
	Nor is it about a building in Paris in which the Emperor lives and he wants to control over every aspect of your life or anything of the sort.
	No.
	It is entirely about just leave the French people to be French and stop destroying everything about them.
	Yeah.
	Don't let us ruin our country.
	For the love of God.
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