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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters.
	This is episode 413 on the 13th of June 2022.
	I'm your host Harry, joined today by Carl.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be talking about the fact that the Rwanda deportations, if I can get that word out properly, are not going particularly well, and also about how remigration as a result Is inevitable.
	And then we're going to end it off with something a little bit, hopefully a little bit more cheery, with the state of modern entertainment.
	So, without any further ado, let's get into it.
	Yeah, so, Priti Patel's Rwanda deportations are not going terribly well, as we will explore in this segment.
	But before we begin, if you'd like to support us, go to lowseas.com and learn how Priti Patel is an inferior version of Marcus Agrippa.
	Uh...
	You think it's not relevant, but I think it might be.
	Because the thing about Agrippa is he was...
	Augustus was the sort of...
	I don't want to say front man, but it's that sort of thing.
	He was the name behind the beginning of the Imperial Roman Dynasties.
	But the guy who got all the work done was Marx Agrippa.
	And that's the same sort of dynamic that Boris and Priti Patel have.
	She's meant to be the hatchet man who's like, you know, right, I'm getting this done, I'm getting this done.
	She's been trying to be aggressive about it, but it just hasn't been working.
	I'll tell you what, Agrippa would have got it done.
	Go over and check that out.
	It's really, really good.
	Link in the description.
	Anyway, so let's begin.
	The channel crossings are out of control, and everyone knows it, and it's been this way for a while, which is why the Conservative government are like, okay, well, look, we're going to have to start deporting them to Rwanda to get processed and maybe stay there permanently.
	As Migration Watch have been tracking, this year alone there have been at least 10,000 people who have crossed illegally, which is 2.2 times the number reported for the same period in 2021.
	28,000 and 28.5 thousand came across in 2021, which was of course three times more than the year before.
	So this is just going up and up.
	And so since January 2018, 50,000 people have come, which is like, right, that's not great.
	And so the Conservative government, like, right, okay, we're just going to deport them to Rwanda, which, again, does sound like something of a punishment.
	And I approve of it because this is illegal.
	Well, I was going to say, yeah, I mean, the fact of the matter is that these people are breaking the laws with the first action coming into this country, and, you know, you can have as many open borders migration activists waiting there with their signs saying, refugees, welcome, that you want.
	The fact of the matter is the vast majority of the population, the ones funding the government, don't want these people here.
	Yeah, and it really is them breaking into the country.
	That's the thing.
	And we've tried everything.
	We've tried paying off the French government, which didn't work.
	And so, like, you know, there is...
	So now let's pay off the Rwandan government instead.
	It seems to be the only option we've got left.
	Because there's a kind of tacit agreement amongst, like, the Border Patrol, the police, and various other, like, institutions in the UK to essentially just kind of shepherd these people in for some reason.
	To let it happen.
	Exactly.
	The Home Office, the actual structure, the institution of the Home Office doesn't seem to care.
	And so Priti Patel is finding lots of resistance there.
	And okay, I believe that she is trying to get this sorted and that there is institutional resistance.
	And so the Rwanda scheme was the latest in the long line of attempts We're good to go.
	They might have been right about something for once.
	They may have been right, because it seems they appear to have picked up again.
	So, I mean, this was just in the last week this came up.
	And so, you know, the week before, 79 migrants were brought short Dover on the Tuesday and things like this.
	So it seems that these people are still making the trip and don't seem to care that, well, the government's planning to send them to Rwanda.
	In fact, we have actually something from a lady called Claire Mosley, who is the founder of a refugee charity called Care for Calais.
	We'll go to the next one.
	Can you scroll down to the date?
	I can't remember exactly the date on this.
	It was last month or something.
	Yeah, in April, right?
	At the end of April.
	She says that she spoke to 45 of the migrants in Calais.
	Again, not a dangerous place, Calais, apart from the migrants.
	It wasn't a dangerous place.
	85% of them said it wouldn't stop them coming.
	Well, yeah.
	I think the problem is that for a very long time, migrants have been able to see that no matter what bark the UK government is coming out with, there's never any real bite to go along with it.
	And I don't know if you've got it in here.
	Are you aware of, I think it's paragraph 16 of the Rwanda Agreement?
	No, I haven't actually read it.
	Oh, Mayatusi, when he was here last week, pointed it out to me that the agreement that we actually have with them isn't that we're just going to give them migrants and they'll process them or anything.
	It's actually a trade between us where we're also taking in refugees from Rwanda for some reason.
	So this doesn't actually seem to me to be a solution...
	At all.
	And I think a lot of people might have jumped the gun a little bit, ourselves included, potentially, in thinking that this might be a good thing to begin with.
	I am more than willing to put money on the fact that fewer refugees go to Rwanda to get sent here than come here to get sent here.
	Absolutely.
	Of course.
	And we're paying them millions of pounds for the privilege.
	Yeah, so this might not even work.
	It might not even be a good thing.
	But anyway, the reason that she says that the migrants would say things like, we've come this far, we can't go home.
	It's like, You're in France, though.
	You're safe.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You're not going anywhere, really.
	Well, you shouldn't be.
	Anyway, she says this, and this I found interesting.
	It gives you a window into the worldview of these people.
	The essence of being a refugee is that you've come from one of the most dangerous places in the world, and you've come from somewhere you can't go back to.
	I would have thought that refugees all would have liked to have gone home.
	That's the purpose of being a refugee.
	I had to leave temporarily, but ideally I'd like to go back to where I've come from.
	I like that they're putting almost an identitarian sort of framework on this.
	Yeah, it's an ideal.
	But the thing is, there are still millions of people in Syria.
	So why aren't they refugees?
	Why can they stay there?
	So this is basically nonsense.
	But anyway, as Al Jazeera reported, these charities are actively interfering with the plan.
	Care for Calais, Detention Action, and the Public and Commercial Services Union have all been engaging lawyers to submit papers seeking a judicial review of the scheme and an injunction to block the flight that's going out tomorrow.
	So, okay, then why is that law still in place, Conservatives?
	You control the UK government.
	You are the people who are in charge of what the government does.
	Parliament is sovereign.
	You can...
	It creates, enact, or repeal any laws you want.
	Get rid of this law.
	And they've been talking about doing it.
	They just haven't done it.
	It's like, okay, well then, you know, they'll say things like, it's vital that new government policies respect and uphold the laws we all have.
	As a society, agree to follow.
	Says James Wilson, the Deputy Director of Detention Action.
	Take it away.
	Take that thing away.
	Why are you letting him scupper your plan by leaving?
	And it's probably like the Human Rights Act of 1998 or something that's, you know, the thing they're using.
	Probably.
	But the point is, if the law can be used to undermine the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom, change it.
	You can change it.
	You're the ones in charge.
	Anyway, so they're obviously taking action to stop Rwandans from going.
	And after all of this, even with the government, this has gone to a court already, and the High Court has been like, no, they can fly out Rwandans, migrants to be deported to Rwanda.
	We're Rwanda Respecter podcast here, unlike much of the Labour Party.
	It's down single figures.
	Like, literally, like...
	Sorry, not single figures.
	Sorry, no, it is in double digits, folks.
	You'll be thrilled to know.
	There's at least 10.
	No, there's 11.
	Oh, wonderful.
	11.
	Brilliant.
	Out of the 49,000 who have arrived...
	Problem solved.
	It's just 11 of them.
	Even though it's legal.
	Even though the High Court has sided with the government on this.
	And the problem is as well, the 49,000, those are illegals, right?
	Yes.
	None of this even solves the problem of the vast amounts of legal migration, which, you know, I thought Brexit was supposed to mean Brexit, and yet we still don't seem any more sovereign than we were before.
	No, the Conservatives have in fact brought more people in for some reason.
	But yeah, they were planning to fly out 37 people to Rwanda, 37 whole people.
	Not like half people or anything.
	But obviously legal challenges relating to modern slavery and human rights claims have drastically reduced that number.
	What does this have to do with modern slavery?
	I have no idea.
	What are you expecting is going to happen in Rwanda?
	I have no idea.
	But then you get the sort of action from the refugees themselves.
	And I'm just...
	Completely unsympathetic, frankly.
	I really despise this, right?
	So as ActivePatriot has been sharing this around, a Syrian on the Rwandan deportation is currently being held in a detention centre, says, quote, If they try to deport us to Rwanda, we're all going to kill ourselves, either here before they take us or on the plane.
	I mean...
	I don't want to sound unsympathetic, but it's not my business what you do.
	Just get out!
	I don't really care, to be perfectly honest.
	To sound a little bit unsympathetic...
	And also, I don't believe you.
	I think this is you, just ginning up the human rights lawyers and all these NGOs, so they've been like, look, just tell them you're going to kill yourself, and then they'll have to let you stay.
	The thing is, this is the teenage girl route to solving conflict.
	It's saying, I'm going to kill myself if you don't do what I want.
	It's cry-believing.
	It is, and I don't believe them either.
	And there was another clip that was going around as well.
	They were like, oh, since the Russians went into Syria, we've had to flee.
	It's like, what?
	What are you talking about?
	Like, you're in France?
	Why don't you just stay there and collect French money rather than come here and try to collect British money?
	Because that's why you're here, really.
	Anyway, there are also massive, well, I say massive, but like definitely thousands of people involved in social media organizing to actively block The authorities from simply removing illegal people from this country.
	As you can see here, with a number of foreigners taking part in these protests, and this Reginald Popola, I think that's pronounced right because I've no idea, because he's an immigrant, and also a Labour councillor in London, And as far as I'm concerned, when I see stuff like this, it is openly treasonous.
	Yes.
	Anybody involved in this sort of thing, they should get out as well, as far as I'm concerned.
	What you're doing is you're aiding and abetting criminals.
	Yes, yes you are.
	And you're distorting the course of justice.
	But they're all there chanting at the police, let them out, let them out.
	There were conflicts between the police and the protesters at points, and it was just insufferable, because a lot of them are chanting things like, oh, we love you, and it's like, you don't know who they are.
	You love the concept of them being suffering refugees, and you love the concept of being either the white saviors here.
	Do you know what's interesting?
	Obviously, for anybody unaware, I'm currently reading a book that Carl got that's called The A Human Manifesto, which is a manifesto advocating death activism and other such nonsense.
	and there's a chapter in that that I had the misfortune of reading through written in post modernese as it was um that went over the idea of activism purely as a form of performance art the idea she states outright a number of times because she's doing it all on behalf of the anti-natalist movements or on behalf of animals that the activist does what they do uh without the understanding or comprehension of who it is that they are acting on behalf of because they Basically just because it makes me feel good to do it.
	These people don't know these people.
	They don't know that these people's situation is actively better here than it would be anywhere else in the world.
	They are doing it almost as a form of performance in the virtue signal way to say, I am a good person.
	You know, and you can see that in the looks on their faces.
	They've got these, like, weird smiles as if, like, they know what they're doing is wrong...
	But also, they know that they've got, like, the whip hand in this situation, as in, we're morally right to be doing this.
	But you're not morally right.
	I bet the fact that there's cameras filming the whole thing that they're doing as well is an extra element to them of being able to say, look at how morally virtuous I am.
	I'm standing up for the little guy, even though I have no idea who they are.
	They have no idea who I am.
	They probably wouldn't treat me well if I were to strike up a conversation with them.
	We don't share cultural values.
	We don't share cultural history.
	Ask the refugees how they define a woman.
	Ask them about LGBT rights.
	You might find they're actually a bit turfy and a bit homophobic.
	You know, like, sorry.
	You're selling them to me all of a sudden, Carl.
	Swap refugees for these people.
	Anyway, so there were, of course, this was just one protest in London where they were trying to collect an illegal immigrant.
	This is another one that Joe reported in Gatwick.
	I mean, look at this.
	The Home Office of Human Traffickers.
	It's like...
	The people arrived here through literal human traffickers, whereas the Home Office are actually just trying to enforce the laws of the United Kingdom.
	I mean, if we just redefine what words mean, maybe you're completely correct.
	It's not even redefining it.
	It's just being totally complicit with actual human traffickers.
	Because, I mean, look at this.
	Is this guy a nimby or what?
	You know, like, how many refugees do you think he has to live around?
	Very few.
	Exactly.
	It's unbelievable.
	I mean, it's human trafficking when they go somewhere else.
	When they come here, it's perfectly fine.
	Exactly.
	Human rights activists chanted no Rwanda as they gathered outside an immigration removal centre.
	Isn't that a bit racist?
	What's wrong with Rwanda?
	Is it because it's full of black people?
	Is that why you hate it?
	You're looking and going, oh god, a country full of blacks?
	They can't be sent there?
	That's immoral.
	Deeply racist.
	I disavow.
	That's been my question the whole time.
	When they go, we can't send them to Rwanda.
	Imagine what they'll go through.
	What will they go through?
	I saw one of the Corbynites...
	Rachel Swindon had written an article saying they're sending human beings to Rwanda.
	Human beings live in Rwanda?
	What do you think?
	Don't they?
	I mean, unless you think that Rwanda's populated by animals, you don't...
	I don't think that's due to you.
	I mean, Christ.
	What the implication is.
	It's like, you can't send human beings to Rwanda.
	It's like, ooh, you know, if I'd said that, I'd be in trouble.
	Anyway, so scores of demonstrators were outside the detention centre, and the detainees inside were heard shouting, help us and no Rwanda, in unison with the protesters.
	I can feel your pain, one protester cried.
	You can feel the grift because you're a grifter as well.
	You're a moral grifter and they're trying to get our money.
	It's just so embarrassing that this is all, as you say, so obviously performative.
	We know you're trapped in there.
	We are here to help you and to fight for you.
	You have to be strong.
	Dude, they illegally broke into the country.
	They can just go back.
	They can go to Rwanda or then get to France or something.
	They're not supposed to be here.
	There's such naivety in that position as well.
	The first thing they do is enter your country illegally.
	How else do you think that after that they're just going to start respecting the law?
	Exactly.
	Big law respecters are illegal immigrants.
	And the thing is, this just makes me think of the Lisa Nandy situation, where she was there going, oh, refugees welcome.
	And then after the refugees started harassing schoolgirls, she was like, right, can you stop giving us refugees, please?
	I was like, yeah, okay, well, you asked that.
	Some people need to learn a lesson the hard way, sadly.
	Yeah.
	But I love this.
	Another sign said, if fleeing danger is illegal, then the law is wrong.
	They're not fleeing danger.
	They fled danger ages ago when they arrived in France, and then they were safe.
	What is wrong with you people?
	You get verified checkmarks like this on Twitter.
	250 years ago, we transported people to Australia because they were vulnerable enough to steal bread.
	Let me go to the next one, John.
	Today, we've decided to deport others to Rwanda because they are vulnerable enough to seek safety.
	How we choose to respond to the needs of others is the mark and judge of our humanity.
	Oh yeah, the inhumanity.
	I'm trapped in Calais.
	People go on holiday to Calais.
	You have to pay to go there normally.
	You'd think, given the sorts of culture that they come from, that France's grey area, when it comes to things like the legal age of consent, for instance, would actually appeal to them.
	That wasn't really what I was thinking, but maybe.
	They're with the French intellectuals signing those petitions.
	I know what you mean, though.
	It's not even that when they get to France they're safe.
	The second they get into any sort of decent part of Europe, they're safe.
	They're safe in Turkey.
	Turkey's got millions of them and they're safe there.
	And the thing is, is the war against ISIS not over in Syria?
	I haven't really been paying attention to I wouldn't be able to comment personally.
	I don't really know.
	But like you said, there are still plenty of people living there.
	It's just mental.
	But like, you know, they're safe in France.
	Like, I don't know why you think there's some sort of refugee genocide going on in France, but there isn't.
	And so the question is, why do they want to come here then?
	Why aren't they happy in France?
	What is it about here that is so much better than France?
	I mean, surely it's not the weather, right?
	You can scroll down a little bit on this one so you can see the captions.
	Why did you want to come here?
	He's like, well, look, I've come here for a better life.
	Because there was war, we could do nothing.
	There's no war in France, you liar, right?
	So why here?
	I can create a family here.
	Oh, really?
	Really?
	So it's claim asylum in the UK, it's claim a family.
	And a little bit further in this, he says, well, I heard London is good to work.
	Right, there we go.
	You've come for me.
	I heard about London and the UK is good for life to work.
	That's why.
	So it's economic migration.
	Yeah, there's nothing wrong with France.
	It's not that he's in danger.
	It's that he thinks he can get money from working in London.
	And for all of the evils that I would say are caused almost directly by the welfare state, this being the massive incentive that it is for illegal migrants to come over here, and then the UK government's complicity in just allowing them to do so and not really doing anything.
	Don't worry, we'll send 11 to Rwanda.
	There you go.
	That's one of the reasons that I'm just like, just take it all down.
	Yeah, I mean, this guy's from Iraq as well, so he's not from Syria, but who cares?
	But anyway, that's the thing.
	Whenever they're asked, it's just like, well, I just want to come because I think it's going to be more beneficial to me than staying in France.
	Right, okay, well then you're a grifter.
	You're a chanter.
	It's like, no, you don't get to come.
	You get to go to Rwanda.
	That would be the best thing for the British people.
	But you don't care about the British people.
	It's about you.
	It's about yourself.
	It's just about claiming money from us.
	And the thing is, right, you get all of these insufferable leftist activists.
	It's like, oh, my compassion, my concern.
	It's like, yeah, when the British government are doing it.
	That's the only time you care.
	Because, say, when the EU was deporting refugees to Rwanda, you didn't care.
	You didn't even notice.
	You didn't raise a stink.
	There was no, like, social media campaign.
	You didn't go protest at Gatwick.
	You didn't go, oh, refugees, we love you.
	No, you were fine when the EU was doing it.
	In 2019, the EU started deporting people from Libya to Rwanda.
	Don't go wrong.
	Things are pretty dire in Libya at the moment.
	But you didn't say a thing, did you?
	Not as dire as in France, I guess.
	But anyway, this was...
	I mean, literally thousands of them were sent to Rwanda as well at the time.
	So, I mean, maybe they'll eventually arrive back here as part of a Rwandan refugee exchange campaign.
	Apparently so.
	Anyway, so let's move on to talk about...
	How remigration is inevitable.
	This is something that is going to happen, because as we saw in the previous segment, the chap going, well, I want to go to London to work.
	Well, what if there is no work?
	What if things are not getting better, they're getting worse, and eventually the economic collapse of this country will make it a totally unappealing prospect to migrants?
	And this is what Beau wrote an article about the other day, and it really got me thinking, because he put up this article on lowseas.com, Mass remigration is inevitable, and It is full of his wonderful invective.
	I definitely recommend reading it.
	The link will be down in the description.
	But he's absolutely right on this subject.
	And it's not that it's just, oh, they'll leave of their own accord.
	No, no.
	It is inevitable that they will leave.
	Because these people are just coming for the prospect of easy money.
	That's the only reason they're here.
	In the year ending March 2020, we had 700,000 people who came to live in this country, as Migration Watch showed.
	715,000 people were granted citizenship by the British government.
	Don't know why.
	Who cares?
	But as you can see from this, 400,000 left.
	So that's 400,000 people who are re-migrating already.
	So re-migration is just already a part of how these people look at their time in the United Kingdom.
	Well, it's completely transitory.
	Presumably, they came here, got what they wanted, including a citizenship for some reason, and then just got out.
	But at the end of the day, that still means that's a net 300,000 at least.
	Yes, exactly.
	Not as many who are coming in are re-migrating themselves out.
	But this is a massive number, and it's been cumulative since 1997, which is why there are probably something in the order of about 15 million foreigners living in England at the moment.
	Until, of course, the place collapses, and then they'll just leave, it seems.
	But, you know, when someone says, like, Turning Point UK, we're like, oh, a million legal immigrants have come here, so don't worry about the Channel Crossings.
	That's really a drop in the bucket compared to the numbers.
	You get things like this, full fact, like, oh, oh, There's no evidence one million people legally moved to Britain in 2020, 2021.
	Oh, they're referring to two years, not one year.
	And it's like, right, really?
	That's very interesting.
	Because they weren't.
	You know, I mean, Turning Point UK backtracked on this because essentially they jumped the gun on the government's own official immigration statistics.
	And so they had to kind of walk this back.
	Well, that was kind of silly, because if they were like, no, that's what we think it is, the events would have proven them to be correct, because the government then later released their own statistics in November 2021, saying, yeah, no, actually, we did grant 1.115 million visas.
	In the year ending September 2021.
	So that is just...
	I mean, from my opinion, even if full facts were correct, oh, it's only over two years, what difference does that make?
	There's no evidence it's a million.
	Well, we know it was definitely 700,000, and then the government's like, yeah, it was over a million.
	Well, I mean, once again, even if it was over the course of two years, like full fact, we're claiming incorrectly.
	It would still be ridiculous.
	Yeah, what difference would that make?
	That's still an unacceptable number coming in, and then the UK government just comes out and goes, actually, turning point, we're right.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And this is the thing, right?
	So they say 39% were for study, so we definitely know they're going to re-migrate at some point.
	So they're coming here, taking advantage of our universities, at least.
	23% were to visit, 18% were for work, and 4% for family, blah blah blah.
	And it's like, okay, fine.
	But the problem is, there appears to be millions of people here who are otherwise unaccounted for.
	The government don't actually know how they got here or how long they're going to be here for.
	As Breitbart reports, the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, like, so 1.25 million people have also appeared in the statistics that we don't have a reasonable explanation for.
	And, okay, where have they come from?
	It's just magicked up over a million people, in addition to the million people the UK government's letting in.
	It's like, what the hell is happening to this country?
	Like, do they literally want us to be packed in like sardines until basically people are falling off the edges of the country into the sea?
	Well, I mean, if you were to listen to Tom Harwood...
	I don't know why you would.
	But if you were to listen to him, only 2% of the country is built on with housing, so there's no problem if we just keep building and keep building and keep building.
	Who cares about all of the green pastures and countryside that we treasure so much in this country?
	Or we could just pave over it?
	I didn't move to London.
	London moved to me.
	You can see that walking around in Swindon now.
	But the thing is, the observatories say, we don't know who's arriving or leaving, who's here or where they are.
	Brilliant.
	That's brilliant.
	So there are millions of people.
	You don't know what the criminal backgrounds are like.
	You don't know what they've done wrong with them.
	These people might all be criminals who have fled foreign countries.
	We don't know.
	We don't know anything about them.
	There is absolutely massive uncertainty about what's going on with migration at the moment because all the data sources we normally use have been hugely disrupted, says the observatory director.
	It's unbelievable.
	Unbelievable.
	Look at the absolute just shambles that is the UK immigration situation at the moment.
	But also, look at the scale of it.
	The scale, like that's a city the size of Birmingham has just popped up in the UK. We don't need more Birminghams in the UK, that's for sure.
	No, that's the thing.
	If there's one thing we definitely don't need, it's more Birminghams.
	And so, okay, what now?
	You know, what is all this about?
	So let's, you know, everyone's like, oh, we've got a massive housing shortage.
	It's like, I wonder why.
	I wonder why.
	The government's sending in a million new people a year.
	Well, once again, it's embarrassing that the only people who seem to be allowed to go on more mainstream sources like the BBC are people like Tom Harwood, who will go on and say, there is a housing crisis in the UK. I don't know why.
	Something that everybody knows already.
	And then he'll go, in the late 90s, something happened.
	Play the X-Files music.
	Callum's edit on that was spectacular.
	Yeah.
	Fantastic.
	But it's the fact that it's just obscuring.
	To me, those like Tom Harwood are part of the problem, if not worse, because they are supposedly on our side, whilst obscuring and pushing it away.
	Tom Harwood is a leftist.
	End the story.
	Well, he claims to be on our side.
	No, he's a leftist.
	I don't care.
	Oh, no, I know, I know.
	He can claim to be whatever.
	Anyway...
	So the point that I'm making here is that remigration is happening already.
	400,000 people a year are remigrating themselves.
	However, the problem is that if you've got, you know, a bathtub with a plug this big and you've just got this much water coming into it, it's going to overflow eventually.
	And so the question is, why do these migrants even come to the UK? Well, Full fact again, in 2016, sorry, 2017 published this.
	Well, between 2010 and 2016, an estimated average of 495,000 non-British citizens moved to the UK. So you can see that the Conservative government, right, that was, you know, at the end of Labour's tenure and under the Conservative Lib Dem Alliance, you can see that under, like, Tony Blair, it was something along those lines.
	With, you know, about 200,000 leaving, 250,000 leaving.
	So it's a net gain of about 250,000 a year.
	But under the Conservatives, that has literally more than doubled.
	In the last year...
	I mean, 250,000 alone is ridiculous.
	Yes.
	As far as I'm concerned.
	The fact that it's doubled even more.
	500,000, and the Conservatives are like, yeah, but that's not enough.
	You're not like sardines yet.
	We really want to pack you in to these things.
	My shares in the housing stock haven't gone up enough.
	Yeah.
	And so, you know, the 190,000 a year would leave as well, right?
	So you've got, again, the re-migration has always been a part of migration into the United Kingdom, right?
	But why are they coming?
	Well, as they say, economic and labour market factors are a major driver of international migration.
	So it's not that they care that this country is going to get built like Megacity 1, which I'm going to do a podcast about this because I've got a lot more to say on this issue.
	So they say the most common reason non-British citizens reported for coming to the UK in 2016 was work.
	Just it.
	They're just mercenaries.
	They're just nomadic mercenaries.
	22,000.
	So half of them came for work, followed by those who came to study, which is 27%.
	And then family reasons were for 17%.
	So those coming with their families to work, probably.
	You know, the family is here working.
	Oh, I'm going to come and live with my husband, bring the kids.
	Something like that.
	Right.
	So it's just mercenary reasons.
	How's that good?
	Do you think it's good if the regular person in this country has a massive influx of foreign labour to compete with their domestic labour?
	Let's try and...
	I'm going to try and steelman this argument and say the typical leftist sort of argument of, well, if they weren't coming, we wouldn't have the people to do these jobs.
	But if they weren't coming, there wouldn't be demand for people to do these jobs.
	There you go.
	Well, the other thing, of course...
	We need people to do, you know, like, oh, because of X number of population.
	Like, the NHS doctor's situation is a great one.
	So, roughly, 20% of NHS workers are foreign-born.
	So, yeah, but that's roughly equivalent to the percentage of the country.
	Yeah.
	Like, if they weren't here, we wouldn't have a need for this 20% of foreign-born doctors.
	And I will also say, having had a recent experience in A&E myself, that I don't think just having more people running about or sitting around on their phones doing nothing in the A&E room, in the A&E waiting room, would actually improve it.
	I think it's probably some systemic changes need to be made in how the NHS is run.
	Also, of course, my own counter-argument to that point that I brought up would be that if we didn't have so many people coming in and increasing supply for the amount of jobs that are there, it wouldn't be pushing down wages.
	We saw this with the HGV drivers.
	All of a sudden, they'd be offering more for these particular jobs, incentivizing people to take those jobs.
	And that's another question.
	Why have wages been stagnating since about the late 90s, Tom Harwood asked?
	I don't know, Tom.
	I don't know.
	Is it something to do with massive amounts of competition for the same jobs?
	And so you've turned the market into a buyer's market.
	If I was the employer and I wanted just bodies in my banana packing factory or whatever it is I've got, it's like, well, I've got no shortage of people.
	I don't have to take care of them.
	I don't have to worry about it.
	I don't have to pay them well.
	Because there will be people there to do the work.
	It's not good for the British person who's entering into the labour market.
	But the thing is, I mean, things aren't looking good in the UK jobs market anyway, because it looks like the economy is on the verge of collapse, says Sir Alan Duncan, former deputy of the Foreign Office under Boris Johnson and Conservative MP. Does he know anything?
	Is he an authority on it?
	I guess not.
	Who cares?
	You know, it's just conservative MPs going, guys, I think we're actually on the edge of an economic collapse.
	Well, that's good.
	At least it'll deal with the immigration problem, won't it?
	Well, I mean, if there's no economy for them to come to, they might all go away.
	Fantastic!
	They're coming for jobs, Arno, Britain's in the middle of a maximum.
	I've got a fantastic jobs program for that as well.
	Building a gigantic seawall, that'll employ a lot of people, won't it?
	Yeah, that would.
	So this is one of those things where he's like, oh, of course we want to disadvantage Russia as an essential tool of war.
	I don't care about Russia at all.
	But we don't want to disadvantage ourselves.
	We fall in some kind of dystopian economic collapse.
	We are on the edge of that.
	We are on the edge of dystopian economic collapse, says Sir Alan Duncan.
	Oh, brilliant.
	That's just great news.
	Well, I mean, at least that means, again, the economic situation will be so dire, the immigrants will not get into that dystopian hellhole.
	Things are not going well, right?
	So there are five indications, as I wouldn't normally use the London economic, but this is actually quite a good summary of the problem.
	Five signs that were on the brink of an economic collapse?
	Maybe.
	This was in 2017, but things haven't got any better, have they?
	So basically, there's a savings crisis.
	There have been tariffs on imports between the EU and the UK because of Brexit.
	The Office of National Statistics in that year discovered that actually we don't have a surplus of $469 billion.
	We have a net deficit of $22 billion.
	Oh, fantastic.
	Good news.
	Inflation was hitting a five-year high back in 2017.
	You just think that's cute.
	Inflation was...
	Oh, there's an inflation crisis at 3% in 2017.
	In 2017, I could still afford fuel.
	Yeah, exactly.
	How naive and innocent you were.
	And they expect an interest rate hike, which is not good.
	Anyway, so yeah, fast forward to this year from 2017.
	And, of course, we have the cost of living crisis.
	So, I mean, like...
	You know, you can come here and work.
	Yeah, but you can't afford anything.
	I wonder what the deficit is now, given the cost of living crisis and all the inflation that's coming along with that.
	I wish I'd looked it up, actually.
	It didn't occur to me.
	Because the money printer Sunak has been going brr for quite some time now.
	Well, that's exactly it.
	It's like, look, I'm going to go to the UK to work.
	It's like, okay, and do what?
	I'm going to send money home.
	No, you're not.
	Because all your money will go on your rent.
	Because so many of you thought you'd come here to work that the money isn't going to be able to get spent in that way.
	So, as they say, rising inflation, tax increases, and soaring energy bills have been cited by experts as key factors driving up the cost of living in 2020.
	Brilliant.
	Amazing that we need experts for that.
	I mean, a lot of, say, the energy bills is because of government redistributive policies.
	So a quarter of your energy bill is for social concerns.
	It's just a secret tax.
	Basically, fuel costs and everything regarding any sort of energy and anything, that seems to have been massively negatively impacted by the net zero schemes that the government has been trying to push for years.
	Yeah, because the government is trying to fill the Labour Party agenda.
	That's what it is.
	You know, it sickens me.
	I mean, at least they're fulfilling someone's agenda, but it's just not the one we voted for!
	Yeah, I guess that's that.
	Because otherwise the Conservatives would be totally rudderless, and they'd be like, I just don't...
	We're the government.
	Honestly, I would actively welcome the Conservative Party to just throw their hands up in the air and go, I don't know what to do, and just leave everything alone?
	Because things would probably get better if they just stopped trying to meddle with everything.
	Yeah, I mean, I would be happy for them to basically take polls from the public.
	Just like, what do you think we should do?
	Well, the public's probably not going to vote for progressive agendas, though, are they?
	Exactly!
	That's why I prefer it.
	You know, I actually have more faith in the British public.
	If the Conservative government ran their government on essentially a sort of referendum basis, like, do you want us to lower taxes or increase taxes?
	Lower the damn taxes!
	Do you want us to increase migration or lower migration?
	Lower the migration!
	You know, like, people would at least be voting in that in the right way, I suspect.
	But anyway, so yeah, they think that the average household in the UK is going to be £1,200 worth off, worse off per year in the coming months.
	It's like, great.
	I love hearing that my money is coming down.
	You know, I love hearing that we're all getting poorer.
	Don't know why the migrants are going to want to come here, frankly, which again, at least the problem solves itself.
	So yeah, a YouGov survey came out and they found that one in five people are now struggling in the UK, which is bad.
	They found that the number of people who are struggling or unable to make ends meet has doubled in the last year, saying things like, I cannot afford my costs.
	I often have to go without essentials like food and eating.
	Oh, sorry, if you go down, there's a graph here.
	So here we go.
	So the dark red line at the bottom are the people who can't afford their costs and have to go without essentials.
	So you can see how that's gone up to, what, over 4% now?
	So it's 5% of people who just can't afford to live.
	And then the number of people, the orange one above, are those people who can only just afford their costs and struggle to make ends meet if they don't have disposable income.
	And so that's gone up to, what, 22% of people now.
	So that's nearly a quarter of the country who's just like, yeah, this is just terrible.
	And you can see, that's in a year.
	That's in literally a year.
	It's doubled how bad that's got.
	I'd put money on this as well, mostly impacting people who are younger.
	And poorer.
	Well, and poorer, of course, but it's oftentimes it will be people who aren't set up in the way...
	Yeah, it's not the boomers.
	Yeah, the boomers are fine.
	You know, I know plenty of people who are older than me, and, you know, I'm not going to hold it against them that they already had property in the 70s and such like that.
	It's just that the situation for someone like myself, for someone like Callum, for anybody in the office, really, is not looking good, for instance, if we want to own property before we're 40.
	Yeah, they bought a house before mass immigration.
	So they have a house.
	But anyway, so as I say, half of Britons say the household financial situation got worse in the last month.
	This is very recent.
	And 60% expect to be worse from a year from now.
	So is that right?
	Okay, that's really interesting.
	Literally, you've got like 4% of people saying it got better.
	So everyone's like, look, this country is going down, man.
	There is a massive and steep decline that's really happening very, very swiftly.
	So all we need to do really is telegraph this information to the work-seeking migrants.
	Say, look, this isn't the place.
	This is a sinking ship.
	In fact, it appears that you guys have capsized it by coming in such phenomenal numbers.
	And so now we're just going to have to go down with the ship and then hopefully pick up the pieces afterwards.
	And so once the collapse happens and the Conservatives are like, right, okay...
	Something might have to change at this point.
	You know, the migrants start leaving en masse.
	We can turn to the Conservatives, and I was going to say, persuade them to change, but I'm actually thinking take them to traitor's gate.
	No, I'm not going to carry on.
	I'm not going to FedPost.
	Hopefully the remigration will just solve itself, is what I'm saying, because we cannot expect the Conservatives to do a goddamn thing about it.
	Alright.
	And on that cheery note, time for something completely different.
	Let's talk about the dismal state of modern media and modern entertainment.
	But, before I go into all of that, if you want to check out something that is actually good entertainment and also very informative and very, very important for you to know, you should check out...
	Carl and I did a recent premium video analysing Matt Walsh and the Daily Wire's What is a Woman?
	Well, we just went through a few of the choice clips...
	Looking at how Matt Walsh is breaking down the ideology of gender ideology and then demonstrating as well how it's infected the general mainstream.
	Even if you can go out and talk to people on the street in certain cities, they will be spewing the talking points without even necessarily recognizing where it is exactly that it's come from.
	And it's all very important stuff to know, but one of the wonderful things about it is despite how...
	Dire and tragic, I would say, the situation is as a whole.
	Matt Walsh and the others, especially with the editing and production value, have managed to make it very entertaining as well.
	There are some good belly laughs that you can get out of the film, so check out our analysis of it, and also check out the documentary itself, because I think it's really good.
	As a quick aside on this, I actually think that Matt didn't go as deep into the ideologies he could have done because, I mean, a lot of it he's interacting directly with the person.
	It's hard to, like, consider what's been said and give it a sort of thorough analysis in the moment because you're being presented with some lunatic nonsense.
	And so one of the things that we do in this is actually take the time to go, well, look, look what they've said.
	Look what that assumes.
	Look at what the location of their interests are and things like that.
	And so we actually go into more depth than Matt is capable of doing in the moment.
	It's not his fault, but it was something I'm surprised he didn't do in the documentary as well, actually.
	That's true.
	I think he was letting the insanity of these people speak for itself, which is effective.
	But like you say, we go a bit deeper into the origins, what it is that the assumptions that are being made about the world are that's pushing this ideology.
	And who this serves as well.
	It's a very interesting question.
	But anyway...
	Yes.
	But, without any further ado, let's go a little bit further.
	So there is some good news with the state of modern entertainment.
	There is some actually good stuff coming out.
	For instance, the most recent Top Gun film, Top Gun Maverick, the sequel that's released over 30 years after the original, seems to actually be doing really well and is pleasing audiences who are very happy with the film, happy that it isn't going to a woke agenda, to the point where Rory's as well, written a review happy that it isn't going to a woke agenda, to the point where Rory's as well, written a review of it on our I'm going to read a little bit of it without spoiling the rest of it, but Rory does lament, of course.
	Before we go on, I've heard nothing but rave reviews about this, and that it's an explicitly anti-woke film.
	I wouldn't even necessarily say that.
	I haven't seen it.
	Yeah, yeah, the stuff that I've...
	I've not seen it either, but the stuff that I've heard isn't that it's anti-woke, it's just that it's not woke at all, and just tells a good story that carries on from the previous film and shows the characters' respect.
	But what I mean, when I say anti-woke, what I mean is, there's a...
	The Obi-Wan Kenobi series and just everything.
	I've not watched the Obi-Wan Kenobi review.
	I haven't, but I've watched a lot of reviews of it because they're more informative.
	But like The Witcher and things like this, there's a habit that Hollywood has at the moment of going, ah, you're a straight white male character.
	Yes, that's the framing around...
	That gets shoved to the side, and then a diverse woman of colour is now actually the main character.
	Same with He-Man, for instance.
	Same with He-Man.
	It's a recurring trope where they use it as essentially sort of like a Trojan horse, being like, oh, you want to watch The Witcher?
	You want to watch He-Man?
	Yeah, well, you've got, you know, diverse character of colour number 37.
	The Witcher, I watched half of the first series, was particularly egregious.
	Because The Witcher is an explicitly Polish franchise.
	And I don't know if you know about this, but medieval Poland wasn't exactly the most diverse place in the world.
	It doesn't even matter, because Cavill, A, it's called Witcher, and Cavill's Witcher was a very entertaining character.
	He's got lots of funny quips.
	He's usually the best thing about the show.
	Exactly.
	And you think, okay, but I want more of that.
	No, you've got to hear about this.
	Essentially, they're turning the subplots into the main plots, and that's the sort of expressly anti-woke nature of this.
	Yeah, that's true.
	That's because the subplots will be focusing on the ancillary characters who we've made a diversity casting out of.
	Exactly.
	And it's a way of bait and switching you on it, and I can't stand it.
	And apparently, like I said, I haven't seen this, but apparently that's not what's done in it.
	Well, this little bit I've taken from Rory's review explicitly talks about this aspect of the film.
	So, Rory does, of course, lament the lack of overt homoeroticism that was in the first one.
	Have you watched the first one?
	I haven't, actually, but I'm aware of the volleyball scene.
	It's...
	It's not gay, right?
	It's not gay.
	But it is something you'd say no homo.
	Yes.
	It was unashamedly masculine when it came out.
	And in retrospect, it's unselfaware about how it could be construed to look gay.
	Yes.
	So it is kind of gay in A little bit, but it's just big, buff men, half-naked, on the beach, slapping each other on the ass for encouragement.
	I don't know what's so gay about it, man.
	There's a kind of innocence about it, though, because I obviously didn't understand that people would look at it like that in the future, which is quaint.
	But anyway, sorry.
	I do appreciate that, but I'll just read some of Rory's...
	I don't even particularly like the original Top Gun, either.
	Alright, Rory.
	Thanks, Rory.
	Rory just interjecting there.
	So Rory says in here, he says, I
	don't know why Rory's using such fancy language.
	I don't know what that means either.
	Me neither.
	No, that's the French in him right there.
	Upon his return to Top Gun, yet her presence in this overwhelmingly male sphere is dignified and respected whilst the main characters remain firmly purposeful in their roles.
	Equally, there is no mention of race black pilots are present as equals with zero reference made to their historical plight or supposed subjugation under systemic whiteness.
	And doesn't that just sound like a breath of fresh air?
	Yeah, I mean, that's literally a return to, like, 80s and 90s movies.
	Think, like, Predator.
	Oh yeah, Predator and stuff like that.
	It's fantastic.
	They've got diverse casts.
	But it's just not brought up because it's not relevant to the story.
	I mean, the best thing about the whole Aliens thing is when the first one came out and, oh my god, what's the name who played Ripley?
	Oh, Weaver.
	Sigourney Weaver.
	Yeah, Sigourney Weaver.
	When she was cast, the role had been written asexually.
	There wasn't a specific gender.
	It was just like, let's see who's going to be the best to come in.
	And Sigourney Weaver was just like this six foot tall woman who came in and dominated the screen test.
	So they're like, right, she's in the Ripley role.
	It wasn't anything to do with, we need a woman for this.
	It was just like, oh, she's got the right presence and the right acting chops.
	It actually really works because of the confrontation with the alien queen as well.
	Oh, and the alien is the second one.
	It takes on that maternal role.
	Yeah, it really works.
	But anyway, as this was saying, this is exactly what I was talking about.
	Think of the return of Luke Skywalker in the latest Star Wars films.
	God, do I have to?
	Yeah, exactly.
	This broken, decrepit old man where Rey's just like, oh, I'm the new Skywalker now, basically.
	It's like, yeah, everything about it is about degrading and humiliating and sidelining.
	The straight white male characters.
	And you know that it's being done as part of a conscious attempt to change the way that media works.
	And so this is, as Roy's put out, a shocking breath of fresh air.
	I might actually go and watch it.
	I've got no particular interest, but I just want to see what it's like.
	It's what it's like to go back and experience good films.
	It's like time travelling!
	I'd say The Northman is also something I would recommend for anybody, because it really does not...
	Pander to anybody.
	It doesn't pander to anybody and actively leans into the morality of the times it's set in, that being that these people are brutal, and they like to go out and raid and pillage and rape people, and it's like, well, this is just what it was like back then.
	Also no black people, because we're talking about Iceland and Norway in the year 914, so, you know.
	Yeah, but it's just like, why is that wrong?
	No, exactly.
	Go make a film about the Zulus and don't include any white people.
	I don't care.
	I'd be actually interested to see that, but they don't do that.
	They have to take our cultural heritage and change that for themselves.
	It's like, celebrate your own cultural heritage if you want to.
	I'm stopping you.
	Shaka Zulu, we'll have to do an epox on Shaka Zulu at some point, because he was a madman.
	He's an absolute madman.
	He's like a Zulu Hannibal, but then he goes mad and ends up having to get killed by his own brothers.
	I'll talk about it another time.
	It's really good, though.
	And there's one other good thing that I want to talk about, which is a new tactic for destroying woke corporations, which I've seen.
	And I don't even think the film it's been used against is, as far as I'm aware, particularly woke, which is Morbius, which I don't know if you're aware of the circumstances of this.
	I can't understand how Jared Leto is famous.
	Has he ever done anything again?
	I think in the late 90s he had a pretty boy face.
	Sure.
	And he was...
	My favourite roles are when he gets horrible things happen to him.
	Fight Club.
	Like Fight Club, Requiem for a Dream, American Psycho, just where horrible, brutal things happen to the man.
	He's famous for being a sidekick bit part actor.
	Well, he also had 30 Seconds to Mars.
	I've never seen that.
	They're a band.
	They're his band.
	Oh, right, okay.
	They've got a few alright songs.
	Nothing too special.
	I just don't understand why he's a famous actor.
	Why he's a big name.
	So anyway, what was Morbius?
	I didn't watch it, but I heard people talking about it.
	Morbius was a Sony-Marvel collaboration.
	Another one on the superhero machine just being humped out one after the other, and nobody cared about it.
	It was some weird vampire film where it's like, oh, now Jared Leto is a vampire.
	Aren't you interested?
	No.
	Tell me more about being a cult leader.
	I think that's more interesting.
	Yeah, nobody was interested.
	It came out in the box office and bombed, and people started memeing the hell out of it.
	They started doing memes where they were like, oh, I couldn't believe the part where Jared Leto said, it's Morbin time.
	I can't wait for Morbius 2.
	Morbius, you know.
	Stuff like that.
	And what happened was the executives at Sony decided, oh...
	There's a lot of chatter about Morbius online.
	There's a lot of memes.
	This is only a good thing.
	I know, we'll re-release it again in the cinema.
	And they did this the other week.
	And just to read out here from this Newsweek article, taking Morbius' release into week 10, Sony's reissue of the movie didn't pay off, earning just $85,000 between...
	All of the theatres they released it in, I think somebody figured out that that was like $82 per theatre.
	So there was probably like three memesters going in.
	I can't wait to watch Morbius.
	And it made no money.
	And this edition takes its total domestic intake to $73.6 million, worldwide earnings of $163 million, which when you take the budget and the marketing and then the fact that they re-released it into account, means that this has been an absolute loss for Morbius.
	If you really dislike a film and enjoy that it bombed, just meme it into oblivion and watch them put it in the cinema so it can bomb again.
	What I love about this as well is this is taking now the form of sort of like the internet gaslighting Sony executives.
	Good.
	Like, exactly.
	Exactly.
	That's like, what do they want?
	What are they doing?
	Why are we failing?
	Every time, but we thought they liked it.
	You know, like, they don't...
	I mean, it keeps trending on Twitter.
	What are we doing wrong?
	Exactly.
	So I love the idea that they just have no idea.
	Like, they can't pin down what reality is.
	I mean, are we surprised that Hollywood executives don't understand what reality is?
	But now if we move on to the bad news, well, semi-bad news because the comic industry, as I covered in my very first segment, which is kind of a return to some of the subjects of that, covered the Western comics industry is failing, is falling flat on its face entirely, nobody's buying this stuff.
	But you can just see the intention and the goals of the writers of these supposedly once heroic and iconic superheroes.
	Although I think I've not got it in here.
	I know that in a recent issue of Batman, he just steps aside and lets Antifa deal with an issue with the police because he's like, ah, they're the ones fighting justice.
	I'm not needed here.
	That's not what Batman's about.
	If you've been watching anything...
	Antifa, big fans of The Billionaire.
	Yeah, I know.
	I mean, I think people have mentioned that Batman is inherently right-wing, just in terms of his attitude.
	He's very hierarchical.
	He should be.
	Yeah, and when you see the way he treats the Bat family, especially in the 90s, he is no nonsense.
	If they do anything, he's just, you're out.
	Okay, get out of here.
	But you can see the intentions of these people, like the Superman son of Kal-El.
	Batman's cis trans, right?
	Oh, no.
	When they revealed that Superman's son was now bisexual in a relationship with this...
	Pink-haired twink.
	Oh, that's what I really needed to know about.
	What's Superman's sexuality?
	And the writers have been going on about how him being an empathetic young bi guy is far more heroic than somebody punching a supervillain in the face.
	Well, how's that going to persuade the supervillain not to destroy the city?
	I don't know, maybe the supervillains dressed up for pride?
	I watch a few of the...
	Maybe the supervillains are allies?
	I watch a few of the Comicsgate creators, and the consensus that they've found is that basically the purpose of a superhero story is for the superhero to physically overpower the villain.
	Yeah.
	And what else are they there for?
	Why else does he need laser eyes and big, strong muscles?
	It's the climactic ending fight, after the emotional build-up that they have to have a physical confrontation.
	So, I don't know what Superman's going to do to the supervillain, the son of Superman even.
	Is he going to charm the pants off of him?
	Yeah, I don't know.
	I mean, he's bi, so it doesn't matter which one they are, you know, he can go for either way now.
	He shames him for being a racist, I don't know.
	Probably, but I'll just read a little bit of this article.
	Asked in hindsight, is there anything you might have changed or done differently during his run on the series, the writer, Tom Taylor, pointed to the apparently rushed display of John and his boyfriend Jay Nakamura's first kiss, asserting, you know, there were things that were like, okay, this has to happen by coming out day, which is a real thing.
	I looked it up.
	It's October 11th is apparently coming out day, so if you're in the closet, wait till October, then it's all...
	All for it, and your parents can't be angry at you.
	I mean, look at the calendar, Mum.
	You're not allowed.
	And I would have loved a little bit longer for John and Jay to be together before the kiss.
	But having said that, the importance of that moment far outweighs slight pacing issues, you know?
	So the message is more important than telling a good, compelling, and well-paced story.
	I mean, we've known this for a long time.
	All of Western media, for the most part, is basically just an arm of leftist propaganda.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So we have a young bi guy who also is just the sweetest, most empathetic, nurturing guy who doesn't want to hurt anyone.
	And I think that's far more heroic than somebody punching a supervillain in the face.
	No.
	Why?
	No, it's just not.
	You need to explain why that's more heroic when the guy is too busy trying to be empathetic and nurturing and lets maybe the bus full of schoolchildren just, like, fly off the edge of the bridge and the supervillain's laughing there.
	But oh well.
	I could read someone's Tumblr blog and get the same effect.
	But they carry on, bounding into comics points out here.
	However, though Taylor believes that readers truly want their main Superman title to focus on intrapersonal relationship drama of a pacifist teenage superhero, sales numbers!
	Pacifist superhero, great!
	Yeah, sales numbers show this to be far from the case.
	And, I mean, comics have shown intrapersonal drama for a long time, like Peter Parker, Spider-Man, for instance.
	The thing is, they tend to intersperse that with action scenes and story.
	So, according to sales reports, the most recent issue has not even charted at all, ever since Taylor's self-lauded series has failed to place in any rankings by either units sold or dollars made.
	So, seems like that's going great.
	So it's going to be less than 10,000 copies sold?
	Almost certainly.
	No one's buying this stuff because nobody wants this crap.
	Why would I? What is interesting about this?
	Like I said, this is just a Tumblr blog with art.
	And probably Tumblr quality art as well.
	Well, I mean, the art doesn't look terrible.
	But still, it's going to something terrible itself.
	It's a vanity project for whoever's writing it.
	Oh, it's complete narcissism.
	Speaking of that sort of thing, we've also got from the same interview, if we go to the next article, the Arrowverse is introducing a transgender hero to give queer children a superhero who will fight for them.
	And the problem is that superheroes are supposed to fight for all innocents in the first place.
	Nah, not anymore.
	No, not anymore.
	Sorry, you're not queer enough.
	Not the cishet ones.
	You're not queer enough to be worth my time saving so you can go burn for all I care.
	She looks like a total Karen as well.
	Yeah, they just carry on with all the same sorts of narcissistic talking points that you would expect.
	And the funny thing, I think, is that this does...
	because when you see all of culture pushing for certain things, and we've gone over before how it might have been Tumblr and Glee that introduced this into the mainstream in that article, you can go to the next one and see that there are people, like, look at the age of this person here.
	They look about 12, and the quote is direct from this.
	It was around 10 that I started questioning if I was bi.
	Since then it was a slippery slope.
	Am I bi, omni, lesbian?
	Now recently I'm like, am I pan?
	Now I'm starting to realise I'm queer.
	As if all these terms aren't just interchangeable with one another at this point.
	These are brainwashed children.
	And it's not just the schools.
	It's not just the institutions.
	It's the media they're consuming as well will be pushing this.
	Did you ever have a goth phase when you were young?
	I didn't have a goth phase.
	I had a, I'm more metal than you, look at my awesome spiked wristband phase.
	That's what I'm getting from this.
	I mean, look at their face.
	In a generation ago...
	They're wrapped in trans flags.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But a generation ago, they would have been wearing goth makeup and the heavy metal gear and stuff like that.
	This is so obviously a fad.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, of course.
	They're going to look back on this in 10-15 years and go, oh god, what was I doing?
	Look at me.
	The problem is that they do this, and the problem is that the slippery slope that they're on isn't just like the goths and such, where it's like, yes, they self-harmed, it was very bad, it was very detrimental to their mental health, and they will still have scars from it, but at least those scars aren't from where they've removed their breasts, for instance.
	That's true.
	The big scary part for me.
	And as well as that, we've had people like Matthew McConaughey working to push agendas for the White House, coming out and saying that he's honouring the victims of the horrific mass shooting in Uvalde by trying to upend the Second Amendment.
	I thought he was a conservative.
	He's been a centrist for a while, but it seems that he's a bit...
	Flip-floppy on the gun issue.
	And you can just see his Oscar-winning performance when he was giving a speech to the White House press secretary and stuff, if you just want to play this clip, John.
	Mayday wore green high-top Converse with a heart she had hand-drawn on the right toe because they represented her love of nature.
	Camilla's got these shoes.
	Can you show these shoes, please?
	We're these every day.
	Green converse with a heart on the right toe.
	These are the same green converse on her feet that turned out to be the only clear evidence that could identify her after the shooting.
	How about that shit?
	Yeah, so obviously he's talking about some pretty tragic stuff, but just advocating to take away the rights of Americans?
	It's not even...
	What was that?
	I know.
	It's a bit cringe, isn't it?
	But, like, what was that flourish?
	Like, what are you...
	I mean, A, right, kids don't tend to wear clothes because they've got, like, symbolic meaning.
	You know, oh, look, she was wearing these green conversations with her heart because she loves nature.
	She's a conservationist or something.
	It's like, kids don't do that for a start, right?
	So I'm calling BS in the story to start with.
	But like...
	Well, I mean, people have been pointing out that the shoes that his wife was holding don't seem to be the actual shoes that the girl was wearing as well.
	I saw that as well, that they are apparently props.
	But moreover, like, what's with this?
	You know, how about that?
	Like...
	I can only assume he wasn't given much prep time for this role he took on here.
	I guess so, but this is terrible.
	This is anti-persuasive.
	It's the sort of thing that really makes me lose quite a lot of respect for Matthew McConaughey, whereas before I thought he seemed like a good guy.
	And I'm sure he's a good guy in a lot of other ways.
	ways it's just a shame that he's decided to come out and shill for the biden administration yeah and and shill for their aims and agendas because i really don't think they are anything to do with america i mean yeah yeah sorry it's just this deceiver smile that he's got when he's doing it but he looks like he's lying and he looks like he knows he's lying yeah but it really it comes across if we go to the next bit where it's just got a little bit more about this where he goes uh responsible gun owners are fed up with the second amendment being abused and hijacked by some deranged individuals
	no they're fed up with the american government continually trying to infringe their rights of the second amendment and he reassured gun owners that regulations he's proposing are not a step back Yeah, what are you even doing here?
	Like, go and act in a film.
	Yeah, this isn't for you to talk about.
	And of course, just to wrap all this off, you can't talk about Hollywood for too long before you get on to non-serene grooming.
	And that's what we've got here with the latest allegations against Ezra Miller.
	Are you aware of Ezra Miller?
	I'm aware that he's being accused of being a cultish groomer.
	Well, it's not just that.
	He's also...
	I've been in a lot of trouble recently where he was arrested in Hawaii for harassing people at a karaoke bar when he got really drunk and then broke into their hotel room and threatened to kill a woman.
	And then when the police arrested him...
	Jesus Christ, alright?
	And this is the man who's presumably the only flagship star left for the DC Extended Universe.
	A few years ago, I saw him...
	In an interview with Gal Gadot, and he was like, yeah, we're going to break the cis-heteropatriarchy, or something like that.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And it was just like, right.
	And now he comes out as like a weird, rapey abuser.
	Well, I think the funny thing about Hawaii as well is that when he was being arrested, there's video of him walking along shouting at the police officers because they weren't using his preferred pronouns of they, them.
	I'm sorry, Mr.
	Miller, you should just try and murder somebody, but I'll try and be more respectful.
	But I'll just go through a little bit of this.
	So, he's been legally ordered to cease all contact and stay away from a young woman after her parents requested a protective order against the actor on the grounds that he used a variety of cult-like behaviours to groom their daughter beginning at the age of 12.
	And, bounding into comics here, do you use his preferred pronouns, but I'm not going to respect that.
	You...
	go away on that one.
	North Dakota Standing Rock Suze Reservation resident Chase Ionize and his wife Sarah Jumping Eagle filed a protective order against him with the Standing Rock Suze Tribal Court June 7th out of concern for the safety of their now 18-year-old daughter, Dakota Ionize.
	According to her parents, Miller took an immediate and apparently innocent liking to her upon their first meeting in 2016, at which time the actor was 23 and she was 12.
	Bit weird, bit sus.
	From there, they allege the two developed a friendship which saw the actor offers the young Dakota a variety of opportunities out of his own pocket.
	Such opportunities included flying...
	Totally innocent.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Flying her when she was 14 to London to tour the studio where Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was filmed, and two years later offering to pay her college attendance in Massachusetts.
	the latter incident of which Dakota's parents claim Miller would later use against her to create a sense of indebtedness.
	Dakota's parents further claim that as their friendship continued, the actor provided her with alcohol, LSD and marijuana.
	Very responsible, very cool.
	I mean, how is this not grooming?
	This is absolutely grooming.
	Getting them onto alcohol, LSD and marijuana.
	Putting her in a state where she's going to be very suggestible and very vulnerable.
	Making her feel special and then using it against her, things like this.
	This is all terrible.
	This is terrible.
	and that he exhibited what the couple described as a pattern of corrupting a minor, you don't say.
	Though it's unclear whether she accepted the actor's offer of monetary support, the young Suze tribe member eventually attended and subsequently dropped out of the Massachusetts private school in December 2021 and took up at least temporary residence with Miller in the aftermath.
	That's very strange, but...
	He's been grooming her since she was 12.
	And then all of a sudden, disaster strikes, and he's the first person that she runs to.
	Not looking good, Ezra.
	They carry on to claim that three weeks after detoxifying upon returning home, she ran away to reunite with Miller in New York, subsequently travelling with him to LA and Hawaii.
	Not only that, but they believe that she, Dakota, who previously identified as Wow.
	And they complain that we call them groomers.
	She responded to the filings on June 5th, taking to Instagram, this is the girl who is groomed now, saying, And I'm going to trust the words completely of a definitely not groomed and brainwashed 18-year-old here.
	She carries on.
	my comrade, no, the repeated use of the phrase comrade here, Ezra Miller, for the entirety of the aforementioned era, has only provided loving support and invaluable protection throughout this period of loss.
	Protection from your parents, the people who care about you, people who want to nurture you and keep you safe from freaks like this.
	Well, I mean, calling him comrade, they're communists, right?
	Of course.
	I mean, Ezra Miller was obviously a communist.
	Like, when he was with Gal Gadot, he was saying, oh, we're going to smash the 6th century patriarchy.
	It's like, yeah, okay, commie.
	Yeah.
	I am in no way or under any circumstances have ever been during my short-lived adulthood in need of a conservatorship.
	Okay.
	If you say so.
	My father and his allegations hold no weight and are frankly transphobic and based on the notion that I am somehow incapable of coherent thoughts or opposing opinions to those of my own kindred worrying about my well-being.
	I am now aware of the severity of my emotional and psychological manipulation that I endured while in my parents' home.
	Oh.
	Oh, yeah.
	He has brainwashed her to such the point that she thinks that it was...
	Well, they are transphobic, Harry.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I take it all back.
	What am I doing?
	I didn't realise I'm just on the wrong side of history, obviously, in caring about this young girl who's obviously been emotionally and psychologically manipulated, and also physically, given that he's been feeding her drugs and alcohol...
	Manipulated by some freak, some Hollywood freak, who has repeatedly gone on record saying, I'm a queer icon.
	I'm the guy with a polyamorous sexual gang of people that I consistently interchange sex with.
	It's just disgusting.
	It's just absolutely disgusting that this sort of thing goes on.
	And these are the people trying to set the moral standards for our society.
	So, reject it at all costs.
	Don't fund these people.
	Go watch Top Gun, because that sounds like a good time.
	But I love, as if in like a few years time, this isn't going to, she's not going to be like, oh, actually, yeah, he was taking it months.
	Oh, absolutely.
	How at that sort of age are you even supposed to be experienced enough to be able to recognise this?
	And it's just like, surely, are we not...
	The leftists would normally go, well, let's talk about power differentials.
	Okay, let's talk about the famous Hollywood actor man who's taking advantage of the 12-year-old girl...
	From some random reservation somewhere.
	Yeah, that he's just taking a liking to for some reason, who's now 18, and is just like, no, no, no, I'm totally the equal of this person.
	It's like, really, any left-wing analysis would say you're not.
	And you're being exploited by any left-wing analysis.
	Well, with the left-wing analysis, it's always exploitation unless we're the ones doing it.
	Yes.
	Although I wouldn't be surprised if they're going to be trying to distance themselves from Ezra Miller.
	Although, actually, I have seen some trying to defend him and be like, listen, he's just trying to liberate this young girl from her obviously oppressive parents.
	Okay, now what about breaking into the woman's thing and threatening to kill her in Hawaii?
	Oh, they were probably just not respecting his pronouns, just like the police.
	Exactly, it's not that he's mental.
	Anyway.
	Anyway, let's go on to the comments.
	Do we have any video comments, John?
	Wonderful.
	So this is just a follow-up to my previous video about jury duty.
	There were originally supposed to be about ten trials.
	They only ended up calling up about five or six panels of jurors.
	So...
	The rest of those, I'm assuming, were resolved with either some kind of plea deal or settlement, I guess.
	But I basically ended up spending all day sitting in a lounge waiting to be called on and not being needed.
	Do I regret it?
	Not at all.
	Do your civic duty.
	Well, I mean, I tell you, you couldn't hear that.
	I caught the last half of it.
	I assume it was regarding...
	Right.
	Yeah, you did some jury duty.
	Jury duty, yeah, yeah.
	Message me on Discord, by the way, Spartan, because I need to pay you for the swords that you made.
	It's still a long thing.
	Anyway, let's get to the next one.
	I want some swords.
	Can you get me some swords?
	They're pretty cool.
	Hey guys, I hope you don't consider this too much of a shill.
	I believe I've found evidence of CCP propagandists in our media here in America.
	I found it by accident while researching an essay on the political message of Squid Game, which I've posted for free on Substack.
	I hope Lotus Eaters will check it out, and I think you should look for signs of such reviewers in your own entertainment media.
	That's T-U-R-A-J dot Substack dot com.
	That sounds very interesting.
	Did you watch Squid Game?
	No, no, I heard loads of good things about it.
	Yeah, I thought it was a good show.
	I understand how people can take the communist analysis, and as far as I'm aware, that might have been intended by the person who made it.
	But I do think that, as with a lot of communist analysis like that, it kind of falls flat on its face because what you're actually doing is just condemning general human nature and the human proclivity for individual greed that can pop up under any system, really.
	Yeah.
	But I'll check that out.
	It sounds interesting.
	Yeah, I'll have to watch it.
	Good evening, fellas.
	I just finished the review on What Is Woman.
	Very interesting.
	We'll have to give it a watch.
	But something finally clicked in me about the psychologist, because I've heard that tone of voice before, and I think it was...
	I think it was something used to try to keep somebody as a child for as long as they can.
	Perpetually infantilize them.
	I wanted to get your thoughts on that.
	I think you're right.
	I think that's exactly what it's all about.
	Yeah, exactly.
	To make sure they can never really take ownership of their own actions and opinions.
	And the sad thing is that I do see a lot of people trying to talk, basically do baby talk nowadays, well into their 20s, and I find it insufferable, because I just look at these people and go, you're an adult, surely you should be behaving like one.
	You know what's really interesting?
	You know the two guys who are pointing and going, oh, at the thing, right?
	The beta leftist with the wide open jaws and holding whatever kuma thing it is.
	That's the face you make to babies.
	That's how you express yourself to babies.
	That's also how babies express themselves when they're surprised.
	Yeah, but they're not trying to.
	I realize I make those faces to my 18-month-old son.
	18-month-old son.
	These are the faces you make to children, and to babies specifically, not to other adults.
	So it's really embarrassing that they do it.
	With the picture of the, ooh, what emotion are they expressing?
	They're not expressing anything reserved, they're expressing like...
	Wow, look at the shiny thing.
	Look at the keys jangle.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	Look at the keys jangle.
	That's exactly it.
	And that's exactly what you're trying to put across when you do this to your young baby.
	And it occurred to me the other day when I was making those faces at him.
	Like, oh my god, these are the faces that make us.
	Oh no, I'm pulling soy jack face.
	Well yeah, kind of.
	Because you want to exaggerate your expression because then the baby finds it funny.
	But that's the thing.
	They're trying to do that to you, so they're trying to treat you as a baby when they're doing these soy jag faces.
	Absolutely embarrassing.
	Hey guys, made it back to the States, safe and sound.
	Killer flight, but what are you going to do?
	Anyway, this comment's really for Carl.
	I've really enjoyed your Politics of series over the last couple years, and I had a thought for you.
	Why don't you look into the John Wick series?
	Now, the first movie is just a non-stop running action scene, but the second and third movie are really what a bureaucratic government hopes to achieve, and I think you can do a lot with it.
	Hmm.
	I never watched John Wick because it just seemed like an extended action scene.
	You've never watched the first John Wick?
	No, no.
	I mean, the first one's the only one that I've watched, but as far as I was concerned, as the story contained in itself, that was all I needed to watch.
	Because it is basically one big action scene, but it's one big awesome action scene.
	The thing is, I'm not even against that.
	That's why I liked Hardcore Henry.
	Well, I think what might appeal to you more than John Wick, because, Josh, it was really nice meeting you, and I hope you don't disagree with me too hard on this.
	I actually prefer the film Nobody, if you've watched that.
	It's got Bob Odenkirk, Saul from Breaking Bad in it, and it's written and directed by the same people who were involved in John Wick, and he's just in a very similar situation.
	But it's got a little bit more of a family aspect to it, where he's protecting his family.
	It's honestly got a bit more of an old-school morality to it than lots of films that come out nowadays.
	And it was supposedly inspired by Bob Odenkirk's Home Was Broken Into.
	Oh, right.
	He...
	He felt the sort of powerlessness.
	So he wanted basically just a power fantasy story for himself where he could be in that situation and then go out and take revenge on those who intruded in his home and distressed his family.
	All that sort of stuff.
	So taking the very masculine protector role as the father.
	Well, I haven't seen that either, but I will look into John Wick.
	I've heard good things about it, so.
	Another video of the chickens.
	You can really tell the difference between the meat bird chickens, the layer chickens, and the turkeys at this point.
	And yeah, these guys are gonna be tasty.
	Yeah, they look delicious.
	And yeah, we've got them living outside now.
	And so once they get a bit bigger, we'll transfer them to a new pen.
	I'm hungry.
	Yeah, I'm sorry.
	Oh, no.
	Inside now.
	Get it.
	No.
	No.
	Many such cases.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Exactly, a bit of fun.
	I haven't played Left 4 Dead for ages, actually.
	Me neither.
	It's such a good game.
	Yeah, it's great.
	Hello, fellow Lotus Eaters.
	Adam here, long time watcher, brand new Gold Tier member.
	Just wanted to say hello.
	I've been following the Lotus Eaters since it started and it's really nice seeing it prospering.
	You are my main source of word protocol coverage at this point, so I thought I should take my part in sponsoring it.
	Keep up the gatework.
	Thanks very much.
	I appreciate it.
	That's a nice picture as well.
	Where is it?
	Where is it?
	No idea.
	Let us know where that is in the comments.
	Anyway, Stuart says, Question.
	Lawrence Fox will be launching something called the Bad Law Project for crowdfunding legal challenges to bad laws instead of having to wait for it to damage someone with the means and motivation to fight back.
	Your thoughts?
	I mean, anything that can try and push back against terrible legislation that's done actively against the British people?
	Sounds good to me.
	Seems like a great idea.
	That's the problem with precedent-based law systems.
	Essentially, you've got to wait for the wire to be tripped.
	That law was obviously a terrible idea.
	Why was it in place?
	Well, no one had tripped it.
	Well, now they have and they're suffering.
	What now?
	Also, the amount of terrible laws that were put in place during the Blair administration alone, Lawrence is going to keep himself busy for a good while, I'd imagine.
	Yeah, good luck.
	Anyway, Maureen says,"...a country owes you nothing when you're illegal.
	A responsible government gets rid of them and focuses on the taxpaying citizens.
	The West is not a charity.
	Letting a legal stay is an irresponsible thing to do.
	Favour your children, not some fortune-seekers." Honestly, I could not put it any more clearly if I tried, Maureen.
	That's exactly how I feel about this.
	The West is not a charity.
	To put it bluntly, illegals, just by their very presence here, are thieves, and by allowing them to stay here, the UK government is complicit in that thievery.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	They do not deserve to be here at all.
	Lee says, we saw a lot of re-migration from EU citizens working in the UK in the wake of COVID destroying their job sectors.
	That's a great point.
	COVID's lockdowns, yeah, I'm off.
	I mean, literally, and after Brexit as well.
	There was something like over a million EU citizens left after Brexit.
	There's a lot of re-migration going on.
	I thought they were here to enjoy our culture and take part in the national project.
	It's weird, isn't it?
	The first sign of danger, flee.
	Many are not here for the long haul and will run back home as soon as their opportunities run out.
	That's exactly right.
	Bleach Demon says, Yeah, they're like locusts, aren't they?
	Yeah.
	That's a good analogy.
	want they skip back home and live like royalty while native and legal immigrant populations are driven to poverty by artificially depressed wages and exploited resources how do you disagree with I was about to say, maybe we should go there and live like a royalty, but...
	Yeah, we get told off when we do that.
	I'll get some unjust comparisons, I think.
	Tom says, I work in a housing association in Yorkshire.
	I deal with processing applications on a daily basis, and I see people applying for social houses who don't work and are on 23k a year on multiple forms of benefits, more than I make on 37 hours a week.
	Bring on the collapse that usher in the libertarian future.
	I know, it's insufferable.
	I just want to end the benefit system, and I don't care if it takes economic collapse to do that.
	Just at this point, I just don't care.
	Honestly, if it means that we can build something better, I mean, if we can do an actual, legit build back better off the back of it, then, you know, I think that's a worthy sacrifice.
	I think the system that we've got right now is rotten from the core.
	Absolutely.
	But I just think Heinlein is right.
	Benefits just incentivise bad behaviour, and this will eventually lead to the Collapsed Society.
	So we have to get rid of it.
	It has to stop.
	And if it means that the collapse has to come first, then fine.
	Bring it on.
	Let's get it over with so we can get rid of it.
	Anyway, Supreme Duck says, if they came seeking safety, then they are safe in Rwanda also.
	It's a win-win situation.
	Why are people upset about moving refugees and re-migrating the refugees?
	You're absolutely right.
	I'm sure the Rwandans aren't going to break out machetes or something.
	And even if they did, not my problem.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's a long way away, you know?
	Oh no, if something bad's happening in Africa, oh, there must be a day ending in Y. Yeah, exactly.
	This is the thing, oh, you send us a round and we'll kill ourselves.
	It's like, yeah, that's not the threat you think it is.
	Ignacio says, I have a co-worker who's an illegal immigrant that got his citizenship that to this day is still proud to have illegally worked in construction with a fake ID for half the minimum wage and still has the gall to say that immigration does not affect national workers and calls us lazy for not working in these conditions.
	How can any socialist be okay with that?
	All the labor unions are like, yeah, we fought for your rights, we fought for your holiday time, we fought for your increase in pay.
	And you also fight for illegal immigrants to come in and undercut all of that.
	It's so insufferable.
	That's just gaslighting, as far as I'm aware.
	I don't even think it's gaslighting.
	I think they just don't understand.
	I don't think these are doctors.
	Well, maybe they are.
	These people are coming from cultures that are very different from ours, that have standards different from ours, and who would think that that would affect the way they interact with us?
	Edward says, I really want Elon to bring about the space change quicker.
	I'll go and migrate myself to bloody Mars.
	So I'd have to deal with leftists.
	Sorry, I didn't get enough sleep last night, apparently.
	Doing their best to sink the ship of state.
	Remember that when that was an option, if you didn't like the state of things, you'd leave and found a new city-state colony elsewhere.
	I'm really sad that we've no lost continents, though, so that can be an option.
	Yeah, honestly, I totally, totally understand that position.
	I am up for your idea of, like, re-establishing the British Empire just in space.
	Yeah.
	Henry says, Britain should only accept migrants currently in France if Macron declares on national TV in both UK and France that France is an unsafe third world s-hole country.
	I'll also accept von der Leyen saying the same thing about the EU as a whole.
	As a bonus, I'd request their tourist board change the slogan to Visit France, it's an s-hole, otherwise they can sod off.
	Yeah, until the French are willing to admit their country is obviously a failed project.
	And that it's dangerous for the migrants.
	Aren't the French like, well, hang on a second, what are you talking about?
	Of course they're not, because they want to get rid of them.
	But anyway, Baystate says, there's a simple solution here, put the activists on the plane to Rwanda with them, problem solved, bye.
	Yeah, they can act as human shields when all these human rights violations happen.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, Radjack was right.
	To be fair, Carl, if you were in France, would you want to stay in France?
	That's why the French are here.
	I don't blame them for not wanting to stay here.
	Yeah, but they have at least got a place they can leave to, right?
	Paul says, is there a reason that left-wing civil servants can't be fired?
	Yes.
	Deep, entrenched bureaucracy, and I imagine there's more to it than that as well.
	Yeah, there's probably various laws and things that the Conservatives could be repealing day after day until they can clear it out.
	And the fact of the matter is that most civil servants are faceless bureaucrats, that the mass public aren't aware of who these particular people are, so it's not exactly like you can...
	Mm-hmm.
	X Summer says, the invaders are always illegal and breaking laws of the place being invaded.
	Well, that's true, yeah.
	I mean, they are literally breaking into the country.
	So you can describe it accurately as an invasion.
	You know, not getting around it.
	Taffy says, remigration will not solve itself.
	These people are not here solely for the purpose of economic enrichment.
	Well, half of them are.
	That's the thing.
	At least half of them are.
	But there are people, as you say, who are here as an ideological invasion, and that is true.
	But it's not accurate to say they're all here for that, because half of them literally aren't.
	I will just say to answer your last bit, pretending they're here just for jobs is their way of calming the invaded UK population.
	I don't see that as a way of calming people.
	I don't see the sorts of people like myself and my generation who are struggling for pay, struggling for all of these things, thinking like, oh, we're just competing with all of these people as something that's going to calm them.
	I can see that it's got a little slightly softer touch than they're here to destroy our culture.
	Yeah.
	But two-thirds of the country think that Islam is a threat to British civilisation anyway.
	Which it is.
	So it's not like we need to raise the alarm on that.
	Well, I mean, we probably do, but anyway.
	But the point is, literally half of them are just here for jobs.
	So, you know, half of them will leave, which means it'll be down to, like, 2009 levels of immigration, where it's only half a million coming here.
	Oh, yay!
	I know, I know, it's...
	What a grace!
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Kevin says, new immigration policy suggestion.
	One, home office allocates X number of immigration slots to every country based on that country's population.
	Two, they produce a list of jobs you cannot come here to do.
	Then, as the immigration year progresses, you shorten the country list by reallocating each country's slots to countries who have people asking to come here and who are best qualified at the same time.
	You know, this is very long, and I would just say no.
	Here's the immigration policy.
	Can I move here?
	No.
	Anyway, the state of modern entertainment.
	S.H. Silver says, Well, that was the innate problem with Superman.
	Is that he is the strength.
	Like, he has it all.
	He's in Destructible Park.
	I mean, probably my favorite Superman story is All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison, where the point is that Superman gets...
	I think he gets flung into the center of the sun and is so engulfed in yellow radiation, as it is with the comic lore, that he ends up basically being poisoned by it and is told that he's only got 12 months to live.
	So that's a problem that even Superman can't punch his way out of.
	So it's like, how am I going to leave the world better than when I first came here?
	That was always what I found a bit boring about Superman.
	He can beat everyone.
	There's no one he can't beat.
	I will also say, with regard to the final girl horror trope, obviously we do see women, generally, instinctively, as more frail.
	But I'd also say, especially within classic horror and the slasher films of the 1980s, and this is something that's also pointed out in The Cabin in the Woods.
	I don't know if you ever watched that.
	I did.
	It's very good.
	I like Joss Whedon.
	I like some of the stuff that he does, yeah.
	He's just insufferable.
	Yeah, there is something inherently almost reactionary about the themes underpinning a lot of horror, especially given that it's always the whore is one of the first ones taken out, those who are practicing unsafe sex or too promiscuous, and then it's the boisterous jock, and it's always the one who is the pure woman who is left at the end.
	Apart from in something like The Evil Dead, for instance, where it's just Bruce Campbell saves the day because he's Bruce Campbell.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Right, okay.
	So General High Ping says modern entertainment is garbage.
	If you want to get real laughs these days, you're going to need to watch stuff like What is a Woman and Empire of Dust.
	Have you ever heard of Empire of Dust?
	I've heard of it.
	I'm not aware of it, though.
	Honestly, the most entertaining things I've seen in ages while not being made as entertainment.
	It definitely beats its morbing time.
	Michael says, don't even get me started on what they did to Halo and Master Chief.
	So I've never been a Halo fan, but I know people who are Halo fans.
	And I watched Archer's coverage of this, and he took his helmet off in the first episode.
	Wait, what?
	They did?
	Yeah, apparently.
	So it's not Halo?
	Yeah, exactly.
	So it's not Master Chief, because Master Chief wouldn't do that.
	It's literally what everyone has said.
	Have we done the welfare check on Chris Reagan?
	Well, I said that.
	We need to be important.
	That's why I was stealing it from you.
	Yeah, I can't imagine he's very happy with how it's gone.
	But yeah, no, it's embarrassing.
	And they're doing it on purpose.
	This isn't an accident.
	They don't accidentally not know how to make a Halo series or a Witcher series or whatever.
	They're doing this on purpose.
	Oh, I've just looked it up.
	I think Empire of Dust is where the It's All So Tiring comes from.
	Where the Chinese guys go to Africa to try and deal with some stuff.
	Well, they're trying to build a railroad or something.
	Yeah, and just dealing with all of the African natives is so tiring.
	LAUGHTER Egg Summer says, The comic industry does not understand that they've made supervillains who seek to destroy the degenerate corrupt society.
	Enfloored heroes who thought they were evil ultimately seek to abolish the greater evil.
	And Kevin says, One of the worst woke-isms of movies I've seen recently, The Equalizer, which is now being played by Queen Latifah, Wait, wasn't the equaliser the Denzel Washington film where Denzel Washington plays the badass action hero?
	Yeah, I mean, he literally says, so we went from Edward Woodward to Denzel Washington.
	I let the one slide because Denzel did a good job, but now the protagonist can't just be a POC, he must be a female POC. Oh, I didn't even realise that...
	Oh yeah, the Equaliser was something from the 1970s.
	I didn't realise Edward Woodward was involved in it either.
	Yeah, but I imagine that Denzel Washington probably did do a good job.
	Well, because he's Denzel.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So it's just like, but what a bizarre thing.
	Queen Latifah, didn't she play the mammoth in Ice Age?
	Like, the female mammoth in Ice Age.
	I've no idea.
	What a bizarre choice.
	I recognise the name, but there's nothing connecting it to anything in my head.
	Yeah.
	Lord Nerevar says, fellas, is it gay to go to the beach and play volleyball and slap each other on the arse?
	Wait.
	Well, one of those things is not like the others.
	And he also says, I wasn't going to go see the Top Gun Maverick because I assumed it would be woke, revisionist trash.
	Am I finally wrong about a Hollywood movie?
	Are we still in our timeline?
	Yeah, well, this is the thing I would, like, we don't have much time to go into now, but I was always thinking, like, okay, so how are these comics being funded?
	Like, it must be the Marvel movies and the DC movies paying for the comics now, right?
	Almost certainly, which is why I've got my fingers crossed for a complete collapse of the movie industry regarding it as well, just because it'll destroy the comic book industry along with it, and then maybe something good could take its place.
	I mean, I absolutely despise superhero movies at this point.
	I was never, like, a massive fan, but, like, you know, Iron Man was okay, the Spider-Man films were okay.
	The most recent Batman film was pretty good, to be fair.
	I quite enjoyed it, but for the most part, this whole production line element of Marvel's just got...
	We've got the next 20 years planned out of films.
	It's like, I don't care.
	Well, I'm not watching it either.
	Yeah, I don't care anymore.
	After, like, Endgame, I just stopped caring.
	Yeah, and I never really got into Avengers either.
	I've had to watch a couple of them with my son, and he likes them because, obviously, they're superhero films.
	There's bright colours and explosions.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I mean, I didn't hate them or anything, but on the plus side, at least Joker 2 is going to be done.
	Did it need a sequel, though?
	No, but if it's in the same vein as a sort of incisive social commentary that Joker, the original, did...
	Good.
	I mean, at least there's something subversive out there, hopefully.
	And on that note, I think that's all we've got time for.
	Thank you very much for checking out this episode of the podcast Lotus Eaters.
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	Until then, have a great day.

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