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	Hi folks, welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Friday the 15th of July 2022.
	I'm joined by Nick Dixon and today we're going to be talking about the Great Reset being underway, the Tory wars that are currently going on, and how the media has finally turned on Biden.
	But before we do, there is a live book club on LotusEats.com this afternoon.
	Where Connor Tomlinson and Harry Robinson will be discussing Michael Knowles' new book Speechless.
	That should be interesting, so make sure that after the podcast you go over and tune into that.
	Anyway, let's get started.
	The Great Reset is currently going on, and I think that the organisation that has underpinned what Klaus Schwab is calling it The Great Reset...
	It's essentially, the World Economic Forum and all of the organization they do with other institutions around the world is essentially responsible for the apparent collapse of everything that appears to be happening.
	But before we go on, if you want to support us, you can go to losesees.com, and if you want to work for us, we are actually hiring We are looking for a, well, more writers and presenters for content, but also a video editor.
	So go to lowseas.com slash careers if you'd like to come and work for us.
	And if you'd just like to support us and get access to all our premium content, I think the most relevant thing for this would be Connor's deep think on the ESG scores and how they're the World Economic Forum's mark of the beast.
	This is our ninth DeepThink.
	It's a really, really good one.
	Really worth your time to start putting all of these things together.
	I'll be drawing on a lot of these concepts and kind of glossing over them a little bit for the podcast itself.
	But if you want to know more, we've got more.
	Anyway, so let's begin with the Davos Agenda.
	So how do we know that this is the Davos Agenda?
	This is the World Economic Forum's headquarters in Davos, and this is what they call it.
	If you can get to the next one, John.
	The Davos Agenda is a pioneering mobilization of global leaders to shape the principles, policies, and partnerships needed in this challenging new context.
	It is essential for leaders from all walks of life to work together virtually for a more inclusive, cohesive, and sustainable future as soon as possible.
	This was last year in 2021.
	It's like, are you on board with this?
	Oh, I love it.
	I'm actually blocked by the WEF, one of the few people I'm blocked by, them and Piers Morgan, because I kind of went for it.
	Do you remember when they released that video in lockdown?
	Lockdowns are a good thing, guys, because they're lower emissions.
	Like, hey, bro, not so good for most of us.
	So I went hard on that and got blocked.
	Well, they've got a big list on here.
	This was from their 2021 meeting.
	And you can see just who's on board.
	If you scroll down, you've got a list of names.
	Ursula von der Leyen, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, Li Sen Long, Prime Minister of Singapore, Xi Jinping, President of South Africa, President of the European Bank, Secretary General of the United Nations, Modi.
	You can see that this is truly, like, the centralization of power and influence Informal power and overt influence in one organisation is remarkable.
	And of course you might be thinking, well, who gave these people any authority to do any of this?
	Who gives Klaus Schwab any legitimacy?
	Yeah, it's sort of become a symbol for globalism in general, hasn't it?
	I mean, that's what they are.
	I think it's behind it.
	Yeah, well, it depends who you speak to.
	Depending on who you speak to, the WEF is either this conspiracy that's running the world or a sort of rubbish think tank with big ideas.
	I mean, which do you think?
	Well, I don't think we need to call it a conspiracy because a conspiracy, definitionally, is hidden.
	This is all very much out in the open.
	It just seems to be...
	Go to their website.
	It's all there.
	Yeah, well, I am, actually.
	I went to their website and that's what I found.
	And so it's not a de jure, immediate sort of direct control that they have.
	What it is is de facto influence and sort of policy measures.
	And it's a kind of moral teleology that they produce that all of these world leaders sign up to.
	And so it becomes like a moral agenda.
	It's like, well, if we don't take control of everything, then the world will suffer for it.
	And you may remember this clip that was going around recently, actually, from Klaus Schwab back in February saying, well, look, I'm massively influential and I have penetrated cabinets around the world and half of the Canadian cabinet are my guys, basically.
	You can look this up in your own time because we're going to move on.
	Anyway, and so talking about penetrating cabinets, well, Penny Mordaunt seems to be one of those people.
	She's one of the favourites.
	I mean, Rishi Sunak is also one of these people, so I don't know why I singled her out.
	Basically, the Conservatives.
	Boris, as well, was an instrument of the WEF. So, basically, we're going to get a WEF government, no matter what.
	They've definitely penetrated Penny, but the question is, how many have they got?
	Because Boris didn't do some of the things they would ostensibly want.
	Because of the backbenchers, he rebelled against some of it, didn't he?
	Some of it, but he was still very much on board with that, I think.
	You know, I don't want to give him too much credit.
	And just, we'll briefly touch on Penny, because we'll come back to her in a minute.
	But Toby Young put out, he was reading her book, and it turns out that it's got a glowing foreword by Bill Gates.
	Brilliant.
	Full of praise for China.
	Relentless promotion of LGBTQ. Wants to ditch the MBE and OBE, which is the order of the British Empire.
	And thinks more hate speech should be censored.
	Great pitch of leadership for the Labour Party.
	Yeah, of course.
	And who's on the World Economic Forum website?
	That's right, Penny.
	Of course she is.
	Anyway, so let's move on.
	They've penetrated all the cabinets, but, I mean, this is just something that you're going to see further on in this segment.
	So what's next?
	Vaccine passports, perhaps?
	Yep, they want those.
	Just to be clear, again, what they are advising, bodies like the World Health Organization, but they absolutely think that vaccine passports are a good thing, because, of course, if you're going to be the world controllers, then you want to know who's traveling where, and, in fact, having...
	Really detailed information on literally anyone who crosses a border, assuming they'll even exist in the future, is part of this.
	But they say this in 2021 again, at the present time, the WHO's position is that national authorities and conveyance operators should not introduce requirements of proof for COVID-19 vaccination.
	But the forum, the World Economic Forum, is involved in the WHO task force to reflect on those standards and think about how they will be used.
	Did you ever see those documents that the EU had that actually they're obsessed with vaccines going back like 10 years, even before vaccine passports, before COVID, they've been obsessed with vaccinating the world?
	Big think.
	Anyway, so does the UK have COVID passports?
	Yeah, we do, actually.
	Some kind of informal COVID passports.
	Basically, you can get an NHS COVID pass if you want one.
	I mean, I've never seen one.
	And the government in the UK has been very iffy on it because, obviously, it's really anti-British.
	Really, really anti-British to do this.
	And yet they've been trying.
	There's been flipping and flopping over it.
	So essentially they were trying to introduce mandatory vaccine passables, but obviously people weren't going to have that.
	And so they ended up basically dropping it because I mean, in January, 2022, they were like, well, it's not mandatory actually for venues or, or anything like that.
	But it was for a period of time.
	So it's not...
	You can see how they've come close to crossing that threshold.
	But thankfully, we didn't have it maintained.
	But of course, the EU is not the same.
	Right.
	The EU is a lot more authoritarian.
	We can get the next one.
	Sorry, we only survived because of a few of our backbenchers who rebelled against it.
	So they are important.
	People are very cynical.
	I'm cynical, but they are important to have those people, because otherwise we'd have just gone full on.
	Absolutely.
	And that was Boris Johnson's government.
	But yeah, the EU have obviously got their digital COVID certificate, and your mileage may vary depending on the EU country, you know.
	Somewhere like Estonia might not be so hot on it, but France is very hot on it.
	Italy are very hot on these things.
	Very concerning.
	But basically they want the continual push to have more and more invasive rules.
	And so this is having effects.
	There was an interesting article posted by a John Hopkins doctor, a professor, sorry, Marty Makari, who's a professor of medicine, obviously, at John Hopkins.
	And he was like, look, the medical profession has been absolutely captured by this, and this is really concerning.
	So he published something on commonsense.news, which was fascinating.
	People are getting bad advice and we can't say anything.
	That's a bit concerning.
	They aren't following the science, according to these people.
	Now, I mean, are these people worthy of being listened to?
	Is this important?
	Does it matter that the NIH, the FDA, and the CDC are all hemorrhaging top staff?
	Well, they're quitting because they say things like, it's like a horror movie I'm being forced to watch and I can't close my eyes.
	One senior FDA official lamented, people are getting bad advice and we can't say anything.
	Yeah.
	Follow the science just means follow the script, doesn't it?
	It's one of these classic doublespeak.
	It just means ignore the science.
	Absolutely.
	It means do as the world controllers are telling you.
	And this is destroying these institutions from the inside out.
	At the NIH, doctors and scientists complained to us about low morale and lower staffing.
	The NIH's Vaccine Research Centre has had many of its senior scientists leave over the last year, including the director, deputy director, and the chief medical officer.
	Now, this is remarkable because you'd think these would essentially be lifetime appointments.
	Like, oh, you're the director of the NIH. Brilliant.
	Why would I leave that?
	Where would I be going that's better than this for my career and for what I can do in the world?
	But no, apparently there's an enormous number of jobs opening up at the highest level positions one scientist there spoke to them, who only spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of professional repercussions.
	This is deeply unhealthy.
	This is what an institutional capture by some kind of ideologically possessed force looks like.
	"So why are they embarrassed?" Well, in short, bad science.
	The longer answer is that the heads of their agencies are using weak or flawed data to make critically important public health decisions.
	Such decisions are being driven by what's politically palatable by people in Washington or to the Biden administration, and they have a myopic focus on one virus instead of overall health.
	We felt like we were a political tool a CDC scientist told us about the issue.
	That's interesting, isn't it?
	It's almost like there's a worldwide political attempt to institute a kind of common way of doing things.
	And this...
	It's apparently, it seems, according to the World Economic Forum, what they've been asking for.
	It's what they've been pushing for.
	So I don't know what to tell you.
	You know, it looks like that's the case.
	Let's move on to the climate, shall we?
	You love the climate?
	Of course you love the climate.
	Everyone loves the bloody climate.
	Everyone loves talking about the climate all day, every day.
	And inclusion.
	Yeah, I know.
	What is the link there?
	It says, considering climate change, diversity and inclusion together can lead to better decision-making and improve outcomes for marginalised groups.
	What does any of that mean?
	It means we're marrying, we're intersecting the climates and non-white people.
	That's what that means.
	It's the intersection.
	It doesn't mean white people are not affected by the climate.
	You know, famously, we don't burn in the sun.
	Right.
	But the point is, it's about marrying two ideological agendas into the same agenda and pushing that forward because that gives you more momentum.
	Tackling climate change may be the most complex challenge we face, apparently.
	And so here's why diverse teams are smarter.
	It's just a good business decision to make diversity for the sake of the climate.
	They made this weird sort of conflation between diverse opinions, which is obviously useful in any room, versus just diverse skin colour.
	They're sort of merging it all together.
	It's hard to imagine that better decisions will be made by people who all have the same opinions just because they've got different skin colours.
	Right, right.
	It's really impossible to believe for me.
	But anyway, this is why we all need to be vegans.
	If we can go to the next one, you can see that we're all going to have plant-based diets essential to the plant's future, according to the WEF. My only question is, what about the bugs?
	Will they make the vegans eat them just out of spite?
	Because they're not vegan, are they?
	That's a good point.
	Which do they like more, the bug vision or the plant-based vision?
	To be honest with you, if it's plants or bugs, I'm going to take the bugs.
	You need that protein.
	I like to know that I'm at the top of the food chain.
	You're keto, aren't you?
	No, I'm at the top of the food chain.
	I will eat things that were animals.
	Yeah, just get that little feeling of power still.
	It's more spite.
	No, but joke aside, this is ridiculous, and I hate it, right?
	Yes.
	This is a Chatham House study that has been done, and they basically are like, well, as more forests and wildlands are cleared to grow crops and raves livestock, this is going to hurt the planet's biodiversity, is the concern?
	And so what happens next to the world's endangered wildlife populations rests in human hands.
	And the rise in popularity of plant-based alternatives to meat and dairy products offers hope for the future.
	You can see where the agenda is going.
	Again, this is on the website.
	And so what are the UK government doing?
	Well, we're paying farmers to retire.
	Just stop producing food, bro.
	That's not concerning.
	Think of the next one.
	The average farmer could receive a lump sum payment of £50,000, and some of £100,000, as a part of a massive overhaul of farm grants, incentivising farmers to protect the environment.
	That's right.
	So we're all going to starve, but at least we'll have lots of biodiversity.
	I've got a new slogan.
	You will sow nothing and you will be happy.
	That is a good slogan for the Weth.
	And this is why the Dutch farmers are basically in revolt.
	We've covered this previously, so just very briefly to go over it.
	Yeah, it does seem to be the Dutch government...
	They say bowing to environment radicals, but it's like, no, the Dutch government's at the very heart of this project.
	But the point is, they're complaining that there's ammonia runoff from cows that's going into the swamps, and that's reducing the number of mosquitoes in the swamps.
	It's like, oh, brilliant.
	I don't know, can't have fewer mosquitoes in our bloody swamps.
	And so the farmers are being told they're going to have to lose 30% of their livestock, which is a pretty big deal, pretty big news in the Netherlands.
	And so who's behind this?
	Well, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte.
	On the WEF website, because he's a part of it.
	We've been through the clip where he was sent a nice letter from Klaus Schwab, congratulating him all.
	That's a brilliant book you've put out, Klaus.
	And then he claimed he hadn't read it, which is like, yeah, I don't really believe you.
	And the reason I don't believe you is because you seem to be deeply embedded in this.
	I mean, here's an article he wrote in 2019, Why I Ride My Bike to Work.
	I love that.
	Because you're Dutch.
	Yeah, of course it is.
	Of course it is.
	And, well, he wrote in 2017 another article about the importance of water.
	What I love about this article, right, is water shaped my country's past, but it'll shape the future of all of us.
	Really, humans need water.
	I can't believe it.
	Breaking news.
	But listen to this.
	Not valuing water comes at a cost.
	It has, for instance, been estimated that if we don't find ways of managing water better, water scarcity might lower the GDP of some countries by 6% by 2050.
	Oh, that was my concern.
	You know, water mismanagement, it's going to lower the GDP, bro.
	Yeah.
	Screw the GDP. I know, it's all bizarre priorities.
	I mean, the farming thing is going to destroy Holland's exports, make them more poorer for some tiny, alleged climate-based gain that probably won't even happen.
	We may end up running out of food.
	Yes, there is that.
	It looks like famines are coming, frankly.
	You know, that's what I'm more concerned about.
	It's like, oh, but my GDP is like, no, I'm going to go hungry.
	But anyway...
	And they're going to replace it with glamping.
	Did you see that?
	The government believes that younger farmers will be more open to new, nature-friendly ideas and more inclined to seek income by diversifying into businesses such as camping or glamping.
	Don't they understand we need food?
	I don't know.
	Go glamping in this mosquito-infested swamp.
	It used to be a farm, but now it's not.
	Anyway, they've been doing this everywhere.
	I mean, you may remember that back in 2018, Sri Lanka was going to become a rich country by 2025, according to the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.
	At the time, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, because he was like, yeah, our economic policy, Vision 2025, is going to essentially make this country amazing.
	It's going to be brilliant.
	It's already delivering impressive results.
	The current government has created over 460,000 jobs and had more than 260,000 families secure homes.
	So what possible problem could this have brought up?
	This sounds like a brilliant plan.
	Fast forward to now, and the government has been overthrown, by massive protests, because of course, again, they were interfering with the food supply, and so they say, Hmm.
	Brilliant.
	The big brain world controllers have got it right once again.
	And so yes, the Prime Minister and the President have both been overthrown, and it looks like the World Economic Forum's plan there has not come to fruition.
	Anyway, moving on, what about religion?
	Well, it's suspicious it's happening everywhere, isn't it, as well?
	Do you ever think it's...
	It's not suspicious, they're telling us!
	They're telling us that they're doing this!
	I mean, he literally wrote an article on the World Economic Forum saying, I'm going to make this country amazing by 2025, and it effed up!
	Listen, we've got to get out of this idea that there's some sort of conspiracy.
	No, I know, I know.
	It's always been on their website.
	They call COVID a great opportunity.
	It's all there.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Anyway, so yeah, Pope Francis, of course, well and truly behind this.
	Look, you eating meat, that's self-destructive.
	Dutch farmers, get rid of your herds.
	You know, sorry, this is bad for the environment.
	And so, you know what, if it comes to meeting meat in the environment, the environment can go suck one.
	He sent this to the EU Youth Conference in Prague.
	That sounds terrifying.
	Guess who's on the World Economic Forum website as an Agenda contributor?
	Oh, that's right, the Pope.
	Great.
	Sorry, moving on.
	You know you'll own nothing and be happy, right?
	You're well aware of this?
	Yeah, that's why I said you'll sow nothing and be happy.
	That's the farmer update.
	This is a classic WAF line.
	No one could believe that video was real when it came out.
	Yeah, but it's not just one video either.
	If you can scroll down, you can see there are other articles and things like that talking about it.
	But this has been something they've been talking about for a while.
	So let's talk about the inflation, because it seems like inflation is deliberate and a way of making sure that you don't have anything.
	If you go to the next one, you can see, like a Biden economic advisor, this is part of an effective strategy against a pandemic, bro.
	We knew this was going to happen, and we know that they know this is going to happen.
	You've seen all the news articles of them going, well, I mean, no one could have predicted, maybe the inflation will go away.
	Maybe inflation is okay, actually.
	The great inflation cope.
	Yeah.
	Everyone knows.
	It's not like some mystery.
	This is actually quite bedrock economic theory.
	If you print loads of money, each dollar becomes less valuable than the last one.
	Everyone knows this.
	I'm not an economist.
	I know this.
	And then if you lock everyone down, you're still producing that money, but there's no actual productivity.
	Yeah.
	So the money supply is no longer tied to actual goods and services.
	So it's like, yeah, exactly.
	You don't need to be an economist to know this.
	But who's profiting, is the question?
	Well, of course, the answer is megacorporations, who are also on board with ESG scores and the World Economic Forum agenda.
	Massive increases for them, which is great.
	Consumer prices increased by 7.9% in February, but their profits have soared.
	Wow, good for them.
	I'm so glad that the top 30 companies are boosting their profits by $151 billion.
	You know, it was...
	Oh, yeah, sorry, I actually got these two the wrong around, John, so we can go to the last link.
	Remember during the lockdowns...
	The next one, sorry.
	During the lockdowns, of course, small businesses suffered.
	200,000 extra businesses permanently closed in America.
	Just in 2021, this was.
	Of course, it adds all up, doesn't it?
	But this is the point of stealing your wealth deliberately by locking you down for a virus that I'm not going to make any comment on, and then making sure that the megacorps are the only ones left open.
	Of course, they made record profits.
	This is not good.
	Anyway, so moving on, going back, in fact, to the previous one just before, and again, this is just one of those things, right?
	If you've got massive fuel prices in America, if you know that, well, I was going to say if you know that Supply and demand is the bedrock of economics.
	Selling oil to your rival is not an accident.
	This is not an accident.
	You wouldn't take oil from the US Strategic Reserve and sell it to China if you were thinking, what can I do to reduce fuel prices in America?
	I was also a bit concerned that it was their emergency supply.
	I'm no expert, but that sounded a bit dodgy.
	Yes, it's rather silly, I would think, but what do I know?
	I'm just a guy who runs a podcast.
	But the point is, this isn't accidental.
	This is completely on purpose.
	We are currently living through the Great Reset, and they will continue with this until they either completely fail and the system collapses, or they get what they want.
	Yeah.
	Sorry, I had to get through that quite quickly.
	Yeah, yeah, no, there's a lot.
	Klaus has put a lot out there for you.
	Yeah, yeah, it's all there.
	It's all there.
	It's all on their website.
	This doesn't exist.
	Except for these many, many sources on our website, yeah.
	Would you like a pamphlet?
	Yeah, all the world leaders go to the World Economic Forum and then just tell you, here's what we're doing to ruin the world.
	Oh, brilliant, thanks.
	That's how the pattern always goes.
	Gaslighting, it was like, you know, the lab leak theory and all that.
	It's conspiracy.
	Yeah, it's conspiracy.
	What about the website?
	Okay, it exists, but it's just a think tank.
	Okay, it's a think tank and we have some influence.
	Okay, we've penetrated everyone's cabinet.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, literally every world leader and the Pope.
	And, oh God, I can't stand it.
	Anyway.
	All right.
	Do you want to go on to the more normie section then?
	Yeah, let's go on to the normie section.
	Because I was actually thinking about WEF before I even knew we were covering it.
	Because whenever I talk about something like politics or the leadership race, all my replies go, they're all WEF shills, bro.
	And I know that.
	But my theory on it is, in the Matrix, in the original Matrix...
	Although he was red-pilled Neo, he was out in the desert of the real.
	He was eating the gruel.
	He still went back into the Matrix and flew around and shot guns, and it was fun.
	So that's what I try and apply, because otherwise you just live in that Duma world the whole time.
	Or you live in the Normie world, and both are kind of a little bit flawed.
	No, I think you're spot on with that analogy as well.
	Okay, maybe I'll write a brilliant article about it.
	So if you've been following it, well, here are the remaining candidates.
	We've got five left at the time of recording.
	It constantly changes, so there might be people going, you're out of date, bro, because it moves so fast.
	But last night we had the update where Suella was knocked out.
	We've got that video.
	And this will give you all the numbers as well.
	We're going to announce the results of the second ballot in the leadership election.
	As yesterday, I'll read the name of the candidate and the number of votes cast in each case.
	First of all, 356 votes were cast out of a possible 358.
	The numbers are as follows.
	Badenoch, 49.
	Braverman, 27.
	Mordaunt, 83.
	Sunak, 101.
	Fruss, 64.
	Tugendat, 32.
	Therefore, under the rules, Suella Braverman is eliminated from the contest and the others are able to go forward to a further ballot on Monday.
	I didn't know I was going to trigger you so hard, Carl, just the numbers.
	Yeah, just...
	Oh, God, the Conservatives just...
	Like, Senac is just the worst.
	And Braveman, I thought, was actually one of the better ones, to be honest.
	I was back in Braveman first, actually.
	I said on GB News that she would run before anyone else knew she'd run.
	I based it simply on this article here from May, where she said teachers should not pander to trans pupils.
	And it was one of those unnecessary articles, in the sense that, why are you sticking your neck out, saying an actually conservative thing for once?
	And I go, oh, she's running.
	No one else knew it.
	I intuited it, and she was.
	And she did much better than people thought.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I didn't know who she was, to be honest, so...
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, she's not that one, no.
	So she was a dark-course candidate.
	I thought she might, you know, come through, but sort of Kemi sort of took over the momentum.
	Now, I'm told Suella's very conservative in private.
	It's one of those annoying things where it's like, could you be in public?
	You're in the Conservative Party.
	Do you mind?
	Yeah.
	She's quite conservative in public, but even more in private.
	But an inside-type person who knows these things did tell me she was a bit daft.
	So, I don't know.
	Take your pick.
	But Farage thinks she's the only one that would have got a proper Brexit done.
	So it's not great news that she's out.
	But she's now backing Truss.
	She's switched to Liz Truss to the disappointment of her friend, Kemi, because her and Kemi were all best buds.
	They were in blue dresses together, having a great time.
	I think I've skipped that.
	We're going to do a video, but I've skipped it, but it's too long.
	But basically, she's now switched to Truss and she's saying she's the best person to unleash the opportunities of Brexit and deliver tax cuts.
	So they've all gone behind Trust because Trust is the more well-known candidate.
	Yeah, but also now I know she's a liar.
	No one thinks Liz Trust is the best for anything, at anything, ever, anywhere.
	Liz Trust's a moron.
	Yeah, they're basically getting behind to us because she's the only one that can take out the Sunak Mordant monster, potentially, from the right or the slightly further right.
	They're all communists, we know this.
	Yeah, they're all...
	It's not even that they're communists, they're the crap.
	Yeah, and it's getting nasty because we had...
	I don't know if you have that tweet, John, where they're in the blue dress, it doesn't particularly matter, but she's like...
	This is the only blue on blue you'll be seeing.
	But then Suella didn't back her, so she's very upset.
	Yeah, I like Kiki as well.
	Yeah, she's very smart.
	She's very interesting.
	We'll get on to Kemi.
	The other one that's probably going to go out next, who knows, may have gone out by the time we do this, or he may stick, is Tugunhat, who claims that he's sticking around.
	He's done a tweet saying, I've never turned down a challenge because the odds were against me.
	I don't plan to start now.
	See you at the debate.
	So he wants to do the TV debate.
	Steve Baker was hoping Suella would get to the TV debate because he said she'd do really well.
	He backed her, didn't he?
	He did.
	He backed Suella, yeah.
	Because I thought about maybe being pro-baker or pro-sweller, but when he backed it, it was a no-brainer.
	But anyway, now she's out.
	And Tuganhat, by the way, if you don't know about him, he's one of the few that actually did vote against vaccine passports, but he is a hardcore Remainer.
	Very much the left of the party.
	Posh son of a high court judge.
	Do that what you will.
	Doesn't particularly matter.
	But very big on military spending there.
	He's saying, I'd commit 3% of the GDP to defence spending...
	Former military guy.
	He's a neocon type neolib guy, but you can't be a neocon without a con.
	He threw Scruton under the bus.
	Sir Roger Scruton, our foremost conservative thinker.
	I will personally never forgive him.
	The video's too long, but basically, three of them threw him under the bus.
	Mercer...
	Tugendhat.
	And of course, James Brokenshire, whose surname sounds like the decline of England, the Brokenshire.
	You know what I mean?
	But they threw Scruton on the bus.
	And Tugendhat was the only one to apologise, to his credit.
	But for me, we can never forget.
	Yeah, no, that's...
	Oh, I'm sorry I did that terrible thing.
	So why did you do it?
	Yeah.
	And if anyone doesn't know the story, they sided with the New Statesman, a leftist rag.
	They instinctively went, oh, I'm sure the New Statesman is telling the truth about our best conservative philosopher.
	Why are you in the Conservative Party?
	That's a communist magazine, mate.
	But I'm sure they're right in this case, when they smear our foremost conservative intellectual.
	Sir Roger Scruton, oh yeah, what a nerdy.
	Yeah, so as Charlie Peters has rightly said in Spiked, anyone but Tom Tugan.
	Though not quite anyone, because not Penny, but let's see.
	Or Rishi, or any of the rest, basically.
	I've been doing them in reverse order of likelihood, so I'm going to be Kemi next, based on the numbers we heard in that first bit that triggered you.
	So we've got Kemi next, and I'm backing Kemi.
	My endorsement's obviously very important, and someone else who's much more important is David Starkey, who's also back, Kemi.
	Let's see what he said.
	When you look at that leaders board there, look at them.
	Beautiful lot.
	Do you have a favourite?
	Is there anyone in there that's kind of taking your fancy?
	Yes, very strongly, Kemi Badenoch.
	I think she seems to me to be the only one who actually is capable of thinking.
	Right.
	She's a completely different sort of voice.
	And I think we need a different sort of voice.
	The trouble is, Sunak is brilliantly intelligent, smooth, polished, and all of those things.
	But he went along with what I think is one of the great catastrophes of our history, which is lockdown.
	Totally agree.
	Yeah, I agree.
	The only, you could argue, hypocrisy is that Kemi voted for COVID passports and Starkey himself was bizarrely in favour of them in what seemed to me to be a kind of emotional over-attachment to the polio vaccine when he was a child and not understanding that this is not that kind of vaccine.
	I did see that as well.
	Yes, it was weird.
	He's a great man, but that was the one...
	I'll let him off.
	I'll let Starkey have that one, you know what I mean?
	Yeah, I can't expect him to have been on all of the anonymous internet forums we've been on to see the real truth about things.
	Shh, they're anonymous.
	Yeah, I know, I know.
	But he's a great man.
	He's from Kendall, same as me.
	I love Starkey, but on that one he was a bit off.
	But, to be fair to Kemi, they all voted for COVID passports, except Tugendhat.
	And Kemi was apparently privately against them, which Calvin Robinson has pointed out here.
	Kemi Bainot was one of the few people fighting against vaccine passports in government meetings behind the scenes.
	She had her back.
	Recently, she wasn't even bothered about turning up to these meetings, according to Nadine Doris.
	And he makes the fair point that she was bound by collective responsibility.
	It's probably whipped into it as it is.
	Yeah, yeah, and we've got another tweet where he says that somewhere.
	There we go.
	Kemi was against vaccine passports.
	Yeah, he's just basically saying he has to follow the party.
	And it's fair enough.
	The thing is, Carl, I get this a lot on Twitter, like, well, you know they're all pro-COVID passports.
	And I do know this, but if we're talking about this question, there's all these people that are bad, they're all for this thing, but which of the one is least bad?
	That's what we're talking about, so let's just deal with that question.
	You know what I mean?
	Pragmatically.
	Yes, which is the least poisonous of these options?
	Kemi definitely seems to be a preferable choice here.
	Yeah, and I like Kemi on a personal level because I was somehow let into the House of Lords the other day due to an admin error.
	Leo Curse was also let in, which marred the event somewhat.
	And you can see that Andrew Doyle was there.
	And I watched Kemi's speech from a few feet away.
	I didn't even know she was speaking.
	And I found her quite interesting.
	She's quite funny.
	Let's see this clip she did about women.
	The second thing you often hear is that the debate about free speech is a conspiracy whipped up to spark a culture war, or it's a cover for bigoted middle-aged white men.
	It's about politically incorrect nonsense.
	Well, I'm not middle-aged.
	I'm not white.
	And I'm not a man.
	And Tony Sewell...
	You sure?
	I'm sure.
	I am a woman.
	I want everyone and I know what's happening.
	So, yeah, we got a laugh and it got a cheer.
	And I said, I turned to one and said, like, where are we then?
	That gets a cheer.
	I know what a woman is.
	But that's where we are, and at least she's prepared to say it.
	Because she's quite big on the culture war.
	I mean, her initial...
	Oh, she's huge.
	Her initial pitch even mentioned Thomas Sowell.
	I mean, that's out there.
	That's based for a Tory leader.
	That's very good for a Tory leader.
	Yeah.
	So, yes, her problem is, of course, the party are not backing her, and it's going to be tougher.
	But...
	And of course, the left have nothing much to attack her with, which is where I'm going with this tweet.
	We get the input of Nigerian royalty here.
	Yes.
	Yeah, Dr.
	Shola, yeah.
	Yeah, and I think Callum played this the other day, but Dr.
	Shola's saying, Kemi is in a Tory race to be Prime Minister.
	Her power-grabbing ambition is rooted in discrediting and delegitimising anti-racism efforts, denying systemic racism, whitewashing British Empire, enabling white supremacy.
	I just love that.
	The black candidate is enabling white supremacy.
	But, like, does Dr.
	Shola realise that To the opposite.
	She's in a particular bubble where she's like, look, if I say all of these things, then people around me say, oh my god, Kemi sounds terrible.
	But people outside of that bubble might be like, oh!
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Who's this?
	Yeah.
	I hadn't heard of this Baden-Ock before, but she sounds great.
	And to Dr.
	Scholar's credit, systemic racism does exist in this country against white people, as we've documented.
	As Callum documents at length.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Can't get jobs, et cetera, et cetera.
	Literally, you can't apply to certain BBC positions.
	Yeah, that policeman was one of the few people to successfully sue.
	He actually did, yeah.
	Yeah, and of course, so all the weirdos are against Kemi.
	The fox killer is against her.
	I don't know if we've got him.
	Oh yeah, and he famously sent this tweet.
	Do you think the members of your party are ready to select a brown man Rishi?
	And he just got slammed for that.
	Rightly, absolutely obscene tweet.
	Oof.
	And I think I've got my tweet.
	Have you got my reply to it?
	Oh yeah, because he then doubled down and went right down the rabbit hole.
	And he says, I've also tweeted out a long list of people of colour who don't have a history of objecting to me or my work, who thought I was quite right to ask the question I did.
	And I just wrote, countering accusations of racism by Chex Notes, making a long list of people of colour.
	But you'll notice that no one in our circles ever talks about Rishi Sunak's skin colour.
	Exactly.
	No one talks about Kemi Beignock's skin colour.
	They talk about their skin colour.
	Exactly.
	And these conservative candidates are completely beyond that.
	They're just saying, here are the issues, let's talk about that.
	No one on our side cares, like you say.
	Their side's obsessed, and they look like idiots, and they're self-imploding, and that's the genius of these candidates.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, you could argue it's a bit weird that the white men in the Tory race are more to the left, and to be allowed to have conservative views, you have to be a woman ideally of colour.
	It's weird, isn't it?
	It is a game, to some extent.
	Yeah, but I've noticed that the more right-wing you go, the more Kemi Badenoch is favoured, and she happens to be the darkest-skinned candidate.
	But it's not about skin colour, it's about the fact that she clearly hates the left and she's going to destroy them.
	Yeah, but the cynical part of me, from within how the party might think about it, they might go, okay, we're not going to put forward Jacob Rees-Mogg, because he's an old white guy who has those views, so we'll put forward the softy Tugan hats.
	There's doubtless an element of that in the Conservative Party as well.
	Yeah.
	But just, you'll notice, I mean, in the commentariat, you know, the regular people, no one cares about the skin color.
	No one cares.
	No one cares.
	And the latest shocking tweet on this subject, didn't actually mention it, but Omar Jalili came out and said exactly what we're talking about.
	Latest Conservative Party members thinking, Suella Asian cross and a girl cross.
	You see Indian cross, but a bloke tick.
	What?
	Penny White tick, but a girl cross.
	Tugboat, I don't know if we can say that word, but then he has a go at Tom Tuganat.
	But it's not even a good tweet, it's semi-cahero.
	But he's not in the lead!
	It's nonsense.
	It's this bizarre projection again.
	The members aren't thinking like that at all.
	The members are thinking, who's going to deliver Brexit?
	Who's going to lower taxes?
	But if anything, with the sort of Rishi and Penny, it's the opposite.
	The fact that she's white is actually a demerit against her in the sort of identity politics sphere.
	But she's female, so there's that.
	Rishi, well, he's man, so that's a bit of a demerit as well.
	But he is Indian, therefore.
	You know that's the thought process that's going on in the Conservative headquarters.
	I know, but he's saying that the members are basically racist, misogynists who think like this.
	But the only people I've heard say this are lefties.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Everyone's like, Kemi Badenoch's really right-wing, brilliant.
	Yeah, and she totally triggers them.
	I think there was another one from a former Lib Dem candidate.
	Oh, I don't know if we've got that.
	Oh, whatever.
	There's a good one from Damien Counselor.
	He had a whole thread on these.
	Someone had posted all their mixed-race marriages.
	They'd posted, like, Kemi, I don't know, we might have scrolled away from it, but it's Kemi and other candidates, and here we go, how they have white husbands.
	They just posted that.
	We're getting into the interracial marriage.
	This is the deep racism of the left.
	They're complaining that she's a race mixer.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Oh, it gets bad.
	Right, okay.
	It gets bad.
	And not, you know, they've got Sajid Javid, they've got Fiti Patel, they've got Suellet Bradman, and they're saying, look, they're all mixed races, guys.
	And someone's replied to this thread with just the longest, like, list of sort of traitors.
	This is how they think on the left.
	Jesus Christ.
	It's insane.
	Like, no interracial marriage, guys.
	I'm like...
	Wow.
	Okay, yeah.
	Normally I have to go to 4chan for this content.
	Yeah, that's really racist.
	So yeah, it's absolutely shocking.
	And that's why she absolutely sends the left into an implosion.
	I don't know if we've got the Lib Dem one, it doesn't particularly matter.
	Oh, there it is.
	A former Lib Dem candidate.
	Get your immigrant offspring face off my screen.
	The ECRHR is probably the reason why you're in this country.
	Yeah, because Sweller Bradman spoke against the ECHR saying we don't really need it, or in its current form, and then this guy just...
	What can you say?
	Offspring face off my screen.
	I know.
	I might actually save that and make that my background picture.
	When you say it, Carl, like that, it does sound different.
	They're going to clip that out of you now.
	We told you about Carl Benjamin.
	Hey man, I'm just a Lib Denver.
	Don't shoot me.
	I know, this is where the Lib Dems are at, guys.
	It used to be so pleasant, the Lib Dems.
	It's all about little England, but not anymore.
	Lib Dems are the party of anti-immigrants.
	I love it.
	Mad, isn't it?
	I don't know if we've got time, but Chobe Young has basically summed up why this can be very strong in a general election.
	The second thing I'm looking at is, well, who can take on Keir Starmer at the dispatch box?
	Who can lead the Conservatives to victory over the Keir-led Labour Party at the next general election, which is probably going to be with us in 18 months?
	Well, I don't think Tom Tugendhat or Jeremy Hunt could successfully do that.
	I think that narrows it down to two, to Penny and Kenny.
	I think they're the only two who could really take on and win a general election.
	But...
	The difference between them is that Kemi is passionately anti-woke.
	She's proven her bona fides again and again.
	She took on the teaching of critical race theory in schools.
	She's taken on the trans lobby in her capacity as an equality minister.
	You saw today what she said.
	She's very pro-free speech.
	She's very anti-identity politics.
	So...
	There you go.
	That's the pitch for Kemi, basically.
	Yeah.
	He said it so I didn't have to.
	And the other thing he missed is that she's an engineer, which we've got a tweet about.
	You know, she wants to do things like...
	Oh, and she wants to shake up the Treasury and things like that.
	She actually wants to get stuff done.
	Thinking about it logically as an engineer, what can we actually do?
	She's actually smart.
	She's actually smart.
	That's what's unusual for Conservative candidates.
	She's the only one who can really think, as Starkey put it.
	Exactly.
	So, because we've covered that.
	And the only real criticism is a lack of experience.
	She hasn't been in Cabinet, but she pointed out...
	We don't have time for the video, but she said that...
	She's done two ministerial jobs simultaneously.
	She did it so well, no one noticed the other person was missing sort of thing.
	So she's on it, man.
	I don't really care.
	And lots of people, they're in the Cabinet.
	They're sullied by being in the Cabinet.
	I was going to say exactly that.
	When they say lack of experience, I think unpolluted by Westminster politics.
	Exactly.
	So that can be a positive.
	Question is, can she get through the party and all their shenanigans?
	Gove's back to some people think he's just doing that to split the right wing vote and later switch to Rishi.
	It's a Gove type thing to do.
	He might just like her.
	And there's pressure on her now to drop out in favour of Truss from Lord Frost.
	Urges Kemi Bey not to stand down for Liz Truss.
	And he's saying if we don't do that, Rishi's going to win it in the next one.
	And that's his argument.
	If the Tory right can't unite around a candidate, we should assume that could be PM by default.
	And that is a bit of a concern.
	Although today, I think it was Simon Hoare MP told Frost where to go.
	I don't wish to be rude, but who the hell is an unelected failed minister to tell any MP what to do?
	For some unknown reason, David Frost perpetually thinks we give a flying bleep.
	What he thinks, we don't and we won't.
	So I do like Laura Frost as these things go, but yeah, I don't see why Kemi should stand down really.
	They should back Kemi, I think.
	Probably not Trust.
	But let's get on to Trust.
	We've got a few more minutes to try and crack through these and have a pop at Penny Morden.
	Liz Trust has been weirdly quiet.
	All I've seen of her until recently is just this video of her failing to leave a room.
	We have this video.
	She basically does the speech and then she tries to get out at the end.
	I think it's vitally important, with increased insecurity in Europe and across the world, that we are putting our money where our mouth is.
	I will campaign as a Conservative, and I will govern as a Conservative.
	I can lead, I can make tough decisions, and I can get things done.
	I am ready to be Prime Minister from day one.
	That's basically her pitch, that she's ready, straight out the box, batteries included, does an unboxing video vibe, a reliable product.
	She's done it before.
	The thing is, she's an idiot.
	She didn't mention that in the piece.
	Weirdly, that wasn't her first foot forward.
	But like this, I will govern as a Conservative.
	It's like, well, you are going to become the leader of the Conservative Party, theoretically.
	So, like, what a sad state of affairs.
	That's the pitch.
	I'm going to govern as a Conservative.
	Okay, yeah, brilliant.
	Yeah, but she was really weirdly quiet, and I was wondering, if she's one of the favourites, what's she been doing?
	Well, I don't know.
	But is she launching now?
	Hang on, hang on.
	This might be strategic, right?
	Because the less she talks, the less people know that she's an idiot.
	It could be that.
	And it's also strategic in the sense that the frontrunner usually doesn't win in a Tory race, and Rishi's been out front, whereas Liz is just sort of...
	Liz, like I know her.
	Liz Truss has just been sort of launching now.
	Well, I call Kemi Kemi, but I call Liz Truss Truss.
	Yeah.
	She has now got the support of the ERG, though.
	We got that tweet, John, about the ERG. Here we go.
	Huge boost for Liz Truss's entire 60-strong European research group told to vote for the foreign secretary to be leader.
	And they've said, look, we agreed on this, let's get behind us.
	So that is huge that she's got them.
	It's a pity.
	I'd much rather they went, my thing is, why not just persuade Kemi to be more Brexity rather than persuade, in the future, the general electorate to try and vote for Liz Truss?
	She's going to get crushed.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	Just go with Kemi and say, Kemi, can you be a bit more Brexity?
	And then we'll all back you.
	Yes.
	Done.
	I mean, is that too simple, guys?
	Maybe it doesn't work like that, but they wanted Braverman probably because they're the Brexit Spartans, but now they've switched.
	But unfortunately, they've switched to trust rather than Kemi.
	Let's just do Rishi then, the obvious frontrunner.
	I'm skipping ahead.
	He's got the slick, competent demeanor.
	He's got the first name recognition.
	All that stuff.
	He did vote leave.
	But the fact that the frontrunner never wins.
	He also wielded the knife against Boris.
	Yeah.
	And presided over a dodgy economy.
	He clearly had plans.
	Yes, he had his video ready.
	Yeah, six months ago.
	Yes.
	And he's very rich, of course.
	He's got the non-dom scandal.
	I don't know if we've got time to play the summary from Toby.
	We could do it.
	I didn't particularly like what he did as Chancellor, though, you know, in his defence, I think he was one of the few people in the Cabinet arguing against a draconian lockdown policy over the last two and a half years.
	So he has that going for him.
	Notwithstanding, you know, what you think about his record as Chancellor, I mean, I think his shortcoming, as far as I'm concerned, is I just don't think he could beat Keir Starmer.
	I mean, he has too many negatives, you know.
	His wife's a non-dom.
	He had a green card until quite recently.
	You know, he's worth, what, 700-plus million.
	He went to Winchester.
	I mean, I just don't think those sorts of credentials will play well in the Red Wall, and it's sort of a gift to the Labour Party.
	You know, he's just a kind of, you know, he'll be portrayed as rich, out of touch, doesn't know what it's like to live in the real world, doesn't really understand the cost of living crisis, you know, contributed to that crisis by letting inflation get out of control.
	So I think for all those reasons, he wouldn't be able to beat.
	I really see struggle, I think, in a way that I don't think Penny Morton or Kenny Badenot would to beat Labour at the next general election.
	All right.
	Toby's pretty much done our work there.
	Nailing that.
	I mean, we'll skip the mob, but the Daily Mail's been having a pop at him saying that we'll skip.
	Yeah, that's just he wants to.
	He's high tax, really, because he's worried about the next generation having debt.
	But the problem is that means he's doing a very unconservative policy of high taxes.
	Pissing away our money.
	Exactly.
	And the funny thing is the Daily Mail for the last several days has just been running these pieces.
	When did Rishi Sunak decide to knife his old boss?
	Months ago.
	Yeah, and then they've got another one which is like, father's family fortune takes huge hit, rich dad, and also he's rubbish, his shares are going down.
	And then they've got another one about something like that.
	Is he losing momentum?
	So the Daily Mail are not keen.
	Mog's very, very not keen.
	I think we won't have time for that video, but he's very not keen.
	But I think we should just switch to get to Penny quickly because we have to just quickly destroy Penny because she must be stopped.
	I've started the Nevermordent movement.
	We have left the worst to last because she cannot win.
	I mean, obviously she's hot, right?
	That's a big advantage.
	Obviously, she's making us all think of, like, our domineering school mistresses.
	There is that.
	Do you ever have this with, like, you start to think, part of you thinks, like, maybe a political person is sort of hot, and then you sort of exaggerate, and you end up thinking, like, I was talking to, I was on Jeff Norcott's podcast, and he said, yo, I quite sort of fancy Angela Rayner, and I was like, she's no...
	My God, why does that keep coming up?
	I know, and I said, well, she's no pretty Patel.
	LAUGHTER Never into this ridiculous...
	And then you think, well, Mordent's the next level again.
	And that's obviously helping her, but...
	And she's ex-Navy, but she's ultra-woke.
	As you've said, she's WF. The most famous example of wokeness is this clip she did on the...
	Which we had...
	They say in proposing them from this dispatch box that trans men are men, trans women are women.
	And great care has been taken in the drafting of and the accepting of these amendments to ensure that that message has been got across.
	She had to walk all that back.
	And she walked all that back and then lied about it later.
	So it's pretty bad.
	One is bad that she's that woke.
	She tried to get this phrase pregnant people into this bill instead of woman.
	And then she walks her back and said, oh, I'm not really into all that.
	You mean literally a member of the Labour Party?
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's shocking.
	And the comments on Dad's Army were absolutely shocking, if we have that piece.
	She called it a full house bingo card of casual racism, homophobia, white privilege, colonialism, transphobia, bullying, misogyny, and sexual harassment.
	Oh, why did you think it was good?
	You get an accidental advertisement there.
	I know.
	Not just Dad's Army, but those general sitcoms.
	It was absolutely pathetic.
	I'm trying to get to the good one.
	There was that one from Toby Young that you showed before where she's full WEF. And there's another one where she lists another set of great things that are just as if they're bad.
	I'm sorry, I'm just writing through it.
	But she just basically says everything good is bad and vice versa.
	Oh, here she goes.
	I'll just read it myself, this Toby one.
	Toby Young tweet.
	She said this thing.
	She said it was long-term, male, patient, predictable, factual, planned, heterosexual, white, Christian, Western.
	She said all those things.
	They're all good.
	Yeah.
	As if that's bad.
	Yeah.
	Ain't half hot, mum.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so all that's shocking.
	She also loves censorship.
	She's pro the online safety bill.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	I've got too much to do.
	I thought we'd just end on that video of Lord Frost.
	He basically summed up the problem with Penny Morden in this video with Julia Hartley Brewer the other day and pretty much threw her under the bus.
	Yeah.
	Penny Mordaunt.
	What do you make of her as a potential Prime Minister?
	Yeah, so I have worked with Penny.
	To be honest, I'm quite surprised that she is where she is in this leadership race.
	She was my deputy, notionally more than really, I think, in the Brexit talks last year.
	When you say notionally more than really, what do you mean?
	So, I mean, she...
	I'm sorry to say this, that I felt she did not master the detail that was necessary in the negotiations last year.
	She wouldn't always deliver tough messages to the European Union when that was necessary.
	And I'm afraid she wasn't sort of fully accountable.
	She wasn't always visible.
	Sometimes I didn't even know where she was.
	And...
	I'm afraid this became such a problem that after six months I had to ask the Prime Minister to move her on and find somebody else to support me.
	You have to remember this was a time when we were in a major confrontation over Northern Ireland.
	It was extremely difficult.
	And I'm afraid we just were not getting the support we needed.
	And the Prime Minister agreed to move her on?
	Yes, he did.
	Are you saying that, in your view, as Penny Morden, as your junior at this time, Penny Morden was not up to the job?
	At that low level, do you then therefore think you should be up to the job of being Prime Minister?
	That was my view.
	I'm afraid if you're a Prime Minister, you've got to take responsibility, you've got to be able to run the machine, you've got to be able to take tough decisions, deliver tough messages.
	Anybody can be photoed in a video with, I vow to be my country, but it's what you do in practice.
	Are you able to be tough?
	Are you able to lead?
	Are you able to take responsibility?
	I'm talking only about my own experience with her, but from the basis of what I saw, I'm afraid I would have grave reservations about that.
	There you go.
	You get the idea.
	My sister...
	He completely threw her under the bus.
	And, yeah, he summarised it quite well.
	So, in summary, the whole thing, the candidates that are still there, I'd say Tugendhat...
	We can't forgive the Scruton thing, but he won't win anyway.
	I want Kemi, but it's tough for her because she hasn't got the party support.
	Truss would be better than Rishi.
	Rishi, shockingly, would be better than Mordent.
	And I think that's where we are.
	God, that's disappointing.
	And thankfully, at least Jeremy Hunt has gone out.
	That's the only positive.
	Yeah, well, there's a...
	Try to end on a positive there.
	Yeah, thank God he's gone.
	Anyway, let's move on.
	So it turns out that the media has finally turned on Biden, because at some point you've got to accept that the ship is practically underwater, and so what's the point in trying to continue bailing water out of the deck?
	Finally, is basically the name of the game here.
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	But I'll leave that as a surprise when you want to go through it.
	Anyway, so it's no surprise that the media is openly biased, but actually Pew have done a bit of research into this and surveyed a bunch of journalists, and it turns out that...
	Loads of them are really intentionally biased, and they don't even see that that's a problem.
	They say, Now, this isn't exactly breaking news for anyone who watches this channel.
	You're well aware that the media is massively biased.
	But it is nice to see that only 22% of Americans overall said the same thing, whereas about three quarters said that journalists should always strive to give equal coverage to all sides.
	And that makes sense, obviously, because if you just want to be informed on an issue, then you're going to want to know both sides of the issue.
	If you've got an agenda, if you're part of some sort of, I don't know, I think?
	TV's pro-Biden bias is embarrassing, and it's making us look like party apparatchiks.
	This is like North Korean levels of media bias in favor of the dear leader.
	And honestly, it's just so bad, but I think you can see it most and best in this clip of Van Jones on election night when Joe Biden was elected.
	Let's watch this.
	Van, what are your thoughts?
	Well, it's easier to be a parent this morning.
	It's easier to be a dad.
	It's easier to tell your kids character matters.
	It matters.
	Telling the truth matters.
	Being a good person matters.
	And it's easier for a whole lot of people.
	If you're Muslim in this country, you don't have to worry if the president doesn't want you here.
	If you're an immigrant, you don't have to worry if the president's going to be happier to have babies snatched away or send dreamers back for no reason.
	This is vindication for a lot of people who have really suffered.
	You know, I can't breathe.
	You know, that wasn't just George Floyd.
	That was a lot of people that felt they couldn't breathe.
	Every day you're waking up and you're getting these tweets and you just don't know.
	And you're going to the store and people who have been afraid to show their racism are getting nastier and nastier to you.
	And you're worried about your kids and you're worried about your sister.
	Can she just go to Walmart and get back into her car without somebody saying something?
	We can stop it, Alex.
	I think that's made the point.
	But you can actually see there is genuine tears on the side of his cheek there.
	The only part he missed is, and the worst thing is, I never learned to read.
	That's what it reminded me of.
	But that, I think, was actually real.
	And the fact that he actually cried when Joe Biden was elected and couldn't even speak properly...
	Literal liberal tears.
	Ben Shapiro was on the desk with a little cup gathering them up.
	Yeah, I mean, literally.
	But you can see exactly the complete lack and mask-off moments of, we're partisan.
	This is cheerleading.
	There's no sort of journalistic objective to neutrality.
	This is entirely regime media, basically.
	And so this was what was pointed out at The Critic, which I think is a good site.
	If you can go to the next one.
	They just said, look, the BBC, I mean, why does the BBC have an investment?
	Isn't that strange?
	Why were they so anti-Trump and pro-Biden?
	Well, it's all because this is part of an ideological position.
	They can't help themselves.
	Can I just add, in terms of the UK coverage of Biden, I was shocked the amount of so-called conservatives that were pro-Biden.
	Even Julia Hartley Brewer, who's normally pretty good...
	It was pro-Biden.
	I had to go about it on Twitter, and then she tried to say something back.
	He was the best one of the choices, and people then race showed her.
	Trump was.
	Trump was, exactly.
	You can't even use that argument.
	But even the great Douglas Murray has been a bit wet on Trump.
	It's like, just because, like, oh, he says bad things we don't like.
	You know, he says, like, rude things.
	Biden's the worst president of all time.
	There's no competition.
	And, like, this, like...
	I don't even know how to describe it.
	This kind of attitude, this hoity-toity attitude that we have in Britain towards Trump, it really annoys me.
	Because A, look at him.
	He's like the archetypal American.
	But if you're going to get an AI to design an American, just from what it's read about Americans in books, it'll look exactly like Donald Trump.
	I think you mean this.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It'll look exactly like Donald Trump.
	And that's so fun, isn't it?
	Exactly.
	It's good.
	It's wholesome.
	It's healthy.
	It's wonderful.
	It's an 80s America.
	It's everything we love about it.
	I know.
	They're just losing so much to these people.
	People in North London, who I know, they've got long Trump derangements.
	They still say things like, he's going to die in jail.
	He's not even president.
	Do you want to calm down?
	He's not in jail.
	It's not going to help your life in any way, but he dies in jail.
	And it's really going to come back and bite you when he wins next time.
	Yes.
	Even Sam Harris, by the way, when Biden got in, said...
	Yeah, he said the adults are back in the room.
	And then at least he apologized for that.
	He's like, sorry guys, they weren't back in the room.
	I'm eating humble pie.
	Yeah, no, I actually really like Sam Harris because he will do things like that.
	You know, he can have his opinion, but when he was wrong about it, he was just going to say, okay, fair enough.
	You know, I'll cop to it.
	But the thing is, then you get like articles like this.
	And again, this is from 2020.
	Back when Biden was elected.
	Again, it feels like a lifetime, but it was only two years ago.
	We need to be more honest on our reporting about Biden.
	Isn't that interesting?
	This article is basically this woman devoted to going, look, we've been lying about this.
	We've been lying about Biden.
	We've been lying in favour of this because we don't like Trump.
	And it actually is not good.
	Literally, we might be doing everything we can to get rid of a dangerous president, but in doing so, we set a dangerous precedent.
	But of course, this is totally disingenuous because they're trying to get rid of another president now, which is they've moved on from Biden.
	Well, yeah, yeah, we'll get to that in a second.
	You know, you get analysis articles from the Heritage Foundation being like, well, look, they're just completely Team Biden.
	The media dug in and enforced an almost total news blackout of the Hunter Biden laptop story, which is true, and the latest revelations from Hunter Biden's phone, which were hacked by People's Unknown on the internet, and we get to learn again.
	I mean, I just really wonder who Pedo Peter was in those group conversations with Jill Biden and Hunter Biden.
	We know who he was.
	Are we not allowed to say it?
	I don't know.
	On YouTube, we don't know.
	Yeah, on YouTube, we don't know.
	And he won 81 million votes.
	But the social media platforms are, of course, completely in favor of Biden as well, because, of course, when all this came out, it got completely censored.
	I'm not going to go over it in detail because we've covered it many times, but it's just so profoundly obvious that this is the case.
	And what's weird about it, though, is the press hardly gets any access to Biden.
	This is the Committee to Protect Journalists who wrote this article saying, look, one key concern among White House supporters is their limited access to Biden.
	He has given far fewer press conferences, media interviews than either Obama or Trump in their first years of office.
	He's responded to fewer impromptu questions from reporters at the White House.
	Normally, they have to go through Jen Psaki on the diversity hire who's replaced her to get this information.
	One ABC News correspondent said, we need more access to Biden himself.
	Press access to him so far is very limited.
	Press conferences are few and far between.
	His people seem to wall him off from the press.
	And you can see they've got a picture in here of him walking away from reporters without taking questions.
	This has happened multiple times.
	It's just an image, yeah.
	In the press conference, they're like, can I ask questions?
	He's like, no.
	No.
	Of course he can't do impromptu.
	This is a man that needs a car telling him where to sit.
	Exactly.
	And that it's him that is sitting, and not someone else.
	Elon Musk is absolutely right.
	Whoever controls the teleprompter controls the United States.
	Right.
	Yes, and that's exactly the problem.
	Biden is, what is he, 80?
	Something like that?
	I can't even remember how old he is now.
	He's in the 70s.
	Nearly 80.
	He's obviously losing it.
	Oh yeah, 79.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, there we go.
	So he's going to be, what, 82 by the time of the next election, something like that.
	So anyway, this means that the country isn't going very well.
	How is Trump 76, though?
	I mean, give me the Trump diet, not the Biden diet.
	Trump loves his burgers, man.
	I bet Trump eats a lot more red meat than Joe Biden.
	Biden's eating the bugs.
	But unironically, Trump has got a weird vitality about him.
	He has, he has.
	It's so weird, which Biden does not have.
	Anyway, so Biden's approval is now down to historic lows.
	A week ago, it was 36% approval, with 57% or something disproved.
	Now, after, you know...
	The media's been like, oh, well, we'll try and help 39% approval.
	No, that's not good enough.
	Because the thing is, and this is really the crux of the problem that Joe Biden has, he's obviously responsible for all of the problems.
	Now you can say, well, hang on a second, what about the apparatus of manipulative, you know, organizations around him and the people closely connected to him in the White House who are clearly propping him up?
	It's like, sure, but he's got to take responsibility as the president for appointing all of these people.
	I mean, you can say, well, he's a puppet for these people, maybe, but at the end of the day, he's the president.
	He's got to take responsibility for this.
	And it turns out that no one really wants him.
	Like, literally 82% of people are like, no.
	Yeah.
	Just no.
	The scary thing is that you're going to end up with Gavin Newsom as the candidate, just pure American psycho evil.
	I'm kind of not even against that, are they?
	Really?
	Yeah, I want to see DeSantis versus Newsom.
	Yeah.
	Good versus evil.
	Yeah, yeah, literally.
	It's just so pure.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I don't think you'll get in the next one.
	But the one after, okay.
	I think it'll probably be Trump versus Newsom at this point.
	What do you think?
	Because they're getting rid of Biden, and they're getting rid of Harris.
	Harris is manning a radar tower in Alaska.
	Biden has said he's going to stand.
	Has he?
	Yeah, yeah.
	He has said he's going to stand.
	It's like, look, you can't stand.
	Can he even physically stand?
	Unassisted, yeah, exactly.
	He's fallen down.
	He's fallen upstairs twice.
	How should he even do that?
	I don't know.
	I don't know, but it's really bad.
	But anyway, so these are basically his lowest polling numbers to date, which was from this week.
	And more Democrats than not say now that he should pass in the second term.
	So 41% of Democrats, rather than 35% saying he should go after another one.
	And two-thirds are just like, look, you should just retire.
	You should just bow out to 64%.
	And when asked who they would rather see as the Democratic nominee for president in 2024, only a quarter of Democrats just over, say, Biden.
	Fewer, say, Kamala Harris at 19%.
	It's like, how can you be less popular than Joe Biden?
	Most say either someone else or not sure or they wouldn't vote, which is 54% of the Democrat voting base.
	Someone else is doing well.
	Yeah, none of the above is storming ahead.
	And as various people have been pointing out, these are probably worse than they seem as well.
	Because according to one poll, he had a 33% job approval rating, which meant that literally 66% of people were like, you suck.
	67%, you suck.
	And this is, as far as we can tell, the lowest amount of voter satisfaction in modern history.
	I mean...
	Possibly slightly worse for Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
	Possibly.
	But even then, you know, probably not.
	Yeah, Carter, he was very unpopular, but this is next level.
	Yeah, but then the perfect response to this is just to maybe ask Biden about, so what do you think of everyone in the country hating you, Joe?
	What's your opinion on that?
	Let's watch the clip.
	Mr.
	President, what's your message to Democrats who don't want you to run again?
	They want me to run.
	Read the polls.
	Read the polls, Jack.
	You guys are all the same.
	That poll showed that 92% of Democrats, if I ran, would vote for me.
	A majority of Democrats say they don't want you to run again in 2024.
	92% said if I did, they'd vote for me.
	Yeah, but even if that was true, which I'm not sure it is, but even if that were true, that doesn't change the fact that they're like, look, okay, I would have to vote for him because I'm not voting for Trump, but I really don't want you to run.
	Yeah.
	When the tweet said, read the polls, Jack, I thought that was a joke.
	The kind of thing Biden said that it's actually in the video.
	Yeah, it's actually what he said.
	Fox News actually looked into this and they were like, look, the statistic of 92% does appear in the poll, but it's not the question of whether he should or shouldn't run.
	It's a statistic which references that 92% of Democrats would still vote for him in a hypothetical rematch against Donald Trump.
	But of course, that doesn't mean that they want him to run.
	That just means if given the Hobson's choice, they will.
	And so it's clear to everyone that Biden is the sinking ship that is going down and there's no saving this.
	And so even CNN are becoming critical of Biden.
	What was the title?
	I can scroll down a little bit.
	I can't remember the title on this one now.
	But yeah, Biden's like, oh, he's wrong about his poll numbers.
	Yeah, he is.
	And then you get the New York Times turning on Biden being like, well, he's too passive and full of excuses to be the president.
	It's like, really?
	Because he sounds like a raging old fool to me.
	But basically what they're saying is he's not exactly the culture warrior that they want.
	It doesn't look like he's going to be able to do it.
	And it seems that he's kind of gravely detached from reality.
	And much less engaged than many of his supporters had hoped for.
	The left's projections always come back to them.
	They were obsessed with Trump's not able, cognitively, to run.
	It's like, guys, hello?
	Anything?
	Things were great under Trump.
	I know.
	Amazing.
	Things were so good.
	Oh yeah, I sometimes see clips of old conversations and stuff, and back then I'm like, great times.
	Simpler times.
	Just Trump bossing it.
	And not only that, but not even just the aesthetic of it, right?
	Trump in front of huge crowds, just chatting his mouth about anything he likes.
	But just think about the price of fuel, the price of food, the world's stability.
	No war in Russia.
	Putin in his box.
	Yeah, Putin not invading anyway.
	Peace in the Middle East.
	Things were genuinely great under Trump.
	The media are whining and we just got to laugh at them whining.
	Some people laugh when I say this, but Trump's unpredictability was a successful tactic against Russia because they have these plans 50 years in advance where war with the US is inevitable.
	They plan for assassination.
	They plan for hot war.
	They plan for every type of war, sanctions.
	But the one thing they can't plan for is Trump.
	What's he going to do?
	He'll be like, oh yeah, bomb Syria today, I don't like that photo.
	That's literally how he plans things.
	This guy from my house, show him a photo of his house, see how he responds to that.
	He's the kind of guy who would show Putin a picture of his house, say, I'm going to bomb that.
	He said he was going to bomb Moscow.
	He's hinted at this.
	That's what he said, he's hinted.
	And they believe him, because they might do it.
	But the great thing about it is that they can't be like, right, so we're going to strategise.
	What's Trump planning?
	Trump doesn't have a plan.
	You know, obviously he's not planning everything.
	Yeah, exactly.
	He's just operating on gut instinct and it wins.
	And man, I miss Trump's presence.
	Me too.
	Anyway, and the final sort of nail in the coffin, I think, is New York Times columnist, Michelle Goldberg, who's like, look, he really is too old.
	He's worn out and unfocused.
	Yep.
	By the time he finally achieved the office he longed for, he was far past his prime, said Goldberg, adding that many of the crises facing Biden were not his fault, but nevertheless, I hope he doesn't run again because he's too old.
	We are ruled by a gerontocracy.
	Biden is 79, Pelosi is 82, the House Majority Leader Stenya Hoyer is 83, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is 71.
	Often, it's not clear if they grasp how broken the country is.
	Yeah, they say he could have got it when he was younger.
	When he was younger, he seemed still a bit of a dick, but slick and had his cognitive function.
	He could talk, that's what I'm saying.
	He could complete a sentence.
	So, yes, basically it's good to see that finally the mainstream is recognising that Biden is actually incompetent, terrible, and totally unsupportable.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	So, Carl, to understand Uber, what you need to know is that for most of a century, the taxi industry was completely dominated by massive, corrupt, monopolistic labor unions completely incestuous with government lobbying and regulation.
	They implemented barriers to entry for cab drivers to leverage supply and demand, which is why cab fare is so expensive.
	What Uber did was remove those barriers so that basically anyone with a car could be a driver, which nuked the value of cabs.
	And the people who are outraged now that Uber lobbied to do this are the socialists who are mad that the unions got beat at their own game.
	And that, I agree that that's the case, but it is also, as Carla Tomlinson points out, that Uber is actually the sort of infrastructure of the Great Reset.
	So it's just like...
	Oh, interesting.
	Yeah.
	So, I mean...
	You're saying Klaus Schwab has penetrated Uber as well?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, undoubtedly.
	Uber has been promoted by various, like Emmanuel Macron and various other WEF talking heads.
	Just on a superficial level, they're always like, wear your mask, here's the rainbow.
	The other day, I was looking for an Uber, and the little car on the screen was rainbow-coloured.
	But the point is, like, it's the you'll earn nothing and you'll be happy thing, right?
	Everything's a service now.
	Yes.
	So you don't have a car, no, you get an Uber.
	Don't get me wrong, I use Uber.
	It's a really convenient service, and now I'm part of Great Reset.
	You are.
	God damn it.
	Let's get to the next one.
	What's going on, fellow Lotus Eaters?
	DJ Chi here, just checking in.
	Haven't made a video in a while.
	Just wanted to give an update where we're at here at Stowe Group.
	We've been writing all kinds of music and gave music to our friends over at the Sultans of Chatelet.
	We've got all kinds of new music coming out.
	Transcribe, our hip-hop group, is going to be producing a bunch of new tracks.
	And we're live-streaming a lot of our production.
	And we've got another Telekinetics volume coming out.
	It's going to be on Audius and Spotify.
	Cool.
	I feel that was an advert in the guise of a comment.
	It was.
	But that's fine.
	Because they paid us for it.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Chatting with a friend in a pub the other day, the telly had Crocodile Dundee playing in the background.
	As we chatted, it suddenly struck me that I'd never heard the film compare to Brave New World.
	A couple of searches online didn't show anything, but it seemed so obvious to me that Mick Dundee is John Savage, without the Shakespeare quotes, torn from the Northern Territories and thrust into the morally dubious world of New York, where his simple and robust attitudes clash with the grotesques of the city.
	The only trouble is that, at the end of the film, Mick gets his girl, rather than her learning nothing and breaking his heart, which might have been more apt.
	I'll have to give that another watch.
	It's been years since I've seen it.
	Yeah, I mean, it's good to re-watch stuff like that, because Demolition Man was literally based on Brave New World, and I re-watched it, and I realised, oh, it's not that subtle.
	At one point, Wesley Snipes shouts, it's a Brave New World, and all the characters are named after blah, blah, etc.
	But it's also entirely prophetic.
	It's one of the most scarily prophetic, yeah.
	I'm looking forward to being underground with you guys eating the wrap.
	Well, it's where we're going, man.
	You know, like, I mean, that's what they're trying to do.
	Let's carry on.
	The other reason I've been talking about pleasure and fulfillment is because men are just as guilty as women.
	But whereas women tend to gravitate towards travel and wine, I generally see men fall into the trappings of video games and smoking weed.
	But just, if you're someone who feels like you have no purpose in life, re-examine your life through the lens of pleasure and fulfillment and start building sources of fulfillment.
	And remember that hobbies and work can be fulfilling, but the greatest sources of fulfillment in life will always be your human and spiritual connections.
	I think I've said enough about this topic for a while, so I'm going to shut up and move on to something new.
	But that's totally true, and I very much appreciate those inputs, because it's completely correct.
	Can I say what that reminds me of?
	I don't know if we have time.
	Is it your take on Aristotle I was listening to?
	Because I was thinking, oh, I've gone off my diet.
	Carl's doing his diet by being the virtuous man.
	So you talk about the four types of man.
	Try, try.
	I think I'm actually the continent man.
	I do it, but, you know...
	I was going to ask you, because I think I'm the continent man.
	The continent man is somebody who doesn't want to do something, but does it because it's the good of society.
	And for themselves as well.
	Yeah, and the virtuous man is one who's trained himself to actually enjoy it.
	Yes.
	So I was thinking with Christianity, and I was going to pitch this to you, You're an atheist still, as far as I know.
	I was going to say, Carl, just shut up and be a Christian, because that's what I did.
	I realised, I was listening to Peter and I was like, it'd be good if we could actually believe in the actual spiritual side.
	That's the only way we're going to save the West.
	I was like, well then do it, Nick.
	Shut up.
	Don't be a child.
	So now I realised, okay, I'll just get back to believing in it.
	And then actually, everything sort of flows from there.
	So I was like, but I was trying to think, am I the virtuous man or the continent?
	I was like, no, I'm the continent man, because I've just decided to do it.
	And I was thinking, that's what you guys should all do here.
	Yeah, I mean, to be fair though, with my diet, actually...
	I am actually getting to the point where I'm nearly the virtuous man when it comes to my diet.
	I went to the Dank's Roast and so I had to break it there because people were handing me beers.
	And the beer was nice as well, I'll have to admit.
	But I don't have a craving to break my diet.
	I don't ever have a problem being on my diet.
	I actually really quite enjoy being on my diet.
	Because I feel clean in a way.
	I haven't polluted myself with bad things.
	And I like the things that I'm going to eat.
	And so I'm never sat there going, God, if only I could just have a sandwich or something.
	It just never crossed my mind.
	And so I think I might actually be getting to that point.
	Well, I hope I get there, because I'm still where it's impossible to not eat ice cream.
	I did calorie restriction.
	I was doing all this working out, and then I crash off it.
	So I need to get to where you are and be the virtuous man.
	The trick is sugar-free chocolate, man.
	If it wasn't sugar-free chocolate, like 90% cocoa or whatever...
	And it's, you know, it's the most bitter chocolate in the world.
	There are two people in my house who can eat it.
	It's me and my 19-month-old.
	For some reason, whenever I'm eating it, he just looks at us, oh, brilliant.
	And I'll break him off a bit and he'll just eat it.
	And I'm like, this is the bitterest thing in the world?
	Right.
	If it's okay for him, it's probably fairly mild.
	It does make me think, Aristotle achieved all this before processed foods.
	He didn't have Ben and Jerry's threatening him.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Aristotle would have been like, yeah, be virtuous unless it's really good.
	You know, unless you just can't help yourself.
	And obviously I don't approve of Ben and Jerry.
	Sometimes that's enough to stop eating something because they're horrible politics.
	But sometimes you do it anyway and then it's even worse.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I say, I'm rather liking this new chap, Connor Tomlinson.
	Any chance we could get Romy Tomlinson onto the podcast in future?
	Probably not, to be honest.
	It's the way things are.
	Yeah, good to have a shout-out for Connor, though.
	He's a great guy.
	Next one.
	I expect it must be a hopeless undertaking, but I don't suppose anyone might know where one would find 300-year-old hinges like these.
	No idea, good luck though.
	This is why I love your audience, videos like that.
	Yeah.
	Been working on mounting my mech to a trailer because, well, I'm taking it in an old home day parade this weekend.
	Yeah.
	Giant robot parade float.
	But hey, at least I don't have to worry about the mech's lack of brakes.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I'm just thinking ED-209.
	Comply.
	Oh, that was it.
	Okay, great.
	Right, so General Haiping says, I wonder what the WEF leadership looks like.
	Scrolls through a list of what appears to be bomb villains.
	Well, this is fine.
	Yeah.
	Free Will says, the leaders of world eternal fascism are the ruling council of a shadow world government who decide general policy directions despite what democratic electorates might want.
	If the only choice is between different WEF devotees, then there is no choice in your vote means nothing.
	Yeah, I mean, you would think there would be leftists who constantly spurg out about democracy, saying, well, hang on a second, this WEF stuff seems a little anti-democratic, but they never mention it.
	Weird, that.
	It's also weird how you said all the money's gone to corporations, we know the rich got much richer.
	They never mentioned that either.
	The lefties loved that suddenly.
	You would think.
	This was, like, the key talking points.
	Anyway, Henry says, I'm getting sick of the European-style rule by control in the EU and the WEF. They're pushing anti-speeding tech into new cars within the EU. You know, I might write a thing on that because that's really important.
	Like...
	There's this kind of state of affairs, the state of being that you are in when you are the one making the moral decisions.
	I mean, you could say, well, look, it's this, you know, oh, isn't it just good to save lives?
	Like, maybe, but that actually comes at the expense of other things.
	I mean, you know, why should we not just make sure that you can't do anything?
	Because doing things leads to death.
	Yeah, the speed limit being 30 is one people often use.
	Safety versus freedom has come to the fore in the last couple of years in a very brutal way.
	Yes, and there is something lost about the sense of what it is to be a human.
	I'd say it's dehumanizing to have that stripped away from you.
	Life involves danger.
	People always use the seatbelt analogy.
	I'm still not sold on a seatbelt.
	I mean, you had these stylish 60s cars.
	People like Seinfeld talk about it.
	It's like, they didn't have to have seatbelts.
	There was something about that.
	Why can't we...
	Well, I suppose it's because it hurts other people.
	People go through the wind because that's where it gets complicated.
	But I'm like, when they say seatbelt, I'm like, bro, who said I was into them?
	Yeah.
	I mean, the seatbelt issue I'm happy to concede on.
	I mean, it just seems sensible to wear seatbelts.
	I mean, I would do it even if it wasn't the law, you know.
	But there has to be a clear line drawn at some point.
	Just leave me alone.
	Yeah, and it may not be seatbelts, but it's definitely not taking away my job and locking me in my house while a drone tells me to give up my thirst for freedom.
	Yeah, I can't say exactly where the line is, but it's somewhere between these two extremes.
	Yeah.
	And Henry says, if the choice is plants versus bugs, can I take the third option and eat a grass-fed leftist instead?
	Yeah, can you imagine how unappealing it's going to be to eat the average leftist, though?
	Good point.
	Scorny, no testosterone.
	Or swimming in weird hormones.
	Like, they artificially inject into themselves?
	Like, I don't know.
	I wouldn't be a leftist if you paid me.
	Maureen says, During Davos 2022, Rutt informed the WEF that he thinks that we should get rid of the unanimity in the European Council on issues like sanctions, but also human rights declarations.
	And while the farmers' protest was going on, Rutt decided to visit Zelensky in Ukraine to discuss financial and military aid for Kiev.
	And only after that, Rut sat down with a small group of farmers, but only the NOS, our state broadcaster, was allowed to record or ask questions.
	Our Agricultural Minister, Carola Shelton, also confirmed that the forced sales of emission rights, or land, would be as a last result, but that some emitters cannot carry on as they are, so we must ensure that we have rules that are necessary.
	It's nice to know we stand with our own government.
	Yes, they're going to appropriate farmers' land and property.
	And it's going to keep getting more and more ugly.
	And they've predicted it's going to be a more dangerous world.
	It's like, yes, because you're destroying the people.
	And we're going to fight back.
	It's going to get very nasty.
	I mean, literally, what are we going to do?
	We're going to take away everything they own.
	We're going to make sure they've got no particular rights.
	We're going to make sure they can't even leave the country.
	Weirdly, things are due to get more dangerous now.
	Why do they think that's going to be okay?
	Unless you're on Elijah, and even that didn't work out in the movie.
	You've got to be on a separate planet for that to be okay.
	Yeah, it's...
	You need a very, very big fence.
	It's this arrogance of the sort of brave new world world controller types that really bothers me.
	Oh, we have to be in control of absolutely everything.
	It's like, yeah, but do you though?
	Yeah, and just see how that works out.
	People will snap.
	We're seeing it with the Dutch farmers.
	But where do you get the authority for this?
	And I say, yeah, but we're right.
	It's like, A, you're not right.
	And B, so what?
	So what if you're right?
	Like, you can literally say, you know, like, look, let me drive your car because I'm right about where to drive.
	It's like, no, it's my car.
	It's a religion to them, isn't it?
	It's like the Georgia Guidestones.
	Someone paid a lot to have that done.
	Who do you think blew those up?
	It's a great question.
	To me, it's either someone who's just had enough of all this stuff, or it's some sort of complicated false flag thing.
	I can't even begin.
	I would put it down to a conspiracy.
	Complicated false flag.
	I think it's an inside job.
	I don't know.
	I've literally got no information on them at all.
	But I just don't think it was some rando.
	It feels weird.
	We'd have heard about them, they'd have been punished.
	Anyway...
	Free Will says, the reason we are still punishing our own economy with green taxes when China burns fossil fuels like no tomorrow is probably because of the influence inspector.
	Biden is selling them fuel from the US Strategic Reserves.
	It shows you who is calling the shots.
	Yeah.
	Omar says, governments are the enemy of efficiency, flexibility and suitability.
	Their glacial, one-size-fits-all approach to an emergency situation doomed the COVID response to being ineffective at best.
	That's a great point, man.
	That's exactly the right way to frame it as well.
	The glacial one-size-fits-all approach.
	Because the government, and they've got this natural assumption, they have to govern for everyone, obviously.
	And so all they can do is this one-size-fits-all approach.
	But they are the definition of unintended consequences, and we'd honestly be better off if we didn't have them.
	Well, yes.
	But I just don't see it happening, frankly.
	You know, the libertarian dream of having no government, I just don't think it's ever going to happen.
	You're not going to get housewives to vote for it.
	What we can do now is try and take over the government car.
	Well, democratically, that's the plan.
	Yes, I meant democratically.
	The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
	Where does the road to global reset lead to if it's paved with elitism, backroom deals, and corruption?
	Medieval serfdom would sound optimistic.
	I mean, medieval serfs at least own something, you know?
	They own, like, their clothes.
	Oh, yeah.
	Have you heard Steve Bannon's comment he always gives on that?
	He goes, you're like feudal serfs, okay?
	He goes, you're in better shape, okay?
	You're healthier, you've got better clothes, but you own nothing and you're not going to own anything.
	He always says that.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Bald Eagle says, Okay, have the farmers stop farming.
	Just make sure the people who push the farmers to retire get no food at all.
	The food should be reserved for productive members of society, and the elite that are calling for it have done nothing for society.
	I fully support the true Marxist ideal that if you don't work, you don't eat.
	I don't think it was Marxist.
	I think it was Leninist, actually.
	But it's a very reasonable perspective, I think.
	But the problem is, man, food shortages are coming, and it is because they're interfering with the food supply.
	It's not going to get pretty.
	Yeah.
	Hammurabi says, you know what, screw the squabbling and power mongering, scrap parliament, return to monarchy.
	How do you feel about that?
	How do you feel about the monarchy?
	Do you know what, I used to feel like Peter Hitchens where he said for some reason constitutional monarchies are better, more peaceful countries, but he doesn't know why, he just says that they are.
	And I sort of went, Peter Hitchens knows more than me, I'm going with that.
	But lately even he has questioned our monarchy because they're such a dodgy bunch.
	I don't know, what do you think?
	I don't know, man.
	I don't like republics, because republics are inherently unstable and seem to breed corruption, which I don't like.
	Well, I would obviously go all the way back to just the king.
	I would go all the way back, but I'd always go all the way back as far as possible.
	I'd take away the vote.
	I was saying to you, let's go back to pre-1918.
	I'd give up my vote.
	Take away women's vote.
	Make it over 30.
	You've got to own property.
	Let's go back to that.
	Let's go back to that for a start.
	Let's just keep going back.
	How did Alfred the Great run the country?
	Let's go back to that.
	The whole thing, though, is like, I don't know.
	Everything's crap, and it's never going to get any better.
	That's how I feel about it.
	Will says, it's going to be Fishy Sinek versus Penny Mordred.
	That's good.
	Mordred.
	That's very good.
	For the Conservative Party members to choose between.
	Schwab has decreed it, and so it will be done.
	That's the big problem, is that you don't get that choice.
	Hobson's choice anyway, like you say, but they need to get Kemi, ideally, possibly Truss in there versus one of those.
	But if it's Mordant versus Rishi, it's over.
	The members only get to vote on two, so it's pointless.
	Keith is in your position there.
	I never thought I'd root for Liz Truss, but with Kemi likely to be edged out of the race, the prospect of Sennacher-Mordant as the next PM is deeply depressing.
	Yeah, it's gross.
	Dirty Belter, great name, says, There's no such thing as a Conservative Tory.
	Maybe you guys could shine a light on a Reclaim Party.
	Well, I mean, we've had Reclaim Party people on.
	We support the Reclaim Party, obviously.
	I agree there's no such thing as a Conservative Tory.
	The only thing is, in pure pragmatism, the backbench has some okay people, and they can influence the front, and these smaller parties can't do anything.
	Having said that, I voted for the Christian People's Alliance.
	Fair enough.
	JJHW says, Liz Truss does not know the difference between the Baltic and the Black Sea.
	What?
	Is that true?
	That was her sort of gaffe.
	She wasn't great in Russia and the foreign policy stuff.
	She didn't know where things were and which things were Ukraine and which things were Russia.
	And that was a bit of a balls-up, yeah.
	And I wasn't even thinking about that when I called her an idiot.
	No.
	What she said about the war against Russia has got Russian nuclear forces on high alert.
	Hair trigger for global thermonuclear war and extinction of humanity.
	Good job, Liz.
	Wasn't great.
	She was better on trade.
	Yeah, was she?
	Allegedly.
	Wuhan wet market says...
	Love that name.
	Tory parties probably just going to pick who they want holding the shovel digging their own grave.
	Their inability to act on principle or take any issues with substance will lead to Labour taking the next election and likely destroying the country before it can be handed back to the Tories or any party for that matter.
	Well, I was thinking about this, and the Conservative Party is demonstrably worse than the Labour Party.
	If you just look at, say, the number of immigrants they let in, the Conservatives...
	Was it 1.16 million last year or something?
	Yeah.
	Crazy.
	The Labour Party never got anywhere near that, so bring back Tony Blair.
	Do you really want a Labour-SMP coalition?
	Imagine that.
	Imagine that.
	We have basically that in the Conservative Party.
	Would Labour have locked us down and pumped billions into the economy?
	Yeah, they would.
	Would Labour continually raise the amount of taxes we have to pay for the NHS so they can continually give foreigners housing and free healthcare?
	Yes, they will.
	You're right.
	And Labour will just do everything a bit more and a bit worse.
	So it's the plants versus the bugs again.
	Yeah.
	But at least on the plus side, the Labour Party, to be honest about it, Yeah, we think we should be paving over our green spaces so foreigners can live here.
	Of course we do.
	You should pay for it.
	I don't know which type of pill this is where Karl ends up pro-Labour.
	Accelerationist pill.
	Just let them screw it all up.
	Let's just get the collapse out of the way.
	Let's just get on with it.
	There is something in there, by the way.
	Have the 70s, because you know, 70s three-day weeks.
	Have the 70s, which is when Labour get in, and then we have the Thatcher.
	Yeah, this is why my dad has been a lifelong conservative.
	Because he was young during the Labour lead-up to their collapse.
	And he was just...
	I remember when I was young, he was telling me about it.
	He was like, oh yeah, we would have electricity shortages, rubbish piling up in the streets, everything blockaded, basically.
	And he was like, yeah.
	And so I was never voting for Labour.
	Doesn't matter what they say or do.
	And my dad's like, he comes from an incredibly poor background.
	But he's like, no, never these people.
	And he's not wrong.
	Omar again.
	Oh, no, we're out of time.
	I'll go for one more.
	Andrew says, the media may have turned on Biden, but until justice is done, it means nothing.
	He hasn't answered for any of his numerous crimes of corruption.
	I doubt the establishment is willing to do anything about it.
	Yeah, no, I mean, you're obviously completely right.
	I didn't have time to go over the various scandals of Hunter Biden, and the fact that Joe Biden's taking money from China.
	Which probably explains why he's giving them the oil from those reserves and various other things, but we all know this, and you are completely correct, obviously.
	Anyway, 3.30, book club, be there, you'll be good.
	Until then, have a great weekend, folks.

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