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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the latest eaters episode 481 on today, Thursday the 15th of September 2022.
	I am joined by Darius Davies.
	How are you my friend?
	I'm good.
	Thank you for having me.
	If you'd like to just briefly introduce yourself to our audience, you might not be familiar.
	Hello, Lotus East audiences.
	My name is Darius Davies, aka the mad lad, a jihad, the Persian nightmare, man from Tehran, Ayatollah of rock and roller, comedian and host of the Three Speech podcast, alongside someone you might know, Mr.
	Leo Curse.
	And it's a pleasure to be here.
	Brilliant.
	Well, I thought you'd be the perfect person to discuss some of these inflammatory topics with, because we're definitely going to end our careers today.
	So, we're talking about today Iran calling Queen Liz Hitler.
	Not a very apt comparison.
	The Democrats being utterly delusional and entering downfall, and how OnlyFans has some deadly consequences.
	But before we begin, at three o'clock today, this video will be going out.
	It's my first scripted video for the website, The Killer Clowns of Leftism.
	After watching some documentaries on true crime, particularly the crazy killer clown John Wayne Gacy, I found that there were some similarities between him and Drag Queen Story Hour.
	That's free for everyone, and it'll get us in a lot of trouble, so keep your eyes peeled for that.
	And then tomorrow, Friday, at the time of recording, at 3 o'clock, Harry and I will be doing a live book club, taking your comments towards the end on Louise Perry's The Case Against the Sexual Revolution.
	So, 3.30, rather than 3 o'clock.
	Sorry to cause John a headache, so all premium subscribers can go over and interact with that.
	And if you aren't a premium subscriber, sign up for £5 a month, you'll be able to watch everything.
	Without further ado, I suppose that we will get into the segment.
	And also, just a quick brief mention, because Rory told me to, it's the 82nd anniversary of the Battle of Britain, which was a dawn-to-dusk aerial combat day, which we shot down the Luftwaffe.
	And that was a pretty key in-road step to us winning the Second World War, so nice to commemorate one of Britain's victories.
	Speaking of British heritage, sorry.
	London currently is experiencing about 35 hour waits, a four mile long queue and millions of people coming to see the Queen laid in state before her funeral on Monday, which hopefully John and I will be going down to talk to people and film, which would be really nice to get the historical account.
	On camera, but it doesn't seem our enemies around the world are too keen about this.
	Obviously Carl and Callum have been covering some of the outrage at home and abroad, but it's escalated to the point of where foreign states, including the Iran state media, are making some rather unfavourable comparisons to our late monarch.
	It seems that many who fail to understand the integral role of the monarchy to our history, whether or not you like who's sitting on the throne, historically and culturally, it's relevant in our self-conception of our bonds of British identity, are arguing why we should dispense with it.
	So let's look at the outrage of all the people around the world and how they don't quite understand us, shall we?
	Speaking of people who don't quite understand us, the Republican debate was had fairly a while ago by Carl and Josh, so you can subscribe to the website to watch Carl...
	Put Josh through the ringer and slowly coach him out of his democracy, his everything mindset and maybe towards the, well, you know, the institution has some relevance in our past.
	I don't know where you stand on where you think the relevance of the monarchy is today.
	You know what?
	So, my thinking on the monarchy has evolved.
	When I was younger, I was quite anti-monarchy and I was actually really surprised at how sad I was when the queen died because I'm like, in general, I'm not sure of it.
	But a few years ago, I was chatting to a friend of mine.
	He said, the thing is, you get rid of the cream, all that will happen is you're going to have Boris Johnson as president.
	And then when you think of it, so I think what I think I would like, because I like the tradition.
	I like having the queen on the money.
	I like having, you know, the bucking pass.
	I like that sense of tradition.
	I think that's what makes Britain great.
	I think, though, we should keep the monarchy.
	We just shouldn't fund them.
	They should be privatised.
	They're rich.
	Privatise the monarchy.
	They've got their own money.
	They can do their own thing.
	We give them the palaces, whatever they need, but then we don't need to be sending them that money.
	Then half the people are complaining, oh, we're paying £9 million, which actually isn't much for the Queen's funeral.
	It's 23 minutes of NHS operation time.
	It's a drop in the ocean.
	It's nothing.
	It's going to go down in history for the rest of the annals of time.
	But it will just take away that argument.
	You know what I mean?
	Oh, we're spending all this money on these people.
	Because I understand the...
	I mean, I also agree with the arguments.
	Why does that one family get to be forever and ever our men, the people who rule over us?
	So I get that.
	But I also think there's a certain level of traditionalism And actually, I think it really showed people's true colours.
	When the Queen died and you just saw people on the same day just like making just rubbish jokes.
	Not even funny.
	It's like, give it a rest.
	Give it a rest.
	We'll go through some of those and I look forward to you eviscerating a couple of them as an established comedian yourself.
	But let's go to something that definitely wasn't a joke.
	The Iranian state TV called the Queen one of the worst criminals in the history of mankind and compared her to Adolf Hitler, which doesn't seem all that proportionate, I would say.
	So the Iranian state funded TV program said that from a certain perspective, we should be sad this person died because she died without standing trial, without being punished and without paying for her crimes.
	I don't know quite what crimes they're referring to there.
	As an Iranian, could you possibly enlighten us?
	Well, I think the Iranians don't see much difference between the Queen and the British Petroleum who overthrew Mossadegh in 1952.
	So they just see it as one and the same.
	But also, listen, the Iranians, if they think the Queen's a baddie, they're going to have a rude awakening when they look at the Ayatollahs.
	So...
	But this actually doesn't offend me.
	And when I saw Argentinians doing all of it, it didn't offend me because, yeah, they don't like us.
	What offended me, though, was when I saw it in our own country, from our own people.
	It's like, you can feel the...
	This is a different thing.
	The Queen's been alive everyone's entire life.
	If you've...
	Born in this country.
	She's been there though.
	She's like an anchor for the country.
	And you just see these people.
	It's like, yeah, Iranians, they're far away.
	To them it means nothing.
	She's just a, you know, it's like, if I told you, I don't know, some Iranian Raspojani died, it means nothing to you, right?
	I mean, so you don't feel that thing.
	So that's, for them, it's just like a funny little off the cuff thing.
	But it's offensive when it comes from One within our country or two from America are supposed allies.
	You see The Onion posting and you're like, The Onion, man.
	Have some respect for yourselves.
	One, it's not even funny, but have some respect for yourself.
	Babylon be that Carnegie Mellon professor.
	She said, I wish her a painful death, which is just disgusting.
	She was probably still alive or dying.
	It's just like, man, that's just like, it just shows the actual divisiveness and spite.
	Like I said, I'm not like the hugest, biggest supporter of the Queen, but I can see it for everyone else.
	Have some sympathy, whether you like or whatever, for the people who do like it.
	Now's not the time.
	Your critiques of the institution does not equate to wishing venomous agony on someone.
	Yeah.
	Especially if the crimes you're charging them with don't quite add up.
	I don't prescribe to the Iranians' perception of us, particularly because they're pretty much a failed state and lots of them are Islamists.
	And I'm not going to take moral lessons from the people that have a really high transgender population only because they're so intolerant of gays that they'll go either off the roof or to the clinic.
	Thank you very much.
	Yes, good solution.
	No gays in Iran.
	LAUGHTER That's actually true.
	So when they said that, that's what happens.
	But funny enough, that's what I was reading today.
	So you know the LGB alliance is in court with the mermaids.
	One of the mermaid supporters is like, oh, Iran's great.
	They've got the biggest trans.
	And they use that as an argument against that.
	So I think Iran has the largest trans population.
	But because of that, they're like, oh, are you gay?
	You want to die?
	You must be a woman.
	I am a woman.
	It's like when Jordan Peterson once said there's a crazy alliance between the feminists and the radical Islamists and he believes it's because the patriarchy that they rally against no longer exists and arguably never did but they've chased masculinity out of the West and so they're importing this radical toxic masculinity at the same time as people buying Fifty Shades of Grey in droves.
	It's speaking something to the unconscious there.
	And so this Munchausen by proxy which a lot of mothers are inflicting on their children in the trans debate They're almost looking at Iran and going, oh, because it's done on a statewide scale, this somewhat validates what I'm doing.
	It's not some sort of pathology I've developed.
	It's progressive.
	So if you're looking to Iran to be progressive, my stomach's going to churn a little bit.
	We're pretty progressive.
	In an English-language broadcast on Government Network Press TV, the host added, Hold on.
	Sorry.
	She's responsible for imperial colonial destruction when she oversaw the decommissioning of the Empire?
	I mean, his own words don't add up there, but also the fact that we'll have Douglas Murray talking later.
	There's one potential thing you could call a genocide transcribed to the British Empire, and the only reason we know about that is because it was so atypical it went down in recorded history, and the actual officers were dismissed from their posts.
	Whereas for many other societies, that would just be...
	Take the Aztecs, for example, doing their child sacrifice.
	That would just be another day at work.
	Where is that?
	The Borough War, is that?
	Oh, I can't remember the title of it, but it's covered in our Douglas Murray book club on the War on the West, which Callum and Harry spoke about.
	So he said, the number of people that have been killed are in the millions, and the Queen is responsible for that.
	Justice was not delivered to one of the most vicious individuals of that last century.
	I mean, other than possibly Princess Diana show me a person the Queen killed.
	It's a joke.
	Don't do me.
	So Iran's foreign ministry has actually not commented on her death either, despite even, like, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping sending their condolences.
	So they are taking the hard-line anti-British opinion.
	So meanwhile, in actual Germany...
	With the German press calling for abolishing the monarchy.
	For those who are listening in, the House of Windsor has seen many reluctant royals, and King Charles III certainly fits that mould.
	Now is a good time to abolish the monarchy and bring a better democracy to the UK. I thought they would have been in favour of the House of Windsor, actually, because obviously it was the House of Mountbatten, so they would have felt some kinship.
	But from the actual article itself, we haven't got it here, but I just thought I'd put a quote...
	If any of Charles' behaviour over the past 35 years could be taken as evidence, I'd suggest the last thing he wants to be is king, so Charles could abdicate and leave the spoils to William and Kate.
	A better outcome, however, would just be shutting the entire shop.
	So, again, why should we be listening to the Germans?
	You don't particularly understand us?
	I don't...
	I'm not feeling particularly any kinship with their arguments.
	They seem to be just taking...
	A lot of the Republicans have done this as well, that the idea of democracy is a total good, but as you said in the preface...
	Okay, democracy ends up with politicians like Boris Johnson who campaign on being a libertarian and then throw us under house arrest so they can just go back on their promises.
	I'd rather a relatively politically toothless monarchy but one that's funded as a figurehead of our country and stands as a sort of global flashpoint, a person that even our enemies celebrate the deaths of because it's almost like they couldn't believe she could actually die.
	It's almost like a crack in the armour but it's like, okay, I'll take the tears of the losers rather than scrapping our time-worn traditions.
	Yeah, I think, listen, I like the idea of the monarchy, I just don't think we should fund it.
	I think they're rich enough to, they should be self-sufficient now.
	Well, they mostly are, because a lot of the tourism they bring in and the royal estates actually recycle the...
	Yeah, so that should be their money, but we shouldn't give them a budget.
	And I think if you have that, then where's your complaint?
	You can't have a complaint then, because it's like they're doing their own thing.
	What are you upset about?
	And then I get that.
	Although, I have to say, DW News did choose a good picture for this.
	It does look like...
	My reservations about Charles' reign aside, the plump and circumstance, again, we do it better than any other country in the world.
	It's fantastic.
	Another enemy as well.
	So the Qatar state media has decided to say the UK is projected to spend an estimated nine million on Queen Elizabeth's funeral.
	Again, drop in the ocean.
	Amid warnings, the country is heading towards recession and skyrocketing costs of living.
	Over two million people in the UK cannot afford to eat every day.
	Surveys show, and it's a thread.
	But, reminder, Qatar have...
	We're one of the leading oil exporters.
	They'd love further destabilisation of our energy grid so we could keep buying from them.
	And if you'd like to talk about human rights abuses and not paying people properly, Qatar, do we want to talk about the amount of people that are buried beneath your World Cup stadium, by any chance?
	Or the slave labour?
	The skulls that have lined it, like some kind of Soviet canal?
	Don't they have...
	They've got rural family, Qatar, right?
	They're from...
	That's all Dubai, Saudi Arabia, all...
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And I'm telling you, as far as I know, at least the Queen's never had a journalist decapitated via a Zoom call in Turkey, right?
	Yeah, she at least had the dignity to be there and do it in person.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Or arrange a car to pick them up.
	Yeah, as you said with being frustrated about a homegrown stupidity and secessionist, we've actually imported this to the US as well, unfortunately.
	So I don't know if you've watched an episode of Secession.
	I haven't.
	Neither have I. I haven't bothered.
	It's creator Jesse Armstrong, who actually wrote The Thick of It and Peep Show as well.
	He recently won an Emmy for Best Drama Series and in his speech he decided to say it's a big week for Succession.
	New King in the UK this week.
	Evidently a little more voting involved in our winning than Prince Charles.
	Okay.
	Thanks for the virtue signal, I guess.
	There's Brian Cox, who's an English actor, he was on stage, decided to try and save it by going, keep it royalist, keep it royalist.
	And after the crowd were laughing, because obviously it was a gaggle of Americans, he said, I'm not saying that we're more legitimate in opposition than he is.
	We'll leave that to the people that we're incredibly grateful to have this.
	It's a wonderful honour.
	This group is extraordinary.
	It's a team effort.
	So, then we look at what the reason that inspires the session, and we see the same sort of tired old platitude talking points of democracy is paramount, and also everything I disagree with is entirely corrupt.
	So, in 2020, Armstrong sent unthank you messages to Trump, Boris Johnson, and COVID itself, after winning the Outstanding Drama series, again, and said, the US and UK leaders have a crummy and uncoordinated handling of COVID-19, and said, all the nationalists and the quasi-nationalist governments around the world have basically let their people die during this period.
	The plot of the series focused on the Murdoch family originally, but in 2015 it shifted to a fictionalised version of the Trump campaign.
	Of course it did.
	The first script reading for Succession was on election day in 2016.
	They planned to go back to their producer Adam McKay's apartment for a Hillary Clinton victory party.
	But as Trump's victory became clear, they started drinking whiskey from the bottle.
	Which is a nice little image.
	But again, why should I listen to the people who are saying, democracy now!
	We must elect people, they're much more legitimate, and they want to go with Hillary Clinton?
	Oh man, anytime I read like, you know, woke people or left people, if, for example, say just out of something, Prince Charles, I'm not going to become king, and neither is William, it's going to be Meghan and Harry.
	Do you know how much they'd be like, oh, Oh, this is the most greatest thing in the world.
	Oh, we look at this progressive and all this.
	It's because they haven't got their way.
	They don't like what's happening, but they've got no nuance of like, you know, you can disagree with something, but you can also recognize the benefits and stuff.
	And they refuse to do that.
	And the fact that even today, you know, they're still banging on about Trump.
	It's like, without Trump, they have nothing.
	They've lost their mind over Donald Trump.
	And if you take his name away from it, and you look at, objectively, his record as a president, you don't know.
	You just blind look at it.
	He was a good president.
	Money was up.
	Inflation was down.
	Not like now, where the gas prices are $7, whatever they are.
	He wasn't starting any new wars.
	Energy-independent.
	He was a good...
	I'm Iranian.
	I've got no reason to like the guy, right?
	My background's Iranian, right?
	But he was objectively a good president, but they just refused to acknowledge that.
	They refused to acknowledge, like, you're so progressive.
	Oh, we love women's rights.
	Why are you pulled out of Afghanistan, just left all the women there to be...
	What do you think has happened to them now?
	You think they're nice and free and you don't care.
	You only care about your own...
	What's good for you?
	and you lecture from this kind of position of privilege and you talk down to people, people are sick and tired of it.
	And there's going to be a backlash in the US in the midterms and there's already one happened in Sweden yesterday, right?
	So it's coming.
	It's not from a position of principle.
	They're just mad that the institution isn't ideologically captured yet.
	And Charles is very left-wing.
	He's very on board with the net zero agenda as we covered yesterday in a particularly contentious segment.
	It's just this is a sort of death rattle of saying like, oh, I'm not getting my way yet.
	And so we're just going to rally against you until you bend the knee to us.
	And sorry, I'm not going to listen to appeals to democracy or legitimacy from the kind of people that wanted to elect a sociopath that said about Gaddafi, he came, he saw, he died, and then plunged The entire country into being a massive open-air slave auction.
	Not exactly lovely.
	Then let's check on the rest of America's ignorant leftists, shall we?
	As we previously mentioned, Douglas Murray.
	He went on an interview with Sky News Australia talking about the New York Times and CNN who were positively gleeful at the fall of the colonial queen.
	So let's take a listen to these clips.
	This week, I think the paper hit what is just a new low even for it.
	Within hours of the news of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the newspaper decided to immediately run an incredibly hostile piece by a left-wing non-entity academic talking about colonialism, empire, and the crimes of colonialism, empire, and the crimes of colonialism, and that Elizabeth II had much to answer for, and this sort of thing.
	They didn't even leave it 24 hours before doing this, and we've seen in the days since other left-wing media join in, CNN, MSNBC, they've all decided to display not just animus against the Crown and against Great Britain and the Commonwealth, they've all decided to display not just animus against the Crown and against Great Britain and the Commonwealth, they've also
	I mean, they seem to believe that, for instance, Elizabeth II oversaw the empire.
	They seem to believe the British royal family made its way.
	Wealth from colonialism.
	They seem to think that the colonial era was so terrible that the Commonwealth countries must have been strong-armed into joining the Commonwealth.
	They've totally ignored the fact, of course, That every Commonwealth country's leadership, quite understandably, has been expressing their mourning and grief for the loss of Elizabeth II. And why would that be if she was such a tyrannical ruler?
	Only because that's in the head of these very twisted, spiteful, hateful people like the New York Times.
	It's quite amazing to watch and very disturbing.
	Because it's a reminder, if I can say so, that institutions like the New York Times used to be great institutions.
	And they've been destroyed by hatred.
	And that's the exact opposite of what Queen Elizabeth showed in her own lifetime, which is that you build institutions with love, with love and loyalty.
	And that's something that the CNN, MSNBC and your times, they wouldn't understand the language we were speaking in there.
	So I'd question Murray's characterisation of the New York Times being a great institution, just because Harry covered a book a little while ago called The Grey Lady Winks, and it goes through how they basically covered up Haldemar, you know, the USSR. Yeah, they ran into, for instance, like Time magazine making Hitler, you know, Person of the Year.
	Have you never seen that cover?
	No.
	It's wild.
	Look it up.
	So all of these institutions have often gotten things very wrong and backed the wrong horse historically.
	But now they're coming out and having had that record, coming out and saying, oh, the Queen who saw a massive decommissioning of the Empire, which in many respects didn't go the right way.
	I mean, we see Hong Kong being subsumed by China.
	We see Barbados joining the Belt and Road Initiative.
	It's not great to break away from British Association.
	They're saying she's one of the most genocidal figures who's ever lived, and it just doesn't quite add up.
	It's not exactly journalistic integrity.
	I mean, yeah, the whole thing is they're being disingenuous as well, because the Queen, in reality, had little power.
	She's the Prime Minister and the politicians of the day who make those kind of decisions, and the Queen's just like, like you said, she's a figurehead.
	She's more for us than someone to look up to than someone who's like, oh, we're going to do this, this, and this.
	And yeah, Douglas was like, yeah, the Commonwealth all expressed their mourning, but countries are still wanting to join the Commonwealth.
	So what is it, Namibia?
	Didn't they, like, recently joined, or they were one of the newer countries to join.
	I think, double fact check that, definitely could be wrong, but I think I'm right.
	So I mean, like, if it's so awful to be part of the Commonwealth, why would countries ask to join the Commonwealth?
	Why would Jair Bolsonaro have a massive outpouring of love in his statement to the Queen, despite Brazil never having associated with it, if he didn't have some reverence for her as a sort of international grandmother in many respects, and also Britain as a force for good in the world?
	You know what it is?
	I think 99% of people in the whole world, most countries, all respected and admired the Queen.
	there's one percent who are online who have a platform and unfortunately all the online discourse has to go through this this kind of one percent who get to kind of control the narrative and they were that you could see well you can in fact you can you can visually see but go look at the the queue tracker a 35 hour queue it goes down all the way to tower bridge right that's that's the reality not a pink head non-binary
	oh after monarchy abolish this like the reality is There's a 35 hour queue and it's going to last for days.
	The socialists are just wrong about the British working class having no ties to its patriotic identity.
	Absolutely.
	The working class definitely love the Queen.
	They super love the Queen.
	The Americans though remain ignorant of this.
	So Douglas was then subjected to watching this clip from CNN. You know, this idea of how the royal family, how this family grapples with its history and legacy of colonialism, of slavery, of the potential paying of reparations is a really important one.
	I think that King Charles understands that his job is, yes, as a monarch, but he's also an anchor for this commonwealth.
	She said a thieving, raping, genocidal empire is finally dying.
	May her pain be excruciating.
	It was a thieving, raping, genocidal empire.
	I'm lost for words.
	Step in.
	First of all, if the British Empire had been genocidal, the people in question wouldn't be alive.
	They wouldn't be speaking.
	If the British Empire had been a genocidal empire, it would have tried to kill all of the people under its rule.
	It did no such thing.
	There wouldn't be any people in the countries that were under British rule if the British Empire had been genocidal.
	Genocidal is the intent to wipe out an entire people.
	The British Empire never tried to do that anywhere.
	That's the first thing.
	The second thing is...
	Absolute moron we just saw first from CNN talking about reparations.
	She has no idea in her own racist hatred that Britain paid reparations 250 years ago.
	We paid reparations throughout the 19th century.
	We paid reparations for slavery by abolishing it under George III and then policing the high seas to ensure that slavery not only was outlawed across the British territories, but was outlawed across the high seas.
	We paid higher goods in Britain throughout the 19th century, higher prices in goods, because we wouldn't deal in slaving countries such as the United States of America.
	And so when people talk about reparations today, it demonstrates not just their own basically give me cash mentality, which is all that you see here, but also the incredible ignorance.
	They don't know that That Britain paid down any moral and financial debt it ever had 200 years ago under very distant predecessors of Queen Elizabeth II. And these people are not just money, tin-rattling moneymakers.
	They're also just constantly showing their unbelievable ignorance of everything that happened before the day they were born.
	It's just also very frustrating, the idea that reparations were never paid when we're technically still paying them.
	So in 2010, there were headlines about how we'd finally paid off the debt to police high seas to stop slavery.
	But it turns out we paid that off through borrowing.
	So technically, we're still paying it back because we haven't even paid off the borrowing that we used to pay off the...
	Oh wow.
	So we're still paying it in the UK now.
	You can't even claim reparations please.
	Especially because lots of Nigerian commentators say, oh we've had it absolutely, our country was destroyed by resulting civil wars and slavery.
	We heard of a guy called King Geza of Benin.
	I have not heard of a guy.
	Okay.
	So in Benin, he was the king of the region and the British Empire rocked up on his shores and said to him, okay, you've got to end the slave trade.
	And when they were walking to his kingdom, along the sides of the road were slaves and also disemboweled men, women and children.
	Lovely.
	Very civilised.
	And they said to him, stop.
	And he said, actually, slave trade has been the ruling principle of my people.
	It is the source of their glory and wealth.
	Their songs celebrate their victories, and the mother lulls the child to sleep with the notes of the triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery.
	And so he wouldn't stop slavery and child sacrifice when the British asked him to.
	So the idea that we owe Nigeria reparations, when some of the most successful venerated kings...
	One of the statues they have is of a woman who is actually a slave trader...
	I mean, what people, you know, they refuse to acknowledge that, first of all, there's slavery still going on today.
	The Uyghur Muslims in Libya, it's literally open, like you say, that's not conducive to their narrative, right?
	That's Africans in Libya taking advantage of other Africans.
	The narrative only works when it's white people who've done it.
	There was slavery before the Roman Empire, the Iranian Empire.
	Do you think the British Empire was the first one?
	No.
	What I would say is that it's a little bit of a failure of the UK education system that it's not taught that they paid the reparations, that it's not made known that, you know, we're still paying it to this day.
	And I think we were still paying, like, there's a lot of things that no one knows.
	We were still paying the US back for, like, the world wars, like, up until, like, a couple years ago.
	Yes.
	And they're like, oh, we're with special relationship, but why are you still taking money from us?
	Yeah, for the Marshall Plan, yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, well, it's because of a massive historical narrative of self-flagellation.
	It's an overcorrection for Britain's imperial successes throughout history by the leftists who hate this country.
	And it's as George Orwell once said, you'll find most socialists would sooner steal from a poor box than sing God Save the King.
	Hmm.
	That seems to be coming to fruition as people wait in line for the Queen's funeral.
	So, another terrible news host.
	I'm sorry to put you through this, but MSNBC are whining about the horrors of colonialism and actually encounter some pushback from a British historian.
	Joining our conversation now is Dr.
	Andrew Roberts.
	He's an MSNBC British historian, the author of many books about the royal family, including...
	The Royal House of Windsor and George III, the life and reign of Britain's most misunderstood monarch.
	Andrew, good to see you.
	Thank you for being with us this morning or this afternoon in London.
	Let's discuss this.
	The idea that there were people...
	We just had an historian say that there are many people who are Queenists.
	They're not monarchists.
	They liked her.
	They're either bored with the institution or think that it needs to change or aren't going to be that into the next king.
	Give us your evaluation of that.
	I think that's wildly overstated, frankly.
	I think when you look at all the opinion polls, we're about 80 to 85% in favour of having a constitutional monarchy, whoever's on the throne.
	So I think this is extremely overdone, frankly.
	Rather, I'm afraid to say, as your introduction was, if we had given so much pain to people throughout history, Why was Charles chosen by every single Commonwealth country, many of which the former imperial countries, as the head of the Commonwealth?
	Andrew, hold on a second.
	Andrew, are you really denying what I just said about British colonialism?
	Are you really doing that, Andrew?
	Are you really doing that?
	Andrew, Andrew, this is not a propaganda show.
	Andrew, I need you to stop.
	I need you to stop for a second.
	Are you really taking issue with the horrors of colonialism, Andrew?
	I'm certainly taking issue with your remarks about slavery, which we abolished 32 years before you did, and we didn't have to kill 600,000 people in a civil war over it.
	Yeah, so that little bespectacled testicle wasn't too delighted.
	The fact that the British did it with that much bloodshed, didn't they?
	He looks like Penfield from Danger Mouse.
	You're spot on with that, actually.
	Wow.
	Go and look that up for anyone who's too zoomer to know that reference, but that is dead on.
	Wow.
	As you preface, there was also cringe from The Onion.
	Yeah, and this was literally hours on the date.
	It's not that they can't do satire, it's just that it wasn't that funny.
	It's not even funny anything.
	I mean, it's not funny...
	I saw a few funny things about the Queen, but this was not funny at all.
	Yeah, for audio listeners, their headline is, Deceased Queen Elizabeth continues to wave at subjects as maggots writhe inside the corpse.
	Okay.
	Again, it's just not...
	It's edgy for the sake of being edgy.
	I'm not going to say they can't do it.
	Here's the thing, though, right?
	Yeah.
	All of this edginess, this is like...
	What you're seeing now is you're seeing, like, safe edgy.
	This edgy is, oh, look how edgy we're being, look how edgy...
	It's like you're being edgy within the parameters of, like, how can we be, like, pro-everything, what the message is?
	Like, this is...
	Like, actually, what would be edgy is if they said something like...
	George Floyd.
	Yeah.
	They would never do that.
	No, exactly, they wouldn't.
	That would be edgy.
	They would never do that.
	They would never walk that line, of course.
	So, if we just get to how to deal with these people, shall we?
	First of all, I'd like to just deflect to Mary Harrington.
	I am once again asking American progressives to take a deep breath and tolerate another country's worldview and culture being a major news item for the next few days.
	Translation, shut up, please.
	And then, I don't really often like things that are framed as the left of the real racists, but this was actually quite an interesting article posted in the Telegraph by Mutez Ahmed.
	Forget wokery, the monarchy is the real bastion of anti-racism.
	Now, of course, the term anti-racism is a communist dog whistle.
	But if he's trying to reclaim it, he does actually a half-decent job in here.
	How bizarre self-flagellation over the legacy of the British Empire must seem.
	When the last week's dreadful news broke, the parents of my Ghanaian friend shared with him a picture of the late queen dancing with Kwame Nkrumah, one of Africa's most famous Republican revolutionaries.
	To them, it must have symbolized the grace with which Queen Elizabeth handled the dissolution of the empire, as opposed to the belief of some ignorant New York Times writers that she should be held responsible for colonial crimes.
	I would wager that this bond between minorities and the monarchy runs deeper still.
	For it is also a form of protection.
	In swearing an oath to a living sovereign, rather than to a land or a written constitution, we descendants of immigrants are sheltered from the inclination of some other nations to transform citizenship into a question of blood and soil.
	Nor do we, unlike African Americans, have the problem of justifying our allegiance to a legal document drafted by people who themselves own slaves.
	So, we as Britain, and this is why the Americans can't really comment on it very well, they're going to always infight over their sacred document, what word means what, how they can define equality, and as Carl said when he covered the Queen's passing on Thursday, you never see this outpouring for a presidential funeral.
	We have a very different relationship in this country.
	We have bonds of sentiment.
	And he's saying here, the idea that the British Empire is uniquely evil is ludicrous, because it created this culture of...
	Almost like bringing tolerance to the rest of the world.
	Stopping bridal burnings in India, for example.
	And it's only in the safe haven of the UK that ethnicities don't enslave each other like they do in Libya at the moment.
	Instead, you can self-associate, you can join the queue, participate in British customs and consider yourself an Englishman.
	I think...
	What certain sections of society I failed to realise is how much immigrants who come over here and want to be part of Britain really love the country and the institutions.
	So the day the Queen died, I went to Tesco's to get some stuff.
	My mum was like, give me a cake, right?
	So I went and got her a cake, right?
	And I was in Tesco's.
	There was two women talking.
	One was a woman in a hijab and one was just a...
	Like a white woman and they were chatting about the death of the Queen and the woman in the hijab said she broke down and she was crying.
	She was that upset.
	She was like in her head.
	She was upset.
	I saw her as I walked in and she was crying about over the death of the Queen because When immigrants come over here and they want to integrate, they want to be part...
	They're proud to be...
	If they've genuinely fled asylum, right?
	And I'm not talking about, oh, they've come over from Paris where they're already safe.
	Yeah, they're not floating over on a rubber duck yet.
	But they've come over here and they've made the life...
	They're proud to be British and they're upset.
	And the Americans will never get it.
	They'll never get it because even if you have a president, as long as he's going to be is two terms.
	It's not the same.
	Since everyone alive basically today, except for the oldest people, the Queen's been a mainstay of their life.
	And even if you're against the monarchy, the fact that the Queen passed was a kind of like...
	A moment for you to reflect on mortality, your life, how much time has passed, your parents are going to get old.
	And it came all down to that.
	That's why I said it showed the callousness of these people because You can be against the monarchy, fine.
	But people weren't just, like, upset because the Queen died.
	It was a reflection on themselves.
	She felt like, oh, that could be my gran, that could be someone else.
	And then for them to come out and do that, oh, the Queen's thriving with that, it just shows that you're so off...
	Like, of what people actually think.
	You're so out of touch and you're so...
	And your first thing is to be bitter and spiteful and callous and let me ruin that person's day when they're already upset, when they're already angry, when they're already feeling pain.
	Let me go and push the knife in for what to make for a little...
	which isn't even funny.
	Your joke's not even funny.
	So, they really think...
	And a lot of immigrants, they love the Queen.
	Some immigrants love the Queen more than British people do because they're so happy that they've been accepted in to Britain.
	They had to earn it to get here.
	We were just born here.
	That's why this guy finished the article, funnily enough, with...
	The monarchy, in being a living embodiment of the nation and in guaranteeing liberty for everyone, has also become a protector of minority rights.
	The basic truth utterly enrages the Republican left.
	Long may it continue to do so.
	And, I mean...
	This guy, I don't know if he's a first or second generation immigrant, but with writing like this, I'm glad you're my countryman, my friend.
	So if you'd like to see some better reporting than most of these leftists of the actual historical event at the time, I'm just going to link to Carl and Callum's coverage on the day.
	I just thought the gentleman in the office just did some eloquent stuff here.
	And...
	To finish with a final, I suppose, bittersweet, wholesome little note.
	The royal beekeeper had to inform the Queen that the bees had died.
	It's a really strange little tradition, apparently.
	But he had to go up to the hives and he said, Speaking from Buckingham Palace Gardens, Mr.
	Chappell, who's the beekeeper, said to the male, I'm at the hives now and it is traditional when someone dies that you go to the hives and say a little prayer and put a black ribbon on the hive.
	I drape the hives with a black ribbon and bow.
	The person who died is the master or mistress of the hives, someone important in the family who dies...
	And you don't have anyone more important than the Queen, do you?
	So you knock on each hive and say, the mistress is dead, but don't you go, your master will be a good master to you.
	I've done the hives at Clarence House and now I'm in Buckingham Palace doing the same.
	And so there's something to take away here is even nature itself is being somewhat bittersweetly affected by the passing of this totemic figure in world history.
	And so we're a quaint little country.
	Our sentiments and sense of national identity are what bond us together.
	It's what our enemies and sometimes the leftists and the propositional nations that hate their own country, let alone ours, don't quite understand.
	But as you said, the people that come to this country and genuinely be a part of it and the people who have grown up all their lives with the Queen as some sort of ephemeral grandmother really cared about this passing.
	And so...
	In many respects, God save the Queen.
	God bless.
	John himself says, My letter of citizenship states invitation by patent on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen.
	So, our own fantastic editor is here because of Her Majesty.
	It's very sad that she's passed and up yours to anyone who wants to make light of it, I suppose.
	I'd agree with that.
	I thought you were quite eloquent there, so I'll let you finish that.
	Oh thanks, that's alright, no worries.
	So on to some more mockery, shall we?
	Let's mock overseas.
	So in revenge for the terrible leftists making fun of our dearly departed Queen, now we're going to mock the delusional Democrats and them entering some kind of downfall ahead of the midterms because there's a lot of coping and seething in the mainstream media and none of it's really warranted.
	Biden's just a rampant embarrassment.
	Speaking of the alternative, you can go to LotusEaters.com and watch Carl's video, It Must Be Trump, saying that the great Orange Hope must ride back over the hill and complete his narrative arc.
	It's a brilliantly edited video.
	The music's fantastic.
	And it even got a mention by Tim Paul, 40 minutes into TimCar607, When he had Robert Darby, the director of the new film My Son Hunter, you know, with Lawrence Fox and Gina Carano, he was on and he said Robert should go watch it.
	So I'm looking forward to watching that film because it actually looks quite funny.
	Lawrence Fox is apparently a method actor standing around in his underwear smoking cigarettes, so it should be a good laugh.
	So we'll move on to topsy-turvy land, shall we?
	Here's an article from Axios.
	Biden's lucky streak.
	Do you think he's going particularly well for dementia-ridden old Joe?
	Well, the funniest thing I saw this week was a CNN thing about, it's like, Biden's success, and then on the same screen is like, and I think the headline was like, inflation is down, and then on the thing at the stock market or something, and it just grew tanking.
	All in the red, yeah.
	Yeah, it was so funny.
	This is just, some of the stuff they put in here is insane.
	President Biden and Democrats have ridden a wave of good news all summer.
	In what bubble?
	On an improving economy, big legislative wins, and even unlikely gains by Ukraine.
	Now, not to be pessimistic, but it doesn't look like Ukraine's winning, especially if you back Vladimir Putin into a corner and you're just going to press the big red button.
	Also, legislative wins, they're talking about the Inflation Reduction Act, the one that's spending mass amounts of billions on climate initiatives, which will not work and will immiserate the country, and improving economy.
	As you said, the stock market's in a hell of a state and inflation is awful.
	All they've done is redefine the word recession to try and get themselves out of one.
	They're asking you to...
	This is what we're saying.
	Believe what we say, not what you see, not what's happening.
	The fact that you can't buy...
	The fact that you can't...
	Buy an electric car if you've got 60 grand.
	Now you can't charge it because we can't...
	We've turned your power off on the grid.
	Get a diesel generator and plug your car into that, which will create even more pollution.
	I mean, I think...
	I'm watching it and I think...
	Are people not...
	Like, surely you can see that this is one of the hope...
	The man's shaking hands with thin air.
	He's shaking hands with thin air.
	He's objectively useless since he's come in.
	And I wouldn't mind if he was just useless and he was useless in America.
	Fine.
	But he's so useless That we're paying more in our petrol.
	He's so useless that I'm paying more in my electricity because this idiot can't deal with his own business because these people want to, oh, we've got to net zero this and that.
	Mind your own business.
	You talk about imperialism, it stays your own thing.
	That's actually why Trump was good because he was America first.
	Exactly.
	And also, the fact that he was America first meant that he repatriated fracking and oil production.
	They became energy independent for the first time since Nixon set the target in the 60s.
	Coinciding with that, because he brought emissions down by using fracking, they were the country from 2017 to 2019 that had the biggest amount in reductions of emissions, even though they said, oh, he's a climate denier, he's cutting out the Paris Accords.
	So Trump was still in office if the 2020 election would have gone differently, shall we say, for YouTube.
	Yeah.
	Then we could have been buying oil from America right now and a cheap gas.
	But unfortunately, Joe Biden day one decommissioned the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have been operational by now.
	And then if you look at the graphs, and I covered this for the American Spectator a little while ago, it goes up, up, up for Trump, hits Joe Biden's first day in office, and oil production plummets.
	And that's the reason.
	It's Biden administration policy.
	The rest of the world is worse off.
	So then they also say, between the lines, Republicans' self-inflicted troubles have helped Democrats as well.
	Self-inflicted, such as, Republican money troubles are compounded by Trump hoarding $100 million in his Save America pack.
	They're talking about him like a smaug from The Hobbit, rather than just getting funding because he's obviously the most popular candidate and Republicans like him.
	I think it's like 70% would say they'd vote for Trump if he was in the primary.
	So he's the de facto nominee.
	That's why they're trying to character assassinate him and take him out of the race with the FBI. So let's go back to reality, shall we?
	Instead, let's check Joe Biden's job approval rating with RealClearPolitics aggregate.
	So it turns out he's got 53% disapproval rating and about a 10% margin lead in that direction.
	Compared to Trump on the same day, two years into their presidency, Trump had a 9.4% margin in favour of the exact same disapproval rating.
	So Trump was actually more popular and less divisive than Joe Biden.
	So when he turns around and says, oh, the great mugger king, dark mugger, Trump was ruining America.
	Trump was not The murder of American cohesion.
	He might have been the coroner and pronounced it dead on the scene, but the Democrats have been waging this war against the American people for a very long time before that.
	And it was set in motion, as you said, by American imperialism.
	I don't think the Patriot Act was all that great for cohesion.
	No?
	Spying on your own citizens and saying, oh, if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear.
	Well, clearly not.
	Not exactly great for civil rights, was it?
	Biden's disapproval was probably because of stunts like this.
	I'm sure you saw this famous image.
	Oh, I saw this...
	I genuinely couldn't believe, when I saw that, that it wasn't photoshopped.
	Yeah.
	That they...
	Listen, whether you're religious, whether...
	For me, that looks like the devil or something, right?
	It looks like he's summoning Baphomet to devour his political opponents.
	Moloch.
	He's a...
	This is like the most Nazi image propaganda stormtroopers behind him.
	The funniest thing is then, like...
	Surely you see that.
	Then you see left journalists going, oh, this is such a...
	He always has state troopers there or whatever, the Marine Guards.
	This is just an image.
	If it had been Trump, if that had been a picture of Donald Trump, The whole of them would have gone into meltdown.
	There'd be car crashes on the street.
	Well, whoever's in charge of the optics as well clearly didn't see Back to the Future 2 because it looks like the clock tower he's in front of is the Biff nightmare future where he builds the casino.
	Just why would you position yourself as the villain?
	You know what it is?
	I genuinely think right now, just the feeling I'm getting, that...
	They want this.
	The fact that they're, I said, oh, Marga Republicans are the baddies.
	It's such a cunning, cunning thing because if you start labeling Marga Republicans, that's the other party, right?
	Then you can't, then it's a one party thing.
	And then this guy suddenly, like, he's, it's kind of dictatorial, like the way, if this had been another, if this This election is kind of crazy.
	We need to take a look at this.
	If these posts were coming, votes coming in at night, one party saying the other party can't be voted for.
	They're a threat to democracy and we're going to want it to this.
	We're going to send the FBI or we're going to send the secret police into their party headquarters.
	You think, wow, those guys are like, they're the baddies.
	And then they're all like, I think we're the goodies.
	I think we're the...
	This is the optics of Big Brother is watching you, goody.
	I mean, he looks so divisive.
	And then the funny thing is, the next day, he went straight face to the camera, like, well, I didn't say those things.
	No, no, yeah.
	Yeah, that's why Carl called him Dr.
	Joe and Mr.
	Biden.
	Just taking a serum and busting out of his clothes, and he's this sort of gangrous creature.
	They doped him up that night, gave him some mess.
	Yeah.
	He's scrounging around, hey Hunter, you got any crack left?
	See, but for me that screams insecurity, because I think they just know they're barely clinging on, and so they're trying to do too much of a show of strength, and they're overplaying their hand.
	And I think some of their responses to this soon is revelatory.
	They know they're going to lose, so they're going to do their damnedest to...
	To ensure that the narrative is scaring enough of the American people to try and scare people into thinking that voting Trump is untenable.
	Yeah, that's what they're doing.
	So by saying, if you vote for Trump, then 100% you're a racist.
	You can't get a job if you vote.
	Because being labelled a racist is the worst thing you could be labelled, right?
	Or maybe transphobic now.
	Other than paedophile.
	Yeah.
	I don't know that.
	But it being labelled as written, then you're like, oh, I'm watching your job.
	Just scares people into not voting for that way.
	And then they're trying to galvanise their support with the abortion issue that came up.
	Then they're like, oh, if you don't vote for us, then this will happen.
	So they're galvanising their support and they're demonising Republicans.
	And they're trying and they've done it in a smart way.
	They say, oh, it's only Margaret Republicans.
	They're all Margaret Republicans!
	Yeah, 74 million Americans, yeah, at least.
	Yeah, all of them, anyway.
	So funny, you raised the abortion issue.
	This is what the Republicans are doing in response.
	So Senator Lindsey Graham responded to this image, this terrible speech with,"...with all due respect, Mr.
	President, there's nothing wrong with America's soul.
	The American people are hurting because of your policies.
	Rampant inflation, out-of-control crime, terrorism on the rise, broken borders.
	Stop lecturing and change your policies before it's too late." Now, obviously, Lindsey Graham, I don't know how much you know about this guy, he was very full-throated in his defense of Brett Kavanaugh when he was being put for that show trial, and then as soon as the Democrats win, he's high-fiving Kamala Harris in the Senate, and so people were going, well, either you're a do-nothing or you're a traitor.
	But now it seems like Lindsey Graham is maybe doing something after all.
	Because the Republicans, if we go to the next one, John, are seeking to impose a federal abortion ban after Roe v.
	Wade.
	Up to 15 weeks of pregnancy.
	So they're having a mandatory cut-off point.
	And it's called the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.
	So it bans abortions up until the point where children have a central nervous system and can be detected resisting abortion equipment.
	Which people like...
	Oh, I forget her name, but she was originally a Planned Parenthood nurse, and she quit the industry because she was watching an ultrasound, and she watched the baby writhe away from the abortion instruments and went, okay, I'm going to go and campaign against this now.
	This is based on a similar premise.
	Now, of course, if you're anti-abortion, you're going to turn around and say, well, any abortion at any stage is on principle wrong.
	So this is just, you know, even though you're trying to slowly walk to an abortion ban, there's still going to be babies dead in the interim.
	But this seems to be, for the first time, the Republicans willing to actually...
	Wield a bit of power and influence in the culture, and try and push an issue forward.
	Yeah, I mean, I think...
	Isn't that, like, the standard cut-off?
	Like, in Europe, it's 15 weeks as well.
	Yeah, so it wouldn't be outside the norm.
	Here, it's 24, which is, again, very late along.
	Okay.
	I mean, I think, you know, that definitely...
	Abortion is a polemical situation.
	I've got my moral views on abortion, but then you've got reality.
	So...
	But having said that, I mean, abortion should always be the last resort.
	But I mean, 24, how long is a, I mean, I don't know enough about pregnancy, but how long is a pregnancy?
	Like 36 weeks or something?
	40.
	40 weeks.
	So that's 24 weeks, six months are long.
	Yeah, six months in, come on, that's a baby that you can't even argue with that.
	So there's definitely, there should be a cutoff.
	It's not for me to tell other people what to do, but they've gone through with it.
	I was under the impression it was 15 weeks in Europe.
	Depends on the country.
	And it brings it in line with that.
	Some of the things are so crazy what they were arguing.
	I think it was Virginia.
	And they were saying you could leave the baby and just leave it to die.
	That's evil.
	That's been voted on the Senate, by the way.
	So the Democrat Senators voted down the Born Alive Protection Act.
	And that means that the baby survived abortions would have to be given mandatory medical care by a doctor.
	And they voted that down.
	So now it's legal.
	And it's happened in Minnesota in multiple cases.
	I think about six babies have survived abortions and been left on operating tables.
	That is actually...
	Yeah, that's actually...
	How can you defend that?
	Ethically, morally, how can you defend that?
	That's disgusting.
	So, Indiana has become the only state, actually, it's in this article still, that has imposed a near-total abortion ban, except in the cases of rape, incest, fetal abnormality, or serious risk to life and health of the mother.
	Obviously, there's some wiggle room there that you can argue with, especially Josh and I spoke about this sort of stuff when we covered our morality of abortion video.
	We had a pretty congenial debate on that, so I advise you go and watch that to find where you line up on lotusseaters.com.
	They're currently having an Indiana judge hearing lawsuits brought by abortion providers against that bill.
	in four days' time, so we'll see how that one pans out.
	It'll be an interesting constitutional test case as to whether the Republicans can actually get this done.
	So if the Republicans are also taking suggestions on what they should do, should they win the midterms, here's something that the American public, I'm sure you and I, would definitely push for.
	Congressional bans on selling and trading stocks.
	So the New York Times have done a deep dive into a cross-party group of people who have been selling and trading stocks based on their insider information they get from congressional committees.
	So from 2019 to 2021, 183 current senators or representatives reported a trade of stock or another financial asset by themselves or an immediate family member.
	More than half of them sat on congressional committees that gave them insight into the companies whose shares they reported buying or selling.
	Over a three-year period, 97 lawmakers or their family members bought or sold assets in over 3,700 trades in industries affected by their committee work.
	The 3,700 trades amounted to more than 10% of the transactions by Congress and the 97 members who were flagged by the Times were more than half of the people who reported trades, nearly a fifth of Congress and equally split between Republicans and Democrats.
	It's just a staggering amount.
	So...
	Have you heard about Nancy Pelosi's husband?
	Hey baby, actually, I'm against this, right?
	I think we should keep it as it is because I follow Nancy Pelosi stockpicker on Twitter and it's currently my pension plan.
	Just anything she buys, I buy.
	Nvidia, I'm all about that.
	You just tell me, Nancy, and I'll buy it because, listen, she's the greatest investor since Warren Buffett and I respect her for her investing acumen and knowledge.
	Oh, she just...
	I think NVIDIA, with their new chip, which is going to power the latest, greatest PCs and Radeon processors, that's the one!
	I can see into the future.
	It's just annoying she's actually done any trading at all.
	Man, her salary's like 200 grand a year.
	She's got a net wealth of like 50 million dollars or more.
	A million quid freezer full of ice cream.
	How's that happen?
	Come on now.
	That is disgusting.
	And the thing, you know what's really annoying?
	They get away with it, yet when you get some wannabe trader at home, he's just doing his own thing on Wall Street bets, and he does it right and he follows it, and then they're going to lose, suddenly they pull the plugs, you can't buy any more of that stock, you can't buy any more of that, and they pull that.
	So the game's rigged.
	Everyone knows the game's rigged, but this is just at least try and hide that the game is rigged.
	Have you seen the 87,000 IRS agents that have been hired and armed?
	They need guns.
	Yeah.
	Pay your taxes!
	Exactly!
	Well, they did a training scenario on camera, and the training scenario wasn't breaking into Jeff Bezos' office or any congressman.
	It was a small business owner who'd forgot to put down that he'd bought a lawnmower for his business on his taxes, and they just busted in and arrested him.
	So it's not that they're going after Pelosi, it's they're coming after you and me.
	Of course!
	Of course, listen...
	Our counterparts in the States, of course.
	Yeah, well, I mean, that's a joke.
	Let's like say, invade the Cayman Islands.
	Have we all forgotten about the Panama Papers?
	Yep.
	Everyone's like...
	We can't discuss that because of President Zelensky being completely upstanding and transparent and a bastion of democracy, of course.
	Listen, comedy pays well.
	He was a billionaire before...
	I'll tell you that, baby.
	He was a billionaire before he even made it into...
	Yeah, you got a limo here.
	Yeah, I got a limo here.
	I'm a private jet all the way from...
	Yeah, when are you taking over from Liz Truss?
	All the way from Reading to here...
	So, apparently, the 97 members of the New York Times that they analysed did not include Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
	The reason was her disclosure filings were not flagged because she doesn't sit on any legislative committees.
	She's just the Speaker of the House and speaks to literally everyone, but she doesn't have any kind of privy information at all.
	Her husband, Paul Pelosi, is a real estate and technology investor who reported buying and selling between $25 million and $81 million worth of stocks and other financial assets between 2019 and 2021.
	Read that again.
	How much?
	How much?
	Between $25 million and $81 million worth of stocks.
	I like the way they just...
	They say it so nonchalantly that the figures just roll off.
	You're like, $25 million?
	Or $81.
	Higher and lower, we're going to play.
	But...
	If you're an American reading that, you can't afford to put petrol in your car.
	And her husband's just 25 to 81 million.
	That's no big deal.
	Everyone does that.
	What's the problem?
	No privy information there at all.
	Why don't you do it?
	Why are you being so lazy?
	Why don't you do 25 to 85 million dollars worth of trading?
	Just get a second job.
	So, there's a quote here: "In the absence of restrictions, Mr. Pelosi's transaction alone have spawned a cottage industry of social media accounts and trade tracking services to help investors emulate his market moves, often accompanied by scathing commentary about his wife's potential conflicts of interest.
	The Speaker does not own any stocks," a spokesman for Ms. Pelosi said, adding that she has no prior knowledge or subsequent involvement in any transactions."
	It just so happens that most of the stocks listed in this report and in prior reports about when stocks were dumped during COVID or right before Ukraine involved defense contractors, pharmaceutical companies, environmental technology companies that they're legislating around, and social media companies which are given impunity to suppress information that might be otherwise disadvantageous to President Biden.
	How convenient.
	That sounds like, suspiciously like, a conspiracy theory.
	We can't, we can't, we can't, we can never possibly say that.
	Definitely not.
	Allegedly, allegedly.
	Yeah.
	So, this is why, if the Republicans want to win, a morning consult poll in January showed that almost two-thirds of respondents across parties would like to see a ban on members of Congress trading.
	And actually, many Congress people themselves have pushed for this.
	But, shockingly, it hasn't gotten through because...
	Well, not just Democrats holding the House, but the Uniparty.
	So I advise the Republicans to clear out their base of anyone who would have done things like vote for American imperialism, as you so rightly say.
	They should...
	If you were an actual politician who cared about the country, they should do it for...
	You can't take on, like, sponsors from other people.
	You can't take...
	You only earn your salary.
	That's it.
	And that's actually why...
	Trump.
	They don't like Trump.
	He didn't need the money.
	He donated it.
	He donated it.
	He didn't need the money.
	And some other Republican congresspeople are actually doing that.
	There was someone on Tim Pool's show the other day who's doing the same thing.
	So, God bless you.
	So, an incentive to perhaps double down for the Republicans?
	Might be that CNN becomes their new press arm in a twist of fate.
	Some crying from The Guardian here.
	CNN becomes right-wing?
	The new objective CNN appears to be making itself objectively right-wing.
	Because reality has a conservative bias, it seems.
	Now, it's a pretty delusional article, but we kind of wish it was true, but I'll read some of it.
	CNN wants to be the new Fox News, and it's not even trying to hide it.
	Earlier this year, Chris Lich became the new CEO of the cable news network, and made it clear he was going to change the network's direction.
	One of Lich's first moves was to embark on what Axios described as a Capitol Hill Diplomacy Tour, and others described it as a Republican bootlicking tour.
	Lich met with lawmakers who had become wary of cable news and promised them that CNN would What does that mean in practice?
	Well, it means firing anyone who's critical of Donald Trump or Republicans.
	Please.
	After purging progressive voices, and that includes Brian Stelter, Chris Cuomo, etc., Liszt has made his first big hire, announcing on Tuesday that John Miller would be going on CNN as the network's chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst.
	The new analyst is a former New York Police Department deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism.
	Apparently he's a polarising figure because he made headlines in March when he testified to New York City Council that the NYPD did not, in his opinion, inappropriately spy on disproportionately Muslim members of the September 11 attacks.
	Muslims after the September 11 attacks, sorry.
	So, of course, they wouldn't spy on people that were involved in the attacks, but they're saying, oh, we didn't disproportionately spy on Muslims.
	No, the Patriot Act was bad, of course.
	But they're saying somehow that, as well, the Patriot Act is aligned with Trump.
	No.
	Who knows?
	The Guardian's hard to...
	Yeah, it's just psychobabble.
	It's just nuts.
	So they're now saying CNN's going to hire Trump?
	That's genuinely something they're trying to predict?
	You know what's funny?
	I mean, this article kind of encapsulates...
	Everything for me that is wrong with the left today.
	Because you're not going to like this.
	I'm a Labour member, right?
	Well, I'm not anymore, but I am a Labour member.
	I vote Labour, right?
	I vote...
	I believe in left.
	I don't think my politics have changed.
	I've always been quite...
	I'm probably centre.
	I'm central, a little bit to the left, right?
	But I'm open to...
	I'll listen to arguments from both sides, make up my own mind, choose that, right?
	The opening in their sub headline or their headline says they're going to be neutral, right?
	That means in the middle.
	Even being neutral in the middle now, or even being just a little bit to the left, for them, that's far right.
	It's like...
	They think, if you're not aligned with absolutely everything, yeah, abortion after the baby's been born, this, that and the other, then they think you're far right.
	And the fact that they think, listen, Chris Stato got fired because CNN's been, all of that's happened at CNN, actually now, finally, not because they've been, it's because the The ratings are going through the floor, they're rubbish, and no one wants to watch CNN because it's so boring and so obviously biased that people have had enough, they can't listen to it, and they realise we need to be neutral.
	But most people, I think, yeah, you get some people who are extreme, there's some people extreme right.
	Most people down the middle on most things, they just want to have a nice life, have a comfortable community, a safe community, bring their kids up right.
	They don't want to be indoctrinated by your religion, my religion, they want to be able to bring up their own family the way they see fit.
	Leave me alone.
	Exactly.
	Leave me alone.
	But they don't like us.
	Even the fact that they're saying, listen, we're not right.
	We're just neutral.
	We're going to play it fair to both sides.
	Playing it fair.
	They can't have a fair game because the thing is, if you explain to the general member of the public something down the line, if you said to the general member of the public, what do you think about abortion?
	I think you should have it.
	What do you think about abortion after the baby's been born?
	They'd be like...
	What are you mad?
	Every single person would say that.
	And they can't have that, but that's what they want, but they can't let you, which is why lives of TikTok, they're going out of their way to ban it.
	All she does is she posts what they say and she amplifies it so real people get to see what they're actually saying.
	And when people see their actual message, They think, wait, what the hell?
	And I've not changed where I am.
	I still think, okay, we need a fairer society, this, that, and the other.
	But I can't be like, oh, I think, you know what, we should have drag queens fucking lap dancing for kids.
	No, that's not on.
	Meanwhile...
	It's just crazy.
	They don't like to have their message shown in, like, the sunlight exposes everything, right?
	And they can't have it exposed, because when it's exposed, even the most people who thought, oh, I was on that side, that, whoa, maybe I don't want to be associated with that.
	Yeah.
	Even former CNN hosts seem to be catching wind of this.
	We go to the next one.
	Chris Cuomo has criticised the Democrats who, quote, demonised the Trump voters.
	Now, he's talking purely in the language of political expediency here.
	But it is quite a salient point.
	We'll read some of his tweets.
	So he responded to a CNN article that said Trump allegedly would not leave the White House after a 2020 election.
	And he said, does this matter?
	Yes, in the pursuit of justice, which is happening aggressively by most accounts.
	Untrue with the FBI. But he said, however, do Democrats win more votes by chasing Trump or catering to hopes and fears of those who are disaffected or desperate enough to vote for him?
	So he's speaking to the mentality of, well, there were lots of Bernie bros that jumped the boat to go vote for Trump because they were concerned about NAFTA, they were concerned about the TPP, offshoring manufacturing, for example.
	Open borders being a Koch brothers proposal to disaffect the American worker of a living wage.
	And he's saying, well, are you going to demonize these people?
	Are you going to appeal to their concerns and actually get them on side?
	And it's a salient point to maybe don't demonize the 70 million people that voted for you as MAGA Republicans and no longer your countrymen.
	And he said, when someone responded to him saying this affected voter period been debunked, he said, what are you talking about?
	It's not a theory.
	It's a reality I witnessed in countless interviews with voters who saw their vote as a rejection of the norm, who knew their guy was deeply flawed.
	But he was their guy and a rejection of what they also saw as malignant in D.C. Andrew Yang says many of his new supporters of former Trump voters were.
	Why didn't Democrats get them?
	Maybe because you demonize all who voted for him.
	And so, even someone who was a merchant peddling this division seems to be coming around and going, well, what have I done?
	I lost my job.
	Some of my producers were alleged paedophiles, so perhaps I wasn't throwing in my weight with the right crowd, and now we're losing anyway?
	So, maybe we should get back an appeal to the right standards of fairness and congeniality, because when we go to the general public and say, why don't we trans your kids?
	It doesn't go down all that well.
	The left, they pushed it too far.
	They've just pushed everything just too, too far.
	So now, like, most people who couldn't care less will just, oh, whatever, do what you want.
	Now they're noticing it, because they're noticing, I'm tangibly noticing, yeah, Trump was inflammatory, but at least I had money in my pocket.
	Yeah, I could afford to pay my bills.
	Now they're noticing, oh, Biden says the nice things.
	But I can't afford to fill my car up.
	Kamala Harris says the nice things, but I can't afford to feed my kids.
	Well, Kamala Harris barely says anything.
	We did it, Joe.
	We did it.
	Oh, it's so annoying.
	We did it, Joe.
	Even her, actually her, most hypocritical.
	I love weed.
	You imprison more black men than anyone else.
	For non-violent drug offenses.
	Than anyone else.
	The hypocrisy of it.
	And then you see them all just going, oh, oh, she loves weed and she loves black people and she's the diversity.
	It's like she's responsible for causing so many, like, children and families and breakup and division, which increases crime, because she demonised people.
	And now they sell weed legally in California and other states.
	And she's like, oh, yeah, I love weed.
	So it's like...
	They refused to do it, but the fact is, they pushed it so far.
	We will teach trans ideology, we will do this.
	I consider trans ideology, LGBTQ, all of that, I consider it now akin to religion, right?
	It is a Gnostic religion, believing that you can transport your soul into another body.
	Well, it's like this, though.
	If you want to get your kid, you'll send your kid to a religious school.
	You want to go to a Catholic school, whatever.
	They go there, they learn about that.
	But in general, most people don't want other people's ideology put on their kids.
	Keep all of that out of school.
	And then if you want it, send them to a specific school or send them there.
	But 99% of people just want their kids to grow up, you know, flipping good people, With a knowledge of maths, knowledge of English, a knowledge of, you know, science, not knowing, oh, I need to know a billion different ZZ pronouns, which make no difference to them.
	But not how to file my taxes conveniently, which makes me subservient to the government.
	There you go.
	Exactly.
	So, as well, there's Brian Stelter failing upward, unless you count Harvard as a defunct institution, which is increasingly looking like it.
	He's got a media fellowship to examine threats to democracy.
	He'll be working at the prestigious Ivy League College through at least the fall semester as Walter Seanstein Media and Democracy Fellow, according to a press release from the university.
	I'm shocked that he wasn't barred on the grounds of likeability, because that was the reason they were barring all of the Asian applicants, weren't they?
	Oh, really?
	It just seems that Harvard isn't very competent and they're just a bit racist.
	So, at least he's a rat sinking from one sinking ship to the other.
	He's jumped from one to the other.
	So, all of this winning has put the squad on suicide watch.
	We'll finish with.
	AOC has spoken in a recent GQ interview that she said, So many people in this country hate women and women of colour.
	I hold two contradictory things in my mind at the same time.
	One is just the relentless belief that anything is possible.
	But she said, Well, let's check back this time next year and see if she's alive.
	Pretty certain she will be.
	Yeah.
	She'll probably have a nice new designer dress saying, eat the rich, which costs about 20 grand.
	Well, it's the crazy eyes that disturb me.
	What do they call them?
	Senpuku, senpoku eyes or something.
	When you see too much of this and you see when they're just a little bit of that, there's a phrase for that.
	It's called senpuku eyes or something.
	It sounds suspiciously like anime.
	Yeah, well, it's from anime, but it's how you make someone look crazy, something like that.
	But it's also, oh, white men hate women of colour.
	That's a fiancé right there.
	White fella.
	Oh, obviously.
	Yeah.
	It's funny when you see that, that all their partners are white.
	Same with Don Lemon.
	Oh, white men are ruining this country.
	White husband.
	Great.
	Wonderful.
	Anyway, so the Republicans seem to be absolutely demolishing it.
	So I'm just going to finish with this from G Prime, George Alexopoulos, fantastic writer for those who can't see it.
	It's a football player catching the ball.
	He's saying, my team has paved the way.
	All I have to do is run to the end zone.
	And then he buckles it and kneels down and touches the ball and says, slow and steady wins the race as the crowd are just screaming at him to do something.
	And on his jersey is emblazoned GOP. So Republicans, you've got a pretty clear way to the end zone at the moment.
	Biden is screwing the entire country and looking like some kind of Satan worshipper on camera.
	The Democrats are so crying that they're making up reality or actually saying, we think we're going to die.
	So they're putting themselves on death watch.
	So don't screw up.
	Follow through with some of your legislation.
	Pander to the populist base and, I don't know, actually do something for once.
	That'd be pretty good, wouldn't it?
	Right, to wrap up then.
	When he said football, he meant American football, not actual football.
	Oh, yeah.
	There we go.
	I'm going to get lambasted for that one.
	So, to finish up, let's talk about how OnlyFans has deadly consequences.
	I don't know if you're where you sit on the sexual liberation movement, but...
	I don't think it's been particularly successful for society.
	It hasn't done men and women any good, really, besides the occasional one-night stand, which leaves you pretty unsatisfied in the morning.
	One of our writers, former host, doesn't think so either.
	In the first deep think, he discusses in this article for LotusEaters.com.
	if you sign up you can listen to the audio track as well why feminists refuse to talk about OnlyFans because it's basically an instrument of male immiseration it's conquering a lot of really weak incel type men and making them live a subservient and servile existence and while obviously the incels need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps go to the gym and grow up a little bit exactly good man fantastic some of you cannot crawl out from under this very addictive rock that pornography is actually a weapon of war
	and so he believes that the feminists won't talk about how it harms women and men because it's achieving their goal of immiserating men so go and read that on the website if you fancy it but OnlyFans is doing indelible damage not just to women and not just to men And this is across social media.
	So I thought we'd take a look at this brief TikTok trend here.
	Addicted to being sad, teenage girls have invisible illnesses and call themselves spoonies and post TikToks of themselves crying in hospital to generate thousands of likes and sympathy.
	But a bunch of industry experts have said, well, this is going to create a wave of mass anxiety and hypochondria because women are going to start self-diagnosing.
	How come they can self-diagnose as spoonies, and we say, no, that's ridiculous, but then they can self-diagnose as being a dude, and we're like, oh, well, let's give you a hysterectomy.
	You're, what, 14?
	What's the difference?
	Given we're on YouTube, we must say, of course, that we will defer medical advice to doctors, but not much.
	A new TikTok trend sees girls claiming to have invisible illnesses like MS, Crohn's disease, polycystic ovary syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, endometriosis, and postural orthocytic ticadia syndrome.
	That is a minefield.
	I would suggest they just have a terminal case of Female Attention Deficit Disorder, or FAD for short.
	But loads of the other ones just say, oh, we've been dismissed by doctors, but I know I'm ill, they just won't diagnose me.
	They call themselves Spoonies.
	They're often encouraging each other to lie to doctors to get the diagnosis they want.
	Others join groups to discuss the negative side effects of their conditions, and often competing with each other to see who is sickest.
	They post videos of themselves crying or lying listless in hospital beds and rack up hundreds of thousands of likes in some cases with other comments supporting spoon theory.
	Now, I'd never heard of this before, had you?
	Spoon theory?
	I'd never heard of it until.
	So it's basically total BS. A blogger had coined the term spoonie in 2003 and claimed that the spoon equates to energy, healthy people have unlimited spoons, while sick people, spoonies, have only a few and have to be strategic about how they use their spoons doing everyday tasks.
	Is that the bottom of the article?
	Just scroll down.
	I believe there's some images here.
	Yeah, I want to see the images.
	I want to show you, and then I want you to scroll all the way up.
	Just scroll all the way down, just so I can just see all the images.
	Yeah, go for it.
	Keep on scrolling.
	I'll just keep reading.
	Keep on scrolling.
	Are you reading it?
	That's fine.
	No, no, I'll just keep reading so you can have a look at the actual horror show on here.
	Others apparently suffer from functional disorders, which don't have any physical cause.
	Or can be medically diagnosed.
	But many of the women have complained about being ignored or misdiagnosed by doctors and share their rawest moments as others give an insight as to what life is like with their diseases.
	Experts say, while functional disease is a real and chronic problem, it is not often one the teens think they have.
	A doctor said, a neurologist at Rush University said, So basically it's just a bunch of fat, attention-seeking women online that claim to have illnesses.
	Not even that.
	If you scroll all the way to the top and then just scroll down slowly, right?
	Look at this.
	Scroll down slowly at all the pictures.
	Look at this.
	Scroll down just so we can see the views.
	Okay, we see her.
	Keep on going.
	We see her.
	Keep on going.
	We see her.
	Keep on going.
	We see this.
	Keep on going.
	What have they all got in common?
	What have they all got in common?
	They're all white women, right?
	They're all white women.
	And what happened is life is so good, right?
	That they need to be a victim.
	They know being a victim gives them power and responsibility.
	So they're making up things.
	Like, look at them!
	Look!
	You can see, they're making up these things, and people now, victim culture is such a big thing that everyone's like that, but they're all...
	Why is it all this very niche, certain demographic of a person doing this?
	It just seems to me that it's like a...
	Well, I mean, they've already existed, but it's spoonies, it's fake, but it's because...
	Being a victim now, there's so much collateral that you can use for social, for likes.
	Our society is backwards.
	That's exactly what Bill Burr said.
	It's like, I can't take white women's claims of oppression seriously because for all of history, you were in the hot tub with me.
	And now you climb out, climb over the fence, join the picket line and say, we're oppressed too!
	Shut up!
	You've enjoyed the benefits.
	Now, speaking of benefits that only women can incur, I'm certain the slip and slide of that will leave straight from TikTok to OnlyFans, will leave plenty of them, starved of attention, and start getting more assets out in front of the camera.
	But that's only if the healthcare providers don't quit for OnlyFans too.
	There are some images in here, John, which I'm not sure if we can show.
	Be tentative.
	A growing number of NHS and social care staff are quitting their jobs and becoming OnlyFans stars because of the cost of living crisis, charities claim.
	They're swapping tireless and poorly paid roles in frontline health and care for the adult site, where some make up to £50,000 a month.
	Stop paying them if you have a subscription.
	Unions have warned staff that they're leaving in droves for better paid, less stressful jobs, with record inflation making this year's 4% pay rise a massive pay cut.
	The English Collective of Prostitutes, which I'm glad they're finally admitting that it's a digital red light district, said...
	So that's great.
	It's going to do fantastic wonders for an already ailing healthcare system, isn't it?
	It's not just the nurses as well.
	If we go to the next one, the BBC, people using OnlyFans as a second job to help pay with bills.
	So they're lamenting the cost of living crisis is driving more and more people Into prostitution.
	Again, the English collective of prostitutes told Radio 1 Newsweek they received more calls about young women joining OnlyFans because of the rising cost of living.
	The campaign group is warning people who post sexually explicit content that they could be opening themselves up to long hours, a risk of abuse and even stalking.
	Sounds totally ideal.
	No risks there at all.
	Sex work is real work.
	They said calls to their helpline from people telling them they're doing sex work for increases of cost of living costs have went up by 3rd in June.
	Laura Watson from the group says they've not only been contacted by women of all ages asking for help on how to set themselves up on sites like OnlyFans.
	There seems to be a massive epidemic of women going, I'm a little bit broke and my job isn't paying enough.
	I know.
	Let's sell my soul.
	Well, what I want to know is, where is the Welsh collective of prostitutes on this matter?
	What do they have to say?
	Yeah, the devolved parliaments.
	I want to know what the Scottish collective of prostitutes have to say on this very important matter.
	I imagine there's a lot of members in Scotland.
	My wife's Scottish, so I'll say no more.
	I don't imagine there's one in Iran, is there?
	The Iranian collective...
	You know, apparently, in Iran, like...
	If you're away from the thing, it's pretty cool.
	Like, people drinking, they're having a good time.
	As long as you don't shake the boat politically or bring up...
	It's quite cool.
	I mean, if you start shaking the boat...
	I wouldn't want to risk it, yeah.
	No, apparently it's a real...
	There's a lot of young people in Iran.
	Like, there's a young population who actually want a lot of freedom, very welcoming people.
	They want to...
	Like, don't...
	Like, it's the same with everywhere.
	It's the governments aren't the people.
	Like, do you know what I mean?
	It's a...
	Iran as a country is a great country, but we've got some crazy ayatollahs in.
	That gives us flavour.
	You heard it from Darius.
	There's a massive market for OnlyFans in Iran, so just hop a jet and cost of living won't be a problem.
	So if we go to Sky News, speaking about the stalking cases, I thought I'd read out a couple.
	Nikki McNeil was a women's support worker for Beyond the Streets.
	Southampton and London-based charity that helps people find roots out of the sex industry.
	She said her colleagues have also seen a rise in calls in women selling survival sex.
	We call it that because it's the only choice women can make to survive.
	Don't know if that's true.
	It's done to meet basic needs, to have enough money for food and rent.
	Another way women are carrying out sex work to pay their bills online is through OnlyFans.
	But while some in the industry have touted it as a safer, more empowering option to traditional work, the ECP warns it can put women at risk of stalking and blackmail.
	Ms.
	Adams said, We're working with a woman at the moment in her early 20s in Kent.
	Probably went to my university.
	She had a job in retail and moved out of her parents' home, but when the crisis hit, she couldn't cover her bills.
	She set up an OnlyFans and had been working for a few months, building up a profile for herself, but then got targeted by a guy who started harassing her.
	He managed to find her private Facebook page and became a very serious stalker.
	So even if you take it offline, the feminists say it's all empowering, it's very safe, sex work is real work, you're still opening yourself up to predatory men, and congratulations, when you make a market off of punters who basically don't care whether or not the material they're viewing is consensual, you might have a few predators lurking in there, so it might not be the best industry to go into.
	So OnlyFans is an open criminal enterprise.
	If we can go to the next one, John.
	I'll presage this with an OnlyFans creator said her Instagram was deleted for no reason and then she went to a Meta employee and started shagging them in order to get her account reopened.
	Man, I should get a job at Facebook.
	I mean, she's not bad looking, let's put it that way, but not a lot of dignity, not exactly wife material, is she?
	But why was the reason that her account was closed, do you think?
	On Facebook, so that she couldn't...
	On Instagram.
	On Instagram, so she couldn't...
	Diversify her profile.
	It's almost like you got it spot on, yeah.
	So if we go to the next one, OnlyFans actually bribed Meta to put porn stars on terrorist watchlists to try and prevent them from having profiles on other sites so they would only have a monopoly on where they could sell their services.
	So there are actual OnlyFans stars, I suppose you could call them, being listed as jihadists.
	This is some bomb.
	So, the alleged move means models in pictures of bikinis on social media have been flagged as jihadist propaganda against different platforms.
	So apparently the OnlyFans owner, Leonid Radovinsky, bribed Twitter and Meta to ban these fantastic-looking, upstanding members of society from their platforms.
	In all, lawyers claim they have a list of 21,000 Instagram accounts that have been unfairly branded as potential terrorists.
	Adult film actress Alana Evans, one of the plaintiffs, claimed in the lawsuit she had been slapped on the watchlist.
	She was among those whose account was placed in a database run by the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism.
	She told the New York Post, When I heard my content may be listed on the terror watchlist, I was outraged.
	I was angry because it had affected my income, my social media traffic dropped significantly, and I was angry because I'm the daughter of a veteran who fought for this country.
	I'm sure he's fantastically proud to have safeguarded your freedom.
	So, given that they're a criminal enterprise, I like to use Chris Williamson's quote here, it was on the podcast on Monday, when he spoke to Louise Perry, he called the OnlyFans the cartel of sexual self-capitalisation, but given a recent BBC documentary, he's actually shown that cases of children on OnlyFans that had been reported missing...
	Like, 14 years old were showing up, and that's how their parents had found them.
	And now they're intimidating terrorist watchlists and social media giants to take down creators to claim a monopoly over their prostitution ring.
	I think we can just say they are just a cartel at this point.
	They're just totally indifferent.
	OnlyFans itself, also, their creators, are just as murderous as the Mafia.
	So, we have an example from Australia.
	An OnlyFans foot fetish model has been accused of walking into a wolf's and stabbing a worker in the back.
	No reason.
	didn't know the woman um cassandra hickling 35 uh went to walrus supermarket and stabbed donna marie grokert 44 in the back as she stopped the shelves in the pet food aisle in perth the court heard women do did not know each other and described the incident as an alleged random attack the defense lawyer said the court told the court a psychiatrist has met with hickling in the hospital where she was detained but requested further mental health assessments be conducted with the court's permission it's an obviously sane person so that's That's not our wolves, by the way.
	That's a different...
	No.
	But there was no reason.
	She just randomly stabbed that woman.
	Maybe she had nicer feet or something.
	Typical female jealousy.
	Yeah, I'm not having that.
	She's got smaller feet.
	This illustrates a point that you never know who you're buying from.
	You're a pornography purveyor.
	And these people are clearly quite deeply psychologically broken if they don't have some sort of emotional attachment to the intimacy you should be keeping private for a beloved partner.
	And unfortunately, this is not irregular of the kinds of people that have been involved in prostitution, into pornography, and now into OnlyFans, which has democratized the means of sexual distribution so that lots of women are just doing homegrown porn.
	I only like ethical porn.
	It doesn't exist.
	I mean, listen, I think everyone knows That porn is bad.
	Yes.
	It's porn.
	It's bad.
	Yeah.
	There are no positive arguments for it.
	It's just addiction management.
	You're going to watch it, but that's why when you finish, you feel bad.
	Yeah.
	Well, you shouldn't, but we're not all priests.
	So the reality is it's out there, but obviously porn is bad.
	And what is worse about OnlyFans, right?
	There used to be a stigma.
	It's kind of a shame.
	Now it's celebrated.
	It's just the only fans.
	As a means of liberation.
	We've lost our sense of shame in our culture about what's right and what's wrong.
	So, yeah.
	That's the millennial idea of don't judge me.
	Well, it's just completely removed any moral language from our everyday use.
	And it's meant that people are feeling very nihilistic.
	They don't have any direction.
	And so they now make these kinds of mistakes, many people, and those images are going to be up forever.
	They're going to knock you around.
	Ten years down the line, suddenly when they've got kids, when they're trying to start a family, and then your son pulls this up at school with his mates.
	Yeah.
	It's going to come back and hurt people.
	But I mean...
	I don't know it's an easy way some they always talk about the reality is they say they always say oh they earn 50 grand a month they earn this but the reality is most of these girls are doing this they're earning nothing they're kind of humiliating themselves realizing they've done they've done this they kind of did feel pestered like oh you should do it go on this you go girl you go and do this they've put this out there They're going for a range of toys before they've run out, but they put this out there, right?
	And then they're earning like £10 a month.
	It's like, you're selling yourself for like £10.
	Your anus is on the internet for the price of the Twix.
	What can I say?
	I'm about to say your anus is on the internet.
	You can say something like that as a medical term at least.
	Okay.
	You're vibrating.
	I wouldn't go through listing all their dishwasher safe boyfriends.
	Let's put it that way.
	Fair enough.
	I've been trying to be PC with my language.
	But most of them are selling them out and they will deeply regret that.
	To be fair, if you're earning 50 grand a month, that softens the blow of perhaps being considered a whore, right?
	It's like, yeah, but I've got 50 grand a month, right?
	I wouldn't put a price on propriety.
	I would.
	50 grand, right?
	But £150, that's not worth it, you know what I mean?
	And that's what the average, I think, is the average income is.
	It's a Pareto distribution of who is actually successful on the site, but in every case, you're still selling a part of yourself when it's degrading.
	But in some ways, the argument they'd put forward is whatever you do, you're selling yourself.
	Right.
	Unless you have your own business, you start something yourself, you build it up.
	If you work for someone else, you're just selling your time and labour.
	But I do it, listen, on a moral level, I agree with you.
	So if we can go to the next one, if you'd like more coverage of most of the OnlyFans women being murdered, Carl and Thomas covered this a little while ago in a segment, but there's actually an update of now we have an OnlyFans...
	Do we have the article, John?
	Here we go.
	So, we now have an instance of an OnlyFans model actually murdering her boyfriend.
	Courtney Clenney, 26, was detained at a rehab centre in Hawaii's Big Island, and she was treated for alcohol issues and PTSD. I wonder why.
	Oh, she's been charged with second-degree murder on the April 3rd death of her boyfriend, Christian Obumselli, 27, at the home they shared in Miami, Florida.
	Clenney insists she stabbed Obumselli in self-defence after he grabbed her by the throat.
	The model called the police at 5.57 to report the stabbing, And in the background of the call, he could be saying, I'm so sorry, baby.
	On that call, the victim could be heard in the background repeatedly saying he's dying and can no longer feel his arms.
	So that's a bit harrowing.
	State Attorney Catherine Fernandez Rundle said, The violent and toxic two-year relationship of Obambele and Clenny did not have to end in tragedy with Christian's murder as a victim of domestic violence.
	Now that's interesting, because she's alleging that it was him beating her, but if we look at this video here, we don't have to play it with any of the sound, but she's just doing an Amber Heard and beating the hell out of him a lift.
	You can just see that she's just so entitled.
	Obviously, she's fit, right?
	So she's always been able to do that, and you can see he's not even hitting her back.
	No.
	She murdered this guy.
	I feel sorry for that guy, because the dilemma was, yeah, she was really fit.
	And I could deal with this little slap.
	I can fix her.
	Yeah, well, he thought, I can deal with the slaps, but then one day she went too far.
	No man should have to go through this.
	Yeah, he was genuinely...
	Imagine that was the other way around.
	Yeah, it would be terrible.
	She'd already be.
	She would have been in prison.
	There was a video of a football player who did that to his girlfriend in an elevator, immediately out of the NFL. We're just slightly strapped for time.
	So, according to the Miami Herald, police visited the couple on at least four occasions for domestic abuse calls, or domestic calls, not abuse, and noted that Omar Maselli was never taken into custody or charged, but at the time of arrest, Clenny had not been taken into custody despite having an open warrant in 2015 for public intoxication from California.
	And she was due in court in Texas in 2020 on a DUI charge.
	We're not going to show the images here, but there's a TMZ article that show her half-topless and smothered in his blood, and then days later she was drinking in bars with her dad, so it didn't seem all that remorseless.
	Florida prosecutors, after that video came out, said clearly beating her boyfriend in an elevator.
	The video was irrelevant and likely inadmissible.
	It had nothing to do with the fact that she then stabbed him a little while later.
	No history of abuse.
	No, exactly.
	Totally random act of violence.
	No self-defense.
	She doesn't look all that pretty anymore, being an utterly contemptible kind of person.
	But I might suggest that no matter what was going on behind closed doors, I don't think the sexual jealousy of selling out your girlfriend for...
	Half decent clothes and nice house and that would have worn all that well on his psyche.
	And it clearly didn't do well for her dignity either.
	So that's just the kind of thing you don't want to introduce to your relationship.
	Oh yeah, that's a different...
	Yeah, 100%.
	I forgot that she was even an OnlyFans woman.
	She was a crazy woman.
	Yeah, well, all the attractive ones are, but to this level, don't let her near the cutlery draw, fellas.
	So I thought I'd conclude with probably the best argument against only fans, and that's from Louise Perry's case against the sexual revolution.
	Quote,"...there is no good reason to use porn.
	Giving it up costs the consumer nothing.
	It is easier by far than giving up factory-farmed meat or products made by sweatshop labor, because although we all need to eat and clothe ourselves, not a single one of you needs to watch porn ever again.
	The sexual liberation narrative tells you to keep going." I'm telling you, you have an obligation to stop.
	And if you'd like to hear more about Louise Perry's book, you can tune in at time of recording, 3.30 tomorrow on Friday, or go and subscribe to the website to watch Harry and I discuss the case against the sexual revolution, where we'll be discussing things like OnlyFans and why there are scourge on society.
	But to wrap it up, I suppose, there's no really good reason to ever let yourself go on there, or to use it, because it ends up with crazy broken people making far more money than they deserve, and, well, it seems there's some deadly consequences.
	Right, with that, we've run over slightly, so we won't really have time to get to comments, I'm afraid, but we do have time for you to plug your website, Twitter, and anything relevant that's going out to our audience.
	Yeah, so I'm on OnlyFans, so if you could follow me at Darius Davies on OnlyFans, then you could see me do my anus or whatever they do.
	No, listen, I do a podcast with Leo Kers called The Three Speech Podcast.
	We kind of deal with these types of issues...
	But we don't care about YouTube monetization, so I say what I want.
	So it's a bit more, you know, whatever.
	Risqué.
	Yeah, very risqué.
	A bit more funny.
	Not that this wasn't funny, but we...
	More hot, man.
	Come on.
	Sorry, your heart, your soul.
	But we...
	Whatever.
	You're accordingly invited to that.
	I'm on Twitter, Darius Davies.
	Yeah, thank you for listening to me.
	Thank you for having me, man.
	I appreciate it.
	This is a genuinely good podcast for, like, what you're trying to...
	The morals of this is be a good person.
	Porn is bad.
	Good.
	Ours is more like do drugs and watch porn.
	We have Leo on and he doesn't shut up about how transsexuals are attractive.
	So we have a bit of balance.
	So just to conclude, actually our audience likes you very much.
	I'm going to read one comment.
	Robert Longshaw.
	I like Darius.
	When he spoke about the judgmental elites telling people where the world should be, he had an involuntary sneer on his face.
	That showed to me he truly believes what he's saying.
	Good man.
	He better be on again soon.
	Oh, thank you, man.
	Yeah, no, I do believe, I genuinely believe that we're sitting, we're being deliberately, provocatively divided and turned against each other and the world is being, we're being used as pawns in someone else's big game and I don't know about you, but people's lives are genuinely getting worse and it's like end times, man.
	It's Sodom and Gomorrah.
	We're on the precipice of a cataclysm.
	We just now need to decide who we let do the rebuilding.
	Is it us or is it them?
	Well, Build Back Better is what they want to do.
	Yeah, well, I'd rather they do the digging in prison orange, personally.
	Yeah.
	And on that note, thanks very much for joining me, mate.
	Thank you for having me, man.
	It's been a genuine pleasure.
	It's been a pleasure.
	Join us again tomorrow at one o'clock.
	Until next time, this has been the podcast of Lotus Esars from me and Darius.
	Goodbye.

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