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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 9th of November 2022.
	I'm joined by a local sick man who is feeling under the weather, but did come in, so props on Cole.
	But otherwise, today we're going to be talking about what happened last night.
	Face it, the Democrats are just amazing at politics.
	No other explanation.
	I don't know how else we can account for it.
	Beautiful event, really.
	To see such mastery.
	Yeah.
	That's what we are contractually obliged to say.
	Yeah.
	Like brain damage.
	Anyway, and also the tragedy of the Young Turks, which I think everyone will have a bit of fun with, to say the least.
	But some things to mention first on the website.
	First thing, first, being that the freemium gift today is the making of the Lotus Cedars.
	So this was a compilation, I believe, John made back when we were first building the place.
	Literally.
	You can see us building it in there, so do go and check that out.
	That's free for a week.
	So there's that.
	Otherwise, it is the end of the campaign of free things for the second anniversary.
	And we will be doing this evening at 3.30 UK time.
	This evening.
	This afternoon.
	Later than midday, I don't know.
	It does get dark earlier, I suppose.
	The birthday hangout, which we'll be going through, the best bits which were submitted, are just hanging out, so come and join for the fun.
	Otherwise, we shall begin with what happened last night.
	So that night was fun.
	There was an election or something in America.
	I don't know.
	Not so much.
	I heard there was a red tsunami.
	Yeah, maybe.
	Anyway, I thought we'd just go through some of the funny news out of that and just do a quick roundup of what's happened there.
	First thing to mention, though, is just something on the website.
	So do go and check out on loaders.com.
	New article from Carl being, what's the damage from the 2021 census?
	I mean, you can see from the image what the damage is.
	Yeah, there was actually, I did send you afterwards, there's some graphs that were made by what was The Economist, what that map's going to look like in 2060, and they coloured in the most foreign areas red.
	It's just like, ah, okay.
	Subconsciously, they knew.
	They made that executive decision.
	But we shall begin.
	I mean, most of the results from the American midterms, of course, are minor or not that important, such as local elected person is a lesbian.
	I don't care.
	But that's what I mean.
	I'm not going to go into all the results, obviously.
	Not here for that.
	They're not all out yet.
	No?
	It's going to take weeks, as we've been told.
	14 days in Georgia until the last vote is counted.
	They need the time.
	Are they being counted by Stacey Abrams herself or something?
	Which would explain it, actually.
	Presumably.
	I don't know how else you have to take 14 days in Georgia.
	Like it's Alaska or something.
	I think Alaska was done before Georgia.
	Anyway, getting into the news, so...
	I love the idea that there are literally remote mountain towns in Alaska that can get done before Georgia.
	It's not even hard, but...
	So we'll start off just with the news as it broke.
	This was the CNN exit poll, so even CNN had to admit that, yeah, don't look good.
	Which is, this is their exit poll of people, how people thought the United States was going right now.
	25% of people, one quarter of people, think everything's brilliant under the Democrats and the Biden regime.
	You've got, what, 75-73% or whatever it is that are disappointed or angry.
	Dissatisfied or angry.
	So, actively do not like the way things are going.
	At least we have a lower margin of who's clinically insane.
	I mean, everyone else, I think, is correct.
	Well, yeah, but it's just remarkable how all of the signs genuinely were there for the Democrats to take a whipping this time.
	For some reason, it just didn't occur.
	No, no, it's interesting how most of the country hate how everything's going and the results are where they are.
	But I'm going to vote for the people doing it.
	Let's move to the next link here because we have more from that, which is CNN decided to sit around and be as middle class as they possibly could and insist that they were very upset because they went through all that polling and they had the issues list and they were disgusted because democracy was not number one.
	Who knew?
	Let's play the clip and enjoy that.
	Is that the numbers in these exits do not line up with what we were seeing in the polling data going into this election about what people cared about and the order in which they ranked it.
	So we have had a lot of questions throughout this time about new voters, people that hadn't been in there before that were perhaps not getting captured by the polling.
	So maybe this is a sign that we're going to see a little bit more of that tonight than we expected.
	We obviously don't know yet.
	And you know what's missing from this one, two, three, four, five, top five issues?
	Democracy.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's not even in here.
	It's not to say that it's not an issue for people, but it doesn't even come close.
	Oh, yeah.
	Wait.
	Why would democracy be an issue when we're in the middle of a vote?
	That's the process of democracy taking place.
	Why don't we talk about construction when building the building?
	Yeah.
	No one's talking about the concept of construction as we put up these walls.
	So why?
	We're in the process of it.
	It's not even the foreman's top concern.
	He's got a list of five things he wants done today, and construction isn't on there.
	Where's our lecture on building theory?
	It's just remarkable how dumb these people are.
	Yeah, but I just can't get over how everyone around, like, she brings this up.
	Number one, like, even aside from the fact that you're doing the democracy part, so...
	We're doing it right now, you moron!
	Okay, we'll take the steel man position, which is, you know, why are you not complaining about January 6th?
	That's what they've got in their heads.
	And all these idiots around them say, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But you can tell, the fact that no one brought them up, they all know.
	Because it's a huge waste of time, nobody cares.
	But, because they're on air, and they work at CNN, they've got, oh, yeah, yeah, that thing.
	Weirdly, people in the middle of a vote don't think democracy is over?
	There's something about the act of voting that makes people think that democracy is taking place.
	Yeah, it's strange, isn't it?
	It's usually in those countries where there's no voting that people usually care about democracy, then why?
	So why don't we have some of that?
	Yeah, in China, democracy is actually a concern.
	Well, here.
	Well, I mean, God, I don't know.
	All the unelected leaders...
	Sorry.
	Anyway, we'll go to the next link here, which is more of this sort of thing, which we can see the response from people in the United States who are enjoying the fact that they were killing democracy in real time.
	How could they?
	A lot of memes came out of this, and I thought we'd enjoy some of them.
	So this one here is just Alex Jones perusing.
	It says, me running errands and thinking about how it only took me 15 minutes to destroy democracy.
	By voting.
	Yeah.
	It's amazing, that.
	If we go to the next one, we have another format, which I did enjoy, Democracy vs.
	My Ballot.
	Fauci vs.
	the puppies.
	Yeah, there's quite a little game to see who can get the most edgy out of this.
	There's quite a few of those.
	That's harsh.
	Go to the next one.
	It's another format there.
	There we are.
	My ballot killing democracy.
	And the last one here, which I think gets my vote for the funniest.
	There you have it.
	There's my ballot.
	We'll move on to also the fact that some people were taking the vote very seriously because they deeply cared about democracy.
	Well, democracy's over if you vote for the wrong party.
	It is indeed.
	Yeah, we had this guy here decide to come in and vote for the wrong party.
	Democracy is on the ballot this year.
	And what does he put on the ballot?
	Ben Dover being the first one, of course.
	We then have, what was it?
	Hugh G. Rection and Mike Hawke, which I'm sure, good lucks to all those lads.
	Anyway, there's also then...
	Coming shortly behind Ligma Johnson.
	Yeah.
	I know it's a bit crass, but I did actually enjoy the stupid memes that came out of this.
	Because, I don't know about you, but it seems to have been a genuine feeling of unseriousness about this.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, something of a feeling of a foregone conclusion, perhaps.
	Yeah, that's just not really going to bother.
	And, yeah.
	Well, we'll go to the next one here.
	We can see more of that, which is CNN. So they had a foregone conclusion, which is that the children who are their audience, and I say that because that's ironically what they think of them, I had to be warned and told what to do tonight.
	Put down the bottle, go to bed early, drink your milk.
	CNN, John King, says here, stay off social media, people.
	I mean that because you stop there.
	Stop there.
	Just stay off social media, people.
	Stop watching CNN. It's literally poison.
	It's not helping you in any regard.
	Go outside.
	Talk to your neighbours.
	Yeah.
	If you're trying to figure out are there really issues in the voting, trust your local officials and trust us here.
	We are the truth sayers.
	They live in a democrat state.
	Trust your local officials.
	Trust CNN, they would never lie.
	Of all the things CNN have done, I can't get over how even amongst the left CNN are a meme.
	Do you remember during the BLM protests, they went to the office?
	They started chanting F-CNN and attacking the building?
	In Atlanta, yeah.
	And CNN, at the same time, were running stories about how BLM were a meme.
	Mostly peaceful protests at the CNN offices.
	It's just unbelievable how that whole history goes.
	We'll get to the next one here because the New York Times started to outdo CNN for treating their readers as children.
	Here are some evidence-based strategies that can help you cope.
	They use the word.
	They use the word cope.
	Unironically, here are your five coping methods for this evening.
	I love this breathe like a baby.
	Yeah.
	Focus on expanding your belly as you breathe.
	No.
	You're expanding your chest if you want to get more oxygen in, not your belly.
	I'm listening to the evidence-based experts in the New York Times.
	Or you could try at home.
	Chest.
	Anyway.
	Coping strategies like no others.
	Limit your scrolling.
	Also, get off social media.
	But that's the thing, isn't it?
	They're expected to get absolutely destroyed.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	There might be a reason why they expected that.
	Might have been because they'd asked their readers, voters, neighbours, anything.
	All of the signs were there.
	How are things going, my friend?
	Everyone's like, it's terrible.
	Everyone's like, I hate the Democrats.
	What they've done to this country is unbelievable.
	Why are they promoting crime as if it's a moral good?
	That's friggin' weird.
	Yeah.
	So we were on Lauren Southern and Lauren Chen's stream yesterday, and Blair White came on after he went, and she gave a speech about how a lot of Hispanics care about crime.
	And she's talking about this, and I'm sort of chuckling to myself, because it's a very good point.
	She's like, yeah, the Democrats didn't seem to realise that maybe Hispanics don't want crime, and they live next to the black neighbourhoods, and therefore, when all the crime turns off in black neighbourhoods during the BLM riots, they weren't a fan of that.
	But the blacks don't want crime either.
	Yeah, but she explains all of this.
	And then we sort of joke at the end and go, yeah, fair point, crime bad.
	But that's the level of discourse in America at the moment.
	It's like, you know, Republicans are like, crime isn't good.
	It's a bad thing to be murdered.
	And the Democrats are like, you're a racist.
	Have you ever tried being murdered?
	It's good for you, actually.
	It's one of the coping mechanisms.
	But the fact that that's the conversation, and then you have...
	One way to suit the election stress.
	Stand on the platform on a subway and wait for a while.
	That's an American conversation that's been going on in every community, every neighbourhood.
	And then you have the left-wing media coming out and saying, okay, we're going to get destroyed because of that.
	I think it would be telling, but I guess we'll see.
	I mean, I can see why they expect it to get destroyed.
	There's some more copiums in here for people listening.
	If we go back, just copium.
	I want to read all of them because they're funny.
	Try five-finger breathing.
	Some more breathing exercises.
	What's five-fingering?
	Trace the outside of your hand with your pointer finger.
	When you trace up, breathe in.
	Trace down, breathe in.
	They actually think that all readers are children.
	This is literally like California progressive hippie nonsense.
	Yes.
	I don't know why they published this.
	I expected them to have deleted it by now, but that's still on.
	Cool down.
	Plunge your face into a bowl of ice water.
	For 15 to 30 seconds, as if you're actually mentally retarded.
	I love the idea that there's some sort of soy jack in California who's got his ice water.
	Is that right, Garland?
	I'm going to go for the...
	Holding his breath.
	I can only do 15.
	Can't do the full 30.
	Are you actually Angron?
	Ron DeSantis has been re-elected.
	I can't endure this.
	Move.
	Even a walk around the block.
	Yeah, well, that's a bit dangerous, actually.
	To the heroin addict.
	Become a hippie, drown yourself, and stop looking at it.
	Just touch grass.
	Regress to being a baby and get off the social media.
	Good advice from the New York Times.
	Buy yourself a pacifier, I guess.
	Anyway.
	But there's the actual copium that was published.
	You say that, but in 10 years' time, can you honestly tell me that they won't all be having dummies in their mouths?
	It'll be good, because when you gnaw, you won't be grinding your teeth anymore about how a Trump man has been elected.
	It'll be just literally like adult left-wing soyjacks with dummies in their mouths protesting for, I don't know, a right to transition a dog or something.
	I'm actually calling that prediction.
	I think that's probably going to be true.
	Honestly, look where they're going.
	Anyway, we shall move on to the next link here, which is the entirely predictable pivot we saw in the night.
	Oh, the Republicans are cheating, aren't they?
	We're allowed to say that.
	Right.
	That's amazing.
	Good point.
	So this was a guy on MSNBC who decided to come out and say, the level of voter suppression in Georgia, only in Georgia, is beyond anything we saw in 2018.
	We can't say that whatever happens tonight is a fair and equitable election.
	Well, we disagree.
	We on the Lotus East Podcast know, because Susan Majiski has told us, there's nothing wrong with any of these elections, and there can't be anything wrong with them.
	A priori, determine these are perfect elections.
	So this person should be deplatformed for misinformation.
	But he advocates for the Democrats.
	He's saying that Stacey Abrams' victory has been stolen by the shenanigans.
	So that's allowed to be permitted.
	I guess so.
	I guess Stacey Abrams is going to storm the Georgian Senate House.
	Take this to a side for a minute.
	The whole activity of Americans arguing about their election integrity, number one, that's part of a free country.
	You would think.
	If you weren't able to question it, then what happens when it goes wrong?
	It's literally North Korea.
	Yeah, well if it goes wrong, then what?
	Nothing.
	You can't question it.
	That's a good system.
	Who does that benefit?
	The people who don't want it questioned.
	Yeah, so, I mean, that's a bit weird.
	But also, just from an outside perspective, I don't know about you, but I've always seen, like, every single time, whichever side loses always talks about the problems with their system.
	But, like, even with nothing going on, like, the American system just seems broken beyond belief.
	Yeah.
	The fact that it takes Georgia, apparently, 14 days to have all the votes counted, not Lex Knight.
	I mean, there was a great point, I think it was Nuance Bro that made it.
	Yeah.
	Like, after what happened in Florida with Bush...
	They fixed that system.
	The results were in, like, 30 minutes.
	Sensible.
	Because they knew, okay, we can't have this happening again.
	I don't know why the rest of the country hasn't learned that lesson.
	But, whatever.
	Speaking of Florida, he's won.
	He won bigly.
	Good man.
	Very big.
	He even got the vote from the Don himself.
	Yeah, I saw the Miami...
	Did he?
	Yeah.
	That's nice.
	The Don said he voted for him, so...
	Well, what's his options, really, you know?
	I should be voting for Chris Christie.
	That would be really weird.
	It's Charlie Christie, not Chris Christie.
	But that would be really funny.
	But anyway, I saw a bunch of them, again, CNN and MSNBC, almost in tears over the Miami Dade results because Florida, for some reason, they don't like being oppressed.
	No, and if you scroll down on this, John, there is a point where they show a map of the state with arrows coming out of it, and that's the map I want to show on this slide here, because you can see the results, and there you are.
	It's not that clear with the black, but you can see if you can, there are just red arrows in every single county.
	And not small ones either, showing that every single county in Florida leaned more Republican this election than the previous one for governor, and overwhelmingly are just like all signing up for Ron DeSantis.
	Uniform.
	Not a single blue arrow to be seen.
	Left is crazy, we're out.
	We're not part of this.
	Which is amazing.
	And one of the things that is, let's say, oaring for the American right, I imagine, because after tonight's results, which weren't a huge red wave for the Republicans, but for DeSantis and Rubio, it's been an amazing night for them.
	Very good endorsement.
	I've seen a lot of Republicans, specifically Matt Walsh, making a big point that, well, from their perspective, this is an argument for why actually it needs to be Ron DeSantis now to be the candidate, not Donald Trump.
	And I think this probably, if you're Ron DeSantis or his team, gives you a big indication that you might do it instead of just bowing out.
	And it'll be interesting to see what happens, but I think it definitely will have an impact.
	We have the next one here.
	We have New York, which also, if you scroll down to where that same sort of graph is, the Democrats won here for the governor race.
	But amazingly, every single county also leaned red.
	All of New York is like, the hell with this.
	No, they're not, though.
	Not enough.
	Yeah, enough of them are like, no, look, we just need a few more train deaths.
	We need a few more murders, stabbings, rapes.
	Just a few more.
	And then we need to release the criminals out on bail to do it again.
	Without bail.
	Just a few more.
	Lauren Southern mentioned there's that article where they were like, yeah, well, violent crime might be up.
	If you get rid of murders, violent crime's down?
	I love the idea that you have people in New York who are like, well, you know, members of my family have been raped, but they weren't murdered.
	So actually, things not that bad.
	Yeah.
	Unironic.
	Just the level of creepy.
	That's the devil you know, Callum.
	So I guess New Yorkers enjoy, if you vote for that.
	Get what you deserve.
	We go to Georgia, which also just turned redder if you go down to the same sort of graph, which is just, it's amazing.
	I don't know why they keep running Stacey Abrams.
	I think that she is actually the problem.
	Yes.
	Like, she's so bad.
	But just look at that map again.
	Just every county, except, like, a couple of small ones there in the highly populated areas.
	We have Stacey Abrams' work being done.
	If you go to the next link, we can see just how much Stacey Abrams got.
	There's 75% reporting just on Wikipedia.
	Just have it there.
	It's still 45%.
	It's, like, 5% down what she got last time, though, or whatever.
	Yeah, but there's still, like, you know...
	She's obviously terrible, and she's, you know, a genuine threat.
	She's also an election denier.
	To this day, she actually, if people aren't aware, she refuses to accept the 2018 gubernatorial election, where she lost.
	Yep, that's true.
	She ran again.
	And has lost even harder, so there's that.
	But she's allowed to, of course.
	Which is why that chap earlier was allowed to talk about it.
	Early for her.
	And then we go to the next one, we also have Beta O'Rourke getting mulched, which is good news.
	Has Beta O'Rourke ever actually held an office?
	I don't know, actually.
	I know who he is.
	The repeated failure of the governor of Texas.
	But that's it.
	Yeah, the Texan failure is all I really think of.
	There were some graphs showing that he basically, in Texas, he's got the cities, like every hive city.
	Obviously.
	So it's blue.
	Are there some areas on the border?
	And I just don't understand those border zones.
	Well, they are predominantly Mexican immigrants.
	Sure.
	But I saw, I don't know if you saw, Lord Miles went there recently.
	He did a video about it.
	He's there on the Rio Grande, and he's in this town, and the guy's showing him around, and like, yeah, we're all Hispanic.
	Like, everyone here's Hispanic.
	And we all can hate this.
	They've got like a new cemetery that's literally a month old, filled with corpses of children, where the parents have dragged them through the river and drowned their kids and themselves.
	Can you imagine being in that border town and voting bloke?
	That's what I mean.
	Like, I'm looking at the Zelda Baller stage and just be like, how on earth is that happening?
	After seeing what Miles is showing, just, you know, what people...
	I have no idea.
	He's just crazy.
	Anyway, good to see him get mulched.
	But the biggest news being that Brain Damage was on the ballot, and Brain Damage won.
	Yeah.
	I really like this.
	I think this is great news.
	I'm not upset about this at all.
	Not about you.
	It's nice to see that someone who is not capable of actually constructing a sentence is an electable proposition for the Democrats.
	Yeah, disability representation.
	We've had a disabled president twice now.
	Roosevelt and now Joe Biden.
	And now we have disabled senators.
	Cognitive impairments are not an obstacle for Democrat candidates.
	No.
	This is amazing on a number of levels.
	I mean, number one, we were chatting about this earlier.
	That's a doctor.
	Well, I saw that there were a lot of Republicans who hate Dr.
	Oz because of his sliminess, which I'm not unsympathetic to.
	We have our conservatives.
	I'm sure John Fetterman is nothing but a good boy who's done nothing wrong.
	But if you look at the votes, like I just looked at the previous election for this round and then this one, and you can notice that there's a 17% drop in Republican votes, just votes in total.
	The Republicans just didn't show up to vote for Dr.
	Oz.
	Because what's the point?
	He's slimy, which I imagine is the narrative there.
	But a similar thing happened for the Dems as well.
	Just people didn't turn up.
	Well, I mean, one argument would be I don't want to be governed by someone who is, I mean, medically retarded.
	Yes.
	Would be one argument.
	I mean, if you were a voter in Pennsylvania and your options were, like, slimy man or medical retardation, I can see why you didn't vote.
	I'm not confused about that one.
	But, for the Dems, I mean, if you literally just have a man who can't make a decision and instead you just have him push the button you tell him to.
	It is perfect, I suppose.
	I just can't...
	I can't believe they run a guy whose opening gambit is Hello Goodnight.
	I want that on a shirt.
	Yeah.
	I mean, he'll probably sell them on a shirt.
	Yeah.
	I'll look forward to buying them.
	For people who don't know...
	50% of people are like, yeah, I think that's my guy.
	I too am retarded.
	Could be a load of pepes.
	Michael Malice, very happy.
	But yeah, the next one here, for people who don't know, you should go and check out just any of his speeches, but even just his own campaign ads are unbelievable that he put that out.
	If people haven't seen it, I suppose we'll play the audio from this just real quick.
	Sorry I didn't put it in.
	Mr.
	Fetterman.
	Mr.
	Fetterman.
	Yeah?
	You need any help?
	I'm running for the U.S. Senate, kid.
	I need all the help I can get.
	You're running for Senate?
	Sure.
	Where's your suit and your flag pin and your hair?
	Oh, hey, kid.
	I just want you to know I'd vote for you.
	Hey, thanks, kid.
	You want a drink?
	Nah, no.
	Really, you can have it.
	Okay.
	nice Hey kid!
	Catch!
	Wow!
	Thanks Mayor John!
	Yeah, you can pause it there.
	I know it's a reference, but it's like watching Oblivion.
	Half of the voters.
	How is that not a parody?
	Stella acting, here, have a drink.
	Thanks, kid.
	Sorry.
	But that's the stuff he puts out of his own.
	And then there are just the speeches he gives, which, as you rightly say, go something like, good morning, good night.
	Yeah.
	He's gone.
	The guy had a stroke.
	It's not his fault.
	It's not fair.
	You should retire the man.
	Just for his own sake.
	He needs some rest.
	Anyway, we end off just with some sad news first, which is that the Zoomers have done their job, the indoctrinated Zoomers.
	They came out in droves, apparently, to vote, so there we have it.
	Vote from the youth, apparently counted.
	As you have there, plus 28 Democrat for 18 to 29s.
	Good for them.
	Yeah, I'd like to vote for the destruction of my country and the destruction of my future.
	I don't want to have a house or a business.
	I'd like to have unlimited migrant work to compete with what I do.
	For the indoctrinated youth, I absolutely think that's the case.
	But I think also a lot of the other youth who just didn't vote is just like, well, I don't have anything anyway.
	It's just like, to hell with it.
	Screw the system.
	And in that case, I don't just mean just being an angsty teenager, but ironically, what's the point in this civilization?
	Which I'm sympathetic to, to say the least.
	Anyway, we'll end on some good news, though, which is shout out to Crowder.
	This is impressive.
	Oh, wow.
	This is election coverage on Rumble.
	I just want to mention, just because this is amazing.
	So here it has on here, this is last night, this was.
	Two and a half million views.
	That's brilliant.
	On his election coverage on Rumble.
	That's really, really impressive.
	Yeah.
	Frankly, awesome to see.
	To see that the alternatives from YouTube are making very good headway.
	And if you're watching some Rumble, give us some Rumbles.
	Come on, help us out.
	We haven't got a million subscribers on Rumble.
	What's going on there?
	Get ready to rumble.
	Yeah.
	But also, apparently live, he had 300,000 viewers.
	That's excellent.
	That's all binary, say.
	That's incredible.
	Really good.
	Nice to see from Crowder.
	So, good job, Crowder.
	Otherwise, that's what happened yesterday, which was good fun.
	I suppose we'll move into...
	Oh, they're just winning.
	I think we've just got to face it, to be honest.
	The Democrats are just amazing at politics.
	They just can't stop winning.
	There's just this indescribable formula, literally indescribable because we're using YouTube, that allows them...
	That allows them to pull out these tremendous victories out of the hat.
	It's brilliant.
	And it commits us to a set of statements that I never thought I would have to believe, but I don't have a choice.
	I mean, if you go back 10 years ago, I would never have known that Barack Obama was actually wildly less popular.
	I would never have known.
	You know, I would never have known.
	You can feel it these days.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You can literally feel it.
	And so it's just all of these things are just so strange that it makes you wonder whether Jonathan Haidt was actually right.
	Because in his book, The Righteous Mind, which you can go over to LotusEast.com and check out, He argues that, in fact, the Conservatives have this moral advantage over the left, because of the five or six moral taste receptors, the Conservatives can activate all three, whereas the left can only activate two.
	And Jonathan Haidt appears to have been totally BTFO'd by the constant and repeated staggering victories of the left.
	Because it turns out all you need to do is activate two moral receptors really intensively, and you can win all the time.
	And so this is what the Conservatives kind of need to do.
	But you can go and watch that for more information on how Jonathan Haidt was just wrong, apparently, about the Conservative advantage.
	So let's go back to August.
	Let's have a look at the predictions.
	God, GOP gusher.
	This is how bad things were at the beginning of August.
	Because, of course, the problems were all obviously caused by the Democrats.
	Skyrocketing crime, skyrocketing inflation, wide open borders.
	And these are very solid issues for conservatives to run on because they're like, we'd like to punish criminals.
	Democrats are like, no.
	We'd like to not just print money so that the money is worth this.
	And Democrats are like, no.
	We're literally going to call it an Inflation Reduction Act.
	And if you look at the graph of inflation, it's the day that passes, the inflation skyrockets!
	It's funny, I printed all this money, but I called what I'm doing reducing inflation.
	Yes.
	We'll get to the lies about that in a minute.
	And then the borders, of course, we've got like two million people a year coming across.
	Was it a year?
	I can't even remember.
	It's millions.
	Millions of just...
	Is that illegal or legal?
	Illegal.
	Millions of illegal immigrants come across the borders and the conservatives are like, maybe we should stop this.
	And they're like, no, only when they get to Martha's Vineyard.
	That's when it stops.
	That's the problem.
	Martha's Vineyard Nationalism.
	And so it was unsurprisingly, it looked like the Republicans were going to smash it.
	Fast forward to October, and everyone's like, oh my god, these are historic leads in the polls.
	You've got, like, historic leads.
	Like, Gallup's latest data, Gallup, that notable far-right polling organization, the latest data showed that 48% of Americans believe the Republican Party is the best equipped to solve the problems, while 37% believe it's the Democrat Party, which is interesting because at least 37% confess that these are problems.
	Yeah, the crime, the immigration, and inflation.
	Yeah, these are all problems.
	But I think the Democrats will solve these.
	It's like, are you mad?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I vote Democrat.
	Of course, I'm bloody mad.
	Right?
	Like, they're the source of the issue.
	Anyway.
	Just to step back for a sec.
	I'm thinking, you've got, like, the reddest states in the Union.
	Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's like, you know, definitely Florida and Texas is what comes to mind.
	For, like, you know, big states, massive red population.
	Yeah.
	Texas changing a lot, but whatever.
	Whatever.
	And if these states were failed states, as in like they couldn't keep the lights on, there was endless crime...
	Like in California.
	Yeah, etc.
	You would think, well, this is a clear indictment of how the GOP can't be trusted to run anything.
	They're biggest boys, they can't run in success.
	Whereas that is true for the biggest, bluest states in the union.
	Unironically, an international embarrassment.
	Yes.
	Like for people who are not in America, if they think of California or New York at this point, nobody thinks money...
	Nobody thinks sunshine.
	Everyone thinks people voting with their feet.
	Yeah.
	And literally, the population of these states is going down because people are actively fleeing them.
	But no, no, no.
	37% of people still don't know.
	The Democrats are winning.
	And that's because they keep pulling out these wins, miraculously.
	This 11-point edge was one of the best they've ever had.
	Looking at 20 midterm elections since 1946 when this question was asked, only once have they had a larger advantage on this question.
	And that was in 1946 when they had a 17-point lead on the Democrats.
	Okay.
	And again, we can see this is just the aggregate of polls.
	538 is aggregate.
	If you scroll down just so you can see the actual aggregate of the polls.
	Of course, you know, the Republicans, they're doing better than the Democrats just overall.
	And it's okay.
	Okay.
	Go to the New York Post.
	This is in November.
	Beginning of November.
	November the 6th, in fact.
	Leading the polls.
	Republicans position for victory.
	Red wave coming.
	This is why Joe Biden's...
	Joe Rogan, even.
	This is going to be like the shining.
	Because all of the indications are there.
	All of the indications are there.
	Yeah, this is going to be a bloodbath, as ended up trending on Twitter afterwards.
	Because, I mean, Biden is 10 points underwater in disapproval rating.
	There's not any argument you can stand on?
	No.
	Like not a single one can you say, well we've got the moral righteousness on this?
	No.
	Everything that he's done has been terrible.
	I mean, literally.
	The control of Afghanistan, the policy on COVID, the policy on inflation, the policy on the border.
	He's causing all of the problems.
	We can point to decisions Biden or his administration have made, and from those decisions, the problem goes up.
	Here's the five things that voters care about.
	Crime, economy, border.
	It's just like, okay, well, who wins on those arguments?
	How about cashless bail, Calum?
	Solve the crime.
	I don't think that was in the top five.
	No.
	This is the thing.
	They're responsible for all of them, right?
	And so this is bad.
	And so minorities started going Republican as well, which is good.
	If you go to the next one, you see 17% of black voters said they were going to pick Republican rather than the 8% in 2018.
	I mean, that's a huge slice of the black vote they're losing.
	Obviously, you know, about half of Latino voters, I think the Democrats are only five point ahead with Latino voters.
	So these demographic blocks are like, yeah, actually, these guys are really causing the problem.
	So you might be thinking, okay, This looks bad for the Democrats, right?
	All of the signs are looking bad.
	And so the media starts getting scared because the Republicans have got some quite strong candidates.
	Someone like Carrie Lake, who Medhi Hassan...
	This is an amazing segment.
	I watched this entire segment.
	It's just like...
	Look at that dislike ratio.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's amazing, right?
	Let's just play this clip.
	But number three, the biggest reason that Carrie Lake is so dangerous, in my view, is unlike, say, MAGA gubernatorial candidates Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania or Tudor Dixon in Michigan, who are both trailing in the polls, Carrie Lake has a strong chance of actually winning in Arizona.
	The most recent CBS News poll shows Lake tied with her Democratic opponent, Katie Hobbs.
	Meanwhile there are echoes of Trump and 2016.
	Many in our media still frame Lake as if she's some normal Republican candidate and not a dangerous far-right extremist.
	Accidental advertising.
	Good message.
	I mean, Carrie Lake seems quite nice to me, but like...
	She's scary.
	Really scary.
	And what I love about Mehdi Hassan though is they obviously just have him on a green screen.
	Like, look at this nice background now.
	We're just going to photoshop that up for you, Mehdi.
	We're not going to give you that room.
	You're going to have a box.
	I've never noticed that.
	That's totally true.
	But it's obviously green screened and his audio is terrible.
	So he's obviously just got sort of like a janitor closet.
	Like I can hear the fan in the background?
	Yeah, exactly.
	He's got the worst studio in the world.
	But also just that his whole point is we don't demonize her enough.
	Yeah.
	Okay, mask off.
	She's evil.
	What is the purpose in the media in his view?
	It's to demonize people.
	That's it.
	Yeah.
	That's exactly it, right?
	Okay, Mehdi.
	And you can demonize people along any axis if you just believe hard enough.
	Let's watch this next clip from everyone's favorite MSNBC anchor, Joy Reid.
	People I ever hear use the word inflation are journalists and economists, right?
	So that is not part of the normal lexicon of the way people talk.
	So it's interesting that Republicans are doing something they don't normally do, right?
	Which is not use the common tongue, right?
	Not use just common English to sort of do on their campaigns like they're doing with Prime.
	But what they've done is they've taught people the word inflation, right?
	Most people who would have never used that word ever in their lives are using it now because they've been taught it, including on TV, including in newspapers.
	They've been taught this word, and they sort of wrap this word around whatever it is that they really want to vote, you know, the reasons they really want to vote.
	Right.
	So the Republicans are guilty of educating people.
	No, I'm sorry.
	Like, how rich of an out-of-touch asshole do you have to be to think that, well, none of my friends talk about inflation, so nobody knows it.
	Yeah.
	None of the plebs feel it every day.
	The stupid poors can't possibly know what an inflation is.
	Yeah.
	Like, all my money's worthless, I can't buy what I need.
	Yeah.
	They don't know what inflation is.
	Yeah.
	They can't tell.
	It's just not in the common tongue, Callum.
	Yeah, the only people who don't know what inflation is with are incredibly rich people who know nothing, like her.
	Yeah.
	And so you can demonize your opponents for literally teaching them things and facts about the world.
	And of course, Joy Reid's...
	What a criticism as well.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Joy Reid's audience must be like, yeah, good point.
	They are teaching me.
	They're bastards.
	How dare they?
	I was living in blissful ignorance.
	Shoving cheetos at the ground.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I knew nothing and I was happy.
	You know, they've made me miserable by pointing out that Biden is making my money worthless.
	How am I going to vote Democrat now?
	And the thing is, right, okay, you could say right, okay, but fair enough.
	Why don't we just go the whole hog, right?
	Why don't we just get on talking heads who are like Sam Hyde?
	Let's watch this next one.
	Okay, what?
	And a historian 50 years from now, if historians are allowed to write in this country, and if there are still free publishing houses and a free press, which I'm not certain of, but if that is true, a historian will say, what was at stake tonight and this week was the fact whether we will be a democracy in the future, whether our children will be arrested and conceivably killed, we're on the edge of a brutal authoritarian system, and it could be a week away.
	They're literally coming to kill your kids, says one Democrat talking head.
	I thought you were joking when you mentioned Sam Heidberg.
	No.
	No.
	They're going to come to your house and kill your children.
	They'll arrest all the historians.
	Yeah.
	They'll kill your kids.
	They'll beat you in the street.
	I'm amazed this rung at all with the average Democrat voter.
	He's like, yeah, but I've had 17 abortions.
	I don't have kids.
	Like, you know, who?
	But apparently it worked.
	So as we saw a minute ago, to get the youth vote turnout, just tell them profound lies.
	Tell them that your enemies are evil.
	They're going to educate you and then kill you for some reason.
	They're just going to do all of this.
	All of this.
	They're evil far-right people.
	Don't trust them.
	No effort to convince you of anything.
	No.
	No issue to stand on and say, well, look, we're right on this.
	They're going to kill you!
	We've got nothing.
	So, you know, those guys, don't vote for them.
	I don't know, they'll kill you or something.
	End of democracy, they're going to murder your children and teach you things.
	You don't want any of that, do you?
	Good point.
	I don't.
	That sounds awful.
	And so you get, like, just outright lies.
	Just, oh no, sorry, forgot this.
	Ah, yes, of course I forgot.
	Barack Obama.
	Now, I'm not going to play this because I'm sure you've seen it already, but just look at what you're looking at.
	What is this?
	I haven't, but it looks like cancer.
	Look at it!
	It's an adult, like, man-child.
	I don't dare I be misgendering this ambiguous person.
	What, Obama?
	No.
	Obama's the only obvious man in the room.
	Is he?
	But look what you're looking at.
	Like, this is what a child would be like.
	And then Obama, grandfatherly Obama, sat down and said, you know, you've got to vote Democrat or else they're going to murder you all.
	Right.
	It's like, you've just got to do it because democracy is over and the thousand-year Reich that Hitler was promising will finally be brought in by the 2022 midterms.
	You've just got to get out and vote or else everything dies and it's an inferno of hell.
	That's the Democrat message, right?
	To children hiding under the table.
	Okay.
	I mean, okay.
	But it's a question of, you know, can you compare America's youth, whatever that is, compared to those who went and fought against the Nazis and the Japs?
	I just think to myself, okay, yeah, one of these groups had the right to vote rightfully.
	One of these groups really shouldn't.
	Just look at Obama's body language.
	Yeah, you are literally an idiot.
	Listen, you pathetic weasel.
	All you have to do is get up from under the table and vote for me, and then the world won't explode.
	That's all you need to know.
	Don't listen to them, they're going to educate you.
	And then murder you.
	It's just...
	Reverse Pol Pot.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But we don't murder people.
	At least not...
	Anyway, let's move on.
	So you get the...
	I'm going to skip over the bunch of these videos.
	The diversity hire...
	No, no, go back.
	I'll just describe it.
	The diversity hire is like...
	So isn't it Orwellians call the Inflation Reduction Act a reduction act because it actually increased the inflation and literally we can't find a single economist who suggests it'll do that?
	And she's like, no.
	Hey, we're going to print more money.
	Everyone will have more money.
	It's like, yeah, so right, so that's the next strategy.
	Your opponent's going to kill you and just never tell the truth.
	Just lie about everything.
	Constant lies.
	But it's not even an impressive one.
	It's not like I did not have sexual...
	Well, you know, I didn't have sexual relations with that woman.
	It's dumb, but you could try it.
	Printing money doesn't cause inflation.
	Good luck.
	You don't know what inflation means?
	It's a mystical word that the Republicans have put into your lexicon, into the common tongue.
	Like, you don't know.
	Don't worry about that.
	Anyway, moving on.
	So we get the political class who's just like, wow, I just can't understand how the Democrats won a lot of this.
	Yeah, well, it's really impressive, isn't it?
	Yeah, it's just incredible.
	It's, you know, considering the regime-prescribed facts that we're allowed to talk about...
	It does become inexplicable, as this political commentator says.
	2022 is supposed to be a bloodbath for Democrats.
	House, Senate, and Governor happens to most first-time presidents, except with George W. Bush.
	If Dems keep the Senate, that's an accomplishment.
	If they get four to five gubernatorial races, it's a win for democracy.
	Win for democracy.
	But again, they can't explain it.
	Democracy can only win with a certain outcome again.
	Yes.
	Democracy's over if you vote for the other team, remember.
	But it's just one of those things where it's like, they can't believe they won.
	They didn't even realise their own genius, their own brilliance.
	They weren't like, no, no, no, we've got this in the back.
	They're like, oh god, this is all going to crash down.
	We won?
	Oh my god.
	You're a Republican.
	Well, that's convenient.
	You're not going to be murdered by a Republican today.
	On Facebook, yeah.
	Mark's safe.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Anyway, let's get to the next one.
	This is a professor and Miami Herald journalist.
	The extent the press got gamed this fall by conservative pundits and pollsters will actually be studied for a long, long time.
	The pollsters, the notoriously right-leaning pollsters?
	Like, they're all just like, yeah, yeah, we fooled you.
	They told us Brexit would happen, remember?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Anyway, so Lauren Bober lost her seat.
	Again, just, okay, and then lots of people were laughing.
	Carrie Lake looks like she's lost, by quite a significant margin, actually.
	Although, I don't know, it's still counting in.
	So, it might be, I might, this might be wrong, I don't know.
	Still, how is it that close?
	Yeah.
	But it does seem that Arizona, in all other ways, has gone blue, for some reason.
	If you go to the next one, they've got this.
	So they've got, like, literally, the Secretary of State, scroll down, Attorney General.
	For some reason, Democrats are just wildly popular in Arizona.
	Who knew?
	I think pro-murder.
	Yeah.
	Pro-open borders, pro-inflation.
	I guess that's the campaign we've got to run, Carl.
	Yeah.
	No, no, it literally is.
	The Americans are like, yeah, I like that idea.
	No, I don't need to be educated on what inflation means.
	I need to be dead.
	I'm sick of living in a nice country.
	That's called a privilege.
	And so...
	You'll need to check your life privilege.
	So people are just at a loss to explain this.
	This is just one I found, again, just on Twitter, just some rando.
	Unless I'm missing something.
	It's a bloodbath for Republicans across the board.
	Midterms almost never go this way.
	Yeah, that's right.
	They almost never go this way.
	It's really weird that this has happened.
	It's an amazing strategy.
	Looks like the pollsters underestimated Joe Biden's appeal and leadership.
	Incredible.
	Yeah, they did.
	They did.
	They absolutely did.
	Joe Biden's appeal.
	I won't kill you, but my opponent will.
	Well, I might not kill you.
	Yeah, well, I might not kill you, yeah.
	Possibly the criminals I let out of jail will kill you.
	But anyway, let's go to the next one.
	This is a former Washington Post journalist.
	This is a great thread.
	I won't worry about going through the whole thing.
	But he's just gobsmacked at the results.
	He's like, well, what the hell is this?
	And so this was his conclusion.
	If you go to the next one.
	Midterm message so far is clear.
	Voters want more crime and completely open borders.
	Yeah, I suppose so.
	I mean, what's he meant to take from it?
	Well, look, whenever you speak to an American, that's usually what they tell you.
	Yeah.
	I can't believe our illegal immigration is so low.
	I cannot believe that the crime is so low.
	Honestly, we really ought to cut back on the budget and just increase the crime.
	Yeah.
	And so, I mean, I don't know what else you're meant to take from this.
	And as you covered earlier, but New York, we're like, yep, we'd like more crime, please.
	Colorado, for some reason...
	Voted crime?
	Yeah, they voted crime and open borders.
	Again, this is just amazing.
	This is from the Colorado Sun.
	There's no point in pulling up the thesaurus to find more words for how brutal, how demoralizing, how devastating last night was for Colorado Republicans.
	Well, they wanted to lock up criminals.
	Terrible.
	Bad strategy.
	Honestly, I think if you check any political textbook, it will tell you, somewhere in there, that the real winning strategy is to just be pro-murder, that your own constituents should be killed in the streets, and that's what people vote for.
	But then, all you need to do is say that your opponents are evil.
	Unmitigated, unvarnished evil, and are going to be a threat to the Republic, a threat to democracy, and will probably cause the sky to fall.
	When you're being thrown in front of a train in the New York metro, you're going to at least scream, well, at least I didn't vote Republican.
	When MS-13 are killing you and storming your house, you'd be like, well, you know, better than having to pay lower taxes.
	Guys down at the border burying more kids, they've drowned in the river.
	Thank God I voted for Joe Biden.
	I mean, it's at least not voter suppression.
	And so you get lots of strange interpretations of how exactly did this happen?
	Well, it turns out abortion won.
	Very positive message.
	The Republicans are going to kill your kids, but abortion won.
	So, I mean, this is something where I just...
	There's such a disconnect between the United States...
	20,000 likes on that!
	...and the rest of the planet.
	Like, pick any country.
	I know.
	Lauren Southern mentioned, like, Canada's the only other one.
	Them and North Korea, who think that abortion should be as legal as it is in America.
	Everyone else on the planet is like, frickin' what?
	And for some reason, I do actually wonder if this is a genuine, just, cultural difference in the extreme...
	Like, the North Americans, their women seem to have been convinced that this is normal, that you should actually insist that you should have abortion on demand, and celebrate it.
	Not just that you should have access to it or anything like that, you should be celebrating it.
	I just, abortion won.
	Murdering babies won all of this, according to one pundit.
	But the argument isn't, like, I should be able to have an abortion in the early stages of my life.
	It's not that debate.
	Should it be on demand?
	Just the concept of abortion.
	Pro-abortion.
	We should do more abortions.
	Want an abortion?
	Get one.
	I hate it so much, man.
	You've seen that clip, right?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	That's the former late-night host.
	I think it was on Stephen Colbert's show or something.
	Yeah, yeah.
	She just comes out.
	If people haven't seen it, there's this lady on one of his shows and they have an abortion parade.
	I can't remember her name.
	She's an insufferable comedian.
	Yeah, she's not funny.
	But they come out and she's got some confetti and she just goes, if you want an abortion, get one!
	And throws the confetti in the air.
	And she just does that for a whole bunch of times celebrating that everyone who has an abortion is a hero.
	Not someone who's having to go through something quite traumatic and deserves your sympathy if they're doing it.
	See, if the Republicans are smart, they would literally just describe the Democrats as the party of Satan.
	Well, no, they would play the clips that show the part of Satan.
	Oh, yeah, okay.
	Just quote from the Bible at the bottom as they show you the footage.
	But, I mean, like, you know, the hardcore MAGA chuds who are all like, yeah, the Demon KKK rats, I agree with them.
	I really agree with them.
	Well, it's...
	Demon KKK rats.
	If you're celebrating that abortion is great and the Klan didn't do nothing...
	Basically what they're doing.
	Anyway, so moving on, you've got the lesbian governor, which is amazing.
	Fantastic.
	You've got the first black governor, which again, just rounds of applause.
	Everything's been saved.
	Democracy is now at 100%, I think.
	Pennsylvania, where the polls were too close to call, between a literal stroke victim who can't formulate a sentence and some guy who nobody really likes.
	Well, the stroke victim won.
	Yeah.
	I mean, this just...
	Oh yeah, this was...
	Where was it?
	Where the hell was this from?
	Pennsylvania.
	But going back to Fetterman, I mean, that really tells you everything, doesn't it?
	Just don't run an unlikable candidate.
	Because people will literally vote for the person who is cognitively impaired and unable to finish a sentence if they prefer him.
	You can't hate Fenneman, that's true.
	Yeah, you can run an actual potato against someone who's unlikable and the lurch will win.
	Okay, there we go.
	Lesson learned.
	The potato is less offensive to my values because, I mean, like, well...
	I mean, can you really ever be mad at the mentally disabled kid when he throws up on you?
	No, not really.
	He's a generally sympathetic figure.
	Let's make him the governor.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, funnily enough, there's a cartoonist, his name I forget.
	He published a cartoon yesterday of Winnie the Pooh becoming the president, and the interview is just like some guy explaining to him, okay, so we're going to talk about Big Pharma, and he's like, oh, that sounds good.
	And he's like, oh, why would it sound good?
	Oh, you know, Big Pharma?
	That's got to be good for people, isn't it?
	It doesn't correct him because Pooh's too retarded and too innocent to be told the truth.
	And that's what reminds me of Fetterman here.
	It's just like, I don't even want to ask him his opinion on abortion, just let him live in his world.
	Also, it's remarkable how the Democrats are like, oh, democracy will be over.
	But democracy is going to put stroke victims in office.
	They've got to have a job somewhere.
	Do they, though?
	Well, yeah.
	I mean, can't he have, I don't know, convalescent care?
	Well, you know, if we're going to employ a bunch of idiots to run the government, we might as well use people who, you know, have nothing better to do.
	I think he does have better things to do.
	Like, have a neck, you know?
	Have some medicine.
	Anyway, moving on to New Hampshire.
	Oh, it was neck and neck, it was neck and neck, but in the end, boom, the Democrats crushed it.
	54%, 43.5%?
	Okay, you thought you were going to do something there, didn't you?
	No, you got wrecked.
	And so, just finally, we get a Democrat talking head being like, election 2022 is already shaping up to be the best performance by the party holding the White House in recent history.
	Why?
	Because the Dems put people over politics and are focused on lower costs, better paying jobs and safer communities.
	The brazenness of these lies.
	Look, I know you're scared of your own community.
	I know you can't afford your groceries or to fill up your car, but we are putting people over politics.
	Two years ago, things were more expensive.
	My money was worth less.
	My community was safer.
	I don't know what's wrong with you.
	What do you not recognise that things have just gotten better?
	That is why it's a winning strategy.
	It's mad.
	And so, like, you can just demonize your opponents and lie constantly.
	And the Republicans on the other side will be like, well, the Democrats' anti-MAGA strategy worked.
	I guess it did.
	I guess you got totally destroyed because you suck at politics and the Democrats know what they're doing.
	Or, well, I mean, that's literally all I can say, isn't it?
	Better paying jobs.
	Yeah, now your money's worth 20% less.
	Everyone's better paid.
	Imagine how much they were being paid in Zimbabwe.
	Anyway, that's that.
	We made everyone a millionaire.
	That's why we win.
	Vote Zanupf.
	We win every election.
	I assume that we're not going to put this bit on YouTube because they obviously fucking cheated.
	Obviously cheated.
	Come on!
	Come on!
	I mean, they're like...
	The cheated or Americans are actually fucking retarded.
	Like, come on!
	I just don't believe...
	Fucking Zanu PFL, like, with every election, everyone's better pay, the community's safer now that we killed all the white people.
	Anyway.
	Well, like you said, there are two solutions.
	Yeah, yeah.
	On YouTube, we officially say that the Democrats are just brilliant, you know?
	Again, we're talking about, like, you know, the sort of, like, basketball games you see, where the guy just, he's, like, two-thirds of the way back, and he just takes his wild shot and swish through the net.
	That's the Democrats just every fucking election.
	It's better than you, Republicans.
	Oh, what a shit show.
	God.
	Anyway.
	Let's talk about the tragedy of the Young Turks.
	So, the tragedy of the Young Turks is a sad story.
	It's a story of decay and a horrible situation.
	It's a story of living in California, isn't it?
	Yes, it is.
	Which, as things get worse, people continue to vote for the Democrats even harder, which is another...
	Another indication that everything's going well.
	I know the reason for this, because what you do...
	You can't say it.
	No, no, no.
	That's not the reason.
	No, no.
	Why they continue to do this part?
	Because the worse things get, the more they realise that the Republicans who haven't converted to the utopian ideology are the thing that holds people back.
	So we get more and more Democrats, more of us, once we're all on exactly the same page, then utopia will be achieved.
	And, well, we're seeing this in real time in California.
	We'll start off just by mentioning something from the website, of course, being Frank DeCottis, the Tragedy of Liberation book club we did, because, well, the results of leftism are entirely predictable.
	They were in China, and they certainly are in California, which is that, well, democracy is truly dying in California, in darkness, because the power's not on.
	That's just hilarious, though.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I'm sorry, I've got to laugh so much at this, but it's unbelievable.
	The Washington Post, though, like, when democracy does it, everyone's like, that's a crap tagline.
	And they're like, yeah, we know, we just had to go with it.
	But then actually...
	The power goes out.
	The power starts going out of Democrat states, and they're like, well...
	There's no democracy here.
	It's kind of true, actually.
	It's kind of a prediction.
	Yeah, we have Cenk Uygur coming out and saying, we're off air tonight because the power went out in LA, as it does all the time.
	Amazing!
	Eric Garcetti is the worst mayor of all time.
	I bet you voted for him.
	He hasn't bothered to do his job in years.
	No kidding.
	Why do you keep voting?
	The Democrats running LA are the most incompetent people on the planet.
	And corrupt.
	Which is why you should vote blue, no matter who.
	But I'm not going to vote for a Republican.
	Yeah.
	Like, okay, Cenk.
	I just...
	I love George Alexopoulos' thing.
	You wanted this.
	It's like, yes, every time you voted left-wing, that's what you were voting for.
	Every single time.
	I suppose, let's check out all the responses.
	I have an entire arena.
	You vote for it, yeah.
	Turn on the windmill.
	Good luck.
	Did you vote for us, Mayor?
	Just wondering.
	God.
	It's ridiculous.
	But the thing is, like, Kabul probably has a better and more stable power supply than LA at this point.
	Yeah.
	And I just...
	Have you tried breathing like a baby?
	The clown maker.
	I wonder if the lights are still on in Florida.
	Dave Rubin is posting from Florida.
	Lol.
	It's weird, that one.
	I was chatting to Destiny yesterday on Lauren Chen's stream, and he tried defending this, and he was like, Yeah, well, California's a desert with a growing population and it's really hard to keep the power supply on.
	It's not got a growing population.
	Whereas Texas is not a desert and doesn't have...
	Has a shrinking population.
	No, it's the opposite way around.
	Yeah.
	It's also the fact that he tried to compare it to Texas being like, yeah, well, Texas power supply went off.
	I was like, yeah, ice age came.
	But, you know, another Tuesday in LA. And that's because they had lots of wind farms, isn't it?
	And the ice froze the wind, froze the windmills.
	There's also, I think, problems with the gas as well.
	But it's just like, you know, Rio Sofia act of nature versus it's a Tuesday.
	And then Northern California gets the power on the Tuesday.
	Southern California gets it on the Wednesday.
	Your turn, Mr.
	Chuck Huger.
	You've got to wait.
	We'll get to the next one, though.
	Just as a quick thing, right?
	Have you noticed just the, like, the Democrats have had this tremendous and unexpected victory.
	Well, they can't keep the lights on.
	And yet they're still coping, right?
	They're still like, yeah, but, I mean, everything isn't terrible.
	It's like, yeah, but it actually is terrible.
	So, no, no, we won.
	It's like, yeah, then why don't you have this kind of, you know, exultancy in your victory?
	It's like, that was a great unexpected victory.
	And now it's just like, oh, God.
	We fought hard and we beat them.
	It's like, we didn't fight hard.
	We knew we were losing.
	Yeah, and now we've won.
	Oh, God.
	There's no joy in the victory.
	But it's also just like, I'm so glad we won.
	My lights are still off.
	It's a good place to run a media company, isn't it?
	Damn Republicans!
	I've never been more glad that we have electricity.
	It could be worse.
	If you donate £3 a day to Californians, we can get the lights working.
	Actually, they can't because they'll spend it on renewable energy, which is why they don't have light.
	But I do love these memes as well.
	Democracy dies in darkness.
	The little Pepe just going, lights out.
	Time for no more lighting, Mr.
	Cenk.
	But this isn't just Cenk, of course, but he continued, whining.
	We have him saying, I'm very disgruntled with Democratic Party in California.
	Why do you keep voting for it?
	Why are you a member of it?
	You've been shilling them for the last 15 years, Cenk.
	But I voted for all Democrats in the state and national level.
	Because lunatic Republicans want to end our democracy, take away women's rights, control their own bodies, and attack the LGBTQ community.
	That's right.
	It is literally, we sit here in the dark without our air conditioning in the middle of California.
	For trans rights!
	Yeah, or the Republicans kill everyone.
	Like, you're a political pundit, Cenk.
	You should be, like, compass-mentous enough to be able to understand what is BS propaganda and what is actual substantive policy.
	No.
	No, just the enemy wants to kill us.
	Yeah, they're coming.
	We're in a bunker.
	A dark, cold, hot bunker in California.
	It's not even like, oh, they're going to cause disorder which creates crime which actually causes murder.
	No, they're actually going to form death squads and come and kill us all.
	Like the Third Reich.
	And that is why we have the power off, son.
	That is why you can't watch it.
	LAUGHTER That's why you have to walk around heroin addicts in the street, son.
	Chen's having to explain to Hassan, just being like, well, you can't stream or eat the chicken nuggets tonight.
	That's why we've got a 50% tax rate, son.
	Okay?
	It's either that or everything falls apart.
	If you ever listen to North Korean propaganda about America, there's a wonderful tape, I don't know if you've ever seen it, talking about how Americans are all homeless and have to eat snow.
	That's basically true.
	But it's just the levels of ridiculousness.
	It's like, oh, it's good we live in North Korea, we want to live out there.
	I mean, they're literally just going to be pointing to California, but look, they don't even have power.
	Yeah, well, North Korea doesn't have any power either.
	And Che Guevara doesn't have any power.
	It's sad, though, being like, at least I'm left-wing.
	At least I don't live in the right-wing areas.
	Comical.
	Beyond belief.
	And of course, Anna Kasparian.
	Also not having a nice evening.
	Have her going where they haven't gone live yet due to power jeltas at the studio in LA. Oh, yeah.
	If you moved to Texas, it wouldn't have been a problem.
	This state, and especially this city, you're really the most blue city on the planet.
	I think that's got to be true.
	No, I think it probably is.
	More than New York City.
	Possibly Portland.
	Yeah, maybe.
	Literally anyone who's red gets shot in the street.
	Which, again, is terrible.
	Actually happened.
	Unironically, for people who don't know, the murder that happened there, the political assassination, was just a guy wearing a mag of hat who got executed.
	Yep.
	Absolutely is a case study for corrupted democratic failure.
	The most blue area is the most corrupt.
	Yes.
	Anna, Anna, Anna, you don't have to be a member of the cult.
	You've been promoting this for 15 years.
	Actual Justice Warriors said yesterday, it was like, well, you know, all the problems Anna's complaining about, she doesn't live, you know, even with crime, she doesn't live anywhere near my minorities, for one.
	She's rich enough to move anywhere she wanted, and she's still sat there, just complaining about how everything's getting more diverse and more blue, and everything's getting worse.
	And it's been happening for years.
	You're not tied to the land.
	You could actually get off the plantation, as Candace would say.
	But isn't this just remarkable, though?
	What a case study of insanity.
	At what point is she going to be like, right, I think I might not want to vote Democrat?
	Mm-mm.
	I was going to say her house getting burnt down, but the mayor of Portland still stayed.
	Yes.
	And, yeah, okay, that's not going to work.
	I don't know.
	Maybe...
	But the cult is so strong.
	I mean, we've read multiple books on what's happened in China and North Korea, and I've read stories about people in the gulag system in North Korea who are still believers in communism.
	There was one tragic story.
	There was a lady who was Korean.
	She moved to Japan during the Imperial era, because the Koreans got sent to Imperial Japan.
	And then after Korea got its independence, she and her whole family, she convinced they would all go back to North Korea.
	She was the one who did this because she was a communist and she thought it was great.
	So then she went back, ended up in the gulags with the rest of her family.
	She's like, you know, she's brought everyone in her family line into a gulag by her actions.
	Thanks very much.
	She mules on this for a few days and then concludes that, well, Kim Il-sung isn't a real communist.
	I'm not joking.
	That is actually her conclusion.
	I mean, that's probably true as well.
	She died with that conclusion in the camp.
	Yep.
	So, no, I don't think Anna's ever going to get off the plantation, maybe.
	Wasn't this Orwell as well, where, like you were saying, when presented with the evidence, they just can't bring themselves to me.
	So, Anna's just looking at the fact that, like, everything's falling apart.
	There are homeless people everywhere.
	Drugs, crime, like, power outages.
	Wasn't real Democrats.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	If you can get the tweet back.
	The problem is the party, not the ideology.
	Look at the wording, you know, corrupt democratic failure.
	It's the corruption that's the problem, not the philosophical base point that brings you to this failure.
	We'll go to the next link because, you know, there was actually an act of God in California last night.
	I heard there was a Richter 10 earthquake, hurricanes, floods, God himself, Gork and Mork turned up.
	God's like, look, I told you.
	Demon KKK rats, okay?
	Literal party of Satan.
	No, it was sunny.
	Because it's California.
	22 degrees!
	That's like English summertime.
	Yeah, that's just the maximum wind, 18 kilometers there.
	Unbearable.
	No, it looks awful.
	At least they didn't need their aircon, I suppose.
	Yeah, so that's all it takes to take out California.
	Truly an act of gawk and mock.
	We'll also go to just the evidence of, obviously, California has less and less people every year, so cope more about, oh no, the need for energy's going up.
	No one's using it.
	Yeah.
	Those people are gone.
	I mean, the Gigafactory's probably gone as well, anyway.
	Yeah, a load of businesses left.
	She mentions this isn't even rare.
	She complains in here.
	There's someone pointing out, like, oh, how dare you complain about this.
	We have blackouts all the time.
	But look at this interaction.
	This is her talking to her audience, where she's having to argue with the lights off that things are bad, and the socialist boomer here is like, wow, everything's actually quite good.
	Get out of it.
	You are a cult.
	We have blackouts all the time.
	Yeah.
	Just...
	Anyway, we go to the next one because someone complains to her.
	Yeah, well, Texas is so much better, isn't it?
	F-ing sellouts.
	Dunking on the Young Turks.
	Oh, you are not committed enough to the cause.
	I know.
	That's the problem.
	Lucas is also sat in darkness, but at least he doesn't think Texas has power, unlike you, you counter-revolutionary, thinking that there's power beyond the borders of California.
	LAUGHTER The entire world is in darkness at this point.
	Anna comes back with the same craven corporate corruption that fools both of these trash parties, and yet, Governor Greg is charging his phone, and you're not.
	It's strange, that one.
	He's still able to watch things on his TV. It's Plugged in.
	Doesn't need batteries.
	Governor Drake's currently killing on Counter-Strike.
	Jake's just looking at his blank screen.
	I love the idea you're playing Counter-Strike and there's some soy boy chat and then just a load of people leave the server.
	The Californians lie.
	Another blackout in California, I suppose.
	Anyway, my fellow progressives is something I think we have to talk about with Anna.
	Because she wrote this article.
	You can see this came out a couple of days ago.
	Which says, my fellow progressives, we need to stop gaslighting on crime.
	I guess that she wrote this because it finally happened to her.
	Yeah.
	It's strange that.
	It's only a problem when it happens to you.
	I love this.
	We need to stop gaslighting.
	So the gaslighting will continue until Anna Kasparian persuades everyone that actually being sexually assaulted in public by a homeless man is not good.
	Yeah.
	How do you think this went down?
	Anna was insisting that maybe...
	Well, the pro-gaslighting lobby would have been like, no.
	No, yeah, they were.
	You absolute traitor to the cause.
	Went down like cancer.
	We're going to gaslight until everyone agrees with everything we say.
	If you go to the next link here, we can see the response from the average leftist.
	F out with this.
	It's just like, okay.
	No, I'm going to keep gaslighting!
	I'm the gaslighter in chief.
	Yeah.
	Rightio.
	They're not questioning the fact that they are gaslighting.
	It's like, no one's going to stop.
	But for all the complaints you could ever have about the right wing, I've never had a problem with right wingers telling me that maybe we should improve the country, and they're like, no, everything's perfect.
	I don't feel that they're gaslighting me.
	No, nor would they be so unreasonable as to insist that complaining about the power being off is like counter-revolutionary bourgeois thoughts.
	What do you mean you want electricity?
	What are you, a writer?
	We'll go to the article, because the artist...
	The right-wing equivalent would have to be something like what?
	You know, if...
	If you don't suffer rolling blackouts, then the blacks win or something?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I mean, what would even be the right-wing argument?
	Because, I mean, actually, it doesn't make any sense anyway.
	Okay, Mr.
	Spencer.
	That sounds like the Democrat argument.
	Well, there's a reason Richard Spencer is a member of the Democrats.
	Well, there's a reason he voted Joe Biden, yeah.
	There's a reason the clown were Democrats.
	Yeah, okay, so that's not even the Republican argument.
	That's a toffee.
	We have to suffer the wrong blackness.
	You have to endure low taxes or the foreigners win.
	I don't...
	I don't think there's ever been a complaint about low taxes.
	What wins if we don't suffer the consequences of low taxes?
	Order.
	Low crime.
	I think the left wins, because then they're able to protest.
	Yeah.
	Because there's no one trying to stab them while they're doing it.
	Maybe?
	I don't know.
	Anyway, moving on.
	Going to Anna's article.
	Imagine living as a leftist.
	They have their own unique problems, is the point there.
	Imagine being trapped in a country with these people.
	It's bourgeois to want power.
	It's also bourgeois to not want to be raped, which is the conclusion for this one.
	You think I'm joking.
	We're going to go through it.
	It's been breathtaking to watch the same Democrats who spent more than two years ordering Americans to trush COVID-related data turn around and reject statistics showing a clear rise in violent crime.
	A crime wave may not be convenient for the party.
	Yeah, you are living in a cult when you have to write that in charge in the countdown to the elections, but it doesn't make it any less real.
	But isn't that interesting, right?
	So the point of Democrat governance isn't to reduce crime.
	It's just inconvenient.
	If it wasn't inconvenient, then it would be fine.
	I also love how her conclusion there is essentially, her opening gambit to the left is, crime bad, guys.
	You never have to make that argument on them, right?
	Not once!
	Do you have to explain why murder is bad?
	Or to the regular voter.
	The FBI newly released annual crime report, which isn't even complete, oh gosh, gonna start talking about murder statistics, estimated 2021.
	There were 22,900 murders, bringing the nation's homicide rate to 6.9 per 100,000.
	It's the highest number in almost 25 years, following a 30% spike in homicides between 2019 and 2020.
	Don't know what happened then.
	2019 to 2020?
	Mass lawlessness.
	I don't think of that when I think of that, yeah.
	I think of order.
	I think of...
	But also, wasn't there something about police funding or lack thereof?
	And isn't there this general animus against the police that is just getting quit, generally?
	No, no.
	I think the left never did that.
	No.
	Cities like Philadelphia, New York in Los Angeles...
	Weirdly all Democrat hubs.
	Yeah, not rightist hubs.
	Broke annual homicide records.
	Yeah.
	We're number one.
	Democrats succeed again.
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	Los Angeles number one!
	No power, everyone dead!
	It's just the general background.
	In the background, like you're in Baghdad or something.
	We've finally achieved communism.
	They also broke records for other violent crimes, such as robbery and aggravated assault.
	Record-breaking.
	Put that on the leaflet that you sent out.
	Some of these stats are apparently wrong.
	Sean was saying yesterday, Actual Justice Warrior.
	Because they're worse than they look.
	No, but it's just she's bad at math.
	But things are definitely worse off nationwide.
	That's true.
	It's no wonder that 61% of all voters, including 8 in 10 black voters, told the Pew Research Centre that violent crime is very important to their midterm votes.
	And that's why the Democrats are like, right, we're going to run on violent crime then.
	If this is what they want, we're going to give the people...
	Violent crime is important to our midterm votes.
	Okay, we'll give you as much violent crime as we can.
	That's what the Democrats took from that.
	I also just...
	The Dems were advocating on a base of violent crime is our policy point.
	Yeah.
	And also, they unironically believed that black people want violent crime.
	That's the phrasing there.
	The assumptions being made.
	It's like, I was surprised to find out that 8 and 10 black voters don't like crime.
	What?!
	What did you think it was?
	It really opens up the, like, really sort of mask-off moment, isn't it?
	It's like, wow.
	Some assumptions you have about people.
	Yeah, that was what you thought of the black community, was it?
	They were pro-crime.
	They weigh their sneaking shoes everywhere they go.
	Um...
	If you ever met a black person, I know you don't live there any, but it's just...
	Yeah, all they get from Democrats and progressives is gaslighting.
	In an interview on MSNBC last week, New York Governor Kathy Hushel brushed off concerns about public safety as nothing more than conservative conspiracy theories to brainwash Americans into thinking they're less safe.
	They just stand near the edge of the platform.
	You'll be fine.
	All of you are actually insane.
	That's a great point, Biana.
	I noticed how she's waking up.
	She's racing this.
	Yeah, yeah, because we'd covered this previously a couple of weeks ago where she was complaining, look, there's this video of this guy who's been released from jail like 48 times and no bail or whatever.
	Just punching a woman in the face randomly in the street.
	It's like, well, hang on, you're being brainwashed by conservatives to think you're less safe.
	It's like, really?
	Really?
	How many videos of people just randomly punching women in the face did you get, like, ten years ago?
	And also just during COVID, the solution was to get all the criminals out of the prisons in New York.
	Good idea.
	There was a guy, I mean, everyone's seen the Internet Historian's video, but if you haven't, there's one guy in there who, like, within being let out, he's arrested five more times that day.
	Some people are just criminals.
	Some people just are.
	Well, 8 in 10 people in the black community say that criminality is very important to them, so they need more of it.
	But anyway, she says that everything is a conspiracy theory from the right.
	She writes, Yep.
	Yep, you are all insane.
	Your frontstanders are actually mad.
	Get out.
	All major crimes, with the exception of murder, are up in New York City this year.
	Police data shows a 33% jump in robberies, a 58% rise in grand larceny, and 31% rise in shooting incidents.
	Promises made, promises kept.
	What do you want?
	Hugh Shaw's comments on MSNBC's show were so woefully tone-deaf that she was forced to walk them back in a subsequent interview on NY1 in a 180-degree turn that was reminiscent of another progressive forced to confront reality.
	Funny how that keeps happening.
	This is brilliant, this article.
	This is what I would have written.
	Uncanny.
	I don't know if she's trapped on the plantation just because that's where her income comes from.
	She's not a progressive anymore.
	I hope that's the case.
	The evidence is in front of you about why this doesn't work.
	It's in your own goddamn article you've written.
	She doesn't understand why progressivism leads to these consequences.
	She has no idea.
	All these progressives keep having to confront reality, but progressivism is still good.
	This time, she says, in Los Angeles.
	During a debate last March, Democratic candidate for mayor, Congresswoman Karen Bass, was asked to rate how safe she feels in the streets of Los Angeles.
	Quote, I do feel safe, Bass answered.
	On a scale of 1 to 10, Bass rated her perception of safety as a solid 10.
	Bro, I'm an adult male.
	I don't feel safe in Los Angeles.
	Well, you're more likely to be killed in Los Angeles as a man.
	I'm a lot less likely to be raped.
	Well, that might be true.
	However, all that changed five months after, she said, she felt a solid ten safe after two men burglarised her home and stole two of her handguns.
	They took the guns.
	She says, quote, my safety has been shattered, Bass admitted, revising her personal safety rating to a five-out.
	Then break into my home, steal my guns.
	It's a 5 out of 10, though.
	Eh, you know, it's about average.
	Not about average.
	Being broken into is not an average for anyone else.
	This is my point.
	Like, you've given us multiple examples now, Anna, where your frontrunners are actually insane.
	I mean, like, seriously...
	Saying that all crime is a conspiracy theory from the right, that's a mad person.
	Saying that you feel about average safe after being broken into, you're a mad person.
	The FBI is a partisan organ of the Republicans that's creating false crime statistics in order to make people living in Democrat cities We're good to go.
	That society has made these people bad against their own will and inclinations.
	So they have to be well treated in order to be reformed, in order to be let back out in society.
	It's not that there are some people who are intrinsically bad and who need to be punished for their crimes, which is the non-progressive opinion.
	The Republicans have.
	Like, you are committed to these things as a progressive.
	I don't know where you can go.
	But also, if you actually believe those progressive ideals, why do you ever have a police force?
	Yeah.
	Because if people are intrinsically good, and then some people just, you know, there's no one who's just bad.
	And it is a society that's just evil towards them.
	I don't get it.
	Democrat society in California.
	It's also amazing.
	She's like, oh, it seems that every progressive keeps dropping the ball on crime.
	Yeah.
	Time after time.
	I want hardcore Republican views on crime, actually.
	Thank you.
	Poll after poll shows crime is one of the voters' top concerns in this election cycle.
	Well, apparently not, turns out.
	Yeah, much like Governor Hushaw and Representative Bass, progressive activists and politicians have downplayed the crime wave by blaming right-wing fear-mongering and conservative media for concerns about public safety.
	On the plus side, they didn't know that young people would literally be so stupid as to vote pro-crime.
	It's amazing.
	But your point is 100% correct, which is that, yeah, of course you can't win the ball on crime.
	You actively promote being soft on criminals.
	You argue they're just poor souls who need a social worker, not ten lashes for stealing those guns.
	I mean, whenever I hear about, I've forgotten the name now, the country just on the tip of Malaysia, Singapore, just their crime system, the fact that they have the lowest crime rate on the planet, And the way they've dealt with that is not with social workers.
	It is with, oh, you've been caught littering.
	There's a funny story I got told.
	There was a guy, American, who was caught littering.
	He was given ten lashes.
	And then they decided, well, they issued a public statement.
	It was a big discussion with the American government.
	This was barbaric.
	The Americans were insisting.
	So the Singaporeans said, well, we have a very good relationship with the United States.
	We don't want to spoil it.
	So this man, he will be given seven lashes.
	Very generous.
	Beautiful.
	You know, in the late 19th century, Britain had over 200 different criminal offenses that could result in hanging.
	Yeah, I think the bloody code might be a bit too far.
	I'm not going to commit to that.
	Anyway.
	I'm not progressive.
	In reality, the right's messaging on crime is potent because the crime wave is real, she writes.
	Welcome to reality.
	I bet the crime waves were really bloody low at the end of the 19th century, mate.
	It's negatively impacting the lives of the same minorities and working people the left claims to represent.
	Crime hurts minorities.
	She's right there.
	Look at that assumption again.
	It's a very right-wing perspective.
	No, no, Anna, like, that's a very left-wing perception, which is she's shocked to find out that crime hurts minorities.
	You were making the assumption that crime is for minorities.
	You 100% were.
	That's a great point.
	The entire viewpoint.
	Great point.
	This is not the first time.
	Like, we have this every couple of months.
	That's a black people problem, says Anna Kasparian.
	Yeah, some progressive will make the statement that they are shocked...
	To find out that minorities are not pro-crime, that minorities are hurt by crime, which implicitly means all of you unironically believe that crime is for minorities.
	It is their number one pursuit, pastime, hobby, if you will.
	It's just how you think about people.
	Cultural norm, that's what she's thinking.
	Okay, self-report on a grand scale and something that has never called out.
	I just don't get it.
	Because you even see it from Republicans sometimes and they'll mention it because they're appealing to a Democrat and they'll say, by the way, black people don't like crime either.
	But you look at that assumption, the power dynamic there.
	They know that the Democrats think that black people are for crime and only think of crime.
	And think blacks are for crime.
	And have to be convinced that no, no, no, actually black people don't want crime.
	I'm for the bloody code, man.
	Unbelievable.
	She writes, A recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the DRIO found that only 70% of black voters support decreasing funding for police departments in their area.
	Again, the assumption being that she just thinks black people are thugs.
	They're just like, what do you mean that only 17% want to get rid of the police?
	I thought that was their number one enemy.
	Double that once it increases!
	Actually, I'd like fewer crimes, but you're black!
	Are you just trying to play on hard mode?
	Look at those assumptions you're making, woman!
	For Christ's sake!
	No self-respection.
	I've seen the crime wave and the police shortage play out first-hand, she writes in Los Angeles, a city where I am born and raised and still live today.
	I'm sorry.
	Yet, when I vocalise my own concerns about crime, my fellow progressives gaslight me and demand I reject what I've seen with my own eyes.
	I mean, literally...
	That's Orwell's final command from the party.
	That they reject the evidence of their own eyes.
	Yes.
	That's literally what you are saying here, Anna.
	Bro, you signed up for this.
	I don't know why you're shocked.
	Well, I mean, she was born and raised then.
	Yeah.
	I've been told repeatedly that it's all in my head.
	Literally Orwell's nightmare in LA. Yeah.
	I've been told repeatedly that it's all in my head.
	Even after I was sexually assaulted by a stranger in my neighbourhood.
	That's mad!
	Don't believe your lying eyes.
	Don't believe your lying reality.
	The party demands.
	The party insists you were not raped.
	You were not sexually assaulted.
	Comrade, you are not murdered.
	Well, he's dead, so that one's less debatable.
	She ends it off with, I'm urging my fellow progressives to take crime seriously.
	Number one, what a thing to say.
	What a world you live in, where you have to write that.
	It's a vote winner, though, let's be fair.
	And do what?
	What do you want your fellow progressives to do?
	If you're taking crime seriously, how do you do that in a progressive way?
	If we abolish criminality, then all crime goes away.
	Indeed.
	Indeed, I do love Somalia.
	But the fact is that there isn't one, really, to actually solve with the crime problem.
	There's the boot.
	And this is the thing.
	You've got to deal with the drugs to stop turning your people into beggars.
	Institutionalize you're mentally insane.
	I mean, just looking at America, what day goes by where we don't see some mental person on a subway just being horrific or just random attacks from mental people or druggies or homeless.
	The amount of just awful gang attacks where it's just like some guys go up to a car and start shooting into the car and I'm just like...
	Just like, okay, mental problem in the United States, that needs to be fixed.
	Drug problem, that needs to be fixed.
	Feeds into the mental, obviously.
	Lack some criminality problem.
	And then punish the wrongdoer.
	Don't just release him.
	Bloody code.
	Bloody code.
	I don't endorse the bloody code.
	I'm trying to think of the pettish...
	Why?
	When I was in school, we started learning about all of the different things you could get the death penalty for in England in the 1800s.
	I think it was like...
	I was sat there going, well, that's based.
	Stealing a thruppence, I think, got you the death penalty.
	Why not?
	Threppence.
	That was a lot of money back then.
	Well, not really.
	Comparatively.
	The penny houses.
	Yeah, but a penny could buy you a week's worth of food.
	No, it couldn't.
	In the time of Jack the Ripper, I don't know if you want to know, but there's these little penny houses.
	I can't remember the specific name.
	But if you needed a place for the night, and maybe you rent a hotel, you're thinking.
	But no, back in those days, if you were poor, what you'd rent is a rope.
	So...
	Not in the way you're thinking.
	That's funny, though.
	You'd rent a rope?
	So there's these hostels, right?
	Where you just have a rope lined across the building, and you have like ten ropes down the corridor.
	And what would happen is, you'd get in your drunken state, and you'd lie against the rope, and you'd hang on the rope.
	And in the morning, some guy would come round and slap you and undo the rope, so you'd get up and get out.
	It'd cost a penny.
	Completely sidetracked, but...
	But that's, you know...
	Fine.
	But if you stole three threepence, which would get you three nights of that, that's death.
	Yeah, but all I'm saying is, you didn't need to steal that threepence, it wasn't yours.
	No, it wasn't.
	Harsh, but fair.
	Anyway, no, instead we shall use the progressive solution to celebrate drugs, celebrate the mentally ill, and also think that punishment is barbaric, which is why an American man only gets seven lashings instead of ten in Singapore, which, grand shame.
	I'm supposed to learn this off.
	I just wanted to show it because I mentioned it earlier.
	This is what I imagine- You really went over time there.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But if we could play this real quick, it's just a clip of what I imagine Feterman is like.
	Just people being like, he's- Alright, congrats on your first day, Mr.
	President.
	How did I get here?
	Oh, we just skipped the election and everyone just unanimously agreed you should be in charge.
	I don't remember running.
	They just like you that much, sir.
	Oh, well, thank you, I suppose.
	But because of that, I'm going to list off some major issues and you're to give me your opinion.
	Alright, that seems reasonable.
	Firstly, Big Pharma.
	That sounds pretty good.
	What?
	I mean, if you have a bigger farm, you can fit more animals in there.
	That sounds good.
	Sir, it's short for pharmaceutical.
	Well, if we're going to make the farm a suit, then I say we get a tailor.
	Why does it need a suit, though?
	Sir, that's...
	Also, did you mean to say nickel instead of ickle?
	Because I can give it a nickel if it wants.
	We'll get back to this.
	Alright, next issue.
	Separation of church and state.
	Oh, dear.
	I'm very sorry to hear their marriage didn't work out.
	Church and state are concepts, not people, sir.
	I'm not sure what a concept is, but I still feel bad for them.
	Sir, please- Oh, bother.
	I'm just in a sad mood.
	Can we go to the next one, please?
	Sure, sir.
	Abortion.
	What's abortion?
	Is there a problem?
	Poo, I can't think of a single perspective of this that wouldn't ruin your innocence.
	What's innocence?
	We're just gonna go to the next issue.
	Is that okay?
	Okay.
	Thank God.
	All right, the current war.
	There's a war going on.
	Correct.
	Do you have any battle tactics?
	I'm not sure.
	I don't even know all the presidents yet.
	I don't know if I could have qualified for this.
	Well, I doubt they're gonna give you time to learn, sir.
	President Pooh, I just got off the phone with the enemy war generals.
	They said they're willing to put the war on hold until you learn all the presidents, because they really like you.
	Oh.
	Send them my regards, Secretary Rabbit.
	Will do, sir.
	Well, alright, I guess we can do this ahead of time.
	Who is this?
	I believe that's a George Washington machine, correct?
	No, but you're getting close, buddy.
	Thank you.
	No problem.
	Anyway, that's all.
	It's just what I'm imagining when I see Thedeman.
	Just like, actual idiot.
	We're not even going to bother trying to explain it.
	It just won't be the point.
	Anyway.
	I suppose we'll get to the video comments.
	Bonjour.
	Oh.
	Well, it's to us, isn't it?
	We didn't brief the lyrics, did we?
	No.
	Right, yes.
	It's a ketone cake.
	I made it, so you can eat it.
	It's no carbs for your discussion.
	I was literally about to disavow it.
	Well, thank you, everyone.
	They all burned out because of Yes.
	Sorry, fellas.
	Well, thanks, everyone.
	And it's all these guys making everything happen, really.
	We just sit here and flap our gums.
	God, this stuff stinks.
	Yeah.
	Oh, that's not fun.
	Okay, do we have video comments?
	It's been 500 episodes.
	I'll never have to have a shirt clean.
	Now I'm going to have to do it.
	Okay.
	I'm in Brisbane for Supernova, and this time I brought three suitcases of books.
	And I wanted to ask, what is the best way you can think of to convince someone to raise their kids religiously?
	Oh no, I'm being threatened with being wanted.
	If you don't raise them with religion, they'll end up as a Democrat.
	Yeah, I think the best argument for why kids should be rage religious is showing them the alternative.
	Yeah.
	And Zuby made a great point when he was in.
	He was talking about the fact that his nephew, the only one he doesn't worry about in the family, is because he's being raised in Dubai.
	The rest of them are being raised in America, and he's just like, oh, that's good luck to them.
	But if they're getting in Dubai, they'll be fine.
	Yeah.
	Which is sadly true.
	Next one.
	...that China is not supporting any new coal-fired power plants outside China, outside China, outside China.
	Since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed, 48% of the increase in CO2 emissions is due to China.
	And China's building more coal-burning power stations this year than exist in the entire United States.
	Right now, all the existing coal-burning capacity is going to be built in a single year in China.
	There's something I kind of respect about just the sheer malevolence of China.
	Like, it's just literally like this kind of, you know what, yeah, no, no, you guys will stop using coal.
	We're going to use twice as much coal as everyone did ever combined, and we don't care.
	You know, it's just this sort of pure evil giga-chad, you know?
	Well, it's...
	All this international stuff, like, all of this is voluntary, and if you don't comply, nothing actually happens.
	I mean, like, Victor Robbins found that.
	Like, you just don't let the migrants in, you build the border, they'll whine about it, but nothing happens.
	But also, like, you know, if you just start, like, oh, they're all shutting down the coal.
	Great, that means we can crank it up.
	But that's the thing.
	As soon as you actually get...
	I mean, for all the CCP's faults, they are incredibly...
	The cake does smell really good.
	They are actually invested in their own future as a party.
	Yeah, we're going to destroy the planet.
	Yeah, we are.
	We're going to live in some poisoned wasteland hive city.
	I didn't say they're invested in the Chinese people's future.
	I said they're invested in the CCP's future.
	But surely, if everyone believed all of the climate change stuff, like, well, we live on the Earth, No one believes that there's actually a collapsed company who's got an investment in this.
	Yeah.
	I'm not a fan of Silly String.
	No, me either.
	Let's go to the next one.
	The Queen Victoria building was constructed in 1893 and was finished in 1898.
	The designer of the building was a certain Scottish designer, George Mackay, who also designed other buildings in Sydney, such as the entrance to Taronga Zoo.
	One of the most notable assets is actually the Queen Victoria statue itself, which was actually made in Ireland and was deported here in the 1980s by the Irish government.
	We're deporting this statue.
	I mean, how petty.
	Oh, no, that's a great idea.
	Deporting statues.
	Yeah, we've got loads of foreign statues in London.
	Good way to get rid of them.
	Deport them.
	Well, send them back to the right place.
	Hashtag deport the statues.
	Wait.
	You're playing?
	Tony D and Little Joan with the Lotus Eater White Pill.
	Top 5 movies by Mel Brooks to cheer you up.
	Number 1, Blazing Saddles.
	What did he say?
	He said the sheriff is near.
	Number 2, Young Frankenstein.
	Number 3, High Anxiety.
	That kid gets no tip.
	Number 4, History of the World Part 1.
	Sia, you look like the piss boy.
	And number 5, Silent Movie.
	No!
	Alright, I don't know any of those movies, because of me.
	I've only seen one of them, I think.
	Yeah, just a couple.
	Andrew says, Well, I can't say I'm terribly surprised at my state's elections, given what I saw when I went to vote.
	I guess people just love their abortion, even at the price of inflation and crime.
	Definitely makes me consider moving.
	Love me abortions, love being murdered, simple as.
	That's right, I'm an American.
	I just...
	Baldi Yule says, Carl, you expect a bunch of whiny, self-entitled, lazy, retarded NPC morons to not vote how they're told by TikTok and other social media.
	They're the definition of an argument against universal suffrage if not raising the voting age.
	Yeah, I'm definitely against universal suffrage at this point.
	And I can ironically say that.
	Right now says, Pretty much, yeah.
	But I think we're out of time and I really want to go clean up now.
	And the cake smells great.
	I want to slice it.
	A keto cake sounds brilliant.
	We're going to clean up because we've also got the stream in like an hour and a half or whatever.
	An hour, actually.
	So we've got to go do things.
	Bye-bye.
	Otherwise, thank you for joining.
	Second year anniversary.
	We'll see you in an hour in the stream.

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