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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #521

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Heaters for the 10th of November 2022.
	I'm joined by Connor.
	Hello.
	And today we're going to be talking about the momentarily embarrassed virtue signaller.
	Gen Z conservatives are in revolt and enjoy the crime New York.
	That's what you voted for, so I guess get stuck in.
	You get what you effing deserve.
	Because we'll start off with a momentarily embarrassed virtue signaller.
	There is a man who is becoming very, very embarrassed about the positions he's been taking that have not been going well.
	You're not narrowing down the list, Callum.
	No, but we'll get to it in a minute.
	We'll just mention first that there is the second birthday celebration there.
	You can go and check out something on the website.
	Just always got to mention something.
	You look so pleased about it.
	Yeah, the silly string was great.
	I loved it.
	Anyway.
	You're welcome.
	So do go and check that out.
	Otherwise, we're going to begin because the news of this story might be something I would never talk about usually because why would I? But it starts out with Qatar and the 2022 World Cup being announced.
	This was back, I believe, in what was it, like 2010 when it was announced that Qatar was going to get this.
	And, um...
	Even the people in the photo announcing it just looked like, why have we got this?
	Even Seth Blatter and that dude there, I don't think they even believe this is happening, but whatever.
	This was the announcement back then.
	In case you were wondering how non-corrupt any of that process was, we do have also news on the Russian bid.
	The details came out about that.
	I thought we'd just dive into them.
	I've mentioned them before, but I've never pulled up the links, and it's funny as hell.
	So we have here that the Russians rented computers.
	They then destroyed the computers after they'd rented them.
	Hillary Clinton's scene fleeing from the scene.
	Well, they'd done doing their bid for the World Cup, so what do I need these computers for anymore?
	So the company that had rented them out just destroyed them.
	They weren't going to rent them onto anyone else.
	Right.
	No need.
	Don't know who ran that computer shop.
	Somebody who worked for the government or something.
	Anyway...
	But the Qataris, they paid 1 million US dollars to one of the delegates.
	That was released in the details.
	Right.
	All above board.
	This was actually investigated by FIFA in the FIFA corruption investigation.
	This dude was paid a million bucks by this dude in exchange for his vote, and he voted for the Qataris.
	Seems pretty corrupt.
	FIFA investigated that claim, and they said, yeah, well, that's all true, but it is irrelevant.
	Can you guess why it's irrelevant?
	No, I can't actually.
	Direct quote, it was only one of 13 delegates.
	Because you didn't buy off the other 12.
	No, no, no, no.
	There's no evidence of that, so we don't have to consider it.
	So, it's lucky we only found evidence for one, otherwise it might have been relevant to the corruption.
	Cool.
	I'm not even joking.
	That was the official reason given as to why bribing a guy a million bucks is not a crime in FIFA's world.
	Anyway, the news ended up coming out because Seth Blatter ended up leaving, and, well, what's his opinion on it now?
	He says they cheered.
	I don't know how he knows they cheated, given that only 1 out of 13 of the people who made the vote was bribed for realsies.
	That does explain his face while he was standing on stage, while the Qataris held up the World Cup going, we're going to host the World Cup.
	He's sat there being like, wait, actually?
	Yeah.
	I thought we were just taking the bribes.
	I didn't think we were doing this.
	Yeah.
	Well, you did.
	I also love when he's sat there selling this.
	This is a book he's released.
	Right.
	This is him trying to chin up support for his book.
	Yeah, of course.
	He's like, oh, guys, read my book.
	I'll tell you that the Qataris cheated.
	Oh, cool.
	Yeah, that's new knowledge.
	Water.
	Wet.
	Blatter says nobody on the FIFA executive, which was superseded by the FIFA Council in 2016, read the detailed inspection reports on the candidate countries because they had already made up their minds.
	Yeah, when you count your money, you've got no time to read reports.
	Quote, if we had read them carefully, we would have seen the World Cup could not have been played in Qatar.
	I didn't need to read a report to know you probably shouldn't host it in one, a country that is baking, sweltering hot during the day to play football in.
	Two, a country that uses actual slave labour for lots and lots of things.
	Well, it's more that he's like, well, if we read them carefully, we would have known.
	Yeah.
	Well, you didn't need to read them at all.
	Like you say, it's just as if that makes any difference whatsoever.
	But he now says this might have been a whole mistake.
	The whole thing.
	This is the newest news from Sepp Blatter.
	If you go to the next one here.
	This is the dude in charge of FIFA at the time who just released this statement saying it was a mistake.
	Well, it's too late now, isn't it?
	Is this the horseshoe theory of it's a good thing, it's not happening and it's a good thing to now?
	It's not happening, it happened and it was a bad thing.
	There's no corruption.
	Okay, there might have been corruption, but it was only one out of 13.
	Trust me.
	Now the corruption, yeah, it took place.
	That was a cock-up.
	Anyway, in case you're wondering, you don't know much about...
	I know Americans don't follow soccer, as they call it.
	Leave it away, don't worry.
	Go to the news on the ground, which is filtered through osmosis into everyone's minds, but the details I don't think have, so I thought we'd just go through that real quick, of the people building the place.
	Because Qatar, funnily enough, a rich Arab oil country, don't work.
	They don't do construction.
	No, they're not so big on human rights, shockingly.
	Well, they get other people to do construction, is the point.
	They have migrants come in.
	Migrants from Bangladesh and Nepal, who make up around a third of Qatar's two million strong workforce, the rest of them, I'm sure, being treated just as well, typically pays fees of $3,000, $4,000, and $1,000 to $1,500, respectively.
	This is fees being paid for being hired.
	You know when you start a job and you have to pay your boss?
	What?
	So they pay the boss?
	I thought this was their one-off hiring bonus for the wage and then you don't get paid for the rest of your labour.
	No, no, no.
	You have to pay the boss for hiring you.
	Right, so it's indentured servitude.
	No, no, no, no.
	It's just a fee.
	Oh, okay.
	This means that many low-skilled workers from Bangladesh who can earn as little as $275 a month have to work for at least a year to pay off their recruitment fee.
	Right.
	So you're making up your own personal deposit.
	The deposit's normally done if you damage something.
	But if you damage yourself, they just, what, chuck you in the foundations like you're building a Soviet canal?
	Right.
	Well, their body's not worth anything else.
	Why not cheap out on the concrete?
	Workers often have to take out high-interest loans or sell land to afford the fees, leaving them vulnerable to debt bondage, a form of modern slavery, as they're unable to leave their jobs until the debt has been repaid.
	They're not able to pay their fees either, so the whole thing is a joke.
	The charging of recruitment fees is actually illegal in Qatar.
	It's also beyond the maximum limit in Bangladesh and Nepal as well, so it's also illegal there.
	But everyone just does it.
	Right, so this is going on with the permission of FIFA. So even though it violates laws in all of the countries involved, nothing to see here, Governor.
	That's the thing, you don't have any standards for the foreigners.
	What, are you mad?
	Beyond even Southern Europe, which is not impressive, the rest of the world, they have laws, but no one cares.
	There's no reason to.
	I mean, especially at a local level like this.
	Like, oh, you're making people pay fees that are higher than the required maximums.
	It's like, who gives a crap?
	No one's gonna do anything.
	So, the fact that you would pick Qatar on that basis, obviously ridiculous.
	On the weather, a bit silly.
	Not to mention, the people who are hiring these guys are just dicks.
	Like, I never read just the numerous stories of them being dicks.
	Like, before we even get into the slavery aspect, which I suppose we already covered, but the...
	Throwing the bodies into the foundations.
	There's some stories here just of some of the guys who went and worked there and there was an investigation done.
	Seven Nepalese men who worked at the Khalifa Stadium from the subcontractor told Amnesty that they wanted to return home to check on their families after the earthquake hit Nepal in 2015.
	Their employer did not allow them to leave.
	Because they've got a contract fixed.
	Right.
	So, too bad.
	No time off.
	Your family might be dead, but you'll find out in two years.
	Another worker said that his manager shouted at him and threatened to withhold delayed salary payments after he said he wanted to quit.
	Okay, not getting paid.
	Even for the work he's done.
	And Nico, a 32-year-old Nepalese worker, pruning plants next to Khalifa Stadium on Wednesday, said that he had not been mistreated, but knew other workers whose passports had been confiscated for complaining.
	Right.
	So they literally can't leave.
	Yeah.
	And they've got a pair of fee.
	You're paying to be a slave and any exit strategy you may have is being withheld by your employer.
	No, not great.
	Like, we expect this, you know?
	Like, no idiot thought this wasn't going to happen, but FIFA were like, okay, we'll take the money.
	You got the next one here, of course, Qatar.
	I'm not big on the gays.
	I mean, to be fair, given this particular gay, I'm not big on him either, and I'm sick of GB News keep inviting him on.
	I know you're a big problem with Peter Thatchell, but he went to Qatar to stage his LGBT protest, as the Guardian call it.
	Can we scroll down?
	Yeah.
	Can we look at the sign?
	Now, this is the funny thing, though.
	He shouldn't have been arrested for this, because the Qataris should have just walked past and gone, yes.
	Yes, we agree.
	Because he is just actually describing the law.
	Qatar are actually anti-gay, and they're okay with it.
	For those listening, it says, Qatar arrests jails and subjects LGBTs to conversion.
	Which is a factual statement.
	Hashtag Qatar anti-gay.
	It's like...
	You are right.
	If you said this to the Taliban, they would be like, yes, brother!
	So, whatever.
	But everyone knows he's an activist in the UK and now in Qatar.
	He was immediately deported for this because, yeah, what do you think was going to happen?
	Well, he thought this was going to happen.
	That's it.
	He just wanted to make headlines.
	Because he needs some positive headlines to combat the fact that he apologised for paedophilia years ago.
	I know that's part of his repertoire, so that's why people don't like him.
	But you could argue, let's say it wasn't him, you've gone there and you're arguing for the fact that gay people should be accepted, and if you're a liberal, you'd be like, oh yes, so cool.
	But frankly, I don't know.
	I might have had that position like 10 years ago, but after being to Afghanistan and seeing a Muslim country and being like, well, they literally want this, this is their country, and we as the foreigners turned up and tried to change that, and it didn't work.
	Yeah, I can object to it from afar.
	Yeah, not my opinion.
	No, I'm going to run my country, but I don't run their country, and that's just the facts of it, but whatever.
	That's the rightest opinion, maybe.
	However, the Qataris are also just coming over here, telling us to not be big on the gays, which, that's them.
	As you might guess, we have an ambassador for the World Cup in the UK, said that being gay is damaging the brain.
	Well, considering this was reported by GB News, perhaps he just met Tom Harwood.
	Maybe not.
	I think the Qataris might have a bit of a further position on that.
	In case you're wondering, punishment in Qatar, if you're planning on going for the World Cup, is seven years imprisonment and death if you're a Muslim.
	If you're not a gay Muslim, no death.
	If you're a kafar, no death.
	No death.
	Right, okay.
	I think reality just appalled.
	Yes.
	Diplomatic problems.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Not religious complaints about such realities.
	No.
	But that's the country FIFA chose.
	And you may remember that Saudi Arabia even blockaded Qatar in 2017, if you go to the next link here.
	You remember this?
	No, I don't actually.
	The entire country of Saudi Arabia and all their allies say to blockade Qatar, wouldn't send them any trucks, shipments, nothing, and one of the points raised as to why they did this was that the state-run media Al Jazeera was allegedly supporting terrorist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS. Right.
	So, just various Islamist sects infighting.
	Yeah, but, you know, the Qataris are just doing that.
	And again, no one questions at this point, maybe we shouldn't do the World Cup there.
	They're literally supporting terrorists.
	Why would you do that?
	You might be wondering if you're the Qataris.
	Seems a bit of a stupid move to endorse ISIS. But, of course, it's to promote chaos in the Middle East, so you can profit from it.
	Funnily enough, Al Jazeera Plus runs itself in the United States, aimed at millennials in the United States.
	Yeah, I've seen lots of their tweets targeting English politics, funnily enough.
	Yeah, I'm always surprised by the number of people in the West who don't seem to realize.
	The kind of people especially who would be like, man, Russia today needs to be shut down.
	And I was like, okay, you can make the argument.
	It's state-funded from a geopolitical enemy.
	The guys endorsing ISIS run an AJ Plus over here, Al Jazeera Plus.
	Specifically targeting your children.
	And what do they target them for?
	A social justice lens on the world struggling for change.
	The interesting thing is as well, Twitter has, on the Global Times, Chinese state-funded media.
	They don't have this for Al Jazeera or AJ +, Qatar state-funded media.
	But it's just the point of, okay, well, Qatar and Qatar, what do they do in the Middle East?
	They try and create chaos so they can profit from it, whereas in the West, they promote social justice.
	Why would you do that?
	Because you're accelerating the contradictions in a very similar way to Chairman Mao did.
	I mean, it's like the Chinese having TikTok.
	They have different brands of TikTok in their country where it promotes science experiments, and they limit it to 40 minutes a day.
	Meanwhile, ours is all gender-bending nonsense and highly addictive.
	But the point being creating chaos.
	The subject is not important.
	It could be ISIS, it could be Woko Haram in the United States.
	It does not matter.
	The point is about taking the divisions that already exist and trying to make them as bad as possible.
	But the point is, why have I gone through all of that?
	It's just a running of history, right?
	Point is, bad optics, bro.
	That's my point, which is that, okay, FIFA do this thing, really stupid, everyone can tell it's stupid, list of reasons as to why it's stupid, continues to get stupider over time, and everyone thinks, okay, let's stop that.
	Okay, but FIFA are corrupt and an international corrupt gang.
	I think that's probably accurate.
	Yeah, sports cartel.
	Yeah, okay, whatever, that's a part of the world, and there are many corrupt things in the world.
	But then there's the Western interaction with this whole story, and that's where it gets political and funny for me.
	Because it's going down very well.
	Because of course, let's say you're a virtue signaller, and the Qataris offer you money.
	We'll get to that in a minute.
	We'll start off with just the French response to all this, which is very French.
	We'll get this article up.
	Islamic terrorists with weapons shown as footballer players.
	French satirical newspaper offends Qatar ahead of the World Cup.
	Are we forced to disavow this because of Britain's HB's laws?
	Yeah, so Britain has Islamic laws that you can't do this sort of thing.
	Yes.
	But others in Afghanistan, I'm sure you'll be very proud of us.
	Brothers in Bradford, I disavow.
	So, yeah, of course, this is disgusting and I can't believe the French would do this.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	The quotes here are that it's Islamic terrorists with weapons shown as football players.
	The caricature has sparked outrage on social media with many Qatari users calling it racist and Islamophobic.
	Indeed, it is, brothers.
	It's the French.
	Can't say any more about that on YouTube.
	The French are quite proud of that as well.
	So what do, if you're the Qataris, which is that you've got all this not great press, to say the least, and what's the Western response from Westerners who have such disgusting things as free speech laws, as in the French?
	How are they doing better than us?
	Well, what do you do?
	Paid shills.
	Hmm.
	The Democratic response.
	Yes.
	So if we go to the next one here, we have David Beckham, who became a paid shill.
	Oh my god.
	Don't know if you're aware of this.
	Not even that mad about David Beckham becoming a paid shill here.
	I'm disappointed considering he was growing up for a lot of guys my age and I was never a good footballer at all.
	They used to just have me lie down in goal because that would be more reliable.
	But I am disappointed in that someone who has an excellent platform to be of an inspiration to young men, he's a committed dad, etc., is now taking dirty blood money.
	Not good.
	Yeah, well, he's made a series of advertisements about why Qatar is great and you should visit.
	And I think also for the UAE as well.
	So it's not just the Qataris.
	So presumably some massive conglomerate advertising firm for the Arabs has brought him up.
	There are speculations about how much.
	Right.
	Varies between millions and billions.
	Yes.
	But we have that.
	I also keep getting these goddamn adverts on my YouTube account, so thanks, Beckham.
	I can't wait for the North Korean tourism agencies to start sponsoring Conor McGregor.
	Would be amazing.
	Honestly, I'm not even mad about that.
	I want to see it.
	They'll set you up.
	But the thing is, yeah, Beckham, okay, whatever.
	He's not sitting there all day telling you about how refugees are welcome here.
	So I'm not even that bothered.
	It's just like, okay, rich celebrity doing rich celebrity things.
	It means he's no longer a moral actor but I don't know if he ever was.
	But then we have Qatar, just straight up also paying England fans.
	I think they'll be easy to spot.
	Yeah.
	You'll see why.
	A group of 40 England fans are being paid by Qatar to attend the World Cup with instructions to deliver positive messages about the experience, to sing certain songs when requested, and report critical social media posts.
	Are they basically creating Barry from Four Lions?
	Yes.
	Just packed out in the stands?
	Yeah.
	Just big bats in a turban.
	But also, they're all going to be singing songs together.
	Have you ever seen the North Korean team?
	I'll have to load this up, actually, because we'd better get this on screen, because otherwise, if people haven't seen it, it's bloody gold.
	So, the North Koreans were going to play at the World Cup, and, well, you can't have no fans, because if you ain't got no fans, it looks bad.
	You've got no ground.
	Then, well, what do you do if you're the North Koreans?
	You just import a bunch of your citizens in at gunpoint and hold their families hostage back home?
	Yes.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, I've got it right first try.
	It's amazing.
	It's the same solution every time.
	I'm just sending it to you, John, if you can get it up.
	Because it's amazing to see what the North Koreans did, which is they got a lot of girls to do it, of course, because girls love football.
	Yes.
	And they got them down to sing songs...
	Yeah, let's play the audio, why not?
	It's just unbelievable!
	For people who can see this, it's like maybe a hundred girls there Yeah, I'm that lady I'm that lady there No thanks But how could you tell that these people are paid chills?
	There's no way of knowing!
	So, if you're at the World Cup, if you see 40 Barry's in the corner, just singing about how everything's great.
	Sing the songs, radicalize the moderates!
	So do take some pictures, and we'll enjoy it.
	I actually kind of love those girls because one of the things is you can see footage of them being ferried around the World Cup and they're constantly being like, no, no, no, you can't talk to them.
	Anyway, but their families will be safe.
	Anyway, but the people going back to those who are being paid chills.
	In return for free flights, accommodation and £60 a day spending money and complimentary tickets to the game.
	So there we are.
	There's 40 lads who are getting the money there.
	Well, who will refuse the money?
	Not FIFA, obviously.
	Not Beckham, obviously.
	Not even the fans.
	Fair enough, whatever.
	Free holiday.
	Even if you're becoming a paid shill.
	We need a hero of the oppressed.
	Yes.
	Stand up for those who have been in the foundations of the stadium.
	Well, we'll go to Gary Neville, a proud hero of the oppressed, as he likes to portray himself.
	Enter stage left, Gary, here.
	Look at me, I'm English and I'm proud to send them back to Rwanda.
	Loads of great British flags as he mocks a minister for immigration for trying to send them back to where they came from.
	Because, you know, you have no right to be here.
	You're literally an illegal alien beggar.
	I'm in his defence.
	They didn't come from Rwanda.
	I'm happy to literally send them back to where they came from.
	Yeah, if the government's willing to accept them.
	Yeah, via catapult if needed to be.
	It's carbon neutral.
	Um...
	Yeah, just carbon neutral.
	Anyway, we'll go to the next one here.
	We're going to see that he spends the time attacking people who even say there is a problem, such as Priti Patel here.
	He was very upset that she was like, well, send him to Rwanda.
	And Gary Neville was very mad about that.
	And then when we look at himself, he's also recently joined the Labour Party to be a hero of the oppressed.
	All year round.
	If you go to the next one here, we can see...
	I don't know if you can hit play at this timestamp because...
	Not the audio.
	Just because it's the fact that...
	He actually did a panel with Keir Starmer.
	I saw your abridged version of this where he said, any football advice for a future prime minister?
	And he went, play to the left.
	Yes.
	Ha ha!
	It's a bit noisy.
	Anyway.
	But he also goes in here talking about how he's been radicalised.
	He has to stand up for what's right in that clip.
	He also talks about how...
	Playing Qatar, radicalise the moderates.
	Support the Qatari radicals as the moderates is a funny way of doing it, because, um, turns out, yeah, the next one here, uh, it was never about more oppression, it was just about destroying the homeland, whereas the foreign land, I don't care.
	It is like the Orwell quote of saying that, uh, a socialist would rather rob a poor box than sing God Save the King, and so they're not motivated by a love of the poor, it's motivated by a hate of the rich and Anglophobia.
	Yes, and a hate of the Anglos, uh, not a hate of the Arabs, uh, the Arabs can do as they wish, and, uh, that's fine, but the English can't do as they wish, because they're evil.
	Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
	It's either, like, everyone can do what they want because it's their lad who gives a crap, or, like, everyone's got to do as the English do, I suppose, but it's just not an option, whatever.
	Or everyone's evil, but that's not the money either.
	Why?
	Because next image, please!
	Money!
	Money!
	It's that simple, really.
	Gary Neville, I have principles, but I also have money.
	So, what's the point?
	And he got absolutely roasted for this in all places in Have I Got News For You, which is usually a den of self-serving Westminster types.
	But I will admit, Ian, his slop does have some integrity occasionally, and did enjoy himself, and I suppose we'll enjoy ourselves with him getting roasted for this.
	But you know David Beckham, don't you?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he's going, isn't he?
	Yeah.
	How much has he been paid?
	I don't know.
	You do know.
	Yeah.
	More than me.
	Yeah.
	Ian, is it coming home?
	What, your reputation?
	LAUGHTER The others have been very gentle with you, Gary, but, I mean...
	Thanks, Ian.
	The elephant in the room is still there.
	I mean, you're commentating there, aren't you?
	Yeah, I'm commentating there.
	And what's the defence?
	Football term.
	Commentating there?
	Well, you've got a choice, I think, haven't you?
	What, going or not going?
	Well...
	My view always has been that you either highlight the issues and challenges in these countries and speak about them, or you basically don't say anything, you stay back home and don't go.
	And I've always said we should challenge them.
	There's another option, you stay at home and highlight the abuses.
	You don't have to go and take the Qataris money.
	I'm not trying to be tartan, but I mean it's just...
	it's not a very good defence.
	And how is someone like Robbie or the Black Eyed Peas supposed to highlight it?
	Are they going to make a speech on the stage?
	Of course they're not.
	You can highlight it.
	What, during a match?
	Well, highlight it during the commentary.
	And it's the kick-off here in this appalling country's human rights record, and honestly, I think, oh, someone's kicking a ball, but honestly, the amount of immigrant workers who've died, it's a shocker.
	Ooh, it's a goal!
	Yeah, nothing's going to happen.
	No.
	He'll go and do his commentary.
	He maybe will make the occasional video where he's showing long shots.
	His production team will go and make the video.
	And then he'll provide some little commentary being like, and there are some problems in this place.
	Not very keen on gay people, I heard.
	The easiest way you could have gotten out of it is by saying, oh no, I truly do care about human rights, therefore I'll donate it to this, this and this charity.
	But the truth is...
	Or just not take the money.
	Well, you could take the money and reappropriate it.
	However, the truth is, he doesn't want to do that.
	He doesn't care.
	He just wants the clout.
	And the cash.
	No, but even if you take the money and then donate, you're still getting a net win in reputation.
	Don't do any of that.
	As he says, stay at home and criticise me if you want.
	Or, you could do what Peter Thatchell did and go there in your person.
	Just hold up a sign that says they hate the gays.
	Again, I don't know why the response isn't just, yes we do, save the Arabs.
	You're Arabs.
	What are you expecting exactly?
	But yeah, there's that.
	But then if we go to the last image here, just there we have it.
	And this is the most beautiful moment.
	I mean, we've covered occasionally Gary Neville just being retarded.
	And that's in the homeland, of course.
	But when he goes to a foreign land, he doesn't criticize anything they do.
	They're actually perfect.
	Leave them alone.
	Won't you leave Brittany alone if she's only killed a few migrants?
	Whereas evil Britain has done what exactly?
	Nothing.
	Literally nothing.
	Sorry for ending slavery, I guess.
	We're destroying our own communities.
	I think that's a crime that needs to be paid for and the reparations paid to the locals.
	But in the meantime, you just look there all embarrassed.
	And I look forward to whatever the hell commentary is going to provide.
	But I don't think it's going to be talking about the actual issues.
	Who cares?
	It's just going to be another center of corruption for you.
	So there you have it.
	Move to the Gen Zs.
	So Gen Z conservatives are in full revolt.
	I'm living for it.
	Yep.
	You're doing great work.
	I know some of the people that are involved in this as well.
	Give them my personal thanks.
	I will.
	They'll be watching, trust me.
	We'll start off with something which I imagine many of them are familiar with, which is on the website the Premium Book Club called it with me, about Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France.
	Which, well not pretty, which is just the French are revolting, becoming socialist.
	Here's everything that's going to happen as a result.
	And then everything that he predicted happened.
	Hmm.
	Because leftism is predictable as a clock.
	It's just an amount of time until everyone ends up dying.
	And then they say it wasn't enough people that died.
	Not real socialism.
	Anyway, let's move to the next one here.
	Because we have the news, of course, which is that, well, we've got a new Prime Minister.
	Yep.
	We've saved the Conservatives.
	Yes, he has been duly appointed.
	We've not changed any of the policies.
	We've not fixed any of the problems.
	But new boss.
	So vote Conservative.
	Not very inspiring.
	You can see it in the polls as well.
	Just not really anything has happened.
	There was a jump immediately because it wasn't list trials anymore.
	And then nothing.
	Because we've not solved any of the problems.
	You've not fixed the economy.
	Problems.
	You've not deregulated the place.
	You've not closed the borders.
	You've not even attempted to stop the illegal immigrants.
	Never mind the legal ones.
	You've done nothing.
	And in which case, well, yeah, not going to poll well.
	Well, the polling as well, the hemorrhaging is not indicative of necessarily loads of swings to Labour, even though there are on the normie, checked out red wall people.
	It's the fact that if you look at constituencies like Bexley, my one, the Conservatives diminished their lead, Labour increased their lead, but only proportionate to the fact that Conservatives lost voters.
	And reform gained some, which was Richard Tice, but...
	They didn't gain that many.
	Instead, Tories just stayed at home.
	They just don't care.
	Don't want to vote anymore.
	They feel disenfranchised.
	Matthew Goodwin's research at the University of Kent.
	I think it's like four out of ten of the people who voted for Boris Johnson's Conservative Party just aren't voting anymore.
	Just 40% of your electorate just disappeared overnight.
	Yeah, I'm there.
	So that's why the Reds are so high.
	But it could be the amazing ideas that the Reds also have with the Labour Party.
	They've got fantastic ideas, such as climate reparations.
	See, you joke, but I covered this on Tuesday.
	This is being implemented by the Conservatives.
	Yeah, if you go to the next one here, you can just see the Daily Mail article.
	Ed Miljan suggests climate reparations to Pakistan.
	Pakistan.
	And he denied that the Chinese would be paid for this, but they absolutely will, because they're part of the group that's lobbying for it.
	Yeah, but it's also just on the face of it, like, what do you mean reparations?
	We've done nothing wrong, go to hell.
	Yeah, but the obvious thing of this, as we always talk about, is the share of British-Pakistani immigrants that vote for the Labour Party.
	This is just pandering to those a lot.
	Well, it's pandering to the group of Pakistanis who get money out of it.
	Yeah.
	I don't think it's actually...
	People pays it, it's just like, oh, it's the Pakistani community, you do that vote.
	Maybe.
	But frankly, it just, for me, comes down to the elite Pakistanis who will be making money off of this.
	Oh, yeah.
	Because foreign aid is just corruption.
	Yeah, of course it is.
	In almost every circumstance, it just turns out to be corruption every goddamn time.
	Especially in an incredibly corrupt country like Pakistan.
	Yeah.
	And, of course, well, they're getting their ideas from amazing people, such as the following retard, who we're going to suffer through, to say the least.
	I can't believe you've made me re-watch this, Callum.
	Yeah, for people who don't know, some of our motorways were shut down by some local retards.
	They still are.
	Every single day.
	It happened today again.
	I've got to keep using that word because it just lessens to them.
	It's unbearable.
	We'll play the clip and have a listen, shall we?
	About why she's there.
	Hello, my name is Louise.
	I'm 24 years old.
	And I'm here.
	Leave Brittany alone.
	I don't have a future.
	And you might hate me for doing this.
	And you're entitled to hate me.
	Yes, we are.
	But I wish you would direct all that anger and hatred at our government.
	They are betraying young people like me.
	I would love to be there if they did their lawful duty to their own citizens.
	And this is an act of self-defense.
	And we need you to join us in order for this to work, in order for our murderous government to take action and listen.
	How many more people in Pakistan, in Nigeria have to die before they listen, even in the UK? I mean, the obvious crocodile tears aside.
	Sorry, I can't remember how bad the acting was.
	Oh yeah.
	But she's been coached.
	Have you seen the footage in Unheard where they do little ideological camps where they all hold hands and chant their mantras over and over?
	They have actual struggle sessions to coach their activists.
	Yeah, it's just this has to be the best one yet.
	It's just because of that noise that came out of her.
	It's just funny to me.
	But also she says there are how many more people in Pakistan have to die before we do whatever the hell she wants, which is some kind of eco-dictatorship.
	A few more, I suppose.
	I don't think it's getting any close to the number that it needs to be.
	But we'll move to the, for an eco-dictatorship.
	It's just like, yeah, not going to do it.
	Yeah, they literally want to appoint climate committees that supersede all government legislations.
	They can veto bills and regrunt the entire country around net zero policy, and that is just a dictator to the proletariat of climate as the excuse.
	With reparations being paid to a country that has nukes because they're poor and stuff.
	Trust me.
	From no fault of their own, I'm sure.
	Yeah, anyway, but then we go to the Conservatives, as you mentioned, who decided that, well, that's cringe, but what if we do it?
	This is an amazing policy.
	It's like, wow, we're down in the polls and the Labour are up.
	What if we just do Labour things?
	It's like, you haven't looked at the dictates in the slightest.
	The research is there.
	Matthew Goodwin has done the good work for you.
	He's like, by the way, all the people who vote for you have left politics because you've not done anything Conservative.
	And they're like, oh, that's interesting.
	What if we do climate reparations?
	Well, I hope the conservative friends of India who were performing vocal fellatio on Rishi Sunak as soon as he was appointed will turn on him for this because they're not fans of Pakistan either, funnily enough.
	No, but the solution will probably be that you need to give us an equal amount in India or it's Hinduphobia, which, funny strategy, and, you know, kind of, you know, I got respect for it, in a way.
	But at the same time, you obviously know we shouldn't be giving money to any of those, so there's just obvious corruption again.
	But the details in here, Rishi Sunak has backed giving aid...
	It's not reparations, it's aid.
	Big difference.
	Don't know what the difference is, but it's there.
	To poor countries affected by climate change, they have nukes.
	And it calls for the UK to pay reparations to nations suffering due to floods and droughts.
	So get rid of the nukes.
	I cannot advocate more for Pakistan should not have nukes.
	I trust the North Koreans with their nukes more than I trust the Pakistanis.
	Bear in mind, the Telegraph has already reported, I believe it's in the last eight years, that China has produced more CO2 emissions than Britain since the start of the Industrial Revolution.
	Anyway.
	Number 10 said that Britain is already helping countries across the world deal with the impact of climate change.
	We're literally killing our own economy in worship of the sun god already.
	The reason I bring this up all the time in that phraseology is because we make up, I had to look it up, it's gone down again.
	We're now at 2.3% of the world's economy.
	We make up less than 1% of the world's emissions.
	We're doing our work.
	We're doing our bit.
	Again, last year, the reopening and exceeding of capacity of 252 coal-fired power plants, and the projections are that will increase single-handedly global emissions by 16% by 2030.
	So if we're on track to eliminate them by 1% in 2050, China is going to undo our work 16-fold in half the time.
	But it's just the point of, like, even if you want to argue, okay, I don't care about the actual global state, but instead this mynopic, well, you know, England produces emissions, I see.
	Well, as a share, it's nothing.
	Like, we've done our bit, in which case, bugger off.
	SONAC attending COP27 Climate Change Summit in Egypt, where he announced the UK is providing £65 million for nature, people, and climate investment funds to support forest communities.
	So wood elves.
	Yeah, it's more than $65 million for the Wood Elves.
	Yeah.
	It's a bit more than that.
	Way more.
	Well, you're putting our taxes up, you utter scumbag.
	Go to the next link here.
	This is the full list on the government's website, but our friends at Unity News Network actually did a great summation of what's being dished out, which, again, nobody voted for, but none of that matters.
	Go to the next link here.
	We can see Unity News Network detailing it.
	$11.6 billion on climate finance, $1.5 billion for Pakistan and Somalia, So there you are.
	So the Pakistanis with the nukes are getting their share of 1.5 billion.
	We've got half their bleeding population here.
	The money that's going to Somalia...
	Somalia does need a state at some point, but...
	Well, it's paying to transition all the pirates off of diesel, I'm sure.
	Go back to the age of sale, yads.
	Look at me!
	I am renewable now!
	No, I think we'll turn up West Country accents trying to teach them this.
	This is how our pirates do it, lad.
	Yarr!
	Get in the diggy!
	Oh, boy.
	But, again, I just...
	After looking at Afghanistan, there is no way that money's going anywhere for corruption.
	Don't believe it for a minute.
	We then have 65 million for the wood elves in Kenya and Egypt.
	Don't know how many wood elves are in Egypt, but...
	You know, funny thing.
	Egypt can't feed its own population.
	Yeah.
	We're actually relying on Russian food.
	And then we're relying on Chinese food, and now the Chinese aren't exporting their rice.
	It's almost like you should have had your own agricultural system.
	It's going to be a good winter and spring for them.
	Good luck, lads.
	150 million for as if the climate is the number one concern.
	They're going to buy the monkeys with lasers.
	Literally can't buy food but you know at least the trees are there.
	150 million for the Congo.
	Oh don't be silly.
	Yeah.
	And the Amazon, which, don't be silly.
	Literally, it doesn't matter what party's in charge of Brazil, that thing's going.
	65 million for clean energy innovation.
	Again, that's going to cost 3 trillion to make the UK wholly renewable, which they've both signed on to.
	It's for innovation, so it could be for research.
	So, you know, Steelman, I will give him a pass on that one in the sense of, like, that might do something, but you're stealing my money, not your own.
	So I don't care.
	Will it finally make any of them work properly after the decades and decades of subsidies, which to the point it's got them where they only make up 3% of global energy production?
	But also 3 billion for Nairobi's railway, city and hydropower project.
	So that's 1.8% of our entire national spending.
	He's just given up.
	Wasn't in the manifesto.
	Didn't ask anyone.
	Didn't even brief anyone.
	Just went, yeah, I'll agree to that.
	Why?
	I'm in a room and they've asked me to.
	Okay.
	You're weak.
	If I can call you into a conference room and just get you to give me money because I'm annoying you, then come on round, I guess.
	He's an evil globalist, so I shouldn't be shot by this.
	Well, the only complaint is that Labour doesn't, you know, they go too far, whereas our climate reparations are good.
	If you go to the next link there, you can see him talking about how he doesn't want to give out trillions of pounds of reparations, only billions.
	Cool.
	Cool, thanks.
	Neat.
	Anyway, this is him in Egypt, so just a globalist shill.
	Yep.
	Rename the thing.
	But this brings us to the Generation Z revolt, because this is what you're being offered at the highest level.
	What's happening at the local level when the MPs for such representations come down and speak to the plebs?
	Well, we have Steve Baker, for example, who went and spoke to the plebs recently.
	Steve Baker not being very well-liked in the conservative movement for saying he's a leftist.
	I would like to clarify that he spoke to us at Conservative Party Conference and thanked us for being a lockdown sceptic outlet, and he's retweeted my clips before.
	And then he came out and said this.
	So I formally denounce any positive word I ever said about Steve Baker.
	You're a traitor.
	I just don't understand the wording.
	Maybe he's going through a divorce or something.
	I almost don't want to be mean.
	From his brain cells, yes.
	Beforehand, he seemed fine, and then this stuff has happened, and it's so weird.
	Well, he does have a World Economic Forum portfolio that he's never answered for.
	Yeah.
	But for people who don't know what I'm talking about, he came out and said that he was a member of the free market left.
	Yeah.
	Doesn't literally mean anything.
	So, whatever.
	If we go to the next one as well, we have some video he retweeted, which someone talks about the fact that conservatism...
	Mark Harper.
	Sorry to interrupt, but he was the chair of the COVID backbench recovery group, and then went and supported Rishi Sunak, and people went, well, but you oppose lockdowns and furlough.
	Why are you doing this?
	And he'd be like, oh, we've got to come together.
	Right, so you're trying to save your own skin.
	Even if he's being optimistic, he's like, well, good job.
	He was a former immigration minister as well, and he got the sack, I believe, because his cleaning lady in his parliamentary office was an illegal immigrant.
	It's quite funny, isn't it?
	Right, no corruption here.
	Anyway, but he decides to make in this video an argument that we should be sending all the kids to the universities to be indoctrinated.
	Oh, thank you, Blair.
	And Steve Baker retweeted that as well.
	You're literally Blairite neoliberals.
	Yeah, they are.
	Is that what you're conserving?
	Stop it.
	Get some help.
	Go to Loisers.com and look at the book club.
	We mentioned it in the front.
	What would Burke say of this?
	Anyway, we also have Steve Baker, hopefully also just saying he's a leftist as well, being referred to by Unhurt.
	When Steve Baker is the most left-wing person at your conference, you have a problem.
	Yes, there's a leftist here.
	That's the problem.
	This was a right-wing conference they're talking about here, and they're like, why is there a left-winger here?
	Yeah, that's a good point.
	We'll go to the details, because this was Darren Grimes' Reason conference.
	Well, no.
	Technically, Jess Gill organised the entire thing, because Darren was too busy on his GB News show, which has now been cancelled.
	I don't know the details, but I saw Darren was there and Jess.
	That's alright.
	She's done a very good job with this, so I just wanted to give her credit.
	And British Conservatism, they write, as a political force and philosophical creed is dying.
	Yeah.
	Brexit has failed.
	The Tories face destruction at the next general election.
	Demographically, conservatism faces extinction in the decades ahead.
	This looks pretty grim, innit?
	Who was in power that did this?
	No clue!
	Probably Green Party, I don't know.
	When I was on France 24 debating about Rishi Sunak, someone raised the point that actually Brexit is a flashpoint issue for the Conservatives, but it's because they misunderstood the kind of Brexit the British people wanted.
	Because we wanted national sovereignty, and they wanted global Britain, and that's why Rishi Sunak was a Brexiteer.
	They were like, Yeah, yeah, controls on immigration, as in more from the rest of the world.
	Well, the big thing we found with the Brexit failure there that he's referring to is the fact that we're still in, what is it, the EHRC. So Nigel Farage argued we have to get out of that if you actually want to control your borders because of the illegals.
	Yeah, but then Rishi Sunak wants to immediately sign up to the UN's definition of human rights, which is someone who is unable or unwilling to return to their country.
	So it's like AOC's definition for the Green New Deal.
	Sure, but the legal complaint is not about just definitions, but the fact that we're still in the EHRC. Yeah, I agree.
	No reason to be there.
	No.
	Any Home Secretary who wrangles with the issue is like, well, we need to leave that.
	Yeah.
	And the rest of the Cabinet are like, yeah, but that's racist.
	But then the problem with Conservatives is they're going to land us in another definition.
	I'm just like, the Conservatives can't be the solution.
	If you actually wanted to solve the problem, then yes, that is part of the failure.
	You didn't actually get your sovereignty back because you still remained within the EHRC.
	Grimes has managed to gather around 100 young conservatives, about 19% of 18 to 24-year-olds, they write, voted Tory at the last election, to network and to listen to Nigel Farage, Steve Baker and Daniel Hannan.
	The outlines of a new conservatism, despairing and angry, can be glimpsed here.
	I was like, okay, good work.
	People getting together to figure out how we can solve the crap.
	I know some of the attendees to this and some of the people that will ask the questions that I mentioned in here.
	And I was talking to them offline and we all just said we have utter unmitigated contempt for the things that they have done to us as a country.
	You've impoverished us.
	You've removed our ability for social mobility.
	And so we're not going to be polite to you.
	We're just going to rip you a new one whenever we see you.
	Well, it's understandable that, you know, Nurdjie Farage will be popular from that, because, well, he's the guy who's proposing how to solve that, not part of the movement that has done it.
	And you also have Daniel Hannan, who was in, what was it, the EU Parliament?
	Yes.
	He wasn't directly.
	But he's become a boilerplate libertarian.
	And I say this as someone, he, I believe he was on our director's board for the charity non-profit we were running, and he is very sensible in innovation.
	He We're good to go.
	Though, through their frank apoclysm, stridency, and a centerized sense of embattlement, they are heavily influenced by both.
	I was like, yeah, who can blame them?
	We've been talking to them, because literally some of them went to CPAC out in Hungary, and spoke to people on the new right, and they were like, right!
	But it's not about influence from America.
	This person's trying to phrase it in that sense.
	As if we don't have our own minds and our own discontent.
	Well, it's an influence and an interaction with the state of affairs that is Britain's.
	And coming out of it with the solution that's like, right, well, the old solutions didn't work, so let's try something new.
	They remain in organisation and physical appearance embryotic.
	They are trad aesthetics with high Tory Anglicans, young fogies and BNP haircuts, turning point UK influencers, Scrutonians and boys who just love Peter Hitchens.
	Like Hitchens, the young men in this room think that Britain has been abolished Well, it's a very convincing argument, isn't it?
	And that the Conservative Party is not conservative at all Ambient British culture, whether it is RuPaul's drag race or footballers taking the knee bristles with personalities and causes that unsettle them But yeah, it's not British or rightist antithetical They see wokeness as a virus Factual They're not left-wingers.
	I don't know how to...
	Why are you confused by this, Mr.
	Writer?
	Infecting every aspect of British culture.
	Well, they're not wrong, are they?
	No.
	But every one of those counts.
	It's like, well, that's the reality.
	And you're being confused about why...
	Why are they not like left-wingism?
	Like...
	I don't think the House of Lords actually are not large for others.
	Pact for the Lib Dems.
	No, no, I'm talking about some of the lords you can find who are very based.
	Yes, some very few of them.
	They're severely outnumbered.
	Claire Fox is a minority of voices.
	My point isn't that the House of Lords is based.
	I'm saying that there are lords in there who are incredibly based, and the reason they got in there is either some of them are hereditary, which is still really funny.
	I just love it.
	And the ones who appointed them to Thatcher, some of them are just awesome.
	Lord Pearson.
	Salutes in the chat.
	Anyway, but he's in trouble with all the right people.
	He describes listening to Radio 4 as agony.
	This is conservatism as hay fever.
	Irritants, lefty spores are everywhere, and they will make you ill, angry, and prickly.
	Well, yeah, it's called reactionary slightly for a reason, because we're just sort of floating along, living our life peacefully on our own presuppositions, and then suddenly a trans-communist wants to come and diddle my child.
	And, yeah, I'm kind of allergic to that, thank you very much.
	I hate that term, though.
	I can't stand the term reactionary.
	Carl's right.
	It's like, with or without the left in the room, you're still what you are, and what you are is a traditionalist.
	Yeah, we act on first principles, yes.
	But it's got nothing to do with whether you're reacting to the left.
	The left can all be dead, and you'd still be what you are.
	Sure, but we are driven into a state of self-defence at the moment, because even if you aren't interested in politics, politics is an interest in you.
	Sure, but that term just...
	I hate the term, it's just a point about terms, which is that you end up cornering yourself into a room, which the question often gets asked of such people, which is, well, what do you do without the left?
	And usually they don't have an answer, and it's like, well, it's because you haven't...
	Yeah, there should be an affirmative vision, but we are also backed against the wall at the moment.
	Sure.
	It is the fact that leftism is everywhere.
	So the person describing it as hay fever, there are spores everywhere.
	Again, absolutely correct.
	Rightists don't like leftism.
	What's complicated about this?
	I don't understand.
	Like, weird leftists, they wouldn't like the evangelicals being in all the schools, and I'd happen to agree with them on that.
	Probably a bad idea.
	But the thing is, the rightists don't like gender ideologues being in all the schools as well.
	But you understand one, but you don't understand the other.
	Sorry, but the person writing this just seems confused to me deeply.
	Do they want more unreconstructed libertarianism?
	I doubt it.
	They're not like Farage, Thatcher's children.
	They are his children.
	They like Farage positions on British identity and borders, not markets.
	They hoot their affection of Farage, not for what he says about free trade, but for the way he says it.
	Which is...
	I don't really know what that description is.
	Like, yeah, people don't want to sell out their own country.
	But that doesn't mean people don't want deregulation and the state to leave them alone to run their business.
	So I find that confusing.
	They want a reorientation of our economic policy towards British prosperity, not global prosperity.
	Yeah, but he's phrasing it like they want regulation of private businesses on the way that we have now.
	And it's just like, nobody wants that.
	Pain in the ass.
	Anyway...
	When an actual MP arrives, Steve Baker, the contrast with Raj is sharply apparent.
	A third of the audience goes outside to vape.
	Well done, Will.
	You know who you are.
	His role during the Brexit years made Baker a liberal hate figure, recently called a C-word by Channel 4 Christian Guther Murphy.
	We're with pride.
	The dude is an asshole.
	He actually did an interview with the left that was talking about how Charlie Hebdo deserved to be shot.
	And he's listening to her chat away at this, and he's like, hmm, tell me more, tell me more.
	She's like, yeah, you're scum.
	But in this room, he is not right-wing enough.
	Yeah, because he self-described himself as a man of the left.
	I think it would be self-descriptive, but he is accused of promoting to loud and prolonged applause Marxist identitarian politics, though school reading programs through school reading programs in his constituency Well done, Elizabeth, for asking him that question.
	I don't know why you're applauding that.
	Baker says Ford Lawnley.
	She's like, yeah, because you're a commie.
	Yeah.
	That'll be why.
	I imagine him just being really upset.
	He's like, why are you saying I'm promoting Marxist-leftism?
	I was like, because you are.
	It's not a difficult concept.
	Baker told the group at the conference this year that football is taking the knee isn't a neo-Marxist act, it's a statement of solidarity.
	So, that conference event was hosted by a friend of mine named Albie, who runs Conservatives Against Racism for Equality.
	For Equality, I'm a Conservative.
	Yeah, Conservatives Against White People for Communism.
	I've told him this multiple times.
	And he actually came to my birthday, and the day beforehand he tweeted out about saying that demographics are changing in the UK, this was well ahead of the census, and said that we've got an increasing Muslim population, and so what we have to do is, rather than demonising them and being against Islam...
	We have to appeal to their sense of fairness and family and make them a new voting bloc.
	And I had to sit Albie down and go, but Albie, you're a gay man.
	They want to throw you off a building.
	You do realise that in trying to be too conciliatory, you have become amoral to the point of it being suicide.
	And he has Steve Baker's heir.
	Lovely guy, but desperately naive.
	I wish him luck on converting the Taliban.
	Yeah.
	Good try.
	But the thing is, the quote there, taking the knee is not a neo-Marxist act, it's a statement of solidarity.
	Well, look at the England thing here.
	This is not a Nazi act.
	It is a statement of international solidarity and peace, Mr.
	Baker.
	Livestream of Barry from Qatar being paid to be out there.
	Gary Neville commentating.
	It was a wonderful thing to see.
	Anyway, but it's...
	No, shut up, Steve.
	This is a Nazi act.
	It was horrible they did it.
	Everyone rightly condemned it at the time as well.
	And you should be, in the time we're living, condemning Marxism.
	The hell's wrong with you?
	Anyway, back to the article.
	Baker says, Yeah, because you're trying to trans the kids.
	There is no common ground to have when you are trying to mutilate children.
	I am not going to sit on the fence and try and calm down the conversation.
	I'm not going to do as trigonometry tells me to do.
	I hate you.
	I'm not going to take his description of, because I don't know if he's talking about transing stuff, but we'll take what he said there about taking the knee.
	So saying that taking the knee is a Marxist act is a dangerous thing to talk about.
	It's like, no, it's reality.
	It's factual.
	You can sit there and cry about it.
	When I find him after his speech, Baker is close to despair.
	Youth politics, whether on the right or the left, is wreathed with gloom.
	He understands that young people in Britain have the rawest deal.
	So why not help them?
	Who's caused it, you imbecile?
	No, but this is the thing.
	Again, I try and take some sympathy with Steve, and maybe it's in the wrong place.
	But I just don't know how someone could fall so far, seems to recognise that something is wrong.
	And I'm just hoping there's some spark in there that maybe he will click and get it.
	Because the thing is, if I take his word for it, this author hung around with Steve and has a relationship with him, apparently.
	And there's the thing.
	If you honestly sit around after that conference, and you're like, Jesus Christ, these people are going rough, and they're not looking to me for the future...
	Think about that.
	Why not close the borders, for example, to ensure that they can own a house and get married and therefore be invested in the system itself?
	We've got the next link here.
	These results came out over the midterms, and a lot of people were shocked by them.
	Well, not the first on the left.
	It's the marital status of people and how they voted.
	So married men and married women vote Republican.
	Whereas if you go to the unmarried, it was unmarried men were basically marginal, and unmarried women voted overwhelmingly with the depths.
	And there's the argument in the United States that's going on, which is about abortion.
	And sure, abortion will be a huge factor in those results.
	But the bigger point for me and why this trend is more stark, in my view, is it's those invested in the system who actually want to make something worth defending and then defend it.
	Whereas if you give them nothing, there's no ability to actually settle down for the youth today because they can't even get a home.
	What do they care?
	The whole system could collapse.
	Literally the most common thing you hear from young people is, I can't wait for the economy to collapse so I can buy a house.
	I feel like I've been involuntarily politicised, you know?
	Like, I feel like we're good at this job, but do you sometimes just feel like, I kind of just want to check out and have a family?
	And we are, again, being back up against the wall.
	It's because you have failed on your duty as an MP to make a country worth living in, when we've screamed our concerns at you endlessly, that we're now in this fight criticising you.
	It's just like, leave me alone.
	But that's my thing.
	If he sincerely thinks, okay, the youth have got a really raw deal and they're telling me to close the borders, it's like, well, yes.
	There might be a reason for that.
	If you want to give them a good deal, that's part of the problem, is you can't buy homes in this country because we literally just build them for foreigners.
	Back to the article.
	Baker broods about the room's radical aggression on migration.
	There are calls for the boards to be shut down completely from the crowd.
	Again, such a radical proposal, which is like, how about you stop flooding the country of foreigners?
	Look at the numbers, man.
	Literally, a few years ago, you ran on a campaign.
	Your whole party, since 2010, have issued a statement that they wanted a cap of tens of thousands net coming into the country.
	It fell to every single barrier.
	In which case, you can make it up.
	You can pay the reparations tax in the terms of migrations here.
	So the net, since you came in power to whenever you get out of power, is tens of thousands by closing them now.
	Did you know that Nicola Sturgeon's doing this reparations thing for climate?
	And you can claim them on the grounds of cultural destruction.
	So I think I'm going to claim that.
	Yeah, I'll take that.
	Here.
	Yeah, thank you very much.
	Gives the money.
	You'd also just look at Swindon, for example.
	If we go to the next link here.
	What happened in the 1990s, Steve?
	If only we knew.
	If only we knew who did this to us.
	If only we knew who was in power and allowed it to go on since 2010.
	This is the thing.
	I'm trying to get through to him because people like him.
	Because I can see why some boomers who own their homes and want a quiet life don't understand why the youth are so mad and in their terms radical about such things.
	It's because the system has changed to such an extent.
	The world you were brought up in or even settled your life in It doesn't exist anymore.
	Yeah, we're prohibited from participating in it.
	There are areas of London that Brent is 56.1 foreign-born, and that's not even second-generation immigrants who aren't assimilated either.
	Yeah, I suppose if you scroll down on this thread, John, I have Brent at the bottom, I believe.
	Like, Swindon is stronger than the UK on average, but Brent, oof, diversity being our strength is...
	Reading, I can tell you Reading's a hellhole at the moment.
	That's where my missus lives.
	I moved for any reason.
	56.1, I was right.
	The reason I've done the map like that as well is because the reality, of course, is that this is centered in areas.
	So even though I live in Swindon, in my particular constituency of my council area, I'm going to bet it's one or two, frankly.
	That's my day-to-day life.
	Anyway, so let's go to the next one here.
	It's just, you wanted a quiet life?
	Guess what we got thanks to the quiet life?
	You can't buy a home.
	42% of all foreigners who are here are here under your watch.
	It didn't need to happen.
	You literally promised every single year you would stop that, and you didn't.
	In which case, guess what?
	Your own youth movement, funnily enough, wants to be more radical on the issue.
	No, I have nothing but contempt for you because you've ruined the prospects of the future.
	Let's go back to the article.
	Baker worries about them.
	He is right, but has no idea what to do.
	Stop being an NPC. Like, look at the problem.
	They're telling you what to do, and you're like, man, I just don't get it.
	Listen.
	Listen, for Christ's sake.
	Look at the data, and you will get it.
	The crowd are unimpressed with another Brexiteer, Daniel Hannan.
	The libertarian boilerplate of his speech, a Trussian pay-in to enterprise, culture, and tax cuts, is shredded in the Q&A. Quote, I come from a more tribal school of thought, says one of the boys.
	To him, identity matters more than economics.
	If everything is more globalist, then everything will move to London, and my community in East Bradford will become even more of a dump.
	Fact check.
	True.
	Brilliant question.
	Brilliant point.
	It's like, well, what if we have, you know, the complete free markets, complete free movement of people, but in the UK instead of the EU? Isn't that better?
	No.
	London is hell.
	Nobody wants to live in London.
	I wanted to make the point about Reading as well.
	It's a small point, but the fact that one third of people there are foreign-born, it's either these inaccessible foreign shops or the sort of universality.
	I like how you put the UN logo there to represent everyone.
	The universality of chain restaurants.
	Like, I've got my anniversary this Friday and I'm looking to book somewhere.
	There's nowhere quaint.
	There's nowhere new and appetising.
	It's just like, oh, do you want Starbucks?
	Or a Pizza Hut?
	Or a KFC? It sucks the soul and novelty out of things.
	You don't feel like you belong anywhere if everywhere is unanimous.
	Ironically, a problem I've had, literally, even in Swindon.
	There's a pie shop in Reading you should go to.
	It's called Sweeney Todd's.
	Fantastic.
	Unbelievably English.
	People there are all, like, 90.
	And the menu's good.
	The food's good.
	The atmosphere's good.
	But here, I haven't actually found a place that serves English food and isn't microwaved.
	This has actually been a problem.
	And that's...
	Like, Hannan.
	Just because it's cheap doesn't mean I want it.
	And also, I actually want to live in England.
	It's part of the reason I tried to move out of Reading, but it didn't work.
	Hannan has no convincing counter-argument.
	He just looks depressed.
	Cry more.
	Either learn...
	That's how we feel.
	Like every successful revolutionary, Hanan is discovering that the people are not what he thought they would be, and he's unlocked them from their cage.
	It's like, no, that's all wrong, writer.
	What Hanan is discovering is that reality doesn't match his idealism.
	The idea that everything will be fine because everything will be cheap because of free markets.
	There are things that are more concrete than that that are actually mattering as well, Hanan.
	Not every human being is motivated by rational self-interest because we're not purely rational.
	But it's not rational self-interest to want to live at Heathrow.
	This is not actually desirable for any person on the planet.
	Nobody wants that.
	You go to anyone and actually move into these areas.
	I mean, the funniest thing is there was a research done of the populist parties in Europe, right?
	And there was the arguments like, well, in the cities, they lose the votes because, of course, they're not popular where there's actual diversity.
	It's those racists in the country.
	Then there was some more detailed research done.
	It was the native ethnic groups in the individual countries.
	that and lived in the cities were the most radical individuals when it came to voting for populist parties on the left and the right.
	The people who actually live near the diversity who are of the ethnic group in the country you're talking of were unbelievably voting for the AFD in massive numbers or UKIP here.
	It's just not actually reality if you delude yourself.
	Anyway they ended off with these young Tories are stripping the American right for parts Oh, piss off.
	They believe that until the British right comes out fighting, it will keep losing the culture, hardline positions on immigration, and identity must be found.
	They want right-wing policy.
	I don't know why you're shocked.
	Cultural enemies must be identified and ridiculed.
	For them, politics is about fighting who hates who, not sharpening the hatreds into flints.
	It's like...
	Number one, like, that's the left's modus operandi.
	Like, they're fighting this fight.
	Like, you've got the right and the left in a ring in the UK, and the left is just trying punches.
	And it's, you know, actually commendable, just the fighting style, just endlessly, just trying punches in this guy's face.
	And then the guy, the little conservator, blood streaming down his face is just pleading for a quiet life.
	Yeah, funnily enough, the supporters of the blue guy in the ring don't want him to keep pleading for a quiet life.
	They want him to actually block and fight back instead of just sitting there and getting absolutely mulched.
	And until that happens, funnily enough, the youth will just get more and more radical and cry about it, I suppose, or get on board.
	I suppose.
	That's why I'm a Guy Fawkes Catholic.
	We'll end off with something more to cry about this time for the Yankees.
	You know, cheer me up, Callum.
	You really do.
	But to everyone that is...
	I know there's some people actually tuning into the stream that are at that event and answer these questions.
	You're doing the Lord's work, but keep it up.
	We've got to do something.
	crime that they have voted for.
	And we'll mention first on the website something, being that you can go and check out Frank St. Cotter's The Tragedy of Liberation book club that I did with Carl, because well, if you vote crime, you get crime.
	And if you let bandits, as they're called in Chinese, take over, well, you get everyone dead.
	And we'll start it off with just a question for everyone.
	How often have you seen something like this just scrolling on your phones?
	Those specific subway cars that you happen to see in every one of these goddamn videos, of just some fight breaking out on a subway, or some guy getting Or some mental person just being mental.
	Or in a fast food restaurant they bring an axe out of their backpack and smash up the tables and the glass and threaten women.
	But specifically the New York subway I think is actually iconic at this point.
	And I don't know about you but I can instantly recognise those subway cars specifically from these fight videos.
	Yes, I could see that in Amazing Spider-Man.
	Yeah.
	In this case, actually, the FedEx man manages to defend himself from a criminal.
	Go on, King.
	It certainly ends the fight, but we'll go forward from that and go to the next link here, which is that, of course, it's not small, is it?
	This 78-year-old man in New York, this is a story I found just before we started, he asked these lovely couple here to turn down their music because they were playing it really loud.
	Without headphones on?
	Yeah, it happens all the time.
	Yeah, so he was like, hello, chaps, you can turn it down, can you?
	They punched and kicked him until the next stop and then ran away.
	Lovely people.
	No justice there.
	They just ran away.
	So should we try and deal with the crime?
	Should we try and stop that kind of thing happening?
	Well, the exculpation of ethnic minorities from having any personal responsibility because society is racist breeds this kind of resentment, and so you think you can just do anything and get away with anything, and that's probably why the fatherless homes, a lot of the time, leads to a high crime rate, and it's not good to have some personal responsibility.
	But also the leftist solution to this is that if it's a minority community, don't send in the police.
	Yeah.
	It's like, okay, well then you're going to make the minority communities riddled with criminals who can get away with it because they know it's not policed.
	Yeah, but they're useful agents for revolution, aren't they, comrade?
	If you go to the next one here, we can see the endless TikToks as well.
	This is just some other one.
	Some fight just breaking out.
	Cool.
	There's this dude.
	Some man choking a woman out.
	Yeah, cool.
	Another thing.
	If you go to the next one here, there's also some crazy people.
	This one, I think we're going to play because this is hilariously just deranged, to say the least.
	Let's play this club.
	Wait, isn't this isn't this like the same legend?
	Yes.
	Oh, Watson!
	Watson!
	That's fine!
	He's doing this so fair, isn't he?
	I don't think we did, Watson!
	He's wearing a balaclava.
	I think he has to be doing it.
	The thing is, this is common as well.
	There are endless videos of mental people on the New York subway doing similar things.
	This is just my favourite.
	For people listening, he's got a mannequin.
	He's trying to feed it water and then starts screaming, take the water, Wilson, and then beats up his own mannequin for not drinking the water.
	I don't know what Wilson was thinking.
	Anyway, we'll go to the next link here because there was also a man stabbed on the subway trying to defend a woman from a creep.
	This is the creep who's in handcuffs there.
	He was harassing some woman, so a man was like, hey bro, can you stop?
	And he was like, well, now that you've asked so nicely, pulls out a knife and stabs the dude.
	Cool.
	This is when people in New York aren't just being pushed onto the goddamn tracks on the subway.
	The next one here was some guy who was pushed onto the tracks.
	There's a story here.
	I've seen countless videos of this.
	He lived.
	The next link is someone who didn't.
	It was an Asian woman who was killed on Saturday morning after she was pushed in front of an oncoming train on the subway in New York.
	Don't know who did that one.
	They were debating whether this is anti-Asian hate crime.
	I don't know who does anti-Asian hate crimes.
	It's still confusing.
	FBI statistics are not conclusive, I've been told.
	Unfortunately, my uncle, quite a few years ago, committed suicide by jumping in front of a train, and it wrecked my family.
	It really did.
	So, the fact that this is going on commonly to multiple families and the criminals has just exculpated many consequences.
	Every single Democrat politician and legislator that is implementing this permissive criminal justice approach has blood endlessly on their hands, and you are traitors.
	You should suffer for it.
	I believe this is one of nine.
	I mean, the year hasn't ended, but for this year.
	So, that's people getting pushed in front of trains.
	I do wonder, you know on the London Underground, there are some stations that have barriers?
	Yes, the Jubilee Line, yeah.
	The doors only open when the train is there, so you literally can't get pushed on the train.
	We got that from the Japanese, because the Japanese kept committing suicide that way.
	Yeah, well, New York needs it not for suicide.
	No, I know.
	For murder.
	And then, amazingly, we have AOC, who was campaigning at the time, all this was going on, and she decided to come out and say that the real problem was the police presence on the subway.
	Yeah.
	I'm not even going to engage with that.
	No, it's like you were saying yesterday about this.
	It's the idea that somehow the existence of the state is what corrupts individuals in a Rousseauian way.
	And she's basically making the argument that Hugo Strange does in Batman, where if Batman didn't exist, he wouldn't have crazy villains.
	No, some people are just crazy and evil, and you do need to beat them down.
	But also, there's obviously a straw man of either side in American politics, and you get the straw man of the Dems, and it's like, well, they're literal demons who want everyone to die.
	What do you mean straw man?
	When you have the AOC as a representative of the Democrats telling you, well, we need less police so that more people will die on the subway.
	Yeah, I mean, it makes sense.
	I'm comfortable calling leftist Satanists.
	She won her election, of course.
	She was basically uncontested.
	Crime of 30%, so not high enough, or presumably made promises kept.
	Do you know the crime statistics as well are massively diminished this year because the FBI do not have access to New York and LA's crime statistics?
	Yeah.
	They haven't reported them?
	That's convenient.
	Yeah.
	We also have a video, though, of a British man who decided to go over and just ask people.
	Oh, it's Harley Quinn.
	A video from Telegraph.
	He does actually go over and ask Harley Quinn and her other soy-infected locals, quite a few of them in different places, about their opinions on what happened about New York and also a lot of the police officers.
	The police officers are all pretty much of one mind in this video.
	Just pause it there because I just love that quote.
	If you can just reload it, it's the timestamp.
	In case people are listening, the quote on screen is some guy talking to the man filming saying, give me your camera or I'm going to break it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, alright.
	Safe.
	What's that, in Times Square?
	It is in Times Square, yeah.
	The Rings of Power logo in the background.
	A lot of food.
	It's just multicultural vomit everywhere and yet the entire society is degenerating as you see it.
	It's gone back to the 70s.
	But my point is, it's like it's a tourist zone.
	And you're still getting threatened with robbery in front of a police car.
	But the point being that he went over, he asked all the police, what's your opinion on this?
	And they all concluded that, well, we have the broken window theory of policing.
	Yes, which was Rudy Giuliani's policy, yes.
	Right up until about 2019 is where they put the blame.
	And then they had the BLM-style policing that came in.
	And everything went to hell.
	They were serving out ex-officers.
	The interviews with the soy-infected locals, they decided to say that...
	He asked them, what have you done if you've been a victim of crime?
	Some of them told them they'd been run over in a couple of years.
	Some of them had been sexually assaulted.
	Harley Quinn there had been sexually assaulted, she says.
	But they all came to the conclusion that they were still on the defund the police train.
	It was like, lady!
	How?
	How are you still on that train?
	You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
	Yeah, the dude next to him was the one who had said he'd been run over, and he was like, yeah, I don't trust the cops.
	Right.
	We have the next one here because, of course, we have the Democratic governor who ran on the campaign of crime doesn't exist.
	There is no crime.
	They're all hyperventilating about it.
	And then New York voted for crime.
	It's amazing.
	So the actual voter share in New York was massively up among Republicans, but still didn't win.
	No, if you go to the next one here, we can see the results.
	If you scroll down on that to the graph again of the state with the arrows, then just to the people listening, it's every single county has leaned Republican heavily.
	Wasn't enough, apparently.
	Amazing that.
	Turns out campaigning on pro-crime is a promise made and a promise kept, and she's been rewarded for it.
	But then we have the news articles that have been published immediately in response to this election.
	I love this from the New York Post.
	New Yorkers beg newly elected governor to get crime under control.
	Or you could have just elected a governor that campaigned on getting crime under control.
	Could they?
	Could they have?
	Fed up New Yorkers are begging the governor to get crime under control after her surprisingly close win.
	In an uninspiring race.
	She did an uninspiring campaign and she still surprisingly won.
	She was only appointed because Mario Cuomo got too handsy.
	Where she routinely downplayed concerns about crime in the Big Apple, she still amazingly won.
	People in New York complain about the high crime rate in the subways, so why did they vote for her?
	Steve says, age 70, to the Post, Wednesday morning outside of the subway.
	Yeah, I don't know how that happened.
	It's amazing, isn't it?
	I'm so glad the American elections are the safest, freest and fairest in the world, so that they can get quality candidates like this.
	Now that Hushul has won, her primary needs to be doing something about all the crime in the subway, he added.
	Now, even her own supporters are pleading with her to deal with the crime and take action.
	Quote, I'm happy she won, but I don't want her to think winning gives her a pass on keeping the status quo.
	Why do we have no swearing rule in this office?
	I'm so mad.
	But it's like, the previous governor, you've re-elected her, you campaigned for her, this Michael here, he's someone who is a supporter of her.
	If you campaign for the status quo, you're voting for the status quo.
	I do think anyone that has voted for her knowing her record on crime is equally culpable in all these people that are being beaten up and killed.
	Sure, whatever, but I just can't get over the mindset.
	Imagine being, I don't know, a Labour Party member, and you're endlessly talking about how when you stop being obsessing with woke culture, it's like, well, stop being a Labour Party member.
	Crime's a real problem, anyway.
	That's why I voted for the crime candidate.
	She's got work cut out for her.
	None of us who rides the train feel safe, said Brack42, who noticed the governor is from upstate and doesn't have the perspective of people who ride the train every day to see how bad things have gotten.
	It's the same for a lot of conservators in this country who don't live in the centre of town.
	They don't know how much immigration there is.
	My fellow progressives is what Anna Kasparian wrote about all of this, because the thing is, you can beg all you want.
	You can get on your knees.
	They're going to work, as Anna told us.
	For people who didn't notice, we went through this article yesterday, but very quickly, MSNBC last week interviewed the governor for New York.
	She brushed off comments about public safety as nothing more than conservative conspiracy theories.
	So good luck with the begging.
	I'm being killed.
	Oh, you're a conspiracy theorist.
	I can't.
	She stares from upstate...
	Yeah, but I love how all the claims are just exactly the same.
	Disinformation, misinformation, conspiracy theory.
	It's not happening.
	When it's happening, it's a good thing.
	It's just being gaslit by an insane ex-girlfriend.
	Your rape didn't happen, says the governor.
	I mean, I know the Germans tried that in New Year's in collapse, but it didn't work.
	The truth came out, and the truth is obvious in the United States as well.
	Herschel's comments on MSNBC show the tone-deaf nature of what they're advocating, and she had to walk back, as Anna said in this article.
	But she goes on to say that her safety is 10 out of 10 in New York, and then her home was burgled, and then she rated her safety as 5 out of 10.
	It's about average after being burgled.
	So the thing is, New Yorkers...
	I guess you're just going to have to pray to your gods that she'll get robbed a couple more times, and then maybe she'll say something about the crime and maybe it's a problem.
	Because, I mean, it went from a 10 to a 5, so I don't know.
	You're a state full of bike cucks.
	Maybe if she gets shot walking out and about.
	I'm not saying she should, obviously.
	I'm saying that I don't know how much it has to come to her door before she realises that there's a problem.
	Yeah, but some people don't.
	Do you remember Seth Rogen saying my car's been broken into multiple times and I still love LA and vote Democrat?
	But it's like when Bolsonaro was campaigning, he was like, crime's out of control, and some leftist is like, no, it's not, stab.
	Yeah.
	Literally stabbed him out campaigning.
	I was like, well, that's proof of his point.
	Well, Lee Zoldan got attacked while out campaigning by a crazy person.
	He tried to stab him on stage as well.
	Yeah, so I guess until the crime comes to her home, she won't care.
	Because they literally had to get her to be robbed before she was like, well, the safety in New York's about average.
	Not perfect.
	Pelosi doesn't care.
	It's madness.
	Madness these people live in.
	Obviously, again, just to reiterate it for no other one than YouTube, I don't want that to happen.
	I'd rather she just get the facts of reality by listening to her constituents.
	It's mad that it has to happen to someone before they realise how bad things have gone.
	Anyway, the next link here is just David Rearboy I'm going to end on, because I believe he used to live in New York.
	I don't know for certain, but he writes in here in response to the elections.
	Would have been nice if you guys saved yourselves and elected the Republican, but to be honest, don't care.
	Don't give an F. Enjoy!
	Bye!
	You get what you effing deserve.
	Yeah.
	If you go to the next one here, we can see David talking about the fact that he lives in Florida now.
	Once I left home for college, I lived only in deep blue areas.
	It feels good to see my neighbourhood on a map as bright red.
	If you go back to the text, I'll read it.
	And it's just the fact that he says it's bright red.
	Knowing I'm surrounded by like-minded people, those of you still in blue states are crazy, to be honest.
	When they accuse you of living in a bubble, it's for your own safety.
	Maybe, but it's just the fact of him living in an area that's bright red in Florida.
	Everything's fine.
	There's no evangelical, extremist nonsense that people scare people with about the Republicans, especially Ron DeSantis.
	Everything's just normal.
	Everything's depoliticized, in fact.
	Peaceful.
	They don't have to deal with endless chats about white supremacy in the school.
	We don't do that here.
	Whereas you guys in New York can...
	Walk on your way to school on the subway, have to deal with the crazy guy feeding Wilson water on the tube.
	Or be dropkicks onto a live line.
	Well then you get to your school, you get to teach that crap, and then you get back on the subway and some dude gets stabbed.
	And it's just like, eh, what a peaceful day.
	God damn, it feels good to not live near Republicans.
	Enjoy it, I suppose.
	Anyway, that's that.
	You vote for it, live with it.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	Man, that was an amazing compilation.
	That must have taken ages to do.
	Well, yes, but also no.
	I used a headless browser to scrape all of the video links from your YouTube page.
	Then visit each link, download the video, trigger the transcriptions feature containing all of the transcriptions for each video.
	I now have a record for every word the Lotus Eaters have ever said, along with timestamps and a video ID. Put the transcriptions into an Algolia instance so I can now search them easily, and chop the video into little pieces based on the timestamps.
	Next I built an interface so I can find exactly where the word I'm looking for is, and stitched together an output video I want.
	Basically I built a machine that makes these type of videos for me.
	The video you saw took me only about two hours to put together, and that's only because I ran out of time building this thing.
	Now, I know that makes him a little bit over the top, but I enjoy Challenge.
	Interesting game.
	Let's play again soon, Lotus Ears.
	I haven't watched the Hangout compilation yet because I've been very busy.
	I just saw my face in there.
	Have I been deepfaked?
	Like, permanently deepfaked by BaseSafe?
	Should I be scared?
	No, he's got a word of everything we've said and can put it in an order.
	Yeah.
	Like a compilation of Biden talking about stuff.
	That's terrifying.
	Number one, I forgot you code, so I should have thought of that.
	Number two...
	Now I'm scared, because not only have you now got that record and can make us say anything as a compilation, you've just told everyone how to do it.
	Yep.
	Thanks, mate!
	Uh, yay.
	Okay, look forward to it.
	I love goofy memes, so please be goofy memes and nothing horrific.
	Let's go to the next one.
	In light of recent elections, I would like to reflect on the black voting preferences.
	We tend to forget that the Democrats started getting the majority of the black vote all the way back in the 1920s, which means that the blacks were voting for the Democrats at the height of their support for the Klan.
	It is a group that will always gravitate towards the party most punishing of its enemies and most patronizing of its base.
	Until the Conservatives understand this like they did after the Civil War, there's no point in pursuing this voting group.
	Pretty true.
	I saw your map overlaying the 1960s civil rights legislation with Democrat areas that didn't vote for it.
	That wasn't my map.
	I thought you tweeted it out.
	I might retweet it.
	Oh, okay.
	There we go.
	Yeah.
	I actually don't...
	I don't even necessarily think it's just that Democrats were super racist, which they still are.
	But in that piece of legislation, did you know it basically classifies communists as not human beings?
	Because it explicitly said there will be no protections afforded to communist groups.
	I think that also might be a reason.
	So they're just race commies.
	The one thing in there I do massively disagree with, though, is the idea...
	I didn't catch all of it, but at the end of the graph, trying to portray that minorities are essentially a waste of time for the right or something.
	Not Hispanics, definitely not.
	Yeah, it's just not true.
	I think Ron DeSantis has probably shown that best, because not only...
	I don't have the numbers to hand, unfortunately.
	The Cubans, obviously, are known as the Cubans, and therefore they're not pro-commy.
	So I think they voted for something like 68% for DeSantis.
	That's unexpected.
	Same with the Venezuelans.
	Not that interesting.
	But it was of the other groups.
	There was a more detailed polling done after the results.
	And so there was like a 20% jump in every other South American group living in Florida.
	And it's just like, okay, that's impressive.
	And the seeming solidarity point is on critical race theory and BLM riots, which I think is a pretty easy argument to make.
	Yeah.
	Unfortunately, I think plenty of black Americans have been propagandized into agreeing with the BLM thing, because there is the narrative of, oh, there's loads of white people writing in 2020.
	Yeah, there were some, but there weren't loads.
	Let's be fair, there were a lot of black Americans committing these crimes.
	However, Trump did increase his vote share of minorities, and it wasn't super substantial.
	I think the problem that Republicans have is they think in order to increase their minority vote share, they've got to parrot softcore Democrat talking points in order to appease the minorities over.
	Whereas instead, you should be running on border security, economic prosperity, family first.
	I'm not sure I agree.
	I mean, I don't know about black Americans.
	It's just a weird world in which when polled and you ask them about their values, they're all conservatives but they're all Democrats.
	I think Candace is probably right that it's just some kind of plantation mentality.
	But when it comes to the Hispanics, it does seem like actual growth could be made.
	It's interesting to see.
	I suppose I'll see how it goes forward.
	Let's go to the next one.
	After a particularly tough day at the factory some years ago, I repaired to a bar in Taipei to relax.
	Locals thought I was deranged as my body shook and I cried, but they couldn't have known it was with laughter as I read entries from the superb website lawoftheplayground.net.
	It seems that the site was shut down but has recently been revived for anyone who wants to find out the hilarious definitions of terms like MC Hammer.
	But, tragically, they are missing the backstory of the classic taunt, Joey Deacon.
	Is it me, or were kids more witty with their insults in the past?
	I'm not familiar with The Little Brother's Playground.
	No, me neither.
	I assume it's like Urban Dictionary, but for boomers.
	I don't know what else, but I'll have to ask Carl about it, I guess.
	By the way, it's cool.
	I'll check it out afterwards.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Tony D and Little Joan with another Lotus Eater white pill from the Good News Hub comes the story of Joy Milne, the woman who can smell Parkinson's disease.
	This woman developed this talent after she noticed her husband had a strange smell after he was diagnosed and then they went to a support group and she noticed the smell again.
	Now she's working with scientists and they're developing a swab that will detect Parkinson's in three minutes with 95% accuracy.
	That's amazing.
	Yeah.
	It's an actual real-life superpower.
	My aunt has Parkinson's, and it's entirely destroyed in my ability, so it'd be nice if they could find some kind of cure or preventative measure.
	Did she say what it smelled like, is what I'm wondering?
	No.
	It'd be a weird world where you could describe diseases by their smell in the future.
	Cancer is a bit like sunflowers or something?
	Yeah, it's like synesthesia, where you can smell colours and things like that.
	It's the most disgusting-smelling disease.
	Eight.
	Well, you think it would smell what?
	Uh...
	Do we have to say the obvious?
	No.
	Anyway, but it's just like, I imagine there'll be some funny memes out of that, but also it would be funny to have a dictionary.
	Could you imagine if doctors could, like, remedy that as well?
	I know it's like Carl Pilkington logic.
	But you know, Carl Pilkington did a thing once where he came up with the idea that there would be a machine the doctor could get in, and he could feel your pain and then diagnose you?
	Madness.
	Yeah.
	It's like, well, you've got a spike up the arse.
	Yeah.
	Well, you really want the doctor feeling that.
	But, like, if you could smell diseases...
	It's also quite funny that the prior video comment was about playground insults, and you smell like cancer is actually a pretty good insult.
	But what if it smells good?
	Like if cancer smelled good, and then there was a candle made at cancer smell, and people started buying cancer...
	Yankee's got a whole new market.
	Anyway...
	Go back.
	I was just thinking about the whole euthanasia stuff that's happening in Canada, and...
	If any of you guys played Final Fantasy X, it deconstructs this whole life is pain so you should just end it concept.
	It is better for you to die in hope than to live in despair.
	Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow.
	Your fate is in your hands.
	It might be worthwhile having a look into.
	So...
	Maybe.
	I'm not a fan of J culture.
	Okay, that's where I'm at myself.
	My first game I ever played as a kid extensively on my own for about two years straight was FF7, and I would love to do a politics of FF7 one day.
	However, one, I do not have any time to replay any games, and two, no one else in the office has played it, especially the remake is terrible, so most people don't have the patience to go down and sit and play a game with no dialogue from 1997.
	My brother used to play it all the time, but I never played it.
	The only thing about Final Fantasy I even see anymore is the occasional gameplay, and the graphics do seem amazing.
	Like, real next-gen stuff.
	I can't remember which one I saw where it came out.
	It was the boys in the car?
	15.
	No, it was impressive.
	The gameplay was a bit rough on that one, and they sold your DLC out the backside.
	The new one, the FF7 remake, looks beautiful.
	They just ruined the story with...
	Setting it in partitions.
	Isn't the story that basically you're playing as an eco-terrorist?
	Kind of.
	Alright.
	So you spend all your time moaning about just stop oil and then you spend your spare time playing as a moody, amnesiac eco-terrorist, basically.
	With a cool sword.
	We'll go to the written comments on the site.
	So Baron Von Vorhock says, I'm also guessing one of the reasons why Qatar is cracking down on the gay community is that they are watching what happened in the West and seeing the current state of the community.
	I guess there are only so many times you can read about bondage parades, abortion parades, parties, pornographic children's books, and piss orgies before you decide to shut the whole thing down.
	I mean, they were doing that before that.
	It's not like I don't disagree with this degeneracy, but then they're also just as likely to throw a civil unioned heterosexual, not heterosexual, monogamous gay guy in prison as well.
	I know this is lazy, but basically the world are east and west, alright?
	So then the east are not happy about the gays, the west are fine with the gays.
	Okay.
	So what happens in the East, seemingly, is that they've got their reasons for why they are homophobic.
	Islam being a pretty solid one for countries such as Qatar.
	And that's going to stay there wherever.
	The stuff that does happen in the West.
	So our stuff about when it goes well, as in just normal gay people, that's obviously not going to make it over there ever.
	But the extremities and the retardation of the West that you bring up does actually make it into the East quite regularly.
	Yeah.
	And specifically, less Islamic countries from YC, but like Russia, 100%.
	Almost daily, there'll be stories in Russian state media about what is happening in the West.
	And the stories they pick are, look at the absolute state of the West.
	And there are people in the opposition parties that want us to be like the West?
	Ugh, vote Putin!
	Just after the Taliban takeover, they were literally quoting Gail Rubin's doctrine that I nearly got.
	Slapped in cuffs for critiquing because she said we want cross-generational relationships, which was her euphemism for pedophilia.
	She literally said boy lovers and things like that.
	And the Taliban were pointing to that and going, yeah, not that.
	Even though literally noncing on boys was a thing here before we took over.
	Yeah, we're not doing that.
	We're noncing on girls, don't worry.
	Yeah, definitely.
	But...
	But it's the fact that what you say does get into the, let's say, East real quick, but there are more fundamental reasons as well.
	I don't know how much it gets into the Islamic world.
	I think it's definitely starting to in the last couple of years, but in Russia it's commonplace to know about how bad the West is, and that's the West's fault.
	If you want to liberalize places like Russia, you're not going to do it by doing this.
	Our decadence is their propaganda.
	Lord Nerevar says, I think it's all been relatively obvious for a while that the Qatari World Cup is dodgy as hell and shouldn't have happened.
	It's one thing having a Formula 1 race there, where daytime practice sessions can be literally melting the tyres.
	It's another to have a football competition where it's so dangerous to hold there in the summer, as usual, they have to move it into the winter.
	Some places simply aren't designed to host such things, but money talks.
	Yeah, I think they're air conditioning the whole stadium as well.
	Even though it's winter.
	Even though it's open-tops.
	To be fair, this is actually the case, at least from what I've experienced.
	These really rich oil Arab countries, they've got the best air conditioning on the planet.
	It's so good.
	I got off the plane in Dubai, and it's swelteringly hot, unbelievable.
	You've got a double-decker bendy bus, all the doors open, walk in, you think it's going to feel like crap, and then they close the doors and it'll get better.
	No, you walk in, it's great.
	Doors are open.
	The air conditioning is just so powerful that it keeps out the hot.
	They can afford to run it.
	So, you know, there will be good air conditioning at least.
	Crocodile Bundy says, My politics teacher went to Qatar for a few years ago.
	He and his boyfriend, sorry, befriend, a Nepalese barber, who was sending money back to his family.
	He gave the barber as much money as he could ever since he was continuing to give money to the barber's family and has visited them a few times.
	One of the few socialists I've met that actually cares about the poor.
	Oh, that's amazing.
	He found one.
	It's actually quite rare.
	Lord Robert Longshaw says passport confiscation is quite normal in practice for house servants in Qatar.
	In Kuwait there's a problem with the maids.
	They keep jumping off the balconies.
	What's funny is they keep jumping off the balconies when the husband is out and all the kids are out too, but the wife's at home.
	Ah.
	Okay.
	So the disposing of the mistresses.
	Yeah.
	Funny.
	Funny.
	Real problem in Qatar.
	Sorry, Kuwait.
	They'll deal with it soon.
	Andrew Narek says, Clearly you both have it wrong.
	The Qatari business owners are being terribly generous.
	They're letting these foreign workers have the privilege of investing in the future of Qatar.
	What future?
	But all jokes aside, did we really expect any better from the Arabs?
	No.
	But FIFA pretended they did.
	Captain Charlie the Beagle says, remember, sorry, maybe it's just me, but I'd hold Neville in slightly higher esteem if he just admitted he's doing the commentary for the money.
	At least then we can say he's being honest about it.
	No, that's like saying in the docket, yes, I am a mass murderer, I finally confess.
	It's not the lying that's necessarily the worst.
	There's a joke that Norm Macdonald did, and someone said, you know the worst thing about Bill Cosby?
	It was a hypocrisy.
	And he went, I think it was the raping that was the worst thing.
	I don't think it was, like, man, I sure do love rape, but at least I'm not a hypocrite about it.
	I don't know.
	I mean, an honest rapist is an honest rapist.
	He's still a rapist.
	Exactly.
	That's the point.
	That's the point, yeah.
	I don't care whether Gary Neville's honest about taking Qatari money.
	I care that he takes it in the first place.
	But I think actually we do.
	Well, even in the legal system, we do.
	Because if you're honest about the crime you committed, you get a lower sentence.
	Yeah, but that's just because you're not wasting the court's time in going through the entire process.
	So it's meant to be a sort of punitive deterrence for making false professions of innocence.
	As horrible as the examples are, I think there is actually a difference.
	Anyway, but Gen Z conservatives on the revolt.
	So Robert Longshore says, Connor, I'm in the process of having a family.
	Second child due any day now.
	My having a family makes me want to fight harder.
	Having a family, the money will find a way.
	Yep, I know.
	I shall make the attempt.
	It'll be a couple of years, but it's just very difficult.
	It's just depressing.
	And it's also true, like, if you actually have steak in the system, you might want to defend it.
	The Conservatives are like, I just don't understand.
	Tell me again.
	Steak in the system?
	Alex L says, do a flip.
	Yep.
	Spardroon says, my father was in that traffic jam.
	He is a commercial gas engineer and was due to make a repair in a children's hospice.
	That moron has delayed dying children from much-needed hot water.
	Should have shot her.
	Much of the world, they would have.
	Actually, I think in America you get shot for similar things.
	Because if you go on through a freeway, you may very well cause a pilot that kills like 20 people.
	So the correct thing to do, I don't know if it's the case anymore, but I think it was in America that you would just shoot the person.
	Yeah, obviously we can't endorse direct action here, but I will say too few crimes have a death penalty.
	I endorse the law, and if it's the law, then, well, it follows through the reasoning.
	You're going to kill 20 people and kill loads of kids in a pile-up, so...
	I am available as a hangman on Saturdays.
	Captain Charlie the Beagle says...
	Sorry, I read that one.
	Anyway.
	FreeWill2112 says, No offence, Louise, or whatever your name is, but until you go and protest against China, you can take a running jump.
	You could turn Britain off totally, and it wouldn't make a difference to the climate problem as you perceive it.
	Your protest is just a narcissistic circle jerk.
	Yep.
	It's funny that you never see the eco-terrorists.
	I think they will get themselves to the point where they'll start blowing stuff up in Britain, but they will never blow up anything in China.
	Well, it's very funny as well because where they often do it in Trafalgar Square and sitting around in London, always outside the National Portrait Gallery, just a spitting distance from Chinatown, are the Falun Gong and Hong Kong protesters just peacefully doing Tai Chi and handing out their leaflets against the Chinese government.
	Never see them joining hands with them over the climate crisis and human rights abuses, do you?
	Even though they're literally next to them.
	God, that just makes me think.
	Like, no one listens to the Hong Kong protests.
	They're just being let down by the government.
	So one of the things...
	Are they going to have to start whining about climate change to be listened to?
	That's why we need to fight the CCP. Freewill again says, I think the global hegemony is what the COP27 attendees are really interested in, not global prosperity.
	Nope.
	Omar says, at this point I'd settle for current status quo rather than whatever lunacy they have planned.
	However bad it is, they'll still find a way to make it worse.
	This is not the bottom of clown world.
	Just clown shoes all the way down.
	That is true.
	It can always get worse.
	That's like saying I want to stay on the place on this slope that I'm slipping down.
	It's like there is no staying here.
	It's a path of inevitability.
	We need to reverse the trend.
	It is the case that don't worry lads, it gets worse.
	Yeah.
	But he is saying, I'd settle.
	And I'm like, don't accept soccer.
	I'm concerned over your captors.
	I'm used to Omar's comments.
	I know he's joking.
	Oh, right.
	Shaker Silver says, the neoliberal agenda of selling out the future of our countries to secure the present wealth of the elite is going to have to catch up eventually when the people are screwed over, multiply with each generation.
	I doubt it.
	I don't know.
	Maybe we need more white polls.
	maybe we need to hang out with tony d in a little journal more alexander says i love the stat about unmarried women being overwhelmingly big pro-government for years boomer cons made the cringe untrue arguments that women civilize men with marriage but all the facts point to it being the other way around men civilize women if a woman doesn't have a man in her life she turns to the government as her daddy husband to provide for i think it is symbiotic because what's the old phrase from patrice o'neill um women want to sleep with one guy a lot
	men want to sleep with a lot of women once so women do inhibit male hypersexuality in a lot of cases however yes a lot of women are very politically chameleonic if you notice all these just a boy women don't have boyfriends lots of them are very androgynous lots of them don't lots and lots of them don't the ones that threw paint not paint, soup at the Van Gogh didn't I don't know about that but the lady who poured shit all over herself did
	Ugh, she's a All I'm merely saying is Jordan Peterson was not wrong about enforced monogamy in order to change women's political instincts, being mother bears, away from the oppressed minorities and more towards their own kids.
	I don't know about psychoanalyzing it too much, but I do love the...
	Someone mentioned that number of unmarried women, and someone was like, yeah, we'll actually redo the study and ask about cats.
	I want to hear it.
	And it is true that when you check out the social justice movement, the ladies who are wasting their lives very rarely do have anything going for them.
	No eggs, empty egg carton.
	Well, it's not even just that.
	It's just that you're actually hideous.
	A lot of the hardcore feminists there.
	Anyway, enjoy the crime wave in New York.
	We'll go on to that.
	So, Baron Von Warhawk says, what the NYPD should do to regain control of the city is double down and go on strike until the Democrats agree to take crime seriously.
	Or playing into their hands.
	Elect me and I'll bring crime to everywhere.
	The police are like, oh, we'll take our part.
	It's not bad, I do.
	Go for it.
	Once the police walk off their job, then the crime will explode, crime will extor, and the New York will burn down.
	It would be so bloody that the government would have no choice but to act and go back on its broken window theory.
	A lot of people would die in the Machiavellian sense.
	Strike is the surest way to stop long-term crime.
	That was really evil, but probably would be the only thing that works at this point.
	God, am I... Anyway, we're out of time, so we'll have to...
	Yep, just thank you to Andrew for the compliment.
	That was on the honourable mentions at the bottom.
	Cheers, mate.
	Appreciate it.
	Well, otherwise, we'll be back tomorrow, one o'clock.

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