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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #523
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Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 523 on the 14th of November 2022.
I'm your host Harry, joined today by my guest Connor.
Hello there.
Hi, and we're going to be talking about Trump's midterm meltdown, well, his tantrum that he threw against Ron DeSantis, also immigration without end, and then just because it's us and we want a little bit of fun and we don't want everything to be miserable and depressing and grey all the time...
So, we're going to look at the sorry state of pop culture.
Do you remember when we were relegated to only talk about comics once a month for our own series?
And then we said, ah, screw it, we'll do it anyway.
Yes, I do, because that was today.
I love my job.
So, without any further ado, let's get into the news.
So...
The elections in the midterms in the US are still ongoing, because of course they are, because some of the counties and some of the states are still not done counting all of their votes.
The Red Mirage has yet to fully fade, of course.
Yes.
You know, 20 or so years ago, this would have been a very unusual event, but in the modern world, with all of our incredibly reliable voting machines, this is just...
Business as usual, it seems.
The American Republic must have its safest and securest election of all time, and however long that takes, of course, we must wait to see the process conclude.
Yes.
And as such, as we speak right now, as we're broadcasting, the votes are still being taken in.
The House of Representatives is currently showing 204 Democrats, which I'm pretty sure was not that many when I looked five minutes ago, but okay.
And Republicans holding it a steady 212.
I'm sure the Democrats are giving themselves just enough time to...
Reasonably catch up there.
Count all the mail-in ballots, of course.
Yes, yes.
And in the Senate, the Democrats seem to be holding a majority with 50, while Republicans have 49 at the moment, although I think there's 34 of 35 races called, apparently.
So one more, Mike.
There's a Georgia run-off race currently, because Warnock and Walker are too close to call.
Well, thank you very much for that information.
But, so, basically, there's a lot of things still, moving parts still going on.
We're still seeing where this will go.
People were expecting a red wave to just wash out the Democrats, which does not seem to have materialised.
But it has led to some divisions within the Republican Party, not that there aren't already plenty of them, including some rather...
Frustrating?
Frustrating remarks from Donald Trump himself.
And before I go any further, we do have a video that Carl made a few months ago on Donald Trump and the potential of him returning for the 2024 elections and how he believes that he should because he thinks that this will be some kind of mythic narrative cycle where he comes back as a redemptive arc.
Return as the king in exile.
I think it might be worth just for a few seconds stating the obvious fact that we rather like President Trump.
He has his occasional issues, for example, not firing Anthony Fauci, not sending in the National Guard to quell the BLM riots.
However, he is a lot of fun from across the pond.
He seems very friendly to our country.
We'd rather work with you guys.
Exactly.
If you have this many enemies in the deeply encrusted, deep state, then you must be doing something right.
And we think that if he came back, he would be able to clear all these sorts of people out with Schedule F. Great news.
However, we also acknowledge that Trump does have his personal flaws, which can lead him to be blindsided.
Yes.
Touch of narcissism.
And so this doesn't come from an outside perspective, not just as people from the UK who don't know about American politics, because we cover it quite a lot, but also people that want our country and your country, viewers across the pond, to prosper.
So we're not critiquing Trump for no reason.
It's because we want the Republicans to present a united front.
Which, sadly, the Democrats always seem to, no matter how ridiculous their policies, they have a certain way, Nancy Pelosi has a certain way of whipping everybody in line.
And not just Paul.
But yes, and for one, I'd just like to say, I think Trump should run for 2024 as part of that mythic narrative cycle, as Karl puts it.
And I also think that he and DeSantis should...
Avoid any animosity between each other at all.
They should avoid any conflict.
They should avoid anything that can allow the dirty, dirty smear merchants to whip up a narrative and pit the two against each other because the Republicans are much stronger with DeSantis and Trump working together than against one another.
Also, that would allow the Republican Union Party to say, hey, clearly the MAGA Republicans are too divided.
We must put a candidate forward like Chris Christie or Jeb Bush.
We need to look for the moderate vote.
No, that will not get anywhere.
But, before I look into that exactly, we'll examine a few reasons why some are putting forward that the red wave did not materialise.
And one of the big ones being that youth voters turned out, and sadly, youths, being stupid, seem to favour Democrats over Republicans, because Democrats put forward all the sorts of positions that somebody who is young, dumb, and full of...
Don't say youths, Harry.
That's really unfair.
Women.
Young women.
It's young, unmarried women.
Sorry, it's because you've been propagandised by TikTok.
That's the overwhelming number.
Well, a lot of people, men and women, but yes, overwhelmingly women, are being put forward this lifestyle of pure hedonism, and the Democrats are putting forward policy proposals that say, don't worry, we'll inculcate you in a nice big bubble wrap for the rest of your life so you can just indulge in whatever hedonism that you look for.
We'll kill your baby for you, don't worry.
Yes, and if you don't kill the baby, then we'll just transit for you, and therefore you don't have to worry about any of those nasty, nasty grandchildren or anything meaningful building up in your own life.
But this article was quite interesting, and it said that youth voters, including first-timers, turned out in large numbers at polling booths on Tuesday and voted for Democrats, and many experts believe that that's the reason.
Not that I entirely trust what the experts say.
But they believe that that's the reason for the better than expected performance of the ruling party, the Democrats.
Another exit poll revealed that youths voted more in favour of the Democrats.
And I should have looked at that actual poll because, like you say, probably if they divided it between gender, I would say that you are right.
I thought it was 68% of all unmarried women 18-45, I think the bracket was, voted Democrat.
That would not surprise me, because it said the national youth vote choice for the US House of Representatives was 63% for the Democrats and 35% for the Republicans, so if that was split down gender lines...
I wonder if it has a strong correlation with inner-city cat ownership.
Yes.
And one of the reasons for that was abortion, because as much as people want to say that, you know, it's all inflation, it's all the economy that people are concerned about, no, social issues are one of the big things that brings people out in droves, and abortion was one of those big things.
And this is from somebody who is a pro-lifer.
I think there should be a global abortion ban, because killing children bad.
Yeah.
Shocking.
Shocking position to take.
But your average Democrat...
Your average Democrat, yes, thinks killing baby good, including and up to whether it's still in the womb or not, potentially.
Or after, if you're Governor Ralph Northam.
Yes, but this article from The Atlantic is talking about that, saying that in Michigan, a traditionally blue state that in recent years turned more purple, voters enshrined reproductive protections, more anti-reproductive protections if we're going to be literal about it, into law with 45% of exit poll respondents calling abortion the most important issue on the ballot.
In the race for the Michigan State House, The incumbent Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, trounced her Republican challenger, Tudor Dixon, who had said that she supports abortion only in instances that would save the life of the woman, and never in the case of rape or incest.
Dixon then lost by more than 10 percentage points and almost half a million votes.
At the October debate, John Fetterman...
Everybody's favourite.
Was mocked for, among other things, his simplistic and repetitive invocation of supporting Roe v.
Wade, even when asked by moderators to answer an abortion question in more detail.
He just kept saying it.
He just kept going, I support Roe v.
Wade, probably because that's the only thing that he could say.
At the time.
Whatever it lacked in nuance, this article says, Fetterman's allegiance to his pro-abortion rights position was impossible to misconstrue.
This was an abortion election and voters knew exactly where he stood.
Obviously, Fetterman had a number of other things in his corner, including, once again, if all he can do is repeat very simplistic slogans, he was repeating the right ones for blue-collar working-class voters, including saying, I support the unions and such.
Well, he also had the benefit of having President Trump endorse Not a very suitable primary candidate, like the black woman whose name escapes my mind now who knows all about ESGs, BlackRock, ExxonMobil and the like, but instead the villain from Elmo's Adventures in Grouchland, Dr.
Oz.
He obviously endorsed the Chinese, abortion, transing the kids, he's held every issue under the sun and now tries to posit himself as a conservative.
And for some reason Trump decided to back him.
Yeah.
Well he likes TV personalities, doesn't he?
Yes, that is.
Again, another unfortunate flaw.
That is sadly true, yeah.
Oz did not put up the best resistance against Fetterman.
If you'd had someone a bit more competent who was relying on things other than just TV personality charisma, then perhaps they could have stood a chance.
But there was one place which held out.
Against this, and where Red Wave truly did materialise, and as we all know, that's Florida, where Ron DeSantis has come in for his second term as governor, and he won by, I think it was almost 20 percentage points against his opponent, Charlie Crist.
He had a 1.3 million vote share increase, I believe, because he won the 2020 race against Andrew Gillum, the guy who was found to have cracked out gay male prostitutes on his floor.
By only 300,000 votes, this time I think it's between 1.3 and 1.5 million vote share increase.
Yeah, and I think we can all put this down to the fact that DeSantis is just very popular and knows how to wield political power in an effective way against his political enemies, which, shockingly enough, gets a lot of support from people who want to see certain positions put forward that will enshrine their values and put forward their moral positions.
For instance, the Parental Rights Bill...
The punishing Disney, immediately just cracking down on Disney straight away when Disney decided to try and undermine them by getting rid of Disneyland's self-governance in Florida.
He's very good at doing these things that most Republican politicians are far too moderate and honestly a bit too spineless to do.
So he's a kind of new generation following on from Trump, who Trump supported when he originally came out.
And you can see the change that it's made in Florida, which used to be a purple state, used to be a swing state, it could go either way.
And now he's flipped Miami.
A city.
Yeah, he's flipped Miami.
Since 2020, in the next article, John, the number of registered Democrats declined in all but one of Florida's 67 counties, and they were outnumbered by registered Republicans on election day for the first time ever.
The Cuban-American Democrat, running to be state senator, featured her wife prominently in her campaign literature and invited supporters to a get-out-the-vote drag party.
And she lost by eight points in a district that Biden won.
Ha ha!
Didn't go well.
That campaign, not great.
Not great.
And this article is so salty about it.
We shouldn't be surprised because it's the Atlantic.
But it's amazing.
The sugary DeSantis vision of a free state of Florida paradise where nobody will force you to pay income taxes, get vaccinated, care about climate change, limit your water consumption, or build your house in a safe location is extremely alluring.
Can I move?
I know, I know, right?
It promises ice cream when Democrats are mostly offering broccoli.
The dissentist approach, though, is irresponsible.
A formula for crumbling infrastructure, climate chaos, recurring droughts, and a $1 billion storm like Ian.
I'm sorry, you can try and frame it however you want, but...
I don't know.
I don't want to care about climate change.
I don't want to limit my water consumption if I don't have to.
I don't want to get vaccinated if I don't have to.
I don't like paying income taxes.
This is not the dunk that you think it is.
You're doing a great job selling the DeSantis Florida vision.
It sounds like they're implying that his policies caused the Hurricane Ian.
I know.
Right.
Okay.
It was the wrath of God descended upon him.
Environmental racism strikes again.
Yeah, but it's like if you're a child and you're talking to your...
Wait, no.
It's like if you're a mean, overbearing mum and it's like, just because your dad takes you on holidays and gets you ice cream and does all nice things with you, it's just irresponsible.
And the kid's just like, don't care.
Yeah.
Don't care.
When's the custody hearing again?
Light me ice cream.
Light me ice cream.
Light Biden.
Light me ice cream.
And this has led to some people making jokes, like this Babylon Bee article, a headline that I saw thought was hilarious, where selfish DeSantis took the entire red wave for himself.
Reminder, Elon, reinstate the Babylon Bee.
And despite what some may be saying, because some have started to say that DeSantis is an establishment figure, saying that he's a shill, saying that behind the scenes he's probably not anywhere near his base as he comes across in real life because he's just got a great PR team...
I'd say that like Trump, he is annoying the right people because I saw the most amazing smear possible in this next link where somebody shared this clip on Twitter.
There's a show called The Good Fight, which is a spin-off series of The Good Wife.
Both shows I have never watched before and never had any interest in watching before because honestly, a show called The Good Wife sounds like it's for chicks.
Yeah.
Which I'm not interested in.
But this is incredible.
Let the smears begin.
The final episode of The Good Fight on Paramount Plus has a client claiming that Ron DeSantis sexually assaulted him.
He invited me onto his staff.
Little did I know what he meant by staff.
And he drugged me and forced me into oral sex.
And then he produces...
I've watched this clip.
It's embarrassing.
He produces a t-shirt that has a stain on it.
Right, so it's the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky dress scandal, except it never actually happened and DeSantis should be suing for defamation.
Reasonably, yes, but this is just a spectacular...
I've never seen a fictional show go quite so out of its way in the contemporary time period to do something like this, obviously except for Trump.
Yeah, for Trump, I remember Black Lightning.
They got rid of the main antagonist in Season 1 and replaced him with a secret government agent who was short, had a tan, said make America great again, and he was introducing superpowers into black neighbourhoods to accelerate crime and them killing each other.
Yeah, I didn't watch Black Lightning because I knew it would be cringe.
Had a tiny bit of potential at the start and then completely derailed itself.
I do remember, I've not watched the episode, but Doctor Who in the Whammon period, in the girl boss period, decided to introduce a character for a few episodes who was just an obviously thinly veiled Trump stand-in who was just racist, xenophobic, sexist, all the bad things crammed into one.
But even with those, they felt the need to put a layer of allegory over it by at least giving the guy a different name.
This, they're literally just saying, Ron DeSantis sexually assaulted me.
Yep.
Oh.
Alright then, alright.
Also, we've seen his wife doubt it.
Yeah, I don't think he needs anybody else.
And CNN was also mad, saying that DeSantis had fortified his election in this brilliant clip that we can play.
I told you he was going to win bigly.
But listen, Ron DeSantis barely won in 2018 by 35,000 votes by the skin of his teeth against a black, progressive, little-known mayor from Tallahassee, Florida.
Yesterday, he won by 20 percentage points.
Why?
Because he gamed the system.
Because he turned Florida into an unlevel playing field.
They changed election laws, making it harder to vote by mail.
They paraded a bunch of people, black people, that they arrested for voting fraud and paraded them in front of national media.
He created an election police.
He also...
So, people who were convicted of undermining the safety and security of the most safe and secure election ever.
Undermining democracy.
Exactly.
Threats against democracy.
DeSantis said, hey, look at these threats against democracy.
We shouldn't do that.
And she's saying that that stopped black people voting.
Big self-report.
Also, Andrew Gillum, little-known mayor, definitely not in the gay male bathhouse circles.
Hmm.
Also, I just distrust anybody who unironically says win bigly.
What, even President Trump?
He coined that phrase.
That's true.
Do you think Ana Navarro goes to bed at night dreaming President Trump?
Oh, no, I don't want to know what she's dreaming about.
Warmy daddy.
But, obviously, DeSantis is an incredibly popular candidate, and some...
Within the right-wing circles in America are saying that he should go up for election in 2024 instead of Trump, which is obviously the wrong answer, if only because if Trump does manage to get in, then you can have four years of Trump, then DeSantis finishes his governorship of Florida in 2027, and then he can have a year to prepare for some kind of campaign, and he can go in for 2028, and you can have an unbroken run.
Right, so this is the Miley Yiannopoulos on Timcast recently position versus the Daily Wire position that pretty much everyone except Michael Knowles is on board with at the moment in saying get rid of Trump for DeSantis.
I understand both sides in that I think if you make the referendum on Biden, and of course if we have a safe and secure election, as always, Then DeSantis is the more likely person to win because his existing record is very hard to hit upon.
He is a lot more verbally cogent.
He's not as funny, but he is a lot more of a respectable politician veneer, and that will win over the soccer moms.
And Biden is a jabbering retard.
So...
However, if you then again make a referendum on Trump and Trump is still hung up on the 2020 election, which he obviously lost and he is denying the election, of course, YouTube, then Trump has liabilities.
It would be wonderful to see him back.
It's the question of whether or not he will get elected in the first place.
So I'm just balancing up both perspectives.
Of course, of course.
But Trump did decide to release a statement on Truth Social about Ron DeSantis hitting out against him for some reason, and I can't say that this is a good look for anybody involved.
No, this is cringe, man.
And it's also his worst nickname ever issued.
I don't know, Ron DeSanctimonious is pretty...
Too long.
It's a little bit too long, but it's quite clever.
It's like one of those clever puns.
He isn't sanctimonious, though.
He isn't.
He's righteous.
That's the difference.
Well, that's true.
But like I say, I think that this whole thing is a bit of a pointless waste of time.
I at first thought that this came across unprovoked, other than Trump potentially, like you say, being a bit narcissistic and being jealous of DeSantis' popularity.
But I was sent, right before we came on, somebody mentioned that...
Vanity Fair, back in September, had published a big profile piece on Ron DeSantis in which it said that some words from behind-the-scenes staffers had said that Ron DeSantis was potentially bad-mouthing Donald Trump, and Donald Trump may have caught wind of that, saying, like where DeSantis was saying he's a reality TV star, he's got big mouth, he shouldn't be anywhere near politics.
Once again, this is all from unnamed behind-the-scenes DeSantis staffers from the Vanity Fair as well, so...
Take it with a pinch of salt, but Trump may have caught wind of that and it may be motivated by that.
Either way, if vanity fair are obviously trying to drive a wedge in the two leading stars of the Republican Party...
Maybe don't fall for the bait.
Maybe don't fall for the bait, because if we go to the next one, the Daily Wire has highlighted the main parts of this, because they were talking about it as well.
The statement that he released starts with, News Corp, which is Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and the no longer great New York Post, bring back coal.
Is all in for Governor Ron DeSanctimonious, an average Republican governor with great public relations who didn't have to close up his state, but did, unlike other Republican governors whose overall numbers for a Republican were just average, middle of the pack, including COVID, and who has the advantage of sunshine where people from badly run states up north would go no matter who the governor was, just like I did.
I think it is important as well to note in all of this that after this statement done, Trump did come out and say, despite everything he said there, he still did vote for DeSantis in the most recent election because I think he, well, obviously he's in Mar-a-Lago, so he resides in Florida.
So he did still vote for DeSantis.
This just comes across like a very, very bad PR touch from me.
He was saying that DeSantis was desperate in 2017 and that he had low approval, bad polls and no money, but he said that if I would endorse him, he could win.
I also fixed his own campaign, which had completely fallen apart.
I was all in for Ron, and he beat Gilliam, but after the race when votes were being stolen by corrupt election processors in Broward County, that's Trump's words, not mine, YouTube, and Ron was getting down 10,000 votes a day, along with now-Senator Rick Scott, I sent in the FBI and the U.S. attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended, just prior to them running out of the votes necessary to win.
Again, Trump's words, not ours.
Yep, yep, yep.
And now Rhonda Sanctimonious is playing games, he continued.
The fake news asks him if he's going to run if President Trump runs, and he says, I'm only focused on the governor's race, I'm not looking forward into the future.
Well, in terms of loyalty and class, that's not really the right answer.
I don't understand what the point of this is other than making a big bluster and coming out and just making everybody know that you're still top dog.
Everybody already knows that you're still top dog, Trump.
The only people who are trying to prevent that are people trying to drive a wedge in the Republican Party and trying to get people, like you say, more in line with moderate people, the Mitch McConnells, the ones who are more than happy to go along with the left agenda as long as they can still get funding for military budgets.
Who, even with Marco Rubio, Senator of Florida, is looking to be ousted by the Republican Party as Senate Majority Leader.
So if Trump stops the infighting within the party, you could actually have a MAGA insurrection against the establishment Republicans.
Just stop cannibalizing each other.
Yes, and this is pushed more by Newsweek articles, I should say, talking about how Ron DeSantis is polling higher in a GOP primary poll after midterms.
Have they opted his orange in that image just to make him look?
I feel like they have chosen a very unflattering picture of Trump right there.
Whoa, I was going to say DeSantis.
Look how orangey is compared to Trump.
I don't know.
He's trying to displace his branding.
Yeah, maybe.
So a YouGov America poll was asking 1,500 voters who they would rather see be a Republican primary candidate in 2024, and 42% of them said DeSantis and 35% said Trump.
Once again, this doesn't seem to do anything for anybody except try to push a wedge.
The Daily Beast decided to take the opposite tack and say why Trump would easily crush DeSantis in battle today, if we go along.
once again is just there to sow discord in the party and just so you really know that this is some kind of tactic to destroy the republican party from the inside the lincoln project decided to jump in notorious nonce defenders say tired trump wired desantis and And once again, some people are taking this as all of the wrong people are supporting DeSantis, therefore he must be an establishment shill.
And they point to things like some of DeSantis' more milquetoast positions, because he does have them.
No person's perfect, especially politicians.
For instance, they point to his continued support of Israel and such like that.
But, sadly, Trump did the same thing.
Yes.
Trump was massively in support of Israel and had lots of neocons within his establishment.
He did not drain the swamp.
Shall we not pretend that he appointed John Bolton?
He had Jared Kushner as a primary advisor who distracted him from the immigration reform bill and instead sent him to Golan Heights and made him spend lots of money on relocating the American embassy to Jerusalem.
If you would like to support Israel over Palestine, I understand why the Americans would have that political position, but when you're an America First candidate for your first term, you may wish to get your priorities straight.
Exactly.
So, I don't see this as DeSantis actually being a secret plant who, if he does get into the presidency, will just enable leftist meddling.
I see this as being an example of...
Attempts to sow discord, attempts to drive wedges into the party.
But, as you mentioned, hopefully those wedges in the party may start to disappear as people like Marco Rubio are saying that we need to have a major shake-up in the GOP leadership, which basically just means they're coming from Mitch McConnell.
And others like him.
So we'll see where it goes.
And like I say, Democrats do tend to do well in the elections because they all stick to a party line.
I mean, look at how well they managed to get the squad to go back on all of their positions and suddenly support all of the military budget increases that they were arguing against and a number of other policies that they were arguing against before, just so they can have some kind of unified front.
Even if that unified front is ridiculous and evil, they still managed to get it.
Whereas the Republicans...
Don't.
There's a lot of division within the Republican Party, and this sort of thing does not help, and Trump, for all that we do like about him, does not do himself or anybody else favours by playing into it.
That's my two cents on the matter.
Definitely.
Totally agree.
Right.
Alright then.
I am sick to death of apologetics about immigration to the UK. It is destroying this country.
We work, me and you, so a third of our income can be split off, pissed away on healthcare, hotel rooms, phones, trainers, disposable income, for a bunch of economic chances from Albania, Egypt and elsewhere.
Beggars.
Callum said beggars, and I think we should stick to that.
It's a good word for it.
They're beggars.
Ah.
They haven't really asked me for money directly.
That's the thing.
Well, they've taken it anyway.
Yeah, exactly.
So I prefer chances or vagabonds.
Look, I'm going to refuse to let liars that enable this get away with the narratives that they claim to be compassionate, but then make hard-working British people poorer and more alienated from the country that they woke up to and inherited and one day realised, hey, it doesn't even look like the place I used to live anymore.
So we're going to talk about a bunch of those problems.
I don't want to derail, but I do often think to myself recently...
When we talk about the country that we used to live in, the country that this used to be, how much longer can people like us even continue to frame it in such a way when, realistically speaking, the country that we're talking about was one that was long dead...
Well, that was, for me, dead the year after I was born, and for you died a few years before you were born.
It's very difficult to consider, like, how can we even...
Obviously we can claim the historical heritage of the country, but I always lived in a country when I would go to Manchester and it was just a gigantic multicultural melting pot and that's all I ever knew.
It's just a shame.
It's just a shame because that country that I hear so much about that my parents were able to live in and everyone else was able to live in and enjoy the benefits of was something I never got to experience.
Yeah, those bonds of cultural continuity have been severed long before our living memory.
That's the thing.
I may have been alive to see the first influx of Tony Blair's 1997 migration wave, but I don't necessarily remember it, and so we'd quite like to reclaim that past.
So can these apologists stop getting in the way, please?
Speaking of fictional nations where multiculturalism may sort of work, unless you're being attacked by an invading army of robots who are cannibalizing your culture...
Oh, wait!
Almost like it's outside.
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You can watch John Wheatley and I discuss the politics of Mass Effect.
Let's hope our country has a far better ending than number three, shall we?
I've never really played Mass Effect, but I am aware of one thing, which is that there's a number of genocides in Mass Effect, isn't there?
Some of which are up to you, the player.
Yes, you can prevent them.
So let's do that, shall we?
I also wanted to just say that if everyone crossing the dinghies in the channel were bright blue alien snooze-snew ladies, then I might consider taking in some refugees.
Let's go over to some actual colonialism, shall we?
So on Saturday, thousands of Albanian protesters, I'm going to call them invaders, because they are, because of what they're doing.
And they don't have any right to be here, so...
No, they occupied outside Downing Street and Parliament.
You can see Westminster Square here, Big Ben.
And they're all just walking across with signs, flags, having a jolly at our expense, blocking traffic.
If we can go over to the next one, they've also blocked Westminster Bridge.
They've completely stopped anyone going across it, waving flags.
They're calling everyone racist.
They're complaining about Suella Braven and saying to throw her out.
And then they have the gall to walk up to the following.
If we go to this one.
If you aren't upset at this, this is shocking.
They've draped the Albanian flag around the Churchill statue directly opposite the Houses of Parliament.
Now, it's fair to say that if you take a broad historical perspective, Churchill is emblematic of our war victory, of course.
He wasn't perfect.
He caused Gallipoli.
Lots of men died in the First World War.
He had some stolen valour.
He was wearing an RAF uniform when he never even served.
He did hand over expat Poles, Soviet defectors, back to Stalin as part of a deal when he knew the good legs existed.
However, they are decorating that with their flag because they know that is a cultural touchstone for England.
They know that during the BLM riots, for example, it had to be covered up because that was one of the main statues that was going to be targeted.
There were fights around it.
So this is emblematic of what the English think of themselves.
What the British, more broadly, perhaps, but specifically the English...
And they have draped their flag around that as if they are colonising us, as if they are occupying our territory.
This is victory for them.
This is reprehensible.
Once again, I don't know any time or place outside of the modern West where any nation would be happy to see this happen and where it wouldn't be met with immediate and strong pushback from the local authorities.
Like Carl's mentioned before, the cavalry charge was...
Why, when we've got a number of this massive crowd of Albanians occupying our capital and protesting and defacing some of our national monuments, do we not have the cavalry charge gloriously rolling through and letting them know, this isn't your country, this is our country, we're in control here, you don't get to push us about?
The Mal is a short gallop up the way, and the only reason is there is a total lack of political will and a willingness to assert ourselves as a patriotic nation.
Is all of this because of the fact that I think either this year or last year we deported about a thousand Albanians who had no right to be here?
No, within the last year we've only done about 400, and it's because Stuart Braven called it an invasion.
We'll go for the statistics about an invasion.
Oh, that's it.
That's all it was.
It's just because they called it an invasion when they're literally coming over on dinghies to sell drugs to our children.
Yes.
So if we go to the next one, speaking of Albanian criminals, a convicted Albanian murderer held at Manston Processing Centre was jailed for entering the UK illegally, but has still been allowed to continue his asylum application.
Meriglen Shoshari, I don't care if I got your name wrong, 31, arrived in Kent in October after the small boat he was crossing in was intercepted by the authorities.
So he got ferried back over.
He'd been convicted of murder and firearm offences in Greece in 2012 and given an 18 and a half year prison sentence.
Shoshari was brought ashore and taken to the former Ministry of Defence site in Thanet, which has been turned into an asylum seeker processing centre.
On the processing form he filled in, he admitted his previous crimes and was charged with entering the UK illegally and jailed yesterday for 60 days.
But at the court hearing, the court also heard Shoshari had applied for asylum in his country on October 12th, two days after his arrival, and that his application would continue.
This is just how useless our asylum system is and why whenever I hear people talking about, oh, they have to come over, they have to come over on the dingies because there's no other way for them to get, we force them to become criminals.
No, we don't.
You can literally be a murderer and still claim asylum here.
No questions.
Oh, well, we don't want to offend the feelings of the poor murderers.
Well, you could be the exact kind of people that someone could be fleeing, and still, you are allowed in.
So, let's go to some facts, shall we?
Small boat crossings from the Albanians.
Now, I've gone over this before in a previous segment, but I'll just condense it here, just to keep hammering the point home that these people do not deserve our sympathy.
They deserve to be ejected from our country, post-haste.
From May to September 2022, Albanian nationals alone compromised 42% of small boat crossings.
11,102 Albanians arrived by small boats in those five months.
Over the whole of 2021, there are a total of 815 Albanian nationals.
So that's nearly another 10,000 people increase, not percentage.
In some weeks over the summer, more than half of small boat arrivals claim to be Albanian.
Reminder, Albania is a safe country.
It's a NATO member.
People go on holiday there.
And under Section 94 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act, they should not be granted asylum because...
They're not at war.
There's some slight economic downturn, but that's because they've elected the Socialist Party.
They should not have a case for asylum.
And yet, 7,627 Albanians claimed asylum in the UK, more than double the number in the preceding year, although very few of the small boat arrivals will have their asylum application considered at this point.
We'll come on to that point later.
We know that Albanians more generally have been less likely to be granted asylum in other nationalities, with current grant rate at 53% compared to 76% for all other nationalities.
So you're letting in over half.
Why?
Why are you letting in any at all?
Only 14% of Albanian males whose cases concluded in the last year were granted protection, whereas for women and children, the rate was 90%.
However, most Albanians crossing in small boats were male.
From 2018 to June 2022, 95% were male.
So let's not let in the women and children, because they're being trafficked.
Okay, if they're being trafficked, sure, but you're creating a perverse incentive to traffic people.
And also, why are you letting in any men at all?
And during the time at which you're waiting to process their asylum claims, we're putting the men up in hotels for £7 million a day.
And they control our cocaine business.
Yeah, well there is that.
If we go on to the next one, the reason this is happening, in part, is because the BBC are manufacturing consent by putting plants in the Question Time audience because they're overwhelmingly stacked recently with NHS staff and a bunch of lefties.
Dimwits like this keep this going on.
I'm going to subject you to this woman who only holds these opinions because she's remotely good looking.
I've seen this clip.
Do I have to?
Yeah, because our audience have to...
I'm really bored of hearing about the kind of low-level stuff that MPs are doing, like Matt Hancock being in the jungle.
I just don't care.
What I'm more concerned about is the fact that we have a Home Secretary, a Home Secretary, who last week referred to refugees, people fleeing war conflict, as an invasion.
We are...
APPLAUSE And I think it's really important to say that they are not illegal, Nobody is illegal.
When they land on our shores, they claim asylum.
There is no such thing.
And actually, the things that your government are doing are a breach to the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1948 Human Rights Declaration.
I can't remember which one.
One of those, we were a signing signatory and it came after the horrors of the Holocaust and the fact that we look at these people from Iraq, Eritrea, Albania, and just so we remember, 76% of claims end in a positive outcome and a further 50% of the remainder also end in a positive outcome.
We spend so much time talking about these people that quite frankly shouldn't be in their jobs and it's a joke that they are.
And we waste time talking about them rather than actually talking about the things that people in this government are doing that is harmful, stirring up, whipping up hatred.
And that is what I'm really cross about.
I don't care if Matt Hancock wants to do something.
I couldn't care less.
It's taking up pointless airtime.
Oh, she goes on a bit.
They're giving that airtime.
They are not stopping her.
They interrupt each other.
They interrupt the other panellists.
They're all nodding in agreement, politely, quietly, as if she has any legitimacy to what she's saying.
Also, just the things that she was saying.
Obviously, she manages to just, off the top of her head, bring up random acts that we were signing back in the 1940s and 50s.
Yeah.
Alright, okay, alright.
That's supposed to come across natural.
And then she's like, oh, but she's got the exact percentage points ready just off the top of her head for when she's talking about how many asylum applications are granted to people.
One, why should I trust the asylum system to even be making the right decisions there for who should and shouldn't be coming into the country?
All I need to do is just look around us.
Look around us and say it's just a joke.
And...
Another point to the whole being stacked.
When I was at university, I was doing university, I was doing a media degree at Media City in Salford.
Right next door to that, in the same little square of buildings, was the BBC headquarters for the North, where they did lots of filming for things like Jeremy Kyle, and they did lots of filming for stuff like this, question time things.
And I... I, along with everybody else on the course, constantly got emails saying, the audience isn't full enough, would you like a free place?
So I would not be surprised if Question Time and all these other places are just sending out emails to overwhelmingly leftist university courses and media courses saying, would you like a free spot on this?
Wouldn't be shocked.
Also, the reason I bring this up is because outside of our little bubble online where we get exposed to these kinds of narrative-breaking facts, you've got to remember that the diminished audience of politically plugged-in normies do watch things like Question Time.
They do have their worldview filtered through to them.
For example, the BBC's already pre-clipped this.
And so they are indoctrinated into this because they believe that this is public perception.
The BBC are manufacturing consent.
Well, more important than just your average pleb on the street who watches something like that and believes it.
That's the sort of programming that all of the sorts of people that I was going to university with, these people, some of the people I went to university with, are slowly working their way up the ranks of channels like Channel 4.
So, the elites, the future elites who are going to be organising and running these institutions, are, as you will always expect, being indoctrinated into these worldviews.
And the MPs, staffers and researchers all within the Westminster bubble lap this up, hence why there's so many wet Tories.
And we'll excoriate some of those later.
Just some more stats.
Just to correct her on this, the UK has one of the highest refugee status acceptance rates, whether or not people are actually refugees, like Albanians.
It's not 76%, as the prior page claimed.
This one says 81%.
So 81% of refugee claimants get accepted.
And they can also have repeat appeals, partially because, of course, they say, oh, I'm Christian, so I'm persecuted because the Church of England keeps encouraging them to convert to bolster their numbers up.
And hence you suddenly end up with 2% of Albanian male population in the UK. Exactly.
Speaking of population, let's go over to the recent census data, shall we?
On census day, the 21st of March 2021, the size of the usual resident population in England and Wales was 59,597,542.
This was the largest population ever recorded through a census in England and Wales.
So, Americans, if you can imagine about a quarter of your country packed into a space smaller than the state of Michigan, and that's currently what we're facing.
And more are coming every day, sometimes up to a thousand people in small boats crossing the Channel.
So, you think your southern border is bad, imagine a much smaller space with a much higher population density.
If we can go over to the next one, the reason this is happening in this article actually admits that, if you scroll to point four please, John, migration has been the main driver of population growth since the 1990s, so we're in a sub-replacement birth rate.
In 2020, obviously because of virus of unnamed origin, the UK experienced a natural change of negative 8069.
to its live births and deaths record.
So, even though 52%, I believe, of women over 30 have no children, our population keeps going up.
And it's because the adult population keeps increasing because we're importing people en masse who, upon arrival, need things like housing.
If you can go over to Lotus Eaters, you can watch this, my first podcast, following off of the company, just to see all the housing stats.
But just to briefly break it down to you, we have about 200,000 homes and apartments every year.
Some of those are given to students.
Net 375,000 minimum increase of permanent residents every year, and the native population is sub-replacement birthrate, but the replacement birthrate of migrants is way, way up.
So we're literally just building houses for our colonising foreigners.
My goodness, could you say we're being replaced?
Or would that be an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, for some reason?
God knows.
If we go over to the next one, we also see that we have to pay for it.
I'm going to force you to listen to Jeremy Hunt, our wonderfully appointed, definitely not Chinese, compromised Chancellor.
Take it away.
We are going to see everyone paying more tax.
We're going to see spending cuts.
But I think it's very important to say that we are a resilient country.
I think that, as Simon Sharma would say, we've faced bigger challenges in our history in the past.
And we're also a compassionate country, so we will introduce a plan that will see us through the very choppy waters that we're in economically, but we'll make sure that we protect the most vulnerable, and in particular deal with the single biggest worry for people on low incomes,
which is the rising cost of their weekly shop, and rising energy prices and economically that makes sense too because as Paul Johnson was saying inflation is much higher than it should be and that is destabilizing people's family finances as well as being very bad for businesses in the economy.
We'll come to that later but explicitly at the outset people are going to lose some of their public services and people everyone you say is going to pay more tax so everyone is going to notice the consequences from the decisions you're going to announce on Thursday.
I think people will notice because these are difficult decisions, but they will also see there's a plan to get through this.
So, just a reminder, he signed on to a multi-trillion pound climate reparations model for Kenya, Somalia and Pakistan, and also he was one of the ones who endorsed the massive amount of furlough, money printing and spending which got us into this recession in the first place.
So don't be gaslit into believing that it's Putin's war in Ukraine.
Or that immigration has no impact whatsoever on the state of our public finances.
I mean, modern politics works on a crisis-to-crisis basis.
You can never not be in a crisis, because what do crises do?
They mean that you have to give more and more power to government bureaucrats.
Yep.
Speaking of crisis, if you look at our foreign aid spending cap, we've actually breached this because the budget is being used on asylum seekers.
Spending is currently set at 0.5% of national income, around $11 billion.
The BBC has learned that Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is expected to admit that there will be an overspend of $1 billion or so in the next three years, pushing aid spending to an estimated 0.5%.
So it's because there are so many people trafficking themselves over, and I say themselves because they're paying like it's a holiday company, to come over from Albania, through Brussels, through France, and straight to the UK and be a delivery driver by the night time, that our government budget is being blown out the backside, and we have to foot the bill for this, just because we're responsible working people.
Let's look over to the PM in waiting, shall we?
Keir Starmer once pushed for migrants to get more taxpayer cash for their legal appeals if their first asylum claim failed.
So not only do you stay in the country, not only do you put up with bed and board, but you get an endless revolving door of lawyers because, of course, he's friends with all the Blairite human rights lawyers because he himself was one.
Do you remember a few years ago when Keir Starmer said that immigration should be lowered during the Brexit campaign?
Go over to the next one, please, John.
He actually broke with the Labour Party on this, and now we just see that the linguistic slide, the Overton window, has completely changed to encompass both parties pushing for mass migration and open borders.
I've just realised something.
Yeah.
Keir Starmer looks like he could be Richard Spencer's dad.
Yes.
I think that explains Labour's positions on a certain people's.
Well, that's why their front bench is overwhelmingly Anglo-Saxon.
If we go to the next one, the Conservatives will try and gaslight you into believing that they've done a new Channel migrant deal with France.
So we're paying the French another £63 million to increase their officers' numbers by 40%, patrolling the Calais border.
The UK's annual contribution to policing the border is set to rise from around £54 million to the equivalent of just above £63 million.
Britain has already paid £175 million to France to police the Channel border since 2018.
And look what's that got us.
Oh, an exponential increase in the amount of lawbreakers.
Robert Jenrick, who's an MP, has vowed to put a stop to Hotel Britain, which has seen taxpayers fork out over £6.8 million a day to put migrants in unsuitable accommodation.
So that works out to about £2.5 billion per year.
So what is the reason, if we keep paying the French, that it doesn't stop?
Let's go over to the next one.
Tory Lord, also the boss of Next, which is a department store in the UK, has given this interview to the BBC, and I'm just going to have to put you through it, I'm afraid.
We have got people queuing up to come to this country to pick crops that are rotting in fields, to work in warehouses that otherwise wouldn't be operable, and we're not letting them in.
And we have to take a different approach to economically productive migration.
We have to control immigration, but we have to control it in such a way that it benefits our economy rather than cripples it.
You were a pro-Brexit business person, perhaps in a slight minority in that sense.
You got growth is down, taxes are rising, trade has fallen very significantly.
Was this the Brexit you wanted?
I think, in respect of immigration, it's definitely not the Brexit that I wanted, or indeed many people who go to Brexit, but more importantly, the vast majority of the country.
We have to remember, and we're all stuck in this Brexit argument, We have to remember that what post-Brexit Britain looks like is not the preserve of those people who voted Brexit.
It's for all of us to decide.
And when you look at the majority of people in Britain, I think they have a very pragmatic view to immigration.
Yes, control it where it's damaging to society, but let people in who can contribute.
No, people want to massively lower immigration.
That's why they voted Brexit.
And this is the break between the populace and the Conservative Party.
The Conservative Party wanted Brexit, like Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, Michael Gove, Boris Johnson, sort of global Britain.
Like he said there, it's not the Britain we wanted for immigration.
Ah, that's why he wanted immigration to increase from all around the world, not just the EU. Well, sad to say, he is a businessman who wants to pay his staff less.
Yeah, he wants a permanently low-wage underclass to exist in the UK. And it doesn't matter if they're economically productive on the broad scale of GDP, bar graph go up, it's diminishing GDP per capita, making each person poorer, lowering the opportunity ceiling, and it's cultural battery acid.
Thinking about it, what he's asking for is essentially some form of caste system.
Yeah.
There's also the ASDA chairman who said basically the same thing on Question Time.
I'm going to put you through his waffle as well.
I'm sorry, it's demoralising, but we do have to listen to the exact kind of attitudes the ruling class have for you.
It's contempt.
The immigration has been around for thousands of years.
There's been immigration.
People come here.
Mostly it's economic migration because people who have got no food, no water, no education, no prospects for their children and no way of bettering themselves want to come to a better place.
My father was an immigrant to this country.
My mother was an immigrant to this country.
I probably wouldn't get in today, or they probably wouldn't.
So let's not knock it.
We've done that.
People have come here from persecution, political persecution.
We've had people in the pale of Russia, we've had the Huguenots, we've had the Ugandans, we've had the Syrians, we've had everybody here.
Now we've got these people.
Now there's always in that migration people who are going to game the system.
But we have to be, if we're a caring, rich country, and we're apparently the fifth largest economy in the world, even with our recession.
I think it's sixth now, but yeah.
Sixth.
But we have to accept that it's part of our duty.
The world is changing.
The world isn't from 1945.
It's not 1955.
It's 2023.
It's current year.
And we either live in this country and accept that's what it does, or we go somewhere else.
But you can't stop it.
Now, what I don't like...
I don't like the way that we're dealing with it.
I don't like the rhetoric.
I don't like the fact that, you know, the Home Secretary is standing there.
He goes to Manston today in a Chinook helicopter.
What sort of message does that send to anybody?
Are we starting a war with these people down in Manston?
How do we ever allow the person to do that?
How could she speak with such dangerous language about a problem?
And you made the point, and several others have made it, and the gentlemen there made it.
This will only be solved by negotiation.
And it will only be solved by people sitting around a table as everything is solved.
Well, they clearly think they're at war with us because they're draping flags around our war monuments.
Yeah, I hate the lies.
The framing of that whole thing was so, excuse me, disingenuous.
The idea that just because England has had migration in the past means it's in any way comparable to what we're experiencing today in the era of mass migration.
Like, I just got it up, we mentioned the Huguenots.
Well, we got a bunch of French Protestants moving from France...
To a English Protestant country, therefore much better and much more able to integrate into the local population.
And also, we only took in about 50,000 of those.
And we were their neighbour, rather than a bunch of countries over, a remote island, and you're just here to take my money.
Go away, please.
They just ignore that most of the immigration that used to happen before the 20th century was more along the, well, we need skilled workers, so we'll take in a very limited number of skilled workers.
Have you considered, though, that not having open borders is holding the world back from being economically prosperous, Harry?
Oh, I was hoping you were going to say racist.
Oh, if we go to the Financial Times, this guy who's the founder and chief executive of Climate Alpha and author of Move, How Mass Migration Will Reshape the World and What It Means for You, which sounds like a threat.
He says, in the West, infrastructure is decaying and we lack the labour to rebuild it.
Our elderly are perishing without enough medical staff.
Home values will sag amid depressed demand and stagflation will persist as frictions rise in accessing cheap labour and resources.
So, he's claiming all that.
Record visas, though.
Still isn't working.
Here we are.
So we gave out over 2 million visas last year.
330,233 of those were work-related.
In the year ending June 2022, there were 486,868 sponsored study visas, so student visas, mainly from China.
And then there were also 305,553 visas granted for family reasons, so chain migration.
Then there were 63,089 asylum applications.
Again, 81% of those were accepted.
So 2 million visas for working, studying, family, and still, for some reason, we don't have enough labour to meet demand.
Do we think there might be a reason, for example, when the Bangladeshi Caterers Association were lobbying for higher immigration at their awards dinner, that more immigration might mean more demand for services, and so there is an endless self-justification for having more staff to meet these non-necessary services like catering or supermarkets?
Or security, because lots of trouble is caused at public events, but we can't possibly say that now, can we?
So if we look at the employment figures, who could possibly fill these jobs?
Oh, it might be the millions of British, the 1.58 million people who are currently on benefits after the pandemic, because there's only 1.2 million job vacancies, and the 1.58 million could probably fill some of those.
This is something that's been recorded across many well-off nations since the end of the pandemic, which is that a lot of people are just deciding to leave work behind if they know that they can...
The government played its hand.
They said, well, you don't need to work and we can just hand you £1,000.
We can just give you all of this money to just stay at work.
Universal basic income.
Yeah, we can give you a universal basic income.
So a lot of people have decided, well, if that's the case, I don't need to work.
I can just stay at home.
Something that could fix this would be, for instance, if there was less labour competition in your local area, meaning that prices for labour weren't being pushed down.
If you got offered more money to go and work than you do get offered money to stay at home and do nothing...
But once again, that would mean actually raising people's wages.
I've seen complaints of saying, oh, sometimes they're offering £20 to £30 an hour to go and pick fruit.
And it's like, right, okay, do you think the reason British people might be staying at home and not doing those jobs is because they know if they sit at home long enough, they will get paid anyway, and the migration argument will be open the borders again and let the Albanians, Romanians, whoever else-ians come do it for us.
If you shut off that valve for cheap, low-skilled migration labour, people will actually start having to do these jobs.
And they might just have a lower demand because there'll be less population density in the country that you have to redirect more and more resources to.
I notice as well, there seems to be a big splotch of red around unadjusted claimant rates around the south of...
just above the Midlands right there.
It seems to correlate with places like...
Like the Greater Manchester area, for instance, which has quite a lot of migration come to it.
There's also a nice big splodge of red around that London area as well.
Big surprise!
Yeah, it turns out that migrants, generally speaking, a higher rate to population claim benefits and don't pay into systems.
Shock!
So if we can go to the next one, get more lay press.
Just Kate Andrews of The Telegraph.
She's the Spectator economics editor.
Saying the average Eastern European migrant contributes £1,000 more each year in net terms to the Treasury's coffer than the average UK-born adult.
This shows how valuable these workers are to getting Britain back on track.
I just wanted to fact-check this with the Oxford Migration Observatory.
So if we go to the next one, the net fiscal contribution of European migrants in the financial year of 2016-17 was £4.7 billion.
However, it was at a net cost of £9 billion for non-European migrants.
And how many of those do we keep letting in?
Oh, that's right.
Well, about 50% before the Albanians came over of all the boat migrants were Iranian.
And before their revolution, I don't happen to remember there being a war going on.
I just happen to remember it's a shit country.
So if you want to kick out those people, and then you just want temporary seasonal visas coming over, and then they can leave rather than overstaying, we can have that conversation.
Oh, wait, you don't want to kick out those people either, do you?
No.
So go away.
Right, let's go on to the so-called Conservatives, shall we, before we wrap this segment up.
Tom Harwood, of course, as per usual, doesn't understand why people are ailing in the polls.
He's saying the Tory party, well, they're just hemorrhaging votes.
I wonder if it's because of taxes and domestic energy generation.
And Stephen Edgington, a base gentleman over at the Telegraph, he decided to reply to Tom in the next one, please, John, and said they keep the borders open.
And Tom just says, oh, keeps them open?
We have a labour shortage right now, and very much not open borders.
If you can just scroll down, please, John, so we can read this exchange.
Stephen says, 1.1 million visas issued last year and 40,000 illegal immigrants is open borders, in my opinion.
And Tom just continues to deny it.
So, we just have midwits.
Absolute midwits.
Open borders means no immigration control.
De facto, we have no immigration control, with 81% acceptance rates for people who are not coming from war zones.
You midwit.
I don't think he's a midwif.
I think he's an actively subversive element in the so-called right wing.
Well, I'd like to quite go on GB News, so I don't want to attribute to Malice what could be stupidity.
I suppose you might run into him backstage.
I'm hoping...
I would love to debate the man on it sometime.
Speaking of people I've tried to engage with, this little segment that Callum and I did on the Gen Z Conservatives in Revolt at Jess Gill's Reasoned UK event last week.
Steve Baker was there and got heckled by a bunch of young conservatives, including Elizabeth, who asked him, why are you supporting Drag Queen Story and the like in your constituency?
Why aren't you taking a tougher stance on migration?
I decided to take a clip of this and talk about migration.
And if we can go to the next one, just tweet it at him.
If you can scroll down, John, just the quote retweeted part that I did.
I just sent that to him and just said, oh, if you're confused.
And yes, I admit, I did call him an imbecile at the start.
I was a bit impassioned, so that's probably my fault.
But I did say, well, I feel a bit desperate because I feel like I've been involuntarily politicized because you guys have had the floodgates open for 12 years.
I never voted on this policy.
And I can't have much of a family or a home anytime soon because I'm going to try valiantly, but it doesn't look economically viable.
And I said, oh, if you want to understand why young people don't like you very much and are frustrated, here's a video.
Steve was following me beforehand.
About an hour after I tweeted this out, he just unfollowed me.
So if we can just scroll up, John, I'm just going to say proof positive.
Again, conservatives, even the one that you think are on our sides, they don't care.
They don't give a damn.
They do not want to listen to you.
And I have had someone point out that, well, obviously some people said about his WEF connections, but he's denied that, and you can read his tweets in the description.
I'm not going to bother wittering on it about that.
But I have had someone who said he has spoken to Steve, and Steve is very worried about the fact that he's had mass Pakistani immigration to his constituency.
It's now marginal, and he's likely to be voted out next time.
So you absolute cuckold, why instead of stopping the...
Replacement of the demographic within your constituency and lowering migration.
Why are you trying to fight a losing battle and allowed people in?
Because now you're going to get ousted, you utter dimwit.
You could have helped us, you didn't.
And so I don't care if you are voted out and lose your mortgage, your career.
I do not give a damn.
We tried warning you and you didn't listen.
I have nothing but contempt for you.
And so, I'll just finish with, um, Ari Upnige.
A quarter of people said that they would, uh, especially defect from the Conservatives or just vote for you outright because you're the only one willing to control immigration.
So, We need the Nigel Farage Mono Party.
Well, can you just re-inherit Reform UK and run it again as a single-issue party?
The Low Immigration Party.
The I Will Sit on the Cliffs of Dover with an Air Rifle Puncturing Dingies Party.
Give us some hope.
I'll volunteer for that.
Look, I'm furious.
You're furious.
Question is, are we going to do something about it?
Will one of the elites please give us an option?
God help us.
And on that cheery note, we have one more segment, which we're going to have a little bit of fun with, because everything is dour and sad and grey and depressing.
It's like living in a 24th state of Birmingham.
So we thought we'd have some fun laughing at the sorry state of pop culture.
And with that, you have some words to say about the most recent Halloween film, which I've not watched.
Hmm.
I didn't realise that this was one of your articles about Halloween Kills.
They did the reboot, which was Halloween 2018, was it?
Then Halloween Kills, which I heard was just schlocky trash.
And then Halloween Ends, which is the most recent one.
I've not seen any of these, because I don't care.
I wanted to briefly point out that I am a bit of a horror buff.
As you should be.
My personal timeline is Halloween 1, Halloween 2, Halloween H20. The Halloween timeline is...
I'm aware of the many different branches it takes.
Get rid of the Busta Rhymes one.
Anyway, so they did a 2018 reboot.
Busta Rhymes?
Yeah, he defeats Michael Myers with Kung Fu and Electroshocks in the testicles.
Then again, there's a Nightmare on Elm Street where Freddy Krueger raps, so anything's possible.
Yeah, and he plays Super Nintendo with the power glove.
So, with the 2018 Halloween, it was marketed as a Me Too era horror movie, so what happens is her daughter...
Man Bad?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Her daughter and her granddaughter.
Her granddaughter has a pass made at her by a sort of creepy, slubbish guy, and immediately after the attempted fumble kiss where he didn't ask for consent, Michael Myers impales him and murders him.
Oh, so Michael Myers is just the...
He's a male feminist.
He's the embodiment of female rage!
Unironically...
So they play up this idea that vigilantism and murderous Halloween villain Michael Myers and other sorts of serial killers are justified in killing so long as it's their enemy.
So Jamie Lee Curtis, when questioned at the premiere for Halloween 2018, said that the co-writers and directors concurred that hashtag MeToo and Time's uptrends were very much part of the conversation and the production protests.
Take Oscar, for example, who attempts to kiss Alison right before being righteously rebuffed with a lecture on consent, and then, when she storms off, Michael Myers impales him through the throat.
So then if you go to Halloween Kills a couple of years after, obviously it was made during the pandemic...
That doesn't sound entertaining at all!
No, it's not.
It's rubbish.
Halloween Kills was based on, quote, January 6th.
So a Guardian interview with Jamie Lee Curtis compared Michael Myers to a Trumpian provocateur only with a carving knife instead of Twitter.
Curtis then compared the mob hunting Myers to the unsupervised tour of Capitol Hill on January 6th.
And in this article here, we can see how it's going with Halloween Ends, which was just released.
So she says that Laurie Strode is a feminist hero.
We want to focus on the women's voices in the narrative.
So she's a whore.
Well, she does conceive her only child in this through a one-night stand at a truck stop.
Makes perfect sense.
I can see what they're doing here.
I can see it's very transparent because it has often been criticised that horror films, especially from the 70s and 80s, around the time you get to the slasher period, are rather reactionary in the way that they structure their plot, oftentimes because one of the first people to die in all of the narratives is the woman who is coded to be a whore.
They're indictments of promiscuous sexual morality, yes.
Yeah, they make fun of this in Joss Whedon's Cabin in the Woods and other such things, where it's kind of paying homage to it rather than just saying this is a bad thing to happen.
Whereas what this is trying to do is trying to flip that on its head and turn the whore, the promiscuous character, into the hero and indict the male characters for being perverts.
And, you know, I'm more than happy to indict male perv characters...
Yes, but then it becomes, oh, aren't you a redneck Trumpian?
You should be destroyed.
I'm sorry to say that it's the male feminists you should be going after in that case.
I don't think Michael Myers is going to listen to you.
In Halloween Kills, this is the one that Curtis is talking about right here, there is a massive bait-and-switch where Michael Myers is only in about 15 minutes of the entire film.
The rest of it follows a babysitter who accidentally led to the deaths of one of the kids he's sitting.
Then he dates Laurie Strode's granddaughter who, even though her mum was killed in the final seconds of the last one, seems to be totally over it.
And now dating an actual convicted killer, even though her mum and grandmama are terrified of a convicted serial killer and they move out of the way.
And then he goes into the sewers after being the town pariah and takes Michael Myers' mask, overpowers him and becomes a copycat killer.
Wait, he overpowers Michael?
Yeah, Michael Myers is really weak and he's been living on sewer rats and people.
And then in the last few minutes, Michael Myers gets impaled by Jamie Lee Curtis with a fridge and blade.
She slits his wrists, makes him bleed out and then throws him into a car compactor and then credits.
See, I always thought the thing was that obviously in the original Halloween, Michael Myers has a kind of backstory because you've got the POV opening sequence.
It's really great.
But other than that, he's kind of more of a force of nature.
He shouldn't be living in the sewers.
It depends which timeline you go on.
This movie only goes with the first movie, so they go with the Force of Nature timeline, and they completely undo it with this film.
If you go with 2H2O, the lot, he's actually out to kill his family, either because he's got a blood rune with the mark of the thorn, which means he's fulfilling a prophecy, or he just wants to kill his sister.
It's stupid horror sequel contrivances.
It's convoluted nonsense.
Yeah, so that was how it was starting, right?
It started off with strong political messaging, and how it's ended is the fans have launched a position to reshoot the entire movie because it's that bad.
And the director has acknowledged it and said, oh, I'm disappointed that people didn't like it.
And Jamie Lee Curtis has said, I kind of hate this franchise now and I'm never coming back.
Why did you keep coming back then?
Oh, it's for the money, obviously.
Yeah, funnily enough, in Halloween Resurrections, so H2O was meant to finish it.
She only came back for Resurrections because she said, if you kill me within 30 seconds, you've got to pay me millions of dollars for a cameo.
And they did it and they actually went over her cameo.
And so they paid her even millions more and she donated it to charity.
So at the time, that's not a bad thing.
That's all right.
Yeah, so obviously this is a change to org position, so it won't really go anywhere, but it is quite funny that it's fulfilled what John Carpenter said about the first one, which is that Halloween has the illusion of depth, but it has absolutely no political relevance whatsoever, because people kept trying to do feminist readings.
I mean, that's coming from John Carpenter, who does have overtly political films and would not be afraid of making it known if that was the intention.
But it's very obvious, the first one, he just had like 50 books in his back pocket, was like, I want to make a movie, and I went out and bought this really hideous-looking Captain Kirk mask, what can I do with this?
Yep, and so, lesson, don't insert politics where they don't belong, and your franchise won't capsize again.
Let's go on to comics, shall we?
Because it's one of our mutual loves.
We've got some sad news here, because I thought we'd go through first this year being a horrendous year for creators both at Marvel and DC, because loads of our favourites are dying, and they're leaving us with a load of crap in their wake.
Sad to say, yeah.
So first of all, we have Kevin Conroy.
Who is pretty much everyone's favourite Batman.
There's always the joke of, who's your favourite Batman?
Other than Kevin Conroy, because of course he's the default option for voice acting.
If you're familiar with Batman the Animated Series, the Batman Arkham games, and a lot of other...
Injustice.
Yeah, Injustice.
Plenty of things involving Batman.
Kevin Conroy has been the voice of him, and is for me, and many others, the definitive voice of Batman.
When I read the comic books, it's Kevin's voice I'm reading them in.
Yeah, he's passed away at age 66, cancer, unfortunately.
We've got a couple of tributes here, just because I thought I'd highlight them.
The Empire State Building did light up with the bat signal in the next Twitter tab, John, which I thought was nice.
That's pretty nice.
That's very wholesome.
I thought that was good.
And in the next one, this is just a random artist on Instagram, but he did do Mark Hamill's Joker crying saying goodbye, old friend.
So I thought I'd give you all some tear jokers.
It's a shame Mark Hamill's an awful person.
I decided not to bring up his tweet, but...
Yeah, we're losing some of the good ones.
If we go on to the next one, sorry to depress you, George Perez has died as well, the man who reinvented the Teen Titans, wrote and reinvented Wonder Woman, just did some incredible work with Crisis on Infinite Earths, the Justice League, JLA, Avengers crossover, Marvel vs.
DC. Very influential man, great artist.
And really wholesome, judging by all his interviews and his kind of good interactions.
That's nice.
An actual gentleman.
My favourite comic book panels of all time, even though I don't much love the Wonder Woman run, Oh, really?
Oh, brilliant.
So then Neil Adams has also died.
Sorry about this.
It's rough.
He's with Kevin Conroy.
Neil Adams, again, is the man who redefined the Joker, redefined Batman, invented a lot of dynamic art styles in his X-Men run.
Massive influence on creators like Frank Miller, who did Dark Knight Returns and Daredevil.
Yep, he worked with Denny O'Neil, who's also recently passed.
Denny O'Neil went as well?
When was that?
Denny O'Neil went about two years ago.
Oh, bloody hell.
Yeah, Len Wein died a few years ago as well, creator of Swamp Thing.
One of my favourite creators.
We're just losing all the good ones, unfortunately.
If we go to the next one, this one really hit me.
Tim Sale.
The man who did Long Halloween, Dark Victory, Catwoman, When in Rome.
One of the most beautiful painted artists.
Read his solo issue.
Very distinctive.
His solo issue, number one, is excellent.
He did Superman Kryptonite with Darwin Cook.
Just, seriously, Superman for all seasons.
Limitless talent.
And we're just losing the actual genuine Titans of the industry far too early.
Alan Grant, as well.
Man who did Shadow of the Bat.
Spearheaded Nightfall.
Did loads of Detective Comics issues.
Invented characters like Anarchy.
Also died this year.
And finally, very recently, Carlos Pacheco.
Artist on The Flash.
X-Men.
Justice League.
Pass away.
Very quietly.
60 years old as well.
Same with Conroy, that's way too young.
Yeah, they're all around their 60s.
Far, far too young.
And it's just tragic, because we're losing all the best ones.
And in its wake, we've left utterly dead culture.
Like Black Panther.
And if you would like to skip watching the first one, I advise you do not pay to watch the second one.
Instead, give your cinema ticket money to us, because you can go and watch me and Harry explain why it's the worst film ever made.
I'm going to hands down say, or at least one of the worst films ever made, because it actively hates you.
But instead, it made a billion dollars worldwide, and there's now a new one out.
And rather than faithful adaptations to the character, you're going to be hit over with political messaging endlessly, and that's what comics and movies have turned into.
I think it's really important to just hammer home the point that with Black Panther, Killmonger, Eric Killmonger, the main bad guy from that film, was seen by many, and this is both...
Including Chadwick Boseman himself.
Including Chadwick Boseman himself, as an aspirational character, as potentially the real good guy.
Because he wanted to kill Whitey, genocide global Whitey as reparations...
For slavery, which he never experienced, his dad and ancestors never experienced, you could make the argument, well, in the film his mum's contextualised to be an American black woman, that doesn't actually necessarily mean that she had ancestors who were slaves either, because she could be, you know, she could be, you know, past the point of slavery.
I'm sorry, I'm not even willing to negotiate.
As soon as you say, we're going to kill the colonisers and their children by giving space weapons to the projects, no, there's no negotiation.
You're a genocidal nutcase, and the fact that the so-called hero of this narrative feels more kinship with him than the noble isolationist African king speaks volumes to, unfortunately, the animosity raised up by activist groups that black Americans have to their white neighbours.
It's worrying...
However, the second one may not make as much money.
If we go over to why, the Chinese have just said no.
No, thanks.
We don't want Black Adam, even though it's not that woke.
It did have one ADR line in there, like really bad dub line about how the international white people are basically invading Middle East and extracting their resources and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It was a bit of a throwaway.
And the Chinese have just gone, what kind of forever?
What?
Sorry, it's about Africans.
No, we don't like that.
Not a fan, thanks.
So, Beijing regulators have seldom publicly announced or explained their decisions when denying a foreign movie permission to screen in local theatres, forcing studios and local fans alike to wait, speculate, and hope.
But several sources inside the Chinese industry tell The Hollywood Reporter that both Black Panther 2 and Black Adam are believed to have little chance of winning approval at this stage.
And of course they've said it's probably because of various Marvel actors...
Oh, I'm sure it's economic reasons...
Oh, various Marvel actors have criticised China's treatment of the Uyghur Muslims or Taiwan...
I'm sure it's got absolutely nothing to do with them being racist as all hell.
You obviously referenced the fact that they've done a poster for Black Panther 2 should they want to release it.
Should we take a look?
Just the next one.
Oh, right.
I do think this is just one of a series of character posters that Marvel have released for it.
I thought it was just written in Mandarin.
Given what they did to the Chinese poster for the original one, remember the original poster in the US and the rest of the West was Chadwick Boseman like this, whereas the Chinese poster was Chadwick Boseman like this.
With the helmet on.
So you couldn't see that it was a black guy.
And removing John Boyega from the Star Wars poster as well.
Oh, well, no, no, no, no.
Just making him really teeny tiny.
Speaking of raising black men, it turns out Black Panther Wakanda Forever has done this because they didn't want to recast Shagwick Boseman.
Fair enough.
That's fine.
I understand.
Black men don't really like black women, though, so they're not really going to show up for it, and so they've pulled loads of merchandise because they're crapping their pants about how little money it might make.
Yeah.
So, a reporter and insider who's dubbed himself Valiant Renegade, don't know how trustworthy this gentleman is, but Browning and Comics do often publish some fairly reliable leaks, said, many licensed products manufacturers have cut back on their Black Panther products versus their more standard mapping for their categories with respect to what they would usually do with a property with an upcoming over-billion-dollar exposure push.
This means either limiting Wakanda Forever's line depth...
And or smaller production runs.
As to why Marvel is expressing such caution with Wakanda Forever's merchandising, Renegade turned to supposed focus group findings and explained that the company's fears stem from the fact that, quote, Black Panther is not a property or a mantle, but rather a very specific character whose appeal is very male even more than usual.
Noting that the superficial nature of these focus group results were the result of analysts having only looked at the characters as part of the overall Avengers IP landscape, Renegade ultimately asserted that the key thing, though, was all the male elements.
Black men are even less likely to buy female IP-driven merch for either themselves or their sons.
Fact.
So, they can't also apparently catch a break with Blade, because there have been recent reports that Blade's Muslim reboot has lost its scriptwriter and its director.
There's a Muslim Blade reboot?
Because Mahershala Ali is a practicing Muslim, so they've decided to incorporate his religion into the vampire hunter for some reason.
I'm sorry, Mahershala.
You're an actor.
Your job is to portray people who aren't you.
Yeah, but it turns out that they can't even portray people that are Blade because the script was a rip-off of the Underworld franchise, and so they've sacked everyone.
I tell you what, being a Muslim vampire out in the desert in the Middle East must be a pain in the arse.
Drain all these kafar.
Can you imagine staying away from the sun over there?
Yeah, it must be pretty terrible.
You stay indoors and the building that you're in gets bombed and you lose the roof anyway.
I know you wanted to talk about one of your favourite hot properties.
Yeah, The Sandman, which is, um...
It's kind of not looking good for it right now, and people like Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, for those unaware, is a legendary comic book series that ran from 1989 through to 1986 or '07, I forget exactly which year, written by the legendary fantasy and sci-fi author Neil Gaiman, whose works, written by the legendary fantasy and sci-fi author Neil Gaiman, whose works, a number of which I have really enjoyed earlier My fiancé showed me Coraline, which I hadn't watched before.
The film adaptation, which I thought was really good.
I really liked the animation style.
I've read his book American Gods, which a few years ago when I read it was quite striking and really compelling and enjoyable.
And the Sandman is one of the most legendary properties in comic book history.
And it got a Netflix adaptation.
Of course it got a Netflix adaptation.
And can you believe they went the whole hog?
You've got race swaps.
You've got feminist messaging.
You've got, I imagine, trans representation.
Well, you've got Gwendolyn Christie playing Lucifer.
Oh, yes, of course, because Lucifer, who was supposed to be androgynous in the original comic book...
He was supposed to be David Bowie.
Yeah, he was supposed to be David Bowie androgynous, not Gwendolyn Christie androgynous.
And I'm sure she's a lovely person.
No, she doesn't seem it.
She seems woke as hell.
She seems mental in interviews.
But it's not looking good for a second series, and rightfully so, honestly, because Neil Gaiman himself promoted this and was involved in the production.
So he's more than happy to stand by and watch as his own creation, his defining creation, it has to be said, is trashed in front of him with his signature of approval on it.
I'll put it like this.
In the 1990s, when the original run was coming out, obviously it's less one gigantic narrative and more a series of sequentially broken up short stories all centred around having the main character of Dream, otherwise known as Morpheus, you could call him the Sandman, as kind of an observing character.
He observes other people's stories and you get wrapped into a number of their narratives.
And as part of that, one of the things is that there's a witch's coven.
And they're having a meeting.
And in this witch's coven arrives someone who isn't a witch.
They know that this person is not a witch because he is a man.
And men can't be witches, but he's determined to let them know he can because he's in a dress and he identifies as a witch.
Therefore, he is a witch.
To which they all say, no, you're just a man in a dress.
Get lost.
And the comic book expects you to be on the side of...
The Witches!
The Witches!
Because it was the 90s, and you could look at a man in a dress and go, that's a man in a dress, it's not a woman, and Neil Gaiman fully supported this.
Don't be so mean to Grant Morrison.
I know.
I'm sorry.
Neil Gaiman himself also is a big fan of G.K. Chesterton, one of the most well-known, was he Catholic?
Catholic cultural commenters and authors of his time, well known for having some very culturally conservative views, all of which Neil Gaiman has, of course, gone back on or tried to reframe as actually Chesterton was a secret progressive for the time if you just take in this incredibly esoteric reading gone back on or tried to reframe as actually Chesterton was a secret progressive for the time if you just take in this incredibly esoteric reading of his work like I've decided And it's not looking good for that either.
But Sandman is not looking great.
They are trying to debunk a rumour going around that the second series is cancelled.
But they do it in a very special way.
Because it's not that it's cancelled.
It's that it's not been renewed yet.
It's not been renewed yet, and according to Gaiman himself, co-creator of the series, this delay is on account of the fact that many viewers savoured the episodes rather than binge-watching the series.
So the Netflix executives are taking their time analysing the numbers as they come in.
So Netflix, a subscription service that is based entirely around the business model of getting people to binge-watch shows, had a show where people did not immediately binge-watch it for reasons.
It's not that the people watching it probably felt that they were having to force themselves through the absolute drudgery of it.
It's that they really wanted to take the time, savor that excellent, excellent content.
Like fermented milk.
So, you know, Neil Gaiman is overdosing on Cope.
And interestingly enough, this Screen Rant article, despite saying, oh, it's not cancelled, guys, also adds in provisions later on for what happens if it does get cancelled.
Interesting assumption.
Should it be cancelled, there is some chance that it could be picked up by another network.
When a show fails spectacularly, probably not.
However, the enormous cost of the Sandman would be a stumbling block for any potential platform.
And amusingly enough, Neil Gaiman will probably have plenty of free time to be able to work on any future developments with it because his own marriage fell apart after their open marriage broke down.
Oof.
Oof!
That's just a big oof right there.
I mean, what did you expect?
These are the people controlling the narratives.
These are the people controlling the media that you enjoy, are engaging in open marriages that they say definitely work.
I have children.
Of course it's going to work because we have children.
Maybe the question shouldn't be when should we have children in this open marriage.
It's maybe you shouldn't have an open marriage with children involved because that is inevitably going to hurt them.
It's very irresponsible of you, Neil.
And moving further on past The Sandman now, we've got The Witcher, and Henry Cavill, quite notoriously now, is leaving The Witcher for reasons, because...
It's rubbish?
It's rubbish, and you can tell he hates having starred in it.
He will still be in Season 3.
They are replacing him with Liam Hemsworth.
Wow, how compelling.
Possibly the worst recasting you could go with.
I don't know, Viola Davis?
For Season 4.
And, you know, people are trying to figure out why.
I think we all know why, which is that he obviously cared far more about the writing than anybody else did.
In this next article here, he was talking about how I wanted to bring as much of Book Geralt into the show that Lauren's vision and the plot would allow.
But that's a tricky thing to do, because the plot, as Lauren said, Lauren being the showrunner, is very centred around bringing women to the centre of the world.
Ugh.
Yeah, so we're going to take the character that everybody cares about and is interested in, and just toss him aside so we can have some girl power in there.
We'll make a joke out of Roach's death, why don't we?
Yeah, we make a joke out of Roach's death, a scene which he had to change specifically because of the fact it was disrespectful to the character, and it just shows that he cared far more about the canon, the plot, and the characters than anybody actually writing these.
And as a result, thousands of furious fans have decided to say, well, we don't need to get rid of Henry, we just need to get rid of the writers!
And they've signed a petition to replace the writers instead of Henry Cavill.
These won't get much traction, frankly, because they're always AstroTuff, but the show will probably just get cancelled.
Hopefully.
It does just show what the fans actually want, though, and where the problems actually are.
And if you're interested, you can sign it here, if you just want to try and take part and change, because it's only been a few days, it's already got 222,000 signatures.
There you go, and let's carry on.
Well, hopefully instead he decides to board the Normandy while he's got spare time when returning to Superman, because at the end of Black Adam he does show back up as Superman, even though they used the wrong theme and they give him a spit curl on the wrong costume.
Revive the Snyderverse, please.
But Henry Cavill last year was filming The Witcher.
If you can scroll down, John, and just have the photo up, please.
He was in the Geralt wig and he was reading an alternative script, but the script itself had words from the Mass Effect 3 wiki on it.
It spoke about the Geth, Talizora.
So he said, oh, this is my secret project, so he might be boarding the Normandy as Commander Shepard sometime soon.
So if you'd like some more nourishing pop-cultural content, you can go and subscribe to our website and watch what me and John Wheatley just did recently, which is the politics and philosophy of Mass Effect.
Or, we thought we'd do a little bit of a plug here, because we're cheap like that, you can go to the Comics Corner tab, where we've done one episode so far of The Dark Knight Returns, and this Wednesday, at time of streaming, we're doing The Killing Joke and Arkham Asylum.
So keep eyes peeled on the suggestions coming.
We'd quite like to have our favourite properties returned to their former glory.
Yes, and with that, that's all.
Let's move on to the video comments.
Men are not meant to be dominant.
Men are meant to be submissive.
Having been disgusted by that freakish display, I watched a video about a US Navy crew battling to save an aircraft carrier in World War II. Men rushed into danger with no regard for their own safety in order to effect a result that might save others.
I wonder how much of the malaise in Western culture is men being told to be more conscious of their appearance, making them much less likely to take on a dangerous task for fear of what it might do to their looks.
After all, the narcissist is fundamentally conservative.
The challenge is knowing what one is preserving—self, others, or history.
Those are good points.
There is a clip going around right now that is violent, disgusting, which I mentioned to Connor earlier that he's thankfully not seen, which is a black man in an American Starbucks masturbating as the white woman serves him.
And everybody is commenting, saying about why isn't anybody going and stopping this man, because, you know, reasonably...
In a healthy society, you see something like that happening, and you deck this person, and you beat them mercilessly.
But this isn't happening, and one of the reasons is, sadly, men aren't legally allowed to occupy the roles that they used to in society, because if anybody was to do that as justified as they would be...
They would probably get arrested for a hate crime.
Valor is punished by a feminised state.
Also, the untowardness of the black gentleman masturbating to the white female barista.
I wouldn't be surprised if Starbucks makes it an advert, given all the interracial couples you see in every single...
Would you like extra cream with that?
On to the next video comment.
Just watched Connor's Mass Effect video, and I was curious if there was any character from a game which he began the game thinking was really lame, but then thought they were the best by the end of the game.
My example's Eggle from Banner Sog.
Me and my friends were all taking the piss out of him at the beginning and saying, like, look at this beardless backbencher who we'll replace once we recruit some good characters.
By the end of the game, though, he's like, he's our Rock of Gibraltar!
None can harm us as long as he still stands!
Okay.
I'm not going to give the game away.
Some eagle-eyed people may be able to spot it, because I don't want to give away one of our future podcast topics, because in return for Mulholland Drive, we'll be covering it.
David, at the start of the game, you think he's a douche at the end of the game?
Absolute king who saves the day.
Ha ha ha!
Those who will be able to work out my favourite game from that might be quite surprised.
I was surprised when I heard it was his favourite game as well.
I love it, man.
Tony D and Little Joan with another Lotus Eater white pill.
From the Today Show comes the story of Megan Warfield.
She's a firefighter who was involved in a multi-vehicle accident and she of course stayed to help the victims.
But the thing is, Megan was nine months pregnant at the time.
So she helped the victims and then she went on to the hospital to give birth to her baby girl.
And there she is.
This is her third with her boyfriend, to which I say...
Put a ring on it.
Yeah, go get married, bro.
She's clearly a keeper.
Yeah, come on, dude.
What are you waiting for?
You've got three kids already, but absolute hero right there.
Doing it pregnant right as you're about to pop as well.
Well done.
Well done, the new girl.
Hey there.
Before I start this video, I want to apologize for bringing up COVID again.
However, just recently, Queensland has brought back mask mandates due to a so-called second wave.
And even more recently, New South Wales has declared a state of emergency due to this wave.
This may not affect me as I'll be going overseas very soon.
Anyway, I'm going to make a few more videos concluding my trip around Sydney and replacing them with my theory videos.
For the next few days.
Yeah, clearly that mandatory vaccination policy worked out well for you, didn't it, Australia?
Oh, we're on the website now, aren't we?
Oh yeah, the vaccines are shit.
Tell us what you really think, Connor.
They're pushed by evil people.
Right, let's read some of the written comments.
So, Ethan Figueroa...
You've butchered his surname when he compliments us.
Sorry, Ethan.
My favourite duo?
Maybe not anymore.
Daniel Williamson says...
Thank you, Ethan.
I really do appreciate it.
Daniel Williamson says Harry's face during Connor's outburst was gold.
I'm going to have to watch that back.
Yeah, you kind of took me off guard there a little bit.
Which one?
You have the righteous fury in you, and I do respect it, but sometimes it's a bit spooky.
Oh, I think Steve Baker has no testicles.
Oh well, that's fair.
I mean...
Alright.
I'm sick of it.
On to Trump's midterm tantrum.
Baystate says, unpopular opinion, but hear me out.
Don't run Donald Trump or DeSantis in 2024.
We run Ivanka.
Hear me out!
Number one, eye candy.
Don't look at me like that.
You were all thinking it.
Number two, the first female president will be not only a Republican, but Trump, and we get four to eight years of feminists losing their minds over a female becoming president.
She's a feminist.
Delicious salt.
3.
The Don can essentially act as president vicariously via his daughter without the media attacking him due to the terrible optics of the media attacking an innocent girl because they don't like her daddy.
Gerard Kushner.
4.
She's hot.
You've used that point twice.
You, Kuma.
5.
A second Trump name being written in the history books establishes the Trump name as a political dynasty in Washington.
We don't want more political dynasties.
Go watch Contemplations 97, get off porn, fix yourself.
Permanent thorn in the side instead of the one-time fluke they wanted to be.
Think about it.
Ivanka for president.
That's an amazing bit of satire.
I'm going to assume it's satire.
Please, God.
How familiar are you with Bass Stabe?
He does do great compilations, yes.
Yeah, there you go.
Come on.
Let's not be mean to Bass Stabe.
Yeah, but...
Oh, God.
That's just so depressing.
Someone in a Republican think tank will pick that up and run with it.
I mean, he was obviously typing that comment with one hand, but we can forgive him.
Keys are glued together.
Do you want to go on to your comments?
Yeah, yeah, that's fine, that's fine.
I'll scroll down.
Lord Nerevar, I'm sure I'm not unique in saying that if you're trying to prove you're not an invading force, occupying areas of the capital city and plastering your national symbols all over the local monuments is a really poor way of going about it.
Rather, they fundamentally misunderstand the grievance Suela Bravement and many others have with their presence here.
We need to demand integration and or repatriation.
We need to fight back.
I'm going to just endorse closed borders and sending literally anyone back.
Yep.
Just at this point, like, if you aren't a national, you've been here for quite a few years, you've overstayed your visa, you're occupying a hotel, or you don't even like the country you're living in, piss off, go home, I'm sick of paying for you.
Where else?
Supreme Duck.
No one is illegal.
Even I would be illegal if I went to the UK and overstayed without permission.
Trespassing is a crime, by the way, just because it's on a bigger scale, the crime does not vanish.
Yeah, if they break into your home...
Well, actually, the illegal immigrants can break into your home now.
That's why you're sleeping with bats and hammers by your bed.
Sorry, it didn't work for Paul Pelosi.
But if they can break into your home, they can be prosecuted.
If they break into the country, no, no, it's fine and dandy.
We have to pay to put them up, even though I can't own a home because of the cost of them.
Sorry, I just want to...
Andrew Narog pointing out here that that woman from the BBC Question Time presents an excellent argument against universal suffrage.
Yeah, I'm on board the Milo Yiannopoulos train now of just women shouldn't vote.
I'm done with it.
I'm pretty sure my girlfriend agrees.
She's like, it'd be so much simpler for me.
Well, I heard someone...
The children yearn for the mines, the women yearn for the kitchen.
Yeah.
Well, the Unheard article that had Steve Baker in it, some guy tweeted it out, I can't remember who it was, but some lefty critic, was like, oh, clearly there's not many female voices here, and a bunch of the Conservative women are replying back, actually, I asked this question, I asked that one, and I just went, you've clearly never spoken to a Conservative woman, because behind closed doors, their views on things like prostitution or migration would get you kicked off of any platform, even our website.
It's scorched off.
You don't want to go near it.
May as well go to our last one, mate.
George Hap said, Do you have a favourite Batman the Animated Series episode?
Mine is a more obscure one called Judgment Day, where a new vigilante called The Judge appears in Gotham, and the truth behind his identity is a piece of brilliant writing.
I've not watched a lot of Batman the Animated Series for a while.
There's the classic, I forget the name of it, where they're all the villains talking about how they almost got Batman one time.
That's good.
I do like the one where Batman gets into Arkham Asylum and I think it's the trial or something.
They all decide to try and judge Batman for his crimes.
That one's quite entertaining.
I like the Grey Ghost one with 66, Adam West.
Master Phantasm is a great movie.
And New Batman Adventures for Mad Love.
Awesome.
That one's great.
You can also probably...
I would include Batman Beyond and if I was able to include that I would include the entire film of The Return of the Joker because that's an absolute classic.
Anyway, I think that's all we've got time for there, so thank you very, very much for tuning in.
We'll be back again at 1pm tomorrow.
Until then, have a great day.
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