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	- Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 533.
	I'm your host Harry, joined today by Connor.
	Hello.
	And we're going to be talking about the China lockdown rebellions.
	We're also going to be talking about Yay 2024, which is not off to a particularly auspicious start.
	And then we're going to finish it off discussing how democracy doesn't matter anymore.
	And before we go any further, we just wanted to highlight to everybody that we do have a career opportunity going at the moment for video editor.
	And many of you may remember that we actually hired a video editor quite recently.
	Jack, he was a new starter to our team.
	And the problem with that is just that we're putting out so much content recently that we need another one.
	So if you're interested in that, if you've got the skills needed, and also if you are within range to commute to our Swindon office, that is a big deal that Carl will not shift on.
	So if you're able to work from Swindon, please feel free, go onto our website, go into careers, apply for that, we'll love to hear from you.
	Okay.
	Yeah, you have to be able to put up with me and Harry talking about comics off air the entire time as well.
	It's part of the job description.
	Or you could do what most do and just keep your headphones on and ignore that we're there.
	We know you're listening, Josh.
	Anyway, without any further ado, let's get into the news.
	So there have been major protests against the CCP's reinforcement of zero COVID policies, because China's currently locking down various parts of their cities and provinces.
	It may be futile to hope that this is, of course, a domino effect to topple the CCP, but hey, why not let's start with a white pill, shall we?
	Let's try and manufacture, manifest the ability for the Chinese people to overthrow their illegitimate rulers.
	Conor confirmed making stuff up?
	We can hope.
	We can hope, alright?
	Connor loves spreading misinformation on the internet, bro.
	Well, today we're going to look at how the ongoing situation is unfolding and what caused all this.
	Yeah.
	Let's see if the Chinese can do something positive for once.
	If you want to know the sort of driving folks behind why Chairman, not President, Xi, and all of his little despots in the regions are accelerating the rate at which they're adopting zero-COVID policies, you can subscribe to our website for as little as £5 a month, and watch our book club that Callum and Beau did quite a while ago on Frank Ducotta's Mao's Great Famine.
	It's part of a trilogy.
	This one I picked out specifically because I noticed when looking through the articles that we're going to be going through shortly...
	That the same mentality that caused provincial governors, party despots, to accelerate the rate at which they're exporting grain or melting down the tools and dismantling houses just to make it so that the Chinese Communist Party's exports look good on a spreadsheet, how that contributed to the Great Famine,
	is the same sort of philosophy that contributes to why they're making COVID measures and lockdowns longer, sharper, more punitive, just to make sure that their particular region looks really good It's a similar problem, I think, the Soviet Union experienced as well, where they would be a major exporter of grain to try and look good on the world stage, when in fact what you're doing is just starving all of your own citizens who don't have any food.
	Yeah, 30 million kulaks was the price to pay for a good spreadsheet, comrade.
	Anyway, onto the first one.
	Let's look at how all of these protests started, shall we?
	So, if you're wondering, did he choose the Epoch Times just to upset the Communist Party Chinese?
	Yes.
	Yes, I did.
	With the newly reported infections, China recorded a total of 32,943 transmitted cases on November 24th, so they're having another COVID wave.
	And that's in a population that's over a billion, is it?
	Yes, so obviously the numbers are quite suppressed.
	If you were to go into the statistics and just going by percentages, that's just not even statistically significant.
	It's infinitesimally small.
	Obviously those numbers are revised down because China, at the height of the outbreak, claimed they had zero COVID deaths.
	Even though it came from there.
	Sure.
	All right.
	Since the CCP has always concealed the scale of the outbreak, it's difficult for the outside world to know if those are the real numbers, of course.
	Xinjiang City, the provincial capital of Haibei, has required all residents to stay at home since November the 21st and undergo five PCR tests in five days.
	So it's not necessarily one a day, but it's one in a certain period to make sure that you are COVID clear.
	So you can resume normal travel at the CCP's behest, of course.
	I hope I've pronounced that right.
	The provincial capital of Henan was put under lockdown from November 25th to 29th.
	People in Beijing, Daxing District and Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zones were ordered not to leave their communities on November 23rd.
	In megacity Chongqing...
	In the southwest, all residential communities in Jiangbei district are now locked down.
	Following China's National Health Commission's November 17th requirement for local authorities to prepare mobile COVID-19 cabin hospitals in advance, such structures have been under construction in various areas across the country.
	So they're building quarantine camps in different districts to try and detain people so they can force their PCR tests and try and have a zero COVID. I mean, they've been pretty brutal on COVID for a long time.
	Josh and I earlier this year were covering the fact that even if you were in a massive high-rise, they would have the drones coming up to your balcony to make sure that you're not, I don't know, breathing forbidden air.
	They did have the drones shout out, please suppress your soul's desire for freedom.
	Which is the most monstrous thing ever to announce, but there you go.
	Just over two weeks ago, the CCP State Council issued 20 new epidemic prevention regulations that loosened some of the COVID-19 restrictions while sticking to the general policy of zero COVID. On November 21st, the State Council issued four other documents in the same vein.
	Saying that areas with no risk of community transition do not need to conduct regional mass PCR testing and that areas where there are outbreaks but meet certain conditions can stop mass PCR testing.
	But of course many areas are still doing that anyway to try and make sure that they look like they're going harsh enough, quick enough, they're going to achieve zero COVID first to get President Xi's approval.
	Chairman Xi, rather.
	On November 23rd, the State Council issued a document, supplementary to the 20 new regulation, to set various controls in high-risk and low-risk areas in the countries and cities where COVID cases have been reported.
	For low-risk areas, people should apparently avoid gatherings and are allowed to take individual preventative measures instead of following concentrated mandatory quarantines.
	As if we believe that's what the Communist Party are doing.
	As if we believe that they're not just snatching people off the street.
	Total BS. The CCP's Official People Daily published eight articles in a row for November 12th to 20th, insisting on the strict zero COVID policy.
	Xinguang, his city, has responded to the 20 new regulations last week by starting to terminate the routine mass PCR testing for all residents.
	However, on 21st of November, the city's authorities issued an urgent notice to cancel the move and required six of the city's eight districts to carry out mass PCR testing for five consecutive days.
	So they're just subjecting you to make sure...
	That you don't have COVID, so they're locking you in your homes and constantly sticking a swab up your nose.
	Well, it's completely arbitrary power to ensure that you're always on your toes, you can never know who you can trust, you never know what messages from the government that you can trust, so that you're always in this constant state of anxiety, which makes you incredibly ineffectual.
	Mass formation to do anything.
	Yeah.
	Exactly.
	So if we go to the next one, this is one of the things that has incited the riots.
	So we have that mass tension, that mass fear-mongering, people whose souls are starved of freedom.
	And then certain events start to happen that really catalyze the Chinese people's disgruntlement with their totalitarian government.
	There was a residential block fire.
	It's not their Grenfell, but it's something pretty bad.
	In Urumqi, I hope I pronounced that right, but correct me, please.
	It's the western capital of Xinjiang.
	Anyone remember why Xinjiang is particularly important?
	the excellent camping facilities that they offer.
	Yes, would be so.
	Apparently there was one Uyghur Muslim who has fled abroad to Sweden that the Independent interviewed, and his mother had lost her life and her four children's lives in this fire as well, so they're among the dead.
	State media said the compound has been categorised as low risk for COVID and residents were able to go downstairs.
	So, oh, they could have just run out, says the government.
	But a resident told BBC people were only allowed to leave their homes for short periods each day and that timing was controlled by authorities.
	Because of this, a further nine people were injured in the blaze.
	The state fire broke out on the 15th floor of the building at about 10 to 8pm on Thursday and spread to higher floors.
	It was extinguished three hours later.
	Video from the scene posted by Chinese state media shows workers removing fences from near the compound and fire trucks being forced to wait.
	So, of course, the COVID measures had delayed the fire response, and the Chinese state media are lying about how rapid they could get there and that their COVID response has not impeded at all the fact that these people's lives could have been saved.
	Well, that's the thing.
	This seems to be implying to me from this information that we've got here that the people...
	When you have to specify that the building that burnt down, or partially, the residents were allowed to go downstairs, something as simple as that...
	Makes me believe that whether or not they were allowed to doesn't mean that it was looked kindly upon to go downstairs.
	You're not supposed to move around your rooms, you're supposed to stay in the whole time.
	So as fire breaks out and you're not even necessarily sure if you're going to be in worse trouble, if you stay in your flat, that you could get burned to death.
	Or if you potentially disobey the rules, as far as you understand them, you might get an equally terrible punishment from the authorities.
	Yeah, you might either burn to death or just be made to disappear.
	There was also another incident that happened recently.
	There was a factory fire.
	If we go to the next tab, please.
	At a Chinese city in Angang in Henan province, and it killed 38 people.
	That was on Monday at 24.
	And apparently they've detained a suspect.
	Two other people were hospitalised for minor injuries, so they're blaming it on arson.
	But it's interesting that they mention a factory here.
	One of the main things that spiked these protests as well are the Apple and Foxconn factory protests.
	So if we go to this one, this is some reporting by CBS News that came out yesterday.
	Foxconn, who is an electronics manufacturing company which put together Apple's iPhones, have said on Thursday that the pay dispute that triggered massive employee protests and violent pushback by police at a factory in central China had slowed production and exports to the US and all of us customers over here.
	So they're saying, "Oh, Apple's stock prices dipped, you can't get your iPhone, so we're really sorry that we've caused this pay dispute and we've violated people's human rights." But it's all tangled up with the idea of COVID restrictions because what happened with Last month, thousands of employees did a walkout in October, and this is how CBS frames it, over what they said were unsafe working conditions linked to the spread of COVID-19.
	So CBS in there says that the workers were walking out because they were fearing the spread of COVID-19.
	No.
	What actually happened was they were being made to sleep in the factories overnight and would be subjected to mandatory testing and would not be allowed to go home and see their families because they were trying to do their zero COVID policy.
	So they were detaining them at their workstations at all times.
	It's very much like when they put the netting in the other Apple stores to not throw themselves out the windows.
	I was about to say, even before COVID, China forcing its workers to sleep in the factories and put them under some horrible working conditions is nothing unusual.
	It's nothing new.
	And we've actually got a podcast coming up soon on the UK's left-wing literature curriculum that mentions Inspector Calls.
	That features a workplace strike for which a woman and the co-conspirators were fired.
	But in that story, all the strikers are let back, except the people that organised it and given their full pay at competitive rates.
	In this one, while the workers were striking because they were made to sleep at the factory, Foxconn hired a slate of new employees...
	And decided to just sack everyone, obviously, unfairly.
	If we go to this next one, John.
	This is what happened when they got rid of everyone.
	If we scroll down, Bernie's tweeted this out.
	She's a good Twitter account.
	Go give her a follow.
	Despite Apple signing on to ESGs, this is their factory where they've just thrown all of the belongings of their workers out of the high-rise windows and just into the street.
	Brilliant.
	So for some of these people, this is probably all their possessions in the world.
	Yeah, and this is just a mountainous landfill being thrown out of the windows of these massive high-rise blocks.
	And this is where these gigantic, moralising corporations are offshoring all of your jobs if you're in America, for instance.
	And this is what Ricky Gervais was lambasting Tim Cook of Apple over when saying that, oh, Apple TV are making new series.
	How about you shut up about politics because most of your stuff is made by slave labor.
	And this is the result, as you can see.
	It turns out that Foxconn in the previous CBS article were blaming this now on a technical error.
	So in the process of adding new employees, they said, oh, accidentally, the computer deleted your files.
	accidentally the computer deleted your files we never we never meant to fire you guys just it just happened to coincide with strike action because of course under communism um it's always someone else's coincidence and just to just to preempt by the way um china for all the people that say well the chinese communist party aren't they aren't real communists they're obviously state capitalists um given that marx and engels in their various writings opined endlessly about the dictatorship of the proletariat the dictatorship which will collectivize all property and redistribute it equitably and dismantle the state
	We never meant to fire you guys.
	It just happened to coincide with strike action.
	Because, of course, under communism, it's always someone else's fault.
	What a coincidence.
	And just to preempt, by the way, China, for all the people that say, well, the Chinese Communist Party, they aren't real communists.
	They're obviously state capitalists.
	they talked a lot about the revolution that gets you to the dictatorship but they never actually set out to dismantle it and get rid of it and i think it's michael buchanan that pointed out the fact that wouldn't it be really redundant if you had a representative proletarian dictate dictatorship to dismantle the dictatorship in the first place because aren't the proletariat all super ethical so the dictatorship can just continue forever not to get too deep into this kind of tangent no the i'm sure that marx and engels being that they believed in uh what was it a dialectical materialism would have believed that part of the dialectical would just
	It's almost like a mystical belief in a supernatural authority that would just sort of let this dictatorship fade away eventually, whenever it came time for it to shift into the next phase of the dialectic.
	I, instead of being that charitable, would just say I do not think that the capricious grab of power was a means, but rather the end.
	So the dictatorship that has arisen and collectivised all property and ruled totalitarianly over everyone's lives and everywhere the communist doctrine has been tried and has reached its apotheosis in China, it is real communism because that's the design.
	And we can now see that people have decided, well, I don't really like living under this all that much.
	I don't really like...
	No, but they are deciding en masse, at least, in the contemporary moment, to rebel, because they've decided that they've been locked up in their homes and surveilled at their factories far too long.
	Once again, not to derail, the CCP are obviously a monstrous organisation, they run China like the mafia, but they are enabled, yet again, by the corporations who are more than happy to use cheap Chinese labour to build you consumer products.
	Yep, and that's why globalization was a mistake, because we should not necessarily have free trade, we should have fair trade, because this is unilaterally exploited by the worst kind of people in the world.
	They undercut our labor by using slave labor and technological surveillance, and that just creates a completely contingent group of countries that don't make anything for themselves, and suddenly when they form bricks and they create an enemy pact, we have no gold, no gas, no oil.
	Yeah, we end up economically dependent on these countries, and they use that for massive gains of political power over us.
	Yeah, hence why.
	I hope that this overthrow will amount to something.
	I'm willing it.
	There we go.
	Not putting my stocks in it, but it is nice to see a bit of pushback.
	If anything major comes of this, I'm willing to bet that it'll end up another day erased from history, like 1989.
	Yes.
	Yeah, the tanks that we can't mention, of course.
	Thanks, YouTube.
	So, in iPhone City, the giant hive that you saw producing the iPhones that had been throwing people's possessions out of the window, the factory that had 200,000 employees that we've seen mass walkouts at, we've now had the violent protests to start off.
	Hundreds of workers joined protests at Foxconn's flagship iPhone plant in China, smashing surveillance cameras and windows and clashing with hazmat-clad police over COVID restrictions and poor working conditions.
	The skirmishes broke out in the plant in Zhengzhou after workers marched out of their dormitories and a rare show of open descent verified videos which have been published on social media show.
	In one video, verified by the AFP, a man is shown with a bloodied face while someone off camera says they're hitting people, did they not have a conscience?
	Another video shows overturned cars and smashed up COVID testing booths.
	So they're targeting the police and the COVID tents and the factory owners who are imprisoning them there.
	Take note for legitimate forms of protest to everyone that supported BLM in 2020 when they ran around killing innocent police officers, members of the public, and smashing up, quote, black-owned businesses.
	$2 billion worth of damage in America, by the way.
	The Chinese know how to do it.
	Brilliant.
	So let's look at some protest footage, shall we?
	We're not going to look at the individual videos.
	I'm just going to talk to them...
	Talk to you about them, and then you can go and watch them in full in their own time.
	There's lots more still floating out there.
	It's a developing situation, so we can't get around to everything, but just some stuff I've seen.
	So this is an aerial shot, of course, from someone's apartment window.
	Look at how many party operants in the hazmat suits are trying to contail how many workers.
	The entire street is backed up.
	It almost looks like antibodies fighting an infection in the bloodstream in real time, except in this one I'm actually rooting for the people that are dressed like an infection.
	Hmm.
	Let's see, it looks like the camera's panning up a little bit, because it's not giving a great view of just how many people are on that street, but it is obviously a lot, and we're going to get a better view of it.
	Clearly going to be hundreds as they move up, so that is, I mean, it's staggeringly nice to see that many people coming out and pushing back against the Chinese government for once, because remember, these people have a social credit system, and if they're recognised by the smart cameras and And digital surveillance in the streets, then they can have their entire lives taken away from them.
	So when you give them nothing to lose by locking them in their homes and depriving them of their livelihood, what's the old phrase?
	Every country is only three missed meals away from revolution?
	Well, I think the Chinese have found that out the hard way in many certain areas of the cities.
	If we move on to the next one, please.
	These are just some more Foxconn factory workers.
	So you can see all of the medical professionals here with their plastic riot shields.
	The Foxconn folks are just battering them with barricades, bits of metal, throwing bits at them.
	It's quite satisfying to see all of these government traitors being herded like idiotic sheep into a little terrified huddle, like a really bad phalanx.
	They look like an inept version of the Uruk-hai trying to besiege Helm's Deep.
	It's quite nice.
	We go to the next one, please.
	So, they're being equally as retaliatory, even if someone was thinking, oh, the Chinese Communist Party, they can't help it, they're just following orders.
	They're taking great joy in beating isolated protesters in the street.
	So, if anyone is organizing anything on WeChat and can speak Mandarin, make sure you tell everyone to stay together so you don't get picked off one by one.
	Go to the next one, please.
	So, this is in Zhengzhou.
	So, this is, again, more of the factory stuff.
	They're, again, throwing barricades.
	It's just a different angle here.
	And then you can see all of those people.
	All the street is just full.
	And it must be upwards of a thousand people, at least, there.
	You can see phones in the air.
	People sticking their fists in the air, shouting freedom.
	Very nice.
	On to the next one.
	So it's spread to, and I don't know how to pronounce this properly, so bear with me, is Guangzhou, I hope.
	They're actually attacking the little COVID pop-up centres now, and this is just a commercial city area, a little high street.
	People standing around watching in the middle of the rain.
	Go to the next one.
	We can just see it cumulatively sweeping.
	This is all starting to look like something out of The Purge.
	Yeah, but I'm still rooting for it.
	The protesters are tipping over a police van.
	Oh, yeah.
	I'm not going to argue against people fighting back against communists.
	No.
	So, Jack Posobiec, who speaks Mandarin as well, has said that...
	Jack Posobiec speaks Mandarin?
	Yeah, he's fluent.
	Oh, I didn't know.
	He served overseas in the Navy in China.
	He reported that the protesters have chanted, it started in Wuhan, it ends in Wuhan, and, explicitly, take down the CCP. So here are some students protesting the CCP outside Tingshua University, which is one of the top ones in Beijing.
	I think that's where that lecturer spoke about paying America diplomats in Washington, and that his friends are back in the White House now that Hunter Biden and Joe Biden are in control of things.
	So these are students at one of the most prestigious universities, explicitly saying down with the government.
	If we can go to just the next one, one of the ways of protest they're using is holding up a mathematical formula, and it's Friedman's formula.
	I'm sorry.
	Freed man.
	I'm sorry.
	There is some irony of Asians protesting using math, yes.
	Yes, there is.
	That's beautifully memetic.
	Yeah, and good on you fellas.
	Good on you for doing it.
	Yeah, I mean, I don't get that, so, you know.
	Yeah, and this has spread to wider Beijing now.
	We've got a higher quality of protester in China.
	Yeah, and this is streaked in Beijing, the capital.
	Thousands of people.
	I... I hope it comes to something.
	We can't say it will, but we hope so.
	So just to move quickly on, there's a video here.
	We won't play it for too long, but just so you can listen to...
	They're emulating the Canadian Truckers.
	I was going to say, I've just seen your notes, so maybe turn your volumes down just in case.
	Let's go!
	There it is.
	I'm just going to let you savour it and enjoy it.
	It's nice to see public support as people driving past signaling the fact that, yeah, we hate the government too, that's not our fault.
	It's alright, John, we can stop that one there.
	Thank you.
	And then there's also something that's happened here as well.
	There's a BBC journalist been arrested on the ground in China while covering this.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, he's a Brit.
	Ed Lawrence is arrested and handcuffed while covering the protests in Shanghai.
	He was held for several hours before being released.
	During his arrest, he was beaten and kicked by the police.
	This happens while he was working as an accredited journalist.
	It's very worrying that one of our journalists was attacked in this way while carrying out his duties.
	We have no official explanation or apology from the Chinese authorities, and you won't get one.
	Beyond the claim that the officials who later released him said that they had arrested him for his own good in the case he caught COVID from the crowd.
	We're going to beat COVID out of you!
	Oh, that's brilliant reasoning right there.
	It's hilarious as well, though, because a bunch of politicians have since come out and condemned this, but these are the exact same politicians who voted for lockdown measures, which they copied from the Chinese, so you're a bunch of awful hypocrites.
	While the Western political class does seem to be trying to distance itself from lockdown measures, or at least blame for lockdown measures, until, of course, it will become politically expedient to push them again.
	Speaking of which, the CCP seem to be distancing themselves from lockdown measures as well because at first they've gone through the typical leftist cycle of it's not happening.
	So saying China's capital city keeps markets running during fight against COVID-19.
	So the supposed origin, according to the Chinese, that definitely wasn't the US military, according to them, and definitely wasn't the Wuhan lab that is named after the COVID virus that spread it, according to every sane thinking person in the rest of the world.
	So it's not happening.
	We move on to the next one.
	November 28th.
	Precision urged as cities rolled out an optimized COVID response.
	Okay, so it's happening, but it's a good thing.
	We're doing it well, right?
	All right, all good.
	Next one.
	One of the cities has now resumed public transport, so it's happening, and it's all right.
	We've got it under control.
	We're doing even better.
	We're adjusting.
	We're listening to the people.
	It's a good thing.
	And then finally, it's the Western media's fault.
	Western media bow-mouthed China's epidemic like how Washington fans the flames in Russia-Ukraine conflict.
	Okay.
	Thanks, China.
	The second part of that headline.
	Yeah, but also tell me more about your concentration camps, I guess.
	If we just go on to the last two, now crossing to your typical white leftist, Taylor Lorenz is stumping for the CCP. I did see this over the weekend.
	So the Washington Post did a headline saying a coronavirus outbreak on the verge of being China's biggest pandemic has exposed a critical flaw in Beijing's zero-COVID strategy, a vast population without natural immunity.
	So the Washington Post is saying natural immunity.
	Of course, on YouTube we're not sure what we can actually say about that, so I guess the Washington Post is just conspiracy theorists and Taylor Lorenz is right.
	I disavow everything in this entire segment, just to be safe.
	Taylor Renz says there's no lasting natural immunity to COVID. You can get COVID over and over and over again because there are so many endless evolving strains and antibodies wane.
	Also, choosing not to kill off millions of vulnerable people as the US is doing isn't a critical flaw.
	So, Taylor Renz is saying China are saving lives by locking people in their apartment complexes.
	Okay, and she's suggesting as well that the US is currently killing off millions of vulnerable people in the same way that she also probably believes that Christopher Columbus intended to bring over those germs because he was just evil like that.
	Oh, she recently watched Wakanda Forever, did she?
	Yes.
	On to the next one.
	Just last, I thought it's worth pointing out how the news cycle of the smear merchants moves so quickly.
	In the left headline by Sky News, it says, Remarkable bravery.
	Anti-lockdown protesters return to the same spot in Shanghai after being pepper-sprayed by police.
	Keep that in mind, because on the right, how COVID conspiracists and anti-vaxxers are organised and making money.
	That was talking about the anti-lockdown protests in the UK. You know, the same measures that we were subjected to, that they copied from China.
	So, all I have to finish with is...
	God bless the people of Greater Taiwan.
	Hope you overthrow your government.
	Don't know if it will happen, but we can try and will it.
	And to all of the apologists in Western media, burn in hell.
	Alright, and with that chipper news, hopefully that's given you a bit of a pep in your step.
	I, for one, personally think that any change in China is complete cope.
	Sadly, because I think until the Western industries, until they stop propping up the CCP with their business, that nothing will happen, because they'll always have the power.
	But that's just my predictions.
	Hopefully Connor's right there.
	Anyway, on to the second segment.
	So, yay 2024.
	The campaign name of the man formerly known as Kanye West is off to a little bit of a rocky start right now.
	And if you're wondering why it is that Ye has once again decided that he's going to run for president, as he did in 2020, and I believe he only got about 70,000 votes nationwide, wasn't even included on the bills in 12 states because he just registered that late.
	Maybe not the best idea, but he is starting to get out ahead of the game this time.
	He's got, what, two years to count But I don't think it's going to go very far.
	I don't think he's going to get much support for all of this, sadly.
	Well, he has an interesting circle of advisors, which we'll be going through.
	He's running on the 2015 SJW Cringe Compilation ticket.
	Interesting strategy.
	We'll see how it pays off.
	Carl has so far refused the invitation.
	Perhaps wisely?
	Yes, perhaps wisely.
	But one of the reasons for Kanye deciding to put himself forward again, I don't know if he would have done this anyway, is the fact that he has just been completely depersoned from a lot of platforms and had his financial institutions taken from him and had a lot of money taken from him as well, which I'll get into in a moment.
	But, on that note, you should go to our website and check out this video that I did last month called Central Bank Digital Currencies are the next step to social credit scores.
	Because you must understand that with the way that everything is interconnected, everything is run through spreadsheets, everything is done online, everything is picked up like YouTube through algorithms and AI systems, that we all have the same sword of Damocles hanging over our head that Kanye does.
	Kanye went and said some very controversial things, yes, but it's no different than if you or I decided to go out on social media and say, white lives matter.
	Kanye was able to get away with that with some criticism for about two weeks because he's black, but if you're a white person saying that sort of thing, you are going to have some pushback and it might end up you losing your jobs.
	It's not just that, it's also the thing of, if you think what Kanye West said is objectionable, we're going to try and cover this as neutrally as possible, we're just going to talk about who the players are, we obviously have to disavow everything Kanye's ever said because it's YouTube, however, no matter what you think about what Kanye said today, you could be the next wrong no matter what you think about what Kanye said today, you could be the next wrong think dissident tomorrow if you question the climate crisis, if you question the So it's about standards.
	Should people be able to digitally and financially unperson you because they don't like what you say?
	No.
	We're all very, very lucky, and I'm very grateful that we've got Musk in charge of Twitter right now, but...
	All of the other institutions, or at least the major ones that are in charge of your finances, for instance, are still completely captured.
	So until we've got Musk in charge of the entirety of American industry, then perhaps we should all be aware that this could happen to any of us.
	And that's what I'm talking about in this video.
	I'm talking about how the extension of that into a fully cashless society with digital currencies like people like Rishi Sunak, Want to implement, then it'll just get worse and worse and worse until we're in some kind of black mirror hellscape.
	So, anyway, let's get into it.
	So this was the photograph, well, and some video footage of them all walking around together that got a lot of people talking, which says from RapTV, Kanye West with Milo Yiannopoulos, Sneeko and Nick Fuentes.
	I don't think Fuentes is in this photo.
	I know he's very small, but I still don't think he's in here unless he's hiding behind Milo.
	And this is rather unusual.
	Kanye is wearing his big Wellington farmer boots as well, which are Balenciaga, which you should definitely stop wearing, Kanye.
	Average Jeremy Clarkson viewer there, clearly.
	Yeah, I know.
	Given some of the things he says, perhaps.
	But yeah, so this got a lot of people talking.
	Why is Kanye hanging out with Milo?
	Why is he hanging out with Nick Fuentes?
	Why is he hanging out with Connor's old buddy, Sneeko?
	You can just give some backstory here.
	Just give some backstory.
	I'll do very condensed deeper.
	We are trying to be neutral, but remember, it's good to acknowledge your ties to stories.
	Not necessarily old buddy, right?
	Okay, so back in 2014, when I was like a cringy 14-year-old, I used to do Call of Duty YouTube.
	The channel's deleted, it's fine, alright?
	So it's his, apparently.
	I didn't know he still made YouTube videos after I knew him, but we did one or two YouTube videos together on each other's channels, and then he bounced out and made friends with a bunch of guys that went and did a fairly successful Overwatch channel.
	I think their names were like Frido and Eddie, who were a bit creepy and a bit older, but there you go.
	And, apparently, he went on to be really, really successful, and I hadn't heard of him again until, like, now, when he's been depersoned from everything, so it's quite funny how we're both...
	Very interesting how he just cropped up out of nowhere, isn't it?
	Well, we're both now doing YouTube, which is really hilarious, so...
	Except only one of you is advising a presidential candidate, so he's really winning.
	Yeah.
	He's really winning.
	But only one of us is standing near Nick Fuentes, so...
	Okay, I guess you're winning.
	Yep, there we go.
	There we go.
	So, it seems that Kanye is doing some political strategizing for his campaign, and once again, Kanye has recently said some very controversial things about a certain chosen people, which I am not going to be repeating here, because one, I don't want to be seen as endorsing those things, and two, I just think it would be very stupid of me to say them.
	But as a result of that, he did get completely depersoned for the most part.
	Obviously, he's still in the news.
	But all of these major organizations that were working with him, that he had deals with, all just immediately dropped him.
	So we've got Adidas, we've got Balenciaga, which, once again, these two is very, very interesting, given that Adidas were...
	Were they founded by the Nazis?
	I think they worked.
	I don't know if they were founded.
	Or did they just work with the Nazis?
	Fact-check us.
	I'll look it up.
	Yeah.
	Conor's going to fact-check us live on air, so that's fine.
	Balenciaga, also not particularly bad that you're not involved with them anymore, although you should probably stop wearing their clothes.
	And they're non-spairs, yeah.
	Yes, that is why I'm suggesting that.
	He also no longer has a relationship with Vogue.
	Basically, all of these companies have said we no longer want to associate with him because of the views that he's expressing today.
	So Adidas was founded after the war, but their founder had made military equipment for Nazi Germany.
	Oh, okay.
	There you go.
	There's the connection there.
	A company called The Real Real, who are another fashion company.
	We've got TJ Maxx, who've decided they don't want to stock his stuff.
	The Gap, who were very, very closely tied to Kanye.
	Got Foot Locker, which is pretty bad, because Adidas, Foot Locker, all these places were stocking and creating his Yeezy sneakers.
	That was Adidas, yeah.
	They all manufacture in China as well, using Well, if anything, it's probably good that he gets away from these companies.
	Creative artist agencies, a TV and film studio called the MRC, have said that they no longer want to associate with him.
	And I did want to just point out as well here that with MRC, they had a recently completed documentary that's just...
	Oh, disappeared.
	Never going to get released now.
	It's in the bin with Batgirl.
	And a lot of video companies...
	We covered earlier this year that Kanye was doing some rather controversial things even before the S hit the fan, so to speak.
	When he was posting music videos of himself decapitating Pete Davidson and doing other various things to Pete Davidson because Pete Davidson had been with his ex-wife Kim Kardashian after they got divorced.
	And he was obviously very upset about this.
	And how it was perfectly fine for Kanye to do these sorts of things when the public perception of Pete Davidson was just that he's a white man.
	You're allowed to do this to white men.
	And that's absolutely fine.
	But if at the time he were to add on a certain extra context about Pete Davidson's early life, that this suddenly would have been completely verboten.
	This would have been something that was not allowed, and this would have happened earlier.
	But as long as it's happening to the white man, if that's how you want to classify it, then it's perfectly fine.
	We did do a segment called Kanye West is really based.
	And at the time when he was presenting himself as a conservative Christian who'd made some very poor choices in wife...
	And live.
	Yes, and wanting to withdraw his manufacturing capacity from China, and releasing a gospel album and things like that.
	Yep, very, very based.
	That segment is not a commentary on anything he said recently.
	I mean, it was done before anything he'd said at that point.
	Yes, it was about two months before, so not our fault.
	We didn't do anything.
	Yeah, so a lot of companies have completely separated from him.
	Supposedly, his net worth has gone from $2 billion to $400 million.
	And if you say, well, he's still got $400 million, they were able to eliminate $1.6 billion of his net worth overnight.
	So that should say something about the power these organizations had.
	There was also an interesting article that I found talking about Hayley Pasternak.
	Are you aware of Hayley Pasternak?
	Yeah, wasn't this the text exchange that he released that was his personal trainer saying that I'm going to make sure you never see your kids again?
	Harley Pasternak is a well-respected and very knowledgeable personal trainer who seems to work a lot with Hollywood elite.
	So he gets about a lot, and West shared texts purportedly sent between him and Pasternak, who is Jewish, that began by offering to have a long and open conversation with him based on fact.
	Pasternak also asked his former friend and client to refrain from using cuss words or saying crazy stuff.
	And he said the second option in these messages is, I have you institutionalized again...
	Where they medicate the crap out of you, and you go back to Zombieland forever.
	These are very strong words, and all talking in again.
	These are again terms.
	This is going to happen to you again.
	I've already done this.
	I've proven to you that I can do this to you, so don't make me do it again.
	He says, playdate with the kids just won't be the same.
	So I'm going to...
	That is evil.
	We're not just going to deperson you, we're actively going to medicate your sense of personhood away.
	You're not going to know who you are.
	We're going to lobotomise you.
	Yeah, we're going to lobotomise you, essentially.
	And West shared the screenshot and wrote that he was mentally misdiagnosed and nearly drugged out of his mind to make him a manageable and well-behaved celebrity.
	And the text that was sent by Pasternak...
	So these are not just threats.
	These are threats backed by actual force and experience.
	He's done this before.
	So I'm just going to say this.
	If Kanye believes that there is a particular conspiracy theory surrounding him, pushed by people of a particular type, then having those same people threaten to have him institutionalised again is only going to add further fuel to his fire.
	Yeah, we can say that there's clearly a conspiracy within his social circle to institutionalise him for the things he's saying that does not necessarily map onto all Jewish people.
	Like, somehow, if you get circumcised, you get to let him.
	Sadly, this is just something that is common to the managerial state.
	Paul Gottfried has written about it, and I can talk about this, because Paul Gottfried is Jewish, and he has spoken about how any dissent from within the system is not just treated as a difference of opinion or values, it's treated as a mental illness that you need to be psychologised or medicated out of, and that's what they're doing with Kanye.
	And just further than that, they even cut him off from his Apple Pay, and they point out here, if you go to the next link, please, John, This person...
	Lonnie, yeah.
	...shared this video of Kanye talking about how he was just no longer able to use his Apple Pay anymore.
	So this is what happens when you're in a system like we are where everything is connected digitally.
	If you do the wrong thing or say the wrong thing, you're just out.
	They can just switch you off the system altogether.
	So maybe keep a hefty bit of cash just tucked away in a pillowcase just for the future, just in case, or bury gold out in the desert.
	That's what I might think about doing.
	Pablo Escobar.
	And after all of this, Kanye did what any man would do in this circumstance, which is announce he's running for president.
	Yes.
	Wouldn't you?
	Wouldn't you?
	I guess it's got nothing left to lose!
	If the system's against me, I'll become the system.
	How about that?
	I fancy a nice drive out in Dallas with a top-down.
	Yeah, so he posted a video of his campaign logo to social media that was alongside the caption and hashtag, Yay24, and he also claimed to have asked Donald Trump to be his running mate.
	That's right, Mr.
	Trump, would you like to be my vice-president?
	I bet that didn't go down particularly well, and we'll examine how that did go down in a bit.
	Black is the new orange.
	Yeah, so his latest claims came in a video posted after West was spotted at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Golf Club.
	Excuse me.
	And this is something we'll go over again later.
	earlier this week, accompanied by Nick Fuentes, a prominent white nationalist, as they list in this BBC article.
	In a video titled "Mar-a-Lago Debrief", West claimed Trump started basically screaming at me at the table, telling me that I'm going to lose.
	Has that ever worked with anyone in history?
	His reasoning for that, has that ever worked in history, is mainly people betting against him.
	He's saying, "I'm Kanye West, I win everything." I mean, it's worked for Trump when he said to Hillary.
	Yeah, that's true, that's true.
	And for his 2024 bid, the rapper suggested that he had enlisted alt-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos as his campaign manager.
	Most recently, Yiannopoulos had been working as an intern for Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
	So he does seem...
	It's very strange Milo's career trajectory, I must say, because this time last year, looking into the man, he had resorted to hawking cheap Catholic tat on YouTube.
	Excuse me, that's my entire career.
	No, I mean...
	The reason is, Milo is saying...
	And I have no reason to disbelieve him, other than the fact that I can't believe anything Milo says, actually, to be fair.
	But he is saying that his stumbling upon Catholicism has made him convert to being straight.
	Interesting how that works, fair play.
	All the best, bro, I guess.
	If you can come out one way, you might be able to come back out the other way.
	Who knows?
	I don't think we're allowed to say anything more about that on YouTube.
	No.
	to see because it was literally just, here's a video of me talking about my meeting I had with Donald Trump.
	He also suggested in that video that Donald Trump could have done more to support certain prisoners after the January 6th insurrection, if that's how you want to term it.
	And he did bring up some points about Trump surrounding himself with enemies.
	So to John Bolton.
	A lot of the establishment GOP rhinos, which are legitimate concerns.
	But once again, whether on the face of those concerns you then want to put all your trust in Kanye and his ragtag team is very...
	That's up for debate.
	That's up for debate.
	Especially given that Milo seems to be involved in this, and there is a little bit of a conspiracy theory going around here.
	He might be involved in this purely as revenge against the Republican Party.
	Yes.
	Which is, this on Twitter was leaked the other day, that leaked DMs revealed that Kanye West's 24 campaign manager, Milo Yiannopoulos, had been calling him a homosexual before teaming up with him, calling him pathetic and even threatening to kill him for being gay.
	Now, this is unverified.
	Well...
	As far as I'm concerned.
	They are, but they were leaked by Laura Loomer.
	And who is she?
	The former conservative influencer that was equally banned off of everything alongside Alex Jones.
	She was the woman that did the stunt where it got all of the illegal immigrants over the wall into the Pelosi compound.
	She was formerly, I believe she was on friendly terms with Milo back in 2016, and she was on the Trump campaign.
	She was in the circle of influencers.
	Alright.
	So this is 2015-2016 YouTube coming back to bite each other in the arse because they're all a bunch of narcissists.
	Yes, this does seem like a bit of an ego move on Milo's part.
	And if you click off this image and just scroll down as well, there are verified screenshots from, I think it was Parler in 2020, immediately after the 2020 election results were announced, where he said, Trump's scoters' appointments were pointless.
	We defended a selfish clown for nothing.
	I lost everything helping to put Trump into office.
	My life and career were completely destroyed.
	Was it worth it?
	No.
	I feel utterly betrayed.
	I will have vengeance.
	And then I am dedicating the rest of my life To the destruction of the Republican Party.
	Right.
	So, if you combine this with...
	Bear in mind, that's two years ago.
	Things might have changed since then, but...
	But if you combine this with, what, Alan Bakari and Lauren Southern's side of the story, who to believe, God knows.
	All I know is that I don't want all of this catty interpersonal infighting to take down a...
	Solid attempt of dethroning the most popular president in American history.
	And if you're wondering how Nick Fuentes gets involved in all of this, Nick Fuentes, when people refer to him as a white nationalist, I've seen enough clips of himself basically agreeing that I do think that you can use that label.
	Yeah, it's not mischaracterising to say that the dude makes light of the fact that he doesn't think the Holocaust happened.
	It is very interesting as well that a man with the surname Fuentes is a white nationalist, but I'm sure that joke has been done to death at this point.
	Well, it's very hilarious for a man who prattles on about degenerates to seemingly like catboys, but there you go.
	Listen, man, he was dedicated to upkeeping his flatmate's virginity, alright?
	Nick Fuentes, come inspector, yeah.
	Yeah, come detective.
	Coming to a cinema near you.
	Anyway.
	Next.
	So Milo Yiannopoulos back in 2019 did an interview with Nick Fuentes, and given the fact that he's got involved in this whole sphere now, seems to, stands to reason the two had probably been keeping relatively in touch with one another.
	And Milo had recently come back into the spotlight as well by appearing on Timcast, which you have watched, I have not watched this episode.
	I did watch.
	So if you want to give some background to this.
	It's a very, you know what, it's a very actually insightful episode, and it was surprising to me as someone who hadn't seen anything of Milo before this out of the limelight for quite a few years for how subdued and eloquent and calm he came across.
	And so I think...
	In those sunglasses?
	Yes, I did listen to the audio-only version first, in my defence.
	He sounded very eloquent, and so I think this is a rebranding to appear a lot more sensible.
	He certainly has rebranded his accent.
	Yeah, and he's not quite as flamboyant, again, going along with the idea of he's converted.
	And I think this is a sort of PR move to make himself look a lot more respectable and go back into the political sphere, not to get into Milo's head too much, whereas before he might have been seen as a liability.
	And if he is being chameleonic to infiltrate and destroy the Republican Party, he would be going the right way about it in a public relations sort of way.
	Yeah, winning people over to his side by coming across like the bigger man.
	Reasonable.
	Yeah.
	Reformed.
	Yes, potentially.
	And if you're wondering what Fuentes really believes, as I said, he's already basically agreed with the label of white nationalist to describe himself, even though he doesn't like it because of the optical reasons.
	He said that he basically agrees with everything those kinds of people believe.
	He said he wants a dictatorship in this clip, which we can't play because he likewise blames a group that Kanye also wouldn't.
	And Phil, from All That Remains, puts forward his view on this that he's an authoritarian leftist who also shares the leftist views on race.
	He's just pro-white instead of anti-white.
	I would say that's mostly pretty accurate.
	I would just like to talk quickly about...
	Not everything that Fuentes says is disagreeable or wrong.
	I think he has the right ideas about some things.
	Yeah, but then he doesn't, again, much like Andrew Tate says, shape up and be a responsible masculine man, you can't turn around and go, we need to remoralise the country, we need to be family first, we need to reclaim American identity and be a basement dweller with no girlfriend, hunting for your roommate's semen with a fleshlight.
	And when I say that he's got some good takes on some things, I mean when he talks about American aggression overseas, when he talks about women's involvement in politics, which is a take that he shares with Connor, for instance.
	but a lot of what he talks about is kind of delivered with the energy of an edgy 12 year old swearing in front of his mum for the first time and it's not good optics and when he does talk about things that i agree with like his disdain for establishment rhino gop republicans it kind of sullies those takes when you associate them with him and with everything else to do with his brand he comes across basically as anti-israel ben shapiro Similar in aesthetic, similar in talking speed, he just doesn't like the Jews instead.
	There you go.
	You just did his...
	You just imitated his speaking style.
	Did I, really?
	Oh, fair play, I apologise.
	But Candace Owens, who is good friends with Kanye, decided that she wanted nothing to do with this.
	She just wanted to...
	She saw what was going on, went, what the hell is all this?
	I have nothing to do with this.
	So she just distanced herself massively by putting out a public statement.
	Especially because recently she had stood up for Kiri Irving, who had shared a controversial documentary from Amazon Prime on his Twitter.
	Which we cannot repeat the title of.
	Candice had stuck up for him and said, you know, just because he's sharing this doesn't mean he believes every claim made in the documentary.
	And also, he's basically being punished for his vaccine hesitancy that was going on in the NBA while lockdowns were all still going on.
	It's just a retroactive punishment for him that they couldn't get in at the time.
	And she got into a bit of a heated discussion with Ben Shapiro on Twitter, where Ben was sharing, quote-tweeting her, and she was saying, you know, you could just speak to me about this when we're in the show.
	He was actually screenshotting her tweet and then tweeting about it.
	Very strange.
	Yeah, it was almost like trying to avoid tagging her in it, even though he's her boss.
	Sadly, with this whole scenario, I don't think anyone comes out looking good in it, because everybody starts to come off looking petty.
	Candice is probably the best one looking out...
	is the one who's coming out best from this whole thing, because she's just trying to distance herself, and in the first place, her statements regarding Kiri...
	We're very, very measured.
	Yes.
	Very measured.
	But she says here, just to clear some things up, I did not introduce Yate and Milo.
	I simply could not have introduced them.
	I have never had any contact with Milo.
	Again, not a personal shot at someone.
	Just stating the truth.
	I was in London when they met and learned the exact same as everybody else.
	Number three.
	The idea that I have somehow connected Ye Milo and Nick Fuentes to take down Trump is again part and parcel of a drug-induced paranoid narrative.
	Number six.
	I have read more conspiracy theories about myself in the last two months than throughout the entirety of my career.
	None of them are true.
	I draw the line at the idea that I'm part of some sinister plot to split the GOP. Let Ye be Ye.
	Let Trump be Trump.
	So she's taking Actually, almost a more principled free speech approach to this is like, yeah, Ye might be saying stuff that people find crazy and disagree with, but I thought this was free speech.
	I thought this was America!
	You know, that's the kind of attitude that I'm seeing from this.
	Maybe we can all be a little bit more calm about this.
	But as I mentioned earlier on, there was the talk about Kanye gate-crashing Mar-a-Lago, and there has been more developments regarding that.
	So Trump has released statements because a lot of people were freaking out, saying, why has Trump invited all of these people here?
	And Trump said, very explicitly on Truth Social, he said, this past week Kanye West called me to have dinner at Mar-a-Lago.
	Shortly thereafter, he unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends.
	So, by the way that Trump is putting this forward, because Kanye's trying to say, oh, I brought them along, it was all agreed ahead of time.
	Trump is saying, I agreed that Kanye could show up, but not...
	Milo, not Sneeko, not Nick Fuentes.
	And he says, I know nothing about these people.
	We had dinner on Tuesday evening with many members present on the back patio.
	The dinner was quick and uneventful.
	They then left for the airport.
	We also discussed, to a lesser extent, and this is from a later statement that he released, politics, where I told him he should definitely not run for president.
	Any voters you may have should vote for Trump.
	Anyway, we got along great, and he expressed no antisemitism.
	I love that he just has to add that little disclaimer in there at the end.
	He didn't punch Jared Kushner across the table.
	I was able to have a conversation with Kanye where he expressed no anti-Semitism.
	Job successful.
	Why wouldn't I agree to meet?
	Also, I didn't know Nick Fuentes.
	And he also spoke to the New York Post saying that Kanye West very much wanted to visit Mar-a-Lago.
	Our dinner meeting was intended to be Kanye and me only, but he arrived with a guest whom I had never met and knew nothing about.
	And another publication, Axios, reported that Trump had turned to Ye and said, I really like this guy.
	He gets me, in reference to Nick Fuentes.
	But the source also said, to be honest, I don't believe the president knew who the hell Fuentes was.
	It's classical Trump.
	I like everyone until they annoy me because I want to keep people close in case I want to make a deal with them.
	Trump seems like, honestly, a very personable guy.
	I'm sure he'd be really nice to meet face-to-face, but I also read something similar from Christian Bale, who, back in 2012, met Donald Trump while he was filming Dark Knight Rises.
	And afterwards, Christian Bale was just saying, I don't think he knew who I was.
	I think he thought I was the real Bruce Wayne.
	Yeah.
	Donald Trump seems to be a guy who can occasionally go around just with the blinkers on, you know?
	But he is in his 70s.
	It's a line from American Psycho.
	Is that Donald Trump's car?
	Yes.
	And that image of the two of them together has boosted many a Sigma meme that I have had a good chuckle at.
	And Ben Shapiro, as I mentioned, is furious about this whole situation.
	That's why Candace had to separate herself from this immediately.
	Yeah, being Jewish, she's not a fan.
	Big surprise, I know.
	He said, a good way to not accidentally dine with a vile racist and anti-Semite you don't know is not to dine with a vile racist and anti-Semite.
	You don't know.
	Once again, Ben, if you're going by guilt by association just because Donald Trump is friends with Kanye, that's going to be quite difficult when at the same time, once again, you are employing Candace Owens, and I'm not trying to suggest that you should fire her or anything.
	Just that people can be friends with one another without having to share everything.
	He and Milo both worked at Breitbart before they fell out, and Milo decided to call him a cuckold.
	Well, so it seems like Ben has some skin in the game on there.
	Not even that.
	The idea that Trump dines with Nick Fuentes and says complimentary things to him without knowing who he is, and that is the vile racist and anti-Semite, because he's obviously not calling Kanye racist, because Kanye isn't racist, but he is anti-Semitic.
	He's referring to Fuentes there.
	That's not Trump's fault if Kanye gatecrashed his dinner, sat down with Fuentes, and he was nice to him without knowing who he was.
	Yeah, but I've got a little bit more, so I'm going to try and speed through a bit of this.
	Ye decided to call out the Daily Wire by saying that they're accepting 100 grand from Ron DeSantis, so that's why they're trashing me, because he's one of my opponents.
	Ben hit back by saying, sadly, you've trashed yourself.
	You didn't need my help.
	It wasn't me.
	It wasn't the Jews.
	It was just you.
	And then Jeremy Boring, this is all in tweets, John, if you wouldn't mind just carrying along.
	Jeremy Boring said...
	Boring is also the most unfortunate surname.
	We've accepted far more than that from your opponents.
	DeSantis has rented our lists.
	Trump has rented our lists.
	And this is in reference to the mailing lists that they have from all the subscribers.
	Virtually every major Republican figure has rented our lists at some point.
	Stupid argument.
	This kind of didn't work exactly how I imagine he was expecting because there were lots and lots of comments in the thread underneath this.
	Very annoyed that their user information had been sold out to various Republican candidates.
	I mean, you expect it, but to just have the owner of the company just come out and just say it.
	I mean, it's probably in terms and conditions, and also they're not exactly hidden about the fact that they are a Republican partisan outlet and openly ideologically conservative.
	However, when they hock ExpressVPN as a sponsor, it doesn't look good.
	No.
	And there's been some more really weird stuff like this particular tweet from Ye's Twitter.
	This whole scenario is just completely bonkers, everyone.
	Where Ye's Twitter put out this, saying, As much as Ben and I disagree, I pray he joins me in saving our country.
	That seems quite magnanimous and quite friendly.
	That's alright.
	You know what they say?
	Love your enema.
	I mean, all of a sudden this doesn't seem like a friendly call to shake hands and make up.
	Spelling's not my core competency when I'm sleepy.
	If Nick keeps tweeting from my account, the only platform I'll have left is TruthSocial.
	Right, that's a very complex tweet, because he's mocking the idea of love thy enemy, which is obviously a New Testament idea.
	I'm sorry, this seems to me like something that either Milo...
	No, it's Nick.
	Right.
	Or Nick has tweeted out.
	The reason is Nick...
	Hang on, hang on, hang on.
	I don't know if you would put Nick at the end if it is...
	Right, hang on, right.
	The reason is, spelling's not my core competency when I'm sleepy.
	It's obviously a reference to his DEFCON tweet, which he said, I'm going to go to bed and wake up.
	And I think it's Nick, not just...
	Milo, yes, has his grievances with Ben, but Nick has the most recent one because he ambushed Ben and his family while out in public and said, why don't you debate me?
	It's on video.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, so I think it is Nick.
	Alright, I'm just thinking perhaps Nick wouldn't dob himself in in the last line.
	I think Nick would definitely want to brag about that, having access to Kanye West's account.
	Maybe, but I feel like Milo would probably also want to sow discord within the circle.
	Milo would want his name on it.
	Milo would want his name on it.
	I don't know.
	Well, maybe.
	Anyway, let's skip past this next one.
	It's less relevant.
	Elon Musk has shown that he's just happy to let this whole thing play out on his platform.
	He probably just loves all of the eyes that this is bringing.
	Like the Nation of Israel's Twitter account to put out, we would very much like to be excluded from this narrative with a screenshot of Ye's first tweet back after he got unbanned that said, Shalom.
	Shalom.
	With a little smiley face, like it was Friday night dinner or something.
	And if you scroll down, Elon responded to this by just saying, Your tweets are good!
	More countries should tweet like this.
	No fun being all stuffy.
	So Elon's just reveling in it as the S-poster that he is.
	And honestly, this whole scenario is bonkers.
	This whole scenario is ridiculous.
	I wish it wasn't happening because some might want to say, Oh, you know, yay standing up is good because it opens up certain narratives.
	And some don't want them fighting against Trump, but if we're honest, the real loser in all of this is the American right wing.
	Let's be perfectly honest.
	What's happening here is that the rhetoric and the optics around this are terrible.
	It's going to look terrible for Trump, it's going to look terrible for anybody associated with Trump, and it's going to give Fuel to the fire of establishment rhinos who point to somebody like Trump and say, see, he's a bastion of extremism with this country.
	He's only ever going to let people like Nick Fuentes call the shots, even though he was letting Jared Kushner call the shots during his first run.
	So let's just take a look at some of the responses that I've got.
	So first of all, Newsweek put this one out.
	Nick Fuentes turns on Donald Trump, calls for a new 2024 candidate.
	So this is just rending the entirety of the MAGA Trump movement apart.
	Once again, Nick Fuentes, just because he says a lot of stupid things, doesn't always say...
	Not everything he says is wrong.
	He called for a new far-right candidate to outflank Trump in 2024 as he questioned what Christian Americans would get out of a new Trump White House.
	He said, Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene are being used as bait to lure the base back to supporting people like Kevin McCarthy, Ronald McDaniel, and Rick Grenell.
	I didn't leave the MAGA movement.
	The MAGA movement left me.
	And there is some truth to that, because Kevin McCarthy Chronicles recently had a very good article on that.
	Talking about Kevin McCarthy along with Mitch McConnell and the type, pulled out a lot of support for people like Blake Masters, for the MAGA Republicans, for the midterms, which could have been what led to quite a few of these candidates losing, whereas if they'd had more support from the core establishment GOP, perhaps there would have been something, perhaps the midterms might not have been as disappointing.
	He continues, what are Christian Americans going to get out of a McCarthy speakership or a new Trump White House?
	Lower gas prices, reduce the corporate tax rate, years will pass us by as things remain fundamentally the same, we must dream bigger, there's only one guy talking about the aspirations of a Trump movement that have been hijacked by people like Jared Kushner.
	Well once again this, I find very little to disagree with there, but the fact that it's coming from Nick Fuentes immediately ruins it for going out into the public.
	Because what happens is even the White House has come out and slammed Donald Trump's dinner with Nick Fuentes, saying that bigotry and hate have no place in America.
	So, once again, that's all people will be able to see.
	Trump dines with actual white supremacists, actual white nationalists.
	Looks terrible for him.
	And then you get headlines like this one.
	Who is Nick Fuentes?
	Holocaust denier who dined with Donald Trump.
	No one comes out of this looking good, and Trump's name is smeared just by association with this.
	So I don't want to disavow literally everything that Nick Fuentes has said, but this is all terrible, and everybody should start being a bit more sensible and centrist like the rest of us here.
	Sensible centrism is the way to go.
	Alright, on to my last one.
	I'll make it quick.
	So it's important sometimes that we make content that pierces outside of our usual bubble.
	We can get into the habit of talking a lot to ourselves on this channel, on this website, and as much as we love our loyal viewers, you might be struggling against the fact that some of your family members or uninformed political normies challenge you and call you a conspiracy theorist if you think, for example, the government isn't acting in our interests and aren't Connor,
	that first example is going to get you in some trouble.
	I disavow Mussolini.
	And wondering why all of these problems are happening, but you didn't really get what you voted for back in 2019, or you can't understand why the opposition party, which you might be voting for, also has the same philosophy as the Conservatives, just a little bit faster, right?
	Today we're going to look at why democracy basically...
	Yeah, it's only a repositioning.
	Yeah, of course it is, but still.
	He wouldn't have a voter base otherwise.
	So, we're going to look at why democracy no longer matters in the UK, and why the institutions and parliament are pushing an agenda that seems to be at odds with what the actual people want.
	And if you want to look at why...
	Democracy is dead.
	You can go to our website, subscribe for £5 a month, and listen to our book clubs.
	For example, this one on the populist delusion by very sensible centrist Nima Parvini.
	Interesting stuff on what we can learn from the Italian elite theorists as to how to appoint our preferred candidates into power, like Elon Musk is currently doing with Twitter and returning free speech to the internet.
	All right.
	First off, we'll go to the ULEZ zone.
	So, for those that don't know, the ULEZ is like an emissions tax that is levied by certain districts.
	You can go to my segment on Uber, for example, or Josh's Weft's War on Cars segment on our website.
	What happens is, if your vehicle doesn't meet the ultra-low emission zone standards and isn't exempt, like you don't have a disabled badge, for example, you have to pay £12.50 a day to drive inside the zone.
	That's pretty much the whole of London now, because despite consultancy, Sadiq Khan has expanded it.
	This is most cars...
	It's also coming to Manchester, I noticed, recently, driving up there.
	It's in Oxford, it's in Bath, it's in Edinburgh, it's in plenty of cities.
	Now, it is the whole of London and Greater London.
	If we can move to the next one, this is the Greater London Conservatives.
	Just scroll down, please, John.
	He promised a consultancy, right, and...
	And 68% of respondents, when organised, said, no thanks.
	70% of Outer London, 80% of people who work in Outer London, 80% of Outer London business owners, and 90% of black cab drivers all said, no thanks, don't expand it.
	And Sadiq Khan went, right, will of the people, I'm expanding it anyway.
	And it's because he's got a massive black hole in tax revenue, because he keeps spending things on diversity, equity, and inclusion announcements on the tubes, the buses, and in cinemas, and TfL just isn't working, isn't being upgraded.
	Also, I'm just going to, this might be controversial, the idea of the will of the people, I think, is an inherently leftist subversive idea, because they classify the will of the people as always being whatever pushes it leftward.
	Well, they identify it as, we know what is best for you, and so we will impose on you what you stupid plebs haven't thought of yet, and so if you vote for against your interests, it doesn't matter what you voted for, we'll do whatever we want when we get into government anyway.
	Well, they consider it as part of the almost divine dialectic.
	The will of the people is like the word of God.
	And my book of God has been written by French postmodernists.
	Yeah, okay, that's probably closest.
	It's more Rousseau's general will state, where the state decides what the general will of the people is and then just pushes it on the people.
	And if the state got it wrong, then the state didn't get the general will right.
	And if the people don't like the general will, then you're not a member of the people, are you?
	And you get the guillotine.
	So that's wonderful.
	Anyway, let's go next.
	Record migration.
	We didn't really vote for that, did we?
	The Brexit happened.
	We said we wanted to control our borders, reduce immigration.
	The 2019 Conservative Manifesto was get Brexit done.
	We're going to control our borders and get immigration under control.
	Well, as the Office for National Statistics recently released, we've reached 435,000 people increase in total migration compared with a year earlier, driven by non-EU nationals, up 379,000.
	From 379,000 to 704,000 people in the year ending June 2022.
	And that means that overall net migration to the population in the year June 2022 was an estimated 504,000 more people arriving long term to the UK than departing.
	504,000.
	So half a million people have just been added in the last year.
	And most people obviously all need transport, water...
	Is that net?
	Yes, net increase.
	Net increase.
	Half a million people just got added in the country.
	Great.
	If we go to the next one, we can see the reason why, actually.
	This Telegraph article breaks it down.
	The increase is mainly due to student visas, funnily enough.
	A new high of 476,389 overseas visas were granted in year up to September 2022, up 77% on 2019, before the pandemic of course.
	A fifth of them brought 116,000 partners or children with them, so it's chain migration by students.
	That gives a total student visa count with dependents of nearly 600,000.
	That figure is no accident, but it's a deliberate policy by Boris Johnson's government, which committed in February 2021 to increase the number of international students hosted in the UK to 600,000 by 2030.
	So it's eight years ahead of schedule because of the potential economic and soft power benefits.
	So basically we can incentivize the Indians and Chinese to get all of their lot educated here.
	They can do all of the money that their families have probably earned from employing slave labour.
	Pay up front for very expensive fees and top-class student accommodation, price everyone else out of the market, and then take all their skills and bugger off back home.
	It's incredible how the Conservative Party are hyper-competent at things people didn't vote for them for.
	That's a fantastic point, yeah.
	On Thursday night, Downing Street signalled a clampdown on foreign students with restrictions on the number of relatives they can bring and curbs on studying low-quality degrees to reduce net migration.
	So, the idea is that they're going to funnel pretty much all of us paws into the crapper unis.
	Because, of course, there's a perverse incentive within the universities to take in more of these students from abroad because they can charge them more fees and take their money at the drop of a hat.
	Wonderful.
	What about all the job vacancies, eh?
	In this article, it breaks down the fact that not only is there student chain migration from Nigerians who brought 51,648 relatives for only 50,980 students and Libyans who brought 467 relatives to 305 students And then other nations who had one relative for every two students, being Sri Lanka, Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Iran.
	Again, why are we letting people do that?
	All these job vacancies it keeps talking about, you know, the two million people who are out of work.
	The number of work visas have increased by 82% to 248,000.
	919.
	Largely fuelled by non-EU migrants seeking employment in the UK. So all of this is, we need to increase immigration to fill these jobs.
	They are at new records.
	82% increase.
	We can't keep staffing every job in the country with a bunch of people who have turned up on our doorstep and expect money and expect never to pay into the system but to get entitlements from it.
	It's not fair.
	It's not fair for actual hard-working Brits who have inherited this country and want to build a life for their children.
	It's not fair.
	You just don't sound like you understand press economics.
	Oh, yeah.
	Who's going to fill my coffee pot up, eh?
	I'm a metropolitan...
	Oh, whatever.
	The lovies.
	Anyway, next.
	Remember the 2019 Conservative Manifesto that promised to do this?
	An Australian-style points-based immigration system to control immigration?
	Supposedly, they did implement it.
	I just don't know how or what it does.
	Yeah, the point standards are so low, they just let record amount of people in.
	Yeah, that must be it.
	Yep.
	I'm sure it's nothing to do with 25% of the Conservative Party who are housing developers, who obviously like the fact that the property market price is still very high.
	Speaking of conspiracy theories, let's get on to the people behind the Hunt budget, shall we?
	Now, Jeremy Hunt instituted his budget fairly recently because of obviously how trust and economics crashed the economy.
	You know, that one budget that said a 1% tax cut that was supposedly unfunded and all the banks and the guilt rates went, oh my god, we can't fund this.
	But mysteriously, when the Bank of England was printing money hand over fist, just digitally, not properly by the way, that was majorly affordable.
	And it just so happens that getting rid of trusts supplanted the guy who did their really fiscally irresponsible policy and caused inflation and got him to BPM when he was rejected.
	It's almost like democracy doesn't matter anymore.
	Oh, what a conspiracy theory.
	Some quotes from this budget.
	Hunt said he thanked the former chancellor, George Osborne, for laying the foundations to make all of this possible.
	Keep George Osborne's name in mind.
	He blames global factors and Putin's war in Ukraine for inflation.
	He said, Now bear in mind, inflation was 5.5% before Putin invaded Russia.
	This is in February.
	This is a creation of COVID policy, which Rishi Sunak was in charge of.
	And Jeremy Hunt wanted longer lockdowns modelled off of the Chinese, so he's equally as totalitarian, if not more.
	And he said, We will not change the Bank of England's remit.
	We must have fiscal and monetary policy working in concert.
	Just to remind you of what the Bank of England did during lockdown that got us in this position.
	If we can go, John, to the next one, please.
	The Bank of England decided to make quantitative easing.
	It's had to stop it as of this month because quantitative easing basically means introducing money into the money supply of actually printing new banknotes.
	So it's just digitally inflating the currency, but the cash in your pocket is actually worth less because it's not that there's more of it in circulation.
	So it's a stealth tax, basically.
	It was started under Gordon Brown and ramped up through COVID.
	They printed billions to pay directly for furloughed.
	So again, don't be gaslit into the idea that this is all Putin.
	This is domestic monetary policy, which you had no say over because they locked you down and paid you to sit at home as a healthy person.
	Let's go back to the statement, shall we?
	So, I'm just going to go through a few of the policies.
	Yeah, here is the amount, by the way, of quantitative easing that they did.
	$895 billion that they printed.
	In 2020 alone?
	Billion pounds.
	Billion pounds, sorry.
	Dollars.
	I'm used to talking about American stuff so much.
	895 billion pounds they printed to pay for furlough.
	Do you think that might have a problem with the money supply?
	Why everything might start costing more?
	No?
	Guess I'm just a conspiracy theorist.
	So, some of the policies that go here...
	Jeremy Hunt said, the UK, like other countries, if we can go to the next one please, John, is in recession.
	In the short term, as growth slows and unemployment rises, we will use fiscal policy to support the economy.
	Then, once growth returns, we can increase the pace of consolidation to get debt falling.
	This further reduces pressure on the bank to raise interest rates because, as Conservatives, we do not leave our debts to the next generation.
	What a load of politics.
	What bollocks!
	Right, but did you notice in there, he's talking about when the debt's bad, we're going to lower money printing and really tighten the wallet, and when things get better, we're going to reopen the printing and reopen spending properly again.
	Does that not just sound like Keynesian socialist economics?
	Well, that is Keynesianism.
	Keynesianism.
	There we go.
	He said, we want low taxes and sound money, but Conservatives know that sound money has to come first, Because inflation eats away at the pound in people's pockets even more insidiously than taxes.
	And then he immediately proceeds to raise taxes.
	So he wants to reduce the national deficit by 55 billion.
	So tax is going to increase 1% of GDP over five years.
	Income tax threshold for the 45% rate is reduced from 150,000 to 125,000.
	So those earning 150,000 are going to pay an extra 1200 quid in tax every year.
	He's freezing tax allowance thresholds until 2028.
	The dividend allowance is halved from £2,000 to £1,000 in 2023 and halving again to £500 in 2024.
	An annual exempt amount for capital gains tax has been cut from £12,300 to £6,000 in 2023 and cut again in half to £3,000 in 2024.
	From 2025, EVs will lose exemption from vehicle excise duty, so that's road tax.
	So if you wanted to upgrade your electric car because they're going to try and make you ban petrol cars in 2030, congratulations, you're not exempt from the tax from that.
	Stamp duty cuts for home buyers, which were announced in the mini-budget from Trust Quarting, will remain in place until 2025, after which the measure will be sunsetted, so they're still going to tax you when you buy a house, because they don't want you to own anything.
	The government programme being sunsetted, brilliant.
	Yeah, that's not going to happen.
	That's a first.
	Employers' national insurance threshold is frozen until 2028, so that massive high rate of national insurance is going to stay for another five years.
	Employment allowance retained a new rate of 5,000 until 2026.
	40% of businesses will not meet this and not need to pay any national insurance per annum.
	International tax deal proposed by Rishi Sunak, which was the global corporation tax rate at a minimum of 15%, is projected to steal $2.8 billion for the Treasury by 2027-2028, and they're actually saying about raising that to levels beyond what Jeremy Corbyn proposed in 2019.
	Again, you didn't vote for that.
	R&D tax relief for small and medium-sized enterprises cut to 86% and the credit rate is up to 10%.
	And then a windfall tax, which was Labour's policy for the profits on oil and gas firms, which is definitely not going to go at all, disincentivise them investing back in the sector and generating better energy, specifically with oil and gas, is being instituted to raise energy profits levy from 25% to 35%.
	And from January 1st, a temporary 45% levy on electricity generators is projected to steal $14 billion from the Treasury.
	How convenient that this comes at a time when the renewables ideologues have supplanted the boards of many of these energy firms and are pushing technologies which the battery isn't there yet, they're really expensive, they're subsidised by the government, and they know for the fact that they will fail and they'll have to ration it so they can control your smart meters, your smart fridges, your electric cars, you won't be able to travel anywhere, and God forbid you say the wrong thing on social media and it all gets turned off.
	And if you don't believe me, they actually drafted legislation for that, so that's pretty worrying.
	There's also a lie by omission here.
	We go to the next one.
	Liam Halligan, the economics expert for GB News, found in the OBR documents, not in Jeremy Hunt's announcement, that there's a 23% increase in fuel duty.
	So 23% increase to the tax already on petrol.
	So they're just pricing you out of the road.
	Now remember when Rishi Sunak cut 5p of fuel duty earlier last year.
	Well that might have been even earlier this year actually.
	Yeah, god this year's been so long.
	The government's inflationary measures had already meant that VAT had already rose to 7p.
	So even the 5p cut they were still making 2p per litre up.
	So they're still taxing you to death.
	And they will eventually just give you a fine for owning a petrol car.
	They're planning to in 2030, yes.
	Yeah, that is what they are going to do.
	And at that point, it's just going to be like, are you going to stand up against it?
	Yep.
	That's what my dad said.
	My dad fits pipes and boilers and he said, you know what, I've never been on a protest in my life.
	They take my car or they take my boiler, I'll be out in the street.
	I think because of a lot of this stuff being mostly invisible to the mass public, most people don't pay attention to it.
	When all of a sudden it is literally just, can't have that car anymore.
	Yeah.
	Going to either fine it or take it away from you.
	That's when the penny's going to drop for a lot of people.
	Definitely.
	So, back to the budget then.
	What's all this to pay for?
	All these tax rises, right?
	We've got to repair the hole in the deficit.
	We've got to restrict spending, right?
	Oh, no.
	So, he's kept Kwasi Kwarteng's removal of the cap on bankers' bonuses to make sure the bankers get paid, because they're definitely up to nothing nefarious and have never caused a crash in their life.
	They didn't remove non-don tax exempt status, which Rishi Sunak's wife is benefiting from, because despite being billionaires and raising the taxes in this country, they weren't paying any of them themselves, of course.
	They had an extra £150 billion spent on energy this year, that's renewables, which again are going to fail.
	They plan to turn the United Kingdom into the world's next Silicon Valley by putting investment zones in universities in left-behind areas to create tech research hubs.
	If you'd like to see...
	You can see my segment linked in the description, not here, on how his wife and Jeremy Hunt, they met while she was recruiting more students for the Chinese government to bring them over and invest in the UK's university sector.
	So again, they're just creating entrepreneurial outlets for foreign governments to send over their citizens, poach all our skills and come back and build up their countries at our expense.
	So the spending policies in the budget, there's a bit of a list.
	So they're going to grow government department spending at rates already set out in the next two years and then 1% over the next three years.
	$280 million into benefits fraud.
	They've already paid Ukraine $2.3 billion.
	All right, John.
	The second highest behind £60 billion, but I'm just going to skip that.
	Climate change COP26 commitments have been upheld despite the cost.
	So that's now a 68% emissions reduction by 2030.
	Education spending is going up by £2.3 billion for the next two years.
	Grant funding for adult social care by £1 billion.
	There's £600 billion being spent on devolution, which is another Blairist policy.
	So it's going to create mini-governments all across Manchester and the Midlands and all like that.
	So it's going to be completely devolved from Parliament.
	But you've got, like, mayorships and councils in those areas.
	What's the point of creating mini-governments?
	They're going to add way more.
	They're increasing universal credit benefits alongside inflation by 10.1%.
	It's going to be another 11 billion.
	Pension credit's going up by 10.1%, and the triple lot remains in place, which means that our state pension goes up with the inflation rate, so that's going to be one of the major costs of the country.
	He's increasing NHS spending because you couldn't decrease immigration, of course.
	So, I can't believe I'm saying it.
	Where's all that austerity leftists keep talking about?
	I keep hearing about austerity, conservative, penny pinchers.
	I don't see any of that.
	Well, this guy was on the Architects of Austerity, and he's been working with the former Architects of Austerity to provide us this budget.
	We'll get onto that in a moment.
	I can't believe I'm saying it.
	Tom Harwood's right.
	Oh my god.
	We've become a social democracy, which basically means that we're taxing everyone to death and redistributing any of the wealth.
	And, um...
	Yeah, it's going to stifle innovation, and it's going to make everything more expensive, and the government's going to control the entire economy.
	Again, I don't remember voting for Libertarian Boris to do this, do you?
	And there's not much difference between the parties right now.
	Absolutely accurate.
	So who's setting this policy agenda, shall we?
	Oh, it's Tony Blair.
	Tony Blair's back in government.
	Great.
	David Cameron reportedly described himself as the heir to Blair.
	Chancellor George Osborne, remember?
	Privately referred to Blair as the master.
	But Jeremy Hunt specifically said he's appointed to oversee the NHS budget rises.
	Patricia Hewitt.
	Now, do you know who Patricia who is?
	I've heard the name, but I don't remember.
	In 2001, she was appointed to Blair's cabinet, so she was a 1997 New Labour MP. She was President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, and then became the Health Secretary in 2005, so she's utterly reviled as an architect of the Blair agenda.
	Then he hired Sir Michael Barber, the former head of No.
	10 Delivery Unit under Tony Blair.
	Then it turns out that Tony Blair has been prepping government policies because he worked with Matt Hancock on the vaccine rollout.
	He decided to stick his oar in on the Northern Ireland Protocol, where one diplomat said he does not agree with government on every point, but Tony Blair had certainly been a helpful voice.
	And in 2021, in January, Hunt and Blair held an online discussion organized by Chatham House Think Tank about the future of liberal democracy.
	In the 15-minute talk, they covered the NHS, artificial intelligence, the expansion of universities, welfare fraud, and China.
	It was a real love-in, according to someone who had been sat in on it.
	And then, as well, Will Dry has been appointed a Downing Street Special Advisor.
	He founded the anti-Brexit advocacy group Our Future, which has been aligned with Blair.
	So no wonder we're now seeking to re-enter the single market, like the Swiss are.
	So, as well, who's been appointed Jeremy Hunt's financial advisors?
	You've gone over this before in your BlackRock segment.
	Osborne's Chief of Staff from 2010 to 2015, Rupert Harrison.
	So, again, George Osborne sticking his nose back in.
	He left the Treasury to join BlackRock, where he was fund manager and head of a research team for the world's biggest fund manager.
	Rachel Reeves, Labour's Shadow Chancellor, claimed George Osborne himself also contributed to the budget directly.
	If we go to the next one from The Guardian, it turns out that another portfolio manager at BlackRock, who said they wanted to remain anonymous, said that while some cuts would be necessary, the overall package and long-term plan contained within the budget are more important.
	So what's the long-term plan, I hear you ask?
	Well, let's go to the World Economic Forum's website.
	Larry Fink, if we go down to a little bit, John.
	Larry Fink's listed as one of their heads, which isn't fantastic.
	There we go.
	Lawrence Fink.
	Right, we go over to his portfolio on the website.
	Yep, we can just see he's founded BlackRock on that.
	So what's the West's agenda?
	For those outside of our regular viewership who won't quite know, go to Forbes.
	Welcome to 2030.
	I have nothing, I have no privacy, and life is never been better.
	Right, so you won't own anything.
	Digital currency, digital ID, everything's run on renewables, which they can ration, and you won't have a car.
	You'll either have to walk, cycle, or use public transport, which you can have your access confiscated if you say the wrong thing on social media.
	So that's what this budget is building.
	One other just quick thing about that was that your home will also be rented for business meetings when you're not using it.
	Yes.
	And a drone will deliver your kitchen utensils to you and drop it back to whoever needs it afterwards.
	It's not like you needed anything anyway.
	So if we go on to this, this is our only hope, I guess.
	Reform UK. They're obviously campaigning as the alternative to the Tories.
	They're saying the Conservatives are currently making us poorer after 12 years as just doing a controlled demolition of British prosperity.
	And I'm inclined to agree.
	Richard Tice has also said he will never have any affiliation with the World Economic Forum.
	So you've immediately got my vote, because I'm sick of the Conservatives, personally.
	He's also been meeting recently with potential Tory defectors beyond the Red Wall, who have said, if we go to the next one please, John, that we'll jump ship from the Conservatives over the migration issue and become Reform UK MPs.
	So we could overnight get some of the Red Wall MPs who were voted on a Brexit ticket to join Reform UK. To join a party that might let them do the...
	Immigration reforms.
	Yeah, formerly known as the Brexit Party, because they cared about Brexit.
	So if we go on to the last one, we're just going to say that Martin Dormley, who will be on the show next week, has said about the wonderful Nigel Farage, watch this space.
	We know you're coming back, Nigel.
	Just let us know when, because frankly, after the Conservatives have sabotaged the democratic mandate handed to them in 2019, when we all believe that hopefully they would lower taxes and not lock us in our homes.
	How naive we were.
	Yeah, well, you're our only hope.
	Alright, on to the video comments then.
	We'll go with the Star Wars ending there.
	Help me, Nigel Farage.
	You're our only hope.
	Modern.
	A woman is a being made in the image of God and the other half of man and must dedicate herself to service, just like men.
	Valado Hadis.
	Modern.
	A woman is what she makes of herself in her march towards progress and she must decide for herself what is good and she must decide for herself what she is and her place in society.
	Postmodern.
	What is a woman?
	I don't know.
	I'm not a biologist.
	Akira, I have told my girlfriend multiple times, don't let your emotional randomness get in the way of me making you happy, because I can make myself happy, and therefore I can make you happy.
	And if I wasn't around, you wouldn't know how to make yourself happy, so don't make me unhappy, and you'll be happy!
	Well, there you go.
	Also notice in the pre-modern to modern phase, the idea that men have to serve still hadn't changed because, you know, whether you want to say it out loud or not, that's what reality foists upon us, a certain responsibility.
	Just for those who are living in the dark, dark North England who needs to be reminded, if you are feeling tired and depressed, D-vitamin.
	Our greatest source of D-vitamin is the sun.
	We literally develop white skin just to absorb every last bit of D-vitamin from the sun.
	But the few hours we have, you're spending inside.
	So remember to eat your D-vitamin.
	Multi-taps is not enough.
	You need to eat the D-vitamin with the sun if you're living in the north where there's absolutely no sun at this time of year.
	I feel like this was explicitly directed at me, because I've been very tired recently.
	It's been visible on the podcast.
	So I hear you, Sophie.
	I probably should get back into my vitamins.
	All right, there.
	Any chance you can get Lauren Chen on?
	She's quite happy with you lot, and she's done a couple of shout-outs in the past, one fairly recently as well.
	And I think it would be quite interesting if you guys could sit down and have a good chat.
	If she's ever in England, I'm sure we'd all be very happy.
	That's frankly it, mate.
	There's plenty of guests we'd love to have overseas.
	I'd love to have John Doyle on.
	That'd be a brilliant podcast.
	Oh, that would be spicy.
	That would be spicy.
	We're not...
	Planes are expensive.
	That's it.
	So if they're ever over, and incidentally they'd like to come visit us, they should definitely let us know.
	We'd love to have them.
	Sadly, Oren McIntyre was over recently, but his schedule just didn't fit in, so we couldn't get him on.
	So that was a real kick.
	My favourite sign tapper.
	I know.
	Anyway...
	So, just for kicks and giggles, I decided to look up what Pret actually means, and oh my god, no wonder it's so, uh, favoured by such insufferable twats.
	I forgot our American audience probably don't know what Pret means.
	It's just a bougie London coffee chain that's modelled off the pretending to be French.
	It's like, it's basically English Starbucks.
	We have Starbucks.
	I know, but our own version of it, yeah.
	Facing the long drop, Louis Mazzini sets about writing his memoir.
	Cast out of a noble family, his mother, who married for love rather than position, is forced to live in penury.
	Her son resolves to murder his way back to his rightful title.
	Kind Hearts and Coronets is classic healing comedy with total understatement and measured delivery.
	The film is laden with jokes and witty scenes and shows how poorly modern comedies are paced by comparison.
	The inclusion of the rhyme Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe does age the film, but it has possibly the finest cliffhanger ending ever committed to celluloid.
	That sounds very interesting.
	I'll have to check that out.
	And also, Eenie Meenie Money Moe.
	I used to do that when I was a kid.
	You know, if you play in tag, Eenie Meenie Money Moe.
	So it's not that dated.
	I mean, I know the rhyme.
	I didn't play it for fun.
	Like I had Nintendo.
	Well, you would do it...
	Did you not play tag on the playground when you were a kid?
	No, I did.
	We had it.
	Yeah, it got really violent.
	It wasn't...
	Oh, you just, like, punched each other?
	Yeah, yeah.
	We'd all put our foot in the middle and you'd, like, point to each foot individually.
	Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, catch a baby by its own.
	No, we had full contact to Rugby Bulldog.
	Alright.
	On concrete.
	Alright.
	Carry on.
	It's a little baffling seeing all of the hand wringing over Kanye's strange opinions because these are opinions that are held by a very large proportion of the black community.
	I'd say at least one in five of the black people that work in my store basically buy into this concept on some level.
	It's also kind of weird seeing all these ADL types saying that white people aren't doing enough to police the opinions of Kanye when it's like, isn't he a black man?
	Why are the white people the ones being required to police this guy?
	Yeah, it's quite funny how when Louis Farrakhan got cancelled and Snoop Dogg came out and said, don't you dare take Minister Farrakhan off of Facebook, he got a Just Eat advert deal afterwards, but Kanye comes out and says the exact same thing that actually...
	A lot more tepid than Farrakhan did, because Farrakhan calls them satanic and termites.
	Suddenly, he loses billions.
	I'm just going to say, shout out for that meme that you put there of Yakub giving white people lactose intolerance.
	Do you not know what that is?
	I have no idea, mate.
	In the nation of Islam, they believe that white people were created by a rogue evil scientist called Yakub as revenge for other black people.
	Not liking him.
	Right, so it's Melanated Frankenstein.
	Yes.
	We're Unmelanated Frankenstein's monster.
	I don't know if we would be allowed, but it would be an amazing premium podcast to go through what these people believe.
	Oh, it's brilliant.
	Oh, I'd be very up for that.
	We should do that.
	Anyway, let's carry on to the next one.
	Comedy in Little Joan with another Lotus Eater white pill.
	From Petapixel comes the story of smart glasses.
	These are glasses that allow deaf people to see conversations in real time.
	So you have a set of glasses and as people in the room speak, the glasses translate that into words that run across a little screen that the deaf person can see.
	It can identify individual speakers and they hope in the future to add translation software so it could translate as well.
	I'll buy my missus a pair.
	That's very interesting, because oftentimes when we think, and especially when we talk about AI and developments in AI, we often look at the doom and gloom, negative side of it, but that's good to point out that there are very positive applications for that kind of science as well.
	I keep getting adverts on Spotify about Microsoft have done this new thing with smart barcodes, and so blind people can scan them and listen to the ingredients and all sorts, and that's actually a useful AI function.
	Yeah, honestly, I've seen some...
	There is some still terrifying stuff, though.
	I've seen a few YouTube adverts pop up saying, like, I can be your AI girlfriend.
	And I'm like, bloody hell, one's enough.
	A real woman is enough.
	I was going to say, if I buy Anna those glasses, so she doesn't have the excuse of, oh, I was lip-reading, I couldn't hear you anymore, so she has to listen to what I say.
	Oh dear.
	Should be like the rest of the office.
	That'll put a time limit on that relationship.
	Fucking hell.
	Alright then, we've got time for a couple of comments, haven't we?
	Lord Nerevar, overwhelmingly pleased with what's going on in China.
	It's not just incredibly moralising to see the masses rising against the totalitarian state, but it's also bloody nose to the globalist order that wants to impose its way of life on the rest of us.
	Since the pandemic began, our leaders have been lauding China's actions.
	How are they like it now, I wonder?
	Also, I just said globalists in the same sentence.
	I'm definitely going to jail for that.
	I can hear Jonathan Greenblatt tweeting as we speak.
	Well, clearly joining the Kanye campaign.
	Karen M. Please suppress your soul's desires for freedom.
	Towns eerily reminiscent to the now-removed article on the WEF website called You Will Own Nothing, You Will Be Happy.
	Oh, it's still up, by the way.
	It's on Forbes.
	It's not even archived.
	You can just read it.
	By a former Danish MP. Yeah, the Environment Minister.
	So every time they turn around and say, oh, we're doing this for the planet, for net zero, it's for your own good.
	No, it's just a Trojan horse to tyrannise you.
	In which she mentioned that in 2030, every now and then she gets annoyed at having no privacy, but she focuses on suppressing that emotion.
	Everyone who's still giving the WEF the benefit of the doubt should look to the PRC, I'm not sure what that means to be, People's Republic of China, and decide whether they want to live like that.
	I bet 99.9% of all people would decline the invitation.
	Yes, it's the sensible, centrist position to not want to live like the Communist Chinese.
	If you want to go on to yours.
	Yeah, I'll go on to mine.
	So Binary Surfer says, Milo, amusing as he may have been, is pure anarchy and pure entropy.
	He destroys everything he touches, whether or not he means to.
	I don't buy the Reformation arc.
	I do buy the Revenge arc.
	Yeah.
	That's Cole's.
	That's Cole's.
	I'm not going to say that I think that everything that Lauren Southern came out about in her video was going to be entirely accurate or not self-interested and motivated, but everything that she said about Milo in that video definitely seems within his character.
	It seems believable.
	Bald Eagle 1787 says All Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro have done it since the midterms.
	It showed that they are the establishment that they claim to be fighting against.
	They act as though they are morally superior and know what's best for the Republican Party going forward.
	At this point, Republicans deserve to lose the presidential election just to complete the split of populists that actually care about the country and the new establishment that will continue the US interfering with world affairs.
	We need to clean our own ranks before we need to try and take on the current system.
	He has not been watching Michael Knowles' show, clearly.
	Knowles is completely different to Shapiro, Boring, and Walsh on this respect.
	I think there is some definite division within the Daily Wire, especially given that Candice Owens has had to so publicly distance herself from a lot of what's going on right now.
	That suggests that there is some dissent within the ranks.
	Yes.
	I think that's all we've got time for.
	Sorry if we couldn't read out any more comments.
	We had a lot to talk about today, so thank you very, very much.
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