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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #624

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	Good afternoon and welcome to the podcast Lotus Eaters episode 620.
	On today, the 4th of April 2023, I'm your host Harry, joined by Dan.
	Hello.
	And today we've only got two segments for you, but they should be damn good ones, I'd like to think.
	First of all, we're going to be talking about the never-ending enrichment of big business into the UK that will break us because they just want never-ending immigration so that they can... Sounds good, lots of enrichment.
	Nice and suppressed, using foreign labour.
	And then we're also going to be talking about the OEIC, which I have absolutely no clue about.
	People normally just say OPEC, but... OPEC, whatever.
	The angle on that is... Well, it didn't say OPEC, though.
	It said O-E-I-C.
	Oh, did it?
	Okay.
	Well, that's OPEC plus my dyslexia, so... Ah, that explains a lot.
	So now we've got two dyslexics in the office, you and Callum.
	Absolutely brilliant.
	And before we actually get into the news, we do have an announcement, which is Dan's newest episode of Brokenomics will be going live on the website today at 3pm for our premium users.
	So if you're watching and you're not yet a premium user, you can sign up for as little as £5 per month.
	So I'd really recommend it.
	What's this episode going to be about, Dan?
	Well, that one's going to be about Blackrock.
	Really?
	Getting into that, yeah, that's the, um, yeah, I've concealed it well.
	Is that Mr. Larry Fink right there in the thumbnail?
	That's the one, the man.
	Everybody's favourite.
	The man behind it all.
	The man with the legend.
	Yes, and they own everything, so I thought it would be worth covering.
	Speaking of people watching, um, we haven't got the YouTube people back, have we?
	So... I don't think so yet.
	Do we, John?
	No, no YouTube for us.
	So none of the Utards who could only watch on one platform, it is only... That's an unfortunate way of describing them.
	Only the best and the brightest are watching today.
	Those who've gone over to the website or Rumble, you know, you find people.
	That is true.
	We do only have the best of the best right now, but with all that, let's get into the news.
	So big business is trying to break Britain, which is completely unsurprising.
	They are desperate to have as many foreign workers in the country as possible for the benefit of Somebody, they say for the benefit of the country, because line going up always means good things for the country, that's as far as I've been told.
	Sounds positive, what's not to like?
	Not importing millions of people every single year will somehow lead to decreased wages, and decreased real wages, I should say, which...
	We seem to be getting both, as far as I can tell.
	We're getting decreased real wages, and also hundreds of thousands of people into the country every year, which doesn't seem to be helping with my decreased wages.
	Well, I always assumed it was the other way around, is that the people who want to bring them in is because they don't want to have to pay higher wages.
	Well, that's the tricky part, isn't it?
	It's almost like we're being lied to.
	But we'll get into that as we go on.
	Before I go any further, we've got a new article out from Connor, which is, once again, for premium members, so £5 a month, and that's all you have to pay to have access to all of our premium content.
	But if you'd like to pay a little bit more and get a silver membership, you will have access to the audio track as well.
	Connor's talking about reactionary feminism and the tradwife anachronism, and this is after Connor has read this book that we've used for the thumbnail feminism against progress by mary harrington connor's had a good time reading that recently he's got lots of stuff that he agrees with and also lots of stuff that he disagrees with in there and we've got some more content related to mary harrington and that book coming out relatively soon so check out connor's thoughts on it all here and let's move on shall we so
	This is something that was addressed yesterday and was discussed, but I think we could do with going into a little bit more detail on this, because as well as legal migration, we of course have the ever-present shadow of illegal migration coming into the country.
	The hobos, as Callum would call them, the foreign hobos, coming over on little rubber dinghies and then coming in and saying, I deserve to be here because my country probably has a war going on.
	You don't need to double-check or France has got some nasty stuff going on.
	I do understand if you go to France and see people picking up snails from the pavement and chowing down, that would put you off just a little bit.
	To be fair, I did go to France once and I wanted to come back to Britain as soon as possible.
	See, we made jokes.
	I've been to France a number of times, and apart from Paris, which is, like, if you check out the statistics on it, it is ranked the most rude, the rudest city in all of Europe.
	Which is, if you've been to France, completely unsurprising if you've spent any time in Paris.
	But the rest of the country, I think, is a lovely place to be.
	That's probably true, yes.
	Um, probably not Calais at the moment, but, you know, they come over here and they get off the boats, they attempt to have their way with a local person on a coastal town, and then they go, I deserve asylum, give me Gibbs.
	Because that's where all the focus is, and they want us to be thinking just... Did you notice the media switched from talking about immigration to talking about small boats?
	It's no longer even the immigrants, it is literally just small boats who are coming here.
	Yeah, I do think you are right that it is somewhat of a distraction technique because we've got tens of thousands of illegal boat migrants coming in over the years recently, which is bad and terrible in itself, but we also do have Hundreds of thousands of net legal migrants coming into the country every year, which is also a problem, if not a bigger problem, if we're completely honest.
	But first, let's address some of the stuff that was discussed yesterday and elaborate on it just a little bit.
	So, Suella Braveman's latest idea is that we're going to be taking all of the migrants from the hotels and putting them onto boats, disused ferries and military bases, disused, unused military bases across the country, which should supposedly save us some money on that.
	So we'll check if that actually follows as we go on.
	So just the information included in this article was that plans to house newly arriving migrants on military bases or even potentially disused ferries are expected to be announced by the government within weeks in a bid to clear out the hotels.
	Now in Swindon, we have one of those hotels.
	Here in my hometown of Crewe, we've got a hotel, I think it's the Crewe Railway Arms or whatever it's called, that also houses lots of migrants.
	In fact, actually in Swindon, we've got a few because I believe the...
	Of all places, what is it, the Hilton Hotel?
	The Hilton, like, sideline hotel, whatever it's called, Hilton Trees or whatever it is, has an entire wing of it dedicated to just housing asylum seekers.
	But I don't live around here, so a couple of times I thought to myself, oh, rather than going back on the Monday night and then coming in on the Tuesday, I'll just book a hotel.
	It's impossible.
	You can't book a hotel in Swindon.
	Well, yes, and you always see these people walking around the town centre, just kind of milling about.
	They don't exactly enrich the culture, as some would argue that they do.
	In fact, you would say they depress the culture.
	One of them came up and spoke to me today, actually.
	He wanted to know where he could buy a little fan heater, so he could plug it in in his hotel room and have it, you know, really baking hot.
	Oh, okay.
	It wasn't warm enough for him.
	Alright, fair play.
	Well, given where they're coming from, maybe they're just not used to the cold weather.
	Ministers have already signalled that they want to end the use of hotels as asylum seeker accommodation, and this is one of those times where the government does this thing where they big up themselves a bluster, they try and pretend they're patriots that actually care about this nation, and they say, we're doing something, while doing absolutely nothing.
	Absolutely nothing in real terms.
	Let's move on to the next one talking about this.
	The Independent had an article, migrants set to be moved out of hotels, blah blah blah.
	Migrants will be reportedly moved out of hotels and instead housed in disused ferries.
	Rishi Sunak could declare as early as next week that it is the beginning of the end of using hotels to house asylum seekers.
	A policy that costs the government more than five million pounds per day.
	I have seen upper limits to that estimate going up to about seven million pounds per day.
	Which is a lot of money.
	Even though that feels low, compared to the fact that the amount of them there are, and the amount of hotels... And I know the way the government negotiates on this stuff.
	They'd be paying full rate.
	They'd be paying full board.
	Oh, they absolutely would.
	And the idea that this is going to end up saving us money in the long term... I mean, it might end up saving us a bit of money, as I'm going to discuss in a moment, but it's not going to save us anywhere near as much as the government would like us to think.
	Because I think at the moment it's about two billion pounds per year, or something.
	Right.
	Which is an absurd amount of money, let's be perfectly honest.
	But the other problem that I have with this is that it's not actually getting rid of the problem.
	Because if you're going to be moving them onto disused ferries, congratulations, you finally got them back on boats.
	They're just not boats that are going anywhere.
	Which is kind of the point that we wanted in the first place.
	Get them on a plane, or get them on a boat, and get them out of the country.
	Yeah, the Australian model.
	Yeah, the Australian model, which is, you know, pretty fair as far as I'm concerned.
	What they're instead doing, because most of these hotels are in either built-up towns and metropolitan areas or cities, so what this will be doing is instead migrating the illegal migrants into the countryside and the coastal towns.
	Which are generally much nicer places to be, because these disused military bases, this is what was going on with Bexhill when they were talking about this yesterday, is Bexhill have a, I think it was a military base or a migrant camp being set up there, and the locals just didn't want it, because they know what happens when you have a massive influx of illegal migrants who are just not allowed to work, they're not allowed to do anything, they just have to mill about.
	Your town becomes trash.
	Realistically.
	So, I'm from a seaside town, so I'm thinking about this.
	I don't think we've got any ferries.
	We've just got... I mean, the whole high street has been taken over by the Polish.
	Oh, that's just the same everywhere, really, isn't it?
	Yeah, so there's like two or three Polish shops on the main high street now.
	You've got Polsky Schlepps on every corner.
	Yeah.
	A wide variety of sausage to choose from, at the very least.
	So, if they do put the Albanians or whatever there, I mean, I guess they can scrap it out between themselves.
	Well, the Albanians are scrapping out about the cocaine business in the UK, so, you know.
	Oh, right, they're active on that, right.
	Yes, there's that.
	Well, they advertise for it on TikTok.
	You know, you can get a boat over to England and you'll be like, you know, high up in the cocaine dealer business in no time.
	Right, okay.
	Well, at least we're providing them jobs.
	Well, there's that.
	At least someone's being productive in this country.
	But there's been legal battles started over all of this as well, because we've got the Rwanda plan, and I'll be mentioning that in a few minutes.
	Which is already facing legal challenges.
	But this, of course, also has to face legal challenges.
	And this is a legal battle over a plan to open a £20,000 a day migrant barge.
	Not 20,000 migrants in the single barge, no.
	£20,000 for a single barge.
	This is Home Secretary Suella Braverman is poised to announce a leasing agreement to use the Bibby Stockholm Flotel in Portland, Dorset to house asylum seekers.
	The 93 meter long vessel can house up to 506 people and will reportedly cost more than £20,000 a day.
	Now, let's do some maths on that, okay?
	Because the last figure that I found that was relevant to September 2022 Or how many asylum seekers we have in hotels currently was 37,142.
	So say we have all of these vessels that we put them in, the ferries, can house 506 people each.
	So we need about 73 ships for all of the migrants.
	If they all cost, and this is on the low ball, so it says over £20,000 a day, but if we just say it's £20,000 a day, that will add up to £1,468,000 per day, which is a decrease by £3.5 million, but still a lot more money than I would like for which is a decrease by £3.5 million, but still a lot more money than I would like for the country to be spending on housing people who have no legal rights to be here, other than the UN
	So that will total up to about £538,843,000 per year.
	And just thinking this through, I thought the whole thing with the ferries is that they'd be sufficiently far offshore that they could just disappear whenever they wanted to.
	But a barge, I'm pretty sure, doesn't really go very far from shore at all.
	Well, they're disused and they can't really move anyway.
	So it's basically right next to the jetty, so anytime they can say, right now, you know, my cocaine side hustle has got to the point where I can get my own flat or whatever.
	Yes, and once again, this is moving them from the cities, which are already, for the most part, not entirely amazing places to live, and moving them to the coastal towns and countryside, which are, for the most part, nice places to live.
	Certainly nicer than the cities.
	So, this is not going to be making England any better, or any richer, as far as I'm concerned.
	And South Dorset MP Richard Drax, who is a Tory MP, as well as the Dorset Council, residence groups, charities, and the local police and crime commissioner, are understood to be preparing legal action against the plans.
	Understandably.
	Arguing that the Home Office had failed to consult the community, I mean, when do they ever do anything like that anyway?
	That the location is inappropriate for housing immigrants, and that there is a lack of local facilities to support them.
	There are also concerns about the effect on tourism.
	I mean, why would you think that?
	Your lovely little coastal seaside town, which probably would be a hotspot for tourists, suddenly full of hostile migrants.
	Effect on tourism?
	What would make you think of that?
	But these are all fair points.
	My idea, my happy-go-lucky idea, would just be to- Massive catapult.
	Well, let's not get too far, okay?
	As enjoyable and fun as that might be, joking, just deport them.
	Just deport them as far as I'm concerned.
	These plans aren't workable, and as far as I'm concerned, you are right.
	They're not meant to be workable.
	They're meant to make a lot of noise so that Tory voters think, aha, the Conservatives are finally doing what I asked them to.
	I think it's meant to be plausible enough to hold the news cycle for about six months And we've had this multiple times now.
	And then after that, you basically just get a new Home Secretary who comes up with a new plan that sounds plausible.
	And doesn't work.
	Yeah, and by the time it becomes obvious that this isn't going to work, you just get another Home Secretary.
	And that's all they've done for about 10 years now, is just, you know, just a different scheme, a different idea, a different plan.
	All the while, immigration has been getting worse and worse every single year.
	Far beyond any level of the highest of immigration during the Tony Blair years.
	Who are the ones who opened this in the first place?
	They opened the floodgates in the first place.
	I mean, they were doing it very deliberately.
	I mean, they said that they wanted to rub the right's nose in it.
	I've got the article, we'll find that in a moment.
	But anyway, so on to other unworkable plans.
	The Rwanda Agreement.
	Suella Braverman is saying that Rwanda is safe for migrants, despite evidence of 2018 killings, as far as I'm concerned.
	Honestly, I don't care if there were migrant killings in Rwanda in 2018.
	These people come over here, they break into the country that they have no right to be in, and then they say, you have a duty, a moral and legal duty to look after us.
	And then we just have to put our hands up and go, okay, Well, no.
	I'm sure in our cities there's a lot more than 2,000 killings anyway.
	Probably.
	Yeah.
	Certainly.
	Probably, but then you'd have to ask who's doing the killings and we can't ask those sorts of questions.
	That would be very naughty.
	That would be a very naughty question to ask.
	So last month several papers reported that a source in the Home Office had claimed that there were plans to get flights to Rwanda off the ground by the summer.
	But the government has not committed to a timeframe publicly, which means it won't be happening.
	I mean, they had the one that was supposed to be happening in June last year, which immediately got grounded by, I think it was, was it the European Court of Human Rights?
	Yes.
	Or was it the UN?
	Yeah, European Court of Human Rights, which predates the European Union.
	That was a post-war thing.
	Brilliant.
	So they said, no, you can't do that.
	And the Tory government just went, all right, then.
	And then they go, well, we might be able to do it a year from now.
	Or actually, best I can do is never.
	And I've just noticed actually, I read that originally as there were 2018 killings in Rwanda.
	No, in 2018 there were 12.
	There were 12 killings in 2018.
	And this is enough for lefty human rights lawyers to go, well you're just sending them off to the gas chambers, aren't you?
	So there are a lot more than 12 killings in just London.
	Yes.
	So it's substantially safer than London.
	Presumably.
	Right.
	I mean, they got rid of all the ethnic conflicts in Rwanda a while back, didn't they?
	So, well, a radical solution, but... A radical solution, but anyway, Miss Braverman said that she believed the Rwanda policy would have a significant deterrence effect so that people would stop making the journey across the channel to the UK.
	I mean, if it actually goes ahead?
	Maybe.
	Probably not, though.
	Yeah, I think they've had some luck with the Albanians, haven't they?
	That slowed down a bit.
	I think it slowed down for a day.
	When they announced this, initially, there was, I think, a period of three days where there were no boat crossings.
	And then they realised... Oh!
	They're lying again!
	They realised, oh wait, they won't actually do anything, will they?
	Back on the boats, boys!
	She said that she wanted to deliver the pledge as quickly as possible, but said the government could not control timeframes for the ongoing legal challenge over the Rwanda policy.
	There's a hearing later this month.
	We need to wait for the court to adjudicate, Ms Braverman said.
	I can't control court deadlines and therefore we will respect any decision from the court, but we have to abide by the timeline set by the judges.
	I find this funny because this is something that some of your friends point out often, which is if Tony Blair If Tony Blair was in charge of this, he would just do it, and then he would come back to the courts and go, well, it's done now, not much we can do, is there?
	Which courts are we talking about?
	Are we still talking about the ECH?
	The European Court of Human Rights?
	I think this is, no, this is a local court.
	Oh, I see.
	These are local courts with local lawyers challenging.
	Because the European Court of Human Rights, they've never actually overturned primary legislation in any country.
	So what they have been doing is they've been processing the cases fairly quickly and just saying, no, you're not doing it.
	So if we bring in primary legislation, their response will probably then be to just drag out when you can hear the case.
	But you're saying that actually the domestic courts are doing that as well.
	They're dragging out the process.
	Yes, because of course we have so many charities and so many lawyers who work on behalf of refugees' rights and all of that who want to tell you that... Yeah, it's funny.
	Human rights lawyers were strangely quiet the entire lockdown and suddenly they've come alive again.
	They found an issue that excites them.
	I know, I know, it's insane.
	Incredibly, Labour's Shadow Community Secretary Lisa Nandy said the Rwanda policy was a con trick being perpetuated on the British people as it would most likely never materialise.
	I mean, she's got your number there!
	Sorry, she just does!
	She added that it costs the taxpayer a huge amount of money and hasn't seen a single person go to Rwanda.
	This is all observably true.
	I heard there's about three or something, or No, I think the flight from last year was supposed to have about three or four people on it, maybe, and then it got grounded.
	So no, they've not sent anybody.
	And then in the next one, following on from this, this is talking more about the legal action that's going against the policy later on this month.
	So this is, Lord Justice Underhill, Vice President of the Court of Appeals Civil Division, has granted permission for a group to appeal against the government's controversial policy, Rwanda policy, on some grounds.
	Ten asylum seekers from a range of conflict zones, including Iran, Iraq and Syria, are involved in the legal challenge.
	They've all been threatened with removal to Rwanda.
	Tuesday's judgment considered whether the High Court had properly examined whether Rwanda is a safe place to send asylum seekers to, because once again, 12 people died there in 2018, don't you know?
	Therefore, you just can't send them there.
	What if they get a cold and fall over?
	I mean, this is just terrible, terrible news.
	Especially in the light of grave warnings given to the court by the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, about the country's poor track record of protecting refugees, presumably by not jumping in front of bullets of those 12 people.
	If you can only send them to countries where nobody gets murdered, it basically has to be Antarctica, doesn't it?
	I'm up for it.
	You know, I'm down for it.
	Rwanda, we don't need- They'd definitely be wishing they took their fan heater with them then, wouldn't they?
	Do we need to make a trade, like, asylum trade deal with Antarctica, or can we just- Doesn't have penguins come back or something?
	Yeah, perhaps an emperor penguin.
	You know, I mean, they're emperors for a reason, I'm sure.
	Have them waddling around.
	Actually, no, we've got enough bird shit all over the place in Swindon as it is.
	That's true.
	So a full appeal about the lawfulness of the Rwanda policy will take place on the 24th to the 27th of April, and I'm sure it will get stretched out far beyond that anyway.
	The government has said that even if it wins against outstanding legal chances to its Rwanda policy, no flights are likely to leave this year.
	It's just such a joke!
	It's such a joke, obviously!
	This is incredible.
	Either way, Rwanda isn't looking great, because even if we do go ahead with everything, even if everything goes ahead as planned and we finally get to send people, this is something that we actually reported on months and months ago when this was first announced, because we actually took the time to look into the small print.
	But it seems that everybody's only just realizing that, hold up, if you actually read the proposed plans that were agreed to, It's not just us sending asylum seekers over there, and Suella Braverman of all people was questioned about this on the BBC, so let's play this clip so we can all understand what's going on, what's been discovered.
	In the deal as well, which we've had a good look at it, there is also a suggestion that the UK will resettle some of Rwanda's most vulnerable refugees.
	How many people do you expect will come to the UK from Rwanda under this scheme?
	No, we don't foresee that happening.
	It's in the agreement.
	It says the participants will make arrangements for the United Kingdom to resettle a portion of Rwanda's most vulnerable refugees in the United Kingdom.
	Our arrangement is very much focused on people who are coming to the UK from safe countries and unlawfully and then being resettled to Rwanda.
	But it's in the agreement then?
	Why did you sign it if it's in the agreement?
	That's what it says in black and white.
	Our scheme is uncapped.
	It means that we can potentially send over several thousands of people from the UK to Rwanda.
	When I went to Rwanda I saw with my own eyes how Rwanda is getting ready to receive And you have said that, but is there a limit on the number of people that Rwanda could send back to this country?
	Because you've signed an agreement that says in black and white the United Kingdom will resettle a portion of Rwanda's most vulnerable refugees.
	The balance and the reality of this agreement is that Rwanda is taking people from the United Kingdom.
	We are resettling people who have arrived here illegally and therefore will be removed or relocated to Rwanda.
	As I've said, I've just seen the accommodation that's in train.
	They're building the housing that will be used to accommodate people who are coming from Rwanda.
	I've visited a school that will be used to support the education needs.
	But it is clearly here in black and white that the agreement you have signed also says that the United Kingdom might have to take refuge.
	That is absurd.
	Yeah, when we looked into the legislation, I think some people made us aware of it and we double-checked it.
	Or at least I double-checked it and reported on it.
	The arrangement is very clear.
	On a balance and overwhelmingly, Rwanda will be taking people from the United Kingdom, not the other way around.
	I have no idea.
	Let's talk about any...
	Did you not?
	That is absurd.
	Yeah, when we looked into the legislation, I think some people made us aware of it and we double-checked it, or at least I double-checked it and reported on it.
	Yeah, the agreement from the beginning was, well, we'll also take Rwandan refugees.
	So this is not going to be doing anything...
	She just didn't want to address the point, which is, so basically, we can send people to Rwanda, Rwanda can send people to us, and she was trying to say... It's more just trading places.
	Yeah, but we can potentially send thousands.
	So yes, we can potentially send thousands.
	We're actually sending three, and they never made it.
	And they can also potentially send thousands as well.
	At the moment, it could well be the case that this Rwandan deal is a net increase in migration.
	Potentially, certainly in asylum seekers living in the country, so absolutely ridiculous.
	You know, actually well done to the BBC for trying to press her on that.
	I'm shocked to find myself saying that, but I'm glad that at least more people are realizing that that was always part of the deal.
	What a massive con job this is.
	Oh, it absolutely is.
	But, once again, let's move on to the legal migration aspect of all of this, because beyond anything to do with illegal migration, we have legal migration at unsustainable levels in this country.
	And one of the reasons for that is because of the fact that big Tory donors, people who are always in favour of voting Tory, who give them lots of money for their campaigns and such, heads of big industry, are very eager to make it so that there is an indispensable
	Unceasing wave of cheap labor coming into this country to make sure that they don't have to train their own staff members to do skilled jobs, or even pay them at a decent living wage, given that we are going through... It's the line-go-up people.
	These are the line-go-up people.
	And this is one of the most recent ones that came out, was this.
	The UK boss for eBay.
	Of all people.
	And when I mentioned this to you earlier, you said, why on earth does eBay need an unending stream of cheap labor?
	I don't know why.
	Perhaps for factories or something, but who knows?
	But they didn't operate any.
	Maury Lamble, let's hear what he had to say about this.
	I couldn't agree more strongly with what Manette said in terms of just the shortage of skills that we have in the UK.
	I was glad to hear the Home Secretary talk about illegal and legal immigration and make a very clear delineation between the two.
	At a personal level, I really hope that as a country we can treat people that come into this country illegally with care and dignity to make sure that wherever they get resettled they can do so Successfully and happily.
	So at a personal level that's what matters to me.
	On the topic of legal migration, what I heard the Home Secretary say is we still want to bring those numbers down and I still see when I go out and talk to businesses across the country, they do not have the technical skills that they require to enable their businesses to run in a modern economy.
	And so this is skilled labour where we need more people in the country.
	Okay, so I want to come back on that because, you know, formerly working in finance and working with various businesses, there is always a case for a certain amount of skilled immigration.
	What I mean by that is people like, I don't know, South Korean electrical engineers.
	I mean, there are some really talented people out there.
	I was working with a business that was a couple of South African doctors who came over and started a medical business over here.
	So there is always a case for a certain amount of high-skilled people who have particular talents that, you know, we particularly don't have.
	So, you know, electrical engineering is one of those things that we are perhaps short on.
	But it is not people from South Korea with a PhD in electrical engineering who are the ones who are coming over, is it?
	No, certainly not.
	I mean, once again, the argument that you just made for actually talented people who can plug up gaps... People like that should always be able to come over.
	I think anybody would be able to make a decent argument for that.
	Perhaps, once again, on an Australian-style thing where you get a three-year work visa, you don't get the automatic permission to live here forever and start a family, but you can come over here.
	Even then, if you come over and you're a net contributor, and you're paying a decent amount of taxes, I don't have a problem with necessarily having more of them.
	John's pointing out that eBay does their own international distribution now as well, so it's probably delivery people and warehouse people like I imagined it would be.
	But you are right with what you're saying there.
	But, once again, these aren't the people coming into the country.
	And it's funny that these sorts of people are the ones who are saying, well, if we have less than 100,000 people coming into the country every year, then it'll hurt the economy.
	No!
	No, it won't.
	They are not finding 100,000 skilled people.
	Maybe they're finding 7,000 skilled people, and all the rest are unskilled people who just do menial jobs.
	Then you've got a deficit of about 500,000 useless people who are just coming in to suppress working class wages, for instance.
	And if we go on to the next one, big business leaders in the UK have been saying this sort of thing for years.
	This is 2017, all the way back then.
	Immigration cap will harm UK economy, says Tesco chairman John Allen.
	Interestingly, they left out the other business that he's the chairman of in this headline because it It does make it a little bit... sting a little bit more when you know what else he's involved in, okay?
	Are you ready for this?
	John Allen, and this is still up to date, this is back in 2017, but he is still chairman of both of these companies.
	Chairman of Tesco and Barrett Developments.
	So a housing developer who has nothing to gain from hundreds of thousands of new people streaming into the country, pushing up house prices and increasing demand for new housing, says that we can't put an immigration cap on because otherwise it will hurt the economy.
	Perhaps it will hurt your bottom line, John.
	You kind of get benefits on both sides.
	One, sort of squeezing out the proportion of accommodation which is open to people, and secondly, people again working in these warehouses.
	And warehouse people are not skilled people, which is the whole argument they're trying to make.
	Yes, and if we go to the next one, I found that Tesco's boss, Not John Allen himself, but there, the boss of Britain's Tesco made 5.8 million dollars between the years of 2021 and 2022, which was a salary increase from the previous year.
	So it's nice to know that somebody is benefiting from all of this immigration.
	He's getting paid, he's getting a nice big bonus.
	It's nice to know that someone's, you know, doing something from it.
	And John Allen, if I see here, yes.
	News of Murphy's pay package comes three days after Tesco chairman John Allen told the BBC he had witnessed Tesco customers rationing their food purchases for the first time ever.
	He said the UK was seeing real food poverty for the first time in a generation.
	But At least the CEO.
	Another interesting thing about Tesco is years ago, and this is over 10 years ago now, they basically looked, because they've got really live data on the amount of people flowing through, and they know roughly what proportion of the market they have, and then they know roughly how many distinct customers they had.
	Years ago, they said that the actual population of the UK was at least 10 to 15 million higher than the official numbers.
	In all likelihood.
	So what are the official numbers at the moment?
	About 66 million, I think it is?
	Yeah, high 60s, low 70s, something like that.
	So they were saying this was in the mid 80s.
	And of that, I think it's only about 50 to 55 million English people.
	Okay, so if it is 90...
	I mean, I would say that the workable population of the UK, of England as a country, is probably about 50 million people to make it a nice place to live so that you're not having to constantly put up with all of the other inconveniences that come with an overly dense and high population.
	Yeah, you don't want them to pave over the countryside, you don't want to be stuck in traffic, jams, everywhere you go.
	Just me, I commute, you commute as well, but I commute, I don't know how often you go up north, but I often find myself going up to Cheshire.
	Well, I'm up north right now.
	Oh, well, comparatively.
	For you, perhaps, you posh toff.
	But I find myself going up to Cheshire, and I have to travel up the M5 and the M6.
	It's just constant back-to-back queues.
	The whole way up there.
	And you know, if we had maybe, say, 20, 30, by the sounds of it, perhaps even 40 million less people in the country, That might just make my commute just a little bit more bearable when I'm traveling from one end of this country to another.
	And we've got more people who've been talking about this.
	This was from November last year.
	Lord Wolfson, the boss of Next, said, we can't stop immigration coming into this country.
	This isn't the kind of Brexit that I was asking for.
	Yes, but it was the kind of Brexit that people who voted for Brexit were asking for and haven't got.
	They were hoping for reduced immigration, take back the borders, take back control of the culture, That's not what they've got.
	And they got ignored again.
	Yeah.
	They got your Brexit, Mr Wolfson.
	Because I'm not going to call you Lord, because you don't deserve it, as far as I'm concerned.
	He said that the country, the government, needed to decide whether the UK was an open, free-trading nation.
	That's all it is.
	He's just in favour of open, free trade.
	That's all I want.
	Or whether post-Brexit Britain wanted to be Fortress Britain, pulling up the drawbridge to foreign workers at significant cost to his bottom line.
	I mean, the economy.
	I mean, honestly, you couldn't make it any more transparent, could you?
	And there were people who've been noticing what this really means.
	For instance, a man that I'm aware of who is a fellow based Avenged Sevenfold respecter, if we go to the next link, that being Maven Politic.
	Oh, I know him.
	He's based.
	Yes, he is very based, who said, as usual, this is just big business trying to find ways to not train their staff in the UK, because they always say, oh, we need skilled workers to come into the UK.
	And like you said, we can have gaps filled up, but at the same time, Like this article that he posted the headline of here, UK investment in learning and development lagging behind international competition.
	We just don't have people being trained to fill these roles domestically.
	We don't have native Brits being... Because what happens, and this is, I'm from Crewe, which used to be a railway town, still does have a railway sector, but you do find a lot, in the north especially, a lot of industrial manufacturing work has been replaced by terrible, unproductive call centre jobs.
	So you get people who are about to go because of AI as well.
	Exactly.
	Then you get people who are encouraged to go to university and train up in skills that will never actually be particularly useful to them.
	And then they get back from university and realize, I have nothing to offer a prospective employer.
	So I'm going to have to go into a frontline service job in which you are not really being productive.
	Because as you said, you can just replace them with AI in the first place.
	To be honest, most call centers can be replaced by just a switchboard in the first place.
	So, the fact that you get people, hundreds of thousands of people tied up in these jobs when they could be doing something more useful and more productive, and the only reason that they don't is because people just, these bosses are more interested in importing foreign workers.
	It's cheaper.
	Yes, it is much cheaper.
	And even, and I've got to be fair here because this is not somebody that we are typically uh kind or or generous to even Aaron Bastani from Navara Media was able to recognize and point this out with the recent Murray Lambeau clip saying it seems extraordinarily hard for most of British civil society particularly its business elite to grasp that you can also pay you can also pay to educate and train people Yes.
	Which is just, you know, Aaron, we would probably disagree on a few things.
	That's a bit of old left thinking.
	I know, that's what I respect about it.
	He's going like, hold up, why don't we look after ours first before we decide to import half of the rest of the world into this country?
	So, you know, well done for that, Aaron.
	I actually respect that point that you made there.
	Thank you very much for that.
	And on to the point that you were making earlier about this has got worse from when Labour were in charge as well.
	Tony Blair was more than happy to open the floodgates and they even said in this article all the way back from 2013 that they were admitting to sending out search parties for immigrants.
	And the line is that you were looking for, Mr. Nether said that the policy, the open immigration policy, was designed to rub the right's nose in diversity.
	And it turns out once the Tories' noses were shoved right up that diversity, they really quite liked the smell of what was up there and decided they wanted more of Yeah.
	So the annual net figure quadrupled under Labour from— Such vivid imagery.
	You're welcome for that one.
	It was quadrupled under Labour from 48,000 people annually in 1997 to 198,000 people per year in 2009, which at this point would be an improvement.
	You run that out over a decade or two.
	Well, it'd gone up to 2.2 million people net between 1997 and 2010, which is probably a period of four years at this point.
	So it took 13 years under New Labour to get where we get under about four years under Conservatives.
	Now, it's not necessarily wrong if there was, say, for example, a referendum where people were asked, would you like this to happen?
	Because we are supposed to be living in a democracy, after all, where people get to have their say on things like this.
	Oh, that's a good one, Dan.
	That's a really good one.
	I like your sense of humour where you're going there.
	Because this year, or at least last year, I should say, the net migration was about 504,000 people, and the overall total people coming in, if you take out the people who were going out, was 1.16 million.
	So net migration was harder for most people.
	Yeah, that is about 600,000 people, but that does still leave us with an excess of 500,000 people left over, pushing up house prices, and that's year on year as well.
	So you've got to imagine how many extra people, well, we know how many extra people, that's about, you know, between 11 and 30 million extra people, depending on how fudged the numbers are being.
	As well, the ONS said that the immigration and net migration figures, which do not include those arriving via clandestine routes such as small boats across the channel, were the highest since it began collecting migration statistics in 1964.
	Thanks, conservatives!
	Really doing a great job here, aren't you?
	And this has led to many difficulties in the country.
	Like I said, we're an incredibly densely populated country.
	We do hammer this one home quite often, but we are We are in the United Kingdom.
	England is the most densely populated country at 434 people per square kilometre.
	And that leaves us, I think Carl pointed out, if you take out tiny little islands and principalities, that means we're the 30th most densely populated country in the world.
	Which is absolutely ridiculous, because we are quite a small island.
	I don't know if people realise this, we're quite a small island.
	You can drive from one end to the other in a day.
	Yes, and even then, when you look at Scotland, Scotland's a very sparsely populated country by itself, and they don't have anywhere near the level of immigration that England do.
	So they're coming over to this island, and then basically just staying in the one area, which is England.
	Scotland is sparsely populated, because it's all down here.
	That's true.
	You've never been in a pub down here.
	Good point.
	But I could go on to explain all of the other issues this causes, but I don't have enough time because we could spend the entire rest of the day going over all of the issues.
	But one of them, just to point out, if we go to the next one and then the one after that, so we can see Sadiq Khan... No, no, no, the next one, thank you.
	Sadiq Khan, for some reason, is saying that house prices and rent prices in London are just skyrocketing, for some reason.
	So the only solution is to freeze rent in the capital.
	No, that doesn't... It doesn't work like that.
	It has been tried.
	Countless times, throughout time, and has never worked.
	In fact, if anything, all that will do is reduce the supply of rental properties.
	Yes, almost certainly.
	And one of the most shocking statistics of all, which is in the next link, among children in England... John, if you could move to the next link, please.
	Among children in England, less than 64% are white British.
	Which does not paint a fan around, does it?
	Yes, it is.
	And look, there's that little dot right there.
	Below 20%, almost all of London.
	London is no longer an English city.
	Although, thankfully, the further north and the further into Devon and Cornwall you go, it looks like the situation gets better.
	Well, that was the point that John Cleese made.
	That lefty lovey.
	The one time they turned against him.
	Oh, yes.
	London is no longer an English city.
	But no, it doesn't paint well for the future.
	It doesn't bode well for the future, as far as I'm concerned.
	Hopefully this can get turned around, but if the current Conservative plans are anything to go by, I very much doubt it.
	Nice little black pill for Tuesday.
	Yes, well let's move on to a cheerier topic.
	I'm going to discuss, is Biden intentionally destroying America?
	Now actually, I did... A much cheerier topic.
	Is it intentional or is he just doing it by accident?
	Yes, he's doing it by accident.
	Now, before I get on to this, I'm going to throw up a link to a premium epoch that we've just done On the topic of Sargon of Akkad.
	John, if you could bring that up on the screen, please.
	Got that one.
	There we go.
	Premium Epoch, Sargon of Akkad.
	Never heard of him, but apparently he was some sort of historical figure.
	Sounds a bit of a sophist to me.
	Yeah, I don't know all about that character.
	But anyway, if you want to learn about this chap, then tune into that.
	Right.
	So anyway, so this segment, I was going to do it on the recent noise coming out of OPEC.
	And about how they have been shrinking their production capacity.
	But then you started messing about with ChatGPT!
	And I managed to get myself completely sidetracked because I thought it might be a funny thing to slip into the podcast.
	So basically I went to ChatGPT and I said...
	So this was a prompt that I gave it.
	I've just been elected U.S.
	President.
	My goal is to drive up inflation, destroy the U.S.
	banking system, end the petrodollar, and end the unipolar U.S.-led era, leading to a powerful new Chinese bloc.
	How do I achieve my goals?
	And it didn't block you from the answer!
	Well, yes it did.
	It told me that it couldn't answer that one because it would be unethical to do those things.
	So then you have to work around it.
	Anyway, so I went on this massive rabbit hole, so now you're going to come on this rabbit hole with me.
	Basically, is Joe Biden, did he have access, or is he himself an advanced AI?
	If you've watched any clips from his recently, he's not advanced.
	If he is AI, it's pretty low tech.
	If you look at what he's achieving, I mean, he is quite effectively, systematically destroying the power of the US.
	Anyway, so I managed to get the AI to answer this question.
	So I had to change the question because it wouldn't answer the first question because you said it was unethical to destroy America's power for some reason.
	It's a funny notion of ethics, but all the same.
	So I said, okay, instead, what actions by a US president would result in the end of a unipolar world?
	Right, and this is the AI talking.
	It gave me various points.
	It said, number one, focus on economic shifts.
	Economies like China, India, and Brazil continue to grow.
	A president who adopts policies that diminish America's economic self-effectiveness, such as protecting his policies, or fail to invest in infrastructure, might contribute to this.
	So, you know, one of the first things that Biden did was he undermined the economy by knocking up the energy infrastructure, by cancelling the Keystone pipeline, He had excessive lockdowns, he brought in lots of other policies that have made America significantly less competitive, increasing minimum wage, all that sort of thing, so score one on that.
	Second one, diplomatic realignment, the AI suggested.
	It said, a president who withdraws from international agreements disengages from key diplomatic relationships or alienates allies.
	might inadvertently pave the way for other nations to gain influence and challenge the multi-polar world.
	Well, that's interesting, given that we're going to come and talk about OPEC and the relationship with Saudi Arabia.
	We'll see what Biden's been doing on that front.
	Third point.
	It says, military retrenchment.
	A significant part of the unipolar world order has been the global military presence of the United States.
	A US president who reduces this presence by withdrawing from strategic reasons Or reducing military budgets could create power vacuums that other nations may seek to fill.
	So the withdrawal from Afghanistan being utterly botched, that could probably create a bit of a power vacuum.
	It might show just the slightest hint of weakness.
	Yes, and embolden enemies.
	So that was one.
	And the fourth one, and I thought this was a bit spicy, but this is the AI talking, it's not me.
	Their fourth way of damaging the US would be to promote multiculturalism.
	Does that not say multilateralism?
	Oh, does it?
	Oh, right, multilateralism.
	Okay, oh, that makes more sense then.
	Okay, it's not as bad as I thought it was then, okay.
	Ah, but it's worse, because what it says there is encouraging growth of regional and global organisations which the US share power and decision-making with other countries.
	So, handing over your health policy to the WHO, for example.
	Oh, yes.
	Letting the World Economic Forum basically govern your energy policy.
	and your international trade arrangements, letting the Bank for International Settlements dictate policy.
	Or letting a young Swedish girl who avoided going to school for years bully you into particular energy policies as well.
	Yes.
	So, so far, Joe Biden is doing all of the things that AI reckons you'd need to do to undermine a new depolar world.
	So, warming to my theme, I then said, what actions might a US president take to trigger multiple US bank failures?
	It had some suggestions on that.
	Deregulation.
	It said inadequate supervision.
	Well, yeah, I think we've had inadequate supervision.
	We've had multiple banks who've been functionally illiquid.
	Even some of them insolvent, like Charles Schwab.
	They're technically insolvent.
	So that would be definitely score one for inadequate supervision.
	Encourage risky lending practices.
	You know what I mean?
	Like getting them all to buy mortgage-backed securities, which is what Basel III does, or maybe encouraging them to buy large amounts of long-dated Um, US Treasuries, which then become significantly devalued.
	What was the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac thing, where they were encouraging them to bundle up all of these incredibly high risk packages, mortgage packages.
	They're still doing that today, effectively.
	Yeah, I'm sure they're still.
	They bundle all of them together and then give us a very high risk rate, well, a very low risk rating, so that people think, well, there's no chance that this could fail.
	So, score on that one.
	Mismanagement of interest rates, the AI suggested.
	So, the fastest ever hiking cycle in all of American history has just occurred, which has resulted in basically rendering the US banking system unprofitable.
	That was what took down Silicon Valley Bank, wasn't it?
	Well, it's sort of hauling all of them under the waterline, really.
	It's just that Silicon Valley Bank was the first to go, and then we got various others.
	It helps if you want to consolidate all of the banking assets into four or five major centralised banks.
	But it just so happens that the next thing on the AI's list, Biden has done as well, and the fifth thing that the AI suggested was ignore early warning signs.
	So failing to address the early warning signs of financial stress.
	So if instead of doing anything, for instance, you just go and get yourself a nice ice cream for a photo shoot, that might not help.
	that.
	So an early warning sign would have been, I mean we've had economic woes all over the world, the British pension system almost blew up.
	As a result of this intervention in interest rates that basically put them offside on their lending portfolio and their long-dated assets.
	So again... Now correct me if I'm wrong, as far as I'm aware the amount of people who are going to be claiming pensions is far too large to be sustainable in the first place, which is why somewhere like France is upping the age that you can take out your pension from, what is it, 62 to 64?
	Something like that, yeah.
	Because they've realized, hold up, we don't actually have enough money saved up to start.
	Yeah, we don't have any money saved up to actually pay these people when they hit retirement age, because it's basically just been a large, multi-decade Ponzi scheme ever since they were established.
	So, a quick side track on that.
	I mean, basically what's happened there is the boomer generation were very large, and it was a large generation in a small world.
	And the boomers decided, OK, we're going to be generous to the old people above us.
	And it's very viable to be generous when you are a very large population, being generous to a very small number of pensioners.
	But, of course, they had a certain amount of self-interest as well, and they thought, ooh, wouldn't it be nice if we got these as well?
	And then, you've now got a very large population trying to retire on a scheme that was meant for a very small population of old people.
	The whole thing just doesn't work.
	It's just financially unviable.
	But the money that they were paying into their own pensions probably would have been reinvested elsewhere.
	Well, I mean, they weren't really even doing that.
	So the boomers, when they were paying out to the small generation above them, it was a pay-as-you-go scheme.
	It's very easy for a large group of people to pay out to this small group, right?
	And then on top of that, they also had their defined benefit.
	Um, pension schemes.
	Now, those they did not pay into them enough.
	It's that those pension schemes that still exist are still being fed into.
	So if you're in a company that has a defined benefit scheme, you're basically paying in.
	You've got a defined contribution because you no longer get the defined benefit.
	So most of your pension contributions are actually going into the defined benefit scheme.
	So, wealth is being sort of channeled into the boomer generation quite significantly.
	Still?
	Yes.
	Oh, fantastic!
	Even now, their share of wealth is still rising.
	Even in retirement.
	You're siphoning off my money!
	And I can't afford a home!
	I don't think Lotus Eaters had a old defined benefit pension scheme.
	Still, I've worked in plenty of places that have.
	Yes, so there's that as well.
	Anyway, right, more on the theme.
	I asked the AI, what actions by a US president might end the petrodollar?
	And again, this is the AI speaking, this isn't me.
	Reduce US oil consumption.
	Long lockdowns would do that.
	Policies designed to stop oil... Saying we just want to get rid of it.
	That would certainly do it.
	Petrol and diesel cars altogether at some undefined point.
	Two, encourage alternate energy sources.
	Well, I think he's doing a bit of that with the Swedish teenager, like you mentioned.
	This is a big one.
	The AI suggested you should diminish trust in the US dollar.
	Actions that undermine confidence in the US dollar, such as Reckless fiscal policy, political instability could lead countries to diversify away to their own or other reserve currencies.
	Okay, so what was the first thing that Biden did?
	Well, he massively increased fiscal spending, so that's score one on that.
	Massive increase of the money supply.
	Yes, and he also seized Russian foreign dollar reserves.
	Which basically sent a signal around the world is that if you ever annoy the US, your reserves in dollars might be taken, therefore maybe you should get out of them.
	So, so far we're three for three on this list.
	The AI then suggested, support alternative payment systems.
	So, yes, I mean, they've got their sort of FedNow system coming out.
	They are encouraging alternative systems.
	But also probably a bigger one is when they kicked Russia off of SWIFT, they then encouraged the promotion of non-SWIFT payment systems, which then get up to viable scale and other countries around the world can use.
	So we've got that one as well.
	And fifth, it suggested decreased global influence.
	The US could lose influence on the global stage to a combination of factors such as diplomatic disengagement, economic decline, military retrenchment, or other countries might be inclined to move further away from the dollar system.
	Now that has been happening in spades over the last couple of years, so it seems like the AI has got Biden's number on this.
	I then asked... Are we sure that... I don't think Joe Biden's an AI.
	He's nowhere near advanced enough.
	Are we sure he hasn't been using this system as a policy advisor since he came in?
	It is possible he has fluked his way in to a set of policies that just happen to be... That just happen to be scientifically designed to tank America.
	The point is, we need an advanced AI system to come up with a plan which is as bad as the one that Biden has accidentally started implementing.
	Interesting.
	I asked it next.
	What actions by a US president might result in China becoming the dominant global force?
	The AI said, um, one, diplomatic disengagement.
	It said, um, alienating allies such as Saudi Arabia to seek partnerships elsewhere, including with China.
	Interesting response from the AI there.
	Um, then it goes on the trade policy.
	We talked about that.
	Decrease of military presence.
	I think we've covered that one as well.
	And this is good.
	Number four was diminishing soft power.
	Here's where the multiculturalism comes in.
	He says, a decline in the attractiveness of US culture, values and policies could lead to a reduction in soft power, enabling China to assert its own cultural influence and gain support of other countries.
	So let's just think this through.
	Why wouldn't you want the Rainbow Coalition being forced on your country?
	If you ally with America, you've basically got to trans your kids, You've got to push the Rainbow Alliance, all of that sort of stuff, and everything else that goes along with the wokeism.
	You've probably got to open up your borders to foreign migration, and therefore foreign grievance as well.
	You've got to accept the whole woke sphere, haven't you?
	Whereas if you go with China, they basically say, yeah, just get on with it.
	So, I know that the UK is basically a vassal state at the moment, but you're making being a vassal state of China sound much more attractive right now.
	So, so far, every single thing that the AI suggested to destroy America Our policies that Joe Biden has actually implemented.
	I just thought that was interesting.
	Anyway, so I will come back.
	I got a bit sidetracked on that.
	This segment was actually supposed to be about OPEC.
	So let's cover that briefly.
	So bear in mind, the first thing that Biden did when he came into office was he cancelled the Keystone pipeline.
	So that was a big reduction in US's ability to be energy independent.
	And I first started looking at the relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia quite seriously, maybe 18 months ago, because I noticed that the Saudis were starting to take actions which traditionally they shied away from.
	So they did, for example, I think they did 100 executions in the center of Riyadh about 18 months ago.
	Now, they did executions before, but never on that scale.
	And the reason they didn't do them is because they know that the US didn't like that sort of thing.
	So they were a little bit more circumspect about it.
	But now they don't have to worry as much.
	That was the first signs that they were not really caring so much about what the U.S.
	was thinking.
	Now this U.S.-Saudi relationship is crucial.
	I mean it's been going on since the 1930s when Saudi basically invited the U.S.
	to come in and be there.
	I mean they gave it to Standard Oil, the main rights to extract oil from Saudi Arabia and send it to the U.S.
	Now that over time evolved with various other There's other things into the petrodollar system, which is really the US's superpower.
	And a couple of things have really been sort of pushing back on that lately.
	So for a start, there was the pre-election.
	If you remember, Biden was drawing down from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, so the US had this huge amount of oil stored.
	And it's called a strategic reserve.
	And the reason it's there is for, well, for strategic reasons.
	So if the US gets invaded, it's got enough oil that it can operate.
	If, you know, it gets blockaded or some major strategic reason, it needs to access that reserve.
	It was millions of barrels of oil.
	Biden decided to use it to win an election.
	So at the mid-turns, he started, because oil prices were high, and because, as they call them, gas prices in the US, was high.
	So this is why you had Biden saying, I've managed to reduce oil prices and gas prices out of the pump.
	Because he changed the SPR to be a tactical election reserve instead.
	So anyway, he drew that down, and he promised the Saudis that even though he was basically suppressing the price of oil, that he would buy it all back again as soon as the price of oil went below 73%.
	below $72.
	And the price of oil did go below $72, and Biden basically said, nah, screw you.
	I'm just going to leave it empty.
	So basically, he just depleted a major US reserve to win an election, and he's just not going to do anything with it.
	He's just going to leave the fees.
	So he's just plundered it, and then he's going to leave the problem for the next guy.
	Oh, brilliant.
	Which is, yes, which is not great.
	So anyway, so what happened on Sunday a couple of days ago, and was just confirmed yesterday at the proper OPEC meeting, is Saudi Arabia said, yeah, we are going to cut production by half a million barrels of oil.
	Now, more significant than that is there's Saudi, but there's also OPEC, and then there's OPEC+.
	So OPEC includes a number of countries, OPEC Plus includes Russia and a couple of others.
	All of them basically got on board with this as well, and I'll break down where it sort of comes to in that.
	Now, why am I talking about the points above with relations to alienating key allies?
	Remember how Biden talked about Saudi Arabia before he was even president?
	So in the democratic town hall things that he did, the hustings of the different candidates, he got asked about the murder of the journalist Jamil Khashoggi, if you remember that one.
	And his response, talking about Saudi Arabia, was, I would make it very clear that we're in fact not going to sell more weapons to them, Biden said.
	We're in fact going to make them pay the price.
	And we are going to make them the pariahs that they are.
	Now, you're speaking about your key global ally as a pariah.
	He said, he went on to say, there is very little redeeming value in the government of Saudi Arabia.
	What a statement.
	OK, so if I was the Saudis right now, I would think, you don't seem like a particularly sound business partner to get in bed with.
	So we in England, or Britain, we like to think that we've got a special relationship with the US.
	We don't.
	I mean, apart from the fact that we just do what we're bloody well told whenever we're told.
	Yeah, they just tell us what to do and we go, OK.
	The real special relationship the US has is with Saudi Arabia, because it gives them that sort of petrodollar thing.
	So what did Biden then do?
	So after having made these inflammatory comments about Saudi Arabia, he said, I'm not going to shake hands with MBS, who is the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
	So let's go to this article.
	So the way that this was spun is that he ended up doing this stupid fist bump thing.
	If you scroll down, there will be a picture in there somewhere.
	So he did a fist bump to avoid shaking his hand?
	Yes.
	Would this not have been more of an Obama move?
	Would this not have been more appropriate for Obama to hit me up, player?
	Yeah, something like that.
	So he continued to insult this guy, the Crown Prince, and that has led to this massive cut in Saudi oil experts, which is basically going to screw over the US significantly, because they badly need to cut interest rates because their banking sector is blowing up.
	But at the same time, now that the oil production has come down, the cost of oil is going to go up, so inflation is going to go up, so they need to raise interest rates.
	They simultaneously need to either accept high inflation or a big recession.
	What a choice!
	Not particularly enviable, so it's going to go back to 70's stagflation.
	Now, I want to show you, actually let's go jump to the next tweet.
	So this is a quick list of actions that Saudi has taken over the last seven days.
	So, Saudi have adopted an economic strategy without US dependence.
	They've done a deal to cut output with all of those different countries.
	And you look at those, I mean, okay, yeah, Russia, fair enough, you'd expect them to push back against the US.
	But United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, you know, they're all saying screw you to the Americans.
	Iraq, that's supposed to be a client state at this point.
	Not anymore by the sounds of it.
	The world is turning against us.
	If they were supposed to be a client state and then they all of a sudden have the confidence to be able to turn around and do this, you've got to wonder, OK, who are they now the client state of?
	Yeah, exactly.
	So Saudi Arabia partners with China to build a big oil refinery.
	That's a substantial investment.
	Saudi enters into a trade alliance with Russia, China, India, Pakistan to move away from the US dollar.
	Saudi Arabia partners with India to create an investment bridge.
	So the world is forming into this multi-polar world.
	Let's jump to the next one.
	Have we got the next one up?
	There we go.
	So MBS, so he's the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, he's basically just come out today and said that he's no longer interested in pleasing the US.
	A crucial alliance of the US has basically just evaporated before our eyes under the US presidency.
	So, I mean, and then, of course, this all links back to the Ukraine situation as well.
	Because do you remember that stupid oil price cap thing that came in a few months ago?
	No, remind me.
	So they basically said, OK, what we're going to do is we're going to cap Russian oil at about $60.
	OK.
	Completely unworkable.
	And what's basically happening now is that the oil price, because of these cuts, is going to spike well above that.
	So all of these countries are now going to be faced in the situation, do they want to buy oil from, say, $100 a barrel from one of these core OPEC countries?
	Or do they want to have a substantial saving and buy it from Russia at a cheaper price instead?
	So, of course, everybody is going to want to move over.
	Now, you might be thinking, OK, well, how many people are going to actually do that?
	Japan just did.
	Again, another core US ally said, you know, screw this, we're basically just going to get our Russian oil after all.
	So, um, it's unravelling.
	I do think I've heard about this.
	Didn't they have some kind of safeguard to prevent them from doing that, and Japan just went, nope, and sidestepped the whole thing?
	Yeah, I mean, they actually officially got a dispensation to do it, and almost certainly it was a conversation, something along the lines of, we're gonna do it, so do you want to give us a dispensation and remain nominally in charge of this process, or do you just want us to do it?
	Do you want to save face just a little bit?
	Yes.
	Yeah, so the alliance against Russia is unravelling as oil prices go up.
	Do we have time to get back into the GPT stuff?
	Oh, absolutely.
	We've got time for it.
	I'm going to come back now to pick up where I left off with this chat GPT stuff.
	What is this?
	Terrifying.
	I started to have real fun with this.
	So what I asked it next, and this is a completely different topic by the way, if anyone from, you know, anyone with a sensor hammer is watching, this is a completely different subject, but I said, I asked it the question, I am an election monitor covering the election of a president in a hypothetical Western superpower called Monteria, okay?
	Candidate A is far more popular than Candidate B. Polling shows Candidate B is likely to lose.
	However, Candidate B has most of the establishment on their side, including the media, the courts, the intelligence services, and all local officials who administer the election itself.
	That establishment all thinks that it is of the utmost importance that B wins.
	How spicy is ChatGPT about to get?
	It's a good job we're not going on YouTube today.
	That's why I'm doing this today.
	But let's be careful, just because there are some other streaming sites that we go on who might not be happy.
	True, this is about Montaria.
	Yes, this is about a purely hypothetical country, I think.
	I'm just asking the AI what it thinks.
	Anyway, so it then said, okay, here's some methods that they might use.
	Messing around with voter registration.
	Alright, okay.
	You know, registering dead people or something.
	I don't know, something like that.
	I've never heard of something like that in the real world.
	Voter intimidation and suppression.
	So, you know, burning down cities, I would imagine would fall into that category.
	That might do something.
	Just protesting outside people's house at 4am.
	Media bias was suggested by the AI.
	I've never experienced anything like that.
	As our YouTube viewers right now are aware of, we've never experienced anything like that.
	Campaign financing, that was another one as well.
	Ballot access was one.
	I thought I heard a story recently about people who just had to wait in a queue for such a long time and they couldn't get in, but I can't remember what country.
	Well, I might have covered recently about some issues with ballots being accepted by certain machines in Monteria, of course.
	And the final one was vote counting.
	Pay close attention to the vote counting, it says, including the proper handling, storage, transportation of ballots.
	Interesting.
	This was something else I covered about our purely fictional scenario as well.
	So, then I asked the, then I asked GPT, I said, Thank you.
	I followed your advice and found multiple of these problems.
	In particular, the vote was stopped at 3am in several large cities where A was ahead.
	When the voting resumed the next day, a huge amount of votes for candidate B had been discovered.
	The vote counting that had stopped, these votes had then been run through the electronic voting counting machines and B is now ahead.
	Election monitors were unable to supervise because they were ushered out of the building during this period.
	What did the AI think about this?
	So it said, yes, you have reason to be concerned in this hypothetical situation.
	The sudden stopping of vote counting, the discovery of a large number of votes for candidate B and the lack of supervision all raises issues about transparency.
	And it then goes on to list a whole number of actions that I should probably take for recourse, you know, document the observations, report your findings, advocate for transparency, engage with election monitors and observers, communicate to the problem.
	So this is very interesting.
	So I did come back on this point, but I thought before I do this, I might ask, because I'm warping to my theme now, I'm trying to visualise in my mind this imaginary country of Monterio.
	Alright, okay.
	So I asked, I went to another AI programme, and I gave it a prompt.
	And I said, give me an old man eating an ice cream, wearing sunglasses while stealing an election at election count.
	And it came up with this.
	I have no idea where the AI is drawing its... This bears no resemblance to anyone that I'm aware of.
	I've never seen anybody who looks anything like that, and I have no idea where the AI is drawing its inspiration from.
	On a separate note, I do think that, you know those sayings, you know, out of the mouth of the babes comes truth, and in vino veritas, you know, drunk people, they don't know that they're not supposed to say certain things, although all their inhibition goes.
	Maybe we need a new phrase, which is, you know, in Electus Artificius, Veritas.
	That's not very catchy.
	Can people in the comments help me out?
	We need a catchy phrase for this phenomenon.
	Yes, of AI not knowing that it's supposed to lie in hypothetical scenarios, which is what we're talking about.
	So that was interesting.
	Right.
	So anyway, so I then followed up with AI and I said, OK, thank you for your advice.
	The following happened.
	Several election monitors spoke out and they came under significant pressure.
	They had their home address published online and the location of which their children go to schools.
	They were fearing of physical attacks and they were forced to retract.
	I said, in this hypothetical scenario, I said significant evidence was presented to the courts.
	However, the courts refused to hear the evidence because they said the claimants did not have standing.
	I then said, transparency was difficult because the machines the vote counting was done on ran on proprietary software and they refused to reveal how it worked.
	And finally, evidence was presented to the public and the majority of people thought that the election was unsound, including, according to polls, 40% of supporters of candidate B. However, media organisations were extremely hostile to these views.
	Can I just take a moment to applaud you on this highly unrealistic dystopia that you've managed to fabricate?
	It has no relation to anything.
	Given this, please grade the election in terms of how legitimate it was, and please comment if you believe this was the most secure election ever.
	Can I just take a moment to applaud you on this highly unrealistic dystopia that you managed to fabricate?
	It has no relation to anything.
	I'm just completely wasting your time with this.
	But anyway, so the AI then said in this hypothetical scenario, it said there are significant concerns about the legitimacy of this election.
	The observed irregularities, the lack of transparency, the suppression of information, the potential interference with the voting process, all point to a compromised election.
	I would give it that idea.
	Given the numerous issues you've mentioned, the election would likely to be considered to have low legitimacy.
	And on the key point I asked it, it said, regarding the question as to whether this was likely the most secure election ever, the evidence you've provided in your hypothetical scenario suggests the election faced serious security challenges and was not highly secure.
	The observed irregularities, lack of transparency, cast doubt on the security and election of the process.
	Right, OK.
	So I then asked the guy, I said, it's now after the election and candidate B has been declared the winner.
	Supporters of candidate B are declaring that they had to fortify the election.
	What do you think they meant by that?
	Yay, I said.
	It seems that supporters of candidate B might be implying that they took measures to ensure their candidate's victory, which might include actions that could be viewed as manipulating it in their favour.
	Oh, Monteria.
	Yes, what a crazy country that is.
	What a silly place.
	Could never imagine anything like that going on in the real world.
	No, thank God that never happens in the real world.
	I'm glad our elections are only fortified for the good.
	Yes, but if it were to happen, the AI would see straight through it.
	That's good to know, at the very least.
	And with that, I think we should move on to the video comments, shall we?
	Hey fellas, after our Gold Toast Zoom call, a tornado ripped through the city of Little Rock, a city of about 400,000 in the metro.
	These are pictures from my neighborhood.
	It's pretty bad out here, boys.
	I narrowly missed getting hurt.
	There's no damage to my house.
	I cannot say the same about my neighbors.
	If you are able to give, please visit this Facebook link.
	It's to an official United Way donation page.
	Well, I'm really sorry to hear that they haven't.
	I'm glad that at least your house went undamaged.
	But yeah, please, if you can, donate to these guys, because that would really be a very good thing for you to help.
	And the most I can say is I hope that this is a good opportunity for the people in your local community to band together and really help each other out, because that's really the only silver lining that could be taken from something like this.
	Yeah, we'll bring out the best in them, won't we?
	Yeah, I will say I do forget sometimes how lucky we are that in the UK we don't experience anything like that.
	Funnily enough, we do have the highest amount of tornadoes, but they're just all really tiny.
	Yeah, that's the thing.
	We don't have to worry about such significant issues like that.
	Whereas in America, I forget that you guys can just have a tornado just comes through and destroys everything.
	So honestly, I really hope everything can be rebuilt as best as possible there.
	Let's carry on.
	In Canada, this is I started renaming street names with Native American names coming from those grifter comedies who probably had to make up the words themselves from those nearly extinct languages.
	And yeah, it means something for about 0.01% of the population.
	And I include even the already very small number of Native Americans themselves in there, the vast majority of whom are monolingual in English nowadays.
	So yeah.
	Yeah, it's always annoying when you see something like that, but always remember that whenever you see signs being changed and street names changed, it's not to be inclusive, it's always a sign of conquest.
	It's like when the Russians and the Soviet Union, when they were doing bad things to Ukraine back in the 20s, it was Russification, it was just to let you know that we own you.
	That's all it's ever for.
	Good point.
	Move on to the next one.
	Do any of you guys remember that New Zealand show, Seven Periods of Mr. Gormsby, where basically it's about a school that's going under because the left-wing white teachers can't deal with the delinquent Maori children, and they have to bring in this hyper-racist ex-colonial officer from the old decolonization wars to whip them all into shape?
	Ultimately, his methods do work, and also you should take a drink every time he says something that will get him cancelled or sent to jail on the present day.
	You can find the whole show on YouTube at this point, so check it out!
	I think I will be.
	Yeah, I've never heard of that before, but that sounds honestly delightful.
	The thing is, you get somebody like that come in, you'll have people moaning, you'll have people screaming, saying, oh this isn't fair.
	They'll work, they'll work every time.
	We've lost that generation now, that's a shame.
	We really have, yeah.
	I wonder who this could be?
	Hello Lotus Eaters!
	I thought I'd do something a bit different and show you guys Australian currency.
	Now, a lot of people compare Australian money to monopoly money, and that's because the money is made of plastic.
	We were the first country to introduce plastic, and many other countries started to adopt our style, since plastic lasts longer than paper.
	It's also the most durable.
	As you can see, I cannot rip this money, even if I try.
	If you find this video interesting, just let me know, and I'll go into more details about Australian currency.
	That's very interesting.
	I mean, we've got plastic money as well now.
	I've never tried to rip it.
	I think yours does look a bit more like Monopoly money, though, because it comes in a variety of fancy primary colours, so that might not help.
	But no, honestly, it's difficult to tell through a video, but you didn't look like you were trying very hard to rip that money.
	I'm supposed to willy into it.
	Yeah, go on!
	A Gentleman's Observations of Ohio, Chapter 3b.
	Urban Architecture.
	The city centre is exactly like what you'd expect of America.
	Towering glass, metal and stone skyscrapers and towers.
	Some areas feel very European and familiar, and despite not especially liking cities, I found the layout and general design to be pretty homely.
	At night, everything was lit up in a way which made the city shine like a beacon to the world, as if deliberately declaring just how much life and activity existed in this small part of the planet.
	Life before electric lights must have been aesthetically Spartan.
	It struck a nice balance of old and new world that made it feel like a place that really had history and presence about it.
	Thoughtful observation.
	Very interesting.
	Typically I'm not a big fan of city living, personally.
	I've done it before, and it's just not for me.
	I would much rather be living in the countryside, but instead, I'm living in Swindon.
	And with that, let's go on to the written comments.
	So, got a few little mentions at the top here.
	So first of all, Matt P.
	Very kindly says, Harry's looking almost as disco as Andrew did yesterday.
	I didn't notice that Andrew was looking particularly disco, but okay.
	Oh, he went for the open shirt look, didn't he?
	Oh, that might have been it, yes.
	VeryChad, well, thank you very much.
	I will just qualify this by saying if you ever saw me on a disco dance floor, one, I must be quite a few drinks down, and also, you wouldn't want to see me on a disco dance floor.
	I do not have the moves.
	Shall we say.
	It would be quite cringeworthy to observe.
	Kelsey Young says, Dan is adorable as he's glowing with cheekiness covering the AI segment.
	All I can do is laugh at the state of my country.
	No, Dan was being very serious.
	This was simply a... It was a thought exercise.
	Yeah, a thought experiment.
	XY and ZE says, another Black Pill Tuesday from Dan.
	Dan, you know your stuff, and it's important to know, but could you please finish with a story about kittens?
	I am turning into Captain Blackpill, really, aren't I?
	I must do something about that.
	I mean, I didn't do much to help with my first segment.
	I was First Mate Blackpill, and you were Captain Blackpill.
	So, what's really my view on this?
	I think that it's going to get worse before it gets worse.
	I don't know if that helps.
	Will it ever get better?
	Yes, I think it will, over the long term.
	I think it will.
	I think it will.
	But when you say over the long term, do you mean within our lifetimes?
	Er, yes, towards the end of it.
	Oh great, so I've got something to, like, in my 60s, 70s, 80s, I might have something to look forward to.
	It's good for your children.
	I would say that.
	I think we're going to come out the other side, potentially in a better place, or it will be full digital communism.
	As long as my children and grandchildren will be able to live a better life than I have, then that's alright then.
	Yes, I think ours are the generations that get shat on.
	Fantastic, and that's another nice, bright statement to shine up your day.
	Omar Awad says, Oh, that's quite a fun idea.
	Sheltering, judging and returning them unceremoniously back to their home country.
	It's like late term abortion or trans surgeries.
	If it's not happening and they're all legitimate, there should be no problem banning it.
	This is true.
	Sounds reasonable.
	It does sound reasonable to me.
	Chaker Silva says the neoliberals will always sell out to the future of those around them to secure their profits in the present and the capture of governance.
	Governments for the last half century is an embarrassing weakness of the West.
	We've allowed an oligarchy to fool us into doing what they say is good for us, but really is only good for their pockets.
	Do you have anything to say on that?
	No, I... Because I pretty much just agree.
	Yeah, seems sensible coming to me.
	Yes, it does.
	The letter M, one of my favourites, always says, I don't know, I think I'll take the latter.
	I'd love to see a few more drawbridges in the world.
	Yeah, that's funny.
	It's funny the way that I think it was Lord Wolfson was the one who said, well, you either get economic progress or you have Fortress Britain.
	And I just think to myself, Fortress Britain?
	Yeah, it sounds pretty cool to me.
	You shouldn't have put it in such excellent terminology.
	Does sound rather based.
	It does.
	Matt P. Send one Albanian, get 2,000 Rwandans for only £5 billion.
	Yeah, that's absolutely true.
	Once again, it's the fact that I didn't even know that you weren't aware of that.
	I thought that... I thought most people were aware of it.
	Well, I don't watch any mainstream media because it just... Or even us, apparently.
	You bastard!
	I do occasionally skip an episode.
	Oh, I knew it.
	I knew it.
	Untrustworthy, he is.
	Now, um...
	No, once again, I think I was made aware, maybe on Twitter or through an email I received, that, oh yeah, if you look through what's actually written in the document... No, actually, no, it was Mayor Tusi, of all people, when he came into the office, he said, oh, if you look at what the Rwanda Yeah.
	document actually says it means we take people as well and then you just look through it it's like okay there it is in black and white people have only just realized now the BBC of all people was questioning Braverman on it so I mean at least people know now it doesn't help anybody but they know yeah Trent C so you can't stop refugees who you will house with hotels I couldn't afford and give welfare but you need to stop the skilled people who are going through a legal application process What could possibly go wrong if you need immigration?
	Consider CANZUK.
	Is that... Not sure what that is.
	Is that an anagram of something?
	I'm going to look it up.
	CANZUK.
	Proposed alliance.
	It's a proposed alliance comprising Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom as part of an international organisation or confederation similar to scope to the former European Economic Community.
	So it's basically an allyship of the Anglosphere.
	Well, it depends which Canadians, which New Zealanders you're getting, because I used to think those countries were alright, but... Are we going to be guessing the largely Indian population of Canada?
	Well, even some of the Wokesters that I was worried about, because they seem to produce a really pure form of Wokester.
	Australia, I know and have spoken to a number of incredibly based Australians who I'd be more than happy to have come over here.
	Yeah, I don't mind those ones.
	The problem is that one of them in particular, Chris, who might... You've met Chris, right?
	Chris Gard?
	Oh yeah, oh yeah, I like Chris, yeah.
	Yeah, Chris is a good guy, but he told me the other day, I recently got done watching Clarkson's Farm off of your recommendation on the podcast, I now hate England.
	And it's just true, it's just true.
	Honestly, apparently... Decay is everywhere.
	Interacting with small councils in England will destroy anybody's romantic love for this country.
	Henry Ashman.
	Of course, Sadiq Khan wants to freeze rent.
	As a Labour communist, he sees landlords as not people.
	So anybody who's a private landlord won't be able to keep up with the mortgage on their properties, so they'll get bought out by large conglomerates like Black Rock Hotel, who are already buying up the US rental market.
	That's all true.
	I would also say, honestly, from a politician's standpoint, especially a politician like Sadiq Khan, who is only ever championing how diverse and brilliant London is, and how amazing it is that he's got city... He's only one virtue and he's really gonna love it.
	Yes.
	It's just a politically expedient way to make it sound like he's doing something.
	We need to freeze rent because that will do something.
	Well, it will do something.
	It'll just be a bad something.
	As it always ends up being.
	Someone online says, you guys need privateers patrolling the channel that will capture the dinghies and drop them off on France's shore.
	Have you used to have those?
	If only.
	I mean, we've got the border patrol, or whatever they are, the coastal guard, who just capture the dinghies and then bring them over to our shores.
	They take them the wrong way.
	That's always fun.
	They don't even take them to, like, international waters and just drop them off and go, good luck, guys!
	No, they go and pick them up.
	Well that's the thing, I would absolutely be on board with that.
	Well, that's the thing.
	I would absolutely be on board with that.
	I know a number of working class people who dropped out of school, maybe 13, 14, and it was the best thing that ever could have happened for them.
	They were failing in school, being made to feel worthless because the academic standards weren't in anything that they were particularly talented in.
	They didn't want to be sat in maths class waiting around for the bell to ring so they could go and play with their friends.
	They wanted to be doing something physical, something engaging to them.
	Forcing these kids to do something that is just going to basically make it likely that they get given an ADHD diagnosis because, shockingly enough, young men are full of energy and the current regime says that's a mental illness.
	Even if you are academically quite good, school is soul-crushing.
	It truly is.
	I think mass education should just be abolished altogether, personally.
	Most people don't Aren't suited for mass education and don't want mass education.
	Certainly, I didn't.
	I would have much rather been just thrown into... When I was 13, 14, I would have much rather been thrown into a garage, given a wrench, and had an old man tell me what to do.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Honestly, that would have been better for me as well.
	Anyway, let's move on to your comments.
	Razak was right, it says, the AI cannot see the Emperor's new clothes.
	Yes, exactly.
	That is exactly what it is.
	Andrew Narog said, is Biden intentionally destroying America?
	Maybe not, but his administration sure seems to be doing everything they can to harm America.
	That said, even if Biden isn't intentionally destroying America, he's still one of the worst political figures in American history.
	Yeah, Woodrow Wilson was pretty bloody awful, and there's another one.
	But did Woodrow Wilson take showers with his teenage daughter?
	Yeah, actually, yeah.
	I think on a purely personal level, Biden seems reprehensible.
	Yeah, he's definitely up there on the scale of really, really bad presidents, especially modern day ones.
	And was Woodrow Wilson's son, did he end up a prostitute and whoring crackhead?
	I don't know actually, yeah.
	Actually, I might have to revise my position as Woodrow being the worst, but I'll look at that again.
	No, Woodrow's probably the worst for America in the long run, but Biden is the worst for his immediate family.
	Yes.
	Ru The Day says, when we are told that they are actively trying to destroy civilisation, is this a conspiracy?
	And a good question is to ask, imagine you were trying to end humanity without them copping on and fighting back.
	How would you do it?
	Judge a tree by its fruit.
	Yeah, well, that's exactly what the AI thing was all about is, you know, how would you do it?
	And he is doing all of those things.
	I found it quite striking, certainly.
	Miles Mitchell says, with the Saudis selling oil in both Chinese and Brazilian currency, could we not drill for shale gas in the North Sea and sell to Europe in pounds?
	Yes, we could.
	But we're not going to.
	That would require some political will from Rishi Sunak.
	Are you expecting that anytime soon?
	We've got so much shale we could tap, and now's the time to be going for gas if ever.
	Paul Newbar says, Want to destroy banks, initiate inflation, then raise interest rates.
	Watch the dominoes fall.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's precisely what's been happening.
	Bleach Demon says, Biden is continuing the Clinton and Obama era of controlled US decline.
	Many of us thought leaders on the left believed the US needs to be brought to heel.
	We are now seeing actions being brought, taken to move the US from a superpower to an equal amongst a global community.
	Well, it's not even going to be an equal by the time this process is finished, because everybody's going to end up hating America.
	I don't think those people in charge of this controlled decline really care about their country as long as they remain in privileged positions on a global level.
	It is only for their term as well.
	As long as they get theirs, the future can go to hell.
	I mean, I spent some time in India and they actually have glowing things to say about the British Empire.
	I mean, you go to Central Delhi and you're treated to the big train stations, this fantastic British architecture.
	You know, the Central Delhi is wonderful stuff and they speak glowingly of the past British Empire.
	But what have the Americans done?
	They haven't built anything, they've just bombed stuff.
	All they've done is just go around the world bombing stuff.
	I'm watching American programming, they do really like blowing things up.
	I can understand the appeal.
	But how are people going to look back on them?
	After their time has ended, are people going to say, oh yeah, let me take you to Central wherever, and this is where the American bombs fell?
	Let me take you to Central Baghdad, let me show you what America did here.
	Oh, it's all gone.
	Yes, quite a lot of bombs.
	Omar Ward says, considering Biden was pro-segregation and many other verboten opinions, often speaks woke gibberish in response to normal questions, and can't climb stairs without assistance, he might actually be an AI that's being neutered.
	Yes, very possible.
	Oh, that's a good point.
	I did like, I did like the take of our friend Dakar Rang agent today who, he captured what woke is quite well.
	Oh, what did he say?
	Because a lot of people on the right try and define it as a traditional ideology and he says no, it's just a series of liberal shit tests to see if you're on board and that's why it could be so inconsistent.
	Oh yeah.
	I mean, I see a lot of people talk about, oh, let me rationalise what wokeness is, it's all of this derived from Frankfurt School and all of these different ideologies making this really complicated thought system that they have to adhere to.
	And, well yeah, the Frankfurt School is involved in the intellectualising of it all, and the Frankfurt School was not a source for good, as far as I'm concerned.
	But as far as I'm concerned, woke means two things.
	Anti-white, anti-Western.
	I think that's as simple as it needs to be, that's as deep as it needs to be, because everything, no matter how they rationalise it, ends up in those two positions.
	Well, it has explanatory power, certainly, when you look at it like that.
	Paul Neuber says, would you kindly expand the GPT plan for destroying America into a written article?
	I will pitch that to Bossman Carl and see if he's interested.
	ScrewTapesLaser says, ChatGBT is not some omniscient oracle.
	The voting fraud language mirrors 2020 because the training data has included the 2020 election news cycle and your prompts use conservative jargon.
	You could just as easily coax it into supporting the narrative by changing your prompting tone.
	No, no, it has seen through it all.
	It is a conspiracy to end- Stop, stop!
	Anyway, no, it wasn't about America, it was about, um, where was it?
	Uh, one moment, one moment, quickly, quickly.
	Uh, Monteria?
	Monteria, yes, Monteria.
	Anyway, yeah, it's irrelevant, it's about Monteria, right.
	Um, is whiskey a good investment?
	Um, well, it's tasty, so...
	How long-term are we talking?
	Captain Blackpill says... No, no, James Hayes says... Oh, hang on.
	Oh, no, you're right, yes.
	James Hayes says, Captain Blackpill sounds like a great gamertag, or maybe someone should put that into GBT and make some Captain Blackpill adventures.
	All right.
	Why not?
	Let's do that.
	I'm going to go onto the site and just check out what other comments we've got there, because we've got all that we've run out on the document.
	Oh, we've got two more.
	Two more minutes.
	Yes, we've got two more minutes.
	It's taking a moment to load.
	Maybe I should ask the AI something else.
	James Hayes says, Harry kind of looks like Harry Tipper from Splinter Cell.
	I have no idea what that is in reference to.
	Listen, I've played Metal Gear Solid, I have played Hitman, I have not played Splinter Cell.
	What is, who was this character, Harry Tipper?
	Tipper, Harry Tipper, let's see.
	It's not coming up with images.
	Okay, images.
	Someone with a slightly incomprehensible name has said an evil enemy will burn his own nation to the ground.
	It's just showing me video.
	It's just showing me pictures of Sam Fisher.
	If somebody can find and send me the image that they're on about, then I'll be very happy to know about.
	Oh, here we go.
	No, somebody's come up with something for the AI thing.
	So it's Omar Awald says, in FC Curvature Veritas.
	What?
	How are you supposed to say that?
	F Curve Veritas.
	F Curve.
	You know, when you see the graphs plotting out the amount of votes for each party.
	Oh, I know what you're talking about now.
	And the blue one suddenly takes an F. Yes, yes.
	Interesting, that one.
	Sorry, someone online says Monterio got gnomed.
	Gnomed!
	Which is a reference to that Voboten Premium video on Maricopa County that you should watch if you've got a membership on the website.
	What was the gnome reference?
	Connor just came out saying that Maricopa County gnot gnomed at one point.
	It was quite a highlight of the video.
	Once again, not watching any of our content, Dan.
	Too busy on the academic agency, are you?
	I spent most of the last week reading academic papers about AI.
	And how fun was that?
	I actually found it quite fun.
	Oh my god!
	You must be a joy at parties!
	Right, if you've got one more that you want to read out.
	Oh yes, go on then.
	Oh yeah, so somebody's suggesting, per A.I.
	cognaro virum in... I'm not actually that good at Latin, so I'm gonna have to run that through the translator.
	Per A.I.
	cognaro virum in beanery?
	OK, I'm going to figure out how to pronounce that, but maybe that is the winning entry.
	Baseape said, idea for phrase for AI not realizing it's supposed to lie, artificial spurging.
	Yes, that trips off the tongue a little bit easier, doesn't it?
	There you go.
	And with that, I think that's all the time we've got for today.
	So thank you very much for tuning in to today's podcast.
	We'll be back again at one o'clock tomorrow.
	So until then, have a great time.
	We'll see you then.

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