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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #646

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	Music Hello and welcome to the podcast of The Lotus Seaters episode 646 on today, Thursday the 4th of May 2023.
	I'm your host Conor, joined again by Harry.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be discussing... was this meant to make him look bad?
	Yes, all of the Tucker Carlson media matters leaks, how a new civil rights martyr has just dropped, and DeSantis.
	Get your pitchforks ready!
	Yeah, that'll be, uh...
	Not at all controversial, I'm sure.
	Without further ado, let's jump straight into the news.
	So Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News last Monday.
	Dan and I actually covered it at the time.
	You can go over and look at our segment on that on Rumble, because screw YouTube.
	A little bit of a short summary.
	It isn't the Dominion lawsuit, because Tucker came out of all that squeaky clean.
	There was a Liberal booker who tried to launch a lawsuit against the rest of his production team for some not-at-all edgy jokes, but Tucker wasn't implicated in that at all, because she couldn't actually allege Tucker to have said anything, because she hadn't met him.
	Fox had a bunch of shares bought up by BlackRock, so that might have expanded their say on board decisions and who they hired and fired, and it turns out that Tucker might also do what Bongino did and go over to Rumble, which is why I've plugged that.
	So, seems that Tucker's got a lucrative career ahead of him, but we have lost a very prominent voice to speak to the boomers on mainstream television, because even though we've got plenty of nice boomers in our audience — hello, everyone — Lots of people just don't click off of the main few channels that they subscribe to on their cable subscription.
	Things haven't been going well for Fox ever since, and so, like any time a girl gets kicked out of the Pretty Girls group, they've decided to smear his reputation to try and save some face and get some self-esteem back up.
	So we're going to go through some of those clips and some of the fallout today.
	If you'd like to support alternative media like us, you can go over to our website, and even though this interview with Abigail Favale that I conducted is free, We are reliant on donations and subscriptions.
	We've just set up a donations tab, but you can get all of our paid content for as little as £5 a month, so that we can keep the lights on and keep doing content like this.
	And, well, it'd be lovely to get Tucker on someday, don't hold your breath, but he's going to go through the same model, I suspect.
	So, support your favourite creators, I suppose.
	So anyway, on to the first tweet.
	This is Tucker's statement as soon as he got fired.
	This was, I believe, the following day.
	And if you look at the amount of impressions, 80 million views?
	That is very impressive.
	Almost a million likes as well.
	Yeah, and it's pretty staggering.
	And so I suspect that Tucker will go his own way, particularly because I believe he does own that studio.
	I don't know if he has to change any of the branding in it, because of course Fox will own some of the likenesses.
	But he does do all his own production overhead costs and things like that.
	So he's insulated from this contract fallout, and he's obviously got quite a nice payout, so that can tide him over.
	And once monetisation happens on Twitter, it already is on Rumble, I'm sure that Tucker will just launch his own show.
	So how about we listen to That's one of the things that I think I saw a lot of people saying was that they were hoping that Tucker would get on Twitter because he could be protected by Elon in some sense and then be able to make money off of that.
	And as we can see from the impressions that this has reached, reached a far wider audience than he ever got on Fox News.
	Exactly.
	So let's hear what Tucker thinks about his firing from his own mouth.
	Good evening, it's Tucker Carlson.
	One of the first things you realize when you step outside the noise for a few days is how many genuinely nice people there are in this country.
	Kind and decent people.
	People who really care about what's true.
	And a bunch of hilarious people, also.
	A lot of those.
	It's gotta be the majority of the population, even now.
	So that's heartening.
	The other thing you notice when you take a little time off is how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are.
	They're completely irrelevant.
	They mean nothing.
	In five years, we won't even remember that we had them.
	Trust me, as someone who's participated.
	And yet at the same time, and this is the amazing thing, the undeniably big topics, the ones that will define our future, get virtually no discussion at all.
	War, civil liberties, emerging science, demographic change, corporate power, natural resources.
	When was the last time you heard a legitimate debate about any of those issues?
	It's been a long time.
	Debates like that are not permitted in American media.
	Both political parties and their donors have reached consensus on what benefits them, and they actively collude to shut down any conversation about it.
	Suddenly, the United States looks very much like a one-party state.
	That's a depressing realization, but it's not permanent.
	Our current orthodoxies won't last.
	They're brain dead.
	Nobody actually believes them.
	Hardly anyone's life is improved by them.
	This moment is too inherently ridiculous to continue, and so it won't.
	The people in charge know this.
	That's why they're hysterical and aggressive.
	They're afraid.
	They've given up persuasion.
	They're resorting to force.
	But it won't work.
	When honest people say what's true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful.
	At the same time, the liars who've been trying to silence them shrink, and they become weaker.
	That's the iron law of the universe.
	True things prevail.
	Where can you still find Americans saying true things?
	There aren't many places left, but there are some, and that's enough.
	As long as you can hear the words, there is hope.
	See you soon.
	So allow me to translate from the NDA, they hated Jesus because he spoke the truth.
	Now he is exactly correct there and I speak from experience having done about a hundred appearances on mainstream telly.
	Most of the time these split panel debates about absolutely nothing and woeful wokery and all this sort of stuff that you'll hear endlessly don't actually go anywhere and everyone's sort of shaking hands in the green room and prepping their talking points ahead of time.
	It's political kayfabe.
	Yeah, it's kabuki theatre.
	They just want to get the most boomer bait, click bait Twitter clip going so they can generate traction so that they can give it to their sponsors on next year's earnings report and that's it.
	That's why whenever I go on I try to do some sort of verbal airstrike on my opponents and actually bring up some stats and most people just feign outrage.
	To various levels of success, I'm sure, but Tucker actually made headlines.
	He wasn't just a ranked pundit.
	His opening monologues broke new stories, as we saw with the January 6th footage, where he recontextualized it, and QAnon Shaman was out the very next day.
	And it was very inconvenient for both the Republican and Democrat establishments.
	And so, what Tucker's saying there, unable to explicitly name the people that ousted him, otherwise he'd be in violation of his NDA, is that, the Uniparty wanted me gone, and Fox cucked for it.
	And...
	If we remember the Dominion lawsuit, there was a text that came out, and Fox were calling Arizona ahead of time, and Tucker warned them, if we alienate our audience, Newsmax will eat our lunch.
	Well, it seems that Tucker has been proven right again, because if we go over to Newsmax reporting, Fox's ratings have collapsed by 50% since they fired Tucker.
	Yeah, major oof, exactly.
	Can I just point out as well, just from that previous clip, one of the things that makes Tucker Carlson actually very likeable and very endearing, you could imagine sitting down just having a normal conversation with the man, and there's been a number of clips come out of people confronting him when he'd been trying to fly fish in New York Park, for instance, and he's just turned what could have been an aggressive confrontation into a friendly chat.
	He turns it around.
	He is more than willing to be accountable for the fact that, as you mentioned there, he'd been part of a lot of these false news debates on mainstream television in the past.
	He's happy to accept that he used to be part of the problem, and there was a recent clip going around of his appearance on an independent podcast where he said as much, and he is now working towards being part of the solution instead.
	And I just want to say that gives me a lot of respect for him, and I think it gives a lot of our viewers and a lot of all of the other viewers who appreciate Tucker that respect, which is why we go to him.
	Yeah, he's a good boy who didn't do nothing.
	And we'll see that in his heritage speech later on, which I'll be bringing up for a very specific reason, because it might actually have to tie with his firing.
	But from Newsmax, and here, again, just to stipulate, obviously Newsmax are their leading competitor, so they do have a vested interest in publishing these stats as being as worse as possible.
	But also, they're their main competitor, so they have, if the stats are this bad, the interest in publishing them as being as bad as possible, so a bit of scepticism is healthy, but still, looks not great.
	Fox was drawing an average of 3.2 million viewers a night for Tucker Carlson tonight.
	The week that he was fired, Fox saw its audience plummet to 2.6 million viewers on the Monday that he was fired, then on the Tuesday the day after, 1.7 million, on Wednesday, 1.3 million.
	So that's 59% drop down.
	Break out the dancing crabs.
	You've lost almost two million viewers.
	Yeah, that's Doctor Who levels of drop-off, I'm afraid.
	And I don't know if those shows on those particular days would have been having fewer viewers anyway, but, uh, it does paint a picture.
	Oh, that's from Tucker Carlson's, like, regular viewing.
	His regular shot.
	As soon as they got a guest host to stand in.
	Bad, yeah.
	Not excellent.
	So of course, Fox, allegedly, because it could have just been the gnomes, the underpants gremlins, breaking into the Fox studios and stealing this from the pre-roll footage, may have leaked some tapes to Media Matters, and I have seen it suggested, I will just say, that some of these might be deepfakes, because the eyes are a bit funny, the mouth movement's a bit funny, but we're going to operate off of the presumption
	That these are real footage of Tucker Carlson that Media Matters has put out to what I can only assume make him look brilliant because it's hilarious.
	Either way, they want these clips to make him look bad.
	I will say with this one, I don't know if it's just got slow frame rates or something, but the way that it's moving even without the audio does seem a bit strange to me.
	But let's carry on anyway.
	Whether or not it is fake, It makes Tucker look great.
	So thanks for the free PR.
	We're gonna sit here and watch these just to have a bit of fun.
	So let's play the first one where he rags on Fox Nation for having a terrible website.
	I don't want to be a slave to Fox Nation, which I don't think that many people watch anyway.
	We're gonna, because I, you know, I'm like a representative of the American media now.
	Speaking to an exile in Romania and welcoming him back into the brotherhood of journalists.
	Yeah.
	It would help us out if you wore a sweater, though, because we asked him not to wear a suit.
	Like, he was panicking about it.
	So, you don't have to.
	Tucker's going to be looking casual.
	That's just how our show looks.
	Is that okay?
	I mean, this is airing on the nighttime show, and I want it to look official.
	I don't want it to be like bro talk.
	And I... You know what I mean?
	Yeah, but the majority of it, like if we go like 45 minutes, it's going to be for Fox Nation.
	But nobody's going to watch it on Fox Nation.
	Nobody watches Fox Nation because the site sucks.
	So I'd really like to just put the dump the whole thing on YouTube.
	But anyway, that's just my view.
	I'm just frustrated with it.
	It's hard to use that site.
	I don't know why they're not fixing it.
	It's driving me insane.
	And they're, like, making, like, Lifetime movies, but they don't work on the infrastructure of the site?
	Like, what?
	It's crazy, and it drives me crazy, because it's like, we're doing all this extra work, and no one can find it.
	It's unbelievable, actually.
	I don't know who runs that site, but...
	We can pause that there, John, if you like.
	So, Tucker is terrible because the employer he used to work for, who unceremoniously fired him, has a terrible website and he's saying it makes us look bad because people can't watch our content.
	So Tucker is a bad man for getting viewers to get what they paid for.
	Okay?
	If this is intended at anyone, if this clip is real, there was a bit of funny movement in there, but that might be down to video compression or something, so it's hard to tell.
	But if that video is real, I can only imagine that the reason they'd be putting it out there is not necessarily to make the general audience hate him, but more for any future employers to go, oh, okay, he might be bad-mouthing us behind our backs.
	Yeah, but again, if Tucker can just take his own loyal viewer base to something like Rumble, it's water off his back.
	And also, it seems like all the Fox Nation subscribers turned around and went, yeah, Tucker's right, site sucks.
	Like, fix it.
	And I totally understand the disjunction between people that create and the infrastructure side, because sometimes there is discoordination there.
	And a lot of the time, the people that make the content can't always get that to line up.
	So yeah, there's always going to be Fissures, within any kind of organisation.
	There will be frustration.
	Yeah, and so that's entirely... Thinking to yourself, my content, my work that I've put a lot of effort into isn't going to reach as many people purely due to infrastructure that you're not in control of.
	It can be a big issue.
	Totally understandable.
	So, um, that didn't take him down.
	Of course it didn't.
	So, there's the next clip that they put out, which was right before we ended an interview with Piers Morgan.
	Tucker cracked a sex joke.
	How terrible.
	Let's listen.
	Everyone in this company is thrilled that you're doing this.
	I've gotten more calls from people about it.
	Oh, that's great.
	Well, I gotta say, when I came to New York a couple of weeks ago, I couldn't believe how welcoming and friendly everybody was.
	It was fantastic.
	I loved it.
	Yeah, they really mean it from the owners on down.
	It's cool.
	It's cool to see it.
	I like that.
	You know, people are nice in this company, I think.
	They've always been nice to me anyway.
	I completely agree.
	Everyone's been very friendly and very nice, and I really appreciate it.
	But thank you so much for coming on.
	Yeah, I bet that doesn't change.
	Of course!
	It's just great to have you on my show.
	I mean, I've been on yours enough times.
	It's great.
	I think it's totally cool.
	So let's, if we're gonna talk about sex, I'd love to hit some of the fine points of technique.
	But you know, but it's your show, it's totally up to you.
	We can certainly talk about your sexual technique, especially after your tanning testicles last week.
	Not mine!
	We'll speak in more general terms, but I've got something to add.
	It's alright John, we can stop that there.
	It just seems like a lab.
	Good laugh.
	Oh, oh no.
	It's a man telling a joke to another man.
	And they're laughing.
	This is sexual harassment, I guess.
	To nobody in particular.
	Yeah, to upset bookers who never met Tucker.
	Alright, okay.
	Again, bit weird that someone, definitely not Fox, is leaking these things from the bird there.
	But, but all right.
	Now this was meant to be the most damning one, right?
	And this is something we can never condone.
	Tucker Carlson directly addressing media matters with disparaging remarks.
	Because media matters are journalists with real integrity, saving democracy, right?
	Let's play it.
	We can't laugh.
	We're not allowed to, right?
	You wouldn't?
	Okay.
	I'm not, you know what?
	I'm not qualified on that score, I will say.
	I thought his girlfriend was kind of yummy.
	Just kidding.
	Just kidding in case this is being pulled off the bird!
	Yeah, the bird!
	Hey, Media Matters for America!
	Go f*** yourself!
	That's the first thing I want to say tonight.
	Second thing is, totally kidding, I don't even know what his girlfriend looks like.
	And if I did, I would not find her yummy.
	See, Tucker Carlson's best response to all of these, even if it does turn out there's one or two that are fake, is to just take complete accountability and say, yes, I said every single one of these.
	Just quote-retweet it with baste.
	Yeah, just accept that, yes, I did say all of this, go cry about it.
	Yep, exactly.
	We'll just play the small start of this first one, because he describes his viewer base and ageing demographic pretty accurately.
	Well, I feel great.
	You know, I can never assess my appearance.
	I wait for my post-menopausal fans to weigh in on that.
	My FB?
	What?
	They want to control me from afar?
	Okay, I'm putting the leash on.
	It's alright, John.
	We can pause that there.
	Yeah, he's insulting the fact that older women watch Fox.
	All of this is the most mild banter I've ever experienced.
	Not one slur was dropped despite him apparently advancing white nationalism according to AOC.
	Let's not dob ourselves in, but can you imagine if we had a microphone in our office?
	I don't know what you're talking about, Harry.
	This is the cleanest, I'm a good Christian boy, I would say absolutely nothing would incriminate me.
	This is true, we definitely don't have something referred to as Connor's Roar.
	Law, not raw.
	I almost said rule.
	If you're listening to GCHQ, I unreservedly apologise for everything I've ever said.
	It was deepfakes, every single one of it.
	AI voice control.
	Yes, and you know what, we'll skip the next clip, but this was just the last one, as you can see in the tweet, where he calls some guest Which was the Dominion lawyer that appeared, a slimy mother effer, because on air he decided to allege that Tucker Carlson wasn't paying his taxes, which would technically be libelous, I would think?
	And I think... Pretty slimy thing to do.
	Dominion should know about a defamation lawsuit, I would suppose.
	But anyway, so they couldn't get Tucker on any of that stuff, and then someone leaked a text from Tucker to the New York Times.
	So, I wonder if there are people at Fox who aren't quite as loyal to saving the country as some of the hosts on air would suggest.
	It's almost like one could accuse them of being controlled opposition.
	How strange.
	Hmm.
	I wonder if it was anyone on the Hannity team after Tucker decided in a handover to tell Sean Hannity that he was a corporatist shill and that Hannity wasn't too delighted with that.
	I wouldn't allege anything, of course.
	It just seems that Fox probably isn't friends of the American people At this point.
	But anyway, we'll look at this text they tried to take Tucker down with.
	And I'll read it out.
	You can just scroll down to the actual text block, John.
	Tucker said, a couple of weeks ago, I was watching a group of people fighting on the street in Washington.
	A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living S out of him.
	It was three against one, at least.
	Jumping a guy like that is dishonourable, honestly.
	It's not how white men fight.
	Yet suddenly, I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they'd hit him harder.
	Kill him.
	I really wanted to hurt the kid.
	I could taste it.
	Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off.
	This isn't good for me.
	I'm becoming something I don't want to be.
	The answer for creep is a human being.
	Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I'm sure I'd hate him personally, if I knew him, I shouldn't gloat over his suffering.
	I should be bothered by it.
	I should remember that somewhere, somebody probably loves that kid and would be crushed if he was killed.
	If I don't care about these things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?
	And what was the most controversial part of that particular statement?
	This isn't how white men fight, I would assume.
	It would probably be the disavowing of murdering your political enemies that the left takes umbrage over.
	Yeah, but this was alleged by the New York Times to be the text that got him fired.
	This was the smoking gun.
	Over two years ago.
	Yeah, I highly doubt that.
	One, because he lower case the word white, so he's not engaging in the racial block politics that the left are playing, so he's not saying that white people are some separate nation from all of America, but there he goes.
	Not much racial consciousness from the so-called white supremacists there.
	But the point he's making there is, okay, is massive gang fighting A traditionally white American phenomenon?
	Or is it something you'd see on WorldStarHipHop, for example?
	Ah, we're making the Steve Saylor point, yes.
	The who?
	Steve Saylor.
	He is a Twitter... Probably... He's a Twitter vigilante.
	Shall we say, who whenever anybody makes a stupid comment about gun violence and how we just need to take everyone's guns away in the US because of gun violence, Steve Saylor, he's got a little golf course as his profile picture, you may have spotted, he will come in with statistics about who in particular is committing gun violence and Steve Saylor in the replies to some of the tweets alleging all of this did point out that WorldStarHipHop can be seen as
	Thousands and thousands of videos worth of data showing exactly what he's talking about here.
	Yeah, and the thing is, if we're not allowed to talk honestly about this sort of thing, we can't stop it.
	And I am quite happy to stop a bunch of black kids beating, shooting and stabbing each other in various democrat cities, because I don't want people dead for no reason.
	It is primarily each other.
	Despite the videos that we see posted around on Twitter, most of the violence is intra-racial and not inter-racial.
	Most of the violence we see that is inter-racial is usually like what we saw in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, where the inter-racial couple, that was the black guy and the white woman, were mobbed by all of the black teens during the teen takeover.
	And when someone like Lawrence Fox points this out and says that you don't see this the other way around, and a bunch of leftists say, well, if you did see it the other way around, if you did see a black woman beat up by white men, you wouldn't say anything.
	And so Lawrence Fox rightly said, okay, show me one.
	And all he could get was old pre-Jim Crow photos.
	It's like, okay, good.
	I'm glad we solved that problem.
	I'm glad that there aren't random mobs of white men beating up black women.
	Can we talk about how it's the other way around?
	No, because it gets you too much capital for your racial grievance-mongering NGOs.
	That's it.
	Basically, you make too much money having a bunch of kids be your random martyrs so you can grift off of it.
	And Tucker Carlson's turning around and saying, okay, you know what?
	Even if it is my political enemies, right?
	Even if they're getting ganged up on by people that are on my side, I actually don't want to further this because I feel sordid wanting this.
	I shouldn't want it.
	It degrades my soul to see some kid caught up in the winds of ideology get the crap beat out of him, multiple men on one.
	And this isn't good for me and it's degrading my perspective of morality.
	So this was actually a moment of reflection, saying to his colleagues, I felt bad about this And so, we shouldn't go down that road.
	It's similar to what Liam Neeson once got cancelled for, when Liam Neeson's friend got raped by a black man, and he said, I drove around my local town looking for a man who fit the description, and I found myself going, wait, I might just beat up a random black guy, that's really dark of me, I need to reflect on this.
	And that's the moment he said, that's when I learned not to be racist.
	And he got cancelled because he said, well, Liam Neeson was once racist.
	It's a moment of reflection and vulnerability.
	Uh, with all that said, I will just say when it comes to this particular comment that Tucker made over text, I appreciate the sentiment, I appreciate what he is saying, I will not be feeling bad for radical communists getting beaten up on the street when they're advocating for the destruction of our entire civilization in the first place, and I will not be shedding any tears over these people if they do get some street vigilantism.
	Yeah, Tucker is far more compassionate than me.
	I'm not condoning it, I'm just saying I won't feel bad about it.
	Yes.
	The reason I also wanted to focus on this article is just because, if you can scroll down to the bottom, basically, there's an admission that the journalists, the raising press, are just vultures circling a corpse.
	On Monday, the New York Times and other news organisations urged the judge overseeing the Dominion case to release more of the messages that were redacted.
	Right, so they're actively petitioning the judicial system to try to get more dirt to justify Tucker's ousting.
	So, they're working hand-in-hand with the government to make it look far more bad.
	Well, there have probably been people who have had it in for Tucker for a very long time, who have been keeping this sort of thing in their back pocket, so if at any moment they did just decide, alright, let's chuck him, they wanted something in their back pocket so that they could post-hoc rationalise, justify it.
	And that would be the Department of Defence, funnily enough, because if we go over to the Politico reporting, they were cheering when they found out that Tucker was fired.
	We're a better country without- Because he was revealing all of their deepest secrets, I'm sure.
	They particularly whined about the maternity flight suit story that Tucker headlined.
	So, you guys made flight suits for pregnant pilots, and Tucker went, that's ridiculous, and you took offence.
	We're a better country without him bagging on our military every night in front of hundreds of thousands of people, said one senior DoD official.
	Good riddance, said another.
	I don't think it's the military.
	I think it's what the military were being used for.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	It's the intersectional perversion of the military.
	Asked to respond to the news that DoD officials were pleased by his departure, Carlsen responded by text message.
	Ha, I'm sure, and declined to comment any further.
	So he knows.
	Now, I wonder why the military should be embarrassed.
	Well, here's just one story that came fairly recently.
	They've hired a drag queen to be their face of recruitment drives.
	So if we can just scroll down, please, John.
	The US Navy invited an active-duty drag queen to be digital ambassador.
	Yeoman second-class Joshua Kelly, who identifies as non-binary, always a sign of stability, was appointed as the first of five Navy digital ambassadors in a pilot program that ran from October to March.
	Kelly, whose stage name is Harpy Daniels, didn't trump sleep with her.
	...has shared their journey on TikTok and Instagram, where they described how they began performing on board and became an advocate for people who were oppressed for years in the service.
	If you go over to the next tweet, there's actually footage of this person performing.
	I don't see this as being a particularly effective recruitment drive.
	When I'm thinking about the sorts of people who want to join the military, young men, full of testosterone, they want to engage in the masculine virtues, and then they see an actual drag queen saying, come join the military!
	But are you forgetting it's the Navy?
	Oh, it is.
	The last recruitment drive was the YMCA.
	In the Navy!
	Exactly.
	Well, this is really proving the old joke of 60 sailors go down and 30 couples come up, I suppose.
	Anyway, on to the next one.
	Tucker Carlson was making $20 million a year, so at least we know the price for hush money ahead of the next election.
	So he should be getting a payout for that, so hopefully he uses it to set up his own show.
	But I thought I'd finish on one particular reason that's flying a little under the radar.
	that he might have been ousted for, and this was a Vanity Fair article just before the firing.
	And so, according to the source, Fox Corp, uh, Rupert Murdoch removed Carlson over remarks, sorry to start the firing, over Carlson's remarks at the Heritage Foundation's 50th anniversary gala on Friday.
	Carlson laced his speech with religious overtones that Murdoch found too extreme.
	The source who was briefed on Murdoch's decision making said, that stuff freaks Rupert out, he doesn't like the spiritual talk.
	Rupert Murdoch was unnerved by Carlson because it echoed the End Times worldview of Murdoch's ex-fiancé Anne Leslie Smith, the source said.
	In May...
	In a May cover story, the writer reported that Murdoch and Smith had called off their two-week engagement because Smith had told people Carlson was a messenger from God.
	Murdoch had seen Carlson and Smith discuss religion first-hand.
	In late March, Carlson had dinner at Murdoch's Bel-Air Vineyard with Murdoch and Smith, according to the source.
	During dinner, Smith pulled out a Bible and started reading passages from the Book of Exodus.
	Rupert just sat there and stared, the source said.
	A few minutes after dinner, Murdoch and Smith called off the wedding.
	Day, sorry.
	By taking Carlson off the air, Murdoch was also taking away his ex's favourite show.
	That personal stuff might have something to do with it, but that seems like some BS for the most part to me.
	It might seem like a contributing factor.
	It might be a little bit of it, especially when if you watch the speech where he gave these religious remarks, which we will, he's mainly making fun of the fact that he comes from what he himself describes as the most shallow Christian tradition in all of America.
	Yes, but he seems to have really ramped it up recently, and when he was articulating the fact that the truth shall set you free, I mean, that is an invocation of scripture quite directly.
	So it seems that Tucker's going on a bit of a personal journey, and so that might have been a compounding factor atop pressure from BlackRock, the Dominion lawsuit, the annoying staffer who's trying to sue various producers, where Murdoch's just going, okay, get him out, because also a lot of our advertisers don't like Carlson because he's brushing up against the establishment.
	And make no mistake, Rupert Murdoch is establishment.
	Having been at News UK before, they have diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, and they had a vaccine passport for their Christmas party, despite talk repeatedly speaking out against vaccine mandates.
	So that's from the top down.
	Murdoch is not on our side, and I can't wait for Tucker Carlson to burst into his office like Joker in 89 Batman and go, you threw me out over a woman.
	How old is Rupert Murdoch?
	Late 90s.
	Bloody hell.
	I thought he's been around for a while.
	Yeah.
	Clock's ticking, I suppose.
	So I just thought, finally, what we'd go on and do, we'd play just two clips.
	One is particularly long at the end, but just because it's very good.
	The first one is Tucker articulating the value of truth from his excellent heritage speech, and this was made shortly before he was let go.
	I think this was the Friday.
	The truth is contagious.
	Lying is, but the truth is as well.
	And the second you decide to tell the truth about something, you are filled with this, I don't wanna get supernatural on you, but you are filled with this power from somewhere else.
	Try it.
	Tell the truth about something.
	You feel it every day.
	The more you tell the truth, the stronger you become.
	That's completely real.
	It's measurable in the way that you feel.
	And of course the opposite is also true.
	The more you lie, the weaker and more terrified you become.
	We all know that feeling.
	You lie about something and all of a sudden you're a prisoner of that lie.
	You are diminished by it.
	You are weak and afraid.
	He's slowly becoming America's Solzhenitsyn.
	I thought that was very articulate.
	So, I just thought I'd finish with this fairly long clip that I've condensed together, with the help of our editor John, just to articulate the fact that Tucker Carlson really does have spiritual convictions here, and he puts it a lot better than the incrementalist or materialist, some of the libertarians on the right, who think, we've just got to win the debate, and we're negotiating, we're a country travelling in the same direction, and the other people on the other side are just wrong and misinformed, and if I just give them the facts, it'll overpower their feelings.
	Tucker has framed it as a moral and spiritual war that we are currently engaged in as on the side of good versus the forces of perversion and entropy.
	And I can't put it any better than America's favorite news anchor.
	Let's press play.
	It might be time to start to reassess the terms we use to describe what we're watching.
	So when I started Heritage, the presumption was, and this is a very Anglo-American assumption, that the debates we're having are kind of rational debates about the way to get to mutually agreed upon outcomes.
	Right, so like we all want the country to be more prosperous and free and people to be less oppressed or whatever and so we're gonna argue about tax rates and I think higher tax gets us there.
	I'm a Keynesian and you disagree, you're an Austrian or whatever.
	But the objective is the same.
	And so we write our papers and they write their papers and may the best papers win.
	I don't think that's what we're watching now at all.
	I don't think we're watching a debate over how to get to the best outcome.
	I think that's completely wrong.
	I'm just saying this as an observer of what's going on.
	There is no way to assess, say, the transgenderist movement with that mindset.
	Policy papers don't account for it at all.
	If you have people who are saying, I have an idea, let's castrate the next generation.
	Let's sexually mutilate children.
	I'm sorry, that's not a political debate.
	What?
	It has nothing to do with politics.
	What's the outcome we're desiring here?
	An androgynous population?
	Is that really what we, are we arguing for that?
	I don't think anyone could defend that as a positive outcome.
	But the weight of the government and, you know, a lot of corporate interests are behind that.
	Well, what is that?
	Well, it's irrational.
	If you say, well, you know, I think abortion is always bad.
	Well, I think sometimes it's necessary.
	That's a debate I'm familiar with.
	But if you're telling me that abortion is a positive good, what are you saying?
	Well, you're arguing for child sacrifice, obviously.
	It's not about like, oh, a teen girl gets pregnant, and what do we do about that, and victims of rape.
	I get it.
	Of course I understand that, and I have compassion for everyone involved.
	But when the Treasury Secretary stands up and says, you know what you can do to help the economy get an abortion?
	Well, that's like an Aztec principle, actually.
	There's not a society in history that didn't practice human sacrifice.
	Not one, I checked.
	What's the point of child sacrifice?
	Well, there's no policy goal entwined with that.
	No, that's a theological phenomenon.
	And that's kind of the point I'm making.
	None of this makes sense in conventional political terms.
	When people, or crowds of people, or the largest crowd of people at all, which is the federal government, The largest human organization in human history decide that the goal is to destroy things.
	Destruction for its own sake.
	Hey, let's tear it down.
	What you're watching is not a political movement.
	It's evil.
	Good is characterized by order.
	Calmness, tranquility, peace, whatever you want to call it.
	Lack of conflict.
	Cleanliness.
	Cleanliness is next to godliness.
	It's true.
	It is.
	And evil is characterized by their opposites.
	Violence, hate, disorder, division, disorganization, and filth.
	So if you are all in on the things that produce the latter basket of outcomes, what you're really advocating for is evil.
	That's just true.
	I'm not calling for religious war.
	Far from it.
	I'm merely calling for an acknowledgment of what we're watching, which is not what, and I'm certainly not backing the Republican Party.
	I mean, ugh.
	I'm not making a partisan point at all.
	I'm just noting what's super obvious.
	Like, those of us who are in our mid-50s are caught in the past in the way that we think about this.
	One side's like, no, no, you know, I've got this idea, and we've got this idea, and let's have a debate about our ideas.
	They don't want a debate.
	Those ideas won't produce outcomes that any rational person would want under any circumstances.
	Those are manifestations of some larger force acting upon us.
	It's just so obvious.
	It's completely obvious.
	And I think two things.
	One, we should say that and stop engaging in these totally fraudulent debates where we are using the terms that we used in 1991 when I started at Heritage as if maybe, you know, I could just win the debate if I marshaled more facts.
	I've tried that, doesn't work.
	And two, maybe we should all take just like ten minutes a day to say a prayer about it.
	Well, I'm enjoying Tucker Carlson's Conan the Barbarian arc of crushing his enemies, frankly.
	I see this as his arc of coming out against Moloch.
	Yeah.
	It seems what it is to me.
	Yeah, Tucker Carlson's basically a force for good, soldier for God, and thanks to Media Matters for making us laugh at the free PR.
	All right then, have we had fun?
	Have we got all that out of our system?
	Do you want to shake all of the good feelings out right now because it turns out new civil rights martyr has just dropped New York City get ready for whatever comes next because things will ramp up I don't want them to I can hope that by spreading factual information as we are going to be doing today could potentially help prevent something but let's be perfectly honest when BLM and civil rights activists and all of the usual suspects get in their heads that a city's got to burn.
	Sad to say, especially if it's a democrat-run city where it means that there's going to be a soft touch with law enforcement, shall we say.
	The likelihood is that city's going to burn.
	Facts don't matter when free trainers are up for grabs.
	Yes, and when assessing the political situation that we find ourselves in, sometimes it's nice to cast back our minds to the political situations and political philosophies of the ancients, like Stelios and I did in the most recent symposium, number 16, where we were discussing the politics of Aristotle, and it is just eye-opening to see how different the conception of the idea of the polis back 2,500, however so long, however so many years ago it was.
	Because Aristotle, if he could see where we are right now, he would be horrified, and he would see all of the worst elements of any political system that he was able to conjure up at the time, any that he was able to observe, all smushed together into one festering cesspit of puss and bile that all smushed together into one festering cesspit of puss and bile that we exist in Thanks for the image, mate.
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	Let's get into it, shall we then?
	So, what happened is, somebody died on the New York subway system.
	Except the problem was, it was a black man who died, and a white man who did it.
	If it'd been the other way around, well then, this would barely even be... This is another day in New York.
	This would just barely register as a story in the first place.
	But, this time, it seems to have been because New York is sick.
	Well, New York is sick in the first place, but New Yorkers are sick of having to put up with nonsense and rubbish every single time they go on the subway.
	We have seen countless videos over the past few months of people being harassed on the subway system by various homeless schizophrenic people, people who just decide that what they want to do is start an argument, get aggressive with somebody else.
	There was a video going around about two months ago now at this point Of a man screaming at a white family, to a man and a woman and a child screaming about their monkeys, they're inferior to him, all of these horrible things.
	And this is just a thing that, as far as I can tell, New Yorkers think that you just have to put up with.
	I've seen so many videos of the New York subway, where gangs of people get into fights with each other, and surrounding everybody are just people staring at their phones.
	Yeah, it's no longer the train from Spider-Man 2.
	No, certainly it is not, sadly.
	And the fact of the matter is, it seems that that might be the smart thing to do, if you find yourself in that situation.
	Because I do not want to think about what is going to happen to the gentlemen who were involved in this situation, especially the one performing the chokehold that we're going to see in a moment, given the fact that...
	If you do step in, you're the one that's likely to go to prison.
	You're the one that's likely to get charged by activists, district attorneys, and you're the one who's likely to have your name raked across the coals for all of the public to see.
	So if we scroll down, I don't need to see the video.
	The chances are you've probably seen this video, but to give some backstory for it, I'll read through some of this article.
	In fact, just show us the image there at the top here.
	So we can see, and notice something about the situation as well.
	Yes, it is a white man choking out a black man, but who is involved in the restraining attempt is a black man.
	So this is not a racially charged incident.
	Black people are not the only schizophrenic homeless people I've seen on New York subway systems and videos.
	They come in all shapes and all colors, all sizes, all sorts.
	But that is what has led to the racially charged narrative that is being surrounded by this, especially the invoking of terms like lynching, because that's what always comes up.
	So, just to go through a bit of this article so we can know what happened and get a better picture of the circumstances.
	So, a 24-year-old passenger stepped in after the vagrant, identified by sources as Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old man, began going on an aggressive rant on a northbound F train Monday afternoon, according to police and a witness who took the video.
	He starts to make a speech, said freelance journalist Juan Alberto Vasquez, in Spanish, during an interview on Tuesday referring to the disturbed man, that would be Neely, he started screaming in an aggressive manner.
	He said that he had no food, he had no drink, that he was tired and he doesn't care if he goes to jail.
	He then, uh, he started screaming all of those things, took off his jacket, a black jacket that he had, and threw it on the ground.
	Now, if I was in this situation, I would think, this man is about to commit violence.
	Yes.
	And this man, uh, who stepped up behind him, we don't know his name yet, he was taken into the police for questioning and released without charges initially.
	This man decided what it would best to do is to restrain this man before he commits to violence.
	He put him in a chokehold and held him in it for 15 minutes, which is excessive.
	Yeah, that's...
	Very long.
	But at the same time, if you are in a civilian scenario, you're in a situation like this, you need to restrain this man, you don't know what's going to work, and they were waiting for him to basically stop moving so that they could be sure that he had passed out.
	And if I carry on with this, so, um, where'd we go?
	The man who had been helping the strap hanger, I assume that's a term that New Yorkers use for people on the train,
	held um uh had been helping him hold down neely down replies he's not squeezing no more referring to his hands i assume so the two let neely go after a few seconds leaving him lying on his side on the ground none of us who were there thought he was in danger of dying vasquez said we thought he just passed out or ran out of air now there are videos available of this online i think the longest ones that you can find are about three minutes 30 which is well into the point where he'd already been choking him presented without context and oftentimes you just get
	Man choked to death on the New York subway.
	I think it was after this happened.
	He was taken to a hospital, pronounced dead on arrival.
	They were not trying to kill him, and you can say that this was a situation where he was excessive with the force used, given that he was holding on to it for 15 minutes.
	But at the same time, they were just making sure that he was restrained.
	They were trying to make sure that he wasn't going to be a threat to the other passengers.
	And it turns out that...
	If we look into this a bit more, this man was absolutely a threat to other people.
	Now, now that this has all gone through, the medical examiner in New York has said that it was a homicide, he's dealt a homicide, he died because of the fact that he was being restrained, he was being choked.
	They say in this article as well though, but The man, Jordan Neely, 30, was reportedly behaving in a hostile and erratic manner, as the New York Post article stated, and had a warrant out for his arrest on the charge of felony assault.
	He'd also been arrested for more than 44 times for public lewdness and assaulting a senior citizen.
	Do we have a toxicology report yet as well?
	We do not, as far as I'm aware.
	Now, I will say, the people who were involved in this situation do not necessarily know about any of that, so that's not going to be...
	Motivating them, but at the same time you can tell if somebody is crazy and about to commit violence especially seeing as we have all been inundated recently with so much content online showing people being violent on the New York subway.
	This is what people have to put up with on a day-to-day basis and at the end of the day when you have to put up with that for so long you're watching your entire city collapse around you, you're watching people in the subway
	have free pass let's be honest to harass intimidate assault in some cases murder other people one of these days when these people are allowed to just basically reign free over some parts of the new york you are going to get people cut stepping up for vigilante justice in the aim of defending their fellow citizens what about the woman that was raped on the philadelphia train where everyone else did nothing but pull out their phones and watch like At some point, men do have to step in and defend themselves.
	The problem is the state is directly trying to castrate men in order to keep their protected classes and criminal underclass able to reign free and keep you afraid and dependent.
	Yes, everybody knows what is going on.
	They know that there are certain classes of people who are allowed to commit violence, allowed to harass and assault other people, and there are certain people who are not allowed to do that.
	And eventually, when you know that the institutions that are supposed to protect you are not interested in protecting you, somebody will end up stepping up, and then it will lead to accidents like this.
	Because this was, whether you want to classify it as excessive force or not, this was an accident.
	This was not the intention to kill this person.
	But at the end of the day, I'm not going to be shedding a tear.
	Over this guy.
	And if I carry on through this article, so New York City Comptroller Brad Landner took to Twitter to decry the efforts of the veteran Marine to protect his fellow passengers, saying that New York City is not Gotham.
	We must not become a city where a mentally ill human being can be choked to death by a vigilante without consequence.
	This sparked a response by former New York City Police Commissioner Bernie Kerrick, who said that New Yorkers had a right to defend themselves and their fellow straphangers, especially given the lack of a police presence Sorry, there's terrible punctuation and grammar in this, so I apologize if I trip over this a little.
	be terrified, sorry, there's terrible, terrible punctuation and grammar in this, so I apologize if I trooper over this a lot.
	You would rather New Yorkers be terrified, assaulted, and murdered at the hands of lunatics and thugs if you were doing your job, there would be more police on the subway system, so these things would not happen, but do not tell people that they can't defend themselves.
	So this has already sparked some backlash, and already people are debating over it.
	Then you have this new one, which elaborated on the backstory of Jordan Neely a little bit, what One moment.
	And I can already see that this will become part of the narrative.
	He comes from a broken home.
	He had all of these mental issues.
	So like most black women.
	So therefore you have to just let him terrorise your streets.
	But, I'll read through some of this.
	He sank into a deep depression after his mother was brutally murdered by his stepfather in 2007 and was not properly treated for his mental illness.
	the New York Post was told by his family and friends.
	Obviously that's horrible.
	That's awful that that happens to anybody.
	He then supposedly descended into a complete mess after his mother, Christy Neely, and this is a really horrible story, actually, when you look into this guy's background, was reportedly strangled to death and stuffed into a suitcase when he was just 14 years old, according to his aunt.
	Yes.
	Can we again talk about the impact of single motherhood on... Well, there's a lot we can talk about.
	There is a lot we can talk about, and while I say, once again, this is a clearly awful thing to happen, it is a terrible shame that he wasn't... It's not his fault.
	Yeah, it wasn't his fault that this happened.
	It's terrible that he wasn't able to get the help that he needed, but this does not give him... Cart blotch?
	This does not give him cart blotch to suddenly become society's problem.
	Exactly.
	This does not give him carte blanche to terrorise other people as they're just trying to go on their daily commute.
	And once again, when you have people like this out there who aren't being dealt with, when you have people like this out there who are being left to their own devices to terrorise other people, accidents and terrible things will happen, and then as we go on, we will see that this will just escalate and escalate and escalate.
	Before I show how this is escalating, people were reporting on Reddit when they saw this news coming through that multiple people had had encounters with this man that prove what an unthreatening factor he was if he stepped onto your platform.
	If we go to the next one, please, John.
	This person says, multiple people on Reddit recognize the New York City homeless schizo.
	He regularly threatened to kill people, gets in people's faces, has past assaults on people on there, still wants to second guess some normal guy feeling threatened.
	So if we can click on that, because obviously we know he was arrested, 44 times before.
	My question being, why did it have to be 44 times?
	Especially when he had assault, public ludicrty, assault of elderly people.
	Why was he not put in prison?
	Why was he not given mental health services if he needed any of these things?
	No cash bail for equity?
	Perhaps.
	Perhaps so.
	This person says, this man jumped on me, grabbed my shoulders and pushed me towards the tracks on Saturday night at this very station.
	I was able to run away but he got physical and chased other people standing on the platform before getting on an uptown train.
	This whole thing is so sad.
	Why did you have to end with that?
	This whole thing is so sad.
	Oh well, I'm sorry.
	He's dead.
	Obviously it was an accident.
	I'm not sad.
	I'm not particularly sad.
	I'm sad that New York City is probably going to be ablaze in a few weeks.
	But, as for him, I will be shedding no tears.
	Carry on to the next image, please, John.
	Uh, yep, yep.
	I'm pretty sure I had a run-in with this guy a few weeks ago on the F, the same line that he died on.
	He was throwing around a city bike and yelling about how he was going to kill people.
	Most left the car, but this poor Asian lady got stuck by him.
	So a few of us couldn't leave her alone with him, and imagine what would have happened to that poor lady if she'd been left alone with him.
	If it's the same guy, yeah, he was either going to hurt someone or get murked by a cop or bystander sooner or later.
	Next image along, please.
	Again, John.
	I think I had a run-in with him too.
	I was travelling on the F train last Monday where I saw him verbally abuse another passenger.
	He was cursing at the man standing across from him, provoking him to fight.
	I got so scared when he stood up, but he got back down again and continued to scream insults.
	I'm thoroughly impressed with the passenger who kept his cool.
	I kept looking at him and the other passengers to see if we need to do something, but everyone is just sitting there, not to blame anyone.
	We're all trying to get home and didn't want to give a statement at a police station.
	Once again, this is that attitude that has been fostered in New Yorkers recently, where they know they can't stand up for themselves, because either they're going to have to spend the night in a police station giving a statement, and they don't want to do that, and if they do end up doing that, they are probably going to be the one who is much more likely to get in serious legal trouble, because As we'll find out as we carry on, Alvin Bragg will show up and charge your ass!
	If you can click off this image and scroll down please, John.
	We've got some more.
	Some more here.
	Just lots of different stories.
	Spoke quite loudly when I was throwing a bicycle around, this seems to be the same situation.
	Poor lady in the corner, he zeroed in on her, got next to her and was in her face talking to her.
	Next image as well on here please.
	This person, was he staring into space, like angry at you at the same time?
	Maybe 5859.
	I was just there, but there was a guy on the train a few months ago who came right up to me and my two friends and threatened to kill us.
	We ignored him for what felt like a solid moment, minute, and then he moved on to the same thing to someone else.
	2am, not sure what the subway line was, sometime in mid-2022.
	And then the next one as well.
	There's just kind Countless stories of this man just harassing people, trying to push them onto the tracks, doing all sorts of horrible things.
	Obviously this was going to happen.
	If this was a common thing, we don't know yet if the man who subdued him had possibly seen him try and do this to other people in the past.
	We don't know the identity of the guy yet.
	I guess we'll see as the information starts to come out, because literally mobs of activists in New York basically want to lynch him.
	At this point.
	So we'll see when all of that comes out, if it ends up getting released.
	But I would not be surprised if this man had seen him harassing people, seen him acting violent, seen him pushing people onto the tracks before, and decided, okay, I've seen this guy do this before, if it looks like he's going to try something, I will subdue him before he can do anything else.
	Obviously, he didn't intend to kill him, but that's just the fact of the matter of what did end up happening.
	If we carry on to the next one...
	So, uh, people are noticing as well, this is Barrington Martin II saying, uh, two men having to restrain one man, and if we notice, a black man was involved in this as well.
	This is not some racially motivated killing, this was a schizophrenic homeless man threatening people on the streets, in the subway, and these people just decided to try and restrain him before he did anything.
	We can see this is not a racial component to this, it's Let's protect the people around us, and you would hope that New Yorkers would want to band together, like if you already mentioned Spider-Man 2.
	Like in the Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 1 sequences, where New Yorkers, we stick together.
	Not anymore.
	This is the first time anything like that has happened in a long time, and it's just sad that it had to end up like this.
	If we go to the next one as well, we find the race baiting.
	The typical usual suspects start to come up.
	AOC, who I'm sure was there and has, I'm sure has read all of the relevant articles and information regarding this, comes out with the totally, totally not, um, totally not stoking the fires by saying, Jordan Neely was murdered!
	But because Jordan was houseless and crying for food in a time when the city is raising rents and stripping I mean, one of the whole point of this is the fact that the subways of New York are not militarized enough, by the sounds of it, because there is not enough police infrastructure in the subways to make sure that people feel safe enough that they don't have to restrain potentially violent maniacs on their commutes.
	Because they're demonizing the poor, the murderer gets protected with passive headlines and no charges.
	It's disgusting.
	Thank you for your input AOC.
	44,000 likes and my faith in people's ability to make good decisions for themselves dies yet another death.
	And then we got retards out in force as we got people on the subway line where it happened on the platform going out and holding a vigil.
	A vigil for Poor Nealey, all he wanted to do was harass and assault strangers on the train.
	How dare you interfere with his human right to do that?
	Time to start defacing the area where it happened.
	If you could play the clip so we can get a nice audio of what they're saying here.
	Jordan Neely!
	Justice Bush! Jordan Neely! Justice Bush! Jordan Neely! Justice Bush! Jordan Neely! Justice Bush! Jordan Neely! Justice Bush! Jordan Neely! Justice Bush! Jordan Neely! Justice Bush! Jordan Neely! Jordan Neely! Justice Bush!
	Justice Bush! Jordan Neely! Justice Bush!
	And if we go to the next one, John, we've got more clips, and you can hear them just going I was just going to say, everyone has their phone out.
	Of course they do.
	It's all for Instagram, it's all performative.
	Of course it is, but let's hear what they're chanting here.
	This man wearing a mask in 2023.
	Black lives matter!
	Black lives matter!
	Homeless matter!
	Homeless matter!
	Black lives matter!
	Homeless matter!
	Here we go.
	I hope you're all ready for a warm, a long, hot summer in New York, if it escalates from here.
	And I really don't want it to, because we had people going out into the streets, leaving rubbish bags in the middle of the street, because, you know, that's how you're gonna...
	Restore order to your city is to trash it.
	And then we had more chaos on the streets.
	They had to bring out the Strategic something or other team so that they could try and hold back the groups.
	This person is reporting on it on Twitter as though these guys were just doing nothing.
	And I'm sorry given the way that these people report other incidents in New York.
	I do not believe your characterization of it.
	All of the people involved in this I'm sure would have had no problem with being pushed into the tracks by Jordan Neely had they run into him.
	In their daily commute.
	I'm sure if they were trapped alone in a subway car with him while he was going on some kind of violent rant, I'm sure they would have just been perfectly fine with that.
	Because hey, we're New Yorkers.
	This is what we do.
	This is just what we put up with.
	And we can see this whole attitude in this next one.
	A homeless man yelling on the NYC subway is normal.
	Isn't this just the Stockholm Syndrome that Seth Rogen had when he said, I've had 10 cars broken into when I lived in Los Angeles.
	You've just got to sort of put up with it, bro.
	It's part of the character of the city.
	Abandon law and order, embrace chaos, just start worshipping Moloch, just do all of the things that your leaders want you, so clearly want you to do.
	12,000 likes on this tweet.
	12,000 likes on this tweet for people to gaslight themselves.
	Unalive him?
	Yep, unalive him.
	Oh, come on!
	Well, that might be because you might worry that, oh, if I put kill then it might derank on Twitter, so I want this to go out to as many people as possible.
	But it's not justified.
	The Marine could have just done nothing.
	He could have just done nothing until the guy started assaulting somebody.
	Yeah.
	And then done the same thing, and then this whole thing would have happened the exact same anyway, because the video would have been posted without the context of what happened before, and everybody would have been able to just see he was choking him, as always happens.
	And then somebody pointed out that this person, Tore, whoever this person is, has great standards, because we got a screenshot of a tweet from 2021, where he put out, 71% said they'd find the brother who punched and killed an old racist man not guilty, because if you call a black person the n-word, whatever happens after that is on you.
	So just repressive tolerance?
	Repressive tolerance, just double standards for different parts of society, and I think standards should be applied evenly.
	Sorry, if you're killing a guy just for saying a nasty word, not acting aggressively or threatening in any way, if you just kill a guy, That's not a good thing.
	The same guy, the Marine who did this, it's not good that he killed this guy.
	Neil announced his intention to commit a criminal act.
	Yes, he did.
	Like, that's very different than just saying a slur that is impolite.
	But that's the problem with the whole N-word.
	The N-word isn't just a word that white people shouldn't say.
	It's a word that invites violence onto white people if they say it.
	That's just how it works in America.
	I've seen... I mean, we talked about WorldStarHipHop in the last video.
	I went through it.
	I actually wasn't really aware of it as a website before yesterday.
	Oh, you're culturally enriched, Harry.
	I do feel it.
	There was quite a few articles that just say, white person says n-word, gets what's coming to him.
	There was just so many different variations of that article.
	It's like, I'm sorry, you should be able to have enough impulse control.
	And there are plenty of people who do have enough impulse control.
	It's a rude thing to say to somebody.
	Yeah, I don't think Thomas Sowell would headbutt someone if they decided to disparage him in that way.
	He probably wouldn't be happy about it.
	Larry Elder wouldn't be happy about it if he said it to him.
	Well no, Larry Elder didn't punch out that woman that wore a monkey mask and threw a banana at him.
	Yeah, there's a way that you shouldn't be encouraging people to just think that if somebody says a word that you don't like that you just get to punch them.
	Yeah.
	That you just get to punch them in the face.
	And, um, this is what's, uh, this is the narrative that is taking hold.
	Once again, we'll get that, oh, he was so traumatized from what happened to his mother, etc, etc.
	We're also going to get this.
	He was just a poor Michael Jackson impersonator.
	He was just trying to go about his business.
	He probably wasn't about to throw punch, he was throwing his jacket down so he could break out some moves to do some moonwalking.
	That's all that was going on here.
	This is what we're going to get.
	He had no food, had no water, no safe place to rest.
	Clearly wasn't that good of a dancer then.
	He had the audacity to publicly yell about that massive injustice, so they killed him.
	Like, he just walked up and went, change please, and then got choked out.
	No, that's not what happened.
	Stop lying.
	Next one as well, we've got an even bigger threat about this.
	Oh look, we've got a video.
	To be fair...
	He had some decent moves.
	I'll give him that.
	Doesn't give him the right to start harassing people on their daily commutes.
	NYC failed Jordan Neely all his life.
	Failed to house him.
	Failed to provide mental health care.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Reopen the asylums, damn it.
	These people, if you don't want to see them get into situations where they could end up dying like what's happened today, they should probably be somewhere where they can be kept safe.
	reasonably split and kept away from others so that those people will be safe as well.
	Instead of arresting him 44 times and hoping the 45th would solve it.
	As if you just arbitrarily arrest him.
	But then you kept letting him out because Alvin Bragg put no cash bail through for everything from turnstile hopping to certain degrees of murder.
	Real New Yorkers, real New Yorkers, real New Yorkers know how to respond to a neighbour like Jordan Neely We offer him food he's asking for.
	We use de-escalation techniques.
	Can I just point out, can you scroll up slightly Jordan, just to that image.
	If you're going to do a vigil, don't make it look like a bad student nightclub promo.
	Well no, this is just an excuse to go out and cause chaos and party for a lot of people, so this is absolutely the vibe they want to be advertising.
	But they use de-escalation techniques because these people, their only understanding of real world violence comes from Marvel films and television shows where the police are always the bad guys.
	We stand between him and anyone he may be arguing with.
	We don't choke him to death.
	Meathead cowards do that, not New Yorkers.
	Coming from the man who probably, if he saw some violence going on in the New York subway, would keep his head down, staring at his phone, calling somebody else a coward.
	And to be honest, once again, I understand why people do that.
	If you are, especially if you're a white person and you see something like that going down, You probably shouldn't step in unless you absolutely have to, because once again, you will be the one who ends up being humiliated for all the public to see, and probably going to prison.
	As part of this, I noticed that if we go to the next one, the Democratic Socialists of America for New York are throwing a vigil for him, because of course they were, and the image they're using here.
	A man was lynched yesterday.
	Yes, one of those famous Jim Crow era multi-racial lynchings that we're all so familiar with.
	Because once again, not to overemphasize it or anything, a black man was involved in this.
	This was not racial, this was everybody joining in to try and restrain somebody who posed a violent threat to the other passengers on the subway car.
	And a tragic accident happened as a result of that.
	And once again, as I pointed out, Alvin Bragg has decided to step in so that he can take a man who is just trying to defend the people around him and put him into prison.
	Just like the Trump indictment.
	Yes, in the next one in the New York Post, please, John.
	So, uh, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg investigating chokehold death of homeless man in New York subway.
	So, we'll see what happens there.
	And also, in this article, I thought it was relevant to point out, the Reverend Al Sharpton also felt the need to jump in with a take, because Al Sharpton's takes are always Mwah.
	Mwah.
	So perfect.
	Never one to miss a grift.
	Uh, likening the on-video incident to the notorious Big Apple vigilante Bernie Goetz, or Goetz, or however you pronounce his name, and calling for action through his National Action Network.
	Was Bernie Goetz, was he the one who...
	I don't know, I'm afraid.
	I thought you were about to reference that, yeah.
	It might have been the inspiration for Death Wish.
	subway i think he might be the one he inspired the scene early on from the joker i thought you're about to reference that yeah it might be the inspiration for death wish possibly yeah uh the national action network demands the district attorney don't you don't need to demand anything al he's already on your side all All of the institutions, all of the networks, all the mainstream media are already on your side working to construct a narrative wherein this man goes to prison for probably 30 plus years.
	Let's be honest.
	But we demand the district attorney and police investigate this horrific incident as a potential case of manslaughter.
	If not murder.
	30 years ago I thought that Bernadette's case and we cannot end up back in a place where vigilantism is tolerable unless it's people that I like doing things that I want like probably burning down New York City, which I hope does not happen.
	It wasn't acceptable then and it cannot be acceptable now.
	Piss off, Sharpton.
	You have always been a snake oil merchant and you have only ever promoted hoaxes.
	Go dig a hole.
	And so yeah, that's the end of that particular story.
	I'll just say that if you let crazy freaks with mental problems roam the streets with impunity, you will end up with situations like this, which are tragic for everybody involved, and I will not be shedding tears for this man, and his death will not justify any violence that comes off of the back of it.
	Sad case.
	Predictable.
	Like clockwork, the BLM grifters decide to make bank off of it, I suppose.
	But anyway, we quite like a lot of what Ron DeSantis has been doing over in Florida.
	We hope that some of his policies are models for other Republican governors, and hopefully, like most of the problems in America, some of the solutions might trickle their way over from the states, across the pond, over to us and Ron actually made his way over to us last week in a world tour which seems gearing up for a presidential bid.
	Now gearing up for a presidential bid you'd hope that he would be making the most of his record showing to prospective voters why they should switch from Trump to the governor of Florida and unfortunately Ron has let the side down a little bit.
	So we'll be going over some of the good some of the bad and one particularly ugly thing he's done recently Just because Ron DeSantis has decided to play into the civil rights tradition rather than the constitutional tradition of American law.
	Now, if you'd like more information on the war for the soul of the American public, as Biden once said, disingenuously, you can pay us $5,000 a month to get access to all of our premium content, stuff like this, where I decided to sit Carl down and go through refuting the claim that Jesus Christ is a socialist and That seems to be what's going on in America at the moment, I would contend.
	I don't think it's, as James Lindsay has conceptualised, liberalism v communism.
	I think it's the Christian founding tradition of America versus the godless materialism of the Marxists.
	And I'm happy to dig into that at a later date, but I mean, I have heard that Christian nationalism is a psyop, but I need more time to research that, so stay tuned.
	Anyway, on to the first one.
	Ron DeSantis is pretty much obviously running, and there's sources here that have told the post-millennial that they expect him to Sorry, they told NBC News, and the Post Millennial have re-reported it, that he is expecting to launch his bid this month.
	A second operative also said that meetings signal a likely presidential campaign announcement could launch sooner than expected, as Trump has soared ahead in the polling, and he's already set up an exploratory committee for that.
	Now, what's happening is, if we go to this next...
	DeSantis has already tried to pass a bill, by the way, in the Governor's House that allows the Governor to run for President simultaneously, because I think that's an issue in Florida at the moment, so we'll see how that pans out.
	Some of the good stuff is that DeSantis is considering revoking Disney's self-governing status after it opposed the Parental Rights in Education Bill.
	Because if you scroll down, John, there's a tweet thread in here from Disney who have decided to call it the Don't Say Gay Law.
	No, just keep going until you see Disney's Twitter account, please.
	There we go.
	And so they put out a massive statement saying, Hey, you told us that we couldn't talk to kids about sex.
	We took issue with that because at Walt Disney, we want to show off our genitals to children.
	We're a children's company after all.
	Yeah, I suppose it's just a weird coincidence that straight after they made this statement, a bunch of their employees got caught in a paedophilia sting.
	Yeah.
	Not great.
	The main thing with that was it showed that Disneyland was not doing very good vetting of the staff that it was hiring.
	No, and its higher-ups were also saying that I've got a pansexual child and a transgender child, and someone else said that I've been putting queerness everywhere and people haven't caught on to my not-so-secret gay agenda yet.
	So, ESG score is just a rot that eats your company from the inside out.
	So, DeSantis has decided, well, they've had self-governing entitlements for 55 years, I think I'll just scatter that to the winds like JFK once wanted to do the CIA.
	So, Disney are deciding to countersue for on the grounds of the First Amendment.
	If we go to this next piece from Tim Cost.
	And Ron DeSantis has turned around and given a pretty good, robust defence that other Republicans, like Nikki Haley, who actually invited Disney to her state instead because she's running against DeSantis and Trump, would not have given as well back as, sort of, the Romney era, but even some of them now.
	And he said, it's not conservative to simply defer to every corporation in America, that's being a corporatist.
	A corporatist would say, you have to give Disney everything it wants.
	He noted that Disney was benefiting from unprecedented privileges and subsidies.
	They controlled their own government in Central Florida.
	They were exempt from laws that virtually everyone else had to follow.
	They had great tax breaks.
	They were even able to rack up debt.
	No single entity or individual in the state of Florida enjoyed these privileges.
	That's not good government.
	That's not free enterprise.
	He's right.
	It's mercantilism.
	But it's certainly even worse when a company takes all of those privileges that have been bestowed over many decades and uses that to wage war on state policies regarding families and children.
	So you might ask, what's DeSantis going to do with the land once he chases the Disney Corporation off of it?
	Well, if we go to the next one, he suggested he might put a state park there, or a new state prison!
	So either to chase them off, he might put up a new state prison next to it.
	I think he should go a step further.
	I think once they're gone, he should turn the Disney castle into the dungeon from Aladdin.
	That'd be great.
	Stick all of the sex offenders in there and have it as a shining landmark to his plan to also, as you already covered with Carl, execute paedophiles.
	And then the LGBT plus community turned around and said, hey, we're most affected by that.
	Weird self-report, but okay.
	Speaking of self-reports, another law he passed recently was banning the ability for children to be subjected to public drag shows.
	And a giant pride parade have decided to cancel it on those grounds.
	Again, strange self-report.
	If we can't flash to kids, why bother?
	Say a bunch of groomers.
	The Pride Alliance of the Treasure Coast posted Wednesday on Facebook that the decision to change this Saturday's PrideFest events was made after multiple conversations with Ponce St.
	Lucie officials.
	The Florida House sent DeSantis a bill on Wednesday that bans children from adult performances, a proposal aimed at the governor's opposition to ban drag shows.
	So, DeSantis, again, doing something very good, and he's on set the same thing in a bunch of different states.
	I can't remember the state.
	I think it's Missouri that just banned all child gender transition surgeries and puberty blockers and things like that.
	So, DeSantis is on set a domino effect.
	Solid.
	Nice.
	Nice, good stuff.
	Let's get on to the, sort of, tepid.
	I'd like to make a pun here and say the bad DeNoc, if I may, because he came over to the UK.
	doing his tour of japan and south korea and now britain so he's setting up his allies the kind of people he's definitely going to talk to as the prime country should he become president and he met james cleverly and kemmy bad knock over here now bad knock is obviously a sort of darling of the anti-woke right i have my reservations particularly of her husband being an executive in goldman sachs but Better than Sunak, I suppose.
	So, in this article, an interview with The Telegraph, he has a real reverence for English philosophy, specifically English, so it's sounding pretty good here.
	Our founding fathers, when they launched the revolution, were not revolting against the British way of life.
	They were revolting because they wanted the rights of Englishmen.
	That's what they believed.
	The architecture and the infrastructure they built in America to preserve a free society really flowed out of their understanding of the best of British society and politics.
	You see that in everything we want to do.
	A little later, Mr. DeSantis went further.
	Because of the shared values, I feel this is my home.
	I feel almost like I'm in an American city.
	Not a Democrat one, apparently.
	Because we have such a commonality of culture.
	If you think about it, and if you look at the world, there's only a handful of cultures that we could even plausibly say will be with us when the chips are down.
	For the UK, that is one of those without question.
	On his trip to Britain, he met James Cleverley and Kemi Badenoch.
	When asked how the meeting went, Kemi Badenoch complimented him on what we are doing in Florida.
	She committed, that is, She committed that it is what they are trying to do in Britain.
	She pointed out, and I think it's true, that some of the woke has been exported from the United States.
	It's like you're sitting here in the UK just trying to do the right thing, and then all of a sudden you have this dump.
	Part of what the elites do in America have heavily exported it.
	Elon Musk with Twitter has pointed out what they're doing in Silicon Valley with these tech companies.
	They're exporting ideology all over the world.
	Musk is changing that with Twitter, but you still have it with others.
	Obviously, Florida is counter to that.
	But it is true that you have elites in the United States that have been pushing it beyond our borders.
	Referring to Badenoch, he says, I commend her and her efforts to make sure that this is not corrupting British society.
	Mr. DeSantis, who was born in 1978, is to his supporters, and this is in the article, the new Ronald Reagan.
	And some of his allies appear to be hoping that Miss Badenoch could be a candidate to be the new Thatcher, potentially recreating the axis that bestrode transatlantic politics during the 1980s.
	Sorry, can I just point one thing out?
	Please do.
	It's very funny that he says that he has all of this reverence for England and feels at home in England when he's Italian.
	Yep.
	Well, I would like to point out that the final part probably doesn't fill you with much faith either.
	We're going to recreate the Reagan-Thatcher era, which was neoliberalism and ceded the grounds for the complacency of the Fukuyama end of history towards the end of the Cold War, and got us into this checked-out Gen X state where the Millennials came in and took over the intersectionality.
	I am not filled with confidence when I hear Reagan-Thatcher.
	And the reason why the Reagan comparison might be all too apt is if we go over to this next one, speaking of countries he would like to closely ally himself with, while in Israel, I'm not gonna make a Kanye comment here, he decided to sign a hate crime bill for Florida.
	It's very strange that he chose to do... I understand that lots of American states and lots of American statesmen have ties with Israel, a lot of them, They're a strategic partner.
	Yeah, they see them as a big strategic partner in the Middle East that allows them to have a better eye on what's going on in that region of the world.
	But the idea of going over to a foreign country and signing in a hate speech, hate crime bill for your state in a foreign country while you are in a foreign country seems very...
	Suspicious, and very strange to me.
	It doesn't seem like you are acting on behalf of the constituents of your state, it seems like you are acting on behalf of the wishes of that foreign nation.
	Or potential future donors, or even strategic allies if you won the presidency.
	The problem is here, and I am going to do a but what about double standards, and I think it's fair.
	DeSantis is a Catholic, right?
	If he went over to the Vatican City and signed a hate speech bill, that banned you from criticising Jesus Christ.
	There would be 24-hour CNN chyrons about how Christian nationalism is taking over the US.
	Or, let's despecify it from religion, right?
	Let's say if he went over to China, for example, like the current sitting president, and signed something saying you cannot criticise the CCP's endorsement of lockdown policy, or say that they were responsible for releasing Covid, everyone would be rightly up in arms, particularly on the right.
	But just because it's the Israelis, there's a problem.
	Because everyone is afraid of stepping on the landmine of anti-semitism.
	And you do not have to be anti-semitic to critique this as an imposition on the American First Amendment.
	So, he signed legislation cracking down on hate crimes, explicitly hate crimes, after his high-profile speech in Israel.
	Back in 2019, he signed a measure to combat anti-semitism, also while in Israel.
	It was aimed at preventing discrimination on the basis of religion in Florida public schools.
	This is not, in keeping with the First Amendment, with the free practice of religion.
	It's creating a protected class which is exempt from criticism on the grounds of their religion.
	So let's go to the actual wording of the bill itself.
	If anyone wondered why he signed it, particularly in Israel, it is because it is targeted at antisemitism.
	Explicitly.
	So this is also not encompassing other religions.
	I don't want it to encompass other religions.
	I don't want special protections for any religion.
	I would like us to be able to critique each other's belief systems without fear of repercussion.
	But instead, in the Public Nuisances Bill, the bill defines its new felony stalking and harassment penalty as, a person who willfully follows, harasses, or interferes with another person's quiet enjoyment based on the person's wearing of religious-based garments or garments commonly associated with a particular religious or ethnic group or other indica of any religious or ethnic heritage commits the offense of aggravated stalking, a felony in the third degree.
	And it shall be considered a hate crime for purposes of the reporting requirements.
	No Republican should be talking about hate crimes, because hate crimes are always thought crimes.
	Because every crime is committed from a place of hate.
	It does not matter if you are stabbing the man your wife slept with, or you're stabbing a black man because you hate black people.
	That's both hate.
	Instead, you're buying into the intersexual definition of somehow hating someone on the grounds of their race or religion.
	And race is an unchosen characteristic, whereas religion is self-associative.
	That's somehow worse than a crime of passion.
	It makes no sense you're just policing people's thoughts.
	And I can't believe I have to make this point because this feels so 2015 and it's really annoying.
	Criminal mischief, it defines in here as any person who willfully and maliciously defaces, injures or damages by any means any church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship or any religious article contained therein any religious cemetery or grave site any grave marker with a religious symbol or any memorial, plaque, statue or museum with any indica of religious or ethnic heritage Including any Holocaust memorial.
	So this is why he went over to Israel to specifically sign this.
	A violation of this subsection includes any physical manifestations of anti-Semitism directed towards a Jewish or non-Jewish individual, or his or her property, or towards Jewish community institutions or religious facilities, Jewish cemeteries, or Jewish gravesites.
	Such expression includes the use of Nazi symbols such as a swastika.
	Now, I don't believe I'm going to have to repeat this, but of course, Nazi's bad.
	Not a fan of the mid-century Germans as an English patriot.
	But I still don't think it's right to layer this on top of the American Constitution.
	I'm sorry, but if De Santis wanted to show that he did have all of this deep respect for the Founding Fathers and the political system that they established, all of this is directly going against the First Amendment.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Exactly.
	Whether or not you support what the people are saying, this is absolutely a violation of First Amendment free speech rights.
	Yeah.
	And so I'm not going to do an ill hell no more and say it's all about the Benjamins here and get myself thrown out of Congress or whatever.
	But if we go over to the next piece, this actually might be to do with strategic alliances when he is president and also donors.
	And as we said, the Israeli lobby is quite large in both parties, frankly, but it's very large in the Republican Party.
	And even though John Bolton has absolutely no hope in hell, You can guarantee they're more likely to throw their weight behind him than DeSantis if they're just picking purely on who they align with politically.
	And there are some donors who have said they don't like DeSantis' aggression on the child gender transition stuff, which should tell you all you need to know about that.
	They've probably got interest in the pharmaceutical companies which are doing the drugs, frankly.
	All the stuff that we like, because we want to protect kids, So they're saying that they're going to put themselves on hold, this is Thomas Peterfree, who's a leading Republican donor, because of his stance on abortion and book banning.
	Myself and a bunch of friends are holding our powder dry.
	So.
	It looks like they're trying to drag him over to become more establishment, and this is a danger because DeSantis may be capable of organic fundraising, but not to the same degree as Donald Trump, and he's not independently wealthy like Donald Trump, which insulated Trump on the campaign trail from capitulating to donor demands.
	Now, while in office, I had my issues with Trump.
	Let's be frank.
	I mean, Jared Kushner led his foreign policy, and Jared Kushner was very much a neoconservative, right?
	And if we go over to the next This is the RealClearPolitics poll aggregate, who are pretty good, and Trump is leading him 2-1.
	So it's not surprising that DeSantis is thinking about making strategic alliances and making sure he has enough money in his treasury profits.
	In the very first place, running for 2024 just seems like just not a good idea for DeSantis.
	I don't know why he would want to do this other than to just get some kind of publicity towards his name.
	This seems Out of character for how we've seen him so far.
	Well, I think many people have raised the fact that he could hit Trump from the right.
	And that is actually a pretty good way of doing it.
	This is not hitting Trump from the right, though.
	This is not!
	This is the point.
	This is why we're criticising.
	Because for our American friends, we'd quite like to parrot your policies, because our entire political establishment are terrible.
	And so we want your policies to be good, and we also want your country to succeed.
	And so I worry that DeSantis is going to become softer.
	Now, again, I have my issues with Trump, particularly blaming pro-life campaigners for losing some of the seats at the midterms, Operation Warp Speed and employing Fauci and Deborah Birch, and suggesting he wanted Bill Gates as a science advisor, inviting Caitlyn Jenner to his Mar-a-Lago campaign launch.
	So we're gonna encompass these trans people, but oh no, we can't trans the kids up until 8.
	Okay, maybe we'll negotiate, because remember, the Democrats are the real transphobes.
	I'm not on board with that.
	And of course he kept the 19th amendment in place.
	But look, Trump is still our guy to an extent.
	And he looks like he's going to be THE guy.
	So, what can we best hope for?
	And this is a page 6 bit of reporting and it's still speculative if we go over to this last article here.
	A Trump world source has told page 6 that some supporters are suggesting he make a deal with DeSantis to be his VP and he's listening.
	Supporters say the VP would stop DeSantis from opposing Trump, as you suggested, and offer a useful conservative vigour to the slot which Biden obviously doesn't have because he's a drooling dementia-addled moron.
	So I would be happy with a Trump-DeSantis ticket.
	I think pretty much everyone would.
	I think the only better would be Trump-Carlson.
	Let's be frank, right?
	But I worry that even if DeSantis signs on to Trump, he is still going to drag some of the neocon baggage that he would have while campaigning with him.
	And so I'm just gonna put this out there.
	Ron, please don't do this again.
	I know you're not watching, but if anyone in and around DeSantis, or frankly anyone in the conservative sphere that watches our content and also makes their own commentary would like to speak out about this particular issue and just signal we don't like parallel constitutional philosophy layered over the American constitution, this might mean that the Republican primaries are a bit more of a healthy place and that Florida and the broader country, if the Republicans win in a very safe and fair election, get much better policy.
	Wait that onto the video comments!
	This is a rare one and this is actually my number one favorite California native.
	It just has a lot of sentimental importance to me too.
	This is Callicortus pulchellus, which is the Mount Diablo fairy lantern.
	Only grows in and around Mount Diablo.
	And the reason I like this one is just because of the shape.
	It's classified as a fairy lantern and they only grow in California and as far as I know there's only a few handful that grow like this.
	And they're very beautiful.
	We've got America's very own Alan Titchmarsh.
	Yeah, that's really nice, thank you.
	It's quite nice to have some wholesome content for once.
	We got any more, John?
	Hello, Lotus Eaters.
	The robo-waifu didn't get sentience and try to kill me.
	I've just been busy working on the mech because I had it in a parade.
	The best way to effect change is to do cool stuff based on your ideology.
	Win their hearts and minds and the rest will follow.
	Nice.
	Impressive.
	Keep us up to date on that whole robo waifu situation.
	I didn't even know that was a thing in the first place.
	Lewis Carroll was a talented storyteller and a capable logician.
	I love the way his Humpty Dumpty presages Foucault.
	I don't know what you mean by glory, Alice said.
	Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously.
	Of course you don't, till I tell you.
	I meant there's a nice knockdown argument for you.
	But glory doesn't mean a nice knock-down argument, Alice objected.
	When I use a word Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.
	The question is, said Alice, whether you can make words mean so many different things.
	The question is, said Humpty Dumpty, which is to be master.
	That's all.
	There isn't a truth to power.
	Yeah.
	It is very good.
	Also, he looks like Harry if he went bald and had a bit of a shave.
	What?
	How dare you?
	Are we really going to continue the fat shaming from over the weekend?
	How dare you?
	Healthy at any size, my friend.
	Alright, Lizzo.
	Alright, into the comments.
	Yeah, please come on over to Rumble because if Tucker goes to Rumble there'll be a mass exodus of the please come on over to Rumble because if Tucker goes to Rumble there'll be a mass exodus of the Normie audience over to that new infrastructure and it will be like the Myspace to Facebook flip of where Myspace That'd be a great thing.
	I'm sure Carl would love to give you an interview as well, Tucker, if you feel up for it.
	Oh yeah, that'd be brilliant.
	He'll probably start off with Russell Brandler, things like that.
	Come on the website, please.
	He needs to go on Rogan.
	That's just a simple thing.
	That'd be a great crossover.
	I would be interested.
	Someone's asked in the regular chat, anyone planning on doing anything special for episode 666?
	I'll break out my spiked wristbands that I had when I was a 13-year-old edgy metalhead for it.
	Just special for that episode, how about that?
	Oh, radical.
	You'll look so great, Chloe Price, and no one else is going to get that reference.
	No, not radical.
	Extreme.
	There you go.
	Fantastic.
	I need to school this boy.
	Very cool.
	I can't wait for us to do Life is Strange.
	SH Silver, until we have confirmation the clips are real, I wouldn't even try to claim these clips are as good for Tucker.
	Conservatives now are being primed to accept them as real, and when anything hard does come out, they have a worse time arguing against their legitimacy.
	Well, not really.
	I just think you can say, "Yeah, yeah, that's all funny up until that point." And if something fake does come out, you can just say, "Okay, either that one's fake, obviously, or that's bad." I don't even know how good deepfaking technology is at this point, so I don't...
	It's pretty decent.
	The ones I have seen of Biden being deepfaked seem noticeable.
	There are idiosyncrasies within the way he speaks that aren't replicated, and the way that he moves, whereas that did seem to be such ridiculously good quality.
	If they managed to get an AI voice replica to be able to accurately replicate Tucker Carlson's stuttering in the middle of sentences, that would be very impressive to me.
	Something Tim's pointed out is that they might just change one or two words in a sentence.
	Yes, that's true.
	Parallel realities.
	So if you had deepfake technology when Charlottesville happened, we'd get one video of Trump saying, I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, they should be condemned totally, which was the actual quote.
	And some people on the Democrat Twitter would see, some of them should be condemned totally.
	And just that slight little word means that you've got, you're arguing forever.
	Well, you can already do selective editing to create those kinds of things anyway.
	It's just a bit more difficult.
	Connor B., apparently my doppelganger.
	The question for Tucker now is how much did Fox really own him?
	How long until he can get back to business?
	I would assume that he could probably just make his own show, but he can't say anything about the firing, or the golden parachute he's got.
	Same with Crowder, frankly.
	I mean, obviously, the Blaze had all the Mud Club infrastructure, but as soon as he's got the infrastructure up and running, he made his own show, and then he just couldn't talk about the details of the Blaze deal.
	Lord Nerevar, I've always liked Tucker, but I've felt he's a bit milquetoast for my taste for a while.
	These leaks have me firmly back on the Tucker train.
	The man is unbelievably based, clearly having to self-censor for Foxnear constantly.
	If the leaks are what to expect from him whenever he ends up next, then sign me up.
	Yeah, so I don't believe the Americans... So the Americans often have to censor because of their advertisers, which may be one of the pressures that push Tucker out.
	Over in the UK, and I can speak from experience here, Being on TV is nowhere near as relaxing as being on here, because even though I'm generally quite relaxed on TV, you've always got to be... you never quite know what the Ofcom regulations are, and if you cost someone, they're going to get booked again.
	I've done local radio under Ofcom regulations, and it seems that they can just pick and choose if you have said a particular word at a particular time of day, So we don't let you say that particular word on this time of day, unless under these particular circumstances.
	It's a system that's built to make it so that any landmine that you could set off could be set off at will, remotely, if they just don't like you.
	Yes, it's a narco-tyranny, as per usual.
	So if you live, the truth doesn't care about our needs or wants, it doesn't care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions, to lie in wait for all time, this is the last of the gift of Chernobyl.
	I don't know what that quote's from, but fair enough.
	I can imagine something related to Chernobyl.
	Yep.
	Right, onto some of my comments quickly.
	Someone online said the stuff that's about to happen to the defender is why people just stood around and watched the lady get raped on the subway.
	Sadly true.
	Lord Nerevar, the president of El Salvador, has to be the guide for American politicians in regards to BLM rioters.
	It's completely unacceptable and unsustainable for cities to burn every single time a criminal of the correct race dies on the streets.
	They need to be put down hard.
	The fact that cities are routinely bracing for riots is a normalization of this stuff and it really boils my piss.
	Rightfully so.
	Baron von Warhawk.
	I can completely understand why they decided to detain that crazy man.
	After all, they were unarmed and unarmored, had no ability to contact the police, and were trapped in a confined space with someone who, for all they know, is the next Richard Chase.
	The best thing to do was a preemptive strike before someone got eaten.
	I agree with you there.
	Also, Baron von Warhawk, kind of strange that all these martyrs end up getting killed in democratic cities, isn't it?
	Yes, it's almost like they have no conception of law and order in such places.
	Sophie Liv says, it's clearly it's not Gotham.
	Gotham is stylish and the crazies are actually put in a mental asylum where they belong.
	They do break out at regular intervals, but at least an attempt is made.
	I mean Frank Miller literally based The Dark Knight Returns Gotham off of New York in the 80s after he got mugged.
	So yeah, New York is Gotham.
	Yeah.
	Derek Power to quote Chris Rock, Be careful here, don't make me say anything I'm going to regret on camera, okay?
	Do you know who's racist against black people?
	Black people!
	Everything that white people hate about black people, black people really hate about black people.
	This is true.
	Ewan Baker, I bet AOC locked her doors and hid from the white guy as well, just like the insurrection.
	Omar Awad, too many people who've never experienced violence have an opinion on self-defense.
	It doesn't end when you're in a dominant position or have them restrained or incapacitated.
	It ends when they stop trying to kill you and no longer present a threat or are dead.
	This is all true.
	I'd seen comments on the same guy who was trying to push people in front of trains, bringing death to an attempted murderer, is just.
	The only tragedy is that New York City hadn't acted to remove him from society.
	Uh, where was it?
	I saw one.
	Radcheck was right, here we go, this was an important one.
	Personally I don't think the term excessive force applies here.
	Sorry, actually no, here it is.
	Based Ape, there might be a lot of public NPC support for Vengeance, but I don't see it dissolving into a George Floyd situation.
	It's not an election year, why would the Democrats aggressively fund and push a massive mob of murderous lunatics to terrorise the public if there isn't votes to be gained?
	Yes, there we go, let's go on to the next ones.
	Yep, no worries.
	Arizona Desert Rat.
	The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech and religion, not tax exemptions or handshake deals.
	Disney's lawsuit is frivolous, hopefully it gets tossed out.
	Sure, and if they're filing in Florida, there's a higher chance that it will, considering DeSantis kicked out Soros back to Tony General when he refused to take action on child sex change, so that's good.
	Someone online.
	Florida is where woke goes to die.
	Signs woke bill.
	Not the best.
	SH Silver makes a point that I've made for quite a while.
	Not surprising DeSantis is showing his true corporatist neocon colours.
	In Congress, he pushed for the 2014 Ukraine intervention and was pro-TPP.
	As governor, he made several exemptions for Disney in legislation and is handling them with kid gloves now.
	Yeah, he did stop short with the Parental Rights and Education Bill because he says, you can't talk to kids about sexuality and sex until they're about eight years old.
	It's like, right, why didn't you supply it to all of them?
	I think it was up to the age of eight, so nine years old and onwards.
	Absolutely fine.
	Yeah, so it's not the Don't Say Gay, it's the Wait Till 8 Bill.
	Brilliant.
	That even rhymes.
	Yeah, I'd nick that from Michael Knowles.
	One also has to wonder, why is he even running now of all times?
	The Bush-Romney establishment wants to destroy the populist right, pitting Ron against Trump and hoping either their guy beats him or destroys Trump's chance in the general, just as George Soros wanted.
	I do believe that Bush, Jeb Bush, has actually endorsed DeSantis.
	Well, this is worrying.
	Now, I'm not surprised.
	I'm not surprised that he endorsed DeSantis against Trump, because DeSantis is the second highest running.
	But still, it's Jeb Bush.
	Not the best.
	No.
	No.
	Anyway, hopefully Ron does a bit better and we can nick some of his policies.
	But thanks very much for watching today.
	Thanks as always, Harry.
	Appreciate it.
	Good laugh.
	Thank you to you too.
	We'll be back tomorrow again at 1 o'clock.
	Filthy fat shamer!
	You need it.
	I've got five fat friends and you're four of them.
	Right, we'll be back tomorrow at 1 o'clock.

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