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July 4, 2023 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #689

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast The Lotus Eaters for the 4th of July!
	I'm joined by Dan.
	Hello.
	I forgot that I have to stand up for the camera to actually get you in shot.
	Otherwise, it didn't really make much sense.
	I'm just looking off.
	Anyway.
	But today we're going to be talking about the end of US independence, which is your treaties on retaking the colonies or something?
	Yes.
	All right.
	Yes.
	Just revoke the independence, I think.
	I think they've had enough.
	You know what we need to do?
	Annoy the American audience even more!
	Nah, I'm sure they're taking good spirits.
	Also, you will owe nothing and leave the country, because the UK just hates us.
	And JFK American Coup, which... Yes.
	Is this a conspiracy theory?
	No, no, it's all true.
	All right.
	Well, the version of the events that goes in the history books, that's fake.
	But I'll get into all of that.
	Right.
	So, oh, do we have to do a few plugs for stuff that's coming up?
	Well, the website's currently completely buggered.
	All right.
	OK.
	Well, I think we've got Broconomics today going live at 3 p.m.
	today, which is going to be all about the alien invasion that's coming up.
	That'll be in the news shortly.
	And, oh, this thing, the COVID vaccine marks the beast.
	Which obviously we can't go anywhere near YouTube with.
	But yes, that'd be a good channel.
	You know what's super weird about that is they did actually come out and say, you now can say that there are some things that the vaccine does.
	And I'm like, yeah, but what?
	It doesn't go into detail.
	It's still like, you can't say that it causes certain things, but.
	It's all just a trap really, isn't it?
	It's like the US election stuff.
	This is Thursday though.
	Oh, that's Thursday.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	So look out for that.
	Right.
	So.
	Let's get into our first segment.
	Happy birthday, America!
	You are now 247 years old, which makes you almost as old as the average Greenland shark, so congratulations.
	We do actually have quite a lot of American viewers.
	I think half of our viewers are American, so it's very important that we don't say anything that upsets them too much, which is why this segment is going to be all about why I think that US independence should be repealed.
	It is a I think it's an experiment that is running its course.
	It's time to wind that in.
	I think we need to bring them back into the fold.
	And I will be giving my reasons for that, but before I do so, let's just mention this fantastic chat that Karl and I had on why American society is collapsing.
	So, you know, that's a fun one to spend your 4th of July holiday watching, if you haven't already.
	Now, yes, Independence Day, 4th of July.
	Americans are going to be doing a lot of this.
	If you're listening to the audio, a bunch of Americans.
	Thank you.
	Box of fireworks behind a car, setting off one in the garden.
	Rescuing children, because something seems to have gone wrong.
	Oh look, we've got a spark in the box of fireworks behind the car.
	Garden furniture flying.
	Crows falling out of the sky, a couple of screaming.
	Cars exploding, yes.
	So that's what the Americans do today on the 4th of July.
	And so, you know, that's all good and fun.
	But I want to take you through my case as to why American independence needs to be repealed.
	They need to be returned to be a county of England.
	I mean, they can have a couple of counties.
	And here are my reasons.
	Number one, tipping culture.
	What?
	Yes.
	Oh, not flight tipping, tipping, yeah, sorry.
	Yes, no, tipping culture.
	I forgot, because we don't even try to do that.
	Yes, so I would take you to the tweet of this one, because this is one that you commented on, actually, but this is New York waitress slams European after large group leaves only a 10% tip on a $700 bill, so they left $70 as a tip, and she thought it wasn't enough.
	So she went out with, I expletive hate Europeans.
	Specifically Spanish, I believe she was most upset with.
	But I think every European would probably do this because 10% is more than enough of this sort of thing.
	Far too much.
	What's your wage?
	But I mean, if you think about that, so she was expecting 140.
	From one table?
	Yes.
	Probably serving, I don't know, four or five tables at least?
	Yes.
	And all of them, what, for a couple of hours?
	Well, I mean, $70 an hour from one table you're getting?
	Yes.
	So even if she only gets $35 an hour per table, which seems quite low, apparently, from the basis of this, that's a safe bet.
	Right, and then she's got 12 tables, which would seem reasonable for a waitress.
	You know, you're making, on a six hour shift, two and a half grand.
	Yeah, I mean, while she's struggling to get by, my friend.
	Yes.
	And the thing is, I've been thinking about this, and I've been thinking, how are these jobs not awarded on the basis of sexual favours?
	Some of them are.
	Yes.
	Not so much on I'm sleeping with the boss, but is she pretty?
	If so, put her out front.
	I mean, I've said about this.
	I mean, even in our country, that's what my experience has been of working in pubs.
	If you're ugly, you work in the kitchen, and if you're pretty, you work in front of the house.
	But I mean, with this job specifically, when you're getting, you know, like three grand a night out of tips, right?
	And there's basically no qualifications to do that job, apart from the ability to, you know, smile and carry plates and be pretty, right?
	So I'm not sure how that job would get doled out, because the job is more valuable to the person receiving it, isn't it?
	Because they're basically getting into an easy job that gives them thousands of pounds.
	I don't see how these jobs are not awarded.
	on your knees.
	Situations like that at all.
	You know what was annoying recently?
	I don't know if you've got it, but there was a guy who ordered a $20 pizza.
	Yes.
	Okay?
	So the delivery guy comes.
	He tips him five bucks, 25% tip.
	Yeah.
	And the guy says, $5 tip.
	It's a bit low for a house like this, isn't it?
	And walks away after giving him a $20 pizza.
	Well, that was going to be my second point, right?
	Because apparently, since the pandemic, Americans have spread tipping culture out to basically everything.
	Tip your landlord?
	Yeah.
	So when you go to McDonald's or your counter food, there's now a tip bit that you can put in.
	To be fair, that's here as well.
	Where it's like, would you like to give to charity?
	I'm like, no.
	That's why I came to McDonald's.
	It's cheap.
	Yes.
	Why am I wasting more money?
	But anyway, I've decided that this is reason number one why American independence has to go, because their tip culture is just ridiculous.
	You know what's actually annoying about their tipping culture?
	They didn't used to have it.
	Didn't they?
	I hate to reference it, but Admiram's everything.
	He actually did an episode on this, it was pretty good, where he was like, tipping culture used to be seen in American life as corrupt, because, well, sorry, the rich guy is going to get better service than everyone else, just because he can always use a large tip.
	So it was kind of rude to even offer tips, because it was like corruption.
	But then the 1920s came and all of a sudden everyone wanted tips.
	Right.
	And ever since then it's just become part of American culture.
	Now they act like it's always been there and it's like, no, this is fairly new.
	Yeah, that's got to go.
	The other thing that annoys me is they don't include the taxes when you're walking around the shop.
	You have to go to the till to find out how much stuff costs.
	I think this is one where we might actually get the American audience to agree.
	Yes.
	This is terrible.
	Oh no, I think they should agree on all of this.
	Okay, well... I can't believe... I don't think they'll agree with the first one, from the conversations I've had.
	Right, okay.
	The dates... the dates are plain wrong.
	Yep, they're not gonna agree to that, but that's... that's not even negotiable.
	The metric system.
	9 out of 11.
	The metric system.
	They only use it on soft drinks.
	Because even an American would feel a bit silly about having a gallon of Coke.
	Do they?
	I'm pretty sure they use ounces.
	You get ounces of soda.
	No, I've seen like one and two litre cups.
	That's got to be some kind of import.
	I don't know.
	I think they'd burn that if they found out.
	Well, I mean, the next thing that really gets me is our next image.
	Right.
	Thanksgiving.
	OK, so basically the Americans, they have two Christmases and they can never explain why.
	It's just jealousy.
	Yes, but I mean, the amount of Americans I've met over the years, and I always try and get them to explain to me, why do you have two Christmases, and they can never explain.
	They always start off with, oh, it's really straightforward, and then they give me some story about how they were worried about the Indians killing them, which doesn't seem quite right because they're Hindus and very peaceful people, and then they basically say, oh yeah, we have them, and it's like two weeks before.
	I just do not get Thanksgiving at all.
	Despite the fact that I've asked him to explain it multiple times.
	Do you get this?
	Well, this is like Hobbits having second breakfast.
	I mean, if you're American, you like your food, and therefore two Christmases.
	Yes.
	Right, the other thing with Americans, and because I used to work in the city just next door to the Merrill's building, the Merrill Lynch building, there's lots of Americans coming out there, so I got to know a lot of them.
	And they have this weird cultural thing where they end the working day, right, and they will say to you, do you want to go for drinks?
	Right, plural.
	Right.
	And then you go to the bar and they will order one drink and then they bugger off.
	Okay.
	Whereas British, they say, Ooh, should we have a cheeky half or a pint?
	It's always singular.
	Should we have a... Right.
	And then you're there until 11 at least, or possibly Sunday, if it's a Friday.
	So Americans don't get... And the other thing, right, next image.
	Just talk to the segmenters.
	Yeah.
	It's just me complaining about America.
	Right.
	Right.
	This, this cup thing.
	Right.
	They do that as well.
	Yeah, I've always, I've never been.
	So I always assumed that is a joke.
	Yeah, I always thought that was just like, that was just like a movie set.
	We don't have glasses everywhere.
	Someone's going to smash it.
	But no, apparently I've spoken to them.
	They all do that.
	And these things, it is actually quite clever.
	They got, they got little lines on them.
	So you see, there's like a line at the bottom and then there's another little line higher up and then there's a line near the top.
	So that is, I mean, no, but see, well, you can't quite see on that image, but basically the idea is you put spirits up to the first line.
	You put wine up to the second line and you can have beer up to the third line.
	It's like training wheels for Americans drinking.
	You just drink?
	Yes.
	Do you want more?
	Drink it.
	If you don't, don't drink it.
	Yes.
	There is that.
	Next one.
	Where is that?
	Yes.
	This used to get me as well.
	Americans would come to London and they would try and talk to you on the tube.
	Okay, yeah, I agree with this.
	Yes.
	All right, we're talking about the motherland now, so I can actually have a strong opinion, which is shut up.
	Yes.
	This isn't just Americans.
	The worst one, actually, is Arabs.
	Oh, really?
	I used to date an Arab girl, so I could speak with this with confidence, is that they... Oh, I can't stand it.
	They will get on a bus, never mind the tube, they'll get on the bus, and they will FaceTime their whole family, it seems, and speak for the entire bus ride, out loud, in Arabic.
	Oh, you don't want somebody loudly speaking Arabic on a bus, not after 7-7?
	No, not really.
	But then, like, you're at university, so there's two or three of them doing the same thing all over each other, and you're just like, this is hell.
	But no, I'm not even talking about speaking to family members on phones, because I can sort of... I'm just saying that the Arabs beat the Americans in this regard.
	Right, but you'll be on a tube, and an American will try and strike up a conversation with you.
	The last time that happened to me, the conversation he tried to strike up was, isn't it weird that nobody talks to each other on the tube?
	I just sort of smiled and nodded and sort of turned my back on him before we could continue the conversation because you just do not do that on the tube.
	The only exception, right, is taxi drivers.
	Yeah, you don't shut up.
	Yes.
	Taxi drivers never stop.
	So if you're an American, you ever come to England, you can talk to the taxi driver, but you can't talk to anybody on any other form of transport.
	Just so you know.
	Even if they're your friends, try to shut up.
	Yes.
	U.S.
	comedy, right?
	Now, actually, Chris Rock explained this very well recently.
	I saw something from him, and he was explaining the difference between American comedy and British comedy is that American comedy is basically just being incredibly loud and shouting at everybody so that everybody in the room gets the joke.
	Right?
	And British comedy is being incredibly subtle, and only the smart people in the room actually understand the joke.
	And that's kind of the point.
	It's not completely true, but... Isn't it?
	I don't think so.
	I quite like that.
	I like the point.
	Loud equals funny is the bane of comedy.
	Yes.
	That's definitely true.
	I think Stephen Fry did it better.
	I don't know if you've heard his description.
	No.
	Okay, so...
	There's a scene in the movie, guy walks down after shagging some bird and then he sees a hippie playing a guitar on the stairs.
	Yes.
	So it's crap.
	So he grabs the guitar and he smashes the guitar.
	Now an American comedian would want to play the guy smashing the guitar, whereas the British comedian wants to be the stupid hippie who just had his guitar smashed.
	Do you get that?
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	That makes sense.
	Right.
	Um, next one.
	I don't have, I don't have an image.
	Oh yeah.
	Right.
	College fees.
	Okay.
	Um, yeah, this, okay.
	I'm really getting into the meat of this now.
	Right.
	So, uh, colleges, which is basically universities in America.
	Right.
	So basically what you have is you have this whole class of people, this whole institution, And they all hate America, right?
	They hate the Constitution and they hate you.
	So we give them loads of money and our kids.
	Yes, yes.
	So this is the thing.
	So how do Americans react to this nest of vipers?
	What they do is they say, here is my child and here is my life savings.
	Do with them as you will.
	It is true.
	I even agree that the UK education system is worthless now.
	Unless you're doing STEM.
	I'm not going to pay for my kids to go there.
	But at least in the British system, you're only in debt for like the first 10 years.
	The American system, you're in debt for the rest of your life.
	What do you mean?
	Well, because it costs like 10 times as much as it does here.
	I'm in debt for the rest of my life.
	I don't know if you know.
	Right, okay.
	System changed.
	I've got an amount to pay and I'm never going to pay enough to even pay it off, so I'm in debt until I'm 65.
	Oh.
	So, okay.
	I basically had one good bonus and it was cleared.
	Yeah.
	There used to be a different system.
	You know what's annoying?
	Actually, last year they changed it, so now all students will be paying double what I'm even paying.
	Yeah.
	Both our systems are getting more and more worse.
	I just don't get the fundamental concept of clearly these people hate you and yet they all do it.
	They all give them their children and their lives.
	It just doesn't make any sense to me.
	Why don't they just not do that?
	I mean, I agree.
	Yes.
	I mean, American education is... Yes.
	Now, this guy, Bargy, he made a particularly clever point, actually.
	Because you know all this student loan forgiveness stuff that's being talked about at the moment?
	He made the point, if the publicans are smart, they would propose a bill to pay down student loans by seizing college endowments.
	Right, and then you've got this table showing the various endowments that these universities have built up.
	So if you're listening...
	Harvard has got, what, $50 billion?
	University of Texas, $40 billion.
	Yale's got $40 billion.
	Stanford, just under $40 billion.
	You know, MIT's got $25 billion.
	So all of this money has sort of been accumulated by these colleges.
	So if you want to pay off college debt, why don't you just seize that, right?
	And that will give you, the numbers are something like there's about $800 billion in college endowments.
	So take that.
	The college debt is apparently $1.8 trillion.
	So you pay off about 45% of it.
	So it's not the whole thing, but it's a pretty meaningful chunk.
	And you take away money from people who hate you and are trying to destroy your country.
	Seems like a good deal.
	Yes, I think that's a good deal.
	So, you know, let's repeal this independence and we get that sorted out for you.
	Second thing, Americans only get two weeks holiday.
	I think they'll agree with me on this one as well.
	Yeah, it's kind of insane.
	Yes.
	I mean, I don't know.
	I mean, I've got some friends who work in service, and because of the weird way American holidays work, which is the basically bugger all protection, what one of them is able to do, for example, is just turn to her boss and be like, right, I'm taking the next month off.
	I just go around the world and come back.
	Hmm.
	Because there's no, like, oh, we have four weeks, so you have to book it off, and then it's there, and then we have these dates, and you ran out of holiday.
	I'm so sorry.
	Instead, there's just no agreement on how much holiday there is.
	So while she's off, she doesn't get paid.
	While she works, she gets paid.
	So that was the thing I was reading on this, is apparently some of the trendy employers are now starting to offer unlimited holiday in these tech firms and stuff.
	But is it paid or unpaid?
	Yeah, it's paid.
	So you get your salary and it's just unlimited holiday.
	The lady I'm speaking of, it's unpaid.
	So it's just like, I don't have a job for the next month, but I'll be back in a month.
	Cool.
	But no, apparently that's the thing in some of these tech firms.
	It's now unlimited holiday and people basically take as much as they want, but because their work ethic is built up in such the way it is, they only ever take a couple of weeks anyway.
	And I was just thinking, what if you started offering that sort of arrangement in France?
	Or Spain.
	Oh, sorry, I'm still sleepy.
	So sorry.
	You would never see, you'd be like, you'd basically be the public sector, wouldn't it?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	So I thought that was funny.
	Right.
	Next thing, we can show an image on this, but I'm going to take four things in one here.
	And I'm going to put them all under the same heading, right?
	So the first one is free refills on sugary drinks.
	Okay.
	American bread.
	Have you ever tried that?
	Basically, all American bread is brioche, because they put an absolute ton of sugar in it.
	It's unbelievably sickly.
	Do you know about Subway?
	Subway sandwiches.
	Yeah, well, I'll try them here.
	So the bread was declared cake in Ireland?
	Because legally, it has too much sugar in it to be declared bread, so it's cake.
	Yes.
	And they've probably toned it down over here as well.
	Yeah.
	Because if you're ever in America and you try the bread, it is just, it is sickening.
	Right, so number three... The unlimited refill thing, I do have something to say on that though, which you might not know and a lot of people don't know, I didn't know.
	Turns out, so McDonald's for example, it's their company policy worldwide, so McDonald's corporate, that if you take your drink back and it's soda, you can get a free refill anywhere on earth at any McDonald's location.
	Now you might be confused by that because you've probably tried it in the UK or something and they told you to bugger off.
	Well, that's the thing.
	It's the culture, locally in the UK for example, that we don't offer refill stacks and if you ask them they'll just look at you weird.
	But if you demand them to get out the rulebook, they go and get out the terms and conditions of their franchise.
	Have you actually done this?
	So a friend of mine, she was Kuwaiti, so back in Kuwait they have free refills.
	She came to the UK and she was like, what the hell is this?
	So she went, no, get out!
	And they took it out.
	Oh, you're right.
	Yeah, you do have to get free refills.
	Oh, so that's handy to know if I ever go into McDonald's.
	I assume it's the same for Burger King, etc.
	I just don't know.
	I just happened to try it with McDonald's and it worked.
	Let's find out.
	So, right.
	Actually, that was going to be my third point on this one is the Americans, they keep their Taco Bells, their McDonald's, all of their all of their stuff.
	They open 24 hours a day.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	And the fourth one is this one, Halloween.
	Sorry, was that a complaint?
	You'll see where I'm going with this in a minute when I put these under a category.
	The fourth one is this Halloween.
	So it's basically begging for middle class people.
	I do kind of hate Halloween.
	Yes, and basically what they do is they go round and they get free sugary stuff from all the families in the area and then they all sit around and eat it, okay?
	So the reason I put those together, pre-refills for sugary drinks, American bread is all brioche, Taco Bell open 24 hours a day and Halloween which is begging for sugar, I'm going to put all of those under the category of trying to figure out why they're all so fat.
	I don't know.
	Yes.
	Because they're captured by the sugar industry.
	That's my point on that.
	Right, um, next thing... Americans, they all think they're racist.
	But they're not.
	They try.
	Compared to literally anywhere else on Earth.
	Meet a Romanian talking about gypsies and you'll feel... But basically just go to any anywhere else in the world and have a conversation about races and you'll quickly discover that the Americans are not racist.
	Not number one.
	But they don't do that.
	So here's an article that sort of went around a while ago is McDonald's gets into a bit of an uproar because they just put a sign on their on their store saying no black people.
	The only reason that was a story is because it was McDonald's.
	I mean, I've travelled around Asia and it's quite common for restaurants just to have a sign outside saying, you know, no Indians or no blacks or anything like that.
	They don't think anything of it.
	They just think that's perfectly normal.
	I mean, last time I was travelling around Asia, I got friendly with these two Indian chaps and one of them was quite dark.
	And every time we tried to go into a bar, basically they wouldn't let us in.
	So, in the end, we figured out I had to pretend that he was my Raji Butler before we could go and drink anywhere.
	To be fair, I did play into it quite a bit, and I think I annoyed him slightly after a while, but he's basically the only way you could get into a car.
	I mean, you kept using him as a footstool, so I mean, that wasn't that cool.
	Right.
	Oh, yes, the next one.
	Okay, I tried to find a suitable video for this, but they were all so cringy I couldn't bear to put them up.
	But you know those beauty pageants they have with four-year-olds?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's... I don't... I don't know why they do it.
	But they do.
	I don't know what type of American does it either.
	When I ask Americans about this, even though I don't do that.
	It's not a common thing then.
	It doesn't seem to be.
	But then who is doing it?
	Because it's happening.
	Well, a lot of them must be because there's loads of documentaries and stuff about it.
	But anyway, I couldn't find one that I wanted to put on the screen because I just found them all so cringy.
	But instead, I found this extract from a film called Bad Grandpa.
	Let's have a look at this.
	My Bonnie lies over the ocean.
	My Bonnie lies over the sea.
	My Bonnie lies over the ocean.
	Please bring back my Bonnie to me.
	She is my terrified.
	Who's drinking water such a sweet surprise?
	Tastes so good.
	Make it fall and cry.
	Sweet cherry pie.
	For those who are listening, it's taking a turn for the spices.
	I see.
	Average American event.
	Yeah.
	Put it up.
	That's not the man's face.
	The faces are superb.
	The thing is, you made the point to me when I was watching this video in the office.
	You were saying, you know, it shows how much this is age.
	Because... Yeah, this isn't edgy anymore.
	Yeah, this isn't.
	I mean, if you film this now, half of them will be laughing along and being like... Well, as long as... As long as there was a, um... What's that thing they're not allowed to say anymore?
	We're not allowed to say it, so... Yeah, we're not allowed to say it.
	But, you know, those people who were one thing and now they're another thing.
	No, no, no, no.
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	Yes.
	But if you do an angle of that, you could get away with a lot more than that.
	So, right, anyway.
	So, if you think I've made a suitable case for why American independence should be repealed, let me know in the comments.
	If we get enough... Well, we were the global superpower, but never mind.
	We'll become a county.
	Why?
	Because tipping culture.
	Well, yeah, no.
	If you think I've made the case and we can build support for this, I will take it to the King and we will get that one sorted out.
	However, because it is your special day, America, I did decide to end on a couple of things I do like about America.
	So, the first one is this.
	Post boxes.
	Did you know that these bloody things transmit as well as receive?
	What?
	What are you talking about?
	No, seriously.
	Right, so you get your posts put in them, but if you put that little thing up, it tells the postman that you can collect.
	So you can post from your own postbox.
	No way.
	Yes.
	What?
	Yes, seriously.
	That's what the little flag thing's for.
	I thought that was the postman telling you there's something in it.
	No, no, that's you saying that stuff needs to go out.
	Sorry, so I don't even have to go to the post office?
	I just... No.
	That's remarkable, isn't it?
	But then why do they have all those post boxes?
	Because of your own... Oh, I don't know.
	Maybe it's for the cities.
	I don't know.
	Maybe it's for packages or something.
	That can't be true!
	No, it's true!
	It's true.
	Somebody in the comments, enlighten us, but I'm pretty sure that's true.
	Right, second reason I like America is the films used to be really good in the 80s.
	Yes.
	40 years too late for this!
	Basically we got to 1999 and then everything after that was bad.
	So in 1999 I made a list of the last good films.
	So it was Fight Club, Matrix, Sixth Sense, American Pie, Galaxy Quest, Austin Powers and Analyze This.
	Right, that was the last good year and after that everything has been bad apart from Tropic Thunder.
	Have you ever seen Robert Downey Jr.
	talk about that?
	No.
	Because he was asked, I mean, why did you sign up to do Blackface?
	And he went, well, I thought about it, and I thought it might be a career ending, so I thought I'd try it.
	Apparently when he thought it was really funny when they were talking about it, and then when he was blacking up, he then thought, oh god, this might actually end my career, I'm not even... Apparently his mum even called up to tell him he probably shouldn't be doing this.
	Yes.
	Just a couple of years later that film would never have got made.
	But well done.
	Right.
	And finally, one thing that I actually really do like, America, is this bit of text from my third ever favourite American.
	It is the Declaration of Independence.
	And actually, it is worth reading this out.
	And I've modified the text very slightly to make it a little bit more universal, OK?
	But, you know, if you're French or German or, you know, British or even modern American, you listen to this, right?
	And you tell me if this doesn't apply now, OK?
	So it goes like this.
	When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind require that they should declare the causes which impel them the separation.
	We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.
	Amongst these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
	That to secure these rights, governments are instituted amongst men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
	That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government laying its foundations on such principles, and organize its power in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to provide safety and happiness.
	Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.
	And accordingly, all experience has shown that people are disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms by which they have become accustomed.
	But a long train of abuses, usurpations, pursuing invariably the same objective, convinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism.
	It is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security.
	Such has been our patient sufferance, and such is now the necessity to alter the former system of government.
	The history of the present government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having the direct objective, the establishment of a absolute tyranny over us.
	Now does that not describe exactly where we are today, anywhere in the West?
	That is why Thomas Jefferson is my third favourite American after Columbo.
	And, you know, let's go out, let's end this segment with a short extract from my first most favourite American, Johnny Cash.
	And in her own good land here she's been abused.
	She's been burned, dishonored, denied, refused.
	And the very government for which she stands is scandalized throughout the land.
	And she's getting threadbare and she's wearing kinda thin.
	But she's in good shape for the shape she's in.
	Well, she's been through the fire before, and she can take a whole lot more.
	So we raise her up every morning, and we bring her down slowly every night.
	We don't let her touch the ground, and we hold her upright.
	On second thought, I guess I do like to brag.
	Touching.
	- All right.
	There's the God bless or God damn America segment.
	Well, here's some news.
	You will own nothing and leave the country is the news, which is from the United Kingdom because, well, I don't know if you noticed, did a segment about Nigel Farage a couple of days ago where he won an award at some ceremony, unimportant.
	What was important is he gave a speech telling them they were all useless and need to go F themselves, which was very good.
	And then all of a sudden his bank account was removed.
	And everyone was kind of shocked, because it's pretty bad.
	The leader of the opposition having his bank account closed down.
	It's the kind of sanctions we usually reserve for supposedly foreign dictators.
	And it's basically impossible to live in this country if you don't have a bank account.
	Yeah, I mean, I was thinking about this.
	Like, if you don't have a bank account or a current account, so you don't have a contactless card, what can you do without it?
	I mean, like, if you want to buy a train ticket, you better hope there's a human being there to take your money now.
	Yes.
	Because even the robots don't accept cash, they only accept contactless card.
	Yes.
	If you want to take a plane ticket, where are you gonna buy the plane ticket with cash?
	That's probably not gonna happen.
	You can't park.
	Because all the parking meters are contactless now as well.
	If you want to get food, you better hope there's a human available.
	Quite a lot of fast food chains now, you go into them now and they're not interested in taking your money at the till.
	They just point you to these little machines.
	Quite a significant proportion of restaurants that still just don't accept cash at all.
	I mean there's even some small places, I mean there's an ice cream place in Swindon, it's quite nice, that I believe just doesn't accept cash.
	I don't even know how you'd pay your utility bills either.
	Just turn up with pennies?
	Yes.
	How do you even pay your council tax?
	I mean... Yes.
	It's not no small thing anymore.
	It is a massive thing.
	And we'll just quickly mention something on lowesys.com being why feminist immigration policy will save the West.
	If you actually want to save the West, instead of destroying it as quickly as possible, but instead our society decided to destroy itself as quickly as possible.
	This isn't new, either.
	I'm sure people are well aware, at least in the UK, because in 2018, for example, the bad man, as we have to call him, was banned from PayPal.
	The reason given?
	It promoted hate.
	They couldn't tell you what.
	They couldn't tell you which tweet.
	There wasn't one.
	They couldn't tell you which statement.
	There wasn't one.
	They couldn't tell you what thing he did.
	Maybe a hand gesture.
	Maybe he did this.
	No.
	No reason given.
	Just banned from PayPal.
	And this was a big shock at the time.
	I remember people were like, "What?
	PayPal?
	Banning people?
	For political disagreements?" Like, that's insane.
	But the shock- And a few years later, they decided they wanted to fine people.
	Yeah, but the shock was contained to our spheres of Rithus in the UK.
	So he's like a version of Alex Jones.
	He's he's the he's the guinea pig that they try and get away with.
	Yeah.
	And if we go the next one here, there's a link.
	This is the only link I happen to find.
	I believe it's a law firm that's trying to sue him and take his money.
	So obviously, they're laying out why they hate him.
	But they mention in here, talking about his bankruptcy, he struggled to get a bank account.
	Having his accounts with NatWest, Lloyds and HSBC closed down, he now uses an online bank that refused to name.
	So, it wasn't just his PayPal, suddenly his bank accounts were closed.
	I remember this happening, because we happened to know of him.
	And I remember him saying that Santander as well just closed his account.
	It was just like, what have I done?
	I can't tell you.
	So, okay.
	That's useful.
	Thanks.
	And again, there was outrage in our circles, but beyond that, not so much.
	And if we go to the next link here, we can see the Free Speech Union also banned.
	The Free Speech Union.
	Sorry, the Free Speech Union have had their PayPal account closed.
	Reason given by PayPal?
	No.
	Hateful contact.
	It's just hate.
	Trust me, there's hate out there.
	And of course, this isn't the only one.
	This is just UK-based.
	Everyone remembers the trucker protests in Canada, for example, in which people had their bank accounts closed, or their payment processors kicked them off, or fines given out, or the Canadian government trying to go after your finances.
	But then we go back here to the UK.
	I don't get that at all in that case, because, I mean, they are so blatantly controlled opposition.
	What do you mean?
	Trigonometry.
	I don't agree, but no.
	They're just generally that way?
	No, they're sincere in their beliefs.
	Like, if you meet Constantine, that's what he believes.
	And this is him posting here, for example, just to get back to the UK.
	Trigonometry as well, had their bank account closed.
	No reason given, no explanation, just go to hell, loser.
	We'll just do what we want and take your money.
	And I believe that was with Tide, as you can see there.
	It's just some smaller thing.
	It's not even one of the major banks for some reason.
	Even the tiny banks getting on it.
	As you can see here, this was the breaking news.
	Nigel Farage, the establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts.
	I have had no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me.
	This is a serious political persecution at the various highest level of our system.
	If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too.
	To be fair, Nigel, they kind of already had been.
	I'm sorry to burst the bubble, but I'm a bit annoyed in the framing of this news item by most outlets, which is, oh my Oh my God, I never saw this coming.
	How could they do this to Nigel?
	I was like, Nigel, no, they did it to us as in the spheres lower down.
	They can do it to you too.
	And now they have.
	And that's not to take away that this is obviously persecution and he deserves, right, recourse, which is legislation to stop this from happening to anyone.
	That is the only recourse I can think of.
	I mean, it happened to Reform and Reclaim as well.
	They tried to get bank accounts and they were shut down.
	Yeah, because immediately beyond this, there's a lot of other people who have come out speaking about their stories.
	I mean, this one here was a Yorkshire Building Society closing down a vicar's account.
	Yeah, the local vicar.
	He's a terrorist.
	How do you know?
	He wrote us a letter.
	You might think I'm joking.
	He's not.
	Reverend Richard Forgill, who has been with the Building Society for 17 years, wrote to them online in June after he was invited by them to give general feedback.
	Responsibly went, oh, well, you fell for that, didn't you, idiot?
	He insists that his message was a polite rebuttal of their transgender ideology, which he claims was the institution promoting that.
	They were promoting it during Pride Month, of course.
	He received a letter four days later saying his internet savings account would be closed.
	Yorkshire Building Society told him in the note, seen by the Times, that it had a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination and that their relationship had irrevocably broken down.
	He responded by saying, I don't know if I had a relationship with you.
	You're a bank.
	I mean, we weren't going on dates.
	We weren't discussing politics at any time until you brought it up and asked me what my opinion was.
	So the vicar here, being a vicar, told them.
	And then the response was to close his bank account.
	Again, I mean, not even a political figure in any significant light.
	I did see the message they put out on Twitter following this.
	It was something along the lines of, you know, we do not tolerate discrimination in any way or any form.
	Well, here's the quote.
	You can see it's got a million views, not so much likes, but you can see the profile picture.
	And as you say, they say their problem in this specific instance was that, well, we only have a closed account if a customer is rude.
	Abusive, violent, or discriminates in any way?
	Okay, discriminates in any way, but everybody discriminates in a multitude of ways every single day, from the choice of beverage to declined sexual partners.
	Discrimination is something that people do all of the time.
	So they obviously don't mean that, do they?
	What they mean is our brand of discrimination, which is basically our politics.
	Yeah.
	I mean, the word discrimination has been utterly bastardized in the West to just mean bad, even though it doesn't.
	I mean, price discrimination is just charging different prices with different customers.
	It's effectively a synonym for choose.
	Yeah.
	I mean, you can see the response, though, is just like, go to hell, which is the correct response, in my opinion.
	Yes.
	Because, well, what if we politically disagree on what discrimination means?
	Well, no, it is political.
	Were you banned?
	Yeah, I mean, this isn't difficult to comprehend that maybe certain people have been trying to use diversity and inclusion to try and censor their political opponents.
	Yes.
	Well, here you have one, and several others, which we just...
	Told you about.
	I mean, you can see Yorkshire Building Society aren't having a great time.
	If any of their posts talking about anything are just full of people being like, go to hell, thought police.
	So there we are.
	Bad news for them.
	You can even see they started trending, which would be good news for them.
	The social media manager could get all hard about it, but instead they got all sad about it because it was people saying boycott Yorkshire Building Society en masse, which if you have an account with Yorkshire Building Society, your money isn't safe.
	Leave.
	I'm not kidding.
	Genuinely.
	Sincerely.
	I mean, I've been talking about this since we last did a segment about the banks being unbelievably political in this country.
	And my account was with Santander.
	And as we were going over this segment, I was looking up the biggest banks in the UK to try and move to.
	And obviously, I know, it's literally impossible to find a single bank that doesn't have some kind of diversity and inclusion stuff, but I went through the top 20, and the only one I could find that was the least bad, in which they had a bland statement about diversity and inclusion, stock standard stuff, no excess on that, no alliance of a stonewall I could see, was Starling Bank.
	And as we were sitting, talking, I opened an account with Starling Bank, and in six hours I'll find out if I've been accepted.
	Because I'm going to move my money from Santander, because to hell with that.
	I'm not interested.
	So you couldn't find a bank that was free of this?
	You could only find a bank that was half-heartedly supporting it?
	Least bad.
	That's the best you can hope for, and that's what I'm trying.
	My point being, if you are with Yorkshire Building Society, it's not just that they've done some weird things online.
	It's like, no, they're actively closing down accounts of people who disagree with them politically.
	So why would you give them your money?
	I think it's a good point.
	That's all I'm saying.
	Anyway.
	But you can see there's more of this.
	Wings over Scotland.
	Again, just a small activist account.
	Not exactly Al-Qaeda, I would have thought, but their opinions on the things we can't talk about because this is YouTube yet again.
	They had their account closed, this time with HSBC.
	The Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation has opinions on Western wokeism, do they?
	Really?
	So they checked out the person involved.
	So the head of financial tracking at HSBC is this individual, who is not just a trans woman, but also he and his trans man partner are the top two names of the list of patrons for the controversial under-investigation charity, Mermaids.
	There's that information.
	Check that out, pronouns His Majesty.
	Anyway, you can see here, there's loads of others.
	This person here, just a random guy, just gets an email from Barclays.
	We're gonna close your accounts!
	Really?
	Why?
	Well, no reason.
	This is maybe unexpected.
	Too bad.
	Happens to be a candidate for reform.
	Ah.
	Don't know how that would transpire.
	Right.
	Just happens to be a candidate for reform and therefore his account's closed.
	Interesting.
	Interesting indeed.
	Well, Lawrence Fox, being a leader of reform, took it personally, and rightfully so, and wrote to Barclays on his Twitter page saying, OK, I've banked you for 20 years.
	I'm now going to withdraw all of my money.
	Give it to me.
	Hmm.
	Which I think is the right thing to do.
	Good on you for standing up for your candidates.
	To be fair, technically, once you give it to the bank, it's no longer your money, it's their money, you're credited to the bank.
	Yeah, which is why you just take it all back.
	And if there's a run on the banks, their problem.
	But sometimes they don't let you.
	Literally, sometimes people go into the bank and say, I want my money out, and they just won't give it to them.
	You could try.
	I mean, I did this once actually.
	I walked into a... I had two bank accounts because I wanted to split the money because I was worried about one card being stolen and then someone stealing all my money from the debit account, right?
	So I moved the money into another bank.
	And then I went down.
	I asked them, could they transfer it to Santander for me?
	And they said they couldn't for some weird reason in the middle of the pandemic.
	I'm like, okay, they've not got the money then.
	Like, why can't you transfer it?
	So I said, okay, give it to me in cash.
	And they kept trying to dissuade me from doing that.
	I was like, no, give it to me.
	And eventually I did get all the money in cash.
	I just walked out with my satchel full of it.
	I've heard plenty of examples of people trying to, like, buy a second-hand car and they go into their local branch and they just won't give them that much cash.
	So my tip would be, if you want to withdraw a large amount of cash and you really need it, just go into a sort of central London bank, you know, near the financial district and just ask for, like, your 18k.
	And when they ask for your reason, just say, well, I'm having a night out.
	Yeah, that'll be normal for them.
	Yes.
	So, that's one way.
	Although, he just transferred it from his online, as you can see here.
	He mentions he's removed everything.
	There's all the clearings.
	There's 100 quid left, just in case there's anything he needs to deal with.
	Otherwise, he's done, which is the right response.
	So, good on Lawrence Fox.
	And again, if you literally can't trust your bank with your money because they might delete you for having wrongthink, don't bank with them.
	It's kind of one of the most important things in your life, all that money you have.
	And if you can just take it.
	The example of this that really scared me is there was another example, because you said loads of people came out with examples.
	And there was this one guy basically saying he was in the supermarket buying something.
	And he got to the till and basically found out that his accounts had been closed.
	And so he rang the bank and they said, oh, we wrote to you a month ago, but he didn't see the letter or whatever else was going on.
	And they couldn't manage to ring him.
	So, you know, he got to the end of the whatever, the allotted month, and he was just shut off.
	And I was just thinking, well, you know, what if you're traveling or something?
	What if you're in the middle of India and you're reliant on your card and you've only got a small amount of cash?
	Or maybe you've got your family with you or something, and then you just discover that your card's stopped working.
	I mean, you would just be completely stranded.
	Yeah, you would.
	What the hell would you do?
	Will you be screwed?
	Because typically you pull out some cash and you use that locally, but you tend to wait until you haven't got much left and then you go into the machine and you get some more.
	So you go to the machine, you're down to like $100 worth of whatever the local currency is, wherever the hell you are.
	You've got two small kids with you and the wife, and then you find that you're distracted.
	You just wouldn't be able to do a damn thing.
	Yeah, you're entirely correct.
	I mean, this is why I am sincerely saying to people.
	Yes.
	I mean, scalp by scalp, of course, if we're talking about actually trying to have an impact, we've seen this with other writers attempts in the United States that have gone very well recently.
	It has to be York's Bank Society first.
	I mean, if you just have one, leave, just leave.
	Because what if that happens to you whilst you're out in Thailand or something?
	You're just screwed.
	Just go to hell.
	Thanks, bank.
	I mean, you're literally not worth the money.
	I mean, there are plenty of places that will take my money.
	People quite like money.
	You don't.
	So, rip you.
	There's more of this as well.
	This guy, Dominic Lawson, he writes about the fact that, not just Nigel Farage, my own daughter was blocked from opening a bank account for absurd and adverse reasons.
	Now, he mentions some details in it.
	So, he mentions, firstly, on Nigel's bank account, although he didn't give the name of the bank, it is understood to be Cootes & Co., the poshest of all banks, with many members of the royal family as account holders.
	Now, apparently they're owed by NatWest, which is owned by NatWest Group, and the government owns 39% of NatWest Group.
	They're meant to sell that because they brought it during the financial crisis, and it's been 20 years, and they've still got... We're sort of a quarter past the next crisis now.
	Yeah, and they've just called on to 39% of that banking group's shares, and then for some reason, Najib Raj's account is closed, and it's like, okay, great.
	But he says in here about his instance, So, he's the posh boy of an old MP.
	Raised in Eton.
	Posh accent.
	Posh upbringing.
	I mean, the kind of people who would have privilege in any other town in human history.
	He says in 2016, he decides to open a bank account for his daughter.
	She has Down Syndrome.
	This was not something she could do herself.
	But when my wife Rosa went to Barclays, in our nearest town, where Rosa had been an account holder for many years, she was told it was not possible for Dominica to have an account.
	No reason was given.
	Fortunately, Rosa knew the manager there, a position that no longer exists, in a branch that itself was about to close.
	Gotta love the modern world.
	Because instead, if you're not, you know, in that position, we now can just talk to a robot.
	It'll tell you, shut up.
	He said he would look into the matter.
	He came back to Rosa and said, I'm really sorry, but it's out of my hands.
	It's because of money laundering risks.
	The Down syndrome daughter was going to be money laundering.
	Yeah, no, she wasn't.
	Quote, I know this sounds ridiculous, but this is because of Dominica's grandfather.
	He is a politically exposed person.
	This was a reference to Nigel Lawson, my late father, the former Chancellor, who was then a member of the House of Lords.
	So because you're the granddaughter of someone who is politically exposed, you're not allowed a bank account.
	The thing is, Lawson is absolute establishment.
	Yeah, 100%.
	You can see them going after the, you know, the reform and reclaim people and the UKIP people.
	That sort of makes sense to me.
	But going after people who are directly part of the regime.
	Yeah.
	And their grandchildren.
	That seems ridiculous.
	It's weirdly mad.
	He says, eventually we did manage to open an account for Dominisa.
	It involved mostly just extensive form filling and a long to and fro between Barclays and themselves and the compliance people in London.
	So I had to go that far.
	I mean, if you've got this ability to do that, then great.
	They later tried to open an account with HSBC for the same reasons, a charity that Dominisa was working with.
	HSBC denied the account.
	Great.
	This time, though, it wasn't because of the grandfather.
	It was because of her elder brother, Christopher, who is a Viscount.
	So that made her a politically exposed person because... He's a very, very minor noble.
	Yes.
	Really, really weird.
	None of this makes any sense, it seems.
	And then other people came out with their stories.
	So this chap here, when I was a member of the European Parliament, after a month of paying my bills on time and having a stable income and outgoings, Metro Bank decided to call me and cancel my account without explanation.
	Yeah, I actually had this personally.
	So I tried to open... Well, we did set up a UKIP branch in Reading.
	And of course, setting it up, we need to go back to a bank account.
	So we went to Metro, see it right there.
	We're thinking, aren't you run by Malaysia?
	Yeah, you're not really going to care about British politics, we presumed, because we were worried about that kind of interference.
	So we went to Metrobank and they just refused to open one for us and then wouldn't give us a reason.
	So there you are.
	Metrobank.
	Also not to be trusted, if you're dealing with that.
	Is it that these banks are going woke, or is there something in the background?
	Some regulator pulling strings?
	Both.
	The regulator also going woke.
	And we'll be able to prove that.
	You can also see here, this is another former member of the European Parliament for the Brexit Party.
	Only ever seems to go one way, for some reason.
	Anyway, she said, after several months, I was elected as a Brexit Party MEP, my family had all of their accounts closed, even though I was a loyal customer for 30 years.
	This is their reply, in which they just went... And her family?
	Yes, they just go, um, terribly sorry.
	Oh, collective punishment, that is... Nationwide here, we're closing all your accounts.
	Can't go into detail, though.
	That is social credit system shit, that is.
	Yeah.
	Because it's bad enough when they go after you, but when they... And the thing is, it is a really effective mechanism as well.
	Well, it's why we use it, for sanctioning our enemies?
	Yes.
	You ever noticed a thing with Russia or something, and we closed all their bank accounts?
	Yes.
	And we do it to our own opposition for a different reason, I swear.
	It's for money laundering or something.
	But it is so powerful because if you think about it, look, if you don't like the current system, because I mean, our current system, it's not crushingly awful.
	I mean, it is, but in a slow boil way.
	It's like chronic awful rather than acute awful.
	So everybody sort of wants to change the system that we're under but it's not a not an absolute question of life or death.
	You can you can sort of wear it for another year or two and then you think you must do something about it.
	But if by doing this basically what they're doing is this because you would have to basically ruin your ability to live in the country and your family so it just isn't worth it.
	You just let you just let the system grind you down.
	This is the reason, the reason I added you will leave the country is because Nigel Farage is saying that he is thinking of just leaving the country.
	I can't blame him.
	We spoke about this previously anyway, just the state of the UK because of the Conservative Party, complete mismanagement.
	Did the chap that can't be named to you started the segment on, I think, has he left the country now?
	Sorry, who are you speaking about?
	TR?
	Oh, well, he can't leave the country.
	They keep him here against his will.
	Right.
	Which is great.
	For people who don't know, he tried to go to Mexico, and upon arrival in Mexico to just have a holiday with his family, the British government called up the Mexican government and enforced that he return back to the UK.
	So he just was pulled away from his family's holiday.
	I was like, thanks.
	Thanks, guys.
	And again, this shit will spread to other people who question the system.
	So the point here is that they're just actively trying to destroy us.
	I mean, as mentioned, this is the sort of thing you do to geopolitical enemies, and they'll do it to us for some other reason.
	Now, this was raised in the House of Commons, as you can see Najib Farage mentioning here, that David Davis apparently stood up in Parliament and asked, why are you doing this?
	And the response from the government was that, well, we wouldn't do that to political opponents.
	It's meant to be there for corrupt regimes.
	So, this was only about Nigel Farage here that they were speaking, when the government were like, oh, terribly sorry, if there anything is going wrong, we'll deal with it.
	They noticed.
	What was Tommy's banning about then?
	Yes.
	This isn't new, this isn't convincing, it's just blatant, and it happened to happen to Nigel Farage in this case, which has blown it up, and no, rightfully, obviously he deserves justice, but I do find it infuriating the way the British system works, which is that if you're the wrong kind of person, you just go to hell.
	It just doesn't affect us, so why bother?
	But because it went up to an account which Nigel holds with a bank which is, as mentioned, as rich as it gets, all of a sudden people in the establishment... But it basically just comes down to Nigel Farage has a sufficient number of friends and a sufficient reach that he could push back on this.
	But it's a classic thing with the system.
	We're going to encroach and we're going to encroach and we're going to encroach until we get too far.
	We cross a line and we get pushed back and then we're going to come back one step And then we're just going to wait.
	We're going to wait until everybody forgets about it, and then we're going to start encroaching again.
	So this obviously isn't going to stop.
	This native sanctioning will continue.
	It's just going to pause now.
	But my point being, it's hilarious when you really dig that politics in the West very much works as politics in the East, which is that, yes, they do try and utterly destroy the opposition, and only when it is publicly enough embarrassing will they try and tone it down a bit.
	It's just in the East they can get more away with it, of course.
	I'm not saying they can't.
	Nigel Farage gives us an update.
	He says he's now had his ninth bank rejection confirmed since he was banned.
	He says here, I maybe need to fight this in the law for the sake of so many people.
	I don't want to live in communist China.
	Great.
	Good luck, Blap.
	It's ridiculous.
	And of course, if it was some kind of minor issue about London laundering or something, why would he be banned from nine other banks?
	It's almost like there was an order put up.
	Anyway, what's the establishment response?
	Let's check real quick.
	We have Kay Burley here of Sky News, author of Establishment, came out and said, if eight separate bank accounts don't run your custom, I suppose you'd start to wonder why.
	I think the left just doesn't get it.
	Because it'll never be her.
	But they don't understand principles.
	No, but they don't have any.
	They don't need to.
	It will never be Kay Burley.
	She is as establishment as it gets, working for essentially a government mouthpiece, Sky News, which is owned by MSNBC.
	So it's just, yeah, you are a piece of the regime.
	She doesn't have to care.
	She can literally just glow about it instead.
	And there's more of this.
	This guy here came out with a corker.
	First, they came for Nigel Farage.
	And I held the door open and pointed at Nigel Farage.
	I guess so!
	You don't have anything to worry about.
	You're part of Stalin's inner circle.
	Who cares?
	But okay, there's another point underlying this.
	Because this is how the left operate.
	The left operate on the basis of we're going to give you Gibbs for our team and we're going to punish the other team.
	And the right come along and say, oh, what we're going to do is we're going to make it fair for everybody.
	But no, I don't want that.
	What I want is I want the same version of what they're doing because I'm fed up with this.
	Well, that would be oppression.
	Whereas what's happening now is liberation.
	I mean, I'm sorry to say that.
	It's insane.
	You're being too bloody nice about this stuff.
	We are.
	Definitely are.
	I agree.
	The government did give a response.
	You can see the Conn government here is coming out and saying, well, maybe banks should uphold free speech.
	Local man wakes up for two seconds to think something might be going wrong in the country.
	Utterly useless.
	Completely wasted my time.
	As Jeremy Hunt sits here and says he's deeply concerned.
	You should be concerned several years ago!
	But no, nothing.
	You don't care.
	I'm sorry, I don't actually feel very convinced these people care at all.
	All they're a bit worried about, the deep concern there, is maybe it'll go and start affecting them personally.
	Yes.
	That's it.
	That's all they care about.
	You can see more here.
	I mean, look at the banks.
	I mean, the state of them.
	This story came out.
	People of any gender can be pregnant, Bank of England states.
	Hello, bank!
	Including the two spirit people.
	The money man has come here to tell me about gender, has he?
	The reason being, in case you're wondering, they say in here that, well, Andrew Bailey's under pressure in the Central Bank, which is battling to bring down inflation under control, whilst he also pays for his staff to have gender reassignment surgery using private medical insurance.
	What's wrong with the NHS, huh?
	Anyway, what it says on here, the Bank of England's view and actions were included in its 2022 summation of top 100 employers published by Stonewall.
	Oh, that's why.
	Stonewall.
	You can't go into the debate anymore because of YouTube rules, but I can tell you what's happening there, which is that Stonewall have said some things, and the Bank of England are enforcing the things, and all the other banks which are all up for it.
	I mean, not to be that guy, but Liz Trust was right when she said, ditch Stonewall if you don't want to be controlled by them.
	The Bank of England, in case you're wondering, gives them about £3,000 a year.
	This is just public information.
	But I mean, that is classic Liz Trust.
	She's right, but not bright.
	Well, you don't need to be, if you're right.
	And she was actually effective at making sure that I think it was a hundred government institutions stopped giving three grand a year to Stonewall.
	That's three hundred grand!
	Yeah.
	For protection money.
	It's pretty good if you're Stonewall.
	It is protection money, isn't it?
	Yeah, yeah.
	And we'll just end this off with the next thing here, being that, as you see, Telegraph saying most high street banks are signed up to Stonewall.
	They mention here, for example, HSBC.
	Of course, they also allow their customers to register as gender neutral.
	A NatWest, which is one-third owned by the government, is also paying the charity.
	So there we are.
	Can you get a gender reassignment to gender neutral?
	I don't know.
	I suppose we'll have to ask Stonewall.
	Barclays, they offer private medical coverage for employees, including transitioning.
	Nationwide encourages its staff to use pronouns and their signature.
	Both of them are also paying money to Stonewall every single year, so there we are.
	Lloyd's Banking Group, which runs its own branches as well as Halifax and Bank of Scotland, were the only major lenders to fail to respond to queries about the scheme, but I'm pretty sure they actually do pay Stonewall anyway, so what's the point in even asking them?
	You know.
	Now, I don't know what to do about this.
	Either legislation happens and we're actually given a single right in this country to at least have a bank account and not have it taken away for disagreeing with someone politically, or... I mean, I'm giving the same remedy I've given previously, which is this country's finished, to hell with it.
	This is why I'm so black belted in anything to do with this place.
	So I don't bother talking about UK politics ever anymore.
	Who cares?
	It's completely unrepresentative.
	We have a government nobody elected for several years.
	Everyone acts like it's fine.
	And the next one will be Presumably, if the polls are to be believed, or at least continue to go that way.
	Just the same sort of thing.
	We're going to swap from a party that believes in a whole set of things that we don't like and is coloured blue, to another party which believes in all of the same things but is coloured red.
	And this isn't because the British public can't stand what's going on.
	We've been through the data.
	The British public can't be bothered to vote because, well, for example, what was it?
	Immigration Watch.
	They put out a tweet a little while back where they said that, well, there's no reason to do anything untoward about immigration, of course.
	I can't mention what because I'll get in trouble with the law.
	We can only fight at the ballot box.
	And then a month before that, they tweeted that the British public had voted six times at the ballot box to lower immigration and nothing had been done.
	In fact, immigration had tripled.
	So there's that.
	That's the fact, is what I'm stating.
	The other thing I can think of is, based bank when?
	For people who don't know, the Bank of Dave was a thing.
	This was a chap after the 2008 financial crisis, decided that the UK banks were all corrupt.
	Correct diagnosis.
	So his solution was, what if I just opened my own bank in Burnley?
	Just give money out to people in Burnley?
	And he did.
	And he even took on high-risk customers who obviously were very bad with their money, would take up payday loans and all kinds of crap and get huge amounts of debt.
	Any other bank would just reject them because they're not worth dealing with.
	But because he was local and they knew him, it actually was a success on that basis because there was a personal aspect.
	Anything more local is always better.
	And they would have a relationship with us.
	That's how banking started.
	Yeah.
	And he would say, you know, come on, you know, I'm trying to run this bank I've just set up.
	They've taken me on as a customer.
	And they would feel bad and actually sort their lives out and then pay off the debt.
	And since then, Burnley Savings and Loans is the new name and it's going well.
	It's got its own, I think, movie called Bank of Dave.
	Yeah.
	But it is hilarious.
	Bank of Baste, I think would be nice if anyone could sort that out.
	I don't know how to start a bank.
	So I don't, but if anyone does, let us know.
	But we'll end this off with just one piece of news that happened just before we went live, which we saw the BBC running damage control for Everything Is Fine, Don't Worry About It.
	They ran with Nigel Farage's bank account was shut for falling below the wealth limit.
	They were saying in here that to have a bank account with that particular bank, you needed a minimum of one million pounds in the account.
	And for some reason, they happened to find out that he hadn't, which they couldn't have got without breaking the law.
	Because, obviously, it's private information.
	So someone at the bank either broke the law, or the BBC have broke the law, in finding out that he didn't have that amount in there.
	So that's a possible argument for Coutts, but how does that explain the other eight?
	Well, it doesn't explain anything, of course.
	This is obviously just them trying to run damage control, being like, everything is fine, except the new normal.
	It's not fine.
	They called up Nigel Farage for comment, and he obviously pointed out, well, I've had that account for the same situation for 10 years, nobody cared.
	So, that doesn't even make sense.
	The reason given is an obvious lie.
	But then, even if it was about just, oh, you didn't have enough in the bank account, that doesn't explain why I've been rejected by nine other banks already.
	You don't have a minimum?
	I mean, their minimum is a pound?
	Yes.
	You think I've got a pound?
	Yes.
	I'm Nigel Farage, for Christ's sake!
	But they don't care.
	Anyway, that's the deets.
	That's what's happened, which is the smackdown has finally come.
	Seemingly, controlled by Stonewall.
	Any bank that's signed up to Stonewall's goals has done this, so there's that.
	There's the regulator themselves with the ESG scores we've been over previously.
	We're obviously also engaging in this kind of clampdown.
	And if you're a writer, you need to be worried, genuinely.
	I mean, we've had this conversation in the office with everyone just being like, do I need to move my money?
	Do I need to set up an American bank account just in case?
	What am I going to do?
	And you and me have been showing each other what we've been up to, trying to get around that sort of thing.
	So plan accordingly.
	We don't live in a free country.
	We haven't for years.
	I don't think in my lifetime there's ever been any concept that Britain is a free country and now it is worse than ever so far that we will be sanctioned the same way Russian oligarchs are for daring to disagree with the government.
	Sorry to bring the bad news, but that's the news.
	It's sort of an eternal clue, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	I shall give you the box.
	Ooh!
	I don't know how to use the box, but I will.
	Were you not using the box before?
	Well, I have, but I ended up breaking it and things just started spinning all over the place.
	Well, good luck.
	I'll figure it out.
	It can't be that hard, is it?
	Right.
	So, in the not-too-distant past, there was a military coup in a nuclear-armed superpower.
	Now, I'm not actually referring to that one that you covered last week.
	Do you remember that one you covered last week?
	There's actually quite a few countries that have had that sort of situation.
	Oh, you mean Wagner?
	No, I'm not referring to that one.
	But there was that, when people got very excited for the space of about a day.
	But no, I'm not referring to that military coup in a nuclear-armed superpower.
	I'm referring to something else.
	Do I have to press a button?
	Press play!
	Get down Mr President, he's got to save the world.
	For those who are listening, some chaps are shuffling around inside the Senate, is that the Senate?
	They're being very courteous.
	The chap with horns is carrying a flag and there's a police officer behind him.
	Can't believe Wagner PNC would do this.
	The police officer I notice is in no danger of his life whatsoever and he's having a bit of a chat with them.
	Well clearly this is the new president, why would you be scared?
	Yes.
	One of them's calling his mum to let them know that he's in the Senate.
	Oh, the Horns man has now taken the chair.
	The police officer is wandering around to have a chat.
	He's evidently terrified because, of course, police officers were slaughtered that day.
	And the chap's still on the phone to his mum.
	Now the Horn man is calling his mum, which is all very exciting.
	I think it ends about here anyway.
	Right, yes.
	So, actually, I'm not even referring to that, right, because that wasn't a coup either.
	The worst event in all of human history?
	No.
	Because, you know, that was obviously a stitch-up and all of those people are political prisoners who have been rotting in jail for God knows how many years now.
	Three years now?
	And they're not even being charged and given their court dates?
	So, you know, that is a massive stitch-up.
	So no, I'm not talking about the Wagner one or that one.
	I am actually going to talk about a genuine coup.
	You know, the moment when a quasi-military organisation took over a country on behalf of a permanent establishment or the deep state.
	A moment that a democratically elected president was assassinated Right?
	And ever since that, the deep state has been wearing democracy like a skin suit, basically.
	So there is democracy, but only up to a point, and only when it doesn't threaten the interests of, you know, the powerful vested interests.
	Let's look at that moment.
	So I'm showing you footage from a, uh, from a sunny day in Dallas, Texas.
	It's November 22nd, 1963.
	We've got a, uh, we've got a presidential cavalcade coming around the Sean corner, waving to the crowd and...
	Basically, we had to stop it there, otherwise we would get age- Something happened.
	Yes, something happened.
	A local man lost his head.
	Yes, we get age-appropriate restricted, if I carried on that clip for one more second.
	So, yes.
	So, I'll cut that just in time, but coups genuinely have happened in these countries.
	Now, I'm going to build my case.
	I'm going to start- Hang on, let's get this straight.
	You're saying that the assassination of JFK was a coup by some group?
	Yeah, a quasi-military internal organisation.
	It is a genuine coup.
	It is a genuine coup.
	Right.
	Let's start my case on this with Dwight D Eisenhower.
	Now, Dwight, he was a five-star general.
	He was a World War II hero who later became president.
	So he is a man who genuinely understands the military And the government.
	Because you're a five-star general, president of the United States, that's a pretty good CV.
	You know, you could get some after-dinner speaking gigs with that.
	Probably work at McDonald's?
	Yes, he felt the need in his farewell address of 1961 to issue a warning about the rise of the military-industrial complex, a force which he feared could take control of American democracy.
	You know, his words were ominous on this.
	It was a prophecy of battle to come.
	So let's see what Dwight had to say.
	From the White House and the Office of the President of the United States, we present an address by Dwight D. Eisenhower.
	This is the farewell address for President Eisenhower, whose eight years as Chief Executive come to an end at noon Friday.
	Mr. Eisenhower has chosen this time for his final speech, ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.
	In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
	The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
	We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
	We should take nothing for granted.
	Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
	OK, so let's just pull that apart a little bit, shall we?
	I'm just going to recap that, line at a time, because I think that is pretty significant.
	So, in the Council as a Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
	It's pretty clear what his concern is there.
	The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
	We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or our democratic processes.
	So clearly, this well-qualified man genuinely believed that there was an ever-present clear danger to the liberties and democratic process when he gave that speech.
	We should take nothing for granted.
	He then goes on to say, only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.
	So here's a question for our American viewers.
	Does the American school system and the American mainstream media in combination produce alert and knowledgeable citizens?
	It's not meant to.
	No.
	No, I think that's fair to say.
	I think it's the case that alert and knowledgeable citizens are basically pushed to the fringes, called conspiracy theorists, and removed from the public era.
	As per your last segment, in the UK they are now being debanked and basically forced to leave the country if they question the system in any way.
	So being alert and knowledgeable in the current West is basically rather hazardous.
	So the key defense, which Dwight outlined there, has been thoroughly dismantled so that we can't basically question this stuff.
	So anyway, that's my setup for this.
	Enter John F. Kennedy.
	So he's a young, charismatic president, and he decides that he's going to take on this behemoth.
	Now, JFK came into office with suspicions about the unchecked power of the intelligence agencies, Particularly the CIA.
	And the JFK was said to have been so furious after the Bay of Pigs incident, an operation which was planned and executed by the CIA, that he privately vowed to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces.
	And scatter it to the winds.
	Now if you want to go deeper on what I'm talking about there is I would go and look at the Joe Rogan interview with RFK.
	RFK is JFK's nephew and he basically breaks down the whole timeline of what happened there about how JFK wasn't really up for the invasion of Cuba but the CIA pushed it relentlessly and lied to him at every step in order to get his acquisition to go one step further and were constantly lying and trying to put him into a situation where he had to go into full military escalation.
	And it was this event that made JFK realize the CIA could not be trusted and resulted in the firing of Alan Dulles, the chief of the CIA.
	So the CIA is an institution, it's deeply entwined with the fabric of American power structures, and they were not really prepared to sort of let that happen.
	So that's why we had the incident we showed you in the video.
	video the November 1922 so November 22nd of 1963 Dallas Texas JFK is assassinated now the official narrative put the blame on Lee Harvey Oswald a lone gunman But, you know, for those who question the official story, Oswald is a rather convenient scapegoat in all of this.
	The precision of that shot, if you've ever spoken to somebody who knows their guns, I never got into the JFK thing, so I don't really know anything about it.
	There is a bit of magic trajectory going on in order to get off those three shots from his position, so it is rather suspicious.
	Then, of course, we have the incredibly swift cleanup and removal of the President's body, and it all sort of points to a sort of coordinated operation.
	Now, of course, we've got Oswald, we've got him in custody, And then two days later, Jack Ruby basically intercepts Oswald as he's being transferred from the prison van and shoots him dead.
	Why?
	Because apparently he was outraged about him shooting the president.
	That's the official story.
	So he was a nightclub owner and low-level mafioso.
	Why would he care?
	Well, apparently he did.
	And then Jack Ruby, of course, went to jail.
	And he was considered to be of sound mind at the time he did it.
	Everybody who knew him knew he was of sound mind.
	And then he was visited in prison by somebody from the CIA.
	And after that, he developed severe mental issues.
	And has been sort of babbling incoherently ever after.
	Here's the Tucker segment on this.
	Let's see what Tucker has to say.
	A lone gunman murders the President of the United States and then, less than 48 hours later, that lone gunman is himself murdered by another lone gunman.
	What are the odds of that?
	It's one thing if you get struck by lightning, rare but possible.
	But if every member of your family also gets struck by lightning all on different days, you might begin to suspect these are not entirely natural events.
	But oh, replied the U.S.
	government, they are.
	This bizarre chain of killings was all entirely natural.
	So less than a year after the JFK assassination, the Johnson White House released something called the Warren Commission Report.
	And the report concluded that while their motives remained unclear, both Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby had acted alone.
	No one helped them.
	There was no conspiracy of any kind.
	Case closed.
	Time to move on.
	And many Americans did move on.
	At the time, they had no idea how shoddy and corrupt the Warren Commission was.
	It would be nearly 50 years before the CIA admitted under duress that in fact it had withheld information from investigators about its relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald.
	So, as Tucker mentions there, The Royal Commission comes next on this, and it is tasked with investigating the JFK assassination.
	Lyndon B. Johnson himself, who assumed the presidency after JFK, he personally appoints the committee members.
	Now, remember I mentioned that JFK's primary feud was with Alan Dulles.
	The former CIA chief who basically lied to him and then JFK said, right, we're going to get rid of the CIA.
	And he fired Alan Dulles.
	Now, Alan Dulles was then out of the picture in terms of, you know, sitting behind a desk.
	But of course, he had all of the network, all of the connections.
	He was sort of viewed as the sort of unofficial chief from beyond the wall type.
	So he still had all the connections.
	So, the primary suspect in a lot of this is obviously going to be Alan Dulles.
	Now, can you guess who Lyndon Johnson appoints to head up the Warren Commission?
	It is Alan Dulles.
	Yes.
	So, he gets appointed to look into this.
	Bit of a conflict of interest, we might say.
	The Warren Commission then does a very nice whitewash on this.
	Wraps it all up.
	I think we've got one more bid on Tucker from that.
	It was at that point, as Americans started to doubt the official story, that the term conspiracy theory entered our lexicon.
	As Professor Lance DeHaven-Smith points out in his book on the subject, the term conspiracy theory did not exist as a phrase in everyday American conversation before 1964.
	In 1964, the year the Warren Commission issued its report, the New York Times published five stories in which conspiracy theory appeared.
	Now today, of course, the term conspiracy theory appears in pretty much every New York Times story about American politics.
	It's wielded, now as then, as a weapon against anyone who asks questions the government doesn't feel like answering.
	That's suspicious.
	Now let's bring into this story Bobby Kennedy, okay?
	So Bobby Kennedy is JFK's brother.
	He's the younger brother of JFK.
	Now we know from RFK, who's running for president of course at the moment, that the moment that Bobby saw that his brother had been murdered in this way, the very first thing he did was pick up the phone to the CIA and say, did you do this?
	He had been appointed by JFK to basically do some reforms on a lot of this stuff, on the justice system and the intelligence operatives.
	So he basically knew what they were up to in many cases on this.
	So what he did was he decided that he was going to run for president himself, and he was going to run on a platform of ending the Vietnam War and basically reigning in the intelligence services.
	He's literally running on, they killed my brother.
	Well, sort of, yes.
	And also, we're going to take away the power of the military-industrial complex by shutting down the Vietnam War and the people who feed the top of the hopper, which is the CIA.
	So he runs on that platform, and he does rather well, actually.
	He wins the Democratic Party nomination.
	And he gives his victory speech just after winning it in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
	So he's just won the nomination.
	He's probably going to win the presidency.
	And after he leaves his speech, he then basically goes out through the back, escorted by his security team.
	He goes through the kitchen, at which point he is shot 13 times in the back.
	Apparently, by some Palestinian chap who worked in the kitchen, for reasons we don't particularly know why.
	And after searching this Palestinian chap, they discovered a gun on his person which holds six bullets.
	And he was stood in front of.
	So he reloaded twice?
	And, well, yes.
	What, three times technically?
	He got lazy on the last reload and just put the one bullet in.
	And also he managed to fire his bullets in a way that even though he was stood in front of Bobby, he managed to get them into Bobby's bag.
	Which is quite impressive shooting.
	Ricochets?
	Something like that.
	So, RBFK has visited this man in jail since, and he's convinced that he did not kill his father.
	Now, you might think, you know, this man has a vested interest, because if you're going to be sitting down in front of the man who is supposed to have killed your father, you know, there's going to be no love lost in that situation.
	But, you know, he's told him straight up, you know, I don't believe he did this.
	Shaken his hand.
	So RFK is now running for president, but that's a different story.
	The next part in this particular story is I'm going to ask you to consider the HSCA, which is the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
	So this was established... Well, they ordered them, or...?
	Well, basically it did JFK and Martin Luther.
	That's the approach it came on.
	Now, this was a few years later.
	This was in 1976.
	And it looked into the investigation of the JFK and the Martin Luther one.
	And the committee released its final report in 1979.
	And it was a bipartisan agreement as well.
	Now, they concluded that Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of the conspiracy.
	Again, bipartisan agreement here, looking into this without as much of the original evidence as they could pull together.
	However, the committee stated they were unable to identify the other gunman or the extent of the conspiracy.
	These were the guys who said there probably was a second gunman in the JFK shooting.
	It further concluded that some scientific acoustic evidence established the high probability that there were two gunmen who fired at JFK.
	And other scientific evidence that they brought into that.
	The committee believed, on this basis available to it, that President JFK was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy, blah blah blah.
	The committee found that the original federal investigation was seriously flawed in respect to information sharing.
	Basically, there was a whitewash.
	Another interesting angle I always find on this is Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader at the time.
	He was a Soviet leader at the time and he basically had a good relationship with JFK.
	They were able to have this report and they were talking about de-escalation, military de-escalation.
	And according to his son, Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita took it quite hard at the assassination because he thought, OK, well, this is our chance for peace and de-escalation based on... Because they were bankrupting the Soviet Union.
	They couldn't actually keep up with the Americans.
	Yeah, I mean, so that would be the most favourable spin that you could put on it.
	The other one could be that maybe he wasn't an utter psychopath and didn't want, you know, ever-ending, never-ending military escalation.
	So anyway, a short while later, a reporter decided to ask Khrushchev what he thought of the assassination.
	And he paused for quite a long time, thinking about how he's going to answer it.
	And then he simply says, think about who benefits.
	Because he didn't benefit.
	But he was asking who does benefit.
	So that's a good question.
	Who does benefit from the assassination of JFK?
	Here's three names I'm going to throw at you.
	Alan Dulles, we've already mentioned him, former chief of the CIA.
	Lyndon B. Johnson, Obviously, he became president, and he probably would have had to have been in on this because he had to appoint Adam Dulles to the Wallen Commission to do the cover-up, and Adam Dulles was of course reappointed after this.
	And the other chap is Douglas Dillon.
	He was JFK's Secretary of the Treasury, and he basically was in charge of the Secret Service on that day, and they were basically extremely poorly organized in a way that sort of made this very accessible.
	Another question of who benefits would be the military-industrial complex.
	So it's worth talking about how did the military-industrial complex benefit out of all of this?
	Well, first thing, escalation of the Vietnam War.
	That's a pretty big one.
	Growth of the defence industry, significantly.
	Expansion of the intelligence community.
	Increased military spending, because of course ever since then military spending has increased on an ongoing basis to being well over a trillion at this point.
	Now, there's only been, apart from this period of JFK, there's only ever been one short period in US history where the President has refused to start any new war and has decided to favour de-escalation as opposed to escalation.
	And I'm referring, of course, to Donald Trump.
	Exactly.
	A man who basically got Democratic and MSM sponsorship in order to get him to be the Republican nominee in 2016 because they thought he would be an easy win, and then it turned out he wasn't an easy win.
	And when he ran for re-election, he was the only president ever to basically get an increased vote share.
	On his second term.
	And I was watching the betting markets that night because I had a bet on Trump and I saw the live odds on him as they counted the votes going up and up and up until he was like 5x likely to beat Joe Biden.
	So the betting markets were very clear, this man is going to win the election for the second time.
	Then about 3am happened.
	Then he lost.
	Yes.
	And things happened.
	It turned out that at that point he was up against the most popular president of all time.
	Still is.
	Yes.
	A man so popular we now realize that the only reason Obama won is because he had Joe Biden as his VP.
	I would just ask you this.
	It is literally the CIA's job, and nobody disputes this, it is literally the CIA's job to carry out assassinations, to destabilise countries, to conduct colour revolutions, to manipulate elections, Abroad, obviously, outside of the U.S.
	Well, that regulation about banking and sanctioning people was meant to be used abroad as well.
	Yes, interesting point.
	Yes.
	Now, the reason the CIA do this, of course, is to serve U.S.
	interests.
	And I'm just thinking, isn't it jolly lucky that at no point during any of their history has anyone at the CIA get confused at where exactly the boundaries are between the U.S.
	interests and their own life?
	Now, if you would like to learn more about this, go to the website where Bo has written a bloody fantastic article on the JFK thing, so if you're like Callum and you've never really looked at this one, go and read that article and it will make the case that I've made only significantly better and well-written and so on.
	So basically, summing up, Yes, coups do happen in military superpowers, nuclear-armed military superpowers.
	But I'm not referring to the one in Russia, and I'm not referring to the one when people wandered around the Senate with horns on their head.
	You know, this stuff actually happens, and maybe democracy, like I say, has been worn as a skin suit ever since.
	Shall we get a video comment?
	Yes, let's do that.
	Cheery a note, I would hope.
	It's got the hands right, so you can tell it's not AI. - Bye.
	Where's Sophie?
	Sorry, that's just... Sophie's making a puppet for anyone who hasn't seen.
	That's what she's doing.
	Presumably this is going to be a number of them, and we're going to see the puppet evolve, I'd imagine.
	I assume so.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I just had a bit of a quibble with Callum's take about the Algerians being kind of justified in their hatred of the French.
	And what he says isn't untrue, but it does leave out the fact that Up until the 1850s, the Algerian Barbary states were slaving people all across the Mediterranean, and no matter how many times we bribed them or put new people in charge, they kept doing it.
	So the only way for it to stop was for the French to actually conquer them.
	I mean, it is probably done with ulterior motives, but that is the case.
	Oh, I wasn't denouncing French imperialism.
	I think it's obviously glorious.
	But, um, because, I mean, you're dealing with actual barbarians who are stealing your people.
	Don't get me wrong.
	My point of bringing up the Algerians probably hate you because of all the crimes you committed against them, which were crimes against humanity as late as the 60s, was that don't bring them to France.
	Just whatever you do, just don't bring them to France.
	I mean, my underlying point in every part of that was these people should never have been brought here.
	And it's a terrible, terrible liberal lie to sit there and be like, oh, well, just integrate them and make them French like everyone else, because isn't everyone French if they're in France?
	magic soil in madness so that sorry i wasn't very clear obviously because it wasn't just yourself a lot of other people were thinking i was saying something else which i wasn't um i was saying that they should not report there and um that's the response which is that if the french state hadn't have tried to make algeria an integral part of france there wouldn't be algerians in france in the same way that you wouldn't try to import loads of malians for the same reason and And instead they did.
	And that was stupid.
	And anyone who thought that was a good idea just doesn't understand humanity and is believing liberal nonsense of like, aren't we all the same?
	No, no.
	Otherwise we wouldn't be able to tell the difference between us.
	Sorry, but that's a fair comment because I wasn't clear enough.
	Good afternoon, Lotus Eaters.
	I want to take this week, or 4th of July, to talk about the United States and its identity.
	It does have an ethnic heritage, and the United States is basically a PvP server of ideologies, economic drivers, and migration.
	The United States, according to Colin Woodward in his 2012 book, The Eleven Nations of the United States, There are several ethnic regions which are constantly fighting against each other.
	Take, for instance, Yankeedom.
	Yankeedom is the source of a lot of this wokeness and also the source of the main Harvard-level educational institutions that are destroying the country.
	Yeah, they don't get along with the Deep South or Greater Appalachia.
	But I'll go into more details on these sections in the coming week.
	That is interesting.
	I want to learn more about that.
	I was actually at the Shieldings event that was ago.
	I gave like an hour-long speech about that map, so I'm well aware.
	The only thing I don't like about that map is obviously, as you mentioned, 2012.
	It's been a while, and there's been a lot of immigration to the US, so I think you could use an update, but otherwise it's a good map and a very interesting point.
	I do love the other ones as well, but they try and show exactly which parts of the United States correspond to the immigration.
	Depending on which parts of the UK.
	So you can actually see where people from Newcastle ended up, etc.
	Which is always good fun.
	This is what I was trying to explain to Josh the other day is that black people are basically Cornish.
	Do I want to get into this?
	It's something about the language.
	It's like, you know, Cornish people say, I be, they be, we be.
	The ebonics thing.
	Yeah, I've heard this argument before.
	It's not a terrible one.
	Yeah.
	Next one.
	Little cat here.
	This is Marshmallow.
	I found him out on the street.
	Someone threw him out of a box right in front of me.
	As I was on my evening walk.
	I couldn't just let him die.
	So I took him in and raised him up.
	He's a chubby little man.
	He likes to cuddle and loves to play fight.
	I don't really like cats, I prefer dogs, but I did notice a lot of videos recently of people showing big cats, all types, playing around.
	And what's funny is they interact exactly like little cats, they're just bigger.
	Interesting.
	It's just really strange when you see them playing around with each other.
	It's like, no, that is actually like a house cat.
	It's just a lot bigger.
	So we could just accidentally eat you one day.
	Yeah.
	Well, let's go to the comments and see if everybody agrees with me about repealing independence.
	We've got two minutes, so we're going to have to be quick.
	George says, happy 4th of July to Americans.
	Commissioner Grimm says, finally capturing an episode live.
	Happy Americans Day.
	Taffy Duck says, he swears I can't say that, but he's a fan.
	Right.
	Now, let's find out if people agree with me.
	There we go.
	I found somebody who agrees.
	Dos, Fox Design.
	I completely agree with Dan about the tipping culture and the sugar thing, although it's actually us being captured by the corn industry and the prevalence of corn soup.
	Real sugar hasn't been tried.
	Okay, this... yeah.
	Okay, so there is moderate support for repealing independence, I would say.
	Yeah, I can see some people who also disagree.
	I mean, Baron Von Warhawk's just like, the state of England.
	I mean, are you serious?
	Like, we would rejoin you.
	He's not wrong.
	Ziggy also mentioning that in Serbia he has exactly the same thing.
	Loads of Arabs walking around on their phones, FaceTiming their family, which... Right.
	Oh, God, I don't know why they do it.
	And it's really, really rude in England to do that on public transport, and they all do it.
	It's a pain.
	So, on the... Oh, in fact, we've got a special segment of people who were really upset with what I said.
	Really?
	I can't imagine what you might have said to one of the annoyed Americans.
	Salty comment alert!
	Oh yeah, Baron, are you really going to say that you... Yeah, okay.
	Well, he's not wrong, is he?
	I was, I was, I was... I mean, I'll take the sugar cake bread over the rape gang.
	America's always assumed that London will have met the monarch.
	No, he's not happy.
	Okay, so I have upset a lot of people.
	I mean, you only said that the whole civilization should be abolished.
	No, I just brought back into the fold.
	Right.
	OK, we're out of time.
	OK, well, more from us.
	There's a website or something.
	If you don't, don't.

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