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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Low Seaters episode 726 on today, Thursday the 24th of August 2023.
	I I am your host, Connor, joined finally by Lewis Brackpell.
	Finally!
	Last time you were in, I was on holiday, but really, really glad you're in, mate.
	Cheers.
	Well, I'm glad you're in because we've got some interesting topics to talk about.
	We're going to be talking about the persecution of a president.
	I wonder Who has been indicted four times recently, the mystery of the Maui fires, which I'm sure isn't going to get even remotely inspiratorial, and how the mask mandates are coming back.
	Another penny in the Alex Jones was right.
	Before we kick into it, we've got an announcement tomorrow at, what, 3.30 UK time?
	Friday, it's the monthly Gold Tier Zoom call.
	It'll be me, I believe Josh, and Stelios, currently, because Harry and Carl are at an event.
	I know everyone wants to talk to Carl.
	Sorry.
	Otherwise indisposed, you're stuck with the B Team.
	My bad.
	Please don't cancel your subscription.
	Anyway, before we do that, let's jump into the news.
	Right.
	Oh, what's happened there?
	It's a tab change.
	Wonderful.
	Thanks, Jack.
	Technical difficulties today, ladies and gentlemen.
	It's a nightmare around here, the things we do to bring you the news.
	Anyway, so, all right, today's first story.
	So Trump's due to be arrested at Fulton County Jail.
	He's meant to be handing himself in today for one of his four criminal charges in four different states simultaneously, plus a bunch of other lawsuits, if we look at this first tab.
	USA Today have given us a sort of breakdown.
	These are the This is the story.
	He said, can you believe it?
	I'll be going to Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday to be arrested.
	This is some true social.
	His lawyers have reached an agreement that was this Monday with the Georgia authorities for a $200,000 bond.
	And he only needs to provide $20,000 of that to remain out of jail.
	I have seen Dan Bongino suggest that he shouldn't.
	Yeah.
	He should just go to jail for the optics.
	Get the mugshot, everything.
	And the fact that they're even allowing to postpone is the tacit admission that they're not worried about him overthrowing the American Republic.
	Of course.
	Because if he's still got all the money, if he could still just chart a private jet out to another place abroad, which he could free the charges.
	Exactly.
	He's got impunity.
	So the fact that they're allowing him to stay out of prison means they're clearly not worried about him overthrowing the government with an insurrection.
	But there you go.
	What we're going to look at is why the charges are taking place and How this positions Trump as being the Republican frontrunner, because this is my conspiracy theory I suppose, but they're so petrified of him obviously winning in the primary and then winning a safe and secure election, as have obviously happened before, They just want him off the ballot, and they're going to stretch the legal arguments as thin as possible to do so.
	So, just going on to this one, if you'd like to subscribe to our website and learn about some healthy disagreement instead for the premium content, this is £5 a month, you can watch my colleague Stelios and Josh's series, Stelios' series is episode with Josh, Symposium on Disagreement, where they talk about how to have a principled disagreement.
	I think America is currently showing that a lot of the time debate is Relatively pointless.
	It's a giant distraction from the existential threats that have smuggled into your civilization, that people would like to confuse you and make you question everything you do while they're doing a long march through the institutions.
	Or they just scream at you, basically, if they disagree.
	So, you know, you're not really going to get the full double-edged sword with that.
	No, often the loudest or the least informed, I suppose.
	I agree.
	That's going to be flipped out of context against me in the future, isn't it?
	Definitely.
	Speaking of loud voices, we also have a survey that I've been asked to plug for our premium viewers, so you can tell us which hosts you like the best and which content you like the best.
	I can't wait for those rankings.
	That's going to be great fun.
	Anyway, let's go to an overview of Trump's cases just to run down.
	So he's currently being charged in Atlanta, Georgia, in Washington DC, in Florida, and in New York, New York City.
	This is in Atlanta, he's got him and 18 different co-defendants are charged with the RICO Act, so they're treating him like a mob boss.
	Now RICO is a very umbrella term, it basically means racketeering, so it isn't pointing to a specific offence, it's just saying you've tried to strong-arm the state into overturning the election.
	by asking them to recount the ballots because you think there might have been some malfeasance there.
	So just asking them to do something is somehow you being Al Capone.
	But all right, all right, fine.
	Then the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. charged him over January 6th, saying that he and a group of yet unindicted co-conspirators They haven't indicted anyone else, even though they're saying him and a giant mob of people tried to stop the certification of the election, even though he said, peacefully and patriotically, make your voices heard and said to everyone to go home in peace and love.
	Yeah.
	But we're going to ignore all that.
	Ignore all of that.
	Ignore all of that.
	That's fine.
	Then in Florida, the Justice Department, again, he's had 37 counts brought against him for mishandling classified documents, even though the FBI went to Mar-a-Lago, checked how he's handling them, put the padlock on the door themselves, which they then broke off in the raid while he was away from his residence in Bedminster.
	And Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton have improperly stored classified documents at their personal residences, at times even deleting them.
	Yeah.
	bleach-bitting their computers.
	And they didn't have power to declassify because, of course, well, at the time, Joe Biden wasn't president, and Hillary Clinton never has been president, thankfully, for America.
	Well, not explicitly, at least.
	She's still puppeteering from behind the scenes.
	That body count's still going up, you know?
	This is going to be heard after the 2024 election, but the rest of them they're trying to put before the election happens, just to try and derail his campaign.
	And then in New York, as we'll be just brushing over in a bit later, he's got 34 felony counts of falsifying business records concerning Michael Cohen, his former lawyer's effort to pay Stormy Daniels hush money.
	A story that was already in the public since 2011.
	Somehow that's damaging to his case.
	Yeah, like you said, everyone already knew about this.
	It was published in e-magazine in 2011.
	But alright, we're stretching the definition of illegality here, but let's look at Georgia specifically because, oh, that page has gone funny, but it's still loading.
	But this was a transcript here that's linked in the reading list, and the audio, here it is, of the phone call between Trump and then Um, Brad Raffensperger is Georgia Secretary of State.
	This is what they're charging him over.
	Trump was trying to get a forensic audit and signature verification done for the Georgia election.
	This was shortly after the 2020 election.
	And he was saying that some of the votes had been wrongfully counted and it may have flipped the state in his favor.
	Now, because of YouTube's terms and conditions, I think we're allowed to question that.
	I think you are now.
	But I'm not sure if they'll retroactively apply it.
	Yeah.
	So I will say that it's a conspiracy theory.
	Yeah.
	Indeterminate outcomes.
	I'll just say that.
	That's fine.
	And they're going after Trump for specifically saying, quote, all I want to do is this.
	I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we already won the state.
	I don't know.
	Look, Brad, I've got to get, I have to find 12,000 votes and I have them times a lot.
	And therefore I won the state.
	So they're saying he's engaging in a quid pro quo by pressuring the secretary of state and other party officials in Georgia into finding votes.
	He's saying just make sure all of the votes that have been counted legitimately.
	And then he's saying I think we'll win because of that.
	He's not saying do a 4 a.m.
	ballot dump on my behalf or wheel them in wine coolers or have a pipe break or you know crazy things.
	Crazy conspiracy theories.
	Exactly.
	It would just be mad.
	So let's look at the 19 people that have also been indicted.
	So, these are, those indicted alongside Trump include Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis.
	So his lawyers?
	Yep.
	So his lawyers who were hired to represent him are being indicted because their client's being indicted?
	Yeah.
	I mean that's just entirely unprecedented.
	I sent Jenna Ellis a little tweet earlier, because I've interviewed her a few times, just saying, truth will prevail and stay strong.
	Because that, I mean, seeing the mugshots and everything, which you'll get into.
	We've got those here, yes.
	There you go.
	I mean, seeing that, I mean... I mean, Rudy's is just brilliant.
	It was actually worth the persecution for this mugshot alone.
	They all need to be smiling, though.
	I think that would have made it if everyone was smiling.
	Sydney Powell's isn't.
	Most flattering in the world.
	But Jenner's, she's having a whale of a time.
	Yeah.
	She's loving it.
	I mean, she's, she's currently on the DeSantis campaign.
	I understand.
	Cause she feels like Trump hung her out to dry.
	So there's obviously discord within the camp, but I mean, credit, credit to her for panning herself in and going through this show trial.
	I suppose I probably would have kicked up more of a stink than otherwise, but, but my, my point is, okay.
	So Jenner Ellis is being prosecuted for litigating Trump's case against the state because he thought he was agreed by the election.
	So she was hired to do a job.
	She did it.
	Yet other lawyers for serial killers who have admitted to their lawyers that they've done it, but are still pleading not guilty.
	And so the lawyers are doing the not guilty plea knowing that their client has murdered women and children.
	They're not prosecuted for misrepresenting the truth because it's understood that they're doing the job and that everyone in America is entitled to legal representation.
	Unless if you're Donald Trump.
	And then if you legally represent Donald Trump, you have your life and career ruined and you get a criminal record.
	Seems to be a weird pattern there.
	Anything to do with Trump, then, uh, you know, you've got a bit of a black mark against you and that they're going to, uh, go after you in that respect.
	Yeah.
	And I think this betrays that they see him as an existential threat, which talking about Trump's record.
	It wishy-washy.
	I think if he comes back with Schedule F and fires 50,000 federal employees, he's vengeful enough to hopefully execute on draining the swamp finally.
	And he unveiled the fact that the swamp even exists.
	I think his greatest strength was going against the media and the establishment, at least rhetorically, so much that they outed themselves.
	Yes.
	But his actual record, he didn't challenge them as much as he should have.
	Definitely not with the pandemic.
	Definitely not with foreign policy.
	He ended more wars.
	He didn't start any new wars.
	But he still went and drone struck Syria and appointed John Bolton.
	So he wasn't as much a sledgehammer as he could have been.
	But they're still petrified of him.
	You would rather someone, so my argument would be, you would rather someone that has been in the swamp and seen it in order to try and make change in the next sort of four years.
	You wouldn't want someone new going in and going, oh, okay, right, I've got to deal with this.
	Whereas Trump knows how it all works.
	He knows the structure.
	So in my view, it just kind of makes sense for it to be Trump.
	Yeah, he's a best position candidate at this point.
	I agree.
	And the fact that they're prosecuting all of these people shows that they seem to think the same thing and want to do anything possible to get him off of it.
	The prosecutors had said everyone involved has to hand themselves over to the authorities by August the 25th, and Trump has not yet, but he's apparently going to today.
	So, other interesting thing that happened though, this is kind of unprecedented, they put the document of the charges up before the grand jury had convened to agree on the charges.
	Before?
	This leaked out.
	And you should hear the conspiracy theory that they're accusing the far-right outlet, Reuters...
	Of doing.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Funded by Bill Gates.
	Far right.
	So the county court in Georgia, this is Fulton County, where Donald Trump was eventually charged, this was last week, they briefly posted and then quickly removed a document last Monday detailing several charges against Trump.
	The document, which Reuters first reported, came from Fulton County and includes Trump's name and lists the case status as open.
	It's dated August the 14th and timestamped at 12.39 p.m.
	The document lists 12 felony counts and one serious felony count for violating Georgia's RICO Act.
	Charges had not yet been filed against Trump as of Monday evening.
	Now, Reuters got it first because they are often a legal document archive and they often get these cases first, which is why you see other outlets saying, according to Reuters reporting, and they were going to take the point.
	So on Monday afternoon, the Fulton County Clerk's Office, in a statement that Reuters and Georgia media outlets later posted, had said no documents had been filed that day, regarding the grand jury and that there has been hearing evidence in the case.
	The statement also referred to, quote, a fictitious document that circulated online, but they did not say whether the same document contained the charges.
	So they're accusing Reuters of making that document up with the same formatting as this Georgia County clerk's office.
	So Reuters just decided to make up with the same formatting as all of the other documents from this specific clerk's office.
	What?
	What, do you expect us to believe that lie?
	No.
	Really?
	Do you think people are?
	This was not a simple administrative mistake, Trump's attorneys.
	This was Drew Finding and Jennifer Little, they said in the statement.
	The grand jury were hearing another case at the time.
	district attorney's office and yet it somehow made its way to the clerk's office and was assigned a case number and the judge before the grand jury had even deliberated.
	The grand jury were hearing another case at the time.
	Right.
	So this just means the charges, the spurious umbrella RICO Act charge, was a foregone They just want to get Trump.
	They're not giving him a fair hearing.
	It's not substantive.
	It's just that they have already decided they want to persecute and prosecute.
	And even if they can't stick him in jail for properly, you know, even if he, even if he postponed, even if they can't make the charges stick, the process is the persecution.
	It's dragging him through this and distracting him ahead of his presidential election.
	That is part of the punishment going against the state.
	And I think it's important to say as well, I mean, we have, we've just showed that we've got a bit of a bias that we, you know, even though we're British and we can't really have a say in the election at all.
	I don't want Americans to be robbed.
	Exactly.
	Um, and it affects us down the long run anyway, for the, um, uh, the leader of the free world.
	Um, so there is, without showing the bias, I think even if you just present this, it just shows the motive regardless.
	So.
	Yeah.
	It's fascinating.
	It's the myth of the neutral institution.
	All institutions are staffed by people.
	People have their biases.
	And even neutrality is itself a value.
	And these people don't value neutrality.
	These people value power and victory.
	And they just want to crush any effective instrument that gets in the way of the destination for the American Republic that they've already said is a foregone conclusion.
	So they don't care about fair and transparent processes.
	They just want to crush their enemies.
	And that's what they're doing with Trump.
	And that's why he's always said, you know, they're not after me, they're after you, I'm just in their way.
	Well, if you get rid of Trump, yeah, they will be after you.
	And so this has led to a GOP state lawmaker calling for a special session to look into, this is the District Attorney Fannie Willis who's brought charges against Trump, Look into her conduct.
	So this is Georgia Republican State Senator Colton Moore and he's filing for a special session of the Georgia Legislature to investigate Fannie Willis.
	The Legislature has this great check and balance when it comes to controlling the purse.
	This is Colton Moore.
	Ultimately, from what I've seen, I think she should be completely defunded of any state dollars.
	People in Northwest Georgia and Georgians all over don't want their tax dollars going to fund this type of political persecution.
	If it turns out she's doing some corrupt things, then absolutely impeach her.
	Now, a special legislative session requires either an order from Governor Brian Kemp, who is a rhino, so he's not going to do that, or three-fifths of both the House and Senate to agree.
	And so Colton Moore is saying that he's got this.
	However, he sent a letter, and he filed it Thursday.
	Apparently, according to a spokesperson for Brian Kemp, he said, we have not been provided any evidence to support that assertion.
	So it's unlikely that he's going to be able to hold her to account for this malfeasance, which is disappointing.
	So Trump's still going to be charged in Georgia nonetheless.
	So just skimming over the Florida charges, they've got a May 20th, 2024 trial date.
	So again, trying to put it before the election.
	Yep, 37 to 38 charges.
	In the evidence, quite interesting...
	There was a recording of Trump talking about a document.
	Have you heard this before?
	CNN got the exclusive.
	No.
	He's talking about a document related to Mark Milley.
	So Mark Milley is claiming that he was the only person that stopped Trump from...
	I can't remember exactly where it was...
	Is it like bombing Iran or something like that?
	Because Trump obviously wanted to bomb the hell out of Iran.
	Yeah, Mark Milley, Mr. I'm concerned about whiteness, the ultimate patriot of America, right?
	And he was talking to a bunch of reporters who were doing the biography for Mark Meadows, his chief of staff, one of the guys that's got indicted in Georgia.
	And Trump, you can hear him moving around some paper and he said, Oh, I can show you this right now.
	Trump is claiming that he held up a newspaper reporting No.
	Mark Milley from the New Yorker when the story broke, whereas they're trying to imply, oh, he actually showed the report as classified documents.
	So therefore, we've got definitive proof on tape of Trump showing them.
	So Ben Shapiro keeps getting this wrong as well.
	It turns out that that wasn't a charge that was included among the charges.
	So it seems like, yeah, Trump didn't do that.
	Trump's story about holding up the newspaper was true.
	Or at least they can't prove that he did do that.
	So they can't nail that on him.
	And again, I would care a lot more about his mishandling classified documents if you went after Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton.
	Of course.
	If it was applied equally, sure.
	But again, another transparent example that it's not about the justice system, it's just about crushing their enemies.
	So what about the New York charges?
	Maybe one of these got stuck, right?
	So I went over these at the time, this was a couple of months ago now, this was April.
	So you can get all of the sources and all the breakdown, watch that segment in your own time over on our website, on our Rumble channel, or on YouTube.
	But as a rundown, Alvin Bragg, DA, campaigned on indicting Trump, Campaign was also financed by the Soros family.
	He brought 34 charges against Trump, then leaked them to the press ahead of time.
	So we're seeing a concurrent theme here from Georgia.
	Michael Cohen, who was the guy who ended up paying Stormy Daniels, he already went to prison for this.
	He's already done prison time.
	He's already solved Trump out.
	He also went to prison for lying to Congress and evading taxes, so it doesn't make him a very reputable source.
	He also wrote the letter himself, saying this was all me, but that's fine.
	Stormy Daniels has already denied the affair once before, then said, no, we had the affair, when suddenly she could think about making more money for herself.
	And then, as I mentioned, E!
	Magazine ran a piece in 2011 that said that Trump had an affair with Stormy Daniels.
	So, why would he need to pay hush money for a story that was already in a mainstream press outlet, four years before he was running for president and also why would trump sleeping around with i mean frankly i think she's passed it but women who are considered attractive be damaging to his career i know yeah it doesn't make sense no no it's it's not like we didn't know that trump threw his weight around a little bit in terms of infidelity which is one of his character flaws but Yeah, massively.
	But it wasn't going to lose him any votes.
	No, not at all.
	And there's no definitive proof that he was the one that signed off on the money, because Michael Cohen has already said, I did it.
	Yeah, it was me, Gov, and I went to prison for it.
	So again, another example of spurious charges.
	Just trying to get him off the ballot, but that's fine.
	The trial's scheduled for March 2024.
	So another one that's just lined up.
	And the judge in the case, he's been accused of bias.
	Now, he won't recuse himself.
	Now, I'll just run this past you and see if this seems like a fair hearing.
	The judge in Donald Trump's case, according to the AP, he's rejected Donald Trump's claim, his demand to step aside based on the fact that he's biased, because he was given cash to Democrats in the past and his daughter is a Democrat party consultant.
	Of course.
	So... Of course.
	Yeah, and he said he's certain of his ability to be fair and impartial.
	Oh yeah, very certain.
	I'm not, but all right, okay, that's fine.
	At the same time this is going on, have you heard about the E. Jean Carroll case?
	No.
	Okay, so we would never allege that she's telling a lie, because she's very litigious and she's suing him for defamation twice.
	But E. Jean Carroll, I think she was an Elle magazine columnist in the 70s, so she has accused Trump of raping her in a Pax department store in the middle of the day in Burgdorf in New York.
	And she said that they were both trying on lingerie for fun and he burst into the chamber.
	That's it.
	Is this what he mentioned when he went on CNN?
	And is it to do with the cat?
	She had a cat called Vagina.
	Is this the same woman?
	I didn't hear about that.
	That wouldn't surprise me.
	That was like a clip that just went round viral.
	Is that the same?
	Well, it might be.
	She did go on CNN and say rape is sexy.
	So that would undermine her credibility.
	I think, I think it is the same woman.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	She also, she also wrote in like 2012 or something, a lot of Facebook posts about sleeping with Trump and making jokes about it.
	She also says she's a big law and order fan.
	And there was a law and order episode where a man gets falsely accused of rape because he's doing a role play with a girl in Bergdorf's about trying on lingerie.
	But I couldn't allege that she got it from the law and order.
	And it turns out that Trump didn't actually rape her.
	So, so, so the jury found that he didn't.
	But they're still charging him with defamation for saying that he didn't rape her.
	And there's now going to be a second one.
	So there's going to be a second case, because he also said on another occasion, this woman's mad I didn't rape her.
	That's Trump's words, not mine, of course.
	I believe all women, I suppose.
	But the judge has said that his appeal Despite ruling the fact that he didn't rape her, but that he's been charged with defamation for saying that he didn't rape her, is spurious and so it's going to be upheld.
	So they're going to hear the second case and they're not going to relitigate the first one where he's got to pay her millions of dollars.
	Now bear in mind this judge was a Clinton appointee And the person bankrolling her case was the former CEO of LinkedIn, who said he was insistent on getting Trump.
	And his case was cooked up in a meeting with anti-Trump bloggers.
	But, you know, that's fine.
	So this is U.S.
	District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan, and he said that Mr. Trump has not provided a single reason for the court to find that there is any likelihood that he will succeed in an appeal.
	This court certifies that the appeal itself is frivolous.
	Well, what about the fact that the court said that there was no evidence that he raped her?
	I mean, that would be good, wouldn't it?
	Yeah.
	They actually both tried to submit DNA evidence because she said that she still kept the dress from the day.
	Right.
	And then she wore it on a magazine cover despite saying that she'd never wore it again.
	And both parties said, you know what?
	We'll submit DNA evidence.
	And the judge blocked it.
	Oh, I wonder why that is.
	I'm sure she's telling the truth.
	But anyway, so, right, just on the last one, this is the Washington indictment, so this is, he's petitioned, this is his lawyers, the district judge, Tanya Chutkan, I've probably mispronounced that by the way, to put off his trial for the Washington indictment until April 2026.
	Notice that.
	That's well after the election.
	Now, their reason is actually pretty fair, again, and I don't think this is even a biased statement to make.
	They've got 11.5 million pages to review.
	11.5 million.
	Yes, ahead of the case.
	And they said, if we were to print and stack these millions of pages of documents with no gaps between the pages at 200 pages per inch, the result would be a tower of paper stretching nearly 5,000 feet into the sky that's taller than the Washington Monument, stacked on top of itself eight times with nearly a million pages to spare.
	You'd go cross-eyed if you're not even halfway through.
	Yeah, I know I get a lot of reading done on train commutes, but even I think I'd struggle a little bit.
	So they might need a bit more than a couple of months, you know.
	And this was to the counter-proposal of the Justice Department, the Biden Justice Department, very impartial, that said the trial should commence on the 2nd of January, 2024.
	Right, okay.
	Seeing a pattern here.
	Yes, yes.
	So one of the other cases as well I remember, they wanted to put it, I think they put it in March because it's the day before Super Tuesday, which is the big delegation that chooses who the frontrunner is.
	Right.
	Oh, okay.
	It's just very timed.
	It's timed very perfectly, almost.
	Well, maybe there are some more important cases.
	Maybe.
	Trump's just small fries, I suppose.
	A tentative trial date is going to be set on Monday, this coming Monday, the 28th of August.
	So there we go.
	So what's the purpose of all this?
	Well, I think it's just they're trying to take Trump off the ballot because They've said it, turns out.
	This was a piece in The Atlantic from yesterday, and they've consulted a bunch of lawyers who told them what they wanted to hear.
	They said, as students of the United States Constitution for many decades, one of us a U.S.
	Court of Appeals judge and the other a professor of constitutional law, and both as constitutional advocates, scholars, and practitioners, we long ago came to the conclusion that the 14th Amendment, the amendment ratified in 1868 that represents our nation's second founding and the new birth of freedom, so that's after the Civil War, and the Civil War really is a second founding mythology, if you Not Washington, no.
	states you've been around washington not washington no okay right so if you do go go to their like portrait gallery and their monuments they treat the civil war as like the the second founding of the state it's a political religion really is so they're not wrong that this is here they say it contains within it protection against the dissolution of the republic by a treasonous president this protection embodied in the amendments often overlooked
	Cool.
	section three automatically exclude excludes from future office and positions of power in the united states government and from any equivalent office any person who has taken an oath to support and defend our constitution and thereafter rebels against the sacred charter either through overt insurrection or by giving aid or comfort to the constitution's enemies - There's a reason they chose the word interrection.
	Of course they did.
	It's because it's specific to the 14th Amendment.
	They wanted to get him on that.
	So Alan Dershowitz has a counter-opinion.
	Alan Dershowitz, I believe, did litigate for Trump on his behalf before.
	Now, he's making a very reasonable argument.
	But as we've heard throughout all of these charges, reasonable arguments don't really matter when you just want to get your political opposition.
	So Dershowitz points out in here that the mention of the emancipated state within the 14th Amendment means that the 14th Amendment was specific to the Civil War, because they mentioned the slaves, right?
	So this statute was only meant to apply to the people post-Civil War.
	And he says because there's no formal mechanism outside that context to determine what constitutes an insurrection against the federal government, They can't indict him.
	Now, that's why they had to have the January 6th show trial.
	Because they're trying to set up that mechanism.
	Got you.
	And it wasn't nearly as bypassing as they pretended because it just had Liz Cheney on there and Adam Kinzinger and all these other...
	They had Tim Poole on there, for God's sake, trying to see if Trump would overthrow the American Republic.
	He wasn't even at bloody January 6th.
	So, Bershowitz says, "...in the absence of any such designation, it would be possible for individual states to disqualify a candidate while others qualify him.
	It would also be possible for the incumbent president to seek to disqualify his rival or for any partisan Congress to do so." So they're relying on Biden and the Congress to try and disqualify him, or for individual states to bar him from being on the ballot.
	So we could actually see a circumstance here, where even if Trump is cleared of all charges, He's off the ballot.
	In certain states.
	That's really bad.
	Yeah, so the Electoral College will be heavily weighed towards Democrats.
	And so, it's going to get to a point where just no one's going to accept this election no matter what.
	Which is not healthy.
	It's not healthy.
	But the last election that anyone accepted, I think, was 2016.
	Well, even then, you know, loads of people didn't.
	But the last election that went through without as much of a fuss was 2012 yeah yeah so that's a decade of contested elections for americans and it's now going to culminate in and this is the reason roseanne bar and michael malice have a multi-thousand pound bet on tim cast that the 24 24 election won't even happen in some way shape or form interesting now i'm not going to make that prediction just because i don't think you can make predictions at this point anything could happen
	but what do you do you think that that's likely in your opinion I mean, crazy conspiracy theory.
	It won't sail through smoothly, and I wouldn't be surprised if Trump's name is not on some of the ballots.
	So, to what extent you can call that a safe, secure, and free election?
	And also, are they going to try and do mail-in ballots again, which we'll be discussing in the third segment?
	Yeah, looking forward to that one.
	Despite all of this, right, just finishing up, Trump is far underway I mean, that's not even... And this is real clear politics.
	This is the aggregate, right?
	And this is after the debates yesterday.
	So DeSantis has just tanked his credibility.
	He's gone down by half, more than half.
	He was 30 points, now down to 14.
	Ramaswamy's ticking up a little bit.
	So he's eligible to be VP, maybe.
	Trump's at 55 points.
	I get why he said there's no point in me being there.
	It's basically a 7v1.
	Yeah, well, it's funny that actually you say that.
	So there's been two things that have happened with that.
	Right before the debate happened, one of his packs decided to make a battle for the vice presidency website about the debate.
	Now, I don't want to mock the debate because actually my friend runs an organization that helped put it together and he was actually interested in platforming all the candidates and he did really want Trump there.
	So there are some people within the Republican camp who do really care about having an open primary.
	Which is good.
	But this is quite funny because they just decided to make little placards of every candidate and just rip the piss out of them.
	And so Trump's just having fun with it, despite being politically persecuted.
	Everyone in the Trump camp's enjoying the fact that no one else is coming even close.
	And instead, they went straight to the people.
	And he did a long-form interview with Tucker Carlson.
	Now, this wasn't nearly as substantive as it could have been.
	No.
	I think lots of people were hoping that he was going to announce Tucker as his running mate.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Because that would have been the dream ticket.
	That would have been the icing on the cake.
	But look at the views.
	I mean, Fox News have even put up the debate in full.
	I would have included clips, guys, but Fox have not released the full debate that they televised.
	This just bars Americans, and also us overseas who have an interest in hoping the Republic stays in place, from participating in our democracy, whatever.
	Instead, they've got nearly 170 million views in less than 24 hours.
	It's just astonishing.
	I watched this on the train up here and there are some good sound bites.
	Like Kamala Harris speaking in rhyme.
	Yeah, which is really funny.
	And he's entirely accurate.
	And actually Trump's opinion that Joe Biden is so decrepit that he'll parachute in Gavin Newsom as the new president.
	I think that's probably correct.
	I wouldn't be shocked.
	They're going to position American Psycho as the guy, which is why Gavin Newsom's been going around and doing all his own debates and trying to promote Ron DeSantis and the like.
	But it's obvious from Trump's approval ratings, from the ability to draw crowds both online and in person, from his policy platform that is vengeful against the state which is persecuting him, They are just dragging him through the courts to get him off the ballot by any means necessary.
	And so, hopefully, there are some people out there that are realizing, slowly, that Trump isn't actually that bad.
	And by the deep state coming out of the woodwork and making a mockery of the American justice process, they're pushing more and more people over to the more sensible camp that will keep the country together.
	But yeah, we'll keep you updated on future persecutions, but Godspeed to the Trump camp, I suppose.
	Godspeed to them, indeed.
	Let's crack on with obviously not a conspiracy.
	Obviously not a conspiracy theory.
	Now we're seeing at the minute what the media and the establishment have been calling global boiling.
	Yes.
	So you've heard that term being coined recently.
	Fires have mysteriously erupted throughout the world recently.
	We've had Greece, Turkey, Canada, La Palma has been a pretty
	Common One and Maui in Hawaii which has taken precedent in alternative media spaces and of course independent media and the authorities have claimed the majority of these fires are due to arsons and it's strange because the media and the establishment are of course saying that it's climate change.
	Yes.
	Because they want to reinforce that narrative, right?
	They want to manufacture consent.
	Of course.
	Exactly.
	But the one particular fire that we're going to look at, as I'm sure you've seen the title of the video, is of course the Maui one.
	Because we don't actually know what caused it.
	Which is really weird, because every other fire, we know what's caused it.
	Now I'm not going to go down the route of what people have been saying online about DEWs and things like that.
	Chinese Directed Energy Weapons.
	Yes, things like that.
	There was that weird instance where there were lights in the sky like last year wasn't there?
	Yeah.
	So I've heard that might be because they do have military bases around there.
	So it might be more likely the US were testing something than the Chinese were.
	Yeah.
	I'm not going to go down that route, because as much as I've been tarred with the conspiracy theorist label a lot, I'm not going to go down that route, so I won't be saying anything about DEWs, because quite frankly, I don't know too much, so I'd rather not speculate.
	But according to World Economic Forum paid Reuters, on August the 8th, this wildfire, so they've claimed it's a wildfire already, even though we don't know what's caused it.
	So that's interesting to start with.
	Ripped through Lahaina on the island of Maui.
	with a population of around 13,000.
	And it's been a big tourist hub, which draws 2 million tourists a year.
	So it's quite a big hub.
	Cadaver dogs and rescue workers have searched 85% of Lahaina.
	I hope I've said that right.
	Child ruins for victims and officials.
	They said that it was likely that the toll would continue to rise.
	They said about 1,000 plus people are missing, right?
	Yes, exactly.
	Now, they said that the death toll is around 114 people.
	It's going to be a lot higher than that.
	It's going to be a lot.
	Now, there have been some independent reporters on the ground.
	I know Rebel News is over there with Alexa Lavoie and Lincoln Jay, who are doing fantastic work.
	And a guy called Nick Sorter is over there, and he's been challenging the mayor, which I'll show you very soon.
	But they're claiming it's around sort of 500, 600 is just the bare minimum.
	But the mayor isn't saying anything, which we'll go into.
	Now on the next part, there's been a media blackout in the country.
	Uh, where this letter was, um, given to officials, uh, where it says, uh, Homeland Security issued a letter asking Maori officials to pause on posting on social media and elsewhere of new imagery.
	And this was on the 19th of August, as you can see there.
	Uh, and the guy who posted this said, obviously the guy has to remain anonymous.
	Understandable.
	Um, Very interesting, a media blackout on new imagery.
	That's very interesting because, so we saw this sort of messaging happen when there were the Paris riots.
	Yes.
	And Emmanuel Macron said, oh if you post any TikToks or Twitter clips of someone burning down department stores and of the diversity going out and firing RPGs at police stations, it's just going to make it worse.
	It's like, No, what makes it worse is that it's happening and you allowed it to happen.
	So just showing videos of it happening isn't encouraging it, it's actually saying please go and sort it.
	Yeah, please alert you to this problem.
	Yeah, so making everyone else aware of your screw-ups is inconvenient for the regime.
	Exactly.
	So that's what I'm getting here.
	Exactly, that's exactly what I'm getting.
	So we still don't know how it started and it's been since the 8th of August and we are now the 24th of August so a bit weird.
	But what we do know is like a lot of disasters it could have been prevented and this is an article from Breitbart which reads, Maori Emergency Management Head resigns after questions of not sounding the alarm during the wildfires.
	So, that's interesting because a couple of years ago as well, there was a failure for the emergency alert system from Hawaii that said they were going to have a nuclear strike.
	Yeah.
	What?
	They were slow to release, so sorry lads, false alarm, you're not all going to be burned to death.
	Well, they are now.
	It says the resignation came after a disastrous news conference on Wednesday wherein Andaya defended his decision to not activate sirens in Lahaina, arguing that it would have sent people fleeing into the fires.
	Now, when a burglar alarm goes off, you don't go and make the burglar tea.
	Do you know what I mean?
	You don't go and meet him.
	You alert to there is an intruder.
	You alert, in this case, there is a fire.
	Get out.
	What logic did he come to to say that, oh, this alarm, this, oh, you know, when that goes off, it just means that people will be flooding into the fire.
	Really weird.
	And there's a video on this article of him saying that.
	You regret not sounding the sirens?
	I do not.
	And the reason why... So many people said they could have been saved if they had time to escape.
	Had a siren gone off, they would have known that there was a crisis occurring.
	And as we know, so many bodies were found underground.
	Do you want him to give you the answer?
	Let him finish his answer.
	I'm sorry, there's a lot of people... Well, you're talking and you're not letting him talk.
	If you want to talk, come up here.
	I'm ready for the answer.
	Then wait.
	The sirens, as I had mentioned earlier, is used primarily for tsunamis, and that's the reason why many of them are found, almost all of them are found, on the coastline.
	The public is trained to seek higher ground in the event that the siren is sounded.
	In fact, on the website of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, a firing guideline is provided.
	If you are in a low-lying area near the coastline, Evacuate to high grounds, inland or vertically to the fourth floor and higher of a concrete building.
	Alerts may also come in the form of a wireless emergency alert.
	Have you sounded the siren that night?
	We're afraid that people would have gone mauka.
	And if that was the case, then they would have gone into the fire.
	And so that is the reason why our protocol has been to use WEA and EAS.
	His argument was, yes, that if the alarm went off, people would head towards the fire instead of away from it.
	Bit weird.
	Yeah, this sort of institutional incompetence, or otherwise, I think comes with a bureaucratisation of risk.
	So you get this with the stay in place orders, as soon as an apartment block sets alight, and they trust that the fire department will come in and put it out before anyone else gets harmed.
	But as funds trickle away from the fire department, as we staff it with more incompetent people, Yeah.
	And I'm not saying firefighters are incompetent, I'm just saying as diversity hires and people who aren't as physically equipped to deal with these risks happen, you're going to get more avoidable tragedies.
	Exactly.
	Then they are distrustful of the people to take the risk into their own hands, but also in outsourcing it, more people suffer because the thing you've outsourced it to is less competent at dealing with the problem.
	And this is the kind of thing that happened with Grenfell.
	right yes they didn't check the exterior cladding which was really flammable and then they didn't evacuate people fast enough and so people that didn't understand particularly on the top floors that didn't have as much time to get away that fire was going on they just roasted in their homes yeah and it was only the people that that took the risk upon themselves to go no no i'm going to run and try and escape that got out of life exactly well i did some digging as one curious journalist does right uh and this is a website called
	well it's the county of maui outdoor warning siren testing because the guy in the video explained well uh we've only got a few and it's all in water That's a lie.
	I did some digging and on this website it explains how the county has an all hazard statewide outdoor warning siren systems placed across the county for all national disasters.
	In the video, I believe he argued that it only does for tsunamis.
	He flat out lied because it's right here.
	A monthly test is conducted of the emergency alert system, EAS, at 11.15am, followed by a test of the outdoor warning sirens at 11.45am on the first state workday of each month.
	This siren test consists of a 60-second steady tone.
	So it should have been working.
	It should have been working.
	And they even provided some quick facts on this website as well, which I'll read out a few of them.
	Hawaii has the largest single integrated public safety outdoor siren warning system in the world.
	The all hazard siren system can be used for a variety of both natural and human caused events, such as tsunamis, hurricanes, dam breaches, flooding, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, terrorist threats, hazardous material incidents, and more.
	And the siren's output is 121 decibels.
	That's pretty loud.
	Yeah.
	And it's tested every month.
	So why didn't it go off on this particular occasion?
	Well, it seemed to me that he chose not to sound the alarm.
	So that's pretty worrying.
	Yeah.
	To say the least.
	But, It gets even weirder.
	The residents needed water in order to put the fires out.
	Well, the water system collapsed.
	weirdly, on that day.
	So not only did the alarms mysteriously not work, but the water system didn't work to, in fact, fight the fire.
	And it said firefighters who rushed to contain the Maori wildfire keep saying wildfire, even though we don't know what caused it, found fire hydrants were running dry, forcing crews to embark on a perilous rescue mission.
	What's your thoughts?
	I'm thinking this is the Jeffrey Epstein of wildfire prevention.
	Yeah.
	Well, There's been some theories going around.
	The Guardian... Oh!
	According to The Guardian, the reason why there was no water to fight the fires was because of corporations, golf courses, and hotels.
	Right, so that's interesting.
	If you can scroll up, Jack, are you familiar with the author of this piece, Naomi Klein?
	I recognize that name.
	So Naomi Klein was a big Bernie supporter.
	Of course.
	Because she's an open Marxist.
	However, she wrote a book in 2008.
	No, it would have been slightly before.
	And her thesis is for disaster capitalism, disaster profiteering, the government and corporations will engineer disasters, be it war in Iraq, or be it the Gulf War with Reagan and Thatcher, in order to retain power and then act as the cleanup group.
	For example, Biden giving his brother all of those housing development plans in Iraq in the aftermath.
	So maybe she's suggesting...
	This wildfire was allowed to be worse than it could have been, and the lives were lost, and area was cleared, earth was scorched, so that, well, the very profitable people that live on this island could come in and act as clean-up crew and gentrify the place.
	Yeah, well she blames big corporations, golf courses and hotels, but here's the Hawaiian water official who allegedly refused to release the water resources to let landowners fight the fire, where he explains the philosophy of how water is sacred.
	Saying that the native Hawaiians treated water as one of the early manifestations of God, so very paganistic, and that we've become used to looking at water as something that we use, and not only something that we revere.
	In other words, if that's true, and this is obviously posted by Charlie Kirk, that he refused to release the water resources, he's contributed to many of these deaths.
	Sure, and it could be a combination of culturally relativistic wokery that permits idiots like these to set policy, but it's also the thing of how convenient for the people that would like the place to be scorched earth to then rebuild atop the ashes was it?
	To have this person in here which has a narrative as to why the water systems could be shut off so they could achieve their ends.
	Well, I was going to play the video.
	I don't think it's worth our time.
	I think we should just read a bit of what Charlie said.
	I think we've basically covered it, but it's... I don't want to swear, but it's just a load of nonsense, honestly, what he's talking about.
	I'm smelling bovine excrement.
	Yes, yes, absolutely.
	So, yes, he's part of this strange philosophy, this paganistic philosophy of worshipping water.
	And because of that, Yeah, a lot of victims unfortunately died because of this.
	But the Guardian says it's golf courses, but he's outright saying that it's no, we've got to protect water.
	Okay.
	Well, a local man explained how police actually blocked residents from leaving the area whilst the fire was ablaze, which is really interesting.
	I've seen the full clip of this, so I managed to just find a quick 47-second one.
	It's strangely edited, but I think it gives you a good idea.
	So I went around back to Front Street, and all the cars were lined up, but none of them were moving.
	And I walked all the way from Safeway to the Chart House.
	Not one car had moved.
	And I was wondering what was stopping the traffic.
	And I got to the end and I looked up.
	There were no obstructions.
	There was no reason to keep those cars.
	And I said, what are you doing?
	He goes, well, I'm under orders to keep them here.
	And I said, the fire is right around Safeway.
	It's going to hit Front Street, and these people got to get out of here.
	And he said, I'm following orders.
	No way.
	And so I just kept walking.
	Maybe he knows something I don't, you know?
	And I keep walking down the highway, and I looked behind.
	No cars are coming out.
	Still no cars coming out.
	And I started hearing boom, boom, boom.
	So, what he just explained was that police had orders to stop residents from fleeing the area.
	Yeah, that's odd.
	And I thought, oh, it's just, you know, when you take something, you've got to take it as face value to start with, but then you need sort of backup.
	You actually found something to back it up, and that's this.
	According to a report by AP, the only road out of Lahaina was barricaded.
	And only those who disobeyed survived.
	Yeah, so this is my question.
	How many of those cars were occupied when he walked to the front?
	Was it that people had abandoned them after being told, no you can't, and tried to get away on foot?
	Which presumably they maybe wouldn't have been allowed to pull past a police barricade.
	Or were the cars already there to act as the barricade in and of themselves?
	Well it says here in this, if we go to the first one, that's okay.
	So deadly fires, many, yep this is the one.
	As flames tore through West Maori neighbourhood, car after car fleeing residents headed for the only paved road out of town in a desperate race for safety.
	And car after car was turned back towards rapidly spreading wildfire by a barricade blocking access to Highway 30.
	Yeah, that doesn't sound good, does it?
	No, that sense, my spidey sense of tingling, I suppose.
	Yeah, and like I said, you know, I don't like to go down the conspiracy route, even though I've been tarred with that brush, but still, there's something weird about that.
	There's at least people who have to answer for their incompetence, if it is that.
	Yes.
	Well, a journalist, who I mentioned earlier, Nick Sauter, who's out there, flew to Maui to report, I think it's another... This one, yep.
	That's the one.
	He flew to Maui to report on what's happening and he asked the mayor, he confronted the mayor about how many children died in the fire and the mayor seemed visibly mad.
	It says, just hours after I began pressing the mayor of Maui super hard about children missing in the fire, I began to be stalked and harassed.
	Okay, so he asks the mayor these tough questions.
	All of a sudden, and we'll watch this clip, But he was on Steve Bannon's, um, Steve Bannon's War Room, um, talking about how he's questioned the mayor.
	There's a guy that just materialized behind you.
	And just comes out of nowhere, we don't know, he said he doesn't know who he is, and he's like, we'll play the clip, but he basically comes up to him and says, hey Nick, uh, I've been trying to look for you, I've been trying to find you, and it's really creepy.
	Right.
	Um, all ever since he started asking the mayor questions and stuff like that.
	Hey, what's up, Nick?
	I've been trying to reach you.
	I've been reaching out to you on X. We're supposed to be meeting with people here.
	What victims have you got?
	So you're seeing this live right now.
	People actually tracked me down.
	I thought you were saying in a tent.
	You said you were coming and saying in a tent, Nick.
	I'm not taking up any resources here.
	People's minds here.
	Bit creepy.
	That's unbelievably delusional.
	It's really weird.
	So, nobody knows who this guy is.
	The guy came out of nowhere and just started harassing him and stalking him afterwards, after he'd done the show with Bannon.
	And then he just, once again, materialised into Finnair.
	Nobody knows where he is.
	Nobody knows who that guy is.
	Pretty weird.
	There seems to be a strange thing where there's a lot of intimidation tactics going around because we don't know if that person is a local.
	We don't know if they work for someone.
	If they work for the government.
	If they work for the government or someone like that.
	If they're privately contracted by the exact kind of people that would be the cleanup crew.
	Yes.
	Right.
	Yes.
	Very, very weird.
	Very scary.
	So then you've spoken a lot about potential land grab.
	Yeah, people that might benefit from this scenario being worse than it could have otherwise been.
	Which is what we're going to go on to next.
	And this one's by Yahoo.
	Developers are actually trying to purchase the land.
	Oh, really?
	Yes, the survivors are actually saying no.
	Now, I thought, originally when I was looking into this, I thought, is it normal for landowners or developers to buy up places that have been decimated by fires or wars?
	As they're still burning though.
	Exactly.
	This is literally before the bodies are cold.
	We don't even know how many people have died.
	Exactly.
	It's too quick.
	That's the weird thing.
	You usually, once there's been, you've found out the cause of the fire, once you've found that there's been a resolution and that people can move on with their lives, then developers will come in and go, right, what are we going to do with this?
	They're already trying, they're phoning people that are still in Maui to say, hi, yeah, we'd like to buy some of your land and property already.
	That's strange.
	So Yahoo doesn't exactly say who is trying to invest, but we can have a good guess because back in July 2021, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have assured Unfortunately, I don't think we can get that up.
	It's in the website.
	I'm reading this in the description.
	Perfect.
	Well, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NREL, have assured everyone that Maui will become 100% renewable.
	Right.
	So this is interesting because when the wildfires in Greece happened, a little bit before that happened, there was a development company that wanted to buy up a large swath of the land for wind tarbines.
	Yes.
	Because of course, lots of the renewables like solar, which would be very profitable in...
	There's a fly in here, right?
	I hate this.
	Very profitable...
	I said a Mike Pence moment.
	Very profitable in a sunny place like Hawaii.
	Yes.
	Might be interested in needing a large amount of land.
	Well, it's interesting you say that, and you can read this for yourself.
	Maui has signed up to the Sustainable Development Programme.
	Of course, everyone does for the UN.
	For the UN and World Economic Forum as well, just to slip that in there.
	But they're not waiting until 2045, which you can read on that, to meet Hawaii's clean energy mandates.
	The island is likely to become the first interconnected electric transmission system anywhere to operate with 100% wind and solar PV power on an instantaneous basis.
	And it's very beneficial for the Americans to have just off their coast a reliable generation satellite state which could use undersea cables.
	Perfect.
	Okay.
	Very fishy.
	Very fishy.
	Well, there seems to be a big corporate take home with this.
	I mean, like you just said.
	And yes, going green is very profitable for corporations these days, especially you've spoken a lot about ECG and stuff like that.
	ECG, ESG, sorry.
	But a few notable people that have expanded their property.
	in Maui for the last few months before this disaster.
	Right.
	Oprah Winfrey is one of them, where she bought up more than 870 acres for $6.6 million.
	So she now owns a total of over a thousand acres on Maui.
	Many celebrities obviously have property in Maui.
	Oh, and Jeff Bezos, who's investing heavily into green tech.
	Yes.
	And Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal.
	Oh, right.
	Yeah.
	Also has, uh, purchased homes there.
	I think one of them is $27 million, which he purchased back in 2011.
	Are you aware of some of his other investments?
	I think a few of them, yeah.
	I've done a report on the website titled The Real Vampires of Silicon Valley.
	He's very interested in anti-aging technology.
	Oh, yes.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Don't want to necessarily get demonetized for talking about the anti-aging.
	I don't trust these people.
	Put it that way.
	You know, there are other celebrities there like Jim Carrey has like some properties there.
	I think a guy from a particular band.
	Gosh, I forgot the band's name, but it should be on there for you guys to read anyway.
	So, that's strange.
	Also, speaking of Jeff Bezos, Bill and Melinda Gates got married on that particular island as well at a golf course who supposedly stole a lot of the water there, according to the Guardian.
	So there's a strange sort of circle of people there that have a lot of vested interest in the island and, well, it's resources, put it that way.
	Yeah, this stinks to high heaven.
	Yeah, it stinks, doesn't it?
	Yeah, I think Naomi Klein's probably right on this one.
	Yeah.
	There was one last link that I didn't put in, so I'll just have to rattle it off.
	Unfortunately, it's from the communist hellhole TikTok.
	Right.
	So, you know, take this with a pinch of salt.
	People have been uploading videos or screenshots of eviction notices for people or survivors that didn't have their properties burned by the fire.
	So, stillwithstanding.
	But the mayor has turned around and said, no, you're still having an eviction.
	You've got to be out by this date.
	Is this because they didn't pay the rent or is it because they're saying that it's an unsafe?
	Yeah.
	Right, so it's only unsafe because you didn't sound the warning sirens and you stopped the water.
	But you still gotta get out anyway, yeah.
	And I did have a link to people basically showing these eviction notices, because there's a couple, but unfortunately I didn't add it to this list, so apologies for that.
	But you can find them, unfortunately you just have to ravage through that hellhole that is TikTok.
	Or wait till they're reposted to Twitter!
	True, yes.
	Could be doing that, yeah.
	Speaking of Twitter, probably the person with the best response to this...
	Probably the America's President?
	Yes, well I was going to say, to wrap it up, the leader of the free world is showing, well, I mean just look how much he cares.
	Yeah, so I've seen this fact-checked, fact-checked, debunked.
	Oh yes, yes, debunked.
	Underneath there was a community notes on the original thing that I sent you for this that said, no he's just bowing his head.
	He's bowing his head.
	So I opened the link that they provided, which is the original C-SPAN clip, and I watched the clip in full, and it's a very slow, Yes.
	Very tired.
	Mono.
	Mono.
	Tired.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	That takes a couple of minutes for his eyes to close.
	So maybe he was just really mournful, or he's got dementia.
	Yeah, or he's got something wrong with him and he can't seem to keep his eyes open.
	Yeah, so that's what Biden and the establishment... I think it sums it up really perfectly.
	I mean, as much as, you know, we're taking the mic, it actually sums up how much the establishment and the media Really care about the indigenous that have been, um, well, there's thousands of people missing potentially.
	Um, and.
	Hundreds dead.
	Hundreds dead.
	And yet their communities are still being torn apart for seeming profit of international.
	Seeming, seeming.
	Yes.
	Um, so it's strange how the, the establishment left.
	Care to go against corporations all these years, but now all of a sudden it's no, no, we, we like that because it's green.
	A bit weird.
	But that's me.
	If I might say, that was fantastic.
	Thank you.
	It was very good.
	Thank you very much.
	I knew that was something dodgy.
	But anyway, there you go.
	Speaking of something dodgy and science doesn't make sense, I suppose, mask mandates are coming back.
	Enjoy that, Americans.
	According to sources inside the federal government who have linked themselves to conspiracy theorists, remember?
	Yes.
	Alex Jones, conspiracy theorist.
	I'd denounce everything Alex Jones has ever said.
	Particularly compliments to Blair White.
	Bit weird, mate.
	But there you go.
	Bit weird.
	Right, so let's examine the slow mission creep of the mask mandates returning and how they never actually worked in the first place, which we can now say on YouTube, it turns out.
	Right.
	Even though, retroactively, that will probably be cancelled.
	I think I will make a video now.
	We're doing it here!
	Speaking of cults that believe in total BS, you can subscribe to our website for as little as £5 a month to get my colleague Josh's excellent series, Contemplations, where in this second part of his coverage of cults, he talks about Osho, the weird Indian cult about sex magic.
	Um, yeah.
	They relocated to Portland and then one of their people started poisoning loads of people.
	Is this to say, because there was that woman that went on whatever podcast recently and she said that she was only bits, only clips, because unfortunately, I know, I know, unfortunately I get bombarded with it on my timeline.
	I've blocked it, I've blocked it.
	Have you?
	I refuse to be blackmailed, but what did this woman say?
	Um, she said she was part of this sex, um, sex, what was it called?
	It was very similar to this.
	It was this strange monk sort of type sex ritual.
	Oh yeah, because the monks are often known for their sex.
	Yes, very much so.
	I would be surprised if it was our show, but there are basically most cults come down to let them shag your wife.
	That was David Koresh, that was Jim Jones.
	There's going to be the next one that Josh covers as well.
	Seriously, go watch Josh's content.
	This is a really interesting discussion, he puts a lot of work into contemplations, and he's a really lovely lad.
	So I'm glad to work with a fella.
	Anyway, enough of me kissing his backside.
	Speaking of ways you can get horrible infectious diseases, let's talk about the mask mandate.
	Canada is monitoring its brand new COVID variant, a petrifying name, BA.2.86.
	That's a flight number, is what that is.
	That's a flight number.
	Well, you would know because you used to work as a flight attendant.
	Yeah, so that's a flight number.
	You've just, a couple of years on, you've just got to scrub in the fake tan off your skin to look normal again.
	Yeah.
	Easy jet wing.
	Anyway, so the WHO, Bastions of Credibility, have been monitoring this and they said this is a variant under monitoring due to the large number of mutations identified.
	Cases have been identified in the US, Denmark, UK and Israel, though fewer than 10 confirmed cases have been reported worldwide as of Friday.
	Sorry.
	Large number of mutations.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Good.
	Less than 10 cases.
	Anyone dead?
	No?
	We're all going to do it in New Zealand all over again.
	Because what happens is, with a virus that mutates, it gets less deadly.
	The virus doesn't like killing off its host, because otherwise the virus dies as well.
	That's kind of how the common cold works.
	But I suppose I'm just a conspiracy theorist.
	Yeah, conspiracy theory, that's it.
	In the UK, the Health Security Agency, who have always looked out for our best interests, have said this past Friday, they've detected one case in an individual with no recent travel history, which suggests a degree of community transmissibility within the UK.
	Or, it suggests that if they haven't travelled anywhere, but they've got a case, that the virus is somehow mutating independent of transmission from country to country, which means it's always going to happen anyway.
	So, no, not another thing to lock down, which didn't bloody work either.
	We'll get into that later.
	So Josh recently covered how they're using this as an excuse to lock us all down again.
	You can go watch his segment.
	A lot of Josh love in this one, I suppose.
	Good man.
	Anyway, so he's pointed out that Susan Michie, do you remember her?
	Stalin's nanny?
	Yes, of course.
	Former head of SAGE, member of the British Communist Party for all of her life, including her daughter and her husband, but there you go.
	She said we should wear masks permanently.
	Of course.
	She's now chairing the WHO's Technical Advisory Group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health.
	So she's the one saying this.
	I wonder if she has any other vested interests that are ideologically situated.
	But nope, definitely safe, secure, impartial, trust the science.
	Anyway, so there's suggestions, as of experts in New York, that we should be returning to wearing masks because some a surge of cases is happening right now.
	Lesson 10.
	Surge.
	All right.
	Recent data from the New York State Department of Health, released August 2nd, showed that COVID cases spiked 55% over the prior week, with an average of 824 cases per day across the state.
	Anyone dropping in the streets?
	No, but I do remember the videos.
	Do you remember that from China?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Remember that?
	Everyone was dropping dead and just collapsing.
	Yeah, so either that variant was really, really lethal, or it was a psyop.
	Could be.
	I think the latter, personally.
	Conspiracy theorist.
	Oh, no.
	I mean, I'd be more worried about people dropping dead in the streets of New York of, you know, all the violent crime and being pushed through the subway cars.
	The rat infestation.
	Yeah, fentanyl.
	Yep.
	The riots.
	You know, that would be more concerning.
	But hey-ho, I'm a conspiracy theorist.
	Anyway.
	Of course.
	So, the rise in COVID-19 cases isn't limited to New York.
	The CDC recorded 10,320 hospital admissions for COVID-19 in the week ending the 5th of August, a 14.3% increase from the week prior.
	However, despite alarmist headlines about a summer surge... Sorry, New York Post!
	Yeah, yeah, despite that... You mean yours?
	Yeah!
	Read the room.
	All right-wing press is containment.
	Like, they have an OnlyFans tag.
	They unsolicited.
	I've seen some.
	That is awful.
	The promotion.
	Back to the whatever podcast.
	It's ticking up a bit, says David Dowdy, an infectious disease specialist at John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
	But it's not something we need to raise any alarm bells over.
	Of course.
	Even though you're- Yeah, sorry.
	Again, yeah, okay, but all right, just a conspiracy theory.
	Anyway, so how are the Biden administration going to react to the new variant?
	We'll go over to the Gateway Pundit, who have written down the exclusive scoop from InfoWars before we hear from the frog merchant himself.
	So they've said that a high-level TSA agent reached out to InfoWars, detailing on Tuesday a meeting where TSA managers were informed of a new memorandum and policy that would re-implement mask-wearing for TSA and airport employees starting in mid-September.
	According to the TSA official, By mid-October, mask-wearing will be mandated for pilots, flight staff, passengers, and all airport patrons.
	Following this disclosure from the TSA official, InfoWars reached out to a trusted Border Patrol source, also in a managerial position.
	The source corroborated the directives, confirming that similar measures were being planned for Border Patrol personnel.
	Right.
	So, the southern border can be totally and utterly open.
	Joe Biden can sell off all of the war materials that weren't used to finish it after the Trump administration.
	You can have millions of illegals flooding into your country, bringing over Chinese fentanyl, trafficking children, bringing violent crime.
	Some, I assume, are good people.
	But, TSA agent who's just got to stand there and watch them walk over the border without doing anything.
	Gotta wear a mask, though.
	Of course, mate.
	It's open and effective.
	So, multiple agencies are now doing this.
	But, alright, let's listen to Alex talk about the scoop for himself in this little clip.
	Ladies and gentlemen, I got a call yesterday, an individual was in town, and they wanted to meet with me that I know well, and they are a high-level manager in the TSA.
	And I went and met with them, and had a cup of coffee with them, and they said, you gotta warn people.
	Tuesday, we got called in, the managers, and told that by the middle of September, that the new policy's being written, that this is done, they were told this is happening, this is not hypothetical, you all have to wear a mask again, and so will airport employees.
	Then, by the middle of October, they are going to say that everyone flying has to wear a mask.
	And in the meetings, people began to ask them, well, I mean, why is this happening?
	They said, well, because of the new variant in Canada and because of the WHO, they may declare this.
	But regardless, we've been told this is going to happen.
	And then...
	They were told, we expect by December, a return to the full COVID protocol of 2020-2021.
	And I was given many more details, I wrote down notes on it.
	So, yes.
	I am very glad that it's just Alex Jones.
	Because of course it isn't true.
	Of course it isn't.
	He's never been right about anything.
	It's not like he has loads of printouts on his desk of suspected bits of evidence.
	It's not like it would be really conveniently timed ahead of an election year.
	Everyone locked in their homes to have people in red states have it be harder to vote and to have lots of mail-in ballots in Democrat strongholds.
	Has that happened before?
	No, I've reliably been informed that it was safe and secure.
	Oh, okay.
	Same, it's alright.
	Yeah, so thank God that he's wrong.
	Oh, oh, damn.
	Damn.
	That's, well, this isn't good, is it?
	Ah, yeah, that's not good.
	So it turns out that Morris Brown College will begin classes, so they just started last week, but now requires all students and employees to wear face masks.
	The officials say there have been no confirmed COVID-19 cases among students, but they've received reports from other schools in the Atlanta University Center.
	So other schools have had cases, but they haven't adopted mask policies.
	So preemptively you're adopting a mask policy at the same time that all the federal agencies are saying we're going to bring mask policies back.
	Interesting.
	The mask mandate is a precautionary move for the next 14 days.
	Morris Brown College will also not allow any parties or large student gatherings on campus during this time.
	Just remember, two, three weeks to stop the spread.
	Of course.
	That's what it was.
	That's fine.
	It wasn't two years.
	1,200 days now to stop the spread.
	I don't know the exact date.
	Because, you know, the vaccine's all safe and effective.
	Of course.
	Other precautionary measures include temperature checks upon campus arrival, social distancing and contract tracing.
	Morris Brown College does have a vaccine requirement for students with religious and medical exemptions allowed.
	So you have to have a vaccine to appear at Morris Brown College.
	Ah.
	Because it, well.
	Oh, because it's been, am I allowed to say this?
	Oh, because it's been working so well.
	Yes, but it protects you, doesn't it?
	So that's why everyone else... Yeah, because if you get it, if you get the shot, that'll protect you, but then in turn it should protect me because you'll be alright, but because that means it would stop the virus... Oh, hang on a minute.
	Pfizer should hire you as a salesman.
	So it turns out Rutgers also have a COVID vaccine mask mandate as well.
	Is this another university?
	That's a bit weird.
	We've had to use an archive here because it's region blocks.
	I hate every website that does that.
	I know I'm just complaining and I'm petty.
	More than 100 schools will require students to be vaccinated in order to attend class in person according to No College Mandate, a group that tracks COVID-19 policies in higher education.
	A smaller number of schools, including Rutgers and Georgetown, still require indoor masking.
	Rutgers said incoming students must abide by COVID-19 vaccine mandates according to the school website.
	The vaccine mandate says there will be no exceptions, but it also says an evaluation of exception requests will be made on a case-by-case basis.
	It's very just capricious and arbitrary.
	But of course, because it protects you, you have to have it.
	Are you not bored?
	Because I'm so bored of all of this nonsense.
	I mean, I was bored since day one, really.
	But we had three years of just...
	I don't want...
	Relentless psyops.
	Every single day.
	The gaslighting was unbelievable.
	From not even being able to leave your home to saying, actually I'm young, I'm healthy, I don't need this.
	I'm not going to say exactly that.
	You know, seeing this all crop up again, I actually didn't believe it initially, that this was all going to happen again.
	Because I thought, okay, no, it will be something else.
	It usually is.
	You move on to another type of psyop too.
	A new current thing.
	A new current thing, exactly.
	Or a new message.
	But seeing all this happen all over again, I mean the country, I'm not sure about America, I can't speak on America's behalf, but I reckon this country has some sort of strange PTSD when it comes to COVID and all of that stuff that we had to endure.
	I don't see this working personally.
	I see it working for a large portion of the population who will literally go along with anything.
	Yeah.
	And this is why... Maybe I'm naive.
	No, no, no.
	I think you're optimistic.
	And I think a lot of people were woken up by COVID and lots of people, like my family were largely apolitical despite me being in the house.
	And now they've got no time for it.
	Even the ones that got the jabs are completely disaffected.
	Only one of my family members I think will go along with it.
	But that's because Bless her heart, she's just not brilliant with unplugging from the BBC.
	It's like my parents.
	Yes, well, many such cases unfortunately.
	But I'm not surprised that you seem confused as to how they could recycle this and get away with it.
	Because often the NPC updates, it's like a new software patch.
	It'll go from Ukraine to Pride Month to the climate crisis, global boiling, you know, all these things.
	But what they've done is, as with the games industry, They've got a spate of remakes now, and people will just buy any of the old slop sold back to them.
	It's true.
	So this is a big order bonus.
	Yeah, this is DLC.
	Yeah, brilliant.
	The Alex Jones GameSpot exclusive leak of whatever total slop Activision are going to sell us for the next year.
	Anyway, I'm stretching this analogy a bit far.
	Let's go on to the next one.
	Turns out that Lionsgate, big studio, now got a mask mandate as well.
	Isn't that curious?
	So this is COVID cases in Los Angeles.
	Apparently they're on the rise.
	How many?
	I don't know.
	They've brought back the mask mandate for nearly half of the company's employees at its flagship office in Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica.
	The policy change was announced internally by some McElroy, response manager for Lionsgate Stars, in an email, a copy of which was obtained by Deadline.
	Employees must wear a medical-grade face covering, surgical mask KN95 or N95 when indoors, except when alone in an office with the door closed, actively eating, actively drinking at their desk or workstation, Or if they are the only individual present in a large, open workspace.
	I'm done, mate.
	Right, so if you're the atomized individual that has zero human contact, you can breathe freely.
	Yes.
	It just reminds me of going into a restaurant and saying, oh no, no, no, mask when you sit down.
	But when you sit down, suddenly COVID just magically disappears.
	Yes.
	Or you're on the train, you're eating a sandwich, suddenly COVID just goes, oh no, you better not touch it.
	Yeah, well, COVID of course counts scotch eggs as substantial meals.
	And it leaves past midnight.
	Yeah.
	Because we need to close everything down at an earlier time to stop.
	That works.
	Yeah, definitely.
	So you can see the corporate press mobilize.
	Of course.
	CNN published yesterday.
	It may be time to break out the masks against Covid.
	Some experts say... I'm not even going to read from this because the author, as per typical, we see an image of rubbish.
	Yeah.
	It's mainly just waffle.
	But, reminder, none of these measures actually worked.
	So, I'm going to go to Newsweek.
	Did face masks help you fight COVID?
	Scientists want you to wear yours again.
	And so, this is a quote.
	Yes, they do work.
	There are many lines of evidence that show they do, from clinical population and laboratory studies.
	This is an epidemiologist, Rainer MacIntyre, a professor of global biosecurity at the Kirby Institute in the University of New South Wales, Australia.
	But what we refer to as masks can vary from cloth masks, to surgical masks, to an N95 respirator.
	A cloth mask provides the least protection, it's a comfort blanket, and an N95 the most.
	But even a cloth mask is better than nothing against SARS-CoV-2, as shown in a large US study.
	Now, Very few people actually wore the N95s.
	Yeah.
	Also, the COVID particulates are so small that they're imperceptible to the eye.
	So they can move through the rather large bits of fabric from your Chinese manufactured blue disposable face nappy, right?
	It's just not worth it, but okay, whatever.
	The 2022 study from the Centre for Disease Control found that between February and December 2021, using a face mask or respirator in public settings indoors was associated with lower chances of becoming infected with COVID-19.
	Cloth masks were associated with a 56% lower risk.
	Surgical masks, 66%.
	Respirators, 83%.
	Note.
	Infected.
	Infected.
	So, they're saying that, in aggregate, the less people that get infected, the less people die.
	You would think that obviously the vaccine prevents against hospitalization and death.
	So now that everyone's vaccinated, it's all right.
	So you're protected.
	So it shouldn't matter.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	But infected.
	Yeah.
	Keep that in mind.
	They're going to talk about other studies and all of this.
	And they mentioned the Lancet at one point.
	A 2022 meta-analysis of 44 studies published in The Lancet found that face masks were associated with lower chance of infection and N95 masks provided the most protection over cloth masks.
	Well, speaking of The Lancet, I've got a study here from the far-right institute, Bill and Melinda Gates, which looked at all US states Mask mandates and lockdowns and social distancing and the vaccine.
	Now, of course, Bill Gates has absolutely no conflict of interest in saying the vaccine was safe and effective, so he comes out with a very neutral conclusion.
	State governments' use of protective mandates were associated with lower infection rates as were mask use, lower mobility and higher vaccination rate, while vaccination rates were associated with lower death rates.
	Wait a minute.
	Vaccination rate was associated with lower death rates?
	Only the vaccination rate?
	Only the vaccination rate.
	So nothing else worked?
	Yeah.
	Right.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Okay, interesting, but alright.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Mandate propensity, which was a summary measure that captures the state's use of physical distancing and mask mandates, was associated with a statistically significant and meaningfully large reduction in the cumulative infection rate, but not the cumulative death rate.
	It's a direct quote from this.
	So one of the largest meta-analyses by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said that masks don't bloody work.
	Just... I was going to say they Kurt Cobain'd themselves, basically.
	It's just...
	Good thing that they, in saying that the vaccine is the only thing that works, don't have any incentive to say that, right?
	It's not like they'd be making any money from that.
	No, of course not.
	No, no.
	So we can trust, trust the science.
	Trust the science and the source.
	Masks don't work.
	And speaking of the science, there was also this giant study, so it links into it from here.
	This is a study from the far-right institute, John Hopkins University.
	You know the thing We referenced earlier in the New York Times.
	Yes, they did a meta-analysis of just a small number of studies, 19,646 on measures taken to protect populations against COVID infection.
	They found the difference in mortality between lockdowns and not locking down was 3.2%.
	So in England, that's 1,700 deaths.
	So in England, that's 1,700 deaths.
	1,700 people might, might have been saved.
	Now that's not taking into account missed cancer diagnoses, and the heart attacks, and the sudden deaths, and the suicides, and all of the IQ points and social skills shaved off of children's development periods, and all the poverty that's going to result in starvation in the third world.
	But 1,700 people were saved by the science.
	Brilliant.
	It says it only reduced COVID deaths by a maximum of 10.7%.
	Okay, so that's 23,000 deaths in Europe, 16,000 deaths in the US, and during this period, just a reminder, there were 74,000 COVID deaths in England and Wales alone.
	So, not great.
	So the study concludes, very moderate opinion, you know, they weigh up things very fairly, and so mask mandates might still work, right?
	The science of lockdowns is clear and the data are in, the deaths saved were a drop in the bucket compared to the staggering collateral costs involved.
	Right, so I don't have much confidence in masks, but maybe, let's still man it, maybe there's nothing lost by wearing them, right?
	If they make people feel better, even if they don't really work, if they make people feel better, there's no trade-off, right?
	You're just wearing a mask, what's the problem?
	It turns out there's more of them in the ocean than jellyfish.
	Yeah, of course.
	So that's a bit of an issue, especially when they're made of microplastics.
	And, oh, I wonder who wrote this?
	Oh, it's me!
	Well, that's interesting.
	Of the 58.8 million masks used in the UK during the peak of the pandemic, 53.3 million went straight to landfill.
	There were 129 billion masks worn every month worldwide.
	90% of these were thrown away after one use.
	That was 3 million binned every minute.
	So that's an estimated 1.6 billion masks that made their way into the ocean in 2020.
	So that's 5,500 metric tons of annual mask pollution.
	And that means that they now outnumber the number of jellyfish in the sea.
	Do you know who never brought that up?
	Who?
	Greta.
	Oh yes!
	Strangely.
	How dare you!
	Yeah, how dare, yeah.
	She never brought that up.
	I wonder why.
	Yeah, it's almost like ingesting microplastics and making it so that loads of women and children in sweatshops in the third world making these to the profit of the Chinese who unleashed it on us in the first place would be an issue if you were caring about the climate or social justice or whatever.
	Buckshot buzzword you want to fire out at any point of the day.
	But point being, masks didn't bloody work.
	No.
	The government wants to foist them on you again, particularly if you're an American.
	They're probably going to foist them everywhere else because we are a vassal state of the Americas and of all of the international bodies like the WEF and the WHO at this point.
	And just think to yourself, well if they didn't work, why do they want it?
	Exactly.
	Don't comply.
	And with that, let's go to the comments!
	Right, fantastic.
	On the first segment, Baron von Warhawk, I'm on a college campus, there are still people who hate Trump with every bit of their heart and believe Biden is a kindly old man who's improving America.
	I don't even think he's improving the state of his underpants at this point.
	I don't think things will change.
	Well, you say that, Tim Paul raises a valid point.
	Did you see the survey recently that said that boys in 12th grade are trending more conservative?
	Yes, I did.
	The analysis showed that women were trending more liberal and it was the polar opposite for men and there's this stark contrast.
	I saw that.
	How old are 12th graders?
	Pretty young.
	There's going to be a large cohort.
	There's going to be a massive, yeah.
	Trump supporters are now flowing into voting, which aren't being polled yet.
	Interesting.
	That's looking good.
	This should be interesting.
	This should be very interesting.
	Of course, thinking that, oh, we're on the website now.
	Yeah, thinking that the Democrats aren't bloody rig it again.
	So, which they're trying to, obviously.
	Richard, whether true or not, the public mudslinging reveals the intent and political nature of all of those legal manoeuvres.
	The Justice Department has been less than candid throughout the whole affair.
	It's a disgrace.
	Again, the process is the execution.
	Omar Awad.
	Trump is a self-fulfilling presidency.
	The harder that they try to root him, the more they expose themselves to what they are and thus bring about the result they were trying to avoid in the first place.
	There's Part of the establishment.
	did go up after the first indictment.
	Kevin Fox, any chance when they finish with Trump, all these folks piling cases against him could come to the UK and show the same vehemence against our own MPs?
	No, because they're part of the regime.
	It's true.
	Part of the establishment.
	I was having this discussion with Beau yesterday, and Beau has a complete and blanket vitriolic hatred of everyone in the Conservative Party, which I can understand at a high resolution.
	And I was saying, genuinely, I know a couple of people who are relegated to the backbenchers Yeah.
	That's less than a handful.
	Sincerely, it's probably about three or four.
	It's not good.
	No.
	And the fact that they can continually sabotage the country and fail upwards without consequence means that they're serving some kind of higher regime interest.
	UK politics is so, not only sluggish, but so depressing.
	Do you find that?
	Little statistic there of just a rough hand of three people that are just willing to make proper change and actually turn this country into a better place to live.
	It's just so demotivating, right?
	Yeah, but I see it as an excuse for I see it as the impetus for us trying to bend things towards our will.
	Sure.
	I've got a phrase in mind that I'll use off-air for you because I don't want to play my hand.
	Okay, all right, okay.
	We'll have a chat.
	Yes, fantastic.
	SA Silver, before we go on to the comments for The Administrator states so brazen that not only making unconstitutional changes against Trump, but also his lawyers, it shows the sheer desperation to damage the man.
	They know Biden is a dead weight in approval and health, and no one on the Dem or GOP field can stop the inevitable rematch.
	Well, that's if Biden makes it there.
	Simple.
	Apparently this one is fiery from Baron Von Warhawk, so I'll read it out.
	You guys must be dumb as a stump.
	I mean, there are better ways to interact with people you don't know, but there you go.
	Thanks for the money, everyone, I suppose.
	If you think this will end well for Trump, when did I say that?
	If he's innocent, the Feds will simply falsify evidence to put him away.
	Truth will prevail, as you say.
	Well, it hasn't prevailed yet, so why should it start now?
	I'm not saying truth will prevail in the justice system.
	No.
	Truth will prevail for the people who... For the wider audience.
	Yes.
	And yes, populism is a delusion.
	The American Republic was forged by an armed populace that decided to overthrow a tyrannical government.
	We cannot endorse that happening again.
	No.
	Wouldn't be able to.
	No.
	Anyway, Lord Naravar, the establishment seems to do anything possible to throw petrol in the fire of popular support for Trump.
	Well, yeah, but they see a war against all coming.
	They just think they can win.
	Do you want to do a couple from yours?
	Yeah, sure.
	S.H.
	Silver says that the residents are still reeling from this and are unsure of what happened and where their government was.
	While the property developers are already confident enough to start lining up, it definitely seems like they know something that we don't.
	Yes, I agree.
	Omar says, one death is a tragedy, but one million deaths is a statistic.
	Somewhere in between is property development.
	Burn back better.
	That's a very good tagline.
	Henry says, notice how they shut the reporter down when he's about to insinuate that the guy in the press conference was directly responsible for the deaths.
	Clearly someone spotted the potential class action suit, even if criminal charges allude him.
	It's very true.
	Desert Rat says, so he feels that water on the islands is a sacred representation of deities and he decides to hold it hostage.
	Yeah, makes sense.
	And also, what, the people aren't sacred as well?
	So let me just get this straight.
	Nature worship, good.
	Human lives, bad.
	Well, that fits with the green agenda, right?
	Yeah, it definitely does.
	It's just, if you were a god, I know it's hard to imagine, it's not very difficult for me.
	But, you know, if you were a God, wouldn't you want, like, people to worship you?
	Of course.
	Rather than just nothing.
	Of course.
	Right, makes sense.
	Yeah, makes sense.
	Right.
	Baron again.
	Pretty weird that these celebrity and CEO houses didn't burn, but the poor folks were cooked alive in their cars.
	Makes you really think, doesn't it?
	Yes.
	And there was actually accounts, I think one of the journalists was saying that they spoke to people on the ground there, and the victims were saying that they saw like baby's bones on top of like cars and things like that.
	So it's a really serious, obviously it's serious anyway, but to have those accounts and to actually listen to that, it's just chilling, it's awful.
	David Fisher says, on Maui, an American friend of mine told me yesterday that it was due to the lack of investment into maintenance on their power grid and was likely caused by an electrical substation failure.
	I haven't seen anything in the media on this, but the guy is well connected.
	It will be interesting to see if anything comes out of the media.
	I mean, maybe.
	It's not impossible.
	It's not impossible.
	But also, they have the most advanced alarm system in the world.
	In the world.
	Why didn't this go off?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Okay, alright then.
	Next one.
	Screwtape Lasers says, I'm afraid that Maui is just another symptom of civilizational decline.
	Rome lost the knowledge to operate their aqueducts.
	Russia doesn't know how to fix its manufacturing tooling.
	No one is coming to save you.
	Be prepared.
	Yes, but it seems the decline is more profitable for some than for others.
	Do you want to do one last one?
	One last one, yeah.
	We'll do Ethelstan95.
	I tend to see the fires as more of an incompetence of government than deliberate conspiracy.
	As with the California wildfires during Trump's presidency, they just refused to use their funds to do the necessary forest management.
	Too busy paying for their welfare programs.
	I don't think big businesses coming in to buy property is evidence, because they will always try to strong-arm property at its weakest value.
	Predatory business practice seems more correlation than causation.
	Blackouts in media is the conglomerate protection of a Democrat president, government, mayor, who all continue to stumble.
	See, there's part of that that I do agree with, but there's obviously parts that you just cannot explain, and that journalists are demanding answers on the ground there, and listening to people challenged.
	The only people that are challenging the mayor on this are independent reporters.
	No other reporter is daring to go in and ask the real questions, especially with the bodies, Especially with like you saw the clip of the guy questioning about the alarm system.
	There's just too much going on that raises too many eyebrows and the key is to ask questions.
	So I think both sides, you can't come to a foregone conclusion just yet.
	So I agree that you can't just like continuously say it's just a conspiracy or continue to say that it's just mismanagement.
	I think we have to ask questions, and we have to be transparent and open with it, and if we're not getting the answers, it raises more eyebrows to the conspiracy side.
	And also, if you can list all of those systemic failures there, if you can spot them, what is to say that they don't know that these will be overlooked, have no accountability, and so they could allow them to happen to then profit off the aftermath?
	Again, Rahm Emanuel, one of Obama's closest advisors, is famous for saying, Never let a good crisis go to waste.
	Yes, he did say that, yeah.
	It does seem that they're doing that again.
	Right, I suppose that we're pretty much out of time.
	Where can people find you on the internet, mate?
	So, Lewis Brackpool, obviously is the name.
	You can find me on Instagram, Twitter, Telegram, and of course my YouTube channel, which I believe you guys have kindly tagged in as well, which is really kind.
	So, dude, thank you so much.
	It was a brilliant show.
	Thanks very much, mate.
	I'm glad this finally happened.
	Yes.
	And for everyone listening, we've got the Gold Tier Zoom call at time of streaming at 3.30 tomorrow.
	That's Friday.
	We're also back with the podcast tomorrow at one o'clock as per usual.
	Until then, take care and goodbye.

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