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Nov. 13, 2023 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #783
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Good afternoon, folks.
Welcome to the podcast, The Lotus Eaters for the 13th of November, 2023.
He says, checking the date because I'm no good with dates.
I mean, Callum's like, oh, as if anyone sets the date by the podcast.
Callum, I set the date by the podcast.
That's how I know what day it is.
Anyway, I'm joined by Harry.
Do none of you look at your phone or watch or calendar and just go, oh, that's what day it is?
It's a really easy thing to do.
I never think to check.
And Callum Smiles is joining us.
And today we're going to be talking about what the media isn't telling you about the Armistice Protest.
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But right, let's get on with it.
So, there was a march on Saturday at the Cenotaph where I don't really want to mischaracterize them like the British government did, but the working class of England decided to come out and protest and defend what they thought was going to be against a potential desecration of the cenotaph by pro-Palestine protesters.
Now, as we covered on Friday, this has happened before, happened in Rochdale.
The Sinataph has previously been desecrated by various other left-wing movements, so not an unreasonable fear.
And so, certain people decided to say, right, we're going to go out and defend the Sinataph.
And lots of other people were like, oh my goodness, it's a trap.
And, well, yeah, obviously it's a trap, but everything's a trap.
So what are we going to do?
Do nothing forever?
No.
And so these guys went out and they shuffled past the Sinataph, had a nice peaceful two-minute silence, and then basically nothing else happened.
Everyone was worried there was going to be a big Barney between the two sides, and that didn't occur.
So of all the ways that this could have gone, I think this probably went the best.
No one died, as far as I can tell.
Casualty figure for this was zero.
A couple of people got a bit bloodied, but nothing too bad.
Wasn't there a hundred arrests?
Yeah.
Of people?
Yeah, but of course there are going to be people arrested.
On one side, mostly.
Yeah.
But we'll get to that because, of course, if you've been following the mainstream account of this, you'll notice that The Palestinian side were all peace and love and light despite being led by an ex-Hamas leader who now lives in London.
2019 he left Hamas, moved to London.
Do you know how much he's getting from the taxpayer?
That's usually the case these days.
Oh he is a council house.
He is living in a council house in London which can't be cheap so who knows how much he's getting from the taxpayer but he is getting your money and on the other side You've got patriotic football supporters who don't want to see the nation's monuments desecrated and would like to come out and pay their respects on Armistice Day.
You know, the far right, the problem, according to the British media.
I mean, this is a good representation of them queuing to see the Senate and you see the police for some reason standing around.
The police tried to stop them getting to it, didn't they?
Yeah, well, we'll get to it in a minute.
Oh, sorry.
But as Leo points out, these are the far-right hooligans being warned about, noticeably orderly behaviour, and lack of anti-Semitic chanting.
Yes, that's definitely something that happened.
There were a few scuffles with the police, but, like, they always have scuffles with the police.
And as I'm given to understand by first-hand reports from our roving reporters, producer John, who went down there, the lead figureheads of the march were instrumental in making sure that these guys basically kept their heads.
Because a lot of them probably do want to have fights with the police, to be honest.
And who can blame them?
No, I'm joking.
I was just thinking exactly that actually.
Yeah, I hate the Met Police of diversity and inclusion as much as anyone else.
So, you know, what are you going to do?
There is no point in really getting arrested just having a scrap with these guys.
If all you want to do is have a scrap, it's not really going to And I will say, that's great that there were some leaders who stuck around to make sure that everything was going alright, but I have seen reports, I've got one right here, that Tommy led a bunch of people into Chinatown, a scrap started with the police, and then strangely he was able to immediately get a taxi out of there, which is a very strange situation.
Very strange.
Maybe you'd like to give us an update on why that happened.
Well, it said that he tweeted afterwards saying that if he'd stuck around any longer he'd have been arrested and he needed to go see his kids.
Strange.
There were threats on his house that weren't there.
I'm pretty sure I've seen something that... Entirely possible.
And he spent a lot longer in Belmarsh than I have, so I can understand why he didn't want to get directly involved in any scraps.
But I mean, it's not mandatory to scrap with the cops.
And I would say it's inadvisable.
Don't, if you can help it, in my opinion.
But either way, it doesn't really change the needle, doesn't really shift the needle either way, in my opinion.
This is literally no different to how it was five years ago.
This is literally exactly the same media, exactly the same narrative, exactly the same people.
Only the left has gotten worse, which is what we're going to talk about.
Because I love how the BBC have characterised this.
London protests.
Met condemns extreme violence of far right.
What extreme violence, exactly?
We haven't actually seen any extreme violence.
I'm going to quote directly from the article.
Nine officers were injured and 145 people arrested, the vast majority of whom were counter-protesters.
who it says set out to confront Saturday's pro-Palestinian march, the one led by the Hamas leader.
Nine officers were injured and 145 people arrested, the vast majority, quote unquote, of whom were counter protesters.
So yeah, but if one side is being policed and the other isn't, it's not terribly surprising, is it?
Police added, while the march itself did not see much physical violence, serious offences relating to anti-Semitic hate crimes were being investigated.
Now that makes you think, oh, the Patriots actually There wasn't much physical violence there.
So where the extreme violence from right-wing protesters comes from, a bit of a mystery.
Seems to just be thrown in the headline for the sake of it because actually, March itself didn't see much physical violence.
But also it seems conjoined with the anti-Semitic hate crimes that are being investigated.
If you came to me and told me that every single news outlet reporting on this had a template that they were filling out where all they needed to do was change the numbers based on the arrest reports of how many people got then I would not be shocked because every single one of them is going to come out with the exact same narrative as one another at the same time the only things that's changed over the past day is I don't know if you're going to mention it but we might as well mention it right now is that Suella Braverman
Uh, has been, has been fired, has been fired and there seems to have been a centrist coup of the already moderate centrist.
I'll let, I'll let Conor talk about it tomorrow.
He's going to cover it.
Do you think though with these sort of like tabloids, they have... Tabloids and BBC!
Yes!
Like, they have, like, this article written last week, and they've almost got some with Parkinson's, just itching just to, like, click hit send.
Yeah, because I just love this conjunction.
It's like, the protest march itself didn't see, uh, did not see such physical violence.
Right, so extreme violence of the far right, in the headline, because that's a lie, but in the body of the text, well, there wasn't violence in the march, but there were a bunch of anti-Semitic hate crimes on the day.
Okay, but where were the anti-Semitic hate crimes?
Which is what we'll look at in a minute.
But...
Just to let me finish my one brief point, was that it seems that this narrative was already being preordained because they probably knew that...
Everyone knew that Braverman was on her way out, and they're using this reporting of the events that happened on Saturday almost as part of the reason why she's been removed from the party, because they're saying she was the one who ginned up this xenophobia and racism and anti-Semitism, despite the fact I think she's married to a Jewish man.
So that would be very strange for her to do.
Well, that's the thing.
They say anti-Semitic hate crimes are being investigated, but they don't deliberately ascribe them to the right-wing march, because of course the right-wing march is very pro-Israel.
Because that's not where the anti-Semitic hate crimes were coming from.
Far right.
I asked this on Twitter, whenever I see people using the left go, oh far right, I go, what is that?
Usually they go, well it's racist politics.
And my response to that is always, Fidel Castro, massive commie, used to execute blacks for fun.
So like, racist.
And they never actually have a thing as to what far right is, and neither do all these news outlets.
It's a dividing label that you throw on your enemies.
They can never actually explain what far right is.
Far right is chanting England till I die at the Senataf.
Which doesn't seem very far right to me, it just seems patriotic.
But I think that's what far right actually means.
They're going to arrest everyone at Wembley at the next England game.
Constantine summarises it.
So you can chant, rise up, army of Mohammed, or jihad, or from the river to the sea, you can rip down posters of kidnapped kids, that's all fine.
But chanting, England till I die, or praying silently outside an abortion clinic, that actually gets you arrested.
And so we'll take a look at Sanjita here, from LBC, who has some thoughts about the, yes, yes, I know, I know.
That's what you paid for, boy!
I don't like her either.
I suppose so, yeah.
But her framing is what's important here.
That's the thing.
She emboldened racists to come out onto the streets of London.
Rabble, rabble, rabble in the background.
Show their faces.
Racists have faces.
Attempt to wreck Armistice Day.
I'm telling you now, you couldn't find five poppies between those thugs.
These are people who claim that they are friends of Israel because they're Islamophobic.
And yet these are the people that were inspired by Hitler.
These are the people who say that they want to honour the war dead.
Not just from the First World War, but the Second World War.
where those who were killed died fighting the Nazis.
Crazy, eh?
So the...
There wasn't a single coherent thought in that.
It's like she was an AI being fed lies.
However, she leant forwards, she spoke slowly, she looked directly in the camera and therefore everything she said was right.
She saw English people being pro-England and Britain and was like, yeah, exactly, I've got to deal with these thugs.
Right.
So, but as I say, they were in, I mean, and this is her words, so let's just get the, Friends of Israel who are actually inspired by Hitler.
I mean, not an entirely sensible person, but also a bold strategy, because we'll just count the number of swastikas on either side, shall we?
Because how many swastikas do you think the Friends of Israel were flying on that day?
Not that many, actually.
How many swastikas do you think the anti-Israel side were flying?
The answer's more than one!
So, uh, we got, uh, this, uh, this is a collection of just people saying we are all Hamas and we'll find some Jews and things like that.
Not all of these are actually on this day, I think.
But, uh, there's an innumerable clips you can find of these people.
Exactly.
So this is the general milieu.
And, uh, you've got a lady here being like, do you really think that Hamas should be classed a terrorist group?
And she's like, no, they're freedom fighters, blah, blah, blah.
And then, so if we go to the day, you get, you get like chats like this.
If the West feels so sorry for the Israeli Zionists, why don't they give a place in Germany?
Why don't they go to Hitler's back garden and make an occupation there?
Then they will know what kind of people these are.
Why, every so many hundred years, these Zionists get slaughtered?
Because Hitler knew how to deal with these people.
They probably made a program so they can create a state of Israel.
Right, so just a little bit of overt Hitler endorsement from the pro-Palestine side.
The funny thing is, right, that's my old cameraman doing it, and I know exactly at that point in his head he went, you're on YouTube, son.
Yeah, exactly, this is gold, this is the clip.
3.2 million views, this is the clip.
I thought you were about to say, like, this guy was your old delivery driver or something.
But like, okay, so just, you know, Sangeeta, the pro- the Friends of Israel, inspired by Hitler, obviously, the pro-Palestine guys who are like, Hitler knew how to deal with the Jews!
Good guys, I guess?
I mean, even the Met are like, okay, yeah, we kind of have to- Oh my god, they're actually investigating.
Well, that's the thing.
3.2 million views later of this guy literally being like, Hitler knew what to do with the Jews.
They're like, okay, yeah, I think we might have to arrest him, actually.
If anyone knows who he was, we kind of- Arrest?
They'll arrest him and it'll end up becoming a job interview.
He'll be head of diversity by the end of the week.
I don't think, as much as the Met Police are trying to dispel the claims, I don't think one minor investigation is going to convince anybody it's not two-tiered system.
Well, obviously.
Obviously, that's the point.
You know, like, these people weren't being policed.
No, of course not.
The football lads who just wanted to walk peacefully past the cenotaph got into a fight with the cops.
How did that happen?
Like, what?
There's no one else there.
It's just them and the police.
And the police are like, right, okay, I guess we're going to have to interrupt them now.
Let them walk past.
But here's another one.
Killers!
Death to all the Jews!
The irony, shouting killers, and then death to all the Jews.
Sanjeev, I just want you to remember who the pro-Hitler guys are.
It's the Friends of Israel who are the pro-Hitler guys.
Let's make sure that's perfectly clear.
Where was it that the pro-Palestine guys actually marched through?
Um, not Palestine.
No, no, it was a different route.
I can't remember which one it was, but they didn't go past the centre, which is wise.
Um, but, uh, but yeah, then you got signs like this.
Only Putin has the final solution for English C words.
What does that mean?
Why are the pro-Palestine guys so often on the Final Solution bandwagon?
What does Putin have to do?
The most I know is I think Putin's thrown out a few anti-Israel statements recently, calling them an imperialist power, but I don't know what he's doing in England.
I don't know why he's the guy who's got a final solution for us either.
He's not the only guy with nukes, so it can't be that.
I don't know.
But the point is, they're on board with final solutions, because this is just apparently a perennial feature of the Pro Palestine March.
This is classic.
Absolute classic.
Uh, I'll play this from the beginning because this is just hilarious.
As you can see from the description, police confiscate a sign with a Nazi swastika on it as the protester takes it back.
The officer is reluctant to let me film the sign.
Hmm.
Very interesting.
It doesn't matter.
It's about your portraying it.
Okay.
- Okay, do you mind just going with... - I'm gonna put it down for the moment to stop giving everything in the air angle. - You can't film it at the moment.
I'm trying to put it to the side and you're grabbing it off.
It's got a slot sticker on it.
You can take that picture off.
You have to give me the ballroom.
Stop.
Stop.
Okay.
Why can't I film it?
You can't film it at the moment.
I'm trying to put it to the side.
Are you grabbing it off?
It's got a sloth stick on it.
It might be worth filming.
I despise the police.
Right.
You want to see the two-tier police?
If that was Tommy's lot with a bloody swastika on their side, it's not, oh we're just going to put that to the side because the optics will look bad for the media, for the press photos.
They'd be absolutely getting billy clubbed.
Part of the police's duty in all this, their job on the day was to, like you say, basically manage photo ops for the media outlets and make sure that you got as much violent footage of the pro-Israel, pro-Senataf, pro-British guys as possible so that people like Sanjita can turn around and say, look, this is all to do with Suella Braverman and we need to get her out so we can get good old David Cameron back in charge.
Look at the Nazi sympathisers on the pro-Israel side.
And to prevent as much of this from being photographed by independent journalists as possible, that's what it was.
It's absolutely transparent, crystal clear, that you could not get a more obvious demonstration that there are actually, if this is something that they care about, a lot of Hitler sympathisers on the left side.
And you're right, it's transparent but it's not transphobic and that's what's important.
That's true, that's true.
But anyway, like actually hiding the swastikas, actually like people yelling death to Jews.
Hitler was right.
This all came from the pro-Palestine side.
It didn't come from Tommy's guys, right?
But and then you've just got like massive amounts of racism like this.
You're either on the white side of history or the right side of history.
Don't make us choose.
I know a fair few white people that went to like the Palestine march and surely you'd look at that Like, you know, I kind of dislike both sides, really.
But like, you look at that and you think, surely you're being a... Hmm.
I'm starting to think I shouldn't be supporting.
I'm starting to think that when this is characterized as a hate march, maybe there's something to it.
There does seem to be quite a lot of hate coming from their side.
Now I'm not saying the other side isn't a hate march, I'm just saying I saw a lot less death to all Jews, Hitler was right, actually everyone who's not us is wrong, and more we'd dislike it if you didn't desecrate the cenotaph.
But the irony of this as well is like, so you got that, and then if you look underneath there's a sign that says different types of love.
What?
Like, love and hate?
I dread to think who these people are in coalition with.
I was going to say, different titles, although there should be another one of this where they've got two hands holding and it's like, this is what the establishment fears.
One of those ones.
Yeah.
Send out so many mixed signals and confuse everybody.
Did they do a turkey flag that was in blue?
I don't know.
They're not very smart.
That's the turkey flag, isn't it?
In the top right one.
It might be someone else's, I'm not sure.
Like, is that a Syria and Gazan flag?
I'm not sure.
But, like, who the hell are they, anyway?
I think that was a Namibia one, wasn't it?
Quite possibly, I don't know!
Like, what, they got to do it?
But then you've got this lovely lady who's got the coconut sign calling Rishi Sunak and Sweller Braverman coconuts because they're brown on the outside and white on the inside.
I've got time for that too, that's quite funny.
I'm not saying it's not funny, I'm saying, as the Met Police have got to admit, yeah, okay, that is a racist sign.
Okay, we have to investigate that too, because as you can see, 15 million views, lots of people saw this and were like, yeah, okay, that's kind of racist.
I'd take it as a compliment.
Uh, maybe, but, um... The crazy thing is, right, the police are now, oh, yes, we're going to have to investigate these people who have had a nasty sign or said something a bit awful, but you know... Said something a bit awful?
Death to all Jews!
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was right, yeah, it was a little bit awful.
But, like, you know, when it comes to, you know, going back to the whole Tommy stuff, when it comes to the molesting of children... Oh, well, we'll, uh, ignore that.
Sorry, there's a ladder I pressed there.
Sorry.
There we go.
I podged something by accident.
Um, but yeah, sorry, go on.
Yeah, it's crazy how they'll, you know, just because of all the pressure on the media, so many people will look at these, they'll be like, oh, somebody said something or held up a sign, we're going to have to investigate.
When it comes to actual crime, you know, like children being molested, oh, we'll turn a blind eye to that.
We don't want to offend anyone.
Yeah.
And I just want to like, offences relating to anti-Semitic hate crimes we investigate, Just be clear, it's not from the Patriots that that's coming.
I just want to be crystal clear about this.
And this, as you say, Harry, the media narrative is of course set in advance.
And so it is actually, I think, to our benefit to be able to lay this out, and it could not be more crystal clear.
You literally have swastikas, Hitler was right, death to all Jews coming from the pro-Palestine movement, And then you literally have, don't desecrate the cenotaph, you've failed your country, England till I die, coming from the other side.
So I actually don't think this is terrible optics.
And so Channel 4 are the best example of this.
They tweeted this out.
Now I had to get an archive of this because they deleted it.
But after being branded hate marchers by the Home Secretary, a massive pro-Palestine protest passed off peacefully with hundreds of thousands in attendance.
The only scuffles on the day involved far-right protesters who clashed with the police.
Do we think that's true?
Um, I want to say yes, only because, only because the police only wanted to be amongst the far-right.
That is true.
And this is the link, the article they linked to, so you can see it's basically saying the same thing.
The vast majority of arrests were from far-right counter-protesters.
Oh right, vast majority, that's different.
So it's not entirely peaceful.
And we can just move on a bit.
So you've got Michael Gove being attacked by the pro-Palestine people.
Ah, finally something we can all agree on.
Yeah, I know, right?
On one side... Don't bring us all together!
I don't want Michael Gove, but on the other side, is it really right that the pro-Palestine guys are allowed to physically threaten a British politician, a prominent British politician?
I mean, do we remember the murder of Sir David Harness?
By people who these people would be on the same sort of side as.
I'm sorry, but this is not acceptable in any way, shape or form, is it?
Right?
Not one mention.
Not one mention.
This isn't what the headlines are focusing on.
Gove got chased twice by these people.
Twice in the same day?
In the same day, yeah.
Right?
But then of course you have the pro-Palestine protests.
There's not being policed at all, but firing fireworks.
Just randomly up and down roads.
Could set fires, could injure people, doesn't matter to them.
The pro-patriot side is peacefully trying to march past the cenotaph.
These guys aren't.
In the end, the police were like, okay, we actually kind of have to intervene.
And so 150 of them were kettled.
Oh, do we have to?
Yeah, no, that's literally it, right?
50 of them had to be kettled and disarmed they had to search them all take all their photos and it's just like okay but nothing from the media right a couple of small scuffles because the police weren't letting them near the cenotaph
even though they did then let them by the cenotaph reports of extreme violence from the the pro-patriot side crickets on the actual hitler worship the death to all jews the swastikas and the actual violence that the police themselves had to admit that they had broken up from the pro-palestine side right It's crystal clear that they are absolute liars at this point.
I bet they hated tweeting that, didn't they?
I bet they do.
I bet they're just like, God, well, we can't, we can't not, right?
Everyone sees that we've done this.
And here's a bunch of them getting arrested after clashing with the police.
I mean, you know, no, no, no.
Totally peaceful protest, bro.
Totally peaceful.
Nothing had to go on.
I mean, look at the headscarves.
Like, which side am I looking at?
What's going on?
That's a white girl with a tea towel on her head.
Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely.
The coalition is made up of a bunch of immigrants, a bunch of leftist white people, and then a bunch of anti-Israel Jews, basically.
That, or she's rehearsing for the nativity.
No, no, no, she's definitely on their side.
And then you've got just pro-Palestine guys just attacking random people who they assume, I suppose, are on the other side, with a piece of wood.
Good stuff.
Totally normal.
Yep.
No police there.
Not worth reporting on.
No point policing any of that, is there?
Anyway, moving on.
In Trafalgar Square.
Obviously, I bet Nelson's thrilled.
Looking down, this is the Britain I fought for.
Disgraceful.
Because you've got the Riot Squad right next to it as the clash is going on.
Look, they're just standing there.
Well, look at that smug face on one of the police.
Look, they're just kind of smiling.
Why aren't you breaking that up?
Well, they're waiting for the photographers to get done first.
To say that it's two-tier policing is just to be vapid about it at this point.
The police do do that as well, Sam, but it was when I first got into journalism.
I was at one of the anti-lockdown marches and I was kind of stood, um, kind of slightly away from this group at Hyde Park at the end and it kind of started to disperse.
It's like, it's more like, you know, the real freedom fighter, people who really do hate lockdowns left.
And the police literally encircled it.
And I was like, I feel like they're about to do something for a photo op.
And they ran in, some of them like holding up the camera thing, they got their, like, had a bit of a scrap with the protesters, left, and then literally went.
And I was saying to a friend, I was like... Social media police?
Yeah, and then the following day, in the headlines, it was literally zoomed in, like, the pictures they took where you'd have like a copper like that and someone like that.
Yeah.
Like, actually, the real story is, they ran in with clubs, had a scrap and left.
They started it.
That's why I think doing this sort of thing is an important exercise, just to continually remind you that they're liars, that they hate you, and they're going to side with your enemies every single time.
And you pay for it.
And you pay for the privilege.
Yes, you pay for the privilege.
And there are some really funny things, like Palestinian protesters breaking into Pret a Manger and berating people for drinking coffee.
Obama McDonald is sporing genocide, everyone.
Everyone in here is giving money to Israel.
Walk out right now.
Go and get your drinks.
Get out.
Go and get anything from here.
From anywhere else.
Come on now.
Use the coinlets on that sword.
It's going to work.
Go and get anything else.
Go and buy one single drink from here.
The boiler doesn't even work.
Why are you all doing today?
The boiler doesn't even work.
Don't spoil Israel.
They're going to make more money today.
Right. - I think this is the best.
Is a good thing.
Yeah, me too.
Alright?
We've heard it so many times from the liberal elites in this country.
Well, if we don't have all of these migrants, who's going to serve me PrEP?
That has been the argument used.
So the only way to dissuade them is if the PrEPs are no longer safe.
Yeah.
But the best thing is, listen to that.
My first thought was, have you seen Four Lines?
Yeah.
You know, it's like, we're going to go blow up boots because it gives us free condoms, mate, when I'm sexting white girls.
He literally began it with McDonald's as supporting genocide.
McDonald's is actually playing every side.
I don't want to defend McDonald's, but I actually don't think they support genocide.
Neither do I think Pratt does.
Although they do support the middle class.
Isn't McDonald's airlifting McNuggets into every side of this conflict?
Now that Tony Blair's in charge of Gaza, they're gonna get their share of McDonald's.
Another funny thing, and this just cracked me up.
For some reason, one of them was scaling the drainpipe of the Irish Embassy while people chanted "Allah Akbar".
Allah Akbar! Allah Akbar! Allah Akbar! Allah Akbar!
What is the plan?
We're going to break into the Irish Embassy and save Palestine?
Like, it's the Irish Embassy?
The Irish are the ones responsible for the invasion of Gaza?
Like, if we finally take the Irish diplomats hostage, the war will end.
What are you doing?
Netanyahu, let my people go, or else!
Yeah, exactly!
Sinn Féin, like, we're pro-Gaza, you morons!
And they're like, despite the fact they tend to hate the English, the Irish are very neutral on most of the world's conflicts.
They don't get involved.
They're hardly the octopus who's got their tentacles involved in everything, are they?
But then we'll end it there, because of course there's just general amounts of hate.
I mean, these two older British people were walking along with like a poppy or whatever on their lapels.
The pro-Palestine saw them and was like, ah, we hate you.
And it's like, but what have they got to do with Israel's invasion of Gaza, actually?
Like, it's Remembrance Day.
It's Armistice Day.
It's Remembrance Sunday tomorrow.
They want to come and pay their respects to the war dead.
Not really much to do with Israel invading Gaza, actually.
And I bet if you were to ask a bunch of the people who are walking past the CENTAF, do you think there should be a ceasefire in Gaza?
They'd be like, yeah.
I don't care.
Why?
I just don't want you ruining our stuff.
But anyway, I'll leave that there.
It's just the media narrative is an obvious lie, and they're lying to you as they do every single day.
I do think that everyone watching this, especially watching these clips, if you haven't taken up a combat sport, you should.
Learn to defend yourselves.
Self-defense.
Learn to defend yourselves.
Because imagine if you are in, literally, if you are at Victoria Station and you're a white guy, and some people go, oh, there they are.
Get them.
Well, that's what's happened here.
That's literally what's happened.
The police had to come in and be like, uh, you guys are causing trouble, so you have to leave.
And it's like, really, we're the ones causing trouble, are we?
But just remember, this is the country you live in now.
Take up boxing.
Or Krav Maga, just for a laugh.
Why not?
The Hitler sympathizers adopt Krav Maga, wave their Israel flags, and don't chant death to Jews with a swastika on their board.
Anyway, so, let's move on.
So I think that it turns out that we can fix things.
I don't believe you.
We can in fact fix things.
Nowhere on earth do we have an example of this.
Are we building an ark and turning the taps on?
No, no.
Maybe one day.
That's plan B. When it gets too far, and when Democrats in America need to have a good show for diplomats from other countries, then we can fix things.
Because it turns out The S-Hole of the West Coast of America.
What, San Francisco?
San Francisco, yes.
How did I know?
Can actually be fixed, very briefly, can be cleaned up and the homeless cleared off of the streets and it actually turned into a relatively nice city for about two to three weeks, possibly, so that we can roll out the red carpet for Xi Jinping.
That's fascinating because that implies that we could do that every single day.
Well funny, we did do that.
Down in Cornwall, they literally moved a load of migrants out for the holiday season this summer to get that holiday income.
Where did they go?
moved them out for the summer to get that holiday income.
Where did they go?
Who cares?
I mean, I think who cares is the appropriate answer to that.
Well, I mean, why can't they stay there all year round, wherever they went, you know?
That's a good question.
This raises a lot of implications for us.
Okay, so you can get rid of the disgusting, druggy homeless when Xi Jinping comes to visit.
It's a weird person to want to honor.
Yes.
But why then do you make us live with them every other day of the year?
Oh, shut up, peasant.
Well, that's the point.
It's almost like it's a deliberate punishment being inflicted on everyone.
Well yes, but also I think California is an insane state run by insane, evil psychopaths.
You don't need to sell it to me.
Yeah, I mean it's run by Gavin Newsom.
Visit California!
I legitimately think that a part of them does think that it's more kind to give drug addicts more of the drugs that they're killing themselves with.
I think they think that it's more kind for them to supply homeless tents to all of them so they can sleep in the streets and do their drugs in public and literally S in the streets, literally crap in the streets.
It's more kind to let them do that.
in their own minds than it would be to say enforce some damn rules on them say you can't do that and if you do that we're going to put you in prison or put them in some kind of not to not to endorse the Taliban or anything but to clear them off of the streets and force them into rehab like the Taliban did in Afghanistan because they are so terrified of being authoritarian in that way obviously more than happy to be but ridiculously authoritarian in other ways
They're happy to do it as soon as a Chinese dignitary arrives and I mean Gavin Newsom did recently visit China as well so there's an interesting crossover but like in every other day of the year they're happy for that to be inflicted on you know you've got to dodge human feces and needles and your children when going to school you have to dodge you know wild crack addicts but not Xi Jinping he's too good for that obviously.
Well he's the president isn't it?
Well yeah exactly!
Literally, it's the present.
But it's especially remarkable because it happened in San Francisco, because San Francisco is ground zero for all of this.
It is the desolate wasteland of the modern world, but even San Francisco can be turned around in a matter of weeks.
It's literally like that.
They just have to have the will.
Yeah, it's the political will.
Can we get Xi Jinping to visit Tower Hamlets?
Yeah, can he come and visit us?
Yeah, actually.
Xi, if you want to bring the cleanup crew, No, no, we'll do it for you.
Just, you know... Let's give him a complete tour of London.
We'll take you to McDonald's and Pratt, you know?
Go get you a coffee.
So I'll get into the specifics in a moment.
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So with San Francisco, Callum and I in particular have covered it quite a bit.
Callum was the one who told me about this spectacular map.
So this is a map of San Francisco.
Is that all the shits on the street?
Yes, this is actually it.
There is a map- Oh, is it really?
Yes.
Oh, I was joking!
In San Francisco, they have an app where you can report incidences of human feces on the streets.
And it goes to this map and marks out- And that gives you a database of- I was actually joking.
I think there's two of these.
There's the human wasteland map, which is similar to this one, and this is a different- Just a state map, isn't it?
I wanted to get an update on what it looks like at the moment, because I imagine it's nowhere near as packed as that at the moment, or it's all localised to one, like, ghetto.
Yeah, that's a great point.
The crap ghetto that all of the homeless have been corralled into, probably.
The main streets with the beautiful buildings have probably all been cleared.
I bet, yeah, there'd be, like, just this conspicuous absence down a few nice streets.
But sadly I think unless you get the app you have to log into a website and I wasn't going to give them my login details just so that I could take a look at this but I imagine it's much clearer there was also we went through there's the reports that you can find online the San Francisco reports of disturbances in the streets and half of them were just somebody reporting feces.
You'd go to a particular corner of the city in the morning.
They would say, oh, there's some, someone's laid one here.
Someone would come along and clean it up.
And then that same person coming back from work would pass by and go, now there's another one.
Yep.
It's an endless cycle.
It's an endless problem.
Endless stream.
Literally a Herculean task of emptying the, or was it the stables?
Yeah, and this is acceptable.
This is what San Francisco was, to the point where people decided to try and throw a tour of it for tourists coming through the city.
What's San Francisco most known for now?
Well, that.
That was in the background there, and I don't think it ended up going ahead, that tour that I told you about.
Oh, really?
Sadly, I don't think it did.
Too dangerous, was it?
Do you want to be walking past loads of homeless camps with people shooting up heroin?
And yeah, loads of needles around and God only knows what else.
Who knows what you're going to step in?
Drugs.
Well, crap.
Needles.
Well yeah, we know that, but who knows what else you might step in?
Look, I'd be worried about getting AIDS after going to...
It might be floating in the air, you don't know.
To be honest, this is probably an incredible environment for all new and dangerous types of viruses and diseases to emerge.
Oh no, there was a re-emergence of polio.
Typhus?
Yeah, something like typhoid fever or something like that.
Something that I imagine is transmitted by people drinking unclean water.
Ironically, there was a re-emergence of like, you know, medieval diseases that have been wiped out by modern sanitation.
The Black Plague is back!
No, I think it might have been like- Hey, you can't call him that!
I think it might have been- Let me, let me, I haven't got my thing, but I'm going to look at this.
Carry on.
Oh, it's cholera.
Is it cholera?
No, no, no.
I'm going to check.
Sorry, you carry on.
That's absolutely fine.
So what changed?
What changed was the fact that there is a large international meeting going on, a large conference going on in San Francisco over the next few weeks.
It's called APEC.
You've probably heard of it.
It's the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit that's going on in San Francisco.
It was the plague.
It was literally the plague.
Oh, that's incredible.
To be fair, there's no economic opportunity really in San Francisco right now, unless you're working for a big tech company.
Unless you're a cleaner.
Yeah, they tell you don't come in, don't come into work, you've got to pass by all of these.
But I tell you what, if you've got a wheelbarrow, start collecting bodies from the streets, like in the old plague times, I bet you could make a killing.
California sees re-emergence of medieval diseases.
So, Typhus, Typhoid Fever and the Plague.
Incredible.
Leprosy coming next, I imagine.
But if you live like you're a medieval slum, then what do you expect?
You get medieval slum conditions.
So yeah, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit was taking place, well, is taking place in San Francisco.
It's called APEC, and it's going to involve teams of officials from Beijing and Washington.
Biden's going to be there personally.
Xi Jinping is going to be there personally.
They're trying to organize some Cooperation between the countries because I don't think they've spoken personally and directly since last November.
So it's been a year.
There have been a number of sanctions been going on.
Xi Jinping has been very annoyed about eastward expansion of NATO into potentially Asian territories.
There's been deals been going on in Japan to try and secure NATO involvement over in that part of the world because they're worried about probably about BRICS like you've covered.
And they're worried about China's involvement in lots of other geopolitical concerns.
I think the Chinese are supporting Gaza, possibly in the... Should the Chinese really care about Gaza?
Yeah, it's anything to hurt America, really, isn't it?
Yeah, there you go.
So they're always really wanting to try and... they're trying to shore up communications and basically put off more geopolitical conflict in the time being.
And Biden and San Francisco and Gavin Newsom probably all got together and went, San Francisco is not presentable.
Why are we throwing it in San Francisco?
We're going to have to really clear the place up.
So yeah, here's the issues.
Global issues from Israel, Hamas, Russia invasion of Ukraine, North Korea's ties with Russia, Taiwan, the Indo-Pacific, human rights, fentanyl, because of course I think China is still where all of that is.
China's deliveries are late, I don't know what we can do.
Sorry Biden, Hunter's going to have to wait for a few more weeks.
AI, as well as fair trade and economic relations, and that was according to the senior Biden administrations.
I can only imagine talks will probably be Biden falling asleep in the corner while AIDS handlers do it for him, either that or Xi Jinping bullies him.
One of the listed side effects of fentanyl should be, may cause shitting on the streets of San Francisco.
Probably, that's where most of them are going to end up.
Yeah, and then there was reports of the businesses are encouraging the APEC attendees to explore the city.
The city's going to shine, says San Francisco Mayor London Breed.
That's a weird name.
It is a very weird name, but it's San Francisco, so who knows?
But why can't you do this every day?
Yeah.
Why can't it just be every day, isn't it?
The global elite are coming, therefore we're going to clear out the scum and the underclass, we're going to literally hose down the streets, erase the evidence of the disgusting nature of this city, until they're gone and then it's back to normal and you get to live in the asshole that is San Francisco.
Yeah, so Fox did a report where they basically went, my God.
Yeah, I can see it.
It's clean.
Look at this.
Not a single tent in the background.
Nobody is taking, popping a squat right then and there.
Nobody's shooting up.
Nobody's causing trouble.
I imagine it is quite difficult actually to get a photograph of San Francisco where there isn't some kind of like gay homeless sex going on in the background where people are defecating right then and there.
But look, they brought out the industrial cleaners.
This is how bad it is.
We're not going to be out here just in our normal clothes cleaning up.
They could do this anytime.
So the New York Post sources have told them that homeless are being herded out to other areas of the city because these people are basically drug-addled cattle.
Yes.
They are the drug-addled cattle class for the leaders, the elites of San Francisco and California.
Are they Palestinian crosswalks?
I thought that.
The colour scheme seems to be Palestine.
But it might be because they're at the same time as APEC coming in.
Of course, because San Francisco is still San Francisco at the end of the day.
There are massive protests going on about APEC.
How could they do this to our city?
How could they clean up our city?
There was so much character on these streets.
I mean, that is definitely a true statement.
Yeah, running up and trying to be like, oh, we need to talk about, but how can you talk about fair trade and relations with China when we've got Palestine to worry about?
All of that.
So I wouldn't be surprised if the crosswalks being painted in that color.
Let's just say, see, we care.
We care.
Maybe protest next week after Xi's gone.
Maybe hold off a bit.
But they started clearing out the tents earlier this week, and there's definitely a lot more police presence.
Once again, it turns out... We can have law and order and cleanliness if we want.
We just don't want to.
Yeah, that's the thing.
It shows that, okay, we could do this, but we don't want to.
We literally do it like that.
And why don't they want to?
Well, probably because of the fact they hate you.
We've got industrial street cleaning machines.
We're just not going to use them.
If I lived in San Francisco, I'd get together with a load of friends and do like a sweepstake of which street will get the first shit once APEC have gone.
Yeah, the source said they've cleared out the tents that were near the Moscow and Centre on Howard Street, which tells me the city had the capability to do this all along, but what we need is a permanent solution, which is a rather ominous way of putting it.
Regular cleaning duty might just be good enough.
Don't hand out easy access drugs to all of the homeless people in the streets.
Don't allow them to just live in the very center of the city where people used to go shopping.
Don't encourage and subsidize this.
Yeah.
Can you two far-right extremists just stop talking?
Well I'm pro the far-right extremism of the San Francisco City Council.
Yeah, and this gives a good rundown of what's been going on.
So on the streets, Palominos47 said that she's seen traumatic acts of violence like shootings and stabbings in the street, she's addicted to crystal meth and she's been clean for five days, and she said that she'd seen a lot of her homeless friends asked by the same police officer to move multiple times.
Far-right extremists out in San Francisco.
Could you please move?
How dare you?
Clean for five days.
I was just thinking that.
I'm clean for five days.
Well, this is the thing.
This is the perfect example of the kind of people that you get in San Francisco because they have encouraged it.
San Francisco is basically a sanctuary city for drug addicts of all of America.
They know that it's a place where, okay, I'm living in, say, Omaha.
And I'm addicted to fentanyl and I need to stay addicted to fentanyl because I really want to be addicted to my drugs.
Where can I go where people won't judge me and the state will actively subsidize me?
Portland?
What do you mean I can't shit on the street?
There you go.
I think Michael, what's his name?
Schellenberger.
Michael Schellenberger has spoken about this a number of times, that they get loads of people migrating to San Francisco purely because they know that they will be supported in their drug addiction.
So San Francisco is kind of operating a strange, soft euthanasia regime.
It's kind of mecca for it.
We've all got to converge.
Well, you know, we're not offering Canadian healthcare quite yet, but if you do want to kill yourself, aided and bettered by the state, San Francisco has been the place to go.
Sorry, you're too old to be aborted, but we can give you...
How would you like these Chinese drugs instead?
Jennifer Freidenbach, Executive Director of the Coalition for Homelessness, said her organization has been hearing about more homeless encampment sweeps ahead of the international conference.
With shelters seeing spaces already filling up or limited openings, she said it's really frustrating because the city is just displacing these groups of homeless people when they're moved around.
But yeah, but they don't want to live in houses.
They're drug addicts who are living in a place where it's forever summer.
That's the problem in California, is it's never cold.
It's never cold.
I mean, it's November at the moment.
That shit's gonna stink in hot weather.
You're right there.
All the photographs we've seen in preparing for this have been, it's the middle of November and it's still beautiful and sunny.
Probably very warm.
People going out in socks and sandals.
I bet if you looked up it's about 25 degrees, where in the summer it's about 33, 40.
Somewhere like that.
Basically paradise all year long.
So yeah, you don't need to be in the home so you can stay homeless and addicted to drugs all your life if you want to.
And get typhoid fever on the streets.
Instead, advocacy groups were hoping for more temporary housing for the homeless during the conference.
No.
No, they're not going to do that.
Once again, you are cattle to these people.
You just need to be out of Xi Jinping's way so he doesn't see you or preferably doesn't smell you.
It's literally a pretend city.
It's literally like Soviet where, you know, we'll bring in the Western journalists.
We'll take them around a perfectly crafted little managed city.
This is basically North Korea.
Yeah.
This is what they did.
Look at all the potatoes we definitely have.
This is why, like, Bernie Sanders goes to the Soviet Union.
It's like, no, this is amazing.
Look at all these vegetables in the thing.
So, yeah, that's not what it's like.
You're just a moron.
Walter Durante's stage-managed tour of Soviet Russia.
We broke a few eggs, but damn, that omelette's tasting great.
Exactly, and that's exactly what's happening here.
In 2022, 7,754 people experienced homelessness.
7,754 people experienced homelessness.
Got to love the managerial language there.
Experience.
Yeah.
It's also...
It also takes their agency away.
A homeless person is someone who took actions in order to become homeless.
Someone who is experiencing homelessness is having it forced upon them.
Mysterious and unknowable abstract forces have put this on them.
Who could have known that this would happen?
Act of God.
About 43% or 3,357 were staying in shelters, according to city data.
That's of last year.
So that's still over 4,000 people in the streets.
That's mad.
Yeah, that's ridiculous.
But it's going to be way higher than that.
Oh, yeah, of course.
These are the ones that they've managed to actually count.
Yeah.
In December, and once again, it is subsidized and supported by the courts and by the state itself.
Because in December last year, a federal judge temporarily blocked the city from clearing certain homeless encampments without offering shelter.
So unless you can give these people free housing, which is basically rewarding them for it, then you can't do anything about the problem.
Unless you've got Communists visiting.
There was also a problem here because in Norway they tried doing something very similar, but it just turns out that a lot of them just don't want to live in houses.
And I'm like, you're in Norway, why wouldn't you want to live in a bloody house?
But they'll give them a house and they'll just trash it and then leave.
And it's just like, okay, what can you do?
I mean, it's classic incentives.
What reason do I have when given a free house because I've made bad choices?
What reason do I have to actually look after it?
I think it might go further than that.
I think it might just be a certain percentage of people who just don't care.
Like, they're kind of mental.
They're weird drug addicts.
They're not going to just live in a house.
We've seen the sort of people that walk the streets in San Francisco.
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
They are mental.
Yeah, and so it's like you can't just expect this person to live in a house because they're mental.
They should be in an asylum.
But anyway.
But yeah, when it turns... Well, they are.
San Francisco.
Not an open-air asylum then.
So yeah, it turns out that when San Francisco and the Biden regime needs to roll out the red carpet for communists, then we can fix these problems.
So why don't we do it all the time?
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