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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #826

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	Shalom and welcome to the- I'm joined by Leo and Carl to the podcast.
	Hello, Zeus.
	Hello.
	I couldn't help it.
	I couldn't help it.
	Honestly, at least it wasn't in German.
	Carry on.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Anyway, today we're going to be talking about the tunnels.
	So we're going to have a laugh because I don't know what else to do with that.
	Just going to make some jokes.
	The attack on democracy, which is coming our way.
	Yep.
	And also, enough of your rights already, which is called Trieste against all of liberalism.
	No, no, no, it's not even that far.
	I mean, I could go that far, but I'm not going to.
	I'm just sick of hearing about them talking about our rights.
	Oh, shut up.
	Get a job, pay some taxes.
	That's all I'm saying, you know?
	Good advice.
	Anyway, if you'd like to have an event shouted at you, it's going to be happening now, which is me telling you about this event, which is after this podcast, we're doing Lads Hour again.
	So if you're a premium member, or you want to be, you come over and you watch it live at 3pm UK time, in which we'll be going through the IMDB list of movies and giving our opinions.
	And Leo will be joining us as well.
	I've got a degree in film, so I'm actually sanctioned by the state to say what films are good or not.
	We actually have a subject expert.
	The Queen bequeathed me with the power.
	So you're actually an expert in this?
	Yeah.
	Right, okay, I don't know anything about it.
	Alrighty, well, we'll be doing that afterwards, so do come and join.
	Otherwise... Ah, it's finally happened, let's begin.
	The Tunnels!
	Now we'll start this off with, um, how many I love Israel's do I have to do?
	So just be clear about the fact that I just want to talk about the news, nothing else.
	I'm just saying what's there boys.
	All right.
	Is that enough?
	About five, I'd say.
	Oh God.
	I've been in the mirror all night.
	I do love Israel.
	So my presence here, I just, I love the fact that, you know, uh, I'm like, look, look over there.
	A viable nationalist homeland.
	Yeah, literally.
	I wonder if we could have that somewhere else.
	Honestly, I actually totally agree with that critique as well.
	Can we not just have a border like they have?
	We're an island.
	It should be way easier for us to do that.
	I think being an island, sorry to get off topic here, but I think being an island actually makes it tougher because you can't really put up a fence.
	We don't need to.
	Yeah, but they can get across the channel.
	They've worked out that stuff can float.
	No, they can get across the channel.
	Yeah, but Britannia rules the waves.
	At least they should rule the waves in the English Channel.
	Alright, well enough on that.
	We can at least rule a channel.
	Yeah, exactly!
	Come on, you know!
	Speaking of the channel tunnels, back to Brooklyn.
	Because Brooklyn has its own tunnels, it seems.
	And this is the story that I think everybody's seen a little bit of.
	But I collected what I could to tell everyone about the story, what's true, what's not true, what I don't know.
	And there's not a lot that we know, to be honest.
	Most of what we know is that, well, the videos have all been deleted by the original uploader.
	Because he says here, I've decided to delete the entire thread about the Chabad Tunnel.
	I will not allow my account to be used by anti-Semitic Jew haters to promote their pathetic hatred of religious Jews.
	Okay.
	I love Dom Luker at the bottom.
	I'll keep mine up.
	That's a hell of a response.
	But, yeah, I don't think this makes any sense, just on the face of it, for a minute.
	I hate this idea that, let's say you upload something to the internet that's true and factual, and then someone uses it to, like, say their conspiracy theory is true.
	It doesn't matter.
	Yeah.
	What matters is the truth.
	That thing that they're doing is bad, but the truth is a separate issue.
	Yeah.
	And there's a nice summation of the footage we have here.
	Some guy making a meme here about a land down under, and he's collected it with music, of course.
	Yeah, copyright, copyright.
	Anyway, but it's a compilation here just because I don't want to sit here and show 10 clips, but you can see the various clips of what happened, which is, um, well, turns out there's a bunch of tunnels underneath this synagogue in Brooklyn, which, yes, you can discover them.
	It's pretty weird, as you might expect people to respond to that with that question.
	Now, I don't know what else to say because I've been looking at it.
	I find these sort of insular religious communities to be very, very peculiar anyway.
	Yes.
	And all of them.
	The Amish.
	Yeah, any of them.
	The Westboro Baptist Church.
	Yeah, yeah.
	They're all kind of weird, right?
	I think the Westboro Baptist Church are a bit of a unique case.
	Sure, but I mean like there's unique, weird religious stuff, but then when they've got infrastructure, Well yeah but they do and like and so they've got like they're going to come out I don't know anything about this right but I know what is going to be underpinning this is going to be some really obscure interpretation of like a 7th century text that has caused a massive schism.
	Well if you read it upside down.
	Yeah exactly it'll be like literally you know Moses went to the toilets on this date and not that.
	Anyone who disagrees is a heretic and this has been the schism.
	I mean this this is literally what like the Sunni and Shia schism is.
	Who should have inherited from Mohammed and it's like that happened a thousand four hundred years ago.
	Who cares?
	And isn't there a sect of Jews who, I don't know if it's the Hasidic Jews or the the ones who wear the you know the... Sephardic.
	Yeah yeah and like apparently uh it's just what it's not even it doesn't even date back that far.
	It's like 120 years ago they got off of the boat and that's what the guy was wearing so now they all wear it.
	It's like Mormonism compared to Christianity.
	I saw that stuff and I thought, man, that's got to be, that's got to go back thousands of years.
	And no, it doesn't.
	Well, yeah, yeah.
	I mean, in this particular case, possibly not, I don't know, like I said, but there's going to be a really small, pathetic doctrinal, not even doctrinal, probably, point.
	And then they become these weird like communities that, I mean, are digging tunnels in the walls.
	Yeah, they just, but they all dress weirdly and act weirdly.
	And like, I don't like, isn't this just an atheist view on all religion?
	No, no, no, no.
	Like, cause like with like Christianity or Islam or like, you know, Orthodox or mainstream Judaism, like they're not, they're not like, sorry.
	We just said Islam Weekly!
	They're not like bizarre like these things are, I guess because they've got the self-confidence of millions of believers, right?
	So they're not like kind of bizarre about this sort of stuff.
	They're just kind of open and this is what we do and it's, you know, it's fairly normal.
	You meet a small sect.
	Yeah, but when you've got a small sect that like is separating yourself off from the rest of the world, they become really weird and like internal.
	Well, we'll have a look, shall we?
	Because I don't think there's actually been a... My argument in this, you're gonna see, is that I don't really know what the solution is, or the source.
	Because no one knows.
	Solution to what?
	I don't know what's going on.
	Well, why did this happen?
	So, this is the main footage people focused on, which is because it's really funny.
	Which is...
	Which is this Jewish guy... He runs away at the end.
	I mean, the filming is in silence.
	It's just this guy being like, what's going on?
	And there's this Jewish guy popping out of the sewer that he's cut a hole through and then runs off like he's being caught by the police, which it turns out he was.
	It's just pretty funny.
	Yeah.
	So, and then what happened is the city has sealed up the sewer grate.
	Good idea.
	And this is the next thing that went viral.
	More sewer juice for us.
	What did you say, Lewis, sorry?
	Did they check his empty first?
	I don't think they're going to let anyone drown in there.
	I think they sent all of the police officers in there and they've discovered it, as we can see.
	But you can find this location, in case you're wondering.
	So this is the... I'm going to get this wrong, aren't I?
	But this is like the main residence here.
	And then this is the media centre for this organisation.
	I think the temple's in there as well.
	You may recognise this entrance from some of the footage where the guys are being brought out in handcuffs.
	So you can tell there's definitely some kind of basement or something down there, right?
	And then next to it, you've got the Children's Museum.
	It's a Jewish children's museum.
	And then if you go over here, past these police trucks, and then this weird van, which, okay, whatever, you can see the sewer grate right there.
	Oh yeah!
	So it's on Google Maps.
	You can see it seemingly goes under that house, through the media center, and then there's a hole there where you can pop up.
	And then there's accusations that one of the tunnels goes underneath to the Jewish children's museum.
	Now, one of the complications with this is that there's no footage or layout of the tunnels that's been publicly released.
	Because what happened is that the police were called to settle some dispute, found a bunch of guys hiding in the tunnels, and then were told about the tunnels, arrested everyone, because of all the hell you're doing, and now the state is currently investigating what is the case.
	And they haven't told us, so we don't know.
	And that's it.
	So that's the location.
	What is funny is someone did go down there and film what's below.
	So this is a guy with his phone, drops it through the sewer grate and as you can see there's just like piles of wood, some baskets, whatever else.
	It's just like okay so it's like a proper room down there.
	Right yeah and it looks like that would be stuff used in the construction of you know stanchions or tunnels or whatever.
	I'm not a mole, I don't know how to tunnel.
	So, there we are.
	But we'll go forwards, because you can see here, this one was really funny.
	This guy.
	So he tweeted one day, I swear I am hearing Yiddish under the floor in my New York apartment.
	I live at ground level, we don't have a basement.
	And obviously people were just like, well you're obviously schizo.
	And he responded, some of you owe me an apology.
	I'm not crazy, damn it!
	So it's just like, huh.
	Yeah, maybe not.
	People called him schizophrenic and anti-Semitic.
	Because it turns out, well, if someone came to you a week ago and said that... The floors are speaking Yiddish.
	But then this comes out, you're just like, oh.
	Well, I mean, maybe.
	Because it turns out the way this was found is that the people who own the temple, there's a schism between two groups.
	The guys who build the tunnels and the guys who don't want the tunnels built.
	And the way they found out is that the people living in the building were hearing noises and literally hearing people talk, which would have been Yiddish.
	So maybe him, in fact, reported it.
	And then they discovered the tunnels.
	So, yeah, bro was right.
	I don't know what to say.
	One of the funnier things people focused on was, well, not funnier actually, quickly, this is footage of the tunnels.
	So this is presumably the basement of that building, which looks normal, looks like it was probably built and then they're not really using it.
	Some steps down, I mean, seems like part of a basement to me.
	Some utility crap in there.
	I think there's some bathrooms, some showers around here as well.
	And then there's piles of dirt.
	as we can witness here, which have obviously been excavated.
	Yeah.
	And then this person goes on through here.
	It's a baby stroller, yeah.
	We'll come back to that.
	And then this is the only footage we've got, by the way, which the guy keeps exploring.
	And as you can see at the back there, if he turns back around, there is something that is actually a tunnel, where you've broken down the brick.
	And then he goes in and he shows you it's long.
	So, there we are.
	That's... It just looks like so much work.
	Yeah.
	But that's the only one that we have footage of.
	The only evidence.
	So I don't know if there's more.
	The police haven't told us.
	We don't know how long it is or where it goes.
	The police haven't told us.
	So there we are.
	That's the footage.
	So that's the most interesting part.
	The police who were up there were mostly just confused as to their job.
	And as you can see, they're pulling the guys out who have been digging the tunnels behind them or hiding in the walls there.
	And then the other faction of this community talks to the police.
	One of the police officers says, we don't do that in America.
	Yeah, I know.
	Yeah.
	Clearly has no idea what these religious nutjobs are doing.
	Yeah.
	Well, he might actually, because he is quite famous for policing this area.
	In fact, there's an article naming him the rabbi.
	That's his nickname in the police department.
	Oh, is it?
	He deals with this community quite a lot.
	So that's probably why he's smiling.
	He's just like, oh God, come on, because these people are unique.
	The New York Post went with this as a headline.
	Subvey.
	Yep.
	Ah, okay.
	All right, so the media were doing the media thing.
	Why not?
	Have a pun.
	But here's the deets.
	So this is a Jewish outlet which wrote about the whole thing and their details in here.
	They don't lay it out very well, so we'll use this for a second.
	They argue in here, arrests at Chadbad Iconic headquarters after students thought attempts to fill in the secret tunnel.
	So apparently the tunnel took months, perhaps even years for a small crew of the students here to build.
	And they built it in secret, so they wanted to keep the rest of the community in dark about that.
	And the reasons for doing it A bit confusing.
	So, they say a New York Police Department spokesman said the police arrested 12 people and that there were no injuries.
	Charges include criminal mischief, reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct, and attempted hate crimes.
	They don't tell us what hate crimes that the Jews were committing against other Jews.
	In tunnels.
	They just list that.
	I just find that weird.
	Don't know what to do with that.
	They said the tunnel was discovered in early December.
	Now, the narrative listed here and the explanation given by the students who allegedly did it is that they wanted to expand the center and they were tunneling into the building.
	Yeah, that's exactly what it looked like.
	A two foot by two foot tunnel looks like a real expansion to the center.
	This is what we were saying just before we started.
	How is that expansion?
	If I want a conservatory, that's an expansion.
	I want an extension on my house.
	I want a secret tunnel under the floor.
	That doesn't make any sense, so I don't know what to do with that.
	But that's the official word being given by those who are arrested.
	But the reason that probably doesn't make any sense will be revealed, because the Daily Mail, I think, did a better write-up, weirdly enough.
	And they write in here, the followers of the late rabbi Menesh Mendel Sneshashen a I told you.
	Okay, yeah.
	I tried.
	Seen as the Messiah, by many in the group, told the Daily Mail.
	See, I told you.
	Yeah.
	That they believe redemption will come to them when they fulfill his command of expanding their holiest site, his former home on 77 East Parkway.
	Redemption comes when we build this tiny tunnel, okay?
	Yes.
	Not really sure, but then again, we are dealing with really weird religious folk.
	Frustrated by what they saw as the synagogue's leadership's unwillingness to work to fulfill his command, some young Chabad members independently started tearing down walls to connect the synagogue, which sits in a basement that already covers the two buildings, into a third building next door.
	The Chabad leaders are in litigation over control over the third building, which is currently vacant but being used as a bathhouse for the last 30 years.
	So that's the... Being used as a bathhouse?
	Yeah, I mean, it just gets weirder.
	Do they mean a brothel?
	Not that I'm aware of.
	What does bath house mean?
	I don't know either.
	It's a house where you go and have a bath.
	Well, it's not a bathroom, but a whole house.
	Every room in the house is a bathroom.
	I think it might be slightly more metaphorical than that, actually.
	You bath at home instead of in someone else's house?
	What are you, weird?
	So you wouldn't get naked with lots of, like, weird Jewish old guys?
	So it's like an old Roman bath, are we talking?
	I mean, what the hell is that?
	I presume so.
	But, I mean, just the facts that get listed from the people involved seem to conflict and just make the situation more strange.
	The unapproved project was discovered in December after neighbors reportedly complained and the synagogue's leaders found themselves with a situation of whether or not to shut it down.
	That's the Daily Mail's words.
	When workers showed up to fill the space, young Hasidic men refused to let them in, with some seen on video breaking through the sanctuary walls with hammers.
	So that's them ripping down the woods and then hiding in the walls so that the concrete trucks couldn't fill in the tunnel with concrete.
	Because the apparently the tunnel is also causing structural problems.
	That's the concern for the city.
	Well, yeah, because I was going to say, I mean, I don't know.
	I don't know if they're structural engineers, any of these people have been digging these tunnels.
	But if you dig around the foundations of a big stone building, that can that can cause problems.
	I know that from growing up in a mining community where, you know, houses would sometimes topple into into mines, your ground would subside.
	So, I mean, you've got to get good miners if you're going to build a proper mine.
	Yeah.
	Some kids.
	Although I've heard, yeah, they do have some, they might have had some miners down there.
	Ah, we'll get to it.
	Well, actually, you bring us on purpose.
	So two people noticed something strange, which is they started pulling things out of the tunnel for some reason.
	I don't really know why you wouldn't leave your trash in the tunnel to be filled with concrete, because who cares?
	Yeah.
	And one of them was this mattress that has a big stain in the middle of it, which, um, I don't really know if I want the answers to this.
	And then the next thing is that people noticed was the baby chair.
	And the big suspicion from a lot of people is that this is really weird because there's some kind of sex crimes going on in the community.
	Yeah.
	And, well, this is what people are latching on to to be like, maybe this is evidence of it.
	I don't know.
	There has been a lot of evidence of child sexual exploitation in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community because it's such an insular, closed community where the men have so much power and there's code of silence and all the rest of it.
	I guess it's a bit like, you know, the Catholic Church.
	Yeah, it definitely seems to be that way.
	So that's the story as it stands.
	That's what everyone, or at least the mainstream conversation has been.
	Is there some weird stuff there?
	The tunnels themselves are weird.
	What's this weird sect arguing about?
	Why are they building tunnels?
	None of their explanations make any sense.
	And that's really all the information there is on the mainstream story there.
	Now, I have expanded this a little bit to find out more, which is... Oh, it's a fortune!
	We'll get to them at the end.
	I should tell what everyone else is talking about.
	Some people were speculating that they were secret tunnels like this one in Moscow, which were built during the pogroms, which is a way to escape in case some people turned up to try and kill you.
	I mean, that makes sense, why you'd build a tunnel.
	That'd be the first excuse I'd go to.
	You know, if people turned up, like, what are these tunnels for?
	I'd be like, it's in case people try and kill us.
	Like, that'd be... It's an election year.
	Have you not noticed what woke people have turned into?
	But that would make sense, and that would be a normal defense, right?
	You'd be like, well, you know, we're Jews, kind of scared of being killed, so we built these tunnels.
	But instead they went with some weird nonsense about expanding the place.
	But that's one thought that got noticed about all this.
	There was a narrative poking around that they built it during COVID to pray.
	This seems to have come from nowhere and is entirely fake news.
	Yeah, that's just people making stuff up.
	Right, okay.
	This is some other people trying to claim that there's even more of this.
	So Casey Neistat did a vlog a while back where here he's showing that there's a crack in the pavement in this area of New York City.
	Oh, yeah.
	And he's like, oh, stick my phone down there.
	And he's like, ugh.
	Like a Jewish man!
	No.
	But this YouTuber found the exact same place.
	The city had concreted exactly where Casey was.
	And then he goes on to show you that he found an entrance from an anonymous tip-off at an old synagogue nearby.
	And then there are tunnels in here.
	He finds a cat.
	And there's an extensive network of just nothing and trash.
	Has fueled further speculation about whether it's a bigger thing, or is this just an occasional thing, or what?
	But there's no evidence, it's just some people latched onto it.
	Again, who knows?
	But what is concrete is this particular community is pretty messed up, I'll be honest.
	And this is the evidence.
	So this is a news report about one of the religious leaders who went on trial for sexually abusing a young girl.
	And, um, he denied it.
	The entire community rallied around him and rallied against the abuse victim.
	Was she from that community as well?
	Yes.
	Right.
	And what was even worse is nine men were arrested for offering $500,000 to that girl's mother to shut her mouth.
	Jeez.
	And, well, she rejected it and was like, no.
	Yeah.
	Rape my kid.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	This went to trial.
	Um, and we'll get to that in a minute.
	What's very interesting though, And it'll come back to haunt us, is 3 minutes 31 on here, if I get to it.
	So that's one of the other people involved in this, where she used to be in the community and now describes it as a cult that she escaped.
	That's the thing that was turned into a Netflix show, and it was good.
	So this chap here, 3 minutes 31, his name comes on screen.
	So Rabbi Rosenberg over here.
	His response is that the community needs to step up and deal with its problem.
	Seems reasonable, yeah.
	His comment at the time, and in 2012, the New York Times wrote about this, talking about the orthodox shunning their own for reporting child sexual abuse.
	Again, I mean, not far right outlet, so we can't bet any of that nonsense.
	And which, we then go on in 2013, the guy's convicted.
	He's given 103 years in prison.
	Rosenberg is convicted.
	Not Rosenberg, the guy accused.
	Rosenberg was saying, we need to deal with this problem.
	It's bigger than people admit.
	He'll be out in 90...
	It's a bit lenient for my taste, but I mean, I suppose.
	Yeah, he sexually abused a young girl when she was 12.
	And in addition to convicting Mr. Webberman, his office was also charged seven Hasidic men with bribery and intimidation of the victim.
	And then they say the prosecutors know more victims who were too afraid to testify.
	So it is a wider problem, for sure.
	The state knows that, in fact.
	And in 2013, I mean, this popped up.
	Jesus, Vice!
	Yeah, this guy, Rosenberg.
	Again, another far-right outlet.
	This Rosenberg guy, um, did this article for Vice.
	As you can see, the Child Rape Assembly Line.
	Oh, good God.
	That's a headline.
	Oh, yeah.
	And this is a weird one.
	He goes on to describe how when he was in Israel, he walked in on, according to him, some rabbis raping young boys.
	And when he was like, what the hell is wrong with you?
	This is unethical.
	They were like, shut it.
	What are you doing?
	It gets really gross, to be honest.
	Well, it sounds really gross.
	Well, he turns out that the guy he found raping the child, according to him, was a member of the Morality Police, and then the Morality Police deemed him to be unethical for reporting it.
	So, God, this is messed up.
	He says on here, back to Brooklyn, seven years ago, Mr. Rosenberg started blogging about sex abuse in his particular community and opened a New York City hotline to file sexual abuse claims.
	He also posted appeals on YouTube, appeared on CNN, and has given speeches across the United States, Canada, Israel, and Australia.
	Today, he is a lone whistleblower among the Satmar.
	And for this, he is reviled, slandered, hated, feared.
	He even receives death threats on a regular basis in Yiddish and Hebrew newspapers.
	Advertisements are taken out to describe him as a stumbling block for the House of Israel.
	There are leaflets up in that local community calling him a corrupt informer saying that he should rot in hell forever and they should cut him off from all four corners of the earth.
	Can we get the opinion of the people who aren't pedos though?
	And the pedos are like, wow, we hate you, is that okay?
	So this is the weirdness, because this particular sect in this particular area of Brooklyn are bloody mental by the looks of it.
	So this is the sexual cases against this particular community.
	And you scroll down, there's just the case listed.
	Yeah, there's quite a few.
	Yeah, it's not...
	It's not strange to see them.
	So it does definitely seem to be that there's a, like any situation like this, insular community, doesn't work with the police, a bunch of weird men at the top of your hierarchy, which attracts pedophiles, engaging pedophilia.
	I mean, well, we have one that's convicted, so we can say that.
	Yeah.
	So this got conflated with the tunnels, and a lot of people are obviously doing Well, old schizo posting about Jews, of course.
	You can see why this came about.
	It wasn't just because people hate Jews.
	It's like, there's a lot of things that make people mix the rumors with something that's happened here.
	But there's no evidence that that's what the tunnels are for or anything like that.
	Not in the slightest, though.
	There isn't anything.
	There is a baby chair.
	There is a baby chair and a mattress.
	Yeah.
	But there's no details.
	So I can't say anything.
	It's just that that's the story.
	That's the extended part.
	But listen, the really funny happened.
	Well, not funny.
	It was weird.
	The New York Police Department deleted this tweet in which they, at the same time the tunnel thing blew up, they tweeted out that this guy was arrested for or is wanted for public lewdness in Brooklyn.
	So presumably part of that community as well.
	It's just like, oh god, I don't know that the New York Police Department doesn't get that.
	But anyway, what did we learn?
	Well, not much.
	Not really much at all.
	I felt like I learned a fair amount about this particular community.
	But the thing is, that's already publicly known.
	The police even know that.
	The prosecutors know it.
	There's local campaigns complaining about their lack of force to try and stop that problem.
	And their complaint in response is, well, they won't work with us.
	The community won't work with us.
	We can't solve it.
	I feel like there's vindication, though, for that guy who heard Jews under his floor.
	Yeah, take it.
	And everybody said he was schizophrenic and anti-semitic and I think, you know, maybe people should be a bit more careful before throwing around accusations of anti-semitism or whatever isomorphobia is because maybe there are people in the walls.
	It turns out that it's not a zero percent chance.
	Yeah.
	So there we are.
	I'll end this off, though, with I think the people who got the most out of this were SchizoAnons.
	Yeah, of course.
	4chan, for example, was just like, oh my god, it's Christmas!
	It's all come true.
	Hanukkah came early for them.
	Which really is, I think, the big story for the vast majority of us, because none of us, you know, very few of us live in Brooklyn, very few of us have any connection to any of this.
	But my god, have we enjoyed some good memes.
	So I thought we'd end that off with this, which is, I'll just go through, which is, as you can see here, the New York City Mayor has ordered every cop in the city to find the tunnel source.
	So, turns out that wasn't a plot hole.
	That was probably true.
	So, there's the ADL.
	They've now listed a few more things on their hate symbol list, such as clean mattresses and cement trucks.
	So, there we are.
	There's that, which blew up.
	People started making Ben Shapiro memes because, of course, you know, the probably most famous, I think, Jewish conservative... Ah, well, these Judeo-Christian tunnels, are they?
	Yes.
	Yes, they are.
	How did I know?
	I love you Ben.
	There's also the claims that New York Jews will rise again.
	This was enjoyable.
	There is also some new Minecraft skins available, if you'd like some, which, to be honest, if I was Jewish, that would be really funny.
	I'd totally download that, for sure.
	There's also some other people making jokes now whenever someone finds something weird in their house.
	So this guy found a big hole in his floor in the sewer, and people's response is, man, the Jews are going to come through your floor.
	This meme isn't going to go away.
	No.
	8 million views on that one.
	This is going to become a new running joke, I believe.
	There's other people talking about the fact, you know, you're hiding tunnels across New York City.
	Yeah.
	And then the last one I'll end it off with is, of course, a nice Harry Potter reference.
	Of course, because as we know, Harry Potter's joined the fire right now.
	Yes.
	But that's it!
	That's really the story.
	There's not much to know for sure.
	We don't even know how many tunnels there are, how big they were, what their purpose was.
	None of it makes much sense whatsoever.
	But it certainly is the case that people are conflating stuff, and not unreasonably.
	I mean, very weird community, very secretive, is going to cause a lot of rumors.
	Yeah.
	Like Freemasonry or something like that.
	Yeah.
	And it's also just a crazy thing to have happened.
	I feel like the news is getting weirder.
	Yeah.
	Like 2024 and we've already had like ultra-Orthodox Jews in tunnels.
	Literally crawling out of the tunnels.
	Oh boy.
	This is why I'm not making any predictions.
	People are like, what do you think will happen?
	Bro, I have no idea.
	That's why nobody cares when like, you know, the government announces, oh we're having this, we've got evidence of aliens and we're going to present the evidence in court and everybody's like, yeah, whatever.
	We've got Jews in tunnels.
	What about the tunnels?
	Did you see the one today?
	The government is going to mandate toothbrushing for three-year-olds.
	It's like, what are you doing?
	They're going to have supervised, Keir Starmer has suggested supervised toothbrushing in schools for children and it's like, man, this is just the encroachment of government into our personal space.
	The next thing after toothbrushing your teeth is going to be wiping your arse.
	And then like, you know, because no government program has ever rolled back.
	And if they ever did, if we ever got a government that was going to, you know, a supposedly far-right government that was going to introduce austerity, they'd be like, we're going to cut the bum wiping program.
	But the point is, like, look how far we've gone.
	It's just like, okay, so now we're going to have like mandatory tooth brushing.
	There's going to be a minister for brushing kids' teeth.
	This is the government's fault.
	It's like, man, we can't.
	As soon as the government fills a gap, people become completely dependent on the government or whatever that is.
	But the point is, look how far we've gone.
	It's just like, okay, so now we're going to have mandatory toothbrushing.
	There's going to be a minister for brushing kids' teeth.
	There's going to be an infrastructure around this.
	There's going to be a budget for this.
	Oh God.
	You know, it's just like, God, how pathetic is this?
	Anyways.
	Yeah.
	I mean, maybe these guys are right.
	Maybe we all need some tunnels to try and escape.
	Yeah.
	Or cavities.
	That's, that's the toothbrushing.
	Let's move on.
	Okay.
	Move on.
	So I'm going to talk about, um, about the attack on democracy that's happening around the world, but I'm going to focus specifically on Europe.
	Um, because yeah, I'm, I'm worried that, We're moving in an anti-democratic direction in Europe.
	We know across the pond, democracy is in a pretty parlous state at the moment.
	So according to Glenn Kirshner, who's a US attorney with 30 years experience, who's a legal analyst NBC and MSNBC News, so obviously, you know, a leftist, part of the leftist establishment.
	He says Trump has an extremely high chance of being convicted in 2024.
	He's facing, Trump is facing 91 charges across four criminal trials.
	There's also civil cases against him as well.
	While he's not expected to face all four trials in 2024, some trial dates have been set, and the first is the 4th of March, for Trump's alleged role around the January 6th insurrection.
	So, you know, and it's pretty much being pinned on him.
	If you see it discussed in the Guardian or whatever, they're saying, they're openly saying Trump incited it.
	They're prejudging his...
	his case.
	So, you know, the establishment is going to do whatever it can to use lawfare to bring Trump down.
	We know that's happening.
	And we know that this isn't the first time the government, the Democrats, the left-wing establishment have tried to subvert democracy.
	In the 2020 election, the Democrats colluded with the executive wings of government, such as the FBI, and with big tech companies to suppress stories harmful to Biden's electoral chances.
	The most notable being the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, which revealed details of all kinds of malfeasance and criminality, fraud, payments from foreign regimes to Biden family members, smoking crack, paying for sex, paying for sex with possibly with government funds, which is a super mega offence That's like, you know what I mean?
	That's like an offence squared.
	In a previous era, it would have been a super mega offence.
	Oh yeah!
	The one around Scott Free.
	Yeah, yeah, bizarrely.
	And there's, you know, there's the House Oversight Committee that are investigating.
	I did not have sexual relations with that woman too.
	I used the state's money to have sexual relations with that And I left my bag of coke in the White House.
	Can I have it back?
	Literally.
	Ironically, Trump is called a fascist, but the co-opting of executive arms of government and corporations into an undemocratic government is actually much closer to the realities of fascism, which is something that seems to be completely lost.
	And all the people are saying, oh, Trump is a threat to democracy.
	We must completely subvert democracy to stop him ever getting elected.
	But I'm not going to look at that because it will take too long to look at them all.
	I'm just going to look at Europe.
	There's a repeating pattern across Europe of a cordon sanitaire put around any right-wing party that gets electoral support.
	So a cordon sanitaire is when other parties refuse to work with that party.
	It's sort of like walling off the shit, basically.
	I haven't been following this, but I'm going to guess that the AFD broke 30% in the polls.
	Yeah, they're certainly on track.
	I haven't actually seen the most recent poll results, but they're doing incredibly well.
	I'll get to them in a moment.
	I'll go through a few of the other European parties that have had cordon sanitaires around them.
	In Sweden, the political parties in the parliament there adopted a policy of non-cooperation with the right-wing Sweden Democrats, which is now the biggest party in the Swedish parliament.
	So, I mean, cordon sanitaires, eventually they break open.
	And since 2012, all major parties in the Netherlands refused to cooperate with Geert Wilders' PVV.
	And they're now the biggest party in the parliament there.
	There's a pattern developing.
	In 2003, a majority of the Parliament of Catalonia refused to work with the right-of-centre, centralist People's Party.
	They're not even a far-right or far-left party, so sometimes people use these cordon sanitaires just to improve their own electoral chances and increase their own power.
	It exposes somebody, doesn't it?
	Yeah, whatever this coalition is, really that's just one party, and then there's us, the actual opposition.
	Yeah, and in France, they had a cordon sanitaire against Marine Le Pen and the National Rally, and they've sort of recently detoxified their party so more people are working with them.
	Or France got worse.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Both actually.
	And according to Sanitary, it happens less in the UK because we have a majoritarian system first past the post instead of proportional representation.
	So fringe parties tend to not get any seats, so there's no need to wall them off.
	Although, all parties refuse to work with the British National Party.
	But yeah, looking at France and this Cordon Sanitaire against Marine Le Pen and the National Rally, what happens when a Cordon Sanitaire backfires?
	Eventually they all crumble because, if anything, people feel that they're not getting a chance to vote, or they're not being listened to, so then they vote harder, and more people vote for that person.
	But it brings to attention the issue that the party that's sort of the insurgent party is trying to bring to light.
	Yeah.
	And every other party validates it by saying, right, we won't work with them because we're morally opposed or whatever.
	You know, we're morally opposed to preventing French kids from being murdered or something.
	Yeah.
	Well, that tells me more about you guys.
	Well, exactly.
	They're like, we're morally opposed to making sure that France isn't subsumed in legal immigration.
	We're morally opposed.
	And it's like, okay, well then that tells everyone.
	You're just telegraphing to the entire nation.
	If you want that problem ended, you've only got one solution.
	So, you know, Goethe-Wilders, okay, you know, when the Palestine stuff happened, Goethe-Wilders was like, maybe these people should probably not be here.
	Up in the polls.
	Yeah.
	You know, it's just like, you just tell everyone that's the guy to vote for.
	Yeah, and people really resent being told who to vote for and also, you know, casting a vote and then not seeing the person that they voted for that got all these votes, not being able to enact any, you know, enact the will of the people.
	You can see people in America are saying like, you know, like, I don't like Trump, but let me have the choice at the polling booth.
	Let me choose whether to vote for him or not.
	don't you know hobble him or take him out of the race unfairly uh and what happened in uh in france uh was quite interesting because france recently passed an immigration law that was surprisingly robust given that macron is a total centrist uh so they've got longer delays for non-eu foreigners to get welfare so they're gonna have to wait five years before they get any welfare good idea never They're going to have a reform of state medical care for non-EU foreigners.
	So, you know, that, that would end, you know, tourism, you know, people coming, you know, having their babies and, and whatever.
	And, and, and they're going to end I mean, quite a big one was ending the sort of automatic birthright citizenship.
	So if you're born in France, you don't automatically have citizenship anymore.
	So they'll have to request citizenship between the age of 16 and 18, and they'll take the parents' citizenship.
	Instead, there's going to be the possibility of the withdrawal of nationality, so dual national people convicted of certain crimes, pretty extreme crimes, the voluntary homicide of a police officer or government representative, can have their French nationality withdrawn.
	I mean, that's such a fringe case.
	You know, there's not that many voluntary homicides of police officers or government representatives.
	It's a good precedent.
	Exactly.
	Okay, well, if we do it for the police, why can't we do it for a regular citizen?
	It can expand out and eventually people will be like, well, maybe, maybe I'll stop killing people.
	Maybe I won't behead the school teacher.
	I'll go to jail.
	I mean, it just, it just happens so often that, you know, maybe they won't think that, but anyway.
	Yeah.
	Foreign students are going to give a guaranteed deposit.
	So like you know a stag dude going to a comedy club you all pay 20 quid and then you get the 20 quid back each if you don't uh throw any drinks.
	That last point actually was for a minute because if you've got dual citizenship so you remember like that Chechen guy?
	Yeah.
	I just imagine him killing someone like a police officer or the And he's the one who beheaded the school teacher.
	Yeah, and then being like, I'm French, I'm French!
	It's like, no mate, you're literally Chechen.
	You did it because of Chechen reasons.
	Yeah, and you did it according to the values of, you know, extremist Islam.
	And this is the thing that people have, I think, for too long, you know, Western Europe has been like, oh, we've got magic soil!
	We can invite all these people here!
	As soon as they step off the boat and step onto French soil or British soil or whatever, they're going to suddenly become imbued with Western values of tolerance and not beheading people because they showed a cartoon in class.
	And yeah, it doesn't work like that.
	Values don't evaporate on the boat.
	Also, family reunification rules are being tightened.
	So you can't, you know, at the moment, if somebody comes here as a worker or student, you know, you can bring the village with you.
	That's going to be Bring the village with you, and that's literally how it works.
	God damn it.
	Yeah, and they're also, wives are going to have to be older, so no more child brides being brought in from overseas.
	These all sound like perfectly reasonable rules.
	They are perfectly sensible, reasonable rules, but they were seen by the sort of centrist establishment as just horrific, racist, blah blah blah, everything else.
	Yeah, by the people who are morally opposed to preventing your children from being raped.
	Yeah.
	That's literally what they are for me.
	Yeah, look for us.
	Yeah, so what's interesting is that these rules that are seen as so far right actually got passed by Macron's centrist government.
	Right.
	And it happened because of the Cordon Sanitaire.
	If they hadn't been trying to exclude Marine Le Pen and these ideas, then it's very likely that these ideas would have been watered down because opposition parties refused to even debate the immigration bill in Parliament.
	We need as many foreign murderers in the country as possible.
	We're not even debating this.
	You are beneath our contempt.
	So if you won't allow every single Moroccan rapist and stabber, then no dice.
	Basically, yeah.
	Trust me, the soil is magic.
	As soon as he steps on it...
	It is like a druid actually, coming up to you.
	Because they refused to debate it, this compromise text was swiftly drawn up by a special parliamentary committee with very little oversight input from all these raving leftists.
	And as a result, the centrist government put forward a much tougher right-wing bill that Marine Le Pen has declared as an ideological victory.
	It is incredible.
	It's more than what she would have been able to do if she was actually in power.
	It's amazing.
	And you know, there's been some backlash.
	Macron's health minister Aurelien Rousseau resigned to show his opposition.
	I'm out.
	Not enough people are going to get murdered.
	I'm done.
	I'm done.
	No, I can't.
	I can't.
	France is finished.
	Billions must die.
	No, France is finished.
	Billions won't die.
	And Macron just said, I respect him, and then very quickly replaced him.
	I respect his moral stand.
	Yeah, but if we look, I mean, this week the AFD have been in the news quite a lot because politicians from Germany's far-right Alternative für Deutschland, or AFD party, met the head of the right-wing extremist identitarian movement A neo-Nazi activist to discuss a master plan for mass deportations in the event of the party coming to power.
	The meeting, which was first reported on Wednesday, took place last November at the Countryside Hotel on the outskirts of Potsdam.
	It's likely to feed a fraught debate over whether the AFD should be banned due to growing concerns that it poses a fundamental threat to German democracy.
	They're debating banning a political party to help democracy.
	That's not how democracy works.
	Democracy is where the people get to vote.
	If the people don't like the AFD, they won't vote for them.
	But it just so happens the AFD are one of the biggest parties, if not the biggest party, in Germany at the moment.
	They're in first place in all five of Germany's eastern states, three of which are holding elections later this year.
	But there's something deeper there that you just mentioned, which is like The AFD didn't promise to blow up the Reichstag.
	They didn't promise to ban everyone else from running.
	They said we will deport foreign criminals.
	And they were like, well, that's a threat to all of Germany.
	Yeah.
	So what is all of Germany?
	They're literally just suggesting stuff that's similar to what Macron, the centrist uber hero of France, has put into place.
	So in the German leftist minds, Germany is not the German people or the nation or the land.
	It is the people we bring in.
	Yeah, that's it.
	In December, the AFD passed 23%.
	Wow.
	So they're quite significant.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So now, especially with the riots and the protests.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Just the amount of women being raped, you know.
	Did you see what happened during the Palestine stuff?
	I don't know if you did.
	No.
	Even Antifa in Germany became pro-Israel because there's just so much German guilt.
	They were like, we can't cross that.
	Rubicon can't be taken.
	Yeah, well, I've seen footage of it.
	The BBC did a documentary on this.
	Oh, sorry.
	The Germans are leaving to go to Paraguay.
	No, no, no.
	Sorry, just a quick thing.
	We can't deport the anti-Semites.
	We're German.
	Sorry, carry on.
	All right.
	For years did you live there?
	Some of the Muslim youth have been, you know, throwing Sieg Heils and all the rest because they're like big fans of Hitler.
	Hitler was a German, you know, they can't get rid of him.
	And they're a bit more confident about displaying that anti-Semitism than, you know, your average Western anti-Semite would be because, you know, nobody slaps them down because they've got special status on the oppression pyramid.
	We can't get rid of these people who have clearly integrated in German history.
	They integrated too hard.
	They took it too far.
	I'm just saying, it's authentically German.
	And it's not the first time.
	It's not the first time they've tried to bring down the AFD using lawfare.
	And this is what they're trying to do with Trump as well.
	In 2022, the AFD headquarters were searched by prosecution officials.
	It was purportedly because of errors in accounting, but they were gathering hard drives and all the rest.
	It's a phishing exercise, basically.
	And yeah, what I find interesting about the, you know, the cordon sanitaire around right-wing parties is that you see right-wing politicians refer to it as populist.
	And it's always said sort of sneeringly.
	Oh, no, doing what the voters want.
	Yeah, literally, as if that's not what democracy should be.
	And also they suggest that right-wing parties, right-wing politicians are just pretending to espouse right-wing political positions in order to gain popularity.
	You know, there's sort of like fall fans sneering at Coldplay fans for, you know, liking some that's, or Def Leppard fans for, you know, liking some that's popular.
	But I've never met a right-wing person or a right-wing politician who I've felt holds their political position because it's politically expedient or, you know, lucrative or somehow, you know, the easier thing to do.
	It's always the harder thing to do.
	How could you be like, yeah, I'm going to make loads of money by becoming an extreme right-winger and getting everything shut down and de-platforming for everything and de-monetizing.
	Like, sorry, that's not what the money is.
	Never been able to work again.
	and all the rest of it.
	Like, the people on the right that I met, they're generally, you know, even if I don't agree with them, they believe it.
	They're sincere.
	They're sincere.
	So yeah, it's ridiculous.
	Whereas, you know, pretending to be left-wing can be very lucrative.
	Lots of NGO money.
	Yeah, look at 99% of comedians.
	Speaking of NGOs, this is another way I think democracy is being subverted in the West.
	Charlie Flanagan is an Irish politician.
	He gave an interview to the Irish Times as he retired from politics.
	He's a pretty liberal guy.
	He voted for divorce, he voted for same-sex marriage, he voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment, and also voted for the abortion legislation that followed it.
	But he's worried about the direction that the progressive agenda is moving Ireland in.
	We're letting in slightly too many murderers.
	We need 50% fewer murderers let into Ireland.
	Yeah, and some of them are, I mean, there are some homophobic murderers in the west of Ireland.
	I think it's Sligo.
	I can't believe the Irish would do this.
	A Muslim guy.
	Well, they tried to blame it.
	You know what they did?
	The liberal media was all like, oh, this man had internalized Catholic homophobia.
	He's an Islamic extremist and you're saying he's got internalised Catholic homophobia because he's suddenly become immersed in Irish culture?
	The magic dirt made him do it, Leo!
	Made him Catholic!
	It's absolutely mental!
	So yeah, this guy, Charlie Flanagan, he gives an insight into Irish politics.
	He says the liberal agenda has accelerated in recent years in a way that causes me discomfort.
	It's about euthanasia.
	It's a very radical ideological transgender agenda.
	It's commercial surrogacy and a move towards liberalized abortion, completely different from that which I voted for five years ago.
	It is immoral if the state can't euthanize its own citizens.
	Don't you understand?
	I have to retire.
	And then you create an industry around it.
	The transgender, the transitioning industry is worth billions.
	I think it's something like 17 billion worldwide.
	I did make that number up, but it is billions.
	I did research it once.
	It is a large industry.
	And you know, the number of gender clinics in the USA has gone from three to like over a hundred now.
	And so, you know, people are making a lot of money.
	And as soon as there's a financial incentive to be pushing this stuff, man, like, I don't, I just, it's, it's just, it's, it smells.
	Uh, not just when the operation goes wrong, but he says, uh, he says he hasn't suddenly become a raving right-wing extremist bigot.
	I still want Irish people to get killed by immigrants.
	It's not this quickly.
	So I have no respect for the pro argument with the number of murders that have gone on, the number of stabbings, the number of rapes, the number of terrorist explosions.
	So now that you, if you want more mass immigration, that's what you're asking for.
	Yeah.
	You know, that is precisely what you've come up with.
	And so shut up.
	I'm just so done with it.
	And especially when you have an immigration policy that isn't cherry picking.
	I think one of the things that we can do, one of the things that Australia does well, is it cherry picks the best people, you've got to reach points and all this sort of stuff.
	We've got a doctor with 20 years experience and a really solid track record, no criminal record.
	He can come.
	He, that one guy, can come.
	That's fine.
	He can marry an Australian woman, boom, done, sorted.
	We've added something to our country.
	No, we're just letting every Mohammed east of the bloody Istanbul.
	Yeah, and if you've got something like what they've got in America now, it's actually anti-civilizational, it's anti-us.
	I'm not one of the people who can just rock up to Mexico and walk across the border and be treated as a refugee because people will be like, wait a minute, you're a refugee from Scotland?
	I know Scotland is in a worse state than most third world countries, it's got a lower life expectancy than Gaza.
	You should go there and make this case!
	The Mexicans are just like, oh man, it's terrible!
	But yeah, you've got a system in a lot of Western countries at the moment where you're sort of selecting just for the people who are going to be the biggest drain on resources and the worst impact on society.
	And we tell them that they're going to get all our money.
	It's like, come over, we're going to put you up in a hotel.
	I don't get put up in a bloody hotel!
	The one thing that this guy Charlie Flanagan mentions is that there's a dangerous intolerance of any view that is not being pushed by vociferous, well-financed and well-funded non-governmental organizations.
	He says, if I wanted to have more influence on government policy, I'd become an official with an NGO than being an actual politician.
	And this, man, this is interesting.
	The way NGOs influence government is summed up in the National Review.
	So Ireland and other European nations are notable for having the government fund non-governmental organizations to manage and represent certain problems for constituencies.
	These organizations then lobby the government directly and governments treat the reports as if they're coming from citizens themselves.
	So the government has chosen, people in the government know what opinion they want to hear.
	They know what policy they want to put forward.
	But they can't just do that because that's not democracy.
	So they pay NGOs, they fund NGOs, who then lobby the government with what they're being paid to lobby the government with.
	And then the government can be like, well, look, these people want this.
	So then you get, you know, in Ireland, for example, their immigration laws have become vastly detached from what the actual general population want.
	And, you know, population growth in Ireland is, I think it was at 12.7% a year compared to like, you know, that's like almost 10 times the rest of Western Europe.
	And the amount of money that goes to these NGOs is insane.
	So the annual defence budget is under a billion euros in Ireland.
	The annual sum allocated to support the work of NGOs in Ireland is almost nine billion euros.
	Do you know how big the Irish army is?
	Probably not very big.
	7,000 men.
	Right.
	I looked it up the other day because it's literally like, okay, so you're bringing in literally tens of thousands of these people every year and you have an entire army is 7,000 men.
	Yeah.
	So if they all got together and were like, you know, Ahmed, yes, Mohammed.
	I think there were loads of us.
	I think there were like a hundred thousand of us and I just Googled it like Sargon of Akkad did.
	It says that they've got 7,000 men.
	We've got 100,000 men.
	Just saying, Ahmed.
	And do you think they'd then be like, uh, Britain, would you mind invading us again?
	Exactly.
	Okay.
	I think we're going to have to ask the Brits.
	I think, I think those 7,000 men are just to keep Britain out.
	Yeah.
	Well, no, they're not to keep anyone out.
	What they are is to support the police when the police need help in a particular area.
	So they're just an occupational force against the Irish.
	They're not going to keep the British army out.
	They're not going to give you the French Army or anything like that.
	They're just 7,000 men.
	It's not going to do anything.
	And is Ireland in NATO?
	Yes.
	Oh, it is.
	Right, cool.
	I assume it is.
	I'm just going to guess.
	So the amount of money that the Irish government spends on NGOs is 8% of the government budget.
	It's an insane, unfortunately, insane amount of money.
	And this is why you build up to the situation where you've got riots, because NGOs are pushing policy in one direction and it's you know completely away from you know where the population actually wants the policy to go we've got a similar thing in in scotland just because uh you know it's an it's a small insular uh political network in scotland and there's a lot of special interest groups and ngos that um that have the government's ear uh so the government gets sort of tricked into thinking that's what people want when no
	that's just what a few obese uh non-binary people with blue hair want um And in the UK, another threat to democracy is civil service government staff refusing to work with the government.
	So, you know, we vote for government, we vote for, you know, Boris Johnson, whatever.
	When we don't get Boris Johnson, I guess that's another threat to democracy.
	The fact that you get the person you vote for for two years and then they're replaced by somebody.
	And then the person they're replaced with is replaced with someone else.
	Anyway, Home Office staff say that they'll refuse to implement the Rwanda plan.
	Staff have called for industrial action and a bid to stop the policy.
	One civil servant felt that their situation was analogous to working for the Third Reich.
	Oh, come on!
	I mean, literally one of these examples, the deportation has been so unbelievably small.
	There was one where there was a repeated rapist who was put on a plane to go to Jamaica and a bunch of white British women Like, don't deport!
	It's like, literally, you're like pro-rapist.
	Yeah.
	You're actually there, going like, no, you can't send this rapist out of the country.
	He's not finished his work!
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	It's like, look, are you saying you just need a date?
	OK, look, I mean, like, stop it.
	He is a rapist.
	He's been convicted.
	He's been to jail.
	Get rid of him.
	But for Western liberal women, rape is when a man puts his hand on a middle class woman's knee.
	It's not when working class girls are raped.
	It's not, you know, It's not when Jews are raped in Israel.
	It's very specific just to the victims of hardline.
	That's resistance.
	But yeah, this idea that the civil service are refusing to enact the government's will, that's anti-democratic.
	People don't elect the civil... I know the civil service should act as a sort of ballast that restrains the government a little bit, but this is ridiculous.
	And also, if you think you're working for the Third Reich, quit!
	Quit!
	You don't have to work for the civil service!
	Jesus, go and get a job in the private sector with all your valuable experience.
	Being, I think, a long-term trend.
	The long-term trend is just for the West to have this inevitability.
	That's exactly right.
	It's like you're in 1938 and you're in the German Civil Service.
	I'm just not really in favour of gas and the Jews.
	I'm just not in favour.
	There were other jobs available in Nazi Germany.
	It's like, I'm going to go on strike.
	It's like, what?
	You're going to go on strike?
	You're not going to quit?
	You're not going to leave?
	You're not going to do anything?
	No, no, I'm just going to go on a two-week strike and then we'll get back to it.
	I'm just going to quiet quit during the Holocaust.
	Yeah.
	I'm just not going to put my full effort into it.
	This Friday afternoon, I'm just going to put my feet up.
	That's not how it works.
	And you know, that's not how it works.
	You know, if you're a conscientious objector, you go out and make the objection.
	Yeah.
	Put your, you know, I know it's paying your mortgage, but come on, have some moral.
	If you really think you're working for the third rate, it's ridiculous.
	Yeah, there's this inevitable drift towards communism in the West.
	I mean, there's a saying that all organizations that aren't set up with an explicitly right-wing bias inevitably drift leftward.
	I mean, it's happening to loads of people.
	Conquests.
	Are you insane?
	You got me on!
	Oh yeah, I guess so.
	But no, that's conquest like second law, I think it is.
	Right.
	But it's totally true.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And the share of GDP that is spent by the state is just gradually ratcheting up year on year.
	If we move along to the Economist article.
	This is going back to the 1870s where taxes were a lot lower.
	And everybody was a lot happier.
	But you can see, I mean this is insane, we're looking at over 60% in a lot of European countries for the proportion of GDP that's spent by the government.
	It's a good question by Lauren Southerman.
	At what percentage exactly are you just a communist country?
	Yeah.
	Because most people would say over 50, right?
	So half of the... So Austria is at that point.
	Yeah, half of the economy.
	France is at that point, Germany is at that point, Italy is at that point.
	Spain is nearly at that point, Sweden is definitely at that point, and the United States is at, what, 45?
	Nearly 50%?
	We're probably almost at that point as well, so... Yeah.
	You can see it there.
	Yeah.
	I mean, the Soviet Union was never 100% either.
	Like, there was a black market, which was literally just, you know, private ownership.
	And which was where a lot of the value was created, because, you know, there wasn't much happening.
	There was nothing else happening, so...
	So yeah, so this is something that worries me, where this is going to be.
	Unless we get, you know, everyone gets a Javier Millet, I think.
	Can you imagine?
	We need Oprah Winfrey to come out and be like, you get a Javier Millet, you get a Javier Millet, and we all, and then he can just be like, afuera!
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Every useless, because I was, man, just this week I was reading about the Minister for Sport is going after Joey Barton for offensive comments.
	He tweeted, oh no!
	Like that's tasked with dealing with Joey Barton's tweets.
	This is not something that my tax is spent on.
	It's ridiculous.
	The Arts Council.
	Why have we got an Arts Council?
	People don't want to buy tickets.
	Why have we got to subsidize ballet?
	Why have poor people's taxes got to subsidize the follies of wealthy people?
	I'm glad you bring this up because I'm going to talk about this in my segment.
	Good.
	That's my segment.
	Let's move on then, because the question, why do we need an Arts Council?
	Why does government money need to fund the arts?
	You'd think there's enough interest in the arts in the public to, you know, fund it themselves and make lots of money.
	And the answer is, of course, no, because the arts isn't what you watch.
	You watch stuff that's entertaining, and then you have the arts.
	The arts are ideological, the arts are liberal, and they're going to propagandize to you in the same way and in the same mechanism that a medieval Christian cathedral would do so.
	So this is, as you can see, the Alberta Rose Theatre, and they present Amendment!
	Writing Our Rights!
	You know it's going to be good.
	You know it's going to be good.
	Calling out for human rights.
	A concert featuring trailblazing composers, poets, and activists showcasing dynamic new works that look to our past to inspire a better future.
	I don't know what percentage of this is funded with government money.
	I just know it's most of it.
	This is by Melissa Dunphy.
	And so the piece juxtaposes voices of the founding fathers with those of minoritized women fighting for universal voting rights, including Ida B. Wells and Stacey Abrams.
	Is that not kind of cruel on the women?
	Because you're going to hear this, you know, eloquent and coherent speech from Washington and then Stacey Abrams.
	For anyone who doesn't remember Stacey Abrams, she's the repeatedly failed gubernatorial candidate for Georgia.
	Who was also portrayed as the Emperor of Earth in Star Trek.
	Well, he's not Emperor of Earth, but you know, the person in charge of the Federation.
	Taylor Stewart, the visionary founder of the Oregon Remembrance Project, who will share impactful stories throughout the performance.
	God, you can just see this sounds amazing, right?
	Including Oregon's most widely documented African-American victim of lynching, Oregon.
	Oregon had an African-American victim.
	That must be the only one.
	Oregon's an insanely white state.
	Yeah, I was going to say.
	And especially back in the day.
	Yeah.
	Alabama South.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So they found one, right?
	Stuart was known for his thought-provoking TEDx talk, quote, how do you reconcile a lynching?
	My God, how many hundreds of years has it been?
	Right.
	And so basically we'll talk about Oregon's history of racial injustice and pave the way for meaningful social change.
	So I went and looked up the lady who's done this.
	Now, I looked at her Twitter account and she doesn't... It's going to be fine.
	She's an obvious shit load, right?
	But she doesn't seem to be that bad.
	She doesn't seem evil.
	She's not like, ah, you know, but she just obviously believes all this stuff.
	But her personally, probably a nice person.
	Don't go and talk to her or anything like that.
	Don't go leave a comment.
	She seems like a nice enough person.
	But you can see the kind of thing, the premiere of American Dreamers, United by Dream, United We Dream.
	The lyrics are, this is where we found our home away from home, this is where we belong.
	Mother Earth, who feeds us all, takes our roots, their roots, no matter how long, how short.
	She's whispering, this is where you belong, resist, resist.
	Oh, there's no way!
	And as you can see by the 2.2 thousand views this has had.
	It might be not entirely funded by the public.
	There's no way this is self-funded, right?
	Just saying.
	How much was a ticket out of interest?
	If you go back, there was a link.
	Yeah, the tickets were something like $40 at most.
	So $40 for adults, $30 for seniors, blah, blah, blah.
	$5 for arts of all?
	Yeah.
	And I expect most of the people watching this are probably fellow art students.
	Thank you.
	So yeah, this isn't self-funded.
	There's a bit of a side there.
	How about the Me Too song?
	Why would you make one?
	What would the point?
	Well, I can pitch that to you as a project for this company.
	You'd laugh at me.
	Rightly so.
	I mean, I would be curious about the angle.
	Some of the lyrics go like this.
	This is our riot act.
	This is our revolution.
	This is our riot act.
	This is our manifesto.
	Talking about their monstrous actions.
	Their monstrous actions, eh?
	It's time for them to fear being named by the same voices they silenced.
	So, they are going to get named.
	Alright.
	Is this people on the Epstein list?
	It sounds rather anti-Semitic.
	Anyway, so what inspired this was this video that went around.
	Perfect performance.
	It's amazing.
	This mastery of the liberal arts manifest.
	So as you can see, it's called Identity Politics from Amendment, Writing Our Wrongs by Melissa Dunphy.
	Text by Stacey Abrams, Melissa Dunphy and Ida B. Wells.
	So what we've done is lift some lyrics, some text from Ida B. Wells.
	The All-Stars Choir.
	She's that lunatic?
	Yeah, from like early 20th century.
	Okay.
	She was a journalist, a radical race activist.
	But I thought we'd watch it and we'll talk about it in a second.
	It's going to be beautiful.
	All right, secret, on where we live in the right state.
	All right, secret, on where we are born.
	All right, secret, on how and when our families arrive.
	All right, secret, on where we can afford.
	Valid ID, valid ID, valid ID, valid ID.
	Our rights depend on whether IT matches our gender.
	Our rights depend on the glory of it, we cannot hold.
	Our rights depend on whether the criminal justice system Has convicted on Sunday It's literally a blue bridge.
	Yeah.
	Look at them.
	and some of the more than others This is the next battle for democracy One where all citizens can have their safe A cross the beach of our country
	They're criminals, yeah.
	This is the next battle for democracy.
	With liberty and justice for all Our rights we've had, our galler, we have a time to stand in line For our loyalty, our rights we've had A weather our rain is worth first from the rose
	Our rights we've had, our weather most was small As well as we've had, our self-revolved So, I mean, that is a commercial success.
	I mean, you'll agree.
	This, uh, clearly doesn't need public funding.
	Yeah.
	Um, I'm finally in favor of face masks.
	Prove a choir.
	Oh my God.
	Right.
	So, I mean, first things first, right.
	I just wanted about the framing because like, this is just the most self-indulgent thing Because this kind of, you know, choir music would normally have been praises to God.
	So it's not about you.
	They're in a church.
	Yeah, exactly.
	They're in a church, but in praise to God, in praise of creation, it would have been about something other than yourself that you are looking up to.
	No, now we're going to adopt that frame of worship and praise and go right on me.
	No, our rights depend, our democracy is all about me.
	We are the most important thing.
	And that's, I feel is just kind of gross, right?
	You know, that's just kind of gross to adopt the aesthetic of divine worship.
	I mean, I'm an atheist, but I can respect at least there's a beauty to this.
	Yeah.
	And they're totally co-opting it and making it utterly cringe.
	Right.
	So that, and they just make it unbelievably self-centered.
	I'm at the point where I'm like, you know, remember when Jordan Peterson first came out, there was a video of one of his lectures and he's just like, Oh, haven't we heard enough about your rights?
	And I'm just exactly at that point now.
	And so, yeah, I actually am just sick of your rights.
	Very tired of it.
	Right.
	But I thought we'd just go through some of the same, because I just think these are hilarious, right?
	Our rights depend on whether we live in the right state.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	State's rights.
	I might preempt a bit of this, but I hate this whole conversation that your rights are just given to you.
	There's a Polish phrase I much more prefer, which is, we do not beg for freedom, we fight for it.
	That's what they're doing.
	This is their machine gun.
	Liberal beggars.
	I think they don't understand.
	Liberals tend not to understand what human rights are.
	What liberals think is a human right is generally something that's nice to have.
	It's nice to have free healthcare.
	Like broadband.
	Yeah, it's nice to have broadband.
	It's not a human right.
	I'm not going to let Jeremy Corbyn forget this.
	Yeah.
	Jeremy Corbyn was like, broadband is a human right.
	No, it's not.
	A human right can't be something that imposes a burden on someone else.
	Because, you know, if you take the free broadband to its logical extent, if that's a human right, then eventually the state's going to have to hold broadband engineers at gunpoint Like they did with doctors in Cuba.
	Like they literally did with doctors in Cuba.
	Literally.
	But that's the point.
	A human right, in like the sort of classical liberal formulation, a human right is something intrinsic to the person that they possess with them wherever they go.
	So if they're on their own in the woods, then they have the right to do this, that, the other, because it's within their natural power.
	Anyone tries to stop me.
	Exactly.
	This is the law of nature.
	Yeah.
	So human rights can only be taken away by someone.
	They can't be given by someone.
	Exactly.
	But not to these people.
	To these people.
	And this is the key problem between like the Lockean view of liberalism, the Rousseauian view.
	The Rousseauian view makes the state nature itself.
	Because of course, in the Lockean view, well, nature provides the food, the resources, you know, the power of my limbs and stuff like this.
	But no, no, no.
	If we replace nature with the state and nature being a kind of proxy for God, now the state has to do all of these things.
	The state has to provide you with broadband because you would have broadband in the state of nature, don't you?
	That's literally where they're at.
	I know.
	It's moronic!
	I hate liberals.
	So yeah, our rights depend on whether we live in the right state.
	Well, I mean, not from the classical liberal perspective, but in the sort of like, you know, neo-Marxist form of liberalism, yeah.
	If I beg for it.
	Yeah.
	And therefore, you know, our rights depend on where we were born.
	Again, not classically liberal, of course, but in their new sort of Total state paradigm.
	That's true.
	And what they're complaining is that that means that there are some places on earth that aren't comprehensively liberal, but there are some places that are just partially liberal, like normal places like England.
	I was going to say.
	Not anymore.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	20, 30 years ago, places that are like partially liberal.
	And so they would believe that actually there's something outside of the burden of the state.
	But of course these people don't think about it, but they're also thinking, okay, all of mankind is living under this burden.
	So they say, well, our rights depend on when and how our family arrives.
	Yeah.
	If you break into a country, actually you don't really have many rights to things in that country and you should just get deported because you're illegal.
	That's totally true.
	But this is an injustice.
	Okay, fair enough.
	Then, of course, our rights depend on whether we can afford valid ID.
	What do you even do with that?
	Well, they think that black people are too poor to buy ID.
	Also, IDs haven't been around that long.
	John Locke didn't have an ID!
	He wasn't like buying booze with his portrait of himself in a locket.
	But that's the thing, if you deeply care about ID laws, you'd fight for them.
	You'd sincerely actually fight and then you'd make sure you won't have to show them.
	None of these people are going to fight.
	Think of it as a Covid passport.
	That's a good starting point.
	But think about the previous one.
	They're like, our rights depend on when and how our family will arrive.
	Because, of course, they think that no humans are needed.
	So the concept of ID is just a way of excluding those people who, for normal people, shouldn't be in your country and are taking resources they don't deserve.
	So then, of course, they go, our rights depend on the lawyers we can afford.
	I know you missed one there.
	Oh, did I?
	Oh, yeah.
	Sorry, yeah.
	The rights depend on whether the ID matches our gender.
	Breaking ground in liberal thought.
	I mean, it's true.
	This is an example of them getting what a human right is completely arse about tip because, you know, they think it's a human right for somebody to say that you are the gender that, you know, you pretend you're being or whatever.
	Yeah.
	And that's not like it's my human right to not be compelled to say things that I don't want to say.
	It's my human right to, you know, say you want to say your gender is Z-Zen.
	I don't want to refer to you as ZZM.
	If I want to be Two-Face and burn off half of my face.
	Yeah.
	I don't look like the ID anymore.
	Yeah.
	There is nothing to say about that, is there?
	Not really.
	It's just hilarious cringe that, like you said, has to be funded by the government.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, our rights depend on the lawyers we can afford.
	Now, that is actually a sort of technical legal issue.
	Criticism?
	Yeah, that's actually an issue, but that was solved about 70 years ago when the state provided you with defence laws.
	Yeah.
	So, not really an issue.
	Moving on.
	Our rights depend on whether the criminal justice system has convicted us of certain crimes under the law.
	Yeah, and that's what the law is.
	That's what punishment is.
	Your rights of freedom of movement, for example, is rather restricted if you rape and murder someone.
	Yeah.
	And I would say justly.
	Look at that for a minute.
	I'm an old hat.
	You could claim asylum, in their view, in a foreign country, because let's say I go out and kill 10 people tomorrow, well I'm going to be oppressed by the state after all that, so then I should go... That's the Foucauldian analysis.
	Yeah, I'm like, DPRK, let me in.
	I'm an asylum seeker.
	Well, in Portland or wherever this was, uh, let me in and they'll be like, Oh my God, you are, you're an oppressed asylum seeker.
	You only murdered 10 people.
	Um, and so actually take you in for that.
	I'll kick you out.
	Yeah.
	North Korea.
	I'm going to take that, but like California, but that's what I think North Koreans are like.
	But I love this.
	Whether it's convicted us for certain crimes of the law.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Obviously it does.
	Pedophile rights.
	But yeah, exactly.
	And that's where all this stuff is going.
	It totally is.
	Yeah.
	Totally is.
	But, but because pedophiles are humans and it's like, yes, that is true.
	Pedophiles are humans.
	Oh, well, they've got human rights.
	Oh, look, they're being oppressed by the criminal justice system.
	It's inhibiting their rights to access to children under the law.
	It's like, yeah, good.
	But then I'm not a liberal.
	But a system that targets some of us more than others.
	Yeah, the lawbreakers.
	You know, there's no point targeting little old grannies who aren't committing a crime when you've got literally urban mobs rampaging down the street, stabbing people.
	It's interesting that liberals will always bring up the sort of disparities, racial disparities in homicide statistics or whatever it is, as evidence that, you know, the criminal justice system is actually run by a KGB who hates black people.
	It's biased against, you know, this racial group.
	But then, you know, 95% of homicide arrests are men.
	Yeah.
	So are they also deeply sexist?
	No, no, not on this particular occasion, but on that one, yes.
	But that's the point, isn't it?
	Like, no, no, the criminal justice system is biased against crime.
	Yeah.
	That's just it.
	So who's committing the crimes?
	Well, they're stepping into that category.
	Anyway, so this is the next battle for our democracy, and I'm like, right, your democracy sounds like it's going to be really defensive of rapists, because the next line is one where all citizens can have their say about the vision we want for our country.
	So we need to have a discussion about this.
	We need the rapist and his victim, and they will be given equal amount of screen time to make their case as to why what they did was right.
	Otherwise they're not getting an equal say about the vision they want for their country.
	Look, we need representative government, a representation of society, and that includes rapists, so the first rapist MP will be celebrated as a step forward towards that future.
	He's your elected representative.
	Yeah.
	He'll be called Chris Pincher.
	But the funny thing about this as well, like you listed that crap there, and you've probably got more as well.
	Yes I do.
	Is obviously that's not the end.
	Even the crap they sung about isn't the end.
	There's a never-ending list of what real liberalism is.
	Yes, we need to hear Jimmy Sowell's view of the vision he wants for our country.
	And that's liberty and justice for all.
	I reckon we should run the numbers, actually.
	The percentage of people in society who are rapists, pedophiles, etc.
	and how many MPs they should have.
	Because I did see before we started, there was a celebration of a new member of the Spanish Parliament who's got Down Syndrome.
	And right-wing accounts were celebrating this, saying, Woo!
	First Down Syndrome MP!
	And she's a right-winger!
	It's just like... Yeah, this literally is the Labour Party the other day when they said they wanted retard representation.
	This isn't worthwhile.
	This is a waste of time, if this is what we're doing.
	I think it's a testament to how far Down Syndrome people have come.
	Because I think in the old days, it meant you were properly, you know, developmentally disabled.
	But now, like, I met a Down Syndrome lassie who's, she's an Olympian as well.
	And, man, you wouldn't know, apart from, you know, the facial features.
	But talking to her, you wouldn't know.
	Yeah, I'm not saying that someone with Down syndrome can't be a politician or anything like that.
	I don't know.
	No, but the argument is that you need representation, and representation is on all fronts.
	Sorry, we need rapist representation.
	Yeah, you need actually genuinely mentally ill representation.
	You need people with dementia to be represented by an MP with dementia now.
	Like, representative government is a stupid idea, just on the face of it.
	I think if we start excluding developmentally disabled people from government, we'll be out of MPs.
	He's like, what happened?
	We end up being well governed.
	We have sensible policies.
	And also, man, they do have representation because, you know, unless you're actually in prison at that time, you can go and cast your vote.
	So, you know, there's no law, you know, denying people with Down syndrome or, you know, people who've served a sentence for whatever crime.
	What about Holocaust denial representation?
	I mean, is that something like, if you want to go on everything, actually, I just thought we have to do viewpoint as well.
	So the Nazis will actually need their own representative.
	If somebody's got Nazi viewpoints and they're not in jail, they can cast a vote.
	I mean, they probably won't get the result they want, but they've cast their vote, they can see that little number in the polling results.
	But anyway, so the final one is, our rights depend on whether we have time to stand in line for hours on a weekday, on whether we were purged from the rolls, and on whether our votes were spoiled and left in uncounted piles.
	So now it's become a pro-Trump song, right?
	I mean, that's literally never happened to the left, you know, but it has happened to the right.
	Depends on if the other side prints a billion ballots.
	So I'm just saying, I'm really tired of the concept of their rights, and this was total cringe.
	They sound like conspiracy theorists.
	Yeah, I think so.
	And this thing about... Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a good point.
	How could they dare criticize the integrity of American elections?
	They're basically insurrectionists.
	I agree.
	And we should stop funding them with our tax money.
	We definitely should stop funding the arts with our tax money because, I mean, I've seen this a lot in comedy.
	I can understand some opera or ballet.
	I mean, it's part of Western cultural heritage that I think it's worth keeping alive.
	It'd be nicer if they just put the price of the tickets up and rich people paid for it.
	But some of this stuff like I remember like during Covid I didn't have much on so I thought I'll apply to you know the Arts Council has finally accepted comedy as an art form so I'm going to apply for money and it was like the amount of like you had to tickle these boxes so I had to be like yeah I'm you know genderqueer and you know I'm you know non-binary and all this stuff And also then they were all like, you know, they had all these things there to hit, like, you know, has it got an anti-racist message?
	Has it got all this?
	And, man, it's just the idea that, you know, you're going to put on a play at the Pleasance or whatever, and, like, it's going to have a powerful anti-racist message.
	You read these reviews in the garden, it's such a powerful anti-racist message.
	It's like, man, who are you convincing?
	Who are you, like, what racists are being like, I'm going to go and see this play!
	And then I saw that play and now I'm not racist anymore.
	It's like, are you mental?
	You're just preaching to the choir.
	And it just skews the market.
	So you've got these dog shit comedians that get money for, you know, to put on their funny play or, you know, to do their show.
	And then, you know, that's clogging up a theatre space.
	Also, anybody who goes to see that is going to be like, well, comedies.
	Terrible, I'm never going to see this again.
	We've got the cinema next time.
	So the Arts Council is a completely, you know, it just it makes the arts worse and also we have to pay for it and I hate paying for stuff.
	Well on that note, let's go to the video comments.
	Hey guys, it's been a while since I sent a lifting video.
	I hurt my shoulder a few months ago and had to take some time off, but I've been hitting it hard lately and getting ready for my next competition.
	Anyway, part of the training is recovery.
	So, this is my cold tub and I'm about to hop in.
	Let's see if we can get a temperature on it.
	32 degrees Fahrenheit is zero so that's pretty cold.
	Love that he's using a meat thermometer.
	Absolutely, yes.
	My wife asked me if she got one of these for the balcony, would I use it?
	I'm like, no way!
	Like, no way!
	Apparently it's really good for you though, because you get this rush of endorphins and also it flushes, like your body squinches all the toxins out your muscles or whatever and then squinches them, squinches fresh blood back out.
	I just don't like taking cold showers, like going in there.
	Yeah.
	Do the next one.
	Hi Lotus Eaters, Robert Arts3Dio here.
	I guess I just wanted to say in this here little video comment how much I actually really appreciate this community.
	Since I've started posting videos I've had people reach out to me.
	I've met some amazing people and I'm just so grateful for that and I guess I'm so grateful to the Lotus Eaters.
	I love your content, I love what you're trying to maybe do and I enjoy seeing the show every day.
	and I enjoy the bonus content and things like that but I wanted to say thank you to you guys because I think that the community of people that are here are amazing and um I hope that uh that the future is bright I guess you know yeah.
	So to contextualize that Robert was diagnosed with brain cancer oh shit about a month ago I think it was so but that was a very sweet video yeah yeah um got the rim ones Yeah, DragonhawkRed says, I hear tell there are alternative Doos music with Harry shredding on the guitar.
	That needs to be shared with the rest of us.
	Is that?
	I don't know.
	Oh, I've never heard that.
	John, pull that up.
	Yeah.
	RootTheDay says, the chat decrees the following.
	Now shouts consider adding seasonal and or holiday themed versions of the Doos.
	Where does this come from?
	And the graphics of the starter screen or else we will ask you again.
	We did have a Christmas version, sure.
	Yeah.
	And it's no longer Christmas, so it's been put back in the box.
	The Shadow Band sends us a $50 Rumble Rant saying shalom.
	See?
	Paid off.
	And that's the only thing he said, thank God.
	Yeah.
	Biggie Bigfoot says, can you guys cover the post office scandal so I don't have to watch some ITV drama about it?
	Why haven't I been to the post office?
	Yeah, I've been ignoring it because they've jumped at it and made it weird.
	So apparently there was this system that was brought into the post offices to categorize ingoings and outgoings, and there were a bunch of errors in it.
	But the people, Royal Mail, didn't concede that there were errors, and instead just assumed every post office in the country that had these errors were just stealing money from Royal Mail, the bastards!
	They hadn't done it up until we installed this new software, but trust me now.
	So people got all the ways to lie.
	I think that some of them ended up in jail.
	For committing suicide?
	Yeah, for doing nothing wrong.
	Some people were putting loads of their own money into the system so they would have the right number, even though they'd done nothing wrong.
	It's mad that people, the thing that really struck me about it was how many people sort of almost believed That they had done it, you know, because you think people would just be like rioting in the streets.
	I had not stolen six grand, that's bollocks.
	Yeah.
	But instead they were just like, oh God, have I?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Almost this sort of like Stockholm syndrome with the, with the government.
	I guess, you know, if you've been a government employee, a state employee for that long.
	So it's been going on for years and then I think it was the ITV drama came out and all of a sudden the government's like, oh wow, we can fix it immediately.
	Yeah.
	After 20 years of being like, well, it's very complicated.
	Yeah, but the Royal Mail's a private company now.
	I know.
	So it's evil, really.
	It's a really evil event.
	And they continued prosecuting people after they knew that the accounting software was delivering these errors.
	Why?
	Because it's the state.
	Because it's the government.
	Sorry, we've started so we'll finish.
	I'm going to stop doing the Hogwarts one.
	It's not Mastermind for Christ's sake.
	Bureaucracy says this, so we're going to do this.
	Oh, that is awful.
	That is awful.
	Matt says, I haven't got the faintest clue where to begin, even speculating on these tunnels.
	None of the explanations seem to hold any water.
	I imagine the reason is to do with some insane schizo cult interpretation of some esoteric text.
	The motivation is utterly incomprehensible for the average person.
	Civilization is truly incommunicable.
	Yeah, no, I really... The Jewish students are like, my goals are beyond your understanding.
	No, I agree with them.
	Yeah, they really are.
	I don't know why you're doing this.
	You know, Supreme Duck tries to come up with a reasonable answer, but we've already ruled this out.
	Maybe the tunnel was an escape route.
	No, no, no.
	Something bizarre and esoteric.
	Sophie says, remember how I made the Christmas video comment saying the 2024 is going to be absolutely ridiculous?
	We're only 11 days in and I am not disappointed.
	Lord Nerevar says the story about the tunnels is genuinely hilarious.
	In my opinion, yes.
	Never before have I seen something so absurd and so right for me.
	It's honestly the Jewish guy climbing out of the sewer.
	Like, I can't even describe what it's like.
	No, you can't.
	Um, but it's just, and then running off.
	It's just like, why did you run?
	But no, no, listen, right.
	All I'm saying is if 4chan had access to a movie studio, Yeah.
	And they were like, right, we want to portray this Jewish community in the worst possible light.
	It would look exactly like this.
	Yeah.
	You know?
	Anyway, Baron Von Warhawk says, Memes aside, something evil was going on in those tunnels.
	As nobody spends years digging in secret, spending tons of resources and time creating secret passages in the city for no reason at all.
	Well, no one reasonable does that.
	But these people are part of a weird cults and they have really weird and i like for you you're like well obviously it must be like child trafficking drug dealing counterpiving whatever uh for them it could be genuinely something bonkers but not one of those reasons once we connect all the buildings finally we will be secure yeah we'll dig tunnels in the shape of the star of david and they'll bring back the messiah or something it's like what you know everything i read about this particular group i mean genuinely they seem mental yeah yeah
	there are loads of like you know ishmaelites and stuff like that in the There were Christian sects that used to just castrate themselves.
	In the third century, the Pope had to put out a papal bull saying you're not allowed to castrate yourself.
	So Christians officially are not allowed to trans.
	They're not allowed to trans.
	Because the papal bull from like 272 or something, it's like you're not allowed to cut off your bollocks.
	Can you imagine if you'd done it the day before the ball got to your town?
	Yeah.
	The Pope said no!
	Imagine even now, castrating yourself, but like in those days.
	Yeah, yeah, I can't.
	With a flint axe or something.
	They had iron.
	Did they have anaesthetic?
	No.
	Did they have antibiotics?
	No.
	No, they didn't have any of those things.
	Not Scout Theory.
	No.
	I mean, it could have been quite sharp, I imagine.
	But yeah.
	Anyway, Sir Olmy says, The tunnel nonsense is such a non-story.
	Some fools dug a tunnel into a synagogue and in process filled the basement with dirt.
	This was illegal and dangerous.
	Other fools see pictures of the basement and think it's a tunnel.
	There was a baby in a highchair in the tunnel.
	Now, the highchair was stored in the basement.
	I wonder what the stains on the mattresses were.
	Wet dirt probably as the cellar was filled with it.
	We still don't know why the tunnel was dug in the first place and it hasn't stopped people from posting low IQ takes all over the internet, of course.
	And that's your conclusion.
	Yeah, basically.
	That sounded a lot like a court defense.
	It did actually, didn't it?
	But he is right.
	At the moment, it's a bit of a long story.
	It's just, you know.
	Because that video as well.
	It's really funny.
	Some people were acting as if that entire basement, the students had dug out and it's like, well, clearly not.
	Yeah.
	Because then that one tunnel is really crap.
	If they built the rest of this and then they went, let's just do a slight diversion.
	Alexander says, this tunnel story is just so bizarre.
	What was going on down there?
	And also really getting sick of how any questioning immediately gets the standard anti-Semite.
	Well, you know what's interesting?
	I haven't seen much of that actually.
	I'm sure it's happened.
	The Israel War Room official account of the government did it for some reason.
	I think they deleted it because everyone was like, why are you commenting on this?
	And also the ultra-Orthodox Jews, aren't they the ones who sort of oppose Zionism?
	A lot of them do.
	Not all of them, but a lot of them.
	Because, of course, there's meant to be a return of a messiah, and the third temple or whatever is going to get rebuilt, or the second temple is going to get rebuilt, and blah, blah, blah.
	They've got prophecies, right?
	You don't have prophecies, you don't understand, they have prophecies.
	But I haven't actually seen much of these, oh, if you're laughing at this guy crawling out of a sewer and then running off, you're an anti-Semite.
	I mean, I think a lot of Jewish people say that.
	Disgusting and weird.
	Should we move on to the next section?
	Yeah, maybe we should.
	Back on democracy.
	Anne Emos says, really good of Leo to bring up how horrid NGOs are and how much money they siphon off from taxpayers around the world.
	The only country with any sanity around NGOs is Hungary, who threw them out for being globalist supporters and saved the Hungarian taxpayers a lot of money.
	In the process, no doubt, Lord Nerevarse- One other.
	What's that?
	Not as wholesome, but Belarus did.
	The wording they said was they liquidised every NGO.
	Tony Blair Institute is next.
	Belarus is probably not the best example of something defending democracy.
	I've been to Belarus.
	It was super cheap.
	I got an Uber in Belarus and it was less than a pound.
	It was nuts.
	It was so cheap.
	We're filming out there so we had like a per diem that we could spend on like, you know, booze and food and all the rest of it.
	We couldn't spend it.
	Yeah, they're like, you've got five pound a day.
	It's like, I can't use it.
	Yeah, it was nuts.
	It was amazing.
	I love the idea of the, uh, what's the name of the president of Belarus?
	Lukashenko.
	Lukashenko.
	I'm being told we need to wrap up by the way, because we have lads out.
	Oh God.
	Time is important.
	All right.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	We'll do one from your last one, I suppose.
	Okay.
	Um, uh, George says the original Me Too song is a bunch of feminists wailing in the ruins of civilization.
	True.
	And on that note, time to end the show.
	We'll be back in an hour?
	Half an hour.
	Jesus.

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