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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 841 for today, Thursday, the 1st of February 2024, month gone by already.
	I am your host Connor, joined today by Carl Anstelios.
	Hello.
	And we're going to be discussing why conservatives are going to lose the culture war, Europe's guilt complex, and how January 2024 was wild.
	Bit of a roundup segment, going to be a lot of fun.
	Before we do kick off with today's segment, we have two announcements.
	First of all, a bit of premium content.
	I'm particularly chuffed that it's finally out today at three o'clock.
	It's going to be my interview with James Orr.
	Myself and Carl sat down and discussed post-liberalism, traditionalism.
	James speaks basically fluent Latin and Greek.
	He is an astounding mind, and I think we're going to need a part two in future.
	So please do go check that out for anyone who's a premium member.
	If you're not already a premium member, you should sign up.
	And you should sign up as well, because tomorrow we've moved Lads Hour from a Thursday to a Friday now.
	We have a...
	Hang on a minute.
	John, please don't press that.
	We've got Lads Hour, where we're discussing twink death. - I don't know.
	I didn't tell Stelios the topic ahead of time.
	Basically, Hollywood wants you to be an effeminate man.
	And this is a terrible idea.
	Don't be Timothee Chalamet.
	Timothee Chalamet deserves all of your scorn.
	Come join us.
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	Put comments.
	We'll address them.
	We're gonna have some drinks and have a laugh.
	But without further ado, let's jump straight into today's stories.
	So there was a recent controversy where a Christian blog decided to host an article about the end of feminism and it used this statue of Medusa being decapitated by Perseus in its thumbnail and resolutely, after criticisms, it refused to take Medusa's decapitated head out of the thumbnail.
	And I mention this because I think this is how Greta Gerwig is probably feeling right about now.
	If you don't know, the Oscars nominations got released and Ken, Ryan Gosling, got a nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
	I Am Just Ken got a nomination for Best Original Song.
	Billie Eilish, also my future wife, got a nomination for her song What Was I Made For.
	Curiously though, the Barbie movie, the director, and Barbie herself, Margot Robbie, did not get a nomination.
	Now, I promise I'm talking about this for a really important reason, and not just because I like the film.
	It's because of this.
	This is Kennergy claiming its final victory over feminism.
	The reason we can do this is because of something I've dubbed as the Ken Effect, and that is that a runaway interpretation of a piece of media based upon its premises and pure meme magic will become the dominant interpretation.
	And it shows that politics these days is less about facts, it's more about feelings, it's more about vibes, it's more about aesthetics.
	And so any conservative trying to win the culture war just by arguing the left into submission with reason and BTFOing college students on film is not going to get anywhere.
	And so Barbie and the recent Taylor Swift controversy are why conservatives like Ben Shapiro are going to lose the culture war.
	Can you tell me why should I watch it?
	Sorry, there was a craze at some point I remember both of you were having.
	Well, why do you say that?
	So we can explain to our viewers why you should watch it, because I did a little review with Dan as a segment, and then you did a really detailed breakdown as a premium video.
	If you aren't subscribed to our website already for as little as £5 a month, you can get all of our premium content.
	Barbie is essentially the ultimate feminist dystopian fantasy.
	So it opens in a world where all the Barbies are egalitarian.
	They all do their ideal jobs.
	They wake up and every single day is the same.
	They get up, they go and meet with the president, and then they go and dance all night.
	And they have the Kens, who are literally homeless chads who have to stay in great shape all the time, validating their experience.
	When they go to the real world, they realize that actually men aren't completely powerless.
	Ken realizes that he's been put down by the Barbies and then comes back and institutes a patriarchy to try and overthrow the matriarchal dystopia, and the Barbies are actually happier.
	And it's basically a Greek tragedy about how a man tries to break out of his subordinate position and ultimately fails.
	The best bit about it is how the Barbies stop the, uh, there's a weird dysgenic Barbie.
	Who stops the other Barbies from being happy in the patriarchy by kidnapping them and brainwashing them.
	I'm not even joking!
	The reason they stop the Kens from winning is they convince the Barbies to cheat on the Kens to make them go fight a literal Peloponnesian war.
	It is actually quite good.
	It's a great film.
	And in the end as well, the ironic thing is that stereotypical Barbie, who is Margot Robbie's character, the main Barbie, she chooses not to stay there anyway.
	So the fancy land of feminism is something she chooses to abandon.
	She goes and has a child, which breaks the feminist delusion.
	It's actually quite good.
	And I don't think they knew what they were making when they made it, that's the thing.
	No, and this is why the runaway interpretation of a thing, the vibe, is the more powerful thing.
	And this is why Ryan Gosling has got the Oscar nomination.
	Because we meaned Ken into existence rather than Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig.
	And it's quite important.
	I think these sorts of cultural issues are a litmus test for people in the anti-woke, conservative, traditionalist space who have got good intuitions rather than following trends.
	Because you know who agrees with us?
	Elon Musk.
	Interesting.
	And because I'm just thinking about this, the Ben Shapiro response to this was him literally burning a Barbie doll like he was a teenager.
	And Piers Morgan crying about it saying it's anti-male.
	Yeah, it's like, no, you idiots.
	Actually look at what's happening.
	Don't just react.
	You have the most painful surface level take.
	And that is why conservatives will always be on the back foot and losing the culture war.
	We're going to contrast one of Ben Shapiro's recent examples against this.
	So, Ryan Gosling responded to the fact that he was nominated in actually the most gracious and considerate and Ken-based of ways.
	So, before we go on to this, can we go back to that previous one, right?
	Yes.
	I don't ever see Barbie being used in memes.
	There's very little memetic potential of the Barbies themselves.
	We're going to see some shortly, but they're not that flattering to Barbie.
	I see lots of Ken memes.
	Lots.
	Even now, you know, months afterwards.
	So just saying, you can tell where the cultural impact has been.
	And it's not been from the Barbies themselves.
	Well, this is why Newsweek came out with an article saying, as you covered before, men are watching the Barbie movie wrong.
	Because they're not meant to be enjoying Ken.
	They're meant to be soft and soy boys, and they're not meant to like the vitalism of riding around Barbie land on horses.
	Did you pay to watch it?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I went to the cinema.
	Okay.
	Best tenner I ever spent.
	It's not that good, but it was pretty good, I've got to say.
	I really did quite enjoy it.
	Anyway, point being, Ryan Gosling responded to the fact that he got an Oscar nomination and he said, I'm extremely honoured to be nominated by my colleagues along such remarkable artists, but there is no Ken without Barbie and there is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie.
	See, as a Ken, part of your power and dominance is to be humble and considerate of your long-term, low-commitment girlfriend.
	Didn't refuse the nomination though, did he?
	No, no.
	What's actually probably going to happen is he's going to win the song and then have to perform it live at the Oscars.
	Oh no!
	It's going to be magic!
	I can't wait for it!
	It's the crying soyjack feminists.
	Oh, you mean like all of these lot?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, I just kept posting them.
	Yeah, feminist news.
	Ken getting nominated and not Barbie is honestly so fitting for a film about a man discovering the power of patriarchy in the real world.
	Great advert for patriarchy, lads.
	Agree.
	Did you know, so Margot Robbie's actually responded to this as of last night.
	She was on a film panel and she was actually very gracious and she said, I feel completely humbled to be at the eye of the storm of this cultural moment.
	Greta Gerwig probably should have got a nomination, but well done to Ryan.
	That's very kind.
	Even she's buying into Kennedy.
	She also actually said rather interestingly that if she could be anyone for a date with JK Rowling...
	Given the final line of the film and the message.
	Yeah, that's very interesting.
	That's fascinating.
	Yeah, because one of the things that the Barbie movie does is it ties womanhood explicitly to reproductive power.
	And so J.K.
	Rowling being the world's most famous TERF.
	Interesting.
	Anyway.
	Very interesting.
	What you said before, I didn't have the impression that Margot Robbie was a scent of woke.
	No, she's never really spoken about it.
	Yeah.
	Fascinating, that, isn't it?
	Anyway, so, uh, just more coping and seething.
	Let me see if I understand this.
	The Academy nominated Barbie for Best Picture, eight nominations in total.
	A film about women being sidelined and rendered invisible in patriarchal structure- No, it's not!
	What are you talking about?
	It's actually about the... The unfair dominance of the matriarchy and how it creates a subordinate class of literally homeless scum.
	Yeah, also the Ken revolution was completely non-violent because they asked him how they took over and he just said, we just explained the logic of patriarchy to them and they came.
	Yeah, it was irresistible.
	So they talked them into it.
	Okay, well, Margot Robbie's now tearful, Barbie.
	So this is when Barbie gets used in memes.
	People aren't happy about the fact that they just cannot stop the Ken interpretation.
	I just want to say I thought Margot Robbie actually did a really good job.
	She did exceptionally well.
	But, again, you can't control the messaging.
	Yeah.
	The vibe is what is always dominant.
	And so the vibe has borne out.
	Oh, yeah.
	The perfect example of someone that couldn't control the messaging and win is a failed president congratulating two failed Oscar nominees.
	Hillary Clinton, this is not a parody account.
	President nominee.
	Oh, well, yes, she didn't get to the presidency, yes.
	Greta and Margot, while it can sting to win the box office and not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you.
	You're both so much more than knuff.
	Hashtag Hillary Barbie.
	That sounds a bit ironic.
	Yeah, it is.
	Because Ken was the dude, wasn't he?
	I like the fact that my tweet is the first one that we're getting presented with here.
	I mean, I think that's a brilliant tweet.
	I did tweet it out under your recommendation with the photo of her.
	Happy birthday, future president.
	Yeah, just consider them as future Oscar winners.
	So, there were obviously memes made about Hillary Clinton as well.
	Everyone was talking about Margot Robbie, but I'm trying to get people to go, Mar-go to the polls!
	Very funny.
	And then also, there was an Oscar statue found dead in an apparent suicide.
	The Oscars did not kill themselves, it turns out.
	Shoe has just compiled a bunch of all the girl bosses coping and seething about this.
	Point being is that the progressive hegemony has one intention, it creates a cultural product, it tries to push a particular message, but the implicit way that the story plays out, it vindicates Ken as the hero, and Ken becomes a runaway meme, and then through sure acting prowess and the fact that people really enjoyed the film, Ryan Gosling gets the Oscars nomination and everyone's very happy about it and these people just can't keep a lid on that political message.
	So Barbie, weirdly enough, becomes the runaway conservative bit of culture from probably the last 10 years.
	Yeah, and Shu's right there.
	Affluent, liberal, white women.
	Because they're all the women who feel themselves represented in Barbie and who are the ones complaining.
	You're not seeing anyone outside of that particular demographic being bothered about this.
	Give it some time.
	Netflix may have an idea.
	Well, yeah.
	Well, they thought this was going to be their Black Panther.
	Yeah.
	And it turned out it was for the boys, which is quite good.
	Another just coping and seething article as well.
	Shocking.
	Oscar snubs from Barbie's Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie proves the movie's point.
	If only Barbie had done a little more time as a sex worker or barely survived becoming the next victim in a mass murder plot, or stood accused of shoving Ken out of the dream house's top window, certainly millions of Barbie fans are currently wishing they could push someone, perhaps a member or two of the film academy, out of a very high window.
	Yeah, no, Sex Worker Barbie.
	I'm for it.
	Let's see that film.
	What is wrong with you?
	Well, you know how the Kens are literally homeless servants?
	Yes.
	I was reliably informed by the Academy after the cancellation of Gone With The Wind that any film which depicts slavery in a positive light should not be given an Oscar.
	So actually, technically, Greta Gerwig should have rightfully been snubbed according to the logic.
	No, no, no.
	The Kens aren't slaves.
	It's worse than that.
	Slaves at least have a purpose.
	The Kens don't have a purpose.
	They are just a nuisance that they wish they could get rid of.
	Well, they're validation on tap.
	They don't need it.
	The Barbies validate each other.
	True.
	It is the affirmative female dystopia.
	Now, I raise this as well because Kennedy just cannot stop winning because the LA Times have laid off most of their staff.
	Oh, yeah.
	About 100 journalists, 20% of the newsroom have been sacked, including the author of this piece's editor.
	Yeah.
	That's good.
	Yeah, there's been a bit of a bloodbath in progressive media recently.
	It's because nobody's bloody reading it.
	Yeah.
	Sign up to lotuses.com and spot us if you want the scales to continue tipping.
	But it's because they're failing the vibe check.
	They're trying to push a message, the message isn't vibing with people, and therefore, organically, we're winning and we're claiming their cultural artifacts as our own and we're enjoying doing it.
	So, the reason I'm talking about this is because, as we already mentioned with Ben Shapiro burning the Barbie car, what kind of culture is Conservative Inc pushing instead?
	What are they creating?
	How are they winning the culture war?
	Oh!
	This liquid cringe.
	Ben Shapiro has done a rap video with Tom McDonald where, strangely, he raps slower than he speaks.
	I know I'm one to talk.
	And it's called Fact.
	I'm not going to play any because I think it will be copyright struck.
	You've probably all heard it already.
	Yeah, I don't want to torture you any further.
	So I just want to maybe pause on this.
	Is this what winning looks like?
	Like, if burning the Barbie car, and as we'll see later, insulting Taylor Swift as some kind of psy-op, is where we're going to go.
	And then we're going to produce rap videos with a guy with face tattoos and braids, just because he's MAGA.
	If that's what winning looks like, I don't want to see losing, frankly.
	I mean, he is the number one rapper in the world.
	Yeah, I know, he's boasting about that.
	Yeah.
	Okay, one that's on the iTunes charts, whereas that's not streaming, so that's not organic listens.
	So it's people buying it to support it, but this is going to be a flash in the pan, right?
	No D-net in her Fiat 500 is going to be singing facts on the way to her call center, but she is going to be singing soundtracks from the Barbie film or Taylor Swift songs.
	So it's frustrating that conservative media is trying to overtly push a message, it has no vibes about it, And it has no staying power because it's made in constant retaliation to the leftist hegemony.
	So all of your culture is just owning the libs and so it's just, it's not sincere.
	So is the issue here the appearance?
	Yes, the outward appearance and the fact that it has no cultural staying power and it has no integrity to stand upon its own.
	Lack of substance.
	That genuine conservatives wouldn't be that way?
	It's not even that, just normal people aren't that way.
	Okay.
	Cause I mean like the, the, I'm just Ken song.
	I can see why that would resonate with young men.
	Okay.
	Right.
	Cause they, they probably do feel actually the world is kind of stacked against me and I'm, I'm doing my best, but for some reason I'm being passed over for this white woman who isn't as talented as I am because she's a white woman.
	Why is the world loaded like this?
	So I can see why that would have genuine cut through.
	Whereas this is, yeah, it's just saying, well, look, I've got 6 million followers on social media, so I can get this number one of the chart.
	Okay.
	But what did that accomplish?
	The substances just get owned, libs.
	It's just the rehash of a 2016 college campus debate.
	Yeah, you're not affecting the culture.
	Well, you are actually affecting the culture on the right.
	Yeah, okay.
	I mean, the wider culture.
	Yeah, because we're celebrating criminality now.
	Oh, good.
	Yeah.
	So Little Pump, who's got more face tattoos, he's another rapper who Trump invited on stage because he endorsed him, has now got a Donald Trump's mugshot tattoo on his thigh.
	So Edmund's mug, fantastic and on account, also has passed all the vibe checks on these And he's saying, the problem is not necessarily being anti Taylor Swift or anti Barbie.
	Because Taylor Swift is far from conservative in her temperament, and so is the intention of Barbie.
	The problem is that this is much, much further.
	In 2024, right-wing culture is now criminal and downwardly mobile.
	That's not even an exaggeration.
	Worst of all, we're expected to celebrate it.
	So, not being funny.
	Daily Wire, guys.
	and we can all have a laugh and a joke at some of the stuff Kanye's done, wasn't, in hindsight, the best horse to back.
	Kanye being an explicit enemy of Taylor Swift as well.
	So if they're turning around and saying, oh, Taylor Swift's a psy-op, the Barbie movie is cringe and anti-male, but the dominant interpretation isn't that.
	People actually like the vibe and the aesthetics of those things.
	And then you're driven to put literal criminal gangster rappers in your own camp.
	Is this not a point of self-reflection?
	But also it shows that the conservatives are always one day late and one step behind on any cultural trend.
	The left has been embracing this for years and then suddenly, oh, we've got someone from there that likes us.
	It's like, okay, you're just behind the curve on absolutely everything.
	Why aren't you outside pushing the envelope?
	I think you're viewing it from a linear perspective.
	And you know, who is ahead?
	The question is, who is ahead in given particular circumstances at a time and a place?
	And the reason why I say this is because you could say that traditionally, we're talking about anti-systemic behavior.
	And some counterculture is, in a way, antisystemic.
	So it used to, the left used to be antisystemic in the past, but now that they have captured most institutions, it's the right wing that is antisystemic, and it becomes progressively more countercultural.
	So I don't see any kind of decline in this.
	If there is any kind of decline that I see, there is a kind of, let's say, antisystemic Behaviour for the sake of anti-systemic behaviour.
	It's the glorification of being against the system.
	Whatever the system is.
	Because being a conservative doesn't mean you're against a system.
	You want a system.
	You want an orderly society.
	We don't want the present system.
	The problem is the present system's values that it is pushing outwards are gross and perverse and entropic.
	Yep.
	And so is gangster rap.
	So we don't need to fold that aesthetic in just because some random people might enjoy Donald Trump's jokes once in a while.
	Actually, we should be adopting wholesome and encouraging aesthetics, which, weirdly enough, the Barbie film and people like Taylor Swift have, even if their message is attempting to be progressive.
	And the point is the substantive thing.
	I mean, like, How is this what conservatives want the world to look like?
	So once again, the conservatives have adopted a left-wing frame and embraced it as their own.
	What is a left-wing frame?
	Because it celebrates a criminal.
	Yeah, and also, is this a conservative aesthetic?
	The face tattoos?
	No.
	Yeah.
	So why are we celebrating?
	Oh, good.
	Little pump's our guy cause he's got a Donald Trump tattoo.
	Oh, good.
	Because it's election year.
	Exactly.
	That's the point.
	It's purely a partisan political thing, which, but that changes the nature of the, of the side that we supported or hypothetically support.
	And that's, I don't feel represented by this chap.
	Yeah, it's just about expedient power-seeking rather than long-term wholesome planning and values.
	And that's why we're losing the culture war, even if they win the next election.
	And so, I did want to go on to the other one about this, because it's me, hi, I like Taylor Swift.
	I was a bit ahead of the curve on this.
	Now, the Taylor Swift is a psy-op conspiracy theory has reached its apotheosis.
	It's very frustrating.
	This is end-wokeness.
	We've had Benny Johnson, Laura Loomer, Jack Posobiec put out actually factually inaccurate tweets accusing her of being a Pentagon op.
	And I don't care.
	Yeah.
	All I, all I said was look, Taylor Swift is not the enemy.
	I mean, like, look at that picture in the bottom, right?
	You've got a blonde haired American woman giving this big Chad guy a big hug and kiss and stuff like that.
	If that to you is the enemy and the other guy, the gangster rapper is not, then the problem is the left has already beaten you.
	Yes.
	The optics are important, because for those who don't know, and this is actually in reference to the Kanye Swift battle, when he got up on stage and said that you shouldn't have won the award for the music video, the music video was for You Belong With Me, and the entire point of the music video is that she's, it's a beat and a beast scenario, in reverse.
	She's the nerdy girl, he's the football team captain, she ends up falling in love with him despite his cheerleader girlfriend.
	She's now living that dream, and the Conservatives are going to this all-American girl who's literally the captain of the football team.
	Ugh, you're a Democrat psy-op!
	Come over with our face-tattooed raps!
	Excuse me, sorry.
	I'm in the mood for being devilish today.
	Go ahead.
	So, what you are saying about Taylor Swift, it seems to me that when people have a go at Taylor Swift and say it's a psy-op, they focus on the wokeness.
	They don't focus on something else.
	Does she do anything that's woke?
	Yes, she does.
	She does.
	I don't know.
	She does.
	So, right.
	So she endorsed Marsha Blackburn in 2018 based on the abortion stuff because she said that she's Trump in a wig.
	She then said she promoted BLM rioters saying that, you know, when the looting starts, the shooting starts, she said, we're going to vote you out of office.
	And now what they're afraid of, and I've summarized this because she voted Biden-Harris and baked cookies for them.
	I've summarized this in this segment from November.
	But they're worried that basically ahead of 2024, she's doing another tour.
	She ends her tour in Florida right before the election goes ahead.
	They're worried that she is being co-opted by the Democrat establishment to raise a political consciousness among young white liberal women, increase voter registration to give a swift lift in the polls, and then prop up the Democrats who are ailing.
	The EU have even said the same thing, right?
	So it's not impossible, but- Isn't that the sad state of affairs of them?
	Yes.
	Doesn't that show the EU is begging Taylor Swift to save them, the Democrats are begging Taylor Swift to save them, and Taylor Swift is there with her all-Americana, hunky boyfriend going, oh, one day we're going to have kids.
	Like, you know, like this shows the weakness of the left.
	This is, this is exactly it.
	Like, look, just on optics alone, this is what non-politically plugged in dinos are going to see.
	There's more normies than you who are terminally online.
	I say this as someone who's terminally online.
	Look at the old Taylor Swift, right?
	And then... Looks happy there.
	The current one.
	Yeah.
	Her music has changed.
	Her vibe has changed.
	And so people are going to take from this.
	Oh, Taylor Swift is no longer the arch millennial cat mom who's singing about breakups.
	Marriage is cool again.
	Dating is cool again.
	What makes women more conservative?
	Because currently... Kids.
	And that's the thing.
	Not saying wrong stuff!
	No, no, no.
	Screw woke stuff.
	You can't screw woke stuff.
	You're very intelligent.
	You're more focused that people follow ideas.
	They follow incentives and vibes.
	This is the vibe.
	The woke stuff is a veneer, right?
	And it can trap them in a kind of parallel universe.
	Where they become like the 50-year-old wine aunt who hates the patriarchy until she dies on her own, right?
	But the genuine substance of what's happening here, I mean, this is the most American picture you could have taken.
	This is a great representation of America.
	It makes present America in the essence of it, you know?
	And this is genuinely classic, like, 80s movie Americana, right?
	Taylor Swift is doing it in 2024 and the Republicans are like, she's a Democrat, shut up.
	It's like, no, guys.
	Don't worry about what they're saying, because she is going to want to have kids with this guy, and that will get loads of young women to be like, yeah, I need a big hunky guy of my own to have kids with.
	I wonder if there are any big hunky guys in the Republican Party, because they're certainly not the goddamn Democrat Party!
	Like, this is how the Republicans win.
	Conor's completely right.
	If we don't step on a cultural rake and make ourselves radioactively uncool to the uninitiated girls, she will accidentally be a vibe-based psyop for pronatalism and therefore swing young women to the right.
	Can we go back to the other picture a second?
	Yes, we absolutely can.
	I bet he votes Democrat.
	He's an obviously left-wing man.
	He looks weak.
	So, right, look at the whole thing.
	Travis is left-wing.
	Travis is left-wing.
	I'm sure he is.
	But the message matters less than the image.
	No, no, no.
	I'm sure he's totally all about...
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's a normie.
	It's going to be a normie.
	But the point is, look at her.
	Look at the way she stands.
	Look at, she's like, okay, I'm holding his arm.
	He's not paying any attention to her at all.
	She's clearly not enchanted with his presence and the relationship.
	Whereas if you go back to the other one, you can see she is literally, I mean, look, look, people know she's glowing.
	Yeah.
	She's having a great time.
	She's literally leaning in to being his woman.
	You know, like this.
	He's passing the green line test.
	Exactly.
	He's passing the green line test.
	She's just got a genuine smile on her face.
	She's having a great time.
	But this is important and conservatives do need to pay attention to this.
	That's the origins of a woke mother.
	I don't think propaganda, but it matters.
	It matters.
	Increasing the population isn't the only thing.
	It's the population to be conservative.
	But most women become conservative when they have children.
	Yeah.
	And most people don't operate on the basis of ideas.
	They operate on the basis of instincts and incentives.
	So a necessity.
	If the uninitiated normie woman who isn't going towards wokeness consciously, but she does see, Oh, Taylor Swift's got married, honey, do you want to, do you want to finally get married?
	Do you want to finally have some kids?
	They're more likely to have an investment in the What if they're pro-natalists?
	We're anti-natalists and they say there are so many... But most people aren't.
	Most people aren't anti-natalists.
	We see this with the polling.
	It's just that they are concerned about the future and they don't feel they can afford it.
	And when women get into their 30s, they really want kids.
	Yes.
	The biological clock really starts ticking and she's found this giant Chad guy with a beard.
	What a surprise.
	That could be you guys, you know what I mean?
	It could be you.
	Except, and this is why the online right have fallen for this, this is the most revelatory treat in the world because Mary did an article on this, and in response to this, quote, I don't understand girls but I know a Psy-op when I see one and that's one.
	This is the problem.
	What is the Psy-op?
	Why would the Democrats want Taylor Swift to find this big hunky boyfriend?
	Why would they want that?
	Just to increase voter turnout, I guess, which didn't happen in 2018, so it kind of undermines their argument.
	Also, she doesn't work for the Pentagon and the Soros family, you bloody idiot.
	She spited the Soros family.
	But even if she did, I don't care.
	Like, the average person doesn't know any of those things.
	They just see Taylor Swift is getting married, she's going to have kids.
	Oh God, I am 35.
	Like, this is, you know, I would love a baby.
	You know, I've been putting it off all this time.
	Maybe now's the time to start looking.
	It's like, how to get women off the Democrat plantation is to make them concerned about the future of their children.
	Yeah, but boomer cons don't understand online vibe-based politics.
	They only understand facts.
	Not just online vibe-based politics.
	I know what you're saying.
	Yeah.
	These women's consciousness has only been raised because they've been galvanized by going into online spaces.
	Okay, question.
	You say most people act on instinct.
	Yes.
	What if they say we see a woman going out with someone with a beard?
	OK?
	And they have children.
	And they also see, ah, this lass is preaching to her children woke doctrine.
	But most people just don't go along with that.
	They would.
	They'll see it at a superficial level.
	They'll see the images, right?
	They won't sit there and read a full article on Taylor Swift's beliefs on critical race theory or something like that.
	They'll just see she's hugging her boyfriend.
	Oh, honey, do I...
	You live too much in the wrong vibe, you're doing this, you're doing this Stelios!
	I'm sure they will say that, but one of the great things that breaks critical race theory is contact with reality.
	Because, I mean, one of the things that I've noticed as a father of two girls and two boys is they're very, very different.
	And they're very different from literally their earliest moments.
	May I give you a compliment?
	How would that, as a conservative father, There are progressive parents who are the worst thing.
	No, no, no.
	Because my sister is a progressive parent.
	She has encountered the same thing.
	Because it is just nature that is taking hold and living itself out through the necessity of raising kids.
	And so you are forced into positions where you have to be essentially anti-progressive for the safety of your own children.
	And that's what they will put first.
	So Connor is right on this.
	So I just want to finish on a few conservatives that did actually pass the vibe check.
	Trump himself is not worried.
	So his allies are pledging a holy war, but privately he's already said, oh, I'm more popular than her anyway.
	It doesn't matter.
	Yeah.
	He knows the sides are entrenched.
	Actually, if Taylor Swift were to try and galvanize a democratic debate, a democratic vote, do you think she wants a bunch of pro-Palestine protesters disrupting the vibe at her concerts?
	Maybe.
	I wouldn't.
	I mean, it would be bad optically.
	If I were Trump, I'd have just come out and gone, oh, I really like Taylor Swift.
	I would have tweeted, I hope her and Travis are very happy.
	Yeah, I hope they have lots of kids.
	Yeah, good luck to the Chiefs.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Their kids are going to be beautiful.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Like, you know, just whatever.
	Take the high ground.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Peachy Keenan's done the same thing.
	Even though he's a Pfizer shill, he is still a red-blooded American man who showed a long string of bisexual skinny British metrosexuals she dated, could never give her the happy ending she wanted.
	She is centering cis-heteronormativity.
	I wonder if the rainbow people will start to get weird about that.
	absolutely will yep taylor swift will be will basically usher in the next american baby boom with this just vibe uh john doyle also on it john doyle's just done a great video on why conservatives can't make culture and he's right it's vibe based he can see it um radfem hitler who gets every take white uh no she doesn't she's fantastic she's great uh taylor swift and travis kel's getting married will heal america yep Vote, vote.
	Michael Knowles as well.
	Michael Knowles is the only person daily wyvern that got Barbie right as well.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Taylor Swift is temperamentally conservative and the right should cautiously stand her.
	I agree.
	So this is why the right should stop setting on rakes.
	Taylor Swift is a psyop for what exactly?
	If we stop alienating her fans, she could be a psyop for us, be very pronatalist.
	And so, Conservatives need to understand that aesthetics and vibes matter more than messaging, and matter more than trying to make friends with people with weird face tattoos who aren't actually pushing our values.
	So frankly, stop making MAGA rap, stop making cringeworthy movies, double down on the Ken effect, and we should be Smith Maxxing.
	Right.
	I want to spread a message of love, and I really take issue with people who want to spread a message of hate.
	And I want to talk about members of the EU Parliament, especially hard-left members of the EU Parliament, who are members of the Education Committee, and they issued a report calling for trashing European history as completely guilty and just completely blood-ridden, and that Europe is the worst thing ever.
	Well, it depends on your view on, uh, blood-ridden histories, doesn't it?
	Well, question, were these people German?
	No.
	Hmm.
	Surprising.
	You'll see.
	It's an interesting story.
	And I discovered an interesting historian.
	I don't know if you know him.
	I think that you don't know him.
	Who is it?
	I found him.
	He's Netflixius.
	Sorry, who?
	Netflixius.
	Oh, no, I haven't.
	We'll get there.
	I have seen some of his work, but never studied it.
	We'll get there.
	We'll get there.
	Anyway, so let me see here.
	There was an article on the European Conservative.
	That is a very interesting online newspaper by Thomas O'Reilly last week.
	So it said, "Leftists plan EU-wide history curriculum." - Can't wait to see what that looks like. - So you see, by being a member of a union, you know, you have the union sometimes trying to impose on you from a top-down, in a top-down way, particular policies.
	And in this case, the policy is to foster a European consciousness.
	Now, there are a lot of people online at the moment saying, well, what were the benefits of Brexit?
	See, well, this is one of them.
	Okay, so... European consciousness worked out really great the last time, didn't it?
	Wow.
	Well, not only do they want to foster European consciousness, they want to Spread it throughout all member states by means of teaching a particular course of history at schools.
	And let me just say this because it's a very interesting topic and it has many dimensions.
	Connor, I appreciate the fact that you're about to laugh.
	Sorry, I've just got Deutschland, Deutschland, über alles going over and over in my head.
	But that was German consciousness.
	Yeah, well, the EU is Germany by any other means.
	I think now it's more French-led.
	It's becoming more French-led, especially with the energy issues that Germany's facing and the destruction of their nuclear program.
	That's a great point, actually.
	The Americans have destroyed Germany yet again.
	So, let me just tell you this, they want to have the same history about Europe that is going to be taught at the schools of all European nation members.
	EU members, sorry.
	And let me just say one thing, because identity is an interesting issue.
	We are members of several groups, and these groups form, in a sense, part of our identity.
	Now, European identity, like Western identity, isn't necessarily in conflict with a strong sentiment of national identity.
	You could say I'm English and I'm European, not in the EU sense.
	We're not European.
	Okay, you have a separate thing.
	But you are right, you can be a Frenchman and you can view yourself as a wider part of European civilization.
	Could you say that you view yourselves as Westerners, for instance?
	It's kind of a redundant package.
	We'd say Anglosphere.
	Yeah, the point is that be it.
	I can understand where you come from.
	Yeah, having an identity and identifying as a member of a particular group, be that a nation or a supranational entity, are necessarily in conflict.
	It's like a Russian nesting doll rather than two forces hitting each other.
	But the issue here is that if you dig deeper into what was suggested here, they are in conflict.
	And this isn't a suggestion about fostering a European identity that is, let's say, accommodating also a strong sense of Attachment to a local place and a strong sense of national identity.
	It's the exact opposite.
	And in fact, it's even worse because you could say that some people would advocate for the idea that you need to part with your old identity, your national identity, and accept a supranational identity, which is communicated as a good and virtuous identity.
	But in this case, they're advocating for a European identity that is supranational and against national identity, which is going to be all guilt ridden.
	Yeah.
	And what they're saying is that they're trying to use this history lesson to frame European history as irreparably racist and imperialist.
	Let us read.
	Just as a quick thing.
	It kind of is, but almost all history is irreparably racist and imperialist.
	I think, well, yeah.
	How could Chinese history be characterized as anything other than that?
	Chad, yes.
	How could African history be characterized as anything other than that?
	You know, like, yeah, it's ethnic groups dominating or being dominated by other ethnic groups.
	You could say that's the majority of history.
	You're absolutely correct.
	And it is a point that you anticipated.
	But something else I want to say, because I, unlike you, I'm not a postmodern relativist.
	And I do not think that... I think that relativism has a problem.
	It leads us into not being able to judge other cultures.
	Oh, I can.
	I was judging from my position.
	Yeah, but the idea of relativism is that there are no objective standards from which to judge.
	I don't need an objective standard.
	My standard is good enough for me.
	You're a weird wife-burning customer or whatever it is.
	Yeah, but I'm representing the truth.
	But this is the problem, because this is all founded on liberal prides, as in liberalism would have, oh, these things are...
	All of history is irredeemable because of the very abstract sort of comprehensive liberal view.
	So I don't care about the abstract comprehensive liberal view.
	It is as it was.
	And it's, I think, better to understand why it was like that for the people at the time and why they took the actions they took rather than retroactively applying a standard that we couldn't ever hope that they would ever hold up to anyway.
	So what do we even think?
	Yes, but apart from warfare, there was also the development of civilization in several spheres, and I think that not all cultures have fared equally on the same level, even though warfare is something that was shared.
	But the value that is being applied is one that is purely liberal, and I don't really agree with that liberal value.
	Because, for example, the Celts turn out to be a really, really positive culture when it comes to, say, women's emancipation.
	It's like, yeah, but what that also meant is that men didn't take responsibility for their own children.
	The wives are held in common in a lot of ways.
	It's like, okay, I actually think that's wrong and not appropriate.
	And I don't really think that's very healthy.
	And I mean, look at the Celtic culture.
	They screw around cutting off people's heads and throwing people into bogs and stuff like that.
	I think there are consequences that come down the line from like weird behaviors like that.
	But then you've got the Romans who are insanely sort of oppressive and patriarchal, which It seemed fair to me.
	And so there are lots of ways of judging.
	I think there are definitely many angles into the conversation, but you're absolutely correct that the overwhelming majority of history is problematic from a liberal perspective.
	It's warfare, I would say.
	It's not just warfare as a common theme, but like anything ancient people did is going to be rendered illiberal if you purely take a liberal frame and say, well, they're not good.
	But I think you're both saying the same thing, actually.
	Warfare is problematic from the liberal perspective, because part of the ambition of liberalism, per even Hobbes' Leviathan, is to prevent all future conflicts from ever happening.
	So, retroactively, if you're putting liberal priors on it, everything in history is an issue, not just because it was prejudicial, but because there was fighting.
	Yeah, but OK, let me just say it wasn't just liberals who wanted to end wars.
	But sure, let's say.
	But it is a congenital aspect of liberalism to say that anything that isn't dealt with on a rational, diplomatic basis is somehow immoral.
	And I'm not even sure I agree with that.
	But I think we will agree that it is irrational, given the fact that what you say is correct.
	And the majority of history has been warfare and there has been An abundance of, let's say, non-Western imperialism to just focus on the European aspect of it and say that this region over here is uniquely problematic, uniquely guilty, and needs to atone for its own past in a way that gives carte blanche to other sides.
	It's an aspect of extreme vanity as well.
	Say, oh no, actually, we are uniquely illiberal.
	And it's like, well, hang on a second.
	We're not uniquely anything, actually.
	I mean, we're uniquely some things, I guess.
	But like, we're not more important.
	It's placing an excess emphasis on us.
	So it takes on the aspect of ethnocentric vanity.
	Like, it'd say, oh, well, you Browns couldn't ever be as bad as we were.
	I mean, A, they could, and B, why is that so great?
	Why are you trying to make it so it's, again, something exclusively for the white Europeans again?
	You know?
	Okay, but let me just ask you.
	No, no, no.
	It's essentially the discussion I wanted to trigger with this.
	What kind of society is built upon a negative foundation myth that it tells itself?
	Because essentially, that's what is going on here.
	You could just look at the Foundation myths of several cultures, they all tell themselves, they all try to create a narrative that is going to function as a way of having a collective memory and understanding of the world in order to foster a kind of a sense of belonging and a sense of identity.
	What kind of identity is built upon a narrative of guilt?
	Well, if a person... Upon a narrative of unique guilt.
	Putting this down to an analogy, if a person lacks self-confidence, if they feel that they cannot positively contribute to the people around them, if they feel that any time they make their preferences known that it is an inconvenience or it's somehow unjust, then they're going to retreat from their peers, they're going to stop accumulating possessions, and it gets right down to the kind of logic that leads to a suicide.
	And so if you play that lack of confidence, that guilt out on a national scale, You're going to have the complete implosion of the European project and people swarming like vultures picking at all of the resources they've still got to hand out.
	But also what it's going to do is give the state excess justification to take control of things in order to try and mitigate any sort of positive action on behalf of the nation itself.
	Let us see from the side of the EU Parliament.
	It says politics, I'll read just some bits.
	It says politics of the past in the European Union, a critical assessment.
	Number four, stresses the need for an honest assessment of the EU's politics of the past through which it has striven to add legitimacy to the European project, strengthen a European sense of belonging and foster the peaceful existence of the continent's people.
	History began with the post-war order.
	That is genuinely the position.
	By equally acknowledging achievements and existing shortcomings and by scrutinizing the ways in which citizens have been encouraged to engage with the past.
	Now, Conor, I wanted to say something on what you said.
	There are people who literally think that the world started post-World War II because that's the foundation myth of the universal international order and its own mythology.
	Yeah.
	There's another thing.
	There's a book, a really interesting book about European history and about post-World War II Europe by Tony Judd.
	I think it's called The Making of Europe.
	And he was saying that there is a problem with identity.
	And one of the things that he says, which he isn't the only person who says by any means, was that post-World War II, there was an effort in Germany to play down the Let's say the rhetoric that highlighted national identity.
	Because in the minds of the people who orchestrated that order at the time, and I'm not saying that that was wrong, they wanted to avoid World War III.
	In their mind.
	I'm not commenting on that.
	That's a separate discussion.
	But what I want to say is that it's understandable to try to prevent something like that in such conditions.
	What happened now?
	What happened now that led these people to say, we need to collectivise guilt across all EU members?
	Why now?
	What this is, is what Ralf Schollhammer said as an Austrian.
	These people make policies based off of WWHD.
	What would Hitler do?
	They ask that question and then do the opposite.
	So the program of denazification drove people so mad post-war that you ended up with the Kentler experiments where they thought that sexual oppression led to Nazism, so they gave children to convicted paedophiles.
	This is the kind of ideological bankruptcy these people have.
	And if you think you're wrong, the very next line is Holocaust Remembrance Day.
	Well, quite.
	So I was going to say this.
	This is actually why I think Jewish people and the people in the intersectional camp have quite a lot of infighting.
	It's not just ethnic and religious preference.
	It's because for the post-war order, the Holocaust is a kind of moral creation story.
	When I say moral creation myth, I don't mean made up.
	I mean as in a powerful moral narrative that has a hold over How policymakers shape the liberal order to try and stop the kind of conflict that we saw in World War Two happening again.
	And so they see that waning the further we get from it.
	So even the nations which stopped it now need giant totemic reminders of the Holocaust perpetrator, which is why now the UK Parliament is building a Holocaust memorial next to it.
	It's our fault.
	Let me say that it's worse than that as well, because I ratioed James Cladley on Twitter the other day.
	He literally said, We promised that the Holocaust would never happen again.
	It's like, James, that makes us sound like we're complicit.
	Yes.
	Okay, I'm not having it.
	We are not complicit in the Holocaust.
	We weren't the perpetrators.
	And I want to add to what you said after I narrate clause seven.
	It says, recognizes that the horrors of the past serve as a negative foundation.
	You exactly called that!
	And provide a strong sense of purpose for the European peace project.
	The other acknowledges that the Union's concerned mainly with narrating a story So, they say in words that they acknowledge that there is a danger, but they actually don't.
	And let me just say one thing, because there are some double standards here.
	Any kind of foundation myth has, you could say, has a conflict on its origins.
	And I'll just give an example.
	Athenian democracy in the 5th century, they had the narrative of the slayers of tyrants.
	They slayed Hipparchus.
	Hippias didn't die there, but they threw them away by Hermodius and Aristotle.
	And the idea was that, you know, we have slayed the tyrants and this is the birth of Athenian democracy.
	In post-World War II, the narrative and the foundation myth of the international liberal world order was we won fascists.
	So, in all these narratives, they're not narratives of guilt, they're narratives, we did something, and we were correct in doing it.
	That's the myth.
	Here, it's a negative myth.
	Yeah, it's the same as, say, the establishment of the Roman Republic.
	What these three origin stories have in common is that the people doing it were the bringers of freedom.
	That's the point.
	We are liberators of a particular tyrannical and oppressive order.
	So it's intrinsically positive.
	There's no one that's like, oh, I don't want my freedom, thanks.
	I think I'd rather be under the heel of some tyrant I've got no control over.
	No one is on the other side of it.
	So it's an unvarnished good.
	There's just simply no one arguing pro-tyranny.
	And so this is the total opposite of that.
	It's the total inversion of that.
	There's actually nothing good about us.
	And so their origin myth Is to essentially sanitize our civilizations?
	Yes.
	It's to starve you of the appetite of victory so that you never seek it through conflict again.
	Yeah.
	Question, do you think that this is propagated by the left alone or not?
	No, I think it's the entire European project is congenitally infected with this mindset.
	Oh, I think you're correct and you'll see why.
	I spend too much time in Europe.
	Let me just say, number 14, it considers chauvinism, gender stereotypes, parasymmetries and structural inequalities to be deeply rooted in European history.
	Yes, that's true.
	And regrets the lack of a sufficiently multicultural and gender sensitive approach in this Go ask an African tribesman if he buys into gender stereotypes.
	Or power asymmetries.
	The idea that European history wasn't communist...
	That's because that's what they're arguing for.
	You know, no chauvinism in favor of your nation, no differentiation between men and women, no social stratification or structural inequalities.
	These are fictional things that communism attempted to achieve and never was able to because they can't happen.
	But then this also, we spoke about this in the upcoming Why Wokeness is Liberalism podcast about Claire Chambers' feminist panopticon.
	Her definition of power used Foucault's is that anytime there is a relationship, there is a power imbalance because one person benefits at the expense of another.
	So she said, in order to achieve the liberal dream of equality, we need the state to basically monitor every single relationship, including shaping desires to shape the thoughts in your own head, so that we ensure there is no equality produced.
	So if they're saying, We're going to shape your perspective of history in order to nudge you towards never thinking about power asymmetries again.
	It's the state policing thought in order to achieve total equality.
	It's mad.
	So I want to show you that it's not just from the left that this comes from.
	It is also from the center right here.
	Some members of that education committee are members of the EPP group that is supposed to be a center right group.
	And if you see here on what their priorities, what they stand for, they say, for instance, EU defense.
	I saw digitalization and globalization there.
	So they're Blairites.
	So they say that Europe needs to grow up and stop counting on the US for its own security.
	Oh yeah.
	I'm sure the US has something to say about that.
	Where is it?
	Secure borders!
	What are the odds?
	Yeah.
	I mean, don't get me wrong, I agree with those things.
	Support for our farmers.
	Oh yeah, they haven't been protesting right outside the European Parliament this morning, complaining about a lack of support.
	And the fight against terrorism.
	But I mean, I agree with all of these things.
	They're going to go nowhere.
	The question is, though, whether we have people who are trying to pretend as if they're advocating for some policies and behind closed curtains, they're in favor of an agenda that is radically anti-sovereign nations and pro an organization that is going to foster the mentality in some people of thinking that they're guilty and
	Well, what's the problem if they don't continue living and they don't propagate their civilization?
	This is the patriotic party for the European nation-state.
	Yeah, that's what that is.
	Now we see here from another, there were also other members in the committee from it.
	That's from Cyprus.
	That's the AKEL party.
	Sorry, is that the literal hammer logo?
	Yeah, that's a hard left party in the EU Parliament from Cyprus.
	And there were members of it in that education committee.
	And I want to say also that they had the member here.
	Let me just show you this person.
	Who was on that committee and he left because he disagreed with communism being portrayed as a totalitarian.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	How dare you besmirch the good name of... But I wanted to show you some of the things that this party is for in their positions and actions.
	I'm not going to comment more.
	They say solidarity with the struggles of the peoples for the right to self-determination, but also the protection of their sovereign rights.
	Combating of xenophobia and racism with an emphasis on the need for a European immigration policy based on solidarity.
	What is the sovereign right of a people if it's not xenophobic?
	Well, and if you don't phrase it necessarily in terms of xenophobia, you could say that there is a positive in-group preference.
	Sure, a normal person would do that, but any left-wing reading would have to view the sovereign right of a people as being necessarily exclusionary and therefore xenophobic against other groups.
	They're saying it's the universal consumer unit, that's it.
	The people just means everyone on the planet.
	Oh right, I thought it was a people.
	And they say resistance to the EU's policies of militarization and interventionism, to the arms race and the assumptions for initiative of disarmament of conventional weapons and WMDs.
	Well, I can agree with the against neoliberalism and austerity policies one, but that's about it.
	Anyway, this was a person who advocated against.
	This is Catherine Grisey.
	She said, the European Parliament wants to rewrite the history of European nations in a woke version and impose it in school textbook.
	This masochistic revisionism is a new pretext for monopolizing national skills.
	And she's talking about it.
	Now, I want to say one thing about European historical conscience and what it would be like.
	But before I say that, There should be a promo there, but it's fine.
	So what it would be like, okay.
	What would a curriculum be like that?
	And I want to say that there was a historian called Netflixius and he had a book called the Annals of Netflixius.
	And I wanted to just show you some of the stuff that he has said about England.
	Can you guess?
	I unfortunately can guess.
	Yeah.
	Was it all that we were actually pharaohs who were also black?
	Well, let's see here.
	Yeah.
	Shadow Man.
	Hypothesis.
	Also, Telegraph article, yes, from the 27th of 2024.
	Black Cultural Archive says that the first Britons were black.
	Exhibition on diverse history claims.
	The nation was populated with dark-skinned people for 7,000 years before whites arrived.
	From where?
	I want to know where we came from.
	It's Netflixes, you don't question Netflixes.
	Cthulhu spawned them from the Netherrealm apparently.
	Yeah, before we arrived from like Alpha Centauri on the spaceship of Yakub or whatever.
	And also Cleopatra was black, according to Netflixes.
	And I want to end with Elon Musk's tweet, what has become of America.
	Here, where he shows some pictures, and he says, violent activists, he retweets something from Libs of TikTok, says, violent activists tore down dozens of statues, including Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington.
	None were held accountable or charged with a hate crime.
	I just want to say that this narrative may seem to several people, especially those who are swing voters, it may seem as if it has good intentions, but actually it's incredibly unit dimensional.
	It has very corrosive effects and it should be resisted.
	Okay.
	And I thought that what we'd do is I thought we'd just have a quick look at January, to be honest, since we're now at the 1st of February, because I feel like things are becoming a bit unraveled, like strange things are happening.
	This is what I meant by the year of void-based politics.
	You can't control messaging, it's just going to be relentless meme energy.
	Yeah, and there are just a bunch of things happening that you just wouldn't expect to happen, and chaos is ensuing at the same time.
	Say that, look, if January is the month that kind of sets the vibe for 2024, for the following year, then 2024 is going to be quite a wild year.
	I'm loving it.
	Yeah, I'm actually really enjoying it.
	It's been fun.
	You know, haven't heard much from the nothing ever happens bros for a while because it turns out a lot of things are happening all at once.
	I mean, obviously, at the beginning of the month, we had the tunnel Jews.
	The teenage mutant Hebrew turtles.
	Yeah.
	This is just hilarious.
	Yeah.
	Local New York man stumbled upon the Hasidic spawn point.
	Yeah, what is going on?
	I did see someone say, if you didn't have a camera phone and you tried telling your friend that I saw a man in comically Jewish Orthodox regalia crawling out of a sewer grate and disappearing into the night like some kind of werewolf, you'd sound like the most anti-Semitic human being alive.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, you would.
	That was, of course, the legal synagogue huddles from some radical Jewish sect that was Having an argument with another radical Jewish sect.
	Have we got an answer on, like, properly why they were dug yet?
	Not really.
	I haven't looked into it any further.
	I would just point out that this is just bonkers.
	Because it is bonkers.
	Like, they're having a very niche disagreement on doctrine of what's happening within these two Jewish sects.
	And this is a kind of revolt against one half of that.
	So, don't know, don't care, basically.
	It's just that this is batty.
	But then it turns out that Trump has a copy of the Ark of the Covenant.
	Well, we assume it's the copy.
	I'm just going to assume that this is a copy of the Ark of the Covenant.
	What he's going to do is, on election night, he's going to broadcast live to Democrat headquarters and open it.
	And everyone that witnesses is going to have their faces melted.
	Maybe.
	Or he might parade it in front of him as he wins in 2024.
	Because apparently the army that carries the Ark of the Covenant can't lose, of course.
	So it could be that this is the MAGA Ark that he takes into the White House or something, I don't know.
	But it's like, what is going on?
	Why is Laura Loomer and James O'Keefe getting their bits taken next to the Ark of the Covenant?
	You know last year when Trucker Carlson said to the Heritage Foundation right before he got fired from Fox that we need to start interpreting things through a spiritual lens because otherwise nothing will make sense?
	Yeah, that's why I brought this up.
	But anyway, so then there's, okay, this is not what I expected in January, like the tunnel Jews, Ark of the Covenant.
	And it turns out there's a bunch of people who really hate Trump.
	I mean, this is, uh, Snoop Dogg produced a video where he assassinates Donald Trump.
	And then like yesterday or the day before, he's like, actually, no, I love Trump.
	Everything's great.
	What?
	What are you talking about?
	You spent five years telling us he was the worst.
	He was the new Hitler.
	And you made a video about how you'd like to assassinate him.
	Now you're his biggest fan.
	Okay?
	Is it because the premiums on weed have gone up because of Biden's inflation?
	Exactly!
	Like, the vibe has shifted, right?
	And there's no other better way of saying it.
	He says, Donald Trump, he ain't done nothing wrong to me.
	He's done only great things to me.
	He pardoned a friend of his called Michael Harris.
	So I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump.
	We did predict the mugshot was going to make inroads with the black boat.
	But I think it's also how catastrophically everything is going under Kamala and Biden.
	So it's just, okay.
	What's happening?
	You know, things have changed.
	And again, like the Ben Shapiro, like number one rap song.
	What on earth is going on?
	I forgot to mention in the prior segment, did you not see his interview with Zuby years ago where he said rap isn't a real genre of music?
	Oh, well I was about to bring that up.
	It's not just... It's not... It's not just...
	He's not a fan of rap.
	Obviously, personally, he doesn't like rap.
	But he actually has a theory behind this.
	He says, in my view, in the view of my music theorist father, who went to music school, there are three elements to music.
	There's harmony, melody, and rhythm.
	Rap only fulfills one of these, the rhythm section.
	There's not a lot of melody and there's no harmony.
	And therefore, it's basically spoken rhythm.
	It's not actually a form of music.
	It's a form of rhythmic speaking.
	Okay, that's actually quite a good argument.
	Could we have gone back to 2019, four years ago, and been like, yeah, so you're going to be the number one rapper in the world?
	How do you think Kanye West feels right now?
	I don't know!
	So he's woken up to this year, tunnels under a synagogue, Ben Shapiro being the number one rapper.
	Trump has the Ark of the Covenant.
	And his fellow rappers endorsing Trump.
	Yeah.
	Nicki Minaj was like, yeah, that's pretty good.
	Do you think he's genuinely wondered if someone has given him his meds again?
	Yeah, well, exactly.
	It feels like we're being gaslit on an international scale, right?
	It's just mad.
	And again, go back to 2016 Ben Shapiro and be like, hey, how'd you like to be the number one rapper in America?
	No.
	- No. - Raps don't care about your feelings.
	- Yeah, exactly.
	But now here we are.
	And of course, so, you know, we've got lots of wars going on.
	This is just, you know, Al Jazeera's updates from the Israel Gaza conflict.
	Just want to be clear, I'm not invested in either side of this.
	This is just something that's happening. - I don't want to pay for it and I don't want their protestors in my streets every weekend.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I don't care.
	This is, you know, to me, Israel is just like a foreign country, like, you know, Uganda, Papua New Guinea or Scotland or something, you know, like there's just, just miles away, foreign interest.
	Just joking.
	It's obviously not Scotland.
	But there are people who are deeply invested in that.
	And, uh, such as the Houthis who are just attacking global shipping through things.
	So, right.
	That's actually a really big deal.
	Um, you know, we, it is a really big deal.
	If a bunch of sand people are literally attacking the, the West's international shipping from China, like that actually can't be allowed.
	Right.
	And so obviously we're, we're going to attack back and the Houthis just like, yeah, we don't care.
	Well, this is a totally avoidable scenario as well, because the Houthis are clearly being subsidized by the Iranians and the Iranians have only put the money aside as Joe Biden reignited the Iran deal.
	And even though they haven't got the money yet, he did promise them, what, like 500 million from a South Korean bank account?
	So they've already gone, OK, we're going to get the money anyway.
	We might as well fund your enemies.
	Yeah.
	And this is just a return to the Biden and Obama policy of paying them.
	Pallets of cash, literally.
	For some reason.
	You know, it's not going to work.
	And yeah, you are right.
	Iran is funding all sorts of Islamic militancy in the Middle East.
	The Houthis being one example, I believe.
	And so they're just like, yeah, we're going to keep doing it.
	We don't care even if you strike us.
	Okay.
	Well, I mean, what are you striking really?
	A bunch of sand people in the desert.
	I mean, you're not going to blow up their infrastructure because they don't have any.
	Also, they don't have a fear of death.
	No.
	They're just going to keep relentlessly coming for you because they either kill you and they killed the infidels or you've martyred them and they think they're going to heaven.
	And what's really weird is that we're providing succor to these people, right?
	You got Hassan Piker gets the militant on and it's just like, okay, okay, Hassan, The West Deserves 9-11 is openly siding with the enemies of the West, and he's one of the biggest Twitch streamers, right?
	So Twitch is just like, you know, that's totally fine, bro.
	That's just a major streaming social media platform.
	Of course, he's on YouTube and all that.
	So all of the social medias I know is totally fine for you to give sucker to all of the enemies of the West who are directly engaged in a hot war with us, and that's totally fine.
	And Hasan is fanboying over this, right?
	So I didn't watch the whole stream, obviously.
	I just watched this clip.
	But this is someone who did watch it, and they're like, look, the issue with Hasan Piker interviewing the Huthi pirate is not his platforming itself, but it's the way in which he platformed.
	Hasan seemed to be consumed with trying to impress him, telling him that he loved him, laughing about him taking hostages, and overall fangirling over a terrorist.
	And Hasan Piker gets no punishment for any of this.
	But if you misgender their dear kid employee, you're gone.
	Exactly.
	The guy that was media trained in them specifically to promote terrorist propaganda, and Hassan is happily embracing him doing it.
	There's not one critical question asked.
	The only question he really asks is, does he watch manga?
	And the guy's like, yeah, I watch One Piece or something.
	It's about pirates.
	Oh, well, there we go.
	And Hassan's like, yo, there's fire, bro.
	It's like, what is going on?
	Like, this is mad and shouldn't, like, just shouldn't be allowed.
	It's just silly people who can, the problem is that this can be monetized.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's the point.
	You said, guess what?
	We know where Twitch stands on antisemitism and terrorism, but specifically the terrorism part.
	I would say.
	Because, I mean, this is literally a murderer.
	Hassan Piker is bigging up on stream and Twitch is like, yeah, here's your money.
	And on YouTube, where we're demonetized.
	And everywhere else.
	Yeah, we're demonetized on YouTube because I made a joke about a politician, but Hassan can actually promote terrorists and he gets pallets of cash.
	It's like an Iran-funded terrorist.
	Okay, wild, right?
	The next thing is, World War III is basically going on at this point.
	World War III is happening outside of the West, and we're just kind of pretending that it's not.
	So this most recent one, of course, three US troops killed in Jordan claim that they weren't in Jordan.
	The Jordanian king was like, no, it wasn't in our territory.
	So where must it have been then?
	Well, probably Syria.
	So that would imply the US has troops on the ground in Syria.
	Who knows?
	I have no idea.
	The fog of war is impenetrable.
	And then suddenly, oh, a bunch of US troops have been killed somewhere in the Middle East.
	How did that happen?
	Who did it?
	Who knows?
	And so the U.S.
	has blamed Iranian-backed groups.
	Oh, what a surprise.
	I guess we'll ask Sam Piker for their movements.
	Well, I guess we'll ask Lindsey Graham what to do next.
	And we're going to cover Iran.
	I was going to get to that, because the Pentagon has reiterated that the U.S.
	does not want a war with Iran, which I'm sure the Biden regime doesn't want.
	They just want to give them more money, right?
	But of course, Lindsey Graham is there going, yeah, no, strike them, strike them now, because that must be the only way he gets off.
	Mental.
	What happened with this?
	Pakistan fighters crossed into Iranian airspace and killed seven people.
	Sorry, is that not worth talking about?
	That disappeared very quickly under the radar.
	So okay, open hostilities between Pakistan and Iran.
	Okay, don't worry about that.
	And of course, we have what's going on in Ukraine with Russia.
	So it looks really like there is kind of an axis that has been drawn.
	You've got Russia, China, Iran, and any of their proxies, and they're actively attacking the West and its proxies.
	We are in the Third World War at this point.
	Another major problem is that part of BRICS is India.
	The Indians are incredibly patriotic.
	For some reason, the West has just had a massive open doors policy to Indians, subsidizing them coming over and getting High up executive positions in tech firms, government, etc.
	If India does choose to ally with the BRICS allies in a war, it's going to be a big problem for people who don't see their adopted homeland as their true homeland.
	I mean, I would guess that India will side with the West just because of the financial incentive.
	I mean, the financial incentive seems to be on the BRICS side.
	Well, they seem to be rinsing us for tons of cash.
	Well, they've tried to give their foreign aid back before.
	Oh, have they?
	Yeah.
	They said, well, they said, we have a space program.
	We don't need the UK's foreign aid anymore.
	That's what I was saying about them.
	But the Chinese and the Russians have all the minerals and the processing plants, all the oil.
	And I think... Who knows where India will go?
	I don't know.
	It doesn't even matter.
	The point is that, look...
	Whatever the historians of the future will call the third world war, they will say that we are in it now, because I think we are.
	And you know, brilliant leadership by Biden.
	I mean, the European Union is desperately trying to give Ukraine another 50 billion euros and Hungary's like, no, Hungary vetoed the last one, but they're going to try for another one because they're all in, right?
	This is, we're committed to this.
	This is happening.
	This is why, I mean, would you have expected if you go back a year, the UK government would be talking about conscription.
	No, it's preposterous.
	Are we going to conscript, are we?
	No.
	Of course, why would the government talk about conscription?
	Well, suddenly, January, we're talking about conscription, right?
	Well, yeah.
	No, but if you see all this is an economic strangle upon Europe and... Yeah, I don't want to get into the details of why it's happening.
	I think we've covered it plenty of times, but I just want people to be aware that the world has changed and we're seeing the changes in the world.
	Like, there are a series of contradictions that have suddenly become untethered, so they're not being held now, and things are going to start happening, and dominoes will start falling, and stuff will start going on.
	I mean, like the Biden border problem.
	Simple, totally vindicated because Biden really seemed to have drawn the U.S.
	very close to what could have been like the spark to start a civil war.
	But in this, this is amazing.
	So the U.S.
	has got, well, sorry, Texas has got a bunch of troops set up and they just say, well, look, they've got a bunch of troops at this particular fence, but they're not facing Mexico.
	They're staring towards the town of Eagle Pass, which is basically the gateway to the rest of America, because they're expecting law enforcement agents of the Biden administration and they're going to stop them.
	Right.
	That's pretty unthinkable and definitely indicative of a massive series of failures on the part of the Biden administration.
	I mean, the world circumstances we're in now is as well.
	Right.
	And of course that meant that 25 other Republican governors were like, no, absolutely.
	Does Texas have the right to stop illegal immigrants from coming across their borders?
	And so, uh, the, you end up getting a map that looks something like this.
	And it's like, right, you can't have a national divorce like that either.
	There is no opportunity for peace.
	No.
	This is going to be a hot, it could have turned into a hot war where literally half the United States is against the other half.
	Right.
	That's not great, is it?
	Because, I mean, how many states are there?
	52?
	50.
	50.
	Right, well, that's exactly half the United States then.
	Biden has got to openly oppose him.
	I love, like, New Hampshire up there as well.
	I don't know what they're doing.
	Well, Arizona would also be more predominantly red.
	You would think, but it's just a lot of Californian immigration there.
	Not really that much.
	I mean, it's illegal migration and also local corruption, which is why the governor is a Democrat.
	Yeah, I don't want to get into the weeds of any of these things.
	I just want to say, look, when these things are happening, these are a massive failure on the part of the people who are supposed to be governing sensibly.
	This is the groundwork for a new civil war, and it I guess we're just lucky that Biden didn't keep pushing it, right?
	Biden instead backed down and was like, oh yeah, maybe I should close the border.
	But I love this.
	Why is Joe Biden claiming he'll shut down the US-Mexico border?
	Because otherwise he's going to find himself bombing American cities.
	Or maybe he had the same stroke as John Fetterman that brought him round to sense.
	Maybe.
	But this is such a radical realignment of Biden's own position, right?
	Because you may remember that literally day one, Biden started undoing every attempt at border protection that Trump put in place.
	The list of orders includes reissuing protections established under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, halting further construction of the border wall, and rolling back interior immigration enforcement priorities put in place by the previous administration.
	He also said we were expecting a surge at the border.
	Yeah.
	And he also said about 10 years ago that no big nation can be in a state where it cannot control its borders.
	Exactly.
	So whatever the progressive spirit that was empowering this nonsense, he's completely gone back on.
	And so now he's just like, well, I mean, I mean, just listen to this, right?
	He's, he's done this in order to make the Republicans give him money for Ukraine.
	Because they're holding money without this border protection.
	And so he says, well, a bipartisan bill would be good for America and help fix our broken immigration system and allow speedy access for those who deserve to be here.
	Congress needs to get it done.
	It'll also give me as president the emergency authority to shut down the border until it can get back under control.
	It's like, just, it's the total opposite of what is happening.
	We can only protect our border if we spend billions policing someone else's border overseas.
	Yeah, but it goes to show you that the, you know, Biden is obviously not in charge, but obviously no one thinks he is.
	But the lack of affirmative leadership from the presidency and from the administration around him is causing a just series of catastrophes in world peace.
	And so this is the unraveling of the liberal world order.
	And in fact, it could end up being like the unraveling of the United States.
	Like this, the whole month of January has just been a series of that should never have happened.
	That should never have happened.
	Why is that happening?
	That's very strange.
	And everyone around the world can see this.
	To keep a nation together, you need to have a narrative of unity.
	Yeah.
	He doesn't have.
	He has a narrative of multiculturalism and the criterion for there to be a healthy America is that the entire world is healthy.
	Yeah.
	And the world gets progressively less healthy.
	Yeah.
	But the thing is, we can see how deeply entrenched The divisions are and how much within the house, the problems are.
	I mean, like, I don't, I don't want to go on too much about the Hassan stuff, but this, the Hassan stuff is just actually crazy because it's symptomatic of a problem.
	It's symptomatic of the fact that some of the, I mean, Hassan's got millions of followers, millions of people watch him in America and he's there actively promoting terrorists.
	And that's totally normal and totally fine as the US is going into a potential civil war, as we seem to be in the start of the third world war.
	We are not in any position, we the collective West, to actually fight something.
	This is why they're talking about conscription.
	Like, oh God, we haven't got any troops and no one wants to fight.
	What are we going to do?
	We're going to lose.
	Actually, that's what's going to happen.
	We're going to lose.
	And it's because people like Hassan have been suckered by the ruling regime.
	And it's because the ruling regime is arrogant enough to think they had it all on lockdown, but it turns out they have nothing on lockdown.
	Actually, everything's springing up now.
	I just want to point out to everyone that January is utterly wild and the rest of the year is probably going to get more crazy.
	And with that, let's go to the video comments!
	One for Carl and Connor.
	I saw you recently went to Whitechapel.
	That used to be my neck of the woods as well.
	I lived in Bow.
	And I went a few years back, just walking down Whitechapel Road, meeting a friend.
	And there was this sign on the side of the road by a newsagent, an advert for toothpaste.
	And it has this girl sitting there, sort of smiling in the advert, as you do.
	And her hair had been completely coloured in black.
	Her mouth had been covered up, coloured in black.
	And whore written across the bottom of it.
	All around me, all Islamic shops.
	It's a completely transformed place.
	It was inhospitable.
	One of the things, one of the points that you made is to Eric was look at the way the people look at you as if you are a foreigner in your own land.
	Like Eric obviously was, but it's just by nature of him being white and they didn't know who he was.
	Yeah.
	They looked at him like you're a stranger here.
	What are you doing?
	And nobody was at ease.
	Nobody felt neighborly because they were from every diaspora.
	So yeah.
	Pleasant place.
	Yeah.
	Unpleasant place and an indication of future things to come.
	That's the problem.
	Go on Craig.
	Hey Connor, when you get to Australia, reach out and I'll make you some pizza.
	I'm glad he told us that was pizza.
	Yeah, that's what the flat earth looks like.
	That is horrendous.
	I've made this joke before, but that is so thick that Mike Graham could have grown it.
	Yeah, I like thin crust pizzas.
	I like the sort of Ninja Turtles pizza where you take a slice and the cheese is so heavy that it actually causes it to... Yeah, that's my stuff.
	I don't like thin crust pizzas.
	So you're up for Craig's Pizza, are you?
	Yeah, because it looks like a promise that can never be fulfilled.
	You just see it as so delicious and then you just immediately eat it.
	It's a cake at that point.
	Like it's thick enough to be a cake with a bit of cheese as icing.
	I'm a pizza creator.
	I've seen your pizza stadiums and I wasn't impressed.
	There was a mistake.
	It has been corrected.
	I put two teaspoons full of oil.
	I should have put four.
	That was the main issue.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	Let's go.
	So it seems that the video comments from Thursday were also played with the video comments from Friday.
	That's why you had two videos of Cooper, one of which referring to a video in the same lineup.
	Not gonna complain, because my joke suggestion for the piano got a laugh out of Connor.
	Also, Connor, the glasses don't make you look like Potter.
	If anything, you're more of a Father Anderson from Helsing.
	Mary, you gotta show it to him.
	Have you ever watched Hellsing?
	It's one of the few manga, anime things I've ever watched.
	It's actually really good.
	Oh, I've never heard of it.
	Actually great.
	My girlfriend said I've basically just got the Clark Kent effect and then that compliment was immediately undermined by the fact that Josh said I look like I'm going to answer Paul Allen's business card.
	Anyway, onto the comments for the first section.
	If I can wrestle with the... There we go!
	Bleach Demon!
	I disagree with the idea that we on the right have to reject a name that isn't instantly recognisable of the right.
	While we must emphasise our side, we mustn't go into a purity spire where we're unable to lure in others.
	Who do you want to lure in?
	Do you want to lure in someone with face tattoos?
	Genuinely, like... Yeah, but it's normies.
	We want normies to view us as basically being a reflection of themselves.
	And we want to encourage the normies to follow a wholesome path.
	Yeah.
	So they won't listen to Taylor Swift's tirades of why you need to calm down to be an LGBT activist, but they will see her marrying Travis Kelce and having kids and thinking, I want to marry the nice football player and have kids too.
	Imagine, sorry, imagine when Taylor Swift first puts up her picture on Instagram of her holding her baby.
	Right.
	You will hear a billion ovaries throbbing in pain and desire.
	We are so back.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	I think lyrics matter.
	There are people who say lyrics don't matter.
	People just focus on the melody.
	But I think there are subtle messages communicated.
	In Taylor's music, Taylor's music is basically making love poetry, right?
	And she uses no, she uses next to no contemporary references in her music, which is very rare considering what modern music is like.
	Like all these blimmin' rappers talk about really sordid topics and they talk about it very aggressively.
	Important things in life, money, neighbourhood, bitches.
	Hello Lucy is out of context.
	They're trying to find whether who dat.
	Taylor Swift resonates with young women because there's a level of tragedy about not having the man that you want and now she's found the man that she wants it'll inspire all these millennial and Gen Z cat ladies in the future to settle down.
	When she gets pregnant she'll make it look glamorous.
	And when she first puts the picture of her holding the baby, that's going to be a genuine sort of epoch defining moment for many millennial women.
	Culture is downstream from what the hot girls want.
	That's why no matter how many Zendayas they try to push on you, Sydney Sweeney will always be better looking.
	Question, do they know what they want?
	That's why there's conflict in culture.
	Taylor Swift will tell them what they want and suddenly their ovaries will take over their brains and they'll say, yes, I need a baby.
	Quite.
	Richard?
	Honestly, when you're my age, you've seen the baby rabies plenty of times, I know.
	When you pander to any kind of monster, be it Medusa, Gorgon, feminism, or Marxist drivel, dressed up in a rainbow flag, you will lose.
	You lack morals, initiatives, standards, and backbone.
	All of these ideologies are geared to destroy society as you recognized it once.
	They need repudiating authority.
	Yes.
	You can repudiate the ideas, but do not co-opt bad vibes and bad aesthetics when trying to repudiate the ideas.
	Because the vibes and aesthetics are supreme to the normies who don't deal with the level of ideas.
	And those people aren't wrong for not dealing with the level of ideas.
	Also, there's a kind of essence that is important.
	I think, you know, Taylor Swift can promote as much woke stuff as she wants, but she's still married to a handsome, chad, white guy, and she's going to have his kids.
	Revealed preference.
	Exactly.
	Yes.
	Lord Nerevar.
	Sorry boys, but you're dead wrong about the culture war.
	I agree we on the right are prone to self-sabotage and don't really do ourselves any favors.
	However, the sheer momentum of our enemies is losing ground.
	Taylor Swift is a multi-billionaire, just got Time Magazine.
	She's the most popular music star in the world.
	If you want to alienate her entire fan base and want to win, be my guest.
	It's not that, it's not that.
	I really think that the fact that they have to appeal to Taylor Swift is indicative of their weakness.
	I really think so.
	And also the aesthetics are not any of the dysgenic freaks that the youth of France champion with wokeness.
	Andrew Narok can definitely confirm that Ken has ended up as a protagonist.
	Consider the merchandise.
	The Kenuff sweatshirt has been among the most iconic bits of merch for the movie.
	Oh, I do want to get one of those now.
	I'm going to do the podcast on one in future.
	JQ.
	Connor, I'm following what you're saying since I saw your previous segment on Barbie, but I think you're reading too much into the film.
	No, I don't think so.
	Well, I mean, it's all there.
	Yeah, I don't think there's anything that can't be substantiated there.
	Yeah.
	And it's also that's why organically Ken became the dominant meme and is going to win an Oscar and it's going to be absolute joy.
	Pericles has got a point here.
	He says, it's all fun and games until Swift raises her kids non-binary.
	A, I don't think that's going to happen, right?
	But B, yes.
	And that's the point about the contact with reality, right?
	Um, if like you see a lot of Hollywood celebrities already doing this, I mean, um, Charlize Theron, um, uh, Angelina Jolie, they're all doing this and it, it looks awful.
	And I don't think that there are, there are anyone of them, the most dedicated Democrat middle-class liberal white woman who is like, yeah, I'm going to do the same.
	And everyone kind of hates those people and feels bad for the kids.
	It's a luxury belief as well.
	You need a certain level of affluence to buy into it.
	Dino will not raise his kids non-binary.
	His instinct would be like, Dunno mate, sounds kind of dodgy to me, but whatever you like.
	Yeah, I don't think that people like that.
	Yeah.
	Last one from me then.
	Grant Gibson.
	Conservative Inc.
	is desperate to play in the sandbox of the left and win the left's approval.
	Ben Shapiro hated rap music until he was allowed to be included, and now he's bragging about being at the top of the iTunes rap charts like some kind of hood rat.
	Many similar stories.
	Many such cases.
	Mostly true.
	Quite.
	Oh, Stadios, we have a super chat on your one.
	Yeah.
	It's Sean.
	You must check out William Shatner taking on the EU for banning him for the opening of Star Trek on Twitter.
	Oh yeah!
	They censored To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Ever Gone Before and they called it out by name and said it should be no one.
	It means human.
	No man is short for human.
	Okay.
	Because there are already aliens in space.
	They've already technically been there.
	That's pathetic.
	Matt, I don't care about guilt, vei victis.
	You can't build a foundation myth on self-hatred.
	It's inherently self-destructive and the paper Europeans cannot inherit European civilization.
	Maria Manzi, as you say, Stelios, sad truth that good intentions predominantly have paved the road to hell.
	That said, only seeking absolute ideological perfection in any outcome is stupid as.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But ideologues, for some reason, find themselves in positions of power that create hell for other people.
	Maystape, you're forgetting that Donald Trump isn't a conservative.
	I think that should be for you.
	It doesn't seem to be the EU thing.
	Roman Observer, ah yes, the 30 plus different European nations and peoples are not multicultural.
	What they mean is we want a monocultural megastate.
	I don't know if they want a megastate.
	I don't think they care about the other stuff.
	No, they do care about monoculturalism.
	Because otherwise, this is why they're trying to bring in the entire third world and suppressing the native culture is to not antagonize a new culture.
	They want to create a universal homogenous state where no conflict ever arises.
	That's why they can't actually acknowledge cultural difference.
	But this is what they're doing through history.
	Francis Fukuyama is actually quite good on this, where he points out that what they're looking for is a universal narrative of history.
	So it accounts for absolutely everything.
	And so that's why they have to be as maximally as inclusive and homogenous as they can be, because he thinks it's based on Hegel's view that history is actually driven by the desire for recognition.
	And actually, I think this is quite a strong theory, to be honest.
	um rather than sort of the Marxian class conflict one or anything like that um and so the liberal state maximally wants to recognize and you saw it in the thing with oh we we we want to stop marginalizing women and minorities and stuff like this is about full spectrum recognition for absolutely everything within this civilization and so what they're going to have to try and do is create a single narrative that allows every European nation
	To be recognized within it, but there isn't one like in Europe prior to like the late middle ages wasn't a thing.
	Yeah.
	Like the Germans don't have the same narrative as the Romans, you know, things like this.
	So it's, It's a very difficult thing to do.
	They do want a megastate, but I think that they want more power for themselves, so I don't think they care about the multicultural thing.
	No, they do.
	This is the chicken and egg thing.
	It's not just that they're using wokeness to seek power, it's that they're using power to achieve woke ends.
	No, I don't think so.
	I think they're after power.
	Not all of them are that cynical.
	Some of them are true believers and ideologues.
	That's why the word ideologue is there.
	They think they are.
	No, I think that's too cynical.
	I think they can want power and have an ideological end.
	Genuine, sincerely.
	Okay.
	Cram, but Stelios has a point.
	These young women haven't been raised right, so when they have kids they will look for This is why I brought up that tweet of, I don't understand women but I know I sigh when I see one.
	You aren't in touch with normies guys.
	Yeah, but it was aimed at you.
	The new Rift, you know, the pro-Swift and the anti-Swift of the Lotus Seekers.
	This is why I brought up that tweet of, I don't understand women, but I know I sign up when they see one.
	You aren't in touch with normies, guys.
	Like, we love you as our audience base, but we are all terminally online in here.
	And sometimes we need to go out and talk to people that aren't engaged with ideas.
	I'm actually not terminally online.
	Like a lot of people are, but you broadcast online.
	So yeah, I know.
	But I, like I send like 20 tweets a day.
	That's hardly anything.
	I have quite a significant private life that I keep estranged.
	Well, I don't have a choice.
	I've got to touch glass.
	And last one, Sophie Liv, this is insane.
	There is no such thing as just the European history.
	Danish history isn't German history.
	It isn't even Swedish history.
	It's uniquely Danish.
	I agree with you.
	I couldn't agree with you more.
	But that's the problem about creating the universal narrative history.
	That liberalism wishes to do.
	And so obviously the liberal European super state has no other way of a being negative because liberalism is an entirely negative doctrine.
	But there are modern liberals.
	They are positive.
	They want to use the state to achieve ends.
	They want to achieve everything with the state.
	Sure.
	But it's still to achieve a negative, which is to reduce and remove the cultural particularities.
	I think it's more power for them.
	I think Nietzsche was right.
	I think that's one aspect of it, but it's not the entire thing.
	But anyway, Rue the Day says, I refuse to believe this is real life.
	None of this is real.
	The simulation is glitching or we're in the times before the second coming.
	Nothing else makes sense.
	But yeah, I mean, that's the thing.
	Like, I mean, genuinely as a political commentator, it's been really fun, but it's not been boring to do our jobs, but it is also getting a bit worrying.
	As someone who's versed in revelations, it's been concerning.
	Kevin says, other January shocks.
	James O'Keefe gets an intelligence service guy to admit that the Democrats want to rid of Kamala and Biden is going dotty.
	Yeah, that was quite good.
	That only came out yesterday.
	I forgot about that.
	Michelle Obama going for the DNC vote for president.
	Yep.
	South Africa gets claimed as the honorable country when it takes Israel to the court of human genocide while slaughtering white farms at home.
	Yeah, that's another thing.
	Owen Jones was simping for us.
	Yeah, Owen Jones.
	Oh, South Africa is the moral leader of the West.
	It's like, what?
	Okay.
	They do want to make At least it's a mask off moment.
	Yeah, they do.
	That's true.
	Rishi Sunak commits suicide live on air by stating unequivocally that Covid vaccines are safe and a British MP resigns because of death threats.
	Yeah, but the point is the Conservatives say nothing about it.
	They're totally fine with it.
	Justin says, I do believe World War Three has already started.
	There are two major wars, one in Europe and one in Asia.
	North America and Oceania are involved in both.
	A war is likely to start in South America that will drag North America in.
	Who knows, actually?
	I don't know where things are going with Malay and whatnot, so who knows.
	And Bukele, yeah, because the North Americans aren't going to back Bukele.
	Exactly, and you see Bukele tweeting out yesterday, you know, I hope for free and fair elections in America.
	I was like, man, I don't know about provoking people.
	He's had liaisons with the Qatari regime as well, so I wouldn't be surprised if he folded himself into bricks.
	Yeah, but the regime running America is mental, so he wants to be careful.
	I like Bukele a lot, and I don't want to see him Gaddafi.
	Yeah, victim of economic hitmen.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That only leaves the African content.
	Not in an actual war, although Is the African content not in an actual war?
	Unending civil war.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's just unending civil wars.
	It's a non-stop, low-level war.
	Though you can argue the invasion of migrants is a type of war, that is all six inhabited continents involved in war, with major powers on each supplying those wars.
	Also, the escalation mechanism could well be as it was with the First and Second World Wars, the various treaties we've got upheld.
	Because that's the only reason they're talking about conscription.
	It's that NATO has an obligation to deploy English troops in Ukraine for some reason, because Russia's going to invade Poland.
	Justin says, apparently the reason the US insists on sending so much aid is to ensure the dollar remains a global currency.
	It sends out all this aid in dollars only, meaning the countries have all this currency to spend and insist that trade in oil is only in dollars.
	That means all the countries are reliant on the US.
	Yeah, and what's happening with Russia and China?
	Yeah, Russia got taken off SWIFT.
	Loads of oil as well.
	Yeah, and so the Chinese are now going to be buying, they're going to be buying in whatever currency the Chinese dictate, or the Russians dictate, sorry.
	So it's just, in fact, no, they did make the Germans buy gas in rubles, didn't they?
	Yep.
	So that's going to be the way forward.
	So it's just, sorry.
	Some sort of Belt and Road cryptocurrency, Chinese centralized.
	Yeah, like you said, I don't know what is going to happen, but I know something's going to happen.
	And very last one, Tom says, deep dish produces race, which means banned.
	Right.
	Anyway, thanks for a great podcast, Jen.
	This was a really good laugh.
	We will be back tomorrow at one o'clock and then also at three o'clock for Lads Hour, so please do subscribe to go watch that.

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