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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #873

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	For Monday, the 18th of March, See, you didn't know what day it was, did you?
	Right now.
	I'm joined by Harry Anstelios.
	Hello.
	And today we're going to be talking about Trump's bloodbath, how you're not represented in your politics, but you are going to be criminalized for noticing such a thing.
	Let's get on with it, shall we?
	I have some bad news.
	I'm sorry to inform you that the media, the dirty, dirty smear merchants are at it again with another round of insane lies that don't bear any resemblance to the truth.
	And of course, they're about the giant orange dictator of America who they literally think is going to go around and round up the libs and make them disappear.
	At least that's what Robert De Niro thinks.
	Actually, watch this.
	This is amazing, right?
	What I love about this.
	I retweeted this just being like, these people are just overcooked.
	They've just been stewing in this.
	They've been baking in their hatred for Trump for so long that they've really convinced themselves of things that just don't represent reality.
	Listen to this.
	Or not.
	I'm trying to.
	Okay, we're having technical errors with the video.
	Let me see if I can refresh that.
	Is the television, is the audio switched on on the television?
	Have we got that muted?
	I don't know.
	Should be.
	No.
	It has a text on top.
	It does, but I wanted to listen to Robert De Niro.
	Can the audience hear this?
	Okay, never mind.
	So anyway, Robert De Niro is on Bill Maher's show saying, look, if Trump wins the election, he won't be on the show anymore.
	He will come looking for me.
	There'll be things that happen that none of us can imagine about what happens in that kind of dictatorship.
	Unimaginable things will happen to Robert De Niro for some reason.
	I don't think you're actually on top of the list of people who are going to get prescribed by Donald Sulla Trump when he finally regains power, God willing.
	I actually think he's going to be fairly low down the list.
	But this is a common view of Donald Trump in what we can generously describe as the shit-lib sphere.
	They really think that Trump is going to come back.
	Yeah, I saw this.
	me with a vengeance and just murder them all.
	And so, of course, Donald Trump making jokes at his rallies, because he has been doing rallies recently, and Donald Trump's rally is always a pleasure to watch.
	Well, making jokes is just what dictators do.
	Yeah, I saw this.
	That's what Mussolini was doing on the balcony the whole time.
	Average Hitler speech punctuated by jokes.
	He always looked really serious in the historical videos that you see.
	It doesn't seem Well, that's that German sense of humor, isn't it?
	I was about to lean into that as well.
	Yes, the average German dictator making so many jokes.
	But this is an amazing article.
	His supporters love it.
	Critics call it a sign of his autocratic tendencies.
	Yeah, that he makes jokes.
	Yeah, but jokes offend people.
	That's why it's super dictatorial and autocratic.
	It's not compatible with modern sensitivities.
	That's a good point, actually.
	I just thought about that.
	But Jen Mercier, the author of Demagogue for President, The rhetorical genius of Donald Trump.
	So you can see this is a value-free... Why do they always make him sound more awesome?
	I know, right?
	They're literally saying he's a rhetorical genius.
	Okay, that's a hell of a compliment.
	I've listened to Donald Trump speak a lot of times and I wouldn't describe him as a rhetorical genius.
	I would describe him as entertaining, but no.
	Demagogue for President, author Jen Mercier, says, quote, he's always been funny.
	He brands and frames his foes in a way that undermines their credibility and reaffirms the us versus them polarization, all under the guise of just joking.
	Practically every joke has an in-group and an out-group joke, and laughing at the joke is a sign of loyalty.
	That's how autocrats work.
	No, no, no.
	Just think about when Stalin gets up, he explains to everyone on the Soviet Union, and they're all clapping and laughing.
	And then he cracks a little joke!
	Cracks a joke!
	And then I have them gulags!
	But this renders every comedy performance as a kind of Nazi rally.
	Like, sorry, I actually don't think autocrats generally do work through No, they don't, but there's a sub point here that needs to be addressed because it's the us and them rhetoric.
	I don't know.
	Is it just Trump who has ever done it?
	Think of it this way, gentlemen.
	Can Joe Biden be accused of having spouted us versus them rhetoric?
	Or perhaps that's just how politics works, especially in our democratic system, where you do have sports teams essentially running for office.
	Obviously, it will descend into us versus them.
	And what they're really salty about is the fact that Donald Trump is just far more effective at it.
	You know, what is really funny about this is that if you read a lot of definitions of fascism or a lot of approaches towards fascism, they will say separating the population in us or them kind of way, which everyone does.
	Yeah, I mean, distinguishing between one group of people and another group of people is literally what politics is.
	And progressives have never... I don't know if progressives have ever done it.
	Have they ever split society on a massive scale?
	People from white people and said that one's being evil to the other.
	If I think back to the French Revolution, no.
	So, um, I don't, I don't, I don't think I'll be able to play this.
	Cause like Donald Trump generally is a funny figure.
	What the hell is that?
	Is this what you wanted me to have?
	Yeah, this is why I was like, have you ever seen Dune?
	But is this going to play?
	It's not going to play.
	Goddammit.
	Okay.
	Well that joke's right.
	Do we, do we have a volume remote in here?
	Cause are we sure that the television isn't just muted on our end?
	What's happening, Jack?
	Audience, I'm going to check the chat.
	Can you hear it?
	Got it!
	This is so good as well.
	I can't believe this isn't working.
	We should have tested this.
	Most of the audience is saying it's a GB News moment.
	It is a bit of a GB News moment.
	I don't know what's happened.
	But anyway.
	No sounds and no visuals according to the chat.
	Also, people pointing out my cup.
	Listen, the HP Lovecraft one has not yet arrived in the office.
	Okay, let's try and get this back on track.
	So, anyway, Trump gave a rally recently, and you can see the Biden-Harris HQ Twitter account here.
	6.5 million views.
	Clipped nine seconds of it.
	And you know you're going to get the full context of something.
	You get nine seconds.
	And the quote is, if I don't elect it, there's going to be a bloodbath.
	It's going to be a bloodbath for the country, says Donald Trump.
	Well, excuse me, sir.
	Did you say this base thing?
	You forgot to add a gigachamp to this image?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Unsurprisingly, this was taken slightly out of context and Joe Biden decided that he was going to make it really clear that this guy, it's clear this guy wants another January 6th, but the American people are going to give him another resounding electoral defeat this November.
	So, Joe Biden retweets it going, look, Trump's going to kill you all.
	Maybe vote for me.
	The media then blew this up.
	As you can see here, just, I mean, maybe you can see, I have no idea what's going on in the back.
	No, from what I was looking at the stream, it looks like it is on the screen.
	Oh, OK, that's good.
	But as you can see, it's the Telegraph, NBC News, The Guardian, The Independent, France 24, Hindustan Times, The Times, The Wall Street Journal.
	Trump's promising a bloodbath.
	Amazing.
	I mean, like, literally sounding probably worse than the average Nazi rally, if you read any of this.
	Trump tries to appeal to the vampires, win the vampire vote.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Trump courting the ancient European vote in America.
	But actually, it wasn't quite as it seemed.
	Now, Elon Musk, Posted the full speech in context, which is only a minute 29.
	Um, I don't know.
	Have we, have we solved the?
	No, we have not.
	Um, okay.
	So basically Trump says, guys, Mexico is now producing 34% of the cars that America used to produce.
	And that's just going to get worse under a Biden administration because Biden will do nothing to stop car manufacturers taking advantage of cheap labor in Mexico.
	It's going to be a bloodbath if I'm not elected.
	It's going to be terrible.
	But if I am elected, car manufacturing will stay in America, was the essence of what Trump had said.
	And they were like, right, we're going to clip that nine seconds, or use the term bloodbath, and then imply that he's going to murder all of his political opponents.
	So was the context that he was essentially saying, if you vote me in, we'll get all of that industry back and it'll be a bloodbath for Mexican industry?
	No, no.
	If they don't vote for him, it will be a bloodbath for American industry.
	But it's essentially the same point.
	He was making a point about economic cost of not voting for him.
	And so the media was very honest about this.
	I mean, thank God that Elon Musk exists and has bought Twitter.
	Because as you can see, 55 million views on that particular clip and, uh, on other ones, 48 million views.
	So this whole thing was, I mean, like it is terrible that the media can be so brazen with their lives.
	It is genuinely terrible.
	I realize I'm making lies of it, but this is the world in which we live.
	They are.
	And again, it's so consistent as well.
	I mean, just it, it's like there is a WhatsApp group.
	In which they all got this one instruction from, I don't know, George Soros or someone, like whoever, Hillary Clinton in a WhatsApp.
	They're FBI handlers.
	Yeah, whoever it is.
	It's like, right guys, Trump said the word bloodbath, so you're going to quote that and you're going to make it look like Trump's about to murder all of his political opponents.
	Obviously that's not true, but if it wasn't for Elon Musk and legions of people being like, hey, you liars, we wouldn't, well, I mean, we wouldn't, the normal public probably wouldn't have any exposure to this.
	And so it's nice to see that there is a misaligned meme that Elon Musk has tweeted out.
	27 million views.
	We're boomer today.
	Elon's boomer today.
	I don't know what's going on with all these boomerisms, but it is good to see That there is some resistance, like there's not even some resistance, I'm not even trying to frame that right.
	There is an answer.
	It's not even an answer.
	Like, this fell very flat.
	The media began sort of, you know, cranking out the narrative, bloodbath, bloodbath, Trump's going to murder you in your sleep.
	And everyone was just like, you're lying.
	Yes.
	We know you're lying.
	The lies have become so brazen at this point, and so ridiculous as well.
	I mean, imagine Like there's no, no, no scruples, no skepticism, no nothing when it comes to this.
	I mean, like if Trump had got up and been like, look guys, I'm going to kill everyone, everyone in America, just, I'm just going to kill them all.
	I would, I would expect media to report that with a little more sensitivity and to do a bit of due diligence in that, right?
	You would expect them to look, we know you might be thinking that this sounds extreme, but actually this is what he said.
	I mean, if Joe Biden had had a senior moment and accidentally said that, you know that the media would be reporting it in the most sensitive way possible.
	Exactly, right?
	And so you would expect some sort of respectability out of the media.
	But instead, what you get is just literally the clip.
	One word.
	Trump says there will be a bloodbath if he loses the election.
	He's literally going to march into Robert De Niro's house and execute him in cold blood.
	Joker style.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's like, what are you talking about?
	You are totally unserious people!
	The funny thing is that obviously Robert De Niro has had brain virus for years at this point.
	All of them must, and this is what's causing it.
	Robert De Niro is the particularly amusing one to me because there's that clip of him just like talking straight into a camper saying, he's a putz, he's a bastard, he's a this, he's a that.
	All of which are just synonyms for he's a meanie.
	Yeah, like the Michael Rapaport stuff.
	Yeah.
	Until suddenly he was like, hang on a second, this inflation is a bit bad.
	Trump's just a big bad meanie and what they're all just trying to use their... What they're all trying to... Trump's a big bad meanie, he's gonna Vlad the Impaler you!
	They're all just trying to emphasize this.
	Look, you wouldn't vote for Trump, would you?
	Look at how mean he is!
	And I watched the other day, and I don't want to invoke his name in case I get reply guys showing up in my Twitter mentions or something, but there was an interview recently, a debate hosted on Piers Morgan between Benny Johnson, Dave Smith, and Destiny.
	Yes.
	Where Destiny's whole point when he was talking about Donald Trump for the first five minutes or so, I don't think we've, I think this might be directly quoted from it, I don't think we've ever had anyone in the White House who's quite so mean as Donald Trump.
	What about Andrew Jackson?
	He's very mean-spirited.
	Andrew Jackson, Ulysses Grant.
	Was Grant the one who did all of the Indian clear-outs?
	No, I think it was Jackson.
	Well yeah, I think they both might have done it, because there were different campaigns.
	Harry Truman telling Oppenheimer to stop being such a wimp after he nuked Japan.
	There are varying different metrics by which you can measure meanness, and I don't think Trump ranks up there, to be honest.
	No, I mean, well, you say that, but like, you know.
	But he did say, he used the word bloodbath once in a speech.
	He's promising to murder the electorate.
	So, you know, I mean, you say that and you sound more mean, but you know.
	He gets on stage, he pulls out a gun.
	I'm going to start now!
	Bang!
	What is interesting is to see how these media think of the people they communicate this message to.
	They literally think that they're going to listen to this and no one is going to play the next three seconds.
	It's absolutely obvious he's talking about the economic thing.
	It's insane hubris at the end of this because they must understand.
	I mean, trust in the media is an all-time low, but they must understand that people are just looking at this going, right, whatever this is, he didn't say that.
	And you're totally misrepresenting what this issue is.
	You are making fools of yourselves, not making fools of Donald Trump.
	And Donald Trump, again, just has to get up and just riff about anything that he wants.
	And the media destroy themselves by just colliding into their own lies about it.
	Well, the interesting thing here and the thing to worry about is that they are actually targeting the people within the gray area, let's say the swing voters.
	Yeah, yeah.
	They really hope that none of them is going to be Twitter users.
	The independents are like, well, I like his economic policies, but I don't want to get shot.
	Yes.
	By the president himself.
	Turned out Donald Trump had seen that Mitchell and Webb sketch.
	If we tried kill all the poor, that would fix the economy.
	That's what they're banking on.
	Yeah.
	And so, I mean, you know what's really interesting about that though?
	Is that the kill all the poor message seems to actually be resonating.
	I'm just saying.
	With the working class especially.
	Yeah.
	Trump's consistently up in the polls.
	So maybe the American public are like, yeah, well, you know, we could try it.
	Not saying we'll go ahead with it.
	We'll test it in a few minutes.
	Let's see how it goes.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You know, we need a... I mean, look at this.
	Like, 11 points up in the latest one there.
	It's like, okay, fair enough.
	That's pretty good.
	So, you might think that there'd be some kind of mea culpa on this from the media and perhaps the... No, I wouldn't think that.
	No, okay, you wouldn't think that.
	But in a normal world where we weren't all about to get shot by the President of the United States, you might think the media would say, you know, I think we may have misrepresented that slightly.
	And because literally tens of millions of people have seen us lying to them, we might have a moment of self-awareness to go, oh right, we aren't the single window into events that we used to be before the internet and before Elon Musk took over Twitter.
	So actually now, hundreds of millions of people know that we're total lying scum.
	And so we're going to walk that back a bit and go, you know what guys, that was a bit of a bad on our part.
	Um, maybe he didn't say he was going to murder every person in America.
	Maybe he said that actually he was interested in saving the American automobile industry, which is actually what he was saying.
	Um, by murdering Mexicans?
	No, no, he didn't even say he was going to murder Mexicans.
	He was metaphorically saying that if he wasn't getting elected, then it would be a bloodbath in the American automobile industry.
	But, uh, Gentaki decided to come out and go, no, we did not miss the context.
	This was not some meandering off message comment.
	This is his message.
	Donald Trump, 2024, vote for me and I'll kill everyone.
	Says Jen Psaki, that's his core message.
	I mean, how much more brazen do the lies have to get?
	Thank God the media in America is held accountable, right?
	Yeah.
	I mean, thank God Elon Musk is actually allowing us and helping us to hold the media accountable.
	Like that's the only thing that we've got at this point, is social media.
	And we've only got one major platform on which we can really do it.
	And so it's like, okay, but isn't that just mad?
	Like imagine the balls on these people to go, you know, we know that hundreds of million people have caught us in this massive lie, but we're going to double down and go, no, that is his message.
	He intends to kill every single one of us.
	He's not trying to save American car manufacturing, you lunatic.
	I just, I can't help but laugh because it's just so amazing.
	But look at her face.
	Look at everything about it.
	It's just, this is the former White House press secretary under Biden.
	Now lying to your face about something you can watch for yourself.
	Just apparently not in this segment.
	Sorry Jack, don't worry about it.
	It's not that big of a deal.
	Um, but yeah, so anyway, that's, that's basically the latest attempt at the smear campaign.
	And what I like about this is it's got like 2016 energy.
	Yes.
	Right.
	But it's like, we're coming back to the sort of, oh, they know they're about to take a thrashing.
	And so the lies become ever more ridiculous and they become ever more desperate and they double down on these things.
	And, and so basically I think that 2024 is going to be a fun show if nothing else, but, uh, but we'll leave it there.
	Sorry about that, folks.
	Trump just stormed in and shot Harry.
	I don't know.
	Turns out he doesn't even need to be president.
	But apparently it's working now.
	Sorry about the boomer audio there.
	So before we go on, I thought I'd just play you this thing.
	Honestly, I just don't know why I find this so funny.
	I really wanted to find a way to showcase it to everyone because it's just hilarious.
	Good people of Arrakis.
	It's me, Shia Lude.
	Your beloved sandworm of the desert.
	Many people are saying, Paul Atreides.
	Little Paul Atreides.
	I call him Pesky Paul.
	He's al-Mahdi.
	People are calling him Lisan al-Gaib.
	Pesky Paul's calling himself Muad'Dib.
	He said, Muad'Dib, I'm a little desert mouse.
	Just a humble little desert mouse.
	And he is very tiny, I saw him.
	I could crush him easily.
	Folks, you can't trust Pesky Paul.
	He's got the Bene Gesserit.
	Nasty women.
	Nasty women.
	Those Bene Gesserit trying to control the outcome of events.
	He's going around the desert.
	He's going to the south of the southern border.
	He's bringing up religious fanatics from the south.
	He's trying to wage a holy war in the whole universe.
	Now the Harkonnens.
	We don't like the Harkonnens, folks.
	They're terrible.
	They're terrible, they gave us a bad deal, but I can get a better deal from the Harkonnens.
	What can I say?
	They want our spice, it's the most precious substance in the universe.
	We're gonna get a better deal, we're gonna make Arrakis great again.
	It's gonna be an amazing time, we're gonna have paradise here in Arrakis.
	Not because of Pesky Paul, but because of your old friend Shia Lude.
	I vote for it.
	Yeah, exactly, isn't that just hilarious?
	But you can't do that with Adolf Hitler.
	That's all I'm saying.
	Have you tried?
	Is my question to that.
	I haven't, that's a good point.
	You've got a good point there.
	I just love that video, it's just so funny.
	Anyway.
	And for those asking in the chat, yes we did switch it off and on again, and it did work!
	So, old solutions always work, this is what returning to tradition really looks like.
	If that didn't work, we were planning on bashing the television a few times and seeing if that made it work.
	You know what?
	You may be too young to remember this, but I actually worked with CRT.
	No, I have a CRT back in the day.
	I bashed the television a few times and it always worked.
	Actually was a legitimate way of fixing them.
	I do remember it.
	It was.
	Yes.
	Anyway, let's move on to cheerier news, shall we?
	Moving on from the Donald Trump massacre.
	Moving on to all Americans being killed by Donald Trump to cheerier news.
	To the good news that Britain and its leadership is now 100% diverse, gentlemen.
	We finally did it.
	No white men in charge of any country in Britain, except maybe Northern Ireland.
	I've not really paid any attention to that.
	But I do know the mainland.
	We're fully secured, fully locked down.
	Fully strong.
	No white men in charge.
	Congratulations.
	Mission accomplished, boys.
	We kept getting told this was going to take decades.
	Well, this is the speed of progress.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The speed of progress is going up.
	Now, in the year of our Lord 2024, there's not a single white man in charge of anywhere in Britain.
	Sorry, is this peak woke?
	This is certainly a good thing.
	I mean, it wasn't happening.
	It might have been happening, but it was going to take decades.
	But now that it has happened, it's a good thing we have to submit.
	If you question it, if you say, hold up, this is very unusual, then I'm sorry, Karl.
	You're a racist.
	Yeah, I'm going to have to arrest you after this.
	Are we going to have conversations about representation all of a sudden?
	Well, yeah.
	Well, that's the thing, isn't it?
	Because representation does matter.
	If there's one thing that you can give to the left over the past few years that they've been harping on, it is that that has been actually true, which is that representation matters.
	You belong to some form of group, and if you don't think that you do, then other people will ascribe that group to you.
	And if people are in charge who aren't part of your group, they're probably going to do things for their own group.
	Or either.
	This is very in-group, out-group.
	Donald Trump would be able to give a masterclass rhetorical speech about it, according to all sorts of news outlets.
	And it's a perennial truth.
	Just a quick thing.
	That's an interesting way you say it.
	You know, if you think you don't belong to a group, you do.
	But someone else will... Well, okay, if you think you don't belong to a group, then you can't demand representation.
	No, because the very nature of representation is that it's group-based.
	So if you don't belong to a group, then you're not represented and can't be represented in your, quote, representative capacity.
	This has always been the thing about white liberals and one of the strange pathologies that they've developed is that they are so against having their own group that they have massive out-group preference.
	Two, which is completely unique to themselves and not really anybody else in the world behaves in that way.
	And it seems to be because of the fact they have been denied their own group.
	They dislike the idea of their own group.
	So they're like, right, okay, I'm going to take these innate tribal feelings I have and put them on someone else instead and cheer along them.
	I guess that they have a kind of, um, uh, way of doing it where it becomes they're purely Democrat, right?
	Purely Republican or purely labor or purely liberal Democrat, green or something.
	Well it can, it can also be, you can also say that it emerges in sports ball, cheering on teams like that.
	Anything that has nothing to do with your ancestry and the roots of your own family tree or anything like that.
	You're not allowed to do anything like that, but if you want to cheer along foreigners kicking a ball into a post or into a net or whatever, I don't watch sports ball.
	No, I do watch WWE on occasion but I don't think that counts.
	But yes, this is all to do with Wales because Wales has decided that they are going 100% diverse and I thought I would highlight some of the things that go on in Wales because we quite frequently have Voice of Wales come in and tell us all about what's going on in the Valleys.
	And it's never very good.
	It's never very good news, like in this one, which is almost 200 episodes ago now, bloody hell, from last July, where they were talking about all of the hotels across the Welsh coastline, which are filled with people who shouldn't be there, and the enrichment that they bring with them.
	Do you know what's really interesting?
	I learned the other day that two-thirds of the Welsh economy is state-driven.
	That doesn't really surprise me.
	Well, the thing is with Wales, along with all of the other problems that we talk about and the Voice of Wales talk about, they have a massive problem with employment and the fact that people just can't really earn much money over there, even when I was in Wales around this time last year.
	I overheard people in the valleys talking about how there's no money going around anymore.
	There's no money being circulated, there's no jobs going about, small corner shops, petrol stations, everywhere was struggling.
	A lot.
	So, two-thirds of the economy are run by the state.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	And there has been terrible economic disaster.
	Yeah.
	And someone is surprised with that?
	I'm not.
	I don't know if it's surprise, I think it's more disappointment.
	I don't think our audience would be too surprised with that.
	But then there was this other one earlier on this year where they appeared and they were telling us about the Welsh schools advertising themselves as kind of refugee centers using young white school girls.
	Yeah, I mean, the very idea of a sanctuary school.
	You can tell that they've been on Twitter.
	Oh, they have sanctuary states in America.
	We need to steal that idea.
	It's sanctuary for people running away from Western culture.
	Sanctuary for literally anyone, apparently.
	Yeah, it's very strange, but we compared it at the time to waving red meat in front of a wolf's face.
	Very disturbing.
	It does send a strange signal, doesn't it?
	It really does.
	What are we signaling?
	They know who they're advertising to, I'll just put it like that.
	But I highlight these because the Welsh government has for a long time, like the rest of the British governments, not been governing in the interests of the native Welsh or for the benefit of the British people as a whole.
	And now somebody who self-identifies himself, first and foremost, as being black.
	That's one of the first things that he said in his opening speech.
	And I hope that we'll be able to play that now.
	Once again, the technical issues have been sorted.
	He doesn't bring up his own mixed heritage because the man who has been voted in by Welsh Labour as the new first minister is this man, Vaughan Gething.
	Right, so he wasn't voted in by the Welsh people.
	No.
	So it was a kind of, but I mean at least... It was a Brexit split as well.
	He got about 52%, the person right next to him got 48%, so by Brexit rules surely the other side should be able to just continually call for another vote over and over and over again into perpetuity.
	I mean he's more legitimate than Rishi Sunak then.
	Yeah, true, that's a good point actually.
	But either way, he's been voted in, and once again... I feel like he has a bit of a mischaracterisation to say he's been voted in, because that implies he won an election in Wales.
	Well, he's been voted in by the Welsh Labour members.
	But he has mixed heritage himself, his father is a white Welshman, and I think his mother is...
	Zambian, I believe, when it spoke about it on his Wikipedia page.
	But as you find with things like this, and it's quite unavoidable given just the look of him, he identifies himself as being black because, aesthetically, he is, even if he's of mixed heritage.
	But I do find that interesting because that is essentially a denial of his own Welsh heritage then.
	Partially.
	I think he does still identify himself as Welsh, but this is the thing that everybody has been going on about and all of the media outlets have been talking about as well.
	First black man to take on the role.
	BBC, how will it change under his leadership?
	They bring up the fact that he's black in the article.
	Vaughan Gething makes history as Wales' first black minister.
	And there's the other side to this as well, which is that he is the first European leader to be black.
	Throughout the entire continent.
	Once again, Politico also talking about Capital B Black, first ever Capital B Black head of government.
	And this is really where the story is because a lot of the discourse that I'm seeing around this is not about talking about his policies that he's going to do, any economic reforms.
	There are some reforms that are going to be going on where they're looking to expand the Senedd.
	The Senedd?
	I don't know how to pronounce it, I'm not Welsh.
	from 60 to 90 seats.
	But most of the discourse outside of these headlines are talking, harping on this one major fact, because it is historic, because Britain is going to be basically the blueprint for the rest of European countries if trends carry on as they are, which is that you, as a native of your own nation, are going to be disenfranchised politically more so than you already are.
	Well, I mean, in this guy's defense, he is a native, right?
	His father's Welsh.
	Half of his heritage, yes.
	That means he's got an ancestral connection to this land, right?
	And it's the same for, what's-his-face, Vardykar in Ireland.
	He has an ancestral connection to the land.
	It's not the same for Rishi Sunak or Hamza Yusuf.
	No, this is certainly true, but I have found through my own investigations into this and just noticing the patterns that go on is that when you have somebody of a mixed heritage, the other is always the thing that gets primacy.
	Yes, it's the same as when you even look at someone like Megan, what's her face?
	Markle.
	Yeah, Megan Markle.
	When you look at her history, Because I watched that god-awful Netflix documentary they did.
	Her father is a white man and he's the one who got her into the business.
	He's the one who got her the roles that she was after because he was a business industry insider in the media entertainment industry.
	And who is it that she really identifies with?
	She identifies herself as black.
	She puts her own identity as black first, whereas that other half of her identity is something that isn't really that touched upon.
	Isn't she like a quarter black?
	Her mother, I don't know about her mother, but her mother looked very black in the documentary.
	But that part of their identity is always the one that reaches priority.
	In the documentary, was it a Netflix one?
	Yes.
	Because I don't think that color is reliable there.
	Well, perhaps.
	Perhaps they colour-swapped her own mother for the documentary.
	I'd have been shocked, but... Anyway, so he was up against his... Sorry to... I was thinking you were saying he's going to increase the size of the Senate from 60 to 90.
	It's like, what question was asked where it's like, yeah, we don't have enough local politics?
	There have to be more groups represented.
	So all these 30 seats need to be given to people from groups.
	Sorry, 60 wastrel politicians in Wales isn't enough.
	We need 90.
	That will solve whatever problem that we're having.
	Yeah, there are more than 60.
	That will make people happy.
	That's the issue.
	The 20 mile an hour speed limit.
	Amazing.
	Yes, in his acceptance speech he said, today we turn a page in the book of our nation's history, a history we write together.
	He's expected to replace Mark Drakeford as the first minister next week.
	In this speech, well not speech, in this interview he gave, they speak about him being the first ever black first minister.
	Once again, it seems to be something that they just kind of brush over like it's normal.
	This is the new normal, this is something that you're supposed to just expect to happen now.
	We're in 2024, it's current year, so therefore you should expect people with mixed or completely foreign ancestry to be your political leaders and to not They don't receive popular assent?
	Pardon?
	They don't receive popular assent?
	Yeah, they don't receive popular assent.
	And you should expect them to just have, you should just be expected to have no problems with the fact that they might have priorities outside of the native people of the country because of their mixed or foreign ancestry.
	And now we go to Hansa Yusuf to talk about Gaza.
	Yes.
	Now we go to Rishi Senek to talk about India.
	Exactly.
	So I'll just play a bit of this because once again, it's brushed over, but it's interesting the way they brush it over.
	Now you've said you will be the first black First Minister of any part of the UK and indeed Europe.
	Why is that important and do you feel you've had to work harder for your success?
	Well, it's obviously an historically different day.
	You know, this hasn't happened before.
	That isn't because other people haven't wanted to, haven't had the drive, the determination or the ability.
	I'm the only person that looks like me to represent a Welsh constituency in either of our national parliaments.
	So it shows that progress is more difficult historically.
	You can still see that today, whether it's health, education, the economy, a whole range of fields of activity.
	What I think it does show is once you're here, you've got to do the job.
	There are people who are ready to judge you, and you need to be able to meet that test.
	Not just for people like me, but for the whole country.
	Because you're under higher scrutiny?
	I think there is different scrutiny, and you see that in public life.
	You know, it's just the reality of where you are.
	But you can't then say, this means that people should lay off me because they won't.
	Now let's talk about Labour's Yeah, that's the only discussion they have of it.
	But once again, it's brushed over.
	To be fair, he seems like he's happy to take on the scrutiny that comes with his new position.
	He seems quite well spoken.
	But once again, it's progress.
	This is just progress.
	It's difficult, but this is what happens because we're progressing into the future.
	You should expect to be disenfranchised because this is what happens in the future that we're now living.
	See, if I were in Wales and I was a Welshman, I would be more concerned about the fact that he doesn't have a Welsh accent.
	He's got a little bit of a hint of one.
	Ellie, I wouldn't have known.
	Well, he grew up in England, in Guildford, I think.
	Exactly, that's the point.
	Okay, well, his dad's Welsh, so he's got an ancestral connection to Wales, but he doesn't sound like a Welshman, and he doesn't say, hey, I'm Welsh.
	He says, I'm black.
	So I would be looking at him like, okay, how is he going to actually make present me and my concerns in the Parliament?
	You know, it's the same with, and again, he's installed by his own party.
	It's not like he received an organic thing that's happened that all of a sudden, just because the British people wanted it.
	Yeah.
	All of your leaders have foreign backgrounds.
	Exactly.
	Humza Yousaf installed, Rishi Sunak installed, Vaughan Geffing installed by the woke parties that are in control of our country.
	It's like, okay, thanks.
	And once again, in the BBC article, most of it is talking about difficulties to do with the speech that he gave at the university, some difficulties with the fact that he supposedly accepted a £200,000 donation from somebody who has a bad environmental record or accused of environmental Okay.
	And then they go on to talk as well about, oh, but Rishi Sunak, he and his party took 10 million pounds from somebody who disliked Diane Abbott and said that he would like to shoot Diane Abbott, which I'm not going to make any comment on.
	So they want to talk about the racism aspect there.
	Yeah.
	200,000 pound donation he accepted from a company owned by a man twice convicted of environmental offenses.
	And then right at the bottom of the article, they talk about the actual part that most people are excited about who are celebrating this, which is in recent weeks, there's been an angry political conversation involving race and religion overspersed.
	Only in the most recent weeks.
	This hasn't been going on for years now.
	Politics finds its expression articulating and reflecting society's concerns and hopes in a myriad of ways.
	Once again, this is true.
	Yes, in a myriad of ways, and one of those ways is your background, is your ancestry.
	It will certainly have a factor into who you're going to be representing and how you're going to be representing them.
	And within a few days, there'll be a Black Welsh First Minister, as well as a British Asian Hindu Prime Minister, a British Asian Muslim First Minister of Scotland, Humza Yousaf, plus a Catholic First Minister of Northern Ireland, Michelle O'Neill.
	Ignoring, again, the Republic of Ireland's half-Indian leader.
	But also, Northern Ireland is meant to be Protestant, so okay.
	And of course, you've got Sadiq Khan running London.
	It's just like, okay, we are actually an occupied country at this point.
	If you're an indigenous British person, can you really look at our political environment and say, yeah, I feel represented?
	Is this a natural outcome of democratic developments, or is this what happens when you are an occupied country?
	Is this something that happens when you are a vassal state or a principality of another nation?
	I mean, say what you like about Kyrstarma, He's English.
	But he's English.
	He is English.
	At least in English.
	That's what people are saying.
	But they are saying that as well, Keir Starmer was very positive about this appointment.
	Of course he was!
	And he was saying that I think he actually gets along with this Gething gentleman far more than he did with Drakeford.
	So they're saying there will be, if Labour were to get in, which all of the polls are suggesting they will in an absolute landslide, that there will be a lot of collaboration between these two parties, more so than there already was.
	So that will mean Wales.
	Look forward to your enrichment, even more than you're already getting.
	Once again, like I've said here, this is another thing where the headline is highlighting it because they all know that this is the most important part of the story.
	And they're signaling to everybody that this is the most important part of the story.
	But when they're addressing it in the text of the article, they're brushing over it for the most part.
	You know what is interesting?
	That they constantly say that this is the most important thing.
	They constantly say this is the first black person who is going to run Wales.
	But when criticism comes, she told him, how do you feel that you are going to be more criticized now because you are the first black prime minister?
	Yeah.
	This article highlights some of the other stuff going on in Wales.
	As mentioned, people are really unhappy that the main speed limit for roads in Wales has been lowered from 30 to 20 miles per hour.
	They also mentioned the performance of the NHS, and from other analysis that I've seen, NHS in Wales somehow has longer wait times than in England.
	And bear in mind that before this appointment, during COVID, Gathing was the Health Minister I love this so much.
	Burst into a Welsh NHS.
	Guys, I know it's looking bad, but don't worry.
	We've got the first black minister.
	Everything's fine.
	Fantastic.
	Just trust us.
	People stop bleeding.
	Their limbs reattach.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The lines just evaporate and it's like a milk and honey.
	Congratulations, guys.
	We did it.
	Uh, protests against subsidy reforms that require farmers to hand back some land to nature because that's another major story that a lot of people are brushing over.
	The fact that in the West there is an assault on farmers.
	Obviously, you hear a lot about it on the European mainland, but it's happening over here as well.
	They want to hand over farms to foreigners.
	They want to take land away from farmers.
	In Ireland, I think they are still trying to have a massive cull of farm animals, which Just for the sake of environmentalism.
	You don't like eating food, do you?
	Which seems like a very poor strategy for anybody who wants to be able to produce their own food in their own nation.
	But I'm not a farmer!
	I can't speak to this.
	And again, the planned reforms to increase the size of the Senate.
	In one of his first interviews on Taking Off, he's getting told the BBC Sunday Show is likely there will be changes to some routes, so maybe he'll change some of the disastrous policies.
	But he has a more urgent task, holding Welsh Labour together.
	He only won 51.7% to 48.3% for his opponent Jeremy Miles.
	And Starmer called Gething's election historic for Black representation and said he looked forward to campaigning to deliver Labour governments across Britain.
	So that's something that we can all look forward to.
	And once again, There's all of the policy aspects to this.
	Maybe Labour under him will run Wales a bit better than Drakeford was.
	Maybe it will continue.
	Drakeford was terrible.
	Exactly.
	It's not a particularly high bar to cross.
	I will say that.
	But what are people actually talking about?
	What are all the headlines highlighting here?
	Well, that he's black.
	And that is the most important thing that we are seeing, and that you're seeing people celebrate.
	So this gentleman, Ewan Herbert, hashtag Windrush, hashtag ToriesOut.
	Hey, guess what guys?
	He's black!
	You can't see it here, but there is also a hashtag FBP.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it.
	And it says here, for the first time in the history of leaders of all three nations on the island of Great Britain, Albion, in sarcasm marks for some reason, are the fruits of the British colonial empire.
	This is revenge!
	Reminder, everybody, we're doing this because we hate you!
	I mean, he's literally saying it.
	To the racist, I say, if Britain didn't colonize the world, the world wouldn't be in Britain.
	It's like, you just can't resist, can you?
	You can't leave us alone.
	Like, hey, go home.
	No, take us with you.
	If you just climbed out from under a rock and are wondering why Lee Anderson and the gang are screaming and whinging about wanting their country back... We've colonized you!
	That's literally what he's saying!
	What this man is saying is, Lee Anderson and anybody screaming and whinging about wanting their country back are right!
	Yeah!
	They are correct!
	To the racist, congratulations, you were right, but there's nothing you can do about it.
	We have revenge colonized you.
	Yes.
	Because once again, they know, these people, like, when you had, um...
	What was her face?
	Indian lady.
	Oh, Narendra.
	Yeah, when you had Narendra on, and she was talking about her experiences in England, it was very interesting that she was saying that the very presence outside of London of a majority of white people makes her uncomfortable.
	Makes it so that she feels like she's out of place because that's just a visual distinguishing feature that you know you're not of this place.
	When she's in London, because it's not really an English city anymore, she feels comfortable.
	So all of these people who are foreigners, who've been dropped into our country without having ever been voted on or asked the natives of this country, they look at this now and they say, fantastic, they are ruling for me.
	They're not ruling for the English, they're ruling for me.
	The British public did not vote for these men.
	Somehow they're in charge.
	Almost like democracy is a joke.
	It doesn't have to be a joke, it's just managed democracy.
	It doesn't have to be, but it is.
	It could be that we got the people we elected.
	Then we've got Nazir Afzal, who is the Chancellor of the University of Manchester, so this man is in charge of many people's education.
	With Vaughan Gething becoming First Minister of Wales, congrats by the way, and Humza Yousaf, First Minister of Scotland, and Rishi Sumac, Prime Minister, and Michelle O'Neill, First Minister of Northern Ireland, there are now no white men leading in countries of the United Kingdom.
	Representation matters.
	Actions matter more.
	But no, what you're actually saying there is just purely not having white men in charge of any of these countries.
	That's what you were going for.
	That's what we're celebrating here.
	And notice, well, he's celebrating Rishi Sumac.
	Actions matter more, but I will tip my hat to Ritchie Sunak.
	That's the thing, this person is probably an arch nemesis of Ritchie Sunak and the Tories, but all of a sudden when it comes down to brass tacks of pure identity, which is what these people care about most, unity and solidarity against the white man.
	He will throw aside any other principles so that they can unite in solidarity against that.
	Rishi Sunak, I may not like you.
	I may vehemently hate you, but you're not white.
	But you are brown.
	Yeah, you're brown.
	Therefore, you're closer to me.
	Therefore, I support you over anybody else.
	I see Callum has a response here.
	Representation matters and white men have no representation.
	That's correct.
	And I wanted to say one thing because, you know, I was in academia and I heard the same Let's say rhetoric, both in academia and also I hear it everywhere else, especially also when it comes to programs and TV shows and stuff.
	A lot of people say that if someone who is a leader isn't a member of my group, then I don't feel represented by what I'm seeing or by what I'm taught.
	That's obviously entirely wrong because that's not the only thing that humans have in common.
	But this is what they're focusing on.
	And if we apply the same thing to indigenous people, why does this not apply to English people, for instance, in England?
	You would think it would.
	Yes, because if the idea is that in order for you to feel represented, you have to see some people of your own group in positions of power.
	Why is this not something that these people care about?
	But I think this is what underpins Harry's point.
	This seems to be an act of hatred on the part of Naseer.
	No, I don't disagree with Harry.
	Yeah, well, that's the thing.
	When you see this kind of behavior coming out, I can look at that and go, OK, whatever else may be going for the guy, if these are the supporters, this mentality is what is fueling this, then I know whatever they end up doing will not be in the benefit of me.
	or all the other native people of this country no matter what they say they're not doing it for our benefit and as such you can see Kunle Drukpa is uh down there he he posted this we have now we have now entered the new age quite literally the new dark age the age of the BAME What's happening?
	There you go.
	So, yeah, we're now 100% diverse and your representation doesn't matter, but actions matter, but also representation matters.
	And you still have to pay your taxes?
	Yes.
	Because this is the government you voted for.
	Wait, no, you didn't.
	You didn't even vote for this.
	Right.
	I'd like to report a crime happened somewhere in Scotland.
	Let's see.
	We have a tweet here from Phantom Power in Scotland from April the 1st.
	If you're offended by a comment made online or heard in private conversation, you can anonymously call 999 to get someone charged and potentially imprisoned for up to 7 years for a hate crime that has no legal definition.
	Prediction.
	This bill will end in farce and hopefully finish Hamza Yousaf's disastrous leadership.
	That's mad.
	Yeah.
	Was this an extension of that dinner table bill that we were hearing about a year or two ago where it was the Scottish government was trying to make it so that comments made over the dinner table you were liable for in court?
	Well, they have all sorts of, let's say, in all sorts of bills that try to converge to this thing that we're going to talk about today.
	And we're going to talk about some other stuff of it, some other dimensions, because last time Connor and you and Jess talked about the hate monster.
	Yeah.
	I'm not going to talk about the hate monster, but there's been a misgender.
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	Stelios signed up so many accounts so he could get those comments down there.
	That is genuine.
	No, it was genuine.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Now, Harry, thank you very much for helping with the process.
	Now, freespeechunion.org, S&P's hate crime law activated despite fees over free speech.
	Now, let's say some things about here and we'll come back to it.
	Fees over free speech.
	I think that boat sailed.
	Originally passed in 2021.
	The Hate Crime and Public Order Act was pushed by the now Minister, First Minister Hamza Youssef, who was then Justice Secretary, and broadens the staring up hatred clauses of the Public Order Act 1986.
	So I want to say one thing because I constantly hear about it because a lot of people are saying, Stelios, you are too much intellectualizing stuff.
	You're focusing on boring details and they don't sound majestic.
	They're a bit anticlimactic.
	No, word salads are destroying the West.
	And unless dealt with, they will destroy the West.
	They're going to completely annihilate it.
	Now look at this here, because the thing is that, you know, if, A lot of the problem in the Western world, it comes with a particular kind of temperament that people have, which to some extent is natural.
	And that has to do with being okay with slow changes.
	But that doesn't answer the question of what, where do these Changes lead.
	So a lot of people are fine with lots of changes just slowly and steadily, incrementally being implemented.
	And they just never ask where it goes.
	And at the end of the day, it goes to something that is unbelievably subversive and will destroy Western societies unless this is dealt with.
	Now, the point is that word salads sound completely anticlimactic.
	Because what is happening is that you have a term, let's say like harm, and people start saying, well, the old definition of harm doesn't take into account a lot of my delicate sentimentalities, and I need to be represented from a state that really gets me, that really understands me, and really changes the definition of it.
	So what is the issue here is the changing of what counts as staring up hatred.
	There's a hate epidemic in Scotland.
	Right.
	Let's look at this bill here and we'll go back to free speech union.
	You'll see.
	I want to say some things to show you how behind the very anticlimactic, the very boring thing, hide some really interesting stuff that should be dealt with.
	Now, hate crime is the phrase used to describe behavior, which is both criminal and based on prejudice.
	Yeah, thank you very much.
	Not a vague thing.
	I totally understand what you're saying.
	There are already laws in place.
	This bill aims to do three things.
	It updates these existing laws and pulls most of these laws into one bill.
	It also adds to the groups currently specifically protected by hate crime laws.
	And if you see there, why the bill was created, you will see something that personally, I don't know if I believe because I'm much more cynical in interpreting these things.
	I literally think that a lot of these people, they don't believe it.
	I don't know.
	I just kind of hate the, I mean, they said that crimes motivated by prejudice will be treated more seriously when we're not tolerated by society.
	It's like, why is a murder conducted by someone who's a racist worse than a murder conducted by someone who wanted to kill his wife's lover or something?
	The murder is still the same.
	Well, I think that according to the intersectional calculus, it's not.
	Because it's like casting two birds with one stone.
	You don't only catch a murderer, but you catch a hater.
	Yeah, but the thing is, I think what it is, they've got this view that like, They think that they, it's kind of like this metaphysical status that they achieve when they say there's no racism here.
	And if someone gets murdered, okay, that's fine.
	But at least the metaphysical layer of racism wasn't, anti-racism wasn't disturbed.
	Yeah, right.
	Well, this is why if it comes down to South African genocide, they'll be cheering on the death of the Boers because they'll go, well, at least without white people, there'll be no racism.
	Exactly.
	Well, no, it's not that they'll be cheering on, they just won't be condemning it, right?
	Because they'll be looking, essentially, they look at it like a pure white piece of paper, and then the racism is some black ink, and, oh, now I have to get another one, I have to clean this off.
	All the way around.
	Sure, all the way around.
	Black piece of paper, white ink.
	Sure, but the point is, like, they view, like, the anti-racist society as kind of a pristine thing, and, okay, murders are fine, as long as they're not racist murders, you know, thefts are fine, that's all fine, but as soon as someone does a racist murder, Yes.
	Now we have to focus and get rid of that.
	Imagine you have a court and you try to examine, you know, the...
	The people who are being accused.
	And you have two serial killers.
	And one question is, you know, how diverse is your pool of victims?
	If it was diverse enough, maybe you're not as bad as not.
	They would be forced to.
	They would be forced to say, yeah, well, we know these two serial killers both killed 10 people each, but that guy specifically targeted black women.
	Therefore, he's obviously worse.
	This guy was a race-neutral murderer?
	The whole thing is just a pretext for being able to victimize people who don't like the representation that they're not getting in the government, really, isn't it?
	Self-evidently, yes.
	And the decisions that the government is making.
	And look at the justification of why the bill was created.
	It makes sure that the laws that provide that protection are fit for the 21st century.
	Once again, like in the previous segment, it's just the current year!
	Previous murder laws didn't work.
	Yeah, which is why murder rates have been rising steadily since the 1940s and 1950s.
	Because, you know, it used to be back in like the 80s and 90s, a white guy murdered a black guy.
	They're like, is that really murder?
	You know?
	Well, yeah.
	And that's why the previous laws just didn't work.
	Now we need one to flip that dynamic on its head.
	I take the Carlilean perspective of the Victorians didn't go far enough.
	So I want to show you some bits from here.
	Because they're really interesting.
	Down.
	Okay, so policy objective of the bill.
	This bill provides for the modernizing, consolidating, and extending of hate crime legislation in Scotland.
	Ah yes, hate crime legislation.
	Archaic, ancestral, needs modernizing.
	Legislation in this area has evolved over time in a fragmented manner, with the result that different elements of hate crime law are located in different statutes, there's a lack of consistency, and the relevant legislation is not as user-friendly as it could be.
	The hate crime legislation will provide greater clarity, transparency, and consistency.
	This is literally like selling a service package.
	It's like saying, honestly, your previous package was not very consistent and it wasn't very user-friendly.
	And it's literally your internet, your television, and your streaming services are all in three different packages.
	You could get that all in the one package and that would be just way more user-friendly.
	Yeah, there were some complications with the previous package.
	You couldn't accuse people so easily.
	Now we're going to fix that.
	It's going to be easier for you to use it.
	Now, let's go to number five here.
	It says, in addition to consolidation, the bill seeks to modernize and extend the existing hate crime legislation.
	So again, we're talking about a conceptual subversion.
	We need extension of the hate crime legislation.
	More and more stuff counts as hatred.
	So they put age as an additional characteristic?
	Is this like how cancer spreads?
	I like that it invoked evolution because I didn't think it was possible for legislation to become dysgenic.
	But I think it might be.
	Well, they're talking about age, but they're also talking about, if you see the second bullet point, creating new offenses.
	Oh, that's good.
	They don't have enough offenses.
	In part two of the bill, they will apply in relation to all characteristics.
	I like that you can't be, including age as a characteristic under which you'd be prejudiced.
	Yeah.
	Third bullet point, updating the definition of transgender identity in parts one and two of the bill.
	But does abortion become a hate crime then?
	I don't know.
	It matters who you vote for.
	Well, no, you're literally murdering a baby because of its age.
	Yeah, but the baby doesn't vote.
	Maybe they don't care.
	They can't get the baby's vote, so they don't care about it.
	Well, actually, that's a good point.
	Is this going to be used as some kind of justification for lowering voting age in Scotland by saying that we're discriminating against younger people?
	And then you get into the sticky question of, okay, if the younger people can vote, what else can they, if they're, if they're mentally capable of doing that, what else are they mentally capable of expressing their judgment in?
	Yadda, yadda, yadda, all of a sudden that you're side by side with Vaush, making some very suspect arguments.
	OK, but you know that a lot of people in the past, for instance, they were saying that they were offended if particular religious symbols were offended, particular religious symbols they held in high esteem.
	But here comes clause six and says the bill will also abolish the common law offense of blasphemy.
	But you are protecting religious identity as part of this.
	So you're shifting which blasphemy that you're criminalizing.
	I mean, you're also making it So criticism of every religion is blasphemy.
	So the Scottish government is committed to taking this opportunity to shape hate crime legislation so that it is fit for 21st century Scotland and most importantly affords sufficient protection for those that need it.
	Now this is the same kind of rhetoric that people in the Irish government used when they put forward the referendums and the Irish people literally crushed them.
	You had Justice Minister Helen McEntee saying that these values are representing the Ireland that we are right now and the Ireland that we want to become, and then three out of four Irish people voted against her.
	It's really interesting to see what we refer to.
	Well, that's an interesting point, isn't it?
	Because this is paving the way for, in the same way that you're talking about Ireland, the Scotland that they wanted to become.
	Because looking at the demographics, 91.8% of Scottish people still identify as white Scottish or white other British.
	Do you know why that is?
	Why is that?
	Can't force foreigners to migrate to Scotland.
	That's why, and ironically, you know that the Scottish Government, the woke Scottish Government that they've had for the last 8 years or whatever it is, would love to have every foreigner under the sun come to Scotland?
	That's probably one of the reasons that they want to just start giving people free money, £25,000 a year, because they want to attract more foreigners into the country.
	But someone from Africa or the Middle East is like, where's the sun?
	But yeah, this is a bill that's being put forward purely for the benefit of the ruling class rather than those underneath it because it doesn't even reflect the demographic realities of the country that they represent.
	Be patient, it gets better.
	Because it's talking about a common vision.
	Oh yeah.
	That is not about Scotland.
	So, the Scottish Government recognises that legislation in and of itself is not enough to build the inclusive and equal society that Scotland aspires to.
	However, having clear legislation about hate crime sends a strong message.
	Isn't that disgusting?
	That's presumptuous because they are talking about, again, they're talking as if there is a kind of vision that they never ask the Scottish people whether they want it.
	But even more, isn't this disgusting and vicious that you're coaxing foreigners into the country with the promise that you can victimize the natives?
	That's what that is promising.
	And in that case, well, yeah, you're going to get more foreigners and you're certainly going to attract a certain kind of foreigner.
	I don't know, the weather's pretty bad.
	Well, yeah, but if they're really that eager to victimise Scottish people, for some people, that they're going to brave the cold weather and the rain, just so that they can try and get some poor Scots.
	Yes, but you know, Harry, sometimes power is important, and as it says there, Scotland's diversity is its strength.
	All communities are valued and all contributions welcome.
	Now, just look at who wrote this.
	Literally said, all communities are valued and all contributions welcome.
	There is no clause there, no even provision about any kind of custom of these communities.
	No, all of it is just all communities come here.
	We don't know anything about your customs we don't know anything about the the way of your way of life and whether it's compatible with the scottish way of life all of your welcome.
	Well they're trying to bring into being the liberal ideal and they try to make a cohesive society.
	That's a weird thing, because it says there, a cohesive society is one with a common vision and a sense of belonging for all communities.
	Now here, I think that is very revealing.
	Well, yeah, but what all they're trying to do is bring into existence the end state of liberalism.
	And so they have to say, well, look, we've all got this cohesive vision that has been imposed on the Scottish people, and that is to be the atomized and universal men.
	Now it's revenge.
	That's why they're doing it, what they're trying to do.
	Because it's obvious bollocks, because cohesion and diversity don't go together.
	Diversity is division, which is a weakness.
	Yeah, I agree.
	And I'm not saying the people doing it aren't doing it out of malicious motives, but they're doing it under the rubric That's the rhetoric, yes, you're correct.
	And so that's what's being imposed on the Scottish people.
	Yeah, but what is interesting here is because I've made this point many times, but I think that you can't stress this point enough, is that if you actually look at the protected groups of, let's say, the progressivist governments, they're not compatible with each other.
	They have radically different views of what constitutes respect for co-existence.
	Religion and sexuality.
	Yes.
	So literally, again, I will say this, all of this is just purposefully creating a framework where people won't be able to get along.
	And the only way to have radically different views, radically different groups together is to invent a common enemy.
	And in this case, the common enemy is the indigenous population of each Western country.
	But what I love about this as well is we're going to bring in as many disparate groups as possible, and the contradictions between their ideologies and worldviews are going to force conflict, which further justifies interference from the state.
	Yes.
	A magic recipe for expanding state power.
	Yeah, but this is the end goal of the most radical view of liberalism, is to have everyone most dependent on the state and least dependent on one another.
	Right.
	I need to make a small parenthesis here because there is something in a lot of people's minds.
	So it has been said that people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life.
	This is demonstrably true.
	Yeah, but there is something that there may be a solution here.
	You could become a hate crime expert.
	I have one area of expertise.
	Imagine, I drew this from last year, on the 29th of March 2023, which is incidentally the day Hamza Yusuf became First Minister.
	I don't suggest there is any relation, I'm just saying this.
	And it says here that hate crime experts to rule whether English countryside harbours rural racism.
	Spoiler alert, it apparently does.
	Lived realities of ethnic minorities outside of the city to be studied amid fears they experience an exclusively English environment.
	So this isn't just, Harry, what you said before about walking somewhere where you don't feel that the majority of the people belong to your own group.
	This is like literally being on in a land where you don't say it doesn't feel like home and maybe people who like this land are racist.
	Well, would you like me to explain the mindset of the people who feel it?
	And I'm not going to say that this is going to be the same for all people of foreign backgrounds because there are plenty of people I'm sure who can go into an environment that is more English majority than London.
	Open Anglophiles who like the fact that there are English people there.
	Exactly, but there's a series of essays written by James Baldwin which are collected in his book Notes of a Native Son, where the last one in it he describes his feelings upon traveling to Switzerland and just entering a small rural Swiss village, and he explains that despite the fact that he knows it's completely irrational, he has this irrational anger
	bubble up inside him, just recognizing the accomplishments of the Swiss people all around him, the fact that they are within somewhere that they can call their own home, which has this beautiful history to it.
	And he ends the line off with something.
	I think the line is, I think back 200 years, and they are exactly where they are, and their civilization is producing so-and-so cultural figure, so-and-so historical figure, I think I think back 200 years, and I am still in Africa watching as the invaders arrive.
	Well, there's this built-in ethnic resentment, which is generational for a lot of these people, but they see your very existence, to a certain extent, as a threat to their own, and they dislike you for it.
	Now, that is not going to be the same for every single person, but I think that does explain a lot of this animus.
	Well, no wonder people think that hard work is not paying off, because apparently people get money in order to go and see whether the countryside is racist.
	Now imagine, imagine how much, how much of a word salad, imagine how much of a word salad, and we get paid by the racism that we find.
	Yeah.
	And conceptual engineering is required to literally give money to people and say, you're the hate crime experts.
	Go and see if the countryside is racist.
	Literally to show you how much it's not just words.
	It has really tangible effects.
	Can we make Jeremy Clarkson the expert who does that?
	Right.
	So I want to talk a bit about crime in Scotland, because we have some statistics here to see some stuff, because there are several interesting questions here.
	Okay.
	But we're going to have to hurry it up a bit.
	Yeah.
	We will.
	Okay.
	Don't worry.
	I'll wrap it up.
	But I want to say that it says here that the recording of crime remains at one of the lowest levels since 1974, and that the crime literally goes down in Scotland.
	So this could mean two things either.
	So either people have completely lost touch with their government and think that the police will do anything about it and they don't report crime or literally crime is actually going down and maybe the government thinks that somehow they need to justify and create an emergency and come and pose themselves as the people who are absolutely necessary to solve the emergency.
	Now, something of the sort happens.
	But if you see, crime, generally speaking, is on the descendant for a substantial amount of time.
	But really interesting stuff here.
	Year ending December 2023.
	Let us just look at the key points, okay?
	The police in Scotland recorded 5% higher crime in the year ending December 2023.
	Now, the reason why this is important is because, if you remember, Hamza Yusuf became Prime Minister of Scotland on the 29th of March 2023.
	Let us see how his shift, the fruits his shift has delivered.
	5% increased crime.
	A 2% lower than the year ending in December 2019.
	And then it says also there, non-sexual crimes of violence were 4% higher and 4% higher to December 2019.
	Sexual crimes were 2% higher and 8% higher compared to the year December ending in December 2019.
	Crimes of dishonesty were 11% higher compared to the year ending December 2022.
	Damage and reckless behavior was lower.
	Crimes against society were 3% higher compared to the year ending December 2022.
	The hell's a crime against society?
	I don't know.
	I just noticed the next one.
	Yeah.
	restrictions 100% down decreased from 14 to zero yeah so if you see basically the year ending in 2023 doesn't have exactly the best um the best performance in that respect
	but sorry the interesting thing was i was looking over the some of this data set as well and it was breaking down each crime and i think i was looking at the one ending in december 2022 and basically every crime over the course of 10 years nine to 10 years from 2012 2013 through to december 2022 had gone down overall except at the And I don't know if this is due to just the change in culture, or if it is something to do with changing demographics, or if there's just something in the water.
	Sexual crimes reported had leapt up 70% in that 10-year period, whereas every other type of crime had basically gone down in some way.
	Well, but you would expect these, let's say, hate crimes to be under the category of social crimes.
	So 3% is the increase there, but you constantly listen to the rhetoric that talks about hate crime, but you don't listen about the crimes you mentioned.
	You constantly listen to the other dimension of it.
	Now, let me just say one thing here.
	So we have here from Wanjirun Joya, a really good tweet, where she is quote tweeting some other people who are Constantly talking about anti-racism and she says having black friends is racist, not having black friends is racist, seeing color is racist, not seeing color is racist.
	I think that's a wonderful tweet because It shows where it all leads to.
	I don't think it leads to anything that is tangible in people's minds.
	The world will not come and tell you, we want to achieve this.
	It's never going to be an explicit goal.
	Yeah, it's not meant to be a game that you can win.
	Yes, it's meant to constantly Justify the idea that we need more and more and more people from us to have these institutions that you have these positions and institutions that you power i want to say that essentially that's.
	That's what happens is that the goal is to destroy some Western institutions that go into the idea that have to do with the criticism of arbitrary governance.
	And I want to say that if you're a government and you constantly create a situation where no one can be innocent and everyone is guilty by default, and you have some rules that people cannot actually Live by and cannot abide by.
	You have turned the presumption of innocence to the presumption of guilt.
	So that's an institution of the West that is completely being destroyed.
	And one thing to say is that if you look past the rhetoric, and if you look at the kind of, not past the rhetoric, but the kinds of arguments that brought into the idea of the modern state as it is supposed to be, you will see a lot of arguments that are against arbitrary government.
	And this is anything but that.
	This is pure arbitrary governance.
	It's just the creation of a framework where everyone is guilty by default.
	And when people are guilty by default, you have an obsequious population and the government can take advantage of them and play divide and conquer with them.
	Before we end this, I just want to point out the Neil deGrasse Tysonism of this first point.
	I haven't got a racist bone in my body.
	No, it exists in your amygdala.
	Thanks, Neil.
	And I want to end with a meme.
	For some people.
	Big Brother is always watching.
	It's 2040 and you misgender someone's cat.
	This year, police begging.
	That is my god-given right.
	Apparently not, according to Hamza Youssef.
	On that note, let's go to the video comments.
	Possibly.
	We've got an image of a stream deck on screen.
	Oh, there we go.
	Can we play it?
	Talking of the homelands, the BBC filmed a documentary in 1985 about the closing of Swindon Works, and I found it a very difficult watch.
	Now, my grandfather was a railroader, so perhaps it's just his blood speaking, but to run a furnace in the great foundry, turn apart on a machine, or even run the great locomotive themselves, before retiring to your wonderful little English cottage, or receiving a complimentary education here, well, I'd give anything to live that life.
	But where might it be found now?
	If you're all eight Tories, all eight Tories, clap your hands!
	You know what's really interesting about this?
	Truly it was the Labour Party that was the great betrayer.
	The Tories were obviously... Oh yeah, because Tony Blair.
	Tony Blair.
	The beginning of the Labour...
	Betrayal of the country.
	So the working class people now are just being totally displaced.
	Like, eventually it will come to a point where there are no Swindoners living in the place where their great-grandfathers would have built those railways.
	Well, that's true, but I think to the point that he was making there about the rail stations, that wasn't necessarily later.
	Sure, sure.
	Back in the day.
	Also, I'd just like to say congratulations.
	You literally just made Rory cry during that video.
	Yeah, but the thing is like, okay, Economic times change, right?
	And yeah, okay, you know, my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was making wagon wheels in Swindon.
	Oh, the trains have supplanted him, you know.
	But trains have still got the same utility.
	It was a conscious decision to decide to tear up a load of the old train tracks and replace them with roads, which honestly don't improve the ability of people to commute to places.
	But at least the people will be able to lament, right?
	What Tony Blair has done is removed their ability to even lament.
	There are no Cockneys in London lamenting East End.
	Well, that's true.
	Yeah.
	That's what I mean.
	It's like, anyway.
	I was talking more to the point of the video there.
	Yeah, you are right.
	But like, you know, I don't know.
	It strikes me as something like economic times change and that's normal.
	But the total displacement of people from their homelands is not normal.
	Oh no, that's not normal.
	Anyway, let's go to the next one.
	Guys, this woman does not have any good takes.
	Actually, take a look at her.
	She looks miserable, she looks unhealthy, she looks deranged, and she doesn't look like she's worth the hoodie she's wearing.
	And Carl, I don't think that women do this because they want to feel like they're in a fairy tale novel.
	They do this because they are biologically wired to look for danger and look for drama, and if they can't find it, they manufacture it.
	That's too cynical.
	Too cynical.
	I have no context.
	Should we move on?
	Yeah, yeah, we'll move on, but I don't agree with you there, Craig.
	Let's go to the next one.
	My mic is broken so enjoy the AI, the Fallout fandom as toxic as it gets over 76, and rightfully so, a new controversy, Tenpenny Tower Quest, in Fallout 3.
	Presents a scenario where the residents of Tenpenny Tower, the natives, face a challenge from ghouls, the outsiders.
	The quest allows players to choose between allowing the ghouls entry, which later kills the natives, or convince the ghouls to leave Tenpenny Tower peacefully and find another place to live.
	Am I right in thinking the quest is an allegory about unchecked immigration?
	What does Odd mean by this?
	I take it you played Fallout 3?
	Yeah, yeah, of course.
	Yeah, I would say, whether intentional or not, it might have just been them thinking that, oh, the Tenpenny Tower's good, because it's the good option to get them to get into Tenpenny Tower.
	And then when you return... And they murder everybody.
	Yeah, they've murdered everybody.
	It might have just been a decision on their part to say, well, all the guys in Tenpenny Tower are evil racists anyway.
	Even though it turns out that they were absolutely right to be evil racists, because they all got murdered by them!
	Quick question, did you blow up Megaton?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, me too.
	I wanted to see what it was.
	There was nothing really interesting there.
	Well, I quite like Megaton, actually, but I really wanted to see the nuclear explosion effect.
	I mean, the fact that there was a nuke in the middle of the town was a bit...
	And plus, you could tell that they designed it in mind that you would blow it up at some point, because after the initial missions that you have there, basically nothing interesting happens.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Building something to inspire awe and wonder in others is quite rewarding.
	However, people tend to be surprisingly blasé about it.
	At least until they realize I'm actually inside of it.
	When word gets out I'm going to be at an event.
	Apparently people will go to the event just to see my work.
	So, you know, I'm being a positive influence getting people out and about.
	Their reactions are the real rewarding part.
	And yes, I have confirmed.
	That's really cool.
	Let's get the next one.
	Well, I hear about the dangers of being too online, and that's a fair concern, but I think there's dangers of being not online enough at times.
	Because I know a lot of good-hearted, Maginormy types, and the thing is, like, they're not very online, but then they wind up buying into, like, George Floyd lies, or, you know, spending all their time worshipping sports teams that hate them, and then they wind up surprised when their kids are being beaten up in school or bullied by teachers for being what, and then they say, how could we have known this was going to happen?
	Well, I think you've got a good point that there is a reason that we use the internet.
	Yeah, how could they know that this would happen?
	Well, if you get a subscription to LotusEaters.com, then you'll stay up to date with everything.
	I do agree with what he's saying there to a certain extent.
	But yeah, it is definitely too online when you see people starting to get into arguments over whether Sidney Sweeney is hoss or just mid.
	That's all just pointless noise.
	Well, there's definitely a thing as being too online, but it's not like the internet doesn't have utility.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Dorothy L. Sayers wittily sums up London even back in the 1920s.
	To the person who has anything to conceal, Charles, there is one name above others which promises a haven of safety and oblivion.
	London.
	London!
	Where no one knows his neighbour, where shops don't even know their customers, where physicians are suddenly called to unknown patients whom they never see again.
	Where strangers are friendly and friends are casual.
	Discreet, incurious, and all-enfolding London.
	Totally true.
	Let's go to the next one.
	You know, I'm a bit of a noticer myself.
	And I think I've noticed something.
	That maybe Karl Marx was right after all.
	The proletariat seemed to be rising up.
	But today's Marxists, they hate the proletariat.
	They hate all the truckers and the farmers rising up.
	Well, maybe you should be a little bit careful what you wish for.
	You might just get it.
	I don't know if I can fully endorse that speech.
	That's clearly a hypothetical, fictional representation of an alternate reality.
	let's go to the next one I guess we'll talk about this tomorrow but Ferrari is apparently going back to reform yeah Yes, I've heard about that with Lee Anderson as well.
	That's from Hot Fuzz.
	Is there another one?
	Finally taking a vacation to my village.
	On my way there, I'm passing from Thermopylae, Hot Gates, you know, the 300 Spartan place.
	Now, if you look at the video, I don't know how much it's showing, but it's now a very wide area.
	Well, that happened because of the land erosion due to many rivers.
	It is estimated that at the time of the battle, the shoreline was up to this road.
	And if you want good representations of what it actually was, watch 300.
	Yeah, it's not terrible.
	Yeah.
	So Blood for the Blood Gods sends $100 on Rumble.
	Cheers.
	Another round of drinks from me.
	Thanks, man.
	Appreciate that.
	Alexander Drake says, today's stream is going to be a total bloodbath.
	Yep, that's pretty much what happened.
	Sorry about the technical issues.
	Bleach Demon says the whole bloodbath incident showed the colours of the American left more vividly than one could ever hope.
	They are projecting their fantasies of crushing their enemies into the words of Trump, ginning up a fever pitch of hate.
	Yeah, the thing is, well, like, with the bloodbath lie, it is the sort of thing you kind of hope that your enemies would do, something that incompetent, and they just kind of stumble into it.
	Someone online says, Rip Harry, first victim of the bloodbath.
	Somehow I return.
	Not even American.
	Still get shot by Donald Trump.
	Donald Trump is here to cleanse the West.
	You recovered as a vampire.
	It's literally whether or not Donald Trump is here to kill everyone in the West.
	Yep.
	Kevin says, so he said bloodbath as a metaphor in the 1970s.
	Biden said that if the US kept letting in immigrants in the schools, it would become a jungle with all the blacks in there.
	It's a good point.
	He does say stuff like that.
	Alistair Inglis says, Hurrah!
	We have achieved minoritarian domination.
	The three demigods of colour and a woman over the sea.
	And the cherry on the cake is our King of London is the Asian version of Sam the Bald Eagle from the Muppets.
	The invasion is complete.
	I know, it's just remarkable how we've arrived at the general consensus that British people actually don't deserve representation.
	Okay, there we go.
	I'm glad we all agreed on that.
	Yeah, I mean, Lars has got a good point.
	No taxation without representation.
	Unfortunately, we are still going to be taxed to the hilt.
	More than ever, in fact.
	Northent Knight says, as Karl once said, it is the tyranny of the minorities, beginning with the removal of representation for the Welsh, Scottish, English, Norman, Irish as a result of diversity privilege.
	How can I disagree with that?
	Henry says, the issue with calling Britain a managed democracy is I associate that with Helldivers.
	It's tainting my current favourite escapist fun time.
	UK politics must really ruin all the good things.
	Well, Helldivers is a satire of managed democracy, actually.
	The leftists online who knee-jerk reckon, oh God, a thing I don't like, fascism.
	No, it's the thing you do like, managed democracy.
	And that's why Helldivers is mocking.
	Thomas says, wasn't Drakeford the one who abandoned his grandchildren to foster care?
	I don't know about that.
	I'll have to look into it.
	I wouldn't be shocked.
	I know Russo did it for his children.
	Yeah, yeah, Russo definitely did it for his own kids.
	I don't know about Drake from there.
	Sophie says, can't wait for Uganda to get their first white Prime Minister.
	It'll be a historic day.
	Yeah, well, it only overgoes one way, doesn't it?
	Omar says, hate crimes are the application of the Duluth model to race.
	Guilty until proven non-straight white male.
	That's a good point as well.
	The assumption that it's racism and you have to prove otherwise is in the assumption that there's sexual assault and you have to prove otherwise.
	It's kind of like the affirmative action legislation in America where all of the businesses are assumed to be racist until they can prove they're not racist.
	And what, how's the only way you can prove that?
	By having affirmative action.
	Yeah.
	You could try and just annoy them into it though.
	Annoy them into repealing it.
	other Scottish hate crime bill can't be misused to the extent it gets pulled.
	Sorry, I can see.
	Like if everyone started ringing up and complaining that all members of the Scottish government are guilty of hate speech and thus need to be charged.
	Yes, but then you'll realise that the power distinction will come into play there.
	They'll say no, no, no, no, this isn't for us.
	This is for you.
	You could try and just annoy them into it though.
	Annoy them into repealing it.
	Inundate them with calls 24 7.
	And I suppose we'll end here with Chance Bell pointing out that we know they're committing treason.
	They know they're committing treason.
	They know, we know, that they're committing treason.
	We know, they know, we know, they're committing treason.
	But they're still committing treason.
	Well, that's one person's opinion of it.
	So when the British government comes and knocks on my door and says, are you accusing us of treason?
	My answer would be no.
	I love diversity.
	Thanks for joining us, folks.

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