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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #880

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	Well, hello and welcome to the podcast, The Low Seaters, and today I'm joined by Josh and Stelios.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	And we're going to be talking today about American democracy being dead, Ireland being about to bin the bill, and also drama wars, because drama.
	Drama's good.
	Yeah, well, I'm a bit worried about the Americans, to be honest.
	But we have a thank you, quite a few thank yous to say first, because on this holy of days, you, the people, have bestowed upon us, the people on the other side of the camera, gifts!
	That's special.
	But I want to say thank you first to Luna.
	She sent us this rather lovely box of chocolates.
	Thank you.
	Don't worry, I haven't eaten a single one.
	So there we are.
	I don't believe you.
	I haven't actually.
	I wanted the ginger.
	You're reforming.
	I wanted the ginger.
	So I sat and paired them up.
	Michael said it was autistic.
	It was a big long line.
	Well, yeah, you lined up the chocolates and then counted them.
	And there was no ginger one, so I had a harumph left.
	There is also a menu, it tells you what chocolates there are.
	You don't need to count them and line them up.
	You're right, but then I went in looking for the ginger one that's on the menu and it's not there.
	It's a scandal.
	Anyway, otherwise, everyone's really enjoyed them.
	Luna, thank you very much.
	They're already two-thirds gone, so that's what one day is worth.
	But there are some other people who said some things.
	Now, if we get this on screen, this is a lad's hour, because otherwise it doesn't make sense and I might get in trouble, in which we spoke about rude foods, looking at things that have rude names, but there's a good reason for it, weirdly enough.
	So if you want to go and watch this, please do.
	I'd appreciate some more views on that one.
	But some nice folk decided to send us in this King Dick Spanner, which is Made in England, so there we are.
	Good dick.
	Thank you for that.
	Always needed a spanner.
	He also sent in, I believe this was Jamie who sent this, a selection of cocks.
	These are coasters.
	You can see there are tits on that one.
	And then shaggers.
	All kinds of different birds.
	So thank you very much for that.
	I actually need a coaster for my desk, so I might have to use one of those.
	I'm keeping these.
	Well, all of them.
	You're gonna have multiple drinks simultaneously.
	There's even boobies on that one.
	Oh, don't look, Callum.
	Now I have some scolding to do for the evil son of a gun who has sent in... You bastard.
	He sent in Sir Strumming.
	Which we spoke briefly of.
	Surströmming is fermented fish that is then canned.
	I don't know, the camera won't pick it up.
	It is currently bulging with gas and at any moment presumably could blow up and then we'd actually have a biological hazard on our hands because this is recordedly the worst smelling of food on earth and we'll actually put a room out of action for a couple of days.
	You have to open it.
	I really, really don't want to.
	No, you have to because I want to see everyone's reaction and I'm going to be there to laugh.
	You're going to just smell storm storming and vomit then?
	I'm not going to vomit.
	I have a strong stomach.
	But I'm going to look at everyone else vomiting and I'm going to laugh.
	Yeah, unlike you to laugh at human suffering.
	But we specifically said not to send this in.
	Yeah, and some, well, I suppose that's how the internet works, isn't it?
	Well, if that's how the internet works, don't send me cash in big wads or gold.
	Please don't do that.
	It's best before May 2025, which I doubt.
	I don't think it's ever best.
	It's already past its date.
	No, you should wait for it to expire and open it then.
	Yeah, so Stelios will be opening this in a small room on his own for the pleasure of the viewers.
	Otherwise, um, thank you very much.
	I just, basically, we get sent quite a lot of strange, odd things and, um, we occasionally sort of miss saying thank you, just because we forget.
	It's not malicious.
	And, um, there was an awful lot today and I just want to say thanks.
	I like these banners.
	Right.
	I believe we have some news, don't we?
	Let's get on with it.
	I'll take that mouse.
	We shall.
	And we shall begin with, uh, well, the big news.
	Seems like big news.
	The American democracy is dead.
	Yes, I didn't kill it.
	So, I would like to argue that democracy in America is dead.
	I wanted to get your initial thoughts on the actual premise of what I'm going to talk about and then you'll probably see what I mean and likely agree.
	I think it's a hell of a claim.
	I mean, I look at the Americans and I feel like they've got better democratic systems than us.
	I mean, they've actually got an opposition, for example.
	Yes, that is true.
	They're certainly better off than us.
	However, I think that there are lots of things specific to American politics, particularly when it comes to the partisanship attacks on Donald Trump, that are very, very questionable.
	Because, of course, democracy is meant to be about Popular vote, letting people have their say.
	And of course, this is being interfered with on a mass scale, right?
	What do you reckon, Stelios?
	Well, I mean, the US state is supposed to be a republic, which is in common parlance, let's say, a representative democracy.
	So there is the element of popular vote, but there is also other elements of a system of checks and balances that mean that sometimes there are limits to what can be a subject That is going to be a subject of popular vote.
	So I want to see where you're going with this.
	But one of the things I want to say is that it seems to me that we should look past slogans and past, let's say, party.
	Names.
	And just see that Democrats, I think they're doing everything they can to harm American democracy.
	That's my hunch.
	But I want to see where you're going to take it.
	You're not too far off, to be honest.
	But basically, the premise of my argument is that there's one side of the political aisle who don't respect the American Constitution and how America should be run.
	And they are doing all that they can to persecute Trump, who is the front runner for president.
	They're using the power of the state to interfere with his ability to campaign and campaign effectively, trying to do all sorts of things that I'm going to quickly go over that have happened over the past few months as well as years, as well as looking at some of the newer things that they're doing for the upcoming 2024 presidential election, which raise a lot of questions about Whether democracy is really being preserved here at all and my argument would be no, it's not.
	So of course back in January Joe Biden said Trump is a grave threat to democracy and you may notice that a lot of the language used by the Democrats is the Republicans and Trump Of course, are a threat to our democracy.
	They're taking ownership of it as if it's a partisan thing.
	You know, only we can be trusted to be democratic, which to anyone with any sense, that should be setting off alarm bells that they're claiming that they own democracy.
	Well, that's quite an anti-democratic sentiment all on its own.
	So moving on to Trump.
	So there's obviously lots of things going on at the minute and it might be quite easy to lose track of it all.
	And there's, of course, the hush money case, which is kind of a bit BS, that he paid money to get Stormy Daniels to basically shut up.
	Paying someone money to be quiet doesn't necessarily mean you're guilty.
	And so there is that aspect of it.
	But this trial is still ongoing in the run-up to a presidential election, which on its own, perhaps, it's not unheard of before that these sorts of things are going on.
	But it's the compounding of all of these different things coming up simultaneously.
	And one has to think that, well, hang on a minute, Donald Trump should be campaigning for president.
	But he's in court most of the time.
	He's having all of this money siphoned away from him.
	You know, death by a thousand cuts.
	It is tangibly interfering with his ability to run for president, I think.
	So yeah, this one is still ongoing.
	I'm not sure how much you can legally comment on it, but it seems like it's sort of a money grab and a sort of reputation defamement sort of thing.
	Because I don't think an adult film star really is that concerned with morality and politics, I would imagine.
	That's going out on a bit of a limb here.
	But also you have this one, of course.
	This was from a little while ago.
	This was May of 2023.
	Jury finds Trump liable for sexual abuse and awards accused of 5 million.
	So they're trotting out all of these cases.
	This, of course, was related to the columnist E. Jean Carroll.
	And this was relating to an event in 1996.
	It's interesting to me that it's surfacing now rather than in the past and I think that one thing that's very common about political candidates running because of course you get had it with some of the Supreme Court nominees and lots of other appointees is that people go digging through their past to find anything that they can throw at a political candidate that they disagree with and quite often it'll be journalists or democrat activists or people like that targeting right-wingers or of course it goes
	on both sides to a certain extent.
	Josh, I want to add something that Victor Davis Hanson said some months ago, that obviously now the attacks on Trump are intensifying because, you know, the more, the closer we get to the US elections, the more intense the attacks are going to be.
	But he said something interesting, said that the Democrats for now are, that was months ago, we're going to highlight Trump so he could win The Republican candidacy, and then they were going to attack him full scale.
	And if you remember before Trump won the presidential, the Republican primaries, A lot of high-profile Democrats like Gavin Newsom, they were actively going out and telling the other candidates that it's not your time, Trump is going to roll you.
	They were creating the idea that Trump was going to win, and they were sort of helping him to do so, and they were not attacking him then.
	Yeah, and I think that's interesting in two accounts.
	But it's a miscalculation, and I'll speak about it in a bit.
	Okay yeah, I think as well that he's been polling so well that it's somewhat undeniable that he's got a very good chance in a free and fair election to win and I think that there's a certain amount of fear and sort of gloves being off again.
	So of course there was the Mar-a-Lago raid where they singled out Trump for having government documents that weren't meant to be on his premises.
	Of course Joe Biden had done the same thing and it was enforced selectively by the FBI to target Trump specifically.
	And then you had Georgia trying to dismiss Hang on.
	No, this was criminal charges.
	Sorry.
	This was a wrong link.
	Um, Georgia trying to basically accuse him of interfering with the election by asking for recounts, which is a rather uncharitable reading because he didn't ask anyone to do anything illegal, which is why they actually ended up throwing out this, this case and the criminal charges.
	It was just saying like, we need to look at, um, count these votes, make sure everything has been adhered to properly.
	And therefore the case wouldn't stick, but the fact that there was this case going on and there was the rhetoric of, well, he's started this insurrection and he's trying to overthrow election results, whereas that was a misrepresentation of what he's trying to do.
	Sure, he would like the election results to be overturned, but he was asking for sort of due process and to look at whether the results were legitimate or not.
	through legal means.
	He was taking it through the courts.
	He wasn't taking people with rifles and taking over the institutions, as you might expect, from an actual insurrection.
	And this sort of framing seems to indicate that, well, they're doing this sort of thing purely for the PR of doing it, rather than actually expecting it to stick.
	Because it's pretty obvious that, yes, he wasn't actually asking anyone to do anything illegal here.
	And the one that I thought I was going on to was that Colorado tried to remove him from the ballot and prevent people from even voting for him in the first place and that's probably one of the more clear examples and there are other states that tried to follow suit but of course The Supreme Court, as I covered previously, said that it's not up to the states to determine who is on the ballot in a federal election.
	It's up to, you know, a federal institution and also themselves, clearly, because they ruled on it.
	And of course they said it was unconstitutional.
	So there's also this, that people have realized, if I go to page 30, all the way down here, There was a recent opinion poll here.
	It says, do you agree or disagree that there is a double standard and bias at Joe Biden's department of justice, the FBI, the IRS, where they continue to target Republicans like Donald Trump, but these same groups go easy and give sweetheart deals to Joe Biden and his family members on the evidence shows Joe Biden and his family have failed to pay their taxes, taken bribes and extorted money from our enemies, such as the communist Chinese and Russia.
	And.
	This is quite a resounding result, isn't it?
	Kind of a leading question, not going to lie.
	It is a leading question.
	That much is true.
	But even with that as a leading question, I mean, we're looking at this 56% of people agree, 41% strongly, 31% disagree.
	But of course, if you're asking Democrats, right, they're going to clock on the leading question and push back against it quite heavily.
	So the fact that It's leaning so heavily in agreement that yeah, you know, he might be bad, but even we can see that there's a certain amount of double standard here.
	That seems to indicate to my mind that it's got to such an extent that even the people who stand to benefit politically from the persecution of Donald Trump are saying, hang on a minute, what's going on here?
	This is sort of going to create a broken window effect where this is going to be the standard applied to all politicians, which isn't to really anyone's benefit persecuting someone to that degree, because then no one will run.
	But I wanted to move on to the election side of things, because I think it's quite clear that the state has been going after Donald Trump.
	We've been covering it pretty extensively, but putting it all together, I think helps make the case that There is this, this problem with American democracy at the minute.
	And, um, of course this article, um, did the rounds quite a lot, didn't it?
	Um, the secret history of the shadow campaign that saved the 2020 election from Time Magazine.
	And, um, this was focusing on things like, uh, how they changed laws and things like that.
	I actually did a summary of it because it's quite a long article.
	I'm just going to read a few quotes to put in mind the kind of thing that they did in the run-up to the 2020 election, because this will sort of inform what's going to go on in the 2024 election.
	They're going to go a lot harder this time around than they did previously, because they themselves have been saying, well we're a lot more confident this time, that our ability to stop Donald Trump if he goes rogue, as they said, is higher.
	Which I think is a euphemism for saying we're going to stop him getting elected, even if it's legitimate.
	But here are some quotes from this that I pulled out.
	They're not necessarily all together, just In isolation.
	For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up American institutions as they came under simultaneous attack from a remorseless pandemic and autocratically inclined president.
	Their work touched every aspect of the election.
	They got states to change voting systems and laws and help secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding, defended off voter suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time.
	I mean, I don't know how they didn't realise how this sounds, this article here.
	So it goes on to say, Trump plotting to block a legitimate vote count and he spent the following November 3rd trying to steal the election he'd lost with lawsuits and conspiracy theories, pressure on the state and local officials and finally the summoning of his army of supporters to a Jan 6th rally that ended in deadly violence at the Capitol.
	That's why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream.
	A well-funded cabal of powerful people ranging across industries and ideologies working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage, control the flow of information.
	They were not rigging the election, they were fortifying it, which is the infamous euphemism that is used to refer to this election.
	I'm still shocked that they published this.
	I don't know about you guys, but this seems relatively naked to my mind, doesn't it?
	Yeah, it's unbelievably brazen.
	It's just not news, is it?
	Because they released this, what was it, the same month?
	It was in January?
	So it was amazing because at the same time all the mainstream media was saying, no, no, no, no one was working behind the scenes.
	That's a mad thing to say.
	The Times came out and just went, yeah, we did.
	We did and we're proud about it.
	So that's, I suppose, the Democrat side of things, that they were fortifying the election to guarantee that democracy wasn't going to be overtaken.
	And the opposing side, if you wanted to have a look at that, is probably best evidenced by here is the evidence, which is a very good name for evidence.
	But here there's a massive sort of link dump of all of the different links to various pieces of evidence to suggest that unusual things happened, largely to do with illegal votes here.
	That's the lion's share of what you can find.
	And so in total, there are 1,687 pieces of evidence.
	And so with that amount of evidence, of course, a large amount of it is going to be duds, right?
	It's going to be reasonable explanations.
	And of course, there's going to be a certain amount of just honest mistakes that happen in an election of that size happening.
	However, one has to wonder, well, surely with all of these pieces of evidence, there must be some stuff that has a point, right?
	And of course, I haven't been through all 1,687, but I did do a fair amount of digging.
	I think that there is at least a sort of case that gives them a degree of plausible deniability, I suppose, is the best way I can put it.
	But a similar article to that Time Magazine one was published relatively recently in the Rolling Stone Magazine and I wanted to have a look at this one because this talks about their plans from Biden campaign insiders, if you will.
	They spoke to a fair few people.
	As they said, they spoke to democratic lawmakers, operatives, Biden campaign advisors, administration officials, all told Rolling Stone the same thing.
	They at least seem to make out here if they're to be trusted.
	And I picked out some quotes from the article because it is, again, quite long.
	That I thought were interesting.
	They said, over the past year, Team Biden has been conducting war games, crafting complex legal strategies and devoting extensive resources to prepare for, as one former senior Biden administration official puts it, all hell breaks loose scenarios.
	President Biden has been worried for a while now that Donald Trump is going to try to steal the election.
	If it's very close on election day, says a source familiar with Biden's thinking, if it ends up being the case we are also expecting the Republican Party to go into overdrive to help him steal it.
	We are continuing to build out the infrastructure to ensure that doesn't happen again.
	If President Biden wins and Trump and MAGA, Republicans try to confuse everyone and sow chaos.
	So what I find interesting here is that they're even imagining a scenario where Biden's win is close because the polling, if that's to be believed, of course there have been cases where polling is inaccurate, is very much in Trump's favor.
	And of course, Biden's actions while in office have left a lot to be desired.
	The cost of living has gone up.
	You know, you've got the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
	There are a whole host of things that he's done poorly.
	Attaching his name to his economic policy probably didn't help.
	Bidenomics, when the cost of everything is going up, that's very, very stupid to my mind.
	So it carries on to say, Team Biden has been planning for years, sketching out what Trump could do as the leader of the GOP and has partnered with the Democratic National Committee and a vast network of liberal attorneys and legal groups to conduct similar doomsday style war gaming.
	So sort of translating the euphemism here, they've basically got an army of legal representatives to challenge pretty much everything that Donald Trump is going to do.
	And if there is sort of tomfoolery on the Democrats' part, and he makes a legal challenge, my guess is that they've arranged the institutions in such a way in which he's not going to get a fair hearing.
	He's not already getting a fair hearing, to be honest, in many courts.
	And so this isn't necessarily a stretch to suggest, right?
	What I find particularly tragic is that, not just in democracy, but in any other form of government, You have very bad consequences when those who rule have either no morals or are unaware of self-criticism.
	And the Democrats are trying to portray Trump as a Caesar-like figure who exerts a kind of power over people's minds.
	And in return, they show him loyalty, more loyalty to him than they do in the, let's say, the Republic or something.
	You have to ask yourself, who says this?
	What are they doing to protect their own country?
	For instance, there is, for years now, a crisis in the U.S.
	border.
	They do nothing.
	The federal government is actively making it worse.
	Even Democrat people from the non-federal branch are complaining about it, like the mayor of New York, Eric Adams.
	When you have a party that governs the country in such a way that tries to completely destroy all of it, and they say the main opposition is someone who wants to destroy all of it, the message isn't going to be strong.
	Yeah, it's not going to land if you're flooding the country with illegal immigrants and crime has got worse, the economy's got worse, you know, all the metrics are trending negative.
	And of course, it's worth mentioning as well that if they were legitimately confident that there had been no misgivings in the previous election, surely they should have been like, well, have an investigation, go on, have a look.
	You know, we haven't done anything wrong.
	And then you can allow Donald Trump to make a fool of himself if he's making accusations which are, you know, verified by everyone as being fairly investigated.
	Then, you know, it's easy.
	They didn't have to do all of this propaganda warring.
	And it makes me think that if you're protesting this much, you know, it's that Lady Duff protest of too much sort of thing of, if you're protesting his skepticism at the way elections are being conducted to this extent, well that to my mind suggests that you've got something to hide because The better thing for everyone involved and American democracy more generally is that you take these accusations seriously and investigate them and have an honest look at it, right?
	Because it's in no one's interest to, you know, have a dictatorship by the back door.
	I don't think any Americans really want that.
	It's not in their culture to have that sort of thing.
	And so that would have been what you would have expected if they were acting honestly.
	But it carries on to say, one swing state democratic election official involved with these efforts refers to it as a superstructure of various legal teams and liberal operatives who are going to fight on all fronts and let them have it from all sides if MAGA wants to tear down our democracy.
	The way they've been using our democracy just means the Democratic Party, basically.
	Because they take ownership of the democracy, therefore it's a proxy for the Democratic Party.
	That's the sort of sloganeering they've been using.
	And so you can read past this veiled language and this propaganda to sort of get a window into some of their intentions.
	I'm just going to read two more parts before I start looking at some other things.
	It says, a spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee tells Rolling Stone that the National Party is also setting aside tens of millions of dollars in robust voter protection programs to safeguard the rights of voters to make their voices heard against relentless attacks From Donald Trump and the GOP.
	And of course, Donald Trump's attacks against voting isn't against American citizens, right?
	It's against the dead voting, illegals voting, mail-in ballots, which are more susceptible to fraud.
	We saw that in Britain.
	It's actually uncontroversial in Britain to say that mail-in ballots lead to more fraud because we've had real-world cases in Leicester, for example, right?
	Those are legitimate concerns, I think.
	Those are fundamental matters of election integrity that should be taken seriously, but they're framing it as if He wants to stop American citizens from voting.
	And I think that's part of the reason why they flipped out about voter ID and things like that.
	It's just nonsense.
	But the final thing it says is, meanwhile, the Trump campaign and the RNC have invested in an army of conspiratorial election denying legal staff to undermine our elections and make it harder for Americans ballots to be counted.
	Well, it's not really what's going on, is it?
	They want to be thorough in their counting to avoid fraud.
	We won't let the Republicans get away with these baseless attacks on our democracy.
	We will continue to use every tool at our disposal to strengthen our democracy as MAGA extremists attempt to tear it down.
	So, considering the reality of the situation and how they're framing it here, it seems to my mind that 2024's presidential election is going to be a very interesting one, to say the least, to put it lightly, right?
	It seems like it, yeah.
	If he's even going to be allowed.
	oh, it's not real because blah, blah, blah, except this time from the Democrats.
	And then there's going to be massive fights about it for, what, the first year of his presidency.
	It seems like it, yeah, if he's even going to be allowed.
	I don't know what's going to happen because it's such a complicated thing that it's almost difficult for one person to comprehend, right?
	I mean, this happened last time as well, 2016.
	The whole first year was trying to prove that Russia did it, and that was just obviously going to go nowhere because it was bollocks.
	Well, you know, it was a conspiracy theory at the end of the day.
	They threw it at us, but that's what it was on the Democrats' side of things.
	But on the actual one, there wasn't any evidence.
	And they even still talk about it now, even though they had investigation after investigation with partisan people who still couldn't dig up dirt.
	So it seems like there wasn't any truth to it.
	It's getting to such an extent that New York City Council has called for the Court of Appeals for, I think it's the third time they're doing this now, to reverse a ruling barring illegal immigrants from voting in local elections.
	In Arizona, non-citizens are already allowed to vote in federal elections.
	So this is already happening.
	You know how they're bussing in lots of illegal immigrants.
	That's literally just treason, but okay.
	Yeah, it is.
	How you can claim to be protecting democracy whilst you're allowing non-citizens to vote in a domestic election.
	I think a democracy is about self-governance.
	It's not self-governance if foreign people have a say over your Exactly.
	And one thing to say, because it may be a bit unpopular, but I think democracy requires a kind of homogeneous population.
	You can't combine multiculturalism and democracies.
	You just can't.
	Because you just create voting blocs that ultimately have opposing interests, and in a sort of political zero-sum game, that just creates tensions.
	what's happening now, actually.
	And I just wanted to quickly go over some very brief stuff of just in the past couple of months, elections that have had problems.
	So in Chicago, they mysteriously found 10,000 missing ballots in the Dem district attorney primary race.
	Can we just talk about that one?
	Because people think, oh just 10,000 ballots might not be a big issue.
	I was reading this one, the difference between the two candidates was 2,000?
	Yes.
	Then suddenly finding 10 grand worth of ballots.
	It makes a significant deal, doesn't it?
	You know, it could change the nature of an election.
	Well, it definitely did.
	It did, yeah.
	And then here we have Texas, and it says, after declaring a successful hand count of ballots, Gillespie County Republicans had to fix a series of errors in the results reported from almost every precinct.
	So, that's quite worrying.
	I just love how American that is, though.
	Just literally every precinct can't even count pieces of paper.
	But I'm sorry, a hand count and you messed up in every single precinct.
	Pretty much all of our ballots hand counted in Britain.
	To the ones I've been to, yes.
	Yeah, I've not seen any machine counted stuff, I don't know.
	I don't think we use them.
	No.
	I think we're a small enough country as well to just about be able to get away with it right.
	The Americans could too as well.
	They could still do it.
	I think it would be better for them to hand count it and do it properly under proper supervision than the machines do it and have all the errors that they've had before.
	But here's another one.
	This is two months ago.
	Virginia officials find misreported 2020 election votes added to Trump's total.
	And this was actually for the sake of transparency.
	Biden actually received fewer votes and Trump received more than he should have here.
	2,300.
	Yes.
	It's still a significant amount to be out by, right?
	The accuracy of it, of just counting things.
	One has to question the entire process here.
	There's almost 4,000 votes when you count them all up.
	Yeah, it's a massive amount to be out by.
	If I were to apply that level of precision to my data science research, I would never be able to get a research grant ever again with that level of inaccuracy.
	So it's unacceptable in private scientific research.
	Surely something as important as the fate of your nation, these sorts of things should be sorted.
	And I think this is why I think American democracy is in danger, but it's not for the reason that the Democrats actually argue.
	So now we've been through it all, what do you think?
	I don't know.
	I mean, the Americans have muddled their way through all of this so far.
	Well, I don't think it's going to be the end of America or anything.
	I just think that there's a very strong case here that the democratic process has been subverted to such an extent that it seems strange almost to call it a democracy because it's a sort of oligarchic system where the elites are just fighting amongst themselves.
	You're not really having much direct democracy here, are you?
	What do you think, Stelios?
	Well, I don't know about direct democracy.
	Maybe that would lead to the considerations about tyranny of the majority.
	I think it's not supposed to be a direct democracy.
	It's supposed to be a representative one.
	But, well, I don't know about this.
	You know, I, generally speaking, don't like talking about stuff that I haven't researched extensively.
	So, you know, I will reserve judgment.
	But generally speaking, if these are the numbers and the error, that seems quite big.
	At least it seems to merit a recounting.
	But all of this put together, do you think there is a cause for concern here?
	Well, yeah, most certainly.
	I mean, I think there should always be cause of concern because when people are not concerned about what is going on, that's when the real problem begins.
	I think that's a good note to end it on.
	All right, let's move on.
	Right.
	Sorry, that went on a bit long.
	I didn't expect it to be quite that extensive.
	Okay.
	A lot of things have happened in Ireland lately.
	We had two referendums on the 8th of March, the care referendum and the family referendum.
	And their results were sort of like an earthquake that has some aftershocks afterward.
	And we did a segment about it two weeks ago.
	But it's important to see what has happened afterwards, because I must say, I was a bit more cynical with respect to how things were going to eventuate, but they eventuated much better than I expected.
	So let me just show you the results here and remind you of them.
	So for the family referendum, 68% voted against the government and only 32% in favor of it.
	And when it comes to the care referendum, The government performed even worse.
	They had 74% of the people against them.
	So, which question was which here?
	Because I know there were two referendums.
	I didn't look at this very closely because I know this is a wheelhouse.
	Here, the first one is the family referendum, which has to do with what constitutes a family in the constitution.
	Okay.
	Um, try to say that all sorts of durable relationships constitute families.
	They never, they never became explicit about what this means.
	And the second one was the care referendum that had to do with the economic help that the Irish state gives to mothers.
	And they wanted to expand the definition and say to any family member, and if they passed both, that would be the perfect way of saying we're going to arbitrarily define who requires economic support in exchange for political support.
	That's what they tried to do.
	And despite all the rhetoric that was pro-modernization, what they wanted to do is to give an air of legitimacy to having more arbitrary authority on their hands.
	So these were just lovely results.
	You know, you can't expect results like these, especially just how you have to think how out of touch a government is when they stage a referendum and three quarters of the population just slaps them and is against them.
	And one thing to say, because we did a segment about it two weeks ago, feel free to check it, there was a comment there that said, Varadkar hasn't been humiliated, because that was her thumbnail title.
	So, you know, how do you speculate?
	That comment aged very well, as you'll see, because Leo Varadkar resigned.
	Yeah, that was one of the interesting consequences of the referendum.
	So on March 20th, 12 days after the results were announced, he resigned.
	Let's look at this article by Reuters here.
	It says, Leoverica Irish Prime Minister Unexpectedly Quits.
	I love the title.
	I love the unexpectedness of it.
	You know?
	Okay, so somewhere here it says, Varadkar resigns 12 months before election, says new leader better placed to win re-election, successor said to be elected Prime Minister next month.
	Now, a person called Simon Harris is the leader of the Fine Gael party.
	He was the Minister of Education from Varadkar's government.
	So what it says here, that Wait, wait, wait.
	Sorry.
	Yep.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Sorry.
	Yep.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Sorry.
	Yep.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	open nominations for a new leader on Thursday.
	Sorry.
	They elected Simon Harris with the results to be announced on April 5.
	They've been announced before.
	Parliament would then vote on that person succeeding Varadkar's prime minister after it returns from Easter recess on April 9.
	Now, one thing to say, because it's important to look at how they're phrasing things, They say, the shock departure of Varadkar, who became the first gay prime minister of the once staunchly Catholic country in 2017, and da-da-da-da-da.
	Why would they feel the need to say the first gay prime minister?
	It's a victory lap, isn't it?
	Yeah, but they don't say now the first gay prime minister who resigned.
	That's a good point, actually.
	He's not the first resigning gay prime minister, he's the only first winning gay prime minister.
	Yeah, because that's a real issue with the woke.
	They just want to say, we're the first this, we're the first that, we're the first... Did they mention that he's the first gay prime minister to say the word the?
	I don't know.
	Anyway, so it says here that his reasons for stepping down are both personal and political.
	I don't know about the personal thing.
	Personal is political.
	Yes.
	Anyway, he did some careful consideration and some soul searching and he said that... Has he found his soul yet?
	Well, it's not going to be a PM, so that's the thing.
	He says that they need a new Taoiseach and they're going to have to win the elections yet again, but he won't stand a good chance of winning for his party.
	Sorry, I'm laughing because we're reading about Irish politics.
	So what's going on?
	Well, bookmaker Paddy Power has got a bound who's going to pick up the next one.
	Of course they do.
	Of course they do.
	So what is interesting is, again to focus on the rhetoric, they said that they wanted to modernize Ireland, they wanted to become more progressive, they wanted to pursue Western values, because Ireland is very conservative according to them.
	But ultimately, that's all a skin suit.
	What they wanted to do was very simple.
	They wanted to arbitrarily define who gets economic support in exchange for political support.
	Full stop.
	That's what they wanted to do.
	If you look at the terms that's technically anti-modern, if you actually look at what the The kind of political philosophy in the modern times was like, in its majority, that was mainly about resistance against arbitrary government.
	So it's really fun now that people who are talking pro-modernism are trying also to gain more arbitrary power.
	Well, the funny thing is modernization is just used as a bludgeon to destroy things that should have been preserved in the first place, right?
	Yeah.
	Surely it should be up to people to modernize for themselves.
	It's not up to the government to decide on their behalf.
	Yeah, that's just me.
	I think that's just scheme-suiting because I think we should remind ourselves that politicians use propaganda.
	They lie.
	Sometimes they do things but say the exact opposite.
	So we should remember that there is such a thing as scheme-suiting.
	Speaking of skin suiting, you should check our latest symposium, the debate I had with Conor on liberalism and wokeness.
	You can see both our faces here are really interested in this debate.
	You look very suspicious there.
	Yeah, and Conor is very suspicious about what he's listening.
	Anyway, so what I want to say with this is that We should be very much mindful of a lot of things that happen, and they're skin soothing.
	So, in the name of liberty, more and more civil and political liberties are being deprived from us.
	In the name of security, Western societies have become progressively less safe.
	In the name of justice and charity, law-abiding, innocent citizens face increased risks of becoming victims of crime.
	In the name of fairness and equality, members of protected groups have preferential treatment.
	In the name of modernization, states assume more and more arbitrary authority.
	And at the end of the day, in the name of democracy, the popular will is constantly disregarded.
	And also, its speech is denounced as hate speech.
	And here is where we are going to talk about.
	We are going to talk about this accursed Criminal Justice Bill 2022, and Ireland's campaign now to bin the bill, and a lot of politicians now understand that according to what they voted, and a lot of the people who speak against this bill right now, they voted for it.
	For instance, the people at Sinn Féin, they were saying that Right now, this bill is going to be very bad.
	I'm going to show you stuff, but they all voted for it.
	That's important to remember.
	Now, I'm going to come back here, but I want to say that we've talked to Dr. David Thunder about it, an interview last year.
	It was published June 9, 2023, because it's something that is really lasting in Ireland.
	This hate speech bill, criminal justice bill 2022, is an appalling bill.
	It's one of the worst bills.
	We're going to show you stuff and Callum, I'm sure you're going to think that it's just insane.
	I'm going to agree with it apparently though.
	Yeah.
	So let me show you here what Sinn Féin spokesperson on justice, Pat Daly, has demanded that governments scrap their hate speech legislation as it is not fit for purpose.
	Here's what is interesting because a lot of the community notes, they have some success recently.
	You know, there are many areas where community notes are correct.
	I've seen some wonderful community notes.
	I saw one where it's just like a Palestinian child feeding a dog and the community note was, this is a cat.
	Well, the worst community notes, I must say, had to do with Netflix and Alexander the Gay film interview.
	That was appalling.
	But now they have some interesting things to put forward.
	It says, when the hate speech bill went to vote, the deal on April 26, 23, every single St.
	Fein representative present voted for the bill.
	And now They understand that according to this bill, the verdict of the two referendums constitutes hate speech.
	So actively they said, actively they imply that two-thirds and three-quarters of the population is actually engaging in hate speech because they don't want this modern agenda that is enforced on them.
	This is your brain on globalism, yeah?
	Yeah.
	Let's see here what they say because it's it gets really funny because you see these are the people who didn't have a problem with this bill.
	And now, when they see that the tide is turning, they're sort of reading the writings on the wall, they hear the word on the street, they say things like, Government must scrap their hate speech legislation.
	It is abundantly clear that this legislation has been badly thought through and it is not fit for purpose.
	It must not proceed.
	You voted for it.
	I'm calling on the leader of Fine Gael, Simon Harris, to clarify whether it is his intention to press ahead with the hate speech bill that we voted for.
	Sinn Féin has raised a number of serious concerns about flaws in the legislation as it has proceeded through whatever.
	So they are actually saying right now that they tried to say that they put up a fight against this hate speech bill, but they actually didn't.
	What do you mean?
	Sinn Féin are lying?
	Never!
	Well, and we have here a more analytic view of what Sinn Féin members of the Irish Parliament voted for when they asked to pass the Criminal Justice Bill.
	All of them, yes.
	Yep.
	Well there's no one in no, so I'm going to take that as a yes.
	So what's the game here?
	Because we're looking at this, and you're absolutely right.
	Okay, they do a referendum.
	At the same time they're trying to pass a hate speech bill, and Sinn Féin and everyone else is on the side of, oh the public are evil and must be controlled.
	And then they get the referendum result and they realise how out of touch they are, so they have panics.
	They've actually shat themselves and thought, okay, we need to do something else.
	That's the reason for this total 180, in which a week ago you were in favour of passing this crap, and now you've realised you're completely out of touch and how much everyone hates you.
	I mean, I've seen the videos from some guys I follow.
	Chimfango knocking on doors now, and they just get people asking them, so what's your policy on Open Boris?
	And then they're just like, oh, I don't want to talk anymore.
	And then they leave.
	And it's like, right, you know, you know, the public despise you.
	So what's their game exactly?
	Because I don't think they're going to stop being traitors to the Irish.
	So why are they doing this?
	No one knows.
	And the interesting thing is that a lot of them are using the language that says that we shouldn't proceed with it, but it has already been voted for.
	On April the 26th of 2023.
	Well this is a phenomenon that has been going on for quite a while, that politicians talk as if they're activists rather than having an active hand in the legislation and the passing or not of it.
	Yeah, so I will answer your question the way I see it because I'm not infallible.
	I will tell you what my hunch is and I will tell you when we go back to the document, because I think it's going to be a bit clearer.
	Now, let's watch this here, because it's interesting to see how right now they are talking.
	That hate speech legislation, you're talking about all the works and all the referendums, and it's back in Helen McEntee's office now, and she might even be the Justice Minister in a couple of weeks.
	We'll go to that.
	Do you think that that will become legislation before the next election?
	I think there's a possibility, but realistically I think that there is a review process underway.
	There's an awful lot of amendments to be reviewed.
	There's an awful lot of people from both people who are in favour of it and both people who are against it who want that to be reflected upon.
	That's gone Neil Bailey.
	I think what you're saying, but not explicitly there, the hate speech legislation is gone, isn't it?
	I think in its current format it would be very hard to see it progressed through the door.
	But I think we are going back to reflect it as Barry and others in his party have asked us to.
	I'm thinking of going, going, gone.
	It might well be going.
	Look, it's present form, it's going nowhere.
	Complacency was the problem with the referendum, the same issue has repeated itself.
	Yeah, I'm not really sure what the present form of it means.
	I mean, what is it that you're looking to change about it or what is it that the minister is going to change about it?
	Also, like, the hate speech legislation is just one part of a whole swathe of laws that have not yet to be passed by the Justice Minister, including licensing laws, for example, that we know, as well, some of our colleagues now no longer want.
	They think it's too much on the left side and they want that pulled back.
	Who would have thought of all the places in the English-speaking world that Ireland would be the one that pushes back?
	I mean, everyone else has hate speech laws.
	I mean, in this country, it's comical.
	But the Irish are the only ones actually able to defend themselves on this.
	I mean, it's sort of just amazing to see.
	I mean, the conversation there being...
	The entire culture did a 180 shift, I say the culture, the political elite's culture, between pushing this and it's needed and the Irish need to pay for white colonialism or some crap they were saying in the parliament, to now everyone being like, yeah that's dead, no one cares, end it.
	What is interesting to see here, though, is that the 180 degree turn is apparent because they don't condemn the bill.
	They act as if they are emotionally shattered by the result, and they act as if they take what the people want into account.
	But no one goes out to say that, for instance, it's just To be condemnable.
	And I want to show you some very condemnable features by going back to it here.
	Okay, so.
	No way.
	It's got a very large content, so that's condemnable.
	Yeah, sorry.
	We have some slightly technical things.
	So I want to show you some things here.
	So in section two, okay.
	Section 2, it says hatred.
	Hatred means hatred against a person or a group of persons in the state or elsewhere on account of their protected characteristics or any one of those characteristics.
	So this is an installment on a previous hate speech bill that they had.
	But it is much more severe.
	You will see here, they say they have protected characteristics.
	So they're introducing, legally speaking, the idea of protected groups.
	The same dog shit we have in this country.
	...to have preferential treatment.
	They say, for instance, race, color, nationality, religion, national, ethnic origin, descent, gender, sex characteristics, sexual orientation or disability.
	Now, if you talk about nationality, everyone comes from a nation.
	So does that mean that everyone is protected?
	Well, it would mean that insulting the English would become illegal.
	It'd be hateful, which would be quite funny in a way.
	Obviously, I don't want this for Ireland.
	But it's just awful.
	Just on the face of it.
	Utterly evil.
	And it's been tried in the rest of the English-speaking world, and the effects have been terrible.
	So the Irish government were like, yeah, we'll do that.
	I mean, this sort of victory, I mean, just looking at it in that sort of terms, the whole culture is now 180ed.
	The ball is in the Irish right hand.
	And if they can push this in some kind of political victory as well, actually getting representation properly, well then, fantastic!
	I'd love to see this be the star of the end.
	This gets worse now.
	It says here, gender means the gender of a person or the gender which a person expresses as the person's preferred gender or with which the person identifies and includes transgender and a gender other than those of male and female.
	If you see here, they say that also, it's not just the distribution of hateful content, it's also the possession.
	If you see here, clause 10, it says here, offensive preparing or possessing material likely to incite violence or hatred against persons on account of their protected characteristics.
	So, think of this.
	You possess something that someone who may be exposed to it may have feelings of hatred incited by that.
	First of all, you can't control it.
	All forms of speech can have that effect.
	But also, it's interesting here to watch another Complication.
	They say that they protect free speech on account of reasonable contributions to public debate that they identify as things that a reasonable person would allow.
	So all of that is just arbitrary.
	And I want to end by saying that it seems to me that the whole endgame here is not so much to aid this or that group.
	It's to create total chaos.
	in order to pose as the necessary, let's say, person and government to arbitrate in order to impose order to that chaos.
	So what they want is, it seems to me, just pure power grub.
	And I want to end with this clip here from Jill Biden, which shows what is in the mind of a lot of people who are actually pursuing the globalist policies.
	History teaches us that democracies don't disappear overnight.
	They disappear slowly.
	Subtly.
	Silently.
	A book ban.
	A court decision.
	A don't-say-gay law.
	A hate speech bill.
	Before World War II, I'm told, Berlin was the center of LGBTQ's culture in Europe.
	One group of people loses their rights, and then another, and then another.
	Yeah.
	Do we even need to say anything?
	Yeah.
	So people who pursue globalist policies need a mirror first.
	They're talking about the persecution of groups.
	They're talking about extremism and the rise of extremism.
	They're actually acting in ways that are either extremist, like silencing speech and gaining arbitrary power, or they're doing everything they can to create conditions like the conditions that Jill Biden is talking about there.
	But I'll just want to also comment that I don't know what about, you know, the, I can I don't know whether her claim there is correct about the Weimar Republic.
	Harry's the resident expert on it, but there's a phrase that often gets banded around.
	I don't condone the message, by the way.
	I don't agree with it.
	But it says, if you create Weimar conditions, you create Weimar solutions.
	It's saying that the reason the Nazis came about is because paedophilia became normal in Berlin.
	And she's now describing that as an LGBTQ culture.
	Okay.
	Wow.
	So that's it.
	All righty.
	Well, on that note, shall we move on?
	That's just a horrific thing to say.
	I kind of want to grab my King Richard and just start smashing Callum Gilbert.
	Smash that.
	Oh, not the surstromming.
	Anything about that.
	I'd rather you hit me in the head with that damn thing.
	Let's talk about drama, shall we?
	Let's have some drama wars, because it's been a hell of a week the previous week for drama.
	Podcast of gossip today.
	What's up, Drama Alert Nation?
	Oh, we've got Keemstar on the payroll.
	Yeah.
	This is a weird one.
	It's one of those.
	I was having sandwiches a while back with Tommy Robinson.
	What a way to introduce a story.
	We were reminiscing about this.
	This is on screen now.
	This is the Day for Freedom, which was an event that he held in London, which was basically just a stab in the dark.
	He decided to set up a rally in the centre of London, next to Parliament, on the basis of, okay, let's get some goodwill and some connections going, and then something will grow out of this.
	And it didn't really work.
	It was a great day, it was a good attempt, and it failed.
	Because what happened to the people who were involved?
	And, well, everyone kind of got persecuted or banned or or well, dealt with by the state.
	I mean, TR himself, he now runs a podcast on Rumble because he's banned on YouTube, etc.
	That's where he is.
	Right, Lauren Southern, she was there, or at least tried to before she was banned by the state.
	She now has to live in constant fear of the security services.
	This is her most recent video talking about this on her channel.
	I haven't seen that yet.
	What does she say?
	Well, she made friends with these two people called Brittany and Martin Zellner, and they got married and started Generation Identity in Germany.
	And you can criticize them or have worries about them.
	And that's, you know, fine.
	That's an opinion.
	But what happened to Lauren for being friends with them is that she would get detained every time she left the country and went to any other country in the Western world, and would be questioned for hours about whether or not she's spoken to these people.
	And if she'd even spoken about their babies, nothing political, then she would be detained further and they'd check her phone.
	Their babies?
	What?
	Yes, so Brittany, for example, has babies.
	Lauren has babies.
	So they're women talking about babies.
	And for this crime, this would still put her on the person of interest list.
	And she ended up getting banned from Australia, for Christ's sake, where her own children and family were.
	So yeah, it's pretty horrible what's happened to her.
	She got persecuted by the state, not just one of them, all of them in the West.
	Weird how they all seem to have the same apparatus.
	Um, Milo, he, he, um, he's doing weird stuff.
	I liked that Chiron there.
	This is where he went off to.
	He is now, as this Chiron says, a reformed sodomite.
	Their words, not mine.
	But that's that.
	Dankula, what happened to him?
	Well, he's up in Scotland making funny videos.
	He's doing his thing.
	Exiled in Scotland.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	But, you know, what political power do these people have in totality?
	And it didn't really manifest in that way because the British state, at least, is completely controlled.
	There's no real ability to do those things.
	And there was lots of drama throughout.
	There were plenty of other names people might remember.
	Lucy Brown, people might remember Cailin Robinson, you know, if you don't that's fine, it's just drama of the time, right?
	And Carl set this up, and we have this.
	But the point being that nothing really remained intact, and British writers are really quite rare, I mean they're sort of like the Enclave.
	There's a sizable number of them in this building at the minute.
	But that's the point, they're like the Enclave, they're in like certain locations, or they're just remnants throughout the wasteland.
	Meaning Fallout, right?
	Yes.
	Of course.
	But, um, that's that.
	That's something I was reminiscing with the bad man about.
	And then I saw over the week, um, the drama, which is the Yankees have all been fighting each other.
	And, uh, I don't know if you can zoom in on this, Jack, real quick, but this is just an insight to the kind of crappy memes I make to entertain myself.
	The Daily Wire had a week of stepping on rakes for weird reasons.
	And in case you don't know what any of this is about, the first one there being Matt Walsh, who decided to come out and say that even though I hate video games, I'm going to defend video games from such and such.
	That wasn't taken kindly.
	People didn't seem to like that.
	That was weird.
	Candice Owens then had a big public spat with The Daily Wire over a year for Israel and other stuff.
	Yeah, Crisis King.
	And she's now left, as you can see there.
	You hinted at it through there.
	Oh, sorry.
	Ben Shapiro... Foreshadowing.
	refuses to say as to why he's parted ways with her at all, or the reason why.
	That's very Soviet of him.
	Well, it's, you know, his decision, but that's, that's drama.
	That's a lot of drama.
	Quite a bit.
	He just chose to leave the Daily Wire union.
	The Rabbi Schmooly thing?
	In case you're wondering what the hell this is about.
	This is a rabbi that Countess Owen's got in a big fight with, and presumably that's some of the reason why she left.
	I'm sure Harry will go into it in more detail on Friday.
	I'm not going to.
	The point being, it is weird.
	It is all weird.
	I haven't seen this picture before, I heard about it but I didn't actually see it.
	Yeah, this fella is a very off-the-wall rabbi.
	Very, very strange.
	Really?
	No way!
	I never would have guessed, thanks for clarifying.
	And him and Candace had a big fight just before she was fired for some reason.
	That is a real nose.
	That looks quite convincing.
	I think this is a stupid face mask he's got on, but anyway.
	Moving on, so we also have the Christ is King drama that happened, and this is Andrew Clavin saying the phrase Christ is King is an anti-Semitic dog whistle, and then the Jews are... I think Christ literally means King.
	That's what it means.
	It's really weird.
	The real thing about this is I'm looking at all this from a British perspective, and a lot of drama goes on in these circles.
	These big people in political commentatory positions.
	I don't know how to describe this.
	And this happened in Britain, and what ended up happening is everyone just kind of dissipated.
	And like I say, it's now the Enclave.
	I'm watching the Americans go through something similar.
	I mean, there's been a fair bit.
	I mean, the Daily Wire is not unusual to drama, you know?
	Someone makes a take that a lot of people think is shit.
	There's a fight about it.
	That's pretty normal.
	That's bad.
	That's a bad day.
	The last significant one was Crowder, wasn't it?
	Yeah, in which they offered Crowder a contract.
	Crowder basically told them, you're the devil.
	And then they had an argument about it publicly, about it.
	And I don't want to get into all the specifics of these little dramas.
	I mean, plenty of people will be doing that.
	Keemstar, enter stage.
	I think the right wing now is doing a Monty Python, you know, people's front of Judea, Judean front of people.
	I'm not sure.
	They are talking so much about things and there is so much discourse that everyone is trying to create their own position and they are not playing along each other.
	Unless you don't agree with me 100% Stelios, you're my enemy.
	Yeah, you're a Maoist.
	I'm not sure it's so much that as just making pointless ventures.
	I mean, like Matt Walsh, for example.
	I get that he's trying to do the whole, okay, even if I don't like video games, you guys don't deserve to be infected with woke nonsense, I'm gonna say something.
	That's the steel man of his position.
	But if you'd already made the public position of, I hate video games and they're for losers, It's not really a worthwhile venture to get yourself involved in that.
	You know, they're quartering everyone else.
	They're doing their thing.
	That's their circle.
	That's their obsession.
	Let them be.
	Ironically enough, Andrew Claven was the one that pushed back against Matt Walsh and said, actually, I like video games and they're good.
	They're fantastic.
	Yeah, they are.
	Much better than watching TV.
	That's for damn sure.
	Yeah, he talked about The Last of Us specifically and made a fantastic argument for why The Last of Us won, not two.
	I think everyone knew what you meant.
	It's very, very good because it's also just a story about a dad relearning to love.
	But there's that.
	But again, just kind of like, why?
	Of all the things you've got today, could you not make migrants breaking into the country illegally episode 3000?
	Could you do that instead?
	I know that's sort of my wheelhouse, but there we are.
	This Christ is King thing, for example.
	I mean, I saw James Lindsay making this argument that went, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	This is definitely the case.
	It's anti-Semitic because it's very, very new.
	I proved it with... It's new, therefore anti-Semitic.
	Yeah, I proved it with Google Trends that this is an op.
	And then there's people like... All this academia here.
	Yeah, then there's people like Don LaPlata being like, okay, same source, Google Trends, it's been around since 2004.
	What are you talking about?
	This isn't some brand new saying.
	I saw it long before the Israel-Palestine stuff.
	You know, it's something that people say.
	Yeah, I mean, it just very much reminds me of the Pepe the Frog drama.
	They were like, don't you know Pepe represents the Klan?
	I was like, also, if the Daily Wire had any sense, they would be aware of the Streisand effects.
	More people now are aware of the phrase Christ is King than before.
	And, you know, It makes me want to say it by, you know, people saying, you can't say this thing.
	So I'm just like, I'm going to do it.
	Well, Christ is King.
	But that's the thing.
	It depends on context.
	You could argue, you know, if I'm using Pepe to talk about my tendies or if I'm using Pepe to talk about exterminating such and such, it's not the Pepe.
	It's the way I'm using it.
	Whatever.
	I mean, this is all logical stuff.
	You used that spanner there.
	There we are.
	My king dick.
	If you used that to fix a car, no one would have any problem.
	If you used it to bludgeon my head in, someone might have a problem.
	You wouldn't put the spanner on trial though, would you?
	I could try.
	It's got a rude word.
	Please don't try and bludgeon my head in.
	But my point being, okay, a lot of drama.
	Okay, this is just annoying.
	But the reason I say drama wars is because Daily Wire may have had a week of stepping on rakes.
	They're not the only ones.
	Time for more rakes.
	This time because, of course, there's not enough drama.
	Jared, not gay Jared, from Crowder, is going to have some drama.
	It's time for him.
	You don't know what this is about.
	This is a guy who used to work for Crowder.
	I love how these two, you know, Crowder and Daily Wire, had a spat.
	And now they're both having their own spats.
	There's some kissing later on.
	This is Callum's deaf-friendly podcast today.
	This is for all you deaf people that say we don't include commentary for you.
	Here's Callum demonstrating politics to you.
	Who's who?
	a spat between water and dick.
	Who's who?
	That's Crowder.
	Whatever, I'm going to stop doing that.
	Interesting hand movement for Crowder.
	You say Crowder and all of a sudden you start going like that.
	That wasn't purposeful.
	But the point being, OK, here's some more drama to throw on the bonfire, because why not?
	This is apparently Crowder, according to Jared here, is quite abusive.
	And the way he's abusive is that he takes unnecessary legal actions against his former employees.
	And this is legal harassment, is his argument.
	Um, this, this is pretty weird.
	I mean, you can see everyone jumped on this.
	Cernovich is like, okay, Crowder's suing an ex-employee for applying for a job.
	That seems... That is, yeah, bad.
	A nasty move.
	That's, that's the case from the Jared side.
	You've got more people saying that, OK, well, I know about this.
	This is a long running problem with former employees of Crowder.
	So there we are.
	That's that.
	And then you've got his former wife loving that he's put this out and saying, yep, that's a big problem.
	And you may remember, of course, who can I use for this?
	No, that's routine.
	Twisting the knife and saying a great father and a loyal husband and saying that about someone who's accusing your ex-husband.
	Well, I don't know what to use for a wife!
	It's all I've got to hand!
	You could have at least gone for the one that had tits on it.
	Alright, fine.
	Alright, there we go.
	Welcome to my very professional show.
	Can we show and tell, everyone?
	They were fighting because the wife didn't like the marriage and there were problems and whatever.
	Great demonstration.
	They broke up, there's big drama between them.
	You may remember some footage coming out in which she was arguing or showing this footage to show that Crowder was saying she's not performing her wifely duties by getting food for the dog when she was heavily pregnant.
	I don't care!
	I don't care about any of this!
	I don't care about the minor... Wifely obligations to the dog.
	But this is all such like personal stuff between the person involved, the person who's doing something or not doing something, and their family and their conditions at work and whatnot.
	I just kind of find it weird that all of this has to be so public and a bitch fight.
	So I... This may end up destroying these two institutions.
	It's all about clicks and views.
	You'd think, but if this was just about clicks, that's sort of... I don't know, what would I say?
	The Crowder fight.
	I mean, everyone loves a gossip.
	Even if they say not.
	I mean... But it's not that.
	Because if we're dealing with the fight between Crowder and Daily Warren Contract, right?
	That was a bit... That was clicks.
	I'd agree.
	But them saying, no, he's an abusive person on a legal basis.
	I mean, that's all I'm trying to say.
	Sorry, I wasn't trying to interrupt.
	No, no.
	Okay.
	But I think it's a bit more serious is all I'm trying to get at.
	The other thing that's funny about this is that Steve, not Steve, Ben Shapiro.
	We've just anglified Ben Shapiro there.
	Steve entered the chat.
	He's decided to retweet this and also donate 500 buckaroos to the Jared fella.
	Steve Smith there, being spiteful to Steven Crowder.
	Yeah, but there's actually like a proper bitch fight going on between the two.
	By proxy, it's like, you know, Russia, Ukraine and the West, but via Jared.
	Yeah.
	In case you want confirmation as well, I did see some people were like, the quartering says it's not true.
	Ben says, no, no.
	Call himself Benjamin.
	I did it.
	I did give $500.
	I'll do it again.
	But also Candace Owens agrees with the Crowder position, well, the hate Crowder position, which is that this is awful and Crowder's a bad man.
	So there's that.
	And Crowder's team have put out a statement saying, well, today at 10 a.m.
	Eastern time, they're going to do a response.
	So I don't know.
	What's the whole point of this?
	Why am I bringing this up?
	Because good lord, if this happens to the United States in the same way it happened to the UK, which is everyone just becomes the enclave, and this whole movement of... well, not movement, but more structures just collapse, that would leave everyone worse off.
	And for what?
	Because you can't get your shit together.
	Petty and fighting over the scraps, basically, isn't it?
	That's ultimately what it amounts to.
	A lot of it's financial and working conditions and things like that.
	Working conditions is fair enough, and people at least need enough to make ends meet.
	If they're very well off and they're fighting over stuff, then you call in questions.
	I think there is also another element here that is important is that when people are commenting constantly on how to address the moral crisis, it may be entirely, you know, how should I say, challenging for other people around them who think that they are completely assholes to them.
	They may think that this is really bad and they come out and talk saying that this person who is actually posing as a moral authority who's going to address the whole nation about how to live isn't actually a really good person.
	There's a lot of insincerity on all sides of the political spectrum unfortunately.
	I think that a very unfortunate thing about a lot of political commentators more generally in the modern day is that it's more about signaling that you're the epitome of The group membership that you belong to, be it sort of conservative or progressive.
	And lots of people do this to some extent.
	I think it is an aspect of human nature, but it's a shame that it's taking over almost that all commentary seems to translate through this prism rather than you don't get too many people telling their audience difficult truths anymore.
	And I think it's part of the reason is that Being able to make this sort of thing work financially is more difficult than it used to be because of the cancellations and things like that.
	And so people are a lot more sensitive to the wants and needs of their group.
	I don't know how much I can really say on this, like good advice.
	I'm just some guy with a laptop.
	But one thing I will say that's definitely true, which is you don't have to have an opinion on everything.
	There seems to be a lot of these pitfalls.
	I mean, why do you have to sit there and talk about video games if you don't care about the more good start arguing about Christ is king.
	I mean, where did you think that was going exactly?
	That was just going to cause a fight for no reason.
	I mean, I never really talk about religion because I don't know much about it and I leave it to other people that are more qualified.
	But it would also just kind of be pointless to start a fight for no reason with the religious.
	I mean, of all the people threatening your way of life.
	How dare you, you principled people who care about their family community and their soul.
	It's just not a thing in the West.
	I mean, so to get to this, I mean, I saw Sydney Watson having a bitch fight with Pearl Davis.
	Ooh, more drama.
	But this was all about the fact that Jared and Crowder are having their fight.
	And then Pearl chimes in with her opinion based on one tweet.
	And it's just like, I don't know, man.
	When you've got nothing to add, it's probably best to just be like, I don't care.
	I'm just not getting involved in this stuff.
	But anyway, a lot of this seems to be caused by people not being able to be fully professional, perhaps.
	On whichever side, I don't know.
	Don't really care to get into all your petty dramas.
	Good luck to all of you lovely people out there making stuff.
	Yeah, this is a bit worrying for me in the sense that I feel like these people might actually end up killing some institutions by just making fights over things that didn't need to happen.
	You seem so much more threatening when you're saying this with a spanner in your hand.
	Sort yourselves out, I'll come round.
	I'll undo your knobs.
	You're absolutely correct though when you say that not everyone has to comment on everything.
	It's a good rule.
	So I think one of the interesting things that have happened with the alternative media platforms is that for too long people in mainstream outlets had to say 1 plus 1 equals 2 and they didn't.
	And they allowed people who said 1 plus 1 equals 3.
	So that leads to constant discrediting.
	That gives people a huge audience.
	Those who actually said no, 1 plus 1 equals 2.
	We're not going to allow you to say 3.
	But it also gives them the opportunity to just comment on anything.
	And that's not very good.
	I just don't think it's worth your time.
	I mean, you end up getting involved in a billion fights forever, which, I mean, unless you're actually Keemstar.
	I mean, that's the point of drama, though, is to run into these fights and gin up, you know, controversy, so there's clicks.
	Okay, fine, but you don't want to do that.
	You're actually trying to build something of worth.
	So, I just, uh, some advice to people is don't waste your time on things you don't need to.
	I don't think any of us have ever got into spats with anyone, really.
	But it's a proper rule we have.
	It's sort of unspoken, but I've noticed it.
	We just, if we can, we try not to engage in such.
	Just be nice to people.
	But also just don't do stupid, retarded takes for no reason that you know would cause a fight.
	Oh, I can't help that.
	No, but I think we've got our problems, but they're not as drama-causing as recent events is all I'm getting at.
	But anyway, if you want to feel better about the state of right-wing drama, you can always check in with left-wing drama, because that's on another level.
	We can see here.
	Oh, wow.
	I can't say much about this.
	This is already escalating.
	Without getting sued.
	But here's a nice 9-11 meme.
	Abigail Thorne, FossbyTube, finally allowed to say this, I'm in Star Wars.
	Now this show drops in June and then out of nowhere ContraPoints decided to tweet, look, I get the pain of being a trans woman who realizes that her boyfriend wants to be her.
	I really do.
	But on the bright side, at least your ex didn't also ditto your entire YouTube career.
	That would be so awkward.
	Ha ha.
	Did you say they're particularly litigious?
	I am not saying anything more than what is on the screen, because that is what is publicly available.
	Alright, I'm gonna follow your lead then.
	Alright, so what happened is that ContraPoints deleted that, and most people believe it in reference to Philosophy Tube, because a lot of people have been digging up evidence such as Carl and then presenting it purely as what is online, nothing more.
	As you can see here, Philosophy Tube had an opinion that they didn't have Dengue Dysphoria, never did, and then all of a sudden, they did.
	after engaging with Contra, and also has a very similar style.
	So there's that.
	Trans-maxing, even.
	I said it like Sean Connery then.
	Trans-maxing.
	My whole point of this, just to be like, my god, left-wing drama is a whole other scale than right-wing drama.
	But let's leave that there before I get sued and just describe some British drama.
	Oh yes, homegrown stuff.
	The meal deal.
	Oh my goodness.
	You could have warned us before you brought up this.
	Let's end this off with a laugh, shall we?
	You see this?
	The pepperami is now a main.
	That is up.
	Get me out of this country quick.
	Sincerely.
	I love this guy.
	Dear Mr. Xi Jinping, my name is Stan.
	I'm seven years old.
	Every night, Mr. Sunak turns more sides into main meal deals.
	Please send your J6 Superior fighter jets.
	Give me freedom.
	Lucas already, we're done.
	Yeah, genuinely broken bread.
	But anyway, there we are.
	What was the point in any of that?
	Just to say that drama is kind of dumb.
	And if you can be avoided, do it.
	Especially if it's for pointless fights that no one gains out of.
	Love Christ.
	Rightio.
	Let us carry on.
	So, I saw Carl talking about the new Dune movies, and I thought they were decent enough adaptions.
	They met all of the primary metrics of a good movie, but I felt like they didn't go far enough in making themselves more unique, design-wise, for, like, that universe.
	Because, you know, the costuming and, you know, set design of the original movie were really their own thing, and this one doesn't really set itself apart from all of these late 2010s sci-fi movies.
	That's a fair criticism, to be fair.
	I really enjoyed the film.
	I like the fact you've got the David Lynch, June screenshots there as well.
	But I also thought that the visuals were very impressive.
	It did remind me of the director's version of Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049.
	I forgot the director's name.
	I think Denis Villeneuve.
	That's the one, yeah.
	He directed that as well, didn't he?
	And that was a good film too.
	So, you know, I approved of the visual style.
	I think it's fair to say that there could have been a bit more individual flair.
	I was about to help myself to those chocolates, actually.
	No, go ahead.
	I mean, they read my mind.
	I have nothing to say on this.
	Also, it was addressed to Carl, so it's sort of his problem.
	You open the chocolate, Stelios.
	There we are.
	We shall go to the next video comment while we dine.
	I can't remember where or who, but when I was young I heard someone say that the ultimate end of capitalism is communism.
	Something about that seemed compelling and recently I determined to find out its origin.
	In Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Joseph A. Schumpeter does not advocate that the transition should take place, merely that he thinks it inevitable and positive.
	Written around 80 years ago, the book captures a snapshot of the peculiar economic state that led to the Second World War, so eerily relevant to today.
	I'm afraid it'll take another five videos, but I'll lay out why you should read this book.
	Very interesting as always.
	I have it and I will...
	I mean, you've got the gold tier to do it, so if you want to send them.
	There we are.
	Thank you.
	Have I got a menu?
	No, there's no menu.
	It's Lucky Dip.
	Oh, it's Lucky Dip.
	Yeah, good luck.
	Pick for me, Callum.
	Go on.
	I'll tell you what I get.
	Purple.
	Okay.
	There we go.
	Company colors.
	Aha!
	I'm a company man.
	No, the idea that capitalism...
	Sorry, communism is the end state of capitalism is a bit confusing for me.
	But that's...
	I don't think it's correct, but I'm sure Schumpeter has a very unique and sophisticated view.
	I'll check it out.
	Here we are in the area of iconoclasm.
	A man, in order to save an icon of Pana Gia, the Bert and Mary, from the Bert, took an icon from Anatolia and brought it here to save the world.
	I don't understand the word.
	Okay.
	the icon is set to crew legs and climb up this wall all the way out of the mountain and pass through a hole.
	I really had to strain to hear that.
	I don't understand the word.
	Okay.
	Yeah, the wind really blocked out what you were saying, I think there.
	So I couldn't really tell.
	Sorry, I wanted to listen.
	Kind of a recurring problem.
	I don't know what to do.
	There we are.
	Moving on.
	To continue yesterday's thoughts, I know I also said the alternative was a total collapse.
	That might actually be optimistic.
	Unlike the ancient world where isolated pockets of civilization might fail unmolested and recede into obscurity, we now live in an era of totalizing communications.
	The modern madness is backed by a mechanized iron will of totalitarian surveillance and cultural hegemony, with the precepts of the modern era preserved eternally in amber.
	Now, we are the unfortunate few who know the warm afterglow of the Golden Age, but will never know the end of the maniacal malaise.
	Very nice Rolls-Royce.
	Yeah, I didn't really follow any of that, I was too busy looking at the car.
	It's a nice car.
	Man-brain kicked in.
	But no, I agreed with what you were saying as well.
	Well, we'll now go to the written comments on the site, so do make more chocolate.
	That was a good one.
	No menu, but it tasted of fruit of some kind.
	Almost a bit blueberry.
	Something like that.
	I don't know.
	Alrighty.
	Alright, so Blood for the Blood God has donated... At least throw the chocolates if you're gonna offer chocolates!
	I'll keep them here.
	I get given wrappers and I descend into school sort of territory here.
	Give me an elastic band.
	So Blood for the Blood God has donated a hundred buckaroos to say, here's something for Lotus Eater's New York Mayor.
	Which I don't quite understand, I'll be honest, because we're not running a candidate, are we?
	I'll do it.
	Me, I love New York.
	I've been there all my life.
	What's the deposit?
	I don't know.
	It must be at least 500 bucks.
	Yeah, it's probably more than that.
	Actually, I've changed my mind.
	Thank you very much.
	Yeah, great.
	Just don't know what to do with it.
	So, North FC Zuma.
	Josh, please, Lotus Eaters Gaming contemplations.
	Heard you mention Elden Ring, Helldivers, Fallout, and more now.
	I have actually got contemplations talking about the benefits of video games.
	I'm not entirely sure what you want me to talk about.
	Just what makes video games good, I suppose.
	Something like that.
	I'd be happy to do that.
	I've been doing research all my life, so...
	Why not?
	Alright.
	Ron Swansea says Hey dudes is the gold tier Zoom call Friday Or are you taking good Friday off Yeah the gold tier is this Friday Cole doesn't let us work Time off on holidays It also means lads hour is cancelled Because we've got to move to Fridays And obviously gold tier was there So now that's gone Not forever just for that week To be clear So we now get three of those instead of four.
	These chocolates are great.
	Alright.
	T.Y.
	Shelby says, you should open the can in front of the migrant hotel, ideally with someone off to the side recording.
	We were debating this, yes.
	Henry!
	A bio-terror attack.
	That's just sharing the culture of the Swedes.
	Anyway.
	I mean, to be fair, of all the Islamic people in the migrant tower, you know.
	Grenade attack.
	No, it's a case to home, isn't it?
	I told you we have to open it.
	I want to see your reaction.
	But I got it in the office.
	Genuinely, it's terrifying to even hold it.
	It's like a landmine, isn't it?
	Because you can see it could go off at any moment and then you're just ruined.
	Your whole room is ruined.
	You have to open it.
	You have to open it in the office.
	Oh no, no.
	Take it to a third world country and say, try this.
	You don't have much food.
	Hello Mugabe.
	How hungry are you exactly?
	Try this.
	I shouldn't make those jokes.
	Henry Asline says, Callum, take that can of biological fish weaponry.
	Oh, they literally said it.
	On your next third world vacation with Lord Miles, yeah.
	Oh, well.
	Basically pepper spray.
	Well, great minds think alike, Henry.
	Well, let's read your comments.
	Oh, me?
	Oh, yes, of course.
	Someone online, if anyone thinks Trump can overcome all the fortification, I would like some of what you're smoking.
	Yeah, I have my suspicions.
	I don't know.
	My only thinking is that if there is all of this fortification going on, they might let him in for a bit and then make him a sort of lame duck or, you know, that sort of thing where he can't do anything just to keep up the illusion of, yeah, sometimes the outside guy wins.
	But that's the only real I could see it happening.
	Or they really miscalculate.
	He wins.
	2024.
	What's going to happen?
	Well, the Deep State will be way worse than it was the first time around, trying to stop him.
	And they'll know what he's going for because he's been saying so.
	There will be basically a reactivation of the race war and anti-fire on the streets to cause mass instability, and then they will claim the whole election was fraudulent, blah blah blah, because, I don't know, Iran this time.
	Who cares?
	The Iranians rigged our election.
	New country every time.
	Zimbabwe did it this time.
	I just... I can't keep getting away with this, Calum.
	A naked Stelios lathered head to toe in olive oil.
	I love that name.
	The situation with democracy in America reminds me a lot of the English Civil War.
	In the latter, the King became tyrannical and Parliament fought back, but in the process purged itself of all dissenters within itself, ultimately leading to the murder of the King and a replacement Yes, I think the situation is going to be very difficult.
	I'm not sure whether history will repeat itself in that way, but it's going to be very eventful.
	I think it's, you know, my sort of best wishes to people in America and stay safe, I suppose.
	And Kevin Fox says, hold on, the Democrats claim that they're trying to stop Trump bringing in a dictatorship.
	But in that column from Rolling Stone, they mentioned Biden world.
	How much more dictatorial can you get?
	It's like the worst.
	Yeah, they kept on using it, but it sounds like the worst theme park ever.
	You keep on going on a slide, but each time you get to the bottom, you forget you've done it.
	So you go back up and do it again.
	Costs increase double every five minutes.
	The cost of a ticket increases exponentially as time goes on.
	Only children are allowed for some reason.
	Screwtape Lasers says the actions detailed in that Time article are managerial warfare.
	Absolutely.
	And I'll read one more.
	Baron Von Warhawk says we have harassed, threatened, attacked, and defamed Trump and his entire family every day since 2015, and that's why you have to vote for us so we don't have to face the consequences of our actions.
	The Democrats' political platform.
	That is entirely true.
	Yes.
	Should we hear some more of Stelios' comments?
	Andy Onimus, it baffles and amazes me how Callum has the worldly sense to know actual Irish pronunciation, but not the date.
	How do you say the Irish Prime Minister?
	Well, the Tao-ish thing.
	I don't know how to say that.
	Hal-sack.
	Hal-sack.
	I think.
	There's probably going to be Irish people in the comments just like, you're all wrong.
	Okay.
	I don't doubt it.
	Steamboat Willie.
	The reason they're doing a 180 degrees turn on the bill is because they know that they might get blackened hand if they push it forward.
	The only thing the elite understand is fear and the possibility of reprisal.
	I think that's a very interesting comment.
	I think that's very true as well, though, because there was quite a lot of people sitting around being like, hmm, new IRA, maybe?
	Like, is this time against the Irish government?
	Arizona, there's a rat.
	Well, who would have thought, thunk, the bill y'all wrote is coming around to bite you in the butt?
	And Baron Von Warhawk, when it comes to Sinn Féin, I'm just imagining the countless Irish fighters rolling in their graves, watching their sparts sell out Ireland to the hordes of migrants and turning the nation from orange and green into a rainbow nation.
	And while they all scream 800 years of fighting for this, at least Sinn Féin lost this round, but there is still work to be done.
	Let's go to some of the drama, because I want to listen to comments about gossip.
	It's a form of caring about truth.
	You know, that's actually kind of true, isn't it?
	It is.
	George Happ says, Walsh's arrogant take on Gamergate is a perfect example of why trad cons are ineffective and why they have lost the culture by demonizing it rather than fighting for it.
	With allies like him, who needs enemies?
	It's true.
	My view on that is just... I mean, I see it happen in a lot of different ways with a lot of different creators online.
	I've been doing this a long time, looking at a lot of people.
	And sometimes people just do videos about stuff they know nothing about, have a terrible take on it, for no good reason.
	And you just think, you didn't have to do that.
	You could have done literally anything else.
	There might be just time pressure to keep schedules.
	I think a lot of bad journalism happens because there are deadlines and people have to churn stuff out.
	I've got to write something!
	You know, I felt like impulsing myself to a certain extent.
	I've got a weekly show, I feel like I have to churn stuff out sometimes.
	But if you're going to write something for the sake of writing something, I would have thought the easiest thing to do there is do your bread and butter.
	Do whatever's bland and boring.
	That's safe.
	Doing something very risky that's going to piss off your audience.
	For no good reason other than I can't be bothered.
	If that's the reason.
	If I'm pressed for time, I do something sort of light and fun and uplifting.
	Because, you know, you don't want it to be information dense if you're having fun.
	And it's still important, you know.
	If it's just a relentless supply of black pill suppositories, then you're not doing anyone any favours, even if you're telling the truth.
	Have a laugh.
	Yeah.
	I mean, the other day, I mean, we were having Harry Miller in.
	I didn't know what the bloody do.
	So we ended up talking about gay porn for half an hour.
	It was funny.
	Paul Whitson says, I also don't really enjoy gaming, but I stand against the people trying to make it so nobody else can enjoy it but their side.
	Yeah, that's fine.
	I respect that, yeah.
	It was just Matt's, um... Well, it was Matt and his producer, to be fair.
	Because Matt had the position of gaming is for babies.
	And then his producer was saying all this whilst making this segment, and it's like... Right, this comes off as insincere, my friend.
	Because you hate us.
	So, there's that.
	Matt says, not Mr. Walsh, I'm not sure much of value will be lost if the Daily Wire collapsed.
	Matt Walsh, the best of them, has his own outlets.
	We'll see how Candace Owens does.
	Daily Wire is pointless if they don't believe America is fundamentally European in its inception and constitution.
	That is a nation of people, not ideas, that exists to do more than bankroll Israel.
	So I get this criticism flown around a fair bit.
	I think there's definitely some truth.
	And I've said before, I think the Americans struggle, at least the American right, really struggle with the obvious truth, which is that the United States is an Anglo-Saxon nation.
	That's what it was, is what it was for hundreds of years.
	It was expanded over the basis.
	Well, it's basically Brittonic.
	Yeah, but fundamentally Anglo-Saxon.
	I mean, this is the founding fathers there.
	And that You know, there's a reason they end up using the word WASP to describe the old stock.
	It's like, because that's what it was.
	The inability to deal with that, and say that America is an ethnic state, and instead say, oh no, it's a constitutional blah blah blah, there's all liberal bollocks, we're just a fundamentally ideological state, is running into its complete death, currently.
	Because if you mass import people who aren't from that ethnic stock, and instead have a completely different one, but then say, trust me bro, they'll become liberals like us, No, they aren't.
	I mean, the Somalis in Minnesota just haven't.
	They've become their own ethnic bloc.
	Just as a thought experiment, if you swapped all of America with all of Mexico, you know... It wouldn't be the same place.
	Yeah, and Mexico would become America, and America would become Mexico.
	I mean, yeah, these things just aren't true.
	So, I've had this problem where I think the Americans need to accept they're an ethnic state.
	That's their basis fundamentally, and then protect that.
	As far as for the Israel stuff, I mean, yeah, I mean, the Dailyware's Ben Shapiro.
	He's got his interests.
	Andrew Narok says, as I said on Monday, I'm gravely disappointed in Andrew Clavin and the Dailyware as a whole.
	How can any believing Christian stand against the statement Christ is King?
	It's kind of the point of Christianity.
	Yeah, I don't really know what to make of all that.
	I don't know the arguments.
	I don't really care for them because it's just like, okay.
	I don't know.
	It's a theological debate or something.
	I don't know.
	For me, it seems to me that it's the slogan of Christianity.
	I may miss something.
	All the pointless bitch fights.
	I'm not a theologian, but yeah.
	Yeah, but that's what you get when a lot of people forget their tradition and the long tradition of separation of church and state, and they actively try to say that we should bring religion back in the government.
	I mean, if I had to pick a side, I'd pick the people saying Christ is King because they're saying something positive.
	They're not saying, you can't say this.
	There are more cultural continuities, but it does go with a lot of drama with it.
	I'll read one more because I do enjoy the drama, let's be honest.
	It's a lot of fun.
	What shall I pick?
	What shall I pick?
	I'll go with... Oh, we're running out of time.
	We're being told off.
	Never mind.
	Goodbye.
	Please do send us more King Dicks.
	I'm very happy with them.
	And if you have any more coasters, that'd be lovely.
	Any more surströmming and I will bomb your house.
	Right, we're out of time.
	Let's go.

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