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	Good afternoon, folks.
	Welcome to the podcast The Loadseaters for Bad Luck Monday, the 20th of May 2024.
	I'm joined by Josh and Dan.
	Hello!
	Today we're going to be talking about the strictest migration system ever, which is apparently about to be implemented in the Netherlands, which is awesome.
	uh how the women have found their champion in the men versus bears debate and how i think joe biden is a gaslighting abuser towards the black community in america i'm kind of sick of seeing it frankly um no announcements today so josh where are we at So Breitbart has been reporting that the Netherlands is to create the strictest migration system ever as Geert Wilders.
	That's the only time I'm going to try and correctly pronounce his name.
	Hopefully I got it right.
	If you're Dutch in the comments, I've done my best here, but I'm just going to call him Mr. Wilders.
	You might not be Dutch elsewhere, but yes, this is obviously very exciting because this is one of those cases where you want to keep an eye on this if you want to see the sort of mood being set in politics.
	I think Bekele in El Salvador is another one of those, Millet in Argentina is perhaps another one, and of course Donald Trump in the United States.
	Very key people that may well set the tone for right-wing politics going forwards.
	And therefore, the success of these sorts of people is very, very important, I think.
	And it's actually important as well, because the Netherlands is a member state of the EU.
	It's a lot closer to home, isn't it?
	Of course, yeah.
	It's only sort of across the ocean.
	It's a short sail away, yeah.
	And of course, with all the people you mentioned, they just do stuff?
	There's stuff that we always say they should do, and these people just do it, but the left have spent years arguing, no, you can't do that.
	But they just do it.
	What's interesting about Gert Wilders as well, which I'm not going to pronounce correctly, is that he's been banging this drum for decades now.
	It's been a long, hard march for Gert.
	We are going to be talking about that.
	Right, okay, fair enough.
	I won't pre-empt it.
	This strictest migration system ever, that phrase hasn't just been plucked out of thin air from Breitbart, this is actually in the preamble of the 26-page document proposing all of the changes they want to make to migration.
	This is the official title of it.
	I mean, strictest in Europe, right?
	Because in Saudi Arabia they just shoot you if you try and walk across the border.
	Yeah, I think that it's probably the strictest ever in the Netherlands.
	But that's also going to be stricter than most other European countries, which also means stricter than North America as well.
	So it's probably the strictest in the Western world, which is very promising actually and quite exciting.
	So, back in November, to tell you... I don't know what's going on there.
	I'll just use the mouse.
	Back in November, Wilders' party more or less won the elections.
	But because it uses a proportional representation system, a list system, we'll look at the percentages in a minute.
	It wasn't actually enough of a share to form the sole government.
	And so over the past six months since November, there have been discussions with lots of other parties of who was going to form the government.
	And it seemed like things weren't really going too well for Wilders because lots of the other right-wing parties were not agreeing to go into coalition with him, as they often do.
	And And so if we look at the election results... The stream deck is not working but I'll just use the mouse.
	That'll be why.
	I don't understand technology.
	It's fine.
	Cheers, Carl.
	And of course, yes, it seems to be veering sharply to the right.
	Yeah.
	It's nice just not being the boomer for it.
	You sabotaged it.
	Sorry, go on.
	But here are the elections and here are the results.
	So they only got 23.49% of the vote here.
	And the coalition, made up of four parties, is made up of PVV, which stands for the Party of Freedom, which is a populist right-wing party, I suppose.
	That of Wilders.
	Populist right-wing view of freedom.
	The best kind.
	And then there's VVD, which is the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, which is sort of classical liberals.
	They're the most free market of many of the parties.
	And that's also the party which the incumbent Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, is heading, or at least he did.
	And he's been Prime Minister since 2010.
	He's also been running the interim government since November.
	He's also a massive WEF stooge, are we saying?
	He is, yes.
	Well, I know, I know.
	Okay.
	And he announced his resignation in July of 2023 as well, because he was unable to stop rising migration.
	And that was why he resigned.
	That was the issue.
	He doesn't want to.
	I know, but that was the reason he gave.
	There's also the NSC, which is a sort of centre-right conservative party.
	They're sort of anti-migration, but also they're sort of a bit, I don't know how to put it, a bit wet on the culture war, I suppose.
	Are they anti-migration and actually anti-migration?
	I'm not entirely sure.
	I mean, it's always difficult to tell with political parties.
	Yeah, I mean, they've literally got a dozen political parties that all sit in the parliament, but we don't have anything like that.
	Yes.
	And of course they've got the the BBB as well which is the Farmer Citizen Movement which I think is the party most tied to the Dutch farmer protests and they're again right-wing populists.
	So these are the people that make up the coalition and I think it'll be interesting to see how this works out because they've gone for a slightly unconventional thing but let's actually talk about this migration policy before I get into the weeds of it.
	So Here he is announcing it, but I'm just going to read it because I imagine most people don't speak Dutch.
	He says, there will be an asylum crisis law, there will be border control, there will be a ban on priority of social housing for status holders, we will fight for an opt-out on asylum in the European Union, we will abolish indefinite asylum permits.
	That's interesting.
	Sensible policies.
	And I've also gone and found out some of the other stuff that they've agreed to as well.
	So they want to limit free movement for people from countries joining the EU in the future.
	They don't want any people moving to the Netherlands with the freedom of movement if they aren't already a member.
	They want higher standards for workers outside of the EU.
	They want a reduction of foreign students to Dutch universities.
	They also want to reform the EU to be much stricter on asylum seekers more generally and to have harder borders with non-EU countries, which All good ideas.
	They are, yeah.
	But the thing is, will we see them?
	That is the real question here.
	But I think part of the problem, and something that Wilders has been known for, is a problem with Islam.
	And he has had a serious problem with it, personally, because he has required round-the-clock police protection since 2004.
	And even when he gives a public speaking, you know, if he speaks in public, he has to wear a bulletproof vest.
	So that kind of speaks of the problem, but I'm just going to quickly show you some of the problems.
	So there was a story, this is in 2018, there was a knife attack in Amsterdam.
	There was a knife man who was actually shot by the police in nine seconds, which I wish ours could do that quickly.
	To be fair, ours aren't actually a very slow response, like the London Bridge attack was actually quite a quick response as well.
	No, our armed response police, the ones that are actually left after we screwed them over, are quite good and I'm glad we have them.
	So there's also this, Afghan migrant says insult to Islam and far-right politician Vilders were the reasons he stabbed two Americans in Amsterdam.
	Again, some more stabbings in Amsterdam.
	Geert Wilders has offended Islam.
	I'm going to stab these Americans.
	Yes.
	Doesn't really make any sense, does it?
	Religion of peace or something.
	Yeah, yeah, to demonstrate that we're a peaceful religion.
	And what's worse than this is that the Dutch government previously has not really treated them with the correct derision.
	For example, there's a Muslim lady who tried to join ISIS and she got probation.
	Oh, okay.
	And she must meet with Islam experts.
	I don't know what that means, imams I suppose.
	Robert Spencer, Tony Robinson.
	Yeah, it's a bit silly.
	As well as this where, just to translate roughly what it's saying here, this is the police speaking, the Quran was taken from the other demonstrators and will not be used.
	So this is when there was a scheduled Quran burning and you had All of the Muslims here gathered in a sort of counter-protest to it, shouting Allahu Akbar.
	You know how it goes, right?
	They're basically cheering that the police have basically taken their side and this shouldn't be happening.
	This should be freedom of speech as far as I'm concerned.
	But they've been taking the side of Islam and it's probably not on.
	And there are also pro-Palestine protesters here.
	I'm not going to show the video because they're being violent, but they're just attacking Dutch people with pieces of wood for Palestine.
	Right, yeah.
	This is, again, Amsterdam.
	And, yeah, probably not a good thing.
	How else are we going to stop Israel if we're not beating Dutch people in the street?
	Yeah, I don't really understand the connection between the two, but this is at the University of Amsterdam as well.
	So they're probably students.
	And this is a post from November of 2023, and there's the phenomenon of lots of Muslim people saying that if he... Self-deporting?
	Yes.
	So here's one, and there's also another one here.
	He says, he won, I'm going back to my country.
	Interesting how that's the sum total of their baggage.
	I think it's all performative isn't it?
	Imagine he's probably got more possessions, he's not packed up his TV.
	Plus you can just go and acquire whatever else you need.
	Sure, but yeah, he's got some clothes and a bag.
	That's the sort of amount I take when I'm visiting America for a week.
	Yeah, I think they're probably doing it for internet clout rather than actually doing it, but it's at least Giving Muslims in Europe a sort of signal that, yeah, you can't rule the roost here.
	It's not your country.
	It's not your continent.
	And despite your best efforts over the past thousand years, you're not conquering it.
	Thank you very much.
	And suddenly it's, I'm going back to my country, whereas it would have been Holland is my country.
	Yes.
	So, um, Wilders, He's not the biggest fan of Islam, to say the least.
	Yeah, you'd have to not know who Goethe Wilders was to not know his opinions on Islam.
	So he says, Friends, Islam is truly evil.
	The so-called Prophet Muhammad raped a young girl and gave slave girls to his henchmen.
	Islam is violence, hatred and barbarism by nature, which is incompatible with freedom.
	Which, to be fair, I couldn't put it better myself.
	And this is the kind of thing that I say on the podcast.
	So it's nice to hear it from a politician that's doing so well.
	Here he's talking about, you won't stop the Islamic violence slash misogyny.
	I know that word's a bit dirty with feminism, but I think when it comes to Islam, they actually do treat women with a certain amount of hatred.
	I think that's fair.
	By cutting your hair, but by recognizing the sick and brutal intolerance of Islam and Mohammed, and draw the correct conclusion, freedom and Islam are incompatible in Iran, in the Netherlands, everywhere.
	Yeah.
	Just true, right?
	Yes.
	Here he just says something very simple, there are two things Americans should do, fight Islam and vote for Donald Trump.
	It's a great turn of phrase.
	And the final thing, there's an asylum seeker saying I want the Netherlands to become a Muslim country because Islam is great.
	Basically just saying go home.
	Why did you come there?
	There are plenty of Muslim countries.
	I think there are about 52 off the top of my head.
	But they're all quite hellish, so I can imagine why they'd want to come over here.
	Well, it's funny that, you know, the religion of Muhammad, all of a sudden, you know, they can't get good economies.
	I wonder what's going on here.
	The assumption being is that they can convert a European country into an Islamic country and it will still be a good country.
	Yeah.
	It's almost like the religion is the reason that they're impoverished.
	I don't know.
	Seems right to me.
	So I wanted to talk a little bit more about what Wilders believes because he is the sort of senior partner in this coalition and of course he's written for Breitbart a fair amount.
	He's got lots of articles here.
	He's saying like Mohammed is coming to the Dutch Parliament.
	He's protesting for the bad man.
	What I like about this I don't know whether you've seen David Lammy turning his cheek towards Donald Trump recently, upbraiding Sadiq Khan for calling Donald Trump a racist.
	I'm sure Donald Trump is horrified.
	No, no, no.
	David Lammy expects to be part of the incoming Labour government.
	And Keir Starmer has obviously been advised by Tony Blair, look, don't create waves without allies.
	Trump is probably going to win in 2024.
	Therefore, you need to make sure that you're on his good side because we're going to want the benefits of having a privileged relationship with America.
	And he's probably going to have to do the same sort of thing with Gert Wilders.
	So David Lammy's going to go to Gert Wilders and be like, yes, good point about Mr. Robinson.
	Good point about all of that.
	So maybe David Lemmy, the ambassador to Holland?
	Well, he'll... I mean, he looks like he's... The Netherlands.
	The foreign secretary, something like that.
	So, he'll have to deal with all of these people.
	And so, it's just going to be funny, frankly, watching them squirm, trying to be part of the international community, when the international community has gone far right and goes out to protest.
	And it would be quite funny if we had a Labour government who had to deal with this guy, and then... Donald Trump.
	And who's the French lady?
	Le Pen.
	And then the AfD in Germany.
	They're polling quite well as well.
	If literally Britain is the last progressive rump in Europe, and is surrounded by far-right people going, why have you still got Muslims in your countries?
	If the continent carries on to show us up, I might be campaigning to join the EU again.
	No, but they will show us up.
	I'm only joking about that, I never want to join the EU.
	But you can see he's had a long history, this is going all the way back Yeah, he's been banging this drum for many years now.
	Yeah, all the way back to 2016 here, he's been writing lots and lots of articles, mainly about Islam here.
	Didn't he almost get assassinated, or was that somebody else?
	I'm not entirely sure.
	He probably was, I can't remember offhand, but... If he's having to have, you know, security and wear a bulletproof vest, I think it's safe to say, but I didn't look into that.
	But, if you're not familiar with Brightburn, it is worth mentioning just What the mainstream thinks about it, and Wikipedia is always a good sort of litmus test for what the establishment wants, because it is a sort of a captured institution.
	Sorry, can I read this?
	It's an American far-right syndicated news opinion and commentary website.
	The content has been described as misogynistic, xenophobic and racist by academic journalists.
	Calm down, I already like Breitbart.
	Yeah, so anyway, I use this website almost every day, by the way.
	The site has published a number of conspiracy theories, brilliant!
	Great advert for that, isn't it?
	But yeah, the founder of Wikipedia, one of them at least, one of the co-founders, said that it's become left-wing propaganda.
	But it's also really cool to see what they believe.
	So, you know, how they represent stuff is useful.
	But I wanted to talk a little bit more about this coalition.
	So it's also worth mentioning as well that the actual coalition itself Wilders is not going to be heading it.
	One of the terms of this coalition is that they're going to have sort of non-elected people running it, which is a bit strange.
	So this isn't unprecedented.
	They've had ministers before who have been non-politicians and I think it could potentially work in their favor in getting their agenda through.
	But usually they're economists or academics and they're just there to sort of execute the will of the coalition.
	But that might also mean the Prime Minister, because one of the terms of the coalition is that Wilders is not the Prime Minister, which is very interesting and also is sort of cause for concern, because if he were holding the seat of power, we could be a bit more confident that he's going to see his agenda through.
	In the Dutch system the executive doesn't have to be in the legislative, is that right?
	I think so, yes.
	They can basically nominate whoever they want in this coalition.
	So they can have a whole suite of ministers and potentially the prime minister.
	Chairman of a supermarket chain, they could say we want you to be our farms minister or something.
	As I understand it, yes.
	Right, okay.
	And having the entire government selected this way is very unusual.
	Normally it's, you know, one or two ministers, sort of similar to how we do it in Britain where you can have people who aren't in the House of Commons in office, you know, you get Lords every now and then and sometimes you can have people who are outside of Parliament.
	But the fact that they've insisted on this sort of speaks of a certain amount of creative coalition work.
	I wonder if it's about the sort of strength of personality that Wilders has?
	Something like that?
	Because he's obviously a very mentally strong person and I mean as I understand it he was basically in total control of his party as well.
	Unlike in Britain, we have various democratic mechanisms inside the parties, which actually don't really seem to help.
	And I remember Farage years ago when Vildas started the new party that he's in, being envious because UKIP had adopted the Labour framework of having an NEC and stuff like that inside.
	So you've got democratic functions.
	Whereas Vildas is just like, no, I'm just in charge of the party and that's it.
	And I mean, well, now he's a quarter of the entire electorate.
	And by the way, Mad Polo on the chat has helped me out.
	It was Pim Fortuna who was knocked off in 2010.
	Yeah, he was assassinated by a leftist.
	He wasn't assassinated by a leftist, but he was assassinated for insulting Islam.
	There we go.
	It's also worth mentioning as well, obviously he's got a good hairstyle, not new.
	I'm just going to pat myself on the back a little bit.
	I couldn't help but notice that I have the same hair as Steve Bannon.
	What is it about the far right having such great hair?
	Well there we go.
	Tangents aside, so some of the things that they're planning to do in this coalition are they want to increase speed limits on roads which It's actually nice to hear about in politics.
	Build four nuclear reactors rather than relying on other stuff.
	Scrap carbon emission tax for industry.
	Try and reduce regulations on farmers, which of course, very big.
	I assume the Farmers Party is in this coalition?
	They are, yes.
	That's a BBB, isn't it?
	Yes, it is.
	And also, energy and income tax will be lowered.
	Good idea.
	I want to move to the Netherlands now.
	They're reducing tax and also... And the economy booms as well.
	Oh yeah, definitely.
	They're going to have 14 billion euros worth of spending cuts, so they're going to freeze government employees' salaries.
	Great!
	And they're also cutting 100 million from the public broadcaster's budget.
	Jesus, I've seen what you've done for others.
	They're limiting unemployment welfare to 18 months.
	That's 18 months too many.
	And also they're cutting foreign aid by 2.4 billion euros.
	Josh, you're just edging us now.
	But these are all great things, and also one final thing... Can we have another glorious revolution?
	Can Kurt Vilders come over and do the same over here?
	Yes, please do it.
	And the final thing is, he's also looking to move the Dutch... I forgot what it's called now.
	Embassy?
	Embassy, that's the one.
	I don't know how that word escaped me.
	I know, it's right on the screen.
	I know, yeah.
	Read words on screen.
	This is a particular thing about the sort of counter jihad types.
	It is very committed to Israel because Israel can very easily frame itself as an anti-Islam force.
	I think that's why a lot of people on the right are like, oh, why do they love Israel so much?
	It's literally because their worldview is Islam and non-Islam and anything that is against Islam is an ally in that way.
	There is a logic to it, I suppose.
	Well, no, it's an easy logic to see.
	It's not difficult.
	And that's why, you know, him, Tommy Robinson, various other sort of counter-jihad types all are very much pro-Israel.
	I'm personally just Yes.
	I'm pro-Britain.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I'm not pro-America, maybe.
	And, you know, I want to see Europe do well, but that's about it.
	But the thing is, what I think a lot of people on the right have trouble with is because they don't like Israel.
	And it's like, OK, but I think you have to be forgiving on this one.
	You know, if they're doing good things and all the things, just let it go.
	That's what I think.
	Yeah, I mean, I don't know why he has as strong a stance as he does, but Trump also wants to do this as well.
	I think, right, my pet theory is that the counter-jihad types have been in the political wilderness for such a long time.
	The only people who ever gave them any aid and succor are the Israeli populist right, who are also counter-jihad, obviously, for their own personal interests.
	Yes.
	And so they form very close alliances based on that, and so this is just an expression of that.
	Yeah, I mean, the way I kind of look at it is if you're going after institutional powers in government and Islam, you've already got enough.
	You don't need to kind of disassociate yourself from the sort of Judeo-Christian world order.
	Yeah, it's just too much hassle, if nothing else.
	But also, like, you know, they would have had lots of support from Israeli right-wingers who are like, yeah, no, Islam is exactly as you say it is.
	Your government's a fool.
	I think you still need to sort of chart your own course and everything.
	I agree.
	I'm not in any way in disagreement with that.
	It's just I'm forgiving of the counter-jihad's love for Israel, even though I don't share it.
	So to sort of summarize my thoughts on what's going to happen, I think that the nature of the coalition is interesting in that they're nominating non-politicians.
	That could be a very good thing.
	It could also mean that they're trying to limit Wilders' influence and sort of rein him in.
	So I'm not entirely sure of the intention.
	I mean, he's a firebrand.
	Okay.
	So it kind of makes me a little bit hesitant about whether they can follow through what they're claiming to.
	But if they do, it's going to be really promising and it's going to be a new sort of turn for Europe.
	And I think that if the Netherlands does it, because the way that a lot of European politics is, once someone's done it, then it's going to make it a lot easier for other people to do the same.
	I remember being so disappointed by, was it the Italian, whatever her name was?
	Maloney?
	Maloney, yeah.
	And she talked a good game, and then did the precise opposite the moment she came in.
	So I'm not going to get excited yet, but... The Builders has a pretty proven pedigree when it comes to this sort of stuff.
	Maloney turns up going, like, hi guys, I'm far right, and here's a million immigrants.
	Actually, maybe you're not.
	But Wilders, he's a known quantity.
	Yeah, I'm just saying, I'll save my excitement for when he actually does it.
	Yeah, I think some sort of moderated enthusiasm is warranted.
	Yeah, I think a general optimism about Wilders is fine.
	I mean, if nothing else, the social reforms are a great idea on their own.
	Yeah, well, even if they're floating these ideas in the public consciousness, it's still a positive thing.
	Absolutely.
	But yes, it's certainly something to keep an eye on.
	And if you live in the Netherlands, well, best of luck to you.
	Also, keep us updated as well.
	Yes.
	I want regular updates on how Vilders is smashing it.
	So, I've got an update in the Women V Bears V Men contest.
	I know that... Breaking news.
	Yes, breaking news.
	And I know we've covered this before, and I think you did a thing on your channel.
	I did, yeah.
	You did a thing on this.
	And we've got all sorts of... I won't recap this much, but... What a headline!
	Yes.
	I want to say the man, I really do, but I can't shake the idea that I'd be safer with the bear.
	Yes, so anyway, this Katie Lister here in The Eye, she goes through an article where basically it's her explaining that she doesn't understand the concept of per capita, and there's loads of interesting bits in there.
	I'm only going to read out one bit, because like I said, we have covered this, so I kind of want to move past it.
	This understanding of per capita is becoming awfully diverse, isn't it?
	It's becoming quite perennial as well.
	I don't understand it.
	It's not that difficult a concept to understand.
	No.
	It's really quite easy actually.
	Yeah.
	Well, evidently not.
	Because on a per capita basis lots of people can't.
	I see what you did there.
	So anyway, I'm only going to read one bit from this article, which is, Then there is the fact, if I was attacked by a bear, no one would tell me I was making it up.
	I wouldn't be asked what I was wearing, if I was drunk, or what I'd done to provoke the bear.
	Yeah, but we don't send the bear to jail.
	We don't think the bear cheated on you with your friend and you're trying to get revenge against the bear.
	Well, in sales we call that talking past the sale.
	Right.
	So, you know, you talk past the sale and you assume as if it's already happened.
	What she's done with that quote there is she's assumed that after the bear attack she's then writing an article about it or telling her friends about it.
	Good luck with that.
	Yeah, it's like, no, There is no after the bear attack.
	She's clearly not seen the film The Revenant, has she?
	Well, just look at any real life examples of bear attacks.
	You're going to like this segment, then.
	I don't think I do.
	It's scary.
	Just to sort of potentially pre-empt what you're saying, I'm a big camping enthusiast.
	I like the outdoors.
	You could be Devon.
	Well, hang on a minute.
	I was looking at camping holidays in say like Eastern Europe because you've got a lot more freedom to do things like you can cut down trees and stuff for fires and they're not nearly as stateless.
	You're not cutting down trees here?
	No.
	There's tree protection orders and all sorts of stuff.
	I've broken many laws in my life then.
	Don't admit that.
	Don't mention that.
	You've got no evidence.
	But I've looked into it and I was looking at some of the bears attacking people in the countries I was looking at going on holiday.
	Right.
	And you know normally these are black bears and they still attack people and can do some serious damage.
	Oh yeah.
	If you look at sort of grizzly bears in North America, you do not stand a chance.
	They're absolutely terrifying.
	It's like top three animals I'm most afraid of.
	There's no chance.
	Great white sharks, grizzly bears and lions.
	Not, I wouldn't say lions as much as... I don't know.
	Lions are massive.
	They are scary.
	Hippos are underrated.
	Hippos are... They kill more people in Africa than anyone.
	Yeah, but I get the feeling that you could just not go in their territory, the hippo league.
	Oh no, the thing with hippos is, we're slightly off subject here, but anyway, on hippos, they will attack you if you get in between them and the river.
	Sure.
	So you just think... Hey man, you know, you go... Yeah, but you just think, okay, I won't go near a river.
	Yeah, but these bastards go miles inland.
	Can we get some in the channel?
	Would that be possible?
	Do they live in salt water?
	We could just fill the channel with hippos.
	They can't swim.
	Don't they just stand on their hind legs and stick their head up?
	Hippos unironically can't swim.
	Oh, that's rubbish.
	What a silly animal.
	I know.
	They just wade through the water.
	We could chain them up on the Kent coast just under the waterline.
	Anyway, I am very much off topic at this point.
	Ironically, elephants can't swim, they're really good at swimming.
	Really?
	Yeah, you can find elephants like a mile off the coast swimming, whereas hippos just sink.
	We need to do a segment on animal facts at this point.
	Yeah, yeah, interesting.
	Right, so anyway, swiftly moving on, women have discovered a champion.
	Okay.
	They have found somebody who can fight the bears.
	So, um, I mean, this came to my attention when this journalist, Katherine Badowski, um, she shared this video, um, can I, uh, uh, can I play that?
	Hold on.
	Oh.
	Play.
	There we are.
	So anyway, um, her original tweet was, if you run into the forest, if you run into her in the forest, I pity the man and the bear.
	I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm sure she could kick my arse with that stick.
	Like, no doubt that if you spin it around and whack me I'll be like, ow, that really hurt.
	Whack me again and I'll just collapse or something.
	But also, I'm not a grizzly bear.
	But it still weighs a few ounces.
	Sure, sure, but I'm not a grizzly bear.
	You're not going to be fazed by that at all.
	No.
	If people see grizzly bears fighting, they're terrifying.
	You can hear the ground shake underneath them and they roar and you feel it in your very bones.
	And they've got an unbelievably thick hide.
	Like, whack it with that and the grizzly bear will not be hurt.
	I don't even think a man would take that much punishment for being hit by quite a light bit of curtain pole.
	It did look quite showy, there was lots of spins and not much hitting.
	Oh yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong, she's clearly got the skills and everything.
	But anyway, so loads of men saw that and said, yeah but she's still a girl.
	And then Catherine got upset again and said, the number of unfit, unskilled men claiming they can take her, merely based on the fact that they are men.
	So anyway, I've got some more examples of the lovely lady, so this is...
	Apparently she's called Rania Vallandingham.
	Hey, fellow martial arts enthusiasts, guess what?
	I've got the lowdown on a- There we go.
	So, anyway.
	So, I mean, things to point out... She's incredibly hot.
	Sure.
	And she's definitely got some skills.
	Yeah, I mean, she's probably a trained fighter.
	I mean, I'm not a trained fighter.
	She looks like a trained fighter.
	She can kick my arse, sure.
	I believe it.
	Now what?
	Can she though?
	Maybe, I don't know.
	I mean, look at her.
	Maybe.
	I'm 44.
	Christ, you know, she'll probably just carve through me.
	I think if a man knows a little bit of fighting, like if you've done a year of boxing, I think you'd be alright.
	Yeah, but what's the proof?
	okay, we've got this woman who spends all her life training to fight, and we're going to get Joe from the accounting department who occasionally goes for a hike in the woods, and then we're going to match up and go, okay, yeah, maybe she'll thrash him.
	And poor Joe's just going for a walk, and all of a sudden some woman with nunchucks comes running out of the forest screen.
	Yeah, yeah, okay, that proves nothing.
	Like, she's not the average woman.
	No, she's certainly not.
	Now what?
	But I thought, first of all, let's address the bear question, because, of course, there are different types of bear, so I wasn't quite done assessing her abilities.
	Well, I'll send you the link afterwards, and there are actually more, I'll send you the whole package.
	Anyway, so, um, oh, um, here we go.
	Here is a bear versus women.
	We're a bit zoomed in on that.
	Maybe that's just our view, maybe it's better for the viewers.
	Oh, there we go.
	Yes, but yeah, so this is a black bear versus women.
	Now, they seem to be doing exactly the right thing, which is to not, like, immediately run away, flapping their arms.
	They're just keeping calm.
	What I love about the whole thing, though, is, like, the bear's just like, oh, I'll give it a go, and they're just like, nah, I'm not bothering the bears.
	Yeah.
	The whole thing becomes awkward and embarrassing.
	Yes.
	For the women.
	Yeah, and the bear just gets social anxiety.
	Yeah, exactly, yeah.
	Yes.
	But I mean, that is the smaller type of bear, and how do we think Runya Lidolinsky would I mean, I suspect that if you whacked it a few times with a stick, the bear would probably go, well this isn't worth my time, and piss off.
	I mean, I've seen a black bear, not in person, but a video of it, trying to get honey, and just getting stung by lots of bees is enough to scare it away sometimes, if they get stung too many times.
	So apparently you can scare these ones away?
	Yeah, because they're quite small.
	Well, yes, I mean, they're still bloody massive, though.
	Sure, sure.
	And I'm not saying I want to wrestle one or something, but they're not gargantuan.
	I mean, these women, what, 5'6"?
	It's about the same height as them.
	If you're a six-foot guy and you're sort of yelling or something, whack it with a stick.
	The best probably, yeah, okay, I don't know what I'm getting.
	I think if you really got into it, I don't fancy your chances in the slightest, even if you're like that dude Mountain from the Game of Thrones or something.
	Sure, sure, but I mean, well, maybe the Mountain could do it.
	Well, I remember, I've read stories about like, you know, this guy killed one with a penknife and stuff because it was... What, Black Bear?
	Yeah, yeah, it was in his garden, it was a dad game, so he was stabbing it to death with a penknife and stuff like that.
	I'm not saying that's the average encounter with a black bear.
	He's seen the video where there's a kangaroo which is about a foot taller than the man and the man clocks it.
	I think it's got his dog wrapped in a headlock and he punches it in the face.
	It's trying to rape us.
	Is it really?
	Yes.
	Is that what it's doing?
	Yes, it's trying to rape his dog.
	That kangaroo was absolutely jacked and one punch from a human is enough to sort of disincentivise whatever it's up to.
	I wonder whether a good swift punch in the face is similar to what you're meant to do with a shark.
	Animals tend to avoid fights if they can because they can't just go to the hospital or take a week off work.
	If they get injured even a little bit, it's death.
	I generally avoid bears as well.
	So anyway, that's the smaller type.
	Um, then we've got the, um, the brown bears, and I think that is a slightly different proposition altogether.
	No, they're colossal.
	Yeah.
	Now, as you can see, that's quite a big dude.
	Yeah.
	And the brown bears can weigh like 900 pounds.
	Yeah.
	And if you see the skeleton, it's just this thick, robust, like hunched over thing.
	They can weigh 900 kilos.
	Oh, 900 kilos?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	God, that's even bigger than I thought.
	But like, they've just got this, like, if you were going to design a skeleton that was just going to be, like, ugly and robust, it would look like, it's like, right, okay, Alan, I'll release this into the wild and this creature will survive forever.
	That's basically what a brown bear is.
	Yes.
	And also, this is the reason why I don't put much credence in your Bigfoot idea, because the role that Bigfoot would fill in the environment is already filled by the bear.
	Yeah, but Bigfoot's smarter than the bear.
	Yeah, it could be that.
	Out with the bear.
	Yes.
	Now, like I said, that's quite a big chap.
	I would not bet on him versus the bear.
	If there was like five of him and they all had spears, I'm slightly less certain at this point.
	I still wouldn't fancy it.
	Yeah, I wouldn't bet on them all coming back.
	It's a bit more of an open question where the five dudes that size with spears might.
	But I don't think a lass with a bit of curtain pole Have you seen what a grizzly bear that's slightly smaller than that grizzly bear comes away with when they fight?
	Like they have like ears hanging off, the cuts are deep enough that you can put your finger in there.
	They've got massive, massive paws with giant... Well their claws are like longer than my fingers.
	Isn't that mad?
	Right, and then we've got the biggest beast of them all, which is, oh let's zoom out again on that one, this is a woman who has just defeated a polar bear in single combat.
	Or she might have possibly be a vet who's tranked it, I'm not entirely sure.
	I don't see any blood so I imagine it's probably been knocked out.
	Yeah, she's obviously getting the left hand.
	But those are apparently very bad, those ones.
	There's absolutely no chance.
	It's the only animal that actively hunts humans, I think.
	They actually have a hunting behaviour.
	Specifically for human beings, which is terrifying.
	I think polar bears are, you know, top tier in terms of what you should be afraid of.
	So my understanding is, is that black bears and brown bears have evolved for long enough around humans that they know that it's generally bad news, so they stay away from you.
	But polar bears evolved where there was no humans, and so they just think, oh, snag.
	And they don't hold back at all on that one.
	Although I have seen a video, I think it was from Russia, where they're feeding a polar bear biscuits through a window.
	So, they can be tamed, if you're Russian.
	But that's not taming them!
	Well, he's on the other side of the window there.
	Well, they're feeding them biscuits by hand like you would a dog.
	Yeah, but that doesn't mean they're tame.
	Well, they're not.
	The bear's not going out through and biting the hand.
	The bear's just getting free food.
	That doesn't make him tame.
	Anyway, so then I thought okay let's let's let's try and quantify this a bit so here we go we got it we got a chart of women versus various bear types.
	Why is the woman Peter Pan?
	What's going on there?
	I don't know why she's leaning like that either.
	Maybe she's just emulating the bears.
	I think that's what she's doing, yeah.
	In that particular scenario.
	She's got her hands in the wrong place.
	She didn't listen.
	Typical.
	Yes.
	Okay, I'm reasonably sure I can take, you know, everything up to the Asian black bear.
	I reckon I could take those in a fight.
	Well, okay, so that one second from the bottom, the sloth bear, you know they fight tigers and win.
	Yeah, yeah, no, they don't win.
	They don't win.
	They lose to the tigers.
	Well, they quite often scare the tigers off.
	Yeah, they might scare the tiger off by being aggressive.
	So you'd fight a sloth bear?
	Well, I mean, yeah.
	If Elon Musk came along and said, I'll give you a billion dollars.
	What, to fight a sloth bear?
	Yes.
	Unarmed.
	Unarmed?
	How long do I have to train?
	Well, as long as you want to, to not.
	Okay.
	Because you're going in a cage, you're going in a UFC match, and only one of you is coming out.
	Okay, well, I mean, I'm not trained to fight at the moment, but give me a year or two to train up, maybe I'll go.
	You'd fight?
	Yeah.
	I wouldn't.
	I'd definitely fight the honey bear.
	Yeah, I've got a picture of the honey bear.
	How tall is the sloth bear?
	Oh.
	Let's zoom out.
	So that's the smallest bear, the sun honey bear.
	He's got pretty fearsome looking claws, actually, doesn't he?
	Yeah.
	Looks pretty friendly there, though.
	Yeah, he's got honey.
	It looks nice enough that I don't want to punch it though.
	Yeah, but Elon Musk gave you a billion dollars.
	Without hesitation, yeah.
	Look at those claws, man.
	I probably would die, but I'll give it a go.
	But what could you even do?
	Can you choke out a bear, or do they just have really thick larynx?
	I don't know.
	I don't know, I'll find out.
	I just hit it very hard in the skull as many times as I could.
	Yeah, but the thing is, their skulls are going to be really robust.
	Yeah, they're really... Get in the ribs.
	They're probably robust as well.
	So... I don't know.
	If Elon Musk gave me the billion, I'd think about it for the sun bear, but probably say no.
	But anything beyond that, not a chance.
	Well, yeah.
	I mean, if I can't have any weapons, it's a bit unfair, isn't it, really?
	Well, if you get a spear, I suppose it changes it up.
	Not even a spear.
	If I had, like, a club or something, I wouldn't fight any of the big ones, obviously.
	So how tall is the sloth bear in feet?
	I don't know the conversion.
	Is that centimetres?
	It's very small text.
	I don't know.
	Um, it's about, well, the sloth bear is about... Oh yeah, the sloth bear, sorry.
	Four foot.
	Oh, right.
	That sounds a bit less intimidating, so it's like a foot and a bit shorter than me.
	No, two feet and a bit shorter than me.
	So my view on this is that the woman is not beating any bear.
	With a metal pole, I reckon you could take a couple of those.
	Especially if you're well trained.
	I don't know.
	Maybe.
	I reckon you could- If I had a metal- I mean, it has to be whatever you go camping with.
	Okay.
	Well, if it's whatever I go camping with, then I've got a hatchet, a couple of knives, some tent poles.
	Yeah, I tell you what, I'd definitely- I'd probably go for a black bear if I had a hatchet.
	Bloody hell, Karl, that's ambitious.
	I mean, it's- What?
	You've got a hatchet?
	I'll go for a polar bear just to go out in a warrior's death.
	A blaze of glory.
	But like, you know, you've got this black bear and you've got a hatchet and you're just hacking at it.
	That'd probably hurt.
	My understanding is the simple saying is if it's black, fight back because you can scare them off.
	If it's brown, lie down because they're just aggressive.
	And if you lie on your front, covering your neck and your legs apart so it can't flip you over, it will probably leave you alone.
	And if it's white, say goodnight.
	And probably the best thing you could do against a polar bear is just like, seize it yourself so he eats you quickly or something.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So, um, yeah, I don't think that's going to work.
	So then I thought, okay, what about, what about the men?
	Because apparently she can sort of beat the men again as well.
	And I go the other way with you on this one, because, I mean, I remember as a sort of anecdote, when I was younger, I used to do a lot of these martial arts and one of the guys, an older guy, was running a women's self-defense class.
	Um, and you got me to come along a couple of times as to, like, as to be, like, the guy.
	You got me to be the predator.
	The guy you're defending yourself against.
	Yes, yes.
	And, uh, and I remember the first time I did... And you learned some lessons from that, did you?
	Yes, well...
	Yes.
	So anyway, when I first got there, he says to me, OK, well, you've got to pin this woman down.
	So I was like, OK.
	So I pinned her down.
	And then she's supposed to do the thing, but I'm just pinning her down.
	Yeah.
	There's nothing that she can do.
	And then the guy sort of leans over and has a quiet word and he says, you've got to give her a bit.
	It's like, oh, okay, right.
	So then I sort of hold back enough until she can do it.
	And then I realise, okay, that's what we're selling here, which is basically fantasy.
	Right.
	None of this is going to work.
	Probably true, but like if it's the trained martial artist woman who knows all the moves already and is very fit and agile.
	It's still physics at the end of the day, isn't it?
	Yeah, but there's lots of technique that really matters as well.
	She's more than welcome to pin me down.
	Yeah, she might be the exception, but she's not like the average woman.
	Yes, I suppose that is true.
	But my point is more broadly, is that a lot of this stuff is kind of really dangerous for women, that they don't quite appreciate the level of the strength difference.
	So second hand, but I knew a guy who worked with this girl and she went off and did one of these rape defence courses and she came back into the office saying, I'm unrapeable now, I need a gun.
	Yeah.
	And firearms are the only way to have the equaliser, right?
	Yes.
	And she sort of did a similar thing.
	She got my mate to sort of hold her from behind and says, and watch how I break out of this.
	And she can't, there's nothing that she can do.
	And then she says, okay, we'll relax a bit.
	So he relaxes.
	And then she does a thing.
	And she's like, see, I'm now completely unrapeable.
	Anyway, what happened is she then got adventurous with her dating patterns and went a bit diverse in London and was promptly raped and then had to spend the next 18 months going through a court case.
	That's horrifying.
	Yes.
	But this is my point, though, is that she had unrealistic expectations as to how safe she was.
	The thing is, though, it's not about the bears.
	It's about the fact that they're feeling insecure in modern society.
	And they want a way of getting at you.
	So I'm going to have fun with the bears.
	I don't care.
	Yes.
	But again, I don't think we broadly quite understand just the strength difference.
	I mean, I'll give you another anecdote.
	Coming through the the Barbican one night and above the Barbican there's these big air vents above the above the walkways that they got down there and and they're sort of about you know six feet across and maybe five feet deep in the in the sort of pavement and this sort of big pillar thing that comes up and then they put a grate at the bottom To stop stuff falling in.
	Anyway, a bunch of girls had had, for whatever reason, got one of them stuck down there and they couldn't get out.
	And so they see me walking past and they say, Oh, can you, can you come and help us, you know, rescue this, this girl?
	I was like, all right.
	And so, so I wander over there and they immediately start strategizing as to, as to how they're going to get her out now they've got a bit of help.
	And, like, one of them saying, oh, you could do this, and then I could do- and then- and I just lean in, pick her up under the arms, lift her out, and put her on the ground.
	And they're like, wow, you're so strong.
	He's like, no, I'm just- Pretty average.
	I'm just a guy.
	A normal dude, yeah.
	I'm just a guy.
	I think the data is that male upper body strength is 30% higher than that of a woman.
	That's the extent of the sexual dimorphism between the two.
	Right.
	I've seen- Oshkosh is as little as that.
	Yeah, where it's 50% higher and stuff like that.
	Really?
	Yeah, it's the legs where they're almost on par with 80% of men.
	Yeah, the lower body is very similar, yeah.
	But the upper body is way weaker.
	I mean, anyone who's ever played fort with a woman knows this.
	So I think women who have brothers are probably in a much better situation for figuring this out.
	Yeah, I think so.
	But the ones who don't...
	Then sort of arrive through life and just don't realise the kind of difference that it can be.
	And a little knowledge can be sort of dangerous because again one of the one of the interesting comments under the original tweet that I saw on this was quite interesting was apparently there was some sort of brawl at some workplace or something and this woman had a black belt in something or other and she and she got into a fight with a guy and guys basically just always hold back except in this case she gave him such a problem he had to push her through a Bloody wall in order to get her to stop.
	What's going on there?
	How can you push someone through a wall as well?
	Oh, it's one of those office walls.
	Oh, it's like a dry wall.
	It wasn't like a brick wall.
	Well, it could have been.
	He didn't specify.
	I assumed it was a dry wall.
	There was a video of the world's strongest woman arm wrestling regular dudes in a bar.
	She lost two out of the three matches.
	So she did three matches and two regular dudes just beat the world's strongest woman.
	Yeah, and I didn't include it in this video, in this segment, but there was a video I found that was quite good.
	It was the top women's fighter, I think she was a kickboxer, boxer, and she had basically beaten all of the women.
	So her trainer said, okay, well, we'll put you up against a man.
	And they picked basically the lowest ranked amateur man that they could find.
	And he just destroyed her.
	Yeah.
	Wasn't even close.
	This is a, this is a repeatable thing in all sports where like under 15s football teams are thrashing women's world champions and stuff like this.
	It's like, okay.
	So, men are just built differently to women.
	So, um, I think practical advice is actually going to be, um, don't go playing with bears, Realistic defence against bears, there isn't any.
	Well, a gun is... Well, yes, yes.
	You can get one in Devon, or wherever you are.
	Except that guns are in the West Country.
	Realistic defence against men is just avoid the bad ones and don't live in cities.
	Or a gun.
	Or a gun, yes.
	But again, you're not allowed those in New York.
	Good point.
	And trust your instincts.
	Which is why there's no gun crime in New York.
	Mmm.
	Yes.
	Or any bears.
	Or any attacks on women.
	Mmm.
	Yes.
	And if possible, find a good man, because that's probably your best defence.
	Yes.
	So, anyway, with that helpful advice... Be careful, women.
	Against bears.
	And men.
	I remember getting advice for a bear attack, and the advice was just have someone who you can run faster than.
	Yeah, but in my case it's gonna be my children, so it's...
	Okay, so I thought I'd lower the tone somewhat and go to a vulgar discussion about American politics.
	And Joe Biden, loathe as I am to do so.
	Because I actually really dislike Biden on a personal level.
	Because normally, like, I don't personally dislike Keir Starmer.
	I don't personally dislike Rishi Sunak.
	I don't personally dislike Justin Trudeau.
	You know, he's awful and represents everything I don't like.
	But, like, I don't have a visceral disgust at him.
	But I'm really starting to develop that with Joe Biden because I just think he's a really vile person.
	Like, genuinely vile person.
	And so I'm arriving at the sort of position where the anti-Trump people are when it comes to Donald Trump.
	Where they're just like, no, I just hate the fact that he said he would grab them by the whatever and you know, they really have a personal dislike.
	And I'm just finding myself They're very, just very often seeing Biden lying about trivial stuff that doesn't need to be lied about.
	You know, it's just really gross stuff.
	And the way that he treats groups of people is just vile.
	It's just really disgusting.
	I don't have a better word.
	So here he was, the students were graduating at Morehouse University in Atlanta, right?
	And so Biden decided to get up and give a speech to these students.
	Now, I recently graduated, and what happens is the person who gives the speech, Princess Anne in this case, for some reason, didn't talk partisan politics.
	But instead, Biden was like, well, our administration policies have aided black Americans, including a record 16 billion new aid for historically black colleges and universities.
	This is just a graduation?
	This is a graduation.
	So basically, no matter who graduates, you're going to be there.
	Yeah.
	It's not a political thing in the slightest.
	Well, you wouldn't think so.
	But I mean, it is a majority black university.
	So it's in Atlanta, Georgia.
	And I suppose if you ain't black, you'd... No, hang on.
	Well, yeah, if you don't vote for Biden, you ain't black.
	Yes, that's it.
	His words, obviously.
	And so this, I generally view Biden as being in an abusive relationship with the black community in America at this point.
	And his daughter.
	Yeah, we'll get to that.
	And probably anyone else who's around him.
	His son.
	If his son is an example to go by, isn't in great shape.
	But anyway, so you can see that he received a roaring reception as the motorcade arrived at Lansing University.
	Just one person.
	Yeah.
	Two.
	Literally no one cared.
	But nobody has any enthusiasm for Biden.
	No, not at all, because he's a disgusting person.
	And so this was the part of the speech that he Not he, obviously, but his team, his handlers, clipped out and put out on social media.
	And I just find it remarkable how fundamentally abusive this part of the speech is.
	And they present it as if it's a good thing.
	You started college just as George Floyd was murdered.
	And there was a reckoning on race.
	It's natural to wonder if the democracy you hear about actually works for you.
	What is democracy?
	If black men are being killed in the street, what is democracy?
	Betrayal of broken promises still leave black communities behind.
	What is democracy?
	You have to be 10 times better than anyone else to get a fair shot.
	And most of all, what does it mean, as we've heard before, to be a black man who loves his country, even if it doesn't love him back in equal measure?
	That's what Joe Biden put out on his own...
	That's what the Biden team, those people around Biden, put out.
	I mean, what kind of message is that to anyone?
	Especially to young graduates.
	It's basically saying... You've worked really hard for three years.
	What's the point?
	Because you're going to be discriminated against because everybody's going to try and discriminate against you and kill you.
	Yes.
	Not only are you going to be murdered in the street by the police, but America just hates you anyway, and you're going to have to work ten times harder than everyone else to get anywhere in life.
	But this is the thing.
	Sometimes when I see these videos of black on white violence, I have to remember, yeah, but some of these people Well, all of those people have been subjected to this kind of rhetoric their entire life, and some of them just actually believe it.
	A lot of them actually believe it, because, I mean, the President of the United States has arrived at your college and been like, yeah, so, you're black, and therefore, America hates you, I'm in charge of America, so you might think that that, by extension, means he hates you as well.
	And also, just the look of, the look on his face.
	Fury!
	It's like this anger!
	If you were a five year old and they opened your sack and that was staring at you, you'd be bloody... To my mind, it's a very cynical move to try and win votes, isn't it?
	That's what he's going for, but he's not... It feels...
	It feels like he's essentially gaslighting them into believing that the Democrats are the only party who cares about them.
	All of America hates them.
	And if you don't vote for us, you ain't black because we're the only people who care.
	It's like, OK, white man.
	Thank you, old white Democrat.
	Well, because I understand there's a realistic chance that Trump will take the black male vote.
	Yes.
	And if that happens, it's incredibly difficult.
	Probably because Trump isn't scowling at them like he's annoyed with them.
	No, they're arranging for Trump to have mugshots.
	But I mean, like, if this was in any other context, this would be absolutely absurd.
	Like, if my son or daughter was graduating from university and, you know, a politician, the Prime Minister, got up and was like, well, you're going to have to work ten times harder.
	People like you are going to be killed in the streets and Britain doesn't like you.
	Well, given that your son is a white male, that would probably be accurate.
	Sure.
	To say that your entire future is going to be one of struggle because of what you are, because this country hates you, is not exactly good motivating sentiments to put into the minds of 22-year-old, 23-year-old people.
	Yeah, the guy at my graduation was, I think he lost both his legs in Afghanistan, and he was just like, yeah, you know, I can achieve pretty much a normal life so you can go out and achieve whatever you want.
	It was motivational, right?
	Rather than saying, America hates you and you're going to really struggle to make something of yourself.
	That's the opposite of what you're meant to do at a graduation speech.
	It's genuinely evil to see this kind of emotional abuse towards one demographic in the United States.
	That's an evil thing.
	It is giving them a persecution complex in exchange for votes, isn't it?
	That's ultimately what it boils down to.
	100%.
	It just feels like this is what an abusive husband would say to a wife who feels insecure about herself.
	Oh no, without me, you'd be nothing.
	That's that kind of thing.
	And so it's just really, really disgusting.
	And this is on the presidential account.
	How many millions of followers does the president have?
	38 million followers!
	And they put this out thinking, oh yeah, this is a great thing.
	This is what we're proud of.
	Joe Biden's scowling face as he berates the black community on how they're losers and how America hates them and how they can't achieve in the same way as everyone else.
	In any other context, that is just a horrible thing to say and I really hate it.
	And this is where my visceral disgust for Biden comes from.
	He's not thinking outside of the cynical, Partisan game of American politics, what that does psychically to the people he's talking to.
	I mean, he has the charisma of a position of authority in the United States, the presidency, and these aren't going to be Probably, you know, easily influenced young people who have just finished something.
	I worked really hard for three solid years.
	I'm I've done something.
	My future's ahead of me.
	Everything's looking quite good.
	And here comes scowling old man Biden.
	So, you know, you're black.
	Obviously, your future's not looking good.
	You'll be lucky if a cop doesn't shoot you.
	Pay up with your Democrat vote.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	Pay up with the Democrat vote or else.
	And he didn't even stay for the whole ceremony either.
	He pissed off after the speech.
	So it's just like, what the hell is this?
	You know, that's just.
	Honestly, I really found it disgusting.
	To be fair, graduations are really boring.
	Yeah, I know, they are boring.
	But the point is, you've got to dignify them by sitting around and standing around like they're not boring, right?
	Joe Biden obviously didn't do that.
	But anyway, let's get his bloody scowling face off the screen.
	I'm sick of seeing it.
	There were loads of students who just turned their backs on it.
	During his speech.
	Now, they did it because of Palestine, not because he is racially abusing the black community and their children.
	But at least they turned their backs on him for something.
	Because, of course, he constantly lies about nonsense.
	Again, this is all from the speech, right?
	What's happening in Gaza and Israel is heartbreaking.
	Hamas is viciously attacking Israel, killing innocent lives and holding people hostage.
	I was there nine days after, sent pictures of tying a mother and a daughter to a rope, pouring kerosene on them, burning them and watching as they died.
	No you didn't.
	Yeah, I doubt that.
	That's not true.
	That's just not true.
	There's no photo to suggest anything like that.
	And if there was, it'd be all over the internet because it'd be superb propaganda for Israel.
	Okay, right, so you've just made that up, right?
	And so he just keeps making stuff up.
	He makes up about how apparently there's a law in Georgia that prevents water being available to voters waiting in line.
	As Andrew from Don't Walk Run points out, that's not true.
	He is a disgusting liar and you don't hate him.
	That's true.
	But it's just a weird lie.
	And the thing is, it's not just in this speech, obviously, that Biden just trots out preposterous lies that everyone knows aren't true, right?
	This is one of my favorites from not so long ago.
	I'll play it, I'll play it, because it's just ridiculous.
	And when I was vice president, things were kind of bad during the pandemic.
	And what happened was, Barack said to me, go to Detroit and help fix it.
	Well, poor Mayor, he spent more time with me than he ever thought he was going to have to.
	Yeah, it was Trump in office when it started.
	You were the Vice President during the pandemic, you senile old liar!
	I remember when people were criticising Trump, you know, they were saying... Joe Biden was criticising Trump!
	When it all started, they were like, oh, well, Trump's rushed the response.
	Things I can't say on the internet because you'll get in trouble.
	It's just such a preposterous lie.
	No one around him corrects it.
	The mayor there is just like, yeah, good point, bro, good point.
	What are you talking about?
	Obama wasn't the president.
	He didn't say go to Detroit and fix it.
	You did nothing because Mike Pence was the vice president.
	I'm surprised that there wasn't a cane from off screen that dragged him off stage.
	Yeah, it's just... Well, the only thing I can think of is, of course, he did become president during the latter stages of it.
	I mean, he wasn't vice president.
	But maybe Barack still told him what to do?
	Maybe, but I wouldn't be surprised.
	None of that was true, right?
	So, you know, again, just another, I don't think, obviously people are like, well, he is 80 and senile.
	Obviously he's not lying.
	He just can't perceive reality.
	It's like, great.
	And are you going to vote for him?
	Are you?
	Yeah, it's okay if you're in a nursing home, not in the highest office of the land.
	Exactly.
	But again, it just, there's a, he's got an abusive relationship with the black community.
	I mean, look, just listen to this.
	My name's Joe Biden, and I'm a lifetime member of the NAACP.
	Matter of fact, the first organization I ever joined was the NAACP.
	Didn't get to vote until you were 21 in those days, but I got involved in civil rights when I was 15.
	Okay, so to fact-check Joe Biden, we now go to Joe Biden.
	Again, it's not the first time he's said that.
	For real, I got involved in the civil rights movement.
	I'd go to eight o'clock mass, then I'd go to Reverend Herring's church where we'd meet in order to organize and figure where we were going to go, whether we're going to desegregate the Rialto movie theater or what we were going to do.
	I got my education.
	For real.
	In the black church.
	And that's not hyperbole, it's a fact.
	I was not an activist.
	I was not out marching.
	I was not down in Selma.
	I was not anywhere else.
	That's him apologizing in 1988 for lying about it?
	This is a persistent lie?
	Yeah, but to be clear, I mean...
	The Democrat Party, and he's a lifelong Democrat, no one disputes that, he's been a Democrat all his life, he comes from a Democrat family.
	Do Democrats want the other side of civil rights?
	Yeah, you would think so.
	I mean, you'd think that's a concern.
	I don't know why.
	The Republicans just let them get away with this.
	Yeah.
	And I can't imagine, like, you'd think, hang on a second, I'm a black person in America, I'm gonna vote Democrat.
	I mean, I'm not an American, so obviously it's a different context, and they obviously understand why they do it, but my God, Are you mental?
	But anyway.
	Maybe the reason they do it is because bullshit like this works.
	Yeah, maybe.
	I don't know.
	But it's like he's just such a congenital and thoroughgoing liar.
	And it's really vile in the way that he does it.
	I just really find it insufferable.
	People have been pointing out that he's obviously an old man now, so he's hopped up on drugs.
	Here he is challenging Donald Trump to a debate because he thinks that he won the previous two debates.
	It's like, no, you were an insane old Wasn't it a 15 minute clip and it had been edited four or five times as well, which indicates that he can't even deliver 15 seconds of speech without having to have a cut.
	I must say I'm really looking forward to the debates if they happen.
	I don't think they will.
	I mean, look at the difference in the face.
	He's obviously on some kind of drugs.
	So left is now and right is four years ago?
	No, it's not even four years ago.
	It's like two weeks ago.
	Right, so he's obviously on some kind of drugs and his mood seems to swing wildly.
	They're definitely jacking him up on something before they send him on stage.
	Yeah, I mean, okay, we'll play this just so you can see it.
	Yeah, left is on drugs and the right is the fallow period or whatever.
	You're free on Wednesdays.
	Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020.
	Since then he hadn't shown up for debates.
	Now he's acting like he wants to debate me again.
	Well, make my day bad.
	I'll even...
	Yeah, left is on drugs and the right is the fallow period or whatever.
	I don't know.
	I think they might both be some kind of drug.
	Yeah.
	Because like, on one side he's very like, "Ugh." But his eyes are rigid, right?
	On the right side, his eyes... They're fixed over, almost.
	Exactly, they're fixed over.
	Oh, and also, have you seen those videos of where he talks for a really long time and he doesn't blink once?
	Yeah.
	That's like the one on the right.
	Right.
	So he's obviously on some kind of drugs there, but like look at this really bad mood and like the aggressive face.
	Yeah.
	His entire face is pinched in.
	I don't think he's doing that on purpose, right?
	Because he's an old man, your face relaxes.
	I think this is again a product of drugs.
	So just okay, you know.
	He's probably had some cosmetic surgery done as well, I imagine.
	Yeah, he's had loads.
	This is what like people like on the internet, there's there's a conspiracy theory that he's been replaced because there's like lines on the back of his neck there.
	And obviously people in the cosmetic surgery industry are like, yeah, that's a facelift, repeated facelifts.
	You know, he's had everything pulled back because otherwise he'd have a massive sagging chin.
	Yeah, he's got less wrinkles on his forehead than I do.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	You know what happens then?
	Do you do you just basically cut a bit out and then pull it down and then sew it back up again?
	Well, you pull up apparently.
	I suppose that's why it's called a facelift then, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	From the back of the neck you pull down to make everything on the front go up.
	Oh, yeah, but there's also under the chin and stuff like that.
	Oh, right.
	But anyway, I don't know.
	I'm just old.
	But anyway, so yeah, this, it's just, he is a gross thing that exists, and somehow he's in charge of the United States, right?
	I mean, obviously, obviously, no one for some reason is covering the Ashley Biden diary, which is really weird.
	This was fact-checked as not proven until Ashley came out and said, yeah, that is my diary.
	And so the, uh, I mean, this, this alone would be disqualifying.
	Yeah, it's really gross.
	Because, I mean, like, I love the things.
	This was in 2022, and they were like, oh, it's not proven.
	You conspiracy theorist.
	And then Ashley Biden was like, yeah, that is my...
	And I know it is the lamest...
	When she was a teenager.
	I know it's the lamest political take ever, but I just can't help myself, which is, if this was Trump, you just know the reaction that you would come from.
	And I know that's lame, but...
	Well, Trump's kids are actually fairly respectable, actually.
	Yeah.
	You know, they're not, like, weird drug addicts, and they don't publish these.
	One of them's, like, a giant or something.
	Yeah, yeah, Barron.
	Yes, very tall, but his...
	The Al-Kaib or something.
	Her diary was found under a mattress in, like, a halfway house, I think.
	Yeah.
	And that was how, you know, someone came to find it.
	Yeah.
	Like the same with Hunter Biden's laptop.
	He just left it in a repair shop because he was off his face on drugs with all of the prostitutes and drugs and various other things.
	Photos of that and the emails proving all the corruption.
	But anyway, for anyone who's wondering, Ashley Biden, the relevant quote is that she was hyper-sexualized at a young age on the mentions of not liking to visit a certain family's house, being sexualized by a female friend and having sex with friends at a young age.
	And the author noted showers with my dad brackets probably not appropriate when she was a teenager.
	So so weird.
	I mean, it seems that he sexually abused her, or the circle around have sexually abused her.
	And then you've got all the things of Joe Biden sniffing kids and saying weird things.
	But apparently that doesn't affect him too much in the polls, because why would it?
	He's a disgusting person.
	I really have a visceral dislike for him at this point.
	Trump is a rude bore, right?
	But that doesn't make him a disgusting person.
	That just makes him Donald Trump.
	In fact, to be honest with you, he seems in great shape, right?
	This is a funny incident that happened very recently with Trump, where he's standing on a platform and starts rocking.
	Now, again, I hate to be like, well, if that were Biden, but if that were Biden, he would have fallen over and been killed.
	He would have broken a hip or whatever.
	Trump handles it brilliantly.
	But Americans are not struggling.
	You know, this is the worst platform.
	Who put this stage up here?
	This is the worst... The frickin' place is falling down!
	It keeps tilting further left.
	Like too many other things.
	What a... crappy contractor this was.
	There's a completely different demeanour to Trump and Biden.
	It's like stand-up improv, isn't it?
	Yeah, there's an alternate reality in which Donald Trump is a world-famous comedian.
	I can definitely see it, yeah.
	Yeah, and it's brilliant improv.
	He knows how to play the audience.
	But there's a different kind of tone in the way that he expresses himself right joe biden is angry and berating and like you know you're bad people and trump's just like relax i'm pretty sure in person trump would be perfectly charming if you work for him he might be a bit of a hard bastard he might shout at you one day you're fired but it would it would just be it'd be fine whereas with with biden i bet his staff fucking hate dealing with him and all Although, it would probably be worse with the Joker.
	What's her name?
	Camilla?
	Actually, in Hunter Biden's emails, there was some back and forth about Hunter meeting some Chinese businessman and there being a conflict of interest, but no one raised it to Joe Biden because everyone was scared of him because he had a reputation for shouting at his staff.
	So, you know, spot on.
	He also makes sure that he takes money from his own children.
	Yep.
	Which was mad.
	What was the exact quote of someone like Hunter Biden complaining that he had to pay his dad money?
	That doesn't surprise me.
	It's supposed to work the other way, if at all.
	Yeah, yeah, it's absolutely mad.
	I mean, you know, eternal boomer.
	Milking your own children for money, okay.
	But anyway, just to cap this off, the approval rating for Biden, despite the nearly universal praise that Biden gets from places like CNN, 57% disapproval.
	38% approval.
	Worryingly high.
	It's amazing, isn't it, that no matter how stupid the poll question is, you can always get a third of people to give the stupid answer.
	It just shows you how cemented in these two voting blocs are.
	Because, I mean, Trump's approval is roughly the same.
	So, you know, okay, everyone who's not die-hard Republican bloc or Democrat bloc, you know, are just like, yeah, okay, I've heard enough media stories to make me hate that guy.
	The entire political ecosystem is set up to enforce as much tribalism as humanly possible, so it's almost surprising that it's only 38%, to be honest.
	It must be doing a lot worse than that indicates.
	Well, it's because about a third of America are swing voters, who aren't committed to either tribe.
	And so almost all of those swing voters, if that's nearly 60%, a third of that, more than a third, will be Republicans who always disapprove.
	Then it's roughly two-thirds of the swing voters are like, yeah, I don't like Biden.
	But anyway.
	And when it comes to the polls, if you look at the polls, Trump is beating Biden in most of them, but not by that much, actually.
	It's not enough over the margin of cheating, basically.
	Well, yeah, that's the point, right?
	Thankfully, this isn't going on YouTube.
	So Biden cheated last time and he will cheat this time, just so you know.
	Trump is going to need a much bigger win on this one, because you can see it's plus 5, plus 3, plus 5, plus 4, plus 13, which is good, but that's a YouGov poll.
	They're very unreliable.
	But it's plus 1, plus 2.
	These are narrow margins for Trump versus the child molester.
	And I found this interesting clip which is fascinating because Joe Scarborough is very well connected to the Democrat Party and he tells us about this.
	I have for six months since people have been freaking out about Biden's team.
	I'm telling you every time I go in and talk to anybody that's running the campaign, the big part of the campaign, I don't know what they're telling you and what they're telling other people.
	They're like, they act like people that are holding four aces.
	Well, what about this?
	Yeah, it's pretty bad.
	What about this?
	Yeah, yeah, well, yeah, boy, that looks really tough.
	Yeah, boy, Trump.
	They really.
	Is this a criticism or?
	No, I'm telling you, they know something that I think a lot of us don't know.
	And they look at numbers.
	and they see where things are going.
	They've had a theory of a case that when people realize Donald Trump is going to be getting into the race, things are going to start gelling better for them.
	They understand that you win politics by raising money and organizing on the ground.
	They understand Donald Trump's numbers are way down in every way in fundraising.
	And they'll say, oh, well, we're going to...
	No, they're not.
	They're not going to...
	They're never going to catch Joe Biden.
	And as far as organization goes, we all know anybody who's been involved in a political campaign, if you're tearing up stakes in April and May, you're not going to put them back down in July and August.
	Donald Trump is going to be pounded on the ground.
	The blocking and the tackling, the Biden people feel great about.
	And they have about 1,000 clips of Donald Trump that every day they're like, ugh.
	Which one are we going to use today?
	So I think the most salient part of that is they're acting like they've got four aces.
	They're acting like they know something we don't know.
	Yeah.
	OK.
	Understood.
	So just be aware, Republicans.
	But anyway, that was me just venting my spleen about Joe Biden, because I really just find him detestable.
	It seems like an evil, corrupt person.
	I mean, literally, like, in a sort of cinematic way, you know, the difference between, like, He-Man and Skeletor, you know what I mean?
	Like, Trump's just got this glow about him where he's just funny and friendly.
	There was that whole thing about the Democrats were vying between each other for who was going to be it.
	And it was really weird.
	One weekend, basically the call went out and they all quit apart from Biden.
	It was just arranged for it to be Biden.
	And now I hear all of this stuff about things he did to his daughter and some of the other stuff.
	If it is the case that the intelligent agencies are running America and the whole democracy thing is a complete sham.
	Certainly running the Democrat Party.
	Yeah.
	You would want somebody that you've got proper dirt on and child molesting, daughter molesting Biden would be a prime candidate.
	Yeah.
	And again, just after all of these years and all of these investigations and what they have on Donald Trump is he didn't give back classified documents that were in his house?
	Oh no.
	Yeah.
	You know, big deal.
	Anyway, let's go on to the video comments.
	In a fresh set of essays, Oakshot sets out to dissect rationalism.
	He first analyses rational conduct and explains how it cannot be said to exist according to some outside influence, like a scientific or economic ideology.
	People's rational behaviour can only be explained according to current societal, communal and individual proclivities.
	Rationality is subject to the moires of the time, particularly relevant for a judge and jury when assessing the correct decision and possible sentence for a crime.
	Ideology appears not so much a poison as it is a resin that will set and trap us like insects in amber.
	If you want an expanded look into Oakeshott's rationalism politics, I've done that on the website.
	But that's exactly correct, and I think Oakeshott is one of the most relevant conservative philosophers of the 21st century, actually, because of the structure of ideology.
	I was just going to say that I think actually a lot of the sciences at least are moving beyond rationalism now.
	I think there's a lot of acknowledgement that human beings aren't perfectly rational and actually we're quite irrational and that we're starting to identify all of these different sort of behavioral biases that don't actually help us in a rational way.
	And I think that that's part of the justification for all of the behavioural manipulation.
	That's why the Behavioural Insights team is so insidious, is that they're weaponising an understanding of human beings being irrational and they can manipulate it.
	So do you want to hear something really weird?
	It's something I've been looking at is in finance, there seems to be strong correlation with the lunar cycle.
	And you just think that can't possibly be the case.
	Well, exactly.
	Strong correlation of what with the lunar cycle?
	Oh, movements of assets and that kind of thing.
	Oh, really?
	There is other things.
	And at first I thought, no, that can't possibly be true.
	But then I thought, well, yeah, but we've had the moon for evolutionary time.
	It is more than long enough for it to have some sort of effect on our psyche that we're not consciously aware of, but nevertheless manifests.
	And that in then turn drives human behaviour, which then drives financial markets.
	So even though it sounds loony, you look at some of these correlations and you think, maybe there is something there.
	Is it not just that?
	It correlates with the cycles of the moon in the months because there's something else, a different phenomenon, which also maps onto the moon.
	There's a mediating factor.
	I mean it could be, but I don't know what it is, but loads of people swear by it and I looked at it and I thought, oh hang on, there actually is something there.
	Apparently men also have monthly hormonal cycles.
	Really?
	Yeah, yeah, well exactly, really.
	I didn't know.
	I read somewhere about it, I didn't look into it in depth, but apparently men have like monthly hormonal cycles, it just doesn't really manifest in the way that women's do, so we don't really think about it.
	Hungry, horny, sleepy, I mean it's... Yeah, no, no, but apparently you've got a cycle of hormones over a month, and so it's just like, okay, well, you know, who knows, you know, so who, you know, there's a lot to being human that is more than just a rational thought.
	Oh, of course, yeah.
	I think it's actually the majority of human thought isn't rational.
	Anyway, let's go to the next one.
	Hello, gentlemen.
	I'm just showing off my bench routine and mediocre editing skills.
	I found a quote recently online, though, that you might find amusing.
	I don't know who said it first, but it goes like this.
	If you're a nerd, lift weights.
	If you're jacked, read books.
	A jacked nerd is fucking unstoppable.
	Cheers.
	Very good sentiment.
	Yeah.
	I'm bent to 136.
	That's a lot.
	That is a lot.
	Well done, man.
	Yes, I think all of the Lotus Eaters audience should get jacked.
	We're going to have an army of very muscly supporters.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Awesome.
	Right, okay, great.
	Ooh, we only got two.
	TMK Out of Context says, PSA, Load Seaters, but Out of Context Part 8 goes live just after this podcast airs.
	Oh, goody gum watch after here.
	Sean for $10 says, anyone who's lived from 1980 to present in Toronto, London, Berlin and Paris understands the effects of mass immigration as they fled the cities.
	Very true.
	Maureen says, I am a very proud duchy at this moment.
	Since I voted for Vilders, I feel like a mummy watching her toddler taking their first steps.
	I'm just hoping Wilders won't turn out to be a disappointment like Maloney.
	He's been saying the right things for years, however, this is the first time he's actually been in the cabinet, and most of the parties don't like him, which is why he isn't going to become PM.
	But I am feeling a glimmer of hope, which I haven't for a long time.
	Our former PM, Root, was in the pocket of the WEF, and Wilders doesn't seem to care about the Netherlands... Sorry, and Wilders does seem to care about the Netherlands and the Dutch people.
	Yeah, this is why I'm mildly... I'm...
	I mean, Vilders has had a very consistent message.
	Very consistent.
	For decades.
	So I'm actually not like, oh, he's suddenly become a turncoat and, you know, he'll join the WEF or something.
	He wouldn't do that if he were an opportunist because there was a very long period of time when he was very much out of favour and taboo, right?
	Stigmatised.
	I mean, he got the Tommy Robinson treatment.
	He was just a politician.
	So he was actually able to get elected because they've got proportional representation.
	So he'd go to the most anti-Islam place, get himself elected there and then just be like, in the parliament.
	Tommy can't do that because we don't have proportional representation.
	Lord Nereval says, "What most Western leaders don't understand, or will willingly choose to ignore, is that individuals we're importing by the million come from cultures that are simply less sophisticated than ours." Well, I'm not sure about that.
	So it's not that They have sophisticated mechanisms for dealing with problems.
	They're just really different to ours and offend our sensibilities.
	The problem with making it about sophistication is we now are on the hook to say, well, we have to prove why our culture is good by various metrics.
	It's like, I don't want to do that.
	It's just ours.
	Not having a competition.
	And if we're going to absorb enough of that population, we're going to have to absorb their solutions as well, because it'd be the only thing that works.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Because they'll say, hey look, it does work.
	So it's not that we're more enlightened, although obviously I think we are.
	The problem is that we're on a dialectic there, which actually is to our disadvantage.
	Even if we keep winning all the arguments, we end up losing in the end.
	So I'm wary about that method of approaching it.
	Sean on the No Women You Can't Fight Bear segment says, I was part of a Canadian elite unit.
	They had a women instructor with seven martial arts degrees.
	She kicked a raw recruit in the nuts, angering him.
	She was sent to hospital.
	He was 18 and 140 pounds soaking wet.
	Okay.
	And Sean again, for $10 on Rumble, says, uh, I've spent my entire life in the forest in Canada.
	You guys are delusional like the feminists.
	The bears would eat you lot for dessert.
	Well, I said I couldn't fight a bear.
	I was saying the highest I'd even think about was the little sunny bear.
	Sun bear, yeah.
	I think Sean is right, though.
	I think we are delusional.
	I think a bear would just maul us.
	I said I couldn't fight one, so maybe you're saying I could.
	I take it.
	Well, me, I'm a delusional one.
	Um, but the point is there are no bears in England, so I'll never have to find out.
	Yes, we wipe them out.
	Yeah.
	Like the Vikings.
	Yes, get rekt.
	Um, Arizona Desert Rat says, alright, story time.
	My brother worked at a Boy Scout camp during the summer in high school.
	The camps had communities in the mountain, and they'd been having problems with bears because people had been feeding them from their back porch.
	The bear lost fear of people and saw people as a source of food.
	At the end of the summer, a 16-year-old girl was mauled by a black bear.
	One of the staff had a 9mm on him, shot the bear 10 times before the bear finally let this girl go.
	She survived but was crippled for life.
	Even black bears are not to be messed with.
	Okay, fair enough.
	My chances of beating the bearers getting lower by the comment.
	Maybe if we included koala bears.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	The koala bears, I mean, they've probably got sharp teeth, but also they've all got chlamydia.
	Well, I'm not suggesting that you beat it like that.
	No, just touching it.
	Just touching it gives you chlamydia.
	Yeah, but you can get... Is that transmissible?
	Because I've also heard that about ladybirds as well, but I don't know how you get that from a ladybird.
	Are you sure it wasn't lady boys?
	I imagine that too, yeah.
	I don't think a koala wears a real kind of bear, either.
	For example, Lancer and Jorah.
	I will fight the sloth bear, but I will lose against a woman with a stick.
	I'm not saying I'm being consistent on this.
	He's got a point.
	Yeah, okay, fair enough.
	You've got me there.
	I will defeat the bear and the woman in personal combat.
	Threadnaut says, from Rumble Soup Chat, everyone has good in them, even Brandon.
	Who has inside of him the soul of every child he's ever had.
	I'm not sure it works like that.
	I'm not sure it doesn't.
	Well, I suppose not.
	Baldy1787 on Rumble says, the debate is going to give Democrats an excuse to remove Biden and put up Newsom and Michael, sorry, Michelle Obama ticket in the most democratic manner to determine a presidential candidate.
	Now, you know what?
	That's interesting because Newsom has been positioning himself, you can tell, and Obama, Michelle Obama, not Michael, I'm sure, You look at her shoulders, man.
	She's got broader shoulders than me, yeah.
	God, I need to work out.
	She could fight a bear.
	Yeah, well, yeah, exactly.
	To be fair, we've not considered Michelle Obama.
	We didn't stipulate who's fighting the bear.
	Maybe, maybe, but the question is, will the web of corruption that pins everything in place emanating from Biden Be able to withstand the change, right?
	Because you've got like, you know, it's like a, you know, a crystal that's held in place.
	And that's why Biden is still there.
	It's because everything else is propping him up now, whereas it was forcing everything else lower to be held in place.
	Can that withstand the change?
	I don't know.
	I would have thought so.
	I mean, he's just a puppet.
	Well, no, no, he's not just a puppet, that's the thing.
	He was a young man who was actively involved in corruption.
	He forced his children into corruption.
	But now, like the Emperor on the Golden Throne in 40K, the light's gone out from behind his eyes, and everyone's like, okay, but now we're trapped in this corrupt web, and the guy who was making us do all of this He's out on lunch, you know.
	Yeah.
	Do we have to, you know, what do we do now?
	Yeah, but they can find another compromised corrupt person.
	Well, yeah, and if, you know, if it's going to be anyone.
	There's plenty of them.
	Yeah, yeah, there's plenty of Democrats.
	OPHUK, I'm not saying that, for $1 says something I'm also not going to say.
	I'm not going to say that.
	He's got a point, though.
	I'm not saying he doesn't have a point.
	I'm not, I'm not reading that out.
	That is disgraceful, sir.
	Adrian says, Biden's message to the black community can be paraphrased to, come on, it's an election year, we need you to riot.
	It's not just the rioting though, it's the, you are black and therefore you have to be the servants of the Democrats.
	I mean, like the slavery mindset doesn't seem to have changed, right?
	It's just a vote plantation now.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I can't stand seeing him.
	Because again, if he was saying it to my kids, I'd be like, don't you talk to them that way.
	And yet he puts it out on his Twitter account.
	No, this is my message to the black community.
	By the way, you're basically still our slaves.
	You've got to vote for us.
	You've got no choice.
	And you're losers.
	You can't win.
	So cruel, man.
	Anyway, Mason says the debate between Trump and Biden will happen because Biden has stacked up the odds as much as he can.
	It's a move of desperation from Biden.
	He's hoping Trump will go on the attack and he'll throw the kitchen sink while his moderators take his side.
	Trump needs to be careful and disciplined.
	Well, Trump's got a fairly good way of disarming people, you know?
	Like, he's, you know, whatever he's on, you know, he's New York Democrat.
	I think he's got to lean into the mockery.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Lean into the fact that Biden's going to flub his words.
	I think if he just lets Biden mess it up, he can just take a backseat and kind of be a bit nonchalant about the whole thing.
	And just him being able to string a sentence together and Biden not being able to do that, it's going to speak for itself, right?
	Yeah, I can actually see it now where Trump asks Biden, well, what are you going to do about it?
	And Biden goes off on an incoherent ramble and Trump just looks at the camera and it's like...
	You know, Mr. Flibble says that Biden's speech was staggeringly awful.
	He's setting them up for resentment and failure in a neutral world.
	It's not even the world's neutral.
	The world is actively in favor of black people, like we see black people promoted and advocated for and advantaged everywhere, like literally everywhere.
	There are loads of affirmative action programs.
	So, the idea that America is set up for black people to fail is obviously not true.
	Do you remember that chart of the Fortune 500 and the proportion of white people they'd hired and it was down to something absolutely ridiculous?
	Yeah, really low, it was like 3%.
	It was like 90% minority, wasn't it?
	That they'd hired since 2020.
	And yet, in front of 38 million people on a Twitter account, Biden's like, black people are losers, they can't win and everyone hates them.
	It's like, no, what?
	It's just ridiculous.
	Kevin says, this is why he wants to debate with no audience and only cuck mediators.
	If he really thinks he can beat Trump, hold the debate live in front of a full Michigan stadium and have all the world's TV channels transmit it live.
	Yeah, that would be good.
	And of course, he will never do that.
	Of course, you know.
	Kevin points out, and I forgot to mention this, this is a good point, back in the day Biden wanted segregation.
	He said if schools were desegregated they'd turn into urban jungles.
	And also there was that great line about Wasn't it something like, poor kids can be just as... Poor kids are just as bright and smart as black kids.
	Or white kids.
	White kids, sorry.
	I'm getting it wrong just thinking about it.
	Yeah, it's um... I'm just saying, he's an awful person.
	Sophie says, when Maui burned, Joe Biden only talked about the time his own kitchen burned and people were fine.
	When he faced the parents, whose sons got killed due to his own botched Afghanistan withdrawal, all he talked about in his game was his son, not theirs, who he had a hand in killing.
	When the corpses were carried out right in front of him, he checked his watch.
	11 times he checked his watch.
	He is just gross.
	He's a really genuinely vile person.
	He seems evil.
	It's not just, I don't like that guy.
	Rishi Sunak doesn't seem evil.
	Keir Starmer doesn't seem evil.
	I just think they're either stupid or just part of a system that they don't He's like a spiteful barnacle on the US political system in that he's been stuck there for what, 40, 50 years?
	50 years.
	To weather that storm for that long, you've really got to be pretty immoral.
	But you see his face when it's all pinched and he's angrily berating them for being black.
	Well even if you're not evil when you start, Just absorbing the passive evil flows as time goes by.
	But I think he was evil when he started, because if you see stuff from him from like the 80s, where he's just lying about his qualifications, he's lying about like his life experience, all of these lies, I mean like in the 80s, where he's like, yeah I wasn't an activist, you know, because you were a liar, you're just lying all the time.
	Evil man.
	A man so black he's actually purple says, oh the irony of telling black university graduates who no doubt benefited from positive discrimination to get there, to be told they have to work harder in life.
	I know, I know, it's just, Absolutely preposterous.
	And Nick, as the last one says, feeble Joe Biden trying to furrow his brow to look tough is so sad.
	It's like, yeah, it really is.
	You know, it's like, you're not in the shower with your daughter now, Joe, don't worry.
	What a note to end on.
	Indeed.
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