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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #924

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Seeders.
	Today is Wednesday.
	Is it Wednesday?
	It's Tuesday.
	No, it's Tuesday the 28th of May, and I'm joined by Josh and Bo, and we're going to talk about media matters layoffs, how the Conservative Party is collapsing, and how an anti-white white man finds out.
	So we're gonna have a lot of fun today.
	We also have three ties, so that should be a fun one.
	It's a free Thai special.
	Before we start, you can check out our merch.
	You can go on our website here and you can check out stuff about our Islander magazine and also featured products.
	We have cups, t-shirts, the magazine.
	You can get our Islam mug up there if you scroll up.
	That actually says Islander but we were joking that it says Islam on it.
	We love Islam now.
	It changed our minds.
	Great.
	So, give it a check, definitely.
	So, Josh, do you want to start?
	Good news, everyone.
	Something has happened that is actually good in the world, and that is journalists are being fired.
	And these journalists are not just any journalists, they're some of the most insufferable journalists, which is what I like to see.
	So, Media Matters, here they are.
	They're not a big fan of Elon Musk.
	They have done some articles about it.
	They're saying that, you know, Hamas is intentionally taking advantage of weak content moderation on X. I think actually the data on content moderation seem to suggest that, you know, terrorist stuff had been taken down quicker.
	There's also the thing that Elon Musk was bragging about how they removed child abuse material much faster than previously.
	So they're just misrepresenting what's going on, I think.
	They're trying to push narratives that don't actually have any data to support them.
	It's just, well, we found an example, therefore it must be true.
	Do ideologues need data?
	No, of course not.
	And, you know, you can just have a look at their website.
	I'll just click on the main page.
	You can see that they're going after Trump.
	There's Trump again and Trump again.
	And yes, talking about Justice Alito as well.
	So they just target right-wingers constantly.
	You never see them, or at least I've never seen them, talk at all about left-wingers.
	They're always targeting the right.
	And what they do is they try and get advertisers withdrawn from any organisation that is not left-wing explicitly.
	So they always put heat on anyone who isn't adhering to their ideology.
	Who actually are they?
	You might be going onto this.
	I will be, yes.
	Do I have time for a comment?
	I see they're talking about a right-wing echo chamber.
	And it's fun because, you know, they never talk about left-wing echo chamber and we have a lot to discuss.
	Well, the funny thing is that the right's a lot more willing to talk to people they disagree with, you know.
	Left-wingers go on right-wing podcasts, the same is not true in reverse.
	Also, right-wingers tend to know the ideology of the left far better than vice versa.
	So it is nonsense to call it an echo chamber.
	It's more hypocritical than hypocrisy itself.
	But they pride themselves on being one of the few organizations that do this sort of thing, which is even more disgusting really.
	And even more disgusting than that is they also supported Hillary Clinton, which, you know, there's no redemption for that.
	A big no-no.
	Exactly.
	And yes, they just generally sling mud at the right.
	And what happened back in November of 2023 is that Elon Musk sued them.
	So what happened here is um according to the Associated Press the suit claimed that by media matter um that media matters sorry um showed posts alongside neo-nazis and white nationalists it was trying to scare advertisers away from the platform so it's trying to give a false impression that you know this is what is on twitter this is what is on x is as it's now known by showing
	Adverts to advertisers and say look what your adverts are appearing next to and obviously that's dishonest All of us use Twitter regularly we see what posts are on there and I don't see any of that there Wait a minute, they were trying to give marketing suggestions to all these organisations?
	Well, they were contracting advertisers that advertised on Twitter saying, look at what your adverts are appearing next to.
	But you would expect the worst people to give you marketing advice to be leftists who regularly talk about brand ambassadors who are just tanking sales?
	Yes, but they're doing so in this sort of dishonest way, aren't they?
	It's not like the companies are really thinking about it.
	I've never understood that whole argument anyway.
	It's not up to the advertisers.
	It's not about that.
	You just sell your advertising space or buy advertising space.
	And then it gets, the algorithms or whatever put them together.
	You don't think that when you see adverts on a website, necessarily the advertiser, I don't think if I see a Coca-Cola underneath a Democratic Party candidate, I don't think they're endorsing that message, do I?
	Who thinks that?
	No one thinks that, right?
	Yeah, it's a silly standard to judge people by.
	It's like there's a Liberal Democrat party political broadcast on TV, say, and then the next advert is Sainsbury's or something.
	You don't think, oh, Sainsbury's are too Lib Dem for me, they're in league with the Lib Dems.
	It doesn't make any sense, right?
	No one thinks that.
	It's obviously an attempt to damage their ad revenue because they don't like Elon Musk because of his politics and that's pretty much what Associated Press say of what their complaint is.
	But the craziest thing, sorry, is that the actual advertisers themselves go along with that and say, oh yes, I'm going to pull my advertising then.
	Well they're worried that they're going to be reported on because what happens is if they still stay as advertising on a platform where this article's been published then that outlet can follow up and say well they refuse to withdraw ads therefore they endorse these politics.
	Which is still a smear, it's still not honest, but they don't want to risk that to damage their reputation.
	But anyway, the article carries on to say, um, X's complaint claims that Media Matters manipulated algorithms on the platform to create images of advertisers' paid posts next to racist, incendiary content.
	The juxtapositions, according to the complaint, were manufactured, inorganic, and extraordinarily rare.
	Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
	But a bunch of mainstream media outlets picked up on this and they were reporting Twitter has lost 50 of its top 100 advertisers since Elon Musk took over.
	It's certainly true that they lost a lot of advertisers but the source of this claim, I believe it's NPR, yeah, and lots of other media outlets, I'm not going to bother listing them all because, you know, it's the usual suspects, That comes from Media Matters themselves.
	That's their data there.
	So in recent weeks, 50 of the top 100 advertisers have either announced or seemingly stopped advertising on Twitter.
	So it's basically them gloating and then the media pick up on it to target people who have wronged them ideologically, like Elon Musk.
	Do they cite evidence or is it a trust me bro source?
	Well, they're talking about the actual finances and things like that.
	Yeah, there are claims here as well.
	This is further on down the line, I believe.
	This is, what date is that?
	Oh, the 24th of November 2023.
	So this is even further along down the line.
	They were still reporting losses from this same sort of thing.
	Lots of people withdrawing.
	Airbnb, Coca-Cola, Microsoft.
	And of course, this is where Elon Musk had that famous clip of saying F you to the people trying to do this.
	Bob Iger, was he calling out Bob Iger?
	In particular yeah, well it was Bob Iger because Disney withdrew their advertising from Twitter as well and this also led the Attorney General in Texas to investigate Media Matters and there was a sort of suit going on I think however this is the President and CEO of Media Matters here saying Media Matters has won the lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and
	They said, we sued asking the court to bar him from proceedings.
	We were just granted our injunction.
	However, State of Missouri, their Attorney General, has also sued Media Matters for the same reasons.
	So they're going to continue to have lots more lawsuits.
	This was only a month ago that this has happened.
	So they're going to be embroiled in lots more lawfare, I imagine, which is going to cost them a lot more money.
	And Get old Missouri.
	I can count on it.
	Missouri.
	Yeah, but these sorts of suits, as well as those from Elon, have had some good results actually.
	We can actually sort of defeat the left here.
	Bad news, I've been laid off from Media Matters along with a dozen colleagues.
	There's a reason far-right billionaires attack Media Matters with armies of lawyers.
	They know how effective our work is and it terrifies them, in brackets, him.
	So she's obviously on about Elon Musk here, right?
	It's evident.
	Yeah, well, they were attacking him first, right?
	They were trying to get advertisers withdrawn from his platform because they disagree with him politically.
	So the fact that they're facing a bit of a taste of their own medicine here, in that he's taken them to court and now they can't afford to keep them, is beautiful.
	I love this.
	This is great.
	This is reaping what you sow.
	If you try and target people, you know, try and get them to lose money, try and get them fired, and then you lose your job, well, To quote Reservoir Dogs, I've got the world's tiniest violin playing for you.
	And yeah, it's not just the journalists themselves claiming this.
	The New York Post is also reporting on it, saying media matters hit with sweeping layoffs after defamation suit by Elon Musk.
	And yes, this is true.
	And also that lady who was posting about being laid off, here she is, This is an article on BuzzFeed.
	TikToker Kat Abu, who is that lady who'd been laid off, is so happy Tucker Carlson got fired.
	And they have a real gripe with Tucker Carlson in particular and Fox News.
	They would target Fox News constantly and they tried to do the same thing with Fox, getting advertisers to withdraw and getting them wrapped up in lawsuits and doing all sorts of things to interfere with them.
	They described themselves as a guerrilla group trying to target Fox and so, you know, this is exactly the same thing except in reverse and it's lovely to see.
	Also, there she is again.
	Fox News fired Tucker Carlson one year ago today.
	I'm happy to report it's been a rough year for America's squeakiest fascist.
	What does that even mean?
	As in, he's got a squeaky voice.
	Oh right, okay.
	Bit of a weird criticism from a lady.
	Hasn't really, has he?
	Not especially, no.
	But he's also not a fascist either, so that's a bit strange too.
	And her full name was Abu Ghazala or something?
	Yes.
	So what is she?
	She doesn't look like full Arab.
	I don't know.
	Or is she Syrian or something or other?
	Perhaps.
	Either way, not a fan of Tucker Carlson.
	Yeah, here's a page so we can sort of see what kind of work she was doing.
	Like, 200 plus things that Fox News has labelled woke and it's just a list of lots of things that have been infiltrated by the left, yeah.
	Like, they've even got something like woke capitalism where they're just saying, they're talking about corporations adopting wokeness to make money.
	They're not calling capitalism woke.
	She just misrepresents it.
	Fox News again, Fox News, Tucker Carlson, right-wing media, Fox News, Fox News, Sean Hannity, right-wing media with Fox News in the tab.
	You get the idea.
	They're a bit obsessed.
	I've never heard of her until this moment but she seems like a one-track record.
	And it's not journalism, is it?
	It's just a partisan attack job?
	Yeah, the funny thing is, I think they're registered as a charitable organisation as well.
	I don't know how that's possible because it's just like, yes, our operation to influence politics is now charity for some reason.
	But we're not done here.
	She was nice enough to create a list of all of the people who have been recently fired, which gives me the names of all the journalists at Media Matters that have been laid off.
	And we can enjoy the fact that they're now unemployed and they're probably not going to be able to find another job, because let's be honest, if you want someone to throw excrement on a wall, many people are qualified to do that.
	You don't necessarily need to resort to these people.
	And it goes on.
	She's sharing all the posts of the people.
	Let's go to the first one here.
	This is a guy called Brendan Carrott.
	So he has a page on Media Matters, I believe.
	He should do.
	I've got it in my notes, but I'll pull it up on my end.
	So he's uploaded stuff like, okay the website's loading now, this is great, right-wing pundits lash out at Boy Scouts over rebranding to Scouting America, and he's talking about the Daily Wire a lot, he's got Ben Shapiro, also Candace Owens, ah here we are.
	A rapid response researcher!
	I know!
	What?
	So here we are, here are the articles I was on about, and it just sort of smears.
	There's Stephen Crowder openly flouts YouTube, lets Alex Jones host his show and promote Infowars.
	So it's just trying to draw attention.
	They're sort of like hall monitors of politics.
	Like, I'm telling you, you're breaking the YouTube rules.
	And yeah, there we go.
	Another one about Crowder and Alex Jones.
	BlazeTV.
	Fox again.
	It's just partisanship, isn't it?
	There's also another person, Bobby Lewis, there he is, Journalism Milestone Achieved, got laid off, and here he is, Writer 2, I don't know what that means, but here we are, there's Trump, there's Kristi Noem, who is a Governor, a Republican Governor, JFK Junior, RFK Junior, sorry, and
	Conspiracy theories about the bridge collapse, Tulsi Gabbard, the RNC.
	It's like all of them are writing the same 2-3 articles.
	They are, yes.
	There's another thing about the Trump campaign and James O'Keefe.
	By the way, James O'Keefe's actually doing real journalism, so the fact they're complaining about it, he's, you know, going out and recording people saying stuff with, you know, hidden cameras and getting it on film saying, here's the proof of this thing that we suspected.
	They're just saying, wah wah wah wah wah, right winger did a thing I don't agree with.
	That video was hilarious where he went out allegedly on a date with someone and then he was telling the person who showed up started telling all sorts of stuff and then he was saying I tried to impress him.
	There's another one here.
	This is Alex Patterson.
	I got laid off from Media Matters today.
	Proud of the five years of intense work I put in fighting right-wing hatred.
	I am an incredible manager with superb research skills.
	Please hire me.
	All you do is write the same article over and over again, and you all write the same sort of thing.
	You whinge about Fox, Donald Trump, and other right-wing media.
	That's not research!
	You don't write pleas when you try to find a job.
	Please may I have a job?
	Yeah, I mean, you don't do this at an interview.
	So let's have a look at some of this excellent research, shall we?
	He's an Associate Research Director here.
	Right-wing media and Trump misleadingly claimed that the DOJ altered evidence in response to new legal findings, blah blah blah blah blah.
	Media Matters calls on Meta to bolster and enforce its election-related content moderation policies.
	So here it is just being, you know, hall monitor for the internet again.
	Trying to get social media platforms to be stricter on things that right-wingers are talking about and getting them de-platformed.
	Important work.
	Yeah.
	It's important work.
	It requires a great deal of research.
	Yeah, just to sort of nag.
	Research?
	Nagging people, yeah.
	We've got postgraduate degrees, well we've all got postgraduate degrees, you've got a doctorate.
	We actually know what research requires, right?
	Actual research.
	I've got an MRes.
	We're not doing any research.
	I've got a Masters in Psychological Research, like it's an actual research focused degree, and this isn't research.
	Yeah, but probably they have sociology degrees or relevant degrees where they're told that basically you don't have to engage in empirical studies and empirical research.
	You just have to talk about, you know, just structures and universals and systemic racism and constantly invent stuff like this.
	Basically, it's an excuse for not working.
	Here we go, Media Matters calls on Meta to expand and enforce its policies on manipulated media ahead of the 2024 election.
	So, you know, if you want to know part of the reason why social media companies are getting worse, it is organisations like this that are trying to write articles to pressure them into doing it.
	Of course, ultimately, the decision is the social media companies, but They're still getting, you know, potential PR damage from weirdos like this, writing articles telling them to do unreasonable things.
	I also see there, I don't know if you see it due to the camera, it says also about Speaker Mike Johnson right-wing media figures push anti-LGBTQ bigotry.
	So, you know, most probably you can get the vibe what is going to be written on it.
	Fox has a long history of tolerating antisemitism on its network.
	I mean, Fox News, which probably has some of the most, you know, dedicated Zionists going.
	You're joking?
	Yeah.
	It's like, no.
	All these poor researchers, they can, of course, always learn to code.
	Yes.
	I've already seen one of them replying to someone saying that.
	Oh really?
	Someone also told them to go down a mine.
	I've enjoyed that.
	So here's another one.
	Carly Evans.
	In today is for Bad News News.
	I'll be leaving Media Matters at the end of June.
	Two additional notes.
	Say anything bad about my current or former co-workers.
	We are fighting.
	So looking forward to seeing you in the ring.
	If someone is in need of an internet data girl, hit me up.
	No.
	You know, the market's oversaturated with you morons.
	No thank you.
	So here's the data.
	Tim Pool here just reported on his ad earnings super chat earnings from YouTube he earns a lot of money because he's doing good work and is successful this is somehow news it's like an advert for Tim Pool and his message resonates with people what are you gonna do yeah he doesn't he doesn't have to register as a non-profit to keep running and even then you know you're laying off people just beg the internet in general for a new job hmm They've got Keith Woods.
	Yeah, Hadif Woods over there.
	YouTube is monetising and helping raise funds for Keith Woods, a white nationalist and self-described raging anti-Semite.
	Raging!
	He doesn't seem very angry a lot of the time.
	He sort of seems very monotonous and reserved almost for a commentator, doesn't he?
	He's quite level-headed, from what I've seen.
	Yeah, Russell Brand, you know, the usual suspects of people that the left don't like.
	And we're not quite done yet because we have another one here.
	I didn't see any article about Trump.
	That's weird.
	I know, that is true.
	That's news, you know.
	Maybe there's going to be another one.
	Here is another person, Ethan Collier.
	Unfortunately I have been impacted by the Media Matters layoffs alongside some brilliant and inspiring colleagues.
	I'm now open to any research analyst and associate role specifically regarding right-wing media narratives on DEI, education and LGBTQ plus issues.
	I think you're gonna be hard-pressed to find that, mate.
	My DMs are open for any leads.
	Work for Lotus Eaters.
	We cover those things.
	We produce the right-wing narrative.
	No, please don't work for us.
	So yes, let's have a look at What he's been up to.
	Right-wing media continues to reckon with unpopularity of sending abortion back to the states.
	So the first five out of six are about Trump again.
	The funny thing is that the state right solution is actually the most popular solution in America Bipartisan solution.
	So that, by sort of research standards, that's just wrong.
	And I don't know whether he'd... Oh, Researcher 2.
	So yes, he is a researcher.
	Opinion polling would have been useful for that, perhaps.
	Right-wing media attacks special counsel Jack Smith, and right-wing media defends Trump's harassment of Judge's daughter.
	It's all very partisan stuff.
	It's kind of pathetic, isn't it?
	Imagine if you're one of the senior managers And you think, what I need is a team of about half a dozen or more people that are all just pumping out, throw away opinion pieces about how bad Trump is.
	I need six people doing that or ten people doing that.
	It's about quantity, not about quality.
	It's not just model, it's obviously not going to work.
	Get out the message and bombard people with the message and some will believe it.
	And now we're almost through all of them.
	I wasn't quite done gloating by this point.
	Here's another person, Eric Klefeld, talking about the excellent and talented company I'm in here.
	It's feeling a bit less like this.
	And he's Simpsons meme about him being targeted specifically for being fired.
	And here he is.
	He is a senior writer and rapid response.
	Senior writer.
	And yeah, Fox News calls President Biden a troll.
	That's news.
	That's newsworthy.
	That's a whole article.
	Let's write an article on that.
	I need 1,500 words on that.
	Stat.
	Fox News.
	Fox News.
	Washington Post.
	That's unusual.
	What's that doing in there?
	Murdoch.
	Obviously the owner of Fox.
	Fox.
	Fox.
	Misinformation has Americans depressed about the economy?
	What are you on about?
	This was, by the way, in April.
	When the economy was not looking good in the US.
	You know, prices are up.
	You've had, what, almost four years of Bidenomics.
	It's not inflation.
	Yeah.
	It's not misinformation.
	The economy is depressing the Western world over.
	Janet the Felon Yellen is tanking your economy.
	Yes, that's happening.
	Inflation is insane.
	Yeah.
	So it's just ridiculous stuff.
	Fox fearmongers about California's minimum wage increase.
	Well, if you increase the minimum wage, more people are going to be unemployed.
	California already has a homelessness problem.
	It's not fearmongering.
	Basic economics.
	It's not quality journalism is it?
	It's not journalism at all!
	So Elon Musk in December of 2023 I think summarized the company very well so he says media matters is an evil propaganda machine so I'm opposed to evil propaganda machines so we are suing them in every country where they operate and we will pursue not just that organization but anyone funding that organization which is George Soros um it is the clintons it is all sorts of interesting people
	you know lots of people that we know do lots of horrible things and if elon musk is going after all of them that is a very promising thing um them's fighting words i want to be clear about that and Anyone funding that organisation, Media Matters, is an evil propaganda machine.
	Media Matters can go to hell and I hope they do.
	And it's also worth mentioning as well, this was a live Twitter thing which had, I think, Alex Jones in.
	He's not there, but he was in there.
	Yeah, so there we go.
	Interesting who Musk is talking to at the minute.
	There's also some names in there.
	Jack Posobiak.
	A red-headed libertarian.
	She works for Tim Paul, doesn't she, I think, if I'm keeping track of stuff.
	This reminds me as well of something that Stelios is going to be talking about in greater length.
	Just how difficult it is now to find a job when you specialize in leftists.
	I don't know what to call it, really.
	Mud-slinging?
	Fart-huffing?
	Lots of things you can call it.
	Character assassination?
	Would you like to summarize this, Stelios, as you're going to be talking about it later?
	Well, there's an SJW that can't find a job because he has built his whole career so far talking about white supremacy in academia.
	And he is white and at some point people told him apparently that he is white and they need to promote non-white candidates.
	It's, you know, people who just think that just because I virtue signal, people are not going to look at who I am.
	You know, the people who are engaging in group politics and see everything in light of collectives are suddenly not going to see him as a white person just because he atones for his white guilt by saying that the whole world is white supremacist.
	So I imagine many of these journalists are going to find a similar fate to this academic in that they're not really going to find any way to work.
	And I think that finally seeing consequences for their horrendous partisanship and just being unreasonable, you know, we don't necessarily hide the fact that we support certain people and we have certain views.
	However, We do concede sometimes that there are uncomfortable truths and reality is more complicated than it might need to be to get the sort of mud to land.
	But you don't need to go to the lengths that they are of just writing the same article over and over again.
	You know, just law-faring people and trying to scare away advertisers.
	There's a way of doing things and it's good to see that people that are really sort of pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable in a so-called civil society are finally facing some consequences.
	It's good that, I mean, you mentioned them in the same breath as hall monitors in a way.
	Yeah, there's a certain way to act Right?
	You can be cheap.
	You can act in a cheap way.
	In sort of a low, underhanded, childish, mean way.
	Right?
	And then you can just be a normal person.
	Right?
	You can just be a man and just be normal.
	Right?
	And their whole thing is obviously just like a mean, cheap thing.
	So yeah, it's great what Elon said there.
	Can I ask you a couple of questions though?
	Sure.
	Is there any more detail on sort of Who they really are.
	You mentioned George Soros and the Clintons.
	So it's like, it's wrapped up with, um, what's his foundation called?
	Soros' foundation called?
	Oh, the Open Society.
	So it's wrapped up with that and the Clintons who are... Well, also it was helped to be set up by a gentleman named, I think, John Podesta.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Interesting, isn't it?
	The Podestas.
	Hmm.
	Hmm.
	Okay, so some of those people anyway, the Podestas and the Clintons, are sort of adjacent to the deep state, the swamp.
	They are agents of the deep state, yeah.
	Elements of, you could even say, the intelligence services that are involved in the business of subverting the United States in all sorts of ways.
	So it doesn't seem like, all this is pretty much new to me, but it does seem like Elon wasn't really guilty of hyperbole.
	No.
	He's saying they are just an evil propaganda machine, just from those little tidbits of information.
	Seems like that's exactly what they are, a sort of forward-facing wing, arm, of the swamp.
	Absolutely and I'm very glad that a few of them are unemployed and I imagine some more of them will be if Elon carries on targeting them because he's clearly got a bone to pick.
	They lost him a lot of money and obviously that's going to cause a lot of frustration in Elon and so if he continues he could actually completely destroy the organisation if he wants to.
	I hope he does.
	Shall we move on to the next?
	OK.
	It's bow time.
	Is it me?
	It's bow time, it's a bow show.
	This is the third segment.
	OK, so I just wanted to talk a little bit about the pending Tory collapse, because it does look like now, I think, that it's really going to happen.
	There's this thing going around.
	It was actually Zero Seat started by AA.
	It was, yeah.
	He actually started it.
	Yeah.
	It's good, it's got traction hasn't it?
	You see people all over the place saying it.
	He went on GB News and spoke to Jacob Rees-Mogg and talked about the Zero Seats campaign to a senior Conservative MP.
	A sitting MP.
	Which is impressive.
	I saw James Melville sharing AA's thing as well, the zero seats campaign video.
	It's done the rounds on the internet.
	Yeah, I see people all over the place saying it.
	It's caught on.
	It's great.
	Now, the likelihood of Toys actually getting zero seats, that's not going to happen.
	It's pretty much zero, yeah.
	Zero chances.
	Nonetheless, nonetheless.
	It does look like, I mean, it's obvious, but everyone's been saying for a long time and they're heading for an electoral implosion.
	But it looks like they really, really are.
	I mean, to the point where it may be one of the all-time swings in parliamentary history.
	So just to say, to plug something, an idea I've been throwing around the office for a while, but it looks like we are going to do it.
	On election night, on the night of the 4th of July, into the morning of the 5th, we're going to do a live stream.
	for hours, sort of all night, covering the election.
	And it may well be one of the worst, certainly in recent times, in the last 100 years plus, 150 odd years, it's quite remarkable and great.
	Yes, we will be covering the live butchering of the Tory party, on air, for all to see.
	Lovely jubbly.
	Bring it on.
	One thing I want to say before I carry on is that a lot of people say, you know, Tory faithful and things.
	They say, oh, you're just going to give government to Labour?
	And a lot of us say, yes, so be it.
	Well, yeah, so just to say before I carry on here that, so the long term plan will be that you get the Tories out of the way, annihilate them at the ballot box, politically speaking, annihilate them, wound them mortally.
	Then, yeah, Starmer's going to win, Labour are going to win and that will probably almost certainly be worse.
	But then they're the next target and then at the next election try and annihilate them.
	Zero seats for Labour next time in 2029 or whatever it is.
	So zero seats for them and then hopefully we'll be into a new world of the rise of the small parties and or independents.
	So yeah, one at a time, but the Tories have to go first, because get your priorities straight, and they're standing, they're gatekeepers, they're standing in the way of any real right-wing parties emerging.
	So yeah, it's going to lead to a Labour government, but this has to happen, right?
	This has to happen.
	If there's many layers, if you're trying to attack a Staffel or a Bastion or something, and they've got many layers of defence, well the first layer for us is the Tory party.
	They're the first ones standing in the way.
	And if that leads to things getting worse in the short term, or for a few years, i.e.
	a Labour government, well, that's the price we've got to pay, unfortunately.
	That's the paradigm we find ourselves in.
	So that argument of, oh, you're just going to let Labour in, it's like, yeah, I know, obviously.
	Yeah, it's going to get worse.
	But this has to happen.
	Anyway, it looks like the Tories are going to absolutely collapse to the point where An outside observer might look at it and think, are they deliberately tanking themselves?
	We were talking about that yesterday.
	Karl was basically proposing the idea and then I was kind of a bit lukewarm on it until I saw Rishi Sunak stood outside where they built the Titanic after having one of the worst campaigns in history and the first thing a journalist asks is, so is your campaign a sinking ship?
	Like, any sort of spin doctor, anyone with any political knowledge whatsoever would say, maybe if you're not doing so well, don't go to a place where they built a ship that's famous for sinking.
	I don't know, I just have the impression that they want to lose.
	That's my impression.
	Very gentle baton pass to Keir Starmer, isn't it?
	I can't believe that he doesn't have any communication strategies telling him don't go out in the rain.
	Have someone with an umbrella by your side.
	Or have an umbrella on the podium.
	Or just talk inside down in street number 10.
	Announcing the election looking like a drowned rat isn't projecting to the world that you're a powerful man.
	He looked like a schoolboy who'd been caught in the rain on his walk home.
	That's not who I want as a leader of the country.
	Your next background's going to be a graveyard.
	Yeah, yeah.
	The optics, they're terrible optics.
	I mean, everyone knows he's physically a small man.
	So let's have a giant lectern to make him look like he's actually been photoshopped, to look even tinier.
	And give him a really, really big can of coke.
	I know he likes drinking it, but it'll be there with both hands.
	Put a Mentos inside and then you're going to have an explosion of the coke.
	Just one thing that popped into my mind.
	There was one time where he was doing a photo shoot somewhere or other and he was using a hammer.
	A little hammer.
	And he'd been told to use the flat side of the hammer.
	Right, and it looked weird, it looked like you don't know how to use a hammer properly.
	If you had any concept of optics, you would say to the person who just told you that, go, well, I'm not going to do that because there's cameras around, and it would look like I don't know how to use it, I would look like a complete idiot.
	So even though you may be right, that's technically the way to do it, I'm just not going to do that, because optics, because I'm a professional politician.
	Got no, seemingly, no concept of all these things.
	Yeah, like, let's do a photo shoot at the Titanic.
	It's not just obviously one of the most famous sunken ships of all time, but there's also the adage of, you know, the band playing on the Titanic, or rearranging the deck chairs on the sinking Titanic.
	All those things!
	Don't associate yourself with the Titanic, Rishi, unless it is your goal to tank them even further.
	Now, I don't think that's necessarily happening, but it feels like that.
	It feels like his handlers, whoever they are, have said to him, right, you're done.
	We cooed Boris, and then we cooed Liz Trust to clear a path for you, because you're our puppet.
	You're our, like, WEF puppet or whatever.
	We've cleared a path for you.
	So there you go.
	Here's the keys to number 10.
	But now we're done with you.
	We're switching our alliance to Starmer or whatever.
	We've got Tony behind the scenes to control Starmer correctly.
	So we're done with you.
	Just call an election and get it out of the way.
	And if anything, make sure you lose big time because we've switched our alliance.
	It happens, Murdoch, famously.
	Like, it's not even a secret or anything.
	Murdoch, in years gone by, owns a whole bunch of newspapers in Britain, will openly say, I'm switching my allegiance, I'm going to make all my editors stop backing the Tories and start backing Labour, or vice versa.
	He did it with Tony Blair, didn't he?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, like some of the nominally right-leaning newspapers would always try and back Thatcher and John Major, and literally on one day they're like, no, we're gunning for tone now.
	And they will do it.
	So if Rishi's handlers...
	It's not completely insane that they've done that.
	I mean, what was... Obama went to number 10, do you remember that, a few weeks ago?
	Maybe he was delivering the message, saying, you know, you're done.
	You know, you're done.
	Big Mike says it's over.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Messages come down from on high, i.e.
	Big Mike, that you're done.
	One of the things is that it seems that the Tories haven't even selected Dozens, maybe a hundred, maybe more MPs to stand in because in Britain the big parties will stand in every single constituency.
	So the fact that Rishi called this election seems to have taken his own party by surprise.
	It's either that, or another alternative is that they can't actually raise the money to run candidates in every seat.
	It is possible, I haven't looked at the financing, but Normally the barrier to running in every constituency for a smaller party is actually financing it.
	Right.
	Yeah, I don't think that's the case, just because at least Tory and Labour, although they haven't got bags of money, they will have enough money It's not like they're a small party, a really small party, that has to sort of drum up enough, is it 500 pounds, I think, to stand your deposit?
	Something like that, yeah.
	Or you lose your deposit.
	They've got enough money for that.
	I don't think it's about money.
	I don't even think it's about that there's literally not enough people, not enough Tory faithful in the country that are prepared to be a parliamentary candidate.
	There are only 300 Tory voters left.
	I think they're just badly organised and the party apparatus didn't know Rishi was going to do this.
	And so, well, here you go, they say this, who is that?
	What organisation is this?
	Oh, the Telegraph.
	The Telegraph say there's 150 candidates.
	So that's, that's crazy.
	I've never heard of such a thing.
	That's unprecedented.
	150, that's loads.
	You should have them all ready and set up.
	Long before, because everyone knew there was going to be an election this year at some point, they should have none or almost none still waiting.
	150 is loads!
	And there's only a couple of weeks left until they can actually get them in, right?
	Yeah, so it's like, what, five or six weeks until the election itself, but they've only got about two weeks until you have to register.
	So two weeks is not, well it's a tiny amount of time to get this done.
	If you go to the next link, So the Spectator reckon it's more like 160 seats.
	Next link.
	The Independent say it's closer to 200.
	So whatever it is, that's loads and it's crazy.
	It's sort of crazy.
	Again, it suggests they're deliberately buggering up, almost.
	Again, I don't think it is.
	If I really had to put money, because I've got no real insight into this, I wouldn't think they are deliberately doing it.
	I don't think Rishi has got orders from somewhere and saying, right, what can I do to Screw the Tory party over as hard as possible.
	Oh I know, I won't tell any of the apparatus what's going on and I'll call an election and we've still got dozens or maybe even a hundred or two hundred seats not filled.
	That will screw them, I'll do that.
	I don't think that's what's happening.
	But it might be, but whatever, it's just weird.
	It's unprecedented, this as well, isn't it?
	To call an election and you don't even have the candidates ready yet.
	You would think that because they have until around early November to call an election, I think, as in the actual election date.
	It suggests panic as well, because was it that the general elections would be held next year?
	What's this, sorry?
	Was that not the original plan?
	No, that's what I just said.
	I think the latest it could have been called, I think, I might be wrong, was November.
	That's right, yeah.
	Something like that.
	And the usual thinking is that you hold on to power for as long as you can, certainly if you're sort of set to lose.
	Exactly, yeah, that's what I wanted to say, that they seem to be, the Labour Party seems to be ahead in the polls, so when you have an X amount of months, You try to take advantage of them to shorten the gap.
	Yeah, right.
	Because, okay, it's weird if they expect they're going to win this, but at least an honorable, a noble loss is better than a landslide loss.
	I think the most likely thing here is that they've accepted that they're going to lose this election, that they don't stand a chance, and it's better to sort of get it out of the way and contest the next one afterwards.
	That's my sort of best guess.
	Well it might be, yeah, like a damage limitation calculation, that if we leave it to November we're going to lose even harder than if we do it now.
	We're going to lose either way, but in November we'll lose even harder.
	Maybe that's the calculation, but I mean it could well be.
	But there's this thing that most governments don't give up power sooner than they need to.
	Through time, I mean.
	Most people, most governments, if you can hold on to power, if you can hold on to it for your fingernails for an extra day, they usually do.
	But obviously that's not the calculation Rishi and his team have gone with.
	But you talked about polling, if you mentioned polling, there's a BBC link there about polling.
	Now, if you scroll down a little bit, They've got an amalgam of all sorts of different polls and the Tories are somewhere between, if you see there, somewhere between 18 and 28 percent they're polling at.
	Some sort of average of 23.
	Now, If we were to give it, I've looked around and seen various takes on this from all over the place, from Tory faithful through to hardline lefties who are wishing we got everything crossed that the Tories failed as hard as possible.
	In the worst case scenario, if they were polling in reality at 18% and if that translated into the worst amount of actual seats won on the strength of that, It could be as low as three seats.
	So it's not zero seats, but three seats.
	Now, that is sort of wishful thinking.
	That's the absolute, absolute best case scenario.
	Absolutely possible is like three seats.
	They've got at least three seats that kind of whatever happens are safe enough that they will retain them.
	In reality, a lot of the polls and a lot of the bookies and things, because you can actually rely on bookies quite well, what the bookies say is usually quite accurate on these things.
	Anyway, it looks like they'll maybe win a hundred seats, perhaps a little under a hundred seats.
	So they'll still win dozens of seats.
	665 isn't it?
	It's in that ballpark, yeah.
	So they'll still win dozens and dozens of seats, maybe as many as a hundred seats.
	So it's not like zero seats, it's not three seats, but they're going to lose and they're going to lose big.
	It's 650 sorry, I don't know where I got 65 from.
	So to have merely 100 seats for the Parliamentary Conservative Party is going from a majority of 80.
	So I want to talk a little bit about the swing And if anyone's not that familiar, I think a lot of our audience are politically savvy and they know what's meant by a swing.
	But that's sort of the difference, if you like, between going from a majority of 80 to how much the majority of the new government, Labour, is going to be.
	And you get swing, the swing, with inverted commas, within each seat.
	But you can also look at the statistics for a national swing.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	So we may be set for one of the biggest swings away from the Tories in recent times, in well over 100 years.
	So the biggest swing in recent times was in 1931.
	Where there's a swing of about 14, 14.4% from Labour, a Labour government.
	And Labour wasn't even that old at that point.
	The Labour Party and the Labour movement is... Used to be the Liberals and the Tories didn't it?
	Or the Conservatives?
	There was the old Liberal Party, yeah, which is not the same as the Lib Dems exactly, or not really at all.
	Yeah, people like Lloyd George were famously Liberals.
	And so the Labour Party has only been around since the early 20th century and they'd been in government Um, but the politics of the 20s, the late 20s, was very tumultuous.
	I mean, there was the, the great, um, the great general strike of like, what was that, 1925 or 6?
	Uh, where sort of the whole country was ground to a halt.
	For a while.
	And we came off the gold standard in 1930 and 1931.
	There was the Wall Street crash of 29 and the Depression hit hard.
	It hit Britain quite hard.
	And so anyway, in the late 20s and the very early 30s, politics was thrown up in the air to a massive extent.
	Well, it's one of the all time swings.
	And they made a new coalition government because it just looked like the Labour government was completely failing or they couldn't decide on a policy of how to deal with the Wall Street crash and the depression.
	So the Labour Party sort of imploded or fractured and they made a coalition and there was just a massive swing from Labour to that new government.
	Also in 1945, if anyone doesn't know, straight after the war, The war.
	People completely rejected the Conservative Party at that point, because they were the party, it's not, sort of not their fault, you know, in some senses, because, you know, Chamberlain tried everything he could not to go to war in 39, but nonetheless they were the government that got us into the war, Churchill had been in power, Tory Prime Minister, all throughout the war, and although he'd, in inverted commas, won the war, people just wanted a change.
	Massively.
	So there was a... he totally lost in 1945.
	There was an election called in 1945, right after the war.
	Right after the war, actually.
	When you can see one of those... I can't remember if it's York or Potsdam.
	I think Potsdam.
	Churchill's, like, removed in the middle of that.
	You get Clement Attlee instead.
	So, yeah, there was a massive swing in 1945 to the tune of about 11.8% from Conservative to Labour.
	And the other giant swing in recent times was 1997, and I'm old enough to remember that.
	That was a swing of about 10.2% and that was massive.
	John Major at that point was clinging on with, he was either in a minority government or he had no majority, or he had a majority of one or something like that.
	So it was an extremely weak government in parliamentary terms, in numbers, in the House.
	And it went from that to Tony having a massive majority.
	And so that was a big swing there.
	It could be that we'll see a swing here of, you know, in the ballpark of those numbers.
	Maybe more than 14.4%, sort of an all-time, or certainly in recent history, all-time biggest swing.
	I'd love to see it.
	Really would love to see it.
	I'd love to see the Conservative Party mortally wounded.
	You know really really broken if not for all time for a generation or more that would be sweet to see that and it's on the cards we'll see what happens on the night because you never know it's a cliche like football you know it's a game of two halves until the final whistle goes you never know what's going to happen anything could happen but it does look like it's on the cards it'll be this giant collapse of the Parliamentary Conservative Party.
	It'd be great.
	No, no, I just wanted to say I really like your pragmatic take.
	It's like zero seat is a bit idealistic, but three seats is OK.
	Yeah.
	Within the purview of possibility.
	I'll take three seats.
	I'll take it.
	Yeah.
	So, I mean, apart from anything else, apart from just all the polling looking like it's going to be a bloodbath, metaphorically, metaphorically speaking.
	It's going to be a bloodbath at the ballot box for them.
	On top of that, a lot of current MPs obviously know the way the winds are blowing and they're jumping ship.
	Now that's not uncommon as well, when it looks like your party's going to lose, you sort of defect or you just stand down as a professional politician and move on to the next part of your career.
	That's not uncommon.
	But this is happening on Quite a scale, again an unprecedented scale, certainly in my lifetime not known anything close to this.
	Just the other day we had Michael Gove, one of the architects really.
	He's the sort of one of the the sort of evil people behind the scenes that pull a lot of strings isn't he?
	Hob, yeah, a pipsqueak of a man.
	They're Watson's words not mine.
	Oh yeah, if it wasn't for him we wouldn't have even have had Theresa May.
	Boris Johnson would have got in and got Brexit done a lot earlier.
	It was only his leadership trying to become leader himself which meant Boris didn't win at that point and loads of other things he's done which has just led to Conservative Fracturing and all sorts of problems and all sorts of weird policies we've had to put up with.
	And there's one thing that puts Michael Gove in focus for me is when Greta first came on the scene, literally was like out of nowhere, suddenly Greta's a media personality.
	And she did a speech, I think in Portcullis House or in Parliament, basically.
	And there's a picture of him like looking up to her like in awe, like, Like literally with like a glazed expression on his face, like listening to it.
	It's like, it's just a puppet of God knows who!
	Right?
	Michael Gove is just a disgusting person.
	Well, he has decided that he's not going to bother standing anymore.
	Hooray!
	He's going to stand down as an MP or go back to being a journalist or whatever.
	But the list is huge.
	If you can go to that last link I've got there.
	Oh, sorry, you're already on it.
	If you scroll down, there's just a list of all these MPs and there's like 80 of them. 80!
	That's mad.
	Usually you might have a handful.
	Two or three.
	If it's looking particularly bad, maybe ten or something in that ballpark.
	Eighty of them.
	And a lot of them are big beasts.
	A lot of them are big, big names.
	Chris Skidmore used to be a minister.
	Sajid Javid, Matt Hancock.
	All these people, if anyone doesn't know, isn't familiar with our politics.
	These are all people that have been in government, been senior secretaries of state and things.
	Sajid Javid, Matt Hancock.
	Can you scroll down, whoever's got the mouse?
	Scroll down on my document here.
	Matt Hancock.
	Dominic Raab used to be Deputy Prime Minister.
	Ben Wallace, Defence.
	Chris Grayling, Crozi Kartang, was Liz Truss's, what was he, Chancellor for the Exchequer.
	Theresa May, an ex-PM, just not bothering anymore.
	Now done, I'll walk away from this, thanks.
	Nadim Zahawi, he was a big hitter.
	Big in the Covid times, wasn't he?
	Yeah, Secretary of State, one of Her Majesty's Secretary of State.
	The Deputy Speaker, Eleanor, what is it?
	Land.
	Land, Dame Eleanor Land, the Deputy Speaker.
	Michael Ellis used to be the Attorney General.
	John Redwood, an old staple, been around for yonks.
	Andrea Leadsom had a leadership contender.
	Yes, she tried to compete with Rishi and Liz Trust, didn't she?
	A lot of the names I just mentioned there, among 80, they were stalwarts of the conservative machine, of the political establishment.
	They're all just walking away.
	These are all sort of front benches, the ministers in government, to see them all going sort of Suggest that they know a bloodbath is coming.
	What is interesting here though is to ask ourselves, what kind of rhetoric are the people who will be asked to step in going to communicate?
	I mean, what are they going to say?
	What rhetoric are they going to use in order to campaign for gaining a seat?
	Yeah.
	I mean, you have all these A-listers, conservative A-listers just fleeing.
	So, for example, whoever it is, the Tory candidate who steps in for Theresa May in that constituency.
	Yeah, vote for me, because even an ex-Prime Minister doesn't want to do this anymore, but still vote for me and our party.
	Yeah, I know, I know.
	Yeah.
	I mean, vote for me to do what we are not doing for 12 years.
	I mean, all you can imagine what it implies or infers is that their morale in the party is a absolute rock bottom.
	I mean, it's lovely, isn't it?
	It's absolutely lovely to see.
	Yeah, they're sort of, they know the writing's on the wall and it's kind of obvious.
	But again, I mean, I've said it a few times now, but it's unprecedented.
	I've not learned anything like it.
	I think on the night when it comes to it, We will see something that will, I think, if I was going to put some money on it, it will surpass the Tony Blair thing.
	I agree with that.
	And throw on top of that, that no one really likes Farmer.
	No one's loving Labour.
	The vast majority of our country are not dying for Labour.
	Because that is one thing I do remember with the Tony Blair years.
	He had that thing like Obama, where people bought the narrative that it's a bright new hope.
	That a vote against Tony, or Obama, was like a vote against hope.
	Almost.
	That everyone needs a change, everyone wants a change, and this is our guy.
	You remember.
	What Tony Blair didn't put in his manifesto speeches is that change is that you'll no longer be able to buy a house and you'll no longer see English people on the streets.
	And we'll make freedom of expression and speech illegal.
	Yeah.
	That's what everyone was hoping for.
	But I'm saying Starmer hasn't got that and they're still going to trounce them.
	There is a very intimidating video that I don't know if we could have of Starmer punching a boxing bag.
	I don't know if that would change people's minds.
	Starmer could do anything at this point.
	He's a shoo-in for number 10.
	He can sort of do anything.
	He can fall over on the beach in front of cameras.
	He can eat a bacon sandwich and look appalled whilst doing so.
	And he'll still win.
	He sort of can't lose at this point.
	That's what all the polls are suggesting.
	There's not that much time left.
	For him to destroy his own party and reputation.
	He's going to be the next Prime Minister almost certainly.
	And well it just looks like the Tories are crumbling.
	Absolutely crumbling.
	And remember they had an 80 See, majority, that's strong.
	That's a strong government.
	A majority of 80.
	Boris got that majority because Corbyn, because no one wanted Corbyn.
	No one wants an actual old-school 1970s Marxist, pro-IRA Marxist.
	No one wants that, right?
	So Boris got himself an 80-seat majority.
	That's strong.
	That's real strong.
	Even if the swing isn't quite as much as 10, 11, 14%, it will still be one of the all-time collapses.
	Anyway, I realise I'm running out of time, so I'll start wrapping up or leave it there.
	But just to say, I think people like us in our circles, who have got our fingers crossed for zero seats, It's going to be bad for them.
	It is going to be bad.
	And well, I'll get a bottle of champagne for it.
	Right.
	We have some good news.
	A social justice warrior can find a job.
	We're talking about David Austin Walsh, and he has been in the center of a particular scandal with, I mean, a small scandal with his How should I say it?
	Sorry, his... Employment status?
	His employment status, but also his depression posting.
	Yeah, sorry.
	Right, so... He's having a pity party for himself.
	Yeah, he did, but... And he's invited.
	He did, and some people took some pictures, because as you see, his account here is protected, and they have gone viral.
	All sorts of people are talking about them, and we're going to show you, and it's going to be Very delightful, because essentially you'll see that he gets precisely the taste of his own medicine.
	And this says a lot about people in academia, especially who are pushing this narrative of anti-white, of white supremacy as being the central core of all Western institutions.
	At some point they're going to be treated as white people.
	Yep.
	He should have read the writings on the wall.
	Because allies get the noose like everyone else.
	Yeah, it's like he would get within quotation marks the Bukharin treatment.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	So like, if anyone doesn't get that reference, even the old Bolsheviks, Stalin got rid of all the old Bolsheviks.
	Yeah, within quotation marks, of course.
	We have a video here from YouTube that we can play where you can see him being concerned about not finding a job at the presentation of his new book.
	Let us watch.
	So that's just sort of a brief thumbnail sketch of my book.
	I do want to thank everybody here for coming out to this talk today.
	Some of you know I struck out yet again on the job market.
	I just heard that there was a job that I was a finalist for that I did not get over the weekend.
	So it's been rough.
	It's been difficult.
	And frankly, it's been a little bit, it sort of robbed this moment of some of the joy it otherwise might have had.
	But now that I'm standing here in front of you, I don't actually feel that way.
	I think that I'm really, really touched that you all have come out and are all interested in my scholarship.
	So you see him here, he was presenting four weeks ago and he was a finalist for a job and he didn't take it.
	And he was very bitter, that's understandable, and he was talking about it in front of people.
	And he said that he was very optimistic.
	Now this did not age well.
	Let us see some of the things that he's talking about in order to get an idea of the profile of the rhetoric he is putting forward.
	Can I just ask?
	Of course.
	So, wait, is he a journalist?
	Is he an author or is he a historian?
	I thought you said somewhere he's a Yale historian?
	Yes, he's doing a postdoc and he has published a book He recalled taking America back, the conservative movement and the far-right, and he's essentially saying that there is a mainstream conservative movement of the U.S.
	that is intertwined with the far-right for nearly a century.
	And both were born out of a right-wing popular front, linking racists, anti-Semites, and fascists in a broad coalition opposed to socialism, communism, and New Deal liberalism.
	Now, one thing to say, because I haven't read the book, but in my mind, you know, we have a lot of people from the US who are opposed to all these things, not because they are racist, anti-Semites or fascist, but because they're anti-government.
	So, when people are routinely, from the US, saying that, branding almost everything communist and socialist, and especially when they're talking about New Deal and stuff, to my mind, they have this idea.
	And I will say, there's a very funny t-shirt that Rothbardians are selling, showing Marx, and it writes, at least he wasn't a Keynesian.
	You know, so to my mind, these people are basically having this idea.
	But he is trying to say that the conservative movement, the mainstream conservative movement, he isn't talking about French conservatism.
	He's talking about the mainstream conservative movement in the US for the last 100 years.
	And he's saying that it is essentially interlinked with the far right.
	He's talking a lot about William F. Buckley, his Talking a lot about him and he says that he had links with anti-semitism and fascism and stuff like that So you can get an idea be careful about calling out William Buckley because he'll suck you right in the goddamn face Have you seen that clip where he says that to Gore Vidal?
	It's the campest thing I've ever heard.
	Yeah, it's not that scary, is it, as a threat?
	But yeah, you can say about America, as you can say about Britain, you can just broadly make the statement, we're not a socialist country.
	We have never been a socialist country.
	We've sort of rejected it over and over and over again.
	Have you ever heard of Huey Long?
	There's a politician in America in the 30s called Huey Long, down in the south, who was sort of a left-wing populist.
	He was assassinated.
	America, capitalism is at odds with a command economy or a centralized controlled economy, right?
	So America is not left-leaning.
	It's talking about the mainstream conservatives.
	It's just talking about normal people that want to be just left to grill.
	They just want to raise a family and have enough money to have a car and a chicken in every pot.
	Yeah, but you could definitely say though that the state right now is incredibly centralised and has turned its back to traditional principles of minimum government.
	Sure, yeah.
	Well, there hasn't really been that much reduction in the size of the government for a very long time.
	No, a massive expansion!
	Even, you know, Reagan promised to cut the government and expanded it massively in the 80s, right?
	And it's been growing ever since.
	George Bush expanded it massively, Obama expanded it massively.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, to give you an extra idea of the profile of David Austin Walsh, he is contributing also articles at New York Time, and I'm going to show you just an essay.
	Here, he titles it, Elon Musk has crossed the line.
	A consistent boost of far-right and anti-Semitic accounts on Twitter, Elon Musk is now melding a sense of victimhood with the most toxic elements of the right.
	So, again, the whole Twitter is a far-right Space rhetoric yet again.
	Now, we have here the funny thing starts here.
	We have Noah Smith saying, absolutely unbelievable.
	Today was the day that David Austin Walsh, one of Twitter's premier leftists, complained that he can't get a job because he's discriminated against for being a white man.
	And you can see him there in his protected account he has written, but I'm 35 years old, I'm four plus years post PhD, and quite frankly, I'm also a white dude.
	Combine those factors together and I'm for all intents and purposes unemployable as a 20th century American historian.
	Let's see, because he has way more into it.
	And he also doubled down in his defense of the people who sort of not progressing him.
	He says here, I mean, I applied to something like 40 jobs this year, all but four of them were African American and or race ethnicity position.
	And despite my work explicitly being about white supremacy, I stand no chance of being hired for these positions.
	I mean, just focusing on white supremacy, it doesn't make you an African-American, even if you're white.
	If you're white, it doesn't make you.
	So when you see race-specific positions, perhaps you shouldn't apply for them.
	And also you shouldn't lament when your whole rhetoric and your whole message is basically social justice and blaming and saying that there should be a affirmative action.
	Just don't lament.
	You want this for every other white person?
	Don't lament when it bites you in the bottom.
	It's sweet.
	Because part of the paradigm is their paradigm.
	sort of the Robin DiAngelo type paradigm or that sort of thing is that as a white person you need to be quiet.
	Yeah.
	No, you don't speak.
	What you have to say has got no credit.
	No, these spaces need to be for people of colour.
	Yeah.
	Like how could you promote that endlessly and then be surprised that you as a white person are falling foul of it?
	I don't know, but he says here, and this is very funny here, because the whole social justice rhetoric is not about individual merit, it's about the group you belong to.
	And here he is essentially appealing to the idea of individual merit.
	He says, I just published an academic book that is getting plaudits.
	I've written numerous peer-reviewed articles.
	I've written for the New York Times.
	I'm a talented teacher and my classes have been very popular at every university I've taught at.
	This doesn't sound very leftist.
	I think you should progress and you shouldn't use the distinction between I and mine and thine.
	That's not particularly leftist.
	He says, hell, I had a kid here at Yale try to enroll in my class this past semester because he heard through word of mouth that my class at UVA was really good.
	So, he wants to be judged on individual merit, but he is communicating a philosophy that is explicitly anti-meritocratic and says, look only at color.
	Also, I noticed he had, what was it, in the high 30s, thousand followers.
	It's got five likes on that tweet.
	Yeah.
	But it's interesting, how would they protect that the count gets so many followers?
	Well I imagine he protected it after there was lots of backlash, that's normally what happens, leftists can't take the heat.
	So even the number of followers, it had 700, 800 views and 5 likes?
	So he had a clash with Richard Hanania some time ago, and you'll see here that Richard Hanania is trying to sort of express his support eventually, which is a bit cringe, but let us see some of the fun stuff here.
	So he says here, David Austin Walsh said, sips coffee.
	My absolute favorite part of the Hanania expose are all of the no comment responses from all the institutions he's written for, spoken at, worked for.
	And Richard Hanania has amassed here a lot of the no comment replies from that account.
	So that's interesting.
	Sorry, just let me get it straight.
	Who's Richard Hanany?
	I've heard the name, I don't even know... I've heard the name, but I don't know who he is.
	Is he another lefty?
	Well, supposedly not, but if you hover over his name, Stelios, it'll show you what institutions he's associated with.
	Yes.
	No, I've heard the expression Hanania posting.
	So he's an academic in inverted commas, is that right?
	Yes, but... No?
	I don't know.
	Some people say he's right-wing, a lot of right-wing people saying that he isn't particularly right-wing.
	Okay, okay.
	It's a weird case.
	So it says here, academic who researches the right realizes he can't get a job because he's a white male.
	He complains, gets laughed at by a woman at Yale.
	He accuses her of punching down at him.
	Thinking lack of employment makes up for his race and sex.
	Talk about a teachable moment.
	And we have here some really interesting, really interesting tweets here.
	So she says, So, truly, nobody like you ever learns this type of job.
	I mean, I have been told this point-blank by people on search committees.
	That would explain the dirt of 30-something-year-old white men in the field.
	Thank you.
	He responds, in 20th century US history, with tenure-track jobs, who specifically are you talking about?
	I mean, I'm sorry, you have a tenure-track job.
	I do not.
	Let's be very clear about the relative power dynamic here.
	So basically he noticed, he started to notice.
	Yeah, he started noticing.
	And she replies to him, also I noticed you deleted your tweets, so I'm just adding them here in case anyone wants context.
	He responds, I think that as a tenure track professor at an R1, this is an extremely bad look for you to be punching down like this.
	She responds, you can keep telling yourself how much more powerful I am than you are because of my job, But it doesn't make it true, David.
	Anyway, you see here, there's a lot of salty remarks.
	He says, you are more powerful than I am, and it's because of your job.
	That's how the industry works.
	All I'm asking at this point, frankly, is just to acknowledge that.
	And she writes, you wrote a book about the far right and whiteness and you believe that someone is the only power signifier that matters?
	Now, David.
	Anyway, so you know, you see, it's very, it's very salty here.
	He also writes, despite my work explicitly being about white supremacy, he's also told to be resentful.
	So, you see, it's a mess.
	And here it comes where, you know, people are making some really interesting comments.
	We have here Frank de Skachen.
	He says, even with his career destroyed by anti-white discrimination, David Austin Walsh won't take part in projects to dismantle it.
	Other races fight discrimination against them, real or imagined, but whites, like David, can't imagine fighting for themselves.
	To them, that's racism.
	And here there's another tweet.
	It's the capital W for whites as well.
	I like that.
	Yeah.
	You shouldn't be doing it for anything.
	It's grammatically incorrect.
	Yeah.
	And apparently he was contacted by Richard Hanania, Christopher Ruffo, Fox News, and from Wall Street Journal to talk about DEI.
	And he says, no, I will not be part of the project.
	So he is with a foot in academia.
	He doesn't want to burn bridges.
	The point is that he has erected the whole philosophy that says that bridges to people of his group should be massively burned.
	So, that's the issue.
	Read the writings on the wall.
	Dave Polanski says here, this is, in a way, far worse than the original thread.
	What did he do afterwards?
	He took it all back.
	He didn't say, that's my stance, I stand by it.
	He actually apologized, and he said, I want to apologize for that thread, which was a bad idea and came from a place of pain, anger, and frustration.
	It was fundamentally a breach of solidarity on my part.
	To whom?
	To whom?
	We all know that history in particular and the humanities in general are dying.
	Who has killed the humanities, if not the left, sorry, and the social justice movement?
	We all know that the university itself is a profoundly unequal and unfair institution, and we had an object reminder of that.
	With that brutal suppression of the campus protests over the past month, we all know that the academy is random, cruel, and chaotic, and we all know the reasons why.
	Austerity, corporatization, right-wing assaults, and higher education.
	I'd never heard of this guy until today.
	Yeah, same.
	But my take on this is, um, what a pussy.
	Like, what a child.
	I want to apologise for you.
	Who are you apologising to?
	And for what?
	Just, what a child.
	Just grow up.
	Just get some balls.
	But it was a bad idea.
	Start being a man in the real world.
	Who are these people?
	It's a breach of solidarity, can't you see?
	The funny thing is, implicit in all of this, is that meritocracy favours white people.
	That's basically what he's having to roll back, is that statement, that I'm a white guy, I can't find a job even though I've got all of these great qualifications and other people can with less.
	This annoys me.
	But then he's rolling that back.
	He's pointing out what these right-wingers that he wrote the book about have been pointing out for ages.
	This is very widespread in academia.
	No, I can tell.
	I mean, it's just most people who want to get a job, they echo this rhetoric.
	And I remember just sitting in the very beginning of my PhD, there was someone who was a student syndicalist or something.
	I think now he has a position, by the way, who was saying that too bad we don't have a lot of people from these marginalized communities.
	Listen, are you willing to suffer the consequences of your own doctrine?
	Are you willing to just part with your position?
	and never apply again so people from marginalized communities have more chances of getting it.
	He says no, no, it's not that simple.
	So basically what this is saying, and this is really weird, and I will say this, academia is full of white people who hate white people.
	It is.
	That's weird.
	And they are constantly thinking that somehow they are going to be the exception to the universal rule that they are putting forward.
	Somehow, because they atone for their whiteness, they will be spared by the social justice philosophy that they have been pushing forward for decades.
	If I'm a staunch enough ally, if I ally hard enough, it won't affect me.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I mean, if I could say to this David fella, Um, just learn something else.
	Learn to code.
	Think about doing something else.
	Um, it's not going to happen for you, it doesn't look like.
	There are already, you know, the supply and demand of white people who hate themselves.
	We've got enough of them.
	There's a surplus.
	If anything, we need fewer.
	White people.
	Yeah, I mean, I got this years ago, right?
	I wanted to be a novelist in my 20s, late 20s, early 30s.
	I dreamed, or ever since I was in my teenage years, dreamed of being a novelist.
	It became clear after I'd written a few novels and tried to get them published, tried to get an agent, that it seemed that I hit a brick wall where it's like, yeah, we sort of don't want a young-ish, White guy writing stories about how brilliant like historical theme novels and things about how brilliant western civilization is or the west is and things like that and writing characters that are strong and powerful dudes.
	Yeah we don't want that.
	We don't want you.
	It became very clear.
	Yeah.
	And so at some point, it got through and I'm like, OK, well, I'm probably not going to be a novelist, not in this phase of my life, not writing this sort of stuff.
	That's not going to happen for me.
	I'll be very, very lucky if it did.
	Extremely lucky.
	I'm certainly not going to win any prizes or anything like that.
	That's just not on the cards.
	So think about something else.
	Think about doing something else.
	David Walsh.
	I mean, maybe just Have a think about doing something else with your life.
	My prediction is that he is going to have a career as a writer because people love the message that he is pushing forward.
	If he bitches and moans hard enough about it, maybe someone will have pity on him.
	I guess he will find...
	He will find a position in doing stuff like that.
	But anyway, Christopher Rufo is saying, this is beautiful.
	A DEI supporter becomes so frustrated with the reality of DEI that he blurts out the truth, then immediately apologizes and blames the right.
	This is the archetype of the white male ally, a figure of supreme cowardice and self-deception.
	A coward, a coward of a man.
	It's pretty much what we've been saying.
	Yeah.
	But also it's the, the, the blaming the right is part of the projection of the left.
	The projection tactic is, at all, when in doubt, blame the right.
	When the left is doing imperialism, they just call it anti-imperialism.
	It's always the right's fault.
	So, for him, the demise of academia is a right-wing phenomenon, has nothing to do with positions being, or people being leftists, has nothing to do with the DEI initiatives, all of it is just somehow To be blamed to the right.
	So there's just... Madness.
	This is basically virtue singling.
	Anyone with two brain cells can understand.
	He is just virtue singling to the people who may have told him, well, if you apply another time, maybe we'll give you the job.
	That's why he's blaming the right.
	And he must be experiencing or have experienced the cognitive dissonance of what you just said.
	He must.
	Well, he clearly did.
	Yeah.
	Clearly in his mind he does know what the deal is, what is actually going on.
	He must know reality actually and has chosen to ignore it and do one of those faux apologies and just keep playing the game.
	And we have a last choice here.
	David Austin Walsh has spent studying the right, but he has paid no attention to the left.
	If he did, he would never have apologized.
	An apology in these circles is like confessing before being executed.
	What does he think will happen to him now?
	Well, I don't know, Daniel.
	But I think that basically somehow he will find a way to go through to get to the next stage because people love the message that he is pushing forward.
	But I think that this is a persistent tactic of left-wing intellectuals.
	They constantly try to name everything far right.
	Basically, it's the horseshoe theory.
	They never engage in self-criticism.
	He can't find a job.
	Despite his individual merits that he's talking about, I don't know if he actually possesses them, but according to himself, in his mind, he can find a job despite his individual merits, and he just never thinks to blame the philosophy he's advocating for years, according to which individual merit isn't a matter that individuals deserve.
	To be rewarded for.
	That's the whole philosophy of social justice.
	There's no dessert for action.
	If people have it good, they were lucky.
	If people have it bad, they were unfortunate.
	There's no responsibility.
	All of it is just... boils down to chance.
	There's no such thing as deserving the good fruits of your labor.
	So that's the thing with the left.
	They're basically trying to constantly do a horseshoe theory while virtue signaling and prevent people from showing that they are the actual totalitarians and authoritarians here, and they are the ones who are silencing free speech, and they are the ones behind the deep state.
	How servile of him to apologise like that.
	What a cretin.
	What will happen to him now?
	Well, he'll be used as a footstool intellectually for the rest of his career.
	That's what will happen to him now, at best.
	It's like going into prison and not fighting.
	Yeah, you're going to be someone's bitch then for the rest of your term.
	That's what's going to happen.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	I think we should go to the video comments.
	Just to reiterate on my last video, when the Labour Party won a historic victory in my state, everyone said the Labour Party would be forced to reform.
	But there was a cabal of party members behind the scenes that controlled pre-selections, ensuring the next round of MPs will be more of the same.
	There will be an inevitable swing back to next election, and this will be used as a way to back up the reform lie.
	The lesson to take away is once the Tories lose, either drive root and branch reform, or start a new party.
	So it's an Aussie, I'll take it.
	Yeah, a little bit what I was saying, you know, get rid of the gatekeeping fake right types, then even if that leads to real leftists, then get rid of them.
	Then, as I say, new parties into sort of through the looking glass into a new world where smaller new parties or even independents will actually have a shot, hopefully, fingers crossed.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So I saw Harry on the Proper Horror Show channel talking about how fictional tales can have profound effects on the real world.
	And this is always an issue I see with liberals where they like defend the leftist media saying, it's just a fictional story brah, why do you care about it so much?
	Which I always find curious because they're usually atheist anti-christian folk and that kind of contradicts their stance.
	I think Harry's right here.
	Obviously, literature is important.
	And why would we have all the DEI stuff in publishing houses if it weren't?
	If literature had no bearing on reality, people wouldn't be interested in literature because they'd have no frame of reference to be interested in it.
	So, of course it is.
	It's illogical to suggest otherwise, right?
	Let's go to the next one.
	I'm leaving.
	I decided to abandon my notice last week.
	Well, on that note, it's time to end the show.
	So, goodbye.
	Fly, you fools.
	No!
	No!
	This is implying he's going to come back better than ever.
	Callum the White.
	Call him the white.
	Right.
	Great, let's go to the next one.
	Good afternoon Little Cedars.
	A couple quick things I'd like to share with you today.
	First one being, audiophile for episode 33 of Book Club's Not Working.
	And second one being, this guy's music video.
	Sorry, just music.
	It's pretty good.
	I enjoyed it.
	We'll pass it on.
	Who is that from?
	Who's this guy?
	That was... Seems like a real fan.
	I can't see.
	I can't see.
	Daniel Crosby.
	Thanks, Daniel.
	Yeah, we'll mention that to someone in the office that that audio file's corrupt or whatever.
	Great.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Keep them out.
	An immigration game for five to eight-year-olds.
	You are one of these whores of black, brown and yellow figures, and the object is to gain unlawful access into the United Kingdom.
	One, two, three, four.
	Pick a card.
	You have smuggled yourself into the country on the back of a lorry.
	You get the job as a minicab driver.
	A terrorist cell is discovered in your local place of worship.
	You don't make any effort whatsoever to learn English.
	Final square.
	Congratulations.
	You have been given a luxury penthouse at the expense of the British taxpayer.
	End of the game.
	Well, that's not even comedy or satire anymore.
	Yeah, where's the satire?
	Great editing to bring up all of the articles as well.
	I think we have a last one?
	Yeah, but what's the proof?
	So, okay, we've got this woman who spends all her life training to fight, and we're gonna get Joe from the accounting department, who occasionally goes for a hike in the woods, and then we're gonna match and go, okay, yeah, maybe she'll thrash him.
	She looks extremely effective at fighting thin air.
	Where exactly in the video does it show her fight anyone?
	Basically, my money's on Joe.
	Yeah, a lot of it is also sort of performative and sort of dancing around.
	Sure, it's well rehearsed, but it's like a dance routine.
	It's like Aikido, right?
	It looks like it's fighting, but it's not.
	It's better than being a couch potato.
	That's true.
	But yeah, there's lots of things where you can look like you're really good at something and you're actually not.
	I've said it before about... That's when people play guitar and they're putting both sets of hands on the fretboard.
	I hate that.
	It's just like, yeah, that's relatively easy to do, actually.
	You're not really good at guitar.
	Just trilling.
	Right.
	I was just quickly going to say, there's things like, you can be really good on the driving range, but crap at 18 holes of golf.
	You can be really good at kick-ups, but in an 11-a-side football game, you're nothing.
	You can do loads of choreographed kicking in the air, but it doesn't mean you're any good at fighting.
	No, we have now some of the comments.
	Do we have some extra time to talk about other comments?
	We can, we can do it.
	Five minutes.
	Okay, okay, okay.
	Right, so we have the Wigan Survivalist.
	Say, Beau, your sailmanship on your last podcast got me to pre-order Islander No.
	1.
	I can't wait to bring it with me when I'm being conscripted.
	The Shadow Band.
	There's contraband in his footlocker.
	You're gonna have to do 50 push-ups for that.
	We have a donation from The Shadow Band.
	$20.
	Thank you.
	He writes, Beau, you should publish your novels online.
	Lots of people love novels about strong dudes fighting for Western civilization.
	Do you want to read the... Sure.
	So, well, give Bo a chance to reply first.
	Oh, yeah, I mean, I could have thought about that.
	Maybe.
	I don't know.
	Maybe.
	Yeah.
	They are just sitting there doing nothing.
	So, I'll think about it.
	So, for my segment, journalists face consequences.
	Sean487 donates $10.
	Thank you.
	And says they find high-paying jobs with their gender studies degrees with contracts in government.
	The reality is 80% of gender studies work within government with no relatable education in Canada.
	Right.
	And should we go have a comment from each?
	Sure.
	It says, from Tory Collapse, Lord Nereva, I angered a colleague at work because I said that all the major parties are the same.
	What she doesn't seem to understand is that I'm 24 and therefore will be shafted every way to Sunday by any party that claws their way to power.
	These people will watch the BBC and actually believe that the ballot box dictates the state of the country.
	Good riddance to the Tories, but don't expect major change just yet.
	I was meant to read a comment, wasn't I?
	You skipped over me, it threw me off.
	So let's have a look.
	Lord Nerevar, it's always catharsis when Gerno gets their Just Desserts, isn't it?
	Just getting firmly squashed back into their box.
	Delicious.
	Couldn't have put it better.
	Apologies for doing so.
	Do you want to read yet another one?
	No, it's okay.
	Um, should we cut to Beau?
	Yep.
	Oh, you'd have to scroll down to something.
	I've got no mouse.
	Would you like to read one for you?
	Go ahead.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	There's a person who's got the name Josh's Cameltoe.
	Very good.
	And they say, you could get it, oh no this is Stelios' segment anyway, but I read that just for the fun of it.
	North FC Zuma says, love a good political history lesson from Bo, have you considered maybe a brief overview of British history in epochs for those of us that were schooled in the UK in the last 15 years and only learnt about civil rights in America, World War II, slavery and literally nothing about British history?
	And last one, George Happ, anti-white academics like Walsh should be left to the fate of their own construction.
	The so-called right immediately offering him jobs is one of the reasons we are losing.
	Are there not enough white men who are struggling to help before reaching out to this clown?
	Well, one thing I would say just on that question about doing an overview on Epoxy, Yeah, because there's loads and loads and loads of content there about British history all over the place, but in lots and lots of detail.
	It hadn't really ever occurred to me to do one Epochs episode that's like a sweeping overview of everything from Caesar to Blair or something in an hour, an hour and a half.
	It's not a bad idea.
	I could do that.
	If anyone wants me to do that, I could do that.
	Super sweeping, fast moving, just touching some highlights.
	If people want that, I could do that.
	Yeah, I'd like that.
	Yeah, I could do that.
	Great.
	So, I hope you enjoyed it and see you tomorrow.

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