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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #925

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 925.
	For today, Wednesday the 29th of May 2024, I'm your host Connor, joined by Harry and Bo, and we'll be discussing the Boomers being bribed at the next election versus the foreigners that the Labour Party want to buy off, the influencers ruining Japan, and the Dems freaking out over Biden.
	We have a couple of announcements.
	The first is, of course, Islander is on sale now.
	Rory has pulled an absolute blinder and put together his passion project for you guys.
	Some fantastic essays in there from founder Carl Benjamin, academic agent, Plenty of interesting people and some artwork.
	Look forward to that and issue two.
	Issue one is on sale now.
	It is a limited print run, so if you want your physical copy with all of the hard work that Rory has put in, go out and buy it on our merch shop along with all of our brand new merch with the Islander logo and the like.
	I particularly love the retro game one.
	Rory hand drew that himself.
	Unbelievably impressive.
	Great lad.
	It's fantastic.
	And speaking of other things coming up, at three o'clock today, nothing else has really gone on in the news, has it?
	Not like there's a national scandal currently going on about this.
	Turns out, I had a chat with Liz Truss, and you can find out how about she thinks that hope not hate are evil, we should deport a bunch of Palestinians who wreak terrorism on Britain's shores, and how the OBR basically strong-armed her into increasing migration ahead of the Conservative Party conference, or they'd conduct a kind of coup, which they then successfully and how the OBR basically strong-armed her into increasing migration ahead of the Did a bunch of exclusives of us, so thank you very much to Liz for taking a chance on a non-SW1 approved outlet and actually having a chat with us.
	And I think, you know, we have spiritual disagreements, but be polite down in the comments, because she at least took a gamble on us.
	Right, without further ado.
	So, we've reached the point of democracy where you're just openly bribing votes.
	I mean, I know that's been going on for a while.
	Only just?
	Yeah, quite.
	I mean, they're not just hiding it now.
	You know, that's a new development, where the Conservatives have basically said, you know that zero seats meme that we were looking at?
	Well, people have thought, are we really making this an actual policy for ourselves?
	Ooh, that doesn't really seem to keep the people we want in power, so why don't we just double down on the over-65 demographic, which were the only ones that are still voting for us anyway, by just paying them until the heat death of the universe to vote for us.
	Now, you don't know what I'm referring to.
	This is now the quadruple lock on pensions and the policy of national service, and I'll get into those shortly, but For those in America who understand the entitlement system but don't understand the British system, we exist kind of in gerontocracy as well, right?
	Where we've got an aging population since the baby boom, we've got a really expensive healthcare system which dwarfs all other state expenditure, we've got a pension bill that cannot be paid, and so we constantly import low-wage foreign workers to try to keep the GDP up to pay for those existing entitlements.
	Well, that's the reason given.
	That's the reason that persuades politicians who otherwise might think that migration could be tweaked in the national interest.
	It's then sold to them as being in the national interest because boomers vote for them, they want the pensions paid, therefore import all the men apts.
	Well it's a good job that that CPS report can then just disprove all of that because they are overwhelmingly a drain on society and on finances.
	Quite.
	They've come to that conclusion far too little too late, and now are looking to lose lots of seats.
	So to stem some of their losses, they've decided to pull these policies off.
	But I think this might be the epicentre of what prompted Rishi Sunak to realise this, and that is that Rishi Sunak went on Loose Women recently.
	Now, I did a lengthy tweet breaking this down, but the core of this is this clip of his exchange with Janet Street Porter, who...
	I mean, at this stage... Wait, he actually went on... He actually went on Loose Women?
	Yes.
	For those in the US, again... His actual constituency?
	Old women?
	Even then, he's losing them pretty badly.
	Loose Women is the UK's equivalent to The View, where a bunch of ill-informed liberal women sit around and shriek about politics without knowing anything about it.
	And so, he was genuinely asked by Janet Street Porter in this clip, just, why do you hate pensioners?
	In an absolutely throbbing brain take of depth and nuance here.
	I want to ask you a very simple question.
	I think you're a decent man.
	I do think you work really hard.
	Hats off to you for that.
	I think your heart's in the right place, but why do you hate pensioners?
	Why do you hate pensioners?
	That is the only conclusion that I can come to as a result of the spring budget.
	So, you lowered national insurance by four pence.
	Big deal.
	Pensioners don't pay NI.
	Then you froze the tax threshold.
	So yes, you gave us more pensions.
	Yes, you increased the pension.
	But that leaves a gap of only £1,000 before, if you get the basic average pension, to the threshold of paying tax.
	Now...
	So many pensioners are living in poverty.
	I think about two million.
	I think the most poverty-stricken pensioners are living in private rental accommodation.
	One in three in private rental accommodation are below the poverty line.
	So there's an argument that the pensioners have come out worse under the Tories or worse under you, your Supervision.
	And I would say as a pensioner that what I see is a lot of pensioners who'd like to take extra jobs to make ends meet, to buy little treats, to go out once a month to put some petrol in the car.
	But if they earn any money, more than a thousand pounds a year, they're going to be paying tax!
	So I just thought I'd pause that there.
	Sorry for the excruciating waffle of entitlement.
	And I do want to say, you know, hashtag not all boomers, both my sets of grandparents are still alive, they've worked until their retirement, they've saved responsibly, etc.
	But it does fall a bit on deaf ears as a Zoomer who has had his purchasing power confiscated from him, 89% by the extra demand imported here through mass migration, when 80% of boomers are homeowners.
	80% of pensioners are homeowners.
	And many of those in other accommodation are on subsidised social housing that they got at a cheaper rate.
	So like...
	Sorry, I don't think the government hates pensioners, I think they do a hell of a lot to prop them up.
	Kind of annoying.
	In all sorts of ways, our modern world in the West, our economy, has been completely designed around making sure pensioners have loads of money.
	There's a great set of documentaries showing that throughout the 70s and 1980s loads of industry in the West, in America and Britain, was destroyed or dismantled or privatised in all sorts of ways.
	And the biggest gainer out of all of that, in a couple of different senses, were these giant pension funds.
	They didn't care if whole industries were annihilated, as long as their fund, pension fund, just like any other financial fund, all they care about is making sure that it keeps going up.
	And so the industry, the manufacturing industry of Britain and America, can die as long as their pension fund keeps going up.
	This is what BlackRock, many state pension funds as well, particularly the one in California, for example.
	This is where the ESG behemoth grew out of, so a lot of this is at fault.
	Could you give the name of those documentaries?
	They sound very interesting.
	Yeah, what was it called?
	Masters of... I can't remember, I'll find out, but I will put it in the link underneath this and I'll tell you later.
	I can't remember.
	It's called Masters of Finance or something like that, but that's not right.
	Anyway.
	Thank you.
	So, I think the Conservative policy announcement that they teased out here, through an article in The Sun, was actually birthed from that Loose Women interview, because they then announced the triple lock plus, or the quadruple lock, and this means that now pensioners are not subject to the income tax threshold of about 12 grand if they start earning money above the state pension.
	So, for those who don't understand, there's a very brief BBC article, and I hate to cite the BBC, but they give a good summary I just want to say you can always tell that it's election season when all of a sudden the Conservatives' messaging begins to look like this.
	So I did get a leaflet through my door the other day and I am in a very English area of London, Bexley and Bromley, and the leaflet photos were not very diverse.
	I think Rishi Sunak was the most diverse man on there.
	So, interesting.
	Yep, just, you know, we're told diversity built Britain, but clearly doesn't win you elections, apparently.
	So, this spending commitment over five years is going to be 2.4 billion.
	Where they're plucking that off, no idea, but there you go.
	I suppose, you know, there's trusts doing a minor tax cut, crash the entire economy, but pledging to pay 2.4 billion over five years more on pensions.
	Tickety-boo.
	Alright, so for those who don't understand triple lock, because you might live in the US for example, the triple lock means that your pension is, it rises with the average wage, with inflation, or by 2.5%.
	So it's meant to keep it so that inflation does not undercut the amount of money that the pensioners take out of their pensions.
	But that means that if inflation has risen, the pensioners, the bill for pensions, grows, but the tax base shrinks because people are making less money, they're able to purchase less, there's less money circulating, and things will cost more because the pensioners will be able to buy it at that rate, but your average working person won't because they won't get a pay rise in line with inflation.
	the kind of inflation caused by Rishi Sunak to print for furlough when they locked us all down for multiple years.
	So, again, screwing the working and aspirational young for buying boomer votes, and the boomers themselves are hemorrhaging away from the Tories, as we'll see in a moment.
	So, the BBC do a brief economic breakdown.
	This year, the link to earnings under the triple lock, that's 2024, meant an increase of 8.5 from the 8th of April, making it worth £221.20 a week for the full state pension, or or £169.50 for the full old basic pension, those who reached pension age before April 2016.
	That's a top, a 10% rise in 2022.
	So, within about two years, they've had nearly a 20% rise.
	Most people haven't got that for their pay rise.
	So, again, more is being done for pensioners than people who don't have their own homes and already and the like.
	And I know the argument's going to be, well, I paid in.
	Well, you paid in at a lower rate than you're currently taking out.
	So, it's an inverse demographic and economic pyramid, and it's just not sustainable, I'm afraid.
	This has led Telegraph columnist Sam Ashworth-Haynes to a massive tweet, and it did very well.
	But he's essentially summarising it as the boomers hold a stranglehold over all of politics, and this is just naked bribery by the Conservative Party.
	After all the sacrifices of lockdown, the Conservative Party believes the way to repay Britain's young people is to ramp up taxes, enlist them into mandatory service in care homes, and use their hard-earned income to fund a quadruple lock for pensioners.
	The one common thread through British policy for the last 14 years has been destroying the future of the young to pay for the consumption of the old.
	Investment projects have been scrapped, immigration has run at unprecedented levels to staff care homes and hospitals on the cheap, By the way, in 2022, of the 70,000 care worker visas issued, only 11,000 jobs were filled, so where do they all disappear to?
	Lord knows.
	House building has been slowed to a crawl, see Immigration, and ensuring in the process that the property assets of retirees continue to appreciate in value.
	The idea that Britain owes anything to its young people is dead in the water.
	The Conservatives are more or less explicitly rebranding as the Pensioners' Party, but Labour won't be far behind the party that was making the most of its commitment to the Triple Lock just yesterday.
	So there's no real end in sight for aspirational young people looking to get their foot on the housing ladder and start a family and actually continue the country?
	Well, yeah, there's no incentive for young people who have the opportunity to stay in this country.
	I know you mentioned earlier when we were talking that, was it reform pledged to have 500,000 in?
	This'll be in here in a moment.
	Oh, well, I won't spoil it in that case, but of the 500,000 that go out each year, Of the demographics of Brits, I would assume that they're younger.
	It's disproportionately some retirees, yes, going on to Spain, but increasingly it's been young enterprising people that are going to Australia shortly after becoming junior doctors because it pays more there, or to America to work in the non-profit sector where they're getting the average salary is about 20 grand higher than its UK counterpart.
	If not for cultural ties, which are being actively destroyed by a Conservative party that says British values are tolerance and pluralism and diversity, why would you stay here if your pocket is being increasingly robbed to pay for the hotel bills of people who just turned up here yesterday, or pensioners who have already got more assets than you?
	Yeah, and wages are so stagnant that you even see high power, high value jobs being paid peanuts in comparison to what they should be worth.
	Not that I'm a big fan of the finance sector or anything, but I've even seen some job listings pop up that have shown that if you want to be basically head of a finance firm or head of some big department in a finance firm, they're saying things like starting salary 40 to 50k.
	Well, it's because you now no longer have the requirement to advertise only in Britain.
	You can advertise to the entire world.
	So you're competing with uh a workforce pool that has diminished purchasing power compared to you um sorry the the the pound goes further in their countries and they can work remotely so you have diminished bargaining power when you're when you're going for a job another thing is the very concept of a state pension is socialism anyway uh it actively just disrupts the family Yeah, just make enough money so you're not in penury when you stop working.
	Or not be taxed enough so you can save.
	Or that, yeah, and or that.
	Why not both?
	You go to lots of other places in the world and they scoff at the idea of a state pension.
	Cambodia or something.
	India?
	No, there's no state pension.
	India, where we're bringing in lots of people, 250,000 last year, to prop up the system that can pay the state pensions, they just look after their elderly.
	The other thing we keep doing, and other countries like France, and I think also America, but certainly here in France, they keep putting up the age when you're allowed to get any of your state pension.
	They keep putting it up, it's now like, what is it, 67 or something?
	Something like that.
	It was a lot younger, even when I was a kid, and I suspect Even by the time I'm in my mid to late 60s, let alone you guys, they would have abolished the state pension retirement.
	They'd just say, no, there's no money.
	The state has no money to do that anymore, I'm afraid.
	You're on your own.
	There's a massive moment from a Times column recently that said, we need assisted dying because we can't pay the pensions.
	That's going to be the plan, I mean Labour are going to bring that in as the next government, presumed next government.
	I've read reports that it's being trialled potentially in Jersey Island on the channel, and there was an Economist front page article recently, over the past few weeks, that was talking about the necessity of bringing in assisted dying, maid-style programmes to the UK.
	So obviously what is happening, as far as I can tell, is we've finally reached the state of NHS worship where we're moving on to human sacrifice.
	Because that's what it will end up being.
	In Canada it's the same thing, where due to the fact that the state's healthcare system is unable to look after certain people, they basically get pressured into killing themselves.
	And so I can't imagine it'll be any different, if not probably worse here, because of how absolutely shoddy the NHS has become.
	So the Conservatives aren't promoting assisted dying?
	And so the combination of bribing boomers and not actively killing them has persuaded the platonic ideal of the boomer to endorse voting Conservative.
	Maybe.
	Peter Hitchens.
	Peter Hitchens is now saying, after two decades of destroy the Tory party, for which he said I was atrocious for not reading his 2003 column when I was five on the matter, he has now said you should vote against Starmer, which means keeping the Conservatives in, which means rewarding their bad behaviour.
	What's he still doing here?
	Is he still in the country?
	Oh, is he not there for flee-fleeing?
	Oh yeah, he gets to stay.
	It's just the young people that should leave.
	That's right.
	I remember now.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	So, again, screwing over the young for the security of the old.
	I really don't necessarily appreciate this.
	Now, speaking of which screwing over the young, there was another policy they announced a couple of days before the pension one.
	National Service.
	Rishi Sunak has done a massive thread saying that every single 18 year old will get compulsory National Service and they'll receive a choice on what to do.
	You can either be conscripted, presumably, to go off and fight and die in some foreign war in either Ukraine or Israel eventually because they've made such a mess of national security.
	For example, you know, allowing Tony Blair to swan around the Foreign Office advising the Tory government.
	That was confirmed by Liz Truss even after he made a complete mess of Iraq.
	Questionable.
	Or, you can go around picking up litter and delivering prescriptions and white pensioners' bums in the care homes.
	This is how they're going to depreciate the care visas, right?
	So, they're going to increase the amount of money spent on health and social care and pensions, but then rather than keep importing low-wage care workers who two out of three of them are admitting to perpetrating abuse against their patients, they're thinking, we're going to conscript 18-year-olds to do it for about a year instead and wipe loads of bums.
	Also, this is coming from the party whose former leader Boris Johnson actively tried to scupper peace talks that could have gone on between Russia and Ukraine to make sure that he could prolong the conflict out of some potential sense of, I don't know, Churchillian stiff upper lip so that he can try and make himself out to be the hero that he valorizes Churchill as being.
	So, the party that brought you the extended Ukraine-Russia conflict, which is Absolutely destroying the young demographics of Ukraine and led to the point where they're actively having to press gang into the military over there.
	Now wants to potentially get you and your children in for national service so that they can what?
	Why do this?
	Why do this unless there is something coming?
	After Macron has been making a lot of noise recently about escalating the conflict to troops on the ground in Ukraine from outside of Ukraine.
	I think this is a two-fold thing.
	One, this is overwhelmingly supported by boomers, so they did a poll, actually, of the people who are actually going to be involved in this, so that's the 18-year-olds versus the over-65s, and there's net minus three support among 18-year-olds, and over-65s plus 26.
	And also, this is quite interesting, so plus 30 among the Conservatives, minus seven among Labour, obviously the youth vote, plus 38 among Reform UK.
	So that's why they've announced a policy to try and hemorrhage votes away from the over 65 demographic that are floating towards Reform UK over the immigration issue.
	They're basically trying to throw some red meat to the base to stop stemming their losses.
	But also, I think they know they're going to lose anyway, lose a majority at least, and so they're trying to normalise the idea of conscription for when they know, essentially, they're going to try and have to pull a fast one on a generation of kids who have not only seen a bunch of foreign policy bungles in Afghanistan and Iraq, but, I mean, We were taught history around the same time.
	The only thing we seem to have learned was the slave trade and civil rights, but also World War I and World War II.
	If you're told repeatedly about the horrors of trench warfare, why would I want to go and fight for a country which I've been actively dispossessed from, a government which hates me as a stupid white male that don't want me in the army, after seeing how much the horrors of nationalism and warfare have apparently done on the global stage for the last how many hundred years?
	They're gonna have to have a real uphill battle, like press ganging Gen Z into this.
	A few things, you mentioned Boris, so just to briefly say on that, I think he's, I really hate the man, uh there's a couple of things, a couple of true crimes he did, obviously the lockdowns, completely unprecedented in all history to put a whole nation under house arrest for, on the strength of a lie, on the strength of, uh well YouTube won't really allow us to go much further than that, but you know, and also yeah the scuppering that peace deal, um quite literally directly got the blood on his hands of untold numbers of Ukrainian men for that,
	Absolutely despicable, truly in the realm of a crime in my opinion.
	But that's for the National Service!
	In and of itself, I think it's a really good idea.
	Decades ago maybe, in the 1950s, in the 60s or the 70s even.
	Yeah, it's like the argument that it makes, it sort of brings a young person up, teaches them some skills like map reading or just how to iron their clothes properly and how to take orders and all that sort of thing.
	Yeah, fine.
	Not now.
	Not in this whole thing.
	Yeah, expecting young people who have been absolutely dispossessed and robbed and obviously a figure of hatred for their own governments.
	Then you've got to go and give up your time for them.
	No, of course not.
	And the other thing, like I say, back in the day National Service was actually like some sort of proto-army, territorial army type training.
	But no, you're not going to get actually training doing compass reading and orienteering and how to rig up a mortar and fire a machine gun.
	No, you're going to go wipe some bums.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, because on his initial TikTok that he put out about it, because Rishi started a TikTok account specifically for it, which was bizarre, he made sure to specify, well you can do, you know, a year of military service, or one weekend a month doing Wiping people's blood.
	Indentured servitude for the movement of gerontocracy, which we've then stuffed into care homes where they're currently being abused.
	But you'll do it wearing camouflage trousers and a beret, so it's national service.
	But I would also suggest to the Tories that I don't know what a good idea it would be to force a load of angry, dispossessed, probably white boys to learn...
	Well, this is the thing.
	This is the thing.
	It's probably not going to be the Indigenous English.
	This is the point actually that... Hold on one second.
	Because the demographic skew of Gen Z is larger minority, particularly in the UK.
	James Cleverley was actually saying, this is the reason we need it.
	He said, it's really great that we can put loads of people of multiple ethnicities and faiths and nationalities into our national service to foster national cohesion.
	But as my friend Mary Harrington said, you can't go around actively dismantling the purpose of the nation-state by opening our borders to foreign invaders across the channel, having mass immigration run at record levels, and letting active criminals out of prison because the jails are so full, and then say to the law-abiding young people who have been denigrated on the basis of their national origin that you then have to act as an indentured servant to the state.
	You can't conscript and compel cohesion while also undermining all of the cohesiveness and cultural homogeneity that is being done at the moment.
	And so also part of this is another attempt at social engineering.
	Well we found out that actually we've looked at the ONS data and the ONS ethnicity map and we found out despite our attempts to force you to get along with people who hate you, That you still live apart from one another.
	And so instead we will do- take another step to force you to coexist with people who despise you, have a much longer cultural and historical memory than you do, remember all of the conflicts that your people have been in, have been brought up from a very young age, to internalize those conflicts, and hate you, and we're going to put guns in their hands, and guns in your hands, in a very small, confined area, and hope that nothing goes wrong, and hope that you all get along together.
	Is that a good idea?
	Is that a good idea?
	I also pointed out this on Twitter when I put out the question, and I'm still curious, how would they practically enforce this?
	Because the threat has been, that I've seen some reporting on, was that they're floating the idea that if you refuse to do it, if you're a young person, You'll go to prison.
	So James Daly, a minister, was asked about this, and he said, we're not sure yet whether or not a young person, or even the parents who shield the young people from it, would go to prison.
	So they haven't even hashed out the idea, they just rushed it out.
	Alright, so there's no guarantee that they can enforce it anyway, but if they did decide, okay, you don't want to do it, you go to prison.
	Right, okay.
	Prison's a fault.
	We're releasing people early.
	So prisons are full.
	I've seen the videos of the Metropolitan Police struggling tiny 5 foot women against tiny 5 foot 1 skinny black boys struggling to arrest them.
	So your police are completely incompetent.
	People don't want to do it and would rather go to prison than die for NATO anyway.
	And also, when it comes to the enormous fifth column that's been imported into the country, the government has shown time and time and time again that they are unwilling to enforce laws on them the same way they do to us.
	So they would just say no in unison.
	And the government would go, well, okay, we don't want to be racist.
	Yeah.
	Couple of things.
	One, it's never ever going to happen because the toys are going to be out.
	It was only a dog whistle to try and get some reform voters back for a start.
	It's not, they're not, they've got no intention of doing it because they know they won't be in government in six weeks time.
	And Labour said they just won't do it.
	So don't need to worry anyone out there is actually young and think they might have to do national service.
	You won't.
	Don't worry about it.
	It's a complete joke.
	But secondly, another part of the idea that makes it ludicrous is that, yeah, we've got this fifth column, first or second generation immigrants that don't have our values, don't care about our history or our armed forces or anything.
	The idea that you spend a weekend or two on Salisbury Plain with the Fusiliers or something, and suddenly you're as English as English could be.
	It's like, of course not.
	Of course not Rishi and James.
	Contact with our institution and our soil will make even the most ardent jihadian a tear boo.
	Like no thank you.
	So I'm just going to blitz through this so I don't run out of time for your two gentlemen's coverage.
	Part of the reason for this is that of course Labour leads the Conservatives among every cohort But, among the over 65s, the margin is only 7% because loads of them are breaking for reform.
	So, 55 to 64 and 65 are going for reform at about 14 to 15%.
	That's a sizable chunk that if they got them back, they would beat Labour in those cohorts.
	And Sunak has had an internal memo saying that basically reform constitute an existential threat to the Tories, so he's trying to counter-signal them.
	This is why you've seen a lot of messaging from the Tory party Twitter account that says, vote reform, get Labour.
	They're desperate to say it's a wasted vote.
	And I do think it's actually a wasted vote for many reasons.
	I mean, I know Nigel Farage wants to debate Rishi Sunak on immigration, which he probably won't accept because Nigel Farage is now not running as an MP, which I think was a silly decision.
	But also, if you go to this, I mean, Richard Tice This is possibly the worst messaging from an immigration restrictionist candidate I've ever heard.
	So the idea that he's going to be an anti-immigration candidate is kind of absurd.
	I'll just quickly play this because I had to clip it for myself.
	We still have businesses who need these people, we still have public services need these people because we haven't trained up so many people of our young.
	We're not going to instantly train up enough doctors or enough engineers or enough house builders, are we?
	Which is why our policy is actually smart immigration.
	About half a million people leave the UK every year, so you can welcome the same number, half a million people, highly skilled, highly qualified, you can have an exemption specifically for essential healthcare, of course you can do all that... Well then you're going to end up with a million people a year!
	Quite.
	Yeah, I've heard that story before.
	Don't worry, we'll just make sure that everybody who comes through is going to be highly qualified.
	Also, half a million people a year as an immigration restrictionist candidate.
	So, a net outflow of British people, a net inflow of people from nondescript regions, yeah, exactly, the anywhere's of the world.
	So, you're still eradicating British culture just at a slightly slower rate than the Tory government that you're calling con-socialist.
	But that's not an immigration restrictionist position.
	You need a cap so you have a net outflow of people that do not have the sentiments of the country and are just here for mercantile economic reasons.
	But nobody seems to be standing for that and so this is why I've titled the segment Boomers v Migrants because it seems that Richard Tice, even if he were to influence policy, is buttressing the Labour vote because Labour aren't bribing the pensioners.
	Labour have decided to go for another clientele class instead.
	Foreigners.
	Now, remember when Keir Starmer said that I will give the vote to EU citizens.
	He said that in his election campaign to be Labour leader.
	He has not included that in his manifesto pledges.
	So people are presuming that he's gotten rid of it.
	I somehow doubt it.
	I think it will still be passed anyway.
	Instead, to tilt the electoral calculus in his favour, he's saying, no, we're going to let 16-year-olds vote in the first year of government.
	So all of those people that are being promised, hey, you'll be conscripted at 18, Keir Starmer's going, no, instead you can vote age 16 for a Labour government forever that will stop you being conscripted.
	Even though we're probably going to get into a ground war with Ukraine.
	Instead, they're making up the numbers by appeasing hostile, as you said, foreign fifth columnists.
	For example, Angela Rayner, going to her local Muslim constituents, and I won't play the video here, you can watch it in your own time, the audio is a bit spotty, Begging local Muslim constituents, all of them men not looking at her, by the way, that she will recognise the state of Palestine as a nation-state immediately after Labour win the election, and that she'll comply with the ICCC report that says that Netanyahu needs to be arrested, and that she will spend British taxpayer money on rebuilding Gaza.
	Well, obviously, impossible, right?
	And I think this account that you've got here, it sums it up quite nicely, literally begs for her political career.
	I think there was the recent announcement that there's been some murmurs about Muslims in the UK trying to form their own specifically ethnic, specifically ethno-religious Muslim party.
	Labour knows that that is going to cut in to a heavy subsection of their base because they have been the Muslim party for years now.
	So this is literally Labour doing anything possible to beg for those people not to abandon them.
	And old Angela's only got, I say old, I think she's younger than me, grandmother younger than me, I think her majority is only like five, four, five, six thousand, it's not that big.
	Her and Lisa Nanny's are very slim, it's on knife edge.
	Right, so she isn't, it's not that much, she'll probably win a seat, I would have thought in fact to put a ten on it, but it's not that much of a stretch to say she's sort of quite begging for a political career, it probably will be close.
	The majority will probably be smaller after this election.
	But one quick thing to say about Tyson Reform and the immigration thing.
	It has been their policy for a long time of net zero migration.
	Obviously that's a take on net zero emissions, isn't it?
	But that was one of the first times I, even I, who was a candidate, disgraced candidate for them, because of my far-right fantasies.
	Of deporting the 1.2 million people since 1997 who have been documented being here illegally?
	Yeah.
	So reform party policy?
	Yeah.
	Well, even I wasn't really aware of exactly details of what was meant by net zero migration.
	I assumed, I had in my mind, it was really like gross zero migration.
	Let's just make migration zero in absolute terms.
	For at least for a while.
	Let's do that.
	It turns out that's not what... Or hence why you're not in the party anymore.
	Yeah, of course, yeah.
	Because even that, it doesn't go far enough for me.
	I want a... That's higher than most Blair years.
	It's mad.
	That's absolutely mad.
	Right, yeah.
	So again, it's just another indication from Titan Reform that it's... it's super weak source.
	It's a really weak source, not really what was billed.
	So Reform aren't the future, the Conservatives aren't the future because they're going to lose and also their voting bloc is dying off about 2% a year just because of age.
	Angela Rayner doesn't seem to be the future because she's currently going cap in hand to a group of Muslims saying please don't vote me out because I'm a woman and Gaza.
	So who is the future?
	Do you know how much you guys like women?
	Well, yeah, so there is a female politician.
	It's the future of the Labour Party.
	It's Naz Shah delivering her election announcement in Urdu.
	Sitting MP.
	Shadow Community Secretary, if I remember correctly.
	Appointed that... I can't remember if it was before or after, but she retained that position when she had retweeted an Owen Jones parody account that says that the girls of Romford and Rochdale should shut their mouths for the sake of diversity.
	She sued Leave.eu because Leave.eu said she was a grooming gang's apologist, so I'm of course not alleging that, but...
	Very strange to say that those girls should not have their voices heard, or at least agree with the account that said that.
	So, she's delivering her election announcements in a foreign language.
	And if you want an image that sums up the future of UK politics, here's a perfect one.
	I mean, this was an independent Muslim candidate for the West Midlands mayoral election in May.
	Ahmed Yacoub.
	Giant billboard saying, lend Gaza your vote, to the backdrop of a completely desolated British building.
	Jacob is back, boys!
	Change!
	Change is coming!
	So, if you want an image of the future of British politics, imagine a boomer's slipper or a freshly washed Afghan foot in Hyde Park Fountain stamping on the face of a young patriotic person forever.
	You're not going to be represented.
	I always imagined his head was supposed to be a lot bigger, wasn't it?
	Alright, moving on to something hopefully a little bit more light-hearted, let's talk about Japan's influencer infestation.
	They have a problem right now, which is YouTubers going over there, and some native Japanese YouTubers as well.
	Acting like prats in public and disturbing the public peace for views and hate clicks.
	I'll talk about this more in a moment.
	First, Islander magazine still on sale.
	You can get yourself a copy on the website in the links that will be below this video.
	It's a Still in pre-order stage, so you'll be able to get your copy at the end of June, that's what we're aiming for, and it will be a limited print run.
	So get them now because they'll only be around for a very, very limited amount of time.
	There's a couple of pieces in there by that Bodade fella.
	Very, very good pieces, spot on.
	The takes are just... Many people are saying.
	Yeah, many people say he's terrific, he's the best.
	Never read articles like it.
	Anyway, so I was inspired to do this because PewDiePie, who I don't really watch anymore because essentially since he moved to Japan, as far as I'm concerned, and he said it himself in various ways that he doesn't really post very much anymore.
	He's basically retired.
	He's got kids now.
	He's got a kid, he's married, he's living in Japan.
	God bless him.
	Somewhere peaceful, where he doesn't have to put up with all of the rubbish that he probably had to put up with in Brighton.
	I'm sure he wouldn't say so himself, but he said in this video specifically that Japan is a place where people go to escape others' bad behaviour.
	Clearly what he was doing.
	um uh so i kind of feel like i'm intruding on his personal life now if i watch videos that he uploads because most a lot of them are vlogs but this one was particularly interesting because it got a bit of traction because he was calling out the big problem with japan at the moment being that foreign youtubers are coming over and making dicks of themselves in public
	Screaming, shouting, hollering, pulling pranks, in one case trying to essentially rob the public transport system by trying to get from one end of the country to another without paying for public transport the whole time.
	And he brands it an infestation because these people know that Japan, and you've been there so you can confirm this, is known as a place where everybody is polite and respectful.
	There is a strong sense of public behavioral standards and a culture of kind of reserved politeness.
	Would you say that that was yours?
	High trust, right?
	Yeah, high trust.
	They're essentially the English of Asia before obvious recent population compositions have changed how the English behave in public transport.
	Japan are very polite, very welcoming, but they expect you to abide by their standards of public decency.
	For example, not making a noise nor a mess on the train, not inconveniencing other people.
	They have similar escalator etiquette as we used to in Britain.
	If you want to walk up, you go on the left-hand side.
	If you want to queue, you go on the right-hand side.
	So they have a sense of propriety and a sense of proper procedure.
	And I really appreciate being there.
	It's very safe, very low crime, very clean, very quiet, insurmountable.
	If it weren't so alien to me, it would certainly be one of the places I would look at were I be forced to flee the UK.
	And so, I couldn't imagine going there and not treating it with anything but respect and reverence, because if I wanted to go there because I appreciated what they had, why would I want to ruin it for myself and others?
	Well, clearly, you're not...
	Desperate for clicks.
	You're not fishing for clicks.
	You're not a scumbag with no morals and no respect for other cultures fishing for easy hate clicks.
	Thanks, Harry.
	You're welcome, you're welcome.
	Take that as a compliment.
	Low bar as it is.
	The bar is in hell.
	You're not pond scum.
	No, I'm not Logan Paul.
	Well, we'll speak about him in a moment because he's mentioned in this and I wanted to highlight that he's probably, as far as I can tell, in this timeline where a lot of this started.
	So there's a few things that PewDiePie highlights in this video.
	One, the Japanese police or military, I forget exactly which one, did a drill at the beginning of last year in March where they simulated YouTubers trying to break into a base to live stream.
	So, the actual authorities in Japan are treating this very seriously because people are trying to pull extreme pranks.
	They want to make sure that if they go way too far that they're prepared for it.
	They have branded streamers terrorists because of the activities they've been taking part in.
	And also, because of YouTubers and tourists going to particular places, they're actively making Japan worse, because there's a particular convenience shop called the Lawson's that has a very famous view of Mount Fuji behind it.
	And too many people go there as tourists and YouTubers to get footage of it, take photos of it, that they block the road.
	So what Japan has decided to do is say, all right, you don't get it.
	You don't get the view anymore, and they have put up a big white barrier blocking the view of Mount Fuji.
	So a beautiful natural view that's quite famous has been ruined because a load of tourists and YouTubers have ruined it for everybody else.
	That's what happens when you encourage, and YouTube certainly does encourage, this kind of poor behavior, because this is a trend that's been going on for a long time, and I will be mentioning some of them.
	So it was in this video, it's been reported on in here, so It says in here, Schellberg, PewDiePie's name, pointed out an anti-terrorism exercise that Japan's police and self-defense force orchestrated a year ago where they simulated an incident using the scenario of troublemaking YouTubers attempting to intrude on an SDF camp.
	Footage taken of an exercise shows actors holding up selfie sticks and spraying officers with fake spray paint.
	spray paint in faux pranks while law enforcement attempts to push them back.
	On top of that, and here's another example of how they're ruining Japan just by their presence and bad behavior, Japan also restricted access for foreigners from certain streets in Kyoto's historic Gion district, famous for its performing geisha and maiko, to curb antisocial behavior from visitors.
	Really?
	Yes.
	So the geisha will walk through the back alleys, and a lot of the reason they get harassed is either for selfies with people walking up to them and incurring on their personal space, or because of the reputation that some of the geishas have had as concubines, and so they get untoward propositions from foreigners thinking they're prostitutes.
	I didn't know that second part, but I do have an example later on of what you're talking about, the first bit, where people are basically trying to harass them into selfies, take footage of them.
	And you watch it happen, and you think, don't do that!
	That's terrible behaviour!
	Do you see yourself doing this?
	Would you be happy if somebody was doing this to you?
	is absolutely appalling behavior.
	I don't know who raised these people, if they were raised by anybody at all, who knows, maybe absent fathers.
	I do know about the Paul brothers, that their father is not to my taste, from when I've seen some old videos where they were all collaborating together.
	But to go on to the Paul brothers, Logan Paul is quite famous for his exploits in Japan.
	You may remember at the beginning of 2018, there was a particular video That came out where he was in Japan and he went into a notorious forest, which is notorious for people going there to... What's the term that YouTube will allow me to say?
	End their lives?
	Would that be okay?
	Yeah, people go there to end their lives.
	It's obviously a harrowing place to visit and he went there and discovered such an incident and decided to film it, film his reaction, and then went through the whole process of having the video edited and decided, yep!
	Yeah, I'll put this out.
	This isn't horribly disrespectful to the person who did that and to anybody who may have known this person.
	And nowadays, nowadays, Logan Paul on his podcast can have a laugh.
	I've been to Japan, so the day that I do go to Japan, I think I'm going to try to run the marathon.
	I've never been there either.
	Have you?
	What?
	Oh, it's just a funny in-joke now.
	It's just a funny joke.
	Logan Paul filmed someone's dead body in a really disrespectful way, put it out, and then made the worst apology ever.
	But it's okay, because he works for WWE now.
	He's got his drink, Spratt.
	Yeah, he does.
	Sadly, he's quite good, but I don't forgive him.
	But, you know, you can make a joke about it, Logan, but it's terrible.
	It's terrible what you did, and you shouldn't have been forgiven for it.
	And even in this video, which I found looking all of this up, the editor who edited the video, who should have also known better, his life was basically ruined by it.
	After the video came out, he lost friendships, he lost relationships, his girlfriend broke up with him.
	Lots of bad stuff happened to him, and he's talking to Logan on this, explaining it all, and Logan's just sat there in silence.
	And then he basically says, I made a documentary trashing you, but then didn't release it, but I go back to it every so often as an emotional catharsis.
	But, you know, it's all in the past now.
	The guy ruined your life.
	Because of this guy's awful judgment and poor behavior, he ruined your life.
	And you're just like, oh, you know, it's in the past now.
	Okay.
	All right.
	But one thing that people may not remember about Logan's exploits in Japan is that before the whole I just gotta be careful to not, like, disrespect the culture.
	Because, Logang, Japan is all about the respect.
	is just a few clips of the vlogs that he was putting out there and once again this seems to have been what's led to people going there and encouraging this bad behavior because it gets hate clicks and i hate to broadcast it but this is just a reminder uh of what was going on i just gotta be careful to not like disrespect the culture because logang japan is all about the respect so i gotta take my chach levels and bring them down how far can we take this
	what happened what did he do no What did he do?
	No!
	Oh it's the film, oh it's the vlog.
	You know how it is in Japan, they're all about the respect.
	I'm now realizing why they tried to arrest me last year.
	It's the same shi- Oh don't worry about me, I'm just a vlogger.
	Just getting content.
	Respect.
	Follow me on Instagram at Logan Paul.
	Gotta be careful to not, like, disrespect the culture.
	The Game Boy Color!
	This part's pretty annoying.
	It's hot!
	Excuse me, sir.
	The game seems to be malfunctioning.
	Mucho broken, though.
	I think that's about enough.
	And he goes on to do things like throw pokeballs at people, throw fish at people.
	But, I mean, you could tell from the reactions of the people around him, that's not on.
	That's just... I'm actually pro-frontline conscription for him.
	Yeah, for him.
	And that's not the kind of behaviour that you would want.
	And, like you say, in a high-trust, respectful culture, You know that you don't do that, and you only behave like that because you know it's bad behavior.
	You're actively exploiting the goodwill of the people for whom you're meant to be a respectful houseguest.
	Yeah, it's not good content.
	You're making Japan worse.
	And I say this because Japan is a culture that I do respect.
	Far-flung in East Asia and whatnot, but they do seem to have some cultural similarities between us Brits, and I respect the fact that they've been able to maintain, even in the expansive technological society that they live in, a firm grasp of their own indigenous culture.
	And I respect that, and I respect their cultural output as well.
	So to see somebody just go out there and spit in their faces, it disgusts me.
	Not that I'm making any excuses for Logan Paul.
	He's just young and dumb and callow and self-absorbed and desperate.
	Well, I didn't do that.
	No, nor did I. I'm not making an excuse for him.
	I'm saying that's what it is.
	Maybe when he's older, in his 50s or whatever, he'll look back on that and cringe.
	I don't know.
	Again, no excuses.
	It seems to be just like, oh, you could just make a little joke about it now.
	It was obviously terrible and I shouldn't have done it, but now it's just a laugh.
	Oh, who cares?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, why go to Japan and do it?
	Do that in America if you want to do that.
	No, because if you went to certain neighborhoods in America and did that, you'd be shot.
	Well yeah, and also because you know that in America you're not really stepping all over and spitting all over the standards and the culture in the same way that you are in a place like Japan.
	And since then there seems to have been a massive influx of people going over and behaving like that.
	The most famous one from last year is probably this guy, the Johnny Somali guy, who is abysmal Awful, and behaved, again, terribly.
	Let's see what he said.
	The livestreamer filmed himself approaching random locals on a train and saying Hiroshima Nagasaki repeatedly.
	At one point, Johnny announced to the train, Hiroshima Nagasaki, we destroy it because you N's don't know how to behave.
	A Korean-American man approached him and said, you're being obnoxious, why don't you leave these people alone?
	Undeterred, Johnny Somali continued, saying to this guy, we'll do it again, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, you understand.
	So if this guy is wondering, you know, like, why it is that the Japanese police and authorities might be branding streamers and YouTubers like himself as being terrorists, it might be because you're going on a train and essentially saying, let's bomb the train.
	Well not just, you're announcing your intent, not that you have the power to do so, but to commit genocide against the Japanese.
	I think they might be a little, like, perturbed.
	Yeah, he also would harass people in the streets, and I won't play this clip because YouTube will flag it, but one of these guys that he harasses in the street, who appear to be foreigners themselves to Japan, they look like they might be European or American, they end up just knocking him out and his friend that he's with, and in the background you can hear all of the Japanese people around them, Giving a little round of applause!
	And then he also decided to play pornography audio.
	On a train.
	Again.
	Let's not play that one as well.
	Yeah, I'm not going to play the audio for that one, uh, but.
	Speaker, okay.
	He's just walking around with the speaker.
	He should be in prison and never let out.
	Well, the thing was that he did get in a lot of trouble and he did get arrested because he took it a bit too far.
	Not that he hadn't already taken it far, uh, because he decided to trespass on a hotel construction site and he got arrested as a result of that.
	He looks so obnoxious!
	that he got deported, and I'm sorry to break it to everybody, that he was not actually deported.
	He was taken to court, where the prosecutors were after a fine of 200,000 yen, which translates to about $1,400.
	And in January, he was fined for that amount, but the trespassing charges against him were dropped, and he seemed to leave the country immediately after.
	Now, PewDiePie...
	He looks so obnoxious, just at a glance.
	He is.
	I haven't seen any of these clips or whatever, but he just looks like a douchebag.
	Not to encourage any particular kind of behaviour of how you should behave towards people like him, but perhaps in one circumstance I might have been applauding somebody that I've just mentioned, shall we say.
	But...
	PewDiePie called him out, said that he was obnoxious, said that he was another prime example of why the Japanese are branding these people terrorists, because it's awful behaviour.
	You want to stamp this out, immediately.
	And he decided that I'm going to try and sue him.
	I'm going to try and sue him, because, let's see.
	Wait, so this Johnny Somali wants to sue PewDiePie?
	Yes.
	Or the other way around?
	Yes.
	Good luck.
	Just good luck.
	Isn't PewDiePie insanely rich?
	Yeah, he's the most subscribed to individual YouTuber in history.
	Seems so.
	I've never really watched... I've watched a few minutes of PewDiePie a few years back, but I never followed him or watched him particularly.
	But I knew he was one of the biggest of all time, so surely he's absolutely rolling in cash.
	Also, there's zero grounds for defamation there.
	Yeah.
	He's saying, don't be a criminal, you criminal.
	Yeah.
	But of course, Johnny Somali, who goes under the handle Rabbi Somali and has a star of David next to him, so I don't know if he's actually like...
	You said you were going to bomb people?
	or something very strange, has now decided to pull out the old faithful, the old faithful by just calling him a racist, by saying that, oh, well, he called me a terrorist, that might have some racial undertones to it, and throwing out the classic one of calling him an anti-Semite because PewDiePie and throwing out the classic one of calling him an anti-Semite because PewDiePie made You said you were going to bomb people.
	What?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	So this is this guy, and also immediately after, it would be especially funny if it turns out that he's some kind of Ethiopian Jew type, unless, of course, it might just be a joke that he's got all of that, because immediately after, he went to Israel and got arrested there because he started harassing the Israeli police, and he got he went to Israel and got arrested there because he started harassing the Israeli police, Oh, harassing a female police officer.
	Oh, right.
	OK, that's yeah, wonderful.
	Yeah, that's a genius idea to do, isn't it?
	But once again, the bad behavior is being encouraged by the fact that they're doing it on purpose so they can get hate clicks.
	So if there's one thing you can take away from the segment is don't watch this and don't give these people attention.
	I know I'm technically doing that, but sometimes you need to let people know so they can avoid it.
	Not all publicity is good publicity.
	Sometimes bad publicity is just bad publicity and hopefully your entire career is destroyed and you have to work flipping burgers for the rest of your life because you're a scumbag.
	Plus there's this thing, isn't there, of how to act, how to behave.
	I said this yesterday on the podcast.
	You can act in sort of a small-minded, childish, petty, mean, stupid way.
	Like this guy.
	Just a douchebag.
	Of course, you don't have to.
	You can actually try and be normal.
	Just try and be productive.
	Maybe even try and be virtuous.
	Right.
	Old-fashioned as it may be to say these days.
	Grateful for the host nation to show you a beautiful culture and keep you safe.
	Yeah, it does mean he's made it clear to the whole world that his inner core, his inner being, who he is, is something gross and mean.
	Some of the other examples is that, here's basically an example of what you were talking about with the geisha, where somebody caught this on video.
	Look at this.
	What are you doing?
	Rudin obnoxiousaurus.
	You can't do that!
	Someone with an abundance of grace versus someone with obviously no physical grace or actual grace in any sense.
	No whatsoever.
	A little troll versus something beautiful.
	Just leave these people alone.
	She's getting on about her day.
	She's not there for your amusement or entertainment.
	Don't do this.
	This is terrible, rude behavior.
	And wherever she is from, wherever anybody else who behaves like this is from, you are giving the rest of us a bad name.
	Because with all of this bad behavior going on, I wouldn't be terribly shocked or I wouldn't be disappointed if Japan just went, no, no, we're going back to close borders, like we did for 200 years.
	We'll just, no, we don't want any of you here because you just make it worse.
	The wonderful thing that I experienced is that if you were polite and deferential and attempted to learn a couple of shorthand phrases, you know, they're quite accommodating to the gaijin.
	They like it if you are Engrossed in their culture and so you know I'd I'd be kind because I plan to go back out there this year because it's so wonderful.
	I would be sad if because of Dysgenic little weirdos like that woman Behaving as she did I was treated with a degree of unwanted suspicion It's just it just be I wouldn't blame them though.
	I wouldn't raise targets.
	It's against you You know well given me the bad experiences.
	I understand and there's there's even more people going to rest There was one thing where YouTubers were going into sushi restaurants and licking the sushi as it was going along on the conveyor belt.
	These people, whoever they are, they're trying to travel across Japan for free, as I mentioned earlier.
	One of them, not one of the people in this image, but one of the people trying to do this, because this is a few YouTubers trying this challenge, which is just breaking the law, committing crime, All at the same time.
	One of them managed to get himself arrested because he got on a bus and when he was getting off the bus he refused to pay 18 yen which must be what like that's like 10p.
	Nothing.
	And got arrested for it, because the bus driver sensibly said, well if you're going to break the law over something so incredibly petty, well I'm going to get you arrested then.
	Because in a high-trust society, the whole point of the high-trust is that you understand that punishments come.
	If you don't behave how you're expected to.
	That's how these things historically have been reinforced.
	And I think that some of these people are forgetting that, like you experienced, yeah they're really nice and they're really polite, but also they don't want to put up with your rubbish.
	They don't want to put up with your nonsense.
	As they shouldn't.
	And it's happening in other places as well now.
	So this guy...
	is one of the people who got knocked out alongside Johnny Somali and he decided to go to Thailand and disrespect some of the locals.
	That's a bad idea!
	He knocked over some rubbish, a rubbish bin, as he's walking through the streets and starts trying to harass the locals.
	He squares up for a second and he goes, F you ends I'll F you up if you try and come near me and as he's walking around he hears them all go all start to harass him back and he turns around there's like a little group of them this is all caught on camera and he immediately backs down he immediately backs down because it turns out he's a coward as all of these people.
	In Thailand you can be sent to prison for criticizing the king and you can be sent to prison if you're reading someone else's criticism of the king in a news broadcast so I wouldn't go about thinking that the anarcho-tyranny of American law is in effect in Thailand, my friend.
	Bad idea.
	There you go.
	So if there's one thing you can take away from this segment, it's that if you are a YouTuber who wants to get hate clicks by going to a foreign country and disrespecting the locals and acting like a public nuisance or even a menace, don't.
	And if you get the chance, don't watch any of this stuff.
	It just encourages them.
	Leave them alone to live their tiny, pathetic lives and let them fail and become burger flippers or completely destitute, if possible.
	Yeah, I wouldn't blame the Japanese if they go back to having, you know, like 20 Dutch people and that's it.
	The Dutch, they behave themselves.
	One in, one out.
	Maximum 20 Dutch.
	I think there was a Welshman at one point as well, yeah.
	Back in the day he became a samurai.
	He was letting a Welshman and a few Dutch and that's about it.
	Won't blame them.
	Can you scroll down on this document for me?
	Do you want the mouse?
	I'm currently wrestling with the wires.
	Bear with everyone!
	Go on then, I'll take it.
	Where's the thing?
	Okay.
	Alright, so the first link... Do you want me to... Oh yeah, okay, go on then if you can do that.
	Okay, so I thought I would just talk a little bit about Biden.
	We'll just talk a little bit about the American politics, because it's more interesting than our politics at the moment.
	Everyone knows what's going on with us.
	Labour's going to become the government, Tories are going to collapse, and it'll be much more of the same uniparty.
	Whereas in America, well, an actual change is on the cards.
	Maybe Trump will get back in, we'll see.
	But at the moment, it seems, in the last couple of days at least, in the news cycle, The thing to talk about is that Democrats are losing confidence in old Joe, Sleepy Joe.
	The quote, freak out, is all over the place.
	It's from an unnamed source, but close in the White House.
	It's that all sorts of people, apparently, if you believe this unnamed source, lots and lots of people, maybe even the majority of them, at the top of the Democratic establishment I've sort of suddenly realised Joe Biden is not a great electoral giant, he's not a great vote winner, and his clear cognitive decline is sort of the least of it.
	It's just again the numbers, just when polling comes out and it's that low, it seems like maybe there's panicking, but it's a bit too late because he is already the nominee.
	Well, it's not technically too late.
	What if the law says you've actually got dementia now?
	Well, they can still invoke the 25th Amendment.
	Then Kamala could technically say, I'm not running.
	And then the Democratic Convention hasn't happened yet.
	Yeah, they've screwed up the convention rules actually because he was meant to have been announced a candidate for Ohio but they changed the convention location so he's technically not on the ballot paper in Ohio now which is, like the Democrat operators are so stupid.
	So it's still possible they could sub in Michelle Obama and Newsom at the 11th hour.
	Right.
	Increasingly unlikely.
	Yeah, it doesn't look likely, does it?
	I mean, because also the other thing you talk about Kamala there, Kamala, Kamala, whatever, whatever that woman's name is, um, um, she's part of, she's part of the problem.
	Part of the biggest problems are obviously his cognitive decline or the fact he's actually suffering from some sort of dementia or something, whatever it is.
	But also, yeah, her massive unpopularity, just the economy, the economy, stupid.
	And what are the other things?
	Biden's record with his children with his slow drip of...
	News stories that show that he's not a man of high and unimpeachable character, considering how he treated Ashley and Hunter.
	Yeah, the huge immigration problem on the southern border.
	The Afghanistan thing, I think a lot of Americans, or the numbers do show, a lot of Americans, even all sorts of Democrats, were completely humiliated by the Afghanistan thing.
	The way that was handled.
	There's other contenders in Democrats, like RFK Jr.
	It just doesn't help.
	RFK Junior just doesn't help Biden, basically.
	The Israeli issue dividing the base between the establishment Democrats, the intelligence services, and the Boomer Dems, who are pro-Israel, versus the younger, more ethnically diverse, less invested in the post-Second World War and Cold War narrative Dems, who are all in for Palestine.
	I'm wondering, can either of you two answer this question?
	Can you think of a single thing that has been good optics for Joe Biden throughout his entire presidency?
	I'm struggling to come up with any, because even right now if you're talking about the divide on the Israel-Palestine issue within the Democratic voter base, Biden has been saying for a while that there are particular red lines that he won't let Israel cross, he won't give any more support, and then they've, you know, did that bombing of Rafah the other day that he said before that was going to be the red line and has taken no action on top of it.
	I believe American servicemen have also been predictably fired upon on their beachhead Humanitarian peer just off the coast.
	Oh yeah, the technicality that means they don't have to have boots on the ground.
	As I said on Tim's show, it's like you know in Pirates of the Caribbean 3 when they're all facing off on that stretch of beach and because Davy Jones can't walk on dry land he just stands in a bucket and he's technically okay.
	That's what the American servicemen are currently doing in Gaza right now.
	But has Joe Biden had a single positive news story to his name?
	Well, the Democrats will... The Blue Anons will defend the indefensible, so it almost doesn't matter.
	But in terms of the swing voters, I make you right in that I don't think there's any issue that can convince them unless they have Trump Derangement Syndrome.
	One of the biggest things is just the economy.
	Biodynamics.
	Just a huge inflation.
	Just making everyone poorer in real terms.
	Paul Krugman has a few graphs that say the economy's doing great, so... Yeah.
	Janet the Felon Yellen says there's nothing to worry about.
	Yellen says it's fine, don't worry.
	Inhabited by the ghosts of the Donald for a minute there, wasn't it Nick?
	You loser.
	I like the fact that he draws out her body shape.
	So it's just it's just weird, well not weird because the way you we know the way the media works a bit is that they quite often sit on stories or sit on a particular take for a while until it's the right news cycle or until it's the right moment to release it but in the last day or two the news cycle has been that that they're suddenly Worried about it, as if they've suddenly realised that, oh, Biden isn't actually massively popular and the numbers, the polls, don't look like he'll beat Trump in November.
	And now they're worried.
	Well, the time to worry was a few months back when they were, whether he was, well, more like a year ago now, whether he was going to run again.
	They should have sorted it out then, whether they were going to go with Newsom or whoever, somebody else.
	um then was the time to really freak out and worry and make plays and it's a bit late now as you say maybe not technically absolutely too late but it is a bit and the idea that oh maybe we can just say he's got cognitive issues and we'll it'll be Kamala well She's more unpopular than him, if anything.
	The American electorate don't really like her, brutally speaking.
	Yeah, well, yeah, they never wanted her, did they?
	They never wanted her.
	The rumour is behind the scenes is that they're trying to bribe her with a Supreme Court appointment in the future to stop her from becoming President.
	What?
	No, no, no, that's worse.
	Is she a lawyer, then?
	Yeah, she's Attorney General.
	Of course she was, of course she was, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, that's how she locked up all of those innocent men and kept them on death row.
	Right, that's actually worse though, because at least, and I say this, this is like two bad options, do you want the chair or the noose?
	Copium.
	Right, if she were to become president, she could have what, eight years tops?
	If you're Supreme Court, judge, for life, you're untouchable.
	Forever, ever.
	Yeah, and if anything, you're in a better position to influence policy in America than you are as the president unless you just do what Obama did and sign endless executive orders.
	Or Biden.
	Yeah, or Biden.
	Biden's got a record number.
	So that's two awful options, and they shouldn't do that.
	Don't put Kamala Harris on the Supreme Court for the love of God.
	Please don't do that.
	Please don't do that.
	You're absolutely right.
	In a way, a Supreme Court judge is more powerful than any president, in a sense.
	I mean, it's the Supreme Court that gets to really interpret what the Constitution and the Bill of Rights is, what it says.
	The president is merely a decider.
	I say merely, they're the head of the executive, I mean the government, but nonetheless, at least five judges, Supreme Court judges, obviously they can get anything passed if five agree on something.
	They're more powerful than a president.
	And it was the Warren Supreme Court in the 1950s that completely upended basically the entire way that southern states in America operated.
	Well, after the ruling for gay marriage, one of the most absurd bits of legislation, I think it was Justice Anthony Kennedy, wrote into law the reason that we can redefine the definition of marriage is because the Constitution gives people the right to redefine their hopes, their dreams, their definition of truth and the universe.
	It's like fantastic romantic poetry there, you complete blowhard, that has absolutely nothing to do with the Constitution, but that gets cemented into law.
	Yeah, no, the Supreme Court is a fantastically powerful thing.
	I mean, back in the 19th century, they rule that slavery is legal.
	Decades later, rule that it's definitely illegal.
	You know, they rule that segregation is fine.
	And then decades later, they rule it's not fine.
	And then they get to... They've got the power in all sorts of ways rests with them.
	Again, they get to interpret really what the Constitution means on the Bill of Rights.
	And just to put a full stop on that point is that in the 70s Roe v. Wade, fine.
	And then the other year, Roe v. Wade, not fine.
	And in the judgments that were given by the Supreme Court judges, you basically had...
	Clarence Thomas and some of the other conservative judges saying, yeah, this whole argument they put forward was nonsense to begin with.
	There's no secret interpretive right to privacy in the 14th Amendment, which is basically saying the loud part, the quiet part out loud, which is the Supreme Court's can magic up rights out of thin air if they feel like it.
	The Supreme Court is not bound by precedent.
	That's the key thing.
	We don't care what we said before.
	We don't care what we said before.
	We think this now.
	And of course it only takes five of them to agree to push something through.
	So those five people are more powerful than any given president, in a sense.
	But anyway, I wasn't really talking too much about the Supreme Court.
	Let's just hope Kamala doesn't end up on the court.
	Let's just hope that.
	So the Independent there saying that Democrats are freaking out.
	The next one, Vox.
	It's funny that it's even lefty type things are sort of, so the theory why Biden's struggling with young, sorry go back, or why Biden's struggling with young and non-white voters, just a general collapse in his popularity really is what that is.
	They're sort of prepared to admit it and that the democrat faithful are worried about it.
	If you go to the next one.
	Pardon me, I should have brought a glass of water.
	Politico, again, going with that same thing that people behind the scenes are freaking out.
	Because, you know, even people like maybe Bill Maher or...
	I don't know, Bill Maher's not too bad, is he?
	No, he is.
	He absolutely is.
	Okay, alright, I take that back.
	What I mean is he's not sort of, at least he'll go on something like Loose Women, not Loose Women, what do they call it?
	The View?
	The View.
	He'll go on The View and push back against them.
	There are worse people than Bill Maher, but yeah, lots of his takes are absolutely mental and insane.
	But even someone like Bill Maher, I did mention him as an example of a lefty, but he'll openly say, look, Biden's, it's a joke, like, you know, come on, you can't deny it anymore.
	Even further than someone like Bill Maher, Jon Stewart did.
	Right, someone like Jon Stewart, right.
	Yeah.
	We'll even, we'll say, look, come on.
	And Jon Stewart's far worse.
	Well, I mean, they're both about as bad as each other, but Bill Maher is less obvious with it, I'd say.
	So in the Politico article, we're told that these insiders, the unnamed source, he says that anxiety has morphed into palpable trepidation.
	According to more than a dozen party leaders and operatives, the gap between what Democrats will say on TV and in print, and what they'll text their friends, has only grown as worries have surged about Biden's prospects.
	Again, the polls just look bad.
	Nearly two dozen reasons why Biden could lose range from immigration and high inflation, to the President's age, the unpopularity of the Vice President, In the presence of third party candidates like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
	Just to name but a few issues...
	With Sleepy Joe.
	Another quote here from a Democrat, I think he was a Congressman, Dan Kildee, I think he was a Congressman, definitely a Democrat.
	He said, we have to run a campaign where honestly we drive home the message that Donald Trump takes us back to the 19th century, Biden takes us further into the 21st century.
	So it seems like the Democrat establishment are going for the angle Much the same as they did the first time.
	Just orange man bad.
	Just revel in your Trump derangement syndrome, regardless of how divorced it is from reality.
	Just go from, he'll take us back, he wants to be an emperor, he wants to be king.
	Whatever nonsense you want, whatever words you want to say.
	We're just going to go with that.
	He's going to destroy the country, destroy democracies we know.
	I wish he was everything they said he was.
	I was going to say, look, I don't have contempt for the groups that they're talking about, nor do I have an issue with President Trump because he's hilarious, but this is getting increasingly absurd when he's hosting the Lob Cabin Republicans, draping himself in the LGBT flag, is friends with Caitlyn Jenner, and has given historic amounts of money to black colleges.
	I mean, again, that's not something that I think makes him and his campaign positive or legitimate.
	That's not the grounds on which I would support him.
	But it just completely dismantles all of their smears.
	Oh, yeah.
	Also, you said all this the first time round.
	Right, right.
	And none of that happened.
	Yeah.
	So, like, fool me once, not that I was fooled at the time, but fool me again, then that's not going to happen.
	You sound almost exactly like George W Bush.
	I'm going to say that was completely intentional.
	But if people are going to fall for this again, then they absolutely deserve whatever ruination Biden is going to bring into the country.
	Fool me once, we won't get fooled again.
	Yeah.
	No, it's stupid, yeah.
	It really is stupid that, again, the angle that they're trying to attack him is just exactly the same as last time and he revealed himself to work perfectly within the rules, to a fault even.
	He didn't go hard enough to try and drain the swamp, did he, the first time?
	Yeah, he didn't drain the swamp.
	He didn't fall in the National Guard against the 2020 riots, for example.
	Right.
	Biden did call in the National Guard before his inauguration even, didn't he?
	Remember that?
	They lined the streets of DC whilst Trump was still actually the president.
	Anyway, so there was a clip in the last day or so because Trump's going through one of his many trials, isn't he?
	One of the many trumped-up Pun intended.
	Trials.
	This is the Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen lawsuit.
	There's a whole slew of them coming, aren't there?
	There'll be another, at least another one if not two before the election.
	And Bobby De Niro turned up on cue.
	Obviously a paid show.
	Can we play this clip?
	It's only like a minute.
	Yeah?
	Can we do that?
	Where's the mouse?
	There's the mouse.
	We New Yorkers used to tolerate him when he was just another grubby real estate hustler masquerading as a big shot.
	A two-bit playboy lying his way into the tabloids.
	But around the country, people who didn't know him, as we did, started to support him.
	They bought into his bullshit.
	That's why I needed to be involved and wanted to be involved in the new Biden-Harris ad.
	Because it shows the violence of Trump.
	And reminds us that he'll use violence against anyone who stands in the way of his megalomania and greed.
	But it's a coward's violence.
	You think Trump ever threw a punch himself?
	Or took one?
	This guy who ran and hid in the White House bunker when there were protesters outside?
	No way.
	He doesn't get blood on his hands.
	No, he doesn't.
	He directs the mob to do his dirty work for him.
	When Trump ran in 2016, it was like a joke.
	This buffoon running for president.
	No, never could happen.
	We'd forgotten the lessons of history that showed us other clowns who weren't taken seriously until they became vicious dictators.
	Like Zelensky.
	Trump, we have a second chance.
	And no one is laughing now.
	This is the time to stop him by voting him out once and for all.
	We don't want to wake up after the election saying, what, again?
	My God, what the hell have we done?
	We can't have that happen again.
	If I start De Niro, he's 80 years old.
	It's time just to stay at home now, Bobby.
	He does know that he's not an actual gangster.
	Right, yeah, he's talking about... Yeah, you're not...
	I know you're old now, Robert, and maybe you're getting things mixed up, but you weren't actually an Italian gangster at any point in your life.
	Well, he was a famous actor who seems now incapable of just learning lines before a press conference.
	Yeah, he's reading off the script he's been given.
	Pathetic.
	Also, it's completely disingenuous and disgusting to say that Trump hid in a bunker from protesters, because those so-called protesters had already killed people and Firebombed the church that he then went and stood outside holding up a Bible on 529.
	He was literally evacuated for security reasons because they were worried that they were going to try and breach the White House barricade.
	Whilst Biden really did hide in a basement for most of the last three.
	For the entire campaign.
	Yeah, De Niro talking about throwing a punch or taking a punch.
	Yeah, Robert, you're not Jake LaMotta.
	You're not actually Jake the Mutt, right?
	You're not hard in any way, you're an 80 year old washed up douchebag.
	But it's funny though because the backlash from this, at the time there were people sort of outside the court just like heckling him and stuff and I think the Trump, some of the Trump kids, Trump's got more than one son hasn't he?
	Some of the Maybe it was actually Donald Jr.
	I don't know, but they did a counter press conference or something saying, don't listen to Robert De Niro.
	Who listens to celebrities and film stars anymore?
	I mean, even 10, 15, 20 years ago, it was a real thing, right?
	If an A-lister endorsed a politician, a lot of people would... there's some weight to that, right?
	But not anymore.
	I think we know by now that people who play pretend for a living and get a ridiculous amount of money for Again, being outsized theatre kids.
	No offence, Connor.
	Fair.
	Why do you think I'm not in theatre anymore?
	They all suck.
	They aren't always experts when it comes to political discourse or analysis.
	Did you see The Rock?
	They were asked, oh, you said you might run for president in the future, but in 2020 you endorsed Joe Biden.
	Do you feel like doing that again?
	He said, well, I felt it was something that I was compelled to at the time.
	Will I be doing that again?
	No.
	No, I won't.
	Because even he realizes there's a massive egg on his face.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, De Niro always had, from day one, a pretty acute case of Trump derangement syndrome, didn't he?
	There was that video.
	He always was anti-Trump.
	I think because he's a New York guy and a lot of New Yorkers, left-leaning New Yorkers, have had an animus against Trump since the 80s or earlier.
	Right, yeah.
	Trump's been an annoying rich kid to them for decades and decades and decades, long before he was seriously involved in politics.
	Yeah, he wasn't a real tough guy like us theatre kids.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I'll get you!
	That's going to be clipped out of context.
	If we play this clip, it's just a little bit more of the same thing, but even more absurd.
	Under Trump, this kind of government will perish from the earth.
	Nonsense.
	I don't mean to scare you.
	No, no, wait, maybe I do mean to scare you.
	If Trump returns to the White House, you can kiss these freedoms goodbye, that we all take for granted.
	And elections?
	Forget about it.
	That's over.
	That's done.
	If he gets in, I can tell you right now, he will never leave.
	He will never leave.
	You know that.
	He will never leave.
	What does that mean?
	Is that the country we want to live in?
	Do we want him running this country and saying, I'm not leaving, I'm dictator for life?
	And that's why I've joined the Biden-Harris campaign, because the only way to preserve our freedom... That wasn't another clip of a guy confronting him, shouting, You're a MOOC!
	You're a MOOC!
	M-O-O-K!
	This guy's gonna whack all elections!
	What's a MOOC?
	I don't know, but De Niro's a MOOC.
	That's all I know.
	There was a guy that walked up and said that the capital police officer lied under a roof as well and he was completely stumped.
	He was like, they lied under a roof?
	He was like, they didn't put this in my script.
	I didn't, I wasn't prepared for this.
	I've not had my, my dementia meds this morning.
	De Niro's just a mutt.
	Just a washed up mutt.
	That's all he is.
	And so I can't believe anyone would, like, it's just, it's embarrassing.
	It's embarrassing for him.
	And, um, yeah, it's good that he got pushed back, sort of, in real time, outside.
	And it's so clearly, sort of, reading a script as well, that it's been written for him.
	I can only imagine.
	I doubt he wrote those words himself.
	It's like, he will never leave.
	Why are you...
	What a palpable liar, what nonsense.
	He did last time.
	Yeah, like he did last time.
	It's like we remember more than three years ago, four years ago, Bobby, like would you?
	Are you alright?
	What's... 80.
	It's 80.
	Right, anyway.
	So, looking at the actual polling, because all of this smacks a bit, doesn't it, of desperation, to be perfectly honest.
	I didn't realise how much time I'd used up there, so just quickly to show the numbers.
	Yeah, just click through a few of these links.
	Just showing that it's like disapproval rate of 60% that's that's really really high anything over 50 anything between 40 and 50 is pretty high pretty bad 59 that's real bad um uh on that one uh 39 so it's just lower than that's just that's not approval or disapproval that's just what people like to vote for and stuff um so uh yeah just Trump just keeps pulling ahead in the polls
	Just the more they sort of seem to fairly nakedly attack him through law for political reasons, the more people like Trump are prepared at least to vote for him or abandon Biden.
	The most likely part of Biden victory has been speculated at the moment, and this is not falling afoul of YouTube's guidelines, is that there have been large voter registration efforts in swing states recently.
	I know it's Texas and Missouri, I believe, are two prominent ones.
	The Texas, I think it was the AG, they said we're not sure where all of these are coming from because we haven't cleaned up our voter rolls and lots of dead people have been taken off the rolls obviously so they can't vote but there's about 200,000 people that are added in April and people are speculating are these America's brand new neighbors who have wandered across the southern border being given a social security number and then are able to vote in a federal election because there was a recent ruling that allowed them to that said it was against the Civil Rights Act if they couldn't vote in federal elections at least so there could be
	Many new arrivals who obviously are being promised amnesty by the Biden administration thinking I'll vote Biden.
	Hmm.
	It's bad.
	It's real bad.
	It's horrible what they're trying to do.
	And the argument that it's Trump that's trying to destroy a democracy, or that he's ruining politics, or the way politics is done.
	It's that classic, classic thing of you accuse your enemy of the thing you're doing.
	I mean, we know this now.
	This isn't new.
	This isn't a hot take from me.
	But this just seems like the biggest, most egregious example of that.
	Where they're actively sort of destroying by using the law and the Justice Department to go after Trump to ruin him in all sorts of ways and then accusing him of trying of weaponizing the political system or the justice system.
	It's just really bad and one last thing to say about the polling is there's a difference between your approval rating and disapproval rating if that makes sense and so Biden's disapproval rating was like down in the higher 30s which is really really low that is really really low I mean even I think George Bush jr.
	I don't think went that low with the whole Iraq war stuff so yeah most people it seems or definitely most people the majority of people in America aren't happy with Sleepy Joe so once again let's just say fingers crossed for the Donald you mentioned you had a couple of criticisms of him there earlier yeah I'm not I've said it before I'll say again I don't think he's like this God Emperor, this answer to all the problems, but a thousand times him over Biden.
	Absolutely.
	A thousand times.
	And if he does try to drain the swamp a bit harder this time, I've got everything crossed for him.
	Yeah, I don't love him.
	He is, in his own way, a bit of an embarrassment, right?
	But, I mean, he's not a polished statesman, shall we say.
	He is very entertaining.
	Yeah, he's very, very entertaining.
	He's genuinely funny.
	And last time he didn't embroil them in loads of foreign wars.
	Brilliant.
	That's brilliant.
	And if he can drain the swamp, if he can do even two or three of the list of ten things he said on Tucker a few months back, saying, yeah, draining the swamp in all sorts of ways, if he can do even some of that, that's going to be brilliant.
	So I'm rooting for him.
	OK, so that's it.
	Maybe move on to the video comments.
	Video comments, please.
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	Interesting.
	Okay, look at that if you're so inclined.
	On to the next one.
	This segment, The Anti-White White Man Finding Out Yesterday, reminds me of the book and Richard Pryor movie, Brewster's Millions.
	It is about a man who has to spend 30 million dollars in 30 days in order to inherit 100 million.
	Being forced to have too much of what one desires not only forces one to confront the reality of what one desires, but also teaches the virtues of moderation.
	Bruce's Millions is entertaining.
	I think he stands to win 300 million in Bruce's Millions.
	I've not watched it.
	I haven't seen it in about 10 years.
	It's proper 80s.
	It's great though, I love Bruce's Millions, it's a great movie.
	Doing some sweet reverse curls there.
	I mean they're working the forearm.
	Yeah, getting the forearm pumped.
	Bruce's Millions is basically the UK election where none of the above would win if it ran.
	Right, yeah, probably would.
	Might be worth an examination actually at some point.
	Short video.
	Anyway, on to the next one I suppose.
	Afternoon, Lotus Eaters.
	A couple of three must-watch videos, I'd say.
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	And then second one being, they control billions of people with Michael Knowles and Dr. Epstein.
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	This one's probably going to be the least known, in my opinion, and probably the most necessary to watch.
	Alright, if anyone does clip this for Twitter, you should watch Wade Stotts' channel.
	He was a very entertaining producer for Louder With The Crowd before he struck out on his own, and he's a very compelling dissident voice who understands how power works.
	Basically, he just runs through the Demaestra principles and things that Oral McIntyre talks about in his Constitution video, so definitely recommend it.
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	I'm enjoying all the ad reads today, I suppose.
	Is that real?
	Is that a parody?
	I have a look at the website I suppose people if you're interested.
	Bathory was a real person.
	Yeah.
	A serial killer.
	Yeah she didn't she didn't quite play in blood as was advertised.
	Some of the things are outlandish.
	Probably exaggerated but who knows.
	She was certainly a sexual offender.
	And a serial killer I think.
	Yeah.
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	This was not an actual ad read by the Trump administration, but that is a great use of AI.
	That's cool.
	That's great.
	I like that.
	We should get Daisy to tweet that or read or something.
	Yeah, if you tweet us without the text over the top, then I would, as long as we have a stipulation saying this isn't actually Donald Trump, because of course that's how ridiculous things are these days, because people can't discern for themselves, would be entertaining, I suppose.
	Harry, do you fancy doing that?
	Doing what?
	The top popular comments, because you've got them up, please?
	Oh, yeah, there's a few Rumble comments, so those are the ones that I'll read first.
	Bald Eagle 1787 for $2 UK sends a ton of diversity Hires over to Ukraine to fight Russian air superiority, artillery superiority And armoured superiority just rolls along Russia don't care who fights them RT kills equals LY I don't know what LY means there But yeah Ukraine conflict as much as the media says It's going great for Ukraine Ukraine's about to push the Russians back It's been going terribly for years now Yeah.
	Uh, I mean, they're basically, like, having to kidnap people in the streets of Odessa and other cities, so that, uh, kidnap young men, and they're looking at, uh, reducing the legal age of conscription there.
	You don't do that if you're winning.
	You don't do that.
	The war there has degenerated into an artillery war, and every war since about the 1860s that has degenerated into artillery exchanges, extended, prolonged artillery exchanges.
	You don't want to be on the side that manufactures far less artillery shells.
	You just don't want to do it.
	It's as simple as that.
	It's like air superiority.
	If you don't have air superiority, you're going to have a tough time.
	They probably don't go and try and fight for the side that hasn't got air superiority or is winning the manufacturing war in artillery pieces and ammo.
	Probably not a good idea.
	Can you imagine dying in Ukraine because Rishi Sunak wanted to implement a policy that would win over boomers?
	No.
	While the drone's coming for you, like, screw you Boris!
	Yeah, thanks for this Boris.
	I hope they make a statue out of you.
	Threadnaught for $20 says, the 4th of July in America is celebrated as the day America became independent from the English.
	Yeah, it does seem like there's some weird symbology going on with the 4th of July election.
	Well, the American election's also on the anniversary of the gunpowder plot.
	So we've inverted.
	Okay, we've inverted, yeah.
	And the last one, the last two, Threadnaught again for another $5, thank you very much.
	Quoting Bill Maher, not actually quoting Bill Maher, but maybe this is his internal monologue.
	Come on guys, let's tone it down on the noncing.
	At least until after the election, then there's nothing they can legally do to stop us.
	For legal reasons that's a joke.
	That's a joke.
	That's a joke.
	Definitely wasn't addressing...
	John Podesta.
	No.
	Torgo the White.
	Where would Bill Maher and John Podesta meet each other?
	They've got no connections.
	Anyway, Torgo the White, $2.
	Robert De Niro stars in Old Man Yells at Clouds 2, Electric Boogaloo.
	Hopefully his last film role.
	Quite.
	Have we run out of time for today, do we think?
	I think we're about to hit the line.
	That's unfortunate, but at three o'clock I will be introducing my interview with Liz Truss.
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	I will get back to the political and Twitter s-storm currently going on, but thank you very much for co-hosting, gentlemen.
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