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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for today, the 11th of June, I'm your host, Conor, joined by Carl and Bo, and we will be discussing how Europe Zoomers finally have their champion, Hunter Biden, on trial, and whether or not Trump's conviction actually matters for the 2024 election.
	Before we jump into any of these segments, we do want to alert you to the fact that The first edition of our Islander magazine, which Rory has worked oh so hard on, has some fantastic contributions, only has a week left, am I right?
	I believe so, yeah.
	Before it goes to print.
	Get in, pre-order your copies.
	I don't believe we will be reprinting this first edition, so you can own a timeless piece of Lotus Cetus culture from our humble little isle here.
	But without further ado, let's jump into today's stories.
	Well the EU election happened and it seems to have been a win for what the mainstream media are lamenting as being the far right.
	Now anytime far right is used in this segment it just means patriotic populists who don't want to see their country swamped with unlimited hordes of third world dependents.
	Normal.
	Yes.
	He's normal.
	Yes.
	That's what it means.
	Yes.
	That's a normal opinion.
	Anyone post-war politics, basically, that says far right is a dog whistle for the 1930s Germans, even in the countries that fought them.
	So it doesn't make any sense.
	And we are very happy, because they aren't the 1930s Germans, to celebrate these patriotic populists riding into a degree of victory.
	And how did they secure that victory?
	Well, it turns out that young male Zoomers who have been subjected to joblessness and homelessness and a Rapid deracination from their host culture and having no inheritance and sense of belonging when, yeah, we're not so keen on mass migration, actually.
	We're going to break for the likes of the AFD or Marine Le Pen or the Swedish Democrats.
	And so it seems that the Zoomers are finally getting their avatars of populist patriotism on the European continent.
	Maybe, maybe in the UK.
	So just to go over some of the details, I know Stelios mentioned some of this yesterday, but I'll give a bit of a brief So the European People's Party now have 184 of the 720 seats in the European Parliament, and the two right-wing groups, the sort of self-styled centre-right in the EU Parliament, the European Conservatives and Reformists, that's the ECR, and the Populist Patriots, the Identity and Democracy Group, they control 131 total seats in the chamber.
	The members of the Renew Group, so that's the sort of Blairites within the EU.
	They lost 23 seats.
	Macron lost heavily in France.
	We'll get the maps up shortly, and obviously others in Spain, Denmark, Romania and Estonia.
	I think the Greens lost about 20-odd seats as well, which was a real repudiation, because they were the main voting bloc in the last five years, and in combination with their open-doors migration policy and their European Green Deal, especially after the energy crisis caused by Ukraine and Germany's heavy reliance on Russian gas, it's meant that High energy bills and high house prices and cultural desolation hasn't made them all too popular.
	Not excellent, is it?
	France's national rally took nearly a third of the votes and this now prompted Macron to call a snap election.
	Those votes would take place if you're in France.
	What are you doing watching us?
	We're English.
	On the 30th of June and the 7th of July.
	Now that doesn't mean that Macron himself will go because he's still president until 2027.
	It means that the National Assembly and the Prime Minister will probably be swapped out for Le Pen's second in command.
	And we'll get on to him shortly.
	The reason that Macron is likely to lose is because the Socialists, the Greens and Les Republicans have all rejected Macron's offer of coalition.
	So he has absolutely no allies.
	And after the Gilets-Jean protests and the, I don't know if it was unconstitutional, but certainly autocratic passing of the pensions bill and increasing the retirement age, The mass riots we saw from Algerians and all sorts of other fake asylum seekers after that teenager was shot for trying to ram cops with a police car.
	The burning down of Notre Dame, which did they actually end up prosecuting the guy?
	Because you wrote an article on this a little while ago, didn't you?
	Yeah, lots of other churches were also incinerated.
	All of those things in combination have made Macron...
	Understandably unpopular, I think.
	Le Pen responded to the snap election announcement.
	She said, we're ready to put the country back on its feet.
	We're ready to defend the interests of the French people.
	We're ready to put an end to mass immigration, which helps explain why she's so popular.
	Also, Georgia Maloney, who herself has been a massive disappointment.
	Her Brothers of Italy party got more than a quarter of the vote.
	And then obviously in Belgium, as was mentioned yesterday, Prime Minister Alexandre Ducroux, who Shockingly, if I remember correctly, he stood up for Natcon when Brussels' local police cracked down on it.
	So even he saw sense at that point.
	But that didn't spare him from a massive electoral wipeout because his Flemish Liberals and Democrats party, that's Open VLD, fell from 17.85% in 2019 to less than 7% of the vote.
	The populist Vlaams Belang and the New Flemish Alliance secured 17.5% and 22% of the vote respectively.
	And add to that, like, Upon this count of all the seats, Germany's 15 lawmakers, 10 representatives of Hungarian Viktor Orban's Fidesz party, 6 to Poland's Confederation party, 3 member of Bulgaria's Revival party, you've just got loads of populist right-wing victories stacking on top of each other.
	And that means that Ursula von der Leyen's seat, because last time she was voted in she was only voted in with a majority of 1 as the only candidate who run, is looking pretty in question for the first time.
	And that's good for everyone.
	Yeah, it's interesting.
	I tweeted AC Grayling about this yesterday.
	Do we still want to join the EU if it's going really far right?
	He didn't respond.
	Well, this was Harrison's position on the podcast a couple of times ago where he said, ironically, even though we all agree with the principles of British constitutional sovereignty, those powers then handed over to Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, ironically, and we got limitless numbers of Menapt migrants, whereas now they're getting their populist patriots and they might actually deal with the migration problem.
	Your jacket colours are sticking out.
	Thank you for the Lotus Eats wardrobe department for fixing that.
	Cheers mum, voice of God in my ear.
	But no, it wasn't inevitable that we got betrayed after Brexit.
	For some reason they just decided to do it.
	It'd be funny to quiz someone who's sort of a staunch, sort of implacable pro-EU person, someone like Sir John Major.
	Fanny.
	Yeah, someone like that saying, so do you still want, should, it's an interesting question, would you still want to be part of the EU if the EU was full-blown sort of AFD or harder, even more harder right than that?
	Would you still want to be ruled by that?
	I'll do my annual chat with Steve Ray at Conservative Party Conference and say, well how do you think the EU's going at the moment, Steve?
	You still particularly pro?
	I think it's nice to see though, just in general, because there's this idea, you know, the doomers and the pessimists I see people say there's never been such a thing as democracy.
	You can't vote your way out of this.
	Vote hard or lol.
	It's always been a sham.
	It's like no, no it hasn't and it isn't necessarily.
	We're in a bad place and it's been heavily, heavily manipulated against us for decades but it is possible to vote your way out of this.
	It is.
	It's the only option we've got anyway.
	It's that both of those things are true.
	I don't think it's necessarily possible to vote your way out of it entirely, because of course you need mass clearouts and people with the gumption and will to do so.
	I mean, Georgia Maloney, for example, massive disappointment and has betrayed her mandate.
	Same with Boris.
	They can just lie to get in, but also what other choice do we have right now?
	Well, paramilitaries, but let's not go there.
	That's not a choice, for legal reasons, that's not a choice.
	No, I wasn't condoning it, I'm just saying.
	So, but yeah, not all have to end up like Maloney.
	Like, who's the guy in, is it El Salvador?
	Bukele.
	Yeah, Bukele.
	Yeah, you could get the real deal, you could get a Victor Orbán.
	But that's the thing, like, it is possible.
	It is possible, yeah.
	It is possible, we just have to have someone who's not a part of the Uniparty.
	And that is a difficult thing to find, but it's possible.
	And, you know, I think we're heading in the right direction, generally.
	Yes.
	Contrary to anything Peter Richardson says.
	Look at the Bukaley guy or Victor Orban.
	It's difficult to gatekeep to make sure you don't get a Maloney but I mean that's the whole that will probably be the whole struggle for the next 20 years or whatever I would think in Britain or not just Britain all over the world.
	Our politics the Overton window shifts to the right or the centre right and then there's an endless battle to Defeat the fake containment types.
	I mean, one great thing about the EU going right wing is that so much of our elite class just take their marching orders from whatever's happening on the continent.
	They look over and go, look, there's so much more enlightened than us.
	Look what they're doing.
	OK, well, now what are they doing?
	How much more enlightened are they now?
	Oh, very.
	OK, let's follow that lead if we have to.
	Yeah well we know that this is a good thing for us because we can see who's crying about it.
	So Dawn Butler, notorious... I think it's fair to say she's a liar at this point because she did say that she got a written letter of endorsement from Obama and that turned out to be untrue and then she said she was profiled by the police for driving while black but she also wasn't driving.
	Yeah.
	So she just keeps making things up it turns out.
	Calling a politician a liar isn't really a very substantive charge.
	Okay, race grifter, fine.
	So she said We were all warned about the rise of the far-right and incels in all capitals.
	Incels?
	Did you not know the incel party has swept fame in Bulgaria?
	What is she talking about?
	Well, to be fair... What?
	We'll get on to that in a moment.
	The attack on Woke feeds into this dangerous rhetoric.
	Bear in mind, Nigel Farage has just had more things thrown at him on the campaign trail today, so as you rightly pointed out, they're happy to engage in stochastic terrorism, but us saying, oh, we might not want gay race communism, thank you very much, is akin to a death threat somehow.
	The surge in support for the far right across Europe is a warning for us all.
	Farage and reform, some Tories should be nowhere near power.
	Yeah, you know what, if Dawn Butler's saying that, I agree with her.
	This is a warning to you.
	I think she should be nowhere near Twitter, given it's not like she has a character limit because she's an official account, and yet somehow still manages to bastardise the grammar.
	But there you go.
	The thing is, if she wasn't saying things like that, I'd be like, OK, we're going in the wrong direction, guys.
	If Dawn Butler was like, oh, I'm not really that bothered, actually, it's OK.
	Things are going all right, actually.
	It's not a big deal.
	I'd be like, OK, guys, we need to do something seriously different.
	Yeah.
	That's what we're doing.
	If she's not saying this, we're not winning.
	If you don't have a hope not hate hit piece at this point, you're not on site quite.
	So, let's look at what happened in Germany.
	Let's see if her claim has any legs.
	Basically, the Zoomers delivered the AFD a victory because they've been seeing... German incels rise up.
	Well, actually... Hey look, I'm on side with the German incels.
	Yeah.
	Vote for us and we're going to get you wives.
	Well, so... That's my party pledge.
	It's actually the party pledge of Maximilian Kraft.
	I'm not joking.
	Right.
	I'm just saying, it's a vote winner.
	So he said, one in three young men in Germany has never had a girlfriend.
	Are you one of them?
	Vote for us.
	Don't watch porn, don't vote Green, go outside into the fresh air, be confident, and above all, don't believe you need to be nice and soft.
	Real men stand on the far right.
	Real men are patriots, that's the way to find a girlfriend.
	This is my guy.
	And this is why they got 16.5% of the vote overall.
	I didn't get a wife because I'm nice.
	The actual point on the incel thing though, like, there is a certain point where being involuntarily celibate becomes voluntarily celibate, because the moment you adopt the incel identity, you codify your own inability to get anywhere in your own mind.
	So reject the label, and then, as this man eloquently says, join the quote-unquote far right, and you probably will just get married.
	It's quite nice, you know.
	Women love the far right.
	That is quite true.
	Not even joking.
	Yes.
	I mean, look at all of the women that Fraud's been posing with recently.
	Organically attracted to him, there you go.
	So, in the last EU election 2019, one in three among 16 to 24 year olds voted for the Green Party, and the AFD only got 5% of the youth vote.
	The AFD was sceptical about Germany lowering the voting age to 16 for the EU election.
	In 2018 it took the matter to the court in the state of Thuringia and now 16% of them have voted for the AFD, tripling its vote share in the demographic and putting it almost on par with the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union alliance.
	So it seems that this message has actually resonated because those 16 to 24 year olds not having to get a house and facing bad job prospects and particularly young women being a target of migrant crime think anyone who's promising to deport criminal legal foreigners I'm probably on board with that.
	It turns out that the left have kind of stepped on a rake here because anyone can radicalise a young person because they don't know anything about the world and so it's like okay well you know just Promise them something.
	Well also the right are better at memes.
	Yeah.
	And so if TikTok just becomes a vector of meme dissemination, turns out the right-wing politicians are much better than the left-wing ones on TikTok because they're more organic and just sort of funnier.
	Yeah.
	And they tap into the fact that people notice trends if they just open their eyes and believe those instead of ideology And when they notice that their entire civilization is crumbling around them and think it might have something to do with the consensus party policy that's been in power for the last 30 odd years, since before they were born, they might want to change that a little bit.
	Speaking of the incels in Sweden, they were celebrating their victory.
	Pretty Swedish incel young women at the front there.
	They were celebrating with a certain famous song on the news.
	Don't know why the audio isn't playing for us.
	But yes, it's a club classic that the Germans have also been singing along to.
	Isn't that banned in Germany?
	I don't think it's banned in Germany, though people who were dancing along to it are being prosecuted.
	I think that's more to do with the fact that they had a few drinks and did a Prince Harry and imitated a certain Austrian painter, which is not very wise.
	Don't do that.
	Very silly.
	So, speaking of the Waffen, the Zuma Waffen actually have their champion, and it can be found in France.
	And I just want to look at the electoral map for France, because... Oh dear.
	See, that's my point about you can't vote your way out of things.
	Well...
	Eventually.
	Until we do.
	Yeah, until you do.
	It depends if they keep their promises.
	Like Nick Griffin saying it's all over, there's no point trying to do anything in the electoral sense anymore, they'll never let you do... He's a cuckold for radical Islam.
	If there's enough, is he?
	Yeah.
	Oh yeah, it's actually cringe.
	If there's enough popular support for an idea, It's difficult to annihilate the truth of what people really feel and think.
	Even Stalin couldn't suppress it ultimately, in the end, forever.
	You just can't.
	You do need to get around the various bureaucracies and gatekeepers like in Whitehall, for example.
	I think when people say voting doesn't fix it, what they're trying to hammer home is voting is not enough to have the politicians either keep their promises or enact the policies that they need to get into power.
	Yeah, I get that.
	Again, until they do, though.
	Until you get a tranche that are propensity, that have got balls, that will clear out Whitehall.
	We'll just create another department and circumvent the Home Office.
	Eventually, I think we'll get there.
	It's not impossible.
	So, for our video listeners, the brown section, which might be hard to spot among all of the other victories, like the Social Democrats and the like, is Identity and Democracy.
	As they're known in France, it's basically Marine Le Pen's National Rally Party.
	National Rally won 31.5% of the vote, double that of Macron, and the only seats Macron got, it turns out, were basically in Paris.
	Not great.
	That is brutal.
	That's sort of Richard Nixon victory, isn't it?
	Yeah, you'd think that's a Green Party map in the UK, basically.
	That's pretty embarrassing.
	So Zero Seat seems to be an international project at this point.
	So as I said, Macron's dissolved the National Assembly, called a snap election.
	So Marine Le Pen's second in command, or rather the leader of the party, because she's appointed him In that position, could be Prime Minister by July.
	So who might replace Gabriel Attal as Prime Minister if this election goes much the same way as the one that you've seen on screen now?
	Well, here's Jordan Bardella.
	He's a very interesting chap because he seems to be an avatar of the sort of radicalised Zuma, and he's good fun.
	So he was born to an Italian family in Seine-Saint-Denis, very much surrounded by the sort of Enriching diversity that every city has been brought up on.
	He's also the product of a broken home because his mum and his dad split up when he was one.
	So these sort of boomer lib attitudes around relationships and anti-family policies have affected him deeply.
	So he's got a background in this stuff.
	He's 28 at the moment.
	He joined the party when he was 16, became vice president in 2019, aged 23, and has been president of the National Rally since 2022.
	So he's the second youngest MEP in EU history.
	He also didn't spend much time at university.
	He went to the Sorbonne to study geography, I believe, but he just dropped out because he kept arguing with left-wing intellectuals and thought it wasn't worth his time.
	And anytime he's in a debate with one of Macron's technocrats, he's much sharper than them.
	So his policies include...
	French first prioritising for jobs, welfare and housing, which would be great.
	I would say French only specifically for social housing and things like that.
	Yes, over in the UK.
	Reminder, 72% of Somalis in this country are on social housing.
	I'm so glad I have to pay for those.
	He's a bit softer on Russia, as are the whole party, because I believe there's some Russians that have financed Marine Le Pen's campaign.
	Again, Ukraine's horribly corrupt, Russia's horribly corrupt.
	I'm not going to lambast either of them, and if someone's going to try and negotiate from within the EU for a peace deal at this point, it's probably better than a ground war with NATO, so there you go.
	Of course, reducing immigration, opposing Islam, but from a sort of Republican secular perspective.
	French is a very... A cringe liberal perspective, but okay, fair enough.
	A French perspective.
	The only other perspective they've got is a sort of Jewish-Catholic alliance from Eric Zemmour's Reconquest Party, but they aren't very prominent in the polls.
	One criticism I do have of Bardella is that he has dismissed all of Zemmour's voters as irrelevant, and I don't think that's true in the slightest.
	I think Zemmour's got about 8% of the vote, if I remember correctly.
	Not insignificant.
	Yeah, quite.
	And also, these are all people that are your allies and could well be won over to your side.
	The only thing that's different between Zamore and Le Pen is a protectionist policy as well, because these guys are...
	Are they not Thatcherites on the markets, are they?
	No, they're the complete opposite.
	They're very state subsidy redistribution, repatriating manufacturing, welfare spending, whereas Zamor is very Thatcherite.
	Zamor said he wants to win over the anywhere people, therefore he thinks Thatcherism plus anti-Islam will be victorious.
	Doesn't seem that's the case in France as of yet.
	And they're also quite pro-Israel, and the reason is France's Jewish population, they've always had a very large Jewish population in the last few hundred years, it's gone down from, I believe, 700,000 to 400,000 in the last 10 years or so because of the mass influx of Muslim immigration.
	It turns out- Correlates with the Algerians coming in, doesn't it?
	Yeah, yeah, the massive rise in attacks on Holocaust survivors and Jewish neighbourhoods being firebombed.
	Turns out it might have something to do with the diversity.
	But the most important point is not his policies, but if I scroll down in here, it's because he has the TikTok ground game.
	I mean, you've essentially got loads of videos and selfies of him posing with Yeah.
	the attractive young French women who like the look of him.
	And so he's gone at about 1.5 million followers on TikTok.
	So like Trump, like Farage, like the AFD, as we've seen, right-wing politicians are winning over the Zoomers because their TikTok game is much better than most other politicians.
	I think only AOC is probably rivaling them in the States.
	And even then, it's a lot of astroturfing and very insincere.
	And also, the hilarious thing is, it notes in Sky News right at the bottom, and I know Sky News is a real rag outlet, but it turns out he might have had a... anon account on Twitter, and might have been posting something spicy.
	He's always denied it, but...
	Oh, what, like Paul Marshall?
	We could be looking at President Cunley-Druckberg, basically, which would be brilliant and hilarious.
	So to finish this segment, just with a bit of optimism, we're seeing all of this happen across the EU, I'm glad that young French, Germans, Belgians and the like are voting for Patriotic Populist Party.
	So what's happening in the UK?
	Well, I did this segment earlier last week and it seems to have been clips of it edited into pro-fraud, dark Brexit meme compilations, which I'm always happy to see.
	And I did predict that you're going to see a sort of polling bump for young people among reform now that fraud has stepped into the race.
	You know what was interesting?
	When I was doing the MEP campaign in 2019, there was a poll that we got that had it broken down by age, and UKIP was polling at 17% for 18 to 24 year olds, and Callum just looks over and goes, look, we've done our job.
	And it's like, great point, actually.
	Well, turns out something similar's happening here.
	Oh really?
	Among 18 to 24 year olds, reform are the second most popular party.
	Oh yeah.
	Now of course- There's still quite a distance.
	There is still quite a distance, but for an insurgent populist right-wing party, particularly among a very ethnically diverse and ideologised generation, 10% out ahead of all of the other parties with much more name recognition is pretty significant and they're also out ahead with 45 to 54 and 55 to 64.
	It's only the boomer bribing bracket of 65 plus where Labour and Conservatives are remotely close but even then 19% of them are breaking for reform.
	But the really important one is that 10% block there because it only took about 16 odd percent of the vote share for the AFD to really upset the balance.
	And that was mainly driven by young people.
	And I think, as Farage's Mean Ground game gets off, you're gonna see more people to do so.
	And also, Farage was addressing the fact that polling averages are skewed, because a lot of the time, they won't put reform in, they'll put it under the other category.
	And they won't do a cross-sampling of everyone.
	If you do Scotland and London, Reform are well behind.
	But if you do every other constituency in the country, they're ahead of the Conservatives.
	So I think we're going to see more seats than expected for Reform, like in the European elections, not to the same scale, because young people are really sick of mass immigration.
	It's going to be a fun one.
	I am looking forward to the election nights, to be honest.
	Right, ready to go?
	Oh right, yeah.
	Have I got the con?
	Okay, so I thought I would talk all about Hunter Biden.
	Oh good.
	Because he's a very naughty boy, isn't he?
	Far from being the messiah, he's a very, very naughty boy, it seems.
	I only know this because of the things that Hunter Biden himself has allowed to fall into the public domain.
	Yeah, against his better judgement.
	He's so The laptop thing.
	The details of it.
	So dumb, so anyone doesn't know.
	He just took his own laptop to a repair shop and forgot about it, it seems.
	Through some sort of fog of drug-addled insanity.
	Forgot he'd taken his laptop to a repair shop.
	That was full of incriminating evidence, such as videos, photos and emails.
	But really, he didn't want to fall into the hands of Rudy Giuliani in the Trump campaign.
	Or Steve Bannon.
	Or Steve Bannon.
	And they did.
	Yeah, it's unbelievable.
	We'll talk a bit more about the laptop towards the end I think, because this is something slightly different.
	Despite a good few years of wrangling now, well over three years of the actual Justice Department looking at Mr Biden, Hunter Biden, there's two things.
	One is allegations of fraud, tax evasion, various money issues to do with whether he either just didn't pay a certain amount of tax or where his income came from.
	So that's something different and he will be going on trial, criminal trial, in September for that.
	This is a completely different case.
	Well, they were sort of connected in terms of trying to do a plea deal and stuff.
	But anyway, a completely different issue was he got in trouble for lying on documents about getting a gun.
	Really?
	Messenger, I've never bought a gun in America, but I bet they ask you questions like, are you an alcoholic?
	Are you a drug addict?
	Are you a convicted felon?
	Are you currently on parole?
	Lots of questions, I bet he didn't answer honestly.
	Are you clinically insane?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So gun laws in America, every state is very different.
	Every state's very different.
	But up in Wilmington, it's Delaware where they're from, isn't it?
	Delaware's the place.
	So yeah, you had to sign to get just a pistol.
	He tried to buy a .38 special little revolver, little nickel-plated, quite a nice little pistol.
	And And on the thing you have to declare that you're not a drug addict.
	And he said I'm not.
	Now, he was certainly on drugs.
	Even his own defence team don't claim that he was clean.
	He doesn't claim he was clean.
	He's just saying, I wasn't actually an addict.
	Oh, oh, right, yeah.
	Right, so we're into the fine details.
	Well, look, I was taking drugs every day, but I wasn't addicted.
	Maybe that was the day where he'd accidentally stumbled across some Parmesan cheese rather than a crack rock.
	And so, technically, he might have been sober when filling out the form at the time.
	I was just so desperate for crack, I mistook cheese for it.
	And smoked that.
	I mean, I'm not an addict.
	Okay.
	Well that is the thing, so in his own memoir he's talked fairly candidly about his struggles with substances and again his own defence team, well he's not even trying to claim that he was completely clean and sober at that point.
	You know he was smoking crack, I believe crack, well cocaine as well, crack cocaine.
	So this, anyway.
	Lots of drugs.
	Yeah, yeah, okay.
	Probably lots of different drugs.
	So he bought this pistol.
	Again, why he felt the need necessarily to buy like a .38 special Colt Cobra.
	It's a nice little pistol.
	I'm sure it's lovely.
	But why he suddenly needs one?
	Yeah.
	Because it wasn't for sort of practice or just sport or he liked to shoot or anything like that.
	He never shot the gun, he alleges.
	There's no evidence he actually ever even tried Shooting it or anything like that.
	So anyway, that's not the point.
	You're allowed to own a gun.
	Sure.
	It's not a problem.
	Um, but yeah, so he only owned it for about 11 days when his sister-in-law, his dead brother Bo, his wife Hayley, I think her name was.
	Hayley?
	Hayley?
	Isn't that the one he ended up getting with as well?
	Well they had, apparently they had a brief tumultuous tryst.
	Uh, yeah.
	I don't want to speculate on that.
	He's a man of such sterling character.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But just all sorts of grief and weirdness going on.
	I don't want to necessarily judge him for that but, well, I will actually, it's weird.
	Anyway, moving on.
	She found the gun, like 11 days later odd, just in his car.
	Yeah.
	She just found it.
	She took it upon herself to just take it to the dumpsters round the back of some local Wilmington stores and just put it in a dumpster.
	You know, I hope no one finds this gun in the dumpster.
	That's weird.
	So she did that.
	I don't know whether it was she felt to protect him from himself or whatever or this guy just doesn't need access to a revolver right now.
	Maybe that was her thinking.
	Either way, I feel like that was actually probably Maybe a crime, are you allowed to do that?
	Well, it's theft, right?
	Well, yeah, theft in the first place.
	But also, it's dangerous because a kid could have found it, or whoever, who knows.
	I mean, it's unlikely a little kid's going through dumpsters, finds a .38 Special, sources the ammo for it, and then accidentally shoots someone or themselves.
	Could happen.
	Unlikely.
	Otherwise she looks like she's arming the homeless or something, doesn't she?
	It is irresponsible gun ownership.
	Whatever happened, her doing that was irresponsible on her part.
	Anyway.
	The crime they're trying to get Biden for, Hunter Biden, is lying on that thing.
	So he says, he says, look, I may or may not have been high as a kite for those 11 days, but I was not an addict.
	And that's the letter of the law.
	Prove I was an addict.
	Well, it's in your memoirs, Hunter.
	Well yeah, he's claiming at that point he was, he'd already sort of largely got clean, although obviously not completely, like he wasn't claiming he was sober, he's just saying I wasn't actually addicted though.
	I'd been to various rehab things and I'd put things in place, and sure I was still smoking, but I wasn't, I'm not actually an addict, so I haven't done anything wrong.
	So, it ended up boiling down to them arguing about what is the nature of being an addict, and does Hunter fall into that definition?
	Well, someone who admits that they were an addict, but now, I'm not an addict, I just smoke it recreationally.
	That's an addict.
	That's an addict in denial.
	And I'm not taking any counter-arguments to the contrary.
	I'm only a crackhead on the weekends, it's genuinely his.
	I can stop drinking whenever I want.
	Yeah, it's like, yeah, can you?
	Anyway, so I called this bit Hunter in the dock, but actually he was never in the dock, or the witness stand rather.
	His defence team chose not to put him on.
	Which again is very tending.
	Because he's shaking his ass.
	Yeah.
	He's putting the crackpuff away as he gets on the stand.
	No.
	It's very tending because usually, it's not always the case, it's not fair to say this is always the case, but usually the defence won't put you on because it's not in their interest to.
	You're going to bugger up.
	There's too many cracks in your story or you just don't... Portraits of words!
	Yeah, there's too many crack rocks in your story and you just don't come off as credible, you don't come off as believable or nice or anything like that.
	That's usually why they do that.
	Do you not remember the ABC interview where he admitted that he shouldn't have been on the board of Burisma and if it wasn't for his surname he wouldn't have been in there?
	I mean that's another reason why he wouldn't want to be on the stand.
	It's like well he might just come out and admit the thing because he's actually obviously not that bright.
	Also if he had to be on the witness stand would he not have been subjected to a drug test?
	Or cross-examination.
	Oh, I don't know.
	Definitely cross-examination.
	Because the prosecuting party could have requested one, and given there was that recent case, I can't remember what it was for, it might have been Thanksgiving, where they found a bag of cocaine smuggled into the inside of the White House.
	Oh yeah, I wonder who that was.
	It could have only been someone who didn't go through security clearance, which means friends or family of the Bidens themselves.
	Who in the White House would be taking loads of cocaine?
	Surely Jill.
	It could well be he isn't quite clean at the moment.
	Yeah, I mean because the incident itself is back from 2018, so all the drug tests now would do is see if he's still using or whatever.
	Yeah, which he probably is.
	I mean, he knows about that.
	So yeah, he wasn't called as a witness in his own defence, which is a little bit suspicious.
	Not necessarily always, but still a bit weird.
	A tactical manoeuvre.
	Yeah, so the question is, really, was he an addict?
	Now, right now, as we speak, the jury are deliberating.
	So, for a start, it's a jury case.
	And, I mean, you can never really tell what a jury are going to decide, really.
	It's one of those things, it sort of is in the lap of the gods.
	His defence team, as you can probably sort of imagine, tried to argue that, one, he wasn't an addict, so he should be let off just in and of itself, just on the strength of that.
	But also, it's Trump's fault, and it's Republicans, and they're weaponising the Justice Department, Joe Biden's Justice Department.
	Oh yeah, yeah.
	Somehow Trump and the Republicans have weaponised that.
	And it's all unfair.
	And this kid, this poor, didn't-do-nothing kid is being demonised for the crimes of his father and all that sort of nonsense.
	It was actually Trump administration policy that Hunter had to bang Russian hookers, I hear.
	It's just absurd.
	The problem is Trump is just interfering with his under-the-table deals with China and Russia.
	Well just before we move on to that, just to finish up because I do want to talk about that as well.
	Just to finish up on the gun thing.
	He's on three different charges, federal charges.
	Could potentially get 25 years.
	Even if he is found guilty, and in my mind it's a 50-50 whether he will be.
	But if he is, he probably won't get a custodial sentence.
	The judge will probably give him a slap on the wrists.
	But who knows, he could get a big custodial sentence.
	I've put very good money on that he won't.
	And it's 50-50 whether he'll be found guilty at all.
	The other case in September, that's the big show, this one's a bit of a, not a joke, it's a federal gun charge, but yeah, this is sort of a, yeah, yeah, an amuse-bouche for the big show in September, which, because this case was all done in a few days flat.
	Just to mention, earlier on I mentioned about the possibility of a plea deal, What they tried to do, this is like what a year ago or so or over six months ago, they tried to do some sort of deal with both these, everything he's being charged with all at once, one big deal with the Justice Department and it looked like it was going to be They were just going to basically drop the gun charges.
	He was going to admit to doing something wrong but he didn't really know he was doing anything wrong when it comes to the money side.
	It was just going to be a big massive slap on the wrist and he certainly wouldn't get any jail time if he admitted to little things here and there.
	And then particularly the right-leaning establishment of Fox News and And Trumpers and all sorts of people, most normal people with their right mind, were like, you can't, this is, that is a real travesty of justice, you can't do this.
	That is, no one would get such a sweet deal normally, no one would dream of anything close to that degree of sweetness in a deal being struck.
	And eventually even a judge, I think it was a Trump appointed judge, said, no we're not doing that, that plea deal is ridiculous, we're going to trial.
	And so here we are.
	But before I carry on, just about the Burisma and Russia and China and things.
	It is interesting though, isn't it, to see the cogs of justice turn in different countries, how they deal with it.
	And America is interesting because, you know, if, for example, the Justice Department was completely a thing of the Bidens, this wouldn't have happened, would it?
	Now, they're definitely using it to weaponise against Trump.
	Yeah, we'll come back to that in a minute.
	And also, it's sort of the way it's always been.
	It's quite difficult throughout all of history to make the justice system completely divorced from politics or from culture or anything.
	It's a very, very, very difficult, almost impossible thing to do.
	Still, you want to get as close to it as you can.
	But yeah, like the Justice Department is, the FBI and, albeit very very very slowly, has brought cases against Hunter Biden.
	So you can't say, as lame as it is and as long as it's taken, you can't say that they're completely... No, but the problem I have though is this.
	I don't know how to, like, this sort of tidal force, maybe, where it's been very, very difficult to get to this point, because the evidence against Hunter Biden has been so overwhelmingly, well, look, he's a crackhead, he's taking foreign money, and I, you know, I've seen some bizarre photos of him on Twitter that are definitely worthy of investigation, and it's taken a long time to get to this point where a Trump judge has got to be like, no, no, we are going to do something about this.
	Whereas when it comes to the people on the other side, Yes, yes, yes, yes.
	Constant, constant, constant, constant lawfare against these people to the point where it's actually getting quite ridiculous, but we'll cover that in a minute.
	We'll think about what's just happened with Steve Bannon, for example.
	We'll cover it in a minute, we'll cover it in a minute.
	Oh yeah, just to be clear, I'm not saying it's fair.
	No, no, no.
	Now they're prosecuting Biden, it's all good.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And there's no issues with the... I'm definitely not saying that.
	They're just, you know, there's such an intrinsic bias in the justice system towards the Democrats and away from the Republicans, it's just so evidently not fair.
	And so it is a miracle that it's got to this point, to be honest.
	Yeah, they did try everything in their power for it not to, didn't they?
	Yeah, they did pull out all the stops.
	That's quite often the way you'll come up against a particular judge and all of their it's all sort of at their discretion quite often and if you get a judge in the right mind in the right mindset I mean it's what happened with Nixon and the and the Watergate tapes And the whole Watergate scandal.
	Eventually they came up against the judge.
	He was actually a Republican.
	A lifelong Republican.
	But was just for the law.
	Straight down the line.
	Sort of a thousand percent for the law.
	And he just couldn't not bring things to trial.
	And couldn't bring himself to omit key bits of evidence.
	And so eventually the truth came out.
	Again, as I said in the last segment, it's difficult really for the truth not to come out largely in the end about most things.
	After enough time has elapsed.
	Yeah, I mean not everything of course, but... So, okay, so quickly moving on then.
	Biden has said that if Hunter is convicted of felony charges he won't pardon him.
	Presidential pardon when Joe comes to leave office.
	I don't, I'm not sure.
	I don't believe it.
	Presidents quite often say they won't and then literally on their last day in office they pardon all their buddies.
	Yeah.
	That's, that's been done a bunch, a whole bunch of times.
	I won't put that past Sleepy Joe.
	Not in a million years.
	Are you assuming he lives that long?
	Right, yeah.
	I'm sure he will.
	In his will, saying to Kamala, make sure to pardon Hunter on your last day.
	Okay, so yeah, just then to say the upcoming thing in September is that's much much more serious because this is just sort of this gun thing.
	It's sort of silliness and drug-addled antics.
	Yeah.
	It's a footnote, right, in history.
	It's quite trivial.
	Yeah, right.
	And really, if that Haley Biden hadn't have dropped it in a dumpster, it might not have been a thing at all.
	But yeah, the money stuff, there's something like 1.4, 1.5 million dollars of income, and this is going back to the years I think,
	2017 2018 sort of time and it's alleged that he's sort of failed to pay something in the order of a hundred grand's worth of tax on that and that's from what I know and I might be wrong when the trial happens and we didn't find out all the details and things but I feel I think that's fairly a slam dunk black and white he just didn't pay some taxes he should have done.
	He's gonna get Al Capone'd is he?
	Well that's the thing so sometimes they just they just say well at the end of the trial they just say right you're gonna pay that like right now and there's a whole bunch of other fees and fines and things you're gonna pay or yeah they go Al Capone or Wesley Snipes.
	They're like no we don't want your money anymore you're going to federal prison.
	No you keep your money you're going in the slammer.
	I doubt they would.
	That's what they did to Wesley Snipes.
	Wesley Snipes owed silly money and at the end he was found guilty.
	And he's like, OK, I'll pay.
	And they're like, oh, too late for that, Wesley.
	So I don't know what they'll do with Hunter.
	But I suspect he might be in trouble with that secondary case.
	It does look kind of bad for him.
	And it's not even where it came from.
	So like, yeah, the Burisma thing.
	I'm worried about where the money comes from, really.
	I don't care if he doesn't pay tax.
	Tax sucks.
	Because the question is, why would anyone give a know-nothing crackhead Hunter Biden loads of money?
	He's of no use.
	He's no good to anybody, is he?
	His dad was vice president, that's why.
	Right.
	You know, temps him for the big guy.
	The big guy.
	They shared bank accounts.
	I think at one point they shared a phone number or something, didn't they?
	Wasn't Joe Biden making him give him money as well?
	Yes.
	There's a text from him complaining that his dad makes him give him money.
	Good God.
	Also in the text, and this is something that should be investigated adjacent to all of the obvious drug crimes which he's doing on camera, Abuse in the family, because we now have Ashley Biden's diary.
	In those texts, he nicknamed his own dad Pedo Peter.
	And then Hunter himself, there were texts between him and Jill about untoward advances on his niece, who was about 14, I think.
	Really?
	So all of this is established as evidence and nobody's interested in touching it.
	Very strange.
	Well that's the last thing I was going to say, as you alluded to.
	There are images out there of Hunter Biden seemingly compromising situations with young ladies who appear to be far, far, far too young for the age of consent.
	They're just out there, whether the FBI and the Justice Department will take it upon themselves to investigate that fully, who knows?
	Yeah, the fact that he's getting done for tax evasion, whatever it is.
	Well that's the thing, tax fraud or whatever it is, the crux of it is, is that Joe Biden himself is potentially compromised because when he's gone on record a bunch of times he says I know nothing about my son's business deals.
	I know nothing, literally nothing, about all his money issues.
	Now that again seems already, seems anecdotally, seems to have been shown that's just not the case.
	That cannot be the case.
	So then if Hunter Biden has taken money from God knows who for God knows what reason, it's kind of obviously that it's to get access to the idea of pay to play, getting access to the big guy.
	I mean, it's fairly straightforward, right?
	It's not really sort of an elaborate web of deceit.
	I mean, it's really weird as well, because there was a Chinese company who paid him millions.
	The fact that he's on the board of Burisma with no skills is obviously just a sort of connection.
	But didn't the wife of the mayor of Moscow give him three million dollars as well?
	It's such a bizarre web.
	But this is not the stuff that he's being charged for.
	None of the disgusting stuff.
	It's the fact that it's tax fraud.
	Because that doesn't really come with a great deal of moral baggage, right?
	I hate taxes too.
	Libertarian hero, Hunter Biden.
	He does loads of drugs, doesn't submit to gun background checks, doesn't pay his taxes.
	Questionable in the age of consent.
	Libertarian hero.
	So, it's getting him on all the wrong charges for my liking, you know what I mean?
	Yeah, yeah.
	It really is.
	Yeah, I would like to see... It seems to me, unless it's proven in court, that on the money side of things he's completely innocent and genuinely did nothing wrong.
	If that's shown, then okay, so be it.
	But I doubt that'll be the case and if it's not, I'd like to see him go away for a long, long time and his father disgraced and perhaps prosecuted.
	And then after all of that, Investigate the allegations of underage sex.
	Because it seems to be there.
	There's just evidence, right?
	Yeah, there's photos of him.
	I mean, I guess you'd call them child prostitutes.
	God knows who they are.
	Trafficked kids.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The correct term, trafficked children.
	How you can show your face in public and just pretend you're sort of normal or whatever.
	It's wild.
	The absolute corrosion of his soul is just mad.
	And it clearly follows from the top if it's the same with Ashley Biden, Hunter Biden.
	I also heard that Beau Biden, when he was alive, worked to get a convicted paedophile out of prison.
	Oh.
	Is that right?
	Yeah.
	Weird that.
	I'm ashamed to share a name with the man.
	He even spells it the same way as I do.
	Oh no.
	It's very, very rare.
	Yeah.
	But okay, I guess we'll move on from Hunter Biden because maybe I'll talk about it again later in the week or in September when the other trial comes up because the jurors should be returning a verdict any moment, perhaps today.
	Oh really?
	But they're actually in deliberations right now as I understand.
	So we'll see.
	I guess we will.
	Can I pinch those?
	Yes, of course.
	Technology ration coming your way.
	Thank you.
	And the mouse, please.
	OK.
	Yep.
	Go for it.
	Yeah, so go pick up Islander, by the way, before we start, of course.
	One week left.
	It's worth your time.
	Anyway, so I thought we'd just begin with Biden.
	Joe Biden, this time.
	I mean, he's just out to lunch, right?
	We haven't got any sound, but that's OK, because we can just observe his very strange behaviour.
	Right now, obviously, just confused old man.
	I like, everyone says, Oh, Joe Biden has done this.
	Joe Biden has done that.
	I don't really believe Joe Biden does a lot, actually.
	I think that Joe Biden is far too, uh, just millions of lives will be saved.
	But, uh, he doesn't know what he's doing.
	He's he's confused, man.
	And this is not news.
	Uh, just the very bizarre things.
	There's some celebration he's at.
	That's a pride thing, isn't it?
	No, some black community thing.
	I can't remember what it was now.
	But it's just so bizarre that he stood so rigidly straight.
	These are not normal behaviours of a person who is fully compus mentis, right?
	He is like a toddler.
	Yeah.
	He's got the same stance as, you've seen that video where he walks up in front of the reporters and yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	He does the, a child looking their parents square in the eyes knowing they're defecating their nappies.
	Sure, we'll come to that in a second, but it's the total lack of apparent social skills, right, makes it appear that he doesn't really know where he is and what he's doing, so it's okay.
	And like you say, at a recent D-Day ceremony in France, as the parent of a toddler, That is a correct assessment.
	Yeah.
	It looks like Macron pulled his finger.
	Yeah.
	We have been reliably informed though that he did not poo himself at D-Day event by...
	Daily Beast.
	chat checked yeah i don't i don't know how they know that in fact he didn't uh we smelled ourselves yeah but uh apparently he was looking for a chair which is like okay fine but isn't that interesting that that's the kind of headline you have to go with so yeah you know joe biden didn't actually uh crap himself this time actually but also like unlike in front of the pope uh sorry yeah
	if if he was and camilla if he was cognitive and the reporters and what else if he was cognitively aware he would have seen there are no chairs when he just walked up on the stage and why everyone else is standing up.
	Yeah, I mean, there is a chair behind him, actually.
	Okay, well, there is a chair behind him, actually.
	So, you know, maybe, but even then, okay, it's someone who's lacking in spatial awareness and is unsteady and is obviously an 80-year-old man who needs to be put on the front porch in the sun to watch some TV or something, not in charge of a country.
	I mean, and you listen to him talk.
	This just, are American weapons being used right now, right now inside of Russia?
	Quite an important thing.
	And of course he says yes, but that's not the thing that I think is worth paying attention to.
	I know for years you resisted the idea of American weapons being used for any sort of direct strike inside Russia.
	But we did witness this shift in recent days, authorizing American weapons for It's the way he's talking, though.
	He's very, very difficult to get what he's trying to say out.
	- Inside Russia. - They're authorized to be used in proximity to the border.
	We're not authorizing strikes 200 miles into Russia.
	We're not authorizing strikes on Moscow, on the Kremlin. - It's the way he's talking, right?
	He's very, very difficult to get what he's trying to say out.
	Like this is the guy who is just not physically equipped for any of this. - I've said it before, 'cause I've done a bit about Biden's decline Yeah, it's just so obvious.
	Yeah, you mentioned it earlier but, and it might sound like nothing but it's again very very very telling, is that your gait, the way you walk, not just the way you walk, the way you just sort of stand there as well with a weird posture.
	Yeah.
	Everything about it screams someone's dying.
	Yeah.
	Not just struggling a bit.
	Yeah.
	Somebody that's dying.
	The little baby step thing.
	That's sort of where you can't really turn your neck much so you turn your whole body.
	Someone who's very infirm.
	Yeah, someone that's not long for this world.
	I saw it in my own grandparents.
	I'm just thinking Michael Keaton in the bat suit where they didn't build in any neck movements so he had to keep going.
	Yeah, but we've all seen his gait, right, and also you started off with a bit about where he leaves a lectern after saying some words somewhere or other.
	How many times does that have to play out?
	Yeah, exactly.
	I've seen that half a dozen times easily.
	Yeah, and these are all things from the last week, right?
	That's the thing.
	These are all things from the last week, because I could have gone and got historical clips from like a year ago, six months ago.
	The campaign trail.
	Yeah, exactly.
	All exactly the same stuff.
	And again, Biden fumbling his sentences.
	She knows so long as she was nine, our freedom could never be secured.
	What is he saying?
	Everyone's still, America could be defined in a single word.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Just the constant same problems are coming up, right?
	And so this is something that people have noticed, right?
	People know that there's something wrong with Biden, right?
	He's not the one really in charge.
	And even if he is, that's even worse, right?
	There's something wrong.
	So anyway, going to the Trump verdict now.
	So Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of Was it?
	Retroactively changing tax records to hide payments to Stormy Daniels.
	But none of them were felony crimes and they couldn't even agree on what the felony crime itself was.
	And the jury was instructed they didn't have to agree on what the crime was either.
	Yes.
	We just need enough of you to say yes on some, and then we'll pile it all together.
	We don't like the Big Bad Orange Man at all.
	And it was done via Michael Cohen, who was convicted for, what was it again?
	Lying to Congress, and I believe it was also forging business records before as well.
	Yeah, so convicted fraudster and liar.
	And he broke parole.
	He broke parole.
	It's a quite trivial thing anyway.
	It's like Hunter Biden's gun thing.
	It's quite trivial, really.
	B, it seems to be very stitched together and the part of a constant campaign of lawfare against Trump and the people around Trump.
	And so the question is, OK, well, is it going to change the election?
	Well, polls suggest no, actually.
	Womp womp.
	So that's interesting, because of course, you can tell the Democrats have been really, and who was it, Alexander Soros has come in, no we've got to tell everyone he's a convicted felon.
	It's like, okay, tell everyone, because nobody's like, oh yeah, well, in neutral court justice, suddenly found Trump guilty, well I guess I can't vote for that guy then, because that's not what's happening, and everyone can see that's not what's happening, right?
	So Rasmussen, who are generally pretty good, did a poll, about this and Trump had gained one percentage point after this so didn't do what the Democrats were expecting him to crater.
	No.
	Trump's at 43% now and Biden's at 42% in their poll and they say this suggests any baggage carried by the president has long since been baked into the public's assessment of him.
	In other words the jury decision wasn't news that surprised anyone.
	No, why would it be?
	Has there ever been anyone that That's been subject to a more defamatory and aggressive media campaign than Trump.
	Has there ever been anyone who's been more investigated than Donald Trump?
	I mean, honestly, right?
	Again, if you'd just asked me 30 years ago, oh, Donald Trump, he must have some skeletons in his closet, you'd be like, well, yeah.
	Billionaire New York playboy, yeah, of course he's got some skeletons in his closet.
	And then after all this investigation, it turns out he doesn't really.
	Oh, we've got him on his tax records, guys.
	It's like, hasn't he got a crime to his name, you know?
	I think some of the details for the Stormy Daniels thing, I think it was that he got to sign an NDA.
	Yeah, she said.
	And he needed a lawyer to rub a stamp and do all the paperwork.
	Well actually he didn't get to sign it.
	He still claims and there is no paperwork to this day that shows that he had any knowledge of this.
	Michael Cohen just presented him with a series of claims that these are bad stories that might look bad in the campaign.
	Do you want me to deal with them?
	And he went, yeah, yeah, just deal with them.
	And he reimbursed him for legal fees.
	So it wasn't even that he knew there was a payout.
	It wasn't even... That's all I was going to say.
	The only point I was actually going to make is that he was paying his lawyer legal fees for doing lawyering.
	Yeah.
	And the case against him is that you falsely said they're lawyers fees when in fact it was hush money or whatever.
	Something else, we're just finding it in some other way.
	And now you're guilty on 34 counts?
	And Trump and most other people, particularly lawyers, they're like, what are you even talking about?
	What is this nonsense?
	And your average person can even understand that right your average person who might not even be predisposed towards trump yeah can see that's a stitch up same same with the uh the mugshot you know everyone can see now that shouldn't have that shouldn't have happened and trump played it so perfectly that it came off as a bloody giant win it was his only tweet he's done so far i know just his mug shots but it was such a good mugshot as well i can't get over it right uh
	And so yeah, most voters have just said, look, this doesn't make any impact at all, because this is all downstream of you having Trump Derangement Syndrome and not accepting him as the legitimate opposition, basically.
	So another poll was done.
	55% of likely voters said there's not a factor in their decision on who they're going to vote for.
	So most people are just like, obviously.
	28% called it a major factor.
	I'm going to guess they're the heavily Democrat voting base that they have.
	17% it was a minor factor, so probably a portion of the independents, who knows.
	But it hasn't swayed the polls in any way, shape, or form.
	So it looks like everyone's minds are already made up.
	Weirdly, and this is really going to shock you, Most people, 81%, cited the economy as the top issue.
	Wow, what a shock.
	Immigration second, I believe, in most polls as well.
	Yeah, well, followed by inflation, the state of democracy, crime, the southern border and firearms policy.
	So just all of the things that are real problems that real people have to deal with and not like elite rubber stamping and like marking of things.
	You know, so now I've got a red mark on you there.
	There we go.
	Look at your reputation now, Mr. Trump.
	Not people's problems.
	And so obviously it hasn't swayed anyone because, of course, all of these things were being improved under Trump.
	Trump was making the economy work for people.
	He was reducing inflation.
	He was, well, maybe not the state of democracy.
	I mean, it's not that I think Trump was interfering with democracy, but it was driving more mental.
	And, of course, he was dealing with the border and various other problems.
	So, like, all of these things I would suggest were better under Trump than under Biden, because Biden literally got into office and started executive order undoing all of these things.
	That we're good for people.
	But then when people were asked about personal qualities, and the reason I showed all those videos, again, from the last week, right?
	From the last week, when voters were asked about the personal qualities, they said that Trump was more, quote, tough, energetic, effective, and competent than Biden.
	He seems younger and more energized.
	Yes.
	Trump, I mean, I should have got just Trump riffing on a stage from the last week, again, because he's campaigning.
	And his teleprompter broke the other day, and so he had to just talk.
	But the thing is, that's the best of Trump, where he's just given, like, OK, I've got to just fill an hour with whatever's on his mind.
	Brilliant.
	Just let him talk.
	He's so much more entertaining.
	And this is why, basically, people are just like, well, He's more energetic, obviously.
	Joe Biden looks like he's about to collapse into dust.
	And interestingly as well, the public in America are not in any way shape or form persuaded by the sort of The media halo around Biden.
	He is, at this point, the least popular president in modern history at this 13th quarter of his term.
	So he's at 38.7% approval rating, which is a wow!
	38% of America think he's doing a great job.
	That's wild.
	Who are those people?
	I want to meet them.
	What exactly is it about Biden's presidency that you like?
	But I mean, this is lower than literally everyone.
	Trump was at 46.8%, Obama was at 45.9%, and even George H.W.
	Bush was at 41.8%.
	was at 45.9% and even George HW Bush was at 41.8%.
	So Biden is just on his last legs, not even joking.
	And another interesting thing about this confluence of events is that Biden's really starting to lose the black vote, as you can see.
	He's lost about 30% of them, right?
	Now, the black vote for the Democrats, as you can see, is 91 plus percent.
	It's a secure vote for them.
	They know that they're getting black people to vote for them, because the Democrats have operated a kind of feudal patronage network in these communities, which has been entirely destructive for these communities, but they essentially turn them into dependents.
	Well, it seems that that's not going great for them.
	Now, 30% isn't the end of the world.
	They've still got 63% obviously.
	But criminalizing Trump, I've seen lots of videos from black people going, oh, He's a real N-word.
	He's an OG.
	Exactly, right?
	Trump used to be wildly popular with blacks because he was always like the aspirational figure in the rap songs.
	There are loads of rap songs saying, I'm going to be like Trump, rich like Trump, stuff like that.
	Barack Obama himself said, the American dream is to be Donald Trump.
	Exactly, right?
	And so when he ran, they all had to turn on him, right?
	But now, okay, put out his mugshot where he's looking badass.
	And you're proving that the justice system is itself rigged and unfair.
	Which a lot of those people have been saying for quite some time now, you know, since Rodney King.
	So it's just saying, like, I can see why, and then you've got like Kanye West and stuff like that coming out in big sport, like, very influential people.
	This is a constituency the Democrats need.
	The other thing is as well, is that this voter share will largely be black men, and black men do not like Kamala Harris.
	And one of the reasons is... Nobody likes Kamala Harris.
	Black men do not like... Because she locks them up.
	That, but they also, lots of them, don't like voting for black women who remind them of their mothers.
	It's true.
	If you've got a high single mother culture, they don't like black femininity, they like actually aspirational black male competency.
	And if Trump embodies those virtues, then shut yourselves in the foot there Dems.
	I think it's really interesting that I said before, and I was wrong, that you couldn't be president if you're a convicted felon.
	I thought it was.
	There's an age limit, you obviously have to be born an American citizen, and I think if you're clinically insane you're also disqualified.
	And I thought it was also if you're a felon, but that's wrong.
	Yep.
	That is wrong.
	Someone has, I can't remember who it was now, someone actually ran for office whilst in a cell before.
	So it won't actually necessarily, it won't stop Trump from still being able to run or anything.
	Absolutely.
	But the thing with Biden being sort of obviously sort of just physically at a glance he's sort of decrepit but not being able to talk thing there's no way to sort of finesse that.
	Yeah.
	There's no way to really properly spin all of that to say it's not a problem and he's okay and there's nothing to see here.
	We've known for a while, right, before even 2020 election, we've known that he can't speak properly.
	It's mad.
	He can't finish a sentence without flubbing all the words.
	And the thing is, he doesn't even seem to notice that he's flubbed the words.
	Because he'll say something and then he'll just carry on as if, no, no, we need to know what you were just saying there because the sentence has to logically connect.
	It doesn't seem to matter.
	Whereas Trump is a superb communicator and seems to be in the best of health.
	So, okay.
	What did the conviction achieve?
	Well, nothing good for the Democrats, it seems, right?
	Doesn't seem to have actually been to their advantage.
	They haven't got a boost in the polls.
	They seem to be losing support of core demographics they rely upon.
	Not good.
	What it has done is made Trump really vengeful, which is great.
	About time.
	According to NBC News, fresh off his historic guilty verdict in New York, Trump's public comments, including interviews, I've found that he's increasingly focused on the idea of retribution against his enemies if he returns to the White House.
	Kurt?
	Yes?
	You get what you deserve?
	Michael Moore did call him in the 2016 election a human molotov cocktail thrown at the establishment.
	Yeah.
	Well, you've just lit the fuse ten feet longer.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's rhetoric driven by Trump's obsession that Joe Biden and the Democrats have orchestrated a series of legal problems intended to derail his presidential campaign.
	A political persecution theory that is not supported by the facts.
	Oh!
	Oh!
	Well, that's very persuasive, and has won over no one.
	Literally, the American public don't really agree with you, basically.
	Was that NBC News saying that?
	Yeah, that was NBC News saying that.
	One of the ones that employed Matt Lauer, who literally had a button in his office to lock in interns.
	Maybe.
	Yeah, not the most credible organisation.
	Was it then or CNN who one of the interns was found dead in the office?
	Oh, I'm not sure.
	There was one of them where it was just completely passed over.
	No one's just dead in the office.
	That's weird.
	Oh, lovely.
	Yeah.
	So then they say, you know, well, he was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records and the Biden administration had nothing to do with the case.
	It's like, right, so we're going to trade on the myth of neutral institutions, are we?
	So, I mean, we could always go to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan.
	Who has some serious questions about that.
	He points out that the Democrats demonstrate their obsession with investigating a person rather than prosecuting crime.
	And he says that the fact that the former senior Biden Justice Department official, whose previous employment consisted of leading a wave of state litigation against Trump administration policies, is now leading the prosecution of Biden's chief political rival, only adds to the perception that the Biden Justice Department is politicized and weaponized.
	Everyone can see it.
	I mean, the New York Attorney General literally just came out and was like, yeah, I'm gonna get Trump.
	I'm gonna get Trump.
	It's like, right, okay, neutral institution, is it?
	Nothing to do with Biden, is it?
	Come on.
	It's laughable, everyone can see it, and this is why none of these prosecutions are having an impact on Trump's polling, apart from the blacks, where it's going up.
	That was that Letitia James?
	Yes.
	Yeah, saying I'm gonna get him.
	Yeah, literally come out, and it's like, no judge should ever be saying that about anyone, right?
	I mean, like, when you're saying, you know, when they got Nixon, it was like, oh, he's a hard rule of law guy.
	I would love if every judge was a hard rule of law guy, but apparently they're not like that, right?
	So, okay, so everyone can see this is not That's the case.
	Things are actually just fine for Trump when it comes to polling.
	Trump also raised about £400 million since the New York City guilty verdict, since Letitia James.
	So £200 million from this most recent conviction and then £200 million before.
	So, okay, great.
	Things are going quite well for Trump there.
	And, apparently, former FBI employees are worried about Trump getting into power because they're worried that he's going to jail them.
	So, what would he be jailing you for?
	So, what are you saying, done something here?
	There's a paper trail is there that's going to lead to Trump going, no, investigate, investigate, investigate, jail, jail, jail.
	Okay, maybe you shouldn't have committed crimes.
	And if you're thinking, well, hang on a second, Trump's going to persecute his political enemies.
	Well, maybe, but whose example will he be following?
	You know, Steve Bannon's apparently going to jail.
	Bannon hasn't done anything.
	Bannon was in the White House for like six months in 2017.
	And even then... Is this because he didn't show up?
	It is because he failed to provide documents and testimony to the House Select Committee.
	So he's been found in contempt of a Democrat.
	Was this the January 6th Select Committee?
	No, this... Oh, yeah, no, it was.
	Sorry, yeah.
	So the entirely partisan, completely chatting out of their backside Select Committee are now...
	Who are persecuting a bunch of just regular American patriots for not being violent as they walked through the house after being let in.
	Going on an unguided tour of the capital.
	Yeah, well it wasn't unguided, the police were with them.
	Oh yeah, fair point.
	You can see all the footage where they're walking around.
	So it's like, right.
	So that's a politically motivated witch hunt.
	And they're complaining that Bannon has not cooperated with their witch hunt.
	And he's been sentenced to four months in prison.
	Bannon has appealed.
	And the judge has eventually said, well, look, the appeal's been rejected.
	Bannon's going to take it to the Supreme Court.
	And the judge decided, no, while that's happening, you're going to go to jail.
	So OK, Bannon obviously sees this as highly politicized, which it obviously is.
	And that's not where it ends.
	Wisconsin Attorney General is filing felony charges against Trump's attorneys.
	So they're going after Trump and all of the people around him, and they have been for ages.
	Loads of people around Trump have been targeted because they're very, very, very worried they're going to lose the next election.
	I think Michael Flynn, I think it was in 2016 they went after him with the Logan Act, which I think only one person had been prosecuted under since the early 19th century when it was passed.
	I'm not even going to provide a list because the list is just too long and exhaustive.
	Um, but it keeps going on.
	So they're, they're really concerned that like, uh, MAGA's jail plan is going to be to jail a bunch of the people who have wronged them.
	Is this the Mythical Project 2025?
	No, no, no, this is just concerns that they have, and this reflection of the elite class, Axios.
	So they're worried that if Trump wins in November, his supporters will push him to investigate and prosecute Alvin Bragg and various others.
	Bannon told us Bragg could be targeted by the 14th Amendment, which is the Equal Protection Amendment, and the 4th Amendment, outlawing unreasonable searches and seizures by the government, plus a score of other laws.
	So yeah, Bannon is going to be in Trump's head going, no, get them!
	Get them for doing this to you, for doing this to us, for doing this to all of us.
	And whose fault is it going to be?
	It's your own fault.
	You know, like you turned it into a banana republic.
	You were like, we're going to persecute everyone we can in the previous administration.
	And all you've done by doing that is not impact Trump, fill his war chest and start peeling off parts of your own core demographic and make it so that in the public's mind, they just know, okay, this is all just political Anger that's being expressed by the Democrats.
	And, to add to the list, and destabilising the Republic itself.
	That is one of the top concerns of voters actually, yeah.
	Dealing death wounds to the Republic.
	Yeah.
	Wounding it, giving it bruises that won't heal.
	Yeah.
	Because, I've just finished a series on Epochs, check that out on loadseaters.com, all about the lives and careers of Marius and Sulla.
	Yep.
	And again, there you've got this example of a tit-for-tat, forever escalating, two factions that sort of start persecuting and oppressing each other, and then violence, and then massive violence, and then civil war, and then whole-scale massacres.
	That's where this leads.
	The slippery slope of the Democrats Yeah.
	They're using the Justice Department to get their political enemies.
	Trump getting into office and arresting a whole bunch of people legitimately.
	Well when it's their turn again they'll go ape.
	Yeah.
	And then it will flip back the other way and very quickly you find yourself... This is how republics do it.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	This is how republics die.
	And if any of them had any kind of self-awareness or self-control, they would have said, look, it doesn't even matter if we think we could get them on these trivial things, we shouldn't do it.
	Because no matter what we do, we'll have the aspect of political persecution.
	And it's destabilizing to the polity itself.
	That's the problem.
	The problem is, though, it's a catch-22 situation, because if you don't do anything, Um, it's almost like a red rag to a ball.
	They're not going to stop.
	The leftists won't stop.
	No, no, no.
	But, like, if they weren't persecuting Trump, then Trump would not be persecuting them, I think.
	Okay, yeah.
	Because Trump's a very genial guy.
	He didn't come into office and just start, you know... Jailing Hillary Clinton, as promised?
	Exactly.
	He didn't do anything.
	He didn't train the swamp very much, did he?
	No.
	Weirdly, you can frame it that Trump was actually quite responsible with the way that he approached all of this.
	He was actually quite mature.
	And, you know, Trump's a conciliatory guy.
	He wants people to come on board.
	Whether that was a good idea or not, that's a different question to answer in hindsight.
	But you can't argue that Trump didn't actually approach it with a responsible attitude.
	He actually did.
	To his fault.
	And this is why he ends up getting screwed.
	But that was the right thing to do.
	Whereas the Democrats have not done the right thing.
	At all.
	At any point.
	At any stage in this process.
	All they do is demonise and persecute us.
	Okay, well then you sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
	Because Trump, I wouldn't be surprised if Trump wins, he does try to drain the swamp a bit, he does try to jail a bunch of key people.
	Yeah, they deserve it.
	And then when it's their turn again, well I've already made the point, but it's very difficult to break that cycle.
	In fact I can't think of an example where it has been broken.
	Yeah.
	So this might just be the inevitable consequence of being a republic.
	But I personally firmly put the blame on the Democrats for this.
	People voted for Trump.
	You should have just sucked it up and accepted it.
	That's what you should have done.
	But instead, you decided to take the aggressive political route of turning your country into a banana republic that was going to go down to the road of civil war.
	You chose it.
	Okay.
	And with that, on to the video comments.
	Before we start, I just want to say, chat, Colin, they're the ones who pointed out Colin.
	I can thank chat.
	We clearly need a wardrobe director.
	It's appropriate.
	There has never been a better time than now for the UK to be taken back from the Blairite globalists.
	The Tories have never been weaker.
	Like rats, they flee a sinking ship, but that ship has bones.
	Populists need to seize the helm and run for office.
	As those rats flee to reform, those in reform must loudly call out the frauds.
	You must sabotage them if they run for office, or stand against them.
	You have two chances to have a real populist party.
	It'll take time, but I finally see a light ahead for the UK.
	Okay, so I'm going to be talking about this, I've got to pre-record my show today but it'll be out tomorrow, on what the inside plan basically is for...
	Recapturing elements of the Tory party slash merging slash letting reform spearhead because there are various efforts going on.
	Part of the problem with running for office with a Tory party membership is because CCHQ has central control of the candidate selection.
	As we've seen in the last week, even if you get picked for a seat, you will be chucked out if they want to parachute a safe-seater, SPAD or party chairman in.
	They're actively stopping campaigning now as well because they've got no money left and nobody likes them.
	They're constantly getting ratioed.
	Yeah, don't bother this election.
	I mean, one, the candidate selection's already gone through, but don't bother this election.
	You've got five years to do so.
	What reform really needs to do is shore up their candidate selection process, because one, they've got hope not hate-vetting their candidates, and that's stupid, and two, some of the candidates that have slipped past the net in a desperate bid to fill all the seats are crap.
	Some of them are really not very... I'm sure they're very nice people, but they're not great parliamentarians in terms of their calibre, and I don't trust them to clear out the institutions were they to be elected.
	I think that's fair to say.
	Five years, ground game, hopefully there's something on the other side of it.
	I was thinking a bit more lesser of what California Refugee was saying there.
	You know, we need sort of an actual populist party, you know, my opinion.
	I don't want anything to come out of the ashes of the Tory party.
	I hope they die for good.
	And reform, yeah, if they're still run by Nigel, still a containment on some level.
	I mean, we talked about how I still support reform for this election, despite throwing some shade their way and just saying that about Nigel.
	I still support them and wish most of their, if not all their candidates, success.
	For no other reason... To destroy the Tories!
	Yeah, I know, that's exactly what I would do!
	But also, for no other reason that it does drag the Overton window to the right.
	Even if it's got to be pop-banging Nyadge that does it.
	That's still valuable.
	That's still absolutely valuable to try and break the paradigm of that you can only vote Labour or Tory.
	To break that once and for all, that'll be nice to see.
	If that's what reform's job is this time out, great stuff, let's do that.
	Um, but I think, I think, hopefully for 2029 and future, just new parties that are actually populist.
	I mean, I view Farage as the tip of the spear on this.
	Just, you know, he needs to punch through the consensus and he's taking the slings and arrows, literally, you know, rocks and whatever else they're throwing at him, uh, milkshakes.
	Um, you know, he's taking it and like he was, he is right.
	He doesn't have to do this actually.
	He could have a very lucrative and fun career just being a commentator or a sort of cheerleader for Trump, whatever it is.
	He could do very, very well.
	He doesn't have to do this.
	He's in his 60s now.
	This is obviously a great amount of stress.
	He doesn't have to do this.
	So I'm totally in support of Farage.
	One of the reasons why I will say the Tory party won't completely die off but it will be gutted of all of its traitors, hopefully.
	There'll still be some One Nation safe seaters there.
	It's just because it's far easier to inhabit an existing infrastructure than build it from the ground up, particularly if they've got the ground game in local constituencies, if they've got their party activists, if they've got... like reform doesn't have all that yet and so it would actually be easier, I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but easier to take that and have Nigel at the helm of that and have that already in place to, rather than spend five years building it up from nothing.
	The problem, though, is that it would have to require a restructuring of the Conservative Party.
	Yes.
	Like, the CCHQ inner party just has to be abolished.
	Yes.
	I mean, I would be up for local parties voting for the MP nomination themselves.
	As would I. Then that takes it out of the hands of the centralised apparatus who are captured by globalists and puppeteering the party and make it so a populist insurrection in the party could happen.
	So I think that'd be nice.
	I mean I don't know how great it'd work out or whatever but I think it'd be a nice thing to do.
	I'm not necessarily as interested in what's easier.
	Sure, sure, I agree.
	I mean, I'm all for a new party.
	I'd like to see small parties and independents.
	I'd love to see dozens and dozens of independents win.
	But you have to understand that, at scale, the money and the effort won't be in random independent candidates.
	It'll be in an organised effort, and that's true because it's easier to control.
	And that's where the money is flowing, behind the scenes.
	Yeah, I mean the future isn't written, we shall see.
	Just because it's been that way for a long time doesn't mean it will forever remain that way.
	I think we are seeing times are changing where these big monoliths of the big old parties... I think people will in the future vote for smaller parties without much money or organisation or even independence.
	You know, when we get down into the nitty-gritty of the reality of sectarianism...
	Right because that's what's coming though, isn't it?
	Yes, that's what's coming.
	So it's like there's a dude in my constituency who's For me, he's really based or whatever it is.
	I'm a Muslim.
	He's a Muslim whatever is sectarianism Wherever you are on the spectrum.
	Yeah, he hasn't got much money or much infrastructure But he's the dude in our town, you know, you know little rural community.
	I think that I hope that's where we're moving to Well, sorry, I don't hope we're moving towards sectarianism.
	We are moving towards sectarianism.
	I hope that means that at least then, actual independence of smaller parties will actually get somewhere.
	Because if the Tories are, not 100% annihilated this time, but profoundly broken, in 2029, if a similar thing can happen to Labour, which I think it will, I think Labour are going to go through one endless civil war for five years.
	There'll be no honeymoon period and it'll be civil war immediately.
	After that, Then we're into a brave new world, I think.
	I also think that Starmer could be catastrophic as well for the Labour Party.
	He governs like a maniac, literally like a dictator.
	But also, I think his policy proposals are crazy, and I think they're going to do damage, like Biden-style, to the country.
	And so people are going, oh God, the Labour Party have really screwed us.
	Why have they done this?
	That was always the plan.
	There's this idea that if you have a big enough majority, the actual opposition is going to be weak as hell.
	And so your real opposition becomes your own backbenchers.
	We can see that's what's happened with the Tories this time around to some extent anyway.
	If you get a massive, massive majority like Labour are set to, that will definitely happen.
	Their own backbenchers will be their opposition and there will be a civil war.
	Politically within the Labour Party.
	I think that there's so many people in Labour who are ambitious.
	Way more than the Tories.
	You see how the Tories have basically imploded a few times over in the last few years?
	I think Labour, they'll be sort of the race types.
	Like Butler or whatever.
	And then there'll be like the hardline commie types.
	And they're just gonna be, I think... A lot of them have left the Labour Party.
	But anyway, we should carry on.
	Next one.
	Next one.
	What do I do to deserve this?
	Oh, fair point.
	I apologize to all our audio listeners.
	What's wrong with the camp?
	The Kemba's great.
	It's the song, though, you got wrong.
	Yeah.
	You need the I'm Just Ken song.
	When's the wedding?
	What, to Ken?
	Is that the joke?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Yeah, anyway, moving on.
	What's the next one?
	As a proponent of the first-past-the-post voting system, I recognise that candidates are forced to accept that, by winning, they represent having voted for or against all their constituents.
	Objectors claim that modern representatives do not care about this duty, and so, the system being broken, we should embrace a new paradigm, such as proportional representation.
	Fools.
	One does not correct an issue by entrenching the corruption.
	Proportional representation causes governments to become mediocre by creating legislation that panders rather than regulates.
	Yeah, I've actually, like, there are definitely arguments in favour of proportional representation, especially from the right, as in it allows the right to get a foothold in governments and things like that, which can use to grow, which we're seeing in Europe.
	But conversely, I do dislike the kind of mediocrity and sort of Plurality of the thing.
	You want a government to have strong executive power to be able to fix problems, right?
	Okay, they might create a bunch of problems, but then why did you vote for those idiots in the first place?
	But the severe dispersion of what is supposed to be a sovereign executive Is an issue I think and I am concerned about it.
	The premise of proportional representation is founded on the idea that democracy acts as a system of checks and balances and therefore if each party doesn't control a sizable amount of the government then they will have to compromise and they'll have to negotiate and all that ends up doing is watering down good policies in practice.
	Exactly yeah.
	Anyway on the last one.
	A Gentleman's Observations of Swindon, Chapter 1.
	The oldest verifiable record of Swindon was a swine dune in the Doomsday Book, compiled in 1086 AD.
	For reference, that's more than half a millennium before the first American colony was founded, or Australia was even discovered, and more than three quarters of a millennium before Italy and Germany reunified, and around about the same time before Greece declared itself a country.
	The settlement of Swindon was atop a hill which is now known as Old Town, but it has since expanded to incorporate a number of the other settlements which were also recorded independently in the Doomsday Book.
	Man, the first decade of the 17th century was really important.
	Discovery of Australia, first settlement of America, Guy Fawkes, ultimate patriot, sadly failed.
	I mean, lots happened.
	Yeah.
	But Slenderman Doubtless predates that by probably a couple hundred years as well.
	I mean, it's just, it's going to be part of the Anglo-Saxon settlement.
	I do have an Epochs on the Thamesday book.
	Excellent.
	So, check that out.
	Website comments, I suppose.
	Do you want to do these?
	Yeah, I'll do them.
	Brian says, MPs hate first-time buyers because a third of MPs are landlords.
	Could well be true.
	25% of the Tories party donors are property developers as well.
	Yeah, yeah, I know, I know.
	It's crazy.
	Only a third of MPs are landlords?
	That's interesting.
	Yeah.
	I was thinking much more than that.
	Kevin says, about radicalising the young and cognitive dissonance.
	Someone on X was losing their S about the radicalisation of kids because two young boys were on the march chanting along with the Tommy Robinson crowd and two days later the same person posted a clip of a little girl on her dad's shoulders chanting from the rivers to the sea.
	Apparently it's just been on the right side of history, yeah.
	Chase says, the zero seats movement is absolutely a global project.
	I love that this has gone global.
	In my own country of Canada, the federal polling as of 9th of June is as follows.
	Trudeau Liberals are projected to get 74 seats down 86 since the 2021 federal election.
	The Polivere Conservatives are projected to get 211 seats up 92 since the 2021 election.
	Trudeau still has until October 2025 to mess things up.
	The tide is turning, we're going to make it back.
	Did you see Farage reference it the other day as well?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, Farage used it.
	It's like, okay, I love that this meme is really, you know, well done AA.
	It was Neymar, right?
	Yeah, it was, yeah, it was.
	It was a good meme.
	Spoke to him last week about it.
	Powerful magic, well done.
	Um, North Ephesus Zuma says, I love it when my woke Zuma friends are like, this niche crime stat has gone down in Europe.
	Then you tell them to, then you tell them to actually open their eyes and look around the cities and now tell me things are improving.
	Yeah, that's another thing.
	It's like the weather.
	They're like, oh, May was the hottest May on record.
	It's like, no, it's freezing.
	I have to ride my bike to work every day.
	I know it's freezing.
	You bloody liars.
	Thank God.
	And they've been saying it about this month as well.
	There's apparently record temperatures.
	What are you talking about?
	It's clearly not.
	Yeah, it's cold.
	That's the thing.
	I think this is the crux of the whole culture war.
	The whole thing that's being done to us over the last 20 odd years or so.
	It all boils down to that normal adults, thinking adults, hate being lied to.
	Yeah.
	And hate being told that you're not being lied to when you're definitely being lied to.
	Yeah.
	That's what all this stuff boils down to, really.
	The abuse of expert authority is the real problem.
	And the more disillusioned people become with the institutions themselves and the reliability and the validity of the things that they're saying, the better for everyone.
	Is there anything more galling to an adult when you see something and someone says, you didn't just see that?
	Yeah.
	And you're like, don't tell me I didn't see it, I saw it.
	And they're like, no you didn't.
	This is why autists and comedians are on the front lines of cancel culture, because they just blurt out what they have thought to be true and funny and then run up against a wall of wokeness.
	This was a thing during COVID.
	We're not on YouTube now, I can say this.
	Obvious bollocks.
	Everyone was like, OK, so some people, you know, I got COVID.
	OK, but what was it?
	It was a flu.
	People weren't dropping the streets.
	You walk around, everyone's literally normal.
	And it's like, OK, so some people got some flu.
	OK, what's the problem?
	You know, nothing is, you know, but if you looked in the media, like Boris Johnson with his saggy face and the crying, the death stats.
	It's like, it doesn't represent reality.
	You know, we know we're being gaslit here.
	Colin says, every time I hear far right I immediately want to respond, compared to what?
	No, that's not the correct response.
	The correct response is, oh good, that's good to know.
	I'm ultra far right.
	Fantastic, finally, you know.
	Richard says, Europe is damned.
	Infested by socialists still.
	Small victories on loadseaters.
	We sorted out Colin's collar.
	Collar?
	I think you mean Connor's collar.
	Yeah, it's been a running joke.
	Oh, is it?
	I don't know where it actually started.
	Right, okay.
	I didn't know that.
	Someone online says, if Hunter Biden is reinstalled, Hunter is getting off scot-free.
	Even if that doesn't happen, he's probably going to get off.
	Rich leftist politicians are never punished.
	Yeah, I don't think there's going to be any punishment for Hunter Biden.
	Like, the substantive.
	You know, you'll probably pay a fine.
	But then, have you seen the bloody artwork he's doing?
	Whereas, like, he'll literally do, like, a child's crayon drawing, half a million dollars.
	This is money laundering, this is money laundering, probably involving some sort of pedo network.
	For fuck's sake, you know?
	Well, don't bring the pedestrians into this!
	Well, exactly!
	Exactly!
	Sorry, I'll just bring Epstein into it, shall I?
	You know, like, it's so galling that it's all in...
	plain sight yeah and again it just comes back down to the lies that's one of the classic things isn't it money laundering through art yeah yeah so i'm just gonna say i'm gonna start selling my warhammer miniatures for half a million dollars for this one i painted That's not true, mine are actually quite well painted.
	Arizona Desert Rat says, for those wondering, leaving a gun in a dumpster is illegal in many states.
	It leaves the gun within reach of minors.
	Right.
	Sounds right.
	I don't know about Delaware specifically, but either way, it's monumentally stupid.
	Of course, you know, of the course.
	Omar says, the only way you could pull off a physical representation of the mental gymnastics required to believe Hunter is being unfairly treated, but Trump is an irredeemable criminal, would make you some kind of cryptid.
	Bald Eagle sends a super chat saying, the problem with the Justice Department in the US is due to those at the top running interference.
	Most of the lower rungs care about the law.
	Abolishing and rebuilding the agencies is nearly badly.
	Well, it's not even necessarily abolishing and rebuilding them.
	If the people in the mid-tiers and the lower tiers are genuinely quite good people who do care about justice, the problem is removing the executives.
	You know, and it's literally like Letitia James.
	She's clearly perverting the purpose of the institution.
	It's evidently her.
	I'd just like to say on that note that that's definitely, definitely true all over the place.
	Yeah, yeah.
	That like you might be a cop.
	Yeah.
	Mid-level cop and you've done it for 30 years and it's only the people that have been parachuted in above you that are giving you all this LGBTQ nonsense or two-tier policing protected nonsense.
	You've never changed.
	You're the same and everyone around you's the same.
	Like a lot of the grassroots people in reform, great people.
	Yep.
	Great, great people.
	They can't account for twice.
	I imagine a lot.
	They're just trying to do the right thing.
	It's even the same in our, um, in the Civil Service.
	Well, I was gonna say... A lot of them are trying.
	I know some Civil Service.
	I was gonna say, with one caveat, the Home Office.
	I know people in the Home Office.
	Oh, yeah?
	And they're on our side, and they're our viewers, and they hate all of their higher-ups, so... So, in a lot of the things, like, you know, like, for example, just the police, defund the police in America a couple of years ago.
	Most of the normal police rank and file were aghast.
	Well, of course they were.
	Right?
	They still enforce lockdowns though.
	Zuma Tiabu says Hunter Biden is not a crack addict.
	He can stop any time he feels like it.
	When that day ever comes, it's nobody's business but his dealers.
	Which, honestly, it's like, yeah, I can stop any time I want.
	I just don't want to, says Hunter Biden.
	When I run out.
	Even then he can't stop.
	That's why the Parmesan came into it.
	The whole thing is just gross.
	I'll just use this.
	So, Sir Olney says, even before the podcast started, I would say that the answer to the question asked by segment three is a resounding yes, because it has shown the corruption to be so blatant and the politicisation of the judiciary so complete that the rule of law has been completely undermined.
	Well, yes, in those ways, but does it affect his polling?
	Does it affect his chances?
	No.
	And that's what they were aiming for.
	And it completely failed.
	If anything, it seems to have massively backfired.
	See like Colbert going on TV, trying to play that card that they've engineered.
	The guy is a convicted felon!
	We can't have a convicted felon!
	He's a convicted felon!
	We can't have a convicted felon!
	Convicted felon!
	And the black community is finding one of us!
	Representation!
	Even the audience are not really responding to that.
	And the internet and most Americans are just like, yeah, we're not buying that.
	Someone online says they can kill Trump if they jail him, they just want to make him pay for defying them.
	Yeah, this is all about Trump being a traitor to his class, ultimately.
	It really does come down to this.
	Thomas says Donald Trump is the worst criminal ever.
	Yeah, well, he's not really criminal.
	Shockingly.
	Bald Eagle says they wanted Trump to be convicted so the Democrats and RINOs can pass a bill stripping him of his Secret Service protection.
	It'll be interesting to see if it's passed or not.
	Who wants to take bets?
	I didn't hear about that.
	Yeah, I've not thought of that.
	Yeah, I didn't even think about that.
	I thought you'd just get that de rigueur if you're ex-president.
	Yeah.
	You'd have to actually change the law.
	I mean, that's what he was saying.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I mean, that was... Yeah, I've not heard that as an possible angle, but... Yeah.
	Threadnaught says, it started when Colin Tomlinson interviewed Liz Truss.
	And OPHUK says, oh, Beau, so now you're on board with Trump being a Sulla figure.
	Maybe not with maskers, but he's going to purge DC.
	And it's like, well, all I can say is what we know about Sulla is he just, you know, did the job and everything was fine for him after that.
	So good luck, Donald Sulla.
	It worked whilst Sula lived, didn't it?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Whilst Sula lived.
	In fact... He died a nice, bloated, fat, endly end of life.
	For a few years after that, there was a good 10, 12 years after Sula died before it all started kicking off again.
	Yep.
	So, killing all your opponents will buy you a few years?
	It means you can die fat and happy.
	He used to walk around without a bodyguard afterwards.
	Because, I mean, you know, what were you going to do?
	Well, as the 20th century taught us, it's always a good idea when you send popular politicians to jail, they never come back.
	Anyway, we'll be back tomorrow at one o'clock.

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