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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #979

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	Music Hello and welcome to the podcast of Lotus Easters, episode 979.
	I'm your host Harry, joined today by Stelios.
	Hello.
	And special returning guest Jess Gill.
	Hello.
	Hello, how are you doing Jess?
	I'm good, how are you?
	I'm fine, thank you.
	We've already had this discussion in the studio.
	You haven't asked me how I am.
	I know you're doing alright, Stelios.
	You're a happy-go-lucky elf person, I assume.
	He's short compared to me, but aren't they all?
	And where can people find you to start off with?
	Twitter.
	Jessica03 is my handle.
	Anywhere else?
	That's probably the best place.
	Okay, there you go.
	No YouTube or anything, that's good.
	And today we're going to be talking about the Globalist Censorship Conspiracy, the updates on what's been going on with Nord Stream 2, which has developed quite dramatically over the past few days, and we're going to be looking at Humza Youssef vs Elon Musk.
	And as a special announcement as well, tomorrow we'll be joined by Rafe Heidel Mancou to take part in Lad's Hour.
	He will be appearing on the podcast.
	He'll also be appearing on Lad's Hour.
	And we've got a very special episode which is going to be the first ever official Lotus Eaters pub quiz Lad's Hour, which will be in teams, I believe at the moment, the team stand at myself and my good elfish friend, Stelios, joined along- - Thank you, my dwarf friend. - Thank you.
	Alongside, and we'll be facing up against Bo and Rafe who will be teaming up.
	And we'll see who wins.
	For you with the gold tier memberships you can send in video comment questions to a special email address that we have set up just for this occasion which is quiz at lotus eaters dot com.
	If you send those in we ask that you ask the question and then you give a short Pause and a break so that our editors can make sure it's all set up nicely and then give the answer at the end and we'll award points as you would expect.
	So with that, please tune into that.
	Please send those video comment questions in.
	Again, that is quizadlotoseaters.com.
	With that, let's get into the news.
	Right, so globalists are trying to censor us to promote multiculturalism and the expansion of the state.
	Now, I think that the modern Western state is a narcissistic, racist, anti-white, authoritarian state.
	And I want to stress the narcissism bit a bit.
	Okay, so we've all met people who are narcissistic.
	It's all about themselves.
	They constantly claim to be good.
	They constantly verge a signal.
	They constantly appeal to general rules, but they always apply them selectively and never to their own case.
	And they really hate it when people just call them out and tell them that they're hypocrites and that they're not honoring their part of the deal.
	So, I think that this is precisely the modern state.
	People make demands from it, that the state should honor, and rather than honoring, it turns its back against the people it is supposed to represent, and it actually tries to censor them.
	Why?
	To promote a multiculturalism that few people want, and no one has been asked for.
	Certainly no one voted for.
	Exactly.
	You could say that a lot of people who have been asked have voted against it multiple times.
	Quite notoriously.
	I don't think there's been an election campaign over the past who knows how long in the UK that's won that hasn't been won off of the back of at least somewhat immigration restriction promises which have been broken.
	Yes, but that's the issue that whenever you confront with your speech and your criticism, narcissists, they're going to evade it constantly and either tell you that you're a hater for criticizing them, or they're going to divert attention from facts to something different.
	Let us see here, Catherine Mayer from the NPR CEO, who is talking about something of the sort.
	Every now and then you get someone who is so blunt about things, That is just a gem, a gem of cynicism that we should play over and over again and never forget.
	Let's listen to this.
	Click it again.
	And again.
	Oh, maybe go back so we can get a better hearing of that.
	Would you like me to?
	I can do it.
	It's not responding, but it will.
	Could we please play this video?
	This is Twitter problems now.
	Let's see.
	I think we can see the quote of what she said there.
	Yeah, if we refresh it maybe then.
	I think our reverence for the truth might have become a bit of a distraction that is preventing us from finding consensus and getting important things done.
	Exactly.
	So, reverence for the truth is preventing us from getting things done and from finding a consensus.
	How does this sound?
	This sounds like a completely foreign and alien perspective to me.
	As far back as you can look, the West has always had a sort of reverence for truth, which has aided it well in the past, and this is very modern thinking.
	What do you think, Jess?
	I don't know, I don't think it is alien, at least to me, because, for example, I'm at university at the moment, and I understand with, like, scientific debate in political science, there are different claims and there are different, you know, facts, there are different assumptions, and so you have to be sceptical about that.
	But it goes a bit further, we're taught to question everything, but there's no straight down facts, and there's rarely any focus on facts.
	But this does remind me of, I think it must have been ages ago, but I don't know if you remember AOC saying it's more important to be morally right than actually care about the facts.
	This has been going on for a while, but now it's no longer just a rabid leftist politician and now it's just anyone nowadays.
	I mean, this is the CEO of NPR, so it is a rabid leftist saying such things.
	But that's interesting as well that you consider that while that's the CEO of NPR, that's a news organization, so what does that say about the veracity of news reported on NPR?
	Are you going to trust it?
	Perhaps that they are disinformation experts?
	Perhaps.
	But one thing to say about what you said, Jess, is that it's really terrifying how people are dissociating moral rightness from facts.
	What AOC said is absolutely terrifying.
	And we always want consensus, because society wouldn't function otherwise.
	But the question is, How are we going to discern between better and worse forms of consensus?
	And without talking about facts, we can't have a good consensus.
	So let's go to this fellow here, Thierry Breton, who is an unelected EU bureaucrat.
	He sent a very interesting post to Elon Musk right before Elon Musk staged the interview with Donald Trump.
	But before we talk about this analytically, I want us to look at what he says in the very beginning.
	With great audience comes greater responsibility.
	Because to me, this seems exactly a very narcissistic way of going about things for the following reason.
	First of all, it is true.
	It is a general principle that I think is true.
	A greater audience gives people greater power, and with great power comes great responsibility, as a once great sage said.
	But what is interesting is that he doesn't apply it to himself.
	Has he applied it to himself?
	Has he applied it to mainstream media?
	Has he applied that to the EU that is constantly promoting open border policies that no one wants?
	It appears he has not.
	So that's what seems to me absolutely narcissistic.
	What do you think?
	Ladies first.
	Well, I was just going to say, with great power over a great audience comes great responsibility.
	Again, they do have their set of moral values and they do have their moral standards and you can see this in the UK with the current protests and riots.
	How, you know, they just seem to ignore the fact that three girls, three young girls, were murdered.
	That seems to be brushed over, that fact.
	Whereas they can discuss, you know, the so-called riots going on, the anger that people feel, that's dismissed, and then you compare that to something like Black Lives Matter.
	I know this point is made a million times, but it's important to reiterate how there is that double standard, and again, they just chick pick and choose facts, and they think that Someone like Nigel Farage, for example, is being irresponsible with his audience.
	Or like Elon Musk, for example, raising awareness of freedom of speech.
	Whereas they're raising awareness of issues that are important to them.
	I think free speech is a very important issue.
	And the same when it comes to terrorist incidents or the effects of mass immigration.
	I think these are important things to raise awareness of.
	And so to say they're being irresponsible just shows how far away they can't visualise our morality, they can't see our point of view.
	But narcissists make it all about the responsibilities of the other side of the deal.
	It is for their framework, isn't it?
	It's funny because you hear, like, Humza Yousaf, for example, is gaslighting people around, like, calling Elon Musk a race baiter when Humza Yousaf is calling people, you know, saying whiteness is a bad thing.
	He's hideously furious that Scotland is a white country.
	Yeah, with the principle of with great audience comes great responsibility.
	I do actually think that there is some legitimacy to that, but the fact is that the European Commission, the EU, Sierra Breton, all of these people are using their own power in an irresponsible way because Elon Musk has at least been trying to highlight acts of gross misconduct on the form of the two-tier policing system within the UK.
	The way that the British people are being mistreated by their own governments and the European Commission and the EU are turning around and saying, no, no, no, no, no, you don't get to talk about that.
	You've got a big audience.
	What you've got to do is toe our line.
	You've got to promote our narrative, whether or not it has any basis in truth.
	Exactly.
	And you will see that he is also talking about public security, never asking the question whether the open borders policies of the EU are promoting It's not about his responsibility.
	It's always about the responsibility of the people.
	Now, Brussels has accused its internal market commissioner of going rogue by sending a letter to Elon Musk threatening punishment if content posted on social media was found to place EU citizens at risk of serious harm.
	And they said that this is possibly election interference because he was directly talking about Donald Trump.
	Now we have here an interesting Free Speech Union article that it says, "It may be true that the commissioner's decision to send the letter was made without wider consent within the commission, but the argument still seems like a weak excuse, given that as internal market chief Breton is fully empowered to oversee given that as internal market chief Breton is fully empowered to oversee enforcement of the DSA, this is the Digital Services Act that he has overseen, and can communicate with companies who fall subject to the new
	The Commission's spokesman also confirmed what Breton said in the letter, namely that the ongoing investigation against X into whether it violates the DSA by allowing too much free speech will take into account the restitution of Donald Trump's account suspended after January 6.
	So it's obvious what they're trying to do.
	It's obvious that they are trying to prevent Donald Trump from winning the presidency.
	It is interesting though that there does seem to be at least some disagreement within the EU regarding this, seeing as they were very quick to disavow the original statement.
	Yes, but the question is whether this disagreement is just a virtue signaling one, and whether it's going to translate into action.
	Well, I wonder if the EU is beginning to consider that maybe it's not the best idea to pick a fight with the richest man in the world.
	Well, he has a habit of picking a fight with Elon Musk, and he has apparently a habit of sending weirdly sounding tweets.
	This was from last May, May 26th of 2023.
	He wrote, Twitter lives EU voluntary code of practice against disinformation, but obligations remain.
	You can run, but you can't hide.
	Beyond voluntary commitments, fighting disinformation will be legal obligation under DSA as of August 25.
	Our teams will be ready for enforcement.
	Now, this doesn't seem to me to be the kind of post or message that a political actor is supposed to send.
	This seems to me to be personal.
	Who writes, you can run, but you can't hide?
	Yeah, when has that been ever used by the good guy in a movie?
	Well, again to me this all comes across as all but no bite, due to the fact that they have two problems when it comes to trying to persecute Elon Musk.
	Number one, which is the more personal problem that all politicians of the West have, which is that he owns Twitter, and if they want to ban Twitter in their own countries or do things to smack Twitter down, they're all addicted to it.
	So I don't think that they would like a world without Twitter because they can't help but either try to grandstand to the crowd or more often, more likely, humiliate themselves because I'm almost certain that the UK politicians at least have some kind of sick humiliation fetish.
	And number two, Elon Musk is highly, highly integrated into the US governmental power structure with all of the government contracts that his own companies, particularly SpaceX, Right.
	Let's switch continent now, because it isn't just in Europe.
	It's also in Brazil.
	Now, I'm going to talk about allegations.
	I'm not going to present these as facts, but I'm going to talk about the allegations from both sides.
	So, you can see here a very interesting thread by Mario Nofal.
	He's talking about the attempt in Brazil, allegations about Brazilian authorities trying to crack down on free speech and Twitter and asking Elon Musk to censor some posts and some accounts and also Infiltrate, also let's say change the algorithm in order to propagate their message.
	And Elon Musk on the other side is saying that this platform is being asked to censor content in Brazil where the censorship demands, requires to violate Brazilian law.
	That is not right.
	I don't know exactly what is going on, but the same things that are happening in the EU and the same accusations and requests made of Elon Musk in the EU are really similar with those made in Brazil.
	Not just in Brazil.
	Here we have Mark Cuban, who went on Jon Stewart to complain about Elon Musk and X, but ended up being an advertisement for why people should be on X. Now, I'm not going to play it.
	Play it if you want.
	We have the links on our website.
	But they said some things that I think really require discussion.
	So first of all, they said that Elon Musk is irresponsible because he's calling for civil war.
	I think that this is a very disingenuous Claim to make.
	This is actual disinformation.
	This is the worst interpretation of a claim that people can make because they routinely do not distinguish between warnings and threats.
	You could say, for instance, if you're promoting really unpopular policies, You're censoring the population that is against these policies and you're creating a sectarian society where there is rising violence.
	Yeah, that's not gonna end well.
	When you say this, it doesn't mean that you want this to happen.
	It means that you don't want this to happen and you want people who promote these multiculturalist policies to stop promoting them.
	So that was absolutely disingenuous.
	But what is interesting is that they Double down again on this narcissistic theme of constantly asking other people to be responsible without them being responsible.
	They're saying he's the richest man in the world.
	Yes, he probably is.
	He has tremendous power due to Twitter.
	Yes, he does.
	But they never ask the same about mainstream media.
	And they say also that, for instance, it's roughly 20% of the people in the US who has access into Twitter.
	80% don't enter Twitter, they say.
	But they are watching mainstream media.
	So the question is, If someone, if alternative platforms are gaining power, why not try to listen to the people so you solve the legitimacy issue and let's say improve mainstream media so people are going to think that they are legitimate once again.
	They're not.
	They're not interested in assuming any kind of responsibility.
	They're not interested into looking at, into thinking that they owe obligations to the people they're supposed to represent.
	They're always blaming the other side, even when they have tremendous power themselves.
	And I think we should show precisely how this happens in terms of legislation.
	And we have here three hate speech laws.
	No, four hate speech laws, which is the Irish The Scottish, the Canadian and the Digital Services Act.
	And I'm not going to bore you with details, but I'm going to show you that Especially in the Irish one, we see a lot of patterns replicated in all of them.
	And there's a push towards subjectivity.
	Now, the problem with subjectivity is that it gives, it opens the door to arbitrary authority.
	Because whenever we're, it's one thing to say, obviously, yeah, incitement to violence and, and harm is to be prosecuted and understand violence and harm in a physical sense.
	That's objective.
	We understand what that is.
	Much better than if we talk about harm and violence in a psychological sense, where everyone can say, I'm offended, therefore I have been psychologically harmed.
	So what they're doing is they're trying to open through legislation, the door to arbitrary authority.
	They're trying to portray, to introduce a psychological notion of harm, and say that the government has the responsibility to tackle down psychological harm.
	And psychological harm is whatever people want it to be.
	And it's whatever people in power want it to be.
	Well, they take their new remit, the government's new remit, is almost exclusively dealing with psychological harm, which is, as you mentioned, completely up in the air as to what that actually means.
	Does it mean that you're a little bit upset?
	Did it mean that you got a little bit offended?
	Does it mean that you have lifelong psychological trauma from now on and you won't be able to sleep the same and you'll be waking up in cold sweats?
	They take that as a much more important duty than actually policing physical harm that comes across people, unless, as we saw over the riots over the past few weeks, that harm is being committed by particular kinds of people.
	Yes, because the number one priority of the police, or of the state as far as the police is concerned, is to not be called racist.
	Well, I mean, in the UK even, in London a few years ago, maybe back in 2017, I think there was an admission from the Metropolitan Police that they just didn't have enough officers and detectives to follow up on all of the murders that are going on in London, and that's probably been worse, been made worse since then.
	So it's much, much, much easier to get The new spate of police officers, tiny women, who are naturally inclined to being busybodies to spend all of their time trawling through people's Twitter accounts and arresting them for that than it is to get them to go out and, you know, kick doors in and arrest hardened criminals and murderers.
	No offense, Jess.
	No, absolutely.
	I do wonder how much of the police are actually, you know, Okay with this compared to how much of it is like the legislative measures and the executive and just governments in general.
	Like how many police officers are actually wanting to, you know, restore justice?
	It can't be good for them.
	It can't be good for people who, you know, when you sign up to the job, I'm sure there are some means you are to protect the community.
	And I don't want this narrative that all police officers are just like woke small women.
	I don't think that's obviously true.
	And so I bet that's so demoralizing for them as well to enforce that but again like what can they do?
	Well I saw a clip recently which was one of the the classic ones a police officer speaking to a woman who was standing outside of an abortion center silently praying in her own head and he issued her some kind of um fine for causing disorder some public order offense for standing around there despite the fact that she said she'd already been arrested twice for it and was basically told that okay it is legal for you to do that I don't think it's a good situation where you should be Allowed to silently pray in your own head?
	But either way, he did that, which seems to be against the priors that have been set by the other arrests, and I was sat there watching this video going, is this what you signed up to the police for?
	Is this what you th- Do you think that you are aiding the community in persecuting this one woman who's standing by an abortion center praying in her own head?
	I think essentially what is happening here is that they're pushing, not for a ministry of truth, but a ministry of emotion.
	It's going to be filled with bureaucrats who are going to decide, for instance, who has been offended and who has been psychologically harmed or not.
	And this isn't, they don't care about facts, they just care about consensus, and that means their multiculturalist consensus.
	And here we can see in the Irish hate speech law.
	You can see here, this is page 13 out of 40 in the document.
	Again, we have all of the links.
	There they say, offense of preparing or possessing material likely to incite violence or hatred against persons on account of their protected characteristics.
	Which means, you don't even have to disseminate something, you merely have to possess.
	Which also raises an interesting question, how do they know if you possess something?
	But haven't circulated it.
	Be careful with your phone's meme folders.
	Be very, very careful with the memes that you have saved.
	I have to go and delete some.
	Yeah, and just look at what they're doing in order to make things even more arbitrary.
	They're introducing another clause, clause 11 there, that says protection of freedom of expression.
	For the purposes of this part, any material or behavior is not taken to incite violence or hatred against a person or a group of persons on account of their protected characteristics or any of those characteristics solely on the basis that that material or behavior includes or involves discussion or criticism of matters relating to a protected characteristic, as if anyone is going to take this seriously.
	Because it's not about who is going to say, well, I understand the criticism, And not say that the criticism is hate speech.
	That's exactly what they're doing.
	So essentially, what they're doing is they're basically gaslighting us.
	So if I criticize certain communities on the basis of crime statistics, for instance, is that going to be legitimate criticism?
	Or is that going to be hate speech?
	Well, it depends upon the arbitrary whims of the bureaucrats who are members of the Ministry of Emotion.
	Here we have the same thing.
	You can check also about the hate crime in Scotland and the Scottish Monster Initiative.
	We also have Bill C-63 in Canada, in Trudeau's Canada, that is very censorious.
	And again, it introduces clause that are very subjective.
	And here we have the DSA.
	It's a very long document here.
	What you can do is you can go on the search bar, type hate speech, and it's going to show you the pages where it has hate speech.
	Again, what the DSA does is it says that online platforms must conform to hate speech laws.
	So, for instance, if you're in Ireland, DSA says that people and accounts in Ireland must conform to the Irish hate speech law.
	So, we have here the public feud over Platform X comes at a time when disinformation and deepfakes have helped to fuel political discord and an outbreak of UK rioting.
	Again, again, again, there is this focus on the accounts and the rhetoric of a few people, and there is zero focus on the policies that are introducing this sectarianism into our societies.
	It's like people who are saying, well, I don't want you to gasp for oxygen, while they're depriving the room you are in of oxygen.
	That's exactly what they're doing.
	And why are they doing this?
	Because they are not interested in using mainstream media to do anything other but promote their multiculturalist narrative.
	They don't think they're responsible, they don't think they're accountable to the people they claim to represent, but they do want to maintain the illusion that they represent these people.
	Here we have a collection of the negative headlines from the Trump and Elon spaces.
	You see all of them are ultra biased, as you would expect.
	One of my favorite things about this, if you look at this one in the top left here, Trump rambles, slurs his way through Elon Musk interview.
	It was an unmitigated disaster!
	The new tactic that has seemed to be affected by leftists, both online and in the mainstream media, seems to be that they're trying to pull a Biden on Trump and suggest that, oh, oh Trump's looking really old, oh he's slurring his way through, oh do you think he's got dementia guys, do you think he might be not fit for office?
	As if it's going to work for anybody who actually listens to Donald Trump talk.
	Also, question, where is Joe Biden?
	I know apparently he made an appearance a few days ago, but this man is technically still in charge of the US, right?
	Technically.
	Technically, but I noticed this as well.
	What's trending here?
	Hashtag Harish Waltz landslide 2024.
	Now that's some wishful thinking going on right there.
	Whoever decided that was going to be a hashtag, they've got dementia as well.
	Perhaps that's what Biden's doing now, he's in charge.
	Have you seen all the AstroTurf memes about Kamala Harris being so brass at everything?
	Oh, she didn't fall out of a coconut tree, I know that.
	He should give the Ronald Reagan response to Walter Mondale in the 1984 debate where he said, where everyone was asking in the first debate whether Ronald Reagan was fit enough to be a president.
	And he said, basically, I'm not going to make age an issue of this campaign.
	I'm not going to... What did he say?
	I'm not going to take advantage of my opponent's youth and inexperience.
	He said it more eloquently than that.
	I think you should give the William F Buckley response that you gave to Gore Vidal.
	Last thing, where all this is leading to?
	This is leading to the Ministry of Emotion and to arbitrary governance, to destroy the idea of citizenship, to destroy and habituate the people into thinking that, into not being citizens, into thinking that anything that they do that may question the narrative is already being an extremist.
	And they want to promote the ultra-narcissistic way of thinking about things, which is Nina Turner's thinking here.
	Black liberation and Palestinian liberation are linked, which is essentially them saying, unless I get everything I want, I get nothing.
	If you disagree with this, you're an extremist.
	That's exactly their point, and that's where they want to end up.
	They want absolute power, they want to yield it arbitrarily, they want to destroy the rule of law, and they don't think that they are accountable to the people, but they want to maintain the facade that they are.
	Do you think Nina Turner's ever read anything on the treatment of African slaves under the Arabs?
	And the Eastern Slave Trade.
	Do you think she's ever read anything to do with that?
	I don't think that she cares, to be honest.
	Thomas Sowell has a very interesting essay on it that maybe makes her think that... They might not treat her so well.
	I really don't think she cares.
	No, neither do I. It's all under the nice big postmodern umbrella.
	Samson, do we have access to the Rumble Rants like we have... No?
	Okay, we've got a broken extension.
	So we'll save those until the end in that case.
	In that case, let's talk about the developments that have been going on with the ongoing cases that have been looking into what happened at Nord Stream 2 all the way back in September of 2022.
	So it's been almost two years since the now famous explosions that ruptured Nord Stream 2, which was a pipeline going from Russia to Germany supplying natural gases.
	At the time it seemed to be an act of sabotage and there was a lot of different fingers pointing in many different directions.
	Of course at the time the EU and other member states were talking about how it was a Russian act of sabotage.
	Which was done to destabilize the West who would become increasingly dependent on Russian natural gas for its own resources and as a way to basically put them into a crisis mode come winter of 2022.
	Now there was quite a lot of contention as to whether this was the case but this is certainly something that we were fed at the time.
	On the Wikipedia page I noticed that it pointed out here and you can check the links on here to verify this information.
	So in October of 2022, less than a month after this initially happened, Russia had confirmed that pipe B of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline had escaped destruction and offered to resume gas supply to Europe.
	Now that was going to be on the basis of resuming payment because there'd been a number of disruptions to Nord Stream 1 since the middle of 2021 due to some issues with the pipeline and also due to concerns of non-payment of the rubles that were owed in return for the gas supplies uh But it was declined by Berlin because of course they were all in on the Ukraine effort and as far as I'm aware still are.
	But for a country that supposedly did it themselves this seemed to be strange behavior.
	And there were a lot of questions asked over whether Russia, who would have had a great position of leverage over the West if it was in control of, as it was in Germany, about 55% of its natural gas supplies come the winter, why they would choose to sabotage their own infrastructure, which they'd put billions and billions of dollars into, as had the Western states that had collaborated with them, when instead they could have simply, as they had done with the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, turn it off.
	And then the infrastructure is still there in the future for once peacetime has resumed and you can carry this on or again you can use it as a point of leverage for the western states.
	It seemed like a very strange conclusion to come to as far as I can tell if you think it through logically.
	I mean, okay, I am not speaking a lot about this war, because I would rather it had never started.
	No, of course, I think we're all in that same position.
	Yeah, I have said that I have friends that I haven't spoken to in a while due to this, but I will say this, that, I mean, obviously, whoever did it, it's very unlikely that Russia did it.
	And that's not a justification for what Russia is doing, not at all, but You just don't destroy your own means of exerting influence upon states like the EU states.
	Some of the EU states had already been complaining for a long time about Russia's dependence on Russian natural resources because of the fact that they saw Russia as a potential aggressor state ever since 2014.
	Yes, but I mean, Germany was basing its entire economy on cheap Russian gas.
	Puts them in a pretty vulnerable position.
	Yes, so I see no reason why Russia would want to destroy that pipeline.
	Especially because, again, they could have just not used it, they could have switched it off.
	But that's the question, why would they turn it off?
	Because the sanctions hadn't already taken place.
	If I'm not radically mistaken, just tell me.
	By September certainly the sanctions had already been in place.
	I think the sanctions took place right after the Nord Stream thing.
	Maybe I'm totally mistaken.
	Nord Stream 2 itself had never been in a position to deliver any gas.
	The infrastructure was complete, but it hadn't been switched on.
	It contained gas at the time of the explosion, which is why it released so much methane at the time.
	There was lots of videos going around of the surface of the water above it bubbling up, which was the methane escaping.
	But they'd never actually used it to deliver any gas, because by the time the infrastructure was completed, the war had begun.
	And there was a note that they were not in a position to begin delivering that gas.
	By the way, as I mentioned at the time, there was a lot of fingers being pointed.
	Ukraine immediately accused Russia of causing leaks in two major gas pipelines, which it described as a terrorist attack.
	Ukrainian presidential advisor, Mykola Podoliuk, I don't, I'm not going to pronounce these names correctly.
	That's a warning straight away.
	I know how to pronounce Putin and I know how to pronounce Zelensky and that's all I need.
	He said that the damage to Nord Stream 1 and 2 was an act of aggression toward the EU.
	He added that Russia wanted to cause pre-war winter panic and urged the EU to increase military support for Ukraine.
	He also tweeted in English saying, Gas leak from the NS1 Nord Stream 1 is nothing more than a terrorist attack planned by Russia and an act of aggression toward the EU.
	Russia wants to destabilize the economic situation in Europe and cause pre-winter panic.
	And as I mentioned, Europe at the time, and particular Germany, had become increasingly reliant on Russian gas to meet its energy needs.
	Wholesale prices of gas in Europe after the Nord Stream attack had more than doubled, and that was after also the time since the beginning of the war when the sanctions were enacted, and since Russia had switched off some of the gas and natural resource supplies, that price doubled.
	Gas prices in the UK, if you all remember, there was the worries at the end of 2022 whether grandma was going to freeze to death because she wouldn't be able to afford it.
	Even though it imports no gas from Russia because the shortages have severely affected the international gas market.
	That's why it affected us.
	Before Russia invaded Ukraine, as I mentioned, Germany relied on Russia for 55% of its gas.
	That was back when this originally happened.
	So what has been the developments since then?
	Well, there have been quite a few.
	This is one catching us up a little bit towards the beginning of the year, back in February of 2024.
	Talking about what had gone on in the months and years since then.
	And it says in here, some US and European officials initially suggested that Moscow had blown up its own pipelines, an interpretation dismissed as idiotic by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
	Instead, Putin blamed the Anglo-Saxons, which is the US and the UK, Without providing evidence, he also blamed Ukraine.
	All three countries deny any role.
	The White House last year dismissed a blog post by a U.S.
	investigative journalist alleging that Washington was behind the explosions as utterly false and complete fiction.
	The U.S.
	opened a new tower, opens Oh sorry, the US and German media have reported that the yacht could have been, sorry, there was reports of a particular yacht that the German investigation into this, which is at the time being right now still the only investigation that's ongoing.
	All of the other international investigations have stopped and concluded by now.
	Germany is still going with it, obviously, because it was their resources that have been prevented from getting to them.
	And it was part of their infrastructure project to begin with.
	They reported that they found a yacht that could have been used by a Ukrainian or pro-Ukrainian group, citing leaked intelligence reports and people familiar with official investigations.
	Kiev has repeatedly denied any involvement with this.
	It goes on to give some other information about the infrastructure project itself.
	Nord Stream 2 was fully owned by Gazprom, which is a Russian company, but Western companies, British Shell, Germany's Winterschall D and Uniper, and French Engie and Austria's OMV, covered 50% of the pipeline's total construction costs of about $11 billion.
	Sorry, I have to make a quick correction to what I said before.
	The Nord Stream Pipeline explosions occurred on September 26, 2022, which was after several rounds of sanctions had been imposed on Russia.
	So, apologies for what I said before.
	No, absolutely.
	Thank you for clearing that up for us.
	There have been no plans announced since then to repair the damage.
	In July of last year, 2023, Germany told the UN Security Council that it had found traces of subsea explosives in a sailing yacht that may have been used to transport the explosives.
	This is the one that they've been investigating.
	Germany has confirmed its investigators raided a ship identified by German media as the 50-foot sailing yacht in January last year that may have been used to transport the explosives used to blow up the pipelines.
	The boat, leased in Germany via a Poland-registered company, contained traces of Octagon, the same explosive that was found at the underwater blast sites.
	Germany told the UN that it was possible for trained divers to attach explosives to the pipelines laying about 70 to 80 meters deep where the explosions occurred because of course when it first happened there was wonder uh there was concern that it might have just been a fault but then immediately after they found evidence that it was caused by controlled explosions under the water so this was the yacht that seemingly whoever conducted that operation had used to sail out to the waters to conduct it
	A day after the explosions on September 27, 2022, German magazine Der Saigel wrote that the CIA had warned Germany in summer of 2022 about possible attacks on Baltic Sea pipelines.
	The Washington Post, citing leaked information posted online, wrote last June that the United States learned of a Ukrainian plan to attack the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines three months before they were damaged.
	The intelligence report was based on information provided by a source in Ukraine.
	The Post said, according to the CIA, adding that the CIA had shared it with Germany and other European countries.
	in June 2022.
	So judging by this information here, if you were to believe the Washington Post's information, they point to it being actually an operation conducted by and with approval of Ukraine.
	Which is quite a damning accusation, but we'll carry on.
	The Dutch national broadcaster NOS reported the same month that the tip came from the Dutch military intelligence agency MIVD.
	According to the post, the CIA relayed to Zaluzny...
	I think that's how you pronounce his name, who was the Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief General at the time, through an intermediary that the United States opposed such an operation.
	In November of last year, the Washington Post reported that a man called Roman Shevinsky, a former intelligence official who served in the Ukrainian military special forces, managed the six-person team but did not plan the attack.
	He denied involvement.
	The Post said Shevinsky took orders from senior Ukrainian officials who ultimately reported to Commander-in-Chief.
	General Valerie Zeluzny, Reuters was unable to verify the report independently and Zeluzny had made no public comment.
	Germany's Der Spiegel and ZDF have said that a group of six people, five men and one woman, Boarded the yacht which was called Andromeda in Rostock, Germany on September 6th using forged passports and returned to Rostock on September 23rd.
	The yacht was spotted at a small Danish island of Cristiano near the explosion sites on September 16th 18th and made a short stop at Marina at a marina in Kolobzreg.
	Poland on September 19th before returning to Germany.
	There was no evidence to suggest that Poland was used as a hub for the sabotage, Polish prosecutors said last year.
	So that's a lot of information.
	There's a lot of information there and a lot of it is coming from different sources and there is not any evidence really being presented to confirm any of it other than Anonymous sources and hearsay.
	But what's been going on since then, since February, is that this came out in the news as of yesterday, Wednesday the 14th of August 2024.
	Germany has issued an arrest warrant for a diver over the Nord Stream blasts according to reports.
	This was issued back in June and it's being issued to a Ukrainian man.
	who was supposedly one of the team that planted explosives on pipelines September in 2022.
	Supposedly, he may have been the man who had been driving a van that got them to the yacht.
	And there's information that he may have been snapshotted when speeding at 80 miles an hour in Poland, I think.
	And that's where they got his face.
	Very interesting.
	They were going to enrich the pipeline.
	Yes, yes, clearly.
	Do you have anything to add to all of this so far, Jess?
	Yeah, I'm not a foreign policy expert, and it is a lot of information.
	So I do have a question.
	So is the accusation that it's from the Ukrainian government, or is it just a Ukrainian group that has done this?
	So far the Ukrainian government, as they would, has been completely denying all of the accusations but the next article that we'll look at in a moment from the Wall Street Journal which came out today, sorry yesterday but very late yesterday after this initial report came out,
	Uh, is saying that there may have been involvement by the Ukrainian government, but that high-ups, like Zelensky, were trying to prevent it from happening, but that, essentially, things had been put in motion that could not be taken out of motion by the time that they were trying to halt the bombing.
	Now, of course, this is all, again, coming from anonymous sources that the Journal has been speaking to, and there's some information which doesn't seem to add up, as far as I can tell, just giving a once-and-second look at the
	story as presented but we'll go through because this is in this is important if it has ramifications for the Ukrainian war effort and ramifications for how trustworthy Ukraine as an ally in the west is if they are willing and able to sabotage infrastructure that is necessary for the well-being of other countries even if yes you can say rightfully so it was foolish of Germany and other European nations to be so reliant on Russian natural resources
	Yeah, I don't think it's really any surprise that Ukraine is denying this, because of course they're going to deny the bad thing.
	But it just shows how, even in something like the situation where Germany and other European countries have been so hospitable in funding for Ukraine, that something like this can happen.
	It's so eye-opening, and the idea that, you know, we've been told that If we don't fund this war, you know, it will come back to bite us.
	You know, Russia is going to take over the UK next if they do go after Ukraine.
	Well, this is already impacting us.
	It's already impacting our energy.
	We do have to consider as well that Western elites do seem to have a real bloodthirsty streak against Russia, for whatever reason I wouldn't speculate.
	because there was the foreign affairs report from earlier this year as well that was talking about the initial peace talks that were going on between Russia and Ukraine where a lot seemed to be on the table that you wouldn't expect Russia to put up there that seemed to have been sabotaged partially by involvement of western leaders like Boris Johnson I have two things to add here.
	So first of all, it is very interesting that articles like this one are being published right now.
	the war effort and also that Ukraine itself had been surprisingly successful in pushing back the initial Russian attacks, which gave it the confidence to believe that it could continue the war effort with Western support.
	I have two things to add here.
	So first of all, it is very interesting that articles like this one are being published right now, because I don't think that something like this would have been published a year ago.
	No, I agree.
	So it's really interesting that right now they are publishing articles like this.
	Now in this next article, there's reports that German's investigative team were thinking that it might have been Germany as early as November of 2022.
	I think this might have something to do with the fact that the war in the Middle East, there seems to be some heating up going on with Iran.
	So there might be some trying to pull back resources from Ukraine and point them more in the direction of the Middle East.
	It's like Kanye with Taylor Swift who say, you know, you may have won an award, but it's not your best award.
	It's like, you know, it's not the best war.
	That's the issue.
	But what is interesting is that right now they are publishing articles like this.
	And second, I think that just, you know, my personal opinion, we will never know.
	No, I agree.
	There's the old saying that, you know, in war, fraud and deception are virtues.
	A sad thing.
	So, even if a particular side has seemingly no reason to do something, like sabotage, that gives them an extra reason of doing it.
	Because they're gonna create, wreak havoc upon the other side.
	But, no, these are just the two sides I'm trying to think of.
	No, absolutely.
	It's good to be level-headed and look at both sides.
	I really don't think we will ever know, but it is interesting that articles like these are being published because it seems to me that it is showing that people will, and politicians will, ask for a ceasefire.
	And I think that it's going to be a balance antebellum, as they say, that it's going to stop wherever, you know, the Russian borders are now and wherever Ukrainian borders are now.
	I think that's where it's going.
	But as far as the Nord Stream thing, I don't think we'll ever know.
	Well still, it's important to go over the information that we have available to us now, and we'll be able to, you at home will be able to make your own mind up as to how likely all of this does sound.
	So, going into this information, the German authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian man on suspicion of being part of the team.
	The man, a driving instructor identified only as, and brace yourselves for this, Volodymyr Z, I mean, Volodymyr is... I'm sure there's a very common name and set of initials, but that's quite interesting.
	Although, of course, I don't think Zelensky is a driving instructor who was involved in all of this.
	He was a comedian, wasn't he?
	He was a comedian.
	Maybe he was playing a driving instructor.
	Ah, it all makes sense now.
	So he's last believed to have lived in Poland and is alleged to have dived 80 meters to the seabed at night to plant explosive devices on the pipelines which ran from Russia to Germany in September 2022, according to reports in two publications I'm not going to try to pronounce, as well as the broadcast that ARD Germany first asked Poland to arrest the man in June, but he is thought to have gone underground according to security sources cited in the reports.
	The German Prosecutor General's Office, which has been investigating the case even after Denmark and Sweden dropped their respective inquiries, has declined to comment.
	Polish authorities confirmed on Wednesday that a European warrant for his arrest has been received.
	The National Public Prosecutor's Office said in an email to the news agency AFP, ultimately Wladimir Zed has not been detained as he left the territory of Poland at the beginning of July this year, crossing the Polish-Ukrainian border.
	So if this is to be believed, this man has returned to Ukraine, and Ukraine does not extradite its own, so there would be no chance of Germany getting hold of him unless he decided to leave Ukraine for some reason, which would be unlikely.
	The media outlets also identified another man and woman who were also Ukrainian diving instructors as having allegedly been involved in the attack, though no further arrest warrants have been issued for them.
	I need to correct myself.
	Earlier, Vladimir Zed was a diving instructor, instructor not driving instructor i misspoke apologies i misread that despite evidence that he may have had the backing of high-ranking military officials there's no suggestion that ukrainian president zelinski was aware of the attack or that it was state sanctioned now that in itself is contradicted by this enormous washington post article that purports to give the full story of what happened and says that it was funded by private
	businessmen at a cost of around three hundred thousand dollars and was overseen by a top general that would be general let me try and get his name right again zaluzni and And that President Zelensky was actually aware of it but unsuccessfully tried to call it off.
	There was also the suggestion in this article that the idea was come up with in May of 2022 and was the result of an excessive drinking session among senior Ukrainian military officers where somebody suggested destroying Nord Stream In response to the remarkable success that Ukraine had had at the time in halting the Russian invasion.
	This seems to be a very strange and unlikely circumstance to come up with such an idea that then gets followed through.
	as well.
	So that's very strange to begin with.
	So again, it goes on to say it cost around $300,000.
	It involves a small rented yacht, that would be the Andromeda, with a six-member crew, including trained civilian divers.
	One was a woman whose presence helped to create the illusion that they were a group of friends on a pleasure cruise.
	Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky initially improved the plan, according to one officer who participated and three people familiar with it, because the journal say that they spoke to four senior Ukrainian defense and security officials who either participated in or had direct knowledge of the plot.
	Or, All of them said the pipelines were a legitimate target in Ukraine's war defense against Russia I do not know why these people would have chosen to speak to the Journal about it.
	Perhaps it's been playing on their conscience so much, or perhaps they were at an excessive drinking session and decided to spill the beans on such an operation.
	So perhaps there's been some leaks from the inside.
	But either way, according to this information, the CIA learned of it and asked the Ukrainian president to pull the plug.
	He ordered a halt, these people said.
	Zelensky's commander-in-chief Zelensky was leading the effort and nonetheless forged ahead.
	Why he would choose to do that against direct orders, I don't know.
	The Dutch military intelligence agency that was noted in the other articles, MIVD, learned of the plot and warned the CIA, not Germany, they went to the CIA instead.
	According to several people familiar with the Dutch report and then the US informed Germany, which seems like a Roundabout way of going about it when the US and the Dutch are in allies with Germany.
	Very strange.
	Portions of the account given to the journal were corroborated by an early two-year German police investigation into the attack.
	Now, if we're going to believe any of the information that's been presented regarding this, I would say that the two-year German police investigation is probably the most trustworthy one.
	And not just a four random senior officials who decided to speak to the journal about such a thing, especially given that the two-year German police investigation has in the end resulted in the issue of a warrant, an arrest warrant for a man.
	I don't know, it seems to me that it's all top-down in this case, and the fact that they are publishing it suggests that they want to push forward a narrative of ceasefire.
	Yeah, it's a narrative shift.
	Trump ends up getting in.
	Trump wants to pull US support away from the Ukrainian effort.
	He's said as much as he wants.
	Or at least he says so.
	He says so.
	But I do actually trust Trump on such things more than I trust most of the politicians when they say certain things.
	And also, there's worries within the EU themselves, where somebody like Macron has been saying that they basically need to lessen their reliance on the US for military defence support, and be able to build up their own army in case of Russian aggression, and they're not in a position to do that if this war carries on and they still have to continue ramping up support for Ukraine.
	So there's a few different avenues that you could say, yes, they want to wind this thing down.
	But carrying on, they say that the German investigators questioned dozens of potential witnesses, scanned the bottom of the sea around the blast, and sifted through masses of data, including digital communication, travel records, and financial transactions.
	They had one lucky break, supposedly, in rushing to leave Germany.
	The sabotage crew neglected to wash the Andromeda, which gave the German detectives traces of explosive, fingerprints, and DNA samples from the crew, which I assume has all been part of why they were able to issue this arrest warrant.
	According to people familiar with the investigation, a van driving the Ukrainian sabotage team from Poland into Germany in 2022 was snapped by a German speed camera and the man, the diving instructor, was in the photo.
	Authorities in Poland didn't act on the warrant and as we mentioned before he's ended up going into Ukraine where they will not be able to extradite him.
	Regarding General Zeluzny, he's now Ukraine's ambassador to the United Kingdom.
	Supposedly, Zelensky chewed him out after this whole thing and demoted him and he took this position instead, although this position as an ambassador means that he's got immunity on any charges.
	So if anything did end up coming back to him, according to these reports, according to these arrest warrants, he's bloody hell.
	Apologies.
	He's not able to be charged for anything anyway because he's got immunity.
	Supposedly he was commanding the operation, enlisted Ukraine's top special operations officers, which included Roman Chivinsky, which is one of the names that was mentioned in the Nord Stream article and reported on by the Washington Post.
	And when they tried to call it off, things were already in motion, so they couldn't call it off.
	So, Chivinsky, interestingly, is currently on trial in Ukraine for unrelated charges.
	In July, he was released on bail after over a year in detention.
	He declined to comment on this case after people tried to get in touch with him about it, but in a subsequent broadcast interview, he said that the sabotage had two positive effects for Ukraine.
	Now that was not something I'm aware of.
	grip on the european countries supporting kiev and left moscow with only one main avenue for channeling gas to europe pipelines traversing ukraine despite the war supposedly ukraine collects lucrative transit fees for russian oil and gas estimated to be worth hundreds of million dollars a year now that was not something i'm aware of you can verify that in the comments if you'd like earlier this year as it mentions zelinski ousted zeluzny from his military post and now he's the ambassador you
	Ukrainian officials, according to this article, who participated in or are familiar with the plot believe that it would be impossible to put any of the commanding officers on trial because no evidence exists beyond conversations among the top officials who were, at least initially, in this drunken session.
	where they came up with a plan to commit mass sabotage against one of their own allies, all in agreement about wanting to blow up the pipelines.
	None of them will testify lest they incriminate themselves.
	So I'm with you on this, Stelios, that this information is all very revealing, but also slightly unverifiable, and is in the interest of pushing the narrative in a particular direction, changing course, so to speak, with the Russia-Ukraine conflict so to speak, with the Russia-Ukraine conflict as it stands right now.
	Especially convenient given that nobody involved with it is in any way touchable by Western legal systems and being able to be brought to justice in front of a court where a lot more information would be brought out and we could truly verify how true any of this is.
	Also, Another thing it's fantastical to me that if any of this was true that the U.S.
	would not be able to put a stop to it if they were really not in favor of this going ahead.
	It's remarkable to the idea that the U.S.
	would just say no don't do that and not do anything to put a stop to it.
	If this really was an act of sabotage I wouldn't be surprised if the U.S.
	was involved but again We don't know.
	All of these reports have a lot of loose ends that can't be tied.
	We don't know, but if that's the case, then they may publish articles of the sort in order to make the Ukrainians get all the blame so they can tell them, we can end the war right now and you're not gonna have anything, any other ground back.
	So I repeat that for a moment?
	If that's the case, and there is involvement from the other side of the Atlantic, then there is interest in publishing these articles in order to make Ukrainians take 100% of the blame.
	Oh yes.
	That's what I said.
	Absolutely, apologies.
	If that's the case, that's a conditional.
	Yes, so there's a lot up in the air about this and I am in the agreement that unless any of these people are able to be miraculously extradited and put before a court where we can get them giving information, telling the truth of what happened in their own involvement and not just anonymous reports being given by the journal and other news sources, then it's very difficult to tell what happened.
	But I do think that the official narratives, certainly that we were given to begin with, that it was all to do with Russia, I think are unlikely.
	With that, let's carry on.
	Great, so we're all aware of Humza Yousaf, the anti-white, racist, former First Minister of Scotland.
	Well, now he just spends his time, I was scrolling through his Twitter, now he just spends his time complaining about the issue in Gaza, not really representing the people he's meant to represent in Scotland.
	But he decided to jump on the Elon Musk and Elon Musk bandwagon in this insightful video on CNN, again representing the people of Scotland in CNN apparently.
	He has of course in the past.
	He said that Muslims are a fifth column in the UK, waiting to kill people in the UK.
	He has said that migrants are coming here to take us over.
	He started the general election campaign by saying many Muslims do not share British values.
	If there is a dog whistle to be blown, then Nigel Farage will always be at the very front of the queue.
	As for Elon Musk, he is one of, I would suggest, one of the most dangerous men On the planet, he uses his billions.
	He is unaccountable to anyone to amplify far right white supremacist ideology.
	He has, as you have rightly said, suggested, I think, is hoping for civil war in some parts of Europe, including in the UK.
	And instead of using X as a platform for good and using his enormous wealth for good, he is using it, I think, for the most wicked evil possible.
	And in terms of...
	So I'll just pause it there.
	I think it relates to what you were saying, Stelios, about the globalists having this narrative about Elon Musk wanting civil war and how he's perpetuating this white supremacist narrative.
	It's absolute nonsense saying that he's using Twitter for his wicked means, for using it for the most wicked evil means possible.
	That's absolutely ridiculous.
	What do you two make of it?
	I think it's funny that the first things he was saying about what Nigel Farage has said, he didn't provide any sort of rebuttal or evidence against what Farage was saying.
	He was doing the point and sputter mode of argumentation.
	Couldn't you believe he said that?
	That's the knitting circle level of argumentation.
	Oh, can you believe that Doris did this recently?
	Oh, tut tut!
	And also the comparison between Humza Yousaf, unelected Humza Yousaf, who the SNP massively gained because of First Past the Post, compared to Nigel Farage in Reform UK, who gets so much of the popular vote.
	Nigel Farage is probably the most popular politician in the UK.
	Comparing those two together, it's an absolute joke.
	What do you think, Stelios?
	I hope you don't have a grudge against Harry and myself because you showed us 62 seconds of Hamza Yusuf talking, but at least you spared us the other 19 seconds.
	So I think that basically it's just, he is just a race baiter and he claims to talk about the Scottish and he claims to talk about Western values and British values.
	Last time I checked, lamenting that Scotland is predominantly white, Isn't a British value.
	Maybe at some point when ecophobia really kicked in.
	The leftist universities, the bastions of western culture.
	It's just not.
	And I completely agree with you, he was unelected and he put forward one of the worst hate speech laws It's just things not to be proud of and definitely things that are not good for society.
	I mean, he hasn't helped society and he's just blaming people who are criticizing him, like Elon Musk.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	So Elon Musk fired back at this in a response, I think it was to that video itself.
	White.
	I love how he utilizes Twitter.
	He's not just like going on a rampage on CNN, like he comes to use of it.
	It's just in the tweets.
	I think this is an example of Elon Musk being a man of the people, many such cases.
	So in this tweet, he says he is super, super racist.
	Scotland gave him everything and yet he loves white people.
	This is obvious because he has never complained about any race.
	...of any other country's leadership.
	There are over 200 countries in the world, most of whom have single-race leadership.
	Why is he only attacking Scotland?
	I would say because he hates white people and the Scottish people in particular.
	I mean, it's funny that he wears the fact that he's got a Scottish accent as a skin suit for Scottish identity.
	There was an interview that I saw with him recently where he was saying that, oh, cut me open and I'm as Scottish as they come.
	Well, the fact is, Hamza, historically the Scottish have not had family in the Levant.
	As far as I'm aware, that's not something that most Scots lay claim to, except maybe come the time of the Empire.
	So that's very strange.
	I suggested as well on Twitter that in the West we don't actually have to be so barbaric to test how Scottish you are.
	You can actually get a 23andMe test, spit into a tube, and we can find out just how Scottish you are very easily.
	I think Elon Musk is right.
	He's just super racist and a race baiter, but On his last question, why is he only attacking Scotland?
	I think he attacks Scotland because he was in the Scottish Parliament, but his ideology isn't just contained for Scotland.
	Because if he's talking about things in terms of whiteness, whiteness is also something that exists outside Scotland.
	I think there's also another layer of evil.
	I reject... Racism is bad.
	I don't condone racism, obviously, but I think it goes above that.
	I don't just want to use the leftist framework of saying everything is racist.
	I think there's something uniquely evil of saying a country is bad because it holds an ethnicity off the native population.
	I think that's an absolutely ridiculous framework to go by.
	It is, but it's also dangerous.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	So for all those who haven't seen this, sorry to subject you to more.
	Oh, this is the best clip he's ever done except the one where he falls off the scooter.
	Every High Court judge, white.
	The Lord Advocate, white.
	The Solicitor General, white.
	The Chief Constable, white.
	Every Deputy Chief Constable, white.
	Every Assistant Chief Constable, white.
	And it just goes on like that for another 44 seconds, which I won't subject.
	I'm still waiting for a debate between him and Jared Taylor.
	I'd love to see who pronounces the HWIT better.
	So, after Elon Musk responded to this, Humza Yousaf decided to make a thing out of it, of course, because he has nothing better to do, apparently, and he calls Elon Musk a dangerous race baiter who must be held accountable for his actions.
	Projection.
	Projection.
	All leftism is projection.
	I can't think of what upsets him so much about a brown Muslim progressive politician, but his billions won't stop me calling out his support for the far right.
	Well, I mean, that's what upsets everyone, that if you disagree with progressivism and you're immediately branded far-right, yeah, why?
	But that's the thing, though.
	They call themselves progressive, but that's no progress.
	Oh, it's a very regressive state of mind, isn't it?
	I was just gonna say, I love how that's what he thinks Elon Musk's concern is, that he's a brown Muslim progressive politician, not that he just hates white people.
	Again, it's what you were talking about with narcissism and globalism, he can't actually visualise, realise the actual criticism.
	So it must be because of his identity, something that he can say, well, you know, there is nothing wrong with being a brown Muslim, progressive, well, maybe progressive, maybe politician, but there is nothing wrong with being a brown Muslim, so that must be the complaint itself.
	I think that's just so telling.
	Whether or not he says it out loud, Humza Yusuf has very clearly positioned himself at the head of a sectarian conflict within Scotland, which is going on across all of Europe, which is that all of these foreign nationals will come to our nations and then say we're supposed to accept that they're going to integrate, and then which is that all of these foreign nationals will come to our nations and then say we're supposed to accept that they're going to integrate, and
	In his group conflict, Humza Yusuf has positioned himself explicitly as part of a separate group and will only ever affect Scottish identity when it suits him because, "Ooh, I speak in a Scottish accent, don't you know?" "Well, I'm actually one-fifth Scottish." I would never call myself Scottish because I'm English, but I'm far more Scottish.
	I'm a thousand times more Scottish than Humza Yousaf could ever claim to be.
	Absolutely.
	I dunno, I've not checked this, but when I was scrolling through his Twitter I couldn't find anything.
	Did he say anything about the south port stabbing?
	Other than condemning the far right?
	Not that I can recall, I don't think it was something that registered as a blip on his radar.
	Yeah, because when I was scrolling through, all I literally could see is the far right and also the situation in Gaza.
	Again, the concerns of the Scottish people, I'm sure, are being represented with that.
	Maybe at a university.
	That's the left.
	It's the reverse of the doctrine that says that whenever you have internal problems, you externalize them, for instance, by foreign aggression.
	Whenever a country doesn't have problems, they internalize external problems.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Because it's like Nina Turner was saying, unless there is Palestinian liberation, there's no black liberation, there is nothing liberation.
	It's the doctrine of the globalists, unless I get everything, I have nothing.
	And it's relating to the idea of being oppressed as well, which he relates more to the idea of being oppressed, relating to the Gazans, than actually of the Scottish people who, I don't know whether he'd overtly say it, but he does see as the oppressors at the end of the day.
	So I wanted to actually look at all the white supremacy, all the bigotry Elon Musk is promoting and actually see how he does represent, you know, I wouldn't say he's representing a specific coalition but you can tell he's just so much more relatable than the average politician nowadays.
	So again, raising awareness about a free speech issue going on in the UK, saying it's messed up, just raising general awareness towards that.
	Sharing memes, obviously a very relatable method of communication nowadays.
	Again, raising awareness of the facts that, of the consequences of mass immigration in the UK, just something simple like that.
	And again, the two-tier justice problem.
	Has Humza Yousaf said anything on this?
	You showed me a clip of Humza Yousaf talking and now you're showing me Angela Rayner's face.
	What are you putting me through, Jess?
	Comparing this to what Humza Yousaf is talking about, I think it's just such a difference.
	I won't play the clip again, but of him saying every position in Scotland is white is an issue.
	I think that's just absolutely ridiculous.
	A politician is saying that.
	In a common sense country, he would have had to resign at that spot.
	Saying that's a negative thing is absolutely ridiculous.
	And I think just comparing what Elon Musk was saying, comparing the attention he's been raising about the issues in the UK, and not just in the UK, going through his timeline you can see he's talking about what's happening in Venezuela for example, he's just overall representing the issues that actually relate to the people.
	Well I've said this, it was interesting that Elon Musk recently responded to somebody who thought he was a descendant of Dutch Afrikaners from South Africa, that he said his ancestry was actually of the British in South Africa.
	So by ancestry, Elon Musk, again, is far more British than Humza Yousaf could ever hope to be.
	And I do wonder if that's got anything to do with why it is that he's been highlighting what's been going on in Britain in particular, because it seems to have been something in particular that he has been interested in highlighting and sharing about amongst his followers.
	Because I wonder if there is some sort of sentimentality that goes back there, seeing what he could consider his homeland being tyrannized in such a way.
	Yeah, that's a good point.
	Speaking of Venezuela and Elon Musk, I sent a tweet to Samson, maybe Samson we could show it?
	Because it's really funny.
	Speaking of the relatability.
	I don't know if Samson can play it, I sent it to him.
	And this was an interesting clip that you've got up here as well that I watched at the time I was going to bring it up actually, which is that the only thing that I did see in response to the South Port was this, where it was saying, maybe it's not safe for me anymore, maybe I shouldn't be here.
	Well that's very nice for you to say if you'd like to return to Pakistan where you can, you know, be amongst other Pakistanis.
	The fact is the British, if our country goes to absolute pot, We don't have anywhere else to go.
	You could say go to one of the other Anglosphere countries, but in Canada, they're being inundated and flooded with mass immigration, particularly from India and in Australia as well.
	I've not been to Australia.
	Have you been to Australia?
	Well, a lot of people are going to Australia, some of my friends have been to Australia, and even there though, again, mass migration is knocking on their door, and all of a sudden Anglos are becoming less and less the majority of people who are travelling over there.
	Somebody pointed the statistics to me.
	And again, for some reason, is Indians overtaking them?
	When India has such a massive excess of population, and they can just go, You know what?
	We don't want to have to look after you anymore.
	Go poo on other nations' beaches instead of derailing our trains.
	We have this here.
	Thank you, Samson.
	This is, by the way, what Ian Myles Chong writes is false.
	But in another video, Maduro did talk about Elon Musk and shutting down Twitter and having a personal biff with Maduro.
	And he's writing to him, I'm coming for you, Maduro.
	I will carry you to Gitmo on a donkey.
	Yeah, but to what you said about relatability, I don't think of it in terms of relatability because you could say that there are a lot of relatable people, a lot of popular people who can use their power and reach for bad.
	It just seems to me that he's just using it for good at the moment because someone in his position could easily just start using all this reach that Twitter has for bad.
	It's not suddenly that anything he does by default is going to be good.
	I think that in very key issues right now, he's taking the right stance.
	Well, it all depends on the quality and morality and principles of the person who ends up within that position of power.
	And again, I do think Elon Musk has a lot more leeway to do such things when he is so rich and also he is so intertwined with the U.S.
	government, with all of his different company contracts as well.
	That gives him a lot more free reign than most of us would have.
	Yeah, I think it's good to be distrustful of people in positions of power, but even if Elon Musk was, like, retweeting and posting, you know, leftist identity politics drivel, the fact that Twitter is such an open platform where anyone can give their opinion is so useful, compared to something like the mainstream media, where you are, it's just top-down, you are being, you know, given a narrative.
	I think, you know, it's such a blessing and such a benefit.
	But to go back on, I'm going to have to burden you all with a bit more of Humza Yousaf, just so the audience can understand.
	What has the last week felt like?
	It's felt utterly horrendous.
	It is a strange feeling, John, when your very sense of belonging is questioned.
	Look, I am, as you've said in the introduction, I'm about as Scottish as they come.
	Born in Scotland, raised in Scotland, educated in Scotland.
	Just welcomed my third child here.
	In Scotland, was the leader of the Scottish Government for just over a year, leader of the Scottish National Party.
	You cut me open and I'm about as Scottish as you come.
	But the truth of the matter is, I don't know whether the future for me and my wife and my three children is going to be here in Scotland or the United Kingdom or indeed in Europe.
	I mean if he needs any help paying for the ticket out of here, I'm happy to set up a fundraiser.
	I'm sure many people would, would support that.
	But it was just interesting, the ways he was listing he was Scottish, that he was raised in Scotland, that he, I think he said born in Scotland, educated in Scotland, he had political office in Scotland.
	Not descended from Scottish people, though.
	But also just, even if you want to take like a civic nationalist perspective, it's like, he doesn't talk about the communities, he doesn't talk about anything relatable about Scottish culture, Scottish history.
	As far as I know, he's never drank an entire bottle of Buckfast in one gulp, so he can't be that Scottish.
	And then got into a fight with people.
	I have.
	So, again, far more Scottish.
	But I think that just shows how superficial this is.
	He's been given an education.
	He's been born here.
	What has that actually got to do with the Scottish people?
	And if you go to somewhere like Whitechapel in London or in Reading, there's a place called Oxford Road.
	I live in Reading at the moment, so I'm very familiar with that.
	The signs are no longer in English.
	There's a massive mosque.
	It just doesn't feel like England.
	It doesn't feel like historical reading.
	It's the same when you go up to somewhere like Preston.
	There's enormous mosques in the middle of roundabouts or just off of roundabouts that are very, very central to the city.
	You go there and you think, this was a centre of the Industrial Revolution.
	I don't think they were building mosques.
	And so you can have someone who was born in this country, raised in this country, had an education, has a job, and still not have any of the values, any of the actual British values of this country because there have been these parallel communities being created.
	But also on the issue of, I don't know if my children will be safe in the UK because of the rise of the far right, well, children aren't safe in the UK.
	As we've seen, By the stabbing, by the self-port stabbing.
	These are the real victims which Humza Yousaf hasn't paid any commitments to and he's not paid any attention to.
	Why isn't someone who represents a part of the UK, why isn't he representing that?
	Why isn't he talking about that?
	And again, I think that shows that loyalty.
	I think it's very telling when people are focusing on, instead of the actual tragedy of three young girls being stabbed and killed, When they're focusing on the so-called far-right riots instead of the actual tragedy, I think that's just so telling.
	Yeah.
	And also, this is a tragedy, but it wasn't the only tragedy.
	Yeah.
	Even in the previous two weeks, there were other kids who died.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	I think in Hackney, one died.
	I did a segment about it.
	That was the Leicester Square stabbing the other day by a Romanian.
	Yeah.
	And it's just so sad.
	Like I said, I live in Reading.
	I go outside, I'm five minutes away from Forbury Gardens where an immigrant stabbed a load of people and I think they died after that.
	I'm from Manchester.
	Harry, you're from there, right?
	Greater Manchester area.
	Yeah, I'm from Bolton.
	I'm from Cheshire.
	Yeah, and my cousin, people in my class went to the Manchester Arena, the Ariana Grande concert.
	A friend of mine was there at the time when that happened, she was attending the concert.
	One of my friends, who I was going to university with, Um, actually worked in the stands at the time and just happened to be off that day.
	And of course the explosion happened in the refreshments area near the stand.
	So if he hadn't been off that day, who knows what could have happened.
	He could have been caught in that.
	Yeah.
	And my friend had, she had to take years of therapy to be able to overcome that.
	It's very strange.
	I was there the day after in Manchester.
	I assume you were as well.
	I wasn't there, I was at school.
	Oh, you were at school.
	Well, I went to university the day after and it was a very strange and unusual feeling to be coming out of Piccadilly Station and there being armed special forces police officers patrolling the streets.
	It was a feeling unlike any that I'd ever had and that was my first real taste of multicultural Britain showing its real face.
	And to see the mural there In the station, I think it's Victoria Station, to see the faces of the young girls who were killed in that attack, it's just so heartbreaking to see.
	You want to talk about safety of children in the UK, talk about the grooming gangs, there's so many instances where young people, and just people in general, have been hurt because of the impacts of mass immigration, and Humza Yousaf won't mention that.
	It's just so depressing to see, but I won't end this on Again, it hurts his own sectarian interests to address such things.
	And I'll just leave it on this note because I don't want to focus too much on the sadness.
	I want to talk about the actual policy.
	This is a recent thing.
	Robert Jenrick recently created a video throwing all the negatives off the Labour Party and he talks about Angela Rayner scrapping plans to limit social housing applicants for long-term British residents, I think it says.
	Humza Yousaf responded, Again, talk about being fit for public office.
	I don't think Humza Yousaf is one to speak.
	days after far-right thugs try to set fire to a hotel reportedly housing asylum seekers robert jenry comes away with a howler of a dog whistle absolutely shameful he isn't fit for public office let alone leading opposition again talk about being fit for public public office i don't think hums of use if he's one to speak but again the idea that prioritizing british people is seen as a far-right dog whistle is absolutely ridiculous
	well uh as far as i can tell far-right just means white working class as carl has continually said So if you do anything against the white working class, like prioritising migrants for council houses, and somebody says, I don't want that, well, then that's far-right.
	Yeah, it's crazy.
	And just to bring up the statistics, I think it's like almost half of social housing in London is headed by someone who is foreign born.
	Well, if you break down the population statistics, for instance, into different ethnic groups, so Somalians in London, I believe the last statistics that I saw were that 72% of Somalians in London are in social housing, so they're a real boon for the economy down there.
	I hope the Pret is worth it, Westminster.
	It's absolutely ridiculous when you think of social housing.
	I mean, you can have your issues with social housing in general, as a libertarian I certainly do, but the idea is at least there's some justification of, you know, our descendants, our ancestors, our parents and grandparents, you know, fought for this country, they've contributed so much to this country, and to have a safety net, at least there's some justification with that, whereas people who haven't contributed anything to this country economically and
	Might I dare say culturally as well, in terms of community, to get the benefits off that.
	It's shameful to say and you can't have a conversation about that according to Humza Yousaf.
	So I think that just shows, this segment just shows that he isn't for the British people, he isn't for the Scottish people.
	No, of course not.
	And on that, let's go over to the video comment.
	Samson, we've not got anything on the schedule for the rest of the day, so do you mind if we extend this Yeah, I'm gonna say that we're gonna extend this maybe to 22 or even quarter to if we run on.
	Okay, that's my executive decision.
	And I wanna thank our audience for sending us cringy videos occasionally.
	Stelios is the cringe connoisseur.
	Oh, yes.
	Yeah, episode of Thousand, only a few weeks away.
	We're going to be reacting to all sorts and Stoney Os is going to be giddy, thrilled like a child who's just got on a sugar high and been handed more ice cream.
	In regards to surveys and honest answers, I used to get political pollsters calling me a lot.
	In 2018, I considered how before the call, it said, this call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes.
	I asked if we were being recorded, and I was told yes.
	I asked not to record it, but to freely ask questions.
	Instead, she said, oh, and hung up.
	Since then, I've never been called.
	Be careful what you tell these people.
	Only 39% of Brits approve, eh?
	Sure.
	Well, yeah, that is always the question.
	Are they answering honestly to protect their own interests and maybe protect their own well-being and family if those calls are being recorded?
	Like, if that call is being recorded and you're speaking to a pollster and they say, do you approve of violence being committed in response to immigration?
	You might worry about what happens if you say yes.
	So the fact that 39% still said yes is It's very, very, very telling.
	Not that I would ever support violence in such causes.
	And now a moment of American political levity.
	The Harris-Waltz campaign should be called the Moby Dick campaign, given that both candidates have swallowed a lot of semen.
	This will be the first time in Kamala Harris's long and storied career that she has advanced because a man has pulled out.
	In the immortal words of Willie Brown, Kamala Harris has the nicest white teeth I've ever come across.
	Dirty bastard!
	That was quite funny.
	Have we got any more, Samson?
	That was literally it.
	We had one very serious one, and then a load of cum jokes.
	Well, I think that quite sums up the Lotus Aethers podcast.
	So with that, let's go to the written comments.
	I'll read this first one.
	Colin Thompson, Harry lowering himself down to the other host's level is another example of the fall of the West and the lowering of Chet, I mean, standards.
	Well, I wanted to be nice.
	I wanted to give something back to the short community, being a representative of the tall community surrounded by short arses constantly.
	Would we all like to... How far up is your seat?
	So, is it all the way up?
	Let's do a test, eh?
	Stellia, put your seat all the way up.
	Go on.
	Alright, okay.
	There you go.
	Let's everybody see.
	Okay, so here's how to... And then, here's me.
	There you go.
	So that's a bit more accurate.
	Although I'd say I'm mainly leg-heavy.
	So there we go.
	You can all return now.
	Although I might... I might keep this position and stay like this for the assertion of dominance.
	Samson, is my head out of frame?
	I'm a couple of pixels away.
	I'm just gonna... There we go.
	There you go.
	Is everybody happy now?
	Okay, I'm gonna be... I might... No, I'm not gonna stand up.
	No.
	I'm not the real Slim Shady.
	Do you want to read some of your comments, Stelios?
	Omar Awad.
	The CIA invented the term conspiracy theory to discredit whistleblowers.
	I feel that criminalizing speculators is the new tactic to minimize damage from exposed truth.
	Only the media is allowed to report unverified information without consequence.
	I think that's an interesting point.
	Yeah, I mean, the left spread all sorts of insane conspiracy theories constantly, and they get no pushback from it from security services whatsoever.
	I still find it remarkable.
	You know that absolute, awful, fetid gremlin, James O'Brien?
	Yes.
	Yeah, so it's sad to remind you of him.
	He wrote a book recently that came out called something like How They Ruined Britain, and I decided to pick it up in the shop.
	Ooh, it's all the usual suspects the left go on about.
	In particular, can you guess who?
	Can you guess who James O'Brien would say is one of the big culprits who ruined Britain?
	Who do the left constantly talk about?
	Who does Owen Jones go on about in Britain?
	Yeah.
	Who?
	Rupert Murdoch.
	The Murdoch media has destroyed Britain!
	Rupert Murdoch, who is, I don't know, a centre-rightist at most?
	Who is just one of the few people who allows publication of immigration discussion that isn't glowingly positive?
	This destroys Britain!
	So, you know, that's a conspiracy theory all its own.
	Right, so we have a name that I can't pronounce.
	A-O-I-F-E-N-I-A-M-H.
	I don't know if you can pronounce it, if it's an old... Aphenomia?
	Neam?
	Aphenomia.
	I feel like this is probably some old English, or Anglo-Saxon, or something.
	This may be a name from Beowulf.
	I'm sorry.
	In English.
	I'd go further and say the Left are malignant narcissists.
	They're willing to harm or even kill opponents.
	In the past, they have done so.
	So it's F.A.
	Neve.
	Oh, OK.
	All right.
	OK.
	Bald Eagle, 1787.
	Is that Celtic or something?
	Gaelic?
	It doesn't matter if police are against the thought crime laws, if they enforce them, then they're just guilty as the government.
	And show how unqualified they are to even be police officers.
	Tame Scotty of Swindon.
	In relation to AOC, the best thing to come out of that was the Babylon Bee headline.
	It is more important to be morally correct than factually correct, claims woman who is neither.
	Yeah, true.
	Right, Kevin Fox.
	With all these hate speech laws focusing on online harm, I think it's time to buy shares in VPN companies because their shares are going to start climbing faster than UK immigration figures.
	And Jess Autism.
	Yeah, there's a new commenter called Jess's Autism.
	Any comment on that?
	As in the names, Jess's Autism, or the comments.
	They've called themselves Jess's Autism.
	We have some who are changing their names and they're basically saying that we are... There have been a number of ones of me eating KFC buckets while Josh looks on in disgust, things of such a nature.
	Any comments on your autism?
	I mean, I've been tested twice, maybe a third time's the charm.
	A third time's the charm, then you might become full-time here.
	So, I think this is less of a conspiracy and more of the alignment of interests for those in power to have their power unchecked and unquestioned.
	Absolutely.
	The Internet allows for both a greater ability to scrutinize and a greater ability to censor and in this we have to, as always, be eternally vigilant.
	I couldn't agree with you more.
	Derek Power.
	So when is Alex Garland going to be charged with inciting violence with making civil war?
	Oh wait, he won't, because it's stupid.
	Play stupid games to win stupid prizes.
	And Captain Charlie the Beagle.
	What's crazy about the hate speech law in Ireland is that the worst of it was repealed in 1967.
	Now the same people that bemoaned the previous censorship and blamed the church Wrongly are eager to bring it back.
	The difference it serves their political goals and as such theirs is the correct version of it.
	That's a sad truth.
	Yes, and we'll go on to my comments now.
	Thenscotty of Swindon, I hope you're having a good day at the market, sir.
	Without providing evidence, everyone took sides and accused each other without evidence.
	Many, many such cases.
	Screwtape Lasers, I am pleased to see Lotus Eaters covering the Nord Stream story.
	Well, I was made aware of it this morning and thought it would be fascinating to look into it.
	And the more I read all of the reports and everything that was being said, the more my eyebrows began to levitate off of the top of my head.
	It's interesting how little coverage it received considering its vast implications for the war.
	Well, it'll be interesting to see if it gets more and more press coverage in the weeks leading up to the US elections to see if it has any influence on those.
	If Donald Trump ramps up his rhetoric about winding down the Ukraine war, if it goes in the way where they start reporting on such things more, start pointing the finger at Ukraine, you could say that might be an alignment of regime saying, OK, we are expecting a Trump win.
	So we're going to try to turn the narrative in his direction in preparation for that.
	If not, then, you know, forcification.
	Kamala Harris.
	I don't think the regime wants Trump.
	I think the regime wants Kamala Harris because then it's just business as usual for them and they don't even have to worry about reigning Trump in.
	Brian Tomlinson.
	Regarding the blowing up of the Nord Stream pipeline, blaming the Russians for causing the explosion is the equivalent of my neighbors and myself having a war and me burning my house down to show them who's boss.
	Yeah, but it really did show them, didn't it?
	George Happ, everybody knows that the person who blew up Nord Stream was Tucker Carlson.
	Putin confirmed that in the interview with him.
	That must have been hidden somewhere in the historical diatribe.
	He went, honestly, I didn't watch that interview.
	I know I should have, and I know it was very interesting, but I Let such things slip me by, sadly, because there is so much going on at all times and all places that sometimes I need a nap.
	California refugee.
	Remember, guys, Trump was going to cause World War III by not going to war with Russia, Syria, or Iran, now that there are several wars going on that America is funding, not a peep of World War III talk from the legacy media.
	Very true.
	Alex L, the only argument I can think of that points to Russia is that the oligarchs were also pressuring Putin to stop the war, pointing to a potential coup.
	Putin could have wanted to remove the pipeline entirely to remove that pressure from his side.
	That's a fair interpretation and theory regarding that again.
	Unless people are brought before a court and forced to give testimony and testify honestly, then I don't think we will ever truly know what happened because the fog of war is thick and dense, and these days even more so after the end of a war.
	BaldEagle1787 for $2 on Rumble, thank you very much.
	Best way to look at the Nord Stream situation is how Putin stated it.
	Look at who had the means and the motive to do it, who benefited from it.
	It's obvious that the US and Ukraine did it.
	Certainly I do think there is an interpretation that suggests that they could.
	If Ukraine was involved, I'd be very shocked if the US had nothing to do with it.
	I would have thought that that would have been a remarkable splitting away from the US in doing such a thing.
	I'll read.
	Two more.
	General Hai Ping, Chinese and Tibet Battalion, being reported that Ukraine are using British Challengers Mark II tanks in their assault into Russian territory.
	If it's true, I think unfortunately we'll all be fighting off other nations before getting to reform our own.
	I hope that the... I don't try to look at things quite so pessimistically.
	And again from Jess's Autism, there is a very simple explanation for the Nord Stream exploding.
	It was built by DEI hires.
	Well, maybe.
	Do you want to read some of your comments?
	Can you- I don't know how to do that.
	You don't know how to read?
	God, standards are slipping.
	My God.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Would you like to read them, Stelios?
	Have you got access to the document?
	Oh, is it on the document?
	If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the document.
	Hamza V Musk.
	Oh, here you go.
	Oh, wow.
	Thank you.
	It's on the screen now.
	I have really bad eyesight.
	I'll just read it off the screen.
	Perhaps sometimes you should read them first because occasionally there are some... I'll just go with it.
	Nah, it's fine.
	Racism is a simplified low-resolution strawman of the objective truth that many people and their cultures are vastly different and do not harmoniously coalesce.
	The liberal trend towards ideological deconstruction is forcing us to relearn this ancestral truth the hard way, says Chase Ball.
	That seems fair.
	I want Hamza to see Musk, not only because he'll lose, but we'll get to see his DMs during Discovery.
	Imagine all the, I can't do the Jared rants he had in there.
	So, would he have to show his DMs?
	I'm not aware of how the situation, of how it unfolds, but if you really do have to show all of your direct messages via Discovery, because maybe if you give over all of your electronics and phones, that's what they have to do, that would be very interesting to see.
	That would be very interesting.
	According to Samson, it's case dependent.
	Colleen P says, I have a genuine question.
	Why do we even have protected characteristics?
	Doesn't this automatically create a sort of two-tier apartheid system?
	The answer is yes.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So, Holmes' opinion of Scotland is the same as Edward in Braveheart.
	There are too many Scots.
	I've never seen Braveheart.
	Neither have I actually.
	What?
	No, I've not.
	You have to watch it.
	I've not seen it.
	Should we wear some blue face paint together and have a movie night?
	Maybe you could do it.
	You could spare me the paint.
	We could just watch a movie.
	All right.
	All right.
	Okay.
	All right.
	If you don't want to have fun, fine.
	I'll have fun watching you painting your face blue.
	There we go.
	I don't actually know how to pronounce her name, so I'm not gonna try and connect, correct you.
	That's not her actual name!
	I've got to be honest, I think Shola.
	I think Shola would win.
	Because Humza...
	Is an idiot.
	And so's Shola, but she's a really vicious kind of moron.
	And that's like her thing, isn't it?
	At least he has to give the impression he doesn't just care about... Yeah, he has to pretend to be even-handed sometimes.
	Sometimes.
	I think that's a fair comment.
	Humza Yusuf is already treating all criticism of him as hate speech.
	The Irish free speech clause is a deflection strategy which exists solely to defend ethnic criticism of white people.
	Any comments on that?
	I think that's a fair comment.
	I think we have some more from Jess's Autism.
	Chatty today.
	This isn't Humza Yusuf versus the world, it's Humza Yusuf versus the whites.
	I agree.
	I can't read that.
	Alpha off the basis, Humza Yousaf wants to go back to Pakistan because Britain is too racist.
	That's all you need to know.
	He has a home country and it's not Scotland.
	How do you think he justifies it?
	With wokeness.
	With wokeness.
	I mean, wokeness is entirely about that.
	But to hate a country so much and still stay there.
	Yeah.
	Does he not like... He will say he doesn't hate the country, he hates some people.
	Yeah.
	To be... Yeah.
	Jesse's autism.
	Final comment, I think.
	To be fair, we can't blame Humzah for thinking Elon is racist.
	Elon is from South Africa, after all.
	Very true, maybe, maybe, you never know.
	Anyway, I think with that, we've run over time about enough, and I think that's all we need to say.
	So remember, gold tier commenters.
	You can send in your videos to, to remind everybody, ah, right here, quiz at lotus eaters...
	Oh, I got it wrong to begin with.
	So apologies.
	Yeah.
	Send regular questions and their answers to quiz at lotus eaters dot com and send in your video comment questions to the normal way that you would send in video comments for us if you have got gold zoom.
	Gold tip.
	Specifically on the Lads Hour page that we have put up early.
	So do that and make sure to tune in tomorrow when we have got Rafe on as a special guest on the podcast and on Lads Hour.
	Until then, thank you very much for joining us.

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