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	Music Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters where Harry is destroying my notes for some reason.
	They're back!
	I'm your host, Conor McMuggerd!
	I don't have a mouse at home with any of these fancy, now, er, side buttons.
	Yes, alright.
	Come on, they only came with two buttons up on top.
	He's a real mouse.
	Back in my day, we couldn't afford mice.
	Excellent.
	This is just a knock-off.
	We were doing impressions about 10 seconds before we came on air.
	Anyway!
	Go on, give it to him!
	I'm not doing my Patrick from Mr. Krabs.
	He's amazing at Mr. Krabs.
	He is disturbing.
	Anyway!
	Today is the 28th of August.
	There we go.
	2024.
	I'd like to remember where I am.
	And we are going to be discussing Keir Starmer's hatred of the English, Mark Zuckerberg's redemption arc, and Japan receiving its fair share of enrichment.
	Very disappointing.
	Before we do so, I'm just going to draw your attention to, in half an hour, uh, not half an hour, an hour and a half, rather, no, two hours, where am I?
	Am I Joe Biden?
	What country are you in?
	What's your name?
	I don't know.
	Actually, if you look outside, it's hard to tell.
	I think it's Eugene.
	At three o'clock today, if you are a Lotus Seats Premium subscriber, you'll be able to watch my show, Tomlinson Talks.
	I'll be talking to Ben Habib about the inside story of Reform UK, that's the establishment of it, the general election campaign, why he was demoted, the ongoing restructure, and of course, I'll be putting questions concerning the deselection of certain candidates to someone that was in the party at the time.
	Ben is a good man, and it's good to at least rebuild some ties with Reform UK.
	It's a good sign that he's speaking to us.
	Yes, though, internal party reform don't like us very much.
	Oh, I wonder why.
	Yeah, I'm sure.
	There were some statements made that they took offence to.
	But anyway, Ben's a good lad and he's always been a friend, so go and listen to him.
	But without further ado, we might as well get into today's stories.
	So, two-tier Keir has decided to cement his legacy as hating the English, and that was with a speech given yesterday in the Downing Street Rose Garden, obviously infamous for when Dominic Cummings decided to defend his driving to Barnard Castle and test his eyesight during the lockdown they imposed on all of us.
	Keir Starmer decided...
	Even Josh is allergic to his rhetoric.
	It's alright.
	Keir Starmer decided to not take Tony Blair's advice and message down the middle and head off populist movements of the past, but instead not only demonise populist movements as having no legitimate standing, but also categorise any native-born Englishman that opposes the mass demographic and cultural change caused by immigration as a literal Nazi.
	Which wasn't all that wise if you're about to lose 98 seats.
	But before we begin, as you know, we are demonetised on YouTube and so we are trying to raise awareness of the fact that if you are not already subscribed to the Lotus Eaters, or if you are, there is a donate button on our website.
	Reminder that all of the podcast segments, including the full podcast on the website you see, are free.
	For everyone we do have to however cover the costs of lighting and in the advent that we are cracked down on by the state which is completely arbitrary at this point we would quite like to have a war chest to defend ourselves so if you are so inclined we do have a donate button on the website and we appreciate everyone that does so and we are entirely funded by you guys so we remain eternally grateful for both your viewing and your monetary support.
	Now if you aren't familiar with what I'm referencing Keir Starmer's speech yesterday was this, and I'm just going to play a clip of the most egregious section, because it's worthy of illustrating what he does mention versus what he doesn't mention, and it shows exactly where the friend-enemy distinction is being drawn by the present very clumsy Labour state.
	But as well as the things that we've discovered, we've also seen shocking scenes across the nation.
	A mindless minority of thugs who thought that they could get away with causing chaos, smashing up communities and terrifying minorities, vandalising and destroying people's property, even trying to set fire to a building with human beings inside it.
	And as if that wasn't despicable enough, People displaying swastika tattoos.
	Shouting racist slurs on our streets.
	Nazi salutes at the cenotaph.
	The cenotaph, the very place we honour those who gave their lives for this country.
	Desecrating their memory under the pretense, and it is a pretense, of legitimate protest.
	Now they're learning that crime has consequences.
	That I won't tolerate a breakdown in law and order under any circumstances.
	And I will not listen to those who exploit grieving families and disrespect local communities.
	But these riots didn't happen in a vacuum.
	They exposed the state of our country.
	Revealed a deeply unhealthy society.
	The cracks in our foundations laid bare.
	Weakened.
	by a decade of division and decline, infected by a spiral of populism which fed off cycles of failure of the last government.
	Every time they faced a difficult problem, they failed to be honest.
	They offered the snake oil of populism, which led to more failure Oh thank you, he's so boring.
	I know.
	He's so boring.
	I apologise, he's hardly a statesman who has a craft, a speech craft, when he has to keep looking down at his notes every few seconds.
	Well that could be a Blair thing of you look down at your notes when you are reading out the parts that you don't want the press to crop because they... He doesn't want them to crop anything from this speech because he's always looking at his notes then.
	I think that, frankly, like Carl has said many times, he's just not that bright.
	He's both a demented ideologue and fundamentally unintelligent, so it makes him inflexible in adjusting the narrative, but also it just means he's not very dynamic on his feet.
	I mean, did you, either of you, watch any of the debates in the run-up to the general election, or do you have better things to do?
	I watched some of them, yeah.
	So you know when, I think it was Sky News, when he repeated the Toolmaker line and someone in the crowd laughed and they just saw the flash of anger?
	When Rishi Sunak decided to find his spine lodged at the back of the CCHQ cupboard and he said, well, here's what you're going to do.
	Are you going to return them to Afghanistan?
	That's ridiculous.
	And Starmer just got very angry and just sort of stood on the spot, not sure what to say.
	I think that his thoughts don't join up very well.
	He's not a very dynamic speaker and that's why he keeps coming to the That's why I was a prosecutor.
	It's very procedural.
	It's not very dynamic at all, really.
	And in fact, I don't know whether you're going to talk about some of the things he said, because it's very interesting and sort of naked in how he was saying it.
	Talking about populism.
	with animosity as if to say well we're not popular obviously so it's very interesting isn't it that he just came out and said it because you'd think that it would look bad because it's the basically the word popular embedded in it and even if you're not a populist saying you're against populism is still sort of Well, there's two reasons for that, and that's the first bit I wanted to focus on.
	It's this sort of demonising of populism and what it betrays about the ideology of the current Labour-occupied managerial state.
	I'm going to go to the sort of institutional defence of this first, and I am going to subject you to probably the least impressive media talking head at the moment, which is James O'Brien.
	Oh no.
	This is what the regime's version of defence for Keir Starmer is.
	It's very short.
	That was a boring speech by a boring man, dealing with the boring business of getting Britain back on its feet.
	And if you don't like that, you don't like Britain.
	If you don't want him to succeed...
	You don't want Britain to succeed.
	You can't possibly argue with the diagnosis of a country on its knees.
	You can argue with the prescription such that he has provided, and we'll have to wait until the budget to find out more, but you cannot argue with the diagnosis of a country on its knees unless you are truly deluded or incredibly wealthy.
	I can actually argue with the diagnosis that limitless numbers of demographic change is not behind any of the economic or cultural problems in the country right now, James.
	I can argue with that because I'm seeing that first hand for myself.
	And also, I'm not going to write off all of my fellow countrymen as Nazis, which Stalmer decided to do.
	As far as I'm aware as well, I think one of you two covered this, That whole swastika salute... Sorry, not salute.
	I've seen no visual evidence of such a thing.
	There were about three images that were sort of thrown together, but some of them, I think one person was pointing to their friend.
	I was going to imitate what they were doing and then I realised how that's going to look.
	Unwise.
	They pulled the David Bowie on the guy, didn't they?
	And, you know, there were other people, perhaps someone waving, and it was just action shots of people doing stuff.
	And if you have a crowd of people, people do lots of different things.
	Where was the swastika tattoo?
	There was a former skinhead from the 1980s, basically an old man at this point, who had a tattoo like that.
	But it was also the British flag crossed with that flag.
	And it seemed like it could well have been, I don't know why he got it, but it could well have been a sort of memorial for World War II or something like that.
	Or even, he might have well just been in a prison gang.
	Yeah.
	Also, that's not what you go to prison for, that's not what you condemn the nation for.
	James O'Brien, obviously scumbag, gremlin, awful person.
	Um, I hate this characterization of Britain as a boring place where boring things happen.
	There has been no point outside of what the media has wanted you to believe about the Blair years, where Britain has been anything other than an exciting and dynamic place to be, whether or not it's been a period of peace or war.
	The British have always been, as much as we are settled, fundamentally creative and restless people.
	We went out and conquered most of the world, for God's sake.
	Yes, and improved it.
	We're not a boring nation of boring people and boring food.
	We're an exciting nation that gave most of the world civilisation for the first time ever.
	The mistaking, well, James O'Brien is mistaking, deliberately or otherwise, being peaceful and civil with being boring, when actually very interesting, I'd like to think.
	And it's more that we can just live in a civilisation and those sleepy suburbs, the quiet villages where nothing bad ever happens.
	That's good, not bad, James.
	Well, it used to be that nothing bad ever happened there and then they imported a less peaceful, less civilised diaspora that seemed to be very fond of stabbings recently before we... Well, that's exciting, isn't it?
	Daily murders, daily stabbings, that's exciting.
	We're finally a dynamic nation.
	Londoner cope, isn't it?
	James O'Brien is at the end of the day fundamentally a boring person who has boring thoughts and his boring head and he writes boring books about boring left-wing fantasies like Rupert Murdoch controls England and has destroyed this country with right-wing populism.
	Yes, James, I've seen your new book, I've flipped through it, and it's the exact same bollocks talking points I see you and all of your mates saying over and over and over again.
	Change the bloody script, mate.
	It's not just London a cove.
	It's because most of the people that I know that are native Londoners, me included, cannot wait to leave, get away, and barely want to travel through it anymore.
	And I think we will get onto the sort of...
	Boring repetition, the idea that Starmer is just a applauding statesman doing the right thing and doing the tough things in a moment.
	I would like to point out, to Starmer and the like, if you're counting the number of swastika tattoos and Roman salutes present at the recent Southport unrest, you've got precisely one, and not even one, compared to all the Palestine protests that you actively agitated for because they were committed by your clientele voter base every weekend and Wednesday ever since October the 7th, where they had Multiple depictions of the paragliders, or multiple swastikas, or they did actually deface and jump upon war memorials, disrespecting the war dead.
	Disrespecting the war dead, unlike the cenotaph.
	But, on the topic of populism, you're absolutely right.
	This is what I wanted to focus on.
	The two things here.
	What wasn't said, and the sort of demonization of populism.
	The reason is, this is two recommended readings by articles by Doug Stokes and Jake Scott, both former guests on the Lotus Caesars, in The Critic.
	But I found it very interesting As to the two visions of democracy that are being displayed here.
	The vision of democracy by Labour is essentially like Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, the book that inspired 1984, whereas every year, or every five years, the vote is a ritual exercise in choosing the same outcome.
	Because if they believe that fundamentally everyone is the same, they just live in a poor, deprived community without any youth clubs, and so they haven't realize that they're exactly the same and as British as you and me yet.
	Democracy is an exercise in picking the exact same outcome every time that you pull that lever or tick the ballot box.
	And so populism is an interruption in everyone realizing that they're fundamentally exactly the same and they agree on these non-political topics.
	And so populism is the impediment to everyone realising they're free and equal.
	Whereas for populists, what they would say is, we're the ultimate expression of democracy because we are popular, and instead of allowing these topics to go into the realm of neutrality, and just be managed by the state, we're putting them back in public discourse again, with the belief that the more conversations you have about it, the more public awareness you have about it, the more change you can enact.
	Simplified, populism is like that scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian, right?
	When he's speaking to everybody and he says, you're all individuals and they all go, yes, we're all individuals and the one guy goes, I'm not!
	And they go, shut up!
	That's the populist in the crowd, in this idea of democracy.
	That's the one guy.
	Yes, and this is exactly why Starmer is trying to call it a poison, because he's trying to say that anyone that is saying things like immigration are within the remit of public debate and are not just settled science that importing Infiniti Deliveroo drivers in as an axiomatic good for the economy is preventing the egalitarian, very prosperous utopia from being carried out, and therefore they're snake oil salesmen.
	They're who's at fault, rather than the people that have mismanaged the economy, mismanaged the state, mismanaged the culture for a very, very long time.
	And then the other thing that he didn't mention was the Notting Hill Carnival.
	Now, Carl covered some of this stuff yesterday, but I wanted to drill down onto the rhetoric of the Metropolitan Police here.
	So as we know, this, they said it was 230 arrests, 49 arrests for possession of offensive weapon, at least 5 stabbings, 3 firearms were recovered, there was an acid attack, over 37 assaults on an emergency worker.
	That doesn't just mean the police, by the way, that means they were attacking the ambulance staff that were trying to save people.
	Who have been stabbed.
	Lots of sexual offences as you'll see with all the twerking videos.
	But the more interesting part was higher up.
	Have we got the regime defence?
	The regime defence as in, what, the articles?
	No, let me find it, you carry on.
	Okay, well this was the most interesting post I found.
	This was from the Family Friendly Day.
	This was before all of the stats that I just read out had been Stated, and they say, the Met Police, we are tired of saying the same words every year.
	We are tired of telling families that their loved ones are seriously injured or worse.
	We are tired of seeing crime scenes at Carnival.
	Carnival is a community event and the vast majority of people come to celebrate, to dance, to enjoy music, and have a fantastic experience.
	Rhetoric like this would not be used about any of the events we see on St.
	George's Day, where they're not even protesters or demonstrators.
	Revelers were kettled in by police horses and had the batons cracked out and smacked over their head.
	And we wouldn't see this, as Storm has just rallied off, a defense of any of the sentiments around the protests that erupted after the atrocities in Southpaw, because he literally says, and I'll quote directly here, This is under the pretense, and it is a pretense, of legitimate protest.
	There is no legitimacy to concerns around the privileging of Islam, or the sheer number of illegal migrants, or the sheer number of legal migrants, that undergirded the protests that erupted in the aftermath of Southport.
	But an event which reliably results in stabbings and acid attacks and sexual assaults Oh, this is just a small minority of people ruining the jerk chicken and the dancing for the rest of us.
	To clarify, you can confirm if this is correct, Connor.
	My understanding of the carnival from what I've seen over the past few years is that it's essentially the event where London empties its ghettos of the estate gangs and lets them roam the streets elsewhere for a few days and kind of crosses its fingers and says, right, don't murder too many of yourselves now.
	And then, you know, there you go!
	I travelled into London on Sunday and I actively avoided trains that went through Newcross and Lewisham because I knew that there would be a diaspora of diversity that would be going towards the Paddington Way to then carry machetes, possibly rob people, possibly rape people.
	And use people's downstairs flats as their toilet.
	Also, I found what I was looking for.
	This was actually in response to one of your tweets about it.
	Oh, right.
	It was by a at G underscore Gosden, Simon Gosden.
	Oh, I was arguing with him yesterday.
	Follow back pro-European, obviously.
	The boss account.
	Yep, yep.
	That Notting Hill Carnival versus hashtag Farage Riots Stores looted.
	Zero.
	Bricks chairs thrown at police.
	Zero.
	Places of worship set on fire.
	Zero.
	Hotels burnt.
	Zero.
	Police cars set on fire.
	Zero.
	Wheelie bins set on fire.
	Zero.
	Police motorcyclists attacked.
	Zero.
	Now, I don't believe that most of that is entirely accurate.
	Um, no, because you've had 37 assaults on emergency workers.
	I mean, last year, six police officers were bitten.
	Precisely, no police officers... Zombie apocalypse.
	Yeah.
	No police officers were bitten at any of the protests after Southport.
	There were stupid offences.
	Don't loot a Lush and a Greggs.
	Don't set fire to a hotel.
	We've all said that.
	They may have bit them, but did they throw bricks or, God forbid, chairs at the police?
	No, I don't think they did.
	Maybe they did, actually.
	There's the fact that the Notting Hill Carnival is announced in advance and gives the residents time to prepare, which is why they boarded up- Time to barricade themselves!
	That's what happened.
	They boarded up everything.
	That's what I mean, it's them giving the gangs of London an opportunity to roam the streets freely outside of the estates that they normally keep all of their murder and stabbings to.
	And a great example of that is actually the 2011 riots.
	And I think this proves a very good comparison to how Keir Starmer treated that versus how he has treated the recent civil unrest in the aftermath of the South Pole.
	He himself brings it up in his speech.
	He went on to say, I saw in the beginning of that downward spiral firsthand in 2011 when riots ripped through London and across the country.
	I was then director of public prosecutions.
	And I think back to that time, I see just how far we have fallen.
	Now, the reason I bring that up is because Douglas Murray has done a great article in The Spectator saying about the unfashionable truth about the riots.
	Because in the aftermath of 2011, the fashionable excuse was that the 2008 crash and 2011 austerity was to blame for why all of these council estate gangs decided to go and smash up a JD Sports and nick bags of basmati rice.
	Murray does note that in the areas that saw 2011 London rioting, initially it was in London, my areas of London, weirdly, after noted drug runner and firearms offender Mark Duggan was shot by the police because he had a handgun on him.
	His son's just been done for handgun offences as well.
	Funny that, hasn't it?
	Racism.
	Racism of the highest kind.
	Absolutely.
	After that happened, there were multiple riots across the country because people realised, oh, the police aren't actually cracking down on this as hard as they should do.
	Murray notes that back in 2011, in these sorts of areas, The proportion of out-of-work benefits in places like Sunderland was 18%.
	Today it's 19%.
	The unemployment figure in Rotherham was 16%.
	Today it's 18%.
	In Hartlepool, 21%.
	Today, 23%.
	So about a quarter of the people in those areas are out of work.
	Unrest was seen in the big towns and cities in 2011.
	Now unrest is seen in Labour constituencies like those places this year because of mass immigration.
	And part of the reason is All of the economic prosperity across the country, including in those locations, since 2011, so that's 3.6 million jobs, 74% of that was down to immigrant workers.
	So if you're going to blame all the 2011 London riots on economic hardship, and Keir Starmer saying the entire last government left a massive fiscal black hole, and that things like BLM or the 2011 London riots had an understandable motivation even though criminal activity ruined it for the vast majority of people, whereas the current protests don't have any legitimate grounds, then it's actually not just economic mismanagement that's at fault here, it's not just the last government, it's immigration policy.
	Which were the grounds that the Southport protests were enacted upon.
	And so, Utterly ridiculous.
	And it's going to continue to get worse.
	And the reason it's going to continue to get worse is because this is not about policy.
	It's not about populism.
	It's about a pathological, a priori hatred of the English working class.
	And Starmer actually admits that this is going to get worse.
	And you would not hear Blair make these points.
	I'm just going to play this.
	That's what we've inherited.
	Not just an economic black hole.
	A societal black hole.
	And that's why we have to take action and do things differently.
	And part of that is being honest with people about the choices that we face.
	How tough this will be.
	And frankly, things will get worse before they get better.
	I didn't want to release prisoners early.
	I was Chief Prosecutor for five years.
	It goes against the grain of everything I've ever done.
	But to be blunt, if we hadn't taken that difficult decision immediately, we wouldn't have been able to respond to the riots as we did.
	And if we don't take tough action across the board, we won't be able to fix the foundations of the country as we need.
	So he's not only positioning himself as the anti-Blair, saying things can only get worse, he's also explicitly stating, yes, I stopped sex offenders going to prison, yes, I let out accomplices to murder like Lawson Natty, specifically to lock up What's the cause of the overcrowding?
	There's also a bit of misinformation here from Starmer, in that the prisons have been just as overcrowded the past 10 years.
	There's no sudden overcrowding crisis.
	It's been that way.
	So this is a policy choice.
	It's been this way for such a long time now, and all of a sudden it's a problem.
	What's the cause of the overcrowding?
	It can't be anything to do with the fact that 27% of the prison population is from minority ethnic backgrounds.
	Well, it's not just that.
	We are now number one in Western Europe, and number two in all of Europe, for crimes committed by foreign actors.
	So we have people in this country that it was deliberate government policy to bring in who committed crimes and now stay here despite having the ability to deport them.
	So that's a decision to keep them in the country.
	And yet, he's allowing violent criminals out on the streets, or to just avoid jail time entirely, to lock people up for Facebook posts, for attending these protests, even if they weren't necessarily violent, because it cuts against his political agenda.
	And the political agenda, and I'll sort of finish on this little bit here, because some of the stunning things that have been said in the last few days in response to these riots really warrant coverage, I did this write-up in The Critic.
	Basically, the reason they use the word far-right, and they don't use the word Nazi and they don't use the word fascist, It's because far-right is a substitute word for Nazi, but what they actually mean is the indigenous peoples of the British Isles who refuse to have their particular identity liquidated in multicultural liberalism, while every other identity and imported foreign diaspora gets given community status.
	Because when they mean community, just like when they mean diversity, they mean non-white ethnic group.
	They mean colony.
	Yes, when they say community, they mean colony.
	Exactly.
	That's what you need to interpret, because they always do the semantic smuggling to try and gaslight you.
	And in the aftermath of this, and the reason I wrote this is because there has been an insidious trend of people trying to gaslight the English out of believing that they exist, that they have an entitlement to their own country, they have a particular history that's worthy celebrating, and therefore it dismantles their ability to argue against An unlimited number of new foreign arrivals who are just as British as you and me.
	And some of these examples include people within the Labour Party with high and significant pool.
	For example, towering intellect David Lammy says, if anyone needs to integrate it's the far right.
	So, you need to integrate into your own country.
	Apparently.
	David Lammy now lays claim to what an English identity is, and he says, the rioters have forgotten that tolerance is one of the key values to being British.
	No, it's not.
	That's a lie.
	Yes.
	What, the country that used to hang one in every 100 men is a tolerant country, is it?
	We literally set up Australia as a penal colony.
	Yep.
	Not that tolerant, is it?
	Now we give paedophiles suspended sentences.
	Mmm.
	Yeah.
	Quite.
	Where's tolerance got us?
	Before you carry on, I'm going to set out a challenge.
	Somebody out there, you need to produce a remix of Things Can Only Get Better using Keir Starmer's new, catchier, modern and forward-looking phraseology.
	I'm surprised someone didn't do Things Can Only Get Wetter when Rishi Sunak announced the general election was pouring rain.
	There you go.
	So Lamy actually brings up the 2011 London riots and I thought this was a useful article to use in contrast to the other ones because he actually turns around and says there were legitimate grievances there.
	Isn't that funny?
	So 2011 London riots, where people were civilly injured, I think people were killed, buildings were arson attacked, lots of looting.
	It was actually terrifying for me, living a couple of roads away as a kid.
	That's all fine and dandy, but a few people get upset because of a random migrant, or son of a random migrant, allegedly, we have to say that, murdered three girls and stabbed more in Southport.
	No, that's completely beyond the pale.
	So Lammy says, It's right to draw parallels, but we must not equate the two moments.
	The riots that started in my constituency, Tottenham, were in response to the death of Mark Duggan following police contact.
	Just contact.
	What followed across the country was opportunistic and criminal, with people joining in along the way.
	But unlike the disorder we're witnessing today, it was not encouraged and escalated by followers of a hateful, far-right ideology that is forcing minorities to live in fear.
	The far-right has shown it has forgotten this need to integrate into their own country.
	It has forgotten about what it means to be English.
	The North Star of our values is tolerance and our beautiful country is held together by a consternation of values that it has rejected.
	Respect for your neighbours.
	Private property.
	Respect for the police.
	Those swept up in the disorder need to integrate back into Britishness and out of this loathsome trending online hate.
	Actually, one of the foundational principles of being British is justice, and we haven't had that in a long time, and it would be nice to bring that back, actually.
	Fair enough to do.
	But, sorry lads, we've talked past the sale here.
	British is not a values-based identity.
	It's an ethnic identity.
	It is, yeah.
	was British.
	We had to draft Magna Carta to constrain him from not acting like an Englishman, but he's still an Englishman, he cannot be defined out of being English, and David Lammy may well be born in Britain, it doesn't make him more ethnically English than the people that are here.
	So to tell people to integrate into their own country that their ancestors and grandparents have lived in for a long time and decided to build is profoundly patronising and they're trying to refashion British identity to be a set of values, like America, that they can define Rather than say, the indigenous population here might have a claim to their homeland and they might be a bit upset that we're flooding them with hostile new arrivals.
	Well, the homeland defines the character of the people that inhabit it.
	And, you know, my ancestors have lived in the British Isles for at least thousands of years.
	So the culture and the land itself sort of become one together because we shape the land and the land shapes us.
	You can't replace the people that live in that land.
	But Josh, did you know that didn't even exist according to Trevor Phillips?
	Oh, get lost.
	Rioters long for a Britain that has never existed.
	Existed within my living memory, mate.
	No, no, hang on.
	Could you just... George Washington writes the article, Indians long for an America that never existed.
	Can you imagine it?
	Well, they do treat the Windrush like our Mayflower.
	Well, I think with the riots, it's easiest to sum up the attitudes that propels us.
	I've never seen, put more plainly than last night, I finished a book about the Stonewall riots, which are, of course, part of the major canon of the civil rights movement of the 60s as presented to us by an author called David Carter.
	In the conclusion, he says, well, of course, I would never support political violence or violence used to enact political means.
	Except, except in extreme exceptional circumstances such as those like the Stonewall Riots when it was an oppressed people's pushing back against their oppressors.
	That's what it always comes down to especially with leftists which is it's okay when it relates to me and my people and my interests.
	That's when it's okay to fight.
	That's the message that people have been given and of course It's not in Trevor Phillips' interest, nor is it in David Lammy's interest for the indigenous, white, British people to push back and reassert their own rights in their country.
	And legally, we are not allowed to endorse regime change or any violence.
	But, again, you are in Russia.
	You are in Venezuela.
	You are in certain countries where the government is seen as tyrannical and going against the wishes of the people.
	So it's fine to endorse it in other countries, but obviously, over here, we cannot endorse you do anything violent at all.
	And also, we don't recommend you go to any of these protests if they start up again, because the state is looking for an excuse to imprison you, even if you do nothing wrong.
	The things that I will quickly end on, as well, so I don't run over time.
	Do you remember this little thing that I had?
	I had an exchange with a former Labour MP.
	Yeah, yeah, this guy.
	Which don't exist.
	Well, this line has been taken forward by other Labour advisers, and I referenced that Blair wouldn't do this and that Starmer is the anti-Blair, but Blair's advisers, who still seem to be on Starmer's side because they're being called upon for On slightly hostile outlets to run to his defence are trotting out the same line that Britain is an ideological nation, that there is no ethnic English identity, and that the far right must either be done away with or re-educated to assimilate.
	They're trotting that out and thinking it makes them look good.
	So this is a promise that in future there'll be more criminals let out of prisons to imprison regime dissidents And that Starm will continue to do this dividing line of friend and enemy between Englishmen who don't like mass immigration and community groups like Notting Hill Carnival and the Muslim machete, um, vigilantes who can do no wrong.
	I'm just gonna, I'll finish on this clip just because you won't believe what actually gets said in the show.
	John, John, please, so John, what you're doing, John, What you're doing here is that you're trying to take the actions of a couple of contentable people who deserve to be in the jail, asymptomatic of everybody who expressed a concern about those riots.
	And you wouldn't do that about the 2011 riots.
	You wouldn't say that the worst perpetrators there represented everybody who was frustrated about the lack of social cohesion, would you?
	So why are you doing it now?
	I'm saying there's a really straightforward lesson to be learned from the racist riots and that is we have a huge issue in Britain.
	He called them racist riots.
	Well that's because they were racist riots.
	Everybody who took part was a racist.
	We have a huge issue in Britain, let's say, we have a huge issue in Britain because there's a minority of people who refuse, who refuse to integrate with British society.
	They refuse They refuse to accept the norms of British society.
	They refuse to accept that we are a multi-faith, multi-ethnic society and those white racist rioters deserve to be met with the full force of the law.
	John Maturin, do you think that people who come into the United Kingdom and refuse to integrate in terms of speaking the language, or they live in silos aside from wider society and they don't integrate, are they also a problem?
	Or is it just the white people looking in who think that could be an issue?
	Does this go everywhere?
	Or is it just white people that are a problem?
	I'm telling you the integration problem is these white people who refuse to accept that we are a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society.
	These white people who decide to show us what they think of our country.
	of our norms by attacking police in riots.
	Who show us what they think by burning down a system advice bureau.
	They show us what they think by trying to burn people alive because they're white or because they're brown.
	These are the people who don't integrate and they need to first be dealt with and then they need to be taught a way to integrate into the norms of 21st century UK.
	So basically if you don't like how we've destroyed your country with a revolution that has redefined your ethnicity out of existence and told you that your religion is totally backwards while we allow indigestible foreign diasporas and really illiberal Muslims into the country and give them special privileges.
	You're a far right racist and you need to go to a bloody re-education camp according to John McTernan.
	Do remember that name, by the way.
	John McTernan, former Labour advisor.
	If he does have a Twitter account, you should tell him exactly what you think of his views here.
	Very cute switching around the integration line, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	But he thinks anybody's gonna buy that.
	Yeah.
	Anybody that isn't a member of, you know, the labor client group.
	Yeah, a revolutionary reconstitution of British identity is underway.
	Reject it.
	This is absurd.
	They just hate you.
	They hate you because you're English.
	You should not feel compelled to apologise for the fact that you oppose mass immigration and that you have an indigestible national identity that you cling to because you love.
	And just note that if anyone is still in the Labour heartland's voting starmer thinking that he doesn't have dripping contempt for you, he might be a bit misguided.
	Alright, while you do the comments, I'll quickly grab some strepsils.
	I was holding in so many coughs.
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	Very good appearance on UO last night, by the way, sir.
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	Didn't Starmer appoint Timpson and introduce plans to let prisoners out the early day after he became PM?
	Sounds like he has a hard-on for early release under any circumstances.
	I think he did partner with Timpson because they are the shoe-menders, if you're not in the UK, who re-employ former felons.
	They have a- Because he was the son of a toolmaker.
	He certainly is a tool.
	they certainly have a not good non recidivism rate but that's normally with like petty criminals and who are english not um somali machete gangs might be a change who's gonna make your shoes great again and uh nothing there's nothing wrong i can't read that one out from ophuk but thank you Typical New British is just as British as Churchill, you bigots.
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	Yeah, so there's a redemptive arc going on at the moment with one Mark Zuckerberg, or that's at least how some would like you to view it.
	I have my own suspicions about this, and I have my own criticisms of Mark Zuckerberg as a character right now, but first, before I go into that, I'm going to remind everybody that this website is not run for free, and that we are demonetized on YouTube, and we don't actually earn any revenue from this segment that you'll be watching on YouTube right now.
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	So, before I get into Mark Zuckerberg, there's been a lot of stuff going on in America at the moment that we've not actually touched on on the podcast for some reason, so I thought I'd quickly round up some of the news that's been going on regarding America and then also regarding social media because it ties back to Mark Zuckerberg and the kind of collaboration with the US government that he engaged in.
	So first of all the big news is that Robert F. Kennedy has decided that he's suspending his campaign and decided to back Donald Trump.
	Now this is important because Kennedy himself has stated that in about 10 battleground states where his presence was going to be a spoiler that the polls that they were conducting showed that he was going to drastically reduce Trump's chances of winning in those states because they seem to both appeal to the same voter base.
	And so he's decided that he's going to step down.
	He said in a press conference in Phoenix, Arizona, they would seek to remove his name from the ballot in those 10 battleground states.
	And some of them will be the swing states that you always hear about like Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, etc.
	So Trump is making a lot of big promises if he wins this next one.
	k jr to the stage on friday trump had promised if elected that he would release all of the remaining documents relating to the 1963 assassination of president john f kennedy so trump is making a lot of big promises if he wins this next one i think when he was at the libertarian convention a few months ago he also promised that he would release rossel brick um from prison at the same time so trump's making a lot of different promises to appeal to different parts of his base and we'll see if he gets in how many of those that he'll actually uphold
	i think he wants to appoint rfk as well the head of kind of truth and reconciliation commission over covid so we should give some answers for that and i think rfk I have criticisms of the man's climate abortion and gun policies but if there's one thing that he does do very well it's corruption within the agriculture and pharmaceutical lobbying sector.
	I think he will single-mindedly go after this and I watched his press conference where he stood down and I think he is sincere when he said he won't get the opportunity to run for president again so if he can make good on his promise to end the chronic disease epidemic particularly among children via the Trump administration he'll do it and I think that's very good.
	Did you also see how he came out at this?
	Um, I have seen a few stills but carry on.
	It was with Foo Fighters, there goes my hero with all the spots playing.
	Oh yeah, Foo Fighters.
	It was like a WWE entry.
	Yeah, Dave Grohl threw a hissy fit on Twitter.
	But it was like Hulk Hogan and Macho Man making up again.
	Let's put Miss Elizabeth behind us.
	Yeah, brother.
	There we go.
	No, that's pretty cool.
	I would also like if he went ahead with it, if he gets in, because I think we're all very interested what happened.
	Well, the CIA murdered him, yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But it'd be nice to hear it from the horse's mouth and have the documents that absolutely say so.
	I want the Nixon files.
	I'd like a lot of files from the US government released, so if Donald Trump- Oh, you mean the aliens?
	Yeah, if Donald Trump- Well, Mexico already did and they were fake, so, you know- Well, I don't want the Mexican ones, I want the American ones.
	America already gets plenty of Mexican aliens.
	I set you up there perfectly.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much for that.
	But there's already some kind of spanners being thrown in the works with this.
	He won't be able to remove himself from the ballots in Michigan and Wisconsin, which are two of those battleground swing states.
	However, the fact that he has come out and said that he's endorsing Trump in the first place, any of his voter base who are going to be listening to him say, in these states, say, don't vote for me, vote for Trump instead, I would imagine they're going to go and vote for Trump.
	So it's a pretty sure bet that Trump's going to get that share of the votes.
	I'd expect legal challenges as well.
	That was a good question.
	There are legal challenges in some of them, like in Wisconsin.
	It basically just says in their statute that if you've filed nomination papers and you've qualified, you can't decline the nomination after that.
	That's according to the... where is it?
	The State Election Commission.
	That's according to the State Election Commission.
	But, even if they can't take his name off of the ballot, as long as Kennedy gets the message out there, and he's a Kennedy.
	He's a charismatic guy.
	He has good messaging.
	Whether or not I agree, as you do with some of his policies, he's clearly a charismatic guy.
	Far more charismatic than anybody that they have on the Kamala Harris team.
	Especially this whole astroturfed, Fake, phony, Tim Waltz.
	Isn't he such a goofy family guy?
	Don't you all really like him?
	Where he's basically doing a minstrel show.
	He's doing a minstrel show.
	He also yanked his special needs son on stage.
	That's how much of a loving father he is.
	That did look dodgy.
	I think the important thing as well, if RFK Jr is trying to get his message out, is that he's basically an internet candidate.
	Which is not me knocking him.
	But it does mean that any way to get his message out to his base will be purely controlled by him.
	So he can't direct the overwhelming majority of them to still vote for Trump, no matter what, in any of the swing states.
	And this also means that with RFK Jr.
	and, have you mentioned, are you going to mention Tolseyan here?
	Uh, well, we can mention it now.
	Tulsi Gabbard's come out and endorsed him as well at the same time.
	Yes.
	Those two candidates, um, not, well, former candidate for president in Tulsi's respect, are very close to Joe Rogan.
	Joe Rogan in the last election cycle said, I will not interview Trump because I don't want to get involved, but he endorsed RFK Jr.
	Now, Trump is a Joe Rogan candidate.
	Also, those two people, RFK Jr.
	and Tulsi Gabbard, both appeal to a part of the centrist voter base who feel dejected, feel left behind by the election system, by the political system in the US.
	So both of them putting their support behind Trump, it helps him.
	That was part of when there was speculation about who Trump was going to pick as his VP.
	Those two names came up fairly often.
	Either one of them would have made sense and I do think it's a shame.
	I like JD Vance and I think he's got some good messaging but Carl said the other day that he thinks that RFK should have been VP and now that he's come out with the... It was offered apparently.
	Well, that's interesting because now he's come out with the endorsement, I think it would have been a really good ticket if the two of them, if only because again, whether or not he's amazing on everything, RFK is anti-deep state, anti-endocrine disruptors, anti-big pharma, so he has the right messages where it counts, and he's charismatic, and he's got political pedigree behind him.
	He would have also had assassination insurance.
	Well, there you go.
	Yeah, so maybe it's good that he's endorsed him after the assassination attempt, actually.
	Third time's the charm, isn't it, sir?
	Kennedy, I hope.
	I suppose so.
	I suppose so.
	Also, I've got to say, he seems quite charming in a way that he might be legitimately a bit mental.
	Legitimately, there's been a bunch of stories come out of him in the news recently, which seem to be trying to discredit him, make him seem weird.
	You don't want to trust this guy, do you?
	But honestly, come across like charming to me.
	As an Anglo, there's a place in my heart for the weird eccentric.
	And Kennedy definitely comes across as one of them.
	So there's some weird charges coming to him now.
	So he's facing a call for investigation into a claim that he chainsawed a whale's head off.
	I assume the whale was dead when this happened because if it was that RFK Jr.
	had some kind of Moby Dick Situation.
	It's a white whale.
	It's a white whale where he needed to get revenge on it.
	And he gets the white whale.
	And like Ash from the Evil Dead films, went on a boat into the middle of the sea and chainsawed its head off alive.
	With it attached to his arm as well.
	Yeah, with it attached to his arm, sawn off shotgun in the other hand.
	That's awesome.
	That's not a reason for me to dislike the man, come on!
	I heard someone compare it on Twitter to RFK Jr.
	if he was in the 19th century would have amassed a massive collection of like impressive natural specimens and donated it on his deathbed to some zoological society and we'd all be walking around the museum marveling at it now but it's just because we've got the headlines of him throwing the corpse of a bear into his pickup truck or something, we all think he's strange.
	Even that story is quite funny as well, by the way.
	Because I was going to mention that one.
	I will give credit to the Guardian.
	This is kind of a funny picture that they've added.
	So what this story was, is that he had found a dead bear cub on the side of the road.
	I already like him more, yeah.
	of his car, for some reason took a photo with the corpse, he later said that what he was planning on doing was taking it with him to skin and eat later, kind of like a survivalist, so you would appreciate that Josh.
	I already like him more, yeah.
	But then ran out of time, so took it to a park in New York, left it in a bush, and staged it to look like a bicycle hit and run incident.
	He's just creating an urban legend.
	Central cart bear!
	When asked why he did this, he said, "We thought it would be funny." That's great!
	I like this guy.
	Why did I not know about this?
	Well done, Guardian.
	Now I know he's a funny guy.
	I mean, this is an amazing story.
	A legend.
	And there was another animal-related controversy, they say.
	In July, Vanity Fair reported that in 2023, Kennedy sent a photograph of himself with the barbecued remains of what he suggested to a friend was a dog.
	Clearly a joke.
	The picture showed an animal carcass that he had apparently been cooking on a spit.
	So he's got the old American spirit in him.
	He's trying to win the Italian vagrant migrant joke vote.
	Yeah, I suppose.
	And then he said it was actually a goat.
	He was just cooking a goat and made a joke.
	And in response to the allegations that it was a dog, he decided to post this video of himself apologizing.
	You know what I'm doing?
	I'm making steak and chicken for the dogs.
	I don't normally do this.
	But ever since that guy wrote the article about me saying I ate a dog, it hasn't been the same.
	Now I gotta work my way back into their good grace.
	This is my dinner.
	I'm giving them my food.
	I ain't a very responsible journalist.
	I mean, I don't care what it does for me, but look at these guys.
	These guys don't believe in anything they hear on the news.
	Yeah, daddy would never do something like that.
	He was a goat.
	St.
	Francis loved the animals.
	I love you guys.
	I would never eat a dog.
	It was fake news.
	It was fake news.
	St.
	Francis was a wolf of Nubia.
	This is one of their favourite plugs.
	It really calms them down.
	It's amazing.
	He's got a sense of humour, yeah.
	It's so charming, isn't it?
	So, you know, I can disagree with the guy on things, but he seems like a nice person.
	He seems like he'd be entertaining to spend a day with, doesn't he?
	If he hadn't endorsed bloody reparations and... Well, yeah.
	...he'd be cool.
	That's the problem, but still, you can see that he's good to be on Trump's side.
	Affable, yeah.
	Yeah, he's affable, he's got charm, he's got charisma, he's got character to him, and he's got the right convictions when it comes to the American deep state.
	Big pharma, everything to do with the big corporate collusions, he's got all of the right positions where it really counts there.
	Because you can say what you want about his other positions if they are able to do something with the combined might of their characters about the Deep State, well that is the biggest problem in America.
	Moving on to the next thing that's going on, Telegram!
	is a social media platform that has been under the eye of Sauron for a very, very long time, which is run by Pavel Durov, who I believe is a former Russian citizen who was exiled or kicked out of the country for running Telegram because he refused to collaborate with the Kremlin.
	For a lot of the information that had been shared on the platform in the same way that Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, other social media heads in the US were expected to and did comply with FBI requests for information and censorship etc etc.
	He's been arrested.
	He's been arrested in France And the charges against him are increasing pressure on Brussels to enforce new European laws on the platform.
	Now this is the Digital Services Act they are trying to get on him.
	As it's being said at the moment the investigation has nothing to do with EU laws themselves and it's more to do with specific charges that France is levelling against him.
	So it's done after an investigation by a Paris prosecutor into organised crime, child sex abuse images, fraud and money laundering that was being conducted on On the platform and it says here that they want to use well it says also raises the stakes for the European Union to push the Digital Services Act on this.
	Coming into force in November 2022 the DSA targets online platforms too big to care in the words of EU Commissioner Thierry Breton putting demands on internet firms to remove illegal content protect children tackle disinformation and other online harms.
	Now I do think that, of course, if he is culpable in any way of allowing child sex abuse and other things to go on on his platform, that's something that he should be held accountable for.
	I do not think that's what this is about.
	Because it seems to me more like Telegram is a platform as much as it does have a lot of feds on it.
	Other governments across Europe have all said that they basically have intelligence operatives going through Telegram, trying to spy on people, get the information, go into people's different forums and cause chaos or just collect information.
	It is still annoying for them that he refused to collaborate with them on anything or go ahead with their demands.
	So if you can convince me That the enormous alleged pedophile ring that runs Europe and the rest of the world cares about child pornography that was being shared on Telegram, when at the same time the FBI didn't seem to care at all about the same material that was being shared on Twitter before Elon Musk.
	Or on Instagram and WhatsApp.
	Yeah, or on Instagram or WhatsApp that's still going on right now, then... I don't know, it doesn't pass the sniff.
	There's a couple of things to note here.
	First of all, that Telegram was set up in 2014 during the attempted revolution against Vladimir Putin at the time.
	I think it was in 2021 that Putin offered this chap, Kirov, the ability to come back to Russia so long as he collaborated with the Russian government and he refused.
	And he's now a joint citizen of both France and the United Arab Emirates and I believe Telegram is headquartered in Saudi Arabia.
	Is it Saudi Arabia?
	Sorry.
	So I wonder if that nation in particular will intervene in this on his behalf and offer him refuge in some way.
	And I would expect that it's to do with allowing the Feds to have backdoor access because we covered this October 2022.
	The likes of Facebook had specific portals that only Biden administration and intelligence assets could access to report specific posts to be taken down by the executives, including like Anthony Fauci parody accounts.
	And I would wonder if this, this app, has an inability for Feds to access the content on it, especially in the aftermath of it being blamed for organizing.
	It was either the Taylor Swift terror attack In Austria, or the recent German diversity stabbing for the Syrian, alleged Syrian migrant.
	I remember Telegram being mentioned here in that ISIS uses it to collaborate with his operatives.
	Whether or not that's true or that's just the line that's been fed as a pretext for arresting him is a completely different matter.
	I mean, there are multiple different things here.
	First and foremost, I would say the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
	And I think that actually, I would like to see the regime post-definitive proof because I think the whole notion of holding the head of a company accountable for what goes on on their platform, the sort of content on there, unless they're being particularly lax or something, but if it's end-to-end encrypted messaging, it's kind of the point that you don't look at it And so that's a weird thing to hold someone accountable for.
	And there's also the point of, well, if, if it wasn't that platform, it would be another one.
	You know, Isis could be organizing with emails or signal or any number of things they could be using.
	But the fact that the feds, um, do go on it and that sort of, to my mind shows that it, it is effective at keeping these sort of people out that they have to actually infiltrate the chats, these group chats and things like that.
	And you see lots of screenshots of telegram group chats and things like that as evidence in court prosecuting people so that suggests to me that they actually have to find a way in which is quite frustrating for the intelligence agencies that have got pretty used to and lax with their enforcement of what used to be the law.
	Yes, so if you want to look at what the charges are, you can see them here.
	What's being put forward as the charges for Durov, including things like complicity for illegal transactions by organized crime groups.
	Again, as Josh just said there, the whole point of the end-to-end encrypted is that you don't look at it, so what people do on the platform.
	is essentially their own business refusal to provide the authorities with information or documents necessary for criminal investigations dissemination of child sexual exploitation material and of course i would say for me that that's the one that you should have a bit of a responsibility to try to prevent if we're going to be critical for twitter or the platforms for allowing that material on it then we should be critical of this as well but at the same time
	I mean, the people who are prosecuting this are probably going to be... They're probably not going to be upset that the FBI was not doing anything about it on Twitter.
	Or about Epstein.
	Or about Epstein.
	You know, I don't trust anybody within the security apparatus, the police network across Europe, or the governing body as a whole across the world, to actually really give a damn about these things.
	Well, it's always an excuse to prosecute their political identities.
	It seems much more likely that it's politically motivated than anything else.
	So, speaking about this gentleman, we go to... Ta-da!
	Mark Zuckerberg, who has been on his redemption arc recently.
	Here is... I should... No, no, no, no.
	Copyright, you're not getting us for that one.
	There's been videos like this going around.
	I don't know who Zuckerberg hired as his PR firm, but they've done a fantastic job.
	You know, people have been saying, oh, well, all it is is that he started going outside, exercising and eating proper food.
	Yeah, you don't, you don't start eating a single steak and say, I'm going to do this and get it on camera.
	That's not an easy thing to do either.
	No, it's impressive.
	I'm not going to take anything away from the guy.
	He's clearly in great shape.
	He does jujitsu.
	He can surf while drinking a beer and holding an American flag at the same time.
	He's in great, and he looks a lot healthier and a lot better than he did for a long time.
	I mean, look at this.
	This is like a before and after rehab picture.
	SSRI's are gone.
	Yeah, it's quite remarkable.
	He looks like he was put through some kind of, you know, in the fly, there's the transmogrifying machine, except a human stepped into it with him.
	He lost his lizard-y ways, hasn't he?
	Yeah, we finally managed to separate it from him.
	And, you know, it's an impressive transformation.
	And he's even been coming out and saying le-based things.
	Like when he was talking about the Donald Trump assassination and the assassination photograph where he said this.
	On a personal note, it's... Yeah, I mean, seeing Donald Trump get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is...
	One of the most badass things I've ever seen in my life.
	But, um, but look, I mean, it's, um... Well, after Trump assassination, he said that he called Trump and said he would be suspending all further donations to Democrats.
	And he and his wife were one of the influential forces in the Time magazine piece that said there was a shadowy cabal that fortified the last election.
	So that is pulling one very significant beam out of the cathedral which screwed Trump over last time.
	Yeah, and I will say I don't think it's a bad thing that one of America's many California tech billionaires, like so many of the others, seems to be shifting outside of the Democrat apparatus.
	Are you speculating as to why?
	Would you like to?
	I have two reasons.
	One, since last year the House Judiciary Committee has been investigating algorithmic manipulation by Facebook, For example, lots of registered Democrats got notifications to vote in 2020, and a large share of Republicans did not.
	After January 6th, they combed through millions of Facebook messages to try to identify people who might have been there, and that led to people being incarcerated for very minor offences, including being led around by the Capitol by the police.
	So I wonder if he's seeing a changing in the political winds, and wanting to get out ahead of this and get on the right side of the regime so he doesn't get prosecuted retroactively.
	And also, Kamala Harris is not very favourable to Israel.
	She's not.
	And Mark Zuckerberg, being ethnically Jewish, I think probably would prefer to back the government that would like to back the country where his ethnicity resides, rather than the government which is seemingly happy to lend credence to Palestinian grievances in the aftermath of October 7th, which both Biden and Harris have done.
	I think that the Democrats are insatiable masters really aren't they?
	In that Facebook donated a lot of money to the Democrats and they still went after them anyway and normally the way things go is you donate money to a political party and they give you favourable treatment in government not Go after your company and try and blame you for the things you had nothing to do with.
	So he's well, he's probably realised, well I'm going to switch to a different group of elites then and pledge my allegiance to the Republicans because at least they will not try and rake me over the coals constantly even though I've paid them off in my campaign donations.
	Yeah, and in that way, he's actually thrown the most recent administration under the bus a little bit in this letter that he's released to a committee of the United States House of Representatives.
	This is the one that's looking into him, by the way.
	Yes, exactly.
	So he's released this letter that's gone public, where he said, Our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content including humour and satire and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree.
	Ultimately it was our decision whether or not to take content down and we own our decisions including COVID-19 related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure.
	I believe the government pressure was wrong and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it.
	Remember this is the time when they were censoring anything that was negative about the way that the vaccine was being pushed while at the same time James O'Keefe managed to secure footage of Mark Zuckerberg himself recommending his staff members that they don't take the vaccine.
	So that was a very hypocritical move of them even with pressure coming from the government.
	Importantly as well in the final paragraph of this page it says in a separate situation the FBI warned us about potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the lead-up to the 2020 election.
	That fall we saw a New York Post story reporting on corruption allocations involving then Democrat Attic presidential nominee Joe Biden's family.
	We sent that story to fact checkers for review and temporarily demoted it while waiting for reply.
	It's since been made clear that the reporting was not in Russian disinformation.
	And in retrospect, we shouldn't have demoted the story.
	So again, this is something that he's spoken about before in 2022 on Joe Rogan's podcast about essentially being pressured and then complying with the FBI.
	Despite the fact that we know, of course, since last year on May 26th in 2023, IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley confirmed that the FBI had already got hold of Hunter Biden's laptop and confirmed its authenticity in November of 2019.
	They knew it was authentic and they lied.
	Right.
	The 50 or so people that publicly went out of their way to say this is Russian disinformation should be arrested.
	There's no two ways about it.
	Those people tried to interfere in the run-up to an election by suppressing a story.
	It's as simple as that.
	There's no two ways about it.
	And they all signed a letter confirming, saying that, oh, this is guaranteed Russian disinformation when presumably they were also in on it and knew that it was true from the beginning.
	So I absolutely agree with you there.
	So, you know, this isn't something new that we know from Zuckerberg.
	He's already spoken about this.
	But I will say, you know, on a personal level, good for him for getting into better shape and for cleaning himself up a little bit.
	and seeming to adopt a more healthy and positive lifestyle.
	I still don't trust him on a personal level.
	You shouldn't either, because clearly he's a self-interested tech billionaire in California.
	And whether or not they're making moves in our direction or not, they are ultimately doing so for their own benefit.
	So please be weary.
	Sorry, be wary, although I am always weary.
	Aren't we all?
	And don't just take it at face value.
	Okay, before we move on, we have one $5 from Wesley.
	And for legal reasons, we will not make any more comments about Brigitte Macron.
	Oh, and we just got another one in.
	supreme leader marry his 25 years older teacher and for legal reasons we will not make any more comments about Brigitte Macron oh and we just got another one in uh one dollar from that's a random name every time i hear russenden's information now i roll my eyes as an eastern european i'm sorry believe me when i say our governments would love to be even half as powerful as influential as the west pretends they are as well um i wish that we had the conservative party and the reform party that the guardian believed we did
	there's that episode of south park where they're looking into 9 11 and it turns out the u.s government wasn't behind it but are trying to convince people they were so they can seem as all-powerful and shady as people think they are so So, it is five past two.
	Do we have time for my segment?
	Yeah.
	What do you reckon, chat?
	Do you want to hear about Japan?
	Yeah, of course we do.
	I'm trying to psych him up.
	But no, hopefully we don't overrun.
	Sorry if we do.
	I will only be cutting into Tomlinson talks, nothing important.
	That's true.
	It's alright, he's right here.
	He'll be talking anyway!
	So obviously Japan is held up as one of these places that has remained ethnically homogenous and mysteriously has remained orderly, safe, civil, sort of ideal really.
	And that seems to be changing.
	In fact, if you pass me the mouse please, I can show you why that might be.
	So here we have people in Pakistan, this is reportedly a trend in Pakistani TikTok, that Pakistani men want to go to Japan.
	And here are... Don't let them!
	Here are some Pakistani men.
	Japan! Japan! Japan! Japan!
	Japan! Japan! Japan! Japan! Japan!
	Just trying to manifest.
	This goes on for two minutes.
	You can stop this now.
	You can stop this now.
	Stop it!
	Have you had enough?
	Stop it!
	The audience can't hear you, Josh.
	All they can hear is Pakistani main characters in Japan.
	Japan.
	Japan.
	This is... Is this a Conley Dropper video?
	No.
	Is this what you did before your holiday, Conley?
	You know, stared into the camera and shouted Japan.
	And spelled it wrong.
	Yeah, I imagine that's how they spell it.
	I think this is what Dan does when he's thinking of future brides.
	Yeah, but I don't think this is how they spell it, because they spell king in English.
	They remember the good old days when we ruled over them, that might be why.
	Listen man, when your parents are cousins, things become very confusing.
	That's true.
	And there are also reportedly Pakistani videos on how to get refugee status in Japan.
	You don't.
	They're trying to do it nonetheless.
	And the funny thing is, how can you claim you're a refugee from Pakistan?
	Well, other than lie of course, which they would never do.
	I don't know, it seems to work for Britain.
	That's true.
	Safe.
	Well, safe if you're a man, Pakistan.
	But anyway, it is worth mentioning as well that Lotus Eaters, you know, this podcast, we don't make any ad money, we don't make any money from doing the daily podcast.
	Can't manifest it, we're not from Pakistan.
	Yes, we've been trying to manifest money.
	I've still not done it.
	I've been looking in the mirror.
	It's not worked.
	So please sign up to our website and also if you don't want to have a rolling subscription to something you can also do a one-off donation as well.
	And if you could we'd really appreciate it because we're in Britain.
	We don't know when the sort of hammer of the law is going to come down on us.
	Hear Stalin and all that.
	And so it would be nice to be able to defend ourselves if that does happen because we're still a relatively small organization in the grand scheme of things.
	But anyway, Japan has done a deal with the devil and they're trying to hire more skilled Pakistani workers.
	So they'll get no one coming through?
	Yeah, apparently so.
	Just really good at running a corner shop.
	This link is not allowed apparently, but basically it's saying they also want to hire some more skilled workers from Bangladesh as well.
	So they're picking some interesting countries here.
	Is this a new government that came into Japan recently?
	This was after Shinzo Abe was killed.
	Yes.
	Bangladesh skilled in what?
	Wading up to your waist in raw sewage?
	Apparently so.
	Maybe they're doing infrastructure.
	That would be terrible in Japan.
	Why does Japan also have to have a contingent of insane leftists in the government who want to destroy- It's not insane leftists, it's basically... They've got, I think it's like 250% debt to GDP, and so they're looking internationally to get them out of that.
	So if you don't get infinite migrants for Line Go Up, then we won't help.
	why UNESCO is suddenly invested in all the heritage sites and the UN is saying okay you have sub replacement birth rates you have very restrictive migration if you're not willing to get yourself out of the economic hole by propping it up with third world migration we're not going to help you so if you don't get infinite migrants for line go up then we won't help that's exactly it destroy your country for international aid so that's why they're looking for they're increasing the cap for skilled migrants as well and there's also this one
	they're also looking to train foreign workers and of course there was also this that the foreigners already there objected to the moves to revoke permanent resident status and why might they be revoking permanent resident status Oh if they're actively avoiding paying taxes in Japan Yeah, they also expanded the number of industries that can have essentially uncapped foreign worker visas to be more.
	And I believe last year they got something like 50-odd thousand Cambodians, Vietnamese, and Chinese.
	So this year it will be extra Pakistanis, Indians, etc.
	And, uh, as if you were foreshadowing it, the Pageta division has already turned up to Japan.
	And there are now 80,000 foreigners working at convenience stores.
	Oh, that's really depressing, because Japanese convenience stores are lovely.
	They're like a- Why- ...fixture of Japanese life.
	Why does it always have to be convenience stores?
	And why does it always have- Where do they get the money?
	People describe Britain as a nation of shopkeepers.
	Where did they hear of India?
	Where did they get the money to prop up the initial capital to rent out these places?
	Oh no, Japan has a lot of different convenience store trends.
	So they've got a 7-Eleven, but it's not the same as American 7-Eleven.
	They've got Family Mart.
	They've got a few different ones.
	And they're all run by Japanese people that starve them 24 hours and never have any trouble.
	So they already exist.
	So instead what's happening is they're being hollowed out from within, presumably, to just add more Indians in these stores for no reason.
	But it's not the Indians that are actually causing the problems yet.
	So here's a good example.
	So obviously this is in Japanese.
	I can also do that.
	Oh, go on, Samson.
	He's just going to translate it with his eyes.
	You speak a bit of Japanese, right, Samson?
	It's not.
	There we go.
	But yes, Kawaguchi City falls out of city ranking of places to live as Kurdish immigration issue damages image.
	They're getting Turkish barbers.
	Yes.
	There are lots of interesting things coming from the Kurds and the Kurds are a bit of a talking point at the minute.
	So here is a guy on the streets of Japan.
	Oh smoking shisha.
	You think the vape shops are bad?
	He's got a whole shisha outside.
	Also look at the mess.
	That is not Japanese in the slightest.
	You should just deport him for this.
	I agree with Drakper, it's just tiresome.
	Did you just make this segment so you can depress me specifically?
	I exist just to depress you.
	That's the only reason I succeeded.
	It's interesting that I've even seen PewDiePie, who lives in Japan, speak on on his YouTube channel.
	Obviously he was talking about these foreign YouTubers, but then he speaks also about, you know, we come to Japan so that we can try and live in a peaceful society and escape this kind of thing.
	This kind of thing.
	There might be foreign YouTubers here.
	I hate foreign YouTubers.
	Yeah.
	It's depressing.
	I go to Japan because it's predominantly Japanese.
	That's why I like it.
	Yes.
	And here's another example of things that have riled people up.
	The Satuma District Public Prosecutor Office will not prosecute all seven Kurdish men who were arrested for attempted murder after paralyzing emergency hospital functions for five hours.
	They're not even getting any prosecution and they, I presume by paralyzing the hospital function, that means the emergency hospital wasn't able to function for five hours because of their actions, whatever they did.
	Here's another thing, they're milling about just on the street.
	So milling, of course, Universal wherever they are.
	This Japanese account has been tweeting a lot about foreigners in Japan so I'm going to be citing them a fair amount.
	Yes, they're talking about imagine the fact that they're milling around say like primary school or they say elementary school or something like that.
	It's a bit scary and Here they are some advanced milling here.
	They're all milling outside a police station I don't know why this was but it was a bunch of Kurds for some reason outside of a police station I wasn't able to find out the context of this clip, but I know it's happening and
	and uh here's another one this is a video they deliberately recorded and shared of going into impeccable clean japan and throwing just cigarette ends on the ground on purpose that's support them that's like coming to britain and buying a greg sausage roll and then just throwing it on the ground i'm really hoping the pompaka raccoons come out of the bush and just attack them Yeah.
	Filming themselves smoking in the countryside and then littering on purpose to insult the Japanese.
	Spiteful mutants.
	And here is another aspect of the enrichment.
	Obviously neat and tidy Japan known for internationally for being tidy.
	Can we tell what kind of person lives here?
	Is it a Japanese person?
	No it's not.
	It is actually a Kurd.
	Why are all the Kurds coming up?
	I don't know.
	I think they've cottoned on to the fact that they can get into Japan for some reason.
	Japan's, like, beautiful and peaceful to walk around at night as well, so just making this immediately unsafe by putting foreigners in who commit, as we see in Denmark, sex offences at 2.5 times the rate of... Actually, that's of native Danes.
	That's way higher than the Japanese, because the Japanese commit, like, literally zero crimes when they're abroad in Denmark.
	So, this is... They're the lowest country in most European countries' ethnic breakdown of crime.
	Zero claim social housing in the UK.
	Like, this is just gonna- Like, actually just- Doesn't register on the chart.
	So, this is gonna just ruin a beautiful country.
	It will.
	I mean, it's gonna turn out like Britain, where our country was like Japan.
	You know, Japan was the Britain of the East.
	And they're gonna look like us now, which is a shame.
	I wouldn't wish that on them.
	And also by importing these people you import their ethnic conflicts.
	And so they're fighting with Turks, because everyone knows Kurds and Turks don't get on, despite the fact you can't tell them apart, over the Turkish election.
	So they're just brawling in the street over an election that is nowhere near them.
	This is not Japan's problem.
	Every single person in this video should be arrested, deported, criminally charged, maybe even assets seized for the trouble of it.
	I think that that is the least that could be done.
	That's just a tax rebate for the ethnic Japanese.
	Exactly.
	That's what should be done for these sorts of things, because it's disgusting.
	I don't think we should say "ethnic Japanese" We don't need to specify.
	Just the Japanese.
	We actually do now, because they're probably being given citizenship.
	So this would be the paper Japanese.
	These people are not Japanese on no planet, in no century, no matter how much you say it, they'll never be Japanese.
	I agree, I agree.
	There's also this here, where the Kurds were chanting at, I think, Japanese police.
	Saying, die Japanese, while giving them the middle finger.
	Lovely hospitable guests, aren't they?
	And talking of Kanu Drukpa, he has made a meme about this sort of thing.
	If Japan imports immigrants, make sure they are gay Muslim communists, which the Kurds are of course known for being.
	They are the sort of communists of the Muslim world.
	Of course, this is not a real quote.
	Really?
	Oh my goodness.
	Can we accept at this point that there are entire nations made of spiteful mutants across the world right now?
	We should be able to just ban certain countries considering we can infer from the fact that those countries are in such a state that the people are not going to add anything positive.
	Somalia.
	Most of the Middle East.
	Most of Africa.
	And yes also the mainstream media have been gaslighting the Japanese just as much as they have for us as well.
	Kurdish case becomes rallying cry for Japan protest against police.
	That's of course the thing where they're being rude to the native Japanese to say the least.
	Hate speech escalates against Kurds living close to Tokyo.
	Then leave!
	Yeah, means you're not welcome.
	So there have been lots of incidents as well.
	Here we have people who look Muslim and Indian.
	This is a Japanese store.
	This sort of thing.
	It doesn't go on in Japan.
	It doesn't go on in Japan at all.
	They don't have security at any of their late night convenience stores, because everyone just walks in and they're very polite.
	And generally, if you speak some Japanese phrases, they're very happy with the gaijin.
	Like, they're just very accommodating.
	Well, consider how safe, again, we're going to compare it to Britain, consider how safe Britain used to be.
	We used to have banks where they would have gold bars laid out for the public to look at, where you could pick it up, take a look at it, put it down.
	The place where I grew up, the local shop, sometimes doesn't even have any staff in it.
	At all.
	We just, we know everyone around.
	People just leave the money on the counter.
	It's fine, you know.
	My dad can go down, buy a newspaper and a thing of milk, leave the money on the counter for it.
	And that's fine.
	People trust each other because they know each other.
	That's what we want.
	That's an ideal society.
	Not this.
	So, there's also this, uh...
	Here are black people in Japan, and apparently, being disrespectful, I don't know what the context of this is.
	Demonstrating characteristic low impulse control.
	I'm just, I'm so tired of it.
	It's everywhere, literally, just like, can we not import people to lovely, beautiful, polite, high-trust civilizations that cannot build their own country?
	Their country's a crap, there's a reason no one wants to go to- I'm going here on my honeymoon, genuinely, this is really just- Here's a Fijian national who stole a taxi and was arrested and yeah there he is being taken away of a foreigner committing crime and here's a British person and this was going on during the anti-immigration protests and riots in the UK having a go at one of the Pakistanis
	So we've imported Problems to Japan as well.
	I'm not going to play it because he's using some slayers that'll get us in trouble.
	Don't do that.
	If you're in Japan, just don't do that.
	Behave yourself in a foreign country.
	No matter who you are, follow the laws and customs.
	Unless you're in Africa or the Middle East, in which case they're barbaric.
	But yeah, abusing people in the street, not a good look for us.
	Condemn that guy making a scene, even if, you know, the guy is supposedly defending himself, he seems drunk, seems like he's causing a scene.
	Making us look bad as well.
	So here, this is Japan.
	This is a hall.
	Of course, these people aren't really harming the Japanese actively and directly right now in this video.
	But this is a Muslim tradition, I think, where they're going around in the circle.
	We've seen it before from Muslim countries.
	These cultures are being imported and the fact that this hall can be assembled in Japan full of people, presumably relatives, husbands, wives, you know, brother, sister, same thing.
	It suggests that there is a large enough quantity of people to fill that room.
	They're establishing a parallel cultural block that can then mobilize for political interests.
	And here is a street brawl of foreigners in Japan, which is another thing that doesn't happen.
	And I can tell by the long stick there, which is the favoured street weapon of choice by the subcontinent, that these people may be Eritreans?
	No, no, no, as in the long pole is a sort of Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi thing.
	I always see them hitting each other with a very long, thin pole.
	I was thinking Eritreans because they did lightsaber duels on Camberwell Road last year with sticks.
	Not being funny, when I was last out there, I didn't hear a single police siren.
	It was just so serene compared to that.
	And of course all of this going on, the Japanese are not stupid people, in fact they're very smart people, they have noticed this sort of thing and someone has gone to interview people.
	I'm going to skip some of the start of it.
	- I've been looking for a lot of people.
	- It's not a problem. - It's not a problem.
	- There are many people.
	- What do you think of people?
	- I don't think of them. - What do you want to tell people?
	I don't want to steal things or steal things.
	So if you're listening, she's saying, "Don't steal other people's things to foreigners." Because she had her phone stolen by a foreigner.
	I want to say that.
	I want to talk to you immediately.
	I want to talk to you in Shibuya.
	Everyone is like a foreigner.
	She's saying that foreigners are fighting in Shibuya all the time.
	And, uh...
	How do you think of a foreigner or a foreigner?
	What are foreigners?
	What kind of country do you think?
	I don't know.
	I don't know if my skin is black.
	Someone with dark skin, maybe.
	The people fighting in the street.
	Japan is just a nation of noticers.
	Apparently so.
	People just use their eyes and speak their mind.
	Probably why the country works pretty well.
	I know, that used to be us at one point as well.
	Yes, there are also darker things to this as well.
	Here is a protest opposing sexual harassment of minors from foreigners.
	That's supposedly what it is, at least.
	That's what it's been translated to me as.
	Well yeah I was going to say we don't know fully the translations but I hope Japan doesn't get its own grooming gangs.
	It's entirely possible.
	So there has been a reaction to some of this westernization I'm going to call it just as a euphemism and this bill is very important so back in March Lower House of Japan's Parliament passed a bill to promote LGBTQ plus awareness.
	Thank you United Nations.
	Yeah this is probably linked to the UN thing as you said.
	And this triggered something in Japan.
	For example this guy, he talks about the assassination of Shinzo Abe and he also started the Conservative Party of Japan of I think this was October of last year.
	Basically because, in this video he explains it directly, because of this bill he's saying this isn't acceptable in our country and he also talks about immigration and multiculturalism just saying no actually we don't want this and we need a party that talks about that sort of thing.
	You only need the party when a revolutionary movement starts enacting demographic and cultural change against you.
	Yes.
	The fact that Japan is now trying to defend itself means it's already in.
	And this article here is talking about the fact that they're setting up branches across Japan.
	It's already growing.
	And here is a picture of some of their posters in Tokyo, just talking about their political messaging, basically.
	So it does seem to be catching on.
	There is also a party that has existed, I think, since 2016 called Japan First.
	And this is what this guy is saying.
	saying, for 20 years we have been fighting against the Chinese, the Koreans, and more recently the Kurds.
	If foreigners infringe on Japan's interests, it's only natural that we fight them.
	It's funny how various parties in Japan and Israel that are sort of like centrist, not even that controversial, if they were in Britain, they would be proscribed terror groups.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Like, this should be a totally sensible conversation to have.
	Being able to stand up for your own ethnic people should be a given.
	It shouldn't make you an investigation by your intelligence services, disenfranchised, arrested, just for talking about it.
	Yeah, if you're wanting less rapes and machete attacks, you shouldn't be put on a watch list.
	Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, because Everyone Holds Up Japan is one of the case studies of, here is a country that didn't get multiculturalism and is successful.
	And it was.
	And now it's going to become less successful because they're importing in people that of course all the problems in Europe and North America and it's not going to be good for them and hopefully they can stop it in much the same way that other attempts have been made.
	But I don't hold out any hope because unfortunately lots of NGOs are holding money over them to impose this upon the Japanese people and so it seems like they're going to be in the same camp as the rest of us.
	Thanks for that, Josh.
	You're welcome.
	I wanna go take myself to a certain forest now.
	Do we have video comments, Samson?
	We do have some Rumble Rants as well.
	Yes, okay, while we're loading those up.
	I'll quickly read these.
	We shouldn't read that to random names, I'm afraid.
	That might get us in trouble.
	The first one.
	Yes, the second one's fine.
	Okay, PewDiePie used to live in England before moving there.
	He gladly went to raise his children in peace and safety.
	Hasn't planned on doing the same, but these news worry me.
	Get it together, Japan.
	Yes, I think PewDiePie also lived in Brighton.
	Yeah, anywhere's better than Brighton.
	He lived in Brighton, and in 2020 there was a video that he released where he made a joke about Sweden suffering from mass migration.
	So, whether or not obviously he's had a lot of controversies in the past regarding jokes that he's made, I do think that there is a part of him that he sincerely feels about that he would not speak seriously about on his YouTube channel.
	I think he's on one way or another our guy.
	I bet the DNC has their best lawyers trying to figure out how they can legally charge RFK Junior for abandoning a dead bear in Central Park.
	I don't doubt that.
	They're not all the other offenses that go on in Central Park these days due to the new migrant population.
	Engine 69 says Japan needs some World War II era Japanese policemen.
	I don't know anything about that.
	That's not me saying it.
	Maybe not Unit 731.
	That'd be pretty brutal.
	I'm at the point where I'd gladly live in a nation afflicted with earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes than suffer any more diversity and wokeness.
	They need to stop this before they join us.
	At least one of those is a weather event and the other one is a government policy choice.
	But anyway, let's crack on with the video comments from CS Cooper.
	Hey Dan, I can't claim to know how it goes in England, but in Australia, you only pay capital gains tax on real estate that is specifically an investment property.
	If you sell your primary residence, it doesn't matter how much the value increases, you don't have to pay capital gains tax.
	So is it different in England?
	I think Australia has a very unique legal framework about property ownership.
	It's got a very different way of doing things compared to Europe and North America.
	I remember watching someone, a lecturer, talk about this sort of thing.
	I don't know why I was looking at property law in Australia but, you know, I'm a boring person.
	Interesting.
	We'll try and get Dan to have a look at that.
	Someone should, if you're watching, type in the Discord and go tell Dan.
	On with the next one!
	People will accept short-term suffering when working towards some greater vision.
	Starmer's told us how bad Britain is and asked us to accept short-term pain for long-term good.
	But he forgot to tell us how great Britain will be after he builds back better.
	So tell me, what is it about Starmer's vision for the UK that makes you willing to accept this short-term pain?
	Nothing.
	The entire goal is complete demographic replacement until we resemble some sort of airport lounge where everyone can come and go as they please.
	I would just like Starmer to accelerate the decline of the UK to such an extent that we can turn things around politically before we're an ethnic minority in our own country.
	Yeah, well if you had a snap election about two weeks ago, reform would have won at least 100 seats.
	The problem is, are they going to do anything with it?
	Find out later.
	I don't know.
	I talked to Ben Habib about that, I suppose.
	I'm not encouraged yet, but we'll see.
	On with the next one!
	I got a dreadful fear this November.
	No matter what happens in the republic, neither side will accept the result.
	If Trump gets in, of course, the opposition will view this as Hitler 3, back and ready for vengeance.
	No way they'll see it as legitimate.
	Meanwhile, of course, if Kamala wins, this is, of course, the least popular presidential candidate in the primaries and the least popular presidency in recent memory.
	And after the kerfuffles in 2020, there's no way that'll be viewed as legitimate either.
	Let's not forget that the Punic Wars, which felled Carthage, were literally started over a bar fight in neutral territory.
	Empires have burned over less.
	I think now that you've got Silicon Valley bros and a sort of Democrat coalition backing Trump that actually the backlash if he wins is going to be significantly less than it would have been at least pre-assassination.
	I just don't know how much Trump is going to be able to get accomplished before the midterms if he does sweep the House, the Senate and the Presidency.
	Hopefully he puts the right people in the right place at this time.
	That's why Vance was selected.
	And if there is any sort of violence then you're already prepared with your Mad Max curse.
	That's true.
	Quite.
	We've got to be very safe.
	Right.
	There we go.
	Scotty!
	A Gentleman's Observations of Swindon, Chapter 25.
	I, Brython Anglescotty, the thane of this pig hill, am fortified to entitled deeds, attested, signed, and sealed, guaranteeing me, this audience, and my friends and family fair, all sorts of wisdom and poems which are neither mine nor theirs.
	Hob, what about that chalky down?
	I ask him with a glance, with the Romans and the Saxons and William de Valence.
	Have it just as ye were mine to bat, as we walk through marsh and loam, and whatever ye may think of it, I'm proud to call it home.
	I do think it's terrible.
	I'm glad you like living here.
	I'm glad I don't.
	I also respect the 25 video comment epic and then ending it with a poem reviewing it.
	That's some great work and I have really enjoyed learning about Swindon and, you know, it has made living in the centre of Swindon, which is basically Little India, a bit more bearable.
	Yeah, well done on your dedication to learning about your particular part of the homeland.
	Also, people have tried to hand up poetry around the office.
	You might be able to read it soon, so that'll be interesting.
	Spoilers.
	Yes.
	Anyway, is that it for the video comments, Samson?
	Yes.
	There's a big thumbs up.
	Thank you, sir.
	Right, some website comments before we head off in about five minutes.
	North FC Zoomer.
	Josh comparing Notting Hill Carnival attendees to zombies is actually very offensive to the zombies.
	If any zombies are watching, I'm sorry.
	Well, at least they don't just leave their waste in the street.
	Omar Awad.
	No popular leader has ever complained about having too much public support.
	It's a spiteful admission he has no approval.
	But it's going to do it anyway.
	Well, quite.
	This is where he's bounding up all of his methods of governance in constitutional changes, extra quangos, he's even going to set a government, quote unquote, independent board to regulate football.
	This is the entire point of the Blair Project, is to set politics on rails by taking them out of the realm of the public debate.
	You know, migration numbers are set by the Migration Advisory Committee, which is populated by NGOs and the Daughters of Lords and the like.
	There's absolutely no way to have a say over it unless you disband all of these institutions, and I don't think reform's wised up to that.
	If I was in government, and this is, if I ever get anywhere near it, this is why I'm going to mysteriously fall down a cliff, I would just seize all of the assets of the NGOs immediately.
	Yeah, well this is not being funny.
	I mean, Trust tried to tweak at the margins and they deposed her within 40 days.
	So, you'd need serious body armour and balls to be able to do this, and I don't see anyone willing to do that yet that's even close to becoming PM.
	Brian Tomlinson, good last name.
	Sakir is admitting he is just past the baton of mediocrity.
	Things will only get bitter Hmm.
	Very clever, sir.
	80s version.
	That's how Harry dances when he's on Canal Street.
	Um, Arizona Desert Rat.
	I dance all day, every day.
	Like a white guy.
	Speaking of, the white people aren't integrating.
	If they're native, they shouldn't be integrating.
	Ah yes, but have you considered we've completely transmogrified your country into an ideological project and we've defined you out of being your own countryman?
	Uh, Harry, fancy doing something else?
	Uh, yeah, sure.
	Chase Ball, the Trump administration is actually really pursuing unity by picking up big Democratic slash left-wing endorsements.
	First RFK, now Tulsi Gabbard.
	The Democrats can scream about division all they want, but Trump is genuinely unifying people, and that terrifies them.
	Yeah, that's a good point.
	Um, Kevin Fox, RFK has stepped down, but in red and swing states, the Democrat- Democrats, sorry, I see what you did there, have refused to remove him from the ballot.
	He has, however, been removed from the ballot in all blue states.
	If that's true, that's interesting, but also I do still think that RFK's voter base was probably taking more from Trump than Kamala Harris, because he is very much an anti-establishment candidate, really.
	Whether or not he's got the Kennedy name attached to him.
	Omar Awad.
	It used to be the case that the winning presidential candidate would take their opponent as VP.
	This accidental coalition of right normies and the rejected left oddly feels like a return to that tradition.
	Yeah, perhaps.
	Chase Ball.
	As a presidential candidate, we had to consider all of RFK's positions, which is largely bad.
	However, as a member of the Trump administration, whose jurisdiction will be specifically on his unique strengths, That being Government Assassination Inquiry and the Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex, he is an incredible ally and we should support this decision with everything we have got.
	Absolutely.
	Yeah, that's a fantastic point.
	Finally from my segment, Harry, Josh and Connor, aka the Lotus Lads!
	This is the lads lineup, I do enjoy this composition.
	There's an old adage that goes something like, if you're 18 and not a socialist then you have no heart, if you're 40 and not a conservative you have no brain.
	I think Mark Zuckerberg just found his brain.
	I think that's a product of sort of 20th century norms.
	It's often misattributed to Churchill, ironically enough, and also I suppose I've always been heartless then.
	Presumably.
	Why don't you address us with some comments about Japan?
	Jason Kay says Japan seemed to be a nation to look up to with regards to immigration levels and keeping their culture intact but now it seems they're making the same mistakes as many Western nations.
	Yeah, they made an economic mistake and it was leveraged in the same way that in You know, after World War One and Two, Britain made a logistical mistake in that we relied too much on food imports and the United States leveraged the destruction of our empire.
	Arizona Desert Rat says, hmm, were they willing to deport the criminals?
	I think they're more willing actually.
	I think they've got a better record than we do.
	They do, yes.
	I wonder if the sudden influx is outpacing the rate of deportation.
	Yeah, almost certainly.
	Michael says Japan convenience stores are the greatest in the world.
	Very true.
	They have a fantastic quantity of snacks and Lawsons.
	Let's end with Garlic Goblin tweeting, tweeting?
	Commenting probably from Rhodesia, I imagine.
	Please, please, Japan, don't do it.
	Just don't.
	Have a wonderful country.
	The love of all that's holy.
	Please don't ruin it.
	That was exactly what I was thinking the entire time.
	so I wholeheartedly agree.
	One last minute rumble rant from FleetlordAtvar, $5 saying, Vance being picked as Ancient News, Trump transition team now comprised of Tulsi Gabbard, Bobby Jr., Don Jr., Eric Trump, Vance, and three others.
	Pretty powerful team.
	Yeah, pretty good.
	Anyway, I will be back in about 25 minutes for Thomson Talks with Ben Habib, which will be an interesting interview.
	Thank you very much for a good episode, gents.
	If you're not watching that, or you can watch it on catch-up, watch it after tomorrow's podcast, which is back at 1 o'clock.

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