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Sept. 23, 2024 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 23rd of September 2024 and today your hosts are Stelios and Dan wearing a tie.
	Yes, I found a tie.
	I don't know if I want to keep doing this sort of thing but I've got it on for now.
	Thank your lucky stars, he told me this is the first time we've won a tie in how many years now?
	15 years.
	So this is a very special day, if you're tuning in live you're very fortunate.
	So today we're talking about how corruption is basically legal, Stelios is talking about how Germany is redeeming itself, and Dan is presumably running a sweepstake on who's going to kill Trump.
	The five teams that are out to kill Trump, we will discuss them all.
	Okay, and I have plenty of announcements to make.
	First one is only submit a video comment once per day, please.
	Someone submitted five in one day.
	That's very naughty.
	You should feel very ashamed of yourself.
	Not really, but just please stick to that because it makes our editors' lives a lot easier.
	We will obviously play the ones that we deem fit.
	And Islander, yes, this is still for sale.
	It's actually had its first batch printed.
	And so, it's on the way.
	Time is running out, if you haven't ordered one yet.
	And so, make sure to get there before we stop printing them.
	And also, we do have a job opportunity.
	What is it again?
	That one.
	A production administrator.
	I don't really know what this is but, oh dear, and I'm screwing up the thing, but here's the page.
	Here are your responsibilities and skills.
	You can pause it and read them and if you meet those criteria, You can apply and work in Swindon and work with us lovely people, which is a punishment in and of itself.
	But it is also paid, which is a bonus.
	Tie is optional.
	Yes, you don't necessarily have to wear a tie.
	And yes, I also needed to pull up the stream because I've not got the live chat open and I want to see what people are saying.
	Sorry.
	People are saying Dan looks very good, Dan looks great.
	Yeah, tell us what you think of Dan's tie.
	Dan looking ten years younger.
	Comments are good.
	I can't actually see the live chat for whatever reason, so that's unfortunate.
	Anyway, I'm just going to get on with it and stop dragging my heels.
	They're good, but I like that they're giving some good sartorial advice, because I also asked people on Twitter this weekend about our fashion sense, and a poll is going to follow at some point in the year.
	Stelios is busy stirring.
	So, corruption.
	We all know it goes on in pretty much every country on earth.
	Here is a map of the corruption perception because of course we can't measure corruption because if we can measure corruption there would be no corruption and so we have to measure perception.
	Not the sort of thing you report, is it?
	No, just like I've been this corrupt this year.
	You just file it in your taxes.
	But what do you notice about this map?
	India isn't bright red enough.
	Uh, yes.
	It is definitely more corrupt than that.
	But who are the least corrupt countries and how are they aligned politically?
	Well, it's Greenland, isn't it?
	So... Well, not Greenland.
	Right.
	As in, which countries are yellow and less corrupt, rather than red and angry?
	If you're listening, this is obviously a bit difficult to follow.
	Well, the non-corrupt ones are basically the Anglosphere.
	Yes.
	And France and Germany.
	Oh, and the Nordics.
	The Nordics as well.
	So basically, the people who have made corruption sort of official policy.
	You've presaged what I was going to say.
	I'm glad you agree.
	Yes, funnily enough the people who assess corruption are largely based in this global alliance and mysteriously enough they've found their own countries and their own side less corrupt while as the bad guys the rest of the world are corrupt.
	So you can see here Australia, New Zealand, not corrupt.
	Everywhere else pretty much other than say North America and Western Europe and Scandinavia are corrupt.
	Why is this?
	Have we magically figured out something about human nature whereby we've just mitigated greed?
	Or is it perhaps that our institutions as they are currently have been set up in such a way as to...
	Legalize corruption, for want of a better way of putting it.
	And we're going to be looking at some examples from recent British politics to show you exactly how corruption can manifest.
	But I'll tell you what is not corrupt.
	The Lotus Eaters merch store.
	And what you should be doing is getting yourself a copy of Islander magazine while it's still in print.
	That's only going to go for another couple of weeks.
	So make the most of it while you still can.
	Very good magazine, lots of good people in it.
	Particularly good person in it is me.
	But there are also lots of good writers like Carl Benjamin, you might have heard of him.
	Royal Reg Nationalist, Dave Green the distributor, Stefan Molyneux, Morgoth's Review, Dr Nima Parvini, whoever that is.
	Obviously I know who these people are.
	But also we have a line of merch.
	You can get yourself a mug.
	You can get some t-shirts.
	Harry loves this t-shirt here in particular.
	He's already dibs to the office copy of the Islander Heavy Metal shirt.
	But also I like this one.
	It reminds me of sort of your outdoor wear.
	That's what I'm going to be going for.
	For some reason it makes me think of GTA Vice City.
	It's the sort of 80s style logo, isn't it?
	But anyway, you may remember in the UK, and believe me I'm making this more of a general thing, it's not just UK specific, so if you are from abroad, don't worry, I'm going to make it interesting for you as well.
	Boris Johnson got a lot of flack for revamping number 11 Downing Street with lots of money including a £7,000 rug and an expensive trolley and the really famous thing was he used £840 a roll gold wallpaper.
	And this is of course 11 Downing Street, it's not actually his property, and he used taxpayers money and I believe some donations as well.
	To do this, this is of course number 11 Downing Street, number 10 being the home of, you know, where the Prime Minister is in their work day.
	So this is government property, the Prime Minister gets to stay in number 11, but it's not actually their property, you know.
	once they leave office and this was a big scandal and you may remember the Labour Party going on and on and on and on and I'm not defending the Tories obviously they're corrupt as well um but they made a big fuss about this and then a lot of uh fuss was made about the fact now the Labour Party are in charge people looked at what people were giving them and it turns out that the cabinet you know the people in charge have received More than £800,000 in donations and freebies, which sounds great.
	If you want to send us about £800,000 worth of freebies, I'm more than happy.
	As long as I don't have to, you know, say or do anything, I will take free stuff.
	Sounds a good deal.
	And this is only just in two and a half months.
	Yes, it's... well, this is, I think, at the start of 2024.
	Okay.
	So that's still good going.
	So that's not the Labour Cabinet, that's Cabinet in general?
	Labour Cabinet.
	As in, when they were out of power, that's also including them.
	So it's just in the year 2024, the people who are in Cabinet received that much in donations.
	Good job, we're perfectly clear here.
	So normally, and this is from the body of the Telegraph here so I'm not making this up, MPs are supposed to declare gifts and donations to the parliamentary authorities within 28 days of receiving them.
	They are supposed to inform officials of any, and this is a quote, any interests which someone might reasonably consider to influence their actions or words as an MP.
	which seems like a lot of donations, really.
	Gifts are classified as a benefit with a value over £300 provided at a concessionary rate or free of charge, which can include event tickets and gifted clothes and jewellery.
	So that's a very important distinction.
	And so there is a simple way of getting around this stuff, which is you just don't accept anything.
	And when I was in finance, most of the people, I would say 99% of my colleagues did exactly that, They just simply wouldn't accept anything at all to avoid even the... I mean, I was the 1%.
	I was just like, give me everything.
	I was up for the dinners, the lunches, the free gear, whatever.
	But most people, you can avoid this quite easily just by refusing anything.
	That's right, yeah.
	How can you refuse an egg Fabergé or the Pink Panther or something?
	You just can't.
	Well, it's like Hunter Biden got given a giant diamond once by, I think it was a Chinese businessman.
	That's a very interesting bribe, isn't it?
	Just pulling out a huge diamond.
	Here you are.
	To put it to a dancer's belly button or something, I guess.
	That's very Hunter-y, yeah.
	So, there has been a league table, this is since December 2019, but I've done my own league table starting 2024 as well.
	So, I'm going to leave this on screen while I read my league table, but this is, it looks like Sky News based on the format, but this has been doing the rounds and basically- That's a lot of money!
	But Keir Starmer has been donated to the most since 2019 according to this, followed by Rishi Sunak, then Liz Truss, Rachel Reeves as well, Rebecca Long Bailey.
	Lots of top names up there.
	Unsurprising that these people are being targeted because they're the biggest names, aren't they?
	They're not going to donate to nobody's because the idea is that they're donating stuff with an expectation of something in return.
	If it was, I mean, the word donate implies that it's just something that you give.
	But how come you've got like three prime ministers right at the top of the list?
	It's almost as if the people doing the donating thought that they might get something in exchange.
	I've heard other people, now I wouldn't allege this personally, saying that these are bribes.
	That these people are being paid off to do things for private interest groups with money to spare with the expectation that they'll get something in return or at least favourable treatment but I would never allege that.
	But, talking of morally upstanding people, let's start with David Lammy, who is currently the Foreign Secretary, and obviously a very smart gentleman.
	uh 150 000 uh pounds in donations since the start of 2024 so that includes 40 440 from labor together which is a think tank for the provision of research and writing services so for the privilege of um david lammy writing some stuff for you he gets donated more than the average uk salary um and
	He also got donated £2,500 worth of tickets to see Tottenham Hotspur, which is a football team.
	Soccer, if you are the wrong side of the Atlantic.
	In a hospitality box and following him because he's number one for 2024 donations, of course being foreign secretary People feel particularly Generous towards a foreign secretary for whatever reason that might be I would never allege that it was for special treatment for specific countries.
	That would be a That would be a terrible thing to allege.
	But Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, has received £117,000.
	This includes Taylor Swift concert tickets at Wembley, valued at £1,160, and that's four tickets.
	And that was gifted to him by the Football Association, for whatever reason.
	Don't know what they've got to do with the Health Secretary, but there we go.
	He's also received £48,000 in four instalments from the OPD Group.
	Which is controlled by Peter Hearn, which is Labour's biggest donor.
	Isn't there some sort of football league reform going through at the moment?
	It might well be the case, but that would potentially suggest that there may be an incentive for them to do this.
	In fact, they were one of the groups that donated the most.
	Funny that there's legislation in the works to affect their industry, isn't it?
	Why can't politicians, you know like racing drivers, they just sew a little badge on for who sponsors them.
	Can't we have politicians do that?
	Well yeah there's not enough space on their lapels to do that I don't think.
	But also Wes Streeting accepted £13,000 towards staffing costs.
	What a generous donation that is.
	I wish someone would do that for us.
	From Kevin Craig who later stood to become a Labour MP in Suffolk Coastal and actually it turned out that he was forced to stand down after he bet on his own constituency's outcome in the general election being the Conservatives.
	So he bet against himself And following this, Streeting did return his donation at least.
	I don't actually mind that though, because that's just like hedging.
	That seems sensible to me.
	I've got the wrong person on the panel here, haven't I?
	He's hedging his bets.
	Angela Rayner has received 104,000.
	That's not right.
	104,000, sorry.
	Including 2,230 for clothing from M.E.
	plus E.M., whatever that is, but it's apparently a British luxury fashion brand.
	As you can tell, I don't know my women's clothing.
	Keir Starmer has apparently, depending on where you look at it, 107,000.
	I've got a long list here for Keir Starmer because I thought it was the most interesting.
	So, Crownhawk Properties gave him accommodation for four people, £4,500.
	Swansea City FC gave him five tickets with hospitality, valued at £800.
	Kane International UK Services Limited gave him two tickets with hospitality to Chelsea versus Arsenal.
	Tees Craft Engineering Limited gave him four tickets with hospitality for Newcastle versus Arsenal, valued at £1,000.
	You get the idea, lots of football match tickets, but also, this carries on for quite some time, there's multiple different football clubs donating him tickets for some reason.
	Also, Lord Waheed Ali, this is the big one that's been in the news recently because he was made a Lord by Tony Blair, and he's mysteriously been donating lots of money in clothing to both Keir Starmer and his wife.
	Valued at £16,200.
	That's interesting isn't it?
	I think over £2,000 was donated just in pairs of glasses for Keir Starmer.
	So he's clearly in need of some very special glasses for himself.
	I'm sure all the reading he's doing he's getting good use out of that.
	Yes, lots and lots of Football Association and Premier League stuff, like four tickets with hospitality, all of that sort of stuff.
	But also Rachel Reeves as well, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, accepted gifts worth £7,500 of clothes since 2024.
	Steve Reid, the Environment Secretary, accepted two tickets to see Kylie Minogue and her performance at Hyde Park.
	And Pat McFadden, who's a senior MP and his wife, accepted Bruce Springsteen concert tickets.
	Another person who's accepted them is Darren Jones.
	He's an MP apparently.
	Here he is, not very apologetic.
	Do you accept those tickets now in the light of what has happened?
	My declaration, you'll see, I don't think I've accepted very much at all.
	I did take my children to see Taylor Swift, which was more for them than it was for me.
	But do you think that all of you now need to think twice about accepting things that perhaps other people would love to do but simply can't afford?
	I think everybody has to make consideration about what they can and can't do with the time they have available with their family.
	So no.
	But it's especially funny when someone from the left says this.
	I know!
	It's like, well, have you thought about not being poor?
	Basically what he's saying.
	So here is Bridget Philipson, who is Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equality.
	So what a position, the fact that exists.
	I mean, yeah, even the salaries should be considered a donation here.
	It is, yes.
	It's enough for our ministry.
	Here she is.
	I'll be honest, it was a hard one to turn down.
	I appreciate there was big demand for the tickets.
	It was a privilege to be there.
	Taylor Swift, by the way.
	One of my children, you know, was keen to go along.
	It's hard to say no if you're offered tickets in those circumstances.
	But it was declared.
	I've been clear about that.
	But I do recognise that, you know, I'm in a fortunate position to be able to receive it.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Did you hear that, Stelios?
	What was that sound?
	I actually heard it.
	It was a bump in the road from the sound of a child being thrown under a bus, wasn't it?
	Yeah, it's actually a mother that is telling us that my children are basically owning me and anything my children are telling me I'll do.
	And I love the way that the eyes drop down at the end.
	It's the classic sort of tale where she knows that she's done something wrong.
	You know, can't maintain the act if it's all fine for very long.
	Yeah, but the children would say... would just look down on her.
	Yes.
	Yes, well... Angela Rayner has also been... It's an unfortunate screenshot, isn't it?
	She looks very surprised.
	No, she looks like that all the time, actually.
	It's like a Punch and Judy show.
	Anyway, um...
	The Lord Alley stuff has been in the news quite a lot and they've been in denial mode and Mike Graham here of Talk is saying that she was spotted since the election with him two weeks ago in the House of Lords and she denies seeing him in Downing Street or Parliament and she herself was seen, you know.
	Only two weeks ago.
	Her declaration must be fun.
	Have you looked it up?
	I've tried to find it, but all I was able to find is a small percentage of it in clothes, but I presume the rest of it is money.
	Oh, it probably goes a long way beyond that, doesn't it?
	Like two weeks in Ibiza, 500 grams of cack and two bottles of Jack Daniels.
	Lots of cash and gas.
	Also, there's lots of conversations about her story, about her knowledge of all of this, saying, don't forget that Keir Starmer's deputy, Angela Rayner, wasn't in Durham with him at the pre-planned beer and curry supper party organised by party officials either.
	Until that was exposed as a lie and that she had been there as her own diary and Keir Starmer's revealed.
	So yes, people are also trying to cover it up it seems.
	At least that's what people are saying.
	So Keir Starmer has bravely said that he'll stop accepting clothes as a donation.
	I imagine he's probably received enough money to buy his own at this point.
	The wardrobe is full!
	Don't send more!
	Yeah, in all of his homes he's run out of space for clothes.
	He's saying he accepts gold bars and positions in NGOs.
	That's what he's accepting payment in now.
	I will throw up a quick note that people do send us donations quite a lot.
	In fact, I got one myself here this morning.
	One of my viewers sent me a book and we got another lovely viewer, Luna something, who sends us chocolates and stuff like that.
	The problem is though, is we don't get to set tax rates.
	We don't get to direct government funds.
	So there probably is quite a quality difference there.
	Well, normally the things that we get given tend not to be trying to bias what we're doing.
	It's just like a thank you.
	Which is very nice of you, by the way.
	You're all sweethearts, secretly.
	You're very mean in the comments sometimes, but I know you're nice deep down.
	Sorry, that's really condescending.
	So anyway, here's a meme that I thought was good.
	The first meeting of Labour's National Executive Committee after Starmer announced the clothing donation ban.
	Which I just thought was great.
	What is actually happening here?
	Is this like a strip poker?
	That's not actually the Labour National Executive Committee meeting, by the way.
	For those who are listening, Josh is showing us a room of naked men having a board meeting.
	Maybe it's a strip poker society thing.
	So there has been some backlash within the Labour Party itself.
	Here's Rachel Maskell saying, I've been sickened by the revelations of donations.
	It grates against the values of the Labour Party created to fight for the needs of others not the self.
	Meanwhile pensioners are having their winter fuel payments taken and risking cold.
	I trust conference votes to change this because of course the Labour Party conference is going on at the minute and this is the thing that's in the news more than anything else and uh sorry Was she at a Taylor Swift concert while she was posting this?
	I don't know.
	You'll have to ask her, I'm afraid.
	Also, Diane Abbott is on a redemption arc here, saying she's basically criticising the general election victory was only possible under Keir's leadership and I think actually that's a silly thing anyway because it was only possible because the Tories tanked their own popularity.
	Anyone could have won that election.
	A child could have led the Labour Party and they would have actually probably done better.
	She says it's changed it into an organisation whose leaders are in the pockets of millionaires.
	That's his own MP saying that about the Prime Minister.
	Although Diane Abbott of course, the left-wing faction, still bitter about Jeremy Corbyn being axed by the more Blairite Keir Starmer.
	So There's also Harriet Harman who was former deputy leader at one point of the Labour Party says that he should stop trying to justify it because he basically said yeah of course I get donations and what which I sort of respected actually.
	I had more respect for him than him coming out and issuing a false apology but it's still bad because it's still morally questionable to say the least.
	So this has had a significant impact as well as obviously the riots and all the other terrible things that Keir Starmer has been doing.
	He's now less popular than Rishi Sunak, which I find hilarious because he's only been in office for a couple of months.
	He's already less popular than the least popular Prime Minister.
	That is genuinely impressive.
	That's like a speedrun to failure.
	No grace period.
	Half of voters think Labour has done a poor job so far.
	Half of all voters.
	That's kind of hilarious.
	And three in five think Labour will lose the next election already.
	They've only been in office a short time.
	And apparently more than half of respondents do not believe Keir Starmer will lead the party into the next election either.
	Which is...
	We don't even need to criticise them.
	If we just leave them to do their own thing, it turns out they're so stupid that they will just sabotage themselves apparently.
	So I wanted to quickly go over some other avenues of corruption to wrap up.
	So obviously there are just rewarding people with gifts and monetary donations.
	We've been over that in detail now.
	There's also political appointments.
	So a good example is Zia Yusuf donating £200,000 to reform.
	And then he replaced the voting base favourite Ben Habib as party chairman following this.
	I wonder how that happened.
	It's also worth mentioning as well, members of the House of Lords have donated £50 million to parties who then appointed them to the House of Lords.
	And this is also a politics home investigation.
	How much does it cost?
	I mean, that's all peers.
	I mean, if I wanted to become a peer, how much would I have to donate?
	I don't know.
	I suppose we can run an experiment and you can donate lots of money to, I don't know, the Labour Party.
	Maybe you'll be a Lord in no time.
	But this has also been vindicated by Transparency International.
	Two different organisations have had similar figures.
	They suggested it was slightly more than 50 million.
	53.4 million, I believe that reads.
	And yes, it's also worth mentioning as well That you can be given a lucrative job once you're outside of office.
	So Nick Clegg, our former Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Lib Dems back in the day, left Downing Street and got a job for Meta where he's arguably more powerful than ever and gets significantly more money because he's the President of Global Affairs, whatever that means.
	So yes, lucrative jobs as well as speaking fees.
	So Tony Blair's a good example for that, known to get upwards of £200,000 per speech.
	He got given £237,000 in a single speech for telecommunications conferences in 2015.
	A conference.
	A single conference, sorry.
	I can't read for some reason.
	And also, of course, campaign donations whereby They can be rewarded with lucrative government contracts and favourable treatment in any new legislation.
	Reminds me of that Premier League thing you were talking about.
	So, I would like to point out to people, in the United States, there was a case where Microsoft was getting hammered by antitrust laws, which are like anti-monopoly laws, right?
	And all of a sudden, they started donating to political parties.
	And rather than simply stopping targeting them with antitrust laws, they actually invited them in to rewrite them.
	I'm sorry, I don't believe for a minute any of this stuff is above board.
	Obviously corruption is just legalised in a lot of the Western world.
	It's human nature, of some humans anyway, to be greedy and I think that that is a sort of inevitability when institutions have as much power as they do.
	You increase the bloat, you increase the capability of individuals to pursue their own selfish, greedy needs.
	And that is what is happening here.
	There you are.
	I'll flip that over.
	I'll flip that over.
	Before we go on to the next story, can I just quickly point out that rue the day, I see you in the chat.
	I see you.
	You have been warned.
	Need to up your opinion of quality.
	Anyway, carry on.
	Dan looking dapper is destroying my worldview.
	So there we go.
	If corruption is inevitable, shouldn't we socialise it?
	Make it accessible to all?
	Yeah, this is one of my arguments against there being lots of government in the first place, is that there's more avenues to rip off the public, right?
	And I think that corruption is an inevitability of a bloated state.
	Look at, say, communist Russia.
	Corruption was basically so endemic that it was part of the system, because the system was everything.
	That's a good question.
	I'm not sure.
	That's actually quite a good idea.
	I would like to do that.
	Samson, make it happen.
	special needs uh that's a good question um i'm not sure so frednault says uh here's a bribe for you fine fellas to read out my comment lotus eaters um play verses in left for dead to when that's actually quite a good idea i would like to do that samson uh make it happen and uh this isn't a bribe it's a gift now sort that building permit for me thank you very much it's just changing the
	If we just call it somehow different, it's going to cease to exist.
	It's just silliness.
	Like with men and women as their trinity.
	Rebrand women.
	That's what I need.
	Right, so this weekend there were elections in Germany in the state of Brandenburg.
	Now I want to show you where Brandenburg is.
	It's in the northeast.
	Okay, here it is over here.
	For those of you who are listening from the radio, I'm showing a map of Germany divided into states and showing the Brandenburg on the northeast.
	So that's interesting.
	So Berlin is in Brandenburg but It's like a little donut that surrounds Berlin, yeah.
	in terms of its own thing. - It's like a little donut that surrounds Berlin, yeah. - Right, so here the AFD came second by a narrow margin.
	And also we have the new rise of the BSW, which is a new migration-sceptic leftist party, which will be talked about a lot because it was founded this January.
	And the major question to be asking is whether migration-sceptic left-wing parties are just an invention to halt migration-sceptic right-wing parties.
	So we saw in Saxony, Anhalt and Thuringia that they helped split the left-wing vote, which was quite interesting.
	I don't think the left-wing vote share had been that low in recent years because of this new party, which is good, I suppose.
	They definitely have done so in Brandenburg as well.
	I'm just going to show you considerations from both sides because it's an open question because this is going to be a question to be asked not just for Germany but in any other Western country that has the issue with mass migration.
	So here we see that the AFD came first in Thuringia, second in Saxony and now second in Brandenburg.
	Right, before we say more about this, if you would like to support us, you can buy the Islander magazine.
	This is issue number two, and I hear that it is even better than issue number one.
	You can visit our website here, the link we have, and see our wonderful merch.
	We have coffee mugs, t-shirts, other t-shirts coming in all sizes, and of course the Islander number two.
	And here I hear that There's a colleague of mine who has written a poem that is particularly going to stir up sentiment.
	Whoever wrote that poem must be very talented.
	I suspect so.
	Definitely give that a shot.
	Right, now, let's go to the analytic results.
	Why do they all look like demons?
	What's going on?
	What?
	Why are all the pictures funny?
	It's like that film They Live or something.
	Here we have the glasses, the 2,000-pound glasses.
	Well, we've proved that all of these people are real people, at least.
	They're not the weird lizard people from They Live.
	Right, so I'm showing it here from Wikipedia because they have some data that shows also what happens in comparison to the previous election.
	So here we can see the SPD, which is the Social Democrat Party.
	It had won 25 seats and 26.2% of the votes five years ago.
	Now it has 30.9%, almost 31%.
	And they have seven more seats.
	That's the governing party, Olaf Scholz's SPD.
	Now we are talking about the AFD here that also had a major win.
	They won more than 5.7% more in comparison to the previous election.
	They have seven more seats.
	They won 29% of the vote.
	Interestingly here we have the new BSW migration skeptic left-wing party that got 14 seats.
	14 seats.
	It won 202,000 votes, 13.5% of the vote.
	It's a new party that was founded this January.
	Are they more pro-re-migration than AFD?
	This new party?
	We don't know that much yet, but they're a migration sceptic.
	Yeah, it's difficult to say, because they're only founded in January, how dedicated they really are to that.
	But they've got 14 seats from nothing, they must be putting out a message which is resonating.
	Yes, and you will see here also that we have zero seats, sort of one.
	Because we have the Greens getting zero seats.
	They had 10.8% of the vote and they fell by close to 7%.
	I think it's called the 5% hurdle in Germany.
	Parties need at least 5% to enter the state parliament and they didn't get it.
	The Greens were completely demolished.
	The left also, Die Linke, was completely demolished.
	It was also the party which split and the BSW was allegedly born out of a split with Die Linke.
	And then we have this gentleman here, the BVB party, which is a regionalist party.
	It also got less than 5% and also got zero seats.
	So we have three parties got zero seats.
	And the CDU, which is the, I think, the Christian Democrat Union, got 12.1%.
	It fell by 3.5%.
	12.1%, it fell by 3.5%.
	Right, so here, we can analyze the data a bit to see who is particularly prone to adopt the message of the AFD, but also the message of the BSW.
	We see here, we have here from Ralph Schulhammer, young working and self-employed people were overwhelmingly pro-AFD and migration skeptic.
	Here we have some more analytic stuff about the young people in the age range between 16 and 24 years old.
	range between 16 and 24 year old.
	We have 32% of them support the AFD.
	The SPD has a The BSW has 13%.
	The CDU has 9%.
	Die Linke fell to 7% from 11%.
	has 13%, the CDU has 9%, the Linke fell to 7% from 11%, the Green Party lost 20%.
	So five years ago, they had 25% support in the age group between 16 and 24.
	Now they have 7%.
	So I went to Germany, I spent a bit of time in Germany in the early 2000s and they were all like really green back then.
	And of course they actually got their green government, didn't they?
	And it led to the de-industrialisation of Germany and the impoverishment of basically all of them.
	I wouldn't be surprised if Germans are now going in their back garden and just burning barrels of crude oil just out of spite.
	Well, yes.
	Be careful what you wish for.
	I mean, the Greens have just completely destroyed Germany.
	So, I mean, they've, you know, they got their lefty twattery and now they're starting to realise that actually the country's falling apart on them.
	And unless I'm entirely mistaken, it seems that Germany is completely turning its back to its nuclear reactors.
	And it's making its own economy even more dependent on foreign actors.
	They now get a lot of their energy from French nuclear reactors.
	There's a massive rise in popularity for the AFD.
	It was in 14% and it arose by 18% so it's more than double in the 16-24 age group.
	Right, here we have a really interesting graph that we should focus on and there's really too much to discuss because I think there is plenty to discuss here.
	So, men and women.
	Let's talk first about men and women, okay?
	It seems that both are... migration skepticism is strong in both groups.
	That's interesting, isn't it?
	Because you go to like an Anglo city and the women are just awful, but it looks like German women are quite sensible.
	Well, you see here, both men and women are supporting the BSW and the AFD message, and their core message is pro-national sovereignty and against mass migration.
	So if you add the women's scores up between the AFD and the BSW, that's 40%.
	For the men, that is almost 40% as well.
	Obviously more heavily weighted towards the AFD.
	And one difference is that there is a higher percentage of of women within that group that are supporting the left-wing party.
	It's 40% of migration-sceptic women, let's say.
	If we suppose that migration-scepticism is represented in voting for the AFD and the BSW... It certainly would be more so for the AFD than the BSW because However, there are options in the German election.
	They don't necessarily need to vote tactically per se in the same way that you need to in first-past-the-post systems.
	So I think that votes are slightly more representative of actual ideological similarity in a German system than say America or Britain where we use first-past-the-post.
	Yeah, so you see here 40% of the women In Germany of the migration skeptic women are supporting the BSW and 60% support the AFD, whereas in men it's more like a quarter of them, a quarter of men are supporting the BSW, three quarters support the AFD.
	Both are very encouraging.
	I mean it goes to underline the point that what we need to do is reframe the migration issue as being a women's safety issue.
	Well it is, it genuinely is as well.
	Oh and it genuinely is, yes.
	But I mean that seems to be taking hold in Germany and it seems to be working for them.
	And what we see here is that the generation that is right now, currently, more than 70 years old is overwhelmingly pro-SPD.
	It's 50%.
	Boomer leftists.
	Boomers.
	Yeah, that's just incontrovertible here.
	So we have all other, we see here self-employed people are more prone to support the AFD.
	One out of three of them supports the AFD.
	Close to one out of five supports the CDU.
	One out of four approximately supports the Social Democrats.
	But just going back to the age issue, it kind of emboldened me to say that re-migration is inevitable.
	Well yes because young people support it more and the idea is that you become more conservative as you get older and so if they're already quite conservative to begin with then that's quite a reaction.
	What it tells me is re-migration will happen in Germany in the 2040s because by then you know the boomers will have gone to pastures new And there's just going to be a majority for moving migration.
	So it's just going to be, you know, late 2030s, 2040s, millions of them are going to leave.
	Also, 40% of pensioners supported the governing party, which means that they are really falling for the rhetoric that unless we appeal to skilled workers from outside, you're not getting your pension.
	Yeah, infinity Africans and then you can have a pension.
	Yeah, so we see there are a lot of patterns that arise from here, but also if you see the self-employed, only 6% support the Green Party.
	Of course.
	Right, so we have a lot of stuff here.
	White-collar workers are close to a tie there.
	29% for the AFD, 30% for the SPD.
	So AFD is really rising.
	And it's not just a coincidence now.
	It's not just in Saxony and Thuringia.
	It's also in Brandenburg.
	And as you will see, next year there are federal elections in Germany.
	Right, so we need to talk a bit about this party, the BSW.
	So, we don't have much data to go to judge, at least outside of Germany.
	And it says here, basically, their ideology is left-wing populism, left-wing nationalism, socialism, cultural conservatism, Euroscepticism, and political position from left-wing to far-left.
	And, essentially, they were just formed.
	They split from Die Linke, split from the left, so we really don't know.
	It's just a left-wing to far-left-wing party that is just saying... So this is a left-wing anti-immigration party?
	Yes.
	Oh, that's interesting, because, I mean, anti-immigration was always a left-wing issue until about 20 years ago.
	Yeah.
	Well, the idea is that the left was saying that globalism is harming the domestic workers, and they thought that they were representing domestic workers.
	Yeah, I mean, the only person who still holds to that are people like Corbyn and that American guy, Bernie Sanders.
	Their position was always that immigration was a right-wing ploy to drive down wages.
	And that was the common left-wing view until, like I say, about 20 years ago.
	So it's interesting to see it returning.
	I doubt that now Sanders and Corbyn are supporting this.
	I think they're pro open borders, or at least.
	They might have changed over time.
	That was a Bernie Sanders quote and I can't remember how old it is, but I don't think it's that old.
	I think Brexit changed this a lot because it showed that working class people are not necessarily tied to the left, as the left was portraying in its narrative for decades.
	Right, so here we have some considerations here that suggest that it could be something that deprives the momentum from the AFD.
	This is a major question whether migration skeptic left-wing parties are just designed to be systemic parties that are essentially halting the momentum of right-wing parties.
	So some people say yes, some people say no.
	I'm just gonna tell you both.
	Ralph Shawhammer says 50% vote for the BSW because of its leader.
	31% would vote for the AFD if it weren't for the BSW.
	So this is something that... It could be a splitting attempt.
	On the other hand though, if we look at the percentage they got, it is less than the percentage that was lost by the, or saw, it's there about, the percentage that was lost from De Linke and the Green Party.
	That's what we saw in the other two provinces that had elections recently, that It's about equivalent to the votes that would have otherwise gone to Die Linke and it seems to be sort of good for our side at least because if the left is also pushing an end to migration and they're splitting the left-wing vote from the pro-migration side of things well that means that they can in theory at least cooperate towards that.
	But I quite like a future where you've got a left-wing and a right-wing party, both of which are not pro-infinity.
	Send them home, socialism, or send them home, capitalism.
	Yeah, you have here minus 6.7% and minus 7.7% for the Green Party and Die Linke.
	Which is 14.4% and here 13.5% is on BSW.
	But obviously we shouldn't just assume that all of them just went to BSW.
	But there is a significant trend towards this.
	So, question here.
	Do you remember Olaf Scholz saying some weeks ago, because I think we covered it together, that Germany is going to halt migration Well, it was a sort of tentative thing of we're going to enforce our own borders briefly until things get better.
	Yeah, for six months.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's not enough.
	Yeah, there are some interesting developments here that push towards skepticism against the government.
	I saw over the weekend a Dutch journalist went to Germany and they went to all the roads leading into Germany because of course the Netherlands borders Germany and they found that there were border agents on the main roads but if you took a back road there's no one stopping you.
	Yeah.
	And you can just go in and so it's not really a proper measure.
	As I'll show you, it was not at all ideological on their part, it was entirely tactical, and essentially their message was, we are not the AFD.
	That's their whole message.
	But I disagree a bit with Ralph Schollhammer here who says that their whole message is just we're not the AFD, because their message seems to me that it is also, we're pro-multiculturalism.
	Yeah, but they sense that's in retreat and so they have to... I mean, and Kamala and the Democrats are doing the same thing in America.
	They're just saying we're not Trump.
	Yeah, so I have news for both of you because Olaf Scholz is pro-national sovereignty.
	I thought you were going to say something else.
	For Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
	Right.
	Okay.
	and countries in Central Asia.
	Is that because he's very anti-Russia by any chance?
	Yeah, he is leading an effort to halt the influence of Russia and China within their region, which from a Western perspective isn't necessarily bad, but what is particularly bad is the hypocrisy.
	You can't constantly be pro the sovereignty of Allies, but everyone who's talking against your domestic sovereignty is to be branded the devil upon earth.
	Isn't it fascinating that all these globalists suddenly become raving f-nats whenever the country in question either borders Russia or happens to be a particular country in the Middle East?
	Or is a particular ally.
	They are definitely saying this.
	But if they have a white majority population, then ethno-nationalism is the worst thing imaginable.
	That's certainly what they seem to be working on, the premise they seem to be resting upon.
	So we have here Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz has sealed a migration deal with Uzbekistan, easing the entry of skilled workers into Germany, especially in healthcare.
	The agreement was signed in Samarkand during his visit to Central Asia, which was about a week ago.
	Scholz will also attend a summit in Kazakhstan with five former Soviet republics, balancing China and Russia's influence in the region.
	So, they closed the borders, but he immediately went to Central Africa, to Central Asia, to talk about sealing migration pacts about skilled workers.
	We don't want the Germans back in Africa again, Stelios.
	Yes, and we have here an article that talks about this.
	If anyone is interested in finding out more, visit our website, check out the links under the podcast.
	You can just read what is going on here.
	Right, and he held a press conference alone and essentially he was saying that they're supporting the nations in the region or on their way to independence and sovereignty.
	He says here, and we will continue to develop the political and economic incorporation.
	That's a good message for them, because then it is more easy for them to work on their own independence and sovereignty in the region.
	So sovereignty is good for others, but apparently bad for Europeans.
	The same thing that Olof Scholz and the EU multiculturalists are saying in Germany, they're saying for every other country in the EU, but also in the West, generally speaking.
	Interesting news.
	There are upcoming elections in Germany.
	In 2025 there are elections in Hamburg.
	And also there are federal elections.
	To be held in about a year.
	I think they're saying it's roughly the 28th of September.
	I don't know if this is going to change or not.
	But in about a year, they have federal elections.
	So you see, the AFD is rising.
	Its support in popularity is rising, especially in young people.
	and working-class people.
	So you see that Olaf Scholz is definitely going to bung the drum of, on the one hand, we are caring for mass migration and they are going to talk about, they are going to make statements of closing the borders, but on the other hand they're going to go and visit countries sealing migration pacts in search for skilled workers.
	And one thing to say here, in the previous election, if you see, The Greens got 8.9% more.
	They got 67 seats and they have 51 seats in Parliament.
	They look like they're going to lose them.
	And the AFD lost some seats.
	So they had 12.6% and they fell to 10.4%.
	This was three years ago in 2021.
	But everything suggests that this isn't going to be the case in a year from now.
	Everything suggests that the AFD is here to stay and they regularly score towards 30% in every major state.
	So it seems like skepticism towards mass migration is establishing itself in Germany and it will soon establish itself in every other Western country.
	Well done, Germany!
	Dan, it's your... Do we not have any of those... Oh, no, we didn't have any through yet.
	Oh, don't we don't?
	Oh, right.
	Okay, excellent.
	Well, I'll... Time for your Fed post, Dan.
	I'll dive straight into my... What's this... beautiful broadening?
	Um... No.
	Don't do it!
	That's right.
	Samson is pot-patrolling Selly or something.
	What order is this in?
	This is a bit all over the place.
	Anyway.
	Fine.
	Maybe I'll just... I will start my segment in a minute.
	I'm just fighting with somebody for the... Here we go, here we go.
	I'll pop that up in a minute.
	Right, okay.
	Let's do a proper start.
	So in the race to assassinate Donald Trump it looks like things are getting competitive because there appears to be five teams competing for the headshot.
	Have you heard about this story?
	Matt Gaetz casually dropped it into an interview the other day that there are five teams that they know of that are all competing to assassinate Donald Trump.
	So Just right off the bat, if Donald Trump's going to be assassinated, who do we reckon is the most likely culprit?
	Well, am I allowed to say the CIA?
	I mean, could we say that?
	I might have to be a little bit careful with how I frame this.
	If Dan doesn't come to work next week, you know what happened.
	Yes.
	Well, let me take you to the comments that he made, because they're quite remarkable.
	Can we play the radio clip that he gave, please?
	I am starting to get the impression that we do not have enough force protection of supporting President Trump that we ought to have given the threat environment.
	I met recently with a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security who said that there are at least five known assassination teams in the United States right now, at least three of which are foreign, that are out to kill Trump.
	And with that type of activity, I don't think we should be allowing people to set up for an extended period of time and And wait to take their shot outside of his Gulf properties or his other properties.
	I'm also deeply concerned that the second attempted assassin was actually encountered at the border upon his return to the country from Ukraine.
	And the Customs and Border Patrol thought his story was so suspicious that he was he was recruiting freedom fighters all over the world to go fight in Ukraine.
	And when they asked him how he was financing this, He said, Oh, well, my wife is paying for it.
	And that seemed odd.
	And so the CPP officials referred Ryan Rouse to the Department of Homeland Security's investigations unit to determine what was going on.
	And they declined to even proceed with an investigation.
	They just stopped and let the guy in the country.
	And we've got a lot of questions.
	Okay, hold on.
	I got a lot of never any of that second part or that first part.
	What were you saying about these five assassination teams?
	We are aware of at least five teams in country that are geared toward killing Trump.
	And I think you know, three of them that we know are foreign in nature.
	Two of them we know are domestic in nature.
	And that calls for a force protection.
	That we do not have around the former president right now.
	Who were you talking to that talked about this?
	A senior Department of Homeland Security official met with me, said they were aware of this and were concerned that the Secret Service was not providing sufficient support.
	Was this a hearing or was this in your office?
	This was in my office.
	Okay.
	Now listen, Congressman, I'm just a guy here.
	I don't know things.
	Why are these people, why are we just having assassination teams walking around?
	Well, one reason is because when they entered the country there was insufficient scrutiny to stop them from doing so.
	Right?
	I mean, you know, three of these teams are foreign-inspired from my understanding.
	Iranians, Ukraine, Pakistan.
	So, there's a lot to unpack there, but that's pretty extraordinary.
	A senior official from Homeland Security has been warning Trump allies that there are five teams operating, that they know of, in the United States with the express purpose of killing President Trump.
	One thing that I did find interesting was the guy who was at Trump's golf course in Florida.
	Yes.
	The most recent attempt, other than the bomb one which, you know, disputes about the legitimacy of that or not.
	I haven't really looked into it recently.
	But that guy, I thought he was an American citizen, wasn't he?
	So why is he coming across the southern border at all?
	That seems unusual.
	My understanding was that he went off to fight in Ukraine because he's one of these people who actually really believes in the news.
	Yeah, I've seen lots of pictures of him in Ukraine.
	Yes, like regalia and all that stuff.
	They didn't allow him to join the ranks.
	That's right, they said he was a bit crazy.
	I was going to mention this a bit later, but we talk about Ryan Ruth now.
	So apparently he was inspired to go and fight for Ukraine.
	And he was so erratic and crazy that his own colleagues reported him to the Customs and Border Protection and also to the FBI and apparently they heard nothing back from either organisation.
	They weren't interested in the strange behaviour.
	Just looking at the guy I can believe it to be honest.
	And apparently he was trying to recruit Syrian refugees to go and fight in Ukraine.
	He also appeared in Romania in a Newsweek network saying that he is trying to fight and it has been disputed because they're saying that they're not allowing several people to fight.
	Well yeah, the Ukrainian government has tried to distance itself quite extensively because if it's found to have an association with someone who tried to Assassinate Trump, well that sort of upsets the nice conveyor belt of money and weapons that's going to Ukraine constantly from the Western world.
	So, are you going to say something to this?
	Yeah, yeah, are we talking about Ryan Routh now and then talking to the other?
	Well, yeah, if you've got a point about Routh, yeah.
	No, I mean, it's OK.
	Just not about Ruth.
	I wanted to say something about the Iranian group.
	Well, yes.
	So, I mean, we're talking about that.
	So he highlights five groups, two of which are domestic.
	Don't know who they are.
	I mean, presumably the CIA and FBI.
	I'm not entirely sure.
	But two domestic groups that they're aware of.
	And the three foreign ones he mentioned was, what was it?
	It was Iranians, Ukrainians and Pakistan.
	Now, the Iranians, I can sort of believe are their own thing.
	Any Ukrainian team is going to be a Western Deep State cutout, isn't it?
	Since all of their operations are basically Western Deep State.
	Well, it's interesting how enmeshed a lot of Western leaders are with a lot of the financial aspects to the Ukrainian war.
	I think that's what I can say.
	They've been using it for money laundering.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	That's another way of putting it, yeah.
	Just to get it out of the way, because I think it's the least controversial one, the Iranian one.
	If my memory doesn't completely fail me, I think that when there was the hit to Ahmadinejad, not Ahmadinejad, Soleimani.
	Yeah, Soleimani.
	I think that there were some people that were Who were his supporters who were very adamant about being after Trump.
	Yes.
	And going after Trump.
	So I think that that's pretty out in the open.
	Yeah, I mean... Unless my memory... So actually the one that I'm least bothered about is the Iranian ones.
	Because fair enough, I mean, Trump did blow up one of their generals.
	And also Trump maintained a pretty hard line on Iranian sanctions.
	Whereas as soon as Biden came into office he basically, well, took all of the pressure off Iran.
	They've still officially got sanctions but I don't believe they're being enforced.
	So I can well understand why Iran wants to see Kamal Hafez and not Trump win the election.
	So I don't particularly have a problem with the Iranians going after him.
	Well, I have a problem in that I don't want them to succeed.
	I don't want them to succeed, but I kind of see it at least somewhat legitimate that they're kind of doing that because as soon as he gets into office he's gonna start blowing up their generals again.
	So I mean it's, you know, it's a bit of argy-bargy.
	They've at least got a more traditional incentive to engage.
	Yes.
	But the Ukrainians, they're being run on US taxpayers money.
	And they're being directed by the Deep State over here.
	So for them to be trying to assassinate Trump is... I mean, it's kind of taking the piss a bit, as far as I'm concerned.
	Yeah, well, the only reason there's a Ukraine is because of the West at the minute.
	And then there's Pakistan, which has interesting links with organisations like the CIA.
	So if they're running operations... I don't know, it just sounds to me like the... It sounds to me like the CIA have got five patsies that they can pin it on when somebody actually gets the job done.
	As they would see it.
	And to talk about the incentives here, because you're bringing them up, and to add a little bit of context to what you're saying, some of the intelligence agencies do have a very strong incentive to make Trump a political non-entity, let's say, because he's been very vocal in his criticism of the organisation, he's pointed out things that they've done,
	that are neither moral nor technically legal and said that they need to have their power cut back and basically clear out of lots of people that are corrupt.
	Look at the Hunter Biden story, which in the run-up to the 2020 election was covered up under the pressure of the intelligence agencies.
	It was 50 people, yeah, went on the record to say that it was Russian disinformation.
	And we now know that it was entirely true, so basically 50 senior intelligence personnel all barefaced lied in order to try and stop Trump getting elected.
	Absolutely.
	And also I looked at the same information that they looked at to verify it and it was so obviously legitimate, my poor eyes by the way, that there's no honest mistake here if, you know, a journalist based in Swindon can figure out That, and 50 intelligence agency people whose sole job is to verify this sort of thing, that's obviously malfeasance rather than incompetence.
	And well of course, I mean, Trump might well end up appointing RFK as CIA director or something similar to that.
	That'd be wonderful.
	Yes, but let's say that they were actually involved in the assassination of his father and uncle.
	You can imagine how desperate they would be to stop Trump winning and RFK being put in the head of this organisation.
	So there's lots of people with motives here to try and do this.
	I'm showing on the screen here a Zero Hedge article.
	I've already referred to some of it with this Ryan Roof chap here.
	The only other thing that I'll throw in there There was more in that interview where Gates was talking about this and he also made reference to the Pakistani plot which could be in relation to the Pakistani man arrested on July 12th because he tried to hire a undercover FBI agent to assassinate Donald Trump.
	That's a bit of a giveaway, isn't it?
	Yes.
	Just a little bit.
	I don't know why the FBI arrested him for that.
	I mean, maybe because, you know, we've already got plans in the works.
	Maybe he's a CIA guy and so... Yeah, something like that.
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	I quite liked this clip from, let's just play the first few seconds of this, of Trump after the, was it, the second assassination attempt.
	What are two things you do to stay healthy?
	Well, I used to play golf a little bit, that gave me, so I don't know, but it seems to be quite a dangerous sport, in retrospect.
	I'll just leave it at that.
	That amused me, his reaction to this.
	If you follow the Gates interview, the one that I played a little bit of earlier, a very interesting comment is made about the Secret Service potentially having a mole in it.
	I won't go back to the recording but he says I have Republican colleagues who have not ruled out a mole inside the Secret Service of providing information about points of vulnerability such as for example when he's golfing and there's only a chain-link fence between you know you and the security.
	Yeah there's a very obvious need here to ramp up his security well above even that of a normal president because of course two attempts in very short space of time News of more, it's pretty obvious that he's a high priority target for lots of assassins.
	Well, I remember watching something, I think it was on the Secret Barristers channel or something like that, where he was speaking to a guy who had a nice property, I think it was in Scotland or something, and there was going to be a world leaders event nearby, and it was fairly remote, but there was still a couple of houses around there.
	And they went to each of these houses and offered the people there £40,000 to move out for a week.
	Just because they could have a better security perimeter I'd like to live there.
	That sounds great.
	Yeah, I'd imagine these houses are probably quite expensive.
	And he said that the guy that he was speaking to didn't actually take the £40,000.
	He decided to stay in his house for the week.
	What?
	And his wife opened an upstairs window at one point and within 30 seconds there was a sniper team at the door banging on the door wanting to know why the window was open.
	So this is the level of security that Biden gets.
	But with Trump, there's clearly a gap.
	And with Trump's Gulf assassination attempt, a lot of people say that it was a spontaneously organized event.
	Right.
	That's what makes a lot of people particularly worried that there may have been information from the inside.
	Yeah.
	Well, I don't think it was spontaneous because he had all of the gear ready to go, didn't he?
	And he was waiting in a specific spot for a specific time.
	No, I don't mean that he spontaneously manifested in a golf course.
	I'm just saying that in his schedule, he sort of decided last minute.
	Oh, I see what you're saying.
	The assassin wasn't spontaneous, it was Trump that was spontaneous.
	And how would he know to go there?
	So yeah, I'll just read on more of this.
	So he said he's got colleagues who have not ruled out a mole inside the Secret Service.
	And Gates says, I've not seen evidence of that myself, but my very, very smart colleagues have looked at the anomalies in the fact pattern here and are seeing something.
	He says, more likely, there was such a disdain for Trump and such a desire to diminish him with these agencies, giving him less protection, and having him surrounded by a bunch, That sounds about right.
	I mean, that sounds entirely reasonable, but then I wouldn't rule out the mole either, to be honest.
	Sadly now, Trump is having to- we can play this without- we don't need sound for it.
	It's like the Pope sounds like he's got his own little box.
	Yeah, but he has to give his talks now behind bulletproof glass which I have mixed feelings about because obviously it's not quite as great for the people attending because you get a sheen reflecting off this glass and it's not quite as personal but then on the other hand I'm very pleased because there are five teams trying to assassinate him.
	I think also, I think they would rather he be alive than getting a slightly better view in the rally.
	So here's supporters, because in the first assassination attempt, two people died.
	Well, yes.
	Yeah, it keeps the supporters safer as well.
	Because if there's another one and there's... it misses against someone else.
	Well, two people died, including the shooter.
	So I don't think he was necessarily a supporter.
	Okay, yeah.
	I'm talking about James Copenhagen.
	Okay, but several other people were quite seriously wounded as well.
	That's true, yeah.
	I mean, bulletproof glass for political events.
	I think it was Obama that was the first one to do it.
	I remember hearing about it, like, 15 years ago, that they were putting Trump behind... sorry, Obama behind bulletproof glass.
	My reaction at the time was, well...
	Yes, I appreciate he's black, but he's not going to shoot anyone, surely.
	But, you know, then it kind of went away for a while.
	Biden clearly doesn't need any bulletproof glass when he goes anywhere because nobody turns up to his events anyway.
	Well, time's gonna do what an assassin would do anyway.
	Well, yes.
	Give it about five minutes.
	Yeah, it would have to be a very fast bullet to beat Old Father Time there.
	camel laugh doesn't do events at all um and and trump of course you know ditched it but has been forced to forced to have it back again um gates even though he sort of just dropped it into that interview having given that interview he then decided that he was really going to run with it and so he repeated this on other shows um he He mentioned it again on his Twitter feed as we saw here.
	He even mentioned it on his website.
	He wrote an article on his website saying that basically there are five teams, Ukrainians, Pakistanis and Iranians, as well as two domestic teams, that are hunting for Trump, which is a little bit worrying.
	After this came out, if you notice the date on this stuff, a couple of days later, because he really started to push this, a couple of days later, I found that if you put Matt Gaetz into a search engine and look at the News tab, you get dozens and dozens of variations of this article.
	Which popped up following this.
	So all of a sudden, loads of media organisations have dug out this story which dates back to 2017.
	So what's that?
	Seven years ago, apparently seven years ago, Mr Gates attended a party which included wild, drug and sex fuelled.
	I just googled it and yeah, all the articles are just... Yeah, and they all appeared two days ago, two days after he started making a fuss about this.
	It's almost like he's getting at something.
	When the media runs a smear job all at the same time, normally there's a common point of origin and which groups have that level of reach that all media outlets, left or right, all run the same story at the same time might potentially be The same organisation that did in wartime, which would be the intelligence agencies.
	Well, and the way that I found this, of course, is, you know, I didn't know about this story because it doesn't have any cut through.
	Because, I mean, and the interesting thing is when you read down to the bottom of this article, is it will say something along the lines of, um, the DOJ looked at the allegations and decided not to pursue them.
	Right, now the Department of Justice under Biden, and who's that awful guy who runs it?
	I forget now, but that wormy guy who runs it.
	They will go after a Republican for basically anything.
	So if even...
	if biden's department of justice is not touching this then whatever the allegation whatever the problem is here clearly it doesn't stand up to much well the thing is that if they did pursue that and he was found innocent they can't run with the story but if they don't investigate yes good point it's still able to stick a little bit isn't it yes yes quite um interestingly um jack so big um after hearing this um because i mean he he's got a background in military i think he was Naval intelligence or something, wasn't he?
	So big.
	I think.
	But he's been gathering information on this and he's saying that, you know, this story is entirely legit and he's gathering a lot of information on it himself.
	So, it's a new story, so I would imagine that in the next week or so, Sobik or others will be publishing more details on this.
	But, you know, I just think it's extraordinary that there were five teams hunting Trump, three of them run by foreign governments, one of which is supposed to be an ally of the United States, and, you know, you're learning about this for the first time on the Lotus Eaters and not the mainstream media, which is rather extraordinary.
	Now, why might you need five assassination teams?
	Well, this is the polling as it stands at the moment.
	I've used Nate Silver because apparently a lot of people think that he's good at this sort of stuff.
	I don't really have an opinion on that, but fine, okay, let's say he is.
	It's looking like a Trump solid win, maybe even landslide territory.
	Well there's not really much enthusiasm amongst the democratic base is there?
	I mean their best bet was leaving the border open so they can get lots of new Americans to vote for them but even so I think that what has happened to America following Biden assuming office has been a disaster and anyone who has a functioning pair of eyes and ears can tell that.
	Yes, but I mean, but this lead, if that's accurate, let's say the result comes in like that on election night, that leaves Kamala 44 electoral votes short.
	So that means that she's going to need to delay the count and cheat in Ohio, Georgia and Arizona.
	But she's not going to do that, is she?
	Dan?
	Oh, yes, sorry, we're on YouTube, so obviously, you know, America has completely Secure elections that you could never rig.
	To be fair, the mail-in voting push has gone right down.
	The requests for mail-in ballots are down like 85% from 2020.
	That seems like a change in the way things are going to go.
	That's what we can say.
	Yes, quite.
	But the open border is important, let's just say that as well.
	After, I think it was the second assassination attempt, Harris put out this tweet, I've been briefed on reports of gunshots fired near former President Trump and his property in Florida.
	I am glad he is safe.
	You're clearly not, are you?
	I mean, you're clearly not because you're going to lose to this man.
	Actually, I'll come back to that.
	Looking at the swing states, So these are the key swing states that she needs to sort of get over the line.
	Arizona with his 11 electoral college votes.
	Trump has a lead of 70%.
	He's got 70% of Arizona.
	Georgia is another one that Camelot is going to need.
	Trump 64%.
	North Carolina Trump is at 64% and you have to get all the way down to Pennsylvania where Trump is 50.5%.
	Now, Pennsylvania has got 20 electoral votes, but 50.5, that's cheetah...
	Sorry, YouTube, that is...
	What's the term?
	Fortifiable.
	That's fortifiable but it's only 20 votes and Nevada is 50.1 in favour of Trump and that's only got six electoral votes so it's going to be quite difficult to fortify.
	I'll end on this note because I think Scott Adams is exactly right on this.
	He says keeping Trump alive and fortification, including the lawyering, is the entire election and he's absolutely right.
	All the rest of it is basically decided at this point.
	How people are going to vote, you know, that's done.
	That's not an issue.
	We don't need to worry about that.
	It's purely keeping Trump alive and stopping the election being rigged.
	That's the whole game at this point.
	Right, I'll leave it there unless we've got any... Dear Lord, you're trying to get us kicked off of YouTube, aren't you?
	Well... Dan, come on!
	What did I say was wrong there?
	Thwarting election rigging.
	I thought it was alright.
	Bald Eagle says, the US Postal Service also said it would be impossible to deliver mail-in ballots in time to be counted for the presidential election.
	We'll just post them earlier then, if you want them to be counted.
	Cavill Knight says, Josh, don't insult yourself by calling yourself a journalist, you're above the rot.
	Why thank you.
	Scott Guy says, this, as Dan pointed out in a segment before, is sarcastic terrorism.
	They've made Trump such an ultimate evil that people feel this is okay.
	Yeah, but we got we got professional state-level actors doing it now apparently Sean says Thoughts would mention homeland security had all FBI CIA and Secret Service Do anti-trump questionnaires to be hired look it up.
	It's true.
	Oh, okay Blimey, that's not good and bald eagle says the CIA is gonna pin any successful attempt on Iran Yes, absolutely, right.
	There's a way to distract people.
	Yep Yep.
	Yep.
	Agree with that.
	Right.
	Other commentary, shall we go to?
	The chat is actually pointing out something true, that YouTube is supposedly less worried about accusations of rigging the election this time round, which suggests to me that they're using other means.
	Yeah.
	Oh no, I've read YouTube guidelines.
	They don't have an issue with you talking about rigging in the US.
	It's only Germany and Brazil at the moment they have an issue with.
	Which suggests that Germany and Brazil... Were rigged, yes.
	But we're not on YouTube now, so I can say it now.
	Right, let's go to the video comments.
	We can't hear them.
	or Scotty is very quiet. - In the horror podcast, the Magnus Archives, the antagonist is an unknowable cosmic horror which feeds on fear and is divided into 14 aspects, each broad facet of fear, including the stranger, fear of the uncanny, and the spiral, fear of the mind and senses being deceived.
	These are unequivocally the villains, and why is the stranger felt triune path to have?
	Okay, that's obviously silly.
	I can't imagine many trans people look at the monsters and think, that mentally handicapped, deceitful, murderous freak is literally me.
	The monster of the spiral is low-key literally me, lol.
	Why do they literally always identify with evil?
	It's like them trying to humanise the orcs in the New Rings of Power series, isn't it?
	So, two things.
	Good point.
	Second of all, please don't do voices again.
	Slightly disturbing.
	I didn't expect it.
	But no, thanks for the video comment.
	This one doesn't have any sound.
	Oh, it doesn't have any sound.
	Oh, but it's lovely.
	Silent cows.
	Who is it from?
	Texas Gal.
	That cow's got a straw in its mouth, that's an extra country cow.
	Yes.
	Just needs a little straw hat as well.
	Well that is true.
	I enjoyed that.
	I like cows, they taste delicious.
	Well on the subject of P. Diddy, much as I like the idea of perverts or rapists and nonces being sent to prison to enjoy both full dance cards and full orifices, Does anyone find it odd that the diddler has been doing this for years in a career field known for this sort of activity?
	Is this a warning shot to others who might try to leave the leftist plantation?
	Keep in mind that LBJ, the president, not the Mexican blowjob, famously said, I'll have those voting Democrat for the next 100 years.
	Well, I think it's interesting that P. Diddy used the same method that Jeffrey Epstein used in recording his blackmail victims and we've not seen any of the clips from Epstein.
	I'm very, very, very interested to see if any of the footage from the P. Diddy stuff is going to be exposed because I get the impression that P. Diddy's a lower rung of the ladder than Epstein was in this.
	Pedophile ring that seems to be connected because there are overlapping people in both.
	I'm just looking up that Mexican blowjob that you referred to because I've not heard of that before.
	Carry on.
	Alright guys, listen to these cameras.
	This is my digital camera.
	Pretty loud.
	Here is my film camera.
	I got this for that reason, and also because it doesn't require any electricity to function in its film.
	And the reason I got that is because I wanted to hunt skinwalkers, and as we know paranormal things tend to drain batteries.
	This doesn't require it.
	I'm sane.
	Well, I look forward to your video comment when you've got a horrible monstrous skinwalker just like here.
	What is a skinwalker?
	It's a sort of modern American myth that it's like a creature or a monster that takes the form of things.
	I think so, anyway.
	Shapeshifter.
	Yeah, it's a type of harmful creature in Navajo culture that can change into, possess or disguise themselves as animals.
	There you go.
	It's not the same thing as a streetwalker, then?
	Well, that's a crime in America, isn't it?
	A jaywalker.
	But these are legal?
	I think they're monsters, so... There's no legislation on them, I'm afraid.
	Alright, fine.
	Okay.
	Is that all the video comments, Samson?
	Okay, we're on to... Oh, we've got some other comments as well.
	Cycle for prayers, Congress election, Keck level info, tomorrow for the UK going to be on what are the odds episode on people pundit rum channel.
	There are lots of sentence fragments there but I get the gist of what you're saying.
	If the Democrats get the House reps they have already have a plan to disqualify Trump and prevent him from taking office.
	Ratskin states it on a podcast.
	House races need to be looked at heavily, that's true as well.
	You know, getting the presidency is only one part of it, right?
	You also want the legislature as well, otherwise you're not going to be able to do very much.
	Right, we've got some comments.
	There are some general ones.
	Nicholas Valentine says, was at a citizenship ceremony today for my missus.
	She's really pleased and proud to be a British citizen.
	No joke.
	One of the oaths she has to make mentions upholding freedom of speech and upholding people's right to an opinion.
	Yes it does indeed.
	Stuart Beresford, you can read this one, Stelios.
	Stelios looks the best well-dressed, waiting for the cheque.
	Yes, it does indeed.
	Stuart Beresford, you can read this one, Stelios.
	Stelios looks the best well-dressed, waiting for the cheque.
	Yeah, you've got to pay him now.
	Compliments don't count as donations.
	He's waiting for the cheque, Stelios.
	And a Stelios always pays his debts.
	Always.
	David Farugia says, I'm predicting lots of wet knickers... Hang on, hang on, hang on.
	Thank you, David, but maybe we shouldn't read that one.
	But it's complimenting you, Dan.
	Well, yes.
	I mean, it's true.
	It's going to make us feel bad.
	Dan's just considerate of our feelings.
	That's what it is.
	So for the corruption, Kevin Fox says, if you think Keir and Labour's popularity has dropped now, wait until the budget and watch it plummet to the seventh ring of hell.
	That's where they belong.
	Sophie Lives says, this is just the government going.
	We investigated ourselves and found no corruption, isn't it?
	And when they do find corruption, conveniently, it's from their political enemies that is actually calling them out for their corruption.
	Yes.
	Basically what your segment showed is that in those countries the current ruling elite is aligned with the media.
	Mm-hmm.
	Funny that.
	Should we go to your comments, Stelios?
	Yeah.
	There are many today.
	So Lancelot says that's perfect irony right there.
	The French keeping the lights on in Germany.
	Maria Manzi says German greens have since the 1980s been the founding of the description melons.
	Green on the outside, red on the inside.
	I was posted.
	Yes, because they're just so leftist.
	Just they hate society.
	I was posted in the military to Berlin for two and a bit years, two and a bit years in the early 80s where I saw this firsthand.
	Yeah, so it's just they're just communists, I think.
	I might go back to some of the comments here, because I did skip over a fair few.
	So the Wigan Survivalist says, as someone who works in financial services, I can confirm with Dan that we cannot accept gifts under any circumstance.
	Which is true!
	I mean I did, but...
	Don't say that!
	And Fauxpas says, VIP suites at football games or other events may provide a convenient place to coordinate further favours under the cover of a leisurely outing.
	Hence why the nature of the event might not matter at all.
	Yeah, Keir Starmer is really into his football otherwise, isn't he?
	Do you want to read some of your assassination comments?
	Yes.
	Bleach Demon says, the attempts on Trump are like trying to spark a lighter inside a room full of petrol.
	More than just singed eyebrows will result.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I mean, they managed to get away with stealing an election last time.
	When people turned up to protest, they just threw them all in jail and the right just accepted it.
	So, I honestly don't know what would happen if they did assassinate Trump.
	I think they might actually get away with it.
	I don't know.
	Well, I think it'll be one of those ones, just like, there'll be, if it does happen, there'll be a guy who's a lone wolf, and we have no idea.
	Yeah, I would investigate, and sort of just bury it, and you know... We investigated ourselves and found ourselves innocent.
	Yeah, you know how the investigations go.
	I mean, we still don't know anything about that kid from the first one, do we?
	Apart from the fact that he was the only 17-year-old in the world to not have a social media account, or to ever post it online.
	What do we know about the Las Vegas shooting?
	I mean, all of these.
	There are plenty of questions to be asked about lots of things.
	Yes, they all just sort of disappear.
	RB says, have you all seen anything about the apparent chemical gas attack at the Trump rally over the weekend?
	People near the stage had symptoms such as temporary blindness, difficulty breathing and skin irritation.
	No, I haven't heard about that.
	I haven't heard about that, no.
	I was a bit unplugged from the news over the weekend.
	The reason that's interesting is because there are methods of assassination where you can give binary compounds to people over two exposures that only kill you if you've been exposed twice.
	so you you couldn't yeah here we go suspected chemical attack leaves trump supporters with mysterious eye injuries it's not impossible that that was stage one of a multi-stage toxin so that they can only get people who were present at both the first and the second event whenever the second event is and the second event could be him Um, you know, handshaking a guy with a compound on his hand or, you know, being handed a folder.
	You only need to look at what was done to try and kill Castro.
	I mean, exploding cigars and all sorts of things.
	Well, yeah, but they didn't have a fraction of the options they got these days.
	Oh, yeah, I mean, if you're an intelligence agency trying to kill someone, you're a sport for choice, aren't you?
	There are so many different ways that they can kill someone and make it look like natural causes and Trump being quite an old man, you know, they could say, well, What if he suddenly had a heart attack?
	And if they really need to, shoot down his plane.
	there's lots of ways they can go after him um rb says have you all seen anything about the apparent oh that was the yeah that was a hector x says the donald deadpool has started um a AZ Desert Raz says, Why would the would-be assassin cross the southern border?
	Because it's easy.
	Yes, fair enough.
	George Happ says, Assassination Team A, that sounds pretty official, with three-letter agencies are arresting people for having Lego sets.
	Well, they did, didn't they? - Mm.
	But they can't, or more accurately, don't want to stop organised assassinations.
	Trump should rely on private security.
	Yeah, that's the thing.
	It's like, I think Eric Prince of Blackwater has offered to provide the security.
	I'm not quite sure why he wouldn't.
	I mean, I think he's probably got a first-rate security team himself.
	But I hope he's making full use of it.
	I think he should just bolster his ranks, even if it's ever so briefly in the run-up to the election.
	with donations you can afford the cost of that I mean having to do it yourself is PR in and of itself and worth the value purely based on the PR if it also means he actually makes it to the election then even better because of course he's saying look at what the the state is doing to me I'm having to pay for my own security to stay safe That would be excellent PR and I'm surprised he hasn't done it.
	I'd imagine there's advantages to having the secret services there because presumably they get access to the private security.
	That's true, yeah.
	They're legally allowed to do certain things that private security might not, I think.
	That's my understanding of it, anyway.
	I've not looked into it in great detail.
	But there is a rumble thing to end on.
	That one is for your segment, I believe.
	If they do manage to pew pew Trump, I think it will be peak demoralisation followed by a new character who will be far more intense than Trump, similar to Caesar showing up after others.
	Sula, presumably.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I mean, that could be it.
	I mean, Trump is actually quite moderate.
	Yeah, there could be a lot more fire and brimstone.
	The millennial version of Trump will not be anywhere near as constrained as Trump is.
	That's true.
	And what a point to end the podcast on.

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