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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1023

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	After the roaring success of our UK election coverage, we are indeed doing another massive Loaded Seaters livestream to cover the US elections on Tuesday 5th November.
	We will have a giant roster of guests, both in the studio and remotely via Zoom, and we will be livestreaming on Rumble, so we'll be able to say exactly what we think, no holds barred.
	Do tune in, it's going to be great, and hopefully we'll be ringing in Trump's second term, or perhaps we'll be having a massive meltdown, who knows what the future holds.
	See you then. Oh hello everyone!
	Welcome to the podcast of The Lotus Caesars for the 16th of October 2024.
	My how this year has flown.
	Very exciting prospects to be covering the November election.
	We'll all be there and hopefully we don't call in the rig live.
	We're not on YouTube at the moment so I can say that.
	I am your host Connor, joined by Harry and Beau.
	And speaking of American politics, we'll be discussing Kamala's October surprise, how she seemingly plagiarised her own book, how the bookies are backing Trump, nice white pill segment from Beau there, and how BLM's brand new Marta has fallen flat, something I'm looking forward to.
	Very good. Can I just make one small point?
	If you're on British time, we're probably starting at midnight on the 5th, so it's basically the morning of the 6th.
	So if you're in America, we'll be starting late at night on the 5th.
	On that promo, Kyle Carter said it's just on the 5th.
	Well, if you're in Britain or British time, it's actually, it'll really be the small hours of the 6th, really.
	So just a small point. You can at least sit in the pre-queue at like half 11 and be in chat.
	And, you know, send in all your super chats so we can read it out because that keeps the lights on because we're not monetised and all that.
	Before we do start...
	I think you've misplaced your fedora somewhere, but...
	Yeah, sorry, yeah. Actually...
	Yeah, before we do start, it's a Wednesday, so 3 o'clock, it's going to be my show, Tomlinson Talks.
	I'll be going over the Conservative Party Conference, the Leadership Contest, because even some among the Lotus Eaters over the years have got some delusions about Kemi Badenock.
	I think we're free of them these days.
	Yeah, it's taken a long time.
	I'm going to go through exactly the reasons why she certainly isn't the heir apparent to the right, and why she basically sings from the hymn sheet of race communists.
	But anyway, if you're a low-seat subscriber, you can go and do that.
	But without further ado...
	Let's jump into today's news.
	So, the October surprise has arrived for Kamala Harris because it turns out that people bothered to read her dreadful 2009 book and went, oh hang on a minute, you've stolen stories from Martin Luther King and Wikipedia.
	What, really? Really.
	Wait, she can write? Dictate.
	As we've learned in the public sphere, most people don't write their own books, and Kamala Harris is certainly one of them.
	Not just did she not even bother dictating it, but whoever ghostwrote her book for her just copied and pasted from Wikipedia, a bit like Rachel Reeves actually did recently.
	What was Kamala Harris doing in 2009 which warranted her to write a book?
	California Prosecutor.
	Oh, that was, oh yeah. I believe this book was called Smart on Crime.
	The irony is, of course, that Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris, however you blimmin' say it, kept people in prison long beyond evidence that exonerated them, that put them on either death row, or kept them past their prison sentence because she wanted to use them as slave labour for the volunteer firefighter brigade in California, and also locked people up for marijuana violations, which I don't really care about, but then bragged about smoking weed during the 2020 presidential cycle because she wanted to ingratiate herself with black Americans.
	So she broke her own laws and then laughed about it.
	She wanted to be cool.
	Yeah, America's why not, ladies and gentlemen.
	Right, so we'll start off with the most headline-grabbing absurd claim and then get into the rest of them because this is actually a little bit of old news because Steven Crowder has mentioned this for a long time but nobody's really picked up on it till now because, let's be frank, Harris wasn't really that relevant.
	But it turns out that the multiple passages in her book, Smart on Crime, a career prosecutor's plan to make us safer, while also bailing out BLM rioters, were lifted from Wikipedia and other sources without attribution, according to Stefan Weber, who's an Austrian academic and dubbed a plagiarism hunter.
	He's done a massive 49-page report on this, so there's lots of examples.
	But one of the funniest ones...
	Among the examples from content from Wikipedia and an Associated Press story from 2008 is a story in which the now Democrat candidate for president wrote, quote, How adorable.
	She's been a civil rights champion since she was in the stroller.
	Got a bad taste in my mouth just on the surface of it, let alone if it's plagiarised.
	That's amazing. Theatre kids all the way down throughout government.
	This is just like what I said with David Lammy's speech.
	They really do think that they are the primary character in a big Hollywood drama.
	Yeah, well... She's like Forrest Gump in more ways than one.
	This is peak ethno-narcissism, of course, because she never thought that she'd be caught out for this.
	But she's trying to ingratiate herself in the civil rights tradition.
	I would have argued she should have done it a bit more subtle than literally just ripping off Martin Luther King.
	Because this is a story from his Playboy magazine interview in 1965.
	And the quote goes, I will never forget a moment in Birmingham, Alabama, when a white policeman accosted a little Negro girl, this is his word, not mine, seven or eight years old, who was walking in a demonstration with her mother.
	What do you want? The policeman asked her gruffly.
	And the little girl looked him straight in the eye and answered, feed them.
	Now, unless Kamala Harris magically aged up one or two years to be seven or eight...
	About seven years, actually.
	Yeah. And then also, was in Birmingham, Alabama for no reason, and talking to Martin Luther King rather than her own mother, this is bollocks.
	The answer is obvious, Connor.
	We all know it exists.
	We all hear about it constantly.
	Black girl magic. True.
	Yes. Yes. Yes, absolutely.
	The power of joy allows her to travel through time or something.
	Anyway, what isn't publicised in this is the full findings of other blatant plagiarism which has been catalogued by Claimer of Scalp's Chris Rufo.
	And I bring up Chris Rufo because do we all remember what Chris Rufo was doing at the start of this year?
	Anyone remember Claudine Gay?
	Oh yeah, I was about to say if she was the head of Harvard or a similar educational institution, she would be fired.
	Yeah, well, former head of Harvard, now, Claudine Gay, got ousted because Griff Ruffo publicised how her doctoral thesis and various other articles were riddled with about 50 instances of plagiarism.
	Quite like Martin Luther King himself, actually.
	Ironically, yeah. Again, Reverend Martin Luther King denying the incarnation of Christ on the up and up.
	I suppose we should judge Claudine Gay, Kamala Harris, and Martin Luther King by the content of their character, and given he was party to rape, I would find it wanting.
	Anyway, so these appeared in eight of her works, this is according to far-right outlet The Washington Post, a 1993 essay in the magazine Origins, her dissertation from 1997, a 2001 working paper, and five articles she published while a professor at Stanford and Harvard, so 11 journal publications across her career.
	In some cases, Gay took verbatim wording, ranging from sentences and entire paragraphs from academics that she cited, but without placing that text in quotation marks.
	Or with citations. In other examples, she appears to have paraphrased or lightly modified the text she drew on without citing the source in the same paragraph.
	Basically, she just copy-pasted and didn't attribute properly.
	That's really bad. I mean, I'm not an academic, but I have got a postgraduate in a humanities, a master's degree in a humanities subject.
	And it's really bad.
	That's really quite bad.
	You can't do that. It's straight up sort of lying.
	It's cheating, really.
	This is free software to catch it as well.
	Yeah, this guy, what's his name?
	Chris? Claudine Gay.
	No, no, the guy. Oh, Chris Ruffo.
	Chris Ruffo. He's doing good work.
	That's a cool thing he's doing.
	And call these people out for it, because it's easy enough to put it in quotations or put a citation, but to claim it's your own.
	Yeah, but what I was going to say to you is that it's actually really easy not to plagiarise people.
	Yeah, right, yeah. It's the easiest thing in the world.
	You've done all of the work in reading the book that you're taking from, so quotation marks, a little citation note, boom.
	Easy. Yeah, yeah. Because there's different levels of copying, plagiarising, there's different sort of degrees of it, aren't there?
	But the outright verbatim paragraphs, there's no excuse.
	Because everyone sort of copies from everyone else in a way, in all sorts of ways.
	Sometimes you can't avoid it.
	Sometimes you come to the same conclusion as someone else legitimately.
	Sometimes you'll basically take someone else's words and just quote them.
	There's all different degrees of how severe it is.
	An easy one is if you're just referring to an actual factual matter, a matter of factual history, then if somebody's put it really well, then yeah, you'll take some of the wording from that, but also you should probably attribute it anyway.
	Right, yeah, yeah. Or if you can, if you just, you've read something that you completely agree with, and you essentially rewrite it, okay, that's a form of plagiarism light, in a way, but you can't really stop people from doing that exactly.
	But if you take verbatim whole sentences or paragraphs, there's no excuse for that.
	There's no, that's straight up cheating.
	Have you considered, as the Associated Press have, who Kamala Harris has later ripped off, They've just called any accusations of plagiarism a weapon by conservatives.
	Is it? Standards.
	Is it? Accurate citations.
	Humility. The latest conservative weapon.
	Honesty being a right-wing weapon.
	True, actually, if you look at Jonathan Height's moral foundations.
	Anyway, the reason I bring this up is because, as you've said, lifting entire paragraphs is a bit blatant, right?
	The potential next president of the United States wouldn't have done that.
	Oh dear. Well, Chris Rufo's got a thread and he just keeps posting all of these new examples.
	Here's a pretty egregious one from the Associated Press.
	So, Harris's book reads, In Detroit's public schools, only 25% of students who enrolled in grade 9 graduated from high school, while 30.5% graduated in Indianapolis public schools, and 34% received diplomas in the Cleveland Municipal School District.
	And then it goes on, and you see that exact text replicated minus a couple of percentage point stats in the Associated Press article.
	Again, this is what I was just referring to.
	There are facts and figures and statistics and historical events that sometimes, yeah, you'll take what somebody else has said about them because they've put it better than you can word it right now.
	But you still source it.
	You still cite it when you do that.
	And if it was one, fair enough.
	That looks like, that's so funny.
	They've literally cut, paste, and delete the point nine and the point one.
	And think they'll get away with it.
	If I add, like, five words in between the sentences, they won't notice.
	Yeah. And again... I mean, again, I went to university, and you did as well.
	They have technology.
	There are programs that you can just put an entire essay in, or an entire book, and within five minutes it will tell you everything that has been taken and lifted and not cited properly, and where it was taken from as well.
	It's remarkable how accurate they can be.
	And if it was just one example, fair enough.
	If she was just starting one study, fair enough.
	If she lifted literally the entire page of a book and just added the word additional.
	That's the same thing.
	That's amazing. That's unbelievable.
	Just additional. No one will know!
	And it just keeps going.
	I mean, here's Wikipedia, for example.
	My favourite source of information.
	Oh my god. It's laughable.
	At least here she took out in order.
	So it was a removal rather than an addition this time.
	Clever, clever. She was keeping them looking, keeping them on their toes.
	We can laugh about this.
	This is the potential next vice president of the United States.
	Sorry, president of the United States.
	Current vice president. Basically de facto president because Joe Biden doesn't know where he is.
	I don't think Kamala Harris is in charge of the country.
	Well, fair point. But she does have a disproportionate amount of say, and is at some of the most important meetings with world leaders.
	Well, yes, yes. And America, at least, is meant to maintain its global empire, and this person's in charge.
	Someone who couldn't even rip off Wikipedia.
	One, it's just obviously dishonest.
	And two, it does say, doesn't it?
	It suggests that you're incapable of coming up with your own words.
	Everything I've written, I can say that is just completely original.
	The closest I ever came to it is in one article I wrote about space.
	I've done a few on space. I peppered the first half or so of my article with two or three or very small quotes from Carl Sagan.
	Then later in the article I said, if anyone hasn't noticed, I've been plagiarising Carl Sagan throughout this article.
	It's not... Difficult is, right, it's not difficult.
	If you just do that and pretend it's your words, It speaks to a profound insecurity about your own intellect.
	Yeah, or that you don't have one.
	Look, there's good offhand phrases that, for example, my deprogrammed co-host, Harrison Pitter, sometimes said, and I'm not just going to nick them for my own.
	It's very easy to just go, as Harrison would often say.
	Or the other day on the podcast when there was a criticism about Hope Not Hate, you just reflexively, because you're a humble man, Beau, just said, oh yeah, Connor's done a good breakdown of Hope Not Hate.
	You didn't try and pass the knowledge off as your own.
	That would be weird. To a normal person, a normal truthful person, that would be weird.
	Bo sits there and goes, well actually, recently I've done an amazing analysis of hope, not hate.
	Check it out on the website.
	I've got Connor to read it for me.
	I did all the work on a merely Reddit.
	So Rufo, at the end of this thread, he links to his substack and he's got more examples here.
	And you think, okay, right, this is the bombshell.
	And then it just keeps going.
	He just keeps posting new ones.
	I mean, for example, she's just ripped off Goodwill here.
	Just completely, almost word for word, just taking out more than she's actually kept in her book.
	She's ripping off a discount clothing shop, right?
	What's Goodwill? It's basically a charity store from...
	Oh, okay, right. Right, okay.
	So I suppose that she's, I don't know, had the words donated to her or something.
	Here's another one from the California government website.
	Which she was working for at the time, but there you go.
	Alright. And here's one from the CDC, who haven't exactly got the best reputation these days.
	But yeah, again, zero citations.
	Just passing this off as research that she herself has done, clearly.
	So then the publisher...
	Did a bit of a boo-boo. Because Rufo's been releasing all this, and they accidentally copied in his team to an internal email exchange.
	And it says, regarding publicity for the book, per Laura Hoffman, VP Executive Director of Marketing and Publicity for Chronicle Books, please do not respond or comment on any inquiries regarding Smart on Crime, and please continue to follow them directly to me.
	So they're in proper damage control mode.
	Because they failed to vet this during the editing process.
	Instead, of course, they allow the corporate press to act as their attack doc with absurd headlines like the following.
	Conservative activist seizes on passages from Harris's book in the New York Times.
	Conservatives noticing, pouncing, as Ben Shapiro once said, is the problem, rather than just blatant plagiarism from the presidential candidate that the New York Times is probably going to endorse.
	Also, I've just checked, you can still get her book on Amazon, on the Kindle version.
	She has another book from 2020 called The Truths We Hold, and I think that might warrant a similar comb through.
	I think it's probably light on said truths.
	Let's be fair.
	It used to be the case, I mean even in my lifetime, that if you were caught out doing plagiarism, you were sort of done in the public eye, you were thought of as a shyster.
	It's like if you're just caught out lying, for example, or just getting things consistently wrong, like Rachel Maddow or something, if you were caught doing that, Well, you've gotten very close.
	You've gotten very close to the defence.
	What other defence do they usually use to obfuscate criticism like this?
	Any takers? Bingo!
	I'm guessing that on that Harvard chart or whatever it was, the Smithsonian chart of whiteness honesty is on there.
	Citations. White people are known for citing their sources.
	So she was actually, this was a rebellious act of blackness.
	Yeah, quite. I'm sure the New York Times will be speaking that.
	Or Indian-ness. We're still not sure.
	Any day now. So I'm just going to read a couple of paragraphs from this because they're absurd.
	Chris Rufo is part of a loose confederation of conservative writers and activists who, during the past year, have tried to expose plagiarism among academics, many of whom have been black scholars...
	Who work in the field of diversity and inclusion.
	This is like if he was a police officer trying to stop domestic violence and it just happened that most of them were committing it were black or something.
	Just stop making the job easier, I suppose, by literally putting diversity hires as your brand ambassadors.
	The passages called into question by Mr.
	Rufo on his Substack platform involve about 500 words in the approximately 65,000-word, 200-page book.
	We will get back to that shortly because, as you've seen by the screenshots, Doesn't seem plausible that it's that few number of words.
	Jonathan Bailey, they've called him an expert here, a plagiarism consultant in New Orleans and the publisher of Plagiarism Today, said on Monday that his initial reaction to Mr Rufo's claims was that the errors were not serious given the size of the document.
	Quote, This amount of plagiarism amounts to an error and not an intent to defraud, he said, adding Mr Rufo had taken a relatively minor citation mistake in a large amount of text and tried to make a big deal out of it.
	But there were pages and pages and pages and pages of it, by the looks of it.
	How weird the Times wouldn't present this to their expert.
	But we've at least reached the stage of, we've gone from, it's not happening, to, well, it might be happening, but it's barely happening, and how does this affect you personally?
	We're at stage two. We haven't got to It's a Good Thing yet.
	So even if it was only the one page, it's still...
	I mean, you just don't do that.
	You don't do that. I can think of a black scholar who cites everything he writes, which is Thomas Sowell, because that man can't go a single bloody page without citing 15 different sources.
	Probably because he knows, well, I don't want to be dishonest, do I? What about Larry Elder, who's written essentially an autobiography of both him and his father and their correspondents.
	The story's very compelling. He was one of the people that was involved in, let's say, my red-pilling.
	He didn't need to rip off stories from Martin Luther King to sound interesting.
	Funny, that, isn't it? If it's 500 words out of 60,000, 70,000, that's still way too many.
	You could write 200,000 words, and if there's like 12 words in a row, that's not cool.
	Especially if you're trying to be President of the United States.
	I think the qualifications bar should be pretty high there.
	So Rufo just went, someone hang this in the Louvre, because obviously...
	They're saying, I seized upon obvious plagiarism and therefore it's racist.
	But then Ruffo provides some evidence that the New York Times, well he says they're lying, let's say have been misrepresenting truths.
	So the claims in here, as he's got with screenshots and emails to send over to people to investigate this, The New York Times, quote, You can't make 49 pages at 500 words.
	So that doesn't sound right.
	Quote, The Times claims that none of the passages in question took the ideas or thoughts of another writer.
	This is preposterous.
	Harris not only copied multiple paragraphs of other people's work verbatim, but she often lifted those ideas directly and at face value.
	In one case, she came to the wrong conclusion because she copied Wikipedia.
	So, she contradicted herself because she just lifted a quote straight from Wikipedia and didn't check it.
	Throbbing brain on that Vice President.
	The Times also covered less severe examples of plagiarism than Rufo himself cited, omitting the ones that he himself has posted to X, and probably will continue to post at the time that this goes up.
	And he just said, flashback to the time that The Times, the corporate press vanguard, ran cover for Claudine Gay immediately after he published that, and look at how it ended for her career.
	But then quite interesting, the same pattern has followed.
	The New York Times defends the person in question, pressure keeps going, and then of all places, CNN then decides to say, well, yeah, there is some legitimacy to this.
	Because that's what happened with Gay, and that's now what's happened with Harris.
	Quote from CNN, Plagiarised works include using someone else's work without giving them proper or appropriate credit for their ideas and words.
	Even if the source of the information is cited, it is still considered plagiarism if the ideas are not paraphrased or quoted in the correct place experts told CNN late last year.
	CNN reviewed several of the passages highlighted by Rufo and found that Harris and O.C. Hamilton failed to properly attribute language to sources.
	So, the corporate press have started throwing Harris under the bus.
	Experts told CNN. You mean any undergrad?
	An expert? What do you mean?
	Anyone who's got an A-level?
	Or eyes. Yeah.
	Or anybody who literally just has access to the fact-checking software that universities provide.
	Well, as we've learned recently, Harry doesn't even have basic reading comprehension, and even he can see it, so...
	There you go, see? Fantastic.
	So, one final thing.
	As you've pointed out, well, plagiarism should disqualify you from any position in public life, let alone being vice president or president.
	So someone has pointed out, isn't it brilliantly ironic that Kamala Harris could be caught in a plagiarism scandal when this is exactly what happened to Joe Biden in 1988?
	He dropped out of running for president because he stole speeches and life details from Neil Kinnock.
	Really? I didn't know that one.
	He tried to steal life details from it.
	He did. He was born in Wales.
	He lifted full-on details from Neil Kinnock.
	As an Irish Catholic Welshman, I, Joe Biden.
	So, just to conclude, fun October surprise this is, it'll keep unfolding, I'm sure we'll bring you updates, but Kamala Harris is a vapid moron who's grifted her way into the second highest office in the land.
	Don't let her get to the highest office.
	And with that, we've got one rumble rant.
	Thank you very much from Mason Royce.
	Funnily enough, as I mentioned, Biden's 1988 presidential campaign was ironically undone by a plagiarism scandal, and that was just a speech lifted from a British opposition leader.
	Also, the machinator, keep fighting the good fight, gents, at the machinator for $10.
	So thank you very much for 15 quid, gents.
	I would just say, if I was ever caught doing plagiarism, well, I would never do it because of how appallingly...
	I'm going to have to run all of your articles and writing through the plagiarism thing there.
	I invite anyone to do that, it's fine.
	I did not plagiarise that Wikipedia article.
	Because there's certain things...
	That would just be so embarrassing if you were caught doing it.
	That's why you would never do it.
	Or one of the main reasons why you'd never do it, other than it just being dishonest.
	But being caught out doing plagiarism or something, or being terribly, terribly wrong over and over again, even though it was shown that you knew you were wrong.
	Anything like that. I don't know how people carry on.
	I don't know how Rachel Maddow carries on.
	I don't know how Joe Biden carried on after that in 1988.
	How do you carry on? Rachel Reeves is currently Chancellor, despite admitting to lifting loads of her book from Wikipedia.
	They're politicians and they are political actors.
	Shameless. And therefore, dishonesty is kind of genetic in them.
	I say, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
	But just shameless. Just pretending you haven't been shamed.
	Well, anyway. Alright, so let's talk about the Donald again, because it is election time.
	We're going to do even more segments than usual about the Donald.
	And, well, all aboard the Trump train, right, guys?
	Did you just put something on your head?
	I can't see anything.
	Yeah, yeah. Bo's going hunting after this one.
	Someone was kind enough, when I put the MAGA hat on the other week and mentioned it was actually Coles, someone very kindly, Andrew, I won't give his full name in case he doesn't want to be outed, someone called Andrew sent me a couple of caps, including this one.
	So... Send in some dark MAGA caps for us.
	We do have a P.O. box, so if you do want to send in things before the election stream, I'd say get on it now.
	It's on our website. If you want to send any cheeseburgers in, we've got the P.O. box for them.
	For Rory to eat in full costume again.
	Or he becomes America Man.
	So, talking all about Trump and his likelihood of winning.
	It's only like 20 days, isn't it?
	22 days, something like that, until it's actually upon us.
	So, well, it's good news, everybody!
	Because it looks like, well the bookies are saying, that's got to get clipped, isn't it?
	Me saying that in that voice wearing this hat.
	Hello, Lotcies out of context.
	Cheers. That's going to be the opening of the next one.
	The bookies are showing that Trump has got a big surge and they should know.
	I'll take this off as stupid. It's a great cap, but I'm not going to wear it for the whole segment.
	That'd be silly. The bookies are showing that Trump has had a big surge after a few things.
	Basically, it looks like, well, Kamala is...
	she's not a great candidate, apart from being kind of dumb and not fluid.
	Uncharismatic. Uncharismatic.
	Sorry, are you listening to her virtues or...?
	She's annoying, shrill laugh.
	I said during the debate that what America gets if they vote for her is they get the nagging woman president.
	Yeah. A brat.
	And nobody wants the nagging bratwoman president, except for other nagging women.
	Now, assuming that it isn't just completely fortified out of all recognition, let's just assume that for a moment, for a big part of this segment, assuming that things are legit, at least largely.
	Looks like Trump, well, according to the bookies, should...
	Should win.
	So, for example, on this first one, Betfair is just saying that it's sort of got a 56% chance of winning, although his odds are better than they were in 2016 and 2020.
	Although in 2016, even the bookies were saying Hillary's got it sewn up.
	And in 2020, even the bookies were saying it would be close, but nonetheless.
	Now, just to talk about normal poles versus what bookies say and show.
	They're two very, very different beasts, really, aren't they?
	One has been politicised.
	There's no way around it.
	Their goal is, one way or another, even if they're trying desperately to be objective or impartial, they find it difficult too.
	Whereas a book is, all they care about is money.
	All they care about is winning the most money off the punters.
	Polls are often not just designed to register public opinion, but to shape public opinion.
	And also, even if they're trying to be objective, as you say, a lot of the shy Trump voters will not admit over the phone with all their details attached to voting Trump.
	And it also doesn't account for on the day the people that will go in and go, oh to hell with it, flip the lever for Trump.
	When people have got to put money on it, money's where their mouth is.
	But this is the weird thing about polling is that you always hear that, oh well, the Democrats' internal polls don't look good.
	So there's just an outright admission that there's the polls that the public sees, which are for public eyes, and there's the actual, real polls that the party's looking at.
	So why would I trust the one that you're showing me?
	Because we, or nearly anyone really that hasn't actually got a dog in the game just wants to know what the closest thing to reality is.
	Right? That's all we really want.
	We may be partisan towards Trump, but I still just want to know what's really happening.
	I still just want the clearest view possible.
	So if you go to the next one, OddsChecker, OddsChecker is also saying that Trump is surging ahead in the polls a bit.
	Since the year 2000, since George Bush, nearly all the states always go the way people think they will.
	35 out of the 50-odd states always go the same way.
	They're firmly red or blue.
	So that only leaves 15-odd, and half of those are fairly predictable anyway.
	The five key swing states, if I can remember, are Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and then there's one...
	Could you scroll up slightly on this?
	In this election, they reckon it's Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, and North Carolina.
	North Carolina's in play, that's surprising.
	Yeah, because what everyone thinks are going to be swing states do change a little bit, but the ones like Michigan and Georgia, Pennsylvania, are nearly always, or in my memory, are always, particularly Michigan.
	I remember in 2016, when I was watching 2016, and Michigan was sort of formally went for Trump.
	I was like, oh! Because everyone was saying, Hillary's got this wrapped up.
	99% it's a Clinton win.
	But when Michigan went to Trump, in my mind I was like, we have a game!
	The game is afoot! But we immediately started sawing.
	It's amazing that Minnesota has disappeared from that map because that is the tacit admission that mass demographic change has taken it off the playing board.
	All the Somalis would just vote Democrat.
	Could well be. Almost certainly is the case.
	Pardon me. Okay, so some people are saying that all those seven swing states, key battleground states, Looking like they might all go Trump, and if they do, then that's the whole shebang, that's the whole ballgame right there.
	If it does, if it isn't fortified out of all recognition.
	So if we go to a Fox clip, can we actually play this?
	I'd like to play just about a minute, maybe two of this.
	All right, Carlos Harris says Trump, it is Trump who is hiding from voters because he rejected a debate and a 60 Minutes interview.
	You've got to see this, roll it.
	It makes you wonder, why does his staff want him to hide away?
	I don't.
	What are you talking about? One last question.
	One last question.
	Are they afraid that people will see that he is too weak and unstable to lead America?
	Is that what's going on?
	Sorry folks, we're here for laughing, but weak and unstable Donald Trump?
	National Press Secretary, Trump 2024.
	Okay, you don't need to play anymore.
	Just the classic thing of accusing your opponent of doing the exact thing you're doing.
	But also, like, okay, so he's the precipice of overthrowing all of American democracy and installing himself as a dictator in a thousand-year Reich, but also he can't descend stairs.
	Sure. Pick your criticism, ladies and gentlemen.
	We might be looking at a Davros situation, perhaps?
	Hit a golf caddy from the waist down.
	If we play the next clip, it's on Sky News.
	I wouldn't usually do this, but if we could watch a good three, maybe four minutes of this.
	Donald Trump clashed with a Bloomberg host during a live interview at the Chicago Economic Club, where he eviscerated Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwaite, much to the delight of the crowd.
	A standout moment from the discussion was when Trump called out Bloomberg for spreading fake news.
	What does the Wall Street Journal know?
	I'm meeting with them tomorrow. What does the Wall Street Journal know?
	They've been wrong about everything.
	So have you, by the way.
	You've been wrong about everything. You're trying to turn this into debate.
	There are business people.
	You've been wrong, you've been wrong all your life on this stuff.
	Commentators on X reveled in the takedown, with this user saying, he sits down with Bloomberg hack, tells him to his face he is fake news, and the crowd of business people are all cheering him on in agreement.
	Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk agreed, saying this is legendary.
	Trump calls the Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwaite fake news right to his face at the Economic Club of Chicago event.
	He then went on to own the host on the subject of tariffs, once again telling him he was wrong.
	I know how committed you are to this, and it must be hard for you to, you know, spend 25 years talking about tariffs as being negative and then have somebody explain to you that you're totally wrong.
	It'll have a negative...
	It will have... It's true.
	And the Bloomberg editor-in-chief was taken aback when the audience spectacularly booed him.
	Only three weeks to go to the election.
	Will you commit now to respecting and encouraging a peaceful transfer of power?
	Well, you had a peaceful transfer of power.
	You had a peaceful transfer of power.
	You had a peaceful... Come on, President Trump.
	You had a peaceful transfer of power compared with Venezuela, but it was by far the worst transfer of power for a long time.
	Thank you. I appreciate that, because this is what they like to do.
	This is what they like to do.
	The live crowd worked in Donald Trump's favour, cheering him on throughout the discussion, booing the host and giving him a standing ovation at the end.
	Let's stop playing it now.
	There's a bit, I think it's a good couple more minutes on, we don't need to watch it all, but he, this event, also invited Kamala Harris, and she didn't turn up.
	Well, Time Magazine have said she's not done an interview with us, but Donald Trump sat down with us for 60 minutes in two separate occasions for interviews, after they have depicted him as the worst possible person on the earth.
	And, remember, Time Magazine ran the piece bragging about fortification.
	They are the most hostile news outlet, and Trump still sat down with them.
	She also couldn't find the right Wikipedia page to rip her speech from.
	Yeah. She's taking tactics from Vaush.
	One thing that I did note from this, sorry to- I won't derail, but- Yeah, no.
	During this interview, there was a sort of tacit threat by the- by the head of Bloomberg in there.
	Because he said, well, but what happens when you come in and interest rates go up because you put in your tariffs and it brings down your government?
	And I know that JD Vance, when speaking to Tucker, said that they're concerned about this because they used the example of Truss's government being brought down by the Bank of England at interest rates when they tried to fiddle with taxes after the prior Boris and Sunak government had caused inflation because of money printing.
	And so... I've got something coming out on this soon.
	I also went over the reasons why this was brought down on my show.
	But the Trump government are going to be very watchful for how the Fed might act in rebellion and blame all of the economic malfeasance under Biden-Harris on Trump to try and sabotage his next term.
	I mean, possible. Could be.
	Could be. I do think the example of a Trump second presidency is a very different animal to Liz Truss's premiership for all sorts of reasons.
	Apart from anything else, I don't think there's anyone in the Republican Party that can sort of coup him the way Truss got couped.
	I also think that the President, the Commander-in-Chief, has got more authority on day one than Liz Truss ever wielded, really.
	But your point is still valid.
	They can frustrate his economic agenda.
	Your point is still absolutely valid.
	Also, I feel like the Fed, they didn't do it...
	First time he was president. That doesn't mean they wouldn't do it this time, I'm not saying that, but they sort of got in line the first time.
	I'm pretty sure the president would be able to do things via executive fiat to stop them.
	If he knows. Right, if he knows.
	The problem with the first Trump administration was that he didn't fire the right people at the right time.
	Right, yeah, yeah.
	But I do understand, as far as I know, that they're more watchful for this stuff now, so that's good.
	I really hope, I think I might have said this before, but I'll say it again.
	I really hope that Trump's first 100 days, assuming he does win, will be a lot better than his first 100 days the first time in 2016.
	Because they were a bit of a shambles the first time.
	You know, going through a few different press secretaries and not draining the swamp or attempting to really at all.
	Not finishing the war. For a while.
	Allowing Anthony Fauci to set pandemic policy.
	But particularly the first 100 days.
	I know it's a cliche, 100 days.
	Who cares if it's the first 90 days, the first 120 days, but just hit the ground running, basically.
	I hope, I think he'll be able to hit the ground running this time, at least to a better degree than in 2016.
	You know, not giving someone like Scaramucci a job and stuff.
	Yeah, picking the right people.
	Well, if he's got Elon in there, Imagine Elon literally standing in the Oval Office most days, saying, don't do that.
	Do this instead.
	Or whatever. Okay, so I just wanted to play the clip of Kamala saying that Trump is sort of hiding away.
	And then a clip of people saying, no, no, she's not accepting invitations to things.
	And everyone knows that if and when she ever goes off script, it's a car crash.
	And Trump's off script all the time.
	Well, not all the time, but a lot of the time.
	He's just talking.
	And he's been a businessman for ages.
	He's referenced as a tycoon in the 1980s.
	He's on TV as a successful New York guy.
	He was in Home Alone 2.
	Right, yeah. Let's not forget the legendary cameo in Home Alone 2.
	He's probably the high point of his entire life.
	Didn't Obama once say the American dream is to be Donald Trump?
	Yeah, I don't know if he did.
	I mean, black guys used to love Donald Trump.
	Jay-Z used to rap about him. Yeah, they all used to rap about him because they all wanted to be him.
	Yeah, I was listening to a really old one of the earliest Dan Carlin podcasts ever then.
	It was from like 2010 or 2012 or something like that.
	And he just references Bill Gates and Donald Trump as a highly successful billionaire person.
	Yeah, it's just... Donald Trump used to be...
	The name Donald Trump used to be just shorthand for a very, very successful, uber-rich person.
	And this is decades ago.
	It was an American Psycho. Yeah, and he shaved Vince McMahon's head.
	Right. I would have liked to have done that.
	Didn't he do a stunner on Vince?
	No, he... A stone-cold stunner. He speared Vince, and then he took a stone-cold stunner.
	Oh, he took a stone-cold stunner.
	That's right, that's right. He sold it terribly.
	I mean, bless him.
	He still did it. It wasn't as bad as some of Vince's sells, though.
	Vince got better. Oh, do you not see the WrestleMania 38?
	You know, like, almost 80-year-old...
	Top of my head. 80-year-old Vince McMahon takes a stunner off Stone Cold, where Stone Cold has to, like, literally walk with him and try and grab him as he's falling over, and then starts laughing.
	You should... I'll send you the clip. It's great.
	Anyone who's watched Enough Loat Seaters knows that to get Harry talking about professional wrestling...
	I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's a...
	Yeah. It's gonna keep going.
	Okay. You're not interested in...
	I haven't watched it since I was, like, ten.
	No, I haven't watched it in quite a few years myself, but I do remember now, Stone Cold, being a stunner on the dialogue.
	On the dialogue. Alright, let's move on.
	Okay, in The Independent, so everyone's talking about this, last couple of days, last day or so, it's sort of just in the news cycle that Trump seems to be surging ahead, at least in people actually, the bookies actually, because there's all sorts of different platforms where you can place bets on these things.
	And as you said, a really good point you said is that when you do a normal poll, there's many, many reasons why you're not going to get a good, clear, accurate, honest reading.
	And the big one is people are just not honest.
	Someone sort of rings you up and says, hi, we're calling from YouGov or we're calling from wherever, Ipsos or something.
	What's your feelings on this? And you just lie because you don't want to, for whatever reason, you don't want to tell them what's really in your heart.
	And so if that happens on any sort of scale, you're just not going to get an accurate thing.
	Whereas when people put money on it anonymously, That's sort of real.
	That is kind of real.
	And so, yeah, the independents saying when they saw it happening at first they were like, oh, we don't know.
	We don't know why. We can't explain why.
	Nobody knows why Donald Trump is actually popular and Kamala Harris isn't as much.
	Because Kamala Harris literally stopped talking when the teleprompter doesn't work because she's got no thoughts in her brain.
	Yeah, and she's just obnoxious, even her voice.
	I've read something somewhere a while ago that sort of the tone and pitch and intonation of your voice really matters when you're running for super high office, when you're running to be a leader of a country.
	If your voice is sort of gritty or annoying or in any way, that's like a massive detriment and hers is, isn't it?
	She's got a massive handicap there.
	It's funny how she's running the vibes campaign while being also really visually and auditorily insufferable.
	I mean, you don't even need to listen with the sound on, you can look at a Kamala Harris speech with the sound off, and even then you're cringing at how nagging and annoying she's been.
	She has the affect of Cesar Romero's Joker.
	I think that's a bit of an insult on old Cesar there.
	Poor guy! That's the old 70s Batman, isn't it?
	Yeah, he's 66, yeah. Great reference.
	Tell me she had a stylish moustache.
	But then they're saying that he's...
	Another later article admitting that he's pushing on in the polls, or in the bookies' eyes, at least...
	If we go to the next one, so if you scroll down a little bit on this, we can see a few different things just showing that it's...
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Wrong link about scrolling down.
	But anyway, USA Today even admitting it.
	There's one by Fortune magazine in the next clip.
	In that they said, prediction markets can be a more sophisticated and accurate way to foresee political events.
	Thomas Miller, a data scientist at Northwestern University told Fortune's Sean Tully.
	Miller is renowned for his accurate predictions during the 2020 election and much of his methodology comes from examining prediction markets.
	Yeah, because they are shown to be more accurate.
	It's kind of a simple, can you scroll up again?
	He said, political betting sites are the best at predicting the wisdom of the crowd.
	While polls tell you all about people, all about how people responded in the recent past, The odds on sites like Predict It and Polymarket show real-time sentiment and are better for mapping the future, according to Miller.
	Plus, polls don't show who will win the Electoral College, while traders on prediction markets can wager on its outcome.
	Right. So there's one thing just asking people, who do you want to win or who do you think will win?
	And the other thing of drilling down further, well, where are they going to get the magic 270 electoral college votes from?
	How exactly is it going to play out and pan out?
	And most normal polls don't really drill down into that, because most people they ask won't have much of an idea.
	Whereas if you look at all sorts of analysis across Australia, Lots and lots of different betting sites that are betting on those specific things, then you can build up a better picture.
	In Newsweek, the Newsweek article, if we scroll down on this, it's got a couple of things for us.
	This is one saying that Trump may well win all seven of the swing states.
	Well, it'd only need...
	Well, it all depends, doesn't it?
	But it'd only need four or five of them.
	People are saying things like...
	Trump has got multiple avenues to be reaching that 270, that magic 270 number, and Harris hasn't really.
	Of course, she'll always get a lot of the coasts, if not all of both coasts.
	Again, we've got to assume that a large-scale fortification doesn't go on.
	It also depends on whether or not Texas is a swing state, because it's not listed there, but they have been subject to a lot of, and Ohio, frankly, a lot of enrichment via the southern border in recent years.
	And obviously those people have been given state-provided ID, so lots of those people are now legal, and so are entitled to vote.
	Crazy, crazy. Not great.
	Crazy. To have a country with open borders and then you just give the new people welfare and the right to vote.
	That's obviously a recipe for disaster.
	Absolute disaster. I'll tell you what it is.
	It's a bribe. Right.
	Yeah. Yeah, yeah, right.
	I mean, just terrible.
	Well, hopefully Trump will, he has said, hasn't he, institute some sort of program of mass remigration.
	Vance has, I think, in a recent interview said that a figure of like one to one and a half million per year is not unreasonable.
	And he said, obviously, there's an estimated 20 to 25 million illegals in the country at the moment.
	That's probably way off mark.
	It's probably more than that. But he basically said that it wouldn't actually take 25 years if they did that, because if they knew that they were coming for them, these people would self-deport anyway.
	And that hasn't completely tanked the Trump-vance ticket.
	No, all of a sudden his polls are exploding.
	If anything, he's got a surge.
	So that puts paid to the light, I think, that some people say, for example, if we talk about reform, that it would be politically suicidal to start talking about re-migration.
	I really don't think that.
	I think the opposite. I think people are dying to hear that.
	If you say that at their conference, I mean, the people that are reform members applaud you.
	Would anyone have the chutzpah to do such a thing?
	It'd be funny if one or two people had done that, wouldn't it?
	And it's not like...
	For anyone who doesn't know, Conor did it.
	Yes. Every single party that won elections in Britain since the times of Enoch Powell has done so on a promise to reduce migration, and that's going back to when migration was only in the tens of thousands coming into this country every year.
	That might suggest just a little thing about the public mood.
	And all over Europe, examples of parties saying they're going to do some form of re-migration and people seeming to like it being popular.
	And these countries slowly beginning to start putting these policies into place as well.
	The European Union, as of yesterday, for a letter going out tomorrow, Ursula von der Leyen, who's the architect of lots of these open border policies, Has said, oh yeah, Italy's plan to create re-migration camps in Albania was actually a really good one.
	Maybe we should adopt it. If even the European Union are starting to explode.
	I like that because it's a punishment on Albania as well.
	Shame Stelios isn't here as a Greek man.
	I don't think he's the biggest fan of Albanians.
	But then who is, really? He stands at the edge of the sea and shakes his fist.
	Yeah. Doesn't know who to hate more out of Albanians and Turks.
	Paws out libations to Poseidon to sink the entire nation.
	Pardon me. Okay, next link.
	Who's this? Action Network.
	They're saying, if you scroll down a little bit, they're saying I think Trump's 57% likely to win.
	Is it? Yeah, 57, 58% likely to win over Command House 42.
	Now, if that does play out...
	That's not very close.
	That would translate into Trump getting well over 300 of the electoral votes probably.
	And that's not very close.
	Right? That's maybe not landslide territory, but...
	Comfortable. Yeah, totally comfortable.
	So, another good indication of sort of what's real or not are just the markets.
	So even CNBC... Who I'm sure, or are, absolutely loathed to give any positive news about Trump.
	They're saying that his media stocks, or he's bringing out a new thing called Truth Plus, apparently.
	Just merge it with X, man.
	That would be cool. I've never thought of that before.
	I mean, they're friends now.
	Right, yeah. Tusk's come up and endorsed him personally.
	Right, yeah. In the most autistic photo I've ever seen in my life.
	When he's jumping for joy.
	Yeah, when he's jumping for joy with the artist face on, and Donald Trump's kind of cringing at him.
	Oh yeah, of course the crowd loved it, but that photo is perfect.
	Trump's got so many amazing photos from this entire campaign.
	That would be cool if he merged all his media things with X or something or other happened like that.
	That might be cool. Okay, the next one, even talking about Bitcoin.
	Now, I don't understand this thing about how the Bitcoin price is linked in terms of public opinion or public sentiment with Trump doing well, but it does seem to be the case.
	Trump said he'd make it legal tender.
	Right, okay. Well, that would explain it.
	Yes. That would explain it right there.
	So when Bitcoin price is doing well at the moment, people are saying, some people are saying that they're totally linked.
	The likelihood becoming more likely of Trump doing well or winning, the Bitcoin price gets stronger.
	So, that is another indication on the markets.
	We go to the penultimate link there, talking about a massive rally on the Trump stuff.
	DJT is the ticker for Trump's media stuff.
	If you scroll down a touch on that, I think there's a clip actually, a brief clip we could watch a little bit of.
	We are running up slightly on time for every segment, but I'm just trying to find it.
	Alright, well don't worry about it.
	Is it not just the clip that you're closing?
	Is it the one at the top of the article?
	Yeah, that. Trump Media on track for its best week since it was listed in March, reversing a steep sell-off in recent weeks with less than a month to go until the presidential election here.
	Taking a look at shares right now, they're up by 9% here pre-market.
	What's probably critical to also note here is that they hit a new all-time low last week, so it's really rallying off.
	Okay, you don't have to watch it all.
	I was just going to say, so, yeah, as he just said there, it's actually a tick up from quite a low ebb.
	Actually, so whenever you look at graphs or charts, always scroll out, scroll back if you can.
	Have like a much longer version, not in the time sense, of whatever you're looking at.
	Because if you look at it on the short term, it looks like it's just gone straight up.
	If you scroll out, it's actually quite low and then ticked up a bit.
	Nonetheless, still, it's a good indication the stock wouldn't be going up like that unless the sentiment was positive.
	And one last link, just the Financial Times, even the Financial Times, who are usually pretty conservative with a small c about what they say, usually, still sort of can't deny that there's been some sort of surge in the public sentiment towards Trump advance ticket.
	Okay, that's it. Right, we've got plenty of rumble rants.
	$25 from the Shadow Band.
	Be excellent to each other and party on, dudes.
	Is that a Bill and Ted reference? Yeah.
	Yes, yes it is. $2 from FYLDYS. Oh, Vice.
	Don't know what that means. It's just vice.
	There we go. Next GTA game.
	Uh, Josie Angels for $5.
	Texas leads the way against non-citizen voting.
	There have been two law passes in addition to the already existing law that makes it illegal, and we use paper ballots that can be traced.
	Yes, there has been some concerns, though, about the Texas voter roll cleanup, because they've been adding, like, hundreds of thousands of people to it, and they can't really explain it.
	This was in May of this year.
	Um, so yeah, there's some worried stuff about that.
	And then two lotters from Nori Mitore.
	Minnesota hasn't really been in play for a while.
	Last voted Republican with Nixon in 1972.
	Blimey, I didn't realise that was a long time ago.
	I thought it was in play in 2016.
	I might be Mandela affecting.
	Possibly. Alright. So, BLM is dead, and let's keep it that way.
	There are some on the right who want to kind of resurrect it as a bit of a shadow on the wall to act as a slight boogeyman.
	And they are taking advantage of one particular story right now to do so.
	It is the story of this woman.
	I'm gonna get this one nice and big up on screen.
	No, this isn't a scene from the latest horror film that you can find in the cinema.
	This is the footage, a screenshot taken from the body cam of a police officer in Pennsylvania, or I think somewhere in America, where there was a shooting.
	A shooting of this reasonable, sane, very calm, scholarly black woman.
	Joy Reid got shot. No.
	No? No. Not Joy Reid.
	Just someone who looks like her.
	She looks like a mini mouse doll decided to become Chucky.
	This story is going quite viral at the moment online because this woman is slowly becoming the face, the new face, of black activism as we understand it.
	Mainly because of the fact that...
	I mean, look at it.
	Look at this image.
	This is a real image of a woman trying to murder a police officer.
	And I'll show you the footage. If you're watching this on YouTube, we're probably going to have to blur it out for you, but if you're watching on the website, you'll be able to see the footage.
	If not, you can find it online.
	And it is pretty terrifying.
	This is what BLM, NAACP, all of those activist organisations want you to ignore.
	The fact that this just happens where a police officer will, in this case, go for a mental health check on a woman...
	And she will just come out with a knife and try to murder him then and there.
	And he has to defend himself.
	This is what you've been told to ignore happens for years and years and years.
	They're all good boys and good girls who didn't do nothing.
	That's not the truth.
	But one of the points that I'm trying to make here is that the actual activist response to this, I think, has been blown completely out of proportion by people who want to keep using the BLM name to, honestly, grift.
	And try and treat them like they're still this enormous political power with great influence.
	Sorry to break this to you. It's not 2020 anymore.
	The BLM riots are in the past.
	The people behind those should still receive punishment.
	But what happened was BLM, their founders, took all of the money.
	Purchased a lot of real estate with it and legged it, and the Biden administration quite notoriously abandoned them by the wayside.
	The financial backers kind of abandoned them as well, and they have been a dead political force for at least two years now.
	Patrice Collars has since been doing gold-painted naked performance art.
	Oh, don't remind me!
	What? Very, very strange people.
	Why did you have to remind me of that, Ralph?
	The only positive about all of this is all those body cams that they said display rampant police brutality seem to always vindicate the police officers.
	Because I always think of Makai Bryant in, I think it was 2022, where this was meant to be a horrific example of police brutality and she tried stabbing a girl and then running at the police officers with a knife.
	and then got shot. This was the one where the screenshot was her fat girl in pink tracksuit right in the screenshot everyone was sharing was her mid-swing knife clearly visible in hand where the police officer actually saved a black girl.
	Same with Jacob Blake.
	Jacob Blake being the fellow who had digitally sexually assaulted a woman who had a restraining order out on him, and the police went to arrest him, and he went to the car, and he had a knife in the car, and he pulled the knife on the police officer and was shot, and he wasn't killed, he was basically comatosed, and then...
	I think he received bullets to the base of his spine, which paralysed him, I think was the problem.
	And then Kamala Harris decided to do not only a bail fund for him, but visit him in hospital.
	Rapist. Attempted to murder a police officer.
	Well, the police were also called out to that and if you listen to the phone call, the woman who's being assaulted is referring to him by name because he was already a known name to the police officers who were coming to visit because he was just a violent bastard.
	Anyway, so this woman...
	Sydney Wilson, who is the subject of this story.
	Newsweek did an expo on who she was and what was going on with her.
	She was born in Pennsylvania, lived in Reston.
	That's why I got it mixed up a little bit.
	Yeah, Virginia.
	On her LinkedIn and Facebook pages, she had posted about receiving...
	Yeah, that's a catfish and a half.
	That's a pretty terrifying image.
	I can't lie right there.
	And when we see the footage, it's a pretty scary situation to consider yourself in.
	But anyway, she'd posted about receiving a certification in mental health training earlier this year, saying on Facebook, I'm proud of this.
	I became certified in adult mental health first aid after eight hours of necessary training.
	That's all it takes. Eight hours.
	That's a one-day course. That's what that is.
	Yes. So these are the social workers that they propose to send out instead of the police officers after defunding the police?
	Yes, somebody with an eight-hour certificate branded with them at all times so that they can fend off knives, dodge bullets like Neo in the Matrix?
	She then clearly applied her knowledge of how to fend off knife attacks by doing...
	If only she could have consoled herself, but it shows what I know.
	And I've found the actual Fairfax County Police Department news article discussing what happened at the time.
	This was the original release published on September 18th, 2024, earlier on this year.
	On Monday, September 16th at approximately 10.17am, an officer responded to a residence in the 11800 block of Sunrise Valley Drive for a welfare check, received a request for a mental health professional to conduct a welfare check on 33-year-old Sydney Wilson, who is reported to be an agitated state.
	Crisis intervention trained officer, Knocked on Wilson's door.
	Wilson opened it and immediately closed the door.
	Officer continued to try to speak with her.
	After approximately two minutes, she opened the door again.
	She had a knife. Assaulted the officer.
	Officer was able to break away.
	Attempted to de-escalate with verbal commands.
	Basically begging, please stop.
	Back down. While pointing a gun, waving it in her face.
	She continued to approach and he shot her three times and she's dead.
	Here's a picture of the knife. Let's look at the footage of that, that Andy Ngo found, because it's been a little over, well, it's been about a month now, and they have released the footage as part of the normal investigation for the public to see.
	One of the big things that came from it is this image.
	This image has gone viral.
	There are a number of various memes that I could share of it.
	I will only show one here.
	It's a MrBeast video.
	We gave one police officer a Lamborghini if he could survive one hour in this apartment complex.
	There are some much worse ones that I could go over.
	Of course, being massive and black, she was a former basketball player.
	So her old basketball team, Georgetown Women's Basketball, did a memorial.
	Forever a Hoyer, not mentioning that she attempted to murder a man, which is what got her shot in the first place.
	Community noted, of course, the replies are full of people saying she tried to murder somebody.
	Maybe you should have mentioned that.
	I'm sure she was remembered very fondly by the people that she knew, but friends of mine, if they got killed trying to murder somebody, I would maybe have a few mixed feelings on that, not immediately rush to social media to post a memorial about them.
	But one of the things about this is, and Andy Ngo was talking about this, this is the only examples that I can find of this, which is one of the big parts of the story, is that everybody, everybody is saying...
	BLM. BLM tried to politicize this.
	BLM tried to turn this into a martyr.
	BLM this, BLM that.
	The only evidence whatsoever I can find is featured in the original Andy Ngo thread.
	If you're watching this right now and can send me more evidence, screenshots, archived links of the actual organization, BLM, saying anything about this at the time and prove that it was just scrubbed off the internet, That would be fantastic.
	But BLM still has memorials on their social media, on their website, talking about people who have been proven to have been basically trying to assault officers, trying to murder officers when they were killed.
	Like Michael Brown. Yeah, like Michael Brown.
	So they'd have no shame. They have no shame.
	It's not normal for them to scrub the internet off this.
	The only examples that I can find is that Andy says that these people were BLM Antifa supporters who at the time said things like this.
	Said that this is awful.
	Rest in peace to a beautiful soul.
	Police murdered her.
	Released the name of Sidney Wilson's murderer.
	Stuff like this. The problem is though that these are nobodies.
	These are complete nobodies with, you know, five likes.
	Five likes on a tweet.
	It's fine to still document this stuff.
	Yeah, no, of course. I'm not saying... I'm not saying...
	But I do think it's being massively overblown.
	He's got a few more screenshots of more nobodies.
	Just people who, you know, no likes, barely any views on a random tweet that they threw out after a few hours.
	And some people were also trying to spread this thing that she was a BLM activist.
	The closest that I can find to that is on her obituary, which I found online, and reported on some other outlets as well.
	She was a member of the NAACP, which is also a black activist organization, which is much older than BLM as well.
	So yeah, This is the kind of activist that the NAACP has recruited, and BLM also recruits these kinds of people for a very, very long time.
	Also, funny thing about this is that there's a photo and video part where you can go on the tribute wall.
	It looks like they've scrubbed it right now, but when I checked this yesterday, this picture had been uploaded quite a few times.
	Quite a few times it had been uploaded.
	Well, it's their true colours, isn't it?
	Well, yeah. Well, she was mental.
	She was mental, she was agitated, needed a mental health crisis, but tried to murder somebody.
	Sorry, can I just read from there? Sydney was a fierce competitor, even though her outward demeanour has been described as girly and fancy.
	Didn't come across in her final moments.
	Yeah, definitely not.
	But that's the closest I can find to any proof of this was just, oh, she was a member of the NAACP and a couple of nobodies said, oh, she didn't do nothing!
	She was murdered just for the sake of being black!
	I can't find anything from BLM, but people, slop accounts, basically, have been saying it.
	BLM claimed that Sidney Wilson was unjustly killed by racist cops.
	No, they didn't. Tommy Robinson shared the same thing.
	He basically does the same thing, implicating Black Lives Matter.
	Even Elon Musk...
	I think that's satirical, to be fair.
	True, but at the same time, it's sharing, it's amplifying the statement.
	And then Elon Musk himself as well.
	Community note stopping a BLM hoax before it takes out.
	There was no BLM hoax to do with this.
	I hate to be a contrarian, but BLM's dead.
	We shouldn't be trying to use them as this weird boogeyman, we should obviously recognise what they did was wrong, we should recognise that the people who were trying to create the conditions for the riots that happened should be brought to justice in some way or another, but right now they are a completely dead and useless political force.
	Again, just to be absolutely sure.
	I looked for her name on their website and they've got loads of commemorations of violent thugs and murderers on this website.
	Nothing for her.
	Maybe they've archived it.
	Maybe they've scrubbed it.
	I don't think it's likely. I think some people on our side are spreading BS. I respectfully disagree.
	I think true. Yeah, they haven't put up an obituary, and that's completely true.
	I think they're just using it as shorthand for prominent race grifters who want to take your money.
	But they are an actual real organisation.
	I understand, and I will say yes, they're being imprecise in that regard.
	They're also using them as an avatar of race grifting.
	I'm sure you're absolutely right, but I think that it's good to be a little bit more accurate than this, because this is the kind of thing that can really discredit people, when people can turn around and say, there is absolutely no evidence of this, you are spreading an easily verifiable lie or hoax, and therefore it's easy to discredit people.
	And I think it's good to clear the record and say, Yeah, I'm not shedding any tears over the Sidney Wilson person.
	Very, very, very, very, very glad that the person, the police officer, was alright and managed to save his own life.
	Also, thank you very much for this image.
	This will go down in infamy.
	But, as far as I can tell, other than a few random nobodies, nobody of any importance said anything about this at the time when it was being reported.
	So, yeah, if we can cut it with the BS, it would make it a lot easier for us all to go about without being accused of being grifters or people spreading misinformation, because it does happen every so often.
	But again, you know, rest in piss.
	I think you make a good point worth making.
	One small, and I'm not disagreeing with you at all, one small caveat I would say is sometimes it's difficult, though, Not to get things wrong.
	I just want to make one example.
	I need to correct myself from about a week ago where I got something completely wrong.
	There's a bit of footage from the Trump assassination when he got shot in the ear where you could sort of see the hole appear in his ear, a different angle.
	And I thought it was real.
	I didn't really do any diligence on that.
	I saw that on Twitter or something, thought it was real.
	Mentioned it on the podcast and someone on Twitter said, actually, that's fake.
	That's definitely fake.
	And I said, oh, fair cop, sorry.
	And I'll try and mention that.
	I'll try and rescind that on the podcast at some point.
	That's what I'm doing right now.
	But the point was that that was in good faith.
	There's a difference between getting something wrong in good faith and lying.
	Outright, just deliberately trying to make a falsehood.
	I agree with you.
	Just in this case, it's actually really easy to verify.
	In this case, it's really easy to verify, and I'm not going to go out of my way to defend slop accounts.
	Yeah, no, absolutely.
	Because they traffic in slop, so I don't think they really care all that much sometimes.
	Because there is left slop and right slop, isn't there?
	Oh, yeah. And there's quite a lot of right-leaning slop now, it seems.
	Boosted by Elon himself.
	Yeah. But anyway, sorry to burst a few people's bubble.
	I couldn't find... Again, if I'm wrong here, if I'm the one who's wrong here, please send me the evidence.
	As far as I can tell, I searched far and wide.
	The only evidence that I could find was the few screenshots that Andy Ngo included on his original post.
	Nothing else was really there.
	Anyway... We've got some more rumble rants before we play the video comments.
	LadyDragonChris for $5 says, Roland Fryer, Harvard economist and black man, found his shock through doing two studies that police are more reluctant to shoot black people than white people.
	Yeah, he's done quite a few interviews about that.
	$1 for that's a random name.
	You cannot speak the truth.
	I think we're having some issues.
	I'll have to wait for a second.
	Something's playing in a tab. One of Bo's videos.
	There we go. There we go. That's a random name.
	Sorry for one dollar. You cannot speak the truth, lest the powers that be ban you.
	You can definitely say those exact same things about white men, though.
	After all, only some lives seem to matter to these people.
	LOL. Yeah, this is something I pointed out earlier.
	There's a lot of anger around the new England football manager, because he's a German.
	I don't know anything about football, but I've just seen this.
	But then the exact same people that will complain about that Complaining about football which is lower stakes than politics will then call you a far-right racist if you complain that for example your prime minister Or party leader isn't English either. It's just like yep You can say the exact same thing about one group, but not about another and I'm just the double standard is remarkable We've had non-English manager of the England football team a few times, yeah.
	That's the one I remember. There we go.
	I'm not reading out that name.
	$2. She was a good girl who didn't do nothing.
	There we go. $2 from Bobo Bad.
	Kamala Harris, when asked for comment, said, You go one-on-one with another officer.
	You've got a 50-50% chance of winning.
	But Wilson's a genetic freak and not normal.
	You've got a 25% at best. Is that a WWE reference?
	It's a TNA reference.
	It's Scott Steiner.
	Yes, I remember that, actually.
	But I'm a genetic freak and I'm not normal!
	We all knew that, Harry. So good.
	Oh, I've not seen the latest Assassin's Creed Shadow trailer.
	I'm assuming that that's a joke.
	I assume it's a bit of sarcasm because the game looks shit.
	Right. Excellent. Oh!
	Oh, they're referring to that.
	I see, I see.
	I was always more of a Rick Steiner fan myself.
	Really? Oh, but Scott's insane.
	The Steiner recliner. He's so, he's, well, yeah, that's good, but Scott's so batshit insane.
	You've got to love him. Anyway, on with the video comment.
	Can we play that, Samson?
	Thank you.
	White stag!
	It's crazy. Incredibly rare.
	A magical moment, really.
	It's amazing.
	It's amazing.
	Thank you.
	you you It's very wholesome. I spent my birthday walking alpacas around a field in Kent.
	Because I don't like people.
	That was my surprise gift that my missus bought for me.
	Did you get spat at? Don't they spit at?
	No, they don't really spit at humans.
	It's llamas. They spit at one another if they take their food.
	Llamas spit. Mine were suitably grumpy and only obsessed with grass.
	We were allowed to pick which ones we wanted and my missus just picked the small weird one with knobbly legs and giant sticky out teeth.
	She was like, I'll have that one. Fitting.
	Oh, we've got another one. Very good.
	If it wants to load. Now in another of our Lamyentations.
	David Lamy is like the syrup of Ipecac.
	One dose is enough to make you throw up.
	David Lamy is like a ventriloquist dummy.
	Wooden, useless, often scares children, has a head full of sawdust, and can't talk or move without someone's hand up his ass.
	And finally, David Lamy is like Michelle Obama.
	He just has a smaller penis.
	No lies detected. I think we've had one of the rumble rant.
	Oh, yes. Uh, Sy for $5.
	Connor, you keep saying Lady Dragon Chris on my rants.
	I think you're awesome.
	Oh, sorry. But get it right.
	I am a dragon lady. Apologies.
	I'm just clearly reading the words out of order there.
	No, actually what happened there, Dragon Lady, is you got psyoped into sending another $5.
	Got em! Let's scroll down to the comments, excellent.
	Callum Archibald, just got my copy of Islander this morning.
	Fantastic work and keep up the good work you all do.
	Yes, I should have said that at the start of the show actually.
	They are being sent out, some people have got them.
	Some places are experiencing delays because the countries are rubbish.
	Sorry about that, we can't really control it, but they should be with you soon.
	And we're already underway at work with the third issue, so get excited about that in a few months.
	The further afield you are from the UK, the longer it will probably take.
	As simple as that, right? We are an operation that runs on hopes and dreams here, but we appreciate your patience.
	Charles Dreamer. Hey, Lotus lads.
	Any chance you could add a Lotus Eater's MAGA or Mega-type hat to the merch store?
	Perhaps something that flies a little under the radar for those that don't want to be hassled in the street may be kind of cool.
	I don't know what our capacity is for hats.
	I don't know if we do. I think it has been discussed that some sort of, for the big American stream we're doing, that some sort of merch-specific things might happen.
	Excellent. We'll chain Rory to his desk and get him designing, I suppose.
	Yes, well, we're going to hope to get some new contributors on for the third issue.
	If you have any names that you sort of want to kick about that you can hope that we might get in contact with, I mean, you're more than welcome to suggest them down below and we'll do our best if we We know those people already.
	People laughing at the thumbnail as well.
	Thomas Howe. The mere existence of a metaphorical fedora.
	Everyone in the show shows off a conscious effort to ensure the truth gets out, even when it can be silly.
	We do our best. Anyway.
	Lady Dragonhawk. Constantly correcting me today.
	Connor, it's pronounced Kami La Horish.
	You're welcome. I think the nickname might be a little bit cumbersome.
	It's like, I don't think Comrade Kamala's stuck either.
	I know Trump tried it, but I don't think it's his finest.
	The thing about nicknames is, again, just public opinion decides what sticks and what doesn't.
	Yeah, you haven't got much say over it.
	There you go. Arizona Desert Rat.
	That should be an easy citation.
	Statistics is one of the things that should always be cited.
	Where did you get the statistics and are they a reliable source?
	Source. It came to Harris in a dream.
	Grant Gibson. These edits were not Kamala's contribution.
	Her editors suggested these transition words.
	There you go. Someone online, how could Kamala Fweedom Harris lie?
	Well, you know, it's almost like she's got the incentive to do so.
	I'm not reading that one, the name out.
	I'm not reading the name out purely for stoking it.
	I can hear Samson laughing behind the screen.
	Purely because I don't want to piss anyone off.
	I'm just going to leave it. Sometimes more flies with honey than vinegar, that's all.
	Base tape. Politicians writing books is the same as hunters selling artwork.
	It's simply a way of funneling cash behind the facade of a legitimate transaction.
	Well, yeah, quite. I just seem to think if you want to hold a high office in the land, write your own damn book.
	But there you go. On that, I would imagine that Boris Johnson's new book, where he admitted that he flooded the country with immigrants on purpose to help inflation, which he caused through printing all that money in the first place, I'd imagine he's probably written that himself because he's a former journalist.
	He does actually write a lot of stuff.
	Yeah, he does write a lot of stuff.
	He's just an idiot. Yeah, he's just an idiot who is so eager to brag about all the different ways that he destroyed this country.
	Thanks Boris. There you go.
	Bo? Alright, a few comments.
	George Hap says, oh where's the glare always, excuse me, up on this, the odds and all the energy do seem to be in Trump's favour, including high profile endorsements from RFK Jr and Elon. I do hope that the assassination attempts mean that the deep state can't fall to fire it this time round. I'm sure they're doing their best currently.
	I think there's going to be some fortification happening.
	I think that's always the case.
	Even going back to the 19th century, there's some.
	It's just a question of how egregious it is, right?
	It's just the degree to which they decide to dial it up.
	I think that's... It was much easier to do it in COVID because it was a state of emergency and everyone was distracted.
	I think what you're going to see is some discrepancies in voter turnout in places like Arizona and Texas, where they've been flooded with illegals.
	And in Arizona, I believe that you can vote in the presidential election, just no local or Senate or congressional races, without voter ID. So that means that you've got a direct incentive to have illegals vote for the president themselves, which is the most important one.
	So I think there's going to be something going over that evening.
	I also think, I hope, that after the example of 2020, people are going to be more vigilant.
	I think even Trump himself is...
	I might be getting this wrong, you probably know more about it than me, but actually paying for card raise people going out to counts and making sure that certain things that happened last time don't happen...
	You know, for example, last time, over certain walled-off areas of the courtroom, they put up things over the window so people couldn't see.
	I think there's going to be efforts this time to try and stop anything like that happening.
	More Republican poll watchers.
	Yeah, right, just that. That would be wise.
	Fingers crossed that something like that happens.
	Scott Prez has been doing good work for voter registration, so I'm sure it's on his radar.
	Sheev Palpatine says, Trump overperformed the polls substantially in 2016 and 2020.
	If polls are about 50-50 this time around, then it's probably, he still has it in the bag.
	Seems reasonable. Hope so.
	And what Arwood says, maybe something to consider is that the bookies should also be aware of the possibility of another steal.
	If the odds are still in favour of Trump winning, I think that's an even stronger indication than last time.
	Okay. I vote we classify Harris as an auditory...
	Cognito hazard.
	What's a cognito hazard? I've never heard that word before in my life.
	Danger for your brain. Okay.
	She actively kills brain cells.
	And have her contained by the SCP Foundation.
	I don't know what the SCP Foundation is either.
	It's an online community created thing that's basically like monsters beyond your comprehension.
	Okay. Cool.
	Very highbrow comment.
	There are video games based on it.
	They're actually pretty decent. Someone online said, all the bellwether states were for Trump in 2020.
	They can fortify it again.
	I'll be interested to see how.
	I'm not saying they can't. It would have to be a different way this time.
	They can't do the exact same playbook this time.
	Mass mail-in ballots are not happening in all states, that's why.
	I'd be surprised if they do the exact same thing, but even more this time, which is what they would need to do, it looks like.
	I'd be surprised if that's how it plays out, but we'll see, we'll see.
	We've got two more Rumble rants before we get onto my comments.
	That's a random name for a dollar.
	It says, All the Stags?
	White! We need more brown stags and brown squirrels.
	And yes, I was referring to the hallway gameplay section.
	The officer would be wary for when Yasuke respawns, though.
	God, that would be terrifying, actually.
	After taking three bullets and falling, if she, like, sat up like The Undertaker.
	Like Jason. Yeah.
	She's literally like Michael Myers.
	It's like Netflix's remake of Halloween.
	Genuinely, it was terrifying footage, holding the knife up like that, slowly approaching you.
	I was thinking, like, this is like a horror movie.
	Black Norman Bates. Yeah, in a dress as well.
	Sorry, Connor, but that's one of my two favourite things in wrestling of all time.
	One is the ultimate warrior holding the ropes and going mad.
	LAUGHTER And the other is the Old School Undertaker just suddenly sitting bolt upright.
	Oh yeah. I love that. My favourite one is the Andre the Giant gif that Ren often uses.
	Oh, wait, wait. Hey, hey, hey, hey!
	That's great. Also, Dragon Lady Chris for $5 says, Bo, Suetonius or Tacitus?
	Both, which one first? Tacitus is the gold standard.
	It's absolutely brilliant. It's one of the best things you'll ever read.
	Suetonius is thought of as something like a tabloid sensationalist.
	Lots of people poo-poo Suetonius.
	This doesn't sound like too much of a good tip.
	This is right in my wheelhouse.
	This could not be any more in my wheelhouse.
	Go for Tacitus. Tacitus is choice.
	Suetonius is fun.
	Yeah, so that's the answer.
	Alright, onto my segment comments.
	Hugo Bossman 23 says, uh, body cams are BLM's worst nightmare.
	Yeah, was it explicitly BLM or was it just leftists in general who were calling for the body cams for the police officers?
	Because I know because they were expecting what it would unearth is like an ocean of random black men being murdered by police for no reason.
	But it just turns out every single time, oh, they were trying to murder the police officer.
	Oh, even the George Floyd body cam footage, almost a year after, when that finally got released, I think it, obviously, he died in what, May, and then the footage was released January in 2021, so they waited a long, long time.
	Even that, when it got released, I saw loads of people in the comments, sharing it on social media, going, oh, this was it?
	Dude OD'd. Clearly OD'd.
	You can even see him foaming in the mouth beforehand.
	I think having loads of policemen, body cam stuff is great because I think the real, real reality of it is that sometimes the cops do shoot people unnecessarily.
	But it's relatively rare and they totally do it to white people as well.
	Yeah. They do sometimes shoot a black guy unnecessarily.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's quite rare.
	I've never seen an actual example being shared by BLM or any of the actors.
	Right, they wouldn't share it. But they do it to white people disproportionate to the number of violent crimes and police encounters that white people commit, but not disproportionate to the per capita population, if that makes sense.
	Do you know Donut Operator?
	I've heard of him, yeah. He's a massive YouTube dude, ex-cop, I think ex-military, definitely ex-cop.
	And he posts loads and loads of body cam stuff, loads and loads of police interactions.
	And some of them are, yeah, like, here's one where a cop shot someone needlessly.
	So it totally happens, but not very often.
	Well, relatively anyway, not very often.
	And yeah, it can quite often be a white dude.
	But yeah, the vast majority of it is cops saving themselves from getting killed.
	Nearly always, it seems.
	Yeah, I mean, I think police know generally that shooting people for no reason is bad.
	And so they try to avoid that as much as possible.
	If nothing else, they'll be filling out paperwork for a month over this guy.
	Or maybe just lose their jobs.
	They don't want that either. Or go to prison for better, yeah.
	Right. The name that Connor doesn't want to read out, I will respect his wishes and not read it out either, says BLM is dead and BLM killed it.
	Yep. How fitting for an organisation that claimed to represent black lives and completely ignored the leading cause of death for black people in America.
	They didn't do much on diabetes, did they?
	Not for Patrice O'Neil. No.
	Uh, Baron?
	Yeah, I was gonna say, I don't need Patrice.
	Uh, Baron Von Warpenguin.
	We was horror movie slashers and she...
	Quick, on that last bit, do you know who Patrice O'Neil's last interview was?
	With Alex Jones. Was it?
	Was it really? Yeah, he was sitting there saying, man, like, the Obama administration's been dividing and conquering black people and white people.
	I've been doing my research. This is crazy.
	Like, I thought you were all mad this entire time, and now...
	He actually did the research and came to some worrying conclusions.
	I don't think Patricia Neal was killed, but yes.
	No, I don't think he was killed either.
	But, speaking of, Vivian Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick's daughter, who has come out recently and said that her dad would have supported Trump, Has apparently, I've been told, appeared on Alex Jones in the past, and also streamed with Owen Benjamin, which I was not expecting.
	Was he? He was the comedian that Crowder used to be friends with, wasn't he?
	I think so. I don't know who he used to be friends with, but I know that he's posted some pretty spicy stuff in the past, and then recently had a meltdown.
	That's very interesting that Stanley Kubrick's daughter is apparently onside.
	Very, very interesting.
	I really like Stanley Kubrick's films, by the way.
	Part 3, 4, and 5 are all filmed, so it's just for the editing to be sorted right.
	Part 3 was slightly cursed.
	Very cursed. I think it might have been the same fly.
	But that's why it took so long.
	Part 3 recorded one version of it that was completely unusable.
	Recorded 30 minutes of another version of it.
	Unusable. And then Part 3 of Part 3 turned out great.
	But there was a fly around the studio.
	But that will be coming out when it comes out.
	Uh, Arizona Desert Rat, wonder if this was a suicide by cop situation.
	There are some people who will draw a weapon on police officers just to get the officers to shoot and kill them.
	Doubt it, this just looked like a person going crazy.
	It's genuinely like a schizophrenic episode.
	Yeah. Didn't work.
	And Furious Dan, the Concord DLC is going in a bizarre direction.
	I keep seeing people share Concord.
	I think Concord...
	Yeah, I've got no idea what that reference is.
	I think it's the image that Samson used for our excellent thumbnail.
	Yeah. Big props for the thumbnail again.
	Yeah. It's a game that failed with ugly characters, so to be expected.
	Very, very common these days.
	Right, and with that, thank you very much for tuning in.
	I'll be back in half an hour for my show.
	Otherwise, we'll be back at 1 o'clock tomorrow for our regular scheduled podcast.

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