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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of The Loathe Seaters, episode 1038, for today, Friday, the 8th of November, 2024.
	I am joined by Carl and Ralph.
	Good to see you back, sir.
	Great to be back.
	Yeah, it's been far too long since you've been in the UK. We've all been jubilant for the last few days, so it's actually going to be a pretty encouraging podcast.
	We're going to be talking about how all the illegals decided to vote for Trump, for some reason.
	Kamala's Reddit army, because they're a hideous horde who won't accept the results of the election, and how the rest is Trump, a.k.a.
	how Rory Stewart got literally everything wrong.
	We're going to explain that in excruciating detail to the Elliot Page impersonator himself.
	Is it?
	Okay, well I've got a poppy on, so there we go.
	I'm just going to keep animating.
	Apparently it's blocked by the mic, though.
	No problem.
	Anyway, at 3 o'clock today, because it's a Friday, we have got Lads Hour, and we'll be going through all of the libs crying, coping, and seething during the election.
	I know that we don't usually indulge in schadenfreude on this podcast, but just this once.
	It'll be great.
	If you haven't subscribed to the website yet, you should, for as little as £5 a month, not just to support us, but so you can watch it live and send in your comments and questions.
	But without further away, Carl, take it away.
	So, in America, as we speak, right now, there is an army of 13,000 convicted murderers just roaming free.
	This is something that has been well documented and is well known.
	This is not something that I'm...
	Extrapolating.
	This is completely understood by the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and various other agencies that track this sort of stuff.
	In total, there are 435,000 known criminals wandering free in America.
	Well, known criminals as in having prior criminal convictions before breaking it.
	Having been convicted of a crime in their home countries, having crossed the border illegally, having engaged with ICE, and then been let free to wander around in the United States.
	So you can add that number to the existing 10 million that we also know went in under Biden and Harris.
	So there are at least 10.5 million illegals slash known foreign criminals that came in in the last four years that now Trump has to deal with.
	Yes, and like I said, of those, we know that nearly half a million are convicted criminals, and at least 13,000 are convicted murderers.
	And so that's concerning.
	A lot of people are worried about that.
	And it's not just legal citizens in the United States who are worried about that.
	It's also illegal aliens who are worried about that.
	Because, I mean, you know, you probably saw these guys as you were coming in, and you're like, oh, God.
	That's worrying.
	I was just coming for a better life with my children.
	That guy seems to be a lunatic, you know?
	And so Trump, for quite some time, has been promising mass deportations.
	This was one of the core pillars of his campaign that he ran on.
	And, of course, when the victory comes in, they're like, are you really going to deport millions of people?
	He's like, pfft, yeah.
	There's going to be no price tag on it.
	We're literally going to spend as much as it takes to just boot out millions of people.
	Well, the price tag on keeping them in and keeping the incentives so that record numbers of illegals come in every year has actually been totaled for 2023.
	It's $150 billion.
	Really?
	That's interesting.
	Ours, thankfully, isn't quite that high because we don't have a land border with Mexico.
	But, yeah, it just costs billions and billions and billions.
	Yeah, so you could, I don't know, conscript the entire Ryanair fleet into deporting all these people, and it would cost far less and be done over a series of maybe a couple of years, and save you loads of money.
	That'd be nice.
	Well, you won't be surprised to hear this, but the liberal media doesn't agree with that analysis.
	They think that in fact they make us money.
	That's because GDP is factored into government spending.
	The other way around.
	So the more the GDP goes up is only because you're spending more money on illegals.
	So as long as the line goes up, including the line of murders, that's fine.
	Any thoughts on what should happen to the illegals?
	Well, I think the first thing that I believe Trump should do is he should toss out the whole inauguration and, you know, January 20 stuff.
	He should go down to the southern border, kind of swear on the Bible there, and then start doing what he promised to do.
	I mean, there is the expectations for this Trump presidency are significantly higher than they were for the 2016 presidency.
	I don't want to use this because young people might be watching this show as well.
	So karma may not be the B word, if I try to be politically correct.
	But the possibilities he has now are so much larger than they would have been if he would have won re-election or if they would have granted him re-election.
	That's probably the proper term in 2020.
	Because now he has a much more idiosyncratic team.
	He has some really interesting thinkers in his team.
	Some names are known, like whether it's Robert F. Kennedy or Elon Musk, but there are some other people as well who I think are quite interesting.
	And now he must create the conditions for them also to be successful.
	So there are two things.
	One is the deportation of illegals out of the country.
	But the other thing is the deportation, let's put it this way, of unreliable bureaucrats out of government.
	Because the big problem we talked about this on the show previously is you can have all the best people in leading position if the entire bureaucracy is working against you, as he did in the first Trump administration from the State Department downwards to all the other departments.
	He needs to do that as well.
	So dust off the whole project 2025 and implement as much as you can.
	Did you see that all the libs were, including for Axios and Rolling Stone, crying about the fact that Matt Walsh joked, now that we've won, can we tell them it's real?
	And they thought a man known for trolling them in two very popular documentaries, whose profile photo is still him in disguise trolling Robin DiAngelo, wasn't trolling.
	But what you can do is revive Schedule F and sack 50,000 federal employees on day one, and that would be fun.
	And I'm actually rather optimistic about this, because Elon Musk is going to be the person presiding over this, and he has a concrete history of firing people who are useless and are against what he's trying to achieve.
	Stephen Miller, as well, is still in control of immigration policy.
	He wasn't in the first couple of years when Trump and the Republicans had the House and didn't do enough with it.
	He was after they lost the House and when they implemented the Remain in Mexico policy.
	And so because of the shenanigans in 2020, the fortification, because Trump has had four years in the wilderness, he's shored up his defenses, got his allies, they've had time to sit down and think, and he's kept Stephen Miller not only running his campaign, but helping out with immigration policy, so they'll have all this stuff to go on day one.
	Yeah, but of course, the administrative state, it will strike back.
	I mean, we just saw, I think, a couple of hours ago that Jerome Powell said that even if Trump would ask him, he would not resign.
	I mean, it's a minor indicator.
	Yeah, he said even if Trump would ask him to resign, he wouldn't do it as the head of the Federal Reserve.
	Bookmark this, right?
	They will use, just like they did Liz Truss, the Fed will use interest rates to support his tariff agenda and blame the hangover of Biden's inflation on Trump.
	Just as they would have done the opposite if Harris would have won the election.
	On the upside, of course, that's the great thing.
	This has always, for me, been the great thing about Donald Trump.
	There are so many politicians, and I think in the UK it's the same, right?
	They go into politics as, quote-unquote, middle-class individuals, and then they come out as rich individuals.
	You know, kind of the Obama phenomenon.
	You go in there as a community organizer, and now you're a Netflix star that has written, what, like six biographies of himself.
	I've never known a man who wrote so many books about himself.
	I think his wife and I have written, like, three about herself.
	There's not a single one of us, by the way, so I think it's time that we should also start writing our biographies.
	But for financial means, Trump doesn't need to be the president.
	It's probably good for him to stay out of jail because this is the next thing.
	They will try it again, I would believe, after 2028.
	But also people like Elon Musk.
	Musk is not, oh my God, if I can work with the government, I'll be poor.
	So they really have an independence that other politicians didn't have before.
	So they need to push through their...
	What some would call radical agenda, but I think we would call it the common sense agenda.
	The reason why Trump won, and I'm sure we're going to get to this, is because if you look at his politics, I mean, all of this was common sense.
	The absurdity is this.
	You look at the programs.
	You look at what they say.
	You look at the closing events.
	If you have Cardi B on the stage, if you have, you know, what was it, Megan Thee, Thee Stallion, you know, kind of all this.
	As much as they might think they do, they don't speak for a majority of America.
	Kudos to their success as artists, but overall they're weirdos.
	Much more, I would say, than somebody like Lee Greenwald singing God Bless America, I'm Proud to Be an American, or even Hulk Hogan when he comes on with his walking stick.
	It's cheesy, but it's American.
	But it's also totally mainstream.
	Exactly.
	Totally normal.
	It's just like showing yourself at a McDonald's or showing yourself on a garbage truck.
	You could really say everything the mainstream media or the liberal media is hyperventilating about is probably good or is perceived quite well by at least 51% of the population.
	It's precisely what we saw.
	The McDonald's stunt was incredible.
	I've never seen anything like it.
	And he just says, because it's so...
	I'm sorry to interrupt you.
	It's so authentic.
	You see him doing it.
	He's like, this is really that...
	Like, he does not say, the focus group told me if I hand this person the fries, then I have to look like this and say this.
	It's him.
	And then you have the media come out and say, well, like, fact check.
	Donald Trump does not work at a McDonald's.
	Like, you don't say.
	You don't say.
	What I particularly liked about that is you would never see someone like Hillary Clinton Obama or Kamala Harris doing the same thing, because they fundamentally perceive McDonald's as a low-status job.
	They see McDonald's as ignoble, whereas Donald Trump says, no, it's a perfectly noble job, and I'm going to, here we go, have some fries, I eat McDonald's all the time, blah blah blah.
	You know, it's like, Donald Trump hasn't got this pretension that they're trying to essentially lay on him.
	And that's why it worked so well.
	In 2004, John Kerry and his wife, what was her name?
	Teresa Hines.
	They went to, I think, a chili.
	So, you know, one of these, or was it a Carl's Jr., one of these places.
	And you could see them ordering, I think it was a Frosty and something else.
	And you could see the awkwardness.
	Because before their campaign, they never set foot into a fast food restaurant, into a fast food chain.
	Like Elizabeth Warren trying to open a beer.
	Yes!
	Or Tim Walz trying to load a shotgun, right?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Or the football coach posting about football stuff.
	You say, this guy has never played a game of football in the entire life.
	There were revealing moments about Trump's authenticity on the campaign trail.
	Obviously, it was the McDonald's bit where the guy drives up and goes, I'm just an ordinary guy.
	And he's going, you're not ordinary at all.
	Yes!
	He genuinely thinks that his...
	All of his supports are extraordinary.
	But the other one was when he was still president, when he was walking over to the helicopter, and a Marine's hat just blew off, and he walked after it, chased it down, and just gave it back to him.
	Most people would ignore it.
	He actually does care.
	But it's these small things, like when he was at the McDonald's, pointing out that his fingers weren't touching the fries as he was living.
	Again, it's such a small thing, but only if you had already previously thought about this would you mention something like that.
	It can't be faked.
	But anyway, so there are Latino, or Latin, I'll just call them, Republican activists in Texas, because there are a lot of Hispanics in Texas.
	And one of them says, well, he's not meaning to go and deport every family that crosses the border, he just means to deport the criminals and sex offenders.
	So what I love about this is that Trump's agenda is so obviously the correct agenda, that even the people who are going to be affected by the agenda are like, yeah, he probably should do that.
	Well, I also like the presumption that, I think there was like a Netflix show about this where they, as soon as Trump became president, I think it was 13 Reasons Why, don't ask me why I've watched this, but in the second season they made the Hispanic character in the first season who's really good, immediately his entire family are illegal migrants, and it's the default assumption by all these progressive activists is, why did you Hispanics vote for Donald Trump?
	He's going to deport you too!
	And all the Hispanics are like, gringo, are you calling me a rapist?
	Like, what?
	Why do you presume that?
	So anyway, Trump stands by this.
	He says, look, there's no price tag on this.
	It doesn't matter how much it costs.
	We want to make the border strong and powerful.
	And we still want people to come to the country, just controlled migration, which a lot of people take issue with.
	But I think the important thing to remember is America is a much bigger country than ours.
	And it's not in the same place as we are.
	But one thing I really like is the Independent gives us the stock liberal response to this.
	Where they say, using the full force of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to identify, detain, and deport millions of people living in the US without legal permission could cost more than $967 billion over 10 years.
	We'll pay it.
	Now what?
	By the way, that's not even 100 days of running the US government, which I think is raking up $1 trillion every 100 days.
	I thought you were going to say the NHS, but you've probably also been correct.
	But you are absolutely right.
	It's unbelievable amounts of money.
	But also, just a simple calculation, right, the US has had record illegal migration in the last four years, and yet the inflation was, what, 13% in one of the years of Biden's administration, I think 2022?
	So why if the illegal migrant population, which is apparently so industrious and productive, despite fleeing from failed states that they couldn't make as industrious and productive as America, we can't answer that question, why is America not in a booming economy?
	Great question.
	Well, they do point out that, did you know, undocumented immigrants paid federal, state, and local taxes of nearly $9,000 per person in 2022.
	How do they know that?
	Also, if they're undocumented, how have they got Social Security to the extent where they can pay?
	Are they committing Social Security fraud?
	Do they not get sent a tax form they have to fill out and send back in America?
	Yeah, they do.
	How does the government know that they're there to send them?
	How could you possibly?
	Why would you do it?
	If you're like, yeah, they don't know I'm here, I'm not going to pay any attention.
	Well, I think one thing they do is, for example, like if you have an area where I know that lots of illegals live there, they can look at, you know, how many cheeseburgers were sold in that area.
	And then you can say, okay, you know, 20,000 cheeseburgers were bought by illegals.
	And that means that on these 20,000 cheeseburgers, there were like, you know, one dollar in tax.
	So therefore, they...
	They're specifically talking about the state taxes that are levying people.
	They're not talking about VAT or whatever that you pay on goods.
	And they have an exact number, $8,889.
	It's like, I don't think you know that at all.
	No, no, that's great.
	No, that's great.
	They know that, so we know where they all are.
	So therefore, we can enforce the law.
	Yeah, so surely half the job is done.
	So you can, as we've discussed, It doesn't really matter.
	Even the people who are going to be adversely affected by this policy know that really you should do the policy.
	Because America, like everywhere else, is going downhill because of unchecked immigration.
	And so Trump has just been winning in every demographic.
	This is surveys done by Northeast University.
	And if we scroll down...
	Sorry, I'm sorry.
	Thank you.
	If we scroll down, we get the Latin men and Latin women.
	And as you can see, Trump massively increased his vote share with both cohorts.
	Because, okay, yeah, yeah, maybe he's going to deport my gran, but damn it, they have to go.
	They have to go back.
	It's just too much.
	And I'm not even joking when I say that.
	This particular woman, for example, Abigail Soloranzo, I can't pronounce it.
	She says, well, look, my parents are illegals, but I'm definitely voting for Trump because they have to go back.
	They crossed the southern border after a long journey from Nicaragua more than three decades ago, surrendered to the authorities, claimed asylum, and then raised their daughters in Miami.
	Now Abigail is one of the growing number of Latinos who think that, like her parents, should be turned away.
	You don't know their background, she says.
	We don't know what they're doing.
	It's scary.
	Yeah, it is.
	You've got literally hundreds of thousands of convicted criminals, tens of thousands of murderers.
	And yeah, I mean, I'm not saying that they're all bad or anything.
	You're going to get some who are like, yeah, that guy shouldn't be here.
	This guy's a maniac.
	You need to start deporting people.
	Your mum and dad are going to go, maybe.
	This is Ayan Husi Ali's opinion about Somalians.
	She literally is an asylum seeker to the Netherlands, now lives in the US, and now she's turned around and gone, yeah, loads of them are committing crime, loads of them are radical Islamists, why are you bringing them in?
	Are you mad?
	You're not Somalis, says the son.
	Ha ha ha!
	I mean, a lot of this is, and quite rightly, pulling the ladder up after them, and that ladder's going to need to be even longer as the wall gets 10 feet higher.
	There shouldn't have been a ladder in the first place.
	I don't believe the numbers.
	We talked about this shortly before the show.
	I mean, I went back.
	I think the first one, like Ann Coulter, was talking about this all over 20 years ago.
	The number was always these miraculous 12 million.
	Like, we have been talking now for 30 years, this started even after 9-11, we have 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States.
	Are you seriously telling me that nothing changed in the last 20 to 30 years?
	That that number is still exactly the same 12 million as it was in 1999, if it was 12 million in 1999?
	Because a lot of this is supposedly self-reported, so I guess many people who are illegal in the country don't really say, you know, Yes, sure, I'm here legally.
	Oh, no, I absolutely certainly do, just like they pay their taxes, even though they don't have to.
	Like, of course.
	But that's the thing, like, they throw all these numbers at you, and at some point you say they're not true.
	I mean, I think this just came out shortly before the election actually took place.
	There were all these news pieces that say, although people say that they feel that crime has risen, in fact, statistics show that violent crime has gone down.
	And then like three weeks before the elections, all of a sudden, well, the FBI has secretly updated the numbers.
	They revised the numbers and it did not go down, I think, by like 2.1%.
	It went up by 4.5%.
	And the same with the economy.
	There's a couple of interesting economic bloggers out there, like Noah Smith and others, who said, it's all not true.
	The economy is doing great.
	Inflation is not a problem.
	People are imagining all of this.
	What do you mean you imagine this?
	If you can tell whether you get poorer or not, and then some economists comes along and say, No, no, no.
	No, no.
	You're doing much better than you did four years ago.
	I said, no, I don't.
	Yes, you do.
	Yes, you do.
	I just lost my house.
	Do you have a study for that?
	Yeah, exactly.
	What do you mean?
	Normal households, they put aside, I don't know, a few hundred dollars a week or whatever it is for groceries.
	This is how much we spend on groceries.
	It's fairly reliable.
	And then, you know, we'll see what offers are on, blah, blah, blah.
	And if that isn't producing enough food to feed the family for that period of time, you feel it.
	You notice it.
	You don't need anyone else to tell you this.
	I know because it's not a lot happening to my household.
	So it's very obvious it's going to be exactly the same for almost everyone in America right now.
	We also know all the numbers are made up because when they get revised later on, like the jobs numbers, they say, we've created a hundred odd thousand jobs.
	Pay no attention that a hundred percent of jobs have gone to migrants.
	Basically, since Biden and Harris took over, and then they revised it down to...
	And government-led police!
	Yeah, quite, and they revised it down to...
	Yeah, it's about 12,000, actually.
	Sorry, Bald Eagle just sent in a super chat making a great point that I did mean to make, but got kind of sidetracked.
	Even if, let's assume that the illegals are just like, yeah, I just feel like giving money to the government, I'm going to fill out these taxes, because I'm just such a good person, even though I broke into this country illegally.
	What are they taking from the state in exchange?
	The exact same situation in the UK. Even the skilled migrants, about 50% of whom make less than the average wage, by the way, so they take out, also bring the equivalent number, if not more, dependents who never contribute anything in the first place.
	And I think there's also one has to be fair about the different approaches within the migrant community, because my brother lives in the United States, like he works there, it took them four years to get through all the procedures to get a green card.
	So it's also unfair, as, for example, Harris was proposing.
	Somebody comes in illegally, and then you say, our solution to the problem is we make a blanket amnesty and a quick path to citizenship.
	There are people who have been standing in line for the right, not getting citizenship, just going to have the permission to work in the United States for years on end.
	You need lawyers to help you, because otherwise you cannot do all the paperwork, which brings us back again to the administrative part.
	And then somebody crosses the Mexican border, says, here I am, and they say, wow, you're already in there.
	There's nothing you can do about it.
	There's a friend of mine who used to say that if you fly to the US and you want to stay there, don't book a flight to New York.
	Book a flight to Mexico.
	And it's partially true.
	So it's also unfair towards...
	You always punish the honest ones, it seems.
	This is also what we, of course, experience in the UK and in continental Europe.
	You have honest migrants that come in.
	It's much harder.
	They are getting much easier deported because they play by the rules.
	And then you have people who come in who are either radicals or criminals or anything else, and they say, well, we can't deport them because they might be punished.
	Well, they're victims.
	They're victims of something.
	And it's, yeah, it's terrible.
	And like I said, it seems that...
	Trump's common sense platform is so common sense that he just can't stop winning.
	So Trump recently, in this last election, won Star County.
	He's the first Republican to win this Texas border county for over 100 years.
	Why do we think that might be the case?
	Because the demographics are 97% Hispanic.
	97%.
	They didn't give us actually a tally of how many are legal citizens, but I'm going to guess that a lot of them are not legal citizens.
	A lot of them are going to be illegals who have literally just arrived across the border.
	Well, the fascinating thing is, as well, there are lots of, let's say, legal Venezuelans and Cubans in Florida.
	Florida, after ensuring election integrity, when the quickest state read, complete blanket read, was a swing state.
	Even Miami-Dade County, where lots of Hispanics are, where Dave Raboy lives, that's flipped, because they know the kinds of people that are coming across.
	And Trump won about, what was it, 40-odd percent of California?
	Which has declared itself a sanctuary state.
	New York as well, where they've had lots of African migrants who are sleeping out in the open and committing sex offences.
	Everyone who has common sense wants these criminals to be returned home.
	And that's not the only county on the border that Trump flipped, either.
	Texas is actually going more and more red as time goes on, because the Latins are just like, okay, yeah, great, but, you know, he might send my grandparents back, or my mum and dad back, but, I mean, look at all these goddamn criminals.
	And many of the illegals are just optimistic that they won't be the ones deported, actually, as you can see from this one.
	An undocumented immigrant from Guatemala says the odds of Trump improving the economy is worth the potentially higher risk of deportation.
	Trump wants to deport those who do bad things.
	I haven't broken any laws.
	Well, actually...
	Yeah, well, you know.
	But what I like about this is the rationalisation.
	It's like, well, you know, I mean, Kamala is going to make everyone really poor.
	Why would I even come here?
	I'll run the risk of getting deported.
	Deportation.
	Gay race communism.
	Yeah, I'll choose the deportation.
	And the article this is actually, they've got loads of accounts in here.
	At the bottom, they've got a little line saying, well, for those people we interviewed who are here illegally, we only provided their first name.
	That's like four and there's like one legal person that they interviewed for it.
	For example, Victor is a Mexican immigrant who lives in Austin, works as a day laborer, and expressed similar frustrations over the economy.
	Work, he said, has decreased from a near constant to no more than two jobs a week in the past years.
	So, you know, if they deport me, fair enough, but at least I'll get some money until then.
	Excellent.
	We've got a couple of rumble rants.
	We've already read out bald eagles.
	We've got Nero Unrealists for $1.
	The reality is the violent criminals wind up in Hispanic neighborhoods.
	They're the primary victims of illegal alien criminals.
	Things are that bad here.
	Well, just a quick thing.
	That's a completely common phenomenon.
	Legal migrant communities, when they're allowed to coalesce into sort of miniature colonies, become a kind of anchor for illegals to move into.
	Because of a shared culture, shared understanding, shared language, shared habits, and often family members.
	So people that you can stay with.
	So these migrant communities become a hotbed of illegal immigration.
	This is why you see children like Jennifer Nagare, I'm struggling to pronounce her last name, the 12-year-old that was abducted and killed in Texas, and the mum was going on the campaign trail with Trump.
	I mean, she didn't do anything wrong.
	She's of that background, so...
	They well know how bad this can be.
	And Connor's Smug Mug.
	Oh, thank you very much.
	Trump won.
	God bless.
	Dev seethes and copes.
	Who's dead?
	Don't worry.
	Okay.
	Would you ever invite Kersha on?
	I don't do that.
	Islander 3 will release before I ever see my Islander 2.
	We're sorry if there's any delays.
	We don't know which country you're in.
	I assume you're American.
	Or maybe Australian.
	Could be, but I think it's American, because I've had a few Americans saying, when's my Islander coming?
	I will get on that.
	Excellent.
	Thank you very much.
	Right.
	Turns out Kamala Harris has a hideous Redditor army who do not want to accept the results of the election.
	I can't believe she lost.
	We keep being told, of course, that election denials are a uniquely Republican thing.
	Pay no attention to 2004 and Hillary Clinton in 2016.
	Even though Kamala has conceded and Joe Biden found his proper meds down the back of the sofa and gave a cogent speech the other day saying we're going to accept the results of the election, it turns out Harris' HQ aren't actually that keen on what's happened.
	It's just, I mean, Joe Biden must be, it's the three people here in the room, maybe, you know, 51% of the American population and Joe Biden who are the happiest about the outcome of this election.
	You could tell, like when he was smiling, he was like pointing around, like he did not seem that fit.
	Well, since I don't know, you know, Grover Cleveland lost his first election.
	It's like, this is, because he will walk around now and he will find out every day when somebody reminds him, because he probably doesn't remember on his own, that he was the only person to ever defeat Donald Trump in an election, supposedly.
	And it could well that he has voted for him this time.
	Yeah, I would not be surprised.
	I would not be surprised.
	Well, it turns out that lots of people voted for Trump.
	So we have an update from Elon Musk.
	God bless him for buying X. It's done a great service to the world.
	Arizona's just declared for Trump.
	I know that the Senate and House races are still coming in.
	So by the time that this is out, Carrie Lake could have been announced as a new senator or she could have lost by a narrow margin.
	Who knows?
	But he has got the presidency, the popular vote, the Senate majority, probably a House majority, state governor majority, state legislature majority.
	And the Supreme Court.
	And the Supreme Court.
	And also, two Supreme Court justices are probably going to retire during this term.
	It's probably going to be Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, so he gets to appoint two more as well.
	Superb.
	Cementing that...
	Sad to see Thomas go, but what can you do?
	He's in his late 70s.
	Yeah, no, exactly.
	Don't do a great service.
	Yeah.
	Can you give us some more, like, cackling as he gets into the car memes?
	That'd be fantastic.
	But before, anyway, before that, Trump has a...
	I just really like his judgments.
	He's very terse.
	No, this is bollocks.
	Get out.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, sorry.
	It's gonna be good.
	Trump has a complete and utter mandate to govern.
	But will the Democrats accept the result?
	Now, Kamala Harris has to certify the result herself on January 6th.
	Yeah.
	That's going to be delicious.
	Between now and then, we might be expecting some protests, a spattering of upset and chimping out.
	And the reason I suspect this is because Dave Raboy sent me this piece from the New York Times.
	He was on our election stream and he brought it up then.
	And there were two lawyers here that in late October just advocated launching a colour revolution against the Trump administration.
	So they say, here are four different examples of how we could have fought Trump's path to the White House before he could become a candidate.
	And here's how we didn't take them.
	So they said, using the 14th Amendment, now, we know that they can't decertify the election result with this because Trump didn't launch an insurrection, so it doesn't apply.
	So that's off the table.
	They said some other legalese thing that I've not included in here.
	The third one they said, defending democracy, the third approach, is partisan gatekeeping.
	In the absence of legal tools to block extremist threats...
	Have we thought about doing that, guys?
	No, maybe we should start.
	It says, the responsibility for fending off such threats falls to political parties.
	Now, I hate to break it to you, but you are minorities in literally everything.
	Oh, let's try parties.
	That's all you've done for the last decade, which is why you've got Trump.
	Yes.
	It's literally the reason he's here.
	And you now have zero bargaining power.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Every single institution.
	So, that one's off the table.
	And they say, when authoritarians make it onto the ballot, pro-democratic forces may turn to a fourth strategy.
	Containment.
	So, just the pro-democratic forces.
	Well, what happened?
	Well, people voted for what they wanted and they got it.
	Ah, yeah, that's anti-democracy.
	Yeah, no, it is, Cole.
	You see, democracy doesn't mean one man, one vote to the Democrats.
	Yeah, people should get what they want.
	No, they're blank slatists.
	So they get to tell you what you should want, presuming we have an egalitarian human nature.
	And so it's only because of divisive racist populists like Trump that you're not all voting for the Democrats.
	So if you don't get Democrats, democracy hasn't worked, in their mind.
	Correct.
	They're mad, they believe this, take it into account.
	So, instead they say, let's try containment, in which politicians, from across the ideological spectrum, forge a broad coalition to isolate and defeat the authoritarians.
	Translation, the uniparty in the deep state try and frustrate Trump's term again.
	It seems that he's...
	Much wiser this time.
	They actually reference a couple of examples in European politics, Ralph.
	They reference how the Law and Justice Party were being gatekept by a coalition in Poland, and obviously Macron allying with the Communists to try and block Le Pen and her party from winning as Jordan Bardella as Prime Minister.
	Now, you know quite a lot about European electoral systems.
	Given they are proportional representation systems and the Americans are not, how successful do you think the Democrats would be able to replicate any of those European containment exercises?
	I don't even think that the Europeans have been successful.
	I mean, they also tried it in Austria, right?
	They tried it in Austria for 40 years, and now the Freedom Party came in first in the last elections.
	They again keep them out of government, and they will even be strong after the next election.
	And like Fidesz in Hungary at some point, then you don't have 29%, you have like 43%.
	And then the system itself basically allows you to govern on your own.
	The problem, I think you described it quite nicely.
	The thing is, people understand, the voter is not this mysterious creature.
	From the UK to the US, they have been telling politicians for decades what they want.
	And they accept being ignored for a while, but it's like you pursue a girl, right?
	And at some point, you're going to give up and look for another girl.
	And this is kind of what voters are now doing.
	They say, you know, we told you, migration has been an issue all over the West, I would say, since the late 70s.
	And it has been ignored.
	And then the things...
	I always compare it to the ship and the barnacles on it, right?
	It gets more and more.
	And the ship is getting ever slower.
	It's lingering.
	It cannot hold course.
	But you have to burn more and more and more fuel even though you get slower and slower and slower.
	And this is precisely how many people feel all over the West.
	They say, we pay higher taxes than ever.
	We get...
	Less quality in services, whether it's in healthcare, whether it's in education, whether it's in any other area of life.
	So we want a fundamental system change.
	The fun part about Donald Trump is he is, between us, he is actually what Barack Obama promised to be.
	Like, Barack Obama, the only difference with Barack Obama was that he had a different skin colour, let's be completely honest.
	Otherwise, he was a typical Democrat machine politician.
	He was George Bush in a tan suit.
	Precisely, yeah.
	Supposedly the only scandal he ever had was the tan suit.
	I just love this, oh, we just can't figure out what voters want.
	If only they'd tell us, as if...
	Like, they're on this...
	Like, shrinking island as the great tides come in.
	And they're just like, well, you know, it just could never be known.
	A mystery!
	Yeah, it's just a mystery for the ages.
	They just don't want democracy.
	Someone's shouting in there as they're clicking through chicken entrails.
	It's just like, it's really not very hard.
	And we'll cover this in a minute, actually.
	About, like, the sort of elite bubble politicians and people around them.
	It's actually not very hard.
	You're just a massive snob.
	That's your problem.
	No problem.
	Quite.
	So, you can't use lawfare, you can't use the other party, you can't use the uniparty in the deep state, you can't use electoral coalitions to gatekeep a man out who has won literally every part of the government and the popular vote.
	Don't control anything.
	So that leaves us with a fifth strategy, according to these lawyers.
	Social mobilisation.
	Democracy's last bastion of defence is civil society.
	When the constitutional order is under threat, influential groups and societal leaders, chief executives, religious leaders, labour leaders, and prominent retired public officials Must speak out, reminding citizens of the red lines that democratic societies must never cross.
	And when politicians cross those red lines, society's most prominent voices must publicly and forcefully repudiate them.
	That's interesting.
	But what you're saying, when you appeal to society as being the last bulwark against tyranny, apparently, you're presupposing that the society doesn't agree with the supposed tyranny.
	But Donald Trump winning the popular vote kind of implies that society isn't with you either.
	So what now?
	No, you're so right.
	And they have tried this.
	I love this part of it.
	The prominent retired public officials, like Liz Cheney and John Bolton.
	This was so absurd.
	The idea of the Democrat side, if you trot out the Cheneys, that that will win you the election, you must be entirely elected.
	Do you remember Michael Gove coming out and saying, I'm going to endorse Kamala Harris because I usually take Dick Cheney's advice?
	I don't remember that.
	As soon as you became the editor of Spectator, and then on election night, Spectator ran an article from Steerpike that says, five Brits who lost out on election night.
	And I was just like, I can think of a sixth.
	Yeah.
	Why would you think?
	But also, if you're a Democrat, why would you think that you would encourage Democrat enfranchisement by taking the endorsement from someone you called a war criminal for 20 years?
	Oh yeah.
	If you're a conservative, why are you endorsing the Democrats?
	What is wrong with you?
	It's because they're neoconservatives.
	And as we know from both Strauss and Rawls, these people, again, believe your blank slate, and so they think they are philosopher kings that should tell you what's in your rational self-interest, and so they can administer democracy on your half as, what did Time magazine call it?
	Shadow campaign that saved the last election?
	But this is what I love about Trump, and what he's managed to achieve.
	is actually successfully oust the Uniparty into one of the parties.
	So he's successfully taken control of literally more than half of American politics at this point.
	But in 2016, took control of like half of American politics and essentially forced them to be like, oh no, we're all Democrats now.
	So George Bush, Dick Cheney, probably Rumsfeld, you know, all of the worst people of the early 2000s and are all Democrats, along with Obama and Clinton.
	That's a, you know, Gore and all those.
	And so you've got, okay, great, they're all, and then our politicians are like, Labour are like, yeah, we're with them.
	And the Conservatives are like, oh yeah, we're with them too.
	Do you know William Hague wrote a column at the Times?
	If Trump wins, it'll be a catastrophe.
	His exact quote was, we're all Democrats now.
	It's like, Did he?
	That's the final line of his column.
	But you made such an important point because that was the trouble that Trump had in his first period, which was that he was an outsider who was winning not just against Hillary Clinton, he was also winning against the Republican establishment.
	The entire Constitution.
	Precisely.
	And the Republicans then, they reigned him in.
	He had, I think, Reince Priebus, who nobody has ever heard of before, was his first chief of staff.
	And they put all these...
	There were loads of Ryaners.
	Exactly.
	Paul Ryan, Mike Pompeo.
	Exactly.
	And in a weird way, and this, I think, makes the period we're living through so interesting, the four-year break he had from power was probably the best thing that could happen.
	Because, first of all, things got so bad, not just in the U.S., but all over the West, that even the Elon Musks, the Joe Rogans, and I think behind closed door even Jeff Bezos and others.
	Oh, yeah.
	I reckon Zuckerberg.
	Yeah, exactly.
	We can't do it.
	Something needs to change and that guy probably is the one most likely to effect that change.
	If he would have been re-elected in 2020 or stayed in office in 2020, it would have been a continuation of the same.
	It would have been Trump as the president on his Twitter account with all these Republican technocrats and apparatchiks around him.
	Now, at least, again, I'm as excited and enthusiastic as you guys are.
	Let's hope he's living up to our expectations because I believe we will hold him To just as high standard as we all told anybody else.
	But it looks promising at the moment.
	Because you need these idiosyncratic figures right now.
	And this is, again, what the establishment doesn't get.
	When they say, Sam Harris, for example, right?
	He is not normal.
	That's the point!
	Because normal has been devastating for millions of people.
	Like, if normal means decline, if normal means that your life is gonna be worse tomorrow than today, you don't want normal.
	You want the abnormal guy who says, decline is a choice, right?
	The future is bright.
	America can be great.
	The very idea that if a politician, whether it's British, continental European, American, if their slogan is make whatever it is great again, how can you not agree with this?
	This should be completely beyond dispute.
	It's not fair, is it?
	It's not fair, it's not equal.
	What about social justice?
	Have you thought about these things?
	You can already feel the venom being injected.
	I'm all for justice.
	If people say social justice, they want to betray.
	If you are for social justice, you will get neither.
	Like, there's justice and that's all that's needed.
	Yeah.
	Also, Sam Harris's definition of normal is allowing Hunter Biden to hoard the corpses of children in his basement rather than have Trump University fail.
	I don't trust Sam Harris's definition of anything ever.
	And that's...
	But this thing is that none of these people themselves are normal.
	Yes.
	Yes!
	Wait, using Tim Waltz, the Jim Henson character that befriends school shooters, isn't the apotheosis of that?
	That was just a slip of the tongue.
	I'm sure he's not really friends with very many school shooters.
	Anyway, I'll find the term being very many.
	Yeah.
	Well, I mean, maybe one or two.
	I mean, who isn't, right?
	Speaking of incredibly normal people that certainly wouldn't be school shooters, where are they getting all these activists from?
	Because immediately after the election result came in, there were a spattering of pathetic protests.
	AOC had encouraged this.
	She said, we need mass movements of people that mobilize to protect one another in times of fascism.
	I mean...
	Just to be clear, right, I'm just at the point now, whenever they're like, oh, Trump's a fascist, this is Nazi America, I'm like, yeah, it is.
	I'm just going to gaslight them now.
	I want you to think that.
	Of where the purple-haired guy shouts, racist, the guy in the MAGA hat, and he just turns around and goes, loser, and just walks off.
	That's your reaction.
	Fascist!
	Loser.
	Okay, but...
	But the thing is, just agree with them and see where they go with it.
	So, okay, yeah, no, you're under Nazi occupation now.
	What now?
	Oh, I guess I'm just going to go home and protest or something.
	No, that's not the response if you really thought you were under a Nazi occupation.
	Everyone knows you know you're not.
	We're not playing your game anymore.
	If you say it, I'm just going to go, yeah, okay, whatever.
	Yeah.
	Also, the deputy head of the ACLU said, we need you in the streets.
	And so, some people listen.
	The ACLU, oh yeah.
	A very small spattering of people in mainly left-wing cities.
	And Andy Ngo has footage from Portland, Oregon.
	There's a gathering of some very sad Starbucks baristas.
	So many, isn't it?
	Yeah, there was a protest outside Trump Tower with a bunch of pro-Palestine people with some...
	What are they going to do when Trump ends the war?
	Well...
	The grift engine dries up.
	All these placards are conveniently pre-printed.
	Oh, well, it's just the renter mob.
	Oh, we'll learn where they're actually from in a moment.
	And there's an aerial shot of it.
	It's really not as impressive as it was in 2016.
	The momentum's really gone.
	And there was a very small one outside City Hall in Philadelphia.
	But, okay, so did you see the one in Britain?
	No.
	In York, I think it was, about 20 fat students were like, we don't like Donald Trump in the middle of York City.
	And it's like...
	Okay.
	I don't think he's coming.
	I think he's got other places to be.
	I think Hull City Council denounced him.
	Trump is handing his resignation.
	Guy leans in, we've lost Hull City Council.
	Anyway, there's this...
	There was this claim mentioned when we did the election night stream.
	I think it was in your segment with Matt Christensen and Steve Turley that all these people go to the exact same events and it's to do with phone tracking.
	There's this chap called Tony Segura who is a former CIA NSA contractor.
	And so he decided to go to the events and do cell phone tracking.
	And he's found a significant overlap with all of Kamala Harris' rallies, Antifa and BLM events.
	Literally rent-a-mobs.
	Professional activist class being bussed out all over the country.
	George Soros has got to spend his money somewhere.
	Yeah, quite.
	So he's found 121 devices within the 171 cluster that were protesting the event were linked to three or more Antifa, BLM, or Palestine protests or riots.
	And 171, all of them, attended more than three Kamala Harris rallies.
	You could probably get AI that would scan the footage and pick out the individuals.
	That would be an interesting exercise.
	He also found, speaking of AI, that she did a...
	So I'm going to go through the rallies one by one.
	This was in August.
	There was a rally at the Detroit Metro Airport, and apparently there was this absolutely massive photo.
	And Trump said this was a fake crowd.
	Nobody was here.
	It's obviously fake.
	They fact-checked him.
	They said, actually, no, this is a real photo.
	We ran it through an AI filter, and it said this is 96% probably real.
	I'll take that 4% because I can spot the weird backlighting on the people.
	It doesn't fit.
	Also, they said 15,000 people went there.
	He found there were only 4,189 devices.
	So, where the rest were the 11,000.
	But alright, that was on August 12th.
	Also, when you zoom in, some of the hands are weird.
	Yeah.
	On September the 12th, as it approached Election Day, only 3,600...
	Sorry, there were 5,003 mobile devices, so the crowd numbers keep dropping.
	3,600 came in from Georgia into her rally in North Carolina.
	So she had to bus about two-thirds of her crowd in.
	Okay.
	Very odd.
	Another one as well.
	Rally at the Expo in downtown Las Vegas, and this was on the 30th of September, getting really close to election day.
	Only 7,000 mobile devices there.
	834 from Las Vegas.
	3,000 are thrown in from California.
	2,300 from Arizona.
	134 from Mexico.
	Why are they flying people in from...
	Is it only election interference when you can blame it on the Russians?
	Just where you can get it from.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Curious that...
	Doesn't work for the Labour Party.
	Yeah.
	6,122 were repeat visitors from other rallies.
	So the overwhelming majority are just going from rally to rally to make up the sizes of her crowd.
	In the final days of the campaign, if you're flying people in from Mexico, it's not a good look.
	And then there was the Ellipse rally in Washington DC, and this was on the 29th.
	This was fascinating.
	There were 31,834 mobile devices near Washington DC for this rally.
	Of course, it's the epicentre of political activism.
	You'd expect it'll Democrat staffers to be there.
	91% attended three or more Harris rallies.
	This is giving me real sort of Maduro Chavez vibes.
	It's like, look at the size of the crowd that we have in the heart of the administrative state.
	Yeah, these are all government employees.
	The first person to stop clapping was immediately whisked away to the rainbow gulags.
	The opposition is like, we're going to fire all of these people, and so obviously they come out from the party that's like, we're going to expand the administrative state.
	So yeah, of course they support you, but they're going to all be employed by the federal government.
	Also, they were all from other states.
	11,000 from Atlanta, 6,500 from California, and 6,122 were linked to Antifa, BLM, or pro-Palestine protests or riots.
	Yes, right.
	So she'd probably donate to the bail fund just to make sure all the people could actually show up to our rallies.
	I really want to break down, though.
	What percentage of them are government workers?
	And I bet it's really high.
	Well, I also want to know who's paying for their transport.
	Oh, that's a great question.
	They had a billion spent.
	Yeah, true, probably.
	Now they're 20 million in debt.
	But then, if they're spending it on transport fees from Mexico...
	You're not allowed to do that.
	That would be worrying.
	And also, why are they at every single event?
	Bit odd.
	So how come, as well, all of X flooded with pro-Trump posts, right?
	Except a small minority of absolute nobodies do some insane take on trans policy and get hundreds of thousands of likes.
	Did you notice that a few times?
	It's quite weird.
	How could it be that Kamala Harris dominates Reddit Yeah, Trump wins the popular vote.
	Very weird.
	Well, CountOnX, Reddit Lies, who just sort of compiled screenshots, decided to do some actual journalism and digging.
	So, well done, sir.
	Very good stuff.
	And he found that Kamala Harris has been using a Discord server to instruct her campaign staff to go and downvote community notes on their own posts.
	So, KamalaHQ...
	The account which hasn't posted for a little while.
	They would often get fact-checked because they just posted outright lies and out of context clips.
	When they got fact-checked, so they knew they were lying, they then said, quick, go and downvote Brigade so that these community donors don't show up on our posts.
	What a waste of time and effort.
	Yeah.
	You can't stage manage perception like this.
	So he says, in the example below, so there's some screenshots here, Kamala HQ claimed that Donald Trump referred to Americans who don't support him as dangerous people.
	Timothy Durigan, an employee of the Democratic National Committee, urges campaign volunteers to vote down a community note that accurately pointed out that Kamala campaign was taking Trump's remark out of context.
	So, they know they're lying, they know that you know they're lying, and yet they not only still lie, but they try to actively suppress the truth being attached to their lies, so that's interesting.
	In Twitter Community Notes' channel on the Harris Waltz Discord, paid Democrat staffers were writing community notes on X to undermine GOP and Trump messaging, so they were actively trying to create community notes under the RNC research account, for example.
	So, when Biden claimed that his son was killed in Iraq, and said he was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, They said that, oh, Biden's son died of a brain tumour, probably caused by a burn pit in Iraq.
	And it's like, yeah, that's tragic.
	That wasn't in Iraq, though.
	And also, in 2017, Biden was named Presidential Practice Professor at Penn.
	So he wasn't a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
	So...
	Yeah.
	And then he says, Trump did say there were very fine people on both sides.
	Literally just a complete and total lie that we have on camera.
	So they were community organizing in Discord chats and trying to actively bus people out to Harris rallies to create the perception of popular support when she had absolutely nobody.
	Weird, that.
	And they also use this weird app called Reach.
	This is like a progressive organizing app.
	And they use it to coordinate campaign posts.
	So X introduced this thing called Radar, apparently, that allows you to see how many posts are using the same phrases or topics.
	So Reddit Lies just used Radar to search for phrases like, Kamala Harris will deliver new opportunities for Latino men and communities.
	And there are 114 posts over a three-day period with that exact sentence.
	So anytime you think this is bots, no, this is just brain-rot Democrat activists sitting there posting the exact same thing because they're genuinely real-life NPCs.
	Too cheap to even hire bots.
	Yeah, and all of Harris' rallies appear to be their inorganic spawn points.
	They had to do this because when they decided to post memes themselves, they decided to post stuff like this.
	I'm not reading all that.
	It's a wall of text for people who are sad, whichever it is you're looking for.
	Your nan on Facebook wouldn't post that.
	They're far more inventive than that, so absolutely embarrassing and appalling.
	And then the Harris campaign actually manipulated Reddit, because that's the only place that people vote for Kamala Harris.
	Go on, so this is Reddit Live, it's his specialty.
	Despite his fervent belief that something was amiss, he never had any concrete proof that Democrats were actively manipulating social media, but two weeks ago, and this was on October the 29th when Harris had that massive AstroTut rally, An ex-user called Jesse Princey replied to one of his posts with a screenshot from a Discord server related to the Harris-Walter campaign, and he discovered massive astroturfing campaigns across multiple platforms.
	In one case, there was a team of volunteers who spammed social media posts that specifically promote Kamala.
	They then have other users pretend to be random individuals who just happen to come across the post and decide to comment.
	It's basically like a shady company putting a bunch of fake Amazon product reviews to make it seem better and more popular than it is.
	So apparently the politics subreddit on Reddit was being targeted by a Harris-Waltz campaign.
	Since the Reddit operation started, it developed an organizational structure with roles for team members, spreadsheets for tracking analytics, and key messaging to stick to when making a social media post.
	It found that 126 of the top 1,000 posts in the past month on r slash politics were posted by official Harris-Waltz campaign volunteers.
	So that's over 10% of the top trending posts.
	It's a witness to the election.
	Yeah, it's literally being posted by the government.
	What a waste of time and energy.
	Social media, ladies and gentlemen, is not real.
	The feds are controlling at least 10% of all the posts you see.
	Hang on, hang on.
	No, no, I totally agree that social media is worthwhile.
	Just Reddit is not social media that's worthwhile.
	Yes, okay.
	You want Twitter, you want Facebook, you want YouTube.
	It's worthwhile.
	But any time you get some spiteful, resentful idiot in your comment section going...
	Man, man, man, did you consider Trump's a fascist?
	He's like, okay, go tell your handlers I said hi.
	The unwashed Reddit users and not the people you need to win over.
	Yeah, so Harris for President staffers like Gabriel Lin post daily messaging guidance, well they did because obviously she lost, to the server's Reddit channel.
	It consists of articles and data that the Harris Warts campaign wants to boost as well as key messaging that Reddit volunteers should stick to and he found her LinkedIn profile just to prove exactly who this person was.
	So there's just loads of these people, pronouns and bio of course, sitting in a Discord server, racking up at the start of the day a spreadsheet titled Reddit Organizing with favorable messages and news stories for the Harris Watts campaign and getting their resentful gremlins who have no job and have nothing to do except post on Reddit all day to go out and just disseminate these posts across Reddit and upvote them.
	This is like Rod and Todd from The Simpsons.
	We're winning the election!
	You're not doing that.
	Kamala's lead posters, who have demonstrated a, quote, cultural knowledge of Reddit...
	Samson is tackling...
	You can just hear him bellowing laughter at the other room.
	I wouldn't put that on your CV, gents.
	They then choose links which will resonate best with different Reddit communities.
	For example, a link about, quote, how Project 2025 impacts reproductive health is directed towards communities with young women as their primary voter base, whereas news about Kamala's Fox interview, quote, winning over swing state voters, gets directed to Reddit's Democrat communities and people living in swing states.
	And they had a massive list of all of the respective swing state Reddit accounts, which for some reason...
	Have them.
	I don't know why you're on Reddit in the first place, but there you go.
	After the links were collected and categorized, volunteer quote-unquote posters take a handful of the links provided and post them to their assigned subreddits.
	Kamala's posters don't simply spam links haphazardly.
	They use a calculated sequential post timing metric to avoid Reddit's built-in spam filters.
	So the Reddit mods, so probably people knowledgeable of Reddit, are coordinating with the government and the Harris campaign to circumvent Reddit's anti-spam features to manipulate Reddit to what?
	Convince the Democrats they're about to win when only Redditors vote for Kamala?
	Like, what a waste of that...
	I just don't understand what the purpose of this is.
	We clearly know why they chose Kamala Harris now to retain all that Biden war chest money, because that's what it's been spent on.
	Reddit organizing...
	How embarrassing.
	Over 15 days, this group of volunteers, directed by the Harris-Waltz campaign, made 2,551 posts to Reddit.
	Again, nothing to brag about.
	So far, they've received more than 5.7 million upvotes and 418,000 comments on these posts, according to their own data.
	In the twilight days of the election, Harris staffers were posting approximately 120 unique links to Reddit per day, using their oh-so-cleverly named Please Upvote These spreadsheet.
	He, Reddit Lies, filtered information to find posts exclusively made by Harris-Waltz campaign volunteers, I found 1,728 posts created by 67 unique Harris Waltz campaign volunteers since October the 4th, many of which received a lot of traction in a very short time span.
	Just a quick thing, the phrase Reddit organizing is going to become a byword for pointless activity.
	And how many people do you actually reach with this?
	I mean, this is...
	I still believe that she probably would have...
	I mean, if anybody would have asked me what ultimately sealed the...
	I mean, I always said that Trump is going to lose, but that it's just because I believe in the jinx.
	So I hope he's going to win, but I... Oh, I was skeptical too.
	Yes, aim low, be surprised.
	Yes, and I didn't want people to gloat at me and say, oh, Ralph, you said he's going to win.
	I did exactly the same thing, especially after 2020.
	I'm like, right, okay, there may be shenanigans.
	I'm not going to be like...
	Because, I mean, you're looking at the indications.
	The fact that Trump was at 50-50 in the polls indicated to me that Trump was way higher in the polls.
	And actually this was, you know, it looked like it was going to be a Trump blowout.
	I didn't want to say it because I didn't want people going to say it.
	But I think what really took her down, or maybe you could say what revealed what's going to be Aaron doing was the whole, let's call it the Joe Rogan affair.
	He invited her and then her team said, oh no, no, you come to us and we're going to do an hour at best.
	Because the argument, whether somebody made it or not, I don't know.
	But it's okay, if you cannot do a three hour friendly podcast interview, How are you going to negotiate with Xi or with Putin?
	You don't believe it.
	Moreover, why don't you want the public to see what you're actually like?
	Why are you being secretive about your own personality?
	Suspicious.
	And the final thing I'll mention as well is, of course, we've already mentioned foreign election interference.
	They were also using the Discord server to try and circumvent FEC rules about political donation limits from foreign sources and get a bunch of Canadians and other foreigners over to do phone calls and canvassing for Kamala Harris.
	It only matters when the Russians apparently buy Facebook ads in favour of Donald Trump or something.
	Anyway, look, I made this segment just so you know that be on the watch over the next few days for media manipulation, these sort of spontaneous protests that appear out of nowhere in contravention to the fact that Trump won the popular vote, and realise that the only people that support a candidate as morally bankrupt as Kamala Harris are filthy, unwashed Redditors who need to get a job.
	There was one comment by Lady Kildragon.
	Yeah.
	Can I... Yeah, yeah, go ahead.
	Some...
	Because I think she makes...
	Some Republicans are wolves in sheep's clothing.
	I think that's such an important point because one of the things, again, which makes me...
	I'm not having a cult of personality, like if Trump is not going to deliver, I'm sure we'll be as critical of him as we would be of anybody else.
	But...
	He did force many to reveal where they truly stand.
	And you had then the bulwark crowd, the dispatch crowd.
	I have to admit, people whose books I read, like Jonah Goldberg, who I had tremendous respect for.
	But the kind of idea that they had that you can reduce the Republican Party or the Republican or conservative intellectual to being only good in writing graceful concession speeches.
	It's just not enough.
	People also want to win.
	Like, they want to be a French model.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You want to be in power sometimes.
	The Cockchair Republican.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And I didn't know about this person until recently.
	You know this person better than I do.
	Rory Stewart.
	Yep.
	So that is what once qualified as a conservative.
	Still does.
	Still does?
	Yes.
	Quite possibly emblematic of the Conservatives, actually.
	I mean, that tells you everything about the Tories that you need to know.
	It really does.
	Bobad says, is it known how many people Tim Wilde's stallion walls pulled from an Indigo girl concert?
	I don't know that reference.
	I like his other one, though.
	Can we cross-check the users in these Kamala Reddit threads with r slash cuckold and see if the users recently purchased nice new chairs?
	You know, I think that technically is possible.
	I don't use Reddit, but I understand you can do that.
	Someone get on that and see how many other subreddits these accounts have subscribed to if they're public.
	Anyway.
	So, Ralph, have you ever listened or watched a podcast called The Rest is Politics?
	I heard of it.
	I'm a huge fan of the rest is history.
	And I think that's Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell, right?
	The rest is politics is indeed Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell.
	So there's this very pretentious trend that the new men of the early 2000s consensus have stumbled into as they got older.
	Cycling dads, basically, talking about politics from a very above the clouds.
	Yeah, they've decided, well, if we call all of our podcasts The Rest Is and then football, politics, history, whatever, blah, blah, blah, then that makes us sound like we're really clever and we're We're ahead of the game.
	We are the fountainhead from which the first principles of this particular topic spring.
	And therefore everything that just flows down from that will sort itself out because it's inevitable from what we have analyzed at the very font of it.
	And I find this a particularly loathsome and pretentious way.
	Of approaching any subject.
	I actually kind of hate it and I love it when they step on the rake and it smacks them in the face.
	It's the twin arse cheek of the sort of mock the weak, have I got news for you, IQI, Cydonic, eyebrow raise approach to politics where everything's like, oh, you care about your country having borders?
	Really?
	But also the sort of like, well, we predicted all of this in advance, you know, that kind of, yeah, exactly.
	It's awful.
	It's awful.
	It's the 2000s, new men who are just sat there patting themselves on the back.
	So we're so right about everything.
	We're such good people.
	No, you aren't.
	And no, you weren't.
	And they, of course, on this, this is a very popular podcast in Britain.
	Very popular.
	It's like one of the top three podcasts in Britain, which I can't imagine.
	I know I can imagine the kind of person who watches this, actually.
	Lib Dem voters.
	Lib Dem voting Blairite types who, you know, they're going to be doing quite well.
	They're probably about 70-80k a year.
	They're going to be some middle manager somewhere.
	And, you know, they're doing quite well.
	And they've thought of themselves a good person their whole life because they're very progressive.
	But it fits.
	It fits.
	I think one of the few groups where Kamala Harris was actually doing quite well were high-income atheists.
	Yeah, I bet.
	And they were on Reddit.
	But that's the problem more in UK politics, I believe, than in any other of the major countries of the West at the moment.
	If you look at people who voted for Labour, basically Labour is now the high-income elite party.
	And then you have the so-called Conservative Party, who would still like to be the high-income elite party.
	So you have two parties that kind of compete for some upper-class...
	You know, sliver of the electorate and they leave behind a significant part of the, I guess what we would call the common British people.
	And I partially understand it because the Americans, at least since Andrew Jackson, know how populism works.
	We in the German-speaking world, well, you know, we had our experience with populists one way or another.
	But I think, and I say this as somebody who loves the British people, but populism, it's just This is not how the British, I would say, do things.
	I think it's shifting, but this is, I think, why the British have sometimes a harder time with it.
	Even with Nigel Farage, he's trying to fill the world, but then he's, but I would never do anything with the AFD in Germany or Marine Le Pen.
	Class issues as well.
	Exactly.
	So basically, in the late 90s and early 2000s, Tony Blair managed to capture a large section of the population through the way that they were raised.
	And I was a part of this.
	I was growing up in this time, and I'm a product of the Tony Blair education system.
	So take that for what you will.
	But basically, I think you can summarise them as sort of single degree holding middle class aspirants.
	Their parents probably weren't middle class, but thanks to Thatcher raising lots of people out of poverty and Tony Blair being like, right, we're opening the universities, you have this cohort of people who do not have an ancestral pedigree.
	And who are therefore on this kind of precarious position when it comes to social status.
	And what Tony Blair did is make middle class politics something akin to kind of a high social status position.
	And in the early 2000s you had a lot of media That would reinforce this attitude, and this is where the sort of QI, mock the weak type of person comes in, where politics is just assumed to have been essentially established, and then, like, further down the line, if you're not getting it, if you're not with the program, then you're just a moron.
	You deserve condescension if you haven't got the latest NPC update.
	Exactly.
	And so the sort of love-actually types think of themselves as being at the head of this, and then you've got the sort of mock-the-weak sweepers at the back just laughing at whatever falls through the cracks.
	And this is why someone like Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell can have a podcast together, because fundamentally neoliberals and neoconservatives don't disagree on much.
	No.
	They disagree on maybe economic means, but as soon as the Iraq War is launched, they both agree that they are the sort of liberal administrators of the end of history, and all they need to do is roll it out by leafleting campaigns and Lockheed Martin missiles to the rest of the backwaters that just don't understand it yet.
	I will leap to Rory Stewart's defence.
	He was against the Iraq War, whereas Alistair Campbell was literally the government's prime cheerleader of the Iraq Then he went to Afghanistan and tried to do the exact same thing with goat herders in the hills.
	Sure.
	But even in a way, the Iraq war was a complete catastrophe.
	A million people died.
	It was terrible.
	So the fact that Rory Stewart can just sit down with one of the architects of Britain's involvement in the Iraq war and be like, yeah, well, we're good people, aren't we?
	He's like, you think he's a good person?
	You were against this at the time.
	Like, why on earth can you sit opposite this guy and be like, yeah, no, it's totally fine.
	And Alistair Campbell is a vile person anyway.
	But the point is, as you said, they're both, well, as I was saying, they're both early 2000s new men.
	They're atheists.
	They are agreeing on, they agree on all of the premises of politics, and therefore they can sit themselves up.
	The rest is politics.
	It's very, very pretentious.
	And so it was glorious watching them come into this election cycle, because they were like, nope, Donald Trump had a surprise win in 2016, but Joe Biden crushed him, and the winning for the left is going to continue forever.
	And so you can see here, Alastair Campbell, only a few days before the election, No, Elon Musk is getting more desperate as reality bites.
	Trump is losing and he knows it, which is why the ex-Shills and the Charlatans have been told to fake the vibe, so Stop the Steal gets activated even earlier than the last time he lost.
	In the back of my head, all that's playing is dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	All of the mounting is just...
	It carries on, right?
	One day to go, the Kamala sun rising to chase those Trumpian clouds away.
	He's a true believer at this point.
	His entire feed is him posting about Kamala or retweeting things about Kamala.
	But that's another one.
	I think it was somebody we talked about in the show previously, but this is one of the points, I think, where James Lindsay is right.
	I mean, there is this iron law of woke projection, especially with a personality cult.
	You have it on both sides, but as you say, these are the supposedly smart people, right?
	These are the people that are supposedly...
	Not that, as you would say, and we wouldn't say that, but these from the lower socio-economic classes who tend to, as you said, these people get up in the morning and say, I would never subscribe to a personality cult.
	And then they tweet about the Kamala sun rising.
	And to be quite honest, there are people who deserve our admiration.
	So a certain level of, if people do good things, I think a certain degree of personality cult is okay.
	Let's be honest.
	Kamala was an empty suit, and I don't mean to be disrespectful.
	I think he has a regular relation with his son, which is great.
	But Tim Walz is a moron.
	And Tim Walz is not nearly as likable as they thought he was.
	That's the next point.
	And they went out there and pretended that they are.
	And this is the odd thing.
	The point being is, you're exactly right.
	If you're a sort of MAGA boomer who's been radicalized by the Facebook groups they're sat in, posting AI slop...
	About how, you know, Trump's going to save the squirrels.
	You know, the plan is in action.
	Yeah, Trump's going to deport the deep state or whatever.
	Trust the plan.
	Yeah, exactly.
	They're trusting the plan, right?
	Okay, fine.
	You know, it's not good to be in that kind of closed information environment.
	But that's a person, you know, just sat at home on their phone.
	They're not running one of the most popular political podcasts in the country.
	country yeah author themselves and advertise themselves as experts on the field and alistair campbell's in government rory stewart is in government these are people you would think are not total amateurs and yet but it explains where the country is where it is well it absolutely explains everything i mean you can see here alistair campbell donkey on nigel farage you can sit anywhere you like it's half full it wasn't well i can see from the picture it's not Well, Calvin was there and it was packed.
	Yeah, but the picture, it shows that the picture is packed.
	What are you talking about, Alistair?
	Again, why would you post this unless you were in a delusional sort of cult and you were worried that the world didn't agree on a subconscious level?
	Can I tell a quick story?
	Because you make such an excellent point.
	There was, I think it was on The Daily Wire, I'm not sure, but they reported somewhere that one of the problems that Republican door knockers had that went from door to door and tried to convince people to vote for the Republicans, and what they did is they said...
	Well, consider voting for Donald Trump because here are some of the things that Democrats want to do and that Democrats have done in the past.
	Like, for example, when Kamala Harris came out for sex change operations for arrest.
	And people said that can't be true.
	Yes.
	The left has been running on this sort of ticket for a long time.
	No one would No one would do that.
	Well, no, we don't believe it.
	And as you say, the great thing about, and for me, Trump is still more a symptom than a cause or something.
	He's the imperfect vessel for an incredibly important message, is that he ripped off the mask.
	No, no, there is real insanity on the left.
	And there is a considerable number of people on the right who were willing to go along with it.
	It was always on the right that were all these articles, this is not going to be the hill I die on.
	This had been for 30 years, right?
	Same-sex marriage, this is not the hill I'm going to die on.
	The trans issue, this is not going to be the hill I'm going to die on.
	Illegal immigration, this is not the hill I'm going to die on.
	And of course, people at some point said, okay, if you're a conservative, what exactly is the hill you're going to die on?
	You constantly voted.
	And this was the big difference.
	Mark Stein used to say that there's a difference between in power and being in office.
	And the pre-Trump Republicans were very often in office, but they were never really in power.
	And he had these promises to change that.
	That explains his appeal.
	And if some people kind of fall a little bit into a personality cult on the right, sure, that's part of politics.
	But the left should not act as if it's not happening on their side, too.
	I mean, if you, your viewers don't have this, the German-speaking newspapers were absolutely mad.
	Like, the title page they had from the Stern, it was insane.
	My favorite one was at the Sutarchet, Will She Deliver Us From Evil?
	And the Stern had Kamala Harris as the As the Lady of Liberty, the Statue of Liberty, and that she will redeem us and all this.
	So this was complete madness.
	Just a quick thing.
	I saw American liberals retweeting out of Spiegel or whatever.
	It's Donald Trump with a tiny moustache.
	And they're like, look, even the Germans are calling him Hitler.
	And I was just like, listen, I live in Germany.
	They call a lot of things Hitler.
	Oh, yeah.
	They're a lot more quick to call things Hitler than you are, actually, if you can believe it.
	But anyway, let's carry on.
	So here's one of Rory Stewart's.
	Frame it.
	Yeah, I might.
	I might print this out and put it on the wall.
	Like, if I thought...
	I mean, maybe it's worth putting up just a billboard with this tweet on it.
	You know, this is how Roy Stewart thinks.
	So, Roy Stewart, again, the day before the election was like, look, Kamala Harris will win comfortably because the Biden admin has been solid.
	It's like, what?
	Trump's lost ground since 2016?
	It's like, what?
	Young black male votes, which Trump needs, didn't turn out in 16, 18, 20, or 22.
	Okay, if they don't turn out, then they're not going to be voting for Harris because they have a higher vote share for Harris.
	And also, young women like Kamala and they vote.
	Rory, none of that was true.
	And the thing is, none of that's true.
	You don't need special insider knowledge to know this either.
	Biden's admin has been solid.
	Well, no one agrees with that.
	As a turd.
	No one agrees that Biden's running the country well, which is why everything costs...
	Or running the country.
	Or running the country.
	But, you know, the people around him, everything is terrible.
	Everything's falling apart.
	But it's even more absurd.
	This gentleman is a professor for grand strategy.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Trump lost ground since 2016.
	In what way?
	In 2020, he got 12 million more votes than in 2016 because he ran an incredible campaign, which is why it's all the more surprising that Joe Biden just happens to be the most popular person who's ever run.
	This is a great point.
	One of the other things when we look at kind of why was Trump successful is over particular last four weeks and one of, not the perfect one, but my mother is always a good point of reference for me because for her, even though she's the hardest right-winger I know, but for her still the appearance, the personality matters quite a bit.
	And she said something kind of two weeks before the election that for me said, okay, maybe my pessimism is not warranted or she said, I don't know.
	I kind of find him more likeable than last time around.
	Because he had fun over the last week.
	This is what he's campaigned brilliantly.
	Because they still tried to say, Trump with a dark, angry message.
	No!
	And there's just Grandad doing YMCA on stage.
	Waving out of McDonald's.
	What are you talking about?
	He found what I think was always likely about him.
	You think back in the 90s at Saturday Night Live when he basically spoofed himself.
	This is what people liked about him.
	He's a goofy guy.
	He's a goofy guy and I think he really found himself more now in 2024 than he did in 2020, which was also because of Corona and the coronavirus.
	And I think over the last four weeks, and now with the numbers, I think this was one, not the only, one of the reasons why independence started to break for him.
	Because they said, wait a moment, that guy isn't so bad.
	And then if you take kind of the funny, lean back, kind of enjoying his campaign guy and say, it's Hitler!
	Actually, you make it even funnier.
	Because you look at the guy standing at McDonald's.
	Well, Hitler in the garbage truck.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Sorry, what are you talking about?
	Trump's campaign towards the end just felt nostalgic.
	Yes!
	It just felt nice.
	And I see this as not an American watching and thinking, yeah, that would be a better America to live in, wouldn't it?
	Precisely.
	And I can only imagine how Americans all across the country were like, oh yeah, the question is, and then you've got Kamala Hector-ing people on the stage.
	It's like, yeah, no.
	And Barack Obama even worse.
	The wagging of the finger.
	And this is what they don't understand.
	If you try to blackmail or...
	Browbeat.
	Browbeat, that's what I was looking for.
	People into voting for or against someone, it's not working.
	Nobody likes that.
	Yeah.
	So, sorry to carry on, but we're on time.
	So, in response to this, his echo chamber chimed in, I suspect by next week there could be a lot of excuse-making as people all start to chorus, of course the campaign with a solid ground game and increased support among young women won, just as they did in 2022.
	And, of course, Roy's like, yes, yes, of course, this is Howard.
	That's true.
	Trump did have a great ground game and increasing support among young women.
	And Rory even put a sizable bet on this.
	Now, we don't know how much, because apparently he was going to put on 100k, but apparently he wasn't allowed to bet that amount.
	I think the maximum is about 40,000.
	Right, so Rory has lost a significant amount of money on this.
	Womp womp.
	Yeah, terrible.
	This is why I'm not a betting man, by the way.
	And so you can see he's very committed to his own frame.
	And then the election happened.
	And they were left with a huge amount of egg on their face.
	Now, one thing that Alistair...
	Post-truth politics!
	Oh!
	I can't swear on this podcast.
	You lied us into Iraq.
	Hang on, hang on.
	I have to be specific about this.
	Alistair didn't lie us into Iraq.
	What he was is a WMD conspiracy theorist.
	He had one piece of information that he didn't verify and was told by Tony Blair, look, we're going to push ourselves into the Iraq war.
	And Alistair was the prime cheerleader for us.
	So he is essentially the sort of WMD QAnon believer.
	He didn't lie.
	He didn't lie.
	He was just delusional.
	Understood.
	As I said, Roy Stewart was completely against it.
	Don't know why he's fine with that.
	But you can see the usual...
	I mean, you don't even need to hear what he's saying to look at the demeanour that he's putting on as he's in the cuck chair in the hotel.
	Just...
	How could it have been known?
	Look how humbled I've been by this!
	Because Alistair is in this, we don't have time to play it, but it's just pretending like this couldn't have been predicted in advance.
	It's like, Alistair, any political commentator worth their salt was looking at the polls and going, wow, Donald Trump's like neck and neck with Kamala Harris in the polls.
	Now, I, as a political commentator, have seen other polls in the past, and I know that when Donald Trump is not massively down in the polls, that means Donald Trump is up in the polls, because I know that you're undersampling his supporters and the actual, like, substance of his base.
	And yet, for some reason, when it was neck and neck in all the swing states, Rory's like, oh, yes, this is Kamala Landslake.
	No, you're delusional.
	You are delusional.
	What are you talking about?
	This is completely predictable, and you were completely wrong, but you were so convinced of it.
	It's not that it couldn't be seen coming, it's that you didn't want to see it coming.
	And then you have Roy Stewart, again, on the night, which was just great.
	Again, you don't need to see, you don't need to hear what they're saying, you can just see their expressions.
	Didn't in this clip he say, well, if she had won, I would have been right.
	We will play it, yeah, because actually it is just so bad that anyone would say it.
	I thought it would be over quite quickly.
	We've got the sound there, Samson?
	Despite the polls showing 50-50, why?
	Okay, we can't hear it, but yes, he literally says it.
	They were technical arguments about young African voters and how they would turn out, her ground game, the money, the performance.
	I'll start with that.
	The framing is perfect.
	And I believe she would win comfortably.
	I thought it would be over quite quickly.
	Despite the polls showing 50-50, why?
	Well, I can repeat my arguments.
	They were technical arguments about young African-American voters and how they would turn out.
	Her ground game, the money, the performance of Biden's administration, it's all turned out to be wrong, completely wrong.
	I don't think, though, that I was fundamentally wrong because I'm patronizing towards people.
	I never felt that.
	I never felt that as a politician in Britain.
	I didn't feel I was patronizing towards my Brexit voting constituents.
	I think I was wrong because I'm an optimist.
	And I hate the idea of being right pessimistically.
	I think you can be a false prophet and write.
	You can be a false prophet and be right.
	Rory Stewart, professional political analyst.
	But notice the latent blank slate-ism in there.
	It's that I was wrong because I was misguided by my fundamental belief in the intrinsic goodness of humanity.
	Exactly.
	And this divisive populist, Donald Trump, cast a sufficient spell over the minds of absolutely everyone and they voted against their best interest, which was sex change surgeries for illegal immigrants.
	Yeah.
	And the clip you're thinking of is this particular one, actually.
	Ah, yes.
	But again, I'm not patronizing.
	I just think that you can be a false prophet, as in he was telling lies, and still be right.
	And it's like, okay, well, we've got different definitions of false then, right?
	You're appealing some abstract moral standard that you've decided a priori is the correct thing.
	And if bad people win, and he literally says the bad people have won, it's like, right.
	You're a liar.
	You are lying to yourself, you're lying to your audience, and you've been keeping yourself in this cult mentality in order to make sure that you didn't have, like, this emotional bubble around your heart pop.
	That's what this is.
	This is entirely self-serving on your part, and you've lost 40 grand for it, and your credibility is absolute tatters.
	You did this to yourself for some reason.
	This is just amazing.
	As Dominic said earlier, it does look like women have not turned out in the same numbers as expected for her.
	No, it's completely fascinating.
	I mean, and of course, when a result happens, you rewrite history.
	If she was currently winning, we'd have a very good answer for why she was winning.
	If things were as I'd made them up in my head, we'd be right, says Rory Stewart, professional political analyst.
	Even if they gave, and he gives us, well, what about abortion?
	What about healthcare?
	What about, even if all of these things turned out to be true, they would only be accidental because Rory is not speaking from knowledge of the circumstances.
	Rory is projecting what he thinks is an optimistic political narrative, but he's not actually describing things he has observed.
	He's guessing.
	And in this case, his guess was completely the other way.
	But I drew Trump as the soy jack and Kamala as the chad.
	I argue with all these chuds in the shower.
	Why have we not...
	If things were as they made them up in my head, we'd have a very good answer as to why she's winning.
	Amazing.
	He then goes on, and he has to go around doing a media tour, basically admitting, yeah, I was completely wrong.
	I... I'd become invested in a story, which is code for I'd become invested in the fiction that I had made up about what was happening in a country I don't live in.
	The excrement liberal commentariat circuit is just the worst thing to happen to Britain.
	Times Radio, LBC, the rest is politics, newsagent.
	If these idiots were not being bankrolled by large investors, they would not be able to have a career.
	No, absolutely not.
	If they couldn't afford national advertising, they would have nothing.
	But he says, you know, I was completely wrong.
	Obviously, I'm guilty of massive wishful thinking.
	And he spends his time in this clip moralizing like a left-wing preacher.
	He's like, well, I'm good.
	I'm a good person.
	Donald Trump is, quote, an extremely unpleasant fascist.
	Rory.
	He's not a fascist.
	Obviously.
	If you had read any political theory, you would know that's the case.
	Yeah.
	Genuinely embarrassing.
	And you had people replying to Winston Macho here.
	Hang on a second.
	Rory Stewart stuck his neck out and made a bold prediction.
	Good for him.
	He got it wrong.
	Hardly the end of the world.
	Well, hang on a second.
	If Rory Stewart was a Facebook MAGA boomer, Who was like, blah, blah, blah.
	Yeah, it wouldn't be a big deal because that's not their job to make informed political commentary, but it is.
	I've noticed this guy's bio.
	Author of the fate of Abraham, why the West is wrong about Islam.
	Excuse me if I don't take your judgment as gospel on anything.
	Yeah.
	But that's the point, isn't it?
	And the thing is, okay, fair enough, you know, he made a wrong projection.
	But he runs a podcast called The Rest is Politics.
	He runs a podcast that situates itself as the most informed podcast and everything flows from it.
	You've taken on this unbelievable conceit and it's all just blown up in your face.
	Your reputation for understanding the political environment, at least in America, is completely shredded.
	Roy Stewart does not understand.
	And it's not even that, oh, well, you know, he called the wrong state.
	There were a couple of wrong states that he called, but generally he was in the right direction or something like that.
	No, it was there's going to be a Kamala landslide versus the Trump landslide and complete control of all of the sections, all of the hierarchies of the United States that Trump now has.
	Rory was not just wrong.
	He wasn't just a little bit wrong.
	He wasn't just quite wrong.
	It was the complete polar opposite of what he predicted.
	And all he can come out and say is, well, I just thought it'd feel nice if I said it.
	Sorry, Rory, you aren't an analyst.
	You have no credibility in this regard.
	Absolutely none.
	And so, yeah, it was just people, again, the sort of Shitlib commentariat.
	Chief political commentator on the Sunday Times replies, well, yeah, I mean, a lot of us did not go far enough in 2016 and got the referendum wrong.
	I tried to sit in focus groups to hear from people with very different lives.
	Bluntly, I don't think enough hacks do this.
	It amazes me how little journalists understand their own country.
	Sitting in focus groups isn't enough either.
	You've got to go and live among the people to understand them.
	Again, the mindset, and Tim here is not by far the worst.
	I find them the most guilty of all of this, obviously.
	And, you know, he is on the right side of, yeah, maybe we should be listening to the people who actually vote.
	But focus groups are not enough.
	Like, you need to actually get out.
	And just saying, a lot of the Republicans actually don't live in D.C. A lot of the Republicans actually live amongst people in the country, and lo and behold, they're winning.
	Anyway, I guess we'll leave that there.
	Just to summarize, Roy Stewart and Alistair Campbell know nothing about American politics, which is why they're currently sobbing into their soy lattes, and we're taking a victory lap.
	Do we have any video?
	Oh, we do.
	Wonderful.
	And as we say our final fond farewell to Kamala Harris, let's remember that she's the ultimate expression of the Peter Principle.
	The idea that individuals are promoted until they reach their level of incompetence.
	And after being made VP, well, who do you have to blow to be president?
	I think she exceeded the Peter Principle long ago.
	I think county clerk in the DA's office would have been as far as she would have got of her own volition.
	I mean, I think it does prove that there isn't a machine operating the Democrat Party, though, and it really doesn't matter who's in charge of the machine.
	The machine itself is just throwing up faces, but they're not...
	I mean, nobody thinks that Kamala was like, right, do this, do that, do the other.
	No one thinks that.
	And that's why she always looked so unprepared when she was in interviews.
	That's why she had to take multiple days off to do one interview.
	Yeah, it's embarrassing.
	He says, you're not going to be a dictator, are you?
	I said, no, no, no, other than day one.
	All migrants, refugees, and dreamers are now considered enemies of the new America and will be rounded up, incarcerated, and deported immediately.
	January 6th will now be recognized as our great nation's birthday.
	Regardless of race, interest, or health of the woman, abortion is now illegal.
	Due to previous liberal indoctrination, all schools are hereby closed.
	All citizens must continue to report any progressive or liberal activity.
	I already supported him, you didn't need to encourage me more.
	Sold!
	I mean, just so hysterical, isn't it?
	Unbelievable.
	I recently purchased the Magnus Archives roleplaying game and I'm running a game for my friends set in Swindon.
	It's Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror where the cosmic entity feeds on fear and I'd love to use some of the Lotus Eaters as villains who serve the dread powers for this campaign.
	Are you okay with this and which entity would you like to serve?
	The fear of being buried?
	The fear of decay?
	The fear of the dark?
	The fear of pain and loss?
	The fear of death?
	The fear of being watched?
	The fear of body horror?
	The fear of being prey?
	The fear of isolation?
	The fear of violence?
	The fear of madness?
	The fear of the uncanny?
	The fear of vastness?
	The fear of manipulation and control?
	Or the fear of extinction?
	Fear of Swindon.
	I'll go for the manipulation and control one.
	I don't really fear the other things.
	I'd need to revisit them before I possibly picked one.
	Haven't played that.
	Sounds interesting though.
	Uh oh.
	It's easy to see that Prime Minister Trudeau is Canada's Tony Blair.
	Pierre Poiliev stands against him, and it's important to realise the Canadian media are horrid propagandists seeking to make him act to be a demagogue.
	However, my concern is that he will turn into Canada's David Cameron.
	His campaign and interactions with the media indicate he has no time for Trudeau's innovations, and repealing them is something he will have to set about in a very careful manner.
	But I'm concerned that he won't go as far as is needed.
	The fact that he's there with no tie.
	Yeah, he also doesn't care about legal migration.
	He only cares about illegal migration.
	And also, to do with the trans stuff, there was a Canadian delegation to the first ARC and they tried blocking Billboard Chris from coming because they didn't want to talk about the gender stuff.
	Yeah.
	Conservatives everywhere are just traitors.
	Veterat traitors.
	When I went to that COP26 thing, the prior to Polyaev administration, they sent their shadow energy minister over, and he had screenshotted as his phone background, his vaccine passport, and was bragging about it to everyone.
	I mean, on the plus side though, Polyaev, however you pronounce his name, is superb at dealing with the media.
	So take those lessons from him, I say.
	With the apocalypse canceled, I ventured out in search of new places to grill.
	Crossing to Virginia, I found...
	Then the Germans arrived.
	I do love Virginia.
	Seems wholesome.
	If I had to pick a state, it'd probably be Virginia.
	Yeah, Maryland was quite nice as well, to be honest.
	If you're not in Baltimore.
	Well, yeah.
	I mean, I wouldn't live in any American city, Jesus.
	No, no, not cities, no.
	On with the next one.
	I just finished watching V for Vendetta and viewing it now in 2024 feels quite unsettling.
	The similarities between Britain today and the totalitarian regime depicted in the film are striking, especially since the film is set in the future of the 2020s.
	It wouldn't surprise me if British censors attempted to edit some scenes to align with current sensibilities, even though the regime in the film is far right.
	It also doesn't help that Halloween is gradually supplanting Guy Fawkes' night, Yeah, the problem with V for Vendetta is that the ruling party is...
	Well, yeah, Alan Moore is a demented communist Hagrid, but the ruling party is entirely homogenous and English.
	Well, and then Stephen Fry's character's like, I'm gay, but did you know I read the Quran?
	Yeah, I have...
	Oh, shove it up your ass, you shit.
	Well, again, this is...
	Sort of 2000's new man shitliberi.
	It's like, we're right about everything and the people who are like, maybe we should keep the country safe are wrong about everything.
	And they're just fascist dictators.
	That's the only place to go if you're someone who's concerned about law and order, for example.
	Stay tuned for when Harry and I do our I Hate Alan Moore Comics Corner.
	Anyway, we've got a couple of rumble rants, then we'll do a couple of comments before we wrap up for Lads Hour.
	Ramshakalotta for $2.
	I knew a girl who listens to Trip.
	The rest is history.
	Politics, sorry.
	She once asked me, like, really?
	Why can't they just print more money so, you know, nobody is poor?
	Wouldn't eat food grown in her garden because it was weird.
	Well, to be fair, I mean, food comes from Waitrose.
	You've got to thank Connor.
	These people vote, man.
	I saw a video on Twitter of some, you know, liberal in California who wasn't eating the apples that was growing on her tree.
	And someone was like, why aren't you eating the apples?
	I was like, well, don't they have to process them or something?
	He's like, no, you can just eat them.
	Like, just phenomenal modern bug men who's just like, well, if it's not coming in a tin or in a package...
	I can't eat this.
	The apples on the tree are free.
	The global elite don't want you to know that I have 4,734 apples.
	She genuinely thought that you had to do something to the apple to make it edible.
	Americans do think like that, though.
	They chlorine wash their chicken and things like that.
	Not all Americans think that.
	It's quite and quite safe, but you don't need to do that.
	Anyway, Ryan Hinnigan.
	The left.
	Why do young men swing 32 points from D plus 19 to R plus 13?
	Men, you stole our future, our birthright.
	Call to see before what we are.
	Also, the bread is expenses and the circus is gay.
	Bye!
	Quality comment.
	And that's a random name.
	It's good.
	I like Bernier, but he should have been leading the Conservative Party rather than...
	I think Ben Dicta has the same opinion.
	He led the trucker convoy, so I tend to take his opinion on this.
	Isaac Male.
	Hi, guys.
	Just wanted to say happy birthday to the Lotuses.
	Even though the date itself is during the weekend, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you all for the last four years.
	How time flies.
	All the best.
	Take care, chap.
	Did we have our anniversary and we forgot...
	I think so.
	I'm not really one for dates.
	The entire place is held together by duct tape and goodwill.
	And your donations.
	Thank you for subscribing.
	It's the goodwill that matters.
	Mario Manzi.
	Really great show, guys.
	It's all due to Ralph, of course.
	We like having him as a guest.
	Much appreciated.
	It's important that the rights conservatives across the Western world, despite being not particularly unified, cannot relax.
	We have to remain on war footing and campaign every day as if there's election tomorrow.
	A great battle has been won, but the war for the Shires is ongoing.
	Yeah, I quite like the National Conservative Alliance that is forming, which we've got to pick our friends.
	Did you know that the Japanese have found the Western Shinzo Abe Trump memes?
	No.
	As of today.
	There's loads of posts in Japanese on X that are like, oh my god, we didn't know you guys love Shinzo, but it's the CU Space Cowboy ones in the edit where he catches the bullet for Trump and things like that.
	It's the picture where he's facing down Merkel and the only person next to him is Shinzo.
	Yeah.
	And they're both just like, not having it.
	He deserves so much about it.
	I love it.
	And Merkel's just so overbearing.
	It's just like, no, great, perfect.
	These are the guys.
	Yeah.
	Garlic Goblin.
	Great show, guys.
	Good fun, and good to see Ralph back.
	Thank you very much.
	Do you want to do your ones for the Trump segment?
	Sure, but we haven't got much time, really.
	Joe Schmo says, illegal immigrants can register with the IRS and receive an ID number to pay taxes.
	Why don't they just get automatically deported, then?
	Because they're clients of the state.
	Yeah.
	Many illegals also commit identity fraud and steal the social security number of an American citizen so they can get a job.
	Well, there we go.
	I think we are out of time.
	Excellent.
	Well, thank you very much.
	I believe we've got Ralph's links in the description, but he will be joining us for Lads Hour for the next hour and a half at three o'clock when we cry at all of the lives coping and seething.
	We like to take a little victory lap over here.
	The energy is better than 2016.
	It's beautiful.
	We're living at the end of a three-act trilogy with another movie series to come, hopefully, in the Trump administration.
	But thank you very much for watching, ladies and gentlemen.
	We'll be back on Monday at one o'clock with the regular podcast.
	Till then, have a good weekend.

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