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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1064

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 16th of December 2024. I'm joined by Carl and Stelios.
	Hello.
	And today we're talking about Britain's injustice system and Stelios is telling us about some tomfoolery in the Germanosphere.
	Yes.
	Isn't it like a conspiracy?
	Yes.
	I'm not in the mood for chat today.
	Actually, it's how some German conservative media outlets got debunked.
	And bringing the fun, I'm going to be rounding up all of the weirdest news of 2024, and I'm very much looking forward to showing it all to you, because there's some great stuff in there.
	Just have something that's not just depressing.
	I've been trying not to depress people for the entire month of December, so I've sort of forfeited doing newsworthy segments for nonsense.
	I would like to do that, but unfortunately we leave in Britain.
	Speaking of which...
	The British justice system is demented.
	I realise I'm smiling.
	You might be thinking, well, it's not quite as serious as you think.
	But no, this is going to get a bit dark.
	And I'm just so tired of...
	It's not even two-tier anymore.
	It's worse than two-tier.
	It's an active attempt to create injustices and cover up...
	Conceal things on the other side of the scales.
	There would be no rhyme or reason to it if there wasn't just an ill intention behind it.
	And that's the only conclusion I can come to.
	The people who operate the system are pathologically politically correct.
	And this informs everything that they do.
	So if a foreign man does something terrible, they give him the minimum possible punishment.
	And if a native man does something that's not really that bad, they give him the maximal possible punishment.
	And it's like, okay, well, again, you can describe it as two-tier, but you're not fully encapsulating the weight of what is happening in this country.
	And I just hate to see it.
	Well, it's entirely political to the point whereby you have these examples of cases where a paedophile can walk free, whereas someone who posted something online gets three or four years in prison.
	We'll come to that, in fact.
	So, you may remember back in August, the...
	An officer was, two officers in fact, were suspended and put under investigation for kicking a poor innocent Muslim lad in the face in Manchester airport.
	Well it turns out that the video was released and that Muslim lad was slugging female police officers in the face.
	Yeah, so this story, I don't know whether you're going to go into the details, but they took exception to the fact that at airport security we searched both men and women and they didn't want their women to be touched because it's against Islam, which it is.
	However, this is just another example of their values being incompatible with the West and it's of course thanks to Islam that we have to have these searches in the first place.
	That is true.
	But anyway, yeah, so the sort of 19-year-old, I think 18, 19-year-old lad started punching police, female police officers in the face.
	And the male police officers were like, okay, spend a bit of time fighting with him.
	Eventually get him to the floor and he moves and the guy kicks him in the face because it looks like he's about to get up and start fighting again.
	I assume that's what they were thinking.
	He also has his taser in his hand, doesn't he?
	And so his hands are occupied and so only his feet are free.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But anyway, so the police officers were of course in trouble for...
	Apprehending the violent criminal.
	And as far as I can tell, no one has been charged in this.
	So still, three months later, this man has just gotten away with just punching a couple of female police officers in the face.
	Why?
	Well, what am I supposed to assume?
	Well, the police have been punished for this, as in the officers that responded to it, more so than the actual perpetrators of the crime.
	That is correct.
	And they attacked a bunch of people at an airport, breaking a woman's nose.
	It's a proper brawl, broke a woman's nose, and no charges.
	It's like, right.
	What is supposed, what am I supposed to assume the reason for that is?
	And the only thing I can think of is, well, the police officers were English, and this person was not.
	Because, I mean, if this was like, you know, Barry John, you know, 26 from Humberside or something.
	No one would care.
	If he'd punched a bloody female police officer in the nose, broke her nose, and then he'd be straight to jail.
	Straight to jail.
	And rightly so, don't get me wrong, right?
	And then conversely, you've got people like this chap.
	So, ex-soldier jailed for anti-Islam post.
	Do you want to see the anti-Islam post that he went to jail for?
	They're pretty tepid, aren't they?
	It's unbelievably tepid, right?
	So, this guy from Wales said, Civil war is here.
	The only thing missing is bullets.
	That's the next step.
	That's in response to the Southport riots.
	And he ended up pleading guilty to stirring up racial hatred.
	Is that stirring up racial hatred or is that an observation on the political precipice Britain is standing on?
	He wasn't saying it was a good thing, was he?
	No, he wasn't.
	I'm particularly annoyed when people are not distinguishing between threats and warnings.
	And this definitely looks like a warning.
	It also reminds me of Elon Musk's claims about the situation in the UK after Southport.
	And it seems to me that it's very, you could say almost sadistic.
	It's like whenever we have people who are natives or in some respect pro-Western, the most ridiculously uncharitable interpretations of their claim is made.
	And when it comes to people who are of other persuasions, let's say, and they do something, it is always the case that the most charitable interpretation of what they did is presented as the main narrative.
	Assuming they even get charged.
	Yeah.
	I imagine that he probably didn't lawyer up in the same way that these Muslims did, because they had their lawyers paid for, and so they got really expensive good lawyers, because loads of Muslims raised money for them, whereas this guy was sort of left on his own, I imagine.
	A state lawyer who obviously advised him, look, just plead guilty, and you'll get two years in jail, but only one of those will be spent in prison.
	So he's spending a year in prison for this.
	I think it's very obvious.
	It's just we are at a stage of multiculturalism where the British establishment thinks that it has to virtue signal that it's anti-British.
	Sure, and it thinks its job is to protect minorities from the majority.
	That's what the British state believes it's almost this entire job is at this point.
	But again, why did he plead guilty?
	Well, it must have been that the court-appointed lawyer was just like, do this and it'll be the quickest thing.
	It's like, no, no, you should have said non-guilty.
	I'm going to contest this.
	This isn't a crime.
	I'm not advocating for anything.
	I'm observing.
	And that's obvious by the statement.
	And the only thing they'd be able to say is, well, what about implication by context?
	You can just argue the case and hopefully it comes out on your side.
	I think you could have easily argued this.
	But anyway, so, guy who says something about things goes to jail.
	Guy who punches woman in face, breaks her nose, doesn't even get charged.
	Woman who assaults politician on the campaign trail, no jail.
	So physically assaulting someone, no jail time.
	Saying something about the current political environment, you're in jail.
	Did you see that she had a Palestine pin on as she came out of the court as well?
	Of course she did.
	The irony of someone who makes their money via OnlyFans having a pro-Palestine pin.
	Yeah, it's rather ironic.
	You can probably see it in one of the other pictures.
	But anyway, she basically had to pay Farage about £600 to cover the costs.
	She had to pay a £154 victim surcharge to Mr. Farage on 415 costs, instead of going to jail for assaulting a politician on the campaign trail, which again, you...
	Anyone would be able to frame this as an attack on the integrity of democracy.
	That's a deliberate attempt to intimidate a political figure in this country who is now an MP with five MPs.
	This should have been beyond the pale.
	She should have gone to jail for this.
	And four million votes.
	Yeah, and four million votes.
	This is an attack on the political process in this country.
	And if it was a reform supporter milkshaking Keir Starmer or something.
	Do not do that, obviously.
	You know they would have gone to jail.
	You know they would have come down as hard as possible.
	No, she gets 12 rehabilitation activity requirement days, whatever they are, but it sounds like she's going to be in a bloody daycare or something, and 120 hours of unpaid work.
	Oh my goodness.
	She's going to be practicing drinking milkshake rather than throwing it.
	Who knows?
	I'm sure she's going to be, you know, really working hard.
	And contrast that to this rioter.
	Now, okay, rioting's bad, yeah.
	Nine years for helping fuel a fire.
	Right, so he didn't start a fire.
	He fueled a fire, but okay, fair enough.
	Let's give him some jail time for that.
	I can understand this.
	So he was, this is Levi Fishlock, who was involved in the disorder outside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham.
	And so he was jailed for nine years for helping that and trying to burn down A hotel housing asylum seekers.
	Yeah, okay, fair enough.
	Fair enough, nine years.
	That's a long time.
	Then you've got a guy who raped a woman to death, and he gets ten years.
	Ten years?
	So are we saying these are roughly equivalent?
	It's slightly worse.
	I mean, no one died.
	This guy didn't kill anyone.
	He was trying to set fire to the hotel, so you could say, well, he's trying to.
	Okay, yeah, fair enough.
	But he actually did kill someone.
	Like, this is a harrowing case, Matt.
	This should be the death penalty, surely.
	Well, you would think so, yeah.
	If we had it.
	Yeah, this would be a good argument to bring back the death penalty.
	So this one was Natalie Schotter, right?
	She was 37 years old, mother of three, had a 21-month-old daughter.
	She'd recently given birth, right?
	Her and her boyfriend, I think it's a boyfriend, but like partner, you know, not husband, but you know, she's in a relationship.
	She's an NHS clinical, or was an NHS clinical admin worker who lived a couple of miles from South Hall.
	And she was suffering from postnatal depression because she couldn't see her baby during COVID because she was a frontline COVID worker.
	So, someone else is looking after the baby, and so that's a sad thing.
	I can't even imagine how difficult that would be, actually.
	It's terrible, right?
	And so she has a night out, which, as a parent, I'm telling you is a rarity, right?
	So, she goes out, the CCTV footage of her having fun, hanging out with people...
	She apparently, according to one guy who did not give evidence that the trial provided a statement, he met some guy and they were sat on a bench in Southall Park.
	They did some amyl nitrate poppers and she had been quite drunk and so she laid down on the bench because she wasn't feeling well.
	Okay?
	She falls asleep.
	Okay.
	There's nothing life-threatening about this, right?
	The coroner points out that none of this is lethal.
	She would have just fallen asleep on the bench, woken up cold the next morning, and gone home, right?
	The person that she was with at 5 to 12, or sorry, 11.56pm, was like, oh no, she's passed out.
	I better go find some help.
	So he goes to find some police officers.
	Finds two police officers outside the park, but they're like, no, we're busy dealing with something else.
	You're advised to call for additional support, but I guess he doesn't, or they don't arrive, or whatever, right?
	And then 20 minutes later, Mohamed Idal, or how you pronounce it, approaches Natalie.
	He appears to have been stalking her before he approached her, so he appears to have been watching him, like, oh look, vulnerable woman, right?
	Goes, like, wanders around her to make sure that she's not going to respond, and then begins orally raping her, and she ends up dying from this.
	And he goes at 12.32, comes back at 12.48, then leaves again at 12.51, driving away from the park, back to his wife and children.
	He stops off at a shell garage to pick up some mouthwash and cat food.
	After orally raping a woman to death on a bench.
	So her mother's just like, well, I think what he did was premeditated.
	He was stalking her.
	He wasn't dithering.
	He didn't just come across her by chance.
	She thinks that he was out that night purposefully looking for someone to rape.
	Yeah, it just seems to be the case.
	Why was this person in our country?
	Well, if our crime statistics are anything to go by, the name Mohammed seems to mean something here, doesn't it?
	Well, yeah, but...
	I mean you know during the the trial his father was there from the public gallery and when they were playing footage he just got up and left He's like, yeah, no kidding.
	This is your son you've raised, man.
	Alright, so anyway, Mohammed...
	Again, notice how the pictures...
	You're not getting pictures of him, you're getting pictures of her.
	Whenever the victim is a sort of native Brit, they'll always show the victim if the person is foreign.
	And if it's the other way around, of course, they'll always show the perpetrator.
	Yeah, this independent article doesn't have a single picture of Mohamed Idal in it, right?
	But anyway, so he was apparently jailed for life, which means ten years and eight months minimum term.
	Ten years.
	Short life, isn't it?
	He's going to be out in 10 years.
	That's just, that's the minimum.
	And so, you know, assuming he behaves well in jail.
	And here is where what I said before about the interpretation given by the media and the narrative comes in.
	Because whenever you have people who are from one side doing something or saying anything...
	Again, it's the projection of the pardon of the far right.
	But when you have people from, let's say, that community doing crime, and it's a lot of crime, it's always an isolated incident of someone who had mental illness.
	Yeah, and this guy, who's a husband and father, was just out on this night as a predator, just looking for someone to attack, and he found someone vulnerable and attacked him.
	So, you know, ladies, it's not really safe for you to go out and get drunk in Britain anymore.
	It's just not safe.
	And also this behaviour suggests that there is zero fear of there being consequences.
	Well, you know what, that's exactly what her mother said.
	She said, quote, he seemed to think he was untouchable.
	So, yeah, that seems to be...
	Something that's in their minds for some reason.
	Anyway, again, BBC. Like, do we have a picture of him in here?
	Oh, we do finally have a picture of him.
	Like, just...
	Dear Lord.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The state, right?
	But anyway, they point out that he was actually a dangerous offender who had previous charges brought against him.
	In 2022, he engaged in explicit sexual chat online with a 13-year-old that he knew was 13. While he was under investigation for rape, So, I mean, I just...
	Can we not just assume this guy's a perennial predator?
	Why is he in our country?
	Why have we brought him here?
	Why have we brought him here?
	We also need to make an example of these people.
	Yeah.
	So people like him don't come here.
	And the way you do that is you kill them.
	Alright, calm down.
	As in capital punishment.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But the...
	I mean, I am totally for bringing back the death penalty.
	And if you kill someone after raping them to death, yeah, I think that's a perfectly good...
	Perfectly good use of the punishment.
	But anyway, so, and again, there's no question that it was him either.
	His DNA was found in her mouth and things like that.
	CCTV footage of him doing it.
	Again, you'd have to be such a moron to think that people aren't going to know.
	There's no doubt that it's him.
	There's just no one else it could be.
	So we can't get this wrong in this case.
	We know it's him.
	He would be a great candidate for it.
	Anyway.
	There's weird things that come out of this as well.
	So this is a police officer called Adam Aspinel de Incarnatio, which is a Portuguese surname.
	But apparently he's been suspended and has been charged with sharing images of her being raped from the CCTV footage, as well as other images of women being raped from police cases.
	So he seems to be a weird perv.
	Who has been sharing these...
	I don't think it could get any worse.
	Yeah, I know.
	I know.
	It's just so weird.
	It's like...
	Okay, so the police are just full of weird foreign perverts, aren't they?
	Oh, great.
	You know, again, I don't know what I'm supposed to say about it or take from it, but it's just like, okay, why?
	Why are we here?
	Anyway, moving on, there are a bunch of trials that are set for January the 20th.
	Any interesting trials coming up?
	Well, there's the trial of Anthony Esser.
	I wonder if we've got a picture of him in here.
	No?
	No, really, BBC. You haven't got a picture of him?
	Again, again, why?
	Why don't we have a picture of the criminal?
	Right?
	So, this chap, Lieutenant Colonel Mark Teton, was stabbed by Anthony Essen.
	You know, I'm going to just get Anthony Essen's picture up, see if we can actually find a picture of it.
	We did a segment about Anthony Essen in late July.
	Hmm.
	Oh, there we go.
	I wonder why the BBC didn't put his picture in the thing.
	I wonder why.
	So anyway, yeah.
	Anthony's trial is on January the 20th.
	Interesting date, January the 20th.
	Then we have the trial of Ricky Jones, who we actually have a picture of.
	The Labour councillor who, after the Southport riots and then the sort of counter-riots and protests that the media ginned up and the politicians, the Labour Party in particular, ginned up to get their sort of foreign client groups on the streets, this Labour councillor was like, we're going to have to go out and slit their throats.
	And he got suspended and his trial will be on January the 20th.
	Weird.
	Weird.
	They're loading all of these.
	It just happened to be the same date.
	They just threw a calendar.
	Oh, January the 20th.
	What were the odds?
	And that just happens to be the same date as the trial of Axel Rudicabana.
	January the 20th.
	Again, just...
	Wow, January 20th again.
	What are the odds?
	Or, they're deliberately loading them all on the same day in order to essentially sort of flood news reports.
	And so when people start January 20th trial, they get other results or whatever.
	Who knows?
	Who knows why they're doing it?
	It just happens to be a massive coincidence.
	But honestly, you can't help but notice that it cuts in one direction and against another.
	And it's every single goddamn time.
	And the media is, again, totally complicit in this.
	Like, it's...
	I'm so sick of seeing it.
	I'm just so sick of seeing it.
	I guess I'll leave that.
	It's just really annoying me.
	Oh yeah, that's a good point.
	Thanks, Samson.
	I completely forgot about that.
	Yeah, guess who's being inaugurated on January the 20th?
	That's right, the God Emperor, Trump.
	So it's just really weird how this is all, the stars have aligned, this has all converged, and I can't help but think that it's intentional.
	There is a stage that is going to happen afterwards in the pattern.
	When people are exiting jail, they won't get deported because ECHR. Because it's going to be the human rights of the family that is going to be negatively impacted.
	So we're going to have foreign convicted criminals just wandering around in Britain and nothing will be done about it.
	It's just mad.
	Anyway, Matt says...
	Well, when indeed.
	Well, no, the judge has given a minimum of ten years and eight months.
	So, apparently, he can't come out any sooner than that.
	But even then, only a decade.
	Only ten years for murdering someone.
	For raping someone to death?
	Like, I just want to be clear, right?
	Before, like, well now, I'd never heard of anyone in Britain ever being raped to death before.
	Maybe he felt bad?
	Yeah, maybe he just felt like, you know, the racist system was, you know, putting him out of joint or something.
	But it just never happened before, as far as I'm aware.
	Like, he's just never heard of it.
	Anyway.
	We've got another one through as well.
	Dragon Lady says, So sad this is happening in such a beautiful, culturally rich country like the UK. Well, Sam, we don't have any culture in Britain, Chris.
	We needed to import all this culture, and now we're being enriched.
	Right, so we have a conservative, a German conservative publication called Freilich that has been debunked by its Austrian bank.
	You mean debunked?
	Debunked, yeah.
	You said debunked.
	No, debunked.
	Debunked, right?
	It's just check.
	D-E-B-A-N-K-E-B.
	Right.
	So if I could have control of the...
	Is the mouse on?
	Yeah.
	So it says one of the major banks in Austria, Sparacasse, has canceled the bank account of the media outlet Freilich just weeks after the outlet published an investigative report on a meeting involving the German Green Party and its efforts to ban the AFD.
	Right.
	So what is going on is that there are a lot of people who want to ban the AFD for a long time now because they say that it is unconstitutional.
	And they try to...
	Can we just pause on that?
	It's not really because they think the AFD is unconstitutional.
	No, it's not.
	It's because the AFD is shooting up in the polls and they're worried about them winning the elections.
	It's okay to be undemocratic if the party is of the wrong persuasion.
	That's my segment.
	Oh, sorry.
	Thank you.
	Right.
	So what is going on is that the rhetoric is that the AFD is unconstitutional and they're trying to ban it.
	They're trying to do so for, I would say, for years now.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And essentially it is because its popularity is rising.
	But what happened is that there are several people who are competing each other as to who is going to have the best motion to ban the AFD. So what happened is that the Green Party organized a video conference Talking about their criticism of the current popular motion against the AFD and they say they got together a constitutional law expert.
	They put it with other MPs and they had several discussions about what's the problems with The main motion and how to do it themselves, how to do a better one.
	And people from the Freilich publication went undercover into that meeting.
	So they sort of crushed the meeting.
	They did some journalism.
	They did some actual journalism and reported what was said.
	And somehow, no journalistic deeds go unpunished, and the Austrian bank decided to wage economic war against them.
	Right.
	We have the Austrian party speaking against it, saying that this is unacceptable.
	We also have the AFD saying that also this is unacceptable.
	And we need to bear in mind why this is happening.
	And this suggests a pattern across the West, not only just in Europe.
	We all know how Trump was being persecuted and how the whole establishment was trying to Put him in jail and weaponize the legal system against him.
	Have you considered that elections are dangerous to our democracy?
	Yes.
	But the question is, who does our represent?
	Exactly.
	That's the major question.
	Right.
	So let us bear in mind what is going on and a bit why the AFD is being targeted.
	So...
	Germany is going to have federal elections on the 23rd of February.
	So in about two and a half months, they're going to have federal elections.
	And the AfD has a very good and upward trajectory.
	And it has also won several state elections in Thuringia.
	But also it has become a close second in Brandenburg and also in Saxony.
	Yeah, I was going to say, wasn't there something funny about the Saxony one?
	Yes.
	Also, just needless to say, the Green Party has been completely destroyed and demolished, and they're just losing seats.
	And also the same happened in the EU elections.
	I think they went from 20% to 12.5%, whereas the AfD went from 11% to 16%.
	There's also been a bit of a split in the vote of the left, hasn't there, because Link and the other new one, is it BSW? Is that the one?
	They're basically splitting the left vote.
	Of course it's a preferential system, but it's still significant because it means that they're going to be focused on taking each other out rather than the AFD potentially.
	So bear that in mind because the rhetoric of its anti-constitutionality should always be examined in the context of what is going on.
	Base Saxons, get on with it.
	Right, so there has been a move.
	This is from November 13, and there are around 113 MPs of the German Bundestag who have signed the application, submitted it to the President Barbel Bas, and they want to...
	I just can't stand it.
	It's like, look, we're getting thrashed by opponents.
	Well, why don't we just ban them?
	Yeah, but here is where there is constant criticism and everyone is criticizing the criticism and the motion and everyone is getting sucked into this, let's say, eternal discussion about what is going on.
	And we have Greens and other MPs who disagree with the motion, not because they don't want to ban the AFD, but because they want to ban it their way.
	You're not banning them hard enough.
	Right, exactly, yeah.
	No, because it's going to seem unconstitutional.
	That's essentially where it comes.
	So what they want is they want the facade of constitutionality.
	It's weirdly unconstitutional to ban the second most popular party in the country from being able to be a party.
	And you even had journalists saying that it is an authoritarian measure, that it is an authoritarian measure that is for the purpose of protecting our democracy.
	It comes from a constitutional order.
	Yeah.
	And they are going to wage these authoritarian measures to combat authoritarianism.
	Right, we have here the Greens and other parties are plotting the best way to ban the AFD, and we have lots of good footage, not footage, reports from what happened within that conference.
	So, There is someone called Marko Vandovich, who is a member of the CDU, which is the Christian Democratic Union, and he wants to go forward with a motion of an outright ban.
	And they say that the problem with this is that there is no sufficient evidence.
	So that's...
	I don't mean to laugh because this is like a crisis in German democracy.
	I mean, the government just collapsed recently, didn't it?
	Well, there's an interesting conversation here to be had from a pure power politics perspective.
	I think they're right when it comes to...
	The Greens' criticism is right when it comes to, you know, the morality of the issue.
	But the other one is more likely to work from a purely Machiavellian perspective.
	I don't think it should happen.
	It just really is just a clown show, isn't it?
	Everywhere.
	Yeah, but you remember, I don't know if you remember, Machiavelli says, when you want to do something that people are going to think unpopular, just better do it at one go, and people will get on with their lives, they'll forget it, and they're going to move on.
	The Greens haven't absorbed this lesson.
	And basically they say that among these skeptics of the original motion to ban it is Green MP Renate Kunost.
	Who's working on her own motion to ban the AFD and two weeks ago invited Berlin constitutional law expert Christoph Möllers to a video conference to present his views on a possible AFD ban.
	German publication Freilich, which attended the conference undercover, learned exactly what was discussed between several MPs from the Green Party, from also the SPD and also the FDP. And they're saying that there is a risk of the Vandovich motion.
	It has no evidence.
	When you present something with no evidence, it's going to backfire and it's going to have the exact opposite result.
	I see the point.
	I see the point.
	But also they are saying that what happens is that they need to have a first stage where they're going to create a committee of experts who is going to connect the dots, is going to bring forward evidence of its anti-constitutionality, And that has more risks of working.
	What is interesting is that the constitutional law expert told them that it's quite crazy to try to ban a political party with two-digit percentage.
	He said, I'm not that crazy yet.
	But if you wanted to do it, here's how you do it.
	You have the committee of experts.
	Well, we need to ban them.
	What have they done wrong?
	Oh, nothing.
	You don't have any evidence of wrongdoing?
	No, of course not.
	But we just really disagree with them and they're thrashing us.
	Would the final decision go through a judiciary?
	Because I imagine if you can get a judge that's on side, which shouldn't be too difficult, once they get to that point, they're basically on the home stretch, aren't they?
	Well, the body that would be responsible for judging is a body that, as he says, shouldn't have members that are loyal to the AFD. And if they don't have members loyal to the AFD, it's going to work.
	This is purely Schmittian politics then.
	It's just an enemy and our friends control the judiciary, so we can just get this done regardless of what the legality of it is.
	They want to create the facade of legality.
	That's what the Greens are saying here.
	And also this expert told them that the problem with the AFD is that they're not as stupid as previous parties.
	They're not going to write it on their manifesto that we're going to do things that they're going to be the terrors of the earth.
	Yeah, we're not here to do anything terrible in a German fashion.
	Yes.
	And the funny thing is, as well, that the AFD's manifesto seemed pretty liberal.
	They're hardly this spooky, scary...
	Yeah, no, I've spoken at the German Parliament a couple of years ago, and I was talking to all the AFD guys, and they were just like, yeah, we're not, like...
	You know, crazy.
	We just don't really want to give up our country.
	And it's like, wow, this is radical.
	Yes, but they're the enemies of our democracy.
	And here is where it all goes down to, because, you know, we have lots of people saying that this anti-democratic, Naomi Saib is also raising a lot of consciousness and awareness about the issue.
	And we have lots of people who are talking about our democracy, but it's not at all obvious what they mean by our democracy, because you can't talk about our democracy when you are essentially demonizing patriotism.
	Yes.
	And that's exactly what is going on, because we could constantly describe political movements as swaying from...
	Left to right.
	But right now what is going on is, I think, a push towards globalism because if we see all the parties that are getting the wrong end of the stick, let's say, or are being the targets of political warfare in the domestic, all of them just seem to have one common thing.
	They're saying that our country is our country first.
	That's what they seem to be saying.
	One thing that we've not necessarily talked about is the fact that they use our democracy because democracy basically functions as a sort of smokescreen for politicians to create blank checks to do what they want.
	There's not really any limitation on that because, of course, most politicians in Germany and the UK do many unpopular things that are against the wishes of their electorate.
	And they're able to because there's not enough accountability for elected officials.
	In many ways they have far too much power over ordinary people's lives.
	And why would they not refer to it as our democracy when it's basically their means of having unchecked power?
	That's a great point, because it's kind of crazy that they can just be like, right, we're just going to let in a million or two million people a year for a net 900,000, however much it was.
	It's like, hang on, what do you mean?
	Why are you allowed to do that?
	Without also asking your population.
	Well, no, even if you ask, why are you allowed to do that anyway?
	But there's never been a democratic mandate in this country for immigration, ever.
	So just, why have we come to the place now where we've got, you know, hundreds of thousands of dependents of foreign people moving in and being put up in social housing?
	What are we doing?
	And, like you said, there's just no accountability, no one's going to get in trouble for any of this, and it's ruining us.
	Well, there's a sort of broken window effect whereby progressively the need to get a democratic mandate to do something, the threshold has increased so high to the point where you need significant constitutional changes to put it to the electorate and you would think that something like mass migration would be significant enough.
	And to add to your point, which I think that this is what it all comes down to.
	A lot of people are saying that in 20 years people are going to have a problem.
	I think that's wrong in a way because the problem already exists.
	Because it's obviously true that, you know, there are lobbies that are foreign in all Western countries and whose power is rising and also their numbers are rising.
	But we forget the idea, the problem that people vote every once, one time every four or five years.
	Then they vote for overall agendas.
	They don't vote on specific topics.
	And this leads to the tyranny of the minority because they are doing all sorts of calculations in order to get votes and they're placating lots of minorities in order to give them extra rights and preferential treatment.
	But moving on from here...
	I want to say that precisely it seems to me that if we just focus on the difference between rhetoric and action, it seems to me that the EU and also the politics of persecuting your enemy is pretty authoritarian if we just look at their actions.
	Well, it's fundamentally anti-democratic.
	It doesn't recognize the legitimacy of the opposition.
	Yes, and the videos and footage I've seen from members of the AFD seem to me far more democratic than the EU. But again, they have this problem.
	They're talking about patriotism.
	The problem is they're against the entrenched globalist order.
	And so, of course, they're just going to be like, well, we'll tolerate you until you become a genuine threat, and then we're going to try and shut you down.
	And here is where I'm going to wrap it up and to finish the segment because there seem to me to be several issues that the AFD is constantly talking about and criticizing.
	And a lot of people don't feel particularly comfortable when people like the AFD are criticizing.
	For instance, free speech.
	We have here Alice Weidel in the German Bundestag.
	That's the most anti-democratic.
	Emphasizing how the Green Party plans a ban on X like in Brazil.
	Also, just...
	Look at the complete insanity of it.
	A lot of the leftists and a lot of EU fanatics, they're constantly saying, well, parties like the AfD or Marine Le Pen's or Meloni's parties, they're just driven by Russian interest.
	Right, so what's the point?
	First of all, I don't believe it.
	But second, what's the point of accusing a party for promoting the interests of another nation if you are demonizing patriotism?
	Yeah.
	You're just screaming, I'm not promoting my interests.
	But then you're accusing your opponents for promoting interests of other countries.
	Are you suggesting that like half your country is pro-Russian?
	They're just like, you know what, I'm going to vote for the Russian interest over Italy, which is why Maloney's in charge of Italy.
	I think.
	And Hungary.
	Oh, yeah.
	We need Russians.
	What are you doing?
	It's nonsense.
	The sort of fundamental problem with German politics is, I'm going to address the elephant in the room here, they're living in the shadow of their past and they're mistakenly identifying patriotism as the root cause of it when actually it's clearly not.
	And I think that that's actually something that's very deliberate to target the right.
	It's a deliberate misunderstanding of history.
	They're essentially like globalist commies, so obviously they're like, okay, we've got to get past the Patriots or anything, or else we don't get the wonderful, perfect, liberal international order that we've been looking for.
	Here we have the manifesto for the AFD. Anyone who wants to read about it, just...
	How many mentions of concentration camps?
	I saw some really dangerous...
	Not one, actually.
	Not one, right?
	Not even one, I know.
	The...
	I can scroll down for you if you want.
	Yes.
	If we scroll down page 8...
	Okay, I can do that.
	A lot of scrolling.
	There you go.
	Yeah, democracy and core values.
	We want to reform Germany and return to the roots and principles which were fundamental to its economic recovery in subsequent decades of economic and social progress.
	And if we scroll down to the next page bit...
	Oh, sorry.
	Too far.
	Next one.
	Next one.
	Yep.
	Anyway, I've lost it.
	Okay, it's just I don't have...
	Do you want me to have a look at that?
	Yeah, stuff is not working.
	They're talking about how they're, in a sense, conservative liberals and they are in favor of democracy and the separation of powers.
	These are dangerous things.
	So they're basically an American party.
	Yeah.
	But what is going on here is that they have, thank you very much, Josh, is that if we look at the parties who are going against them, they are for something that the AFD is against, at least in rhetoric, because always the rhetoric differs from actions.
	Therefore, the parties that go against the AFD are for micromanaging social decline.
	So, they aren't talking about the core problem, what generates an issue.
	They're focusing on the symptoms.
	They are the issue that's causing the symptoms.
	So, of course, they've got to manage the symptoms to make sure that people...
	Have you considered that some people change course when they suffer the consequences of their own policies?
	I have, actually.
	I watch the Young Turks occasionally.
	Speaking of Young Turks, we have Cem Özdemir, Germany's agricultural minister, who claims that his daughter has been sexually harassed by a migrant.
	He is the leader of the Green Party who was advocating open borders.
	And that's a good thing part?
	No, no, no.
	He says now that there needs to be a halt to open borders.
	Now that's happening to your family.
	What about all the other families?
	Not his problem.
	But what is the suggestion?
	The suggestion is having women-only trains.
	The suggested response of the Greens to increasingly more increasing crime in Germany is, and especially to train stations and sexual abuse within train stations and train is, let's have women-only carriages.
	So they're resorting to segregation.
	That's interesting.
	It's even worse though.
	It's like, right, okay, what's happening?
	Well, the Islamic migrants are harassing women because they would like segregated spaces between men and women.
	Well, you know what we should do then?
	Give them exactly what they want.
	That's micromanaging social decline.
	It's also doing what they want.
	Yeah, the women's only carriages, that's going to be like a buffet.
	You think the Muslim sexual assaulter is going to go in there and be like, hang on a minute, I'm not allowed in here, this is a women-only space.
	Also, if I go in and say I'm a woman, and someone comes in and tells me, you know, just leave.
	I say, you're misgendering me.
	Yeah, politically correct.
	I'm going to destroy you.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And you probably could.
	You probably could literally go to the courts.
	Yeah.
	Like, I identified as a woman that day, and he told me I wasn't a woman, and kicked me out, and that was my human rights violated, and I want to see them.
	So all this is micromanaging social decline.
	You know, this isn't paying enough these days.
	You know what else these parties have given to Germany?
	Really disastrous net zero policies.
	Oh, what a shock.
	The destruction of their domestic agricultural sector.
	But it's true.
	It's virtuous.
	It's virtuous.
	It's good.
	And also, we have incredibly rising crime that arises.
	I remember this.
	I think he's called Michael Stuartzenberger.
	He was talking about the Islamization of Germany and Europe.
	Someone tried to stab him.
	The cop attacked him thinking he was attacking the migrant.
	The migrant stabbed the cop in the neck because the cop was wrestling with the German.
	And Michael Sturzenberger has been sentenced for €3,600 for Islamophobia and inciting violence.
	And a suspended prison sentence.
	So you get punished for being stabbed.
	Someone trying to stab you.
	Look what you made me do, Josh.
	I mean, that evidence keeps on stabbing me for his argument.
	Look what you made me do, Josh.
	I know.
	Speaking about honking.
	Yeah, so it seems to me that throughout Europe we have a pattern of politicians who don't want to solve any problem, they want to micromanage decline, and when we have the occasional voice that speaks of, no, we don't want to micromanage decline, we actually want to Solve the problem.
	You have a whole establishment going against them.
	And this isn't just to parties.
	This is also to magazines.
	And we should also remind people that it's not the only publication that has been the target of defamation.
	It's also a compact magazine that was persecuted.
	And the judge said, well, there isn't particular ground to prosecute them.
	But, in some cases, the punishment is the process, especially when there are federal elections on the 23rd of February.
	Well, we've got some fun news.
	Can I have the mouse back, please?
	Of course.
	I hope it's working.
	And the mat.
	I can't go mat-less.
	It's one of my pet hates, is to use a mouse without a mouse mat.
	It's like nails on a chalkboard to me.
	I don't know what it is.
	Just...
	particularly autistic about it, apparently.
	So my crusade to only give you positive news over December is continuing, and today I'm going to be talking about the weirdest news stories from 2024, and I had a great amount of fun putting this together, so I'm sure it's going to be a good one.
	And I'm going to go through the months.
	Some of them don't have weird news stories, some of them have an excess.
	And I'm going to start with this one.
	Could you, say, imagine working in a fishing shop and then all of a sudden a 42-year-old man strips naked and plunges into your aquarium?
	Why?
	Because that happened.
	So I'm going to read a little bit from this.
	It says a 42 year old Alabama man did a cannonball leap into the aquarium and then stood under a waterfall.
	And he left the water to yell at two police officers and then dove back into the aquarium again and eventually climbed over the side of the aquarium and fell to the concrete floor below.
	And then the police apprehended him.
	I remember seeing the video of this.
	You can't show it because he's...
	Naked, yeah.
	But yes, I did some digging because I wanted a bit more visual of this.
	Yeah, so I found out it's here.
	It's between Birmingham and Leeds, and that's confusing because that makes it sound like it's in Britain, but Birmingham, Alabama, and then this is Leeds.
	And I found the specific place and the tank, and it does look nice in his defence.
	I do need to cannonball into that.
	It does look fun to cannonball.
	Look at that waterfall.
	There's the nice fish.
	I mean, you've got the deer on the sides.
	It looks good.
	And this obviously became a bit of a meme.
	Obviously, you can see a very blurred photo, thankfully, of his antics.
	And it did get turned into memes.
	Reports of a shrinkage at the Bass Pro Shop, I imagine it would be.
	People have pointed out that, yes, this is a very un-American thing to persecute him for exercising his right to swim with fishes.
	Oh, no, no.
	There are definitely going to be arguments for property.
	Oh, don't want to see that.
	I did find this one funny comparing him to the statue of David.
	But I don't want to look at the pictures of a naked 42-year-old man too much, thanks.
	There's also this.
	This was from February.
	Bearing in mind, an acorn fell on a police car and then what ensued was this.
	So that's all the context you need.
	Pay attention to how much this man rolls around on the ground in the middle of the road, not behind cover.
	A warning is needless.
	nothing really happens.
	Imagine if someone was shooting and roly-polying away like that.
	Who's he shooting at?
	The acorn.
	He shot his own car.
	He did, yeah.
	What the hell are you shooting at?
	He's just lying in the road saying, I'm here, I'm here.
	He wasn't hit.
	An acorn landed on the car.
	And this is a different perspective from the other officer who's just talking to people.
	And they see this guy freaking out.
	And they're not shooting at their own car.
	So apparently there was a person in that car and they were fine.
	They weren't even wounded.
	They were just very scared.
	But they searched that person and made sure they were unarmed before putting them in the car.
	And the police officer was suspended for this, I think.
	Oh good.
	Because he seems a bit highly strung.
	Yeah, I think shooting acorns.
	I know there's been a lot of law enforcement.
	There's been a lot of anti-squirrel action in America over the past year, but this really takes the cake.
	There's also this.
	A couple got married in Kentucky in a convenience store bathroom.
	For some reason.
	Why?
	I don't know.
	Apparently there's a button that says do not press in the bathroom and a disco ball comes down.
	And that's the only reason.
	So we need to get married.
	You see that in the corner?
	Yeah.
	You see that?
	The little red button just in that corner there?
	Could you imagine inviting people to that?
	Showing the wedding pictures and you've got a toilet in the background.
	I can't even imagine my wife agreeing to such a thing.
	I know.
	And a bit of a trigger warning for this.
	There is mention of Vorsch in this next one.
	Oh yeah, right, yeah.
	There was this.
	So Vorsch, left-wing streamer, I suppose, accidentally opened a folder full of pornography on his live on stream.
	And apparently it confirms the long-suspected notion that he has an interest in horses, which is...
	He likes listening to wild horses by Rolling Stones while he watches it.
	Only without innocence, Daniels.
	And he has confirmed this publicly.
	Oh, good.
	And also claims he's not interested in actual horses, but women as a horse.
	I'll leave that to the imagination.
	I don't want to think about that.
	He means with a weird face.
	We know the horse physiognomy.
	So British aristocracy.
	I'm sorry, we just hate the internet.
	What it's done to people's minds.
	Just now.
	And one of my personal favourite stories is the Glasgow Willy Wonka experience.
	So obviously Willy Wonka, you think a Willy Wonka experience will look something like this, right?
	So you think, wow, that would be amazing, right?
	Something out of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
	Yeah, well, it's more like Charlie and the Heroin Dispensary here.
	Because here we are, here is the experience...
	Would you take your kids there, Carl?
	This is brutalist.
	Yeah, this is a brutalist interpretation of Charlie and Charlie.
	It just looks so, you know, dreamlike.
	This was my favourite picture of all.
	Look at the life leave that woman's eyes.
	They haven't put in any bloody effort at all in this.
	And, yeah, this was the highlight.
	You can see there's not even chocolate in there.
	They made some effort, but obviously this isn't enough.
	And they were charging £35 a ticket for this.
	I don't know what experience it is.
	Disappointment, I suppose, is an experience.
	Maybe they want to put more in it next time and they want to scam people.
	Well, it closed after the first day.
	Yeah.
	So maybe not.
	But it did get turned into a meme, as many things are.
	Here people are talking about it, pointing out the Oompa Loompa lady.
	They're comparing it to Dashcon.
	But the thing is as well, people were pretending to be really excited about it.
	I also saw people visiting the site of it.
	Here's a video of...
	Supposedly people trying to run through the doors to get to it.
	I don't actually know what that's meant to be.
	But they actually recreated it in LA because it was so popular the first time.
	Oh yeah.
	Well, it's become a meme.
	It got memed into sort of sainthood, didn't it?
	But you think, okay, this couldn't have gone any worse.
	It became an international laughingstock, I suppose.
	They had to refund people the money.
	Yeah.
	So the guy who was running it must have had a really bad time.
	Well, it could get worse because it turns out he's also, as of recently, placed on the Sex Offenders Register, which is probably the last thing you want to do if you're running a Willy Wonka experience.
	It's the last thing you want to do generally, isn't it?
	Yeah, I think that's safe to say.
	Yeah, not just for Willy Wanker.
	Excuse me?
	What?
	Never mind.
	Must be a Greek thing still.
	So, I don't know whether either of you have heard about the Chicago rat hole.
	Yes?
	I haven't, but I want to find out.
	So it's got its own Wikipedia page.
	Here it is.
	There it is.
	It's a hole shaped like a rat.
	It is, yeah.
	Obviously when they were doing the pavement.
	It was a green fire rat.
	I don't know whether the city of Chicago employs rats.
	No, no, no.
	As in, did they just concrete over a rat?
	It's clearly concreted over.
	I don't know whether it was dead before or after, but it was certainly dead after, I imagine.
	But there's a lot of detail about it, and you can see that it became a site of pilgrimage.
	Because people were, you know, putting coins, some pills for some reason.
	It's actually got the little fingerprints and everything.
	It does, yeah.
	I love the sort of not-my-job attitude.
	They have pills.
	Stuff like that.
	You can see...
	They did, yeah.
	I don't know whether it was Viagra.
	It looked blue and sort of that way, didn't it?
	But people put a plaque down and offerings.
	You can see it even fills up in the winter.
	It becomes a little tiny rat paddling pool.
	I love the idea that there's just some Chicago worker who's been told, right, go concrete over that bit of the sidewalk.
	It needs to be done.
	He's like, well, he didn't tell me to move the rat, did he?
	Yeah.
	So, what do you think happened to this rat hole?
	Because, of course, this is a nice bit of local colour.
	It became a site of pilgrimage.
	Come and see the Chicago rat hole.
	I mean, what else are you going to go to Chicago for, really?
	Get shot.
	Get shot, yeah.
	Beat me to it.
	So, yeah, the authorities, of course, removed it.
	Killjoys that they are.
	Is there nothing bureaucrats won't ruin?
	Go back to shooting each other, residents of Chicago.
	So, yeah, they've removed the rat hole.
	I love the mourners for the rat hole.
	I know.
	It's devastating.
	You're up all night.
	So it's been put into storage, so if you're a rich millionaire or billionaire, Elon, if you're watching, you can purchase the rat hole and put it on display somewhere if you so wish.
	But it's worth mentioning it was removed.
	So that...
	They ruined it.
	It was one nice thing in Chicago, but never mind.
	There was also, in June, the story that lots of people were going to poo in the Sienne River in Paris.
	And why were they doing this?
	Well, it was the Olympics.
	And the Parisian mayor, as well as Emmanuel Macron, said they would swim in the river to prove it was safe, except shortly before they were due to do so, a report showed that, and this is a direct quote, water sample showed high rates of two kinds of fecal bacteria, including E. coli, water sample showed high rates of two kinds of fecal bacteria, including E. coli, and these did not meet the standards I thought they did actually swim in it, though.
	I don't know.
	I thought they swum in it and a bunch of them got sick.
	People did get sick, although I think it's just the fact they did a triathlon rather than a fact.
	Because lots of people usually do get sick after they do enough cardio.
	I know, but...
	It's like so inconsiderate.
	If people want to swim there, you don't do that.
	But the thing is that a form of French political protest was to poo in a river.
	I'm just going to throw that out there.
	I think that goes back centuries.
	It's a form of social protest.
	There are actual papers talking about it.
	Really?
	In France?
	They're translated in English.
	So in July, a bear got trapped in a car, inside a car.
	Here it is.
	Apparently someone came back to their car after going for a hike and just found a bear sat in the front seat.
	So what, did it open the door?
	It opened the door, because now bears can open doors.
	You didn't lock your car?
	Apparently not.
	You just left the car unlocked and a bear broke in.
	But look at the damage it did.
	God damn it.
	That's why you lock your car.
	Let me out!
	Let me out!
	They had to then open the door to let the bear out.
	Which was a whole operation.
	And you think this must be a fluke, right?
	This is a very strange thing to happen.
	Well, actually it happened two years prior in 2022 in the same place, I believe.
	And there it is.
	It might be the same bear.
	You can't keep on getting away with this.
	Velociraptor levels of intelligence.
	I also like how he's got his hand on the wheel.
	It's like, uh...
	I've done this before.
	You haven't been drinking.
	It's for his Instagram account.
	Unbearable.
	Sorry.
	I couldn't resist.
	In August, we had my favourite piece of dystopian news.
	Disney sought to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit because the widower had signed up to Disney Plus' free trial a few years prior, and this gave the street, you know, within the terms and conditions, it allowed them the clause to get out of any wrongful...
	Better call Saul, right?
	That's what I'm picturing, where it's like, Your Honour, we may have killed that person, but they did sign up to our free trial.
	So, yeah, supposedly there were conditions in the terms and conditions of signing up to that free trial.
	We're allowed to murder you!
	Apparently so.
	So, before you sign up to Disney +, bear that in mind, because Mickey Mouse can come and kill you.
	And...
	And probably my favourite video of the year was this one.
	So, in America, in September, they started using robot crime fighters.
	They've probably been using them for some time, but this is the first example of it.
	And a criminal thought they were clever and could deceive the robot.
	And what happened was what I can only refer to as a school bully effect in that it may or may not do something that is notorious of school bullies.
	So he puts a blanket over it to block its camera, which is quite clever actually.
	It starts breaking through the window, and then he sort of slivers out, and while he's on the ground, it starts pulling down his trousers, and it resulted in him getting caught just by running him over, which I thought was great.
	God, this is the future.
	This is the future.
	The next update, the robots are going to wedge you people.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	School bullies are going to be automated soon.
	Skype it.
	The robot's going to come up to you, wedge you, and ask for your lunch money.
	Oh god, yeah.
	We're worried about the robots wiping out humanity.
	No, there's going to be bullying humanity.
	Robot chads, yeah.
	So in November, there was the case of a mystery emu spotted in Cambridgeshire.
	And the funny thing is, this was in a rural Cambridgeshire village, and it was spotted at the start line of a 10k race.
	I don't know whether it participated in the race.
	Did it win?
	I don't know.
	My money would be on the emu if it did participate.
	I don't know.
	10km is quite a long time.
	I mean, an emu probably can't run 10km straight, right?
	But I reckon it's basically just legs and a body, isn't it?
	It doesn't even have arms.
	Yeah, I know, but most animals aren't like endurance runners.
	That's true.
	Humans are, apparently.
	It could be the emu and the human, like the rabbit and the hare.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Maybe it can have a little break.
	Yeah, but that's how early humans caught their prey.
	They're like wolves.
	Just continually chase something until it collapses of exhaustion.
	They tried to catch it, however...
	Turns out they are endurance runners.
	People chasing them on 4x4, or chasing it in 4x4s to try and get a view of it, kept on scaring it away and hampered the rescue effort, I suppose?
	I don't know.
	The capture effort.
	But in some positive news, the time the emu spent in the community may have done some good, because recently the BBC ran a news story saying that a boy with autism was taught to love by an emu, so maybe the emu was going around spreading love, and that's a nice positive thing.
	I think maybe we could do with some more emus in certain areas of the country.
	I prefer that to big cats.
	That's true.
	I mean, at least you won't get eaten by the emu, will you?
	But eventually it did get captured, and it got a nice little jacket, which I thought was nice.
	I was hoping you'd still be on the run, like a sort of urban legend or something.
	Go out into the countryside, you might meet the emu.
	Eventually we're just going to have loads of wildlife.
	We'll have like the big cats, there'll be an emu, there'll probably be a Bigfoot somewhere.
	Just various things that have escaped over the years.
	And of course this reminds me of something that I covered the other day in great detail about the 43 monkeys that were on the loose in South Carolina.
	Four are still on the loose to this day.
	And the funniest thing is that at one point they captured two of them.
	They caught eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
	And they were worried that these monkeys weren't going to survive.
	They're going to be malnourished after a month.
	And they actually were eating probably better than they did in the lab itself.
	Why would they think the monkeys wouldn't be able to survive?
	I don't know.
	I suppose it's South Carolina, isn't it?
	Yeah, but there's got to be fruit around them.
	Probably true, yeah.
	Stuff to steal.
	Yeah, it was November, to be fair.
	But the funny thing is, when they caught these two sandwich-eating monkeys, the other ones that were still on the loose were heckling the people that were capturing them.
	So they could hear them hooting and hollering from the woods as they captured them, which I think is great.
	Well played.
	And finally for December, the United Healthcare CEO, apparently the guy who shot him when he was captured in McDonald's, his bag was full of Monopoly money.
	Which is interesting.
	I don't know why that was.
	Probably for a bit of a joke, I would imagine.
	But what is not a joke is the fact that AI chats are now encouraging people to kill their parents.
	So, apparently a teenager had their screen time limited.
	And so the AI suggested it was a reasonable response to then kill their parents, to allow them to use the AI more.
	And this was character AI, which I believe has multiple different characters you can talk to.
	Was that also powering the police robot?
	Maybe.
	Yeah, if you just bully the criminal, pull down their trousers, maybe...
	I mean, to be fair, the bully robot was far less aggressive than this AI. That's true.
	It didn't actually try and kill anyone.
	The same cannot be said for the 100 elite goats that have been sent to North Korea by Russia.
	Well, you don't want to say crappy goats.
	I know.
	I don't know what qualifies as an elite goat.
	But I find this interesting.
	This is, of course, in return for the North Koreans helping out in Ukraine.
	And this would be a very different news story if they sent them to Pakistan, wouldn't it?
	Golden age of Russia-Korean diplomacy.
	Yeah.
	And I also found it funny as well that there was a poll recently asking about virginity entering college in America.
	And it came up with a very funny number here.
	69% of people entered college as virgins, which is an increase.
	Can I say a male-female breakdown of that?
	There you go.
	So far fewer men, well, not far fewer, but fewer men than women there.
	I also found it interesting as well that genderqueer and non-binary, the greatest incels of them all there, 85% of them have never had any intercourse.
	75% of women say they've never had intercourse, and 61% of men.
	Abstinence is so back.
	Someone's probably lying.
	That's true.
	Or some women are just really carrying the numbers for the men.
	Or maybe it's the men amongst themselves.
	I think the men are probably just lying.
	That's probably true.
	I think it's generation incel.
	I think they're all incels.
	And the final thing I wanted to end on, on the topic of incels, is that a whale is recorded as making the longest migration ever recorded, and scientists think that it's probably trying to get laid.
	That's why it did it.
	It went 8,000 miles, which is massive, and it broke the record for the same reason any man breaks a record looking for a lady.
	8,000 miles for a 4 out of 10. LAUGHTER Literal whale.
	Yeah, yeah.
	The greatest simp of all time.
	People didn't know it was the humpback whale the whole time.
	Clues in the name.
	But anyway, these are the stories that I was able to find, some of the weirdest news stories.
	I quite like this sort of stuff.
	I only do it once a year, so I hope it cheered you up a little bit.
	Okay.
	We don't have any video comments, so we're...
	We do have some other comments, though.
	Okay.
	Oh, loads of comments.
	Can I have a mouse?
	Of course.
	I don't need the...
	I'm actually not autistic.
	DragonLadyChris says, Next time you visit the US, I strongly suggest visiting a base pro shop.
	They're amazing.
	The picture doesn't do it justice.
	Oh my god, I didn't realise they were such an incredible thing.
	Oh, they're huge, yeah.
	I was looking at the pictures, and it's like a cathedral of fishing.
	Okay, well, I mean, I'm not a fisherman.
	But Baldi says they held many swimming events there and the athletes got sick.
	They're suing Paris and France.
	Yeah, I thought they did.
	I knew they actually did swim in the river.
	And it's like, yeah, but that's disgusting.
	Like, why would you?
	I mean, the river of any capital city, I would never recommend swimming in, no matter what the Go down the Thames.
	They found, like, decapitated bodies in the Thames and things like that.
	Yeah, but it's just full of crap.
	Like, regardless of what city it is, any capital city.
	And pollution.
	Why would you do that?
	Yeah, I know.
	It's weird.
	So the French are like, yeah, we'll get them to...
	No, idiots.
	Not Just String says, after Trump winning, my favourite will be the allegedly Jewish tunnels with mattresses.
	I can't believe I forgot about that.
	I can't believe I forgot about that.
	We did cover it extensively at the time.
	What a way to kick off the year.
	The anti-Semites are just like, well that's our year sorted.
	Front loaded.
	Other favourite news is Bitcoin hitting 100k.
	Isn't it 109k now?
	Really?
	Yeah, it's crazy.
	Oh, that's annoying.
	Yeah.
	I was going to chuck some money in.
	Yeah, well.
	Yeah.
	But Merry Christmas to you.
	And Fleet Lord Atfar says, Came across Moscow area decorated for Christmas.
	Melted my mind.
	Never seen anything like it except in the movies.
	Samson, can you pull that up?
	Moscow Christmas decorations.
	So while we'll...
	Oh.
	Let's have a look.
	It looks lovely, yeah.
	Yeah, it does look good.
	We used to live in a nice country, you know.
	But if you're a Zoomer watching this, our country used to be nice.
	Now the Russians are outdoing us.
	What happened?
	Okay, well, very nice.
	Ryan says, he tried shooting the robot and started pumping the motel room with tear gas and it pinned him with its weight while he was recovering.
	I had to get outsmarted by the slowest, most useless looking robot ever.
	We need to bring back Robot Wars, don't we?
	I love that TV show.
	I know one elite goat is, they're my 11 and 13 year old sons.
	Theo says, jailed for life, but it's a minimum 10 years.
	Yeah.
	I know.
	I know.
	I think life sentences are simply there to trick the public into thinking that justice is being served, while he'll be locked away with the key disposed of.
	In reality, he'll be out as soon as a Stamright lawyer comes along to argue his case.
	Yeah, no, that's exactly the point.
	I just kind of hate the...
	Okay, life sentence.
	It's not a life sentence.
	Change the name, right?
	I don't care if you change anything else.
	Well, I mean, I do, but, like, at the very minimum, change the name.
	It's not a life sentence.
	Stop saying it.
	It's a lie.
	I'm tired of being lied to.
	Our further beta says, there are many criminals that deserve death penalty, but can you imagine the current British regime with that power?
	Yeah, I mean, they've got police with guns and an army.
	They already have the ability to deal out death.
	British intelligence services can kill British citizens with legal impunity now.
	They passed that quite quietly and no one's ever talking about it.
	Yeah, and if they could just kill those people who deserved it for once, then maybe things wouldn't be so bad.
	But the point being it will be the legal system that does it, not the government.
	North FC Zoom says, Yeah, I know, but the thing is, you should have just waited out.
	Like, yeah, okay, fine.
	That sucks, but it's either that or a year in jail, so...
	The thing is, you can also fight it and it'll become a big public case.
	Yeah, make a big spectacle.
	Probably, yeah.
	But, like, North Oasis, you are right that he would have just been advised, oh, you know, just get it over with, get a light sentence, slap on the wrist.
	Yeah, right.
	Justin says, would not be shocked to find Tutti Akir adding the rapist to an early release list in a couple of years.
	Honestly, I'm going to be shocked if he doesn't just give him a knighthood, alright?
	Like...
	God, I hate the people in this country.
	My perfectly adequately sized tub of Nolnoil.
	Look, you don't need much Nolnoil.
	Scum like this should be deported back to their country of origin in an urn.
	Mercy for the criminal is cruelty to the victim.
	Agreed.
	absolutely the case they're just not suffering enough I've genuinely come to the point where there needs to be more suffering for criminals I'm totally on the Victorian side of it now Yeah, no, the prison is finally.
	Yes.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	I mean, the Victorian period, you're going to get me going on one of my rants here, but it is just the cultural high-water mark of Britain.
	Like, about 1850, 1860, it's sort of, you know, by the late Victorian period, it's already getting decadent and degenerate, but that sort of window, yes.
	Massive empire.
	Workhouses.
	Lovely.
	Lovely.
	Children working, not whinging and playing Minecraft.
	My kids are probably running around the house at the moment causing trouble because it's like Christmas holiday.
	They could be operating heavy machinery.
	Exactly.
	They could be down a mine or up a chimney or something.
	Think of the lost economic efficiency.
	Yeah, you know what?
	I mean, really we should propose that somewhere.
	It's like, look, we've got this whole constituency of people in the country who are not economically productive and they're called children.
	I mean, also, we can bring back a British industry of the mines.
	Look at all the children playing Minecraft.
	They love it.
	Just say, you want to play this in real life, right?
	I'm not even joking.
	I did the meme with my son.
	Like, he sat there, like, a couple of years ago, just staring at YouTube, watching TV, you know, big TV, watching someone playing Minecraft.
	And I was like, do you yearn for the mines?
	He was like, yeah.
	I was like, what did you bring back?
	He was like, iron.
	I like how he was jaded.
	Like, he's been thinking a lot about mining iron.
	Well, yeah, I mean, I guess there is a natural drive for productivity.
	Yeah, I remember when I was quite young, I went on a, I think it was a school trip, I can't remember, to an old Victorian mine.
	We went on like a mine cart through the mine and it was amazing.
	I was just like, I want to explore this.
	Give me a pick and, you know, a mine cart.
	How many tons do we need?
	Omar says, I think this is midwit tyranny.
	It's not that we haven't been subjected to these injustices over the past couple of decades, but they'll be used to be smarter about engineering the decline.
	Don't look back and anger became being angry is illegal and they don't realise the difference.
	Yeah, no, it's genuinely, it's got to the point where it's like, look, we tried to nudge you into it.
	We tried to, oh no, you know, look at the victims' parents who have come out and said, no, don't be angry, don't be racist.
	No, no, we're just going to make being angry illegal at this point.
	When it comes to some people, not all, because wokeness is all about justifying the anger on Westerners.
	When the diversity does something to the native population...
	It was nudge, nudge, nudge.
	Now it's just, okay, now you're getting, you know, the velvet gloves come off and you're just getting the iron fist now.
	There is also the stunning hypocrisy there because there is the idea or the claim that they are somehow going to be integrated and love the country that they go to and live in.
	And how can you love a country that everyone screams, tells you and incentivizes you to say how destructive it is and how it's the worst thing ever?
	What can you integrate into if there's literally one British person in a class?
	I see Angela Rayner the other day.
	He goes to some London school, I think it was.
	And it's just literally one English kid in the class and it's like, okay, so integration is just gone.
	We're not having that conversation anymore because what would they integrate into?
	Yeah, there are no natives left.
	Exactly.
	It's just so mad.
	Thomas says justice delayed is justice denied.
	At this point they are amongst the victims of our criminal justice system.
	Yeah, they are.
	Henry says the justice system segment hasn't even included a Labour MP who punched a constituent to the floor then proceeded to be...
	Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
	Completely forgot about the MP who punched the guy.
	Did you see the video of it?
	Yeah, I covered it.
	The guy had his hands in his pockets, nothing's going on, and then bam, bam, bam.
	It was near Liverpool, wasn't it?
	Yeah, it was.
	It was Liverpool.
	Yeah, good point.
	I completely forgot.
	Completely forgot.
	Like...
	Yeah, Labour, we fucking hate you.
	We hate everything about you.
	We're literally going to lock you up, we're going to steal all your money, and when it comes to it, we're just going to start physically punching you in the face.
	That's not what a surgery with your electorate means.
	Yeah, just...
	I mean...
	At least it's nice to have it in the open, right?
	That's true.
	It's not subversive like the Conservatives.
	No, the Labour Party is literally just going to lamp you.
	Knock your teeth out.
	If my local MP could just deliver a few pummels to the face and then I can avoid all the political tyranny, I'd take it.
	I can avoid all the tax.
	It's like, get taxed or get punched once a month by the Labour MP. I'd be like...
	I'll take the punches.
	Yeah, easily.
	The punch heals.
	The financial damage doesn't.
	Exactly.
	I'll take a beating from a Labour MP every couple of months, I guess.
	Or even once a year.
	I pay taxes once a year.
	Okay, great.
	You would definitely get far more women elected in Parliament as well with that policy, wouldn't you?
	Because you'd get a less hard punch.
	Diversity quotas fulfilled.
	No, that's right.
	I want to get the most, you know, disabled, dwarfish woman in Parliament possible.
	Representation will be through the roof, because she's going to hit me in the thighs or something.
	Harry says...
	Lord Nereval says, The terrifying thing is the justice system is not demented, it's working exactly as intended.
	Well, I'm describing it as demented, but I am in agreement this is exactly intended.
	Lucas says, What's your recent livestream?
	You need to watch your blood pressure.
	Yeah, well, I think my blood pressure's fine.
	I'm just...
	You know the sort of meme videos of a guy screaming into his phone, wake up, live in the show, live in Britain.
	I'm getting to that point.
	There's no reason that our country has to be this way.
	It doesn't have to be this way.
	It wasn't always this way.
	This is a policy choice.
	This is genuinely a choice.
	And it's the one they're making for us.
	Anyway, we better go on to the next segment.
	Right, so our Freybentos for every Haitian.
	If anything, what's happening in...
	I love that name.
	Same.
	But it's such a good opportunity for Freybentos to do a bit of community outreach.
	Raise their profile.
	The Haitian community.
	Yeah, well, like, literally, we're going to feed Haiti, Freybentos.
	It's exporting British culture.
	Keir Starmer could get behind it.
	I'd like to see that sales pitch.
	Let's export pies to people who eat literal mud and have no money.
	Diversify the cuisine.
	Yeah, and it's helping diversity overseas, spreading British culture, doing good deed, and British cultural imperialism.
	I think a barbecue sauce should sponsor General Barbecue.
	Possibly, yeah.
	Wear a sponsorship like a football shirt.
	And Frey Benter says, if anything, what's happening in Germany is refreshingly honest.
	The real question is, if this ban passes, will the AFD take it lying down or push back?
	Well, that's the point, isn't it?
	I mean, what are their options going to be?
	Like, counter-sue or something, but like, do they get arrested if they refuse to disband the party or what?
	I mean, which I assume they would have to be, right?
	So suddenly Germany's just locking up the opposition politicians and say, yes, this is democracy.
	They'll mysteriously find their Reichstag is very flammable again.
	Calm Rob.
	We're fortunate in the UK to have the Payment Accounts Regulations 2015, which states an 18.1 clause, I suspect, that you can't discriminate against consumers legally resident in the UK based on protected characteristics, including political belief.
	I work as a consultant in FC, and the Farage situation had a huge impact in terms of AML functions reassessing their exit procedures.
	Because Farage was also debunked.
	But anyway, they tried to, but he won that one.
	Okay, how should I pronounce it?
	Ah.
	Ah.
	Debunked.
	Okay, now we're going to do all that.
	Rather than debunked.
	Because it makes it sound like people were fact-checking him or something.
	This accountant called him up and said, your facts are all wrong.
	Kevin Fox, Carl, have you considered that elections are dangerous to a democracy?
	Well, apparently Tuti Akir has since, has since he's looking at whether local elections should go ahead next year.
	You say in Romania as well?
	Yeah.
	Well, this, you know, nativist was winning and so they're like, it was cancel your elections.
	It's like, what?
	How can they?
	They are unconstitutional.
	Someone in Germany cancels a Romanian election.
	We don't like them.
	Yeah, well, no, I agree, but like, What are you going to do?
	Well, it's good in a way because it eliminates all of the smokescreen around the so-called democratic process.
	Of course it's rigged in the favour of the people pulling the levers.
	But the also narrative will just swing to saying that, well, we are in a situation of emergency and in a situation of emergency we need to get extra powers to actually solve it.
	Emergency powers, you say?
	These aren't Order 66 or something.
	Right, so Kevin Fox also says the AFD thing smacks of Biden-ishery or Stam-ishery work.
	Make sure you control the judiciary and anyone you disagree with, particularly when they're right or popular, is going to lose.
	It blows my mind that the word populist is now being used in the mainstream as a pejorative term.
	That is a total confession that you've entirely given up on appealing to the public.
	On democracy itself.
	We would rather just literally have a bunch of managers.
	That's it, yeah.
	Alpha of the beaters in Germany.
	Islamophobia is when you violently attack a Muslim's knife with your face.
	Yeah, you shouldn't have dirtied that Muslim's knife with his blood.
	Josh Führm laughing at a disabled person.
	That is true.
	I really like the names.
	There was once another political party in Germany that was banned.
	Within five years they were in power.
	Just saying.
	That's a good point.
	It's not like there isn't a historical precedent here.
	Just don't replicate the mistakes of history.
	Just...
	Stockpile oil and rubber.
	Justin B... The women-only segregation also plays into the isolation agenda, reducing the chances of men and women meeting.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And just, it's so anti-German.
	But it won't be enforced.
	That's the issue.
	This is just the pretense that we are doing something.
	But the thing, like, you know, when essentially you're being held hostage, you're like, yeah, we're going to show the terrorist.
	Why?
	How?
	Well, we're going to do exactly what he's asking for.
	That'll show him.
	Checkmate terrorist.
	Isolate women.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And no, this is awful.
	Stop doing it.
	Jimbo G, but have you considered that Hitler would not like modern Germany and therefore everything that is happening must be good?
	Well, that's what the Green Party thinks.
	We have weirdest news from 2024. So Lord Nerevar says, the last few years have been weird.
	It feels like if time was moving extremely quickly and it should still be like 2022, but then I could have sworn the Glasgow Willy Wonka debacle was from years ago.
	Clearly Blackrock is messing with my brain.
	No, I'm getting this, where time feels really weird and elastic.
	Things that happened ages ago feel like they happened very recently.
	Things that happened recently feel like they happened ages ago.
	And what I assume is some sort of, the way, at least my memory, I think works, is it kind of, I don't know, puts things on a pattern of events.
	And so if an event was unusual, that event stands out in my mind, even though it gets further back in time.
	But if an event is, oh yeah, there's another stab, and there's, yeah, okay, well this has happened recently, even if that wasn't, right?
	Well, your long-term memory, like the memories that you can recall indefinitely, encode semantically, so you encode meaning.
	So it makes sense that you remember things in a narrative, because that creates meaning out of the events.
	It's not just a piece of, like a node of information.
	So yeah, that is how it works.
	So Dr. David Ferugia says, I can't believe Josh missed destiny sucking the fascism out of Nick Fuentes.
	Well...
	People are talking about his jaw now.
	I don't want to have to verify the authenticity of the video by watching it and so I deliberately didn't watch it because I had to do the Hunter Biden laptop stuff and I've never been the same since.
	You know, when I close my eyes I see a shadow.
	Never mind.
	Of the pardoned.
	Of the pardoned, yes.
	The proletariat says, now I want to buy an old ball-based mouse and send it in so Josh doesn't need a mouse pad.
	That's not what it's about.
	No?
	Isn't it?
	No, it's about having the pad that's the thing, right?
	It's more of the texture of it.
	It's not about the thing on the bottom of the mouse.
	Because it's like plastic on plastic as well.
	So, I mean, I appreciate the offer, but also those old bull-based mice even were really annoying because eventually after overuse the bull would get dirty and you'd have to take it out.
	It's a real pain in the arse boiling so many eggs as well.
	What?
	Someone got it!
	I'm not explaining myself.
	I want Zoomers to be like, what the hell does that mean?
	Is that how you boil the ball with eggs to get the dirt off or something?
	I don't know.
	Samson's laughing.
	Who's boiling the balls?
	I'm not explaining it.
	Let's move on.
	But I want to know now.
	I know.
	This is just mean.
	Michael Brooks says, Stelios showing his maniacal side is so funny, laughing at the world burning such a good evil life.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, some people talk about riding tigers, others...
	Good point.
	Based Ape says, yes, it's a Josh Whitepill segment, show us more monkeys.
	Feeling there's a bias involved there, Based Ape.
	Yeah, I mean, we had a whole segment of monkeys.
	Monkey news.
	Monkey business.
	I could cover at least one monkey story this week.
	That's going to be my sort of throwing a bone to you there.
	The proletariat says the acorn cop thought the sound of the acorn impacting the roof of his car was gunfire from a suppressed...
	So he dumped two magazines into his car at the handcuffed suspect.
	I think he was permanently fired rather than just suspended.
	If he had actually done harm to a person, he would certainly have faced charges.
	Yeah, of course.
	I mean, it's mental, isn't it?
	So you're arrested, you're powered down, you're sat in the cop car, and suddenly the cop's just firing at his own car, like, what the hell's going on?
	Well, the idea that this already handcuffed person in your car that you have searched can pull a silenced weapon out and shoot at you while handcuffed Why do you have a handcuffed person in your car?
	Well, you're a police officer, you're arrested, right?
	So if you're the guy, you're just like handcuffed in the car, he's like, okay, I don't know what's going on.
	Jesus Christ!
	I'd understand if it were me, Stelios, there'd be some questions to answer.
	Deranged cop.
	AZ Desert Rat says that officer needs more than a suspension.
	I think they were actually fired.
	I can't pronounce that name.
	That's their actual name.
	I can pronounce that.
	The Disney Terms of Service was about they would need to use arbitration rather than going to court and Disney tried to argue that this applied even though it was the widower who signed up, not his wife who died.
	I mean, you do often enter a legal agreement as a couple, don't you?
	Possibly.
	I only saw the memes of Disney then just shooting people randomly.
	Disney death squads.
	Well, they signed up for it.
	Grant Gibson says, the Canadian open water long-distance swimmer got...
	The limits of consent morality.
	You agreed to sign this contract, so now Disney turns up.
	It's like, well, you know...
	Time to go hunting again.
	Should have read the fine print, shouldn't you?
	Just...
	You sign a contract and all of a sudden you start being followed by all of the Disney characters.
	I agree.
	That's consent.
	Sorry, go on.
	I'm going to hunt you for sport.
	The Canadian open water long-distance swimmer got a silver medal in the Games.
	He was one of the athletes who was physically ill because of how disgusting the water was.
	He said it had nothing at all to do with the event, but was 100% due to the revolting water in the CN. Okay, fair enough.
	I knew it.
	I'm willing to concede that the French are gross.
	So, Robert Longshore says, I always thought Chicago was a rat-infested hellhole.
	I guess I was wrong.
	Turns out it's a hell-infested rat hole.
	Clever play on words there.
	Josh the Jew says, surely the tunnels was the weirdest news of 2024?
	Yeah, I did forget the tunnels.
	However, I mean, I'm going to make a cope argument and say it's not that weird.
	I expected it.
	I knew it all along.
	Nobody expected it.
	No.
	The most virulent anti-Semites on the internet expected it.
	The people have been saying for years there's Jewish tunnels under New York or whatever.
	Didn't expect it.
	There are a lot of people in padded rooms that deserve to be released now.
	Josh Firm laughing at a disabled person.
	I knew it.
	Speaking of weird news, seven people are currently in hospital after drinking poisoned pina coladas in Fiji.
	Well, apparently they don't like pina coladas.
	Sorry.
	Dad jokes are off the chain today.
	Kevin Fox says, in North Africa they have goats that like to climb in trees.
	The South African government are now trying to crossbreed them with elephants to deal with white farmers' orchards.
	Have you ever seen footage of mountain goats climbing mountains?
	It's insane, isn't it?
	Mental.
	Have you seen them fighting?
	They'll be like that.
	And they'll be fighting and they're not falling over.
	Yeah, it's just like, how is this possible that these goats can live for years on the side of these mountains?
	And it's literally sheer.
	The apex.
	Yeah, this is just so inspiring.
	It's just mad.
	But then you look a goat in the eye and you're just like, there's nothing going on up there.
	And yet they can do these great feats of acrobatics.
	Yeah, well, but the thing is, I'm just like, it always reminds me of people living in the Arctic.
	It's like, really, is that where you're going to live, is it?
	Like, is there nowhere better to live than that?
	No, the southern mountain is fine.
	No, you know, literally a massive frozen ice sheet in the North Pole.
	Yeah, no, that's fine.
	It's totally fine.
	It's like, mental.
	So you've got to, if any mountain goats are watching, try moving.
	What have you seen, Stelios?
	You really need to read Carl's perfectly, adequately...
	There is a spectre haunting Josh, the spectre of Hunter Biden's dong.
	That is true.
	I still have the image seared into my mind.
	All the great powers of Europe treat it as if it's a power in itself.
	Josh...
	The annoying thing is, his justification for taking so many pictures of it is, I've got body dysmorphia because I've got a nine-inch penis.
	I'm just like, that's not dysphoria!
	Who among us can't say the same?
	I wish.
	And on that wonderful note, it is time to watch the show.
	If you want to hear more about Hunter Biden's well-endowed...
	No!
	No, I'm joking.
	If you want to catch the podcast, same time tomorrow, as always.

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