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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Friday the 20th of December.
That's right, you only have five days until Christmas.
You better have got all your shopping in.
There'll be some men in the audience that are leaving it till Christmas.
There are a few stray boxes of chocolate that may need to be bought.
Yeah, no, I have actually got everything I needed because my wife does most of it and I just need to get something for my wife.
I just have to find it.
I'm joined by Josh and Harry and today we're going to be talking about the attempted assassination of Nick Fuentes, how the police knew about the grooming gangs and how nothing ever happens.
Exciting news.
Well, it's true and inevitable.
Despite all of the things that we constantly talk about on the podcast, it's not talking about anything.
You've been imagining this podcast the entire time.
I'm sorry to break it to you all.
I just want to say, I'm with you, nothing ever happened, bros.
I agree, nothing happens.
And when stuff starts happening, then essentially it's an intrusion into the nothing ever happens plateau that you live on.
There is a Chuds law.
There is.
We'll be getting into that.
Don't worry.
Oh, okay, good.
Anyway, we've got Lads Hour after the podcast where we're going to be putting people on the naughty or nice list.
Something nice and festive, Christmassy to do for the last Lads Hour of the year.
And so without further ado, let's find out what not didn't happen.
What a hell of a way to ramp up into the segment.
Trying to reformulate that in my mind.
Okay, alright.
Let's see what not didn't happen then, folks.
So, somebody tried to murder Nick Fuentes yesterday.
Now, Nick Fuentes is a very, very controversial character.
He has been unkind to people in the past who have been doxxed, such as Lomers and Roar Egg Nationalist, who is a friend of the show.
And he also controls an army of so-called Groypers who, if nothing else, are possibly the most annoying people on Twitter outside of dyed-in-the-wool SJW screeching leftists.
So I'm not saying anything about Nick Fuentes one way or the other with this segment, but I am going to say that political violence is escalating, it seems, especially after Luigi What's-His-Face killed that CEO the other day.
And now we're getting assassination attempts on Nick Fuentes.
I do not see that this is a good thing, and I think that doxing is a very, very serious deal if it happens to you and has very, very serious consequences that we should acknowledge and we should all join in in disavowing anything like this from happening and saying that this is not how you should behave in a civilized society.
Well, people who dox others tend to have the understanding that this is a potential outcome of what they're doing.
And the fact that this is sort of working within the legal framework, so to speak, or at least it's not treated as severely as basically facilitating the conditions to murder someone, I think is a mistake.
And more often than not, these people get away with publishing people's private information and A lot of the time it's done anonymously anyway.
Exactly.
Yeah, so to go into the details of what happened, Nick himself was posting about this yesterday, saying that last night an armed killer made an attempt on his life at home, which was recently doxxed on this platform.
I believe after his clip went out where he said, as a joke, your body, my choice, regarding women after Donald Trump had been voted in, a lot of feminists got very, very angry about this and decided to doxx him.
The one woman who did it specifically Said that her friend knew that he lived in the same town as Nick Fuentes, and so basically found his address that way.
Just a quick aside on that as well.
Nick Fuentes is not Donald Trump's supporter.
He actively campaigned against Trump, actually.
Yes.
Just in case there's anyone on the left that's like, see, this is what Trump's supporter's like.
Nope.
He's very, very critical of Donald Trump's relationship to Israel and Zionism, and so he does not want people to, well, did not want people to vote for him.
Very lightly basked in the post-election results straight away, which had a lot of people very annoyed at him, saying, hey, I thought you were going for Kamala up until yesterday.
Either way, he said, God have mercy.
Doxing is not a game.
This nihilistic lynch mob behaviour must end before anybody else is killed.
I'll now have to uproot my life and relocate.
While I can handle whatever comes up to my front door, it's irresponsible to expect my neighbours with young families to share that burden.
In the meantime, he'll have to contract 24-hour staff to protect himself.
So, I think this is a fair reporting of what has happened.
It lines up with all of the other reporting.
He has also posted footage of his doorbell camera, and you can see that this is the guy who shows up.
If it'll play on the screen.
There we go.
So yeah, he's got a gun, he's got a crossbow.
Is he from Reddit?
He does look like it.
I would assume so.
Looking at his face.
I would assume so, and if you go to the next one, you'll hear him call his name out in a moment.
What does he think he's doing?
He's waiting very politely.
Yeah.
Yo, Nick!
Maybe not so much now.
Let's look at his body language.
Strangely, for an assassination attempt, he looks very meek, doesn't he?
But, again, this person murdered three people before making this trip, and then specifically goes to Nick Fuentes' house with a gun.
I have seen some people, both commentators on Twitter and in the mainstream media, trying to kind of dismiss this and say that, oh, it might have just been this guy going crazy and random violence in Chicago.
Don't think it's random violence in Chicago.
He literally shouts his name.
Doesn't fit the profile generally, does he?
It'd have to be a coincidence of colossal proportions, wouldn't it?
Yeah, and interestingly, before this, all day, a lot of people who are very anti-Nick Fuentes had been posting Photoshop and edited videos of Fuentes being shot, so they all immediately went out of their way to just get rid of all of these as quickly as possible, and we've got some confirmation in the news reporting of what's happened.
So the guy who attempted to kill him has been confirmed As a man called John R. Lyons of Westchester, who was 24 years old.
So it was around 9.40pm on Wednesday, police in Mahomet.
I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly.
It reads that way.
They were called to a home in the block of Riverside Drive where multiple people had been shot.
They found three people with life-threatening gunshot wounds.
26-year-old Sarah Mason pronounced dead at the scene.
Two others, 61-year-old Janice L. Mason and 23-year-old Caleb Mason, were taken to a hospital where they were both pronounced dead.
So this guy killed a family, by the looks of it.
Awful, awful thing that has happened here.
Meantime, around 11.40pm that same Wednesday, officers in Berwyn responded to a call of a man with a gun in some 1800 block of Home Avenue.
They spotted the suspect.
He ran off, forced his way inside of a home one block over And he shot and killed the two dogs and then he tried to open fire on the police and he was shot dead by them.
Pretty horrifying situation all around, and it does not matter whatever you may or may not think of Nick Fuentes himself.
He does not deserve this.
The people who live around him do not deserve this, because obviously they're being brought in as potential casualties as well, hence why there's two dogs that have been killed.
And it could have been a lot worse.
Now, what you'll notice in this is CBS News...
And a lot of the other news reporting on it, the first thing they say about Nick Fuentes is not anything to do with the fact that, you know, like, someone almost killed him.
Somebody clearly went to kill him.
They just say white nationalist and holocaust denier, which may or may not be true.
I don't watch enough of his stuff to be able to get the proper look of him.
I've seen enough of his clips to suggest that might well be true.
Yeah, if that's true, then, you know, that's an accurate description of him, but front-loading that is basically trying to put the political justification at the forefront, when realistically that is encouraging more of this.
A neutral characterisation would be controversial political commentator, Nick Fuentes.
Yes.
The news, the mainstream should not be doing what it can to encourage this kind of political violence.
But we know following the Donald Trump attempted assassination as well, the mainstream media do not really care unless you are too high profile.
Yeah.
Well, they'll never be held accountable for their actions, will they?
And so they know they can get away with it.
And when you're, you know, sensationalist like this, it gets them clicks, it gets them money.
And so there's an incentive to ignore the moral choice here.
But also I think there's something about the nature of characterization that they've realized, frankly, if they all do it at once, it becomes a radicalizing factor in events like this.
And I think that's why they do it.
There was a great point in...
There's a serfdom that Hayek makes about how in democracies there's propaganda everywhere.
Propaganda isn't really the problem.
The problem is when propaganda only goes in one direction, and that's the problem with totalitarianism, is you only get to hear one side of any story.
And it's this that I think that especially the left-wing media have glommed on to.
And realise, yeah, we can actually radicalise and totalise everything.
If we all just use the same kind of message delivery in the same direction, then essentially everyone believes what we say regardless of the truth of it and regardless of the outcomes of it.
And I think that's essentially what the mainstream media has arrived at at this point.
We've been doing it for a while now.
At least there's a significant backfire effect on this in that people's view of journalists has been plummeting because they're doing things like this.
There's so much of a transparent agenda here that even someone who's not politically engaged in the slightest would be able to see it.
The issue though is that it absolutely does radicalise people and you can see where this has gone.
Well, yeah, they make it as obvious as possible, and they have no regrets about it, and they carry on doing it, which only encourages a further escalation of political violence, which ultimately ends up in situations like this that could have ended up much worse.
On a slightly lighter note, this is not the first time that this has happened.
Again, it was last month following the election that he was doxxed, and a much more humorous incident surrounding people coming to his house It happened.
Although, to be fair, from Fuentes' perspective, none of it is funny.
Because he has been harassed for well over a month after this.
But, from the outside looking in, it was kind of funny, because basically what happened was two leftist Karens showed up outside of his house, and one of them was egging the other one on.
Because this was right after the whole meme took off with the your body, my choice.
That took off.
I saw loads of videos of people on TikTok reacting to it, where it's mainly just women pulling faces like, This really affected left-wing women.
They were absolutely disgusted at what was, let's be honest, a joke.
Well, they've been radicalising each other on the internet about The Handmaid's Tale, and so Nick Fuentes is like, yeah, that's what it's going to be, basically.
For them, this was just confirmation of the nonsense they've been saying to themselves.
So what had happened was that a 57-year-old woman called Marla Rose said in a now-deleted Facebook post that she was about to ring Fuentes' doorbell when he opened the door, sprayed her with a liquid, took her phone, pushed her down the steps, and went back inside.
She didn't respond to requests for comments.
And in her original deleted post, she disclosed his home address multiple times.
She also said that she found Fuentes' information after a friend messaged her his address, and she said that she was inspired to pop over there given his history of anti-semitic and white supremacist statements.
So this just goes to show the absolute insanity of people these days.
This man has said things that I dislike on the internet, so I'm going to go to his home and just harass him.
What were you doing, woman?
My thinking is drawn to a particular graph where one of the axes is find out.
Yes.
It's so silly.
It's like, okay, this guy said something online I don't like.
I'm going to film myself going to his house and ringing his doorbell and giving him the business, I guess.
Why do you think you're that important?
That's the question.
Anyway.
In an interview with Vice magazine, she said that she was going to ask him, why do you feel comfortable saying the things that you say?
So she was just going to try and browbeat into not being racist anymore?
There's a level of narcissism involved there.
You can turn up to someone's doorstep and they're going to stand and listen to you berate them.
Yeah.
As if anyone's ever going to be willing to do that.
But also the idea that, like, someone online said something I didn't like.
Right, I've got to go.
I must confront them.
It's like, you're going to be busy.
Okay?
It's a really big place, the internet.
So we actually have footage of this because she decided that her grand triumphant speech that she was going to give him needed to be broadcast.
So she was actually filming when she went to the door.
And this is the footage that we got.
Hi.
Oh my god, what are you doing?
Get the fuck out of here.
There you go.
I mean, I don't mean to laugh, but that is really funny.
Yeah, I was trying to hold it in, but it is funny.
Nick Fuentes immediately, you know, upon the sight of a woman, pulls out the pepper spray.
This isn't your first response?
You don't want strange women knocking at your door, Josh.
Things can happen, alright?
Bad things.
It's also the sort of seriousness in his face as well.
You're being presented by a 57-year-old woman, and he's acting as if it's a gang that's turned up or something.
Yeah, but to be fair...
Yeah, he doesn't know, right, I know, I know.
He doesn't know because they released yesterday the full body cam footage from the police officers who came to arrive at the incident afterwards, and he's saying that he'd been doxxed three days before, presumably by this woman, or other people as well.
And that he'd had numerous people hanging around his house, knocking at his front door, taking photos and talking to their friends outside his house.
Obviously all with the intention of intimidating him and harassing him.
So he doesn't know what's going to happen.
And yeah, it could be a little old lady, or she could pull a gun on you.
You never know.
You don't know how radicalized she's become because of the internet.
Well, the way that fear works is that the uncertainty is what creates fear, often.
If you know, if the outcome is certain, it doesn't necessarily make sense to be fearful.
And I think that, putting myself in his shoes, no wonder he was on edge and looked very serious, because it's probably a very horrible thing to go through.
He also says that he'd already been phoning the police quite a lot over those past three days, and that they'd just been fobbing him off.
Right.
The entire time.
So he was under the assumption that he had no police help from this.
He knew that he could potentially be in danger.
As, of course, we found out that he was when this John Lyon guy shows up to try and kill him out of nowhere.
He was live-streaming at the time, I believe, so that's why he didn't go to answer the door.
So that saved his life, presumably.
But there has been something funny, two funny things, come from this body cam footage that was released, which is one...
The police officer's response to being confronted with the absurdity of online politics brought it into the real world.
And this is one of the highlights taken from it.
So what happened?
So, I was pulled by, I'll just be completely honest with you.
He's the white supremacist that coined the phrase, your body, my choice.
So he is evil against women.
And so as I pulled up...
How do you know him?
It's all over the internet.
I drove by because I'm ridiculous.
It's a post that he made?
I drove by because I'm ridiculous.
Everybody's outing him.
Because he's a white supremacist.
What's your phone number?
So, why exactly were you here?
I drove by and wanted to see where the jerk lived.
To be totally honest, I'm so disgusted with everything.
And when I came by, other people were like taking photos, and then she was standing there and I was...
Is your middle of the show M for me?
Uh-huh.
Okay.
Is your current address?
You weren't involved.
Do you know the lady?
No, not at all.
Okay.
I don't know either of them.
Can you just stay here?
I'm gonna try to make sure she's okay.
Sure.
And I'll tell you exactly how I saw the whole thing.
So, okay, can you just tell me really quick so I can go see if she's okay?
Sure, sure.
She went and pushed the doorbell.
Yeah, so that's the woman I think who was helping to egg the other woman on.
The actual woman who got knocked over by Fuentes.
Before we go on, just how pathetic her explanation is.
She must have felt embarrassed to give it.
You could hear the hesitation.
Just before she said so, she sort of paused.
Wait, is this a consequence of me being an online smerg?
Yes, but I'm committed now.
I have to kind of explain why I'm here.
So you did hear about your body, my choice thing, and the police are like, no, what are you talking about?
Why would that...
Yeah, you're an idiot.
So you can get a brief glimpse, her face is obviously blurred, of the woman who was actually at his door.
Like, even just that, what's all of that on her front there?
She's covered herself in badges.
Anyone who has that many badges is obviously mentally ill.
Yeah, there's no need for you to have to, unless you're in the military and you've got lots of medals.
Well, obviously that's an exemption, yes.
But there's no need for you to go announcing, because I imagine those are pronouns and little slogans and such.
So, you know what, maybe if this woman had shown up to my door, even without the doxing, I might have just done that.
No, I'm joking.
Don't assault random women just because they're wearing annoying leftist badges, folks.
That's a lesson that you can take.
But if you're an annoying leftist woman, don't go to random people's houses because they said things online you don't like.
Yeah, don't do that.
But the other thing that we found out is that, in fact, Nick Fuentes is not a white supremacist.
Because he can't be.
Because, look, hear him explain it himself.
You're saying you're a white supremacist?
I'm not a white supremacist.
I'm excellent.
I'm not a white supremacist.
I saw the white supremacist.
I love the cop as well.
Oh yeah, I saw that.
Obviously you're Mexican.
I saw your sombrero through the window.
I like how if it wasn't in this context, Fuentes would be affronted by this.
But obviously in his situation, you would say this, wouldn't you?
You can even see his face here.
He's like, did he just buy it?
Did he buy that?
I'd have just been like, well, is that illegal?
You know, let's carry on.
Well, I think also the fact that the police officer, judging from his voice here...
Is also Mexican.
I don't think he's Mexican.
I think he might be an African-American.
And so, if you want fair...
I think you see a white hand.
Oh, really?
When he's holding the pen.
Maybe it was just me mishearing the accent.
I mean, it's Chicago.
It's Chicago, so there might be a melting pot of accents.
That's true.
But yeah, I mean, he does take the tact following this little clip here where he's saying, you know, whatever my beliefs are, I should be able to say them, this is a free country, this is America, I shouldn't be harassed by people just for my beliefs.
Which I think is overwhelmingly the lesson that we should take from this, which is that you shouldn't dox people, trying to murder people is bad, and trying to harass people just because of nasty things that they've said on the internet that you disagree with is also bad.
I know this is like baby steps but baby steps for leftists go a long way the engaged few says she's lucky Fuentes lives in Illinois instead of Texas otherwise he might have been spraying lead rather than Capacin well I mean he just seems a bit cam for that I don't see him having a gun.
Bobabad says, while I heard that the mango is Mexico's most popular fruit, I'm in the firm belief it's Nick Fuentes.
And that notification says, Josh, you better give us some positive news today.
If you don't, I won't share my beef tallow with you.
You're going to give me beef tallow?
Okay.
Well, thank you.
There are some good news.
Well, it's news of nothing, really.
Yeah, well, brilliant.
That's great.
Just like this, in fact.
So this is going to be a less jolly segment than women being ridiculous towards Nick Fuentes.
So the British police have known about the grooming gangs for a long time and did nothing.
They allowed it to happen for various reasons that we've covered in previous podcasts, but in a brief summary, essentially the police were institutionally politically correct and, as you can see, The criminals are not actually of the native population, but their victims overwhelmingly were, and so the politically correct police were like, well, essentially we're going to turn a blind eye to this, and this began under the Labour government and continued under the Conservative government.
Until, in fact, Rishi Sunak, surprise, surprise, actually did something about this.
And this has just been one of those things that has been incredibly dispiriting about living in Britain, just the nature of, oh, right, we're just going to allow this to carry on because they're browned.
Is it?
Okay, and their victims are white, and therefore the police say, well, they're just...
And the police would make excuses why they didn't have to worry about the victims.
They'd say, well, they're making lifestyle choices.
They are chaotic, as in they take drugs, they go drinking.
It's like, yes, this is how the victimizers made sure their teenage victims couldn't escape, by getting them addicted to drugs and alcohol.
And making sure that they were compliant because they were insensible.
And the police were like, yeah, well, they're just making a lifestyle choice, bro.
And as you can see from the convictions, there is an over-representation of one community in Britain.
Oh look, this though, this is, like, they'll say, well, there is a white grooming gang.
Yeah, apparently there was in the West Midlands.
Apparently there was one.
In every other major city where there has been mass immigration, though, you have lots of other gangs.
I think that comparison is also missing the fact of...
Sure, there is such a thing as homegrown crime, but it's much harder to prevent the homegrown stuff than, say, having an immigration policy that allows these gangs to form in your country.
This is an entirely preventable crime because the politicians that controlled Britain made the choice to let them in.
Sure, and also there's no institutional bias in favour of the white grooming gang, whereas there is an institutional bias in favour of the non-white grooming gang.
So, anyway, moving on.
There has been, of course, another recent conviction.
And, like I said, these all come from Rishi Sunak actually telling the police to get on with it and actually arrest these people.
And so now there are a bunch of grooming gang members who are being arrested and convicted over historic allegations and historic crimes they've committed.
This is Shahar Amran Mir, 48, Shahar Alman Mir, and Shahar Jerman Mir.
You're going to be shocked to hear they're all brothers.
These guys are part of a grooming gang and they began manipulating girls between the ages of six and seven.
Six and seven.
Why are they in our country?
Why are they in our country?
They groomed girls by plying them with gifts, alcohol and cigarettes.
At the same time, Alman targeted a 15-year-old girl who was raped by his brother.
She bravely came forward to the police and was grabbed off the street by her hair.
And he would just threaten them, obviously threaten the girls.
Threaten this particular girl, saying, look, I'll kill you.
You better watch your mouth.
You don't know who you're dealing with and there'll be consequences.
This gets worse.
You've been warned.
Once you screw one of us over, you screw all of us over.
I assume he means the brothers when he says us.
Anyway, they all face charges of kidnapping and rape of children.
And they've been convicted of various counts of sexual activity.
They're probably going to be out in less than 10 years.
Just because that's...
Apparently what happens.
But Channel 4 finally did something useful.
They finally did something useful.
They finally found it in their souls to treat the teenage English girls who had been abused by these Asian men as victims.
Can you believe it?
No.
We're actually, oh my god.
I actually can't believe it.
These men, these adult men, who are like three times older than their victims that have been raping and pimping and drugging and trafficking around the country, I think they might be the bad guys.
God, okay, well, what have you got for us, Channel 4?
See, the fact that it took so long for them to come to the most obvious and clear conclusion tells me that this is not sincere, this is a shift to go with some of the shifts in political messaging that we've seen in recent weeks.
It's mad.
So, they committed their crimes as far back as, they say, 2009...
But it was only last month that they were convicted of these serious sexual offences.
Why?
It's not because the woman hadn't been going to the police.
It's because the police and the other authorities just weren't listening.
They just didn't want to hear it.
Because this was difficult for them.
And they say, we can reveal, that police knew at least some of what was happening in Barrow as far back as 2009. And she identified one of the brothers to police as her alleged abuser six years ago.
But her case never ended up going to court.
Incredible.
Instead, she got accused of trying to blackmail them, and so they tried to prosecute her with the blackmail charge, which was of course dropped because she wasn't trying to blackmail them.
She was the victim of them systemically raping and presumably, I don't know whether she was pimped out in this case, but there's been a perennial feature of the grooming gangs in Britain is these communities literally treating these girls like prostitutes and selling them.
So anyway, they did a documentary on this, a half hour documentary, I watched this, and there are just some remarkable bits, and about 10 minutes in is where we get to, and obviously the family couldn't do anything about this, but about 10 minutes in, we and obviously the family couldn't do anything about this, but about 10 It wasn't the only time the police were directly told about what was going on.
A year later, Ava, we've changed her name to protect her anonymity, has become a reluctant witness to it all.
Her former partner works for the men in The Takeaway.
She often waits there for him.
The girls would just turn up.
Sometimes they'd come in their school uniforms or they'd get picked up from school by them in their cars.
They were definitely schoolgirls.
Right, so if a bunch of Asian men pick up a bunch of schoolgirls from a school, everyone's just like, right, okay, nothing to see here, boys.
Nothing we need to do anything.
So she went on about this for a decade, and eventually the grooming gangs themselves started essentially telling them to shut up because nothing's going to happen.
...be hacked.
Ellie is constantly called a slag.
Then, I raped you.
You can't do s***.
Maybe I'll come to your house.
I'll f***ing kidnap you.
The police won't do anything.
You girls are f***ing idiots.
Right, so they know the police are on their side.
They knew.
They would literally taunt their victims, saying to them, the police will not protect you from us.
You have nowhere to go.
You have nothing you can do.
I mean, this is just unbelievable.
Again, I can't believe Channel 4 finally did something useful.
And at one point, let's get to it, because they still run cover.
They still run cover.
Because, of course, our favourite far-right activist turns up in Barrow.
If it was meant to calm tensions, it merely exacerbated them.
Protesters take to the streets.
The far-right activist Tommy Robinson appears in town, backing calls for justice for Ellie Williams.
So Ellie Williams is the one girl who lied about being a part of a grooming gang.
But of course, no one was to know that at the time, and there were lots of other victims, these girls prior to discussing Ellie Williams, who were denied justice, and so, well, why wouldn't you assume that Ellie Williams was one of them as well?
So this very clearly serves a political purpose against people like Tommy Robinson by saying that, see, we're the mainstream media and now we are covering this news that we were hiding for decades, but Tommy Robinson, the guy who has been talking about this, here's the one case where he amplified an untrue story so you can't trust him.
This is always sort of counter-populist maneuvering.
Same as what Keir Starmer is doing.
The only reason they highlight these sorts of things now is because of the fact that there has been a reaction to them that they want to smack down before there's political change.
To put the native British back in their box again, isn't it?
See, we're dealing with the problem now, so you don't have to be populists, you don't have to vote for all these other parties.
We are dealing with it.
The implication is that this is the only case of grooming gang victim that Tommy Robinson ever talked about.
And, like, they don't mention, like, Tommy has talked about dozens and dozens of young girls who have been raped and trafficked by these gangs.
But they only bring up, oh, well, there was that one time where Ellie Williams had made a false allegation.
Well, since you never investigate these things, and you literally tell the girls, go away, there's no problem, who's to know?
You know, what's he going to do?
Call up your, you know, pull up your investigation on his phone and go, no, sorry, Ellie, the police have found that that wasn't true and you're lying.
No, of course not, because we don't know.
I guess we don't believe all women, or even girls now, apparently.
But the point being, the police denied the Asian grooming gangs in Barrow.
And they came out after the Ellie Williams case and said, there is no Asian grooming gang in Barrow.
This is what they say a couple of minutes later in this, right?
And it's like, okay, but there was, and now we know.
And okay, you found one girl who lied about it for attention, I assume.
But what about the other ones?
Why are the police themselves not being fired?
Where is the accountability within the force itself?
Because they've come out and apologized.
They've been like, no, we're really sorry.
Because they actually have a clip of the police themselves.
I can't remember whereabouts it was.
But there's a police officer in here who's representing the force who says, oh, there isn't a gang.
Asian individuals.
Our investigation has shown that that has not been corroborated, otherwise evidence.
So he is just denying that there are grooming gangs in Barrow.
Okay, so does he get fired?
Is there any accountability?
Because literally, they've had this other woman complaining, this other girl complaining, I've been groomed, I'm groomed.
The police have nothing to do with it.
Ellie Williams come along and they go, oh, see, there's no grooming gang.
It's like, sorry, someone needs to be fired for this.
There needs to be some accountability for this.
And it's not like this is the only place that the police knew that this was going on and did nothing, right?
You, of course, have Rochdale.
Police left children at the mercy of grooming gangs in Rochdale, a review found.
So this was because of, quote from the BBC, failings by senior police and council bosses, says the report that happened, a review that covered 2004 to 2013. So where's the punishment?
These people are still going to get their pensions.
These people are still going to have all of the benefits of having worked in these institutions despite these massive and just incredible failings.
It highlights the apparent local authority indifference to the plight of hundreds of youngsters identified as potential victims of Asian men.
Again, the fact that the BBC is prepared to characterize it like that is a start, I suppose.
They've apologized and said, oh, well, we handle cases very differently now.
Sorry, an apology.
Is that good enough?
Does that undo any of the damage that was done?
Any of the suffering that was caused?
And then you've got in other cases where it's just, of course, the police are still engaging in victim blaming towards these girls.
They still are saying, like, report dismissed claims that attackers were likely to be predominantly from one ethnic group.
Again, the Rochdale police this was, were like, well no, we don't think this has anything to do with the Asian community, or the BBC bloody does, as they just quoted in this article.
So why don't you?
What's wrong with the police in Rochdale?
Why are they doing this?
Will anyone be brought to account for this?
Will anyone even be fired?
Will they even be talked to?
But no, of course not.
Anyway, so...
Apparently I can't load the video on that one.
But yeah, this is the article they put along with their video.
And they do highlight, again, the Ellie Williams false claim.
They make sure to highlight that in this, because why wouldn't you?
But anyway, the reason all of this is coming to light now is actually because of Rishi Sinek.
I don't like to give Rishi Sinek credit, but this is something he did in April of 2023, where he set up the Grooming Gangs Task Force, which trained 400 specialist officers to go to the 43 police forces in England and Wales and basically slap them in the face and say, what the hell are you doing?
Get and arrest these paedophiles.
and finally some pedophiles are being arrested so okay great I mean I suppose the old ad I was just as delayed as justice denied true but it's better than nothing it's only been 15 years plus for a lot of these girls so whatever imagine what they were thinking I mean they literally would taunt their victim saying the police will do nothing because the police had done nothing for decades absolute decades I absolutely despise it absolutely despise this
So anyway, you've got a bunch of them where you've got in Rochdale, whereas new, because a few years ago, a handful were convicted in Rochdale.
More have been convicted.
Do you want to hear the names?
Oh, I can guess.
Yeah, I think we know by now, but go ahead.
Hamid Ghani, Insar Hussain, Jan Saeed Ghani, Ali Raza Hussain Kazmi, and Martin Rhodes.
There's always one token, isn't there?
So we can't say there's any ethnic or religious component to this because Martin Rhodes was caught in it.
And they were charged for crimes from 2002 to 2006. 20 years it's taken.
And it required a special commission from the government to get the police to actually arrest...
Criminal paedophiles who are raping children.
This is mad.
And it's all because political correctness made them afraid of what the public backlash would be.
It's like, sorry, there's going to be a public backlash to you stopping people from raping children.
What world do you live in?
That makes sense to me.
Yeah, exactly.
Anyway, here's another one.
This is from Calderdale, again in Yorkshire.
Where 20 men were convicted of exploiting four girls between the ages of 12 and 16 between 2001 and 2010. Again, 20 years ago this has happened, but no, for some reason we can't do it.
There's North Kirkleys as well.
So again, dozens and dozens of men with a couple of English guys tagging along.
What the hell is this?
There's an albino in the middle there, isn't it?
Yeah, down there.
Good god.
As you can see, there is a particular demographic profile that is massively overrepresented in these.
Folks, if there's a lesson that you can learn from this is that sometimes judging a book by its cover can keep you safe.
But again, these are...
I can't remember what years...
Oh yeah, there we go.
1999 and 2012. I mean, 24, again, there's dozens and dozens and dozens of them.
It's not that this wasn't well known that it was happening.
Both communities knew that this was happening, right?
Everyone knew.
The police knew.
The councillors knew.
Well, the teachers knew.
They'd turn up at the schools.
Well, recently, well that's the thing, recently I was at a social event and I met a member of the Home Office.
And through the discussion that I had with him, he told me that when he was growing up, he actually went to the Rochdale schools.
Well, he went to the school in Rochdale where at least one of those girls was.
I think he said it was two of them.
And he said he always found...
He was a kid, right?
So he didn't really understand what was going on.
But him and his friends all found it really, really strange that these two girls, whenever they would finish school, there would be a car pull up and a much older Muslim would be driving the car and they'd get in and drive off to go to who knows what.
And all the teachers could see it.
Yeah.
Everybody could see it.
Students didn't really know what was going on very much, but the teachers knew.
The teachers knew.
Nothing happened.
The police knew.
The local authorities knew.
The council knew.
And it required, 20 years later, a government mandate to go and deal with it.
It's just unbelievable, and I just...
I find it completely insufferable.
This is just the way this country has been for decades now.
And everyone knows that it's happening, and knew that it was happening, but was just afraid to do anything about it.
Anyway.
Um...
There you go, you've got the mouse on the screen down there.
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If it's good enough for traitors, it's good enough for child rapists.
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Apparently mastering poop is a very lucrative business.
Yeah, well...
He says, Josh, I want to say cheers on your progress from umming and ahhing in your earlier contemplations to becoming a suave presenter.
Funny how quickly a man's view on the death penalty can change.
I've always been in favour of people suffering consequences, it's just who arbitrates that?
I think that my suspicion of the government was the thing making me hesitant.
It wasn't so much that I think people did not deserve to die for their crimes.
Josh has always thought people deserve to die as long as he's the one doing it to them.
Exactly.
The problem I have with that is I was very much the same for years, but then it became apparent that my abstract concern of the government was leaving too many murderers unhanged.
I pretty much came around.
Yeah, she did.
Much the same as my fiancée.
Yeah, my wife for years was like, oh, we should just hang them.
I was like, no, no, because, you know, what about this?
What about that?
Civil liberties.
Yeah, I know.
And what about a mistake and stuff like this?
And over time, she was just like, obviously right.
Think about all of the positions of executioners we could fill with all the criminals we have these days.
Weren't we talking yesterday that Jack's built like an old-timey executioner as well?
That's true, yeah.
One of our editors.
FleetLordAffar says, I liked your recent Akkad Daily Sagan of Akatsviz.
Thanks, I appreciate it.
I haven't done anything Akkad Daily for a while.
And we need to raise the age of consent to 18 because the current age of consent, 16, gives ambiguity and cover to abusers and criminals.
Fair point.
Josh, Libertarian, what are your thoughts on the age of consent?
I think it's a good thing.
In fact, I go further than most people and say the confines of the law sometimes are not strong enough.
The age of consent should be 40. Nobody should be having sex.
State-enforced inceldom.
The voting age should definitely be raised to about 35, I'd say.
Like, I think age gaps are weird.
Like, DiCaprio dating women in their early 20s.
I'm just like, you're basically just a legal nonce.
It's weird.
I don't see that.
I think it's weird.
I think it's gross.
It is weird.
I don't see that.
Right, Josh.
Get back to me when you're 50. But you should date within your age range.
I think that's the healthiest way of going about it.
I know that Josh had converted to Puritanism.
It's not a religious conviction, it's just one of those things where...
It is weird when a 48-year-old guy is dating a 20-year-old.
What's weird is when it's like Keith Richards dating a 20-year-old and he's 80. But when it's somebody in their 40s, men are still healthy.
Caprio's in his 50s.
Is he?
I think he's 48. Oh, is it really?
I thought it was in his 50s.
If they're old enough to be their dad, it's weird.
That's just me talking as a psychologist here.
I say all of this from the abstract when it's somebody like Leonardo DiCaprio, but female friends of mine have recently told me, like, oh, I might start talking to this, like, 50-year-old, and I'm like, he's twice as old as you.
That's really weird.
As soon as there's someone you know, you're like, why?
I'm like...
Is there nobody closer to your age that you might have a better chance with?
See, you agree with me deep down.
Yeah, but in the abstract, I don't care who Leonardo DiCaprio is dating.
Well, I don't care about him either, but it's just the principle of the thing, isn't it?
Yeah, I suppose so.
Anyway, we're not talking about Leonardo DiCaprio's dating life because we'll be here for hours.
So, I'm going to boldly posit that nothing ever happens.
And today we're going to be evaluating a year of nothing happening...
And I'm also going to be explaining what the Nothing Ever Happens meme is first.
And then we're going to go sort of case by case through the things that didn't happen throughout the year and assess how much happened.
And if that makes no sense to you, don't worry.
It will all make sense soon enough.
So the Nothing Ever Happens meme has been around for quite some time.
And as Know Your Meme says, Nothing Ever Happens is a catchphrase and mantra commonly said on 4chan's board poll, the politics board.
To signify that no major global events of significant magnitude have perceivably happened in the past decades, nor will they happen in the future.
The mantra is the direct opposite of it's happening memes and has often been used in response to anticipated global changes not happening.
And I'm of the opinion that happening is for slop accounts.
It's for people, you know, whenever you see people that are trying to rinse people of money, they say, it's happening, something's happening, big things are happening, things are happening all the time, and more often than not, they're really over-egging it and being sensationalist.
The best, most recent examples that I can think of is since the Ukraine war broke out.
Any time any progress was made on the front lines, either way, people would immediately start screeching, Nukes are gonna fly!
It's happening!
We'll be talking about that, don't you worry.
So, one of the prominent things that features in the Nothing Ever Happens meme is the Chud Jack, which is...
One of my favourite memes I've got.
It is, yeah.
We all have an inner chud.
If you're watching this right now, you're a chud.
I hate to break it to you.
Especially if you're a woman.
There are female chuds.
I know.
There's wife chuds.
A chud is like a slang term for someone who's not particularly sociable, right?
Sort of shut in.
You!
But also not left-wing.
Yes, exactly.
Just someone who might rub people the wrong way, in a sentence, I suppose.
And they say on Know Your Meme, like many Wojaks, Chud Jack was born on 4chan and spread to other sites from there.
First, it was the poll face, the average person who uses the politics board of 4chan.
And I can see it, personally.
I imagine someone like that.
You know, at the other end.
Meant to represent what a typical user of 4chan's poll board would look like.
It also became known as Lipolak.
And it first appeared of December of 2019. So it's a long time in the making.
I've never heard it called Lipolak.
That's more 4chan.
Using Lay in front of a meme is really mid-2000s.
It is, isn't it?
Yeah.
But, supposedly, the face originates with this guy.
LAUGHTER You shouldn't laugh, though, because I know what this guy did.
Oh, really?
This is the El Paso shooter.
He killed 23 people and injured 22 others in 2019. And he targeted explicitly Hispanic people.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
We've just got to rumble through.
The chud chat looks like an annoyed Calvin Robinson.
There is a Calvin version of the Chud Jack that I do have.
You've added it to your collection.
I'm not sending it to you though.
Calvin's still on the loose.
Calvin is not the El Paso shooter.
It's not used in a positive sense.
It's not in admiration of this guy.
It was actually used to insult 4chan users.
It was created by a left-winger explicitly.
I've seen the posts.
I've got the receipts.
They created it to mock the right-wing internet users and say, look, you're all like this guy.
Look at him.
Look at him.
He's got glasses on and he looks sour.
But as you would expect from the online right, we all went Yes.
Yes, we can use this, actually.
This is our N-word, basically, isn't it?
We've repurposed it, and it's become...
Claiming it.
Exactly.
There's dignity in it.
And, obviously, this has got some media outlets very upset that this is being used in this way.
The violent origins of the Chud Jack meme.
But, of course...
Okay, Lindsay, calm down.
Jesus Christ.
It was used to insult the right, and then the right adopted it because it's funny.
And it's a funny face.
There's nothing much to it.
Without any context, it's great.
Just looking at it, it's funny.
You don't even need any context for it.
Can you imagine being just someone really on the internet all the time and complaining about memes in wherever there's Daily Dot?
The funny thing was that when he, I think obviously he was held in jail for a while before his trial.
When he came out for his trial, he'd lost a load of weight and clearly gotten into better shape.
And I saw a load of women going, actually guys, actually, it's like you can't help yourselves, can you?
How many people did he kill?
What kind of message is that sending people, women, eh?
Anyway, it's become a science now, the law of nothing ever happens, and here is a graph.
Obviously, the first law of nothing ever happens is nothing ever happens, similar to Fight Club.
The second law is the percent of progress towards a major happening should always increase closer to, but never reach 100%, at which point something would happen, but by the first law, nothing ever happens.
And you see this graph, therefore it has to be true because it's been mapped onto a graph.
You're a scientist.
That's true, I'm somewhat of a scientist myself.
And I can confirm, I'll put my professional reputation on the line and say this is true.
But yeah, this is in response to Iranian state media is claiming that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Iranian Air Defence Forces are currently conducting exercises across the north of the country, including in and around the capital of Tehran.
I'll tell you what, if there was ever a country that deserved nothing is ever happening, it's Iran, isn't it?
We're getting on to it.
Sorry.
But I think the first thing to start with is Ukraine, because obviously the quintessential example of nothing ever happens is the discourse around nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
I've been saying since the very beginning it's not going to be a nuclear war, because neither side has an incentive to start it, and anyone who says it is...
I mean, being slightly concerned about it is reasonable, because...
As with something happening.
I've done a number of segments, not on the nuke side of it necessarily, but on the escalation of the use of Western arms that could drag people in.
I don't think it's going to be nukes.
Also, this is BRICS news, so they actively have an incentive to be like, they're going to nuke us, quick, we need to do more.
Lots of sloppy gowns.
Yeah, loads and loads of people are saying, there's going to be nuclear war, and of course there's not going to be nuclear war.
Putin and Zelensky, whatever you think of them, are not stupid enough to start a nuclear war.
Biden might have been.
I don't even think Biden.
Yeah, I know.
But it is worth mentioning as well, for the sake of being respectful, that as of this week, a million people have died in Ukraine, and that is obviously something that is very much something that has happened to the people in both Russia and Ukraine, whose relatives they are, and also the human tragedy of it itself, so I don't want to seem flippant about that either.
And someone who is less concerned about being flippant is Tim Pool.
He endlessly talked about civil war.
I love how he goes all the way back from 2019 to 26 minutes ago.
If you look at his account right now, he's probably still saying it.
Yes, Tim Pool loves talking about Civil War and the dangers of it and how, you know, even January of 2019. So even on the left, he's moved from Civil War to Civil War 2. Pedophiles v.
Nazis.
That does sound like a good film.
Which side are you going to throw your beanie on, Tim?
These are the two sides, where do you fall?
But yes, obviously all of the discourse in the United States about there being a civil war, they forgot the first law of nothing ever happens that nothing ever happens.
And so, yeah, vindicated.
There wasn't a beautiful Nazi civil war in America.
Well, Tim Paul's a centrist, so you'd have to side with the Nazi paedophiles.
Only joking, Tim.
I'm sure you're a nice guy.
He is a good guy.
If the chud jack is the face of nothing is happening, surely Tim has to be the face of it's happening.
It's always happening.
Constantly happening.
24-7.
I do agree with him that they are in a cold civil war, but I think Trump's won it.
So, another one here is Elon Musk talking about World War 3. And World War 3 is another favourite of the It's Happening crowd.
And guess what?
That's true.
Elon Musk said in a Hangout, I think we are sleepwalking towards World War 3. With one stupid decision after another, people need to do some self-reflection.
If their forecast did not come true, they should think that maybe the rest of their forecast will not come true.
And the irony of that latter part is funny.
2024, there has been no World War 3. Maybe a forecast.
We've got two weeks left, so...
I'm going to launch World War 3 before Christmas.
Who knows?
Well, before New Year, maybe.
That's true.
Do you have the insider tap for us, Carl?
Absolutely.
Tim's not let you in on anything?
No, no.
That'll be a civil war.
My personal theory is that Tim is actually holding back the civil war unknowingly, and that when he is 120 years old and breathes his last breath, that's when it's going to happen.
That's a bold prediction that Tim Pool will live to 120. Well he has to, right?
You don't want war breaking out.
I don't know.
We've got to keep Tim Pool alive.
No matter what the cost.
I agree.
Like Ukraine.
I think a great example of nothing ever happens was what recently didn't happen in South Korea.
What do you reckon?
This was the most disappointing not happening.
They sort of turned up the special forces, that is, to the parliament and milled about, took some fire extinguishers to the face and then walked away in a very disheartened way.
Martial law, sorry, we voted no to martial law.
Oh, okay, I guess we'll go home then.
But did they even impeach the guy afterwards?
No, they didn't.
That must be really awkward now.
Just levels of nothing ever happens.
Hitherto unknown.
He reminds about us.
That's actually on the screen.
Pardon?
Pardon, subs?
Oh, right, they are voting to impeach him.
Because what I heard was that they all voted against martial law, including his own party, and then when it came to the impeachment, his party were like, no, we can just keep him around.
But I mean, you know, he hasn't been impeached yet.
Nothing.
I think the kings of nothing ever happens though, as a certain internet rodent points out here, is Iran.
And Iran has sort of coasted through nothing ever happens in the least happening way possible.
For about 70 years.
Mm-hmm.
People were saying there'd be a revolution and regime change because women had to cover their hair, and do you know what?
Nothing happened?
Yeah, nothing happened.
Well, they had one big happening, you know, back in the day, and after that they're all out of happenings, so nothing can happen.
Everyone's like, oh, Israel's constantly assassinating your scientists, or doing this, or doing that, and it's like, okay, but nothing's going to happen.
Mm-hmm.
Israel can basically just get away with it.
That's true, yeah.
And speaking of nothing ever happening, the Southport riots.
Nothing really came out of it.
Same with a lot of the political pushback to a lot of this stuff.
It's gone nowhere.
Nothing happened.
I will say, this was one of the most blatant exercises of government overreach in our lifetimes, just picking people up off of the street for protesting and arresting them, getting them killed.
So if there is anything that has happened, so to speak, in this regard, it's the government just going full mask off.
We will arrest you for protesting against us, even if you're not actually doing it.
I think a lot more people realise just how much power over their lives the government has.
And particularly the cases of, like, a woman filming what was going on and getting three years in prison, where, you know, actual convicted nonces don't even serve prison time.
Keir Starmer was literally letting them out.
That too.
But the lesson here isn't really that something's happened, because this is all just stuff the government can do and has done anyway.
They lock up 3,000 or 4,000 people a year for social media posts.
It's a continuity of what came before, isn't it?
The real lesson from this is never just admit to your guilt to the government-provided prosecutor.
Like, no.
Fight the case.
So this could have been a case of something happening.
So you may remember there was a hurricane and it hit the Carolinas and there were big power outages.
That wasn't that long ago, so people should remember it.
And it's worth pointing out that in North Carolina, I feel that that might be worth diversifying.
Build a second road at least.
Yeah, exactly.
At least a second road to that one place.
And yeah, the power went out.
Sorry, just to go back to that.
Quartz?
That's not exactly a rare earth mineral, is it?
Like, there's quartz everywhere.
I don't know.
My missus has a lot of rose quartz.
Yeah, you can just find quartz.
I remember just...
It's probably got to be a special kind.
I don't know anything about...
Yeah, I don't know anything about it, but like...
Sorry, Karen.
So, it could bring semiconductor chipmaking to a halt here, CNN says.
And this, I can't read it because the camera's in the way, was the 2nd of October.
And what actually happened is that the mining resumed pretty quickly.
Oh, nothing happened.
Those companies raring to build that second road, they were very disappointed.
Also, I'm sorry, go back to the last link.
Go back up.
I've never noticed the fear and greed index on CNN Business before.
Extreme fear is driving the US market right now, apparently.
Is this something happening?
Extreme fear.
No, but that's the point, isn't it?
They're extremely afraid that something's happening.
That's just all in their heads.
They're afraid that something might be happening, but in fact, nothing is happening.
The levels of nothing ever happens are so great that they're not giving you events Like, something has happened.
No.
Fear of things happening.
That's it.
It's just people's perceptions.
It's not events, it's just feelings.
Transcend the fear and come to realise that nothing ever happens.
And you'll become zen.
You'll become one with the universe.
And happily on the index, this means that greed can carry on as normal.
That's true, yeah.
I love the idea of a venture capitalist trying to quantify fear.
Well, they probably do.
I would imagine it just means, like, lots of selling.
A hurricane is one thing, but what about a super geomagnetic storm?
I mean, it sounds bad.
It does, yeah.
I mean, look at that image.
That looks scary.
Wait, the Earth exploded and nobody told me?
That's not the Earth.
That is the Sun.
The Sun exploded and nobody told me.
It's even worse!
But this is one of those what do you do in these situations memes.
It's like, well, die.
Well, you just look up and the sun's exploding.
Well, I guess I'm screwed.
Because we stopped worshipping you, wasn't it?
So yes, there was a big supergeomagnetic storm in May of 2024. I didn't even hear about it.
That's how little happened.
I know.
And it could have, emphasis on could, have destroyed all of the Earth's satellites.
However, allow me to tell you what didn't happen.
According to a pre-print paper published on the online repository, blah blah blah blah blah, satellites and space debris objects in low Earth orbit, the region of space up to an altitude of 1,200 miles, were sinking towards the planet at a speed of 290 feet or 180 metres per day during the four-day storm, and to make up for the loss of altitude, thousands of were sinking towards the planet at a speed of 290 feet or 180 metres per day during the four-day storm, and to make
That mass movement, the authors of the paper point out, could have led to dangerous situations because collision avoidance systems didn't have time to calculate the satellites changing paths.
However, nothing ever happened.
However, it just didn't happen.
Okay.
Terrible things might happen.
So, there was lots of discussion about the US election, about how it would be an end to democracy.
Here is Elon Musk on a big essay about how he believes things happen.
Obviously fake news.
A load of nonsense.
Yeah, democracy didn't end, in fact, and Donald Trump won the election.
Does this qualify as a happening?
He says if Trump is not elected, but Trump was elected, therefore nothing happened.
Except for Trump being elected.
Does that count as something happening?
No.
Oh, okay.
No, I think it's more on the nothing ever happens.
It's closer to something happening than absolute nothing.
I suppose I did my own nothing ever happens when I was talking about when I went to Bath and was expecting a load of screeching uni students to be weeping in the street, but then even Waterstone staff members were like, ah, nothing ever happens.
It's spreading.
Judd Jacks everywhere you go.
See, the people with access to books.
Everywhere I look, I see him.
So, there's also this same internet rodent is pointing out the same thing again in response to this post.
And he says, Americans are attaching great importance to this post, with it being described as the most important post in history and such.
Much drama and hyperbole on all sides.
However, the post is not important.
It will be forgotten in two weeks and nothing ever happens.
Which aged quite well.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Something that did almost happen was this.
Nope.
Nope.
Well, it didn't.
It didn't happen, but it almost happened.
We've got a photograph of it.
Yeah, we've got a photograph of nothing happening.
It didn't happen, but it almost happened.
It was the closest to something happening in recent times, I think.
Yeah, it was really close to being happening, but it didn't happen.
Do you not think that this had any effect on his election results?
Doesn't matter.
Nothing happened.
I guess the case closed.
He's not dead, everything's fine, nothing happened.
Do you classify this as a something?
I mean, a presidential candidate and former president of the United States almost got his head blown off live at a rally.
But nothing happened.
Wait, so does the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan count as a nothing happening as well then?
The attempted assassination of Nick Fuentes, nothing happened.
Tomorrow will be the same as today.
What about the actual assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
That's something that happened, but that happened 150 years ago.
It also happened too late to affect the course of history, really.
So we've got diverging conclusions.
Something happened, but it was too long ago, who cares?
Actually, nothing really happened when you think about it.
If they really wanted to do something, they should have done it earlier.
Good point.
There you go.
Alright.
Such is the complexities of whether something happened or not.
This is like Schrodinger's happening, isn't it?
Something both happened and did not happen, depending on whether you observed it.
I feel like I'm in Twilight Zone.
So, also, one thing that everyone was talking about that everyone's probably forgotten is all the claims that Biden died.
And he might have.
He's still, as far as I'm aware, alive.
He could have died during the course of this podcast, but I'm not sure.
However, Biden didn't die, proving, again, that nothing ever happens.
I still don't believe this.
I am getting persuaded by the face mask claims, where it's like people dressing up in latex masks that are really realistic.
I think he'd be really difficult to act out.
His mannerisms are too idiosyncratic.
Maybe, but that's only because I think you're not a good impersonator, right?
But a good impersonator...
Oh, thank you.
No, no, no, no.
I think that's good.
Yeah, I'm not a good impersonator either.
But I think good impersonators, like, they actually do have quite a lot to work with with Biden, right?
And there are pictures of him where he's got, like, really deep-set eyes, and you sit and think, yeah, that could be a mask.
Yeah.
He could just be old.
But nothing ever happens, so he's got a mask.
I think he's dead, and I think that his corpse has been controlled by a very small mouse in his comb-over.
What, like in Ratatouille?
Ratatouille, yes.
I tell you who has had a monopoly on happenings, and that is Israel.
A lot has happened to do with Israel and the Middle East.
And my favourite happening was the Pager incident, which is just...
Fantastically sneaky.
I was very impressed with how clever it was.
It's like, you've basically bullied them into the Stone Age because they've been reversing technology to the point where they've got to pages and even the pages aren't safe.
To be fair, didn't the pages get manufactured in Israel?
No, so they were Japanese originally, and then the Israelis intercepted them on the way to Hungary and planted explosives, even unbeknownst to the factory workers.
So no one was in on it except probably Mossad, and no one else.
My favourite thing to come from this was a meme video.
Of Gus from Breaking Bad about to be blown up, and except instead of the bell, it's a little pager under the wheelchair.
So yes, please don't kill me.
I do admire your work.
I appreciate the craft.
Speaking of political assassinations, allow me to list off all of the things that did happen for Israel.
So Saleh al-Harouri, a senior Hamas leader and co-founder of its military wing, was killed in a drone strike in Beirut on the 2nd of January.
So immediately kicking off the year with happenings.
On the 31st of July, Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas' political chief, was assassinated in Tehran.
Apparently the attack involved a remotely detonated bomb which was planted months earlier.
So that is clever.
And then Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, was reportedly killed during an Israeli strike in Beirut on the 25th of September.
And also several senior Hezbollah commanders died.
And then there was Yahwah Sinwa, key Hamas leader and mastermind of the October 7th attacks, was killed on the 17th of October in Rafa, Gaza.
And then just a few days later, on the 22nd of October, another senior Hezbollah official, Hashem Safedin, was killed in another Israeli operation.
And then on the 29th of September as well, Nabil Kwouk, I don't know, another high-ranking Hezbollah figure, was killed in an airstrike in Beirut.
So that is a lot of things going on.
Yeah, and still nothing happened though.
However, to get your...
Well, Israel did sort of...
They've now got one regiment in Gaza, and they're also claiming land in Syria.
I feel like that qualifies as a hack.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
They're not claiming land in Syria, okay?
They've sent in a protective force to make sure that no further conflict happens there, alright?
Oh, yeah.
There's a big difference, okay?
Please don't kill me.
I... Your check's in the mail, Josh.
I don't know what you're on about.
One thing that didn't happen, though, was Iran sent 180 missiles.
No one died.
Well, one person died.
Yeah, one homeless guy in Palestine or something.
Yeah, a missile casing fell on, I think, a Palestinian's head.
Not even the missile exploded, it was the casing.
And they caught it on security footage.
They did, which I'm not going to play because it's someone dying, obviously.
It was horrible.
It was horrible.
But it's genuinely amazing how Iran can commit to nothing ever happening to this level of skill.
In the same way that the Israelis are killing people in terrorist groups, Iran's like, right, so we're going to make sure we kill nobody apart from one accidental death of a guy we weren't trying to kill.
That's amazing.
That is...
I think Iran has got...
You know, they can't get nuclear science down, but they've got nothing-ever-happened science down perfectly.
They've got pure...
Levels of chud jackery I never thought possible.
So, keeping in the Middle East, some stuff was happening earlier in the year where Houthi rebels...
But nothing turned out from it!
Well, they did hijack some tankers and disrupt trade temporarily.
However, they're now meeting Israeli missiles, which means they're probably not long for this world, and that will return things back into nothing ever happens once more.
It was a brief window of things happening where trade through the Red Sea was disrupted, but things are defaulting back to normal once more.
And once the rebels are dead, there will be no more tanker disruption and trade will resume as normal, as neoliberalism intended.
And then, finally, the final thing I wanted to end on is a definite case of something happening.
Just the one thing.
But in the grand scheme of things, by the way, before...
Emphasising how much happened in Syria, I would like to point out that it's basically just a proxy between Russia and the United States.
And all that happened was that the United States got its way eventually.
And considering Russia's occupied in the war in Ukraine, someone could have predicted something happening before the year even started.
And so one could argue that it is also nothing ever happening.
But it's worth pointing out here, the post says Damascus has fallen, Syria has fallen, Assad has fallen.
This sounds like terminal happening behaviour, this kind of rhetoric.
And I really appreciated this.
If you're listening, this is an older Chud Jack reading to its baby Chud Jack.
And it was precisely when we thought nothing would ever happen that something finally happened.
And so...
This is you reading bedtime stories to your children, isn't it, Carl?
No, no.
My bedtime stories are always very exciting.
Well, you don't have a little red squirrel chud plushy for your son.
No.
You should.
Weirdly, he's got a blue octopus.
I respect that.
Greta Thunberg wouldn't...
Yeah, well, he's had it for years.
It was way before, like...
Don't let the ADL know.
I know.
I know.
I was just like, oh, no.
So...
What do you think has happened this year?
How much nothing has happened here?
10 out of 10 nothing?
Or 0 out of 10?
I'd give it a 9 out of 10 because Syria did fall and Assad is now an eye doctor in Russia.
So that is something.
I would say, yeah, I'd give it 1 out of 10 for happening, 9 out of 10 for nothing happening.
What do you reckon, Harry?
A lot of things are going to be a filthy fence-sitter and say that we're actually in a perpetual motion of things happening that are simply imperceptible to the human eye on a day-to-day basis, and therefore it's a 50-50.
Some things happened, some things didn't happen, but eventually big things will happen.
If it can happen in Syria, it can happen anywhere.
Well, there you go.
Something could happen, but chances are I have about a 95% certainty that nothing will ever happen.
Right, because really, if we think about it, right, the whole nothing ever happens.
If nothing ever happens, the point is that everything maintains the status quo.
Well, the status quo is gay and boring and I hate it and it hates me.
So I do eventually want things to happen.
That's true, but nothing has happened then, is it?
You know, if the status quo is just, you know, gay woke politics...
Well, that's what we're getting forever.
I absolutely refuse to believe that this is the state of the world forever.
This is Fukuyama's vision.
Yeah, Carl believes in the end of history, but history never ends, my friends.
I don't believe in it.
The people in the middle of the Roman Empire, they were like, ah, this is the glorious empire, it'll go on forever.
Guess what?
It fell.
The German barbarians arrived.
I'm not in favor of the end of history.
So we do have some rumbles here.
We need to rage the age of consent to 18 because the current age of consent of 16 gives ambiguity.
Oh, we've already read that one, haven't we?
The engage few.
Is that your professional diagnosis, Josh?
It gives me the ick.
That is my professional diagnosis, yes.
We've already read that one.
The Cranky Texan says, Josh, it worries me that you know enough about Leonardo DiCaprio's dating life that you could discuss it for hours.
I don't personally know about his dating life.
I just know that he sort of has a cycle of women in his twenties that he refreshes when one gets too spoiled.
And you've looked into Hunter Biden.
You could do some research and do a premium video on Leonardo DiCaprio's dating life.
I think I have better things to do, like watching paint dry.
That's fair.
Skittenhund.
The massive age gap between my parents.
The age gap relationships are not fair on the kids.
He saw me get married but died before the birth of my kids.
I miss him.
Don't marry an old guy.
That's quite sad.
Dragon Lady Chris says, So obviously we don't expect a podcast on Christmas, but what will the rest of the next week look like?
Merry Christmas to my favourite Brits.
We do have a bunch of stuff that we've pre-recorded that will be going out.
We're working very hard for you so you don't have...
We can depress you even around Christmas.
Bobobad says, I was a chud-in-so into my mid-30s and thought nothing ever happens.
Then I married my busty girlfriend.
It was we're so back.
Then Josh said the age gap between us was cringe.
It's so over now.
Well, I mean, you're surely not like 30 years older than her, right?
Josh, are you going to give Bobobad the exception?
I give you my pass.
There you go.
He's got the Josh pass.
He's not going to come and find you in your sleep.
JQRC says, UnitedHealthcare is now processing 15% more claims.
Funny how that works.
Are you suggesting that something happened?
And Wesley says, Is the idea that nothing happened this year an optimistic view of the world or a pessimistic view?
Very pessimistic.
Yeah, pessimistic.
It's a neutral view.
We're trapped in the end of history, but I'm not happy about it.
Anyway, let's go to the video comments.
Since the left is currently worshipping criminals, I think it's important to reflect on some of their folk heroes, such as Eldritch Cleaver, who was a leader of the Black Panthers.
Interestingly, in his background, he was an attempted murderer, petty criminal, and most notably a mass rapist.
Now, he's best known for raping white women to fight white supremacy, but he did make an interesting statement in his biography where he said he practiced on black women at first to learn the ropes because, according to him, his community wasn't that bothered by that kind of crime.
I think about that sometimes.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah, I've seen about that guy before.
I'd forgotten about him, so thank you for reminding me.
I've never heard of that.
Yeah, he's one of the heads of the Black Panthers.
That's wild.
Hey, remember, these days are portrayed very positively in the media.
Hey guys, just a little wholesome content for you today.
I've got deer running around in my backyard.
They're tail deer, aren't they?
Yeah, this is upstate New York.
Deer in the backyard.
And a Bigfoot look behind that one.
It's always nice seeing deer.
I can see why ancient people saw them as godly things, because when you're in the woods and you see one through the trees, it has this sort of majesty to it that does make you feel a sort of almost religious sense.
They're totally non-threatening as well.
They just run away from you, so there's nothing scary.
Or some stags with massive antlers will charge you, but most of the time in Britain, certainly.
Also, upstate New York looks lovely and looks very familiar to an Englishman.
It does, doesn't it?
Look at that, yeah.
Deers are also very delicious.
That's good to know, Samson.
Let's go to the next ones.
Welcome back to the gun channel of the Lotus Eaters.
Here we have a Zastava M48 chambered in 8x57mm Mauser.
This is a post-World War II Yugoslavian copy of the Mauser K98k.
This one's in pretty good shape, so I've kept it as it left the factory, apart from a non-permanent scope mount.
There's always something really satisfying about the noise that the bolt actions make when you reload them.
It sounds...
It's sort of the platonic ideal of a gun, isn't it?
Yeah.
Just that, it's a very...
Satisfying.
Yeah.
God, I want a gun.
That's the next one.
It'll be freezing this Christmas without fuel at home.
It'll be freezing this Christmas while Keir Starmer's warm.
It'll be cold, so cold without fuel at home this Christmas.
She told me that she doesn't get out of bed till midday because she didn't want to turn the heat to me.
You don't need to be a pensioner to do that, to be fair.
Sometimes I do that.
Yeah, but let's go to the next one.
I'm sorry to do this to you, Josh, but your section on technology innovation was very poorly researched.
Battery innovations over and above lithium-ion are always several years away because companies are looking for investment and never deliver.
The problem with lithium batteries is not only that the metal is highly reactive, but that it must be mixed with poison as chemicals to get it to give up its electrons.
Sodium will be even worse as it's even more reactive.
Even assuming a solar panel is 35% efficient, this drops off as they are used, drooping to 11% after 10 years, leaving them inefficient and unable to be recycled.
What had you argued?
I just reported what people were saying.
Yeah, it was only a small section of it, but that's very interesting, and I did preface it by saying I don't know anything about this, so I don't feel too bad.
But thank you for informing us, I suppose.
So as you can see, I'm roasting some chestnuts.
And one interesting thing about chestnuts in America is they're very expensive.
America used to have its own chestnut tree, but in about 1904, we had a massive blight from Asia that basically wiped them out.
So anytime anyone actually finds one of those trees in the wild, it's a huge, huge deal because they almost are extinct.
They're basically tree cryptids.
Have you ever had chestnuts?
Oh, they're lovely.
Really?
I think they're really bland.
I hate to sound like the global south here, but you've got to season them a little bit.
Oh, they don't season their chestnuts.
This is the non-Anglo in you shining through, Josh.
What is Christmas stuffing?
Traditionally, it's like a nut-based thing, isn't it?
Sure, I didn't realise.
With seasoning.
It doesn't necessarily have to be.
We also had another rumble rant in from Bobo Bad.
For $20, thank you.
Saying, thanks Josh for absolving me.
It's a 13-year gap for your information.
And also, Merry Christmas to you all.
Bless you all, and thanks for all your hard work.
You do make my day better, and I hope my silliness does the same.
Wow.
That's very nice of you and all the same to you as well.
To all of the other people wishing us Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you as well.
Yeah, that's totally true.
And I think you are probably right about the sort of lack of competence as well.
It's like, this is how these things work, isn't it?
It's like, no.
Yeah, part of the reason I don't worry too much about doing this and, you know, being targeted by leftists is that I know what leftists are like and when I stand up I'm, you know, an over six foot man.
To be fair as well, Nick Fuentes is a lot more inflammatory than we are.
That's true.
We're a lot more reasonable than Nick Fuentes, I think.
But also, unlike Nick Fuentes, Josh is right.
He and I tower over most leftists.
And we both lift as well, so we've not got much to fear there.
Pood says, Yeah, it did feel like a side quest, actually.
Yeah, it's like in The Witcher 3 when you run into a raving lunatic at the side.
You there, peasant woman.
But he said, my body, your body, my choice on the internet, you don't understand.
You can hear how confused and weary he is.
Okay, if you say so.
The funniest reaction to that is being jaded like a parent.
Talking to an older woman, probably.
It's like, oh, for goodness sake.
Arizona Desert Route says, this lady doesn't realise she's about to get charged with trespassing and harassment.
I mean, she is literally doing that.
She's literally harassing someone because of something she saw on the internet.
But she had buttons that said her pronouns on it, so she can't do anything wrong.
He's a white nationalist.
Binary says, well, I'm against murder, even scum like Fuentes.
It is surprising, given that he's made a point of being actively a twat to everyone, that he doesn't...
I'm not going to carry on, but yeah.
No matter how much of a twat you are, I don't think it justifies random Reddit leftists showing up to murder you and doxing your address.
No, but it does make wonder, is he going to start moderating slightly?
No.
Because, I mean...
Well, it has to have some effect.
Well, there are other people who've been targeted and had their lives ruined by leftists, and they've hardened instead.
And he's already been debanked and deplatformed off of everything.
He's got nothing to lose.
Carl has four kids.
Presidents aren't the only thing he needs to wrap up this Christmas, says.
No.
Bit mean, isn't it?
Well, no.
I work as God intended.
Don't be silly, Carl.
I can't wait for the...
I don't like, you know, artificial human interventions.
I can't wait for the left to go from guns are good to guns are bad back to guns are good in the space of two weeks.
Yeah, well, it really depends on who's doing the shooting and who's being shot, doesn't it?
Jan Harvey says, yeah, notice that they didn't go on about, oh, well, the Luigi guy printed a ghost gun and shot the CEO. We need to talk about ghost guns is usually what they will say.
But in this, no.
That's funny, isn't it?
Yeah.
Jan Harvey says, yeah, it's very foolish to get angry at all the silly things Nick Quentes says.
Yeah, obviously he's a provocateur.
Yeah, exactly.
First and foremost, he is a provocateur.
I mean, when I saw him say, your body, my choice, it did make me laugh.
It was fun.
Even though I don't necessarily agree with him.
Josh was laughing, nodding along in agreement, pointing at his missus and saying, this is you, this is you.
You. Pox syndrome, Harry.
Baron von Morg says, They care more about the foreign rapists and jihadists than their children.
Never forget this.
Yeah, and Bleach Demon says, Police, judges, crown prosecutors, and anyone else who deny justice to the girls and to England need to be stripped of their pensions and property and given to the victims.
They should be publicly shamed and expelled from polite society.
Let them take to the streets to live.
No one is going to suffer any goddamn consequences for this.
And I just really...
I just find it really insufferable.
Santa's Global Surveillance Network says, I find most people are too naive to comprehend this atrocity and would rather put it out of their minds.
We must continue to beat the drum if we are ever to have justice for the victims.
I don't know the term grooming gangs.
They are rape gangs, and the police who look the other way are complicit and should be treated as such.
It's just that the common parlance is grooming gangs.
People know what you mean.
Yeah.
But, like, you're denoting a particular phenomenon when you say that.
So, right, so, Muslim men are raping English girls.
Got you.
That's what that denotes, unfortunately.
But I agree with you, it's not a great name.
Thomas says, Storytime.
I knew someone who worked for Calderdale Social Care looking after a children's home.
They frequently had to see off certain men from the gates to prevent them driving off with girls.
Just the fact that this is the country we live in, man.
Yeah.
And Santa's Surveillance Network says, it is not unreasonable to say that child rapists should be hanged.
In fact, it would be better for him to have a millstone around his neck and thrown into the sea.
Arizon doesn't rat says, lifestyle choice?
That's like saying a woman deserves to get raped because she's drunk.
Yeah, that was honestly the position of the British police for about 25 years.
That's also a position of many convicted Muslim rapists in Britain of while she was drunk and therefore it's okay.
George says, I really dislike the nothing ever happens meme.
It's a sign of deep apathy and weakness where you have to witness some cataclysm to be interested in life.
So my perspective on it is that doing this job nine to five, five days a week, I see a lot of sensationalist nonsense.
And this is a great reaction against that.
And it's not that I'm, well, actually, I was going to say it's not that I'm apathetic, but...
I'm here wanting to do something about it, and I spend the whole year pointing it out.
I think it's more that the norm is that things defer to the status quo.
It's not necessarily saying that nothing happening is a good thing.
In fact, I want things to happen.
I want the hypothesis to be disproved, because it's something that I want to change.
I want the world to be better, and I want things to happen.
Yes, if people are using it in that way, then I think they're misunderstanding what it's come to mean.
Geordie Salzman said, if you shaved the Ayatollah's beard, it would reveal he was a chud jack all along, but nothing would happen from this revelation.
Makes sense.
And if something's always happening, nothing will be.
Tin chud syndrome pool, possibly.
I can't pronounce that name.
Says, have you seen the new chudder meme?
He does not buy slop and is allegedly the reason why Woke video game fails.
I haven't seen that one, but good.
I have seen the Chudder.
Loads of people are like, could you play Baldur's Gate 3?
I'm like, no.
Because I know who made it.
But Baldur's Gate 3 is quite a good game.
That's what everyone's saying.
It's like, okay, great.
It's like, okay, but I don't want to support or endorse or have anything to do with the kind of people who made that game.
I understand that.
Fair enough.
I'm not having it.
Screw these guys.
Anglo Dan says: "The guys who attacked our police officers at Manchester Airport have finally been charged.
It's a Christmas miracle." I mean, it basically is.
It took six months.
Six months.
That was six months of nothing happening.
Yeah, literally.
And the thing is, will they get charged?
Will they get convicted?
Who knows?
We'll see.
BaseApe says, as someone who's been sick all week, why is it that all the viruses are the ones that make you do gross stuff, but never any cool stuff like making zombies?
Nothing ever happens.
And that's basically it.
Finally, Geordie Salzman says, if you want a vision of the future, imagine a Chud Jack leering forever.
Nothing will ever happen, Winston.
O'Brien, probably.
Excellent.
But anyway, we're out of time, so thank you folks for joining us.
We'll be back on Monday for one last podcast before the holiday period, and we will be back in half an hour to go on Lads Hour to decide who this year has been naughty and who has been nice.
So, a bit of festive cheer for the last Lads Hour of the year.
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