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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1085

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of The Lotus Eaters episode 1085. I'm your host, Parry, joined today by Bo.
	We were supposed to be having Josh on as well, but he's not feeling particularly great right now.
	So it's just a two-man show right now, although to be fair, we are the best presenters anyway.
	So you're getting a treat right here.
	The most based.
	Broadly recognised as the most based.
	Well, I'm not one to toot my own horn, but yes.
	Yes, clearly.
	And today we're going to be talking about the insane numbers of illegal immigrants in London and across the rest of the country, Trump's confrontations with Putin, which I'm interested to learn about, and I don't want to make light of the story, because it is tragic, a young girl died, but the Nashville shooter...
	that happened yesterday, Solomon Henderson, looking into what happened there, and the absolutely absurd, ideologically confused manifesto that he released, while just recognizing that maybe teenagers and children shouldn't have access to the internet.
	Maybe they shouldn't.
	That's my takeaway from the story, because this man was insane and terminally online.
	We also should remind everybody that it is Common Sense Crusade at 3pm later today, so if you're a subscriber to the website, tune in for that to see what Calvin is going to be talking about.
	Anything you'd like to say before we start?
	Oh, just most people are aware that there's the sentencing of that Southport guy.
	Yes.
	But it's sort of, we're not going to talk about that today, but...
	No, we're not talking about today.
	It's going on...
	As we speak, we have been watching a little bit of it on the news as it's been going on.
	We've seen that Ruda Cabana has been shouting and heckling.
	I just want to let our audience know we're not ignoring it.
	It's happening as we speak.
	Tomorrow, perhaps.
	Yeah, we'll probably cover that tomorrow because it looks like he's doing everything that he can to try and slow down the process or get a reset time for it by just causing a nuisance of himself.
	But, you know, hopefully they throw him away and lock away the key.
	What I would like to have done to him is probably illegal for me to say.
	And with that, let's talk about the news.
	And can you believe it?
	They're talking about illegal immigration again.
	I know, it's exactly what you tune into the podcast to listen to, is a bunch of British blokes whining about how the country's going to pop, mainly because of legal and illegal immigration.
	Let's never forget that legal immigration is the source of the largest number of people coming to this country who should have no right to come here in the first place.
	They can't assimilate, they will not integrate, they cause chaos, they cause violence, they cause crime, they cause...
	There's all sorts of problems, so I want that highlighted right away.
	We need closed borders.
	But, yes, illegal immigration is also a massive problem with this country, particularly in regards to this latest study that has come out that's been publicised by The Telegraph, which has revealed that up to 1 in 12 immigrants, 1 in 12 people in London, is an illegal immigrant.
	That's a huge number.
	So for a start, it's probably more than that.
	And then, as you just said, the illegal immigrant side is just the half of it, or not even close to the half of it.
	It's a fraction.
	Yeah, so in actual fact, as bad as that sounds, the real situation is way, way, way worse.
	You can go around whole parts of London and not see a single white face, and then loads of other parts where there's one or two.
	The majority of those people got in legally.
	That doesn't make it right.
	Yeah, that doesn't make it right that the capital city of England should be somewhere that is minority English.
	It just goes back to that thing John Cleese said quite a while ago that it's not an English city anymore, a British city, whatever he said.
	And he caught a ton of flack for that.
	But simply a statement of fact, even then?
	Oh yeah, I mean it's one of the better things that he's said because he suffers from terminal TDS and a number of other liberal ailments.
	So at least he got that right.
	So we can at least You know, give them a little round of applause for that.
	But according to this study, sorry, a previously confidential report that the Telegraph managed to get their hands on, London is home to as many as 585,000 illegal migrants, which is equivalent to 1 in 12 of the city's population.
	Now, what they got this from was a study commissioned by Thames Water, and the Telegraph managed to get hold of it through a Freedom of Information-style law for the environment.
	Put in some request using that law and we're able to get a hold of this.
	I have seen some people trying to poo-poo this study by saying, well, you can't trust Thames Water, they're not a government agency.
	I would argue you can trust them far more than you can a government agency to be able to accurately try to estimate these things because Thames Water, unlike most government services, actually provides a service.
	And they need to have...
	Practical figures by which they can determine, okay, how much water are we going to need to supply to the city?
	And to do that, they might need to have an estimate of how many people are in the city.
	They compare that against records of who's in the city, and they see, oh, well, actually, according to this, what we've got, so the lowest amount of illegal migrants there may be in London is 390,355, and the highest of their estimates is 585,000.
	As stated.
	Although, again, that might still be underselling it.
	An insane number, let's be clear.
	Yeah, either way.
	An insane number.
	Yes, of people who got into the country illegally, have not been detained, not been sent back home, causing problems in the local communities by changing them irrevocably, and similarly going into, who knows, the black market, the illegal...
	They might be delivering your takeaway this weekend.
	Delivery or just eat.
	Yes, the global vagrant economy.
	Or just simply part of some sort of organised crime, one way or another.
	Yeah, and part of the horror of the whole thing is that London is supposed to be a city that can be a home to people, specifically the home of English people, and it's just been turned into a city of global vagrants and welfare recipients.
	There's this thing that the...
	The population that was already there just pushed out to places like Essex and Kent.
	Just pushed out.
	Displacement.
	If it happened to non-white cultures, they'd call it an ethnic cleansing.
	But I guess it doesn't count because they're English and they did bad things in the past, supposedly, like civilisation.
	Some sort of bloodless or near-bloodless ethnic cleansing.
	As some sort of intergenerational...
	Revenge.
	But the point you made I thought was really interesting.
	You can actually trust the numbers given out by Thames Water more than you can in the Home Office.
	Yeah, I trust what Tesco says, for example.
	Similarly, this is confidential as well.
	So this was something that was circulating within Thames Water because I assume people in charge of it said we need to know how many people we're servicing.
	And so we won't release these to the figures.
	The Telegraph managed to get hold of them.
	But the Home Office didn't really collect this data for a very, very long time of how many illegal immigrants there are in the country.
	I still don't think they hold that data.
	They do collect data on how many illegal boat crossings there are, people coming over on the boat crossings now.
	But they only started doing that in, what, 2018 anyway?
	Because the government services have political reasons.
	Being that they are part of the government to cover up these figures, hide these figures, even if they do know them.
	And even then, I've heard word from inside of the civil service, anyway, that most of the time they don't keep track of these and don't know.
	To be fair, part of the nature of it is that you'll never have a perfect figure.
	That's sort of the nature of illegal migrants, is that they're off the grid in all sorts of ways.
	So it will only ever be an estimate.
	Yeah, I trust Thameswater or Sainsbury's or Tesco's.
	They would actually know.
	Their estimates will actually be something approaching accurate.
	It's similar to when you've had companies look into the amount of phone contracts there are in the country and maybe the amount of sewage that's being produced by the country as well.
	Outside of the government metrics that people have used have been able to estimate that there is a huge number of people in this country who shouldn't be, even outside of what government figures we do get regarding how many people cross over on the boats.
	Because it's not just the people crossing over on the boats, it's people overstaying their visas and people getting into the country in other ways as well.
	Because you hear stories about where, say, a lorry driver will get pulled over and he'll have just a mass of people.
	In the back of the lorry as well, human trafficking that way.
	So most of what we hear about the boats, again, is just a drop in the water.
	Lots of people come over on flights from India or wherever really, Nigeria, whatever it is, they just come over on an aeroplane and they haven't got a visa or any sort of paperwork.
	They'll just stick around.
	And just like all the other cases, they're just not deported for whatever reason.
	Loads and loads of people.
	Apparently Heathrow and Gatwick could just have that sort of stuff going on all the time.
	It's not really surprising, and it does spread out elsewhere as well.
	It carries on to saying here that when other areas outside of London covered by Thames Water are included, such as Henley, Guildford, Reading, Swindon...
	Hello there.
	And Newbury, the range for the number of illegal migrants, rises to between 415,000 and 623,000.
	And that's just in that greater London area down in the southeast.
	A Thames Water spokesman has said regarding this, Water companies have a regulatory obligation to undertake a water balance, which includes understanding how much water our customers use on a per-person basis and how it's distributed across our supply area.
	analysis to estimate hidden and transient populations is carried out by an independent firm of consultants who draw from publicly available sources including census surveys and published academic research.
	Thames Water played no part in the writing of the report and the conclusions drawn are those of an independent firm that carried out the research.
	So that's even more reason to be able to say that this was an independent firm working on behalf of Thames Water who were doing it for business and regulatory reasons.
	There was no reason to assume that this would be some kind of Yeah, pretty much.
	From everything that I can tell here.
	The Home Office, they go on to say...
	Do not publish any comprehensive data estimating the number of illegal migrants in the UK, and as I said, only since 2018 has it produced figures on the number of illegal channel migrants reaching the UK. However, there have been unofficial estimates by insiders over the years.
	In 2019, David Wood, a former Director General of Immigration Enforcement, said illegal immigration was probably running at around 150,000 a year.
	and presumably that means arrivals or people who cross from legal into an illegal status.
	The report cites home office calculations that between 150,000 to 250,000 foreign nationals fail to return to their home country each year.
	It also cites estimates by Migration Watch that there is a net addition to the population of 70,000 irregular migrants a year owing to visa overstays, illegal arrivals and failed asylum seekers.
	Again, that's just ridiculous, isn't it?
	Failed asylum seekers.
	You've come here, you've gone through the process, bugger off.
	No, you don't get the right to stay here.
	But also, we're not going to pick you up.
	We're not going to put you on a flight.
	We're not going to put you on a boat and take you home.
	Or just get you across the channel so that somebody else can take you home.
	No, just make sure that if you feel like it, if you feel like it, you can go home.
	70,000 there.
	Again, just a giant, giant number.
	That's why I don't really buy the argument.
	Carla said it a number of times, other people we've had on the show say it, that if you just sort of close the borders, stop the bleeding, just imagine that, just that alone, just stop the borders, just close the borders, then after a few years go by, the trickle of people that go home, that naturally go home, means that the problem would sort of solve itself.
	I don't buy that at all.
	You have to thoroughly incentivise them to go home.
	By forcefully sending a lot of them home when they shouldn't be here.
	Some do go home, of course, of their own volition.
	But I would have thought the vast majority, most of them won't.
	That's not enough.
	We have to actually deport them.
	Yes.
	I mean, we saw just today, or perhaps it was yesterday, I didn't see the time on the tweet, but Rupert Lowe has finally said mass deportations are needed.
	Not just deportations.
	He just said mass deportations are required.
	Boom.
	Thank you.
	There you go.
	Prince Rupert, finally.
	You've got to normalise it.
	It's not just re-migration, which is also a great term to use, don't get me wrong, but mass deportations.
	There are millions of people in this country who should not be here and who make the country worse by their presence.
	So yeah, we need to be getting all of these people and basically taking them home.
	Getting them out of the country.
	Because again, 70,000, 150,000, 250,000, that's not as much as the legal migration numbers that we've been experiencing over the past few years, but it all adds up.
	It all adds up massively.
	And you're right, if we were to just close the borders and expect to trickle out, well guess what?
	The living standards that a lot of them have here, especially when they're basically not policed and allowed to work in illegal job markets, are still higher.
	Presumably, than if they were to go home.
	And similarly, you have people like that, what's it, Mohammed Hijab, the YouTuber, who's posted saying things like, even if we were to close the borders at the moment, just on birth rates alone by 2050, the Muslim population of the UK would be a very, very large block of the population.
	So that's all the more reason to just get them out of the country.
	The gloating smugness of it.
	I mean, don't get me wrong.
	The hubris.
	It'll be an incredibly dysgenic population that I don't think will pose overall much of a threat if they decided to do anything.
	But, still, given the political circumstances that we live under, they would be protected by the state.
	The same way that the grooming gangs had...
	For all intents and purposes, it's been protected by the state for decades before any of it came out into the mass public consciousness.
	So, all the more reason for Rupert to be saying mass deportations, and again, it is wonderful that he is a sitting MP, a standing MP, who is normalising this kind of dialogue.
	That's great, as far as I'm concerned.
	Most of one man Overton window mover.
	Yeah, well, if it can get into the Parliament for people to start talking about this, that's good.
	That's good as far as I'm concerned.
	The report carries on to say, this is the Migration Watch one, in the Telegraph article, notes that there are an estimated further 160,000 legal migrants who are working illegally in the UK economy.
	So yeah, even if they're here legally, even if they're allowed to be here, oh, there'll be a net benefit while they're still working illegally.
	I don't know what that means exactly, what that entails, but I don't like the sound of it.
	In total, there is estimated to be more than 1 million illegal immigrants in the UK, with 60% of those in the capital.
	Now, I still think that's a massive underestimation.
	That is certainly.
	But the sort of figures that we've been reading out just then, however many thousand overstay visas, however many thousand just get over here in the first place, that has to be.
	A massive underestimate.
	But still, a million, far too many.
	Far too many.
	Huge number.
	Just the evidence of your own eyes and ears.
	Every city and town, up and down this country, almost, is...
	Flooded.
	...brimming over with people that are obviously freshly here.
	Even somewhere like Swindon, and anyone who's foreign or American, say we've got a big American audience, you might not know.
	Swindon's in the West Country.
	OK, it's not like...
	You can sort of imagine that somewhere like London sort of makes sense that lots of people would go there.
	Or even any big city, perhaps.
	Somewhere like Birmingham or Manchester or something.
	You sort of...
	OK, well...
	But no, even small towns.
	Swindon's actually quite a small place.
	It's in Wiltshire.
	It's in the West Country.
	Wiltshire, known as a very nice county.
	Yeah, just...
	There's no reason for there to be loads and loads of sub-Saharan African migrants or Indian migrants.
	Loads and loads of them.
	Or the Pakistanis as well.
	Or whatever it is.
	And we've got an entire road.
	We've got an entire road which is Little Pakistan, isn't it?
	And then you start to see all of these migrant businesses pop up across market towns.
	Like small Tudor market towns across the countryside.
	And you say, why are you here?
	When you came to England...
	I assume you wanted to live in London, Birmingham, Manchester.
	How have you ended up in a small market town?
	Which government agency put you here?
	I often wonder that.
	When you see someone, let's say, some sub-Saharan African, and they're wearing the African garb, and they're talking on their phone in their African dialect.
	As loud as possible.
	In their African dialect, in the middle of the day, when you should be at work.
	And you think, how did you end up in Wiltshire?
	How is that?
	You've never even heard of Wiltshire.
	Yeah, you don't know Wiltshire.
	It's so alien.
	It's truly alien.
	And nobody wants this.
	It's not in anyone's interest.
	Not even their interest, really.
	No, but they're here anyway.
	And again, there's a lot of reasons to believe that these are underestimates and figures, because according to this, again, migration experts suggested that the figures could be an underestimate as some of the underlying data dates from 2017. So that was well before the Boris wave, which was the largest influx of migration over a short-term period that this country has ever experienced.
	So the Boris wave is not even counted in any of this.
	And again, there's a lot of problems.
	The Telegraph, as they say, previously revealed accusation that the NHS is giving undocumented migrants priority for appointments at A&E. And why not?
	Why not?
	Oh, okay.
	You're here illegally.
	You hate us.
	You want to hurt us.
	You've managed to get yourself into some sort of problem that means you're in AA. Come straight through.
	Come straight through.
	You know, who knows who else is waiting there who's been here, pays the taxes, yadda yadda yadda.
	You come straight through.
	The Home Office, regarding all of this, said, well, this government is strengthening global partnerships, that's what I want to hear, global partnerships, and rooting out the criminal gangs who profit from small boat crossings which threaten lives.
	We've also removed 16,400 illegal immigrants in just six months, the highest figure in half a decade, making it clear, even if that's true, and I have every reason to believe that a Labour Home Office would want to...
	Snub those numbers just a little bit.
	Make them seem a bit bigger than they are.
	Yeah, that's nowhere near enough.
	Ten times that amount isn't enough.
	Ten times that amount.
	It needs to be 30 times that amount.
	50 times that amount.
	100 times that amount.
	I've said before, there should be...
	And I think it was in the Reform Manifesto.
	But if someone like me said it, it's beyond the power.
	But nonetheless, a whole new government department, an entirely new government department, take all of this out of the hands of the Home Office.
	The Home Office is not fit for purpose.
	It's been completely subverted.
	So make an entirely new department, staff it with actual patriots, and it's a department for remigration.
	Or deportations, whatever you want to call it.
	I don't care what you call it.
	And it would do the job that something like Boulder Force should do or the immigration department should do.
	That is what would be necessary.
	And now, of course, the lefties or the liberals of this world will say, well, that is just like the Gestapo or whatever.
	They'll just say, that is just beyond the pale.
	You're going around and rounding people up.
	Yes, yes.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Go round and round people up who aren't supposed to be here.
	And if they've got dependents, round them up with them.
	You don't want to break up any families, heaven forbid, so the whole extended family can go back to their country of origin.
	The Tom Herman solution, yes.
	And sometimes they say, oh, but these people haven't got any documentation, so you don't know what their country of origin is.
	Well, that's their problem, isn't it?
	Well, they're held then, effectively on remand, until they tell you what their country of origin is.
	And then you send them back to their country of origin.
	Yes, against their will, if it needs be.
	They came here against our will, they can go back against theirs.
	And I don't care what names, what slings and arrows are thrown at me or anyone like me for saying these sorts of things.
	That's the policy that's required.
	Those are the practical solutions.
	And if we don't implement them, things will get worse.
	So when we do eventually implement the Department of Remigration, which is inevitable, we'll get you and Steve Laws running it together, and you can crack the whip to get it done, because I know that you two have the willpower to actually do it.
	Of course, obviously there are loads of problems.
	Can you believe that after that, 1 in 12 people in London shouldn't even be in the country in the first place?
	London's social housing waiting lists are at a decade high.
	Can you believe that?
	Just every single day, stories of stabbing.
	Every single day.
	Every single day.
	I mean, it used to be the case, even going back quite a few years, that you'd have quite a few stabbings in London.
	It's a bit of a stabby city.
	Never used to be like that in the 70s, 80s.
	But now it's every single day.
	The diversity's always been there.
	They built London, didn't they?
	Immediately following the war.
	That's what happened.
	That's what the BBC told me.
	All of English history is completely racist, but also they built it all.
	But no, these days, it's every single day there's stabbings.
	Usually of very, very young, if not children.
	Every day.
	I'm going to channel my inner Otto English.
	Must you?
	I must, I must, because I need to hit you with a counterpoint, and this is a particularly strong one.
	Hit me with your best shot, bro.
	Well, London's always had stabbings and murders.
	Oh, white people have stabbed other people in the past, that's fair.
	Don't you remember that there was a little couple called the Cray Twins?
	They killed people, I mean a handful of people over many years, literally at most like 12. Jack the Ripper.
	Yeah, Jack the Ripper.
	He killed a couple of people over a hundred years ago.
	So London's always been like this.
	There you go.
	Ironclad logic.
	And, of course, when you import third world populations, what do you get?
	Well, you get third world corruption, like what happens at Tower Hamlets, which, by all sounds, by all...
	By all means, at this point, it just sounds like a Third World Council that is run for the benefit of one man.
	Lufter Rahman, who leads the Aspire Party there, who was actually banned, if you remember, in 2015 because he'd won the year's election in the borough with the help of corrupting illegal practices.
	Well, guess what?
	The ban expired in 2022. He was immediately elected back on as leader of the council and now is apparently running it for his own benefit.
	What a surprise!
	I would imagine that something that happens in the third world comes here when you import third worlders.
	Big surprise.
	But, let's contrast what's happening in America.
	Now, I've actually...
	I was pretty pessimistic...
	About America under Donald Trump.
	I was expecting him to not keep many of the promises that he made originally.
	But for his best efforts, I'll be fair to him, he's actually trying to keep as many of them as possible.
	He released Russ Ulbricht, he pardoned the June 6th protesters, and he's also, by the looks of it, going all in, or trying to go all in, on border patrol and re-migration, deporting people, mass deportations.
	Because what's happening in America?
	Well, Pentagon is...
	The Pentagon is sending troops to the border to boost security and airlift people out of the country.
	And similarly, Trump is commandeering significant military arsenals to be able to just round people up and deport people.
	There have been sightings that I've seen.
	I can't exactly say to their veracity, but I have seen footage of ICE helicopters beginning to round people up in, say, Houston, Texas.
	Who shouldn't be there.
	So, while we have a clown country that literally just has one guy in Parliament, one guy saying what needs to be done, which is absolutely an improvement over what it used to be, which was zero people in Parliament saying that, but we've got one guy standing up for what needs to be done in this country, America, you know, we'll see how it goes.
	I'm not going to be completely white-pilled on it just yet.
	Let's see the results of this.
	But they are going in the right direction.
	So, reinforcing, as always, what an absolute clown country we live in right now, which is tragic, because Britain should be great again.
	Ice, ice, baby.
	Let's go.
	Ice.
	Let's give them everything they need.
	Yeah, a little bit bleeding over into the segment I'm about to do in a moment, focusing on Trump and the United States.
	Yeah, actually having a policy and sort of genuinely not giving a shit what the liberal media say.
	Yeah.
	You know, I've not really looked into the guy much before, but I've just started learning about Stephen Miller, who's one of the big deportation advocates in Trump's administration, and I've been reading into the guy, and the guy sounds like the best kind of lunatic.
	He's a complete fanatic for keeping America American.
	Shall we say?
	Not Native American though, let's be cute.
	Not like your ancestors.
	Cherokee after all.
	And it's good to have people like that who are just like...
	I've seen a quote from him where he's saying, I have no family, I have nothing outside of this.
	This is my life.
	Talking about deporting illegals from the country and closing up the borders and being an absolute hawk on it.
	So, good.
	It's good that Trump has those people around him.
	Farage and Tice at least have Rupert Lowe, who I presume harangues them on a daily basis.
	I can only hope that he does.
	But, by themselves, they don't seem to have the willpower to do it.
	Which is why I would say the best thing that would be able to happen for reform would be if somebody like Rupert Lowe, specifically, were able to get in charge of the party.
	Yeah, I mean, unfortunately I don't see it happening because it's actually a company, isn't it?
	Which Nia Jones...
	It's Farage's.
	Yeah, so I don't see him doing that.
	Unless he does actually, for whatever reason, want to retire, then let's just hope Prince Rupert gets the top job.
	But just to say on that real quick, there's sort of two different arguments, and I don't know, I've not got any special sort of insight, whether it's a deliberate strategy.
	That they're allowing Rupert Lowe to sort of be the right wing of the party.
	And that Nigel and to a lesser extent Tyus is deliberately keeping the centre ground.
	So his sound bites and things will appeal to the boomer or the undecided.
	But they've got the quote-unquote right wing of the party represented by the Honourable Mr Lowe.
	And that's all a deliberate strategy.
	Now, I don't buy that, but if that is the case, great, fine.
	I think I've said before, I've definitely said before in the office, but I'll say it on camera.
	If that is the case, and reform get into government, and are actually much more based than the things Nigel's saying right now, and actually go with...
	He's come out with some cringe recently.
	But if they got into power, or even opposition, and became much more right-leaning, and lent much more into the things Rupert is saying...
	Then I will completely repent.
	I'll eat my hat.
	I'll go back on...
	After they kicked you out of the party?
	Well, yeah, I mean, I still voted for them at last election.
	I've got my issues with the direction Nige goes, but I don't hate reform.
	I wish them the best.
	What I really care about is that Britain is saved from demographic destruction.
	If reform are going to do that, then I'm on board with them.
	100%.
	I completely get behind them.
	I'm still very sceptical of them.
	As I say, I'm sceptical there because everything I just said, I just said, I hope that's the case.
	I suspect it won't be.
	I fear it won't be.
	But if it is, good.
	Nigel nor Richard Tice, they're not the guys.
	From what I can see.
	Rupert Lowe might be the guy, but who knows if he'll be put in the sort of position where it allows him to do what needs to be done.
	Unless it is a very deliberate strategy to appeal to the centre and undecideds and Radio 4 listening boomers and actually the real deal if and when they get into power is super-based Rupert Lowe stuff.
	I fear it isn't the case, but if it is, good.
	I will absolutely eat my hat.
	And repent everything, all the crap that slung their way on Twitter and all that sort of thing.
	Let's hope, but I don't see that personally.
	But either way, we should move on and I'll read through the Rumble rants and then we can go on to your segment.
	So, EC was here, says, I never imagined it would take an executive order to get my copy of Islander number two, but it arrived yesterday.
	Thank you, President Trump.
	Yes, he makes things happen.
	That's the art of the deal.
	Bobo Badd says, Again, it's based off of old figures, like eight-year-old figures at this point.
	So, yeah.
	That's a random name.
	After getting jacked, Harry Weasley was able to overpower the guards in Azkaban and use his Patronus in the form of a giant Daniel Penny to choke out the Dementors and make his escape.
	I've got a very exciting history.
	I mean, I can't wait to hear more about what I've been up to.
	Thank you for the jacked comment as well, by the way.
	Balisaka says, I'm against ID cards, but we cannot afford to ignore the elephant in the room.
	room the primary reason these illegals are here is because they cannot survive in the european economy without id possibly i would say it's also just because we're such a light touch and a lot of the european mainland seems to be trending more towards populist parties at the moment who are overt in how they want to get rid of the illegals in the country so britain being a soft touch governed by a man who is more than eager to keep them here uh is a very attractive prospect and
	It's just the general standard of living.
	If you're going to live sort of in the...
	In the black economy, the black market, it's just going to be a higher standard of living in southern England than it is in France.
	It's already well-estated, say, or Spain or something.
	Like, if you live in sort of, you're trying to make ends meet in rural Spain or in the rural home counties of England, it's just a better deal for you.
	It might be a bit colder here, but it's just going to be...
	And that's the other reason why I don't really buy the argument of...
	Just close the borders and wait for them to leave of their own accord.
	No, it's always going to be a higher standard of living in Britain than in Bangladesh, or wherever, or Albania, or Nigeria, or Syria, or India, or whatever it is.
	So they're not necessarily just going to leave eventually.
	Carrying on, Bobo Bad says, I do remember seeing National Geographic documentaries about an illiterate and isolated Ugandan named Nubungi wanting more than anything to move to rural England.
	Why?
	Who told him that rural England exists?
	That's so strange to me.
	The idea that they go, I know where I want to live, Wiltshire.
	No, you wanted to come here and move to a borough of London that's already full of people like you.
	You weren't coming here with the idea of setting up more colonies.
	So who gave you that idea?
	I live 30 seconds away from a migrant hotel in what used to be a nicely sad town in Northern Ireland.
	It's been this way for three years.
	We've seen assaults, robberies, and regular sexual harassment, of course.
	I'm really sorry to hear about that, man.
	Yeah, man, that's coming everywhere.
	Sadly.
	That's a random name.
	One little addition to the Department of Remigration.
	Make sure to fully expropriate the people being remigrated as repayment for their crimes.
	Same to all fifth columnists and revoke their citizenships.
	Yeah, I think Josh has suggested that before as well, which is just take their assets.
	Any capital assets that they have, take them.
	Because they've been costing us for decades.
	Absolutely certainly make them pay for their own transit home to their countries of origin.
	At least that.
	At the very least, that.
	Yeah, cover the costs, right?
	Some people have talked about policies where you pay them to go home, or at least we will pay for their flight home or something.
	I think, like, no.
	If they've got any kind of money, the first bit of that is to pay for their own flight or boat home.
	We've been suckers long enough.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Not a penny more, if it were down to me.
	Yeah.
	Shall we go on to your segment, then?
	Yeah, okay.
	Alright, so let's talk about Trump.
	A lot has happened in the last couple of days.
	I don't know about you, but my feed and a lot of the things that YouTube is throwing up for me, it's sort of wall-to-wall Trump.
	I've been getting a lot of that.
	Because he's done a lot.
	He has hit the ground running.
	So that is a positive thing.
	First time round in 16, he...
	Really didn't hit the ground running.
	And now, that's not really much of a criticism, because he'd never been in government before, let alone head of government.
	You can't really blame him for that, really.
	We hoped for more, but...
	This time round, the concern was...
	He did also have the entire government against him.
	Yeah, right.
	It was a very different political situation in 2016. Nonetheless, it was a slow start then.
	The worry this time was that something like that might happen again.
	It might be just thwarted by the establishment, by the powers that be, the deep state, whatever you want to call it.
	Or that he wouldn't even now still have quite the calculation or the...
	The political nous to hit the ground running.
	Well, it looks like, thankfully, well, no, it is the case that he absolutely has, that he knows what he's doing now.
	He can actually play the game properly, correctly.
	And so there's one thing, isn't it, to know what to do, and there's another thing to have the actual balls to do it.
	And he's got both.
	He looks like both.
	Even Dr Parvini did a video the other day, I don't know if you saw it, saying reasons to be cautiously optimistic about...
	The cautious optimism.
	Yeah.
	The one that I was most in agreement with was the hopes that it acts as a sort of contagion that comes over here.
	Yeah, it'd be nice.
	As well.
	If our politicians would like to also think about doing things that would improve the country somewhat, maybe just a little bit, that'd be nice instead of just keeping us down this spiral.
	Because your first hundred days in government...
	Are important.
	It sounds like a bit of a cliche or a bit of an empty thing to say.
	But it is.
	Because it's all about momentum.
	And actually four years isn't that long.
	Because you've got the midterms after two years.
	So things potentially, possibly, sort of reset.
	Or the pieces on the board may well be reshuffled after just two years.
	And even after one year, or perhaps even less, people are starting to look.
	Ahead towards those midterms.
	So in other words, hitting the ground running or getting your momentum rolling as much and as soon as possible really is important.
	Also, just on a structural level...
	I kind of hate how the American Republic works with the bi-yearly elections for the Congress and the midterms and the thing as well.
	Because all it means, and this is a criticism that I think Hopper and De Maistre and other people have made about this kind of democratic system as well, all it means is that most of the time politicians are concerned about the next election rather than governing the country properly.
	Obviously in a second term...
	Like he's doing, which will be his last term no matter what.
	Donald Trump has a bit more focus on being able to just get stuff done.
	But still, it just means that the whole point of the politician's career is to maintain his electability rather than do what needs to be done.
	So that's just a complaint of mine, just not necessarily related to anything else.
	I just wanted to get it out there.
	Yeah, no, fair enough.
	A couple of points there.
	Yeah, certainly as congressmen...
	Or senators, but particularly congressmen, you're sort of constantly campaigning.
	Constantly.
	Like, as soon as you've won your election, within a few months, you've sort of got to start thinking about at least the funding side of your re-election.
	But I suppose that is sort of hard-baked into any democracy, though.
	Sadly.
	I mean, obviously now we live in accelerated times.
	So the way I just described it, where you're sort of almost constantly campaigning, it didn't used to be the case decades ago, or 100 years ago, it wouldn't necessarily be the case.
	But now it is.
	And yeah, it's unfortunate.
	It's hard baked into it, because I suppose the way you might deal with something like that is to make terms longer.
	But then would that really fix it?
	And that's not really what people want anyway.
	So it is a difficult thing to combat.
	And the other thing you mentioned there, just about Trump now, in his second term, he can never run again.
	So this is when he gets stuff done.
	That was certainly how Obama treated it.
	First term, pretend to still be a moderate.
	Second term, OK, I'm an insane communist.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So, I mean, it's a point I made on the inauguration livestream we did, which was behind the paywall, I believe, so a lot of people might have not seen me make this point.
	And it's one, it's not an original point, but the idea that all presidents in their second term are sort of off the leash.
	They're unchained to some degree because it is the end of their political career.
	It's the last time they're going to be sort of at the pinnacle of power.
	So they quite often play fast and loose with policy and even with their own...
	See what you can get away with.
	Right, yeah.
	There's increasingly less to lose.
	Or I'll put it another way, first-term presidents, just like any congressman or senator, do have to think about their re-election.
	Well, that's just off the table now.
	Hence why he's able to hit the ground running as well.
	Yeah.
	There's definitely a factor in it.
	I'm cautiously optimistic because he does seem to be doing...
	A lot of the things he said he would.
	Because that was the other thing.
	It might have been bluster.
	I mentioned in the last segment I was a bit surprised because when he did things like say that he would pardon all of the Jan 6 guys and say when he was trying to get the Libertarian vote as well when he appeared at the Libertarian convention last year that he would immediately I think he said at first commute Ross Ulbricht's prison sentence, because the man was given two life sentences plus 40 years, and now he's actually just pardoned him.
	I was expecting those to be a bit of bluster, saying that he would do them, and then let everybody down.
	But no, he's actually kept to his promises.
	So if nothing else, fair play to the man for keeping those promises.
	No, definitely.
	I'm loving it.
	Obviously the executive orders can be challenged legally when it comes to things like repealing certain legislation and trying to roll back a lot of the affirmative action, specifically really the affirmative action one, because that'll likely go to the Supreme Court and they specifically really the affirmative action one, because that'll likely go to the Supreme Court and they have over a hundred years of precedent to be able to try and figure out if they're But at least he's doing what he can.
	It moves the Overton window again, doesn't it?
	It's now on the table, politically.
	It makes a conceptual possibility.
	Right, yeah.
	So yeah, he's done loads of things.
	One of the things I thought was great was to revoke the access to classified intelligence and things from those 50 senior intelligence people, retired largely, that did that open letter about Hunter Biden's laptop, that it was all a fake Russian hoax thing.
	He's just revoked all of their...
	Ability to see sort of classified information.
	And John Bolton.
	I kind of hate John Bolton.
	So that was sweet.
	That was nice to see.
	It's funny that...
	I find it funny.
	John Bolton and Trump's back and forth, tit for tat exchanges of insulting each other.
	Both guys calling each other dumb.
	Like explicitly as well.
	He's a dumb guy.
	He's a stupid person.
	Both of them have said that about each other.
	Yeah, yeah, really, really.
	But Trump, you know, being the pres, he's the one with the power and he just revoked, completely just revoked John Bolton's ability to...
	Well, if I'm so dumb, how do you like this then?
	Yeah, how do you like me now?
	Yeah, it's great.
	And Trump just said, yeah, why should Bolton or people like him, why should they have access to this thing for life?
	That's not in the Constitution.
	Why should they?
	Yeah, they shouldn't.
	John Bolton is outside the inner sanctum of power, so why should he be privy to everything the NSA or the CIA do anymore?
	No, no, no, go away and retire and be quiet now, John.
	You've done the damage you're going to do in the world.
	You've got your tens of thousands, hundreds of innocent people murdered or burnt alive, so well done for that.
	A great career to look back on.
	Now, go away and be quiet, bitch.
	Fuck you.
	I want to correct myself on something.
	When I mentioned 100 years of precedent for affirmative action, I meant the birthright citizenship.
	Birthright citizenship.
	That's going to be a big challenge, but I think it would be good if you could get that off the books just because of the fact that it's kind of stupid that somebody can just cross the border, give birth, and they're automatically a citizen.
	No other countries do that, I don't think.
	I think that there are a few that have similar, but Britain had just Sully, is that how you pronounce it?
	Right at the soil.
	Until the 1980s, which is why Kemi Badenoch is a British citizen, for instance.
	But we got rid of it.
	It doesn't stop immigration or illegal immigration, but at the very least it's a step in the right direction, right?
	Yeah, again, it moves the conversation in the right direction, as far as we're concerned.
	Okay, so that's just one of the things about the intelligence services.
	Hopefully, they're going to go a lot further.
	I mean, he did a 10-point...
	I've talked about it before.
	He has a whole 10-point program on exactly how he's going to...
	Break the power of various intelligence services.
	But it's nice to see.
	Again, it's just a nice start just to immediately do that with those 50 guys and someone like John Bolton just with a stroke of a pen.
	But there's loads of things he's already done already, just two, three days in or whatever it is.
	So if we play this first clip...
	The first item that President Trump is signing is the rescission of 78 Biden-era executive actions, executive orders, presidential memoranda and others.
	Lovely.
	All of them done with one stroke of a pen.
	I find it hilarious really.
	Very American, and I don't mean that in a disparaging way, very American, to do it in front of a live audience.
	A whooping audience.
	It's good, I love it.
	It's all pro-wrestling.
	Everything political in America is just an extension of pro-wrestling.
	At the end of this, he threw the pen into the audience.
	Of course.
	Yeah, of course he did.
	I like it, I'm here for it.
	Hogan ripping his shirt and throwing that into the audience.
	That's all this is.
	That's why Hogan showed up for him.
	It's why the Democrats had Batista.
	And he was on Undertaker as well.
	It's all just pro-wrestling, man.
	Politics is theatre.
	Why not just be honest about it a bit more?
	Yeah.
	I mean, Trump is more honest about it than all of them.
	He's a showman.
	What you see is what you get with Trump.
	And you might not like him.
	I know lots of people out there despise him.
	But what you see is what you get, right?
	He's not a fake personality and an entirely fake mask, like Starmer, for example.
	Or David Cameron or Tony Blair.
	It's sort of this fake edifice of doing the impression of a serious politician.
	At least the Donald is the Donald, right?
	When he's talking off the cuff, it's always the same.
	At least Boris Johnson was a sincere buffoon, but he was a sincere evil buffoon.
	So, let's keep playing this.
	I honestly love the fact that it's in front of some sort of live audience.
	You can tell how popular it is.
	I mean, obviously the audience would be largely, if not entirely, you know, mega people.
	Could you imagine Biden doing this?
	I don't think so.
	I don't think so.
	This next item is a directive to the federal government ordering the restoration of freedom of speech and preventing government censorship of free speech going forward.
	Genuinely popular.
	There's only going to be a small number of colleagues that are hateful and don't want them.
	People who pretended to like command the house.
	People who were paid pretended to like command the house.
	The first item that President Trump is signing is the People pretended to like Joe Biden as well, but people actually like Donald Trump.
	I personally think it's great.
	I'm a bit of an American-o-fire, and I'm not being half-American and stuff like that, but I think it's great in the United States that it's enshrined in their constitution.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I'm not half Native American.
	Yeah, yeah.
	My dad was from Oregon and he's descended from, I think, Dutch and English.
	Oh, there you go.
	Yeah, I'm not actually Cherokee.
	He's one of the acceptable ones, guys.
	Stop your typing right now.
	One of the good ones.
	And my mum's English-Welsh.
	So, obviously, I've got a soft spot for the Americans, of course.
	But I think it's great it's in their constitution.
	The freedom of speech.
	And so when and wherever that has been eroded, to walk that back, it's just obviously good, I feel like.
	I mean, for what the government was trying to make, the kind of speech that the government was trying to make, illegal under Biden and under Obama, and there are lots of them, yeah, I don't want them deciding what you can and can't say.
	Just the same as I don't want this bellend deciding what I can and can't say.
	Just before we move on to...
	The right honourable Mr Starmer MP is to say just a quick few other things that he's done already.
	I think I saw 200 executive orders, all sorts of things, leaving the Paris Agreement, leaving the WHO, the stuff about birthright, and 200 odd other things.
	My only concern with it...
	And it's not really an immediate concern, but my only concern with it is that when a Democrat at some point gets back in, they'll do the exact same thing.
	They'll have one bit of paper undoing all of Trump's, sign that, and then start doing all their commie stuff.
	That that will just become the norm.
	That will just be a new open wound in the Republic.
	That is basically the norm at this point.
	To come in...
	Sign a load of executive orders trying to destroy the previous administration's achievements and then carry on signing executive orders to do your own thing.
	That will keep becoming more and more pronounced.
	Until it reaches absurd heights where a new president comes in and it's like thousands.
	of executive orders from the last guy.
	You undo with a stroke of a pen and then spend the next few days doing all your stuff you want to do.
	That will just become completely de-re-go.
	It'll just be a matter of course.
	That's damaging.
	That's not how the Republic, or any Republic really, is really supposed to function.
	I mean, that's the hope of something like the Department of Government efficiency, is that it'll be able to pull back enough of the state that whatever the next administration can do won't be as effective.
	Right, yeah.
	Well, yeah, let's hope.
	Let's hope.
	Let's hope that it doesn't live up to its name too much and just makes it so whatever the government wants to do next is going to be actually more efficiently able to do it.
	Just the point is, with all of this, just to say that Trump is hitting the ground running and is doing the things he said he would do.
	So, long might last, and hopefully they ramp it up and it gets even more radical.
	Well, it's not radical, is it?
	It's undoing radicalism.
	It's sensible.
	Right, yeah.
	Dial up the sensibleness, please.
	To have a government that isn't trying to destroy the nation it's governing is sensible.
	Some would even say admirable and desirable.
	Keep doing stuff that's in the interest of the United States and the Western world and common sense and humanity as a whole.
	Yeah.
	Yes, please.
	Yes, please.
	So, next thing to say is, just a quick note, I don't want to spend too long on this, but the nature of our special relationship.
	The United States and the United Kingdom are supposed to have, ever since the war, a quote-unquote special relationship.
	It's been a bit rocky over the decades.
	I think it only really existed in the mind of Churchill, but there you go.
	At the moment, it certainly didn't exist in the mind of Roosevelt, did it?
	What has he wanted to do?
	Bleed as dry?
	Well, all during the long hot summer of 1948, the Battle of Britain, he's like, let's see where they're going with this.
	Let's see what happens.
	Let's see how much money we can get from these guys.
	The coffers aren't dry yet.
	I mean, during...
	The war and the beginning of the Cold War.
	There's a massive anti-British sentiment in America.
	Massive.
	And in a sense, strategically, you can't really blame them.
	them we were one of the most powerful nations in the world the British Empire still existed even at the end of the war and if America wanted to be sort of undisputed hegemon of the world they would have to break the the the back of the British Empire so in a sense looking at it from their point of view you can't sort of can't blame them but also there's lots of other examples where they sort of did everything they could to prevent us from having our own nuclear program didn't really help out particularly in the Falklands we were nice and bankrupt by the end of the Second World War as well
	The Suez Crisis pulled the rug out from under our feet in the Suez Crisis.
	There's a number of things.
	Nevertheless, nevertheless.
	Bo doesn't hold any kind of grudges or anything.
	Nevertheless, having said all of those things, we have been one of the closest allies of the United States in all sorts of ways over the decades since World War II. In lots and lots of ways, we have, in fact, helped each other out and backed each other up in other ways.
	I mean, I think it's fair to say that the United Kingdom has been one of the closest allies of the United States.
	If you just look at the Iraq War, for example.
	Blair standing shoulder to shoulder with W. And that worked out so well.
	It was a terrible thing.
	It was a ridiculous, disgusting thing.
	But I'm just saying that did happen.
	That did play out like that.
	So anyway, what for the special relationship in 2025?
	Well, let's just play this thing.
	That's our Prime Minister.
	But don't underestimate the danger to the world if Trump is re-elected this time around.
	I'm anti-Trump.
	I would like to send my warmest congratulations to President Trump on his inauguration as the 47th President of the United States.
	Said through gritty teeth.
	What a slime ball.
	What a grease ball.
	Because there is realpolitik, right?
	There is dealing with the situation at hand and all that sort of thing, if I was going to play any sort of interference on behalf of Starmer there.
	But I don't excuse it.
	I don't excuse it.
	It's funny, right?
	Seeing something like that is funny.
	Just a number of statements going back the best part of ten years, trying to cane the Donald, and then once he's actually in the big seat, just going, well done, sir.
	It comes across very snivelling, doesn't it?
	Of course it does, yeah, yeah.
	Because he knows he's not in a position of power here, is he?
	I saw another funny thing on Twitter.
	It was completely AI-generated, but it was funny nonetheless, of the telephone call of Trump ringing up Starmer and Starmer saying, oh, congratulations on your win, Mr. President, and Trump going, didn't you send hundreds of campaigners over to America to try and beat me in November?
	And Starmer's going, um, um, um, Trump going, shut your mouth!
	Or whatever it was, I can't remember what it was, but it was funny nonetheless.
	You can only imagine, they have met and had dinner and all sorts of things, so it's not like some sort of dead relationship, like they can never work together and everything, but it is...
	Frosty.
	Yeah, it will be an uncomfortable relationship.
	And I'm also, you know those Chagos Islands?
	Oh yeah.
	It seemed to me that all of that is a way to sort of undermine...
	Or thumb their nose at the Trump administration.
	Because there's a massive US base on those islands.
	It belongs to the UK, but there's a massive US base there.
	And I think it's strategically important for them to sort of refuel their submarines or something or other.
	I don't know all the details of it.
	But it's important to the United States, so it's important to the Pentagon, that we don't just give those islands to Mauritius.
	Which is the idea, which is the plan.
	It's not just about Britain just feeling really self-conscious, just really guilty about the shadows of colonialism.
	No, it's about army bases and the world's strategic geopolitical situation and things.
	And it's not in America's interest for us to do it.
	It doesn't really matter to the UK one way or another, does it, whether we control the Chagos Islands?
	It doesn't affect us particularly.
	Other than maybe you could argue prestige or something.
	But the Americans have peed off about it.
	So I think that might have just been Starmer just trying to piss off Trump.
	I don't know enough about the Chacross Islands to be able to comment.
	Let's move on.
	What's the next link I've got there?
	Tracking all the executive orders.
	I've just got a bunch of tabs just looking at what's in the news cycle.
	The next one, the bit I actually want to talk about for the majority of this segment, but I've already used up a fair bit of my time so I won't, is the Putin-Ukraine-Russian angle of everything.
	Because that's sort of...
	Other than Israel and Gaza, it's the main conflict in the world, isn't it, I suppose you could argue.
	And so we'd hoped, or I'd hoped, most of us at the Lotus Eaters had hoped, most fair-minded people had hoped, that Trump can bring the thing to an end.
	Yeah.
	One way or another.
	I think...
	Bring the killing to an end.
	Yeah, this is a very controversial perspective, but I think people dying in war is bad.
	Yeah, completely innocent Ukrainian civilians and more or less...
	And their soldiers.
	Yeah, and their soldiers.
	And the Russians as well.
	Russian conscripts, that's the next thing I was going to say.
	And essentially, just as innocent Russian conscripts or whatever, let's stop them getting blown to bits, can we?
	The man on foot, on the ground, who is fighting on behalf of his government, I do not ascribe him the guilt of their governments.
	Right.
	I think that's a pretty reasonable position to take.
	And so Trump has said that he's going to send his special envoy, a guy called Keith Kellogg, to try and end the war within 100 days.
	Now, I suspect, despite all the levers and various forms of leverage that the United States can bring to bear, it will still ultimately hang on what Putin wants to do.
	But it does seem that there are sounds that Putin wants to bring it to an end, if he can.
	He wants to keep the Crimea and he wants to make sure Ukraine doesn't join NATO and various other goals that he's always had.
	But if he can, he would like to bring it to an end, it seems.
	Yeah, I mean, frankly, I'm sure he would be quite relieved to have a bit of an out, given that he has set so many red lines.
	For Ukraine and the Western allies that have just gone straight over.
	If you do that, we've got nukes.
	Don't forget we've got nukes.
	They do it.
	If you do this next thing, though, we've got nukes.
	Never forget we've got nukes.
	They do the next thing.
	Okay, but this last thing, I swear if you do this, we've got nukes.
	And it goes on and on and on.
	Yeah.
	So Trump said back in, like, last year, was it?
	Yeah, December last year.
	He said, Assad is gone.
	He has fled his country.
	His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by Vladimir Putin.
	Why three times?
	Well, because...
	Because it's Donald Trump.
	I think that's a reference to that during his 2016 to 2020 presidency, he was just constantly dogged by these Russian allies.
	He was a stooge of Putin or he was an actual Kremlin asset, sleeper or whatever.
	He said it a number of times, Russia, Russia, Russia, that the corporate mainstream media in America were just constantly throwing Russia at him.
	So I think there's a reference to that.
	Vladimir Putin, who's not interested in protecting him any longer.
	Sad that was.
	There was no reason for Russia to be there in the first place.
	They lost all interest in Syria because of Ukraine, where close to 600,000 Russian soldiers lay wounded or dead in a war that should never have started and could go on forever.
	Russia and Iran are in a weakened state right now, one because of Ukraine and a bad economy, the other because of Israel and its fighting success.
	Likewise, Zelensky and Ukraine would like to make a deal to stop the madness.
	They have ridiculously lost 400,000 soldiers and many more civilians.
	There should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin.
	Too many lives are being so needlessly wasted.
	Too many families destroyed.
	And if it keeps going, it can turn into something much bigger and far worse.
	I know Vladimir well.
	This is his time to act.
	China can help.
	The world is waiting.
	So that's what he said in December, i.e.
	after he'd won the election, but before he was actually in the Oval.
	So yesterday...
	He then, on Truth Social, then said this.
	I'm not looking to hurt Russia.
	I love the Russian people and always had a very good relationship with President Putin.
	And this despite the radical left's Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
	Hoax!
	We must never forget that Russia helped us with the Second World War, losing almost 60 million lives in the process.
	All of that being said...
	I thought it was 27. The exact number of how many Stalins Russia lost in World War II is massively debated.
	Different historians have wildly different numbers.
	60 million is the upper number.
	I think it's at least 20 million.
	I think that's a reasonable number.
	But the thing is, nobody knows.
	That's the real, real truth.
	It wasn't recorded properly.
	The trouble with that side of the war, you're right, yeah, is it wasn't recorded properly, and also the amount of borders shifting as they turned westward, further into Western Europe, makes just the whole thing was chaos.
	Who do you count and don't you count?
	And neither the Nazis nor the Soviets kept proper, proper numbers.
	It was impossible to keep proper, proper numbers.
	And do you count the people that Stalin purged during or soon after?
	Do they count in the number or not?
	Anyway, it was certainly millions and millions.
	So perhaps 60 million is a bit.
	All that being said, I'm going to do Russia, whose economy is failing, and President Putin a very big favour.
	Settle now and stop this ridiculous war.
	It's only going to get worse.
	If we don't make a deal and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of taxes, tariffs and sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States and various other participating countries.
	Let's get this war, which never would have started if I were president, over with.
	We can do it the easy way or the hard way, and the easy way is always better.
	It's time to make a deal.
	No more liars should be lost.
	Pretty definitive.
	Right.
	So, once again, Trump is doing what he said he would, i.e.
	bring a decent amount of pressure to bear on the Russian side of the equation to stop it.
	And you can really read the businessman sort of dealings in that as well.
	Carrot stick.
	He's trying to be, I'm trying to be your friend, I'm trying to do you a favour here, pooty poot.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Here's a bunch of carrots, don't make me use the stick!
	Right?
	I'll even use the really big number for how many you lost in the Second World War.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So let's hope this works.
	And there's basically two schools of thought.
	One is that Russia, or Putin rather, has got his lines in the sand and is not prepared to sort of budge on those being the actual causes of this thing in the first place, which is an overly aggressive NATO And overly aggressive secret intelligence services shenanigans and skullduggery going on behind the scenes to undermine Russia and Russian interests in Central Europe all over the place.
	Putin's probably not going to move all that far on those things.
	But nonetheless, at least bring the full-blown hot war in the Donbass and stuff to a close as soon as possible.
	Some are saying that...
	Some are saying that Putin's making noises where he's just going to bite Trump's hand off, basically.
	Yeah, that's what he's wanted for a while now.
	Another saying, no, he's got these lines in the sand and he will not really budge from them.
	So we'll see how it plays out.
	The ball is now kind of fairly firmly in Putin's court on this because Zelensky is just a puppet.
	He's going to do what he's told, basically.
	We all know that.
	So we'll see where it goes from here.
	But once again, it is optimistic, I think.
	That maybe he will He will get it done.
	But I'll leave it there.
	I think I've gone slightly over my time.
	That's alright.
	Let's read through a few of the rumble rants here.
	So, the engaged few says the insults to the British people will continue until enough British people accept that stopping it will require more action from the people than simply casting a ballot and they act accordingly.
	That feels like a Fed post, and so I can't really say one way or the other if I agree.
	The engaged few is, again, executive orders are nice, but Trump needs to stake out the bullwhip and start cracking it across the backs of congressional Republicans because they only have two...
	I imagine you'd agree with that.
	Almythom says, yes, Bo.
	Bo247 channel.
	Woo!
	If you want more Bo, there's other places you can find him as well, actually.
	Would you like to let them know?
	Oh, well, there's my own channel, History Bro.
	I also am on with MrHReviews every week on Tuesday.
	Oh, is that a weekly thing?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Every Tuesday.
	Yeah, yeah, he's a good guy, Nate.
	But there's talking more about culture and TV and films and things.
	But also, we've got our own very small channel.
	We've just started called The State of Politics.
	Really?
	Yeah, it's a very, very small channel.
	We've just sort of started.
	So a literal 24-7 Bo chat.
	It's streaming right now.
	And of course, follow me on Twitter.
	I'm just under my real name there, Bo Day.
	Find me at HistoryBro1 is my handle.
	So, yeah.
	There you go.
	The engaged few.
	Security clearances should be revoked the moment a person leaves government work.
	I mean, that makes perfect sense to me.
	Why not?
	Yeah, you don't work for us anymore.
	Ali Mutham again says, Harry is not ginger, FFS. His hair just looks like orange when backlit.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for understanding.
	I can confirm you're not ginger.
	Thank you.
	You're the one guy who's not trying to wind me up.
	Oh, really?
	Thank you for being a sincere and kind person.
	I mean, there's a hint of strawberry blonde at very worst.
	At the absolute worst.
	Not even that.
	No, it's mousy.
	It's mousy to blonde.
	You're not a redhead.
	You're not a redhead.
	That's a random name.
	Following his takeover, the Ministry of Magic, Bodemort established the Department of Demoglification, allowing for the removal of mudbloods from our street.
	Oh, my God.
	Dragon Lady Chris, presumably in response to me not being ginger, says, No, Beau's brilliance just makes Harry's ginger seem paler.
	That's a compliment.
	There you go.
	The engaged few, President Trump just signed an executive order making Beau and Harry US citizens.
	Thank you very much, President Trump.
	Please don't make me pay US taxes, though.
	Please, because I know you have to pay them even if you're overseas if you're a citizen.
	I'll take it.
	This is a really nerdy thing.
	I actually want to take the test.
	Just to test your knowledge, isn't it?
	Yeah, just to make sure I expect...
	Do I know as much as a Mexican does about America?
	Yeah.
	I think the questions are quite easy, but, like, how many Supreme Court justices are there, or how many states are there, things like that, but I'd actually quite like to give it a whirl.
	Yeah, why not?
	Nerdy things.
	Bobobad says, Bo, you are a credit to your people.
	Oh, that's very kind.
	The engaged few again.
	I wonder if it would be physically possible for Trump to break his foot off in Starmer's arse without leaving the White House.
	It is worth a try.
	At the very least, stomp a mud hole.
	And walk it dry.
	I'm gonna open a can of a pass.
	Wesley says, did you fellows hear Trump's new plan to deport our illegal aliens to England?
	I'm for it.
	Yeah, of course you would be for it, wouldn't you?
	The engaged few again.
	The only way Russia can win this war is through their time-honored tradition of drowning their enemy in oceans of Russian blood.
	I mean, that's pretty much what they did in the Second World War as well, yeah.
	I mean, they've won it.
	They've already won it.
	They wanted to keep the Crimea and take a chunk of that, and they've done that.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, we've not got that much time, so this won't be a very long segment.
	And besides, there's not that much of substance to talk about this.
	I just wanted to talk about the Nashville school shooting that happened yesterday.
	Obviously, it's a horror that this happened in the first place.
	One young man was injured.
	One 16-year-old girl has died as a result of the shooting.
	And the shooter himself shot himself.
	But there's something interesting to talk about regarding this which is that modernity and particularly access to the internet for teenagers and young people in general is an absolute mess.
	It's an absolute mess because this kid was clearly mentally ill and clearly spent far too much time online and decided to commit an atrocity.
	He was also black, so it's another one to add to the black kids committing school shootings, which some would argue had more to do with this than the political ideology side of it.
	But the political ideology side of it is interesting to look at, especially because it seems to have some connections to other politically motivated school shootings that happened over the past few months.
	And this incident took place relatively close to the Nashville Christian School, the elementary school that was shot up a few years ago, by the trans shooter, who also had a manifesto, which we only had recently gained access to bits and pieces of it.
	The police were mainly trying to get.
	Keep that away from the public eye.
	So the report is that one student is dead, another wounded after a third student opened fire with a pistol on Wednesday at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee.
	The 17-year-old shooter, who was called Solomon Henderson, shot himself and died as well.
	The police spokesman, a man called Dan Aaron, said there is no danger at the school.
	The two victims were taken to a hospital where a female student died and a male student was treated for a graze wound to his arm.
	Aaron clarified that the gender of the wounded student...
	of the wounded student at a later briefing.
	Police identified the female student as Jocelyn Correa Escalante, 16 years old.
	The shooter was identified as 17 years old.
	He went to the school, a guy called Solomon Henderson.
	Police said the authorities were examining very concerning online writings and social media posts connected to the shooter as part of the investigation.
	The shooting was partially live-streamed on the streaming platform Kik, according to a statement from the company.
	Kik said it had removed the video from its platform and banned the account violence has no place on Kik they said we are actively working with law enforcement and taking all appropriate steps to support their investigation so obviously these are relatively isolated incidents but it does seem to be that more often than you would like now you get these insane teenagers writing manifestos and shooting up schools Mm.
	It's a pretty worrying trend, and the manifesto has been the highlight of a lot of people talking about this, because he posted it on his Instagram, which has now been taken down, and there was a Google document that was available for people to read through, and the thing was confusing, and scattershot, and just weird.
	To say the absolute least.
	So we have a picture of the guy.
	This is confirmed as the shooter.
	Solomon Henderson.
	You'll notice that he's wearing a Bersum hoodie in this.
	A what hoodie?
	Bersum.
	They are a Norwegian ambient slash black metal band headed by Varg Vikerns who was a notorious murderer.
	Everything you're saying is new to me.
	Notorious murderer and white supremacist.
	A band?
	It's basically a solo project.
	He was in a previous band called Mayhem and he murdered the bassist because he suspected the bassist wanted to murder him.
	It was early 90s Norwegian black metal stuff.
	Completely insane.
	Really dark stuff.
	The kind of band where one of them blew their own brains out and they took a photo of it and used it as an album cover.
	Huh.
	Stuff like that.
	So, not the sort of band or artist that you would expect a 17-year-old black kid in America to be into, especially given that the guy, like, Varg Viker, I think he lives in France now.
	Pretty obscure.
	Oh, what, he's not in prison?
	He got out of prison.
	He served his time.
	Oh, okay.
	He served his time.
	Okay.
	But, yeah, he's a pretty, like, he's like a pagan Norse white supremacist type.
	Murderer.
	Murderer.
	Right, okay.
	Yeah.
	So, not the kind of guy that you would expect to...
	Be listening to that kind of thing.
	But also, not the kind of guy that you would expect to write this.
	I'm not going to read out the words.
	And that's where this...
	Obviously this is a tragedy, but there is a bit of an absurd comedy aspect to this as well, given that he named it the N-Cell Manifesto.
	And you can see the opening page.
	Is this just a young virgin that is extremely angry?
	I would expect so.
	I would expect to.
	And spent far too much time on 4chan and managed to get himself invested in a lot of weird esoteric politics.
	And then decided to shoot school.
	I said this when we did a segment a few weeks ago about that girl who went on some sort of...
	Killing spree.
	Remember that?
	A girl shooter.
	Yes, the femme cell shooter who was quoted in her own manifesto as having been inspired by Radfem Hitler.
	And she was...
	Was she 16?
	I think she was 16, 15 or 16. She was mutuals on Twitter with this guy, which is a weird connection between the two of them.
	And I said that, what I'm about to say, in that segment, but I'll say it again.
	You don't know your arse from your elbow when you're that age.
	No, of course not.
	You don't know what you're doing or talking about.
	You cannot, you have not read enough, known enough, lived enough to...
	I don't know how, because quite often, suicide bombers and all sorts of spree killers are often, very often, very, very, very young.
	These are particularly young, but they're very, very young.
	It's because one of the things, I think, the psychology of it, is that you convince yourself that you're absolutely certain.
	I know what it was like, the arrogance of youth.
	I remember being 16 or 17 and thinking I know everything.
	The small amount of reading I have done, the small amount of TV and documentaries I have watched, I feel like I've got a handle on everything.
	And the reality is you absolutely haven't.
	You absolutely haven't.
	But you can't tell often, you can't tell teenagers that.
	The world will stomp that arrogance out of you in your 20s probably.
	Whether or not you had that kind of arrogance to you, I don't think you went as far as to write your own...
	Mentally insane manifesto.
	No, no, of course not.
	No.
	Because these are an extreme pathology, aren't they?
	These people that write this and then actually go on to do violent things, any way you cut it, that's a very, very extreme pathology and a very, very small number of people do that.
	But, I mean, it's just like a perfect storm of hubris, arrogance, violence.
	And the ability to get your hands on a gun and, I don't know, and a nihilism, obviously a suicidal tendency, all those things, being extremely unhappy.
	Obviously, not obviously, but it seems like with the N-cell thing, extremely angry.
	Also...
	Sad.
	Very confused and very conflicted.
	Listen to this.
	Death to the current state of the West.
	This book is dedicated to accelerationism and violence by an N for victory.
	Death to all Mamsers.
	No idea what that is.
	I don't know.
	Even I'm not this termini online to know what a Mamser is.
	This book is dedicated to world dominance by the N. Genocide them and loot everything.
	This is blah-de-blah.
	Death to Israel, but also death to Palestine.
	Part of this makes it come across like a bit of a shitpost, if I'm honest.
	Like, he was planning on doing the shooting maybe for more personal reasons, and because he was terminally online, decided to make the most ideologically confused and scattershot manifesto ever, just to really confuse people after he was dead.
	Because that's what it comes across like.
	Of course...
	I don't want to make enemies of all 17-year-olds out there, but that's classic 17-year-old, just a stream of nonsense, really.
	Yeah, again, it seems like he was involved in a lot of weird stuff online.
	He included in the manifesto his social medias, which people on Kiwi Farms and 4chan immediately tracked down, found out that he was somehow attached to a strange sect of groipers who are like a nonce clique of groipers.
	Oh, Cleek.
	Oh, Cleek.
	Of Groypers.
	Very strange.
	And then, of course, people discovered that he was a mutual with the FemCell shooter from a few months ago.
	And also, which of course is a very, very strange connection, but he had been posting about saying she did nothing wrong.
	I've not done anything wrong by supporting her.
	Very, very strange.
	He said she did nothing wrong.
	Stop bullying.
	So he's bullied.
	I mean, he said, well, actually, actually, there's a Q&A. There's a Q&A in his manifesto where he said, please ignore the soy jacks.
	Are you a victim of bullying?
	No, I'm not.
	I've never been bullied.
	I've never been bullied once.
	But then he also says, are you a white supremacist?
	No, I'm a golden N. It wouldn't make sense for me to be one.
	I can't be a white supremacist.
	So are you a black supremacist?
	No, I wouldn't be if N's weren't so effing retarded.
	TND. Which I believe is a reference to a 4chan meme.
	So he's got some sort of god complex.
	Very, very strange.
	And then also, he's just throwing out as many names and confusing people as possible.
	His Instagram account, which people found, listed himself as the last true Rhodesian.
	And then when in his manifesto he was speaking about the particular groups or people that radicalized him the most, this is going to be the part that if the mainstream media cover this a bit more, will be highlighted because he names Candace Owens, Ethan Ralph, Nick Fuentes, but then Turkey Tom...
	MrBeast...
	I don't know who Turkey Tom or Ethan Ralph is.
	Idubs, Destiny, and Hassan Piker.
	So he's naming, like, right-wing, and then also centrists, and then insane leftists.
	But then he says, Candace Owens has influenced me.
	Above all, each time she spoke, I was stunned by her insights, and her own views helped me push me further and further into the belief of violence over the JQ, along with Turkey Tom.
	Turkey Tom makes, like...
	This is truly a confused mess.
	He makes fun YouTube videos talking about, like, dark characters or internet drama.
	I've been radicalised by both Candice Owens and Destiny.
	Okay, dude.
	And Hassan misspelled Piker.
	And iDubbbz as well.
	Obviously, iDubbbz has got a lot to answer for.
	And then he goes on here to say, do you have any groups that are backing you?
	Yes, the Markiplier subreddit.
	The what?
	The what Reddit?
	The Markiplier subreddit.
	What's that?
	He's a YouTuber, a gaming YouTuber, who, as far as I'm aware, has never made any political content on his YouTube channel.
	So, this seems to be throw all the shit at the wall to confuse people, but I can guarantee that if the news decide to start running with this, they are going to pick up on the Candace Owens has influenced me.
	Candace Owens inspires Nashville school shooter.
	That's what it's going to be if this carries on.
	But it's so strange that this is becoming something of a minor trend now, that mentally ill teenagers will...
	Commit an atrocious act, kill people, and then have a manifesto ready to be discovered immediately after.
	It's a horrifying part of modernity, and honestly...
	I do think that this guy, no matter what the circumstances of his life would have been, would have been a danger to others.
	You don't just give any child access to the internet and they immediately become a school shooter.
	But I do think that this kind of thing shows that kids these days, I sound like an old man, spend way too much time online.
	It's so easy to get sucked into these circles and become terminally online.
	And I think that kids should just be...
	Left alone from the internet.
	They shouldn't be able to have access to everything that is on there.
	Absolutely, because the internet, the completely unfiltered internet, is sort of all of humanity spilled out.
	And mostly its worst parts as well.
	It is whatever you want to make it, right?
	So you can find the most inspiring, beautiful things on there and the most dark, disgusting, depraved things, right?
	So, I mean...
	And again, I don't say that every child who has access to the internet immediately falls into this.
	It's just worrying that this happens in the first place.
	I mean, good God.
	I mean, I grew up, all my formative years were pre-internet years, basically.
	I was already a very young adult by the time you had the really, really crappy modem dial-up type internet.
	So I'd already sort of formed my sense of...
	Ethics and morals by that point.
	But if you were truly, if you were a little kid, yeah, it's really, really worrying.
	Even if you keep your own kids off the internet, the sort of disgusting things that they can be exposed to by other kids if they have access to the internet, it's terrible.
	I self-sensitive, right?
	I deliberately don't look at the most disgusting things.
	Oh, music.
	Like, very much so.
	I remember the last time, there was during the Syrian war, at one point, ISIS got hold of, I think, a Jordanian, captured a Jordanian downed pilot, and they put him in a cage and set him alive.
	And it was all over the internet that this had happened, and there's loads of clicks everywhere.
	I think even links everywhere.
	I think even the Sun newspaper had a link to the video, if you want to see it.
	It was around that point, I made a conscious decision that I'm...
	Not going to see it.
	I've never seen that clip to this day.
	I don't want to see it.
	And I used to follow a few people on Twitter that quite often post what is effectively snuff footage.
	CCTV footage of someone getting murdered in America or whatever.
	And I've had to mute them or unfollow them because I don't want that in my memory banks.
	But I was like a 30-year-old, 40-year-old dude making that decision.
	If you're 10 years old and someone just puts a phone in front of you in the playground...
	Or you're a 15-year-old and you're dark and you're actively searching this out and filling your mind with horrors.
	Yeah, it's a worry.
	Yeah, it's not great.
	Yeah, it's not good.
	It's not good.
	I mean, obviously, I'm stating the obvious here, but...
	And there's not much else to say about it, really.
	What could be done, I mean, other than passing laws saying, until you're 18. You're sort of not allowed the completely unfiltered internet until you're at least 18 or something.
	Then there's practical issues about that.
	How would you ever enforce that?
	But anyway, so not much else to say about that.
	Just a horrible situation and very confusing in the aftermath.
	Let's read through some of the rumble rants and move on to the video comments.
	InXEO says, Bo, can you do a piece with Tick history to discuss Hitler's socialism?
	I would love to have a conversation with Tick.
	He won't do it.
	I've asked him.
	Have you actually asked him?
	Yeah, I've asked him a number of times.
	Eventually he said just no.
	He doesn't want to do any sort of live thing.
	He likes to do scripted videos on his own, which is fair enough.
	I would love a conversation with him, but then I think I burnt a bridge with him a little bit as well.
	You did insult him quite harshly.
	What was it?
	Or am I just assuming that...
	I remember you had an interaction with him and I'm just assuming that you decided to go in with a ballistic missile.
	No, it wasn't a full...
	It wasn't a full-blown...
	He said something that was really Sivnat, colourblind something.
	There's no such thing as differences between IQs, between races.
	And I said, I think that's just coped, bro.
	That was all I did.
	And he didn't reply.
	But I suspect now he wouldn't speak to me for love and money.
	But I would...
	If he ever sees this, I would love to have a conversation with you.
	I think he's really good.
	I don't agree with all his takes.
	He's a really interesting guy.
	His history stuff is superb.
	He's clearly done a huge amount of reading.
	My main problem with him is that he is really, really ideologically wedded to an anarchist form of libertarianism.
	And it colours all of his views in a way that I don't think is always positive.
	He's basically on our side.
	He's much more based than he is woke.
	Yeah, yeah.
	No doubt about that.
	But I don't think he would speak to me.
	Samson gave me the signal that we should carry on.
	So, the engaged few.
	Why does this shooting have a Romeo and Juliet ring to it?
	Well, again, a lot of people are going off of the manifesto.
	It just seems to be purposefully confusing.
	I imagine this is more personal than anything like that.
	Al Meatham, again, says, Bo, could you spell out your other channels, please?
	I'm slow.
	So, history, bro, just on YouTube.
	Two words, history, bro.
	And the other one is, the state of politics.
	There you go.
	Zerank says, It's interesting that us early millennials had access to the uncensored and unregulated internet, though there wasn't much there.
	We didn't pop off for the hell of it.
	Family and friends grounded us.
	Well, yeah, you need to have a good personal life anyway.
	For anything, really.
	The engaged few, the only person he failed to mention as an influence, is Mr. Matica.
	Maybe he'd not watched any of Jim's stuff.
	Is Jim still around?
	He is still around.
	He was streaming on the inauguration, actually.
	That's a random name.
	Says, to prevent further acts of wand violence, Bo DeMort deployed many of his BAME eaters across the schools to stop and search mudblood.
	Stay safe, wizards.
	I love this lore that's emerging.
	There's a story that someone should put together.
	Bobo Bad, on a serious note, I was kidding about Nabunkie.
	This kid's shitposting mixed with what is estrangement of identity with his own community and ability to recognize...
	I think there's a lot going on there.
	But again, you don't just browse the internet for a bit and decide you're going to shoot up your school.
	So I think this kid was a danger no matter what.
	Anyway, let's go on to the video comments.
	We've still got time.
	So I don't know when you guys were last in Bristol, but I had to take my mum to the eye hospital.
	And on the way in, I was just thinking about how grubby the buildings look, unfortunately.
	But more than anything, just how inundated they are with graffiti.
	Now, it's never really been my scene.
	But, you know, when I was younger, I was like a bit of a metalhead, but it's punk rock and stuff.
	And I was like, ah, it's kind of avant-garde.
	It's kind of cool.
	People do as they do.
	It's a bit libertine.
	But in retrospect, it's just so much visual clutter that it's not even artistic.
	I don't know how you guys feel about that.
	Yeah, I agree.
	I've not been to Bristol for a little bit, but the first time I went there, I drove through and was like, God, this place is covered in fucking hideous graffiti everywhere.
	Mostly of inspirational fat black women.
	I kind of hate all graffiti as an entire genre of quote-unquote art.
	I don't really like hardly any of it ever.
	If you want to do art with spray cans... I can't think of any I like.
	If you want to do art with spray cans or massive markers or whatever, go and buy a big bit of canvas or something or a place where it's encouraged art.
	Don't just do it on the side of a building, on the side of a train.
	That's simply damaging property.
	That's all that is.
	It's defacing property and making everything uglier for the rest of us.
	Anyway, next one.
	On the list of things I didn't anticipate this year but absolutely love, let's start with the ADL defending Elon Musk, AOC's accusation that the ADL is an irreputable hate group, and Count Dankula's reaction as he realises that he and the ADL are on the same side somehow.
	Next, Dr. Luke, who wrote a paper about how smell is used to discriminate against ethnic minorities, tried to break up a fight between ethnic minorities calling each other smelly and got dog-powered by both sides of the aisle for involving herself while being white.
	Finally, TikTok's flip-flop ban and the total morons who then went to an even worse app out of spite, only to realise that the Chinese are actually racist, are not allies, and are in genuine full support of censorship.
	That was a lot to take in.
	Yeah, it's a good day.
	I like it.
	I like it.
	Quick fire.
	I didn't know that Dr. Ali Lukes had to break up a fight between Indians saying, You're smelly!
	No, you're smelly!
	No, you're smell, sir!
	The Chinese Communist Party didn't want a Tiananmen Square.
	That's why they censor it.
	While on a business trip in China, I chatted to a program manager over lunch.
	Alex, what parts of China have you visited?
	Well, mostly the South, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xiamen, but also Beijing.
	Oh, did you enjoy Beijing?
	Yes, the Summer Palace is beautiful, and it was interesting touring Tiananmen Square where the riots were.
	Quizzically, he said, there have never been any riots in Tiananmen Square.
	Naively, I thought about looking it up for him, which I could have done as my computer was on a VPN. Instead, I apologised and moved the conversation on.
	Oh, that's...
	Have you ever watched...
	You probably won't know because it was a kid's show.
	Avatar?
	The Last Airbender?
	Oh, no, no, no.
	There's a city in that which is basically governed by, like, tyrants.
	And they're like an oasis away from the war that's engulfing the rest of the world.
	And if anybody talks about the war, the secret police will kidnap you and hypnotize you.
	And there's this scene where they're just like...
	Waving a hypnotic lamp around and saying, there is no war outside of Ba Sing Se.
	There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
	It's like that, really, isn't it?
	I once lived in a shared house where there was like six people odd, when you're young, you know.
	And one of the guys' girlfriend was Chinese, full Chinese.
	And at some point, somehow, I mentioned Tiananmen Square.
	And she was like, what?
	That's not happened.
	That never happened.
	That's not a thing.
	I literally like that.
	It's just not real.
	It's just not real.
	If it was sincere, there'd be actual quizzicalness.
	What do you mean by that?
	No, it never happened.
	No, no.
	And I was like, well, it was like in the early 2000s.
	There was a PC in the corner of the room.
	I just got up that picture of the guy standing in front of the tank.
	I was like, what's that then?
	And she was like, no, he was fine.
	He was fine.
	He's still around now and lives.
	And I was like, no, it's pretty well documented what happened to him and what happened that day.
	In fact, it's very well documented.
	And it got to the point where I sort of rhetorically painted her into a corner and she just, she had no other choice but to just go quiet.
	But yeah.
	I bet your mate was really pleased with you for that one.
	But no, to begin with, she was, it's not real, it's not happened, that's nonsense.
	Nothing ever happened in Tiananmen Square in the mid-80s.
	That's just all fake.
	Well, anyway, I think that's all we've got time for right now.
	We're running over a little bit.
	So remember, there is Calvin's Common Sense Crusade at 3pm.
	So if you're subscribed, tune in for that.
	And on the podcast-wise, we'll be back again tomorrow at 1 o'clock.
	So until then, take care.

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