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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1168

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	Hello and welcome to Podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1168.
	I'm joined by Faraz and Luca.
	And today we're going to be talking about Joe Biden's health.
	The story has changed, so if you're an NPC you need to get the little chip changed because it's been updated.
	What have you got?
	You've got what about American-Chinese trade war?
	Yes, understanding the context behind it and why it's happening and how far ahead China is in some industries.
	Right, that would be good.
	And, what, relative terrorism, is it?
	Yes, one of, honestly, one of the strangest motivated terror attacks I've ever read about or ever seen.
	Oh, right, okay.
	Right, well, looking forward to that, then.
	So, um...
	The point I wanted to make is that Biden was never legitimate.
	If you remember, this was the story until not so long ago, that he was, what was it, in 2024, at his last physical, we were told that he was a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency.
	Could any 81-year-old truly be characterised as active and robust?
	never mind joe biden yes so i mean i'm not i'm not right i'm suppose a middle-aged now but You can be healthy for an 81-year-old.
	So what I've found is that when people ask me now, how are you, Dan?
	And I say, good.
	My current definition of good would have been near death if you had asked me when I was 25 and I felt like this.
	So your definitions do change with time.
	Sure.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	But yes, more or less.
	But anyway, so the official narrative was that he was in absolute perfect health.
	And you would expect that because the American president is, of course, going to get the very best medical treatment.
	Of course, he's surrounded by top-tier doctors.
	You know, this is clearly an individual who knows basic biology, like the back of her hands.
	And in this particular case, Rachel Levine, not only is she a professor of medicine, but also psychiatry, so can spot any mental infirmities.
	Yes, you would have expected him to have a very good grasp of health issues, but apparently something slipped him by.
	No idea what you're referring to there, but the broad point is, surrounded by doctors, and actually he even had a top doctor as his sort of personal presidential doctor.
	Right.
	So he probably received the best medical care...
	Basically anyone on Earth, you would think.
	And you would expect the testing for him to be the most thorough.
	And you would expect the concern for someone of his age to be...
	Quite important and for all of the batteries of tests, standard and non-standard, to have been done.
	You'd have expected them to have gone beyond what is the norm.
	No expense spared, all that kind of stuff.
	Exactly.
	So we can safely establish that the man is in absolute top health.
	Not only that, but we know from all the people that were speaking on his behalf that he's genuinely hard to keep up with.
	What more can you tell us about the president's health regime?
	We hear he's lifting weights.
	What sort of weights is he lifting?
	Does he have a personal trainer?
	And what happened to his Peloton bike?
	I didn't know where this was going, but I'm intrigued by it.
	I will say I have nothing to read out on the president's private exercise regime, but I can tell you, having traveled with him, fair amount.
	Exactly.
	Not only that, but let's just try a little bit of this video.
	Is this going to work, Samson?
	Let's find out.
	Does the president have the stamina, physically and mentally?
	Detail-oriented and focused.
	I can testify because I've been working very closely with this president for the past two years.
	I've been knowing him for 30 years.
	And I'm telling you, this guy's tough.
	He's smart.
	He's on his game.
	Joe Biden has vision.
	He has knowledge.
	He has a strategic thinker.
	The president is...
	Focused.
	He's detail-oriented.
	He's always thinking about the big picture.
	He's engaging.
	He is capable.
	He has an incredible record as president.
	And I'm often with him on foreign trips.
	He's at the top of his game.
	So, clearly, absolutely no health issues with Joe Biden whatsoever.
	None, absolutely none.
	However, we have just learnt that he had cancer.
	Apparently, a form of cancer that takes a little bit longer than from January 20 till today, a little bit longer than four months to metastasize to this level.
	Yes.
	Do you remember there was that weird incident, was it last July, where he was coming back from Las Vegas or he was going somewhere and they diverted to a hospital in Las Vegas and the rumors were swirling that he was on death's door and we're expecting to hear more about it and it just disappeared.
	It just sort of went.
	It just hushed.
	Yes, something odd is going on.
	Interesting timing that it's been announced now because Jake Tapper is just about to release a book detailing his mental decline, which of course invokes a whole bunch of questions that we'll be coming to about who was actually running the country all of this time, who was exercising the...
	The powers of the presidency.
	Not just the country, the empire.
	Well, the empire, yes.
	And is affected by who the American president is.
	We are very much affected being a vassal, so it matters who the emperor is.
	But anyway, so Jake Tapper is basically saying that his mental decline was covered up by Jake Tapper and other people.
	By Jill Biden, you mean?
	No, no, no.
	Jake Tapper himself.
	Jake Tapper wrote the book, yes.
	He wrote the book about it being covered up, but Jake Tapper himself is also one of the people who covered it up.
	I could play many videos of him covering it up on the way.
	It is enough to make you think that maybe Jake Tapper should just quit politics because he's no good at it and try journalism instead.
	It's a transparent tell-all book, no doubt.
	It's incredible that he gets to profit both by covering it up and by exposing the cover-up.
	It sort of shows you the extent of patronage in the system.
	So long as you're one of us, Tapper, for those who don't know, is a CNN guy.
	He gets to get paid while saying, Biden is absolutely healthy, there's nothing wrong with Biden, everything's wonderful.
	And he also gets to make a fantastic book deal saying, haha, we lied to you all along.
	It's just incredible, the extent of corruption and shamelessness.
	I mean, after everything they put this old man through, and now they're just throwing him under the bus because it's time to do so, because the political machine requires it.
	Joe Biden even...
	Let's play this, Samson.
	Joe Biden even admitted it once.
	That's why I and so damn many other people I grew up have cancer.
	And why can't, for the longest time, Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation.
	And of course, being Biden, they just said, oh, he's misspoken, because he was making gaffes all the time.
	But you have to wonder which of them were gaffes and which of them weren't.
	He doesn't have cancer.
	It's just his dementia speaking, which he also doesn't have, by the way.
	Yes, exactly that.
	So we're now in the position where apparently...
	You know, yes, they covered up the dementia.
	Yes, they covered up the cancer.
	But they were totally telling the truth about everything else.
	I mean, don't you trust them?
	Isn't that how you establish trust?
	Yes.
	The person that I have most contempt for in all of this is the person we can see on the screen.
	Not the cat.
	I have no contempt for cats.
	Jill Biden.
	What the hell was she doing?
	I mean, they must have known for years.
	And she wanted the perk so much that she put her husband through that.
	Yep.
	It's very sinister.
	The more you think about it, the more, yeah, to go on with that charade and to present him as capably as possible.
	Isn't she supposed to be a doctor as well?
	I mean, she kept on correcting people.
	She's not that kind of doctor.
	Oh, she's Doctor of Trachy and Pottery or something?
	Yeah, something like that.
	She's, I believe, a doctor in education whose own thesis was written exceptionally badly, if I remember correctly.
	Oh, and for that, she spent two years replying to people on Twitter chastising them for not using Dr. Jordan.
	I believe so, yes.
	Oh, right, okay, well, fair enough.
	Some other sad news, actually, and this one's certainly no joking matter, but...
	Scott Adams did a stream yesterday because I heard the news about Joe and I thought, okay, well, I'll cover that on the podcast.
	So I stopped in to listen to what Scott Adams was saying.
	We can play this without sound.
	Don't check your stocks.
	So Scott Adams has sort of...
	You know, almost single-handedly raise the bar for podcasters.
	He's been doing an exceptional job over these past few years.
	And yesterday he sadly admitted that he has the same kind of cancer as Joe Biden.
	Only in his case it is, you know, he's had it longer and he doesn't expect to see out this summer.
	I'm just...
	Yeah, I'm just hearing that's really sad to hear.
	Yeah, very tragic.
	I mean, he's a great speaker, Scott, and actually I just want to read you a little bit of what he said off the cuff, because it's, you know, it's great words.
	He said, I realise that some of you, this is hitting hard because you're hearing it for the first time.
	I have to say that everybody has to die, and as far as I know, it's kind of civilised that you know about how long you have, so you can put your affairs together and make sure you've said your goodbyes and things, all the things you need to do.
	Cancer is really painful, like really, really painful, but it's also kind of good that it gives you enough time while your brain is still working to wrap things up.
	I can see in the comments that some of you are having a hard time with this, but remember, nothing lasts forever.
	Great words.
	And he raises an interesting point there that's worth thinking about.
	He's kind of saying that better cancer than something that takes away your mind.
	As painful as it is, at least you can put your affairs in order.
	Yeah.
	So that was sad.
	I've spoken to Scott, did a Brokonomics with him, absolutely lovely guy.
	It's a real shame.
	And, you know, he's been very brave.
	He's talked about lots of things.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Risk cancellation.
	Well, I mean, they've tried to cancel him many times.
	Yep.
	But, yeah, very, very sad.
	And, of course, part of what he did on that live stream was talk about, you know, how it's a long-duration illness.
	It doesn't just sort of sneak up on you.
	In fact, here's Chamath Palapartea, just running the maths on how likely is it that in between that last medical in July 2024 that we started with, and now, how likely is it that the cancer has got to this stage?
	And the answer that he comes back with is 0.0002%.
	Yeah.
	They knew and they decided to do it just for power.
	It's absolutely sinister.
	Yes.
	Sinister.
	When you go back to the 1960s, when it comes to British politics as well, I think I'm right in stating that one of the reasons that Harold Wilson, oh well, it was the 70s by then, but one of the reasons why Harold Wilson ended up resigning was because he had quite early onset dementia.
	Yes.
	And so even in an early stage, that was, well, I'm no longer physically capable of doing the job anymore.
	Because it was seen as you're doing a duty to the nation, you have to perform it to the very best of ability or get out of the way.
	Right.
	Exactly right.
	So, I mean, you don't need to be a master of logic to see that, you know, clearly they're lying about this.
	However, if you're not a master of logic and you'd like to be, can I recommend our upcoming webinar on improving your logic?
	If you follow this, you'll be able to find a similar webinar we did on improving your writing, which is useful for anybody who wants to get ahead in business or, you know, if they've got a child, they want to, you know, up-level or whatever it is you're doing.
	Come and sign up for the webinar.
	So, I mean, next I'll play you this little clip.
	Simpson, do you want to play this in full?
	This is worth listening to.
	I think you're an oncologist, obviously.
	Incredibly respected.
	You believe that it is likely, just for those just tuning in, you believe it is likely if this prostate cancer has spread to the bone that he could have had it for up to a decade.
	But certainly it's likely, would it be fair to say, it's likely to have had this for at least several years.
	Oh, more than several years.
	You don't get prostate cancer.
	I just want to stop you.
	So this is not speculation.
	If you have prostate cancer that is spread to the bone, then he's most certainly, you are saying, had it when he was president of the United States.
	Oh, yeah.
	He did not develop it in the last 100, 200 days.
	He had it while he was president.
	He probably had it at the start of his presidency in 2021.
	Yes, I don't think there's any disagreement about that.
	OK, so just to point out what's going on here.
	So first of all, this is MSNBC, which is Democrat Central.
	Secondly, this guy is not just an oncologist speaking.
	This is Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who not only is a sort of senior oncologist and senior fellow of wherever it is he works out of, it's the brother to Rob Emanuel, who was Obama's chief of staff.
	Oh, wow.
	Oh, okay.
	So this is an all angles.
	the Democrats have decided this is the moment where we put this old doddering old man who should have been sat in a lounge chair with a blanket over his knees for the last five years after everything we put him through this is the moment that the Democratic machine throws him under the bus.
	you I'm in awe of the cynicism and of the cruelty that they would...
	I mean, this is Obama's man through and through.
	Rahm Emanuel and his family, these are fully Obama people.
	And there was never a great relationship between Biden and Obama.
	So for them to come out at this moment and just stab Biden one last time before he's dead shows you a level of cruelty and a level of deliberateness.
	We hid it all along.
	We played you.
	Haha, he probably had it before he became president.
	And now we are going to rub your noses in it.
	They tell you that there's nothing you can do about it.
	And then when the legal stuff you're going to discuss comes up, they're going to say, well, it was all fine.
	You shouldn't consider what we just said.
	It's sort of, they choose a narrative and they throw it at you based purely on convenience.
	With absolute no respect for your integrity, for your intellectual...
	It's almost like a humiliation ritual of everything they do.
	Yes.
	Not only are they humiliating the man that they've just put through this, but they're humiliating us that, you know, everything that you guys have been talking about...
	I mean, we were talking about...
	Joe's health and mental health for years.
	Yes.
	And they constantly attacked us.
	I mean, I remember people in the press section, you know, asking that press secretary questions about his health.
	And, you know, they would just be mocked for asking a question about the health.
	Yes.
	But then not only is it the health...
	You know, issue, the now double-pronged health issue of both dementia and prostate cancer.
	But if it is the case, as the chap says there, that actually there's a strong possibility that, you know, he had the cancer before he actually became president.
	Oh, the first one, yeah.
	Yeah, then they fortified an election for a cancer...
	You know, for someone with...
	For basically a guy that they knew they could completely control, just by controlling his meds, presumably.
	That was presumably the thinking here.
	I also want to come on to your point about the legal aspect of this.
	Because, you know, of course, Biden used a hell of a lot of executive orders.
	He appointed a lot of judges.
	He did do a lot of things.
	Yes.
	And that all rests on the signature of the president on various documents.
	And the question has always been, well, how much was he aware of what's going on?
	I mean, I'm going to focus here on, for example, the power to pardon.
	Yes.
	And sorry to have to do this to you guys, but I'm going to put you on the spot with an American civics test, and you can play along with this at home.
	And basically what I've done is I've got two versions of Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution, the bit that talks about the pardons.
	And I've made a tiny, tiny tweak to two versions, and I want to see if your American civics are good enough to spot the difference between the two.
	So here's the first version.
	And it says, the President shall have the power to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States except in cases of impeachment.
	That's version one.
	Let's show you version two and see if you can detect...
	Why is it not scrolling?
	Let's try and scroll down.
	Here we go.
	Here's version two.
	See if you can detect...
	Whether this one is the legitimate one.
	An autopen that may or may not have been in the same building is an illegitimate puppet president.
	Grant pardons in advance to obviously guilty regime members before their crimes have even been established.
	What do you reckon, Luca?
	I'm going to put you on the spot.
	I'm going to go with...
	number two.
	No, actually it was number one.
	Wow.
	Yes.
	But very subtle.
	But no, I'm addressing a serious point here.
	This guy's been out of it for his presidential turn.
	I mean, we don't know what kind of treatment he was getting, but any kind of cancer treatment, even if it isn't chemo, is physically extremely taxing.
	Yes.
	And what was always suspected of dementia throughout his years, from 2019...
	From 2019, the stories were going around about him not being fully there.
	The last gentleman, Dr. Emmanuel, we listened to was saying that he could have conceivably had it in 2015, 2016 when he was still vice president.
	And now we know that, okay, the auto pen was used.
	It gets used.
	I mean, he's not the only one to use it.
	I remember even early on his presidency that people were taking a look at his signatures.
	Like, why is every signature identical?
	Yes.
	I mean, again, the use of the auto pen is a standard thing in the presidency.
	He's not the first one to use it.
	He is the first one to use it while there is very good reason to suspect that he was senile.
	Yeah, so I think you told me before we came on that George Bush used it a bit and then Obama.
	Yes, yes.
	There is precedent for the use of the auto pen.
	And I assume that...
	But that president, whoever it was at the time, would have given authorization for the author to tend to be used.
	And that's where the crux of it goes.
	That's the actual issue.
	It's not the technicality, okay, the president was too busy, so he used a machine to do the signing for him.
	Fair enough.
	There are some cases where this has happened.
	However, while having genuine...
	Medical concerns that would have triggered Article 25, the removal of the president due to incapacity.
	And they didn't need him because they could sign without him.
	And he wouldn't have known.
	So if you try to say, well, Obama signed this, Obama would have said, you know, absolutely not.
	He's intellectually there no matter what you think about him.
	Same for Bush, same for Trump.
	With Biden...
	Now it's a legitimate legal question, and you saw that for the pardons, Hunter Biden's pardon was signed manually.
	Well, I've got that, actually.
	So the one that he did sign himself, the one that really mattered to him, was pardoning his son.
	We don't know what his son was pardoned for, but he did get a legitimate pardon.
	Yep.
	So Hunter Biden is...
	You know, again, did he sign something while he was mentally compromised?
	Because your signature is valid if you're genuinely senile, even if you do it by hand.
	Yes.
	So the questions there go beyond the autopend.
	They go into everything that has been signed.
	Oh, they do.
	And this is a legal hornet's nest.
	I have no idea what the legalese around is.
	Oh, and I think this needs to be pushed on.
	And how this gets litigated.
	That's the main thing I'm driving at.
	This needs to be pushed on.
	I mean, Fauci's pardon, for example, and a whole bunch of other ones.
	They're just void.
	So pursue it, you know, make something of it.
	And there's a whole bunch of actions which, you know, was the president even aware of?
	Are they legitimate?
	Are they valid?
	Some thinking of the COVID actions.
	Now remember, as part of that, a lot of people didn't get their cancer treatment.
	Both here, both in the US and here in some of the vassal states, people did not get their cancer treatment, which he is now going to get excellent treatment for, I'd imagine, too late.
	But, you know, a lot of people didn't.
	The J6s, you know, the appalling things that happened to them, including a number of them were denied cancer treatment in prison, and then when their families complained, they were moved across the country so the family couldn't get to them.
	You know, disgusting things like that.
	The Ukraine war, how legitimate was that?
	Was that done by the deep state or his staffers or was it a legitimate?
	Well, he wasn't a legitimate president, but how much was he in control of that?
	Bear in mind, the US bombed a NATO country.
	They bombed Germany, taking out their pipelines.
	The appointment of many illegitimate judges, no less than this one.
	This is the Supreme Court one that they put up.
	Justice Shaniqua Brown Sugar Jackson.
	I believe that's the name.
	Who just went 8-1, did she not, in a Supreme Court decision regarding deporting a bunch of Haitians?
	Who's the base black guy on the...
	Oh, uh...
	Clarence Thomas?
	Clarence Thomas.
	I love Clarence Thomas's...
	Because normally you don't criticise another justice, do you?
	Yes.
	But he just writes scathing answers to her nonsense judgments.
	I mean, she's the one who said she couldn't say what a woman is because she isn't a biologist in her confirmation hearing.
	So this is the level of ideologue that we're dealing at here.
	And in a way, anything that she strongly disagrees with is probably good.
	Well, she didn't know what a woman was.
	Couldn't she have asked that doctor that we showed earlier, Rachel Levin or something?
	But, you know, the key question for me is this.
	And it's a legitimate question.
	Who was running the country under Joe Biden?
	This is what we don't know.
	Was it Barack Obama?
	Because unlike other presidents, he maintained a residence in Washington.
	Yes.
	Was it Jill Biden?
	Was it the deep state?
	Was it a bunch of millennial staffers buzzing around him who just basically did their own thing and pursued their own agendas?
	You know, it's very hard to look at...
	All of the above in different settings.
	Yes.
	Sorry, no, please, I interrupted.
	No, there was complete chaos in this administration in that the personnel were constantly making bad decisions.
	People like Jake Sullivan and Anthony Blinken were constantly making absolutely reckless decisions about everything.
	And then Joe Biden would get wheeled around and we'd be told that he's absolutely fine.
	And then they knew that he was extremely heavily medicated, at least, for cancer treatment.
	In addition to not being mentally there.
	And now they're admitting that he wasn't there.
	And now they're admitting that he was mentally...
	Not there.
	They could easily use the timing of that medication and its withdrawal and all the rest of it to control him completely.
	If they didn't want him lucid for a day, they would easily have been able to do that and then sign whatever they damn well liked with their auto pen of theirs.
	Remember all the days in the campaign and beyond the campaign where they would basically call it a wrap by 9am and sort of end all activity by 9am and it was to prepare for this or to prepare for that?
	Yes.
	Well...
	Yep.
	Well, and also, you know, obviously we can't forget really the final few weeks of his presidency where he announced that he wouldn't be...
	Running again.
	It's like, well, he didn't make that decision himself, did he?
	No, he didn't make that decision himself.
	That came very unofficially from his ex-account.
	That smelt like a last-minute coup inside the palace.
	Yes.
	But clearly the original plan was, because they would have known about this diagnosis, the original plan was that he would have been re-elected because he's more popular and the other guy would have been assassinated or whatever they needed to do.
	And then about...
	he would suddenly discover cancer, drop out, and then she would be installed as president.
	Yeah.
	You know, these people.
	I mean, it makes it strange that he was fighting so hard to get re-elected because there was a point where he was going up against Pelosi and Schumer and all of the other cast of characters and saying to them, no, no, no, I'm going to run anyway whether you like it or not.
	Yes.
	He knew that he had cancer from that slip of tongue that he had, Did he remember afterwards?
	We don't know.
	But he was holding on with everything that he had.
	And they decided to get rid of him.
	And now they decided to humiliate him before he died.
	It's sinister.
	It is.
	My clear message is that the last presidency was a coup from start to finish.
	And Donald Trump, if you're watching, as I know you often do...
	People need to go to jail for this.
	This needs to be investigated.
	Those pardons need to be thrown out.
	You need to set a standard here.
	You need to go after these people.
	Justice for Joe.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, justice for Joe.
	We've got a couple of comments.
	Whatever your name is.
	High levels of pain meds can cause confusion, tremors and all sorts.
	Cruel and evil manipulation of a sick man.
	Siglestone says Obama was the first to use the auto pen while he wasn't even in the country.
	Open the floodgates.
	Josie says Joe's first wife died and he had no problem using it for political gain.
	Yeah, yeah.
	All fair points.
	Right.
	Right.
	Yes, I love the mouse, thank you.
	Yes, so talking a little bit about why is there a trade war in the first place?
	The thing to remember here is that the situation for the United States when it comes to trade deficits is truly unprecedented.
	And if you looked at the trade deficit in manufactured goods, which is really what matters more from a military perspective than the export of just natural resources or what have you, you can't be a superpower if you don't have decent manufacturing.
	You can be a Saudi Arabia with an enormous amount of natural resources that you export and not be a superpower.
	So in terms of manufactured goods, the trade deficit for the United States stood at $1.2 trillion.
	And if you look at it from a historic perspective, this wasn't the case during the Cold War, and this wasn't the case in the 2000s.
	it really exploded with China's entry into the WTO, which was a policy that was approved by both Republicans and Democrats.
	This was the consensus policy.
	Now the delusion behind it was that if the West traded with China openly, China would suddenly turn into a liberal democracy because there was no respect for culture, for tradition, for civilization, and for the fact that It isn't the norm anywhere in the world.
	Even in Europe, it had to be imposed through two American wars during World War I and World War II in order to get it to stand up.
	So there was this sort of deliberate forgetting and the result of that was that the EU was able to maintain a surplus in manufactured goods, although it also went on a serious decline after the financial crisis.
	The Americans, they just kept on absorbing all of the exports of everybody else.
	And It helps that they can basically summon up funny money.
	It relied fundamentally on the printing of money.
	Yes.
	It relied really on the use of the American dollar as a tool that allowed the American establishment to pursue a highly irresponsible trade policy.
	Now things don't look as bad if you look at it in terms of total exports, but in terms of the export of manufactured goods, China is undoubtedly the leader.
	The lead, you know, when you aggregate together the West, it's not even close.
	When you aggregate the West together, It looks a little bit better.
	But in a one-to-one competition, it's almost three times the size of American exports.
	And it ends up having an effect on everything else.
	Because if you don't have a strong industrial base, it erodes also your knowledge base.
	It erodes also your ability to build advanced things and to keep on developing your industries.
	And this has helped make China incredibly rich.
	They have a trillion dollar trade surplus.
	And it's just been growing.
	And it's just been constantly growing.
	So the American perspective, China is getting rich at the expense of the Americans.
	That's what's driving the trade war.
	The data supports this perspective.
	The bizarre thing is that Americans are borrowing money from Chinese peasants.
	So they can buy cheap shit churned out by Chinese peasants in factories?
	Well, this is a huge part of it.
	But I just want to focus a little bit here on the components of manufacturing.
	So the dark red that you see in the center of these charts, that's China.
	And the blue is the United States, and the green is Europe.
	Germany, and then the lighter red is Japan and Southeast Asia.
	You can see that these are completely the dominant economies.
	The rest of the world really barely registers.
	But you can also see that in computers and electronics and whatnot, the Chinese have a massively dominant position, almost outdoing the West combined.
	You can see in chemicals the lead that the Chinese have.
	All of the basic components that go into manufacturing, so the fabricated metals, the minerals, the things like that, the Chinese are enormously dominant.
	And then in the machinery and equipment, the Chinese are also dominant.
	Now, why am I focusing on these industries rather than, say, textiles or food and whatever?
	Can I guess?
	Because all of those things you mentioned are things that go into a military supply chain, battleships and tanks and all the rest of it.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	So it's not just a dominance in some industries and some sectors.
	It's that the Chinese capacity to build up an industrial machine, a military industrial machine, is much higher than anybody else's.
	They're using this now mostly for civilian purposes and for civilian industry.
	Fair enough.
	But if you look at World War II as an example, It was car factories that turned to the production of planes and to the production of tanks and so on.
	You need an industrial base in these things, in the bread and butter manufacturing, in the minerals, in the metals, in the chemicals, in the machines, that you can then repurpose, depending on need, for you to be able to survive in industrial warfare.
	Well, I understand there's a single Chinese port.
	has turned out more ships in the last year Commercial ships than the US has since the end of the Second World War.
	Now, they are commercial ships, but nevertheless, if you can make a commercial ship, you can make a battleship.
	There's really no difference.
	Also, it's not just, obviously, the expansion of China's own industrial base, but they are doing that, but also, simultaneously, they're trying to eradicate our industrial base when it comes to things like, you know, the steelworks in Scunthorpe, which was bought by Jingyi, the Chinese parent group.
	I mean, it helps that our governments cooperate.
	Oh, of course, yeah, yes.
	So this is, to your point about shipping, the gross tonnage built every year.
	And you see China there with 33 million gross tons of ships built.
	Every year.
	That's just ships.
	And you see South Korea performing admirably, and Japan, but the rest of the world is at 4 million.
	The rest of the world is Germany.
	Is France, is Britain, is the United States.
	And low-cost economies like India and all the rest of them?
	All of them.
	That's 4 million against what was just China alone again?
	33 million.
	Wow.
	33 million.
	Right.
	If there is a World War III, I think I know who I'm betting on now.
	So the total of the rest of the world is 32 million.
	China is more than the rest of the world put together.
	So you have to understand the sheer extent of backwardness that has infected the West.
	And you have to understand just how far behind in some of these things the West has fallen.
	It's really important and it matters.
	And if you want to understand the trade war and you want to understand why it's happening, it's not just about the American consumer.
	It's not just about the American worker.
	There's a military story behind it.
	Then this is manufacturing value added.
	This is how much...
	So value add is you buy a piece of iron and you make it into a screw.
	The difference in value is the value add in manufacturing, in simple terms.
	So from buying raw iron to producing a final good.
	You need to look at this here to see how the world has been doing since 2004.
	And you see the European Union and the United States absolutely stagnating.
	And you see Japan stagnating.
	And you only see China growing.
	Yep.
	All lines are flat apart from the Chinese one.
	Pretty much.
	Pretty much.
	And not just that.
	The lines are flat because of the Chinese one.
	Right.
	We're buying more manufactured goods.
	We're consuming more products.
	But they aren't being made in the countries where they're being consumed.
	They're being made in China.
	So when you want to understand, okay, so why is Trump angry about free trade?
	It doesn't matter.
	We can just import whatever.
	Guys, you can't.
	At some point, trade deficits catch up with you.
	At some points, you lose the technical know-how to make things.
	And when you lose that know-how, you see things like you're not building any ships.
	You see things like the Chinese are building pretty much all of the drones.
	There's a graph that I'm looking for here.
	I'll try to find it.
	You see that the capability to compete is just gone.
	So yes, the Americans are leading in military drones.
	But if the Chinese wanted to switch from civilian to military, which is what you do in a hot war, because it makes no sense to keep on stockpiling technology that gets obsolete.
	What you want to be able to do is to continuously upgrade your weaponry in combat, based on what you're learning, and have a deeper...
	And wider industrial base than the enemy.
	This is how you win modern wars.
	So Callum, formerly of his parish, was fond of a YouTube video that did military simulations.
	Right.
	And the key takeaway was that if you put enough drones up against any military system, enough drones will win, if you've got enough of them.
	And from the sounds of this, China can turn out hundreds of millions if it wants to.
	There is perhaps a little bit more to it.
	There is perhaps a little bit more to it, but yes, that makes sense.
	And when you look at things that are pretty advanced, like microchips, so the thing that everybody talks about is microchips.
	You want to use drones?
	You have to use microchips.
	They go into the drones and they act as the brain of it.
	And the projections there are pretty bad.
	So this is Japan and the United States.
	Now for the advanced processes, the Americans have 17%.
	But the reality is you only need the matured processes.
	Because a lot of the military stuff is still a little bit dumb.
	It doesn't need to be as sophisticated.
	But even then, the direction of travel is one where by 2027 the Chinese overwhelm the market.
	So just for anybody listening, The U.S. goes from 17% market share down to 5%.
	Yes.
	And the Chinese go from 6% to 31%.
	From 6% to 40% or from 8% to 31%.
	Yes.
	Oh, I see.
	Right, yeah.
	Yeah.
	So it's just...
	And then you have to look at Taiwan.
	That's the rest.
	And if you look at the Chinese naval exercises, which unfortunately I do, You see that the Chinese are ready to besiege Taiwan whenever they want to.
	Now, Taiwan imports one million barrels of oil every day.
	It has a decent stockpile of oil lasting around three to six months.
	Their vulnerability is natural gas.
	And they're turning off their nuclear because that's what a brilliant military strategist does.
	You turn off the nuclear.
	So if the Chinese decide to cut off Taiwan's oil and gas, which they can easily do with their navy, especially given their ability to renew their navy constantly, thanks to the massive overwhelming advantage that they have in shipbuilding, then you understand that they can besiege Taiwan and take over this capacity.
	And that's where the most advanced processes are being built.
	That's an interesting way of doing it as well, because if it's just, okay, we've got a trade dispute, we're blockading them, but we're not actually firing any bullets or anything, is an American president going to authorize deployment against Chinese ships for that, maybe?
	I don't know.
	Maybe, but even if he did, the Chinese with their missiles, they have the ability to knock out the ports of Taiwan.
	So, okay, you've reopened the ports, but there's nothing there.
	So Taiwan still ends up in this situation.
	And then, okay, you're having to feed 40 million Taiwanese who are not economically productive because their oil refineries are gone, their oil storage is gone, their natural gas is gone, and their power plants are gone.
	And their ports.
	Good luck.
	It's not a winnable conflict, realistically.
	So when you think about Taiwan, you have to think about it, okay, in five years' time, it is going to become part of China.
	So there is this unrealism associated with the way the trade order currently exists.
	There is this deep unrealism that is associated with it.
	And you can see it with any kind of drone technology.
	I won't bore you any further because I'm sensitive for time.
	But then you want to think about robots.
	And you want to think about the...
	A number of manufacturing robots that are deployed.
	There, the Chinese are behind a little bit.
	But if you look at the extent of their growth, only the South Koreans can compete.
	Only the South Koreans can compete.
	Well, the South Koreans gave up having children a long time ago.
	As did the Chinese.
	They absolutely need robots.
	I mean, put it this way.
	I think it's in 20 or 30 years, they won't have enough young people just to look after the old people, let alone do anything else.
	It's a miserable society.
	I mean, liberalism has really failed them because they don't have anything culturally to deal with it.
	Pretty soon, the only people who will be having babies in South Korea are going to be Christians.
	And that's going to adjust everything about Korea and change how Korea works.
	But it's going to still come with a big population decline, one way or another.
	And that means that their willingness to go to war is lower, but perhaps their cynicism when they go to war is also higher.
	In that if we are heading toward extinction anyway.
	Yes.
	Right.
	There are options there that weren't considered in a population that cares deeply for its Yes.
	Also, as South Korea has recently been doing, of course, starting the experiment of mass immigration in order to bolster...
	It's declining population, then it's not going to obviously be still inhabited by the South Koreans who feel that sense of continuity, cultural weight, and actually have a shared experience being next door to China.
	They'd be better off going extinct.
	Right.
	And if they get them from Pakistan, Pakistan is China's biggest military ally.
	So there's that, you know, kink in the plan.
	But you see that the rate of growth in the adoption of robots in China is insane.
	And you see that if this continues, and it's not just the rate, it's also the volume.
	Because the sheer numbers involved, the sheer size of it in China is pretty insane.
	They're behind South Korea and they're behind Singapore, but they're leading the developed world.
	And they're far ahead of everybody else.
	And you see consistently that the United States is not really doing great.
	And that the United States, in part because of their reliance on massive amounts of immigration, has less of an incentive to automate.
	And this is something that you have to think about with automation and with immigration.
	If you have a bit of a labor shortage, one answer for it is automation.
	If you throw bodies at it, you pave the way for a future civil war while reducing your long-term industrial capacity.
	So all of this ties together.
	There are real problems that people who are in the liberal camp refuse to even admit to them being problems.
	They refuse to acknowledge that these are real issues.
	And they think, the money printer has been going better for a long time.
	Why not a few more years?
	We have it good now.
	Why should we worry about the future?
	And what I'm saying here is that when you look at any kind of data point relating to manufacturing, and you can't have a modern society without modern manufacturing, you have a very serious problem.
	A bit of Anton Grasshopper fable, this.
	Yes.
	Now, if you look here at electricity demand, maybe not this one.
	Maybe this one is slightly better.
	Electric power consumption per capita.
	You see China rising very steadily and quickly.
	You see the EU flatlining.
	And you see the United States flatlining.
	Now, the United States has much higher electricity consumption in part because of things like air conditioning, which aren't the norm in Europe.
	Fair enough.
	And with China, there's higher electricity consumption, partly because living standards are improving.
	Fair enough.
	But you can't catch up in terms of robotics if you're not investing massively in electricity, because robots consume electricity.
	So if your population is dwindling, and you want to automate your way out of it, and you have a low population growth, what you need to do, Is automate and electrify, which should mean that your per capita consumption of electricity should be increasing steadily.
	But none of this is happening.
	None of this is happening in the West.
	I mean, it's very much happening in China.
	They're bringing on gigawatts.
	They're bringing insane amounts.
	And the reason their growth rate doesn't look that high is because of the sheer volume.
	You know?
	They're adding capacity to an already large capacity.
	But just in absolute terms, a country like China is adding more demand in a year than the whole consumption of the United Kingdom.
	Whereas over here, you know, I'm constantly being hassled to swap out my light bulbs for energy efficient, my appliances for energy efficient, installed a smart meter, and yet my electricity bill goes up 5x over the time period that I've been making all these energy efficiency gains.
	Because...
	You need...
	There is no prosperity without cheap energy.
	And energy prices in China, I should have included that chart, are probably some of the cheapest in the world, definitely the cheapest in the advanced world.
	Oh, and they just so happen to be growing like a weed.
	And they happen to be growing like a weed.
	So this is the reasoning behind the trade war.
	What I wanted to explain wasn't what happened most recently with tariffs, what happened with this, that, or the other.
	This isn't what I wanted to explain.
	What I wanted to explain is why is there a trade war?
	Is it right to have one?
	And part of the answer is, well, the Chinese are waging a trade war against you.
	You haven't noticed it because money has been getting printed at an insane rate.
	I had another link here, maybe Samsung can find it, where I was showing in which industries are the Chinese most advanced.
	And part of the answer here is that pretty much everything.
	It's really pretty much everything where the Chinese are commanding a massive lead.
	Where they are, this is what I wanted to show, where they're basically far ahead in every industry that matters and with the ability to dominate the rest of the world.
	They've built an industrial ecosystem that focuses on everything from conductors to batteries to robots to industrial machines to autonomous vehicles.
	It sort of relies on sound waves, but for light.
	Drones, you obviously know.
	The batteries go into the drones.
	The industrial robots build the drones.
	The semiconductors and the AI enable you to build more and better drones, etc., etc.
	So they've got leading manufacturers across the board.
	And as I was saying at the beginning, in the industries that count the most, Optical communications, undersea wireless communications, the Chinese are close to having a monopoly position.
	And in each of these industries, you can just scroll through this link.
	It's from the multipolarity substack.
	It's absolutely excellent.
	The multipolarity guys are great.
	You see in advanced materials, this is what you need to build stealth jets.
	This is what you need to be able to have the right kind of coating on your tank for different defense purposes.
	In AI, they're just leading.
	The U.S. is doing okay in some biotech stuff.
	In defense, they're only ahead in small satellites, and that's mainly thanks to Elon Musk.
	That's sort of the genius of one man tipping the scales.
	But across the board, the West has decided to not just forego the jobs on the industrial capacity, but most importantly, the knowledge.
	And if you have a poor industrial base and you don't have the right kind of technical skill, in a shooting war, you're not going to win.
	That's what I wanted to...
	Explain.
	Why is there a trade?
	Well, on a fundamental basis, the US should adopt a posture against China and fire a missile against China if it wants to, where the missile is not dependent on a Chinese supply chain.
	But at the moment, they can't do that.
	At the moment, they can't do it.
	And the Chinese are ahead.
	They have the ability to build better missiles.
	And we saw that with India-Pakistan, where the Rafale jets were absolutely humiliated by Chinese 4.5 generation jets, so the older model, using perhaps the export model of their anti-aircraft missile.
	Not the most advanced one.
	And the French got absolutely humiliated.
	So there's a real problem here.
	That's why there's a trade war.
	And that's why making a deal, okay, over what?
	Why do the Chinese want to make one?
	And why do you want to make one?
	I see.
	Well, the US want to make one.
	Well, they want to change the settlement, certainly.
	Definitely.
	But why would the Chinese accept their terms?
	Well, they're already winning.
	Yes.
	Yep.
	Shall we look at the comments here?
	By all means.
	By all means.
	Anything that you want to read out there?
	Yeah, sure.
	I don't know who Bob Hoskins is, but I will check him out.
	And if he's...
	Someone you like, maybe I'll invite him to my new podcast.
	Oh, he's a great actor.
	Okay.
	He was a great actor.
	He's passed away now, bless him.
	Oh, so I'm...
	But you look very alive.
	Oh, I try.
	I try.
	I'm looking forward to seeing how tofu drag armor stands up to American autocannons.
	And if trinesium radar can detect an F-35.
	Look, in terms of stealth, it's not actually stealthy.
	You can still detect it.
	And in terms of the performance of the weapons, they were doing quite well against the French.
	And the idea that the Chinese don't have the capability and the skill set to win, that's a big assumption.
	Sigilstone17 says, there's a lot of misconceptions about US manufacturing.
	We make tons of stuff.
	Correct.
	Particularly advanced systems.
	Correct.
	We also consume those goods ourselves, so it doesn't look like we're producing anything.
	That's not correct, because I was looking at production, not just exports.
	But equally importantly, if you've lost the ability to make the smaller stuff, you can't...
	Iterate and advance when things are being tested in combat, because that requires a much deeper skill set.
	The hapsification.
	China have also been stealing technology for decades, yes, and now they're innovating their own.
	We should do the same to China and steal their technology to keep up.
	Fair enough.
	But then you can see how that puts a dent in any plan to make a trade deal.
	If both sides accept that they're doing it to steal from the other, what's there to make a deal over?
	Sigilstone17.
	Again, China's factories are going up like tinderboxes because they can't afford to pay their workers and suffer weekly revenge on society trucks of peace.
	I'm not worried about them.
	One of us is.
	Okay.
	All right, then.
	Well, so this weekend past, there was a terror attack in Palm Springs, California.
	And the more I read into this terror attack, the more it became one of the most peculiar, tragic, and farcical.
	That I've ever seen.
	So I didn't actually hear about this.
	I'm hearing about this for the first time.
	Yes, alright.
	So I'll go through the basic details of it first and then we'll talk about why it happened and what brought it all about, okay?
	So the gentleman who...
	Gentleman.
	I'm being far too polite, aren't I?
	Yes.
	The terrorist who committed this...
	Gentleman terrorist.
	I'm sorry.
	It's the Englishness of me.
	I apologise.
	So...
	You don't call him an austere scholar, are you?
	No, no.
	So, the terrorist's name was Guy Edward Bartkus, and he was 25 years old, and as I say, this happened last Saturday morning in California.
	Four were wounded in the attack, and the only person actually killed in the terror attack itself was him.
	Well, that's something, I guess.
	Well, actually, this was entirely by his design.
	He wanted to go out like this.
	He meant to die.
	No, and this is what I mean by how peculiar the attack was.
	There is nothing, rather than, as you say, a theological Islamic mullah or a jihadi terrorist, this is quite the opposite.
	This is not a terror attack born out of theological metaphysics.
	This is a terror attack born out of dark, resenting nihilism and the bitterness for life itself.
	This is actually a war on...
	Right.
	Excuse me.
	A war on life.
	And so...
	Because, I mean, I definitely wouldn't want to roll the dice on getting 72 virgins in California, because there's certainly not going to be women.
	They're all going to be incels.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Maybe pick a different state.
	Is there a state that you prefer?
	Perhaps.
	I don't know, Bangkok or something?
	Actually, you wouldn't find any there either.
	I'd have to think about that one.
	Yeah, you have to think.
	Right.
	So, Akil Davis, the FBI's assistant director, said that this was one of the largest bombing investigations we've had in Southern California, and he added, make no mistake, this is an intentional act of terrorism.
	This was a belief that was given quite soon after the attack, and everything since, obviously, in the past few days.
	So, let's begin to talk a little bit about why this gentleman decided to do what he did, and why, in particular, he chose an IVF clinic to attack.
	So, this word, ethelhism...
	Comes straight from one of the great philosophical beacons of the internet, which is Reddit.
	Am I supposed to know what Ethelism is?
	No, you're not.
	And actually, I sat in the office earlier on like an absolute burke, trying to figure out the philological root of what Ethelism meant.
	And then it was explained to me very kindly by The Independent that actually Ethel is just, of course, life spelt backwards.
	And so it's...
	Right.
	And so, you see, it's very clever because by turning the word life back to front, you become anti-life.
	You want the reverse of life.
	Oh, so it's just a Democrat.
	I was going to go with demonic, but okay.
	Well, same difference.
	Yes, but it's interesting you should say...
	Democrat as well, because this is very much, this ethelism in particular, and I really want to stress this, this is not just mere antinatalism.
	Right.
	This is actually, this is not, even though that is, of course, quite evil in itself, and, you know, the sort of, as you say, the Democrat abortion advocacy and all of these sorts of things, yes, that is, of course, you know, a moral evil.
	However, that fundamentally is concerning itself with, well, it pretends upon consent and right to choose and all these sorts of things.
	And really, it's just about people making informed decisions about whether or not they want to create new life.
	This particular philosophy is entirely concerned with eradicating present life also up here on Earth right now.
	Are they trying to eradicate just humans or all life?
	Are they looking at the sterilisation of the planet?
	So, he was a vegan.
	Right.
	Right?
	He was a vegan.
	So kill the humans, keep the animals.
	Yeah, well, honestly, this is the thing.
	So I read the, or rather, I listened to, because he was very, very generous and left us a half an hour manifesto.
	But quickly on the veganism, I'd rather die than be a vegan as well.
	Yes.
	So I can understand where he's coming from, perhaps.
	But that was his mistake, wasn't it?
	So, one of the things is, so I listened to the manifesto yesterday, purely because I just enjoy spending my time listening to terrorist manifestos.
	It's just how I unwind at the end of the day.
	And Keir Starmer, if you're listening, he does not mean that.
	Hey, Matt, it's how I got into this business.
	Dripping, dripping, dripping with irony, he said.
	So, but I also pulled up, and the thing is, right, so from the actual, also one thing to say is that he had a website that has since been taken down, thankfully.
	Oh, and also the Ethelism Reddit page has now also been scrapped from the internet as well, fortunately.
	They shouldn't be allowed to do this.
	No, and...
	If somebody goes out and commits murder...
	We should be able to evaluate what they think and why they're doing it.
	It's a fundamental freedom to be able to understand the world.
	I have a right to know who's trying to murder me and why are they trying to do it.
	Maybe I agree with them and I'm going to compromise and I'm going to say, whatever's upsetting you, I'm going to stop doing this.
	Fair enough.
	But if somebody wants to murder me, I have the right to hear their case.
	It's insane that they get to just erase history as it is being written.
	Yeah, and what's significant as well for us is that when you talk about people like that, this particular subreddit had 12,000 people, which in the grand scheme of things are like, well, 12,000 in the entire population of humanity is not a big number.
	But if you have 12,000 people who think like this and that...
	And if you get 12,000 blind followers, I can take over a country.
	Right.
	But it's not a subset of the whole population.
	It's a subset of Democrats, and all the rest of them probably just hadn't discovered the blog yet.
	Yeah, potentially.
	Yeah, I mean, it's a slight tangent, but there's a particular Reddit as well, just called Child Free, and it has over 1.5 million members on this Reddit, which to me is just...
	incomprehensibly vile, personally.
	But that's more of a tangent.
	So I'll get back to what I was saying about...
	Oh, sure.
	Right?
	There are two types of people in this world.
	There are...
	People who agree with him and stupid people.
	And this is, of course, always a good hallmark of a terrorist.
	He would have enjoyed himself on Twitter then.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Not quite as much as I do, because I quite enjoyed the debate, actually.
	But yes.
	So he also...
	And one of the other things as well that he goes on to mention is the fact that he hates consumerism.
	Right?
	He hates consumerism.
	He even says that...
	He says, so...
	This is a quote.
	He says, so the reason I'm wanting to get out of this...
	The F out of this whole life game...
	As he terms it, is basically, I guess it comes down to, I'm not interested in being a life addict, right?
	So, I never really wanted to do this life drug.
	And he goes on to talk about the fact that, basically, he never consented to be alive.
	And so, because all life is unconsensual.
	We therefore need to wage war against life itself because it didn't come about by consent.
	I mean, if you cram enough insane left-wing ideas into Californian schoolchildren, you're going to get this, aren't you?
	This argument has been constantly made by atheists, even sort of medieval Arab atheists.
	There was one poet arguing that I...
	I don't know what I've done for my parents to punish me with life, and I've refused to do this to anyone else.
	And this has always been a view that comes from the nihilistic fringe, which has always been with us, that we're angry at humanity and God for having given us a good thing called life.
	It's the spirit of the ingrate.
	It's the spirit of the proud ingrate.
	This is why, again, this is a genuinely demonic way of looking at the world, in that I'm too good for this life, I'm too proud for this life, and pride being the sort of original sin of the devil, and life is a punishment that I must endure with absolutely no joy, and extinguishing it is what's good.
	So this is a...
	This is a spiritual position that he's taken while claiming to be a materialist, I understand.
	Yes.
	But also it goes back to his point that he rages against consumerism as it is the de facto standard of life, but seems to lack any appreciation for the fact that there have been ages in civilizations where getting out of bed in the morning wasn't just linked to must-consume.
	Actually, people had greater...
	And also, you're free to choose that life today if you want to.
	Yeah.
	But he could have just gone and lived in nature, right?
	Like one of those YouTubers who just makes the big log cabin just totally disconnected.
	Oh, I love those videos.
	Right, they're awesome.
	Right, and that would have instantly turned him from a terrorist into a chad.
	But he decided not to do that.
	He decided not to do that.
	And he says, yeah, to go back to your spiritual point for us, again, he says this whole life thing is not intelligent design.
	He basically says all life is circumstantial.
	We just happen to be in the right place of the universe.
	And life just came about by accident.
	And even if that were true, and even if that were its case, the idea that, therefore, you could...
	Gain no joy out of existence.
	When he talks about consent, I didn't consent to being alive.
	Well, some of the greatest pleasures in life can arrive without consent.
	Don't quote that.
	I just realised that.
	Develop that idea.
	That is interesting.
	Where were you about to go?
	What I was going to go with is you don't consent to meeting strangers in public.
	Oh, I see.
	You don't consent to meeting strangers in public, and yet somehow they can spawn the most remarkable friendships and can create friends for your entire life.
	Or you might not consent to what you get put on your plate when you come home from work and your wife's made you, or your girlfriend's made you dinner or whatever, and you'll be like, oh my god, this is a great dish.
	You know, like so many things in life.
	Because joy, so much joy can be found in spontaneity.
	Get your head out the door.
	What a win for phrasing.
	Day two on the job, ladies and gentlemen.
	Day two.
	But look, the point that I want to make is that for a lot of atheists, there's this problem of evil that they use to justify atheism, but there's just as equally a problem of good.
	As in, if the universe is random and sort of there's nothing to it and what have you, why is there so much good in it?
	Why do we have an innate sense of good?
	So this guy had some sense of good that then got completely perverted and directed in a way that made him hate everything because the only good can come from rational consent.
	As though we were reasonable creatures.
	If you were rational about your family, you would be an evil human being.
	If you were completely logical about how you loved your children and how you loved your wife, and there wasn't an element of your love that was fundamentally irrational and that was truly committed, you would be a horrific human being.
	And so the poverty of the education that someone this young must have received...
	And the poverty of life in general that he must have been in for him to think this way.
	That's heartbreaking.
	He was given the usual mishmash of left-wing liberal ideas, and the poor sort of actually believed most of them.
	Yes.
	He mentions in the manifesto that he has thought this way since a very, very early age, since before he could even actually begin to articulate it.
	He's not thought it, he's been indoctrinated.
	When he was three years old, when he started receiving this shit, he wasn't thinking it through.
	Somebody was telling it to him.
	And especially if you're growing up in California, of all places, the height of material hedonism, then, of course, it's only going to exacerbate the problem.
	Yeah, and then another thing that he goes on to say is that I see life as a kind of slavery to a DNA molecule, which I just thought was...
	Reddit tier.
	Yeah, that is a Reddit tier quote, right?
	That's the ultimate Reddit tier.
	That is just, you know, the meme of the big brain and he's sitting on the brain and everything.
	On the throne of brain.
	It's really...
	It's embarrassing, man.
	All he needed was one sensible male teacher once in his life to clip him around the back of the head and say, don't be such a twat.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	All he would have taken.
	No, there's some beautiful quotes there.
	Could you read them?
	Yeah, well, I'll go through more of them.
	I actually wanted to, but before I did that, I actually just wanted to press on the IVF thing, right?
	The fact that he actually chose to attack, to bomb an IVF clinic.
	And also another thing to say was that he actually meant to film the bombing.
	Right.
	Which didn't quite happen as he intended to, because I think that the camera was caught in the explosion.
	So there's a Four Lions-esque quality to this, which is why I mentioned the fact that it was all a bit farcical at the beginning.
	Right.
	Yep.
	So, but as regards to the IVF matter, it's the fact that he looked upon IVF treatment with such cynicism and such disdain for the fact that, well, these scumbags have not been able to have children.
	And what I just find so...
	Disgusting about this view is that obviously it's not an experience that I've had, but I've heard stories of, you know, all couples, parents, whoever it may be, that have desperately, you know, that have spent years in anguish and sorrow over the fact that they've not been able to have a child, right?
	And so when he's there talking about the fact that all of this, you know, life is...
	Life is cruel and harsh and bitter, and really, he even goes on, if you want me to read one of those quotes, he says that, where was it here?
	It says something, sorry.
	Yes, the default is deprivation.
	You're being whipped constantly, and the most you can hope for is not being whipped, right?
	That was his view.
	No, actually, the IVF treatment and the ability to allow that couple to conceive would have brought a joy to them, an immeasurable joy, an immeasurable belief and gratification.
	So it's a hatred of the deliberate creation of life.
	I have my problems with IVF for different reasons, but his problem is with people who want life.
	He doesn't understand IVF in full.
	He thinks that it's just about that, and he's excited about...
	He's animated by people wanting life so much that they would go out of their way to create it, and he thinks that in particular is evil.
	Yeah, no, it's absolutely, to use a colloquial term from my way, it's absolutely barmy.
	This guy watched the Marvel rubbish and thought that Thanos was the good guy and that he was brilliant for seeing that he was the good guy.
	No, I don't think so either.
	Because he talks about...
	Again, quite the opposite, because even to go to the cinema is a material act, right?
	And one of the things that he says is the fact, in the manifesto, is he talks about the fact that he just hated being invited to things, going to social events.
	It's like everything in life is just some sort of addictive drug to keep you going through it, right?
	How sad.
	But what a maladjusted...
	Human being.
	Was he having an allergic reaction to dopamine or something?
	I couldn't answer that question for you, I'm afraid.
	I think he perverted himself into getting his dopamine from hatred.
	I think he simply thought of himself as so far above everybody, again, pride, that everything must be destroyed because it's not good enough for me.
	It's the sort of complete disregard of any kind of love.
	It's the hatred of love, really.
	These people want to love a child, therefore I hate them.
	People love life, therefore I hate them.
	People love to hang out with each other, therefore I hate them.
	It's just a very depraved, demonic hatred of life.
	I kind of want to take a look at his parents now.
	Parents and his teachers.
	Yes, I did actually look to find them.
	But I don't think they've revealed...
	Well, I could have perhaps digged a little further.
	But nonetheless, I felt like we had enough here.
	But within the manifesto itself, of course, there are a whole slew of contradictions.
	You know, in the sense that he rages against the fact that we live in an imperfect world, but then feels trapped by the fact that there's no perfect way to end his life.
	Right?
	Like, he's looking for the perfect way to end his life.
	And he's...
	He wants, yes.
	But he's angry at the world for not having it.
	Yes, and he also stresses the importance of the fact that all life is unconsensual, and therefore he must obviously be some sort of purist when it comes to consent.
	But those four people who were wounded in the bombing didn't consent to being bombed that day, did they?
	I'm really curious now what his perfect form of death was, if you put all this thought into it.
	What does spending years and years thinking about this?
	Get you.
	What he did, I assume, was the means at his disposal.
	What I have in mind is the final scene of Doctor Strangelove.
	Like, riding on the back of a nuclear bomb and sort of...
	Oh, right.
	Must have been spectacular, whatever it was.
	Yeah.
	What he expected for himself.
	So really, you know, there's no other way to put this.
	This was a man devoid of logic.
	He had absolutely no sense of logic.
	But fortunately, you don't have to be one of those people, because...
	Nicely done, sir.
	Because we have here a seminar between Carl and Dr. Nima Parvini, the academic agent, who has constructed the trivium of classical education, foundations of writing, logic and rhetoric.
	And I do believe that this is a seminar, isn't it?
	That's going to be on Thursday at 7 o 'clock.
	Yep, so there you are.
	If you want to learn how to be logical and not go and blow up an IVF clinic, You can go and join this seminar and prevent yourself from...
	I think it's a bit broader than that, but...
	Yeah, that's a bit of a low bar.
	Well, I was trying to think of it illogically.
	And so, but really, and this was the final kicker to this entire story, because actually, within...
	And then, so, okay, you have to ask yourself, okay, well, if he believes all this, monstrous, ridiculous as it is, then why now?
	Why did he choose now?
	Of all times at the age of 25 to do this.
	And the fact of the matter is, there is actually quite a concrete answer to this question.
	Because although I couldn't get the exact quote up, because it was done on a FAQ on his website, which has now been taken down, and so therefore I couldn't access it.
	The fact of the matter is that he seemed to have a friend.
	And this friend's name was Sophie...
	And she died on April 20th at the age of 27 in Fox Island, Washington.
	And when I say died, what, to be more specific about it, I actually mean is that she seems to have been quite as deranged as he was and asked her boyfriend to shoot her through the head while she was sleeping.
	Right?
	Yes.
	So there seems to have been something of a suicide pact here, in fact.
	And when the boyfriend did that to her, he wasn't wrong for this world.
	But you can understand, this is one of the most absurd things I've ever looked into.
	Everything about this is demented to the extreme.
	So he was clearly emotionally attached to a woman who had a different boyfriend than him.
	She was mental and had her boyfriend kill her.
	And then he went and took it out in a range against people who want to have children.
	Seems to be the case.
	There are layers here.
	Firstly, that nobody explained to him that, look, if a woman is involved with someone else, you should just lose interest.
	Then this sort of confusion of love and death.
	Then this hatred of life that they must have shared, that he must have shared with her.
	The fact that she wasn't sincere enough about it to be with him rather than with someone else.
	The tragic possibility that together they could have been happy if they were slightly better people.
	And the fact that it ended this way with them just needless destruction of life.
	I mean, the extent of...
	Anger with God, the anger with creation, the anger with life itself.
	It's really scary.
	It's all a product of modern liberalism.
	You have to contrast these things.
	You have to think, if I say I love my country more than I love other countries, that's evil.
	But if I adopt an ideology that sort of rejects life as a premise and rejects good as a premise, even if I don't follow these acts, that's acceptable.
	So there are these inversions that we're constantly being subjected to, the sort of mental chaos that we're made to navigate our way through.
	And the younger generation is much more vulnerable to it because the children's art that they consume is worse.
	Because the parenting is worse and it's all about consent.
	Right.
	Because there's no values involved and then you're surprised when you get this kind of lunacy.
	The whole thing is deeply sad and tragic.
	Every element of it.
	It is.
	It's deeply tragic.
	Horrific.
	But how did he finish himself off then?
	What did he do?
	Well, yes, he died in the explosion at the IVF clinic.
	But how did that work?
	Was it a vest, or what was it?
	No, I don't believe.
	I believe that the explosion came from his car, which was parked next to it, from what I could determine.
	And he was in the car?
	Yes.
	Right.
	So the thing is, as well, right, that, yeah, okay, so we didn't consent to being here, if that is the case.
	But you know what?
	Yes, some years have been better than others for me, but I wouldn't take back a single year of my life.
	I just feel like being here is the greatest privilege.
	You know, better to be a part of the world than never experience it, even though you'd never know what you missed, right?
	It's a true joy.
	It's a tremendous privilege.
	It is a tremendous privilege to be here.
	And so I thought that I'd round off not on...
	This man who wanted so much attention and I was loathe to give it to him, but rather to just go and forward you to Carl's speech from the Natalist Conference in America, because fundamentally these are the sorts of voices that should be prevailing in this world.
	No, it is good to have children.
	It is good to create new life.
	And it is good...
	To seek out actively the joys of humanity because there are fundamentally so many.
	Absolutely.
	Okay, very good.
	Thank you.
	Do we have any video comments?
	Shall I read the...
	Oh, you're sure, yeah.
	Yes.
	So...
	For $1, the Habsification says, on the mild positive news, Tommy Robinson is going to be freed.
	Yes, I just heard about those.
	Do we know when this is going to happen?
	Next week, I think.
	Presumably that will be covered on the podcast tomorrow.
	Yeah, excellent.
	Okay.
	So, for $2, Siglestone17 says, Got to give him credit for skimming himself out of the gene pool instead of being bitchy on the internet 24-7 like the rest of his cohort.
	I'd rather be bitchy on the internet.
	To be honest with you, he actually managed to do plenty of both in his time.
	One dollar, thank you, from Anne Hedonist.
	Bad timing for your name to come up after that segment.
	Best worst phrasing of all time.
	That is getting clipped for sure.
	Oh, good.
	Again, Siglestone, $2.
	Petition to replace Luca with a cardboard cutout of a giga chat.
	He will still be doing the voice.
	That's very kind.
	Thank you, Siglestone.
	Ethelism from Alan Trusk, $2.
	Thank you.
	Ethelism was invented by YouTuber...
	Emendem, who was active in the atheist community in the early 2010s.
	It is atheism.
	Much to answer for.
	It is atheism.
	Right, we might be coming up on time.
	All right, should we do some of the video comments and then we see if we've got something to come back to you?
	Thank you.
	Hey, guys.
	Yeah, sounds awesome, this webinar that you're doing, and I'd love to join, but at the time it's on, it's four in the morning.
	where I am and yeah I can't get up that early I'm sorry I really can't swing that far Okay, so two points, Craig.
	One, show some bloody commitment and get up early.
	Two, you can actually watch the re-1 on the page, so you can just watch it later.
	Any more?
	Okay, right.
	We'll do a couple from subscribers then.
	Simon says, the Dems were probably hoping Biden would pass on during his term so that Harris could step into the role.
	Yes, very likely.
	Matt Urin.
	Can't be Matthew Urin, can it?
	Okay, well, the question is, what are the odds Biden had it before he ran in 2020?
	Very high.
	I believe.
	Oh, my donut salesman, Thingol Scotia Swindon, says, to quote the Babylon Bee, Biden uses an auto pen to sign do not resuscitate order.
	Yes.
	I'll do another one.
	But who was running things for Biden?
	Well, that is the key question, isn't it?
	Says Brandy Bloomfield.
	During Biden's term, we thought it might be Obama, but then Obama was in office and reviewed him as a puppet also.
	He was obviously a junior politician with no experience.
	Did he graduate to be the puppet master?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Who the hell was running it?
	That's a real promotion.
	Yes, this entire time.
	Do you want to read something from yours?
	Yeah, sure.
	AZ Desert Rat says, one of the biggest things that the US will have in case war breaks out is the skilled laborers to build the ships, tanks, etc.
	The biggest things that the US will not have, I'm assuming.
	There's just a massive shortage of skilled laborers in the United States.
	That's exactly it.
	If you outsource the manufacturing, the labor atrophies and the skills are lost.
	This is absolutely correct.
	Kevin Fox says, you also have to understand that if the...
	Poo hits the fan.
	China will take Japan and South Korea within days and will do so with minimal damage to the industries, so their production facilities will only grow.
	Add to that the fact that Europe now has virtually no heavy industry after years of farming it out to China and India on the premise of net zero, and we are stuffed.
	That is partly true.
	There is still a good degree of industry.
	I'm not convinced they can take South Korea and Japan that easily, especially Japan.
	But these are real concerns, and they can do enormous damage to these countries, and these countries' ability to retaliate isn't great.
	I mean, the Japanese have the third largest navy, I believe, after China and the United States, and it's quite high-tech and advanced, and they're in the process of rearming.
	They're in an okay position to do it.
	They're not easy to handle, I would say.
	But also they are obviously being brought to the knees again by their own demographic collapse.
	And, well, all of East Asia is being brought down to the knees by demographic collapse.
	The East Asian reaction to the liberal system has been very severe.
	Alpha of the Betas says China has gained a great technological advantage by investing nothing in research and development, correct, while putting all its eggs in the industrial espionage market.
	And this could have been seen, this could have been foreseen.
	If the leaders of the West were less arrogant and understood that people of a different culture are naturally your competitors, they would not have gotten themselves into this mess.
	But they assume that all of humanity are just a bunch of economic cogs, and that's all they care about, and they're all interchangeable.
	So the logic that's driving offshoring is the same logic that's driving...
	Immigration.
	It's the same mindset animating both.
	And it has zero respect for humans and human nature.
	From Samson needs the trivium.
	No, he doesn't.
	Samson is brilliant.
	Everybody needs the trivium.
	Well, maybe we all do, actually.
	Yeah, fair enough.
	Automation or immigration.
	Pick one because you can't have both.
	Correct.
	Europe has picked the latter and is now going to SHIT.
	Correct.
	Perhaps America has the opportunity to learn and pick automation.
	We'll see.
	This is the battle that's being fought over both immigration and reshoring of industry.
	Kurt says, with China being classified as a developing nation, all of their shipping is subsidized by the rest of the world.
	Yeah.
	The whole mindlessness about these rules and about how China and India are treated as though they were children as opposed to civilizations older than the West in some cases, that's just insane.
	Someone online says, Well, I said I was pressured to do it.
	I didn't say I did it.
	Right, so for comments from mine, I've got Then Scotty of Swindon.
	This is a ridiculous mentality because only the living can consent.
	And if there is no God, there is no design nor purpose to your existence.
	And so your genesis was not a matter of consent or not.
	You cannot consent to something when you did not exist before, not only because you have no existence from which your consent could be drawn or not, Can be done for Biden.
	Yes.
	Very good points.
	Very sorry, Scotty.
	The manifesto did actually say that you'd say that, so...
	Checkmate, I guess.
	Otherwise, you're quite right.
	Base Ape says, people don't have ideas, ideas have people.
	Almost no ideas people hold come from their brain and are likely ancient ideas that possess you, not the other way around.
	I think there's something to think in there.
	Yes and no.
	I have a problem with it, but I can't articulate it now.
	Well, we're in the final minute, so I'll let it go too.
	And then an honourable mention, I see, from Biggie Bigfoot.
	I just wanted to congratulate Firas and Luca for joining Loadseed as a full-time host.
	I can't wait to see what content you both produce for the website.
	Thank you very much.
	It's greatly appreciated.
	Thank you.
	Excellent.
	Well, thank you for being excellent co-hosts.
	Thank you for being, well, some of you, I'm sure, excellent audience, some of you less so, but up your game.
	And see you in the next one.

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