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	Hello, and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1303 for Tuesday, the 25th of November, 2025.
	I'm your host, Luca, joined today by Firas and Nate.
	And today, we're going to be talking to you all about how the youth are drowning in debt.
	We're then going to talk about the growing tensions between China and Japan.
	And then Nate is going to explain to us how to, how he single-handedly created the master plan for saving British democracy.
	Oh, yes.
	Which we're very much looking forward to.
	Before we go into the segments, though, I just want to alert you to the daily channel.
	Now, this is, of course, not new, but as you can see there, it's ticking up over 90,000 subscribers now.
	And so, if you weren't aware of it, I just wanted to let you know it's where we go on and do just have some off-the-cuff remarks and some musings, some meditations on things in the news that have grabbed our attention.
	And so, there's lots of interesting stuff on there.
	If you're not subscribed to it yet, please go do so because it's a good channel.
	All right, then.
	Well, Firas.
	So, everything that we seem to see today involves placing more and more burdens on the youth, with the old essentially using them as cash cows.
	Usury is responsible for a big chunk of this.
	And today, I'm going to talk about a specific aspect of usury, the buy now, pay later business model.
	And here we have Paris Hilton promoting this through a company called Klarna, which is one of the biggest providers in this field.
	And she will inform you how to buy a nice suit for your very ugly dog.
	I don't know why you'd have a very priority.
	Yes, exactly.
	But this is a growing business model, and you sort of see now Deliveroo working with Klarna.
	If you're still using Deliveroo, by the way, please stop.
	It's bad for your health, it's bad for your country, it's bad for everybody around you.
	Boycott, cultural boycott.
	Complete boycott.
	But anyway, now you can buy a kebab on credit, thanks to Deliveroo.
	If that isn't very wonderful, I don't know what to say to you.
	Sorry, Drowd.
	I don't know if it'll be your overarching point, but it's a sign of a really bad economy.
	I'm going to get you.
	Buy now, pay later.
	I am going to get to that.
	Yes, absolutely.
	It really is.
	You can buy useless stuff at HM, again, with Buy Now and Pay Later.
	And there are a huge number of providers, so please don't assume that I'm picking on Klarna or anything like that.
	I'm picking on all of them.
	They're all crap.
	Exactly.
	We hate them all.
	PayPal, Pay In3, Monzo, ClearPay, Zitch, Zilch, I don't know, whatever it is.
	The point is, they're all bad for you.
	And they are deeply predatory.
	Now, if you look at the market data for this from June 2023 by a sort of specialist research team, the Behavioral Insights team, they will tell you that not only is this growing, it is going to double, and it has indeed more than doubled in one year, the use of it.
	The majority of users are young.
	They're under 40.
	But everybody is now borrowing more.
	They are using them for, people are using these things for day-to-day essentials.
	And this is part of the business model.
	I'm going to get to that.
	Half of the users are saying that because the prices are much higher, thank you, Rachel Reeves.
	They are using a buy now, pay later a lot more often.
	They are using them a lot more if they are struggling or squeezed.
	So this is aimed at the poorer people, essentially.
	And those struggling or squeezed, the poor, are struggling even more.
	They've had to use money out of the little savings that they have, and they've had to delay buying other essentials in order to pay down these growing debts.
	And the lure here, the attraction is that, oh, you can just buy it now and it's at 0% interest.
	You don't have to worry about it.
	But, haha, there is a hidden reality that you should keep in mind.
	Now, when you want to understand this kind of business model, you want to think about casinos.
	One study on casinos, and you can find this replicated endlessly, it's always the same with casinos, the vast majority of their revenue, something like 80, 90% of the revenue, comes from a small percentage, 5-10% of the actual clients.
	And the public perception is that this is harmless fun.
	You can just gamble a little bit, enjoy yourself, whatever.
	But for the casinos, they don't make money from the people who are engaging in a bit of harmless fun.
	The people that know how to say no are not the gamblers, best, right?
	Exactly.
	It's the ones that go, oh, I just want more, it won't hurt.
	Just one more, it won't hurt.
	Exactly.
	I've lost it all.
	I need to try and get all of it back.
	One lat.
	Yeah, no.
	Exactly.
	And it's the same exact thing with the buy now, pay later model.
	It's the same predatory behavior.
	And you see this across the board with debates on drugs, on gambling, on all kinds of vices where the religious right will tell you this is illegal, it should be banned, it is immoral.
	And the libertarians will say, oh, but who are you to limit people's choice?
	Well, if an industry relies on predation on the most vulnerable to make its money, we as Christians should keep these people in mind and try to protect them.
	You don't sit there and say, well, you know, that drug dealer is just that they're fine dealing those drugs.
	Exactly.
	that person's choice it's like exactly exactly you you You don't do it that way.
	Now, the way that these companies market themselves is quite interesting.
	This is a study on the psychology that is used in order to get people hooked into it.
	And then you go to payday and you've sort of made your budget and you want to buy a little extra.
	And they will tell you, well, why don't you use buy now, pay later?
	Why should you pay for it in one go?
	You can feel a little bit richer.
	And even the colors that they use, you will notice that this is noted in this piece here.
	You will notice that if you're dealing with an established bank, their cards will be dark gray, black, navy, colors that convey seriousness and responsibility.
	Whereas with these things, they're using Paris Hilton to promote their stuff.
	And they're using pink and lime green and other colors.
	And this is deliberate.
	They're going after...
	Very good, isn't it?
	It's right.
	Yes.
	Exactly, exactly.
	Non-serious, non-threatening.
	They want to make you feel as you did as a kid without any responsibility and you can sort of escape it with a little luxury.
	And they rely on people using this kind of thing in a downturn, using a psychological, if you're into behavioral economics thing called the lipstick effect.
	The lipstick effect is basically that in a recession when times are hard, women will still buy a lot of lipstick because it's seen as a small luxury as something that, okay, it's expensive, but I'm going to enjoy myself.
	And that's the same exact kind of appeal.
	It very much relies on a good understanding of human psychology and of our vulnerabilities to sort of lure you into just, why don't you just borrow some money?
	It's a zero interest.
	It's zero interest.
	You don't have to worry about it.
	It's just zero interest.
	But it's not really like that because the consequences, when you actually look at them, are quite bad and they're happening at a time where the economy is terrible.
	So 20% of adults in Britain are using these kinds of buy now, pay later schemes.
	It's a huge amount.
	That's a huge market.
	That's a huge market.
	And the rate of increase is 25% from 2002.
	So these guys are making record levels of growth.
	And so you will see them, you will see the users saying the typical user in this case is a woman.
	And this one is used here as an example who says, I'd like being able to split the cost of something over a few months helps to build my credit score.
	But some months definitely cost more than others.
	I mean, they are right in saying that you have to use credit to have a good credit score, which is also part of the whole system, the whole sort of financial and monetary system.
	The structure is designed in a way.
	It's designed in a way to be predatory, to be fair.
	Like you can't get a mortgage unless you have accessed high amounts of credit.
	I mean, it's ridiculous.
	I could go to a bank and be like, look, I've paid my rent this much for this many years.
	That would mean I could have bought a house by now, give me a mortgage.
	And they go, no.
	Because you've not took out a loan.
	Exactly.
	What?
	Exactly.
	I've been responsible with my money.
	You've helped purposely put yourself at risk.
	It's just nonsense, isn't it?
	You've avoided risk, and now we're punishing you for shit.
	So the objective of the system is to get you addicted to usury and to get you dependent so that the most vulnerable can have their assets stripped.
	It's one of those things that when you grow up and you learn this, you're like, that actually doesn't make any sense.
	It makes sense from a sort of a villainous evil perspective.
	But it doesn't make sense from like a, well, this is just critical thought.
	Like I should be able to do this because I've had this many years of rent.
	And this is, again, one of my sort of Tim Fall hat theories of why they're dumbing people down and not teaching them critical thinking skills because otherwise everyone would go.
	The system is raped.
	This is nonsense.
	Give me my mortgage.
	This is usury.
	This is evil.
	You're trying to trap me into debt.
	This is deliberate.
	And that's why I'm going through the series.
	We're sort of covering different angles.
	I think a couple of weeks ago, I covered how usury is being used against the young in the form of student loans.
	And this is another example of how the young are being encouraged to buy into a usurious system that is intended to break them.
	This is not coincidental.
	This is deliberate.
	We're going to go through the series.
	We're going to cover these things.
	We're going to talk about them because they should be talked about and because it is evil.
	30% of 25 to 34 year olds are using these kinds of schemes.
	So you're getting a third of your population trapped into debt initially at an age where they haven't built up any assets.
	And in the extreme cases, you find people using these schemes to pay for groceries.
	Just your basic everyday needs.
	Exactly.
	I can't buy them, so I've got to do buy now, pay letter.
	I mean, that's just, that's atrocious.
	That's awful.
	Like, you shouldn't be preying on the poor in this way.
	No, no.
	No.
	And in this example, it's a single mother.
	And the summary of this is that because she's accumulated a lot of debt, she's trapped in a cycle of debt.
	Because she couldn't afford one month, two months, three months, she got hooked on it, being perhaps financially illiterate.
	You can blame her and say she's being irresponsible.
	But you must also, in the same way that you punish the drug dealer, punish the companies that are dealing the drug of cheap credit or the illusion of cheap credit because it's not cheap credit when you don't pay and stop them from doing this.
	I mean, if you blow that out to a bigger scale, I mean, the country.
	Let's blow that out to a bigger scale.
	That's exactly where we're going.
	Well, I was just going to say, are you going to blow it out to like a national level?
	As in like the country's debt and the fact that we borrow money to pay off our debt.
	Not in this segment, but that's what we do, right?
	I mean, that's just insane.
	That's exactly what's happening.
	Everyone would look at this now and go, that's really sad.
	How did that woman get like that?
	That's exactly what we're doing on a national level.
	So I posted that Kronos is seen as the evil god in Greek mythology because he was eating his children.
	Yes.
	That's exactly what's happening.
	Wealth is being transferred from the poor, from the young, to the rich and the old, and that is inherently destructive.
	And the mechanism in which this is done is usury.
	And what's more as well, these young people can't get jobs because of being out-competed by millions of foreign laborers.
	Who are working for a fraction of the wages.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	They're not from here, so they're not going to sort of buy houses and so on.
	They're going to live five people in a room and just have a completely different structure of consumption.
	The Guardian here says, and we have to agree on the left when they're right, even if we don't agree with the solutions.
	Their solution here in the Guardian, because they're a bunch of communists, is that we should tax the rich so that we give everybody free money when they become an adult.
	No, you should encourage saving and financial responsibility and ban usury preying on the young and the weak.
	That would teach people things.
	I know.
	That would teach people responsibility.
	Can't have that.
	None of that.
	None of that.
	That is verboten, sir.
	That is verboten.
	So they did a survey on this kind of thing, and they found that too many people in the UK without a financial cushion, especially young people, they have found that a third of 25 to 34-year-olds have negative wealth.
	Now, if you're between 25 and 34, your priorities should be building up some savings to buy a house and start a family.
	If you can't do that, the natural consequence is going to be, let me enjoy the small pleasures of life now by using things like Klarna.
	Let me forget about reproducing.
	Let me forget about having a family and a meaningful life and therefore become a debt slave into your 70s because now you can get a 50-year mortgage in America.
	And if it's coming to America, it's probably coming to Britain.
	So we know how this whole thing works, you know.
	47% of the young in Wales have negative wealth.
	That is more debt than assets.
	47%.
	Catastrophic.
	And it's only in London where the rate is low, and by low, I mean just 18%.
	So almost a fifth of adults in London where there are opportunities, where people should be thriving, have negative wealth.
	The average net debt is over eight grand.
	Yes.
	What are you doing with your life?
	That's so bad.
	And as a percentage of average income or starting income, so that's more than a third of a year's salary.
	You know?
	That's terrible.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	And then you add student loans to it, and you see where this goes.
	But the intent is clearly to cripple the young by making them the slaves of usurers.
	Especially if you are, because you know, back when I used to live in London for about five years, and most of that time I was just living month to month, you know, off of the salary that I had.
	And so, even though I didn't obviously go down this route, you can see how it would be so enticing to just the ordinary worker.
	Yeah, I briefly did because I was just very ignorant about how these things worked, and it was just destructive.
	Yeah, it destroyed my life for two or three years of just struggling to just get out of a debt trap, essentially.
	The increases in indebtedness are also worth noting.
	So, 25% increase in real indebtedness between 2010 and now.
	And then you ask yourself, well, why are the young being radicalized?
	I don't know.
	Maybe because you're trapping them in eternal debt and you don't give them any outlets like a normal, healthy family life that would make them functional members of society.
	It's just a stab in the dark here.
	Could be wrong.
	Could be wrong.
	And it goes on to explain how having some assets, even just a thousand pounds in savings, actually has a positive long-term impact.
	Why?
	Because you have some kind of stability and responsibility, and you're encouraged to have it.
	Instead of Paris Hilton encouraging financial irresponsibility and borrowing money to buy a freaking kebab for crying out loud, for God's sake, what is this?
	So you see this process of more and more youth being trapped in debt, and it is just disturbing.
	Now, I want to mention the broader economy that you alluded to.
	17% growth in cards in the last year.
	Remember, the economy is barely growing at 1%.
	The economy in Britain is barely growing at 1%.
	12% growth in personal loans, 15% in mortgages, just 2% in autofinance because people are using their cars until they die.
	Because that's the sort of last priority in terms of lifestyles.
	But the fact that cards and personal loans are growing at such an atrocious rate that is so much larger than the growth in the economy shows you that what is happening is that you are handing over a bigger share of the economy to the usurers.
	That's what's happening.
	Because the economy is not growing at 15% or 17% or 12%.
	It's growing at barely 1%.
	So what's happening is a transfer of wealth.
	More of the GDP of this country, more of the national wealth that is created every year, national income, I should say, that is created every year, is being transferred to moneylenders.
	And that is an inherently bad and evil thing that you do not want for your society.
	Now, Klarna is getting into a bit of trouble because consumer credit losses grew by 17% last year, meaning that as of the first quarter of 2025, a lot less people are paying their debts.
	Now, this essentially means that the consumer is screaming.
	They're borrowing this money and they're not getting anything for it.
	They're getting cheap goods.
	They're getting kebabs, for God's sake.
	They're getting all kinds of pointless things that don't help them build a prosperous future.
	All kinds of consumer goods and consumption that doesn't benefit them in the long run.
	But they're not worried about this.
	They're saying that this 136 million of money that isn't being paid is just 0.5% of the total of the total borrowing.
	That's astonishing.
	So it's a very small increase in the amount of money that they're not being paid.
	Why is that so?
	Because the growth in borrowing is so high.
	And a quarter of those using Buy Now Pay Later are using them for groceries compared to just 14% a year ago.
	This is atrocious data.
	If you were in the Treasury, you should be screaming about this, about your people becoming more and more indebted.
	They don't care.
	They don't care at all.
	They're not bothered by it in any shape, way, or form, because they don't care about you.
	And if you look at the rest of the Xperian report, sorry, let's go to that Experian report.
	It just shows you how much the increase in borrowing is.
	And the result of this is predictable.
	So the Financial Times is saying that more young adults are leaving Britain because of low salaries, rising taxes, etc., etc.
	You're not getting anything except the debt cycle.
	And if you keep on allowing this, if you keep on allowing this kind of immigration, you're going to have to suffer the consequences of brain drain, which is a massive problem in the third world, where the best and brightest leave and the most indebted and the most burdened and the least productive remain.
	And so you get more radicalism of the left, but also of the right eventually, because it is obvious that the root cause of all of this is usury.
	So this is a very destructive and evil cycle.
	And because of the nature of how it makes money, it obviously has every incentive to keep that as a fundamentally predatory.
	It's fundamentally predatory.
	It doesn't work without that small minority that ends up relying enormously on debt.
	And I think you see this in this page about the number of young adults who are being trapped in debt, who just barely graduated from school, from college, from university.
	They don't really understand finances as well as they should because they're not taught about them.
	And this culture...
	Perhaps intentionally.
	Yes, this culture is hostile to the idea of responsibility and accountability.
	You're always a victim.
	And so 23% of people between the ages of 18 and 24 are in financial difficulty.
	Now, it's slower than the rest of the adult group, but that's only because the economy gets worse as you get older.
	That's not a good thing.
	That's not a good thing.
	It's not a healthy sign.
	Unemployment is a big driver of it, meaning that there is an oversupply of labor.
	Thanks, Boris Wave.
	Thank you, Open Door Immigration.
	This is wonderful.
	But when you get that big supply of labor competing with the young on starter jobs, you get this kind of indebtedness because they have nowhere else to go.
	They are supposed to be adults.
	They're supposed to be living their lives.
	They're supposed to be responsible.
	And you trap them in low income, meaning that whatever money that they borrow is harder to repay in the future because wages aren't growing.
	We all know that real wages in this country have been declining since 2007, when essentially Britain stopped exporting energy and flung open the doors to immigration even more.
	And so you see this Becoming a much bigger problem for the youth.
	And you understand its impact on family formation.
	Mental health is a fashionable word.
	And obviously, it's going to affect your mental health extremely negatively.
	And it's just a very, very destructive cycle.
	Now, with Clarina and World Pay and Monzo and all of these others, when you don't actually pay your debts, first they start adding fees.
	And the fees are around 25% of the purchase value.
	So you do get charged interest if you don't repay.
	It's a trap and it's deliberately intended to be a trap.
	And the most vulnerable obviously end up having the highest rate of interest, which goes to 25%.
	And if you're in that position in the first place where you're starting down the track of using these things, you're obviously not in a position, a strong place of strength to actually be able to pay these debts back in the first place.
	Exactly.
	So it's kind of guaranteeing that you're going to, even if it's not the first payment, the second might get you, or the third might get you.
	Exactly.
	And you have this list of debt recovery companies who will then look at you and buy from Clarina or from World Pay or whoever the debts that are owed to them and then they will work on collecting.
	And this is a big money maker for them because it is extremely profitable.
	First, they buy the debt at a huge discount.
	Second, they get to charge borrowers legal fees and agency fees and travel expenses.
	So everything that they do to collect the debt gets added on to you.
	The company takes a hit, maybe, on some of those debts.
	They make some money from fees with retailers.
	So every time you use Clarina on the Liveroo, they are paid 2% to 8% of the purchase value.
	So that's a guaranteed income, meaning that that's how the zero interest works.
	They're getting fees from the retailers themselves.
	But then when you are part of that 5%, 10%, 20% group that ends up with problem debt, well, you're screwed because it's sent to a debt collection agency, and then the debt collection agency will not only try to collect the full amount, even though they bought it at a massive discount, they will then try to collect legal fees and their own fees and expenses and so on and so forth.
	So they will show up at your door and here is a brochure from one of them explaining to you what they will do.
	They will wipe the grin off the borrower's face and they will send this gentleman.
	Sorry, just quickly, I love how all of a sudden the yellows and the pinks have suddenly disappeared.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	And we go straight to the blacks and the reds.
	Exactly.
	And they will, this kind of gentleman, they will have this kind of gentleman knocking at your door and pursuing you through the courts.
	Or this friendly chap here going and pursuing you and knocking at your door any time that they want between the hours of 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. and calling and harassing and threatening you with additional fees and saying that if you don't pay, you're going to have to pay additional legal expenses, which they will charge you for.
	And then the vicious debt cycle that you're in continues until you're actually bankrupted.
	So this is a fundamentally evil model.
	It's based on predation.
	It should not be legal.
	Now, the Financial Conduct Authority is talking about better regulation and things like that and tinkering around the edges to make it more ethical.
	Nonsense.
	Ban it.
	Stomp it out.
	That's my segment.
	Well, thank you.
	That was really blackpilling.
	Anyway, let's talk about war with China.
	Shall we?
	Yeah, let's just move on to something cheerful.
	Well, I'll just go through the rumble rants from this.
	We've got Logan 17 Pine who says, years ago in 2020, I somehow got a loan with 35% interest.
	By the time I paid it off, I paid $2,000.
	Cranky Texan says, this has happened before, many times.
	One of the oldest known is Babylon.
	See Revelation come out of her here.
	I'm not sure if that's supposed to say my people.
	My people.
	But the collapse was already planned to usher in CBDC slavery.
	That's going to make everything much worse.
	Yeah.
	And Cranky Texan also says, private debt drives government spending in order to soak up currency out of the economy to prevent inflation.
	You can't solve this with fiscal responsibility at the state level.
	It's a cultural problem.
	Which is why you need to ban this kind of thing from the outset.
	It's not about educating the youth a little bit.
	It's just about stomp it out.
	We've got Raillyard Goss says, would love to hear your opinions on sports gambling.
	It was restricted 10 years ago and now entirely mainstream in the United States.
	There you go.
	You've got his opinion on it.
	And Luke Stewart says, Good day.
	Hope everyone's doing okay.
	I don't like the pay later loans, but if I ran out of savings, had to fix my car for work, I could see the benefits.
	If you have an asset against it, it's slightly different.
	But these are unsecured debts that are intended to drive the poorest into bankruptcy.
	That's how the real money is made.
	So there are some arguments about this.
	But if you're in this bad of a situation, you should be in a society where you and your mates can come up with 500 bucks and then you repay them without interest.
	Once interest is introduced into it, it turns predatory.
	All right.
	So we're going to talk about Japan now.
	Now, normally, when one of us hosts a Japanese segment, it's usually about immigration or cultural problems that Japan is facing.
	But this segment is of a more geopolitical nature because really what we're going to discuss is the rising tensions between Japan and China, chiefly over the sovereignty of Taiwan and obviously Japan being a key strategic ally of the United States against China.
	Before we do that, though, let me draw your attention to a play that I just covered for Chronicles, which is actually banning China.
	How about that?
	Now, this is An Enemy of the People by Friedrich Ibsen.
	It was a play from 1882, and it is a fantastic play all about how societies basically collapse when they hit the nature of where the truth within them, the internal truth that holds up society basically withers and dies.
	And this is an interesting one because actually it's all about public health and it's about that they have these steam baths that all the tourists are going to come to and the baths have been poisoned.
	So this play also got a lot of attention in the past few years over the COVID pandemic and everything as well.
	It actually was very, very relevant.
	But one of the things as well, and just to segue in, is that one of the points that is made that certain when there's a convergence of circumstances that come together in society to create truth, well, slowly, year by year, decade after decade, those circumstances change.
	And with it, the truth changes as well.
	The old truth dies and new truth comes in.
	And this is really, he says in the play, truths have at best sort of a shelf life of about 70 years before something else comes through.
	And this is exactly what we're seeing now with Japan.
	The old truth that Japan existed in after the post-war consensus of basically military isolationism, not getting involved in foreign conflicts, basically having a military only for defensive purposes at the courtesy. of the United States, allowing them to have it.
	This is now changing.
	We're entering a new paradigm now, where the factors that existed in the 50s aren't the same now.
	And so we're seeing Japan having to sort of rear its head again, rearm itself.
	And so let's just begin here, shall we, by talking about this assessment from last year, talking about Taiwan and basically the era of Chinese dominance.
	Because it says that in addition to India and a slew of Southeastern Asian nations, it is Japan that has the potential to support Taiwan's sovereignty through a multifaceted partnership.
	While Japan-Taiwan diplomatic engagements face a handful of challenges, Tokyo's gestures to Taiwan offer a silver lining for a nation under duress.
	And it goes to point out as well that the defense cooperation took a turn towards increased collaboration on the 25th of September last year when the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force sent a naval vessel through the Taiwanese Strait between Taiwan and China.
	Ballsy move.
	Making history.
	Really big balls.
	Right.
	And there, just like, yeah, we'll float on by.
	Right.
	We'll have a look.
	And so, but all of this has been under, and correct me if I'm wrong on this, Ferras, but the idea that Japan has supposed to have upheld some sort of ambiguous nature on its actual policy on the Taiwanese question.
	China has not been able to, they've not explicitly said, this is what our plan is, this is what our aims are with Taiwan.
	They've had to keep China in a position where they're at least guessing their intentions a little bit.
	Even though they're a key strategic ally of America, of course, the question has to be, to what extent will Japan dare to intervene?
	Not whether they will, but how much.
	Yes.
	So they've been working with the Americans on building up the logistics to be able to supply the eastern ports of Taiwan in the event of a war, because these are the closest to Japan and there are Japanese islands, or at least contested islands, very close to Taiwan.
	And the assumption being that we can keep supplying Taiwan in order to maintain a ground fight using naval capabilities.
	Is that true?
	Isn't that true?
	A whole different and very long debate.
	But all of this has suddenly taken a very sharp escalation after the beginning of this month, where the new prime minister, Sane Takaichi, basically was at a parliamentary hearing.
	This was on November 7th.
	And she said, what measures would China employ to bring Taiwan fully under the control of China or the Beijing government if it were to use warships and resort to military force, and I believe this would, by any measure constitute a situation that could threaten Japan's survival?
	Now, the actual phrasing of this statement is very, very important because what it is doing is it is basically invoking Article 9, which basically interprets from Japan's 2015 security legislation, which allows the deployment of self-defense forces in a survival-threatening situation.
	So the way to think about this is that most shipping that goes to South Korea and Japan both goes through the Taiwan Strait.
	But also, obviously, most shipping to China goes through the Taiwan Strait because Chinese ports are concentrated in the north of the country.
	And so if you control Taiwan, you can choke China off economically.
	The flip side of it is that if the Chinese control Taiwan, they can do enormous damage, at least, if not completely choke off, Japanese and South Korean trade.
	So Taiwan is necessary for both sides.
	In a sane world, we'd have some kind of armed neutrality by Taiwan saying we will allow all legitimate shipping through, similar to sort of Turkey and the Bosphorus.
	But we are not in a sane world.
	No.
	No.
	And we're dealing with China, which has a great grudge after the century of humiliation and is not really in a position for half measures or compromise, right?
	It's going to use its prowess to basically strong-arm every nation it can into doing things exactly as they wish.
	And this is certainly reflected in the response to Takaichi's statement by the China's Consul General in the city of Osaka, where he basically said that as to Takaichi's remarks, the dirty head that sticks itself in must be cut off.
	So this tweet was since deleted, which is why I'm showing you it.
	But you get a little, you know, you see behind that.
	Yeah, a bit of flavor, a bit of spice in there.
	And Tokyo has said that obviously this was extremely inappropriate.
	And Takaichi was quick to back pedal and just say, well, I was just talking hypothetically.
	But even if you are talking hypothetically, you're still giving some way into actually no, within the Japanese constitution, we would have every right to, you know, obviously involve ourselves.
	Maintain the ambiguity.
	Right.
	Maintain a threat and then backing down.
	This is what Biden was doing about will they, won't they intervene in the event of a conflict of Taiwan?
	The policy is to keep China guessing and therefore keep China from saying, yes, we will do this militarily and trying to prolong the status quo for as long as possible.
	Anyway, so the Beijing government has reacted quite firmly to this, as you would imagine, and basically urged its citizens to avoid traveling to Japan in the near future.
	And they also went on to say that it was a blatant provocation regarding the remarks in Japan.
	And what's more as well, of course, so because so many Chinese tourists go to Japan, I think I had it here.
	Yes.
	Basically, shares in Japan's department stores were hit hard with the parent company of Mitsukoshi and Iseten chains punging by almost 12%.
	And yeah, various other Disneyland resort as well ended the day with 5.8% lower.
	So these are huge chunks that are being taken out by basically taking the Chinese tourists out of the Japanese market.
	Now, obviously, we could go on to have a conversation about not being so dependent on those tourists when you know that tensions could turn just like he's merciless man with your neighbor, of course.
	But it says that tourism accounts for about 7% of Japan's overall GDP.
	And this is obviously with a fifth of all of those 12% being Chinese.
	So it's a huge number.
	Big portion.
	And it will have a very, very damaging effect as things go on.
	Now, naturally, obviously Trump had to get involved in this as well.
	So, as soon as this statement was had, as of this weekend, I believe it was.
	Now, Beijing initiated, and I think that's a crucial point as well.
	They were the ones that seemed to have initiated this call.
	They asked for a call with Washington.
	Right.
	And basically, it was quite interesting, actually, because as you can see from this post here, with, if you scroll through the text wall of text, Trump comments on the fact that he's obviously had this phone call with Xi, but nowhere in here is Taiwan or Japan actually mentioned.
	The one thing that it was obviously really about.
	So, Washington are playing the cards very close to their chest on this.
	And we know from the Japanese prime minister who was on the phone immediately after this call that they went on to discuss Taiwan and what was happening in the Straits.
	And it seems that, obviously, America needs Japan.
	America needs Japan, and America needs Russia.
	If you wanted to pursue a containment strategy against China, you would have South Korea, Japan, Russia, India, the Philippines, Australia, kind of collaborating and creating a wall of containment around China to stop it from being the dominant power in Eurasia.
	The policy has been pretty much the opposite.
	It has been to push Russia and China closer together.
	We'll see if the Ukraine war gets resolved, how it gets resolved, to push Iran closer to China and to facilitate the dominance of Eurasia by China.
	So it's a really very reckless policy that's been pursued, I'd argue, since Clinton, that has sort of resulted in this behemoth assembling against the United States.
	Right.
	But what's more as well, of course, it's left Japan in a very, very tense state.
	And so now you can see China criticizing Japan for deploying missiles on an island near Taiwan.
	So it goes on to say that the defense minister said on Sunday that plans were being steadily moving forward, steadily moving forward to deploy a medium-range surface-to-air missile unit at a military base on Yanaguni, an island about 68 miles off of Taiwan's east coast.
	And on Sunday, Kazimi said that the missile deployment aimed to protect Yanaguni, adding that we believe that having this unit in place will actually lower the chances of an armed attack against our country.
	So the idea is that Yanaguni is being used as a logistics hub to supply the eastern part of Taiwan.
	The war planning, what it looks like to me, is to use the Philippines to connect to the southeastern port and to use Japan to connect to the northeastern port so that Taiwan will have two ports under its control from which it can get supplies in a military conflict.
	That seems to be the planning.
	The Chinese planning is to besiege all Taiwanese ports.
	And so having this kind of air defense capability is significant.
	We're still talking about medium range.
	So you might need something longer.
	Medium range can cover up 70, 80 kilometers.
	You would need something bigger still in order to extend that protective area.
	And the way that you work with air defense is that you layer it so that there is something that is very short range to intercept things like cruise missiles and so on before they hit the targets and gradually increase the ceiling so that you have this defensive capability.
	What's more as well, if this all comes to a head, what strength does Japan actually have to hold out economically, totally cut off from China?
	You've seen what just removing the tourists has done to many of its companies.
	Now, I know we were speaking about this earlier, weren't we, about Japan's semiconductors and the fact that they're trying to basically just have domestic supply made up again.
	But this is going to cost trillions, trillions and trillions of yen.
	And so, really, I mean, obviously, I'm not going to suggest that because of all this, China are going to go for Taiwan tomorrow.
	But this clumsiness, I think I would describe it as, from the Japanese prime minister, does sort of reveal a hand to China more so about what the actual threat is from their geopolitical interests.
	And it gives them more information, and it does seem like it could at least escalate things faster than were initially going to be planned.
	And I suppose it's not a coincidence as well that all of a sudden you're seeing propaganda adverts coming out from the rocket force of the Chinese army with things like this.
	I'm sorry.
	Why are the record forces loading?
	Is that- Is that it, Fairass?
	Five out of ten, not enough rockets.
	Not enough rockets.
	Not enough rockets.
	Then our bloody black trans lesbians that we see in our adverts for this kind of stuff.
	Yeah.
	I mean, give the Chinese some props there, unfortunately.
	At least it looked cool.
	I think they mean it.
	I think they mean it.
	Obviously, it's just propaganda and scare tactics, chest punching and intimidation.
	But it's the most open, open secret, right?
	We know what China wants from Taiwan.
	Yeah.
	And we can only hope.
	China for years.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Obvious of obvious.
	But we can only hope, of course, that whatever the conversation was between the Japanese PM and Trump, that it was constructive.
	And hopefully, I do believe, in fact, there is a meeting between diplomats from Japan and China today.
	So I'll definitely follow up on that and we'll see what develops.
	But for now, it's a tense time, ladies and gentlemen.
	Well, the issue is that everybody's economy is so dependent on China.
	And it's clear that a break is coming.
	It is obvious that a break is coming.
	And nobody wants to admit that because then what they would have to do to replace Chinese supply trains is going to be enormous.
	And it's not yet clear what are the safe supply chains going to be.
	As in, if you're Japan, you want to work with the Philippines, you want to work with all of Indochina, you want to work with ASEAN, Australia, the United States, etc.
	But what is the actual Chinese missile capability?
	And how much can the Chinese Navy do?
	The thing is that the Chinese haven't fought a war in a very long time and they don't have any experience.
	And Xi keeps replacing the top generals of the PLA on a very regular basis.
	And it isn't clear why this is happening.
	Is he afraid of a coup or does he have disagreements with them over Taiwan policy?
	Or are they supposed to be further ahead in the planning process for a Taiwan invasion and they're just not getting there?
	But I think when we were speaking earlier, we mentioned that the Chinese have built these platforms that are intended to allow them to deliver armored vehicles, soldiers, tanks into Taiwan in a way that bypasses Taiwan's natural defenses.
	Because the key issue is that there aren't enough beaches where China can properly invade, set up a force, and then send that force out.
	Sort of how the West dealt with Normandy.
	You need to capture something, consolidate, and then expand.
	The Taiwanese have been planning for this forever to make it as difficult as possible.
	So the Chinese solution has been: let's build the capability to deliver these forces away from these beaches onto the main highways of Taiwan, bypassing the geographic element and being able to spread out in a lot more effective way so that the Taiwanese defenses can be properly flanked.
	So they're planning for the ground war.
	And the way that they're building up their missile capability and their rocket capability is intended to cripple Taiwanese ports.
	Because Taiwan has to import something like a million barrels of oil per day.
	And I believe they have around three months of reserves that are sitting there.
	On natural gas, they have maybe two weeks of reserves.
	And they have to import a huge chunk of that.
	And because everybody is insane, they've decommissioned some of their nuclear plants, which is the one thing that you need to keep.
	So there is the energy question when it comes to that.
	And there's the question of, well, what does the Chinese invasion actually look like?
	They'd built a model of the presidential palace of Taiwan and the neighborhood around it to prepare their special forces to storm it.
	They built it somewhere in the desert in maybe Jinjiang province or something like that.
	And their special forces are training on storming that compound.
	So they are getting ready for an invasion.
	And the military preparation is all there.
	And all of their training exercises allow them to besiege Taiwanese ports and perhaps to cut off the sub-sea cables that connect Taiwan to the rest of the world and therefore just isolate Taiwan.
	But now, as the Japanese Prime Minister has said, if it could bring in Japanese warships, right, then that brings a whole nother thing to the equation.
	So Japan is maybe the third largest navy in the world.
	And they have around 25% of global shipbuilding capability.
	There is another 25% in South Korea and then 50% in China.
	The rest are just rounding errors.
	So India, Russia, the United States combined are rounding errors in terms of global shipbuilding capability.
	And so Japan can do something significant with its capabilities, but the West is left in a position where they can't build ships and they want to go and fight in East Asia.
	And what's more, totally hooked on the Chinese markets.
	Yeah.
	Totally.
	So dark days ahead, I suppose.
	All right, I'll just go through some of those YouTube comments.
	I've got... sorry.
	This sounds like.
	Sorry, Easy E says, a Japanese med school prevented Chinese students from applying to it by embedding Tiananmen Square into the website code so that the Chinese firewall blocked it.
	That's brilliant.
	It just takes a political will that.
	Relvis says, Japan is America's number one friend.
	We must keep her safe.
	Well, it's Israel.
	How dare you blaspheme?
	And Dreadnought Hogan says, Japan should have the same relationship with the USA that Israel has.
	They make a better ally, and the Zumas love Japan like the Boomers love Israel.
	Well, as I said, Ebes unite.
	Truths have shelf-lives.
	Anyway, okay, over to you, Nate.
	Tell us all about how you're going to fix democracy for us.
	Right, so let's not comment on this image that you see on your screens.
	I think he puts it here for comment, actually.
	Should we comment on it?
	I don't know.
	It's.
	You want to explain yourself, sir?
	Oh, well.
	I do, bro.
	What exactly?
	What exactly are your plans?
	You keep that tucked under the back of your shirt, do you?
	But this is my great.
	Normally, this is how we walk into the office, by the way.
	He sort of beat him, hold him down, and make him wear a suit because he comes into the office dressed like this.
	His arm is just resting on the sofa.
	That's terrible.
	You have no idea what we're dealing with in the Lotus Eaters offices.
	Anyway, we'll let you have a word in your own segment now.
	This is my epic Photoshop skills, right?
	I've got a right, okay.
	Let me try to introduce this segment.
	So, British democracy is broken.
	Okay, here's how I am going to fix it.
	Okay.
	Me being the god emperor of New Britannia.
	Uh-huh.
	Okay.
	Right.
	So the year is 2034.
	Oh, I didn't vote for you.
	Nigel Farage has failed.
	Okay.
	And the country is calling out for leadership.
	And a new force enters the fray.
	Whoa!
	All right.
	So as Emperor of Mankind.
	Fist shaking.
	As the Emperor of Mankind, my primary focus is to fix British democracy.
	And so here's how we're going to do it.
	So together, we shall create new Britannia.
	Point of order.
	If you become Emperor of mankind, how retarded do you have to be to restore democracy, sir?
	Well, yeah, okay.
	Well, I'm a lenient authoritarian.
	Okay.
	If that is the thing.
	So what you're saying is it'd be.
	He's a gentle soul.
	He's a gentle soul, really.
	We just give him a hard time.
	And democracy and the illusion of choice.
	Like democracy, really.
	So the idea is: I'm coming here in Blackpill all the time, so I just thought I'd just do this as a bit of a joke, really, a bit of a lark.
	So the idea is I become an authoritarian god, okay, to establish new Britannia to then gift that to my Anglo children.
	Right.
	And then I saunter off with a, I don't know, your citadel.
	Exactly.
	On my golden throne.
	Yes.
	Not a decomposing corpse.
	And I can just watch over everyone and enjoy it.
	Okay.
	After bestowing upon them a brand new democracy.
	So best Photoshop ever.
	So, first things first.
	Okay.
	First things first.
	No MP should get paid.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	This is this.
	So all jokes aside, this is how we start to get to the nub of what I fundamentally think some of the issues are with democracy at the moment, right?
	So no MP should get paid at all.
	Well, that would be a return to tradition.
	Yeah, no, exactly, right?
	So I don't know what I'm working with here.
	So they never actually used to get paid, as you can see here.
	This is a gov website, basically.
	They never used to get paid at all.
	So in 1911, MPs received a salary for the first time to try and improve accessibility for candidates.
	But we didn't vote for that.
	No one voted for that.
	They voted it for themselves.
	They just was like, yeah, we'll get paid now.
	And then they've consistently.
	So that's not democracy straight away.
	It's not democracy that they get paid.
	We didn't vote that they would get paid.
	They just do insider trading like Nancy Pelosi.
	Yeah, well, no, yeah, effectively.
	So they voted themselves to get a salary.
	Convenient.
	It's not democracy.
	And before this, and obviously after this as well, so there is some crossover, but the caliber of politician was far and above what we have today.
	Oh, sure.
	Right?
	Not simply because, of course, people are getting dumber, which they are, so because it was a duty, right?
	So people were already established in life.
	They wanted to help.
	There was, of course, some self-serving individuals, but certainly not to the level that we have in this day and age.
	Right.
	Because that effectively created the career politician.
	Yes.
	Right.
	So, you know, that would be my first thing.
	No one gets paid.
	Okay.
	Return to that.
	No one gets paid.
	I don't think anyone should get paid.
	So who currently, well, who can stand as an MP in my New Britannia?
	To understand that, we need to see who can stand as an MP at the moment.
	So to stand as a candidate in a UK parliamentary general election, you need to be at least 18 years old and be either a British citizen or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland or a citizen of a Commonwealth country who does not require leave to enter, blah, And so what disqualifies you for standing as an MP?
	members of the police force members of the armed forces civil servants judges people are subject to bankruptcy people have been judged bankrupt blah blah blah so in my i need to keep moving this mouse around In my New Britannia, from here anyway, you can basically see that you can actually have a career entirely funded by the taxpayer.
	Because although this disqualifies you...
	Somebody like Jeremy Corbyn, who you are suggesting...
	Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer, Brian Abbott.
	Yeah, Clive Lewis, Andy Burnham, all these people.
	So currently you can have a career permanently funded by the taxpayer because although these things disqualify you for standing as an MP, you can end one and then begin as another.
	So you can just hop and skip your way through being subsidized by the taxpayer forever for eternity.
	And then the nice, comfortable peerage in the House of Lords.
	Precisely, right?
	So in New Britannia, if the lack of salary doesn't stop the career politician and the hopskip jumping around being dependent on the taxpayer, I will make it mandatory that no one who has been paid from the public purse can stand for a minimum of 10 years.
	A decade.
	Because a decade should be enough.
	Obviously, all well and good, everything else being great in the country.
	A decade should be long enough for you to establish yourself in society as someone, just as someone.
	Yes.
	Right?
	So that's one thing.
	Okay.
	So there's that.
	I think that begins to help clear up democracy and remove the career politician.
	Yes.
	And then enter perhaps my most controversial thing, but we need mandatory IQ tests.
	Okay.
	So because it's clear as day that we have actual retards.
	I don't know where this is going.
	Yes.
	Well, we actually have retards in government right now.
	So we've got Rachel Reeves, Angela Wayner.
	That is not a misspeak.
	Keir Starmer.
	And of course the blinder that is David Lammy.
	If we could just play this, Samson, or do you want me to play this?
	Who acceded to the English throne at the age of nine on the death of his father Henry VIII in 1547?
	Henry VIII.
	Edward VI.
	In chemistry, what French word is used for a tube for transferring measured among the people.
	Yeah, I mean, we could lose brain cells watching that.
	Yes.
	Honestly, I don't know how they actually broadcast that.
	No, neither do I. I'm surprised that didn't get buried in the middle.
	don't understand how his career didn't end instantly afterwards well what i don't understand is we'll get to that How?
	Okay.
	We'll get to that.
	So, there must be a minimum IQ requirement for politicians in New Britannia.
	Okay, the God Emperor has spoken.
	The Anglo God himself.
	Mr. H. Basically, so we can't be led by absolute morons, obviously.
	This minimum IQ is 115.
	That's what I've stated.
	The minimum IQ must be 115.
	Makes sense.
	Now, perhaps a little bit more controversially, kind of a bit like trading cards, you know, like, you know, HP and, you know, hit points and health and things like that.
	You know, XP.
	This must also be displayed on all campaign leaflets and canvassing materials by law.
	So you're just putting your IQ through people's letterbox as you go around campaigning.
	Yeah.
	Because if the money didn't stop people applying, then the IQ might.
	Because then you're filtering it out and then you're filtering out even further.
	Now, look, okay, obviously, IQ is not the be-all and end-all.
	Right.
	Okay.
	But it will be a way to help establishing a higher caliber of politician.
	Right.
	Right.
	So there's that.
	So that's one way.
	You know, that's the sort of that that's who can stand for parliament.
	Very interesting propositions.
	Continue.
	I've got more.
	I've got more.
	I'm sure.
	So that's who can stand for parliament.
	All right.
	And we can sort of bring this back in a minute.
	But let's talk about the nation and who can vote in my new Britannia.
	Yes.
	Because democracy is two-sided.
	There are two sides of the equation.
	A bit like supply and demand.
	People always conveniently forget the demand aspect because you're leftist morons.
	But let's talk about the voters.
	So not merely the candidates.
	Let's talk about the voters.
	So no foreigners can vote.
	Simple as.
	Okay.
	I'm with this so far.
	All right.
	So how do we define a foreigner?
	Well, quick and simple.
	God Emperor has spoken.
	Someone who doesn't have British ancestry going back at least 10 generations.
	10 generations as defined by about 30 years of generations, basically.
	So not only are they putting IQ tests through the letterboxes, they're also putting DNA tests as well.
	Well, no, so, yeah, well, basically, this is under the implication that we've effectively got rid of everyone anyway.
	But it's just filtering out through the dross.
	Right, right.
	The Huguenot, you know.
	Yeah, well, you know, because there might be some people that have sort of married in a few generations back and things like this.
	So they're here already and, you know, they weren't on the mass deportations list.
	They've been a net taxpayer, all that kind of stuff.
	That's okay.
	But I still don't know.
	On a more serious note, I've been in conversations with people like Pete North and yesterday with Joseph Robertson.
	I've been saying that it should be 1945 cut-off date.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So that's my 10 generations.
	You wouldn't have to go back 10 generations, just three, because the population of Britain has been so settled for so long.
	So I agree, but the only reason the God Emperor, me, says the Roth Tribes voting.
	10 generations.
	Yes.
	Was it 10 generations?
	Yeah, it was 10 generations.
	It's just because, I mean, we are in 2034 at this point.
	Yes.
	You know, I want it to be backdated a little bit at that point.
	I just want to be secure so that my Anglo children can have a great future.
	It's like when you think of one of the most famous MPs we've ever had, Edmund Burke, of course, Burke was born in Dublin.
	Right.
	Now, he came from Ireland.
	And so to go from Ireland to the British Parliament.
	And, you know, one of the things that was commented on at the time was that he was saying, well, basically, if I can do some good for my country of Ireland whilst not harming, actively trying to harm or drag down the country that has taken me, then that's really the best that I can do as an MP.
	But Burke is obviously was a man of quite singular quality and he's the exception, not the rule.
	Well, yeah.
	Most people.
	Well, yeah.
	So, yeah, well, exactly.
	Yeah, we'll get to that.
	So why do we say that we have to go back 10 generations?
	If we haven't got rid of the dross by doing all those other things, deportations, etc., we get subversive imbeciles like this.
	All independent candidates across Birmingham will be supported by the Independent Candidate Alliance, and by support, we mean brilliant.
	Let's stop listening to that goblin gook that masquerades English.
	So, basically, this is subversive.
	Yes.
	We're actually one of the only countries that allow this nonsense.
	This is how democracies fall: by allowing those that come from locations without democracies and allowing them to vote.
	So, you're saying Tower Hamlets is not a shining example?
	No, I mean, if I could democracy, I mean, if I could effectively get a spec, I mean, I could because I'm the God Emperor.
	If I could get a spade and just sort of hollow that area out and then off over into the channel, then I would do that, actually.
	You're not worried about harming France, are you?
	Oh, no, I couldn't give a shit.
	Encourages it, actually.
	No, no.
	But obviously, it's subversive, right?
	Yeah, obviously.
	These people shouldn't be here.
	They shouldn't be allowed to vote.
	And again, that's independent.
	I'll just cut the, you know, cut the crap.
	Like, we know what it is.
	It's the Muslim candidate alliance.
	Call it the Muslim Candidate Alliance.
	Be done with it.
	Thank you very much.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So there's that.
	All right.
	And, you know, we can get into, you know, I once planned a whole segment on discussing how the sort of subversive elements of our politics have kind of grown and things like that.
	But basically, don't invite people that shouldn't be here to be able to take part in the franchise.
	I agree that I shouldn't be allowed to vote.
	So it's simple as, right?
	Like it'd be weird if I went to Japan and was able to subvert their politics.
	It's just odd.
	But we allow it in the West because imbeciles.
	So let's drill down into potentially some more controversial things.
	And you'll see probably where I'm getting at here.
	No one on any form of benefit can vote.
	I think that's reasonable.
	In my New Britannia.
	Because I think it's insane that as a nation, over half the UK population is in receipt of some form of benefit.
	They basically take more from the taxman than they do pay in.
	Now, that is insane.
	It literally can't continue.
	Especially when you consider how high taxation is in Britain.
	Yeah, precisely.
	I mean, I am paying to subsidize ridiculous amounts of people here.
	You then have a way in voting for where my money goes in the future.
	This is absurd.
	So the highest level, historically speaking, was during the Napoleonic Wars when the British government ended up controlling around 20% of GDP.
	And before that, it had been between 6% and 9%.
	That was the total net income of the country.
	Something between 6% and 9% was in the hands of the government.
	And you're looking at it.
	It was not income taxes for the most part.
	It was mainly tariffs and taxes on land and on all kinds of things, rather than the sort of insane income tax whereby if you produce more, we're going to take more away from you.
	And a bigger proportion of your work will become ours.
	So fair enough.
	That's a substantive point.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	So that's one thing.
	No one on benefits.
	No one currently in receipt of benefits.
	Well, what's more as well, that would incentivize people to get off them.
	Yes.
	Well, to become a contribute.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Absolutely.
	100%.
	And then we get to probably one of the most controversial things.
	No pensioner can vote in New Britannia.
	Sorry, but no.
	Absolutely.
	I'm just not having it.
	In my Britain, you've had your time.
	I am currently paying for you to sit around and enjoy life.
	I'm surprised that you will allow pensions in your Britain.
	Well, so yeah, so this is kind of trying to work still within some sort of a par.
	I'm trying to, I'm trying to, this is, I'm trying to, I'm trying to fix what we're currently in, basically.
	Right.
	You've got to have let me dismantle.
	Yeah, I know.
	I would have dismantled the wealthy state.
	Yeah, so would I. Relied on private charity.
	So would I, but I'm like, if I became God Emperor tomorrow, this is how I would just immediately quickly fix democracy.
	And it's a blueprint to how to fix democracy now, basically.
	So no pensioner should vote.
	You don't get to say in how the future goes after you're gone, considering your voting, your voting record and your sensibilities have given us the predicament that we're in now.
	So no, you can't vote.
	I have to push back against this, if you will indulge me for a minute.
	I mean, I can try.
	I'm the God Emperor.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for your indulgence.
	Seek an audience.
	We seek.
	I'll allow it.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Petition, Your Majesty.
	Well, DeMaster was of the view that you could only petition the king for things rather than sort of demand things.
	And I sort of agree.
	But Chesterton made a point about tradition being the democracy of the dead.
	That basically this wisdom and experience that has accumulated over the ages should have its place.
	So I think if somebody has their own private pension and wishes to vote, it's one thing.
	I'll get to that.
	Whereas if someone is on a state pension and wishes to vote, it's a different story.
	So I agree and disagree because again, people's voting records and sensibilities have still garnered us the predicament that we're in.
	And so that still has to be a factor.
	Because you have to keep the triple arc and a statement.
	This is what we're going to get to.
	So, okay.
	No children should be allowed to vote.
	Obviously.
	That's dumb.
	Revolutionary.
	Revolutionary.
	Really?
	Come on.
	You can't buy cigarettes.
	You can't buy alcohol.
	Come on.
	But you can vote.
	Come on.
	Yes.
	Come.
	I'm with you.
	I'm with you.
	Please.
	Be afe.
	It's just not a black pill everyone.
	I'm trying to get some levity here.
	Very jolly.
	Carry on.
	Basically, what I'm getting at is we need to get rid of all of the client classes we have in this country.
	This is the overarching theme of this.
	Get rid of all the client classes, right?
	Getting rid of them, you mean do not allow them to vote.
	Yeah, client classes should not be a thing.
	And if you have a client class, they shouldn't be allowed to vote.
	And this actually comes from both sides.
	So it comes from voter and candidate.
	You can have a client candidate in the political spectrum, i.e., career politicians, right?
	Yes.
	And you have to get rid of those people.
	You have to.
	So what you're saying is essentially you must have skin in the game.
	Yeah.
	So this is my closing.
	Be able to participate.
	Exactly.
	So my closing point is you must have a stake in the country.
	Only net taxpayers should vote, which will instantly eliminate 50% of the population.
	So that's brilliant.
	Not like that.
	Just inability to vote.
	And this is net across your lifetime.
	Yes.
	Net across your lifetime.
	And so now I open it to the floor for suggestions.
	I will offer, I will enable some petitions for the God Emperor's democratic future.
	Well, I mean, for me, just the darkest aspect of all of that, and I really can't get it out of my head, just that daily that I made a few weeks back for Remembrance Sunday, where it was that chap on Good Morning Britain saying wasn't worth fighting for.
	You know, what we have now wasn't worth, you know, when you just think about the number of men who went over the top in World War I on the promise that their service will give them the vote, that that was the final hurdle.
	And once they'd fought in World War I, they'd slaughtered themselves for the behest of the elites and their geopolitical interests in Europe, that they would be given the vote.
	What was the point of that entire exercise?
	To run to then just ignore everything that they actually voted for and wanted for decade after decade.
	That was a truly heartbreaking thing to see.
	Yeah, that was a genuinely heartbreaking thing to see.
	When you consider that this sacrifice and bravery was rewarded with what exactly?
	I don't fully understand it.
	To give birth to this.
	Yeah, I don't think that's going to make him feel much better.
	No, no, I know.
	That individual will probably never be on TV again because they went completely off script, which is just truly damning anyway.
	If anything, the correct response would have been from a true, just, morally correct society would be to platform him further and actually drill deeper into what it is that he sees the country has gone wrong.
	Actually, platform deeper interviews and things like this.
	But no, just completely ignored.
	That's someone that should actually have had an audience with the king.
	It should be someone that has an audience in parliament, you know, to get up and actually say, yeah, this is what we fought for, and this is why it's gone wrong.
	What have you done?
	Right.
	But no, we didn't do that.
	We've just given everything away to Detroit.
	We should invite him here one day.
	We should try and invite him here.
	Yeah.
	We could speak to him.
	But also, it gets into the point as well, and you're absolutely right to diagnose this, which is that it just like one man, one woman, one vote.
	It's like, okay, but like, I'm sorry, I'm just not willing to entertain the fantasy that my vote somehow counts equally to the guy in Tower Hamlets.
	Yeah.
	I mean, look, I'm just not willing to believe that.
	No, obviously not.
	And that's the system that we're trapped in.
	As a net taxpayer who has paid just extortionate sums of tax across my life, I know, because I file my taxes myself, I know how much I'm paying, and it's absurd.
	Some random, even a native, it doesn't even have to be a third worlder.
	Just some random native that is sitting there on his ass gets to dictate where my money goes while collecting benefits.
	That's the truly insulting point.
	Exactly.
	Not collecting benefits.
	No.
	You could make the civic nationalist argument that, well, if he's also a taxpayer and he's also doing responsible things, he has some kind of say in where his tax money is spent.
	But the fact that there is this disproportionate reliance on benefits from the immigrant communities while they vote in sectarian and tribal blocks just makes it that much more jarring.
	Yeah.
	The client class has to be abolished completely.
	And you'll see it tomorrow.
	Hot prediction from the Emperor of Mankind.
	You'll see it tomorrow in the budget, whenever this is released, I don't know.
	Rachel Reeves' budget, where she will pander to multiple client classes.
	You will see this.
	The two-child benefit cap.
	That's immigrants.
	It's foreigners.
	The pensioners, the triple lock.
	These are two client classes straight away.
	Because as I covered in the segment, they are being too indebted to actually build families.
	It's a disgusting system.
	Exactly.
	And that goes to why Kier Starmer wants to give the vote to 16-year-olds.
	It creates a new client class.
	You shouldn't be trying to, like, opening the franchise up even further is the worst possible thing to happen because it just establishes a new client class.
	So no.
	From the Emperor of Mankind, no client classes.
	Let's get to some of these super chats.
	Let's go through that.
	Yes, let's go.
	Gimlio Gloyne says, all hell, Emperor and Nate.
	Also, a question to the Brits.
	Milk and tea, yes or no?
	Yes, of course.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
	Yes.
	Not green tea, though.
	It's gross.
	Green tea is nice.
	Just don't.
	Yeah, just don't put milk in it.
	Don't put milk in it.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Heathen.
	Will there be a civil war between Bose Britain and God Emperor H reviews New Britannia?
	Bose Britain's gone.
	What are we talking about?
	The coup has happened already.
	The God Emperor's stepped over him.
	Are we talking?
	It's Darlin where Bo just disappears.
	He doesn't even have a.
	There's no, he didn't even get a word in, mate.
	He's gone.
	It is traditional.
	When declaring a coup, to start with statement number one, it's customary to sort of launch the coup by issuing statement number one.
	And everywhere in the Middle East, it's understood statement number one means a coup has happened.
	So maybe you might have sort of been a bit more courteous to Bo and informed him in this traditional means.
	I just stepped over him.
	No?
	No.
	Fair enough.
	We went from Nigel Farage straight to me.
	Bo made the fatal error of not being on the podcast today, so he couldn't say that word in his mind.
	So he was usurped.
	We can learn whether he watches these segments.
	Nature abhors his vacuum.
	He'll say something or he won't.
	Thomas Glinder says, doesn't removing MPs' pay encourage corruption and outside financial interests?
	Not really, because before it was established, I mean, yeah, it can, but we had a long history of people that were already established.
	They already had established wealth becoming members of parliament.
	That was what it was.
	So it's trying to come back to that instead.
	You know, people that are established in society already just wanting to make it a better place.
	It creates a member of parliament more from a charitable end rather than an egotistical end.
	Right?
	Trying to better oneself.
	No.
	Remove that.
	If you're already established, then your end goal would be to try to better other people's lives, generally speaking.
	Like it's reliant on the British people's good nature, but we have a long and storied history of actually being quite charitable.
	So a bit naive, maybe, but I'll be the God Emperor, so I could crush them if I think we should actually return to a more Georgian flavour of politics, which is where, you know, to sort of shore up the vote in the rotten boroughs and things, they just give you copious kegs of alexander so that you vote the right way.
	But think of the eel.
	No.
	Don't I won't be corrupted by money, but don't question homebrew.
	That's different.
	Luca could be a client class, it seems.
	I'd be fine with them getting a fair wage, providing they're natives and having no outside interest that may bias them.
	Nope, because then you enter career politicians.
	We have loads of them.
	So people just want to be career politicians.
	We shouldn't have that at all.
	But yeah, I get your point.
	What's this?
	Chris says, was that just a very long-winded way of saying service guarantees citizenship?
	No, not really.
	No.
	But no.
	Disenfranchise the Childless.
	The time horizon of decisions must extend beyond one's own lifetime to make competent policy choices.
	In the long run, we'll all be dead.
	Kings.
	That's from JM Workshop Noyce.
	Classification makes a good point.
	Saying what Nate becomes the most powerful psycher.
	Good point.
	Yep.
	Well, also the point of since you're God Emperor, you've got to have a minimum and birth rate requirement of eight kids of the indigenous marriage requirement, bare minimum seventh to eighth cousin or further any low considered inbred.
	I'm down with that.
	I think four degrees is fine.
	The Christian position, four degrees is fine.
	Careful, the Middle Easterners should four degrees is what broke the tribes.
	So it's worked in the past.
	It can work in the past.
	All right.
	We got any video comments today, Samson.
	Oh, yeah.
	Samson's back, everyone.
	Good to have him.
	In today's episode, of how it's impossible to hate the media enough, let's take a look at some of the headlines.
	Ah, Reform MP, jailed.
	You getting the message yet?
	Strange that this case of international bribery wasn't met with the same swift justice.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Hate it.
	Fine classes.
	Yes.
	Career politician?
	Nate would fix this.
	I'll do a segment on why BlackRock and State Street and so on are absolutely evil.
	So that's probably going to be worth it.
	Today we are at the great Reynold Powell.
	The late and great Enoch Powell.
	If only he knew.
	But then everything that he was warning us about would actually come to fruition.
	Would actually come about.
	If only we could speak to him today.
	I'm surprised he's able to stand there because he must be spinning in his grave so much.
	Yeah.
	Well, it was.
	Oh, he was an absolute titan.
	There was legend.
	Legend.
	True hero.
	And when we win, he'll have a wonderful big statue in Parliament Square.
	You should not seek sex because if you seek sex, you will become gay because sex is a gay act.
	It's totally gay.
	The straightest thing you could do is to never have sex.
	And everyone knows that's true.
	Want to know why?
	Because you retain your semen and you sublimate your sexual desire to creating things.
	That's why celibacy is the straightest thing.
	Because who are the celibates?
	Monks?
	Priests?
	Soldiers?
	What the hell?
	I don't know about soldiers on that one.
	It's brilliant with you.
	Great commentary there.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Joe, Zesty.
	All right.
	Is that all of the video comments, Samson?
	Shall we look at the website comments for a couple of minutes?
	Yes, all right then.
	From your segment, Ferras, Zesty's back.
	I hope you like that video.
	Dear comment.
	Even zestier.
	Yeah.
	I used to work at a casino and we got most of our money from regular addicts.
	Yes, we know.
	Every Christmas we would get them asking us if we were open Christmas Day.
	Christ have mercy.
	That's bad, isn't it?
	When we told them no, they seemed sad and confused as to what they would do that day instead.
	Yeah, that's just that's why you should ban it.
	Yes.
	Kevin Fox says, so we could we then shut down supermarkets and go back to bakers, butchers, griegos?
	Because supermarkets.
	That's a silly comment, sorry.
	Omar says, in tight times, lipstick is a small luxury, but in tough times, it's an investment.
	It's a rather bleak thought that even the world's oldest profession might one day run on credit.
	Can I pay you in three installments?
	Count McClana.
	Count my PayPal pay in three.
	I can imagine the Netherlands doing this.
	I can imagine some things.
	I bet they already do.
	Bet you they do.
	Henry Ashman says, as a rule, I tend to only really go for any kind of buy now, pay later when it's 0% interest.
	It's never 0% interest.
	I know I'm good to pay it off entirely at the time if I had to, but doing so would require dipping into my savings.
	Wait.
	Nowadays, people are not saving money.
	They are now hoarding wealth.
	And buy now, pay later is another method to generate eternal economic growth out of people, whether they can afford it or not.
	I agree.
	This is true.
	Lord Inquisitor Hector Rex says, there was a young lady who took a $500 loan at 700% interest.
	Wow.
	Ended up costing her a thousand.
	Yeah, this should just stomp it out.
	This is what they want.
	Stomp it out, exactly.
	Arizona Desert Rats says, when we hit another economic depression, it's going to be because of consumer debt.
	Yes, correct, correct.
	The economy will eventually run out of money to lend, and people won't be able to spend, and then the government will print more money.
	This is the disgusting cycle that we're in.
	It should have happened at the global financial crisis.
	A massive crash, massive wipeouts of all kinds of financial institutions should have happened.
	And it would have been incredibly painful.
	But then there would be a way out.
	The answer was to just keep on printing money and delay the inevitable.
	And now they're trying to do the CBDC thing whereby they just control the entire economy from central bank's headquarters.
	It's criminal.
	That's a random name says, great segment.
	Thank you.
	I agree that the users are enemies, though.
	Isn't it interesting how?
	Yeah, let's not go there.
	We are on YouTube, and that has consequences, unfortunately.
	All right.
	All right.
	From my segment, Michael Drabelbus says, my wife, who is Japanese, has expressed that less Chinese tourists is actually a good thing, regardless of the economic effect.
	The Chinese aren't the best guests.
	No, I'm very aware of this, Michael.
	I covered this in the last segment with the way that they were treating the deer in Nara, very infamous for their bad behavior.
	So I totally take your point.
	Kevin Fox says, it's not just Japan suffering from a lack of Chinese tourists.
	Thailand has taken a big hit too.
	This year, it's seen a 40% drop in Chinese tourists.
	Serves them right for selling Thailand to second-hand submarines with no engines.
	I have to look into this.
	Yeah, Baron von Warhawk says China's final warning is a Russian ironic idiom originating from the Soviet Union that refers to a warning that carries no real consequences.
	I would not worry about this too much.
	Well, I don't think we can afford the luxury of not worrying about it at all, but obviously the world.
	The past is not always a good indicator of the future.
	Especially given how much China hates its own past as well and is trying to break from the past to get away from the century of humiliation.
	That's a random name says, the reason why I'm ultimately less worried about China than Islam is because historically, China has always been a paper tiger and has never successfully invaded anything outside of their historical borders, unlike Japan or the Mongols.
	I'm not entirely sure I agree.
	Overseas is not wonderful, but when you just see the sheer volume of production and the fact that they now have full access to Russian natural resources, you have to think again about these assumptions.
	Dealing with industrial China, 21st century China.
	Exactly.
	And then Derek Power, master of chippies, always a good username.
	Japan and the US made a relationship the same way men do, beat the S out of each other and then became best buddies.
	Yeah, it works.
	It's a tried and tested formula.
	Brilliant.
	And on mine, Michael Drebelbis says on Nate's segment, if you're willing to serve in the armed forces, you should get the franchise as well.
	If you're going to put your ass on the line for the country, that should earn someone the vote.
	It should, but not if you're a foreigner still.
	Like, yeah.
	We're in such dire straits.
	You've got to correct it quite full force, basically.
	Uh, Kevin Fox, so you want to bring back democracy, not a democrat, our democracy, yes, but yeah, well, that's the thing when they say our democracy, they are they're encompassing all of that clientele class, yeah.
	Uh, there's some of them that keeps them talking about everything, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Uh, and then there's a great one here from Lord Inquisitor Hector Rex: the God Emperor is actually such a powerful psycher that you can walk reality around him, and very few people know what he actually looks like.
	The image of him in the armor is what he shows.
	Nate is actually wearing the armor right now.
	You've got me, that's what that glare is.
	You've got me, mate.
	Sorry, you've got me.
	Uh, Arizona Desert Rat says an IQ requirement for politicians, they're all going to be out of a job in the new UK, new Britannia.
	Yeah, that's the point, yeah.
	Because our political classes are jokers now, um, they're ridiculous.
	Furious Dan closing says, I can't wait for God King Nate to cut the homeless in half with fixed democracy.
	That has many meanings, that has a couple of uh, a couple of meanings there.
	What uh, what aesthetic decisions would you make when you became emperor?
	Like, you know, a lot of the uh terrible, well, you know, like all the bruceless buildings, rush away, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I mean, but that's the thing, architectural restoration, yeah.
	I mean, that's the thing when you when you feel part of a culture, your purpose, um, generationally is to leave it better for the generation which will come after you.
	So, correct, you know, a lot of that will kind of be fixed from a cultural perspective, but yeah, I mean, on day one, you sort of snap your fingers, all the Bruceless buildings would you know blow up, um, you know, not like um Alan Snack Bar style, but they, you know, just and they'd be gone, and then some lovely Tudors, lovely stuff, yeah, yeah, I'm all good.
	We need a few more thatched barns again, I think, yeah, that'd be wholesome, or Cotswold, you know, Cotswold roof, Cotswold stone roofs, oh, absolutely beautiful stuff, like we have the ability to do beautiful things, we just don't, yet we have corporate glass cylinders, yeah.
	I mean, we're a grey country, and then everything's grey.
	What no, you're right, just the way to depress everyone, it's just uh awful weather, everything's grey and horrible, and then you look around, everything's grey and horrible from the buildings.
	It's the worst possible thing ever drains the energy right out of it.
	God, yeah, it is they're they're a psychic warfare, anyway.
	That's all we've got time for today, ladies and gentlemen.
	Hope you've enjoyed the show, and we'll see you back at 1 p.m. tomorrow.

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