Christmas Pre-Record ｜ This Year In Stupid： 2024
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Summary
In this episode, we take a look back at the worst headlines of the year so far, and discuss the ridiculous things we ve all seen in the mainstream media in the past year. We also discuss whether milk can be considered racist, and whether or not it s a good thing.
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2024 has had some good moments, it's had some bad moments, but I think one of the most consistent
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things about 2024, as with all of the years in clown world, is it's been a very, very stupid
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year. And to get the best look into how stupid our clown world is, we need look no further
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than mainstream media headlines. Yes, mainstream media headlines are the perfect encapsulation
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into a single line of everything wrong with the world as it exists right now. And I wanted
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to just get a collection of them so we could kind of go through a worst headlines of the
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year segment this time at the end of 2024 as we look back on all of the ridiculous things
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that have happened. Now this is not going in any particular order, but except for one,
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which is this first one, because I think that in finding this one and choosing it as the
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start and the kind of inspiration for this, I think I just found the worst straight away.
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Because we all remember this right after the Rachel Reeves new budget was announced, and
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we had the farmers about to go on their protests, we had this amazing Guardian article from Will
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Hutton saying, farmers have hoarded land for too long. Inheritance tax will bring new life
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This is just classic communist grievance mongering. I went over this article actually and contrasted
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it to statements made by the Soviet Politburo and secret police during the Haldemar and the
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confiscation of land from Ukrainian kulaks, and it sounded indistinct. I mean, lots of the justification
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here saying that it's going to bring new life to the countryside. Actually, free marketeers,
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don't you want to break up the non-meritorious inherited land grift?
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No, neither do I, because that actually means that you inculcate the right way of cultivating
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the land across generations. But he was saying, oh, it's in his tactical libertarian fashion,
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it's the free market in fashion, because if you can pay to buy the farm, you must be better
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at using the farm. All of that is window dressing.
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Or you could just be a massive global megacorp.
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Yeah, he conveniently doesn't mention Blackrock or Bill Gates in here. All of that is window dressing
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to the sort of great levelling strategy that he has, because he just goes to war against
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Yeah, quite. It's just typical communist adjectives.
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Against the idea of a genealogy of families being able to pass down their own traditions
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Just a complete detachment from any sort of ancestral heritage, therefore a Maoist cultural revolution.
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Well, he says here, far from a death tax, it is a life tax on undeserved good luck.
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Undeserved determined by a communist in the pages of The Guardian.
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Yeah, let me just double check. If you had somebody at the end of your life assessing
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all of your good deeds, all of your bad deeds, whether you deserve what came for you, would
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you want it to be Will Hutton, this gentleman right here? No. No, I don't think I would.
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So, sadly, I've started us off with the worst, but we can go through and find some more, because
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I put out on Twitter just asking, can you send me all the worst headlines that you've
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seen so far this year? And I got inundated with them, and I got a few reminders of some
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things. This is a classic one. This is a classic one that's been going on for a little while,
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but still pops up every now and again, which is, can milk be considered racist?
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I already liked drinking it, you didn't have to convince me.
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Researchers are trying to find out. That's what gives it its famous flavour, is the racism.
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The more racist the milk is, the better it tastes.
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Is this, and I'm being sincere here, I promise, is this an instance where the woke are more
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correct than the liberals? Because is the argument that, because various cultures and countries-
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So, yes. Is this a debate that the various cultures and countries didn't develop subsistence
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agriculture and livestock farming using cows, and therefore they didn't do the prerequisite
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drinking of milk over generations to inoculate them to lactose, and because they all have
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lactose intolerance, it's therefore racist to insist that milk is good for your diet because
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It does seem to be that way, because if you look at the maps of lactose intolerance across
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the world, Northwest Europe, particularly Britain and Scandinavia, has easily the lowest rates
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of lactose intolerance in the entire world. When you start to spread out from that, it gets
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exponentially higher the further you get away from Northwest Europe, except for obviously
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the places that were colonised by Northwest Europe and currently consist of majority descendants
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of those colonisers. And so, yeah, is it any sort of coincidence that the people of Northwest
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Europe tend to absolutely dominate, say, strongman competitions, when milk is known to be rich
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in nutrients and protein and really good for you?
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It's also really good for you if you're in Northwest Europe and half the year is cold and miserable
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because it's got lots of calcium, so that's good for your boat.
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It's just really nice and refreshing. But is it racist? I think Connor is determined, yes.
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Yes, it is. So we've answered that one. Let's see what other ones I got set. Oh, yeah, this
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was just a depressing one that somebody sent. Sadiq Khan reported to be in line to receive
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knighthood in New Year's honours. London mayor expected to be awarded for political and public
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That would be fitting, given his political and public services.
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Oh, yeah, his public services of defending multiple convicted terrorists, including the
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one man who was put on trial for 9-11, going to various conferences with other convicted
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terrorists, calling moderate Muslims Uncle Tom's on Iranian state TV, destroying London
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with knife crimes and a rape every hour reported, saying that terror attacks are just part and
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parcel of living in a big city, saying that white families don't represent London, all the
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litany of crimes that Sadiq Khan should be in prison for the rest of his life for.
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Sadly, there's a woke more correct, because now, they don't. Sadly.
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Moving on to those sorts of immigration concerns, this was one of my favourites.
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Apparently there are none. There are no concerns, no legitimate concerns. Bear in mind, this is
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the 13th of August, only a few weeks after Southport and the Guardian felt fit to publish the headline,
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We keep hearing about legitimate concerns over immigration. The truth is, there are none.
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From Maya Goodfellow, might there be a vested interest that she's promoting here?
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Tell that to the thousands of victims of grooming gangs, you disingenuous hack.
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Yeah, so that's a pretty bad one. That's not really comedy value, just horrifying in its
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implications for the fact that this person really has no empathy for people outside of
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We can't afford a taboo on assisted dying. The highlight here really is the byline.
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The argument against it is that pressure will grow on the terminally ill to hasten their
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There's even worse stuff in the body of the article that I was sending to people who were
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trying to make excuses for the assisted dying legislation.
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He just says, look, we can't afford to pay pensions in the NHS, so what we can do is just
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expedite the deaths of all of these predominantly native English boomers, administrated, I'm sure, by all of their imported African care workers.
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I love that it's just a blatant admission that, yeah, we're going to pressure them into killing
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themselves. Fantastic. Matthew Paris writing back in March. So that was a precursor. Here's one on assisted dying, but going to Canada.
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First reading, hundred seeking death due to loneliness inside Canada's new maid figures.
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Because you see, the second that you open it up to, oh, well, the terminally ill, all of a sudden you get these questions of, well, I may not be terminally ill, but I am terminally lonely or depressed or this and that.
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So you just go, okay, well, I guess we'll open it because under liberal democracy, we don't have any actual arguments against this.
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From a human rights perspective where the ultimate human right is consent. Well, you consent to be killed.
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Yes, we saw cases before we covered them as well. I think it was Belgium, the Netherlands, might have even been Canada, where women with chronic fatigue syndrome or depression were euthanized by the state.
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Because the moment that in a materialist consent-based philosophy, your ability to indulge in recreational pleasures is limited by some sort of life ailment, even something as vague as chronic fatigue syndrome or depression, then it is your imperative, according to Matthew Paris, to pull the lever on the suicide booth.
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Because the only defining feature of what makes life worth something is your happiness, which is defined by indulging pleasure.
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So if you can't indulge in pleasures, their narrative is to kill yourself.
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One final thing. Did you read the Canadian government's recent report about MAID?
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Was this the one where it was like, I think it was one in 20 deaths in Canada is now directly through MAID?
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And the average age of death is around 70. Bear in mind life expectancies in the low 80s.
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So that means half of those people are below the age of 70.
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So that means that people in their 20s, 30s, 40s are being killed in at least their dozens by the Canadian government.
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Well, I'm sure The Guardian will come out saying that there are no legitimate concerns over the abuse of assisted dying once that's fully been put through.
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Well, maybe they'll tap him up from beyond the grave.
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Trump removed from stage by Secret Service after loud noises.
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Is this written by Steve Carell's character in Anchorman or something?
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I still can't believe that some of these headlines happened.
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Now, remember that this is archived from the original because as soon as people started pointing out,
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But still, the fact that it got published like this,
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with the photograph of him bloody and shot as well,
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this kind of rapid discrediting of the mainstream press,
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So we've now got four years of the Golden God Emperor
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because of the types of malfeasance that we're seeing here.
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Yeah, I tell you who is an absolute treasure trove
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for terrible headlines from America over the past year.
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and has a collection that you can go through here.
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they just appointed a new counter-extremism advisor.
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He's permanent and he's going to be overseeing areas of prevent
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that, yes, while they acknowledge Islamist extremism
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are going to be monitoring things that are not necessarily illegal,
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Trump is speaking like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini.
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So he's speaking German, Russian, and Italian all at once.
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He's literally transcending the space-time continuum
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Well, also, surely, like, say what you want about the men's actions
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were very well known for being incredible orators.
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This is why he executed the first person to stop clapping
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Yeah, so I feel like, if anything, Stalin's the odd man out here
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When you think of American coxervatives, who's the first-
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To save conservatism from itself, I am voting for Harris.
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Are his bad takes drawing his eyes closer together?
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Or maybe the editors have a little in-joke with themselves.
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It's like the Power Girl thing that they did in the-
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Every time he has a bad take, they just edit his eyes slightly closer together.
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Because David French is an absolute goldmine for terrible, terrible takes.
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Because to save conservatism from itself, I'm voting for a communist.
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Thou shalt not post the Ten Commandments in the classroom.
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Has David French ever actually said anything remotely in keeping with the American traditions
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Uh, he's certainly on the more liberal side of the fusionist coalition.
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He's happy with large-scale migration to depreciate the wages of American workers
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He might be taking a position against the Ten Commandments
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because thou shalt not bear false witness is one he can't quite get over.
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But in response to a lot of the immigration concerns,
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obviously he's not started his second term of president,
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but one of the big promises was mass deportations,
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deport, deport, deport, all of these foreign criminals,
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what was it that you think maybe people began to be concerned about?
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The deportation of the cheap foreign labor who mows their lawns?
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Well, and also, of course, closing the board as well.
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Do you want safe communities when you could have guacamole, apparently?
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Some scholars say that it's to blame for our political dysfunction
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But remember, Trump himself is going to be a dictator on day one
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and dispense the constitution, therefore he's literally Hitler,
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Which is why it's time to torch the First Amendment as well.
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We need to throw it out because it's out of control.
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As Oron pointed out, Putin's an evil dictator undermining human rights,
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This does make sense within the liberal logic, though,
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every single person's presumed self-interest is realized.
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if you vote against the Democrats or Labour or progressivism in general,
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then somehow magic bad Trump man has cast a spell of divisive racist populism over you
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So we've got to curtail your free speech so that you vote for Utopia,
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you bring out all of these problems to do with Donald Trump as a president.
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all of these articles come out within weeks of one another.
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Just a complete questioning of the American system altogether
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in the name of saving the American system and democracy.
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I do love liberal whiplash because they read the New York Times
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and yet they're still saying that Trump is going to inevitably be a dictator
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despite looking at headlines and articles like this.
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but it's still surreal to watch the total rate state speed run this thing.
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It might be too late to get it as a Christmas present,
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I will try and read it at some point when I get the chance.
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This is a global thing where people are just asking the question,
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can democracy be saved by cancelling elections?
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Labour are looking to answer that question next year
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as they're starting to pull back on some of their local elections
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with all of the devolution and decentralising of government
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through local councils being shifted from being, say,
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That's devolving things and making things more dispersed.
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If you just rename it to the antonym of what it actually is,
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Right, he's all about the high testosterone, right?
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because I'm sure the majority of the rest of America
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is using your new Lotus Eaters gift subscription,
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where you've got lots of downtime over the holidays.