The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1034

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00:01:13.980 Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotuses for Halloween, the 31st of October. Clearly

00:01:19.500 we have some ghosts in the machines that are making bad things happen. And yes, I am joined

00:01:26.500 by the Joker.

00:01:28.260 Hello.

00:01:29.260 And Red Skull.

00:01:30.620 Yeah, Samson told Bo what we were going to say and it ruined the fun of it.

00:01:38.260 He was going to be Agent 47, so he was going to be a suave and sophisticated, sneaky assassin.

00:01:46.400 Now he's a Nancy.

00:01:47.980 Agent 47 is like dashing and handsome. Red Skull's a monster. He's monstrous. 0.98

00:01:54.980 Well, you suggested I say Nosferatu and I was just like, I can't do that to you. It's not

00:02:00.460 true. The allegations are false. Just don't bring garlic around, please. But anyway, we're

00:02:06.580 talking about Labour's new budget, Koreans hunting Johnny Somali for sport, and Harry's 0.97

00:02:14.460 talking about the neocon cycle. And we do have an announcement. Someone sent us in a

00:02:18.520 book. It's The Achievements of Kamala Harris. And this is very interesting.

00:02:24.500 It's not a particularly weighty tome, I noticed.

00:02:26.460 No. For example, you look at Immigration, a very gripping chapter. It's empty. There's

00:02:33.700 nothing in it. The whole book is just empty.

00:02:38.000 Yeah, I must say, I think that Michael Knowles did that joke first.

00:02:42.440 He did, didn't he?

00:02:43.080 He did Reasons to Vote Democrat and it was an empty book.

00:02:46.340 Makes for a good notebook, though. No one will ever pick it up and want to read it. So,

00:02:49.680 you know, if you're writing in secrets, you know, very good diary. Something like that

00:02:54.320 would work. But I think Samson's just adjusting the camera. So I'm just going to wait for that

00:02:59.360 until we...

00:03:00.120 He's making sure people have a worse shot of me. He's putting me out of focus. I was scaring

00:03:03.880 some of the audience, that's all.

00:03:05.940 Yeah, and not even when you're dressed like that.

00:03:08.100 So I'm Joker, Bo's Red Skull. Who are you?

00:03:12.300 I know Josh Firm alone is scary enough.

00:03:15.820 But you've come, you've got the button undone. We're Thai Nazis now. And so you've chosen 0.93

00:03:22.240 not to. So you've come as Tony Blair.

00:03:24.320 That's right.

00:03:24.880 Which is easily the most frightening thing on this panel.

00:03:27.500 I've come to unleash infinite immigration on you, which is really the scariest thing 1.00

00:03:32.120 of all. And speaking of which, are you ready to take us away, Bo?

00:03:37.360 Yeah, okay. So it might not be all that big news for our US audience or people from further

00:03:42.280 afield. But in Britain, we had a budget yesterday. So that's big news. It's sort of something

00:03:45.560 we're obliged to cover being in the UK. So just going to talk a bit about the budget

00:03:50.140 that happened. I don't want to go into actually fantastic amounts of detail just because it

00:03:54.780 is a bit dry. You know, like raise a twiddle with a half a percent here or there or a penny

00:04:00.220 more or less on certain things. But just to talk about the general, our general economy

00:04:06.180 and the government and all that sort of thing. So our Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel

00:04:11.500 Reeves is a stupid person. I think a lot of Americans and Brits are familiar with that, 1.00

00:04:19.160 having a very, very senior politicians, you know, like Kamala or Joe, being sort of undeniably

00:04:26.000 slow people, you know, not towering intellects or not even close. Right. And she's, unfortunately,

00:04:34.320 she's one of those. She's a judge of our economy. She's also just a PPE or politics, philosophy 0.98

00:04:39.900 and economics graduate. I don't think that is enough qualification to run the economy.

00:04:45.620 Not that a politician should do that anyway, in my opinion.

00:04:49.340 Yeah, she's just a pick, a party favourite. They obviously wanted to put a woman in that 1.00

00:04:54.180 role. I think, is she the first ever female Chancellor of the Exchequer? I think she might be.

00:04:58.140 Yes, she took great delight in saying that. And it's also worth mentioning as well, that

00:05:02.460 there was a recent sort of scandal, if you will, where she replaced a portrait in her

00:05:07.060 office with the female leader of the Communist Party. Is that right?

00:05:11.700 I don't think she was the leader, but she was in it.

00:05:14.500 Founders.

00:05:15.080 I think, wasn't she also a member of the Eugenics Society back in the day?

00:05:19.720 Ed Dutton was very excited about this. He thought he confirmed all of his theories of

00:05:24.640 woke eugenics. Maybe it does. 0.99

00:05:26.740 Maybe, yeah.

00:05:27.520 A woman called Ellen Wilkinson, who was in the government in the 30s and during the war,

00:05:33.300 in the 20s, out of favour, I think, during the 30s, and during the Churchill administration.

00:05:39.100 And yeah, she was just an out and out socialist. She definitely was a member of the British Communist

00:05:44.140 Party, completely unapologetically as well, you know, supported the great strike of the

00:05:51.160 20s. It was just a red, just an absolute red.

00:05:54.360 So, when Rachel Reeves got into power, she changed one of the, one of the portraits in

00:06:02.320 11 Downing Street, that's where our Chancellor of the Exchequer lives, with a picture of red

00:06:06.760 Ellen. It sort of speaks volumes, doesn't it? It tells you everything you need to know about

00:06:10.380 this person. She just lionises some commie woman from way back when. 1.00

00:06:14.480 To be fair, though, to go back onto Dutton's theories for a moment, perhaps by crashing 0.99

00:06:18.920 the economy with this budget, they are hoping to kill off the bottom 10% of useless eaters 1.00

00:06:24.960 in this country. So, perhaps there is a eugenics element to this. 0.99

00:06:28.080 Klaus might be happy.

00:06:29.040 Yeah, it was one of the things Mao said when he was told that, after being told for a long

00:06:33.260 time there weren't any famines during the Great Leap Forward, being told actually there is

00:06:36.940 widespread famine and probably hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, it turned out to

00:06:41.900 be unknown millions, are dying. And he just said, oh, well, we've got 10 fingers. If you cut off

00:06:46.680 one finger, you're still all right, aren't you? You've still got nine fingers left.

00:06:49.120 That's a rational and reasonable way of looking at things. Moral as well.

00:06:53.580 You wouldn't be able to play guitar after that, would you?

00:06:56.240 Well, if you take off the pinky finger of your picking hand, you should be all right.

00:06:59.480 That's true, I suppose, yeah.

00:07:00.800 It wouldn't help with piano.

00:07:02.080 That's true.

00:07:02.760 Certainly. Anyway, so, we've got just an out-and-out communist, if not communist, sympathiser

00:07:08.880 running our economy. And she's decided that they're going to increase tax to the tune of

00:07:14.120 40 billion. That's the takeaway headline, is that they're just going to tax us harder.

00:07:19.380 We're already a poor country. I remember Callum, in June his last weeks, did a bit.

00:07:24.200 A segment all about just how rich we are in real terms compared to how rich we used to

00:07:28.540 be, and compared to other sort of big, supposed to be industrial economies, advanced economies,

00:07:35.160 you know, like the United States, France, Germany, Japan, whatever. And we're like, we're super

00:07:39.080 poor. We've got really low wages, low productivity. That is what our economy is. And we've been rinsed,

00:07:47.340 we have been rinsed by taxes pretty hard in the last generation or two, and they're just

00:07:52.860 going to raise them more to the tune of 40 billion. And we know it's largely to support

00:07:57.820 to build houses and to support the people that have invaded us illegally and legally. 0.93

00:08:02.780 I think before the Labour government came in, it was about 45% of all money went via the

00:08:10.960 government. I wonder how much more, you know, we're halfway to full communism.

00:08:15.560 So looking into it, this budget, about a little over half of that, I would assume £22 billion

00:08:22.260 is going straight to health and social care. So that will immediately be eaten up by the

00:08:26.840 useless NHS, which as well has a budget increase up to £181.4 billion this year.

00:08:34.920 Increase? That's an increase of?

00:08:36.400 Mm-hmm.

00:08:36.900 Yeah, man.

00:08:37.540 So it's all going to go to the people at the top, of course, because they're the ones

00:08:41.060 that hoover up a lot of the money. And it's not going to go towards, oh, yeah, we're just

00:08:44.520 going to spend this on hiring doctors. It's not going to happen, is it? It's going to disappear

00:08:48.620 into the void.

00:08:50.300 Yeah. So the thing is, I mean, I've got some libertarian leanings. That's about as far as

00:08:55.280 I'm prepared to go with that.

00:08:56.720 Good enough for me.

00:08:57.140 I would say I've got some sympathies with some libertarian ideas. But I am a statist. I'm not

00:09:03.200 a complete, nowhere near really a complete libertarian.

00:09:05.000 Maybe it's perfect.

00:09:05.620 However, I do think that nearly all taxes, I'll say this, nearly all taxes are state-sponsored

00:09:10.660 theft, in my opinion.

00:09:12.180 Yes.

00:09:12.880 Nearly all. I mean, if there was none, I think it's very difficult to imagine a world where

00:09:17.380 there's truly no state. Anyway, some hardline libertarians would be going crazy.

00:09:21.820 I'm not an anarchist, by the way.

00:09:23.100 Yeah, right. Yeah. Anyway. Anyways, let's not go down that rabbit hole. But I would say taxing

00:09:28.020 people more than a few percent on things is crazy. Let alone having, you know, income tax

00:09:34.600 of 23, 25, 40 percent, these sorts of numbers. That's crazy. That's crazy. People have never

00:09:41.200 been taxed that much in all of human history.

00:09:43.040 Well, who is most of that tax going to support? I used the phrase useless eaters a moment ago, 0.98

00:09:48.480 but I think the vast majority of the useless eaters in British society are the jobs with bureaucrats 0.99

00:09:55.380 that make up Whitehall. So a lot of this money will be going to funding them acting as fifth 0.94

00:10:00.940 columnists, treasonous traitors, destroying the country.

00:10:05.780 Yeah. Billions and billions going straight to foreign countries, billions and billions 0.98

00:10:09.300 going to house migrants, all sorts of stuff.

00:10:12.760 Didn't they announce also that there was going to be a new commitment to funding Ukraine that

00:10:16.920 was going to go on as long as possible? Yeah. As long as it takes. As long as it takes.

00:10:22.260 Which is the lion that has come out of the State Department and the Pentagon and that we're now

00:10:27.020 saying and giving all our money to. Okay, fine. Great. So, okay. A lot of it is tinkering around,

00:10:33.320 the Blairite sort of tinkering around, Brownite tinkering around with things. There's nothing, 0.98

00:10:38.780 you know, fantastically giant where they're going to sort of rework the nature of the economy and

00:10:43.220 stuff, perhaps with the exception of green policies. So, for example, just freezes on quite a lot of

00:10:50.120 things. You know, tinkering a little bit with capital gains tax. Of course, it's worth mentioning

00:10:56.640 as well that the freeze is still significant because of inflation being record levels, more or

00:11:03.820 less, very, very high inflation. That by freezing it, it's still effectively increasing tax, even though

00:11:10.960 the threshold has stayed the same because you need more money. Great point. I must tip my fedora ever

00:11:16.900 so slightly. Sorry to do this. That's all right. Not really anywhere near record levels. But still,

00:11:22.620 but still, nonetheless. Record levels in my lifetime, should I say. Right, okay. The only reason I even do

00:11:27.480 that is because there will be people in the comments saying, oh, somewhere near record levels.

00:11:32.820 But anyway, so. I appreciate a fedora tip, don't worry. But still, yeah, inflation is pretty bad.

00:11:39.240 And I always find it annoying in recent years when they seem to be bragging that it's come down from

00:11:46.260 six or seven percent. It's only two percent now or something. It's only three percent. There shouldn't

00:11:50.500 be any. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's only getting worse. It's only getting worse a bit more slowly. Oh,

00:11:55.220 okay. It's like, I've only filled up your house two percent of the way with excrement. 0.99

00:12:00.540 Yeah. Oh, well, that's very charitable of you. Thank you. 0.95

00:12:04.440 Yeah. You're going to drown ever so slightly more slowly now. Great. Okay. So what were some 0.61

00:12:12.260 of the things? Yeah, again, I don't want to bore people with like one pee off of booze.

00:12:16.640 That was actually quite interesting because they're just like, one good thing, we've knocked a penny

00:12:21.600 off of a pint in pubs. And of course, all of the additional taxes mean it's still going to be

00:12:25.820 more expensive anyway. There was an incredibly condescending poster that came with that that

00:12:31.100 said, we've knocked one pence off of pints at pubs. This means your pints will be big, bold letters.

00:12:37.220 Cheaper. But it was one pence. Yeah. So how many pints do you have to sink before you've made a

00:12:42.940 saving of another pint? Somebody calculated something like six thousand, six hundred to six thousand.

00:12:48.900 I'm willing to try. And they, I mean, and you go to, in Britain, if anyone's actually

00:12:54.880 lives in Britain and knows and ever goes out for a drink, the amount you're charged for a drink in

00:12:59.920 a pub wildly variates from place to place. Wildly. You go into London and you can easily pay six,

00:13:07.240 seven, eight, nine pounds for a pint or a rum and coke or something. You come out to sort of rural

00:13:12.780 Wiltshire in this like 50p. Not quite. That's an exaggeration. But it's like, there's nowhere near

00:13:18.760 that. Yeah, I know. I know. But still, like, you don't get much change out of a tenner for a drink

00:13:23.660 in London and you can buy three drinks for that here. Right. So I think one of the most notable

00:13:28.380 things. The state taking one p less is just, it's nothing. Sorry, Harry. That's about almost

00:13:34.820 twelve dollars for a nine pound pint, by the way, if you're American. Sorry. I was going to say the thing

00:13:40.040 that I've noticed so far looking at all of the information that's on the screen for us

00:13:43.320 is that everything's going up. Frozen or going up. Either frozen or going up or discounts being

00:13:51.760 reduced to a lower discount. So that's the primary takeaway is that things will get more expensive

00:13:57.100 because the government is either taking more or giving you less of a discount. There's just loads

00:14:03.180 of things here which are just unpopular with the vast majority of people. I mean, for example,

00:14:08.760 they're committed to the HS2 thing. What use is that going to be if no one can afford

00:14:16.200 to take it? High speed rail that no one can afford. Rail prices in this country are absolutely

00:14:22.380 ridiculous. Well, that's another thing. They said that's going up. The cap on buses is going 0.86

00:14:27.160 up and the amount that you're actually being charged for fares is going up. Let's be honest,

00:14:31.680 gentlemen. If this country was actually dedicated to try and reducing carbon emissions, it would

00:14:37.720 do anything that it can to make public transport, that being mass services of transport where you

00:14:43.800 don't have to each individually take a car, you can all just pack into a train and get the train at

00:14:47.480 the same time, better run and cheaper. Because if you've got less cars on the road, that's less

00:14:53.860 emissions out in the air. That's not what they do. They go out of their way to make it more expensive

00:14:59.200 and less attainable for people to just get the train. It shouldn't cost over £100 to get the train

00:15:06.300 from the north of England to London. No, it shouldn't. No, it shouldn't cost £50. It should

00:15:12.340 cost a tenner. Do you know that even now, the train from Swindon to London, which is sometimes 50

00:15:20.360 minutes, costs up to £60 if you're getting a return ticket, which is just ridiculous.

00:15:26.040 Well, the other day or a couple of weeks ago, I went to Nottingham from Swindon. Not very far. Is

00:15:31.320 that 100 miles? Is that even less than that? It's around the Midlands. Something in that ballpark.

00:15:36.000 So from the West Country to the Midlands, return £136. It's ridiculous. You could actually fly to 0.73

00:15:43.080 Istanbul and back for that and have money left over. Well, you can fly to Scotland sometimes from the

00:15:49.600 south to like Edinburgh or Glasgow for £20 sometimes. I did see a story the other day. This girl

00:15:55.340 flew to, I think it was Mallorca or Barcelona. She wanted to go from somewhere in the south,

00:16:00.560 somewhere in the north of England. And it was cheaper to fly to the Mediterranean and back.

00:16:06.720 It was cheaper. So she did.

00:16:09.380 Probably a much better service as well.

00:16:11.820 Yeah, probably actually enjoyed it. Yeah. Probably didn't have to put up with like rugby

00:16:15.720 lads chanting.

00:16:17.120 And probably faster.

00:16:18.160 Okay, yeah. So one of the things that struck me is sort of zooming out a bit, broadly speaking,

00:16:23.680 is that there is some ideology, a fair bit of ideology in this. The idea that commies and leftists

00:16:28.660 just really, really resent successful or rich people. I don't want to go to bat for the super

00:16:33.620 wealthy, particularly. I'm a working class lad.

00:16:36.140 A lot of them support this kind of thing.

00:16:37.800 But I'm not ideologically in favour of just, of just trying to hurt rich people. Because they bring

00:16:44.160 in, they bring in, if they own businesses and things, they bring in jobs and they make the

00:16:48.340 economy go round and all sorts of things. But yeah, there's the idea that doing away with the

00:16:51.600 nom-dom status quo. So in other words, just really rich people would be less likely to want to

00:16:57.880 live here or have a house here. Stuff on private jets. I mean, there's very few private jets,

00:17:03.800 but still they're attacking them anyway. Private schools.

00:17:08.120 That was particularly nasty. Because if you've got lots of money, about the most responsible

00:17:12.180 way you could possibly spend that money is making sure that your children have a good education.

00:17:17.800 And I think that you should be able to pay for better service. I think that's perfectly

00:17:22.900 reasonable. And dragging down rich people's children to the level of state school, I don't

00:17:28.340 think is fair. And I went to a state school.

00:17:30.340 The whole point of communism, socialism, progressivism is flattening of all standards to the lowest

00:17:36.280 common denominator.

00:17:37.720 So on private schools, they're going to lose their business rate relief and will pay 20%

00:17:42.920 VAT, value added tax, on their fees as of next year. I've always thought that the attack,

00:17:49.400 some things that the left do, or the Labour Party in Britain, the attack on hereditary peerage,

00:17:54.200 the attack on private schools, these things are something I have never and will never benefit

00:17:59.400 it from. And yet I've always found it just pure resentment. It's just pure resentment.

00:18:05.720 If you were seething with envy, the idea that other people are born into more successful

00:18:11.400 families than you are, then you would take this as a win, even if it doesn't materially

00:18:15.840 benefit you, or in fact potentially makes you worse off in some way. At least in terms

00:18:20.660 of the state of the governance of the country, it affects all of us one way or another.

00:18:24.560 And everything that these people do, I think should be qualified by the fact that I don't

00:18:29.580 believe that the Labour government that we are run by have souls. Keir Starmer is not

00:18:34.620 a man with an internal life. He does not have a soul. He does not read or enjoy books. He

00:18:39.240 does not listen to or enjoy music. He does not have a favourite film. This man has no interests

00:18:45.020 outside of managerial bureaucratic head counting.

00:18:50.040 And our private schools, what we call public schools, which is confusing to everyone else

00:18:53.880 who isn't British, our private schools, let's call them, at least used to be the envy of the 1.00

00:18:59.020 world. If he was a super rich, if he was a Sultan of Brunei and you could send one of your kids

00:19:02.940 to Harrow or Eton, you would because you're guaranteed an absolutely first class education.

00:19:08.560 They just, Labour just hate that, hate it. So anyway, minimum wage. So a lot of it is

00:19:14.820 politics. No wonder she put a commie, a card carrying commie on her wall. I mean, raising 1.00

00:19:20.520 minimum wage. I mean, this is, everyone knows that that's not a great idea. It just hurt.

00:19:27.220 Well, anyway, anyway, there's loads and loads of examples of where it's just weird and they're

00:19:31.700 just ringing money. It's just commies ringing money out of us whilst collapsing us at the same

00:19:36.500 time. Raising minimum wage when you're raising everything else is just an arms race. That's 0.60

00:19:41.160 all it is. We raise taxes, so we raise minimum wage and then we're paying too much for the

00:19:45.560 people's minimum wages. So we need to raise the taxes and it all just ends up collapsing

00:19:49.400 middle and small businesses. It's like having a giant welfare state and open borders. Those

00:19:54.100 two things together are disastrous, obviously disastrous. So yeah, I mean, and so, okay. Yeah,

00:20:02.780 we're still going to give loads of money directly to just foreign countries just for the sake

00:20:05.820 of it just because of white guilt or something. I don't know what. Yeah, there's lots and

00:20:12.320 lots of, there's lots there, but I suppose a lot of it is kind of boring. And I suppose

00:20:15.880 the main thing to say, there was actually quite a good article I saw on Unheard.

00:20:20.540 Oh, listen, look at this one at the bottom. Rachel Reeve will also raise the windfall tax 1.00

00:20:24.840 on North Sea oil and gas producers from 35 to 38%.

00:20:28.260 Right.

00:20:29.880 So energy's going to be more expensive.

00:20:31.560 Thank you.

00:20:31.900 Because they also hate energy. They also want to spend any wealth we've got left on sort

00:20:36.360 of wind farms and things that don't really work because Ed Miller banned.

00:20:39.660 It's not just that it'll make it more expensive for the consumer. It'll make it less desirable

00:20:44.820 to even continue those businesses.

00:20:46.860 Also, it has a knock on effect to all other industry as well, because all industries use

00:20:52.500 energy to some extent.

00:20:53.600 I want to talk briefly, if I can quickly, about an article that was in Unheard of all

00:21:01.320 places, but I thought there's a few good lines in it. And again, it's just sort of the more

00:21:06.120 zoomed out, broader view of our economy. It's actually really quite bad. It's actually quite

00:21:12.580 bad. So they said, Britain's cloud of misery assumes concrete form in provincial high streets

00:21:18.460 of unmitigated gloom, whose shuttered shops are punctuated by vape outlets, phone repairers

00:21:26.500 and cash-only barbers.

00:21:28.920 They've been reading my tweets, whoever wrote this.

00:21:31.580 Whose dubious legality are left unexamined by a state, desperate for whatever revenue

00:21:37.400 it can take. Indeed, even Oxford Street is now just another dismal provincial high street.

00:21:41.920 Our ruling class's economic model is one so committed to low-wage employment over investment

00:21:47.120 the Conservative government imported almost 4% of the country's population in the last

00:21:52.000 two years just to man checkout tools and deliver food on bicycles, juicing gross GDP figures

00:21:58.740 from what has aptly been termed human quantitative easing. I've not heard that before, but I

00:22:03.360 thought that was a good line.

00:22:04.060 I've heard that. I've banded around a few times, yeah.

00:22:06.300 Even as the resulting exactions on housing, infrastructure and societal stability fray what is left of Britain's

00:22:13.280 social contract. The very social contract is falling apart, where people are saying, what?

00:22:18.160 The state is just robbing us and replacing us. Well, you know, it's sort of at that level.

00:22:25.900 A bit further down they said this, overburdened with unaffordable commitments, with a declining tax base,

00:22:32.160 the British state lurches from crisis to crisis, getting weaker, poorer and less capable at every turn.

00:22:36.900 This, by the way, the very definition of societal collapse. The economic situation is so dire that

00:22:42.100 tinkering with tax rates offers no meaningful solution. British politicians should instead

00:22:47.420 think of the country in explicitly developmentalist terms, recreating the essential infrastructure,

00:22:53.740 transport links, low-cost energy, the manufacture of basic goods like primary steel. We haven't

00:22:57.600 really got a steel industry anymore, barely. Necessary to permit a functioning first world economy 0.91

00:23:03.480 some decades to come. They mentioned also that as much as 43% of people in this country don't pay

00:23:12.480 any income tax because they don't earn enough. There's a threshold. I can't remember exactly what

00:23:16.800 the threshold is. Last I remember it was £12,500. I think it was raised recently. I might be

00:23:23.140 misremembering. So if you earn less than that, you don't have to pay any income tax. And that's 43%

00:23:28.140 of the working people. And if you're here illegally and it's taking money, cash in hand that you don't

00:23:32.940 declare, well then you're not paying any tax on that either, are you? You run a barber's where

00:23:36.600 there's never any customers in there. So it was raised... But own a first-class brilliant

00:23:41.640 Mercedes. Sorry, go on. It was raised to £12,570. Oh, it bumped up £70. Cheers. You're welcome.

00:23:50.280 Yeah. I didn't do it. I wasn't saying cheers to you, but you are Tony Blair today. So I will still

00:23:54.660 blame all of this on you. And in that unheard article, they end by sort of making the point that

00:23:59.280 the state itself is losing legitimacy. I mean, look at the... Look at Rachel. Look at how smug she is. 0.99

00:24:04.940 Oh, that's such an annoying... I'm Chancellor of the Exchequer. I'm... I'm rearranging the deck

00:24:09.520 chairs on the Titanic, sort of a... What a moron. She's a moron. If anyone's ever heard her speak. 1.00

00:24:14.840 Oh, yeah.

00:24:16.580 God, it's so frustrating.

00:24:17.940 It's like the final boss of HR managers.

00:24:19.980 Yeah. Yeah. An idiot girl boss that thinks she's something special. It's mad. And the last few links,

00:24:27.660 if you could... Actually, if I leave it to you, Samson, if you flash up a few of the links, um,

00:24:33.180 and the BBC...

00:24:34.220 She looks a bit less than that one. 0.69

00:24:35.340 Yeah, it's a dodgy bar in it. It's bad for a bald guy to call other people out on their haircut, but that's a...

00:24:40.640 I think that's fair enough, though.

00:24:41.680 That's a dodgy bar in it.

00:24:42.480 Um, so, yeah, um, what was it? The BBC said, oh, all working people are getting hit hard by this.

00:24:48.720 Sky News said, all middle earners are being hit hard by this. The Financial Times said,

00:24:53.600 all businesses and wealthy people bear the brunt of this. Um, no one's, no one's happy with it.

00:24:58.400 So everybody's worse off.

00:24:59.600 Yeah. Yeah, of course they are.

00:25:01.600 I mean, it just seems that Starmer's government, from every possible angle of attack,

00:25:08.640 is just destroying our country as quickly as possible.

00:25:11.040 That really is what it feels like, living here.

00:25:12.880 And it's important to point out that yesterday I covered the news that came out regarding

00:25:17.920 Axel Rudikopana, the Southport killer, as well. And it does seem that, along with that being timed

00:25:22.960 to make sure it avoided the Tommy Robinson rally over the weekend, um, that it seems to have been

00:25:28.960 timed to coincide with this budget announcement as well. And I can only think that the government,

00:25:33.680 if they were trying to act pragmatically, were hoping that if they release two infuriating bits

00:25:39.680 of news at the exact same time, that somehow the anger for both of them would be dispersed

00:25:44.640 and cancel each other out, because people would be too unfocused to be angry about both at the same

00:25:49.280 time. No, that was a complete mistake. Everybody's furious about everything that you have done.

00:25:54.400 Everybody involved in this government needs to step down, they need to resign, then they need to hand

00:26:00.400 themselves in for conviction of treason charges.

00:26:04.640 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, rebel, rebel, yeah.

00:26:07.680 Yeah. As much as I would like for that to be the case, and I think that morally that's, uh, that

00:26:12.560 would be the best thing for them to do. And then, you know, their ultimate judgment could be found by

00:26:16.720 God. Um, that's not what they're going to do. They're going to continue trying to destroy our

00:26:21.040 country as rapidly as possible. Okay. That's it. I think that's it. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Fair enough.

00:26:29.360 But who's to say, I can't top that. Yeah, I can't top that. Yeah, yeah. He said it all.

00:26:33.200 Oh, Jesus Christ. So anyway, this is... That's a jump scare.

00:26:37.120 This is Johnny Somali. Um, it's Halloween, so I wanted to show you something scary. 1.00

00:26:42.240 And it is scary, because wherever he goes, he brings misery. And, uh...

00:26:46.960 Thank you. Thank you, Josh.

00:26:48.240 His real name is Ramzi Khalid Ismail, by the way. Strong chin. Yeah, he's, uh...

00:26:54.720 He has very, very Somalian physiognomy. Interesting looking fella, isn't he?

00:26:59.520 There is the meme of, how could you tell I was Somalian?

00:27:02.560 Samson, were you zooming into his head? Don't do that. It's close enough.

00:27:07.280 Imagine this just appearing in your country. Well, um, for the Koreans, they don't have to imagine, 1.00

00:27:12.960 because he has turned up. But first, um, if you want to keep Johnny Somali away from 1.00

00:27:18.160 your country, well, you need to help Lotus Eaters out, because we have merch. And of course,

00:27:24.000 we don't want Johnny Somali in your country, because he's not a very nice guy. And what you need 1.00

00:27:28.720 is things like this. You want this t-shirt, don't you? This gives 100% protection against Johnny Somali. 1.00

00:27:38.480 It's not been proven, we've not consulted any experts, but we've got a general vibe that it might work.

00:27:43.280 So like an RPG clothing, it gives you stat boosts?

00:27:47.440 It does. That's what I've heard. Alright.

00:27:49.440 This is not proven, this is not scientific advice. Um, this is just our random hearsay.

00:27:55.200 But we have election merch here. Um, we've also got mugs, we've got some posters, we've got some stuff.

00:28:00.560 We've also got the Islander stuff. This is all, um, here for a limited time, and then we'll take

00:28:05.200 it down and add some new stuff. But get it while you can if you like any of it. I really like the t-shirt,

00:28:09.600 the Trump grilling t-shirt. It's great. I think that that's a good bit of memorabilia to have,

00:28:14.960 to remember this wonderful time. Um, but anyway, we need your support because, uh,

00:28:20.400 we're fighting the good fight. Keeping Johnny Somali out is a full-time job and we need it. 1.00

00:28:25.440 We don't get paid from YouTube. But anyway, um, he went to Japan and he had a lot of controversy.

00:28:32.640 Um, I'm gonna, oh, we, we have, uh, some weirdness going on. So he went to Japan. Um, he was basically

00:28:40.240 filmed walking around Tokyo Disneyland shouting, Fukushima, atomic bomb, Shinzo Abe. So, uh, not

00:28:47.840 being a good guest, I think it's safe to say. He was filmed on a train telling Japanese people,

00:28:52.960 we're going to drop another atomic bomb. I know, yeah. Really? Yeah, I remember all of this now.

00:28:59.920 Mm-hmm. And, uh, here he is. He was confronted by a number of people on his streams, but that was

00:29:07.520 clearly the point. He wanted to be as much of an annoying prick in public so that he would get

00:29:13.600 those negative reactions to generate clicks. Yeah, he's, he's hunting for views, basically.

00:29:18.000 He wants hate watchers. Mm-hmm. So... So lame.

00:29:21.760 He, he was facing three years in prison in Japan for all of his antics. Um, but clearly that's not

00:29:28.400 happened because he's elsewhere. Um... He's decided you're somebody else's problem now.

00:29:33.440 Yeah, it seems like it. Um, here it is. He was also playing loud music in a nice Japanese restaurant,

00:29:39.600 and he was ordered to pay a 1,400 US dollar fine. Um, and he's, he apologized and said,

00:29:47.200 I promise I'll never take videos again. Well, that was a lie.

00:29:50.400 It shows how much that promise is worth. Um, so, uh, it's also worth mentioning as well.

00:29:56.320 Trust the word of Johnny Somali. My faith is gone. 1.00

00:30:00.240 He threatened to sue, to sue, um, the YouTuber PewDiePie for saying he ruined Japan,

00:30:07.520 which, I mean, who in their right mind is going to say, well, you know, this, this is libelous.

00:30:14.080 You were kicked, you were kicked out of Japan, you were fined, and, uh, everyone hates you there now.

00:30:19.840 The interesting thing with this is as well that PewDiePie lives in Japan and moved there from,

00:30:25.440 I think he was living in Brighton before in England. That's right.

00:30:28.080 And he's made it clear, and I think there has been a bit of nudge, nudge, wink, wink with this,

00:30:32.560 that he moved to Japan explicitly so that he could get away with a lot of the things that are going

00:30:37.440 wrong with the West at the moment. He wanted to move somewhere that was orderly and peaceful,

00:30:42.640 where people were polite and respected one another. So he doesn't want to see this kind of thing

00:30:47.120 come to Japan either. And this is a whole phenomenon, unfortunately, whereby you have

00:30:52.160 these annoying people that are trying to get internet famous, uh, and they're going to countries

00:30:56.960 and just being really, um, I don't know how to say it. Obnoxious. Obnoxious is the right word, yeah.

00:31:04.640 Deliberately obnoxious to be a bad guest. Yes, nuisances as, as Samson says. And I think that he's

00:31:11.040 been described as one. And it's got to such a point that even the BBC has articles about him

00:31:17.680 in Somali, because of course they do. Have we got any BBC Pigeon on Johnny Somali? 1.00

00:31:24.320 But look, this is basically Pigeon anyway, look at it. Go back up to the top, what does it,

00:31:30.000 how does it say YouTube in Somali? I don't think it has it in the title. Go back down to the first

00:31:35.520 paragraph. Okay. Oh no, that's YouTube Ka. Okay. I was hoping it'd be funny.

00:31:40.480 Why kuma Johnny Somali? I don't know. I sound like Jar Jar Binks. I think that's, I think Josh may 1.00

00:31:47.680 have just broken a number of hate speech laws in this country. That's not, I'm just reading it.

00:31:52.720 Well still, if you were to draw an accurate picture of Johnny Somali, you'd be breaking hate speech laws.

00:31:58.720 Me say nothing, so.

00:32:03.120 So anyway, he's in Korea, and he's already being obnoxious. So this statue here, to give 0.96

00:32:09.360 you a bit of background, is a girl symbolizing the victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery

00:32:14.880 in Korea. And it's a comfort woman, so to speak. And he was there filming it. I've deliberately,

00:32:21.840 I'm deliberately playing these without any sound, because I don't hate you that much, okay?

00:32:26.560 You're welcome, Harry. But here he is, just being obnoxious. And what got people particularly

00:32:34.880 upset, well, I'm not going to play this for so much longer, but the thing goes on. And I thought

00:32:41.440 this was funny. This is a Korean outlet. It's asking for permission. Yeah. Go away. I don't want 1.00

00:32:49.200 notifications. Get out of the way. Yeah. This is a Korean publication. YouTuber Johnny Somali gets 0.95

00:32:55.120 decked after disrespecting comfort woman statue, and he kissed her on the cheek. Of course he's a

00:32:59.840 creeper. Which is one of the least sensitive things you could possibly do. Yeah, it's unbelievable.

00:33:07.280 Well, it's just inappropriate. It's obnoxious. It's disrespectful, and willfully so. You're doing

00:33:12.080 it on camera. You're doing it for an audience of however so many people. Obviously the point is,

00:33:17.520 I'm going to insult your culture for fun. No country should accept that. No country should respect

00:33:23.040 that. The second that you show that you're willingly doing that for internet views, you should be banned

00:33:28.240 from the country. Yeah, and what kind of people watch that sort of thing as well? It's young children

00:33:32.960 that don't know any better, and it's a bad influence on them. And very low IQ people. Yeah,

00:33:38.720 what a disgusting freak. Tell us how you really feel, Bo. Where's he? Because I don't know anything 1.00

00:33:45.680 about this Mr. Somali. Is he British or is he American? He's American. Right, okay. He's a new 1.00

00:33:53.840 American, like those Ohaians. He's obviously a Somali American. Right, he's from America, okay. 1.00

00:34:01.360 So he's also done some other things. Here he is. This one was particularly obnoxious. So he's

00:34:05.760 he's playing loud music in a shop because they have shops and counters. And he's got a speaker

00:34:14.000 there playing really loud stuff. And you see he's making a face because he also has this thing where

00:34:19.040 he connects the speaker to the stream and people on the stream can play things out of the speaker. And

00:34:23.600 of course, you know how that goes. And the lady in the store is basically telling him off, 1.00

00:34:30.240 telling him to behave himself. And he's just rude. We'll see in a second. I'm not going to play the

00:34:37.680 sound because it's really, really annoying. But he's got noodles here. He's drinking alcohol. He's

00:34:43.360 basically drunk. Oh, and look, the second that she's got her back turned, he starts playing the

00:34:48.800 tough guy. Yeah. Look at this kind of stuff. When does he get decked? Yeah, do we get to see the

00:34:56.000 the footage? Do we get the footage of him being decked? Do we get to see him get his comeuppance?

00:35:01.120 Eventually. Because otherwise this is unnecessarily... Patience. Patience. Don't worry, there is a happy ending to this.

00:35:06.000 This is an animal of a person. Yeah. This is an animal. This is uncivilisational behaviour.

00:35:11.120 You can dress him up in a jacket, but you can't expect him to behave in society.

00:35:15.440 And they're pointing at him to basically clean it up because he's made a mess.

00:35:19.760 But you get the idea. He's also in a hotel and he's filming and being loud and obnoxious and playing

00:35:27.200 music and things like that. And then the hotel staff, I think, or the security guards come and

00:35:33.120 sort him out eventually. But he just starts screaming. I'm not playing it, of course, because

00:35:39.120 it's annoying. Thank you. Thank you.

00:35:41.200 I bet you've never been so grateful that I've gone through and made sure all of these are muted.

00:35:45.600 Well, Samson has anyway. But yeah, they eventually tackle him down.

00:35:52.880 And they're basically just saying, don't do that. It's rude.

00:35:57.840 Which is perfectly reasonable, obviously.

00:36:00.160 They should confiscate his phone as well, because obviously this kind of behaviour is being encouraged

00:36:05.040 by him streaming online and he needs his phone for that. So, okay, you go, if this is what's causing

00:36:10.880 you to behave like this or making it worse. No, you don't get it. You need to treat these people

00:36:16.160 like children. 0.98

00:36:17.040 Well, yeah, he has obviously got the mind of a small child, an obnoxious small child.

00:36:21.920 It's particularly egregious in places like Japan or South Korea, because they're much more polite

00:36:26.720 than even we are. Much more polite. My sister told me a story of once she was on a train in Japan.

00:36:32.640 She was talking to her husband, just at a normal volume, just sitting next to him and talking to him.

00:36:37.120 And people shushed her. When you're in public like that, you stay completely quiet.

00:36:41.280 Oh, if only.

00:36:42.720 Right, yeah.

00:36:43.440 I mean, this is what England used to be like. This is what England used to be like.

00:36:48.320 You know, it's still the case in some pockets. People have that attitude.

00:36:53.040 I know when I get the train, basically, I get the train from Swindon to go back down to Devon.

00:36:58.720 And once you get past Bristol, all the detritus gets off. And it's just nice people.

00:37:05.120 And everything's far more civilised. People are polite. Quite often, there'll be an old lady 1.00

00:37:10.320 that'll sit next to me and have a chat on the way. And everyone's really pleasant. You know,

00:37:15.040 you have a nice quiet volume if you're having a conversation. Or people are respectful.

00:37:19.760 Normally, you know, you get a phone call, you go into the lobby or don't take it at all.

00:37:22.880 That's how people behave. So anyway, speaking of which, here he is in a line full of people,

00:37:28.800 and he's just playing loud noises, being really obnoxious. One of which is just random monkey

00:37:33.840 noises, which makes people jump. Because if you suddenly start hearing monkey noises,

00:37:39.680 which is quite funny, really, in a sort of negative perception kind of way.

00:37:44.000 Look at how they're looking at him. They're like, what is wrong with you?

00:37:47.120 What is this thing?

00:37:50.320 I hope if I click this, it doesn't play sound. So I'm giving you a brief warning. I hope it doesn't.

00:37:56.480 Oh, there is. There is sound. Or is it muted?

00:37:59.280 Okay. Clearly he's getting told. Oh, thank you, Samson. You are, you are a hero.

00:38:04.080 He's clearly playing into this perception though.

00:38:06.400 She's like translating it to him, just saying like, no, don't do this.

00:38:09.360 Because the act that I can see on the screen, if this came from his stream, is literally,

00:38:13.840 cancel Johnny's. Cancel Johnny S. So he's going about-

00:38:17.760 No, no, no. This is videos from people who want him gone.

00:38:20.720 Oh, okay. I thought this came from his stream itself.

00:38:23.360 Because I-

00:38:23.760 No, no, no. That's a different-

00:38:25.040 I know that he's-

00:38:26.160 See?

00:38:27.040 Oh, yeah. He's obviously playing into the perception.

00:38:29.760 So he does get a lot of hate for what he's doing.

00:38:32.080 Oh, yeah, definitely.

00:38:32.960 Oh, good. Okay. Well, there's that.

00:38:34.640 Out of one country.

00:38:35.440 And then there's also him on the bus,

00:38:37.760 playing really loud stuff as well.

00:38:40.640 He gets a dressing down from loads of people here for being obnoxious.

00:38:45.920 See, everyone is just having a go at him, going up to him, telling him no.

00:38:53.440 And he just doesn't stop and is just continuing to be obnoxious.

00:38:57.760 But you get the idea by this point.

00:39:00.240 There's also him on the subway where people tell him to stop being obnoxious as well.

00:39:07.040 The same sort of thing. He's also saying bad things to people.

00:39:11.360 They're just telling him to shut up.

00:39:13.040 It's like, be quiet, basically, is what he's saying there.

00:39:16.400 So, I think you've seen enough to hate this guy, right? 0.93

00:39:19.280 I think we're all in agreement that this guy is awful.

00:39:22.400 So, let's have a look at some revenge.

00:39:26.160 Let's revel in it, shall we?

00:39:27.760 Okay, cool.

00:39:28.800 So, here is Lord Miles.

00:39:30.960 I'm not going to read all of this.

00:39:33.360 I'm not going to read it.

00:39:33.920 Careful here, Josh.

00:39:34.740 I know. I read it beforehand.

00:39:36.480 South Koreans have been hunting down Johnny Smiley and his friends for several days.

00:39:40.340 They've beat him and dragged him into the road.

00:39:41.960 I'm going to be showing some of that.

00:39:43.100 But, allegedly, an ex-MMA fighter named Tate Wung is hunting him down.

00:39:48.960 He's hunting him as we speak.

00:39:52.280 He's not getting away with it.

00:39:53.880 And he also says...

00:39:54.740 It's like Rambo.

00:39:56.460 He's making all of his preparations, putting his war paint on.

00:39:59.800 And, apparently, otherwise liberal K-pop stars are calling for his deportation and calls for his arrest are spreading.

00:40:06.640 Which are true. 0.90

00:40:07.840 This is true.

00:40:08.840 This is good.

00:40:09.380 I like that the K-pop stars, they're finally doing something good with their influence.

00:40:14.720 And, a Korean streamer was able to find out where he was by following his stream and started following him and harassing him in return.

00:40:24.120 Lovely.

00:40:24.900 And, he doesn't like it when it's done to him, funnily enough.

00:40:28.300 He looks like he's about 90 pounds soaking wet as well.

00:40:31.600 Like, he needs to be stopped.

00:40:35.520 So, basically, this goes on for a while.

00:40:37.480 Or, I don't know what that little box in the corner is.

00:40:40.900 But, they basically follow him to the door of his hotel.

00:40:43.440 That's funny that they're harassing him.

00:40:44.880 And, they get his hotel on camera as well.

00:40:47.460 Yeah, yeah.

00:40:47.880 That's funny.

00:40:48.440 They show where his hotel is.

00:40:50.640 And, he's also not able to get into his hotel.

00:40:53.140 And, he has to get let in by one of his comrades, I suppose.

00:40:57.940 And, he's just being hounded.

00:40:59.640 Look at that.

00:41:00.300 He's already got a plaster over his eye.

00:41:02.460 Oh, yeah.

00:41:02.820 He's already been punched in the face by this point.

00:41:05.680 But, it carries on and on and on.

00:41:08.160 Here he is.

00:41:09.840 Getting cornered.

00:41:10.860 They're following him in the lift.

00:41:12.820 He's not in the lift.

00:41:13.720 He's still stuck outside.

00:41:14.940 But, he's getting really upset.

00:41:16.040 He's just like, this is harassment.

00:41:16.880 Don't touch me.

00:41:17.380 And, he's started calling the police on them.

00:41:19.280 Surely, there's a point of diminishing returns.

00:41:21.620 Where, if you were a rational and intelligent person with the mind of an eight-year-old rather than a three-year-old.

00:41:27.240 You would think, this isn't worth it anymore.

00:41:29.140 I'm being beaten, hunted, hounded out of every country that I go to.

00:41:34.100 Maybe this isn't worth it.

00:41:35.860 You'd think that would be something that would cross his mind.

00:41:38.740 I want to shake the hands of those South Korean streamers. 0.99

00:41:42.460 They're doing that to him.

00:41:44.080 That's brilliant.

00:41:44.760 You know he's outside of his, outside of this hotel, right?

00:41:50.220 And, this, he'd been stuck out there for a while now.

00:41:53.400 Warning, if you're worried about watching a bit of mild violence.

00:41:57.800 A bit of the old ultra-violence.

00:41:59.740 Lashings of ultra-violence.

00:42:00.720 But, however, if you're a reasonable person who wants to see him get his comeuppance, here you go.

00:42:07.440 So, here they are, stood outside his hotel.

00:42:09.360 He's still not able to get in.

00:42:12.280 And.

00:42:14.760 Just some random guy, I presume.

00:42:18.440 A jumping kick.

00:42:19.480 Yeah.

00:42:19.860 Nice.

00:42:20.340 And then, you get the idea.

00:42:21.740 Not that I would ever encourage this kind of behavior.

00:42:23.380 No, it's terrible that this thing happened to him.

00:42:26.680 And he definitely did not deserve it.

00:42:29.740 Oh.

00:42:29.920 Yeah, it's a shame.

00:42:31.600 Hmm.

00:42:32.640 But, yes, he got beaten up.

00:42:34.180 Because people were able to track him down.

00:42:36.860 And everyone hates him.

00:42:38.300 Believe it or not.

00:42:39.440 Oh.

00:42:39.620 But, yes.

00:42:42.080 Bit of revenge.

00:42:43.740 It looked like he got very pert, though.

00:42:45.500 No.

00:42:47.140 It's also...

00:42:48.220 Now, I need to preface this one.

00:42:53.580 So, the word for you sounds like a certain pejorative word in English that has a certain unsavory reaction from certain people.

00:43:09.820 It sounds like the gamer word.

00:43:11.640 Yeah, it sounds like that word that PewDiePie once said.

00:43:14.540 And I'm obviously not going to play this because it's definitely going to get us in trouble on YouTube.

00:43:19.380 But I am going to show you the video whilst muted.

00:43:22.280 So, this is a Korean streamer whilst Johnny Somali is in trouble with what looks like the police or some security.

00:43:30.820 I can't really tell the difference.

00:43:32.980 Keeps on saying it just multiple times.

00:43:35.400 And it's making them get really angry because, of course, it does.

00:43:39.760 And the police don't care.

00:43:41.660 Why would they?

00:43:42.800 It's a Korean word.

00:43:44.260 And they're just getting annoyed.

00:43:45.340 I see a lot of posts from, like, Reddit and other social media sites where it'll be, you know, like, black Americans going to Japan and going to South Korea and just furiously typing away. 0.82

00:43:58.680 They keep saying it.

00:43:59.860 They keep saying it.

00:44:00.880 They're looking and pointing at me, saying it in Japanese accents.

00:44:04.480 This is terrible.

00:44:05.360 And they're probably just pointing and saying, look at you, you over there.

00:44:09.500 Stop being annoying, you.

00:44:12.280 You.

00:44:12.760 Stop talking on your phone, on speakerphone, on public transport.

00:44:17.480 Because you don't need to be Johnny Somali to do that. 0.70

00:44:19.820 Throwing food around.

00:44:20.980 Yeah.

00:44:22.260 So, it's also worth mentioning.

00:44:27.400 And this is the ultimate justice, really.

00:44:30.740 And this is that same website that said he got decked as well.

00:44:34.540 His YouTube channel was deleted.

00:44:37.760 His Twitter has been deleted.

00:44:39.680 Pretty much all of his social media, all of the accounts that he was using to do these annoying things, I think, have been removed, as far as I'm aware.

00:44:47.940 Stop it at the source.

00:44:49.000 Mm-hmm.

00:44:50.460 And so, he has no means of really getting any more money from doing all of these annoying things.

00:44:56.400 And just as a further white pill, really, he was in the US in June of 2024, this year, and got punched.

00:45:09.420 And he also got beaten up in Israel.

00:45:12.960 I saw the clip of that.

00:45:14.480 I think he began harassing a female police officer.

00:45:17.740 Mm-hmm.

00:45:17.960 And they were not happy with that.

00:45:20.220 Yeah, people don't like being harassed.

00:45:22.140 Literally everywhere he goes, he ends up getting deported.

00:45:26.100 Or beaten up.

00:45:27.140 Or beaten up.

00:45:28.320 Or both.

00:45:29.240 Take the hint, dude.

00:45:30.640 Yeah.

00:45:33.200 Mental. 0.99

00:45:35.300 It's ridiculous as well. 0.98

00:45:36.540 He was also arrested for posting photos of Epstein and Harvey Weinstein in Jerusalem as well. 0.55

00:45:43.260 Interesting thing to do there.

00:45:45.520 But yes, it seems like these annoying people who are going out of their way to be obnoxious for clout

00:45:50.900 actually do get their just desserts in the end.

00:45:54.720 Sometimes, if they're famous enough, big enough for people to take notice of them.

00:45:59.260 And if they're in a culture that's still more than willing to defend itself.

00:46:02.980 Yeah.

00:46:03.460 Yes.

00:46:04.400 But at least this story has a happy ending.

00:46:07.500 Let's just say if Johnny Somali came here and anything was done to try and stop him from being annoying, 1.00

00:46:12.620 like in Korea, we'd probably be the ones getting arrested.

00:46:16.340 We wouldn't even notice.

00:46:17.740 Two tiny, five foot two policemen would come up to him and politely ask him to stop.

00:46:21.700 And when he wouldn't, do nothing about it.

00:46:24.640 We'd ask them for cigarettes and they'd go get him cigarettes.

00:46:28.000 Or something like that.

00:46:29.240 Yeah.

00:46:31.640 Oh, we got some rumble rants apparently.

00:46:33.220 We've got quite a few actually.

00:46:34.280 Oh, blimey.

00:46:35.280 Well, you've got the mouse now, Harry.

00:46:36.940 So you're going to have to scroll down.

00:46:39.020 My screen is not switched on.

00:46:40.480 So tell me.

00:46:41.320 You're in about the right.

00:46:42.700 Okay.

00:46:43.680 Can I?

00:46:44.100 Okay.

00:46:44.360 I can scroll down.

00:46:45.260 I've got a mouse now.

00:46:46.060 There you go.

00:46:46.920 So, Harry, do you want to know how I got these scars lifts up shirt?

00:46:51.540 Oh, that's dreadful.

00:46:54.340 Largest group of.

00:46:55.260 I was too jacked.

00:46:57.560 A wave.

00:46:58.100 Neve says.

00:46:59.280 Reduction surgery.

00:47:00.020 Largest group of immigrants to Australia is from the UK.

00:47:02.800 I know that's our refugees.

00:47:04.960 That's a random name.

00:47:05.900 Says when they push people past the brink, what do they think is going to happen?

00:47:10.480 Look what happened when a few girls were murdered. 0.58

00:47:12.780 Yes.

00:47:13.180 And now imagine if the whole country is starving.

00:47:15.000 Yes.

00:47:15.200 Then they're playing a dangerous game here.

00:47:16.740 Well, I pointed out yesterday that, again, I don't want to sound like Peter Hitchens, but

00:47:21.500 for a young man, say, who's switched on, ambitious, intellectual, driven, what is the

00:47:29.780 reason to stay in the UK and make a life for yourself rather than go to somewhere like

00:47:35.080 Australia or the parts of the US that still haven't been affected quite as much, where

00:47:40.020 there's lower taxes, more opportunity for yourself.

00:47:43.600 Labour, with this new budget, is pushing even more people out of the country who constitute

00:47:48.400 their tax base.

00:47:49.540 I'm not recommending that people do that, but for a rational young man, I can see why they

00:47:56.040 would.

00:47:56.260 So it's just going to make it so all these taxes they need is going to be more difficult

00:48:00.000 to collect them.

00:48:00.520 Also, the people who are dead weight are still going to stay here.

00:48:03.960 To fight the good fight, though, the reason for a young man to stay is to fight that battle.

00:48:09.360 We're still here, aren't we?

00:48:10.160 Because there's a battle to be fought.

00:48:11.700 Oh, of course.

00:48:12.900 Dragon Lady... 0.97

00:48:13.520 But from a pure self-interest sort of position, I can understand why a lot of young men do leave

00:48:20.600 the country.

00:48:21.120 Right.

00:48:21.320 I'm going to get through some of these.

00:48:22.900 Dragon Lady Chris says, 0.98

00:48:24.040 Looking sharp, Harry.

00:48:25.100 Catcall Whistle.

00:48:26.720 There you go.

00:48:27.280 Thank you.

00:48:28.460 Bold Eagle, 1787.

00:48:30.560 Korean media blur out the faces of Koreans that attack the Somali and leave his and Somali

00:48:35.320 Jr.'s faces clear.

00:48:36.740 The police will also target Somali and Somali Jr. while ignoring Koreans that attack.

00:48:42.120 Yes, because they understand, don't they?

00:48:43.980 That's Random Name says,

00:48:45.300 Lord Miles went to Afghanistan and was so polite he made friends with the Taliban. 0.97

00:48:49.060 Johnny Somali goes to the most civilised and polite country and gets attacked. 0.99

00:48:52.380 You can't make this up.

00:48:53.340 That is very true.

00:48:54.340 That's the Anglo distinction, is how good we are at this.

00:48:57.660 That's true.

00:48:58.560 It's why we politely managed to wrangle our way to controlling one-fifth of the earth.

00:49:02.260 Callum told me that the Taliban actually had lots of nice things to say about the British,

00:49:06.980 even though we'd been fighting them.

00:49:08.640 I bet they do.

00:49:10.020 I'm sure that there's a lot of historical memory going,

00:49:12.260 oh, they were worthy foes back in the day.

00:49:14.380 Well, also, we did govern them for a while, and they said we governed well.

00:49:17.560 When we went into Basra in 03, that's like the fourth time we've invaded their country.

00:49:24.360 It's not funny, really.

00:49:25.600 You just need to do a little invading Afghanistan. 0.99

00:49:27.480 It's just a bit of banter, lads.

00:49:28.700 Don't take it too personally.

00:49:29.800 Do you invade Afghanistan?

00:49:31.080 Sometimes.

00:49:32.940 Rye Lyon says,

00:49:34.000 I'm late to the podcast today.

00:49:35.260 Why is Harry the only one in a Halloween costume?

00:49:38.320 That's just how he's dressed.

00:49:39.480 I'm naturally theatrical.

00:49:40.680 What can I say?

00:49:41.780 My school tyre was that green.

00:49:43.600 You remind me of my school.

00:49:45.160 Well, we've got a reserve of ties that I was looking through yesterday

00:49:48.960 because I decided it's finally time to start wearing ties.

00:49:51.240 And I found this, and I knew I had my purple shirt,

00:49:54.100 and I thought, this is Providence.

00:49:56.840 What did you think?

00:49:57.520 They clash really badly?

00:49:58.860 Yes.

00:49:58.940 This is Providence.

00:50:01.940 Maybe to a certain perspective, they clash, Beau.

00:50:04.560 You're obviously...

00:50:05.140 It works all right.

00:50:06.860 You wouldn't get it, Beau, would you?

00:50:09.700 You see that reference?

00:50:11.340 I'm just going to have to slip back my hair for a moment.

00:50:13.940 Oh, low blow.

00:50:16.020 Low blow.

00:50:17.980 This is uncool for.

00:50:19.400 You wounded me.

00:50:20.640 Wait, I'm not bald.

00:50:23.100 Am I?

00:50:23.480 Wait, no!

00:50:26.140 We should have told you, Beau.

00:50:27.380 I'm sorry.

00:50:28.080 Just realised. 0.99

00:50:29.400 Shit. 1.00

00:50:29.860 So, Glee777 says, 1.00

00:50:31.680 someone must tell him to check out North Korea.

00:50:33.480 I heard they are big fans of him.

00:50:35.060 Yeah, do that in North Korea.

00:50:36.240 Then we'll be impressed.

00:50:37.560 Maybe Johnny Somali is like a biological weapon 1.00

00:50:40.480 created by North Korea,

00:50:42.320 set on Japan and South Korea.

00:50:44.580 It's possible.

00:50:45.460 It's principal enemies.

00:50:47.440 BoldEagle1787 says,

00:50:48.900 there's a Korean streamer that's helping Johnny.

00:50:50.680 He came out with the sword.

00:50:52.560 That's a felony in Korea, 1.00

00:50:53.960 so Johnny also got his friend in trouble with the police.

00:50:56.620 Well, that's nice to know.

00:50:58.420 Bobobad says,

00:50:59.720 you could be here, the Korean thought. 1.00

00:51:01.500 I hate you, 0.99

00:51:02.420 as the cheap plum wine coursed through his veins. 0.99

00:51:05.680 Good meme.

00:51:06.620 I get that.

00:51:07.220 Well done.

00:51:07.820 Josie Angel says,

00:51:08.880 stand firm, men.

00:51:09.980 Didn't someone say,

00:51:10.760 fight, fight, fight? 0.89

00:51:11.940 That is true.

00:51:12.740 We're not going anywhere, anyway.

00:51:14.300 Yeah, of course.

00:51:14.780 I'm never leaving Britain.

00:51:16.420 Even if it sinks into the ocean,

00:51:17.780 I'm going with it.

00:51:18.380 Never abandon the land of your forefathers, I say.

00:51:20.980 Mm-hmm.

00:51:21.680 All right, then.

00:51:22.400 So, for my segment,

00:51:23.820 I wanted to discuss the neocon cycle.

00:51:26.660 Do you gentlemen know what the neocon cycle is?

00:51:29.740 I can probably guess.

00:51:31.460 So, you know what a neocon is, right?

00:51:33.680 Never heard of him.

00:51:34.440 Who are they?

00:51:35.000 The OG Trotskyist.

00:51:36.740 Joking.

00:51:37.660 Who then became conservatives.

00:51:40.260 And now it's just been the cycle ever since then

00:51:42.080 of the former leftists of the world

00:51:44.220 being abandoned by their former movement.

00:51:47.120 Well, it's basically the neocons and neolibs

00:51:50.540 that are doing all of this bad stuff to everyone.

00:51:53.040 I see where you go with this,

00:51:54.640 but I feel like people nowadays use the word differently.

00:51:58.400 So, in the early 2000s,

00:51:59.720 when you had people like Richard Perl

00:52:02.280 and Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney and George Bush Jr.,

00:52:05.240 those neocons,

00:52:07.440 that's what neocon means to me.

00:52:09.360 Oh, well, there is...

00:52:10.140 New conservatives.

00:52:11.580 Whereas nowadays, it seems like,

00:52:13.800 I don't know what you're going to do,

00:52:14.780 where you're going to go with this segment,

00:52:15.780 but it feels like nowadays people use the word neocon

00:52:18.300 to mean something a bit different,

00:52:19.400 but I'll let you cook.

00:52:21.280 You tend to find that the kind of neoconservatives

00:52:24.500 that you're talking about,

00:52:26.320 the Wolfowitzes and such,

00:52:28.260 are also, to a certain extent,

00:52:31.400 former liberals

00:52:32.320 who became conservatives in their later years

00:52:35.500 and they share some characteristics

00:52:37.640 with the neocons that I'm talking about

00:52:40.300 in that they are often former leftists

00:52:43.100 or former liberals

00:52:43.980 who have been left behind by the movement

00:52:45.960 and kind of onboarded onto the right wing

00:52:48.940 and pulled the right wing to the left. 0.96

00:52:51.100 There are other characteristics

00:52:52.680 that tend to unite them

00:52:55.100 given that they all tend to,

00:52:57.440 for whatever reason,

00:52:58.400 also be massive supporters of the state of Israel

00:53:00.960 and in favour of forever wars

00:53:02.640 on behalf of conflicts in the Middle East.

00:53:06.160 And Ukraine.

00:53:07.080 And Ukraine as well.

00:53:08.160 They are massive war hawks.

00:53:09.960 That was always one of the defining characteristics

00:53:12.660 of a neocon was they were hawkish.

00:53:15.040 Yes.

00:53:15.680 I mean, people call James Burnham

00:53:18.040 the original neocon

00:53:19.200 and he was massively hawkish

00:53:20.780 during the Cold War

00:53:21.760 against communism,

00:53:23.740 which was just very justified at the time,

00:53:25.700 but he also was a former Trotskyist

00:53:27.440 who had abandoned his Trotskyist roots

00:53:29.660 and become a conservative

00:53:31.200 as he'd gotten older.

00:53:32.660 Now, I will say

00:53:33.480 there's some mix-up that some people have.

00:53:35.800 There are plenty of people

00:53:36.780 who are former liberals

00:53:37.780 and former leftists,

00:53:39.320 perhaps even on this panel,

00:53:40.560 people who used to consider themselves left wing,

00:53:42.940 who they come over,

00:53:44.180 they abandon their former beliefs

00:53:45.580 and genuinely read up on things,

00:53:49.040 they become more educated

00:53:50.180 on economics and philosophy and stuff

00:53:51.780 and generally change their views.

00:53:53.660 Certainly that's happened with me.

00:53:55.280 I believe a lot of things now

00:53:56.600 that I completely would have disagreed with

00:53:58.700 eight years ago, for instance.

00:54:00.560 But then there is the more common neocon,

00:54:03.300 which is a liberal

00:54:04.700 who doesn't change any of their views,

00:54:07.040 just the revolution outpaces them.

00:54:09.400 They were like,

00:54:10.060 I was happy with feminism 0.98

00:54:11.520 and women's rights and gay rights,

00:54:13.600 but the trans stuff's a little bit too much for me. 1.00

00:54:16.580 And so I've been left behind 0.99

00:54:18.540 by all of these crazy people 0.56

00:54:19.920 who have kicked me out of the movement.

00:54:21.200 I'm not going to change my views,

00:54:23.000 but I'm going to speak up against it.

00:54:24.320 And then all of the conservatives go,

00:54:25.860 oh my God, now you're on our side.

00:54:27.920 Show us what to do.

00:54:28.880 Show us the way.

00:54:29.860 Tell us how we can win the culture war, please.

00:54:32.780 And they go, well, of course,

00:54:33.980 you just need to beat more left wing. 1.00

00:54:36.120 And then the conservatives will write it down

00:54:37.620 and go, more left wing, all right. 0.61

00:54:39.520 And then they become more and more left wing.

00:54:42.000 And I was going to refer to this article

00:54:43.540 from Blaze Media that Oral McIntyre wrote

00:54:45.560 at the beginning of last year,

00:54:46.860 because I think he sums it up quite well

00:54:48.380 by quoting Ronald Reagan's very famous line

00:54:52.540 right at the beginning here.

00:54:53.840 I didn't leave the Democrat Party.

00:54:55.620 The Democrat Party left me.

00:54:57.520 And I think that anyone who cares

00:54:59.300 about the state of America,

00:55:00.860 particularly if they care about government spending,

00:55:04.040 should despise Reagan.

00:55:05.680 Or immigration as well. 0.92

00:55:07.420 He allowed amnesty for over 3 million

00:55:12.020 illegal immigrants who were in the country 0.97

00:55:13.740 at the time, I believe,

00:55:14.680 with his amnesty bill in 1984 or 85.

00:55:18.280 He also helped massively strengthen

00:55:20.500 the federal government over the states.

00:55:22.300 I think he put in the assault weapons bans.

00:55:25.540 Raised the drinking age.

00:55:26.600 When he was governing California as well,

00:55:28.600 he was one of the,

00:55:29.660 I think he was the first governor

00:55:30.900 to permit no-fault divorce as well.

00:55:33.860 So he was a liberal who, as he said,

00:55:36.420 was left behind by the Democrat Party.

00:55:39.240 He was part of Hollywood.

00:55:40.760 Yes.

00:55:41.340 But he has quite a good and succinct description of it here,

00:55:44.280 where he says,

00:55:44.620 Every generation,

00:55:45.680 the radical acceleration of the left

00:55:47.040 forces it to shed a certain percentage of liberals

00:55:49.040 who aren't willing to adopt

00:55:50.460 the newest progressive dogma.

00:55:52.120 And due to the binary nature

00:55:53.160 of the American political landscape,

00:55:55.040 those individuals inevitably find themselves

00:55:56.860 identified with the conservative movement.

00:56:00.260 Despite their initial hesitance,

00:56:01.680 the newly minted conservatives

00:56:02.740 are often thrust into positions of power

00:56:04.460 and notoriety,

00:56:05.840 which is subsequently altered

00:56:07.060 by the residual left-wing views

00:56:08.660 of its new leaders.

00:56:10.500 The neoconservatives believed

00:56:11.800 that they were correct

00:56:12.540 to support the progressive movement

00:56:13.880 up until the point

00:56:15.240 where they were dismissed from it,

00:56:16.700 so the neoconservatives

00:56:17.740 seek to reconstruct

00:56:18.800 their older version of the movement

00:56:20.200 that they were just ejected from.

00:56:22.680 And the politics of politeness,

00:56:25.180 you could say,

00:56:26.020 and the politics of respectability

00:56:27.560 means that these people,

00:56:29.040 again, are often allowed

00:56:31.200 a lot of space

00:56:32.360 to control the movement,

00:56:34.380 or at the very least,

00:56:35.180 generate the views of the movement

00:56:37.160 from that point onwards.

00:56:38.500 I will say,

00:56:39.420 before I go any further

00:56:40.380 into what I'm going to talk about

00:56:41.660 in a moment,

00:56:42.060 that we've got the merchandise.

00:56:43.980 Throw me the merchandise, Josh.

00:56:45.620 Throw me the shirt.

00:56:47.420 Do you want this wonderful shirt?

00:56:49.940 That's my shirt.

00:56:50.760 Trump 24.

00:56:52.360 It is Josh's shirt,

00:56:53.400 but there are others available

00:56:54.560 on the website.

00:56:55.600 I'd rather like it,

00:56:56.280 but this one is mine.

00:56:57.160 Yes.

00:56:58.300 There are plenty still available

00:56:59.880 on the website,

00:57:00.680 but only for a very,

00:57:01.560 very limited time.

00:57:02.320 When is the sale of these ending?

00:57:04.260 After the election, I imagine.

00:57:05.400 Yeah, after the election.

00:57:06.560 So once the election is done,

00:57:07.680 you can no longer buy that.

00:57:08.920 So go on the website,

00:57:09.960 help to support the business.

00:57:10.940 You can also get a mug

00:57:12.480 if you're not interested in a shirt.

00:57:13.760 You can also get posters.

00:57:15.220 All wonderful designs.

00:57:16.680 They're fantastic.

00:57:17.600 They're terrific.

00:57:18.420 They're going to make you

00:57:19.000 very attractive and desirable to women.

00:57:21.260 That's not a guarantee.

00:57:22.780 And if you're a woman, 0.94

00:57:23.860 it makes you attractive to men.

00:57:26.740 If you're a woman, 0.97

00:57:27.940 you'll look better.

00:57:28.820 It'll make you look slimmer.

00:57:29.820 Also not a guarantee.

00:57:32.400 So this is where I'm going to talk about

00:57:34.100 Chris Rufo,

00:57:36.000 who is a person who has done

00:57:37.180 a lot of work

00:57:38.240 in the conservative movement

00:57:39.360 over the past few years

00:57:40.260 since he started to make a name

00:57:41.440 for himself

00:57:41.980 when he was critiquing

00:57:43.160 critical race theory.

00:57:44.820 And I actually think

00:57:45.640 that Chris Rufo

00:57:46.120 does a lot of decent work.

00:57:47.620 He has done a lot of decent work

00:57:48.980 as a political polemicist

00:57:51.220 and as kind of like

00:57:52.480 a guy doing campaigns

00:57:53.860 against the Democrats

00:57:55.720 in the lead up to the election.

00:57:57.220 The most recent one

00:57:58.600 that he's done, for instance,

00:57:59.600 was this big expose

00:58:01.520 of Kamala Harris's plagiarism,

00:58:04.200 which Connor and I

00:58:05.460 covered a few weeks ago.

00:58:06.980 And so he gives a lot of ammunition

00:58:08.460 to, you could say,

00:58:10.420 GOP forces

00:58:13.160 who want to be able

00:58:14.140 to badmouth

00:58:14.760 and point out

00:58:15.640 all of the terrible things

00:58:16.820 about the Democratic Party

00:58:18.440 and the people

00:58:19.020 who run in it.

00:58:20.780 Well, this did provide

00:58:21.580 tangible help to Trump

00:58:23.300 as well, didn't it?

00:58:24.320 Yeah, of course.

00:58:24.860 That he brought this out.

00:58:25.700 And so he has done

00:58:27.140 intangible things

00:58:27.800 to help Trump win.

00:58:29.280 Well, that's what I'm talking about.

00:58:30.360 So when I'm going to make

00:58:31.660 some criticisms

00:58:32.360 going forwards in a moment,

00:58:34.240 please be aware

00:58:35.520 I'm tempering them

00:58:36.380 with the fact that

00:58:36.880 I understand that

00:58:37.420 as a political operative,

00:58:38.700 he's very effective

00:58:39.500 and very useful.

00:58:40.920 And I do think

00:58:41.600 he's on the side

00:58:42.340 with a lot of things.

00:58:43.580 But I do think

00:58:44.200 there is a bit of the

00:58:45.120 old neocon cycle

00:58:46.960 going on

00:58:47.740 with the way

00:58:48.480 that he's operating

00:58:49.360 within the Manhattan Institute,

00:58:51.620 which is the organization

00:58:52.920 that he works for.

00:58:53.940 He's a senior fellow

00:58:54.840 for them

00:58:55.660 and he's a director

00:58:56.300 on the initiative

00:58:57.340 of critical race theory.

00:58:59.640 So again,

00:59:00.220 he's done a lot

00:59:00.940 of research into that

00:59:02.520 and he is also,

00:59:03.800 again,

00:59:04.260 trying to create

00:59:05.100 a counter-elite

00:59:06.380 to the elites

00:59:07.460 that are currently in power.

00:59:08.760 Have you got anything

00:59:09.220 to say, Beau?

00:59:09.820 You've got your

00:59:10.260 incredulous face on.

00:59:11.320 No, I'm just thinking

00:59:12.480 that anyone

00:59:13.780 that used to be left

00:59:14.760 that now isn't

00:59:15.500 is a neocon.

00:59:17.480 No, again,

00:59:18.080 I'm trying to make

00:59:19.560 a distinction here,

00:59:20.540 which is that

00:59:21.140 there are neoconservatives

00:59:22.800 who are basically

00:59:23.800 still in the same position

00:59:25.240 that they were

00:59:25.880 but the left-wing movement

00:59:26.900 has left them behind.

00:59:27.860 Like Dave Rubin,

00:59:28.780 for example.

00:59:29.400 Yes.

00:59:30.040 Dave Rubin.

00:59:31.360 Constantine Kissin.

00:59:33.400 Anna Kasparian.

00:59:35.160 Yes.

00:59:35.600 She's a neocon.

00:59:37.060 Well,

00:59:37.680 not exactly.

00:59:38.940 It doesn't exactly

00:59:39.940 fit the bill.

00:59:40.740 I get what you're saying,

00:59:42.000 Harry.

00:59:42.240 That's a fair point.

00:59:42.880 I don't want to stop you.

00:59:44.100 I feel like you're being

00:59:45.980 a little bit

00:59:46.840 incredulous to this

00:59:48.440 unnecessarily. 0.77

00:59:49.580 No, go on.

00:59:50.520 I'm not.

00:59:51.440 Yeah.

00:59:51.740 Go ahead.

00:59:52.320 Again, Dave Rubin

00:59:53.640 is probably the better example.

00:59:54.840 Anna Kasparian is en route

00:59:56.580 to becoming a neocon.

00:59:58.220 Okay.

00:59:58.720 It's the moment

00:59:59.540 they realise,

01:00:00.780 hold up, 0.90

01:00:01.280 the movement I'm in

01:00:02.120 is crazy,

01:00:03.160 but I'm not willing

01:00:04.820 to let go of the beliefs

01:00:06.160 that I have

01:00:07.080 that are also crazy.

01:00:08.620 They're going through

01:00:09.460 like a bad breakup, right?

01:00:10.680 I guess what it really is

01:00:11.900 is it's just,

01:00:12.780 for me,

01:00:13.580 there's just the disparity

01:00:15.180 between someone like

01:00:16.500 Rumsfeld

01:00:19.720 and Anna Kasparian,

01:00:21.720 right?

01:00:23.480 I suppose it's just

01:00:24.360 a whole new definition

01:00:25.280 of the word.

01:00:25.980 It's basically the same person.

01:00:27.000 It's a whole new use of the word.

01:00:28.980 I don't think this is

01:00:30.160 a whole new definition

01:00:31.360 of the word.

01:00:32.140 People have been

01:00:32.800 in the American sphere

01:00:34.500 talking about neocons

01:00:36.220 and this type of neocon

01:00:38.640 since at least

01:00:39.640 the 1980s.

01:00:41.440 Yeah, yeah,

01:00:41.860 it's not a new word.

01:00:42.700 Yeah, it's not a new word.

01:00:43.440 Yeah, and as far as I'm aware,

01:00:45.260 this has always been

01:00:46.080 the primary definition

01:00:47.280 of a neoconservative

01:00:48.460 going back to the days

01:00:49.920 of James Burnham.

01:00:51.260 Yeah, maybe the world

01:00:52.480 has moved on

01:00:53.020 around the word neocon,

01:00:54.680 just like

01:00:55.160 what you're talking about.

01:00:56.520 Well, perhaps, perhaps.

01:00:58.120 But this was an interesting article

01:00:59.840 because it's talking about

01:01:00.740 all of those useful projects

01:01:02.500 that Rufo is working on

01:01:04.300 at the moment

01:01:05.140 to try to attack

01:01:06.380 and make the left-wing

01:01:08.720 democratic movement 0.95

01:01:09.600 seem ridiculous 0.99

01:01:11.000 as it is. 0.98

01:01:12.680 So he ran,

01:01:13.760 it says,

01:01:14.580 the person who wrote

01:01:15.360 this article

01:01:15.880 visited him

01:01:16.980 in Washington state,

01:01:19.420 Washington state.

01:01:20.380 He ran down

01:01:21.120 a half dozen projects

01:01:22.100 that he was noodling on

01:01:22.860 including the latest iteration

01:01:23.900 of his rolling investigation

01:01:25.040 into diversity, equity,

01:01:26.140 and inclusion programs.

01:01:27.400 So I've commissioned

01:01:27.940 a researcher

01:01:28.500 in a graduate department

01:01:29.480 of one of our

01:01:30.120 esteemed universities

01:01:30.940 to say,

01:01:31.740 look, what is Kamala Harris'

01:01:33.280 record on DEI?

01:01:34.760 The researcher's job?

01:01:36.020 Comb the Biden-Harris

01:01:36.800 administration

01:01:37.300 for sensational,

01:01:38.460 scandalous,

01:01:38.940 and shocking illustrations

01:01:39.860 which Rufo could then

01:01:41.240 tie to the vice president.

01:01:42.420 So typical sensationalist

01:01:44.120 kind of

01:01:44.700 muckraking.

01:01:47.900 But,

01:01:49.040 in American politics,

01:01:49.980 when you're talking about

01:01:51.040 two-party politics,

01:01:52.420 this is the exact

01:01:53.360 sort of thing

01:01:54.080 that can sway

01:01:54.800 a few electors here.

01:01:55.720 Well, to be fair,

01:01:56.640 it's one of the more

01:01:57.680 above-board methods

01:01:59.060 of approaching politics

01:02:00.640 is looking through

01:02:01.480 someone's record

01:02:02.420 and saying,

01:02:03.420 it's like if you're

01:02:04.120 employing someone

01:02:04.680 looking at their job history,

01:02:05.780 right?

01:02:05.960 It's basically the same thing,

01:02:07.760 that it's important.

01:02:09.960 There's a place for it,

01:02:11.320 although it might not

01:02:12.020 necessarily be

01:02:12.760 the most glamorous

01:02:13.460 of ways of going about it,

01:02:15.140 right?

01:02:15.700 Yeah, of course.

01:02:16.500 But again,

01:02:16.920 this is the kind of politics

01:02:18.180 that is encouraged

01:02:20.280 by a democratic

01:02:21.620 two-party system.

01:02:23.060 Of course,

01:02:23.400 this is going to be

01:02:24.040 what happens

01:02:24.500 and as a political operative,

01:02:26.500 Christopher Rufo

01:02:27.280 is one of the most effective

01:02:28.620 in America

01:02:29.120 at the moment.

01:02:29.800 Probably the most effective,

01:02:31.700 especially given that

01:02:32.520 he's managed to get

01:02:33.140 such a high profile

01:02:34.220 on himself

01:02:35.100 at the same time.

01:02:37.080 In December,

01:02:37.780 and to be fair,

01:02:38.540 in this article,

01:02:39.240 they speak to him

01:02:40.340 and say,

01:02:40.800 don't you think

01:02:41.260 having such a high profile

01:02:42.640 means that you're

01:02:44.260 somewhat diminishing it?

01:02:45.280 Do you not think

01:02:45.780 that people can

01:02:46.380 just dismiss it

01:02:47.120 by saying,

01:02:47.540 oh, Chris Rufo

01:02:48.240 came up with that,

01:02:49.120 so it doesn't matter?

01:02:50.060 He says it's all

01:02:51.000 part of his tactics.

01:02:52.580 So he's actually

01:02:53.100 quite shrewd in that way

01:02:54.340 in that it actually

01:02:55.900 works into the dialectics

01:02:57.400 that he says

01:02:57.960 he's trying to engage with

01:02:59.400 in this.

01:03:00.180 You can either dismiss it

01:03:01.620 because it's Chris Rufo

01:03:02.920 or have principles

01:03:04.020 and say,

01:03:04.620 well, it might be

01:03:05.320 Chris Rufo

01:03:06.160 but he's got a point

01:03:07.400 with what he's saying here

01:03:08.260 because everything

01:03:08.720 he's trying to report on

01:03:09.640 is factual.

01:03:11.300 So I respect all of that.

01:03:13.320 In December of last year,

01:03:14.260 he published passages

01:03:15.040 revealing Claudine Gay

01:03:16.040 plagiarized parts

01:03:16.880 of a PhD dissertation,

01:03:18.320 we all remember that,

01:03:19.460 which helped to oust

01:03:20.500 her as Harvard's president.

01:03:21.880 He co-piloted

01:03:23.320 Governor Ron DeSantis'

01:03:24.900 coup at the

01:03:25.360 New College of Florida,

01:03:26.980 quirky left-leaning

01:03:27.660 institution the state

01:03:28.540 is now de-woking.

01:03:29.580 He published an investigation

01:03:30.560 into gender treatments

01:03:31.540 at a Texas children's hospital

01:03:33.060 weeks before the state

01:03:34.220 banned gender-affirming

01:03:35.100 care for minors.

01:03:35.860 So again,

01:03:36.380 he's done good work

01:03:37.440 and then it talks about

01:03:38.440 his own background

01:03:39.200 and points out that,

01:03:40.500 as I mentioned,

01:03:41.320 he used to be

01:03:42.340 a liberal himself

01:03:43.180 and he says

01:03:43.940 that he's

01:03:45.100 he's lamenting

01:03:47.140 the fact

01:03:47.560 that very,

01:03:48.480 very few people

01:03:49.600 within the

01:03:50.840 conservative movement

01:03:51.720 in America

01:03:52.300 actually originally

01:03:53.840 come from the right.

01:03:54.780 He's upset that the

01:03:55.680 conservative institutions

01:03:57.240 or institutions in general

01:03:58.720 don't breed anybody 1.00

01:04:00.540 right-wing

01:04:01.080 who then goes into

01:04:02.100 politics,

01:04:02.740 it seems.

01:04:03.700 And he points out,

01:04:04.640 you know,

01:04:05.060 Donald Trump,

01:04:05.860 not a native conservative,

01:04:07.020 back in the day,

01:04:08.100 he's what some would

01:04:09.220 consider a blue dog

01:04:10.140 Democrat from back

01:04:11.120 in the day,

01:04:11.920 RFK,

01:04:12.820 Tulsi Gabbard,

01:04:13.520 J.D. Vance,

01:04:14.520 it's Vivek.

01:04:15.580 So all of these people

01:04:16.720 come from an originally

01:04:18.180 left-wing position

01:04:19.020 and culture and society

01:04:20.520 has shifted around them

01:04:21.560 to put them

01:04:22.120 on the right.

01:04:23.360 And obviously

01:04:23.920 they have their own uses,

01:04:25.540 Donald Trump,

01:04:26.640 we're all supporting

01:04:27.340 Donald Trump

01:04:27.900 in the run-up

01:04:29.060 to the American election,

01:04:30.520 but there is the problem

01:04:32.640 that that does inevitably

01:04:33.960 end up bringing everybody,

01:04:36.600 every part of society

01:04:37.620 just a bit more left-wing.

01:04:39.180 Orrah McIntyre points out

01:04:40.420 that back in 2008,

01:04:42.780 you know,

01:04:43.140 Barack Obama

01:04:43.780 in the run-up

01:04:44.360 to his first election

01:04:45.360 was saying that he believed

01:04:46.460 that marriage was between 0.76

01:04:47.340 a man and a woman.

01:04:48.920 That's now a far-right position

01:04:51.020 in American politics

01:04:52.520 that even Donald Trump

01:04:53.860 and other members

01:04:54.520 of the GOP

01:04:55.120 outside of the religious fringes

01:04:57.180 wouldn't really support.

01:04:59.260 And that just goes to show

01:05:00.120 how much this kind of cycle

01:05:02.400 shifts things over times

01:05:04.640 in a way that inevitably

01:05:05.920 leads to society

01:05:06.780 being more left-wing.

01:05:08.340 It's similar to the fact

01:05:10.820 that, you know,

01:05:11.800 you've got that annoying phrase

01:05:14.440 that I find quite pretentious

01:05:16.040 from Curtis Yarvin

01:05:18.500 that Cthulhu only swims left.

01:05:21.320 That's a Yarvinism. 0.98

01:05:22.580 I don't like the way

01:05:23.640 that he presents his information,

01:05:25.360 but he is right.

01:05:26.520 It's basically just that

01:05:27.500 things in politics

01:05:28.600 tend to drift leftwards,

01:05:30.620 which, yeah,

01:05:31.640 is undeniable, isn't it?

01:05:32.860 And I'm not a fan of that,

01:05:34.140 personally. 0.75

01:05:34.760 No, I think it's a silly phrase as well.

01:05:36.560 And, well, no,

01:05:37.960 I'm not a fan of the actual

01:05:39.420 way that things move left.

01:05:41.360 Oh, right.

01:05:41.760 Personally.

01:05:42.520 I know that the phrase

01:05:43.580 can be annoying,

01:05:44.180 but I think it's describing

01:05:45.040 something that's accurate.

01:05:45.940 No, I agree with that.

01:05:46.760 And I don't think that

01:05:47.520 that's good for society overall,

01:05:49.100 because I do think

01:05:49.820 that left-wing politics,

01:05:50.760 as we always discuss,

01:05:51.840 motivated by envy,

01:05:53.780 resentment,

01:05:54.460 a hatred for traditional hierarchies

01:05:56.260 and societal standards,

01:05:57.600 and actively aim

01:05:58.600 to deconstruct

01:05:59.560 and destroy those, 0.73

01:06:00.780 which inevitably

01:06:01.480 makes society less stable.

01:06:04.280 Agreed.

01:06:04.600 That's something I think

01:06:05.880 most of us agree with here.

01:06:07.460 And the problem is

01:06:08.380 that these things

01:06:09.160 tend to perpetuate themselves.

01:06:10.600 So the story

01:06:11.240 that's been going around

01:06:11.860 is that Chris Rufo,

01:06:13.080 working for the Manhattan Institute,

01:06:15.540 has hired these two new women 1.00

01:06:17.600 onto it as investigative reporters,

01:06:19.480 researchers for him,

01:06:20.720 Christina Button

01:06:21.460 and Hannah Grossman. 0.50

01:06:24.640 Christina, it says here,

01:06:26.060 has worked on migration

01:06:27.360 and left-wing NGO complex.

01:06:29.380 Hannah's coming from Fox News,

01:06:30.600 and she's reported

01:06:31.180 on a lot of stuff.

01:06:31.940 So if they're doing good work,

01:06:33.560 that's good.

01:06:34.860 I know that Christina

01:06:36.240 used to work

01:06:37.480 for the post-millennial,

01:06:38.540 she may still do,

01:06:39.400 and did lots of good stuff

01:06:40.400 on gender, actually.

01:06:41.800 Perhaps she did.

01:06:42.700 But there was a lot

01:06:43.760 of controversy from this,

01:06:45.340 given that Christina

01:06:47.000 in particular

01:06:47.880 is, as far as we can tell,

01:06:51.160 a lifelong leftist.

01:06:52.980 In her past,

01:06:53.740 she has a voting record

01:06:55.160 of only voting for Democrats.

01:06:56.800 In 2024,

01:06:57.760 she's saying that

01:06:58.300 she's not voting for anybody.

01:07:00.220 That's interesting that, okay...

01:07:01.360 Weird.

01:07:01.960 Also voted Biden in 2020.

01:07:03.980 That's the John Bolton position.

01:07:05.520 Can't bring himself

01:07:06.120 to vote for either of them.

01:07:07.320 Yeah, exactly.

01:07:09.820 Neocons.

01:07:10.680 And this is the first day

01:07:12.240 I've deeply regretted voting

01:07:13.380 for Biden.

01:07:13.860 His opponents were right 0.90

01:07:14.640 when they called him

01:07:15.120 a puppet for progressive politics.

01:07:17.020 I've been a moderate dem

01:07:18.060 my whole life.

01:07:18.700 I can no longer align myself

01:07:19.740 with a party embracing

01:07:20.620 absurd pseudoscience

01:07:21.720 and child endangerment.

01:07:22.940 So, obviously,

01:07:24.020 her main problem

01:07:24.520 is just the trance stuff.

01:07:25.900 But that's a perfect example

01:07:27.460 of what I've been talking about.

01:07:28.860 All of my crazy positions

01:07:30.780 before

01:07:31.220 are still completely correct

01:07:33.140 and right for society.

01:07:34.340 But these new crazy positions,

01:07:37.000 no, that's way too far.

01:07:38.860 And people are saying to Chris,

01:07:41.280 okay,

01:07:42.380 I'm sure that they're

01:07:43.380 doing good work.

01:07:44.960 Why didn't you hire somebody

01:07:46.360 who isn't a leftist, though?

01:07:47.780 Because I spoke to Connor

01:07:48.780 about this,

01:07:49.400 and interestingly enough,

01:07:51.100 Connor told me,

01:07:52.020 and I think he's alright

01:07:52.740 with me saying this

01:07:53.400 because he said

01:07:54.040 I can mention it

01:07:54.560 on the podcast,

01:07:54.980 that he was encouraged

01:07:56.800 to apply

01:07:57.660 for the Manhattan Institute

01:07:59.360 Fellowship

01:08:00.000 that these girls 0.93

01:08:00.560 have been granted

01:08:01.180 under Chris Rufo.

01:08:03.020 And he had references

01:08:03.840 from people like James Orr

01:08:05.100 and Mary Harrington.

01:08:06.540 But he got turned down for it.

01:08:09.340 So, Connor,

01:08:09.800 who is on side...

01:08:11.520 He's too based, you think?

01:08:12.960 I would imagine so.

01:08:14.280 Almost.

01:08:14.820 I mean, compared to these guys,

01:08:16.720 I would say so, yeah.

01:08:17.900 Yeah.

01:08:18.300 He was turned down.

01:08:20.440 But these people,

01:08:22.220 somebody like this,

01:08:23.240 former leftist,

01:08:26.740 she gets on.

01:08:28.040 So it shows

01:08:28.740 how these institutions move

01:08:30.480 and who these people hire.

01:08:32.440 Well, I mean,

01:08:32.860 it happens all over the place,

01:08:33.900 doesn't it?

01:08:34.180 You look at something

01:08:34.880 even like GB News.

01:08:37.240 They employ people

01:08:38.360 like Albie.

01:08:40.040 Tom Harwood.

01:08:40.740 Or Tom Harwood,

01:08:41.820 for example.

01:08:42.100 Tom Harwood,

01:08:42.780 who is very,

01:08:44.640 like, fervently,

01:08:45.880 ferociously

01:08:46.440 in favour of trans children.

01:08:48.720 Yeah.

01:08:49.600 He was a...

01:08:50.240 And just look at

01:08:51.620 the Tory party.

01:08:53.240 The Tory party

01:08:53.920 was supposed to be

01:08:55.060 for conservative

01:08:56.220 traditional values.

01:08:57.780 But is everything

01:08:59.140 opposite that?

01:09:00.780 The thing is,

01:09:01.080 you can't please everyone,

01:09:01.860 can you?

01:09:02.060 I mean,

01:09:02.200 even we get accused

01:09:03.140 of not being based

01:09:04.600 enough sometimes.

01:09:05.700 I mean,

01:09:06.060 what more do you want

01:09:07.100 from us?

01:09:09.420 Accused just yesterday

01:09:10.440 of not being hardline

01:09:11.460 enough on things.

01:09:12.600 Yeah,

01:09:12.820 we can't run the podcast

01:09:13.900 from a prison cell.

01:09:15.040 We have lots of

01:09:15.660 hate crime laws here.

01:09:16.620 You're never going

01:09:17.140 to please everybody,

01:09:18.660 but there's a difference

01:09:19.460 between

01:09:20.080 having your principled

01:09:22.300 positions that are

01:09:23.520 very clearly on the side

01:09:24.780 for us

01:09:25.200 and in favour of

01:09:26.480 reducing mass migration,

01:09:29.140 more traditional values

01:09:30.200 in some areas,

01:09:31.060 and then just hiring

01:09:32.220 leftists.

01:09:32.900 Sure, sure.

01:09:33.560 We don't actively

01:09:34.420 go out of our way

01:09:35.380 to hire people

01:09:36.180 who are our enemies

01:09:38.220 in some ways.

01:09:40.240 But despite that,

01:09:40.920 I will say that,

01:09:41.680 again,

01:09:42.260 Chris Rufo

01:09:43.020 is looking at things

01:09:44.680 from a very

01:09:45.160 American perspective.

01:09:46.460 American is the

01:09:47.720 civic nationalist

01:09:48.860 dream of the

01:09:50.780 constitutional

01:09:51.580 propositional nation,

01:09:53.000 right?

01:09:53.260 And he doesn't seem

01:09:54.160 to view other nations,

01:09:56.440 European nations,

01:09:57.500 in the same way

01:09:58.060 that he views America.

01:09:59.000 And I want to,

01:09:59.720 you know,

01:10:00.440 celebrate some of the

01:10:02.140 work that he's done

01:10:02.700 otherwise that I've

01:10:03.720 already mentioned,

01:10:04.420 but this was an

01:10:05.160 interesting article

01:10:05.820 that I found from

01:10:06.460 Current Affairs

01:10:07.160 written by the 0.98

01:10:08.660 dastardly and evil 0.56

01:10:10.600 Nathan J. Robinson,

01:10:11.900 no relation to me,

01:10:12.860 I hope.

01:10:13.200 It's not your 0.83

01:10:14.060 pseudonym, is it?

01:10:14.780 No, I hope.

01:10:16.140 But this is

01:10:16.920 complaining about

01:10:17.500 an article that

01:10:18.260 he wrote,

01:10:18.960 that Chris Rufo

01:10:19.760 wrote for City

01:10:21.720 Journal called

01:10:22.400 The Hollow Kingdom

01:10:23.260 about a time that

01:10:24.280 he went to

01:10:25.000 London recently.

01:10:26.840 And I was really

01:10:27.780 struck by how

01:10:29.800 ethnically he

01:10:33.220 viewed England

01:10:34.160 and how England

01:10:35.060 should be,

01:10:35.920 which really

01:10:36.220 surprised me,

01:10:37.240 given that he's,

01:10:38.060 you know,

01:10:38.600 kind of like a

01:10:39.280 civil rights

01:10:40.460 favouring America.

01:10:41.160 Well, I've actually

01:10:42.040 thought about this

01:10:42.700 before.

01:10:43.200 that people who

01:10:44.680 in political life

01:10:45.960 hold one view

01:10:46.980 but then go,

01:10:48.120 maybe on holiday,

01:10:49.660 they sort of have

01:10:50.580 this romanticised

01:10:51.520 view of something.

01:10:52.680 Like, if I went to,

01:10:54.200 I don't know,

01:10:55.200 I've never been to

01:10:56.400 Germany before,

01:10:57.560 and it felt like I

01:10:58.500 was in Mumbai,

01:11:00.140 it would be like,

01:11:00.900 well, what's going on

01:11:02.220 here?

01:11:02.560 I came here to visit

01:11:03.560 Germany, otherwise I 0.96

01:11:04.460 would have flown over

01:11:05.020 to India.

01:11:05.860 Well, this seems weird.

01:11:07.980 Yeah, I think when

01:11:08.620 people come to

01:11:09.260 Europe, which they 1.00

01:11:10.120 view as the old

01:11:10.940 world that should

01:11:11.760 have very set in

01:11:13.240 particular ways and

01:11:14.260 see how much it's

01:11:15.000 changed and been

01:11:16.140 destroyed, they get a

01:11:17.660 different perspective on

01:11:18.480 it, at least when it

01:11:19.100 comes to us.

01:11:20.420 So what was

01:11:21.040 Rufo's take then?

01:11:22.100 Well, I'll read a bit

01:11:23.000 of it, because this big

01:11:23.680 bit here is quoting

01:11:24.800 from it.

01:11:25.620 So he says,

01:11:26.060 the city's

01:11:26.540 transformation, which

01:11:27.360 I had followed only

01:11:28.320 abstractly in the

01:11:29.160 newspapers, has

01:11:29.820 prompted a visceral

01:11:30.600 shock.

01:11:31.440 Everybody knows what

01:11:32.420 the hell happened,

01:11:33.160 mass immigration, but

01:11:34.340 nobody is allowed to

01:11:35.140 speak about it.

01:11:36.040 The Muslim population

01:11:37.000 of London has nearly

01:11:37.840 doubled, and migrants 1.00

01:11:38.940 from South Asia and

01:11:39.920 Africa have entrenched 1.00

01:11:41.180 themselves throughout

01:11:41.840 the city.

01:11:42.540 What I've observed in

01:11:43.480 the city this week has

01:11:44.620 amazed me, women's

01:11:45.940 eyes peering through

01:11:46.620 the slit of black

01:11:47.300 niqibs, a procession of 1.00

01:11:49.720 sub-Saharan Africans

01:11:50.680 traversing Westminster

01:11:51.960 Bridge, waving the

01:11:53.340 flags of their

01:11:53.980 homelands and

01:11:54.560 demanding reparations,

01:11:56.120 street corners that

01:11:56.920 could be confused for

01:11:57.800 Peshawar or Islamabad,

01:11:59.980 districts in which one

01:12:01.060 could pass an entire

01:12:01.980 day with barely a

01:12:03.140 glimpse of an

01:12:03.680 Englishman.

01:12:04.600 These are facts.

01:12:06.140 England, unlike the 1.00

01:12:07.140 United States, does

01:12:08.220 not have a long

01:12:08.840 history of assimilating

01:12:09.880 others.

01:12:10.780 Thank you for saying

01:12:12.700 that, because some

01:12:13.380 would say that England

01:12:14.100 was built by diversity,

01:12:15.600 so I'm glad that he

01:12:16.260 recognises that we

01:12:17.640 weren't.

01:12:18.200 We were built by

01:12:18.860 Englishmen.

01:12:20.280 And many of the

01:12:21.080 country's migrants,

01:12:21.880 in particular the large

01:12:22.680 Muslim population, are

01:12:23.960 among the most 0.97

01:12:24.520 difficult populations

01:12:25.360 to integrate.

01:12:26.380 The history of mass

01:12:27.100 migration in Britain is

01:12:28.480 a history of civil

01:12:29.280 tension, punctuated by

01:12:30.820 violence, riots,

01:12:31.820 terrorism, murder, and

01:12:33.460 rape. 0.81

01:12:34.000 So again, for us, he's 0.86

01:12:36.520 very on-side there.

01:12:37.660 That's a remarkably, I

01:12:40.720 wouldn't go as far as

01:12:41.380 to say Steve Law's

01:12:42.400 perspective on it.

01:12:43.120 It's just honest.

01:12:43.440 But it's very honest, it's

01:12:45.320 an honest and accurate

01:12:46.220 perception of the old

01:12:49.140 world.

01:12:49.880 And it's a quite sad and

01:12:51.640 melancholic view on it

01:12:52.700 because he's recognising

01:12:53.640 this isn't how England

01:12:54.920 should be.

01:12:55.940 So I appreciate that.

01:12:57.520 And I do think that he

01:12:59.320 understands this.

01:13:00.420 He says,

01:13:00.900 The structure of

01:13:01.480 civilisation is a

01:13:02.380 delicate thing.

01:13:03.020 Changing its citizens

01:13:03.800 will, over time, change

01:13:05.460 its form.

01:13:06.140 England without the 0.97

01:13:06.800 Englishmen would no 0.99

01:13:07.720 longer be England.

01:13:09.280 Absolutely correct.

01:13:10.320 Nathan J. Robinson, being 0.99

01:13:12.320 a progressive scumbag, 0.99

01:13:14.340 critiques that by saying 1.00

01:13:16.300 that Rufo says that

01:13:18.480 progressives believe that

01:13:20.080 all cultures are

01:13:20.840 interchangeable, that it

01:13:22.080 doesn't matter whether

01:13:22.960 Britain is populated in 0.99

01:13:24.180 large part by Christians

01:13:25.160 or Muslims. 0.95

01:13:26.080 But what is the evidence

01:13:27.200 against this proposition?

01:13:30.840 What is the evidence

01:13:32.160 against the

01:13:33.300 interchangeability of

01:13:34.400 cultures?

01:13:35.840 Well, the fact that

01:13:36.640 they're not.

01:13:38.180 It's like saying...

01:13:38.680 All of human history.

01:13:39.500 Of course the sky is

01:13:40.940 purple.

01:13:41.520 What's the evidence that

01:13:42.540 it's not purple?

01:13:43.780 Well, the fact that it's

01:13:44.500 blue.

01:13:45.040 Well, I can't see it in

01:13:45.860 Britain because it's 0.89

01:13:46.400 always cloudy.

01:13:47.060 I don't know what kind of

01:13:49.280 evidence...

01:13:49.760 Then he goes on to say

01:13:51.100 that recently there were

01:13:53.080 far-right riots in

01:13:54.240 Britain after a Welsh 1.00

01:13:56.420 teenager born to Rwandan

01:13:58.220 parents fatally stabbed

01:13:59.280 three little girls.

01:13:59.920 Well, you've just

01:14:00.320 disproved your own

01:14:01.160 question.

01:14:01.780 You've given yourself

01:14:02.720 your own answer. 0.99

01:14:03.800 That's a disgusting... 0.90

01:14:04.800 I know it's not really

01:14:06.200 the point of this

01:14:06.980 segment, but that's a

01:14:07.760 disgusting take.

01:14:09.500 From Nathan J.

01:14:10.380 Robinson, who, I

01:14:11.460 might add, is

01:14:12.520 rabidly obsessed with

01:14:13.960 the Israel-Palestine

01:14:15.080 conflict and is, of

01:14:16.020 course, a third

01:14:16.960 worldist obsessed with

01:14:18.060 protecting the

01:14:18.660 Palestinians.

01:14:19.040 Red flag.

01:14:19.780 And so has had many

01:14:21.080 debates on it.

01:14:21.720 So to this I ask, well,

01:14:22.700 if everybody's

01:14:23.280 interchangeable, does it

01:14:24.880 matter if Gaza's 0.81

01:14:26.920 occupied by the

01:14:27.700 Israelis? 0.53

01:14:28.700 If everyone's

01:14:29.660 interchangeable, why

01:14:30.440 would it matter if

01:14:31.540 England remained 0.97

01:14:34.160 English?

01:14:34.780 I mean, if everyone's

01:14:36.020 interchangeable, why

01:14:36.760 do you care?

01:14:38.400 You can turn it around

01:14:39.600 and say, well, why do

01:14:40.640 you have an opinion on

01:14:41.380 it?

01:14:41.800 So I thought I'd just

01:14:42.580 give us all an

01:14:43.080 opportunity to revel in

01:14:44.260 that, and if you're in

01:14:44.820 the chat right now,

01:14:45.480 press S to spit at 0.99

01:14:47.040 Nathan J.

01:14:47.740 Robinson, please.

01:14:48.420 Yep, but that

01:14:51.020 perspective that Chris

01:14:52.540 Rufo gave for

01:14:54.320 England, again, is not

01:14:55.540 something that he

01:14:56.340 seems to hold for

01:14:57.560 the United States

01:14:58.340 because he wrote this

01:14:59.100 article recently, which

01:15:00.120 I mentioned last week

01:15:02.000 for Compaq magazine,

01:15:03.200 which was revealed

01:15:03.840 recently to be being

01:15:05.300 funded to the tune of

01:15:06.180 at least $200,000 by

01:15:08.160 the George Soros

01:15:08.920 Foundation, and seems

01:15:11.260 very much to be a

01:15:12.040 controlled opposition

01:15:12.800 sort of magazine.

01:15:14.100 He wrote this article

01:15:14.980 talking about against

01:15:15.920 racialism left and

01:15:17.240 right, where he

01:15:17.820 supports the old

01:15:19.140 civil rights regime

01:15:20.520 where he says we

01:15:20.960 need to return to

01:15:21.860 America's historic

01:15:23.760 defense of color

01:15:24.620 blindness, meritocracy

01:15:25.880 and fair play.

01:15:27.140 America has no great

01:15:29.120 history of color

01:15:29.880 blindness prior to the

01:15:31.580 Civil Rights Act, and

01:15:32.900 it had to be enforced

01:15:34.160 in a very draconian

01:15:37.580 manner by the courts

01:15:38.940 throughout the 1970s

01:15:40.140 to get to that kind

01:15:41.460 of moderate 90s, which

01:15:43.460 then immediately

01:15:44.000 collapsed because it

01:15:45.280 couldn't hold.

01:15:46.320 It surprises me that

01:15:47.420 people don't read the

01:15:49.800 room following, you

01:15:51.320 know, 2020 and BLM

01:15:52.500 that you can't put that

01:15:53.280 genie back in the

01:15:53.880 bottle now.

01:15:54.780 You know, there's too

01:15:56.040 much bad blood between

01:15:57.440 people to be able to

01:16:00.080 overlook these sorts of

01:16:01.860 things now.

01:16:02.600 They won't let us be,

01:16:04.240 they're not colorblind.

01:16:06.560 They only ever wanted us

01:16:08.140 to pretend we were

01:16:09.040 colorblind as a canard to 0.72

01:16:10.500 help defeat us on some

01:16:12.240 level.

01:16:12.520 Well, it's a disarming

01:16:14.120 attack.

01:16:14.480 Yeah, exactly that, yeah.

01:16:15.600 And again, I mean, Rufo's

01:16:16.560 not a Native American, is 0.59

01:16:18.160 he?

01:16:18.460 A Native American Indian?

01:16:19.520 No.

01:16:19.980 I imagine his family came

01:16:20.960 from Italy or Sicily or

01:16:22.720 something, Rufo, I'm

01:16:23.600 guessing, Italian.

01:16:24.600 Yeah, he is, yeah.

01:16:25.520 So, um...

01:16:26.320 Amusingly enough, his

01:16:27.360 wife was an illegal 1.00

01:16:28.760 immigrant from Thailand,

01:16:30.200 so...

01:16:30.820 So that's interesting.

01:16:33.420 But it's interesting,

01:16:34.360 again, because he has the

01:16:35.540 one perspective for the

01:16:36.420 old world, but he

01:16:37.600 doesn't want to carry that

01:16:38.600 over to the new world

01:16:39.480 because with its fancy

01:16:40.980 principles of

01:16:41.880 constitutionalism and

01:16:42.940 civil rights from the

01:16:44.040 1960s, we're beyond

01:16:46.080 that.

01:16:46.660 The old world should 0.78

01:16:47.520 remain the old world,

01:16:48.420 but we're the new world.

01:16:49.620 We're still working on

01:16:50.500 the same principles.

01:16:51.640 The rules still apply.

01:16:53.840 A civilization that

01:16:55.860 holds values can only

01:16:57.980 really hold them and

01:16:59.140 maintain them and hold

01:17:00.060 its civilization together

01:17:01.060 if it does have a more

01:17:02.320 homogenous population

01:17:03.400 and shared culture,

01:17:04.540 which comes from the

01:17:06.000 people who populate it.

01:17:07.840 As he said, England

01:17:08.860 isn't England without

01:17:09.980 Englishmen.

01:17:10.820 America was a country

01:17:11.920 founded by Europeans

01:17:13.760 and Englishmen in

01:17:14.820 particular.

01:17:15.620 When it started to

01:17:16.560 change that population,

01:17:18.240 everything started to

01:17:19.300 change.

01:17:20.000 So the idea that

01:17:21.020 racialism of the left

01:17:22.400 and right, and with

01:17:23.000 the left, he's talking

01:17:23.780 mainly about

01:17:24.360 antisemitism, with the 0.62

01:17:25.860 right, he's also

01:17:26.400 talking about

01:17:27.060 antisemitism, because

01:17:28.540 it all needs to come

01:17:29.200 back to Israel. 0.89

01:17:32.280 Trying to equate

01:17:33.420 these two, the left

01:17:34.700 are racialist, you

01:17:36.340 could say, in a sense

01:17:37.240 where they say, we're

01:17:38.600 minorities, we want

01:17:39.560 handouts, we want

01:17:40.320 you to change your

01:17:41.100 entire culture and 0.85

01:17:42.340 destroy your 0.68

01:17:43.380 civilization and

01:17:44.340 history for our

01:17:45.220 benefit.

01:17:46.340 The racialism, if you

01:17:48.000 want to call it, of

01:17:48.680 that on the right, is

01:17:50.060 saying, we have

01:17:51.360 history here, we

01:17:52.160 established this

01:17:52.920 country, we built it

01:17:53.920 to what it should be,

01:17:54.880 we should have

01:17:55.400 control of our own

01:17:56.200 borders and control

01:17:57.360 over the demographics

01:17:58.220 so the country isn't

01:17:59.420 changed irreparably

01:18:01.020 overnight.

01:18:02.320 And trying to

01:18:03.180 equate these two, I

01:18:04.900 think, is where the

01:18:06.200 neocon, centrist,

01:18:08.480 centre-right,

01:18:09.220 constantin-kissin,

01:18:10.380 gatekeeping comes

01:18:11.700 into it.

01:18:12.140 It's one step away

01:18:13.660 from just saying, we

01:18:15.300 need to stop the

01:18:16.060 woke right.

01:18:17.180 Because inevitably, all

01:18:18.380 of these former

01:18:19.160 leftists and liberals,

01:18:20.820 all of these neocon-centrists,

01:18:22.140 whatever you want to

01:18:22.760 call them, every

01:18:24.300 single one of them has

01:18:25.000 been very, very clear,

01:18:26.060 James Lindsay in

01:18:27.000 particular, in saying

01:18:28.220 that we need to stop

01:18:29.420 the woke left, because

01:18:30.700 otherwise, there will

01:18:32.240 be a counterpoint

01:18:33.220 identity politics of the

01:18:34.580 right, and that's what

01:18:35.840 they actually fear.

01:18:36.700 And that can't be

01:18:37.680 allowed to happen.

01:18:38.900 That's what they're

01:18:39.420 actually afraid of,

01:18:40.260 because if Europeans

01:18:41.080 express their right to

01:18:42.340 self-determination, then

01:18:43.940 Holocaust to electric 0.96

01:18:45.880 boogaloo is just

01:18:46.800 around the corner.

01:18:47.460 Yeah, because you

01:18:47.840 can't have your country 0.96

01:18:48.540 back, yeah.

01:18:49.700 But I was just going

01:18:50.660 to say real quick,

01:18:51.300 diversity isn't a

01:18:52.200 strength, of course,

01:18:53.200 homogeneity is, and

01:18:55.480 yeah, the very concept

01:18:56.660 of multiculturalism is a 0.99

01:18:57.980 failed experiment, and

01:19:00.020 ends in disaster.

01:19:00.800 Sorry, Josh, go.

01:19:01.320 That's all right.

01:19:01.660 All I was going to

01:19:02.560 say is, it's weird that

01:19:03.780 Rufo, at some point

01:19:05.340 between crossing the

01:19:06.320 Atlantic, switches his

01:19:08.180 politics.

01:19:09.460 It is, but I think

01:19:10.540 that's just America, 0.76

01:19:12.060 isn't it?

01:19:12.780 Because human nature

01:19:13.540 does not change depending

01:19:15.020 on which side of the

01:19:15.980 Atlantic you're on.

01:19:17.620 We're still human beings.

01:19:20.420 That sounds so liberal,

01:19:21.240 doesn't it?

01:19:21.500 I know.

01:19:21.820 So I wanted to just end

01:19:23.400 this by saying that,

01:19:24.140 Chris, I think you do

01:19:25.240 great work, and I really

01:19:26.560 appreciate the kind of

01:19:27.800 positive sentiments you

01:19:29.420 had towards the state of

01:19:30.500 England and what needs

01:19:31.600 to be done in England,

01:19:32.520 but that also needs to

01:19:34.400 happen in America, and

01:19:36.040 you're not going to help

01:19:37.400 the movement in the long

01:19:38.780 run by hiring leftists

01:19:40.600 into the movement who

01:19:41.360 are just going to make

01:19:41.940 the movement more and

01:19:42.800 more left-wing over time.

01:19:44.520 So please, next time,

01:19:45.640 consider hiring somebody

01:19:46.860 like Connor.

01:19:48.060 This hasn't been an

01:19:48.840 extended...

01:19:49.500 Yeah, please hire Connor.

01:19:50.560 This hasn't been an

01:19:51.440 extended reference for

01:19:53.520 Connor.

01:19:53.940 What are you going to

01:19:54.380 buy with the money

01:19:55.120 Connor gave you to

01:19:55.940 stay there?

01:19:57.220 Big Connor's funding

01:19:58.380 you, isn't he?

01:19:58.880 Somebody like Connor

01:20:00.980 with principles, right?

01:20:02.340 Of course.

01:20:03.200 That's what we're

01:20:03.360 saying.

01:20:03.580 Somebody who's actually

01:20:04.720 on the side and won't

01:20:06.100 try and surreptitiously

01:20:07.200 move you into being

01:20:08.500 more of a liberal.

01:20:10.600 We have some more...

01:20:12.380 I love the concept of

01:20:13.260 Big Connor.

01:20:14.980 Big Connor's coming to

01:20:16.080 noggy you. 0.95

01:20:18.100 Dragon Lady Chris says, 0.98

01:20:19.480 I still can't believe

01:20:20.260 y'all didn't put

01:20:21.060 grill baby grill on

01:20:22.200 that Trump t-shirt.

01:20:23.100 Well, it would have

01:20:26.240 worked.

01:20:26.580 I liked...

01:20:27.180 The original idea for

01:20:28.600 it was Rump24, which I

01:20:31.200 still think we should

01:20:32.060 have gone with, but some

01:20:34.240 elements of the subversive

01:20:36.320 leftist elements of the

01:20:37.880 office, women, said that 1.00

01:20:39.860 it would confuse people.

01:20:41.760 Me as well.

01:20:43.440 Exactly, Samson.

01:20:44.560 Subversive elements of

01:20:45.560 the office.

01:20:46.280 Samson outs himself as

01:20:47.720 woman.

01:20:48.700 I should have known.

01:20:49.660 This whole time, Samson,

01:20:50.740 why didn't you tell us?

01:20:51.540 Um, that's a random name

01:20:52.980 says, if cultures are so

01:20:54.200 interchangeable, why not

01:20:55.140 make race interchangeable

01:20:56.380 as well?

01:20:57.080 I suppose that's, uh,

01:20:58.700 that there's no problem

01:20:59.580 with me saying, oh, no

01:21:01.500 problem with me saying

01:21:02.240 the N-word.

01:21:02.660 Oh, wait, there is.

01:21:03.380 Interesting.

01:21:04.960 Get your boot polish out,

01:21:05.900 mate.

01:21:06.700 Who's that man in Britain

01:21:08.160 who wanted to be a Korean? 1.00

01:21:09.600 Wanted to change his, you

01:21:10.840 know what I mean?

01:21:11.360 Oh, yeah.

01:21:12.260 He's got quite a big

01:21:12.780 Twitter.

01:21:14.120 Oh, he just constantly

01:21:16.020 reposts stuff all the time.

01:21:17.380 Who's this, sorry?

01:21:18.000 What?

01:21:18.080 Some British dude who had

01:21:19.640 I know exactly who you

01:21:20.720 mean.

01:21:20.940 Surgery to have, to look

01:21:22.480 like a Korean. 0.97

01:21:23.540 He, he does.

01:21:24.460 Oh, no.

01:21:25.020 He does a lot of slop

01:21:25.800 posting these days.

01:21:26.340 What's his face?

01:21:27.080 Slop.

01:21:27.400 It is slop, yeah.

01:21:28.340 I know exactly who you're

01:21:29.680 on about, but I attempted

01:21:31.100 to delete him from my brain.

01:21:32.760 Yeah.

01:21:33.680 Uh, da-da-da-da.

01:21:34.900 There was.

01:21:35.760 Don't say his name

01:21:36.420 out loud, you know.

01:21:38.080 Yeah, if you say it

01:21:39.020 three times, you'll hear.

01:21:41.280 Uh, his first name is

01:21:43.320 Ollie, and his second name

01:21:44.980 is the capital of, of

01:21:46.680 England.

01:21:47.520 That's it, yeah.

01:21:48.260 And there was that woman, 0.99

01:21:49.280 wasn't there?

01:21:49.580 I think British as well,

01:21:50.700 who just got loads of

01:21:51.620 tan and started to try

01:21:53.400 and pretend she was 0.92

01:21:54.200 black.

01:21:54.880 Remember her?

01:21:55.380 Rachel Dolezal.

01:21:56.540 Oh, yeah.

01:21:57.660 Yeah, that one you

01:21:58.520 recall immediately.

01:22:00.300 Oh, it's hilarious.

01:22:01.340 Yeah, yeah.

01:22:02.060 Listen, she's been in

01:22:03.040 Josh's wank bank for a long

01:22:04.460 while.

01:22:04.840 Oh! 0.60

01:22:06.880 What are you accusing me

01:22:08.160 of, Harry?

01:22:09.120 I'm not one of those.

01:22:13.180 The allegations are untrue.

01:22:15.220 I was thinking of you

01:22:16.020 the whole time, Harry.

01:22:17.000 Oh, no.

01:22:18.100 Yeah, turn it back on

01:22:19.080 around on you, didn't I?

01:22:20.780 That's a horrible thing

01:22:22.520 to say, Josh.

01:22:23.900 He's gone red.

01:22:24.560 He's embarrassed.

01:22:25.420 Why aren't you

01:22:26.300 embarrassed for saying

01:22:27.500 that?

01:22:27.900 I'm not ashamed.

01:22:28.980 Okay.

01:22:30.060 All right, Josh comes out

01:22:31.180 as gay and in love

01:22:32.200 with Harry on this

01:22:33.260 episode of The Lotus

01:22:34.160 Eater.

01:22:34.440 Who is in love with you,

01:22:35.560 Harry?

01:22:36.160 Oh, thank you.

01:22:37.440 See, I can be nice

01:22:38.500 sometimes, you little 1.00

01:22:39.500 bitch. 1.00

01:22:39.980 Even if you're gay. 1.00

01:22:45.020 Take it away, Cooper. 0.99

01:22:49.240 He's silent.

01:22:50.040 Cooper's on mute.

01:22:51.640 You need to unmute

01:22:52.660 because I know you've

01:22:53.420 muted everything for

01:22:54.280 Johnny Somali. 0.91

01:22:54.980 Thank you again.

01:22:56.080 Yeah, thank you, Samson.

01:22:57.260 Hey, guys.

01:22:57.920 When are you going to

01:22:58.780 send out the video link

01:23:00.560 for the election night

01:23:02.040 coverage so we can

01:23:02.840 upload video comments

01:23:03.940 early?

01:23:04.780 I've got some good ones.

01:23:06.460 And yes, I am going to

01:23:07.460 be advertising my books

01:23:08.520 because, well, if he

01:23:09.960 wins, then it will be

01:23:11.100 a nice thing you can

01:23:12.340 read on your vacation

01:23:13.800 from the last four

01:23:14.840 years.

01:23:15.700 And if he loses, well,

01:23:17.260 it's something you can

01:23:17.900 read on the plane as

01:23:19.040 you are being shipped

01:23:19.880 off to World War 0.62

01:23:20.860 Three.

01:23:22.980 I don't know if we

01:23:24.320 have the answer to

01:23:25.200 that.

01:23:31.160 Samson has spoken.

01:23:32.200 I think that they're

01:23:33.180 going to be written

01:23:34.440 comments.

01:23:36.180 We're changing it.

01:23:37.280 So, yeah, written

01:23:38.760 comments and rumble

01:23:39.400 rants and we're

01:23:40.320 changing it so that

01:23:42.240 in the intermissions,

01:23:43.780 rather than having

01:23:44.320 really annoying music,

01:23:45.880 we have, we've set up

01:23:47.080 Studio Two.

01:23:48.340 So we're reading the

01:23:50.060 comments in there

01:23:51.900 instead.

01:23:52.700 And we can have a

01:23:53.480 nice, neat transition

01:23:54.800 where you're not having

01:23:55.680 to be in purgatory

01:23:57.340 listening to the same

01:23:58.440 song over and over

01:23:59.340 again.

01:23:59.880 We are putting a bit

01:24:00.440 of time and energy into

01:24:01.400 reading out rumble

01:24:02.220 rants.

01:24:02.760 We are indeed.

01:24:04.220 And can I say one

01:24:04.820 other thing to Mr.

01:24:07.260 Keeper?

01:24:07.540 I am still working on

01:24:08.500 my novel because he

01:24:08.960 very kindly, a few

01:24:10.500 months ago now, offered

01:24:11.780 to help me get

01:24:12.320 published should I

01:24:13.020 actually finish it.

01:24:14.400 I am still working on

01:24:15.380 it.

01:24:16.640 Polishing and polishing.

01:24:18.200 So one day, I haven't

01:24:20.240 forgotten.

01:24:21.080 Hats off to Cooper.

01:24:22.020 Yeah, yeah.

01:24:23.140 Right.

01:24:23.660 Thanks for all the

01:24:23.960 support.

01:24:26.280 Jan V says, happy

01:24:27.920 Halloween.

01:24:28.400 Nice costume, Harry.

01:24:29.960 Hope you guys have a

01:24:31.140 spooky theme lads hour

01:24:32.040 planned for tomorrow.

01:24:33.000 We do.

01:24:33.460 I'm running it, so

01:24:35.120 it's going to be spooky

01:24:35.800 already just by my

01:24:36.900 presence.

01:24:38.540 Josh looks a bit Bruce

01:24:40.120 Wayne-ish.

01:24:41.100 I'll donate a hundred

01:24:41.800 today if Josh puts on a

01:24:43.280 Batman mask and chases

01:24:44.480 Harry around Swindon.

01:24:46.960 Boiling his shenanigans.

01:24:49.420 I'd do that for free.

01:24:50.660 To be fair, of the man in

01:24:52.080 the office, Stelios is the

01:24:53.400 most likely to commit

01:24:54.520 shenanigans.

01:24:55.500 He is.

01:24:56.140 Just general shenanigans.

01:24:58.660 He is sort of Batman

01:24:59.740 villain-esque.

01:25:00.720 Maybe he does laugh like the

01:25:02.200 Green Goblin as well.

01:25:02.960 Yeah.

01:25:03.460 Although, you know, you

01:25:04.220 should take that Bruce

01:25:04.940 Wayne comparison.

01:25:05.720 Yeah, thank you.

01:25:06.540 Yes.

01:25:07.040 Worse things to be

01:25:07.800 compared to, right?

01:25:08.920 Cheers, Baystate.

01:25:09.980 And Budget Fever, do you

01:25:11.680 want to read some of your

01:25:12.480 comments, Bo?

01:25:13.300 Oh.

01:25:14.120 We have to be quick

01:25:15.500 because we don't have

01:25:16.160 so much time.

01:25:16.820 Henry Ashman says,

01:25:17.420 the budget shows just how

01:25:18.620 illiterate Labour are.

01:25:19.760 Yeah.

01:25:20.260 Economically illiterate.

01:25:21.060 Yeah, yeah.

01:25:21.940 By raising the national

01:25:23.060 insurance contributions,

01:25:24.560 businesses pay.

01:25:26.460 Businesses pay.

01:25:27.460 They've just made it more

01:25:28.400 expensive for businesses

01:25:29.380 to function in the UK.

01:25:30.900 More specifically,

01:25:31.640 tying that increase in

01:25:34.060 cost directly to the

01:25:34.940 workers.

01:25:35.640 So I'm expecting layoffs

01:25:36.900 directly linked to this.

01:25:38.020 I mean, yeah.

01:25:39.100 Right?

01:25:41.700 It is illiterate.

01:25:42.700 There's a number of things

01:25:43.360 they've done that's

01:25:43.800 illiterate.

01:25:44.120 Like raising the

01:25:45.740 minimum wage.

01:25:48.360 That's just a commie thing

01:25:49.880 that doesn't work.

01:25:50.600 Unless they know this

01:25:52.880 and the aim is to just

01:25:53.760 collapse the British economy

01:25:54.820 so the whole thing is just

01:25:56.840 a black market run by

01:25:58.120 immigrants.

01:25:59.300 Roman Observer says,

01:26:00.100 let's face it,

01:26:00.720 UK being rich was a fluke

01:26:01.980 of history.

01:26:03.220 And nature is now

01:26:04.800 healing.

01:26:05.640 Yeah, no, I don't know.

01:26:07.520 From somebody with Roman 1.00

01:26:09.920 in their handle,

01:26:11.280 that sounds like cope

01:26:12.440 to me.

01:26:14.280 We escaped your yoke.

01:26:15.260 So the one time

01:26:17.380 where Italy was

01:26:18.260 globally successful

01:26:19.320 since then,

01:26:20.140 it's been all downhill.

01:26:21.400 Yeah.

01:26:22.400 Yeah.

01:26:22.960 Roman history is

01:26:23.700 interesting.

01:26:24.300 I think it's been okay

01:26:25.120 since 410 AD

01:26:26.220 for the Italians.

01:26:28.120 It's been downhill

01:26:28.620 since that.

01:26:30.100 Sorry, go on.

01:26:31.500 So I'll read a couple

01:26:32.840 of comments from here.

01:26:33.880 Captain Charlie the Beagle

01:26:34.600 says,

01:26:35.020 so let me get this straight.

01:26:36.200 A Somali streamer, 0.66

01:26:37.300 in quotation marks,

01:26:38.240 goes to a country

01:26:38.980 to harass the locals

01:26:39.900 for clicks,

01:26:40.780 even though all the locals

01:26:41.980 go through compulsory

01:26:42.980 military service,

01:26:44.180 which is true.

01:26:45.560 That's a good point.

01:26:45.900 Yeah.

01:26:46.580 That's why he got beaten up.

01:26:48.300 George Hap says,

01:26:49.040 Johnny Somali 0.99

01:26:49.680 may be just what Ubisoft

01:26:51.600 needs to save

01:26:52.360 Assassin's Creed Shadows,

01:26:53.520 convert it into a

01:26:54.420 modern times game

01:26:55.300 like Watch Dogs,

01:26:56.140 and you've fixed

01:26:57.320 the historical problems.

01:26:59.300 Imagine you play

01:27:00.060 Watch Dogs South Korea,

01:27:02.060 and that's one of the missions.

01:27:03.320 Track down Johnny Somali. 1.00

01:27:05.520 You have to hack into

01:27:06.400 CCTV,

01:27:08.040 watch his live streams,

01:27:09.920 triangulate with the map.

01:27:12.100 Russian Garbage Human says, 1.00

01:27:13.220 God, I love meme segments. 0.68

01:27:14.180 It's more.

01:27:15.280 Oh, actually,

01:27:15.880 no, I know.

01:27:16.800 Hitman. 0.66

01:27:18.580 Hitman do contracts 0.82

01:27:19.840 where you can create

01:27:20.700 your own contracts for them.

01:27:22.380 Johnny Somali. 0.91

01:27:24.180 In a video game,

01:27:25.460 obviously.

01:27:25.640 Yes, not in real life.

01:27:26.860 Not in Minecraft,

01:27:28.020 in Hitman.

01:27:28.660 Through the Day says,

01:27:29.360 the bants are extra crispy today.

01:27:32.040 That's nice.

01:27:32.800 Anyway.

01:27:33.220 That's good to hear.

01:27:34.080 Take it away.

01:27:35.180 Garlic Goblin says,

01:27:36.880 I definitely get Bo's point.

01:27:37.960 The term neocon

01:27:38.600 used to mean something

01:27:39.280 a bit different,

01:27:39.980 in my opinion.

01:27:40.600 A key part of how

01:27:41.220 I've always understood

01:27:41.880 the term is neocons.

01:27:42.800 Neocons believe in promoting 1.00

01:27:44.080 democracy around the world,

01:27:45.560 often through military intervention.

01:27:47.340 I think Harry's point

01:27:48.140 is also a very good one,

01:27:49.400 but it would perhaps make sense

01:27:50.380 if a different term

01:27:51.080 was used for that phenomenon.

01:27:53.140 I think it's a multifaceted term,

01:27:55.560 but I understand

01:27:56.040 the overlapping definitions

01:27:57.380 can be a bit confusing.

01:27:58.980 Just say super quick,

01:27:59.440 there's a number of things

01:28:00.140 like the word Gnostic.

01:28:03.920 I just vomited a little bit.

01:28:06.200 People use that now

01:28:07.600 to mean something

01:28:08.640 very, very different, really,

01:28:11.200 to what the original meaning was,

01:28:12.580 or the meaning that I was raised

01:28:14.480 with sort of the early,

01:28:15.700 the primitive,

01:28:16.340 early Christian church Gnostics. 0.98

01:28:18.860 It's not the sort of the same thing

01:28:20.360 where someone like James Lindsay

01:28:21.680 is using the word Gnostic.

01:28:22.420 James Lindsay just used it

01:28:23.360 to mean people I don't like.

01:28:24.800 Same with woke, right?

01:28:26.080 Or the word Logos.

01:28:27.160 The way the ancient Greeks

01:28:28.380 used the word Logos

01:28:29.180 is different to the way

01:28:30.080 Christians used the word Logos.

01:28:31.900 It's the same word,

01:28:32.680 but they mean quite different things by it.

01:28:35.980 Yeah, I think maybe that's okay,

01:28:37.420 as long as everyone's clear

01:28:38.900 what's going on.

01:28:40.160 As long as by the end of my segment

01:28:42.200 it was clear what I was discussing,

01:28:43.800 I made the point as well.

01:28:44.040 Yeah, which it was.

01:28:44.340 It absolutely was.

01:28:45.020 Thank you.

01:28:45.740 Then that's all right.

01:28:46.820 I don't want wires to get crossed.

01:28:49.040 Then Scotty of Swindon

01:28:50.680 saw you at the market earlier,

01:28:52.640 said,

01:28:53.280 Did I hear that right?

01:28:54.320 A former commie turned conservative

01:28:56.240 and dedicated his life and career

01:28:58.100 to aggressively fighting them.

01:28:59.600 Based communist redemption arc?

01:29:01.500 Now that was in regards

01:29:02.580 to James Burnham.

01:29:03.600 James Burnham was very good

01:29:05.780 about a lot of things.

01:29:07.100 He wrote an excellent book

01:29:08.300 called Suicide of the West

01:29:09.940 and he had a few other great books,

01:29:11.420 The Managerial Revolution

01:29:12.520 and The Machiavellians.

01:29:14.480 There is one problem though.

01:29:16.120 He did end up working

01:29:17.700 for the American government

01:29:19.580 in the Congress for Cultural Freedom

01:29:21.740 in the 1950s

01:29:22.880 which funneled government dark money

01:29:24.960 to anti-communist projects

01:29:28.200 that were intended to show

01:29:29.500 that America was a new cosmopolitan society

01:29:33.120 counter to claims

01:29:34.780 that the communists were saying

01:29:35.880 they were anti-progressive. 0.99

01:29:37.260 So he funded a lot of shit modern art 0.98

01:29:40.220 and a lot of very subversive art as well. 0.99

01:29:43.340 It's really annoying

01:29:44.140 because he's done so much good work

01:29:45.600 but then if you look at

01:29:46.400 what he practically did,

01:29:47.560 it's like,

01:29:47.920 that was very subversive, James.

01:29:49.900 James, you helped fund

01:29:51.660 which was the one

01:29:53.160 who just like threw art

01:29:54.620 and paint at the canvas.

01:29:56.380 Jackson Pollock.

01:29:57.220 We've got some rants

01:29:58.600 to get through very quickly

01:29:59.520 before we end the show.

01:30:00.380 He's done that sort of stuff.

01:30:01.340 So Jack Stretch Jones says,

01:30:03.540 just received Ireland a mag question.

01:30:05.520 Is it better to hate or fear?

01:30:09.240 Hate because you have more agency

01:30:11.420 when you are hateful

01:30:12.700 rather than fearful.

01:30:13.600 Fear is the mind killer, isn't it?

01:30:14.720 Yes.

01:30:15.120 You don't need that.

01:30:15.680 You don't want that.

01:30:16.300 Don't panic.

01:30:16.960 Bobo Bad says,

01:30:17.760 I can't believe that

01:30:18.720 the trans-Korean Britain

01:30:20.620 something in it

01:30:21.780 was rejected

01:30:22.720 by the natural-born Koreans.

01:30:24.720 Yeah, who would have thought?

01:30:25.840 And that's random name says,

01:30:26.840 in the new Batman movie,

01:30:27.740 the Joker decides

01:30:28.400 to destroy Gotham

01:30:29.260 by flooding it with illegal.

01:30:30.600 Surprisingly, nothing changes.

01:30:33.240 There we go.

01:30:34.240 That's everything.

01:30:35.400 I hope you've enjoyed the show.

01:30:36.880 I've certainly enjoyed being on it.

01:30:38.640 And I think Calvin's

01:30:40.580 Common Sense Crusade

01:30:41.540 is going to be on

01:30:42.220 after this

01:30:44.000 in half an hour's time.

01:30:45.180 I believe

01:30:45.680 he met Trump recently,

01:30:47.100 so it should be

01:30:47.640 an interesting one.

01:30:48.320 I don't know

01:30:48.680 what he's talking about,

01:30:49.780 but I heard rumours

01:30:51.480 that he's got 0.97

01:30:52.280 the white-are-you-gay man on. 0.97

01:30:54.220 Really? 0.97

01:30:54.840 Really?

01:30:55.540 Yeah.

01:30:55.700 That was no, no.

01:30:57.080 It was a secret book.

01:30:58.980 Was it a secret?

01:31:00.120 Yes.

01:31:01.060 Sorry.

01:31:02.200 Got Samson's 0.88

01:31:02.840 up in the F-bomb. 0.80

01:31:04.600 Forget you heard that, Jack.

01:31:06.880 That was fake news.

01:31:08.060 Jack, we literally have

01:31:09.380 Agent 47

01:31:10.340 right here, right now.

01:31:11.940 Yeah, if you tell anyone this,

01:31:13.380 Beau's going to hunt you down, okay?

01:31:14.640 But yes,

01:31:16.460 hope you enjoyed the show.

01:31:17.740 I'm sorry, Samson,

01:31:19.280 and goodbye.

01:31:19.860 Father...

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - October 31, 2024

Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1034

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