The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1023

00:00:00.000 After the roaring success of our UK election coverage, we are indeed doing another massive

00:00:13.200 Load Seaters livestream to cover the US elections on Tuesday 5th November. We will have a giant

00:00:18.720 roster of guests both in the studio and remotely via Zoom, and we will be livestreaming on Rumble,

00:00:24.800 so we'll be able to say exactly what we think, no holds barred. Do tune in,

00:00:29.120 it's going to be great, and hopefully we'll be ringing in Trump's second term,

00:00:33.200 or perhaps we'll be having a massive meltdown, who knows what the future holds. See you then.

00:00:39.840 Oh hello everyone, welcome to the podcast of the Load Seaters for the 16th of October

00:00:44.320 2024. My how this year has flown. Very exciting prospects to be covering the November election,

00:00:49.280 we'll all be there, and hopefully we don't call in the rig live. We're not on YouTube at the moment,

00:00:54.480 so I can say that. I am your host Connor, joined by Harry and Beau, and speaking of American politics,

00:00:58.720 we'll be discussing Kamala's October surprise, how she seemingly plagiarised her own book,

00:01:02.480 how the bookies are backing Trump, nice white pill segment from Beau there, and how BLM's brand

00:01:07.440 new Marta has fallen flat. Something I'm looking forward to. Very good. Can I just make one small

00:01:13.120 point? If you're on British time, we're probably starting at midnight on the 5th, so it's basically

00:01:17.840 the morning of the 6th. So if you're in America, we'll be starting late at night on the 5th.

00:01:22.880 On that promo, Kyle Carter said, it's just on the 5th. Well, if you're in Britain, or British time,

00:01:28.240 it's actually, it'll really be the small hours of the 6th, really. So just a small point.

00:01:31.920 You can at least sit in the pre-queue at like half 11 and be in chat. And you know,

00:01:36.240 send in all your super chats so we can read it out, because that keeps the lights on,

00:01:39.040 because we're not monetised and all that. Before we do start...

00:01:41.760 I think you've misplaced your fedora somewhere, but...

00:01:44.560 Yeah, sorry, yeah.

00:01:45.120 Actually...

00:01:46.720 Yeah, before we do start, it's a Wednesday, so 3 o'clock, it's going to be my show, Tomlinson Talks.

00:01:52.720 I'll be going over the Conservative Party Conference of the Leadership Contest, because

00:01:56.800 even some among the Lotus Eaters over the years have got some delusions about Kenny Badenock.

00:02:01.440 I think we're free of them these days.

00:02:03.680 Yeah, it's taken a long time. I'm going to go through exactly the reasons why she certainly

00:02:08.480 isn't the heir apparent to the right, and why she basically sings from the hymn sheet of race

00:02:13.760 communists. But anyway, if you're a Lotus Eat subscriber, you can go and do that. But without

00:02:17.840 further ado, let's jump into today's news. So the October surprise has arrived for Kamala Harris,

00:02:24.080 because it turns out that people bothered to read her dreadful 2009 book and went,

00:02:28.560 well, hang on a minute. You've stolen stories from Martin Luther King and Wikipedia.

00:02:33.600 What, really?

00:02:34.640 Really.

00:02:36.000 Wait, she can write?

00:02:38.480 Dictate. As we've learned in the public sphere, most people don't write their own books,

00:02:41.760 and Kamala Harris is certainly one of them. Not just did she not even bother dictating it,

00:02:45.360 but whoever ghostwrote her book for her just copied and pasted from Wikipedia,

00:02:49.040 a bit like Rachel Reeves actually did recently.

00:02:50.720 What was Kamala Harris doing in 2009 which warranted her to write a book?

00:02:55.040 California Prosecutor.

00:02:56.160 Oh, that was, oh yeah.

00:02:57.040 I believe this book was called Smart on Crime.

00:03:03.760 The irony is, of course, that Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris, however you blimmin' say it,

00:03:08.640 kept people in prison long beyond evidence that exonerated them, that put them on either death row,

00:03:13.200 or kept them past their prison sentence because she wanted to use them as slave labor for the

00:03:17.200 volunteer firefighter brigade in California, and also locked people up for marijuana violations,

00:03:22.080 which I don't really care about, but then bragged about smoking weed during the 2020

00:03:26.560 presidential cycle because she wants to ingratiate herself with black Americans.

00:03:29.840 So she broke her own laws and then laughed at that.

00:03:31.920 She wanted to be cool.

00:03:33.040 Yeah.

00:03:33.760 Um, America's why not, ladies and gentlemen.

00:03:36.160 Right, so we'll start off with the most sort of headline-grabbing absurd claim,

00:03:39.680 and then get into the rest of them, because this is actually a little bit of old news,

00:03:42.480 because Stephen Crowder has mentioned this for a long time,

00:03:44.560 but nobody's really picked up on it till now, because let's be frank, Harris wasn't really that

00:03:48.880 relevant. But it turns out that the multiple passages in her book, Smart on Crime, a career

00:03:53.040 prosecutor's plan to make us safer, while also bailing out BLM rioters, were lifted from Wikipedia

00:03:58.080 and other sources without attribution, according to Stefan Weber, who's an Austrian academic,

00:04:02.640 and dubbed a plagiarism hunter. He's done a massive 49-page report on this, so there's lots

00:04:07.440 of examples. But one of the funniest ones, among the examples from content from Wikipedia and an

00:04:13.360 associated press story from 2008, is a story in which the now-Democrat candidate for president

00:04:20.080 wrote, quote, my mother used to laugh when she told the story about a time I was fussing as a

00:04:24.720 toddler. She leaned down to ask me, Kamala, what's wrong? What do you want? And I wailed back,

00:04:30.000 fweedom, spelt with a W. How adorable. She's been a civil rights champion since she was in the stroller.

00:04:37.280 Got a bad taste in my mouth just on the surface of it, let alone if it's plagiarised.

00:04:40.960 That's amazing. Theatre kids all the way down throughout government. This is just like what

00:04:46.560 I said with David Lammy's speech, they really do think that they are the primary character in a big

00:04:52.080 Hollywood drama. She's like Forrest Gump in more ways than one. This is peak ethno-narcissism,

00:04:58.400 of course, because she never thought that she'd be caught out for this. But she's trying to ingratiate

00:05:01.680 herself in the civil rights tradition. I would have argued she should have done it a bit more subtle

00:05:06.080 than literally just ripping off Martin Luther King. Because this is a story from his Playboy

00:05:09.600 magazine interview in 1965. And the quote goes, I will never forget a moment in Birmingham, Alabama,

00:05:15.760 when a white policeman accosted a little negro girl, this is his word, not mine, seven or eight

00:05:20.240 years old, who was walking in a demonstration with her mother. What do you want? The policeman asked

00:05:24.400 her gruffly. And the little girl looked him straight in the eye and answered, Fee-dum.

00:05:28.080 Now, unless Kamala Harris magically aged up one or two years to be seven or eight. About seven years,

00:05:34.400 actually. Yeah. And then also was in Birmingham, Alabama for no reason and talking to Martin Luther

00:05:41.600 King rather than her own mother. This is bollocks. The answer is obvious, Connor. We all know it

00:05:47.360 exists. We all hear about it constantly. Black girl magic. True. Yes, yes, yes, absolutely. The power of

00:05:53.280 joy allows her to travel through time or something. Anyway, what isn't publicised in this is the full

00:05:58.720 findings of other blatant plagiarism which has been catalogued by claimer of scalps Chris Rufo. And I

00:06:03.600 bring up Chris Rufo because do we all remember what Chris Rufo was doing at the start of this year?

00:06:09.200 Anyone remember Claudine Gay? Oh yeah, I was about to say if she was the head of Harvard

00:06:13.920 or a similar educational institution, she would be fired. Yeah, well, former head of Harvard,

00:06:19.520 now, Claudine Gay got ousted because Chris Rufo publicised how her doctoral thesis and various

00:06:25.440 other articles were riddled with about 50 instances of plagiarism. Quite like Martin Luther King himself,

00:06:33.200 actually. Ironically, yeah. Again, Reverend Martin Luther King denying the incarnation of Christ

00:06:38.400 on the up and up. I suppose we should judge Claudine Gay, Kamala Harris, and Martin Luther King

00:06:43.040 by the content of their character. And given he was party to rape, I would find it wanting. Anyway,

00:06:47.120 so these appeared in eight of her works, this is according to far-right outlet The Washington Post,

00:06:52.000 a 1993 essay in the magazine Origins, her dissertation from 1997, a 2001 working paper,

00:06:57.520 and five articles she published while a professor at Stanford and Harvard, so 11 journal publications

00:07:02.320 across her career. In some cases, Gay took verbatim wording, ranging from sentences and entire

00:07:08.560 paragraphs from academics that she cited, but without placing that text in quotation marks,

00:07:13.600 or with citations. In other examples, she appears to have paraphrased or likely modified the text she

00:07:19.440 drew on without citing the source in the same paragraph. Basically, she just copy-pasted and

00:07:24.720 didn't attribute properly. That's really bad. I mean, I'm not an academic, but I have got a postgraduate

00:07:30.160 for me in a humanities, a master's degree in a humanities subject. And it's really bad. That's

00:07:37.200 really quite bad. You can't do that. It's straight up sort of lying. It's cheating, really.

00:07:42.560 This is free software to catch it as well.

00:07:44.480 Yeah, this guy, what's his name? Chris?

00:07:46.080 Claudine Gay.

00:07:47.040 No, no, the guy.

00:07:47.680 Oh, Chris Ruffo.

00:07:48.320 Chris Ruffo.

00:07:48.880 He's doing good work. That's a cool thing he's doing. And call these people out for it. Because

00:07:53.360 it's easy enough to put it in quotations or put a citation, but to claim it's your own.

00:07:57.280 Yeah, but what I was going to say to you is that it's actually really easy not to plagiarise people.

00:08:02.480 Yeah, right, yeah.

00:08:03.280 It's the easiest thing in the world. You've done all of the work in reading the book that

00:08:07.440 you're taking from. So quotation marks, a little citation note, boom. Easy.

00:08:12.400 Yeah, yeah. Because there's different levels of copying, plagiarising. There's different

00:08:17.120 sort of degrees of it, aren't there? But the outright verbatim paragraphs, there's no excuse.

00:08:22.800 Because everyone sort of copies from everyone else in a way, in all sorts of ways. Sometimes

00:08:27.600 you can't avoid it. Sometimes you come to the same conclusion as someone else legitimately.

00:08:31.920 Sometimes you'll basically take someone else's words and just quote them. There's all different

00:08:36.320 degrees of how severe it is.

00:08:37.840 An easy one is if you're just referring to an actual factual matter, a matter of factual history,

00:08:42.400 then if somebody's put it really well, then yeah, you'll take some of the wording from that.

00:08:46.160 But also, you should probably attribute it anyway.

00:08:48.160 Right, yeah, yeah. Or if you've read something that you completely agree with, and you essentially

00:08:53.200 rewrite it. Okay, that's a form of plagiarism light, in a way. But you can't really stop people

00:08:59.680 from doing that exactly. But if you take verbatim whole sentences or paragraphs, there's no excuse

00:09:04.480 for that. There's straight up cheating.

00:09:06.720 But have you considered, as the Associated Press have, who Kamala Harris has later ripped off,

00:09:13.920 they've just called any accusations of plagiarism a weapon by conservatives?

00:09:18.720 Is it?

00:09:19.920 Standards.

00:09:21.120 Is it?

00:09:21.680 Accurate citations.

00:09:23.200 Humility. The latest conservative weapon.

00:09:26.240 Honesty being a right-wing weapon.

00:09:29.040 True, actually, if you look at Jonathan Haidt's moral foundations.

00:09:32.080 Anyway, the reason I bring this up is because, as you said,

00:09:34.400 lifting entire paragraphs is a bit blatant, right? The potential next president of the

00:09:40.160 United States wouldn't have done that. Oh dear. Well, Chris Rufo's got a thread,

00:09:45.200 and he just keeps posting all of these new examples.

00:09:47.360 Here's a pretty egregious one from the Associated Press.

00:09:50.720 So, Harris's book reads,

00:09:53.280 In Detroit's public schools, only 25% of students who enrolled in grade 9 graduated from high school,

00:09:58.160 while 30.5% graduated in Indianapolis public schools, and 34% received diplomas in the Cleveland

00:10:03.840 municipal school district. And then it goes on, and you see that exact text replicated,

00:10:10.000 minus a couple of percentage point stats, in the Associated Press article.

00:10:16.320 Again, this is what I was just referring to. There are facts and figures and statistics and

00:10:20.800 historical events that sometimes, yeah, you'll take what somebody else has said about them,

00:10:24.960 because they've put it better than you can word it right now. But you still source it,

00:10:28.800 you still cite it when you do that. And if it was one, fair enough.

00:10:32.480 Because that looks like, that's so funny, they've literally cut,

00:10:35.760 paste, and delete the point nine and the point one, and think they'll get away with it.

00:10:40.320 If I add, like, five words in between the sentences, they won't notice.

00:10:45.280 Yeah.

00:10:45.840 And again, I mean, again, I went to university, and you did as well,

00:10:49.600 they have technology. There are programs that you can just put an entire essay in,

00:10:55.520 or an entire book, and within five minutes, it will tell you everything that has been taken

00:11:00.080 and lifted and not cited properly, and where it was taken from as well. It's remarkable how

00:11:04.880 accurate they can be.

00:11:05.760 And if it was just one example, fair enough. If she was just starting one study, fair enough.

00:11:09.920 If she lifted literally the entire page of a book and just added the word additional.

00:11:14.720 And it just keeps going. I mean, here's Wikipedia, for example.

00:11:29.200 My favorite source of information.

00:11:30.960 Oh, my God.

00:11:31.600 That's laughable.

00:11:33.440 At least here she took out in order. So it was a removal rather than an addition this time.

00:11:40.720 Clever, clever.

00:11:41.440 She was keeping them looking, keeping them on their toes.

00:11:43.520 We can laugh about this. This is the potential next vice president of the United States,

00:11:47.600 sorry, president of the United States, current vice president, and basically de facto president,

00:11:51.200 because Joe Biden doesn't know where he is.

00:11:53.840 I don't think Kamala Harris is in charge of the country.

00:11:56.640 Well, fair point. But she does have a disproportionate amount of say,

00:12:01.280 and is at some of the most important meetings with world leaders.

00:12:03.600 Well, yes, yes.

00:12:04.240 And America, at least, is meant to maintain its global empire. And this person's in charge,

00:12:10.560 someone who couldn't even rip off Wikipedia.

00:12:12.320 One, it's just obviously dishonest. And two, it does say, doesn't it? It suggests that you're

00:12:18.400 incapable of coming up with your own words. Everything I've written, I can say that is

00:12:24.160 just completely original. The closest I ever came to it is in one article I wrote about space.

00:12:29.520 I've done a few on space. I peppered the first half or so of my article with two or three or very

00:12:35.440 small quotes from Carl Sagan. Then later in the article, I said, if anyone hasn't noticed,

00:12:40.720 I've been plagiarising Carl Sagan throughout this article. It's not difficult, right? It's not

00:12:46.320 difficult. If you just do that and pretend it's your words.

00:12:48.800 It speaks to a profound insecurity about your own intellect.

00:12:52.720 Yeah. Or that you don't have one.

00:12:54.080 Yeah. Look, there's good offhand phrases that, for example, my deprogrammed co-host,

00:12:59.920 as Harrison Pitter sometimes said. And I'm not just going to nick them for my own. It's very easy

00:13:03.840 to just go, as Harrison would often say. Or the other day on the podcast, when there was a criticism

00:13:09.120 about hope, not hate, you just reflexively, because you're a humble man, Bo, just said,

00:13:14.000 oh yeah, Connor's done a good breakdown of hope, not hate. You didn't try and pass the knowledge

00:13:16.960 off as your own. That would be weird. To a normal person, a normal truthful person,

00:13:20.800 that would be weird to do that. Bo sits there and goes, well, actually,

00:13:23.280 recently I've done an amazing analysis of hope, not hate. Check it out on the website.

00:13:27.280 I got Connor to read it for me. I did all the work on a merely Reddit.

00:13:32.640 So Rufo, at the end of this thread, he links to his sub stack and he's got more examples here.

00:13:38.080 And you think, okay, right, this is the bombshell. And then it just keeps going.

00:13:41.920 He just keeps posting new ones. I mean, for example, she's just ripped off Goodwill here,

00:13:46.320 just completely, almost word for word, just taking out more than she's actually kept in her book.

00:13:53.120 So she's, she's ripping off a discount clothing shop, right?

00:13:56.480 I was going to say, what's Goodwill?

00:13:58.480 It's basically a charity store from...

00:14:00.480 Oh, okay, right.

00:14:01.520 Right, okay.

00:14:02.480 So I suppose that she's, I don't know, had the words donated to her or something.

00:14:06.160 Um, here's another one from the California government website,

00:14:10.480 which she was working for at the time, but, but there you go. All right.

00:14:13.520 Um, and here's one from the CDC who haven't exactly got the best reputation, uh, these days,

00:14:18.640 but yeah, zero, again, zero citations. Just, just passing this off as, as research that she

00:14:24.400 herself has, has done, clearly. Um, so then the publisher did a bit of a boo-boo because Rufo's

00:14:30.880 been releasing all this and they accidentally copied in his team to an internal email exchange.

00:14:35.760 Oh no. And, and, and it says, regarding publicity for the book,

00:14:40.800 per Laura Hoffman, VP Executive Director of Marketing and Publicity for Chronicle Books,

00:14:46.480 please do not respond or comment on any inquiries regarding Smart on Crime and please continue to

00:14:50.640 follow them directly to me. So they're in proper damage control mode because they failed to vet this

00:14:56.400 during the editing process. Um, instead, of course, they allow the corporate press to act as their

00:15:02.080 attack doc with absurd headlines, uh, like the following. Conservative activist seizes on

00:15:07.920 passages from Harris's book in the New York Times. Conservatives noticing, pouncing, as Ben

00:15:13.600 Shapiro once said, is the problem rather than just blatant plagiarism from the presidential

00:15:18.720 candidate that the New York Times is probably going to endorse. Also, I've just, I've just checked,

00:15:22.320 you can still get her book on Amazon, on the, the Kindle version. She has another book from 2020

00:15:28.080 called The Truths We Hold, and I think that might warrant a similar comb through.

00:15:34.320 I think it's probably light on said truths. Let's, let's, let's be fair.

00:15:37.600 It used to be the case, I mean, even in my lifetime, that if you were caught out doing plagiarism,

00:15:43.760 that was, you were sort of done in the public eye. You were thought of as a shyster.

00:15:48.160 Um, it's like, um, or if you're just caught out lying, for example, or just getting things

00:15:53.920 consistently wrong, like Rachel, Rachel Maddow or something. If you were caught doing that,

00:15:59.680 um, then, then it was curtains for your career, really. But it just seems now

00:16:04.080 the paradigm has shifted or changed, and now it's just, she'll laugh it off or something,

00:16:08.160 or just say, no, that's not real, or I don't know what happened.

00:16:11.040 Well, you've gotten very close. You've gotten very close to the defense.

00:16:14.720 What other defense do they usually use to obfuscate criticism like this? Any takers?

00:16:18.880 Just racism. Ah, bingo! Bo wins the lowest bingo for today.

00:16:23.520 I'm guessing that on that Harvard chart, or whatever it was, the Smithsonian chart of whiteness,

00:16:27.840 honesty is on there, citations. White people are known for citing their sources. So she was actually,

00:16:34.240 this was a rebellious act of blackness. Yeah, quite. I'm sure the New York Times will be

00:16:39.120 speeding that. Or Indian-ness. We're still not sure. Any day now. So I'm just going to read a couple

00:16:43.120 of paragraphs on this, because they're absurd. Chris Rufo is part of a loose confederation of

00:16:47.440 conservative writers and activists who, during the past year, have tried to expose

00:16:51.360 plagiarism among academics, many of whom have been black scholars who work in the field of

00:16:57.760 diversity and inclusion. This is like if he was a police officer trying to stop domestic violence

00:17:02.240 and it just happened that most of them were committing it were black or something.

00:17:07.680 Just stop making the job easier, I suppose, by literally putting diversity hires as your brand

00:17:13.040 ambassadors. The passages called into question by Mr Rufo on his Substack platform

00:17:16.880 involve about 500 words in the approximately 65,000-word, 200-page book.

00:17:21.680 We will get back to that shortly because, as you've seen by the screenshots,

00:17:25.840 it doesn't seem plausible that it's that few number of words.

00:17:30.080 Jonathan Bailey, they've called him an expert here, a plagiarism consultant in New Orleans and

00:17:34.400 the publisher of Plagiarism Today said on Monday that his initial reaction to Mr Rufo's claims was

00:17:39.680 that the errors were not serious given the size of the document. Quote,

00:17:42.560 this amount of plagiarism amounts to an error and not an intent to defraud, he said, adding Mr Rufo

00:17:47.360 had taken a relatively minor citation mistake in a large amount of text and tried to make a big deal

00:17:52.000 out of it. So, right. But there were pages and pages and pages and pages of it, by the looks of it.

00:17:56.880 How weird the Times wouldn't present this to their expert. But we've at least reached the stage of,

00:18:01.680 we've gone from, it's not happening, to, well, it might be happening, but it's barely happening,

00:18:06.560 and how does this affect you personally? So, we're at stage two, we haven't got to,

00:18:09.920 it's a good thing yet.

00:18:10.560 So, even if it was only the one page, it's still, I mean, you just don't do that. You don't do that.

00:18:15.680 Like, I can think of, I can think of a black scholar who cites everything he writes, which is Thomas

00:18:20.560 Soule, because that man can't go a single bloody page without citing 15 different sources.

00:18:26.080 Probably because he knows, well, I don't want to be dishonest, do I?

00:18:29.760 What about Larry Elder, who's written essentially an autobiography of both him and his father,

00:18:34.320 and their correspondents. The story's very compelling. He was one of the

00:18:37.200 people that was involved in, let's say, my red-pilling. He didn't need to rip off stories

00:18:41.760 from Martin Luther King to sound interesting. Funny that, isn't it?

00:18:45.760 If it's 500 words out of 60, 70,000, that's still way too many. You could write 200,000 words,

00:18:51.360 and if there's like 12 words in a row, that's not cool.

00:18:55.200 Especially if you're trying to be President of the United States.

00:18:58.320 But I think the qualifications bar should be pretty high there.

00:19:02.880 So Rufo just went, someone hang this in the Louvre, because obviously they're saying,

00:19:07.520 I seized upon obvious plagiarism, and therefore it's racist.

00:19:11.440 But then Rufo provides some evidence that the New York Times, well he says they're lying,

00:19:15.280 let's say have been misrepresenting truths. So the claims in here, as he's got with screenshots

00:19:20.480 and emails to send over to people to investigate this. The New York Times, quote,

00:19:26.000 deliberately withheld crucial contextual information from its readers and from the

00:19:29.840 supposed plagiarism expert by downplaying, quote, dozens of documented examples of vicious plagiarism

00:19:34.960 as being only 500 words. Bear in mind, the report by the Austrian expert in question was 49 pages.

00:19:41.680 You can't make 49 pages out of 500 words. So that doesn't sound right. Quote,

00:19:46.960 The Times claims that none of the passages in question took the ideas or thoughts of another

00:19:51.280 writer. This is preposterous. Harris not only copied multiple paragraphs of other people's

00:19:55.600 work verbatim, but she often lifted those ideas directly and at face value. In one case,

00:19:59.760 she came to the wrong conclusion because she copied Wikipedia.

00:20:02.400 So she contradicted herself because she just lifted a quote straight from Wikipedia and didn't check

00:20:08.080 it. Throbbing brain on that vice president. The Times also covered less severe examples of plagiarism

00:20:13.920 than Rufo himself cited, omitting the ones that he himself has posted to X and probably will continue

00:20:18.480 to post at the time that this goes up. And he just said, flashback to the time that the Times,

00:20:24.160 the corporate press vanguard, ran cover for Claudine Gay immediately after he published that and look

00:20:30.880 at how it ended for her career. But then quite interesting, the same pattern has followed.

00:20:35.280 The New York Times defends the person in question. Pressure keeps going. And then of all places, CNN

00:20:41.760 then decides to say, well, yeah, there is some legitimacy to this, because that's what happened

00:20:46.240 with Gay. And that's now what's happened with Harris. Quote from CNN,

00:20:49.920 Plagiarized works include using someone else's work without giving them proper or appropriate

00:20:54.400 credit for their ideas and words. Even if the source of the information is cited, it is still

00:20:58.240 considered plagiarism if the ideas are not paraphrased or quoted in the correct place,

00:21:01.280 experts told CNN late last year. CNN reviewed several of the passages highlighted by Rufo and found

00:21:07.040 that Harris and O.C. Hamilton failed to properly attribute language to sources.

00:21:12.880 So the corporate press have started throwing Harris under the bus. Experts told CNN, you mean any

00:21:17.760 undergrad? An expert? What do you mean? Or anyone who's got an A-level?

00:21:21.680 Or eyes. Or anybody who literally just has access to the fact-checking software that universities

00:21:28.160 provide. Well, as we've learned recently, Harry doesn't even have basic reading comprehension and

00:21:31.280 even he can see it. There you go, see? Fantastic. So one final thing, as you've pointed out, well,

00:21:36.720 plagiarism should disqualify you from any position in public life, let alone being vice president or

00:21:41.040 president. So someone has pointed out, isn't it brilliantly ironic that Kamala Harris could

00:21:45.200 be caught in a plagiarism scandal when this is exactly what happened to Joe Biden in 1988.

00:21:49.280 He dropped out of running for president because he stole speeches and life details from Neil

00:21:53.040 Kinnock. Really? I didn't know that one. He tried to steal life details from him. He did.

00:21:57.440 He's born in Wales. He lifted full-on details from Neil Kinnock. As an Irish Catholic Welshman,

00:22:03.120 I, Joe Biden. Neil Kinnock.

00:22:05.040 So just to conclude, fun October surprise this is. It will keep unfolding. I'm sure we'll bring you

00:22:10.720 updates. But Kamala Harris is a vapid moron who's grifted her way into the second highest

00:22:15.680 office in the land. Don't let her get to the highest. And with that, we've got one rumble rant.

00:22:22.800 Thank you very much from Mason Royce. Funnily enough, as I mentioned, Biden's 1988 presidential

00:22:27.760 campaign was ironically undone by a plagiarism scandal and that was just a speech lifted from a British

00:22:32.080 opposition leader. Also, The Muckinator. Keep fighting the good fight. Gents at The Muckinator

00:22:37.040 for $10. So thank you very much for 15 quid. Thank you, Gents. I would just say, if I was ever

00:22:41.200 caught doing plagiarism, well, I would never do it because of how appallingly embarrassing it would

00:22:49.360 be. I'm going to have to run all of your articles and writing through the plagiarism thing now.

00:22:54.640 I invite anyone to do that. It's fine. I did not plagiarise that Wikipedia.

00:22:58.160 Because there's certain things that would just be so embarrassing if you were caught doing it.

00:23:06.320 That's why you would never do it. Or one of the main reasons why you'd never do it,

00:23:09.360 other than it just being dishonest, but like being caught out doing like plagiarism or something or

00:23:13.360 caught out being terribly, terribly wrong over and over again, even though it was shown that you knew

00:23:17.600 you were wrong. Things like anything like that. I don't know how people carry on. I don't know how

00:23:21.360 Rachel Maddow carries on. I don't know how Joe Biden carried on after that in 1988. How do you carry on?

00:23:26.080 Rachel Reeves is currently Chancellor, despite admitting to lifting loads of her book from

00:23:30.000 Wikipedia. They're politicians and they are political actors. Shameless. And therefore,

00:23:36.080 dishonesty is kind of genetic in them. I suppose so, yeah. But just shameless. Just pretending you

00:23:41.920 haven't been shamed. Anyway. All right, so let's talk about The Donald again, because it is election

00:23:50.560 time. We're going to do even more segments than usual about The Donald. And well, all aboard the

00:23:57.520 Trump train, right guys? Wait, what? Did you just put something on your head? I can't, I can't see

00:24:04.000 anything. Yeah, yeah. Bo's going hunting after this one. Someone was kind enough when I put the MAGA hat

00:24:10.080 on the other week and mentioned it was actually Kohl's. Someone very kindly, Andrew, I won't give his full

00:24:14.880 name in case he doesn't want to be outed. Someone called Andrew sent me a couple of caps, including

00:24:20.160 this one. So... Send in some dark MAGA caps for us. We do have a P.O. box, so if you do want to send

00:24:28.000 in things before the election stream, I'd say get on it now. It's on our website. If you want to send

00:24:31.920 any cheeseburgers in, we've got the P.O. box for them. For Rory to eat in full costume again.

00:24:36.640 Yeah. Or he becomes America man. So, talking all about Trump and his likelihood of winning

00:24:42.640 in, it's only like 20 days, isn't it? 22 days, something like that, until it's actually upon us.

00:24:48.320 So, well, it's good news, everybody. Because it looks like, well, the bookies are saying,

00:24:55.600 that's got to get clipped, isn't it? Me saying that in that voice, wearing this hat.

00:24:58.240 Hello, Lotuses out of context. Cheers.

00:24:59.920 That's going to be the opening of the next one, yeah.

00:25:03.600 Yeah. The bookies are showing that Trump has got a big surge. And they should know,

00:25:09.920 I'll take this off as stupid. It's a great cap, but I'm not going to wear it for the whole segment.

00:25:14.000 That'd be silly. The bookies are showing that Trump has had a big surge after a few things.

00:25:21.600 Basically, it looks like, well, Kamala is, she's not a great candidate, apart from being kind of dumb

00:25:28.240 and not fluid. Uncharismatic. Uncharismatic.

00:25:31.920 Sorry, are you listing her virtues, or...?

00:25:34.240 She's annoying, shrill laugh. I said during the debate that what America gets if they vote for

00:25:40.320 her is they get the nagging woman president.

00:25:42.640 Yeah, a brat.

00:25:44.000 And nobody wants the nagging brat woman president, except for other nagging women.

00:25:50.960 Now, assuming that it isn't just completely fortified out of all recognition, let's just

00:25:56.000 assume that for a moment, for a big part of this segment. Assuming that things are legit,

00:26:00.240 at least largely. It looks like Trump, well, according to the bookies, should win.

00:26:10.880 So, for example, on this first one, Betfair is just saying that

00:26:16.480 it's sort of got a 56% chance of winning, although his odds are better than they were in 2016 and 2020.

00:26:24.720 Although in 2016, the odds, even the bookies were saying Hillary's got it sewn up.

00:26:29.360 So, and in 2020, even the bookies were saying it would be close, but nonetheless.

00:26:36.720 Now, just to talk about sort of normal polls versus what bookies say and show.

00:26:43.920 They're two very, very different beasts, really, aren't they?

00:26:46.720 One is, it has been politicized, and there's no way around it. Their goal is, one way or another,

00:26:55.920 even if they're trying desperately to be objective or impartial, they find it difficult too.

00:27:01.920 Whereas a bookies, all they care about is money. All they care about is winning the most money off

00:27:06.000 the punters.

00:27:06.480 Well, polls are often not just designed to register public opinion, but to shape public opinion.

00:27:11.120 Exactly. And also, even if they're trying to be objective, as you say, a lot of the shy Trump

00:27:16.800 voters will not admit over the phone with all their details attached to voting Trump. And it

00:27:21.360 also doesn't account for, on the day, the people that will go in and go, oh, to hell with it, flip

00:27:25.120 the lever for Trump. When people got to put money on it, money's where their mouth is.

00:27:30.000 Right, exactly.

00:27:30.720 But this is the weird thing about polling is that you always hear that, oh, well,

00:27:34.080 the Democrats' internal polls don't look good. So there's just an outright admission that

00:27:38.880 there's the polls that the public sees, which are for public eyes, and then there's the actual

00:27:42.880 real polls that the party's looking at. So why would I trust the one that you're showing me?

00:27:47.520 Because we, or nearly anyone really, that hasn't actually got a dog in the game, just wants to

00:27:51.040 know what the closest thing to reality is, right? That's all we really want. We may be partisan towards

00:27:57.440 Trump, but I still just want to know what's really happening. I still just want the clearest few

00:28:02.240 possible. So if you go to the next one, odds checker. Odds checker is also saying that Trump

00:28:11.600 is sort of surging ahead in the polls a bit. Since the year 2000, since George Bush, nearly all the

00:28:18.400 states always go the way people think they will. So 35 out of the 50-odd states always go the same

00:28:25.200 way, or they're sort of firmly red or blue, right? So that only leaves 15-odd, and half of those are

00:28:33.280 sort of fairly predictable anyway. The five key swing states, if I can remember, are Pennsylvania,

00:28:39.200 Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and then there's one... Could you scroll up slightly on this? In this

00:28:45.840 election, they reckon it's Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, and North

00:28:50.560 Carolina. North Carolina's in play, that's surprising. Yeah, because what everyone thinks are going to be

00:28:55.840 swing states do change a little bit, but the ones like Michigan and Georgia, Pennsylvania, are nearly

00:29:01.120 always, or in my memory, are always, particularly Michigan. I remember in 2016, when I was watching

00:29:08.640 2016, and Michigan was sort of formally went for Trump. I was like, oh, because everyone was saying,

00:29:14.160 Hillary's got this wrapped up, 99%, it's a Clinton win. But when Michigan went to Trump, in my mind,

00:29:21.360 I was like, oh, we have a game. The game is afoot. But we immediately started sawing.

00:29:28.080 Yeah. It's amazing that Minnesota has disappeared from that map, because that is the tacit admission

00:29:32.400 that mass demographic change has taken it off the playing board. All the Somalis would just vote

00:29:36.880 Democrat. Could well be, almost certainly is the case. Pardon me. Okay, so some people are saying that all,

00:29:44.000 those seven swing states, key battleground states, looking like they might all go Trump. And if they

00:29:50.560 do, then that's, that's the whole, that's the whole shebang. That's the whole ball game right there.

00:29:55.280 If, if it does, if it isn't fortified out of all recognition. So if we go, if we go to a Fox clip,

00:30:02.560 can we actually play this? I'd like to play just about a minute, maybe two of this.

00:30:06.080 All right. Carlos Harris says Trump. It is Trump who is hiding from voters,

00:30:13.120 because he rejected a debate and a 60 minutes interview. You've got to see this. Roll it.

00:30:17.360 It makes you wonder, why does his staff want him to hide away?

00:30:23.920 They don't. What are you talking about?

00:30:26.960 One must question. One must question. Are they afraid that people will see that he is too weak and

00:30:35.920 unstable to lead America? Is that what's happening on?

00:30:44.480 Sorry, folks, forgive me for laughing, but weak and unstable, Donald Trump. Come on,

00:30:49.040 please. National press secretary, Trump 2024. Okay, you don't need to play anymore.

00:30:54.320 They're just the classic thing of accusing your opponent of doing the exact thing you're doing.

00:30:58.560 But also like, okay, so he's the precipice of overthrowing all of American democracy and

00:31:03.360 installing himself as a dictator in a thousand-year Reich, but also he can't descend stairs.

00:31:08.560 Sure. Right. Sure. Okay. Like, pick your criticism, ladies and gentlemen.

00:31:11.920 We might be looking at a Davros situation, perhaps.

00:31:16.560 Hit a golf caddy from the waist down.

00:31:18.240 Yeah. If we play the next clip, it's on Sky News. I wouldn't usually do this, but if we could

00:31:24.560 watch a good sort of three, maybe four minutes of this, because there's so much in there.

00:31:28.640 Donald Trump clashed with a Bloomberg host during a live interview at the Chicago Economic Club,

00:31:33.120 where he eviscerated Bloomberg news editor-in-chief John Micklethwaite, much to the delight of the

00:31:39.200 crowd. A standout moment from the discussion was when Trump called out Bloomberg for spreading fake

00:31:44.640 news. What does the Wall Street Journal know? I'm meeting with them tomorrow. What does the Wall

00:31:48.240 Street Journal know? They've been wrong about everything. So have you, by the way. You've been

00:31:52.320 wrong about it. You're trying to turn this, you're trying to turn this. You've been wrong about it.

00:31:55.600 No, you're trying to turn, you're trying to turn this into debate. There are business people,

00:32:00.160 there are business people. But you're wrong. You've been wrong. You've been wrong all your life on this

00:32:03.920 stuff. Commentators on X reveled in the takedown with this user saying, he sits down with Bloomberg hack,

00:32:10.640 tells him to his face he is fake news, and the crowd of business people are all cheering him on in

00:32:16.080 agreement. Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk agreed, saying this is legendary. Trump calls the

00:32:22.960 Bloomberg news editor-in-chief John Micklethwaite fake news right to his face at the Economic Club

00:32:28.640 of Chicago event. He then went on to own the host on the subject of tariffs, once again telling him he

00:32:35.360 was wrong. I know how committed you are to this, and it must be hard for you to, you know, spend 25

00:32:41.280 years talking about tariffs as being negative, and then have somebody explain to you that you're

00:32:45.440 totally wrong. It'll have a negative, it will have... Commentators again applauded Trump's response,

00:32:52.400 saying there is no universe in which Kamala Harris could handle this interview with Bloomberg News

00:32:57.920 at the Economic Club of Chicago. None. And Donald Trump is owning it. And the Bloomberg editor-in-chief

00:33:05.040 was taken aback when the audience spectacularly booed him. Only three weeks to go to the election,

00:33:10.960 will you commit now to respecting and encouraging a peaceful transfer of power?

00:33:16.000 Well, you had a peaceful transfer of power. You had a peaceful transfer of power. You had a peaceful...

00:33:21.440 Come on, President Trump. You had a peaceful... You had a peaceful transfer of power compared

00:33:25.520 with Venezuela, but it was by far the most, the worst transfer of power for a long time.

00:33:32.080 Thank you. I appreciate that, because this is the, you know, what they like to do. This is what they

00:33:37.360 like to do. The live crowd worked in Donald Trump's favour, cheering him on throughout the discussion,

00:33:43.200 booing the host and giving him a standing ovation at the end.

00:33:50.000 Let's stop playing it now. There's a bit, I think it's a good few couple more minutes on,

00:33:53.600 we don't need to watch it all, but he, this event, also invited Kamala Harris and she didn't turn up.

00:34:00.400 Well, Time Magazine have said she's not done an interview with us, but Donald Trump sat down

00:34:04.480 with us for 60 minutes in two separate occasions for interviews after they have depicted him as

00:34:09.120 the worst possible person on the earth. And remember, Time Magazine ran the piece bragging

00:34:12.800 about fortification. They are the most hostile news outlet. Trump still sat down with them.

00:34:17.280 She also couldn't find the right Wikipedia page to rip a speech from.

00:34:20.720 Yeah, she's taking tactics from Vorsch. One thing that I did note from this, sorry to, I won't derail,

00:34:25.040 but during this interview, there was a sort of tacit threat by the, by the head of Bloomberg in

00:34:30.400 there, because he said, well, but what happens when you come in and interest rates go up because you

00:34:35.360 put in your tariffs and it brings down your government? And I know that JD Vance, when

00:34:39.760 speaking to Tucker, said that they're concerned about this because they used the example of Truss's

00:34:43.840 government being brought down by the Bank of England and interest rates when they tried to fiddle

00:34:46.720 with taxes after the prior Boris and Sunak government had caused inflation because of money printing.

00:34:51.760 And so I've got something coming out on this soon. I also went over the reasons why this

00:34:55.760 was brought down on my show, but the Trump government are going to be very watchful for

00:35:00.000 how the Fed might act in rebellion and blame all of the economic malfeasance under Biden-Harris

00:35:05.840 on Trump to try and sabotage his next term.

00:35:08.880 I mean, possible, could be, could be. I do think the example of a Trump second presidency is a very

00:35:15.680 different animal to Liz Truss's premiership for all sorts of reasons. Apart from anything else,

00:35:22.320 I don't think there's anyone in the Republican Party that can sort of coup him the way Truss got

00:35:27.040 couped. I also think that the President, the Commander-in-Chief has got more authority on day

00:35:33.600 one than Liz Truss ever wielded really. But your point is still valid.

00:35:37.440 They can frustrate his economic agenda.

00:35:38.960 Your point is still absolutely valid. Also, I feel like the Fed, they didn't do it the first

00:35:45.600 time he was president. That doesn't mean they wouldn't do it this time. I'm not saying that, but

00:35:49.280 they sort of got in line the first time. I'm pretty sure the President would be able to

00:35:56.720 do things via executive fiat to stop them.

00:35:59.760 If he knows.

00:36:00.480 Right, if he knows.

00:36:01.680 The problem with the first Trump administration was that he didn't fire the

00:36:03.760 right people at the right time.

00:36:04.720 Right, yeah, yeah.

00:36:06.080 But I do understand, as far as I know, that they're more watchful for this stuff now.

00:36:10.720 So that's good.

00:36:11.600 I really hope, I think I might have said this before, but I'll say it again.

00:36:14.400 I really hope that Trump's first 100 days, assuming he does win,

00:36:18.080 will be a lot better than his first 100 days the first time in 2016.

00:36:22.640 Because they were a bit of a shambles the first time.

00:36:25.040 You know, going through a few different press secretaries and

00:36:27.920 not draining the swamp or attempting to really at all.

00:36:30.800 Not finishing the war.

00:36:31.600 For a while.

00:36:32.400 Allowing Anthony Fauci to set pandemic policy.

00:36:34.880 But particularly the first 100 days.

00:36:36.480 I know it's a cliche, 100 days.

00:36:38.400 Who cares if it's the first 90 days, first 120 days.

00:36:41.280 But just hit the ground running, basically.

00:36:43.680 I hope, I think he'll be able to hit the ground running this time,

00:36:46.400 at least to a better degree than in 2016.

00:36:51.120 You know, not giving someone like Scaramucci a job and stuff.

00:36:55.120 Yeah, picking the right people.

00:36:56.560 Well, if he's got Elon in there.

00:36:59.040 Imagine Elon literally standing in the Oval Office, like most days,

00:37:02.880 saying don't do that, do this instead.

00:37:05.760 Or whatever.

00:37:07.760 Okay, so I just wanted to play the clip of Kamala saying that

00:37:11.280 Trump is sort of hiding away.

00:37:13.520 And then a clip of people saying, no, no, she's not accepting,

00:37:17.760 she's not accepting invitations to things.

00:37:20.400 And everyone knows that if and when she ever goes off script,

00:37:22.880 it's a car crash.

00:37:24.640 And Trump's off script all the time.

00:37:26.800 Well, not all the time, but a lot of the time.

00:37:28.800 He's just, he's just talking.

00:37:30.960 And, you know, he's been a businessman for ages, right?

00:37:34.720 He's referenced as a tycoon in like the 1980s, right?

00:37:38.720 He's on TV as a successful New York guy.

00:37:42.720 He was in Home Alone 2.

00:37:44.240 Right, yeah.

00:37:44.960 Let's not forget the legendary cameo in Home Alone 2.

00:37:47.520 Probably the high point of his entire life.

00:37:49.440 Didn't Obama once say the American dream is to be Donald Trump?

00:37:53.840 Yeah, I don't know if he did.

00:37:54.880 I mean, black guys used to love Donald Trump.

00:37:56.880 Jay-Z used to rap about him, so.

00:37:58.320 Yeah, they all used to rap about him,

00:37:59.760 because they all wanted to be him.

00:38:01.520 Yeah, I was listening to a really old one of the earliest

00:38:03.440 Dan Carlin podcasts every day, and it was from like 2010 or 12,

00:38:06.960 or something like that.

00:38:07.840 And he just references Bill Gates and Donald Trump

00:38:11.120 as a highly successful billionaire person.

00:38:14.080 Yeah, it's just, Donald Trump used to be,

00:38:15.840 the name Donald Trump used to be just a shorthand

00:38:18.160 for a very, very successful, uber-rich person.

00:38:22.320 And this is decades ago.

00:38:23.520 It was in American Psycho.

00:38:25.520 Yeah, and he shaved Vince McMahon's head.

00:38:28.080 Right.

00:38:28.720 I would have liked to have done that.

00:38:30.960 Didn't he do a stunner on Vince?

00:38:32.880 No.

00:38:33.040 A stone-cold stunner.

00:38:33.840 He speared Vince, and then he took a stone-cold stunner.

00:38:38.000 Oh, he took a stone-cold stunner.

00:38:39.120 That's right, that's right.

00:38:41.680 He sold it terribly.

00:38:42.960 Oh yeah, it wasn't a great sell.

00:38:44.560 I mean, bless him, he still did it.

00:38:46.400 Yeah.

00:38:46.960 It wasn't as bad as some of Vince's sells, though.

00:38:50.160 Vince got better.

00:38:51.680 Oh, do you not see the WrestleMania 38?

00:38:53.920 You know, like almost 80-year-old.

00:38:55.600 Off the top of my head.

00:38:56.240 80-year-old Vince McMahon takes a stunner off stone-cold,

00:38:58.960 where stone-cold has to like literally walk with him

00:39:01.680 and try and grab him as he's falling over,

00:39:04.000 and then starts laughing.

00:39:05.120 You should, I'll send you the clip, it's great.

00:39:06.400 Anyone who's watched enough Lotus Eaters knows

00:39:08.000 that to get Harry talking about professional wrestling...

00:39:10.320 I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

00:39:11.200 ...is a, yeah, it's gonna keep going.

00:39:13.920 Okay, you're not interested in...

00:39:16.320 I haven't watched it since I was like 10.

00:39:17.920 No, I haven't watched it in quite a few years myself,

00:39:19.680 but I do remember now, stone-cold,

00:39:23.440 doing a stunner on the Donald.

00:39:24.640 On the Donald.

00:39:25.840 All right, let's move on.

00:39:27.920 Okay, in the independent, so there's a lot,

00:39:29.520 everyone's talking about this last couple of days,

00:39:31.680 last day or so, it's sort of just in the news cycle

00:39:35.360 that Trump seems to be surging ahead,

00:39:37.040 at least in people actually, the bookies actually,

00:39:40.320 because there's all sorts of different platforms

00:39:41.840 where you can place bets on these things.

00:39:44.880 And as you said, a really good point you said,

00:39:46.400 is that when you do a normal poll,

00:39:49.520 there's all, there's many, many reasons

00:39:51.520 why you're not gonna get a good, clear, accurate,

00:39:54.720 honest reading.

00:39:56.160 And the big one is, people are just not honest.

00:39:59.680 Someone sort of rings you up and says,

00:40:00.960 hi, we're calling from such a, from YouGov,

00:40:03.280 or we're calling from wherever, Ipsos or something.

00:40:05.920 What's your feelings on this?

00:40:06.800 And you just lie because you don't want to, for whatever reason,

00:40:09.600 you don't want to tell them what's really in your heart.

00:40:12.640 And so if that happens on any sort of scale,

00:40:15.920 you're just not going to get an accurate thing.

00:40:17.120 Whereas when you, when people put money on it anonymously,

00:40:21.280 that's sort of real, that is kind of real.

00:40:24.400 And so, yeah, the independent saying,

00:40:27.200 when they saw it happening at first, they were like,

00:40:28.720 oh, we don't know.

00:40:29.680 We don't know why.

00:40:31.040 We can't explain why.

00:40:32.160 Nobody knows why Donald Trump is actually popular.

00:40:35.040 And Kamala Harris isn't as much.

00:40:36.720 Because Kamala Harris literally stopped talking

00:40:38.400 when the teleprompter doesn't work

00:40:39.520 because she's got no thoughts in her brain.

00:40:41.920 Yeah.

00:40:42.880 And she's just, yeah, obnoxious.

00:40:44.720 Even her voice.

00:40:46.480 I've read something somewhere a while ago that

00:40:48.800 sort of the tone and pitch and intonation of your voice really matters.

00:40:52.240 Yeah.

00:40:52.640 When you're running for super high office,

00:40:54.400 when you're running to be a leader of a country,

00:40:56.160 if your voice is sort of grating or annoying or in any way,

00:40:59.200 that's like a massive detriment.

00:41:00.960 And hers is, isn't it?

00:41:02.080 She's got a massive handicap there.

00:41:03.680 Yeah, yeah.

00:41:04.480 It's funny how she's running the vibes campaign

00:41:06.560 while being also really visually and auditorily insufferable.

00:41:10.400 I mean, you don't even need to listen with the sound on.

00:41:12.960 You can listen, you can look at a Kamala Harris speech

00:41:15.520 with the sound off, and you just,

00:41:17.360 even then you're cringing at how nagging and annoying she's been.

00:41:20.480 She has the affect of Cesar Romero's Joker.

00:41:24.560 I think that's a bit of an insult on old Cesar there.

00:41:28.160 Poor guy.

00:41:29.120 That's the old 70s Batman, isn't it?

00:41:30.800 Yeah, he's 66, yeah.

00:41:31.760 Great reference.

00:41:36.000 Go to the next...

00:41:36.640 Tell me she had a stylish moustache.

00:41:40.640 But then they're saying that he's another later article saying that,

00:41:46.240 just sort of admitting that he's pushing on in the polls,

00:41:50.080 or in the bookies' eyes at least.

00:41:53.200 If we go to the next one,

00:41:54.320 so if you scroll down a little bit on this,

00:41:57.120 we can see a few different things just showing that it's...

00:42:03.360 Oh, I'm sorry, wrong link about scrolling down.

00:42:05.360 But anyway, USA Today even admitting it.

00:42:09.680 There's one by Fortune magazine in the next clip.

00:42:12.240 In that, they said,

00:42:14.160 prediction markets can be a more sophisticated and accurate way to foresee political events.

00:42:19.280 Thomas Miller, a data scientist at Northwestern University, told Fortune's Sean Tully.

00:42:25.600 Miller is renowned for his accurate predictions during the 2020 election,

00:42:28.800 and much of his methodology comes from examining prediction markets.

00:42:33.680 Yeah, because they're just, they are shown to be more accurate.

00:42:37.120 It's kind of a simple...

00:42:37.920 Can you scroll up again?

00:42:38.640 I was just reading from that.

00:42:40.080 He said, political betting sites are the best at predicting the wisdom of the crowd.

00:42:47.120 While polls tell you all about people, all about how people responded in the recent past,

00:42:52.240 the odds on sites like Predict It and Polymarket show real-time sentiment

00:42:57.360 and are better for mapping the future, according to Miller.

00:43:00.000 Plus, polls don't show who will win the electoral college,

00:43:04.560 while traders on prediction markets can wager on its outcome.

00:43:08.320 So there's one thing, just asking people,

00:43:10.640 who do you want to win or who do you think will win?

00:43:12.560 And the other thing of drilling down further,

00:43:14.320 well, where are they going to get the magic 270 electoral college votes from?

00:43:18.480 How exactly is it going to play out and pan out?

00:43:21.600 And most normal polls don't really drill down into that,

00:43:25.360 because most people they ask won't have much of an idea.

00:43:28.000 Whereas if you look at all sorts of analysis across lots and lots of different betting sites

00:43:33.600 that are betting on those specific things,

00:43:35.920 then you can build up a better picture.

00:43:40.240 In Newsweek, the Newsweek article, if we scroll down on this,

00:43:42.560 it's got a couple of things for us.

00:43:44.240 This is one saying that Trump may well win all seven of the swing states.

00:43:48.400 Well, he'd only need, well, it all depends, doesn't it?

00:43:54.240 But he'd only need four or five of them.

00:43:58.560 People are saying things like, Trump has got multiple avenues to be reaching that 270,

00:44:05.360 that magic 270 number, and Harris hasn't really.

00:44:08.400 Of course, she'll always get a lot of the coasts, if not all of both coasts.

00:44:12.320 Again, we've got to assume that a large scale fortification doesn't go on.

00:44:18.000 It also depends on whether or not Texas is a swing state, because it's not listed there,

00:44:22.800 but they have been subject to a lot of, and Ohio, frankly, a lot of enrichment via the southern

00:44:29.600 border in recent years, and obviously those people have been given state-provided ID,

00:44:36.560 so lots of those people are now legal, and so we're entitled to vote.

00:44:42.160 Crazy, crazy.

00:44:43.040 Not great.

00:44:44.160 Crazy.

00:44:45.440 To have a country with open borders, and then you just give the new people welfare and the right to vote,

00:44:51.920 that's obviously a recipe for disaster, absolute disaster.

00:44:54.720 I'll tell you what it is. It's a bribe.

00:44:57.360 Right, yeah.

00:44:59.680 Yeah, yeah, right, I mean, just terrible.

00:45:03.600 Well, hopefully Trump will, he has said, hasn't he, institute some sort of program of mass remigration.

00:45:11.280 Vance has, I think, in a recent interview said that a figure of like one to one and a half million per

00:45:16.320 year is not unreasonable, and he said obviously there's an estimated 20 to 25 million illegals

00:45:22.160 in the country at the moment. That's probably way off mark, it's probably more than that.

00:45:26.000 But he basically said that it wouldn't actually take 25 years if they did that,

00:45:30.400 because if they knew that they were coming for them, these people would self-deport anyway.

00:45:34.480 And that hasn't completely tanked Trump, the Trump Vance ticket.

00:45:38.720 No, all of a sudden his polls are exploding.

00:45:40.560 If anything, he's got a surge. So that puts paid to the light, I think, that some people say,

00:45:44.880 for example, if we talk about reform, that it would be politically suicidal to start talking

00:45:52.320 about remigration. I really don't think that. I think the opposite. I think people are dying to

00:45:56.880 hear that.

00:45:57.360 If you say that at their conference, I mean, the people that are reform members applaud you.

00:46:01.840 Would anyone have the chutzpah to do such a thing?

00:46:04.240 It'd be funny if one or two people had done that, wouldn't it? And it's not like...

00:46:08.320 But anyone who doesn't know, Conor did it.

00:46:09.920 Yes. Every single party that won elections in Britain, since the times of Enoch Powell,

00:46:17.440 has done so on a promise to reduce migration. And that's going back to when migration

00:46:21.440 was only in the tens of thousands coming into this country every year.

00:46:24.720 That might suggest just a little thing about the public mood.

00:46:28.960 And all over Europe, examples of parties saying they're going to do

00:46:32.240 some form of re-migration and people seeming to like it being popular.

00:46:36.960 And these countries slowly beginning to start putting these policies into place as well.

00:46:41.760 The European Union, as of yesterday, for a letter going out tomorrow,

00:46:45.360 Ursula von der Leyen, who's the architect of lots of these open border policies,

00:46:49.120 has said, oh yeah, Italy's plan to create re-migration camps in Albania was actually

00:46:54.480 a really good one. Maybe we should adopt it. If even the European Union are starting to

00:46:58.080 explode.

00:46:58.560 I like that, because it's a punishment on Albania as well.

00:47:03.680 Shame Stelios isn't here as a Greek man. I don't think he's the biggest fan of Albanians.

00:47:07.520 But then he is, really.

00:47:09.360 He stands at the edge of the sea and shakes his fist.

00:47:12.000 Yeah. He doesn't know who to hate more out of Albanians and Turks.

00:47:15.920 Pours out libations to Poseidon to sink the entire nation.

00:47:18.480 Pardon me.

00:47:20.400 OK, next link.

00:47:24.080 Who's this? Action Network.

00:47:26.480 They're saying, if you scroll down a little bit, they're saying, I think Trump's 57% likely to win.

00:47:32.640 Is it? Yeah, 57, 58% likely to win over Kamala House 42.

00:47:36.320 Now, if that does play out, that's not very close.

00:47:41.040 That would translate into Trump getting well over 300 of the electoral votes, probably.

00:47:45.280 And that's not very close, right? That's maybe not landslide territory, but...

00:47:50.800 Comfortable.

00:47:51.280 Yeah, totally comfortable.

00:47:53.920 So another good indication of sort of what's real or not are just the markets.

00:47:59.520 So even CNBC, who I'm sure are absolutely loathed to give any positive news about Trump,

00:48:07.840 they're saying that his media stocks, or he's bringing out a new thing called Truth Plus, apparently.

00:48:16.960 Yeah.

00:48:17.520 Just merge it with X, man.

00:48:21.040 That would be cool. I've never thought of that before.

00:48:22.880 I mean, they're friends now.

00:48:25.040 Right, yeah.

00:48:25.440 Tusk's come up and endorsed him personally.

00:48:28.160 Right, yeah.

00:48:28.640 In the most autistic photo I've ever seen in my life.

00:48:32.240 But when he's jumping for joy.

00:48:33.440 Yeah, when he's jumping for joy with the autist face on, and Donald Trump's kind of cringing at him.

00:48:41.280 Oh yeah, of course the crowd loved it, but that photo is perfect.

00:48:44.400 Trump's got so many amazing photos from this entire campaign.

00:48:48.720 That would be cool if he merged all his media things with X or something or other happened like that.

00:48:53.200 That might be cool.

00:48:55.120 Okay, the next one, even talking about Bitcoin.

00:48:57.040 Bitcoin. Now, I don't understand this thing about how the Bitcoin price is linked in terms of sort of public opinion or public sentiment with Trump doing well.

00:49:11.040 But it does seem to be the case.

00:49:12.320 Trump said he'd make it legal tender.

00:49:13.840 Right, okay. Well, that would explain it.

00:49:15.280 Yes.

00:49:15.680 That would explain it right there.

00:49:16.800 So when Bitcoin price is doing well at the moment, people are saying, some people are saying that they're completely, they're totally linked.

00:49:24.720 The likelihood becoming more likely of Trump doing well or winning, the Bitcoin price gets stronger.

00:49:32.960 So that is another indication on the markets.

00:49:35.680 If we go to the penultimate link there, talking about a massive rally on the Trump stuff, DJT is the ticker for Trump's media stuff.

00:49:48.320 If we scroll down a touch on that, I think there's a clip actually, a brief clip we could watch a little bit of.

00:49:56.480 We are running up slightly on time for every segment, but I'm just trying to find it.

00:50:02.560 All right. Well, don't worry about it.

00:50:03.680 Is it not just the clip that you're closing?

00:50:06.640 Not that one? Is it the one at the top of the article or?

00:50:10.640 Yeah, that.

00:50:11.520 Okay.

00:50:11.840 Yeah.

00:50:14.560 Trump media on track for its best week since it was listed in March, reversing a steep sell-off in recent weeks with less than a month to go until the presidential election year.

00:50:23.920 If you're taking a look at shares right now, they're up by 9% here pre-market.

00:50:28.000 What's probably critical to also note here is that they hit a new all-time low last week.

00:50:32.560 So it's really rallying off of neutral.

00:50:34.400 Okay, you don't have to watch it all.

00:50:35.520 I was just going to say, so yeah, as he just said there, it's actually a tick up from quite a low ebb, actually.

00:50:41.680 So whenever you look at graphs or charts, always scroll out, scroll back if you can.

00:50:46.320 Have like a much longer version, time, not in the time sense of whatever you're looking at, because if you look at it on the short term, it looks like it's just gone straight up.

00:50:55.440 But if you scroll out, it's actually quite low and then ticked up a bit.

00:50:59.040 Nonetheless, still, it's a good indication the stock wouldn't be going up like that unless the sentiment was positive.

00:51:08.000 And one last thing, just the Financial Times, even the Financial Times, who are usually pretty conservative with a small c about what they say, usually, are still sort of can't deny that there's been some sort of surge in the public sentiment.

00:51:26.620 They can't deny the Donald.

00:51:27.980 Towards Trump-Vance ticket.

00:51:30.460 Okay, that's it.

00:51:31.020 Right, we've got plenty of rumble rants.

00:51:33.500 $25 from the Shadow Band.

00:51:34.880 Be excellent to each other and party on, dudes.

00:51:36.620 Is that a Bill and Ted reference?

00:51:37.620 Yeah.

00:51:38.000 Yes, yes it is.

00:51:39.500 $2 from F-Y-L-D-Y-S.

00:51:42.900 Oh, Vice.

00:51:44.900 Don't know what that means.

00:51:46.220 It's just Vice.

00:51:47.560 There we go.

00:51:48.500 Next GTA game.

00:51:49.600 Josie Angels for $5.

00:51:51.120 Texas leads the way against non-citizen voting.

00:51:52.880 There have been two law passes in addition to the already existing law that makes it illegal, and we use paper ballots that can be traced.

00:51:59.420 Yes, there has been some...

00:52:00.460 Nice to know.

00:52:00.740 There has been some concerns, though, about the Texas voter roll cleanup, because they've been adding, like, hundreds of thousands of people to it, and they can't really explain it.

00:52:07.920 This was in May of this year.

00:52:10.260 So, yeah, there's some worried stuff about that.

00:52:13.000 And then two lawlers from Nori Mitori.

00:52:16.340 Minnesota hasn't really been in play for a while.

00:52:18.140 Last voted Republican with Nixon in 1972.

00:52:22.640 Blimey, I didn't realize that was...

00:52:23.740 That was a long time ago.

00:52:25.240 I thought it was in play in 2016.

00:52:27.860 I might be Mandela affecting.

00:52:29.240 Possibly.

00:52:31.240 Possibly.

00:52:31.860 All right.

00:52:33.060 So, BLM is dead, and let's keep it that way.

00:52:36.580 There are some...

00:52:37.760 Some on the right who want to kind of resurrect it as a bit of a shadow on the wall to act as a slight boogeyman.

00:52:45.240 And they are taking advantage of one particular story right now to do so.

00:52:49.980 It is the story of this woman.

00:52:51.500 I'm going to get this one nice and big up on screen.

00:52:54.020 No, this isn't a scene from the latest horror film that you can find in the cinema.

00:52:57.560 This is the footage, a screenshot taken from the body cam of a police officer in Pennsylvania, or I think somewhere in America, where there was a shooting.

00:53:10.120 A shooting of this reasonable, sane, very calm, scholarly black woman.

00:53:16.700 Joy Reid got shot.

00:53:17.600 No.

00:53:20.540 No?

00:53:21.080 No.

00:53:21.520 Not Joy Reid.

00:53:22.900 Just someone who looks like her.

00:53:24.740 She looks like a mini mouse doll decided to become Chucky.

00:53:27.380 This story is going quite viral at the moment online because this woman is slowly becoming the face, the new face, of black activism as we understand it.

00:53:39.740 Mainly because of the fact that, I mean, look at it.

00:53:43.540 Look at this image.

00:53:44.640 This is a real image of a woman trying to murder a police officer.

00:53:48.440 And I'll show you the footage.

00:53:49.520 If you're watching this on YouTube, we're probably going to have to blur it out for you.

00:53:52.820 But if you're watching on the website, you'll be able to see the footage.

00:53:55.280 If not, you can find it online.

00:53:57.660 And it is pretty terrifying.

00:54:00.040 This is what BLM, NAACP, all of those activist organizations want you to ignore.

00:54:07.000 The fact that this just happens where a police officer will, in this case, go for a mental health check on a woman,

00:54:14.340 and she will just come out with a knife and try to murder him then and there.

00:54:18.540 And he has to defend himself.

00:54:20.000 This is what you've been told to ignore happens for years and years and years.

00:54:23.560 They're all good boys and good girls who didn't do nothing.

00:54:26.580 That's not the truth.

00:54:28.260 But one of the points that I'm trying to make here is that the actual activist response to this,

00:54:33.880 I think, has been blown completely out of proportion by people who want to keep using the BLM name to, honestly, grift.

00:54:42.420 And try and treat them like they're still this enormous political power with great influence.

00:54:47.080 Sorry to break this to you.

00:54:48.080 It's not 2020 anymore.

00:54:49.440 The BLM riots are in the past.

00:54:51.500 The people behind those should still receive punishment.

00:54:54.360 But what happened was BLM, their founders, took all of the money, purchased a lot of real estate with it, and legged it.

00:55:01.500 And the Biden administration, quite notoriously, abandoned them by the wayside.

00:55:06.000 The financial backers kind of abandoned them as well.

00:55:08.700 And they have been a dead political force for at least two years now.

00:55:12.360 Patrice Collars has since been doing gold-painted naked performance art.

00:55:16.940 Oh, don't remind me.

00:55:19.180 Very, very strange people.

00:55:21.480 Why did you have to remind me of that, Ralph?

00:55:23.540 The only positive about all of this is all those body cams that they said display rampant police brutality

00:55:30.580 seem to always vindicate the police officers.

00:55:33.180 Because I always think of Mackay Bryant in, I think it was 2022,

00:55:37.440 where this was meant to be a horrific example of police brutality,

00:55:40.660 and she tried stabbing a girl and then running at the police officers with a knife,

00:55:43.660 and then got shot.

00:55:45.240 This was the one where the screenshot was her, like, fat girl in pink tracksuit,

00:55:49.540 right in the screenshot everyone was sharing was her mid-swing knife,

00:55:53.780 clearly visible in hand, where the police officer actually saved a black girl.

00:55:58.760 Same with Jacob Blake.

00:56:00.740 Jacob Blake being the fellow who had digitally sexually assaulted a woman

00:56:05.100 who had a restraining order out on him,

00:56:07.640 and the police went to arrest him, and he went to the car,

00:56:10.460 and he had a knife in the car, and he pulled the knife on the police officer and was shot,

00:56:13.160 and he wasn't killed, he was basically comatosed, and then...

00:56:15.840 I think he received bullets to the base of his spine, which paralysed him, I think was the problem.

00:56:21.040 And then Kamala Harris decided to do not only a bail fund for him,

00:56:23.720 but visit him in hospital.

00:56:26.920 Rapist.

00:56:27.860 Attempted to murder a police officer.

00:56:30.020 Well, the police were also called out to that,

00:56:31.660 and if you listen to the phone call, the woman who's being assaulted is referring to him by name

00:56:36.700 because he was already a known name to the police officers who were coming to visit

00:56:41.400 because he was just a violent bastard.

00:56:44.140 Anyway, so this woman, Sydney Wilson, who is the subject of this story,

00:56:49.440 Newsweek did an expo on who she was and what was going on with her.

00:56:54.140 She was born in Pennsylvania, lived in Reston, that's why I got it mixed up a little bit.

00:56:59.600 Yeah, Virginia.

00:57:00.480 On her LinkedIn and Facebook pages, she had posted about receiving...

00:57:04.840 Yeah, that's pretty...

00:57:05.760 That's a catfish and a half.

00:57:06.820 That's a pretty terrifying image, I can't lie right there.

00:57:10.080 And when we see the footage, it's a pretty scary situation to consider yourself in.

00:57:14.460 But anyway, she had posted about receiving a certification in mental health training earlier this year,

00:57:20.600 saying on Facebook,

00:57:21.540 I'm proud of this, I became certified in adult mental health first aid

00:57:25.500 after eight hours of necessary training.

00:57:27.920 That's all it takes.

00:57:29.160 Eight hours.

00:57:29.480 Hours.

00:57:30.100 That's a one-day course.

00:57:31.240 That's what that is.

00:57:32.300 Yes.

00:57:32.800 So these are the social workers that they propose to send out

00:57:35.680 instead of the police officers after defunding the police.

00:57:38.040 Yes, somebody with an eight-hour certificate branded with them at all times

00:57:42.360 so that they can fend off knives, dodge bullets like Neo in the Matrix.

00:57:47.880 She then clearly applied her knowledge of how to fend off knife attacks by doing...

00:57:53.500 If only she could have consoled herself, but it shows what I know.

00:57:57.500 And I found the actual Fairfax County Police Department news article discussing what happened

00:58:03.520 at the time.

00:58:04.420 This was the original release published on September 18th, 2024, earlier on this year.

00:58:11.400 On Monday, September 16th, at approximately 10.17am,

00:58:15.420 an officer responded to a residence in the 11800 block of Sunrise Valley Drive for a welfare check,

00:58:21.980 received a request for a mental health professional to conduct a welfare check on 33-year-old Sidney Wilson,

00:58:26.780 who was reported to be in an agitated state.

00:58:29.300 Crisis intervention-trained officer knocked on Wilson's door.

00:58:32.540 Wilson opened it and immediately closed the door.

00:58:34.620 Officer continued to try to speak with her.

00:58:36.380 After approximately two minutes, she opened the door again.

00:58:39.400 She had a knife, assaulted the officer.

00:58:41.620 Officer was able to break away, attempted to de-escalate with verbal commands,

00:58:45.800 basically begging, please stop, back down, while pointing a gun, waving it in her face.

00:58:51.020 She continued to approach, and he shot her three times, and she's dead.

00:58:54.920 Here's a picture of the knife.

00:58:55.920 Let's look at the footage of that, that Andy Ngo found,

00:58:59.700 because it's been a little over, well, it's been about a month now,

00:59:02.800 and they have released the footage as part of the normal investigation for the public to see.

00:59:07.040 One of the big things that came from it is this image.

00:59:09.420 This image has gone viral.

00:59:10.820 There are a number of various memes that I could share of it.

00:59:15.220 I will only show one here.

00:59:17.900 It's a MrBeast video.

00:59:19.320 We gave one police officer a Lamborghini if he could survive one hour in this apartment complex.

00:59:25.920 There are some much worse ones that I could go over.

00:59:29.300 Of course, being massive and black, she was a former basketball player.

00:59:35.380 So her old basketball team, Georgetown Women's Basketball, did a memorial.

00:59:41.880 Forever a Hoyer, not mentioning that she attempted to murder a man,

00:59:45.780 which is what got her shot in the first place.

00:59:47.460 Community noted, of course, the replies are full of people saying she tried to murder somebody.

00:59:51.960 Maybe you should have mentioned that.

00:59:52.960 I'm sure she was remembered very fondly by the people that she knew,

00:59:56.660 but friends of mine, if they got killed trying to murder somebody,

01:00:00.000 I would maybe have a few mixed feelings on that,

01:00:02.380 not immediately rush to social media to post a memorial about them.

01:00:06.360 But one of the things about this is, and Andy Ngo was talking about this,

01:00:09.720 this is the only examples that I can find of this,

01:00:13.760 which is one of the big parts of the story, is that everybody,

01:00:15.940 everybody, everybody is saying BLM, BLM tried to politicize this,

01:00:20.460 BLM tried to turn this into a martyr, BLM this, BLM that.

01:00:24.200 The only evidence whatsoever I can find is featured in the original Andy Ngo thread.

01:00:31.160 If you're watching this right now and can send me more evidence,

01:00:34.240 screenshots, archived links of the actual organization, BLM,

01:00:40.060 saying anything about this at the time and prove that it was just scrubbed off the internet,

01:00:43.920 that would be fantastic, but BLM still has memorials on their social media,

01:00:48.760 on their website, talking about people who have been proven to have been

01:00:53.920 basically trying to assault officers, trying to murder officers when they were killed.

01:00:57.800 Like Michael Brown.

01:00:58.520 Yeah, like Michael Brown.

01:00:59.400 So they'd have no shame. They have no shame.

01:01:01.560 It's not normal for them to scrub the internet off this.

01:01:04.700 The only examples that I can find is that Andy says that these people were BLM Antifa supporters

01:01:10.800 who at the time said things like this, said that this is awful,

01:01:15.200 rest in peace to a beautiful soul, police murdered her,

01:01:19.080 released the name of Sidney Wilson's murderer, stuff like this.

01:01:22.960 The problem is though that these are nobodies.

01:01:25.940 These are complete nobodies with, you know, five likes.

01:01:30.580 Five likes on a tweet.

01:01:32.380 It's fine to still document this stuff.

01:01:33.960 Yeah, no, of course. I'm not saying, I'm not saying,

01:01:35.640 but I do think it's being massively overblown.

01:01:38.040 He's got a few more screenshots of more nobodies,

01:01:41.940 just people who, you know, no likes,

01:01:44.460 barely any views on a random tweet that they threw out after a few hours.

01:01:49.900 And some people were also trying to spread this thing that she was a BLM activist.

01:01:54.080 The closest that I can find to that is if on her obituary,

01:01:58.000 which I found online and reported on some other outlets as well,

01:02:02.600 she was a member of the NAACP,

01:02:04.500 which is also a black activist organization,

01:02:08.040 which is much older than BLM as well.

01:02:10.780 So yeah, this is the kind of activist that the NAACP has recruited,

01:02:16.240 and BLM also recruits these kinds of people for a very, very long time.

01:02:20.120 Um, also funny thing about this is that there's a photo and video part

01:02:25.140 where you can go on the tribute wall.

01:02:26.600 It looks like they've scrubbed it right now,

01:02:29.200 but when I checked this yesterday,

01:02:32.420 this picture had been uploaded quite a few times.

01:02:39.440 Quite a few times it had been uploaded.

01:02:42.560 Um, well, it's a true colors, isn't it?

01:02:44.840 Well, yeah, yeah.

01:02:45.760 Well, she was mental.

01:02:47.020 She was mental.

01:02:47.960 She was agitated, needed a mental health crisis,

01:02:51.220 but tried to murder somebody.

01:02:53.080 Sorry, can I just read from there?

01:02:54.420 Sydney was a fierce competitor,

01:02:56.040 even though her outward demeanor has been described as girly and fancy.

01:03:00.720 Didn't come across in her final moments.

01:03:04.040 Yeah, definitely not.

01:03:05.940 But that's the closest I can find to any proof of this was just,

01:03:10.360 oh, she was a member of the NAACP,

01:03:12.100 and a couple of nobodies said,

01:03:14.280 oh, she didn't do nothing.

01:03:15.980 She was murdered just for the sake of being black.

01:03:18.540 I can't find anything from BLM,

01:03:20.780 but people,

01:03:23.280 slop accounts, basically,

01:03:25.300 have been saying it.

01:03:26.360 BLM claimed that Sydney Wilson was unjustly killed by racist cops.

01:03:29.640 No, they didn't.

01:03:31.160 Tommy Robinson shared the same thing.

01:03:33.340 He basically does the same thing,

01:03:34.900 implicating Black Lives Matter.

01:03:36.520 Even Elon Musk...

01:03:37.980 I think that's satirical, to be fair.

01:03:39.780 True, but at the same time,

01:03:41.180 it's sharing, it's amplifying the statement.

01:03:43.140 And then Elon Musk himself as well,

01:03:45.700 community note stopping a BLM hoax before it takes out.

01:03:48.100 There was no BLM hoax to do with this.

01:03:50.440 I hate to be a contrarian,

01:03:52.260 but BLM's dead.

01:03:54.280 We shouldn't be trying to use them as this weird boogeyman.

01:03:57.800 We should obviously recognize what they did was wrong.

01:03:59.940 We should recognize that the people who were trying to create the conditions for the riots that happened

01:04:06.140 should be brought to justice in some way or another.

01:04:09.600 But, right now, they are a completely dead and useless political force.

01:04:14.360 Again, just to be absolutely sure,

01:04:17.180 I looked for her name on their website,

01:04:19.480 and they've got loads of commemorations of violent thugs and murderers on this website.

01:04:25.000 Nothing for her.

01:04:26.200 Maybe they've archived it.

01:04:27.540 Maybe they've scrubbed it.

01:04:28.700 I don't think it's likely.

01:04:30.260 I think some people on our side are spreading BS.

01:04:35.060 I respectfully disagree.

01:04:37.000 I think true.

01:04:37.840 Yeah, they haven't put up an obituary,

01:04:39.640 and that's completely true.

01:04:40.700 I think they're just using it as shorthand for prominent race grifters

01:04:43.660 who want to take your money in.

01:04:44.540 But they are an actual real organization.

01:04:49.000 I understand.

01:04:49.860 And I will say,

01:04:51.120 yes, they're being imprecise in that regard.

01:04:52.780 They're also using them as an avatar of race grifting.

01:04:54.740 I'm sure you're absolutely right,

01:04:56.700 but I think that it's good to be a little bit more accurate than this

01:04:59.680 because this is the kind of thing that can really discredit people

01:05:02.440 when people can turn around and say,

01:05:03.980 there is absolutely no evidence of this.

01:05:06.320 You are spreading an easily verifiable lie or hoax,

01:05:10.940 and therefore it's easy to discredit people.

01:05:12.720 And I think it's good to clear the record and say,

01:05:15.180 yeah, I'm not shedding any tears over the Sidney Wilson person.

01:05:17.400 I'm very, very, very, very, very glad that the person,

01:05:21.260 the police officer, was all right and managed to save his own life.

01:05:25.060 Also, thank you very much for this image.

01:05:26.920 This will go down in infamy.

01:05:28.480 But as far as I can tell, other than a few random nobodies,

01:05:32.480 nobody of any importance said anything about this

01:05:35.340 at the time when it was being reported.

01:05:37.420 So, yeah, if we can cut it with the BS,

01:05:39.360 it would make it a lot easier for us all to go about

01:05:41.780 without being accused of being grifters

01:05:43.640 or people spreading misinformation

01:05:45.480 because it does happen every so often.

01:05:48.340 But again, you know, rest in piss.

01:05:51.760 I think you make a good point worth making.

01:05:54.980 One small, and I'm not disagreeing with you at all,

01:05:57.080 one small caveat I would say is

01:05:58.500 sometimes it's difficult, though, not to get things wrong.

01:06:03.300 Oh, no, no.

01:06:04.280 I just want to make one example.

01:06:05.840 I need to correct myself from about a week ago

01:06:07.980 where I got something completely wrong.

01:06:09.320 There's a bit of footage from the Trump assassination

01:06:14.420 when he got shot in the ear

01:06:15.560 where you could sort of see the hole appear in his ear,

01:06:19.460 a different angle.

01:06:20.680 And I thought it was real.

01:06:22.160 I didn't really do any diligence on that.

01:06:24.180 I saw that on Twitter or something, thought it was real,

01:06:26.480 mentioned it on the podcast,

01:06:27.640 and someone on Twitter said,

01:06:28.900 actually, that's fake.

01:06:29.880 That's definitely fake.

01:06:32.660 And I said, oh, fair cop, sorry.

01:06:35.900 And I'll try and mention that.

01:06:37.120 I'll try and rescind that on the podcast at some point.

01:06:38.700 Well, there you go.

01:06:39.220 That's what I'm doing right now.

01:06:40.400 But the point was that that was in good faith.

01:06:42.960 There's a difference between getting something wrong

01:06:45.580 in good faith and lying outright,

01:06:48.220 just deliberately trying to make a falsehood.

01:06:50.740 I agree with you.

01:06:52.040 Just in this case, it's actually really easy to verify.

01:06:54.600 In this case, it's really easy to verify,

01:06:56.840 and I'm not going to go out of my way

01:06:58.340 to defend slop accounts.

01:07:00.300 Yeah, no, absolutely.

01:07:01.340 Because they traffic in slop.

01:07:06.740 So I don't think they really care all that much sometimes.

01:07:09.880 But...

01:07:10.120 Because there is left slop and right slop, isn't there?

01:07:12.140 Oh, yeah.

01:07:12.600 And there's quite a lot of right-leaning slop now, it seems.

01:07:15.600 Boosted by Elon himself.

01:07:18.560 Yeah.

01:07:19.360 But anyway, sorry to burst a few people's bubble.

01:07:23.160 I couldn't find...

01:07:23.860 Again, if I'm wrong here,

01:07:25.740 if I'm the one who's wrong here,

01:07:27.120 please send me the evidence.

01:07:28.260 As far as I can tell,

01:07:29.700 I searched far and wide.

01:07:31.060 The only evidence that I could find

01:07:32.360 was the few screenshots that Andy Ngo included

01:07:35.260 on his original post.

01:07:37.100 Nothing else was really there.

01:07:39.140 Anyway.

01:07:40.440 We've got some more rumble rants

01:07:41.720 before we play the video comments.

01:07:43.320 Lady Dragon Chris, for $5,

01:07:45.860 says Roland Fryer, Harvard economist and black man,

01:07:48.540 found his shock through doing two studies

01:07:50.400 that police are more reluctant to shoot black people

01:07:52.200 than white people.

01:07:52.920 Yeah, he's done quite a few interviews about that.

01:07:55.760 $1 for that's a random name.

01:07:57.120 You cannot speak the truth.

01:07:59.180 I think we're having some issues.

01:08:03.760 I'll have to wait for a second.

01:08:05.320 Something's playing in a tab.

01:08:08.700 One of Bo's videos.

01:08:09.580 There we go.

01:08:10.040 There we go.

01:08:11.360 That's a random name.

01:08:12.320 Sorry for $1.

01:08:13.100 You cannot speak the truth,

01:08:14.020 lest the powers that be ban you.

01:08:15.660 You can definitely say those exact same things

01:08:17.640 about white men, though.

01:08:18.700 After all, only some lives seem to matter

01:08:20.640 to these people.

01:08:21.480 Lol.

01:08:22.000 Yeah, this is something I pointed out earlier.

01:08:23.720 There's a lot of anger around

01:08:25.160 the new England football manager

01:08:26.680 because he's a German.

01:08:27.860 I don't know anything about football,

01:08:29.080 but I've just seen this.

01:08:30.520 But then the exact same people

01:08:31.720 that will complain about that,

01:08:33.900 complain about football,

01:08:34.700 which is lower stakes than politics,

01:08:36.120 will then call you a far-right racist

01:08:37.380 if you complain that, for example,

01:08:38.900 your prime minister or party leader

01:08:40.260 isn't English either.

01:08:42.120 And it's just like,

01:08:43.120 yep, you can say the exact same thing

01:08:44.860 about one group,

01:08:45.620 but not about another.

01:08:46.440 And I'm just...

01:08:46.920 The double standard is remarkable.

01:08:48.700 Plus, we've had non-English manager

01:08:50.860 of the England football team...

01:08:52.260 Sven, you're on Ericsson.

01:08:52.800 A few times, yeah.

01:08:54.400 That's the one I remember.

01:08:55.440 There we go.

01:08:57.140 I'm not reading out that name.

01:08:59.140 $2.

01:09:00.020 She was a good girl who didn't do nothing.

01:09:01.880 There we go.

01:09:03.120 $2 from Bobo Bad.

01:09:05.660 Kamala Harris, when asked for a comment,

01:09:07.040 said,

01:09:07.500 you go one-on-one with another officer,

01:09:08.960 you've got a 50-50% chance of winning,

01:09:10.880 but Wilson's a genetic freak

01:09:11.980 and not normal.

01:09:12.540 You've got a 25% at best.

01:09:13.620 Is that a WWE refer?

01:09:14.900 Oh, is that...

01:09:15.700 It's a TNA reference.

01:09:17.280 It's Scott Steiner.

01:09:18.300 Yes, I remember that, actually.

01:09:19.700 But I'm a genetic freak

01:09:20.920 and I'm not normal.

01:09:23.080 We all knew that, Harry.

01:09:24.040 So good.

01:09:25.260 $2 from That's a Random Name.

01:09:26.920 The new trailer for Assassin's Creed Shadows

01:09:28.440 is wild.

01:09:29.000 Truly immersive gameplay.

01:09:30.140 Yasuke, you can...

01:09:30.960 Looking fierce as ever.

01:09:31.680 Can't wait to play it.

01:09:32.100 I don't know the reference.

01:09:33.260 Have you seen it?

01:09:34.700 Oh, I've not seen the latest

01:09:35.920 Assassin's Creed Shadow trailer.

01:09:37.500 I'm assuming that that's a joke.

01:09:40.080 I assume it's a bit of sarcasm

01:09:42.880 because the game looks shit.

01:09:44.280 Right.

01:09:44.480 Excellent.

01:09:48.100 Oh.

01:09:49.060 Oh, they're referring to...

01:09:50.060 Ah, ah, ah.

01:09:51.800 Ah, I see.

01:09:53.220 I see.

01:09:55.220 I was always more of a Rick Steiner fan myself.

01:09:58.480 Really?

01:09:59.720 Oh, but Scott's insane.

01:10:01.180 The Steiner recliner.

01:10:02.020 He's so...

01:10:02.520 He's...

01:10:02.860 Well, yeah, that's good.

01:10:03.800 But Scott's so batshit's insane.

01:10:06.520 You've got to love him.

01:10:07.680 Anyway, on with the video comment.

01:10:08.820 Can we play that, Samson?

01:10:15.000 Thank you.

01:10:15.560 Thank you.

01:10:16.560 White stack.

01:10:28.600 That's crazy.

01:10:29.920 Incredibly rare.

01:10:32.020 A magical moment, really.

01:10:33.420 It's very wholesome.

01:10:47.640 I spent my birthday walking alpacas around a field in Kent

01:10:50.720 because I don't like people.

01:10:53.160 So that was my surprise gift that my missus bought for me.

01:10:55.660 Did you get spat at?

01:10:56.620 Don't they spit at?

01:10:57.120 No, they don't really spit at humans.

01:10:59.120 It's llamas.

01:10:59.660 They spit at one another if they like to take their food.

01:11:01.900 Llamas spit.

01:11:02.680 Mine were suitably grumpy and only obsessed with grass.

01:11:04.780 So we were allowed to pick which ones we wanted

01:11:07.340 and my missus just picked the small, weird one

01:11:09.580 with knobbly legs and giant, sticky-out teeth.

01:11:11.640 She was like, I'll have that one.

01:11:13.380 Fitting.

01:11:14.960 Oh, we've got another one.

01:11:16.000 Very good.

01:11:17.400 If it wants to load.

01:11:18.440 Now in another of our Lamy and Tations.

01:11:20.760 David Lamy is like the syrup of Ipecac.

01:11:23.380 One dose is enough to make you throw up.

01:11:26.600 David Lamy is like a ventriloquist dummy.

01:11:29.120 Wooden, useless, often scares children,

01:11:31.320 has a head full of sawdust,

01:11:33.100 and can't talk or move without someone's hand up his ass.

01:11:37.220 And finally, David Lamy is like Michelle Obama.

01:11:41.080 He just has a smaller penis.

01:11:48.280 No lies detected.

01:11:50.040 I think we've had one other rumble rant.

01:11:51.600 Oh, yes.

01:11:53.140 Sigh for $5.

01:11:54.560 Connor, you keep saying Lady Dragon Chris on my rants.

01:11:57.480 I think you're awesome.

01:11:59.140 Oh, sorry.

01:12:00.340 But get it right.

01:12:01.000 I am a dragon lady.

01:12:01.940 Apologies.

01:12:02.380 I'm just clearly reading the words out of order there.

01:12:05.800 No, actually, what happened there, dragon lady,

01:12:07.940 is you got psyoped into sending another $5.

01:12:11.980 Got him.

01:12:13.660 Sucker.

01:12:14.340 Let's scroll down to the comments.

01:12:15.460 Excellent.

01:12:17.280 Callum Archibald.

01:12:18.260 Just got my copy of Islander this morning.

01:12:19.740 Fantastic work and keep up the good work you all do.

01:12:21.800 Yes, I should have said that at the start of the show, actually.

01:12:24.240 They are being sent out.

01:12:25.200 Some people have got them.

01:12:26.320 Some places are experiencing delays because the countries are rubbish.

01:12:29.180 Sorry about that.

01:12:30.580 We can't really control it.

01:12:31.500 But they should be with you soon.

01:12:34.020 And we're already underway at work with the third issue.

01:12:37.060 So get excited about that in a few months.

01:12:38.740 The further afield you are from the UK, the longer it will probably take.

01:12:42.400 As simple as that, right?

01:12:43.440 We are an operation that runs on hopes and dreams here.

01:12:46.320 But we appreciate your patience.

01:12:47.740 Charles Dreamer.

01:12:48.300 Hey, Lotus lads.

01:12:49.240 Any chance you could add a Lotus Eater's MAGA or Mega-type hat to the merch store?

01:12:53.140 Perhaps something that flies a little under the radar for those that don't want to be hassled in the street may be kind of cool.

01:12:58.020 That's an idea.

01:12:58.740 I don't know what our capacity is for hats.

01:13:00.480 I don't know if we do.

01:13:01.360 I think it has been discussed that some sort of, for the big American stream we're doing, that some sort of merch-specific things might happen.

01:13:10.020 Excellent.

01:13:10.440 We'll chain Rory to his desk and get him designing, I suppose.

01:13:13.280 Anglo Dan.

01:13:13.960 My copy of Islander 2 arrived this morning.

01:13:15.420 It looks even better than number one.

01:13:16.800 Well done to all the Lotus Eater's team.

01:13:18.280 I'm looking forward to diving in later.

01:13:19.860 Yes, well, we're going to hope to get some new contributors on for the third issue.

01:13:22.980 If you have any names that you sort of want to kick about that you can hope that we might get in contact with,

01:13:26.760 I mean, you're more than welcome to suggest them down below and we'll do our best if we know those people already.

01:13:31.760 People laughing at the thumbnail as well.

01:13:33.320 Thomas Howe.

01:13:33.820 The mere existence of a metaphorical fedora.

01:13:35.940 Everyone on the show shows off a conscious effort to ensure the truth gets out, even when it can be silly.

01:13:41.600 We do our best.

01:13:42.300 Anyway, Lady Dragonhawk, constantly correcting me today.

01:13:47.100 Connor, it's pronounced Kamila Horish.

01:13:50.280 You're welcome.

01:13:51.280 I think the nickname might be a little bit cumbersome.

01:13:54.240 It's like, I don't think Comrade Kamala's stuck either.

01:13:56.620 I know Trump tried it, but I don't think it's his finest.

01:13:59.400 The thing about nicknames is, again, just public opinion decides what sticks and what doesn't.

01:14:04.780 Yeah, I haven't got much to say over it.

01:14:06.940 There you go.

01:14:07.400 Arizona Desert Rat.

01:14:09.560 That should be an easy citation.

01:14:11.280 Statistics is one of the things that should always be cited.

01:14:14.080 Where did you get the statistics and are they a reliable source?

01:14:17.100 Source.

01:14:17.640 It came to Harris in a dream.

01:14:19.500 Grant Gibson.

01:14:20.260 These edits were not Kamala's contribution.

01:14:22.380 Her editors suggested these transition words.

01:14:26.080 There you go.

01:14:27.540 Someone online.

01:14:28.220 How could Kamala Fweedom Harris lie?

01:14:30.520 Well, you know, it's almost like she's got the incentive to do so.

01:14:35.640 I'm not reading that one, the name out.

01:14:38.020 I'm not reading the name out purely for stoking it.

01:14:41.120 To her leftist standards are merely oppressive structures of society meant to enforce conformity.

01:14:46.720 Kamala and her supporters will see no problem in her chronic lack of any.

01:14:50.000 I can hear Samson laughing behind the screen.

01:14:53.960 Purely because I don't want to piss anyone off.

01:14:55.560 I'm just going to leave it.

01:14:56.240 But, um, Bay State, politicians...

01:14:58.240 There's a fence sitter.

01:15:00.980 Sometimes more flies with honey than vinegar, that's all.

01:15:04.140 Bay State, politicians writing books is the same as hunter selling artwork.

01:15:07.360 It's simply a way of funneling cash behind the facade of a legitimate transaction.

01:15:11.020 Well, yeah, quite.

01:15:12.240 Um, I just seem to think if you want to hold a high office in the land, write your own damn book.

01:15:15.920 But there you go.

01:15:17.540 On that, I would imagine that Boris Johnson's new book,

01:15:20.380 where he admitted that he flooded the country with immigrants on purpose to help inflation,

01:15:25.700 which he caused through printing all that money in the first place.

01:15:28.440 I'd imagine that he's probably written that himself because he's a former journalist.

01:15:31.520 He does actually write a lot of stuff.

01:15:32.920 Yeah, he does write a lot of stuff.

01:15:34.180 He's just an idiot.

01:15:34.600 Yeah, he's just an idiot who is so eager to brag about all the different ways that he destroyed this country.

01:15:40.740 Thanks, Boris.

01:15:41.580 There you go.

01:15:42.420 Bo?

01:15:42.540 All right, a few comments.

01:15:44.940 George Capps says, always the glare always screws me up on this.

01:15:49.160 The odds and all the energy do seem to be in Trump's favour, including high profile endorsements from RFK Jr. and Elon.

01:15:55.560 I do hope that the assassination attempts mean that the deep state can't fortify it this time around.

01:16:01.820 I'm sure they're doing their best currently.

01:16:03.680 I think there's going to be some fortification happening.

01:16:07.140 I think that's always the case.

01:16:09.800 Even going back to the 19th century, there's some.

01:16:12.180 It's just a question of how egregious it is, right?

01:16:15.100 It's just the degree to which they decide to dial it up.

01:16:19.380 I think that's right.

01:16:21.160 It was much easier to do it in COVID because it was a state of emergency and everyone was distracted.

01:16:24.600 I think what you're going to see is some discrepancies in voter turnout in places like Arizona and Texas, where they've been flooded with illegals.

01:16:33.280 And in Arizona, I believe that you can vote in the presidential election, just no local or Senate or congressional races, without voter ID.

01:16:43.200 So that means that you've got a direct incentive to have illegals vote for the president themselves, which is the most important one.

01:16:48.760 So I think there's going to be something going over that evening.

01:16:51.880 I also think, I hope, that after the example of 2020, people are going to be more vigilant.

01:16:58.880 I think even Trump himself is, I might be getting this wrong, you probably know more about it than me, but actually paying for card raise people going out to counts and making sure that certain things that happened last time don't happen.

01:17:10.660 You know, like, for example, last time, over certain walled off areas of the count room, they put up things over the window so people couldn't see.

01:17:19.140 I think, I think there's going to be efforts this time to try and stop anything like that happening.

01:17:23.420 More Republican poll watchers.

01:17:25.160 Yeah, right.

01:17:25.660 Just that.

01:17:26.280 Yeah.

01:17:26.520 That would be wise.

01:17:27.380 Fingers crossed that something like that happens.

01:17:30.080 Scott Prez has been doing good work for voter registration, so I'm sure it's on his radar.

01:17:34.720 Sheev Palpatine says,

01:17:36.180 Trump over-performed the polls substantially in 2016 and 2020.

01:17:42.220 If polls are about 50-50 this time around, then it's probably, he still has it in the bag.

01:17:50.060 Seems reasonable?

01:17:51.040 Hope so.

01:17:51.380 And what R-Word says,

01:17:52.980 Maybe something to consider is that the bookies should also be aware of the possibility of another steal.

01:17:59.160 If the odds are still in favour of Trump winning, I think that's an even stronger indication than last time.

01:18:06.180 Okay.

01:18:07.200 I vote we classify Harris as an auditory...

01:18:11.740 Cognito hazard.

01:18:12.820 What's a cognito hazard?

01:18:13.920 I've never heard that word before in my life.

01:18:14.980 Danger for your brain.

01:18:15.940 Okay.

01:18:16.880 She actively kills brain cells.

01:18:19.180 And have her contained by the SCP Foundation.

01:18:22.200 I don't know what the SCP Foundation is either.

01:18:23.960 It's an online community-created thing that's basically like monsters beyond your comprehension.

01:18:31.620 Okay.

01:18:33.140 Cool.

01:18:33.620 Very highbrow.

01:18:34.500 Very necessary.

01:18:35.460 There are video games based on it.

01:18:37.940 They're actually pretty decent.

01:18:39.360 Someone online said,

01:18:40.380 All the bellwether states were for Trump in 2020.

01:18:43.720 They can fortify it again.

01:18:45.340 I'll be interested to see how.

01:18:46.740 I'm not saying they can't.

01:18:48.080 It just would have to be a different way this time.

01:18:50.280 They can't do it.

01:18:51.200 I can't do the exact same playbook this time.

01:18:53.100 Mass payment ballots are not happening in all states.

01:18:56.080 That's why.

01:18:57.080 I'd be surprised if they do the exact same thing, but even more this time,

01:19:00.540 which is what they would need to do, it looks like.

01:19:02.580 I'd be surprised if that's how it plays out.

01:19:04.440 But we'll see.

01:19:04.960 We'll see.

01:19:05.580 We've got two more rumble rants before we get onto my comments.

01:19:08.260 That's a random name for a dollar.

01:19:09.740 It says,

01:19:10.180 All the stags?

01:19:11.180 White.

01:19:11.680 We need more brown stags and brown squirrels.

01:19:14.080 And yes, I was referring to the hallway gameplay section.

01:19:17.180 The officer would be wary for when Yasuke respawns, though.

01:19:20.740 God, that would be terrifying, actually.

01:19:22.660 After taking three bullets and falling, if she sat up like the undertaker.

01:19:27.100 Like Jason.

01:19:28.180 Yeah.

01:19:28.620 She's literally like Michael Myers.

01:19:30.740 It's like Netflix's remake of Halloween.

01:19:33.060 Genuinely, I was terrifying footage.

01:19:35.840 Holding the knife up like that, slowly approaching you.

01:19:38.280 I was thinking, this is like a horror movie.

01:19:40.180 Like Black Norman Bates.

01:19:42.500 Yeah, in a dress as well.

01:19:44.160 Sorry, Connor, but that's one of my two favourite things in wrestling of all time.

01:19:46.960 One is the ultimate warrior holding the ropes and going mad.

01:19:49.460 And the other is the old school undertaker just suddenly sitting bolt upright.

01:19:53.260 Oh, yeah.

01:19:53.680 I love that.

01:19:54.200 My favourite one is the Andre the Giant gif that Ren often uses.

01:19:58.760 Oh, wait, wait.

01:19:59.380 We have something on Twitter.

01:20:00.380 Hey, hey, hey, hey.

01:20:02.680 That's great.

01:20:03.840 Also, Dragon Lady Chris for $5 says,

01:20:06.620 Bo, Suetonius or Tacitus?

01:20:10.200 Both, which one first?

01:20:11.440 Question mark.

01:20:11.880 Tacitus is the gold standard.

01:20:14.200 It's absolutely brilliant.

01:20:15.160 It's one of the best things you'll ever read.

01:20:16.400 And Suetonius is thought of as something like a tabloid sensationalist.

01:20:24.600 Lots of people, lots of people poo-poo Suetonius.

01:20:27.840 This doesn't sound like too much of a door tip now.

01:20:31.180 Now, this is right in my wheelhouse.

01:20:32.560 This could not be any more in my wheelhouse.

01:20:34.700 Go for Tacitus.

01:20:35.460 Tacitus is choice.

01:20:37.380 Suetonius is fun.

01:20:40.240 Yeah, so that's the answer.

01:20:42.600 All right.

01:20:43.060 On to my segment comments.

01:20:45.300 Hugo Bossman 23 says,

01:20:49.440 Body cams are BLM's worst nightmare.

01:20:52.220 Yeah.

01:20:52.580 Was it explicitly BLM or was it just leftists in general who were calling for the body cams

01:20:57.260 for the police officers?

01:20:58.220 Because I know because they were expecting what it would unearth is like an ocean of random

01:21:03.380 black men being murdered by police for no reason.

01:21:06.120 Yeah.

01:21:06.260 But it just turns out every single time.

01:21:08.780 Oh, they were trying to murder the police officer.

01:21:11.140 Oh, some even the even the George Floyd body cam footage almost a year after when that finally

01:21:16.500 got released.

01:21:17.180 I think it obviously he died in what May and then the footage was released January in 2021.

01:21:23.500 So they waited a long, long time.

01:21:25.480 Even that when it got released, I saw loads of people in the comments sharing it on social

01:21:29.220 media going, oh, this was it?

01:21:31.720 Dude OD'd.

01:21:32.420 He clearly OD'd.

01:21:34.260 You can even see him foaming in the mouth beforehand.

01:21:37.040 I think having loads of policeman body cam stuff is great because I think the real, real

01:21:41.020 reality of it is, is that sometimes the cops do shoot people unnecessarily.

01:21:46.380 Right.

01:21:46.760 But it's relatively rare and they totally do it to white people as well.

01:21:50.280 Yeah.

01:21:50.760 They do sometimes shoot a black guy unnecessarily.

01:21:52.880 Yeah.

01:21:53.140 Yeah.

01:21:53.280 Yeah.

01:21:53.540 They do.

01:21:54.020 It's quite rare.

01:21:54.980 I've never seen an actual example being shared by BLM or any of the actors.

01:21:59.340 Right.

01:21:59.520 They wouldn't share it.

01:22:00.280 But they do it to white people disproportionate to the number of violent crimes and police

01:22:04.400 encounters that white people commit, but not disproportionate to the per capita population,

01:22:08.500 if that makes sense.

01:22:09.320 Do you know Donut Operator?

01:22:10.860 I've heard of him.

01:22:11.720 He's a massive YouTube dude, ex-cop.

01:22:13.720 Think ex-military.

01:22:14.480 Definitely ex-cop.

01:22:15.460 And he posts loads and loads of body cam stuff and loads and loads of police interactions.

01:22:18.560 And some of them are, yeah, like, here's one where a cop shot someone needlessly.

01:22:24.640 So it totally happens, but not very often.

01:22:29.180 Well, relatively anyway, not very often.

01:22:31.500 And yeah, it can be quite often be a white dude.

01:22:34.120 Um, but yeah, the vast majority of it is, uh, cops trying to saving themselves from getting

01:22:40.000 killed nearly always, it seems.

01:22:42.860 Yeah.

01:22:43.380 I mean, I think the police know generally that shooting people for no reason is bad.

01:22:48.380 Yeah.

01:22:48.900 And so they try to avoid that as much as possible.

01:22:51.620 If nothing else, they'll be filling out paperwork for a month over this guy.

01:22:54.580 Or maybe just lose their jobs.

01:22:56.920 Yeah.

01:22:57.160 Don't want that either.

01:22:58.120 Or go to prison for murder.

01:22:59.060 Yeah.

01:22:59.500 Right.

01:22:59.920 Um, the name that Connor doesn't want to read out, I will respect his wishes and not read

01:23:04.020 it out either, says BLM is dead and BLM killed it.

01:23:07.380 Yep.

01:23:07.900 How fitting for an organization that claimed to represent black lives and completely ignored

01:23:11.660 the leading cause of death for black people in America.

01:23:16.460 They didn't do much on diabetes, did they?

01:23:19.060 Not for Patrice O'Neill.

01:23:20.360 No.

01:23:21.700 Uh, Barron?

01:23:22.860 Yeah, that's because I need Patrice.

01:23:24.580 Uh, Barron Von Warpenguin, we was horror movie slashers and she...

01:23:30.060 Quick, on that last bit, do you know Patrice O'Neill's last interview was?

01:23:34.260 Yeah.

01:23:34.460 With Alex Jones?

01:23:35.480 Was it?

01:23:35.900 Yeah.

01:23:36.080 Was it really?

01:23:36.680 Yeah, he was literally sitting there saying, man, like the Obama administration's been

01:23:39.300 dividing and conquering black people and white people.

01:23:41.320 I've been doing my research.

01:23:42.160 This is crazy.

01:23:42.960 Like, I thought you were, I thought you were all mad this entire time.

01:23:45.140 And now, yeah, he actually sort of had a...

01:23:47.780 He actually did the research and came to some worrying conclusions.

01:23:51.760 I don't think Patrice O'Neill was killed, but yes.

01:23:54.160 Yes.

01:23:54.580 No, I don't think he was killed either.

01:23:56.700 But, speaking of, Vivian Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick's daughter, who has come out recently and said

01:24:04.460 that her dad would have supported Trump, has apparently, I've been told, appeared on Alex

01:24:12.260 Jones in the past, and also streamed with Owen Benjamin, which I was not expecting.

01:24:18.300 Was he?

01:24:18.860 He was the comedian that Crowder used to be friends with, wasn't he?

01:24:21.560 I think so.

01:24:22.860 I don't know who he used to be friends with, but I know that he's posted some pretty spicy

01:24:27.960 stuff in the past, and then recently had a meltdown.

01:24:30.760 I haven't seen any.

01:24:31.480 That's very interesting that Stanley Kubrick's daughter is apparently onside.

01:24:35.860 There we go.

01:24:36.640 Very, very interesting.

01:24:37.940 I really like Stanley Kubrick's films, by the way.

01:24:40.240 Part 3, 4, and 5 are all filmed.

01:24:42.360 So, it's just for the editing to be sorted right.

01:24:45.820 Part 3 was slightly cursed.

01:24:48.320 Very cursed.

01:24:49.320 That's why it took so long.

01:24:50.600 So, I think it might have been the same fly, but that's why it took so long.

01:24:55.960 Part 3 recorded one version of it that was completely unusable, recorded 30 minutes of

01:25:02.180 another version of it, unusable, and then Part 3 of Part 3 turned out great, but there was

01:25:10.360 a fly around the studio, so, you know.

01:25:13.040 But that will be coming out when it comes out.

01:25:15.940 Arizona Desert Rat.

01:25:17.140 I wonder if this was a suicide by cop situation.

01:25:19.240 There are some people who will draw a weapon on police officers just to get the officers

01:25:22.080 to shoot and kill them.

01:25:23.220 Doubt it.

01:25:23.780 This just looked like a person going crazy.

01:25:26.180 It's genuinely like a schizophrenic episode.

01:25:28.480 Yeah.

01:25:29.560 Then, Scotty of Swindon.

01:25:30.880 Certificate of Mental Health Training.

01:25:32.520 She needed training to not be mentally ill.

01:25:34.780 Didn't work.

01:25:36.320 Didn't.

01:25:36.840 Didn't work.

01:25:37.780 And, Furious Dan, the Concord DLC is going in a bizarre direction.

01:25:41.320 I keep seeing people share Concord.

01:25:43.140 I think Concord...

01:25:44.720 Yeah, I've got no idea what that reference is.

01:25:46.220 I think it's the image that Samson used for our excellent thumbnail.

01:25:49.720 Yeah.

01:25:49.980 Big, big props for the thumbnail again.

01:25:53.380 It's a game that failed with ugly characters, so...

01:25:56.820 Okay.

01:25:57.720 To be expected.

01:25:59.040 Very, very common these days.

01:26:01.380 Right.

01:26:01.880 And with that, thank you very much for tuning in.

01:26:04.040 I'll be back in half an hour for my show.

01:26:06.560 Otherwise, we'll be back at one o'clock tomorrow for our regularly scheduled podcast.

01:26:09.860 Take care, and goodbye.

01:26:11.000 Bye.

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01:26:37.720 Bye.

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - October 16, 2024

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1023

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